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Listen to the Music: Rhino's Rocktober Slate Features Doobie Brothers, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Monkees, More

October 10, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Rhino Rocktober

Rhino's annual Rocktober campaign - this year encompassing 43 limited edition colored vinyl reissues of rockers both classic and contemporary - kicked off on October 4 with titles from Black Sabbath, Bush, Deep Purple, Devo, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, The Monkees, Stone Temple Pilots, and more.  Next, on October 18, the collection will grow to include releases from Ramones and The Velvet Underground.  The slate concludes on October 25 with The Cars, Foghat, Iron Butterfly, and more,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath, Bush, Deep Purple, Devo, Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, Foreigner, INXS, IOMMI, Iron Butterfly, Jenny Lewis, Ministry, Montrose, Morphine, Porno for Pyros, Ramones, Ron Wood, Stevie Nicks, Stone Temple Pilots, The Cars, The Doobie Brothers, The English Beat, The Monkees, The Stooges, Third Eye Blind, Twisted Sister, Type O Negative, Velvet Underground, Whitesnake, Wilco, Yes

Ace Round-Up: Label Celebrates John Barry, Jackie DeShannon, Thom Bell, Paul Williams, Holland-Dozier-Holland

October 9, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

John Barry Something's Up

Today, we're rounding up five releases from Ace Records, all of which were released within the past few months by the U.K. label. Ace has followed up its 2022 collection dedicated to the oeuvre of composer John Barry, The More Things Change: Film TV, and Studio Work 1968-1972, with a new volume of the film maestro's works.  Something's Up!  Film, TV, and Studio Work 1964-1967 (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) hardly plays like a collection of runners-up, however.  Barry crafted so

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Holland-Dozier-Holland, Jackie DeShannon, John Barry, Paul Williams, Roger Nichols, Thom Bell, Various Artists

Set the Night on Fire: The Doors Announce 60th Anniversary Campaign

October 8, 2024 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

The Doors Night Divides the Day

2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of The Doors. Though the eponymous debut album from Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore didn't hit stores until January 1967, the foursome was already a seasoned one, having served as house band at the famed Whisky a Go Go since mid-1966. To celebrate 60 years since that fateful day when Manzarek met his old UCLA classmate Morrison on a California beach and the two decided to form a band, Rhino has announced a number of

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Categories: News Formats: Books, Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Doors

A "Runaway" Hit: Bon Jovi Prep Physical Deluxe Edition of Debut Album

October 7, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Bon Jovi packshot

Earlier this year, UMe celebrated the 40th anniversary of Bon Jovi's debut album with an extras-packed digital deluxe edition. Just in time for Christmas, that set is getting a physical 2CD release. The self-titled effort from the New Jersey rockers sports nine extra tracks, including previously unreleased early versions of debut single "Runaway" and new mixes of previously released live material from the band's longtime engineer Obie O'Brien. The set is packaged in a standard jewel case and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bon Jovi

Sing Along With the Mummy: Real Gone's Halloween Line-Up Includes Rare 1959 Album From McFadden and McKuen with Second Disc Records, Rare Soundtracks

October 3, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Bob McFadden and Dor Songs Our Mummy Taught Us

Real Gone's Halloween line-up began last month and now that October has rolled around, the label is continuing the party with more reissues to play on October 31 filled with material from the 1950s to the 1980s.  All of these titles hit store shelves, tomorrow, October 5. First up is a Real Gone/Second Disc Records vinyl reissue: Songs Our Mummy Taught Us by Bob McFadden and Dor.   This one-of-a-kind LP was the creation of voiceover artist Bob McFadden - best-known as the voice of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Comedy, Everything Else, Soundtracks Tags: Bob McFadden, Jay Chattaway, Rod McKuen, Sean Bonniwell

Back to 'Back to Bedlam': James Blunt Expands Brilliant Debut

October 3, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

James Blunt Back to Bedlam 20th

Two decades ago, an earnest British singer-songwriter with a distinctive, keening voice had a hit that would, for better or worse, define the arc of his career as a musician. This month, James Blunt is gamely revisiting his debut album, Back to Bedlam, with a new deluxe edition and an outlandish promise of what he'll do if it's a chart success at home. Available on October 11, the remastered and expanded Bedlam will come with a bonus disc of demos of the entire album, plus four additional

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: James Blunt

Can't Wait Till Tomorrow: Cherry Red Expands Sheena Easton's 'Do You'

October 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sheena Easton Do You

With 1984's A Private Heaven, Sheena Easton successfully followed in the footsteps of Olivia Newton-John in shedding her "girl next door" persona - so much so that future U.S. Second Lady Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center "honored" Sheena's Prince-penned "Sugar Walls" with a slot on its "Filthy Fifteen" list.  No wonder Gore and co. were threatened by the success of "Sugar Walls;" A Private Heaven became the singer's most successful album to date.  How to follow it up?  Enter Nile

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Nile Rodgers, Sheena Easton

In Memoriam: Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024)

September 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Kris Kristofferson Kristofferson

On a Sunday mornin' sidewalk/I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned/'Cause there's somethin' in a Sunday/That makes a body feel alone... With songs such as "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," Kris Kristofferson expanded the vernacular of country music, bringing realism, gritty authenticity, and a literate sensibility - he was an Oxford-schooled Rhodes Scholar -  to a genre already known for its unvarnished musical stories of pain and heartbreak.  Kristofferson would find himself at the vanguard of

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Categories: News Genre: Country Tags: Kris Kristofferson

Wild and Crazy: Rhino Collects Steve Martin's Comedy Albums

September 30, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Steve in a Box

There aren't many comedians funnier than Steve Martin. Though the gray-haired funnyman only spent the better part of a decade performing as a stand-up before pursuing acting, writing, and even bluegrass originals, Martin's brilliant blend of highbrow, lowbrow and absurdist humor made him one of the most head-turning entertainers of his generation. Rhino Records will celebrate his funniest sides with a new box set in November. Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977-1981) brings together all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Comedy Tags: Steve Martin

All Around Man: Rory Gallagher's BBC Recordings Set for Heavy Duty Box

September 27, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Rory Gallagher BBC

The influential guitar work of Rory Gallagher will be celebrated next month in an exhaustive box that collects hours of his live recordings for the BBC. The BBC Collection, available October 11, is an 18CD/2 Blu-ray set that mines both the radio service and the late musician's personal archives to bring together his in-studio appearances, live concerts, television specials and even a radio documentary. This box, of course, supersedes a 1999 double-disc collection of BBC highlights, offering

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Rory Gallagher

The Jungle is Your Head: U2 Prep 'Atomic Bomb' Box

September 27, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

U2 Atomic Bomb box

Hello, hello: U2 will revisit their 11th album - and, depending on where you stand, the end of one era and the start of another - with a deluxe box set edition of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. The set, available November 22 - exactly 20 years to the day of its original release - will feature five CDs or eight LPs of music: the original album, new collections of unreleased demos and vintage remixes, and the debut audio release of Vertigo 2005 - Live from Chicago, released on DVD in 2005 in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: U2

It's a Beautiful Day: Michael Bublé Collects Greatest Hits on "The Best of Bublé"

September 26, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Michael Buble Best of Buble

With nearly one dozen studio albums, three live sets, and numerous EPs, it's surprising that Michael Bublé is now announcing his first physical greatest hits collection.  With 75 million records sold and four Billboard No. 1 albums, he's the third best-selling Canadian artist of all time, behind only Celine Dion and Shania Twain. The Best of Bublé arrives tomorrow,  September 27, on CD and digital formats from Reprise Records, while 2LP vinyl editions (standard at all stores, clear at his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Michael Bublé

Hold Me Now: Thompson Twins Go Back 'Into the Gap' with Deluxe Reissue of Breakthrough Album

September 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Thompson Twins Into the Gap deluxe

Beloved British pop group Thompson Twins will revisit their seminal fourth album, 1984's Into the Gap, in a new deluxe edition from BMG this fall. Newly remastered by Frank Arkwright, the triple-disc set will include the original album - including U.K. Top 10s "Hold Me Now," "Doctor! Doctor!" and "You Take Me Up" - alongside 30 bonus tracks, including all the extras from the original British cassette edition of the album, nine B-sides and single edits making their CD/digital debuts, and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Thompson Twins

Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart: Cherry Red to Release Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club Collection

September 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Camera Club Definitive Anthology

Everyone knows the story: at the stroke of midnight on August 1, 1981, the new cable station Music Television (MTV) first aired, playing a steady stream of heretofore little-seen "music videos" that redefined pop music for the rest of the decade. Their first, of course, was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star": a prescient choice, though not even a single from the '80s (it topped the U.K. charts and dented the U.S. Top 40 in 1979!) - and, as a new collection from Cherry Red underlines, The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Woolley, Geoff Downes, The Buggles, The Camera Club, Thomas Dolby, Trevor Horn

Crawling from the Wreckage: Omnivore Preps Double-Disc Collection of Dave Edmunds' Complete Swan Song Singles

September 24, 2024 By The Second Disc 11 Comments

Dave Edmunds Swan Songs

From his very first solo hit in 1970 (a cover of Dave Bartholomew's "I Hear You Knocking") to his final album release (2015's On Guitar...Rags and Classics), Welsh guitarist-singer-songwriter-producer Dave Edmunds proselytized for the power of pure rock-and-roll.  Whether stripping the sound down to basics or doing a spot-on emulation of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Edmunds emphasized the joy of the genre.  In January 1972, he released his first solo album: Rockpile.  Its title would augur

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dave Edmunds, Huey Lewis and The News, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, The Stray Cats

Needless to Say: Al Stewart's "Past, Present and Future" Goes Deluxe From Esoteric

September 24, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Al Stewart Past Present and Future

Al Stewart fans have been rather well-served in recent years.  The historically-minded troubadour recently released a new live album with the band The Empty Pockets, preserving a concert set on 2 CDs.  Earlier this summer, Al received a volume of Rhino's Now Playing series of vinyl compilations.  Last year, TSD teamed up with Real Gone Music for Songs on the Radio: The Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981, and in 2022, Madfish issued The Admiralty Lights, a massive 50-CD box set featuring (almost)

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: Al Stewart

On the Way Home: CSNY Releases "Live at Fillmore East, 1969"

September 23, 2024 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

CSNY Live at the Fillmore East

On the morning of Monday, August 18, 1969, at 3:30 a.m., David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash took the stage at Max Yasgur's farm.  The threesome's self-titled debut album had been released in May, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and yielding a pair of hit singles, Nash's "Marrakesh Express" and Stills' "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes."  But CSN wasn't done yet.  On August 16, they'd launched a tour in Chicago with a new bandmate, Neil Young.  The Woodstock performance was CSNY's second

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crosby Stills Nash and Young

Release Round-Up: Week of September 20

September 20, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Live Recordings

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bob Dylan, The 1974 Tour Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In 1974, Bob Dylan embarked on an extensive tour with his old backing band.  Now, they, too, were universally known - as The Band - and the double bill hit indoor arenas across North America for 40 concerts over 30 dates and 21

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Cher, Double Exposure, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Herb Alpert, Jackson Browne, Peggy Lee, Phil Collins, Sam Phillips, Shirley Horn, The Band

Try Some, Buy Some: George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" Gets Expanded For Its 50th

September 19, 2024 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

As the studio follow-up to his landmark triple album All Things Must Pass, George Harrison further explored his spiritual and physical selves on 1973's leaner Living in the Material World.  On November 15, the album will return from Dark Horse and BMG in a belated 50th anniversary edition comprising 2 CDs, 2 LPs, and a Blu-ray.  It's limited to 5,000 units worldwide.  The original album, newly remixed by Paul Hicks, will also be available in 2LP & 2CD Deluxe Editions, Limited Edition color

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: George Harrison

Dying to Meet You: Judas Priest's Debut Revisited with Definitive Remix

September 19, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Rocka Rolla

It took 50 years, but Judas Priest have finally perfected the way they want their debut to sound. The British metal icons will reissue 1974's Rocka Rolla on November 22 - one of the first truly sanctioned releases of the first album by the group - with a brand-new remix from the original multi-track tapes by producer Tom Allom. "I'm just thrilled," frontman Rob Halford said in a statement. "Tom Allom is giving us a second chance here with the way that a lot of the elements were lost in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Judas Priest

What a Difference You've Made: Ronnie Milsap's Greatest Hits Come Back to Vinyl

September 19, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

RonnieMilsap BestOf LPVinyl Black

The smooth, blockbuster country sound of Ronnie Milsap is coming back to vinyl. Craft Recordings will issue a wide-release black LP pressing of 2020's The Best of Ronnie Milsap, issued on CD and digitally not long after the label became the home for Milsap's winning streak of RCA Records albums and singles through the '70s, '80s and beyond. (A dark-red vinyl was issued exclusively for Cracker Barrel stores back then; this time around, a "tan smoke" variant will be available to Milsap's top

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Ronnie Milsap

In Memoriam: JD Souther (1945-2024)

September 18, 2024 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

John David Souther

"We always said our motto was 'we're building to last.'  We really spent a lot of time on the songs.  The other motto was, 'no filler.'  You don't make a single and then put a bunch of filler on an album.  You make an album and hope you have a single," JD Souther shared with me earlier this year.  The singer-songwriter's extraordinary body of work, one of the cornerstones of the Southern California rock sound, reflected that ethos: "You're Only Lonely."  "Faithless Love." "Her Town Too."  "Best

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Love Will Save the Day: Whitney Houston's First South African Concert Set for Release in November

September 18, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Whitney South Africa vinyl

The power of Whitney Houston's live performance - in service of a celebration of international freedom - will be chronicled in a new album and film release from Legacy Recordings. The label, in collaboration with Houston's estate, will release The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) on November 8, a CD and double vinyl release chronicling Whitney's first of three concerts in South Africa in the fall of 1994 - just a few short months after the first democratic election was held in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Whitney Houston

Qu'est-ce que c'est? Talking Heads' Debut Gets Box Set Treatment

September 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Talking Heads 77 box

Rhino's Talking Heads revisitation won't end with Stop Making Sense - they'll release a new deluxe box set of the group's 1977 debut album, featuring rare outtakes and B-sides, a live show and the album remixed in Dolby Atmos and surround, as overseen by the band's keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison. Available November 8, the super deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77 will come in hardcover book packaging that'll feature 80 pages of rare archival photos and liner notes written by all four

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Talking Heads

I'll Wear It Proudly: Elvis Costello Coronates 'King of America' for New Box Set

September 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

King of America and Other Realms packshot

When King of America became Rhino's penultimate Elvis Costello reissue in 2005, a hype sticker cheekily hailed it as "the album that fans, critics and Elvis Costello all agree on." Perhaps that's why it'll be the next of his classic albums to receive a deluxe box set this fall. King of America and Other Realms, available November 1, follows the super deluxe, vinyl-and-digital-only The Complete Armed Forces box; however, this one's primarily available on CD - six of 'em, in total. The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash

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