On the evenings of February 21 and 22, 1998, a host of musicians took the stage of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to pay tribute to one of their own. Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Raitt, and Crosby, Stills and Nash were just a few of the artists who paid their respects in song to the late Nicolette Larson. The luminous singer with the honeyed voice had unexpectedly died just a couple of months earlier at the far too young age of 45. In the decades since her…
Free As a Bird: The Beatles ‘Anthology’ Gets Remixed and Expanded in New Box Set (UPDATED 9/16/2025)
The next archival project from The Beatles is a celebration of their most major archival project, with a newly reissued and (slightly) expanded edition of their Anthology series coming to audio and video formats this fall. Anthology Collection will include remastered editions of the original three collections of rarities and outtakes compiled by George Martin and released through 1995 and 1996, available across six CDs or nine LPs. Martin’s son Giles, who remastered those albums, also curates a new collection, Anthology 4, across a further two CDs or three LPs. Anthology 4 is drawn mostly from…
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Up from the Skies: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ Gets Deluxe Box Set, UHQR Reissue (UPDATED 9/16/25)
Axis: Bold As Love is getting a little bolder this holiday season. Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings will partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968 on November 7. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set will include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes (as well as newly created Atmos mixes by original engineer Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod), along with a wealth of rare outtakes and live…
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The World is My Oyster: Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s ‘Pleasuredome’ Goes Massive for New Box Set
Universal Music Recordings are shooting a new box set in the right direction, covering Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s U.K. pop landmark Welcome to the Pleasuredome in exhaustive new detail. Though it’s already been exhaustively been reissued since The Second Disc started operating – once on a 2CD set from Salvo Music, on 2014’s vinyl/cassette/DVD set Inside the Pleasuredome (along with a 2018 Record Store Day box set of 12″ singles and the 2022 RSD comp Altered Reels, which brought a pair of cassette single presentations to vinyl) – another one (part of ZTT’s ongoing…
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Long Way From Home: Esoteric Expands, Remasters Anthony Phillips’ “Sail the World” and “Radio Clyde”
Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has continued its ongoing refresh of founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips’ solo catalogue, an endeavor which has taken 15 years (and counting). A deluxe 2CD reissue of 1994’s Sail the World has been joined by an expanded edition of 2003’s Radio Clyde, with both titles available now. Phillips composed the music heard on Sail the World for ITV’s coverage of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. The race was first held in 1973 and repeated every three or four years thereafter, with yachts from various countries…
Sting Sets Sail with Expanded Reissue of ‘The Last Ship’
The ship of Theseus is a classic paradox of thought that asks whether an object is truly the same after all its component pieces have been replaced. That’s not exactly the case for Sting’s musical The Last Ship, but he is once again revisiting the song score he’s tinkered with several times over the last decade in a new expanded edition due this winter. Coming to 2CD, 2LP and digital on December 5 ahead of a new series of worldwide performances, this new edition of the singer/songwriter’s 2013 concept album take on The Last…
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Have a Cigar: Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Gets 50th Anniversary Edition
Following some teases changing just about every Pink Floyd album cover on digital music services to mirror original packaging elements of Wish You Were Here, the band has announced a new expanded edition of its 1975 masterpiece, reissued to mark its 50th anniversary. Coming December 12 from Legacy Recordings, the deluxe Wish You Were Here arrives in a frankly dizzying display of formats: A 2CD or 3LP set pairs the original album with nine bonus tracks: three from the “Immersion Edition” box set released in 2011 and six previously unreleased outtakes and alternate mixes. A…
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Call Me Back Again: Paul McCartney Oversees New Wings Compilation
On November 4, Paul McCartney releases Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, an oral history of the superstar’s other band. The hardcover tome, created in collaboration with film director Morgan Neville and editor Ted Widmer, tells Wings’ story through text, photographs, a timeline, a gigography, a discography, and more. But the book is missing one thing: the music. Macca has that covered, too: on November 7, MPL, Capitol, and UMe will release the simply-titled Wings in a variety of formats. Wings supersedes 1978’s perennial Wings Greatest as the go-to…
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Nothing is Real But the Girl: Blondie’s Comeback ‘No Exit’ Gets Expanded
Last month, New York post-punk survivors Blondie announced the planned release next year of High Noon, a new studio album that reportedly features the final performances of founding drummer Clem Burke, who died of cancer earlier this year. Before that, however, BMG will revisit their first major comeback with an expansion of 1999’s No Exit. Coming to shops October 24, the expanded No Exit will pair the remastered original album with a bonus disc featuring eight remixes and rarities – three of which are previously unreleased. Among the highlights is a new mix of “Hot…
And I Miss You: Everything But the Girl Plan Career-Spanning Compilation
One of U.K. pop’s most beloved duos is looking back with a new compilation that succinctly surveys their many albums over the last 40 years. The Best of Everything But the Girl offers 16 tracks from the pair on one CD or two LPs, spanning their debut single (a cover of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”) all the way up to 2023’s Fuse – their first album in more than two decades. It includes U.K. hits like “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” and “Walking Wounded,” the fan favorite “Driving,” and of course,…
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Paisley Park is in Your Heart: Prince’s ‘Around the World in a Day’ Expanded for 40th Anniversary
Due credit to the Prince estate: they made good on one of their promises. The late artist’s estate will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Prince and The Revolution’s Around the World in a Day with a deluxe edition gathering all the non-LP material from the original release. Available November 21 in a variety of formats including 2CD and 140-gram 3LP editions, the set will feature the 1985 follow-up to Purple Rain, along with 13 non-LP remixes and B-sides – four of which will make their debut on CD. (The set includes no outtakes…
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Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rock ‘n’ Roll: Mungo Jerry’s “Snakebite Revisited” Arrives from 7a Records
Following last year’s expanded edition of Mungo Jerry’s breakthrough album Electronically Tested – featuring the band’s evergreen hit “In the Summertime” – 7a Records has returned to Mungo’s discography with a generously expanded presentation of 1990’s Snakebite. Available now, Snakebite has been reconceived by Ray Dorset, a.k.a. Mungo Jerry, as Snakebite Revisited. This remastered edition now features 17 songs, including rarities and previously unissued rehearsal takes, on CD, and 13 tracks on vinyl. The original Snakebite was conceived by Dorset as a way to preserve the performances of his then-current live band,…
Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Strikes with ‘Thunderball,’ Williams and More
Barely a week after JAWS emerged from the sea for its 50th anniversary with an expanded soundtrack release from Intrada, La-La Land touched off another tremendous batch of archival scores for the month, including another expanded James Bond title and a deep cut from John Williams. With expanded or remastered presentations of Goldfinger, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy, Licence to Kill, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day already certifying LLL as the home of definitive presentations of Bond soundtracks, there’s another one striking hard: 1965’s…
Up from the Skies: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ Gets Deluxe Box Set
Axis: Bold As Love is getting a little bolder this holiday season. Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings will partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968 on November 7. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set will include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes (as well as newly created Atmos mixes by original engineer Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod), along with a wealth of rare outtakes…
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Love Them Madly: New Blu-ray Box from The Doors Includes Atmos Mixes of Six Classic Albums
The Doors are set to alter fans perception once more with a new box set featuring their classic albums remixed in Dolby Atmos. Immersed (1967-1971), available exclusively through Rhino’s or the band’s official web stores, gathers the six classic LPs released during frontman Jim Morrison’s lifetime – The Doors (1967), Strange Days (1967), Waiting for the Sun (1968), The Soft Parade (1969), Morrison Hotel (1970) and L.A. Woman (1971) – on Blu-ray Audio discs, each featuring surround mixes in Atmos as well as 5.1 surround by the group’s longtime engineer Bruce Botnick. (Botnick created 5.1 mixes for the 2006 box set Perception;…
In Memoriam: Mark Volman (1947-2025)
The Second Disc remembers Mark Volman, 78, co-founder of The Turtles, one half of Flo & Eddie, unforgettable member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, author, radio personality, and artists’ rights advocate. With his longtime musical partner Howard Kaylan, Mark lent his soaring vocals to recordings by such artists as T. Rex, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper, and many others. A bright, colorful, and cheery onstage presence, Mark continued to perform with The Turtles following Kaylan’s 2018 retirement, spreading the fun of “Happy Together,” “Elenore,” and “You Baby” with delighted audiences across the…
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Elton John Raises Curtains on ‘Captain Fantastic’ with New 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
In the 2020s, Elton John started offering 50th anniversary deluxe editions of classic albums in his catalogue that hadn’t been expanded to multi-disc sets yet. After Madman Across the Water and Honky Château, expansions of Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player and Caribou were only made available as vinyl expansions for Record Store Day activations. That changes with a new general retail expansion of Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy arriving this fall with a bonus disc of unreleased material. Due October 24 on CD and purple/white swirl vinyl, the album (remastered in…
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Open All Night: Bruce Springsteen Reissues ‘Nebraska’ with Mythic Electric Recordings and More
It’s no surprise that, as Hollywood prepares to tell the story of Bruce Springsteen’s most striking solo release, a box set is coming to tell the tale of the (literal) tape. On October 17, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Nebraska ’82, a new box set showcasing the start-to-finish journey of Bruce’s most stark collection of songs and the attempts to record them in a way befitting of their haunting qualities. The set – four CDs or four LPs and a Blu-ray – will offer two discs of almost entirely unreleased outtakes,…
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All That You Dream: Rhino Sets Expansion of Little Feat’s ‘Last Record Album’
Another Little Feat deluxe album is making the rounds from Rhino. 1975’s The Last Record Album, the group’s fifth LP, will be expanded by the label in multiple formats, all available October 24. The 4CD set will pair the remastered album with a bonus disc of studio rarities (half of which are previously unreleased) along with an unissued live set at Boston’s Orpheum Theater recorded on Halloween of 1975. A 2LP set includes all the studio material in the CD box, and an exclusive bundle, available only at Rhino.com, will add a fifth…
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Compilation Watch: New Hits Sets from Devo, Kool & The Gang, Boomtown Rats
Three very different bands with venerable catalogues are getting new greatest hits collections added to their discographies. First up is a new set documenting Irish post-punkers The Boomtown Rats. The First Fifty Years: Songs of Boomtown Glory is a non-chronological compilation covering all seven of the Dublin group’s studio albums – the majority released between 1979 and 1984, before frontman Bob Geldof pivoted largely to pop-rooted activist causes including the spearheading of Band Aid and Live Aid. The tracks were jointly selected by the group as well as online fan polling, and include U.K….
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Music Must Change: The Who Expand ‘Who Are You’ with Outtakes, Live Tracks and Remixes
Following such previous super deluxe album box sets as Who’s Next, The Who Sell Out, My Generation, Tommy, and Quadrophenia, the band has just announced that 1978’s Who Are You will receive similarly lavish treatment on October 31. The band’s eighth album, Who Are You was also its final studio LP to feature drummer Keith Moon. The centerpiece of the multi-format release is a 7CD/1Blu-ray set which will offer the following: CD1: The original 1978 album as newly remastered by Jon Astley at Close to the Edge; CD2: Glyn Johns’ original, shelved…
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As Tears Go By: Marianne Faithfull’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” Collects Her Decca Recordings
Marianne Faithfull didn’t have to open her mouth to receive a recording contract. As the story goes, so vividly recounted in the liner notes to the new box set Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The U.K. Decca Recordings, the young woman was so striking in beauty and presence that impresario Andrew Loog Oldham didn’t hesitate to sign her on sight. (Even her name was made for stardom!) But it was just as clear that she was no ordinary pop starlet chasing dreams in Swingin’ London. Faithfull was remarkably clear-eyed, quipping to…
Walk Your Feet in the Sunshine: Cherry Red Collects Jimmy Webb’s 1970s Albums on “A Life in Words and Music”
“Freddy, those songs killed me.” Jimmy Webb once confessed to longtime musical collaborator Fred Mollin that the songs on which he made his name – “Up, Up, and Away,” Didn’t We,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” among innumerable other classics – placed him at a personal crossroads. He yearned to be accepted as a singer-songwriter like his contemporaries, but the fact that he began his career writing songs for others (and massive hit songs, at that) made acceptance in that field an uphill battle. Over the years, the…
I Went Looking for You: Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ to Be Expanded with Unreleased Material
Five decades after it became a landmark of a sea change of ’70s rock, Patti Smith’s debut Horses will be expanded with previously unheard material. Horses (50th Anniversary Edition), available through Legacy Recordings on October 10, will pair the classic LP with a further nine alternate versions and outtakes from the album sessions, including two selections from Smith’s demo tape for RCA Records. (Arista, unaffiliated with RCA at the time, ended up signing her for about a quarter-century.) A demo version of standout “Redondo Beach” was released on a 2002 compilation, but the…
This Shark’ll Swallow You Whole: New ‘JAWS’ Soundtrack Reissues Rise from the Depths (UPDATED)
How else could we preface this? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, John Williams’ acclaimed score to Steven Spielberg’s JAWS is being reissued for its 50th anniversary. And this time, the bites are big. Williams’ longtime archivist Mike Matessino has remixed the original film score for a new release now available digitally through Universal Pictures’ Back Lot Music and on a new 180-gram, 45 RPM 2LP vinyl pressing from Mondo (available on marbled red and blue “blood and water” vinyl). These original tracks heard in the…
The Dave Clark Five
October 23, 2026
