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Release Round-Up: Week of June 28

June 28, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Two Tons o’ Fun, Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings (Real Gone Music/Second Disc Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate Two Tons o’ Fun – a.k.a. Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes Armstead, a.k.a. The Weather Girls – with a complete 2-CD anthology that serves as a companion to last year’s Sylvester release, Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981. Get the…

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Al Stewart, Cher, Gerry Beckley, Johnny Cash, Melanie, Neil Young, Richard "Dimples" Fields, The Spinners, Todd Rundgren, Two Tons o' Fun, Yes

Purple Drain: What’s Going On with the Prince Estate?

June 21, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 38 Comments

In his too-brief life and vastly influential music career, Prince was known for every trait associated with genius: eclectic, kinetic musical ideas; a restless creative spirit; and of course, a mercurial side – known to change his own mind or direction at the slightest whims. In the eight years since his untimely passing, it seems the custodians of his affairs have got the mercurial part right, and that sometimes seems about it. A series of surprising successes and near-misses today in reissue production culminates in one of the biggest banana peels surrounding…

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Review: David Bowie, “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star”

June 18, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

“So Long, ’60s,” David Bowie proclaims on the first track of the new 5CD/1BD Parlophone box set Rock ‘N’ Roll Star. Strumming his 12-string at a San Francisco Holiday Inn, the future superstar was embracing the new decade and its immense possibilities: “I’ll kick you in the ass, you rascal, you!” Its verse melody and the barest wisp of the lyric (“keep your mouth shut!”) would make it to a new composition, “Moonage Daydream,” the third song on his fifth album. That LP was The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 14

June 14, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. David Bowie, Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new 5CD/1Blu-ray collection from the late David Bowie follows 2019’s Conversation Piece (which shed light on the 1968-1969 David Bowie/Space Oddity era) and 2022’s Divine Symmetry (which chronicled the twelve months leading up to December 1971’s release of Hunky Dory). Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! takes an in-depth look at Bowie’s path to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The…

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Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, George Benson, Jack Tempchin, Janis Siegel, Little Feat, Melanie, Mike Campbell, Paul McCartney, Seal, The Hollywood Stars, Truth, Will Butler, Wings

Release Round-Up: Week of June 7

June 7, 2024 by The Second Disc | 9 Comments

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. Dwight Twilley, Jungle: Expanded Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic’s deluxe expanded edition of power pop hero Dwight Twilley’s third solo album boasts six bonus tracks including the outtakes “Forget About It, Baby,” “You Can Change It,” and “Don’t You Love Her,” and Twilley’s demos of “Long, Lonely Nights,” “To Get to You,” and the title track. Ken Sharp has contributed a new essay based on his…

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APB, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bing Crosby, Blossom Dearie, Bon Jovi, Helen Merrill, Israel Vibration, Luther Vandross, NRBQ, Robert Hunter, Robin Trower, Skeeter Davis, Smoking Popes, Stina Nordenstam, Tom Verlaine, Tutti Camarata

This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around: Talking Heads’ Expanded ‘Stop Making Sense’ Comes to CD/Blu-ray with Atmos Mix

June 5, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

For good reason, the Talking Heads have gotten a lot of mileage out of their triumphant restoration of the live concert film Stop Making Sense. Brilliantly remastered and reissued in theaters last year by A24 – an event that got the group to reunite for multiple interviews to promote it, including just last night at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, where the film was shot – the audio was released on vinyl and digital by Rhino Records. (A24 also put out a luxe Blu-ray and 4K version of the film, as well…

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David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club

Release Round-Up: Week of May 31

May 31, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Salsoul Orchestra It's Good for the Soul

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. The Salsoul Orchestra, It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978) is the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra’s groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and conducted by Vincent Montana, Jr.! The vibraphonist came into his own when he moved from Philadelphia International Records to the upstart Salsoul label and founded…

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Black Sabbath, Crowded House, Cyndi Lauper, Howard Jones, Lowell George, Richard Thompson, Ringo Starr, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Silver Convention, The Rascals, The Rolling Stones, The Salsoul Orchestra, Willie Nelson

Fragile: Super Deluxe Edition

May 17, 2024 by Joe Marchese

Rhino is following last year’s Super Deluxe Edition of 1971’s The Yes Album with a similar set for the prog legends’ fourth album. Fragile arrived later that same year, introducing Rick Wakeman as keyboardist and kicking off a new era of Yes history. The box set follows the same 4CD/1LP/1BD format as The Yes Album, featuring Steven Wilson’s newly remastered and remixed audio, rare and previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a Dolby Atmos mix.

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 17

May 17, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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. Taana Gardner, When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SoulMusic Records teams with TSD to revisit dance superstar Taana Gardner’s classic West End album as a 2CD set. When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings opens with Taana Gardner in its original form and mix for the very first time on CD including Larry Levan’s 1979 mixes. Producer Kenton Nix’s extended…

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Adam Guettel, Barry Manilow, Davy Jones, Don McLean, Max Bygraves, New Kids on the Block, Pink Floyd, Stephen Sondheim, Taana Gardner

We Have Heaven: Rhino Reissues, Expands Yes’ “Fragile” with New Mixes

May 15, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Rhino is following last year’s Super Deluxe Edition of 1971’s The Yes Album with a similar set for the prog legends’ fourth album. Fragile arrived later that same year, introducing Rick Wakeman as keyboardist and kicking off a new era of Yes history. The upcoming box set, due on June 28, follows the same 4CD/1LP/1BD format as The Yes Album, featuring Steven Wilson’s newly remastered and remixed audio, rare and previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a Dolby Atmos mix. Fragile was recorded on the heels of the band’s expansive 1970-1971…

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Makes Me Feel Fine: Rhino’s New Quadio Batch Includes Seals and Crofts, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Hot Tuna

May 3, 2024 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Not long after the release of Joni Mitchell’s Quadio box set – making her the third artist to have an entire Quadio box dedicated to her, after Chicago and The Doobie Brothers – Rhino has just announced the fourth round of Blu-ray titles in the four-channel surround format Donny Hathaway’s Extension Of A Man, Hot Tuna’s Burgers, Roberta Flack’s Killing Me Softly, and Seals & Crofts’ Summer Breeze are all available now, as newly remastered from the original four-channel quadraphonic master tapes. Every title contains the four-channel mix as well as the…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 19

April 19, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Smokey Robinson and The Miracles Four Fer

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. With Record Store Day events taking place tomorrow, this is one of the biggest weeks in recent memory – so if you hit up your local indie store tomorrow, remember: there’s plenty of non-exclusive releases to check out, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TSD also mourns the passing of Dickey Betts, 80. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, Betts left behind an extraordinary legacy of…

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Bruce Springsteen, Chet Atkins, Gene Clark, Glen Campbell, Ian Hunter, King Crimson, Linda Martell, Lou Reed, Luther Vandross, Nancy Sinatra, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Pearl Jam, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Shadows and Light: Joni Mitchell’s Asylum Albums Go Quadio

April 18, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Joni Mitchell has had quite the year, stopping the show at the Grammy Awards (did anybody watching not shed a tear?), reinventing “I’m Still Standing” at the Gershwin Prize celebration of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and preparing for her Los Angeles concert return with sold-out, hotly-anticipated Joni Jams at the Hollywood Bowl in October. Today, Rhino announced one more jewel in Mitchell’s crown. Her 2022 box set The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) has been reissued with a twist: all four albums are now on Blu-ray in Quadio four-channel surround! But that’s not…

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A Light Hits the Gloom on the Grey: Seal’s Second Album Set for Deluxe Release

April 17, 2024 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

“There is so much a man can tell you / so much he can say…” Seal will be saying a little more with the help of Rhino, who will issue a new deluxe edition of his second album on June 14. Available as a 2CD/Blu-ray or 2LP set, Seal (known colloquially but unofficially as Seal II, to differentiate from his self-titled debut from three years earlier) will include the newly remastered original album plus a bonus disc of unreleased alternate versions of the album’s biggest hits and most treasured songs, plus rare non-LP material like…

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Bounce Right Back: Howard Jones’ First Two Albums Receive New Mixes by Cherry Red

April 9, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

And what could Cherry Red possibly do further with the sterling synth catalogue of Howard Jones? Some seven years into the label’s acquisition of Jones’ Warner-era material from 1983 to 1993, the U.K. label has found a way: to celebrate the 40th anniversary of debut album Human’s Lib, it and follow-up Dream Into Action will be newly remixed for new CD/Blu-ray editions available May 31. This early portion of Jones’ discography – which includes hits and fan favorites like “New Song,” “What is Love,” “Hide and Seek,” “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Life in…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 5

April 5, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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. Garbage, Bleed Like Me: Deluxe Edition (Interscope/UMe (U.S.)/BMG (U.K.)) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Garbage closed a chapter of their career in 2005 with the release of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me, in 2005. Now, they’re reopening that chapter with a new deluxe edition of the album, due out in April. The deluxe Bleed Like Me follows similar expansions of the group’s early…

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Garbage, Mike Post, Niall Horan, Ohio Players, Sheila E, Yes

Break On Through: Rhino Launches Dolby Atmos Series on Blu-ray with The Doors, Alanis, Hootie, Fleetwood Mac

April 2, 2024 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

In recent months, Rhino has reestablished itself as a preeminent player in the world of immersive audio. Three waves of Quadio releases have seen classic quadraphonic mixes of albums by Randy Newman, Spinners, Gordon Lightfoot, America, and Black Sabbath – among others – reissued on Blu-ray. Now, the label is launching a new series of Dolby Atmos mixes in physical Blu-ray format. The first four titles in the series comprise quite a marquee bunch: Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, Hootie & The Blowfish’s Cracked Rear View, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, and The Best…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 29

March 29, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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. Deep Purple, Machine Head: Super Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com) Deep Purple’s 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band’s most commercially successful album. The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock’s most famous riffs with “Smoke on the Water,” and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians. …

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Deep Purple, Gentle Giant, Michael Schenker, Nico, Nina Simone, Sheryl Crow, Silver Convention, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Rock ‘N’ Roll Star!

March 27, 2024 by Joe Marchese

5CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new 5CD/1Blu-ray collection from the late David Bowie follows 2019’s Conversation Piece (which shed light on the 1968-1969 David Bowie/Space Oddity era) and 2022’s Divine Symmetry (which chronicled the twelve months leading up to December 1971’s release of Hunky Dory). Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! takes an in-depth look at Bowie’s path to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars, beginning in February 1971 and going through the album’s June 1972 release up to Ziggy and The Spiders’ October 1, 1972 concert at the Boston Music…

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Freak Out in a Moonage Daydream: ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Star!’ Box Chronicles David Bowie’s Birth of Ziggy Stardust

March 22, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! That’s the title of the new box set coming on June 14 from David Bowie – and the late artist certainly qualifies. This new 5CD/1Blu-ray collection follows 2019’s Conversation Piece (which shed light on the 1968-1969 David Bowie/Space Oddity era) and 2022’s Divine Symmetry (which chronicled the twelve months leading up to December 1971’s release of Hunky Dory). Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! takes an in-depth look at Bowie’s path to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars, beginning in February 1971 and going…

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Machine Head: Super Deluxe Edition

February 8, 2024 by Joe Marchese

Deep Purple’s 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band’s most commercially successful album. The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock’s most famous riffs with “Smoke on the Water,” and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians. Rhino is revisiting Machine Head as a 3CD/1LP/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition with various versions of the album plus bonus material: 2024 Dweezil Zappa album mix on CD and LP; 2024 Original Album Remaster on CD; March…

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Pictures of Home: Rhino Revisits Deep Purple’s “Machine Head” on New Super Deluxe Edition

February 6, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 11 Comments

Deep Purple’s 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band’s most commercially successful album. The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock’s most famous riffs with “Smoke on the Water,” and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians. On March 29, Rhino revisits Machine Head as a 3CD/1LP/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition with various versions of the album: 2024 Dweezil Zappa album mix on CD and LP; 2024 Original Album Remaster on CD; March…

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