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Star Star: The Rolling Stones Announce Reissues of “Goats Head Soup,” Including Deluxe Box With Surround Sound Mixes

July 9, 2020 by Sam Stone | 8 Comments

Though it sometimes gets lost in the shuffle among the more critically lauded Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones’ 11th album, Goats Head Soup is worthy of reappraisal – and that time has finally come, as The Rolling Stones and UMe have announced a set of reissues slated for September 4 featuring new mixes, demos, alternate versions, and live material across a number of configurations. Released in August 1973, Goats Head Soup was recorded across the world, with sessions taking place in the U.K., the U.S., and Jamaica, while mixing was…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 3

April 3, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Andy Williams, Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone Music has the first-ever collection of never-before-heard music from Andy Williams’ Columbia Records years. Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72 boasts 20 selections direct from the Columbia vault encompassing 16 previously unreleased studio outtakes and four rare singles. Every track on Emperor of Easy is new to CD including Andy’s renditions of “Two for the Road,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” “Ruby Don’t…

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Andy Williams, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Robbie Basho, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Goodman, The Alan Parsons Project, The Monkees, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

Rag, Mama Rag: The Band’s Self-Titled Album To Be Given 50th Anniversary Box Set Treatment

September 27, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

It’s been fifty years since The Band released their self-title album, lovingly referred to by fans as “The Brown Album.” To celebrate the anniversary of the pioneering release, The Band will be reissued in a variety of expanded editions on November 15. These follow last year’s similar reissues of the group’s debut, Music from Big Pink. While The Band was primarily recorded in Hollywood – in Sammy Davis, Jr.’s pool house, no less! – the feel was decidedly rustic. The sessions took on a Basement Tapes-like quality, with Robbie Robertson as inspired…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 27

September 27, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beatles, Abbey Road: Anniversary Edition [Various Formats] (Apple/UMe) Super Deluxe 3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Abbey Road celebrates 50 with a variety of editions built around a new 2019 stereo mix by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. The centerpiece of the campaign, a 3CD/1BD box,…

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'Til Tuesday, Art Pepper, David Cassidy, Elmore James, Grateful Dead, John Coltrane, Paul Simon, Ramones, Sutherland Brothers and Quiver, Teddy Randazzo, The Beatles, The Replacements

UPDATE WITH NEW RELEASE DATE: Lost For Words: Pink Floyd Looks Back on Gilmour Era In ‘The Later Years: 1987-2019’

August 29, 2019 by Sam Stone | 8 Comments

EDIT: Due to production and logistical delays, the deluxe box set of ‘Pink Floyd The Later Years’ and the digital equvalent will be released on December 13, 2019. The highlights 2-LP / 1 CD package and the digital equivalent will keep the release date of November 29, 2019. In a move that’s sure to please fans of latter-day Pink Floyd, the band has announced a new, 18-disc multimedia box set due on December 13. The Later Years: 1987-2019, which celebrates the band’s David Gilmour-led years. The era was one of great…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 14

June 14, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Killing Me Softly with Her Song/When Will I See You Again (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue celebrating Johnny Mathis’ discography with two albums on one CD. 1973’s Killing Me Softly with Her Song and 1975’s When Will I See You Again both spotlight Mathis’ silky interpretations of the day’s greatest hits. Killing Me Softly with Her Song was Johnny’s final full-length album collaboration with songwriter-producer Jerry Fuller and…

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ABBA, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Mathis, R.E.M., Roger Daltrey, Stan Getz, Tangerine Dream, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of May 31

May 31, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Hootie & The Blowfish, Cracked Rear View: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) 3-CD/DVD Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Expanded: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hootie and the Blowfish are revisiting their 21x platinum smash Cracked Rear View with a new 3-CD/DVD Deluxe Edition and 2-CD Expanded Edition. The Deluxe Edition includes a new remaster of the album, plus rare and unreleased studio recordings on CD 2, a live…

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Atlanta Rhythm Section, Buck Owens, Depeche Mode, Four Tops, Hootie and The Blowfish, King Crimson, Rory Gallagher, Susan Boyle

Force Majeure: Tangerine Dream Classics, Outtakes, and Surround Mixes Abound on “In Search of Hades” Box

April 19, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

Tangerine Dream was among the “true pioneers of electronic and ambient music, and the albums they recorded for Virgin Records between 1973 and 1979 remain classics of the genre” – so says progressive rocker and remixer extraordinaire, Steven Wilson. And he should know, as Wilson has been heavily involved in a Tangerine Dream box set that spotlights the era, entitled In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979. Due from UMC/Virgin on June 14, In Search of Hades celebrates Tangerine Dream’s boundary-pushing albums Phaedra (1974), Rubycon (1975), the live Ricochet (1975), Stratosfear (1976),…

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Holding Court: King Crimson Announces 50th Anniversary Plans with New Single, Box Sets, Tour, and More!

January 14, 2019 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

Rock royalty King Crimson celebrate their golden jubilee this year and yesterday, January 13 – exactly 50 years since their first rehearsals – the band announced a wealth of new projects and plans to celebrate the momentous feat. Along with an upcoming documentary and ongoing download series, fans can expect a new tour, vinyl reissues, box sets, and live releases from the vault. We’ll have full details for each release as they’re announced, but to whet your appetite, here’s a look at what the mighty King Crimson has in store for 2019!…

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Review: The Beatles, “The Beatles (The White Album): Anniversary Edition”

November 9, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

You Say You Want a Revolution Following the enormous, worldwide success of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles wouldn’t have been faulted had they re-entered Abbey Road Studios and created another album of robustly melodic, lavishly orchestrated songs of whimsy and wonder. But Messrs. Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr weren’t interested in repeating themselves. When The Beatles arrived on November 22, 1968, roughly one and one-half years after Pepper, one didn’t even have to play the record to know that it was something different. Not only was it the Fab…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 9

November 9, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, The Complete Christmas Albums (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This comprehensive 2-CD, 43-track set from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music features all three of the legendary conductor’s classic Columbia Christmas LPs – Joy to the World: The Music of Christmas (1959), Wonderland of Christmas (1963), and Wishing You a Merry Christmas (1965), on which he was joined by vocalist Phyllis Curtin and The St. Killian Boychoir – plus a host of holiday bonuses. …

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Andre Kostelanetz, Ben Sidran, Fastball, Hanson, Jeff Larson, Jeffrey Foskett, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, John Denver, Lorne Greene, New Kids on the Block, The Beatles, Train

Review: John Lennon, “Imagine: The Ultimate Collection”

November 5, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

You May Say I’m a Dreamer Much like the artist who created it, John Lennon’s Imagine has always been an album of contradictions. While its dreamy, idealized title track has become an anthem for generations, the same LP veers from heartbreaking vulnerability (“Jealous Guy”) and expressions of romance (“Oh My Love,” “Oh Yoko!”) to a withering, personal jab at a friend (“How Do You Sleep”) to powerfully pointed social commentary (“Crippled Inside,” “I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don’t Wanna Die,” “Gimme Some Truth”). With 1970’s John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,…

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Through A Glass Onion: The Second Disc Hears Selections From The Beatles’ “White Album” Box

October 1, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

NEW YORK, NY – “We live in a perfect world of [these] anodyne, Instagrammed, perfect photographs, in-tune music, and everything in time, and The Beatles weren’t that. The Beatles had a heartbeat to them, and the story of ‘The White Album’ is the story of that heartbeat, if you’d like.” Last Wednesday morning, September 26, Giles Martin was holding court for an audience of about 70 at New York’s famed Record Plant. The subject was, of course, the legendary 1968 double-LP formally named The Beatles but known to all as The White…

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The Beatles (The White Album): 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

September 25, 2018 by Joe Marchese

6CD/1BD super deluxe box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP new stereo mix: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Beatles are revisiting The White Album in a variety of formats including a 6CD/1BD Super Deluxe box set containing Giles Martin and Sam Okell’s new 2018 stereo remix of the album, the complete Esher Demos, and 50 studio outtakes on CD, and the new stereo remix, new…

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Say It’s Your Birthday: The Beatles Mark 50 Years of The White Album with Deluxe Reissue

September 24, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 25 Comments

It’s officially named for the band that created it, but to listeners around the world, the 1968 double-album will forever be known as The White Album. Its sprawling, eclectic lineup of 30 tracks showcased every side of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, and cast its musical net wider from the baroque pop majesty of Sgt. Pepper’s to a heavier celebration of all things, and all sounds, rock-and-roll. Just a few of its classic songs include “Back in the USSR,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Blackbird,” and “Birthday.” The dissent behind-the-scenes…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 7

September 7, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same Cover

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same [Various Formats] (Atlantic/Swan Song) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/4LP/2DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham took the famous stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden on July 27-29, 1973 for the concerts that were captured in the film The Song Remains the Same. …

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Alice Coltrane, Ashford and Simpson, Bob Seger, George Gershwin, Grateful Dead, Harold Arlen, Jack Cassidy, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, The Posies

Imagine: Ultimate Collection [Various Formats]

September 4, 2018 by Joe Marchese

Imagine: Ultimate Collection Super Deluxe Box (4CD/2BD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Imagine: Ultimate Collection Deluxe Edition (2CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Imagine: Ultimate Mixes Deluxe Vinyl (2LP): 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Imagine: Ultimate Mixes (1CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada John Lennon’s second solo studio album, and arguably his most beloved, is returning from Apple and Capitol in a lavish new 4CD/2BD box set. This set celebrates the classic 1971 album which introduced the world to “Imagine,”…

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Review: The Band, “Music from Big Pink: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition”

August 31, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The house on Parnassus Lane, formerly Stoll Road, in West Saugerties, New York might be one of rock and roll’s least likely landmarks, with its unassuming residential façade distinguished only by its pink siding. But the colorful house bore witness to the birth of some of the greatest songs in American pop history when Bob Dylan and his band – soon to be The Band – recorded “The Basement Tapes” there. When Capitol Records subsequently signed Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel, the group made a request:…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 3

August 3, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Ben Folds, Brick: The Songs of Ben Folds 1996-2012 (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 13-CD box Brick: The Songs of Ben Folds 1996-2012 brings together nearly all of Folds’ core studio albums together with a live album and various other odds and ends. It traces his career from the first Ben Five Folds record through his solo recordings to the Five’s reunion album in 2012, for a total of 194 tracks! And yes – it’s shaped like a brick, in tribute to what’s arguably Folds’ most famous…

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Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Electric Light Orchestra, Hampton Grease Band, Merry Clayton, Monk Higgins, The Alan Parsons Project, The Doors

My Precious: Rhino Reissues ‘Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers’ Box Set on CD, Blu-ray, Vinyl

July 25, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Rhino is taking another journey to Middle-earth this Friday, July 27, with the reissue of the second soundtrack from director Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – The Complete Recordings, composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Howard Shore, follows the reissue earlier this year of the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack. Like that set it will be available in two deluxe physical formats: a 5-LP vinyl box set and a 3-CD/1-Blu-ray Audio box. The 5-LP edition marks the Grammy-winning, gold-certified soundtrack’s premiere…

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Eye in the Sky [Blu-ray Audio]

July 3, 2018 by Joe Marchese

Real Gone has a standalone release of the Blu-ray Audio edition of The Alan Parsons Project’s 1982 hit album Eye in the Sky. The Project’s sixth album (and fifth on Arista Records) employed a variety of musical styles within a radio-friendly soft-rock framework to address typically lofty themes. This Blu-ray reissue boasts a high-resolution stereo version of the album alongside a new 5.1 surround mix, done by Parsons himself in April of last year. This Blu-Ray was released last November as part of the 35th anniversary Super Deluxe box reissue of the…

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Music from Big Pink [Various Formats]

July 3, 2018 by Joe Marchese

Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Pink Vinyl: uDiscoverMusic.com Just in time for its 50th anniversary, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Band’s seminal exploration of Americana, Music from Big Pink, on CD, 2-LP vinyl, digital, and in a CD/BD/2-LP/1-7 inch single Super Deluxe Edition. For its 50th, Big Pink has been spruced up by engineer Bob Clearmountain, who has produced a new stereo mix of the album…

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Back to Big Pink: The Band’s “Music from Big Pink” Turns 50, Goes Super Deluxe

June 29, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

The Band is returning to Big Pink for its 50th anniversary. On August 31, Capitol/UMe will reissue the seminal Music from Big Pink on CD, 2-LP vinyl, digital, and in a CD/BD/2-LP/1-7 inch single Super Deluxe Edition. Though few groups would have had the audacity to name themselves The Band, that’s exactly what Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel did. Big Pink was the album where the former Hawks (and former Bob Dylan backing band) crystallized the sound that spawned a thousand imitators, returning rock to its…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 29

June 29, 2018 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Supremes, Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Supremes’ smash 1967 album featuring “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” and “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone” gets a must-have 2-CD deluxe treatment, including the original mono and stereo albums, rarities, outtakes, remixes, and a live set from The Copacabana in 1967 featuring one of the last joint performances of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard! Read more here! Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction [Various Formats] (Geffen/UMe) 1CD:…

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