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Release Round-Up: Week of November 29

November 29, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! While most labels are concentrating today on Record Store Day’s Black Friday releases, we’ve chosen to spotlight a few non-RSD titles out today, as well. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tommy Steele, On Air (Stage Door Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Stage Door Records’ Pop imprint celebrates The Happiest Millionaire and Half a Sixpence star Tommy Steele with On Air, a collection of 31 tracks culled from his 1964 U.K. radio series The Tommy Steele Show. None of these tracks have been released since their original broadcast sixty…

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Dorsey Burnette, Eric Clapton, Heather Nova, Leo Sayer, Mercury Rev, Sparks, Taylor Swift, Todd Rundgren, Tommy Steele, War

Release Round-Up: Week of November 22

November 22, 2024 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today including a Christmas classic from Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music and a whole bunch of massive box sets! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sings Christmas Carols (Expanded Edition) (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real Gone Music on an array of Christmas releases from such evergreen artists as Johnny Mathis, The Supremes, Chet Atkins,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 15

November 15, 2024 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today…and, with the holidays approaching, it just might be the biggest release week of the year! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison, Living in the Material World: 50th Anniversary (Dark Horse) 2CD/2LP/1BD/1-7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada As the studio follow-up to his landmark triple album All Things Must Pass, George Harrison further explored his spiritual and physical selves on…

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Welcome to Shepherd’s Bush

November 10, 2024 by Joe Marchese

The Rolling Stones have long been famed for their “secret shows.” One of those intimate gigs took place on June 8, 1999 when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and company took the stage at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, a 1903 music hall in the West London suburb. In front of an 1,800-capacity crowd including such luminaries as Anita Pallenberg, Pete Townshend, Jerry Hall, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and Bob Geldof, the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band strutted their stuff just days before two sold-out shows at the 70,000-seat…

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Shattered: The Rolling Stones’ 1999 Shepherd Bush Gig Arrives in November from Mercury Studios

October 31, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The Rolling Stones have long been famed for their “secret shows.” One of those took place on June 8, 1999 when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and company took the stage at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, a 1903 music hall in the West London suburb. In front of an 1,800-capacity crowd including such luminaries as Anita Pallenberg, Pete Townshend, Jerry Hall, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and Bob Geldof, the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band strutted their stuff just days before two sold-out shows at the 70,000-seat Wembley Stadium. …

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 25

October 25, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Blue Magic, Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) Let the sideshow begin! SoulMusic Records and TSD are proud to unveil a new 6-CD box set dedicated to the sweet ‘n funky soul stylings of Philly quintet Blue Magic (“Sideshow,” “Three Ring Circus,” “Welcome to the Club,” “What’s Come Over Me”). Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings brings together…

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ABBA, Andrea Bocelli, Ben Folds, Blue Magic, Bryan Ferry, Charlie Parker, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Duran Duran, Graham Parker, Green Day, Iain Matthews, Melanie, Queen, Tears for Fears, The Oak Ridge Boys

Live at 55

October 23, 2024 by Joe Marchese

4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Mercury Studios 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Mercury Studios 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Last November 17 and 18, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City’s Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two marathon concerts touching on every facet of the band’s long career. Now, the film of those concerts – featuring a number of special guests including Steve…

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Can You Dig It? Yes, I Can: Chicago’s “Live at 55” Features Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Chris Daughtry, Judith Hill, More

October 23, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Last November 17 and 18, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City’s Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two marathon concerts touching on every facet of the band’s long career. Now, the film of those concerts – featuring a number of special guests including Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, and Judith Hill – is coming to a variety of formats almost one year to the day, on November 22, 2024. Mercury Studios will release Chicago & Friends’ Live at 55 on DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2CD,…

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Chicago, Chris Daughtry, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Judith Hill, Robert Randolph, Robin Thicke, Steve Vai, Voiceplay

Release Round-Up: Week of October 11

October 11, 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. Duran Duran, Danse Macabre: De Luxe (Tapemodern/BMG) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Box Set: Official Store Duran Duran has reissued their 2023 album on CD and digitally with three new recordings: an original instrumental, “Masque of the Pink Death,” that now opens the album; a cover of Electric Light Orchestra’s “Evil Woman”; and “New Moon (Dark Phase),” a re-recording of the band’s 1984 Top 10 hit “New Moon on…

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Duran Duran, James Blunt, Lady Gaga, Melanie, Rory Gallagher

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

October 1, 2024 by Joe Marchese

Hendrix Electric Lady Studios box packshot

3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Among his final and most enduring acts as a musician, Jimi Hendrix purchased a Greenwich Village nightclub with the intention of transforming it into a recording studio. A new documentary tells that story of its creation, and the accompanying box set highlights an unreleased trove of recordings from his few but pivotal sessions there. Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, available as a 3CD or 5LP set, offers 39 demos and early takes from Hendrix’s summer 1970 sessions at the studio of the…

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Review: Faces, “Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert and Session Recordings 1970-1973”

September 11, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Between the summer of 1969 and the fall of 1975, a joyful noise emerged whenever Faces took the stage. Ronnie Lane (bass), Kenney Jones (drums), and Ian McLagan (keyboards) had emerged from the ashes of pop’s Small Faces, while Rod Stewart (vocals) and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were blues-rock veterans of the first iteration of The Jeff Beck Group in which Wood played bass. When they came together, they created a sound unlike either of those earlier groups: rough-and-tumble, raw, ramshackle, powerful, and fun. As one of their lyrics goes, “While I’m here,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 6

September 6, 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. Neil Young, Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) (NYA/Reprise) 17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store This week’s biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young’s long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a…

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10000 Maniacs, America, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Faces, Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, King Crimson, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Young, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Marriott, Sylvester, Vince Guaraldi, Vincent Price

American Idiot: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

September 5, 2024 by Joe Marchese

4CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (red/black splatter): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It’ll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased demos and a 2004 live set at Irving Plaza in New York City that featured the album front to back. Video extras will include the 2015 documentary Heart Like a Hand Grenade and a new…

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Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)

September 4, 2024 by Joe Marchese

17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store This week’s biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young’s long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a box identical to Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009) and Archives Vol. II (1972-1976) (2020), the set also includes a 160-page hardcover booklet “chronologically illustrated with archive materials, detailed descriptions of the music, and…

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St. Jimmy, Re-Canonized: Green Day Prep 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of ‘American Idiot’

August 12, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

With 20 years’ hindsight, Green Day probably meant for their seventh studio album to be big. But nobody could have predicted just how big American Idiot got – and this year’s latest addition to the year-end music box set line-up will showcase just how big with a package to match. American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It’ll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased demos and a 2004 live set…

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Straight Ahead: New Box Set Chronicles Jimi Hendrix’s Time At Electric Lady Studios

July 29, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 12 Comments

Among his final and most enduring acts as a musician, Jimi Hendrix purchased a Greenwich Village nightclub with the intention of transforming it into a recording studio. A new documentary will tell that story of its creation, and an accompanying box set will highlight an unreleased trove of recordings from his few but pivotal sessions there. Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, available September 13 as a 3CD or 5LP set, offers 39 demos and early takes from Hendrix’s summer 1970 sessions at the studio of the same name, recorded with…

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Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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Neil Young’s Third ‘Archives’ Box is His Biggest Yet

July 26, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 12 Comments

Neil Young has announced a big fall release: the third – and biggest – box set in his long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), slated for release September 6, will span in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a box identical to Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009) and Archives Vol. II (1972-1976) (2020), the set will also include a 160-page hardcover booklet “chronologically illustrated with…

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Faces At The BBC – Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973

July 24, 2024 by Joe Marchese

Faces at The BBC – Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 compiles all of the storied group’s concerts and surviving studio sessions for the BBC in one 8CD/1BD package approved by Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones. Though many of these recordings have long been considered lost, Rhino has tracked down nearly every song performed by Faces at the BBC from the band members’ own archives and private collections. Only one three-song session remains missing. The hardcover-style set includes a 48-page booklet with new commentary from the surviving bandmates and archival…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 12

July 12, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

John Lennon Mind Games Ultimate Collection

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. John Lennon, Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection (Capitol/UMe) 6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP/6CD/2BD Super Deluxe Box: Official Store 2CD (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) John Lennon’s fourth solo album Mind Games will receive a deluxe box set this summer packed with new mixes of the album’s contents as well…

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Allyson Briggs, Crazy Town, Dr. John, Dusty Springfield, Eric Clapton, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, John Lee Hooker, John Lennon, John Williams, Listening, Louis Armstrong, Marc Almond, Nick Mason, Tony Rice, Van Halen

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

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge: Expanded Edition

June 10, 2024 by Joe Marchese

For the first time ever, Rhino expands a Van Halen studio album. A 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray edition revisits For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the group’s ninth album and penultimate with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who’d taken over from David Lee Roth in 1985. As a major upstart rock act of the late ’70s and one of the biggest of the ’80s, Van Halen had something to prove on their first disc of the ’90s – and this set delivers some intriguing bonus material from the era. Paired with the original album (recently remastered by Donn…

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Right Now, You’re Reading About a Van Halen Reissue

May 24, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

For the first time ever, Rhino is expanding a Van Halen studio album. On July 12, the label will release a 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray edition of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the group’s ninth album and penultimate with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who’d taken over from David Lee Roth in 1985. As a major upstart rock act of the late ’70s and one of the biggest of the ’80s, Van Halen had something to prove on their first disc of the ’90s – and this set delivers some intriguing bonus material from the era. Paired with…

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Journey to Nutopia: John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’ Set for Expansion This Summer

May 15, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 10 Comments

John Lennon’s fourth solo album Mind Games will receive a deluxe box set this summer packed with new mixes of the album’s contents as well as a dozen unreleased outtakes. Available July 12, the 6CD/2BD box will take a new, immersive look at Lennon’s sessions at New York’s Record Plant in the summer of 1973, a turbulent time that resulted in a somewhat divisive effort in his post-Beatles discography. Included in the set are many assemblies of the original 12-track album, produced by Lennon and Yoko Ono’s son Sean in collaboration with an…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 10

May 10, 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. Queen, Queen Rock Montreal (Hollywood/EMI) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store (Exclusive – Blue) 4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store Queen’s electrifying 1981 Montreal concert returns in a variety of formats. Queen Rock Montreal, recently released to IMAX cinemas, arrives in 2CD;…

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