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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

Hendrix Electric Lady Studios box packshot

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

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Neil Young's Third 'Archives' Box is His Biggest Yet

July 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

Neil Young Archives III packshot

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

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Devo, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Nicolette Larson

Live in Concert 1985-2001

July 26, 2024 By

Townshend Live box

Live in Concert 1985-2001 brings together more than 15 years' worth of shows from legendary songwriter/guitarist Pete Townshend. These sets, recorded in America and England and arranged chronologically, were all originally released in the early years of the millennium on Townshend's short-lived Eel Pie label. For this set, available as a 14CD set or a digital product, they've been remastered by Jon Astley.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of July 26

July 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

JD Souther You're Only Lonely

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. Loleatta Holloway, We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) presents, on 5 CDs, all of the late, great Loleatta Holloway's albums for Gold Mind and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cat Stevens, Deborah Cox, Fleetwood Mac, JD Souther, Jeff Harnar, Loleatta Holloway, Melanie, Nik Kershaw, Pete Townshend, Talking Heads, The Police

Smalltown Boy: Bronski Beat's Debut Goes Deluxe for 40th Anniversary

July 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bronski packshot

One of the most striking (and oft-reissued) albums in U.K. '80s pop gets its biggest look this fall, with a new box set edition of Bronski Beat's The Age of Consent. The new 4CD/1DVD edition, available October 18, packages the original 1984 album with 1985 remix album Hundreds and Thousands, plus 19 remixes, edits and B-sides as well as three unreleased remixes and a disc of 19 never-before-released studio outtakes and radio sessions. The DVD features both restored music videos and Top of the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop Tags: Bronski Beat, Jimmy Somerville

They'd Do Anything: Simple Plan Announce Limited Vinyl Box Set

July 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Simple Plan Collection packshot

Simple Plan - one of the foremost bands of the new millennium pop-punk explosion - will celebrate their more than two decades of music with a vinyl box set from Rhino. Simple Plan Collection features all six of the band's studio albums on marbled color vinyl, along with a clear vinyl pressing of a new collection of rare tracks and even a double-sided single of two Christmas tunes (on seasonally appropriate green and red splatter vinyl). The box is strictly limited to 1500 copies, all signed

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The 1974 Tour Recordings

July 24, 2024 By

Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Live Recordings

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 cities.  The tour became one of the largest and highest-profile of the era, in no small part due to the promotional efforts of David Geffen, who'd spurred on the talks and had recently lured Dylan away from Columbia Records to his own Asylum label.  While Dylan's Asylum

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979)

July 24, 2024 By

Double Exposure My Love Is Free

My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) brings together expanded editions of all three of Philadelphia disco quartet Double Exposure's Salsoul albums plus the newly-curated collection I Got the Hots: Remixes and Rarities, for a total of 46 tracks on 4 CDs including the first-ever commercially-released 12-inch single, "Ten Percent." My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) has been compiled by Tim Dillinger for God's Music Is My Life, who has co-produced the set with

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980)

July 24, 2024 By

First Choice Love Having You Around

SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc celebrate Philadelphia girl group First Choice with Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980).  This 4CD collection features expanded editions of the trio's three original albums for Salsoul's Gold Mind imprint, plus a specially-curated bonus disc featuring various remixes and reinventions of their timeless, floor-filling repertoire. This clamshell box set features a 28-page, full-color booklet with photos, memorabilia, and four new essays

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

Both Sides (All the Sides)

July 24, 2024 By

Both Sides All the Sides

Phil Collins' fifth album, 1993's Both Sides, is getting the deluxe treatment on vinyl. The 5LP box Both Sides (All the Sides) features the original album, demos, B-sides, and live tracks.  The 2016 CD expansion of Both Sides featured a mix of rare B-sides, demos and unreleased live material - an approach that stymied some fans for its lack of comprehensiveness. (All the uncompiled remixes and rarities were later issued on two digital-only collections.) Both Sides (All the Sides) amends this

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

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

July 24, 2024 By

Faces at the BBC

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

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Review: Joni Mitchell, "The Asylum Albums 1972-1975" in Quadio

July 23, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Joni Mitchell Asylum Albums

The Joni Mitchell renaissance continues.  Following a triumphant surprise appearance in July 2022 at the Newport Folk Festival, the singer-songwriter returned to the stage for a full-length Joni Jam in June 2023 at Washington's Gorge Amphitheatre; tickets were quickly snapped up by ardent fans who had waited roughly two decades to see Mitchell in concert once again. The evening was a transcendent one, a taste of which was supplied to the public when Mitchell and her band of friends performed

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Joni Mitchell

In Memoriam: Abdul "Duke" Fakir of the Four Tops (1935-2024)

July 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Four Tops

Is it possible for a group like the Four Tops to be underrated? On its face, that question seems ridiculous. The Detroit vocal quartet had two dozen Top 40 hits in America between 1964 and 1988; they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and the R&B Group Hall of Fame, they have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; Rolling Stone and Billboard both named them one of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Those are laurels

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Categories: Features Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Four Tops

Don't Eat the Yellow Snow: Zappa's "Apostrophe (')" Gets 50th Anniversary Expansion

July 18, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Frank Zappa Apostrophe

Hot on the heels of the recent box set celebrating Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's 1968 concert at the Whisky a Go Go, Zappa Records and UMe are turning the clocks forward to revisit the composer-guitarist-bandleader's most commercially successful LP.  On September 13, the labels will mark the 50th anniversary of Apostrophe ('), originally released in March 1974, with a 5CD/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition as well as vinyl and digital editions. 1973's Over-Nite Sensation gave Zappa

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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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 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

Can't Turn Back the Decks: Phil Collins' 'Both Sides' Gets Deluxe Vinyl Set

July 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Both Sides All the Sides packshot

When Phil Collins started his deluxe reissue campaign in 2016, he started from both an obvious place and a less obvious one, first expanding 1981 debut Face Value as well as 1993's Both Sides, his fifth album. Now, that latter release - clearly, one of Collins' own favorites in his catalog - is being celebrated this fall with two vinyl products. Rhino will release Both Sides (All the Sides), a 5LP box set featuring the original album, demos, B-sides and live cuts, on September 20. They'll

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Phil Collins

Can We Be In Love: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Collect Double Exposure's Salsoul Albums on "My Love Is Free"

July 10, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Double Exposure My Love Is Free

For SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc, this is the Year of Salsoul.  The release of The Salsoul Orchestra's 8CD box set It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978) and the imminent arrival of sets from Loleatta Holloway and First Choice will be followed on September 20 by our latest co-branded title celebrating Philadelphia disco quartet Double Exposure.  My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) brings together expanded editions of all three of the group's Salsoul

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Double Exposure

Forever Young: Bob Dylan and The Band's Complete 1974 Live Recordings Collected on Massive Box

July 9, 2024 By Joe Marchese 13 Comments

Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Live Recordings

Bob Dylan had come a long way from coffeehouses.  In 1974, the superstar singer-songwriter 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 cities.  The tour became one of the largest and highest-profile of the era, in no small part due to the promotional efforts of David Geffen, who'd spurred on the talks and had recently lured Dylan

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, The Band

Release Round-Up: Week of June 28

June 28, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Version 1.0.0

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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Al Stewart, Cher, Gerry Beckley, Johnny Cash, Melanie, Neil Young, Richard "Dimples" Fields, The Spinners, Todd Rundgren, Two Tons o' Fun, Yes

OUT TOMORROW! SoulMusic, The Second Disc Collect The Spinners' 1979-1984 Atlantic Years on New Box Set

June 27, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Spinners Keep On Keepin' On

The Spinners - a.k.a. John Edwards, Henry Fambrough, Bobbie Smith, Billy Henderson, and Pervis Jackson - were at a crossroads when longtime producer-arranger-conductor Thom Bell confirmed that he would no longer be working with the group.  Where would they go next?  Tomorrow, June 28, SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc chronicle the next chapter of The Spinners' illustrious career with a new 7-CD box set.  Keep on Keepin' On: The Atlantic Years (Phase Two: 1979-1984) picks up where last

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Love Thang: First Choice Box Set Due in August from SoulMusic, The Second Disc

June 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

First Choice Love Having You Around

SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc are readying a hot Salsoul summer with another new release from the classic dance label, following our recent Salsoul Orchestra and upcoming Loleatta Holloway box sets.  On August 23, we're proud to celebrate Philadelphia girl group First Choice with Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980).  This 4CD collection features expanded editions of the trio's three original albums for Salsoul's Gold Mind imprint, plus a specially-curated bonus

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Memphis

June 25, 2024 By

Elvis Memphis box 2024

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new 5CD set (also available as a double vinyl album of highlights) showcases five crucial periods in which The King of Rock and Roll recorded in his adopted city of Memphis: the fiery 1953-1955 sessions at Sun Studio that first proved his worth as a singing sensation; a restorative 1969 session at American Sound Studios that remains to many his career highlight; a trek to Stax Studios in 1973;

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

"Les Cousins: The Soundtrack to Soho's Legendary Folk and Blues Club" Features Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Al Stewart

June 25, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Les Cousins

"For two-and-a-half years, I had the Friday night show at Bunjies Coffee Bar, and it became a residency for me," Al Stewart remembered in an interview with this author for the recent collection of his U.S. singles.  "After a while, I got another residency right around the corner at a club called Les Cousins."  The Greek Street venue was a focal point of the London folk scene.  Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, Alexis Korner, John Renbourn, and a young American named Paul Simon all passed through its

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk Tags: Al Stewart, Bert Jansch, Cat Stevens, Donovan, Nick Drake, Paul Simon, Various Artists

It's a Jolly Holiday: 'Mary Poppins' Vinyl Box Announced for 60th Anniversary

June 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Poppins packshot

When Richard M. Sherman, one half of the legendary songwriting team The Sherman Brothers, passed away last month, The Second Disc was quick to pay tribute to all the duo's great works for Walt Disney films and elsewhere. But their most towering achievement is probably the song score to the whimsical Mary Poppins. This summer, to celebrate the film's 60th anniversary, Disney will release a limited edition vinyl box set collecting the film's original soundtrack, rare archival material and no less

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Dick Van Dyke, Irwin Kostal, Julie Andrews, Louis Prima, Marni Nixon, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, The Sherman Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of June 21

June 21, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Joni Mitchell Asylum Albums 1976 1980 Cover

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. Joni Mitchell, The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (Rhino/Asylum) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) arrives on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing the Asylum period of Mitchell's extraordinary career.  Whereas

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Avril Lavigne, Brownie McGhee, Celine Dion, Daryl Hall, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Joni Mitchell, Lightnin' Hopkins, Melanie, Olivia Newton-John, Sonny Terry, Tom Petty

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