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Archive Collection: Flowers in the Dirt

December 19, 2016 By

McCartney Archive Collection Flowers 2CD

DELUXE EDITION (3CD/1DVD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) SPECIAL EDITION (2CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) VINYL (2LP) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) Paul McCartney reassesses his 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt in a variety of formats.  All boast a remastered version of the original 13-track album (including the CD and cassette bonus track "Où est le Soleil?") as the centerpiece, while the 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition Box Set and 2-CD

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

And Now...The Anita Kerr Orchestra and Singers Celebrated On New Box Set

December 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anita Kerr Warner Brothers Albums

Earlier this year, Cherry Red's él imprint collected Anita Kerr and Rod McKuen's classic "mood music" trilogy The Sea/The Earth/The Sky in one compact box set.  Now, él has turned its attention to another set of engaging albums from the vast Anita Kerr discography.  The Five Classic Warner Brothers Albums 1966-1968 brings together The Anita Kerr Orchestra's 1966 And Now...The Anita Kerr Orchestra!  and The Anita Kerr Singers' four subsequent Warner LPs in one package. Memphis native Anita

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Anita Kerr, Bert Kaempfert

Release Round-Up: Week of December 16

December 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Kinks The Mono Collection Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  The Kinks, The Mono Collection (Sanctuary/BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Kinks' The Mono Collection brings together eight of the band's classic albums in their original U.K. Pye Records mono editions on ten LPs, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl.  The set includes 1967's Live at Kelvin Hall and 1970's original 2-LP collection The Kinks (otherwise known as The Black Album.  A hardcover 48-page book including never-before-seen

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Rage Against the Machine, Randy Newman, Rush, Social Distortion, The Doors, The Kinks, Tony Bennett

Paul McCartney Sets Archive Release of "Flowers in the Dirt" For March, Includes Elvis Costello Demos

December 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese 26 Comments

McCartney Archive Collection Flowers 2CD

Last August, Paul McCartney announced his return to The Beatles' longtime home of Capitol Records, bringing all of his solo works beginning with 1970's McCartney into the fold of the Universal Music Group-owned label.  Today, the long-awaited multi-format Archive Collection release of 1989's Flowers in the Dirt has been announced for March 24, 2017 via MPL/Capitol/UMe. Highlighted by four collaborations with Declan MacManus, a.k.a. Elvis Costello, Flowers in the Dirt featured productions by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney

New Vinyl Box Celebrates Rihanna's Work (Work, Work, Work, Work)

December 9, 2016 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Rihanna Box

Fans of Barbadian R&B/pop hitmaker Rihanna have a sumptuous vinyl box set to look forward to, featuring all eight of her wildly successful studio albums in one package. Released December 16, The Studio Album Vinyl Box will include all of Robyn Rihanna Fenty's studio efforts, from her dancefloor-filling debut Music of the Sun (2005) to this year's ambitious Anti. Those first seven have each gone platinum, while all have reached Billboard's Top 10 (Unapologetic (2012) and Anti topped the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Rihanna

Release Round-Up: Week of December 9

December 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Doors London Fog 1966

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Randy Newman, The Randy Newman Songbook (Nonesuch) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Randy Newman Songbook box set marks the first-ever combined release of all three of the legendary songwriter's piano-and-voice Songbook albums (including the new Vol. 3) recorded in 2003 and 2010 with producers Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker.  All songs have been resequenced as one cohesive, thematically-linked listening experience spread over 4

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Buck Owens, Evanescence, Kylie Minogue, Laura Nyro, Meat Loaf, Neil Young, Paul Desmond, Randy Newman, Social Distortion, The Cretones, The Doors

Spicks and Specks: Bee Gees' Catalogue Moves to UMe

December 7, 2016 By Mike Duquette 34 Comments

bee gees barry gibb songs1

Second Disc HQ always buzzes when new catalog acquisitions are announced, and last week had us feeling like bees...Bee Gees, that is! Last Tuesday, it was announced that distribution of the legendary Australian trio's discography (including 22 studio albums, the bestselling Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, compilations and unreleased material) would transition from longtime home Rhino to Capitol/Universal Music Enterprises. Barry Gibb, along with his late brothers Robin and Maurice, guided

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, The Bee Gees

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Frank Sinatra, "World on a String"

December 5, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Frank Sinatra World on a String 1

Leave it to Noel Coward to sum it all up.  In his introduction to Frank Sinatra's June 14, 1958 performance at the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the famous British playwright-actor-songwriter-raconteur observed of his American friend's on-screen performances, "I've never yet known him to strike a false note."  As Coward undoubtedly knew, the same was true of Sinatra's musical recordings, sung with the emotional honesty and unvarnished directness of a great actor and communicator.  From his

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Release Round-Up: Week of December 2

December 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rolling Stones Blue and Lonesome

Welcome to December, and this week's Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, Blue and Lonesome (Interscope) Standard Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones return with their first studio album since 2005's A Bigger Bang.  Recorded over just three days in London, Blue and Lonesome returns the legendary band to its blues roots.  Available on CD, LP

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Archie Bell and the Drells, Deniece Williams, Kate Bush, Mary Martin, The Alan Parsons Project, The Mills Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren

I Feel Free: Cream Expand Debut Album In 2017

December 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Fresh Cream Cover

A half century after it was first released, Fresh Cream, the debut album by super-trio Cream, will get a four-disc expansion in January. One of the first supergroups of the rock era, Cream paired Yardbirds and John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers guitarist Eric Clapton with singer/bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker, former and current members of the Graham Bond Organisation. (The volatile Baker, in fact, was part of why Bruce left Bond's group; the duo fought onstage frequently and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Cream, Eric Clapton

Cops! Dinosaurs! Star Trek! La-La Land's Black Friday Slate Available For Ordering TODAY!

November 29, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

John Williams Jurassic Park

From the deepest reaches of space (the final frontier), to the toughest streets on either side of America, to not one, but two prehistoric adventures on tropical islands, La-La Land Records' just-announced final five catalogue soundtrack titles of 2016 offer some of the greatest film music around! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDPGywgZ_Yo "He's been chased, thrown through a window and arrested," the poster proclaimed. Just another day for a Detroit cop on vacation in Beverly

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Brad Fiedel, Don Ellis, Harold Faltermeyer, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Ron Jones

THE SECOND DISC'S 2016 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!

November 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie Who Can I Be Now

We wouldn't want you to be left out in the cold for Cyber Monday, so we're proud to present our annual Holiday Gift Guide featuring more than 50 essential selections for the music enthusiast in your life!  We've filled the guide with box sets (such as the popular David Bowie title to your left!) as well as archival releases and holiday music favorites that make great stocking stuffers.  So Just click here to access this year's top picks! You'll notice that the Gift Guide is in the same

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Categories: Features, Holiday Gift Guide Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

The 1966 Live Recordings

November 28, 2016 By

Bob Dylan 1966 Live

36 discs of music from Bob Dylan's 1966 world tour - every recording of the tour known to exist - are brought together on this monumental new collection.  Read our full review here!

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The Independent Years 1983-2004

November 22, 2016 By

Social Distortion The Independent Years

Punk icons Social Distortion are rounding up four of their albums for your turntable in a new vinyl box set.  The Independent Years 1983-2004 fills in the gaps on either side of their major-label tenure from 1990 to 1996, with fresh vinyl pressings of Mommy's Little Monster, Prison Bound, Mainliner (Wreckage from the Past), and Sex, Love and Rock 'N' Roll.

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The Albums

November 22, 2016 By

Bon Jovi Box Contents

Bon Jovi's The Albums includes all 14 of the group's studio efforts, from 1984's blistering-glam self-titled debut to the just-released This House is Not for Sale, the first album without longtime guitarist Richie Sambora. Eleven of these albums have hit the Billboard Top 10 since 1986's chart-topping breakthrough Slippery When Wet; of those, six of these albums (includingThis House is Not for Sale) have hit No. 1. The box will also include frontman Jon Bon Jovi's solo albums Blaze of Glory

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Never Say Goodbye: Bon Jovi Vinyl Box Planned

November 22, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Bon Jovi Box Contents

More than 30 years after their debut, New Jersey's Bon Jovi are still going strong, and to commemorate that strength, they're releasing a heavy-hitting vinyl box set next year. The Albums includes all 14 of the group's studio efforts, from 1984's blistering-glam self-titled debut to the just-released This House is Not for Sale, the first original album without longtime guitarist Richie Sambora. Eleven of these albums have hit the Billboard Top 10 since 1986's chart-topping breakthrough

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 18

November 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Beatles Eight Days a Week BD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - the last of the major release weeks for 2016! The Beatles, Eight Days a Week (DVD or BD) (Apple/Capitol) 2-Disc Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-Disc DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ron Howard's acclaimed 2016 documentary chronicling Beatlemania, Eight Days a Week, hits DVD

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Donna Summer, Gene Autry, Jethro Tull, R.E.M., Roy Acuff, Soundgarden, The Beatles, The Who, Tim Buckley, Tori Amos

Reach for the Sky: Social Distortion to Release "The Independent Years" on Vinyl

November 17, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Social Distortion The Independent Years

Punk icons Social Distortion are rounding up four of their albums for your turntable in a new vinyl box set out this fall. The Independent Years 1983-2004 fills in the gaps on either side of their major-label tenure from 1990 to 1996. Founded in southern California in 1978 and led since then by singer/guitarist Mike Ness, Social D's first album, Mommy's Little Monster, was self-released in 1983. Five years later, after Ness kicked a drug habit and reorganized the band after a hiatus, Prison

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The Complete Foundational Recordings 1936-1951

November 16, 2016 By

Roy Acuff The King of Country Music

Bear Family celebrates the early days of Roy Acuff on this new 9-CD/1-DVD box set collecting the pioneering country artist's complete recordings for Vocalion, Arc and Columbia between 1936 and 1951.  The LP-sized set includes a 184-page hardcover book with a total playing time of nearly 11 hours over 228 tracks.  The DVD features a 1940 film of the Grand Ole Opry.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Country

The Ultimate Collection

November 14, 2016 By

Evanescence The Ultimate Collection

The Ultimate Collection features, on six vinyl albums, Evanescence's full studio discography on 180-gram vinyl. In addition to Fallen, The Open Door (a double LP) and Evanescence, the box features the first wide release of Origin, a 2000 self-released demo collection; plus Lost Whispers, a rarities disc featuring four unreleased tracks, including a new version of Origin's "Even In Death." A 52-page book of handwritten lyrics, artwork and photos rounds out this deluxe package.

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Review: Bob Dylan, "The 1966 Live Recordings"

November 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Bob Dylan 1966 Live

I. Play a song for me... Bob Dylan saw a very different future for folk music.  His fifth studio album, Bringing It All Back Home, was released in March 1965, featuring one traditional acoustic side and one electric side.  Underscoring the fact that his embrace of (gasp!) electric rock-and-roll was no fluke, Dylan plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25.  From some appalled audience members came a chorus of boos.  Others cheered.  Dylan had electrified not only his own act, but

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

Release Round-Up: Week of November 11

November 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie Legacy

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  It's another big week for box sets from classic rock's heaviest hitters, and much, much more... Bob Dylan, The 1966 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 36 discs of music from Bob Dylan's 1966 world tour - every recording of the tour known to exist - are brought together on this monumental new collection.  Read our full review here! Bob Dylan, The Real Royal Albert Hall

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Garth Brooks, John Lennon, NRBQ, Pink Floyd, Robbie Robertson, Sting, The Band, Yoko Ono

In Memoriam: Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)

November 10, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Leonard Cohen Photo

Leonard Cohen, one of the most distinctive troubadours to arrive on the musical scene in the 1960s, passed away today at the age of 82.  An uncompromising talent who mordantly titled his most recent album (released just weeks ago) You Want It Darker, Cohen continued to create, inspire, and provoke until his final days.  His gifts of song and art, always infused with boldness, a deep spirituality and a keen observer's eye, will always resonate with truth, honesty, power and passion. In tribute

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Wake Me Up: Evanescence Vinyl Box Announced

November 10, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Evanescence The Ultimate Collection

The Bicycle Music Company, which purchased '00s alt-rock label Wind-Up Records in 2015, will release a vinyl box set devoted to one of the label's biggest acts: Evanescence. In the middle of the 2000s, the Little Rock, Arkansas-born Evanescence were one of the hottest rock acts around. Founded around the haunting voice of Amy Lee and the smart hard-rock guitar of Ben Moody, the band were a hit straight out the gate. Debut album Fallen sold 7 million copies in the U.S. and spent more than a

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David Bowie, Moody Blues, Procol Harum, The Move Featured On "Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds" Box

November 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Lets Go Down and Blow Our Minds Box

Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint has continued its series of box sets - including Love, Poetry and Revolution and I'm a Freak Baby - with another musical journey through the world of British psych and rock.  Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds is a more focused collection than either of those past two releases, concentrating solely on the U.K.'s psychedelic sounds of 1967.  Of course, you won't find selections from two of that year's landmark psych-rock releases, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: David Bowie, Procol Harum, The Moody Blues, The Move, The Searchers, The Spencer Davis Group, Various Artists

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