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Then a Hero Comes Along: Mariah Carey’s ‘Music Box’ Goes Deluxe with Unreleased Outtakes, Live Concert

September 11, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

The third time was the charm when Mariah Carey released Music Box three decades ago. The elusive chanteuse last week announced plans to expand her third album with a wealth of rare and unreleased bonus material. Released as a 3CD or 4LP set on February 24, 2024 but available digitally now, the new expansion of Music Box features the original 10-track album expanded with international bonus track “Everything Fades Away”; a disc of studio material, including the unheard teaser “Workin’ Hard,” rare and new remixes, her popular cover of the Lionel Richie-penned “Endless Love,”…

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Star Fleet Sessions

June 19, 2023 by Joe Marchese

2CD/Red LP/Black 7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Queen Official Store Red 7″: Queen Official Store CD single: Queen Official Store Having reissued and expanded Brian May’s Back to the Light and Another World, UMe turns fans’ attention to the Queen guitarist’s first-ever solo project, a 1983 collaboration with a collection of stellar musicians – including a team-up with another one of the most iconic guitarists of the age. Star Fleet Project, first issued 40 years ago, was a three-track album clocking in at just under half an hour, but…

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Let Me Out: Brian May, Eddie Van Halen Trade Licks on ‘Star Fleet Project’ Reissue

June 6, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Having reissued and expanded Brian May’s Back to the Light and Another World, UMe will turn fans’ attention to the Queen guitarist’s first-ever solo project, a 1983 collaboration with a collection of stellar musicians – including a team-up with another one of the most iconic guitarists of the age. Star Fleet Project, issued 40 years ago, was a three-track album clocking in at just under half an hour, but here it’s being expanded two two discs featuring the original contents of the album remixed, rare interviews, and a deep dive into the…

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Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, Queen, REO Speedwagon

Love Comes Quickly: Pet Shop Boys Collect 35 Years of Singles on “Smash”

March 30, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 17 Comments

Pet Shop Boys are looking back on 35 years of music with a newly remastered singles collection to be released on June 16 in a variety of formats. Synthpop duo Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe released their debut single in 1984 with “West End Girls.” The strikingly original song melding catchy pop and irresistible dance rhythms was generally well-received but Tennant and Lowe suspected it hadn’t met its full potential. The following year, they re-recorded a new version with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, Please. That version shot to…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 24

March 24, 2023 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. Elton John, Honky Château: 50th Anniversary Edition (Rocket/UMC) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hot on the heels of his final U.S. live performances, Elton John is looking back with a 50th anniversary edition of his 1972 LP Honky Château. The reissue will feature the original album (boasting such classics as “Rocket Man,” “Honky Cat,” and “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”) alongside nine session demos covering eight of the album’s tracks (including two versions of “Slave”) and…

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Funk, Gospel, Pop, Rock

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Carla Olson, Elton John, Gene Clark, Jessye Norman, Junie Morrison, Lee Hazlewood, Madness, Nancy Sinatra, Pink Floyd, The Beat, The Kinks, The Specials, Whitney Houston, Willie Nelson

Release Round-Up: Week of March 17

March 17, 2023 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! U2, Songs of Surrender (Interscope) 4CD (40 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP (40 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe CD (20 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD (16 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (16 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada U2 is revisiting its discography on the new project Songs of Surrender. The album takes its name from the speaking tour undertaken last year by frontman Bono, tied to his memoirs. While writing those, he – along with guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and…

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Gerry Beckley, Jeff Larson, Leon Russell, Macy Gray, Sara Bareilles, Stephen Sondheim, Ten Years After, U2

The Magic Number: De La Soul Catalogue Coming to Streaming, with Some Amendments

February 13, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 8 Comments

One of the biggest omissions in hip-hop digital catalogue history is finally being corrected next month – and it comes alongside some news of what it’ll sound like and a deeply ironic tragedy concerning the group in question. On March 3, the first six albums by rap trio De La Soul – 1989’s landmark debut 3 Feel High and Rising, De La Soul is Dead (1991), Buhloone Mindstate (1993), Stakes is High (1996), Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2001) and AOI: Bionix (2001) – will finally be reissued onto streaming platforms for…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 3

February 3, 2023 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Carole Bayer Sager, Sometimes Late at Night: Expanded Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic Records is bringing Carole Bayer Sager’s star-studded 1981 album Sometimes Late at Night back to CD, for the very first time from the original Boardwalk Records master tapes. Featuring Burt Bacharach, Michael Jackson, Marvin Hamlisch, Neil Diamond, Melissa Manchester, David Foster, and many others, this lush, extraordinary (and extraordinarily personal) set co-produced by Bacharach and Brooks Arthur gets the treatment it deserves. The…

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Comedy, Country, Jazz, Soundtracks

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"Weird Al" Yankovic, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Dorothy Ashby, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Frank Wess, Grateful Dead, Kenny Loggins, Shania Twain, Shirley Scott, The Soul Searchers

Nancy and Lee Again [Various Formats]

February 2, 2023 by Joe Marchese

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada “Big Red Balloon” Swirl Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada “Tippy Toes” Teal Vinyl (Nancy’s Bootique Edition): Nancy’s Bootique + Bundles / Rough Trade U.S. “Got It Together Again” Gold Vinyl (Fanclub Edition): Light in the Attic Store / Rough Trade U.S. / Elusive Disc White Vinyl (U.K. Exclusive): Rough Trade U.K. / Drift Records / Piccadilly Records Pink Vinyl (Exclusive – limited to 500 units): Collectors’ Choice Music Picture Disc (Exclusive – limited to 50 units with autographed photo print): Nancy’s Bootique Autographed Test Pressing (Exclusive – limited to 35 units – sold out): Nancy’s Bootique 4-Track Cartridge (Exclusive): Nancy’s Bootique 8-Track Cartridge: Nancy’s…

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Got It Together: “Nancy and Lee Again” Debuts on CD in March

January 27, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Following last year’s reissue of 1968’s Nancy and Lee, Light in the Attic is continuing its Nancy Sinatra Archival Series with the first-ever reissue of Sinatra’s second duets LP with Lee Hazlewood, 1972’s Nancy and Lee Again. On March 24, an expanded edition of the album will be available in CD, vinyl, four- and eight-track tape, and digital formats. Nancy and Lee Again inaugurated Sinatra’s brief tenure at RCA Victor which additionally encompassed the solo album Woman (hopefully also on the way from LITA). The reunion was an auspicious one; Hazlewood returned…

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Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 16

December 16, 2022 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the week’s most notable new titles! As next week will see very few releases, this will be our final Release Round-Up of 2022…regular daily coverage will continue, though! See you in the new year! Frank Zappa, Waka/Wazoo (Zappa/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com / Zappa Online Store) UMe and Zappa Records are chronicling Frank Zappa’s 1972 in a new 4CD/1BD box set. The original Waka/Jawaka and Grand Wazoo albums, on which Zappa debuted his “electric orchestra” concept, are presented…

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Cheap Trick, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Oingo Boingo, Spice Girls, The Allman Brothers Band

Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

November 4, 2022 by The Second Disc | 9 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Billy Joel, Live at Yankee Stadium (Columbia/Legacy) 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Billy Joel’s Live at Yankee Stadium, originally released on video, is getting a major makeover. The concert film, shot on June 22 and 23, 1990, has been restored and remixed from original audio and video elements for a 2CD/Blu-ray or 3LP package. Eleven of the tracks have never been released in any format. The ground-up restoration of Live at Yankee Stadium includes the…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Donna Summer, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, Prince, Seal, Spice Girls, Steely Dan, The Police

I Want It All: Queen’s “The Miracle” Gets Super-Sized in Upcoming Box Set

October 13, 2022 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Queen’s thirteenth studio album, The Miracle, is coming back in a big way. On November 18, EMI (U.K.) and Hollywood Records (U.S.) will expand The Miracle into a 5CD/Blu-ray/DVD/LP box set adding alternate takes, demos, rough mixes, backing tracks, B-sides, and more. A 2-CD “highlights” edition will also be available as well as cassette and picture disc vinyl versions of the original album only. The marathon recording period commenced in December 1987 with the specter of Freddie Mercury’s HIV diagnosis (as yet unknown to the public) lingering over the band, and continued…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 16

September 16, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Miles Davis, That’s What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 (Columbia/Legacy) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 3-CD box set (also available digitally) focuses on Miles Davis’ final years at the Columbia label with which he had been associated since 1955 and on the three albums that closed out his 30-year run: Star People (1983), Decoy (1984), and You’re Under Arrest (1985). The collection features studio outtakes as well as a complete live performance, What It Is: Montreal…

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Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, Joe Strummer, Lang Lang, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Stacey Q, Suede

Release Round-Up: Week of September 9

September 9, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies / Everybody’s in Show-Biz – Everybody’s a Star (BMG) 6LP/4CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Muswell Hillbillies 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Muswell Hillbillies 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody’s in Show-Biz 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody’s in Show-Biz 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Kinks are going super deluxe (again!) with a joint reissue of two of the band’s most significant albums featuring remastered audio and a host of bonus tracks. BMG’s box set celebrates The…

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Fanny, Grateful Dead, Imagine Dragons, Jackie Evancho, Jesse Ed Davis, Joni Mitchell, Julian Lennon, KISS, Kate Bush, Olivia Newton-John, Ozzy Osbourne, Powerman 5000, Spacehog, The Kinks

At The Royal Albert Hall

September 1, 2022 by Joe Marchese

Craft Recordings releases Creedence Clearwater Revival’s April 14, 1970 show at London’s venerable Royal Albert Hall. as newly restored and mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. The concert includes such CCR staples as “Green River,” “Fortunate Son,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Proud Mary,” and “Keep on Chooglin’.” Available on CD, LP, cassette, and digitally. A Craft-exclusive 2LP/2CD/1BD box set due November 18 includes the CD and 2-LP set of the Royal Albert Hall show plus the concert film/documentary Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival Live at The Royal Albert Hall on Blu-ray and…

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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes

August 5, 2022 by Joe Marchese

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4CD/7″/Cassette: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A new box set devoted to late filmmaker John Hughes presents a diverse collection of pop songs he helped bring to the masses. Life Moves Pretty Fast. The John Hughes Mixtapes offers four volumes of songs from the writer/director’s popular comedies and teen dramas including The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The director’s longtime music supervisor Tarquin Gotch has curated the collection with the help of Hughes’ son James, even working…

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Wish: Deluxe Edition

August 5, 2022 by Joe Marchese

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 2LP (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD The Cure hit their commercial stride with 1992’s Wish. The band’s ninth studio album and highest-charting in both the U.S. and U.K., it tapped into the burgeoning alt-rock movement while retaining the gothic sound on which The Cure made their name. Now, fans’ Wishes are coming true with this 30th anniversary expansion on 3 CDs. Curated by Robert Smith, the set includes…

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As You Walk on By: New Box Celebrates the Music of John Hughes Films

August 4, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

A wise philosopher…or maybe a punk kid…or maybe an astute screenwriter?…once wrote “Life moves pretty fast – if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” A new box set devoted to that iconic filmmaker – the late John Hughes – will help fans enjoy some of that life a little more through a diverse collection of pop songs he helped bring to the masses. Life Moves Pretty Fast. The John Hughes Mixtapes offers four volumes of songs from the writer/director’s popular comedies and teen dramas….

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To Wish Impossible Things: The Cure Prep “Wish” 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

August 1, 2022 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

The Cure hit their commercial stride with 1992’s Wish. The band’s ninth studio album and highest-charting in both the U.S. and U.K., it tapped into the burgeoning alt-rock movement while retaining the gothic sound on which The Cure made their name. Now, fans’ Wishes are coming true with a 30th anniversary expansion on 3 CDs, including 24 previously unreleased tracks and a further four which are new to CD/digital. Curated by Robert Smith, Wish: Deluxe Edition is due from Rhino on October 7, with a 2-LP remastered version of the original album…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 22

July 22, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles available today! Bob Marley and The Chineke! Orchestra (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 10-song set, recorded at Abbey Road Studios under the aegis of producer Nick Patrick, merges Bob Marley’s original vocal tracks with new orchestrations played by The Chineke! Orchestra, an adventurous ensemble dedicated to increasing diversity in music. The album features many of the reggae pioneer’s most beloved compositions including “Get Up, Stand Up,” “Is This Love,” “One Love,” and “I Shot the Sheriff.” Available on CD,…

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bananarama, Bob Marley, Brian Wilson, Gilbert O'Sullivan, She and Him, The Hagers, Tony Joe White, ZZ Top

Not Too Late: LITA Debuts Lou Reed Archive Series with “Words and Music – May 1965”

June 8, 2022 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

“I was working for a record company as a songwriter,” Lou Reed remembered in 1972, “where they’d lock me in a room and they’d say, ‘Write ten surfing songs,’ ya know, and I wrote ‘Heroin’ and I said, ‘Hey, I’ve got something for ya.’ They said, ‘Never gonna happen, never gonna happen.’” Reed wasn’t able to introduce “Heroin” to the world until March 1967 when the Verve label released The Velvet Underground & Nico. The VU’s debut album disappointed commercially but became greatly influential; Brian Eno once quipped that while the LP…

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John Cale, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 27

May 27, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles available in stores and online today! ABBA, Album Box Set (Polar/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc Bundle: Official Store To coincide with the arena show ABBA Voyage setting sail in London on May 27, the band’s 2021 studio album Voyage will be canonized in a new career-spanning box set featuring every one of the quartet’s nine studio LPs plus a specially-curated collection of singles and B-sides. The new box clones the previously released The Vinyl Collection, offering all the original international track…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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ABBA, Anna Maria Alberghetti, B.T. Express, Bob Merrill, Def Leppard, Jerry Orbach, Sex Pistols, Sparks, Steve Ellis, Suzi Quatro, Taking Back Sunday

Release Round-Up: Week of May 20

May 20, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of titles arriving everywhere today. The Clash, Combat Rock + The People’s Hall: Special Edition (Columbia/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ranking Roger 7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash’s Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare and unreleased tracks curated by the band’s surviving members. The People’s Hall – the…

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