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Release Round-Up: Week of August 30

August 30, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

A Yacht Rock Odyssey

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. Oasis, Definitely Maybe: 30th Anniversary Edition (Big Brother) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada "You'll never see them on a stage any time soon, but Oasis are putting out some unheard material on a new reissue of their debut album..."  We've rarely been so happy to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: David Bowie, Melanie, Oasis, Paul Robeson, Rick Astley, Various Artists

Review: John Lennon, "Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection"

August 29, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

John Lennon Mind Games Cover

It's been quite a while since the last John Lennon "Ultimate" box set.  Imagine arrived in 2018, followed by Plastic Ono Band in 2021; the multi-disc solo anthology Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes was released in between, in 2020.  Anticipation justly ran high for this year's Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection, a 6CD/2BD set exploring every aspect of the solo Beatle's 1974 fourth album.  (The politically-charged Some Time in New York City, a hybrid live/studio LP from John and Yoko, has

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: John Lennon

Light in the Attic Compiles Lou Reed's Earliest Work for Pickwick Records

August 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Lou Reed Pickwick

For most people - let's say the 30,000 or so people who started a band after buying their debut - The Velvet Underground was the band that introduced the world to the uncompromising rock energy of Lou Reed. As the latest archival title of his released by Light in the Attic Records will illustrate, Reed's talents were first put on record in a possibly more unusual place than with The VU. Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965 will serve as the first official anthology

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: John Cale, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground

Free: Deluxe Edition

August 27, 2024 By

Rick Astley Free

Rick Astley's third studio album, 1991's Free, was his first not produced by the Stock-Atiken-Waterman team.  Instead, Astley and Gary Stevenson helmed the album which earned a Gold certification in the U.K. and yielded the top ten hit "Cry for Help" on both the U.S. and U.K. charts.  This 2CD reissue has a new Abbey Road remaster of the original album plus a generous 18 bonus tracks including previously unreleased tracks, single versions, B-sides, remixes, and instrumentals.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop

Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV, and Victor Recordings

August 27, 2024 By

Paul Robeson Voice of Freedom

This lavish 14-CD box collects all of the late singer-activist's major label recordings, spanning 1925-1947.  Voice of Freedom includes the first release of Robeson's groundbreaking Victor recordings on CD (16 recordings reissued for the first time, 5 previously unreleased); the first restoration of Robeson's acclaimed 1944 Othello stage production with Uta Hagen and José Ferrer from the original 33 master disc sides; his complete remastered Columbia albums (Songs of Free Men, Popular Favorites,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Everything Else, Gospel, Popular Standards/Vocal

David Bowie: Deluxe Edition

August 27, 2024 By

David Bowie Deram

Polydor and Deram are revisiting David Bowie's 1967 debut album featuring "Uncle Arthur," "Rubber Band," and "Silly Boy Blue" as a 2CD set.  Alas, the 2010 Deluxe Edition remains the gold standard for this title, with 53 tracks on 2 CDs including the original mono and stereo albums plus 25 bonus tracks.  This new reissue has the 14-song stereo mix only plus 16 bonus tracks, all but two of which are on the 2010 release.  The two "new" bonus tracks are "The Laughing Gnome" (Vocal Take 1 / Mix One)

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Touch My Heart: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Expands "From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music" Box Set

August 27, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

From Where I Stand

Back in 1998, The Country Music Foundation teamed with Warner Bros. Records to release From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music.  The 3-CD box set was divided into three thematic discs - The Stringband Era, The Soul Country Years, and Forward with Pride - which reflected on the immense contributions of African-Americans to country music in 60 songs.  Today, the spotlight shines even more brightly on the black experience in the genre, in no small part due to the release earlier

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Bobby Hebb, Charley Pride, Dobie Gray, Esther Phillips, Lead Belly, Linda Martell, Ray Charles, Rhiannon Giddens, Solomon Burke, The Pointer Sisters, The Supremes, Various Artists

Last Leaf on the Tree

August 25, 2024 By

Willie Nelson Last Leaf on the Tree

Willie Nelson's 76th studio album follows his 91st birthday and recent headlining spot on the Outlaw Music Festival tour (from which he was delayed due to illness).  Last Leaf on the Tree has been produced by his son Micah Nelson and features guest spots from Daniel Lanois and The Doors' John Densmore as well as Willie's longtime bandmate Mickey Raphael.  Songs have been plucked from the catalogues of Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Neil Young, The Flaming Lips, Beck, Nina Simone, and Keith Richards,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country

Blues At Sunrise: Stax Expands Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'In Session'

August 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

SRV Albert King In Session

An intergenerational meeting between two late blues guitar gods - Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - will be revived on CD and vinyl in a new expanded package. Originally recorded in 1983 and first released in 1999, In Session features the six-stringers trading licks on a Canadian television program of the same name, when King was a 60-year-old living legend and Vaughan a young upstart who'd turned heads with his licks on David Bowie's Let's Dance before releasing his own powerful

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Rock Tags: Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Release Round-Up: Week of August 23

August 23, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

First Choice Love Having You Around

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. First Choice, Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980) (SoulMusic/Second Disc)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Charlie Parker, Fanny, First Choice, George Duke, Jim Peterik, Jimi Jamison, Sheena Easton

Like the Very First Time: Foreigner Celebrate Rock Hall Induction with New Compilation and Single

August 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Foreigner Turning Back the Time

To celebrate their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Foreigner will release a new greatest hits collection, including a new track that reunites the group's two most notable members. Turning Back the Time, in stores October 4 from Rhino, brings together 18 of the group's most notable radio staples, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold As Ice," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Juke Box Hero," "I Want to Know What Love Is," "Say You

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Foreigner

Miles Davis' 1954 Sessions Collected on New Craft Recordings Compilation

August 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Miles 54

Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together. Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and vibraphonist Milt Jackson offering their talents in Davis' ensembles. The package includes a new

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Detects 'Foul Play,' La-La Land's Big Sale

August 20, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Foul Play Intrada expanded

If you're a catalogue soundtrack enthusiast, you're usually always ready to take a chance again on a new pressing of an old favorite. Intrada's latest reissue is about to make that idea as literal as possible: a new remix and expansion of Charles Fox's score to the 1978 comedy Foul Play. Written and directed by Colin Higgins (who penned the script to Harold and Maude and later directed the comedy 9 to 5), Foul Play is a screwy Hitchcock homage about a librarian (Goldie Hawn) who gets mixed up

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Alexander Courage, Barry Manilow, Charles Fox, George Duning, Jerry Fielding

Whitesnake, Recoiled: David Coverdale Preps Box of Remixed, Remastered Solo Albums

August 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Whitesnake Into the Light

Having thoroughly revisited his work with Whitesnake at Rhino Records with remixes, reissues and compilations aplenty, the band's singer David Coverdale will now partner with the label to do the same for his three solo albums. Into the Light: The Solo Albums, due October 25, will collect six CDs' worth of Coverdale's solo material, including new remixes alongside remastered versions of the albums WhiteSnake (1977), NorthWinds (1978) and Into the Light (2000) as well as unissued demos and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Coverdale, Whitesnake

Release Round-Up: Week of August 16

August 16, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

20th Century Lindsey

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. Lindsey Buckingham, 20th Century Lindsey (Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Rhino.com Lindsey Buckingham's earliest solo works are getting a box set from Rhino this summer.  True to its name, 20th Century Lindsey features remastered versions of the three albums the Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist issued

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Creed, Lindsey Buckingham, Melanie, Ten Years After

The Right to Sing: Cherry Red's Lemon Imprint Collects John Miles' "The Albums 1983-93"

August 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

John Miles The Albums 1983 93

Singer-songwriter John Miles' 1976 hit "Music," the opening track of his Decca debut album Rebel, immediately became the artist's calling card.  The Alan Parsons-produced single went to the top five on the U.K. Singles Chart, also reaching the top ten in various European countries, and cracking the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.  The epic prog ballad won Miles an Ivor Novello Award, and launched Miles into the stratosphere.  Two well-received albums with producer Rupert Holmes followed,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: John Miles

The More I See You: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Nancy in London"

August 13, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Nancy Sinatra Nancy in London

Nancy Sinatra's third album brought the hitmaking singer to the Swingin' center of the world.  Nancy in London, originally released in 1966, was produced and arranged by her usual team of Lee Hazlewood and Billy Strange, respectively, but the setting was very different than the typical Hollywood environs.  Nancy was booked into Pye Studios on Great Cumberland Place near Marble Arch in London, the same studios in which Petula Clark had cut "Downtown" and Nancy's Reprise labelmates The Kinks

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Mickie Most, Nancy Sinatra

The Boys Are Back: Thin Lizzy Gets New Remixes for Box Set Commemorating 1976, Their Breakthrough Year

August 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Thin Lizzy 1976 packshot

Guess who just got back today? Well, September 27 is the date, but Thin Lizzy are releasing a box set chronicling one of their most pivotal years. 1976 will, across five CDs and a Blu-ray Disc, retell the story of the two albums the Irish rockers issued that year: Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox. Both albums have been newly remixed in stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos by Richard Whittaker, under the supervision of guitarist Scott Gorham. The box also includes selections of unreleased material

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Thin Lizzy

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

August 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

American Idiot 20 box

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

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Green Day

Release Round-Up: Week of August 9

August 9, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Elvis Memphis box 2024

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.   Also, don't miss out on today's eclectic slate of releases from Real Gone Music; click here to find out what's new from Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Firehouse, Azar Lawrence, Charlie Nothing, and 3 Inches of Blood! Elvis Presley, Memphis (RCA/Legacy) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Stewart, Bill Wyman, Dean Martin, Dickey Betts, Elvis Presley, Esperanza Spalding, Frank Sinatra, Jim Peterik, Judy Garland, Little Big Town, Milton Nascimento, Paul Weller, The Soul Searchers, Vera Lynn

Refugee of the Roads: Joni Mitchell's Latest Archives Box Takes Listeners to the End of the '70s

August 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Joni Archives 4 packshot

Rhino's Joni Mitchell Archives series has been dependably running since 2020, offering alternating box sets featuring troves of unreleased material from the folk legend and remastered versions of the album eras they cover. With the most recent box collecting her last four albums for the Asylum label - Hejira (1976), Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and the live Shadows and Light (1980) - today's new announcement closes that same chapter, offering hours of unreleased live and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Jazz, Pop Tags: Charles Mingus, Graham Nash, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Jan Hammer, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Pat Metheny, T Bone Burnett

Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971)

August 6, 2024 By

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band's show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center.  Every track on this set is previously unreleased (including the first-ever performance of "Saturday in the Park" and an embryonic "Dialogue" without Part Two; neither song had yet been recorded) with the exception of "Goodbye,"

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop

Colour My World: Chicago's 1971 Set at the Kennedy Center to Be Released

August 6, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

Does anybody really know what time it is?  On September 27, it's time for Rhino to excavate a vintage Chicago concert from the vaults.  Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band's show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center.  Every track on this set is previously unreleased with the exception of "Goodbye," which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago

Run for Home: Lindisfarne's "Mercury Years" Collected on Box from Cherry Red, Lemon

August 5, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lindisfarne The Mercury Years

With a sound melding harmony vocals to soaring folk-rock, Newcastle upon Tyne band Lindisfarne released three studio albums - including the 1972 breakthrough Fog on the Tyne, which spent 56 weeks on the U.K. Albums Chart - before splintering.  Two-fifths of the band carried on with new members for a pair of albums in 1973-74, but by '75, the group had called it a day.  Then, in 1978, they were back.  The album was cheekily entitled Back and Fourth, referring to the fact that the originals had

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: Lindisfarne

Mirage Tour '82

August 3, 2024 By

Fleetwood Mac Mirage Tour 82

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Recorded over two nights at The Forum just outside Los Angeles - the same venue where Rumours Live was taped - Mirage Tour '82 now presents a fuller picture of those shows over two CDs or three LPs (with an Amazon-exclusive clear vinyl variant also available). Singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, singer Stevie Nicks, singer/keyboardist Christine McVie, bassist John McVie, and drummer Mick Fleetwood

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

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