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The Light of Day: Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Recent Release Round-Up

November 27, 2017 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Bruce Springsteen Stockholm

As Bruce Springsteen continues his sold-out Springsteen on Broadway run, he has continued to release live concerts from his archives.  It has been a little while since we looked at these, so we thought we might catch you up on the most recent ones.  And a special reminder: all titles are on sale today for Cyber Monday (25% off CDs, 50% off downloads)! Released a couple of weeks ago is Springsteen and the E Street Band live from Stockholm, Sweden on July 3, 1988.  This concert was part of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

THE SECOND DISC'S 2017 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!

November 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

We wouldn't want you to be left out in the cold today 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 Bob Dylan title to your right!) 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, reflecting the diversity of music released this year in

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Being There [5 CD, 4 LP Expanded Editions]

November 26, 2017 By

Wilco Being There 1

Wilco has greatly expanded its sophomore double album, Being There, into a 5-CD or 4-LP box set by pairing the original album with a disc of 15 unreleased outtakes and alternates plus a clutch of live material recorded in Los Angeles just after the release of the original album. (The vinyl includes a radio set for KCRW-FM, while the CD box has that, plus a lengthy show recorded at The Troubadour a day before that appearance, on November 12, 1996.)

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

A.M. [Expanded Edition]

November 26, 2017 By

Wilco AM 1

Wilco revisits its 1995 debut album in an expanded edition with eight previously unreleased bonus tracks, including "When You Find Trouble," the last track recorded by Jeff Tweedy's previous band, Uncle Tupelo.

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

The Visitor

November 26, 2017 By

Neil Young The Visitor

Neil Young reteams with the band Promise of the Real for his latest studio album on the same day that he opens his online archives for business.  Songs like "Already Great," "Fly by Night Deal," and "When Bad Got Good" show Young as fiercely political and fiery as ever.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

The Music...The Mem'ries...The Magic!

November 26, 2017 By

Barbra The Music The Memries The Magic

Barbra Streisand has commemorated her most recent tour with this new 2-CD, 27-track set featuring concert highlights including Rupert Holmes' "Everything," Carole King's "Being at War with Each Other," Stephen Sondheim's "Being Alive," "Losing My Mind," and "Children Will Listen," and even her famous "Jingle Bells?" (but alas, no "Stoney End" which was dropped early in the tour from the setlist).

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Among My Souvenirs: More Treasures from the Crosby Archive

November 26, 2017 By

Bing Crosby Among My Souvenirs

Among My Souvenirs: More Treasures from the Crosby Archive follows the 2010 release of So Rare: Treasures from the Crosby Archive.  Compiled by historian and archivist Robert S. Bader, this collection spans the period of 1932 to 1977 for a full portrait of the man and his art.  Outtakes, live recordings, and radio and television performances all feature on this anthology, including many songs not previously released in any format by Crosby.  The word "treasures" is most apt here, as this release

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

New Tricks: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

November 26, 2017 By

Bing Crosby New Tricks

1957's New Tricks, originally released on Decca, featured Bing Crosby accompanied by Buddy Cole and His Trio.  The original 12-song program featured a host of familiar standards including "You're Driving Me Crazy," "Georgia on My Mind," "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," and "When I Take My Sugar to Tea."  For this reissue, an additional twelve tracks have been added, nine of which are previously unreleased.  Among the bonus cuts are renditions of film classics "Gigi" and "Tammy," and

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic

November 26, 2017 By

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The world's premier parodist celebrates his discography with a box set unlike any other: all 14 of his original albums, newly remastered; Medium Rarities, a bonus album of rare and unreleased material; and a 100+ page book of rare photos and memorabilia-all packaged in a replica of Al's signature accordion!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

High Tor: Original Television Cast

November 25, 2017 By

High Tor OCR

Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, and Everett Sloane starred in the 1955 made-for-television musical fantasy High Tor, from songwriters Arthur Schwartz and Maxwell Anderson, based on Anderson's 1936 play of the same name. Decca's original "songs and story" album comes to CD for the first time from Stage Door, along with two bonus tracks of the score's "When You're in Love," performed by The Lancers and The Leroy Holmes Orchestra.  Limited to 500 units.

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

"Younger Than Springtime" and Other Rarities

November 25, 2017 By

William Tabbert Younger Than Springtime

Stage Door's Collectors' Series expands with this title from William Tabbert, the original Lt. Cable in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific.  Younger Than Springtime and Other Rarities features his original solo album recorded in Rome, plus selections from the 1959 album An Evening with Jerome Kern; both sides of a 1951 Christmas single; and tracks from a 1945 V-disc recording of Up in Central Park.  Limited to 500 units.  

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal

Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 - 1979-1981

November 25, 2017 By

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada  8CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest volume of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series brings his oft-misunderstood "gospel period" into sharp focus through live and studio performances, never-before-heard songs, and much, much more.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel

The Second Disc's Essential RSD Black Friday 2017 Release Guide

November 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Leonard Nimoy Mr. Spocks Music from Outer Space

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you've enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends.  Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year's annual Black Friday - and Record Store Day's miniature cousin to April's yearly event. In keeping with tradition, Mike, Randy and I have once again selected our top picks of the numerous titles being released tomorrow from

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Categories: Features Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Oyster Cult, Chet Atkins, Chris Bell, Chris Cornell, Danny Elfman, Leonard Nimoy, Oingo Boingo, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, Queen, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, Tangerine Dream, The Turtles, Tori Amos, Toto, Utopia

Live At Lafayette's Music Room

November 23, 2017 By

Big Star Live At Lafayettes

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) Omnivore revisits a vintage Big Star gig as a first-time standalone CD release.  The set showcases the legendary power pop band kicking off 1973 at the acclaimed Memphis venue. Co-founder Chris Bell had recently departed the group, leaving singer/guitarist Alex Chilton, bassist Andy Hummel and drummer Jody Stephens to continue as a trio. While the group would not yet commit to

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Ella at Zardi's

November 23, 2017 By

Ella At Zardis

Two previously unreleased live sets from Ella Fitzgerald, recorded at Zardi's Jazzland in Hollywood on February 2, 1956, arrive on CD featuring both familiar classics and songs she never recorded in the studio!

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Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Fleetwood Mac [Various Formats]

November 23, 2017 By

Fleetwood Mac packshot

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) 3CD/DVD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) The 1975 debut album by the Fleetwood Mac line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood arrives in a variety of deluxe formats, including a 3CD/DVD/LP box with the remastered album on CD and vinyl, bonus singles, previously unreleased studio outtakes and a live concert recording,

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

40 Trips Around The Sun

November 23, 2017 By

Toto 40 Trips

Celebrating Toto's 40th anniversary, 40 Trips Around the Sun consists of seventeen recordings, including three previously unreleased tracks: "Spanish Sea," "Alone," and "Struck by Lightning."  This trio is joined by fourteen classic songs including "Rosanna," "Africa," and "Hold the Line," all newly remastered for this package by Elliot Scheiner and Gavin Lurssen and his team.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

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

Singles Box Rising For The Fall At Cherry Red

November 21, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Fall Singles packshot

John Peel famously summed up his favorite band, The Fall, as such: "They are always different; they are always the same." So it's little surprise that the Manchester post-punk group's complete singles output would take up a box set - a 7CD box released by Cherry Red Records this week. The Fall's The Singles 1978-2016 will collect the sides issued by the group during those years on a number of labels, most notably Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet and Cherry Red itself, the group's current label

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: The Fall

Hold the Line: Toto's "40 Trips" Collection Premieres Three Songs, Due in February

November 20, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Toto 40 Trips

Toto is taking 40 Trips Around the Sun on a new greatest-hits album coming from Legacy Recordings on February 9, 2018.  Celebrating the Los Angeles band's 40th anniversary, 40 Trips consists of seventeen recordings, including three previously unreleased tracks: "Spanish Sea," "Alone," and "Struck by Lightning."  This trio is joined by fourteen classic songs including "Rosanna," "Africa," and "Hold the Line," all newly remastered for this package by Elliot Scheiner and Gavin Lurssen and his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Toto

Review: "Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track" [Super Deluxe Box Set]

November 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Saturday Night Fever OST

Listen to the ground...there is movement all around... Saturday Night Fever didn't invent disco...but in many ways, it epitomized the genre.  With the December 1977 release of the John Badham-directed drama and its soundtrack album, the onetime underground dance movement which had been rising to the mainstream since at least 1974 became the mainstream.  Disco's alluring blend of the gritty and the glamorous gained a face in the form of John Travolta, whose tough yet tender Tony Manero of Bay

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: David Shire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool and the Gang, MFSB, The Bee Gees, The Trammps

Release Round-Up: Week of November 17

November 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

News of the World 40 front

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Queen, News of the World: 40th Anniversary Edition (UMC (U.K.) / Hollywood (U.S.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.) Queen's sixth album, 1977's News of the World, is being generously expanded for its 40th anniversary in a new 3CD/1DVD/1LP box set.  The original album is presented on CD and LP.  The first bonus CD, the entirely unreleased Raw Sessions, presents an alternate version of the original album from demos, outtakes and live

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Bob Seger, Carpenters, Chuck Berry, Dan Fogelberg, Diana Ross, Garth Brooks, Green Day, Jimmy Buffett, John Fogerty, Mavis Staples, Micky Dolenz, Mike Love, Paul McCartney, Queen, The Bee Gees, The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Sweet, Whitney Houston

World Turning: Fleetwood Mac To Expand Self-Titled 1975 Album

November 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Fleetwood Mac packshot

Over the last few years, Fleetwood Mac and Warner Music have worked together to expand their most "classic rock" era--the albums recorded with the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood between 1975 and 1987. After deluxe editions of Rumours, Tusk, Mirage and Tango In The Night, the group finally unites the chain with a new expansion of their self-titled 1975 album, the first to feature this line-up, due in January 2018. Before the album

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks

Big Break Big Round-Up: Spotlight on Spyder Turner, Randy Crawford and Enchantment

November 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Enchantment Sunshine Anthology

Today, we're taking a look at three recent releases from Big Break Records that you just might have missed! Spyder Turner may be best remembered today for a novelty single.  His 1967 reworking of Ben E. King's classic "Stand by Me" found him channeling his inner Rich Little or Sammy Davis, Jr. to impersonate such famous voices as James Brown, Sam Cooke, and Smokey Robinson.  Love it or loathe it, Turner's "Stand by Me" made it all the way to No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.  But the West

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Enchantment, Randy Crawford, Spyder Turner

Shine a Little Light: Jeff Lynne's ELO's "Wembley or Bust" Arrives In November

November 15, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ELO Wembley or Bust

Jeff Lynne's ELO packed London's enormous Wembley Stadium to the rafters this past June with a greatest-hits set featuring many of the band's most classic songs including "Mr. Blue Sky," "Evil Woman," and "All Over the World."  Now, that gig is getting a wide release this Friday, November 17.  Wembley or Bust will arrive on that date from Columbia Records in a variety of formats: 2CD/1DVD; 2CD/1BD; 2 CD; and 3LP. Recorded on June 24, the Wembley concert has been described by recent Rock and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

I'm a Believer: 7a Brings Micky Dolenz Concert with Orchestra to CD and Vinyl

November 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Micky Dolenz Out of Nowhere

Micky Dolenz always attracts a crowd whenever he's performing one of his hits-packed shows.  Whether Dolenz is playing a large theatre or an intimate nightclub, the consummate entertainer brings the goods.  Now, the Monkees specialists at 7a Records are unveiling a particularly exciting treat: a brand-new live album from Micky, and his first to be recorded with an orchestra.  Micky Dolenz & The American Metropole Orchestra: Out of Nowhere will hit stores on November 17 in the U.K. (and one

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

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