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Release Round-Up: Week of September 26

September 26, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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.’ Spike Jones in Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings The late, great Spike Jones’ side-splittingly spooky 1959 album In Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! returns from Omnivore Recordings in time for Halloween as freshly remastered from the original tapes. Led by an illustrious company including Paul Frees (Boris Badenov, The Haunted Mansion’s Ghost Host), Thurl Ravenscroft (“You’re…

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Annie Golden, Billy Joel, Cher, Frank Zappa, Genesis, Jeff Beck, Jeff Tweedy, Lady A, Mariah Carey, Robert Plant, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Spike Jones, The Rolling Stones, XTC

One Size Fits All: 50th Anniversary Edition

September 25, 2025 by Joe Marchese

4CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa Online Store 2LP “Black Glitter” Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa Online Store 1LP “Blue Galaxy” Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa Online Store Following last year’s deluxe expansion of 1974’s Apostrophe (‘) and the recent restoration of the same year’s concert film Cheaper Than Cheep, Frank Zappa’s archival team is turning the page to 1975 and expansively revisiting One Size Fits All in time for its 50th anniversary. The guitarist-songwriter-bandleader-producer’s twentieth album (and fourteenth with…

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Worth Waiting For: Iconoclassic is ‘Glad to Be Alive’ with Gene Loves Jezebel Live Album Expansion

September 25, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

A vintage set from U.K. goth rockers Gene Loves Jezebel will be remastered and expanded by Iconoclassic Records on October 3. Glad to Be Alive: Live in Nottingham 1986 (The Complete Concert) finds the group on stage just ahead of the release of Discover, their breakthrough third album. Eight of these tracks debuted on limited double vinyl and cassette pressings of that LP; this presentation not only bows those cuts on CD but adds another nine from the set – all freshly remastered from the original source tapes by Andy Pearce. The…

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Hand of Fate: The Rolling Stones’ “Black and Blue” Goes Super Deluxe with New Steven Wilson Remix, Outtakes, More

September 24, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 11 Comments

For The Rolling Stones, it was lucky thirteen. The band’s thirteenth studio album, 1976’s Black and Blue, reached No. 1 in the United States and No. 2 in the band’s native United Kingdom, and yielded a top ten hit single on both sides of the Atlantic with the ballad “Fool to Cry.” Now, it’s set for the super deluxe treatment on November 14, just shy of its 50th anniversary. Built around a brand-new remix by the ubiquitous Steven Wilson, the set will be released by Interscope and UMe in a variety of…

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Jeff Beck, The Rolling Stones

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The Song Is You: SING Premieres Previously Unreleased Live Sinatra on “At The Hollywood Bowl”

September 23, 2025 by The Second Disc | 10 Comments

The Voice is back. On October 3, the SING label – an offshoot of the blockchain tech company – will premiere Frank Sinatra At The Hollywood Bowl 1943-1948, bringing together eighteen tracks on CD and eleven on vinyl from the late legend’s early performances at the storied Hollywood venue. This landmark title will be followed during the holiday season by Christmas on the Air and a vinyl-exclusive box set entitled Long Ago, Far Away. All tracks on these collections have been mastered from original broadcast sources. At The Hollywood Bowl, recorded during…

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Add Some Music to Your Day: Brian Wilson’s “Live at the Roxy” Is Remastered, Expanded for Its 25th Anniversary

September 22, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

When Brian Wilson took to the stage at Lou Adler’s Roxy on the Sunset Strip in April 2000, the tiny, 500-capacity venue was filled with love. Friends (Nancy Sinatra, Jackie DeShannon, Don Was), fans (Jon Bon Jovi, Bette Midler, Lindsay Buckingham), and family members (daughters Carnie and Wendy, nephews Jonah and Patrick, wife Melinda) packed into the venue to see the Beach Boys’ leader reinvent himself as a solo artist. Though a famously recalcitrant live performer, he’d embarked on his first full solo tour in 1999 and emerged triumphant. The Roxy shows…

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Climb Aboard The Tardis: Edsel Collects Classic Jon Pertwee “Doctor Who” Audio Adventures on 4-CD Boxset

September 19, 2025 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

Edsel has recently released a box set which should be of interest to classic Doctor Who fans. Doctor Who: The Jon Pertwee Collection is a 4-CD set which collects two audiobook versions of novelizations of some of Pertwee’s episodes. The audiobooks are read by Pertwee himself, and the set also includes some other bonus rarities from the BBC archives. Jon Pertwee took over playing the Doctor in January, 1970 in the first episode of Season 7. The third person to play the role (after William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton), his tenure would…

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Pirates! The Penzance Musical: Original Broadway Cast Recording

September 19, 2025 by Joe Marchese

Rupert Holmes’ delightfully witty and joyful adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance – reset to New Orleans with all of the jazz flavor that implies – comes to CD and digital. The Tony Award-nominated production stars Ramin Karimloo as The Pirate King, David Hyde Pierce as (the very model of a modern) Major General Stanley, Jinkx Monsoon as Ruth, Samantha Williams as Mabel, and Nicholas Barasch as Frederic.

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 19

September 19, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today including – did we ever think we’d get the chance to say this? – the CD debut of Buckingham Nicks! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Buckingham Nicks (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. (gold) / Amazon U.K. (baby blue) / Amazon Canada (gold) In just over 15 years of reporting at The Second Disc, it’s a sentence we never thought we’d write: Buckingham Nicks is getting its first-ever reissue. The 1973 album from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks…

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38 Special, Anne Murray, Art in America, Brook Benton, Charley Pride, Elton John, Gilbert and Sullivan, Jim Croce, Lindsey Buckingham, Nine Inch Nails, Ray Charles, Stevie Nicks, The Cowsills, The Divine Comedy, Vanessa Williams

The Magic in Your Touch: New Thompson Twins Collection Features Hits, Deep Cuts and Live Disc

September 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Thompson Twins Industry Seduction packshot

Just about a year after expanding and reissuing landmark album Into the Gap for its 40th anniversary, the Thompson Twins’ catalogue will now be evaluated through a new compilation – the first to be sanctioned by the band. Industry & Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection will offer 20 singles and favorite cuts across the band’s best-known period of material from 1982 to 1986, including standouts “Hold Me Now,” “Lay Your Hands on Me,” “Lies,” “Doctor! Doctor!” and “In the Name of Love.” Those 20 tracks will be available as a 1CD or…

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A Way Back to Love: Edsel Compiles Hits, Rarities from Invictus, Hot Wax on New Collections

September 18, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

The songbook of Brian Holland (b. 1941), Lamont Dozier (1941-2022), and Eddie Holland (b. 1939) is filled with some of the most popular melodies ever written: “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You),” “Baby, I Need Your Loving,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” among them. All of those, and so many other indelible hit records, were written under the aegis of Hitsville, USA, a.k.a. Berry Gordy’s Motown Records empire. But by 1967, the relationship between the label chief and…

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Chairmen of the Board, Freda Payne, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Parliament, Ruth Copeland, The 8th Day, The Glass House, The Honey Cone, Various Artists

How’s About Some Hot Stuff: Massive Donna Summer Singles CD Box Set Coming This Fall

September 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 24 Comments

It’s a box set fit for a queen (of disco): Donna Summer’s singles are being chronicled in a major way in November. Summer Time: The Singles Collection 1974-2010, coming November 28 from the late singer’s Driven by the Music catalogue imprint, is set to be a staggering tribute to Summer’s decades-long presence as a dancefloor filler. Timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough hit “Love to Love You, Baby,” this 40CD set will highlight five decades’ worth of single sides she issued all over the world, from early Dutch single-only…

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The Last Ship: Expanded Edition

September 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Coming to 2CD, 2LP, and digital formats ahead of a new series of worldwide performances, this new edition of Sting’s 2013 concept album take on The Last Ship offers 20 tracks from the original album release and cast recording, plus five new recordings, all resequenced to better reflect the current version of the score. Those new tracks are a re-recording of the song “Shipyard” (with new vocals by cast member Joe Caffrey alongside those from Jo Lawry and AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson), duets with operatic…

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963

September 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese

8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The beginnings of Bob Dylan’s long and extraordinary career have been revisited by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings on the eighteenth installment of the artist’s long-running Bootleg Series. Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 (1956-1963), available on 8 CDs as well as 2CD and 4LP “highlights” editions, comprehensively chronicles Dylan’s earliest days from Minnesota to Greenwich Village. The full 139-track box set opens with a December 24, 1956 recording at a music store in St. Paul, MN…

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Look in My Direction: The Warner Bros. Recordings

September 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese

Look in My Direction: The Warner Bros. Recordings from Cherry Red’s Lemon imprint and TSD presents all of the late Nicolette Larson’s original studio and live albums for Warner Bros. Records on 4 CDs, produced by Ted Templeman (The Doobie Brothers, Van Halen) and singer-songwriter Andrew Gold (“Thank You for Being a Friend,” “Lonely Boy”), plus bonus tracks. The box contains newly remastered editions of Nicolette (1978), Live at the Roxy (1979), In the Nick of Time (1979), Radioland (1981), and All Dressed Up and No Place to Go (1982) which collectively include such guests as Linda Ronstadt; The Doobie…

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I Was Young When I Left Home: Bob Dylan’s New Bootleg Series Entry Covers His Earliest Beginnings

September 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

Bob Dylan met Columbia Records’ John Hammond on September 14, 1961 at the apartment of folksinger Richard Farina and his then-wife Carolyn Hester. Dylan had been invited to Carolyn’s rehearsal session as a harmonica player. Hammond later told the story of being so impressed with the young man from Hibbing, Minnesota that he decided to sign him on the spot. A subsequent audition took place, and when Dylan – then dazzling audiences at Gerde’s Folk City on a bill shared with The Greenbriar Boys – showed up for Hester’s Columbia session on…

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Bob Dylan, Carolyn Hester, Dave Van Ronk, Harry Belafonte, Jim Kweskin, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary

It’s Gonna Take a Lotta Love: The Second Disc, Lemon Collect Nicolette Larson’s Warner Bros. Albums on “Look In My Direction”

September 17, 2025 by The Second Disc | 16 Comments

On the evenings of February 21 and 22, 1998, a host of musicians took the stage of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to pay tribute to one of their own. Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Raitt, and Crosby, Stills and Nash were just a few of the artists who paid their respects in song to the late Nicolette Larson. The luminous singer with the honeyed voice had unexpectedly died just a couple of months earlier at the far too young age of 45. In the decades since her…

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Andrew Gold, Christopher Cross, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Michael McDonald, Nicolette Larson, Steve Goodman, Ted Templeman, The Doobie Brothers

A Second Disc Interview: A.J. Croce Brings the Family Songbook to Life Once More

September 17, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

The music business works in mysterious ways. Not long after posting news that recent remixes of Jim Croce’s classic solo albums were getting repackaged into a CD set, The Second Disc was approached with the opportunity to talk to A.J. Croce, the son of the late singer/songwriter, ahead of a tour he’s mounting. Adrian James Croce was eight days shy of turning two when a plane crash claimed the life of his father, then just 30 years old. He has since gone into music himself: hardly a clone of Jim – there’s a…

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Free As a Bird: The Beatles ‘Anthology’ Gets Remixed and Expanded in New Box Set (UPDATED 9/16/2025)

September 16, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

The next archival project from The Beatles is a celebration of their most major archival project, with a newly reissued and (slightly) expanded edition of their Anthology series coming to audio and video formats this fall. Anthology Collection will include remastered editions of the original three collections of rarities and outtakes compiled by George Martin and released through 1995 and 1996, available across six CDs or nine LPs. Martin’s son Giles, who remastered those albums, also curates a new collection, Anthology 4, across a further two CDs or three LPs. Anthology 4 is drawn mostly from…

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The “Cocaine Drain” Album

September 16, 2025 by Joe Marchese

The Cowsills’ legendary 1978 Cocaine Drain album – so named for John Hall’s composition – finally makes its official debut from Omnivore Recordings, filling in the missing chapter between the band’s sunshine pop roots and latter-day Americana reinvention. Cocaine Drain was originally helmed by Chuck Plotkin, but when Bruce Springsteen and Darkness on the Edge of Town came calling, Val Garay took over to sequence, master, and finish the project. Yet the recordings were never picked up by a major label and languished in obscurity, with some songs appearing in semi- or…

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Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul

September 16, 2025 by Joe Marchese

Ray Charles’ 1963 potpourri Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul makes it first official appearance on vinyl in decades and also returns to CD in this remastered reissue featuring the original album sequence only. Tracks include “Busted,” “That Lucky Old Sun,” “Over the Rainbow,” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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Endlessly: A Tribute to Brook Benton

September 16, 2025 by Joe Marchese

The late Charley Pride recorded this tribute to velvet-voiced soul crooner Brook Benton in the mid-1980s, but it went unreleased. Now, Pride’s estate has unearthed his original recordings which were co-produced by Bob Pickering and recorded not in Nashville but in Dallas; Pickering has mixed and mastered them for this release which celebrates what would have been Benton’s 94th birthday on September 19. (He died in 1988 at the age of just 56.) The label notes that “Other than digitally transferring, mixing and mastering the original multi-track performances, virtually no other post-production…

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Here You Are

September 16, 2025 by Joe Marchese

Canadian chanteuse Anne Murray’s 33rd studio album – and first album of original material in over 15 years – arrives on U.S. shores September 19. Here You Are brings together eleven previously unreleased recordings made between 1978 and 1995, as curated by executive producer Bob Rock and mixed by Adam Greenholtz. Original producers include Jim Ed Norman, Jerry Crutchfield, Ed Cherney, and Kyle Lehning, while songwriters represented include Steve Dorff (“Heaven in My Heart”), Hugh Prestwood (“Here You Are”), Kerry Chater (“Feels Like More Than Dancing”), Bryan Adams (“Straight from the Heart”),…

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