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Cornell 5/8/77

February 22, 2017 By

Grateful Dead Cornell 5 8 77

Rhino teams with the Grateful Dead for the first authorized release of one of the band's most famous concert bootlegs:  the Cornell 5/8/77 show. The bootleg recording of this show was so significant that it was added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2011.  This 3-CD set ties in with a new book about the oft-discussed concert; both the book and CDs were also available as part of a sold-out box set exclusive to the Dead's website.  (A no-frills edition was subsequently

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Odessey and Oracle: 50th Anniversary Edition

February 22, 2017 By

Zombies Odessey and Oracle 50th

It's the time of the season!  Varese has a new edition of The Zombies' 1968 classic, freshly remastered at d2 Mastering and with seven bonus tracks as well as new liner notes by co-producer Andrew Sandoval and rare photographs.  The bonuses comprise the mono mix of "I'll Call You Mine" and "I Want Her She Wants Me;" alternate takes and mixes of "Care of Cell 44;" a version with cello of "A Rose for Emily;" a non-overdubbed stereo mix of "This Will Be Our Year;" and a remix of the hit single

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Care Of Cell 44: Varese Reissues The Zombies' "Odessey and Oracle" For 50th Anniversary

February 22, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Zombies Odessey and Oracle 50th

On March 17, Varese Vintage adds a new chapter to the odyssey of The Zombies' landmark Odessey and Oracle.   The album - released in April 1968 but recorded in sessions between June and August 1967 - will see the label's new, expanded reissue timed to the 50th anniversary of its recording.   Although the band had dissolved by the time of the original release, the surviving members are back together and celebrating Odessey on the road with a 26-date spring tour of North America kicking off on

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Zombies

Not Fade Away: Grateful Dead's Legendary 1977 Cornell Concert To Get Official Release On Its Own and As Part of 11-Disc May 1977 Concert Box

February 21, 2017 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Grateful Dead Cornell 5 8 77

A month ago, Rhino Records released a 50th Anniversary edition of the Grateful Dead's self-titled debut album.  When it was announced, Rhino promised that it would kick off a series of anniversary reissues of all of the band's albums.  Details of the next Dead project have now emerged and it is not a new edition of an officially released album but rather the first authorized released of one of the band's most famous concert bootlegs:  the Cornell 5/8/77 show.  It will be released on May 5 to

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

Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo: Cherry Red Collects Derringer, Hawkwind Albums on New Box Sets

February 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Derringer Blue Sky Albums

Cherry Red Records has recently continued its series of "complete albums"-style box sets with a set from Derringer on its Hear No Evil Recordings imprint, and a continuation of the Hawkwind story from its Atomhenge imprint. Guitarist/songwriter/producer Rick Derringer has one of the most enviable C.V.s in all of rock and roll - as lead singer of The McCoys' classic oldie "Hang On, Sloopy," as writer of the hit "Rock 'n' Roll Hoochie Koo," as producer of "Weird Al" Yankovic's beloved parodies

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Derringer, Hawkwind, Rick Derringer

The Bottom Line Archive

February 21, 2017 By

Jack Bruce Bottom Line

The Bottom Line Archive series returns with a 2-CD set featuring the late Jack Bruce on a live set including "White Room," "Sunshine of Your Love," "Theme from an Imaginary Western," "Born Under a Bad Sign," and more.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Over The Moon: Masterworks Celebrates Steven Spielberg and John Williams On New Box

February 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

For over 40 years, the names of director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams have been inextricably linked.  Since 1973's The Sugarland Express on which they first worked together, only two Spielberg pictures have not featured a score by Williams (1985's The Color Purple and 2015's Bridge of Spies).  On March 17, Sony Masterworks will celebrate the enduring collaboration of these two titanic talents with the release of John Williams and Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection.  This

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams, Steven Spielberg

Release Round-Up: Week of February 17

February 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Standells Dirty Water

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Evanescence, The Ultimate Collection (Concord Bicycle) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The long-delayed release ofThe 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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: Alison Krauss, Evanescence, The Standells

Great Southern Land: Icehouse CD Box, Vinyl Reissue Mark Band's 40th Anniversary

February 16, 2017 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

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Australian rockers Icehouse are celebrating four decades with two new catalogue pieces on CD and vinyl, out this month. Led by singer Iva Davies, Icehouse racked up 18 Top 40 hits in their native land, including "Love in Motion," "Great Southern Land," "Hey Little Girl" and "Crazy." Their sole chart-topper in Australia was also their only Top 10 hit in the United States: the stellar pop single "Electric Blue," written by Davies with Icehouse fan John Oates. Davies still leads the group on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Icehouse

It Only Takes a Minute: SoulMusic Collects Tavares Remixes On "Don't Take Away the Music"

February 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tavares Remix Project

To date, Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has reissued seven of the ten albums recorded by Tavares for Capitol Records between 1974 and 1981.  Late in 2016, the SoulMusic team added an eighth Tavares title to their collection.  Don't Take Away the Music: The Remix Project features eleven floor-filling remixes from the Rhode Island brothers Ralph, Arthur (Pooch), Antone (Chubby), Feliciano (Butch) and Perry (Tiny) of such classic songs as "It Only Takes a Minute" (Pop No. 10/R&B No. 1,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Tavares

He's Only Just Begun: "Roger Nichols Treasury" Collects Demos, Jingles, Paul Williams Collaborations

February 15, 2017 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Roger Nichols Treasury

If you don't know the name of Roger Nichols, you know the man's songs.  His compositions have been sung by the Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Petula Clark, Jackie DeShannon, Bobby Darin, Paul Anka, The Monkees, and Nichols' most frequent lyrical collaborator, Paul Williams - just to name a few.  Many of those songs have become bona fide American standards, among them "We've Only Just Begun," "Rainy Days and Mondays," "I Won't Last a Day Without You," and "Times of Your Life."  He and

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Paul Williams, Roger Nichols

Faith Evans Plans Notorious B.I.G. Duet Album

February 15, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Faith Evans and Notorious BIG The King and I

Two days before his 25th birthday, and just over 20 years since his heartbreaking and still unsolved murder, The Notorious B.I.G. will live on with his widow Faith Evans' duets album, The King & I. The iconic rapper (born Christopher Wallace) met and married R&B singer and fellow Bad Boy Records label mate Evans in 1994--a turbulent but often loving relationship that ended when Biggie was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1997, 16 days before his second album, Life After Death, hit

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Faith Evans, The Notorious B.I.G.

BEST+LIVE

February 14, 2017 By

Chickenfoot Best Live

A new double-disc offering from Chickenfoot - Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith - arrives, with greatest hits, live tracks, and previously unreleased music.  It includes 10 tracks from the group's two studio albums; the newly-recorded "Divine Termination" (praised by Satriani as "bone crunching, hell raising rock, dripping with attitude and vibe" in the official press release); live covers of Deep Purple ("Highway Star"), The Who ("My Generation") and Hagar's former band

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Interstellar Overdrive: Six Pink Floyd Box Sets From "The Early Years" Coming In March

February 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pink Floyd Cambridge Station

Late in 2016, Pink Floyd Records and Sony Music Entertainment unveiled a lavish box set that became one of the year's most acclaimed.  Pink Floyd: The Early Years 1965-1972 presented a comprehensive overview of the legendary band's pre-Dark Side of the Moon period via seven book-style CD/DVD/Blu-ray packages, tracing the Floyd's initial journey from the group's founding in 1965 through singles, soundtracks, and seven albums. (You can read all about that set right here.)  Now, six of those

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

...And Then I Wrote The Music Man /The Music from Meredith Willson's The Music Man

February 14, 2017 By

Meredith Willson And Then I Wrote The Music Man

In 1957, composer-bandleader Meredith Willson crafted one of the most enduring Broadway musicals of all time when he wrote book, music and lyrics for the nostalgic The Music Man.  To mark the sixtieth anniversary of this Tony Award-winning classic which originally starred Robert Preston and Barbara Cook, Stage Door has paired two albums: 1959's audio documentary ...And Then I Wrote The Music Man and the 1958 The Music from Meredith Willson's The Music Man, conducted by Willson himself.  Both

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

No Plan [EP]

February 14, 2017 By

David Bowie No Plan

Last October, the original New York cast recording of David Bowie and Enda Walsh's musical Lazarus arrived on compact disc, vinyl, and digital download, with each format including a bonus EP of Bowie's four new songs from the musical.  "Lazarus" was, of course, already familiar from its inclusion on the artist's highly acclaimed final studio album Blackstar.  The cast recording premiered three more tracks penned for the show from the Blackstar sessions: "No Plan," "Killing a Little Time," and

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Makes You Blind: Cherry Red Collects The Glitter Band's Glam Heyday

February 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Glitter Band The Albums

The Glitter Band began its life as the backing group for now-disgraced rocker Gary Glitter, but soon established an identity of its own in the glam rock landscape.  Late last year, Cherry Red's 7Ts imprint collected the group's four albums plus bonus tracks for each album as one four-CD set simply titled The Albums. Guitarist/vocalist Gerry Shephard, bassist/vocalist John Springate, drummers Pete Phipps and Tony Leonard, and horn players John Rossall and Harvey Ellison came together in 1972

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: The Glitter Band

Something's Coming: "The Composer" Collects Bernstein's Musicals and More In Massive Box

February 13, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Leonard Bernstein The Composer

On March 31, a lavish new box set from Sony Classical will celebrate the legacy of one of America's greatest composers - the late Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990).  The LP-sized Leonard Bernstein: The Composer contains 25 CDs of the maestro's most enduring compositions including his Broadway musicals, all of the original stereo "Bernstein Conducts Bernstein" recordings made for Columbia Masterworks, new compilations, and more.  Nine discs have been newly remastered from the first-generation analog

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Jazz Tags: Leonard Bernstein

Let's Go Crazy! Prince Comes to Streaming, "Purple Rain" Reissue Due in June

February 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Dearly beloved, we R gathered here 2day to announce that Prince's classic Warner Bros. Records catalogue is finally back on streaming services. As previously expected, 18 studio albums, six compilations and a handful of digital singles and EPs are available on Spotify, with all platforms expected to feature the offering by the 5 p.m. Pacific start time of the 59th annual Grammy Awards. But that's not all: in a press release, Warner Bros. announced the first details of the long-awaited

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Streaming Genre: Funk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Prince

Get It Up: Chickenfoot to Issue Greatest Hits Collection

February 10, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Chickenfoot Best Live

Fans of the rock supergroup Chickenfoot are in for a treat with the forthcoming release of a double-disc collection that includes their greatest hits and live cuts, plus a few unreleased surprises. Chickenfoot featured four of the best hard rock musicians anyone could expect to find in one band: from Van Halen, vocalist Sammy Hagar and founding bassist Michael Anthony; guitarist Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. (Hagar, Anthony and Satriani had previously worked

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: Chickenfoot

Release Round-Up: Week of February 10

February 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

David Bowie Nassau Coliseum 1976

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bon Jovi, The Albums (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arthur Lee, Bon Jovi, David Bowie, Golden Earring, Kris Kristofferson, Love

Prince Estate Inks Catalogue Deal with Universal

February 9, 2017 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

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In a hotly-anticipated turn of events, Universal Music Group today announced a new multi-year catalogue agreement with the estate of the late, legendary Prince. Under the terms of the deal, Universal will become the immediate licensor of 25 albums released through Prince's NPG Records label, as well as any future projects drawn from The Artist's mythic Vault, "including outtakes, demos and live recordings." An exact list of albums has not yet been detailed, although the bottom of this post

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Ya Got Trouble: Stage Door Celebrates "The Music Man" With Rare Albums on CD, Reissues "Drake's Dream"

February 9, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Meredith Willson And Then I Wrote The Music Man

Stage Door Records is kicking off 2017 with two generous helpings of rare show music: a two-fer celebrating the legacy of Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway classic The Music Man, and the original London cast recording of Drake's Dream, starring Manfred Mann's Paul Jones! In 1957, composer-bandleader Meredith Willson crafted one of the most enduring Broadway musicals of all time when he wrote book, music and lyrics for the nostalgic The Music Man.  To mark the sixtieth anniversary of this Tony

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Lynne and Richard Riley, Meredith Willson, Paul Jones

Something Special: Cherry Red Collects Lloyd Webber, Rice-Produced Psych-Rockers Tales of Justine

February 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Tales of Justine

To collectors of rare psychedelia, Tales of Justine is known for one lone single on the HMV label.  The band's lone platter of "Albert" b/w "Monday Morning" came and went in October 1967.  Its lead singer, David Daltrey (thought to be a distant cousin of The Who's Roger) went on to sing the title role on the original concept album of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - no surprise, as Lloyd Webber orchestrated and Rice produced the band's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Daltrey, Tales of Justine, Tim Rice

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! "THE GREATEST" CD GIVEAWAY!

February 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Muhammad Ali The Greatest

Congratulations!!  The following 10 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new CD reissue of the soundtrack to The Greatest on CD!  If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address!  If you entered via email, you don't have to do anything - your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more exciting giveaways! The

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: George Benson, Michael Masser, Muhammad Ali

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