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Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings

May 29, 2024 By

Two Tons o' Fun Get the Feeling

Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate Two Tons o' Fun - a.k.a. Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes Armstead, a.k.a. The Weather Girls - with a complete 2-CD anthology that serves as a companion to last year's Sylvester release, Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981.  Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings, which arrives during Pride Month 2024, brings together both of the Two Tons' albums - the first of which features Sylvester himself in the band and contributing the song

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Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

Fortune and Glory: 'Indiana Jones' Scores Hit Vinyl, New Soundtrack Box Available

May 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Indiana Jones CD box packshot

With the rights to the Indiana Jones series now part of The Walt Disney Company's portfolio, the Mouse House has planned several reissues of the five-film series' iconic scores on CD and vinyl. Harrison Ford took his last ride as the cinematic archaeologist last summer, in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fourth and final sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Regardless of audiences' opinion on those sequels, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's collaboration is one of each filmmaker's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Many Miles Away: The Police Plan 'Synchronicity' Box with Unreleased Demos, Outtakes and Live Material

May 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Synchronicity 40

More than 40 years after the release of their final album, The Police will offer a massive expansion of their fifth studio effort, 1983's blockbuster Synchronicity. Available July 26, the set will be available in multiple formats, each showcasing a wealth of rare studio and live bonus content. The centerpiece of the campaign is a 6 CD limited edition box set featuring B-sides and four discs of unreleased material, including demos, alternate mixes and takes, instrumentals, never-before-heard

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Sting, The Police

At Last: "Dreams Do Come True: George Benson Meets Robert Farnon" Arrives in June

May 28, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

George Benson Meets Robert Farnon

Earlier this year, George Benson announced his return to Warner Music Group, bringing him back to the home of such classic albums as the multi-platinum Breezin' and platinum In Flight and Give Me the Night.  On June 14, the superstar guitarist-singer will debut a previously unreleased album from 1989 in CD, vinyl, and digital formats.  Dreams Do Come True: When George Benson Meets Robert Farnon paired Benson with the Canadian composer-conductor-arranger whose most famous clients include Frank

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: George Benson, Robert Farnon

Right Now, You're Reading About a Van Halen Reissue

May 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Van Halen For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

For the first time ever, Rhino is expanding a Van Halen studio album. On July 12, the label will release a 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray edition of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the group's ninth album and penultimate with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who'd taken over from David Lee Roth in 1985. As a major upstart rock act of the late '70s and one of the biggest of the '80s, Van Halen had something to prove on their first disc of the '90s - and this set delivers some intriguing bonus material from the era.

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Eddie Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Van Halen

Release Round-Up: Week of May 24

May 24, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Joe Grushecky Houserocker

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. Joe Grushecky, Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology is an all-encompassing look at the singer, songwriter, and bandleader, covering 40 years of music from The Iron City Houserockers, Joey G., Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers, and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Amy Winehouse, Bettye LaVette, Connie Smith, Jeannie C. Riley, Joe Grushecky, Melanie, The Spinners

Live Forever: Oasis Plan 30th Anniversary Edition of 'Definitely Maybe' with Unreleased Outtakes

May 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Definitely Maybe 30

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. For its 30th anniversary, Definitely Maybe will be reissued on August 30 as a 2CD or 4LP set that pairs the remastered album with more than a dozen unreleased tracks. These primarily include the album's scrapped 1993 sessions at Monnow Valley Studio in Wales with producer David Batchelor and subsequent work at Cornwall's Sawmills studio. Creation Records

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

Do You Wanna Boogie, Hunh? Real Gone, Second Disc Collect Two Tons o' Fun on "Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings"

May 23, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Two Tons o' Fun Get the Feeling

Before they achieved stardom the world over with "It's Raining Men," Weather Girls Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes Armstead made waves in the thriving San Francisco music scene as Two Tons o' Fun (and, later, The Two Tons).  The powerhouse duo began working with gender- and genre-defying artist Sylvester at Fantasy Records, singing background and lead vocals on many of his most memorable recordings.  In 1980, they struck out on their own and teamed with legendary Motown veteran Harvey Fuqua (who

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Martha Wash, Sylvester, The Weather Girls, Two Tons o' Fun

Self Expression: Lou Christie's "Gypsy Bells" Collects Rare, Unreleased Columbia Sides

May 21, 2024 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Lou Christie Gypsy Bells

There are many great mysteries in pop music.  How the heck did Lou Christie move from MGM to Columbia in the wake of "Lightnin' Strikes" and "Rhapsody in the Rain" and all but disappear? is certainly one of them.  Earlier this year, Ace Records attempted to answer this question with Gypsy Bells: Columbia Recordings 1967, a compendium of the released and unreleased material recorded by the Italian-American falsetto singer during his short and rocky tenure with the label.  Expectedly, it's a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Lou Christie

Prove Your Love: Fleetwood Mac's Early Years Chronicled on New Compilation

May 20, 2024 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Best of 1969 1974

With 1975's Fleetwood Mac, the venerable blues-rock outfit founded by Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green, and Jeremy Spencer made a strategic leap towards the mainstream.  Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie were joined on that album by two Americans, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who transformed the band into a commercial rock behemoth.  Those who had followed the group's early years, though, knew that the only thing to expect from Fleetwood Mac was the unexpected.  On July

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Fleetwood Mac

Look At All The Things: Neil Young Revisits "Early Daze" on New Compilation

May 17, 2024 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse are currently on the road with the Love Earth Tour, with dates scheduled through September 29, when it all wraps up at the Hollywood Bowl. Today, Young announced that he's looking back on his Early Daze with the Horse on a new collection due June 28.  Its ten songs were all recorded in 1969 with the lineup of Danny Whitten (guitar and vocals), Ralph Molina (drums and vocals), Billy Talbot (bass and vocals), and Jack Nitzsche (keyboards, tambourine, and vocals). Early

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Neil Young

Back to Black: Songs from the Original Motion Picture

May 17, 2024 By

Amy Winehouse Back to Black

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Universal releases the soundtrack to the new Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black in different configurations: 1CD/1LP or 2CD/2LP.  The single-disc version offers a dozen cuts from Winehouse, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, The Shangri-Las, Minnie Riperton, and Nick Cave.  The double-disc sequence has all

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

20th Century Lindsey

May 17, 2024 By

20th Century Lindsey

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) 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 during the 20th century - 1981's Law and Order, 1984's Go Insane and 1992's Out of the Cradle - plus a newly compiled disc of eight rarities. The set showcases

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

We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982)

May 17, 2024 By

Loleatta Holloway We're Getting Stronger

We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) presents, on 5 CDs, all of the late, great Loleatta Holloway's albums for Gold Mind and Salsoul (all newly remastered by Nick Robbins) plus a host of bonus tracks, both on the individual albums and on a newly-curated disc, Remixes and Reincarnations.  The collection, filled with the sound of Philadelphia disco-meets-southern soul, has been designed by Ray Curenton, and produced and annotated by Tim Dillinger.  We're Getting

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The MCA Years

May 17, 2024 By

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

Nik Kershaw's long-awaited The MCA Years offers the most complete look at the British pop/rocker's career in the '80s, offering four remastered studio albums, four discs of B-sides and remixes, two discs of mostly unreleased live material, and a DVD of music videos and concert material. Both Human Racing and The Riddle were expanded in the early 2010s by UMC with remixes and live material. The MCA Years includes all of that and more: a dedicated disc of eight non-LP B-sides, a collection of 18

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection

May 17, 2024 By

John Lennon Mind Games Ultimate Collection

6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP/6CD/2BD Super Deluxe Box: Official Store 2CD (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) John Lennon's fourth solo album Mind Games will receive a deluxe box set this summer packed with new mixes of the album's contents as well as a dozen unreleased outtakes.  The 6CD/2BD box will take a new,

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

Fragile: Super Deluxe Edition

May 17, 2024 By

Yes Fragile

Rhino is following last year's Super Deluxe Edition of 1971's The Yes Album with a similar set for the prog legends' fourth album. Fragile arrived later that same year, introducing Rick Wakeman as keyboardist and kicking off a new era of Yes history. The box set follows the same 4CD/1LP/1BD format as The Yes Album, featuring Steven Wilson's newly remastered and remixed audio, rare and previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a Dolby Atmos mix.

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Greatest Hits

May 17, 2024 By

Avril Lavigne Greatest Hits

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Target (neon green) Avril Lavigne's first career-spanning retrospective, Greatest Hits, offers 20 tracks originally released between 2002 and 2022.  Though there are no new tracks on the set, all seven of her studio albums are represented, and one of the songs - the Yungblud collaboration "I'm a Mess," featured on the digital deluxe edition of her 2022 album Love Sux - makes its physical debut

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

Release Round-Up: Week of May 17

May 17, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Barry Manilow Live in Britain

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. Taana Gardner, When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SoulMusic Records teams with TSD to revisit dance superstar Taana Gardner's classic West End album as a 2CD set.  When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings opens with Taana Gardner in its

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Adam Guettel, Barry Manilow, Davy Jones, Don McLean, Max Bygraves, New Kids on the Block, Pink Floyd, Stephen Sondheim, Taana Gardner

Moonlight Serenade: Stage Door Reissues Max Bygraves' "Discolongamax"

May 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Max Bygraves Disco

Tomorrow, Stage Door Records delivers perhaps the most unexpected reissue of the year - and almost certainly the campiest!  Fans of kitsch (and you know who you are!) will doubtless find much to enjoy in Stage Door's CD premiere of Discolongamax from the late British entertainer Max Bygraves (1922-2012).  This marks the third release in the label's Pop series, following an expanded album from The Nolans and the television-themed Crossroads Wedding Party. Cast album connoisseurs might know

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Max Bygraves

PRE-ORDER UPDATE: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Team to Celebrate The Salsoul Orchestra on New Box Set

May 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Salsoul Orchestra It's Good for the Soul

Last Christmas, The Second Disc teamed with SoulMusic Records and Cherry Red for The Salsoul Orchestra's Christmas Jollies: The Extra Jolly Edition, celebrating the best-selling album in the entire Salsoul catalogue.  On May 31, we'll follow that set up with It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978), the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra's groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and conducted by Vincent Montana, Jr.!  U.S. customers: pre-orders

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Life's Like This: Avril Lavigne Announces Greatest Hits Collection

May 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Avril Lavigne Greatest Hits

For more than two decades, Avril Lavigne has been a purveyor of punk-flavored pop. Could she make it any more obvious? The answer is yes: ahead of a summer tour, she's releasing her first, career-spanning greatest hits album. The 20-track set hits stores June 21, smack in the middle of a global trek that kicks off tomorrow at Texas' Ford Center at the Star and stretches through September, making stops across North America and Europe (including festival stops at Pinkpop, Glastonbury and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Avril Lavigne

We Have Heaven: Rhino Reissues, Expands Yes' "Fragile" with New Mixes

May 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Yes Fragile

Rhino is following last year's Super Deluxe Edition of 1971's The Yes Album with a similar set for the prog legends' fourth album. Fragile arrived later that same year, introducing Rick Wakeman as keyboardist and kicking off a new era of Yes history. The upcoming box set, due on June 28, follows the same 4CD/1LP/1BD format as The Yes Album, featuring Steven Wilson's newly remastered and remixed audio, rare and previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a Dolby Atmos mix. Fragile was

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Yes

Journey to Nutopia: John Lennon's 'Mind Games' Set for Expansion This Summer

May 15, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

John Lennon Mind Games Ultimate Collection

John Lennon's fourth solo album Mind Games will receive a deluxe box set this summer packed with new mixes of the album's contents as well as a dozen unreleased outtakes. Available July 12, the 6CD/2BD box will take a new, immersive look at Lennon's sessions at New York's Record Plant in the summer of 1973, a turbulent time that resulted in a somewhat divisive effort in his post-Beatles discography. Included in the set are many assemblies of the original 12-track album, produced by Lennon and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: John Lennon, Yoko Ono

You Don't Know How Bad I've Got It: Cherry Red Preps Nik Kershaw Box Set

May 15, 2024 By Mike Duquette 17 Comments

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

An oft-discussed Nik Kershaw box set has been added to Cherry Red's summer release schedule. The MCA Years, available July 26, offers the most complete look at the British pop/rocker's career in the '80s, offering four remastered studio albums, four discs of B-sides and remixes, two discs of mostly unreleased live material and a DVD of music videos and concert material. The MCA Years comes 40 years on from the release of Kershaw's earliest work for the label. Born into a musical family in

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