“Motor-Cycle transported me back to the ’60s in a way not many records do…There’s no irony or second-guessing: Golden’s all in, a psychedelic daughter of the Beat generation, among her equally hippie cohort, in swirls of free-loving, drug-chasing, multiracial, pan-sexual abandon… The album is a mother lode, not unlike Daniel Johnston or The Shaggs, say, for its multi-level fascination.” High Moon Records has quoted groundbreaking punk legend Richard Hell in describing Lotti Golden’s 1969 album Motor-Cycle, which the label is reissuing in an expanded edition on March 28. The singer-songwriter’s Atlantic LP…
Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1
Sheena Easton’s latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new way. Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1 is a 5CD set that covers the bulk of the Scottish singer’s first five albums – Take My Time (1981), You Could Have Been with Me (1981), Madness, Money and Music (1982), Best Kept Secret (1983), and the Spanish-language hits album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) – while also premiering more than two dozen unreleased tracks. The set is entirely remastered from the original analogue tapes and also features a 48-page booklet with insights from key…
Brothers in Arms: 40th Anniversary Edition
3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Dire Straits’ biggest album is getting expanded for its 40th anniversary. 1985’s Brothers in Arms arrives in a variety of formats, including a 3CD or 5LP set that pairs the classic album with a live show from the period. The album, which featured two of the band’s biggest singles including the American chart-topper “Money for Nothing” and “Walk of Life,” will also feature 16 pages of liner notes offering new insight on the album through interviews with the band’s frontman/guitarist Mark…
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Saturnight: Live from Tokyo
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cat Stevens is bringing his 1974 Japan-exclusive album, Saturnight: Live from Tokyo, to CD and wide-release vinyl following 2024’s Record Store Day reissue. The 12-track album features the first live performance of Stevens’ cover of Sam Cooke’s “Another Saturday Night” as well as staples including “Wild World,” “Peace Train,” and “Oh Very Young.” This edition, remastered at Abbey Road, includes liner notes including remembrances from bassist Bruce Lynch and tour manager Carl Miller. The CD is housed in a digipak with a 16-page…
Another “Saturnight”: Cat Stevens’ 1974 Japan Live Album Comes to CD, Vinyl
Even today, Japan remains a thriving capital of recorded music – and, in particular, physical media. In the 1970s, it wasn’t uncommon for top-tier American artists, from Andy Williams to The Supremes, to record live albums exclusively for the Japanese market. Among those artists was Yusuf, a.k.a. Cat Stevens, whose 1974’s Saturnight: Live from Tokyo was the singer-songwriter’s first concert LP. Now, following its reissue last November as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event, Saturnight is coming to wide-release vinyl, CD, and digital/streaming on May 2 from UMe and Cat-o-Log…
Cuts The Deepest: Edsel Celebrates P.P. Arnold on “Soul Survivor” Box Set
One of P.P. Arnold’s early sides for Immediate Records was titled “Am I Still Dreaming?” The song, which the artist born Patricia Ann Cole in Los Angeles wrote at the encouragement of none other than Mick Jagger, is one of the 57 songs on 3 CDs assembled by Edsel Records on the dream of a box set appropriately entitled Soul Survivor: A Life in Song. The collection, compiled by the singer and Michael Mulligan, traces the onetime Ikette’s career from her signing to Andrew Loog Oldham’s label through subsequent collaborations with Barry…
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Feel the Force: Disney to Release Japanese Box Set of ‘Star Wars’ Music with TV Scores Making CD Debuts
Fans making the pilgrimage to next month’s Star Wars Celebration event in Japan can keep an eye out for a new box set fitting in perfectly with the country’s commitment to music on CD. Available in limited quantities during the event at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City, Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025: Original Soundtrack Box Set brings together scores from 23 films and television series in the universe created by writer/director George Lucas, with exclusively designed artwork. While none of the material is previously unreleased, roughly half the material has never been released…
Their Latest Trick: Dire Straits Expands ‘Brothers in Arms’
Dire Straits’ biggest album is getting expanded for its 40th anniversary. 1985’s Brothers in Arms will be available in a variety of formats, including a 3CD or 5LP set that pairs the classic album with a live show from the period. The album, which featured two of the band’s biggest singles including the American chart-topper “Money for Nothing” and “Walk of Life,” will also feature 16 pages of liner notes offering new insight on the album through interviews with the band’s frontman/guitarist Mark Knopfler, keyboardist Guy Fletcher and bassist John Illsley. (Among other…
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Release Round-Up: Week of March 21
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. Tina Turner, Private Dancer: 40th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pearl LP with art card: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Tina Turner’s smash 1984 “comeback”album Private Dancer – featuring the hits “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “Better Be Good to Me,” the scintillating title track and more – will be reissued as a 5CD/Blu-ray deluxe box packed with rare…
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Long Distance Love Affair: Sheena Easton Box Set Offers 25 Unreleased Tracks
Sheena Easton’s latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new way. Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1 is a 5CD set that will cover the bulk of the Scottish singer’s first five albums – Take My Time (1981), You Could Have Been with Me (1981), Madness, Money and Music (1982), Best Kept Secret (1983) and the Spanish-language hits album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) – while also premiering more than two dozen unreleased tracks. The set, available May 23, is entirely remastered from the original analogue tapes and also features a 48-page…
They’ll Be There for You: 10 Record Store Day Exclusives Getting CD Releases
The Record Store Day round-up marches on! After covering in detail the vinyl offerings from Universal Music Group, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, BMG, Craft Recordings, Real Gone Music, Omnivore and U.K. labels Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, we’ve still got a few things to highlight…notably, the work of labels who are serving one of Record Store Day’s least-served fans. There are plenty of business and financial reasons why some Record Store Day titles are limited solely to vinyl, but we at The Second Disc will never stop banging the drum for those…
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Gems
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Josh Groban looks back on his still-thriving career with Gems, a new collection boasting 16 favorites from his discography alongside two new songs, “Be Alright” and “Open Hands.” Not long after the May 2 CD and digital release, a double-vinyl edition will appear on June 13 with two exclusive bonus tracks: “Broken Vow” and “Remember When It Rained,” both from 2003’s Closer. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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Falling in Love with My Girl
Though Airrion Love and Herb Murrell of The Stylistics parted ways long ago with original lead singer Russell Thompkins, Jr., the duo have continued to make music under the Stylistics moniker. Now, Love and Murrell have released their most high-profile release since the split with Thompkins. Falling in Love with My Girl welcomes a host of special guests including Shania Twain, Ronnie Wood, Gene Simmons, Bill Champlin, Billy F. Gibbons, Ray Parker Jr., Davey Johnstone, Nigel Olsson, Steve Lukather, Tower of Power, Jay Graydon, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness, Nathan East, and…
Blood on the Bricks
Following last year’s releases of Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology and the singer-songwriter’s newest album, Can’t Outrun a Memory, Omnivore Recordings returns to the Grushecky discography with the worldwide CD premiere of The Iron City Houserockers’ 1981 album, Blood on the Bricks. The band’s third album, it was produced by Steve Cropper and features “Friday Night,” “Saints and Sinners,” and more. It’s been newly remastered by Michael Graves and expanded with 11 previously unreleased bonus tracks. TSD’s Joe Marchese has written the new liner notes based on an interview with Grushecky. The expanded edition will…
Release Round-Up: Week of March 14
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. Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes, Live at the Greek (Silver Arrow) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest guitarists of all time is getting revisited in a new 3CD or 6LP set (with 2LP highlights also available). Originally released in 2000,…
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You Raise Me Up: Reprise Collects Josh Groban’s “Gems” on New Collection
On May 9, Josh Groban will kick off Gems, a five-night run in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. One week earlier, the superstar actor-singer will commemorate the concert stand with a companion album of the same name. Arriving on Reprise Records, Gems features 16 classics from Groban’s discography alongside two new songs, “Be Alright” and “Open Hands.” The Los Angeles native was just sixteen years old when he was introduced by his vocal coach to David Foster. Foster enlisted him to stand in for Andrea Bocelli to rehearse his…
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Attics of My Life: Grateful Dead Mark 60 Years with Massive Box of Unreleased Live Performances
It’s little surprise that Rhino is going all-out for the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. The label today announced a 60CD box set due this spring that will premiere material from some 20 shows across a quarter-century of the band’s tenure. Enjoying the Ride, available May 30 exclusively from Dead.net, is a comprehensive 450-track set (nearly entirely unreleased, though a full track list has not been made available) limited to 6000 individually numbered copies. Sourced from recordings by Owsley “Bear” Stanley, Betty Cantor-Jackson, Kidd Candelario, Dan Healy, and John Cutler, the…
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Bright New Way: Cherry Red’s Grapefruit Label Collects Complete Recordings of Noel Redding’s Fat Mattress
Compilation producer David Wells’ liner notes to Fat Mattress’ How Can I Live? Complete Recordings on Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint kick off with two provocative quotes. Guitarist/singer Noel Redding, best known as bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience: “We had to play his songs, and he’d never consider listening to any of mine.” Fat Mattress’ manager and Jimi Hendrix producer/mentor Chas Chandler: “It was one of the most confusing times of my life. The first Mattress album knocked me out – they produced it, they wrote it, and it seemed inevitable to…
What the World Needs Now
Smokey Robinson’s newest studio album finds him singing such warm favorites as “Lean on Me,” “What a Wonderful World,” “Be Thankful for What You Got,” and “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” Available on CD, LP, and digital/streaming.
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Watch Out! Joe Grushecky’s Iron City Houserockers’ “Blood on the Bricks” Gets Expanded by Omnivore
Following last year’s releases of Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology and the singer-songwriter’s newest album, Can’t Outrun a Memory, Omnivore Recordings is returning to the Grushecky discography on March 28 with the worldwide CD premiere of The Iron City Houserockers’ 1981 album, Blood on the Bricks. The band’s third album, it’s been newly remastered and expanded with 11 previously unreleased bonus tracks. The expanded edition will also be available digitally. Blood on the Bricks teamed Joe Grushecky and his dynamite band-Eddie Britt on lead guitar and vocals, Art Nardini on bass, Gil…
Review: Yes, “Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition”
The cover of Yes’ Close to the Edge was a relatively simple one, with Roger Dean’s freshly-minted “bubble type” logo atop a color gradient from black to green. But the contents within the jacket – Yes’ fifth album overall, and final LP of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford – were anything but simple. Building on the sound and style of 1971’s Fragile, Close to the Edge was an even more ambitious suite crafted by lead vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Bruford, guitarist Steve Howe, and keyboardist Rick Wakeman…
Release Round-Up: Week of March 7
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. Yes, Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with signed lithograph) Yes’ fifth album, Close to the Edge, returns as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set anchored by new surround (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. This Super Deluxe box follows in the footsteps of similarly lavish reissues of The Yes Album and Fragile. The original 1972 mix has been remastered by Bernie Grundman on…
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Moments of a Visionary: Tangerine Dream Plan ‘Phaedra’ 50th Anniversary Box
Tangerine Dream’s breakthrough album will be celebrated in a box set that features a host of audiovisual material taken from a bigger box set. Virgin/UMR will reissue the German group’s 1974 hit Phaedra as a 5CD/Blu-ray box set featuring all the relevant album-related material featured in 2019’s 16 CD/2BD In Search of Hades (The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979). Beyond the remastered album, extras include two discs of outtakes, the band’s first U.K. concert and some 5.1 surround and stereo remixes of the album material by celebrated engineer Steven Wilson. The set also comes with…
Baby, You Give Me a Feeling: Robinsongs Collects Five Albums from Roy Ayers’ Ubiquity
Last evening, TSD learned that jazz legend Roy Ayers had passed away at the age of 84. Prior to the sad news, we had completed and scheduled this news item on Cherry Red and Robinsongs’ recent collection of five albums he recorded with the loose collective he called Ubiquity. We dedicate this piece to Roy Ayers and celebrate his enormous legacy. When vibraphonist-composer Roy Ayers moved to the Polydor label in 1970, he titled his debut album Ubiquity. In an interview quoted in the new Robinsongs release anthologizing five of the leader’s…
Last Flash of Rock ‘n Roll: Rhino Remasters, Expands Robert Hunter’s “Tiger Rose”
Following last year’s expanded reissue of Grateful Dead collaborator Robert Hunter’s Tales of the Great Rum Runners, the late lyricist is once again being celebrated by Rhino with a new deluxe edition. On March 28, the label will revisit 1975’s Tiger Rose for its 50th anniversary. The album has been remastered for all formats by David Glasser using the Plangent Processes for tape restoration and speed correction. It will be available as an expanded 2CD set, a 1LP remaster of the original album, and digitally. The CD bonus tracks will arrive on…
