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Last Splash: 30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition

July 7, 2023 By

Breeders Last Splash 30

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Breeders' Last Splash - one of the most treasured albums of the '90s alternative rock explosion - will be newly reissued with a small but intriguing selection of bonus material.  The 1993 album was given the deluxe treatment for its 20th anniversary in 2013 - but, it turns out, the original analog tapes could not be located to create that set. In the decade since, they've been successfully

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

Live in Japan 1973, Live in London 1974

July 7, 2023 By

Beck Bogert Appice live box

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP (Grape): Rhino.com Live in Japan 1973, Live in London 1974 is a 4CD/4LP box set offering two much-coveted sets in the short but pivotal era in which guitar god Jeff Beck, drummer/singer Carmine Appice, and bassist Tim Bogert laid down a heavy duty power trio that knocked fans of The Jeff Beck Group and The Yardbirds sideways. Both concerts have been remixed from original multitrack elements

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

Chrome Dreams

July 7, 2023 By

Neil Young Chrome Dreams

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Almost sixteen years after the release of Chrome Dreams II, Neil Young is finally unveiling the original, "lost" 1977 album.  Featuring cover artwork by Ronnie Wood dating back to 1976, Chrome Dreams arrives in CD, LP, and digital formats.  The dozen songs comprising the album were recorded between 1974 and 1976 and assembled as an acetate to consider for potential release in 1977.  Ultimately, Young

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

Release Round-Up: Week of July 7

July 7, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

janet deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Pool-Pah, The Flasher: Original Soundtrack Recording (Real Gone/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate 50 years of the best album you've never heard: Pool-Pah's The Flasher.  In 1973, the sexual revolution was on, streaking was taking college campuses by storm, and Deep Throat was edging pornography ever

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Burnette, Flamin' Groovies, Hans Zimmer, Ill Biskits, Janet Jackson, Owsley, Pool-Pah, Rory Gallagher, Rupert Holmes, Suede, Taylor Swift, Wham!

Tear It Up: Iconoclassic Reissues Two Rock-and-Roll Gems from Billy Burnette

July 6, 2023 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Billy Burnette

Last autumn, Iconoclassic Records brought Rocky Burnette's 1979 solo debut The Son of Rock and Roll to CD.  Tomorrow, July 7, the label is turning its attention to Rocky's cousin Billy Burnette for another pair of CD premieres. The son of Dorsey Burnette - a veteran artist with recording credits at Imperial, Dot, Motown, Reprise, and Capitol - and the nephew of "Dreamin'" and "You're Sixteen" hitmaker Johnny Burnette, Billy made his solo debut in 1972 on the CBS-distributed Entrance label.  He

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Burnette

Keep It Comin' Love: Robinsongs Compiles KC and The Sunshine Band's "Ultimate Collection"

July 5, 2023 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

KC and the Sunshine Band The Ultimate Collection

With KC and The Sunshine Band, the numbers speak for themselves.  The joyful group founded in the Sunshine State of Florida has racked up five U.S. No. 1 singles along with two more No. 2s as well as six charting LPs including their self-titled 1975 album which went top ten across the globe.  Now, Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint has celebrated the group's 50th anniversary with a new 3-CD anthology, The Ultimate Collection. After a low-key album debut in 1974 with Do It Good,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: KC and the Sunshine Band

Sedan Delivery: Neil Young Officially Releases "Chrome Dreams" in August

July 3, 2023 By The Second Disc 16 Comments

Neil Young Chrome Dreams

Almost sixteen years after the release of Chrome Dreams II, Neil Young is finally unveiling the original, "lost" 1977 album.  Featuring cover artwork by Ronnie Wood dating back to 1976, Chrome Dreams will arrive in CD, LP, and digital formats on August 11. The dozen songs comprising Chrome Dreams were recorded between 1974 and 1976 and assembled as an acetate to consider for potential release in 1977.  Ultimately, Young opted to shelve Chrome Dreams, and his lone album release for 1977 was

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

Review: Little Feat, "Sailin' Shoes" and "Dixie Chicken" Deluxe Editions

June 30, 2023 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Little Feat Dixie Chicken

Little Feat was no ordinary rock-and-roll band.  The seeds of the California group were planted when singer-songwriter Lowell George, then playing in Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, met keyboardist Bill Payne, who had unsuccessfully auditioned for the famously tough Zappa.  The pair hit it off and teamed with former Mothers bassist Roy Estrada and drummer Richard Hayward, late of George's old band The Factory, to form Little Feat.  The story remains unclear as to exactly what prompted George

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, R&B/Soul Tags: Little Feat

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Grateful Dead RFK Stadium 1973

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Frank Zappa, Funky Nothingness (Zappa/UMe) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Standard Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Colored Vinyl with exclusive guitar pick: Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com / SoundofVinyl.com UMe and Zappa Records have taken another deep dive into the vaults for Funky Nothingness.  Recorded in the year following the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Big Country, Blossom Dearie, Charlie Watts, Frank Zappa, Frederick Loewe, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, Johnny Desmond, Jule Styne, Lucinda Williams, The Baseball Project, Vivian Blaine

Sweet, Sweet Surrender: Rare and Unreleased Beck, Bogert & Appice Concerts Collected in New Box Set

June 29, 2023 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Beck Bogert Appice live box

Some six months after Jeff Beck's passing - and in honor of what would have been his 79th birthday this fall - the beloved British guitarist's early '70s supergroup work as one-third of Beck, Bogert & Appice will be celebrated in a new live box set. Live in Japan 1973, Live in London 1974 is a 4CD/4LP box set offering two much-coveted sets in the short but pivotal era in which Beck, drummer/singer Carmine Appice and bassist Tim Bogert laid down a heavy duty power trio that knocked fans of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Beck Bogert & Appice, Carmine Appice, Jeff Beck, Tim Bogert

Funky Nothingness

June 28, 2023 By

Frank Zappa Funky Nothingness

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Standard Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Colored Vinyl with exclusive guitar pick: Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com / SoundofVinyl.com UMe and Zappa Records have taken another deep dive into the vaults for Funky Nothingness.  Recorded in the year following the release of Hot Rats and building upon its sound with many of the same musicians including Ian

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock

Greatest Hits [Various Formats]

June 28, 2023 By

Aerosmith GH 2023 cover

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Limited Edition CD: Official Store LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe 2LP: Official Store 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe 4LP: Official Store Japan-Exclusive 6CD: CDJapan Aerosmith has a brand-new career spanning compilation coming in multiple formats.  The simply-titled Greatest Hits shares a name with the

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

The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven

June 28, 2023 By

Wham singles box

10CD box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10 x 7" box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than 40 years after they took the U.K. - and then the world - by storm, the story of pop duo WHAM! will be told in a multi-format compilation to coincide with the release of a new documentary. The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven is arguably the most comprehensive look at the work of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley

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

Not So 'Last' Splash: The Breeders' Landmark Album Gets Reissued with Two Unheard Tracks

June 28, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Breeders Last Splash 30

The Breeders' Last Splash - one of the most treasured albums of the '90s alternative rock explosion - will be newly reissued this fall with a small but intriguing selection of bonus material. The 1993 album was given the deluxe treatment for its 20th anniversary in 2013 - but, it turns out, the original analog tapes could not be located to create that set. In the decade since, they've been successfully located, and in addition to newly-remastered favorites like "Cannonball" and "Divine

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Pixies, The Breeders

Just Push Play: Aerosmith Preps Ultimate 'Greatest Hits' for August (UPDATED 6/28)

June 28, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Aerosmith GH 2023

Ahead of their Peace Out Tour in 2023-2024 - closing a significant chapter in the book of one of the best (or perhaps the most) American rock bands - Aerosmith will issue a brand-new career spanning compilation across multiple formats in August. The simply-titled Greatest Hits shares a name with the group's first compilation, issued back in 1980, but it's being billed as an "ultimate" product, and packaged as an entirely different set. It is, of course, the first compilation issued since the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aerosmith, Run-DMC

Review: Kenny Rogers, "Life Is Like a Song"

June 26, 2023 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Kenny Rogers Life Is Like a Song

In the booklet to his new posthumous release Life Is Like a Song, the late Kenny Rogers is quoted: "Music is the greatest memory-maker you'll ever encounter.  A song can lock you right into a memory for a lifetime."  Rogers' own music, whether "The Gambler," "Through the Years," "Lady," "She Believes in Me," "You Decorated My Life," or "Islands in the Stream," certainly proves that adage.  The Texas-born singer, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 81, blurred the lines between country and pop

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, Lionel Richie

Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 23, 2023 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Little Feat Dixie Chicken

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. Little Feat, Sailin' Shoes: Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1972's Sailin' Shoes was the second album from the original Little Feat lineup of singer-guitarist Lowell George, drummer Richard Hayward, keyboard player Bill Payne, and bassist Roy Estrada. The LP spawned numerous signature songs

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Charles Mingus, Eric Clapton, Little Feat, Matt Monro, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, Sonny Rollins, Stewart Copeland, Straight No Chaser, The Lloyds, The Police

Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos

June 22, 2023 By

Stax demos box

Following the recent, massive Wattstax box, the team at Craft Recordings has another major Stax archival excavation: Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos is an impressive 7CD anthology including 146 demo versions of enduring Stax hits and fan favorites, songs written by label songwriters that ended up elsewhere as well as a number of songs unveiled here for the first time. Only six of these tracks have ever been released!  The material here runs the gamut of Stax's style and

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Hey Little Sister: Billy Idol Expands Debut LP with Unreleased Live Show

June 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Billy Idol expanded

On July 28, it'll be a nice day to start again: Billy Idol's self-titled debut album will be reissued on CD with a bonus live show. Released in 1982, Billy Idol was the first full-length solo effort from the British rocker with the spiky bleached hair and the inimitable sneer. A year before, he'd issued the Don't Stop EP, offering a remix of "Dancing with Myself" - the last major single from his former band Generation X - and a peppy cover of Tommy James and The Shondells' "Mony Mony." (A

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Dance Only with Me: Stage Door Reissues Styne, Comden, and Green's "Say, Darling" as Deluxe Edition

June 21, 2023 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Say Darling OBC

Upon its May 13, 1954 opening, The Pajama Game was an instant smash.  The Tony Award-winning Best Musical by George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler, and Jerry Ross went on to run 1,063 performances and inspire a London production, two Broadway revivals, and countless regional, school, and community theatre productions.  But for Bissell, the Iowa-born author of the novel 7-1/2 Cents on which The Pajama Game was based, the road to Broadway was a bumpy one.  Bissell put his memories to paper

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Johnny Desmond, Jule Styne, Vivian Blaine

Ziggy Stardust: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (50th Anniversary)

June 19, 2023 By

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Over 50 years after David Bowie bade farewell to one of his most recognizable onstage personas, the show in which he did so is being reissued and restored.  Ziggy Stardust: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be reissued by Parlophone just one month after the exact anniversary of that landmark date at Hammersmith Odeon in London. Originally issued in truncated form in 1983, the program was remixed and restored in 2003; this updated presentation will feature two tracks finally added into

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

Star Fleet Sessions

June 19, 2023 By

Star Fleet Sessions box

2CD/Red LP/Black 7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Queen Official Store Red 7": Queen Official Store CD single: Queen Official Store Having reissued and expanded Brian May's Back to the Light and Another World, UMe turns fans' attention to the Queen guitarist's first-ever solo project, a 1983 collaboration with a collection of stellar musicians - including a team-up with

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Official Release Series Volume 5

June 19, 2023 By

Neil Young ORS Volume 5 CD

6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Neil Young's Official Release Series Volume 5 arrives on 6 CDs or 9 LPs.  Both formats include Freedom (1989), an expanded edition of Ragged Glory (1990), Weld (1991), and Arc (1991).  As with all titles in this series, the albums have been remastered, with Ragged Glory sourced from analog tape.  This marks the first time these four LPs have been remastered for vinyl. The vinyl and CD box sets are

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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite: 50th Anniversary Edition

June 19, 2023 By

Elvis Aloha from Hawaii 2023

3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elvis Presley's seminal 1973 returns for its 50th anniversary in a new box set.  This edition takes its cues from the audio contents of last year's 3-CD release from the mail-order Follow That Dream label: the original album on CD 1 as newly remixed by Matt-Ross Spang, the dress rehearsal on CD 2 as reprised from the 2013 Legacy Edition, and multiple takes of the additional songs captured for

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

Complete Studio Albums and Rarities

June 19, 2023 By

StevieN ProductShots BOX CD

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Rhino Store Stevie Nicks gets the box set treatment on the 10CD or limited, direct-to-consumer exclusive 16LP set Complete Studio Albums & Rarities. The set brings together just about all of Nicks' own output between 1981 and 2014, a period covered by Rhino's Stand Back compilation from 2019. The set features the chart-topping Bella Donna (1981) and follow-up The Wild Heart (1983) - both presented as remastered for a pair of deluxe

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

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