UPDATE (11/5/2026): We’ve added some commentary from Scott Davies of Rubellan Remasters, who commented below, as well as some clarifications from Chrysalis about the band’s catalogue ownership. As fans of New Zealand pop/rock heroes Split Enz continue to hope for additional, international deep-dive catalogue activity beyond last year’s release of the box set ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2, a most unusual streaming surprise has popped up on digital storefronts that may provoke questions about those plans. Within the last month, the band’s fourth album, 1979’s Frenzy, has appeared to stream and download on…
The Weekend Stream: November 1, 2026
Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. A new month brings cult favorites from pop icons, rare demos from rock icons, and some exciting new songs to check out, too. Mariah Carey, Glitter (Deluxe Edition) (UMe) (Apple / Amazon) One of pop’s more notorious flops gets its due, 25 years later. Mariah Carey’s film debut in the musical Glitter turned into one of her biggest bombs, limping into theaters…
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Release Round-Up: Week of October 30
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available this week! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Who, The Who by Numbers (Polydor/UMe) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab) / The Who Official Store(opens in new tab) 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K./ Amazon Canada Links TBD / The Who Official Store(opens in new tab) 3LP: Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in…
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Get on the Boat: Prince’s ‘3121’ to Be Expanded for 20th Anniversary
Only months after their last release, the Prince estate is coming back with an expanded album for the end of the year: a rarities-packed edition of 3121. Arriving December 11 from NPG and Sony Music, this 2CD/Blu-ray or 3LP/Blu-ray set pairs the original 2006 album with a bonus disc of 10 tracks from Prince’s storied vault (which are mostly unreleased and unheard) and a Blu-ray disc featuring a professionally shot performance from The Artist’s Per4ming Live 3121 residency in Las Vegas from 2007. (The audio of the same performance will be released on…
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How Long I Have Waited: Diana Krall Revisits “The Look of Love” For 25th Anniversary
Diana Krall’s sixth studio album, The Look of Love, first hit stores 25 years ago on September 18, 2001. Now, the Grammy Award-winning album is returning from Verve/UMe on November 20 in an expanded edition on CD and digitally. On the same date, a One-Step vinyl edition will also be released. The Canadian chanteuse-pianist reteamed with her longtime producer Tommy LiPuma and renowned arranger Claus Ogerman (Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sammy’s Back on Broadway) for The Look of Love. The London Symphony Orchestra was joined by such notable musicians…
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The Weekend Stream: October 24, 2026
Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. We’ve got new tracks from John Mayer and Kacey Musgraves, a new tribute to a favorite Disney theme park, plus some holiday and even inspirational favorites. John Mayer, “Tom and Jerry” (Mercury) (Apple / Amazon) After five years out of the spotlight as a solo artist – instead co-leading Dead & Company up to a series of 60th anniversary shows for…
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Release Round-Up: Week of October 23
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. Dave Clark Five, Glad All Over the World: The Hits and Albums Volume 1 (1964-1965) (BMG) (Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab)) At last, the long-unavailable albums of The Dave Clark Five are arriving on CD…sort of. Today sees the release of the first in a series of three-volume sets reissuing the Five’s core North American album…
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Rock and Roll All Over: 50th Anniversary
4CD/BD: Official Store Links TBD 6LP/BD: Official Store Links TBD 1CD (Eddie Kramer Mix): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Eddie Kramer Mix): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada KISS celebrates 50 years of Rock and Roll All Over with a new box set available in 6LP (180-gram black vinyl) + Blu-ray Audio and 4CD/Blu-ray Audio formats. Both sets feature 130 tracks with 100 previously unreleased tracks and mixes. The boxes contain both Bernie Grundman’s remaster of the 1976 stereo mix and Eddie Kramer’s new 2026 mix from…
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The Weekend Stream: October 17, 2026
Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. We’ve got new singles from Blondie and Olivia Rodrigo (the latter with a high-profile alt-pop pal), 30th anniversary treats from Hootie & The Blowfish and Madonna, a milestone for our friends at SuperVisible Multi Media and another late-round triumph tied to cinema’s favorite boxer. Hootie & The Blowfish, Fairweather Johnson (Deluxe Edition) (Atlantic/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) Following up a commercial juggernaut…
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Release Round-Up: Week of October 16
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. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Magic Boy: Live at Berkeley – First Show (Experience Hendrix/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Magic Boy presents Jimi Hendrix’s first show at the Berkeley Community Theater in May 1970, assembling it in the proper sequence for the first time. The set includes numerous legendary performances unearthed on early posthumous releases (“Hear My Train A-Comin’” from Rainbow Bridge; “Johnny B. Goode”…
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You Must Love Me: Rhino Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Madonna’s “Evita” Soundtrack with New Vinyl, CD Versions
Rhino has just announced a new vinyl version of the soundtrack to the film Evita, starring Madonna, to celebrate the project’s 30th anniversary. The new 3-LP edition will mark the album’s first appearance on the format. A new 2-CD edition is also being released. Both are slated to hit store shelves on November 13. Evita, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, is actually celebrating a pair of anniversaries this year. The original concept album, chronicling the life of controversial Argentinian first lady Eva Perón, debuted on November…
10 Days in China – The Live EP
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 12″ (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 12″ (blue): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Exclusives: Red Vinyl (indie retail) / Picture Disc (official store) 10 Days in China – The Live EP follows the recent release of Wham! 10 Days in China, unbelievably the third documentary on the duo in the last four years. (The first, a self-titled, career-spanning documentary, bowed on Netflix in 2023, foll0wed a year later by an hourlong BBC documentary on the making of…
The Faith Tour
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (clear): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Official Store exclusives: 2CD/3LP box set / 2LP (blue marble vinyl) / 2LP (picture disc) George Michael’s The Faith Tour, the first full-length live release from the singer/songwriter’s first solo tour in 1988, was recorded over two nights at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy at the end of May 1988. It features a hits-packed…
Continue Here
Arriving from The Zombies’ own Beechwood Park label, Continue Here is being billed by the band as “the record that never was, until now.” Bridging the gap between Begin Here and Odessey & Oracle, Continue Here collects all 18 of the group’s non-album singles and B-sides from 1964-1967 in their original mono mixes. Available on CD, LP, and digital formats. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)
Daydream: 30th Anniversary Edition
Mariah Carey, Daydream: 30th Anniversary Edition (Columbia/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (iridescent gold vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (exclusive pink vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cassette: Official Store Mariah Carey revisits her 1995 smash Daydream in a variety of physical formats following a deluxe digital edition released earlier this year. That version offered 21 rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks; the 2CD version drops several of those cuts (including a Spanish-language version of Carey’s cover of Journey’s…
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The Weekend Stream: October 10, 2026
Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. One of pop’s biggest estates corrects a recent blunder, Paul McCartney goes back to his latest album, new singles from beloved duos and frontmen and much, much more! Prince, Calabama EP (NPG/Paisley Park) (Apple / Amazon) Well, well, well. After the release of the outtakes collection Timeless was shockingly overshadowed by the nondisclosure of posthumous overdubs on the track “Calabama,” the…
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Rhino Has Deluxe Reissue of Talking Heads’ ‘Fear of Music’ Packed Up and Ready to Go
Another deluxe box set version of a Talking Heads album is coming November 13, expanding 1979’s Fear of Music to a 3CD/Blu-ray set. Similar to packages created for Talking Heads 77 and More Songs About Buildings and Food (as well as the demo/live collection Tentative Decisions), Fear of Music will include the newly remastered album, a selection of previously released studio rarities, two full concerts (one of which generously contributed to the band’s live double album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads), and new Atmos, surround and hi-res mixes alongside a small amount of…
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Release Round-Up: Week of October 9
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. Genesis, From Genesis to Revelation: Deluxe Edition (Esoteric/Cherry Red) 4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab) 2CD: Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab) 2LP: Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab) From Genesis to Revelation, the debut album from prog-rock legends Genesis, is no stranger to reissues due to its complicated…
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Grow Some Funk: Elton John’s ‘Rock of the Westies’ Gets a (Wide) Deluxe Release
Elton John’s classic discography has been reissued in style of late, even if some of the methodology is confusing. Following deluxe editions of his self-titled sophomore album and Tumbleweed Connection (both 1970 releases) in 2008 and a belated 40th anniversary box set for 1973’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in 2014, just about every album he put out in the ’70s got a 50th anniversary issue relatively on time. But confusingly, while Madman Across the Water, Honky Chateau and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy were all wide releases, the expansions of Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano…
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Zoot Allures! Zappa’s 1976 Album Goes Super Deluxe For 50th Anniversary
Hot on the heels of the recent 60th anniversary edition of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention’s Freak Out!, Zappa Records and UMe are turning the clock back a mere 50 years for another generously expanded edition. The punningly-titled Zoot Allures, originally released in 1976 as Zappa’s only album on the Warner Bros. Records label, returns December 5 in a variety of formats including a 5CD/1Blu-ray box set and 2LP and 3LP vinyl offerings. Zoot Allures followed Zappa’s 1975 collaboration with Captain Beefheart, Bongo Fury (itself reissued earlier this year), and…
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The Weekend Stream: October 3, 2026
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life – The EP (Motown/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) On September 28 – five decades to the day since Motown Records welcomed Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life into the world – another miracle occurred. Loosed from Wonder’s vaults (a phrase that’s almost never been applicable in the modern catalogue music era) comes another “A Something’s Extra” collecting four outtakes from the original double album-plus-EP. (Unlike, say, Timeless, these tracks appear to be free of contemporary overdubs, only newly mixed from their original sources by John…
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Release Round-Up: Week of October 2
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. The Beatles, Rubber Soul [Various Formats] (Capitol/Apple/UMe) 4CD: Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab) / Official Store (exclusive posters and art cards)(opens in new tab) 5LP/7″: Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab) / Official Store (exclusive posters and art cards)(opens in new tab) Blu-ray: Amazon U.S.(opens…
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Review: The Beatles, “Rubber Soul: 60th Anniversary Edition”
“Standards are cruelly high at the top,” George Harrison observed in a May 1965 interview. “Every time we get a record released, it has to go to No. 1. If it doesn’t, we’ll be slipping.” Today, we take for granted that The Beatles certainly didn’t slip. Just months later, on October 12, the group started sessions for what would become their sixth original U.K. studio album: Rubber Soul. Yet more than just charting further No. 1s – the album itself went to that position in both the U.K. and U.S., and the…
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Live at The Turning Point
Live at The Turning Point, a never-before-heard 1987 solo performance by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and New Orleans legend Dr. John, arrives on 2 CDs and digital formats the same date (November 2o) as what would have been Dr. John’s 85th birthday. The album captures the entire second set of May 7, 1987 at Piermont, New York’s Turning Point club as well as unique bonus tracks from the early set that night. The intimate environs inspired Dr. John to dig into a wide-ranging repertoire of classics and deep…
Turnstiles: 50th Anniversary Edition
For the first time, a box set will take a deep dive into the creation of a Billy Joel album – in this case, one of his most pivotal: 1976’s Turnstiles, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. This new 4CD/Blu-ray set offers a thorough look at the album’s pivotal production, from early demos to live shows. In total, the collection boasts more than 50 previously unreleased tracks, including unheard demos, rarely heard songs, and selections from the album’s mythic early sessions featuring Nigel Olsson and Dee Murray of The Elton John Band….
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
November 6, 2026
