KISS' third album - the edge of their commercial breakthrough - is getting done up to the nines for its 50th anniversary. The rock legends will reissue Dressed to Kill as a super deluxe set, available exclusively through the band's official store on five CDs or eight LPs and a Blu-ray. The 1975 release, featuring "C'mon and Love Me" and, arguably the group's signature song "Rock and Roll All Nite," has been newly remastered by Bernie Grundman and, on the Blu-ray, remixed from the original
Dressed to Kill (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
5CD/Blu-ray: Official Store 8LP/Blu-ray: Official Store KISS' third album was one of their most down 'n' dirty, recorded over 10 days at Electric Lady Studios (with Casablanca president Neil Bogart as de facto co-producer alongside the band themselves) and clocking in at a taut 30 minutes (with long, silent grooves between each song on the original vinyl). While audiences had yet to really push the made-up camp-rockers into the mainstream, Dressed to Kill was one of the strongest arguments
Different Class (30th Anniversary Edition)
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Released in 1995, Pulp's fifth album became a classic of the '90s Britpop movement. It debuted atop the U.K. charts, put four singles in the Top 10 (including "Common People" and "Disco 2000") and won the Mercury Music Prize in 1996. For its 30th anniversary - less than a week shy of its date of original release - and following the release of their latest studio LP More. in June, Different Class has
Ants Invasion: Sony U.K. Plans New Singles Set for Adam Ant
Here's your pass to join the insect nation: Sony Music's U.K. arm is releasing a new compilation devoted to post-punk heroes Adam and The Ants. The simply-titled Singles, available October 31 in the U.K. and a week later in America, collects 20 tracks on CD or two LPs (pressed on red and white vinyl) that served as A-sides for the '80s iconoclast. Split about evenly between the classic Ants lineup and Adam's solo material, it features all the classics you'd expect, from "Kings of the Wild
Baby's Got a Secret: Madonna Expands 'Bedtime Stories' with 'Untold Chapter' EP
After teasing it last year - and not long after this year's release of a similar Ray of Light-era remix collection - Madonna will explore rare and unreleased material tied to another one of her most celebrated albums of the '90s, Bedtime Stories, with another EP of unissued tracks. Bedtime Stories - The Untold Chapter, available November 28, will offer eight remixes, demos and outtakes from the Queen of Pop's sixth album, originally released in 1994. In addition to previously released mixes
The Weekend Stream: October 18, 2025
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. There's much to cover: digital box sets, anniversary editions, new remixes, old stand-up comedy - and a quartet of memorials to musicians and more. Neil Young, Neil Young Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) (Reprise) (Apple / Amazon) One of the biggest box sets of last year is now available in a slightly more compact form. The digital
Release Round-Up: Week of October 17
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. Randy Newman, Trouble in Paradise: Expanded Edition (Warner/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino Reserves LP: Rhino.com We Love It! Rhino reissues Randy Newman's seventh studio album, Trouble in Paradise, as a 2CD expanded edition featuring previously unreleased demos and a rare concert performance. With
Review: David Bowie, "I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016)"
C'mon, Let's Go Slip Away For in truth, it's the beginning of nothing/And nothing has changed/Everything has changed... After a period of nearly four years, David Bowie's series of "Eras" box sets has continued with its sixth and final volume. I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016), from ISO Records and Parlophone, concludes the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar on 13 CDs or 18 LPs. Picking up where 2021's Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) left off, it vividly
Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)
4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) Smashing Pumpkins are revisiting the seven-time-Grammy-nominated Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness for its 30th anniversary, pairing the original, sprawling album with a new double album of unreleased live performances on the band's ensuing tour in support of the record. It'll be available as a 4CD or 6LP set. So prolific were the Pumpkins in this period that a box of singles
MTV Unplugged
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscover Music (white LP with lithograph) The Cranberries are partnering with UMe for the debut release of their 1995 performance on MTV Unplugged. Recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a string section during the promotion of No Need to Argue, the broadcast featured favorites from the new album ("Zombie," "Ode to My Family"), the already-sterling "Linger," a few songs that would appear on
The Weekend Stream: October 11, 2025
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week brings some super '70s soul, some '80s and '90s throwbacks on the Broadway stage and more - including a tribute to one of the original Moody Blues we lost this week. Curtis Mayfield, The Makings of: A Curtis Mayfield Collection (Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) The documentary The Makings of Curtis Mayfield - directed by Grammy-winning
Happy Halloween, Everybody: Frank Zappa's "Halloween 78" Presents Epic NYC Concert, More
Frank Zappa's annual Halloween concerts in New York City were far more treat than trick. Now, following similar releases for his shows in 1973, 1977, and 1981, Zappa Records and UMe are releasing Halloween 78 on October 24 in a variety of formats. The nearly four-hour long, marathon October 31, 1978 show at the late, lamented Palladium (now the home of a New York University dormitory) will be available as part of a 5CD set also including a bonus show from the beginning of the Palladium run, on
Release Round-Up: Week of October 10
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. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Power to the People (Capitol/UMR) 9CD/3BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Official Store 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official
Power to the People
9CD/3BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Official Store 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store One of the most incendiary periods of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's life together is being explored anew in a new 9CD/3Blu-ray box set. Power to the People
The Lost Concert: Live at Llangollen 1995
2SACD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Decca premieres Luciano Pavarotti's recital recorded in Llangollen, North Wales in 1995 on an audio-only format for the very first time. The concert commemorated 40 years since Pavarotti and his fellow choir members from Modena won first prize in the Choral Competition at the International Eisteddfod in 1955. The 75-minute program features operatic arias from Cavalleria Rusticana, Il trovatore,
Novanta
4CD: 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 Decca celebrates what would have been Luciano Pavarotti's 90th birthday on October 12, 2025 - he died in 2007 at the age of 71 - with a new collection. Novanta (that's "ninety" in Italian!) is available in 4CD, 2CD, and 2LP iterations touching on his recordings of not only opera classics but sacred songs, Italian music, and even duets with pop and
The Weekend Stream: October 4, 2025
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. From the Foo Fighters entering Bandcamp for a cause to a Record Store Day rarity by Rage Against the Machine, the dream of the '90s is very much alive here...plus much more from other decades, too! Are Playing Where??? Vol. I by Foo Fighters Foo Fighters, Are Playing Where??? Vol. 1 (Roswell) (Bandcamp) After kicking off a season of
D'You Know? The Cranberries Plan New Expansion of 'No Need to Argue,' 'MTV Unplugged' Set
It's not just in your head: The Cranberries have just reissued an album they expanded a few years ago - but they've also got an unreleased live set due soon, too. The band's sophomore album, 1994's No Need to Argue, was previously reissued for its 25th anniversary in 2020 with a host of B-sides and rare material; as of today, it's available once more as a 2CD or 2LP edition that includes an EP's worth of unissued material, including remixes by Iain Cook of Scottish synthpop band CHVRCHES, a
Tonight, Tonight: Smashing Pumpkins Offer New Expansion of 'Mellon Collie' with Bonus Live Material
Despite all your rage, you are still just a reader on a post about a new expansion of one of The Smashing Pumpkins' biggest albums. The iconoclastic band will reissue Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness this fall for its 30th anniversary, pairing the original, sprawling album with a new double album of unreleased live performances on the band's ensuing tour in support of the record. It'll be available as a 4CD or 6LP set from UMe on November 21. Conceived from the outset as a double album
Release Round-Up: Week of October 3
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. Oasis, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 30th Anniversary Edition (Big Brother) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Oasis have a slightly expanded edition of 1995's (What's the Story) Morning Glory? on tap, pairing a 2014 remaster of the album (which initially came with
Hard to Believe: The Monkees' "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd." Goes Super Deluxe
The Monkees' fourth album is returning today in two different formats: an audiophile-quality vinyl pressing sourced from the original stereo tapes for the first time and a 4CD/1-7" super deluxe box set loaded with over 100 tracks, many of which are previously unreleased. 1967's Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. found Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork taking advantage of the hard-won freedom they'd earned with Headquarters. Sessions began in April 1967,
Songs from the Big Chair: 40th Anniversary Editions
3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Coke Bottle): uDiscover Music / The Sound of Vinyl 1LP (Picture Disc): TFF Store / uDiscover Music / The Sound of Vinyl Tears for Fears' Songs from the Big Chair - still the crown jewel of the duo's discography, and easily its most-reissued - will get some more pressings on CD and vinyl this fall to mark its 40th anniversary. Already expanded on CD in 1999, 2006 and a 2014 box set, TFF's
Black and Blue [Various Formats]
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 4CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones' thirteenth studio album, 1976's Black and Blue, reached No. 1 in the United States and No. 2 in the band's native United Kingdom, and yielded a top ten hit single on both sides of
Live at the Roxy Theatre
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Brian Wilson's triumphant April 2000 solo shows on the Sunset Strip at the Roxy return to CD and vinyl in these 25th anniversary expanded editions which also feature fully remastered audio and new artwork. 3LP, 2CD, and digital formats are all available. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
FYC40 [Multiple Formats]
4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (with CD single) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (with CD single) 2LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Official Store (with CD single) 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (with CD single) FYC40 will reintroduce audiences to the Birmingham trio behind "Johnny Come Home," "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing" on a multi-disc set that's