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Billy Idol: Expanded Edition

July 12, 2023 By

Billy Idol expanded

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Billy Idol's 1982 debut album returns in a 2-CD expanded edition.  The first disc has the original album plus the newly-discovered "Clubland Extended Version" of the hit "White Wedding" that adds another four minutes to the running time.  The album is further complemented with an unreleased live set from The Roxy in West Hollywood at the end of 1982; it features the balance of tracks from Don't Stop

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

Got a Hold on Me: Christine McVie's Solo Works Returning to Print

July 12, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Christine McVie Christine McVie

The loss of longtime Fleetwood Mac keyboardist Christine McVie last year remains deeply felt by fans of the long-running group's unbeatable pop/rock songs. Today, on what would have been her 80th birthday, Rhino Records is releasing unheard music by (and in tribute to) her, with plans to reissue two of her solo albums this fall. On November 3, Rhino will reissue a remastered version of 1984's Christine McVie on CD and vinyl, with a cola-bottle clear color variant of the latter available

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

Break on Through: The Doors Re-Enter The Matrix in Restored Live Set

July 12, 2023 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Doors Matrix complete

One of the most legendary live recordings from The Doors is finally coming out in its most definitive form. Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original Masters, due September 8, is the last word on the group's pivotal dates at the San Francisco club The Matrix - among the earliest concert recordings of the group. The 3CD or 5LP/7" box set will include, for the first time, all of club owner Peter Abram's surviving original master tapes of the performances, remastered by the band's longtime engineer

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Doors

A Thing Called Love: The Darkness Ask for 'Permission to Land...Again' in Deluxe Edition of Debut

July 10, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Darkness Permission to Land box

It might've been the last thing anyone expected to hear on the radio in 2003: a swaggering rock tune with faux-operatic vocals and a guitar tone reminiscent of Queen's Brian May. Was it some lost outtake from the '70s? No: it was the seriously fun "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," which heralded one of the country's most unique bands: The Darkness. Now, 20 years on, the group is revisiting their first recordings with an all-out box set edition of their debut album Permission to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Darkness

The Weekend Stream: July 8, 2023

July 8, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. From Prince's vault to a classic Talking Heads live performance and rarities from Doris Day and Duke Ellington, you've got plenty to choose from today! Prince, All a Share Together Now / 7 (E Flat Version) (NPG) All a Share: iTunes / Amazon 7 (E Flat Version): iTunes / Amazon It's been nearly two

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Counting Crows, Doris Day, Duke Ellington, Prince, Pulp, Talking Heads

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

The Lexicon of Love: 40th Anniversary Edition

July 7, 2023 By

ABC Lexicon of Love 40

4LP/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Who's got the look? British band ABC's effortlessly cool debut The Lexicon of Love helped established a cutting-edge style for the decade to come, and it'll be reissued about a year on from its 40th anniversary this summer in a pair of new vinyl editions.  The U.K.'s Universal Music Recordings will bring Lexicon back into print on LP August 4 with a new half-speed master cut by Miles Showell at

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, 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!

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

The Weekend Stream: July 2, 2023

July 2, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week brings an R.E.M. classic given new life by a hit TV show, another side of one of Motown's sultriest crooners, two Prince-related artists gone solo, dance grooves from Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul and an early version of one of the greatest epic film scores of the '50s. R.E.M., Strange

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bell Biv DeVoe, Bobby Hackett, Elmer Bernstein, Fishbone, Janet Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Paula Abdul, Prince, R.E.M., Ralph Tresvant, Richie Kotzen

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

That's the Look: ABC's 'The Lexicon of Love' Updated with 40th Anniversary Vinyl/Blu-ray Box

June 29, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

ABC Lexicon of Love 40

Who's got the look? British band ABC's effortlessly cool debut The Lexicon of Love helped established a cutting-edge style for the decade to come, and it'll be reissued about a year on from its 40th anniversary this summer in a pair of new vinyl editions. Universal Music Recordings will bring Lexicon back into print on LP August 4 with a new half-speed master cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road. That new master will also be featured as part of a 4LP deluxe box set, which will include nearly

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: ABC

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

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

The Weekend Stream: June 24, 2023

June 24, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week, we're changing things up with a triplicate of great new songs out digitally, from favorite bands, up and comers and living legends alike - plus the latest digital catalogue and Joe's tribute to a Broadway original. John Williams & Anne-Sophie Mutter, Helena's Theme (for Violin and

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Joel, Bryan Adams, Cass Elliot, Charles Fox, John Williams, Katy Perry, Mac Miller, Sid and Marty Krofft, The Damnwells

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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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: R&B/Soul

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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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Idol

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