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The Times

September 5, 2020 By

Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Amazon Music HD / Neil Young Archives / Your Local Record Shop Neil Young is taking stock of "The Times" on a new 7-track EP which will arrive as an Amazon Original release that can be streamed exclusively on Amazon Music HD in high resolution.  The album can also be enjoyed on NeilYoungArchives.com or on CD.  The Times features performances originally shared on the "Porch Sessions" episode of Young's livestreamed Fireside Sessions series.  The

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

Summerteeth: Deluxe Edition

September 5, 2020 By

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4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Wilco Store (color version) A 4CD and 5LP edition of Wilco's 1999 release, packed with unreleased material, arrives from Rhino.  Both formats feature a brand-new remaster of the original album by Bob Ludwig, plus two dozen previously unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate versions. Each set features a different unreleased live show as well: the CD featuring an extended, soundboard-sourced set at

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

UPDATE: Unreleased Thelonious Monk "Palo Alto" Concert Back On Track For September Release

September 4, 2020 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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UPDATED 9/4:  "[It's] one of the best live recordings I've ever heard by Thelonious...I wasn't even aware of my dad playing a high school gig, but he and the band were on it." So says T.S. Monk, son of groundbreaking jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. "When I first heard the tape, from the first measure, I knew my father was feeling really good." The younger Monk is talking about Palo Alto, a newly unearthed concert recorded October 27, 1968 which will -- after much anticipation -- finally see

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Thelonious Monk

Funny and You Don't Know Why: The Second Disc's Bandcamp Friday Picks for September

September 4, 2020 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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On March 20, as the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic was just starting to be understood, indie music retailer Bandcamp made the bold choice of waiving their share of revenue for artists and labels who were cancelling shows and delaying album releases left and right. The result was more music bought by more fans than any day on the site, a record broken on the first Friday of May. Bandcamp Fridays have since taken place in June, July and August - plus the first of an annual occurrence when the

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Categories: Features, News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Death Cab For Cutie, Joni Mitchell, Mort Garson, Paramore, Pylon, R.E.M., The Modulators, Wilco, Woody Guthrie

Release Round-Up: Week of September 4

September 4, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, Goats Head Soup [Various Formats] (Polydor/Interscope/UMe) 3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP clear: The Rolling Stones Shop Cassette: The Rolling Stones Shop The

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Ocean, Bob James, Burt Bacharach, Daniel Tashian, Elton John, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fleetwood Mac, Joan Jett, Labi Siffre, Sara Evans, T Rex, The Doobie Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren, U2

Electronic Flair: Real Gone Music Reissues Rare Synthesizer Explorations of Dan Lacksman

September 3, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Real Gone Music has a reputation for finding some of the finest lost treasures from across genres and the label's most recent announcement is one that's sure to take listeners by surprise.  On October 23, Real Gone will reissue three pioneering pieces of synth-pop from Belgian recording engineer and synthesizer artist Daniel Lacksman:  Dan Lacksman, Electronic System: Vol. II, and Electronic System: Tchip Tchip (Vol. 3).  Originally released in 1973 and 1974, this triptych sees Lacksman

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else, Pop Tags: Daniel Lacksman

So What'cha Want: Beastie Boys Issue New Compilation In October

September 3, 2020 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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After two years of retrospectives in the literary and cinematic world, a new career-spanning Beastie Boys compilation is on its way next month. Beastie Boys Music serves as a belated 20-track accompaniment to the group's lengthy Beastie Boys Book (2018) and this year's Spike Jonze-helmed documentary Beastie Boys Story. True to its name, it collects 20 singles and beloved tracks from the New York trio's seven major records for Def Jam and Capitol, including "Fight For Your Right," "Hey

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: The Beastie Boys

Change Gonna Come At Last: Neil Young Releases "The Times," Featuring New Live Recordings of Protest Songs

September 2, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

Neil Young has taken a break from his deep-dives into the archives to announce the release of a new EP, The Times.  The 7-track set will arrive on September 18 as an Amazon Original release that can be streamed exclusively on Amazon Music HD in high resolution.  The album can also be enjoyed on NeilYoungArchives.com or on CD. The Times features performances originally shared on the "Porch Sessions" episode of Neil Young's livestreamed Fireside Sessions series.  The webcast found Neil Young

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

Halloween 81

August 31, 2020 By

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6CD Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD Highlights plus "Strictly Genteel": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Frank Zappa's 1981 Halloween concerts at New York's late, lamented Palladium are collected on this new box set from Zappa Records/UMe. The 6-CD set is housed in a costume box with a Count Frankula mask as well as a red and black cape, natch.  It's been produced by Ahmet Zappa and Vaultmeister Joe Travers, while the concerts have been newly remixed from the

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

My Life: Deluxe Edition

August 28, 2020 By

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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Official Store 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mary J. Blige's sophomore album My Life is about to bring audiences joy when it's expanded and reissued on CD and vinyl with some rare bonus content.  The expanded My Life - which follows a killer compilation of Blige's early work from last year - pairs the newly remastered album with a half-dozen rare bonus tracks, including a stirring cover of Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

Gimme Some Truth [Various Formats]

August 28, 2020 By

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2CD/Blu-ray Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop On October 9, John Lennon would have turned 80 years old. To mark the occasion, Capitol and UMe will be

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

Be Happy: Mary J. Blige's 'My Life' Gets Expanded

August 28, 2020 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Mary J. Blige's sophomore album My Life is about to bring audiences joy when it's expanded and reissued on CD and vinyl with some rare bonus content. Available November 20, the expanded My Life - which follows a killer compilation of Blige's early work from last year - pairs the newly remastered album with a half-dozen rare bonus tracks, including a stirring cover of Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" produced by James Mtume and five promo-only remixes, some of which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: LL Cool J, Mary J. Blige, P. Diddy

John Lennon 80 Campaign Kicks Off With New Box Set "Gimme Some Truth"

August 26, 2020 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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On October 9, John Lennon would have turned 80 years old. To mark the occasion, Capitol and UMe will be releasing a new multi-format collection entitled Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes after his still-relevant 1971 protest single of that name. But this set - out on John's birthday - won't resemble the 2010 box of nearly the same title (celebrating his 70th). Instead, the Deluxe Edition release features 36 all-new mixes from the original multi-tracks of solo Lennon classics, remixed in

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: John Lennon, The Beatles, Yoko Ono

Play With Fire: The Rolling Stones Prep "Steel Wheels Live: Atlantic City, NJ" Featuring Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, and Axl Rose

August 24, 2020 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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Over thirty years ago, The Rolling Stones staged a show that would become one of the band's most renowned. The Atlantic City '89 concert, which took place on December 19, 1989 at the city's Convention Hall, was special for a number of reasons, but the main draw of the show was the special guests involved, who seemed to represent the past, present, and future. For this special show, The Stones called on their idol, John Lee Hooker for "Boogie Chillen," brought up their contemporary Eric Clapton

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Spread The Word Around: Long-Awaited Thin Lizzy Box Collects Trove Of Rarities

August 21, 2020 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

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It took literal years, but the boys are back in town. Irish rockers Thin Lizzy will launch a new archival series with the October 9 release of Rock Legends, a career-spanning 6CD/1DVD box set that offers a new overview of their work through an almost entirely unreleased selection of tracks. The series celebrates their 50th anniversary as a band, and yesterday's announcement coincided with what would have been the 71st birthday of late frontman/bassist Phil Lynott as well as the forthcoming

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Thin Lizzy

Release Round-Up: Week of August 21

August 21, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Norma Tanega, Walkin' My Cat Named Dog [Sky Blue Vinyl] (Real Gone Music)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Norma Tanega's 1966 folk-pop classic returns to vinyl in a re-pressing from Real Gone Music.  This new presentation replicates the original, utilizing the stereo mix and boasting the original artwork (which was replaced on prior CD issues).  It's pressed on sky blue vinyl.  Grab it fast, though: Walkin' My Cat Named Dog is a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Charles Bukowski, Cidny Bullens, George Winston, Jefferson Starship, Mandy Barnett, Norma Tanega, The Horace Tapscott Quartet, The Killers, Tom Tom Club, Vince Guaraldi

Be True to Yourself

August 19, 2020 By

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Badfinger's Joey Molland releases his first album of original material in nearly a decade.  Be True to Yourself features ten new Molland songs and guest appearances from Micky Dolenz, Jason Scheff, Wings' Steve Holley, and Julian Lennon (who also provided the front and back cover photography).

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True to Themselves: Omnivore Announces New Album from Badfinger's Joey Molland and Wax Cylinder (!) from Dom Flemons

August 19, 2020 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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As the only living member of the original Badfinger quartet, it's fallen to Joey Molland to keep the torch burning brightly for his old band.  But in addition to touring as Joey Molland's Badfinger, the Liverpool-born singer-songwriter-guitarist/rock and roll survivor has recorded a number of solo albums since 1984.  Last year, he appeared in the well-received tour of It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: A Tribute to The Beatles' White Album alongside such talents as Todd Rundgren, Micky Dolenz,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Rock Tags: Badfinger, Dom Flemons, Jason Scheff, Joey Molland, Julian Lennon, Micky Dolenz

Tears For Fears Sow 'The Seeds Of Love' With New Surround Remix, Deluxe Box

August 19, 2020 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

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Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes: Tears For Fears are finally giving their third album the deluxe treatment. The Seeds Of Love, the British duo's 1989 release, will be made available October 9 from UMC in a number of formats. The crown jewel is a 4CD/Blu-ray box featuring a new remaster of the album by Andrew Walter at Abbey Road, rare B-sides and remixes, 23 previously unreleased demos, mixes, outtakes and rehearsal audio, plus a long-awaited 5.1 surround remix

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Tears for Fears

This Dream of You

August 17, 2020 By

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Diana Krall is back with a new studio album culled from her final recording sessions in 2016-2017 with late, great producer Tommy LiPuma.  This Dream of You is named after the recent Bob Dylan song, and the album also includes such classic standards as "Almost Like Being in Love," "Autumn in New York," "That's All," and "How Deep Is the Ocean."  Settings vary, with ensemble, quartet, and duo performances.  Available on CD, vinyl, and streaming.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Hey Clockface

August 17, 2020 By

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Elvis Costello has followed up his Grammy-winning Look Now with a new LP recorded in Helsinki, Paris, and New York with various collaborators including Bill Frisell, Wilco's Nels Cline, and The Imposters' Steve Nieve. The album includes all three of his solo Helsinki tracks released digitally this summer including "No Flag," "Hetty O'Hara Confidential," and "We Are All Cowards Now." Available on CD, 2-LP vinyl, and digital/streaming.

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We Were Half A Million Strong: Massive Woodstock Collection Arrives in High-Resolution Digital Formats

August 17, 2020 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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Fifty-one years ago this past weekend, a crowd of half a million converged at Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The four-day event became a cultural touchstone and mythical ideal, strengthened even more by the Woodstock film and soundtracks that proliferated the marketplace during the early '70s and beyond. While performers, fans, and countless supposed attendees participated in even more myth-building, a small group of historians and researchers worked

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arlo Guthrie, Bert Sommer, Blood Sweat and Tears, Canned Heat, Country Joe and The Fish, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, John Sebastian, Johnny Winter, Melanie, Mountain, Quill, Ravi Shankar, Richie Havens, Santana, Sha Na Na, Sly and the Family Stone, Sweetwater, Ten Years After, The Band, The Incredible String Band, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Who, Tim Hardin

Any Man Of Hers: Shania Twain Expands 'The Woman In Me'

August 14, 2020 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Country superstar Shania Twain is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her breakthrough album The Woman In Me with a multiformat reissue in October. The Woman In Me: Diamond Edition will be available as a 2CD edition or 3CD box set, each packed with rare and unreleased tracks. Both versions feature a disc of rare single-only remixes and live tracks, both from earlier in her career (a pair of live B-sides from a 1998 concert in Dallas recorded for a DirecTV special) and from just a few months

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop

Deluxe Edition of Linkin Park's Debut 'Hybrid Theory' About To Break

August 14, 2020 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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One of the bestselling albums released in 2000 is getting revisited in a big way this year: Linkin Park's debut album Hybrid Theory. The first album from the California rap/rock combo will be reissued October 9 in three rarity-packed editions for its 20th anniversary. A 2CD version pairs the original album with a bonus disc featuring a dozen B-sides, demos, live tracks and remixes from various European-only CD singles. A bigger 4LP box set features those albums alongside a 2LP reissue of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Linkin Park

Release Round-Up: Week of August 14

August 14, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory [Half-Speed Master] (Craft Recordings) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP/merch bundle: Craft Recordings Online Shop Craft Recordings reissues Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit-filled fifth album - featuring "Lookin' Out My Back Door," "Run Through the Jungle," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Travelin' Band," and "Up Around the Bend" - on 180-gram half-speed mastered vinyl (from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Britney Spears, Bruce Hornsby, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dolores Gray, Elvis Costello, Esther Phillips, Gloria Estefan, Jonathan Richman, Michael Friedman, Nils Lofgren, Rumer, The Duprees, The Rivieras

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