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Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection

May 17, 2024 By

John Lennon Mind Games Ultimate Collection

6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP/6CD/2BD Super Deluxe Box: Official Store 2CD (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) John Lennon's fourth solo album Mind Games will receive a deluxe box set this summer packed with new mixes of the album's contents as well as a dozen unreleased outtakes.  The 6CD/2BD box will take a new,

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

Greatest Hits

May 17, 2024 By

Avril Lavigne Greatest Hits

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Target (neon green) Avril Lavigne's first career-spanning retrospective, Greatest Hits, offers 20 tracks originally released between 2002 and 2022.  Though there are no new tracks on the set, all seven of her studio albums are represented, and one of the songs - the Yungblud collaboration "I'm a Mess," featured on the digital deluxe edition of her 2022 album Love Sux - makes its physical debut

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

Release Round-Up: Week of May 17

May 17, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Barry Manilow Live in Britain

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. Taana Gardner, When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SoulMusic Records teams with TSD to revisit dance superstar Taana Gardner's classic West End album as a 2CD set.  When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings opens with Taana Gardner in its

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Adam Guettel, Barry Manilow, Davy Jones, Don McLean, Max Bygraves, New Kids on the Block, Pink Floyd, Stephen Sondheim, Taana Gardner

Life's Like This: Avril Lavigne Announces Greatest Hits Collection

May 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Avril Lavigne Greatest Hits

For more than two decades, Avril Lavigne has been a purveyor of punk-flavored pop. Could she make it any more obvious? The answer is yes: ahead of a summer tour, she's releasing her first, career-spanning greatest hits album. The 20-track set hits stores June 21, smack in the middle of a global trek that kicks off tomorrow at Texas' Ford Center at the Star and stretches through September, making stops across North America and Europe (including festival stops at Pinkpop, Glastonbury and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Avril Lavigne

Journey to Nutopia: John Lennon's 'Mind Games' Set for Expansion This Summer

May 15, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

John Lennon Mind Games Ultimate Collection

John Lennon's fourth solo album Mind Games will receive a deluxe box set this summer packed with new mixes of the album's contents as well as a dozen unreleased outtakes. Available July 12, the 6CD/2BD box will take a new, immersive look at Lennon's sessions at New York's Record Plant in the summer of 1973, a turbulent time that resulted in a somewhat divisive effort in his post-Beatles discography. Included in the set are many assemblies of the original 12-track album, produced by Lennon and

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

The Weekend Stream: May 11, 2024

May 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2024

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. A legendary rock vocalist revives one of his deep cuts with a new generation of talent, a '70s pop classic comes to digital for the first time and one of our favorite current bands preps their new album - plus so much more! The Effect & Steve Perry, "It Could Have Been You" (Core4) (iTunes / Amazon) Rock band The Effect is full of

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Bill Danoff, Carlos Alomar, Charly Bliss, Chet Atkins, INXS, Jerry Reed, Journey, Kenny Nolan, Starland Vocal Band, Steve Perry

Release Round-Up: Week of May 10

May 10, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Queen Rock Montreal

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. Queen, Queen Rock Montreal (Hollywood/EMI) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store (Exclusive - Blue) 4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Jerry Lee Lewis, John Entwistle, Keane, Queen, The Staple Singers, Todd Rundgren

Beautiful Like a Rainbow: Cyndi Lauper's 'Let the Canary Sing' Documentary Gets Companion Vinyl

May 9, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Let the Canary Sing

In a solo career that's stretched past 40 years, Cyndi Lauper has gone from unlikely pop idol to one of the genre's great, enduring voices - not to mention an icon and activist for the LGBTQ+ community. All of those sides of her work are the subject of a forthcoming documentary this summer - and Legacy Recordings, keeper of most of Cyndi's catalogue (and a producer on the film) - will release a companion album to go with it. Let the Canary Sing bows on Paramount+ on June 4. Directed by Alison

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Blue Angel, Cyndi Lauper

Beautiful Music: Barry Manilow's "Live in Britain" Returns to CD

May 7, 2024 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Barry Manilow Live in Britain

Barry Manilow hasn't been resting on his laurels. In recent months, the superstar entertainer saw his musical Harmony finally make it to Broadway, continued his record-breaking residency in Las Vegas, sold out New York's Radio City Music Hall, and announced from the stage of Carnegie Hall that he had re-entered the studio at the instigation of Clive Davis to record Peter Allen and Dean Pitchford's anthem "Once Before I Go" for a new single on which he collaborated with producer Babyface. Manilow

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop Tags: Barry Manilow

The Weekend Stream: May 4, 2024

May 4, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

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. The Alan Parsons Project's biggest album gets a second look, plus new music from John Williams, Daryl Hall and the unexpected sort-of return of one of country music's best-known voices. Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky (Sessions) (Arista/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The latest in Legacy's Alan Parsons Project Sessions series, bringing

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Parsons, Daryl Hall, Dave Stewart, Duane Eddy, Garbage, INXS, John Williams, Monk Higgins, Randy Travis, The Alan Parsons Project

Release Round-Up: Week of May 3

May 3, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

H D H Detroit 1969 1977

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. Belinda Carlisle, Decades Vol. 3: Cornucopia (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Edsel continues its chronological collections of Belinda Carlisle's albums with this Cornucopia. The 4-CD book-style box starts off with two discs of mostly "orphaned" tracks released largely between 1987 and 2021: B-sides, non-album

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Belinda Carlisle, Elaine Brown, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Indigo Girls, Maurice White, Melanie, The Dixie Cups, Thomas Newman, Tweet

Can't Outrun a Memory

May 1, 2024 By

Joe Grushecky Can't Outrun a Memory

Can't Outrun a Memory is Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers' first studio set since 2017's More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows.  Grushecky states in the press release of this new LP, "This one was a long time coming, but we worked through, never losing sight that we were creating one of our best records. I believe we captured the band at its peak."  Omnivore's release, available on CD, 2 LPs, and digital formats, includes a quartet of bonus tracks illuminating the songs' development.

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

One Hand Clapping

May 1, 2024 By

One Hand Clapping

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP/7": Official Store One of Paul McCartney's oft-bootlegged live performances will finally get an official release this summer: the soundtrack to his 1974 "rockumentary" One Hand Clapping.  This acclaimed performance with Wings, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in the wake of the release of Band on the Run, will be available on two CDs or two LPs, featuring the 15 songs used in the special and

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Songwriter

May 1, 2024 By

Johnny Cash Songwriter

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Smoke Color Variant with Lithograph) Songwriter features 11 vocals cut by Johnny Cash in 1993 at LSI Studios in Nashville, augmented by recently-recorded new backing tracks at the Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee by Cash's son John Carter Cash and co-producer David "Fergie" Ferguson. Every one of the tunes was composed solely by Cash himself, from lead single "Well Alright"

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

The Asylum Albums 1976-1980

May 1, 2024 By

Joni Mitchell The Asylum Albums 1976 1980

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) arrives on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing the Asylum period of Mitchell's extraordinary career.  Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell's hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode.  Following the tour for 1975's The Hissing of Summer Lawns, she embarked on a period of personal rediscovery

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

Get Up and Boogie: The Worldwide Singles

May 1, 2024 By

Silver Convention Get Up and Boogie The Worldwide Singles

Seventeen of Eurodisco group Silver Convention's most sought-after 45s from around the world, originally issued on various labels and often featuring exclusive mixes and edits unique to each country, are collected for the very first time on Get Up & Boogie: The Worldwide Singles.  The anthology also showcases the development of Silver Convention's sound, which incorporated soul, R&B, and pop as well as disco and dance.  Among the many highlights on this floor-filling collection are "Get

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

Take Me Higher: Omnivore Preps Maurice White Rarities, Silver Convention Singles

May 1, 2024 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Silver Convention Get Up and Boogie The Worldwide Singles

Today, we're taking a look at two upcoming titles in a soul and R&B vein from Omnivore Recordings! This Friday, May 3, our friends at Omnivore have a treat for fans of Earth, Wind & Fire.  The visionary founder and leader of EWF, the late Maurice White (1941-2016), only released one proper solo album in his lifetime (1985's Maurice White).  Working on the R&B and Dance chart-topper "System of Survival" for EWF's album Touch the World, White inaugurated a friendship and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Maurice White, Preston Glass, Silver Convention

Dreamland: Joni Mitchell's "The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)" Arrives in June

April 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Joni Mitchell The Asylum Albums 1976 1980

Hot on the heels of the release of Joni Mitchell's The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) in "Quadio" quadraphonic surround, another entry in the singer-songwriter's acclaimed Archives series is on the way.  On June 21, The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) will arrive on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing this chapter of Mitchell's extraordinary career. Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell's hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode.  Following the tour

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell

Rock and Roll Heart: Omnivore Celebrates Joe Grushecky with Career Anthology, New Album

April 29, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Joe Grushecky Houserocker

The title of the 1979 debut album from Joe Grushecky and The Iron City Houserockers proclaimed Love's So Tough.  The Pittsburgh native and his band captured their city's blue-collar milieu, recalling a harder-edged E Street Band.  The group took their sound an expansive step further with 1980's Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive!, a bar-band classic which welcomed guests including Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, and Stevie Van Zandt.  That album introduced "Pumping Iron" which quickly became the band's

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The Weekend Stream: April 27, 2024

April 27, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stream 2024

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. More late period Prince is released from The Vault, plus a new Barbra Streisand single, future Bandcamp Friday favorites, cuts from new Broadway cast recordings and more! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Prince, "Magnificent" (NPG/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The Musicology 20th anniversary celebration continues with

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Hans Zimmer, Hatchie, INXS, Mark Mulcahy, Matt Dennis, Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Tim Dillinger

Well Alright: New Johnny Cash Album 'Songwriter' Culled from Unreleased 1993 Recordings

April 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Johnny Cash Songwriter

Death can't stop The Man in Black: UMe will release a new Johnny Cash album this summer, drawn from unheard recordings from more than 30 years ago. Available June 28, Songwriter features 11 vocals Cash cut in 1993 at LSI Studios in Nashville, augmented by recently-recorded new backing tracks at the Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee by Cash's son John Carter Cash and co-producer David "Fergie" Ferguson. Every one of the tunes was composed solely by Cash himself, from lead single "Well

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings

Release Round-Up: Week of April 26

April 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Tina Turner What's Love Got to Do with It Cover

Welcome to this week's post-Record Store Day Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tina Turner, What's Love Got to Do with It: 30th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone) 4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Art Tatum, Billy Idol, Bonnie Tyler, Cannonball Adderley, Chet Baker, Def Leppard, Dr. John, Jack Sheldon, Jeff Larson, Laufey, Little Richard, Neil Young, Pet Shop Boys, Sonny Rollins, Tina Turner

For Seiji: John Williams' 2023 Tokyo Concert is Latest Live Album from The Maestro

April 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

John Williams in Tokyo

John Williams' latest overseas trip will form another new album from the celebrated composer. John Williams in Tokyo, recorded in 2023 with the Saito Kinen Orchestra and featuring a very special tribute to one of the country's most beloved conductors, will be released May 10 by Deutsche Grammophon on multiple formats including standard CD and vinyl and a deluxe 2CD/Blu-ray set. An arguable highlight of Williams' continued tenure as film score's elder statesman is his semi-annual trip outside

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Feats Don't Fail Me Now: Deluxe Edition

April 23, 2024 By

Little Feat Feats Don't Fail Me Now

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Last year, Rhino reissued Little Feat's seminal second and third albums, Sailin' Shoes (1972) and Dixie Chicken (1973), as deluxe, expanded editions.  Now, the label is following those with a similar presentation of the California group's fourth LP, 1974's Feats Don't Fail Me Now, on 2 CDs or 3 LPs.  Both versions feature a remastered edition of the original album plus rare and previously unreleased

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Africa 80

April 23, 2024 By

Staple Singers Africa 80

In 1980, the legendary Staple Singers were engaged in a tour of Africa sponsored by the U.S. government.  The set opened with Charlie Smalls' rousing "Ease on Down the Road" from his Broadway musical The Wiz (which, as of this writing, is once again packing houses on Broadway) and continued with a clutch of Staples favorites including "Let's Do it Again," "Respect Yourself," and "Touch a Hand, Make a Friend."  The group also brought their singular style to such varied standards as "Will the

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

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