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Unplugged: Enhanced Edition

January 29, 2025 By

Clapton Unplugged Enhanced

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada​ To coincide with a newly-upgraded presentation of the original MTV Unplugged special (streaming on Paramount+), Surfdog is reissuing the original 1992 live album in an "enhanced" edition which boasts a slightly reorganized and expanded 2CD or 2LP sequence, a brand-new mix, and highlights from a never-before-heard audio interview with Clapton discussing the songs in his set shortly before playing

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

The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum

January 29, 2025 By

Ella Fitzgerald Moment of Truth

Verve has unearthed Ella Fitzgerald's June 30, 1967 concert at Oakland, California's Coliseum at which she was backed by members of The Duke Ellington Orchestra and combined classic standards with such then-contemporary material as "Alfie" and "Music to Watch Girls By."  The concert has been newly mixed and mastered from producer Norman Granz's original tapes.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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

Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition

January 29, 2025 By

Yes Close to the Edge

Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, continued the band's early winning streak. The 1972 release - their final album of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford and first to feature the band's now-famous "bubble" logo type - featured just three songs (two of which had multiple movements). But they were sufficiently power-packed as to propel the LP to top five berths in both the U.K. and U.S. and eventual Platinum sales status. Rhino is revisiting Close to the Edge as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set

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

Rush 50

January 29, 2025 By

Rush 50

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) Super Deluxe 4CD/7LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music Rush 50 comprises a generous 50-track overview of the group's output spanning their entire career across four CDs or seven 180-gram LPs, plus a 104-page hardcover book featuring new 50th anniversary artwork by the band's creative director Hugh Syme and liner notes by David Fricke and Philip Wilding. (A super deluxe box set

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

A Boy Named Goo: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

January 29, 2025 By

A Boy Named Goo deluxe

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (sea blue variant) A new deluxe edition of the Goo Goo Dolls' breakthrough album expands 1995's A Boy Named Goo as a 2CD and 2LP set. In addition to the alt-rock classic, featuring "Name," "Long Way Down," "Naked," and others, both sets will include a previously unreleased disc of performances taped at The Aladdin in Las Vegas in the spring of 1996, featuring nine tracks from the

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

Going Back Again: Rhino Boxes Fleetwood Mac's Classic Quintet Albums

January 29, 2025 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Fleetwood Mac 1975 to 1987 box

Today in "sure, why not": Rhino will release a box set of Fleetwood Mac's classic albums as a quintet. 1975 to 1987, available March 28, is exactly what it states: a box set of Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours (1977), Tusk (1979), Mirage (1982) and Tango in the Night (1987) - available as a 5CD set or a 6LP crystal-clear vinyl box. (D2C orders from Rhino will add an additional reissue of a promotional 12" on crystal clear vinyl, offering stereo and mono versions of Rumours-era non-album cut

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks

Tell 'Em Your Name: Goo Goo Dolls' Breakthrough Gets 30th Anniversary Expansion

January 28, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

A Boy Named Goo deluxe

A new deluxe edition of the Goo Goo Dolls' breakthrough album takes fans back to a time when the world got to know their name. The Buffalo, NY-born group will expand 1995's A Boy Named Goo as a 2CD and 2LP set, due for release on March 14. In addition to the alt-rock classic, featuring "Name," "Long Way Down," "Naked" and others, both sets will include a previously unreleased disc of performances taped at The Aladdin in Las Vegas in the spring of 1996, featuring nine tracks from the album and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Goo Goo Dolls

Premium Rush: Canadian Rock Legends Prep New Career-Spanning Box Set

January 28, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Rush 50

A new career-spanning box set will commemorate the singular discography of Canadian rock trio Rush. Rush 50, due March 21, comprises a generous 50-track overview of the group's output spanning their entire career across four CDs or seven 180-gram LPs, plus a 104-page hardcover book featuring new 50th anniversary artwork by the band's creative director Hugh Syme and liner notes by David Fricke and Philip Wilding. (A super deluxe box set will include both physical formats, the hardcover book,

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

Spill the Wine: Rhino Collects Eric Burdon and War on "The Complete CD Collection"

January 28, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Eric Burdon and WAR Complete CD Collection

Earlier this year, we filled you in about WAR's upcoming release Live in Japan 1974, due February 7 from Rhino and Avenue Records.  Now, the labels have announced another significant release in their upgrade of the WAR catalogue.  On March 7, Eric Burdon and WAR: The Complete CD Collection arrives on four discs, bringing the 2022 Record Store Day-exclusive vinyl box set to the CD format. Eric Burdon, the former lead singer of The Animals, famously performed "San Franciscan Nights" with that

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Eric Burdon, War

Running on Faith: Eric Clapton's 'Unplugged' Gets Remixed and Expanded

January 27, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Clapton Unplugged Enhanced

Eric Clapton's most transformative late-career work will be itself transformed this spring. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will reissue an "enhanced" edition of 1992's live album Unplugged, boasting a slightly reorganized and expanded 2CD or 2LP sequence, a brand-new mix and highlights from a never-before-heard audio interview with Clapton discussing the songs in his set shortly before playing them in that session. It'll be available May 9 through Surfdog Records, to which Clapton has been

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Eric Clapton

The Weekend Stream: January 25, 2025

January 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 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! A quiet week previews a new album by The Doobie Brothers, revisits the latest from one of TSD's favorite indie singer-songwriters, and so much more - plus a reminder of how you can help one of our favorite reissue labels, one that's been affected by the ongoing fires in California. Doobie Brothers, Walk This Road (Rhino) (iTunes /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Latin, Rock Tags: Ernie Kovacs, Hank Snow, Livingston Taylor, Steve Wariner, The Doobie Brothers

Sweet Soul Dream: World Party's 'Best in Show' Gets Expanded

January 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

World Party Best in Show

The work of the late musical polymath Karl Wallinger will be revisited this year with a worldwide expanded release of the sole compilation credited to his project World Party. Originally released in certain territories (and not his native United Kingdom) to promote a tour in 2007, Best in Show was rather cynically designed in sequence with World Party's most popular tracks on digital music shops, thus kicking off with debut single "Ship of Fools" and originally featuring no less than seven

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Rock Tags: World Party

Release Round-Up: Week of January 24

January 24, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

A Complete Unknown OST

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. Badfinger, Head First: 50th Anniversary Edition (Y&T) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Head First, originally intended to be Badfinger's eighth album and third for Warner Bros. Records, was recorded in 1974 but shelved until 2000.  That release presented a rough mix by Apple Studios engineer Phil McDonald; now, 25

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Eric Clapton, Jeannie Piersol, Tim Weisberg, Van Morrison

Takin' on a New Direction: Tina Turner's 'Private Dancer' Set for 40th Anniversary Box Set

January 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Version 1.0.0

The album that unquestionably coronated Tina Turner as the Queen of Rock and Roll will be celebrated with a new deluxe box set this spring: 1984's blockbuster Private Dancer. Available March 21, the album - featuring the hits "What's Love Got to Do with It," "Better Be Good to Me," the scintillating title track and more - will be reissued as a 5CD/Blu-ray deluxe box packed with rare B-sides, remixes, additional studio material from the Private Dancer era (including the unreleased "Hot for You

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bryan Adams, David Bowie, Tina Turner

Madness is the Gift: Disturbed Celebrate 25 Years of Debut Album with New Box Set

January 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Disturbed The Sickness 25

One of the first big metal debut albums of the 2000s will be expanded for its 25th anniversary: Disturbed's The Sickness. The Chicago group's breakthrough (previously reissued for its 10th anniversary just around when The Second Disc was getting started!) will be repackaged as a deluxe 3CD/1LP box set featuring seven unheard demos, three soundtrack rarities, a new mix of "Glass Shatters" (a celebrated entrance theme for WWE superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin), and a live bonus disc featuring

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

Life's What They Made It: Slightly Expanded Talk Talk Compilation Gets CD, Vinyl Release

January 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Very Best of Talk Talk CD packshot

Nearly two decades after its original release, a compilation from U.K. band Talk Talk will be dusted off and reconfigured for reissue. 1997's The Very Best of Talk Talk was, at the time, a pretty standard affair - a postmortem of the band's evolution from New Romantic hitmakers to ambitious art-rock ensemble, six years after the band took their final bow. Modestly promoted, it missed the U.K. Top 40 but still was a gold seller in England. Now, it's being reissued on CD and, for the first

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

What's It All About: Verve to Release Long-Lost 1967 Concert from Ella Fitzgerald

January 20, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ella Fitzgerald Moment of Truth

Ella Fitzgerald ushered in 1967 with a new label affiliation; she had decamped Verve for the Capitol label where she would release two albums - one of hymns, and the other of traditional Christmas carols - that year.  In concert, Ella was in a period of transition.  While rewarding her audiences with the classic standards they expected, she was also experimenting with newer material from the pop-rock songbook.  On February 28, Ella's once and future home of Verve will release The Moment of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Ella Fitzgerald

The Weekend Stream: January 18, 2025

January 18, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stream 2025

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts!   This week, we're heavy on the classic rock plus a vintage soundtrack, a dash of modern classical, and more!  Fleetwood Mac, Live from the Record Plant (December 15, 1974) (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Coinciding with its standalone vinyl debut as part of Rhino's Start Your Ear Off Right, this vintage pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac concert hit digital

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbara Mason, Fleetwood Mac, INXS, Monk Higgins, Neil Young, Phil Collins, Rufus Wainwright, The Doors

Release Round-Up: Week of January 17

January 17, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

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. Vince Guaraldi, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Original Soundtrack Recording (Lee Mendelson Productions) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Lee Mendelson family continues its series of debut releases from the Peanuts animation library with this premiere audio release of the score for 1975's Be My Valentine, Charlie

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Ari Axelrod, Gracie Abrams, Various Artists, Vince Guaraldi

The Village (Snap To It): JAY Records, Cherry Red Celebrate "Folk City" with New Concept Album

January 16, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Folk City OCR

The name of Gerdes Folk City has long been synonymous with the halcyon era of the Greenwich Village music scene.  Bob Dylan made his New York debut on its tiny stage and later debuted "Blowin' in the Wind" there.  Peter, Paul, and Mary played their first official gig together at Gerdes.  Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Doc Watson were the among the dozens of major artists who made Gerdes a home in the club's early days.  Its later years saw a wide variety of artists including

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Pat DiNizio, Robbie Woliver, Ronnie D'Addario, Tracy Nelson

Sex Pistols' American Epitaph Chronicled in New Box Set

January 15, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Sex Pistols Live in the USA

The story of the Sex Pistols' final tour - and ultimate undoing - will be told in new releases coming from UMC in March. Live in the U.S.A. 1978 will mark the first complete and official releases of three of the punk quartet's seven American concerts in January 1978. Presented for the first time in sequence are the tour's opener at the South East Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia on January 5, a particularly raucous performance at Dallas, Texas' Longhorns Ballroom five days later, and the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Sex Pistols

Total Mass Retain: Rhino Reissues Yes' "Close to the Edge" in Super Deluxe Set

January 14, 2025 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Yes Close to the Edge Packshot

Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, continued the band's early winning streak. The 1972 release - their final album of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford and first to feature the band's now-famous "bubble" logo type - featured just three songs (two of which had multiple movements). But they were sufficiently power-packed as to propel the LP to top five berths in both the U.K. and U.S. and eventual Platinum sales status. On March 7, Rhino will revisit Close to the Edge as a

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

The Weekend Stream: January 11, 2025

January 11, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Stream 2025

Welcome to 2025's first edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! We're catching up on some of our favorite artists adding albums to stream and download, plus country soul and remixes aplenty - as well as a list of resources to help our friends and family in the music business affected by the California wildfires. The Damnwells, One Last Century / No One Listens to the Band Anymore (Poor

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Brownstone, Dobie Gray, INXS, Kanye West, Michael Jackson, The Damnwells, Was (Not Was)

Release Round-Up: Week of January 10

January 10, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Ringo Starr Look Up

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Rosanne Cash, The Essential Rosanne Cash (Rumble Strip) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) After a website-exclusive release, The Essential Rosanne Cash hits retail today.  This newly-curated set brings together 40 of Cash's most treasured recordings - half from her tenure on Columbia Records and the other from mostly

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Auli'i Cravalho, Joan Armatrading, Little Richard, Ringo Starr, Rosanne Cash, T Bone Burnett

A Complete Unknown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

January 9, 2025 By

A Complete Unknown OST CD

LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The soundtrack to director James Mangold's critically acclaimed biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Golden Globe nominee Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, arrives January 24 on vinyl in a 16-song edition featuring such highlights as "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Girl from the North Country," "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."  The full 23-song soundtrack follows

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