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
Dreamland: Joni Mitchell's "The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)" Arrives in June
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
Rock and Roll Heart: Omnivore Celebrates Joe Grushecky with Career Anthology, New Album
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
The Weekend Stream: April 27, 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
Well Alright: New Johnny Cash Album 'Songwriter' Culled from Unreleased 1993 Recordings
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
Release Round-Up: Week of April 26
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,
For Seiji: John Williams' 2023 Tokyo Concert is Latest Live Album from The Maestro
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
The Sound of 'One Hand Clapping': Legendary Paul McCartney & Wings Concert Special Gets Debut Standalone Audio Release
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 June 14 on two CDs or two LPs, featuring the 15 songs used in the special and another disc of 12 songs recorded during the four-day session that birthed the program. A bonus 7", available
Hungry Freaks, Daddy: Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's 1968 Whisky A Go Go Show Arrives in June
Fans of the early days of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention have good reason to, well, freak out! On June 21, Zappa Records and UMe are heading back to those heady days on the Sunset Strip for Whisky A Go Go, 1968, a new collection available on three CDs or five 180-gram black vinyl LPs as well as in 2LP "highlights" form. The complete release will also be available digitally in high-resolution. Even in the relatively early days of his recording career, Frank Zappa was thinking
The Weekend Stream: April 21, 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. This week's super-sized post-Record Store Day lineup includes more: more remixes, more covers, more Mancini and yes, more Taylor Swift. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (Republic) (iTunes / Amazon) Can you really call this a reissue? Pop's most ubiquitous
Release Round-Up: Week of April 19
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. With Record Store Day events taking place tomorrow, this is one of the biggest weeks in recent memory - so if you hit up your local indie store tomorrow, remember: there's plenty of non-exclusive releases to check out, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TSD also mourns the passing of Dickey Betts, 80. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of The
Pride of Cucamonga: Grateful Dead's "From The Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share" Offers Outtakes, Alternates
Late last month, Rhino announced the upcoming 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead's From the Mars Hotel, arriving on June 21. Today, the label surprised with a new volume of The Angel's Share, the Dead's digital-only vault series comprising album session recordings. From the Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share is available now on all digital services, featuring 16 newly-discovered recordings from San Francisco's Coast Recorders from Spring 1974 as the Dead crafted Mars Hotel over a two-month period.
A Light Hits the Gloom on the Grey: Seal's Second Album Set for Deluxe Release
"There is so much a man can tell you / so much he can say..." Seal will be saying a little more with the help of Rhino, who will issue a new deluxe edition of his second album on June 14. Available as a 2CD/Blu-ray or 2LP set, Seal (known colloquially but unofficially as Seal II, to differentiate from his self-titled debut from three years earlier) will include the newly remastered original album plus a bonus disc of unreleased alternate versions of the album's biggest hits and most treasured
Release Round-Up: Week of April 12
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. Eagles, To the Limit: The Essential Collection (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 3CD with replica tour pass: Target.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 2LP Highlights: Target.com To the Limit: The Essential Collection celebrates Eagles' current Long Goodbye
No Small 'Feats': Rhino Announces New Little Feat Reissue with Rarities and Unreleased Live Material
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. Due on June 14, both versions feature a remastered edition of the original album plus rare and previously unreleased outtakes and alternate versions, with all audio sourced from the original
Let's Do It Again: The Staple Singers' "Africa '80" Coming from Omnivore
Fans of The Staple Singers are in for a treat. On May 10, Omnivore Recordings will reissue Africa 80, the live album from the legendary gospel-soul group documenting their first-ever tour of the continent. Roebuck "Pops" Staples, daughters Cleotha, Mavis, and Yvonne, and son Pervis raised their voices in song to celebrate the Lord, but also to crusade for civil rights and share musical messages of power and positivity around the world. In the 1960s, the group transitioned from pure gospel
The Weekend Stream: April 6, 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. This week's lineup includes a rare Prince B-side, classic remixes by U2, a country icon taking on a rock legend and much more! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Prince, "United States of Division" (NPG/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Late March marked the 20th anniversary of 2004's Musicology, Prince's first Top 10 album
Release Round-Up: Week of April 5
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. Garbage, Bleed Like Me: Deluxe Edition (Interscope/UMe (U.S.)/BMG (U.K.)) 2CD: 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 Garbage closed a chapter of their career in 2005 with the release of their fourth album, Bleed Like Me, in 2005.
The Weekend Stream: March 30, 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. This week's lineup includes features a country-pop legend, film soundtrack royalty, and more! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Brenda Lee, The International Brenda Lee (Brenda Lee Sings in German, French and Italian) (UMG Nashville/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Bear Family's 1992 collection featuring Brenda's songs in
Fly, Robin, Fly! Omnivore Serves Up Soul and Disco from Silver Convention, Ohio Players
Omnivore Recordings continues its packed slate of R&B, soul, and disco releases with an expanded edition of Silver Convention's 1975 debut album, Save Me, due tomorrow, March 29. Next week will then see a comprehensive collection from the early days of funk outfit Ohio Players. Silver Convention - originally Silver Bird in the U.S. and Silver Bird Convention in Europe - was the brainchild of composer/arranger Sylvester Levay and lyricist/producer Michael Kunze. Formed by Levay and Kunze
Unbroken Chain: Grateful Dead Set "From The Mars Hotel" For 50th Anniversary Reissue
Grateful Dead's seventh studio album, 1974's From the Mars Hotel, is the latest to see an expansion in the band's ongoing 50th anniversary series. The 3CD and digital set premieres a live show from May 12, 1974. It arrives on June 21 from Rhino, along with various vinyl variants of the original album. From the Mars Hotel, originally released on June 27, 1974, was the second release on the group's own Grateful Dead Records following 1973's Wake of the Flood. This busy period also saw the
Heaven in Black: Black Sabbath's Late Period Albums Collected for 'Anno Domini' Box
A lesser-known period in the discography of heavy metal icons Black Sabbath will be spotlighted in a new box set coming from Rhino in May. Anno Domini 1989-1995, available May 31 on four CDs or four LPs, will offer a closer look at albums that essentially featured founding guitarist Tony Iommi restarting the band from scratch, recruiting vocalist Tony Martin and a cast of new and old talent to re-establish Sabbath's place in the metal canon. The albums Headless Cross (1989), Tyr (1990), Cross
The Weekend Stream: March 23, 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. This week's lineup includes something for everyone: pop, rock, hip-hop, classic vocals, country, cast recordings, and more! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Howard Jones, Celebrating Together (The 40th Anniversary EP) (Cherry Red) (iTunes / Amazon) Cherry Red continues its long association with Howard Jones (whose
Freak Out in a Moonage Daydream: 'Rock 'N' Roll Star!' Box Chronicles David Bowie's Birth of Ziggy Stardust
Rock 'n' Roll Star! That's the title of the new box set coming on June 14 from David Bowie - and the late artist certainly qualifies. This new 5CD/1Blu-ray collection follows 2019's Conversation Piece (which shed light on the 1968-1969 David Bowie/Space Oddity era) and 2022's Divine Symmetry (which chronicled the twelve months leading up to December 1971's release of Hunky Dory). Rock 'n' Roll Star! takes an in-depth look at Bowie's path to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders
Release Round-Up: Week of March 22
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. Chaka Khan, Chaka (Warner/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Barnes & Noble Chaka Khan announced her solo freedom with "I'm Every Woman," the euphoric opening track on 1978's Chaka. At 25 years old, Khan was already a veteran of the funk-rock band Rufus with
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