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Rough and Rowdy Ways [Vinyl]

May 8, 2020 By

2-CD: Bob Dylan Online Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Bob Dylan Online Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Bob Dylan's acclaimed new album, including the recent singles "Murder Most Foul," "I Contain Multitudes," and "False Prophet," arrives on vinyl July 17 after the June 19 CD premiere.

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

Something To See: Bob Dylan Announces New Album "Rough and Rowdy Ways," Shares New Single

May 8, 2020 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

Bob Dylan has been on a roll, getting us through lockdown with new singles that find him as clever and compelling as ever. On Thursday evening, May 7, the Bob Dylan Twitter account posted another cryptic tweet - complete with a pulp book-inspired illustration and a lyric quote - which had fans everywhere wondering if we might get another treat to tide us over. Well, come midnight, we got our answer as "False Prophet" was released on digital streaming services. The third surprise single in

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan

Release Round-Up: Week of May 8

May 8, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

John Stewart Old Forgotten Altars

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Stewart, Old Forgotten Altars: The 1960s Demos (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore brings together 19 previously unissued demos from late singer-songwriter and onetime Kingston Trio member John Stewart, perhaps best known for penning The Monkees' hit "Daydream Believer."  While that song isn't here in demo form, numerous other bona fide Stewart classics certainly are, including "July, You're a Woman" (also

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Books, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Jazz, Pop Tags: Ben Sidran, Diane Schuur, John Stewart, Richard Thompson, Steve Forbert, Tommy LiPuma

Are You Ready? Neil Young Confirms "Homegrown" Release Date and Track Listing, Plots Further Archive Releases

May 7, 2020 By Sam Stone 19 Comments

For nearly 45 years, Neil Young fans have been clamoring for Homegrown, the lost album that was nearly released in 1975 and most recently slated for the still-yet-to-happen Record Store Day 2020. Now, it's been announced that the album described by Neil as "the missing link between Harvest, Comes A Time, Old Ways and Harvest Moon" will finally reach fans on June 19. "[Homegrown] is all analog!  The purest sound," Young wrote in a post on his Neil Young Archives site.  "Hear the vinyl.  Get a

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

Come Hear Uncle John's Band: Grateful Dead's "Workingman's Dead" Gets 50th Anniversary Reissue with Unreleased Concert

May 6, 2020 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

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The ongoing Grateful Dead anniversary reissue series is marching on with the July 10 celebration of the 50th anniversary of Workingman's Dead featuring two new releases from the band and Rhino Records. Often hailed as one of the Dead's most accessible albums along with its follow-up, American Beauty, Workingman's Dead placed its focus on tighter songcraft in a country/folk-oriented vein that would later be described as "Americana." It introduced the group's first chart hit, the timeless

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

The Force Is Still With Us: #TSDTweet Returns At a New Time With Original 'Star Wars' Soundtrack

May 6, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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The week started with May the Fourth, so it might as well end with another trip to a galaxy far, far away! Our latest #TSDTweet will take a listen to John Williams' original soundtrack to Star Wars: the 1977 double album that launched one of the composer's most lengthy and recognizable works. Williams composed the music to eight other Star Wars films between 1980 and 2019, in addition to contributing new works for the 2018 spin-off Solo: A Star Wars Story and the newly-opened Galaxy's Edge at

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Categories: Features Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Message in the Music: Craft Recordings Celebrates Legacy of Stax's Gospel Truth Records

May 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Craft Recordings is celebrating the Gospel Truth with a new reissue campaign dedicated to that Stax Records imprint. Every week, the label drops a digital reissue of a Gospel Truth title culminating in the vinyl, CD, and digital release in September - Gospel Heritage Month - of a newly-curated singles collection. Various digital playlists and lyric videos will also be unveiled throughout the course of the series. Stax chief Al Bell launched Gospel Truth in 1972, working in close coordination

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Gospel, R&B/Soul Tags: Louise McCord, The Gospel Artistics, The Howard Lemon Singers, The Rance Allen Group

Bandcamp Blow-Out: Support Your Favorite Artists Today For a Good Cause!

May 1, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Despite the challenges facing the music business amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some bright spots. On March 20, indie music service Bandcamp waived their revenue share for 24 hours, allowing artists and labels to support themselves even more robustly. Thanks to impressive results ($4.3 million spent on music and merch, 15 times an average Friday's revenue), Bandcamp will repeat the strategy not once, but thrice: the first Fridays of each month (today, May 1; June 5 and July 3). To

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Mark Mulcahy, Miracle Legion, Polaris, X

Release Round-Up: Week of May 1

May 1, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Todd Rundgrens Utopia Benefit for Moogy Klingman

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Benefit for Moogy Klingman (Purple Pyramid) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cleopatra Records' Purple Pyramid imprint remembers Utopia's late keyboardist with Benefit for Moogy Klingman. This 4-CD/2-DVD set (originally slated for May 15 but apparently shipping today) includes the band's Highline Ballroom reunion set of January 29, 2011 (featuring Todd Rundgren, Moogy, Ralph Schuckett, John Siegler, Kevin

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Dolly Parton, Georgia Stitt, Gerry Beckley, Porter Wagoner, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Blues with Friends

April 29, 2020 By

Dion Blues with Friends

When The Wanderer calls, you answer!  Dion put out the word that he was recording a new album for Joe Bonamassa's new Keeping the Blues Alive label (an offshoot of Bonamassa's non-profit foundation of the same name), and a "Who's Who" lined up to join him.  Duet partners on this all-new album include Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, Van Morrison, Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Little Steven Van Zandt, and many others.  Bonamassa appears on the lead single, "Blues Comin' On." 

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

Unleash The (Star) Beast: #TSDTweet Returns With Goldsmith's 'Alien' Soundtrack

April 29, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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After two weeks of live-tweeting albums by Prince and Huey Lewis and The News, our third lockdown-era #TSDTweet will go beyond the hits into the furthest reaches of space...where no one can hear you scream. That's right: join our Twitter account on May 1 at 5 p.m. EST for a live listen-along to Jerry Goldsmith's original soundtrack to Ridley Scott's sci-fi suspense classic Alien (1979). The original LP, issued by 20th Century Records and available digitally (so streamers can listen along

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Categories: Features Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jerry Goldsmith

NOW That's What I Call Yacht Rock 2

April 27, 2020 By

Now Thats What I Call Yacht Rock 2

The long-running NOW series releases its second volume of NOW That's What I Call Yacht Rock on CD and in digital/streaming formats May 1, with a 2-LP vinyl set arriving on July 3.  This installment features eighteen songs from a host of favorite artists including Kenny Loggins (joined by Stevie Nicks for "Whenever I Call You Friend," co-written by Loggins and Melissa Manchester), Michael McDonald ("I Keep Forgettin'"), Toto ("I'll Be Over You"), and Little River Band ("Reminiscing"). They're

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

Makes Me Feel Fine: "NOW That's What I Call Yacht Rock 2" Sets Sail

April 27, 2020 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Now Thats What I Call Yacht Rock 2

It's time to break out the piña coladas. This Friday, the long-running NOW series will release its second volume of NOW That's What I Call Yacht Rock. This collection of classic songs in the "yacht rock" genre - think: seventies and early eighties soft rock with memorable melodies, sparkling productions, and plenty of saxophones - arrives on CD and in digital/streaming formats, with a 2-LP vinyl set arriving on July 3. With eighteen songs, NOW That's What I Call Yacht Rock 2 boasts return

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Air Supply, Captain and Tennille, Chicago, Eric Carmen, Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Loggins, REO Speedwagon, Toto, Various Artists

Magician [Octave Remastered Series]

April 25, 2020 By

Erroll Garner Magician

On this 1973 album - which proved to be the final studio album of his life - Erroll Garner teamed with Grady Tate, Bob Cranshaw, Jose Mangual, Norman Gold and Jackie Williams for a collection of original songs and classic and contemporary favorites like "I Only Have Eyes for You," "Watch What Happens," and "(They Long to Be) Close to You."  This is the 11th release in the artist's Octave Remastered Series.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz

Release Round-Up: Week of April 24

April 24, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Andrew Gold Something New Unreleased Gold

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! America, Heritage II: Demos/Alternate Takes 1971-1976 (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) "Today's the Day" when America continues its archival series of demos and alternates via Omnivore Recordings.  Heritage II, out today on CD, features 13 previously unissued tracks from 1971-1976 including the epic "Jameroony," the track mix with background vocals only of the hit "Tin Man," Gerry Beckley's never-before-heard "Mandy," and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: America, Andrew Gold, Annie Golden, Cassandra Wilson, Clarence Clemons, Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Garcia Band, Joe Iconis, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Pam Tillis, Patti Austin

Rolling Stones Drop New Song, "Living in a Ghost Town," Today

April 23, 2020 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Rolling Stones Living in a Ghost Town

Fresh off their appearance on last weekend's One World: Together at Home telethon with an affecting version of their 1969 anthem "You Can't Always Get What You Want," The Rolling Stones surprised fans earlier today with a brand-new song appropriate to these isolated, sheltering-at-home times.  Alternately bluesy, funky, and rocking, "Living in a Ghost Town" conjures the kind of imagery that any of us looking out a window onto an empty street can surely appreciate. The track was cut "well over

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Do You Like Huey Lewis and The News? Join Us For Another #TSDTweet This Friday!

April 21, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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A sincere thanks to our readers and friends who joined in to last Friday's live tweet of Prince and The Revolution's Around The World In a Day. It was a nice way to revisit a classic album, a fine memorial to one of our favorite artists, and a nice little show of community in some unusual times. So it's only natural that we'd do it again - and this time, we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the striking slasher film American Psycho by giving a listen to one of the albums it gave a most

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Categories: Features Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Huey Lewis and The News

I'm Coming Out: Diana Ross' "Supertonic: Mixes" Collects Chart-Topping Remixes

April 21, 2020 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Diana Ross Supertonic

For the legendary Diana Ross, it's clear that there truly ain't no mountain high enough. The superstar made chart history earlier this year when "Love Hangover 2020" reached the top position on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart - making it her fourth consecutive No. 1 remix of a song that had previously been No. 1 on the Hot 100 in its original version. Now, that record-setting remix is coming to CD, clear vinyl LP, and digital formats along with Miss Ross' other three recent chart-toppers

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Diana Ross

Down to Junior's Bar: Iron City Houserockers' "Have a Good Time" featuring Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Steven Van Zandt Turns 40, Gets Expanded Edition

April 20, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Iron City Houserockers Have a Good Time

Pittsburgh native Joe Grushecky burst onto the national music scene in 1979 as leader of the Iron City Houserockers. Their debut album on MCA Records, 1979's Love's So Tough, conjured an authentic blue-collar milieu and recalled a harder-edged E Street Band. The band upped their game with follow-up release Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive! in 1980. Now, that bar-band classic is returning to print in a newly expanded edition adding a second disc with 16 previously unreleased tracks including

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Ian Hunter, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Little Steven, Mick Ronson

Everybody Needs a Thrill: Tracks From Prince's 'Live At The Aladdin' Released Digitally

April 17, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Nearly four years after Prince's passing, The Artist's work still lives on. Next Tuesday, on the anniversary of his passing, CBS will air a tribute concert recorded earlier this year, and Legacy Recordings' next wave of CD and vinyl reissues, covering The Rainbow Children and One Nite Alone... eras, will release next month after being delayed due to the COVID-19 situation. (Don't forget, we're also doing a live listen to Around The World In a Day this afternoon at 5 p.m. EST!) Now, ahead of

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Bob Dylan Mystifies Again With New Single, "I Contain Multitudes"

April 17, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Yesterday evening, Bob Dylan's Twitter feed sent out the simple message: #IContainMultitudes. Just three weeks had passed since his epic "Murder Most Foul" stunned and confused listeners, and Dylanologists everywhere wondered what could be next. This morning, we have the answer as Dylan has released "I Contain Multitudes." The new single (its title inspired by Walt Whitman) clocks in at roughly four-and-a-half minutes, but it's no less engaging than the lengthy track that preceded it. The

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 17

April 17, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Peggy Lee Decca Rarities

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Carnegie Hall (Zappa Records/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Zappa Records and UMe repackage this 2011 website-exclusive 4-CD set in more compact 3-CD fashion for general release.  Carnegie Hall chronicles Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's October 11, 1971 shows at the famed New York venue from the original mono tapes.  This version drops the opening set by The Persuasions but

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: David Foster, Erroll Garner, Frank Zappa, Peggy Lee, Stephen Sondheim

Ella 100 Live at The Apollo!

April 15, 2020 By

Ella 100 Live at the Apollo

Concord Jazz revisits the evening in 2016 when Patti Austin, Cassandra Wilson, Ledisi, Monica Mancini, David Alan Grier, The Count Basie Orchestra, and other artists took the stage to celebrate the centennial of Ella Fitzgerald.  The album has 16 tracks including Austin's "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," Austin and Grier's Porgy and Bess medley, Wilson's "Cry Me a River," Mancini's "Once in a While," and much more.  Available on CD and digital formats.

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

Paisley Park Is In Your Heart: Join Us For a #TSDTweet On 'Around The World In a Day'

April 15, 2020 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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We're a little more than a month into COVID-19 lockdown here at TSD HQ, and we know things are still tough for everyone. (Things are tough for the music business, too, but they have more money than most of us! So this post is for you.) As Mike noted in his last missive to our awesome readers, one of the things getting us through the situation is sharing the gift of music with each other. Neil Finn's Fangradio has been a balm, and Steve Nieve's The Daily Improvisation recently remotely

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Categories: Features Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Benefit for Moogy Klingman

April 14, 2020 By

Todd Rundgrens Utopia Benefit for Moogy Klingman

Cleopatra Records' Purple Pyramid imprint remembers Utopia's late keyboardist with Benefit for Moogy Klingman. This 4-CD/2-DVD set includes the band's Highline Ballroom reunion set of January 29, 2011 (featuring Todd Rundgren, Moogy, Ralph Schuckett, John Siegler, Kevin Ellman, Jesse Gress, and Kasim Sulton)  which helped defer the costs of Moogy's cancer treatments, as well as the performance of November 18 (three days after Klingman's passing) in Peekskill, New York in his honor.  Both

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

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