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Talkin' to the Trees

June 10, 2025 By

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Neil Young's latest album pairs the veteran singer-songwriter and bandleader with the group he's dubbed The Chrome Hearts: Spooner Oldham (organ); Micah Nelson (guitar/vocals); Corey McCormick (bass/vocals); and Anthony LoGerfo (drums).  Produced by Young and Lou Adler, the album features ten new compositions by Neil.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

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

The Kinds U Find in a Secondhand Store: Paisley Park Celebration Hints At Posthumous Prince Releases

June 9, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

ATWIAD gatefold

This weekend's digital release of another unreleased Prince track could indicate the gears of the late artist's estate could start moving once again. At a panel for the annual Celebration fan event in and around Prince's hometown of Minneapolis and Chanhassen recording complex Paisley Park, representatives for the estate and distributing partner Legacy Recordings discussed potential box sets, vinyl releases and digital initiatives - as well as some frank discussion on the infamously-canned

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

Sky Fits Heaven: Madonna to Release Scrapped 'Ray of Light' Remix EP

June 6, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Veronica Electronica

The fitful reissues of Madonna's back catalogue (following an expansive deal to put her material under her original major label partner Warner Music) are yielding some choice archival fruit with the release of a long-rumored remix companion to her 1998 smash Ray of Light. The eight-track Veronica Electronica, coming to vinyl and digital music services on July 25, offers new edits of previously released dance remixes to hits like "Frozen," "Nothing Really Matters," "The Power of Good-bye" and

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop Tags: Madonna

Release Round-Up: Week of June 6

June 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

WAR Why Can't We Be Friends

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. Dusty Springfield, Longing (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music premieres a lost album from Dusty Springfield: 1974's Longing.  Produced by Brooks Arthur, the album features a number of singer-songwriter-oriented compositions including

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alden Shuman, Cynthia Erivo, Dusty Springfield, Eli Paperboy Reed, Joe Henderson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Megan Hilty, My Chemical Romance, Pulp, Rick James, Seth MacFarlane, Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, War, Woody Shaw

Corner of the Sky: Real Gone's June Line-Up Includes "Lost" Dusty Springfield Album Plus Jazz, Heavy Metal, Bluegrass, More

June 5, 2025 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

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As we roll into summer, Real Gone has another varied line-up for June.  It is anchored by an unreleased album by Dusty Springfield but also features a jazz rarity from Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw as well as metal, bluegrass, and even an adult film soundtrack.  All of these titles are being released tomorrow, June 6, and you can read on for more information. By the beginning of the 1970s, Dusty Springfield was at a career crossroads.  Although she remained on her U.K. label home Phillips, she

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alden Shuman, Blue Murder, Deicide, Dusty Springfield, J.D. Crowe and The New South, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw

Say You Will: New Ivy Album, Built from Unreleased Tracks, Due in September

June 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Ivy Traces of You

Five years after bidding a too-early farewell to one of pop's most stalwart songwriters, a new album from his second-best remembered (but first major) band is coming, built off contributions he left behind. Traces of You, due September 5, is the first new album in a dozen years from alternative pop band Ivy. The news might come as a shock, as one of the group's charter members, bassist/songwriter Adam Schlesinger, died in 2020 - an early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Happily, as a gift

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Adam Schlesinger, Ivy

You've Got a Friend in Me: 'Toy Story' Songs Pressed on Zoetrope Vinyl for 30th Anniversary

June 4, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Toy Story 30 vinyl

We're not pulling your string: this year marks 30 years since Disney and Pixar rewrote the rules of animation with Toy Story. A new LP will collect nine tracks from all four of the films in the series since then - all from the pen of the one and only Randy Newman. Toy Story: Songs to Infinity and Beyond is a sonic love letter to the series, offering rare concept drawings and new art on the set's front cover and gatefold and a zoetrope vinyl pattern that features moving images of the series'

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Chris Stapleton, Gipsy Kings, Randy Newman, Riders in the Sky, Sarah McLachlan

Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements

June 3, 2025 By

Seth MacFarlane Lush Life

For this new release, Family Guy star Seth MacFarlane has unearthed a dozen arrangements written by the legendary likes of Don Costa, Nelson Riddle, and Billy May for Frank Sinatra but never recorded by the Chairman.  MacFarlane and conductor John Wilson have finally brought these to life with a 70-piece orchestra of both American and British players, recording at Skywalker Sound.  Songs include "Lush Life," "A Wonderful Day Like Today," "When Joanna Loved Me," and "Give Me the Simple Life." 

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

Soundtrack Watch: Bond Back on Vinyl At La-La Land, Intrada Unsheathes Kamen's 'Three Musketeers'

June 2, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Goldfinger LP packshot

A new month kicks off with a bonanza of soundtrack reissues from La-La Land and Intrada - including more planned activity from the world of James Bond. La-La Land has made three archival titles available for sale from yesterday (June 1). First is a vinyl edition of their remastered CD of John Barry's score to Goldfinger. The third James Bond film (and the second to be scored by the British composer/arranger) scored big with the series' first-ever title theme, co-written by Barry, Anthony

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Anthony Newley, Bryan Adams, Cyril Mockridge, Elmer Bernstein, Franz Waxman, Harry Manfredini, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Louis Armstrong, Michael Kamen, Rod Stewart, Shirley Bassey, Sting, Victor Young

Young Blood: UFO's 'No Place to Run' Gets Reissued with Remixed Concert Audio

May 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

UFO No Place to Run deluxe

A transitional album in the discography of British rockers UFO will be revisited in a deluxe edition this summer. The band's eighth album No Place to Run, originally released in 1980, will be reissued as a 2CD or 3LP set on August 15. It pairs a new remaster of the original album created at London's AIR Studios alongside selections from a concurrent live set at the Marquee Club in London. Some of the live material was reissued as bonus tracks on various sets between 2009 and 2013, but has

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

After the Glitter Fades: Stevie Nicks, Wilco Classics Added to Rhino's High Fidelity Vinyl Series

May 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna

Rhino's High Fidelity series of audiophile vinyl titles continues today with two (relatively) modern classics.  Stevie Nicks' 1981 solo debut Bella Donna and Wilco's 1995 debut A.M. are the two albums in question, with both available now exclusively from Rhino.com and select international Warner Music Group online storefronts.  Both albums are housed in old-style "tip-on" jackets; they've been newly mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal.  They're limited and numbered to

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Don Henley, Jeff Tweedy, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Wilco

Release Round-Up: Week of May 30

May 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Grateful Dead The Music Never Stopped

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. Grateful Dead, The Music Never Stopped (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This live 3CD or 6LP compendium (also available digitally) from Grateful Dead to commemorate the band's 60th anniversary includes 27 tracks representing every one of the venues in the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Ferry, Gloria Estefan, Grateful Dead, Hue Park, Melanie, Rain Parade, Sufjan Stevens, They Might Be Giants, Vince Guaraldi, Will Aronson

Stay Hungry: Rhino Rebuilds Talking Heads' 'Buildings and Food' for Box Set Release

May 29, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

More Songs About Buildings and Food deluxe

Rhino is taking Talking Heads fans to the river with their next deluxe edition: a 3CD/Blu-ray edition of the group's 1978 sophomore album More Songs About Buildings and Food. Available July 25, the box will include the remastered album alongside a bonus disc of rare studio material (including four unreleased alternate takes and a host of material included on previous expansions) and a live set recorded at the Entermedia Theatre in New York City, just about a month after the album was

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

Pryor Conviction: An Interview with Dan Schlissel of Stand Up! Records

May 29, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Richard Pryor Richard Pryor

If you'll forgive the stupidly obvious lede, Dan Schlissel takes comedy pretty seriously. As the founder of Minneapolis-based Stand Up! Records, he's carved a considerable niche in the music industry as one of the longest-lasting and most stalwart homes for stand-up comedy on CD, LP and many other formats. Schlissel, a first generation American whose parents came from Israel, first started the indie-rock label -ismist, which provided a crucial stepping stone to an up-and-coming band of masked

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Categories: Interviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Comedy Tags: Richard Pryor

Mystery of Love: Sufjan Stevens Expands 'Carrie & Lowell'

May 28, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Carrie & Lowell 10th packshot

A deceased mother and a grieving son laid the groundwork for one of the best-reviewed records of 2015. A decade later, it's being expanded with unreleased material - and its creator is sharing some unexpected opinions on how he regards the album. Sufjan Stevens' seventh album Carrie & Lowell will be reissued this Friday, May 30, for its 10th anniversary. The 2CD or 2LP set includes a small trove of seven unreleased demos - including a version of a track that would be the closest thing

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk Tags: Sufjan Stevens

Take Your Mama Out: Scissor Sisters' Debut Gets Deluxe Reissue

May 28, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Scissor Sisters 20th

One of the most dynamic pop acts of the 2000s is ready to have a kiki with fans once more, thanks to a new expanded edition of their debut album and return to touring. The self-titled first album by Scissor Sisters turns 20 (and a year, but who's counting) in 2025, and will be reissued by Republic Records as a greatly expanded edition offering the album in a digipak alongside two bonus discs of B-sides, remixes and seven previously unheard tracks. A truncated offering of the B-sides and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Scissor Sisters

The Weekend Stream Extra: A Guide to 'MTV Unplugged' on Paramount+ (Part 2)

May 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

MTV Unplugged

Welcome to a special Sunday feature of The Weekend Stream, which takes a look at one of MTV's great live music programs thanks to a recent reissue of one of its best-known episodes. We're running a five-part deep-dive on every episode of MTV Unplugged that's currently streaming on the station's parent streaming network Paramount+! (Part 1 can be read here.) The evolution of MTV Unplugged was not unlike that of the network itself. If those first years on the air from 1989 to 1991 were

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Annie Lennox, Arrested Development, Duran Duran, Eric Clapton, Heavy D, John Mellencamp, k.d. lang, Lulu, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Nirvana, Paul Simon, Pearl Jam, Queensryche, Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Soul Asylum

Jethro Tull's 'Living in the Past' Arrives in the Present with New Steven Wilson Remix

May 22, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Jethro Tull Still Living in the Past

An early, classic compilation by Jethro Tull will be remixed, expanded and wildly reconstructed by engineer Steven Wilson. Still Living in the Past, available July 11 from Rhino, will reinterpret the group's odds-and-ends compilation from 1972 as a 5CD/1 Blu-ray set boasting some 35 unissued mixes and versions alongside just about every one of the 21 original tracks that appeared on the original double album. Alongside the original mixes of the non-album material that comprised Living in the

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

Oh, Good Grief!

May 21, 2025 By

Vince Guaraldi Oh Good Grief

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Back in 2018, Omnivore Recordings collected The Complete Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Recordings of jazz pianist-composer-Peanuts legend Vince Guaraldi.  Now, the label is breaking out one of the albums contained in that set for CD and vinyl reissue.  1968's Oh, Good Grief! was built around his familiar compositions for Charles M. Schulz's legendary characters, but those tunes were subtly updated as

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks

The Journey: Part 3

May 21, 2025 By

Kinks The Journey Part 3 Cover

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Following a pair of compilations in 2023 chronicling earlier parts of their storied career, British rockers The Kinks have one more in the chamber to commemorate their 60th anniversary as a group, focusing on a period of transition and finality in the '70s, '80s and '90s.  The Journey - Part 3 offers, on two CDs or two 180-gram LPs, a dozen favorites originally released on Arista Records between

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

Come Dancing: The Kinks Close 60th Anniversary Celebration with Third and Final Compilation 'The Journey - Part 3'

May 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

The Kinks Journey 3

Following a pair of compilations in 2023 chronicling earlier parts of their storied career, British rockers The Kinks have one more in the chamber to commemorate their 60th anniversary as a group, focusing on a period of transition and finality in the '70s, '80s and '90s. The Journey - Part 3 will offer, on two CDs or two 180-gram LPs, a dozen favorites originally released on Arista Records between 1977 and 1984, including the band's last worldwide smash, "Come Dancing." The newly remastered

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Dave Davies, Ray Davies, The Kinks

Wake Me Up: New Compilation Honors Life and Career of Avicii

May 16, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Avicii Forever

In his too-brief career, Swedish DJ/producer Avicii became one of the most dynamic figures of the early 2010s electronic dance boom. A new collection, sanctioned by his estate, will honor that body of work. Avicii Forever offers, on CD or two LPs, 20 tracks from his albums and EPs, including the worldwide hits "Wake Me Up," "Levels," "Hey Brother" and "The Days." The set also includes a previously unreleased track, "Let's Ride Away," featuring vocals by Elle King. Physical copies of the album

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic Tags: Aloe Blacc, Avicii, Elle King, Imagine Dragons, Rita Ora

Dancing Barefoot: The Feelies Collect Old Covers for New Album

May 16, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

The Feelies Rewind

What started as a simple digital exercise for New Jersey rockers The Feelies is a new collection of some of their harder-to-find cover songs. The jangle-pop heroes will release Rewind on June 20, a nine-track affair featuring versions of cuts by The Beatles ("She Said She Said," "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"), Neil Young ("Barstool Blues," "Sedan Delivery"), Bob Dylan ("Seven Days"), The Rolling Stones ("Paint It Black") and more. Most were recorded during the

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Patti Smith, The Beatles, The Doors, The Feelies, The Modern Lovers, The Rolling Stones

Release Round-Up: Week of May 16

May 16, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Status Quo Live deluxe

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. Status Quo, Live! Deluxe Edition (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A deluxe edition of Status Quo's first concert album will pair the original album - never a favorite of the band's leader Francis Rossi - with the full, newly-remixed shows that it was assembled from, all under the supervision of the band. 

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Chet Baker, David Sancious, Dire Straits, Hozier, Status Quo

The Manticore Tapes

May 14, 2025 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Clear 2LP/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Motörhead's 50th anniversary will be celebrated with a fascinating find: the premiere release of the first studio sessions to feature the trio's classic line-up.  The Manticore Tapes presents the first studio sessions from the late summer of 1976 with the beloved line-up of singer/bassist Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke and

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