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They Will Have Their Way: Legacy Plans Packed Record Store Day Slate

February 10, 2025 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Legacy RSD

Is it just us, or has Record Store Day felt a little muted in recent years? Obviously the annual Black Friday celebration boasts less titles than the festivities held every April, but it's sometimes been a struggle to identify great archival titles or worthy re-pressed discs. Well, that certainly isn't the case this year: labels seem to have gone into overdrive stockpiling interesting LPs and singles worth a second (or first!) look - and one of the strongest showings might be Sony Music's Legacy

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cypress Hill, David Gilmour, Jeff Buckley, John Legend, Judas Priest, Lou Reed, Neil Finn, Nick Mason, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Record Store Day, Soul Asylum, Thelonious Monk, Toad the Wet Sprocket

Where Dreams Are Born: John Williams' 'A.I.' Soundtrack Comes to Vinyl from Mondo

February 7, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

A.I. Mondo vinyl

One of John Williams' more haunting works for the films of Steven Spielberg bows on vinyl from the Mondo label: his soundtrack to the 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The 2LP set, recreating the original soundtrack album on either red and blue or white 140 gram vinyl (remastered by James Plotkin), is packaged in a Tyvek gatefold jacket - that's right, the high-density polyethylene material that protects structures from moisture that you've seen on a construction project or two - with

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams, Josh Groban, Lara Fabian

Release Round-Up: Week of February 7

February 7, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn for qualifying purchases. WAR, Live in Japan 1974 (Rhino/Avenue) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada​ Rhino's ongoing refresh of the WAR catalogue continues with its first release of 2025: a set of previously unheard live material from the band's tour of Japan, more than half a century ago and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: CCM, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Amy Grant, Don Julian, Harold Wheeler, Melanie, R.E.M., The Donnas, Various Artists, War, Wilco, Wildside

Craft Recordings Unveils RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Celia Cruz, Thelonious Monk, Collective Soul, More

February 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 12 - that's the date this year for Record Store Day, the date upon which fans, collectors, and everyone in between flocks to local independent record stores and hopefully gives those brick-and-mortar stores a leg up for the year!  The full list has been posted, and here at TSD, we'll start today by spotlighting various releases from some of our favorite labels!  Craft Recordings is among those labels, and they've just announced a batch encompassing jazz,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A Day to Remember, Carla Thomas, Celia Cruz, Collective Soul, Gerry Mulligan, Record Store Day, Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Colon

Leave Quite An Impression: Sabrina Carpenter's Grammy-Winning 'Short 'N' Sweet' Gets Expanded

February 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Hot off her success at the Grammy Awards last weekend, pop star Sabrina Carpenter will reissue last year's breakthrough Short 'N' Sweet with a bevy of new tracks - including a duet with a country legend. The expanded Short 'N' Sweet - this year's winner for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Vocal Performance, and a nominee for Album of the Year - will be re-released this Friday, February 7 with five bonus tracks, including "Busy Woman" (a bonus track on a previous digital edition) and a new

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Dolly Parton, Sabrina Carpenter

The Warner Recordings 1985-1994

February 3, 2025 By

David Lee Roth box set

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Rhino.com Diamond Dave's got a whole new shine, thanks to a new box set from Rhino. David Lee Roth's The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 includes the four LPs (and one EP) the iconoclastic singer released outside of his concluding tenure as the vocalist for Van Halen. All of the albums have been newly remastered (though no bonus tracks are appended), and will be available at general retailers as a 5CD set. (Rhino's official store will

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

Live in the U.S.A. 1978 [Various Releases]

February 3, 2025 By

Sex Pistols Live in the USA

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at South East Music Hall, Atlanta, GA - 1/5/1978 Red LP (February 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at Longhorns Ballroom, Dallas, TX - 1/10/1978 White LP (March 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at The Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA - 1/14/1978 Blue LP (April 25): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Sex Pistols' Live in the U.S.A. 1978 will mark the first complete and official releases of

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

Good to Know: The Beckies Story

February 3, 2025 By

The Beckies Good to Know

Omnivore is expanding the lone album from The Beckies, the band formed by Michael Brown (The Left Banke, Stories) and Scott Trusty along with Jimmy McAllister and Gary Hodgden (a.k.a. Gary West).  The Beckies Story brings together a remastered version of the original Sire LP and a cache of 13 previously unreleased demos including songs which didn't make the album.  Good to Know: The Beckies Story has been freshly mastered by Michael Graves.  The new liner notes by compilation co-producer Daniel

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

Private Dancer: 40th Anniversary Edition

February 3, 2025 By

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5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pearl LP with art card: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Tina Turner's smash 1984 "comeback"album Private Dancer - 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

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Best in Show

February 3, 2025 By

World Party Best in Show

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The work of the late Welsh musical polymath Karl Wallinger is revisited 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

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

Image and Likeness: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp's Collaborations Revisited in New Collection

February 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Summers Fripp Complete

A unique team-up between two celebrated guitarists - Andy Summers of The Police and Robert Fripp of King Crimson - will be revisited this spring with a bevy of new material. The Complete Recordings 1981-1984 will expand and remaster the duo's two studio albums together - 1982's I Advance Masked and 1984's Bewitched - along with Mother Hold the Candle Steady, a newly-created album of outtakes from their sessions together. The Blu-ray Audio will include hi-resolution remasters of both albums,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Andy Summers, King Crimson, Robert Fripp, The Police

New Killer Star: Live-in-Studio David Bowie Set Prepped for First Major Record Store Day Release of 2025

January 31, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Bowie Ready Set Go CD

Well ahead of any other titles for Record Store Day, David Bowie's estate and Rhino have announced a big one for the twice-yearly shopping bonanza: a previously unreleased live-in-studio set recorded more than two decades ago. Ready, Set, Go! (Live, Riverside Studios '03) will be released exclusively at independent record retailers on April 12 on both CD and double vinyl. The 14-track program, recorded in London on September 8, 2003 with producer Tony Visconti and a familiar assortment of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Bowie

No Lightweight Sound: CD Box Set, Vinyl Reissues Chronicle Middle Period of Dub Syndicate

January 31, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Dub Syndicate box

A scintillating collaboration between two titans of reggae - known as Dub Syndicate - will be revisited in a series of reissues covering their late '80s and early '90s output. Out Here on the Perimeter 1989-1996 is a new 5CD box set, available from the On-U Sound label on February 28, that features new pressings of Dub Syndicate's studio albums Strike the Balance (1989), Stoned Immaculate (1991), Echomania (1993) and Ital Breakfast (1996), along with a new remix album of material from this

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Reggae Tags: Adrian Sherwood, Dub Syndicate

Live in Japan 1974

January 31, 2025 By

War Live in Japan 1974

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada​ Rhino's ongoing refresh of the WAR catalogue continues with its first release of 2025: a set of previously unheard live material from the band's tour of Japan, more than half a century ago and featuring the band's classic line-up.  Live in Japan 1974 is available worldwide as a 2CD or 2LP set. The concert includes 14 tracks (three less on the vinyl) culled from sets in Shizuoka, Tokyo, Osaka, and

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, R&B/Soul

A Ghost Is Born: Deluxe Edition

January 31, 2025 By

Wilco A Ghost is Born deluxe

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP/4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Following an acclaimed, Grammy-winning deluxe edition of Wilco's mainstream breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the same creative team has assembled a similarly lavish set for the band's 2004 follow-up A Ghost is Born.  The deluxe set - made up of either nine CDs or nine LPs and four CDs - packages the

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

Power Up! 'Super Mario' Music Comes to CD and Vinyl

January 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Super Mario World

Video game music - particularly of a certain vintage - is kind of hit or miss in the physical catalogue space or otherwise, so it gives us pleasure to point out a few upcoming releases of music old, new and otherwise from Nintendo's venerable Super Mario series on CD and vinyl. Available for the first time as a sprawling 3LP set, Warner Music Japan will make available the original soundtrack album to 1990's Super Mario World - the plucky plumber's first side-scrolling adventure for the 16-bit

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Soundtracks Tags: Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura

Out of This World: Verve Record Club Promises Heavyweight Vinyl Pressings and Rarities

January 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Verve Record Club

Verve Label Group is getting into the subscription vinyl game with the recently-announced Verve Record Club. The new monthly venture will offer fans new vinyl pressings of classic albums from the Verve, Impulse!, Mercury, CTI, Decca and MGM label catalogues, promising titles by John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ahmad Jamal and Sarah Vaughan, to name a few. The new pressings will all be remastered from the original analog tapes by Ryan K.

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Stan Getz

Walk This Road

January 29, 2025 By

Doobie Brothers Walk This Road

The Doobie Brothers are back with Walk This Road, the band's first album of original material with Michael McDonald since 1980's One Step Closer.  It's also the Doobie's first album ever of original music to fully feature the line-up of McDonald, Johnston, Simmons, and John McFee.  The title track, co-written by returning member Michael McDonald and album producer John Shanks, is a gospel-flavored slice of soul with guest vocals from Mavis Staples. Tom Johnston joined Shanks to pen the

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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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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

1975 to 1987

January 29, 2025 By

Fleetwood Mac 1975 to 1987 box

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with bonus 12") Fleetwood Mac's 1975 to 1987 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

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, 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

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