The Record Store Day round-up marches on! After covering in detail the vinyl offerings from Universal Music Group, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, BMG, Craft Recordings, Real Gone Music, Omnivore and U.K. labels Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, we've still got a few things to highlight...notably, the work of labels who are serving one of Record Store Day's least-served fans. There are plenty of business and financial reasons why some Record Store Day titles are limited solely to vinyl,
Blood on the Bricks
Following last year's releases of Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology and the singer-songwriter's newest album, Can't Outrun a Memory, Omnivore Recordings returns to the Grushecky discography with the worldwide CD premiere of The Iron City Houserockers' 1981 album, Blood on the Bricks. The band's third album, it was produced by Steve Cropper and features "Friday Night," "Saints and Sinners," and more. It's been newly remastered by Michael Graves and expanded with 11 previously unreleased
Record Store Day the U.K. Way: British Labels Line Up Vinyl Exclusives
Our ongoing Record Store Day 2025 guide has covered the exclusive titles coming on April 12 from Universal Music Group, Sony's Legacy Recordings, Warner Music's Rhino, BMG and Craft Recordings, as well as titles from favorite indie licensors like Real Gone Music and Omnivore. Next up, we're taking a look at international releases from two of our favorite U.K. labels! British label and artist services hub Cooking Vinyl has planned a half-dozen titles for RSD, running the gamut from stalwarts
The Weekend Stream: March 15, 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. We've got some early classics in Atmos from England's not-so-newest hitmakers, a soundtrack to a classic Tom Petty streaming feature, and new tracks from some of our favorite women in pop and rock! The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones EP / The Rolling Stones (U.K.) / England's Newest Hit Makers / Five by Five EP / 12 X 5 / The Rolling Stones
Hand of Doom: Rhino Hi-Fi Reissues Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," Alice Cooper's "Love It to Death"
This morning, Rhino announced the latest two titles in its Rhino High-Fidelity series, and both titles are available now for shipping directly from Rhino.com. With Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Alice Cooper's Love It to Death both newly remastered with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray for the audiophile-standard series, hard rock is the order of the day. Both titles are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and limited to 5,000 units each. Black Sabbath's 1970 LP Paranoid remains a watershed release, auguring
Release Round-Up: Week of March 14
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. Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes, Live at the Greek (Silver Arrow) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest
Attics of My Life: Grateful Dead Mark 60 Years with Massive Box of Unreleased Live Performances
It's little surprise that Rhino is going all-out for the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. The label today announced a 60CD box set due this spring that will premiere material from some 20 shows across a quarter-century of the band's tenure. Enjoying the Ride, available May 30 exclusively from Dead.net, is a comprehensive 450-track set (nearly entirely unreleased, though a full track list has not been made available) limited to 6000 individually numbered copies. Sourced from recordings
Bright New Way: Cherry Red's Grapefruit Label Collects Complete Recordings of Noel Redding's Fat Mattress
Compilation producer David Wells' liner notes to Fat Mattress' How Can I Live? Complete Recordings on Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint kick off with two provocative quotes. Guitarist/singer Noel Redding, best known as bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "We had to play his songs, and he'd never consider listening to any of mine." Fat Mattress' manager and Jimi Hendrix producer/mentor Chas Chandler: "It was one of the most confusing times of my life. The first Mattress album knocked me out
Watch Out! Joe Grushecky's Iron City Houserockers' "Blood on the Bricks" Gets Expanded by Omnivore
Following last year's releases of Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology and the singer-songwriter's newest album, Can't Outrun a Memory, Omnivore Recordings is returning to the Grushecky discography on March 28 with the worldwide CD premiere of The Iron City Houserockers' 1981 album, Blood on the Bricks. The band's third album, it's been newly remastered and expanded with 11 previously unreleased bonus tracks. The expanded edition will also be available digitally. Blood on the Bricks
Review: Yes, "Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition"
The cover of Yes' Close to the Edge was a relatively simple one, with Roger Dean's freshly-minted "bubble type" logo atop a color gradient from black to green. But the contents within the jacket - Yes' fifth album overall, and final LP of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford - were anything but simple. Building on the sound and style of 1971's Fragile, Close to the Edge was an even more ambitious suite crafted by lead vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Bruford,
Release Round-Up: Week of March 7
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. Yes, Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with signed lithograph) Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, returns as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set anchored by new surround (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. This Super Deluxe box follows in the
Last Flash of Rock 'n Roll: Rhino Remasters, Expands Robert Hunter's "Tiger Rose"
Following last year's expanded reissue of Grateful Dead collaborator Robert Hunter's Tales of the Great Rum Runners, the late lyricist is once again being celebrated by Rhino with a new deluxe edition. On March 28, the label will revisit 1975's Tiger Rose for its 50th anniversary. The album has been remastered for all formats by David Glasser using the Plangent Processes for tape restoration and speed correction. It will be available as an expanded 2CD set, a 1LP remaster of the original
Live at the Greek
3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest guitarists of all time is getting revisited in a new 3CD or 6LP set (with 2LP highlights also available). Originally released in 2000, less than a year after it was recorded, Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes' Live At The Greek was a double
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy releases the soundtrack to the latest documentary by The Roots' drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, who picked up an Academy Award for his work on 2021's Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) . This new companion album to this highly-anticipated look at the life and legacy of Sly Stone features 21 favorite hits and album cuts, about half of which are unreleased
Message From the Country
Cherry Red's Esoteric arm revisits The Move's fourth and final album, featuring Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood on the precipice of founding Electric Light Orchestra. While all of the bonus material (non-LP singles and alternate versions) pn this remastered and expanded Message From the Country premiered on a reissue 20 years ago, this new edition upgrades the sound thanks to the discovery of original master tapes. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Tim: Deluxe Edition
Recent years for Rhino have afforded for lavish and occasionally dramatic box sets devoted to the work of post-punk heroes The Replacements. The group's most recent may have been the most shocking of all: Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) was a deep dive into the group's 1985 breakthrough - their first release on Sire Records, featuring favorites "Bastards of Young" and "Left of the Dial." The centerpiece of the rarities-packed 4CD/LP box was a dramatic new mix of the original album by original
Live in Dallas 1991
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In summer 2024, Rhino continued a surprising amount of catalogue from the latter portion of Van Halen's celebrated career - the period in the mid '80s and '90s when former Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar took over for original singer David Lee Roth - with an expansion of the group's 1991 effort For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray set offered the remastered album with an audiovisual
Sentient
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than 25 years after a collaboration-heavy album rocketed Carlos Santana back into the spotlight, the guitar legend is releasing another - albeit one assembled from an assortment of solo tracks and guest spots spanning his last five decades of work. Sentient brings together joint tracks with Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC, along with select
Live! Deluxe Edition
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. Working with Statua Quo and engineer Andy Gamble at AVP Productions, the newly-expanded Live! pairs a remaster of the original album with the three Glasgow shows (each with identical set lists) - all sourced from newly-discovered multi-tracks of the concerts.
The Complete Albums 1983-1993
Dio's The Complete Albums 1983-1993, a U.K. vinyl collection, chronicles the seven original studio and live releases from the legendary metal vocalist and his band. (Vertigo/Mercury distributed all the albums overseas, while Warner Music continues to handle this portion of the catalogue stateside.) The box offers new pressings of Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart (1985), the live EP Intermission (1986), Dream Evil (1987), and double-vinyl editions of 1990's Lock Up the
Hungry for Heaven: Dio's First Seven Albums Get U.K. Vinyl Box Set Release
One of heavy metal's major icons will be celebrated with a new U.K. vinyl collection. UMR will release Dio's The Complete Albums 1983-1993, chronicling the seven original studio and live releases from the legendary heavy metal vocalist and his band. (Vertigo/Mercury distributed all the albums overseas, while Warner Music continues to handle this portion of the catalogue today.) The box, available March 28, offers new pressings of Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart
Frantic Four x 4: Edsel Remixes Shows That Made Status Quo's 'Live!'
A deluxe edition of Status Quo's first concert album will pair the original album - never a favorite of the band's leader - with the full, newly-remixed shows that it was assembled from. 1977's Live! found the Quo's "Frantic Four" - vocalists/guitarists Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, bassist Alan Lancaster and drummer John Coghlan (plus longtime touring keyboardist (and future full-time member) Andy Bown and tour manager Bob Young on harmonica) - wowing crowds over three nights at the Apollo
The Weekend Stream: March 1, 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. This week brings new music from Billy Idol and The Chills, cast albums aplenty and some soulful tributes to artists we lost this week. Billy Idol, "Still Dancing" (Dark Horse) (iTunes / Amazon) The recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee is going on tour this year with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and will release Dream Into It,
Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd's arresting 1972 concert film - recorded in the ancient amphitheater of Pompeii - will be revisited as an audio and video product from Legacy Recordings. Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII restores Adrian Maben's original film in 4K quality from
Coastal: The Soundtrack
The concert film Coastal, documenting Neil Young's 2023 solo concert tour, will be released to cinemas on April 17; the next day, its soundtrack album arrives on CD, LP, and digital formats. The 11-track album includes Young favorites such as "I Am a Child," "Expecting to Fly," "Comes a Time," and "Vampire Blues."
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