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Short Takes: Triumph Prepares New Box Set as RSD Ambassadors; Omnivore Celebrates "Yesterday's Tomorrow;" and Evie Sands Releases New LP

March 22, 2021 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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Canadian hard rock heroes Triumph have been selected as the Canadian Ambassadors for Record Store Day 2021 - and the band isn't showing up empty-handed!  As previously reported, RSD will be held in two "Drops" this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.  The first of those drops is June 12, with the second to follow on July 17.  On June 12, Triumph - Rik Emmett (guitars/vocals), Mike Levine (bass, keyboards) and Gil Moore (drums, vocals) - will release a 40th Anniversary vinyl box set of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Chris Stamey, Evie Sands, Mitch Easter, Peter Holsapple, Record Store Day, Triumph

The Weekend Stream: March 20, 2021

March 20, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Duran

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Duran Duran, Gamble and Huff, Madonna, The Who

Release Round-Up: Week of March 19

March 19, 2021 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary [Vinyl + 7" Box] (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 50th Anniversary remastered edition of Neil Young's classic album was released on CD in December; now the vinyl version arrives.  The set includes two different recordings of the outtake "Wonderin'" on the bonus 45.  The A-side was recorded in March 1970 in Topanga (previously heard on Archives Vol. 1) while the B-side is

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Cornell, Green Day, Harpers Bizarre, Harry Connick Jr., Hello, Jack Cassidy, John Raitt, Keith Jarrett, Loretta Lynn, Neil Young, Paul Stanley, Ringo Starr, Stephane Grappelli, Steve Earle, Sting, The Black Crowes

Something in the Air: "David Bowie at The Kit Kat Klub" Closes Out "Brilliant Live Adventures" Series TOMORROW!

March 18, 2021 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

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Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome... Tomorrow (Friday, March 19), pre-orders will begin for the final installment of David Bowie's Brilliant Live Adventures series of concert releases on both CD and 2LP vinyl. David Bowie at The Kit Kat Klub (Live New York 99) captures his invitation-only performance at the intimate New York venue on November 19, 1999.  The gig was recorded and filmed for the Liveonline.net website and later issued as a promotional CD; this release marks its commercial debut and

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

Déjà Vu: Deluxe Edition

March 18, 2021 By

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4CD/1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: CSNY50.com / Rhino.com Rhino revisits Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's landmark 1970 release as a deluxe 4CD/1LP set featuring a remastered version of the original album plus 28 previously unreleased demos, outtakes, and alternate takes.  It's all topped off with an essay from Cameron Crowe.  In addition to the 4CD/1LP set, the box will be released in super-deluxe 5LP format exclusively from the new CSNY50.com and Rhino.com. 

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

In The Long Run: Eagles Announce Vinyl Reissues of "Live," "Long Road Out of Eden," and "Millennium Concert"

March 18, 2021 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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Few captured the spirit of the '70s like California's own Eagles, whose multiplatinum double-album live document Eagles Live joins the 2007 two-disc comeback album Long Road Out of Eden and the hard-to-find release The Millennium Concert in a batch of new, 180-gram vinyl reissues due April 2. 1980's Eagles Live remains a beloved document of two of the band's tours, recorded in California in 1976 and 1980.  The 7x Platinum-certified collection featured then-recent tracks "Heartache Tonight"

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Eagles

Back to the Garden: Rhino Expands Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's "Déjà Vu" In New Box Set

March 17, 2021 By Joe Marchese 29 Comments

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Crosby, Stills, and Nash's eponymous debut was one of the most auspicious and omnipresent records of 1969, a remarkable and harmony-rich affair featuring such era-defining material as "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Marrakesh Express," "Guinnevere," "Wooden Ships," "Long Time Gone," and "Helplessly Hoping."  CSN blended folk, country, jazz, rock, and a dash of pop into an often-imitated but never-duplicated sound.  In the U.S. alone, the album reached No. 6 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and the top

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crosby Stills Nash and Young, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Stephen Stills

Short Takes: "Fawlty Towers" Comes to Vinyl with Cleese Autograph; Judas Priest Plans Massive Box Set for Summer

March 16, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Although only 12 episodes were made between 1975 and 1979, Fawlty Towers remains one of television's most beloved comedies.  As recently as 2019, it was named the greatest ever British sitcom by Radio Times, and its magic has never been successfully duplicated.  Three American remakes - starring Harvey Korman and Betty White (the pilot-only Chateau Snavely, 1978), Bea Arthur (Amanda's, 1983), and John Larroquette and JoBeth Williams (Payne, 1999) - all failed to recapture the spirit of the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Soundtracks Tags: Fawlty Towers, Glenn Tipton, John Cleese, Judas Priest

Saturday Night Special: Lynyrd Skynyrd Announces "Live At Knebworth '76" on Blu-ray, DVD, CD, and Vinyl

March 16, 2021 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Turn it up!  It's not just the opening salvo to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," it's also what you'll want to do when you hear the band's new archival release, Live At Knebworth.  Arriving on April 9 from Eagle Rock in CD/Blu-ray, CD/DVD, and 2LP/DVD configurations, Live At Knebworth '76 presents Lynyrd Skynyrd's landmark performance at the 1976 festival, fully restored for the first time. The concert film and album document Skynyrd's classic lineup as they rose to international

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Lynyrd Skynyrd

The Weekend Stream: March 13, 2021

March 13, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Watch this: not a whole

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: John Lennon, Queen

Live at Knebworth 1990

March 13, 2021 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop Bundle: Pink Floyd Online Shop Pink Floyd breaks out this remixed version of Live at Knebworth 1990 from last year's The Later Years box set​ into standalone CD, LP, and digital editions.  The seven-song, single-disc set features renditions of such Floyd staples as "Wish You Were Here," "Money," "Comfortably Numb," and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"

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

What's Your Take On It? Paul McCartney Announces Remix and Covers Album "McCartney III-Imagined"

March 12, 2021 By Sam Stone 11 Comments

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On Thursday, Paul McCartney announced a new project called McCartney III-Imagined, an aptly titled collection of covers, reworkings, and remixes of his last studio album, McCartney III.  It's due for digital release on April 16, with CD configurations and an array of 2-LP vinyl pressings set to arrive on July 23.  The collection was curated by Macca and features contributions from Beck (who's featured on a reworking of "Find My Way"), Anderson .Paak (offering a remix of "When Winter Comes"),

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: 3D RDN, Anderson .Paak, Beck, Blood Orange, Damon Albarn, Dominic Fike, EOB, Idris Elba, Josh Homme, Khruangbin, Paul McCartney, Phoebe Bridgers, St. Vincent

Reach for the Secret: Pink Floyd's "Live At Knebworth 1990" Performance Sees Stand-alone Release on CD, Vinyl, Digital

March 10, 2021 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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Last year, Pink Floyd released a re-edited version of Delicate Sound of Thunder, the first breakout release from the expansive box set The Later Years: 1987-2019. The celebration of the David Gilmour-led lineup continues on April 30 with Live at Knebworth 1990, which will be released on CD, 2-LP, and through digital platforms wherever music is enjoyed. The Knebworth Festival took place June 30, 1990 with a bill that featured Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Elton

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

Second Chance: Cherry Red, Lemon Collect Bon Scott's Fraternity on "Seasons of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974"

March 10, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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Before achieving international fame as the high-powered vocalist of AC/DC, Bon Scott earned his bona fides in his native Australia - first with The Valentines and then with Fraternity.  A few years back, Cherry Red's RPM imprint traced Scott's journey with the pop-oriented Valentines.  Now, the Lemon imprint has collected his work with Fraternity in a new 3-CD box set Season of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974 which includes an entire disc of never-before-released

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bon Scott, Fraternity

Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings

March 9, 2021 By

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For our first release of 2021, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music take a deep dive into the archives for Michael Nesmith's Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings.  This compendium features 22 tracks on CD drawn from the RCA Victor vaults, every one of which is previously unreleased in any physical format.  These songs were originally released to digital platforms in 2018 as bonus tracks to Nesmith's RCA six albums - solo and with The First and Second National Bands.  Over the course

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop

Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Premiere Michael Nesmith's "Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings" on CD in April

March 9, 2021 By The Second Disc 28 Comments

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The Second Disc is proud to announce the first Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music release of 2021 - and it's one that's been years in the making! Michael Nesmith has always travelled to the beat of a "Different Drum"-whether as the writer of that classic hit for Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys, the wool hat-clad member of The Monkees, or one of the earliest progenitors of the country-rock genre.  In recent years, Nesmith has penned the critically acclaimed autobiography Infinite Tuesday,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, The Monkees

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection

March 6, 2021 By

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6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 6-CD/2-BD John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection contains everything recorded by John and Yoko during the sessions for John's 1970 Plastic Ono Band LP, totaling 159 tracks on CD and 131 on Blu-ray, or 11 hours of music, all completely remixed from the original multitracks.  (The

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)

March 6, 2021 By

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CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Tom Petty Online Store / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP gold: Tom Petty Online Store / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP black: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Tom Petty Online Store / Your Local Record Shop Warner Records is breaking out one disc of the super-deluxe version of Tom Petty's 2020 Finding Wildflowers box for this standalone release.  Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions) features 16 songs from the Wildflowers sessions. 

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It's Good To Be King: Tom Petty Rarities Get Standalone Release on "Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)" Due April 16

March 5, 2021 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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Tom Petty's 1994 solo album Wildflowers yielded the instant classics "You Don't Know How It Feels," "You Wreck Me," and of course the enduring title track. But there was much more material from those sessions which ultimately sat on the shelves until last year's excellent Wildflowers & All The Rest box set. The highlight of the super-deluxe, most expensive configuration of the box set was Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions). The 16-song collection will now see a stand-alone release on

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

Release Round-Up: Week of March 5

March 5, 2021 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, Archives Vol. 2: 1973-1976 (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Neil Young's second Archives box set arrives in a wide commercial release, dropping the oversized packaging and expansive book in favor of a slimmer package.  The 10-CD box is sequenced chronologically to spotlight the astonishingly prolific period lovingly referred to as the Ditch Years. The box contains 131 tracks from Neil's personal archive. Of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Be-Bop Deluxe, Black Sabbath, Frank Zappa, Japan, Neil Young, Rebecca Luker, Sally Wilfert

BREAKING: Record Store Day Announces RSD Drops

March 4, 2021 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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For over a year, folks who rely on music to enrich and sustain their life have seen their "normal" change dramatically due to COVID-19. As the effects of pandemic continue to ripple through every part of the industry, the Record Store Day organization has announced that rather than hold one event this year, there will be two RSD Drops, set to take place on June 12 and July 17 at participating stores worldwide.  It has been decided that this is the best move for customer safety and for the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Record Store Day, Richard Hell, The Who, Thelonious Monk

I Found Out: John and Yoko's "Plastic Ono Band" Box Due in April

March 4, 2021 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

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The July 1969 single release of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" marked the first time that the name of the Plastic Ono Band appeared on a record label.  Lennon and his new wife Yoko Ono - they'd married in March - resolved to use the flexible band handle for whichever group happened to be playing with them; the onstage document Live Peace in Toronto 1969 was credited to the band, as was the harrowing single "Cold Turkey."  "Instant Karma!" modified the name slightly to "John Lennon and Yoko

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: John Lennon, Yoko Ono

Toronto Rock and Roll Revival 1969

February 27, 2021 By

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Sunset Blvd. Records brings listeners back to September 13, 1969 at the University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium when Chuck Berry took the stage for an electrifying set.  The label promises that this release is the first time the concert has been presented in its entirety as mastered from the original analog tapes.  The show features an introduction by Kim Fowley and such Berry staples as "Sweet Little Sixteen," "Rock and Roll Music," "Johnny B. Goode," "Carol," "Promised Land," and "My

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

The Weekend Stream: February 27, 2021

February 27, 2021 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

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While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Cheap Trick, Out to Get

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Cheap Trick, Donny Hathaway, Ne-Yo, The Lennon Sisters

The Who Sell Out [Various Formats]

February 26, 2021 By

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5-CD/2x7" box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP (stereo): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop 2-LP (mono): The Who Online Shop​ The Who revisit 1967's Sell Out in a variety of editions including a massive 5-CD/2x7" box set featuring the original mono and stereo album mixes, bonus tracks in mono and stereo, demos, alternates and outtakes, and a

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

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