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The Complete CD Collection

January 29, 2025 By

Eric Burdon and WAR Complete CD Collection

Eric Burdon and WAR's The Complete CD Collection brings together the complete released output of the funk-soul band during the period in which it was fronted by ex-Animals vocalist Eric Burdon.  The 4-CD set has three complete albums: Eric Burdon Declares "War," The Black-Man's Burdon, and archival compilation Love Is All Around.  Bernie Grundman has remastered all albums.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, R&B/Soul

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

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

Premium Rush: Canadian Rock Legends Prep New Career-Spanning Box Set

January 28, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Rush 50

A new career-spanning box set will commemorate the singular discography of Canadian rock trio Rush. Rush 50, due March 21, 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 will include both physical formats, the hardcover book,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Rush

Spill the Wine: Rhino Collects Eric Burdon and War on "The Complete CD Collection"

January 28, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Eric Burdon and WAR Complete CD Collection

Earlier this year, we filled you in about WAR's upcoming release Live in Japan 1974, due February 7 from Rhino and Avenue Records.  Now, the labels have announced another significant release in their upgrade of the WAR catalogue.  On March 7, Eric Burdon and WAR: The Complete CD Collection arrives on four discs, bringing the 2022 Record Store Day-exclusive vinyl box set to the CD format. Eric Burdon, the former lead singer of The Animals, famously performed "San Franciscan Nights" with that

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Eric Burdon, War

Running on Faith: Eric Clapton's 'Unplugged' Gets Remixed and Expanded

January 27, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Clapton Unplugged Enhanced

Eric Clapton's most transformative late-career work will be itself transformed this spring. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will reissue an "enhanced" edition of 1992's live album Unplugged, boasting 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 them in that session. It'll be available May 9 through Surfdog Records, to which Clapton has been

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Eric Clapton

The Weekend Stream: January 25, 2025

January 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 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! A quiet week previews a new album by The Doobie Brothers, revisits the latest from one of TSD's favorite indie singer-songwriters, and so much more - plus a reminder of how you can help one of our favorite reissue labels, one that's been affected by the ongoing fires in California. Doobie Brothers, Walk This Road (Rhino) (iTunes /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Latin, Rock Tags: Ernie Kovacs, Hank Snow, Livingston Taylor, Steve Wariner, The Doobie Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of January 24

January 24, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

A Complete Unknown OST

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. Badfinger, Head First: 50th Anniversary Edition (Y&T) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Head First, originally intended to be Badfinger's eighth album and third for Warner Bros. Records, was recorded in 1974 but shelved until 2000.  That release presented a rough mix by Apple Studios engineer Phil McDonald; now, 25

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Eric Clapton, Jeannie Piersol, Tim Weisberg, Van Morrison

Takin' on a New Direction: Tina Turner's 'Private Dancer' Set for 40th Anniversary Box Set

January 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Version 1.0.0

The album that unquestionably coronated Tina Turner as the Queen of Rock and Roll will be celebrated with a new deluxe box set this spring: 1984's blockbuster Private Dancer. Available March 21, the album - 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 material from the Private Dancer era (including the unreleased "Hot for You

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bryan Adams, David Bowie, Tina Turner

Song Called Love: Omnivore Readies "The Beckies Story" For February Release

January 22, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Beckies Good to Know

The Beckies are back!  Following Omnivore Recordings' 2022 expansion of The Left Banke's Strangers on a Train, the label is exploring another chapter of the Michael Brown story with the February 28 release of Good to Know: The Beckies Story on 2 CDs. Michael Brown (also known for his work with Montage and "Brother Louie" band Stories) was known for fusing baroque and classical sounds with rock and roll, but The Beckies emphasized the latter.  The band was anchored by Brown and vocalist Scott

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beckies, The Left Banke

Head First: 50th Anniversary Edition

January 22, 2025 By

Badfinger Head First

Head First, originally intended to be Badfinger's eighth album and third for Warner Bros. Records, was recorded in 1974 but shelved until 2000.  That release presented a rough mix by Apple Studios engineer Phil McDonald; now, 25 years later, it's been remixed and remastered under the supervision of keyboardist Bob Jackson - the lone surviving member who played on the original album.  (Pete Ham, Tom Evans, and Mike Gibbins are also heard on the album; Joey Molland departed before sessions

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

In Memoriam: Garth Hudson (1937-2025)

January 21, 2025 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Garth Hudson Publicity Photo

This morning, it was announced that Garth Hudson, 87, had died in a Woodstock, New York nursing home.  Hudson was the last surviving member of The Band, and with his passing, an era has come to a close.  Though best known for his virtuosic organ playing, Hudson was a multi-instrumentalist who brought various colors to The Band's rootsy, organic brand of Americana.  Hudson's sound tapped into the many veins of American popular music and could, by turns, conjure a raucous revival, a whimsical

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Garth Hudson, The Band

The Weekend Stream: January 18, 2025

January 18, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stream 2025

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts!   This week, we're heavy on the classic rock plus a vintage soundtrack, a dash of modern classical, and more!  Fleetwood Mac, Live from the Record Plant (December 15, 1974) (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Coinciding with its standalone vinyl debut as part of Rhino's Start Your Ear Off Right, this vintage pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac concert hit digital

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbara Mason, Fleetwood Mac, INXS, Monk Higgins, Neil Young, Phil Collins, Rufus Wainwright, The Doors

Sex Pistols' American Epitaph Chronicled in New Box Set

January 15, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Sex Pistols Live in the USA

The story of the Sex Pistols' final tour - and ultimate undoing - will be told in new releases coming from UMC in March. Live in the U.S.A. 1978 will mark the first complete and official releases of three of the punk quartet's seven American concerts in January 1978. Presented for the first time in sequence are the tour's opener at the South East Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia on January 5, a particularly raucous performance at Dallas, Texas' Longhorns Ballroom five days later, and the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Sex Pistols

Total Mass Retain: Rhino Reissues Yes' "Close to the Edge" in Super Deluxe Set

January 14, 2025 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Yes Close to the Edge Packshot

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. On March 7, Rhino will revisit Close to the Edge as a

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

A "Souvenir" from Sony Music Japan: An Expansion of Billy Joel's 'Streetlife Serenade'

January 13, 2025 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Streetlife Serenade 50 Japan

Here's a belated 50th anniversary present for Billy Joel fans: a new, Japan-exclusive collector's edition of his third studio album, 1974's Streetlife Serenade. Available February 19, this lavish deluxe version - which follows a similar package for its predecessor Piano Man last year - includes many similar extras. The 7" cardboard packaging includes lyrics and liner notes in English and Japanese (including a CD-sized replica of the original booklet that came with the Japanese LP), replicas

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Joel

Just Like Paradise: David Lee Roth's Solo Works Remastered for New Box Set

January 9, 2025 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

David Lee Roth box set

Diamond Dave's got a whole new shine, thanks to a forthcoming box set from Rhino. David Lee Roth's The Warner Recordings 1985-1994, coming February 21, will include 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, and will be available at general retailers as a 5CD set. (Rhino's official store will exclusively carry a vinyl version.) Roth's solo career began four decades ago

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Lee Roth, Nile Rodgers, Steve Vai

A Complete Unknown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

January 9, 2025 By

A Complete Unknown OST CD

LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The soundtrack to director James Mangold's critically acclaimed biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Golden Globe nominee Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, arrives January 24 on vinyl in a 16-song edition featuring such highlights as "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Girl from the North Country," "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."  The full 23-song soundtrack follows

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

Slippery When Wet: Deluxe Edition

January 8, 2025 By

Version 1.0.0

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Official Store Liquid-Filled LP: Official Store Cassette: Official Store After celebrating their debut album with a deluxe edition last year, Bon Jovi will offer similar treatment to their biggest album: 1986's Slippery When Wet.  The New Jersey rockers' third LP (featuring "Livin' on a Prayer" and "You Give Love a Bad Name") will be reissued in a variety of formats including a 2CD expansion with seven bonus tracks (nearly all of

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

Oceanside Countryside

January 8, 2025 By

Oceanside Countryside

Neil Young is unveiling another once-lost album with the release of Oceanside Countryside.  The LP was recorded from May to December 1977; the first side comprised solo Young performances, while most of the second featured a full band. It never saw release, though.  Instead, Comes a Time hit store shelves in October 1978.  Both albums shared the same country-rock DNA as well as three songs ("Goin' Back," "Human Highway," and "Field of Opportunity") and some of the same musicians; Ben Keith

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

Hold On to What We've Got: Bon Jovi Expands 'Slippery When Wet'

January 8, 2025 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Version 1.0.0

After celebrating their debut album with a deluxe edition last year, Bon Jovi will offer similar treatment to their biggest album: 1986's Slippery When Wet. The New Jersey rockers' third LP will be reissued February 28 in a variety of formats including a 2CD expansion with seven bonus tracks (nearly all of which are previously unreleased) as well as a picture disc, cassette and - novelty alert! - a clear vinyl pressing filled with liquid. Everything aside from the 2CD is limited in quantities

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bon Jovi

It Might Have Been: Neil Young Premieres Lost Album "Oceanside Countryside" in February

January 7, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Oceanside Countryside packshot

Last September, Neil Young unveiled his biggest Archives collection yet. The third volume encompassed 17 CDs and five Blu-rays, boasting 15 previously unreleased songs, 121 previously unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of which were also previously unissued). On February 14, the musical iconoclast dips into Archives Vol. III - with a twist, naturally - for the premiere vinyl release of his once-lost album, Oceanside Countryside. Oceanside Countryside was recorded from May to

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

Rhino's 2025 Start Your Ear Off Right Campaign Features Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Rush, More

January 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Rhino Start Your Ear 2025

We've already filled you in on details of Rhino's upcoming live release from WAR, but that's not all coming from the label.  Rhino's annual Start Your Ear Off Right vinyl campaign has already commenced at independent retailers and select Barnes and Noble locations.  This year's slate encompasses releases from Dream Theater, Ramones, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, Grateful Dead, Rush, and others. Below, you'll find the complete list of SYEOR titles due this month, including those which arrived last

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Dream Theater, Eddie Hazel, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Lindsey Buckingham, Ramones, Rush, The Cult, The English Beat, Yes, ZZ Top

The Weekend Stream: December 21, 2024 - and a Merry Discmas to All!

December 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

Stream Christmas

Welcome to 2024's final edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! With no Release Round-Up this Friday and a few weeks of peace and quite from (and for!) us until 2025, we've got a few more treats for you under the tree from Wham!, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis, Archie Bell & The Drells and so much more! Wham!, Last Christmas (Epic/Legacy/Sony Music U.K.) (iTunes / Amazon) For

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aphex Twin, Archie Bell and the Drells, Bruce Springsteen, Earth Wind and Fire, Elton John, George Michael, INXS, John Williams, Miles Davis, Wham!

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