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. Wings, Wings [Various Formats] (MPL/Capitol/UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada On November 4, Paul McCartney released Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, an oral
Step Into Christmas: UMe Preps Holiday Singles Box, Expansion of Connie Francis' Holiday Album
With the spookiest holidays of the fall now in the rear view mirror (that's right: Halloween and Election Day!), there's nothing wrong with looking ahead to the Christmas music season and checking out a pair of now-available titles from Universal Music Group spotlighting some of their classic holiday hits and an album by one of catalogue's biggest success stories this year. UMe is selling a nifty collection of more than a dozen seasonal 7" singles in a collectible carrying case. This Classic
The Weekend Stream: November 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. Rare mixes from David Bowie, late-period repertoire from Squeeze (with a new distributor hinting at their next album) and an actor who plays jazz will start you off... David Bowie, I Can't Give Everything Away E.P. (ISO/Parlophone) (Apple / Amazon) Released last week in conjunction with the last of Bowie's era-focused boxes, this EP
Release Round-Up: Week of October 31
Happy Halloween! 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. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window (Columbia/Legacy) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The beginnings of Bob Dylan's long and extraordinary career are being revisited by
The Weekend Stream: October 25, 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 an unreleased outtake from The Beatles; a favorite '80s band re-recording a deep cut; and a rock legend recruiting an unexpected guest on a new mix of their latest single - plus late period greatness from The Go-Betweens, Glenn Frey cutting standards and more. The Beatles, "I've Just Seen a Face (Take 3)" (Apple/Capitol/UMe)
Release Round-Up: Week of October 24
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska '82 (Columbia/Legacy) 4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada It's no surprise that, as Hollywood recounts the story of Bruce Springsteen's most striking solo release with the film Deliver Me from Nowhere (out today), a box set tells the
Release Round-Up: Week of October 17
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. Randy Newman, Trouble in Paradise: Expanded Edition (Warner/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino Reserves LP: Rhino.com We Love It! Rhino reissues Randy Newman's seventh studio album, Trouble in Paradise, as a 2CD expanded edition featuring previously unreleased demos and a rare concert performance. With
Power to Consume: Legacy Unveils Record Store Day Black Friday Slate with Prince, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, More
We're continuing our look at this year's Record Store Day Black Friday releases with a rundown of the nine titles coming your way on Friday, November 28 from Legacy Recordings. These include classics from Miles Davis, Prince, and Billy Joel, a rarity from Bob Dylan, a spirited Danny Elfman soundtrack, and more! Click here for a list of participating Record Store Day shops, and stay tuned for more RSD Black Friday news here at The Second Disc! Cage the Elephant, Live from The Vic in
Merry Something to You: Rhino Announces Record Store Day Black Friday Slate with Devo, Joni Mitchell, Alice Cooper, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Randy Newman, More
TSD is kicking off our look at this year's Record Store Day Black Friday releases, due at participating independent record stores on November 28, with a typically packed slate coming from Rhino. With over 30 titles, the label has brought out the heavy hitters (many of which are RSD mainstays) including The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Todd Rundgren, Van Halen, and more. We've also included a handful of releases from Rhino sister labels such as Warner (with a
Release Round-Up: Week of October 3
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. Oasis, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 30th Anniversary Edition (Big Brother) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Oasis have a slightly expanded edition of 1995's (What's the Story) Morning Glory? on tap, pairing a 2014 remaster of the album (which initially came with
Spyboy: Deluxe Edition
Following its limited reissue earlier this year for Record Store Day, Emmylou Harris revisits the 1998 live album Spyboy on CD and wide-release LP with the same expanded track listing. Produced by Harris and Buddy Miller and featuring Miller on guitar and vocals, Brady Blade on drums, percussion, and vocals, and Daryl Johnson on bass, djembe, percussion, and vocals, the new Spyboy adds live versions of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' "A Thing About You," Bob Dylan's "Every Grain of Sand,"
The Weekend Stream: September 27, 2025
Welcome to another relaxing journey down The Weekend Stream featuring a classic anthem from Barry Manilow and the late Peter Allen; a moving farewell for a great cause from Ozzy Osbourne and his friends in Judas Priest; classic pop from The King Family; a host of jazz, R&B, and country reissues; a dash of Christmas cheer from an old friend; and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-miWrKUaEE Barry Manilow, Once Before I Go (Stiletto) (Apple / Amazon) Fans attending Barry Manilow's
Release Round-Up: Week of September 26
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.' Spike Jones in Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings The late, great Spike Jones' side-splittingly spooky 1959 album In Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! returns from
The Weekend Stream: September 20, 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. Lenny Kravitz gets expanded, The Doors revisit a classic concert, J. Lo goes Broadway, and much, much more! Lenny Kravitz, Circus (Deluxe Edition) (Virgin/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) Kravitz's top ten album from 1995 receives thirteen bonus cuts in this digital-only expansion, including live and acoustic tracks plus three studio cuts previously
Release Round-Up: Week of September 19
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today including - did we ever think we'd get the chance to say this? - the CD debut of Buckingham Nicks! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Buckingham Nicks (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. (gold) / Amazon U.K. (baby blue) / Amazon Canada (gold) In just over 15 years of reporting at The Second Disc, it's a sentence we never thought
Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul
Ray Charles' 1963 potpourri Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul makes it first official appearance on vinyl in decades and also returns to CD in this remastered reissue featuring the original album sequence only. Tracks include "Busted," "That Lucky Old Sun," "Over the Rainbow," and "You'll Never Walk Alone." As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Endlessly: A Tribute to Brook Benton
The late Charley Pride recorded this tribute to velvet-voiced soul crooner Brook Benton in the mid-1980s, but it went unreleased. Now, Pride's estate has unearthed his original recordings which were co-produced by Bob Pickering and recorded not in Nashville but in Dallas; Pickering has mixed and mastered them for this release which celebrates what would have been Benton's 94th birthday on September 19. (He died in 1988 at the age of just 56.) The label notes that "Other than digitally
Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle
Willie Nelson spent much of the summer out on the road with the Outlaw Festival, so it's only appropriate that his new studio album is paying tribute to a fellow Outlaw. Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle, available on CD, LP, and digitally, finds Young celebrating his late friend Merle Haggard, with whom he recorded three albums between 1983 and 2015. Willie's 78th original album, Workin' Man features a host of Hag favorites including "Okie from Muskogee," "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down,"
The Weekend Stream: September 13, 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. Phil Collins gets remixed, unexpected covers of The Cure and Bob Dylan and so much more - all part of this week's round-up! Phil Collins, No Jacket Required (2025 Mix) (Craft/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) A nice surprise for fans of Phil: not only have a few bonus tracks exclusive to the new vinyl box set of No Jacket Required made digital
The Weekend Stream: August 30, 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 one Vault track from Prince, four albums unearthed by SuperVisible Multi Media, five rare mixes from Bowie and Jagger, and more than 100 hard-to-find cuts from Connie Francis - now that's some rock and roll math! Prince, "Sign O' the Times" (Live in Rotterdam 1987) (NPG/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) A welcome respite from sharing
Release Round-Up: Week of August 29
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. Deep Purple, Rapture of the Deep: 20th Anniversary Edition (earMusic) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A 20th anniversary edition of Rapture of the Deep, Deep Purple's 18th studio album, offers a remix and resequencing of the album by Roger Glover, with two non-LP
The Weekend Stream: August 9, 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. Jim Reeves isn't the only gentleman on display this week: we've also got Peter Gabriel, Eddy Grant, Ben Folds and a host of film composers - plus many, many more! Peter Gabriel, Live At WOMAD 1982 (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) Loosed from the vault is Gabriel's nine-song headlining set at the first World of Music, Art and Dance
The Weekend Stream Extra: Jim Reeves' Country Legend Goes 'Singing Down the Lane' on New Expanded Edition
Even as the sound of country music changed in the 1980s - a shift represented by everything from the Urban Cowboy soundrack to Kenny Rogers' romantic crossover singles - some things never changed. Take Jim Reeves, for instance: the baritone crooner spent the late '50s and early '60s helping craft the "countrypolitan" style that helped the genre spread its wings in other listening markets in America beyond the rural South. Into the late '70s and early '80s, he was still a force on the country
The Weekend Stream: July 26, 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. Billy Joel fans have it good this week, with seven hours of hits and rarities from his new documentary. If you've got room after that, there's an anniversary reissue for literally the last five decades in a few different genres, too! Billy Joel, And So It Goes (The Musical Companion to the HBO Documentary Film) (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple /
The Weekend Stream: July 19, 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 a gem from Linda Ronstadt's vault, a new update of a Disney classic and a fascinating sit-down with one of folk's most important matriarchs - plus tributes to artists we lost this week and a potential hint at a very exciting reissue from one of the pivotal duos in '70s rock. Linda Ronstadt, "How Do I Make You" / "Rambler
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