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The Weekend Stream: April 11, 2026

April 11, 2026 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. Another George Michael single is redelivered, XTC demos get delivered and a reinvented video game dance classic enters the arena – plus a whole lot of oddities and buried treasure from 1976! George Michael, Faith (Single) (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) The second of George Michael’s Faith singles to be delivered to digital with the original covers and B-sides is the effortlessly classic title…

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Abbey Lincoln, Andre Kostelanetz, Andy Partridge, Aztec Two-Step, Cedar Walton, Chet Atkins, Danny Davis, David Gates, Earl Scruggs, Freddy Weller, Gary Stewart, George Michael, John Lee Hooker, Lea Michele, Lou Courtney, Lynn Anderson, Markolino Dimond, Tim Rice, XTC

The Weekend Stream: March 28, 2026

March 28, 2026 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. This week is delivering the goods: vintage George Michael mixes, Beach Boys rarities, new tracks from some of our favorite elder statesmen of pop and rock, and so much more in so many genres. George Michael, I Want Your Sex EP (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) There’s things that you guess and things that you know – but we honestly weren’t expecting this!…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock

The Weekend Stream: March 7, 2026

March 7, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. There’s new and old works from three of the best British white guys to ever do it, plus a boatload of Hugh Masekela treasures, a legendary punk session and plenty of exciting ’70s country nuggets. Sting, Mercury Falling (Expanded Edition) (A&M/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) For the 30th anniversary of Sting’s fifth studio album – a quirkier affair than previous, with tracks…

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Allan Rich, Blue Mitchell, Cy Coleman, Denny Davis & The Nashville Brass, Dickey Lee, Floyd Cramer, Fugazi, Godsmack, Hugh Masekela, Keith David, Peter Gabriel, Ringo Starr, Steve Albini, Sting, T Bone Burnett, The Choice Four, Willie Colon

The Weekend Stream: February 28, 2026

February 28, 2026 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. Nine Inch Nails returns to The Grid, plus a trio of soundtracks from an electronica icon, rarities from The New Christy Minstrels, Wynn Stewart, Vince Guaraldi and others, plus some tributes to artists we’ve lost and a TSD-related onstage production you don’t want to miss! Nine Inch Nails, TRON Ares: Divergence (The Null Corporation/Walt Disney Records/Interscope) (Apple / Amazon) A complete surprise…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

The Weekend Stream: February 21, 2026

February 21, 2026 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. This week we’ve got one of the biggest rock bands in the world making a surprise statement on current events, some ’80s covers from a current synthpop favorite, rarities and remixes that’ll make you want to hit your local mall, and so much more! U2, Days of Ash (Island) (Apple / Amazon) Not long after Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg each…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Electronic, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Adam Gwon, Bananarama, CHVRCHES, Jay-Z, Judy Rodman, Marc Teitler, Nancy Harris, Slim Dunlap, Tiffany, U2

The Weekend Stream: February 14, 2026

February 14, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. New remixes from James Brown and Tears for Fears, uncovered rarities from Peggy Lee, new songs from MUNA and Bleachers and a whole lotta Ween will keep you busy for the rest of the day! MUNA, “Dancing on the Wall” (Saddest Factory) (Apple / Amazon) One of pop’s best current bands is back for more! Queer-friendly trio MUNA have built a considerable fan base through catchy, electronics-and-guitar-driven albums –…

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3 Doors Down, Bleachers, Cake, James Brown, Jim Reeves, MUNA, Miles Davis, Peggy Lee, Sananda Maitreya, Slave, Tears for Fears, Ween

Lessons in Love: Robinsongs Caps Off Level 42 Box Sets with ‘The Later Years 2001-2020’

January 15, 2026 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Cherry Red’s suite of labels have already planned a healthy amount of box sets and reissues for the first quarter of the year. One such title is Robinsongs’ fourth collection devoted to the work of British jazz-rock outfit Level 42 – and since the last one of them we covered was a volume in 2021, the time seemed right to catch you up while sharing the new news, too. The work kicked off with The Complete Polydor Years 1980-1984, a 10CD set offering the band’s first five albums (Level 42 (1981), The Early Tapes –…

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Another Merry Discmas to All from The Second Disc!

December 24, 2025 by The Second Disc | 16 Comments

No one – not even your friends at TSD HQ! – can predict the arc of music reissues. When we launched The Second Disc nearly 16 years ago, the business was in a place of surprising highs and lows. The Beatles’ albums had been remastered for the first time ever – but it seemed that stalwarts like Rhino Records were enduring hardships. Vinyl was a niche concern, streaming even more so, and who knew where the CD would end up? (And that doesn’t even account for personal growth immaterial of the music…

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The Weekend Stream: December 13, 2025

December 13, 2025 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

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. There’s even more holiday gifts today: new takes on a film music legend, a decade-spanning dance mash-up, more centennial celebrations for a Rat Pack icon, plus some deep country and modern rock treasures. Cécilia Tsan, Sara Andon & Simone Pedroni, John Williams Reimagined: Home Alone (Warner Classics/Erato/Parlophone) (Apple / Amazon) In 2024, soundtrack reissue producer Robert Townson assembled cellist Tsan, flautist Andon and pianist Pedroni for a most intriguing…

Every Little Counts: New Order 2CD Expansions and Blu-ray Surround Mixes to Be Released

December 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

A quartet of slimmed-down New Order reissues are due this week, alongside new Blu-ray Audio editions of three of their early albums. Rhino has released “Definitive Edition” box sets of the influential British electronic band’s first four albums in recent years: 1981’s Movement in 2019, 1983’s Power, Corruption & Lies in 2020, 1985’s Low-Life in 2023 and 1986’s Brotherhood in 2024. Each heavy-duty set came with the remastered album on CD and vinyl, a bonus CD of mostly unreleased material and troves of rare video content on Blu-ray. (The original B-sides and 12″ versions, included on late ’00s…

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Love’s Great Adventure: Ultravox’s ‘The Collection’ Goes Deluxe on CD/Blu-ray Box

December 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

One of the year’s last big catalogue titles is a new expansion of Ultravox’s The Collection, due out tomorrow, December 5. Originally released in 1984 and collecting more than a dozen singles from the band’s most popular early ’80s run, the set has now been greatly expanded to provide an even more complete picture of the group’s “classic,” Midge Ure-led line-up, encompassing hits, B-sides, 15 previously unreleased mixes and a trove of rare video footage. Central to all deluxe formats (a 4CD/2 Blu-ray box set and a 4LP edition pressed on clear vinyl)…

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The Weekend Stream: November 22, 2025

November 22, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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 real grab bag for you before the Thanksgiving holiday: cut songs from Broadway comedies, rarities from a ’60s soul/rock legend, an inexplicably remastered charity single, rare 12″ mixes and remastered jazz. Have a listen, won’t you?? Various Artists, Monty Python’s Spamalot (Original Broadway Cast Recording/20th Anniversary Edition) (Decca Broadway) (Apple / Amazon) Something to (always) look on the bright side of life over: a new reissue of the music…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

The Weekend Stream: October 4, 2025

October 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

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. From the Foo Fighters entering Bandcamp for a cause to a Record Store Day rarity by Rage Against the Machine, the dream of the ’90s is very much alive here…plus much more from other decades, too! Are Playing Where??? Vol. I by Foo Fighters Foo Fighters, Are Playing Where??? Vol. 1 (Roswell) (Bandcamp) After kicking off a season of drummer exodus – sacking session drummer Josh Freese, who’d join…

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Bob Mould, Dave Grohl, David Longworth Wallingford, Donal Leace, Foo Fighters, Gary Numan, Gavin Creel, Jennifer Lopez, Joan Baez, King Creosote, Rage Against the Machine, Roberta Flack, Sugar

In My Mind’s Eye: Tears for Fears’ ‘Songs from the Big Chair’ Revisited for 40th Anniversary

September 29, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 7 Comments

Tears for Fears’ Songs from the Big Chair – still the crown jewel of the duo’s discography, and easily its most-reissued – will get some more pressings on CD and vinyl this fall to mark its 40th anniversary. Already expanded on CD in 1999, 2006 and a 2014 box set, TFF’s signature LP comes back into print as a 3CD set that offers most of the contents of that out-of-print box set: the original album, B-sides, various single edits and remixes. The original album will also be newly pressed on Coke bottle-clear vinyl…

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The Magic in Your Touch: New Thompson Twins Collection Features Hits, Deep Cuts and Live Disc

September 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Thompson Twins Industry Seduction packshot

Just about a year after expanding and reissuing landmark album Into the Gap for its 40th anniversary, the Thompson Twins’ catalogue will now be evaluated through a new compilation – the first to be sanctioned by the band. Industry & Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection will offer 20 singles and favorite cuts across the band’s best-known period of material from 1982 to 1986, including standouts “Hold Me Now,” “Lay Your Hands on Me,” “Lies,” “Doctor! Doctor!” and “In the Name of Love.” Those 20 tracks will be available as a 1CD or…

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How’s About Some Hot Stuff: Massive Donna Summer Singles CD Box Set Coming This Fall

September 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 24 Comments

It’s a box set fit for a queen (of disco): Donna Summer’s singles are being chronicled in a major way in November. Summer Time: The Singles Collection 1974-2010, coming November 28 from the late singer’s Driven by the Music catalogue imprint, is set to be a staggering tribute to Summer’s decades-long presence as a dancefloor filler. Timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough hit “Love to Love You, Baby,” this 40CD set will highlight five decades’ worth of single sides she issued all over the world, from early Dutch single-only…

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The World is My Oyster: Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s ‘Pleasuredome’ Goes Massive for New Box Set

September 16, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Universal Music Recordings are shooting a new box set in the right direction, covering Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s U.K. pop landmark Welcome to the Pleasuredome in exhaustive new detail. Though it’s already been exhaustively been reissued since The Second Disc started operating – once on a 2CD set from Salvo Music, on 2014’s vinyl/cassette/DVD set Inside the Pleasuredome (along with a 2018 Record Store Day box set of 12″ singles and the 2022 RSD comp Altered Reels, which brought a pair of cassette single presentations to vinyl) – another one (part of ZTT’s ongoing…

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The Best of Everything But the Girl

September 13, 2025 by Joe Marchese

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada One of U.K. pop’s most beloved duos is looking back with a new compilation that succinctly surveys their many albums over the last 40 years. The Best of Everything But the Girl offers 16 tracks from the pair on one CD or two LPs, spanning their debut single (a cover of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”) all the way up to 2023’s Fuse – their first album in more than two decades. It includes U.K. hits like “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” and “Walking…

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And I Miss You: Everything But the Girl Plan Career-Spanning Compilation

September 11, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

One of U.K. pop’s most beloved duos is looking back with a new compilation that succinctly surveys their many albums over the last 40 years. The Best of Everything But the Girl offers 16 tracks from the pair on one CD or two LPs, spanning their debut single (a cover of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”) all the way up to 2023’s Fuse – their first album in more than two decades. It includes U.K. hits like “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” and “Walking Wounded,” the fan favorite “Driving,” and of course,…

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The Weekend Stream: August 2, 2025

August 2, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

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 (and vintage) tracks from some of pop’s greatest women, rarities from Captain Beefheart, even more Billy Joel (in a slightly different way) and a tribute to one of the greatest discographies you can download for free. Chappell Roan, “The Subway” (Island) (Apple / Amazon) Does last year’s biggest pop star have a new album coming out? After dropping country-flavored “The Giver” earlier this year, the “Pink…

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Billy Joel, Captain Beefheart, Chappell Roan, Coolio, Elton John, Fania All-Stars, Groove Armada, Hayley Williams, Lauren Christy, Maren Morris, Natalie Cole, Spinal Tap

The Weekend Stream: July 26, 2025

July 26, 2025 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

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 / Amazon) If you’ve watched all five hours of the new two-part Billy…

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311, Ashley Monroe, Dr. Feelgood, Elliott Smith, Heatmiser, Marina and The Diamonds, Oasis, Paramore, Richard Barone, Ronan Keating, The Bongos

The Weekend Stream: July 19, 2025

July 19, 2025 by The Second Disc

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 Gambler” (Asylum/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) This week, song…

The Weekend Stream: June 28, 2025

June 28, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. There’s new music from Sarah McLachlan, Public Enemy and Liam Finn, plus a new video to a one-hit wonder, a Record Store Day single gone digital, and tributes to musicians we lost this week. Peter Gabriel, In the Big Room (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) The legendary pop/rock voice has loosed a recording from his vault for larger public consumption: highlights from an intimate 2003 performance at his Real World…

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Alexandre Desplat, Camouflage, David Gilmour, Judas Priest, Kool and the Gang, Leo Sayer, Liam Finn, Marcella Detroit, Norman Greenbaum, Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Sarah McLachlan

The Weekend Stream: June 7, 2025

June 7, 2025 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

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 posthumous recordings by Prince and Donna Summer, a new spin on Star Wars disco, and plenty of cast recordings leading into the Tony Awards this Sunday! And just a quick programming note: our Unplugged series is taking the week off, but will be back with some new and exciting Weekend Stream extra content very soon! Prince, “Free” (Acoustic) (NPG/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) “The Vault is now…

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