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Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen, Letter to You (Columbia) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP black with white swirl: Bruce Springsteen Online Store 2-LP grey: Your Local Record Shop The Boss returns with a new, long-awaited album featuring The E Street Band. Produced by Springsteen and his frequent collaborator Ron Aniello, it features original songs as well as his first recordings of three compositions he wrote early in his career but never officially released: “Janey Needs a Shooter,” “If I Was the Priest,” and “Song for Orphans.” Letter…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Country, Electronic, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Alan Menken, Beastie Boys, Bob Mould, Bobby Bare, Bruce Springsteen, Daniel Lacksman, John Prine, Little Richard, Maury Yeston, Menswear, Pearl Jam, Randy Newman, Roland Haynes, Shel Silverstein, Steve Wynn, The Sherman Brothers

Still Afraid of Americans: New Bowie Live Series Collects ’90s Tour Dates

October 2, 2020 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Brilliant Live Adventures. That’s how Parlophone is describing the latest catalogue initiative for the late David Bowie. This series will encompass six live albums from the 1990s which will be released in limited edition, one-time pressings on both vinyl and CD. The first three albums will all be released before Christmas, with the remaining three early in 2021. The first Brilliant Live Adventure, coming on October 28 on single-CD and double-vinyl formats from Bowie’s official webstore, is Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas ’95). (The English translation of the title is “Open the…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Rock

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David Bowie

Play Tetris Til My Eyes Fall Out: The Second Disc’s Bandcamp Friday Picks, October 2020

October 2, 2020 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

The month’s best new release day is back! Since March, indie music retailer Bandcamp has waived their share of revenue for indie artists and labels using their platform to give “the little guys” a leg up in the face of the pandemic. The result was more music bought by more fans than any day on the site, a record broken on the first Friday of May. Bandcamp Fridays have since taken place in June, July, August, and September – plus the first of an annual occurrence when the service will donate its…

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Features

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Electronic, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bob Dylan, Dave Alvin, Drive-By Truckers, John Prine, Pearl Jam, Suzanne Ciani, The Blasters, The Feminine Complex

De-Rezzed to Re-Rezzed: Mondo Reissues Daft Punk’s ‘TRON: Legacy’ Soundtrack

September 30, 2020 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Daft Punk’s scintillating electronic score to TRON: Legacy is coming back to vinyl for its 10th anniversary with a lavish edition courtesy of the Mondo label. The label lists this release as one of their “holy grails,” and they’ve spared no expense in celebrating it. This 2LP, 180-gram release, pressed on blue/white and red/black vinyl, features the original soundtrack program along with seven bonus cuts that didn’t make the original CD release. (As was standard a decade ago, they were divided among deluxe editions and even digital accounts – though they first…

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News

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Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Electronic, Soundtracks

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Daft Punk

Short Takes: Bowie Box, Covering ’90s and Early ’00s, Planned for 2021

September 28, 2020 by The Second Disc | 10 Comments

David Bowie’s official website has announced plans for a fifth epoch-covering box set to release next year, after delaying an alternate version of said collection for a 2020 release. In a brief post, the late singer’s website confirms that the follow-up to the four career-spanning album boxes – 2015’s Five Years (1969-1973), 2016’s Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), 2017’s A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) and 2018’s Loving The Alien (1983-1988) – will cover the widest span of time yet: 1993 to 2001, considered by some to be his…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock

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Brian Eno, David Bowie, Nile Rodgers, Nine Inch Nails

Almost Hear You Sigh: Record Store Day U.K. Announces New Releases, Spotlight on The Yardbirds’ “Roger the Engineer”

September 25, 2020 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Tomorrow marks Record Store Day Drop 2. Recently, RSD U.K. announced 23 additions to their drop lists for September and October. While we know for sure that The Rolling Stones’ upcoming Steel Wheels Live 10″ picture disc will be a worldwide release, it’s unclear at the time of writing whether all of the other releases will be distributed across the pond. Still, with so many retailers taking their business online given the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s altogether possible that customers in the States can snag copies and support brick and mortar shops. As…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock

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Calexico, Daft Punk, Dio, Jethro Tull, Neneh Cherry, Record Store Day, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Thurston Moore

Flaunt It: Deluxe Edition

September 18, 2020 by Joe Marchese

Cherry Red is launching the debut album by Sigue Sigue Sputnik back into orbit with a greatly-expanded 4CD set. Flaunt It, the group’s 1986 album introduction after several years of hype and a pair of Top 20 hits in the U.K., will be expanded to feature two discs of B-sides and remixes and a previously unreleased live-in-studio set at Abbey Road Studios. All the material is remastered from the original tapes and assembled with input by original group bassist Tony James and guitarist Neal X.

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Box Sets, CD

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Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, Rock

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Shoot It Up: Cherry Red Expands Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s Debut

September 17, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, Rock

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Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Funny and You Don’t Know Why: The Second Disc’s Bandcamp Friday Picks for September

September 4, 2020 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

On March 20, as the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic was just starting to be understood, indie music retailer Bandcamp made the bold choice of waiving their share of revenue for artists and labels who were cancelling shows and delaying album releases left and right. The result was more music bought by more fans than any day on the site, a record broken on the first Friday of May. Bandcamp Fridays have since taken place in June, July and August – plus the first of an annual occurrence when the service will…

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Features, News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Electronic, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Rock

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Death Cab For Cutie, Joni Mitchell, Mort Garson, Paramore, Pylon, R.E.M., The Modulators, Wilco, Woody Guthrie

Electronic Flair: Real Gone Music Reissues Rare Synthesizer Explorations of Dan Lacksman

September 3, 2020 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

Real Gone Music has a reputation for finding some of the finest lost treasures from across genres and the label’s most recent announcement is one that’s sure to take listeners by surprise. On October 23, Real Gone will reissue three pioneering pieces of synth-pop from Belgian recording engineer and synthesizer artist Daniel Lacksman: Dan Lacksman, Electronic System: Vol. II, and Electronic System: Tchip Tchip (Vol. 3). Originally released in 1973 and 1974, this triptych sees Lacksman utilizing his considerable skills in electronics and music to deliver material that was both innovative and, unlike…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Electronic, Everything Else, Pop

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Daniel Lacksman

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