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The Weekend Stream: June 5, 2021

June 5, 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've introduced 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! Nelly Furtado, Loose

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alicia Keys, Bear McCreary, John Cale, Nelly Furtado, Terry Riley

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

Waltz in Orbit: Sir George Martin's Space-Age Electronica Receives Limited Edition Reissue

March 9, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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Throughout his extraordinary career, the late George Martin produced everything from comedy records to musical cast recordings, leaving his mark in every genre.  His versatility, of course, found full flower in his collaborations with The Beatles.  Now, a fascinating early project of the producer-composer-arranger-executive is coming to light in a special, limited edition release.  In early 1962, Martin teamed with Maddalena Fagandini of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to record a pair of

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else Tags: George Martin, Maddalena Fagandini

Share Your Love: Vinyl Me Please Announces New Reissues of Soul, Folk, Rock, and Hip-Hop Classics

January 19, 2021 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Record subscription service Vinyl Me Please has announced the latest batch of reissues for this month, February, and March. These are split into three tracks: Essentials, curated from an array of genres; Classics, which focuses primarily on soul, jazz, and R&B; and Rap & Hip-Hop, which spotlights favorites These include lost classics from the Stax and Motown vaults, John Prine's masterful self-titled album, overlooked hip-hop gems, and a landmark rock album from the turn of the new

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Electronic, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soundtracks Tags: Eyedea and Abilities, Frederick Knight, Isaac Hayes, John Prine, Kid Cudi, Killer Mike, Leon Ware, Quasimodo, The Strokes

Shake It Up! Rhino Announces Offering for Start Your Ear Off Right 2021

January 8, 2021 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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Rhino's annual resolve to Start Your Ear Off Right continues into 2021 with new and exclusive, limited-edition releases to be released throughout January.  The campaign begins today and includes titles by a diverse lineup: Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, Buffalo Springfield, The Cars, Dire Straits, Danny Elfman, Genesis, k.d. lang, Curtis Mayfield, John Prine, Talk Talk, and Talking Heads.  You can find all the details about these releases below, and be sure to grab these releases from

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Electronic, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, Buffalo Springfield, Curtis Mayfield, Danny Elfman, Dire Straits, Genesis, John Prine, k.d. lang, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, The Cars

They're Red Hot: AIDS-Combating Compilations Get Digital Reissues for 30th Anniversary

December 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Since 1989, the Red Hot Organization (RHO) has been combatting the scourge of HIV/AIDS.  Red Hot has primarily raised money through the creation of music compilations beginning with the 1990 release Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter.  Now, that star-studded release and numerous others have come to digital and streaming services to continue raising money for the charity. RHO co-founder John Carlin, an entertainment lawyer spurred into action by the devastating losses suffered by the New

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Annie Lennox, Aztec Camera, David Byrne, Deborah Harry, Erasure, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Somerville, k.d. lang, Kirsty MacColl, Laurie Anderson, Los Lobos, Melissa Etheridge, Moby, Neneh Cherry, Sepultura, Sinead O'Connor, The Neville Brothers, The Pogues, Thompson Twins, Tom Waits, U2

Design As Reduction: Brian Eno's Soundtrack Work Anthologized On "Film Music 1976-2020"

November 9, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Brian Eno and UMe have recently announced the release of Film Music 1976-2020 . This first-ever compilation of Eno's film and television soundtrack work brings together highlights from five decades of music, including seven tracks previously unreleased in an audio-only format . Digital configurations will be released on November 13 while CD and 2-LP editions are set to arrive on January 22, 2021. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Eno has long been associated with film music, starting in 1970

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Soundtracks Tags: Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, U2

Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Country, Electronic, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: 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

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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

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

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

October 2, 2020 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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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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Categories: Features Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 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

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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

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Soundtracks Tags: Daft Punk

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

September 28, 2020 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

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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

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

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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

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock Tags: Calexico, Daft Punk, Dio, Jethro Tull, Neneh Cherry, Record Store Day, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Thurston Moore

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

September 17, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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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

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, Rock Tags: 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 Leave a Comment

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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

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Categories: Features, News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: 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

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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

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Everything Else, Pop Tags: Daniel Lacksman

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