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The Weekend Stream: April 12, 2025

April 12, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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. By now, you might have hit your participating local shop for Record Store Day - and happily, we're kicking off this Saturday's column to share material from five exclusive vinyl titles that are getting a second life in the streaming and download world too. It's a great way to check out some titles if you missed them, or weren't sure if you wanted

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, CCM, Classic Rock, Country, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, CHVRCHES, Clarence White, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Jeff Bridges, John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band, Jule Styne, Marlena Shaw, Nina Simone, Reba Rambo, Roger McGuinn, Roy Ayers, Sarah Vaughan, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Stephen Sondheim, T Bone Burnett, The Byrds, The Everly Brothers, Thompson Twins

The Second Disc's Guide to Record Store Day 2025: Our Favorite Picks

April 11, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

record store day logo

Tomorrow, Record Store Day is once again upon us! It's that time of year where music lovers and vinyl flippers get together at their favorite physical music retailers and wait in line to snag some treasured albums - almost all of which are pressed on vinyl instead of CD (or, you know, sold on secondary marketplaces for above their retail value).  This year, the list tops out at over 300 titles, so there's very nearly something for everybody.  It wasn't easy to narrow our choices down to around

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Carla Thomas, David Bowie, Doc Pomus, Duran Duran, Elton John, Jackie DeShannon, John Lennon, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull, Mel Brooks, Neil Finn, Oasis, Prince, Queen, Record Store Day, Stephen Schwartz, Sting, Talking Heads, The Replacements, Todd Rundgren, Vince Guaraldi, Warren Zevon, Yoko Ono

Have You Heard? Rhino's Newest Quadio Batch Includes Rod Stewart, ZZ Top, Beaver and Krause, Modern Jazz Quartet

April 11, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Quadio Batch 8

Rhino's Quadio series is back!  The ongoing series of four-channel surround Blu-ray Audio Discs has announced its latest four titles, available now directly from Rhino.com.  This eclectic group encompasses releases from Rod Stewart, ZZ Top, The Modern Jazz Quartet, and Beaver and Krause. Rod Stewart's sixth album, 1975's Atlantic Crossing marked a new chapter for the Faces singer.  Produced by Tom Dowd and recorded across various studios in North America, the album was sequenced with one

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Classic Rock, Electronic, Jazz, Pop Tags: Beaver and Krause, Modern Jazz Quartet, Rod Stewart, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of April 11

April 11, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Talking Heads Live on Tour 78

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. The Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown: Expanded Edition (Fantasy/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Craft Recordings delivers a newly expanded edition of 1964's Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Summers, Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell, Marian McPartland, Nellie McKay, Robert Fripp, Talking Heads, The Replacements, Vince Guaraldi

The Right Time: Iconoclassic Preps Reissues from Ian North, David Sancious, Natural Gas

April 3, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Version 1.0.0

Our friends at Iconoclassic Records are teeing up a prolific 2025 following their release earlier in the year of Dwight Twilley's Scuba Divers: Blueprint Edition. On April 25, the label will bring the late Ian North's 1979 album Neo to CD for the first time; that's followed on May 16 with David Sancious' 1981 set The Bridge. Then, on May 30, comes the Original Master Edition of Natural Gas' self-titled album - a fitting salute to the band's late Joey Molland. Brooklyn-born Ian North

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Rock Tags: David Sancious, Ian North, Joey Molland, Natural Gas

Record Store Day 2025: The Best of the Rest

April 2, 2025 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

RSD 2025 best of rest

Next Saturday, April 12, is certainly one of the most packed Record Store Days in recent memory. Since the list was announced, we drilled down on titles from Craft Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, BMG, Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, as well as some notable titles that were getting later general releases on CD. Well, if you thought that was it, you're wrong! We pored and pored over the list and are here to share

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, Adam and The Ants, Alex Chilton, Annie Lennox, Ariana Grande, Art Blakey, Beck, Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Brad Fiedel, Brian Wilson, Bryan Adams, Cannonball Adderley, Cat Stevens, Charles Mingus, CHVRCHES, Cissy Houston, Clarence White, Cockney Rebel, Cynthia Erivo, Dave Stewart, Dead or Alive, Dusty Springfield, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Freddie Hubbard, George Harrison, Gloria Jones, Graham Parker, Gram Parsons, Grant Green, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Band, Kenny Dorham, Little Richard, Maurice Jarre, Nick Lowe, Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic, Paul Hardcastle, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Propaganda, Record Store Day, Roger Daltrey, Roger McGuinn, Scott Weiland, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, Terry Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Art of Noise, The Beach Boys, The Blasters, The Byrds, The Colourfield, The Everly Brothers, The Fall, The Hives, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi, Wall of Voodoo, Wang Chung, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Yusuf

Release Round-Up: Week of March 21

March 21, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Vince Guaraldi It's the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown

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. Tina Turner, Private Dancer: 40th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pearl LP with art card: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Tina Turner's smash 1984

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Climie Fisher, Dave Mason, Mike + the Mechanics, Rush, The Alan Parsons Project, The Stylistics, Tina Turner, Vince Guaraldi

They'll Be There for You: 10 Record Store Day Exclusives Getting CD Releases

March 19, 2025 By Mike Duquette 13 Comments

Talking Heads Live on Tour 78

The Record Store Day round-up marches on! After covering in detail the vinyl offerings from Universal Music Group, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, BMG, Craft Recordings, Real Gone Music, Omnivore and U.K. labels Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, we've still got a few things to highlight...notably, the work of labels who are serving one of Record Store Day's least-served fans. There are plenty of business and financial reasons why some Record Store Day titles are limited solely to vinyl,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Francoise Hardy, Gloria Jones, Jackie DeShannon, Marc Bolan, Pixies, Record Store Day, Robert Hunter, Suede, T Rex, Talking Heads, The Mission, The Rembrandts, Vince Guaraldi

Baby, You Give Me a Feeling: Robinsongs Collects Five Albums from Roy Ayers' Ubiquity

March 6, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Roy Ayers Ubiquity Five Classic Albums

Last evening, TSD learned that jazz legend Roy Ayers had passed away at the age of 84.  Prior to the sad news, we had completed and scheduled this news item on Cherry Red and Robinsongs' recent collection of five albums he recorded with the loose collective he called Ubiquity.  We dedicate this piece to Roy Ayers and celebrate his enormous legacy.​ When vibraphonist-composer Roy Ayers moved to the Polydor label in 1970, he titled his debut album Ubiquity.  In an interview quoted in the new

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Roy Ayers, Ubiquity

On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters

March 5, 2025 By

Kenny Burrell On View Complete Masters

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release.  On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up,

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

A New 'View': Celebrated Kenny Burrell Live Set Gets Expanded

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Kenny Burrell On View Complete Masters

A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release. On View At the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up, along with nine additional tracks from the same club dates - six of which are being released for

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell

Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Expanded Edition)

February 28, 2025 By

a boy named charlie brown

Craft Recordings delivers a newly expanded edition of 1964's Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi and Charles M. Schulz's lovable Peanuts characters.  The 2CD set offers a fresh remaster of Guaraldi's initial nine compositions devoted to Charlie Brown and friends - including the immortal "Linus and Lucy" - and adds a bonus disc of 16 rare and unreleased outtakes. It's the latest in an incredible bounty

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of February 28

February 28, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

A Complete Unknown OST CD

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. Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe) 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:

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Carla Olson, Ella Fitzgerald, Eugene Ormandy, Gene Clark, Godley and Creme, John Lee Hooker, Sex Pistols, Supertramp, The Beckies

Happiness Is: Vince Guaraldi's First Charlie Brown Album to Be Expanded by Craft Recordings

February 26, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown packshot

Happiness is many things to many people: good friends, childlike wonder, catchy tunes...and, perhaps, a warm puppy. From Craft Recordings comes a new reissue that includes all four: a newly expanded edition of 1964's Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi and Charles M. Schulz's lovable Peanuts characters. The 2CD set, available April 4, offers a fresh remaster of Guaraldi's initial nine compositions

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: Vince Guaraldi

The Weekend Stream: February 22, 2025

February 22, 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 great Carly Simon deep cut gets a fresh mix, plus Phil Collins in concert and new music from The Stylistics. Carly Simon, "Share the End" (2025 Remaster) (Elektra/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Though merely billed as a remaster in the metadata, this upbeat, heartbreaking side-two opener to Simon's sophomore album Anticipation has been

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bill Champlin, Billy Gibbons, Carly Simon, Gene Simmons, Larry Coryell, Phil Collins, Ray Parker Jr., Ron Wood, Shania Twain, Steve Lukather, Tatyana Ali, The Stylistics, Tower of Power, Will Smith

The Weekend Stream: February 15, 2025

February 15, 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! We're taking it way back today with reissues and rarities by Peggy Lee, Brenda Lee, The Fleetwoods, and The Five Satins - plus more Luther Vandross rarities! Luther Vandross, Never Too Much: Greatest HIts (Epic/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Released late last year ahead of the new documentary on the late R&B legend, Luther Vandross' Never

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Artie Kane, Betty Wright, Brenda Lee, Candi Staton, Cheryl Lynn, Luther Vandross, Peggy Lee, Richard Perry, The Five Satins, The Fleetwoods, War

The Voice of Love: Julee Cruise's Collaborations with Badalamenti and Lynch Compiled in New 2CD Set

February 14, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Julee Cruise Fall Float Love

In one of the more unintentionally-timed releases of the year, Cherry Red will revisit the most popular works of the late singer Julee Cruise, known for her haunting work with the late, influential filmmaker David Lynch. FALL_FLOAT_LOVE (Works 1989-1993), available April 25, brings together expanded editions of 1989's Floating Into the Night and 1993's The Voice of Love, both of which were written and produced by the iconoclastic writer/director and his longtime musical collaborator, Angelo

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Julee Cruise

Rhino Readies Nearly 50 Titles for Record Store Day Including Titles from Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, More

February 10, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Rhino RSD 25

As usual, Rhino is leading the Record Store Day pack with a whopping slate of almost 50 titles scheduled to arrive in independent shops everywhere on Saturday, April 12.  The label has brought out many of its heaviest hitters, including Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Jethro Tull, among others.  Head over to RecordStoreDay.com for the complete list of participating stores, and below you'll find details for all of Rhino's releases!  We've linked to the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Air, Belly, Black Sabbath, Blur, Bobby Charles, Count Basie, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Giorgio Moroder, Gloria Jones, Grateful Dead, Ice-T, James Blunt, Jet, Jethro Tull, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Mel Brooks, Morphine, Peter Tosh, Ramones, Record Store Day, Ry Cooder, Starship, Stone Temple Pilots, The B-52's, The Cure, The Doors, The Jayhawks, The Replacements, The Veronicas, Todd Rundgren, War, Warren Zevon, Yes

They Will Have Their Way: Legacy Plans Packed Record Store Day Slate

February 10, 2025 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Legacy RSD

Is it just us, or has Record Store Day felt a little muted in recent years? Obviously the annual Black Friday celebration boasts less titles than the festivities held every April, but it's sometimes been a struggle to identify great archival titles or worthy re-pressed discs. Well, that certainly isn't the case this year: labels seem to have gone into overdrive stockpiling interesting LPs and singles worth a second (or first!) look - and one of the strongest showings might be Sony Music's Legacy

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cypress Hill, David Gilmour, Jeff Buckley, John Legend, Judas Priest, Lou Reed, Neil Finn, Nick Mason, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Record Store Day, Soul Asylum, Thelonious Monk, Toad the Wet Sprocket

Just As Long As We Have Love: Rhino's Quadio Series Continues with Aretha, Spinners, Curtis Mayfield, Billy Cobham

February 7, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Quadio Batch 7

This morning, Rhino unveiled its first batch of Quadio titles for 2025 - and this time, the emphasis is on classic soul and R&B with a twist of jazz!  The series, reissuing vintage quadraphonic (four-channel) surround mixes on Blu-ray Audio Discs, welcomes Aretha Franklin's Live at Fillmore West (1971), Curtis Mayfield's Roots (1971), The Spinners' Pick of the Litter (1975), and Billy Cobham's Spectrum (1973). The Queen of Soul's Live at Fillmore West followed 1970's Spirit in the Dark in

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, Billy Cobham, Curtis Mayfield, The Spinners, Thom Bell

Craft Recordings Unveils RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Celia Cruz, Thelonious Monk, Collective Soul, More

February 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

record store day logo

Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 12 - that's the date this year for Record Store Day, the date upon which fans, collectors, and everyone in between flocks to local independent record stores and hopefully gives those brick-and-mortar stores a leg up for the year!  The full list has been posted, and here at TSD, we'll start today by spotlighting various releases from some of our favorite labels!  Craft Recordings is among those labels, and they've just announced a batch encompassing jazz,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A Day to Remember, Carla Thomas, Celia Cruz, Collective Soul, Gerry Mulligan, Record Store Day, Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Colon

Not So Simple Songs: Ace Records Compiles Sly Stone Covers

February 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Everybody is a Star The Sly Stone Songbook

A timely new collection will pay tribute to the work of Sly & The Family Stone through a diverse group of covers and rarely-heard singles written and produced by the group's iconic frontman for others. Everybody is a Star - The Sly Stone Songbook is the latest entry in Ace Records' Songwriter Series, chronicling some of the greatest modern songwriters of the last century. Naturally, the man born Sylvester Stewart is a prime candidate for such an overview. His mix of R&B, funk, pop and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Al Jarreau, Diana Ross, Gene Harris, Iggy Pop, Ike Turner, Jeff Buckley, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, The Five Stairsteps, The Jackson 5, The Three Degrees, Tina Turner

The Weekend Stream: February 1, 2025

February 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 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 new charity cover from Def Leppard, reissues of classic albums by Simple Minds and Sheena Easton, and a mess of vintage jazz is on the menu today - plus a heads-up for a forthcoming way to help the ongoing California wildfire relief effort. Def Leppard, Stand by Me (Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) While also a single

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Benny Goodman, Def Leppard, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Sammy Kaye, Sheena Easton, Simple Minds, Tommy Dorsey

Release Round-Up: Week of January 31

January 31, 2025 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Dwight Twilley Scuba Divers

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. Dwight Twilley, Scuba Divers: Blueprint Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The road to Dwight Twilley's second album, 1982's Scuba Divers, was a long one.  Now, Iconoclassic Records is expanding that 10-track album with a whopping 15 bonus tracks (11 of which are previously unreleased) chronicling

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Dwight Twilley, Loudon Wainwright III, Rumer, Steely Dan, The Beat, The English Beat

Out of This World: Verve Record Club Promises Heavyweight Vinyl Pressings and Rarities

January 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Verve Record Club

Verve Label Group is getting into the subscription vinyl game with the recently-announced Verve Record Club. The new monthly venture will offer fans new vinyl pressings of classic albums from the Verve, Impulse!, Mercury, CTI, Decca and MGM label catalogues, promising titles by John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ahmad Jamal and Sarah Vaughan, to name a few. The new pressings will all be remastered from the original analog tapes by Ryan K.

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Stan Getz

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