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Aerosmith, Dan Fogelberg, Frank Zappa, Liz Callaway, Lou Gramm, Todd Rundgren, Vince Guaraldi

Matt White’s Dolly

March 16, 2026 by Joe Marchese

Everybody loves Dolly Parton…and South Carolina-based trumpeter-composer-arranger Matt White is no exception! He’s paying tribute to Miss Parton with the upcoming release of Matt White’s Dolly, reimagining Parton’s famous compositions with a contemporary chamber music flair, an improvisatory spirit, and an appreciation for (and understanding of) the southern folk, country, and sacred traditions in which these songs were written. “She’s the greatest living American,” White shares, “because she embodies the things we hope this country can be — kindness, welcome, independence, and taking care of people.” Matt White’s Dolly includes his reinventions…

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The Weekend Stream: March 14, 2026

March 14, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 2 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 all about pairs: a New Jersey rock legend covering a classic Irish punk; expanded editions from our friends at SuperVisible Multi Media; and out-of-print albums by Jimmy Smith, Oscar Peterson and more! Bruce Springsteen, “A Rainy Night in Soho” (Rubyworks) (Apple / Amazon) The Boss’ second new studio recording of the year just dropped: the lead single to…

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Bruce Springsteen, Jim Reeves, Jimmy Smith, Joe Henderson, Oscar Peterson, Sonny James, The Pogues, Willie Colon, Wynn Stewart

Release Round-Up: Week of March 13

March 13, 2026 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

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. Leon Russell with Mary Russell, The Paradise Years 1976-1981 (Cherry Red/Lemon/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) Second Disc Records teams with Cherry Red’s Lemon Recordings imprint to release the first-ever collection of Leon Russell’s recordings for the Warner-distributed Paradise Records label. The Paradise Years 1976-1981 presents, on four CDs, six full albums plus seven bonus tracks, all of which are new to CD. These encompass the non-LP B-side…

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Kim Wilde, Leon Russell, Liza Minnelli, Mary Russell, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Rush

Dancing on the Ceiling: Verve Premieres Long-Lost Oscar Peterson Live Album

March 9, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Oscar Peterson Trio Baker's Keyboard Lounge

Eight-time Grammy-winning, Montreal-born pianist Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) recorded prolifically over the years, releasing studio and live albums throughout his lifetime on the Mercury, Verve, MPS, Prestige, Pablo, and Telarc labels, among others. On April 17, Verve will add a new title to his already voluminous discography with the debut of The Oscar Peterson Trio At Baker’s Keyboard Lounge on CD, LP, and digital formats. Renowned Detroit venue Baker’s Keyboard Lounge celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2024 and is still going strong today as the United States’ longest continually operating jazz club. But…

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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

Release Round-Up: Week of March 6

March 6, 2026 by The Second Disc | 11 Comments

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. Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, The Ultimate Collection (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada/ Real Gone Music) Real Gone delivers the definitive tribute to Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme with this 4-CD box set. Previously available only as a Public Television pledge incentive, The Ultimate Collection has been curated by David Lawrence and is thematically arranged by disc. It features highlights from Steve and Eydie’s…

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Barbara Lewis, Ernie Hines, Ike and Tina Turner, John Pizzarelli, Klaus Nomi, Morrissey, Obituary, Peter Gabriel, Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore, Squeeze, Static-X, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Talking Heads, The Donnas, The Staple Singers, The Tony Rice Unit, Wilson Pickett

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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Release Round-Up: Week of February 20

February 20, 2026 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (RCA/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (translucent orange/yellow): Amazon U.S. 2LP (marbled red): Graceland Baz Luhrmann, the director of 2022’s blockbuster biopic ELVIS, uncovered scores of film outtakes of The King during production, including footage filmed for the concert/documentary films That’s the Way It Is and Elvis on Tour and audio of Presley describing his life and career. EPiC: Elvis Presley in…

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Art Pepper, Dwight Twilley, Elvis Presley, George Michael, Tori Amos

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

Landslide: Craft Recordings’ RSD Slate Features Fleetwood Mac Tribute, Miles Davis, Violent Femmes, More

February 10, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

The Record Store Day rollout continues with a slate of titles arriving from Craft Recordings. The label’s nine offerings range from jazz (Abbey Lincoln, Miles Davis) to rock (Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac, Violent Femmes) and soul (Stax: Killer B’s). All of these titles are due at brick-and-mortar independent stores on Saturday, April 18. Head over to RecordStoreDay.com for the complete list of participating stores in the U.S. and RecordStoreDay.co.uk if you’re in the U.K., and below you’ll find details for all of Craft’s releases! We’ve included the label’s…

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Abbey Lincoln, Fleetwood Mac, Markolino Dimond, Mayday Parade, Miles Davis, Record Store Day, The Tears, Various Artists, Violent Femmes

Release Round-Up: Week of February 6

February 6, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Roberta Flack, With Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums 1969-1978 (Atlantic/Rhino, 2026) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Roberta Flack’s With Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums 1969-1978 brings together the late artist’s first eight studio albums in one compact 8CD package. Albums include First Take, Chapter Two, Quiet Fire, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway, Killing Me Softly, Feel Like Makin’ Love, Blue Lights in the Basement, and Roberta Flack. No bonus material is featured, but Discs 4-8 are newly remastered for this collection. …

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Bayete, Clifton Chenier, Jimmy Lewis, Leon Ware, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, NRBQ, Olu Dara, Roberta Flack, Sananda Maitreya, The Blasters, The Emotions, The Temprees, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of January 30

January 30, 2026 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to our final Release Round-Up of January, with a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Monkees, The A’s, The B’s, and The Monkees (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The A’s, The B’s and The Monkees, at long last, brings together on 2 CDs all of the band’s commercial singles originally released between 1966 and 1970, from “Last Train to Clarksville” b/w “Take a Giant Step” through “Oh My My” b/w “I Love You Better.” It’s arranged with its 15 A-sides on…

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Beastie Boys, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Cream, Donna Summer, Freddie and The Dreamers, Howard Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Television, The Monkees

The Best of Miles Davis

January 29, 2026 by Mike Duquette

A newly-assembled collection to commemorate the trumpeter’s upcoming centennial, The Best of Miles Davis offers eight hard-bop performances from Davis’ impressive run with his first great quintet (John Coltrane on tenor sax, pianist Red Garland, bassist PauL Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones) in 1955 and 1956. These recordings are all taken from the marathon sessions that yielded five LPs on the Prestige label from 1956 to 1961 that bolstered the quintet’s renown, even after Davis opted for new directions in the early days of his decades-long tenure for Columbia Records. (A Target-exclusive…

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“Four” and More: Craft Plans Prestige Compilation for Miles Davis’ Centennial

January 29, 2026 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

With a Miles Davis live box set recently back in print to celebrate his centennial, another label, Craft Recordings, is preparing a new compilation to mark the same occasion this spring. The Best of Miles Davis, to be released on vinyl March 13, is a simple eight-track compilation drawing from Miles’ mid-’50s sessions with his “first great quintet,” released through the rest of that decade on the Prestige label. Primarily comprised of pop and jazz standards (Rodgers and Hart’s “My Funny Valentine,” Thelonious Monk’s “‘Round Midnight” and “Well, You Needn’t,” Sonny Rollins’…

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John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Red Garland

The Weekend Stream: January 24, 2026

January 24, 2026 by Mike Duquette

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. We’ve got a lot of new songs from old favorites and a couple of digital-forward expanded reissues, too – you don’t want to miss this! Squeeze, “You Get the Feeling” (Love/BMG) (Apple / Amazon) The latest single from Squeeze’s forthcoming Trixies, though written early in the partnership of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, harkens back to their signature sound. It’s also the first track from the album to have…

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Art Taylor, Bill Quateman, Courtney Barnett, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Midnight Oil, Panic! At the Disco, Reba McEntire, Red Garland, Scorpions, Snail Mail, Squeeze, Sugar

Miles Davis’ ‘Plugged Nickel’ Box Gets Reissued for Jazz Icon’s Centennial

January 22, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Miles Davis’ upcoming centennial will be honored in part with a reissue of a box set collecting some of his greatest live recordings: seven sets at Chicago’s Plugged Nickel nightclub with his second great quintet line-up, recorded just before Christmas 1965. The near-mythic The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965 was originally released in full by Sony Music in Japan in 1992, after two 1976 Japan-only LPs offering a small sample of the performances. (Those LPs were released as one set in America in 1982, with a disc of alternates, Cookin’ At the…

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Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965

January 17, 2026 by Joe Marchese

The classic Miles Davis box set – first released in the U.S. in 1995 – is getting spruced up for the Davis centennial. This prime document of The Second Great Quintet – featuring Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, and Tony Williams – was recorded across seven sets on December 22 and 23, 1965 at the Chicago venue. This new 8CD edition mirrors the original release. Each CD comes in its own newly-designed mini-gatefold jacket, with all discs housed in a gold foil-embossed slipcase. The 44-page booklet includes Bob Blumenthal’s original essay…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 16

January 16, 2026 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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. Various Artists, NOW Yearbook: Vault ’82 (NOW Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The U.K.’s NOW line continues with another Vault installment spotlight hits of 1982 including The Who’s “Athena,” Elton John’s “Empty Garden,” Neil Diamond’s “Heartlight,” Billy Joel’s “Allentown,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City,” and much more from a cross-section of artists and genres. Out today in the U.K.; available next Friday in North America….

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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gene Pitney, Miyosh, Rachel Zegler, Richard Marx, Rick Nelson, Rod Stewart, The Crystals, The James Hunter Six, Tim Rice, Van Morrison, Various Artists

Woke Up with a Monster: Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right Titles Run the Gamut

January 8, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

Why wait for Record Store Day? Rhino continues their January tradition of “Start Your Ear Off Right” with just over three dozen exclusive vinyl titles being released through January at independent record stores. (A small handful, linked below, are also available at Rhino’s official web store.) The majority will be released in two waves split between last Friday (January 2) and this Friday (January 9), with five more arriving between January 23 and January 30. Altogether, this list spans all forms of rock, pop, R&B, jazz, soundtracks and even comedy. In addition…

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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 20, 2025

December 20, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to 2025’s final edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We’re wrapping up the month with a wicked good time: hip-hop instrumentals, unearthed ’70s rock and country, and a whole lot of zydeco! Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack (Sing-Along) / For Good EP (Republic/Verve) Sing-Along: Apple / Amazon For Good: Apple / Amazon With the second part of Universal’s big-budget adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical adapted from author Gregory Maguire’s alternative take on The Wizard of…

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Ariana Grande, Clifton Chenier, Cynthia Erivo, Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Mac Davis, Neil Diamond, Redbone, The Alan Parsons Project, The National, The Notorious B.I.G.

Release Round-Up: Week of December 12

December 12, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50 (Pink Floyd/Legacy) 2CD/4LP/Blu-ray/7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 50th anniversary edition of the Pink Floyd classic is available in a variety of formats: A 2CD or 3LP set pairs the original album with nine bonus tracks: three from the “Immersion Edition” box set released in 2011 and six previously unreleased outtakes and…

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Bill Wyman, Jim Peterik, Jimi Jamison, Lester Young, Pink Floyd, T Rex, The Band, The Pogues

The Weekend Stream: December 5, 2025

December 5, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 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. You’ve been good so far this Christmas season, so we’re giving you this present a day early – with new tracks from Guns N’ Roses, live tracks from The Hooters and one of our favorite bands for Bandcamp Friday! The Hooters, 45 Alive – Keswick Live in Concert (self-released) (Apple / Amazon) Philly band The Hooters – perhaps best known for the melodica-augmented 1985 hit “And We Danced” among its…

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Aerosmith, Charles Fox, Frank Wess, Grateful Dead, Guns N' Roses, Kenny Burrell, Kylie Minogue, Mal Waldron, No Jersey, O.A.R., Olivia Newton-John, Puddles Pity Party, Squeeze, Thad Jones, The Hooters, Theory of a Deadman

Release Round-Up: Week of December 5

December 5, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Judy Collins, The ’60s Singles (Second Disc/Real Gone) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music Judy Blue Eyes Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music Judy Collins’ The ’60s Singles brings together, for the first time, the remarkable array of 45s on which the singer’s discography was built. With songs by Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Sandy Denny, Eric Andersen, and Joni Mitchell – including the international smash “Both…

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