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Never Get Old: David Bowie's Final Albums Boxed on "I Can't Give Everything Away"

July 9, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie I Can't Give Everything Away

After a period of nearly four years, David Bowie's series of "Eras" box sets is returning with a new, final volume.  I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016) arrives on September 12 from ISO Records and Parlophone, concluding the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar.  The new 13-CD or 18-LP box picks up where 2021's Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) left off, capturing the final years of an artist who never stopped innovating. The set contains new pressings of: Heathen

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

The Living Return: Cherry Pop Continues Swing Out Sister Box Set Series

July 8, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Swing Out Sister box 2

U.K. sophisti-pop act Swing Out Sister is getting a new box set from Cherry Red in July - and it's a good excuse for us to shine a light on both collections the label has recently planned for the group. Known for their international 1987 hit "Breakout," the group - primarily consisting of singer Corinne Drewery and keyboardist Andy Connell, along with the talents of producer Paul Staveley O'Duffy, who's produced nearly all the group's albums - have released decades' worth of jazzy originals

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Swing Out Sister

Glitter Years: Cherry Red Collects The Bangles' '80s Recordings for New Box

July 7, 2025 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Bangles Watching the Sky

A box set from Cherry Red this fall will offer nearly everything from the first decade of The Bangles' discography. Watching the Sky: The Bangles Box Set will join together on four CDs the band's three studio albums (All Over the Place (1984), Different Light (1986) and Everything (1988)) - most with non-LP single, B-side and remix material - plus a further bonus disc of rare material, including the group's pre-major label studio material. It's 27 bonus tracks in all, plus a liner notes essay

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: The Bangles

The Weekend Stream: July 5, 2025

July 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 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. Lots of Fourth of July musical statements were made this week, from a Prince rarity coming out of the vaults to Ben Folds' surprisingly politically charged, surprise live album. Plus, the last two albums by a terrific British rock band and a new song from an American classic rock act reflecting on its 30 years together (even the last few tough

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Foo Fighters, Prince, XTC

No Jacket Required (Fully Tailored)

July 2, 2025 By

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4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Following a similar recent deluxe set for Both Sides, the Genesis drummer/singer's most commercially successful solo album, 1985's No Jacket Required, is being revisited for its 40th anniversary in two new formats. There's a new "Fully Tailored" 4LP set that offers a new half-speed master of the album, cut at Abbey Road Studios and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, along with three discs including all the

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Inside Out: Phil Collins Plans 40th Anniversary Vinyl Box, Blu-ray Audio for 'No Jacket Required'

July 2, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Phil Collins No Jacket Required Fully Tailored 3D Packshot

Phil Collins is taking his Jacket to the cleaners and coming back with a whole new cut. Following a similar recent deluxe set for Both Sides, the Genesis drummer/singer's most commercially successful solo album, 1985's No Jacket Required, is being revisited for its 40th anniversary in two new formats. There's a new "Fully Tailored" 4LP set that offers a new half-speed master of the album, cut at Abbey Road Studios and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, along with three discs including all the live

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Phil Collins

Baby I'm-A Want You: Elektra Celebrates 75 Years with Monthlong Initiative

July 2, 2025 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Elektra 75

Jac Holzman was still in college when he and pal Paul Rickolt each chipped in three hundred bucks to start a record company.  That label, Elektra Records - so named for Greek mythology's daughter of Atlas and Pleione, but with the "c" swapped out for a "k" - inaugurated its catalogue with the simply-titled New Songs, an album of poetry settings by composer-pianist John Gruen.  Elektra soon shifted its emphasis to folk music, growing its discography with recordings by Theodore Bikel, Josh White,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Anita Baker, Bob Dylan, Bread, Grover Washington Jr., Keith Sweat, Love, Nanci Griffith, Public Image Ltd., Sisters of Mercy, Superdrag, Television, The Afghan Whigs, The Cars, The Doors, The Stooges, Third Eye Blind, Tim Buckley

Party on the Patio: ZZ Top Doubleback on New Limited Vinyl Box from Rhino High Fidelity

July 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

ZZ Top RHF box 2

ZZ Top are revisiting their biggest hitmaking days on vinyl. From the Top (1979-1990) is a new limited 5LP box set as part of Rhino's High-Fidelity initiative, featuring new pressings of the Texas trio's most pop-friendly material: Degüello (1979), El Loco (1981), Eliminator (1983), Afterburner (1985) and Recycler (1990). (it follows a similar set issued last year.) All vinyl masters have been cut from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal. The luxe

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: ZZ Top

So Long and Good Night: My Chemical Romance's Breakthrough Gets a New Remix

June 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

MCR Three Cheers 2025 remix

"Long ago / Just like the Hearse you die to get in again..." With those dramatic words, most fans had their introduction to a new kind of emo band: New Jersey's own My Chemical Romance. More than two decades after catapulting into the mainstream with 2004's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, the band have revisited it with a new expanded and remixed edition. Re-released by Reprise on June 6 and available on CD, vinyl and digitally, Three Cheers now features a striking new remix from original

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: My Chemical Romance

Once Upon a Time: 40th Anniversary Edition

June 30, 2025 By

Simple Minds OUAT 40

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ruby Red LP (with "Don't You (Forget About Me)" as bonus track: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A reconfigured version of a Simple Minds box set released a decade ago will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band's biggest international success, Once Upon a Time.  This new 5CD edition offers the original 1985 album (featuring the singles "Alive and Kicking," "Sanctify Yourself," "All the Things She Said" and "Ghost Dancing")

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Joni's Jazz

June 30, 2025 By

Joni Mitchell Joni's Jazz

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada What is jazz?  The question has been debated often, but now we know how Joni Mitchell might answer.  The legendary singer-songwriter's Archives series is continuing with its first themed compilation, appropriately entitled Joni's Jazz.  These 61 selections - available on 4 CDs or 8 LPs - draw from nearly every core album in the Mitchell discography with just a couple of exceptions (Clouds, Ladies of

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Hearts: 50th Anniversary Edition

June 30, 2025 By

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Omnivore Recordings is reissuing, remastering, and expanding America's Hearts, featuring "Sister Golden Hair," "Daisy Jane," and "Woman Tonight," for its 50th anniversary. This new edition adds six bonus cuts to the original album's dozen tracks.  Five of these are unreleased alternate versions and mixes of songs from Hearts including a unique arrangement of Bunnell's "People in the Valley," a stunning vocal-and-strings-only mix of "Daisy Jane" (spotlight both George Martin's rich string charts

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Set Your Sights on Monday: Omnivore Expands America's "Hearts" for Its 50th Anniversary

June 30, 2025 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Version 1.0.0

A few years ago, Omnivore Recordings released two volumes of America's demos under the titles Heritage I and II, chronicling the years 1970-1976.  Now the label is reteaming with the band to revisit this halcyon period of the band's history with an expanded 50th anniversary edition of 1975's Hearts.  It's due August 8 on CD. Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek were riding high in 1975.  The bandmates had teamed for the first time with legendary producer George Martin the previous year

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: America

I Predict a Riot: Kaiser Chiefs' Breakthrough Debut Goes Deluxe for 20th Anniversary

June 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Kaiser Chiefs' debut album is going big for its 20th anniversary this summer, in a variety of formats. Employment will be available July 25 from UMR in a trio of physical formats. The newly remastered album, including the singles "I Predict a Riot," "Modern Way" and "Everyday I Love You Less and Less," will be pressed on both 3CD and vinyl formats with a bonus track, "Riot" B-side "Take My Temperature" and redesigned album artwork. The remainder of the 3CD set offers B-sides, compilation

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Kaiser Chiefs

The Weekend Stream: June 28, 2025

June 28, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 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. 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

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 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

Release Round-Up: Week of June 27

June 27, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Tracks II

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. Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 (Columbia/Legacy) 7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums (Columbia/Legacy) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Buck Owens, Clifton Chenier, Frank Zappa, Idina Menzel, James Taylor, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Melanie, Motörhead, Paul McCartney, Randy Newman, Robin Trower, Rod Stewart, The Bluebells, The Rolling Stones

Impossible Dreamer: Joni Mitchell Collects "Joni's Jazz" on New Box Set

June 25, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Joni Mitchell Joni's Jazz

What is jazz?  The question has been debated often, but now we know how Joni Mitchell might answer.  On September 5, the legendary singer-songwriter's Archives series continues with its first themed compilation, appropriately entitled Joni's Jazz.  These 61 selections - available on 4 CDs or 8 LPs - draw from nearly every core album in the Mitchell discography with just a couple of exceptions (Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon) and reflect the breadth of the artist's immersion into the jazz idiom in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Joni Mitchell, Kyle Eastwood, Wayne Shorter

Alive and Kicking: Simple Minds Reissues Reconfigured 'Once Upon a Time' Box

June 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Simple Minds OUAT 40

A reconfigured version of a Simple Minds box set released a decade ago will be released this fall to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band's biggest international success, Once Upon a Time. Available October 17, this 5CD edition offers the original 1985 album (featuring the singles "Alive and Kicking," "Sanctify Yourself," "All the Things She Said" and "Ghost Dancing") alongside two discs of single edits, remixes and B-sides and the 1987 concert album Live in the City of Light. The discs

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

Paul is Live (on SHM-CD): Five New McCartney Titles Follow Nearly a Year of Additional Discs

June 24, 2025 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

McCartney SHM splash

What's that he's doing? Paul McCartney has been releasing much of his solo catalogue on SHM-CD since last year - and with a new batch about to be imported to record stores, this seemed like the right time to spotlight them all. Universal Music Group has not only gone in on high-quality SHM-CDs for release in Japan, but have recently been hyping them up for stateside collectors, releasing everything from out-of-print Quincy Jones titles to the first physical editions of a series of digital

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Paul McCartney, Wings

Ultimate Hits

June 23, 2025 By

Rod Stewart Ultimate Hits Amazon exclusive

Blu-ray Audio: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (Standard / Exclusive Art) / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. (Standard / Exclusive Art) / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Green/White) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rod Stewart's Ultimate Hits offers the superstar's most beloved solo hits from the '70s, '80s and '90s, from "Maggie May" and "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" to "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Young Turks";

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

The Weekend Stream Extra: A Guide to 'MTV Unplugged' on Paramount+ (Part 5)

June 22, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

MTV Unplugged new logo

Welcome to a special Sunday feature of The Weekend Stream, which takes a look at one of MTV's great live music programs thanks to a recent reissue of one of its best-known episodes. We're running a five-part deep-dive on every episode of MTV Unplugged that's currently streaming on the station's parent streaming network Paramount+! (Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 can be read here, here, here and here.) The turn-of-the-millennium shot in the arm afforded to MTV by a big-budget teen-pop explosion and the

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Alanis Morissette, Alicia Keys, Dashboard Confessional, Jodeci, Korn, Queen Latifah, R.E.M., Redman, Shakira, Shawn Mendes, Staind, The Sugarhill Gang, Wyclef Jean

The Weekend Stream: June 21, 2025

June 21, 2025 By The Second Disc 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 classic film score gets remixed for a major anniversary; a modern jazz great reunites two-thirds of a classic rock band; and it's funny how time flies for Tears for Fears. All this, plus morsels of news on potential reissues from Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran, and two tributes to singers we lost this week. John Williams, JAWS

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Summers, Bruce Springsteen, Christian McBride, Duran Duran, Evelyn "Champagne" King, John Williams, Lou Christie, Preston Glass, Sting, Tears for Fears, The New Christy Minstrels, The Police, Yarbrough and Peoples

Release Round-Up: Week of June 20

June 20, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Christopher Cross

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. Christopher Cross, Christopher Cross: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Omnivore will offer an expanded reissue of the self-titled debut album from Christopher Cross, the unforgettable 1979 release that became a commercial juggernaut and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christopher Cross, Cockney Rebel, Gregg Allman, Jeff Bridges, Joey Molland, John Mellencamp, Melanie, Natural Gas, Steve Harley, The B-52's

To Cut a Long Story Short: Spandau Ballet's Early Years Compiled for New Box

June 19, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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A new box set will trace the early years of U.K. New Wave icons Spandau Ballet - offering three formats in one package. Everything is Now - Vol. 1: 1978-1982 will collect albums, singles, live material, demos and videos from the group's earliest period as a 6CD/Blu-ray/2LP set. The box will offer new vinyl pressings of the band's first two LPs, Journeys to Glory (1981) and Diamond (1982); collections of 7" and 12" material from each album on CD; a rare full remix of Diamond issued on a 12"

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Spandau Ballet

The Warner Reprise Years

June 16, 2025 By

B 52s Warner Reprise Years Cover

8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Rhino A new box set from Rhino offers nearly all the studio material of Athens, Georgia alt-rock icons The B-52's.  The Warner Reprise Years brings together the six albums and two EPs the quirky quintet put together between 1979 and 1992 - a period where they went from cult favorites to unlikely hitmakers. The collection will feature the group's 1979 self-titled debut, 1980's Wild Planet, the 1981 and 1982 EPs Party

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