It's that time of year again: Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event is scheduled for Friday, November 25 as the holiday shopping season begins. Rhino has wasted no time in sharing its list of releases from some of the label's marquee artists including Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Grateful Dead, and Madonna. Classic albums from Todd Rundgren, Captain Beefheart, and Eric Burdon & WAR are also among the titles on Rhino's slate. And one release is even available on CD! Read on for the
Disney's Legacy Collection Enters "A Whole New World" with 'Aladdin' Expansion
Walt Disney Records' still-persisting catalogue product line The Legacy Collection has been mostly dormant since 2015. After two waves of titles throughout two calendar years - each focusing on anniversaries of classic Disney films from multiple generations - the series has been stop-start since 2017, releasing expanded editions of the soundtracks to Robin Hood (1973), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and, most recently, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Now, a classic title is added to the Legacy
Let There Be Love: SoulMusic Collects, Expands Shirley Murdock's Elektra Albums
As a member of the extended family of funk group Zapp, Shirley Murdock memorably added her vocals to the 1986 hit "Computer Love" (for which she also shares a co-writing credit). Concurrently, Murdock was launching her own solo career at Elektra Records, where she would release three solo LPs through 1991. Now, Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has revisited and expanded that trio of albums on As We Lay: The Elektra Recordings (1985-1991), a new 3-CD collection that's an essential
Too Hot: Edsel Compiles Second Album Box for Kool & The Gang
In 2024, Kool and the Gang will celebrate 60 years of music-making. Though the band has weathered the passing of key personnel in recent years including founding members Ronald Bell a.k.a. Khalis Bayyan and Dennis "D.T." Thomas, Robert "Kool" Bell and George "Funky" Brown keep the fusion of soul, R&B, dance, funk, and jazz alive and well. Earlier this year, Demon Music Group's Edsel label released Kool and the Gang's The Albums Vol. 1: 1970-1978 collecting their first dozen LPs plus a disc
The Weekend Stream: September 10, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! A short but sweet week offers remixes of a disco legend, demos from a rock icon and more. Lou Reed, I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos (RCA/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Released for Record Store Day this past spring - and ahead of an earlier set of demos coming from Light in the Attic next month - this collection
Release Round-Up: Week of September 9
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies / Everybody's in Show-Biz - Everybody's a Star (BMG) 6LP/4CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Muswell Hillbillies 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Muswell Hillbillies 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Everybody's in Show-Biz 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon
Here She Comes Again: Dolly Parton's Greatest Hits Collected on "Diamonds and Rhinestones"
Here she comes again. Hot on the heels of the expanded edition of Dolly Parton's A Holly Dolly Christmas, the superstar is teaming with Legacy Recordings and RCA for a new, career-spanning package. Diamonds and Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection arrives on November 18 with 23 tracks, originally released between 1971 and 2020, on CD, 2LP, and digital formats. Diamonds and Rhinestones draws on Parton's recordings for RCA Victor, Columbia Records, and her own Dolly Records label. The
And Your Bird Can Sing! The Beatles' "Revolver" Goes Super Deluxe in October
The Beatles' seventh studio album - and the bridge between Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1966's Revolver is recognized as one of the Fab Four's most groundbreaking as well as significant albums. With producer George Martin, the group employed studio wizardry to bring their new songs to life - tape loops, automatic double tracking, close miking, use of varispeed and reversed tapes, among other techniques that would soon be imitated by countless others - as well as
The Second Disc Guesses the 'Thriller 40' Track List
It's hard to know what a Michael Jackson event release looks like today. For one, the King of Pop is very much dead; for another, November's impending release of Thriller 40 is the third reissue of the bestselling album. Are the vaults empty? Is the estate stingy? (This is, after all, the same Jackson estate that bizarrely changed the font on the cover, got very defensive about it, yet changed it again, with a new slipcase. Also, the upcoming Mobile Fidelity vinyl edition may have gotten the
The Weekend Stream Labor Day Special: Spotlight on WIWS Radio with John and Chrissy Sellards
Welcome to a special edition of The Weekend Stream for the long Labor Day weekend! Longtime readers might have noticed that adorable owl perched comfortably atop The Second Disc. He's the mascot for WIWS Radio, an online radio station dedicated to '50s and '60s classics in authentic AM radio sound. We'd like to introduce you to John and Chrissy Sellards, the couple behind WIWS. John is already well known to Second Disc readers for his design work on most of our Second Disc Records releases.
The Weekend Stream: September 3, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! From a Prince-ly duo of two queens to a Beach Boy gone solo and more, you'll find some great picks for the holiday weekend. Wendy & Lisa, B-Sides / Instrumentals / Edits / Extended Versions (Virgin) B-Sides: iTunes U.K. / Amazon U.K. Extended: iTunes U.K. / Amazon U.K. An exciting treat for fans of
Can You Feel the Love Tonight: Four Elton John LPs Reissued on Vinyl Today
As Elton John continues the final North American leg of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, another four gems from his discography have returned to vinyl following the recent reissues of The One and Peachtree Road. A Single Man arrived in 1978 and marked a turning point for the singer-songwriter following 1976's expansive double album Blue Moves. Despite the presence of the hit single "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word," Blue Moves had ended John's streak of chart-topping albums that began
Release Round-Up: Week of September 2
As we here in the U.S. head into Labor Day weekend, we have a shorter Release Round-Up than usual! To all our readers - wherever you might be - please have a safe and happy weekend! Shania Twain, Not Just a Girl: The Highlights (Mercury Nashville/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Not Just a Girl (The Highlights), a new companion album to the documentary coming to Netflix, features 17 of Shania Twain's classic pop and country hits plus the new title track. Read more
Two (Discs) of Hearts: Cherry Pop Expands Stacey Q's Debut with 20 Rare or New-to-CD Tracks
Stacey Q's 1986 debut album was titled Better Than Heaven, and listeners were inclined to agree with that assessment as its lead single "Two of Hearts" ascended the charts in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and throughout Europe. On September 16, Cherry Pop will reissue the Hi-NRG classic as a deluxe 2-CD expanded edition with a whopping 20 bonus tracks, almost every one of which is new to CD. Show business was in Stacey Lynn Swain's blood since childhood. She trained as a dancer, modeled,
Out of Their Mind and Onto Your Stereo: Duran Duran's 'Medazzaland' Finally Gets Worldwide Release
A Duran Duran album not coming out in England sounds like some sort of wacky mistake - but in 1997, it was a hard truth for one of the country's most enduring pop/rock acts. Now, 25 years later and on the eve of their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, that record is finally corrected with a worldwide, physical reissue of the group's misunderstood Medazzaland on October 14. The '90s found Duran in some of the most whiplash-inducing scenarios of their career. They started the decade with
Keep Your Electric Eye on Me: New Mixes, Live Material Feature on Bowie's 'Moonage Daydream' Documentary Soundtrack
Brett Morgen's Moonage Daydream is certainly shaping up to be one of the most anticipated rock documentaries of the year. The writer/editor/producer/director behind acclaimed documentaries on film impresario Robert Evans and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain brings his narrative focus to David Bowie, using unseen footage and the voice of the late rock icon himself to paint an officially-sanctioned portrait of his eclectic career. Having already screened at Cannes to critical acclaim, Moonage Daydream
The Weekend Stream: August 27, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week, Marvin Gaye gets remixed, two pop icons from different generations join forces, an underrated Olivia Newton-John album resurfaces and more. Marvin Gaye, I Want You: The John Morales M+M Mixes (Motown/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Sort of the quiet masterpiece in Marvin Gaye's impressive '70s run, the
Release Round-Up: Week of August 26
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Blondie, Against All Odds 1974-1982 (Numero/Capitol/UMC) 10LP/10"/7" Super Deluxe: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The long-awaited Blondie box set - a catalogue number was assigned back in 2016! - is finally on the way. Against the
On the Dark Side: Iconoclassic Celebrates John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band on "Greatest Hits"
Iconoclassic Records is headed to the "Dark Side" with the first-ever anthology from the real-life band behind Hollywood's Eddie and The Cruisers: John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band. On September 30, the label will release Greatest Hits, a freshly remastered 16-track collection from the rock-and-roll revivalists whose "On the Dark Side" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984 and spent five weeks atop the Mainstream Rock chart and the MTV video charts. Singer-guitarist
Build Me Up, Buttercup: Cherry Red Collects The Foundations on "Am I Groovin' You"
When "Baby, Now That I've Found You" reached No. 1 on the U.K. Singles Chart in late 1967, The Foundations became the country's first multi-racial band to score a No. 1 single. The irresistible tune by Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod also topped the chart in Canada and peaked just out of the top ten in the United States, inaugurating a brief period of success for the groundbreaking group. The Foundations are well-remembered today for both "Baby, Now That I've Found" you and the Macaulay/Mike
Come On Eileen: Dexys Midnight Runners' Breakthrough Gets Remixed for New Box Set
Kevin Rowland and his unstoppable Celtic rock/soul combo Dexys Midnight Runners were already turning heads since the early '80s - but nobody could have predicted the bouncy "Come On Eileen" would have taken the hold it did around the world. The catchy track topped the charts in both the U.S. and the U.K., becoming a defining example of early '80s pop music. Now, four decades later, Rowland is revisiting the album that featured "Eileen" in a new box set full of bonus material and, crucially, a
All You Need is Now (and Then): A Decade of Duran Duran Comes Back Into Print
Even with an impressive comeback on the books in the '90s, it seemed like Duran Duran were adrift in another decade when the 2000s dawned. Instead, they enjoyed another impressive resurgence and started paving the way for their forthcoming, incredibly deserved induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year. Today, BMG - the label that currently distributes their new material - will bring four of the group's albums back into print, along with one intriguing and rare side project
Release Round-Up: Week of August 19
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Madonna, Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones (Warner/Rhino) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (silver): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Official Store The first in a planned series of catalogue reissues through Warner Music Group, the new compilation Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones tracks every one of
For Your Eyes Only: Cherry Pop Brings Sheena Easton's "Live at The Palace, Hollywood" to CD and DVD
Sheena Easton closed the first chapter of her career with Madness, Money, and Music, recorded in spring and released in autumn 1982. Easton's third studio album, it was her last to be produced by Christopher Neil who had guided the Scottish superstar's meteoric ascent with such songs as "Modern Girl," "9 to 5 (Morning Train)," and "For Your Eyes Only." The Grammy-winning Best New Artist of 1982 scarcely had any time to rest on her laurels; after recording the album at George Martin's AIR
Going Up! 'Not Just a Girl' Documentary and Soundtrack Highlights Shania Twain's Country Chart-toppers
It's news worthy of an exclamation point or two(!): a new documentary about Shania Twain is on Netflix, and a new compilation is coming to accompany it! Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl brings a top-down look at the Canadian hitmaker to Netflix. She started as a hard-luck singer who put her dreams on hold after losing her mother and stepfather in a car accident; her first efforts for Mercury Records didn't get much traction but got the attention of Robert John "Mutt" Lange, the super-producer
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- …
- 122
- Next Page »