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. Joe Grushecky, Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology is an all-encompassing look at the singer, songwriter, and bandleader, covering 40 years of music from The Iron City Houserockers, Joey G., Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers, and
Watching the Sun Bake: UMe Remasters, Reissues Ten Albums from Jimmy Buffett
The late Jimmy Buffett was recently announced to join Dionne Warwick, late producer-songwriter Norman Whitfield, and Michigan rockers MC5 as a recipient of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Musical Excellence Award. The singer-songwriter who passed away last September at the age of 76 left behind a legacy of music (and beyond) that continues to entertain and inspire. His final album, Equal Strain on All Parts, was one of his most moving, blending his infectious optimism and tropical pop with
Self Expression: Lou Christie's "Gypsy Bells" Collects Rare, Unreleased Columbia Sides
There are many great mysteries in pop music. How the heck did Lou Christie move from MGM to Columbia in the wake of "Lightnin' Strikes" and "Rhapsody in the Rain" and all but disappear? is certainly one of them. Earlier this year, Ace Records attempted to answer this question with Gypsy Bells: Columbia Recordings 1967, a compendium of the released and unreleased material recorded by the Italian-American falsetto singer during his short and rocky tenure with the label. Expectedly, it's a
The Weekend Stream: May 17, 2024
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. This week brings live tracks from The Boss, rarities from Sheena Easton and a new album from one half of rock's biggest (defunct) duo - plus, as you'd expect, so much more! Bruce Springsteen, The Live Series: Songs from Around the World Vol. 2 (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) With Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band currently
Release Round-Up: Week of May 17
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. Taana Gardner, When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SoulMusic Records teams with TSD to revisit dance superstar Taana Gardner's classic West End album as a 2CD set. When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings opens with Taana Gardner in its
Life's Like This: Avril Lavigne Announces Greatest Hits Collection
For more than two decades, Avril Lavigne has been a purveyor of punk-flavored pop. Could she make it any more obvious? The answer is yes: ahead of a summer tour, she's releasing her first, career-spanning greatest hits album. The 20-track set hits stores June 21, smack in the middle of a global trek that kicks off tomorrow at Texas' Ford Center at the Star and stretches through September, making stops across North America and Europe (including festival stops at Pinkpop, Glastonbury and
You Don't Know How Bad I've Got It: Cherry Red Preps Nik Kershaw Box Set
An oft-discussed Nik Kershaw box set has been added to Cherry Red's summer release schedule. The MCA Years, available July 26, offers the most complete look at the British pop/rocker's career in the '80s, offering four remastered studio albums, four discs of B-sides and remixes, two discs of mostly unreleased live material and a DVD of music videos and concert material. The MCA Years comes 40 years on from the release of Kershaw's earliest work for the label. Born into a musical family in
I'll Love You Forever: 7a Reissues, Expands Davy Jones' "Incredible!" Album
Davy Jones' "lost" album, Incredible!, is finally seeing a wide, authorized release from our friends at 7a Records. This Friday, May 17, the label will issue the album on both CD and limited edition, 180-gram, LP pressed on blue vinyl. Incredible! has taken on almost mythical status among Monkees collecting circles. Jones recorded the original 10-song set at the height of the '80s wave of Monkeemania when new fans were discovering Davy, Mickey, Peter, and Mike through MTV, syndication, and
The Weekend Stream: May 11, 2024
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 legendary rock vocalist revives one of his deep cuts with a new generation of talent, a '70s pop classic comes to digital for the first time and one of our favorite current bands preps their new album - plus so much more! The Effect & Steve Perry, "It Could Have Been You" (Core4) (iTunes / Amazon) Rock band The Effect is full of
Release Round-Up: Week of May 10
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. Queen, Queen Rock Montreal (Hollywood/EMI) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store (Exclusive - Blue) 4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen Online Store Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Queen
Can You Hear Me Now: Duran Duran's '80s Studio Catalogue Back in Print in July
Look now, look all around: Duran Duran's five studio albums from the '80s were stunningly out of print physically, but that changes this summer. Warner Music, who acquired Duran Duran's Capitol/EMI catalogue as part of Parlophone Records in 2013 after it was divested in EMI's sale to Universal Music Group, will release new CD and vinyl pressings of Duran Duran (1981), Rio (1982), Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), Notorious (1986) and Big Thing (1989). They will utilize the same remasters
Beautiful Like a Rainbow: Cyndi Lauper's 'Let the Canary Sing' Documentary Gets Companion Vinyl
In a solo career that's stretched past 40 years, Cyndi Lauper has gone from unlikely pop idol to one of the genre's great, enduring voices - not to mention an icon and activist for the LGBTQ+ community. All of those sides of her work are the subject of a forthcoming documentary this summer - and Legacy Recordings, keeper of most of Cyndi's catalogue (and a producer on the film) - will release a companion album to go with it. Let the Canary Sing bows on Paramount+ on June 4. Directed by Alison
Go Insane: Lindsey Buckingham's Early Solo Albums Collected in New Box Set
Lindsey Buckingham's earliest solo works are getting a box set from Rhino this summer. True to its name, 20th Century Lindsey will feature remastered versions of the three albums the Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist issued during the 20th century - 1981's Law and Order, 1984's Go Insane and 1992's Out of the Cradle - plus a newly compiled disc of eight rarities. The set showcases Buckingham's restless creative spirit that fueled a good portion of Fleetwood Mac's discography, blossoming into
Beautiful Music: Barry Manilow's "Live in Britain" Returns to CD
Barry Manilow hasn't been resting on his laurels. In recent months, the superstar entertainer saw his musical Harmony finally make it to Broadway, continued his record-breaking residency in Las Vegas, sold out New York's Radio City Music Hall, and announced from the stage of Carnegie Hall that he had re-entered the studio at the instigation of Clive Davis to record Peter Allen and Dean Pitchford's anthem "Once Before I Go" for a new single on which he collaborated with producer Babyface. Manilow
The Weekend Stream: May 4, 2024
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. The Alan Parsons Project's biggest album gets a second look, plus new music from John Williams, Daryl Hall and the unexpected sort-of return of one of country music's best-known voices. Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky (Sessions) (Arista/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The latest in Legacy's Alan Parsons Project Sessions series, bringing
Makes Me Feel Fine: Rhino's New Quadio Batch Includes Seals and Crofts, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Hot Tuna
Not long after the release of Joni Mitchell's Quadio box set - making her the third artist to have an entire Quadio box dedicated to her, after Chicago and The Doobie Brothers - Rhino has just announced the fourth round of Blu-ray titles in the four-channel surround format Donny Hathaway's Extension Of A Man, Hot Tuna's Burgers, Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly, and Seals & Crofts' Summer Breeze are all available now, as newly remastered from the original four-channel quadraphonic master
Release Round-Up: Week of May 3
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. Belinda Carlisle, Decades Vol. 3: Cornucopia (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Edsel continues its chronological collections of Belinda Carlisle's albums with this Cornucopia. The 4-CD book-style box starts off with two discs of mostly "orphaned" tracks released largely between 1987 and 2021: B-sides, non-album
Dreamland: Joni Mitchell's "The Asylum Albums (1976-1980)" Arrives in June
Hot on the heels of the release of Joni Mitchell's The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) in "Quadio" quadraphonic surround, another entry in the singer-songwriter's acclaimed Archives series is on the way. On June 21, The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) will arrive on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing this chapter of Mitchell's extraordinary career. Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell's hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode. Following the tour
The Weekend Stream: April 27, 2024
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. More late period Prince is released from The Vault, plus a new Barbra Streisand single, future Bandcamp Friday favorites, cuts from new Broadway cast recordings and more! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Prince, "Magnificent" (NPG/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The Musicology 20th anniversary celebration continues with
Release Round-Up: Week of April 26
Welcome to this week's post-Record Store Day Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tina Turner, What's Love Got to Do with It: 30th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone) 4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll,
The Sound of 'One Hand Clapping': Legendary Paul McCartney & Wings Concert Special Gets Debut Standalone Audio Release
One of Paul McCartney's oft-bootlegged live performances will finally get an official release this summer: the soundtrack to his 1974 "rockumentary" One Hand Clapping. This acclaimed performance with Wings, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in the wake of the release of Band on the Run, will be available June 14 on two CDs or two LPs, featuring the 15 songs used in the special and another disc of 12 songs recorded during the four-day session that birthed the program. A bonus 7", available
The Weekend Stream: April 21, 2024
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. This week's super-sized post-Record Store Day lineup includes more: more remixes, more covers, more Mancini and yes, more Taylor Swift. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (Republic) (iTunes / Amazon) Can you really call this a reissue? Pop's most ubiquitous
The Second Disc's Guide to Record Store Day 2024: Our Essential Picks
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 350 titles, so there's very nearly something for everybody. It wasn't easy to narrow our choices down to around
Release Round-Up: Week of April 19
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. With Record Store Day events taking place tomorrow, this is one of the biggest weeks in recent memory - so if you hit up your local indie store tomorrow, remember: there's plenty of non-exclusive releases to check out, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TSD also mourns the passing of Dickey Betts, 80. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of The
Shadows and Light: Joni Mitchell's Asylum Albums Go Quadio
Joni Mitchell has had quite the year, stopping the show at the Grammy Awards (did anybody watching not shed a tear?), reinventing "I'm Still Standing" at the Gershwin Prize celebration of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and preparing for her Los Angeles concert return with sold-out, hotly-anticipated Joni Jams at the Hollywood Bowl in October. Today, Rhino announced one more jewel in Mitchell's crown. Her 2022 box set The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) has been reissued with a twist: all four albums
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