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Arturo Sandoval, Josh Groban

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The Weekend Stream: October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 6 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. There’s much to cover: digital box sets, anniversary editions, new remixes, old stand-up comedy – and a quartet of memorials to musicians and more. Neil Young, Neil Young Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) (Reprise) (Apple / Amazon) One of the biggest box sets of last year is now available in a slightly more compact form. The digital release of Archives Vol. III includes nearly 200 tracks, 121 of which are unreleased….

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Ace Frehley, Bob Mould, Britney Spears, D'Angelo, Emo Philips, Fall Out Boy, HAIM, John Williams, KISS, Neil Young, Peggy Lee, Split Enz, Sugar

Release Round-Up: Week of October 17

October 17, 2025 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. Randy Newman, Trouble in Paradise: Expanded Edition (Warner/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino Reserves LP: Rhino.com We Love It! Rhino reissues Randy Newman’s seventh studio album, Trouble in Paradise, as a 2CD expanded edition featuring previously unreleased demos and a rare concert performance. With such classics as “I Love LA” and “Real Emotional Girl,” Trouble remains one of Newman’s most beloved LPs. This generous release adds the singer-songwriter’s largely…

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Alison Brown, Boz Scaggs, Chrissie Hynde, Connie Francis, David Gilmour, James Taylor, Kool and the Gang, Randy Newman, Simple Minds, Steve Martin, The Alan Parsons Project, The Meters

The ’60s Singles

October 14, 2025 by Joe Marchese

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 Sides Now” – Collins’ early Elektra singles reflected a vast musical imagination, a hunger to explore material from rock to art songs, and a powerful social conscience. Every one of…

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Pack Up Your Sorrows: Judy Collins’ “The ’60s Singles” Arrives in December from Real Gone Music, Second Disc Records

October 14, 2025 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

It’s no exaggeration to state that Judy Collins transformed the sound of folk music. With a crystalline voice and a songbook blurring traditional genre lines, the Seattle native came to prominence in the fertile Greenwich Village stomping grounds of New York City. The luminous Collins – a classical piano prodigy, talented guitarist, gifted adapter and later, songwriter, and singer with a three-octave range – signed with Jac Holzman’s Elektra Records in 1961 and remained an Elektra artist for nearly two-and-a-half decades. On December 5, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records will revisit…

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Al Kooper, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Mike Bloomfield, Randy Newman

Release Round-Up: Week of October 10

October 10, 2025 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. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Power to the People (Capitol/UMR) 9CD/3BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Official Store 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store One of the most incendiary periods of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life together is being explored anew in a new 9CD/3Blu-ray box set. Power to…

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Dimitri Tiomkin, Don Hinson, John Lennon, Luciano Pavarotti, Madonna, Michael Bublé, Naked Eyes, Patti Smith, Spandau Ballet, Sparks, Sylvester, The Deadly Ones, The Ghouls, Yoko Ono

The Weekend Stream: October 4, 2025

October 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

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. From the Foo Fighters entering Bandcamp for a cause to a Record Store Day rarity by Rage Against the Machine, the dream of the ’90s is very much alive here…plus much more from other decades, too! Are Playing Where??? Vol. I by Foo Fighters Foo Fighters, Are Playing Where??? Vol. 1 (Roswell) (Bandcamp) After kicking off a season of drummer exodus – sacking session drummer Josh Freese, who’d join…

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Bob Mould, Dave Grohl, David Longworth Wallingford, Donal Leace, Foo Fighters, Gary Numan, Gavin Creel, Jennifer Lopez, Joan Baez, King Creosote, Rage Against the Machine, Roberta Flack, Sugar

Release Round-Up: Week of October 3

October 3, 2025 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. Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? 30th Anniversary Edition (Big Brother) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Oasis have a slightly expanded edition of 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? on tap, pairing a 2014 remaster of the album (which initially came with additional bonus material) with a bonus EP of new unplugged mixes of four of the album’s tracks (plus a non-album B-side, “Acquiesce”). The group’s songwriter/guitarist Noel…

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Change, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Gene Loves Jezebel, Jason Isbell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Kirsty MacColl, Lerner and Loewe, Luther Vandross, My Morning Jacket, Oasis, Robben Ford, Taylor Swift, The Cars, Waylon Jennings

Frank Sinatra at The Hollywood Bowl 1943-1948

September 30, 2025 by Joe Marchese

1LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / SING Market CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Sing Market Frank Sinatra At The Hollywood Bowl 1943-1948 brings together eighteen tracks on CD and eleven on vinyl from the late legend’s early performances at the storied Hollywood venue. Recorded during Sinatra’s time at Columbia Records, the collection preserves Sinatra’s performances from various evenings and draws extensively on the Broadway repertoire of the era. Jack Haley, the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, introduces Sinatra’s performance of Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne’s “Time After…

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In the Wee Small Hours

September 30, 2025 by Joe Marchese

Frank Sinatra’s 1955 classic of mood and melancholy, In The Wee Small Hours, returns to vinyl from UMe as an audiophile-quality Tone Poet edition sure to bring out the nuances in both Sinatra’s intimate vocals and Nelson Riddle’s masterful orchestrations. This LP reissue of the original Capitol mono album was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a gatefold tip-on jacket featuring photos by William Claxton and Ken Veeder. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from…

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Christmas in My Heart

September 30, 2025 by Joe Marchese

Universal reissues the late, great Connie Francis’ 1959 album Christmas in My Heart on CD with four bonus sides: 1961’s “Baby’s First Christmas,” 1962’s “I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter,” 1964’s “Blue Winter,” and “Happy New Year, Baby,” unreleased until 1987. The vinyl LP reissue drops the latter two songs. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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James Taylor at Christmas

September 30, 2025 by Joe Marchese

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings expands James Taylor at Christmas – which has already gone through numerous iterations since 2004 when it was first released as the Hallmark-exclusive A Christmas Album – to 15 tracks on CD by bringing together all of the songs from its various incarnations including “Deck the Halls” from the original release, “River” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from 2006, and “Mon Beau Sapin” from 2012. The vinyl version has twelve…

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The Weekend Stream: September 27, 2025

September 27, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Welcome to another relaxing journey down The Weekend Stream featuring a classic anthem from Barry Manilow and the late Peter Allen; a moving farewell for a great cause from Ozzy Osbourne and his friends in Judas Priest; classic pop from The King Family; a host of jazz, R&B, and country reissues; a dash of Christmas cheer from an old friend; and more! Barry Manilow, Once Before I Go (Stiletto) (Apple / Amazon) Fans attending Barry Manilow’s concerts of the last couple years have occasionally heard him pull out a very special encore:…

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The Song Is You: SING Premieres Previously Unreleased Live Sinatra on “At The Hollywood Bowl”

September 23, 2025 by The Second Disc | 10 Comments

The Voice is back. On October 3, the SING label – an offshoot of the blockchain tech company – will premiere Frank Sinatra At The Hollywood Bowl 1943-1948, bringing together eighteen tracks on CD and eleven on vinyl from the late legend’s early performances at the storied Hollywood venue. This landmark title will be followed during the holiday season by Christmas on the Air and a vinyl-exclusive box set entitled Long Ago, Far Away. All tracks on these collections have been mastered from original broadcast sources. At The Hollywood Bowl, recorded during…

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The Weekend Stream: September 13, 2025

September 13, 2025 by The Second Disc | 4 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. Phil Collins gets remixed, unexpected covers of The Cure and Bob Dylan and so much more – all part of this week’s round-up! Phil Collins, No Jacket Required (2025 Mix) (Craft/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) A nice surprise for fans of Phil: not only have a few bonus tracks exclusive to the new vinyl box set of No Jacket Required made digital stores, but Steven Wilson’s stereo remix of the original album…

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America, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Bob Dylan, Cannonball Adderley, Gerry Beckley, James Austin Johnson, Jeff Larson, Jim Reeves, Jodeci, Melissa Errico, Michael Finke, Olivia Rodrigo, Peter Noone, Phil Collins, The Cure, The Hooters, Wayne Shorter

Release Round-Up: Week of September 12

September 12, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

David Bowie I Can't Give Everything Away

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. With nearly 25 titles, it also just might be the year’s biggest to date! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. David Bowie, I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) (Parlophone) 18LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 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) concludes the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar. The new 13-CD or 18-LP box…

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The Weekend Stream: August 30, 2025

August 30, 2025 by The Second Disc | 10 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. We’ve got one Vault track from Prince, four albums unearthed by SuperVisible Multi Media, five rare mixes from Bowie and Jagger, and more than 100 hard-to-find cuts from Connie Francis – now that’s some rock and roll math! Prince, “Sign O’ the Times” (Live in Rotterdam 1987) (NPG/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) A welcome respite from sharing fabricated, possibly AI-generated inspirational quotes on social media, the Prince estate has released…

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It’s Time: 20th Anniversary Edition

August 15, 2025 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Two decades after Canadian crooner Michael Bublé enjoyed his first major chart breakthrough, the album that did so – 2005’s It’s Time – is being reissued for its anniversary. It’s Time returns as a 2CD or 2LP set (the latter pressed on silver vinyl) with a dozen studio and live bonus tracks. Having come out at a time of considerable limited editions – some only available at certain American retailers from Target to Starbucks – this edition of It’s Time will offer all of those…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 15

August 15, 2025 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. Doc Pomus, You Can’t Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore) You Can’t Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos collects more than 160 tracks from the late, legendary songwriter, who died in 1991 at the age of 65 and was subsequently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Blues Hall of Fame. Over…

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Deep Purple, Doc Pomus, Jerry Garcia Band, Marisha Wallace, Niall Horan, Shirley Jones, The Cranberries, The Pretenders, Van Halen

The Weekend Stream: August 9, 2025

August 9, 2025 by The Second Disc | 3 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. Jim Reeves isn’t the only gentleman on display this week: we’ve also got Peter Gabriel, Eddy Grant, Ben Folds and a host of film composers – plus many, many more! Peter Gabriel, Live At WOMAD 1982 (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) Loosed from the vault is Gabriel’s nine-song headlining set at the first World of Music, Art and Dance Festival, held at the Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet,…

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Alexandre Desplat, Bette Midler, Bruce Woolley, Bryan Adams, Don Davis, Eddy Grant, Fania All-Stars, Jane Morgan, Jim Reeves, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Peter Gabriel, Randy Newman, Ronan Keating, The Camera Club

OUT TOMORROW! Dionne Warwick’s “Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971” Arrives from SoulMusic, Second Disc

July 31, 2025 by The Second Disc | 30 Comments

Today’s the day when we can finally share Dionne Warwick’s Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971 with our readers! Though today is the official release date and copies should be shipping within the U.K., Amazon U.S. currently shows August 15 as the release date stateside. To our American friends, we hope you will find this set worth the wait! Here are the full details on this release. “I am so very thrilled about this wonderful collection of my recordings! It is truly something that I myself would buy.” –…

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BJ Thomas, Burt Bacharach, Chuck Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Hal David, Leslie Uggams, Sacha Distel

20 Years’ ‘Time’: Michael Bublé’s Breakthrough Comes Home on New Deluxe Edition

July 30, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Two decades after Canadian crooner Michael Bublé enjoyed his first major chart breakthrough, the album that did so – 2005’s It’s Time – is being reissued for its anniversary. It’s Time will be reissued in a 2CD or 2LP set (the latter pressed on silver vinyl) that’ll feature a dozen studio and live bonus tracks. Having come out at a time of considerable limited editions – some only available at certain American retailers from Target to Starbucks – this edition of It’s Time will offer all of those value-added bonus cuts in one place,…

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The Weekend Stream: July 26, 2025

July 26, 2025 by The Second Disc | 7 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. Billy Joel fans have it good this week, with seven hours of hits and rarities from his new documentary. If you’ve got room after that, there’s an anniversary reissue for literally the last five decades in a few different genres, too! Billy Joel, And So It Goes (The Musical Companion to the HBO Documentary Film) (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) If you’ve watched all five hours of the new two-part Billy…

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