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Make It Fast, Make It Urgent: Foreigner Add More to '4'

July 2, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Foreigner 4 box set

Foreigner is bringing 4 to the fore with a new deluxe box set devoted to their blockbuster fourth album. Available September 12, this new edition of 4 will include a new remix of the original 1981 album and three discs of unreleased material, including studio outtakes, unheard songs from the recording sessions, instrumental mixes and selections from the band's world tour of 1981-1982. A Blu-ray Audio will include the album remix (plus the newly-released "Fool If You Love Him," available as

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Foreigner

Anyway, Here's a Deluxe Edition: Oasis' 'Morning Glory' Gets Reissued

July 2, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Oasis Morning Glory 30

We're days away from Oasis' unimaginable reunion tour kickoff - and we're at least getting some new reissue out of the whole thing. The British rock icons will offer a slightly expanded edition of 1995's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, 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 Gallagher and Callum

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Oasis

No Jacket Required (Fully Tailored)

July 2, 2025 By

no jacket required

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 4 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

Another Ticket: Eric Clapton, Roxy Music Classics Come to SHM-CD

July 1, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Roxy Music SHM

And the SHMs just keep on coming! Following batches of Japanese pressings of albums by Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones and Sting, two more classic catalogues from Universal Music Group are getting reissued on the format this summer: the first decade-plus of album by Eric Clapton - available this Friday, July 4 - and five titles from Roxy Music, available later in the month on July 25. Clapton's discs - 1970's Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (recorded as part of Derek & The Dominos), his

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Derek and the Dominos, Eric Clapton, Phil Manzanera

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

Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years

June 30, 2025 By

John Fogerty Legacy

John Fogerty is embracing his history with Creedence Clearwater Revival - and celebrating his acquisition of his own song publishing - on this new album of 20 classic CCR songs, on which he's joined by his sons Shane and Tyler.  Legacy features new recordings of such favorites as "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Proud Mary," "Fortunate Son," and "Bad Moon Rising," all in what might be described as "John's Versions."  Available on CD, LP, and digital/streaming.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from

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

Rapture of the Deep: 20th Anniversary Edition

June 30, 2025 By

Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep 20

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A 20th anniversary edition of Rapture of the Deep, Deep Purple's 18th studio album, offers a remix and resequencing of the album by Roger Glover, with two non-LP tracks ("MTV" and "Things I Never Said") now added into the sequence. This was the second album from the band's longest-tenured line-up, the "Mk. VIII" arrangement that joined Ian Gillan, Glover, and Ian Paice with former Rainbow

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

From the Beginning

June 30, 2025 By

Motley Crue From the Beginning

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.S. (White Clear) / Target (Black/Translucent Splatter + Sticker Sheet) / Walmart (Black Marbled) Mötley Crüe are going back From the Beginning with a new career-spanning compilation.  The new CD or 2LP set includes more than a dozen singles and ke cuts from their heyday as one of glam metal's biggest acts ("Smokin' in the Boys Room," "Girls Girls Girls," "Dr. Feelgood," "Kickstart My

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

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

Balance: Expanded Edition

June 30, 2025 By

Van Halen Balance expanded

2CD/2LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Van Halen's catalogue is attaining further Balance with an expanded edition of the band's final album recorded with second lead singer Sammy Hagar.  The band's 10th studio album is reborn as a 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray set offering the remaster featured in 2023 box set The Collection II, three studio rarities, eight unreleased live tracks, and a

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

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

June 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Version 1.0.0

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

Stand Inside Your Love: Smashing Pumpkins Revisit 'Machina' Duo in New Vinyl Box

June 30, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Machina box

The Smashing Pumpkins are revisiting the material that initially marked their final bow with a sprawling, unusual box set. 2000's Machina/The Machines of God will be remastered and reissued on CD and double vinyl from UMe on August 22. Additionally, a new box set, Machina (Aranea Alba Editio), will offer a remixed and resequenced, 48-track quintuple-album drawing from Machina, its sequel Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music and assorted B-sides, plus a further three LPs of 32

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Smashing Pumpkins

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

Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Rhino Boxes Ramones Albums in Atmos on "1-2-3-4!"

June 27, 2025 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Ramones 1 2 3 4

Gabba gabba hey!  Today, Rhino has unveiled a new box set bringing Ramones into a new frontier: that of immersive audio.  1!2!3!4! The Ramones Atmos Collection brings Queens' favorite band into the realm of Dolby Atmos with new immersive mixes of their first four albums on Blu-ray Audio: 1976's Ramones; 1977's Leave Home and Rocket to Russia; and 1978's Road to Ruin.  Limited to just 2,000 copies, this set is available exclusively at Rhino.com and Warner Music's international storefronts. The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Ramones

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

That's What Makes Us Humans Being: Van Halen's 'Balance' Set for Deluxe Edition

June 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Van Halen Balance expanded

Van Halen's catalogue is attaining further Balance with an expanded edition of the band's final album recorded with second lead singer Sammy Hagar. The band's 10th studio album, released in 1995, will be reissued August 15 as a 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray set offering the remaster featured in 2023 box set The Collection II, three studio rarities, eight unreleased live tracks and a half-dozen music videos (including another live performance from the vault). Standalone 2CD and 2LP editions will be

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Eddie Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Van Halen

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

On Their Way: Mötley Crüe Collect Their Hits 'From the Beginning'

June 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Motley Crue From the Beginning

Mötley Crüe are going back From the Beginning this fall with a new career-spanning compilation. The new CD or 2LP set, available September 12, includes more than a dozen singles and key cuts from their heyday as one of glam metal's biggest acts ("Smokin' in the Boys Room," "Girls Girls Girls," "Dr. Feelgood," "Kickstart My Heart") all the way to modern-day releases like 2008's Saints of Los Angeles and 2024's Cancelled EP. The album closes with a new recording of the band's famed power ballad

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Motley Crue

From Japan to 'Rapture': Deep Purple Remix, Expand Albums from Mk. II and VIII Line-Ups

June 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Deep Purple Made in Japan deluxe Rhino

Two very different albums from Deep Purple's long history will be remixed and reissued this summer: 1975's Made in Japan and 2005's Rapture of the Deep. Coming from Rhino on August 15 - 52 years since the first of the concerts represented on the original LP were staged - a new super deluxe edition of Made in Japan, spanning 5CD/1 Blu-ray or 10 LPs, offers new mixes by Steven Wilson of the original album and the complete trio of concerts it came from, complete with bonus encores and a few

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Deep Purple

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

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