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 Christmas season means favorites (quite) old and (sort of) new, plus Wang Chung's first album and a rock and hip-hop packed slasher film soundtrack. Band Aid, Do They Know It's Christmas? EP (Band Aid Trading Limited/UMC) EP: iTunes / Amazon Single Version: iTunes / Amazon Extended Version: iTunes / Amazon Just over four decades
The Second Disc's Guide to Record Store Day Black Friday 2024
From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you've enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. (And with plenty of delicious food, too!) Now, Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event is upon us, so we're spotlighting a dozen of the most eagerly anticipated releases arriving to your local independent brick-and-mortar record shop! Here are our personal picks for RSD BF must-haves; visit Record Store Day's official website for a list of
Release Round-Up: Week of November 29
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! While most labels are concentrating today on Record Store Day's Black Friday releases, we've chosen to spotlight a few non-RSD titles out today, as well. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tommy Steele, On Air (Stage Door Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Stage Door Records' Pop imprint celebrates The Happiest Millionaire and Half a Sixpence star Tommy Steele with On Air, a collection of 31 tracks culled
The Weekend Stream: November 23, 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. We've got Beach Boys covers with some fascinating history related to the band, a tribute to one of the greatest musical icons we lost this year, a new single from a legend of R&B and much more - plus a call to action to help a family in need. California Music, Don't Worry Baby EP (RCA) (iTunes / Amazon) One of the most unusual
Release Round-Up: Week of November 22
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today including a Christmas classic from Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music and a whole bunch of massive box sets! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sings Christmas Carols (Expanded Edition) (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real
'A Ghost' is Re-Born: Wilco Expand 2004 Album Into New Box Set
Following an acclaimed, Grammy-winning deluxe edition of Wilco's mainstream breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the same creative team will assemble a similar set for 2004 follow-up A Ghost is Born. The deluxe set - made up of either nine CDs or nine LPs and four CDs - packages the album alongside 65 previously unreleased tracks, including two sets of studio outtakes, a live concert and seven "fundamentals" from the band's recorded workshops during this same period. A 48-page hardcover book
Longer After Dark: Third Man Prep Vinyl Bootleg of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 1982 Tour
This fall, Tom Petty's estate approved an expanded reissue of Petty and The Heartbreakers' cult favorite Long After Dark as well as a limited theatrical reissue of Heartbreakers Beach Party, a legendary lost documentary created for MTV by Cameron Crowe in his directorial debut. But the party isn't over yet: the estate is teaming up with Third Man Records to release a vinyl-only live set for the first time. Live in Edinburgh 1982: The Gennaro Tapes is a triple album capturing a set at the
Gotta Get In to Get Out: Genesis' 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' Set for Deluxe Edition Next Year
Genesis will revisit one of their most beloved albums - and their final bow with original vocalist Peter Gabriel - in a new box set next year. Announced almost 50 years to the day of its original release in 1974, a new deluxe version of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway will be a multi-disc celebration - four CDs or five LPs, a Blu-ray Audio disc and a download card - of the group's acclaimed work. Inside the box will be a new remaster of the original mix of the album, done by Miles Showell with
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Elvis Costello, "King of America and Other Realms"
It was a fine idea at the time/Now it's a brilliant mistake... Elvis Costello delivered a powerful surprise in 1986 when he shed his backing band, The Attractions, and teamed up with T Bone Burnett for King of America. Originally credited in the U.K. to The Costello Show (Featuring The Attractions and Confederates) and in the U.S. to The Costello Show (Featuring Elvis Costello), the album backtracked from the sleek '80s polish of its two immediate predecessors (Punch the Clock and Goodbye
The Weekend Stream: November 16, 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. Iconic Seattle punk, a new Elton John single and fresh Duran Duran remixes kick things off - plus another round of esoteric Christmas cheer! The Gits, Frenching the Bully / Enter: The Conquering Chicken / Kings & Queens / Seafish Louisville (2024 Remasters) (Sub Pop) Frenching: iTunes / Amazon / Bandcamp Enter: iTunes / Amazon /
Release Round-Up: Week of November 15
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today...and, with the holidays approaching, it just might be the biggest release week of the year! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison, Living in the Material World: 50th Anniversary (Dark Horse) 2CD/2LP/1BD/1-7": 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
The Last Word: Real Gone's First November Releases Include 30th Anniversary Edition of Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Stones In The Road" Plus Misery Signals, The Unfolding
As usual, Real Gone's first releases in November are an eclectic bunch. The label is releasing the 30th anniversary edition of a contemporary country classic album, a psychedelic exploitation record from the 1960s, and a 20th anniversary edition of a metalcore album. Read on for more details for these releases all hitting store shelves tomorrow, November 15. In 1994, Mary Chapin Carpenter was at the pinnacle of country music. The singer-songwriter's fourth album for Columbia, Come On Come
Try to See Things Their Way: Ace Preps 'Here, There and Everywhere,' Third Collection of Beatles Covers Through a Black Lens
As fans prepare for the release of the new Disney+ documentary Beatles '64, chronicling The Fab Four's legendary inaugural trip to America, U.K. label Ace Records has an exciting release coming that same weekend, featuring nearly two dozen Black artists paying tribute to a series of songbooks that owed so much to soul music and rhythm and blues traditions. Here, There and Everywhere: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, available November 29, is the seventh of Ace's "Black
Almost Unreal: Roxette's Fifth Album Set for December Expansion
Before the year is out, Swedish duo Roxette will commemorate the 30th anniversary of their fifth album, 1994's Crash! Boom! Bang!, with a demos-packed 2CD reissue. The album, which represented a slight change-up in style for the duo, featured fan favorite singles "Sleeping in My Car," "Fireworks," "Vulnerable" and the title track. This expanded edition will offer 26 bonus tracks: three non-album tracks included on a 2009 expansion of the album, including the underrated 1993 single "Almost
I Just Found Out: Robert Gordon's Expanded, Remastered "Rock Billy Boogie" Arrives on Friday from 7a Records
This Friday, 7a Records celebrates a late, great rockabilly revivalist with the expanded reissue of Rock Billy Boogie from Robert Gordon on both 180-gram vinyl and CD. The 1979 album, featuring the lead guitar of Chris Spedding, marked Gordon's major label breakthrough and remains perhaps his finest (half) hour on record. Far more so than many of the so-called "new Elvises" that cropped up, the Maryland native captured the young Presley's rebel spirit and joyful swagger. He had musically
Got You Where I Want You: Dwight Twilley, Max Werner Reissues Arrive This Friday from Iconoclassic
This Friday, November 15, Iconoclassic Records will release its two latest titles - the third album in its ongoing Dwight Twilley reissue series and a long-lost gem from Kayak drummer-singer Max Werner. Twilley, the power pop hero's first solo album following two acclaimed albums with The Dwight Twilley Band, originally arrived in 1979 on Arista Records in the United States. The late singer-songwriter (1951-2023) was joined by a core band including Bill Pitcock IV on lead guitar, Jim Lewis
The Weekend Stream: November 9, 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 new remixes from Pet Shop Boys, old remixes from INXS, plus rare folk, jazz and alt-rock favorites - plus another bounty of unusual Christmas albums and EPs! Pet Shop Boys, New London boy / All the young dudes EPs (x2/Parlophone) Standard: iTunes / Amazon Remixes: iTunes / Amazon A new double A-side single from Pet Shop
Release Round-Up: Week of November 8
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. Whitney Houston, The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) (Arista/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings, in collaboration with Whitney Houston's estate, will release the late artist's The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban). The CD and
The Weekend Stream: November 2, 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. We've got all the usual stuff you'd expect - reissues from Usher, rarities from The Alan Parsons Project, and another unique Daryl Hall-related EP - and some stuff you might not, like truly unusual Christmas collections and a new app from one of the best places for music in video games! Nintendo Music app One genre the Second Disc team has
Release Round-Up: Week of November 1
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Elvis Costello, King of America and Other Realms (UMe) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Black LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Gold Nugget LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music / The Sound of Vinyl Elvis Costello is looking back on his tenth
Shattered: The Rolling Stones' 1999 Shepherd Bush Gig Arrives in November from Mercury Studios
The Rolling Stones have long been famed for their "secret shows." One of those took place on June 8, 1999 when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and company took the stage at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, a 1903 music hall in the West London suburb. In front of an 1,800-capacity crowd including such luminaries as Anita Pallenberg, Pete Townshend, Jerry Hall, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and Bob Geldof, the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band strutted their stuff just days
Alice Cooper's 'Muscle of Love' Has Never Been Sold Before (Like This)
Alice Cooper's final album - well, the final album with Cooper's original band of the same name - is getting a deluxe treatment this year. Available on 2CD/Blu-ray and pink double vinyl exclusively at Rhino.com, 1973's Muscle of Love gets expanded with unreleased alternate versions of every track on the album and lengthy, track-by-track liner notes by writer Jaan Uhelszki, drawing from new interviews with Cooper and his surviving bandmates (rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis
The Weekend Stream: October 26, 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. We're positively packed this Saturday: posthumous tracks from Van Halen, Luther Vandross and DMX; a great deluxe live set from Linda Ronstadt; plus some Halloween and Christmas surprises...and, to top it all off, a call to action to aid one of our favorite power-pop acts of the last 40 years. Edward & Alex Van Halen, "Unfinished (Between
Release Round-Up: Week of October 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Blue Magic, Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) Let the sideshow begin! SoulMusic Records and TSD are proud to unveil a new 6-CD box set dedicated to the sweet 'n funky soul stylings of Philly quintet Blue Magic ("Sideshow," "Three Ring
Can You Dig It? Yes, I Can: Chicago's "Live at 55" Features Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Chris Daughtry, Judith Hill, More
Last November 17 and 18, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City's Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two marathon concerts touching on every facet of the band's long career. Now, the film of those concerts - featuring a number of special guests including Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, and Judith Hill - is coming to a variety of formats almost one year to the day, on November 22, 2024. Mercury Studios will release
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