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Review: Todd Rundgren, "Global"

April 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Todd Global

Almost two years ago to the day, Todd Rundgren released his 24th studio album, State.  The prolific singer-songwriter-producer hasn’t been resting on his laurels in the period since State.  He’s maintained a busy touring schedule both solo and with Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band, and has contributed to numerous studio projects this year including the progressive collaboration Runddans with Hans-Peter Lindstrøm and Emil Nikolaisen, and Starr’s Postcards from Paradise (on which he co-wrote

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Todd Rundgren

Release Round-Up: Week of April 7

April 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Brian Wilson No Pier Pressure

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Who, The Brunswick Singles 1965-1966 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Who box up replicas of seven early 7-inch singles plus an eighth with The High Numbers’ “Zoot Suit” b/w “I’m the Face” on this deluxe vinyl box set.  Read more here. Herman's Hermits, The 50th Anniversary Anthology (Bear Family) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Bear Family gives the “I’m Into Something Good” and “There’s a Kind of Hush” pop stars the deluxe

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Pepper, Bad Company, Brian Wilson, Cannonball Adderley, Dion, Eddie Bo, Garnet Mimms, Grace Slick, Herman's Hermits, Jackie Wilson, Jesse Winchester, Steve Vai, The Who, Todd Rundgren

Freak Out! Frank Zappa's Lost Final Album "Dance Me This" Slated For June Release

April 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Zappa Dance Me This

On June 1, the final album recorded during the lifetime of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and musical iconoclast Frank Zappa will, at last, see the light of day.  The Zappa Family Trust has announced the release of Dance Me This as the landmark 100th Official Release from the composer-artist. Though the ZFT has provided scant information, only indicating “This is it.  # 100.  The LAST album by Frank Zappa.  It’s 1993 and YOU ARE HERE!” on the official pre-order page, it’s believed that Dance Me

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Frank Zappa

Runddans

April 1, 2015 By

Runddans

Runddans is described by the label as "the result of the collaboration between Todd Rundgren, Hans-Peter Lindstrom and Emil Nikolaisen. Its a spiritual magnusopus, that stands alongside Rundgren's most worshipped trippy albums of the seventies, fusing his blue eyed soul with Lindstroms disco epics and Emil Nikolaisens studio trickery into a cosmic mix of soul, synth, pop and disco."

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of March 31

March 31, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy

Today's Release Round-Up has everything from classic country and rock to vintage jazz! Glen Campbell, Rhinestone Cowboy: 40th Anniversary Edition (Capitol Nashville) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) Capitol Nashville remasters and expands Glen Campbell’s smash 1975 album with five bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased “Quits,” two rare new-to-U.S.-CD single sides and remixes of “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.).”  Read full details

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Billie Holiday, Fotheringay, Glen Campbell, Hall and Oates, Meat Loaf, Rick Wakeman, Ringo Starr, The Grateful Dead, Translator, Van Halen

Forever Man

March 25, 2015 By

Clapton Forever Man

Eric Clapton's new anthology - released on the occasion of his 70th birthday - features 51 tracks on three CDs, with one disc dedicated to studio tracks, one to live recordings, and one to his explorations of the blues.  Also available in 2-CD and 2-LP highlight forms, and as a digital download.

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

Wonderful Tonight: Eric Clapton Turns 70, Releases New Late-Period Anthology

March 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Clapton Forever Man

On March 30, Eric Clapton turns 70, but the guitar hero isn't about to rest on his considerable laurels. He's marking the occasion with a series of concerts including two at New York's Madison Square Garden and seven at London's Royal Albert Hall. Reprise Records is also celebrating the artist's landmark birthday with the April 28 release of Forever Man, a compilation concentrating on his longtime affiliation with the label and its sister Warner Bros. Records which began in 1983. Featuring 51

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! GAME THEORY “Real Nighttime” Bundle From Omnivore Recordings!

March 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Game Theory Real Nighttime

CONGRATULATIONS! The following five entrants have won the brand-new red vinyl LP Real Nighttime, and also an original vintage 1980s flexidisc from GAME THEORY and OMNIVORE RECORDINGS!  If you entered our contest and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook: Jeffrey Rosen Mark Nielsen Cole Smith Tim Vogt Randall Paske If you didn't win, this amazing, extremely limited bundle is still available to purchase

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Game Theory

Release Round-Up: Week of March 23

March 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Bee Gees 1974 1979

It's a Monday release date here in the U.S., so here's your early Release Round-Up! Bee Gees, 1974-1979 (Reprise/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This box set brings together the band’s Mr. Natural, Main Course, Children of the World and Spirits Having Flown plus a disc of previously issued bonus material.  Full track listing and details here.  Watch on Record Store Day for a companion vinyl release to this set featuring the 12-inch mixes from Saturday Night Fever! Kansas,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bee Gees, Dean Martin, Hawkwind, James Brown, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Kansas, Kenny Rankin, Paul McCartney, Phyllis Hyman, Roger Taylor, The Brecker Brothers, Toto, Van Morrison, Willie Nile

WIN! WIN! WIN! GAME THEORY "Real Nighttime" Bundle From Omnivore Recordings!

March 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Game Theory Real Nighttime

Here at Second Disc HQ, spring can’t come fast enough – but leave it to our friends at Omnivore Recordings to help us beat the winter blues with a giveaway you won’t want to miss! Today, Omnivore continues its celebration of the late Scott Miller’s band Game Theory with a 30th anniversary reissue of Real Nighttime, produced by Mitch Easter (R.E.M.) on expanded CD and a limited edition red vinyl LP of the original album with a download card of the entire expanded CD program!  To make it even

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Game Theory

Release Round-Up: Week of March 17

March 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Pretty Things Bouquets

This week's Release Round-Up has box sets and deluxe editions a-plenty... The Pretty Things, Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky (Snapper) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This box set is much in the style of last year's Small Faces set Here Come the Nice, and contains 11 studio albums on CD with 42 bonus tracks, two rarities CDs with 45 previously unreleased tracks, 2 DVDs including a new documentary by Reelin' in the Years Productions, a 10-inch replica acetate disc, posters, an art print, and a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Anthony Phillips, Basia, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Game Theory, Genesis, Jim Croce, Simple Minds, The Notations

(Don't) Walk On By: Rhino's Record Store Day Lineup Boasts a-ha, Bee Gees, Bowie, Doors, Dionne, More

March 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Bee Gees Extended

Rhino isn't resting on its laurels for Record Store Day!  The label has announced its biggest slate ever for Record Store Day, with 30 limited edition 12-inch, 10-inch, and 7-inch vinyl releases due on Saturday, April 18. Full details as provided by the label for all titles can be found below. As always with RSD, these releases will be available exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 18, and you can find the list of participating shops here! a-ha - Take On Me 7-inch

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: a-ha, Bee Gees, David Bowie, Dionne Warwick, Gram Parsons, Hawkwind, Jaco Pastorius, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, The Doors, The Replacements

The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990

March 11, 2015 By

Replacements Complete Studio Albums

Rhino boxes up the Minnesota rockers' complete studio output utilizing the 2008 remasters, but sans all bonus material.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock

Omnivore's Record Store Day Trio Revealed with The Honeys, MC Lyte, More "High Fidelity"

March 11, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sessions 64

  What do Brian Wilson, MC Lyte and Sam Phillips have in common? All three are among the artists and producers represented on Omnivore Recordings’ trio of delicious vinyl offerings for this April 18’s upcoming Record Store Day! Sessions ’64!! is so exciting that no less than two exclamation points will do!! This groovy 10-inch slab of translucent gold vinyl transports listeners back to 1964. It includes nine tracks produced by Brian Wilson and Jimmy Bowen for the Warner Bros. and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Brian Wilson, Gary Usher, MC Lyte, Pugwash, Record Store Day, Sam Phillips, The Honeys

Legacy's Record Store Day Slate Includes Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, More

March 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Simon and Garfunkel Homeward

Today was the big announcement day for Record Store Day 2015, scheduled for Saturday, April 15 at the finest independent retailers across the U.S. and beyond! A press conference was held at Brooklyn’s outpost of Rough Trade giving the details on the many titles to expect next month. We’re kicking off our coverage with a look at the releases due from Legacy Recordings; watch this space for more news as it comes! Legacy’s eclectic line-up has some of the label’s heaviest hitters – Bruce

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billie Holiday, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Manic Street Preachers, Record Store Day, Simon and Garfunkel

Release Round-Up: Week of March 10

March 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Mathis Cover

This week brings a particularly impressive slate by any standard, but we're particularly proud to introduce the world to Second Disc Records with our first two releases, from Johnny Mathis and the late Bob Crewe! Johnny Mathis, Life is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Here, on two CDs, we proudly present both of Johnny Mathis' album collaborations - including the never-on-CD Mathis Is... - with songwriter-producer

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Pepper, Bettye LaVette, Bob Crewe, Bread, Grace Slick, Grover Washington Jr., Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Mathis, Judas Priest, Julie Andrews, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, The Guess Who

Back By Unpopular Demand: The Replacements' Studio Albums Boxed By Rhino In April

March 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Replacements Complete Studio Albums

The unlikely reunion of The Replacements - a.k.a. founding members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson plus recent additions Dave Minehan (The Neighborhoods) and Josh Freese (The Vandals, Devo, Weezer) - marches on this spring (to perhaps everyone's surprise!) with the month-long "Back by Unpopular Demand" tour kicking off April 9 in Seattle. To coincide with this latest jaunt for the Minneapolis alt-rock heroes, Rhino has unveiled The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990, containing the band's full

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Rock Tags: Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, Tommy Stinson

Sensitive Chaos: Rhino To Release Anthology From Steve Howe of Yes

March 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Steve Howe Anthology

Get ready to say “Yes” to a new retrospective from progressive-rock great Steve Howe.  The English guitarist has curated a new 33-track retrospective, simply titled Anthology, for release on March 10 via Rhino.  The 2-CD set, also available as a digital download, is primarily drawn from the studio albums he’s recorded between 1975 and 2011.  It arrives just weeks before the May 19 release of Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two, the 14-CD box set preserving Howe and Yes' performances on their

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Steve Howe, Yes

Deluxe (Tokyo Dome Live in Concert + Remasters)

March 4, 2015 By

VH Deluxe

Van Halen boxes up its new concert release featuring David Lee Roth with remastered editions of the band's debut and his (first) farewell, 1984.  Available on 4 CDs or 6 LPs.

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1984 (Remastered Edition)

March 4, 2015 By

VH 1984

David Lee Roth's (first) swansong with Van Halen is remastered, with no additional material, on CD, DD and LP.

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Van Halen (Remastered Edition)

March 4, 2015 By

Van Halen Remaster

Van Halen's debut album returns in a remastered edition with no additional material on CD, DD and LP.

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Tokyo Dome Live in Concert

March 4, 2015 By

VH Tokyo

The first-ever live album from Van Halen to feature David Lee Roth, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert was recorded on June 21, 2013 in Japan with Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Wolfgang Van Halen, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert boasts 25 songs representing all seven of the band's albums with Roth, right up through 2012's A Different Kind of Truth. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered by Chris Bellman, it will be released in 2-CD, 4-LP and DD configurations.

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Short Takes: Yes' Massive Box Set, Metallica's Original Demo and Van Halen Remasters

March 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Yes Progeny

There soon will be many more Yessongs. Progressive rockers Yes released the triple-LP live album Yessongs in 1973. It captured the band at the height of its powers, riding a wave of success thanks to the 1972 album Close to the Edge. In the weeks leading up to the recording of Yessongs, however, the band recorded a number of shows that are now being collected in Rhino's massive 14-CD box set Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two. The May 19 release contains seven complete shows recorded in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Metallica, Record Store Day, Van Halen, Yes

Review: Ron Nagle, "Bad Rice"

February 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

bad rice

Rare is the "cult album" that actually lives up to its mystique. But rare is Ron Nagle's Bad Rice. This artifact from the Mystery Trend leader and acclaimed ceramic sculptor, originally released on Warner Bros. Records circa 1970, has recently been given new life by Omnivore Recordings in a deluxe 2-CD edition that's an early candidate for Reissue of the Year. One part David Ackles, one part Randy Newman and the rest pure Nagle, Bad Rice likely wasn't helped all those decades ago by its

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Jack Nitzsche, Ron Nagle

Stillness in Motion: Vai Live in L.A.

February 24, 2015 By

Steve Vai Stillness

Stillness in Motion - Vai Live in L.A. is drawn from the guitar great's October 12, 2012 at Los Angeles' Club Nokia. Available in 2-CD and 2-DVD configurations, Stillness in Motion chronicles the 49th concert of Vai's acclaimed Story of Light World Tour.

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Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Rock

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