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Donna Summer, Gene Autry, Jethro Tull, R.E.M., Roy Acuff, Soundgarden, The Beatles, The Who, Tim Buckley, Tori Amos

Reach for the Sky: Social Distortion to Release “The Independent Years” on Vinyl

November 17, 2016 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Punk icons Social Distortion are rounding up four of their albums for your turntable in a new vinyl box set out this fall. The Independent Years 1983-2004 fills in the gaps on either side of their major-label tenure from 1990 to 1996. Founded in southern California in 1978 and led since then by singer/guitarist Mike Ness, Social D’s first album, Mommy’s Little Monster, was self-released in 1983. Five years later, after Ness kicked a drug habit and reorganized the band after a hiatus, Prison Bound found the group channeling Johnny Cash and…

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Rock Candy Records To Launch American Label with Sammy Hagar, The Nymphs, More

November 15, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Rock Candy Records, the brainchild of former music journalist and A&R man Derek Oliver, has just announced the birth of a U.S. arm. The American operation for Rock Candy will launch this Friday, November 18, with four titles from Sammy Hagar, The Nymphs, Salty Dog, and Tyketto. Amazon U.S. will have the Hagar and Salty Dog titles in stock on December 2. For the past eight years, the London-based label has celebrated rock and its various strains on a variety of reissues from the 1970s-1990s by artists including Toto, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Kansas,…

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Salty Dog, Sammy Hagar, The Nymphs, Tyketto

The Ultimate Collection

November 14, 2016 by Joe Marchese

The Ultimate Collection features, on six vinyl albums, Evanescence’s full studio discography on 180-gram vinyl. In addition to Fallen, The Open Door (a double LP) and Evanescence, the box features the first wide release of Origin, a 2000 self-released demo collection; plus Lost Whispers, a rarities disc featuring four unreleased tracks, including a new version of Origin‘s “Even In Death.” A 52-page book of handwritten lyrics, artwork and photos rounds out this deluxe package.

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Blue and Lonesome

November 14, 2016 by Joe Marchese

The Rolling Stones return with their first studio album since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. Recorded over just three days in London, Blue and Lonesome returns the legendary band to its blues roots. Available on CD, LP and DD.

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 11

November 11, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! It’s another big week for box sets from classic rock’s heaviest hitters, and much, much more… Bob Dylan, The 1966 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 36 discs of music from Bob Dylan’s 1966 world tour – every recording of the tour known to exist – are brought together on this monumental new collection. Read our full review here! Bob Dylan, The Real Royal Albert Hall Concert (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K./ Amazon Canada) This two-CD set culled from the box set presents Dylan’s historic…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock

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Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Garth Brooks, John Lennon, NRBQ, Pink Floyd, Robbie Robertson, Sting, The Band, Yoko Ono

In Memoriam: Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)

November 10, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Leonard Cohen, one of the most distinctive troubadours to arrive on the musical scene in the 1960s, passed away today at the age of 82. An uncompromising talent who mordantly titled his most recent album (released just weeks ago) You Want It Darker, Cohen continued to create, inspire, and provoke until his final days. His gifts of song and art, always infused with boldness, a deep spirituality and a keen observer’s eye, will always resonate with truth, honesty, power and passion. In tribute to Mr. Cohen, we’re reprinting our original 2011 review of…

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Wake Me Up: Evanescence Vinyl Box Announced

November 10, 2016 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

The Bicycle Music Company, which purchased ’00s alt-rock label Wind-Up Records in 2015, will release a vinyl box set devoted to one of the label’s biggest acts: Evanescence. In the middle of the 2000s, the Little Rock, Arkansas-born Evanescence were one of the hottest rock acts around. Founded around the haunting voice of Amy Lee and the smart hard-rock guitar of Ben Moody, the band were a hit straight out the gate. Debut album Fallen sold 7 million copies in the U.S. and spent more than a year in the Billboard 200,…

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High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective

November 8, 2016 by Joe Marchese

The New Rhythm and Blues Quartet (NRBQ) is turning 50 this year, and Omnivore Recordings is throwing the party! High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective features 106 eclectic songs over 5 CDs including fan favorites such as the 1974 hit “Get That Gasoline Blues,” plus rarities, concert tracks, and previously unreleased recordings from the band’s varied line-ups over the years. Every track on High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective has been freshly remastered, while the deluxe package boasts extensive booklet notes and previously unseen photos. While Omnivore is unable to release the box set digitally due…

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Holiday Gift Guide

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Havana Moon

November 7, 2016 by Joe Marchese

The Rolling Stones’ historic Cuba concert from March 25 earlier this year is released in a variety of formats: Blu-ray/DVD/2 CDs Book-Style Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blu-ray/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/3-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blu-ray: Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon U.K.

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Everybody Say Yeah! New Box Set Marks 50 Years of NRBQ

November 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

The New Rhythm and Blues Quartet (NRBQ) is turning 50 this year, and Omnivore Recordings is throwing the party! High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective features 106 eclectic songs over 5 CDs including fan favorites such as the 1974 hit “Get That Gasoline Blues,” plus rarities, concert tracks, and previously unreleased recordings from the band’s varied line-ups over the years! Since its founding in Louisville, Kentucky in 1966, NRBQ has touched on rock, jazz, blues, pop, and Americana. The band has recorded over 30 diverse albums for labels including Columbia, Kama Sutra, Mercury, and…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

November 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a host of holiday offerings (including three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!) and much, much more! Jack Jones, The Jack Jones Christmas Album (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly bring Jack Jones’ 1964 Kapp Records classic to CD for the very first time! The Jack Jones Christmas Album features lush renditions of “White Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” and “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on…

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Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold, Frank Zappa, Jack Jones, Mantovani, Margaret Whiting, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, Stevie Nicks, , The Living Strings, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures

Now We’re Getting Somewhere: An Interview with Neil Finn of Crowded House

November 3, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Hey now, hey now…Here at Second Disc HQ, we’re bursting with pride to share with you this very special interview conducted by our very own Mike Duquette! Crowded House founder Neil Finn reflected at length with Mike about his band, his career, legacy, and the series of truly lavish Crowded House reissues hitting stores on November 11. We know you’ll enjoy this one! Take it away, Mike… There are certain songwriters who’ve mastered certain places in their compositions. Think of, say, Lou Reed, and you’ve got witty urban decay, personified. Conjure up some songs…

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Accentuate The Positive: Capitol Records Turns 75, Plans New Vinyl Reissues

November 2, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Capitol Records, the venerable label founded by Johnny Mercer with B.G. DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs and now a unit of Universal Music Group, turns 75 next year. In celebration of this landmark anniversary, the label has announced three new initiatives. The first of these endeavors is The Capitol Records 75th Anniversary Collection, a series of 75 vinyl reissues from various genres curated by “noted music journalists, authors and other renowned creative figures.” The Beatles are represented (naturally!) with five titles, Frank Sinatra with four, and The Band, Bonnie Raitt, and The Beach…

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Bobby Darin, Bonnie Raitt, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mercer, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles

Do Your Thing: 20 Record Store Day Black Friday Essentials

November 1, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Are you making a list and checking it twice? We are! Record Store Day Black Friday is here in less than a month, and this week we’re showcasing all of our favorite titles. We’ve shown you the goods from Legacy, Real Gone, Rhino and Omnivore; now, here are 20 more titles we think you should absolutely check out. There’s soundtrack goodies from Varese Sarabande and Light in the Attic; holiday favorites from Bob & Doug McKenzie, Frank Sinatra and “Dolemite” himself; lost gems from Isaac Hayes, The Runaways and Harry Nilsson; and…

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Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Harry Nilsson, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Goldsmith, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, The Runaways

Rhino, Omnivore Plan Black Friday Gold For Record Store Day

October 31, 2016 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

That chill in the air and the buzz in your favorite record store can only mean one thing: Record Store Day Black Friday is nearly upon us! On November 25, indie record retailers and labels great and small will partner together to issue dozens of exclusive packages you can’t get anywhere else (except maybe eBay, after the fact, though we’re not happy about that.) The vinyl boom refuses to end, but owing to the lesser size of the event in general, there don’t seem to be as many titles as usual. That…

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Big Star, CHIC, Foreigner, Jaco Pastorius, Jethro Tull, Ramones, Record Store Day, The Bangles, The Beach Boys, The Cars, The Monkees

Legacy

October 29, 2016 by Joe Marchese

2-CD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new 2-CD retrospective dedicated to the late David Bowie features forty classic tracks from “Space Oddity” through the final song on Blackstar, “I Can’t Give Everything Away.” A single-CD, 20-track iteration will also be released. The 2-CD version is sequenced chronologically, while the single-disc version is not. Both editions feature one previously unreleased track: a 2016 remix of 1971’s “Life on Mars?” by producer Ken Scott. A vinyl edition follows in January 2017.

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Prince 4Ever

October 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese

Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist’s major works from his first album, 1978’s For You, to 1992’s The Love Symbol, Prince’s last release before he changed his name to the album’s title. At least six tracks appear on Prince compilations for the first time, and the set also includes the first posthumous release from Prince’s fabled vault: “Moonbeam Levels,” a 1999 outtake at one point considered for 1988’s Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic, a project scrapped when Prince took on Batman. A 12-page booklet featuring unseen pictures by acclaimed photographer Herb Ritts rounds…

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You’re Gonna Get It! Tom Petty Celebrates 40 Years with Two Vinyl Boxes

October 28, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are collecting all their studio albums into two new vinyl box sets. The Complete Studio Albums Volume 1 (1976-1991) and The Complete Studio Albums Volume 2 (1994-2014) bring together, across 21 pieces of 180-gram vinyl, all 16 studio releases from singer/guitarist Petty, guitarists Mike Campbell and Scott Thurston, keyboardist Benmont Tench, bassists Ron Blair and Howie Epstein and drummers Stan Lynch and Steve Ferrone. (Three of the albums, of–Full Moon Fever (1989), Wildflowers (1994) and Highway Companion (2006)–are solely…

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Dylan, Hendrix, Run-D.M.C. Lead Off Legacy’s Record Store Day Black Friday Slate

October 27, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The official list is here for this year’s Black Friday Record Store Day event – that’s Friday, November 25! – and as usual, an eclectic array of titles will be on offer to kick off the holiday shopping season. Legacy Recordings has tapped some of its heaviest hitters for this year’s limited edition vinyl releases including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Run-D.M.C. and Alice in Chains…plus a disparate pair of animation favorites! Here’s the full list of Legacy’s Black Friday RSD releases, with accompanying descriptions provided by the label! All titles will be…

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Alice in Chains, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Record Store Day, Run-D.M.C.

Feeling This: Classic Blink-182 Albums Collected In Vinyl Box

October 25, 2016 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the pop-punk fan in your life? UMe has you covered with a 10LP box set devoted to one of the genre’s best bands: Blink-182. The simply titled Blink-182 Box Set features all seven of the group’s albums released between 1995 and 2011. This includes the long out-of-print live set The Mark, Tom & Travis Show (which featured the studio single “Man Overboard” and a whole lot of bathroom humor in its onstage banter) and the deluxe edition of Neighborhoods, the final full-length album by the…

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Let’s Go Crazy: NPG/Warner Bros. Announce “Prince 4Ever” Compilation

October 21, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Readers of The Second Disc have had to cope with some powerful losses in the pantheon of music greats, and few losses were bigger than that of Prince this past spring. His death propelled multiple albums and compilations into the Billboard charts, including the single-disc overview The Very Best of Prince, which topped the charts 15 years after it was released. In time for the holidays, the first posthumous Prince collection, Prince 4Ever, was announced today by NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records. (This release, for now, firmly contradicts earlier reports that…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 21

October 21, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up – one of the year’s biggest! Frank Sinatra, World on a String (Capitol/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K./ Amazon Canada) Featuring performances spanning 1953 to 1982, this new live collection boasts more than four hours’ worth of rare audio and video from the legendary Chairman of the Board – over 90 tracks on CD alone including such Sinatra favorites as “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” “Witchcraft” and “Bewitched” right up through “Strangers in…

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Bette Midler, David Bowie, David Crosby, Donna Fargo, Dr. John, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, The Pretenders, Tony Hadley

Boys For Pele: 20th Anniversary Edition

October 15, 2016 by Joe Marchese

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This expanded edition of Tori Amos’ third album, Boys for Pele, will feature new liner notes penned by Amos and a 21-track bonus disc of demos, B-sides and alternate versions, four of which (“To the Fair Motormaids of Japan,” “Sucker,” a remix of “Talula” and an alternate take of “In the Springtime of His Voodoo”) are previously unreleased. A double vinyl reissue of the original album will also be available.

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Badmotorfinger [Various Editions]

October 15, 2016 by Joe Marchese

Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This seven disc set – four CDs, two DVDs and a Blu-ray – expanded the rockers’ third album to staggering proportions. Astoundingly, much of Badmotorfinger‘s deluxe content has never been released before. You get the remastered album, a disc of studio outtakes (with just one released track, a version of “New Damage” with Queen guitarist Brian May), a 1992 live set at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on two…

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