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.
Everybody Say Yeah! New Box Set Marks 50 Years of NRBQ
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
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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Now We’re Getting Somewhere: An Interview with Neil Finn of Crowded House
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…
Accentuate The Positive: Capitol Records Turns 75, Plans New Vinyl Reissues
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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Do Your Thing: 20 Record Store Day Black Friday Essentials
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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Rhino, Omnivore Plan Black Friday Gold For Record Store Day
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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Legacy
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.
Prince 4Ever
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…
You’re Gonna Get It! Tom Petty Celebrates 40 Years with Two Vinyl Boxes
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…
Dylan, Hendrix, Run-D.M.C. Lead Off Legacy’s Record Store Day Black Friday Slate
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…
Feeling This: Classic Blink-182 Albums Collected In Vinyl Box
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…
Let’s Go Crazy: NPG/Warner Bros. Announce “Prince 4Ever” Compilation
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…
Release Round-Up: Week of October 21
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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Boys For Pele: 20th Anniversary Edition
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.
Badmotorfinger [Various Editions]
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…
On Earth As It Is: The Complete Works
The 3-LP or 3-CD/1-DVD release On Earth As It Is: The Complete Works is the definitive collection from Mother Love Bone, the first band of Seattle’s burgeoning late ’80s/early ’90s rock scene to secure a major label deal. The members of the quintet all kicked around said scene for much of the late ’80s, with guitarists Bruce Fairweather and Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament coming from proto-grunge group Green River, drummer Greg Gilmore playing in punk outfits 10 Minute Warning (where he played alongside Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan) and Skin Yard…
Lighthouse
David Crosby returns for a new, intimate 9-song solo set highlighted by “Things We Do for Love,” “Somebody Other Than You,” and “Paint You a Picture,” the latter co-written with Marc Cohn. Available on CD and vinyl.
A Thousand Years Wide: Soundgarden Expand “Badmotorfinger” in a Big Way
When news first broke that Soundgarden were planning a 25th anniversary edition of their third album, 1991’s Badmotorfinger, it was almost hard to imagine what extra content would be included. After all, 2014’s Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Along the Path had compiled just about all of the group’s B-sides across three discs. Well, with the grunge explosion celebrated heavily in the Soundgarden-adjacent camp (box sets devoted to Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog are among 2016’s bigger collections), the band is ready to unleash an expanded Badmotorfinger—and what a…
Stardog Champions: Mother Love Bone Box Due This Fall
We recently reported Universal’s new reissue of Seattle grunge outfit Temple of the Dog, a supergroup featuring members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden paying tribute to Mother Love Bone. This fall, the complete output of that band will be compiled into a box set as well. On Earth As It Is: The Complete Works is the definitive collection from the first of Seattle’s burgeoning late ’80s/early ’90s rock scene to secure a major label deal. The members of the quintet all kicked around said scene for much of the late ’80s, with…
It’s Gotta Be Big: Tori Amos to Expand “Boys for Pele,” 20 Years Later
In honor of its 20th anniversary, Rhino Records is expanding and reissuing Tori Amos’ third album, Boys for Pele, with a host of rare and unreleased bonus tracks. Her first self-produced album after splitting with producer and partner Eric Rosse, Boys for Pele (named for the Hawaiian fire goddess) found Amos taking the power back from the male figures in her life. “I was at the point I could not answer to anybody,” she said of her bid for independence. “I’d been answering my whole life to some patriarchal figure.” Recorded primarily…
Friday’s Child: Lee Hazlewood Meets Indie Rock On Ace’s New “Son-of-a-Gun”
Ace has previously surveyed the singular oeuvre of musical iconoclast Lee Hazlewood on a number of releases including Califia: The Songs of Lee Hazlewood and, more recently, Shazam! and Other Instrumentals Written by Lee Hazlewood. Now, on Son-of-a-Gun and More from the Lee Hazlewood Songbook, the label has returned to the territory of Califia with a twist. Whereas that compilation focused on Lee’s vivid, quirky songs as performed by Nancy Sinatra, Dusty Springfield, Ann-Margret, Dino, Desi & Billy, and other artists in Hazlewood’s orbit, Son-of-a-Gun primarily (but not exclusively) looks at his…
Release Round-Up: Week of October 7
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up which just might be the biggest slate of the year to date! Lou Reed, The RCA and Arista Album Collection (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Legacy brings together 16 Lou Reed albums from his RCA and Arista years on 17 CDs, all remastered directly under Reed’s supervision before his untimely passing in 2013. An 80-page hardbound booklet with detailed liner notes, five art prints and a poster round out this limited edition package. Read more here! Prince, The Prince Movie Collection (Warner Home Video) (Amazon…
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Savvy Show Stoppers: Shadowy Men Release Shadowy Reissues
Your weekend will be above average should you pick up the new expanded editions of all three albums by Canadian instrumental rock band Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. The Toronto-based trio–drummer Don Pyle, guitarist Brian Connelly and bassist Reid Diamond–formed out of punk outfit Crash Kills Five in 1984. Their catchy instrumentals and unique DIY-style releases (one EP was sold on a package of Jiffy Pop) guaranteed them cult favorite status, but it was “Having An Average Weekend,” the closing track of 1988’s Savvy Show Stoppers (an album of single and…
Let’s Dance: “Legacy” Collects David Bowie’s Best Singles and More
Roughly two years ago, David Bowie announced the release of Nothing Has Changed, a career-spanning retrospective available in 2-CD, 3-CD and 2-LP configurations from Columbia/Legacy in the United States and Parlophone in the United Kingdom. Since then, much has changed. Most tragically, Bowie passed away earlier this year at the age of 69, just two days after the release of his final album, Blackstar. Now, a new compilation follows in the footsteps of Nothing Has Changed, bringing the artist’s history up through his final recordings. Legacy arrives on CD from Parlophone (on…
