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Bing Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, Lords of the New Church, Loretta Lynn, Margaret Whiting, Mario Lanza, The O'Jays, The Three Degrees, Vic Dana

Left Of The Dial: The Replacements’ “The Sire Years” Released On Vinyl

March 1, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Today, author Bob Mehr releases Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements, chronicling the tumultuous story of one of the most influential indie-rock bands of all time. On March 29, Rhino will issue an ideal audio companion to the biography. The 4-LP box set The Sire Years brings together all four of The Replacements’ albums for Seymour Stein’s fabled Sire label: Tim (1985), Pleased To Meet Me, (1987), Don’t Tell A Soul (1989) and All Shook Down (1990). The Sire Years follows last year’s 4-LP box set The Twin/Tone Years which collected the band’s early albums on…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 26

February 26, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up filled with deluxe reissues on vinyl and CD, box sets, new releases from veteran artists, and more! Michael Jackson, Off the Wall (Epic/Legacy) CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The King of Pop’s 1979 Epic solo debut Off the Wall is revived for 2016 with an additional DVD or BD of Spike Lee’s acclaimed new documentary about the making of the album, Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall. No additional audio tracks…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Billy Cobham, Bonnie Raitt, Burt Bacharach, David Bowie, Emmit Rhodes, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Stephen Sondheim, Todd Rundgren, Willie Nelson

Special Shout-Out to This Year’s Reissue Grammy Winners; Legacy Leads Catalogue Pack

February 23, 2016 by Randy Fairman | 3 Comments

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The 58th Annual Grammy awards were held a little over a week ago and there were numerous winners. The Grammys have so many categories that the majority are not given out on the actual television broadcast. Even though we’re a little late, we’d like to give acknowledgment to the winners from reissue and catalogue labels who picked up an award, some for categories that aren’t always exclusively associated with reissues. The biggest winner of the night for reissue labels was Sony’s Legacy Recordings. The label, whose upcoming slate of releases includes a stunning,…

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Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, The Band

George Fest: A Night To Celebrate The Music Of George Harrison

February 22, 2016 by Joe Marchese

George Fest: A Night To Celebrate The Music Of George Harrison arrives on 2-CD/BD, 2-CD/DVD, vinyl and DD configurations. This concert salute was filmed on September 28, 2014 (the day after what would have been Harrison’s 73rd birthday) at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre. Produced by Dhani Harrison and David Zonshine, George Fest features an eclectic line-up including Brian Wilson (“My Sweet Lord”), Norah Jones (“Something”), and Ann Wilson (“Beware of Darkness”) as well as Dhani himself (“Let It Down”). Weird Al Yankovic, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and The Killers’ Brandon Flowers are part of…

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Holiday Gift Guide

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 19

February 19, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up with titles from legends of pop, jazz, country and more! Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto ’76 (Resonance) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In 1976, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto reunited at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner alongside pianist Joanne Brackeen, bassist Clint Houston and drummer Billy Hart. Their never-before-released set arrives in lavish fashion from Resonance Records on CD and vinyl. The deluxe CD includes a 32-pg booklet of essays by author James Gavin, bossa nova pioneer Carlos Lyra, Stan’s son Steve Getz, and producers…

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Bruce Broughton, Buck Owens, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Tammy Wynette, Yvonne Elliman

For Whom The Bell Tolls: Metallica Catalogue Project Begins with Two Deluxe Box Sets

February 18, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Years after Metallica took control of their own masters through their Blackened Records imprint, the metal masters will begain a super deluxe rollout of their classic hard rock albums. The band announced details for extensive reissues of their first two albums, Kill ‘Em All (1983) and Ride the Lightning (1984), vault-clearing affairs that offer the remastered original albums alongside rare and unreleased B-sides, demos, rough mixes and video footage across CD, DVD and vinyl. Altogether, there are six LPs, two picture discs, 11 CDs and two DVDs between these two packages! Formed in 1981 in Los…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 5

February 5, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Welcome to February’s first Release Round-Up! Elton John, Wonderful Crazy Night (Island/UMe) Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Sir Elton returns with his 32nd studio album! Featuring his longtime band and production by T Bone Burnett, Wonderful Crazy Night returns Elton to his upbeat, piano and guitar-heavy 1970s sound. Available on standard CD (10 tracks), Deluxe Edition CD (12…

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Chicago, Doug Sahm, Elton John, Grateful Dead, Ides of March, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Nancy LaMott, Ralph Stanley, The Circle Jerks

The Complete I.R.S. Albums Collection

February 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese

Real Gone has a definitive collection from the punk supergroup Lords of the New Church. The Complete I.R.S. Albums collection is a 3-CD set which brings together the three albums recorded by the group for the label beginning with their 1982 debut. These were originally released separately by Real Gone in 2012.

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What About Now: Daughtry Announces Hits Compilation

February 1, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

The idea of a greatest hits album seems to get smaller and smaller as the music business does, so it’s always noteworthy when a newer artist releases one. Such is the case for Chris Daughtry, the American Idol runner-up who remained a consistent pop-rocker after his time on the show had ended. The forthcoming It’s Not Over…The Hits So Far chronicles that decade in one succinct package. Daughtry, who finished the singing competition in fourth place behind winner Taylor Hicks and runner-up Katherine McPhee, quickly turned down an offer to front the post-grunge group Fuel, instead…

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Let the Good Times Roll: New Cars Box and Compilation Announced

January 27, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 12 Comments

Though The Cars didn’t make it into this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class, it’s always a good time to remember the Boston-based New Wave icons–and a new box set and compilation aim to do just that. On March 11, Rhino will release The Elektra Years 1978-1987, a six-disc box set offering all six of the band’s albums–The Cars (1978), Candy-O (1979), Panorama (1980), Shake It Up (1981), Heartbeat City (1984) and Door to Door (1987)–all newly remastered. (This marks the first time that any album outside of the band’s…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 22

January 22, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Black Sabbath Deluxe Reissue Series (Warner Bros./Rhino) Black Sabbath: Deluxe Edition – Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Paranoid: Deluxe Edition – Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Master of Reality: Deluxe Edition – Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Past Lives: Amazon U.S.: 2CD / 2LP Amazon Canada: 2CD / Amazon U.K.: 2CD Rhino is reissuing the hard rock legends’ first three albums-Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970) and Master of Reality (1971)-as deluxe 2CD and 2LP sets, along with the 2002 live collection Past Lives. These collections feature the original albums, as remastered…

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America, Black Sabbath, Carly Simon, Chicago, Loggins and Messina

You’re Welcome: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie Curates Mix Featuring Beach Boys, Byrds, Dion, More

January 21, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Among Ace Records’ recent releases is a collection that just might make you scream – make that “Primal Scream” – with elation. Bobby Gillespie Presents Sunday Morning Comin’ Down is a mix CD curated by Primal Scream founder/Jesus and Mary Chain drummer. The Glasgow-born singer/songwriter/musician has selected 20 of his favorite tracks for Ace, and the result is a set that not only illuminates Gillespie’s influences as an artist but stands on its own with thematic and sonic coherence. In Gillespie’s remarkable musical world, soundtracks sit alongside haunting psychedelia, California pop, Texas…

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Dion, John Barry, Kris Kristofferson, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Monkees, Various Artists

Ooh Baby: Real Gone’s March Slate Includes Unreleased Herbie Mann Together with Dave Mason and Mickey Gilley Anthologies Plus Limited Vinyl Reissues

January 15, 2016 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

Yesterday we brought you the news of the upcoming Second Disc Records title to be released in conjunction with Real Gone Music: Bobby Darin’s Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years anthology. Now we’ve got the rest of Real Gone’s March slate to tell you about and it’s as excitingly eclectic as ever! Kicking things off is a CD that should be of great interest to jazz enthusiasts. Herbie Mann is considered one of the greatest jazz flautists ever and was an early proponent of world music. His long tenure at Atlantic…

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Bobby Darin, Dave Mason, Herbie Mann, Margaret Whiting, Mickey Gilley, The Lords of the New Church, The O'Jays, Whitney Houston

In Memoriam: David Bowie (1947-2016)

January 11, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke, Aladdin Sane, The Goblin King – David Bowie was a man of many faces. Yet ultimately his most haunting performance may have been as himself. Late 2015 was a period of remarkable and ever-innovative artistry for a man who released his first single in 1964. He revisited his film performance in The Man Who Fell to Earth by writing an off-Broadway musical, depicting its central character, the alien Newton (portrayed onstage by Michael C. Hall), as trapped in his life and hoping for the final escape of…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 8

January 8, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The Mamas and the Papas Complete Singles

Welcome to our first Release Round-Up of 2016! The Mamas and the Papas, The Complete Singles: The 50th Anniversary Collection (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone Music has 53 tracks on 2 CDs of pure pop pleasure from The Mamas and the Papas – as a group and solo – with this first-ever collection of their complete singles, just in time for their 50th anniversary! Full details here. J.D. Souther, John David Souther (Expanded Edition) (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) J.D….

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David Bowie, J.D. Souther, John Williams, The Mamas and The Papas

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Rhino Charges Into January with New Colored Vinyl Titles, CD Box Sets

January 7, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Rhino Records has quite the cure for the usual January doldrums that hit the release calendar, announcing more than a dozen new and reissued titles available exclusively through participating physical stores. The “Start Your Ear Off Right” initiative, featuring titles available January 19, encompass some of the best-known names in Rhino’s back catalogue, including The Grateful Dead, The Monkees, Devo, The Cars and The Replacements. From colored vinyl variants to CD box sets, there’s virtually something for everyone here. And just what will you find? Read on and find out! Bad Company,…

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Bad Company, Devo, Grateful Dead, The Cars, The Monkees, The Replacements, The Velvet Underground

The Year In Review, Part 2 – More Of The Best Of 2015

January 5, 2016 by Ted Frank | 6 Comments

The Second Disc is continuing its celebration of 2015’s finest with today’s column by Ted Frank! Stop, do not pass GO and do not collect 200 dollars if you haven’t already read our Sixth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards summation of the year’s greatest releases. Here, Ted presents his very own, alternative year in review with titles new and old! I make records … I really don’t want to be about singles or anything. -Adele, The Tonight Show In recent years, the download/stream-heavy music business has seemingly become an industry of the sure-fire hit single rather…

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Raven Has Folk and Funk With Melanie and Mother’s Finest

January 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Raven Records’ most recent pair of CDs certainly showcase the label’s eclectic leanings! From singer-songwriter Melanie Safka, the label has a three-for-one release of her much-loved albums Candles in the Rain, Leftover Wine and Gather Me. The Melanie release is joined by a four-for-one title from pioneering funk-rockers Mother’s Finest collecting the band’s self-titled LP plus Mother’s Finest Live, Another Mother Further and Mother Factor. Raven’s release from Melanie follows the Morello label’s recent reissues of four albums originally issued on her Neighborhood Records label. Candles in the Rain arrived on Buddah…

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The Year in Review – The 2015 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z

January 1, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Happy New Year, and welcome to The Second Disc’s Sixth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As with every year’s awards, our goals are simple: to recognize as many of the year’s most essential reissues and catalogue titles as possible, and to celebrate as many of those labels, producers and artists who make these releases happen in an increasingly-challenging retail landscape. The labels you’ll read about below have, by and large, bucked the trends to prove that there’s still a demand for physical catalogue music that you can purchase in brick-and-mortar stores. And…

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December 29, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Real Gone has one from hardcore punk band The Circle Jerks: their 1987 albumVI, which was actually the Jerks’ fifth effort. This album includes a song that was featured in the film Sid and Nancy. The Circle Jerks, founded in 1979, had a rather tumultuous history and disbanded in 1990. They got back together in 1994 and released one more album in 1995, which is their final release to date. Liner notes, lyrics and memorabilia images round out RGM’s newly-remastered reissue.

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 18

December 18, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Well, Christmas is almost upon us, and the onslaught of new releases has turned into a trickle as we head right into last-minute shopping territory! Still, selections are choice! Enjoy, and remember – you’ll see our next Release Round-Up in the New Year! John Williams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada) Today is all about Star Wars…and we’re just as thrilled as could be about a brand-new score by the legendary John Williams! Maynard Ferguson, Storm / Live from San Francisco…

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Electric Light Orchestra, John Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Pantera

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Won’t You Dance With Me: Real Gone Goes Country with Barbara Mandrell, Ralph Stanley, Marty Robbins and Doug Sahm with Bob Dylan and Others

December 17, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 13 Comments

Real Gone is in a country mood this February, with the majority of their slate devoted to the country and western genre. But that is not all you will find on the label’s mix of CDs and vinyl for the month. Kicking things off is collection drawn from Barbara Mandrell’s tenure at Columbia Records: This Time I Almost Made It – The Lost Columbia Masters. This CD features liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese based on a fresh interview with Mandrell, and is centered around Mandrell’s final album at Columbia – 1974’s…

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Barbara Mandrell, Bob Dylan, Circle Jerks, Doug Sahm, Grateful Dead, Marty Robbins, Ralph Stanley, The Ides of March

It Happened Today: Concord Acquires R.E.M.’s Warner Bros. Albums for Future Reissues

December 16, 2015 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

That’s Concord Bicycle Music in the spotlight: Billboard exclusively reports that the indie label will handle distribution for R.E.M.’s bestselling Warner Bros. Records catalogue, spanning from 1988 to their 2011 dissolution. Beginning in 2016, Concord will be the home for the band’s Green (1988), Out of Time (1991), Automatic for the People (1992), Monster(1994), New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996), and Up (1998). Reveal (2001), Around the Sun (2004), Accelerate (2008) and Collapse Into Now (2011) have not been confirmed as part of the pact. The Athens, Georgia quartet moved to the Warner Bros….

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The Complete Studio Albums 1990-2000

December 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese

Pantera’s quintet of Cowboys From Hell (1990), Vulgar Display Of Power (1992), Far Beyond Driven (1994), The Great Southern Trendkill (1996), and Reinventing The Steel (2000) are packaged by Rhino in one box set.

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