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Release Round-Up: Week of September 19

September 19, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments
Buckingham Nicks

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today including – did we ever think we’d get the chance to say this? – the CD debut of Buckingham Nicks!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Buckingham Nicks (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. (gold) / Amazon U.K. (baby blue) / Amazon Canada (gold) In just over 15 years of reporting at The Second Disc, it’s a sentence we never thought we’d write: Buckingham Nicks is getting its first-ever reissue.  The 1973 album from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks…

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The Magic in Your Touch: New Thompson Twins Collection Features Hits, Deep Cuts and Live Disc

September 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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Just about a year after expanding and reissuing landmark album Into the Gap for its 40th anniversary, the Thompson Twins’ catalogue will now be evaluated through a new compilation – the first to be sanctioned by the band. Industry & Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection will offer 20 singles and favorite cuts across the band’s best-known period of material from 1982 to 1986, including standouts “Hold Me Now,” “Lay Your Hands on Me,” “Lies,” “Doctor! Doctor!” and “In the Name of Love.” Those 20 tracks will be available as a 1CD or…

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The Last Ship: Expanded Edition

September 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Coming to 2CD, 2LP, and digital formats ahead of a new series of worldwide performances, this new edition of Sting’s 2013 concept album take on The Last Ship offers 20 tracks from the original album release and cast recording, plus five new recordings, all resequenced to better reflect the current version of the score. Those new tracks are a re-recording of the song “Shipyard” (with new vocals by cast member Joe Caffrey alongside those from Jo Lawry and AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson), duets with operatic…

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Look in My Direction: The Warner Bros. Recordings

September 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese
Nicolette Larson Look in My Direction

Look in My Direction: The Warner Bros. Recordings from Cherry Red’s Lemon imprint and TSD presents all of the late Nicolette Larson’s original studio and live albums for Warner Bros. Records on 4 CDs, produced by Ted Templeman (The Doobie Brothers, Van Halen) and singer-songwriter Andrew Gold (“Thank You for Being a Friend,” “Lonely Boy”), plus bonus tracks.  The box contains newly remastered editions of Nicolette (1978), Live at the Roxy (1979), In the Nick of Time (1979), Radioland (1981), and All Dressed Up and No Place to Go (1982) which collectively include such guests as Linda Ronstadt; The Doobie…

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It’s Gonna Take a Lotta Love: The Second Disc, Lemon Collect Nicolette Larson’s Warner Bros. Albums on “Look In My Direction”

September 17, 2025 by The Second Disc | 16 Comments
Nicolette Larson Look in My Direction

On the evenings of February 21 and 22, 1998, a host of musicians took the stage of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to pay tribute to one of their own.  Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Raitt, and Crosby, Stills and Nash were just a few of the artists who paid their respects in song to the late Nicolette Larson.  The luminous singer with the honeyed voice had unexpectedly died just a couple of months earlier at the far too young age of 45.  In the decades since her…

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A Second Disc Interview: A.J. Croce Brings the Family Songbook to Life Once More

September 17, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment
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The music business works in mysterious ways. Not long after posting news that recent remixes of Jim Croce’s classic solo albums were getting repackaged into a CD set, The Second Disc was approached with the opportunity to talk to A.J. Croce, the son of the late singer/songwriter, ahead of a tour he’s mounting. Adrian James Croce was eight days shy of turning two when a plane crash claimed the life of his father, then just 30 years old. He has since gone into music himself: hardly a clone of Jim – there’s a…

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Free As a Bird: The Beatles ‘Anthology’ Gets Remixed and Expanded in New Box Set (UPDATED 9/16/2025)

September 16, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments
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The next archival project from The Beatles is a celebration of their most major archival project, with a newly reissued and (slightly) expanded edition of their Anthology series coming to audio and video formats this fall. Anthology Collection will include remastered editions of the original three collections of rarities and outtakes compiled by George Martin and released through 1995 and 1996, available across six CDs or nine LPs. Martin’s son Giles, who remastered those albums, also curates a new collection, Anthology 4, across a further two CDs or three LPs. Anthology 4 is drawn mostly from…

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The “Cocaine Drain” Album

September 16, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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The Cowsills’ legendary 1978 Cocaine Drain album – so named for John Hall’s composition – finally makes its official debut from Omnivore Recordings, filling in the missing chapter between the band’s sunshine pop roots and latter-day Americana reinvention.  Cocaine Drain was originally helmed by Chuck Plotkin, but when Bruce Springsteen and Darkness on the Edge of Town came calling, Val Garay took over to sequence, master, and finish the project.  Yet the recordings were never picked up by a major label and languished in obscurity, with some songs appearing in semi- or…

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Rise

September 16, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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Art in America returns with a belated follow-up to the band’s 1983 debut (also available today in an expanded and remastered edition from Iconoclassic Records). Rise will be instantly recognizable to fans of the group, featuring Shishonee Flynn’s Lyon & Healy pedal string harp as well as such eclectic instruments as tambura and koto.  Shishonee and lead singer/guitarist/songwriter Chris Flynn are joined by drummer Dan Flynn and bassist/producer Jim Kuha.  These nine tracks originated in 1983 as demos for an abortive second album; in 2017, the recordings were transferred to the digital…

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Art in America

September 16, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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On the same date the label releases the group’s new album Rise, Iconoclassic has remastered and expanded the 1983 debut album from Art in America.  The progressive rock group – the first-known rock outfit to include a concert pedal harp as part of their core lineup! – teamed with Eddy Offord (Yes, ELP) for the CBS/Pavillion album which yielded the hit single and early MTV favorite “Art in America.”  This reissue has been expanded with two previously unissued live tracks (“Won’t It Be Strange,” “Insult the Fashion”) and has been remastered from…

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Up from the Skies: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ Gets Deluxe Box Set, UHQR Reissue (UPDATED 9/16/25)

September 16, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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Axis: Bold As Love is getting a little bolder this holiday season. Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings will partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968 on November 7. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set will include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes (as well as newly created Atmos mixes by original engineer Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod), along with a wealth of rare outtakes and live…

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Sting Sets Sail with Expanded Reissue of ‘The Last Ship’

September 15, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments
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The ship of Theseus is a classic paradox of thought that asks whether an object is truly the same after all its component pieces have been replaced. That’s not exactly the case for Sting’s musical The Last Ship, but he is once again revisiting the song score he’s tinkered with several times over the last decade in a new expanded edition due this winter. Coming to 2CD, 2LP and digital on December 5 ahead of a new series of worldwide performances, this new edition of the singer/songwriter’s 2013 concept album take on The Last…

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Who Are You: Super Deluxe Edition

September 13, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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7CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Who Official Store 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Who Official Store 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Who Official Store Half-Speed Master LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Who Official Store Yellow Vinyl LP: The Who Official Store Following such previous super deluxe album box sets as Who’s Next, The Who Sell Out, My Generation, Tommy, and Quadrophenia, the band has announced that 1978’s Who Are You will receive similarly lavish treatment. …

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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy: 50th Anniversary Edition

September 13, 2025 by Joe Marchese
Elton John Captain Fantastic 50th

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John’s landmark Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy returns this fall with a bonus disc of unreleased material in time for its 50th anniversary.  Due on CD and purple/white swirl vinyl, the album (remastered in 2016) will be paired with a second disc featuring unreleased session demo versions of five songs from the original LP (including two takes on the title track) as well as a near-full album performance of the album in Atlanta, GA in 2005, featuring additional vocals from the…

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Bold As Love

September 13, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Axis: Bold As Love is getting a little bolder this holiday season.  Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings will partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set will include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes (as well as newly created Atmos mixes by original engineer Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod), along with…

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Around the World in a Day: Deluxe Edition

September 13, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (blue marble): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Official Store Prince’s estate will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Prince and The Revolution’s Around the World in a Day with a deluxe edition gathering all the non-LP material from the original release. Available in a variety of formats including 2CD and 140-gram 3LP editions, the set will feature the 1985 follow-up to Purple Rain, along with 13 non-LP remixes and B-sides – four of which will make…

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No Exit: Expanded Edition

September 13, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Crystal Glass clear vinyl) The expanded edition of Blondie’s 1999 album No Exit pairs the remastered original album with a bonus disc featuring eight remixes and rarities – three of which are previously unreleased. Among the highlights is a new mix of “Hot Shot,” a Japanese bonus track from the album sessions; the mix is now streaming. (It’s one of four tracks included as a bonus side on the attendant 2LP vinyl release – the first time No Exit is available in this format.) …

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Wings [Various Formats]

September 13, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada On November 4, Paul McCartney releases Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, an oral history of the superstar’s other band. The hardcover tome, created in collaboration with film director Morgan Neville and editor Ted Widmer, tells Wings’ story through text, photographs, a timeline, a gigography, a discography, and more. But the book is missing one thing: the music. Macca has that covered, too: on November 7, MPL, Capitol, and UMe will release the simply-titled Wings in a variety…

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The Weekend Stream: September 13, 2025

September 13, 2025 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments
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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. Phil Collins gets remixed, unexpected covers of The Cure and Bob Dylan and so much more – all part of this week’s round-up! Phil Collins, No Jacket Required (2025 Mix) (Craft/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) A nice surprise for fans of Phil: not only have a few bonus tracks exclusive to the new vinyl box set of No Jacket Required made digital stores, but Steven Wilson’s stereo remix of the original album…

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Have a Cigar: Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Gets 50th Anniversary Edition

September 12, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments
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Following some teases changing just about every Pink Floyd album cover on digital music services to mirror original packaging elements of Wish You Were Here, the band has announced a new expanded edition of its 1975 masterpiece, reissued to mark its 50th anniversary. Coming December 12 from Legacy Recordings, the deluxe Wish You Were Here arrives in a frankly dizzying display of formats: A 2CD or 3LP set pairs the original album with nine bonus tracks: three from the “Immersion Edition” box set released in 2011 and six previously unreleased outtakes and alternate mixes. A…

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Call Me Back Again: Paul McCartney Oversees New Wings Compilation

September 12, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 16 Comments
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On November 4, Paul McCartney releases Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, an oral history of the superstar’s other band. The hardcover tome, created in collaboration with film director Morgan Neville and editor Ted Widmer, tells Wings’ story through text, photographs, a timeline, a gigography, a discography, and more. But the book is missing one thing: the music. Macca has that covered, too: on November 7, MPL, Capitol, and UMe will release the simply-titled Wings in a variety of formats. Wings supersedes 1978’s perennial Wings Greatest as the go-to…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 12

September 12, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments
David Bowie I Can't Give Everything Away

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  With nearly 25 titles, it also just might be the year’s biggest to date!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. David Bowie, I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) (Parlophone) 18LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada After a period of nearly four years, David Bowie’s series of “Eras” box sets is returning with a new, final volume.  I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) concludes the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar.  The new 13-CD or 18-LP box…

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Nothing is Real But the Girl: Blondie’s Comeback ‘No Exit’ Gets Expanded

September 11, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments
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Last month, New York post-punk survivors Blondie announced the planned release next year of High Noon, a new studio album that reportedly features the final performances of founding drummer Clem Burke, who died of cancer earlier this year. Before that, however, BMG will revisit their first major comeback with an expansion of 1999’s No Exit. Coming to shops October 24, the expanded No Exit will pair the remastered original album with a bonus disc featuring eight remixes and rarities – three of which are previously unreleased. Among the highlights is a new mix of “Hot…

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4: Super Deluxe Edition

September 11, 2025 by Joe Marchese
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4CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Foreigner is bringing 4 to the fore with a new deluxe box set devoted to their blockbuster fourth album.  This new edition of 4 includes a fresh remix of the original 1981 album and three discs of unreleased material, including studio outtakes, unheard songs from the recording sessions, instrumental mixes, and selections from the band’s world tour of 1981-1982. A Blu-ray Audio includes the album remix (plus the newly-released “Fool If You Love Him,” available as the new single from the set below) in high-resolution…

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Paisley Park is in Your Heart: Prince’s ‘Around the World in a Day’ Expanded for 40th Anniversary

September 11, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 30 Comments
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Due credit to the Prince estate: they made good on one of their promises. The late artist’s estate will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Prince and The Revolution’s Around the World in a Day with a deluxe edition gathering all the non-LP material from the original release. Available November 21 in a variety of formats including 2CD and 140-gram 3LP editions, the set will feature the 1985 follow-up to Purple Rain, along with 13 non-LP remixes and B-sides – four of which will make their debut on CD. (The set includes no outtakes…

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