Following last year’s expanded edition of Mungo Jerry’s breakthrough album Electronically Tested – featuring the band’s evergreen hit “In the Summertime” – 7a Records has returned to Mungo’s discography with a generously expanded presentation of 1990’s Snakebite. Available now, Snakebite has been reconceived by Ray Dorset, a.k.a. Mungo Jerry, as Snakebite Revisited. This remastered edition now features 17 songs, including rarities and previously unissued rehearsal takes, on CD, and 13 tracks on vinyl. The original Snakebite was conceived by Dorset as a way to preserve the performances of his then-current live band,…
Up from the Skies: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ Gets Deluxe Box Set
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…
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Love Them Madly: New Blu-ray Box from The Doors Includes Atmos Mixes of Six Classic Albums
The Doors are set to alter fans perception once more with a new box set featuring their classic albums remixed in Dolby Atmos. Immersed (1967-1971), available exclusively through Rhino’s or the band’s official web stores, gathers the six classic LPs released during frontman Jim Morrison’s lifetime – The Doors (1967), Strange Days (1967), Waiting for the Sun (1968), The Soft Parade (1969), Morrison Hotel (1970) and L.A. Woman (1971) – on Blu-ray Audio discs, each featuring surround mixes in Atmos as well as 5.1 surround by the group’s longtime engineer Bruce Botnick. (Botnick created 5.1 mixes for the 2006 box set Perception;…
In Memoriam: Mark Volman (1947-2025)
The Second Disc remembers Mark Volman, 78, co-founder of The Turtles, one half of Flo & Eddie, unforgettable member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, author, radio personality, and artists’ rights advocate. With his longtime musical partner Howard Kaylan, Mark lent his soaring vocals to recordings by such artists as T. Rex, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper, and many others. A bright, colorful, and cheery onstage presence, Mark continued to perform with The Turtles following Kaylan’s 2018 retirement, spreading the fun of “Happy Together,” “Elenore,” and “You Baby” with delighted audiences across the…
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The Weekend Stream: September 6, 2025
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. We’ve got a great concert album making a digital debut as well as live singles from Oasis and Evita star Rachel Zegler! Plus: a whole lotta musicals and a new album from an R&B/jazz legend! The Hooters, Live (Geffen) (Apple / Amazon) Here’s another title arriving courtesy of our friends at SuperVisible Multi Media: the 1994 live album from The Hooters recorded over two dates in Germany plus…
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Release Round-Up: Week of September 5
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Joni Mitchell, Joni’s Jazz (Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada What is jazz? The question has been debated often, but now we know how Joni Mitchell might answer. The legendary singer-songwriter’s Archives series is continuing with its first themed compilation, appropriately entitled Joni’s Jazz. These 61 selections – available on 4 CDs or 8 LPs – draw from nearly every core album in the Mitchell discography…
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Elton John Raises Curtains on ‘Captain Fantastic’ with New 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
In the 2020s, Elton John started offering 50th anniversary deluxe editions of classic albums in his catalogue that hadn’t been expanded to multi-disc sets yet. After Madman Across the Water and Honky Château, expansions of Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player and Caribou were only made available as vinyl expansions for Record Store Day activations. That changes with a new general retail expansion of Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy arriving this fall with a bonus disc of unreleased material. Due October 24 on CD and purple/white swirl vinyl, the album (remastered in…
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The Last Record Album: Deluxe Edition
5CD: Rhino.com 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Little Feat’s The Last Record Album (1975), the group’s fifth LP and penultimate studio release in Lowell George’s lifetime, has been expanded by Rhino in multiple formats. The 4CD set pairs the original album (which doffed its hat to the acclaimed film The Last Picture Show in its title and artwork) with a bonus disc of studio rarities (half of which are previously unreleased) and adds an unissued live set at Boston’s Orpheum Theater recorded on Halloween of 1975. A 2LP set includes all the studio material…
Nebraska ’82
4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada It’s no surprise that, as Hollywood prepares to tell the story of Bruce Springsteen’s most striking solo release, a box set is coming to tell the tale of the (literal) tape. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are releasing Nebraska ’82, a new box set showcasing the start-to-finish journey of Bruce’s most stark collection of songs and the attempts to record them in a way befitting of their haunting qualities. The set – four CDs or four LPs and a Blu-ray – will offer two…
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Open All Night: Bruce Springsteen Reissues ‘Nebraska’ with Mythic Electric Recordings and More
It’s no surprise that, as Hollywood prepares to tell the story of Bruce Springsteen’s most striking solo release, a box set is coming to tell the tale of the (literal) tape. On October 17, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Nebraska ’82, a new box set showcasing the start-to-finish journey of Bruce’s most stark collection of songs and the attempts to record them in a way befitting of their haunting qualities. The set – four CDs or four LPs and a Blu-ray – will offer two discs of almost entirely unreleased outtakes,…
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On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In advance of the October 7 release of his memoir of the same name, Yusuf, a.k.a. Cat Stevens, is looking back on his discography with On the Road to Findout. This newly-curated collection spanning 1967-2023 will be available as a 1CD or 2LP highlights set, as well as a deeper-dive 2CD or 4LP collection. It’s the first time an album will feature both the cream of his work as one of the top British folk songwriters…
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All That You Dream: Rhino Sets Expansion of Little Feat’s ‘Last Record Album’
Another Little Feat deluxe album is making the rounds from Rhino. 1975’s The Last Record Album, the group’s fifth LP, will be expanded by the label in multiple formats, all available October 24. The 4CD set will pair the remastered album with a bonus disc of studio rarities (half of which are previously unreleased) along with an unissued live set at Boston’s Orpheum Theater recorded on Halloween of 1975. A 2LP set includes all the studio material in the CD box, and an exclusive bundle, available only at Rhino.com, will add a fifth…
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Compilation Watch: New Hits Sets from Devo, Kool & The Gang, Boomtown Rats
Three very different bands with venerable catalogues are getting new greatest hits collections added to their discographies. First up is a new set documenting Irish post-punkers The Boomtown Rats. The First Fifty Years: Songs of Boomtown Glory is a non-chronological compilation covering all seven of the Dublin group’s studio albums – the majority released between 1979 and 1984, before frontman Bob Geldof pivoted largely to pop-rooted activist causes including the spearheading of Band Aid and Live Aid. The tracks were jointly selected by the group as well as online fan polling, and include U.K….
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Horses (50th Anniversary Edition)
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Horses (50th Anniversary Edition), available through Legacy Recordings, pairs Patti Smith’s classic LP with a further nine alternate versions and outtakes from the album sessions, including two selections from Smith’s demo tape for RCA Records. (Arista, unaffiliated with RCA at the time, ended up signing her for about a quarter-century.) A demo version of standout “Redondo Beach” was released on a 2002 compilation, but the others here – including the preview track “Snowball” and a cover of The Marvelettes’ “The Hunter Gets Captured by…
Music Must Change: The Who Expand ‘Who Are You’ with Outtakes, Live Tracks and Remixes
Following such previous super deluxe album box sets as Who’s Next, The Who Sell Out, My Generation, Tommy, and Quadrophenia, the band has just announced that 1978’s Who Are You will receive similarly lavish treatment on October 31. The band’s eighth album, Who Are You was also its final studio LP to feature drummer Keith Moon. The centerpiece of the multi-format release is a 7CD/1Blu-ray set which will offer the following: CD1: The original 1978 album as newly remastered by Jon Astley at Close to the Edge; CD2: Glyn Johns’ original, shelved…
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The Weekend Stream: August 30, 2025
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. We’ve got one Vault track from Prince, four albums unearthed by SuperVisible Multi Media, five rare mixes from Bowie and Jagger, and more than 100 hard-to-find cuts from Connie Francis – now that’s some rock and roll math! Prince, “Sign O’ the Times” (Live in Rotterdam 1987) (NPG/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) A welcome respite from sharing fabricated, possibly AI-generated inspirational quotes on social media, the Prince estate has released…
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Release Round-Up: Week of August 29
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Deep Purple, Rapture of the Deep: 20th Anniversary Edition (earMusic) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A 20th anniversary edition of Rapture of the Deep, Deep Purple’s 18th studio album, offers a remix and resequencing of the album by Roger Glover, with two non-LP tracks (“MTV” and “Things I Never Said”) now added into the sequence. This was the second album from the band’s longest-tenured line-up, the…
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I Went Looking for You: Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ to Be Expanded with Unreleased Material
Five decades after it became a landmark of a sea change of ’70s rock, Patti Smith’s debut Horses will be expanded with previously unheard material. Horses (50th Anniversary Edition), available through Legacy Recordings on October 10, will pair the classic LP with a further nine alternate versions and outtakes from the album sessions, including two selections from Smith’s demo tape for RCA Records. (Arista, unaffiliated with RCA at the time, ended up signing her for about a quarter-century.) A demo version of standout “Redondo Beach” was released on a 2002 compilation, but the…
The Weekend Stream: August 23, 2025
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. We’ve got the goods from everywhere this week: the Jersey shore, Philadelphia, Manhattan, jolly old England and a spooky, nondescript European countryside! Bruce Springsteen, “Lonely Night in the Park” (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) If you’re still digesting Tracks II or are prepping for the inevitable Nebraska revival brought on by this fall’s biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, spare a moment for the impending 50th anniversary of The Boss’ mainstream breakthrough Born to Run (which…
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Release Round-Up: Week of August 22
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Who, Live at The Oval 1971 (Polydor/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Initially available as part of the band’s revived Wholigan Fan Club, The Who’s Live At The Oval 1971 is coming to general release. The album finally canonizes the group’s celebrated performance at “Goodbye to Summer,” a British benefit concert for the people of Bangladesh. Featuring several songs from the band’s just-released Who’s Next, including “Behind Blue Eyes,” “Won’t Get…
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Let It Be: Deluxe Edition
3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com Rhino’s series of deluxe Replacements reissues has continued with 3CD and 4LP expanded editions of the Minneapolis band’s seminal 1984 Twin/Tone album cheekily titled Let It Be. The deluxe Let It Be takes a different format than the previous reissues of Tim, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me, and Dead Man’s Pop (an alternative presentation of Don’t Tell a Soul), all of which included both vinyl and CD in one package. This time, the formats are split into individual releases. Both the CD and LP packages feature a remastered…
Anthology Collection
8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store 12LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store The Beatles’ Anthology Collection premieres 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 for this release, also curates a new collection, Anthology 4, across a further two CDs or three LPs. Anthology 4 is drawn mostly from archival sets released in the wake of the band’s 2009 remastering of the catalogue, with 13 unreleased tracks taken from eras that have not been covered…
Free As a Bird: The Beatles ‘Anthology’ Gets Remixed and Expanded in New Box Set
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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They Will Dare: The Replacements’ ‘Let It Be’ is Their Latest Deluxe Reissue
Rhino’s series of deluxe Replacements reissues is continuing on October 24 with 3CD and 4LP expanded editions of the Minneapolis band’s seminal 1984 Twin/Tone album cheekily titled Let It Be. Let It Be takes a different format than the previous reissues of Tim, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me, and Dead Man’s Pop (an alternative presentation of Don’t Tell a Soul), all of which included both vinyl and CD in one package. This time, the formats are split into individual releases. Both the CD and LP packages…
The Enz is Near! Split Enz Announce Start of Archival Series
Some time after Crowded House frontman Neil Finn indicated potential work being done with the catalogue of Split Enz – the cult-hero pop band co-founded by his older brother Tim – fans finally have some development on that front, with the first in a planned series of archival sets covering the group’s early, avant-garde years. Enzyclopedia Volumes One and Two will focus on the group’s early years, coalescing around the material leading up to 1975 debut Mental Notes, which celebrates a half-century this year. The 5CD set will feature remasters of Mental Notes…
