Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Georgia Satellites, Lightnin' in a Bottle: The Official Live Album (Cleveland International/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Recorded at Cleveland club Peabody's at the end of 1988 - two years after their only hit, the No. 2 smash "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," had fallen off the charts - this blistering set showcases
The Weekend Stream: March 5, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week's got some choice soundtracks plus rock, hip-hop, country, and classic vocalists. Depeche Mode, Construction Time Again | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Rhino continues its series of 12" single releases from the Depeche Mode catalogue. This offering gathers up the extended mixes
Release Round-Up: Week of March 4
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Mary Wilson, The Motown Anthology (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Motown Anthology is the ultimate retrospective of Mary Wilson, multi-hyphenate talent: singer, activist, author, fashion icon, actress, mother, grandmother, friend, trailblazer, legend, Supreme. This first-ever comprehensive overview of Wilson's Motown discography presents 38 songs,
Eruption: Mobile Fidelity Reissues First Six Van Halen Albums on Hybrid SACD, One-Step Vinyl
Might as well jump: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has announced that Van Halen's first six multi-platinum albums originally released on the Warner Bros. label will be coming to hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players) as well as to audiophile-standard UltraDisc One-Step 180-gram, 45 RPM vinyl. The band's incendiary debut Van Halen (1978) is due for release in the fourth quarter of 2022, with Van Halen II (1979), Women and Children First (1980), Fair Warning (1981), Diver Down (1982), and
Robotronik: Kraftwerk Collect Remixes for New CD, Vinyl Set
Over a career spanning 50 years, Kraftwerk have influenced artists from David Bowie to Depeche Mode. The pioneers of electronic music and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have long been at the vanguard of innovation in music, and continue to perform and tour today. Hip-hop/electro progenitors Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force incorporated the German band's music into their 1982 hit "Planet Rock," beginning a long relationship between Kraftwerk and club/DJ culture. Late in 2020, Kraftwerk
UPDATE - Glory of Love: Cherry Pop's Expansive Peter Cetera Box Arrives
UPDATED 3/1/22: As one of the seven members of Chicago as featured on their 1969 debut album Chicago Transit Authority, bassist-singer Peter Cetera's soaring tenor became an integral component of the band's sound on such hits as "25 or 6 to 4," "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," "Just You 'n' Me," and "(I've Been) Searching So Long." When his own composition "If You Leave Me Now" became Chicago's first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 - not to mention in international territories such as Canada,
The Weekend Stream: February 26, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week's got plenty of remixes, from New Wave to soul - plus some novelty hip-hop that'll offer a much-needed laugh or two. Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Last week, Rhino made the 12" singles set devoted to Depeche Mode's debut digitally available, and
Years of the Cat: Madfish Collects Complete Al Stewart on Massive 50-CD Box Set
2022 just might turn out to be the Year of the Cat if Madfish Music has anything to do with it. On June 3, the U.K. label will release a massive, 50-CD box set anthologizing the career of celebrated singer-songwriter Al Stewart. The Admiralty Lights: Complete Studio, Live, and Rare 1964-2009 spans five decades of the artist behind "Year of the Cat," "Time Passages," "Midnight Rocks," "Bedsitter Images," and "Nostradamus" via his complete released live and studio recordings and over 300
Release Round-Up: Week of February 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the week's best new titles! The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore brings The Left Banke's 1978 reunion album - featuring Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn, and George Cameron - to CD for the first time, and adds a previously unreleased 2001 session from Michael Brown, Caro, and Finn. Scott Schinder provides the liner notes, and Michael Graves has remastered the
Rock On: Demon Music Group's RSD Line-Up Includes Donna Summer, Del Shannon, Pixies, T. Rex, Belinda Carlisle, More
We're counting down to Record Store Day 2022, scheduled for Saturday, April 23. Today, we're sharing the news from Demon Music Group. Demon's 2022 lineup for the fifteenth annual RSD event has an impressive array of classic rock, soul, and pop from such artists as Donna Summer, Belinda Carlisle, T. Rex, Suede, Del Shannon (with a little help from Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne!), Pixies, Ace of Base, and Simple Minds, plus rarities from the archives of the BBC and Chi-Sound Records. Below, you'll
Prince, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Mariah Carey, More Featured on Legacy's Record Store Day Slate
Legacy Recordings has announced its release slate for Record Store Day 2022, with titles both coming for the primary RSD event on Saturday, April 23 and the additional RSD Drop scheduled for Saturday, June 18. Legacy's lineup draws on an array of heavy hitters, some of whom have featured in previous RSD releases, including Miles Davis, Lou Reed, Prince, Santana, Mariah Carey, Pearl Jam, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Patti Smith, and more. Below, you'll find Legacy's full list of releases,
The Weekend Stream: February 19, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week we've got Depeche Mode on vinyl...er, digital, Roxette in Spanish and Shel Silverstein in rare form. Depeche Mode, Speak & Spell | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Issued in 2018 as the first of nine (and counting) box sets featuring 12" replicas of every Depeche Mode single from a
Craft Recordings Announces RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Jonathan Richman, Collective Soul, More
Craft Recordings has announced its slate for Record Store Day 2022 taking place on Saturday, April 23 at independent record stores everywhere. The Concord catalogue arm will deliver a generous ten titles encompassing jazz (Vince Guaraldi, Art Pepper, a new volume of Jazz Dispensary), rock (Collective Soul, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers), Latin psychedelia (Flash and The Dynamics), soul (Esther Marrow), hip-hop (Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol. 1), punk (Go Ahead Punk...Make My Day), and
Release Round-Up: Week of February 18
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Pink Floyd, PULSE: Restored and Re-Edited (Pink Floyd Records/Sony) 2 Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2 DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada PULSE, originally released in 1995, chronicled Pink Floyd's Division Bell Tour of Europe. The video release was taken from a performance at Earls Court in London on October 20, 1994. There, Pink Floyd (then comprised of founding members David Gilmour on vocals and guitar,
America, Chicago, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Doors, Ramones, More Featured on Rhino's Record Store Day Lineup
Rhino is bringing out the heavy hitters for its Record Store Day lineup of releases, all of which are due on Saturday, April 23 at independent record stores everywhere. We've already filled you in on the pair of David Bowie titles coming to both CD and LP, but Rhino also has vinyl offerings from music legends including Joni Mitchell, Madonna, Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks, and The Everly Brothers as well as such beloved bands as America, Bad Company, Blur, Chicago, The Doors, Grateful Dead,
Real Gone Music Announces RSD Slate Including Voivod, The Judybats, Brian Bennett, Rain Parade
We've already you filled you in on one of Real Gone Music's releases for Record Store Day 2022- that would be Darlene Love's The Many Sides of Love: The Complete Recordings Plus! from RGM and Second Disc Records - but the Real Gone team has another five eye- and ear-opening titles arriving for RSD on Saturday, April 23 at indie record stores everywhere. First up is Voyage: A Journey Into Discoid Funk from Shadows drummer Brian Bennett. He began drumming for The Shadows in 1961, and save for
Sing for the Laughter, Sing for the Tear: Archival Aerosmith EP Gets General Release
One of the highlights of 2021's Record Store Day Black Friday line-up was 1971 (The Road Stars Hear) - a never-before-heard, earliest-known recording from the classic line-up of rock band Aerosmith. Nearly five months after its vinyl debut at indie record stores, the set will be released to the general public - on a pleasing variety of physical and digital formats. The Road Starts Hear captures the Boston quintet - vocalist Steven Tyler, guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, bassist Tom
The Weekend Stream: February 12, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Michael Giacchino, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Expanded Edition) (Walt Disney Records) (iTunes / Amazon) A genuine, out-of-nowhere surprise: a generous expansion of Oscar-winner Giacchino's score to the first Disney-era Star Wars spin-off in 2016, about the ragtag group of
Release Round-Up: Week of February 11
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cat Stevens, Harold and Maude: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (A&M/Cat-o-Log/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A&M/Cat-o-Log/UMe delivers a long-awaited official wide-release soundtrack of Hal Ashby's 1971 dark comedy Harold and Maude featuring the songs of Cat Stevens. The new release, available on CD, LP, and digital formats, includes the seven songs reprised from
Can't Help Thinking About Me: Parlophone Announces Two David Bowie EPs on Vinyl, CD for Record Store Day
Record Store Day 2022 isn't until April 23, but Parlophone is getting a head start with today's announcement of two releases from David Bowie scheduled for release part of the annual event. Parlophone and ISO Records will offer two limited edition titles from the late superstar, both of which are de facto bonus discs to titles issued in 2021. The Brilliant Adventure EP and Toy EP (You've Got It Made with All the Toys) will both be released on vinyl and CD and premiere previously unreleased
Review: The Replacements, "Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash: Deluxe Edition"
Everything about The Replacements' debut was fast and furious. Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, first released in 1981 on the Twin/Tone label, introduced eighteen rip-roaring nuggets primarily from the pen of Paul Westerberg. More than half were under two minutes long, and only two cracked the three-minute mark. While the lyrics were filled with aggression and the spirit of youthful rebellion, they weren't devoid of self-aware humor. And though the sound was primal, abrasive, and
The First Cuts Are The Deepest: Cherry Red Collects Mike Hurst's "Recordings, Productions, and Songs" on 4-CD Set
As a songwriter, producer, singer, and musician, Mike Hurst has earned his place in the pop pantheon. A member of The Springfields alongside Dusty Springfield and her brother Tom, Hurst later formed a band with Jimmy Page (The Methods) and produced hits for Cat Stevens, P.P. Arnold, Manfred Mann, The Spencer Davis Group, Fancy, Showaddywaddy, and others. Late in 2021, Cherry Red's Strawberry imprint celebrated Hurst's musical legacy with a 4-CD collection, In My Time: Recordings, Productions,
Solid Gold Easy Action: New T. Rex Box Chronicles Marc Bolan's Work in 1972
1972 was a banner year for T. Rex's Marc Bolan. The glam rock pioneer was riding high thanks to the success of 1971's chart-topping Electric Warrior and its hit singles "Get It On" and "Jeepster," and would continue his streak of hits with The Slider (No. 4 in the U.K.) and two more No. 1s, "Metal Guru" and "Telegram Sam." Before the year was out, T. Rex would play in both the U.S. and U.K., appear regularly on the BBC, and star in the concert film Born to Boogie produced and directed by Ringo
The Weekend Stream: February 5, 2022
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Some fascinating finds ahead from the '70s, '80s, '90s and far beyond - but first, another streaming housekeeping note... You may have read our thoughts last week about streaming services, what they're doing, what they should be doing, and how artists are reacting. We had no intention of telling people where they
Bandcamp Friday Picks, February 2022: Paul Andrews Goes the 'Distance' - Hurry Up and Listen
It's a new year, and Bandcamp Fridays are back! The beloved independent music service brings back their beloved mini-holiday today (February 4), and again on March 4, April 1 and May 6. On those days, they'll waive the fees they make off music they host - all the money will go directly to artists and labels. (And artists typically make more there than other platforms, just saying.) We've delighted in using The Second Disc to highlight some of our favorite catalogue and current acts on Bandcamp -
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