Among the bigger surprises of an already packed Record Store Day slate is seeing labels increase their presence within the usual offerings. One such case: BMG, a company steadily growing in prominence since corporate owner Bertelsmann sold a four-year stake in Sony Music and started rebuilding with a host of classic rock, pop and other catalogues as well as new releases from those acts. This year, the company has prepped a baker's dozen special vinyl titles for the RSD festivities on Saturday,
This is What You Need: INXS Remix and Expand 'Listen Like Thieves'
INXS' breakthrough album is getting the red carpet treatment for its 40th anniversary. The Australian group's 1985 effort Listen Like Thieves is getting a multi-format reissue this spring...and while it will be available around the world, there's a slight catch: each format has different and unique bonus material. The centerpiece of the campaign, in stores May 9, is a 3CD/LP box set featuring a new remix of the original album by Giles Martin and Paul Hicks plus two discs of unreleased
Elvis Costello, Elton John, John Lennon, Sting Feature on UMG's Record Store Day Slate
Universal Music Group's 2025 Record Store Day roster is heavy on British rockers: Elvis Costello, John Lennon, Elton John, Sting, Queen, Mark Knopfler, and The Verve among them! But there's also some highly-anticipated items from The Killers and Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, and Passengers, a.k.a. U2 and Brian Eno, among the other highlights. Visit RecordStoreDay.com for the full list of participating retailers you can visit on Saturday, April 12, to join in the festivities. Elvis
Who Believes in Angels?
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. Link TBD / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD Tri-Color LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Alternate Cover "Neon Angel" CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John has teamed with Brandi Carlile as well as Bernie Taupin and producer Andrew Watt for his first studio album since 2021's COVID-era The Lockdown Sessions and first with Taupin since 2016's Wonderful Crazy Night. Who Believes in Angels?
Found All the Parts: Music on Vinyl Reissues Cheap Trick Albums Box
Elo, kiddies! An out-of-print Cheap Trick box set is coming back to CD as well as a first-time LP adaptation for Music on Vinyl. The Complete Epic Albums Collection, originally released in 2013 as part of a flurry of similar box sets from Legacy Recordings, captured just nearly everything Rockford's finest put out between 1977 and 1990, including their first 11 studio albums (including the first-time physical release of the "authorized" version of 1983's Next Position Please), an expanded
Rhino Readies Nearly 50 Titles for Record Store Day Including Titles from Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, More
As usual, Rhino is leading the Record Store Day pack with a whopping slate of almost 50 titles scheduled to arrive in independent shops everywhere on Saturday, April 12. The label has brought out many of its heaviest hitters, including Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Jethro Tull, among others. Head over to RecordStoreDay.com for the complete list of participating stores, and below you'll find details for all of Rhino's releases! We've linked to the
They Will Have Their Way: Legacy Plans Packed Record Store Day Slate
Is it just us, or has Record Store Day felt a little muted in recent years? Obviously the annual Black Friday celebration boasts less titles than the festivities held every April, but it's sometimes been a struggle to identify great archival titles or worthy re-pressed discs. Well, that certainly isn't the case this year: labels seem to have gone into overdrive stockpiling interesting LPs and singles worth a second (or first!) look - and one of the strongest showings might be Sony Music's Legacy
The Weekend Stream: February 8, 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 new music from Elton John and Bob Mould, a cult classic rock band between New Jersey and Boston, and so much more - including a new music video for one of our '70s songwriter favorites. Elton John & Brandi Carlile, "Who Believes in Angels?" (Rocket/Mercury/EMI) (iTunes / Amazon) In 2023, the British pop icon (fresh off the end
Release Yourself from Misery: Pete Townshend Collects Solo Albums (But No Bonus Tracks) for New Box
A prequel of sorts to UMC's box set of Pete Townshend live recordings is coming this spring: a simple collection of eight of his studio works. The Studio Albums brings together new CD pressings of Who Came First (1972), the Ronnie Lane collaboration Rough Mix (1977), Empty Glass (1980), All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (1982), White City (A Novel) (1985), Iron Man (1989) and versions of Pyschoderelict (1993) with and without dialogue. While a 2006 reissue campaign from Hip-O Records
Release Round-Up: Week of February 7
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn for qualifying purchases. WAR, Live in Japan 1974 (Rhino/Avenue) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino's ongoing refresh of the WAR catalogue continues with its first release of 2025: a set of previously unheard live material from the band's tour of Japan, more than half a century ago and
Craft Recordings Unveils RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Celia Cruz, Thelonious Monk, Collective Soul, More
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 12 - that's the date this year for Record Store Day, the date upon which fans, collectors, and everyone in between flocks to local independent record stores and hopefully gives those brick-and-mortar stores a leg up for the year! The full list has been posted, and here at TSD, we'll start today by spotlighting various releases from some of our favorite labels! Craft Recordings is among those labels, and they've just announced a batch encompassing jazz,
The Warner Recordings 1985-1994
5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Rhino.com Diamond Dave's got a whole new shine, thanks to a new box set from Rhino. David Lee Roth's The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 includes the four LPs (and one EP) the iconoclastic singer released outside of his concluding tenure as the vocalist for Van Halen. All of the albums have been newly remastered (though no bonus tracks are appended), and will be available at general retailers as a 5CD set. (Rhino's official store will
Live in the U.S.A. 1978 [Various Releases]
3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at South East Music Hall, Atlanta, GA - 1/5/1978 Red LP (February 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at Longhorns Ballroom, Dallas, TX - 1/10/1978 White LP (March 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at The Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA - 1/14/1978 Blue LP (April 25): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Sex Pistols' Live in the U.S.A. 1978 will mark the first complete and official releases of
Private Dancer: 40th Anniversary Edition
5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pearl LP with art card: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Tina Turner's smash 1984 "comeback"album Private Dancer - featuring the hits "What's Love Got to Do with It," "Better Be Good to Me," the scintillating title track and more - will be reissued as a 5CD/Blu-ray deluxe box packed with rare B-sides, remixes, additional studio
Best in Show
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The work of the late Welsh musical polymath Karl Wallinger is revisited with a worldwide expanded release of the sole compilation credited to his project World Party. Originally released in certain territories (and not his native United Kingdom) to promote a tour in 2007, Best in Show was rather cynically designed in sequence with World Party's most popular tracks on digital music shops, thus kicking
Not So Simple Songs: Ace Records Compiles Sly Stone Covers
A timely new collection will pay tribute to the work of Sly & The Family Stone through a diverse group of covers and rarely-heard singles written and produced by the group's iconic frontman for others. Everybody is a Star - The Sly Stone Songbook is the latest entry in Ace Records' Songwriter Series, chronicling some of the greatest modern songwriters of the last century. Naturally, the man born Sylvester Stewart is a prime candidate for such an overview. His mix of R&B, funk, pop and
Image and Likeness: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp's Collaborations Revisited in New Collection
A unique team-up between two celebrated guitarists - Andy Summers of The Police and Robert Fripp of King Crimson - will be revisited this spring with a bevy of new material. The Complete Recordings 1981-1984 will expand and remaster the duo's two studio albums together - 1982's I Advance Masked and 1984's Bewitched - along with Mother Hold the Candle Steady, a newly-created album of outtakes from their sessions together. The Blu-ray Audio will include hi-resolution remasters of both albums,
The Weekend Stream: February 1, 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! A new charity cover from Def Leppard, reissues of classic albums by Simple Minds and Sheena Easton, and a mess of vintage jazz is on the menu today - plus a heads-up for a forthcoming way to help the ongoing California wildfire relief effort. Def Leppard, Stand by Me (Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) While also a single
New Killer Star: Live-in-Studio David Bowie Set Prepped for First Major Record Store Day Release of 2025
Well ahead of any other titles for Record Store Day, David Bowie's estate and Rhino have announced a big one for the twice-yearly shopping bonanza: a previously unreleased live-in-studio set recorded more than two decades ago. Ready, Set, Go! (Live, Riverside Studios '03) will be released exclusively at independent record retailers on April 12 on both CD and double vinyl. The 14-track program, recorded in London on September 8, 2003 with producer Tony Visconti and a familiar assortment of
A Ghost Is Born: Deluxe Edition
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP/4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Following an acclaimed, Grammy-winning deluxe edition of Wilco's mainstream breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the same creative team has assembled a similarly lavish set for the band's 2004 follow-up A Ghost is Born. The deluxe set - made up of either nine CDs or nine LPs and four CDs - packages the
Release Round-Up: Week of January 31
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. Dwight Twilley, Scuba Divers: Blueprint Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The road to Dwight Twilley's second album, 1982's Scuba Divers, was a long one. Now, Iconoclassic Records is expanding that 10-track album with a whopping 15 bonus tracks (11 of which are previously unreleased) chronicling
Unplugged: Enhanced Edition
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To coincide with a newly-upgraded presentation of the original MTV Unplugged special (streaming on Paramount+), Surfdog is reissuing the original 1992 live album in an "enhanced" edition which boasts a slightly reorganized and expanded 2CD or 2LP sequence, a brand-new mix, and highlights from a never-before-heard audio interview with Clapton discussing the songs in his set shortly before playing
Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition
Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, continued the band's early winning streak. The 1972 release - their final album of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford and first to feature the band's now-famous "bubble" logo type - featured just three songs (two of which had multiple movements). But they were sufficiently power-packed as to propel the LP to top five berths in both the U.K. and U.S. and eventual Platinum sales status. Rhino is revisiting Close to the Edge as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set
Rush 50
4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) Super Deluxe 4CD/7LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music Rush 50 comprises a generous 50-track overview of the group's output spanning their entire career across four CDs or seven 180-gram LPs, plus a 104-page hardcover book featuring new 50th anniversary artwork by the band's creative director Hugh Syme and liner notes by David Fricke and Philip Wilding. (A super deluxe box set
A Boy Named Goo: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (sea blue variant) A new deluxe edition of the Goo Goo Dolls' breakthrough album expands 1995's A Boy Named Goo as a 2CD and 2LP set. In addition to the alt-rock classic, featuring "Name," "Long Way Down," "Naked," and others, both sets will include a previously unreleased disc of performances taped at The Aladdin in Las Vegas in the spring of 1996, featuring nine tracks from the
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