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
This Shark'll Swallow You Whole: New 'JAWS' Soundtrack Reissues Rise from the Depths (UPDATED)
How else could we preface this? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, John Williams' acclaimed score to Steven Spielberg's JAWS is being reissued for its 50th anniversary. And this time, the bites are big. Williams' longtime archivist Mike Matessino has remixed the original film score for a new release now available digitally through Universal Pictures' Back Lot Music and on a new 180-gram, 45 RPM 2LP vinyl pressing from Mondo (available on marbled red and blue "blood and
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
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
The Weekend Stream: August 16, 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 soft-rock legend says farewell on his own terms, a Broadway star channels one of mid-century pop's greatest voices, plus everything from video game music to "jazz-tinged" alt-pop oddities is headed your way this week! Stephen Bishop, THIMK (Life's a Bish) (Apple / Amazon) Stephen Bishop is billing THIMK as his final studio album - a
Release Round-Up: Week of August 15
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. Doc Pomus, You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore) You Can't Hip a Square: The Doc Pomus Songwriting Demos collects more than 160 tracks from the late, legendary songwriter, who died in 1991 at the age of 65 and was subsequently inducted into the
What a Box Set, Charlie Brown! Rare 'Peanuts' Soundtracks Join Together in New CD Collection
Even this deep into the age of reissues and audio preservation, discoveries can happen that make you say "AUGH!" (in a good way). A few of those recent examples are about to get put into a box set, available exclusively at independent record stores. Six recently released soundtracks to animated Peanuts television specials - composed, as always, by jazz hero Vince Guaraldi, and not available until the last two years! - are getting compiled in The Peanuts Collection, Vol. 1, available soon at
The Weekend Stream: August 9, 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. Jim Reeves isn't the only gentleman on display this week: we've also got Peter Gabriel, Eddy Grant, Ben Folds and a host of film composers - plus many, many more! Peter Gabriel, Live At WOMAD 1982 (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) Loosed from the vault is Gabriel's nine-song headlining set at the first World of Music, Art and Dance
You Can't Kill the Boogeyman: John Carpenter's Latter-Day 'Halloween' Scores Get Expanded Box Set
"The night HE came home" is about to have a whole new meaning, thanks to a new box set from Sacred Bones Records containing expanded presentations of the scores to the late '10s/early '20s Halloween trilogy of horror films. Halloween: The Complete Expanded Collection will offer, on three CDs or six LPs, a previously-released expanded presentation of the score to the 2018 sequel/reboot, along with new expansions of the music to sequels Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022) - all
Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land, Intrada, Varese Heat Up July with Bond and More
No matter the season, it seems like archival film scores are always in style! The last few weeks have seen some killer announcements from La-La Land, Varese Sarabande and Intrada - offering expansions of some action/adventure scores from the '80s, '90s and '00s, plus a terrific new soundtrack reissue of one of the best scores in the James Bond series. La-La Land Records promised a "remastered edition" of John Barry's score to On Her Majesty's Secret Service in a recent Variety piece - and
Review: Frank Zappa, "Cheaper Than Cheep"
The latest archival release from the Frank Zappa camp may be called Cheaper Than Cheep, but rest assured, this concert program is actually an embarrassment of audiovisual riches. Available in a variety of formats including 2CD+Blu-ray, 3LP, and 2CD/3LP/1BD configurations, Cheaper Than Cheep preserves a long-lost concert recorded on June 21, 1974 at a rehearsal studio on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood in the wake of the Mothers of Inventions' tenth anniversary tour. Zappa was joined by a Mothers
Now We're Gonna Get the Whole Story: A Deep Dive Into Billy Joel's Documentary Soundtrack
If you thought the dust had settled after watching all five hours of the documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes (both halves are now streaming on HBO Max), you may be...wrong! Legacy Recordings has dropped an incredible digital trove of music as a companion piece to the film: a seven-hour, 155-track anthology that's packed with more than 60 unreleased tracks and available to stream or download! As we'd previously reported in our chat with John Jackson, Joel's archive director, a soundtrack
The Weekend Stream: July 26, 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. Billy Joel fans have it good this week, with seven hours of hits and rarities from his new documentary. If you've got room after that, there's an anniversary reissue for literally the last five decades in a few different genres, too! Billy Joel, And So It Goes (The Musical Companion to the HBO Documentary Film) (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple /
No Time for Tears: Pet Shop Boys' 'Potemkin' Score Set for Reissue
A lesser-known detour in the Pet Shop Boys' discography is being reintroduced this year: the duo's score penned for the legendary film Battleship Potemkin. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's compositions for Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent picture, first performed in 2004 and released a year later, will be remastered on CD (as well as released for the first time on vinyl) on September 5. The release will follow a theatrical exhibition of the film in the U.K. beginning August 22; a Blu-ray release
The Weekend Stream: July 19, 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 gem from Linda Ronstadt's vault, a new update of a Disney classic and a fascinating sit-down with one of folk's most important matriarchs - plus tributes to artists we lost this week and a potential hint at a very exciting reissue from one of the pivotal duos in '70s rock. Linda Ronstadt, "How Do I Make You" / "Rambler
The Weekend Stream: July 12, 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. This one has it all: Sting, a family named King, one Boss, two Deborahs, 311, '00s power-pop nuggets, an actress with a killer voice singing on England's hottest balcony - and a trailer for our most-anticipated music documentary of the month! Sting, The Dream of the Blue Turtles (Expanded Edition) (A&M/UMe) (Apple /
Release Round-Up: Week of July 11
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. Jethro Tull, Still Living in the Past (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Still Living in the Past reinterpret Jethro Tull's original odds-and-ends compilation from 1972 as a 5CD/1 Blu-ray set boasting some 35 unissued mixes and versions alongside
The Weekend Stream: June 28, 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. There's new music from Sarah McLachlan, Public Enemy and Liam Finn, plus a new video to a one-hit wonder, a Record Store Day single gone digital, and tributes to musicians we lost this week. Peter Gabriel, In the Big Room (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) The legendary pop/rock voice has loosed a recording from his vault for larger public
Release Round-Up: Week of June 27
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. Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 (Columbia/Legacy) 7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums (Columbia/Legacy) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon
Disco Connection: Ace Releases Isaac Hayes' "Hot Buttered Singles Volume 2"
Last year, Ace released the first of a two-volume series collecting Isaac Hayes' single sides for the Stax label and his own Hot Buttered Soul imprint of ABC Records. As Hayes was known for his epic productions, the shorter single edits offered a very different listening experience than the full album tracks. Earlier this year, the second volume arrived, and though Hot Buttered Singles Volume 2: 1972-1976 chronicles a period in which Hayes had less crossover success, it's nonetheless filled
The Weekend Stream: June 21, 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 classic film score gets remixed for a major anniversary; a modern jazz great reunites two-thirds of a classic rock band; and it's funny how time flies for Tears for Fears. All this, plus morsels of news on potential reissues from Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran, and two tributes to singers we lost this week. John Williams, JAWS
This Shark'll Swallow You Whole: New 'JAWS' Soundtrack Reissues Are Surfacing
How else could we preface this? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, John Williams' acclaimed score to Steven Spielberg's JAWS is rising up from the depths for its 50th anniversary. And this time, the bites are big. Williams' longtime archivist Mike Matessino has remixed the original film score for a new release available digitally this Friday, June 20 through Universal Pictures' Back Lot Music and on a new 180-gram, 45 RPM 2LP vinyl pressing from Mondo (available on
Toy Story: Songs to Infinity and Beyond
With Toy Story 5 coming from Disney and Pixar, the studios are looking back with this new vinyl release. Songs to Infinity and Beyond will collect nine tracks from all four of the films in the series - all from the pen of the one and only Randy Newman. This sonic love letter to the beloved series offers rare concept drawings and new art on the set's front cover and gatefold and a zoetrope vinyl pattern that features moving images of the series' lovable characters when spinning on your
The Weekend Stream: June 14, 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. This week we've got it all, from Bakersfield country to Billy Joel on Broadway; actors who sing and singer-songwriters who act in short films; Tony Joe White going disco and Josh Groban's hits going super-size. You'll find something to love - we guarantee it! Wynn Stewart, Songs of Wynn Stewart (Capitol Nashville) (Apple / Amazon) After
A Second Disc Interview: Timothy J. Smith Forges a New Path with SuperVisible
If you've been reading The Second Disc for some time, you know that one of our highlights is The Weekend Stream, our spotlight of catalogue material that makes its way - either first or primarily - to streaming and download services. The TSD team has the shelves to prove our love of CDs or vinyl, but the joy of discovering a lost classic or future favorite from the past is what really drives us, and The Weekend Stream is run in that spirit. And it might not run at all if not for the help of one
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