Kim Wilde's new album, Closer, has arrived from Cherry Red. It's followed the release late in 2024 of three generously expanded editions from the singer's MCA catalogue, all newly remastered by Tom Parker and annotated by Marcel Rijs, the co-compilers of these comprehensive sets. Wilde welcomed the 1990s with Love Moves. Her seventh studio album, […]
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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 […]
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Today, Gloria Hunniford is best known throughout the U.K. as a television presenter for both the BBC and ITV, including as a panelist on Loose Women (Britain's equivalent to The View). But the Northern Ireland-born broadcaster and reporter began her career as a singer, first performing publicly as a child and later hosting her own […]
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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 […]
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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! 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 […]
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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 […]
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A scintillating collaboration between two titans of reggae - known as Dub Syndicate - will be revisited in a series of reissues covering their late '80s and early '90s output. Out Here on the Perimeter 1989-1996 is a new 5CD box set, available from the On-U Sound label on February 28, that features new pressings […]
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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 […]
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It was clear from the start that Marianne Faithfull was no ordinary artist. The chanteuse, who died today at the age of 78, established her long and remarkable career on a dual track. Following the success of her singles "As Tears Go By" and "Come and Stay with Me" (gifted to Marianne by Mick Jagger […]
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Video game music - particularly of a certain vintage - is kind of hit or miss in the physical catalogue space or otherwise, so it gives us pleasure to point out a few upcoming releases of music old, new and otherwise from Nintendo's venerable Super Mario series on CD and vinyl. Available for the first time […]
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