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The Weekend Stream: May 10, 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, classic rock icons celebrate their live history, a modern music icon gets serious, a master of horror films (and soundtracks) revisits his first non-movie music and a former folk […]

Release Round-Up: Week of May 9

By The Second Disc | May 9, 2025 | 2 Comments

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. Jackie DeShannon, Love Forever: Demo Recordings 1966-1968 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Jackie DeShannon signed with Liberty Records and Metric Music in 1960 as a performer and songwriter. Her […]

No Substitute: Release of 1971 Gig by The Who Heralds Their Farewell Tour

By Mike Duquette | May 8, 2025 | 3 Comments

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend today announced that, just over 60 years since their first appearances, The Who will bid farewell this fall with The Song is Over, one final tour of North America. But the music is hardly stopping, so to speak: the group will also officially release a long sought-after live performance this summer. Available […]

Beyond Today - and Tomorrow: A Look At Liberation Hall's Recent and Upcoming Releases

By Mike Duquette | May 8, 2025 | 1 Comment

The Liberation Hall label has, of late, been a haven for interesting and unusual reissues from exciting corners of the post-punk scene. (They've also been active during Record Store Day, recently releasing a box set of albums by The Blasters and an anthology of work by Clarence White of The Byrds.) Here's a look at […]

Listen To The Warm: Real Gone's May Line-Up Includes Rare Petula Clark plus Jesse Ed Davis, Lamb, The Bottle Rockets, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones and Others

By Randy Fairman | May 8, 2025 | 1 Comment

We've already told you about the Jackie DeShannon CD - Love Forever: Demo Recordings 1966-1968 - coming from Real Gone Music tomorrow, May 9. But the label has a packed line-up of other titles ranging from pop to metalcore and years spanning the 1960s to 2000s on both CD and vinyl. Keep reading for all of […]

Totally Kool: First Dozen Kool & The Gang Albums Boxed by Edsel

By Mike Duquette | March 22, 2022 | 8 Comments

For more than a half century, Kool & The Gang have been synonymous with a special, ever-changing kind of soul music - blending rhythm and blues, disco, jazz and funk, with a few decades of hits as a result. Edsel will celebrate Kool's legacy with a series of box sets starting with The Albums Vol. […]

Train Leaves Here This Morning: Intervention Brings Dillard and Clark's "Fantastic Expedition" to Hybrid SACD, Vinyl

By Joe Marchese | March 22, 2022 | 4 Comments

Following its previous hybrid SACD and deluxe vinyl reissue of Gene Clark's 1971 A&M Records solo classic White Light, Intervention Records is turning back the clock to 1968 to the Byrds co-founder's collaboration with banjo legend Doug Dillard. In May, Intervention will reissue The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark on hybrid stereo SACD (playable […]

Out of the Blue: BMG Reissues Daryl Hall and John Oates' "Marigold Sky" on CD, Vinyl, Digital

By Joe Marchese | March 21, 2022 | 6 Comments

Daryl Hall and John Oates' 1997 album Marigold Sky marked the duo's first album away from the major label machine. Following tenures on Atlantic, RCA, and Arista, the phenomenally successful pair aligned with BMG-distributed Push Records for their first "indie" release. Seven years had passed since the release of their final Arista album, Change of […]

The Weekend Stream: March 19, 2022

By Mike Duquette | March 19, 2022 | 1 Comment

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! From hard-rockin' brothers to non-stop dance vibes, you've got quite a selection this week. Nelson, Imaginator / Silence is Broken / Brother Harmony / Life […]

This Note's for You: Neil Young's Latest Albums Box Includes Rare 'Eldorado' EP

By The Second Disc | March 18, 2022 | 8 Comments

A new box set will bring together three of Neil Young's '80s albums, along with a rare EP making its widest release yet. Official Release Series Volume 4, available April 29, runs the gamut of Young's eclectic output in the '80s - likely because it only covers his releases on his longtime home base of […]

Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Goes 'Top Secret,' Varese Unveils New Titles, John Williams Teams with Anne-Sophie Mutter Again

By Mike Duquette | March 18, 2022 | 1 Comment

The last few weeks have seen some fine deluxe soundtrack reissues from two of our favorite film score labels - as well as another album project from the genre's greatest living luminary. La-La Land Records has aimed for the funny bone with a brilliant new expansion of Maurice Jarre's score to Top Secret! The 1984 […]

What You See Is What You Get: Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Bring Stoney and Meatloaf to CD with "Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings"

By The Second Disc | March 18, 2022 | 7 Comments

Stoney and Meatloaf Everything Under the Sun The Motown Recordings

Meat Loaf exploded to superstardom like a Bat Out of Hell with his 1977 solo debut. But the roots of his success could be traced to his short but blazing tenure with Motown. In 1970, the young performer with the big frame and even bigger voice was garnering rave reviews in the Detroit company of […]

Release Round-Up: Week of March 18

By The Second Disc | March 18, 2022 | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Frank Zappa, The Mothers 1971 / Fillmore East - June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition / Rainbow Theatre - December 10, 1971 (Zappa Records/UMe) The Mothers 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fillmore East - June 1971: 50th […]

Open My Eyes: Ace Celebrates Todd Rundgren and Gus Dudgeon in Label's Producers Series

By Joe Marchese | March 17, 2022 | 3 Comments

In recent weeks, Ace Records has made two new additions to its ongoing Producers Series, and both titles spotlight the versatility of the respective talents, Todd Rundgren and Gus Dudgeon. The Studio Wizardry of Todd Rundgren is, in many senses, an update of Rhino's 1992 compilation An Elpee's Worth of Productions. Like that set, it […]

If It Makes You Happy: Sheryl Crow to Release Documentary, 2CD Companion Album

By Mike Duquette | March 16, 2022 | 1 Comment

Alongside a forthcoming documentary on her 30+ year career, Sheryl Crow and UMe will issue a double-disc companion soundtrack that serves as an in-depth overview and the place to hear her newest material. Sheryl, which premiered at South by Southwest this past weekend and will air on Showtime starting May 6, will chronicle Crow's fascinating […]

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