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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 […]

Release Round-Up: Week of February 25

By The Second Disc | February 25, 2022 | 3 Comments

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 […]

Isn't It Romantic? Stage Door Collects Rarities from Broadway and West End Star Sally Ann Howes

By Joe Marchese | February 24, 2022 | 1 Comment

Sally Ann Howes Another Time Another Place

Over the course of an extraordinary seven-decade career, Sally Ann Howes exemplified entertainment royalty. Born in London into a showbiz family, she starred on stage, screen, and television, sang in front of three U.S. Presidents, originated roles on Broadway and in the West End, appeared on the cover of Life, and earned a Tony Award […]

Rock On: Demon Music Group's RSD Line-Up Includes Donna Summer, Del Shannon, Pixies, T. Rex, Belinda Carlisle, More

By The Second Disc | February 24, 2022 | 2 Comments

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 […]

Sheena Easton's "A Private Heaven" Struts in Cherry Pop's New Expanded Edition

By Joe Marchese | February 23, 2022 | 6 Comments

Cherry Red's Cherry Pop arm began a new association with Sheena Easton with the 2021 release of The Definitive Singles 1980-1987. The 3-CD, 51-song collection brought together the Scottish singer's A-sides including both 7- and 12-inch singles during that period. This Friday, February 25, the label (once again in tandem with the owner of Easton's […]

Live Long and Prosper: La-La Land Revisits "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" In New Director's Cut Edition

By Joe Marchese | February 22, 2022 | 2 Comments

Later this year, the Paramount+ streaming service will premiere a new 4K Director's Edition of 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The first big-screen voyage of the Starship Enterprise, director Robert Wise's film was first recut as a Director's Edition for the 2001 DVD, but the new version promises to be an upgrade in every […]

Prince, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Mariah Carey, More Featured on Legacy's Record Store Day Slate

By The Second Disc | February 22, 2022 | 10 Comments

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 […]

The Weekend Stream: February 19, 2022

By Mike Duquette | February 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! 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 […]

Craft Recordings Announces RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Jonathan Richman, Collective Soul, More

By The Second Disc | February 18, 2022 | 3 Comments

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 […]

Release Round-Up: Week of February 18

By The Second Disc | February 18, 2022 | 2 Comments

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 […]

America, Chicago, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Doors, Ramones, More Featured on Rhino's Record Store Day Lineup

By The Second Disc | February 17, 2022 | 2 Comments

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 […]

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