Late last year, Island and Universal released a pair of box sets celebrating the life and legacy of the late Amy Winehouse (1983-2011). 12 x 7: The Singles Collection and The Collection respectively compiled all of the late British singer's A- and B-sides on 12 pieces of vinyl and her three studio albums on CD […]
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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band (Capitol/UMe) 6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 6-CD/2-BD John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection contains everything recorded by John and Yoko during the sessions for John's 1970 Plastic Ono Band LP, totaling 159 tracks on CD and […]
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For Record Store Day 2020, The Who expanded their 1974 rarities collection Odds and Sods for a 2-LP, 25-song deluxe presentation. This year, the band celebrates 40 years of 1981's Face Dances with another double-disc, expanded presentation. It's due on Drop 1, June 12, from Geffen Records in a limited edition of 6,500 copies. Face […]
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Following the 2020 releases of Petula Clark's Christmas in London and On Air: 1951-1961, the Stage Door label is continuing its series exploring the early days of the superstar's extraordinary and still-thriving career. On May 21, Stage Door will release In Copenhagen 1958-1960, premiering a disc's worth of previously unreleased recordings from this largely unexplored […]
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Turn around, bright eyes... Baby, we can talk all night, but that ain't getting us nowhere... You took the words right out of my mouth...Oh, it must have been while you were kissing me! I would do anything for love...but I won't do that. Rock and roll dreams came through time and time again for […]
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"Cream was a shambling circus of diverse personalities who happened to find that catalyst together...any one of us could have played unaccompanied for a good length of time. So you put the three of us together in front of an audience willing to dig it limitlessly, we could have gone on forever...And we did...just going […]
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André Previn (1929-2019) was a true renaissance man, making his mark in the worlds of jazz, classical, film, and stage. A composer, pianist, and conductor, the German-born Previn won four Academy Awards as well as ten competitive Grammys; he led orchestras including the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the […]
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While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new […]
Continue ReadingCherry Red's ongoing Howard Jones reissue campaign hits its next marker on April 30, with an expanded CD/DVD and vinyl reissue planned for In the Running, Jones' fifth album and final release for a major label. In the Running continued the artistic and commercial trends that had been a part of Jones' career since 1989's Cross That Line […]
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Since 1967, the annual Montreux Jazz Festival has brought fans to Switzerland to enjoy world-class music from top-tier artists. Over the years, the festival's purview has expanded beyond pure jazz; Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and Elton John have all played there as well as Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and Herb Alpert. Numerous concert albums have […]
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