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Avicii Forever

Wake Me Up: New Compilation Honors Life and Career of Avicii

By Mike Duquette | May 16, 2025 | 0 Comments

In his too-brief career, Swedish DJ/producer Avicii became one of the most dynamic figures of the early 2010s electronic dance boom. A new collection, sanctioned by his estate, will honor that body of work. Avicii Forever offers, on CD or two LPs, 20 tracks from his albums and EPs, including the worldwide hits "Wake Me […]

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The Feelies Rewind

Dancing Barefoot: The Feelies Collect Old Covers for New Album

By Mike Duquette | May 16, 2025 | 0 Comments

What started as a simple digital exercise for New Jersey rockers The Feelies is a new collection of some of their harder-to-find cover songs. The jangle-pop heroes will release Rewind on June 20, a nine-track affair featuring versions of cuts by The Beatles ("She Said She Said," "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My […]

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Status Quo Live deluxe

Release Round-Up: Week of May 16

By The Second Disc | May 16, 2025 | 4 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. Status Quo, Live! Deluxe Edition (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A deluxe edition of Status Quo's first concert album will pair the original album - never a favorite of the band's […]

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Mud The Rak Years

Dyna-Mite: Cherry Red's 7Ts Label Collects Mud's Glam Oldies on "The Rak Years 1973-75"

By Joe Marchese | May 15, 2025 | 3 Comments

Rob Davis, Les Gray, Dave Mount, and Ray Stiles formed Mud in 1966 and released their first single, "Flower Power," the very next year on CBS Records.  But the band wasn't destined to make their name with psychedelic pop; instead, they persevered until breaking through in 1973 on Mickie Most's Rak label.  By that time, […]

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John Raitt Songs of the Open Road

Hey There: Stage Door Expands John Raitt's "Songs of the Open Road"

By Joe Marchese | May 14, 2025 | 0 Comments

Back in May 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stage Door Records brought some much-needed sunshine with an Original Album Series volume for Broadway baritone John Raitt (1917-2005).  The 2CD volume collected Raitt's four LPs originally released between 1955 and 1960 on the Capitol and Warner Bros. labels; now, Stage Door has […]

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 2

By The Second Disc | May 2, 2025 | 2 Comments
Pink Floyd Pompeii

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. Pink Floyd, At Pompeii (Pink Floyd/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than half a century after its release, Pink […]

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Review: Eric Burdon and WAR, "The Complete CD Collection"

By Joe Marchese | May 1, 2025 | 1 Comment
Eric Burdon and WAR Complete CD Collection

With the recent release of WAR's Why Can't We Be Friends? as an expanded edition for Record Store Day (with a CD edition to follow - links still aren't active), TSD has given a spin to Rhino's most recent WAR CD release: The Complete CD Collection from Eric Burdon & WAR. "Peace and love was […]

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Voices, Another Sound: Duran Duran Bow 'Greatest' on Vinyl

By Mike Duquette | April 30, 2025 | 2 Comments
Duran Greatest vinyl

Duran Duran will bring their latest - and, appropriately, greatest - compilation to vinyl for the first time this summer. 1998's Greatest - a tidy summary of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers' most commercially successful period in the '80s and '90s - will be pressed as a double album on white vinyl - featuring […]

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Reissues...and Stuff Like That! Classic Quincy Jones Titles Due on Vinyl, SHM-CD This Summer

By Mike Duquette | April 30, 2025 | 2 Comments
Smackwater Jack LP

A cadre of titles from the discography of the late Quincy Jones - spanning nearly 25 years of his storied career - are coming back into print on physical formats thanks to the shared efforts of Universal' Music Group's teams in America and Japan. Coming June 6 are new SHM-CD pressings of seven of Jones' […]

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Hero of the Day: Metallica Unloads Massive 'Load' Box Set

By Mike Duquette | April 30, 2025 | 0 Comments
Metallica Load box

We'll spare you additional ribald jokes and puns in sharing that Metallica have announced their latest sprawling box set reissue, this time dedicated to their sixth studio album - 1996's Load. Available June 13, the centerpiece of the Load reissue campaign is a box that'll offer 15 CDs, six LPs and four DVDs featuring the remastered […]

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A Man Could Get Lost: Soft Cell to Expand 'Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing' with Rare Remixes

By Mike Duquette | April 29, 2025 | 0 Comments
Non Stop Erotic Dancing expanded

After expanding their debut album for a box set in 2023, Soft Cell will revisit the next entry in their discography: the remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing. Available June 20, the collection comes back to two CDs or two LPs with a host of bonus material, including vintage non-LP singles and remixes plus a host of […]

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Sign In Stranger: Steely Dan's "The Royal Scam" Returns in June

By Joe Marchese | April 28, 2025 | 2 Comments
Steely Dan The Royal Scam

Are you gonna do it without the fez on?  1976's The Royal Scam, Steely Dan's fifth album, is returning on June 6 in a variety of formats to conclude the band's reissue campaign which began in November 2022 with Can't Buy a Thrill.  Like the past titles in this series encompassing the Dan's ABC/MCA discography, […]

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The Weekend Stream: April 25, 2025

By The Second Disc | April 26, 2025 | 2 Comments
Stream 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. Strap in for a killer line-up of titles this week: two more Record Store Day debuts, an incredible posthumous collaboration between two '80s icons, the return of one of glam's most […]

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Wowie Zowie: Frank Zappa's "Cheaper Than Cheep" Premieres Lost Concert Film, Soundtrack

By Joe Marchese | April 25, 2025 | 0 Comments
Frank Zappa Cheaper Than Cheep

All has been quiet on the Frank Zappa front since the release last fall of the 50th anniversary super deluxe edition of his album Apostrophe (').  That lull ended today, though, with the announcement of a multi-format release filled with audio and video goodies.  Cheaper Than Cheep arrives May 9 as an online exclusive release […]

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Didn't Miss a 'Step': New Kids on the Block Celebrate 35th Anniversary of Third Album

By Mike Duquette | April 25, 2025 | 3 Comments
NKOTB Step by Step 35

New Kids on the Block will revisit their blockbuster Step by Step with a new expanded edition this summer. The 35th anniversary package will be available in a handful of physical and digital formats, with some exclusive variants and bonus tracks throughout. The 1990 release will be available on CD with two tracks from the vault […]

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