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The Weekend Stream: May 24, 2025

By Mike Duquette | May 24, 2025 | 1 Comment

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 offers a trio of classic rockers advancing a cause through new tracks, rare covers and live material, plus a new take on Peggy Lee's "Fever" and a pair of […]

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Sheena Easton Modern Girl

Release Round-Up: Week of May 23

By The Second Disc | May 23, 2025 | 1 Comment

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. Sheena Easton, Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings Volume 1 (Cherry Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Sheena Easton's latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new […]

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Springsteen's Country

Somewhere North of Nashville: Ace Takes Listeners to 'Springsteen's Country'

By Mike Duquette | May 22, 2025 | 0 Comments

Ace Records continues its quest to offer variations on a theme by exploring country interpretations of the music of Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen's Country will collect 20 covers of The Boss, some familiar (Johnny Cash's "Johnny 99," Steve Earle's live take on "State Trooper"), some offbeat (a take on Tunnel of Love opener "Ain't Got You" by […]

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Jethro Tull Still Living in the Past

Jethro Tull's 'Living in the Past' Arrives in the Present with New Steven Wilson Remix

By Mike Duquette | May 22, 2025 | 5 Comments

An early, classic compilation by Jethro Tull will be remixed, expanded and wildly reconstructed by engineer Steven Wilson. Still Living in the Past, available July 11 from Rhino, will reinterpret the group's odds-and-ends compilation from 1972 as a 5CD/1 Blu-ray set boasting some 35 unissued mixes and versions alongside just about every one of the 21 […]

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Roger Nichols Treasury

In Memoriam: Roger Nichols (1940-2025)

By Joe Marchese | May 21, 2025 | 4 Comments

If you don't know the name of Roger Nichols, you know the man's songs.  His compositions have been sung by Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Petula Clark, Jackie DeShannon, Bobby Darin, Paul Anka, The Monkees, and Nichols' most frequent lyrical collaborator, Paul Williams - just to name a few.  Many of those songs have become […]

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John Williams' Original "JAWS" Score Gets Deluxe, Expanded Edition From Intrada

By Mike Duquette | November 17, 2015 | 0 Comments
Jaws Expanded

Only shortly after their expansion of the score to JAWS 2, Intrada gives fans of the great white shark franchise a true reason to need a bigger boat, announcing a deluxe edition of John Williams' iconic, Academy Award-winning soundtrack to Steven Spielberg's JAWS. We've told the story behind the music before, in a Friday Feature from 2012. What's important now […]

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Sweetness and Light: Lush Prepare Career Box Set

By Mike Duquette | November 16, 2015 | 2 Comments
Lush Chorus

Part shoegaze, part Britpop, Lush were one of the most interesting bands to come out of England in the 1990s--and with a reunion imminent, they've readied the definitive box set of their discography. The five-disc Chorus, available December 4, gathers all of Lush's studio output in one set. The EP collection Gala (1990); studio albums […]

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Dreams Will Not Be Thwarted: New Springsteen Live Archive Release Arrives From 2013 Wrecking Ball Tour

By Randy Fairman | November 16, 2015 | 1 Comment
Springsteen Ippodromo

A little over a month since the last release, a new installment in Bruce Springsteen's live archive series has been released: Ippodromo Delle Capannelle, Rome, Italy, 2013. This concert from July 13, 2013 comes at the tail end of the Wrecking Ball Tour which had begun over a year earlier in March of 2012.  A concert […]

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Review: Alanis Morissette, "Jagged Little Pill: Collector's Edition"

By Randy Fairman | November 13, 2015 | 2 Comments
Alanis Jagged 4 CD Box

As time marches on, nostalgia of course goes along with it.  So, with the passage of time, we've arrived at an era of nostalgia for the 1990s.  Hard as it may be for some to believe, 20th and 25th anniversaries for major releases in the '90s keep occurring - and items are released in commemoration.  […]

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 13

By Joe Marchese | November 13, 2015 | 0 Comments
Aretha Atlantic Albums Collection Cover

It may be Friday the 13th, but today's choice releases are hardly scary, with box sets, archival releases, new music from veteran artists, and much, much more! Aretha Franklin, The Atlantic Albums Collection (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 19-CD box set brings together 16 of the Queen of Soul's Atlantic albums as previously released […]

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Graceful: Legacy Premieres Lost Recordings By Jeff Buckley On "You and I"

By Joe Marchese | November 12, 2015 | 0 Comments
Jeff Buckley You and I

The countdown to 2016 has already begun!  Legacy Recordings is one of the first out of the gate with big news for the New Year!  On March 11, 2016, the label will release You and I, the very first studio recordings made by the late Jeff Buckley (1966-1997) for Columbia Records.  This new compilation will be available […]

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Hurt So Bad: 7a Records Rescues "The First Bobby Hart Solo Album" With Expanded CD Reissue

By Joe Marchese | November 12, 2015 | 1 Comment
Bobby Hart First Solo Album

The 7a Records label made a big splash earlier this year with its first-ever release.  The MGM Singles Collection brought together Micky Dolenz's rare MGM Records sides in a lavishly designed and annotated presentation that was a fan and collector's dream.  Now, we're thrilled to report that the Monkees specialists at 7a are turning their attention […]

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More Than "Lies": Sundazed Collects The Knickerbockers' "Challenge Recordings" On New Box Set

By Joe Marchese | November 11, 2015 | 2 Comments
Knickerbockers Challenge

"Eighty tracks from a band with exactly one hit single?"  That's the question Sundazed Records is posing of its soon-to-be-released box set from The Knickerbockers.  The hitmakers behind the British Invasion-esque "Lies" will be celebrated by Sundazed with the 4-CD, 80-track box The Challenge Recordings.  It's due in stores this Friday, November 13. The Top […]

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Jump To The Beat! BBR Reissues Dancefloor Classics By Stacy Lattisaw, Karen Young

By Joe Marchese | November 11, 2015 | 0 Comments
Stacy Lattisaw Let Me Be Your Angel

With a quartet of recent releases, Big Break Records continues to deliver to the highest standard in deluxe, remastered and generously expanded editions of R&B classics.  Today, we turn the spotlight on two of those titles, from Stacy Lattisaw and Karen Young! Stacy Lattisaw was just 12 - yes, 12! - years old when she made […]

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WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! CHARLIE RICH "25 ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS" GIVEAWAY!

By Joe Marchese | November 10, 2015 | 0 Comments
Charlie Rich 25 All Time Greatest Hits

CONGRATULATIONS! The following 15 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new Charlie Rich anthology, 25 All-Time Greatest Hits, on CD!  If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address! […]

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