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The Weekend Stream: May 10, 2025

By Mike Duquette | May 10, 2025 | 0 Comments

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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We Got the Love: Rhino Reissues, Remasters Chaka Khan's Solo Debut on CD, LP

By Joe Marchese | February 5, 2024 | 8 Comments
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Chaka Khan announced her solo freedom with "I'm Every Woman," the euphoric opening track on 1978's Chaka. At 25 years old, Khan was already a veteran of the funk-rock band Rufus with whom she had recorded landmark hits like "Tell Me Something Good" and "Sweet Thing," but Chaka took her emotive style in a new, mainstream R&B direction. […]

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The Weekend Stream: February 3, 2024

By Mike Duquette | February 3, 2024 | 2 Comments
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Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. Another vintage Madonna single, rarities from Andy Williams and Cab Calloway, and a comeback we're still processing all await you below... Billy Joel, "Turn the Lights Back On" (Columbia) (iTunes / Amazon) No, we can't believe it either. […]

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Got a Disc I Want to Play: A24 Plans Deluxe 'Stop Making Sense' for Blu-ray, 4K Disc

By Mike Duquette | February 2, 2024 | 3 Comments
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A24's stunning remaster of the Talking Heads' 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense was one of the highlights of movie theaters this fall. (The surprises happened offscreen as well, when original band members David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison appeared together for the first time since their 2002 induction into the Rock and […]

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 2

By The Second Disc | February 2, 2024 | 0 Comments
Andy Williams When You Fall in Love

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. Andy Williams, When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 rounds up eighteen rarities from the […]

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Be All Your Own: Real Gone's February Slate Includes Black Jazz, Maryann Farra, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Orgy, and Allen Ginsberg (Featuring Dylan, McCartney, Others)

By Randy Fairman | February 1, 2024 | 1 Comment
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Real Gone is starting off 2024 with another set of eclectic titles.  We've already told you about the new Andy Williams rarities collection When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 featuring liner notes by our own Joe Marchese, but here is the rest of Real Gone's slate featuring a wide range of material […]

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In Memoriam: Chita Rivera (1933-2024)

By Joe Marchese | January 31, 2024 | 2 Comments
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You've got to learn how not to be/Where you are/The more you face reality, the more you scar/So close your eyes and you'll become a movie star/Why must you stay where you are?  As Aurora, the dark vision of fantasy and title character of Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb's 1992 musical Kiss of […]

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See Me, Feel Me: The Who's 1982 Shea Stadium Concert Comes to CD, LP from Mercury Studios

By The Second Disc | January 30, 2024 | 10 Comments
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The Who's October 13, 1982 concert at Shea Stadium, the now-demolished, longtime home of the New York Mets, was released on DVD and standard-definition Blu-ray back in 2015.  Now, Mercury Studios is returning to that thunderous gig - the band's second of two shows there - for an audio release on 2 CDs or 3 […]

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Hand of Fate: The Rolling Stones' 2002 "Live at The Wiltern" Comes to Audio, Video Formats

By Joe Marchese | January 29, 2024 | 4 Comments
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The Rolling Stones' 2002-2003 Licks World Tour was one of The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band's most innovative.  To celebrate the band's 40th anniversary (and the release of the career-spanning compilation 40 Licks), venues would come in three different sizes: small theatres, arenas, and stadiums.  Setlists would be scaled to the size of each […]

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The Weekend Stream: January 27, 2024

By Mike Duquette | January 27, 2024 | 2 Comments
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Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. Anniversary releases from Bon Jovi and Madonna, more INXS remixes, deep dives on Duke Ellington and Doris Day, a new recording from Melissa Manchester and a unique new take on a classic Brazilian vocalist are what […]

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 26

By The Second Disc | January 26, 2024 | 3 Comments
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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. B.T. Express, Non-Stop: Expanded Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic follows up its definitive reissue of B.T. Express' debut Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) with […]

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