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The Weekend Stream: June 28, 2025

By The Second Disc | June 28, 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. There's new music from Sarah McLachlan, Public Enemy and Liam Finn, plus a new video to a one-hit wonder, a Record Store Day single gone digital, and tributes to musicians we […]

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Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Rhino Boxes Ramones Albums in Atmos on "1-2-3-4!"

By Joe Marchese | June 27, 2025 | 6 Comments

Gabba gabba hey!  Today, Rhino has unveiled a new box set bringing Ramones into a new frontier: that of immersive audio.  1!2!3!4! The Ramones Atmos Collection brings Queens' favorite band into the realm of Dolby Atmos with new immersive mixes of their first four albums on Blu-ray Audio: 1976's Ramones; 1977's Leave Home and Rocket […]

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 27

By The Second Disc | June 27, 2025 | 3 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. Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 (Columbia/Legacy) 7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums (Columbia/Legacy) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon […]

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Disco Connection: Ace Releases Isaac Hayes' "Hot Buttered Singles Volume 2"

By Joe Marchese | June 26, 2025 | 0 Comments

Last year, Ace released the first of a two-volume series collecting Isaac Hayes' single sides for the Stax label and his own Hot Buttered Soul imprint of ABC Records.  As Hayes was known for his epic productions, the shorter single edits offered a very different listening experience than the full album tracks.  Earlier this year, […]

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That's What Makes Us Humans Being: Van Halen's 'Balance' Set for Deluxe Edition

By Mike Duquette | June 25, 2025 | 5 Comments

Van Halen's catalogue is attaining further Balance with an expanded edition of the band's final album recorded with second lead singer Sammy Hagar. The band's 10th studio album, released in 1995, will be reissued August 15 as a 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray set offering the remaster featured in 2023 box set The Collection II, three studio rarities, eight unreleased live […]

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The Grateful Dead, Cameo-Parkway Christmas, ? and the Mysterians, Ed Ames On Deck From Real Gone

By Joe Marchese | September 20, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Real Gone Music, the label founded by Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana, has announced its debut slate for November, and it’s no surprise that the founders of Collectors’ Choice Music and Hep Cat Records, respectively, are launching their new venture with a broadly eclectic line-up of releases crossing all genre lines.  With distribution from Razor […]

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In-a-Gadda-Da-Fillmore: Rare Iron Butterfly 1968 Gig Coming From Handmade

By Mike Duquette | September 20, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Rhino Handmade's bringing on the heavy-duty rock for its newest title, giving you four great, unreleased early shows from Iron Butterfly in a new two-disc set. When the San Diego quartet took New York's Fillmore East in the spring of 1968, they had one album, Heavy, under their belts but a myriad of lineup changes […]

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Still They Ride: Journey's "Greatest Hits Vol. 2" Coming On CD and Remastered Double Vinyl

By Joe Marchese | September 20, 2011 | 0 Comments
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The singer/songwriter Peter Allen once commented in song, “Everything old is new again.”  And that adage certainly applies to the case of Journey.  Thanks to the one-two punch of television shows The Sopranos and Glee, the band’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” has become ubiquitous.  Though the band’s heyday was undoubtedly the 1980s (“Don’t Stop Believin’,” reportedly […]

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 20

By Mike Duquette | September 20, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Miles Davis Quintet, Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1 (Columbia/Legacy) A three-CD/one-DVD collection of live stints from Belgium, Germany, France and Sweden, and the inaugural title in a new series of archival material for Miles. And Joe's got the review this week! (Official site) DeBarge, Time Will Reveal: The Complete Motown Albums (Hip-o Select/Motown) […]

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The Second Disc Interview: Talking with Ben Folds

By Joe Marchese | September 19, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Leave it to Todd Rundgren to spot The Difference.  Hosting a 1995 episode of the late Philadelphia-based radio program of that name, Rundgren interviewed Ben Folds, “fronting his trio, The Ben Folds Five.  Go figure,” the pop icon dryly noted.  Reflecting on the experience sixteen years later, Folds recalled with typical candor the moment when […]

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If I Had $10.25: Barenaked Ladies Compilation Due This Month

By Mike Duquette | September 16, 2011 | 0 Comments
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  Rhino has set a September 27 release date for Hits from Yesterday & The Day Before, a new compilation from the Barenaked Ladies. It's probably been more than one week since you noticed, but one of Canada's best-loved bands of the past 25 years - and certainly one of the most misleadingly-named groups in […]

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Requiem For A Heavyweight: Film Score Monthly, The Label, Bows Out

By Joe Marchese | September 16, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Here’s looking at you, kid. Film Score Monthly founder Lukas Kendall sent shockwaves through the film score collectors’ community with a blog post yesterday morning announcing the end of the Film Score Monthly reissue label. Having recently released the label’s 240th and 241st titles (the second volume of music from “Johnny” Williams’ score to 1966’s […]

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Review: Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, "The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings"

By Joe Marchese | September 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

When Frank Sinatra met Count Basie, it was far from a clash of the titans.  No, the "historic musical first" that occurred between the grooves of Reprise 1008 in 1962 was more like a perfect union.  Both were Jersey boys, with Basie's formative years spent south of Hoboken, in Red Bank, New Jersey.  The men […]

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They've Got Some Other Things Comin': Two Judas Priest Compilations Coming Next Month

By Mike Duquette | September 15, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Judas Priest are prepping to end their live career with a bang, taking their final Epitaph tour to the U.S. from October to December. But they're not done as a band (their next studio effort is slated for 2012), nor are they done with handling their catalogue, putting out a massive singles box in October. […]

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Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back: Sinatra's "Best of the Best" Joins Together Capitol, Reprise Years

By Joe Marchese | September 15, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Some have said, "It's Frank's world.  We just live in it."  And today at The Second Disc, we're in Frank's world.  We'll soon bring you a review of Concord's Frank Sinatra - Count Basie: The Complete Studio Recordings, but first comes news of an upcoming anthology that's the first of its kind.  Sinatra's Best of […]

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