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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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Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Singles 2

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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Van Halen Balance expanded

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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Goldsmith's 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Score Boldly Goes Back to Vinyl

By Mike Duquette | September 8, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Set turntables at 33 1/3 RPM speed! Jerry Goldsmith's score to Star Trek: The Motion Picture - restored last year for a new restoration of the film's "Director's Edition" - is coming out of warp and onto vinyl from Enjoy The Ride Records. The reissue label, specializing in unique pressings of soundtracks on LP, will […]

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 8

By The Second Disc | September 8, 2023 | 2 Comments
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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Al Stewart, Songs on the Radio: The Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981 (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) This definitive, first-ever singles collection from singer-songwriter Al Stewart brings together the A- and B-side of every single during the […]

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Relight My Fire: Edsel's 'Dance Masters' Series Continues with John Luongo Box

By Mike Duquette | September 7, 2023 | 4 Comments
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Demon/Edsel's Dance Masters series only just released its second volume this summer - but a third one is on the way this fall, spotlighting the work of acclaimed remixer John Luongo. The Arthur Baker-presented series follows generous box sets on Shep Pettibone and Baker himself with a new overview of John "T.C." Luongo, who parlayed […]

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One More Time: Real Gone's September Slate Includes Cowboy Junkies, "A Mighty Wind," Marvelous 3, Rooney, and Paradox

By Randy Fairman | September 7, 2023 | 0 Comments
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In addition to Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music's CD collection of Al Stewart singles coming out tomorrow, September 8, Real Gone has five vinyl reissues from the 1980s-2000s from a variety of genres hitting store shelves.  We've got all of the details below. German thrash metal band Paradox was founded in 1986 in […]

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Is Your Love in Vain? Bob Dylan Expands Budokan Live Album for New Box Set

By Mike Duquette | September 7, 2023 | 12 Comments
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There was something about Midwestern-born rockers on the CBS Records roster making stops at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Japan. In 1979, Columbia issued not one but two live albums from the Tokyo venue, both simply titled At Budokan. While the one by Cheap Trick essentially made them stars in their home country, a double album of […]

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OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc, Real Gone Collect Al Stewart's "Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981" on "Songs on the Radio"

By The Second Disc | September 7, 2023 | 3 Comments
Al Stewart Songs on the Radio

The Vietnamese Lunar New Year identifies 2023 as The Year of the Cat...and the timing couldn't be better! Tomorrow's the day when Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records unveil a definitive, first-ever singles collection from legendary singer-songwriter Al Stewart. In 1976, Stewart took the beguiling "Year of the Cat" to the top ten of […]

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Duty Now for the Future: Devo Announce Career-Spanning Compilation

By Mike Duquette | September 6, 2023 | 3 Comments
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Nobody can really prove if society is moving in reverse...except maybe Devo. The finest of their findings over a half century of musical exploration will be assembled in a new compilation from Rhino Records. 50 Years of De-Evolution (1973-2023) will arrive in stores and digitally on October 20. The 50-track set will include hits and […]

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And If I Know You: Mondo Brings 'That Thing You Do!' to Vinyl

By Mike Duquette | September 6, 2023 | 4 Comments
That Thing You Do Mondo

Mondo Records brings one of the most beloved soundtracks of the late 20th century to vinyl for the first time today, with a brand-new pressing of the soundtrack to the pop classic That Thing You Do! The original album will be available on 140-gram black or splatter vinyl in a newly-designed jacket that'll also include […]

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Heart-Shaped Box: Nirvana's "In Utero" Returns in 30th Anniversary Box Set Editions

By The Second Disc | September 5, 2023 | 9 Comments
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The culmination of the band's tragically short career, Nirvana's In Utero initially stoked fears over its raw, aggressive, and seemingly uncommercial sound.  To say that those fears were unfounded is an understatement: the 1993 album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and the U.K. Albums Chart, and has since been certified 6x Platinum […]

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In Memoriam: Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023)

By Joe Marchese | September 2, 2023 | 6 Comments
Jimmy Buffett

As the son of a son of a sailor/I went out on the sea for adventure/Expanding the view of the captain and crew/Like a man just released from indenture... As the self-described son of a son of a sailor, Jimmy Buffett took to the seas for adventures beyond his wildest dreams.  He recorded his first […]

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