The Weekend Stream: June 10, 2023

By The Second Disc | June 10, 2023 | 1 Comment

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Today, we have a Britpop band starting to dig through their rarities, some hard-to-find soundtracks and a digital premiere of one of […]

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Elvis' 'Aloha' Beams Into Box Set for 50th Anniversary

By The Second Disc | June 9, 2023 | 6 Comments

America said Aloha to Elvis Presley in between a trip to the Dark Side of the Moon and a visit to the Houses of the Holy when the once and future King's Aloha from Hawaii album earned a berth between Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin atop the Billboard chart.  Presley's Honolulu concert of January 14, 1973, preserved on records by RCA, was monumental in […]

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 9

By The Second Disc | June 9, 2023 | 0 Comments

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Alice Cooper, Killer: Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Killer, released in November 1971, was the fourth album from the original Alice Cooper band line-up of singer Alice Cooper, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm […]

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Made For These Times: The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" Arrives in Dolby Atmos, Mixed by Giles Martin

By Joe Marchese | June 8, 2023 | 19 Comments

When The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, the band's eleventh studio album, first was released in May 1966, response in the U.S. was surprisingly tepid.  Though both "Sloop John B" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" soared to the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, Capitol Records was unsure how to promote the album which represented […]

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La-La Land Scares Up 'Munsters' Music, Ryuichi Sakamoto Score

By Mike Duquette | June 7, 2023 | 3 Comments

La-La Land's latest batch of archival soundtracks celebrate a prolific television composer of the '60s and an orchestral film score from recently deceased pioneer of electronic music. In the first season of Netflix's cult sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, an oafish party guest (played with boorish perfection by Tim […]

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