Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart: Cherry Red to Release Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club Collection

By Mike Duquette | September 25, 2024 | 0 Comments

Everyone knows the story: at the stroke of midnight on August 1, 1981, the new cable station Music Television (MTV) first aired, playing a steady stream of heretofore little-seen "music videos" that redefined pop music for the rest of the decade. Their first, of course, was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star": a prescient […]

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Crawling from the Wreckage: Omnivore Preps Double-Disc Collection of Dave Edmunds' Complete Swan Song Singles

By The Second Disc | September 24, 2024 | 11 Comments

From his very first solo hit in 1970 (a cover of Dave Bartholomew's "I Hear You Knocking") to his final album release (2015's On Guitar...Rags and Classics), Welsh guitarist-singer-songwriter-producer Dave Edmunds proselytized for the power of pure rock-and-roll.  Whether stripping the sound down to basics or doing a spot-on emulation of Phil Spector's Wall of […]

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Needless to Say: Al Stewart's "Past, Present and Future" Goes Deluxe From Esoteric

By Joe Marchese | September 24, 2024 | 2 Comments

Al Stewart fans have been rather well-served in recent years.  The historically-minded troubadour recently released a new live album with the band The Empty Pockets, preserving a concert set on 2 CDs.  Earlier this summer, Al received a volume of Rhino's Now Playing series of vinyl compilations.  Last year, TSD teamed up with Real Gone […]

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On the Way Home: CSNY Releases "Live at Fillmore East, 1969"

By Joe Marchese | September 23, 2024 | 8 Comments

On the morning of Monday, August 18, 1969, at 3:30 a.m., David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash took the stage at Max Yasgur's farm.  The threesome's self-titled debut album had been released in May, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and yielding a pair of hit singles, Nash's "Marrakesh Express" and Stills' […]

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The Weekend Stream: September 21, 2024

By Mike Duquette | September 21, 2024 | 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. Some socially minded rock is on the digital docket, as well as more than a dozen releases from one of England's best-known frontmen. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, The Live […]

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