Anyone who thought they had the sound of German actress/singer Nico figured out from her work on 1967's The Velvet Underground & Nico and Chelsea Girl would not have expected what she did next - chapters in a musical career that will be explored on new reissues by Domino Recording Company. On March 29, the label will issue newly remastered versions of 1969's The Marble Index and 1970's Desertshore on CD and vinyl, featuring unseen photos of the artist in the liner notes. The Marble Index
Peace in the Valley: Barbara Mandrell's "Precious Memories" Returns to CD
Though Barbara Mandrell retired from performing and recording in 1997, the country superstar remains beloved. In 2022, she made a rare public appearance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her induction into the Grand Ole Opry; an all-female lineup of artists including Carrie Underwood, Suzy Bogguss, Linda Davis, Connie Smith, Mandy Barnett, and CeCe Winans paid tribute. Mandrell offered her warm appreciation but did not sing; for the past 25 years, she's restricted any singing activities to
The Weekend Stream: February 10, 2023
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. A light release week combines three unlikely bedfellows: a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame-inducted rapper, a classic pop crooner, and a hero of alternative rock. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (10th Anniversary Edition) (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Eminem's eighth album from 2013 served as a sequel of sorts to his acclaimed third album from
Play for Today: The Cure's "Paris" Returns in Expanded 30th Anniversary Edition
The Cure's 1993 double live album Paris is getting a slightly belated 30th anniversary edition courtesy of Rhino. On March 22, Paris will return in 2LP and 1CD expanded editions premiering two bonus tracks, all newly remastered by frontman Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. The black vinyl edition has been cut by Showell. Paris arrived in stores in October 1993 - the group's third live release in just over two years. This set arrived only one month after Show, both of which
Yes It Is: Grapefruit Collects 85 Beatles Covers on "We Can Work It Out"
Over the years, there have been countless collections of Beatles covers. Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint threw its hat into the ring late last year with a fulsome new 3-CD set. We Can Work It Out: Covers of The Beatles 1962-1966 concentrates only on the Fab Four's first years, arranging its 85 songs in the order of the original Beatles song releases. Most, though not all, of the versions are contemporaneous, making this set a particularly enjoyable tour through the rapidly shifting pop music
Leave a Light On: Belinda Carlisle's Third 'Decades' Box Collects Single Mixes, B-Sides and More
Last year, Edsel Records - the longtime custodian of The Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle's solo works - released the box set Decades Volume 1, a 4CD set collecting reissues of her first four studio albums: Belinda (1986), Heaven on Earth (1987), Runaway Horses (1989) and Live Your Life Be Free (1991). As all four of these had been remastered and expanded by the label in the last decade - some more than once - it sort of got lost in the shuffle, as did a similar volume that offered her other four
Fully Completely: The Tragically Hip's "Live at CBGB's" Arrives for Record Store Day
Canadian national treasures The Tragically Hip have been announced as the official Ambassadors for Record Store Day Canada. The event takes place on Saturday, April 20 (alongside the U.S., U.K., and other international RSDs). To commemorate the occasion - as well as 40 years of The Tragically Hip - the band will be releasing an exclusive concert album, Live at CBGB's, for RSD. Live At CBGB's was recorded on January 14, 1993 at the late, lamented New York club in support of the group's third
Take It 'To the Limit': New Eagles Triple Album Offers Hits, Live Cuts
Last fall, Eagles embarked on their Long Goodbye tour. While dates are currently expected to stretch into 2025 - hence the "long" part of the title - the band stated that "everything has its time, and the time has come for us to close the circle." The tour currently has gigs lined up through June in North America and Europe, including stops in Chicago, Toronto, and Manchester. Each show has amounted to a greatest-hits retrospective, and so it's no surprise that a companion audio release will
Pictures of Home: Rhino Revisits Deep Purple's "Machine Head" on New Super Deluxe Edition
Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band's most commercially successful album. The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock's most famous riffs with "Smoke on the Water," and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians. On March 29, Rhino revisits Machine Head as a 3CD/1LP/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition with various versions of the album: 2024 Dweezil Zappa album
We Got the Love: Rhino Reissues, Remasters Chaka Khan's Solo Debut on CD, LP
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. The Warner Bros. album, produced by the legendarily versatile Arif Mardin (Dusty Springfield, Bee Gees), placed Khan's powerful voice front and center with the
The Weekend Stream: February 3, 2024
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. On Thursday, Billy Joel released only his third original pop song since 1993's River of Dreams. (The last two were in 2007: "All
Got a Disc I Want to Play: A24 Plans Deluxe 'Stop Making Sense' for Blu-ray, 4K Disc
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 Roll Hall of Fame for multiple interviews and promotional appearances.) Now, Jonathan Demme's classic feature is finally getting an upgraded home
Release Round-Up: Week of February 2
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 late, great Andy Williams. Over a dozen never-before-heard recordings premiere here which teamed Andy with
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)
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 from the 1950s through the 2000s. All of these titles hit store shelves tomorrow, February 2. Black Jazz Records was founded in 1969 by pianist Gene Russell and percussionist
In Memoriam: Chita Rivera (1933-2024)
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 the Spider Woman, Chita Rivera cast a powerful spell. Since her Broadway debut as an ensemble dancer in the 1950 production of Guys and Dolls - billed as Conchita del Rivero, shortened from
See Me, Feel Me: The Who's 1982 Shea Stadium Concert Comes to CD, LP from Mercury Studios
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 LPs. On March 1, Live at Shea Stadium 1982 will arrive preserving The Who's tour stop in support of It's Hard. In front of an enrapt New York audience in Flushing Meadows, Queens, founding
Hand of Fate: The Rolling Stones' 2002 "Live at The Wiltern" Comes to Audio, Video Formats
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 venue, with the theatre settings giving the band the most freedom to perform lesser-known gems in addition to their major hits. On March 8, Mercury
The Weekend Stream: January 27, 2024
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 you'll enjoy today! Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi (Deluxe Edition) (Mercury/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) The New Jersey rockers have already teed up a big 2024: frontman
Release Round-Up: Week of January 26
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 a similarly comprehensive reappraisal of the funk outfit's sizzling sophomore release, 1975's R&B chart-topper Non-Stop.
In Memoriam: Melanie Safka (1947-2024)
Melanie Safka, known the world over simply as Melanie, tapped into a deep well of emotion with the powerful anthem "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" and skated into listeners' hearts with "Brand New Key." Though the singer-songwriter's U.S. hits dried up by the early 1980s, she continued to write and record in her disarming and often happily quirky style. A voice of the Vietnam generation, Melanie was content to transport audiences back to the Woodstock era while always authentically speaking
Love and Marriage: Stage Door Pop Celebrates "Crossroads Wedding Party" Featuring Noele "Nolly" Gordon
Next month, American PBS stations premiere Nolly, a three-part miniseries written by Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who, It's a Sin) about British television star Noele "Nolly" Gordon (1919-1985), portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. The 2023 production is presented on PBS by Masterpiece - formerly Masterpiece Theatre - which describes it as "an outrageously fun and wildly entertaining ride through Gordon's most tumultuous years, and a sharp, affectionate, and heartbreaking portrait of a forgotten
Soundtrack Watch: Quartet Reissues 'Cutthroat Island,' Intrada Expands 'Something Wicked'
With Bond back in action at La-La Land Records, some of our favorite soundtrack reissue labels are also starting the new year off with a bang! Quartet Records has just reissued a '90s favorite score on CD, while Intrada has revisited an early classic by James Horner with an all-new approach. The name Cutthroat Island would shiver the timbers of any Hollywood enthusiast in the mid-'90s. The infamous pirate epic, starring Geena Davis, Matthew Modine and Frank Langella and directed by Davis'
No More Mr. Nice Guy: Rhino Expands Alice Cooper's 'Billion Dollar Babies'
Get ready to hit the jackpot: one of Rhino's first big reissues of 2024 is a new expanded edition of Billion Dollar Babies, the 1973 album by glam rockers Alice Cooper. Available March 8 as a 2CD or 3LP set, this Billion Dollar Babies expansion builds upon even the 2001 double-disc edition issued by Rhino back in 2001. Alongside the remastered album, fans will find a bonus disc (two in the vinyl set) featuring a 1973 live set (previously issued in part on that 2001 reissue and in full on
Right Round (Like a Record): Edsel Preps Dead or Alive CD Singles Box
Against all odds, Edsel will release a third deep-dive box set into the career of U.K. hitmakers Dead or Alive - this time focusing on their single mixes. Still Spinnin': The Singles Collection 1983-2021 offers 27 discs of the group's single releases through their entire career, including hits like "Lover Come Back to Me," "Brand New Lover," "My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)", "Something in My House" - and of course, the international smash "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," which
It's Wonderful to Be in Love: Cherry Red Reissues Sandy Posey's "Complete MGM Recordings"
"If you're born a woman, you're born to be hurt..." The stark sentiment expressed by singer Sandy Posey in her 1966 recording of Martha Sharp's "Born a Woman" didn't keep the song from reaching the twelfth spot on the Billboard Hot 100 - effectively launching a career that's continued into the 21st century. Between 1966 and 1968, the Alabama-born songstress recorded four studio albums for MGM Records, all of which blended pop and country sounds in a Brill Building-meets-Memphis style crafted
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