Craft Recordings Announces Record Store Day Slate Including The Zombies, Jonathan Richman, John Martyn, More

By The Second Disc | April 7, 2021 | 0 Comments

At 1:00 pm EST/10:00 am PST today, the list of Record Store Day's annual offerings was made public.  As was the case in 2020, this year's RSD festivities will take place over more than one day.  The two RSD Drops are scheduled for Saturday, June 12, and Saturday, July 17.  We'll be sharing periodic announcements […]

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Now More Than Ever: "Chicago at Carnegie Hall" Gets Super-Sized for Its 50th

By Joe Marchese | April 7, 2021 | 25 Comments

Robert Lamm, Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, James Pankow, Lee Loughnane, Walt Parazaider, and Danny Seraphine took the world by storm with 1969's Chicago Transit Authority.  The double album inaugurated a string of twelve successive platinum or multi-platinum LPs for the group over the next decade.  The largest of them all was 1971's Chicago at Carnegie […]

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Over, Under, Sideways, Down: The Yardbirds' "Roger the Engineer" Goes Super Deluxe from Demon

By Joe Marchese | April 6, 2021 | 10 Comments

Last Record Store Day Black Friday, Demon Music Group reissued The Yardbirds' Roger the Engineer as a 2-LP Expanded Edition.  Now, the 1966 rock classic is getting even more expanded - this time, as a 2-LP/3-CD/1-7" single deluxe box set.  Utilizing the original master tapes, the box (announced this morning) features new remastering by Phil […]

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The Original Philadelphia Sound: Sony Classical Collects 120 Discs of Eugene Ormandy's "Columbia Legacy"

By Joe Marchese | April 5, 2021 | 21 Comments

Eugene Ormandy's 44-year tenure as music director of the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra remains the single longest affiliation between conductor and orchestra.  Though Ormandy passed away in 1985 at 85 years of age, the enormous body of work he left behind continues to resonate.  Though he also recorded for RCA Victor, EMI, Telarc, and Delos, his […]

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The Weekend Stream: April 3, 2021

By The Second Disc | April 3, 2021 | 2 Comments

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new […]

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