And The Clock Goes Round: Unreleased 1968 Elton John Album to Debut on Record Store Day

By Randy Fairman | April 7, 2021 | 14 Comments

Amongst all of the many Record Store Day announcements, one of the most exciting has to be Island/Mercury's announcement of an unreleased Elton John album finally seeing the light of day: 1968's Regimental Sgt.  Zippo, due on the June 12, 2021 RSD Drop. One of the best box sets of last year was Elton John's […]

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Rhino's Record Store Day Slate Features John Prine, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Donny Hathaway, Lou Reed, More

By The Second Disc | April 7, 2021 | 6 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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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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