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Add Some Music: Universal Japan Reissues Beach Boys Collections on CD

Beach Boys collectors' alert: late in December 2020, Universal Japan quietly released a series of six collections from the group in the MQA-CD format on UHQ (Ultimate High Quality) CDs and housed in mini-LP paper sleeves with OBIs. While these discs are playable on all CD players, those listeners equipped with MQA decoders are promised […]

Release Round-Up: Week of February 5

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, The Complete Atlantic Singles 1969-1971 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971brings together Dusty Springfield's 24 U.S. single sides released during her tenure at Atlantic. These tracks have been remastered from the original mono tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and all but […]

Long Shadow: Dark Horse Label Relaunches with "Assembly" from Late Clash Frontman Joe Strummer

Last year, just before COVID-19 derailed most of the world, Olivia and Dhani Harrison announced that George Harrison's Dark Horse label would be relaunching. Founded by the late Beatle in 1974, Dark Horse released George's own records but also LPs from artists including Ravi Shankar, Wings guitarist Henry McCullough, the David Foster band Attitudes, the […]

Blinding Lights: The Weeknd Preps Hits Compilation Ahead of Super Bowl Performance

In the predominantly digital and streaming world, the humble greatest hits album is scarce for even the biggest artists. Most need either a lot of hits or a newsworthy reason to put one out. For Canadian pop/R&B singer The Weeknd, whose new collection The Highlights hits stores Friday, February 5, both of those conditions handily apply. For one, […]

In Your Eyes: Mondo Expands 'Say Anything...' Soundtrack with Unreleased Material

Soundtrack vinyl label Mondo offers a killer new expanded release this week that'll make even the staunchest opponent to selling, buying or processing anything reconsider their position: the stirring soundtrack to 1989 romantic comedy Say Anything... Already lauded for his teenaged work as a journalist for Rolling Stone (which inspired his 2000 film Almost Famous) and the book-turned-'80s film […]

More Hendrix to Experience

January 11, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

My last post touched on the impending Jimi Hendrix Experience reissue campaign from Legacy Recordings, who recently gained distribution rights of the catalog. (The catalog proper is owned by the guitarist's family company, Experience Hendrix, who had previously licensed the material to MCA/Universal in 1997.) Now, thanks to Billboard, some more information has sprung up regarding the first wave of material. In addition to the previously mentioned CD/DVD reissues of Are You Experienced, Axis:

Looking Forward, Looking Back: 2010 Reissue Preview

January 11, 2010 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

We're less than two weeks into a new year and a new decade, but 2010 is already shaping up to be a great year for back catalogue enthusiasts. What follows is a round-up of the best and brightest reissues already slated for the new year. An obligatory note on release dates: they're as always set to change. I base my reports on the excellent work at Pause & Play, the best resource for any music release dates you might be looking for. Hit the jump for some news on catalog titles by Elvis

In With the Old: 2009 in Reissues

January 11, 2010 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Good evening and welcome to The Second Disc! Assuming you've taken a look at the page where I've explained this blog, I'd like to present a list of some of the best catalogue titles released to the public during the past year. This year was just as full of complaints about the demise of the music industry as ever (I guess part of this can be blamed on the general economic malaise gripping us all), but this really seemed to be a great year for reissues and box sets of all sorts. Two notes before