Release Round-Up: Week of September 19
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today including – did we ever think we’d get the chance to say this? – the CD debut of Buckingham Nicks! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Buckingham Nicks (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. (gold) / Amazon U.K. (baby blue) / Amazon Canada (gold) In just over 15 years of reporting at The Second Disc, it’s a sentence we never thought we’d write: Buckingham Nicks is getting its first-ever reissue. The 1973 album from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks…
The Magic in Your Touch: New Thompson Twins Collection Features Hits, Deep Cuts and Live Disc
Just about a year after expanding and reissuing landmark album Into the Gap for its 40th anniversary, the Thompson Twins’ catalogue will now be evaluated through a new compilation – the first to be sanctioned by the band. Industry & Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection will offer 20 singles and favorite cuts across the band’s best-known period of material from 1982 to 1986, including standouts “Hold Me Now,” “Lay Your Hands on Me,” “Lies,” “Doctor! Doctor!” and “In the Name of Love.” Those 20 tracks will be available as a 1CD or…
A Way Back to Love: Edsel Compiles Hits, Rarities from Invictus, Hot Wax on New Collections
The songbook of Brian Holland (b. 1941), Lamont Dozier (1941-2022), and Eddie Holland (b. 1939) is filled with some of the most popular melodies ever written: “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You),” “Baby, I Need Your Loving,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” among them. All of those, and so many other indelible hit records, were written under the aegis of Hitsville, USA, a.k.a. Berry Gordy’s Motown Records empire. But by 1967, the relationship between the label chief and…
How’s About Some Hot Stuff: Massive Donna Summer Singles CD Box Set Coming This Fall
It’s a box set fit for a queen (of disco): Donna Summer’s singles are being chronicled in a major way in November. Summer Time: The Singles Collection 1974-2010, coming November 28 from the late singer’s Driven by the Music catalogue imprint, is set to be a staggering tribute to Summer’s decades-long presence as a dancefloor filler. Timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough hit “Love to Love You, Baby,” this 40CD set will highlight five decades’ worth of single sides she issued all over the world, from early Dutch single-only…
I Was Young When I Left Home: Bob Dylan’s New Bootleg Series Entry Covers His Earliest Beginnings
Bob Dylan met Columbia Records’ John Hammond on September 14, 1961 at the apartment of folksinger Richard Farina and his then-wife Carolyn Hester. Dylan had been invited to Carolyn’s rehearsal session as a harmonica player. Hammond later told the story of being so impressed with the young man from Hibbing, Minnesota that he decided to sign him on the spot. A subsequent audition took place, and when Dylan – then dazzling audiences at Gerde’s Folk City on a bill shared with The Greenbriar Boys – showed up for Hester’s Columbia session on…
It’s Gonna Take a Lotta Love: The Second Disc, Lemon Collect Nicolette Larson’s Warner Bros. Albums on “Look In My Direction”
On the evenings of February 21 and 22, 1998, a host of musicians took the stage of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to pay tribute to one of their own. Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Raitt, and Crosby, Stills and Nash were just a few of the artists who paid their respects in song to the late Nicolette Larson. The luminous singer with the honeyed voice had unexpectedly died just a couple of months earlier at the far too young age of 45. In the decades since her…
A Second Disc Interview: A.J. Croce Brings the Family Songbook to Life Once More
The music business works in mysterious ways. Not long after posting news that recent remixes of Jim Croce’s classic solo albums were getting repackaged into a CD set, The Second Disc was approached with the opportunity to talk to A.J. Croce, the son of the late singer/songwriter, ahead of a tour he’s mounting. Adrian James Croce was eight days shy of turning two when a plane crash claimed the life of his father, then just 30 years old. He has since gone into music himself: hardly a clone of Jim – there’s a…
Free As a Bird: The Beatles ‘Anthology’ Gets Remixed and Expanded in New Box Set (UPDATED 9/16/2025)
The next archival project from The Beatles is a celebration of their most major archival project, with a newly reissued and (slightly) expanded edition of their Anthology series coming to audio and video formats this fall. Anthology Collection will include remastered editions of the original three collections of rarities and outtakes compiled by George Martin and released through 1995 and 1996, available across six CDs or nine LPs. Martin’s son Giles, who remastered those albums, also curates a new collection, Anthology 4, across a further two CDs or three LPs. Anthology 4 is drawn mostly from…
Up from the Skies: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ Gets Deluxe Box Set, UHQR Reissue (UPDATED 9/16/25)
Axis: Bold As Love is getting a little bolder this holiday season. Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings will partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968 on November 7. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set will include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes (as well as newly created Atmos mixes by original engineer Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod), along with a wealth of rare outtakes and live…
The World is My Oyster: Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s ‘Pleasuredome’ Goes Massive for New Box Set
Universal Music Recordings are shooting a new box set in the right direction, covering Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s U.K. pop landmark Welcome to the Pleasuredome in exhaustive new detail. Though it’s already been exhaustively been reissued since The Second Disc started operating – once on a 2CD set from Salvo Music, on 2014’s vinyl/cassette/DVD set Inside the Pleasuredome (along with a 2018 Record Store Day box set of 12″ singles and the 2022 RSD comp Altered Reels, which brought a pair of cassette single presentations to vinyl) – another one (part of ZTT’s ongoing…
Long Way From Home: Esoteric Expands, Remasters Anthony Phillips’ “Sail the World” and “Radio Clyde”
Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has continued its ongoing refresh of founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips’ solo catalogue, an endeavor which has taken 15 years (and counting). A deluxe 2CD reissue of 1994’s Sail the World has been joined by an expanded edition of 2003’s Radio Clyde, with both titles available now. Phillips composed the music heard on Sail the World for ITV’s coverage of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. The race was first held in 1973 and repeated every three or four years thereafter, with yachts from various countries…
Sting Sets Sail with Expanded Reissue of ‘The Last Ship’
The ship of Theseus is a classic paradox of thought that asks whether an object is truly the same after all its component pieces have been replaced. That’s not exactly the case for Sting’s musical The Last Ship, but he is once again revisiting the song score he’s tinkered with several times over the last decade in a new expanded edition due this winter. Coming to 2CD, 2LP and digital on December 5 ahead of a new series of worldwide performances, this new edition of the singer/songwriter’s 2013 concept album take on The Last…
The Weekend Stream: September 13, 2025
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. Phil Collins gets remixed, unexpected covers of The Cure and Bob Dylan and so much more – all part of this week’s round-up! Phil Collins, No Jacket Required (2025 Mix) (Craft/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) A nice surprise for fans of Phil: not only have a few bonus tracks exclusive to the new vinyl box set of No Jacket Required made digital stores, but Steven Wilson’s stereo remix of the original album…
Have a Cigar: Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Gets 50th Anniversary Edition
Following some teases changing just about every Pink Floyd album cover on digital music services to mirror original packaging elements of Wish You Were Here, the band has announced a new expanded edition of its 1975 masterpiece, reissued to mark its 50th anniversary. Coming December 12 from Legacy Recordings, the deluxe Wish You Were Here arrives in a frankly dizzying display of formats: A 2CD or 3LP set pairs the original album with nine bonus tracks: three from the “Immersion Edition” box set released in 2011 and six previously unreleased outtakes and alternate mixes. A…
Call Me Back Again: Paul McCartney Oversees New Wings Compilation
On November 4, Paul McCartney releases Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, an oral history of the superstar’s other band. The hardcover tome, created in collaboration with film director Morgan Neville and editor Ted Widmer, tells Wings’ story through text, photographs, a timeline, a gigography, a discography, and more. But the book is missing one thing: the music. Macca has that covered, too: on November 7, MPL, Capitol, and UMe will release the simply-titled Wings in a variety of formats. Wings supersedes 1978’s perennial Wings Greatest as the go-to…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 12
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. With nearly 25 titles, it also just might be the year’s biggest to date! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. David Bowie, I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) (Parlophone) 18LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada After a period of nearly four years, David Bowie’s series of “Eras” box sets is returning with a new, final volume. I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002-2016) concludes the career-spanning chronicle of the shape-shifting superstar. The new 13-CD or 18-LP box…
Nothing is Real But the Girl: Blondie’s Comeback ‘No Exit’ Gets Expanded
Last month, New York post-punk survivors Blondie announced the planned release next year of High Noon, a new studio album that reportedly features the final performances of founding drummer Clem Burke, who died of cancer earlier this year. Before that, however, BMG will revisit their first major comeback with an expansion of 1999’s No Exit. Coming to shops October 24, the expanded No Exit will pair the remastered original album with a bonus disc featuring eight remixes and rarities – three of which are previously unreleased. Among the highlights is a new mix of “Hot…
And I Miss You: Everything But the Girl Plan Career-Spanning Compilation
One of U.K. pop’s most beloved duos is looking back with a new compilation that succinctly surveys their many albums over the last 40 years. The Best of Everything But the Girl offers 16 tracks from the pair on one CD or two LPs, spanning their debut single (a cover of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”) all the way up to 2023’s Fuse – their first album in more than two decades. It includes U.K. hits like “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” and “Walking Wounded,” the fan favorite “Driving,” and of course,…
Paisley Park is in Your Heart: Prince’s ‘Around the World in a Day’ Expanded for 40th Anniversary
Due credit to the Prince estate: they made good on one of their promises. The late artist’s estate will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Prince and The Revolution’s Around the World in a Day with a deluxe edition gathering all the non-LP material from the original release. Available November 21 in a variety of formats including 2CD and 140-gram 3LP editions, the set will feature the 1985 follow-up to Purple Rain, along with 13 non-LP remixes and B-sides – four of which will make their debut on CD. (The set includes no outtakes…
Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rock ‘n’ Roll: Mungo Jerry’s “Snakebite Revisited” Arrives from 7a Records
Following last year’s expanded edition of Mungo Jerry’s breakthrough album Electronically Tested – featuring the band’s evergreen hit “In the Summertime” – 7a Records has returned to Mungo’s discography with a generously expanded presentation of 1990’s Snakebite. Available now, Snakebite has been reconceived by Ray Dorset, a.k.a. Mungo Jerry, as Snakebite Revisited. This remastered edition now features 17 songs, including rarities and previously unissued rehearsal takes, on CD, and 13 tracks on vinyl. The original Snakebite was conceived by Dorset as a way to preserve the performances of his then-current live band,…
Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Strikes with ‘Thunderball,’ Williams and More
Barely a week after JAWS emerged from the sea for its 50th anniversary with an expanded soundtrack release from Intrada, La-La Land touched off another tremendous batch of archival scores for the month, including another expanded James Bond title and a deep cut from John Williams. With expanded or remastered presentations of Goldfinger, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy, Licence to Kill, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day already certifying LLL as the home of definitive presentations of Bond soundtracks, there’s another one striking hard: 1965’s…
Up from the Skies: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ Gets Deluxe Box Set
Axis: Bold As Love is getting a little bolder this holiday season. Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings will partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968 on November 7. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set will include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes (as well as newly created Atmos mixes by original engineer Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod), along with a wealth of rare outtakes…
Love Them Madly: New Blu-ray Box from The Doors Includes Atmos Mixes of Six Classic Albums
The Doors are set to alter fans perception once more with a new box set featuring their classic albums remixed in Dolby Atmos. Immersed (1967-1971), available exclusively through Rhino’s or the band’s official web stores, gathers the six classic LPs released during frontman Jim Morrison’s lifetime – The Doors (1967), Strange Days (1967), Waiting for the Sun (1968), The Soft Parade (1969), Morrison Hotel (1970) and L.A. Woman (1971) – on Blu-ray Audio discs, each featuring surround mixes in Atmos as well as 5.1 surround by the group’s longtime engineer Bruce Botnick. (Botnick created 5.1 mixes for the 2006 box set Perception;…
In Memoriam: Mark Volman (1947-2025)
The Second Disc remembers Mark Volman, 78, co-founder of The Turtles, one half of Flo & Eddie, unforgettable member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, author, radio personality, and artists’ rights advocate. With his longtime musical partner Howard Kaylan, Mark lent his soaring vocals to recordings by such artists as T. Rex, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper, and many others. A bright, colorful, and cheery onstage presence, Mark continued to perform with The Turtles following Kaylan’s 2018 retirement, spreading the fun of “Happy Together,” “Elenore,” and “You Baby” with delighted audiences across the…
The Weekend Stream: September 6, 2025
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. We’ve got a great concert album making a digital debut as well as live singles from Oasis and Evita star Rachel Zegler! Plus: a whole lotta musicals and a new album from an R&B/jazz legend! The Hooters, Live (Geffen) (Apple / Amazon) Here’s another title arriving courtesy of our friends at SuperVisible Multi Media: the 1994 live album from The Hooters recorded over two dates in Germany plus…