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Live at Fillmore East, 1969

September 23, 2024 By

CSNY Live at the Fillmore East

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CSNY's September 20, 1969 concert at New York's late, lamented Fillmore East - comprising both acoustic and electric sets - comes to a variety of formats including 1CD, 2LP, and digital/streaming.  It's been sourced and newly mixed from the original multitrack tapes under the supervision of Stills and Young, and the vinyl versions are AAA (all-analog)-cut.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

On the Way Home: CSNY Releases "Live at Fillmore East, 1969"

September 23, 2024 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

CSNY Live at the Fillmore East

On the morning of Monday, August 18, 1969, at 3:30 a.m., David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash took the stage at Max Yasgur's farm.  The threesome's self-titled debut album had been released in May, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and yielding a pair of hit singles, Nash's "Marrakesh Express" and Stills' "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes."  But CSN wasn't done yet.  On August 16, they'd launched a tour in Chicago with a new bandmate, Neil Young.  The Woodstock performance was CSNY's second

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Crosby Stills Nash and Young

The Weekend Stream: September 21, 2024

September 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

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. Some socially minded rock is on the digital docket, as well as more than a dozen releases from one of England's best-known frontmen. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, The Live Series: Songs of Conscience (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Who but The Boss to offer a selection conscientious tunes with a whole new spin? These tracks

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Ferry, Daryl Hall, David Bowie, R.E.M.

In Memoriam: JD Souther (1945-2024)

September 18, 2024 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

John David Souther

"We always said our motto was 'we're building to last.'  We really spent a lot of time on the songs.  The other motto was, 'no filler.'  You don't make a single and then put a bunch of filler on an album.  You make an album and hope you have a single," JD Souther shared with me earlier this year.  The singer-songwriter's extraordinary body of work, one of the cornerstones of the Southern California rock sound, reflected that ethos: "You're Only Lonely."  "Faithless Love." "Her Town Too."  "Best

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: JD Souther

The Weekend Stream: September 14, 2024

September 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Stream 2024

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. This week brings new songs from two of our '80s favorites, a reissue from a rock supergroup, the first release from a hard-working film composer and a new stand-up comedy album with a little something extra. Duran Duran, "New Moon (Dark Phase)" (Tapemodern) (iTunes / Amazon) Friday the 13th was a perfect day for this to drop! Duran Duran

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Daryl Hall, Duran Duran, Gino Cunico, Guns N' Roses, James Newton Howard, John Early, Peggy Lee, Phil Collins, Sergio Mendes, Sting, Stone Temple Pilots, Tears for Fears, Velvet Revolver

Release Round-Up: Week of September 13

September 13, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Frank Zappa Apostrophe

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. Louis Armstrong, Wonderful World: The Best of Louis Armstrong (Verve/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 13-song sampler draws on Satchmo's 1951-1967 recordings for the Decca, Verve, Kapp, and ABC-Paramount labels and includes many of his most beloved songs as

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Amy Grant, Continental Drifters, Frank Zappa, Lightnin' Hopkins, Louis Armstrong, Nick Lowe, Sonny Terry, Tori Amos, Vince Gill

Review: Faces, "Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert and Session Recordings 1970-1973"

September 11, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Faces at the BBC

Between the summer of 1969 and the fall of 1975, a joyful noise emerged whenever Faces took the stage.  Ronnie Lane (bass), Kenney Jones (drums), and Ian McLagan (keyboards) had emerged from the ashes of pop's Small Faces, while Rod Stewart (vocals) and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were blues-rock veterans of the first iteration of The Jeff Beck Group in which Wood played bass.  When they came together, they created a sound unlike either of those earlier groups: rough-and-tumble, raw, ramshackle,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Faces, Rod Stewart

Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)

September 4, 2024 By

Joni Archives 4 cover

6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) features six CDs (also available as a "highlights" set on four LPs) chronicling the Canadian icon's trek through the latter half of the '70s, peeling away from her always-eclectic folk-pop sound, venturing into territory inspired by jazz and fusion. Sourced from variously assembled materials, from rare multitrack tapes to radio recordings

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop

Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)

September 4, 2024 By

Neil Young Archives III packshot

17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store This week's biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young's long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a box identical to Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009)

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965

September 4, 2024 By

Lou Reed Pickwick

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Light in the Attic (Oxblood/Gold Vinyl) Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965 serves as the first official anthology (blessed by both Reed's estate and his widow, musician Laurie Anderson) covering Reed's first gig in the music business: as a songwriter and sometime musician for the budget-minded Pickwick label collective. Despite the obscurity of the material - and the

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

The Weekend Stream: August 31, 2024

August 31, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

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. You're not hallucinating this week - there are more Daryl Hall and U2 EPs! - but there's also some great new soundtrack scores and vintage vocal jazz to peruse, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Daryl Hall, I'm in a Philly Mood (Epic) (iTunes / Amazon) Hall's third album, 1993's Soul Alone, was more than a

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ann Gilbert, Barenaked Ladies, Charles Fox, Daryl Hall, Henry Mancini, Julie Wilson, Rita Wilson, U2

Miles Davis' 1954 Sessions Collected on New Craft Recordings Compilation

August 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Miles 54

Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together. Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and vibraphonist Milt Jackson offering their talents in Davis' ensembles. The package includes a new

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk

The Weekend Stream: August 17, 2024

August 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Stream 2024

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 digital EPs from Daryl Hall and U2 and expanded albums from Dan Hartman and Akon; bet you'd never hear those artists in one sentence! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Dan Hartman, It Hurts to Be in Love (Expanded Edition) (Blue Sky/Epic/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Recently issued on CD for the first time by

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Akon, Dan Hartman, Daryl Hall, U2

In Memoriam: Peter Marshall (1926-2024)

August 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Peter Marshall Boy Singer

Peter Marshall celebrated the new millennium with the release of his album Boy Singer.  The album was the first full-length recording in over thirty years from the longtime Master of The Hollywood Squares, but not the last.  Over the course of an extraordinary career spanning nine decades, Marshall made his mark in every arena of show business.  Peter passed away yesterday at the age of 98, epitomizing a long life, well-lived. TV buffs, of course, remember Peter's multiple Emmy Award-winning

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Categories: News Tags: Peter Marshall

Release Round-Up: Week of August 16

August 16, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

20th Century Lindsey

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. Lindsey Buckingham, 20th Century Lindsey (Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Rhino.com Lindsey Buckingham's earliest solo works are getting a box set from Rhino this summer.  True to its name, 20th Century Lindsey features remastered versions of the three albums the Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist issued

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Creed, Lindsey Buckingham, Melanie, Ten Years After

The Right to Sing: Cherry Red's Lemon Imprint Collects John Miles' "The Albums 1983-93"

August 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

John Miles The Albums 1983 93

Singer-songwriter John Miles' 1976 hit "Music," the opening track of his Decca debut album Rebel, immediately became the artist's calling card.  The Alan Parsons-produced single went to the top five on the U.K. Singles Chart, also reaching the top ten in various European countries, and cracking the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.  The epic prog ballad won Miles an Ivor Novello Award, and launched Miles into the stratosphere.  Two well-received albums with producer Rupert Holmes followed,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: John Miles

The Boys Are Back: Thin Lizzy Gets New Remixes for Box Set Commemorating 1976, Their Breakthrough Year

August 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Thin Lizzy 1976 packshot

Guess who just got back today? Well, September 27 is the date, but Thin Lizzy are releasing a box set chronicling one of their most pivotal years. 1976 will, across five CDs and a Blu-ray Disc, retell the story of the two albums the Irish rockers issued that year: Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox. Both albums have been newly remixed in stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos by Richard Whittaker, under the supervision of guitarist Scott Gorham. The box also includes selections of unreleased material

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Thin Lizzy

The Weekend Stream: August 10, 2024

August 10, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

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. A legendary classic rock concert is back on digital channels, along with EPs from U2, Madonna and Daryl Hall, a remixed cast album from a beloved musical, and a new record from one of the most underrated bands of the last few decades. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison, The Concert for Bangladesh (Apple)

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Ripley, Billy Preston, Bob Dylan, Daryl Hall, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Leon Russell, Phil Collins, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, Spoon, The Damnwells, Tom Kitt, U2

When You're Smiling: Impex Returns to "Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra" with Lavish 1STEP Box

August 7, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Sing and Dance 33 1200x1200 1

Roughly four years ago, the Impex label revisited Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra in both hybrid mono SACD and deluxe LP formats.  The 1950 album was a landmark in the legendary vocalist's career.  After he released the very first pop long-playing record with Columbia's 1948 reissue of The Voice of Frank Sinatra, he took advantage of the format with Sing and Dance.  Initially available as a set of four 10-inch 78s or a single 33-1/3 RPM record, the album saw Sinatra at the dawn of his

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971)

August 6, 2024 By

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band's show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center.  Every track on this set is previously unreleased (including the first-ever performance of "Saturday in the Park" and an embryonic "Dialogue" without Part Two; neither song had yet been recorded) with the exception of "Goodbye,"

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop

Colour My World: Chicago's 1971 Set at the Kennedy Center to Be Released

August 6, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

Does anybody really know what time it is?  On September 27, it's time for Rhino to excavate a vintage Chicago concert from the vaults.  Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band's show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center.  Every track on this set is previously unreleased with the exception of "Goodbye," which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago

Must Have Been the Roses: Newest Grateful Dead Box Set Covers April 1978, from "Drums" to "Space"

August 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

GD FOTD key art 07 03

1978: The Grateful Dead was between Terrapin Station and Shakedown Street, and re-setting the rules onstage. The group's 1978 spring tour introduced "Drums" and "Space" as regular live features, and found Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux in re-energized, post-hiatus form. Yesterday, Rhino and the band announced the release of Friend of the Devils: April 1978, a massive 19CD box containing eight previously unreleased concerts from

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

Live in Concert 1985-2001

July 26, 2024 By

Townshend Live box

Live in Concert 1985-2001 brings together more than 15 years' worth of shows from legendary songwriter/guitarist Pete Townshend. These sets, recorded in America and England and arranged chronologically, were all originally released in the early years of the millennium on Townshend's short-lived Eel Pie label. For this set, available as a 14CD set or a digital product, they've been remastered by Jon Astley.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

The 1974 Tour Recordings

July 24, 2024 By

Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Live Recordings

In 1974, Bob Dylan embarked on an extensive tour with his old backing band.  Now, they, too, were universally known - as The Band - and the double bill hit indoor arenas across North America for 40 concerts over 30 dates and 21 cities.  The tour became one of the largest and highest-profile of the era, in no small part due to the promotional efforts of David Geffen, who'd spurred on the talks and had recently lured Dylan away from Columbia Records to his own Asylum label.  While Dylan's Asylum

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979)

July 24, 2024 By

Double Exposure My Love Is Free

My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) brings together expanded editions of all three of Philadelphia disco quartet Double Exposure's Salsoul albums plus the newly-curated collection I Got the Hots: Remixes and Rarities, for a total of 46 tracks on 4 CDs including the first-ever commercially-released 12-inch single, "Ten Percent." My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) has been compiled by Tim Dillinger for God's Music Is My Life, who has co-produced the set with

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

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