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The Weekend Stream: October 21, 2023

October 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Adam Ant's first single, Taylor Swift's latest single and Tom Petty's 2010 studio album are all in the mix, plus an unexpected Prince production and a most unusual tribute to The B-52's. Adam & The Ants, Young Parisians/Lady (Decca) (iTunes / Amazon) Yesterday marked 45 years since the debut

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Adam and The Ants, Deborah Allen, Prince, Taylor Swift, The B-52's, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

The Weekend Stream: October 14, 2023

October 14, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. There's a plethora of breakouts from box sets new to streaming, from John Lennon to Prince - plus rare remixes by Cyndi Lauper and a surprise treat from a beloved theme park. John Lennon, Imagine (The Ultimate Mixes / Deluxe) / Imagine (The Elements Mixes) / Imagine (The Evolution Documentary) / Imagine

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, Cyndi Lauper, Duke Ellington, James, John Lennon, Ozzy Osbourne, Prince

Release Round-Up: Week of October 13

October 13, 2023 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Johnny Mathis, Christmas Time Is Here (Legacy/Real Gone/Second Disc) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada "Christmas Tree Green" Vinyl LP: RealGoneMusic.com / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  "Holly Red" Vinyl LP: BarnesandNoble.com Johnny Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade.  Christmas Time Is Here boasts ten

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Agnetha Faltskog, Jim Croce, Johnny Mathis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marc Almond, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Rod McKuen, The Cranberries, Whitesnake

UPDATE 10/9 - Once Upon a Dream: "Disney100" Collection Comes to CD

October 9, 2023 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Disney100

UPDATE 10/9: "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing: that it was all started by a mouse."  Walt Disney was, of course, speaking of his enduring creation, Mickey Mouse.  The character's debut in the 1928 animated short subject Steamboat Willie was indeed the watershed moment from which decades of entertainment in every conceivable medium followed.  But the business that became The Walt Disney Company had been founded five years earlier, in 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy.  That's the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Helen Reddy, Idina Menzel, Julie Andrews, Phil Harris, Randy Newman, Roger Miller, The Sherman Brothers, Various Artists

Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967

October 2, 2023 By

Jimi Hendrix Experience Hollywood Bowl

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Experience Hendrix and Legacy travel back to the Summer of Love to premiere a never-before-bootlegged concert from the Hollywood Bowl when The Jimi Hendrix Experience was opening for The Mamas and The Papas. Jeff Slate provides the liner notes for the new release which has been overseen by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott, and Eddie Kramer.  The latter restored the audio which has been mastered by Bernie

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

Live 1978-1992

October 2, 2023 By

Dire Straits Live 1978 1992

8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 12LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada When Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits reissued their classic catalogue in a box set in 2020, it only covered studio recordings. Now, a companion box will feature their live material, including 29 unreleased tracks.  Live 1978-1992 will offer expansions of two classic Dire Straits concert albums (1984's Alchemy: Dire Straits Live and 1993's On the Night, one of the last releases before their

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

Substance 1987: Expanded Edition

October 2, 2023 By

New Order Substance 2023

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2MC: New Order Store (U.S.) / New Order Store (U.K.) New Order's landmark 1987 compilation is getting expanded as a 4CD set.  The newly-remastered Substance 1987 collected a dozen classic sides from the British electronic band, from 1981's "Ceremony" to the then-new "True Faith" as well as exclusive updates of "Temptation" and "Confusion." The double

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Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Rock

See That Girl (1979-2000)

October 1, 2023 By

Kirsty MacColl See That Girl

For just over two decades, Kirsty MacColl was one of England's most uniquely talented female rock singer/songwriters. This fall, nearly a quarter century after her passing, a new box set examines her career in-depth.  See That Girl (1979-2000) is an 8CD set loaded with 161 singles, rarities, remixes, live cuts and duets - including 47 previously unreleased recordings. Produced in partnership with the singer's estate, the set features two gatefold sleeves of discs and a 60-page hardback book

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock

Live at The Academy, New York City, 1995

October 1, 2023 By

Goo Goo Dolls Academy 1995

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Goo Goo Dolls' Live At The Academy, New York, City, 1995 features two breakthrough sets from the band: a memorable performance for the CMJ Music Conference, recorded just as they were starting to enjoy their first success on the radio; and an invite-only soundcheck that became treasured by fans when it was taped off radio performances. A mobile recording truck captured the entire thing, and the

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

Ain't No Price on Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings (1972-1979)

September 28, 2023 By

Spinners Ain't No Price on Happiness

Earlier this year, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrated the extraordinary legacy of The Spinners with the release of The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979, collecting a whopping 43 single sides on two CDs.  Now, SoulMusic Records and Cherry Red are continuing the Spinners party with a comprehensive box set chronicling that halcyon period with eight expanded albums on 7 CDs.  Ain't No Price on Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings (1972-1979) brings

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

The Complete Budokan 1978

September 21, 2023 By

Dylan Budokan cover

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Bob Dylan camp is re-examining the artist's time in Japan with a brand-new box set showcasing two of the sets from Budokan in full. The Complete Budokan 1978 offers four CDs of Dylan and his band's sets on February 28 and March 1, 1978, with 36 of the 58 tracks released for the first time and everything newly remixed from the original 24-track analog tapes. (In a simple, delightful twist of

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

Duke Jupiter 1

September 20, 2023 By

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The fourth album from Rochester, New York rockers Duke Jupiter premieres on CD from Iconoclassic Records. The 1982 album's title was possibly a reference to a hard reset the group had done after spending the late '70s as a larger, occasionally horn-suffused combo on Mercury Records. Duke Jupiter 1 found the group paring down to original members Marshall Styler (vocals/keyboards) and Greg Walker (vocals/guitar) and new additions Rick Ellis on bass (original bassist George Barajas played on parts

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

50 Years of De-Evolution (1973-2023)

September 20, 2023 By

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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Rhino.com 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 50-track set will include hits and album cuts from each of Devo's nine albums released between 1978 and 2010, plus an assortment of rare B-sides, single-only tracks, and soundtrack songs. (The 7" version of "Disco Dancer," from 1988's Total Devo, is being released as a teaser, marking its first digital release.) All the songs you know and love are there, including "Whip It,"

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

Keep Walkin': Singles, Demos, and Rarities (1965-1978)

September 20, 2023 By

Nancy Sinatra Keep Walkin'

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Black 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Zodiac Blue 2LP: Nancy's Bootique Highway Song Yellow 2LP: Nancy's Bootique "Sugar Me" Pink Splatter 2LP: Spotify Abridged 4-Track Tape: Nancy's Bootique Abridged 8-Track Tape: Nancy's Bootique Following the release of the anthology Start Walkin' 1965-1976 and expanded editions of Boots, Nancy and Lee, and Nancy and Lee Again, LITA is delivering a companion volume to Start Walkin'

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Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Wild Thing: The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Hollywood Bowl 1967" Chronicles Never-Before-Released Gig

September 19, 2023 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Jimi Hendrix Experience Hollywood Bowl

On August 23, 1967, Reprise Records would issue The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album, Are You Experienced, in North America.  U.K. audiences had been hipped to the incendiary group consisting of Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell, and bassist Noel Redding a couple of months earlier, when the album (with a unique track listing) arrived on the Track Records label.  Five days before that auspicious U.S. record debut, on August 18, the trio took the stage of the Hollywood Bowl in front of a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Weekend Stream: September 16, 2023

September 16, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week's latest brings you a classic country centennial, remixes from Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson and The Art of Noise, a rare album from a songwriter moonlighting as a singer, hard-to-find Olivia Newton John songs and so much more! Hank Williams, Hank 100: Greatest Radio Hits (BMG Rights

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Crystal Waters, Duke Ellington, Hank Williams, Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross, Mark James, Nick Cave, Olivia Newton-John, Pat Boone, Pulp, Seaweed, The Art of Noise, Veruca Salt

True Faith: New Order's Classic Compilation 'Substance 1987' Gets Expanded

September 15, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

New Order Substance 2023

Style over Substance? New Order offered both on their unforgettable 1987 compilation - and it's getting expanded as a 4CD set this fall. The newly-remastered Substance 1987 collects once more a dozen classic sides from the British electronic band, from 1981's ceremony to the then-new "True Faith" as well as exclusive updates of "Temptation" and "Confusion." The double vinyl is pressed on black or retail-exclusive red and blue discs, while the 2CD and double cassette (the latter exclusive to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Rock Tags: New Order

Release Round-Up: Week of September 15

September 15, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

The Who Who's Next

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! The Who, Who's Next / Life House (Polydor/UMe) 10CD/1BD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2CD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  1CD: The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  1LP (Album Only, Black Vinyl): The Who Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  1LP (Half-Speed

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Beck Bogert & Appice, Carly Simon, Hank Williams, Herb Alpert, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Steve Miller Band, The Who, Willie Nelson

OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc, Real Gone Collect Al Stewart's "Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981" on "Songs on the Radio"

September 7, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Al Stewart Songs on the Radio

The Vietnamese Lunar New Year identifies 2023 as The Year of the Cat...and the timing couldn't be better! Tomorrow's the day when Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records unveil a definitive, first-ever singles collection from legendary singer-songwriter Al Stewart. In 1976, Stewart took the beguiling "Year of the Cat" to the top ten of the Pop and AC charts, inaugurating a run of timeless hits still heard on radio today in formats from classic rock to pop and yacht rock.  Now, for the very

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Al Stewart, Alan Parsons

In Memoriam: Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023)

September 2, 2023 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Jimmy Buffett

As the son of a son of a sailor/I went out on the sea for adventure/Expanding the view of the captain and crew/Like a man just released from indenture... As the self-described son of a son of a sailor, Jimmy Buffett took to the seas for adventures beyond his wildest dreams.  He recorded his first album for Andy Williams' Barnaby label in 1970, but that album, Down to Earth, would sell a reported 324 copies in its initial outing.  Buffett soon traded earth for water and embarked on a voyage

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Jimmy Buffett

Release Round-Up: Week of September 1

September 1, 2023 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Peter Frampton at Royal Albert Hall

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Jethro Tull, Broadsword and the Beast: 40th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone) 5CD/3DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 40th anniversary "Monster Edition"of the Jethro Tull classic will feature Steven Wilson's new mixes of the original album, a slew of rare and previously unreleased recordings, demos, early mixes, and a 1982

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, Deacon Blue, Gordon Lightfoot, Jethro Tull, Neil Young, Peter Frampton, Tom Waits

The Bones of What You Believe: 10-Year Anniversary Special Edition

August 28, 2023 By

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2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The debut album by the Scottish electronic trio gets a 10th anniversary upgrade on 2CDs or 2LPs. The album, which introduced the world to multi-instrumentalists Iain Cook and Martin Doherty alongside Lauren Mayberry's distinctive vocals, gets a fresh remaster by Gavin Lurssen, who mastered the band's fourth album Screen Violence (2020). It'll also be augmented by nine unreleased bonus tracks: four

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Electronic, Pop

The Studio Albums: 1996-2004

August 28, 2023 By

Dio Studio Albums box

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Niji Entertainment and BMG's The Studio Albums 1996-2004 features the final recordings Ronnie James Dio made with his band before the singer's passing in 2010. It'll be available on CD as well as a limited edition vinyl set featuring color variations for each album: 1996's Angry Machines will be pressed on Halloween orange with black marble vinyl, the double-album Magica (2000) on transparent

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

Joni Mitchell Archives - Volume 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)

August 22, 2023 By

Joni Archives 3

The third volume of Joni Mitchell's remarkable Archives series continues with an exploration of the period that yielded such groundbreaking albums as For the Roses (1972), Court and Spark (1974), the live Miles of Aisles (1974), and The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975).  The new 5CD, 96-track box - also available digitally or in 4LP "highlights" form - chronicles the era via previously unreleased demos, jams, outtakes, and live performances including two full concerts. The CD box set Includes a

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

Suffer Never: Finn Brothers' Debut Album Set for Expanded Vinyl Package (UPDATED 8/21/2023)

August 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Finn

UPDATE (8/21/2022): More than a year after its release, fans' patience has paid off with a CD version of this title available through Needle Mythology. Orders (including vinyl and t-shirt merch bundles) will be shipped with a free enamel badge of the album's cover art and are expected to ship around October 20. ORIGINAL POST (6/1/2022): Two of the best-loved songwriters of the Antipodes are celebrating their brotherly partnership in a new deluxe vinyl package. Finn, the first album credited

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Crowded House, Neil Finn, The Finn Brothers, Tim Finn

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