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Feel a Whole Lot Better: Liberation Hall's RSD Slate Includes Gene Clark, Flying Burrito Brothers, "Los Nuggetz"

February 21, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Flying Burrito Brothers Live in Amsterdam

Continuing our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list, here is a glance at all three releases from Liberation Hall.  All descriptions are taken directly from the label.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca.  CD fans, rejoice:

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country Tags: Gene Clark, Record Store Day, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Lay Down Your Guns: Emerson, Lake & Powell Collection and Carl Palmer Anthology Due Soon

February 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Carl Palmer Fanfare for the Common Man

Fans of ELP - whether that stands for Emerson, Lake & Palmer or Emerson, Lake & Powell - have some new compilations to look forward to this spring. Cherry Red, in partnership with Spirit of Unicorn Music, will issue Emerson, Lake & Powell's studio and live material as Complete Collection, a 3CD set due April 12. It will include the prog trio's self-titled 1986 album (including two CD-only bonus tracks and a single edit of "The Score") and two self-released titles on ELP's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Asia, Carl Palmer, Cozy Powell, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Emerson Lake and Powell, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, Mike Oldfield

(Can't You) Trip Like I Do: Craft Recordings' RSD Slate Includes Collective Soul, Bill Evans, "Reel Cult" Soundtrack Series Launch, More

February 20, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Ennio Morricone Orca

Today, we continue our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list with a spotlight on the releases coming from Craft Recordings.  All descriptions are taken directly from the label.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca.  Craft

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: At The Drive-In, Bill Evans, Collective Soul, Dalai Lama, Ennio Morricone, Filter, Record Store Day

Dawned on Me: Legacy's Record Store Day Lineup Features Wilco, Willie Nelson, Nas, G. Love and Special Sauce, "Spawn," More

February 16, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Spawn The Album

Continuing our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list, here is a glance at all six releases from Sony Music's Legacy Recordings label.  All descriptions are taken directly from Legacy.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bare Jr., G. Love and Special Sauce, Nas, Wilco, Willie Nelson

Mind Games: Universal's Record Store Day Lineup Includes Beatles, Elton, The Who, John Lennon, Charlie Parker, U2, Ringo Starr, "Wicked", Frank Zappa, More

February 16, 2024 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Elton John Caribou

Continuing our look through this year's Record Store Day list, here is a glance at twenty-one releases from the Universal family of labels.  All descriptions are taken from the labels.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca. The Beatles, "I Saw

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Charlie Parker, Def Leppard, Elton John, Everything But the Girl, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Marianne Faithfull, Pearl Jam, Record Store Day, Ringo Starr, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, The Beatles, The Cranberries, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Thin Lizzy, U2

Release Round-Up: Week of February 16

February 16, 2024 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Melanie One Night Only

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Melanie, One Night Only: The Eagle Mountain House (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 1984 concert recorded at The Eagle Mountain house in Jackson, New Hampshire features some of the late singer-songwriter's classics including "Brand New Key," "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)," and "Look What They've Done

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aaron Copland, Béla Fleck, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Melanie, Paul Collins, Steeleye Span, Steve Hackett, The Immediate Family

Peace in the Valley: Barbara Mandrell's "Precious Memories" Returns to CD

February 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Barbara Mandrell Precious Memories

Though Barbara Mandrell retired from performing and recording in 1997, the country superstar remains beloved.  In 2022, she made a rare public appearance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her induction into the Grand Ole Opry; an all-female lineup of artists including Carrie Underwood, Suzy Bogguss, Linda Davis, Connie Smith, Mandy Barnett, and CeCe Winans paid tribute.  Mandrell offered her warm appreciation but did not sing; for the past 25 years, she's restricted any singing activities to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Gospel Tags: Barbara Mandrell

Leave a Light On: Belinda Carlisle's Third 'Decades' Box Collects Single Mixes, B-Sides and More

February 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Belinda Carlisle Decades Cornucopia

Last year, Edsel Records - the longtime custodian of The Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle's solo works - released the box set Decades Volume 1, a 4CD set collecting reissues of her first four studio albums: Belinda (1986), Heaven on Earth (1987), Runaway Horses (1989) and Live Your Life Be Free (1991). As all four of these had been remastered and expanded by the label in the last decade - some more than once - it sort of got lost in the shuffle, as did a similar volume that offered her other four

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle

The Bell Records Story

February 8, 2024 By

Davy Jones 7a

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) 7a Records reissues and expands the late Davy Jones' second solo LP, 1971's Davy Jones as part of the artist's The Bell Records Story.  The album was in a sunshine pop-meets-bubblegum vein, but it carried on the spirit of the early Monkees with strong tunes including some from songwriters who had written for the group (David Gates, Neil Sedaka). Davy

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Machine Head: Super Deluxe Edition

February 8, 2024 By

Deep Purple Machine Head

Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band's most commercially successful album.  The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock's most famous riffs with "Smoke on the Water," and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians.  Rhino is revisiting Machine Head as a 3CD/1LP/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition with various versions of the album plus bonus material: 2024 Dweezil

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock

Fully Completely: The Tragically Hip's "Live at CBGB's" Arrives for Record Store Day

February 8, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Tragically Hip Live at CBGBs

Canadian national treasures The Tragically Hip have been announced as the official Ambassadors for Record Store Day Canada.  The event takes place on Saturday, April 20 (alongside the U.S., U.K., and other international RSDs).  To commemorate the occasion - as well as 40 years of The Tragically Hip - the band will be releasing an exclusive concert album, Live at CBGB's, for RSD. Live At CBGB's was recorded on January 14, 1993 at the late, lamented New York club in support of the group's third

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Tragically Hip

Pictures of Home: Rhino Revisits Deep Purple's "Machine Head" on New Super Deluxe Edition

February 6, 2024 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Deep Purple Machine Head

Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band's most commercially successful album.  The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock's most famous riffs with "Smoke on the Water," and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians.  On March 29, Rhino revisits Machine Head as a 3CD/1LP/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition with various versions of the album: 2024 Dweezil Zappa album

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Deep Purple

Got a Disc I Want to Play: A24 Plans Deluxe 'Stop Making Sense' for Blu-ray, 4K Disc

February 2, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

StopMakingSenseA24

A24's stunning remaster of the Talking Heads' 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense was one of the highlights of movie theaters this fall. (The surprises happened offscreen as well, when original band members David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison appeared together for the first time since their 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for multiple interviews and promotional appearances.) Now, Jonathan Demme's classic feature is finally getting an upgraded home

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bernie Worrell, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club

Release Round-Up: Week of February 2

February 2, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Andy Williams When You Fall in Love

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Andy Williams, When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 rounds up eighteen rarities from the late, great Andy Williams.  Over a dozen never-before-heard recordings premiere here which teamed Andy with

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Poetry, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Average White Band, Julie Andrews, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Wings

See Me, Feel Me: The Who's 1982 Shea Stadium Concert Comes to CD, LP from Mercury Studios

January 30, 2024 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

The Who Live at Shea Stadium

The Who's October 13, 1982 concert at Shea Stadium, the now-demolished, longtime home of the New York Mets, was released on DVD and standard-definition Blu-ray back in 2015.  Now, Mercury Studios is returning to that thunderous gig - the band's second of two shows there - for an audio release on 2 CDs or 3 LPs. On March 1, Live at Shea Stadium 1982 will arrive preserving The Who's tour stop in support of It's Hard.  In front of an enrapt New York audience in Flushing Meadows, Queens, founding

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Who

Release Round-Up: Week of January 26

January 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Barry Manilow Harmony

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. B.T. Express, Non-Stop: Expanded Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic follows up its definitive reissue of B.T. Express' debut Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) with a similarly comprehensive reappraisal of the funk outfit's sizzling sophomore release, 1975's R&B chart-topper Non-Stop. 

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: 10cc, B.T. Express, Barry Manilow, Kiki Dee, NRBQ, Terry Adams

In Memoriam: Melanie Safka (1947-2024)

January 25, 2024 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Melanie Sunset and Other Beginnings

Melanie Safka, known the world over simply as Melanie, tapped into a deep well of emotion with the powerful anthem "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" and skated into listeners' hearts with "Brand New Key."  Though the singer-songwriter's U.S. hits dried up by the early 1980s, she continued to write and record in her disarming and often happily quirky style.  A voice of the Vietnam generation, Melanie was content to transport audiences back to the Woodstock era while always authentically speaking

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Love and Marriage: Stage Door Pop Celebrates "Crossroads Wedding Party" Featuring Noele "Nolly" Gordon

January 25, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Crossroads Wedding Party

Next month, American PBS stations premiere Nolly, a three-part miniseries written by Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who, It's a Sin) about British television star Noele "Nolly" Gordon (1919-1985), portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter.  The 2023 production is presented on PBS by Masterpiece - formerly Masterpiece Theatre - which describes it as "an outrageously fun and wildly entertaining ride through Gordon's most tumultuous years, and a sharp, affectionate, and heartbreaking portrait of a forgotten

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Noele Gordon, Tony Hatch

Right Round (Like a Record): Edsel Preps Dead or Alive CD Singles Box

January 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Dead or Alive Still Spinnin

Against all odds, Edsel will release a third deep-dive box set into the career of U.K. hitmakers Dead or Alive - this time focusing on their single mixes. Still Spinnin': The Singles Collection 1983-2021 offers 27 discs of the group's single releases through their entire career, including hits like "Lover Come Back to Me," "Brand New Lover," "My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)", "Something in My House" - and of course, the international smash "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," which

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Dead or Alive, Stock Aitken Waterman

Born to Raise Hell: Motörhead's Live 'Lost Tapes' Collected As CD Box Set

January 22, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Motorhead Lost Tapes

Legendary metal band Motörhead have been steadily unearthing soundboard shows as part of their The Löst Tapes series since 2021. Now, those shows - previously only available on vinyl or digitally - will make their way to CD in a new eight-disc box set. The Löst Tapes - The Collection: Volumes 1-5 collates all the audio heard on various Record Store Day colored vinyl releases from BMG Rights Management, featuring Lemmy Kilmister and his die-hard trio powering their way through some of their

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Somewhere Along the Line: Japanese Expansion of Billy Joel's 'Piano Man' Includes Quad Mix, New-to-CD Tracks

January 19, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Piano Man Deluxe Japan

Japan can't get enough of the Piano Man! Shortly after Sony Music's Japanese division released a newly-compiled collection of live odds and ends by Billy Joel, the label will next put out a deluxe edition of Joel's sophomore album (and first in a long line of albums for Columbia Records), 1973's Piano Man. Billed as a 50th anniversary edition (a few months late) and ostensibly meant to tie into his Japanese tour dates later this month, the 2CD/1DVD set features a few extra features for die-hard

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Joel

Release Round-Up: Week of January 19

January 19, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Dire Straits Live 1978 1992

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bert Kaempfert, The Bert Kaempfert Decca Collection (Decca) (Amazon U.S. (not yet available) / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Bert Kaempfert Decca Collection collects 24 of the German composer-bandleader's American LPs originally released in the 1960s and 1970s, including the worldwide CD debut of Pete Fountain Plays Bert

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Archie Bell and the Drells, Bert Kaempfert, Dire Straits, Green Day, The Corrs, The Long Ryders, The Rolling Stones, The West Coast Consortium

Make Your Own Sweet Sunshine: 7a Records Preps Davy Jones' "The Bell Records Story"

January 17, 2024 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Davy Jones 7a

Less than a year and a half after Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz brought The Monkees' original discography to a close with the release of Changes, actor-singer Jones was back on Bell Records with a new studio album.  His second solo LP, 1971's Davy Jones, was in a sunshine pop-meets-bubblegum vein, but it carried on the spirit of the early Monkees with strong tunes including some from songwriters who had written for the group (David Gates, Neil Sedaka).  On February 23, 7a Records will release Davy

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 12

January 12, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Grateful Dead In the Dark

Happy New Year, and welcome to our first Release Round-Up of 2024, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Lou Reed, Hudson River Wind Meditations (Light in the Attic) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Lou Reed's twentieth solo album (and penultimate studio record) returns from Light in the Attic in CD and LP editions.  Featuring meditative music

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Everything Else Tags: Grateful Dead, Lou Reed, Mark Eric, Stephen Sondheim, The Allman Brothers Band, Trevor Horn

Religion, Revolution & Railways (The Complete Recordings)

January 9, 2024 By

Dream Academy Religion Revolution & Railways

Religion, Revolution & Railways (The Complete Recordings) indeed offers everything you could want from The Dream Academy.  In addition to remastered versions of their studio albums for the Blanco y Negro and Warner Bros. labels - The Dream Academy (1985), Remembrance Days (1987) and A Different Kind of Weather (1990) - there's four bonus discs of material: two collections of B-sides and demos, a disc of instrumentals and all the group's 12" mixes. Frontman Nick Laird-Clowes has been

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