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Deuce: Deluxe Edition

September 29, 2022 By

Rory Gallagher Deuce

4CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Over the past couple of years, UMC has been busy revisiting the catalogue of late Irish guitar virtuoso Rory Gallagher.  Following last fall's box set celebrating Gallagher's eponymous 1971 debut, the label is turning its attention to his second album, 1972's Deuce, for another deluxe, expanded edition.  The

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

Can't Buy a Thrill

September 29, 2022 By

Steely Dan Cant Buy a Thrill

180-gram Remastered LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UHQR: Analogue Productions Stereo Hybrid SACD: Analogue Productions Geffen/UMe and Analogue Productions kick off their sonic overhaul of the Steely Dan discography with the band's 1972 debut album Can't Buy a Thrill.  Each title in the series will be available on standard 180-gram remastered LP; a limited edition UHQR vinyl box set with the pressing at 45 RPM on 200-gram vinyl; and as a stereo hybrid SACD (playable on all CD

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

Live at Budokan

September 29, 2022 By

Willie Nelson Live at Budokan

Columbia/Legacy releases Willie Nelson's 1984 Live at Budokan concert, previously available only on Laserdisc, as a 2CD/DVD set as well as digitally.  Willie and his band - including sister Bobbie Nelson on piano, Paul English on drums, Grady Martin on guitar, Jody Payne on vocals and guitar, Bee Spears on bass, and Mickey Raphael (who also produced this new set) on harmonica - romp through such classics as "On the Road Again," "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD Genre: Country

Legacy Puts Prince's Original 'Hits' Albums on Vinyl

September 29, 2022 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Prince Hits banner

As more of Prince's recorded catalogue consolidates under a deal with Sony Music's Legacy Recordings, a big question is when a new career-spanning compilation will eventually hit the market. While fans might keep waiting, Legacy will issue two classic collections for the first time on vinyl: the two volumes that made up The Hits in 1993. The Hits capped 15 years of breakneck recording and massive commercial success from The Artist, who earlier that year announced he would change his name to

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Prince

UMC to Spice Up 'Spiceworld' with New Reissues

September 29, 2022 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Spiceworld 25 packshot

England's pop exports are some of the biggest the world has ever known - and in the '90s, none were bigger than the Spice Girls. This fall, UMC will reissue Spiceworld, the group's second album and the one where they were metaphorically on top of the world, in a variety of formats with rare and unreleased material. Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Victoria Adams were irresistible to worldwide pop audiences not long after the release of debut Spice in 1996. With

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Spice Girls

Lightning Frightening: New Bowie Box Offers 'Hunky Dory'-Era Rarities

September 28, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

David Bowie Divine Symmetry

Hot on the heels of the success of the documentary Moonage Daydream (and its recently released soundtrack, currently streaming and coming soon to physical media), Parlophone has announced a major audio excavation from the David Bowie vault.  On November 25, 2022, the label will release Divine Symmetry (An Alternative Journey Through Hunky Dory), a 4CD/1BD box set chronicling the twelve months leading up to the December 1971 release of Bowie's fourth studio album.  Highlighted by 48 previously

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

California Saga: The Beach Boys' "Sail On Sailor: 1972" Explores "Carl and the Passions," "Holland"

September 27, 2022 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Beach Boys Sail On Sailor 1972

The cover of The Beach Boys' eighteenth studio album didn't look so different than what fans might have expected, with its shot of the beach, blue sky, and palm trees through a car window.  But once listeners placed the needle on the first track, it was clear this was no ordinary Beach Boys record.  Only one song - the opening "You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone," a twangy rocker with little of the lushness once associated with their sound - bore a production credit for Brian Wilson; only

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beach Boys

Rockin' Around in NYC (and Beyond): Yep Roc to Celebrate 40 Years of Marshall Crenshaw's Debut

September 26, 2022 By Mike Duquette 14 Comments

Marshall Crenshaw 40

Tonight, Marshall Crenshaw takes his 40 Years in Showbiz! Tour to Manhattan's City Winery. (It's a show you can watch from the comfort of your home - hopefully my head won't be in the way!) Just as exciting as seeing this living power-pop legend celebrate his fourth decade of performing: some of his long-out-of-print classic albums are coming back into circulation courtesy of a new label home. Earlier this month, Yep Roc announced a double LP expanded edition of Crenshaw's hook-filled debut

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Marshall Crenshaw, Record Store Day

The Weekend Stream: September 24, 2022

September 24, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover - from quarter-century old R&B classics, a Fleetwood Mac heroine covering Buffalo Springfield, and an actor who sang enough to make you go a little mad. Stevie Nicks, For What It's Worth (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) The celebrated singer has recently been covering this Buffalo Springfield classic on her

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Comedy, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Anthony Perkins, Mariah Carey, Queens of the Stone Age, Sam the Sham and The Pharoahs, Stevie Nicks, Tears for Fears, Usher

Right as the Rain: Barbra Streisand's "Live at the Bon Soir" Arrives in November

September 23, 2022 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir

Barbra Streisand first took the stage of New York's tiny Bon Soir on September 9, 1960.  The eighteen-year-old singer appeared third on a bill after house band The Three Flames and comic duo Tony and Eddie, and before closing act Phyllis Diller.  The groundbreaking comedienne later recalled her first encounter with Streisand: "We shared a dressing room at the Bon Soir...It was the size of a peapod and usually you could smell fear in there. But she wasn't a bit nervous - at least not that I

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Categories: News Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Barbra Streisand

Seal's Debut Gets a "Killer" of a Box

September 23, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Seal deluxe cover

Rhino Records adds to its holiday/year-end box set season a new entry in the form of a deluxe edition of Seal's classic 1991 debut. Available November 4, the reissued Seal will include the British singer's first album, remastered for the first time on CD and three sides of vinyl in one package. A further three bonus discs collect rare B-sides and remixes (including the original "premix" versions of key songs from early pressings) plus an unreleased concert recorded in Ireland in the wake of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Seal

Release Round-Up: Week of September 23

September 23, 2022 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Joni Mitchell Asylum Albums

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Joni Mitchell, The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) (Elektra/Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joni Mitchell's Archives campaign rolls on with this new 4-CD or 5-LP box collecting four of the inspirational singer-songwriter's most acclaimed and beloved studio albums, all recorded for David Geffen's then-new Asylum Records label: For the Roses (1972), Court and Spark (1974), and The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chick Corea, Dr. John, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Ray Charles, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Smithereens

That Ol' Christmas Spirit: Real Gone Announces Yuletide Slate with Steve and Eydie, B.J. Thomas, Lea Michele

September 22, 2022 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

Steve and Eydie That Holiday Feeling

Real Gone Music has that holiday feeling with its upcoming slate of three joyful titles for the Christmas season.  The label has just announced two deluxe CD releases along with one beautiful vinyl title that's sure to keep spirits bright.  All three titles are due November 11. First up is a definitive, expanded, and remastered edition of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme's 1964 Columbia Records classic That Holiday Feeling.  After more than a decade of representing Steve and Eydie's GL Music

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: B.J. Thomas, Eydie Gorme, Lea Michele, Steve Lawrence, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme

Heartbreakers Beach Party: Tom Petty's "Fillmore 1997" Features Hits, Deep Cuts, Covers

September 21, 2022 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Tom Petty Fillmore 1997

The Estate of Tom Petty has announced the late rock-and-roller's first live album in more than a decade.  Live at the Fillmore 1997 captures highlights from Petty and the Heartbreakers' blazing 20-show run as recorded at San Francisco's venerable Fillmore between January 10 and February 7, 1997.  Six full shows were captured live, from which 58 songs have been culled for this release.  Making this an even more special affair, 35 of the songs are covers and most unique to the Petty discography. 

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: John Lee Hooker, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

An Orchestral James Bond Collection Finally Gets Its Shot

September 21, 2022 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Bond 25

James Bond has been a suave secret agent on screen for 60 years - so an official musical companion getting delayed several years is nothing, right? Bond 25, an orchestral survey of the pop themes that have accompanied every picture based on Ian Fleming's Agent 007, is finally heading to stores this Friday, September 23, after a delay just slightly longer than the release of the most recent Bond film, 2021's No Time to Die, the fifth and final outing for Daniel Craig in the lead role.

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: John Barry, Monty Norman, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

There's a Light: Rory Gallagher's "Deuce" Goes Super Deluxe

September 20, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Rory Gallagher Deuce

Over the past couple of years, UMC has been busy revisiting the catalogue of late Irish guitar virtuoso Rory Gallagher.  Following last fall's box set celebrating Gallagher's eponymous 1971 debut, the label is turning its attention to his second album, 1972's Deuce, for another deluxe, expanded edition.  The similarly expansive 4CD release, due on September 30, boasts: A new mix of the original album; 28 previously unreleased alternate takes; A six-song 1972 BBC Radio In Concert

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Rory Gallagher

Diamonds and Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection

September 17, 2022 By

Dolly Parton Diamonds and Rhinestones

Dolly Parton's Diamonds and Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection offers 23 tracks from the country superstar, originally released between 1971 and 2020, on CD, 2LP, and digital formats.  The collection draws on Parton's recordings for RCA Victor, Columbia Records, and her own Dolly Records label, including her biggest crossover hits such as "9 to 5," "Here You Come Again," "Two Doors Down," "Heartbreaker," and the Kenny Rogers duet "Islands in the Stream." The 2020 digital single "When Life

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

A Holly Dolly Christmas: Ultimate Deluxe Edition

September 17, 2022 By

Dolly A Holly Dolly Christmas Deluxe

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Dolly Parton reissues her Grammy-nominated, chart-topping 2020 yuletide set with eight bonus tracks including three previously unreleased songs from Dolly's 1986 TV movie A Smoky Mountain Christmas.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Holiday

The Weekend Stream: September 17, 2022

September 17, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This time out we've got Motown rarities, a couple of albums with comic book roots, early music from future legends, and more! Roger Miller, Roger Miller (RCA/Camden/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Legacy has resuscitated this 1964 compilation of early sides from singer-songwriter Roger Miller (produced in Nashville

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Blinky, Bob Gaudio, Hugh Masekela, John Barry, Marvin Gaye, Roger Miller, The Royal Teens, The Spinners, The Temptations, Thomas Dolby

Go Back, Jack, Do It Again: Steely Dan's Discography Gets Overhaul from UMe, Analogue Productions

September 16, 2022 By Joe Marchese 24 Comments

Steely Dan Cant Buy a Thrill

Between 1972 and 1980, Steely Dan - the loose unit of like-minded musicians and singers led by songwriter-producers Walter Becker and Donald Fagen - released seven albums on the ABC and MCA labels.  While Steely Dan was never a "singles artist," charting just three top ten hits, the band's albums were era-defining affairs; six of their LPs have attained at least Platinum status in the United States, with the seventh respectably going Gold.  Now, that epochal catalogue defined by immaculate

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Steely Dan

Release Round-Up: Week of September 16

September 16, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Pink Floyd Animals CD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Miles Davis, That's What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 (Columbia/Legacy) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 3-CD box set (also available digitally) focuses on Miles Davis' final years at the Columbia label with which he had been associated since 1955 and on the three albums that closed out his

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, Joe Strummer, Lang Lang, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Stacey Q, Suede

Burning Desire: Legacy Recordings Announces RSD Black Friday Titles from Jimi Hendrix, Willie Nelson, David Bowie, The Script

September 15, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Willie Nelson Live at Budokan

This morning, Legacy Recordings announced its slate of four vinyl releases for Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event taking place on Friday, November 25.  Three celebrate classic artists while one revisits a modern-day triumph.  Below you'll find the descriptions provided by the label for all four releases.  Visit recordstoreday.com for a full list of participating record stores. David Bowie, The Next Day Extra (12" Vinyl EP) The Next Day Extra contains various album outtakes and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Rock Tags: David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Record Store Day, The Script, Willie Nelson

Hello, It's Me: Rhino Announces Black Friday RSD Slate with Todd Rundgren, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, More

September 14, 2022 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

The Doors Paris Blues

It's that time of year again: Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event is scheduled for Friday, November 25 as the holiday shopping season begins.  Rhino has wasted no time in sharing its list of releases from some of the label's marquee artists including Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Grateful Dead, and Madonna.  Classic albums from Todd Rundgren, Captain Beefheart, and Eric Burdon & WAR are also among the titles on Rhino's slate.  And one release is even available on CD! Read on for the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Duran Duran, Eric Burdon, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Madonna, Record Store Day, The Cure, The Doors, Todd Rundgren, War

Disney's Legacy Collection Enters "A Whole New World" with 'Aladdin' Expansion

September 14, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Aladdin Legacy Collection

Walt Disney Records' still-persisting catalogue product line The Legacy Collection has been mostly dormant since 2015. After two waves of titles throughout two calendar years - each focusing on anniversaries of classic Disney films from multiple generations - the series has been stop-start since 2017, releasing expanded editions of the soundtracks to Robin Hood (1973), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and, most recently, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Now, a classic title is added to the Legacy

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice

Too Hot: Edsel Compiles Second Album Box for Kool & The Gang

September 12, 2022 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Kool and the Gang The Albums Volume 2 Cover

In 2024, Kool and the Gang will celebrate 60 years of music-making.  Though the band has weathered the passing of key personnel in recent years including founding members Ronald Bell a.k.a. Khalis Bayyan and Dennis "D.T." Thomas, Robert "Kool" Bell and George "Funky" Brown keep the fusion of soul, R&B, dance, funk, and jazz alive and well.  Earlier this year, Demon Music Group's Edsel label released Kool and the Gang's The Albums Vol. 1: 1970-1978 collecting their first dozen LPs plus a disc

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