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Cops! Dinosaurs! Star Trek! La-La Land's Black Friday Slate Available For Ordering TODAY!

November 29, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

John Williams Jurassic Park

From the deepest reaches of space (the final frontier), to the toughest streets on either side of America, to not one, but two prehistoric adventures on tropical islands, La-La Land Records' just-announced final five catalogue soundtrack titles of 2016 offer some of the greatest film music around! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDPGywgZ_Yo "He's been chased, thrown through a window and arrested," the poster proclaimed. Just another day for a Detroit cop on vacation in Beverly

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Brad Fiedel, Don Ellis, Harold Faltermeyer, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Ron Jones

Mister Magic: Cherry Red Collects Grover Washington Jr.'s "Definitive Collection"

November 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Grover Washington Jr. Definitive

In a career spanning three decades, Grammy-winning saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. recorded roughly 25 albums, earned a No. 2 Pop single with Bill Withers, supported countless other vocalists, and recorded music of genres from funk to opera.  (Yes, opera!)  Washington passed away in 1999 at the age of 56, but not before having made his mark on the worlds of jazz and pop alike.  His legacy has recently been celebrated by Cherry Red's Robinsongs label on the new 2-CD Definitive Collection.  This

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bill Withers, Bob James, Eric Gale, Grover Washington Jr., Idris Muhammad, Patti Labelle

Review: "Prince 4Ever"

November 28, 2016 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Prince 4Ever

Prince 4Ever (NPG Records/Warner Bros. 558509-2) is not the Prince compilation I imagined. I've had plenty of time to think about it, from the day Prince and Warner Bros. announced the end of their decades-long war with a new catalogue agreement that honest-to-God made me cry, to the day almost exactly two years later where we cried over Prince for a different reason. But even in my wildest dreams, something about a Prince catalogue campaign seemed ephemeral, not entirely knowable--just like

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

THE SECOND DISC'S 2016 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!

November 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie Who Can I Be Now

We wouldn't want you to be left out in the cold for Cyber Monday, so we're proud to present our annual Holiday Gift Guide featuring more than 50 essential selections for the music enthusiast in your life!  We've filled the guide with box sets (such as the popular David Bowie title to your left!) as well as archival releases and holiday music favorites that make great stocking stuffers.  So Just click here to access this year's top picks! You'll notice that the Gift Guide is in the same

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Categories: Features, Holiday Gift Guide Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

The 1966 Live Recordings

November 28, 2016 By

Bob Dylan 1966 Live

36 discs of music from Bob Dylan's 1966 world tour - every recording of the tour known to exist - are brought together on this monumental new collection.  Read our full review here!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Good Times! The Second Disc's Essential RSD Black Friday 2016 Release Guide

November 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Monkees Good Times Plus

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you're enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of family and friends.  Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year's annual Black Friday - the day for consumers to start off the holiday shopping season on a mad, frenetic note. But 2016 is just in the latest year in which numerous retailers in the U.S. have made headlines by blackening Thursday, or

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, Bob Crewe, Bob Dylan, Charles Fox, CHIC, Erykah Badu, Frank Sinatra, Geto Boys, Isaac Hayes, Record Store Day, The Bangles, The Monkees, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Sugarhill Gang, The Turtles

Release Round-Up: Week of November 25

November 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rumer This Girls In Love

Happy Thanksgiving!  Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Prince 4Ever (Warner Bros.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This release actually came out on Tuesday, but it's worth a reminder here: this first posthumous collection from the late, great artist premieres one previously unreleased track, and includes a number of single versions making their CD debuts.  Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist's major works from his first album, 1978's For You, to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Elaine Paige, Hal David, Lee Hazlewood, Neil Young, Prince, Ron Dante, Rumer, Santana, Terry Dolan, The Afghan Whigs, Vincent Montana Jr.

Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition

November 22, 2016 By

Kylie Minogue Kylie Christmas Deluxe

Kylie Minogue's 2015 Christmas album, featuring duets with Iggy Pop, James Corden, the late Frank Sinatra and others, is expanded with six new bonus tracks including a cover of Roy Wood's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and a duet with Mika on Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime."

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Pop

Thin Red Line [Expanded Edition]

November 22, 2016 By

The Cretones Thin Red Line

Varese Vintage brings the 1980 Planet Records debut of power-pop band The Cretones to CD.  Though The Cretones were overshadowed at the time by Linda Ronstadt's having covered three of their songs on her new wave-influenced Mad Love album, this reissue gives the four-person group headed by Mark Goldenberg and Peter Bernstein a chance to shine.  This remastered edition boasts three previously unreleased bonus tracks: "Mood Vertigo," "Quit It," and "Taking the World with Kisses."

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock

Live at The Old Waldorf

November 22, 2016 By

Todd Rundgren Old Waldorf

Todd Rundgren & Utopia's Live at the Old Waldorf was released on CD last year by Cherry Red as part of Rundgren's ongoing series of concert releases but it makes its vinyl debut here from Real Gone Music.  Recorded on August 5, 1978, this concert was part of the Back to the Bars tour.  Several concerts from that tour have been released and a couple of shows formed the basis of a live album.  This August 5th show features the classic Utopia of Rundgren (guitar/vocals), Willie Wilcox

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Peace Trail

November 22, 2016 By

Neil Young Peace Trail

Peace Trail introduces ten new, primarily acoustic songs from the always-prolific Neil Young.  The album, available on CD, DD and LP, was recorded at Rick Rubin's Shangri-la Studios and features Young on vocals and guitar, Jim Keltner on drums, and Paul Bushnell on bass. It was produced by Young and John Hanlon.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

November 22, 2016 By

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead

2-CD (Original Album and Bonus Disc): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Picture Disc (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition presents the original 1967 album on Disc 1 and an unreleased concert from July 29, 1966 in Vancouver, Canada on Disc 2.  The first disc has been remastered from the original tapes by David Glasser and restored via Plangent Processes (a tape transfer technique which has been used on other Dead projects).  The second

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The Albums

November 22, 2016 By

Bon Jovi Box Contents

Bon Jovi's The Albums includes all 14 of the group's studio efforts, from 1984's blistering-glam self-titled debut to the just-released This House is Not for Sale, the first album without longtime guitarist Richie Sambora. Eleven of these albums have hit the Billboard Top 10 since 1986's chart-topping breakthrough Slippery When Wet; of those, six of these albums (includingThis House is Not for Sale) have hit No. 1. The box will also include frontman Jon Bon Jovi's solo albums Blaze of Glory

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T.A.M.I. Show/The Big T.N.T. Show: Collector's Edition

November 22, 2016 By

TAMI Show and Big TNT Show

These two classic rock films make their Blu-ray debut from Shout! Factory.  1964's T.A.M.I. Show boasts artists from The Beach Boys to The Rolling Stones to The Supremes among numerous other stars (James Brown, Lesley Gore and Smokey Robinson and The Miracles to name a few).  The acts were backed by members of the famed Wrecking Crew under the direction of Jack Nitzsche. The Big T.N.T. Show was filmed in November 1965, like its predecessor in California, and released in 1966.  The sequel once

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

That Same Old Feeling: RPM Collects Pickettywitch, Polly Brown On New Anthology

November 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Pickettywitch That Same Old Feeling

If Pickettywitch is remembered today, it's for "That Same Old Feeling" - the 1970 single penned by the hitmaking team of Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod that reached No. 5 on the U.K. Pop chart. Yet that tune was far from the only slice of upbeat, light and cheerful pop recorded by the Polly Brown-fronted group.  Cherry Red's RPM imprint has recently collected the recordings of Pickettywitch along with a solo LP from Polly, plus Polly and Tony Jackson's album as Sweet Dreams, on a new set.  That

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Pickettywitch, Polly Brown

Never Say Goodbye: Bon Jovi Vinyl Box Planned

November 22, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Bon Jovi Box Contents

More than 30 years after their debut, New Jersey's Bon Jovi are still going strong, and to commemorate that strength, they're releasing a heavy-hitting vinyl box set next year. The Albums includes all 14 of the group's studio efforts, from 1984's blistering-glam self-titled debut to the just-released This House is Not for Sale, the first original album without longtime guitarist Richie Sambora. Eleven of these albums have hit the Billboard Top 10 since 1986's chart-topping breakthrough

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Bon Jovi

Start Down The Golden Road: Rhino Reissues Grateful Dead's Debut to Launch 50th Anniversary Campaign

November 18, 2016 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead

2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Grateful Dead and there were many projects to celebrate the occasion:  concerts, CD anthologies and boxsets, documentaries, DVDs/Blu-rays, and more.  But the Dead did not release their first studio album until 1967 and Rhino is celebrating that anniversary with a new 2-disc version of The Grateful Dead on January 20, 2017.  And Rhino promises that this release is just the start of a massive new reissue campaign focused on the band. The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

Release Round-Up: Week of November 18

November 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Beatles Eight Days a Week BD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - the last of the major release weeks for 2016! The Beatles, Eight Days a Week (DVD or BD) (Apple/Capitol) 2-Disc Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-Disc DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ron Howard's acclaimed 2016 documentary chronicling Beatlemania, Eight Days a Week, hits DVD

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Donna Summer, Gene Autry, Jethro Tull, R.E.M., Roy Acuff, Soundgarden, The Beatles, The Who, Tim Buckley, Tori Amos

Reach for the Sky: Social Distortion to Release "The Independent Years" on Vinyl

November 17, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Social Distortion The Independent Years

Punk icons Social Distortion are rounding up four of their albums for your turntable in a new vinyl box set out this fall. The Independent Years 1983-2004 fills in the gaps on either side of their major-label tenure from 1990 to 1996. Founded in southern California in 1978 and led since then by singer/guitarist Mike Ness, Social D's first album, Mommy's Little Monster, was self-released in 1983. Five years later, after Ness kicked a drug habit and reorganized the band after a hiatus, Prison

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Social Distortion

He's Returned: Glenn Tilbrook Shares Final Volume of Squeeze Demos

November 16, 2016 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Glenn Tilbrook Upon the Rocks

Squeeze songwriter Glenn Tilbrook is going back to the band's first end for his final entry in a series of demo releases. Tilbrook, the man behind the voice, guitar and music of England's most underrated rock band, began a five-part clearing of the vaults almost 10 years ago, when Squeeze, the band he formed with lyricist/vocalist Chris Difford in the 1970s, began their third distinct iteration as a band. As Difford, Tilbrook, bassist John Bentley (with the group from 1980 to 1982) and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze

Big City Christmas

November 16, 2016 By

Big CIty Christmas

Bear Family is getting into the holiday spirit with Big City Christmas, a new collection of 30 Christmas favorites in the pop, R&B, doo-wop and rockabilly styles!  These rare and previously unreleased tracks from 1948-1968 include performances by Frankie Valli and the Four Lovers, Eartha Kitt, Ricky Nelson, Frankie Lymon, and Bill Haley and His Comets!  Familiar favorites are provided by Doris Day, Connie Francis, Dean Martin, Rosemary Clooney, and Chuck Berry, and a 1966 Christmas greeting

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul

Eight Days a Week (DVD/BD)

November 16, 2016 By

Beatles Eight Days a Week BD

2-Disc Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-Disc DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Standard Edition Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Standard Edition DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Ron Howard's acclaimed 2016 documentary chronicling Beatlemania, Eight Days a Week, hits DVD and Blu-ray.  The standard editions offer the film only, while the 2-disc Deluxe Editions add over 100 minutes of bonus features on the second disc, including five full-length, previously unavailable Fab performances.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

The Ultimate Collection

November 16, 2016 By

Donna Summer Ultimate Collection

Driven By The Music continues to celebrate the late, legendary Donna Summer, this time with a 3-CD Ultimate Collection.  This mini-box set features over 50 tracks from 1968-2010, including major hits ("MacArthur Park," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," "She Works Hard for the Money," "Last Dance"), rarities (German recordings from Godspell and Hair!), remixes, single versions, and more!  Pete Bellotte and Harold Faltermeyer provide recollections of working with Donna for the new liner notes!  Also

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul

Beyond "The Year 2525": Tune In Collects Zager and Evans' RCA Recordings

November 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Zager and Evans In the Year 2525

In the annals of one-hit wonders, few are as well-remembered as the duo Zager and Evans.  Rick Evans and Denny Zager, both of Lincoln, Nebraska, hit it big in 1969 with their dark, apocalyptic single "In the Year 2525."  But the duo never scored another Hot 100 hit despite the fact that "2525" topped the Pop and AC charts in the United States and also went to the top in the United Kingdom.  Now, their recordings for RCA have been collected by Cherry Red's Tune In imprint as In the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Zager and Evans

Rock Candy Records To Launch American Label with Sammy Hagar, The Nymphs, More

November 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sammy Hagar All Night Long

Rock Candy Records, the brainchild of former music journalist and A&R man Derek Oliver, has just announced the birth of a U.S. arm.  The American operation for Rock Candy will launch this Friday, November 18, with four titles from Sammy Hagar, The Nymphs, Salty Dog, and Tyketto. Amazon U.S. will have the Hagar and Salty Dog titles in stock on December 2. For the past eight years, the London-based label has celebrated rock and its various strains on a variety of reissues from the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Salty Dog, Sammy Hagar, The Nymphs, Tyketto

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