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Release Round-Up: Week of April 18

April 18, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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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. Neil Young, Coastal: The Soundtrack (Reprise/NYA) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The concert film Coastal, documenting Neil Young's 2023 solo concert tour, was released to cinemas yesterday; today, its soundtrack album arrives on CD, LP, and digital formats.  The 11-track album includes Young favorites such as "I Am a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Donna Summer, Francois Hardy, John Cowsill, Kenny Dorham, Melanie, Neil Young, Patsy Cline, Richard Pryor, Shirley Bassey, The Rembrandts, Vicki Peterson

The Spirit of Man: Madfish Preps Box Set Edition of Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds' Concept Album

April 17, 2025 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds box

When H.G. Wells published The War of the Worlds as a serialized collection of stories in 1897 and a full novel a year later, he may not have known the groundbreaking work he was unleashing on the world. A sci-fi story that dared to look at the dark side of theoretical human-alien contact, War of the Worlds was a fantastical-yet-grounded story that imagined visitors from the planet Mars as anything but friendly. The book became fertile ground for adaptations, from Orson Welles' dramatic 1938

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: David Essex, Gary Barlow, Jeff Wayne, Jerry Wayne, Justin Hayward, Liam Neeson, Marti Pellow, Phil Lynott

Jubilee: Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" Returns to Vinyl from Craft Recordings

April 16, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky Craft

Chances are if your local oldies station is airing a One Hit Wonders show, the name of Norman Greenbaum will be high on the countdown.  Okay, it's not technically accurate; the Massachusetts-born singer-songwriter followed up his famous hit with "Canned Ham" (No. 46 on the U.S. Pop chart) in 1970 and "California Earthquake" (No. 93) in 1971.  But Greenbaum's 1969 smash "Spirit in the Sky" remains the song with which the artist will be forever identified - an international chart-topper which

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Norman Greenbaum

He Wears It Well: Rod Stewart's 'Ultimate Hits' Due in June

April 14, 2025 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Rod Stewart Ultimate Hits Amazon exclusive

Ahead of a prolific year of touring - and in the same year the British rocker turns 80 - a new career-spanning collection from Rod Stewart will be released this summer in multiple formats. Ultimate Hits, available June 27, offers Rod the Mod's most beloved solo hits from the '70s, '80s and '90s, from "Maggie May" and "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" to "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Young Turks"; "Forever Young" and "Downtown Train" to "Have I Told You Lately" and "Rhythm of My Heart."

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Rod Stewart

Have You Heard? Rhino's Newest Quadio Batch Includes Rod Stewart, ZZ Top, Beaver and Krause, Modern Jazz Quartet

April 11, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Quadio Batch 8

Rhino's Quadio series is back!  The ongoing series of four-channel surround Blu-ray Audio Discs has announced its latest four titles, available now directly from Rhino.com.  This eclectic group encompasses releases from Rod Stewart, ZZ Top, The Modern Jazz Quartet, and Beaver and Krause. Rod Stewart's sixth album, 1975's Atlantic Crossing marked a new chapter for the Faces singer.  Produced by Tom Dowd and recorded across various studios in North America, the album was sequenced with one

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Classic Rock, Electronic, Jazz, Pop Tags: Beaver and Krause, Modern Jazz Quartet, Rod Stewart, ZZ Top

Goody, Goody, Goody: Cherry Red Collects Mark Wirtz Rarities on "Dream, Dream, Dream"

April 8, 2025 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Mark Wirtz Dream Dream Dream

The late Mark Wirtz (1943-2020) - a German-French songwriter-producer who found his biggest successes in England - is best-remembered for A Teenage Opera, an embryonic rock opera which inspired the likes of Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney and spawned Keith West's U.K. No. 2 single "Grocer Jack," a.k.a. "Excerpt from A Teenage Opera."  Yet there was much more to Wirtz's discography than that lone hit and its parent project.  Cherry Red's Strawberry imprint recently boxed up five discs of

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Keith West, Kippington Lodge, Mark Wirtz, Peanut, Samantha Jones, Sue and Sunny, Tomorrow

Feel the Force: Disney to Release Japanese Box Set of 'Star Wars' Music with TV Scores Making CD Debuts

March 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

SW Celebration Japan box

Fans making the pilgrimage to next month's Star Wars Celebration event in Japan can keep an eye out for a new box set fitting in perfectly with the country's commitment to music on CD. Available in limited quantities during the event at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City, Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025: Original Soundtrack Box Set brings together scores from 23 films and television series in the universe created by writer/director George Lucas, with exclusively designed artwork. While none of the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Powell, John Williams, Michael Giacchino

They'll Be There for You: 10 Record Store Day Exclusives Getting CD Releases

March 19, 2025 By Mike Duquette 13 Comments

Talking Heads Live on Tour 78

The Record Store Day round-up marches on! After covering in detail the vinyl offerings from Universal Music Group, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, BMG, Craft Recordings, Real Gone Music, Omnivore and U.K. labels Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, we've still got a few things to highlight...notably, the work of labels who are serving one of Record Store Day's least-served fans. There are plenty of business and financial reasons why some Record Store Day titles are limited solely to vinyl,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Francoise Hardy, Gloria Jones, Jackie DeShannon, Marc Bolan, Pixies, Record Store Day, Robert Hunter, Suede, T Rex, Talking Heads, The Mission, The Rembrandts, Vince Guaraldi

Hand of Doom: Rhino Hi-Fi Reissues Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," Alice Cooper's "Love It to Death"

March 14, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Alice Cooper Love It to Death Hi Fi

This morning, Rhino announced the latest two titles in its Rhino High-Fidelity series, and both titles are available now for shipping directly from Rhino.com.  With Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Alice Cooper's Love It to Death both newly remastered with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray for the audiophile-standard series, hard rock is the order of the day.  Both titles are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and limited to 5,000 units each. Black Sabbath's 1970 LP Paranoid remains a watershed release, auguring

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath

Release Round-Up: Week of March 14

March 14, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Jimmy Page Black Crowes Live at The Greek

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. Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes, Live at the Greek (Silver Arrow) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chaka Khan, Goo Goo Dolls, Jimmy Page, Rufus, The Black Crowes, The Smithereens, World Party

Hungry for Heaven: Dio's First Seven Albums Get U.K. Vinyl Box Set Release

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Dio Complete Albums 1983 1993

One of heavy metal's major icons will be celebrated with a new U.K. vinyl collection. UMR will release Dio's The Complete Albums 1983-1993, chronicling the seven original studio and live releases from the legendary heavy metal vocalist and his band. (Vertigo/Mercury distributed all the albums overseas, while Warner Music continues to handle this portion of the catalogue today.) The box, available March 28, offers new pressings of Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dio, Ronnie James Dio

Larger Than Life: Backstreet Boys Reboot 'Millennium' with Bonus Disc

March 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Backstreet Boys Millennium 2 0

A new reissue from Legacy Recordings - one with an extremely long lead time - will revisit the ascendance of the Backstreet Boys to the top of a crop of late '90s and early '00s boy bands. The quintet's 1999 blockbuster Millennium will be celebrated for its belated 25th anniversary with a new 2CD, 2LP and digital set that pairs the original album with a baker's dozen rare and unreleased tracks, including B-sides, demos, live cuts and the new track "Hey." The album will be out July 11 (yes,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Backstreet Boys

The Singer

February 28, 2025 By

Shirley Bassey The Singer

Cherry Red is getting the party started with Dame Shirley Bassey.  The label's Strawberry imprint is releasing The Singer, a 3-CD collection filled with previously unreleased tracks, hits, and rarities primarily drawn from the "Goldfinger" chanteuse's period with United Artists Records (1966-1980).  It's been fully authorized by Dame Shirley herself, and audio has been restored and remastered by Richard Moore.  All told, 28 tracks premiere on this set, including Dame Shirley's 1973 Royal Albert

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Bloody Well Right: Mercury Studios Reissues Supertramp's "Live in Paris '79"

February 27, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Supertramp Live in Paris '79

With the release of 1979's Breakfast in America, Supertramp ascended to superstar status. The U.K. group's sixth studio album, Breakfast was one of the year's best-selling albums.  It yielded four international hits with "The Logical Song" (No. 6 U.S./No. 7 U.K.), "Take the Long Way Home" (No. 10 U.S.), "Goodbye Stranger" (No. 15 U.S./No. 57 U.K.) and "Breakfast in America" (No. 62 U.S./No. 9 U.K.).  The LP won two Grammy Awards and was certified quadruple Platinum in the United States where it

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Supertramp

Goldsinger: Cherry Red Collects Rare and Unreleased Shirley Bassey on New Compilation

February 25, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Shirley Bassey The Singer

Cherry Red is getting the party started with Dame Shirley Bassey.  On April 18, the label's Strawberry imprint will release The Singer, a 3-CD collection filled with previously unreleased tracks, hits, and rarities primarily drawn from the "Goldfinger" chanteuse's period with United Artists Records (1966-1980).  It's been fully authorized by Dame Shirley herself. The project's roots stretch back nearly 15 years.  In 2011, plans began to release two CDs of rarities from the UA years and one

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Shirley Bassey

Bits of Blue Sky: Godley & Creme's Duo Discography Collected for New Box Set

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Godley Creme Parts of the Process packshot

Between their time as half of the head-turning British rock band 10cc and a whole new career as innovative music video directors, Godley & Creme carved out a unique discography as a duo. It's one that Edsel will revisit in a soon-to-be-released box set called Parts of the Process: The Complete Godley & Creme. Due for release this Friday, February 28, Parts of the Process is an 11CD set that offers the duo's seven studio releases - Consequences (1977), L (1978), Freeze

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: 10cc, Godley and Creme

Do Ya, Do Ya Want This Disc? The Move's Transition to Something Electric Comes Alive from Esoteric

February 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Move Message from the Country

The final works from British rockers The Move were relatively ignored by everyone, including the band themselves - until listeners started to realize how it marked the trio's transition into a whole new sound. Cherry Red's Esoteric label will revisit the group's fourth album Message from the Country in a newly remastered and expanded package, available February 28. The Move started life as a harmony-rich quintet from Birmingham in the late '60s, enjoying a half dozen Top 10s on the U.K.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move

Beggar on a Beach of Gold: Mike + The Mechanics, Now on Craft, Release New Hits Set

February 20, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Mike + The Mechanics Looking Back Living the Years

One of Genesis' key members, bassist and later guitarist Mike Rutherford, will celebrate the solo side of his career with a new career-spanning compilation. Looking Back - Living the Years is a new 16-track collection culling from nearly every one of Rutherford's albums with side project Mike + The Mechanics, for which he is the sole consistent member. (Every one of the band's many vocalists will be represented on the set.) Marking 40 years since the group's self-titled debut in 1985 - the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Mike + the Mechanics, Mike Rutherford, Paul Carrack

Only You Can Free My Mind: Real Gone Music and Omnivore's RSD Lineups Include Better Than Ezra, Francoise Hardy, Jackie DeShannon, Doc Pomus, More

February 18, 2025 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Jackie DeShannon Love Forever

Continuing our look through this year's Record Store Day offerings, here's the lineups for Real Gone Music and Omnivore.  You'll find music from the 1960s and the 1990s, and each company has a collection of rare demo recordings by a famed songwriter (Jackie DeShannon and Doc Pomus).  All descriptions are taken directly from Real Gone Music and Omnivore Recordings.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for the full list of participating retailers you can visit on Saturday, April 12, to join in the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Better Than Ezra, Dada, Deicide, Doc Pomus, Francoise Hardy, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Jackie DeShannon, Record Store Day, The Rembrandts

Like Gangbusters: JoBoxers' Complete Works Get Anthologized by Cherry Red

February 17, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

JoBoxers Just Got Lucky Complete

If you've ever wanted to search beyond "Just Got Lucky," the worldwide hit from British New Wave group JoBoxers, a new triple-disc anthology from Cherry Red has you covered. The aptly-titled Just Got Lucky: The Complete Works 1983-1986 highlights the release of the band's sole album, 1983's Like Gangbusters, along with material from two planned follow-up records and a live recording from the band's commercial peak - some 28 unreleased tracks in all. The group, recently reunited in the 2020s,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: JoBoxers

Found All the Parts: Music on Vinyl Reissues Cheap Trick Albums Box

February 10, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Cheap Trick MOV box

Elo, kiddies! An out-of-print Cheap Trick box set is coming back to CD as well as a first-time LP adaptation for Music on Vinyl. The Complete Epic Albums Collection, originally released in 2013 as part of a flurry of similar box sets from Legacy Recordings, captured just nearly everything Rockford's finest put out between 1977 and 1990, including their first 11 studio albums (including the first-time physical release of the "authorized" version of 1983's Next Position Please), an expanded

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Cheap Trick

Best in Show

February 3, 2025 By

World Party Best in Show

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The work of the late Welsh musical polymath Karl Wallinger is revisited with a worldwide expanded release of the sole compilation credited to his project World Party. Originally released in certain territories (and not his native United Kingdom) to promote a tour in 2007, Best in Show was rather cynically designed in sequence with World Party's most popular tracks on digital music shops, thus kicking

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

Going Back Again: Rhino Boxes Fleetwood Mac's Classic Quintet Albums

January 29, 2025 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Fleetwood Mac 1975 to 1987 box

Today in "sure, why not": Rhino will release a box set of Fleetwood Mac's classic albums as a quintet. 1975 to 1987, available March 28, is exactly what it states: a box set of Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours (1977), Tusk (1979), Mirage (1982) and Tango in the Night (1987) - available as a 5CD set or a 6LP crystal-clear vinyl box. (D2C orders from Rhino will add an additional reissue of a promotional 12" on crystal clear vinyl, offering stereo and mono versions of Rumours-era non-album cut

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks

Sweet Soul Dream: World Party's 'Best in Show' Gets Expanded

January 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

World Party Best in Show

The work of the late musical polymath Karl Wallinger will be revisited this year with a worldwide expanded release of the sole compilation credited to his project World Party. Originally released in certain territories (and not his native United Kingdom) to promote a tour in 2007, Best in Show was rather cynically designed in sequence with World Party's most popular tracks on digital music shops, thus kicking off with debut single "Ship of Fools" and originally featuring no less than seven

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Rock Tags: World Party

Release Round-Up: Week of January 24

January 24, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

A Complete Unknown OST

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. Badfinger, Head First: 50th Anniversary Edition (Y&T) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Head First, originally intended to be Badfinger's eighth album and third for Warner Bros. Records, was recorded in 1974 but shelved until 2000.  That release presented a rough mix by Apple Studios engineer Phil McDonald; now, 25

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Bob Dylan, Dan Fogelberg, Eric Clapton, Jeannie Piersol, Tim Weisberg, Van Morrison

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