The late Jimmy Buffett was recently announced to join Dionne Warwick, late producer-songwriter Norman Whitfield, and Michigan rockers MC5 as a recipient of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Musical Excellence Award. The singer-songwriter who passed away last September at the age of 76 left behind a legacy of music (and beyond) that continues to entertain and inspire. His final album, Equal Strain on All Parts, was one of his most moving, blending his infectious optimism and tropical pop with
Prove Your Love: Fleetwood Mac's Early Years Chronicled on New Compilation
With 1975's Fleetwood Mac, the venerable blues-rock outfit founded by Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green, and Jeremy Spencer made a strategic leap towards the mainstream. Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie were joined on that album by two Americans, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who transformed the band into a commercial rock behemoth. Those who had followed the group's early years, though, knew that the only thing to expect from Fleetwood Mac was the unexpected. On July
The Weekend Stream: May 17, 2024
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week brings live tracks from The Boss, rarities from Sheena Easton and a new album from one half of rock's biggest (defunct) duo - plus, as you'd expect, so much more! Bruce Springsteen, The Live Series: Songs from Around the World Vol. 2 (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) With Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band currently
Moonlight Serenade: Stage Door Reissues Max Bygraves' "Discolongamax"
Tomorrow, Stage Door Records delivers perhaps the most unexpected reissue of the year - and almost certainly the campiest! Fans of kitsch (and you know who you are!) will doubtless find much to enjoy in Stage Door's CD premiere of Discolongamax from the late British entertainer Max Bygraves (1922-2012). This marks the third release in the label's Pop series, following an expanded album from The Nolans and the television-themed Crossroads Wedding Party. Cast album connoisseurs might know
PRE-ORDER UPDATE: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Team to Celebrate The Salsoul Orchestra on New Box Set
Last Christmas, The Second Disc teamed with SoulMusic Records and Cherry Red for The Salsoul Orchestra's Christmas Jollies: The Extra Jolly Edition, celebrating the best-selling album in the entire Salsoul catalogue. On May 31, we'll follow that set up with It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978), the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra's groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and conducted by Vincent Montana, Jr.! U.S. customers: pre-orders
Life's Like This: Avril Lavigne Announces Greatest Hits Collection
For more than two decades, Avril Lavigne has been a purveyor of punk-flavored pop. Could she make it any more obvious? The answer is yes: ahead of a summer tour, she's releasing her first, career-spanning greatest hits album. The 20-track set hits stores June 21, smack in the middle of a global trek that kicks off tomorrow at Texas' Ford Center at the Star and stretches through September, making stops across North America and Europe (including festival stops at Pinkpop, Glastonbury and
I'll Love You Forever: 7a Reissues, Expands Davy Jones' "Incredible!" Album
Davy Jones' "lost" album, Incredible!, is finally seeing a wide, authorized release from our friends at 7a Records. This Friday, May 17, the label will issue the album on both CD and limited edition, 180-gram, LP pressed on blue vinyl. Incredible! has taken on almost mythical status among Monkees collecting circles. Jones recorded the original 10-song set at the height of the '80s wave of Monkeemania when new fans were discovering Davy, Mickey, Peter, and Mike through MTV, syndication, and
The Weekend Stream: May 11, 2024
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. A legendary rock vocalist revives one of his deep cuts with a new generation of talent, a '70s pop classic comes to digital for the first time and one of our favorite current bands preps their new album - plus so much more! The Effect & Steve Perry, "It Could Have Been You" (Core4) (iTunes / Amazon) Rock band The Effect is full of
What's So Funny: Cherry Red, Lemon Collect Brinsley Schwarz Albums on "Thinking Back"
Brinsley Schwarz, the band, may be best-remembered today as the launching pad for singer-songwriter Nick Lowe and as a prime exemplar of the U.K. pub rock scene. The band's studio albums, though, reveal diverse influences and a vibrant sound that more than holds up today. In recent months, Cherry Red's Lemon Recordings imprint brought together the band's seven albums plus more than 60 bonus tracks on the whopping 7-CD box set Thinking Back: The Anthology 1970-1975. Guitarist Brinsley
The Weekend Stream: May 4, 2024
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. The Alan Parsons Project's biggest album gets a second look, plus new music from John Williams, Daryl Hall and the unexpected sort-of return of one of country music's best-known voices. Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the Sky (Sessions) (Arista/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The latest in Legacy's Alan Parsons Project Sessions series, bringing
Release Round-Up: Week of May 3
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. Belinda Carlisle, Decades Vol. 3: Cornucopia (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Edsel continues its chronological collections of Belinda Carlisle's albums with this Cornucopia. The 4-CD book-style box starts off with two discs of mostly "orphaned" tracks released largely between 1987 and 2021: B-sides, non-album
So Much To Say: Real Gone's May Slate Includes Elaine Brown, Tweet, and Thomas Newman
Real Gone's May slate is hitting store shelves tomorrow, May 3, and we've got all the details of the trio of releases below. First up is the vinyl reissue of Elaine Brown's Seize the Time - Black Panther Party from 1969. Brown has been an activist for most her life and became the first and only Chairwoman of the Black Panther Party in 1974, appointed by Huey Newton. She first joined the Party in 1968 after having worked at the newspaper Harambee and being a representative at the Black
Can't Outrun a Memory
Can't Outrun a Memory is Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers' first studio set since 2017's More Yesterdays Than Tomorrows. Grushecky states in the press release of this new LP, "This one was a long time coming, but we worked through, never losing sight that we were creating one of our best records. I believe we captured the band at its peak." Omnivore's release, available on CD, 2 LPs, and digital formats, includes a quartet of bonus tracks illuminating the songs' development.
Take Me Higher: Omnivore Preps Maurice White Rarities, Silver Convention Singles
Today, we're taking a look at two upcoming titles in a soul and R&B vein from Omnivore Recordings! This Friday, May 3, our friends at Omnivore have a treat for fans of Earth, Wind & Fire. The visionary founder and leader of EWF, the late Maurice White (1941-2016), only released one proper solo album in his lifetime (1985's Maurice White). Working on the R&B and Dance chart-topper "System of Survival" for EWF's album Touch the World, White inaugurated a friendship and
Rock and Roll Heart: Omnivore Celebrates Joe Grushecky with Career Anthology, New Album
The title of the 1979 debut album from Joe Grushecky and The Iron City Houserockers proclaimed Love's So Tough. The Pittsburgh native and his band captured their city's blue-collar milieu, recalling a harder-edged E Street Band. The group took their sound an expansive step further with 1980's Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive!, a bar-band classic which welcomed guests including Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, and Stevie Van Zandt. That album introduced "Pumping Iron" which quickly became the band's
King of the Monsters: Universal Japan to Reissue More Than 20 Godzilla Film Scores for Franchise's 70th Anniversary
Seven decades ago, the mighty Godzilla first rose from the sea to become one of Japanese film's most legendary characters. This summer, with interest in the character still at an all-time high, Universal Music Group's Japanese arm will reissue nearly two dozen classic soundtracks from the film series. UMG will newly remaster and repress on SHM-CD the scores to the 15 Shōwa-era Godzilla films released between 1954 and 1975, as well as the seven Heisei-era pictures which came out between 1984
Well Alright: New Johnny Cash Album 'Songwriter' Culled from Unreleased 1993 Recordings
Death can't stop The Man in Black: UMe will release a new Johnny Cash album this summer, drawn from unheard recordings from more than 30 years ago. Available June 28, Songwriter features 11 vocals Cash cut in 1993 at LSI Studios in Nashville, augmented by recently-recorded new backing tracks at the Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee by Cash's son John Carter Cash and co-producer David "Fergie" Ferguson. Every one of the tunes was composed solely by Cash himself, from lead single "Well
For Seiji: John Williams' 2023 Tokyo Concert is Latest Live Album from The Maestro
John Williams' latest overseas trip will form another new album from the celebrated composer. John Williams in Tokyo, recorded in 2023 with the Saito Kinen Orchestra and featuring a very special tribute to one of the country's most beloved conductors, will be released May 10 by Deutsche Grammophon on multiple formats including standard CD and vinyl and a deluxe 2CD/Blu-ray set. An arguable highlight of Williams' continued tenure as film score's elder statesman is his semi-annual trip outside
The Second Disc's Guide to Record Store Day 2024: Our Essential Picks
Tomorrow, Record Store Day is once again upon us! It's that time of year where music lovers and vinyl flippers get together at their favorite physical music retailers and wait in line to snag some treasured albums - almost all of which are pressed on vinyl instead of CD (or, you know, sold on secondary marketplaces for above their retail value). This year, the list tops out at over 350 titles, so there's very nearly something for everybody. It wasn't easy to narrow our choices down to around
Release Round-Up: Week of April 19
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. With Record Store Day events taking place tomorrow, this is one of the biggest weeks in recent memory - so if you hit up your local indie store tomorrow, remember: there's plenty of non-exclusive releases to check out, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TSD also mourns the passing of Dickey Betts, 80. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of The
Shadows and Light: Joni Mitchell's Asylum Albums Go Quadio
Joni Mitchell has had quite the year, stopping the show at the Grammy Awards (did anybody watching not shed a tear?), reinventing "I'm Still Standing" at the Gershwin Prize celebration of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and preparing for her Los Angeles concert return with sold-out, hotly-anticipated Joni Jams at the Hollywood Bowl in October. Today, Rhino announced one more jewel in Mitchell's crown. Her 2022 box set The Asylum Albums (1972-1975) has been reissued with a twist: all four albums
Going "Crazay": Jesse Johnson's Solo Albums Back in Print from Robinsongs
Minneapolis guitarist Jesse Johnson, best known as a member of The Time, will be celebrated by Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint with a 2CD set that combines three of his solo albums for the A&M label and an assortment of extras. The simply titled Jesse Johnson Revue / Shockadelica / Every Shade of Love + Bonus Tracks brings together Johnson's three post-Time solo efforts issued between 1985 and 1988, featuring the Billboard Hot 100 hits "Be Your Man," "I Want My Girl," "Crazay" (featuring
I Can't Wait: The Stereo Sonic Reissues, Expands Nu Shooz's "Poolside"
Following last year's expanded reissue of Company B's debut album, The Stereo Sonic is back with a new expansion: this time, of Nu Shooz's breakthrough album, Poolside. The 1986 Atlantic Records release of Poolside marked the culmination of years during which the group climbed the showbiz ladder. The husband-and-wife duo of John Smith (guitarist) and Valerie Day (vocalist/percussionist) were mainstays of a lineup that experienced many permutations, from a soul quartet to a big band
Release Round-Up: Week of April 12
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. Eagles, To the Limit: The Essential Collection (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 3CD with replica tour pass: Target.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 2LP Highlights: Target.com To the Limit: The Essential Collection celebrates Eagles' current Long Goodbye
Sweet Dream: Jethro Tull Expands Live "Bursting Out" In New "Inflated Edition" Remixed by Steven Wilson
Jethro Tull's first live album, 1978's Bursting Out, hit stores in September 1978. It was recorded just a few months earlier as Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, Dee Palmer, and Barriemore Barlow toured behind their eleventh studio album, Heavy Horses. On June 21, it will return from Rhino in a new 3CD/3DVD book-style edition featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson and an array of bonus material. Bursting Out: The Inflated Edition contains: CD 1: Jethro Tull Live:
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