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Ace Round-Up: Label Celebrates John Barry, Jackie DeShannon, Thom Bell, Paul Williams, Holland-Dozier-Holland

October 9, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

John Barry Something's Up

Today, we're rounding up five releases from Ace Records, all of which were released within the past few months by the U.K. label. Ace has followed up its 2022 collection dedicated to the oeuvre of composer John Barry, The More Things Change: Film TV, and Studio Work 1968-1972, with a new volume of the film maestro's works.  Something's Up!  Film, TV, and Studio Work 1964-1967 (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) hardly plays like a collection of runners-up, however.  Barry crafted so

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Holland-Dozier-Holland, Jackie DeShannon, John Barry, Paul Williams, Roger Nichols, Thom Bell, Various Artists

Set the Night on Fire: The Doors Announce 60th Anniversary Campaign

October 8, 2024 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

The Doors Night Divides the Day

2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of The Doors. Though the eponymous debut album from Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore didn't hit stores until January 1967, the foursome was already a seasoned one, having served as house band at the famed Whisky a Go Go since mid-1966. To celebrate 60 years since that fateful day when Manzarek met his old UCLA classmate Morrison on a California beach and the two decided to form a band, Rhino has announced a number of

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Categories: News Formats: Books, Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Doors

Release Round-Up: Week of October 4

October 4, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Joni Archives 4 cover

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. Joni Mitchell, Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) (Rhino) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) features six CDs (also available as a "highlights" set on four LPs) chronicling the Canadian icon's trek

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Afterimage, Barbra Streisand, Bob McFadden, Bobby Helms, Foreigner, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga, Pete Townshend, Rod McKuen, Rod Stewart

Can't Wait Till Tomorrow: Cherry Red Expands Sheena Easton's 'Do You'

October 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Sheena Easton Do You

With 1984's A Private Heaven, Sheena Easton successfully followed in the footsteps of Olivia Newton-John in shedding her "girl next door" persona - so much so that future U.S. Second Lady Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center "honored" Sheena's Prince-penned "Sugar Walls" with a slot on its "Filthy Fifteen" list.  No wonder Gore and co. were threatened by the success of "Sugar Walls;" A Private Heaven became the singer's most successful album to date.  How to follow it up?  Enter Nile

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Nile Rodgers, Sheena Easton

In Memoriam: Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024)

September 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Kris Kristofferson Kristofferson

On a Sunday mornin' sidewalk/I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned/'Cause there's somethin' in a Sunday/That makes a body feel alone... With songs such as "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," Kris Kristofferson expanded the vernacular of country music, bringing realism, gritty authenticity, and a literate sensibility - he was an Oxford-schooled Rhodes Scholar -  to a genre already known for its unvarnished musical stories of pain and heartbreak.  Kristofferson would find himself at the vanguard of

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Wild and Crazy: Rhino Collects Steve Martin's Comedy Albums

September 30, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Steve in a Box

There aren't many comedians funnier than Steve Martin. Though the gray-haired funnyman only spent the better part of a decade performing as a stand-up before pursuing acting, writing, and even bluegrass originals, Martin's brilliant blend of highbrow, lowbrow and absurdist humor made him one of the most head-turning entertainers of his generation. Rhino Records will celebrate his funniest sides with a new box set in November. Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977-1981) brings together all

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The Weekend Stream: September 28, 2024

September 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Stream 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. There's a lot of killer stuff on the list today, including two new singles from rock icons, a digital expansion of one of Sting's best-loved albums, live David Bowie coming from the vaults, a Stevie Wonder syllabus and much more! The Cure, "Alone" (Polydor) (iTunes / Amazon) For the first time in 16 years, The Cure are set to release a new

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ben Folds, Chillina Kennedy, Ciara, Daryl Hall, David Bowie, Eric McCormack, Lea Salonga, Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Sting, The Cure, Tove Lo

The Jungle is Your Head: U2 Prep 'Atomic Bomb' Box

September 27, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

U2 Atomic Bomb box

Hello, hello: U2 will revisit their 11th album - and, depending on where you stand, the end of one era and the start of another - with a deluxe box set edition of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. The set, available November 22 - exactly 20 years to the day of its original release - will feature five CDs or eight LPs of music: the original album, new collections of unreleased demos and vintage remixes, and the debut audio release of Vertigo 2005 - Live from Chicago, released on DVD in 2005 in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: U2

Release Round-Up: Week of September 27

September 27, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

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. Chicago, Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Neuwirth, Chicago, Gavin DeGraw, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Lady Gaga, Melanie, Michael Bublé, Ray Charles, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison

Hold Me Now: Thompson Twins Go Back 'Into the Gap' with Deluxe Reissue of Breakthrough Album

September 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Thompson Twins Into the Gap deluxe

Beloved British pop group Thompson Twins will revisit their seminal fourth album, 1984's Into the Gap, in a new deluxe edition from BMG this fall. Newly remastered by Frank Arkwright, the triple-disc set will include the original album - including U.K. Top 10s "Hold Me Now," "Doctor! Doctor!" and "You Take Me Up" - alongside 30 bonus tracks, including all the extras from the original British cassette edition of the album, nine B-sides and single edits making their CD/digital debuts, and

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

Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart: Cherry Red to Release Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club Collection

September 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Camera Club Definitive Anthology

Everyone knows the story: at the stroke of midnight on August 1, 1981, the new cable station Music Television (MTV) first aired, playing a steady stream of heretofore little-seen "music videos" that redefined pop music for the rest of the decade. Their first, of course, was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star": a prescient choice, though not even a single from the '80s (it topped the U.K. charts and dented the U.S. Top 40 in 1979!) - and, as a new collection from Cherry Red underlines, The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Woolley, Geoff Downes, The Buggles, The Camera Club, Thomas Dolby, Trevor Horn

Crawling from the Wreckage: Omnivore Preps Double-Disc Collection of Dave Edmunds' Complete Swan Song Singles

September 24, 2024 By The Second Disc 11 Comments

Dave Edmunds Swan Songs

From his very first solo hit in 1970 (a cover of Dave Bartholomew's "I Hear You Knocking") to his final album release (2015's On Guitar...Rags and Classics), Welsh guitarist-singer-songwriter-producer Dave Edmunds proselytized for the power of pure rock-and-roll.  Whether stripping the sound down to basics or doing a spot-on emulation of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Edmunds emphasized the joy of the genre.  In January 1972, he released his first solo album: Rockpile.  Its title would augur

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Dave Edmunds, Huey Lewis and The News, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, The Stray Cats

Needless to Say: Al Stewart's "Past, Present and Future" Goes Deluxe From Esoteric

September 24, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Al Stewart Past Present and Future

Al Stewart fans have been rather well-served in recent years.  The historically-minded troubadour recently released a new live album with the band The Empty Pockets, preserving a concert set on 2 CDs.  Earlier this summer, Al received a volume of Rhino's Now Playing series of vinyl compilations.  Last year, TSD teamed up with Real Gone Music for Songs on the Radio: The Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981, and in 2022, Madfish issued The Admiralty Lights, a massive 50-CD box set featuring (almost)

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The Singles: The First 50 Years

September 23, 2024 By

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada ABBA's The Singles (The First Fifty Years) updates the concept of 1982's The Singles (The First Ten Years), a double album which collected 23 of the group's A-sides (including new tracks "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," effectively the final works from the group after members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as well as Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog divorced.  The First Fifty

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Queen I: Collectors Edition

September 23, 2024 By

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6CD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (CDs 1 and 3 of box set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP (Album Remix Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Queen are going back to the beginning of their recording career on a new box set edition of their debut.  The Collectors Edition of their 1973 self-titled effort - now retitled Queen I - will be a 6CD/LP set featuring a brand-new remix of the album by engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris

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Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 `

September 23, 2024 By

Miles Paris Jazz Festival

6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Discs 7-8 from box): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Two years after its last entry, Legacy Recordings revives the Miles Davis Bootleg Series with a deep dive into some early '60s live recordings that showcase the birth of his second great quintet. Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 brings together five sets on six CDs or eight LPs: three performances from the

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Danse Macabre: De Luxe

September 23, 2024 By

Danse Macabre De Luxe

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Box Set: Official Store Duran Duran's 2023 album Danse Macabre came just two years after the release of Future Past in 2021 - the shortest gap between new LPs from the band since the mid-'90s. The band were certainly riding high: Future Past was a celebration of what made the Birmingham group so beloved 40 years on from their debut, featuring collaborations with Mark Ronson, Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, David Bowie keyboardist Mike Garson,

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Talking Heads '77: Super Deluxe Edition

September 23, 2024 By

Talking Heads 77 box

3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/4 7": Rhino.com Rhino's Talking Heads revisitation won't end with Stop Making Sense - they'll release a new deluxe box set of the group's 1977 debut album, featuring rare outtakes and B-sides, a live show and the album remixed in Dolby Atmos and surround, as overseen by the band's keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison.  The super deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77 will come in hardcover

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 20

September 20, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Live Recordings

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. Bob Dylan, The 1974 Tour Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In 1974, Bob Dylan embarked on an extensive tour with his old backing band.  Now, they, too, were universally known - as The Band - and the double bill hit indoor arenas across North America for 40 concerts over 30 dates and 21

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Cher, Double Exposure, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Herb Alpert, Jackson Browne, Peggy Lee, Phil Collins, Sam Phillips, Shirley Horn, The Band

Try Some, Buy Some: George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" Gets Expanded For Its 50th

September 19, 2024 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

As the studio follow-up to his landmark triple album All Things Must Pass, George Harrison further explored his spiritual and physical selves on 1973's leaner Living in the Material World.  On November 15, the album will return from Dark Horse and BMG in a belated 50th anniversary edition comprising 2 CDs, 2 LPs, and a Blu-ray.  It's limited to 5,000 units worldwide.  The original album, newly remixed by Paul Hicks, will also be available in 2LP & 2CD Deluxe Editions, Limited Edition color

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In Memoriam: JD Souther (1945-2024)

September 18, 2024 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

John David Souther

"We always said our motto was 'we're building to last.'  We really spent a lot of time on the songs.  The other motto was, 'no filler.'  You don't make a single and then put a bunch of filler on an album.  You make an album and hope you have a single," JD Souther shared with me earlier this year.  The singer-songwriter's extraordinary body of work, one of the cornerstones of the Southern California rock sound, reflected that ethos: "You're Only Lonely."  "Faithless Love." "Her Town Too."  "Best

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Qu'est-ce que c'est? Talking Heads' Debut Gets Box Set Treatment

September 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Talking Heads 77 box

Rhino's Talking Heads revisitation won't end with Stop Making Sense - they'll release a new deluxe box set of the group's 1977 debut album, featuring rare outtakes and B-sides, a live show and the album remixed in Dolby Atmos and surround, as overseen by the band's keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison. Available November 8, the super deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77 will come in hardcover book packaging that'll feature 80 pages of rare archival photos and liner notes written by all four

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I'll Wear It Proudly: Elvis Costello Coronates 'King of America' for New Box Set

September 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

King of America and Other Realms packshot

When King of America became Rhino's penultimate Elvis Costello reissue in 2005, a hype sticker cheekily hailed it as "the album that fans, critics and Elvis Costello all agree on." Perhaps that's why it'll be the next of his classic albums to receive a deluxe box set this fall. King of America and Other Realms, available November 1, follows the super deluxe, vinyl-and-digital-only The Complete Armed Forces box; however, this one's primarily available on CD - six of 'em, in total. The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash

This Time La Luna: Duran Duran Expand 'Danse Macabre' One Year from Its Original Release

September 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Danse Macabre De Luxe vinyl box

As we get closer to the time when there's a chill in the air and a penchant for "spooky season," Duran Duran are getting back into the spirit with an expanded version of their last album, meant to celebrate all things strange and unusual. 2023's Danse Macabre came just two years after the release of Future Past in 2021 - the shortest gap between new LPs from the band since the mid-'90s. The band were certainly riding high: Future Past was a celebration of what made the Birmingham group so

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Duran Duran

Vive Le Miles! Eighth Volume of 'Bootleg Series' Spotlights Davis' Second Quintet in France

September 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Miles Bootleg 8 packshot

Two years after its last entry, Legacy Recordings revives the Miles Davis Bootleg Series with a deep dive into some early '60s live recordings that showcase the birth of his second great quintet. Miles in France 1963 & 1964: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 brings together five sets on six CDs or eight LPs: three performances from the Festival Mondial du Jazz in the summer of 1963 and two performances over a day at the Paris Jazz Festival in October 1964. (The 1964 material - which features the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

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