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Release Round-Up: Week of March 28

March 28, 2025 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Version 1.0.0

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. Fleetwood Mac, 1975 to 1987 (Warner/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with bonus 12") Fleetwood Mac's 1975 to 1987 is exactly what it states: a box set of Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumours (1977), Tusk (1979), Mirage (1982) and Tango in the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Buck Owens, Dio, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Iron City Houserockers, Joe Grushecky, Pete Townshend, Robert Hunter, Santana, Sex Pistols

Whitesnake Remaster Five Live Albums for New Box Set

March 27, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Whitesnake Access All Areas Live

After years of reissues and remixes from hard-rockers Whitesnake at Rhino Records, you'd be forgiven for wondering what the label could still do with David Coverdale's catalogue. That question is now answered with a box set assembling remastered editions of five latter-day live records. Access All Areas: Live, available April 25, is an 8CD collection offering sets recorded between 2004 and 2015 and released over the last two decades. The albums featured are Live...In the Still of the

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

We Were So in Phase: Wang Chung Join Hits and Rarities on New Compilation

March 27, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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The time has come to take your baby by the hand and check out a new compilation from '80s pop hitmakers Wang Chung. The group will release a new double album of hits and rarities, Clear Light / Dark Matter, on May 9. It'll include the singles "Dance Hall Days," "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and "Let's Go!" plus tracks from their cult classic soundtrack from the film To Live and Die in L.A. - along with rare material (including the A-side of their debut single) and even a few unreleased demos.

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Wang Chung

Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1

March 25, 2025 By

Sheena Easton Modern Girl

Sheena Easton's latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new way. Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1 is a 5CD set that covers the bulk of the Scottish singer's first five albums - Take My Time (1981), You Could Have Been with Me (1981), Madness, Money and Music (1982), Best Kept Secret (1983), and the Spanish-language hits album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) - while also premiering more than two dozen unreleased tracks. The set is entirely

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop

Saturnight: Live from Tokyo

March 25, 2025 By

Cat Stevens Saturnight

LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cat Stevens is bringing his 1974 Japan-exclusive album, Saturnight: Live from Tokyo, to CD and wide-release vinyl following 2024's Record Store Day reissue.  The 12-track album features the first live performance of Stevens' cover of Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night" as well as staples including "Wild World," "Peace Train," and "Oh Very Young."  This edition, remastered at Abbey Road, includes

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

Another "Saturnight": Cat Stevens' 1974 Japan Live Album Comes to CD, Vinyl

March 25, 2025 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Cat Stevens Saturnight

Even today, Japan remains a thriving capital of recorded music - and, in particular, physical media.  In the 1970s, it wasn't uncommon for top-tier American artists, from Andy Williams to The Supremes, to record live albums exclusively for the Japanese market.  Among those artists was Yusuf, a.k.a. Cat Stevens, whose 1974's Saturnight: Live from Tokyo was the singer-songwriter's first concert LP.  Now, following its reissue last November as part of Record Store Day's Black Friday event,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Cat Stevens

Cuts The Deepest: Edsel Celebrates P.P. Arnold on "Soul Survivor" Box Set

March 24, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

PP Arnold Soul Survivor

One of P.P. Arnold's early sides for Immediate Records was titled "Am I Still Dreaming?"  The song, which the artist born Patricia Ann Cole in Los Angeles wrote at the encouragement of none other than Mick Jagger, is one of the 57 songs on 3 CDs assembled by Edsel Records on the dream of a box set appropriately entitled Soul Survivor: A Life in Song.  The collection, compiled by the singer and Michael Mulligan, traces the onetime Ikette's career from her signing to Andrew Loog Oldham's label

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andy Gibb, Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton, Ocean Colour Scene, P.P. Arnold, Paul Weller, Rod Stewart, Roger Waters, Steve Howe

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

Release Round-Up: Week of March 21

March 21, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Vince Guaraldi It's the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown

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. Tina Turner, Private Dancer: 40th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pearl LP with art card: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Tina Turner's smash 1984

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Climie Fisher, Dave Mason, Mike + the Mechanics, Rush, The Alan Parsons Project, The Stylistics, Tina Turner, Vince Guaraldi

Long Distance Love Affair: Sheena Easton Box Set Offers 25 Unreleased Tracks

March 20, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Sheena Easton Modern Girl

Sheena Easton's latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new way. Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1 is a 5CD set that will cover the bulk of the Scottish singer's first five albums - Take My Time (1981), You Could Have Been with Me (1981), Madness, Money and Music (1982), Best Kept Secret (1983) and the Spanish-language hits album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) - while also premiering more than two dozen unreleased tracks. The set, available

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Al Jarreau, Kenny Rogers, Sheena Easton

The Weekend Stream: March 15, 2025

March 15, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2025

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. We've got some early classics in Atmos from England's not-so-newest hitmakers, a soundtrack to a classic Tom Petty streaming feature, and new tracks from some of our favorite women in pop and rock! The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones EP / The Rolling Stones (U.K.) / England's Newest Hit Makers / Five by Five EP / 12 X 5 / The Rolling Stones

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Chappell Roan, HAIM, The Doobie Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Attics of My Life: Grateful Dead Mark 60 Years with Massive Box of Unreleased Live Performances

March 12, 2025 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Grateful Dead Enjoying the Ride

It's little surprise that Rhino is going all-out for the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. The label today announced a 60CD box set due this spring that will premiere material from some 20 shows across a quarter-century of the band's tenure. Enjoying the Ride, available May 30 exclusively from Dead.net, is a comprehensive 450-track set (nearly entirely unreleased, though a full track list has not been made available) limited to 6000 individually numbered copies. Sourced from recordings

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

Bright New Way: Cherry Red's Grapefruit Label Collects Complete Recordings of Noel Redding's Fat Mattress

March 12, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Fat Mattress How Can I Live

Compilation producer David Wells' liner notes to Fat Mattress' How Can I Live? Complete Recordings on Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint kick off with two provocative quotes.  Guitarist/singer Noel Redding, best known as bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "We had to play his songs, and he'd never consider listening to any of mine."  Fat Mattress' manager and Jimi Hendrix producer/mentor Chas Chandler: "It was one of the most confusing times of my life.  The first Mattress album knocked me out

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Fat Mattress, Noel Redding

Review: Yes, "Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition"

March 10, 2025 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Yes Close to the Edge

The cover of Yes' Close to the Edge was a relatively simple one, with Roger Dean's freshly-minted "bubble type" logo atop a color gradient from black to green.  But the contents within the jacket - Yes' fifth album overall, and final LP of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford - were anything but simple.  Building on the sound and style of 1971's Fragile, Close to the Edge was an even more ambitious suite crafted by lead vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Bruford,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Yes

The Weekend Stream: March 8, 2025

March 8, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2025

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's offerings are particularly reflective, packed with tributes and goodbyes (both editorial and musical) and a little dust of new Disney magic. Dolly Parton, "If You Hadn't Been There" (Butterfly) (iTunes / Amazon) On her first day in Nashville at the age of 18, a rising country musician named Dolly Parton had a chance encounter

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, David Johansen, Dolly Parton, Joey Molland, Kenny Rogers, Levert, New York Dolls, Rachel Zegler

Release Round-Up: Week of March 7

March 7, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Neil Young Oceanside Countryside

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. Yes, Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with signed lithograph) Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, returns as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set anchored by new surround (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. This Super Deluxe box follows in the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock Tags: A.J. Croce, Benmont Tench, Eric Burdon, Fernando Perdomo, Jethro Tull, Kraftwerk, Lady Gaga, Neil Young, The Move, Van Halen, War, Yes

Moments of a Visionary: Tangerine Dream Plan 'Phaedra' 50th Anniversary Box

March 6, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Tangerine Dream Phaedra 50

Tangerine Dream's breakthrough album will be celebrated in a box set that features a host of audiovisual material taken from a bigger box set. Virgin/UMR will reissue the German group's 1974 hit Phaedra as a 5CD/Blu-ray box set featuring all the relevant album-related material featured in 2019's 16 CD/2BD In Search of Hades (The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979). Beyond the remastered album, extras include two discs of outtakes, the band's first U.K. concert and some 5.1 surround and stereo

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Electronic Tags: Steven Wilson, Tangerine Dream

Baby, You Give Me a Feeling: Robinsongs Collects Five Albums from Roy Ayers' Ubiquity

March 6, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Roy Ayers Ubiquity Five Classic Albums

Last evening, TSD learned that jazz legend Roy Ayers had passed away at the age of 84.  Prior to the sad news, we had completed and scheduled this news item on Cherry Red and Robinsongs' recent collection of five albums he recorded with the loose collective he called Ubiquity.  We dedicate this piece to Roy Ayers and celebrate his enormous legacy.​ When vibraphonist-composer Roy Ayers moved to the Polydor label in 1970, he titled his debut album Ubiquity.  In an interview quoted in the new

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Roy Ayers, Ubiquity

On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters

March 5, 2025 By

Kenny Burrell On View Complete Masters

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release.  On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up,

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

A New 'View': Celebrated Kenny Burrell Live Set Gets Expanded

March 5, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Kenny Burrell On View Complete Masters

A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release. On View At the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up, along with nine additional tracks from the same club dates - six of which are being released for

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell

Live! Deluxe Edition

March 5, 2025 By

Status Quo Live deluxe

A deluxe edition of Status Quo's first concert album will pair the original album - never a favorite of the band's leader Francis Rossi - with the full, newly-remixed shows that it was assembled from, all under the supervision of the band.  Working with Statua Quo and engineer Andy Gamble at AVP Productions, the newly-expanded Live! pairs a remaster of the original album with the three Glasgow shows (each with identical set lists) - all sourced from newly-discovered multi-tracks of the concerts.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Frantic Four x 4: Edsel Remixes Shows That Made Status Quo's 'Live!'

March 4, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Status Quo Live box

A deluxe edition of Status Quo's first concert album will pair the original album - never a favorite of the band's leader - with the full, newly-remixed shows that it was assembled from. 1977's Live! found the Quo's "Frantic Four" - vocalists/guitarists Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, bassist Alan Lancaster and drummer John Coghlan (plus longtime touring keyboardist (and future full-time member) Andy Bown and tour manager Bob Young on harmonica) - wowing crowds over three nights at the Apollo

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Status Quo

Soundtrack Watch: 'Hook,' 'Goofy' and 'Lost' Make Vinyl Appearances in April

March 4, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Hook MOV LP

Fans of soundtrack reissues on vinyl have three very different titles to potentially look forward to in April: a mid-'90s Disney animated flick, a crown jewel in John Williams' discography, an a beloved television work from one of today's most prolific film composers. Walt Disney's major motion picture event of 1995 was Pocahontas, a fairly dramatized tale of Native Americans in the early colonial days - but it was neither their only animated feature of the year nor, retrospectively, the most

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Carter Burwell, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Tevin Campbell

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 Weekend Stream: March 1, 2025

March 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2025

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 new music from Billy Idol and The Chills, cast albums aplenty and some soulful tributes to artists we lost this week. Billy Idol, "Still Dancing" (Dark Horse) (iTunes / Amazon) The recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee is going on tour this year with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and will release Dream Into It,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Idol, Chris Jasper, Harold Rome, Jerry Butler, Jesse and Joy, The Chills, The Impressions, The Isley Brothers

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