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Release Round-Up: Week of February 28

February 28, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

A Complete Unknown OST CD

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. Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Official Store Liquid-Filled LP: Official Store Cassette: Official Store After celebrating their debut album with a deluxe edition last year, Bon Jovi will offer similar treatment to their biggest album:

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Carla Olson, Ella Fitzgerald, Eugene Ormandy, Gene Clark, Godley and Creme, John Lee Hooker, Sex Pistols, Supertramp, The Beckies

Echoes Through the Ruins: Pink Floyd's Pompeii Gig to Be Remixed and Reissued

February 27, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Pink Floyd Pompeii

More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd's arresting 1972 concert film - recorded in the ancient amphitheater of Pompeii - will be revisited as an audio and video product from Legacy Recordings. Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII restores Adrian Maben's original film in 4K quality from recently located original footage, with new audio mixes by Steven Wilson. All versions - a 2CD, a 2LP, a DVD and a Blu-ray - will be released May 2, shortly after public screenings of the film on April

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

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

Release Round-Up: Week of February 21

February 21, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

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. David Lee Roth, The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 (Warner/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Rhino.com Diamond Dave's got a whole new shine, thanks to a new box set from Rhino. David Lee Roth's The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 includes the four LPs (and one EP) the iconoclastic singer released outside of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bill Medley, Carla Olson, David Lee Roth, Dead or Alive, El Coco, Gene Clark, Gloria Hunniford, Melanie, Nik Kershaw, Rufus Wainwright, Souled American

Soundtrack Watch: 'Rain Man,' 'Quigley,' 'English Patient' Set for Reissues

February 19, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

The English Patient

A breakthrough for one of Hollywood's biggest composers, a cult classic Western and an Oscar-winning '90s film are among the film scores being revisited by some of our favorite reissue labels this month. La-La Land has released a new presentation of Hans Zimmer's score to 1988's Rain Man. The Barry Levinson comedy-drama (a four-time Oscar winner, including Best Picture and Best Director) stars Tom Cruise as a brash young man who discovers that his late father's estate was bequeathed to an

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Basil Poledouris, Gabriel Yared, Hans Zimmer

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

Excess All Areas: Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes' Live Team-Up to Be Expanded

February 17, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Jimmy Page Black Crowes Live at The Greek

A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest guitarists of all time is getting revisited in a new 3CD or 6LP set due for release next month. Originally released in 2000, less than a year after it was recorded, Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes' Live At The Greek was a double album featuring the group and the former Led Zeppelin guitarist tearing through renditions of classics from the latter band's catalogue, plus a heap of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, The Black Crowes

Review: WAR, "Live in Japan 1974"

February 14, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

War Live in Japan Cover

"The Japanese were nice, but really afraid of us," remembers WAR's producer-manager Jerry Goldstein in the liner notes to the band's new Live in Japan 1974.  "That's how we came up with the 'Hey, why can't we be friends?' concept.  In the dressing room that night, Lonnie was playing the keyboards and we started doing the song.  No verses, just the 'why can't we be friends' part.  We wrote it there, went back to the U.S., and in January [1975], we recorded it."  The catchy plea "Why Can't We Be

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, R&B/Soul Tags: War

Release Round-Up: Week of February 14

February 14, 2025 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Melanie Ace o'Diamonds

Happy Valentine's Day! 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. Melanie, Ace o' Diamonds: The Lost Broadway Musical (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In the early 1980s, singer-songwriter Melanie lent her talents to the score of a new musical intended for Broadway.  Ace o' Diamonds, with a book by Ed Kelleher and Seymour Vall, revolved around the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Melanie, Rick Springfield, Robert Palmer, Sabrina Carpenter

Do the Cocomotion: Cherry Red, Robinsongs Bring El Coco's Disco Floor-Fillers to CD on New Collection

February 13, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

El Coco Four Albums

C'mon, baby, do the Cocomotion!  On February 21, Cherry Red's Robinsongs label will unveil a new 4-albums-on-2-CD collection from disco outfit El Coco.  The deluxe 2-CD set presents Brazil (1975), Mondo Disco (1975), Let's Get It Together (1976), and Cocomotion (1977) along with three bonus tracks; all albums except Let's Get It Together are making their CD debuts, with Let's Get It Together only briefly available on CD 20 years ago in Japan. El Coco was the brainchild of Laurin Rinder and W.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: El Coco

Who Believes in Angels?

February 11, 2025 By

Elton John and Brandi Carlile Who Believes in Angels

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. Link TBD / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD Tri-Color LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Alternate Cover "Neon Angel" CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John has teamed with Brandi Carlile as well as Bernie Taupin and producer Andrew Watt for his first studio album since 2021's COVID-era The Lockdown Sessions and first with Taupin since 2016's Wonderful Crazy Night.  Who Believes in Angels?

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

Release Yourself from Misery: Pete Townshend Collects Solo Albums (But No Bonus Tracks) for New Box

February 7, 2025 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Pete Townshend Studio Albums box

A prequel of sorts to UMC's box set of Pete Townshend live recordings is coming this spring: a simple collection of eight of his studio works. The Studio Albums brings together new CD pressings of Who Came First (1972), the Ronnie Lane collaboration Rough Mix (1977), Empty Glass (1980), All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (1982), White City (A Novel) (1985), Iron Man (1989) and versions of Pyschoderelict (1993) with and without dialogue. While a 2006 reissue campaign from Hip-O Records

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, The Who

Release Round-Up: Week of February 7

February 7, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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 for qualifying purchases. WAR, Live in Japan 1974 (Rhino/Avenue) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada​ Rhino's ongoing refresh of the WAR catalogue continues with its first release of 2025: a set of previously unheard live material from the band's tour of Japan, more than half a century ago and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: CCM, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Amy Grant, Don Julian, Harold Wheeler, Melanie, R.E.M., The Donnas, Various Artists, War, Wilco, Wildside

Craft Recordings Unveils RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Celia Cruz, Thelonious Monk, Collective Soul, More

February 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

record store day logo

Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 12 - that's the date this year for Record Store Day, the date upon which fans, collectors, and everyone in between flocks to local independent record stores and hopefully gives those brick-and-mortar stores a leg up for the year!  The full list has been posted, and here at TSD, we'll start today by spotlighting various releases from some of our favorite labels!  Craft Recordings is among those labels, and they've just announced a batch encompassing jazz,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A Day to Remember, Carla Thomas, Celia Cruz, Collective Soul, Gerry Mulligan, Record Store Day, Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Colon

Life and Soul: Cherry Pop Releases Kim Wilde's New Album "Closer" Following Three Expanded Editions

February 4, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Kim Wilde Love Is

Kim Wilde's new album, Closer, has arrived from Cherry Red.  It's followed the release late in 2024 of three generously expanded editions from the singer's MCA catalogue, all newly remastered by Tom Parker and annotated by Marcel Rijs, the co-compilers of these comprehensive sets. Wilde welcomed the 1990s with Love Moves.  Her seventh studio album, it followed a successful tour with Michael Jackson as well as her U.K. Platinum-certified 1988 LP Close.  Wilde described the album as a personal

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Kim Wilde

Live in the U.S.A. 1978 [Various Releases]

February 3, 2025 By

Sex Pistols Live in the USA

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at South East Music Hall, Atlanta, GA - 1/5/1978 Red LP (February 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at Longhorns Ballroom, Dallas, TX - 1/10/1978 White LP (March 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at The Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA - 1/14/1978 Blue LP (April 25): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Sex Pistols' Live in the U.S.A. 1978 will mark the first complete and official releases of

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

A Taste of Hunni: Expanded Edition

February 3, 2025 By

Gloria Hunniford A Taste of Hunn

Stage Door Pop brings U.K. television personality Gloria Hunniford's 1979 album A Taste of Hunni to CD for the first time, supplementing its array of classic pop favorites ("What the World Needs Now Is Love," "The Way We Were," "For the Good Times") with four rare bonus singles.  Sir Cliff Richard provides a new introduction in the booklet.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Not So Simple Songs: Ace Records Compiles Sly Stone Covers

February 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Everybody is a Star The Sly Stone Songbook

A timely new collection will pay tribute to the work of Sly & The Family Stone through a diverse group of covers and rarely-heard singles written and produced by the group's iconic frontman for others. Everybody is a Star - The Sly Stone Songbook is the latest entry in Ace Records' Songwriter Series, chronicling some of the greatest modern songwriters of the last century. Naturally, the man born Sylvester Stewart is a prime candidate for such an overview. His mix of R&B, funk, pop and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Al Jarreau, Diana Ross, Gene Harris, Iggy Pop, Ike Turner, Jeff Buckley, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, The Five Stairsteps, The Jackson 5, The Three Degrees, Tina Turner

Image and Likeness: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp's Collaborations Revisited in New Collection

February 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Summers Fripp Complete

A unique team-up between two celebrated guitarists - Andy Summers of The Police and Robert Fripp of King Crimson - will be revisited this spring with a bevy of new material. The Complete Recordings 1981-1984 will expand and remaster the duo's two studio albums together - 1982's I Advance Masked and 1984's Bewitched - along with Mother Hold the Candle Steady, a newly-created album of outtakes from their sessions together. The Blu-ray Audio will include hi-resolution remasters of both albums,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Andy Summers, King Crimson, Robert Fripp, The Police

No Lightweight Sound: CD Box Set, Vinyl Reissues Chronicle Middle Period of Dub Syndicate

January 31, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Dub Syndicate box

A scintillating collaboration between two titans of reggae - known as Dub Syndicate - will be revisited in a series of reissues covering their late '80s and early '90s output. Out Here on the Perimeter 1989-1996 is a new 5CD box set, available from the On-U Sound label on February 28, that features new pressings of Dub Syndicate's studio albums Strike the Balance (1989), Stoned Immaculate (1991), Echomania (1993) and Ital Breakfast (1996), along with a new remix album of material from this

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Reggae Tags: Adrian Sherwood, Dub Syndicate

A Ghost Is Born: Deluxe Edition

January 31, 2025 By

Wilco A Ghost is Born deluxe

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP/4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Following an acclaimed, Grammy-winning deluxe edition of Wilco's mainstream breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the same creative team has assembled a similarly lavish set for the band's 2004 follow-up A Ghost is Born.  The deluxe set - made up of either nine CDs or nine LPs and four CDs - packages the

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

In Memoriam: Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025)

January 30, 2025 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Marianne Faithfull Vagabond Ways

It was clear from the start that Marianne Faithfull was no ordinary artist.  The chanteuse, who died today at the age of 78, established her long and remarkable career on a dual track.  Following the success of her singles "As Tears Go By" and "Come and Stay with Me" (gifted to Marianne by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards and Jackie DeShannon, respectively), Decca wanted her to record a pop album. Marianne wanted to record a folk album.  The result was that not one, but two, LPs were released in

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Marianne Faithfull

Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition

January 29, 2025 By

Yes Close to the Edge

Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, continued the band's early winning streak. The 1972 release - their final album of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford and first to feature the band's now-famous "bubble" logo type - featured just three songs (two of which had multiple movements). But they were sufficiently power-packed as to propel the LP to top five berths in both the U.K. and U.S. and eventual Platinum sales status. Rhino is revisiting Close to the Edge as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set

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

Rush 50

January 29, 2025 By

Rush 50

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7LP: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K. (TBD) / Amazon Canada (TBD) Super Deluxe 4CD/7LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music Rush 50 comprises a generous 50-track overview of the group's output spanning their entire career across four CDs or seven 180-gram LPs, plus a 104-page hardcover book featuring new 50th anniversary artwork by the band's creative director Hugh Syme and liner notes by David Fricke and Philip Wilding. (A super deluxe box set

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Premium Rush: Canadian Rock Legends Prep New Career-Spanning Box Set

January 28, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Rush 50

A new career-spanning box set will commemorate the singular discography of Canadian rock trio Rush. Rush 50, due March 21, comprises a generous 50-track overview of the group's output spanning their entire career across four CDs or seven 180-gram LPs, plus a 104-page hardcover book featuring new 50th anniversary artwork by the band's creative director Hugh Syme and liner notes by David Fricke and Philip Wilding. (A super deluxe box set will include both physical formats, the hardcover book,

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

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