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All That is Her Own: Early Nico Albums Due for CD, Vinyl Reissue in March

February 13, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Nico The Marble Index

Anyone who thought they had the sound of German actress/singer Nico figured out from her work on 1967's The Velvet Underground & Nico and Chelsea Girl would not have expected what she did next - chapters in a musical career that will be explored on new reissues by Domino Recording Company. On March 29, the label will issue newly remastered versions of 1969's The Marble Index and 1970's Desertshore on CD and vinyl, featuring unseen photos of the artist in the liner notes. The Marble Index

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: John Cale, Nico

Peace in the Valley: Barbara Mandrell's "Precious Memories" Returns to CD

February 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Barbara Mandrell Precious Memories

Though Barbara Mandrell retired from performing and recording in 1997, the country superstar remains beloved.  In 2022, she made a rare public appearance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her induction into the Grand Ole Opry; an all-female lineup of artists including Carrie Underwood, Suzy Bogguss, Linda Davis, Connie Smith, Mandy Barnett, and CeCe Winans paid tribute.  Mandrell offered her warm appreciation but did not sing; for the past 25 years, she's restricted any singing activities to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Gospel Tags: Barbara Mandrell

Play for Today: The Cure's "Paris" Returns in Expanded 30th Anniversary Edition

February 9, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

The Cure Paris

The Cure's 1993 double live album Paris is getting a slightly belated 30th anniversary edition courtesy of Rhino. On March 22, Paris will return in 2LP and 1CD expanded editions premiering two bonus tracks, all newly remastered by frontman Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. The black vinyl edition has been cut by Showell. Paris arrived in stores in October 1993 - the group's third live release in just over two years. This set arrived only one month after Show, both of which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: The Cure

Leave a Light On: Belinda Carlisle's Third 'Decades' Box Collects Single Mixes, B-Sides and More

February 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Belinda Carlisle Decades Cornucopia

Last year, Edsel Records - the longtime custodian of The Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle's solo works - released the box set Decades Volume 1, a 4CD set collecting reissues of her first four studio albums: Belinda (1986), Heaven on Earth (1987), Runaway Horses (1989) and Live Your Life Be Free (1991). As all four of these had been remastered and expanded by the label in the last decade - some more than once - it sort of got lost in the shuffle, as did a similar volume that offered her other four

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle

The Bell Records Story

February 8, 2024 By

Davy Jones 7a

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Deep Discount (U.S.) 7a Records reissues and expands the late Davy Jones' second solo LP, 1971's Davy Jones as part of the artist's The Bell Records Story.  The album was in a sunshine pop-meets-bubblegum vein, but it carried on the spirit of the early Monkees with strong tunes including some from songwriters who had written for the group (David Gates, Neil Sedaka). Davy

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Chaka

February 8, 2024 By

Chaka Khan Chaka

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Barnes & Noble Chaka Khan announced her solo freedom with "I'm Every Woman," the euphoric opening track on 1978's Chaka. At 25 years old, Khan was already a veteran of the funk-rock band Rufus with whom she had recorded landmark hits like "Tell Me Something Good" and "Sweet Thing," but Chaka took her emotive style in a new, mainstream R&B direction. The Warner Bros. album, produced by the

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

To the Limit: The Essential Collection

February 8, 2024 By

Eagles To the Limit

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.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 tour.  The first major compilation for the band since 2003's 2-CD The Very Best of Eagles (released in some territories as The Complete Greatest Hits), To the Limit presents 51 songs on 3 CDs vs. that earlier release's 33.  The first two discs feature studio recordings

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

The Carnegie Hall Concert

February 8, 2024 By

Alice Coltrane Carnegie Hall

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Exclusive Orange Vinyl) In 1971, Alice Coltrane performed at Carnegie Hall at a gala benefit for the Integral Yoga Institute.  Supported by Kumar Kramer and Tulsi Reynolds, playing harmonium and tamboura, respectively, and a large ensemble comprising two saxophonists (Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp), two bassists (Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee), and two drummers (Ed Blackwell

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

Fully Completely: The Tragically Hip's "Live at CBGB's" Arrives for Record Store Day

February 8, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Tragically Hip Live at CBGBs

Canadian national treasures The Tragically Hip have been announced as the official Ambassadors for Record Store Day Canada.  The event takes place on Saturday, April 20 (alongside the U.S., U.K., and other international RSDs).  To commemorate the occasion - as well as 40 years of The Tragically Hip - the band will be releasing an exclusive concert album, Live at CBGB's, for RSD. Live At CBGB's was recorded on January 14, 1993 at the late, lamented New York club in support of the group's third

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Tragically Hip

Take It 'To the Limit': New Eagles Triple Album Offers Hits, Live Cuts

February 7, 2024 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

Eagles To the Limit

Last fall, Eagles embarked on their Long Goodbye tour.  While dates are currently expected to stretch into 2025 - hence the "long" part of the title - the band stated that "everything has its time, and the time has come for us to close the circle."  The tour currently has gigs lined up through June in North America and Europe, including stops in Chicago, Toronto, and Manchester.  Each show has amounted to a greatest-hits retrospective, and so it's no surprise that a companion audio release will

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Don Henley, Eagles, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, Vince Gill

Pictures of Home: Rhino Revisits Deep Purple's "Machine Head" on New Super Deluxe Edition

February 6, 2024 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Deep Purple Machine Head

Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head remains the venerable hard rock band's most commercially successful album.  The third LP from the Mk. II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice introduced one of rock's most famous riffs with "Smoke on the Water," and influenced a generation of rock and metal musicians.  On March 29, Rhino revisits Machine Head as a 3CD/1LP/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition with various versions of the album: 2024 Dweezil Zappa album

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Deep Purple

We Got the Love: Rhino Reissues, Remasters Chaka Khan's Solo Debut on CD, LP

February 5, 2024 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Chaka Khan Chaka

Chaka Khan announced her solo freedom with "I'm Every Woman," the euphoric opening track on 1978's Chaka. At 25 years old, Khan was already a veteran of the funk-rock band Rufus with whom she had recorded landmark hits like "Tell Me Something Good" and "Sweet Thing," but Chaka took her emotive style in a new, mainstream R&B direction. The Warner Bros. album, produced by the legendarily versatile Arif Mardin (Dusty Springfield, Bee Gees), placed Khan's powerful voice front and center with the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Chaka Khan

The Weekend Stream: February 3, 2024

February 3, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. Another vintage Madonna single, rarities from Andy Williams and Cab Calloway, and a comeback we're still processing all await you below... Billy Joel, "Turn the Lights Back On" (Columbia) (iTunes / Amazon) No, we can't believe it either. On Thursday, Billy Joel released only his third original pop song since 1993's River of Dreams. (The last two were in 2007: "All

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Andy Williams, Billy Joel, Cab Calloway, Dr. Dre, Madonna, Nas

Got a Disc I Want to Play: A24 Plans Deluxe 'Stop Making Sense' for Blu-ray, 4K Disc

February 2, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

StopMakingSenseA24

A24's stunning remaster of the Talking Heads' 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense was one of the highlights of movie theaters this fall. (The surprises happened offscreen as well, when original band members David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison appeared together for the first time since their 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for multiple interviews and promotional appearances.) Now, Jonathan Demme's classic feature is finally getting an upgraded home

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Bernie Worrell, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club

Release Round-Up: Week of February 2

February 2, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Andy Williams When You Fall in Love

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. Andy Williams, When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 rounds up eighteen rarities from the late, great Andy Williams.  Over a dozen never-before-heard recordings premiere here which teamed Andy with

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Poetry, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Average White Band, Julie Andrews, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Wings

Be All Your Own: Real Gone's February Slate Includes Black Jazz, Maryann Farra, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Orgy, and Allen Ginsberg (Featuring Dylan, McCartney, Others)

February 1, 2024 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Black Jazz Singles Collection

Real Gone is starting off 2024 with another set of eclectic titles.  We've already told you about the new Andy Williams rarities collection When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 featuring liner notes by our own Joe Marchese, but here is the rest of Real Gone's slate featuring a wide range of material from the 1950s through the 2000s.  All of these titles hit store shelves tomorrow, February 2. Black Jazz Records was founded in 1969 by pianist Gene Russell and percussionist

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Poetry, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Doug Carn, Gene Russell, Jean Carn, Maryann Farra and Satin Soul, Medeski Martin and Wood, Mushroom, Orgy

Live at The Wiltern

January 31, 2024 By

Rolling Stones Live at the Wiltern

2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (Amazon Exclusive Black and Bronze Swirl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones' 2002-2003 Licks World Tour was one of The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band's most innovative.  To celebrate the band's 40th anniversary (and the release of the

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

Live at Shea Stadium 1982

January 31, 2024 By

The Who Live at Shea Stadium

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Who's October 13, 1982 concert at Shea Stadium, the now-demolished, longtime home of the New York Mets, was released on DVD and standard-definition Blu-ray back in 2015.  Now, Mercury Studios is returning to that thunderous gig - the band's second of two shows there - for an audio release on 2 CDs or 3 LPs. Live at Shea Stadium 1982 preserves The Who's tour stop in support of It's Hard.  In

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In Memoriam: Chita Rivera (1933-2024)

January 31, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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You've got to learn how not to be/Where you are/The more you face reality, the more you scar/So close your eyes and you'll become a movie star/Why must you stay where you are?  As Aurora, the dark vision of fantasy and title character of Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb's 1992 musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, Chita Rivera cast a powerful spell. Since her Broadway debut as an ensemble dancer in the 1950 production of Guys and Dolls - billed as Conchita del Rivero, shortened from

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Categories: News Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Chita Rivera

See Me, Feel Me: The Who's 1982 Shea Stadium Concert Comes to CD, LP from Mercury Studios

January 30, 2024 By The Second Disc 10 Comments

The Who Live at Shea Stadium

The Who's October 13, 1982 concert at Shea Stadium, the now-demolished, longtime home of the New York Mets, was released on DVD and standard-definition Blu-ray back in 2015.  Now, Mercury Studios is returning to that thunderous gig - the band's second of two shows there - for an audio release on 2 CDs or 3 LPs. On March 1, Live at Shea Stadium 1982 will arrive preserving The Who's tour stop in support of It's Hard.  In front of an enrapt New York audience in Flushing Meadows, Queens, founding

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Who

Hand of Fate: The Rolling Stones' 2002 "Live at The Wiltern" Comes to Audio, Video Formats

January 29, 2024 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Rolling Stones Live at the Wiltern

The Rolling Stones' 2002-2003 Licks World Tour was one of The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band's most innovative.  To celebrate the band's 40th anniversary (and the release of the career-spanning compilation 40 Licks), venues would come in three different sizes: small theatres, arenas, and stadiums.  Setlists would be scaled to the size of each venue, with the theatre settings giving the band the most freedom to perform lesser-known gems in addition to their major hits.  On March 8, Mercury

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Solomon Burke, The Rolling Stones

Release Round-Up: Week of January 26

January 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Barry Manilow Harmony

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. B.T. Express, Non-Stop: Expanded Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic follows up its definitive reissue of B.T. Express' debut Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) with a similarly comprehensive reappraisal of the funk outfit's sizzling sophomore release, 1975's R&B chart-topper Non-Stop. 

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: 10cc, B.T. Express, Barry Manilow, Kiki Dee, NRBQ, Terry Adams

In Memoriam: Melanie Safka (1947-2024)

January 25, 2024 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Melanie Sunset and Other Beginnings

Melanie Safka, known the world over simply as Melanie, tapped into a deep well of emotion with the powerful anthem "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" and skated into listeners' hearts with "Brand New Key."  Though the singer-songwriter's U.S. hits dried up by the early 1980s, she continued to write and record in her disarming and often happily quirky style.  A voice of the Vietnam generation, Melanie was content to transport audiences back to the Woodstock era while always authentically speaking

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Melanie

Love and Marriage: Stage Door Pop Celebrates "Crossroads Wedding Party" Featuring Noele "Nolly" Gordon

January 25, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Crossroads Wedding Party

Next month, American PBS stations premiere Nolly, a three-part miniseries written by Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who, It's a Sin) about British television star Noele "Nolly" Gordon (1919-1985), portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter.  The 2023 production is presented on PBS by Masterpiece - formerly Masterpiece Theatre - which describes it as "an outrageously fun and wildly entertaining ride through Gordon's most tumultuous years, and a sharp, affectionate, and heartbreaking portrait of a forgotten

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Noele Gordon, Tony Hatch

No More Mr. Nice Guy: Rhino Expands Alice Cooper's 'Billion Dollar Babies'

January 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Billion Dollar Babies deluxe vinyl

Get ready to hit the jackpot: one of Rhino's first big reissues of 2024 is a new expanded edition of Billion Dollar Babies, the 1973 album by glam rockers Alice Cooper. Available March 8 as a 2CD or 3LP set, this Billion Dollar Babies expansion builds upon even the 2001 double-disc edition issued by Rhino back in 2001. Alongside the remastered album, fans will find a bonus disc (two in the vinyl set) featuring a 1973 live set (previously issued in part on that 2001 reissue and in full on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper

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