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A Night At The Odeon

November 16, 2015 By

Queen A Night at the Odeon

Queen's December 24, 1975 performance at London's Hammersmith Odeon is captured on a new release available in a variety of formats including CD, Standard Definition BD, DVD, CD/DVD, CD/SD-BD, vinyl LP, and Super Deluxe Edition. Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Standard Definition BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. CD/SD-BD: Amazon U.K. CD/DVD: Amazon U.K. The Super Deluxe box set features: * 1 CD, 1 SD

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The Complete Matrix Tapes

November 16, 2015 By

Velvet Underground Matrix Tapes Cover

UMe delivers the second major Velvet Underground release this fall with The Complete Matrix Tapes.  In 1969, The Velvet Underground played a residency at San Francisco club The Matrix, and performances from these shows were recorded on a tape deck by guitarist Robert Quine. Now, for the first time, the tapes are being released in full on 4 CDs.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Dreams Will Not Be Thwarted: New Springsteen Live Archive Release Arrives From 2013 Wrecking Ball Tour

November 16, 2015 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Springsteen Ippodromo

A little over a month since the last release, a new installment in Bruce Springsteen's live archive series has been released: Ippodromo Delle Capannelle, Rome, Italy, 2013. This concert from July 13, 2013 comes at the tail end of the Wrecking Ball Tour which had begun over a year earlier in March of 2012.  A concert from right before this tour began, from March 9, 2012 at the Apollo Theater in New York, has been previously released by the Springsteen archive.  Also previously released are

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Review: Alanis Morissette, "Jagged Little Pill: Collector's Edition"

November 13, 2015 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Alanis Jagged 4 CD Box

As time marches on, nostalgia of course goes along with it.  So, with the passage of time, we've arrived at an era of nostalgia for the 1990s.  Hard as it may be for some to believe, 20th and 25th anniversaries for major releases in the '90s keep occurring - and items are released in commemoration.  Thus, Rhino has recently reissued Alanis Morissette's 1995 smash album Jagged Little Pill in a variety of iterations including a 2-CD version and a 4-CD Collector's Edition. When Morissette traveled

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Alanis Morissette

Release Round-Up: Week of November 13

November 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Aretha Atlantic Albums Collection Cover

It may be Friday the 13th, but today's choice releases are hardly scary, with box sets, archival releases, new music from veteran artists, and much, much more! Aretha Franklin, The Atlantic Albums Collection (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 19-CD box set brings together 16 of the Queen of Soul's Atlantic albums as previously released on CD including the deluxe 2-CD Live at Fillmore East, the 2-CD Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, Aretha Franklin, Buck Owens, Ellie Greenwich, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne's ELO, King Crimson, Kurt Cobain, Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, Neil Young, Paul Butterfield, Paul Davis, The Knickerbockers, The Staple Singers

Graceful: Legacy Premieres Lost Recordings By Jeff Buckley On "You and I"

November 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Jeff Buckley You and I

The countdown to 2016 has already begun!  Legacy Recordings is one of the first out of the gate with big news for the New Year!  On March 11, 2016, the label will release You and I, the very first studio recordings made by the late Jeff Buckley (1966-1997) for Columbia Records.  This new compilation will be available on CD, DD, and LP. The recordings on this new 10-track collection (primarily recorded in Steve Addabbo's Shelter Island Sound studio in February 1993) were discovered during the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Jeff Buckley

Hurt So Bad: 7a Records Rescues "The First Bobby Hart Solo Album" With Expanded CD Reissue

November 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bobby Hart First Solo Album

The 7a Records label made a big splash earlier this year with its first-ever release.  The MGM Singles Collection brought together Micky Dolenz's rare MGM Records sides in a lavishly designed and annotated presentation that was a fan and collector's dream.  Now, we're thrilled to report that the Monkees specialists at 7a are turning their attention to another key figure in Monkees lore with the first-ever CD release on December 7 of 1980's aptly-titled The First Bobby Hart Solo Album. There

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bobby Hart, Boyce and Hart, Teddy Randazzo, The Monkees

More Than "Lies": Sundazed Collects The Knickerbockers' "Challenge Recordings" On New Box Set

November 11, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Knickerbockers Challenge

"Eighty tracks from a band with exactly one hit single?"  That's the question Sundazed Records is posing of its soon-to-be-released box set from The Knickerbockers.  The hitmakers behind the British Invasion-esque "Lies" will be celebrated by Sundazed with the 4-CD, 80-track box The Challenge Recordings.  It's due in stores this Friday, November 13. The Top 20 hit "Lies" - and seminal inclusion in the original Nuggets - is just one of the tracks on this collection.  Brothers Beau and John

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Knickerbockers

Jump To The Beat! BBR Reissues Dancefloor Classics By Stacy Lattisaw, Karen Young

November 11, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Stacy Lattisaw Let Me Be Your Angel

With a quartet of recent releases, Big Break Records continues to deliver to the highest standard in deluxe, remastered and generously expanded editions of R&B classics.  Today, we turn the spotlight on two of those titles, from Stacy Lattisaw and Karen Young! Stacy Lattisaw was just 12 - yes, 12! - years old when she made her major label debut on Atlantic Records' Cotillion imprint with Young and in Love.  One of the final projects produced by Van McCoy before his untimely death, the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Karen Young, Stacy Lattisaw

RPM Reissues Lost Album By David Bowie Favorite Tucker Zimmerman, Collects Australian "Dream Babes"

November 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Come and See Me

Today, we're turning the spotlight on two recent releases from Cherry Red's RPM Records imprint! When David Bowie placed Tucker Zimmerman's 1969 album Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman on a list of his 25 favorite albums - alongside acknowledged classics by The Velvet Underground, James Brown, Little Richard and even Steve Reich - readers of the 2003 list could have been forgiven for wondering, "Who is Tucker Zimmerman?"  It's taken some time, but the RPM label has finally unearthed Ten Songs by

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Tucker Zimmerman, Various Artists

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck [Various Editions]

November 9, 2015 By

Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck

Brett Morgen's documentary film about the late Kurt Cobain arrives in a plethora of audio and video formats. The Super Deluxe Edition includes the full-length feature film and 48 minutes of bonus interviews on Blu-ray and DVD, a 31 track deluxe soundtrack on CD and cassette, a 160-page hardbound book with extended interviews and images from the Cobain archive, a puzzle with a collectible storage container, a movie poster, postcards and bookmark. The 31-track deluxe version of the soundtrack CD

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Slowhand at 70: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

November 9, 2015 By

Eric Clapton Slowhand at 70

In May 2015, Eric Clapton performed his 200th concert at London's Royal Albert Hall fifty years after his first performance there with The Yardbirds. Throughout his seven-night run, Clapton played both vintage blues songs and his own rock classics and Eric Clapton classics; this release commemorates these landmark shows. Available on 2-CD/DVD, 2-CD/BD (not available in the U.K.), 3-LP/DVD, standalone DVD and BD (U.K. only), and a deluxe 2-CD/2-DVD book-style edition adding a bonus DVD of Clapton

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock

Review: Bob Dylan, "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12"

November 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Dylan Best of Cutting Edge

I. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan On Wednesday, January 13, 1965, Bob Dylan recorded "Love Minus Zero/No Limit," destined to become the fourth track on the first side of the troubadour's fifth studio album, Bringing It All Back Home.  The album, released on March 25, would effectively alter the course of both Dylan's career and of pop music itself, featuring one electric side and one acoustic side.  When he "plugged in" at the Newport Folk Festival months later on July 25 to the sound

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, The Band

Review: Beatles, "Beatles 1+" (Various Editions)

November 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

Beatles 1 Plus CD 2 BD

Yeah, yeah, yeah! That's the only logical response to the release of Beatles 1+, the modestly-named collection available today in a host of audio, video and combined formats.  By presenting a newly-remixed and remastered edition of the familiar Beatles 1 album with a collection of remarkably-restored short films and video clips for each song (numbering 27 for the standard editions and 50 for the deluxe editions), also in newly-mixed 2.0 stereo and 5.1 surround sound, 1+ offers an

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

Release Round-Up: Week of November 6

November 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Dylan Best of Cutting Edge

This week's Release Round-Up brings the year's most eagerly-anticipated box set, a stunning new collection from the Fab Four, a Christmas feast including two titles from Second Disc Records, and more! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series: Volume 12 - The Cutting Edge (Columbia/Legacy) The Best of the Cutting Edge 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Best of the Cutting Edge 3-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge 6-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Cutting Edge: Collector's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Bobby Vinton, Glen Campbell, Jim Nabors, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Mathis, King Crimson, Lynn Anderson, New Order, Ronnie Spector, The Alan Parsons Project, The Beatles, The Four Seasons, The Living Voices, Yes

Second Disc Records' Christmas Slate Arrives TOMORROW with Lynn Anderson and Jim Nabors!

November 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Jim Nabors Complete Columbia Christmas

Though Santa Claus hasn't yet officially kicked off the Christmas season in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, many signs of the season are already here! Mr. Claus is holding court at the mall, radio stations have started their holiday playlists, and Christmas trees are for sale with 49 days left until the big day. We're certainly ready for Christmas here at Second Disc HQ, as this Friday, we're celebrating the first-ever holiday releases on our Second Disc Records label! We're proud to join

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Jim Nabors, Lynn Anderson

G-L-O-R-I-OUS: Legacy Announces New Set Featuring Van Morrison's Complete Recordings with Them

November 5, 2015 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Complete Them

It has been a pretty big year for Van Morrison, both with new recordings and reissues.  At the beginning of 2015, he released his latest studio effort, Duets- Re-Working the Catalogue.  In August, it was announced that Sony/Legacy Recordings had acquired the rights to the majority of his catalogue.  The label quickly released an Essential volume and put 33 albums up on digital services with the promise of more projects to come.  Then, just last week, Rhino released expanded editions of two of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Them, Van Morrison

Buck Owens, Bobby Rush Highlight Omnivore's November Slate

November 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Buck Owens Buck Em Volume 2

Releases from two legends of country and blues highlight Omnivore Recordings' November slate.  On November 13, the label will drop the second 2-CD retrospective dedicated to the music of Bakersfield's favorite son Buck Owens, while two weeks later on the 27th, it will unveil a 4-CD box set spotlighting the singular career of Bobby Rush. Buck 'Em! Volume 2: The Music of Buck Owens (1967-1975) picks up where the first volume of the series, issued in 2013, left off.  Its 50 tracks trace the many

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Blues, Country, Funk Tags: Bobby Rush, Buck Owens

Brand New Melanie: Morello Label Reissues Four of Melanie's Rare Albums On CD

November 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Melanie Sunset and Other Beginnings

"Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates/You got a brand new key/I think that we should get together and try them out you see..."  With her chart-topping 1971 hit "Brand New Key," Melanie Safka-Schekeryk built on the success of previous hits like the Woodstock-inspired anthem "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" and her cover of The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday."  But "Brand New Key" also unfairly tagged the singer-songwriter as a novelty artist, a notion she was quick to dispose with the

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

Luck Be A Lady: Cherry Red's él Label Reissues The Kirby Stone Four's "Guys and Dolls," Ron Goodwin, More

November 3, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Guys and Dolls Like Today

Cherry Red's él label continues to deliver an array of some of the most eclectic sounds of the pre-Beatles era with a recent pair of reissues. The Kirby Stone Four's Guys and Dolls (Like Today) reinvented Frank Loesser's classic 1950 Broadway score for 1962 in the group's "Go Sound" style fusing jazz, swing, tight harmony vocals and even a dash of freewheeling rock-and-roll spirit.  It's been paired on one CD with the quartet's Laugh Along with the Kirby Stone Four at the Playboy Club and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Loesser, Ron Goodwin, Russ Garcia, The Kirby Stone Four, The Spotnicks

Songs From The Trees: A Musical Memoir Collection

November 2, 2015 By

Songs from the Trees

Carly Simon has curated a 2-CD companion volume to her new autobiography.  Focusing on her Elektra and Warner Bros. years, this collection also features two previously unreleased tracks including Boys in the Trees outtake "Showdown" and the newly-recorded "I Can't Thank You Enough" with her son Ben Taylor.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Did You Happen To See: Varese Collects Charlie Rich's "25 Greatest Hits" - AND YOU CAN WIN!

November 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Charlie Rich 25 All Time Greatest Hits

Charles Allan Rich - better known as Charlie Rich - came to country stardom late. Though he scored his first hit single in 1960, the favorite son of Colt, Arkansas had trouble following it up with any consistency. But once the big hits started coming in 1972 with a pair of Kenny O'Dell songs - "I Take It On Home" and "Behind Closed Doors" - Rich established himself as one of C&W's most versatile and beloved entertainers. Varese Vintage has recently celebrated the legacy of Rich (1932-1995)

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Charlie Rich

Our Big Record Store Day Black Friday Round-Up Featuring McCartney, Bowie, Wilson, Queen, Ronstadt, More

October 30, 2015 By Randy Fairman 12 Comments

Paul McCartney Say Say Say

Over the past couple of weeks, we've told you about the 2015 Black Friday Record Store Day offerings from Legacy, Omnivore and Real Gone Music.  Well, the full list of releases which are coming out on November 27 has been announced and we've got the details below including new titles from Rhino, Varese Sarabande, Hear Music and more! The entire list is over 125 items long, so we've just highlighted some entries below in which you might be interested.  The full listing can be seen at

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Brian Wilson, Garbage, Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt, Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Queen, The Kinks, The Zombies, Wes Montgomery

Release Round-Up: Week of October 30

October 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Velvet Underground Loaded Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  Packed with over 30 titles including highly-anticipated reissues, a slew of box sets, collections and more, it just may be the mightiest of the year!   The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Velvet Underground's 1970 album - and Lou Reed's swansong with the band - gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alanis Morissette, Amy Winehouse, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Cilla Black, Doc Watson, Elvis Presley, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, Joan Osborne, Lou Reed, Otis Redding, Pete Seeger, Roger McGuinn, Sly and the Family Stone, The Rolling Stones, The Salsoul Orchestra, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Tony Orlando, Van Morrison, XTC

Roger McGuinn and Pete Seeger, Tony Orlando, Doc Watson Join Bottom Line Archive Series

October 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Pete Seeger and Roger McGuinn Bottom Line

The Bottom Line Archive Series, preserving performances from the late, renowned New York club, will roll out a new trio of releases on October 30.  Joining previous entries from artists including The Brecker Brothers, Harry Chapin and Janis Ian are new titles from Tony Orlando, Doc Watson, and the duo of Pete Seeger and Roger McGuinn. One 1994 evening at The Bottom Line, famed disk jockey Vin Scelsa joined folk legend Pete Seeger and The Byrds' Roger McGuinn for one-of-a-kind exchange of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Doc Watson, Pete Seeger, Roger McGuinn, Tony Orlando

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