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Bittersweet Me: R.E.M. Revisits 'New Adventures in Hi-Fi' for 25th Anniversary

August 25, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi Fi

Craft Recordings is continuing its ongoing R.E.M. reissue series with a 25th anniversary edition of the Georgia band's tenth studio album New Adventures in Hi-Fi.  On October 29, a 2CD/1BD Deluxe Edition will present the newly remastered original album, a disc of B-sides and rarities, and a Blu-ray with numerous features including a 64-minute outdoor projection film (originally shown on buildings across five cities in 1996 to promote the album release), a 30-minute EPK (Electronic Press Kit),

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: R.E.M.

Just the Smile: Rory Gallagher's 1971 Solo Debut Expanded as 50th Anniversary Box Set

August 23, 2021 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rory Gallagher

2020 saw a number of releases from late Irish guitar god Rory Gallagher including a blazing 1977 live set and a career-spanning anthology.  Now, the celebration of all things Gallagher continues with a 50th anniversary edition of his 1971 solo debut.  On September 3, UMC (in the U.K.) and UMe (in the U.S.) will reissue the eponymous Rory Gallagher as a 4CD/1DVD set containing a new mix of the original album, 30 previously unreleased outtakes and alternates, a six-song BBC Radio John Peel Sunday

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: Rory Gallagher

Tattoo You: 40th Anniversary Edition [Various Formats]

August 22, 2021 By

Rolling Stones Tattoo You Deluxe

4CD + Tattoo You Picture Disc Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD (Album Remaster): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (Album Remaster and Lost & Found): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Album Remaster): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Album Remaster and Lost & Found - Black Vinyl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Album Remaster and Lost & Found - Clear

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

Gimme Danger: Cherry Red Collects Iggy and The Stooges' "Raw Power"-Era Rehearsals on New Box Set

August 20, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Iggy and the Stooges Born in a Trailer

Cherry Red has recently released its second volume of archival material from Iggy Pop and The Stooges following 2020's You Think You're Bad, Man? The Road Tapes '73-'74.  The new title is Born in a Trailer: The Session and Rehearsal Tapes '72-'73, and it's a 4-CD collection chronicling the band's rehearsal recordings made in London, Michigan, Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York. Author Kris Needs doesn't pull any punches in his liner notes to this box when he describes this period in Stooges

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

You Make a Grown Man Cry: Rolling Stones Celebrate 40th Anniversary of "Tattoo You" with New Multi-Format Release

August 19, 2021 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Rolling Stones Tattoo You Deluxe

The old saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention.  And when The Rolling Stones needed a new LP to tour behind but didn't have time to write and record, they invented Tattoo You.  The 1981 album was primarily assembled from a decade's worth of outtakes, some essentially finished and some nowhere near so; band members eventually made their way into the studio to complete the latter tracks.  The gamble paid off and Tattoo You topped the U.S. Billboard 200 and went to No. 2 on the U.K.

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

Get Up, Stand Up: Bob Marley and The Wailers' "The Capitol Session '73" Comes to CD, LP, DVD

August 18, 2021 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Bob Marley Capitol Session

1973 was a landmark year for Bob Marley.  His band, The Wailers, released their sixth studio album in October to critical acclaim and commercial success.  Burnin' earned a Gold sales certification in the U.S. and eventually an induction into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.  The album introduced "Get Up, Stand Up" as well as the future Eric Clapton hit "I Shot the Sheriff."  But Marley and The Wailers weren't resting on their laurels around the time of the album's release. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Reggae Tags: Bob Marley and the Wailers

She's a Survivor: Reba McEntire's "Revived, Remixed, Revisited" Box Due in October

August 17, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Reba Revived Remixed Revisited

Reba McEntire is looking back on her career with a three-disc, three-album retrospective - but with a twist.  Revived Remixed Revisited, due on October 8 from MCA Nashville, consists entirely of new and previously unheard versions of her greatest hits for a total of 30 tracks. The first disc, Revived, presents McEntire's songs (including "Can't Even Get the Blues" and "Is There Life Out There") performed with her touring band as they would be heard in concert today with arrangements and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire

The Weekend Stream: August 14, 2021

August 14, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Coldplay, LeftRightLeftRightLeft

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Coldplay, Cypress Hill, Elton John

Review: Aretha Franklin, "Aretha"

August 13, 2021 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Aretha 4CD Cover

R-E-S-P-E-C-T.  Otis Redding may have written the song, but Aretha Franklin owned it.  The singer was only in her mid-20s when she left Columbia Records after five years and seven albums but she wasted no time in making music history when she signed with Atlantic Records in December 1966.  By the middle of 1967, she'd had long-sought-after hits with "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" and "Respect" and was proclaimed The Queen of Soul by a Chicago disk jockey.  Some reports indicate the

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Eurythmics, George Michael, Lou Rawls, Ray Charles, Ronald Isley, Smokey Robinson, Tom Jones

I'm Leavin': Legacy Collects Elvis' Final Nashville Sessions in Remixed Form on "Back in Nashville"

August 13, 2021 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Elvis Back in Nashville

The annual Elvis Week kicked off at Graceland on Wednesday, August 11 with numerous events, activities, and presentations honoring the King of Rock and Roll.  Yesterday, Legacy Recordings announced its major Elvis release for 2021, and it's one that picks up directly from last year's release.  Elvis: Back in Nashville, due on November 12, is a sequel project to 2020's From Elvis in Nashville.  Like that set, it features a host of new remixes by Matt Ross-Spang to place the focus squarely on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Elvis Presley

Kick Your Door Down: The Replacements Go Back to the Beginning for Deluxe Box of Debut Album

August 12, 2021 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Replacements Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out the Trash

The Replacements burst onto the scene with 1981's Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash.  The Minneapolis band's debut arrived on the city's independent Twin/Tone label, its eighteen punk nuggets (more than half of which were under two minutes in length) imbued with a pop accessibility and reckless, rebellious spirit.  Lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Paul Westerberg, drummer Chris Mars, and brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson (on lead guitar and bass, respectively) came close to implosion more than

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Replacements

Put on a Happy Face: Jasmine Reissues, Expands Dick Van Dyke's "Songs I Like"

August 11, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Dick Van Dyke Songs I Like

In an extraordinary showbiz career spanning almost 75 years, perennial song-and-dance man Dick Van Dyke has only recorded three solo albums (in addition to his appearances on best-selling cast albums and soundtracks, that is!).  While two of those - 2017's Step Back in Time and 2009's Put on a Happy Face, the latter with his a cappella group The Vantastix - are from recent years, he did record one LP while starring on the 15-time Emmy Award-winning sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show.  1963's Songs I

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke

Jesus Christ Superstar: 50th Anniversary [Various Formats]

August 9, 2021 By

Jesus Christ Superstar 3CD Cover

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD 2LP Standard: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD 2LP Exclusive: uDiscoverMusic.com UMe revisits Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's original 1970 concept album to Jesus Christ Superstar starring Ian Gillan, Murray Head, and Yvonne Elliman as a 3CD expanded box set with a disc of (largely unheard) bonus material; 2LP standard and deluxe editions; and a 2CD edition. 

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock

Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO (12/10/71)

August 9, 2021 By

Grateful Dead St. Louis 71

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Grateful Dead revisits a classic concert on 3 CDs or 5 LPs.  This show is also being included on the 20-CD limited edition Listen to the River: St. Louis '71 '72 '73 box set.  The 5-LP set is limited to 12,000 units and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl.

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Harvest for the World: Demon Music Group Spotlight on Average White Band, The Rubettes, and Barry Blue

August 9, 2021 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

AWB Cover to Cover Soul to Soul

Today, we're taking a look at three recent releases from Demon Music Group! On their 1974 Atlantic debut and breakthrough LP AWB, Average White Band proclaimed that they had "Work to Do."  The group's confident stab at The Isley Brothers' 1972 funk classic closed the first side of AWB; now, it's one of ten tracks comprising the enjoyable new vinyl collection Cover to Cover, Soul to Soul out on Demon Records. Cover to Cover, Soul to Soul offers a bounty of AWB's most soulful tracks - not

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Average White Band, Barry Blue, The Rubettes

The Weekend Stream: August 7, 2021

August 7, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Stream

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Madonna, True Blue (35th

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben E. King, Bobby Darin, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Frank Sinatra, Madonna, The Art of Noise, Tina Turner

Are You That Somebody: Blackground Records Catalogue, Against All Odds, Coming Back Into Print

August 6, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Blackground

It's the reissue announcement a generation wanted but nobody expected - and it's honestly hard to parse how to feel about it: Blackground Records will release its long out-of-print catalogue, including albums by the late R&B singer Aaliyah. Record producer Barry Hankerson started Blackground in the '90s as a vehicle to score his niece, Aaliyah Haughton, a record deal. After years of being turned down, Jive Records signed the 15-year-old singer, and debut Age Ain't Nothing But a Number

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soundtracks Tags: Aaliyah, JoJo, Timbaland, Toni Braxton

Happy To Be Here: Ellen Foley Returns with "Fighting Words"

August 6, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Ellen Foley Fighting Words

Ellen Foley is back with a vengeance.  The singer-actress who shared the microphone with Meat Loaf on Bat Out of Hell's immortal "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" has one of the smallest yet choicest discographies in rock: just three albums between 1979 and 1983 on which she was joined by such collaborators as Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Vini Poncia, and The Clash's Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon, and Joe Strummer; and a 2013 "comeback" LP.  But Foley was hardly ever away.  She flourished

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Rock Tags: Ellen Foley, Jim Steinman, Karla DeVito

Release Round-Up: Week of August 6

August 6, 2021 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Barbra Streisand Release Me 2

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! George Harrison, All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary [Various Formats] (Capitol/UMe) 5CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD (contains CD 1, CD 2 & CD 5, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (contains CD 1 & CD 2 only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barbra Streisand, Bill Evans, Brian May, Colin Hay, Ellen Foley, George Harrison, Kate Taylor, Kim Wilde

Sing a Happy Song: Omnivore Brings Nine Buck Owens Albums to CD, First Three Out Tomorrow

August 5, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Buck Owens Sweet Rosie Jones

Hello happiness, goodbye loneliness!  Over the past dozen years, Omnivore Recordings celebrated Buck Owens on a variety of releases, from a multi-volume series dedicated to the Bakersfield country hero's complete Capitol singles to rare live material, a Buck Sings Eagles EP, a Christmas collection, and even a coloring book.  Now, Omnivore is answering fans' wishes and returning nine of his classic Capitol albums to print for the first-time ever on standalone CD.  The series, to roll out in three

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Buck Owens

Just Between You and Me: Cherry Red's HNE Imprint Collects Lou Gramm's Atlantic Solo Albums

August 4, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Lou Gramm Questions and Answers

As original lead vocalist of Foreigner, Lou Gramm was the memorable, full-throated voice on such indelible hits as "Cold as Ice," "Feels Like the First Time," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," and "I Want to Know What Love Is."  But tensions with his main creative partner in the band, Mick Jones, had percolated throughout the 1980s, and in 1987 Gramm struck out on his own with the solo LP appropriately entitled Ready or Not.  Gramm was indeed ready; he left Foreigner in

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Foreigner, Lou Gramm, Nils Lofgren, Peter Wolf

I Love The Winter Weather: Tony Bennett's "Snowfall" Is Remixed for October Release

August 3, 2021 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Tony Bennett Snowfall

Today, Tony Bennett turns 95.  The artist - for whom the designation "legendary" isn't mere hyperbole - is scheduled to take the stage tonight at Radio City Music Hall with his friend and collaborator Lady Gaga for the first of two shows billed as One Last Time.  Bennett is currently battling Alzheimer's, and tickets for the pair of concerts sold out in moments.  An album (date TBA) with Gaga is forthcoming, but in the meantime, Legacy Recordings and Columbia Records have announced a new reissue

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Tony Bennett

What's The Buzz? "Jesus Christ Superstar" Returning For 50th Anniversary In Various Formats Including 3-CD Box Set

August 2, 2021 By The Second Disc 14 Comments

Jesus Christ Superstar 3CD Cover

"Nothing could convince me that any show that has sold two and one-half million copies of its album before the opening night is anything like all bad," wrote The New York Times' Clive Barnes on October 13, 1971 upon the New York debut of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar.  Indeed, the original Jesus Christ Superstar album was a sensation long before it ever hit Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theatre.  A true hybrid of rock and theater, it was introduced as a record but

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ian Gillan, Mike D'Abo, Murray Head, Tim Rice, Yvonne Elliman

Listen, Everyone: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Collect Hardin and York Albums

July 28, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Hardin and York Anthology

Eddie Hardin and Pete York first met as members of The Spencer Davis Group.  York, the drummer, was a founding member of Davis' outfit while keyboardist-singer Hardin joined in 1967 to fill the void left by Steve Winwood.  As they refined the sound of the "new" Group, Hardin and York developed their own rapport but found themselves at odds with their bandmates.  York was moving in a more improvised, jazz-oriented direction and Hardin was more interested in songwriting; both men left the Group in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Hardin and York, The Spencer Davis Group

Reelin' in the Years: Steely Dan Announces Two Live Albums, New Tour

July 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Steely Dan Northeast Corridor

Yesterday, Steely Dan announced the kickoff of its Absolutely Normal Tour '21 which will take the Donald Fagen-led band up and down the U.S. east coast in October and November.  To coincide with the tour, two new live releases will arrive from UMe in CD and digital formats on September 24 and 180-gram vinyl one week later on October 1: Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! and Donald Fagen's The Nightfly Live.  These are the first Steely Dan albums without founding member Walter Becker who passed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Donald Fagen, Steely Dan

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