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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

Happiness Is: Vince Guaraldi's First Charlie Brown Album to Be Expanded by Craft Recordings

February 26, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown packshot

Happiness is many things to many people: good friends, childlike wonder, catchy tunes...and, perhaps, a warm puppy. From Craft Recordings comes a new reissue that includes all four: a newly expanded edition of 1964's Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi and Charles M. Schulz's lovable Peanuts characters. The 2CD set, available April 4, offers a fresh remaster of Guaraldi's initial nine compositions

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: Vince Guaraldi

With Arms Outstretched: A Reunited Rilo Kiley Plans New Compilation, Reissue of Breakthrough Album

February 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Version 1.0.0

One of the year's most exciting indie-rock reunions is coming with a few new releases: Rilo Kiley will reissue their sophomore album The Execution of All Things along with a new career-spanning compilation to commemorate their upcoming tour. The acclaimed quartet - singer/keyboardist Jenny Lewis, lead guitarist Blake Sennett, bassist Pierre "Duke" de Reeder and drummer Jason Boesel - will embark on the Sometimes When You're On, You're Really F**king On tour, traversing North America in May

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Rilo Kiley

Soundtrack Watch: 'Cape Fear' Remake Score Rises from the Depths at Quartet

February 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Cape Fear Quartet

Quartet Records will revisit a special musical approach to a remake of a classic suspense thriller: Martin Scorsese's 1991 adaptation of Cape Fear. The 2CD set, will include a remastered and expanded presentations of Elmer Bernstein's score to the remake, adapted from the original 1962 film's music by Bernard Herrmann. Produced by Neil S. Bulk and Mike Matessino (who also remasters the score from engineer Shawn Murphy's original six-track mixes), the set features both the expanded score

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein

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

Let the Guitar Play: Santana's New 'Sentient' Revisits Collabs with Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson and More

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Santana Sentient

More than 25 years after a collaboration-heavy album rocketed Carlos Santana back into the spotlight, the guitar legend will release another - albeit one assembled from an assortment of solo tracks and guest spots spanning his last five decades of work. Sentient, hitting stores on March 28, brings together joint tracks with Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC, along with select deep cuts that make for a retrospective distinct from well known

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Paolo Rustichelli, Santana, Smokey Robinson

CD Alert: Small Disc Breakouts from Box Sets and More Coming from Warner

February 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

VH Dallas Mats Tim NY OC

Rather than update our original posts, we felt this Friday was a good time to inform readers of a trio of modest CD sets that represent some great archival audio from bigger releases by Rhino and Warner Music in the past few years. Last summer, Rhino continued a surprising amount of catalogue from the latter portion of Van Halen's celebrated career - the period in the mid '80s and '90s when former Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar took over for original singer David Lee Roth - with an expansion

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Neil Young, The Replacements, Van Halen

Do Ya, Do Ya Want This Disc? The Move's Transition to Something Electric Comes Alive from Esoteric

February 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Move Message from the Country

The final works from British rockers The Move were relatively ignored by everyone, including the band themselves - until listeners started to realize how it marked the trio's transition into a whole new sound. Cherry Red's Esoteric label will revisit the group's fourth album Message from the Country in a newly remastered and expanded package, available February 28. The Move started life as a harmony-rich quintet from Birmingham in the late '60s, enjoying a half dozen Top 10s on the U.K.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move

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

Only You Can Free My Mind: Real Gone Music and Omnivore's RSD Lineups Include Better Than Ezra, Francoise Hardy, Jackie DeShannon, Doc Pomus, More

February 18, 2025 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Jackie DeShannon Love Forever

Continuing our look through this year's Record Store Day offerings, here's the lineups for Real Gone Music and Omnivore.  You'll find music from the 1960s and the 1990s, and each company has a collection of rare demo recordings by a famed songwriter (Jackie DeShannon and Doc Pomus).  All descriptions are taken directly from Real Gone Music and Omnivore Recordings.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for the full list of participating retailers you can visit on Saturday, April 12, to join in the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Better Than Ezra, Dada, Deicide, Doc Pomus, Francoise Hardy, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Jackie DeShannon, Record Store Day, The Rembrandts

The Voice of Love: Julee Cruise's Collaborations with Badalamenti and Lynch Compiled in New 2CD Set

February 14, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Julee Cruise Fall Float Love

In one of the more unintentionally-timed releases of the year, Cherry Red will revisit the most popular works of the late singer Julee Cruise, known for her haunting work with the late, influential filmmaker David Lynch. FALL_FLOAT_LOVE (Works 1989-1993), available April 25, brings together expanded editions of 1989's Floating Into the Night and 1993's The Voice of Love, both of which were written and produced by the iconoclastic writer/director and his longtime musical collaborator, Angelo

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Julee Cruise

Brazil / Mondo Disco / Let's Get It Together / Cocomotion

February 13, 2025 By

El Coco Four Albums

C'mon, baby, do the Cocomotion!  Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint is unveiling a new 4-albums-on-2-CD collection from disco outfit El Coco.  The new 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.  TSD's own Joe Marchese provides the new liner notes, and Oli

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Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

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

This is What You Need: INXS Remix and Expand 'Listen Like Thieves'

February 12, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Listen Like Thieves 40

INXS' breakthrough album is getting the red carpet treatment for its 40th anniversary. The Australian group's 1985 effort Listen Like Thieves is getting a multi-format reissue this spring...and while it will be available around the world, there's a slight catch: each format has different and unique bonus material. The centerpiece of the campaign, in stores May 9, is a 3CD/LP box set featuring a new remix of the original album by Giles Martin and Paul Hicks plus two discs of unreleased

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

Elvis Costello, Elton John, John Lennon, Sting Feature on UMG's Record Store Day Slate

February 11, 2025 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Elton John Rainbow Theatre

Universal Music Group's 2025 Record Store Day roster is heavy on British rockers: Elvis Costello, John Lennon, Elton John, Sting, Queen, Mark Knopfler, and The Verve among them!  But there's also some highly-anticipated items from The Killers and Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, and Passengers, a.k.a. U2 and Brian Eno, among the other highlights.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for the full list of participating retailers you can visit on Saturday, April 12, to join in the festivities. Elvis

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Brian Eno, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Elvis Costello, John Lennon, Mark Knopfler, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Queen, Record Store Day, Sting, Taylor Swift, The Killers, The Verve, Thin Lizzy, U2, Yoko Ono

Found All the Parts: Music on Vinyl Reissues Cheap Trick Albums Box

February 10, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Cheap Trick MOV box

Elo, kiddies! An out-of-print Cheap Trick box set is coming back to CD as well as a first-time LP adaptation for Music on Vinyl. The Complete Epic Albums Collection, originally released in 2013 as part of a flurry of similar box sets from Legacy Recordings, captured just nearly everything Rockford's finest put out between 1977 and 1990, including their first 11 studio albums (including the first-time physical release of the "authorized" version of 1983's Next Position Please), an expanded

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Cheap Trick

Just As Long As We Have Love: Rhino's Quadio Series Continues with Aretha, Spinners, Curtis Mayfield, Billy Cobham

February 7, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Quadio Batch 7

This morning, Rhino unveiled its first batch of Quadio titles for 2025 - and this time, the emphasis is on classic soul and R&B with a twist of jazz!  The series, reissuing vintage quadraphonic (four-channel) surround mixes on Blu-ray Audio Discs, welcomes Aretha Franklin's Live at Fillmore West (1971), Curtis Mayfield's Roots (1971), The Spinners' Pick of the Litter (1975), and Billy Cobham's Spectrum (1973). The Queen of Soul's Live at Fillmore West followed 1970's Spirit in the Dark in

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, Billy Cobham, Curtis Mayfield, The Spinners, Thom Bell

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

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

Out of This World: Verve Record Club Promises Heavyweight Vinyl Pressings and Rarities

January 30, 2025 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Verve Record Club

Verve Label Group is getting into the subscription vinyl game with the recently-announced Verve Record Club. The new monthly venture will offer fans new vinyl pressings of classic albums from the Verve, Impulse!, Mercury, CTI, Decca and MGM label catalogues, promising titles by John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ahmad Jamal and Sarah Vaughan, to name a few. The new pressings will all be remastered from the original analog tapes by Ryan K.

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Stan Getz

Walk This Road

January 29, 2025 By

Doobie Brothers Walk This Road

The Doobie Brothers are back with Walk This Road, the band's first album of original material with Michael McDonald since 1980's One Step Closer.  It's also the Doobie's first album ever of original music to fully feature the line-up of McDonald, Johnston, Simmons, and John McFee.  The title track, co-written by returning member Michael McDonald and album producer John Shanks, is a gospel-flavored slice of soul with guest vocals from Mavis Staples. Tom Johnston joined Shanks to pen the

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The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum

January 29, 2025 By

Ella Fitzgerald Moment of Truth

Verve has unearthed Ella Fitzgerald's June 30, 1967 concert at Oakland, California's Coliseum at which she was backed by members of The Duke Ellington Orchestra and combined classic standards with such then-contemporary material as "Alfie" and "Music to Watch Girls By."  The concert has been newly mixed and mastered from producer Norman Granz's original tapes.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Madness is the Gift: Disturbed Celebrate 25 Years of Debut Album with New Box Set

January 23, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Disturbed The Sickness 25

One of the first big metal debut albums of the 2000s will be expanded for its 25th anniversary: Disturbed's The Sickness. The Chicago group's breakthrough (previously reissued for its 10th anniversary just around when The Second Disc was getting started!) will be repackaged as a deluxe 3CD/1LP box set featuring seven unheard demos, three soundtrack rarities, a new mix of "Glass Shatters" (a celebrated entrance theme for WWE superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin), and a live bonus disc featuring

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

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