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Havana Moon

November 7, 2016 By

Rolling Stones Havana Moon

The Rolling Stones' historic Cuba concert from March 25 earlier this year is released in a variety of formats: Blu-ray/DVD/2 CDs Book-Style Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blu-ray/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/3-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blu-ray: Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon U.K.

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

Ropin' the Wind: Garth Brooks to Release Target-Exclusive Box

November 7, 2016 By Mike Duquette 14 Comments

Garth Brooks Ultimate Collection and Christmas

Country superstar Garth Brooks is getting into the box set game once more with a 10-disc set exclusively hitting shelves at Target later this month. The Ultimate Collection is a 121-track set that collects Brooks' past and present works across more than 25 years of recording and touring. Seven themed discs feature a plethora of hits, fan favorites and covers (including the unreleased Randy Travis cover "1982"); two live discs feature five unreleased cuts including duets with wife Trisha

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood

Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

November 5, 2016 By

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

Yoko Ono's debut album - the complement to John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and featuring the same core band with Ringo Starr and Klaus Voormann - gets expanded and remastered.  Bonus tracks "Open Your Box," "Something More Abstract" and "The South Wind" are all here from the 1997 Rykodisc reissue, as well as a previously unreleased extended version of "Why."  Available on CD, LP and DD.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else

Everybody Say Yeah! New Box Set Marks 50 Years of NRBQ

November 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

NRBQ High Noon

The New Rhythm and Blues Quartet (NRBQ) is turning 50 this year, and Omnivore Recordings is throwing the party! High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective features 106 eclectic songs over 5 CDs including fan favorites such as the 1974 hit "Get That Gasoline Blues," plus rarities, concert tracks, and previously unreleased recordings from the band's varied line-ups over the years! Since its founding in Louisville, Kentucky in 1966, NRBQ has touched on rock, jazz, blues, pop, and Americana. The band has

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Everything Else, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: NRBQ

Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

November 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a host of holiday offerings (including three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!) and much, much more! Jack Jones, The Jack Jones Christmas Album (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly bring Jack Jones' 1964 Kapp Records classic to CD for the very first time!  The Jack Jones Christmas Album features lush renditions of "White

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold, Frank Zappa, Jack Jones, Mantovani, Margaret Whiting, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, Stevie Nicks, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Living Strings, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures

Now We're Getting Somewhere: An Interview with Neil Finn of Crowded House

November 3, 2016 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Neil Finn 1

Hey now, hey now...Here at Second Disc HQ, we're bursting with pride to share with you this very special interview conducted by our very own Mike Duquette! Crowded House founder Neil Finn reflected at length with Mike about his band, his career, legacy, and the series of truly lavish Crowded House reissues hitting stores on November 11.  We know you'll enjoy this one!  Take it away, Mike... There are certain songwriters who've mastered certain places in their compositions. Think of, say, Lou

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Categories: Features, Interviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Crowded House, Neil Finn

So Good It's Scary! Varese Plans "Little Box of Horrors"

November 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Little Box of Horrors Varese

Those soundtrack geniuses at Varese Sarabande have scared up some appropriate soundtrack news for Halloween, announcing a box set next month that will collect a dozen rare, unreleased and out of print horror scores from across five decades! The Little Box of Horrors is a 12CD set featuring spooky soundtracks to films from an Emmy-nominated 1968 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde all the way to Wes Craven's Dracula 2000. There's a pair of scores by Jerry Goldsmith for occult pictures (The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bob Cobert, Howard Shore, Jerry Goldsmith, Marco Beltrami

Review: "Unsung Sherman Brothers: Song Scores from Three That Got Away"

November 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Unsung Sherman Brothers

How often does one get the opportunity to hear a never-before-released score from one of the most beloved songwriting teams of all time?  How about three unreleased scores, then?  And what if one of those scores featured seven never-before-heard performances from Sammy Davis, Jr.?  Indeed, such opportunities are rare...making Kritzerland's new release of Unsung Sherman Brothers all the more special.  This delectable and tuneful collection premieres rare demo recordings of three unproduced scores

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Sammy Davis Jr., The Sherman Brothers

Do Your Thing: 20 Record Store Day Black Friday Essentials

November 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Popeye OST

Are you making a list and checking it twice? We are! Record Store Day Black Friday is here in less than a month, and this week we're showcasing all of our favorite titles. We've shown you the goods from Legacy, Real Gone, Rhino and Omnivore; now, here are 20 more titles we think you should absolutely check out. There's soundtrack goodies from Varese Sarabande and Light in the Attic; holiday favorites from Bob & Doug McKenzie, Frank Sinatra and "Dolemite" himself; lost gems from Isaac Hayes,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Harry Nilsson, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Goldsmith, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, The Runaways

Rhino, Omnivore Plan Black Friday Gold For Record Store Day

October 31, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Monkees Good Times Plus

That chill in the air and the buzz in your favorite record store can only mean one thing: Record Store Day Black Friday is nearly upon us! On November 25, indie record retailers and labels great and small will partner together to issue dozens of exclusive packages you can't get anywhere else (except maybe eBay, after the fact, though we're not happy about that.) The vinyl boom refuses to end, but owing to the lesser size of the event in general, there don't seem to be as many titles as usual.

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Big Star, CHIC, Foreigner, Jaco Pastorius, Jethro Tull, Ramones, Record Store Day, The Bangles, The Beach Boys, The Cars, The Monkees

Legacy

October 29, 2016 By

David Bowie Legacy

2-CD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new 2-CD retrospective dedicated to the late David Bowie features forty classic tracks from "Space Oddity" through the final song on Blackstar, "I Can't Give Everything Away."  A single-CD, 20-track iteration will also be released. The 2-CD version is sequenced chronologically, while the single-disc version is not.  Both editions feature one previously unreleased track: a 2016 remix of 1971's "Life on Mars?"

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Atom Bomb: Expanded Edition

October 29, 2016 By

Blind Boys of Alabama Atom Bomb

Omnivore continues its deluxe series dedicated to The Blind Boys of Alabama with an expanded edition of 2005's Atom Bomb, featuring traditional gospel melodies along with surprises such as Eric Clapton's "Presence of the Lord" and Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," all rendered in the group's stirring style incorporating flourishes of R&B, jazz and even rap and rock.  Billy Preston and David Hidalgo are among the guests on this sublime record, newly expanded with seven previously

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Formats: CD Genre: Gospel

Go Tell It On The Mountain: Expanded Edition

October 29, 2016 By

Blind Boys of Alabama Go Tell It On The Mountain

Omnivore expands Go Tell It on the Mountain, the 2003 Christmas album from gospel greats The Blind Boys of Alabama.  The all-star LP blended the spiritual and the secular, featuring turns from Tom Waits, Mavis Staples, Aaron Neville, George Clinton, Shelby Lynne, Les McCann (one of the album's inspirations) and Solomon Burke, gains three additional tracks: "My Lord What a Morning" (first issued in 2004) and previously unreleased 2003 live recordings of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Amazing

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Formats: CD Genre: Gospel, Holiday

Chicago '78

October 28, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Chicago 78

This Vaulternative Records concert release premieres Frank Zappa's performance at Chicago's Uptown Theater from September 29, 1978. Of the two shows played that night, the late show is captured here in its entirety including tracks such as "Dancin' Fool," "Magic Fingers," and "Strictly Genteel."

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Little Dots

October 28, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Little Dots

Little Dots follows up 2005's Imaginary Diseases with further selections from Frank Zappa's 10-piece 'Petit Wazoo' tour of late 1972.  These tracks feature a horn-driven ensemble and comprise epic improvisations and previously unreleased compositions.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Meat Light: The Uncle Meat Project/Object

October 28, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Meat Light

Zappa Records continues its series of Project/Object titles presenting rare and unreleased material revolving around one classic Frank Zappa album - in this case, Uncle Meat.  Included is the original 1969 vinyl mix (restored, remastered and available digitally for the first time), an original sequence that includes unique source material, and bonus tracks largely compiled from the recording sessions at Apostolic Studios in NYC between 1967 and 1968.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Can We Still Be Friends: Real Gone's Black Friday Titles Feature Paul Butterfield, December Slate Includes Todd Rundgren, Mills Brothers

October 28, 2016 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Paul Butterfield Got a Mind to Give Up Living

With Halloween coming on Monday, that means that the Christmas season is almost upon us.  Stores have already begun to put out Christmas merchandise and Christmas CDs have begun to hit the shelves.  Next week sees the release of Real Gone's mega-Christmas slate, including three Second Disc Records titles featuring Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold and Mitch Miller.  In addition, Real Gone has just announced its exclusives for the Black Friday November 25 Record Store Day event which is part of the kickoff

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Record Store Day, The Mills Brothers, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Timothy Leary, Todd Rundgren

Prince 4Ever

October 28, 2016 By

Prince 4Ever

Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist's major works from his first album, 1978's For You, to 1992's The Love Symbol, Prince's last release before he changed his name to the album's title.  At least six tracks appear on Prince compilations for the first time, and the set also includes the first posthumous release from Prince's fabled vault: "Moonbeam Levels," a 1999 outtake at one point considered for 1988's Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic, a project scrapped when Prince took on Batman. A

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

London Fog 1966

October 28, 2016 By

The Doors London Fog 1966

The earliest known live recording of The Doors - recorded in 1966 at Sunset Strip's London Fog club - is presented for the first time on a CD/LP box set limited to 18,000 copies.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock

You're Gonna Get It! Tom Petty Celebrates 40 Years with Two Vinyl Boxes

October 28, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Tom Petty Vinyl Volume Two

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are collecting all their studio albums into two new vinyl box sets. The Complete Studio Albums Volume 1 (1976-1991) and The Complete Studio Albums Volume 2 (1994-2014) bring together, across 21 pieces of 180-gram vinyl, all 16 studio releases from singer/guitarist Petty, guitarists Mike Campbell and Scott Thurston, keyboardist Benmont Tench, bassists Ron Blair and Howie Epstein and drummers Stan Lynch

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Release Round-Up: Week of October 28

October 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Neil Diamond Acoustic Christmas

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Roy Orbison, The Ultimate Collection (Roy's Boys/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings and Roy's Boys, LLC deliver a newly-remastered, career-spanning anthology for the late Roy Orbison.  The Ultimate Collection has 26 tracks drawn from The Big O's halcyon years at Monument and MGM as well as his final solo recordings and collaborations with The Traveling

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Black Sabbath, Jimmy Buffett, Marc Almond, Mozart, Neil Diamond, Otis Redding, Philip Glass, Roy Orbison, She and Him, The Intruders, The Legal Matters

Dylan, Hendrix, Run-D.M.C. Lead Off Legacy's Record Store Day Black Friday Slate

October 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bob Dylan Real Royal Albert Hall

The official list is here for this year's Black Friday Record Store Day event - that's Friday, November 25! - and as usual, an eclectic array of titles will be on offer to kick off the holiday shopping season.  Legacy Recordings has tapped some of its heaviest hitters for this year's limited edition vinyl releases including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Run-D.M.C. and Alice in Chains...plus a disparate pair of animation favorites! Here's the full list of Legacy's Black Friday RSD releases, with

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice in Chains, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Record Store Day, Run-D.M.C.

Strange Days: Early Doors Show Arrives In December On "London Fog 1966"

October 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

The Doors London Fog 1966

Rhino Records and Bright Midnight Archives are opening new doors onto the early days of The Doors with a CD/LP box set due on December 9.  London Fog 1966 captures Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore at The London Fog, a Sunset Strip bar located steps away from the Whisky a Go Go.  This live gig, only recently discovered, marks the earliest known live recordings of the band, and kicks off The Doors' 50th anniversary celebration of 2017 - the year of their

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

Ave Varese: "The Omen," "Scream 2" Expanded For CD

October 27, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

The Omen 40th OST

With Halloween just around the corner, Varese Sarabande Records has scared up a pair of fantastic horror soundtrack reissues for its CD Club! One of the label's most famous soundtrack releases comes back for more! Jerry Goldsmith's score to The Omen gets a brand-new overhaul for its 40th anniversary. Richard Donner's classic thriller stars Gregory Peck as an ambassador to England who realizes only too late that his son Damien--an orphan adopted in secret when his own child was stillborn--is

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jerry Goldsmith, Marco Beltrami

The Ballad of the Boy in the Red Box: Elton John Vinyl Set Coming from Burberry

October 27, 2016 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Elton John Burberry Box

Elton John is looking back on part of his catalogue on vinyl with a very unusual partner--British luxury fashion house Burberry. Elton's longtime passion for and collaboration with Burberry (he appeared in an ad campaign for the brand in 2015) will be commemorated by a special box of six of his albums on 180-gram vinyl, at a limited run of only 800 copies. Each LP has been remastered from the original tapes by Bob Ludwig and lacquers have been cut at Abbey Road Studios. The gold

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Elton John

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