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Combat Rock/The People's Hall (Special Edition)

April 18, 2022 By

Combat Rock Peoples Hall

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ranking Roger 7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash's Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare and unreleased tracks curated by the band's surviving members.  The People's Hall - the bonus set on this new expansion, comprising a bonus CD or three sides of two bonus LPs - is named for

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

Europe '72 [50th Anniversary Editions]

April 18, 2022 By

Grateful Dead Europe 72

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP ("Bozo or Bolo" rainbow): Dead.net Lyceum '72 (24LP): Dead.net Grateful Dead's thrilling run of European shows which were immortalized on the triple-album release Europe '72 and then in 2011 on the expansive 73-CD box set Europe '72: The Complete Recordings.  Now, Rhino has announced a host of releases from the final stand of the European tour.  Lyceum 1972: The Complete Recordings,

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

You Must Believe in Spring

April 18, 2022 By

Bill Evans You Must Believe in Spring

2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada SACD: CraftRecordings.com Craft Recordings delivers a remastered reissue of one of jazz piano legend Bill Evans' finest studio albums, the posthumous 1981 release You Must Believe in Spring, in 180-gram vinyl, CD, hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players), and digital formats.  Produced by Tommy LiPuma and Evans' longtime manager Helen Keane and engineered by Al Schmitt, You Must Believe in

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

Licked Again: The Rolling Stones Bring 2003 Madison Square Garden Show to CD, LP, DVD, Blu-ray

April 18, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Rolling Stones Licked Live in NYC

The Rolling Stones may be off the road for now, but until they return to European stages this summer, the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band is serving up more live fare for audiences everywhere.  The Stones will follow up the May 13 release of 1977's Live at the El Mocambo with a live set of more recent vintage.  On June 10, Mercury Studios delivers Licked Live in NYC, presenting the band's January 2003 Madison Square Garden show from the 40th anniversary Licked tour, in multiple formats:

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

The Weekend Stream: April 16, 2022

April 16, 2022 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! Ben Folds, It's the Small Things, Charlie Brown (Apple TV+ Original Soundtrack) (Peanuts Productions) (iTunes) Ben Folds has been sort of quiet lately. While the piano-pounding alt-rocker has been livestreaming and podcasting along with being an advocate for orchestras in recent years, he's only released a

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ben Folds, Boyz II Men, Depeche Mode, Dwight Yoakam, John Williams, Sophie B. Hawkins, Third Eye Blind

I Don't Do Gentle: Cherry Red's 7T's Imprint Reissues Two Albums from Suzi Quatro on New Collection

April 15, 2022 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Suzi Quatro Back to the Spotlight

Since bursting onto the scene in the mid-1960s as a member of Detroit band The Pleasure Seekers, Suzi Quatro has enjoyed one of the most versatile careers in rock and roll.  In addition to selling over 55 million LPs and singles, Quatro has starred on stage and screen and influenced an entire generation of artists including Joan Jett and The Go-Go's.  Suzi's most recent studio LP, The Devil in Me, arrived in early 2021.  Now, Cherry Red's 7T's imprint is looking back to her first two albums of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Suzi Quatro

Release Round-Up: Week of April 15

April 15, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Rush Moving Pictures 40th

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new releases available today! Rush, Moving Pictures: 40th Anniversary [various editions] (Mercury/UMe) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD/5LP/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rush's seminal 1981 Moving Pictures receives a number of belated 40th anniversary reissues today including a 3CD version with the 2015 album remaster (debuting in

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bobby Cole, Dave Brubeck, Edgar Winter, George Thorogood, Rush

Some Velvet Morning: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's "Nancy and Lee"

April 14, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Nancy and Lee CD Packshot

The next installment in Light in the Attic's ongoing Nancy Sinatra Archival Series is set for release on May 20: an expanded edition of 1968's Nancy and Lee, the singer's first full-length duet album with maverick singer-songwriter-producer Lee Hazlewood.  Nancy and Lee will be reissued on CD as well as digitally, vinyl (with various color exclusives), cassette, and eight-track. 1965's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," produced and written by Hazlewood, launched Sinatra's musical career

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra

You Are My One: 7a Records Reissues Michael Nesmith's "Tantamount to Treason Volume One" in June

April 13, 2022 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Michael Nesmith Tantamount to Treason 7a

Even before the May 13 reissue of Michael Nesmith's And the Hits Just Keep on Comin' arrives from 7a Records, the Monkees-focused label has announced a second 50th anniversary reissue from the late singer-songwriter.  On June 3, 7a will reissue 1972's Tantamount to Treason Volume One on vinyl and in an expanded edition on CD. Tantamount to Treason Volume One was actually Nesmith's first album of 1972, preceding Hits by roughly six months.  The LP was the first and only one credited to Michael

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country Tags: Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes

So Much Excitement to Be Found: UMe Reissues Frank Sinatra's Concept Album "Watertown"

April 12, 2022 By Joe Marchese 14 Comments

Frank Sinatra Watertown

Old Watertown/Nothing much happening down on Main, 'cept a little rain... Something's happening in Watertown - on June 3, to be precise.  That's the date when UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE) will release a remixed and expanded edition of Frank Sinatra's 1970 masterwork Watertown on CD and digital/streaming platforms.  In addition, the remixed album only will be reissued on vinyl. Watertown remains an album unlike any other in the Sinatra discography.  The seeds of the two-part

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bob Gaudio, Frank Sinatra, Jake Holmes, The Four Seasons

We Will Meet Again: Craft Recordings Reissues, Expands Bill Evans' "You Must Believe in Spring"

April 11, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bill Evans You Must Believe in Spring

Last year, Craft Recordings delivered an impressive career-spanning salute to late pianist-composer Bill Evans.  The title of that box set, Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans, rings true today as the label has announced a remastered reissue of one of Evans' finest studio albums, the posthumous release You Must Believe in Spring.  It's due on June 3 in 180-gram vinyl, CD, hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players), and digital formats. Produced by Tommy LiPuma and Evans' longtime manager

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Bill Evans

The Weekend Stream: April 9, 2022

April 9, 2022 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! And after a week away, you better believe we're coming in hot! Billy Joel, 50 Years of the Piano Man (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple Music / Amazon) On the surface, this 50-track digital compilation-cum-playlist looks like a typical algorithmic survey of Joel's five-decade career, with all the great radio hits rising to

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Damon Albarn, David Ruffin, Depeche Mode, Gerry Beckley, Howard Jones, Jerry Goldsmith, Jim Weatherly, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Format, Trace Adkins

Would You Go All The Way? "Zappa/Erie" Collects Three Pennsylvania Shows and More on 6 CDs

April 8, 2022 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Zappa Erie

On June 3, Zappa Records and UMe are taking a journey to Elsewhere.  Frank Zappa's 1974 live album Roxy and Elsewhere primarily featured performances from Hollywood's Roxy Theatre recorded in December 1973.  The Elsewhere in the album's title referred to "Son of Orange County" and "More Trouble Every Day," both of which were captured in May 1974 at Edinboro State College in Edinboro, Pennsylvania (with parts of "Son of Orange County" drawn from a Chicago show).  Now, the entire Edinboro show

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else Tags: Frank Zappa

Release Round-Up: Week of April 8

April 8, 2022 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Aerosmith The Road Starts Hear

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! Aerosmith, 1971 (The Road Starts Hear) (UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada One of the highlights of 2021's Record Store Day Black Friday line-up was 1971 (The Road Starts Hear) - a never-before-heard, earliest-known recording from the classic line-up of rock band Aerosmith. Nearly five months after its vinyl debut

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Aerosmith, Bonnie Pointer, Carla Olson, Jack White, Michael Korie, Mick Taylor, Tom Kitt

One More Saturday Night: Grateful Dead's 'Europe '72' Gets a Host of 50th Anniversary Reissues

April 7, 2022 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Grateful Dead Europe 72

50 years ago today, Grateful Dead took the stage at London's Wembley Empire Pool (today known as the OVO Arena Wembley).  The concert inaugurated the Dead's thrilling run of European shows which were immortalized on the triple-album release Europe '72 and then in 2011 on the expansive 73-CD box set Europe '72: The Complete Recordings.  Now, Rhino has announced a host of releases from the final stand of the European tour. Lyceum 1972: The Complete Recordings, due on July 29, will be the Dead's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

It Will Be Double: The Clash Detail Expanded Edition of 'Combat Rock'

April 7, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Combat Rock Peoples Hall

This is a public service announcement...with bonus tracks! Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash's Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare and unreleased tracks curated by the band's surviving members. As the follow-up to the sprawling triple album Sandinista! (1980), the fifth album from "The Only Band That Matters" found the group at a creative crossroads. Guitarist Mick Jones found himself feeling estranged from his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, The Beat, The Clash, The English Beat

Shoot the Moon: Blue Note Expands Norah Jones' "Come Away with Me" For 20th Anniversary

April 5, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Norah Jones Come Away with Me 20

Since its release over 20 years ago on February 26, 2002, Norah Jones' Come Away with Me has become one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.  With its fusion of jazz, folk, traditional pop, and blues, Come Away with Me crossed over to multiple audiences.  The Blue Note album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and received eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, as well as Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Norah Jones

Prince and The Revolution Live

April 4, 2022 By

Prince and the Revolution Live 1

2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/3LP/BD: Official Prince Store NPG and Legacy Recordings premiere a physical audio release of Prince and The Revolution Live, a 1985 concert feature recorded at The Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY on March 30, 1985, toward the end of the Purple Rain tour and less than a month before the release of follow-up Around The World In a Day.  He's backed by an expanded version of The Revolution;

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

The Original Recordings

April 4, 2022 By

Sex Pistols Original Recordings

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Original Recordings - categorically unauthorized, per John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten - is a simple 20-track summary of the short-lived punk icons' discography, culled mostly from their sole album Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (1977) and odds-and-ends soundtrack The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (1979), plus a few non-LP B-sides. The ostensible hook for the disc: the impending

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Having the Time of Your Life: ABBA to Release New Box Set of Complete Albums

April 1, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

ABBA Albums Box

Perhaps the biggest musical surprise of 2021 was the release of a brand-new ABBA album - 40 years after they took their final bow with The Visitors. A chart-topper in many countries around the world (it "only" hit No. 2 in America), Voyage hardly sounded as if four decades had passed thanks to dramatic tracks like "I Still Have Faith in You" (a Grammy nominee for Record of the Year this weekend, the band's first-ever nod from the Recording Academy), "Don't Shut Me Down" and "Just a Notion." The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: ABBA

Dance a Little Closer: Stage Door Reissues "Rainbows: The Lorna Dallas Album"

April 1, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lorna Dallas Rainbows

Over the course of seven decades, Lorna Dallas has forged a remarkable career path all her own.  The Illinois-born vocalist and Indiana University graduate toured with the national company of the Metropolitan Opera and appeared on the WCBS-TV talent program Callback (its musical director: a young Barry Manilow) before making a splash in London as Magnolia in the acclaimed 1971 company of Show Boat starring Cleo Laine, Kenneth Nelson, and Andre Jobin.  Dallas made London her home and soon was

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Lorna Dallas

Holidays in the Sun: New Sex Pistols Collection to Precede Miniseries

April 1, 2022 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Sex Pistols Original Recordings

A new Sex Pistols collection is hitting shops in May - much to the chagrin of the band's former frontman. The Original Recordings is a simple 20-track summary of the short-lived punk icons, culled mostly from their sole album Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (1977) and odds-and-ends soundtrack The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (1979), plus a few non-LP B-sides. The ostensible hook for the disc: the impending airing of Pistol, a fictionalized miniseries about the group (based on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Sex Pistols

Release Round-Up: Week of April 1

April 1, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Doris Day Early Day Rare Songs from the Radio

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! Daryl Hall, BeforeAfter (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Daryl Hall is looking back with his first-ever solo anthology.  BeforeAfter, curated by the artist, draws on all five of his acclaimed solo albums: the Robert Fripp-produced cult classic Sacred Songs (1980), Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine (1986, including the top five hit "Dreamtime" and top

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Daryl Hall, Doris Day, Graham Parker, Kenny Rogers, Lorna Dallas, Lynn Ahrens, Marvin Gaye, Scott McCarl, Stephen Flaherty, The Raspberries, Todd Rundgren, Tom Jones

How Does It Feel to Be Back: An Interview with Jeremy Holiday of Iconoclassic Records

March 31, 2022 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

JH Banner

Jeremy Holiday remembers it well: at four years old, he got his first "pop" record, Daryl Hall & John Oates' 1980 blockbuster Voices. That record set him on an incredible path that readers of The Second Disc will no doubt recognize: the journey to a fruitful career in catalogue music. For nearly 25 years, Holiday maintained an incredible tenure in the major label reissue business, working at BMG's Buddha and Heritage imprints, surviving a 2005 merger with Sony Music (and BMG's divestment

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Categories: Features, Interviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: B.T. Express, Daryl Hall, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Graham Parker, The Fall

The Many Sides of Love: The Complete Reprise Recordings Plus!

March 30, 2022 By

Darlene Love TSD RSD

Second Disc Records' inaugural Record Store Day release, Darlene Love's The Many Sides of Love: The Complete Reprise Recordings Plus!, is following its RSD debut with a CD release.  The Many Sides of Love brings together all of the rare single sides recorded by Darlene for Reprise Records, both as a solo artist and with The Blossoms (the most famous line-up of which featured Darlene, Fanita James, and Jean King).  The collection also features the sides The Blossoms recorded (with Darlene on

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