Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the week's best new titles! The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore brings The Left Banke's 1978 reunion album - featuring Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn, and George Cameron - to CD for the first time, and adds a previously unreleased 2001 session from Michael Brown, Caro, and Finn. Scott Schinder provides the liner notes, and Michael Graves has remastered the
A Beautiful Time
Prolific legend Willie Nelson is back with his newest studio album - and 17th for Legacy Recordings - with A Beautiful Time. Arriving on Willie's 89th birthday, it features new compositions from Willie and longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon as well as Willie-fied covers of The Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" and Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song." Cannon has produced with musicians including Jim "Moose" Brown (B-3 organ, Wurlitzer), Fred Elringham (drums), Barry Bales (upright
Rock On: Demon Music Group's RSD Line-Up Includes Donna Summer, Del Shannon, Pixies, T. Rex, Belinda Carlisle, More
We're counting down to Record Store Day 2022, scheduled for Saturday, April 23. Today, we're sharing the news from Demon Music Group. Demon's 2022 lineup for the fifteenth annual RSD event has an impressive array of classic rock, soul, and pop from such artists as Donna Summer, Belinda Carlisle, T. Rex, Suede, Del Shannon (with a little help from Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne!), Pixies, Ace of Base, and Simple Minds, plus rarities from the archives of the BBC and Chi-Sound Records. Below, you'll
Sheena Easton's "A Private Heaven" Struts in Cherry Pop's New Expanded Edition
Cherry Red's Cherry Pop arm began a new association with Sheena Easton with the 2021 release of The Definitive Singles 1980-1987. The 3-CD, 51-song collection brought together the Scottish singer's A-sides including both 7- and 12-inch singles during that period. This Friday, February 25, the label (once again in tandem with the owner of Easton's EMI discography, RT Industries) will release another generous set: a 2-CD expanded edition of Easton's fifth studio album, 1984's A Private Heaven.
Run Rose Run
Dolly Parton's latest album, Run Rose Run, shares its title with the novel she has just co-authored with James Patterson. The 12 songs on the album were inspired by the book and feature guests Rhonda Vincent, Joe Nichols, The Isaacs, and Dailey and Vincent. Available on CD, LP, and digital/streaming.
Spellbound
Judy Collins releases her 29th studio album, and it's a very personal one: every song on Spellbound is a self-written original composition. Her collaborators on the song cycle include c0-co-producer Alan Silverman, singer-songwriter Ari Hest, multi-instrumentalist Thad DeBrock, bassist Zev Katz, and drummer Doug Yowell. It's packaged in a digipak featuring a 16-page booklet with the artist's own liner notes and lyrics. Available on CD and digital/streaming.
Prince, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Mariah Carey, More Featured on Legacy's Record Store Day Slate
Legacy Recordings has announced its release slate for Record Store Day 2022, with titles both coming for the primary RSD event on Saturday, April 23 and the additional RSD Drop scheduled for Saturday, June 18. Legacy's lineup draws on an array of heavy hitters, some of whom have featured in previous RSD releases, including Miles Davis, Lou Reed, Prince, Santana, Mariah Carey, Pearl Jam, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Patti Smith, and more. Below, you'll find Legacy's full list of releases,
The Weekend Stream: February 19, 2022
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! This week we've got Depeche Mode on vinyl...er, digital, Roxette in Spanish and Shel Silverstein in rare form. Depeche Mode, Speak & Spell | The 12" Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Issued in 2018 as the first of nine (and counting) box sets featuring 12" replicas of every Depeche Mode single from a
Craft Recordings Announces RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Jonathan Richman, Collective Soul, More
Craft Recordings has announced its slate for Record Store Day 2022 taking place on Saturday, April 23 at independent record stores everywhere. The Concord catalogue arm will deliver a generous ten titles encompassing jazz (Vince Guaraldi, Art Pepper, a new volume of Jazz Dispensary), rock (Collective Soul, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers), Latin psychedelia (Flash and The Dynamics), soul (Esther Marrow), hip-hop (Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol. 1), punk (Go Ahead Punk...Make My Day), and
Release Round-Up: Week of February 18
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Pink Floyd, PULSE: Restored and Re-Edited (Pink Floyd Records/Sony) 2 Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2 DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada PULSE, originally released in 1995, chronicled Pink Floyd's Division Bell Tour of Europe. The video release was taken from a performance at Earls Court in London on October 20, 1994. There, Pink Floyd (then comprised of founding members David Gilmour on vocals and guitar,
America, Chicago, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Doors, Ramones, More Featured on Rhino's Record Store Day Lineup
Rhino is bringing out the heavy hitters for its Record Store Day lineup of releases, all of which are due on Saturday, April 23 at independent record stores everywhere. We've already filled you in on the pair of David Bowie titles coming to both CD and LP, but Rhino also has vinyl offerings from music legends including Joni Mitchell, Madonna, Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks, and The Everly Brothers as well as such beloved bands as America, Bad Company, Blur, Chicago, The Doors, Grateful Dead,
Real Gone Music Announces RSD Slate Including Voivod, The Judybats, Brian Bennett, Rain Parade
We've already you filled you in on one of Real Gone Music's releases for Record Store Day 2022- that would be Darlene Love's The Many Sides of Love: The Complete Recordings Plus! from RGM and Second Disc Records - but the Real Gone team has another five eye- and ear-opening titles arriving for RSD on Saturday, April 23 at indie record stores everywhere. First up is Voyage: A Journey Into Discoid Funk from Shadows drummer Brian Bennett. He began drumming for The Shadows in 1961, and save for
Good, Good Lovin': Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Present Darlene Love's "The Many Sides of Love" For Record Store Day Release
From the moment she stepped out of the background to sing the commanding leads on such classic songs as "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" and "He's a Rebel," Darlene Love's voice has been recognized as one of the most powerful in rock and R&B. On Record Store Day, April 23, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music will celebrate Love's extraordinary legacy of song with a new retrospective featuring fifteen of her most criminally overlooked recordings. The Many Sides of Love: The Complete
It's About That Time: Cherry Red, Esoteric Expand Jazz-Rock Debut by Affinity
The band known as Affinity only released one album but the 1970 release on Philips' Vertigo imprint has long been a favorite of crate-diggers for Linda Hoyle's distinctively powerful voice, Lynton Naiff's Hammond B3, Mike Jopp's guitar, Mo Foster's bass, and Grant Serpell's drums and percussion. The quintet came together in an era where jazz-rock thrived, stretching out their songs and adding brass and string accents for an extra punch. Late last year, Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint
John Barry's Soundtrack to "Zulu" Gets Expanded Presentation from Quartet
John Barry's score to director Cy Endfield's 1964 film Zulu has been released on CD numerous times in the past, but Quartet Records can stake claim to the definitive version. The label's new mono/stereo expanded edition, released late in 2021, makes a vivid case for the album's significance in Barry's oeuvre. With only four years of film scoring behind him - including 1963's From Russia with Love, his first full score for the James Bond series of movies - Barry had already evinced a
Save the Rebellion, Save the Dream: 'Rogue One' Complete Score Gets Vinyl Box from Mondo
A heavily armored box set with enough firepower to destroy an entire wallet is coming from Mondo this week. Michael Giacchino's score to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - recently surprise-released as a generous digital expanded edition - will get an 4LP release from the venerated collector's label/imprint, featuring all of the soundtrack material issued in 2016 along with an hour of unreleased and alternative material. (Fans will surely keep hoping for a CD edition; after all, rebellions are
Sing for the Laughter, Sing for the Tear: Archival Aerosmith EP Gets General Release
One of the highlights of 2021's Record Store Day Black Friday line-up was 1971 (The Road Stars Hear) - a never-before-heard, earliest-known recording from the classic line-up of rock band Aerosmith. Nearly five months after its vinyl debut at indie record stores, the set will be released to the general public - on a pleasing variety of physical and digital formats. The Road Starts Hear captures the Boston quintet - vocalist Steven Tyler, guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, bassist Tom
The Weekend Stream: February 12, 2022
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! Michael Giacchino, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Expanded Edition) (Walt Disney Records) (iTunes / Amazon) A genuine, out-of-nowhere surprise: a generous expansion of Oscar-winner Giacchino's score to the first Disney-era Star Wars spin-off in 2016, about the ragtag group of
Release Round-Up: Week of February 11
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cat Stevens, Harold and Maude: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (A&M/Cat-o-Log/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A&M/Cat-o-Log/UMe delivers a long-awaited official wide-release soundtrack of Hal Ashby's 1971 dark comedy Harold and Maude featuring the songs of Cat Stevens. The new release, available on CD, LP, and digital formats, includes the seven songs reprised from
Can't Help Thinking About Me: Parlophone Announces Two David Bowie EPs on Vinyl, CD for Record Store Day
Record Store Day 2022 isn't until April 23, but Parlophone is getting a head start with today's announcement of two releases from David Bowie scheduled for release part of the annual event. Parlophone and ISO Records will offer two limited edition titles from the late superstar, both of which are de facto bonus discs to titles issued in 2021. The Brilliant Adventure EP and Toy EP (You've Got It Made with All the Toys) will both be released on vinyl and CD and premiere previously unreleased
Review: The Replacements, "Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash: Deluxe Edition"
Everything about The Replacements' debut was fast and furious. Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, first released in 1981 on the Twin/Tone label, introduced eighteen rip-roaring nuggets primarily from the pen of Paul Westerberg. More than half were under two minutes long, and only two cracked the three-minute mark. While the lyrics were filled with aggression and the spirit of youthful rebellion, they weren't devoid of self-aware humor. And though the sound was primal, abrasive, and
The First Cuts Are The Deepest: Cherry Red Collects Mike Hurst's "Recordings, Productions, and Songs" on 4-CD Set
As a songwriter, producer, singer, and musician, Mike Hurst has earned his place in the pop pantheon. A member of The Springfields alongside Dusty Springfield and her brother Tom, Hurst later formed a band with Jimmy Page (The Methods) and produced hits for Cat Stevens, P.P. Arnold, Manfred Mann, The Spencer Davis Group, Fancy, Showaddywaddy, and others. Late in 2021, Cherry Red's Strawberry imprint celebrated Hurst's musical legacy with a 4-CD collection, In My Time: Recordings, Productions,
Dolenz Sings Nesmith: The EP
U.S. Customers: Buy signed or unsigned copies directly from Micky Dolenz: CD / Vinyl Deep Discount: CD / Vinyl Both Formats: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada U.K. Customers: Keymail Records: CD / Vinyl Both Formats: Amazon U.K. Hot on the heels of last year's acclaimed release Dolenz Sings Nesmith, Micky Dolenz pays further tribute to his late bandmate Michael Nesmith with this new, four-song EP available on both CD and vinyl. Dolenz Sings Nesmith: The EP was recorded at the same
The Weekend Stream: February 5, 2022
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! Some fascinating finds ahead from the '70s, '80s, '90s and far beyond - but first, another streaming housekeeping note... You may have read our thoughts last week about streaming services, what they're doing, what they should be doing, and how artists are reacting. We had no intention of telling people where they
Bandcamp Friday Picks, February 2022: Paul Andrews Goes the 'Distance' - Hurry Up and Listen
It's a new year, and Bandcamp Fridays are back! The beloved independent music service brings back their beloved mini-holiday today (February 4), and again on March 4, April 1 and May 6. On those days, they'll waive the fees they make off music they host - all the money will go directly to artists and labels. (And artists typically make more there than other platforms, just saying.) We've delighted in using The Second Disc to highlight some of our favorite catalogue and current acts on Bandcamp -
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