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The Weekend Stream: August 17, 2024

August 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got digital EPs from Daryl Hall and U2 and expanded albums from Dan Hartman and Akon; bet you'd never hear those artists in one sentence! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Dan Hartman, It Hurts to Be in Love (Expanded Edition) (Blue Sky/Epic/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Recently issued on CD for the first time by

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Akon, Dan Hartman, Daryl Hall, U2

In Memoriam: Peter Marshall (1926-2024)

August 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Peter Marshall Boy Singer

Peter Marshall celebrated the new millennium with the release of his album Boy Singer.  The album was the first full-length recording in over thirty years from the longtime Master of The Hollywood Squares, but not the last.  Over the course of an extraordinary career spanning nine decades, Marshall made his mark in every arena of show business.  Peter passed away yesterday at the age of 98, epitomizing a long life, well-lived. TV buffs, of course, remember Peter's multiple Emmy Award-winning

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Whitesnake, Recoiled: David Coverdale Preps Box of Remixed, Remastered Solo Albums

August 16, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Whitesnake Into the Light

Having thoroughly revisited his work with Whitesnake at Rhino Records with remixes, reissues and compilations aplenty, the band's singer David Coverdale will now partner with the label to do the same for his three solo albums. Into the Light: The Solo Albums, due October 25, will collect six CDs' worth of Coverdale's solo material, including new remixes alongside remastered versions of the albums WhiteSnake (1977), NorthWinds (1978) and Into the Light (2000) as well as unissued demos and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: David Coverdale, Whitesnake

Release Round-Up: Week of August 16

August 16, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

20th Century Lindsey

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Lindsey Buckingham, 20th Century Lindsey (Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Rhino.com Lindsey Buckingham's earliest solo works are getting a box set from Rhino this summer.  True to its name, 20th Century Lindsey features remastered versions of the three albums the Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist issued

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Creed, Lindsey Buckingham, Melanie, Ten Years After

The Right to Sing: Cherry Red's Lemon Imprint Collects John Miles' "The Albums 1983-93"

August 15, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

John Miles The Albums 1983 93

Singer-songwriter John Miles' 1976 hit "Music," the opening track of his Decca debut album Rebel, immediately became the artist's calling card.  The Alan Parsons-produced single went to the top five on the U.K. Singles Chart, also reaching the top ten in various European countries, and cracking the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.  The epic prog ballad won Miles an Ivor Novello Award, and launched Miles into the stratosphere.  Two well-received albums with producer Rupert Holmes followed,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: John Miles

Maestro Around the World: John Williams' Late-Period Concert Albums Set for Vinyl Box

August 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

John Williams in Concert

Last Sunday, August 11, John Williams added another honorific to his already incredible career: Disney Legend. The iconic film composer, whose nine Star Wars film scores and five for the Indiana Jones series are now part of the Mouse House's company portfolio thanks to its 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm, was honored at the latest D23 Expo by Dr. Jones himself, actor Harrison Ford, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who's produced many of the films that Williams has done scores for. (The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams

The More I See You: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Nancy in London"

August 13, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Nancy Sinatra Nancy in London

Nancy Sinatra's third album brought the hitmaking singer to the Swingin' center of the world.  Nancy in London, originally released in 1966, was produced and arranged by her usual team of Lee Hazlewood and Billy Strange, respectively, but the setting was very different than the typical Hollywood environs.  Nancy was booked into Pye Studios on Great Cumberland Place near Marble Arch in London, the same studios in which Petula Clark had cut "Downtown" and Nancy's Reprise labelmates The Kinks

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Mickie Most, Nancy Sinatra

The Boys Are Back: Thin Lizzy Gets New Remixes for Box Set Commemorating 1976, Their Breakthrough Year

August 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Thin Lizzy 1976 packshot

Guess who just got back today? Well, September 27 is the date, but Thin Lizzy are releasing a box set chronicling one of their most pivotal years. 1976 will, across five CDs and a Blu-ray Disc, retell the story of the two albums the Irish rockers issued that year: Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox. Both albums have been newly remixed in stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos by Richard Whittaker, under the supervision of guitarist Scott Gorham. The box also includes selections of unreleased material

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

St. Jimmy, Re-Canonized: Green Day Prep 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of 'American Idiot'

August 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

American Idiot 20 box

With 20 years' hindsight, Green Day probably meant for their seventh studio album to be big. But nobody could have predicted just how big American Idiot got - and this year's latest addition to the year-end music box set line-up will showcase just how big with a package to match. American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Green Day

The Weekend Stream: August 10, 2024

August 10, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. A legendary classic rock concert is back on digital channels, along with EPs from U2, Madonna and Daryl Hall, a remixed cast album from a beloved musical, and a new record from one of the most underrated bands of the last few decades. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison, The Concert for Bangladesh (Apple)

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Ripley, Billy Preston, Bob Dylan, Daryl Hall, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Leon Russell, Phil Collins, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, Spoon, The Damnwells, Tom Kitt, U2

Release Round-Up: Week of August 9

August 9, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Elvis Memphis box 2024

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.   Also, don't miss out on today's eclectic slate of releases from Real Gone Music; click here to find out what's new from Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Firehouse, Azar Lawrence, Charlie Nothing, and 3 Inches of Blood! Elvis Presley, Memphis (RCA/Legacy) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Stewart, Bill Wyman, Dean Martin, Dickey Betts, Elvis Presley, Esperanza Spalding, Frank Sinatra, Jim Peterik, Judy Garland, Little Big Town, Milton Nascimento, Paul Weller, The Soul Searchers, Vera Lynn

Tonight You're Mine: Legacy Releases Digital Trove of Eric Carmen Rarities

August 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

And Now, Eric Carmen

The power pop world lost a legend in March when it was announced that Eric Carmen - the Raspberries frontman turned soft-rock hitmaker of the '70s and '80s - passed away at the age of 74. Now - on the eve of what would have been his 75th birthday and a special tribute to his life and career from the city that raised him - Legacy Recordings today issues a trove of rare and unreleased recordings from his beloved solo career. And Now, Eric Carmen: The Arista Archive collects 25 demos, single

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eric Carmen

Refugee of the Roads: Joni Mitchell's Latest Archives Box Takes Listeners to the End of the '70s

August 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Joni Archives 4 packshot

Rhino's Joni Mitchell Archives series has been dependably running since 2020, offering alternating box sets featuring troves of unreleased material from the folk legend and remastered versions of the album eras they cover. With the most recent box collecting her last four albums for the Asylum label - Hejira (1976), Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and the live Shadows and Light (1980) - today's new announcement closes that same chapter, offering hours of unreleased live and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Jazz, Pop Tags: Charles Mingus, Graham Nash, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Jan Hammer, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Pat Metheny, T Bone Burnett

When You're Smiling: Impex Returns to "Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra" with Lavish 1STEP Box

August 7, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Roughly four years ago, the Impex label revisited Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra in both hybrid mono SACD and deluxe LP formats.  The 1950 album was a landmark in the legendary vocalist's career.  After he released the very first pop long-playing record with Columbia's 1948 reissue of The Voice of Frank Sinatra, he took advantage of the format with Sing and Dance.  Initially available as a set of four 10-inch 78s or a single 33-1/3 RPM record, the album saw Sinatra at the dawn of his

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Frank Sinatra

Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971)

August 6, 2024 By

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band's show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center.  Every track on this set is previously unreleased (including the first-ever performance of "Saturday in the Park" and an embryonic "Dialogue" without Part Two; neither song had yet been recorded) with the exception of "Goodbye,"

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

Colour My World: Chicago's 1971 Set at the Kennedy Center to Be Released

August 6, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago Kennedy Center 1971

Does anybody really know what time it is?  On September 27, it's time for Rhino to excavate a vintage Chicago concert from the vaults.  Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band's show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center.  Every track on this set is previously unreleased with the exception of "Goodbye," which

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago

Run for Home: Lindisfarne's "Mercury Years" Collected on Box from Cherry Red, Lemon

August 5, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lindisfarne The Mercury Years

With a sound melding harmony vocals to soaring folk-rock, Newcastle upon Tyne band Lindisfarne released three studio albums - including the 1972 breakthrough Fog on the Tyne, which spent 56 weeks on the U.K. Albums Chart - before splintering.  Two-fifths of the band carried on with new members for a pair of albums in 1973-74, but by '75, the group had called it a day.  Then, in 1978, they were back.  The album was cheekily entitled Back and Fourth, referring to the fact that the originals had

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk Tags: Lindisfarne

Forever

August 3, 2024 By

Cher Forever

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  CD (Exclusive Turquoise Cover): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Exclusive Turquoise Cover): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cher's first hits collection in nearly two decades, Forever features 21 newly remastered songs curated by the artist on 1 CD or 2 LPs (pressed on crystal-clear vinyl).  It's accompanied by the Forever: Fan Edition, a digital-only expanded album with

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

The Weekend Stream: August 3, 2024

August 3, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2024

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. Two '80s Top 5 hits get revisited in EP form, as does an early '00s single from a classic '80s rock band - and we're also spotlighting one of our favorite new releases from a country hitmaker turning to pop (no, not that one). As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Madonna, Cherish (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Daryl Hall, Madonna, Maren Morris, U2

Review: Rhino's Sounds of the Summer Series - Randy Newman, Chicago, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Al Stewart, Utopia

August 2, 2024 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Randy Newman Best of

Over the past month, Rhino has been releasing numerous titles as part of its Sounds of the Summer initiative, for a total of over two dozen vinyl releases hitting brick-and-mortar stores.  These titles encompass various reissues as well as new entries in the label's ongoing Now Playing series of compilations.  As of now, these LPs are all exclusive to independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations.  We've given a spin to a few of these titles! How to distill the discography of one

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Al Stewart, Chicago, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Randy Newman, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Release Round-Up: Week of August 2

August 2, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Howard Jones Live at the O2

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Van Morrison, Live at Orangefield (Orangefield Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Christmas 1959 saw Van Morrison take the stage of Orangefield Secondary School in Belfast for his very first live performance.  Van, on guitar and vocals, joined his fellow students John McCullough on tea-chest bass, Cyril Downey on

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Drive-By Truckers, Howard Jones, Jeremy Jordan, Melanie, Sam Smith, Van Morrison, Warren Smith, Ween

Turn Back Time: Cher Collects Hits on "Forever," Adds Rarities to Digital Edition

August 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Cher Forever

On October 19, Cher will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  One month later, on November 19, Cher releases the first volume of her long-awaited autobiography.  The Memoir: Part One will be preceded on September 20 by the superstar's latest hits anthology - her first in nearly two decades.  Forever, featuring 21 newly remastered songs curated by the artist, arrives from Warner Records on 1 CD or 2 LPs (pressed on crystal-clear vinyl).  On the same date, the Forever: Fan Edition

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Cher, Sonny and Cher

Roxy and Elsewhere: Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera Plan Career-Spanning Box Sets

August 1, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Ferry Manzanera boxes

What are the odds? Two career-spanning box sets featuring solo material by members of Roxy Music - lead singer Bryan Ferry and guitarist Phil Manzanera - will be available this fall. Ferry's Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 will be a 5CD overview divided into thematic collections of his work outside of Roxy Music. The first is a new 20-track collection of his best-loved singles, including the U.K. Top 10s "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Let's Stick Together" and "Slave to Love."

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Roxy Music

Must Have Been the Roses: Newest Grateful Dead Box Set Covers April 1978, from "Drums" to "Space"

August 1, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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1978: The Grateful Dead was between Terrapin Station and Shakedown Street, and re-setting the rules onstage. The group's 1978 spring tour introduced "Drums" and "Space" as regular live features, and found Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux in re-energized, post-hiatus form. Yesterday, Rhino and the band announced the release of Friend of the Devils: April 1978, a massive 19CD box containing eight previously unreleased concerts from

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

Love in Store: Fleetwood Mac Collect 'Mirage Tour' Recordings

July 30, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Fleetwood Mac Mirage Tour 82

Though a key member of Fleetwood Mac's classic line-up has passed on and two others don't communicate, the group lives on in countless catalogue titles. All of their studio albums from 1975 to 1987 have been given the box set treatment, as has their 1980 live album - and last year, a collection of Rumours-era live recordings was released on its own. Now, the same is being done for their tour in support of 1982's Mirage. Recorded over two nights at The Forum just outside Los Angeles - the same

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks

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