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Return of the Kinetic Kid: Stewart Copeland's 'Klark Kent' Gets a Bonus-Packed Reissue

October 18, 2023 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Klark Kent

From the twisted minds of one of rock's most celebrated drummers came a burst of tongue-in-cheek post-punk by Klark Kent, a mysterious presence who made a brief cameo on the U.K. pop charts. Now, the Klark Kent album - out of print for over 25 years - gets a generously expanded double-CD reissue next month with 14 previously unreleased bonus tracks! Dig past the lofty liner-notes of the original Klark Kent EP - pressed on green 10" vinyl with a K-shaped die-cut sleeve - and you'll find the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Klark Kent, Stewart Copeland, The Police

Back to the Future - Original Cast Recording: Deluxe Edition

October 17, 2023 By

BTTF Cast Album Deluxe

Back to the Future, currently filling seats at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre, is expanding its original London cast recording starring Olly Dobson and Roger Bart (currently reprising his role as Doc Brown in New York) with an entire bonus disc of demos and early versions of the score's songs by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings

There When I Needed You: Sheena Easton's "Madness, Money, and Music" Returns from Cherry Pop

October 16, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Sheena Easton Madness Money and Music

Sheena Easton's formidable catalogue has been enjoying an overhaul from Cherry Red's Cherry Pop imprint which has so far encompassed lavish expanded editions of Take My Time and A Private Heaven, the debut of Live at the Palace, Hollywood; an EMI singles collection; and more.  Now, Easton's third album - 1982's Madness, Money, and Music - has received the deluxe CD/DVD treatment, shedding some much-needed light on this often-overlooked LP. Madness, Money, and Music, titled for the edgy lament

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop Tags: Al Jarreau, Kenny Rogers, Sheena Easton

The Weekend Stream: October 14, 2023

October 14, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. There's a plethora of breakouts from box sets new to streaming, from John Lennon to Prince - plus rare remixes by Cyndi Lauper and a surprise treat from a beloved theme park. John Lennon, Imagine (The Ultimate Mixes / Deluxe) / Imagine (The Elements Mixes) / Imagine (The Evolution Documentary) / Imagine

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, Cyndi Lauper, Duke Ellington, James, John Lennon, Ozzy Osbourne, Prince

Down the Road Apiece: ABKCO Revisits Rolling Stones' Catalogue on Vinyl as Band Preps "Hackney Diamonds"

October 11, 2023 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds

Following the vinyl reissues earlier this year of 2016's The Rolling Stones in Mono box set and various classic albums (the U.S. editions of 1966's Aftermath and 1967's Between the Buttons, the U.S. and U.K. iterations of the 1966 compilation Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), 1967's Flowers, and 1975's Metamorphosis), ABKCO is returning to the Stones' catalogue for a series which will encompass another 15 vinyl reissues.  For the rest of 2023 and into 2024, the label will revisit U.S. and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

A Matter of Time: 'Back to the Future' Cast Album Brings Unheard Demos from the Past

October 11, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

BTTF Cast Album Deluxe

A Back to the Future musical sounds like a crazy joke, but Broadway's biggest spectacle is arguably this new spin on the classic sci-fi comedy - and this month, just in time for a one-day theatrical reissue of the 1985 classic, its original cast recording is breaking the space-time continuum with a bonus disc of alternate and early versions of songs from the show. Having spun off two sequels, an animated series, a theme-park ride, comic books, model kits, a fancy pair of futuristic sneakers

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri

Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition

October 11, 2023 By

Salsoul Orchestra Christmas Jollies I and II Extra Jolly Edition

The Second Disc has teamed with SoulMusic Records for the definitive celebration of the Christmas disco/Philly soul classic.  The Salsoul Orchestra's Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition brings together Vincent Montana, Jr.'s original Christmas Jollies plus Tom Moulton's complete 1992 remix and producer Patrick Adams' rare follow-up, Christmas Jollies II.  But that's not all.  The Extra Jolly Edition adds nearly a dozen bonus single versions and remixes (most of which are new to CD)

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

Merry Christmas All: SoulMusic Records, The Second Disc Team Up for The Salsoul Orchestra's Deluxe "Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition"

October 10, 2023 By The Second Disc 8 Comments

Salsoul Orchestra Christmas Jollies I and II Extra Jolly Edition

As a founding member of Philadelphia's MFSB, vibraphonist Vincent Montana, Jr. played on countless hits by The O'Jays, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, The Three Degrees, Billy Paul, and others.  But Montana had a bigger vision: a full-fledged disco orchestra combining the soulful Philly sound with the infectious dance rhythms of Latin America.  The result was The Salsoul Orchestra, formed for the groundbreaking disco/dance label Salsoul Records by Montana and his MFSB bandmates.  Between 1975

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Denise Montana, Jocelyn Brown, Patrick Adams, The Salsoul Orchestra, Vince Montana

The Yes Album: Super Deluxe Edition

October 9, 2023 By

yes the yes album

Rhino lavishly expands Yes' 1971 third LP, The Yes Album, as a 4CD/1BD/1LP collection with remastered audio, previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a brand-new Dolby Atmos mix by Steven Wilson. The Super Deluxe Edition of The Yes Album presents the album in various mixes: CD 1 and the vinyl LP both have Steven Wilson's newly-remastered version of the original album; CD 2 has Wilson's 2014 stereo and instrumental remixes of the album; CD 3 has a host of rarities including

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

The Weekend Stream: October 7, 2023

October 7, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Ahead of a three-day holiday weekend, it's all about re-imagining, from Paramore to Melissa Manchester to the disco mixes of John Luongo - plus some cool rock, jazz and soundtrack work making digital debuts. Paramore, Re: This is Why (Atlantic) (iTunes / Amazon) Pop-punk trio Paramore released their

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bruce Broughton, Christopher Young, Craig Doerge, Henry Mancini, John Williams, Kenny Loggins, Melissa Manchester, Michael Sembello, Paramore, Pete Yorn

I've Seen All Good People: Rhino Expands "The Yes Album" For Super Deluxe Edition with Steven Wilson Atmos Remix

October 4, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

yes the yes album

Say Yes!  On November 24 - just in time for the holiday box set season - Rhino will lavishly expand Yes' 1971 third LP, The Yes Album, as a 4CD/1BD/1LP collection with remastered audio, previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a brand-new Dolby Atmos mix. The Yes Album introduced guitarist Steve Howe to the Yes lineup - he had replaced Peter Banks in 1970 - and was the band's last album to feature keyboardist Tony Kaye until 1983's 90125.  Howe, Kaye, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Yes

Rhino's Record Store Day Black Friday Lineup Includes The Doors on CD and LP Plus Willie Nelson, Joni Mitchell, War, and More

October 4, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

War The World Is a Ghetto

TSD is continuing its look at this year's Record Store Day Black Friday releases, due at participating independent record stores on November 24, with the packed slate coming from Rhino.  With sixteen titles - including one on both vinyl and CD! - Rhino has brought out the heavy hitters including The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Grateful Dead, Willie Nelson, and War.  Visit here for a list of Record Store Day retailers. The English Beat, I Just Can't Stop (Expanded) Limited Edition of 8,000

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Rock Tags: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Faces, Grateful Dead, INXS, Jeff Beck, Joni Mitchell, Linkin Park, Little Feat, Los Lobos, Record Store Day, Rilo Kiley, Sia, The Doors, The English Beat, The Flaming Lips, War

The Great Songs of Christmas: Masterworks Edition

October 2, 2023 By

Great Songs of Christmas Masterworks Edition

The Great Songs of Christmas: Masterworks Edition brings together 18 lush selections primarily drawn from the original, long out-of-print series of LPs, featuring the most beloved carols of all time as performed by the greatest classical artists of the 20th century.  These legends include Leonard Bernstein and The New York Philharmonic, Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, opera greats Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, and Anna Moffo, cellist-conductor Pablo

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Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday

The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party!

October 2, 2023 By

Arthur Fiedler Ultimate Pops Christmas Party

Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops' The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! lives up to its title with 2 CDs and 35 tracks of yuletide cheer in the grand and lavish Boston Pops fashion.  Spanning 1949-1971, The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! includes two full albums: the original 1959 Pops Christmas Party in RCA's Living Stereo splendor and 1969's new-to-CD Christmastime in Carol and Song.  The latter found Fiedler away from Boston and conducting in New York with some very special guests: legendary

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Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

The Christmas Festival: Second Disc, Real Gone Celebrate the Season with Arthur Fiedler's "Ultimate Pops Christmas Party," New "Great Songs of Christmas" Volume

October 2, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Arthur Fiedler Ultimate Pops Christmas Party

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? We've already filled you in on the October 13 release of Johnny Mathis' all-new album Christmas Time Is Here, coming on vinyl from Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records.  Now, we're excited to fill your stocking with two seasonal CDs due on November 10 celebrating some of the greatest Christmas music of all time. In his 50-year tenure as conductor of The Boston Pops, Arthur Fiedler transformed the Boston Symphony Orchestra offshoot into perhaps the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Anna Moffo, Arthur Fiedler, Erich Leinsdorf, Eugene Ormandy, Eydie Gorme, Leonard Bernstein, Leonytne Price, Pablo Casals, Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, Steve Lawrence, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, The Boston Pops, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The Block Revisited

October 2, 2023 By

New Kids on The Block Revisited

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada NKOTB's 2008 reunion album returns in a 15th anniversary Revisited edition which feature the original album and nine bonus tracks on CD or two LPs, including the unreleased fan favorite "Coming Home" and a new remix of the track "Dirty Dancing" recorded with K-pop outfit SEVENTEEN. Digital editions will include a further eight bonus tracks, including four unheard songs from the album sessions.

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The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2

October 1, 2023 By

Billy Joel Vinyl Collection 2

The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2 brings newly remastered and repressed LP versions of Joel's final six studio albums - Glass Houses (1980), The Nylon Curtain (1982), An Innocent Man (1983), The Bridge (1986), Storm Front (1989) and River of Dreams (1993) - plus the debut vinyl pressing of Joel's classical compositions set Fantasies & Delusions (2001) and the premiere audio release of his beloved Live from Long Island concert special, broadcast 40 years ago. All the audio has been transferred

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Rock

Live at The Academy, New York City, 1995

October 1, 2023 By

Goo Goo Dolls Academy 1995

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Goo Goo Dolls' Live At The Academy, New York, City, 1995 features two breakthrough sets from the band: a memorable performance for the CMJ Music Conference, recorded just as they were starting to enjoy their first success on the radio; and an invite-only soundcheck that became treasured by fans when it was taped off radio performances. A mobile recording truck captured the entire thing, and the

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

The Weekend Stream: September 30, 2023

September 30, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. From classic rocker comebacks to '90s nostalgia and more - we've got the goods to set you up for these days off. Bruce Springsteen, Addicted to Romance (Columbia) (iTunes / Amazon) While he's postponed the rest of this year's tour due to a battle with peptic ulcers, Bruce Springsteen had time this

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: *NSYNC, 311, Bruce Springsteen, Doris Day, Jethro Tull, The Art of Noise, U2

Accentuate the Positive

September 28, 2023 By

Van Morrison Accentuate the Positive

The prolific Mr. Morrison returns with a new studio album - his 45th overall and second this year, following Moving on Skiffle - that salutes classic rock and roll.  Accentuate the Positive features his renditions of such favorite tunes as the jaunty title track, "You Are My Sunshine," "Sea of Heartbreak," "Red Sails in the Sunset," "Lucille," "Blueberry Hill," and "Shake, Rattle, and Roll."  Chris Farlowe and the late Jeff Beck are guests.  Available on 2CD, 2LP, and digitally.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

The Last Recordings

September 28, 2023 By

John Denver The Last Recordings

Windstar reissues John Denver's final recordings from 1996 in which the late troubadour covered his classic hits including "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Leavin' on a Jet Plane," "Rocky Mountain High," and "Sunshine on My Shoulders."  Adorned with new cover art, the session will be released on CD, LP, and digitally.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Just the Two of Us: The Duets Collection Vol. 2

September 28, 2023 By

Olivia Newton John Duets 2

Earlier this year, Green Hill released the first volume of Olivia Newton-John's duet series.  Now, a second volume from the late, great superstar arrives with two previously unreleased duets ("I'm Counting On You" with Johnny O'Keefe and "I Will Be Right Here" with David Campbell) and ten favorites ("Tenterfield Saddler" with Peter Allen, "Wishin' and Hopin'" with Dionne Warwick, "Rest Your Love on Me" with Andy Gibb,  "Everybody's Someone" with Cliff Richard).

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop

Ain't No Price on Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings (1972-1979)

September 28, 2023 By

Spinners Ain't No Price on Happiness

Earlier this year, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrated the extraordinary legacy of The Spinners with the release of The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979, collecting a whopping 43 single sides on two CDs.  Now, SoulMusic Records and Cherry Red are continuing the Spinners party with a comprehensive box set chronicling that halcyon period with eight expanded albums on 7 CDs.  Ain't No Price on Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings (1972-1979) brings

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul

The Hills Are Alive! 'The Sound of Music' Goes Super Deluxe for the Holidays

September 27, 2023 By Joe Marchese 13 Comments

The Sound of Music Super Deluxe

By any standard, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse's The Sound of Music was a bona fide success from the moment the curtain rose at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959. The production starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel was described by The New York Times' Brooks Atkinson as a "bountiful musical drama" with an "endless fund of cheerful melodies." It won five Tony Awards (besting stiff competition from Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, and

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Julie Andrews, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Rodgers and Hammerstein

Mighty Love: The Spinners' "Ain't No Price on Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings" Box Arrives Friday

September 26, 2023 By The Second Disc 17 Comments

Spinners Ain't No Price on Happiness

2023 has shaped up to be a banner year for The Spinners.  The famed vocal quintet, now in their eighth decade, will be inducted on November 3 into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside the illustrious likes of Willie Nelson, Kate Bush, and George Michael.  Earlier this year, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrated the group's extraordinary legacy with the release of The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979, collecting a whopping 43 single sides on two

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Dionne Warwick, The Spinners, Thom Bell

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