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The Execution of All Things: Frozen Lake Edition

February 28, 2025 By

Rilo Kiley Execution of All Things Frozen Lake

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Saddle Creek Store (with bonus 7") Rilo Kiley - singer/keyboardist Jenny Lewis, lead guitarist Blake Sennett, bassist Pierre "Duke" de Reeder, and drummer Jason Boesel - is reuniting for a tour, and revisiting 2002's The Execution of All Things on vinyl for the first time with updated artwork (a die-cut sleeve and poster) billed as the "Froken Lake Edition." The standard vinyl product will be

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Coastal: The Soundtrack

February 28, 2025 By

Version 1.0.0

The concert film Coastal, documenting Neil Young's 2023 solo concert tour, will be released to cinemas on April 17; the next day, its soundtrack album arrives on CD, LP, and digital formats.  The 11-track album includes Young favorites such as "I Am a Child," "Expecting to Fly," "Comes a Time," and "Vampire Blues."

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

Echoes Through the Ruins: Pink Floyd's Pompeii Gig to Be Remixed and Reissued

February 27, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Pink Floyd Pompeii

More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd's arresting 1972 concert film - recorded in the ancient amphitheater of Pompeii - will be revisited as an audio and video product from Legacy Recordings. Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII restores Adrian Maben's original film in 4K quality from recently located original footage, with new audio mixes by Steven Wilson. All versions - a 2CD, a 2LP, a DVD and a Blu-ray - will be released May 2, shortly after public screenings of the film on April

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Pink Floyd

Soundtrack Watch: 'Cape Fear' Remake Score Rises from the Depths at Quartet

February 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Cape Fear Quartet

Quartet Records will revisit a special musical approach to a remake of a classic suspense thriller: Martin Scorsese's 1991 adaptation of Cape Fear. The 2CD set, will include a remastered and expanded presentations of Elmer Bernstein's score to the remake, adapted from the original 1962 film's music by Bernard Herrmann. Produced by Neil S. Bulk and Mike Matessino (who also remasters the score from engineer Shawn Murphy's original six-track mixes), the set features both the expanded score

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein

Let the Guitar Play: Santana's New 'Sentient' Revisits Collabs with Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Michael Jackson and More

February 24, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Santana Sentient

More than 25 years after a collaboration-heavy album rocketed Carlos Santana back into the spotlight, the guitar legend will release another - albeit one assembled from an assortment of solo tracks and guest spots spanning his last five decades of work. Sentient, hitting stores on March 28, brings together joint tracks with Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC, along with select deep cuts that make for a retrospective distinct from well known

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Paolo Rustichelli, Santana, Smokey Robinson

The Weekend Stream: February 22, 2025

February 22, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2025

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 great Carly Simon deep cut gets a fresh mix, plus Phil Collins in concert and new music from The Stylistics. Carly Simon, "Share the End" (2025 Remaster) (Elektra/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Though merely billed as a remaster in the metadata, this upbeat, heartbreaking side-two opener to Simon's sophomore album Anticipation has been

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bill Champlin, Billy Gibbons, Carly Simon, Gene Simmons, Larry Coryell, Phil Collins, Ray Parker Jr., Ron Wood, Shania Twain, Steve Lukather, Tatyana Ali, The Stylistics, Tower of Power, Will Smith

Do Ya, Do Ya Want This Disc? The Move's Transition to Something Electric Comes Alive from Esoteric

February 21, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Move Message from the Country

The final works from British rockers The Move were relatively ignored by everyone, including the band themselves - until listeners started to realize how it marked the trio's transition into a whole new sound. Cherry Red's Esoteric label will revisit the group's fourth album Message from the Country in a newly remastered and expanded package, available February 28. The Move started life as a harmony-rich quintet from Birmingham in the late '60s, enjoying a half dozen Top 10s on the U.K.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, The Move

Beggar on a Beach of Gold: Mike + The Mechanics, Now on Craft, Release New Hits Set

February 20, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Mike + The Mechanics Looking Back Living the Years

One of Genesis' key members, bassist and later guitarist Mike Rutherford, will celebrate the solo side of his career with a new career-spanning compilation. Looking Back - Living the Years is a new 16-track collection culling from nearly every one of Rutherford's albums with side project Mike + The Mechanics, for which he is the sole consistent member. (Every one of the band's many vocalists will be represented on the set.) Marking 40 years since the group's self-titled debut in 1985 - the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Mike + the Mechanics, Mike Rutherford, Paul Carrack

Excess All Areas: Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes' Live Team-Up to Be Expanded

February 17, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Jimmy Page Black Crowes Live at The Greek

A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest guitarists of all time is getting revisited in a new 3CD or 6LP set due for release next month. Originally released in 2000, less than a year after it was recorded, Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes' Live At The Greek was a double album featuring the group and the former Led Zeppelin guitarist tearing through renditions of classics from the latter band's catalogue, plus a heap of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, The Black Crowes

The Weekend Stream: February 15, 2025

February 15, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2025

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're taking it way back today with reissues and rarities by Peggy Lee, Brenda Lee, The Fleetwoods, and The Five Satins - plus more Luther Vandross rarities! Luther Vandross, Never Too Much: Greatest HIts (Epic/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Released late last year ahead of the new documentary on the late R&B legend, Luther Vandross' Never

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Artie Kane, Betty Wright, Brenda Lee, Candi Staton, Cheryl Lynn, Luther Vandross, Peggy Lee, Richard Perry, The Five Satins, The Fleetwoods, War

The Voice of Love: Julee Cruise's Collaborations with Badalamenti and Lynch Compiled in New 2CD Set

February 14, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Julee Cruise Fall Float Love

In one of the more unintentionally-timed releases of the year, Cherry Red will revisit the most popular works of the late singer Julee Cruise, known for her haunting work with the late, influential filmmaker David Lynch. FALL_FLOAT_LOVE (Works 1989-1993), available April 25, brings together expanded editions of 1989's Floating Into the Night and 1993's The Voice of Love, both of which were written and produced by the iconoclastic writer/director and his longtime musical collaborator, Angelo

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Julee Cruise

Brazil / Mondo Disco / Let's Get It Together / Cocomotion

February 13, 2025 By

El Coco Four Albums

C'mon, baby, do the Cocomotion!  Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint is unveiling a new 4-albums-on-2-CD collection from disco outfit El Coco.  The new 2-CD set presents Brazil (1975), Mondo Disco (1975), Let's Get It Together (1976), and Cocomotion (1977) along with three bonus tracks; all albums except Let's Get It Together are making their CD debuts, with Let's Get It Together only briefly available on CD 20 years ago in Japan.  TSD's own Joe Marchese provides the new liner notes, and Oli

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

Do the Cocomotion: Cherry Red, Robinsongs Bring El Coco's Disco Floor-Fillers to CD on New Collection

February 13, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

El Coco Four Albums

C'mon, baby, do the Cocomotion!  On February 21, Cherry Red's Robinsongs label will unveil a new 4-albums-on-2-CD collection from disco outfit El Coco.  The deluxe 2-CD set presents Brazil (1975), Mondo Disco (1975), Let's Get It Together (1976), and Cocomotion (1977) along with three bonus tracks; all albums except Let's Get It Together are making their CD debuts, with Let's Get It Together only briefly available on CD 20 years ago in Japan. El Coco was the brainchild of Laurin Rinder and W.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: El Coco

Found All the Parts: Music on Vinyl Reissues Cheap Trick Albums Box

February 10, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Cheap Trick MOV box

Elo, kiddies! An out-of-print Cheap Trick box set is coming back to CD as well as a first-time LP adaptation for Music on Vinyl. The Complete Epic Albums Collection, originally released in 2013 as part of a flurry of similar box sets from Legacy Recordings, captured just nearly everything Rockford's finest put out between 1977 and 1990, including their first 11 studio albums (including the first-time physical release of the "authorized" version of 1983's Next Position Please), an expanded

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Cheap Trick

Rhino Readies Nearly 50 Titles for Record Store Day Including Titles from Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, More

February 10, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Rhino RSD 25

As usual, Rhino is leading the Record Store Day pack with a whopping slate of almost 50 titles scheduled to arrive in independent shops everywhere on Saturday, April 12.  The label has brought out many of its heaviest hitters, including Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Jethro Tull, among others.  Head over to RecordStoreDay.com for the complete list of participating stores, and below you'll find details for all of Rhino's releases!  We've linked to the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Air, Belly, Black Sabbath, Blur, Bobby Charles, Count Basie, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Giorgio Moroder, Gloria Jones, Grateful Dead, Ice-T, James Blunt, Jet, Jethro Tull, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Mel Brooks, Morphine, Peter Tosh, Ramones, Record Store Day, Ry Cooder, Starship, Stone Temple Pilots, The B-52's, The Cure, The Doors, The Jayhawks, The Replacements, The Veronicas, Todd Rundgren, War, Warren Zevon, Yes

They Will Have Their Way: Legacy Plans Packed Record Store Day Slate

February 10, 2025 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Legacy RSD

Is it just us, or has Record Store Day felt a little muted in recent years? Obviously the annual Black Friday celebration boasts less titles than the festivities held every April, but it's sometimes been a struggle to identify great archival titles or worthy re-pressed discs. Well, that certainly isn't the case this year: labels seem to have gone into overdrive stockpiling interesting LPs and singles worth a second (or first!) look - and one of the strongest showings might be Sony Music's Legacy

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cypress Hill, David Gilmour, Jeff Buckley, John Legend, Judas Priest, Lou Reed, Neil Finn, Nick Mason, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Record Store Day, Soul Asylum, Thelonious Monk, Toad the Wet Sprocket

The Weekend Stream: February 8, 2025

February 8, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2025

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 new music from Elton John and Bob Mould, a cult classic rock band between New Jersey and Boston, and so much more - including a new music video for one of our '70s songwriter favorites. Elton John & Brandi Carlile, "Who Believes in Angels?" (Rocket/Mercury/EMI) (iTunes / Amazon) In 2023, the British pop icon (fresh off the end

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: CCM, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bob Mould, Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Vern Gosdin

Craft Recordings Unveils RSD Slate with Vince Guaraldi, Celia Cruz, Thelonious Monk, Collective Soul, More

February 6, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

record store day logo

Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 12 - that's the date this year for Record Store Day, the date upon which fans, collectors, and everyone in between flocks to local independent record stores and hopefully gives those brick-and-mortar stores a leg up for the year!  The full list has been posted, and here at TSD, we'll start today by spotlighting various releases from some of our favorite labels!  Craft Recordings is among those labels, and they've just announced a batch encompassing jazz,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A Day to Remember, Carla Thomas, Celia Cruz, Collective Soul, Gerry Mulligan, Record Store Day, Thelonious Monk, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Colon

The Warner Recordings 1985-1994

February 3, 2025 By

David Lee Roth box set

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Rhino.com Diamond Dave's got a whole new shine, thanks to a new box set from Rhino. David Lee Roth's The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 includes the four LPs (and one EP) the iconoclastic singer released outside of his concluding tenure as the vocalist for Van Halen. All of the albums have been newly remastered (though no bonus tracks are appended), and will be available at general retailers as a 5CD set. (Rhino's official store will

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

Live in the U.S.A. 1978 [Various Releases]

February 3, 2025 By

Sex Pistols Live in the USA

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at South East Music Hall, Atlanta, GA - 1/5/1978 Red LP (February 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at Longhorns Ballroom, Dallas, TX - 1/10/1978 White LP (March 28): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Live at The Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA - 1/14/1978 Blue LP (April 25): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Sex Pistols' Live in the U.S.A. 1978 will mark the first complete and official releases of

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Good to Know: The Beckies Story

February 3, 2025 By

The Beckies Good to Know

Omnivore is expanding the lone album from The Beckies, the band formed by Michael Brown (The Left Banke, Stories) and Scott Trusty along with Jimmy McAllister and Gary Hodgden (a.k.a. Gary West).  The Beckies Story brings together a remastered version of the original Sire LP and a cache of 13 previously unreleased demos including songs which didn't make the album.  Good to Know: The Beckies Story has been freshly mastered by Michael Graves.  The new liner notes by compilation co-producer Daniel

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

The Way She Was: Stage Door Debuts Gloria Hunniford's "A Taste of Hunni" on CD

February 3, 2025 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gloria Hunniford A Taste of Hunn

Today, Gloria Hunniford is best known throughout the U.K. as a television presenter for both the BBC and ITV, including as a panelist on Loose Women (Britain's equivalent to The View).  But the Northern Ireland-born broadcaster and reporter began her career as a singer, first performing publicly as a child and later hosting her own radio show in Canada, on which she sang Irish songs.  Hunniford, once dubbed "Ireland's Queen of Song," has returned to music with frequency - from sharing bills with

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Gloria Hunniford

The Weekend Stream: February 1, 2025

February 1, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2025

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 new charity cover from Def Leppard, reissues of classic albums by Simple Minds and Sheena Easton, and a mess of vintage jazz is on the menu today - plus a heads-up for a forthcoming way to help the ongoing California wildfire relief effort. Def Leppard, Stand by Me (Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) While also a single

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Benny Goodman, Def Leppard, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Sammy Kaye, Sheena Easton, Simple Minds, Tommy Dorsey

The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum

January 29, 2025 By

Ella Fitzgerald Moment of Truth

Verve has unearthed Ella Fitzgerald's June 30, 1967 concert at Oakland, California's Coliseum at which she was backed by members of The Duke Ellington Orchestra and combined classic standards with such then-contemporary material as "Alfie" and "Music to Watch Girls By."  The concert has been newly mixed and mastered from producer Norman Granz's original tapes.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition

January 29, 2025 By

Yes Close to the Edge

Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, continued the band's early winning streak. The 1972 release - their final album of the decade to feature drummer Bill Bruford and first to feature the band's now-famous "bubble" logo type - featured just three songs (two of which had multiple movements). But they were sufficiently power-packed as to propel the LP to top five berths in both the U.K. and U.S. and eventual Platinum sales status. Rhino is revisiting Close to the Edge as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set

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

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