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The Ghostman Always Rings Twice: Real Gone Reissues Frankie Stein and His Ghouls and Vincent Price for Halloween

September 5, 2024 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Frankie Stein Complete Ghoul Lection

Halloween is just around the corner and Real Gone is getting into the spirt of things with several reissues hitting store shelves tomorrow, September 6. The first and most expansive release is Frankie Stein and His Ghouls: The Complete Ghoul-Lection which collects the five albums from the group released in 1964 and 1965.  These albums were aimed at children and were released on Power Records, an imprint of Peter Pan Records.  Aside from novelty records like these, Peter Pan and Power released

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop Tags: Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, Vincent Price

When All is Said and Done: ABBA Plot New Compilation with All the A-Sides

September 5, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

ABBA Singles 50 vinyl packshot

ABBA are set to release their latest - and as of a few years ago, truly - career-spanning compilation this fall. Available October 25 on two CDs or four LPs, The Singles (The First Fifty Years) updates the concept of 1982's The Singles (The First Ten Years), a double album which collected 23 of the group's A-sides (including new tracks "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," effectively the final works from the group after members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as well as Björn

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

Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)

September 4, 2024 By

Joni Archives 4 cover

6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) features six CDs (also available as a "highlights" set on four LPs) chronicling the Canadian icon's trek through the latter half of the '70s, peeling away from her always-eclectic folk-pop sound, venturing into territory inspired by jazz and fusion. Sourced from variously assembled materials, from rare multitrack tapes to radio recordings

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

Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings

September 4, 2024 By

Miles 54

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together.  Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and

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

Turning Back the Time

September 4, 2024 By

Foreigner Turning Back the Time

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada To celebrate their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Foreigner will release a new greatest hits collection, including a previously unreleased track that reunites the group's two most notable members. Turning Back the Time brings together 18 of the group's most notable radio staples, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold As Ice," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting

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

The Weekend Stream: August 31, 2024

August 31, 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. You're not hallucinating this week - there are more Daryl Hall and U2 EPs! - but there's also some great new soundtrack scores and vintage vocal jazz to peruse, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Daryl Hall, I'm in a Philly Mood (Epic) (iTunes / Amazon) Hall's third album, 1993's Soul Alone, was more than a

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ann Gilbert, Barenaked Ladies, Charles Fox, Daryl Hall, Henry Mancini, Julie Wilson, Rita Wilson, U2

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' 'Long After Dark' Gets Lucky on New Deluxe Edition

August 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Tom Petty Long After Dark deluxe

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' fifth studio album is getting a deluxe makeover.  On October 18, Geffen/UMe will revisit 1982's oft-overlooked Long After Dark, originally released on Backstreet Records, in various formats including 1LP, 2LP, and 2CD+Blu-ray. Petty was joined by Mike Campbell (lead guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Stan Lynch (drums), and new recruit Howie Epstein (bass/backing vocals) as well as co-producer Jimmy Iovine for Long After Dark.  The third and final of Petty's

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Boys from the County Hell: The Pogues' Debut Goes Deluxe for Its 40th Anniversary

August 30, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Pogues Red Roses

To mark 40 years since their unconventional sound was loosed on the European record buying public, The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me will be reissued by Rhino this fall. The package will be available as a red LP on recycled vinyl - featuring a 2013 remix of the album that was first pressed on wax two years later - or a 2CD set that will make the remix available on the format for the first time, along with a bonus disc of six B-sides and a dozen live sessions for the BBC. (Those 12 tracks

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Pogues

Review: John Lennon, "Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection"

August 29, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

John Lennon Mind Games Cover

It's been quite a while since the last John Lennon "Ultimate" box set.  Imagine arrived in 2018, followed by Plastic Ono Band in 2021; the multi-disc solo anthology Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes was released in between, in 2020.  Anticipation justly ran high for this year's Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection, a 6CD/2BD set exploring every aspect of the solo Beatle's 1974 fourth album.  (The politically-charged Some Time in New York City, a hybrid live/studio LP from John and Yoko, has

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

Light in the Attic Compiles Lou Reed's Earliest Work for Pickwick Records

August 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Lou Reed Pickwick

For most people - let's say the 30,000 or so people who started a band after buying their debut - The Velvet Underground was the band that introduced the world to the uncompromising rock energy of Lou Reed. As the latest archival title of his released by Light in the Attic Records will illustrate, Reed's talents were first put on record in a possibly more unusual place than with The VU. Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed At Pickwick Records 1964-1965 will serve as the first official anthology

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: John Cale, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground

Touch My Heart: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Expands "From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music" Box Set

August 27, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

From Where I Stand

Back in 1998, The Country Music Foundation teamed with Warner Bros. Records to release From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music.  The 3-CD box set was divided into three thematic discs - The Stringband Era, The Soul Country Years, and Forward with Pride - which reflected on the immense contributions of African-Americans to country music in 60 songs.  Today, the spotlight shines even more brightly on the black experience in the genre, in no small part due to the release earlier

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Bobby Hebb, Charley Pride, Dobie Gray, Esther Phillips, Lead Belly, Linda Martell, Ray Charles, Rhiannon Giddens, Solomon Burke, The Pointer Sisters, The Supremes, Various Artists

The Best Gift: Barbra Streisand's Two Christmas Albums Arrive on Vinyl in October

August 26, 2024 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Barbra Streisand A Christmas Album

Barbra Streisand entered London's Olympic Sound Studios in June 1966 while reprising her role of Fanny Brice in the West End premiere of Funny Girl to begin work on what would become her very first Christmas album.  Four songs arranged by Ray Ellis and produced by Ettore Strata were cut at the session including "Silent Night" and the Gounod setting of "Ave Maria."  A mere two weeks following her July 14 final performance, she was onstage back in the U.S. for the first of four summer concert

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Barbra Streisand

Last Leaf on the Tree

August 25, 2024 By

Willie Nelson Last Leaf on the Tree

Willie Nelson's 76th studio album follows his 91st birthday and recent headlining spot on the Outlaw Music Festival tour (from which he was delayed due to illness).  Last Leaf on the Tree has been produced by his son Micah Nelson and features guest spots from Daniel Lanois and The Doors' John Densmore as well as Willie's longtime bandmate Mickey Raphael.  Songs have been plucked from the catalogues of Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Neil Young, The Flaming Lips, Beck, Nina Simone, and Keith Richards,

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

The Weekend Stream: August 24, 2024

August 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 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. This week sees digital reissues from some familiar names (Madonna, Daryl Hall and U2) as well as some new/old music from names you might not have expected, from '90s pop-whiz New Radicals(?!) to '50s piano player Cy Walter. Plus, a heartfelt recommendation for one of the week's best new albums! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 311, Ariana Grande, Cy Walter, Daryl Hall, John Williams, Madonna, New Radicals, Third Day, U2

Like the Very First Time: Foreigner Celebrate Rock Hall Induction with New Compilation and Single

August 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Foreigner Turning Back the Time

To celebrate their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Foreigner will release a new greatest hits collection, including a new track that reunites the group's two most notable members. Turning Back the Time, in stores October 4 from Rhino, brings together 18 of the group's most notable radio staples, including "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold As Ice," "Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Juke Box Hero," "I Want to Know What Love Is," "Say You

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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