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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

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

Love of A Lifetime: Real Gone's August Slate Includes Grateful Dead and Firehouse Plus Jazz and Heavy Metal Releases

August 8, 2024 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Grateful dead Dick's Picks 12

As usual, Real Gone's August lineup is made up of an eclectic bunch of titles. You will find everything here from rock to jazz to heavy metal, spanning the 1960s to the 2000s.  All these titles hit store shelves tomorrow, August 9. First up a is a continuation of Real Gone's series of Grateful Dead Dick's Picks vinyl sets with Dick's Picks Volume 12 --Providence Civic Center 6/26/74 & Boston Garden 6/28/74.  These concerts occur just before and after the release of their studio album From

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Rock Tags: 3 Inches of Blood, Azar Lawrence, Charlie Nothing, Firehouse, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane

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

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

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

Do You Want to Dance? Rhino Continues Quadio Series with Bette Midler, Bread, Duke Ellington, Graham Central Station

July 26, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Quadio Bundle 5

Rhino's Quadio series continues to grow with a new quartet of Blu-ray Audio releases that are sure to excite devotees of the four-channel surround format.  This time, vintage quad mixes from Bette Midler, Bread, Duke Ellington, and Graham Central Station are returning to print for the first time in decades.  All Blu-rays also include the original stereo mixes in high-resolution. Few debuts packed the power of Bette Midler's The Divine Miss M.  The singer, who'd appeared on Broadway in Fiddler

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bette Midler, Bread, Duke Ellington, Graham Central Station

Neil Young's Third 'Archives' Box is His Biggest Yet

July 26, 2024 By Mike Duquette 12 Comments

Neil Young Archives III packshot

Neil Young has announced a big fall release: the third - and biggest - box set in his long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), slated for release September 6, will span in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a box identical to Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009) and Archives Vol. II (1972-1976) (2020), the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Devo, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Nicolette Larson

Release Round-Up: Week of July 26

July 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

JD Souther You're Only Lonely

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. Loleatta Holloway, We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) presents, on 5 CDs, all of the late, great Loleatta Holloway's albums for Gold Mind and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cat Stevens, Deborah Cox, Fleetwood Mac, JD Souther, Jeff Harnar, Loleatta Holloway, Melanie, Nik Kershaw, Pete Townshend, Talking Heads, The Police

They'd Do Anything: Simple Plan Announce Limited Vinyl Box Set

July 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Simple Plan Collection packshot

Simple Plan - one of the foremost bands of the new millennium pop-punk explosion - will celebrate their more than two decades of music with a vinyl box set from Rhino. Simple Plan Collection features all six of the band's studio albums on marbled color vinyl, along with a clear vinyl pressing of a new collection of rare tracks and even a double-sided single of two Christmas tunes (on seasonally appropriate green and red splatter vinyl). The box is strictly limited to 1500 copies, all signed

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The 1974 Tour Recordings

July 24, 2024 By

Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Live Recordings

In 1974, Bob Dylan embarked on an extensive tour with his old backing band.  Now, they, too, were universally known - as The Band - and the double bill hit indoor arenas across North America for 40 concerts over 30 dates and 21 cities.  The tour became one of the largest and highest-profile of the era, in no small part due to the promotional efforts of David Geffen, who'd spurred on the talks and had recently lured Dylan away from Columbia Records to his own Asylum label.  While Dylan's Asylum

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Both Sides (All the Sides)

July 24, 2024 By

Both Sides All the Sides

Phil Collins' fifth album, 1993's Both Sides, is getting the deluxe treatment on vinyl. The 5LP box Both Sides (All the Sides) features the original album, demos, B-sides, and live tracks.  The 2016 CD expansion of Both Sides featured a mix of rare B-sides, demos and unreleased live material - an approach that stymied some fans for its lack of comprehensiveness. (All the uncompiled remixes and rarities were later issued on two digital-only collections.) Both Sides (All the Sides) amends this

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Faces At The BBC - Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973

July 24, 2024 By

Faces at the BBC

Faces at The BBC - Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 compiles all of the storied group's concerts and surviving studio sessions for the BBC in one 8CD/1BD package approved by Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones. Though many of these recordings have long been considered lost, Rhino has tracked down nearly every song performed by Faces at the BBC from the band members' own archives and private collections.  Only one three-song session remains missing.  The

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

These Are Days: 10,000 Maniacs' 'MTV Unplugged' Set Gets Expansion

July 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

10000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged packshot

More than 30 years after Natalie Merchant took her final bow with 10,000 Maniacs, the band's seminal set for MTV Unplugged will be reissued and expanded this fall. Available September 6 on CD or two LPs, this remastered presentation of the original multiplatinum disc adds three extra songs from the performance featuring another lead singer for a band who recently had gone solo: David Byrne of Talking Heads. They performed covers of Iris DeMent ("Let the Mystery Be"), a Jimmie Dale Gilmore

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: 10000 Maniacs, David Byrne

Review: Joni Mitchell, "The Asylum Albums 1972-1975" in Quadio

July 23, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Joni Mitchell Asylum Albums

The Joni Mitchell renaissance continues.  Following a triumphant surprise appearance in July 2022 at the Newport Folk Festival, the singer-songwriter returned to the stage for a full-length Joni Jam in June 2023 at Washington's Gorge Amphitheatre; tickets were quickly snapped up by ardent fans who had waited roughly two decades to see Mitchell in concert once again. The evening was a transcendent one, a taste of which was supplied to the public when Mitchell and her band of friends performed

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Joni Mitchell

In Memoriam: Abdul "Duke" Fakir of the Four Tops (1935-2024)

July 23, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Four Tops

Is it possible for a group like the Four Tops to be underrated? On its face, that question seems ridiculous. The Detroit vocal quartet had two dozen Top 40 hits in America between 1964 and 1988; they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and the R&B Group Hall of Fame, they have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; Rolling Stone and Billboard both named them one of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Those are laurels

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Categories: Features Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Four Tops

The Changing Man: Paul Weller's 'Fly on the Wall' Rarities Album Set for Vinyl, Digital Reissue

July 22, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Paul Weller Fly on the Wall

Paul Weller, late of The Jam and The Style Council, began his solo career in 1991 with a self-titled album on the Go! Discs label.  He remained on the label for three albums, before moving to Island Records for 1997's Heavy Soul and 2000's Heliocentric.  Weller would return to Island in 2008, but five years earlier, in 2003, Universal Music drew upon both his Go! Discs period and two Island albums to compile Fly on the Wall: B Sides and Rarities.  The 3CD iteration presented 39 tracks, while the

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Paul Weller

The Weekend Stream: July 20, 2024

July 20, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 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. This week's got a new single by a comedy icon, some more Duran Duran EPs, a recent Paul McCartney 7" making its way to streaming and so much more. "Weird Al" Yankovic, Polkamania! (Way Moby) (iTunes / Amazon) Ten summers ago, pop's parody king released his 13th (and likely final) album Mandatory Fun, and even got a No. 1 debut on

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Ashlee Simpson, Bob Newhart, Duran Duran, Jerry Fuller, Neil Diamond, Patti LuPone, Paul McCartney, Sting, The Police, U2, Wings

Give It a Whirl: Rubellan Plans CD Debut of Rare U.S. Pressing of Split Enz's 'Frenzy'

July 17, 2024 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Split Enz Frenzy

Not long after Neil Finn suggested that Split Enz's catalogue affairs could be shaping up in the year to come, a very welcome CD premiere has been announced by Rubellan Remasters. They'll release the U.S. version of the New Zealand group's fourth album, Frenzy. The Enz recorded Frenzy with the core line-up that appeared on 1977's Dizrythmia: founding members Tim Finn on vocals, keyboardist Eddie Rayner and Noel Crombie on percussion, along with bassist Nigel Griggs, drummer Malcolm Green and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Neil Finn, Split Enz, Tim Finn

Had Me a Real Good Time: Rhino Announces Box of BBC Sessions from Faces

July 17, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Faces at the BBC

Ooh-la-la!  Following a pair of well-received releases for Record Store Day, Rhino is doing a deep-dive into Faces' BBC sessions on an 8-CD/1-Blu-ray box set due September 6.  Faces at The BBC - Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 compiles all of the storied group's concerts and surviving studio sessions for the BBC in one package approved by Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones.  The set will be available only via Rhino.com and select retailers including

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Faces, Rod Stewart

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