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 offerings are particularly reflective, packed with tributes and goodbyes (both editorial and musical) and a little dust of new Disney magic. Dolly Parton, "If You Hadn't Been There" (Butterfly) (iTunes / Amazon) On her first day in Nashville at the age of 18, a rising country musician named Dolly Parton had a chance encounter
Release Round-Up: Week of March 7
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. Yes, Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with signed lithograph) Yes' fifth album, Close to the Edge, returns as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set anchored by new surround (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. This Super Deluxe box follows in the
Moments of a Visionary: Tangerine Dream Plan 'Phaedra' 50th Anniversary Box
Tangerine Dream's breakthrough album will be celebrated in a box set that features a host of audiovisual material taken from a bigger box set. Virgin/UMR will reissue the German group's 1974 hit Phaedra as a 5CD/Blu-ray box set featuring all the relevant album-related material featured in 2019's 16 CD/2BD In Search of Hades (The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979). Beyond the remastered album, extras include two discs of outtakes, the band's first U.K. concert and some 5.1 surround and stereo
Baby, You Give Me a Feeling: Robinsongs Collects Five Albums from Roy Ayers' Ubiquity
Last evening, TSD learned that jazz legend Roy Ayers had passed away at the age of 84. Prior to the sad news, we had completed and scheduled this news item on Cherry Red and Robinsongs' recent collection of five albums he recorded with the loose collective he called Ubiquity. We dedicate this piece to Roy Ayers and celebrate his enormous legacy. When vibraphonist-composer Roy Ayers moved to the Polydor label in 1970, he titled his debut album Ubiquity. In an interview quoted in the new
Last Flash of Rock 'n Roll: Rhino Remasters, Expands Robert Hunter's "Tiger Rose"
Following last year's expanded reissue of Grateful Dead collaborator Robert Hunter's Tales of the Great Rum Runners, the late lyricist is once again being celebrated by Rhino with a new deluxe edition. On March 28, the label will revisit 1975's Tiger Rose for its 50th anniversary. The album has been remastered for all formats by David Glasser using the Plangent Processes for tape restoration and speed correction. It will be available as an expanded 2CD set, a 1LP remaster of the original
Live at the Greek
3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 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 (with 2LP highlights also available). 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
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy releases the soundtrack to the latest documentary by The Roots' drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, who picked up an Academy Award for his work on 2021's Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) . This new companion album to this highly-anticipated look at the life and legacy of Sly Stone features 21 favorite hits and album cuts, about half of which are unreleased
On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release. On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up,
Looking Back: Living the Years
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Looking Back - Living the Years is a new 16-track collection culling from nearly every one of Genesis co-founder Mike 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 same year Genesis bandmate Phil Collins'
A New 'View': Celebrated Kenny Burrell Live Set Gets Expanded
A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release. On View At the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up, along with nine additional tracks from the same club dates - six of which are being released for
Live in Dallas 1991
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In summer 2024, Rhino continued a surprising amount of catalogue from the latter portion of Van Halen's celebrated career - the period in the mid '80s and '90s when former Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar took over for original singer David Lee Roth - with an expansion of the group's 1991 effort For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The 2CD/2LP/Blu-ray set offered the remastered album with an audiovisual
Sentient
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than 25 years after a collaboration-heavy album rocketed Carlos Santana back into the spotlight, the guitar legend is releasing another - albeit one assembled from an assortment of solo tracks and guest spots spanning his last five decades of work. Sentient brings together joint tracks with Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run-DMC, along with select
Millennium 2.0
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The pop quintet's 1999 blockbuster Millennium will be celebrated for its belated 25th anniversary with a new 2CD, 2LP and digital set that pairs the original album with a baker's dozen rare and unreleased tracks, including B-sides, demos, live cuts, and the new track "Hey." The album will be out July 11 (yes, roughly five months from its Valentine's Day announcement), to time with the group's summer
Hungry for Heaven: Dio's First Seven Albums Get U.K. Vinyl Box Set Release
One of heavy metal's major icons will be celebrated with a new U.K. vinyl collection. UMR will release Dio's The Complete Albums 1983-1993, chronicling the seven original studio and live releases from the legendary heavy metal vocalist and his band. (Vertigo/Mercury distributed all the albums overseas, while Warner Music continues to handle this portion of the catalogue today.) The box, available March 28, offers new pressings of Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart
Frantic Four x 4: Edsel Remixes Shows That Made Status Quo's 'Live!'
A deluxe edition of Status Quo's first concert album will pair the original album - never a favorite of the band's leader - with the full, newly-remixed shows that it was assembled from. 1977's Live! found the Quo's "Frantic Four" - vocalists/guitarists Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, bassist Alan Lancaster and drummer John Coghlan (plus longtime touring keyboardist (and future full-time member) Andy Bown and tour manager Bob Young on harmonica) - wowing crowds over three nights at the Apollo
Soundtrack Watch: 'Hook,' 'Goofy' and 'Lost' Make Vinyl Appearances in April
Fans of soundtrack reissues on vinyl have three very different titles to potentially look forward to in April: a mid-'90s Disney animated flick, a crown jewel in John Williams' discography, an a beloved television work from one of today's most prolific film composers. Walt Disney's major motion picture event of 1995 was Pocahontas, a fairly dramatized tale of Native Americans in the early colonial days - but it was neither their only animated feature of the year nor, retrospectively, the most
'Reivers' Revival: Pivotal John Williams Score Expanded by La-La Land
Less than a year after the premiere release of John Williams' score to 1974's The Sugarland Express, La-La Land Records will expand another pivotal soundtrack essential to the composer's transition into a Hollywood heavyweight: his work for the Mark Rydell film The Reivers. Adapted from the final novel published in William Faulkner's lifetime (which won him a second Pulitzer Prize), The Reivers is a lighthearted, nostalgic turn-of-the-century yarn starring Steve McQueen as a rakish thief in
Larger Than Life: Backstreet Boys Reboot 'Millennium' with Bonus Disc
A new reissue from Legacy Recordings - one with an extremely long lead time - will revisit the ascendance of the Backstreet Boys to the top of a crop of late '90s and early '00s boy bands. The quintet's 1999 blockbuster Millennium will be celebrated for its belated 25th anniversary with a new 2CD, 2LP and digital set that pairs the original album with a baker's dozen rare and unreleased tracks, including B-sides, demos, live cuts and the new track "Hey." The album will be out July 11 (yes,
The Weekend Stream: March 1, 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. This week brings new music from Billy Idol and The Chills, cast albums aplenty and some soulful tributes to artists we lost this week. Billy Idol, "Still Dancing" (Dark Horse) (iTunes / Amazon) The recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee is going on tour this year with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and will release Dream Into It,
That's How We Choose to Remember It
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rilo Kiley is reuniting, and on May 9 - the day before the band takes the stage at the Just Like Heaven Festival in Pasadena, CA - they'll follow up a reissue of The Execution of All Things with That's How We Choose to Remember It, an 11-track collection drawing from their four studio albums and one early EP from 1999-2007. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
The Execution of All Things: Frozen Lake Edition
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
Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 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
Release Round-Up: Week of February 28
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. Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Official Store Liquid-Filled LP: Official Store Cassette: Official Store After celebrating their debut album with a deluxe edition last year, Bon Jovi will offer similar treatment to their biggest album:
Bloody Well Right: Mercury Studios Reissues Supertramp's "Live in Paris '79"
With the release of 1979's Breakfast in America, Supertramp ascended to superstar status. The U.K. group's sixth studio album, Breakfast was one of the year's best-selling albums. It yielded four international hits with "The Logical Song" (No. 6 U.S./No. 7 U.K.), "Take the Long Way Home" (No. 10 U.S.), "Goodbye Stranger" (No. 15 U.S./No. 57 U.K.) and "Breakfast in America" (No. 62 U.S./No. 9 U.K.). The LP won two Grammy Awards and was certified quadruple Platinum in the United States where it
Echoes Through the Ruins: Pink Floyd's Pompeii Gig to Be Remixed and Reissued
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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