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All I Want: a-ha Expand ‘Analogue’ for Its 20th Anniversary

March 31, 2026 by The Second Disc | No Comments

The eighth album by Norwegian trio a-ha – the late-period triumph Analogue – is the band’s latest to be expanded and reissued by Rhino this spring. Released for its 20th anniversary, the new Analogue package includes the newly remastered album alongside a B-side and three single mixes as well as a 17-track bonus disc of mostly previously unreleased demos and alternative versions of every track on the LP plus more. It’s available as a 2CD set on April 17, with a 2LP version available a day later as a Record Store Day exclusive. a-ha…

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Let Him Run Wild: Rhino’s Record Store Day Slate Includes Brian Wilson, David Bowie, The Doors, Talking Heads, Black Sabbath, Joni Mitchell, More

February 4, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

Today’s the day! The Record Store Day list is here, ramping up anticipation for the annual event which takes place at brick-and-mortar stores on Saturday, April 18. As expected, Rhino is leading the RSD pack with a whopping slate of over 50 titles scheduled to arrive in independent shops everywhere. The label has brought out many of its heaviest hitters, including David Bowie, The Doors, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Grateful Dead, Rod Stewart, Talking Heads, and Brian Wilson, among others. Head over to RecordStoreDay.com for the complete list of participating stores (and…

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The Second Disc’s Guide to Record Store Day Black Friday 2025

November 28, 2025 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. (And with plenty of delicious food, too!) Now, Record Store Day’s annual Black Friday event is upon us, so we’re spotlighting a dozen of the most eagerly anticipated releases arriving to your local independent brick-and-mortar record shop! Here are our personal picks for RSD BF must-haves; visit Record Store Day’s official website for a list of participating retailers. Happy Listening, and have a great…

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The Second Disc’s Guide to Record Store Day 2025: Our Favorite Picks

April 11, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Tomorrow, Record Store Day is once again upon us! It’s that time of year where music lovers and vinyl flippers get together at their favorite physical music retailers and wait in line to snag some treasured albums – almost all of which are pressed on vinyl instead of CD (or, you know, sold on secondary marketplaces for above their retail value). This year, the list tops out at over 300 titles, so there’s very nearly something for everybody. It wasn’t easy to narrow our choices down to around 20 titles, but here…

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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 | No Comments

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 full descriptions of each title at the official RSD site. a-ha, Hunting High…

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The Weekend Stream: November 9, 2024

November 9, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

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 remixes from Pet Shop Boys, old remixes from INXS, plus rare folk, jazz and alt-rock favorites – plus another bounty of unusual Christmas albums and EPs! Pet Shop Boys, New London boy / All the young dudes EPs (x2/Parlophone) Standard: iTunes / Amazon Remixes: iTunes / Amazon A new double A-side single from Pet Shop Boys’ 15th album Nonetheless – released earlier this year – is physically due…

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The Weekend Stream: November 2, 2024

November 2, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

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 all the usual stuff you’d expect – reissues from Usher, rarities from The Alan Parsons Project, and another unique Daryl Hall-related EP – and some stuff you might not, like truly unusual Christmas collections and a new app from one of the best places for music in video games! Nintendo Music app One genre the Second Disc team has always wished had a stronger catalog presence:…

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Vinyl Box Watch: Clapton, a-ha, Neutral Milk Hotel All Prep Big Sets on LP

January 11, 2023 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

For nearly no other occasion would you see these three bands in the same sentence, but it’s true: vinyl box sets are all forthcoming from blues-rock legend Eric Clapton, Norwegian popsmiths a-ha, and ’90s indie-folk darlings Neutral Milk Hotel. This week, on January 13, Clapton readies The Complete Reprise Studio Albums – Volume II from Rhino Records. This 10LP set picks up where last year’s first set left off, offering new remasters of Clapton’s 21st century solo material for the Reprise label: Reptile (2001), the 2004 Robert Johnson tributes Me and Mr….

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Nobody Does It Better: ‘The Best of Bond…James Bond’ Gets Update and Vinyl Release

September 28, 2020 by The Second Disc | 15 Comments

With a new James Bond film set to shake (not stir) audiences in November, a longtime compilation of the super-spy’s famed film themes is getting a new iteration on November 20. The Best of Bond…James Bond offers a stellar 25-track overview of the pop themes that scored nearly all of the films based on Ian Fleming’s famed British secret agent. There are 14 U.K. Top 10 hits and two Academy Award winners herein – altogether, a formidable, half-century-plus musical portrait of one of cinema’s most popular characters. First released under this title…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 6

March 6, 2020 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Cream, Goodbye Tour Live 1968 (Polydor/UMC) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new 4-CD box set expands on Cream’s farewell album Goodbye Cream, but with a twist: it drops the three studio tracks and instead presents four complete concerts including the Los Angeles Forum show from which the original three live cuts on Goodbye were culled. Overall, the book-style package has 36 tracks, 29 of which are premiering on CD. 19 of the songs are previously unreleased in any format, and 10 more…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 22

November 22, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, The Great Songs of Christmas: Classic Carols and Pop Favorites (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly present the first new volume of The Great Songs of Christmas in nearly 50 years bringing many of the exclusive tracks featured on Goodyear’s original 1961-1970 series together. Expect to hear rarities from Percy Faith, Andre Kostelanetz, Johnny Mathis, Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence, and Ray Conniff, and even more new-to-CD tracks from The Harry Simeone…

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Bing Crosby, Gary Puckett, Grateful Dead, Harry Nilsson, Jeffrey Foskett, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Mathis, Leonard Cohen, Loudon Wainwright III, Mark Lindsay, Rod Stewart, Stanley Black, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Tim Buckley, Tom Waits, a-ha

Release Round-Up: Week of October 18

October 18, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Jethro Tull, Stormwatch: 40th Anniversary Edition (Chrysalis) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Jethro Tull continues its long-running box set series with a new 4CD/2DVD expansion of 1979’s Stormwatch, the final Tull album to feature the “classic” line-up of Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, David (now Dee) Palmer, and Barriemore Barlow. The new edition features: The original album and associated recordings newly remixed by Steven Wilson; A complete concert from the Netherlands recorded in March 1980; The original album and 13…

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Buck Owens, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Fastball, Idina Menzel, Jason Danieley, Jethro Tull, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, Julie Andrews, Marin Mazzie, Marvin Gaye, Merle Haggard, Roger C. Reale and Rue Morgue, Roy Orbison, Stephen Bishop, Stone Temple Pilots, The Carter Family, The Muffs, a-ha

Take On Me (Redux): Rhino Returns a-ha’s “Hunting High and Low” Deluxe Edition to Print

September 27, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

If you set your Wayback Machine to February 1, 2010, you’ll find one of The Second Disc’s earliest posts – the inaugural Reissue Theory column, dedicated to imagining a 25th anniversary multi-disc edition of a-ha’s 1985 debut studio album Hunting High and Low. Well, good things do come to those who wait, because Warner Bros. and Rhino are revisiting the album – for a second time – on November 22. A 4-CD/1-DVD edition of the album arrived in 2015, handily besting the 2010 double-CD edition. That box quickly went out of print,…

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Make the Moment Count: a-ha Announces Expanded Reissues of “Minor Earth | Major Sky” and “Lifelines” Due in October

August 20, 2019 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

a-ha broke onto the scene in the ’80s with a run of five successful albums, but went on a seven-year hiatus in 1993 following the release of Memorial Beach. In the interim, the Norwegian trio – Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Pål Waaktaar-Savoy – explored different interests until they were invited to perform at the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo. Their two-song set brought them international attention and they soon reconvened in New York to write what would become their 2000 comeback album Minor Earth | Major Sky. After a world…

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Revved Up Like a Deuce: “Blinded by the Light” Soundtrack Premieres Springsteen Song, Rarities on CD and LP

July 8, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

August 14 sees the theatrical release of Blinded by the Light, a new coming-of-age film inspired by Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N’ Roll. Both book and movie chronicle the story of a young man’s life-changing experiences with the music of Bruce Springsteen, so it’s only appropriate that a soundtrack filled with Boss tunes would be on the way. On August 9, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release Blinded by the Light: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in CD and digital configurations) as well as 2-LP 12″…

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Hunting High And Low: Rhino Announces Record Store Day 2019 Lineup

March 4, 2019 by Sam Stone | 4 Comments

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Today, Rhino announced its offerings for the 2019 Record Store Day celebration, taking place at your local brick-and-mortar shop Saturday, April 13. Rhino’s 33 releases highlight several genres of music – soul, rock, rap, comedy, disco, pop, jam bands, prog, and more – on an array of formats including LPs, CDs, picture discs, colored vinyl, and even cassette tapes. Here’s the run-down on all their RSD titles! a-ha, Hunting High and Low: The Early Alternate Mixes – 1 LP – 6,000 copies Hunting High and Low: The Early Alternate Mixes brings together…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 23

November 23, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! CHIC, The CHIC Organization 1977-1979 (Atlantic/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new box set, available in 5-CD and 6-LP formats, brings together new Nile Rodgers Signature Edition remasters of CHIC’s first three albums plus Sister Sledge’s CHIC-produced We Are Family and a bonus disc of period single edits and 12-inch mixes. The vinyl edition includes additional text in the booklet as well as a bonus 12-inch replica single of the original Buddah…

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Holding Back the Years: Rhino to Deliver Reimagined Orchestral Classics with “’80s Symphonic”

October 19, 2018 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

Looking back from a vantage point thirty years on, there’s no denying the special place that the 1980s have in the history of popular music. It was a decade that surveyed past musical ground while simultaneously advancing the art form further, making an indelible mark on music to come. With dancefloor grooves, yearning ballads, infectious pop, and more, it was a decade of great music. Now, Rhino has announced a new collection that reimagines some of the smash hits from the decade: 80s Symphonic. The album, which arrives to CD and digital…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 18

March 18, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a host of titles on CD and vinyl! Elvis Presley, The Album Collection (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) To coincide with the 60th anniversary of his signing to RCA, Elvis Presley’s The Album Collection is a whopping 60-disc box set containing 57 RCA albums released during Presley’s lifetime (many with bonus tracks added) and 3 bonus discs of rarities, one disc each for the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. A 300-page hardcover book accompanies this landmark set. You’ll find more details here. Watch…

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Cry Wolf: New a-ha Compilation Combines Hits, Remixes on Two Discs

February 11, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Last year was chock full of reissue news for fans of a-ha, with a 30th anniversary edition of the band’s landmark debut Hunting High and Low and reissues of the band’s third, fourth and fifth albums for Warner Bros. Records. This all came alongside a surprise brief reunion of the Norwegian trio, five years after their 2010 dissolution, for a new album and subsequent tour of Europe. With that tour set to kick off in Russia on March 6, the band have announced another compilation, Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha, to…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Featuring songs that “offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book,” Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day Renaissance man’s entire recorded discography, from 1977’s My Aim is True to 2013’s Wise Up Ghost, his collaboration album with hip-hop group The Roots. In addition, two…

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Charlie Rich, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jack Bruce, Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Sweet, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rod Stewart, Susanna Hoffs, The Kinks, a-ha

Stay On These Roads: Rhino Expands a-ha Catalogue With New Deluxe Editions

September 23, 2015 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Following both the 30th anniversary reissue of their debut album Hunting High and Low (1985) and the release of a new record, Cast in Steel, a-ha will complete the expansion of their early catalogue in October. Expanded editions of the band’s third, fourth and fifth albums, Stay on These Roads (1988), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1990) and Memorial Beach (1993) will join the new 4CD/1DVD box set version of Hunting High and Low and an expanded Scoundrel Days (1986), released alongside a 25th anniversary edition of Hunting and the…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 18

September 18, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up including a couple of spectacular new box sets, one acclaimed soundtrack, numerous reissues and anthologies, and the return of a few beloved artists! a-ha, Hunting High and Low: 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The 1985 debut from a-ha gets super-sized with Rhino’s upcoming 4-CD/1-DVD edition. Disc One has the original, remastered album, while Disc Two boasts 25 demos, Disc Three has 15 singles, B-sides and extended versions, and Disc Four takes in ten previously unreleased alternate mixes. The DVD has…

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