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Release Round-Up: Week of October 8

October 8, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, The Best of Bond…James Bond (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic (gold) The Best of Bond…James Bond is released on vinyl today (the CD arrived two weeks ago). The compilation 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….

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Country, Holiday, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aaliyah, Joe Bataan, John Barry, Lizard Music, Loreena McKennitt, Orleans, Ray Barretto, Reba McEntire, Violent Femmes

The Weekend Stream: September 11, 2021

September 11, 2021 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it’s no secret that listening audiences are also digital – catalogue music lovers, too – and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we’ve introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Aaliyah, Aaliyah (Blackground/EMPIRE) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) The Blackground Records digital rollout…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Genres:

Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Aaliyah, Blackstreet, Carla Thomas, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Four Tops, Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, Loretta Lynn, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Restless Heart, The Everly Brothers, The Isley Brothers, The Supremes, The Temptations

Release Round-Up: Week of September 10

September 10, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Chicago, Chicago at Carnegie Hall: Complete (Rhino) (Rhino.com) For the first time, Rhino brings together all eight of Chicago’s concerts between April 5-10, 1971 at New York’s Carnegie Hall in one deluxe, 16-CD box set. The original 4-LP box Chicago at Carnegie Hall was a commercial smash, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200. This set features every note played by the band as newly restored by the band’s Lee Loughnane and engineer Tim Jessup. The box takes the form of a white folio embossed with Chicago’s famous logo. In…

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Release Round-Up

Formats:

Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Aaliyah, Andrea Bocelli, Chicago, Chris Jagger, Donny Osmond, Elvis Costello, Laura Nyro, Marillion, Metallica, Ray Charles, Rufus Wainwright, Suede

The Weekend Stream: September 4, 2021

September 4, 2021 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it’s no secret that listening audiences are also digital – catalogue music lovers, too – and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we’ve introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Rick James, Glow (Deluxe Edition) / Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

Formats:

Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Genres:

Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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ABBA, Aaliyah, Bernard Herrmann, DMX, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jerry Goldsmith, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Wilson, Miracle Legion, Propaganda, Rick James, Teena Marie, The Brothers Johnson, The Psychedelic Furs, Timbaland

The Weekend Stream: August 21, 2021

August 21, 2021 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it’s no secret that listening audiences are also digital – catalogue music lovers, too – and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we’ve introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Aaliyah, One in a Million (Blackground/EMPIRE) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) Well, it’s…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

Formats:

Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Genres:

Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aaliyah, Jerry Goldsmith, Lamb of God, Michael Giacchino

Release Round-Up: Week of August 20

August 20, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton: Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Polydor/UMe) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Eric Clapton’s eponymous 1970 solo debut is reissued today in 4CD and 1LP iterations. The 4CD Deluxe Edition presents Eric Clapton in three separate mixes, with one mix on each of the first three CDs in the box: The Tom Dowd Mix, The Eric Clapton Mix, and The Delaney Bramlett Mix. The mix by Dowd (Dusty Springfield, The Allman Brothers Band) was originally released in 1970; the…

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Release Round-Up

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soundtracks

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Aaliyah, Bob Dylan, Chrissie Hynde, Connie Smith, Eric Clapton, James McMurtry, Joan Jett, John Coltrane, Julie Andrews, Kool and the Gang, Lee Morgan, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Vince Guaraldi, Wanda Jackson

Are You That Somebody: Blackground Records Catalogue, Against All Odds, Coming Back Into Print

August 6, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

It’s the reissue announcement a generation wanted but nobody expected – and it’s honestly hard to parse how to feel about it: Blackground Records will release its long out-of-print catalogue, including albums by the late R&B singer Aaliyah. Record producer Barry Hankerson started Blackground in the ’90s as a vehicle to score his niece, Aaliyah Haughton, a record deal. After years of being turned down, Jive Records signed the 15-year-old singer, and debut Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number spun off the Top 10 hits “Back & Forth” and a cover of…

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News

Formats:

CD, Cassette, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Soundtracks

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Aaliyah, JoJo, Timbaland, Toni Braxton