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You Bring the Summer: The Monkees’ ‘Good Times!’ Revisited for 10th Anniversary

April 30, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Back in 2016, The Monkees celebrated their 50th anniversary with their first album of new material since 1996’s Justus. The appropriately-titled Good Times!, produced by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, was a true return to form. As TSD noted in its original review, “The Monkees have just released their first new album in twenty years, and all is right with the world…Good Times makes no concession to the sound of modern pop. Rather, it’s most often the classic Monkees style refracted through a muscular, power-pop prism…Don’t hesitate. Listen to the band!” The…

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Adam Schlesinger, Andy Partridge, Boyce and Hart, Carole King, Davy Jones, Gerry Goffin, Harry Nilsson, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Peter Tork, Rivers Cuomo, The Monkees

Say You Will: New Ivy Album, Built from Unreleased Tracks, Due in September

June 5, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Five years after bidding a too-early farewell to one of pop’s most stalwart songwriters, a new album from his second-best remembered (but first major) band is coming, built off contributions he left behind. Traces of You, due September 5, is the first new album in a dozen years from alternative pop band Ivy. The news might come as a shock, as one of the group’s charter members, bassist/songwriter Adam Schlesinger, died in 2020 – an early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Happily, as a gift from somewhere beyond, he’s present on all…

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And If I Know You: Mondo Brings ‘That Thing You Do!’ to Vinyl

September 6, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Mondo Records brings one of the most beloved soundtracks of the late 20th century to vinyl for the first time today, with a brand-new pressing of the soundtrack to the pop classic That Thing You Do! The original album will be available on 140-gram black or splatter vinyl in a newly-designed jacket that’ll also include a 12-page booklet of rare and unseen photos and a replica of the original Playtone single release of the immortal title track, with a label and track order just like in the film. (Other color variants will…

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Adam Schlesinger, Tom Hanks

The Weekend Stream: March 4, 2023

March 4, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. De La Soul’s digital debuts make headlines, plus favorites from Donna Summer, Adam Schlesinger, lo-fi disco soul, ’80s dance-rock, a brilliant new pop track and an actress returning to sing a song she crooned in a cartoon! De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising / De La Soul is Dead / Buhloone Mindstate / Stakes is High /…

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

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Adam Schlesinger, Amy Irving, De La Soul, Donna Summer, Ivy, Leon Everette, MUNA, Mike & Bill, Sponge, The Bongos

Pretend to Be Nice: Adam Schlesinger Tribute Album Gets 3LP Release from Vinyl Me, Please

April 2, 2021 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Fans all over the world were pained when Adam Schlesinger died a year and a day ago – one of pop music’s first major casualties of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dozens of musicians turned that pain into celebration over the summer with Saving for a Custom Van, a lengthy tribute album from Father/Daughter Records and Wax Nine that raised money for MusiCares’ ongoing COVID relief efforts. Now vinyl lovers can add the set to their collection, thanks to a 3LP release coming from Vinyl Me, Please. Saving for a Custom Van featured Schlesinger’s…

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Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne

Summer Blessings: Super Picks for July’s Bandcamp Friday

July 3, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

The Bandcamp Friday train keeps rolling – a light in the darkness for music lovers if ever there was one! On March 20, as the COVID-19 pandemic was putting the world on pause, the indie music service waived their revenue share on all music and merch sold, allowing indie artists and labels a chance for some steadier income as concert tours began to halt. The event was a resounding success, and has been repeated on the first Fridays of May and June, with another on June 19 (a planned annual practice in…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Adam Schlesinger, Digable Planets, Harry Nilsson, Hum, Nick Lowe, Peter Gabriel, Sonic Youth, Swamp Dogg

From The Founder: Hello From Inside

April 8, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

It was on my 23rd (or 25th, depending on how you count it) day of lockdown when I once again had to do something we’re all sick of doing these last few weeks: go on social media and see another wave of tributes to a favorite artist who’s succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, it was John Prine, an artist I freely admit is one of my many musical blind spots; but reading the tributes – some from friends, some from great writers, some from both – really underscores the profound…

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Adam Schlesinger, Bill Withers, Hal Willner, John Prine, Prince