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The Weekend Stream: October 3, 2026

October 4, 2026 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life – The EP (Motown/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) On September 28 – five decades to the day since Motown Records welcomed Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life into the world – another miracle occurred. Loosed from Wonder’s vaults (a phrase that’s almost never been applicable in the modern catalogue music era) comes another “A Something’s Extra” collecting four outtakes from the original double album-plus-EP. (Unlike, say, Timeless, these tracks appear to be free of contemporary overdubs, only newly mixed from their original sources by John…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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

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Amy Grant, Bill Conti, Clannad, Devo, Divinyls, Hector Lavoe, Jim Reeves, John Williams, Kyle Gordon, Mac Miller, Stevie Wonder, The Chicks, The Rolling Stones

Release Round-Up: Week of May 8

May 8, 2026 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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. Neil Diamond, Wild at Heart (Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Walmart (with exclusive lithograph) / Target (with exclusive lithograph) / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP (Bronze Elegance Edition): NeilDiamond.com LP (Copper Nugget Edition): Barnes and Noble A new album from Neil Diamond is out today…and it’s so good, so good, so good! The superstar singer-songwriter’s Wild at Heart is composed of nine previously unheard outtakes recorded with producer Rick Rubin in…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Amy Grant, Iain Matthews, Josh Groban, Melanie, Neil Diamond, Peter Gabriel, The Knack, Ween

Release Round-Up: Week of February 7

February 7, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn for qualifying purchases. WAR, Live in Japan 1974 (Rhino/Avenue) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino’s ongoing refresh of the WAR catalogue continues with its first release of 2025: a set of previously unheard live material from the band’s tour of Japan, more than half a century ago and featuring the band’s classic line-up. Live in Japan 1974 is available worldwide as a 2CD or 2LP set. The concert includes…

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Release Round-Up

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

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CCM, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Amy Grant, Don Julian, Harold Wheeler, Melanie, R.E.M., The Donnas, Various Artists, War, Wilco, Wildside

Release Round-Up: Week of September 13

September 13, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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. Louis Armstrong, Wonderful World: The Best of Louis Armstrong (Verve/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 13-song sampler draws on Satchmo’s 1951-1967 recordings for the Decca, Verve, Kapp, and ABC-Paramount labels and includes many of his most beloved songs as both a vocalist and trumpeter such as “Hello, Dolly!,” “What a Wonderful World,” “A…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Amy Grant, Continental Drifters, Frank Zappa, Lightnin' Hopkins, Louis Armstrong, Nick Lowe, Sonny Terry, Tori Amos, Vince Gill

Release Round-Up: Week of October 20

October 20, 2023 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles being released today as we inch closer to the holiday shopping season! As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Nancy Sinatra, Keep Walkin’: Singles, Demos, and Rarities (1965-1978) (Light in the Attic) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Black 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Zodiac Blue 2LP: Nancy’s Bootique Highway Song Yellow 2LP: Nancy’s Bootique “Sugar Me” Pink Splatter 2LP: Spotify Abridged 4-Track Tape: Nancy’s Bootique Abridged 8-Track Tape: Nancy’s Bootique Following the release of the anthology Start Walkin’ 1965-1976 and expanded editions of Boots, Nancy and Lee,…

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News

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Gospel, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alan Silvestri, Amy Grant, B.J. Thomas, Bob Dylan, CHVRCHES, Carla Olson, Cher, David Bowie, Devo, Goo Goo Dolls, Nancy Sinatra, Richard Hawley, Salt-N-Pepa, The Mojo Men, The Rolling Stones, Tim Easton, Tony Visconti, Vince Guaraldi

Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland. The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand and introduced the audience to the masterful…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

UPDATE – Glory of Love: Cherry Pop’s Expansive Peter Cetera Box Arrives

March 1, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

UPDATED 3/1/22: As one of the seven members of Chicago as featured on their 1969 debut album Chicago Transit Authority, bassist-singer Peter Cetera’s soaring tenor became an integral component of the band’s sound on such hits as “25 or 6 to 4,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “Just You ‘n’ Me,” and “(I’ve Been) Searching So Long.” When his own composition “If You Leave Me Now” became Chicago’s first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 – not to mention in international territories such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia – Cetera was recast…

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News, Reviews

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Box Sets, CD

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Pop, Rock

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Amy Grant, David Foster, Peter Cetera

Release Round-Up: Week of July 9

July 9, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Almost Famous: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (UMe, 2021) Out today: 2CD Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stillwater Vinyl EP: uDiscoverMusic.com Out August 20: 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5CD/7LP/1-7″ Super Deluxe Edition and color variants: uDiscoverMusic.com Cameron Crowe is revisiting the soundtrack to his 2000 instant classic Almost Famous in near-complete form as a 5-CD or 6-LP set as well as in shorter highlights versions and a Super Deluxe box containing all of the music…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Amy Grant, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Devo, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Eugene McDaniels, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Led Zeppelin, Little Steven, Lucinda Williams, Spacehog, Sparks, Steely Dan, The Rolling Stones, The Sandals, The Wallflowers, The Who

Short Takes: Amy Grant Expands “Heart in Motion;” Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, More Guest on Charlie Daniels’ Posthumous “Duets”

July 2, 2021 by The Second Disc | 9 Comments

In March 1991, Amy Grant released her ninth studio album, Heart in Motion. By that time, Grant was already a well-established superstar in the realm of CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) who had made significant inroads in mainstream pop. 1985’s Unguarded – her first album to be distributed by A&M Records to secular retailers – yielded a top 30 Pop hit with “Find a Way.” The very next year, she found herself atop the Hot 100 with the Peter Cetera duet “The Next Time I Fall.” Heart in Motion solidified her standing as…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Country, Pop, Rock

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Amy Grant, Bonnie Bramlett, Brenda Lee, Charlie Daniels, Dolly Parton, Earl Scruggs, Garth Brooks, Marty Stuart, Vince Gill

Glory of Love: Cherry Pop Collects Peter Cetera’s Full Moon-Warner Bros. Discography On New Box Set

February 23, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 24 Comments

UPDATED 1/22: As one of the seven members of Chicago as featured on their 1969 debut album Chicago Transit Authority, bassist-singer Peter Cetera’s soaring tenor became an integral component of the band’s sound on such hits as “25 or 6 to 4,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “Just You ‘n’ Me,” and “(I’ve Been) Searching So Long.” When his own composition “If You Leave Me Now” became Chicago’s first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 – not to mention in international territories such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia –…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Pop

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Amy Grant, Cher, Peter Cetera