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Release Round-Up: Week of September 25

September 25, 2026 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 from qualifying purchases. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Freak Out! 60th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (Zappa/UMe) 5CD/BD: Zappa.com (opens in new tab)/ uDiscoverMusic.com(opens in new tab)(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab) 5LP (Pre-Master Mix & Mono Mix + 60th Anniversary Highlights): Zappa.com(opens in new tab) / uDiscoverMusic.com(opens in new tab) 2LP (Remastered 1966…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Andrea Bocelli, Art in America, Average White Band, Ben Platt, Danny O'Keefe, Doctor Who, Frank Zappa, Jason Robert Brown, John Debney, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Bolan, Peter Davison, Rachel Zegler, Randy Edelman, Randy Newman, T Rex, Taylor Swift

The Second Disc’s Guide to Record Store Day 2024: Our Essential Picks

April 20, 2024 by The Second Disc | 18 Comments

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 350 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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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

The Weekend Stream: February 24, 2024

February 24, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. A lot of exciting stuff this week: a celebration of a classic ’90s pop album, the first in a series of digital archive titles for a British art rock duo, and the streaming debut of one of the biggest hits of the ’80s! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Eddy Grant, Killer on the Rampage (Ice Records) (iTunes / Amazon) Possibly the biggest single of the ’80s missing from digital channels was…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Average White Band, Bonnie Bramlett, Eddy Grant, TLC, The Alan Parsons Project, The Dells

Many States of Independence: Demon Unveils RSD List with Donna Summer, Yardbirds, Lulu, Average White Band, More

February 20, 2024 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

As the week unfolds, we’ll be continuing our ongoing look at this year’s massive Record Store Day list. Here is a glance at all of the releases coming from Demon Music Group. All descriptions are taken directly from the label. If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20. Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers. U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca. All titles on Demon’s list are available in the U.K.; please see notes on…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Average White Band, Dead or Alive, Donna Summer, Lamont Dozier, Lulu, Parliament, Pixies, Record Store Day, Steps, T Rex, The Yardbirds, Travis Biggs

Release Round-Up: Week of February 2

February 2, 2024 by The Second Disc | No 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. Andy Williams, When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) When You Fall in Love: Lost Columbia Masters 1977-1982 rounds up eighteen rarities from the late, great Andy Williams. Over a dozen never-before-heard recordings premiere here which teamed Andy with producers, songwriters, and arrangers including Steve Dorff, Paul Vance, Kerry Chater, Bob Esty, Bill Justis, Gene Page, Dick Glasser, Robby Adcock, and Steve Popovich…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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

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Andy Williams, Average White Band, Julie Andrews, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Wings

Back On My Feet Again: Rhino Adds Randy Newman, WAR, AWB, Gil Evans to Quadio Roster

January 19, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Today, Rhino announced four new titles in its ever-growing line of Quadio Blu-rays: Randy Newman’s Good Old Boys (1973), WAR’s The World Is a Ghetto (1972), Gil Evans’ Svengali, and Average White Band’s AWB. The Second Disc had the opportunity to preview this quartet of Blu-ray reissues of classic albums in quadraphonic (four-channel) sound, and we’re happy to report that this is another feast for surround fans with all four titles making good – or better – use of surround. (Those equipped only for stereo sound can still enjoy the two-channel mixes…

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News, Reviews

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Blu-Ray Audio

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Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Average White Band, Gil Evans, Randy Newman, War

Harvest for the World: Demon Music Group Spotlight on Average White Band, The Rubettes, and Barry Blue

August 9, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Today, we’re taking a look at three recent releases from Demon Music Group! On their 1974 Atlantic debut and breakthrough LP AWB, Average White Band proclaimed that they had “Work to Do.” The group’s confident stab at The Isley Brothers’ 1972 funk classic closed the first side of AWB; now, it’s one of ten tracks comprising the enjoyable new vinyl collection Cover to Cover, Soul to Soul out on Demon Records. Cover to Cover, Soul to Soul offers a bounty of AWB’s most soulful tracks – not only covers per se, but…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Pop, R&B/Soul

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Average White Band, Barry Blue, The Rubettes

Whatcha Gonna Do for Me: Average White Band Releases “On the Strip: The Sunset Sessions,” Reissues “Cupid’s in Fashion”

November 3, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

The opening track of Average White Band’s new/old release On the Strip: The Sunset Sessions couldn’t have a more apropos title: “Let’s Go Round Again.” Following a successful run of albums with producer-arranger Arif Mardin, the funky big band outfit was re-establishing itself. 1979’s Feel No Fret was a self-produced affair on which the band was joined by co-producer Gene Paul; it yielded hit singles in “Atlantic Avenue” and a revival of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Walk on By.” For a follow-up, AWB turned to the up-and-coming David Foster. A composer,…

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News, Reviews

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Vinyl

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Pop, R&B/Soul

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Average White Band, Bill Champlin, David Foster

Pick Up The Pieces: Edsel Releases Multi-Disc Average White Band Anthology

July 13, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

In selecting a name, the Average White Band certainly was modest. Over a career spanning nearly 50 years, the Scottish band recorded thirteen studio albums and seven live sets; charted nine hits in the U.K. and U.S. and a further 15 songs on the U.S. R&B survey; scored a million-seller with “Pick Up the Pieces;” and had so many songs sampled that the group was ranked the fifteenth most sampled artist in history as of around a decade ago. The AWB is still active today under the auspices of two original members,…

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News, Reviews

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Box Sets, CD

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Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Average White Band