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The Weekend Stream: December 13, 2025

December 13, 2025 by The Second Disc | 5 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. There’s even more holiday gifts today: new takes on a film music legend, a decade-spanning dance mash-up, more centennial celebrations for a Rat Pack icon, plus some deep country and modern rock treasures. Cécilia Tsan, Sara Andon & Simone Pedroni, John Williams Reimagined: Home Alone (Warner Classics/Erato/Parlophone) (Apple / Amazon) In 2024, soundtrack reissue producer Robert Townson assembled cellist Tsan, flautist Andon and pianist Pedroni for a most intriguing…

Release Round-Up: Week of December 12

December 12, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50 (Pink Floyd/Legacy) 2CD/4LP/Blu-ray/7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 50th anniversary edition of the Pink Floyd classic is available in a variety of formats: A 2CD or 3LP set pairs the original album with nine bonus tracks: three from the “Immersion Edition” box set released in 2011 and six previously unreleased outtakes and…

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

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Bill Wyman, Jim Peterik, Jimi Jamison, Lester Young, Pink Floyd, T Rex, The Band, The Pogues

Blockheads, Haircuts, Stones and a T. Rex: Edsel Preps Multiple Full-Album Box Sets

December 2, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

With only a few weeks until Christmas, Edsel is prepping a host of multi-album box sets and vinyl reissues up for consideration under your tree. The four below titles span a few icons and notable names of British rock in the ’70s and ’80s – and two of them even include unheard material from the artists’ respective vaults! First up is Too Nutty to Be Naughty (Studio Recordings 1977-2002), a celebration of the late Ian Dury. The post-punk renaissance man – as at home as the frontman of Stiff stalwarts The Blockheads (they…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Bill Wyman, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Marc Bolan, Nick Heyward, T Rex

Love Will Keep Us Alive: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue Jim Capaldi Tribute with Steve Winwood, Pete Townshend, Cat Stevens, Joe Walsh, More

June 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings has revisited the 2007 concert release Dear Mr. Fantasy: A Celebration for Jim Capaldi in a new 2CD/1Blu-ray edition. Following the singer-songwriter-drummer’s death on January 28, 2005 at the age of 60 from stomach cancer, many of his friends came together on January 21, 2007 at the Roundhouse in London’s Camden Town to pay tribute and support one of his favorite charities, The Jubilee Action Street Children Appeal. This release preserves that extraordinary evening with Capaldi’s former Traffic bandmate Steve Winwood, Yusuf Islam a.k.a. Cat Stevens, Pete Townshend,…

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Bill Wyman, Cat Stevens, Jim Capaldi, Joe Walsh, Jon Lord, Paul Weller, Pete Townshend, Steve Winwood

Release Round-Up: Week of August 9

August 9, 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. Also, don’t miss out on today’s eclectic slate of releases from Real Gone Music; click here to find out what’s new from Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Firehouse, Azar Lawrence, Charlie Nothing, and 3 Inches of Blood! Elvis Presley, Memphis (RCA/Legacy) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new 5CD set (also available as a double vinyl album of highlights) showcases five crucial periods in which The…

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Al Stewart, Bill Wyman, Dean Martin, Dickey Betts, Elvis Presley, Esperanza Spalding, Frank Sinatra, Jim Peterik, Judy Garland, Little Big Town, Milton Nascimento, Paul Weller, The Soul Searchers, Vera Lynn

Let The Good Times Roll: Edsel Releases Final Box Set From Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings

March 3, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Edsel has continued its ongoing Bill Wyman Recording Archive series with a fourth and final volume dedicated to the classic Rolling Stones bassist’s Rhythm Kings. The Kings of Rhythm Volume Four: Race with the Devil is a 3-DVD/1-CD set preserving live performances from Wyman’s spirited band of Rhythm Kings as recorded between 1999 and 2004. Two of these concerts are previously unreleased. With the Rhythm Kings, Wyman tapped into his own blues and rock-and-roll roots and proved the endurance of these classic songs. (Read about past volumes here!) The CD component of…

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Classic Rock

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Bill Wyman, Georgie Fame, The Rolling Stones

Release Round-Up: Week of July 22

July 22, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Dio, A Decade of Dio 1983-1993 (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A Decade of Dio 1983-1993 collects all six studio albums released by Warner Bros. and Reprise in the first decade of the band Dio’s soaring career. Formed by Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice after their split from Black Sabbath in 1982, the group first gained prominence with the title track of debut Holy Diver, a staple of MTV and a recurring metal cult classic. Decade features new remasters of all this…

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Classic Rock, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Bill Wyman, Bobby Darin, Dio, Perry Como, The Allman Brothers Band, Tucky Buzzard, Velvet Crush

Just For a Thrill: Edsel Offers Third Box Set From Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings

June 7, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Edsel has continued its series of mini-box sets dedicated to Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings with a recently-released third volume. The Kings of Rhythm Volume 3: Tell You a Secret collects four albums originally issued between 2003 and 2011 by the legendary Rolling Stones bassist’s rhythm-and-blues-rock big band. This new box follows previous releases in the label’s Bill Wyman’s Recording Archive series including White Lightnin’: The Solo Box and The Complete Willie and the Poor Boys. The first Rhythm Kings volume featured the albums Struttin’ Our Stuff (1997) and Anyway the Wind Blows (1999)…

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock

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Bill Wyman, The Rolling Stones

Release Round-Up: Week of April 1

April 1, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Go-Go’s, Beauty and the Beat / Vacation / Talk Show: Deluxe Editions (Edsel) Beauty and the Beat: Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vacation: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Talk Show: Expanded Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Edsel has expanded editions of the three classic albums by The Go-Go’s originally released between 1982 and 1984. While none of the bonus material here is unreleased, these reissues do serve to pair the respective material from Return to the Valley of The Go-Go’s up with their original albums. Beyond that,…

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CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl

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

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Bill Wyman, Earth Wind and Fire, Martha and the Vandellas, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, The Go-Go's, The Miracles, The Replacements, The Supremes, Todd Rundgren

Bill Wyman Opens The Vault Doors with “The Solo Box,” “Complete Willie and the Poor Boys” Sets

September 1, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Earlier this year, erstwhile Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman released Back to Basics, his fifth solo album and first in over two decades. The time couldn’t be better, then, to revisit Wyman’s past work apart from his former bandmates. Edsel has happily obliged with two new multi-disc collections in the Bill Wyman’s Recording Archives series showcasing Wyman’s own musical melange of blues, soul, pop, and rock-and-roll. The 4-CD/1-DVD White Lightnin’: The Solo Box reissues and expands Wyman’s first four solo albums with 24 bonus tracks (four of which are previously unissued) and a…

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Box Sets, CD, DVD

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Classic Rock

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Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, The Rolling Stones