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The Weekend Stream: April 12, 2025

April 12, 2025 by The Second Disc | No 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. By now, you might have hit your participating local shop for Record Store Day – and happily, we’re kicking off this Saturday’s column to share material from five exclusive vinyl titles that are getting a second life in the streaming and download world too. It’s a great way to check out some titles if you missed them, or weren’t sure if you wanted to add them to your…

Out of This World: Verve Record Club Promises Heavyweight Vinyl Pressings and Rarities

January 30, 2025 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Verve Label Group is getting into the subscription vinyl game with the recently-announced Verve Record Club. The new monthly venture will offer fans new vinyl pressings of classic albums from the Verve, Impulse!, Mercury, CTI, Decca and MGM label catalogues, promising titles by John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ahmad Jamal and Sarah Vaughan, to name a few. The new pressings will all be remastered from the original analog tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound. Each title will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl at…

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Vinyl

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Jazz

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Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Stan Getz

Release Round-Up: Week of September 29

September 29, 2023 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! The Spinners, Ain’t No Price on Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings (1972-1979) (SoulMusic/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Earlier this year, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrated the extraordinary legacy of The Spinners with the release of The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979, collecting a whopping 43 single sides on two CDs. Now, SoulMusic Records and Cherry Red are continuing the Spinners party with a comprehensive box set chronicling that halcyon period with…

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News

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

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Holiday, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Ann Wilson, Billie Holiday, Carla Thomas, Electronic, Grateful Dead, Green Day, HAIM, Jason Isbell, Otis Redding, Sarah Vaughan, Steely Dan, The Spinners, Wilco

The Weekend Stream: February 5, 2022

February 5, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

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 discover! Some fascinating finds ahead from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and far beyond – but first, another streaming housekeeping note… You may have read our thoughts last week about streaming services, what they’re doing, what they should be doing, and how artists are reacting. We had no intention of telling people where they should or shouldn’t get their digital catalogue fix. However, this…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, David Bowie, Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Kim Carnes, Roxette, The Art of Noise

Release Round-Up: Week of March 12

March 12, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Nancy Sinatra, Start Walkin’ 1965-1976 (Light in the Attic) CD: Light in the Attic / Nancy’s Bootique / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Light in the Attic / Nancy’s Bootique / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Light in the Attic launches a Nancy Sinatra archival series with Start Walkin’ 1965-1976. This 23-track collection chronicles the decade following the December 1965 release of the Hazlewood-penned-and-produced, Billy Strange-arranged “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” the anthemic song that topped the charts in eight countries including the United States and United Kingdom. The set, available in CD, vinyl and digital editions, features…

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Allan Holdsworth, Andra Day, Billie Holiday, Buck Owens, Jane Monheit, Judee Sill, Lerner and Loewe, Michael Cerveris, Nancy Sinatra

Voices Inside: Vinyl Me, Please Details December Exclusive Titles and Next ‘VMP Anthology’ Volume, A Tribute to Tribe Records

November 30, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Vinyl Me, Please has built a name as skilled curators of a music experience, whether through monthly record club releases, immersive multimedia box sets, or selected special pressings. This month, the online club has announced several new projects continuing in that vein. For this month’s Essentials selection (one of three monthly “tracks” available to subscribers, along with Classics and Hip-Hop), VMP will press up a special, all-analog-remastered edition of Billie Holiday’s Lady Sings the Blues. A gem from her Verve years, the 1956 album sees the inimitable singer revisiting key tracks from…

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Big Boi, Billie Holiday, David Durrah, Donny Hathaway, Dough Hammond, Harold McKinney, Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison

The Best of The Rest: Even More RSD Black Friday Releases Confirmed!

October 15, 2020 by Sam Stone | 6 Comments

November 27 is always a special day for vinyl enthusiasts. Still filled up on last night’s Thanksgiving meal, music fans line up at their local shop for a chance at limited-edition vinyl. While the celebrations may look a little different this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (RSD has announced they’ll be less stringent about online sales) one thing remains the same: There are some excellent releases on offer, available exclusively from your local participating record shop! Here are some more releases from labels big and small that have us adding…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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A Granz Old Time: Verve/UMe Honors ‘The Founder’ On New Box Set

December 6, 2018 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

On December 7, Verve/UMe will release The Founder, a 4-CD box set in honor of Norman Granz’s centennial earlier this year (August 6, 1918). The collection will also be available as a digital download and on streaming services. The set includes 44 tracks, some appearing on CD for the first time ever. It presents a chronological overview of the first two decades of the jazz impresario’s impressive career by way of recordings of the musicians he recorded. The booklet includes new liner notes by Tad Hershorn, author of Norman Granz: The Man Who…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

A Place for Us: Decca Broadway Celebrates Leonard Bernstein on “Jazz Loves Bernstein”

July 17, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

August 25, 2018 will mark what would have been the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein, and while the maestro passed away in 1990 at the age of 72, he left behind a lifetime of remarkable music in multiple genres. A number of classical releases have been issued for the Bernstein centennial, but a new entry concentrates on the popular side of the composer. The 2-CD anthology Jazz Loves Bernstein, on the Decca Broadway label in association with Verve and UMe, collects 27 examples from the Universal vaults of just how well Bernstein’s…

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Cast Recordings, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Bob James, Diana Krall, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Tormé, Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan

Release Round-Up: Week of December 15

December 15, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beatles, The Christmas Records (Capitol/Apple/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Happy Christmas, Beatle people! The Christmas Records, a seven-disc vinyl box set from the Fab Four, features colored 45 RPM recreations of the Beatles’ original Christmas fan club flexi-discs (all single-sided except for the last two in 1968 and 1969). The original sleeve artwork has been recreated for each title, and an enclosed 16-page booklet offers recording notes plus reproductions of the newsletters sent with each disc! The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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

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Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Ethiopian and His All-Stars, Gladiators, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Stan Getz, The Beatles, The Guess Who

But Beautiful: “Lady in Satin: The Centennial Edition” Expands Billie Holiday Classic To 3 CDs

April 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Billie Holiday was just a couple months away from her 43rd birthday when she entered Columbia Records’ 30th Street Studio on February 18, 1958 to record Lady in Satin. The album controversially promised a new, glamorous setting for the artist, who had recently been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver following a lifetime of troubles including alcohol and drug dependency, abusive relationships, stints in reform school and prison, and even a period as a teenaged prostitute. The LP’s original liner notes by producer Irving Townsend noted that “The use of strings and…

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CD, Digital Download

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Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Billie Holiday

The Second Disc’s 2015 Record Store Day Must-Haves

April 17, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 23 Comments

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 18, music fans and collectors will flock to their local independent record stores to celebrate both the sounds on those familiar round black platters and the cherished opportunity to shop for music in a physical retail environment. To many of us, both are a way of life. Each year around this time, we here at Second Disc HQ take a few moments to count down the titles to which we’re most looking forward to picking up! Our friend and founder, Mike Duquette, returns to these pages to kick things…

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News

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Vinyl

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

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Billie Holiday, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, Metallica, Record Store Day, Simon and Garfunkel, The Bee Gees, a-ha

Release Round-Up: Week of March 31

March 31, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Today’s Release Round-Up has everything from classic country and rock to vintage jazz! Glen Campbell, Rhinestone Cowboy: 40th Anniversary Edition (Capitol Nashville) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) Capitol Nashville remasters and expands Glen Campbell’s smash 1975 album with five bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased “Quits,” two rare new-to-U.S.-CD single sides and remixes of “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.).” Read full details here. Van Halen, remasters and Tokyo Dome Live in Concert (Warner Bros./Rhino) Van Halen: Remastered Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1984: Remastered…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Billie Holiday, Fotheringay, Glen Campbell, Hall and Oates, Meat Loaf, Rick Wakeman, Ringo Starr, The Grateful Dead, Translator, Van Halen

Legacy’s Record Store Day Slate Includes Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, More

March 10, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Today was the big announcement day for Record Store Day 2015, scheduled for Saturday, April 15 at the finest independent retailers across the U.S. and beyond! A press conference was held at Brooklyn’s outpost of Rough Trade giving the details on the many titles to expect next month. We’re kicking off our coverage with a look at the releases due from Legacy Recordings; watch this space for more news as it comes! Legacy’s eclectic line-up has some of the label’s heaviest hitters – Bruce Springsteen, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Billie Holiday, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Manic Street Preachers, Record Store Day, Simon and Garfunkel