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The Weekend Stream: October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 6 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 much to cover: digital box sets, anniversary editions, new remixes, old stand-up comedy – and a quartet of memorials to musicians and more. Neil Young, Neil Young Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) (Reprise) (Apple / Amazon) One of the biggest box sets of last year is now available in a slightly more compact form. The digital release of Archives Vol. III includes nearly 200 tracks, 121 of which are unreleased….

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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

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Ace Frehley, Bob Mould, Britney Spears, D'Angelo, Emo Philips, Fall Out Boy, HAIM, John Williams, KISS, Neil Young, Peggy Lee, Split Enz, Sugar

The Weekend Stream: October 4, 2025

October 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

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. From the Foo Fighters entering Bandcamp for a cause to a Record Store Day rarity by Rage Against the Machine, the dream of the ’90s is very much alive here…plus much more from other decades, too! Are Playing Where??? Vol. I by Foo Fighters Foo Fighters, Are Playing Where??? Vol. 1 (Roswell) (Bandcamp) After kicking off a season of drummer exodus – sacking session drummer Josh Freese, who’d join…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Electronic, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bob Mould, Dave Grohl, David Longworth Wallingford, Donal Leace, Foo Fighters, Gary Numan, Gavin Creel, Jennifer Lopez, Joan Baez, King Creosote, Rage Against the Machine, Roberta Flack, Sugar

The Weekend Stream: February 8, 2025

February 8, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 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! We’ve got new music from Elton John and Bob Mould, a cult classic rock band between New Jersey and Boston, and so much more – including a new music video for one of our ’70s songwriter favorites. Elton John & Brandi Carlile, “Who Believes in Angels?” (Rocket/Mercury/EMI) (iTunes / Amazon) In 2023, the British pop icon (fresh off the end of his final world tour) and the American alt-country…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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CCM, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bob Mould, Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Vern Gosdin

Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen, Letter to You (Columbia) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP black with white swirl: Bruce Springsteen Online Store 2-LP grey: Your Local Record Shop The Boss returns with a new, long-awaited album featuring The E Street Band. Produced by Springsteen and his frequent collaborator Ron Aniello, it features original songs as well as his first recordings of three compositions he wrote early in his career but never officially released: “Janey Needs a Shooter,” “If I Was the Priest,” and “Song for Orphans.” Letter…

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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, Classical/Opera, Country, Electronic, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Alan Menken, Beastie Boys, Bob Mould, Bobby Bare, Bruce Springsteen, Daniel Lacksman, John Prine, Little Richard, Maury Yeston, Menswear, Pearl Jam, Randy Newman, Roland Haynes, Shel Silverstein, Steve Wynn, The Sherman Brothers

See a Little Light: Bob Mould Plans ‘Distortion’ Box Set, Vinyl Reissue Series

August 13, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

Looking for a way to celebrate Bob Mould ahead of his next album, Blue Hearts, due next month? British label Edsel is joining forces with the punk icon to collect nearly everything he’s ever released into a new CD box set. Distortion 1989-2019, available October 2, offers 24 discs of Mould’s work after the dissolution of seminal hardcore outfit Hüsker Dü. It features all his studio albums credited to himself, ’90s power trio Sugar and even dance-oriented side projects LoudBomb and Blowoff, plus four live sets and two discs of stray tracks…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Rock

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Bob Mould, Hüsker Dü, Sugar

Never Want It Badly Enough: The Second Disc’s Top Tracks For Bandcamp Friday

June 5, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Despite the challenges facing the music business amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some bright spots. On March 20, indie music service Bandcamp waived their share of revenue on all sales for 24 hours, allowing artists and labels to support themselves even more robustly. Thanks to impressive results ($4.3 million spent on music and merch, 15 times an average Friday’s revenue), Bandcamp repeated the strategy not once, but thrice: the first Fridays of each month (May 1, which raised $7.1 million; today, June 5 and July 3). In light of the senseless,…

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Features, News

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CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Comedy, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Bob Mould, David Lynch, Elliott Smith, Jim Carroll, John Carpenter, L7, Linda Perry, The Modulators

Circle of Friends: Demon Announces Record Store Day Releases

March 9, 2020 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

We’re continuing our Record Store Day 2020 spotlights with a look at what Demon Music Group has on offer for RSD in the U.K. (with many titles available worldwide)! The label’s 15 titles encompass classic rock and pop titles plus comedy, spoken-word, a lost Doctor Who series, and much more. Remember: releases are available while supplies last at your preferred brick-and-mortar record store on Saturday, April 18! The descriptions to follow have been provided by Demon. Bob Mould – Circle of Friends (Limited to 2,000 copies worldwide) Pressed on 180g clear heavyweight…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bob Mould, Doctor Who, Gene, Kirsty MacColl, Menswear, Record Store Day, Suede, T Rex, The Durutti Column, The Fall, The Hotrats, The Valentines, The Yardbirds

Another World, Another Day: Omnivore to Expand Debut Albums by Soul Asylum

June 25, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Before breaking through to the big leagues with major label albums on A&M and most crucially, Columbia, Minneapolis-based alternative rock band Soul Asylum recorded four albums for the local Twin/Tone Records label. On July 20, Omnivore Recordings will reissue the first two of those Twin/Tone LPs as deluxe, expanded CDs loaded with rarities and previously unreleased tracks. Say What You Will…Everything Can Happen arrived in 1984 on Twin/Tone, produced by Bob Mould of Husker Du. Core members Dave Pirner, Dan Murphy, and Karl Mueller had been inspired by the likes of Mould’s…

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Rock

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Bob Mould, Soul Asylum