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Release Round-Up: Week of December 10

December 10, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Band, Cahoots: 50th Anniversary Edition (Capitol/UMe) 2CD/LP/BD/7-inch single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (Contents of CDs 1 & @ below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (2021 Mix of Original Album): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Band and Capitol/UMe are in Cahoots for a deluxe 50th anniversary reissue of the group’s fourth studio album. The remixed and remastered Cahoots arrives in various formats including a Super Deluxe 2CD/BD/LP/7-inch vinyl box set, 2CD, 180-gram half-speed-mastered black vinyl, limited edition vinyl, and digital download/streaming. All of these formats have been overseen by Robbie Robertson and…

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Art Blakey, Brian Wilson, Buck Owens, Green Day, Leonard Bernstein, Marie Osmond, Neil Young, Ron Lytle, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Raye, The Band, The Chieftains

In His Room: Brian Wilson’s “At My Piano” Offers Solo Piano Renditions of Beach Boys Favorites

September 17, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Those lucky enough to have seen Brian Wilson in one of his solo concerts knows that it’s always a special moment when the Beach Boys’ leader plays the piano. While he’s always seated in front of a keyboard, he leaves the heavy lifting to such long-serving bandmates as Darian Sahanaja, Gary Griffin, or Billy Hinsche. Yet his mastery of the instrument has never been in doubt; in one moving moment of the recent documentary Long Promised Road, he’s seen in the studio showing exactly how a tune should be played. Now, he’s…

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Love in the Key of C: Demon Reissues Belinda Carlisle’s “A Woman and a Man” for 25th Anniversary

September 14, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Belinda Carlisle A Woman and a Man Deluxe

In December, The Go-Go’s will launch a mini-tour of California and Nevada hot on the heels of their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Demon Music Group has recently been revisiting the catalogue of the band’s breakout star Belinda Carlisle on vinyl. Following such releases as 2017’s Heaven on Earth (reissued for its 30th anniversary), 2019’s Runaway Horses (also a 30th anniversary), and Belinda earlier this year (marking its 35th), the label has delivered a Deluxe 25th Anniversary 3LP Box Set for 1996’s A Woman and a Man. As Belinda explains…

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The Weekend Stream: July 24, 2021

July 24, 2021 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it’s no secret that listening audiences are also digital – catalogue music lovers, too – and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we’ve introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Brian Wilson, BrianWilson.com Demos With the welcome news of Brian hitting the road…

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Brian Wilson, Color Me Badd, Professor Longhair, Simple Plan, The Beach Boys

Release Round-Up: Week of July 16

July 16, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Tina Turner, Foreign Affair [Various Formats] (Parlophone/Rhino) 4CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (white variant) Rhino and Parlophone revisit Tina Turner’s 1989 album featuring “The Best” in a variety of formats including a 4CD/DVD Super Deluxe Edition and 2CD and 2LP Deluxe Editions. The Super Deluxe Edition of Foreign Affair features the remastered original album on CD 1. Disc 2 has a selection of period remixes and B-sides plus a previously unreleased demo of “The Best.” The third and fourth CDs premiere…

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Billy Paul, Boyz II Men, Brian Wilson, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Il Divo, John Mayer, Laura Nyro, Lou Rawls, Smokey Robinson, Teddy Pendergrass, The Allman Brothers Band, The Flaming Lips, The Intruders, The O'Jays, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Tina Turner, Vince Guaraldi

The Second Disc’s Guide To Record Store Day Black Friday 2020

November 27, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Today’s Black Friday shopping will likely look a little different thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. But one thing will remain the same: Record Store Day’s yearly event. It’s been a packed year with RSD Drops in the months of August, September, and October. Now, they’re going out with a bang. Labels big and small will release limited-edition vinyl with the collector in mind. Whether you’re after new music from legends, reissues of sought-after recordings, or unreleased rarities from the vault, you’ll be covered. These releases are available only from independent, brick-and-mortar record…

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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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Review: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, “Orange Crate Art: 25th Anniversary Edition”

June 19, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Orange crate art was a place to start/Orange crate art was a world apart… Van Dyke Parks – composer, lyricist, arranger, producer, and all-around iconoclast – found inspiration in those familiar fruit crates painted with lovely, bucolic images of the fantasyland known as California. Having crafted a relaxed, loping melody, he was determined to set lyrics to it. The story goes that the first word he thought of was “orange.” While it isn’t easy to rhyme, it does stir at least four of the five senses. Orange crates spread a romanticized notion…

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 19

June 19, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, Orange Crate Art: 25th Anniversary Edition (Omnivore) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore 2LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore 2LP Colored Vinyl: Omnivore Omnivore celebrates 25 years of Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’ beautiful Orange Crate Art with a variety of reissues. The 2-CD version boasts three previously unreleased bonus tracks on the first disc: a stunning, subtle take on “What a Wonderful World” (listen here) that…

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Andy Williams, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Chubby Checker, David Bowie, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Micky Dolenz, Neil Young, Peggy Lee, Van Dyke Parks

What a Wonderful World: Omnivore Reissues, Expands Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’ “Orange Crate Art” on CD, LP

April 30, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Brian Wilson found himself an artistic crossroads in 1995. His first solo album was seven years in the rearview mirror. He had begun rebuilding his life with new wife Melinda three years after being extricated from the “care” of disgraced doctor Eugene Landy. Now, it was time for a creative rebirth, too. It began in January with the release of Don Was’ documentary film I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times and its accompanying soundtrack. It continued later in the year when Wilson reunited with one of his key collaborators for a…

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Let It Snow: Omnivore Breaks Away with Murry Wilson and Snow EP

December 20, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

With its latest release, Omnivore Recordings might as well as be singing “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” The intrepid label has unearthed a true rarity for a new digital EP: four previously unreleased songs produced in 1969 by Murry Wilson for an all-but-unknown harmony-pop outfit named Snow. Freshly unearthed from The Beach Boys’ vault, Murry Wilson & Snow: The Break Away EP features Snow’s lush and fully-produced and orchestrated renditions of two songs from Brian Wilson’s songbook (“Break Away” and “We’re Together Again”) and two presumably original tracks…

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Review: Jeffrey Foskett, “Voices”

November 22, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

It’s only appropriate that Jeffrey Foskett’s new release on the BMG label is entitled Voices. For it’s the beauty of the human voice that’s the key ingredient here – specifically the artist’s rich, supple, and multi-faceted vocal instrument which has lent support over the past four decades to The Beach Boys in their various incarnations. While Foskett has recorded numerous solo albums for the Japanese market, his own works are somewhat less known here in the United States. Happily, Voices rectifies that as a big ray of sunshine perfect to beat the…

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Brian Wilson, Cecilio and Kapono, Jeff Larson, Jeffrey Foskett, Mike Love, The Beach Boys, Valerie Carter

Review: “Music from Vanilla Sky” and “Orange County: The Soundtrack” LPs From Real Gone

February 19, 2019 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Real Gone Music has recently given soundtrack lovers and vinyl aficionados something to talk about with two new color vinyl reissues of turn-of-the-millennium soundtracks: Music from Vanilla Sky (on “blue cloud” vinyl) and Orange County: The Soundtrack (on orange vinyl). The plots of both films are tied to the music within. The soundtrack for the far-out Vanilla Sky shifts moods and tones while maintaining some sense of cohesion as it takes listeners from classic rock to folk, trance and hip-hop. Meanwhile, Orange County‘s soundtrack is more of a music time capsule of the late-’90s and early ’00s rock and hip-hop…

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 14

December 14, 2018 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Welcome to another Release Round-Up. Here’s a look at what’s coming out today, December 14! Bruce Springsteen, Springsteen on Broadway [2CD] (Columbia) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Springsteen on Broadway captures songs and selected stories from The Boss’ acclaimed, Tony Award-winning engagement on the Great White Way. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered by Bob Ludwig, the album arrives one day before the closing show, and also just before it’s broadcast in full on Netflix. The streaming giant will premiere the production at 12:01 a.m. PT/3:01 a.m. ET on…

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Sweetness Follows: Real Gone Announces “Music From Vanilla Sky” and “Orange County” on LP

November 14, 2018 by Sam Stone | 4 Comments

Last month, Real Gone Music announced the release of seven Christmas-related goodies, including a pair of joint releases with Second Disc Records. But, as temperatures fall, Real Gone plans to bring more than just holiday melodies to keep listeners warm this winter. On December 14, the label will release limited-edition, two-disc colored vinyl sets of two cult film soundtracks: Music From Vanilla Sky and Orange County: The Soundtrack. Vanilla Sky was Cameron Crowe’s seventh film. Based on Alejandro Amenábar’s 1997 psychological thriller, Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), it follows the reflections of a real estate magnate as he tries…

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More “Sunshine Tomorrow”: Beach Boys Release Digital Compilations Celebrating 1967 Featuring 7 Concerts, Studio Rarities Including Unreleased Songs

December 8, 2017 by Randy Fairman | 3 Comments

Back in June, Capitol/UMe released 1967 – Sunshine Tomorrow, a 2-CD set looking at that year in Beach Boys history – a year in which they gave up on SMiLE, released two very different albums, and recorded a third. Sunshine Tomorrow featured the first true stereo mix of the album Wild Honey, studio tracks recorded for the abandoned “live” album Lei’d In Hawaii, and session outtakes from the Smiley Smile recording dates. In total, it premiered 54 previously unreleased tracks. But, as has often been the case with the Beach Boys catalogue,…

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Review: Brian Wilson, “Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology”

October 3, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

There have been many great second acts in rock, but perhaps none so momentous as Brian Wilson’s. The Beach Boys’ leader’s triumphant return to health and happiness after a lifetime of tragedy was captivatingly portrayed in the recent biopic Love and Mercy, but the real legacy of the reinvigorated Brian Wilson remains with his music. With Wilson near the conclusion of his acclaimed, sold-out Pet Sounds: The Final Performances world tour, the time has never been better to revisit his solo catalogue created decades after that Beach Boys benchmark. Rhino’s Playback: The…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 22

September 22, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request: 50th Anniversary Special Edition (ABKCO) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Rolling Stones’ controversial 1967 immersion into psychedelia, Their Satanic Majesties Request, gets a 50th anniversary box set from ABKCO containing the original album in mono and stereo on both 180-gram vinyl and hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) as newly remastered by Bob Ludwig, plus restored lenticular artwork and a 20-page booklet with new liner notes by Rob Bowman. Read more here! Brian Wilson,…

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Brian Wilson, Chris Hillman, Isaac Hayes, Judy Collins, Leon Russell, Stephen Stills, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison

Love and Mercy: Rhino Collects Solo Brian Wilson For New Anthology, Premieres Two Songs

June 20, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

Brian Wilson turns 75 years young today – and hot on the heels of a well-received biopic and a record-breaking concert tour that continues through this fall, the legendary artist is looking back on his solo career for a new compendium arriving on September 22 from Rhino Records. Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology captures, via 18 tracks, the Beach Boy’s extraordinary journey from his 1988 Sire Records solo LP debut through 2015’s No Pier Pressure. Two never-before-released tracks will also premiere here. Playback begins, appropriately enough, with four selections from 1988’s Brian Wilson including…

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Aren’t You Glad: The Beach Boys’ “Sunshine Tomorrow” Premieres Stereo “Wild Honey,” 54 Rarities On 2 CDs

May 23, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 17 Comments

The Beach Boys are promising a bright forecast for summer 2017 with a new 50th anniversary collection due on June 30 from Capitol/UMe. Sunshine Tomorrow, a new 2-CD and digital collection, not only premieres the first-ever true stereo mix of 1967’s Wild Honey, but also premieres a whopping 54 rarities recorded that year including the live album Lei’d in Hawaii, session material from both Wild Honey and Smiley Smile, and further live recordings (spanning 1967-1970). The new stereo mix of Wild Honey will also be released on 180-gram vinyl. 1967 – Sunshine…

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What The World Needs Now: Bacharach Demos Collected, Featuring Brian Wilson, Bill Champlin, More

May 22, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

On May 12 of this year, Burt Bacharach turned 89 years young. Since 1952, when he began his career as a professional songwriter with Nat “King” Cole’s recording of the instrumental “Once in a Blue Moon,” hardly a year has gone by without a new Bacharach song. Throughout the seven decades in which he’s been working, Bacharach has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with not only Hal David, but also Bob Hilliard, Carole Bayer Sager, Elvis Costello, and most recently, Steven Sater. Now, the spotlight has been turned on his long partnership with another…

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Bill Champlin, Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, Dr. Dre, Tonio K.

Review: The Beach Boys, “Becoming The Beach Boys: The Complete Hite and Dorinda Morgan Sessions”

August 26, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Just shy of fifty years after the release of the single of the same name, the good vibrations of The Beach Boys continue to resonate far outside of the band’s native Southern California – in fact, they can be felt around the world. Mike Love, currently leading the group for another endless summer of touring with Bruce Johnston and longtime sideman Jeffrey Foskett, is about to release his autobiography on September 13. One month later, on October 11, I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir arrives in stores from the Beach Boys’ leader,…

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Surfin’ Is The Only Life: Omnivore Collects The Beach Boys’ Earliest Recordings, Unreleased Tracks

June 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 13 Comments

Before Pet Sounds, before SMiLE, heck, before “Surfin’ USA,” The Beach Boys were a scrappy family band with little but big dreams and tight harmonies. Things happened quickly for brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine; in September 1961, the quintet first captured their voices together, and by the following May, they had signed a seven-year contract with major Capitol Records. In the few months in between, The Beach Boys recorded nine songs including “Surfin’,” “Surfin’ Safari” and “Surfer Girl” for local music entrepreneurs Hite…

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Review: The Beach Boys, “Pet Sounds 50”

June 13, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

50 years have passed since the original release of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, yet it still stands alone in the rock canon. The talents of Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Bruce Johnston coalesced in one unforgettable place and time to create music’s most exquisite realization of both the exultant joy and beautiful melancholy of adolescence. It took until the compact disc era for Pet Sounds to be fully appreciated; the album wasn’t certified platinum until early 2000, and only rose as far as…

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