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The Weekend Stream: May 14, 2022

May 14, 2022 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

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! Millennial nostalgia is all over this week’s releases – plus some live jazz and pop as well as a real rarity from a disco diva. Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight (Deluxe Edition) (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) In 2007, nu-metal rockers Linkin Park broadened their sound with the help of producer Rick Rubin and got a few big hits for their trouble. Not…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Bobby Darin, Buddy Holly, Grace Jones, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Owl City, Peggy Lee, Smash Mouth

The Weekend Stream: February 26, 2022

February 26, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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! This week’s got plenty of remixes, from New Wave to soul – plus some novelty hip-hop that’ll offer a much-needed laugh or two. Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame | The 12″ Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Last week, Rhino made the 12″ singles set devoted to Depeche Mode’s debut digitally available, and they’re doing the same with sophomore album A Broken Frame….

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Buddy Holly, Burt Bacharach, Depeche Mode, Ed Ames, Eric Burdon, Hoyt Axton, Jodeci, Joni James, L.A. Guns, Madonna, Mint Condition, Ronnie Spector, The Ronettes, War

The Weekend Stream: January 29, 2022

January 29, 2022 by The Second Disc | 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! A few interesting titles coming your way this week, but first, some thoughts on streaming and catalogue inspired by this week’s headlines… Usually, doing The Weekend Stream is pretty simple: check which catalogue titles have been added to digital music services, write some blurbs and drop in some links. This week, it took on some slight gravity thanks to one of the…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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

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Buddy Holly, Burl Ives, Chet Atkins, Jackie Gleason, Joni Mitchell, Matt Monro, Neil Young

The Weekend Stream: January 15, 2022

January 15, 2022 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

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! This week features early works by John Denver, TV works by Jan Hammer and Giorgio Moroder, live stuff from Tegan and Sara and a real throwback of a compilation album. Denver, Boise & Johnson / The Mitchell Trio, Leaving on a Jet Plane: John Denver (Warner Records) (Amazon / Spotify) John Denver’s career took off when his “Leaving on a Jet Plane”…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bill Withers, Bing Crosby, Buddy Holly, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Eric Clapton, Fats Waller, Giorgio Moroder, Grover Washington Jr., Jan Hammer, John Denver, John Prine, Sublime, Tegan and Sara, Waylon Jennings

Soundtrack Watch: September Slates for Varese, La-La Land, Intrada

September 22, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

September was an unusually bountiful month for archival soundtracks, and we’re here to break it all down. Varese Goes West, Revisits Buddy Holly The latest title in Varese Sarabande’s CD Club was an expansion of Elmer Bernstein’s heroic score to the 1999 blockbuster Wild Wild West. Though the film somewhat infamously broke co-star Will Smith’s ironclad grip on the July 4 weekend box office after star turns in Independence Day (1996) and Men In Black (1997), the weird cult charm of this adaptation of the CBS spy-cum-Western show is hard to ignore….

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock, Soundtracks

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Buddy Holly, Elmer Bernstein, James Horner, John Powell, Little Richard, Michael Kamen

Release Round-Up: Week of March 8

March 8, 2019 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

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Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Pamela Polland, Pamela Polland/Have You Heard the One About the Gas Station Attendant? (BGO) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) BGO collects the two Columbia albums of singer-songwriter Pamela Polland in one deluxe, slipcased package – her 1972 self-titled LP and 1973 follow-up which was shelved and never released…until now! Pamela Polland and Have You Heard the One About the Gas Station Attendant? are filled with enchanting pop melodies and beguiling lyrics; guest stars include Taj Mahal, Nicky Hopkins, David Briggs, Eddie Hinton, Bruce…

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Release Round-Up

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

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

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Buddy Holly, Eagles, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, New Kids on the Block, New Order, Pamela Polland, Townes Van Zandt, Whitesnake

Release Round-Up: Week of November 16

November 16, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Fleetwood Mac, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (Warner Bros./Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In celebration of its 50 years, Fleetwood Mac is issuing a new career-spanning collection featuring 50 songs on either 3 CDs or 5 LPs. These include hits, favorites, and a smattering of rarities such as the CD premiere of 2013’s “Sad Angel” from the digital release Extended Play. A 1-CD distillation…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Buddy Holly, Chris Cornell, Cilla Black, Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Glen Campbell, John Coltrane, Kate Bush, Lee Dorsey, Lee Michaels, Lulu, Roy Orbison, Rush, The Police, The Posies, The Rolling Stones

Man, We Had a Party: Ace Collects Sequel Songs On “Second Helpings”

September 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Numerous collections have compiled famous “answer songs.” Ace Records’ 2007 anthology The Answer to Everything had many of the best, like Jody Miller’s “Queen of the House,” Esther Phillips’ “When a Woman Loves a Man” and Marilyn Michaels’ “Tell Tommy I Miss Him.” Early in the summer, Ace took a look not at answer songs, per se, but at sequel songs, on the compilation of Second Helpings: Sequels to the Songs That Left ‘Em Hungry for More! The 24 tracks on this collection all hail from the 1960s, encompassing pop, rock, country and…

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Country, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Buddy Holly, George Jones, Jay and the Americans, Jimmy Dean, Marty Robbins, The Marvelettes, The Shirelles, Various Artists, Wanda Jackson