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The Weekend Stream: April 25, 2026

April 25, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. Some of our favorites lead this pack: an archival Prince single, a new Duran Duran song, a vintage George Michael EP, outtakes from The Beach Boys, demos from Andy Partridge – and plenty more where that came from. Prince, “With This Tear” (NPG/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) Last Tuesday, the 10th anniversary of Prince’s death, The Artist’s estate released the latest posthumous…

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The Weekend Stream

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

So Lucky: Legacy Expands Britney’s ‘Oops!’ and Plans Millennium Pop Comp ‘Y2K25’

April 23, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

With an expansion of the Backstreet Boys’ Millennium as one of the few items on their release schedule, Legacy Recordings will go a few steps this further, celebrating the turn of the millennium with a new compilation and a reissue of one of the biggest solo artists of that time. On May 16, Legacy will release an expanded vinyl and digital edition of Britney Spears’ Oops!…I Did It Again for its 25th anniversary. A year before, Spears had ascended to pop’s A-list with her debut …Baby One More Time, becoming the focus of teens (and even…

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Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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*NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Mandy Moore, Mariah Carey, Outkast, Pink, Santana, TLC, Toni Braxton, Wheatus, Whitney Houston

The Weekend Stream: October 12, 2024

October 12, 2024 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. The Christmas creep may continue, but we’ve got plenty more where that came from: a new spin on a John Lennon classic, rare remixes from David Bowie, a live triumph from Céline Dion, some thrills and chills from the Alien universe – and first off, a charitable compilation built for a good cause in the wake of our country’s severest storms of late. Various Artists, Cardinals At the Window (Music’s Promise) (Bandcamp)…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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

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Celine Dion, CelloVoci, Daryl Hall, David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, Jerry Goldsmith, John Klein, John Lennon, Pharrell Williams, Sadler, Slim Whitman, The Chambers Brothers, The Lighthouse Singers, The Mariners, The Neptunes

Release Round-Up: Week of June 21

June 21, 2024 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Joni Mitchell Asylum Albums 1976 1980 Cover

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. Joni Mitchell, The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (Rhino/Asylum) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) arrives on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing the Asylum period of Mitchell’s extraordinary career. Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell’s hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode. Following the tour for 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns, she embarked on a period of personal rediscovery…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Avril Lavigne, Brownie McGhee, Celine Dion, Daryl Hall, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Joni Mitchell, Lightnin' Hopkins, Melanie, Olivia Newton-John, Sonny Terry, Tom Petty

Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2023 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Daft Punk, Random Access Memories: 10th Anniversary Edition (Columbia) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Daft Punk’s final album, 2013’s disco-flavored, multiple Grammy-winning Random Access Memories, welcomed such all-time luminaries as Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams, Giorgio Moroder, Paul Jackson, Jr., Nathan East, John “J.R.” Robinson, and Omar Hakim as well as contemporary greats Pharrell Williams, Julian Casablancas, and Animal Collective co-founder Panda Bear. Now, it’s time to “Get Lucky” with a deluxe 10th anniversary edition on…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks

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APB, Bryan Adams, Cal Tjader, Celine Dion, Daft Punk, Michael Martin Murphey, Miles Davis, Rick Astley, Rick Springfield, The Kingsnakes, The Moody Blues

Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland. The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand and introduced the audience to the masterful…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

Tell Me Again: Tomorrow’s Real Gone Vinyl Slate Includes Irma Thomas and Soundtracks to Two Nora Ephron Romantic Comedies

March 10, 2022 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

Tomorrow, March 11, sees a new batch of Real Gone Music vinyl titles hitting store shelves. Among the trio is a lost album by Irma Thomas and a pair of soundtracks to Nora Ephron rom-coms. Two of the releases are making their vinyl debuts. First up is Full Time Woman: The Lost Cotillion Album from Irma Thomas. Thomas, known as “The Soul Queen of New Orleans,” was born approximately 50 miles from that city in Ponchatoula, Louisiana in 1941. As a child, she sang in church choir and began singing with band…

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Bobby Darin, Carole King, Celine Dion, Harry Connick Jr., Harry Nilsson, Irma Thomas, Randy Newman

Make Someone Happy: Upcoming Real Gone Reissues Include More Black Jazz and Limited Soundtrack Vinyl Including “Sleepless In Seattle”

January 7, 2021 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

As the holiday season is over and the new year has just begun, let’s look at some of the titles Real Gone Music has coming out in January and February. The label is continuing its Black Jazz reissue series with a trio of releases over next two months. The first, available tomorrow, January 8, is Cleveland Eaton‘s 1975 album Plenty Good Eaton. The double bassist, who passed away in July, played with numerous artists over the years and was a sideman on recordings by Bunky Green, Ramsey Lewis, The Soulful Strings, and…

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Bill Loose, Calvin Keys, Celine Dion, Cleveland Eaton, Rudolph Johnson

Sunny Day: Warner Licenses Sesame Street Catalog for Digital, Streaming, and Future Physical Reissues

December 21, 2018 by Sam Stone | 6 Comments

Warner Music Group and Sesame Workshop have recently announced a joint effort that marks the relaunch of Sesame Street Records, the label that released over 60 classic originalSesame Street albums from 1970 to 1984. To celebrate 50 years since the program first aired, the extensive Sesame Street music catalog, including original titles and newer collections from Golden Music, Koch and Sony Wonder, has finally joined the streaming age. As of this writing, a whopping 119 titles–many previously unavailable in the digital domain–have been added to streaming services and digital download retailers. The effort is…

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Cast Recordings, Everything Else, Soundtracks

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B.B. King, Carpenters, Celine Dion, Dinah Shore, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Gloria Estefan, Johny Cash, José Feliciano, Kenny Loggins, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Little Richard, Malo, Patti Labelle, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, Ray Charles, Robin Gibb, Sesame Street, The Pointer Sisters

Tale As Old As Time: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Added to Disney’s Legacy Collection (UPDATED 2/9)

February 9, 2018 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

After two years of dormancy, Walt Disney Records’ archival series, The Legacy Collection, swung back into stores last year with an expanded edition of the music to 1973’s Robin Hood. Now, The Legacy Collection is giving the red-carpet treatment to one of the studio’s most popular films: 1991’s Beauty and the Beast. After initial Amazon solicitations indicated that Beauty would be reissued (this revelation following a separate confirmation by engineer Bruce Botnick of his involvement in a future expansion of the soundtrack to Disney’s follow-up film Aladdin (1992)), the Disney Music Emporium…

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Alan Menken, Celine Dion, Howard Ashman, Peabo Bryson

David Foster Makes Christmas “Merry and Bright” With Rod Stewart, Celine Dion, More

November 26, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

In a career spanning five decades, producer-musician-songwriter David Foster has virtually become a brand name in himself. After making his name in bands like Skylark and Airplay, the Canadian multi-hyphenate contributed as sideman, writer and arranger to albums by George Harrison, Diana Ross, Donna Summer and Earth Wind and Fire; he won one of his sixteen Grammy Awards for co-writing that band’s “After the Love is Gone.” Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a solo career and also established himself as a marquee producer for artists as diverse as The Tubes, Barbra…

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Celine Dion, David Foster, Rod Stewart