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Release Round-Up: Week of June 18

June 18, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren featuring Ethel, State Theater, New Jersey 2005 (Purple Pyramid) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson’s 2005 international tour featuring post-classical string quartet Ethel is brought to a 2CD/DVD set from Purple Pyramid collecting all three artists’ sets plus the encore which brought them together. Both Jackson and Rundgren performed solo for sets blending fan favorites with deeper cuts. The show was recorded at New Brunswick, New Jersey’s State Theatre on April 29, 2005. Read more here. Frank Zappa,…

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

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Reggae, Rock

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Chris Stamey, Frank Zappa, Jaime Laredo, Joe Jackson, Kleeer, Peter Holsapple, The Allman Brothers Band, The Merseybeats, The Whispers, The dB's, Todd Rundgren

Release Round-Up: Week of May 7

May 7, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! New Order, Education Entertainment Recreation (Live at Alexandra Palace) (Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD/3LP (Clear Vinyl) Box Set: New Order Store Education Entertainment Recreation (Live at Alexandra Palace) documents New Order’s only U.K. show of 2018. The November 9 gig was played at London’s Alexandra Palace with the current line-up of Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham, and Tom Chapman. At 2 hours and 20 minutes in length, the band celebrated its 2015 release Music Complete in addition to…

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Alex Chilton, Alphaville, Amy Winehouse, Chris Stamey, Judy Collins, Mandy Barnett, Mel Brooks, Nancy Wilson, New Order, Peter Holsapple, Tom Jones, Tony Joe White, Van Morrison

Short Takes: Triumph Prepares New Box Set as RSD Ambassadors; Omnivore Celebrates “Yesterday’s Tomorrow;” and Evie Sands Releases New LP

March 22, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Canadian hard rock heroes Triumph have been selected as the Canadian Ambassadors for Record Store Day 2021 – and the band isn’t showing up empty-handed! As previously reported, RSD will be held in two “Drops” this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The first of those drops is June 12, with the second to follow on July 17. On June 12, Triumph – Rik Emmett (guitars/vocals), Mike Levine (bass, keyboards) and Gil Moore (drums, vocals) – will release a 40th Anniversary vinyl box set of their 1981 classic Allied Forces. The…

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

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Chris Stamey, Evie Sands, Mitch Easter, Peter Holsapple, Record Store Day, Triumph

Review: Chris Stamey and The ModRec Orchestra, “New Songs for the 20th Century”

September 9, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Chris Stamey New Songs for the 20th Century

Chris Stamey has taken many unpredictable paths in a long career, whether as a member of the dB’s, a solo artist, a producer, or a sideman. But his latest project might be his most unpredictable yet. New Songs for the 20th Century, credited to Stamey and the ModRec Orchestra and newly released by Omnivore Recordings, is a sprawling double-album love letter to traditional (read: pre-rock and roll) vocal pop with a heavy jazz emphasis. Written, arranged, mixed, and produced by Stamey, these mostly new compositions have been crafted “under the influence” of…

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Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Chris Stamey

Release Round-Up: Week of June 28

June 28, 2019 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Motown: The Complete No. 1s (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) For its 60th anniversary year, UMe has begun reminding fans that “Motown Did It First“; now, Motown is revisiting an essential box set that was originally released in celebration of its 50th anniversary a decade ago. Motown: The Complete No. 1s features more than 200 international chart-toppers, plus a handful of bonus masters that went to No. 1 through cover versions or samples. And the packaging is a delight: the…

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

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Bay City Rollers, Chris Stamey, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jakob Dylan, Kylie Minogue, Miles Davis, The B-52's, The Doobie Brothers

Omnivore Revisits “Christmas Time Again!” With Chris Stamey and Co.!

December 9, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

What’s that festive sound you’re hearing? If it’s fun, fresh, and a little off the beaten path, it might just be coming from Omnivore Recordings’ recent reissue of The dB’s and Friends’ now-classic holiday party Christmas Time Again! (OVCD-152). Christmas Time first arrived as a holiday vinyl EP from the Chris Stamey Group in 1986. Seven years later, in 1993, the collection was expanded for a new CD release, with the track count jumping from seven to sixteen tunes. In 2006, Collectors Choice Music revived the album once more as Christmas Time…

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Holiday, Rock

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Chris Stamey, Jeff Tweedy, Marshall Crenshaw, The dB's, Various Artists, Whiskeytown, Yo La Tengo