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Release Round-Up: Week of November 17

November 17, 2023 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles available today in the final “big week” of the holiday release season. We are an Amazon affiliate and earn on qualifying purchases. We’re kicking things off with our two Christmas releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! While Amazon’s orders are unfortunately delayed, both of these titles are shipping now from Real Gone’s webstore! Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops, The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Arthur Fiedler…

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

Short Takes: Josh Groban Expands “Closer,” The Kinks Continue “The Journey,” Daft Punk Goes “Drumless”

November 13, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Today’s Short Takes gathers news of three upcoming releases, all of which are currently scheduled for this Friday, November 17. We are an Amazon affiliate and earn on qualifying purchases. Josh Groban, currently packing houses as Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, is looking back to his 6x Platinum sophomore album, 2003’s Closer, for a new 2CD or 2LP anniversary reissue (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada). Like his self-titled debut, Closer featured songs in English as well as other languages: in this case,…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Daft Punk, Josh Groban, The Kinks

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

Get Lucky: Daft Punk Unearth Unheard ‘Memories’ for Reissue of Final Album

February 23, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Fans of French electronic duo Daft Punk may have been shocked when the group suddenly announced their dissolution at the start of 2021. But the robots haven’t really powered down: a year later, they digitally expanded debut album Homework for its 25th anniversary, compiled an album of remixes from the era, and even showed off some limited, never-before-seen footage from an early concert following Homework‘s release (which shockingly showed members Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter out of their signature helmets. Now, 10 years after the release of what would become…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop

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Daft Punk, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams, Pharrell Williams

Blinding Lights: The Weeknd Preps Hits Compilation Ahead of Super Bowl Performance

February 3, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

In the predominantly digital and streaming world, the humble greatest hits album is scarce for even the biggest artists. Most need either a lot of hits or a newsworthy reason to put one out. For Canadian pop/R&B singer The Weeknd, whose new collection The Highlights hits stores Friday, February 5, both of those conditions handily apply. For one, the man born Abel Tesfaye has notched 35 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including chart-toppers “The Hills,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “Starboy,” “Heartless” and “Blinding Lights.” The latter is, as of this writing, in its record-shattering…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Pop, R&B/Soul

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Ariana Grande, Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd

De-Rezzed to Re-Rezzed: Mondo Reissues Daft Punk’s ‘TRON: Legacy’ Soundtrack

September 30, 2020 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Daft Punk’s scintillating electronic score to TRON: Legacy is coming back to vinyl for its 10th anniversary with a lavish edition courtesy of the Mondo label. The label lists this release as one of their “holy grails,” and they’ve spared no expense in celebrating it. This 2LP, 180-gram release, pressed on blue/white and red/black vinyl, features the original soundtrack program along with seven bonus cuts that didn’t make the original CD release. (As was standard a decade ago, they were divided among deluxe editions and even digital accounts – though they first…

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News

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Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Electronic, Soundtracks

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Daft Punk

Almost Hear You Sigh: Record Store Day U.K. Announces New Releases, Spotlight on The Yardbirds’ “Roger the Engineer”

September 25, 2020 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Tomorrow marks Record Store Day Drop 2. Recently, RSD U.K. announced 23 additions to their drop lists for September and October. While we know for sure that The Rolling Stones’ upcoming Steel Wheels Live 10″ picture disc will be a worldwide release, it’s unclear at the time of writing whether all of the other releases will be distributed across the pond. Still, with so many retailers taking their business online given the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s altogether possible that customers in the States can snag copies and support brick and mortar shops. As…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock

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Calexico, Daft Punk, Dio, Jethro Tull, Neneh Cherry, Record Store Day, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Thurston Moore

Rhino Presents 150-Song Set of 2000s Hits, A Dozen Other Box Sets Also Available on Streaming

December 12, 2018 by Sam Stone | 6 Comments

VA ThatsAught the00sPopCultureBox Rhino Playlist

In their first-ever digital-only box set, the music lovers at Rhino have curated That’s Aught: The ’00s Pop Culture Box, a 150-song collection that celebrates the many sides of that decade of music. From pop and hip-hop, country, pop-punk, soul, dance, and underground music, the selections are as diverse as the decade was. The staff at Rhino have sequenced the selections in more-or-less chronological order, beginning with *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” before continuing on to iconic hits from music veterans U2 (“Beautiful Day”) and Madonna (“Music.”) Massive hits from decade-defining acts like…

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News

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks