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The Weekend Stream: January 10, 2026

January 10, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! We’ve got some new music from old pop favorites, a few Record Store Day Black Friday releases, and a pop icon and a big rock band moving their catalogues from one label to another. It’s a lot to keep up with, but we’ve got your back! Bruno Mars, “I Just Might” (Atlantic) (Apple / Amazon) Though Bruno Mars has hardly been absent from the pop charts recently – earning…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

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Bobby Lee Springfield, Bruno Mars, Chris Difford, Crazy Horse, David Byrne, David Coverdale, Lester Young, Lynn Ahrens, Madonna, Neil Young, Olivia Rodrigo, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Robyn, Sabrina Carpenter, Stephen Flaherty, The Flaming Lips, Tiffany, Whitesnake

Release Round-Up: Week of September 5

September 5, 2025 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

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, Joni’s Jazz (Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada What is jazz? The question has been debated often, but now we know how Joni Mitchell might answer. The legendary singer-songwriter’s Archives series is continuing with its first themed compilation, appropriately entitled Joni’s Jazz. These 61 selections – available on 4 CDs or 8 LPs – draw from nearly every core album in the Mitchell discography…

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Release Round-Up

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Adam Guettel, Bread, Carly Simon, David Byrne, Jeremy Jordan, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, NRBQ, The New Seekers

These Are Days: 10,000 Maniacs’ ‘MTV Unplugged’ Set Gets Expansion

July 23, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

More than 30 years after Natalie Merchant took her final bow with 10,000 Maniacs, the band’s seminal set for MTV Unplugged will be reissued and expanded this fall. Available September 6 on CD or two LPs, this remastered presentation of the original multiplatinum disc adds three extra songs from the performance featuring another lead singer for a band who recently had gone solo: David Byrne of Talking Heads. They performed covers of Iris DeMent (“Let the Mystery Be”), a Jimmie Dale Gilmore country tune (“Dallas”), and “Jolene,” made famous by Dolly Parton. (“Jolene”…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Pop, Rock

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10000 Maniacs, David Byrne

This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around: Talking Heads’ Expanded ‘Stop Making Sense’ Comes to CD/Blu-ray with Atmos Mix

June 5, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

For good reason, the Talking Heads have gotten a lot of mileage out of their triumphant restoration of the live concert film Stop Making Sense. Brilliantly remastered and reissued in theaters last year by A24 – an event that got the group to reunite for multiple interviews to promote it, including just last night at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, where the film was shot – the audio was released on vinyl and digital by Rhino Records. (A24 also put out a luxe Blu-ray and 4K version of the film, as well…

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Blu-Ray Audio, CD

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club

The Weekend Stream: April 21, 2024

April 21, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 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. This week’s super-sized post-Record Store Day lineup includes more: more remixes, more covers, more Mancini and yes, more Taylor Swift. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (Republic) (iTunes / Amazon) Can you really call this a reissue? Pop’s most ubiquitous A-lister whipped fans into a frenzy by announcing her 11th studio album shortly before picking up her fourth Grammy Award for…

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The Weekend Stream

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

Got a Disc I Want to Play: A24 Plans Deluxe ‘Stop Making Sense’ for Blu-ray, 4K Disc

February 2, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

A24’s stunning remaster of the Talking Heads’ 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense was one of the highlights of movie theaters this fall. (The surprises happened offscreen as well, when original band members David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison appeared together for the first time since their 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for multiple interviews and promotional appearances.) Now, Jonathan Demme’s classic feature is finally getting an upgraded home release this spring. The new set presents the film on Blu-ray Disc or 4K Ultra HD,…

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Blu-Ray, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Bernie Worrell, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club

They Don’t Know: Massive Kirsty MacColl Box, Packed with Hits Unreleased Tracks, Due in October

September 12, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 8 Comments

For just over two decades, Kirsty MacColl was one of England’s most uniquely talented female rock singer/songwriters. This fall, nearly a quarter century after her passing, a new box set will examine her career in-depth. See That Girl (1979-2000), coming October 27 from Universal Music Recordings in the U.K., is an 8CD set loaded with 161 singles, rarities, remixes, live cuts and duets – including 47 previously unreleased recordings. Produced in partnership with the singer’s estate, the set features two gatefold sleeves of discs and a 60-page hardback book packed in a…

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Pop, Rock

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Billy Bragg, David Byrne, Kirsty MacColl, The Pogues

What a Day That Was: Talking Heads’ ‘Stop Making Sense’ Expanded for Vinyl, Film Reissue

March 17, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 11 Comments

Talking Heads Stop Making Sense Deluxe 2LP

Why Stop Making Sense? Why a movie? Why tour? Why do the musicians come out gradually? What will the band do next? Whe do the odd instruments come from? Are live concerts better or worse than records? Why no “special effects” in the movie? Why a big suit? Why was a digital system used for the sound? Talking Heads’ now-legendary live project Stop Making Sense asked a lot of questions of the listener when it was released in 1984. Here’s another one: why reissue the album? That one’s easy to answer: the film is…

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David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club

Sit Down, I Think I Love You: Rhino’s RSD Lineup Includes Grateful Dead, Dio, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren, Madonna, and More “Nuggets”

February 21, 2023 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Rhino has announced one of the most expansive lineups for this year’s Record Store Day event at participating independent record stores on Saturday, April 22. Rhino’s slate includes two dozen titles from the label’s heaviest hitters including Madonna, Grateful Dead, Stevie Nicks, Dio, Duran Duran, Ramones, Todd Rundgren, and more – plus a 50th anniversary celebration of the original Nuggets. You’ll find the complete list below, with descriptions provided by the label. Visit RecordStoreDay.com to locate the nearest participating store. Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes: The B-Sides (1-LP black vinyl, limited to 14,500…

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

They’re Red Hot: AIDS-Combating Compilations Get Digital Reissues for 30th Anniversary

December 4, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Since 1989, the Red Hot Organization (RHO) has been combatting the scourge of HIV/AIDS. Red Hot has primarily raised money through the creation of music compilations beginning with the 1990 release Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter. Now, that star-studded release and numerous others have come to digital and streaming services to continue raising money for the charity. RHO co-founder John Carlin, an entertainment lawyer spurred into action by the devastating losses suffered by the New York cultural community, envisioned an album of Cole Porter songs performed by world-class…

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Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of October 25

October 25, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Kinks, Arthur, or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire [Various Formats] (BMG) 4CD/4-seven-inch single box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official The Kinks’ 1969 concept album continued in the quintessentially British vein of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society but carved out its own musical identity. Building on the…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Big Star, Bruce Springsteen, Curt Boettcher, David Byrne, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, Harry Connick Jr., Howard Keel, Jackson 5, James Brown, Jim Sullivan, Mandy Patinkin, Neil Young, Rick Astley, Ringo Starr, The Kinks, The Oak Ridge Boys, Van Morrison, XTC

Wild, Wild Life: Complete ‘True Stories’ Soundtrack Due With Talking Heads and More

November 20, 2018 by Sam Stone | 1 Comment

It’s been 32 years since David Byrne’s directorial debut True Stories first arrived in theaters, and this November the film will be revisited to the tune of brand-new audio and visual restorations. Master film restorers The Criterion Collection are slated to release True Stories on Blu-ray and DVD on November 27. On the music front, Todomundo Records and Nonesuch have announced an expanded soundtrack album, True Stories, A Film By David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack, due on CD, 2-LP, and digital November 23. True Stories was loosely based on headlines culled from local tabloids. The film starred Byrne,…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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David Byrne, Steve Jordan, Talking Heads, Terry Allen, The Kronos Quartet, The Staple Singers

Release Round-Up: Week of March 9

March 9, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Jimi Hendrix, Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy/Experience Hendrix) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest collection of posthumously-released material from Jimi Hendrix arrives in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, featuring 13 songs recorded between January 1968 and February 1970 – ten of which are previously unreleased, including performances with Stephen Stills of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” and the original song “$20 Fine.” Eva Cassidy, Songbird 20 (Blix Street) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The late Eva Cassidy’s 1998 posthumous collection…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Rock

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David Byrne, Eva Cassidy, Jimi Hendrix, John Cage, Justin Hinds, Leonard Bernstein, Marillion, Tania Chen, Uncle Walt's Band