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Release Round-Up: Week of November 28

November 28, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! With Record Store Day’s Black Friday event taking place today, the slate is usually a small one…not so this year, though, thanks to Rhino’s CD releases of numerous RSD titles. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Neil Young, Tonight’s the Night 50 (Reprise/NYA) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand Store 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand Store Clear Vinyl: Greedy Hand Store Neil Young’s sixth album, released in 1975 but mostly recorded two years earlier, was the closer to his “Ditch Trilogy.”…

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

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Alice Cooper, Bobby Darin, Dwight Yoakam, Eric Burdon, Fleetwood Mac, Jonathan Groff, Love, Madonna, Neil Young, The Doors, The English Beat, The Flaming Lips, War

Do You Realize?? These Rhino RSD Titles Are Also Coming Soon to CD

November 10, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 10 Comments

Rhino’s Record Store Day Black Friday schedule is packed with some 35 titles available as limited edition vinyl releases. But CD lovers take heart: six of these titles – most featuring previously unreleased material – will be available the same day on our favorite portable physical format! Here’s a look at each title, alphabetically by artist. Recent years have seen Rhino acquire distribution rights to beloved British ska outfit The Beat (known in America as The English Beat), with expanded editions of the group’s studio albums distributed through the label. You…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Alice Cooper, Arthur Lee, Christine McVie, Eric Burdon, Fleetwood Mac, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Love, Mick Fleetwood, Record Store Day, Stevie Nicks, The Beat, The Doors, The English Beat, The Flaming Lips, War

Merry Something to You: Rhino Announces Record Store Day Black Friday Slate with Devo, Joni Mitchell, Alice Cooper, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Randy Newman, More

October 6, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

TSD is kicking off our look at this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday releases, due at participating independent record stores on November 28, with a typically packed slate coming from Rhino. With over 30 titles, the label has brought out the heavy hitters (many of which are RSD mainstays) including The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Todd Rundgren, Van Halen, and more. We’ve also included a handful of releases from Rhino sister labels such as Warner (with a Tom Petty live collection) and Elektra (an EP from…

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

Review: Eric Burdon and WAR, “The Complete CD Collection”

May 1, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Eric Burdon and WAR Complete CD Collection

With the recent release of WAR’s Why Can’t We Be Friends? as an expanded edition for Record Store Day (with a CD edition to follow – links still aren’t active), TSD has given a spin to Rhino’s most recent WAR CD release: The Complete CD Collection from Eric Burdon & WAR. “Peace and love was happening, and we figured that nobody would forget the name of the band if we called them WAR. And we were right,” Jerry Goldstein remembered in Dan Epstein’s liner notes to the new box set Eric Burdon…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 7

March 7, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Yes, Close to the Edge: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com (with signed lithograph) Yes’ fifth album, Close to the Edge, returns as a 5CD/LP/Blu-ray set anchored by new surround (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) and stereo remixes by Steven Wilson. This Super Deluxe box follows in the footsteps of similarly lavish reissues of The Yes Album and Fragile. The original 1972 mix has been remastered by Bernie Grundman on…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Pop, Rock

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A.J. Croce, Benmont Tench, Eric Burdon, Fernando Perdomo, Jethro Tull, Kraftwerk, Lady Gaga, Neil Young, The Move, Van Halen, War, Yes

Spill the Wine: Rhino Collects Eric Burdon and War on “The Complete CD Collection”

January 28, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Earlier this year, we filled you in about WAR’s upcoming release Live in Japan 1974, due February 7 from Rhino and Avenue Records. Now, the labels have announced another significant release in their upgrade of the WAR catalogue. On March 7, Eric Burdon and WAR: The Complete CD Collection arrives on four discs, bringing the 2022 Record Store Day-exclusive vinyl box set to the CD format. Eric Burdon, the former lead singer of The Animals, famously performed “San Franciscan Nights” with that band, but he was actually living in the American city…

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Classic Rock, Funk, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Eric Burdon, War

Hello, It’s Me: Rhino Announces Black Friday RSD Slate with Todd Rundgren, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, More

September 14, 2022 by The Second Disc | 9 Comments

It’s that time of year again: Record Store Day’s annual Black Friday event is scheduled for Friday, November 25 as the holiday shopping season begins. Rhino has wasted no time in sharing its list of releases from some of the label’s marquee artists including Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Grateful Dead, and Madonna. Classic albums from Todd Rundgren, Captain Beefheart, and Eric Burdon & WAR are also among the titles on Rhino’s slate. And one release is even available on CD! Read on for the complete lineup, with most descriptions provided by the…

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

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Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Duran Duran, Eric Burdon, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Madonna, Record Store Day, The Cure, The Doors, Todd Rundgren, War

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: The Animals’ Mono Albums Get Individual CD, Vinyl Reissues

May 9, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

Back in 2013, the ABKCO label issued a 5-CD box set from The Animals. Released via Real Gone Music, The Mickie Most Years and More brought together remastered versions of the British band’s first four U.S. albums plus a rare private-press EP recorded in 1963. Nearly a decade later, ABKCO is bringing The Mickie Most Years and More back into print as a vinyl set, while the four original mono albums will also be reissued as standalone CDs (with bonus tracks) and vinyl (original albums only) on June 3. Producer-impresario Most (Herman’s…

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Eric Burdon, Mickie Most, The Animals

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

Release Round-Up: Week of February 21

February 21, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Hank Williams, Pictures from Life’s Other Side – The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) BMG salutes late singer-songwriter-legend Hank Williams with the release of Pictures from Life’s Other Side – The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings. This lavish 6-CD collection presents all 144 tracks recorded by Williams for his 1951 radio show sponsored by Mother’s Best Flour Company. The Mother’s Best radio shows have been chronicled on various sets…

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Release Round-Up

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

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