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Woke Up with a Monster: Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right Titles Run the Gamut

January 8, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

Why wait for Record Store Day? Rhino continues their January tradition of “Start Your Ear Off Right” with just over three dozen exclusive vinyl titles being released through January at independent record stores. (A small handful, linked below, are also available at Rhino’s official web store.) The majority will be released in two waves split between last Friday (January 2) and this Friday (January 9), with five more arriving between January 23 and January 30. Altogether, this list spans all forms of rock, pop, R&B, jazz, soundtracks and even comedy. In addition…

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of October 31

October 31, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Happy Halloween! 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. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window (Columbia/Legacy) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The beginnings of Bob Dylan’s long and extraordinary career are being revisited by Columbia and Legacy Recordings on the eighteenth installment of the artist’s long-running Bootleg Series. Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 (1956-1963) arrives on 8 CDs as well as…

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

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

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Adam and The Ants, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Devo, Eternity's Children, Faces, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jerry Lee Lewis, KT Tunstall, Kate Bush, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sheena Easton, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Soft Cell, The Cars, The Who, Thompson Twins

Turning to Gold: Ronnie Wood Looks Back on “Fearless: The Anthology,” Features Rod Stewart, Faces, Rolling Stones

July 21, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 11 Comments

Ronnie Wood is celebrating 60+ years in music with a new anthology, comprising solo tracks as well as key cuts from his time playing with the illustrious likes of The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, and Jeff Beck as well as his earliest recordings with The Birds and The Creation. Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025 is due from BMG on September 26 in 2CD and 2LP formats, with 38 tracks on the CD set including four all-new recordings exclusive to this collection. Fearless kicks off with a pair of recordings from the Middlesex native’s…

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Faces, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, The Birds, The Creation, The Rolling Stones

Review: Faces, “Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert and Session Recordings 1970-1973”

September 11, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Between the summer of 1969 and the fall of 1975, a joyful noise emerged whenever Faces took the stage. Ronnie Lane (bass), Kenney Jones (drums), and Ian McLagan (keyboards) had emerged from the ashes of pop’s Small Faces, while Rod Stewart (vocals) and Ronnie Wood (guitar) were blues-rock veterans of the first iteration of The Jeff Beck Group in which Wood played bass. When they came together, they created a sound unlike either of those earlier groups: rough-and-tumble, raw, ramshackle, powerful, and fun. As one of their lyrics goes, “While I’m here,…

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Faces, Rod Stewart

Release Round-Up: Week of September 6

September 6, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 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. Neil Young, Archives Vol. III (1976-1987) (NYA/Reprise) 17CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17CD/5BD Deluxe Set: Official Store This week’s biggest release is the long-awaited third volume of Neil Young’s long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), spans in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks, and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a…

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

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

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10000 Maniacs, America, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Faces, Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, King Crimson, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Young, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Marriott, Sylvester, Vince Guaraldi, Vincent Price

Had Me a Real Good Time: Rhino Announces Box of BBC Sessions from Faces

July 17, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Ooh-la-la! Following a pair of well-received releases for Record Store Day, Rhino is doing a deep-dive into Faces’ BBC sessions on an 8-CD/1-Blu-ray box set due September 6. Faces at The BBC – Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 compiles all of the storied group’s concerts and surviving studio sessions for the BBC in one package approved by Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones. The set will be available only via Rhino.com and select retailers including Amazon. Though many of these recordings have long been considered lost, Rhino has tracked down nearly…

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Rhino’s Record Store Day Lineup Features Doors, Talking Heads, Faces, Todd Rundgren, Linda Ronstadt, Four Seasons, Dio, More

February 15, 2024 by The Second Disc | 10 Comments

It’s that time of year again! Record Store Day announcements are coming fast and furious in anticipation of the big day, Saturday, April 20. As usual, Rhino’s slate is a packed one, with a whopping 39 titles including releases from The Doors and Dwight Yoakam on CD as well as vinyl. Click here for a list of participating independent record stores. All descriptions below are provided by the label. (*) denotes worldwide units. AIR – Kelly Watch the Stars Limited Edition of 5,500* copies; 12″ picture disc Captain Beefheart & His Magic…

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

Rhino’s Record Store Day Black Friday Lineup Includes The Doors on CD and LP Plus Willie Nelson, Joni Mitchell, War, and More

October 4, 2023 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

TSD is continuing its look at this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday releases, due at participating independent record stores on November 24, with the packed slate coming from Rhino. With sixteen titles – including one on both vinyl and CD! – Rhino has brought out the heavy hitters including The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Grateful Dead, Willie Nelson, and War. Visit here for a list of Record Store Day retailers. The English Beat, I Just Can’t Stop (Expanded) Limited Edition of 8,000 copies on 2LP 140-gram Crystal Clear vinyl Captain Beefheart and…

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Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Rock

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Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Faces, Grateful Dead, INXS, Jeff Beck, Joni Mitchell, Linkin Park, Little Feat, Los Lobos, Record Store Day, Rilo Kiley, Sia, The Doors, The English Beat, The Flaming Lips, War

Holiday Gift Guide Reviews: Cherry Red’s Esoteric and Grapefruit Imprints Offer Diverse Box Sets

December 19, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Cherry Red’s ongoing series of small clamshell box sets filled with big content make for the perfect stocking stuffer! Here’s a look at three more titles you might have missed… Climax Blues Band’s The Albums 1973-1976 is the second such box set released this year by Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint, following The Albums 1969-1972. This 4-CD set contains the following albums, culminating in the biggest commercial triumph for the band that began its life as The Climax Chicago Blues Band: FM Live (1973); Sense of Direction (1971); Stamp Album (1975); and…

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Holiday Gift Guide, News, Reviews

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop

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Bridget St. John, Climax Blues Band, Faces, Iain Matthews, Procol Harum, Rod Stewart, The Hollies, The Marmalade, The Tremeloes, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of February 1

February 1, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, I Love My Lady (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD) Johnny Mathis’ legendary lost 1981 collaboration with CHIC receives its first-ever standalone release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! For the occasion, I Love My Lady has been outfitted with brand-new artwork and a deluxe 24-page booklet featuring an introduction from Nile Rodgers and interviews with Johnny and CHIC’s Alfa Anderson and Fonzi Thornton. It’s the ultimate tribute to a soulful, rhythmic, and club-ready…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Faces, Johnny Mathis, Linda Ronstadt, Phil Collins, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Timothy Leary, Van Duren

Review: Faces, “1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything”

October 21, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

On September 5 of this year, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones reunited publicly for the first time in 22 years as Faces, paying tribute to their fallen comrades Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan with a seven-song set benefiting a prostate cancer charity. The performance came on the heels of the release by Rhino of 1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything… (Rhino R2 550009), a box set-in-miniature collecting all four of Faces’ long players in expanded editions plus a bonus disc of B-sides and one-offs. In total, the…

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Faces, Ian McLagan, Kenney Jones, Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane

Release Round-Up: Week of August 28

August 28, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to New Release Friday and this week’s Release Round-Up! Faces, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975) (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This long-awaited 5-CD box set includes Faces’ First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and adds never-before-released bonus tracks to each album. The set is topped off with a bonus disc containing non-LP selections. In total, 17 bonus tracks are previously unreleased! The collection…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Ashford and Simpson, Conway Twitty, Faces, Gloria Gaynor, Jimi Hendrix, Lee Hazlewood, Margo Smith, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, The Kitchen Cinq, Van Morrison

Ooh La La! Rhino Boxes Up Expanded Editions Of Faces Albums

July 22, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 16 Comments

It’s been a long wait, but expanded editions of Faces’ four studio albums are finally almost here. On August 28, Rhino Records will release You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975), a 5-CD box set containing expanded editions of all four LPs by the legendary (and legendarily, happily shambolic) rock-and-roll lineup of Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan, plus a bonus disc. Expanded versions of the small but seminal Faces catalogue were first mooted as far back as 2007; now they’ve finally materialized with a…

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Classic Rock

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Faces, Rod Stewart