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The Weekend Stream: November 8, 2025

November 8, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 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. It’s a positively packed line-up today: pop icons old and new, unique stage experiences and two different trips to the land of Oz – plus a really cool recording summit opportunity for New Yorkers and a trio of tributes to some deceased musical heroes. Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor (Twenty Years Edition) (Warner/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) The Queen of Pop’s next studio album, reportedly due out next year, is…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

Got to Choose: Weeks After Expanding ‘Dressed to Kill,’ KISS’ ‘Alive!’ Gets Its Own Deluxe Box

November 7, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Only a few weeks after unveiling a deluxe box set of their third studio album Dressed to Kill – which featured, in part, overdub-free versions of shows utilized for their breakthrough concert album Alive! – KISS have revealed that they will, in fact, release a whole box set for Alive! as well, confirming previous rumors and reports. Available on four CDs or eight LPs and a Blu-ray Audio disc, Alive! features the original double album (here for the first time pressed on one CD) along with two more complete shows (plus some relevant rehearsal audio and…

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, KISS, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss

The Weekend Stream: February 22, 2025

February 22, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 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! A great Carly Simon deep cut gets a fresh mix, plus Phil Collins in concert and new music from The Stylistics. Carly Simon, “Share the End” (2025 Remaster) (Elektra/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Though merely billed as a remaster in the metadata, this upbeat, heartbreaking side-two opener to Simon’s sophomore album Anticipation has been newly remixed. It’s a dramatic revisit of a song that resonates still, and hopefully a portent of…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bill Champlin, Billy Gibbons, Carly Simon, Gene Simmons, Larry Coryell, Phil Collins, Ray Parker Jr., Ron Wood, Shania Twain, Steve Lukather, Tatyana Ali, The Stylistics, Tower of Power, Will Smith

Love It Loud: KISS Expand ‘Creatures of the Night’ for Deluxe Box Set

August 31, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 8 Comments

Currently well into the 10th leg of their End of the Road farewell tour – which started in 2019! – it feels like KISS might never go away. And the band is planning to remind their faithful fans of one of their more notable works of the ’80s with a lavish new box set: 1982’s Creatures of the Night. Creatures will be reissued for its 40th anniversary on November 18 in a variety of formats: chiefly a 5CD/Blu-ray box packed with the remastered album and 67 live and studio bonus tracks, nearly…

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

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, KISS, Paul Stanley

Shout It Out Loud: KISS ‘Destroyer’ Goes Super Deluxe

October 1, 2021 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Get up! Everybody gonna move their feet and leave their seat for a new deluxe edition of KISS’ signature studio album Destroyer, available November 19. Following the success of the double concert album Alive! in 1975, which introduced the world at large to the hard-rockin’ quartet in black and white facepaint and out-there stage costumes, Destroyer was polished to perfection by producer Bob Ezrin. The group added layers of unique craft to these songs, from string sections to sound effects – and Ezrin’s unconventional methods (later compared to “musical boot camp” by…

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

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, KISS, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss

Radioactive: KISS Collects Four 1978 Solo Albums In One New Box Set

October 31, 2018 by The Second Disc | 10 Comments

Forty years ago, the four founding members of KISS surprised fans by announcing a quartet of solo releases, all scheduled for release on the very same day: September 18, 1978. The four albums were all marketed and branded under the KISS imprimatur by Casablanca Records, and each album would be truly “solo” in that no other KISS member other than the artist would play on the record. Casablanca invested $2.5 million in the marketing effort, and announced that five million copies would be shipped, guaranteeing platinum status. Now, those four solo records…

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News

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Box Sets, Vinyl

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Classic Rock

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Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, KISS

The Demon Unearthed: Gene Simmons Plans Massive Box Set

September 13, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 8 Comments

Gene Simmons has never shied away from theatrics–and his newly-announced solo box set is a testament to the power and excess of rock and roll. The Gene Simmons Vault is absolutely what it claims to be: an actual safe (38 pounds!) including the deepest possible dive into the KISS bassist’s personal archives, from his first songwriting efforts as a teenager in 1966 to recordings made last year. The set, three years in the making, promises 150 recordings over 10 discs, including “songs I’ve written, but have never been released…featuring notable rock and…

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