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Release Round-Up: Week of June 9

June 9, 2023 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Alice Cooper, Killer: Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Killer, released in November 1971, was the fourth album from the original Alice Cooper band line-up of singer Alice Cooper, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. But it was the group’s second album to crystallize the hard rock sound for which Cooper would become known. This newly remastered Deluxe Edition features the…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alice Cooper, Barbra Streisand, Brandy Clark, Harry Chapin, Ratt, Shane McAnally, Tracy Nelson, Willie Nelson

The Second Disc’s Guide to Black Friday Record Store Day 2022: Our Essential Picks

November 25, 2022 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year’s annual Black Friday Record Store Day event. In keeping with tradition, Mike, Randy, and Joe have once again selected some essential picks of the roughly 200 titles being released tomorrow at independent record stores everywhere. With so many shoppers at the mall and…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

Cat’s In the Cradle: Real Gone’s Black Friday RSD Slate Features Harry Chapin, The Jesus Lizard, Smash Mouth, and Fountains of Wayne

September 19, 2022 by Randy Fairman | 8 Comments

As we continue our look at the titles coming out on this year’s Black Friday Record Store Day, we’re turning our attention to Real Gone Music. The label has a quartet of titles coming to independent stores on November 25. The lineup includes a compilation from an acclaimed 1970s storyteller, two favorites from the 1990s, and one from the 2000s. The ’90s and ’00s releases are all vinyl debuts. We’ve got the details below with the descriptions coming directly from the label. For a list of stores participating in Record Store Day,…

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News

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Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Fountains of Wayne, Harry Chapin, Record Store Day, Smash Mouth, The Jesus Lizard

Cat’s in the Cradle: Cherry Red Celebrates Harry Chapin on “Story Book: The Elektra Albums 1972-1978”

May 10, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

It’s fair to say that when Harry Chapin’s debut single “Taxi” peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100, the ballad didn’t sound like much else on the chart. The top spot was held by Sammy Davis, Jr.’s bouncy ode to “The Candy Man” while the upper reaches also featured gospel-tinged R&B (The Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There”), pristine pop (Neil Diamond’s “Song Sung Blue,” Carpenters’ “It’s Going to Take Some Time”), driving funk (Billy Preston’s “Outa-Space”), raunchy rock-and-roll (The Rolling Stones’ “Tumbling Dice”), and novelties (The Jimmy Castor Bunch’s…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

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Harry Chapin

Release Round-Up: Week of February 28

February 28, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Allman Brothers Band, Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection (Mercury/UMe) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UMe is marking The Allman Brothers Band’s 50th anniversary with a new 5-CD or 10-LP box set boasting 61 newly remastered tracks including classics, rarities, and seven previously unreleased tracks. Trouble No More is bookended with the band’s never-before-heard 1969 demo of that song, and their final performance of it at their last show in October 2014. …

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bruce Springsteen, Charles Strouse, Charlie Parker, Dionne Warwick, Dom Flemons, Don Flemons, Eileen Farrell, Harry Chapin, Horace Tapscott, James Taylor, Sergio Mendes, The Allman Brothers Band

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Welcome to our final Tuesday Release Round-Up – and it’s a doozy! As many of you know, the record industry will next week adopt a universal Friday release day. No releases are scheduled for Tuesday, July 7; instead, Friday, July 10 is the date! DVDs and Blu-rays will, for the foreseeable future, remain released on Tuesdays. We’ll resume with a new Release Round-Up on Friday, July 10! Ronny and the Daytonas, The Complete Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The Viscounts, Harlem Nocturne (Limited Mini LP Sleeve Edition) (Amazon U.S….

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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311, Brian Wilson, Dean Martin, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fanny, Grateful Dead, Harry Chapin, Janis Ian, KC and the Sunshine Band, Nancy Wilson, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Ronny and the Daytonas, Tavares, The Fantastic Four, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Who, Tina Turner

Remember When The Music: Bottom Line Presents Unheard Harry Chapin, Reissues Janis Ian and More

June 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The new Bottom Line Archive Series, which launched earlier this year with volumes from The Brecker Brothers, Willie Nile, and Kenny Rankin, continues on June 30 with a new wave of titles all recorded at the late, great New York venue once located on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village. Concerts from Harry Chapin and Janis Ian, plus two various-artists compilations, will be released on Bottom Line Records on that date. Legendary singer-songwriter Harry Chapin’s January 1981 set at The Bottom Line was released as a 2-CD set in 1998 as part…

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Folk, Pop, Rock

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Harry Chapin, Janis Ian, Jimmy Webb, Pete Seeger, Various Artists

Edsel January Preview: Rundgren, Chapin, Gosdin, Manhattan Transfer, Jo Jo Gunne Kick Off 2012

January 9, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

What kind of year will 2012 be? If the first batch of releases, slated for January 30 release, from the Edsel label is any indication, there’s plenty of rare and well-done music on the way! A three albums-on-two-CDs package collects the entirety of Todd Rundgren’s Warner Bros. Records period. A Cappella/Nearly Human/2nd Wind continues Edsel’s definitive series which brings Rundgren’s solo and Utopia output on both Bearsville and Warner Bros. under one umbrella. The studio wizard’s decision to record an album with nothing other than his own voice caused dissension between the…

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Harry Chapin, Jo Jo Gunne, Manhattan Transfer, Todd Rundgren, Vern Gosdin