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Release Round-Up: Week of April 19

April 19, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. With Record Store Day events taking place tomorrow, this is one of the biggest weeks in recent memory – so if you hit up your local indie store tomorrow, remember: there’s plenty of non-exclusive releases to check out, too. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TSD also mourns the passing of Dickey Betts, 80. As a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, Betts left behind an extraordinary legacy of…

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

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Bruce Springsteen, Chet Atkins, Gene Clark, Glen Campbell, Ian Hunter, King Crimson, Linda Martell, Lou Reed, Luther Vandross, Nancy Sinatra, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Pearl Jam, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, The Flying Burrito Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of April 21

April 21, 2023 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Philip Bailey, State of the Heart: The Columbia Recordings (1983-1988) (SoulMusic/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) State of the Heart celebrates the timeless voice of Earth, Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey with expanded editions of his three solo LPs for Columbia Records in the ’80s: 1983’s Continuation, 1984’s Chinese Wall (including the mega-hit Phil Collins duet “Easy Lover”) and 1986’s Inside Out. The set features eight bonus tracks, including rare dance remixes and a few soundtrack songs…

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

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

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Everything But the Girl, Ian Hunter, Jethro Tull, Phil Collins, Philip Bailey

England Rocks: Demon Collects Ian Hunter’s CBS Years on 2-LP Set

October 14, 2022 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Ian Hunter departed from Mott the Hoople in 1974, having guided the band from hard rock to glam through seven studio albums and such hits as “All the Young Dudes,” “Honaloochie Boogie,” “All the Way from Memphis,” “Roll Away the Stone,” and “The Golden Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Upon leaving Mott, Hunter jumped into a solo career that continues to this day, having produced nearly two dozen studio and live LPs. Now, Demon Music Group is celebrating one period of Hunter’s career with a 2-LP anthology pressed on 140-gram black vinyl….

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock

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Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson

Release Round-Up: Week of January 8

January 8, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to our first Release Round-Up of 2021! Blue Oyster Cult, Live ’83 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Live ’83 presents a treasured Blue Oyster Cult concert from Perkins Palace in Pasadena on CD for the first time ever following the gatefold, 2-LP edition on blue with black swirl vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday 2020. Originally recorded for radio broadcast, tapes of this show have circulated among fans for decades and have become a go-to for fans eager to show what makes the band a…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Barry Gibb, Bee Gees, Cleveland Eaton, Grateful Dead, Ian Hunter, Mott the Hoople

Review: The Iron City Houserockers, “Have a Good Time But…Get Out Alive!” [40th Anniversary Edition]

June 24, 2020 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

With apologies to John Lennon, Joe Grushecky is a working-class hero. A special education teacher by day and musician by night, Grushecky has worked for decades in inner-city Pittsburgh to help children battling severe developmental, emotional, and physical disabilities. Determination, grit, and authenticity have long been among his trademarks as an artist. Now, Cleveland International Records has reissued his sophomore album, recorded with his band The Iron City Houserockers, in a 2-CD or 2-LP expanded edition. 1980’s Have a Good Time…But Get Out Alive! is packed with aggressive yet joyful melodies blurring…

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Classic Rock

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Ian Hunter, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Little Steven, Mick Ronson

Down to Junior’s Bar: Iron City Houserockers’ “Have a Good Time” featuring Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Steven Van Zandt Turns 40, Gets Expanded Edition

April 20, 2020 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Pittsburgh native Joe Grushecky burst onto the national music scene in 1979 as leader of the Iron City Houserockers. Their debut album on MCA Records, 1979’s Love’s So Tough, conjured an authentic blue-collar milieu and recalled a harder-edged E Street Band. The band upped their game with follow-up release Have a Good Time But Get Out Alive! in 1980. Now, that bar-band classic is returning to print in a newly expanded edition adding a second disc with 16 previously unreleased tracks including demos and rarities. The 40th anniversary edition of Have a…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock

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Ian Hunter, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Little Steven, Mick Ronson

Play Don’t Worry: Mick Ronson’s Post-Bowie Recordings Anthologized On New Box

February 10, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

The late Mick Ronson (1946-1993) was inextricably linked with David Bowie, playing with the superstar during his pre-fame days in The Hype and then as a Spider from Mars supporting Ziggy Stardust. But while Ronno’s powerful licks still reverberate from his time with Bowie – on albums including The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane, The Man Who Sold the World, Pin Ups, and Lou Reed’s Transformer – he left behind a rich legacy of music in other capacities, as well. He joined…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Rock

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David Bowie, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Mott the Hoople

Release Round-Up: Week of April 5

April 5, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs is the new box set with four seven-inch vinyl singles of some of Bowie’s earliest material. It will feature nine rare, monaural recordings, including mostly solo vocal-and-guitar versions of familiar songs (“Space Oddity” in its earliest known version, “London Bye Ta Ta,” “In The Heat Of The Morning”) as well as the heretofore-unknown “Love All Around,” a lyric of which…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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

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Barry White, David Bowie, Don Felder, Ian Hunter, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Meat Loaf, Mike + the Mechanics, New Order, Reba McEntire, The Searchers, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Release Round-Up: Week of February 22

February 22, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! We kick off with not one, but two, releases from The Zombies! The Zombies, The Complete Studio Recordings (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are being celebrated this week with two comprehensive vinyl box sets – one for the U.S., and one for the U.K. market. The 5-LP, 61-track U.S. version, from Varese Vintage, includes the band’s two American albums in mono – She’s Not There/Tell Her No and I Love You, plus…

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Curtis Mayfield, Engelbert Humperdinck, Greenslade, Ian Hunter, Judy Garland, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, REO Speedwagon, Ray Charles, Renaissance, Santana, Tangerine Dream, Tear Gas, The Byrds, The Flamin' Groovies, The Zombies, U2

Too Wild To Tame: Meat Loaf, Ian Hunter, Ronnie Spector, and More Collected on “Cleveland Rocks”

February 21, 2019 by Sam Stone | 8 Comments

“Cleveland Rocks” is the name of one of Ian Hunter’s best-loved compositions. First released in 1979, it’s since became the de-facto anthem of the city, a rock proclamation whose title has always rung true. Cleveland’s rock scene during the ’70s was largely championed by Steve Popovich, a former Cleveland resident who ended up being the head of A&R at Epic. In mid-1976, he left the corporate rock world and headed back home to Cleveland, where he set up Cleveland International Records, part record label, part management company, part marketing consulting group. Throughout…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock

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Ellen Foley, Essence, Euclid Beach Band, Ian Hunter, Jim Steinman, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Just Us Girls, Meat Loaf, Mike Berry, Ronnie Spector, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, The Boyzz, The E Street Band, The Rovers

Variety Is The Spice: Varese Serves Up Ian Hunter, Ray Price

November 12, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Upon his departure from Mott the Hoople, frontman Ian Hunter wasted little time in establishing a solo career. His first, eponymous solo album in 1975 yielded the single that made Hunter’s name as a solo artist, the original version of “Once Bitten, Twice Shy.” Recorded at George Martin’s AIR Studios, “Once Bitten” boasted Hunter’s old cohort Mick Ronson as arranger, guitarist and co-producer, and the track made it all the way to No. 14 on the U.K. chart. (Great White’s 1989 cover version belatedly earned Hunter a hit in the U.S. when…

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Ian Hunter, Ray Price