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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

Release Round-Up: Week of June 27

June 27, 2025 by The Second Disc | 3 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. Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 (Columbia/Legacy) 7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums (Columbia/Legacy) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than a quarter century after releasing his first major vault project, Bruce Springsteen is back with a sequel that’s even bigger. True to its name, Tracks II: The Lost Albums 1983-2018 promises not just a wealth of…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Buck Owens, Clifton Chenier, Frank Zappa, Idina Menzel, James Taylor, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Melanie, Motörhead, Paul McCartney, Randy Newman, Robin Trower, Rod Stewart, The Bluebells, The Rolling Stones

UPDATE 10/9 – Once Upon a Dream: “Disney100” Collection Comes to CD

October 9, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

UPDATE 10/9: “I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing: that it was all started by a mouse.” Walt Disney was, of course, speaking of his enduring creation, Mickey Mouse. The character’s debut in the 1928 animated short subject Steamboat Willie was indeed the watershed moment from which decades of entertainment in every conceivable medium followed. But the business that became The Walt Disney Company had been founded five years earlier, in 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy. That’s the anniversary being celebrated now under the branding of Disney100. The…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Soundtracks

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Alan Menken, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Helen Reddy, Idina Menzel, Julie Andrews, Phil Harris, Randy Newman, Roger Miller, The Sherman Brothers, Various Artists

Once Upon a Dream: “Disney100” Celebrates the Disney Music Legacy

May 5, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing: that it was all started by a mouse.” Walt Disney was, of course, speaking of his enduring creation, Mickey Mouse. The character’s debut in the 1928 animated short subject Steamboat Willie was indeed the watershed moment from which decades of entertainment in every conceivable medium followed. But the business that became The Walt Disney Company had been founded five years earlier, in 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy. That’s the anniversary being celebrated now under the branding of Disney100. The campaign…

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News

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Vinyl

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Soundtracks

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Alan Menken, Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, Helen Reddy, Idina Menzel, Julie Andrews, Phil Harris, Randy Newman, Roger Miller, The Sherman Brothers, Various Artists

Sweet Music Man: Dolly Parton, Chris Stapleton, Oak Ridge Boys, and More Pay Tribute to Kenny Rogers on “All In for the Gambler”

May 19, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

On Wednesday, October 25, 2017, Kenny Rogers took the stage at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for what was billed as a farewell concert celebration. Rogers’ final tour, The Gambler’s Last Deal, would encompass further performances (including a run of Christmas shows in December 2017) before a halt was announced, on doctor’s orders, of a planned 2018 leg. But the all-star Nashville show was a symbolic last hurrah for the superstar who died in March 2020 at the age of 81. The tribute concert, featuring a host of Rogers’ friends and those influenced by…

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News

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CD, DVD

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Country

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Chris Stapleton, Crystal Gayle, Dolly Parton, Idina Menzel, Kenny Rogers, Lady A, Lee Greenwood, The Oak Ridge Boys, Wynonna Judd

Release Round-Up: Week of October 18

October 18, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Jethro Tull, Stormwatch: 40th Anniversary Edition (Chrysalis) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Jethro Tull continues its long-running box set series with a new 4CD/2DVD expansion of 1979’s Stormwatch, the final Tull album to feature the “classic” line-up of Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, David (now Dee) Palmer, and Barriemore Barlow. The new edition features: The original album and associated recordings newly remixed by Steven Wilson; A complete concert from the Netherlands recorded in March 1980; The original album and 13…

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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, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Buck Owens, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Fastball, Idina Menzel, Jason Danieley, Jethro Tull, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, Julie Andrews, Marin Mazzie, Marvin Gaye, Merle Haggard, Roger C. Reale and Rue Morgue, Roy Orbison, Stephen Bishop, Stone Temple Pilots, The Carter Family, The Muffs, a-ha

Still Defying Gravity: “Wicked” Turns 15, Celebrates with Cast Album Reissue

January 28, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

“No one mourns the wicked,” goes the opening song of Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz’s musical Wicked. But the musical, which celebrated its 15th anniversary on Broadway in 2018 and was recently crowned the sixth longest-running Broadway musical of all time, won’t have any need for mourners any time soon. “The Untold Tale of the Witches of Oz” is still going strong and shows no signs of slowing down. Its fresh perspective on The Wizard of Oz and intricate backstory of both The Land of Oz and the titular Witch has led…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings

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Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Stephen Schwartz