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June 8, 2024 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Stream 2024

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. This week is jam-packed with practically something for everybody, especially if you love the '80s: live cuts from one of the biggest touring bands of the decade, B-sides and remixes from that same decade's biggest British band and a rediscovered female country hitmaker - plus rare soundtracks, early favorites from a Latin-pop icon and so much

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ann Wilson, Anthony Perkins, Bell Biv DeVoe, Bruce Springsteen, Daryl Hall, Duran Duran, Gloria Estefan, INXS, Janet Jackson, Jeff Healey, Jeff Healey Band, Leo Kottke, Luther Vandross, Miami Sound Machine, O.C. Smith, Ralph Tresvant, Ruth Copeland, Shorty Rogers, Sylvia

September 16, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week's latest brings you a classic country centennial, remixes from Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson and The Art of Noise, a rare album from a songwriter moonlighting as a singer, hard-to-find Olivia Newton John songs and so much more! Hank Williams, Hank 100: Greatest Radio Hits (BMG Rights

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Crystal Waters, Duke Ellington, Hank Williams, Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross, Mark James, Nick Cave, Olivia Newton-John, Pat Boone, Pulp, Seaweed, The Art of Noise, Veruca Salt

July 7, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

janet deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Pool-Pah, The Flasher: Original Soundtrack Recording (Real Gone/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate 50 years of the best album you've never heard: Pool-Pah's The Flasher.  In 1973, the sexual revolution was on, streaking was taking college campuses by storm, and Deep Throat was edging pornography ever

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Burnette, Flamin' Groovies, Hans Zimmer, Ill Biskits, Janet Jackson, Owsley, Pool-Pah, Rory Gallagher, Rupert Holmes, Suede, Taylor Swift, Wham!

July 2, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. This week brings an R.E.M. classic given new life by a hit TV show, another side of one of Motown's sultriest crooners, two Prince-related artists gone solo, dance grooves from Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul and an early version of one of the greatest epic film scores of the '50s. R.E.M., Strange

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bell Biv DeVoe, Bobby Hackett, Elmer Bernstein, Fishbone, Janet Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Paula Abdul, Prince, R.E.M., Ralph Tresvant, Richie Kotzen

May 19, 2023 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

janet deluxe

With her fifth album, Janet Jackson took her artistry and popularity into a new gear for a new decade. Now, 30 years after janet. was released, it's coming back into print this summer as an expanded edition featuring rare bonus material. Coming off the back-to-back critical and commercial smashes of Control (1986) and Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) - the latter of which met big brother Michael's Thriller-era benchmark of seven Top 10 hits off one album, the youngest member of the Jackson family

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

October 7, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles.  There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend including an expanded edition from a superstar, a fun '80s flashback, two expansions from a disco legend, some choice Motown memories, and more! Janet Jackson, The Velvet Rope (25th Anniversary Edition) (Virgin/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) A digital deluxe edition that merited its own press release?

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Edwin Starr, Janet Jackson, Paul Jabara, Phantom Planet, Soul Asylum, Yes

February 20, 2021 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Rahsaan Roland

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Janet Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Kool Moe Dee, Maze, Rahsaan Roland Kirk

January 22, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

kinks lola

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Kinks, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (BMG) 3CD/2 7-inch Box Set (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1CD Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1LP Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 2CD Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Kinks' 1970 classic Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One arrives in a variety of formats including bonus material such as

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Janet Jackson, Nicolas King, Richard Hell, Sam Cooke, The Kinks

August 17, 2020 By Mike Duquette 17 Comments

Herb Alpert Is CD packshot

There are truly few in the music business like Herb Alpert. A trumpet player, songwriter, label co-founder, sculptor and philanthropist - Alpert is all these things and more, and they're all due to be on display in a forthcoming documentary, appropriately titled Herb Alpert Is..., slated to premiere October 1. Just one day later, a new overview of his storied musical career is due. The box set Herb Alpert Is..., to be released through his own Herb Alpert Presents label, will compile 63 tracks

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Hugh Masekela, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

September 21, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Rhythm Nation Collage

After putting much of Janet Jackson's classic catalogue on vinyl out this year, UMe keeps the party going with a whopping nine new digital EPs to celebrate this week's 30th anniversary of Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814. The label is premiering nearly 100 rare and digitally unavailable edits, instrumentals and remixes spanning Rhythm Nation's incredible run of hit singles for more than a year. Seven tracks - "Miss You Much," "Rhythm Nation," "Escapade," "Alright," "Come Back To Me," "Black

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Shep Pettibone

July 26, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Control The Remixes

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Janet Jackson, Control: The Remixes (A&M/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscover Store (color variant) Fans looking for some rare or hard-to-find content from Janet Jackson will flip for a new pressing of Control: The Remixes on 2LP and CD. Originally released in Europe and Japan in 1987, this pressing features all the tracks of the former territory's releases

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barbara Cook, Climax Blues Band, Ethel Merman, Janet Jackson, Jonathan Larson, Sammy Davis Jr., Soft Machine, Soundgarden, Sugar Ray, Tubby Hayes Quartet

July 18, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Janet vinyl

When a new pressing of Janet Jackson's breakthrough album Control was announced earlier this year, we speculated that perhaps the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and R&B/pop legend would finally be the subject of some catalog activity. That wish seems to be coming true: four more of Janet's albums are coming to vinyl on July 24, along with an expanded edition of a remix album to be released in America for the first time! A&M/Virgin/UMe will press Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989),

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

June 7, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese's documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Airto, America, Bob Dylan, Cole Porter, David Yazbek, Eddie Perfect, Elmer Bernstein, Gary Nicholson, Genesis, Grateful Dead, James Taylor, Janet Jackson, Luciano Pavarotti, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Norma Tanega, Peter Frampton, Santana, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

April 19, 2019 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Janet Control LP

Even viewed through the incredible prism of her talented family, Janet Jackson has had one of the most formidable careers in modern music history. This year, after an impassioned fan campaign, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally inducted the youngest Jackson sibling, who's released 10 Top 5 albums in the U.S., placed more than two dozen singles in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide of funky, engaging, conscious R&B songs. With an

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

September 6, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

MJ Scream

On Monday evening, an animated teaser featuring black cats, a spider web, and other spooky imagery arrived on Michael Jackson's official social media platforms, teasing the release of a project entitled Scream.  Today, the details have been confirmed for this new 14-track collection.  Scream, bringing together some of the late King of Pop's darkest songs, will arrive from Epic and Legacy on September 29, giving listeners a month-plus to savor it in the build-up to one of Jackson's favorite

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, The Jacksons

October 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paul McCartney Tug of War

Welcome to our new Release Round-Up! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Tug of War (MPL/Concord) The Paul McCartney Archive Collection continues with 1982's Tug of War, featuring "Ebony and Ivory" and "Here Today."  The release is available in various formats: 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Special Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Check out our full feature for information on what

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bad Company, Carl Wilson, Carole King, Celtic Thunder, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Earth Wind and Fire, Garbage, Grateful Dead, Janet Jackson, Joe Jackson, Judy Garland, Paul McCartney, Sarah McLachlan

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