We’re continuing our look at this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday releases with a rundown of the nine titles coming your way on Friday, November 28 from Legacy Recordings. These include classics from Miles Davis, Prince, and Billy Joel, a rarity from Bob Dylan, a spirited Danny Elfman soundtrack, and more! Click here for a list of participating Record Store Day shops, and stay tuned for more RSD Black Friday news here at The Second Disc! Cage the Elephant, Live from The Vic in Chicago (RCA/Legacy) (2LP – Yellow and Black Splatter vinyl;…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 26
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.’ Spike Jones in Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Omnivore Recordings The late, great Spike Jones’ side-splittingly spooky 1959 album In Stereo: A Spooktacular in Screaming Sound! returns from Omnivore Recordings in time for Halloween as freshly remastered from the original tapes. Led by an illustrious company including Paul Frees (Boris Badenov, The Haunted Mansion’s Ghost Host), Thurl Ravenscroft (“You’re…
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After the Glitter Fades: Stevie Nicks, Wilco Classics Added to Rhino’s High Fidelity Vinyl Series
Rhino’s High Fidelity series of audiophile vinyl titles continues today with two (relatively) modern classics. Stevie Nicks’ 1981 solo debut Bella Donna and Wilco’s 1995 debut A.M. are the two albums in question, with both available now exclusively from Rhino.com and select international Warner Music Group online storefronts. Both albums are housed in old-style “tip-on” jackets; they’ve been newly mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal. They’re limited and numbered to 5,000 units each. As Mike D. wrote in his review of Nicks’ Complete Studio Albums and Rarities…
Forty Year Ache: Rosanne Cash Collects Favorites for New Compilation
Rosanne Cash, the oldest child of a country music icon and a superb, genre-hopping performer in her own right, will commemorate a museum exhibit of her life and career with a new career-spanning 2CD retrospective. The Essential Collection brings together 40 of Cash’s most treasured recordings – half from her tenure on Columbia Records and the other from mostly 21st century work on the Capitol, Manhattan and Blue Note labels. The non-chronological set, curated by Cash herself, features all 10 of her No. 1 country singles, including “Seven Year Ache,” “I Don’t…
‘A Ghost’ is Re-Born: Wilco Expand 2004 Album Into New Box Set
Following an acclaimed, Grammy-winning deluxe edition of Wilco’s mainstream breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the same creative team will assemble a similar set for 2004 follow-up A Ghost is Born. The deluxe set – made up of either nine CDs or nine LPs and four CDs – packages the album alongside 65 previously unreleased tracks, including two sets of studio outtakes, a live concert and seven “fundamentals” from the band’s recorded workshops during this same period. A 48-page hardcover book features unpublished photos and new liner notes by Bob Mehr. (Mehr won a Grammy…
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Release Round-Up: Week of May 5
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Olivia Newton-John, Just the Two of Us: The Duets Collection Vol. 1 (Primary Wave/Green Hill) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17 favorite duets with Olivia Newton-John are featured on this new collection. The late artist’s duet partners include Dolly Parton (“Jolene”), Michael McDonald (“Act of Faith”), Barry Gibb (“Face to Face”), pianist Jim Brickman (“I Honestly Love You”), Mariah Carey (“Hopelessly Devoted to…
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I Am Trying to Break Your Bank: Wilco Detail Deluxe ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ Reissues
One of the most beloved albums of the 2000s is getting a lavish series of reissues – with configurations as head-turning as the album itself. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco’s fourth album, will get the box set treatment on September 16 in several different formats. The original album will come with up to three CDs worth of alternate takes and mixes, a collection of demos and rough sketches, and two live performances: a live-in-studio, five-song appearance and interview on Chicago’s WXRT-FM in 2001 – the day the album was first made free to…
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Release Round-Up: Week of January 14
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello and The Imposters, The Boy Named If (Capitol/EMI) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Elvis Costello and The Imposters are back with a new, rip-roaring rock album. The band previewed many of the songs on The Boy Named If during its last concert tour; if those tunes (including lead single “Magnificent Hurt”) are any indication, this set returns Costello to his spiky roots. Available on CD, LP, cassette, digital platforms, and an official store-exclusive, autographed CD set with accompanying 88-page illustrated storybook. Richard Carpenter, Richard Carpenter’s…
Wilco’s ‘Summerteeth’ Gets a Shot In The Arm With New Box Set
Wilco’s third album Summerteeth is Rhino’s latest offering in 2020’s holiday box set season. A 4CD and 5LP edition of the 1999 release, packed with unreleased material, will be issued November 6. Both physical and digital formats feature a brand-new remaster of the original album by Bob Ludwig, plus two dozen previously unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate versions. Each set features an unreleased live show as well: the CD featuring an extended, soundboard-sourced set at Colorado’s Boulder Theatre recorded on November 1, 1999 (well into the band’s tour to promote the album), while…
ELP, Keith Richards, Kinks, and Ravi Shankar Rarities Feature on BMG RSD Slate
And the Record Store Day news keeps coming! BMG has announced their list of releases to be found in shops April 18 and it’s a great lineup. If you’re looking for live Emerson, Lake and Palmer; a very cool Motorhead shaped picture disc; the beautiful sounds of Ravi Shankar in collaboration with George Harrison; or classics from The Kinks – BMG has you covered! Let’s take a closer look at all their offerings… Ravi Shankar, Chants of India For the first time on vinyl, Ravi Shankar’s 1997 collaboration with George Harrison, Chants…
Omnivore’s Record Store Day Lineup Features Woody Guthrie, Lone Justice, and More
And the hits just keep on comin’! Record Store Day is almost upon us – Saturday, April 13 – and Omnivore Recordings isn’t going to miss out on all the fun. The label has just announced a quartet of titles set to reach your local independent record store. The label’s four new vinyl titles include I Don’t Like the Way This World’s A-Treatin’ Me, a four-song tribute to Woody Guthrie featuring a rare Guthrie demo plus Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Harvey with Ani DiFranco and Tom Morello, and U.S. Elevator; Lone Justice’s previously…
Review: Golden Smog, “Down By the Old Mainstream” from Run Out Groove
What do you get when you bring together members of Wilco, Soul Asylum, and The Jayhawks and throw them into a remote recording studio in Minnesota wilderness? Well, as the Run Out Groove label proved with its LP reissue earlier this year, the result is one mighty down-home, fun album of country-rock grooves: Down By the Old Mainstream by ’90s supergroup Golden Smog. While their lineup has been mercurial since they first got together in the late-’80s, the core lineup included Kraig Johnson of Run Westy Run, Dan Murphy of Soul Asylum,…
Omnivore Revisits “Christmas Time Again!” With Chris Stamey and Co.!
What’s that festive sound you’re hearing? If it’s fun, fresh, and a little off the beaten path, it might just be coming from Omnivore Recordings’ recent reissue of The dB’s and Friends’ now-classic holiday party Christmas Time Again! (OVCD-152). Christmas Time first arrived as a holiday vinyl EP from the Chris Stamey Group in 1986. Seven years later, in 1993, the collection was expanded for a new CD release, with the track count jumping from seven to sixteen tunes. In 2006, Collectors Choice Music revived the album once more as Christmas Time…
