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The Weekend Stream: September 20, 2025

September 20, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 2 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. Lenny Kravitz gets expanded, The Doors revisit a classic concert, J. Lo goes Broadway, and much, much more! Lenny Kravitz, Circus (Deluxe Edition) (Virgin/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) Kravitz’s top ten album from 1995 receives thirteen bonus cuts in this digital-only expansion, including live and acoustic tracks plus three studio cuts previously available on an EP and as vinyl bonus tracks (“Another Life,” “Confused,” “Is It Me, Is It You”). The…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aerosmith, Daryl Hall, Dave Stewart, Jazz Passengers, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Connor, Jim Croce, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Kristin Chenoweth, Lena Hall, Lenny Kravitz, Ramin Karimloo, Stephen Schwartz, Terry Garthwaite, The B-52's, The Doors, The Fourth Generation

Release Round-Up: Week of September 19

September 19, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today including – did we ever think we’d get the chance to say this? – the CD debut of Buckingham Nicks! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Buckingham Nicks (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. (gold) / Amazon U.K. (baby blue) / Amazon Canada (gold) In just over 15 years of reporting at The Second Disc, it’s a sentence we never thought we’d write: Buckingham Nicks is getting its first-ever reissue. The 1973 album from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks…

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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, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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38 Special, Anne Murray, Art in America, Brook Benton, Charley Pride, Elton John, Gilbert and Sullivan, Jim Croce, Lindsey Buckingham, Nine Inch Nails, Ray Charles, Stevie Nicks, The Cowsills, The Divine Comedy, Vanessa Williams

A Second Disc Interview: A.J. Croce Brings the Family Songbook to Life Once More

September 17, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

The music business works in mysterious ways. Not long after posting news that recent remixes of Jim Croce’s classic solo albums were getting repackaged into a CD set, The Second Disc was approached with the opportunity to talk to A.J. Croce, the son of the late singer/songwriter, ahead of a tour he’s mounting. Adrian James Croce was eight days shy of turning two when a plane crash claimed the life of his father, then just 30 years old. He has since gone into music himself: hardly a clone of Jim – there’s a…

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Interviews

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock

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A.J. Croce, Jim Croce

Photographs and Memories: Remixed Trio of Jim Croce Albums Coming to CD, Vinyl

August 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

The shockingly brief but nonetheless brilliant major-label career of Jim Croce will be revisited this year with a triplicate of remixed albums to be released by BMG. The Definitive Croce, available on CD or vinyl on September 19 (just a day short of 52 years since his passing), gathers both albums he recorded and released for ABC Records during his lifetime (You Don’t Mess Around with Jim and Life and Times) plus the posthumous I Got a Name – all recently remixed by engineer Paul Hicks (whose mixing and mastering work includes projects…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Folk, Pop

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Jim Croce

RSD Round-Up: Spotlight on Omnivore, Iconoclassic, Friday Music, Dark Horse, Light in the Attic, and More

February 27, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Our look at this year’s Record Store Day releases continues with a look at the lineups from Omnivore Recordings, Iconoclassic Records, Friday Music, Light in the Attic, and more of our favorite labels! All titles here are due on April 20, and all descriptions are taken directly from the labels. If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20. Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers. U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca. Watch this space close to…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of October 13

October 13, 2023 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Johnny Mathis, Christmas Time Is Here (Legacy/Real Gone/Second Disc) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada “Christmas Tree Green” Vinyl LP: RealGoneMusic.com / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada “Holly Red” Vinyl LP: BarnesandNoble.com Johnny Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade. Christmas Time Is Here boasts ten newly-recorded tracks including those which premiered last year on the digital-only EP A Merry Little Christmas. It’s Mathis’ seventh…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Agnetha Faltskog, Jim Croce, Johnny Mathis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marc Almond, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Rod McKuen, The Cranberries, Whitesnake

Release Round-Up: Week of November 25

November 25, 2022 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the (non-Record Store Day) titles hitting stores today! Watch this space for our RSD Black Friday Picks! David Bowie, Divine Symmetry (An Alternative Journey Through ‘Hunky Dory’) (Parlophone) 4CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 4CD/1BD slipcased box set chronicling the twelve months leading up to the December 1971 release of David Bowie’s fourth studio album. Highlighted by 48 previously unreleased tracks, the box features home demos, BBC radio sessions, live and studio recordings, and new mixes of Hunky Dory material by…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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David Bowie, Jim Croce, Ringo Starr, The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Tina Turner, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Release Round-Up: Week of December 11

December 11, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Young, After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary Edition (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 50th Anniversary Edition of Neil Young’s classic album features new art based on Gary Burden’s original album cover design. The CD is out today while the vinyl edition will be released in March, 2021 and presented in a box set with the LP and a bonus 7″ single in a newly designed picture sleeve. This set includes two different versions of the After the Gold Rush outtake “Wonderin’.” …

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Alan Jay Lerner, David Heneker, Deftones, Firefall, Frank Sinatra, Jim Croce, John Barry, Kool and the Gang, Maury Yeston, Merle Haggard, Neil Young, Roxette, Willie Nelson

Release Round-Up: Week of August 11

August 11, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Jo Stafford, It Had to Be You: Lost Radio Recordings (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Jo Stafford’s It Had To Be You: Lost Radio Recordings features 24 performances from the legendary vocalist’s stint as co-host (with crooner Tony Martin) of The Carnation Contented Hour on CBS Radio from 1950-1951. With songs by mainstays of the Great American Songbook like Harold Arlen (“I’ve Got the World on a String”), Rodgers and Hart (“Little Girl Blue”), Irving Berlin (“It’s a Lovely Day Today”) and Cole Porter (“In The Still of the…

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News

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CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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A.J. Croce, Asia, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, Jim Croce, Jo Stafford, Live, Rosemary Clooney, Steve Howe, The Slits, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of March 17

March 17, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

This week’s Release Round-Up has box sets and deluxe editions a-plenty… The Pretty Things, Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky (Snapper) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This box set is much in the style of last year’s Small Faces set Here Come the Nice, and contains 11 studio albums on CD with 42 bonus tracks, two rarities CDs with 45 previously unreleased tracks, 2 DVDs including a new documentary by Reelin’ in the Years Productions, a 10-inch replica acetate disc, posters, an art print, and a 100-page hardcover book! In short, this looks…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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

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Anthony Phillips, Basia, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Game Theory, Genesis, Jim Croce, Simple Minds, The Notations