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Release Round-Up: Week of April 10

April 10, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores this week. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Weezer, Coloring Book (UMe) Official Store / uDiscover Music All six of Weezer’s self-titled albums distinguished by the color scheme of their cover (1994’s blue debut, 2001’s green, 2008’s red, 2016’s white and 2019’s covers album teal and original black) will be pressed on vinyl in those colors. The draw here is the package: a 72-page, hardcover coloring book featuring illustrations by artist Alec Longstreth, which fans can fill…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Alfie Boe, Claybourne Elder, Duran Duran, Gregg Allman, Joe Jackson, Laufey, Suzi Quatro, Ween, Weezer

The Weekend Stream: March 21, 2026

March 21, 2026 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. Two eras of Madonna, early INXS and plenty of new cuts for country, folk and rock lovers are all in the mix! Madonna, Into the Groove / Hung Up (Remixes) / Sorry (Remixes) / Jump (Remixes) / 4 Minutes (feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland) (Remixes) / Celebration (Remixes) EPs (Warner/Rhino) “Groove”: Apple / Amazon “Hung Up”: Apple / Amazon “Sorry”: Apple / Amazon “Jump”: Apple / Amazon “4 Minutes”: Apple…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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CCM, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

The Weekend Stream: February 7, 2026

February 7, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. New tracks from old favorites, deep cuts, good causes, a fun recent Grammy winner, and the triumphant return of The Muppets? What more could you possibly ask for?! The Muppets, The Muppet Show Theme (2026) (Walt Disney Records) (Apple / Amazon) It’s time to play the music! The Muppet Show made a triumphant return to television this week: a special episode that aired on ABC and Disney+, produced by…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aaron Neville, Beck, Blink-182, Brian Blade, Bruce Hornsby, Chuck Negron, Daniel Lanois, Joe Jackson, Koji Kondo, Parliament-Funkadelic, Patti Page, Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Television, The Blasters, The Format, The Muppets, Three Dog Night

The Weekend Stream: December 13, 2025

December 13, 2025 by The Second Disc | 5 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. There’s even more holiday gifts today: new takes on a film music legend, a decade-spanning dance mash-up, more centennial celebrations for a Rat Pack icon, plus some deep country and modern rock treasures. Cécilia Tsan, Sara Andon & Simone Pedroni, John Williams Reimagined: Home Alone (Warner Classics/Erato/Parlophone) (Apple / Amazon) In 2024, soundtrack reissue producer Robert Townson assembled cellist Tsan, flautist Andon and pianist Pedroni for a most intriguing…

The Weekend Stream: May 3, 2025

May 3, 2025 by The Second Disc | No 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. We’ve got a real party mix for you this week: alt-rock, soft rock, classic rock (in Spanish!), post-hardcore, funk, Barbra Streisand – you name it, we’re spinning it! R.E.M., Radio Free Europe 2025 EP (Craft) (Apple / Amazon / Bandcamp) The legendary Athens, Georgia rockers have a special, timely treat for fans this weekend. With the real and nonpartisan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s grants under fire from the current presidential…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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

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Barbra Streisand, Christopher Cross, Foreigner, Fugazi, Hozier, Joe Jackson, Los Straitjackets, Marvin Gaye, Nick Lowe, R.E.M., Tammi Terrell, The S.O.S. Band

Release Round-Up: Week of November 24

November 24, 2023 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles in stores today. While today is traditionally not a big day for general retail releases, check out our coverage of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event for more new releases! We are an Amazon affiliate, and we earn from qualifying purchases. Yes, The Yes Album: Super Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Atlantic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com) Rhino lavishly expands Yes’ 1971 third LP, The Yes Album, as a 4CD/1BD/1LP collection with remastered audio, previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a brand-new Dolby Atmos…

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

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Camel, Joe Jackson, Smash Mouth, The Donnas, Various Artists, Yes

As You Walk on By: New Box Celebrates the Music of John Hughes Films

August 4, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

A wise philosopher…or maybe a punk kid…or maybe an astute screenwriter?…once wrote “Life moves pretty fast – if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” A new box set devoted to that iconic filmmaker – the late John Hughes – will help fans enjoy some of that life a little more through a diverse collection of pop songs he helped bring to the masses. Life Moves Pretty Fast. The John Hughes Mixtapes offers four volumes of songs from the writer/director’s popular comedies and teen dramas….

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Cassette, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of June 18

June 18, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren featuring Ethel, State Theater, New Jersey 2005 (Purple Pyramid) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson’s 2005 international tour featuring post-classical string quartet Ethel is brought to a 2CD/DVD set from Purple Pyramid collecting all three artists’ sets plus the encore which brought them together. Both Jackson and Rundgren performed solo for sets blending fan favorites with deeper cuts. The show was recorded at New Brunswick, New Jersey’s State Theatre on April 29, 2005. Read more here. Frank Zappa,…

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Reggae, Rock

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Chris Stamey, Frank Zappa, Jaime Laredo, Joe Jackson, Kleeer, Peter Holsapple, The Allman Brothers Band, The Merseybeats, The Whispers, The dB's, Todd Rundgren

Be My Number Two: Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson Tour Comes to CD, DVD

May 12, 2021 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Joe Jackson and new 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Todd Rundgren‘s paths first crossed professionally on April 24, 2004 at the small Joe’s Pub, tucked inside the Public Theater in New York City. That evening, Rundgren celebrated 15 years of his musical Up Against It by recreating the show in concert at its original home of the Public to benefit the theatre. Jackson sang the role of Father Brodie, and he and Rundgren hit it off so well that they decided to continue their collaboration. The result was a…

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CD, DVD

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop

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Ethel, Joe Jackson, Todd Rundgren

Review: Joe Jackson, “Body and Soul” [Hybrid SACD]

September 1, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Joe Jackson was never much of a conformist. The singer-songwriter followed up his first two albums (which dovetailed with the new wave movement and also reflected a punk spirit) with two stylistic departures before embracing classic songcraft on 1982’s watershed Night and Day. Basking in the success of the album and its singles “Steppin’ Out” and “Breaking Us in Two,” Jackson turned to film scoring with Mike’s Murder, but most of his score was discarded in favor of one by John Barry. Where would he go next? The answer came in 1984…

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Pop

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Joe Jackson

Happy Ending: Intervention Brings Joe Jackson’s “Body and Soul” to Hybrid SACD

April 22, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Intervention Records’ Joe Jackson reissue series has already seen high-quality vinyl pressings of such favorite albums as I’m the Man, Look Sharp!, Night and Day, and Summer in the City: Live in New York. Now, the label is turning its attention to another classic from the Jackson discography, his 1984 studio album Body and Soul. On or around June 5, the label will reissue Body and Soul as a stereo hybrid SACD, playable on all CD players. Following the breakthrough success of 1982’s Night and Day, the singer-songwriter-pianist turned to film scoring…

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News

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CD, SACD

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Pop, Rock

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Joe Jackson

Release Round-Up: Week of January 18

January 18, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Rush, In Rio [4-LP Vinyl] (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Recorded live during their 2002 “comeback” tour, Rush’s In Rio was originally released on CD and DVD in 2003. Now, the 28-song set featuring hits and deep cuts from across their career arrives on vinyl for the first time, across four 180-gram discs. The collection includes all 29 songs from the Rio gig, plus two bonus tracks recorded at other stops during the Vapor Trails Tour. “Between Sun & Moon” was recorded…

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock

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Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Jackson, John Lennon, Ronnie Milsap, Rush

Holiday Gift Guide Review: Joe Jackson, “Summer in the City: Live in New York”

December 15, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Intervention Records has been looking sharp with deluxe vinyl reissues of some of Joe Jackson’s most treasured albums, including I’m the Man, Night and Day, and yes, Look Sharp! Now, the label has returned to the singer-songwriter-piano man’s oeuvre with one of his lesser-known, latter-day efforts: Summer in the City: Live in New York. The album was recorded in August 1999 in the intimate environs of Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, and released on Sony Classical. It came as a surprise – and a relief – to many of the ever-evolving…

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Holiday Gift Guide, News, Reviews

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Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Joe Jackson

Release Round-Up: Week of October 20

October 20, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! George Michael, Listen Without Prejudice 25 (Columbia/Legacy) 2-CD (Disc 1 & 2 Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-CD/1-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy is delivering a deluxe edition of George Michael’s classic 1990 album. Listen Without Prejudice 25 sees release in several formats. The biggest is a 3-CD/1 DVD box set. The first CD contains a remastered version of the original album. The second disc is the CD premiere of…

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

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Cheap Trick, Donald Fagen, Fred Astaire, George Michael, Jackie Shane, Joe Jackson, Nick Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, Steely Dan, The Jam, The Smiths, Willie Nelson

Steppin’ Out: Intervention Records Reissues Two From Joe Jackson

August 25, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Look Sharp! Joe Jackson certainly did as nattily attired on his debut release of that name. Joined by Graham Maby on bass, Gary Sanford on guitar and Dave Houghton on drums, pianist-singer Jackson delivered a record for the ages. Both Look Sharp! and Night and Day, Jackson’s fifth album for A&M Records, have recently been reissued as deluxe audiophile vinyl editions by the team at Intervention Records. Happily, they’re sonically every bit the equal of the label’s stellar reissue earlier this year of the artist’s sophomore disc, I’m the Man. The jagged,…

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Joe Jackson’s “I’m the Man” Returns On Vinyl From Intervention Records

May 9, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Joe Jackson appears on the cover of his 1979 sophomore album, I’m the Man, as a “spiv”: a British term for a peculiar kind of petty criminal “always trying to sell you a watch or something like that, real cheap,” in the artist’s words. But Jackson didn’t have to resort to any cheap come-ons to hawk I’m the Man, a solid follow-up to his impressive debut Look Sharp! which arrived just months after that seminal release. Despite the quick turnaround, I’m the Man hailed from the same inspired period of songwriting for…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 2

October 2, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

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 you’ll find in each version! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Pipes of Peace (MPL/Concord) Paul…

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

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