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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 August 18

August 18, 2023 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Aerosmith, Greatest Hits [Various Formats] (UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Limited Edition CD: Official Store LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe 2LP: Official Store 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe 4LP: Official Store Japan-Exclusive 6CD: CDJapan / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Aerosmith has a brand-new career spanning compilation available in multiple formats. The simply-titled Greatest Hits shares a name with the group’s first compilation, issued back in 1980, but it’s being billed…

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News

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

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Aerosmith, Dick Hyman, Joe Strummer, Richard Wright, Scott Joplin, Talking Heads, The Beatles

The Weekend Stream: November 19, 2022

November 19, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Madonna, You Can Dance (Single Edits) / Rain (Warner/Rhino) Dance: iTunes / Amazon Rain: iTunes / Amazon Rhino keeps digitally uploading intriguing stuff from Madonna’s single and remix catalogue, and this month saw two such releases: first, a bundle of mixes surrounding the Erotica favorite “Rain,” then this week, to celebrate the 35th anniversary of remix album You Can Dance, an upload of the rare promo version that found all the tracks unmixed and edited to single-ready lengths. Roger Waters, Comfortably Numb 2022 (Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) A new version of the…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Charlie Parker, Duran Duran, Esther Phillips, Joe Strummer, Madonna, Melissa Manchester, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Clash, The Statler Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of September 16

September 16, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Miles Davis, That’s What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 (Columbia/Legacy) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 3-CD box set (also available digitally) focuses on Miles Davis’ final years at the Columbia label with which he had been associated since 1955 and on the three albums that closed out his 30-year run: Star People (1983), Decoy (1984), and You’re Under Arrest (1985). The collection features studio outtakes as well as a complete live performance, What It Is: Montreal…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, Joe Strummer, Lang Lang, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Stacey Q, Suede

Time and the Tide: Dark Horse Collects Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros’ Albums on “002”

August 2, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Back in 2018, Joe Strummer 001 collected recordings made by the late Clash frontman outside of that band: solo, with bandmate Mick Jones, and with The Mescaleros and The 101ers. Now, BMG’s reactivated Dark Horse Records label has announced Joe Strummer 002. Subtitled The Mescaleros Years and due from the label on September 16, the collection reissues all three Mescaleros albums and adds fifteen rare and/or previously unreleased tracks. It will be available on 4 CDs with a 72-page book or 7 LPs with a 32-page book. The original Mescaleros line-up consisted…

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News

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

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Rock

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Joe Strummer, The Mescaleros

It Will Be Double: The Clash Detail Expanded Edition of ‘Combat Rock’

April 7, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

This is a public service announcement…with bonus tracks! Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash’s Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare and unreleased tracks curated by the band’s surviving members. As the follow-up to the sprawling triple album Sandinista! (1980), the fifth album from “The Only Band That Matters” found the group at a creative crossroads. Guitarist Mick Jones found himself feeling estranged from his bandmates, including Joe Strummer (who convinced the group to rehire manager Bernie…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, The Beat, The Clash, The English Beat

Release Round-Up: Week of March 26

March 26, 2021 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Young, Young Shakespeare (Reprise) [Various Formats] CD/DVD/LP box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand DVD: Greedy Hand Digital: Neil Young Archives (Streaming) / XStream (Digital Download) / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Young Shakespeare documents the earliest known filmed live concert footage of Neil Young, in an array of formats. The previously unreleased, solo acoustic show was filmed in Stratford, Connecticut in 1971, as Young was preparing his commercial breakthrough, Harvest, and just two months after the release of After the Gold Rush. He treated the…

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Release Round-Up

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

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

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3 Doors Down, Badfinger, Chuck Berry, Elvis Costello, Gerry Beckley, Harpers Bizarre, Joe Strummer, Joey Molland, Jon Anderson, Lynn Ahrens, Neil Young, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Flaherty, The Jacksons

Long Shadow: Dark Horse Label Relaunches with “Assembly” from Late Clash Frontman Joe Strummer

February 4, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Last year, just before COVID-19 derailed most of the world, Olivia and Dhani Harrison announced that George Harrison’s Dark Horse label would be relaunching. Founded by the late Beatle in 1974, Dark Horse released George’s own records but also LPs from artists including Ravi Shankar, Wings guitarist Henry McCullough, the David Foster band Attitudes, the duo Splinter, and soul group The Stairsteps and Stairsteps member Keni Burke. While there’s been no news as to reissues of those vintage Dark Horse titles, the label has announced its new partnership with BMG and the…

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Rock

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Joe Strummer

Release Round-Up: Week of September 28

September 28, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Tom Petty, An American Treasure (Reprise) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This career-spanning retrospective of rare and previously unreleased material from the late Tom Petty arrives on Reprise Records. The aptly-titled An American Treasure will be the first posthumous collection of Petty material, and it should prove a vital reminder of the power of Petty’s art. The box set, assembled by Petty’s wife Dana,…

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News, Release Round-Up

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

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

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Aretha Franklin, Cher, Glenn Frey, J.D. Souther, Joe Strummer, Linda Thompson, Loretta Lynn, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, Skip Spence, The Louvin Brothers, Tom Petty

Love Kills: Joe Strummer’s Solo Material Highlighted In New Collection

July 30, 2018 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

When it comes to Joe Strummer, 001 is the number to watch. That’s the name of the upcoming box set that shines a deserved light on the late Clash frontman’s work outside of his famous band – solo, with former bandmate Mick Jones, and with his 101ers and The Mescaleros. 001 arrives on September 28 from Ignition Records in an array of formats, including 2CD, 2CD Deluxe, 4LP, and a 2CD/4LP/7″/Cassette Super Deluxe edition. The first CD of 001 compiles 20 eclectic, previously released sides showcasing Strummer’s many musical endeavors including deep…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Cassette, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, The Clash

Smash Hits: Elvis, Miles, Jimi, Johnny Cash, Big Star Headline Legacy’s Record Store Day Slate

March 8, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Record Store Day is coming up in a little more than a month, on Saturday, April 16, and the titles are starting to pour in for the annual celebration of brick-and-mortar record stores. Today, Legacy Recordings has just announced its slate! It’s a typically eclectic line-up of vinyl releases from some of the label’s heaviest hitters from rock-and-roll, country, jazz, and beyond, including Elvis Presley, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Big Star and many more! Big Star – Complete Columbia: Live At University of Missouri 4/25/93 2LP reissue of the newly…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Big Star, Cheap Trick, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Strummer, Johnny Cash, Manic Street Preachers, Matthew Sweet, Miles Davis, Outkast, Record Store Day