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June 8, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lou Reed Words and Music May 1965

"I was working for a record company as a songwriter," Lou Reed remembered in 1972, "where they'd lock me in a room and they'd say, 'Write ten surfing songs,' ya know, and I wrote 'Heroin' and I said, 'Hey, I've got something for ya.'  They said, 'Never gonna happen, never gonna happen.'"  Reed wasn't able to introduce "Heroin" to the world until March 1967 when the Verve label released The Velvet Underground & Nico.  The VU's debut album disappointed commercially but became greatly

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: John Cale, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground

September 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Velvet Underground OST

Director Todd Haynes has long emphasized music in his filmography.  One of his first works to garner significant attention was 1987's controversial and unauthorized Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story; four years later, his evocation of the glam rock era in Velvet Goldmine made more commercial waves.  More recently, he's been attached to direct Michelle Williams in the forthcoming Peggy Lee biopic Fever.  But before Haynes tackles Peggy, he's returning to a different Velvet: The Velvet

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Soundtracks Tags: John Cale, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground

June 5, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream

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've introduced 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! Nelly Furtado, Loose

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alicia Keys, Bear McCreary, John Cale, Nelly Furtado, Terry Riley

March 6, 2020 By Sam Stone 6 Comments

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Rhino, the label that manages the catalogue of the Warner family of labels, has announced its upcoming Record Store Day releases.  A mouth-watering 29 titles will hit shops on April 18, available exclusively at brick-and-mortar locations.  These include the previously announced David Bowie titles; a rare live set from Alice Cooper; rarities from Jethro Tull; a box of John Prine's early albums; a set of core Notorious BIG records; BBC sessions from The Pogues, New Order, and Hawkwind; a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Alphaville, David Bowie, Dexter Gordon, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Hootie and The Blowfish, Jethro Tull, John Cale, John Prine, Lou Reed, New Order, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Pretenders, Ramones, Record Store Day, The Cure, The Doors, The Notorious B.I.G., The Pogues, The Replacements, Warren Zevon

March 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

When the Day Is Done

The subject of a new collection from Ace Records isn't exactly a household name.  But if you didn't know the name of Robert Kirby before, you certainly will after a listen to When the Day is Done: The Orchestrations of Robert Kirby.  The titular orchestrator is best known for his lush adornment of Nick Drake's records, conjuring up a pastoral England that couldn't be more removed from the swingin' era that preceded it.  A brief track from Drake opens this collection before it cedes to an

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Folk Tags: Iain Matthews, John Cale, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, Various Artists, Vashti Bunyan

December 21, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Velvet Underground VU50 box

In the spring of 1967, after sitting on it for about a year, Verve Records issued The Velvet Underground & Nico, a strange yet ultimately captivating album by a New York band comprised of singer/guitarist Lou Reed, instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen "Moe" Tucker - with vocal contributions from Nico, a German singer and model introduced to the album at the behest of artist and album producer Andy Warhol. Producer Brian Eno summed the album up better

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Jackson Browne, John Cale, Lou Reed, Nico, Velvet Underground

April 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

English Weather

To many, the phrase "English weather" conjures images of fog, clouds, and rain.  To Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, English weather means something "melodic, melancholy, with jazz and folk touches, and the same similar shrug of resignation..." So explains the compilers of the recent English Weather, an absorbing 18-track compendium from Ace Records collecting rare and unusual songs that might be, in their words, akin to "an unfamiliar album with a hint of Crosby, Stills and Nash, but an identifiably

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Folk, Rock Tags: Bill Fay, Camel, John Cale, Various Artists

July 30, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

united states of america

Under the auspices of its new president, Clive Davis, Columbia Records aggressively courted the rock revolution in the late 1960s. The classy home to Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams built upon its successes with Paul Revere and the Raiders, Simon and Garfunkel and Bob Dylan to tap into the youth market with a wide variety of rock artists. Two outré albums from the venerable Columbia catalogue have recently been reissued by Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint, and they both

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: John Cale, The United States of America

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