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May 2, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Pink Floyd Pompeii

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. Pink Floyd, At Pompeii (Pink Floyd/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd's arresting 1972 concert film -

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Cat Stevens, Gentle Giant, Josh Groban, Mary Rodgers, Pink Floyd, Sutton Foster, Todd Rundgren, Wilco

March 13, 2025 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Josh Groban Gems

On May 9, Josh Groban will kick off Gems, a five-night run in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.  One week earlier, the superstar actor-singer will commemorate the concert stand with a companion album of the same name.  Arriving on Reprise Records, Gems features 16 classics from Groban's discography alongside two new songs, "Be Alright" and "Open Hands." The Los Angeles native was just sixteen years old when he was introduced by his vocal coach to David Foster.  Foster enlisted him

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson

February 7, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

A.I. Mondo vinyl

One of John Williams' more haunting works for the films of Steven Spielberg bows on vinyl from the Mondo label: his soundtrack to the 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The 2LP set, recreating the original soundtrack album on either red and blue or white 140 gram vinyl (remastered by James Plotkin), is packaged in a Tyvek gatefold jacket - that's right, the high-density polyethylene material that protects structures from moisture that you've seen on a construction project or two - with

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams, Josh Groban, Lara Fabian

March 1, 2024 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

The Who Live at Shea Stadium

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. The Who, Live at Shea Stadium 1982 (Mercury Studios) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Who's October 13, 1982 concert at Shea Stadium, the now-demolished, longtime home of the New York Mets, was released on DVD and standard-definition Blu-ray back in 2015.  Now,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Albert Hammond, Eydie Gorme, Fanny, Glen Campbell, Hardline, Josh Groban, Kenny Rogers, Patti Page, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Spineshank, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Lawrence, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, The Donnas, The Who, Vivabeat

December 15, 2023 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Willie Nelson Long Story Short

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As the next two Fridays will bring few, if any, new releases, this will be the final Release Round-Up of 2024, but we'll continue to have news and reviews all next week.  We'll be back with another Release Round-Up in 2024!  As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.  Happy Holidays to all! Rosanne Cash, The Wheel: 30th Anniversary Edition (RumbleStrip Records) 2CD: Amazon

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Johnny Winter, Josh Groban, Laufey, Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Stephen Sondheim, The Black Crowes, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Willie Nelson

November 17, 2023 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Frank Zappa Over Nite Sensation

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles available today in the final "big week" of the holiday release season.  We are an Amazon affiliate and earn on qualifying purchases. We're kicking things off with our two Christmas releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!  While Amazon's orders are unfortunately delayed, both of these titles are shipping now from Real Gone's webstore! Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops, The Ultimate Pops

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arthur Fiedler, Blue Angel, Bob Dylan, Cyndi Lauper, Daft Punk, David Sancious, Dolly Parton, Eugene Ormandy, Eydie Gorme, Frank Zappa, Jewel, John Denver, John Luongo, Josh Groban, Judy Garland, Klark Kent, Leonard Bernstein, Milli Vanilli, Olivia Newton-John, Steve Lawrence, The Kinks, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Thin Lizzy

November 13, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

The Kinks The Journey Part 2

Today's Short Takes gathers news of three upcoming releases, all of which are currently scheduled for this Friday, November 17. We are an Amazon affiliate and earn on qualifying purchases. Josh Groban, currently packing houses as Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, is looking back to his 6x Platinum sophomore album, 2003's Closer, for a new 2CD or 2LP anniversary reissue (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada).  Like his self-titled debut,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Daft Punk, Josh Groban, The Kinks

May 27, 2023 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend from a Sly and the Family Stone rarity to the latest expanded edition from Taylor Swift! https://youtu.be/oGsct11DL_M Sly and the Family Stone, Ten Years Too Soon (The Remix Album) (Epic/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Perhaps the most bizarre item in the Sly and the Family Stone catalogue has hit

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: All Saints, Barbra Streisand, Ed Ames, Edgar Winter, Josh Groban, Miles Davis, Sly and the Family Stone, Stephen Sondheim, Taylor Swift, The Jesus and Mary Chain

October 14, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Dolly A Holly Dolly Christmas Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Frank Zappa, Zappa '75: Zagreb/Ljubljana (Zappa/UMe) (Zappa Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Zappa '75: Zagreb/Ljubljana captures The Mothers' first and only concerts in Yugoslavia.  Zappa referred to the dates as "The Mothers of Invention Yugoslavian Extravaganza," and the performances lived up to that mighty moniker.  The shows were staged in Zagreb and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Brian Eno, Dean Torrence, Dexys Midnight Runners, Dolly Parton, Duran Duran, Frank Zappa, Josh Groban, Kevin Rowland, Leonard Cohen, Linda Ronstadt, Mike Love, Reba McEntire, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roy Orbison, Todd Rundgren

November 20, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week features some new remixes for Marvin Gaye and Teddy Pendergrass, a revisit of Josh Groban's debut and some great rarities for soul and alt-rock fans. Marvin Gaye + SaLaAM ReMi, Save the World Remix Suite (Motown/UMe) (iTunes / Spotify / Amazon) From remixer SaLaAM ReMi - who helped organize Gaye's

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Bell Biv DeVoe, Giorgio Moroder, Josh Groban, Marvin Gaye, Nancy Wilson, Sheena Easton, Teddy Pendergrass

February 26, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

BobDylan 1970Collection

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, 1970 (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In recent years, Bob Dylan's annual copyright-extension collections have become highly sought-after collectors' items and fodder for bootleggers everywhere.  Happily, Legacy Recordings has opted to give a wide release to Dylan's 1970 set, largely drawn from the Self Portrait sessions and featuring his loose jams with George Harrison.  This 3-CD set features 74

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Tyler, Gene Russell, Henry Franklin, Joseph Williams, Josh Groban, Neil Young, Nicolas King, Richard Pryor, Sivuca, Steve Lukather, Strawbs, The Black Crowes, Toe Fat, Willie Nelson

November 7, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Groban Noel 10

The Christmas season is almost upon us, and classical crooner Josh Groban is celebrating with an expanded edition of Noël, his best-selling holiday album. Released in the fall of 2007, a holiday record was something of an inevitability for the lyric baritone, who at the time had spent the better part of the previous decade becoming an adult contemporary sensation. At 19, he stepped in for opera singer Andrea Bocelli during a rehearsal for the Grammy Awards in 1999, where he sang "The Prayer"

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Josh Groban, Tony Bennett

November 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, The Ultimate Merry Christmas (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are joining Motown Records to unwrap a celebration of The Supremes' 1965 perennial Merry Christmas. The Ultimate Merry Christmas features the album in three distinctive versions: the original 1965 mono and stereo mixes, as well as a brand new, never-before-heard 2017 mix premiering

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Ann-Margret, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Cliff Martinez, Connie Smith, Debbie Gibson, Desmond Dekker, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Josh Groban, Lee Hazlewood, Little Richard, Percy Faith, Roy Orbison, Sepultura, The Ames Brothers, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Supremes

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