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The Weekend Stream: May 17, 2025

May 17, 2025 by The Second Disc | 4 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. A positively packed volume offers legends of pop, rock and country revisiting and interpreting some classic tracks; catalogue favorites from Britney to Sheena and Connie to Katrina; intriguing film scores and show tunes; and remembrances of a few legends we lost this week. Steve Perry & Willie Nelson, “Faithfully” (Dark Horse) (Apple / Amazon) One of rock’s most recognizable voices joins forces with country’s most enduring living icon! Former Journey…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Blues, CCM, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Maybe This Year: Steve Perry Plots Third Reissue of Holiday Album ‘The Season’

October 28, 2024 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Until a few years ago, fans wondered if Steve Perry – the best known voice of blockbuster rock band Journey – would ever sing again after a lengthy absence from the public eye. After a celebrated comeback album in 2018, Perry ended his shortest gap between solo releases three years later, with the holiday album The Season; this Christmas, it’s being reissued a third time on a new label, with even more new material. True to its name, The Season 3 is the third iteration of Perry’s holiday collection, which followed third…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Holiday

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Journey, Steve Perry

The Weekend Stream: May 11, 2024

May 11, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 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. A legendary rock vocalist revives one of his deep cuts with a new generation of talent, a ’70s pop classic comes to digital for the first time and one of our favorite current bands preps their new album – plus so much more! The Effect & Steve Perry, “It Could Have Been You” (Core4) (iTunes / Amazon) Rock band The Effect is full of second-generation talent – guitarist…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Bill Danoff, Carlos Alomar, Charly Bliss, Chet Atkins, INXS, Jerry Reed, Journey, Kenny Nolan, Starland Vocal Band, Steve Perry

The Weekend Stream: October 28, 2023

October 28, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. A beloved Madonna ballad, a new Journey remix and a benefit compilation for Ukranian relief all get center stage today, plus a few unheard gems for country and electronic fans alike. Madonna, You’ll See (The Remixes) (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) This emotional 1995 ballad, a collaboration between the Queen of Pop and David Foster, was the lead single off a terrific…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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

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Brinsley Schwarz, Crowded House, Dave Stewart, Doris Day, Jackson Browne, Jethro Tull, Journey, Madonna, Marc Almond, Marianne Faithfull, Richard Thompson, Roberta Flack, Steve Perry, Stevie Nicks, The Waterboys

Release Round-Up: Week of December 9

December 9, 2022 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM Cheap Trick, Live at The Whisky 1977 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 4CD set compiles a quartet of Cheap Trick’s complete, uncut shows recorded at the Whisky-a-Go-Go in Los Angeles in the summer of 1977. It’s limited to just 2,000 copies and chronicles when Robin Zander, guitarist/songwriter Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson and drummer Bun E. Carlos spontaneously booked some nights at the historic Sunset Strip nightclub. KROQ-FM DJ…

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Release Round-Up

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Al Jardine, Cheap Trick, David Crosby, Donald Byrd, Hugh Jackman, Journey, Little River Band

Release Round-Up: Week of July 8

July 8, 2022 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today! George Michael, Older: Deluxe Edition (Legacy) 5CD/3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada George Michael’s third solo album – and the one he believed to be his finest – returns from Legacy Recordings in a new 5CD/3LP edition and a 2LP set. This expansion of 1996’s Older features both the remastered album and the EP Upper (included with reissues of the album in 1997) on 180-gram vinyl and CD, along with an additional three CDs featuring 27 B-sides, live tracks,…

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Release Round-Up

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

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

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Dio, Dolenz Jones Boyce and Hart, Elton John, George Michael, Journey, Kool and the Gang, Neil Young, Nelson, Richie Furay, Sting, The Monkees

If You’ve Got The Time: ‘Silver Dreams’ Box Compiles The Babys’ Discography

November 27, 2019 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

Perhaps unfairly deemed a cult act despite two Top 40 hits and a stable of talented members, British pop/rockers The Babys will get their due in a new box set from Cherry Red’s HNE imprint, collecting all their albums plus a host of bonus material. Silver Dreams: Complete Albums 1975-1980 contains expansions of the group’s five original albums – The Babys, Broken Heart, Head First, Union Jacks and On The Edge – plus a bonus disc featuring a promo-only live record recorded at The Tower Theatre outside Philadelphia in 1977 and a…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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John Waite, Journey, The Babys