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July 15, 2021 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Judas Priest 50 Years of Heavy Metal Music Box

Back in March, we reported on the news that a massive 42-CD box set was on the way from pioneering metal band Judas Priest.  Now, the metal titans have confirmed those initial reports.  On October 15, Sony Music will release Reflections: 50 Heavy Metal Years of Music including every one of the band's official live and studio albums to date plus 13 discs of previously unreleased live material.  It's all been mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios, with the additional material restored and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Judas Priest

March 16, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Fawlty Towers for the Record

Although only 12 episodes were made between 1975 and 1979, Fawlty Towers remains one of television's most beloved comedies.  As recently as 2019, it was named the greatest ever British sitcom by Radio Times, and its magic has never been successfully duplicated.  Three American remakes - starring Harvey Korman and Betty White (the pilot-only Chateau Snavely, 1978), Bea Arthur (Amanda's, 1983), and John Larroquette and JoBeth Williams (Payne, 1999) - all failed to recapture the spirit of the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Soundtracks Tags: Fawlty Towers, Glenn Tipton, John Cleese, Judas Priest

July 16, 2020 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

RSD Drops 2020

As the world begins to slowly open up again, one thing that vinyl aficionados can look forward to is Record Store Day's RSD Drops.  As we've previously reported, the organization opted to cancel their big day in April, and instead the titles will be released over three "drops" on August 29, September 26, and October 24.  Legacy Recordings has announced their full, updated list of RSD Drops contributions from Cheap Trick, Tyler The Creator, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Toto, Manic Street Preachers,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Britney Spears, Cheap Trick, Destiny’s Child, Judas Priest, Lou Reed, Manic Street Preachers, Miles Davis, Nick Mason, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, TLC, Toto, Tyler The Creator

March 6, 2020 By Sam Stone 5 Comments

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Sony Music's Legacy Recordings division has announced the titles they'll be releasing for the annual Record Store Day festivities. Hitting shelves April 18 will be a slew of genre- and decade-spanning albums from Miles Davis, Cheap Trick, TLC, Judas Priest, Tyler the Creator, Pink Floyd and more! Here's the official word from Legacy! Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, today announces another sensational line-up of vinyl for release on Record Store Day (April

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Britney Spears, Cheap Trick, Destiny’s Child, Judas Priest, Lou Reed, Manic Street Preachers, Miles Davis, Nick Mason, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Record Store Day, Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, TLC, Toto, Tyler The Creator

October 10, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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It's that time of year -- the temperatures are falling, the leaves about to change color. And that can only mean one thing: Record Store Day Black Friday announcements! You've seen Rhino, Universal and Craft's line-ups; now, take a look at what Omnivore Recordings and Real Gone Music have each unveiled for this year's celebrations. Let's take a look! Alex Chilton, My Rival (Omnivore) Omnivore Recordings invites listeners into an "alternate universe" with their 10" EP of previously unissued

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alex Chilton, Big Star, Judas Priest, Los Lobos, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Peter Holsapple, Tony Joe White

February 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Lesley Gore Love Me By Name

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring Second Disc Records' first release of the year plus another incredible slate from Real Gone Music, box sets, anthologies, and more! Various Artists, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are tipping off 2017 with the first-ever CD release of Thom Bell's soulful soundtrack to 1979's The Fish

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, Delaney and Bonnie, Duke Ellington, Jim Kweskin, Judas Priest, Larry Coryell, Lesley Gore, Lynn Anderson, Soft Machine, Thom Bell, Vangelis

December 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Judas Priest Turbo 30

Judas Priest is revisiting its tenth album, 1986's Turbo, in a turbo-charged 30th anniversary edition coming on February 3, 2017 from Legacy Recordings.  The original, remastered album will be expanded with two additional discs of bonus material on this upcoming reissue, and the album will also be available sans bonus tracks in a new 150-gram vinyl pressing. Turbo marked a crucial step in the evolution of the band.  It began life as one-half of a planned double album entitled Twin Turbos,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Judas Priest

March 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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This week brings a particularly impressive slate by any standard, but we're particularly proud to introduce the world to Second Disc Records with our first two releases, from Johnny Mathis and the late Bob Crewe! Johnny Mathis, Life is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Here, on two CDs, we proudly present both of Johnny Mathis' album collaborations - including the never-on-CD Mathis Is... - with songwriter-producer

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Pepper, Bettye LaVette, Bob Crewe, Bread, Grace Slick, Grover Washington Jr., Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Mathis, Judas Priest, Julie Andrews, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, The Guess Who

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