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March 7, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Top Gun LLL

La-La Land Records continues its hot streak with an expanded score and soundtrack release of one of the biggest blockbusters of the '80s: Harold Faltermeyer's score to the 1986 action classic Top Gun. The 2CD set, limited to 5000 copies, features Faltermeyer's complete, electronic-infused score to Tony Scott's film about a squadron of Navy pilots training in an elite program colloquially known as - you guessed it - Top Gun. Tom Cruise stars as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a talented but reckless

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Berlin, Cheap Trick, Giorgio Moroder, Harold Faltermeyer, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kenny Loggins, Loverboy, Miami Sound Machine, Otis Redding, Teena Marie, The Righteous Brothers

October 7, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

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. Ahead of a three-day holiday weekend, it's all about re-imagining, from Paramore to Melissa Manchester to the disco mixes of John Luongo - plus some cool rock, jazz and soundtrack work making digital debuts. Paramore, Re: This is Why (Atlantic) (iTunes / Amazon) Pop-punk trio Paramore released their

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bruce Broughton, Christopher Young, Craig Doerge, Henry Mancini, John Williams, Kenny Loggins, Melissa Manchester, Michael Sembello, Paramore, Pete Yorn

February 3, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Weird The Al Yankovic Story

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Carole Bayer Sager, Sometimes Late at Night: Expanded Edition (Iconoclassic)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic Records is bringing Carole Bayer Sager's star-studded 1981 album Sometimes Late at Night back to CD, for the very first time from the original Boardwalk Records master tapes.  Featuring Burt Bacharach, Michael Jackson, Marvin Hamlisch, Neil Diamond, Melissa

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Comedy, Country, Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Dorothy Ashby, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Frank Wess, Grateful Dead, Kenny Loggins, Shania Twain, Shirley Scott, The Soul Searchers

June 11, 2021 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

RSD Drops 2021

Once again, Record Store Day here in the U.S. looks a little - make that a lot - different this year.  The usual offerings have been split among two dates in 2021 with Drop 1 taking place tomorrow, June 12, at your local independent record retailer.  Drop 2 then takes place on July 17.  Every retailer is handling the Drop a bit differently thanks to the necessary accommodations for social distancing, smaller crowds, and better safety precautions.  So please check in with your favorite store to

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Paul, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Kenny Loggins, Nancy Wilson, Peter Frampton, Steely Dan, Tears for Fears, Teddy Pendergrass, The O'Jays, The Police, The Who

April 15, 2021 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Bob Dylan Jokerman I and I

After last week's initial announcement, we'll be periodically continuing our look at the releases for the upcoming Record Store Day events on June 12 and July 17.  Today, we're focusing on our friends at Legacy Recordings.  The label has a robust slate for both Drops with many familiar faces including Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Kenny Loggins, Prince, Miles Davis, and the legendary artists and musicians of Philadelphia International Records.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for a list of participating

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Future, Jamiroquai, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Kenny Loggins, Miles Davis, Pearl Jam, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Record Store Day, The Clash

April 27, 2020 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Now Thats What I Call Yacht Rock 2

It's time to break out the piña coladas. This Friday, the long-running NOW series will release its second volume of NOW That's What I Call Yacht Rock. This collection of classic songs in the "yacht rock" genre - think: seventies and early eighties soft rock with memorable melodies, sparkling productions, and plenty of saxophones - arrives on CD and in digital/streaming formats, with a 2-LP vinyl set arriving on July 3. With eighteen songs, NOW That's What I Call Yacht Rock 2 boasts return

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Air Supply, Captain and Tennille, Chicago, Eric Carmen, Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Loggins, REO Speedwagon, Toto, Various Artists

July 15, 2019 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Now Thats What I Call Yacht Rock

Shimmering guitars, breezy horns, smooth keyboards, and crisp vocals on well-crafted songs with catchy choruses: all of those qualities might have once described "soft rock" or "adult-oriented rock," but more recently the genre has experienced a resurgence as "yacht rock."  Though the term was originally intended in a pejorative way, it's come to be accepted by many of the progenitors of the genre including Michael McDonald and John Oates.  There's an entire book on the yacht rock phenomenon, a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: 10cc, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Mason, Kenny Loggins, Peter Frampton, Poco, Rupert Holmes, The Climax Blues Band, Various Artists

February 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Stevie Nicks Stand Back

Next month, Stevie Nicks will make music history as the first female artist to receive her second induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, following her 1998 induction with Fleetwood Mac.  Nicks has hardly been resting on her laurels; after wrapping a recent, acclaimed solo tour, she's embarked on a 50th anniversary tour with the newly-reconstituted Mac.  Now, Rhino is celebrating her accomplishments with a new, career-spanning collection.  Stand Back 1981-2017 will arrive in a variety of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, John Stewart, Kenny Loggins, Lady Antebellum, Lana Del Rey, LeAnn Rimes, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Walter Egan

December 21, 2018 By Sam Stone 6 Comments

SesameStreetBornToAdd

Warner Music Group and Sesame Workshop have recently announced a joint effort that marks the relaunch of Sesame Street Records, the label that released over 60 classic originalSesame Street albums from 1970 to 1984.  To celebrate 50 years since the program first aired, the extensive Sesame Street music catalog, including original titles and newer collections from Golden Music, Koch and Sony Wonder, has finally joined the streaming age.  As of this writing, a whopping 119 titles--many previously

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Everything Else, Soundtracks Tags: B.B. King, Carpenters, Celine Dion, Dinah Shore, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Gloria Estefan, Johny Cash, José Feliciano, Kenny Loggins, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Little Richard, Malo, Patti Labelle, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, Ray Charles, Robin Gibb, Sesame Street, The Pointer Sisters

June 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

You Cant Live on Love Alone

Many of you reading this might know Popdose as one of your favorite pop-culture hangouts on the Internet.  Recently, our good friends at Popdose have curated a special digital-only release that not only features an array of remarkable artists, but helps a great cause, too. You Can't Live on Love Alone: Songs for the Fight Against Multiple Myeloma arrived on Amazon last week, on June 2.  This 19-track compendium is headlined by artists ranging from veterans (Jim Peterik of The Ides of March

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Don Dixon, Jim Peterik, Jules Shear, Julian Velard, Justin Currie, Kenny Loggins

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