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April 11, 2013 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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CONGRATULATIONS TO JONATHAN PLUMMER, WINNER OF OUR MAD SEASON GIVEAWAY!

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Categories: Giveaways! Tags: Mad Season, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees

April 3, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Where was grunge, or alternative rock, in 1995?  Kurt Cobain had died one year earlier at his Seattle home.  Before 1995 was out, Alice in Chains had released its third album, the last with vocalist Layne Staley and also its final studio LP until 2009.  Foo Fighters, born from the ashes of Nirvana, scored a hit with its July debut, but by and large, the brief, blazing supremacy of grunge was ceding to other genres like post-grunge and Britpop.  Yet 1995 was the year in which Staley joined with

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Categories: Reviews Tags: Mad Season

April 2, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The S.O.S. Band / Cherrelle / Alexander O'Neal, "Tabu Reborn" Vinyl Editions (Wave 1) (Tabu/Edsel) The start of a lengthy reissue campaign from Demon Music Group, these are 180-gram vinyl reissues of The S.O.S. Band's III (1982), Cherrelle's 1984 debut Fragile, and Alexander O'Neal's self-titled debut from 1985. Expanded editions of these albums come out on CD next week, followed by a great many more waves of product throughout 2013 and into 2014! S.O.S. Band: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Mad Season, Margaret Whiting, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Nancy Wilson, Rilo Kiley, Simple Minds, Stephanie Mills, The Four Tops, The Grateful Dead, The S.O.S. Band

March 22, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It's not quite the summertime yet, but Legacy Recordings has some hot fun planned for Record Store Day thanks to a diverse slate of releases from A (Aerosmith) to, well, S (Sly and the Family Stone)!  April 20 is the date when Legacy will join 2013 Record Store Day Ambassador Jack White to celebrate not only those beloved black vinyl discs, but also the brick-and-mortar retail record store experience which we hold very dear at The Second Disc. Titles for the sixth annual Record Store Day have

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Categories: News Tags: Mad Season, Miles Davis, Record Store Day, Sly & The Family Stone, Taj Mahal, Vinyl

January 8, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Though the group isn’t often spoken of in the same breath as Crosby, Stills and Nash or The Traveling Wilburys, Mad Season was a bona fide supergroup for the 1990s.  The Seattle-based group of musicians - Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, drummer/percussionist Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees, and bassist John Baker Saunders of The Walkabouts and The Lamont Cranston Band - joined together in 1994 and released just one album, 1995’s Columbia Records release

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