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Release Round-Up: Week of July 11

July 11, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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. Jethro Tull, Still Living in the Past (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Still Living in the Past reinterpret Jethro Tull’s original odds-and-ends compilation from 1972 as a 5CD/1 Blu-ray set boasting some 35 unissued mixes and versions alongside just about every one of the 21 original tracks that appeared on the original double album. Alongside the original mixes of the non-album material that comprised Living in…

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

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

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America, Backstreet Boys, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Brian Wilson, Bronski Beat, Cyndi Lauper, Gerry Beckley, Jeffrey Foskett, Jethro Tull, Maria Muldaur, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Melanie, Mike Love, Steve Hackett, The Kinks, Vince Guaraldi, Vivabeat

Everybody Say Yeah: Real Gone’s July Slate Includes Vinyl Reissues of Mary Chapin Carpenter, “Kinky Boots,” Rusted Root, More

July 10, 2025 by Randy Fairman | 2 Comments

As summer heats up, Real Gone has another slate of six varied releases hitting store shelves, tomorrow, July 11. You’ll find a variety of genres here from Broadway to nu metal to rock to country to jazz. First up is a vinyl reissue of the Broadway cast album Kinky Boots. The 2013 show is based on the 2005 movie of the same title. The story revolves around Charlie, who inherits a failing shoe factory from his father. To turn the business around, he teams with drag performer Lola to begin manufacturing high-heeled…

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Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Country, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Cyndi Lauper, Fear Factory, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rusted Root, Static-X

Release Round-Up: Week of June 6

June 6, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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. Dusty Springfield, Longing (Real Gone Music) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Real Gone Music premieres a lost album from Dusty Springfield: 1974’s Longing. Produced by Brooks Arthur, the album features a number of singer-songwriter-oriented compositions including songs from Colin Blunstone (“Exclusively for Me”), Melissa Manchester and Carole Bayer Sager (“Home to Myself”), Janis Ian (“In the Winter”), Stephen Schwartz (“Corner of the Sky” from…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Alden Shuman, Cynthia Erivo, Dusty Springfield, Eli Paperboy Reed, Joe Henderson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Megan Hilty, My Chemical Romance, Pulp, Rick James, Seth MacFarlane, Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, War, Woody Shaw

Release Round-Up: Week of November 15

November 15, 2024 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

George Harrison Living in the Material World 50th SDE Cover

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today…and, with the holidays approaching, it just might be the biggest release week of the year! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. George Harrison, Living in the Material World: 50th Anniversary (Dark Horse) 2CD/2LP/1BD/1-7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada As the studio follow-up to his landmark triple album All Things Must Pass, George Harrison further explored his spiritual and physical selves on…

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

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Blues, Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

The Last Word: Real Gone’s First November Releases Include 30th Anniversary Edition of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s “Stones In The Road” Plus Misery Signals, The Unfolding

November 14, 2024 by Randy Fairman | 7 Comments

Mary Chapin Carpenter Stones in the Road

As usual, Real Gone’s first releases in November are an eclectic bunch. The label is releasing the 30th anniversary edition of a contemporary country classic album, a psychedelic exploitation record from the 1960s, and a 20th anniversary edition of a metalcore album. Read on for more details for these releases all hitting store shelves tomorrow, November 15. In 1994, Mary Chapin Carpenter was at the pinnacle of country music. The singer-songwriter’s fourth album for Columbia, Come On Come On, was the biggest seller of her career. Singles were still being released from…

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Vinyl

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Country, Pop, Rock

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Mary Chapin Carpenter, Misery Signals, The Unfolding

Release Round-Up: Week of August 7

August 7, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Diamond, Live Reissues 1972-2018 (Capitol/UMe) Hot August Night (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / uDiscoverMusic.com) Love at the Greek (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com) Hot August Night II (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com) Hot August Night/NYC (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscovermusic.com) Hot August Night III (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscovermusic.com) All-Time Greatest Hits (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com / Target.com) Capitol and UMe are reissuing five classic Neil Diamond live albums as 2-LP vinyl editions beginning with 1972’s seminal Hot August Night and continuing with the unofficial sequel Love at the Greek (1977) as well as Hot August Night…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Collective Soul, Deep Purple, Grateful Dead, Joe Bonamassa, Joel McNeely, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Neil Diamond, Split Enz, The Stooges