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The Weekend Stream: February 12, 2022

February 12, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! Michael Giacchino, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Expanded Edition) (Walt Disney Records) (iTunes / Amazon) A genuine, out-of-nowhere surprise: a generous expansion of Oscar-winner Giacchino’s score to the first Disney-era Star Wars spin-off in 2016, about the ragtag group of Rebels who stole the plans for the Death Star right before the original movie. The composer subtly mixes…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barry White, , David Lasley, Doc Severinsen, Dr. John, Hank Williams, John Williams, Lobo, Meat Loaf, Meco, Michael Giacchino, Otis Redding, Richard Thompson, Roberta Flack, Shaun Murphy, Sting, Stoney and Meatloaf, Suzanne Vega

The Weekend Stream: January 8, 2022

January 8, 2022 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! Our first release weekend of 2022 features heavy hitters, from legends of pop, rock, jazz and…space disco? David Bowie, Shadow Man (Parlophone) (Amazon / Spotify) David Bowie would have turned 75 today, and fans are celebrating over the new release Toy:Box, an official and expanded version of his “lost” 2001 album featuring new interpretations of his earliest ’60s material. But there’s a…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Crowded House, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald, Meco, Neil Finn

The Weekend Stream: July 2, 2021

July 2, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it’s no secret that listening audiences are also digital – catalogue music lovers, too – and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we’ve introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! And today’s is a bit super-sized, bringing together releases from this week, last…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Donna Summer, Fleetwood Mac, Gamble and Huff, Lionel Richie, Lou Rawls, McFadden and Whitehead, Meco, Michael Jackson, Nas, Roberta Flack, Teddy Pendergrass, The Art of Noise, The Jacksons, The O'Jays, The Roots, The White Stripes

A Culture Factory Christmas: Label Reissues Beach Boys, James Brown, “Charlie Brown” and…Wookiees!

November 24, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 12 Comments

Beach Boys Christmas Album Culture Factory

The Culture Factory label, which reissues classic albums in limited edition mini-LP replica sleeves, has a trio of Christmas titles due this Friday likely to make spirits bright. The label has already released Vince Guaraldi’s oft-reissued soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas as an exclusive release for retailer FYE. It’s joined this week by straight reissues (no bonus material) of The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album and James Brown’s Soulful Christmas at general retail, as well as an Amazon-exclusive reissue of Meco’s Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album. All titles…

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Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul

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James Brown, Meco, The Beach Boys, Vince Guaraldi

Friday Feature: “An American Werewolf in London”

October 7, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

In 1941, the werewolf mythology gained an iconic set of lines in the Universal horror classic The Wolf Man: “Even a man who is pure at heart/and says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms/and the autumn moon is bright.” Forty years later, from the same studio, a less delicate line was added to the lycanthrope canon: “I will not be threatened by a walking meat loaf!” Such is the tone of An American Werewolf in London, one of the best horror-comedies of the past few decades. It’s…

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Friday Feature, Meco, The Marcels, Van Morrison

Reissue Theory: Galactic Novelties

May 21, 2010 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

The Star Wars saga continues at The Second Disc with a trove of often-ridiculous but always intriguing musical curios devoted to the films. It’s as much a story of disco and a rock legend from New Jersey as it is about Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. And it’s yours to read after the jump.

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Bon Jovi, Meco, Reissue Theory