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Release Round-Up: Week of July 26

July 26, 2024 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Loleatta Holloway, We’re Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) We’re Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) presents, on 5 CDs, all of the late, great Loleatta Holloway’s albums for Gold Mind and Salsoul (all newly remastered by Nick Robbins) plus a host of bonus tracks, both on the individual albums and on a newly-curated…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Cat Stevens, Deborah Cox, Fleetwood Mac, JD Souther, Jeff Harnar, Loleatta Holloway, Melanie, Nik Kershaw, Pete Townshend, Talking Heads, The Police

Release Round-Up: Week of July 19

July 19, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 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. Mungo Jerry, Electronically Tested: Expanded Edition (7a Records) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mungo Jerry’s eclectic 1971 album Electronically Tested, featuring the global hit “In the Summertime,” returns in a newly remastered and expanded edition from our friends at 7a Records. It adds four bonus tracks including the infectious single “Lady Rose” and its flipside “Little Louis,” the B-side “The Man Behind the Piano,” and…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Deep Purple, Duran Duran, Emmylou Harris, George Benson, Gram Parsons, Melanie, Mungo Jerry, War

Release Round-Up: Week of June 28

June 28, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Two Tons o’ Fun, Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings (Real Gone Music/Second Disc Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate Two Tons o’ Fun – a.k.a. Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes Armstead, a.k.a. The Weather Girls – with a complete 2-CD anthology that serves as a companion to last year’s Sylvester release, Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981. Get the…

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Release Round-Up

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

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

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Al Stewart, Cher, Gerry Beckley, Johnny Cash, Melanie, Neil Young, Richard "Dimples" Fields, The Spinners, Todd Rundgren, Two Tons o' Fun, Yes

Release Round-Up: Week of June 21

June 21, 2024 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Joni Mitchell Asylum Albums 1976 1980 Cover

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. Joni Mitchell, The Asylum Albums 1976-1980 (Rhino/Asylum) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com 6LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) arrives on 5 CDs, 6 LPs, and digital formats, completing the Asylum period of Mitchell’s extraordinary career. Whereas 1972-1975 represented the peak of Mitchell’s hitmaking years, 1976-1980 captured her in innovative, experimental mode. Following the tour for 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns, she embarked on a period of personal rediscovery…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Avril Lavigne, Brownie McGhee, Celine Dion, Daryl Hall, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Joni Mitchell, Lightnin' Hopkins, Melanie, Olivia Newton-John, Sonny Terry, Tom Petty

Release Round-Up: Week of June 14

June 14, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. David Bowie, Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new 5CD/1Blu-ray collection from the late David Bowie follows 2019’s Conversation Piece (which shed light on the 1968-1969 David Bowie/Space Oddity era) and 2022’s Divine Symmetry (which chronicled the twelve months leading up to December 1971’s release of Hunky Dory). Rock ‘n’ Roll Star! takes an in-depth look at Bowie’s path to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The…

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Release Round-Up

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

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

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Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, George Benson, Jack Tempchin, Janis Siegel, Little Feat, Melanie, Mike Campbell, Paul McCartney, Seal, The Hollywood Stars, Truth, Will Butler, Wings

Release Round-Up: Week of May 24

May 24, 2024 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. Joe Grushecky, Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology is an all-encompassing look at the singer, songwriter, and bandleader, covering 40 years of music from The Iron City Houserockers, Joey G., Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers, and Grushecky solo. Available on 2 CDs and digitally, the anthology culls 36 key tracks from Grushecky’s discography, as newly remastered by Michael Graves. …

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Amy Winehouse, Bettye LaVette, Connie Smith, Jeannie C. Riley, Joe Grushecky, Melanie, The Spinners

Release Round-Up: Week of May 3

May 3, 2024 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. Belinda Carlisle, Decades Vol. 3: Cornucopia (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Edsel continues its chronological collections of Belinda Carlisle’s albums with this Cornucopia. The 4-CD book-style box starts off with two discs of mostly “orphaned” tracks released largely between 1987 and 2021: B-sides, non-album and greatest hits-exclusive cuts, covers of John Lennon (“Jealous Guy”), Carpenters (“Bless the Beasts and the Children”), and the Sex Pistols (“Submission”), and even an…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Belinda Carlisle, Elaine Brown, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Indigo Girls, Maurice White, Melanie, The Dixie Cups, Thomas Newman, Tweet

Release Round-Up: Week of February 16

February 16, 2024 by The Second Disc | 4 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. Melanie, One Night Only: The Eagle Mountain House (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 1984 concert recorded at The Eagle Mountain house in Jackson, New Hampshire features some of the late singer-songwriter‘s classics including “Brand New Key,” “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” and “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma.” Dave Thompson provides the liner notes. Also available in truncated “highlights” form…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aaron Copland, Betty Hutton, Béla Fleck, Dorothy Lamour, Melanie, Paul Collins, Steeleye Span, Steve Hackett, The Immediate Family

In Memoriam: Melanie Safka (1947-2024)

January 25, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 11 Comments

Melanie Safka, known the world over simply as Melanie, tapped into a deep well of emotion with the powerful anthem “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” and skated into listeners’ hearts with “Brand New Key.” Though the singer-songwriter’s U.S. hits dried up by the early 1980s, she continued to write and record in her disarming and often happily quirky style. A voice of the Vietnam generation, Melanie was content to transport audiences back to the Woodstock era while always authentically speaking to our hearts today. We’re deeply saddened to learn of her…

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The Weekend Stream: November 27, 2021

November 27, 2021 by The Second Disc | 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! Despite the Thanksgiving holiday (and recovery period from Record Store Day Black Friday) there are some surprises for lovers of rock, soul and soundtrack obscurities – check it out below! Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Live, New York, 1981 (Blackheart/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) If you can believe it, there’s almost no official representation of Joan Jett & The Blackhearts in…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Comedy, Everything Else, Folk, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Brenda Lee, Darlene Love, Debbie Gibson, Jim Nabors, Joan Jett, Melanie, The Drifters, Vaughn Meader

The Second Disc’s Guide To Record Store Day Drop 2, September 26!

September 25, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

2020 has been a bit of a rollercoaster and Record Store Day 2020 is no exception: once scheduled in April, it moved forward a few months, and is now spread out across three Saturdays in the summer and fall. The Record Store Day Drop in August proved a success and round two, set for tomorrow, September 26, is sure to please fans of all genres and eras. It’s a diverse list full of exciting releases that you can only find through your local brick-and-mortar record store (or through their online storefronts as…

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News

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Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

We Were Half A Million Strong: Massive Woodstock Collection Arrives in High-Resolution Digital Formats

August 17, 2020 by Sam Stone | 3 Comments

Fifty-one years ago this past weekend, a crowd of half a million converged at Max Yasgur’s Farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The four-day event became a cultural touchstone and mythical ideal, strengthened even more by the Woodstock film and soundtracks that proliferated the marketplace during the early ’70s and beyond. While performers, fans, and countless supposed attendees participated in even more myth-building, a small group of historians and researchers worked to piece together what really happened. Last year, a decade-long dive into Woodstock tape vaults…

Try and Get My Soul Free: Full Sets from Woodstock Festival Emerge on Digital and Streaming Services

August 5, 2019 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

For fans of Woodstock, Friday was a big day. For the physical media-minded, the giant 38-CD/1-Blu-ray box began shipping out, and Craft’s standalone Creedence Clearwater Revival Live At Woodstock album was released. Those who may have been unable to purchase the big set have reason to rejoice as several individual acts’ sets from Woodstock have begun to pop up on digital download and streaming services. Last week saw the release of Woodstock recordings from Tim Hardin; Melanie; Mountain; Blood, Sweat & Tears; and Sha Na Na (whose set is missing one unrecorded…

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News

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Joan Baez, Melanie, Mountain, Sha Na Na, Tim Hardin

Rhino’s 10-CD Woodstock Set “Back To the Garden: The 50th Anniversary Experience” Delivers the Goods

July 31, 2019 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

Fifty years ago this summer, more than 400,000 fans convened at Max Yasgur’s farm for a music festival that would come to define not only the era, but the entire ethos of music festivals to come. With every passing decade, the magic of Woodstock has been celebrated and, indeed, re-marketed to new generations of music fans. The ’90s saw two new Woodstock-branded festivals and an array of 25th anniversary products, including a compilation called Woodstock Diary and a 4-CD box set. To mark the festival’s 40th anniversary in 2009, yet another box…

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Reviews

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Box Sets, CD

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, R&B/Soul

Raven Has Folk and Funk With Melanie and Mother’s Finest

January 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Raven Records’ most recent pair of CDs certainly showcase the label’s eclectic leanings! From singer-songwriter Melanie Safka, the label has a three-for-one release of her much-loved albums Candles in the Rain, Leftover Wine and Gather Me. The Melanie release is joined by a four-for-one title from pioneering funk-rockers Mother’s Finest collecting the band’s self-titled LP plus Mother’s Finest Live, Another Mother Further and Mother Factor. Raven’s release from Melanie follows the Morello label’s recent reissues of four albums originally issued on her Neighborhood Records label. Candles in the Rain arrived on Buddah…

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Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Melanie, Mother's Finest

Brand New Melanie: Morello Label Reissues Four of Melanie’s Rare Albums On CD

November 4, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

“Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates/You got a brand new key/I think that we should get together and try them out you see…” With her chart-topping 1971 hit “Brand New Key,” Melanie Safka-Schekeryk built on the success of previous hits like the Woodstock-inspired anthem “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” and her cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday.” But “Brand New Key” also unfairly tagged the singer-songwriter as a novelty artist, a notion she was quick to dispose with the series of albums she recorded for her…

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Folk, Pop

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