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Release Round-Up: Week of May 1

May 1, 2026 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. Eagles, One of These Nights: Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Asylum) 3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino is revisiting Eagles’ 1975 chart-topper (featuring hit singles “One of These Nights,” “Lyin’ Eyes,” and ‘Take It to the Limit”) in a deluxe edition built around a new mix of the original album. The set adds the band’s previously unreleased show of September 28, 1975 near the end of the album’s…

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

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Adrian Belew, Bill Evans, David Bowie, Eagles, Jerry Garcia, Kacey Musgraves, Merl Saunders, The Black Keys, Tori Amos, UFO

You Must Ask the Heart: Craft Recordings’ Record Store Day Black Friday Slate Includes Jonathan Richman, Vince Guaraldi, Alan Silvestri, More

October 8, 2025 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Today, we’re turning the spotlight onto Craft Recordings’ slate for Record Store Day’s Black Friday event which takes place on Friday, November 28. Click here for a list of participating retailers! All of the below descriptions and track listings have been provided directly by the label. Ray Barretto, Together (Fania) (180-gram LP; 1,800 copies U.S./2,000 copies worldwide) Ray Barretto’s 1969 Fania landmark roared out of New York with an irresistible blend of Latin jazz, boogaloo, Afro-Cuban, and hard salsa–an era-defining snapshot of the city’s pan-Latin sound. With Adalberto Santiago (vocals), Orestes Vilató (timbales), Louis…

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Vinyl

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Holiday, Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alan Silvestri, Creed, Dizzy Gillespie, John Debney, Jonathan Richman, Merl Saunders, Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto, Record Store Day, Taking Back Sunday, Various Artists, Vince Guaraldi

Reelin’ and Rockin’: Craft Recordings Announces Record Store Day Black Friday Lineup Featuring George Thorogood, Jewel, and More

October 13, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Craft Recordings, the catalogue arm of the Concord label, has announced their roster of titles for Record Store Day Black Friday, all of which will be available exclusively through brick-and-mortar record shops on November 27. Among the diverse titles: a complete 1982 concert by George Thorogood and the Destroyers, early live sessions from Jewel, a 7″ single of Vince Guaraldi’s “Christmas Time Is Here,” a 10th-anniversary re-press of Norma Jean’s Meridional, and a new Jazz Dispensary compilation of jazz, funk and soul. So find your nearest participating record shop and keep an…

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Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock

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24-Carat Black, David Axelrod, Funk Inc., George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Jewel, Johnny Hammond, Merl Saunders, Norma Jean, Record Store Day, Roger Glenn, The Blackbyrds, Vince Guaraldi

Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 20 and 27, and January 3

December 20, 2019 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

Welcome to our final Release Round-Up of 2019! This edition covers today’s releases as well as those of the next two weeks, the quietest time of the year for new releases. The weekly Release Round-Up will be back on January 10. In the meantime, Happy Holidays to all! Frank Zappa, The Hot Rats Sessions (Zappa/UMe) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 6-CD box set explores Frank Zappa’s 1969 primarily instrumental solo album Hot Rats from every angle. The first…

RECORD STORE DAY PREVIEW! Jazz Dispensary Celebrates 420 on Friday, Releases “Soul Diesel 2” on Saturday

April 19, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

This Friday – April 20, or 4/20 – is a date that’s not going unnoticed by the folks at the Jazz Dispensary label. And the festivities are continuing right through Record Store Day. On Friday, Jazz Dispensary teams with SPARC’s four cannabis dispensaries for a new 7-inch vinyl single, which will be followed on Saturday’s Record Store Day by the release of the 12-inch LP Soul Diesel II. The annual cannabis celebration 420 falls this Friday, hence the release that day of Private Stock Series # 001 from Jazz Dispensary. This translucent…

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Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Jazz

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Cal Tjader, Gene Ammons, Idris Muhammad, Merl Saunders, Various Artists

Always Grateful: Garcia and Saunders’ “Keystone Companions” Coming from Concord, Rhino Readies “Spring 1990” Dead Box

August 17, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

2012 marked what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday year. The favorite son of San Francisco is being celebrated this fall with two monumental new box sets: one chronicling a renowned stand with The Grateful Dead, of course, and another turning the spotlight onto his less-heralded collaboration with keyboardist Merl Saunders. Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings is the most complete edition of the yet of the concerts recorded on July 10 and 11, 1973 at Berkeley, California’s Keystone Club. When Garcia and Saunders got together, audiences were rewarded with…

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Merl Saunders, The Grateful Dead