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The Weekend Stream: August 9, 2025

August 9, 2025 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. Jim Reeves isn’t the only gentleman on display this week: we’ve also got Peter Gabriel, Eddy Grant, Ben Folds and a host of film composers – plus many, many more! Peter Gabriel, Live At WOMAD 1982 (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) Loosed from the vault is Gabriel’s nine-song headlining set at the first World of Music, Art and Dance Festival, held at the Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet,…

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Classic Rock, Country, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alexandre Desplat, Bette Midler, Bruce Woolley, Bryan Adams, Don Davis, Eddy Grant, Fania All-Stars, Jane Morgan, Jim Reeves, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Peter Gabriel, Randy Newman, Ronan Keating, The Camera Club

Feel the Force: Disney to Release Japanese Box Set of ‘Star Wars’ Music with TV Scores Making CD Debuts

March 24, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Fans making the pilgrimage to next month’s Star Wars Celebration event in Japan can keep an eye out for a new box set fitting in perfectly with the country’s commitment to music on CD. Available in limited quantities during the event at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City, Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025: Original Soundtrack Box Set brings together scores from 23 films and television series in the universe created by writer/director George Lucas, with exclusively designed artwork. While none of the material is previously unreleased, roughly half the material has never been released…

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John Powell, John Williams, Michael Giacchino

Soundtrack Watch: ‘Hook,’ ‘Goofy’ and ‘Lost’ Make Vinyl Appearances in April

March 4, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Fans of soundtrack reissues on vinyl have three very different titles to potentially look forward to in April: a mid-’90s Disney animated flick, a crown jewel in John Williams’ discography, an a beloved television work from one of today’s most prolific film composers. Walt Disney’s major motion picture event of 1995 was Pocahontas, a fairly dramatized tale of Native Americans in the early colonial days – but it was neither their only animated feature of the year nor, retrospectively, the most treasured by fans. That honor might go to A Goofy Movie, an unassuming…

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Carter Burwell, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Tevin Campbell

The Weekend Stream: April 23, 2022

April 23, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 3 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! Return from your Record Store Day binge and kick back with some exciting finds, from charity rarities to new mixes of old favorites and even a surprising soundtrack find or two! Various Artists, EarthPercent Earth Day Initiative (Bandcamp) Though Bandcamp Friday is back in two weeks, the beloved digital service has partnered with EarthPercent, a charity aiming to connect musicians with meaningful…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alan Silvestri, Brian Eno, Coldplay, David Arnold, Dramarama, Fergie, Hoyt Axton, John Paesano, Kris Kross, Ludwig Göransson, Michael Giacchino, Michael Stipe, Peter Gabriel, Remy Shand, Roxette, The Five Satins, War, Yo La Tengo

Save the Rebellion, Save the Dream: ‘Rogue One’ Complete Score Gets Vinyl Box from Mondo

February 15, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

A heavily armored box set with enough firepower to destroy an entire wallet is coming from Mondo this week. Michael Giacchino’s score to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – recently surprise-released as a generous digital expanded edition – will get an 4LP release from the venerated collector’s label/imprint, featuring all of the soundtrack material issued in 2016 along with an hour of unreleased and alternative material. (Fans will surely keep hoping for a CD edition; after all, rebellions are built on hope.) One of the first significant expansions of Star Wars…

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John Williams, Michael Giacchino

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: August 21, 2021

August 21, 2021 by Mike Duquette | 2 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! Aaliyah, One in a Million (Blackground/EMPIRE) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) Well, it’s…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Aaliyah, Jerry Goldsmith, Lamb of God, Michael Giacchino

Soundtrack Watch: Varese’s Latest CD Club Batch Includes Goldsmith, ‘Trek’ and ‘Cogburn’

October 11, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Last month, Varese Sarabande unveiled a killer trifecta of CD Club titles that featured their most requested expansion, a repress of one of their most beloved reissues of the decade, and the premiere of a classic Western score. The CD Club began some 30 years ago, but since its original soundtrack release in 1997, fans have yearned for a more complete presentation of Jerry Goldsmith’s score to Air Force One. The hit action film stars Harrison Ford as an American president fighting a band of airborne hijackers to save his family and…

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Alexander Courage, Jerry Goldsmith, Laurence Rosenthal, Michael Giacchino

Varese Offers Krall Good Things with “Star Trek Beyond”

December 15, 2016 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Varese Sarabande has one last Christmas present in their long-running CD Club series: an expanded edition of the most recent soundtrack of the Star Trek series. Star Trek Beyond, this year’s third entry in the “Kelvin timeline” reboot series of films based on Gene Roddenberry’s 50-year-old sci-fi series, finds the crew of the USS Enterprise at various crossroads as they reach the halfway mark of their five-year mission. James Kirk (Christopher Pine) tires of the episodic nature of their work and considers a more commanding position, while Spock (Zachary Quinto) considers his…

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Varese Treks “Into Darkness” for Latest Expanded Score

August 4, 2014 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Last week, Varese Sarabande boldly went with yet another deluxe edition of a Star Trek soundtrack: the most recent film, 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness, featuring music composed by Michael Giacchino. Following 2009’s astounding film reboot, Into Darkness pits Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the crew of the USS Enterprise against a rogue Federation officer, John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), part of a traitorous plot to engage in a war with the Klingon Empire. We won’t spoil the by-now obvious twist if you’ve not seen it, but Harrison is not who he seems – one of…

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Magic in a Box: Decades of Disney Compiled on New Set

November 11, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

A new box set released today chronicles the musical legacy of The Walt Disney Company with a variety that hasn’t been seen in quite awhile. The new Disney Classics celebrates nearly every medium of entertainment the animation studio-turned-film-titan has dabbled in, from film and television to revolutionary theme park attractions. Disney Classics is touted in a press release as being released in honor of 90 years of musical history as it pertains to the work of Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966). However accurate that might be – Disney’s most meaningful musical contributions really began…

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Michael Giacchino, Phil Collins, Randy Newman, The Sherman Brothers

Weekend Wround-Up: Barbra Streisand Joined by Bennett, Wonder, Krall on DVD and BD; Pixar Compiles More “Favorites”

September 14, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

On February 11, 2011, Barbra Streisand joined some illustrious company, including Bono, Brian Wilson, Aretha Franklin and her “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” duet partner, Neil Diamond. That was the evening Streisand was recognized as the MusiCares Person of the Year, following in the footsteps of those above-named artists. Streisand was a natural candidate for the honor, as the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences annually bestows it upon an artist with significant artistic achievement in music and commitment to philanthropy. Part of the MusiCares tradition finds that person being celebrated…

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Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Michael Giacchino, Randy Newman, Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Weekend Wround-Up

Review: Michael Giacchino, “Up: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”

July 15, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Well, the release of Up is such big news here at Second Disc HQ that we felt one review just wasn’t enough! We hope you’re as excited as we are about our first-ever “tag team” review. To start things off, here’s Mike Duquette… It’s fitting, really, that Intrada’s first soundtrack reissue in conjunction with The Walt Disney Company is a score to a film about fulfilling a lifelong dream. It’s been a dream of Disney fans for years to see some sort of stable catalogue presentation from the beloved film studio. Granted,…

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BREAKING NEWS! Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow Brings First Disney-Intrada Releases

June 27, 2011 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

71 years ago, a little cricket named Jiminy reassured children everywhere that “when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true” in Walt Disney’s film Pinocchio. Well, the dreams of many film score collectors and Disney enthusiasts are indeed coming true thanks to tonight’s announcement by Intrada Records. The California label, a 25-year veteran in the soundtrack business, put to rest weeks of rumors and tonight confirmed a new partnership with The Walt Disney Company. The inaugural title in the Walt Disney Records/Intrada co-branded series is the commercial CD premiere of Michael…

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Michael Giacchino