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Release Round-Up: Week of March 27

March 27, 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. Queen, Queen II: Collectors’ Edition (Virgin/EMI/Hollywood) 5CD/2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. Link TBD / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Official Store Cassette: Official Store Queen have remixed their second album, featuring their first Top 10 hit “Seven Seas of Rhye,” for a new multi-format reissue. The box set edition is the most expansive, of course, packed with rare and unreleased demos and session…

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Charlie Puth, Digital Underground, Heaven and Hell, John Mellencamp, Kenny Loggins, Melissa Etheridge, Michael McDonald, Queen, R.E.M., Stevie Wonder, The Charlie Daniels Band, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Puppini Sisters, Van Halen

OUT TOMORROW! The Second Disc, Lemon Collect Nicolette Larson’s Warner Bros. Albums on “Look In My Direction”

November 13, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

On the evenings of February 21 and 22, 1998, a host of musicians took the stage of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to pay tribute to one of their own. Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Bonnie Raitt, and Crosby, Stills and Nash were just a few of the artists who paid their respects in song to the late Nicolette Larson. The luminous singer with the honeyed voice had unexpectedly died just a couple of months earlier at the far too young age of 45. In the decades since her…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Andrew Gold, Christopher Cross, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Litle Feat, Michael McDonald, Nicolette Larson, Steve Goodman, Ted Templeman, The Doobie Brothers

The Best That He Can Do: Omnivore Preps Christopher Cross Singles Set

October 14, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 11 Comments

Christopher Cross All Right The Worldwide Singles

Once in your life you find them: an artist whose impossibly smooth music had a major impact on a generation of listeners. After honoring Christopher Cross’ landmark debut album with an expanded edition earlier this year, Omnivore Recordings will now expand their focus to all of his major label work on a new compilation. All Right: The Worldwide Singles 1980-1988 offers 20 classic tracks – many in rare single edit or mix form – from Cross’ tenure on the Warner Bros. and Reprise labels, along with a few curios for compilations. The…

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Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Peter Allen

It’s Gonna Take a Lotta Love: The Second Disc, Lemon Collect Nicolette Larson’s Warner Bros. Albums on “Look In My Direction”

September 17, 2025 by The Second Disc | 16 Comments

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Andrew Gold, Christopher Cross, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Michael McDonald, Nicolette Larson, Steve Goodman, Ted Templeman, The Doobie Brothers

The Weekend Stream: August 16, 2025

August 16, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No 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. A soft-rock legend says farewell on his own terms, a Broadway star channels one of mid-century pop’s greatest voices, plus everything from video game music to “jazz-tinged” alt-pop oddities is headed your way this week! Stephen Bishop, THIMK (Life’s a Bish) (Apple / Amazon) Stephen Bishop is billing THIMK as his final studio album – a decision he explains in the spoken word track that concludes the set –…

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Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

It Was Only Yesterday: Robinsongs Collects Soul-Jazz From Eddie Harris, Larry Carlton

June 4, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Cherry Red’s Robinsongs imprint has been maintaining a busy 2025 schedule, with two new titles celebrating greats of jazz and soul. A 5 Classic Albums on 4 Discs collection from late saxophone titan Eddie Harris (1934-1996) offers all of Harris’ albums for the Atlantic label originally released between 1974 and 1976 (with the exception of his album of off-color, spoken-word routines). Harris enjoyed a versatile career before signing with Atlantic in 1965. His first albums as a leader were released by Vee-Jay, where he surveyed numerous standards and Hollywood classics (he even…

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Eddie Harris, Larry Carlton, Les McCann, Michael McDonald, Vince Gill

She Is the Champion: Dolly Parton Unveils “Rockstar,” Featuring All-Star Cast Including Elton John, Peter Frampton, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Lizzo, Miley, Many More

May 9, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 32 Comments

“If I’m gonna be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I’m going to have to earn it,” Dolly Parton commented upon her 2022 induction into the Cleveland hall. She promised that a rock and roll album was on the way, and today, she made good on that promise…with what essentially amounts to two such records! On November 17, Dolly’s own Butterfly Records in association with Big Machine will release Rockstar, a whopping 2-CD or 4-LP collection with 30 songs featuring some of the biggest names in the genre including Sting,…

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Ann Wilson, Brandi Carlile, Debbie Harry, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Joan Jett, John Fogerty, Michael McDonald, Mick Fleetwood, Miley Cyrus, Pat Benatar, Paul McCartney, Peter Frampton, Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Steve Perry, Stevie Nicks, Sting

Release Round-Up: Week of October 12

October 12, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Loving the Alien (1983-1988) (Parlophone) 11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 15LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The fourth annual volume of Parlophone’s ongoing series of box sets dedicated to the late David Bowie, Loving the Alien (1983-1988), arrives on 11 CDs or 15 vinyl LPs. This lavish set is filled with more exclusive material than any of its predecessors, as only three studio albums are included, all in newly remastered editions: Let’s Dance (1983), Tonight (1984), and…

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Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alex Chilton, Burt Bacharach, Dave Davies, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Engelbert Humperdinck, Eric Clapton, Michael McDonald, Peter Holsapple, The Monkees, Vince Guaraldi

Release Round-Up: Week of September 15

September 15, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The Doors Singles Collection 2CD1BRD Cover 1024x1024

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Doors, The Singles (Elektra/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 2CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. Vinyl box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. Singles compiles all 20 of the singles from The Doors’ official discography. This not only includes every A and B-side from their core studio albums, but several albums recorded and released after the passing of frontman Jim Morrison, including Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972) plus An American Prayer (the divisive 1978…

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Rock

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Big Star, Carole King, Cat Stevens, Chris Bell, Deep Purple, Kris Kristofferson, Linda Ronstadt, Lou Reed, Michael McDonald, Michael Nesmith, Ringo Starr, Rusty Young, Shawn Colvin, Steve Miller Band, The Doors, Yusuf

Lotta Love: Varese Collects “The Very Best of Nicolette Larson” – AND YOU CAN WIN!

August 21, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Today, Varese Vintage releases Lotta Love: The Very Best of Nicolette Larson, celebrating the life and career of the silken-voiced pop singer who died at the tragically young age of 45 in 1997. This 16-track anthology, culled from her years with Warner Bros. Records and featuring duets with Emmylou Harris, Steve Goodman and Michael McDonald, is a welcome reminder of Larson’s versatile gifts in the genres of pop, country and folk – and we would like to give you a chance to WIN ONE OF TEN COPIES of this new collection. Details…

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Andrew Gold, Emmylou Harris, Michael McDonald, Neil Young, Nicolette Larson, Steve Goodman

Takin’ It To the Streets: Rhino Announces 10-CD Doobie Brothers Box Set Collecting 1971-1983 Albums

July 13, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 8 Comments

Rhino Records is continuing to release complete album box sets of artists in their catalog. We’ve recently told you about sets for Chicago, Alice Cooper, and America and the label has just announced another similar box for The Doobie Brothers. The Warner Bros. Years 1971 -1983 features the band’s 10 albums recorded during that period, and it’s set to be released in under two weeks on July 24. The core of The Doobie Brothers was formed when drummer John Hartman and guitarist/singer/songwriter Tom Johnston decided to start a band in California in 1969. The two…

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Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers

Of Mamas, Papas, Raiders and Soundtracks: Real Gone’s February Slate Revealed

December 18, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

The announcement of Real Gone Music’s release schedule for February 2014 would be cause for celebration any day of the week. But this particular day is special, as you’re about to find out. In addition to an ironclad lineup that includes A Gathering of Flowers, the long out-of-print 1970 collection from The Mamas & The Papas; The Complete Recordings by Brotherhood, an unfairly obscure psych-rock band comprised of Phil Volk, Drake Levin and Mike “Smitty” Smith of Paul Revere & The Raiders that cut three LPs for RCA; a twofer by Smith (A Band Called Smith/Minus-Plus),…

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Burt Bacharach, Michael McDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Anka, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Grateful Dead, The Mamas and The Papas

Review: Paul Anka, “Duets”

April 9, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Whether you prefer your “My Way” by Sinatra or Sid (Vicious, that is), you have Paul Anka to thank. It was Anka who took the melody to the chanson “Comme d’habitude” and crafted the ultimate anthem of survival and tenacity with his English-language lyrics. When Sinatra recorded the song, a gift to him from Anka, he was just 53 years of age yet could still ring true when singing of that “final curtain.” Today, Paul Anka is 71, and his new memoir is entitled, what else, My Way. Thankfully, the end seems…

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Leon Russell, Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Patti Labelle, Paul Anka, Tom Jones

He Did It His Way: Paul Anka Joins Friends For “Duets”, New CD Features Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Leon Russell and More

March 5, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Do you remember the times of your life? Paul Anka posed that musical question in 1975, taking Roger Nichols and Bill Lane’s onetime Kodak film jingle all the way to the Top 10 Billboard pop chart and No. 1 Easy Listening. At that point, Anka could rightfully reflect on the times of his own storied life, nearly two decades in the music business. But could he have imagined that he would still be going strong almost forty years after “Times of Your Life” hit? The Canadian-born singer, songwriter, producer and manager is…

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Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Paul Anka, Tom Jones

Listen To The Music: Doobie Brothers Catalogue Expanded In The U.K.

September 2, 2011 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Are you ready to listen to the music? If you are, you’re in for quite a treat. The U.K.’s Edsel label has just launched a series of expanded Doobie Brothers remasters, encompassing the band’s first eight studio albums (1971-1978) as four 2-CD packages. Doobie Brothers/Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me/What Once Were Vices were just released this past Monday, while Stampede/Takin’ It to the Streets and Livin’ On The Fault Line/Minute by Minute follow on September 26. These eight albums nearly represent the entirety of the band’s pre-retirement career; only 1980’s…

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Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers