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The Weekend Stream: May 16, 2026

May 16, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. This week has a collection of outtakes from one of the greatest albums ever made, a breezy theme song to a popular web series, fantastic new film scores, an unheard recording from Peggy Lee and a frankly stunning amount of songs about horses. Plus our tributes to those we lost recently, and a cool arts-related documentary project worthy of your…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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

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Bananarama, Brian May, Clodagh Rodgers, Daryl Hall, Ludwig Göransson, Missing Persons, Peggy Lee, The Beach Boys

An Interview with Scott Davies, Rubellan Remasters’ One-Man Band

November 8, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 13 Comments

Scott Davies has learned a lot on the job. Once toiling in the business of IT, music fans now know him as the singular creative force behind Rubellan Remasters – the sole curator, engineer, designer and distributor of a handful of CDs covering respected catalogues by New Wave/alternative acts including Visage, Missing Persons, Divinyls and most recently Oingo Boingo, the alt-rock band led in the ’80s and ’90s by future film composer Danny Elfman. From 2021 to the present Rubellan remastered and expanded every studio entry in Boingo’s I.R.S./MCA discography between 1981…

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Features, Interviews

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CD, Vinyl

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Everything Else, Pop, Rock

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Danny Elfman, Missing Persons, Oingo Boingo

Life is So Strange: Missing Persons’ Albums to Be Remastered and Expanded

January 11, 2021 by The Second Disc | 14 Comments

Fans of New Wave group Missing Persons have a new destination: the Rubellan Remasters label has issued new expanded editions of their three albums for Capitol Records. Spring Session M (1982), Rhyme & Reason (1984) and Color in Your Life (1986) have each been remastered by Rubellan, with rare and unreleased bonus tracks appended to each. Each has been remastered from the original tapes in Universal Music Group’s archive. A box set, limited to 500 copies, is also being sold by the label, encompassing the three releases in a special slipcase. Formed from a cadre of musicians…

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News

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Pop, Rock

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Missing Persons