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Release Round-Up: Week of June 4

June 4, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Rod Stewart, 1975-1978 (Warner/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A new vinyl box set collects remastered versions of Rod Stewart’s breakthrough first four Warner Bros. albums – Atlantic Crossing (1975), A Night on the Town (1976), Foot Loose and Fancy Free (1977), and Blondes Have More Fun (1978) – and adds the bonus LP Encores 1975-1978 featuring ten outtakes, five of which have never been released in any format. Read more here. Mumps, Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, You’ve Got Mumps (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore celebrates late American…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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

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Billy F. Gibbons, Crowded House, Gary Louris, Hank Williams, Harry Nilsson, Liz Phair, Mumps, Osmond Chapman Orchestra, Rod Stewart

Dance Tunes for The Underdog: Omnivore Remembers Mumps, “American Family” Icon Lance Loud with New Anthology

June 1, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Mumps Rock and Roll This Rock and Roll That

Before The Real Housewives, The Osbournes, and The Real World, there was An American Family. The twelve-part 1973 PBS documentary series chronicled the day-to-day life of the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California. It’s now considered a prototype for modern-day reality television: its 300-plus hours of filming yielded footage of Pat Loud breaking up with her husband Bill after 21 years of marriage and of their son Lance’s coming out as gay. Lance was the breakout star of the program, and one of the first openly gay “characters” on television. It’s less-remembered…

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News

Formats:

CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Rock

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Kristian Hoffman, Lance Loud, Mumps