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April 25, 2025 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

NKOTB Step by Step 35

New Kids on the Block will revisit their blockbuster Step by Step with a new expanded edition this summer. The 35th anniversary package will be available in a handful of physical and digital formats, with some exclusive variants and bonus tracks throughout. The 1990 release will be available on CD with two tracks from the vault and four mostly promo-only remixes. A pressing of the CD at Target will have an extra track - a recent live version of the cut "Where Do I Go from Here?" - which will

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: New Kids on the Block

May 17, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Barry Manilow Live in Britain

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. Taana Gardner, When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SoulMusic Records teams with TSD to revisit dance superstar Taana Gardner's classic West End album as a 2CD set.  When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings opens with Taana Gardner in its

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Adam Guettel, Barry Manilow, Davy Jones, Don McLean, Max Bygraves, New Kids on the Block, Pink Floyd, Stephen Sondheim, Taana Gardner

November 3, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The Beatles NOw and Then

Welcome to another packed Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Beatles, Now and Then (Apple/Capitol/UMe) Various Formats including CD single: The Beatles Online Store 7-inch clear single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7-inch blue single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 12-inch black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Target-exclusive red 12-inch

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock Tags: Billy Joel, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Cher, Chicago, Christine McVie, Dire Straits, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Marr, Little Feat, Micky Dolenz, Neil Young, New Kids on the Block, Phil Alvin, Shooter Jennings, Stephanie J. Block, The Beatles, The Blasters, Van Morrison, Warren Zevon, Willie Nelson

September 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

New Kids on The Block Revisited

New Kids on the Block are going back to where it all restarted. The Boston boy band, a sensation of the late '80s and early '90s, are reissuing their 2008 reunion album The Block. The Block Revisited, available November 3, will feature the original album and nine bonus tracks on CD or two LPs, including the unreleased fan favorite "Coming Home" and a new remix of the track "Dirty Dancing" recorded with K-pop outfit SEVENTEEN. Digital editions will include a further eight bonus tracks,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: New Kids on the Block

March 8, 2019 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

JoniMitchell Joni75 ABirthdayCelebration

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Pamela Polland, Pamela Polland/Have You Heard the One About the Gas Station Attendant? (BGO) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) BGO collects the two Columbia albums of singer-songwriter Pamela Polland in one deluxe, slipcased package - her 1972 self-titled LP and 1973 follow-up which was shelved and never released...until now! Pamela Polland and Have You Heard the One About the Gas Station Attendant? are filled with enchanting pop

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Buddy Holly, Eagles, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, New Kids on the Block, New Order, Pamela Polland, Townes Van Zandt, Whitesnake

December 12, 2018 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

NKOTB plain

Originally released in 1988, Hangin' Tough was the breakthrough album by pop sensation New Kids On The Block.  With such hits as "Please Don't Go Girl," "You Got It (The Right Stuff)," "Hangin' Tough," and "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)," the album garnered critical acclaim, a Grammy nomination, and two American Music Awards (Favorite Pop/Rock Album and Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group.)  It has since sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and been certified 8x Platinum in the U.S. Now,

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: New Kids on the Block

November 9, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Beatles White Album Four

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, The Complete Christmas Albums (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This comprehensive 2-CD, 43-track set from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music features all three of the legendary conductor's classic Columbia Christmas LPs - Joy to the World: The Music of Christmas (1959), Wonderland of Christmas (1963), and Wishing You a Merry Christmas (1965), on which he was joined by

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Andre Kostelanetz, Ben Sidran, Fastball, Hanson, Jeff Larson, Jeffrey Foskett, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, John Denver, Lorne Greene, New Kids on the Block, The Beatles, Train

November 8, 2018 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Grateful Dead Dicks Picks Rochester

Tomorrow's the date for Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music's annual slate of Christmas releases, but those titles aren't the only holiday releases due to arrive in stores.  Our friends at Real Gone also have a couple of yuletide vinyl titles while, on the other end of the spectrum, the label will bring a Grateful Dead concert to vinyl on November 30. First up from RGM is Merry, Merry Christmas from New Kids On The Block.  Released in 1989 at the height of the group's fame between their

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Grateful Dead, Hanson, New Kids on the Block

May 23, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

monkees present

Thanks to everyone's favorite all-consuming pop star Lady Gaga, this week's releases actually start a day earlier. Think of it as like being in England!   New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys, NKOTBSB (Columbia/Jive/Legacy) Imagine a greatest hits EP for each band, augmented with three bonus tracks featuring all nine boy band members working together like some sort of insane, teenybopper Voltron. (Official site) The Monkees, The Monkees Present: Expanded Edition / Changes: Expanded

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Categories: News Tags: Louis Armstrong, New Edition, New Kids on the Block, The Mamas and The Papas, The Monkees

April 12, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

nkotbsb

For those of you anxiously counting down the days until The New Kids on the Block and The Backstreet Boys come to your town with the NKOTBSB Tour, the commemorative tour compilation due out next month has a track list. The NKOTBSB disc was constructed by voting fans, who selected the top five songs from each group (the catalogues of which are both conveniently housed under the Sony banner). The nostalgia of fans has a very strict time limit for each group; four of the five NKOTB tracks stemmed

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Categories: News Tags: New Kids on the Block

March 15, 2011 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

nkotbsb

For teenage girls of two different eras, the New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys were the apex of pop music. Both of them were impossibly successful teen quintets created by astoundingly lucky impresarios who had or would soon strike gold with similar acts (NKOTB Svengali Maurice Starr also bought New Edition onto the pop music scene, while now-disgraced BSB producer Lou Pearlman would also make stars out of NSYNC). When both groups announced late last year that they were

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Categories: News Tags: New Kids on the Block

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