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The Weekend Stream: November 8, 2025

November 8, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 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. It’s a positively packed line-up today: pop icons old and new, unique stage experiences and two different trips to the land of Oz – plus a really cool recording summit opportunity for New Yorkers and a trio of tributes to some deceased musical heroes. Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor (Twenty Years Edition) (Warner/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) The Queen of Pop’s next studio album, reportedly due out next year, is…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

Got to Choose: Weeks After Expanding ‘Dressed to Kill,’ KISS’ ‘Alive!’ Gets Its Own Deluxe Box

November 7, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Only a few weeks after unveiling a deluxe box set of their third studio album Dressed to Kill – which featured, in part, overdub-free versions of shows utilized for their breakthrough concert album Alive! – KISS have revealed that they will, in fact, release a whole box set for Alive! as well, confirming previous rumors and reports. Available on four CDs or eight LPs and a Blu-ray Audio disc, Alive! features the original double album (here for the first time pressed on one CD) along with two more complete shows (plus some relevant rehearsal audio and…

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News

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, KISS, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss

Love It Loud: KISS Expand ‘Creatures of the Night’ for Deluxe Box Set

August 31, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 8 Comments

Currently well into the 10th leg of their End of the Road farewell tour – which started in 2019! – it feels like KISS might never go away. And the band is planning to remind their faithful fans of one of their more notable works of the ’80s with a lavish new box set: 1982’s Creatures of the Night. Creatures will be reissued for its 40th anniversary on November 18 in a variety of formats: chiefly a 5CD/Blu-ray box packed with the remastered album and 67 live and studio bonus tracks, nearly…

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News

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, KISS, Paul Stanley

Shout It Out Loud: KISS ‘Destroyer’ Goes Super Deluxe

October 1, 2021 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Get up! Everybody gonna move their feet and leave their seat for a new deluxe edition of KISS’ signature studio album Destroyer, available November 19. Following the success of the double concert album Alive! in 1975, which introduced the world at large to the hard-rockin’ quartet in black and white facepaint and out-there stage costumes, Destroyer was polished to perfection by producer Bob Ezrin. The group added layers of unique craft to these songs, from string sections to sound effects – and Ezrin’s unconventional methods (later compared to “musical boot camp” by…

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News

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, KISS, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss

Release Round-Up: Week of March 19

March 19, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Young, After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary [Vinyl + 7″ Box] (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 50th Anniversary remastered edition of Neil Young’s classic album was released on CD in December; now the vinyl version arrives. The set includes two different recordings of the outtake “Wonderin’” on the bonus 45. The A-side was recorded in March 1970 in Topanga (previously heard on Archives Vol. 1) while the B-side is a previously unreleased performance. The box is rounded out with and…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Cassette, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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