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You Bring the Summer: The Monkees’ ‘Good Times!’ Revisited for 10th Anniversary

April 30, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Back in 2016, The Monkees celebrated their 50th anniversary with their first album of new material since 1996’s Justus. The appropriately-titled Good Times!, produced by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, was a true return to form. As TSD noted in its original review, “The Monkees have just released their first new album in twenty years, and all is right with the world…Good Times makes no concession to the sound of modern pop. Rather, it’s most often the classic Monkees style refracted through a muscular, power-pop prism…Don’t hesitate. Listen to the band!” The…

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Adam Schlesinger, Andy Partridge, Boyce and Hart, Carole King, Davy Jones, Gerry Goffin, Harry Nilsson, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Peter Tork, Rivers Cuomo, The Monkees

The Weekend Stream: January 31, 2026

January 31, 2026 by The Second Disc | 11 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. Looks like some well-known songwriters on each side of the Atlantic have something to say about current events; plus, unearthed tracks and reissues from The Cure, Sia and more. Bruce Springsteen, “Streets of Minneapolis” (Columbia) (Apple / Amazon) If you weren’t happy about TSD saying anything about ICE’s presence in Minneapolis in last Saturday’s column, you’re probably not going to like this. Hopefully one little angry protest song…

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Billy Bragg, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Loren, Catherine O'Hara, Dion and the Belmonts, Judy Rodman, Karla Bonoff, Melissa Errico, Paul Weller, Sananda Maitreya, Sia, Sly & Robbie, The Cure, The Style Council

The Best Thing: The Style Council’s Debut Gets Box Set Expansion

January 7, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

More than 40 years after Paul Weller introduced a new phase of his musical work as part of the genre-hopping Style Council, a forthcoming box set will dive deep into their first few years of work, complete with a trove of unreleased material. UMR will expand the group’s full-length debut Café Bleu as a 6CD collection on January 30. Extras include an expansion of 1983’s debut EP Introducing The Style Council (available as a European import in the U.K.), a host of non-LP single and B-side material, and a whopping 55 unreleased tracks:…

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Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Paul Weller, The Style Council

Love Will Keep Us Alive: Cherry Red, Esoteric Reissue Jim Capaldi Tribute with Steve Winwood, Pete Townshend, Cat Stevens, Joe Walsh, More

June 17, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings has revisited the 2007 concert release Dear Mr. Fantasy: A Celebration for Jim Capaldi in a new 2CD/1Blu-ray edition. Following the singer-songwriter-drummer’s death on January 28, 2005 at the age of 60 from stomach cancer, many of his friends came together on January 21, 2007 at the Roundhouse in London’s Camden Town to pay tribute and support one of his favorite charities, The Jubilee Action Street Children Appeal. This release preserves that extraordinary evening with Capaldi’s former Traffic bandmate Steve Winwood, Yusuf Islam a.k.a. Cat Stevens, Pete Townshend,…

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Bill Wyman, Cat Stevens, Jim Capaldi, Joe Walsh, Jon Lord, Paul Weller, Pete Townshend, Steve Winwood

Cuts The Deepest: Edsel Celebrates P.P. Arnold on “Soul Survivor” Box Set

March 24, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

One of P.P. Arnold’s early sides for Immediate Records was titled “Am I Still Dreaming?” The song, which the artist born Patricia Ann Cole in Los Angeles wrote at the encouragement of none other than Mick Jagger, is one of the 57 songs on 3 CDs assembled by Edsel Records on the dream of a box set appropriately entitled Soul Survivor: A Life in Song. The collection, compiled by the singer and Michael Mulligan, traces the onetime Ikette’s career from her signing to Andrew Loog Oldham’s label through subsequent collaborations with Barry…

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andy Gibb, Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton, Ocean Colour Scene, P.P. Arnold, Paul Weller, Rod Stewart, Roger Waters, Steve Howe

Release Round-Up: Week of August 9

August 9, 2024 by The Second Disc | No 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. Also, don’t miss out on today’s eclectic slate of releases from Real Gone Music; click here to find out what’s new from Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Firehouse, Azar Lawrence, Charlie Nothing, and 3 Inches of Blood! Elvis Presley, Memphis (RCA/Legacy) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This new 5CD set (also available as a double vinyl album of highlights) showcases five crucial periods in which The…

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Al Stewart, Bill Wyman, Dean Martin, Dickey Betts, Elvis Presley, Esperanza Spalding, Frank Sinatra, Jim Peterik, Judy Garland, Little Big Town, Milton Nascimento, Paul Weller, The Soul Searchers, Vera Lynn

The Changing Man: Paul Weller’s ‘Fly on the Wall’ Rarities Album Set for Vinyl, Digital Reissue

July 22, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Paul Weller, late of The Jam and The Style Council, began his solo career in 1991 with a self-titled album on the Go! Discs label. He remained on the label for three albums, before moving to Island Records for 1997’s Heavy Soul and 2000’s Heliocentric. Weller would return to Island in 2008, but five years earlier, in 2003, Universal Music drew upon both his Go! Discs period and two Island albums to compile Fly on the Wall: B Sides and Rarities. The 3CD iteration presented 39 tracks, while the 3LP box cut…

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To Know Her Is To Love Her: Amy Winehouse’s “At The BBC” Is Expanded with Two Additional Discs

April 23, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Late last year, Island and Universal released a pair of box sets celebrating the life and legacy of the late Amy Winehouse (1983-2011). 12 x 7: The Singles Collection and The Collection respectively compiled all of the late British singer’s A- and B-sides on 12 pieces of vinyl and her three studio albums on CD alongside a live concert and remix collection previously unreleased in the format. Now, on May 7, her posthumous live release Amy Winehouse at the BBC, first issued in 2012, will return as a 3-CD or 3-LP expanded…

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Amy Winehouse, Jools Holland, Paul Weller

Shout To The Top: Paul Weller Compiles The Style Council on ‘Long Hot Summers’

September 11, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 8 Comments

Ahead of a forthcoming documentary on the second famed band of Paul Weller’s career, the revered British rocker has co-compiled a new collection devoted to The Style Council. Long Hot Summers: The Story of The Style Council provides an extensive overview of Weller’s work through the ’80s after the dissolution of The Jam.The 37-track collection, available across 2 CDs or 3 LPs, includes a healthy mix of the group’s biggest singles, album cuts, B-sides and two unreleased tracks: an extended version of 1984’s “Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse” and a string-laden demo of…

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Back to the House That Jack Built: Cherry Red Uncovers More Music From Tracie Young

September 5, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Back in 2010, Cherry Red Records rescued Tracie Young’s 1984 debut Far from the Hurting Kind from obscurity. Four years later, the label has returned to the British pop singer’s discography for the first-time release of No Smoke Without Fire. Intended as the follow-up to Hurting Kind, No Smoke was slated to be issued in 1985, only to be consigned to the vaults. Cherry Red’s new edition includes ten songs from the original album plus seven rare bonus tracks from Young’s catalogue. Tracie Young – sometimes billed just as Tracie – was…

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Paul Weller, Tracie Young