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The Weekend Stream: February 7, 2026

February 7, 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 (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. New tracks from old favorites, deep cuts, good causes, a fun recent Grammy winner, and the triumphant return of The Muppets? What more could you possibly ask for?! The Muppets, The Muppet Show Theme (2026) (Walt Disney Records) (Apple / Amazon) It’s time to play the music! The Muppet Show made a triumphant return to television this week: a special episode that aired on ABC and Disney+, produced by…

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aaron Neville, Beck, Blink-182, Brian Blade, Bruce Hornsby, Chuck Negron, Daniel Lanois, Joe Jackson, Koji Kondo, Parliament-Funkadelic, Patti Page, Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Television, The Blasters, The Format, The Muppets, Three Dog Night

The Weekend Stream: June 28, 2025

June 28, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. There’s new music from Sarah McLachlan, Public Enemy and Liam Finn, plus a new video to a one-hit wonder, a Record Store Day single gone digital, and tributes to musicians we lost this week. Peter Gabriel, In the Big Room (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) The legendary pop/rock voice has loosed a recording from his vault for larger public consumption: highlights from an intimate 2003 performance at his Real World…

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alexandre Desplat, Camouflage, David Gilmour, Judas Priest, Kool and the Gang, Leo Sayer, Liam Finn, Marcella Detroit, Norman Greenbaum, Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Sarah McLachlan

The Weekend Stream: October 2, 2021

October 2, 2021 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it’s no secret that listening audiences are also digital – catalogue music lovers, too – and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we’ve introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Public Enemy, Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black (Deluxe Edition) (Def Jam/UMe) (iTunes…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Benny Goodman, Claudine Longet, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Indigo Girls, Lesley Gore, Mark Mulcahy, Material Issue, Public Enemy, Toni Braxton

The Best of The Rest: Even More RSD Black Friday Releases Confirmed!

October 15, 2020 by Sam Stone | 6 Comments

November 27 is always a special day for vinyl enthusiasts. Still filled up on last night’s Thanksgiving meal, music fans line up at their local shop for a chance at limited-edition vinyl. While the celebrations may look a little different this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (RSD has announced they’ll be less stringent about online sales) one thing remains the same: There are some excellent releases on offer, available exclusively from your local participating record shop! Here are some more releases from labels big and small that have us adding…

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bring the Noise! Public Enemy’s Landmark “It Takes a Nation of Millions” to Be Expanded

November 20, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Last year, UMe demanded that listeners “Respect the Classics” with a new series of multi-format reissues dedicated to landmark hip-hop albums from the vaults of labels including Def Jam, Interscope, Priority and Virgin. One of last year’s releases was an LP reissue of Public Enemy’s 1988 release It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. On November 24, Def Jam will revisit that title once again with a 2-CD/1-DVD expanded reissue. The second album by hip hop group Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions only peaked at No….

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UMe’s Record Store Day Slate Features Nirvana, Frank Zappa, Classic Blue Note, Motown Funk and More

April 17, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

With Public Enemy’s Chuck D engaged as the Record Store Day Ambassador for 2014, it’s only appropriate that one of his own records is arriving this Saturday as a special limited edition vinyl platter. The new reissue of Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back will be joined on RSD by a host of other vinyl goodies from Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). Previously unreleased music from Frank Zappa (previewing the upcoming 40th anniversary reissue of Apostrophe) and the seventies Motown pair of Rick James and Teena Marie…

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Nirvana, Public Enemy, Record Store Day, Rick James, Soundgarden, Teena Marie, Vinyl

UMe Says “Respect the Classics” with Hip-Hop Reissue Series

September 18, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Perhaps no genre is as underrepresented in the catalogue world as modern hip-hop. Remastered and expanded editions are hard to come by, for whatever reason – be it sample clearance, market demand and the like. Universal Music Enterprises is doing their best to change that this year with a new wave of multi-format reissues called “Respect the Classics.” “Respect the Classics” draws from critically-acclaimed titles in the Def Jam, Interscope, Priority, and Virgin Records discographies and represses them on CD or vinyl. Thus far, UMe’s reissued N.W.A.’s 1987 debut N.W.A. and The Posse on…

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The Second Disc Buyers Guide: The 100 Greatest Reissues of All Time, Part 11 (#50-46)

December 12, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

And so starts the second half of our 100 Greatest Reissues feature! We’ve taken Rolling Stone‘s list of the 100 greatest albums of all time from 2003 and scoured the history of each one on compact disc, making note of masterings, packaging and bonus tracks wherever possible. These next five are some of the definitive statements in their respective genres, from rock to rap to reggae to jazz; we’re sure there’s something for everyone in this entry! 50. Little Richard, Here’s Little Richard (Specialty, 1957) With a handful of nonsensical syllables – “A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop”…

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Bob Marley, Little Richard, Public Enemy, TSD Buyers Guide, The Allman Brothers Band

Reissue Theory: – Public Enemy, “Fear of a Black Planet”

March 16, 2010 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Fear of a Black Planet, the third album by hip-hop legends Public Enemy. Billboard did a great write-up about the album’s impact after two decades, which dovetails rather interestingly into a highly-recommended recent documentary I had the pleasure to see last week. The film, Copyright Criminals, is a thought-provoking look into the rise of sampling in music and the ongoing legal challenges faced by samplers. Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, as well as members of production team The Bomb Squad and media assassin Harry Allen, are quoted heavily in…

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