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Release Round-Up: Week of March 6

March 6, 2026 by The Second Disc | 11 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. Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, The Ultimate Collection (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada/ Real Gone Music) Real Gone delivers the definitive tribute to Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme with this 4-CD box set. Previously available only as a Public Television pledge incentive, The Ultimate Collection has been curated by David Lawrence and is thematically arranged by disc. It features highlights from Steve and Eydie’s…

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barbara Lewis, Ernie Hines, Ike and Tina Turner, John Pizzarelli, Klaus Nomi, Morrissey, Obituary, Peter Gabriel, Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore, Squeeze, Static-X, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Talking Heads, The Donnas, The Staple Singers, The Tony Rice Unit, Wilson Pickett

What’s That, My Boy? Demon Announces RSD Slate Including “Doctor Who,” “Bluey,” Pixies, Stewart Copeland, T. Rex, More

February 5, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The Record Store Day rollout continues with a slate of titles arriving worldwide from Demon Music Group. All of these titles – from television favorites (Doctor Who and Bluey) to classic rock heroes (T Rex, Pixies, and Stewart Copeland) and more – are due at brick-and-mortar independent stores in the U.K., U.S., and around the world on Saturday, April 18. Head over to RecordStoreDay.com for the complete list of participating stores in the U.S. and RecordStoreDay.co.uk if you’re in the U.K., and below you’ll find details for all of Demon’s releases! We’ve…

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Art of Noise, Dead or Alive, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Joff Bush, Labi Siffre, Pixies, Rainbow, Record Store Day, Ritchie Blackmore, Status Quo, Stewart Copeland, T Rex

A Light in the Black: Edsel Kicks Off New Rainbow Reissue Campaign

January 5, 2026 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

The new year will see renewed catalogue activity around Ritchie Blackmore’s acclaimed work with Rainbow, kicking off in the spring with a new box set from Edsel. The Temple of the King 1975-1976, available March 6, takes listeners back to the earliest days of the hard-rockin’ group in studio and on stage, across nine newly-remastered CDs. The set includes the studio albums Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow (1975) and Rising (1976), three complete shows from the group’s first European trek, and a 16-track collection of rarities that’ll include rough mixes, single edits and the premiere release of four…

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Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio

The Weekend Stream: February 25, 2023

February 25, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. A veritable bonanza of titles feature an expanded album by Sting, two classic Madonna 12″s, a George Michael-produced rarity, a first-time duet by a country legend and a soul icon, a new recording of a late-period classic from Hollywood’s most famed composer, and so much more! Sting, Ten Summoner’s Tales (Expanded Edition) (A&M/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) Sting’s camp…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Accept, Billy Squier, CHVRCHES, Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton, George Michael, Judas Priest, Madonna, Patty Loveless, Rainbow, Ramsey Lewis, Sting, Uriah Heep

Release Round-Up: Week of January 27

January 27, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Johnny Mathis, You Light Up My Life/Mathis Magic and The Best Days of My Life (Funky Town Grooves) You Light Up My Life/Mathis Magic: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Best Days of My Life: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Funky Town Grooves has not one, but two, releases from the legendary Johnny Mathis! You Light Up My Life (1978) joins the never-before-on-CD Mathis Magic (1979) on one disc, while FTG’s The Best Days of My Life expands the 1979 album with five bonus tracks, two of which are previously unreleased. The…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Johnny Mathis, Johnny Winter, Paul Glass, Rainbow, Ron Nagle, Rush, T Rex, The Shadows of Knight, The Standells

Release Round-Up: Week of February 4

February 4, 2014 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Burt Bacharach, Together? — Original Soundtrack Recording / Toomorrow: From the Harry Saltzman-Don Kirshner Film “Toomorrow” — Original Soundtrack Recording / The Mamas and the Papas, A Gathering of Flowers / Brotherhood, The Complete Recordings / Smith, A Group Called Smith/Minus-Plus / Troyka, Troyka / Jim Reeves, A Beautiful Life — Songs of Inspiration / The Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks Vol. 20 — Capital Centre, Landover, MD 9/25/76 — Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, NY 9/28/76 (Real Gone Music) What could be better than this Real Gone bounty, featuring a classic compilation by The Mamas and The Papas, an exciting compilation by Brotherhood, a post Paul Revere & The Raiders…

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Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, Michael Bloomfield, Otis Redding, Rainbow, Small Faces, The Dream Syndicate, The Grateful Dead, The Mamas and The Papas, Tina Turner, Vinyl

No Time to Lose: Rainbow Announce Singles Box Set on CD

December 17, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

In the tradition of similar boxes for Deep Purple (released by EMI in 2002) and Dio (released by Universal last year), Universal will release a 19CD box set replicating the singles offering by hard rock outfit Rainbow. Formed toward the end of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore’s tenure with Deep Purple in 1975, Rainbow was a meticulously-coordinated rock band, inspired by the chord progression of classical music and with a lyrical bent toward medieval imagery. Adding greatly to the mix was the versatile vocalizations of lead singer Ronnie James Dio (whose previous band Elf…

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 2

August 2, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

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Arcade Fire, Scenes from the Suburbs (Merge) Last year’s Grammy winner for Album of the Year is newly expanded with two unreleased tracks and a bonus DVD documentary. (Official site) Various Artists, Mightier Than the Sword: The Ronnie James Dio Story (Sanctuary U.K.) This new double-disc set, in honor of the late, beloved metal singer, is the first to compile just about every band Dio ever sang for – Elf, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven and Hell. (Official site) Archers of Loaf, Icky Mettle: Deluxe Edition (Merge) The North Carolina ’90s college-rock stalwart’s…

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Rainbow, The Gap Band

Long Live Rock and Roll! Dio Compilation Due in U.K. This May

May 4, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Ronnie James Dio passed away in 2010, but his spirit has lived on rather nicely in the world of reissues. In recent years, Universal in the U.K. has released expansive deluxe editions of the vocalist’s work with Black Sabbath and Rainbow, not to mention a few archival releases through his own estate’s Niji Entertainment Group. Now, Universal Music Catalogue will add another compilation to the mix for U.K. fans – one which covers, in two discs, all of the artist’s major-label acts. Mightier Than the Sword: The Ronnie James Dio Story, collects…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 8

March 8, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Billy Joel, Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert (Columbia/Legacy) The best of the Shea Stadium farewell shows on two CDs and a DVD or Blu-Ray. Not my favorite Joel show, but it’s now yours for the buying. (Official site) Neil Diamond, The Bang Years 1966-1968 (Columbia/Legacy) Two Bang LPs (and one non-album single) on a nicely put-together disc – hopefully the first of many deserved tributes to the Solitary Man on the eve of his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. (Official site) Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water: 40th…

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Billy Joel, Rainbow, Simon and Garfunkel, Traffic

Three from the Hard Rock Archives

September 16, 2010 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

As if there weren’t enough catalogue options on everyone’s plates, here come three more hard-rock reissues – one from Jethro Tull and two from Rainbow. EMI/Capitol is releasing a deluxe edition of Jethro Tull’s sophomore LP Stand Up (1969). The first album of JT’s in which Ian Anderson had total control over the musical direction was thus a departure from the band’s bluesy debut, This Was, opting instead for more of a folk sound. This set will be an expanded three-disc set with a bonus live show at Carnegie Hall presented on…

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Back Tracks: Ronnie James Dio

May 17, 2010 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

The loss of Ronnie James Dio resounds greatly in the world of metal. The famed vocalist, best known for his time in Black Sabbath and his own eponymous band Dio, had a powerful voice that few in the hard rock spectrum could compete with. He was a prolific talent who left behind not only a lot of influences, but a lot of catalogue work from a half-century(!) of recording. That’s right: Dio first got his start way back in 1957 as a bassist for The Vegas Kings, a teen-rock outfit that saw plenty…

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Back Tracks, Rainbow