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The Weekend Stream: May 31, 2025

May 31, 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. We’ve got solo appearances aplenty: Bono, Al Jardine, Grace Potter, John Fogerty, and more new/old music – plus a new subscription service from Crowded House, a Barry Manilow music video, and a tribute to one of the undisputed guitar gods of his generation. Bono, Stories of Surrender EP (Island/Interscope/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) In 2023, U2 frontman Bono embarked on his first ever solo tour, promoting the memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

The Weekend Stream: December 11, 2021

December 11, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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 discover! This week offers a fistful of digital deluxe editions, expansions on holiday favorites, and at least one Bond theme in the mix. Tina Turner, GoldenEye (Parlophone) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) If you’re still riding high off the excellent latest James Bond film No Time to Die, released a few months ago, you might dig this suite of rare remixes of Tina…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

Free Ride: Edgar Winter’s Solo and Band Albums Collected on Two New Box Sets

March 2, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

With his long mane of white hair, Edgar Winter has long cut one of the most striking profiles in rock. Like his older brother Johnny, Texas-born Edgar was steeped in the blues. Emerging onto the scene with the 1970 Epic album Entrance, Winter fused blues with many of the styles with which he would become known, including rock, pop, soul, and jazz. Funk and even disco would come later, but one thing remained constant in whatever genre Edgar Winter was recording: virtuosic musicianship. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Winter wielded his alto saxophone and…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Dan Hartman, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer

Love In Action: Todd Rundgren’s “All Sides of the Roxy” Presents Complete, Star-Studded 1978 Concert

February 21, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

For his first live album, the 1978 double-LP Back to the Bars, singer/songwriter/sonic auteur Todd Rundgren returned to his roots with a collection of lean, tight, intimate performances recorded in the clubs of New York, Los Angeles, and Cleveland. This was Rundgren at his most accessible, playing his most universally beloved songs over his first decade of music-making, with a band including Utopia veterans Mark “Moogy” Klingman, John Siegler, and Willie Wilcox, plus his old friends from musical/mime troupe The Hello People and special guests. Among the shows tapped for Back to…

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News, Reviews

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Daryl Hall and John Oates, Rick Derringer, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Joy Ride: Cherry Red Boxes Up Albums From Rick Derringer, Mungo Jerry

December 21, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Cherry Red has recently collected up the albums of two very different artists from the 1970s as compact clamshell box sets. The label’s Hear No Evil Recordings imprint is taking listeners on a Joy Ride with four Epic solo albums from guitar great Rick Derringer, while 7Ts Records has expanded editions of five Dawn albums from the group Mungo Jerry as The Dawn Albums Collection. Joy Ride: Solo Albums 1973-1980 follows the release earlier this year of The Blue Sky Albums from Rick’s band Derringer. But before Derringer the band, Rick Derringer…

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Classic Rock, Pop

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Mungo Jerry, Rick Derringer

Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo: Cherry Red Collects Derringer, Hawkwind Albums on New Box Sets

February 21, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Cherry Red Records has recently continued its series of “complete albums”-style box sets with a set from Derringer on its Hear No Evil Recordings imprint, and a continuation of the Hawkwind story from its Atomhenge imprint. Guitarist/songwriter/producer Rick Derringer has one of the most enviable C.V.s in all of rock and roll – as lead singer of The McCoys’ classic oldie “Hang On, Sloopy,” as writer of the hit “Rock ‘n’ Roll Hoochie Koo,” as producer of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s beloved parodies “Eat It” and “Fat,” and as a sideman supporting Edgar…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Derringer, Hawkwind, Rick Derringer

Release Round-Up: Week of May 27

May 27, 2014 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Holland-Dozier-Holland: The Complete 45s Collection: Invictus/Hot Wax/Music Merchant 1969-1977 (Harmless) The H-D-H compositions/production didn’t stop after the trio left Motown; they in fact created several labels and did an awful lot of work for them, as evidenced by this massive eight-disc box set of their works for three labels through the late ’60s and ’70s. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) KISS,

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Patti Labelle, REO Speedwagon, Rick Derringer, Stan Getz, The 5th Dimension