The Weekend Stream: August 23, 2025

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 the goods from everywhere this week: the Jersey shore, Philadelphia, Manhattan, jolly old England and a spooky, nondescript European countryside! Bruce Springsteen, “Lonely Night in the Park” (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) If you’re still digesting Tracks II or are prepping for the inevitable Nebraska revival brought on by this fall’s biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, spare a moment for the impending 50th anniversary of The Boss’ mainstream breakthrough Born to Run (which…

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The Weekend Stream: August 9, 2025

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. Jim Reeves isn’t the only gentleman on display this week: we’ve also got Peter Gabriel, Eddy Grant, Ben Folds and a host of film composers – plus many, many more! Peter Gabriel, Live At WOMAD 1982 (Real World) (Apple / Amazon) Loosed from the vault is Gabriel’s nine-song headlining set at the first World of Music, Art and Dance Festival, held at the Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet,…

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The Weekend Stream: July 26, 2025

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. Billy Joel fans have it good this week, with seven hours of hits and rarities from his new documentary. If you’ve got room after that, there’s an anniversary reissue for literally the last five decades in a few different genres, too! Billy Joel, And So It Goes (The Musical Companion to the HBO Documentary Film) (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) If you’ve watched all five hours of the new two-part Billy…

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The Weekend Stream: July 12, 2025

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. This one has it all: Sting, a family named King, one Boss, two Deborahs, 311, ’00s power-pop nuggets, an actress with a killer voice singing on England’s hottest balcony – and a trailer for our most-anticipated music documentary of the month! Sting, The Dream of the Blue Turtles (Expanded Edition) (A&M/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) Concurrent to its SHM-CD release in Japan (alongside other previous digital-only deluxe editions), Sting’s 1985 solo…

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