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December 22, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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CLICK ON THE CHRISTMAS TREE TO FIND OUT IF YOU'RE A WINNER OF OUR SECOND WEEK OF GIVEAWAYS! THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO ENTERED AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE SECOND DISC!

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December 25, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Here at The Second Disc, the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. For the second year in a row, we have we reached out to some of our favorite reissue labels and we’ve teamed with them to play Santa Claus to our awesome and faithful readers. It’s called – what else? – Second Discmas, and it’s just drawn to its close.  So, as we wish all of you a safe, healthy, happy and very merry Christmas, we'd like to congratulate the following winners. 

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December 23, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Here at The Second Disc, the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. For the second year in a row, we have we reached out to some of our favorite reissue labels and we’ve teamed with them to play Santa Claus to our awesome and faithful readers. It’s called – what else? – Second Discmas, and it’s going on now through Christmas! For the seventh day of Second Discmas, we're spreading holiday cheer with the complete Christmas recordings of a true

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December 22, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Here at The Second Disc, the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. For the second year in a row, we have we reached out to some of our favorite reissue labels and we’ve teamed with them to play Santa Claus to our awesome and faithful readers. It’s called – what else? – Second Discmas, and it’s going on now through Christmas! The sixth day of Second Discmas spotlights a truly original singer/songwriter: Sam Phillips!  Thanks to the great folks

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Categories: Giveaways! Tags: Sam Phillips, Second Discmas, Vinyl

December 21, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Here at The Second Disc, the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. For the second year in a row, we have we reached out to some of our favorite reissue labels and we’ve teamed with them to play Santa Claus to our awesome and faithful readers. It’s called – what else? – Second Discmas, and it’s going on now through Christmas! The fifth day of Second Discmas is a celebration of all things stage and screen!  We're offering two amazing gift sets

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Marvin Hamlisch, Second Discmas, Stephen Sondheim

December 19, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Here at The Second Disc, the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. For the second year in a row, we have we reached out to some of our favorite reissue labels and we’ve teamed with them to play Santa Claus to our awesome and faithful readers. It’s called – what else? – Second Discmas, and it’s going on now through Christmas! Today, we have a gift set from our friends at Omnivore Recordings which we think is pretty damn cool!  Earlier this

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December 17, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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We need a little Christmas...right this very minute. Here at The Second Disc, the holiday season  is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music.  For the second year in a row, we have we reached out to some of our favorite reissue labels and we've teamed with them to play Santa Claus to our awesome and faithful readers. It's called – what else? – Second Discmas, and it’s going on now through Christmas! Today's giveaway is courtesy the fine folks at Edsel Records! 

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Tags: Second Discmas, Steve Miller Band

December 22, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Well, friends, all good things must come to an end, but we couldn't be more excited with the offerings we have for you today, the final day of Second Discmas! Courtesy of our terrific friends at Rhino Entertainment, we've got an amazing pack of three of the label's finest Handmade releases of 2011: the expanded 2-CD box set of The Beau Brummels' Bradley's Barn; the first-ever release of the heavy psychedelia of Iron Butterfly's Fillmore East 1968; and finally, the brand-new, hot-off-the-presses

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Second Discmas, The Beau Brummels, The Monkees

December 21, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It's Day 7 of Second Discmas, and we're thrilled to bring you a remarkable new box set from a legend of jazz! Wynton Marsalis‘ Swinging Into the 21st is a comprehensive 10-album, 11-CD box set containing career highlights hand-picked by the trumpeter, composer, bandleader and arranger to illuminate each facet of his history!  Marsalis selected the material on Swinging to celebrate his 50th birthday this October 18.  His diverse selections from his large catalogue include two volumes of his

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December 20, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Well, Week 2 of Second Discmas is in high gear, and here at Second Disc HQ, we can't get enough of the great music of the silver screen and the Great White Way!  Today, we're sharing the immortal music of Hollywood and Broadway with you! Thanks to our fantastic friends at Kritzerland, we have two amazing prize packs for you today! Our "Screen" pack is a triple-threat of soundtrack classics, including two from the legendary Elmer Bernstein!  From Bernstein's pen comes the Original Soundtrack

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Categories: News Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Second Discmas

December 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Welcome to Week 2 of Second Discmas!  We hope you've got your dancing shoes on, because today's prize is bound to get you right onto the floor! Thanks to our amazing friends at Light in the Attic, two lucky winners will each receive a copy of Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest in Funk and Soul 1965-1975!  This electrifying CD illuminates another side of the rich musical landscape of Seattle, Washington, long before the dawn of grunge!  The new 2011 reissue of the original, acclaimed 2004

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December 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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And the winners are… With our second week of exciting giveaways about to kick off later today, it’s about time to reveal the winners from our first week of Second Discmas! Without further ado, here we go! Congratulations to… Charles K. of Cleveland, OH, and Jose M., winners of Ben Folds’ The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective! Jeffrey R. of Los Angeles, California, Rich D., Jake H., Kenneth R., and Anthony "Anth", winners of Billy Joel’s Piano Man: Legacy Edition! Edward O., Richard

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Tags: Billy Joel, Miles Davis, Phil Spector, Second Discmas

December 16, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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We're at the end of our first week of prizes for Second Discmas, and today's might be our best yet! We have a special bundle of prizes from our friends at Legacy Recordings: two packs of two very special box sets the label has done in the past few months. Today's titles are Miles Davis' The Bootleg Series Vol. 1: Live in Europe 1967, a 3-CD/1-DVD box set of unreleased performances by the legendary trumpeter's quintet, and Move Over!, a special box set of four 7" singles, made for Record Store

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: Box Sets Tags: Miles Davis, Second Discmas, Vinyl

December 15, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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It's the third day of Second Discmas, and what could be better than two copies of some Ben Folds rarities or three Spector compilations? How about five, count 'em, five Piano Men? Well, it's only one Piano Man; specifically, it's Piano Man by Billy Joel. But we're giving away five copies of Joel's legendary debut for Columbia Records, featuring the hits "Piano Man" and "Captain Jack." This remastered Legacy Edition also features, for the first time anywhere, Joel's 1972 performance at Sigma

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Categories: Giveaways! Tags: Billy Joel, Second Discmas

December 14, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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It's The Second Day of Second Discmas, our special form of holiday greetings to our loyal readers, and we've got another round of awesome giveaways for you today. Today, we've got another gift for you from our friends at Legacy Recordings. Sony's reissue arm has been diligent lately in releasing works from the esteemed Philles Records catalogue, from a series of greatest-hits albums to a fantastic, bonus-filled box of vintage albums from the label's discography. On The Second Day of Second

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Categories: Giveaways! Tags: Phil Spector, Second Discmas

December 13, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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With Christmas less than two weeks away, we've of course been thinking about the best reissues and catalogue titles of 2011. But this year, we're celebrating a little bit differently: for the most giving time of the year, we reached out to some of our favorite reissue labels and are playing Santa Claus to our awesome and faithful readers. We're calling it - what else? - Second Discmas, and it's going on through the rest of the month! Our first giveaway is a real treat: If you love piano-based

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