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Woke Up with a Monster: Rhino’s Start Your Ear Off Right Titles Run the Gamut

January 8, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

Why wait for Record Store Day? Rhino continues their January tradition of “Start Your Ear Off Right” with just over three dozen exclusive vinyl titles being released through January at independent record stores. (A small handful, linked below, are also available at Rhino’s official web store.) The majority will be released in two waves split between last Friday (January 2) and this Friday (January 9), with five more arriving between January 23 and January 30. Altogether, this list spans all forms of rock, pop, R&B, jazz, soundtracks and even comedy. In addition…

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Everything Else, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of July 18

July 18, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Sly and the Family Stone Winchester Cathedral

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. Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters: 20th Anniversary Edition (Republic) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Scissor Sisters’ 2004 debut gets a (slightly belated) 20th anniversary expansion offering the album in a digipak alongside two bonus discs of B-sides, remixes, and seven previously unheard tracks. A truncated offering of the B-sides and outtakes will be included on a double vinyl edition. “Take Your Mama” to get the…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Beaver and Krause, Bush, Colin Hay, Rod Stewart, Scissor Sisters, Sly and the Family Stone, Styx, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Trisha Yearwood, ZZ Top

In Memoriam: Sly Stone (1943-2025)

June 10, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

“I am everyday people,” boldly proclaimed Sly Stone on Sly and The Family Stone’s 1968 chart-topping single. “I am no better and neither are you/We are the same, whatever we do/You love me, you hate me, you know me and then/You can’t figure out the bag I’m in…” Using straightforward, direct language, a penchant for nonsense words that nonetheless carried weight (ooh-sha-sha, scooby-dooby-dooby, boom-laka-laka-laka), and the funkiest grooves ever to find their way to a vinyl platter, the artist born Sylvester Stewart pointedly commented on the era in which he lived. Leading…

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Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone

Release Round-Up: Week of May 9

May 9, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 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. Jackie DeShannon, Love Forever: Demo Recordings 1966-1968 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Jackie DeShannon signed with Liberty Records and Metric Music in 1960 as a performer and songwriter. Her big break would come in 1964 when she would open for The Beatles on their first U.S. tour. The next year she would record Bacharach and David’s “What the World Needs Now is Love” and her recording…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bob James, Béla Fleck, Dave Koz, Eric Clapton, Gershon Kingsley, INXS, Jackie DeShannon, Jesse Ed Davis, Lamb, Nellie McKay, Petula Clark, Rilo Kiley, Rod McKuen, Sly and the Family Stone, Tyketto, Wang Chung

Record Store Day 2025: The Best of the Rest

April 2, 2025 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Next Saturday, April 12, is certainly one of the most packed Record Store Days in recent memory. Since the list was announced, we drilled down on titles from Craft Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, BMG, Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, as well as some notable titles that were getting later general releases on CD. Well, if you thought that was it, you’re wrong! We pored and pored over the list and are here to share with you more than four dozen one-offs, archival…

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

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A Tribe Called Quest, Adam and The Ants, Alex Chilton, Annie Lennox, Ariana Grande, Art Blakey, Beck, Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Brad Fiedel, Brian Wilson, Bryan Adams, CHVRCHES, Cannonball Adderley, Cat Stevens, Charles Mingus, Cissy Houston, Clarence White, Cockney Rebel, Cynthia Erivo, Dave Stewart, Dead or Alive, Dusty Springfield, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Freddie Hubbard, George Harrison, Gloria Jones, Graham Parker, Gram Parsons, Grant Green, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Band, Kenny Dorham, Little Richard, Maurice Jarre, Nick Lowe, Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic, Paul Hardcastle, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Propaganda, Record Store Day, Roger Daltrey, Roger McGuinn, Scott Weiland, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, Terry Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Art of Noise, The Beach Boys, The Blasters, The Byrds, The Colourfield, The Everly Brothers, The Fall, The Hives, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi, Wall of Voodoo, Wang Chung, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Yusuf

Thankful N’ Thoughtful: Legacy Releases Soundtrack to Sly Stone Documentary

February 14, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

A pleasant surprise available digitally today and on CD and 2LP in May is the soundtrack to an exciting new documentary about one of the great musical icons of the ’60s: Sly Stone. SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) – the latest documentary by The Roots’ drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, who picked up an Academy Award for his work on 2021’s Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – has a new companion album that features 21 favorite hits and album cuts, about half of which are…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone

Not So Simple Songs: Ace Records Compiles Sly Stone Covers

February 3, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Everybody is a Star The Sly Stone Songbook

A timely new collection will pay tribute to the work of Sly & The Family Stone through a diverse group of covers and rarely-heard singles written and produced by the group’s iconic frontman for others. Everybody is a Star – The Sly Stone Songbook is the latest entry in Ace Records’ Songwriter Series, chronicling some of the greatest modern songwriters of the last century. Naturally, the man born Sylvester Stewart is a prime candidate for such an overview. His mix of R&B, funk, pop and rock music sounded like nothing else in…

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Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Al Jarreau, Diana Ross, Gene Harris, Iggy Pop, Ike Turner, Jeff Buckley, Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone, The Five Stairsteps, The Jackson 5, The Three Degrees, Tina Turner

The Weekend Stream: May 27, 2023

May 27, 2023 by The Second Disc | 5 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 usher you into the weekend from a Sly and the Family Stone rarity to the latest expanded edition from Taylor Swift! Sly and the Family Stone, Ten Years Too Soon (The Remix Album) (Epic/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Perhaps the most bizarre item in the Sly and the Family Stone catalogue has hit download and streaming services this weekend. Ten Years Too Soon enlisted…

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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, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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All Saints, Barbra Streisand, Ed Ames, Edgar Winter, Josh Groban, Miles Davis, Sly and the Family Stone, Stephen Sondheim, Taylor Swift, The Jesus and Mary Chain

Release Round-Up: Week of January 28

January 28, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Summer of Soul (…or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Legacy Recordings delivers a soundtrack to Questlove’s acclaimed 2021 documentary Summer of Soul, chronicling the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Live recordings are featured from headliners including The 5th Dimension, Nina Simone, David Ruffin, Sly & The Family Stone, Gladys Knight & The Pips, B.B. King, The Chambers Brothers, and more. Available on CD and digital formats, with the digital edition adding one bonus cut…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl

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Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Bob James, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Harold Rome, John Lodge, Leo Sayer, Lucinda Williams, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, The 5th Dimension, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, The Weeknd

I Guess I’ll Be: Sly Stone’s “Baby Pictures” Collected on Sly and The Viscaynes’ “Yellow Moon”

April 26, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Sylvester Stewart, a.k.a. Sly Stone, thrillingly fused R&B with funk, rock, pop, and jazz as leader of the psychedelic outfit Sly and The Family Stone. But the visionary artist didn’t emerge from nowhere with his most famous band; he’d paid his dues in the early part of the 1960s at the Bay Area’s Autumn Records label as a producer and artist. Many of these recordings have been chronicled on collections from Ace (Precious Stone: In the Studio with Sly Stone 1963-1965, Listen to the Voices: Sly Stone in the Studio 1965-1970) and…

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Pop, R&B/Soul

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Sly Stone, Sly and the Family Stone, The Viscaynes

We Were Half A Million Strong: Massive Woodstock Collection Arrives in High-Resolution Digital Formats

August 17, 2020 by Sam Stone | 3 Comments

Fifty-one years ago this past weekend, a crowd of half a million converged at Max Yasgur’s Farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The four-day event became a cultural touchstone and mythical ideal, strengthened even more by the Woodstock film and soundtracks that proliferated the marketplace during the early ’70s and beyond. While performers, fans, and countless supposed attendees participated in even more myth-building, a small group of historians and researchers worked to piece together what really happened. Last year, a decade-long dive into Woodstock tape vaults…

Rhino’s 10-CD Woodstock Set “Back To the Garden: The 50th Anniversary Experience” Delivers the Goods

July 31, 2019 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

Fifty years ago this summer, more than 400,000 fans convened at Max Yasgur’s farm for a music festival that would come to define not only the era, but the entire ethos of music festivals to come. With every passing decade, the magic of Woodstock has been celebrated and, indeed, re-marketed to new generations of music fans. The ’90s saw two new Woodstock-branded festivals and an array of 25th anniversary products, including a compilation called Woodstock Diary and a 4-CD box set. To mark the festival’s 40th anniversary in 2009, yet another box…

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

DEVELOPING: Rhino Celebrates Woodstock 50th with Massive, Complete 38-CD Box Set (UPDATED WITH ORDER LINKS)

May 8, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 19 Comments

Rolling Stone has broken the news this morning that Rhino Records is getting back to the garden in a big (make that BIG) way. Woodstock 50 – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive, due August 2, will live up to its name as the last word on the legendary festival. This 38CD/1BD set, limited to 1,969 copies, will include every note performed onstage by every act at Yasgur’s Farm over those three days of peace and music, save two tracks by Jimi Hendrix (omitted at the request of his…

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Sly and the Family Stone, The Band, The Who

Hey, Music Lover! Legacy Announces Record Store Day 2019 Exclusives

March 4, 2019 by Sam Stone | 9 Comments

Sony’s Legacy Recordings has announced its offerings for this year’s Record Store Day festivities, to be held on Saturday, April 13 at your local brick-and-mortar retailer! As usual, it’s an eclectic line-up with pop, rock, and R&B superstars all represented. So without further ado, here’s the label’s full list! Jeff Buckley, In Transition – 1 LP – 3,000 copies In Transition is a compilation of seven previously unreleased studio performances from 1993 during the making of Jeff Buckley’s only studio album, Grace, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year. Aptly titled,…

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Cassette, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Brian May, Dennis Wilson, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Prince, Record Store Day, Roger Taylor, Sly and the Family Stone, Taylor Hawkins

Shake Your Body: “The John Luongo Disco Mixes” Features Jacksons, Mathis, Labelle, Sly Stone, and More

December 22, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Can You Feel the Force? asks the title of Groove Line Records’ new compilation of The John Luongo Disco Mixes. The force is undeniable on this 2-CD, 21-track selection of some of the finest floor-fillers crafted by the Boston DJ-turned-pioneering disco mix master. Luongo had a vision for disco that extended beyond the expected; hence, this dynamite set mostly drawn from the Sony vaults features an eclectic array of artists from the realms of R&B (The Jacksons. Gladys Knight and the Pips, Patti LaBelle), pop (Johnny Mathis, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis,…

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Johnny Mathis, Melba Moore, Patti Labelle, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, The Jacksons, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of October 30

October 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Packed with over 30 titles including highly-anticipated reissues, a slew of box sets, collections and more, it just may be the mightiest of the year! The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Velvet Underground’s 1970 album – and Lou Reed’s swansong with the band – gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono albums plus a wealth of bonus material, two live concerts and a DVD featuring high…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Release Round-Up: Week of July 17

July 17, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring classic rock, soul and jazz box sets and more! Sly and the Family Stone, Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968 (Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Dance to the music! On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band’s third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in New York City. Epic Records recorded all four of the band’s concerts (two shows per night) with…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, SACD

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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America, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Sly and the Family Stone, The Continental Drifters

Dance to the Music! Sly and the Family Stone Vinyl Box Arrives

March 26, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

A little more than a week ago, on March 15, Sly Stone turned 72. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and multi-hyphenate artist has survived more than his share of ups and downs. But for a staggering period of nearly 50 years, Sly’s work as composer, singer, producer and musician has continued to take listeners higher with his groundbreaking blend of funk, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, psychedelia, jazz and pop. Epic Records and Legacy Recordings have recently reissued the first five albums from Sly and the Family Stone, originally released…

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News, Reviews

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Box Sets, Vinyl

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Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Sly and the Family Stone