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October 31, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Bob Dylan Bootleg 18 Cover

Happy Halloween!  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. Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window (Columbia/Legacy) 8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The beginnings of Bob Dylan's long and extraordinary career are being revisited by

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Adam and The Ants, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Devo, Eternity's Children, Faces, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kate Bush, KT Tunstall, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sheena Easton, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Soft Cell, The Cars, The Who, Thompson Twins

October 25, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stream 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 an unreleased outtake from The Beatles; a favorite '80s band re-recording a deep cut; and a rock legend recruiting an unexpected guest on a new mix of their latest single - plus late period greatness from The Go-Betweens, Glenn Frey cutting standards and more. The Beatles, "I've Just Seen a Face (Take 3)" (Apple/Capitol/UMe)

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Rock Tags: Aerosmith, Duran Duran, Glenn Frey, Hank Mobley, Patty Larkin, Soft Cell, Steve Martin, The Blasters, The Go-Betweens, Yusuf Lateef

April 29, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Non Stop Erotic Dancing expanded

After expanding their debut album for a box set in 2023, Soft Cell will revisit the next entry in their discography: the remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing. Available June 20, the collection comes back to two CDs or two LPs with a host of bonus material, including vintage non-LP singles and remixes plus a host of rare promo remixes issued in the last decade. (While UMC's solicitation notes three of the 12 tracks on the set's bonus disc are unreleased, our research puts it at one, with the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop Tags: Marc Almond, Soft Cell

February 16, 2024 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Elton John Caribou

Continuing our look through this year's Record Store Day list, here is a glance at twenty-one releases from the Universal family of labels.  All descriptions are taken from the labels.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca. The Beatles, "I Saw

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Charlie Parker, Def Leppard, Elton John, Everything But the Girl, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Marianne Faithfull, Pearl Jam, Record Store Day, Ringo Starr, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, The Beatles, The Cranberries, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Thin Lizzy, U2

December 1, 2023 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

The Sound of Music Super Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Sound of Music: Super Deluxe Edition (Craft Recordings) 4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Craft Store (picnic meadow green) This remarkable new 4CD/1BD box set invites listeners to hear The Sound of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aretha Franklin, Bill Evans, Bobby Darin, Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein, Peter Gabriel, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Soft Cell, Steely Dan, Tina Turner, Van Duren, Violent Femmes

September 7, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Dance Masters John Luongo CD box

Demon/Edsel's Dance Masters series only just released its second volume this summer - but a third one is on the way this fall, spotlighting the work of acclaimed remixer John Luongo. The Arthur Baker-presented series follows generous box sets on Shep Pettibone and Baker himself with a new overview of John "T.C." Luongo, who parlayed working in and around the Boston club scene into more than a decade of 12" remix work, first for some of the greatest R&B artists crossing over into disco,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABC, Bananarama, Billy Idol, Cher, Dan Hartman, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Fine Young Cannibals, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Huey Lewis and The News, John Luongo, John Waite, Johnny Mathis, KC and the Sunshine Band, Level 42, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Marlena Shaw, Melba Moore, Patti Labelle, Peter Schilling, Rick Springfield, Shakin' Stevens, Soft Cell, Tina Turner, Visage, Wang Chung, ZZ Top

August 31, 2023 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

Marc Almond's Tenement Symphony isn't the only title involving the U.K. synthpop singer going deluxe this year. On October 20, UMR will give you all a boy could give you with a massive deluxe edition of Soft Cell's breakthrough debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. The 6CD box set, housed in a 10" x 10" box, presents the beloved New Wave classic alongside a treasure trove of B-sides, remixes, live cuts, demos and other audio curiosities. Of the set's 98 tracks, 40 of them are previously

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop Tags: Marc Almond, Soft Cell

August 25, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Fans of Marc Almond's early '90s solo album Tenement Symphony are in for a real treat this fall, with a new box set coming from the Cherry Red imprint Strike Force Entertainment that will cover the album in exhaustive detail. This 6CD/DVD set includes the original album, B-sides, a trove of released and unheard remixes, demos, live versions and a region-free DVD of music videos and BBC promotional appearances. The set also comes with a 32-page booklet featuring lyrics, listening notes and a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Marc Almond, Soft Cell

March 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Elliott Smith Either Or Expanded

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elliott Smith, Either/Or: Expanded Edition (Kill Rock Stars) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Kill Rock Stars label has a new remastered, expanded reissue of Elliott Smith's 1997 Either/Or on 2 CDs or 2 LPs.  The bonus material includes five live tracks, the unreleased tune "I Figured You Out," a new mix of B-side "I Don't Think I'm Ever Gonna Figure It Out," and alternate

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: ? and The Mysterians, Chickenfoot, Elliott Smith, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Garcia, Marc Almond, Mortimer, Soft Cell, Soundgarden, T Rex

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