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December 16, 2022 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Frank Zappa Waka Wazoo

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the week's most notable new titles!  As next week will see very few releases, this will be our final Release Round-Up of 2022...regular daily coverage will continue, though!  See you in the new year! Frank Zappa, Waka/Wazoo (Zappa/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / uDiscoverMusic.com / Zappa Online Store) UMe and Zappa Records are chronicling Frank Zappa's 1972 in a new 4CD/1BD box set.  The original

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Cheap Trick, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Oingo Boingo, Spice Girls, The Allman Brothers Band

December 10, 2022 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Stream

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. This week, a Madonna rarity makes a splashy debut, the daughter of a soul legend sings with her dad on his holiday classic, and Roger Waters emerges from lockdown - plus remixes old and new, and a World Cup throwback you might not believe is real. Madonna, Gambler (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Deniece Williams, Donny Hathaway, Earth Wind and Fire, Echo & The Bunnymen, Ella Fitzgerald, Engelbert Humperdinck, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Jimmy Cliff, Lalah Hathaway, Madonna, Marlene Dietrich, Melba Moore, Odyssey, Peggy Lee, Phyllis Hyman, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Ry Cooder, Spice Girls, Teddy Pendergrass, The Jets

November 4, 2022 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Billy Joel, Live at Yankee Stadium (Columbia/Legacy) 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Billy Joel's Live at Yankee Stadium, originally released on video, is getting a major makeover.  The concert film, shot on June 22 and 23, 1990, has been restored and remixed from original audio and video elements for a 2CD/Blu-ray

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Books, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Donna Summer, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, Prince, Seal, Spice Girls, Steely Dan, The Police

September 29, 2022 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Spiceworld 25 packshot

England's pop exports are some of the biggest the world has ever known - and in the '90s, none were bigger than the Spice Girls. This fall, UMC will reissue Spiceworld, the group's second album and the one where they were metaphorically on top of the world, in a variety of formats with rare and unreleased material. Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Victoria Adams were irresistible to worldwide pop audiences not long after the release of debut Spice in 1996. With

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Spice Girls

October 29, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Pink Floyd Momentary Lapse Remixed CD BD

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! R.E.M., New Adventures in Hi-Fi: 25th Anniversary Edition (Craft Recordings) 2CD/1BD (now due November 19): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (now due November 12) : Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Original album only; out today): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings is continuing its ongoing R.E.M. reissue series with a 25th anniversary edition of the Georgia band's tenth studio album New

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Buck Owens, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, Johnny Cash, Nat King Cole, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., Spice Girls, The Doobie Brothers, Whitesnake

September 7, 2021 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Spice Girls Spice 25

Tell me what you want, what you really, really want... If what you want is a 25th anniversary expanded edition of the Spice Girls' 1996 debut Spice, you're in luck.  On October 29, Virgin/UMC (U.K.) and EMI will reissue Spice on 2 CDs and a digital "eAlbum." The expanded Spice 25, curated by the Spice Girls, features the original album on the first CD plus a second disc of twelve bonus tracks.  These encompass a sampling of period remixes and single versions plus five previously unreleased

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Spice Girls

July 10, 2021 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Stream

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Captain Beefheart and His Magic

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: 808 State, Captain Beefheart, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Frank Zappa, George Benson, New Order, Randy Edelman, Richard Barone, Soul Asylum, Spice Girls, Sylvester, The Art of Noise, The Bongos

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