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Release Round-Up: Week of July 11

July 11, 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. Jethro Tull, Still Living in the Past (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Still Living in the Past reinterpret Jethro Tull’s original odds-and-ends compilation from 1972 as a 5CD/1 Blu-ray set boasting some 35 unissued mixes and versions alongside just about every one of the 21 original tracks that appeared on the original double album. Alongside the original mixes of the non-album material that comprised Living in…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks

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America, Backstreet Boys, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Brian Wilson, Bronski Beat, Cyndi Lauper, Gerry Beckley, Jeffrey Foskett, Jethro Tull, Maria Muldaur, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Melanie, Mike Love, Steve Hackett, The Kinks, Vince Guaraldi, Vivabeat

Gotta Get In to Get Out: Genesis’ ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ Set for Deluxe Edition Next Year

November 20, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

Genesis will revisit one of their most beloved albums – and their final bow with original vocalist Peter Gabriel – in a new box set next year. Announced almost 50 years to the day of its original release in 1974, a new deluxe version of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway will be a multi-disc celebration – four CDs or five LPs, a Blu-ray Audio disc and a download card – of the group’s acclaimed work. Inside the box will be a new remaster of the original mix of the album, done by Miles…

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

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Classic Rock, Rock

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Genesis, Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks

Release Round-Up: Week of February 16

February 16, 2024 by The Second Disc | 4 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. Melanie, One Night Only: The Eagle Mountain House (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 1984 concert recorded at The Eagle Mountain house in Jackson, New Hampshire features some of the late singer-songwriter‘s classics including “Brand New Key,” “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” and “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma.” Dave Thompson provides the liner notes. Also available in truncated “highlights” form…

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aaron Copland, Betty Hutton, Béla Fleck, Dorothy Lamour, Melanie, Paul Collins, Steeleye Span, Steve Hackett, The Immediate Family

The Weekend Stream: July 29, 2023

July 29, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Big things happening in this column: two big box sets from a legendary prog-turned-pop outfit, rare mixes from one of pop’s most legendary performers, tons of remixes from a soulful producer/performer and 200(!) classical titles from a legendary British label. Whew! Genesis, Archive #1 (1969 – 1975) / Archive #2 (1976 – 1992) (Atlantic/Rhino/Craft) Archive #1: iTunes / Amazon…

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

Blue Part of Town: Steve Hackett Revisits, Expands “Blues With A Feeling”

September 20, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Steve Hackett, the lead guitarist of Genesis between 1970 and 1977, has recently revisited his 1994 solo album Blues with a Feeling for an expanded reissue on Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint. This release follows up other Genesis-related releases from Esoteric drawing on the catalogues of Hackett (including a reissue of his 1986 supergroup album GTR with Steve Howe), Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips. Hackett’s first solo album, Voyage of the Acolyte, arrived in 1975 while he was still playing with Genesis. Blues was eleventh in a string of diverse albums touching…

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Genesis, Steve Hackett

When The Heart Rules The Mind: Esoteric Reissues, Expands Howe and Hackett’s “GTR”

October 14, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Esoteric Recordings has recently reissued landmark albums by Genesis’ Anthony Phillips and Tony Banks; now, the Cherry Red imprint has turned its attention to GTR, the lone album from the group formed by Steve Hackett of Genesis and Steve Howe of Yes and Asia. The 1986 Arista release of GTR has been expanded by Esoteric to two CDs with the addition of three bonus tracks and a full-length live concert previously released as part of the King Biscuit Flower Hour series. Yes and Asia manager Brian Lane brought the two guitarists together. …

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GTR, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe