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November 19, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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Madonna, You Can Dance (Single Edits) / Rain (Warner/Rhino) Dance: iTunes / Amazon Rain: iTunes / Amazon Rhino keeps digitally uploading intriguing stuff from Madonna's single and remix catalogue, and this month saw two such releases: first, a bundle of mixes surrounding the Erotica favorite "Rain," then this week, to celebrate the 35th anniversary of remix album You Can Dance, an upload of the rare promo version that found all the tracks unmixed and edited to single-ready

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Charlie Parker, Duran Duran, Esther Phillips, Joe Strummer, Madonna, Melissa Manchester, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Clash, The Statler Brothers

May 20, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Combat Rock Peoples Hall

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of titles arriving everywhere today. The Clash, Combat Rock + The People's Hall: Special Edition (Columbia/Legacy) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ranking Roger 7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash's Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Art Blakey, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane, Kenny Rogers, Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra, The Clash, The Hollywood Stars, The Police, Thelonious Monk

April 9, 2022 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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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 discover! And after a week away, you better believe we're coming in hot! Billy Joel, 50 Years of the Piano Man (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple Music / Amazon) On the surface, this 50-track digital compilation-cum-playlist looks like a typical algorithmic survey of Joel's five-decade career, with all the great radio hits rising to

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Damon Albarn, David Ruffin, Depeche Mode, Gerry Beckley, Howard Jones, Jerry Goldsmith, Jim Weatherly, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Format, Trace Adkins

April 7, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Combat Rock Peoples Hall

This is a public service announcement...with bonus tracks! Legacy Recordings will release a 2CD or 3LP expansion of The Clash's Combat Rock for its 40th anniversary. The album comes with a bonus disc of 12 rare and unreleased tracks curated by the band's surviving members. As the follow-up to the sprawling triple album Sandinista! (1980), the fifth album from "The Only Band That Matters" found the group at a creative crossroads. Guitarist Mick Jones found himself feeling estranged from his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, The Beat, The Clash, The English Beat

April 15, 2021 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Bob Dylan Jokerman I and I

After last week's initial announcement, we'll be periodically continuing our look at the releases for the upcoming Record Store Day events on June 12 and July 17.  Today, we're focusing on our friends at Legacy Recordings.  The label has a robust slate for both Drops with many familiar faces including Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Kenny Loggins, Prince, Miles Davis, and the legendary artists and musicians of Philadelphia International Records.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for a list of participating

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Future, Jamiroquai, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Kenny Loggins, Miles Davis, Pearl Jam, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Record Store Day, The Clash

November 15, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

David Bowie Conversation Piece

Welcome to another installment of Release Round-Up!  Here's what's on the way this week. David Bowie, Conversation Piece [Various Formats] (Parlophone/Rhino) Conversation Piece box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Space Oddity 2019 Mix CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Space Oddity 2019 Mix LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada "Space Oddity" 360 Reality Audio single: Amazon HD / TIDAL / Deezer Links TBD The 5-CD box Conversation Piece traces

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Reggae, Rock Tags: Culture, David Bowie, Ethiopian, Junior Byles, Justin Hinds, Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes, Ron Wood, Sting, The Band, The Clash, The Gladiators

November 14, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

TheClash LondonCallingScrapbook

When The Clash released their third studio effort, London Calling in December 1979, they unleashed an instant classic. The double album -- with its diverse blend of punk, reggae, rockabilly, ska, R&B and jazz -- was quickly heralded as a high-water mark for the band and for punk music. John Rockwell of The New York Times wrote in 1980 that London Calling "reveals depths of invention and creativity barely suggested by the band's previous work." The same yearm Down Beat 's Michael Goldberg

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Clash

July 30, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Joe Strummer 001

When it comes to Joe Strummer, 001 is the number to watch.  That's the name of the upcoming box set that shines a deserved light on the late Clash frontman's work outside of his famous band - solo, with former bandmate Mick Jones, and with his 101ers and The Mescaleros.  001 arrives on September 28 from Ignition Records in an array of formats, including 2CD, 2CD Deluxe, 4LP, and a 2CD/4LP/7"/Cassette Super Deluxe edition. The first CD of 001 compiles 20 eclectic, previously released sides

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, The Clash

April 18, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

high fidelity omnivore rsd

If you've been following these pages for the past few weeks, you've likely noticed an awful lot of coverage about Record Store Day!  Well, the day is nearly here!   Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, music fans and collectors will flock to their local independent record stores to celebrate both the sounds on those round black platters and the very concept of shopping in a physical retail environment. To many of us, both are a way of life.  We're doubly excited this year because one special title was

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Paramore, Randy Newman, Ray Parker Jr., Record Store Day, Ronnie Spector, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Muppets, The Pogues, Van Dyke Parks, Vinyl

December 17, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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With the last two weeks of the year so light on catalogue titles, we figured we'd combine it all into one post. Below you'll find two new titles for this week, and two for the next! The Pogues, 30 Years (Rhino U.K.) Here, in one box, is all of the Irish folk-rockers' original albums, including new mixes of debut Red Roses for Me and Peace and Love, plus a bonus unreleased live show from 1991 with Joe Strummer of The Clash assuming lead vocal duties. (Amazon U.K. / Amazon U.S.) Boz Scaggs, Boz

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: The Clash, The Pogues, Warren Zevon

October 29, 2013 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

pogues 30 packshot

Celtic rockers The Pogues are releasing a new box set that collects all of their studio albums - two newly-remixed just for this release - and an unreleased live album with a very special frontman. Led by unforgettable frontman Shane Macgowan, The Pogues deftly combined the raucous traditions of traditional Celtic folk songs and sharp-edged punk rock, gaining a considerable live following when opening for The Clash on one of their last tours. A contract with Stiff Records followed, yielding Red

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Clash, The Pogues

October 17, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It's that time of year again!  Though Black Friday has taken a backseat in recent years to the once-unheard-of Thanksgiving Day sales, the folks at Record Store Day still hold the day after Thanksgiving in high esteem.  News has begun to trickle out about this year's RSD Back to Black Friday exclusives, and the team at Legacy has certainly put together a collection of special vinyl releases - and a handful of CDs, too - that look back to recent releases from the label and forward to future

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Nas, Paul Simon, Record Store Day, Roy Orbison, Sly & The Family Stone, The Clash, Uncle Tupelo, Vinyl

September 16, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

meat loaf live

Ain’t no doubt about it: Ellen Foley achieved classic rock immortality via her role on “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” opposite Meat Loaf on his 1977 album Bat Out of Hell.  Foley was the girl “glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife” in Jim Steinman’s rock opera in miniature, with Meat Loaf as the boy “praying for the end of time” and the end of their time together.  All these years later, Foley and the former Marvin Lee Aday are together again - on CD shelves, at least, thanks to two

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Categories: News Tags: Meat Loaf, The Clash

September 10, 2013 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

clash sound system

The Clash, Sound System / Hits Back / 5 Studio Album Box Set (Columbia/Sony Music/Legacy) Coming from the U.K., a new double-disc Clash compilation, a simple box of the band's classic albums in new mini-LP packaging (The Clash (U.K.), Give 'Em Enough Rope, London Calling, Sandinista! and Combat Rock) and a deluxe swag-filled set featuring those five albums, three discs of non-LP tracks and unreleased rarities and a DVD full of more rare treats. Hits Back (2CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Hits

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Clash, Vinyl

May 22, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Even the name of The Clash was aggressive.  With their 1977 debut album, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Terry Chimes (soon to depart the band) made a fast and furious attack on rock complacency.  Punk, after all, was the music heard ‘round the world when it re-lit a fire in the belly of rock-and-roll that had lain dormant in an era of increasingly complex, often progressive rock (sans the roll) in the 1970s.  And at the vanguard of that initial wave of English punk was, inevitably,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Clash

September 7, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

mescaleros digital box

In celebration of what would have been Joe Strummer's 60th birthday this year - and, just as sadly, the 10th anniversary of his passing this coming December - the Clash frontman's three albums with latter-day solo band The Mescaleros have received the deluxe treatment both physically and digitally. At the end of August, Hellcat/Epitaph Records released a digital box set, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years. This 57-track box set contains all three remastered Mescaleros LPs -

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Categories: News Tags: The Clash

April 20, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Well, Record Store Day is finally upon us!  Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, music fans and collectors will descend upon their local independent record stores to celebrate both the sounds on those black platters and the cherished physical shopping environments alike.  As Record Store Day 2012 will offer a typically eclectic array of limited edition releases (primarily on vinyl but also some on CD, too!) from many of our favorite artists here at Second Disc HQ, we thought we would take a moment to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Buck Owens, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Otis Redding, Paul Simon, Record Store Day, Rick James, The Clash, Vinyl

April 4, 2012 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

rsd 2012

Here at Second Disc HQ, we're eagerly anticipating April 21, or Record Store Day, the industry-wide celebration of all things vinyl (and a few CDs, too!).  Record Store Day, now in its fifth year, gives shoppers the chance to interact with big crowds of fellow music enthusiasts in the brick-and-mortar retail environment cherished by so many of us.  Legacy Recordings has announced its impressive line-up of limited edition releases that will line the shelves of your favorite independent music

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Categories: News Tags: Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Ozzy Osbourne, Patti Smith, Paul Simon, Record Store Day, The Clash, Vinyl

December 23, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

beatles white album

It's the penultimate entry in our list of Rolling Stone's greatest albums of all time, as seen through the reissues that have filled our shelves for years. We've got some heavy hitters here: Beatles, Stones, Dylan - plus what may be the greatest punk and R&B albums ever. 10. The Beatles, The Beatles (Apple, 1968) The double-LP the world knows mostly by three other words - "The White Album" - was difficult and unusual inside and out. Most of the songs were conceived during an ultimately

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, The Beatles, The Clash, The Rolling Stones, TSD Buyers Guide

December 2, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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It's almost the weekend, and we've got the perfect set of tunes to rock your Saturday and Sunday!  It's Part 5 of our first-ever official Second Disc Buyers Guide, in which we look at the 100 greatest albums of all time, as selected by Rolling Stone in 2003, through the filter of when and how these classic albums have been reissued, remastered and repackaged. If you've ever wondered to yourself which versions of these albums to buy for certain bonus tracks and the like, we're your one-stop

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Categories: News Tags: Neil Young, The Clash, The Zombies, TSD Buyers Guide

December 22, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Where were you when you first heard The Clash? If you can't answer that question because you've never heard them, then consider this your Christmas present. The London-based punk band accomplished much in their decade-long tenure, including some of the best albums of the genre. Though they enjoyed the fruits of a major label, they stayed true to their ethos, keeping prices low for albums, tickets and souvenirs (reportedly, the band forfeited royalties on sprawling triple-album Sandinista! in

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Categories: Giveaways! Tags: Back Tracks, The Clash

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