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January 9, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Rhino Start Your Ear Off Right 2023

We're into the second week of January, and it wouldn't be a new year without Rhino's annual Start Your Ear Off Right campaign.  This year's slate encompasses eighteen vinyl reissues across the rock, soul, and jazz spectrum, the majority of which were released on Friday at independent record stores and most Barnes and Noble locations (and online). The following titles are in stores now: Billy Cobham, Spectrum [Clear Vinyl, remastered by Kevin Gray] John Coltrane, Ole Coltrane [Clear

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Cobham, Chicago, Curtis Mayfield, Dire Straits, Genesis, Gerry Rafferty, Hot Tuna, John Coltrane, Johnny Thunders, Otis Redding, Ramones, The B-52's, The Cure, The Velvet Underground, Warren Zevon, Yes, ZZ Top

November 25, 2022 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the (non-Record Store Day) titles hitting stores today!  Watch this space for our RSD Black Friday Picks! David Bowie, Divine Symmetry (An Alternative Journey Through 'Hunky Dory') (Parlophone) 4CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 4CD/1BD slipcased box set chronicling the twelve months leading up to the December 1971 release of David Bowie's fourth

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: David Bowie, Jim Croce, Ringo Starr, The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Tina Turner, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

September 14, 2022 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

The Doors Paris Blues

It's that time of year again: Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event is scheduled for Friday, November 25 as the holiday shopping season begins.  Rhino has wasted no time in sharing its list of releases from some of the label's marquee artists including Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Grateful Dead, and Madonna.  Classic albums from Todd Rundgren, Captain Beefheart, and Eric Burdon & WAR are also among the titles on Rhino's slate.  And one release is even available on CD! Read on for the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Duran Duran, Eric Burdon, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Madonna, Record Store Day, The Cure, The Doors, Todd Rundgren, War

August 1, 2022 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

The Cure Wish 30th

The Cure hit their commercial stride with 1992's Wish.  The band's ninth studio album and highest-charting in both the U.S. and U.K., it tapped into the burgeoning alt-rock movement while retaining the gothic sound on which The Cure made their name.  Now, fans' Wishes are coming true with a 30th anniversary expansion on 3 CDs, including 24 previously unreleased tracks and a further four which are new to CD/digital.  Curated by Robert Smith, Wish: Deluxe Edition is due from Rhino on October 7,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Cure

February 17, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

America Alternates and Rarities

Rhino is bringing out the heavy hitters for its Record Store Day lineup of releases, all of which are due on Saturday, April 23 at independent record stores everywhere.  We've already filled you in on the pair of David Bowie titles coming to both CD and LP, but Rhino also has vinyl offerings from music legends including Joni Mitchell, Madonna, Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks, and The Everly Brothers as well as such beloved bands as America, Bad Company, Blur, Chicago, The Doors, Grateful Dead,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, Reggae, Rock Tags: America, Bad Company, Blur, Chicago, Christy Moore, David Bowie, Devo, Electronic, Gojira, Golden Smog, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Madonna, Mike Oldfield, Peter Tosh, Ramones, Record Store Day, Stevie Nicks, Stiff Little Fingers, The Cure, The Doors, The Everly Brothers, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Proclaimers, The Replacements, Willie Nelson

April 7, 2021 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

CSNY Deja Vu Alternates

At 1:00 pm EST/10:00 am PST today, the list of Record Store Day's annual offerings was made public.  As was the case in 2020, this year's RSD festivities will take place over more than one day.  The two RSD Drops are scheduled for Saturday, June 12, and Saturday, July 17.  We'll be sharing periodic announcements of various labels' releases, including this look at Rhino's whopping array of over 30 titles from heavy hitters including Black Sabbath, Donny Hathaway, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Black Sabbath, Candi Staton, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Donny Hathaway, Dr. John, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, John Prine, Joni Mitchell, Me'Shell Ndege'Oecello, Ramones, Record Store Day, Steely Dan, The Cure, The Doors, The Replacements, The Sisters of Mercy, Tom Petty, War

March 6, 2020 By Sam Stone 6 Comments

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Rhino, the label that manages the catalogue of the Warner family of labels, has announced its upcoming Record Store Day releases.  A mouth-watering 29 titles will hit shops on April 18, available exclusively at brick-and-mortar locations.  These include the previously announced David Bowie titles; a rare live set from Alice Cooper; rarities from Jethro Tull; a box of John Prine's early albums; a set of core Notorious BIG records; BBC sessions from The Pogues, New Order, and Hawkwind; a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Alphaville, David Bowie, Dexter Gordon, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Hootie and The Blowfish, Jethro Tull, John Cale, John Prine, Lou Reed, New Order, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Pretenders, Ramones, Record Store Day, The Cure, The Doors, The Notorious B.I.G., The Pogues, The Replacements, Warren Zevon

June 22, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Garbage 2.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Cure, Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition (Universal (U.K.)/Elektra/Rhino (U.S.)) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mixed Up 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Torn Down 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Postponed from last week: The Cure revisits its 1990 remix album as a 3-CD deluxe edition.  The first disc of the new set contains the original Mixed Up album,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Chita Rivera, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Garbage, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, The Cure, Tom Fogerty, William Grant Still

June 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This massive, limited edition vinyl box set collects the legendary band's 15 studio albums from Sticky Fingers (1971) to Blue and Lonesome (2016) on 20 meticulously-recreated LPs with original art elements, inserts, and more.  Each album, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, has been remastered and cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barry White, Gene Clark, Kirsty MacColl, Love Unlimited, The Allman Brothers Band, The Cure, The Killers, The Rolling Stones, The Rose Garden

May 29, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

The Cure Mixed Up Deluxe

The Cure kicked off the 1990s with the release of Mixed Up, an album collecting the band's rarer 12-inch mixes.  It wasn't just a straightforward anthology, however, as two songs ("A Forest" and "The Walk") weren't just remixed, but re-recorded, and a wholly new track ("Never Enough") was also recorded.  As Robert Smith comments, Brian "Chuck" New's dub style remix of "Pictures Of You" inspired him: "That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: The Cure

March 22, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Space Jam

Record Store Day has been an institution for a decade now, so leave it to this year's 10th anniversary event to be one of the biggest! We've already shone the spotlight on releases by David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Prince, Omnivore Recordings and Legacy Recordings; now, it's time to take a look at Warner Music's incredibly generous lineup. Over 30 titles will be featured from the label group at independent record stores on Saturday, April 22. There's really something for everyone: vintage 12"

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: ABBA, Deee-Lite, Fleetwood Mac, Jane's Addiction, Lou Reed, Madonna, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Prince, Ramones, Record Store Day, Stevie Nicks, Talking Heads, The Cars, The Cure, The Doors, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Grateful Dead, The Notorious B.I.G., The Sex Pistols, The Smiths, The Time, Vangelis, Vinyl, Yes

December 7, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Paul McCartney is not dead, but he is digital: a new beta version of his website, developed with Hewlett-Packard, brings his solo catalogue to fans through a cloud service, along with a host of interactive features. Fans can stream all of his studio albums (including collaboration projects like The Fireman and Twin Freaks) through a jukebox, and premium members can download that jukebox as a desktop app. Additionally, a new "Rude Studio" section of his site allows fans to play and mix

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Laura Nyro, Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rush, The Beastie Boys, The Cure

November 30, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we focus on notable albums and the reissues they could someday see. The recent success of some U.S. dates from The Cure have us thinking about their first compilation - a must-own for alt-rock fans when it was released a quarter-century ago - and how its best configuration deserves a release on CD. With a catalogue that stretches back to the late '70s and starts off far more solidly than most bands, it was a treat to see The Cure celebrate

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Categories: News Tags: Reissue Theory, The Cure

November 11, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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MusicTAP reports that Rhino is releasing Entreat Plus by The Cure on double vinyl next year. Entreat Plus was the third disc of this year's expansive reissue of landmark album Disintegration (1989). It's a live document of the ensuing Prayer Tour, recorded at Wembley Stadium in London in July of 1989. It was released in Europe as a promotional CD, but never saw a release Stateside until this year - at which point it was remixed and expanded to include live versions of all 12 songs on the

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Categories: News Tags: The Cure, Vinyl

August 30, 2010 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

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With the calendar about to turn over to September, it's definitely catalogue season. We've seen a lot of reissues, expansions and box sets announced - enough to make my post-vacation-hazed head spin - and plenty more are certainly on the way. Before we get into that, though, I want to thank not only Joe for holding the fort down expertly while I was away, but to you, the reader, for sticking with us. The rest of the year is going to be awesome for catalogue enthusiasts, and The Second Disc is

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bon Jovi, Madness, The Cure, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

May 17, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

The aforementioned reissue of Queens of the Stone Age's Rated R (2000) has a release date set. Look for it July 20. (Thanks to MusicTAP for the tip) Rolling Stone reports in their new issue that Ozzy Osbourne is planning deluxe reissues of Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and Diary of a Madman (1981). While no bonus content has been confirmed, fans will rejoice that these reissues will be using the original LP mixes (in 2002, both albums were controversially reissued with uncredited drum and bass

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Categories: News Tags: Ozzy Osbourne, Queens of the Stone Age, The Cure

May 11, 2010 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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The a-ha deluxe editions are out exclusively on Rhino's Web site. Do it now! Okay, now that that's cleared up, another brief Rhino tidbit of '80s goodness. In a sign that The Cure's Disintegration is finally coming out in its deluxe, three-disc form (on June 3), Rhino's offering a special collectible to the first 500 pre-orders - a nine-track promo disc of choice cuts from the new set entitled 3x3x3. Cure fans are not going to want to pass this one up, so head here and get 'em while they're

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Categories: News Tags: The Cure

March 29, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Hooray! Slicing Up Eyeballs reports that the triple-disc reissue of Disintegration by The Cure seems to finally have a release date. The reissue press release was recently posted to The Cure's official site with a May 24 release date from Polydor/Universal in the U.K. Hopefully this means a May 25 release from Rhino in the U.S. will be locked down before long. There have been far too many inexplicable delays of '80s reissues in the States lately. Stay tuned as always for more!

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Categories: News Tags: The Cure

March 16, 2010 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Chain of Flowers reports that the upcoming expansion of Disintegration by The Cure still lacks a release date. In a related story, ARRRRRRRGH. Amazon is taking pre-orders for a reissue of Duty Now for the Future, Devo's 1979 sophomore album. This title, due on April 13 (presumably with bonus content), follows the deluxe versions of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! and Freedom of Choice released last year. Hip-O Select tweeted a tease for an upcoming release: "Lena Horne did 16 singles on MGM

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Categories: News Tags: Lena Horne, The Cure

March 1, 2010 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

A pair of sour notes from our friends over at Slicing Up Eyeballs. First, a source from Universal Music Group tells Cure fan site Chain of Flowers that the planned triple-disc reissue of Disintegration has been delayed a third time. The set - which features the original LP, a disc of demos and outtakes and an expanded version of the live album Entreat - was originally slated for a Feb. 16 release before being pushed back to April 6. In the U.S., where distribution is being dealt with by Rhino

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Cure

January 22, 2010 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Excited for Legacy's deluxe reissue of Whitney Houston's debut album (out next Tuesday)? Vevo's got an EPK up for your viewing pleasure. View it here. A big reissue has yet another date change: Rhino's deluxe edition of Disintegration by The Cure has been moved from March 16 to April 6. Here's the link. Indie label group Beggar's Banquet has got some neat new titles planned on their Beggar's Archive imprint. Pixies fans are particularly going to be enthused. Check it here. MusicTAP has added

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Categories: News Tags: The Cure

January 11, 2010 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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We're less than two weeks into a new year and a new decade, but 2010 is already shaping up to be a great year for back catalogue enthusiasts. What follows is a round-up of the best and brightest reissues already slated for the new year. An obligatory note on release dates: they're as always set to change. I base my reports on the excellent work at Pause & Play, the best resource for any music release dates you might be looking for. Hit the jump for some news on catalog titles by Elvis

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bruce Springsteen, The Cure

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