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The Weekend Stream: July 12, 2025

July 12, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 7 Comments

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. This one has it all: Sting, a family named King, one Boss, two Deborahs, 311, ’00s power-pop nuggets, an actress with a killer voice singing on England’s hottest balcony – and a trailer for our most-anticipated music documentary of the month! Sting, The Dream of the Blue Turtles (Expanded Edition) (A&M/UMe) (Apple / Amazon) Concurrent to its SHM-CD release in Japan (alongside other previous digital-only deluxe editions), Sting’s 1985 solo…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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311, 38 Special, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bruce Springsteen, Debbie Harry, Deborah Allen, Kenny Nolan, Rachel Zegler, Ronan Keating, Sting, The Killers, Tim Rice

Elvis Costello, Elton John, John Lennon, Sting Feature on UMG’s Record Store Day Slate

February 11, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Universal Music Group’s 2025 Record Store Day roster is heavy on British rockers: Elvis Costello, John Lennon, Elton John, Sting, Queen, Mark Knopfler, and The Verve among them! But there’s also some highly-anticipated items from The Killers and Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, and Passengers, a.k.a. U2 and Brian Eno, among the other highlights. Visit RecordStoreDay.com for the full list of participating retailers you can visit on Saturday, April 12, to join in the festivities. Elvis Costello, The Kings of America Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Third Man – limited to 2,000 units) EC…

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Brian Eno, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Elvis Costello, John Lennon, Mark Knopfler, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Queen, Record Store Day, Sting, Taylor Swift, The Killers, The Verve, Thin Lizzy, U2, Yoko Ono

Release Round-Up: Week of December 8

December 8, 2023 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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. Dan Hartman, It Hurts to Be in Love (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today, Dan Hartman would have turned 73. Sadly, the singer-songwriter-producer-musician-engineer’s life was cut short by an AIDS-related brain tumor on March 22, 1994. He was just 43. The immense musical legacy of the “I Can Dream About You” hitmaker hasn’t been forgotten, though. Iconoclassic Records has brought his 1981 solo…

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Bryan Adams, Dan Hartman, Mott the Hoople, Neil Young, Stephen Sondheim, The Killers

Release Round-Up: Week of August 21

August 21, 2020 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Norma Tanega, Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog [Sky Blue Vinyl] (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Norma Tanega’s 1966 folk-pop classic returns to vinyl in a re-pressing from Real Gone Music. This new presentation replicates the original, utilizing the stereo mix and boasting the original artwork (which was replaced on prior CD issues). It’s pressed on sky blue vinyl. Grab it fast, though: Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog is a limited pressing. Charles Bukowski, Reads His Poetry [Vomit Vinyl] (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks

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Charles Bukowski, Cidny Bullens, George Winston, Jefferson Starship, Mandy Barnett, Norma Tanega, The Horace Tapscott Quartet, The Killers, Tom Tom Club, Vince Guaraldi

Release Round-Up: Week of June 15

June 15, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

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 vinyl-specific tape transfers. In addition, each album will include a download card for HD digital files. The box…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry White, Gene Clark, Kirsty MacColl, Love Unlimited, The Allman Brothers Band, The Cure, The Killers, The Rolling Stones, The Rose Garden

Release Round-Up: Week of November 11/12

November 11, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

The Beatles, Live At The BBC / On Air: Live At The BBC Volume 2 (Capitol) What’s better than a remaster of The Fab Four’s 1994 double-disc set of live BBC sessions? How about another two-disc set of those sessions? Live At The BBC (2CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Live At The BBC (3LP): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. On Air: Live At The BBC Volume 2 (2CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. On Air: Live At The BBC Volume 2 (3LP): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Live At The BBC: The Collection (4CD): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Donny Hathaway, Never My Love: The Anthology (ATCO/Rhino)…

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News, Release Round-Up

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Soundtracks

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Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ry Cooder, The Beatles, The Killers, The Who, Vinyl

Somebody Told Me The Killers Were Releasing a Compilation

September 17, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

One of the more notable mainstream rock bands of the 2000s, The Killers, is releasing their first greatest hits compilation. Direct Hits collects 13 of the Las Vegas band’s best loved songs and adds two new tracks: “Shot At the Night,” produced by French electronic duo M83, and “Just Another Girl,” produced by longtime collaborator Stuart Price (who’s remixed many of their singles under the pseudonym Jacques Lu Cont/The Thin White Duke). A deluxe version adds three more tracks: “Be Still,” from their most recent album Battle Born (2012); the original demo for…

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