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April 26, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Stream 2025

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. Strap in for a killer line-up of titles this week: two more Record Store Day debuts, an incredible posthumous collaboration between two '80s icons, the return of one of glam's most beloved bands, new music by some of our favorite pop girls, a hotly anticipated new take on a Broadway favorite, exciting moments in gospel/soul, an exciting new song

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, CCM, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aimee Mann, Air, Alice Cooper, Arthur Laurents, Bill Champlin, Bob Bailey, Bryan Adams, Foreigner, Gary Clark, HAIM, Hole, Jule Styne, Lena Hall, Lorde, Pet Shop Boys, Queen, Radiohead, Stephen Sondheim, The Cars, Thompson Twins, Tina Turner

April 19, 2025 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Stream 2025

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. We're pleased to kick things off with another four Record Store Day titles making their way to stream and download, followed by a classic, underrated R&B work and some new music we're digging today, as well. Neil Finn, Sessions At West 54th (Epic/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) Well, that's Mike's Record Store Day sorted! This indelible

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Boomtown Rats, Bruce Springsteen, Crowded House, Donny Hathaway, Neil Finn, Nino Tempo, Shudder to Think, Thompson Twins

April 12, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Stream 2025

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. By now, you might have hit your participating local shop for Record Store Day - and happily, we're kicking off this Saturday's column to share material from five exclusive vinyl titles that are getting a second life in the streaming and download world too. It's a great way to check out some titles if you missed them, or weren't sure if you wanted

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, CCM, Classic Rock, Country, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, CHVRCHES, Clarence White, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Jeff Bridges, John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band, Jule Styne, Marlena Shaw, Nina Simone, Reba Rambo, Roger McGuinn, Roy Ayers, Sarah Vaughan, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Stephen Sondheim, T Bone Burnett, The Byrds, The Everly Brothers, Thompson Twins

February 13, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

BMG RSD

Among the bigger surprises of an already packed Record Store Day slate is seeing labels increase their presence within the usual offerings. One such case: BMG, a company steadily growing in prominence since corporate owner Bertelsmann sold a four-year stake in Sony Music and started rebuilding with a host of classic rock, pop and other catalogues as well as new releases from those acts. This year, the company has prepped a baker's dozen special vinyl titles for the RSD festivities on Saturday,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: De La Soul, Dokken, Dolores O'Riordan, Duran Duran, HiM, Johnny Marr, Keith Richards, Motley Crue, Motörhead, Ron Wood, Saxon, Sexwitch, The Cranberries, Thompson Twins

November 22, 2024 By The Second Disc 8 Comments

Beatles 1964 US Albums in Mono box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today including a Christmas classic from Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music and a whole bunch of massive box sets!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sings Christmas Carols (Expanded Edition) (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Gospel, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ariana Grande, Bon Jovi, Chicago, Cynthia Erivo, Don Henley, Jeff Goldblum, Joe Henderson, Judas Priest, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Motley Crue, New Order, Nicole Scherzinger, Olivia Newton-John, Simple Minds, Stephen Schwartz, The Beatles, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Thompson Twins, U2

September 25, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Thompson Twins Into the Gap deluxe

Beloved British pop group Thompson Twins will revisit their seminal fourth album, 1984's Into the Gap, in a new deluxe edition from BMG this fall. Newly remastered by Frank Arkwright, the triple-disc set will include the original album - including U.K. Top 10s "Hold Me Now," "Doctor! Doctor!" and "You Take Me Up" - alongside 30 bonus tracks, including all the extras from the original British cassette edition of the album, nine B-sides and single edits making their CD/digital debuts, and

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

August 4, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Hughes box packshot

A wise philosopher...or maybe a punk kid...or maybe an astute screenwriter?...once wrote "Life moves pretty fast - if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." A new box set devoted to that iconic filmmaker - the late John Hughes - will help fans enjoy some of that life a little more through a diverse collection of pop songs he helped bring to the masses. Life Moves Pretty Fast. The John Hughes Mixtapes offers four volumes of songs from the writer/director's popular

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Audio Dynamite, Billy Idol, Boston, Bryan Ferry, Darlene Love, Echo and the Bunnymen, Emmylou Harris, Joe Jackson, Kate Bush, Kirsty MacColl, Lindsey Buckingham, Los Lobos, Marvin Gaye, New Order, Oingo Boingo, Otis Redding, Patti Smith, Perry Como, Ray Charles, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Spandau Ballet, Steve Earle, Suzanne Vega, The Association, The Beat, The Dream Academy, The English Beat, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Psychedelic Furs, Thompson Twins, Zapp

December 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Red Hot and Blue

Since 1989, the Red Hot Organization (RHO) has been combatting the scourge of HIV/AIDS.  Red Hot has primarily raised money through the creation of music compilations beginning with the 1990 release Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter.  Now, that star-studded release and numerous others have come to digital and streaming services to continue raising money for the charity. RHO co-founder John Carlin, an entertainment lawyer spurred into action by the devastating losses suffered by the New

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Annie Lennox, Aztec Camera, David Byrne, Deborah Harry, Erasure, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Somerville, k.d. lang, Kirsty MacColl, Laurie Anderson, Los Lobos, Melissa Etheridge, Moby, Neneh Cherry, Sepultura, Sinead O'Connor, The Neville Brothers, The Pogues, Thompson Twins, Tom Waits, U2

April 1, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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As a celebration of being cancer-free, CHIC guitarist and producer extraordinaire Nile Rodgers announced today that Warner Japan was releasing a new compilation of material that spans both his work with the legendary disco band and in the producer's chair. Everybody Dance!, billed as "a tribute to my longtime partner Bernard Edwards" on the front cover (it's approaching the 15th anniversary of the bassist's death), is a two-disc set full of hits, one new track - and one absolute oddity. Disc 1,

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