Release Round-Up: Week of May 1

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. Eagles, One of These Nights: Deluxe Edition (Rhino/Asylum) 3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino is revisiting Eagles’ 1975 chart-topper (featuring hit singles “One of These Nights,” “Lyin’ Eyes,” and ‘Take It to the Limit”) in a deluxe edition built around a new mix of the original album.  The set adds the band’s previously unreleased show of September 28, 1975 near the end of the album’s…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 20

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. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (RCA/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (translucent orange/yellow): Amazon U.S. 2LP (marbled red): Graceland Baz Luhrmann, the director of 2022’s blockbuster biopic ELVIS, uncovered scores of film outtakes of The King during production, including footage filmed for the concert/documentary films That’s the Way It Is and Elvis on Tour and audio of Presley describing his life and career. EPiC: Elvis Presley in…

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Wonder Who the Real Men Are: Tori Amos’ ‘Strange Little Girls’ Gets Expanded

Tori Amos’ sixth and final album for longtime label Atlantic was one of her most conceptually striking – and a new expanded edition will offer some additional rare and unreleased material to go with it. 2001’s Strange Little Girls will be expanded by Rhino on February 20, featuring the album’s original 12 tracks – all covers of songs by men – plus an additional four (on the 2LP set’s final side or a bonus CD with the album), two of which are previously unreleased. As a unique treat, the vinyl packaging will feature…

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The Weekend Stream Extra: A Guide to ‘MTV Unplugged’ on Paramount+ (Part 4)

Welcome to a special Sunday feature of The Weekend Stream, which takes a look at one of MTV’s great live music programs thanks to a recent reissue of one of its best-known episodes. We’re running a five-part deep-dive on every episode of MTV Unplugged that’s currently streaming on the station’s parent streaming network Paramount+! (Parts 1, 2 and 3 can be read here, here and here.) The seventh and eighth seasons of MTV Unplugged aired in 1996 and 1997, which were sort of its last years as a regular program. By then, the show locked into a comfortable…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 13

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. Louis Armstrong, Wonderful World: The Best of Louis Armstrong (Verve/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada This 13-song sampler draws on Satchmo’s 1951-1967 recordings for the Decca, Verve, Kapp, and ABC-Paramount labels and includes many of his most beloved songs as both a vocalist and trumpeter such as “Hello, Dolly!,” “What a Wonderful World,” “A…

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Sit Down, I Think I Love You: Rhino’s RSD Lineup Includes Grateful Dead, Dio, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren, Madonna, and More “Nuggets”

Rhino has announced one of the most expansive lineups for this year’s Record Store Day event at participating independent record stores on Saturday, April 22.  Rhino’s slate includes two dozen titles from the label’s heaviest hitters including Madonna, Grateful Dead, Stevie Nicks, Dio, Duran Duran, Ramones, Todd Rundgren, and more – plus a 50th anniversary celebration of the original Nuggets. You’ll find the complete list below, with descriptions provided by the label.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com to locate the nearest participating store. Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes: The B-Sides (1-LP black vinyl, limited to 14,500…

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The Second Disc’s Essential RSD Black Friday 2017 Release Guide

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends.  Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year’s annual Black Friday – and Record Store Day’s miniature cousin to April’s yearly event. In keeping with tradition, Mike, Randy and I have once again selected our top picks of the numerous titles being released tomorrow from many of our favorite labels, including Legacy…

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Tori Amos, Richard Hell Lead Rhino’s Record Store Day Black Friday Slate

Rhino Records is planning 11 titles for this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday–and two of them are fairly unexpected catalogue treats from two very different artists. First up, the label has announced an upcoming expanded edition on CD and LP of Richard Hell & The Voidoids’ Blank Generation. Hell, a founding member of Television and one of the key figures of early punk rock in New York and beyond (his personal style of spiked hair and safety pins is said to have influenced Malcolm McLaren’s Sex shop and the look of…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 1

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Carole King, Tapestry: Live at Hyde Park (CD/DVD) (Legacy/Rockingale) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new CD/DVD release features Carole King’s 45th anniversary performance of her seminal 1971 classic Tapestry, performed live in front of 65,000 fans in London’s Hyde Park on July 3, 2016.  The setlist, preserved on both CD and DVD, includes the entire original album plus numerous highlights from King’s illustrious songbook both solo and with Gerry Goffin.  Throughout this vibrant concert, appearances are made by King’s daughter, singer-songwriter Louise…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 18

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up – the last of the major release weeks for 2016! The Beatles, Eight Days a Week (DVD or BD) (Apple/Capitol) 2-Disc Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-Disc DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ron Howard’s acclaimed 2016 documentary chronicling Beatlemania, Eight Days a Week, hits DVD and Blu-ray.  The standard editions offer the film only, while the 2-disc Deluxe Editions add over 100…

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It’s Gotta Be Big: Tori Amos to Expand “Boys for Pele,” 20 Years Later

In honor of its 20th anniversary, Rhino Records is expanding and reissuing Tori Amos’ third album, Boys for Pele, with a host of rare and unreleased bonus tracks. Her first self-produced album after splitting with producer and partner Eric Rosse, Boys for Pele (named for the Hawaiian fire goddess) found Amos taking the power back from the male figures in her life. “I was at the point I could not answer to anybody,” she said of her bid for independence. “I’d been answering my whole life to some patriarchal figure.” Recorded primarily…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 14

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring box sets, deluxe editions, rare albums and more! The Replacements, The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990 (Sire/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Rhino boxes up the Minnesota rockers’ complete studio output in one tidy package, utilizing the 2008 remasters but sans all bonus material.   Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink: Deluxe Editions (Rhino) Little Earthquakes: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Under the Pink: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Rhino has expanded singer-songwriter Tori Amos’ first two albums with a second disc of non-LP…

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