Release Round-Up: Week of January 23

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. The Power Station, The Power Station DLX (Parlophone/Rhino) 4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino is expanding the self-titled debut from The Power Station into a 4CD box set.  The Power Station DLX includes the remastered album (featuring the hits “Some Like It Hot” and a cover of T. Rex’s “Get It On (Bang a Gong)”) alongside three discs of bonus material, including unreleased “raw instrumental” versions,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 16

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. Various Artists, NOW Yearbook: Vault ’82 (NOW Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The U.K.’s NOW line continues with another Vault installment spotlight hits of 1982 including The Who’s “Athena,” Elton John’s “Empty Garden,” Neil Diamond’s “Heartlight,” Billy Joel’s “Allentown,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City,” and much more from a cross-section of artists and genres.  Out today in the U.K.; available next Friday in North America….

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 13

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. Grateful Dead, Gratest Hits (Grateful Dead/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino assembles a single-CD or single-LP, nine-song Gratest Hits [sic] from Grateful Dead, marking the band’s 60th anniversary with the original studio versions of such classics as “Truckin’,” “Sugar Magnolia,” and “Touch of Grey.”  Read more here. Neil Sedaka, Sedaka’s Back [Expanded Edition] (Neil Sedaka Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Neil Sedaka remasters and reissues the 1974 Rocket Records…

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Record Store Day 2025: The Best of the Rest

Next Saturday, April 12, is certainly one of the most packed Record Store Days in recent memory. Since the list was announced, we drilled down on titles from Craft Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, BMG, Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, as well as some notable titles that were getting later general releases on CD. Well, if you thought that was it, you’re wrong! We pored and pored over the list and are here to share with you more than four dozen one-offs, archival…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 24

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. Badfinger, Head First: 50th Anniversary Edition (Y&T) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Head First, originally intended to be Badfinger’s eighth album and third for Warner Bros. Records, was recorded in 1974 but shelved until 2000.  That release presented a rough mix by Apple Studios engineer Phil McDonald; now, 25 years later, it’s been remixed and remastered under the supervision of keyboardist Bob Jackson – the…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 27

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. Chicago, Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band’s show in the U.S. capital.  The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center. …

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Release Round-Up: Week of August 2

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. Van Morrison, Live at Orangefield (Orangefield Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Christmas 1959 saw Van Morrison take the stage of Orangefield Secondary School in Belfast for his very first live performance.  Van, on guitar and vocals, joined his fellow students John McCullough on tea-chest bass, Cyril Downey on guitar, Billy Ruth on guitar, and Walter Blakely on washboard for a skiffle show. In August…

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Rhino Ushers In Summer with Frankie Valli, Van Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, Randy Newman, Chicago, Grateful Dead, and More

Today, Rhino announced its new Sounds of the Summer initiative, which will see a total of over two dozen vinyl releases hitting brick-and-mortar stores beginning this Friday, July 5, and continuing throughout the month of July.  These titles encompass various reissues as well as new entries in the label’s ongoing Now Playing series of compilations.  As of now, these LPs are all exclusive to independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations.  You’ll find the full list of releases below including descriptions courtesy of TSD. July 5 Genesis, And Then There Were…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 3

Welcome to another packed Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Beatles, Now and Then (Apple/Capitol/UMe) Various Formats including CD single: The Beatles Online Store 7-inch clear single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7-inch blue single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 12-inch black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Target-exclusive red 12-inch single: Target.com “Now and Then.”  No matter who’s listening, the title conjures the ghosts of the past that we all confront.  The voice of John Lennon – not far-removed, but viscerally present –…

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Review: Van Morrison, “His Band and the Street Choir,” Jaco Pastorius’ “Word of Mouth” in Rhino Hi-Fi

Don’t want to discuss it/I think it’s time for a change… Van Morrison‘s 1967 debut album for Bert Berns’ Bang Records, Blowin’ Your Mind, came close to living up to its title with the lovably breezy “Brown-Eyed Girl” nestled alongside more challenging fare such as “T.B. Sheets,” and everything in between: pop, folk, Latin, rock-and-roll, blues.  But the Northern Irish singer-songwriter truly came into his own with a move to Warner Bros. the following year.  The mystical, hypnotically free-flowing Astral Weeks was an album unlike any other: a steadfastly non-commercial, intense song…

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Call Me Up in Dreamland: Rhino Hi-Fi Series Continues with Van Morrison, Jaco Pastorius

Rhino recently launched its Rhino High Fidelity series of audiophile-quality vinyl titles.  Now, the label has announced the next two titles in that line: Van Morrison’s His Band and the Street Choir and the late Jaco Pastorius’ Word of Mouth.  Both albums’ lacquers have been cut by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl by Optimal; the releases are limited and numbered to 5,000 units sold exclusively at Rhino.com in the U.S. and in select stores overseas. Van Morrison’s third album for Warner Bros. after the enigmatic Astral Weeks and more commercial…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 10

Welcome to this week’s (teeny tiny) Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. Van Morrison, Moving on Skiffle (Exile/Virgin) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Van Morrison is back with a new 2-CD set dedicated to the skiffle style and featuring the likes of “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Cotton Fields,” “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” and “Greenback Dollar.”  Available on CD, LP, and digital formats. Blackmore’s Night, Shadow of the Moon: 25th Anniversary Edition (EarMusic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This CD/DVD…

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Review: The Band, “Cahoots: 50th Anniversary Edition”

From the first seconds of the opening “Life Is a Carnival,” it was clear that Cahoots was no ordinary album by The Band.  The quintet’s first three albums had established them as major proponents of the rootsy genre that would later be called “Americana.”  But now, the sound blasting from the speakers was one of sheer funk: simultaneously dark and joyful, aggressive yet inviting.  In what might have been considered a heretical move by some, the group was bolstered by three saxophones, two trumpets, and two trombones, all courtesy of New Orleans’…

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Life Is A Carnival: The Band Reissues, Remixes, Expands “Cahoots” For December Box Set Release

The Band and Capitol/UMe are in Cahoots for a deluxe 50th anniversary reissue of the group’s fourth studio album.  On December 10, a remixed and remastered Cahoots will arrive in various formats including a Super Deluxe 2CD/BD/LP/7-inch vinyl box set, 2CD, 180-gram half-speed-mastered black vinyl, limited edition vinyl, and digital download/streaming.  All of these formats have been overseen by Robbie Robertson and feature a new mix of the original album by Bob Clearmountain from the original multitrack tapes.  A highlight of the box set, CD, and digital iterations is Live at the…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 7

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! New Order, Education Entertainment Recreation (Live at Alexandra Palace) (Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD/3LP (Clear Vinyl) Box Set: New Order Store Education Entertainment Recreation (Live at Alexandra Palace) documents New Order’s only U.K. show of 2018.  The November 9 gig was played at London’s Alexandra Palace with the current line-up of Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham, and Tom Chapman.  At 2 hours and 20 minutes in length, the band celebrated its 2015 release Music Complete in addition to…

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Message to Love: Universal Prepares a Wealth of Rarities for RSD 2020

Here at Second Disc HQ, we’ve been thrilled by the news of amazing releases coming from all the labels this Record Store Day 2020, and UMe’s slate of 20+ titles is no exception.  With a new definitive vinyl edition of Paul McCartney’s debut, a tenth-anniversary celebration of Ellie Goulding’s Lights, a Cat Stevens rarity making its vinyl debut, an expanded Elton John, a reissue of an impossible-to-find CTI Jazz album, and many more, fans will want to line up bright and early to secure their copies this April 18! Here’s the official word…

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy: Rhino Kicks Off 2020 With Start Your Ear Off Right Campaign

As has become an annual tradition, Rhino has kicked off the new year with another exciting slate of Start Your Ear Off Right releases.  The first few titles have already hit shelves, and more are on the way over the course of the month. Punk, new wave, counterculture rock, singer-songwriter classics, and sleek ’80s pop hits…it’s all part of this year’s campaign.  Each week, a batch of these limited edition color vinyl pressings will be released to brick and mortar shops and a select few larger retailers.  A press release notes that…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 25

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Kinks, Arthur, or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire [Various Formats] (BMG) 4CD/4-seven-inch single box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / The Kinks Official The Kinks’ 1969 concept album continued in the quintessentially British vein of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society but carved out its own musical identity.  Building on the…

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Got Me Wanting You: Real Gone Announces Vinyl Issues of “Burlesque” and “The Departed” Soundtracks, “The Definitive Archies” Compilation

Our friends at Real Gone Music have some sweet news to share.  The label continues its color vinyl soundtrack reissue series with Cher and Christina Aguilera’s Burlesque pressed on hot pink and the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese’s The Departed on green wax.  Fans of sixties pop will delight in the upcoming opaque blue vinyl celebration of The Archies.  All the titles will be pressed in limited quantities and are set to arrive on September 13. In 2010, two of the biggest divas in music joined forces for the campy Burlesque.  While the film wasn’t well-received…

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UPDATED WITH ORDER LINKS: Let The Sunshine In: Rhino Celebrates Woodstock Era With “Summer of ’69” Vinyl Reissue Series, New Woodstock Compilations

On the heels of their announcement of the expansive Woodstock 50 campaign, Rhino has announced a new series celebrating The Summer of ’69: Peace, Love, and Music. Beginning on July 9, the campaign will feature a three-week-long roll-out of limited-edition vinyl releases of classic recordings from the Woodstock era by the likes of Van Morrison; The Monkees; Grateful Dead; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and many more. These LPs will be available in participating brick-and-mortar stores only.  Online shoppers may want to check out Bull Moose, the New England-based chain of independent record…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 22

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up.  Here’s what’s on the way today, March 22! Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings (Rhino/Atlantic Catalog Group) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings presents Aretha Franklin’s iconic concerts at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during January 1972 in full.  Both the Thursday night and Friday night sets are accounted for, spread across four 180-gram LPs.  For more about the Amazing Grace vinyl reissue, check out our post here! Aretha Franklin, Songs of Faith: Aretha Gospel (Geffen/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Songs…

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Hunting High And Low: Rhino Announces Record Store Day 2019 Lineup

Today, Rhino announced its offerings for the 2019 Record Store Day celebration, taking place at your local brick-and-mortar shop Saturday, April 13. Rhino’s 33 releases highlight several genres of music – soul, rock, rap, comedy, disco, pop, jam bands, prog, and more – on an array of formats including LPs, CDs, picture discs, colored vinyl, and even cassette tapes. Here’s the run-down on all their RSD titles! a-ha, Hunting High and Low: The Early Alternate Mixes – 1 LP – 6,000 copies Hunting High and Low: The Early Alternate Mixes brings together…

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Fire In The Belly: Van Morrison Expands ‘The Healing Game’ With Two Bonus Discs Of Studio and Live Material

Legacy Recordings and Exile Productions are celebrating a late-1990s classic from Van Morrison with a new expanded set.  On March 22, the label will issue The Healing Game: Deluxe Edition in 3-CD and digital formats; these releases will be joined by a single-LP vinyl edition of the original album only. The Healing Game found the artist reconnecting with his R&B roots.  For the sessions, he was joined by such top-flight musicians as James Brown collaborator Pee Wee Ellis (who had first played with Morrison on 1979’s Into the Music), Georgie Fame, and…

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Release Round-Up: Week of December 7

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Wings, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Wild Life [Various Formats] (MPL/Capitol) 3CD/DVD Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP [Remastered Album + Bonus Audio]: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD [Remastered Album + Bonus Audio]: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Wild Life was the first Wings album but third overall by McCartney outside the shadow of his famous band.  Paul and his wife Linda teamed up with drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Denny Laine to create a relaxed, pastoral album that was intentionally as light as a feather. …

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 27

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Neil Young, Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) As everybody knows, Neil Young beats to his own drummer…so this release actually arrived this past Tuesday!  Roxy: Tonight’s the Night Live captures Young’s September 1973 performance opening Lou Adler’s Roxy club, with The Santa Monica Flyers (Nils Lofgren, Ben Keith, and the Crazy Horse rhythm section) supporting him.  Nine of the songs which would appear on 1975’s Tonight the Night were featured on this intimate gig, now being released…

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