ZZ Top - The Second Disc

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Beaver and Krause, Bush, Colin Hay, Rod Stewart, Scissor Sisters, Sly and the Family Stone, Styx, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Trisha Yearwood, ZZ Top

Party on the Patio: ZZ Top Doubleback on New Limited Vinyl Box from Rhino High Fidelity

July 1, 2025 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

ZZ Top are revisiting their biggest hitmaking days on vinyl. From the Top (1979-1990) is a new limited 5LP box set as part of Rhino’s High-Fidelity initiative, featuring new pressings of the Texas trio’s most pop-friendly material: Degüello (1979), El Loco (1981), Eliminator (1983), Afterburner (1985) and Recycler (1990). (it follows a similar set issued last year.) All vinyl masters have been cut from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal. The luxe package reproductions include glossy, heavyweight gatefold jackets plus new liner notes by author James Austin (with commentary throughout by…

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Box Sets, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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ZZ Top

Have You Heard? Rhino’s Newest Quadio Batch Includes Rod Stewart, ZZ Top, Beaver and Krause, Modern Jazz Quartet

April 11, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Rhino’s Quadio series is back! The ongoing series of four-channel surround Blu-ray Audio Discs has announced its latest four titles, available now directly from Rhino.com. This eclectic group encompasses releases from Rod Stewart, ZZ Top, The Modern Jazz Quartet, and Beaver and Krause. Rod Stewart’s sixth album, 1975’s Atlantic Crossing marked a new chapter for the Faces singer. Produced by Tom Dowd and recorded across various studios in North America, the album was sequenced with one “fast side” and one “slow side,” allowing for the full range of the vocalist’s talents to…

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Blu-Ray Audio

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Classic Rock, Electronic, Jazz, Pop

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Beaver and Krause, Modern Jazz Quartet, Rod Stewart, ZZ Top

Rhino’s 2025 Start Your Ear Off Right Campaign Features Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Rush, More

January 6, 2025 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

We’ve already filled you in on details of Rhino’s upcoming live release from WAR, but that’s not all coming from the label. Rhino’s annual Start Your Ear Off Right vinyl campaign has already commenced at independent retailers and select Barnes and Noble locations. This year’s slate encompasses releases from Dream Theater, Ramones, Fleetwood Mac, ZZ Top, Grateful Dead, Rush, and others. Below, you’ll find the complete list of SYEOR titles due this month, including those which arrived last Friday, January 3. All descriptions have been provided by Rhino. January 3 The English…

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Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Allen Toussaint, Dream Theater, Eddie Hazel, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Lindsey Buckingham, Ramones, Rush, The Cult, The English Beat, Yes, ZZ Top

Relight My Fire: Edsel’s ‘Dance Masters’ Series Continues with John Luongo Box

September 7, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Demon/Edsel’s Dance Masters series only just released its second volume this summer – but a third one is on the way this fall, spotlighting the work of acclaimed remixer John Luongo. The Arthur Baker-presented series follows generous box sets on Shep Pettibone and Baker himself with a new overview of John “T.C.” Luongo, who parlayed working in and around the Boston club scene into more than a decade of 12″ remix work, first for some of the greatest R&B artists crossing over into disco, and then fusing cutting edge dance sounds to…

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Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Give It Up: Rhino Announces This Year’s “Start Your Ear Off Right” Releases

January 9, 2023 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

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 Vinyl] [breakout from The Atlantic Years in Mono] Dire Straits, Money for Nothing [Green…

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Classic Rock, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock

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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

Release Round-Up: Week of July 22

July 22, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles available today! Bob Marley and The Chineke! Orchestra (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 10-song set, recorded at Abbey Road Studios under the aegis of producer Nick Patrick, merges Bob Marley’s original vocal tracks with new orchestrations played by The Chineke! Orchestra, an adventurous ensemble dedicated to increasing diversity in music. The album features many of the reggae pioneer’s most beloved compositions including “Get Up, Stand Up,” “Is This Love,” “One Love,” and “I Shot the Sheriff.” Available on CD,…

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CD, Cassette, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bananarama, Bob Marley, Brian Wilson, Gilbert O'Sullivan, She and Him, The Hagers, Tony Joe White, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of August 16

August 16, 2019 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Cadillac Baby’s Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Earwig Music has one of the year’s most intriguing box sets and most significant historical excavations – a beautiful 124-page, 4-CD hardcover tome chronicling in words and music the story of Narvel Eatmon, a.k.a. Cadillac Baby, and his Chicago label Bea & Baby Records. From 1959-1989, the label and its various imprints (among them Key, Keyhole, Miss, and Ronald) championed the Windy City music scene with an…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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David Yazbek, Lionel Richie, Peter Paul and Mary, Rodney Crowell, The Ides of March, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of June 14

June 14, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Killing Me Softly with Her Song/When Will I See You Again (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue celebrating Johnny Mathis’ discography with two albums on one CD. 1973’s Killing Me Softly with Her Song and 1975’s When Will I See You Again both spotlight Mathis’ silky interpretations of the day’s greatest hits. Killing Me Softly with Her Song was Johnny’s final full-length album collaboration with songwriter-producer Jerry Fuller and…

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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ABBA, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Mathis, R.E.M., Roger Daltrey, Stan Getz, Tangerine Dream, ZZ Top

Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers: New ZZ Top Set Celebrates Half Century of Blues and Beards

May 3, 2019 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Rhino is celebrating a half century of ZZ Top with a new, multi-format compilation due this summer. Goin’ 50 collects 18 of the Texas trio’s biggest and baddest hits, from their breakthrough in the ’70s to their most recent studio release, 2012’s La Futura. That disc will be available to buy, stream or download on June 14 – and on August 16, as the group embarks on a 50th anniversary tour, a Lone Star State-sized 3CD or 5LP edition of Goin’ 50 will be released. That set offers tracks from every one…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Rhino “Starts Your Ear Off Right” with New Vinyl Exclusives from CSNY, Joni, Monkees, Buffalo Springfield, More

January 3, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Rhino’s popular “Start Your Ear Off Right” vinyl reissue campaign is returning to local independent record stores and Barnes & Noble locations beginning next Tuesday, January 8, and continuing through Tuesday, January 29, with a new batch of limited (and often colorful) vinyl reissues arriving each week. Each group features an eclectic line-up drawn from the Rhino archives. January 8 will see compilations from Aretha Franklin, Alice Cooper, and The Monkees, as well as a 1978 post-punk classic from Television, while January 15 brings music from ZZ Top, CSNY, The Jimmy Rogers…

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Alice Cooper, Aretha Franklin, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Gram Parsons, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Lupe Fiasco, Ramones, Television, The Monkees, Warren Zevon, ZZ Top

Release Round-Up: Week of June 1

June 1, 2018 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Michelle Phillips, Victim of Romance: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) “Mama” Michelle Phillips’ 1977 solo album, produced by Jack Nitzsche, returns to CD in a new expanded edition collecting the artist’s complete sessions with Nitzsche. It adds three outtakes from the album sessions, including a Bee Gees cover (“Had a Lot of Love Last Night”), Dennis Lambert and Fil Spina’s “Practice What You Preach,” and Michelle’s own, tropically-flavored “Guerita.” These three songs were not featured on previous reissues of the album. …

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alan Silvestri, Cheap Trick, Cowboy, Def Leppard, Emmylou Harris, Jethro Tull, Keely Smith, Living Colour, Michelle Phillips, Paul Simon, Roger Daltrey, The Mamas and The Papas, The Quick, The Temptations, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, ZZ Top

Rhino “Starts Your Ear Off Right” with Aretha Franklin, Dio, Alice Cooper, More

January 8, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Rhino’s “Start Your Ear Off Right” campaign is back for 2018, and this year’s crop of titles is a happily eclectic one ranging from classic R&B to rock, metal, hip-hop, and beyond. These limited edition vinyl reissues will be released every Tuesday beginning tomorrow, January 9, and continuing through the 23rd. We can’t think of a better way to start our year off right than visiting a local record store, and Rhino agrees – so all of these titles will be exclusively available at brick-and-mortar outlets including independent retailers and Barnes and…

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Alice Cooper, Aretha Franklin, Dio, Golden Smog, John Prine, Richard and Linda Thompson, The Notorious B.I.G., Vangelis, ZZ Top

Vinyl Boxes Coming From Humble Pie, ZZ Top

May 10, 2017 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Two blues-rock groups from very different sets of the world are being anthologized on vinyl this summer, with UMe planning an LP box for Humble Pie and Rhino readying a collection of ZZ Top’s early work. Hailing from Essex, England, Humble Pie were one of rock’s first true supergroups, bringing together members of The Small Faces (lead vocalist Steve Marriott), The Herd (lead guitarist Peter Frampton) and Spooky Tooth (bassist Greg Ridley), with a preternaturally talented 17-year-old drummer, Jerry Shirley. Signing to A&M Records in 1970 after a U.K. Top 5 hit,…

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