No one - not even your friends at TSD HQ! - can predict the arc of music reissues. When we launched The Second Disc nearly 16 years ago, the business was in a place of surprising highs and lows. The Beatles' albums had been remastered for the first time ever - but it seemed that stalwarts like Rhino Records were enduring hardships. Vinyl was a niche concern, streaming even more so, and who knew where the CD would end up? (And that doesn't even account for personal growth immaterial of the music
Holiday Gift Guide Special: Our Favorite Stocking Stuffers
Most of our Holiday Gift Guide features this year have concentrated on large-scale releases, but today, we're looking at three titles small enough to be last-minute stocking stuffers (get to your local indie record store now!) - and big enough to be favorites you'll play all year long. It's more than All Right: Omnivore Recordings has revisited Christopher Cross' early years for a first-ever collection of his original single releases from the U.S. and beyond. The Worldwide Singles 1980-1988
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Bob Dylan, "The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window"
Bob Dylan met Columbia Records' John Hammond on September 14, 1961 at the apartment of folksinger Richard Farina and his then-wife Carolyn Hester. Dylan had been invited to Carolyn's rehearsal session as a harmonica player. Hammond later told the story of being so impressed with the young man from Hibbing, Minnesota that he decided to sign him on the spot. A subsequent audition took place, and when Dylan - then dazzling audiences at Gerde's Folk City on a bill shared with The Greenbriar Boys
The Weekend Stream: December 20, 2025
Welcome to 2025's final edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We're wrapping up the month with a wicked good time: hip-hop instrumentals, unearthed '70s rock and country, and a whole lot of zydeco! Wicked: For Good - The Soundtrack (Sing-Along) / For Good EP (Republic/Verve) Sing-Along: Apple / Amazon For Good: Apple / Amazon With the second part of Universal's big-budget adaptation of
Hold On To This Feeling: TSD, Cherry Red Collect Leon Russell's Paradise Recordings on New Box Set
By 1976, Leon Russell was already an industry veteran. The onetime Wrecking Crew pianist had already written and arranged hit singles for Gary Lewis and The Playboys, launched two record labels (Viva and Shelter), built his own recording studios, joined Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, served as the bandleader of Joe Cocker's storied Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, recorded his own hit albums, and written or co-written such instant American standards as "A Song for You," "Superstar," and "This
Release Round-Up: Week of December 19
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. Just a heads-up, friends, that this is our final Release Round-Up of the year...but this feature will be back in mid-January once the number of releases gets back to a state of relative normalcy. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Todd Rundgren, Solo in Clearwater (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cleopatra releases a set from Todd Rundgren's
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Frank Sinatra, "Long Ago, Far Away (1943-1951)"
This week, the a cappella vocal group Pentatonix notched its first-ever number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. More remarkably, the song was first recorded in 1937, written by a composer-lyricist who died in 1989, and features a vocalist who passed away in 1998. The song is "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," the songwriter is Irving Berlin, and the duet partner is, of course, Frank Sinatra. With this achievement, Sinatra returned to the top of the AC chart for the first time
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Eternity's Children, "Eternity's Children" and "Timeless"
As temperatures drop and winter approaches, a little sunshine is always welcome...and High Moon Records has delivered with a pair of reissues from the cult-favorite pop band known as Eternity's Children. The label behind Sly and The Family Stone's The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 and the expanded edition of Lotti Golden's Motor-Cycle has returned 1968's Eternity's Children and 1969's Timeless to vinyl for the first time since their original releases. By the time the
The Weekend Stream: December 13, 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. There's even more holiday gifts today: new takes on a film music legend, a decade-spanning dance mash-up, more centennial celebrations for a Rat Pack icon, plus some deep country and modern rock treasures. Cécilia Tsan, Sara Andon & Simone Pedroni, John Williams Reimagined: Home Alone (Warner Classics/Erato/Parlophone) (Apple /
Release Round-Up: Week of December 12
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. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 50 (Pink Floyd/Legacy) 2CD/4LP/Blu-ray/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 50th anniversary edition of the Pink Floyd classic is
Wired For Sound: Edsel Boxes Hank Marvin Solo Albums on "The Studio Album Collection 1982-1995"
Brian Robson Rankin of Newcastle-upon-Tyne moved to London while still a teenager, armed with a guitar and a dream. He adopted the name Hank Marvin, melding his childhood nickname of "Hank" with the first name of American country singer Marvin Rainwater, and put on a pair of glasses inspired by Buddy Holly's. His school friend Bruce Welch joined him, and before long, the pair had met Cliff Richard's manager. In 1959, Richard's band then known as The Drifters became The Shadows, and Richard,
Long Train Runnin': The Doobie Brothers' "The Captain and Me" Returns as Audiophile Blu-ray
Hot on the heels of a recent, lengthy 50th anniversary tour and the 2025 album Walk This Road (both of which reunited the band with Michael McDonald), The Doobie Brothers will revisit 1973's their 2x Platinum third album, The Captain & Me, in a new Audiophile Edition. It's due January 9 on Blu-ray from Rhino. The Captain & Me built on the success of its predecessor, the California band's breakthrough Toulouse Street, and kicked off a run of seven consecutive top 10 album smashes for
UPDATE: How's About Some Hot Stuff: Massive Donna Summer Singles CD Box Set Now Due in January
It's a box set fit for a queen (of disco): Donna Summer's singles are being chronicled in a major way. Summer Time: The Singles Collection 1974-2010, coming January 30, 2026 from the late singer's Driven by the Music catalogue imprint, is set to be a staggering tribute to Summer's decades-long presence as a dancefloor filler. Timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough hit "Love to Love You, Baby," this 40CD set will highlight five decades' worth of single sides she issued all
Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Rolling Stones, "Black and Blue: Super Deluxe Edition"
The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band was in a period of transition. In December 1974, guitarist Mick Taylor announced he was leaving The Rolling Stones. The Stones had already weathered the loss of Brian Jones in 1969 and now they were, once again, without a guitarist. The sound of music was changing, too, with the rise of punk and disco even as prog and heavy rock remained entrenched on the charts. Where did that leave the band who had just proclaimed "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like
The Weekend Stream: December 5, 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. You've been good so far this Christmas season, so we're giving you this present a day early - with new tracks from Guns N' Roses, live tracks from The Hooters and one of our favorite bands for Bandcamp Friday! The Hooters, 45 Alive - Keswick Live in Concert (self-released) (Apple / Amazon) Philly band The Hooters - perhaps best known
Release Round-Up: Week of December 5
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Judy Collins, The '60s Singles (Second Disc/Real Gone) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music Judy Blue Eyes Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music Judy Collins' The '60s Singles brings together, for the first time, the remarkable array of 45s on which the singer's discography
OUT TOMORROW! Judy Collins' "The '60s Singles" Arrives from Real Gone Music, Second Disc Records
It's no exaggeration to state that Judy Collins transformed the sound of folk music. With a crystalline voice and a songbook blurring traditional genre lines, the Seattle native came to prominence in the fertile Greenwich Village stomping grounds of New York City. The luminous Collins - a classical piano prodigy, talented guitarist, gifted adapter and later, songwriter, and singer with a three-octave range - signed with Jac Holzman's Elektra Records in 1961 and remained an Elektra artist for
Every Little Counts: New Order 2CD Expansions and Blu-ray Surround Mixes to Be Released
A quartet of slimmed-down New Order reissues are due this week, alongside new Blu-ray Audio editions of three of their early albums. Rhino has released "Definitive Edition" box sets of the influential British electronic band's first four albums in recent years: 1981's Movement in 2019, 1983's Power, Corruption & Lies in 2020, 1985's Low-Life in 2023 and 1986's Brotherhood in 2024. Each heavy-duty set came with the remastered album on CD and vinyl, a bonus CD of mostly unreleased material
Love's Great Adventure: Ultravox's 'The Collection' Goes Deluxe on CD/Blu-ray Box
One of the year's last big catalogue titles is a new expansion of Ultravox's The Collection, due out tomorrow, December 5. Originally released in 1984 and collecting more than a dozen singles from the band's most popular early '80s run, the set has now been greatly expanded to provide an even more complete picture of the group's "classic," Midge Ure-led line-up, encompassing hits, B-sides, 15 previously unreleased mixes and a trove of rare video footage. Central to all deluxe formats (a 4CD/2
In Memoriam: Steve Cropper (1941-2025)
It's a sad fact that so much of America's musical infrastructure - the men and women whose session work powered thousands of pop chart hits and significant recordings - exists in near-obscurity. Consider The Funk Brothers, that collective of R&B musicians in Detroit who powered nearly every Motown session in the label's golden age. Fans and collectors still sift through the vagaries of paperwork and memory to determine who lent their instruments to which song; the unofficial group's members
Bring Back All the Memories: Maroon 5 Release 'Singles Collection' in Japan
Though their decade-plus of radio ubiquity certainly merits a compilation of some sort in their homeland, Universal Music Group has yet to anthologize the work of pop band Maroon 5 stateside. However, a new compilation from UMG's Japanese branch offers a summary of the group across nearly two decades. The Singles Collection offers 21 tracks, nearly all of which were Top 40 hits in America, including chart-toppers "Makes Me Wonder," "Moves Like jagger," "One More Night" and "Girls Like You"
Blockheads, Haircuts, Stones and a T. Rex: Edsel Preps Multiple Full-Album Box Sets
With only a few weeks until Christmas, Edsel is prepping a host of multi-album box sets and vinyl reissues up for consideration under your tree. The four below titles span a few icons and notable names of British rock in the '70s and '80s - and two of them even include unheard material from the artists' respective vaults! First up is Too Nutty to Be Naughty (Studio Recordings 1977-2002), a celebration of the late Ian Dury. The post-punk renaissance man - as at home as the frontman of Stiff
Q's Cues: New 'Écoutez Le Cinéma' Box Celebrates the Music of Quincy Jones
When Rhino released Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones - a 4CD, 74-track collection - in 2001, it was a valiant attempt to tell a story that was still being written. The gifted bandleader, composer and producer, who passed away at the age of 91 in 2024, had an enduring way with sound, be it jazz, pop, R&B, rock or even film and television scoring. His decades of work with the 20th century's greatest luminaries made him a tremendous (if controversial) raconteur, with countless stories
THE SECOND DISC'S 2025 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!
Well, today is Cyber Monday, which means one thing at Second Disc HQ: it's time to launch our annual Holiday Gift Guide, featuring (more than) a few of our favorite things for the music enthusiast in your life. Sure, we might not have included raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but we've filled the guide with over 50 essential selections: sprawling box sets and deluxe vinyl editions, as well as noteworthy releases on CD from favorite artists that just might make great stocking stuffers.
TSD Announces "Once in a Lifetime: A Sammy Davis, Jr. Centennial Celebration"
He was an American original...He was one of the last great exponents of a disappearing art. He told me once, 'The world doesn't owe me anything, because I did it myself.' - Tony Bennett [Sammy] literally could do everything and he just looked so good...I could only tap. - Gregory Hines I wish the world could have known Sam as I did. Sam never gave less than 100% when he was on stage, and he gave even more to those of us lucky enough to call him friend...It was a generous God who gave him
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