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David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Nicky Hopkins, Shel Talmy

About ‘Face’: Phil Collins’ Debut Expanded on Vinyl, Remixed for Blu-ray for 45th Anniversary

July 15, 2026 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Face Value Full Value boxset 3D packshot

Did he miss again? Hardly. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of his debut album, Phil Collins will release a new deluxe vinyl version of 1981’s Face Value featuring all the material from the original 2016 deluxe edition and more – including some long unavailable and previously unreleased material. Available September 18 and following the example of similar box sets for No Jacket Required (1985) and Both Sides (1993), Face Value (Full Value) offers a half-speed pressing of the original album’s 2015 remaster cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, plus three additional LPs including the 12…

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The Weekend Stream: July 11, 2026

July 11, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. We’re catching up on some stray things we missed ahead of the Fourth of July holiday – so there’s certainly plenty to love! Beyoncé, “Morning Dew (Donk)” (Parkwood/Columbia) (Apple / Amazon) Queen Bey surprised the hive with a surprise release over the Fourth of July weekend: a fleshed-out version of the previously-leaked demo “Donk.” Though the track was believed to stem from…

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Andy Partridge, Ben Folds Five, Beyoncé, Christina Perri, Curt Smith, George Michael, Green Day, Jim Reeves, John Lennon, Mary Ann Kennedy, Tears for Fears, U2

Release Round-Up: Week of July 10

July 10, 2026 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

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 Rolling Stones, Foreign Tongues (Capitol (U.S.)/Polydor (U.K.)) CD (Standard Red Cover): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD (Red Disc): Rolling Stones Store CD/Blu-ray: Rolling Stones Store / Amazon U.S. (Link TBD) / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Pink Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Blue Vinyl: Target.com 2LP White Vinyl + Art Print: Rolling Stones Store 2LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cassette: Rolling Stones Store Less than three years after Hackney Diamonds, The Rolling…

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Alice Cooper, America, Bob Brady and The Con Chords, Grateful Dead, Howard Jones, Jack White, My Chemical Romance, Scritti Politti, Selena, The Doobie Brothers, The Rolling Stones, The Specials, Thin Lizzy

Atlantic Rain: The Lost ‘Fisherman’s Blues’ Recordings

July 9, 2026 by Joe Marchese

Sessions for The Waterboys’ 1988 album Fisherman’s Blues have yielded a new 3CD box set. Atlantic Rain is drawn from a reported 150 hours of recording and 400 multi-track tapes reviewed by the band’s Mike Scott; the resulting box boasts 25 tracks (including covers of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” “When Doves Cry,” “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground,” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”) and a book containing a 15,000-word essay by Scott plus lyrics and previously unpublished photos. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)

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Season of Glass: Expanded Edition

July 9, 2026 by Joe Marchese

Yoko Ono’s 1981 album Season of Glass – released just seven months after the shocking murder of John Lennon and featuring his blood-stained glasses on its front cover – returns to CD in an expanded edition. Composed by Ono and produced by the singer-songwriter and Phil Spector, Season of Glass was harrowing yet cathartic, an album of enormous anguish but also of hope. It gains two bonus tracks here: the non-LP hit single “Walking on Thin Ice” (recorded by Ono and Lennon just hours before his murder; he was carrying a cassette of…

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In Memoriam: Bonnie Tyler (1951-2026)

July 9, 2026 by Randy Fairman | 5 Comments

Bonnie Tyler Faster Than The Speed of Night

For more than 50 years, the gravelly voice of Bonnie Tyler was one of pop and rock’s most distinctive. Whether bringing to life the rootsy “It’s a Heartache” or the majestic theatrical drama of “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” Tyler sounded like nobody else. The Welsh singer born Gaynor Hopkins in 1951 died earlier today at the age of 75, following a recent illness that left her hospitalized since May. Bonnie decided to pursue singing as a career after performing in a talent competition in 1969. Though she took second place to an…

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Everything’s Heavy Underground: Ben Folds Five to Reissue Debut with ‘Shelved First Attempt’ Bonus Disc

July 7, 2026 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Piano-pounding alternative trio Ben Folds Five will revisit their first album this fall – both versions of their first album. The group’s self-titled debut will be remastered and expanded on September 4, a year after its 30th anniversary mark. This 2CD or 180-gram 2LP release pairs that original album, featuring seminal tracks like “Underground” and “Philosophy,” with a mostly unreleased “Shelved First Attempt” featuring many of the same tracks (and a few others) recorded in an earlier session. Both sets will offer expanded liner notes featuring rare photos and commentary by Folds. It…

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Runs In The Family: The Warner Bros./Rykodisc Albums

July 4, 2026 by Joe Marchese

Runs in the Family, from TSD and Cherry Red’s Lemon Recordings imprint, is the first-ever albums collection from the genre-bending trio of Maggie, Suzzy, and Terre Roche, a.k.a. The Roches. The set features the sisters’ debut The Roches (1979) produced by King Crimson legend Robert Fripp; Nurds (1980) produced by Simon and Garfunkel collaborator Roy Halee; Keep On Doing, also with Fripp (1982); Another World (1985) with productions by Richard Gottehrer (“My Boyfriend’s Back,” “I Want Candy”), Edd Kalehoff (the themes to The Price Is Right, Double Dare), and others; and Can We Go Home Now (1995), helmed by the group…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 3…Plus The Weekend Stream!

July 3, 2026 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Due to the U.S. holiday, there’s less than usual on offer this week, but our usual large gathering of titles will resume soon! In the meantime, here’s a rundown of some highlights from today’s releases plus a truncated version of The Weekend Stream (on hiatus this weekend). As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. From all of us at TSD HQ to all of you, we wish you and your loved ones a very happy Fourth of July weekend! Grateful Dead, Fillmore Audtitorium, San…

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Deep Purple, Galt MacDermot, Gary Stewart, Grateful Dead, Imani Coppola, Madonna, Mike Rocket, Ronnie Dyson, Steven Van Zandt

Give the Kid a Break: Alice Cooper’s Early Solo Material Remastered in New Box Set

July 1, 2026 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Alice Cooper The Studio Albums 1975 1978

On July 31, Rhino will celebrate the early years of shock rock legend Alice Cooper with a new 5CD or 5LP box set. The Studio Albums 1975-1978 begins with 1975’s Welcome to My Nightmare, his first proper solo album, and continues with Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976), Lace and Whiskey (1977), and From the Inside (1978). The collection is rounded out with a 7-track collection of bonus material encompassing rarities and unique single versions. (In the vinyl set, this bonus album is cut at 45 RPM.) The band Alice Cooper began…

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The Weekend Stream: June 27, 2026

June 27, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. A solo record from a Prince associate gets expanded with rare tracks, another classic Tom Petty track gets a new mix, and new music from Sugar, a Monkee and a killer pop songstress (those are all different songs!) help kick off our latest round-up! Morris Day, Color of Success (Deluxe Edition) (Warner/Rhino) (Apple / Amazon) Rhino offers a dual celebration of Black…

Release Round-Up: Week of June 26

June 26, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Metallica, Reload: Deluxe Edition (Blackened Recordings) 15CD/5LP/7″/4DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD (* included on bonus discs): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cassette: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Metallica’s seventh studio album is their latest to get a massive box set treatment: 29 hours of audiovisual material on 15 CDs, five LPs, a 7″ single and four DVDs. Fans will get a deep dive…

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Boone Creek, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Maren Morris, Metallica, Nancy Sinatra, Robert Lopez, Roberta Flack, Rodney Crowell, Sting, Tina Turner, Trey Parker and Matt Stone

In Memoriam: Clive Davis (1932-2026)

June 23, 2026 by The Second Disc | 9 Comments

Today, The Second Disc remembers Clive Davis. Mike kicks things off… It was not entirely hubris that spurred Clive Davis to title his second memoir The Soundtrack of My Life in 2013 (which, in turn, inspired the career-spanning documentary on him to be named The Soundtrack of Our Lives). Here was a man who, with very few peers, was the sort of self-styled “record men” that fueled phases of incredible music industry growth in the back half of the 20th century. Next to perhaps only Berry Gordy, Davis’ label tenures at Columbia, Arista and…

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Gimme A Slice: Cherry Red, Second Disc Collect The Roches’ Warner Bros. and Rykodisc Albums on “Runs In The Family”

June 22, 2026 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

The world first heard the voices of Maggie and Terre Roche on Paul Simon’s 1972 LP There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. With youngest sister Suzzy, The Roches soon carved out a remarkable career of their own. Between 1979 and 2007, Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy pushed the boundaries of so-called folk music. The songs of The Roches were personal, funny, heartbreaking, vulnerable, witty, sad, joyful, and utterly original as the sisters bared their hearts and souls in striking harmony. Now, on September 11, Cherry Red’s Lemon Recordings and Second Disc Records will celebrate The…

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The Weekend Stream: June 21, 2026

June 21, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. We’ve got a last little Toy Story update, plus an unreleased XTC concert, great late-period Ben Folds Five, some British acts that couldn’t be more different, and plenty of others! Randy Newman/Taylor Swift, Toy Story 5 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Walt Disney Records) (Apple / Amazon) “I Knew It, I Knew You,” Taylor Swift’s new song from the soundtrack to Disney and Pixar’s…

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Andy Partridge, B.J. Thomas, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Big Freedia, Judas Priest, MUNA, Randy Newman, Rick Astley, SOPHIE, Taylor Swift, XTC

Release Round-Up: Week of June 19

June 19, 2026 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

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. Sheena Easton, The Singles: 1980-1987 (Cherry Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Pop’s Sheena Easton series has a new crown jewel: a 25CD box set chronicling her singles from the EMI years in the ’80s – and yes, this set has unreleased material as well. The Singles 1980-1987 follows two recent boxes following Easton’s EMI recordings in full (not strictly the original albums, but plenty of unreleased and alternate material in the mix)….

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HUNTR/X, Haircut One Hundred, John Williams, Judas Priest, Kristin Chenoweth, Labi Siffre, Miles Davis, Sheena Easton, Stephen Schwartz, The 5th Dimension

Review: Hank Marvin, “The Studio Album Collection 1982-1995”

June 17, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

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, Marvin, Welch, and Brian Bennett (who replaced drummer Tony…

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I Feel Free: Esoteric Collects Jack Bruce Albums, Concerts on “Halfway to the Stars”

June 16, 2026 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The recording career of the late Jack Bruce (1943-2014) spanned the 1960s through the 2010s, encompassing tenures in the Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Manfred Mann, West, Bruce and Laing, and, of course, Cream (among other bands). Between 1969 and 2014, Bruce released fourteen solo studio albums as well as numerous live sets, videos, and compilations. Now, Cherry Red’s Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently bundled two studio albums and two live sets from the turn of the (new) century as Halfway to the Stars: The Recordings 2001-2003. The bassist/singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist was known…

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Never Get Away from the Sound: Fleetwood Mac Expands Quintet-Era ‘Greatest Hits’ Set

June 15, 2026 by Mike Duquette | 18 Comments

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Rhino is revisiting the first compilation of Fleetwood Mac’s “classic” quintet era – a push, it appears, ahead of a long-awaited, as-yet unreleased documentary on the band. 1988’s Greatest Hits will be reissued on July 31 in a new double-disc edition on CD and vinyl. In addition to the plethora of smash hits like “Rhiannon,” “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop,” “Tusk,” “Gypsy,” “Little Lies” and “Everywhere” – as well as the then-new tracks “As Long As You Follow” and “No Questions Asked” – the set now includes a bonus disc of…

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Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks

Timeless

June 14, 2026 by Mike Duquette

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (140-gram Purple Marbled Vinyl) Ten years after his tragic passing, a newly-curated release from Prince’s vault offers 10 unreleased tracks spanning his entire recording career – mostly unconsidered, in their respective forms, for any formal versions of his albums. Advance highlights include “With This Tear,” a song Prince gave to Celine Dion early in her English-language singing career, and the ’90s pop/funk “Stone.”

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(the best & the rest of) New Order

June 14, 2026 by Mike Duquette

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (the best of) 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (the rest of) 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Less than a decade from the beloved compilation Substance, New Order issued (the best of) New Order in 1994 that chronicled their ’90s transitions into house and traditional alt-rock music, with a few new mixes to boot. The following year, (the rest of) New Order compiled recent and new remixes of the same material. (the best & the rest of) New Order brings together both collections with a further two discs of rare, new-to-CD and unreleased remixes…

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