Cherry Red, longtime home for Howard Jones' catalogue, will release an unheard set from the beginning of his career this month. Live At The Marquee, available January 30, finds the inimitable singer/s...

When Aerosmith surprised fans by moving their entire catalogue to Universal Music Group - switching two eras of material for Columbia Records (eight studio and live LPs originally issued between 1973-...

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. We've got a lot of new songs from old favor...

When Split Enz started their new archival series Enzyclopedia Volumes One and Two last year, there was a bit of a difference across formats. The 5CD box set included new remasters of debut Mental Note...

Over three years after the release of Sail On Sailor: 1972, The Beach Boys’ long-running archival series is back in full force with a new box set due on February 13.  We Gotta Groove: The Brother Stud...

One of the highlights of Rhino's Record Store Day Black Friday bounty was Tentative Decisions: Demos and Live, a selection of early material from art-rock icons Talking Heads that predated (and had be...

Heartland rocker John Mellencamp recently announced the Dancing Worlds tour, a summer trek through America in July and August that'll focus on hits he's not played in a while to audiences in outdoor a...

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. New music from country and soul icons and a...

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 (...

Here at Second Disc HQ, we're longtime fans of writer-producer-musician-historian Andrew Sandoval.  In addition to his groundbreaking work with The Monkees catalogue - including, most recently, helmin...

Cherry Red's suite of labels have already planned a healthy amount of box sets and reissues for the first quarter of the year. One such title is Robinsongs' fourth collection devoted to the work of Br...

Peter Gabriel may be prepping an unexpected new album this year (oi, the comparatively rapid follow-up to 2023's decades-in-development i/o) - but don't worry: he's got catalogue plans, too! Over the ...

The brief, eclectic work of British band The Colourfield will be investigated in a new box set from Chrysalis this winter. The Sound of The Colourfield brings together five CDs and a region-free DVD c...

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 i...

Following last year's deluxe box of The Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd., Rhino has announced its first release from the band in 2026.  The A's, The B's and The Monkees, at long la...

On February 10, Roberta Flack would have celebrated her 90th birthday. Though Flack passed away in February 2025, the occasion is being marked with a new box set from Rhino. With Her Songs: The Atlant...

Part of Rhino's annual "Start Your Ear Off Right" promotion is a very welcome surprise: a remastered and expanded edition of one of the most underrated albums by British pop/rock band Squeeze. 1991's ...

Some folks look for answers/Others look for fights/Some folks up in treetops/Just look to see the sights I can tell your future/Look what's in your hand/But I can't stop for nothing/I'm just playing i...

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! We've got some new music from old pop favor...

Yesterday, on the occasion of Elvis Presley's birthday, Legacy Recordings announced their latest release devoted to The King of Rock and Roll: a companion album to next month's forthcoming EPiC: Elvis...

Welcome to our first Release Round-Up of 2026, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Doobie Brothers, The Captain & M...

Why wait for Record Store Day? Rhino continues their January tradition of "Start Your Ear Off Right" with just over three dozen exclusive vinyl titles being released through January at independent rec...

More than 40 years after Paul Weller introduced a new phase of his musical work as part of the genre-hopping Style Council, a forthcoming box set will dive deep into their first few years of work, com...

Today, we're taking a look at three unique 2025 reissues from Japan! Back on December 5, we shared news that John Powell and Stephen Schwartz's instrumental score to the blockbuster sequel Wicked: For...

The new year will see renewed catalogue activity around Ritchie Blackmore's acclaimed work with Rainbow, kicking off in the spring with a new box set from Edsel. The Temple of the King 1975-1976, avai...

Even with a recent wave of new Beatles Anthology material - both on record and in a remastered version of the multi-part documentary on Disney+ - it appears there's always something new to learn about...

Welcome back, from holiday break, to 2026's first edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! We're starting in...

The best known hit of his band begins with "Everything is wonderful / being here is heavenly..." and perhaps no line better sums up the experience of hearing a song by Gary Clark. The Scottish singer/...

Last year, The Second Disc had nothing but good things to say about Dearly Beloved: A Prince Songbook, Cherry Red's triple-disc tribute to the music of Prince. The set told a story of The Artist's mas...

It's little surprise that Rhino is going all-out for the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. The label today announced a 60CD box set due this spring that will premiere material from some 20 shows ...

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. This week's offerings are particularly reflectiv...

Tangerine Dream's breakthrough album will be celebrated in a box set that features a host of audiovisual material taken from a bigger box set. Virgin/UMR will reissue the German group's 1974 hit Phaed...

Last evening, TSD learned that jazz legend Roy Ayers had passed away at the age of 84.  Prior to the sad news, we had completed and scheduled this news item on Cherry Red and Robinsongs' recent collec...

Following last year's expanded reissue of Grateful Dead collaborator Robert Hunter's Tales of the Great Rum Runners, the late lyricist is once again being celebrated by Rhino with a new deluxe edition...

Fans of soundtrack reissues on vinyl have three very different titles to potentially look forward to in April: a mid-'90s Disney animated flick, a crown jewel in John Williams' discography, an a belov...

A new reissue from Legacy Recordings - one with an extremely long lead time - will revisit the ascendance of the Backstreet Boys to the top of a crop of late '90s and early '00s boy bands. The quintet...

More than half a century after its release, Pink Floyd's arresting 1972 concert film - recorded in the ancient amphitheater of Pompeii - will be revisited as an audio and video product from Legacy Rec...

Happiness is many things to many people: good friends, childlike wonder, catchy tunes...and, perhaps, a warm puppy. From Craft Recordings comes a new reissue that includes all four: a newly expanded e...

Quartet Records will revisit a special musical approach to a remake of a classic suspense thriller: Martin Scorsese's 1991 adaptation of Cape Fear. The 2CD set, will include a remastered and expanded ...

Cherry Red is getting the party started with Dame Shirley Bassey.  On April 18, the label's Strawberry imprint will release The Singer, a 3-CD collection filled with previously unreleased tracks, hits...

Between their time as half of the head-turning British rock band 10cc and a whole new career as innovative music video directors, Godley & Creme carved out a unique discography as a duo. It's one that...

Even Robert Christgau couldn't get it right all the time. The self-professed "dean of American rock critics" sniffed at Roberta Flack's Quiet Fire in 1971 thusly: "Flack is generally regarded as the m...

More than 25 years after a collaboration-heavy album rocketed Carlos Santana back into the spotlight, the guitar legend will release another - albeit one assembled from an assortment of solo tracks an...

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! A great Carly Simon deep cut gets a fresh mix, p...

The final works from British rockers The Move were relatively ignored by everyone, including the band themselves - until listeners started to realize how it marked the trio's transition into a whole n...

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. David Lee Roth, The Warner Recordings 1985...

A breakthrough for one of Hollywood's biggest composers, a cult classic Western and an Oscar-winning '90s film are among the film scores being revisited by some of our favorite reissue labels this mon...

If you've ever wanted to search beyond "Just Got Lucky," the worldwide hit from British New Wave group JoBoxers, a new triple-disc anthology from Cherry Red has you covered. The aptly-titled Just G…

A rare concert team-up between one of the great blues-rock bands of the last four decades and one of the greatest guitarists of all time is getting revisited in a new 3CD or 6LP set due for release…