Joe Marchese

New York

Editor at The Second Disc

Producer, writer, director, record-maker. Editor of The Second Disc. If you can find me, I'm here.

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It Was Only Yesterday: Robinsongs Collects Soul-Jazz From Eddie Harris, Larry Carlton

3 weeks ago | theseconddisc.com | Joe Marchese

Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint has been maintaining a busy 2025 schedule, with two new titles celebrating greats of jazz and soul. A 5 Classic Albums on 4 Discs collection from late saxophone titan Eddie Harris (1934-1996) offers all of Harris' albums for the Atlantic label originally released between 1974 and 1976 (with the exception of his album of off-color, spoken-word routines). Harris enjoyed a versatile career before signing with Atlantic in 1965.
Splash City: Omnivore Celebrates Jeffrey Foskett on "Something There" Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, America, More

3 weeks ago | theseconddisc.com | Joe Marchese

Jeffrey Foskett surely embodied the California Dream. The San Jose native his dues gigging around the Golden State with such early bands as Reverie and The Pranks. A knock on Brian Wilson's door in 1976 led to a long friendship with the Beach Boy, while Wilson's cousin Mike Love became a Foskett fan three years later upon hearing Reverie live in a Santa Barbara bar. Love brought Foskett into the Beach Boys fold - first in The Endless Summer Beach Band, then in the Beach Boys themselves.
Ads Are Coming to AI and None of Us Are Ready

4 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Joe Marchese

Pro Available to WrapPRO members Search advertising is perhaps the greatest business model ever created. The potential for generative AI advertising is even greater but comes with far bigger risks.
Ads Are Coming to AI and None of Us Are Ready

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joe Marchese

2 hours agoGoogle quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locallyLast week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones. Called Google AI Edge Gallery, the app is available for Android and will soon come to iOS. It allows users to find, download, and run compatible …7 hours agoGoogle's Veo 3 AI video generator is unlike anything you've ever seen. The world isn't ready.
In Memoriam: Roger Nichols (1940-2025)

1 month ago | theseconddisc.com | Joe Marchese

If you don't know the name of Roger Nichols, you know the man's songs. His compositions have been sung by Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Petula Clark, Jackie DeShannon, Bobby Darin, Paul Anka, The Monkees, and Nichols' most frequent lyrical collaborator, Paul Williams - just to name a few.
I Get Misty: A Personal Reflection on Johnny Mathis' Final Concert

1 month ago | theseconddisc.com | Joe Marchese

The music of Johnny Mathis has been a constant here at Second Disc HQ. Our very first Second Disc Records release in conjunction with Real Gone Music was Johnny's Life Is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions back in 2015, which inaugurated a series encompassing nearly two dozen Mathis albums and compilations to date including a multi-disc Christmas music collection and the standalone CD premieres of two "lost" albums, I Love My Lady and The Island.
Dyna-Mite: Cherry Red's 7Ts Label Collects Mud's Glam Oldies on "The Rak Years 1973-75"

1 month ago | theseconddisc.com | Joe Marchese

Rob Davis, Les Gray, Dave Mount, and Ray Stiles formed Mud in 1966 and released their first single, "Flower Power," the very next year on CBS Records. But the band wasn't destined to make their name with psychedelic pop; instead, they persevered until breaking through in 1973 on Mickie Most's Rak label. By that time, they'd morphed into glam rockers with a fifties revivalist sensibility.
Hey There: Stage Door Expands John Raitt's "Songs of the Open Road"

1 month ago | theseconddisc.com | Joe Marchese

Back in May 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stage Door Records brought some much-needed sunshine with an Original Album Series volume for Broadway baritone John Raitt (1917-2005). The 2CD volume collected Raitt's four LPs originally released between 1955 and 1960 on the Capitol and Warner Bros. labels; now, Stage Door has turned the clock back to 1947 for a first-time-on-CD expanded edition of his 1947 Decca EP Songs of the Open Road.
Thank U Very Much: Cherry Red, Esoteric Release Comprehensive "Box of Scaffold"

1 month ago | theseconddisc.com | Joe Marchese

A poet, a comic, and a musician walk into a room... The Scaffold was hardly an ordinary band. In fact, it wasn't a band at all. Yet Roger McGough, John Gorman, and Mike McGear (a.k.a. McCartney, a.k.a. Paul's younger brother) of Liverpool released singles on Parlophone produced by Sir George Martin, had a chart-topping hit, and sold out such esteemed venues as the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Their thirteen-year time together outlasted The Beatles.
Smile Happy: WAR's "Why Can't We Be Friends?" Deluxe Box Comes to CD

1 month ago | theseconddisc.com | Joe Marchese

Following its release last week on vinyl for Record Store Day, the expanded 50th anniversary edition of WAR's seminal 1975 album Why Can't We Be Friends? is coming to CD and digital formats. On June 6, the 3CD box will arrive in stores via Rhino and Avenue Records. WAR's seventh album, Why Can't We Be Friends?