Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
A Very British Synthesizer Group: The Anthology is a new four-disc super deluxe overview of Sheffield’s electronic pioneers The Human League.
Continue reading “The Human League / A Very British Synthesizer Group: four-disc anthology”
Depeche Mode are to issue Video Singles Collection, in November, a first-ever career-spanning anthology of promo videos and short films.
Continue reading “Depeche Mode / Video Singles Collection / 3 x DVD anthology”
Alt country duo The Handsome Family issue Unseen, their new album later this week. As you might expect, the long-player is available on CD and vinyl from the usual channels, but there are some excellent limited edition packages available from independent record shops and specific online stores.
Continue reading “Handsome packaging for The Handsome Family coloured vinyl set”
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be interviewing Dead Or Alive frontman Pete Burns for SuperDeluxeEdition later this week, to discuss the forthcoming 19-disc career retrospective, Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI.
Continue reading “Submit your questions for Pete Burns!”
Check out this brand new video which unboxes the forthcoming The Rolling Stones in Mono box set in anticipation of its 30 September release date…
Continue reading “Unboxed: The Rolling Stones in Mono”
Expanded and remastered version of Led Zeppelin‘s 1997 BBC Sessions album. Formats consistent with previous album reissues, including flashy super deluxe edition. 
Steven Wilson‘s 2015 compilation is a ‘personally curated’ collection of material recorded between 2002- 2015. Issued on CD for the first time, this comes with a bonus track, Happiness III.
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 16 September 2016”
Phenomenal deal for the 12CD YES Studio Albums 1969-1987 box set over on Amazon Italy right now.
Continue reading “Deal alert / Yes: The Studios Albums box”
Many of us are looking forward to the release of the 17CD Lou Reed RCA & Arista Album Collection box set which is due next month, but what wasn’t mentioned when this was announced is that there will also be a vinyl box set edition issued in November…
Continue reading “Lou Reed / Remastered RCA & Arista box being issued as 6LP vinyl set”
Bette Midler‘s debut album The Divine Miss M is being reissued as a two-CD deluxe edition next month.
Continue reading “Bette Midler / The Divine Miss M: deluxe”
ABBA‘s fourth studio album, 1976’s Arrival, is 40 this year, and so Polar Music (via Universal) are issuing a 45 RPM half-speed mastered double vinyl edition to celebrate, along with some other goodies: a seven-inch box set and some picture discs!
Continue reading “ABBA / Arrival: half-speed mastered 45RPM 2LP vinyl and other goodies”
With last year’s If I Can Dream Elvis release – which saw The King’s vocal performances set to lush Orchestral backing – selling upwards of a million copies in the UK alone, it was surely inevitable that Sony would commission a prompt follow-up. That arrives in December with The Wonder Of You, a similar set recorded with an The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road, spanning a variety of musical styles that Elvis embraced, from rock and gospel to country and ballads.
Continue reading “The Wonder Of You: Elvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra”
Edsel are to release Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI a giant career-spanning 19-disc box set featuring British pop group Dead or Alive.
Continue reading “Dead Or Alive / 19-disc career box set: Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI”
Congratulations go to Salvo Music, since their Slade box set from last year – When Slade Rocked The World 1971-1975 – won Special Catalogue Release of the Year at last night’s AIM awards (AIM is the trade body for independent labels)…
Continue reading “Rocking Slade collection wins best box”
If you’ve just invested in the double gold Star Wars vinyl packages, be prepared to be miffed (or delighted!) by this new stunning-looking double vinyl picture disc of John Williams‘ famous soundtrack…
Continue reading “John Williams / Star Wars limited edition double vinyl picture disc”
REM‘s Out of Time reissue is due in November, but to give to you a taster of the bonus material they have made available the demo version of the fourth and final single from the album, Radio Song. This will feature on the second disc of both the 2CD deluxe and the four-disc box set version and will be included on the 3LP vinyl set. Listen to it below:
Continue reading “R.E.M. reveal Radio Song demo”
Here’s an opportunity to pick up last year’s George Michael Freedom ’90 12-inch picture disc with a smile-inducing and wallet-pleasing 1980s price-tag.
Continue reading “Deal alert / George Michael: Freedom 90 – 12-inch vinyl picture disc”
Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul, the soul legend’s 1966 album (and the last issued in his lifetime), will be reissued as a two-CD deluxe edition and a double vinyl set next month.
Continue reading “Complete and Unbelieveable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul deluxe 2CD”
King Crimson release On (and off) The Road next month, a new 19-disc box set that presents a complete overview of the 1980s incarnation of the band.
Continue reading “King Crimson / On (and off) The Road / full details of 19-disc box set”
Italian photographer Guido Harari first photographed Kate Bush just after 1982’s The Dreaming was released and went on to take the official promotional shots for both Hounds of Love (1985) and The Sensual World (1989). He was then trusted enough to be invited by Kate to take (largely unseen) ‘reportage’ shots on the set of her 1993 film The Line, The Cross and The Curve. On the eve of the publication of a deluxe book of these photos – called The Kate Inside – and a south London exhibition, SDE spoke to Guido about the experience of photographing Kate Bush over a decade…
Continue reading “Interview: Guido Harari discusses photographing Kate Bush”
This 2014 Donna Summer ‘Driven By The Music’ vinyl box contains seven albums issued during the 1980s and has dropped to a very low price on Amazon UK in recent days.
Continue reading “Deal alert / Donna Summer: The Vinyl Collection / 7LP vinyl box”
