Month: March 2017

SDEtv: The Creation / Action Painting

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SDE has told you already about Demon Music’s forthcoming The Creation box set called Creation Theory, but what you might not be aware of is that US label The Numero Group are putting out their own Creation anthology called Action Painting. This two-CD collection is narrower in scope than its UK counterpart, but pleasingly presented as an 84-page hardcover book that slots into a sturdy outer slipcase. We take a closer look with an SDEtv unboxing video…
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Out This Week / on 17 March 2017

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Lloyd Cole in New York: Collected Recordings 1988-1996

Lloyd Cole / In New York: Collected Recordings (1988-1996)

Lloyd Cole follows up the 2015’s exemplary Commotions box set with Lloyd Cole In New York which brings together his first four solo albums (issued on Polydor/Fontana labels) a ‘lost’/unreleased album and a disc of demos. Read more
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Deal alert / Alan Parsons Project: Tales Of Mystery and Imagination box set

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Excellent price this morning on Amazon Italy for The Alan Parsons Project‘s Tales of Mystery and Imagination 40th anniversary super deluxe edition box set.
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U2 to release 30th anniversary super deluxe box sets of The Joshua Tree

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U2 will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1987 album The Joshua Tree this June, with three new editions of the album, including a four-CD super deluxe edition box set.
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Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (1984-2014)

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In May, BMG Rights Management will issue Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (1984-2014), a comprehensive overview of the band’s recorded work available in a number of different configurations.
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Neil Diamond to issue career spanning 50th Anniversary Collection

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Capitol/UME will later this month issue a Neil Diamond 50th Anniversary Collection – a three-CD set that includes 50 songs and spans 50 years…
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Out This Week / on 10 March 2017

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Kitchens of Distinction / Watch Our Planet Circle (box set)

Watch Our Planet Circle is a six-CD set celebrating the work of nineties indie-pop outfit Kitchens Of Distinction and includes remastered versions of the band’s four studio albums along with discs devoted to B-sides and BBC Sessions. Read more
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Roger Waters / new studio album, ‘Is This The Life We Really Want?’

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Roger Waters‘ first new studio album in almost a quarter of a century will be called Is This The Life We Really Want? and will be released in May. Check out the teaser/trailer below to see some in-the-studio footage and hear some of the new music.
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Saturday Deluxe / 4 March 2017

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A Handsome evening at the Union Chapel

I’m a relatively recent convert to the ‘alt country’ group The Handsome Family, so I was very pleased to get the opportunity to see them this week as they played London’s Union Chapel as part of their UK tour (in support of their recent album Unseen).
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