ZZ Top are set to release a new vinyl box set in June. Cinco No. 2: The Second Five LPs feature five albums recorded between 1979 and 1990, including Eliminator and Afterburner.
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Out This Week / on 27 April 2018
Neil Young / Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live
This Neil Young double live album remains RSD exclusive until Friday when it receives a wider release. The Record Store Day version does at least have an exclusive photo print.
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Live Devotion: Joan As Police Woman gets intimate at the Royal Festival Hall
Anyone expecting last night’s Joan As Police Woman show at London’s Royal Festival Hall to offer a balance between new material and old favourites would have been disappointed. With Damned Devotion (issued in February) Joan Wasser has probably made the best album of her career to date, and she knows it, because she played the whole thing in its entirety. Yes, there were occasional flashes from the past, but the evening was all about the new record.
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SDEtv / Record Store Day Previews: The big one: Pink Floyd, Madonna & more
SDE completes its Record Store Day Previews with one final mega-video with many different releases, including Eurythmics, Madonna, Prince, Steven Wilson, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire and more. Enjoy and enjoy the day tomorrow!
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The Creation / Creation Theory limited 4LP coloured vinyl box set
Exclusive coloured vinyl box limited to 500 copies
Demon Records will issue a Creation Theory in a new four-LP vinyl box set that charts the chaotic and haphazard career of sixties English rock band The Creation.
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Warners issue Prince’s original recording of Nothing Compares 2 U
+ Great vault find – Official store only ships from US • $$ ker-ching
The Prince Estate in collaboration with Warner Bros. Records has released the original version of Nothing Compares 2 U as recorded by Prince in 1984.
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SDEtv / RSD Previews: Sparks The Best & The Rest of the Island Years 74-78
More Record Store Day 2018 previews on SDE. Today we take a brief look at Sparks The Best & The Rest Of The Island Years 74-78, which is pressed on double red vinyl.
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Various Artists / California Groove Volume IV / 6CD box set
Warner Music in France have so far issued three volumes of their California Groove series, multi-disc various artist sets that celebrate Californian music. Seven years after the release of the last volume comes Californian Groove IV the biggest and most extravagant release to date.
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Surprise Humble Pie RSD release available in just one record shop
Immediate Records are issuing a late-in-the-day ‘surprise’ Humble Pie Record Store Day release on Saturday, that sees the band paid a debt to the English town of Southsea, by making the release available exclusively via just one record shop in that area!
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Black Sabbath / Supersonic Years: The Seventies Singles Box Set
Ten 1970’s seven-inch singles in rare/unreleased sleeves
June sees the release of The Supersonic Years: The Seventies Singles Box Set a new limited edition Black Sabbath seven-inch vinyl box set.
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Keychains and Snowstorms: The Soft Cell Story / 9CD+DVD box set
In September, Universal Music will release Keychains and Snowstorms”, a new 10-disc Soft Cell box set that “tells the definitive story of one of electronic music’s most thrilling and pioneering acts”.
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SDEtv / RSD Previews: Soft Cell / Say Hello Wave Goodbye 12-inch single
The Record Store Day 2018 previews continue on SDE with a look at this Soft Cell clear vinyl 12-inch that features new remixes of Say Hello Wave Goodbye.
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Tears For Fears postpone tour
Tears For Fears have announced that they have been forced to postpone their 2018 UK and Ireland tour.
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Kirsty MacColl / Kite and Electric Landlady coloured vinyl pressings
CLEAR and PINK vinyl pressings of the two Virgin albums
As mentioned, when SDE told you about the new Kirsty MacColl Days 1988-1991 box set, the two albums Kirsty recorded for Virgin Records – Kite and Electric Landlady – will both be reissued as special coloured vinyl pressings in June.
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SDEtv / RSD Previews: Human League Secrets 2LP white vinyl
More Record Store Day 2018 previews on SDE, with a video unboxing of Demon Music’s 2LP white vinyl release of the Human League‘s Secrets…
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Roger Waters: Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ will be reissued in 5.1 surround sound
Roger Waters has confirmed that a 5.1 surround sound mix of Pink Floyd‘s 1977 album Animals is being prepared for release.
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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
Lisa Stansfield / The Collection 1989-2003 – £37.67
Lowest ever price for the 18-disc box set. Contains Affection (1989), Real Love (1991), So Natural (1993), Lisa Stansfield(1997) and Face Up (2001) – as 2CD+DVD casebound book deluxe editions, as well as 3CD remix compilation called People Hold On… The Remix Anthology
Cockney Rebel vinyl & CD reissues
Remastered • analogue cut vinyl • CD digipacks • no bonus material
Cockney Rebel‘s two albums, The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo, are to be reissued on CD and vinyl, in May.
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Johnny Marr / Call The Comet
Exclusive coloured vinyl with SIGNED print available
Johnny Marr will release a new album, Call The Comet, in June.
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SDEtv / RSD previews: The First 48-inches of Frankie Goes To Hollywood
SDE kicks off five days of Record Store Day 2018 previews with a video unboxing of BMG’s Frankie Goes To Hollywood release, The First 48 Inches of Frankie Goes To Hollywood…
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