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In a surprise announcement, Fleetwood Mac have confirmed that guitarist and songwriter Lindsey Buckingham has left the band and Mike Campbell from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Crowded House’s Neil Finn will step in to replace him on their forthcoming tour.
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Is it possible to be bored of an album before it comes out? They announced their 13th long-player, Resistance Is Futile, and put it on their webstore back in November 2017, and thus the Manic Street Preachers have subjected fans to what feels like the longest album pre-order campaign in history. It’s finally out. Thank God! 
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R.E.M. / Automatic For The People 2CD box – £6.99
The Cranberries second album, No Need To Argue, is being reissued as a coloured vinyl pressing next month.
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OPPO Digital call it a day
Sad news for fans of hi-fi separates and physical formats (such as CD, SACD and blu-ray audio) as OPPO Digital announced this week that they “will gradually stop manufacturing new products”.
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Wire‘s first three albums have been ‘painstakingly’ remastered and are to be reissued as multi-disc deluxe sets with a plethora of bonus material.
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As if to underline Gary Barlow‘s status as UK national treasure, Sony have not farmed out a deluxe reissue of his first solo album to the likes of Cherry Red or Demon Music, they are issuing it themselves.
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Matador Records will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Liz Phair‘s debut album Exile in Guyville with Girly-Sound To Guyville, an extensive limited edition seven-LP vinyl box set and triple-CD package.
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Singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews has just issued her fourth album, May Your Kindness Remain.
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Although I don’t think much of the expensive and gimmicky triple LP vinyl box set edition of the recently announced Garbage Version 2.0 reissue, the 2LP orange vinyl sounds rather nice and is probably my pick of the formats. That is now available to pre-order along with the other variants.
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Standing Room Only is a new three-CD Frank Sinatra deluxe set that presents a trio of rare and previously unreleased Sinatra concerts from the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s.
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Very excited about this release. It’s the complete recordings of Howard Shore‘s score for Lord of The Rings The Fellowship of The Rings and is available on three CDs and a 5.1 surround sound blu-ray audio or a five-LP red vinyl package, to boot.
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Alison Moyet will issue The Other Live Collection next month.
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He has always enjoyed delivering the unexpected, and Paul McCartney is about to wrong foot fans – perhaps anticipating a new album or archive reissue – once more, by releasing Dub Sandwich, a new remix collection.
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~Steven Wilson rocks the Royal Albert Hall
I had a fantastic evening at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday night seeing Steven Wilson play on his To The Bone tour.
This was the middle of a run of three evenings at the historic venue and it was clear from some of Wilson’s interaction with the audience that many had booked for all three evenings. Steven makes a point of mixing up the set-lists and doing something different and the diehards are well aware of this.
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Vinyl box set • Tunnel of Love/Human Touch now 2LP sets • Remastered.
This May, Columbia/Legacy Recordings will follow-up Bruce Springsteen‘s 2014 Album Collection box set with a second volume, The Album Collection Vol. 2, 1987-1996.
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UK: Depeche Mode / Spirit 2LP gatefold vinyl – £10.99
Ludicrously cheap price right now for Neil Young‘s latest album The Visitor on double vinyl LP in the USA.
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Hollywood Beyond‘s time in the spotlight was so brief that they should really just be one of many forgotten eighties bands who never ‘made it’, but there is something rather memorable about the band’s hit single – What’s The Colour Of Money? – that despite it being their only hit, most people of a certain age will remember the song well. If is the 1987 album from which the single is taken, and it is being reissued next month as a two-CD deluxe edition.
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Garbage will reissue a 20th anniversary edition of their second album Version 2.0 in June.
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