Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Two limited edition coloured vinyl pressings of Madonna albums – originally created as exclusives for UK retailer Sainsbury’s – are available to order online via Amazon, and other retailers.
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Snow Patrol return with their seventh studio album, Wildness, in May.
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The Saturday Night Fever super deluxe edition has previously been available at a great price via the USA, but if you don’t want your box sets travelling across the Atlantic, then you can now pick this up in Spain for a similarly cheap price tag.
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Although listed as a Record Store Day special release in the UK, Neil Young‘s Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live is freely available to order in the USA on double vinyl, and it’s very cheap, too.
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Fantastic deal right now in the USA for the quadruple vinyl edition of the Red Hot Chili Pepper‘s 2006 album Stadium Arcadium.
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Remarkably, Van Morrison is about to release his third studio album in little over six months. You’re Driving Me Crazy is a collaboration with jazz organ virtuoso Joey DeFrancesco.
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The Cranberries have confirmed that a 25th anniversary box set edition of their debut Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We? was in the works, only to be put on hold when Dolores O’Riordan died in January. After much consideration, the band are now pushing ahead once more – “we have decided to finish what we started” they said.
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ABBA / Summer Night City clear/yellow splatter vinyl
Summer Night City was a non-album single from 1978, although it ended up on Greatest Hits Vol. 2 which was released in late ’79.
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Pink Floyd will release the mono version of their 1967 debut The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn on vinyl LP for this year’s Record Store Day.
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Repertoire Records will soon issue Live at the BBC plus, a new three disc box set featuring live BBC recordings of English prog rock band Atomic Rooster.
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Marillion‘s 1994 album is given the deluxe treatment. Like Misplaced Childhood this boasts a Steven Wilson 5.1 mix, although at first glance it’s not quite as comprehensive. 
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The second album recorded in by Norwegian rock band Bridges is going to be given an official release on vinyl later this year. Along with a few other musicians, a-ha songwriter and guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy was in the group with future a-ha bandmate Magne Furuholmen. Morten Harket would see Bridges play live and with Paul and Magne the trio would head to London (in Paul’s words) “to become pop stars”.
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Busy week here at SDE, as usual, even though there is snow chaos in the UK!
The printed ‘keepsake’ edition of the SDE Roxy Music interviews with Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera came back from the printers. They look superb, even if I do say so myself! Very much consistent with the long sold-out McCartney ‘producers’ booklet from last year, except this time we’ve invested in licensing some archive photos for the front cover and gloss-laminated the cover for a luxury finish. It gives the whole thing a bit of ‘wow’ factor, I hope. Both interviews are there in full and although it’s a snug fit, this will squeeze nicely into the super deluxe edition box set of Roxy Music (I’ve tested it).
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Amazon in the US have a pre-order listing for a ‘Phosphorescent/Glow In The Dark’ vinyl edition of French band Air‘s debut album Moon Safari.
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Last month Brooklyn-based Joan Wasser released Damned Devotion her fifth album as Joan As Police Woman.
The 12-track record has been on heavy rotation in the SDE office and could well be the strongest JAPW record to date. It has a wonderful array of intimate songs – like Warning Bell, Tell Me, The Silence, Talk About It Later – which explore the murky world of relationships and how human beings communicate (or fail to communicate) with one another.
I was delighted to speak to Joan a few weeks ago to discuss Damned Devotion and started by asking her how long she’d been working on the album…
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Universal Music/Island Records will reissue remastered vinyl versions of U2‘s Pop and All That You Can’t Leave Behind albums next month, alongside a vinyl reissue of the 1985 Wide Awake In America EP.
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Gomez‘s debut Bring It On will be reissued for its 20th anniversary and amongst the formats will be a super deluxe edition box set featuring a host of unreleased songs and demos.
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Parlophone will issue three limited edition David Bowie releases for this year’s Record Store Day, which is on 21st April.
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Electronic duo Frou Frou are Imogen Heap and Guy Sigsworth. Their one and only album Details was issued back in 2002 and has never been issued on vinyl, until now.
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