Def Leppard / Vinyl and CD Collections / Volume one: The Eighties

Eighties output remastered • CD and vinyl boxes • Rarities disc

In June, Universal Music will issue a new Def Leppard albums box set which will be available on CD and vinyl. It’s the first of four planned volumes which will cover the band’s complete recorded output
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Deal alert / Cheap Xmas: Donald Fagen Complete / 7LP vinyl box set

The brilliant Complete Donald Fagen: Cheap Xmas box was issued as a seven-LP vinyl set late last year – to little fanfare – but is now available for a superb price today, on Amazon Italy.
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Deal alert / XTC: Drums and Wires CD+Blu-ray reissue

Another XTC mega-deal

Do you remember that crazy US deal for XTC‘s CD+blu-ray reissue of Oranges & Lemons from a few weeks ago? Well now the CD+blu-ray reissue of the 1979 Drums and Wires is available for a the same ridiculously low low price!
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The Handsome Family / Through The Trees 20th anniversary edition

The Handsome Family‘s 1998 album Through The Trees has been reissued for its 20th anniversary as a special coloured vinyl+CD edition.
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Out This Week / on 16 March 2018

Rory Gallagher / Irish Tour ’74 (reissue)

Rory Gallagher‘s classic live album – and indeed his entire solo output – is reissued by Universal Music on vinyl and CD. Read more
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Neil Young + Promise of the Real to release soundtrack to ‘Paradox’

Young stars in and produces music for Daryl Hannah’s directorial debut

Next month, Neil Young (with Promise of The Real) will release a soundtrack album to the film Paradox.
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The Feeling / Twelve Stops And Home / anniversary box set edition

3CD+DVD box set • Limited edition 2LP yellow vinyl

Cherry Red are reissuing The Feeling‘s 2006 debut album Twelve Stops And Home for its twelfth anniversary in June. It will be available as a four-disc box set and a limited edition coloured double vinyl.
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Deal alert / Saturday Night Fever box set

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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Neil Young / Roxy: Tonight’s The Night Live / 2LP vinyl of unreleased set

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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Van Morrison and Joey Defrancesco / New album: You’re Driving Me Crazy

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 resume box set plans

Anniversary box coming • New studio album likely in 2019

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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Pink Floyd to issue mono Piper At The Gates Of Dawn for Record Store Day

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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