Rhino are to issue Dock of the Bay Sessions, a new Otis Redding collection, in May this year.
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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. 
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Hazel O’Connor / Sons and Lovers
Single disc reissue of the 1980 album, with five bonus tracks
Cherry Red’s SFE imprint will reissue an expanded version of Hazel O’Connor‘s second album at the end of this month.
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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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Madonna coloured vinyl available online
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 / Wildness
First album in seven years • deluxe CD with five bonus tracks
Snow Patrol return with their seventh studio album, Wildness, in May.
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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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Deal alert / Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium 4LP vinyl set
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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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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SDE’s pick of Record Store Day releases
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 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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Atomic Rooster / Live at the BBC plus
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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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
Out This Week / on 9 March 2018
Marillion / Brave (reissue)
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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Embryonic a-ha album by Bridges to be released for the first time later this year
This is the cover to the first Bridges album
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy confirms the news to SDE
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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