A great deal – primarily directed at SDE friends in America – which gets you the forthcoming Steve Winwood Greatest Hits Live two-CD set for an incredibly low price!
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Out This Week / on 18 August 2017
Steven Wilson / To The Bone (new album)
Steven Wilson attempts to shake off/defy the ‘prog rock’ label with To The Bone, a new album of ‘pop’ songs that aren’t tied to an ambitious conceptual narrative. 
Saturday Deluxe / 12 August 2017
Mobile Fidelity are bringing out a new vinyl edition of Donald Fagen‘s classic debut The Nightfly. It’s actually a 45RPM box set edition and is described as the “ultimate analog edition” of the 1982 album.
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Deal alert / The Jam: 1977 box set
Best price to date for the forthcoming The Jam 1977 five-disc box set…
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China Crisis reissues delayed
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Caroline International’s three China Crisis deluxe reissues have been delayed by two weeks and will now be released on 15 September 2017. Not big news as such, but this does give SDE the opportunity to bring you some exclusive images that give you a better feel for the packaging and presentation…
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Steve Miller Band / Ultimate Hits
Deluxe edition of new hits set offers 8 previously unreleased tracks
Capitol Records recently struck a deal with Steve Miller which will see Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) issue back catalogue projects. The first one of these, Steve Miller Band: Ultimate Hits is issued in October and is available in no less than four different physical editions, including a 4LP vinyl package.
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The Maccabees / The Complete Collection: 6LP+DVD vinyl box set
Fiction have announced a ‘limited edition’ one-off run vinyl box set featuring the albums of recently disbanded English indie-band The Maccabees.
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Neil Young prepares a digital archive
SDE on Neil Young’s initiative + other artists successes & failures
Neil Young is preparing to put his entire audio archive online so that “every single track or album” he has produced since 1963 will be available to be streamed at up to ‘full resolution’.
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Bryan Ferry confirms Roxy Music box
Another year, another promise…
Bryan Ferry has revealed that the long-awaited and much delayed box set of Roxy Music‘s 1972 eponymous debut will be released in November.
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At last! UB40 deluxe editions emerge
Over two years since the planned release, the much delayed triple CD deluxe editions of UB40‘s Present Arms and Labour Of Love have finally emerged.
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Out This Week / on 11 August 2017
Steve Howe / Anthology 2 – Groups & Collaborations
This second volume of Steve Howe‘s Anthology series is a three-CD set that focuses on key contributions to groups like Yes and Asia, while also rounding up his numerous collaborations with musicians like Paul Sutin and Oliver Wakeman.
Thompson Twins / Here’s To Future Days: Purple vinyl LP reissue
Vinyl180 continue their Thompson Twins vinyl re-releases with a reissue of the band’s fifth album Here’s To Future Days on purple vinyl.
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Luke Haines is Alive and Well and Living in Buenos Aires / 4CD Solo Anthology
This September Cherry Red will issue a four-CD anthology that focuses on solo work of singer, songwriter and author Luke Haines, best known for his work with The Auteurs in the 1990s and Black Box Recorder.
Snappily titled, Luke Haines Is Alive And Well And Living In Buenos Aires (Heavy, Frenz – The Solo Anthology 2001-2017) this collection has the perhaps unenviable task of keeping up with the prolificacy of Haines over the last 16 years, while ensuring it doesn’t miss diversions into music written for films and side-projects.
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Neil Young to issue ‘Hitchhiker’ an unreleased 1976 solo album
David Briggs produced album is ‘a gem from the Neil Young archive’
Neil Young is once more digging into his archives to issue Hitchhiker, an unreleased album originally recorded in 1976.
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The Rolling Stones / From The Vault: Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre
The Rolling Stones continue with their ‘From The Vault‘ series with Sticky Fingers: Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015, which will be issued across the usual multiple formats in September.
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Deal alert / T. Rex 3LP remix set
Great deal + preview a full-length remix
The limited red vinyl edition may have sold out in a nanosecond, but the 3LP black vinyl edition of the forthcoming T. Rex Remixes set is now outstanding value on Amazon in the UK.
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Gentle Giant / Three Piece Suite
Late in September, British prog rock band Gentle Giant will release a new blu-ray+CD collection called Three Piece Suite which focuses on 1970-1972 and the first three albums (Gentle Giant, Acquiring The Taste and Three Friends). Content includes Steven Wilson 5.1 mixes of some (not all) album tracks, hi-res flat transfers of all three albums and more…
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Underworld / Beaucoup Fish box set
Universal Music are to reissue Underworld‘s 1999 album Beaucoup Fish in August, and like the previous reissues, this will be available as a multi-disc super deluxe edition box set.
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Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave
Veteran UK DJ and broadcaster Gary Crowley has curated Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave, a triple CD box set that seeks to avoid the usual ‘classic anthems’ and rather opts for a quirkier selection of punk/new wave singles from 1977-1982.
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Neil Finn to record new studio album ‘live on the internet’
Neil Finn will issue a new solo album called Out Of Silence in September that will be recorded live online at the end of August.
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