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When Vinyl180 announced their coloured vinyl reissue of the Thompson Twins classic 1983 album Quick Step & Side Kick last year, they at least had the decency to let fans know that they would also being putting out a 2LP black vinyl reissue of the same title in 2016. Details of that edition have now been released…
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US heavy rockers Metallica‘s first two albums, 1983’s Kill ‘Em All and Ride The Lightning (1984), will be reissued as enormous ten and 11-disc box sets (respectively) this coming April…
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With the Michael Jackson Off The Wall reissue imminent, Sony will also reissue that 1979 album, along with the mega-selling follow-ups Thriller and Bad, on vinyl in April.
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British rock group Saxon, one of the so-called ‘New Wave of British Heavy Metal Bands’ to emerge in the late 1970s, will next month issue Eagles and Dragons, a nine-LP vinyl box set of studio albums released between 1991 and 2009.
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Watch the ‘lyric video’ and order the CD single of the Pet Shop Boys new single The Pop Kids…
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Evening Blue is a forthcoming deluxe ‘bookset’ that chronicles and celebrates Traffic co-founder Chris Wood‘s life in music.
Continue reading “Chris Wood / Wealth of unheard material in new ‘Evening Blue’ deluxe box set”
Rhino’s Faces five-CD box from last year, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing, or Anything 1970-1975, is available now for a fantastic price on Amazon UK.
Continue reading “Deal alert: Faces 5CD albums box set with bonus tracks & rarities disc”
Following on from the Premonitions box set of last year, Universal Music will soon reissue a three-disc standalone deluxe edition of Steve Hackett‘s 1979 album Spectral Mornings which will include the Steven Wilson 5.1 surround sound mix.
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The 40th Anniversary edition of Jethro Tull‘s 1971 classic Aqualung is being repackaged and repriced, four and a half years after the original reissue.
Continue reading “Jethro Tull’s Aqualung 5.1 surround mix finally affordable with new repackage”
You’ll have to wait another month for the big Collector’s Edition which adds two vinyl records and a DVD to the standard deluxe of Come Find Yourself, but the 3CD version of the Fun Lovin’ Criminals debut is more wallet-friendly and is out on Friday. 
Universal package together five Dusty Springfield albums (A Girl Called Dusty, Ev’rything’s Coming Up Dusty, Dusty… Definitely, Dusty in Memphis and A Brand New Me) in this good value package.
Erasure have confirmed that as part of the #Erasure30 anniversary celebrations they will be releasing an anthology box set later this year, and they want fans to help select B-sides for inclusion…
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When we reviewed Supergrass‘ three-CD deluxe of 1995’s I Should Coco in late December, we called it an “essential purchase”. Well it’s now even more essential, thanks to a big price drop.
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A fine evening last night in North London in the company of Suede as they played in what was The Town and Country Club in Kentish Town, but is now (unfortunately) called the O2 Forum (having previously been the HMV Forum).
The show was split in two, with the first part devoted to their new album Night Thoughts followed (after a brief interval) by 70 minutes of the audience shaking their bits to the hits.
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 13 Feb 2016”
We loved the recent Rhino 4CD deluxe reissue of Alanis Morissette‘s Jagged Little Pill and if you’ve been pondering a purchase, the time may have come thanks to a stunning price at the moment in the UK.
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Bob Dylan‘s 1964 concert at New York’s Philharmonic Hall, which was issued by Sony in 2004 as volume six of their Bootleg Series, is to be reissued by US audiophile specialists Audio Fidelity as a double SACD set with a 5.0 surround sound option.
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Following the unfortunate previous misinformation about the Pet Shop Boys‘ forthcoming single The Pop Kids, SDE is pleased to confirm the correct track listing, as published by the band this morning…
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A box set of 1960’s supergroup Cream‘s long-players looks like it’s on the way…
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Following on from Tuesday’s deal for the big Rumours box set, today you have an opportunity to complement that set with the recent three-CD edition of Fleetwood Mac‘s follow-up Tusk at a giveaway price.
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The previously announced Jeff Buckley You and I release (due next month), which features ten unreleased studio recordings from Feb 1993, look liked it would be issued as a two-CD deluxe edition, as well as the standard 10-track single CD edition, although that is apparently, not the case now.
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With the band’s Cast in Steel tour about to kick off in Russia early next month, Norwegian pop legends a-ha will release a new compilation that gathers their biggest hits from all ten of their studio albums and pairs it with a bonus disc of rare and unreleased remixes.
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