Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
As we enter December next week, you’d be forgiven for thinking all the new releases in terms of box sets and reissues must be done and dusted. Not so. In fact there’s lots of great music coming out on 4 December including highly anticipated super deluxe sets from Bruce Springsteen (The Ties That Bind: The River Collection) and Fleetwood Mac (Tusk).
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SDE Editor, Paul Sinclair, is in New York during Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Record Store Day. He’ll be checking out the best of what record stores are left in Manhattan, heading over to Brooklyn for more vinyl and CD exploration and talking to shop owners, and record buyers. Read about his adventures for the next few days in these exclusive diary posts…
Yesterday was another beautiful day in The City That Never Sleeps, although walking around it did seem rather ‘sleepy’ because everything was shut due to Thanksgiving!
Continue reading “SDE New York diary: Day two”
It’s ‘Black Friday’ deals week for many retailers, so each day this week SDE will publish a ‘deals’ post highlighting some of the best offers from around the web. The posts will almost certainly be updated during the day, so check back regularly to see what’s going on. Note that many deals go ‘live’ at a specified time.
The Rolling Stones / Sticky Fingers super deluxe (3CD+DVD+7″vinyl+book)
Where? Amazon.it
When? Deal starts at 12.00 GMT today for Prime members (in Italy) or 30 minutes later for non-Prime members.
Price? Likely to be around £40
It’s ‘Black Friday’ deals week for many retailers, so each day this week SDE will publish a ‘deals’ post highlighting some of the best offers from around the web. The posts will almost certainly be updated during the day, so check back regularly to see what’s going on. Note that many deals go ‘live’ at a specified time.
The Beatles / Stereo Vinyl box set (16 LP)
Where? Amazon.ca
When? Live now!
Price? £120
SDE Editor, Paul Sinclair, heads to New York for a few days to take in the Big Apple during Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Record Store Day. He’ll be checking out the best of what record stores are left in Manhattan, heading over to Brooklyn for more vinyl and CD exploration and talking to shop owners, and record buyers. Read about his adventures for the next few days in these exclusive diary posts…
After the inevitable early start, I’m on DL1 (Delta) from London Heathrow to New York City.
Continue reading “SDE New York diary: Day one”
It’s ‘Black Friday’ deals week for many retailers, so each day this week SDE will publish a ‘deals’ post highlighting some of the best offers from around the web. The posts will almost certainly be updated during the day, so check back regularly to see what’s going on. Note that many deals go ‘live’ at a specified time.
The Velvet Underground / Complete Matrix Tapes (4CD box)
Where? Amazon.co.uk
When? Live now!
Price? £29.99
In this unboxing video, SDE Editor Paul Sinclair takes a look at Salvo Music’s When Slade Rocked The World 1971-1975 box set…
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‘Deal of the day’ on Amazon Canada today only (‘while stocks last’), is the universally praised 14LP The Beatles in Mono VINYL box set. And it’s an incredible price!
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It’s ‘Black Friday’ deals week for many retailers, so each day this week SDE will publish a ‘deals’ post highlighting some of the best offers from around the web. The posts will almost certainly be updated during the day, so check back regularly to see what’s going on. Note that many deals go ‘live’ at a specified time.
Donna Summer / The CD Collection (10CD box)
Where? Amazon.co.uk
When? Deal starts at 20.30 GMT today for Prime members, or 9.00pm for non-Prime members. The link below will not show the discount until the time specified.
Price? Likely to be around £35
It’s ‘Black Friday’ deals week for many retailers, so each day this week SDE will publish a ‘deals’ post highlighting some of the best offers from around the web. The posts will almost certainly be updated during the day, so check back regularly to see what’s going on. Note that many deals go ‘live’ at a specified time.
Mark Lanegan / One Way Street (6LP vinyl box)
Where? PopMarket.com
Special Holiday ‘Pre-orders’ box sets. Live now.
A well rounded, and now affordable, multi-disc deluxe set of the classic Primal Scream album Screamadelica. This comes with a disc of remixes, a live performance CD and the Dixie-Narco EP. 
Tull‘s 1976 album gets the four-disc anniversary treatment with stereo / 5.1 remixes by Steven Wilson, the original TV broadcast on DVD and much more.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 27 Nov 2015”
Time Is Tight, the excellent three-CD career retrospective of Booker T & the MGs is available at a great price at the moment on the always competitive Amazon Italy.
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Early in 2016, Universal Music Catalogue will issue The Vinyl Collection, a new Deep Purple vinyl box set
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David Bowie returns with a new album Blackstar in January. Above is an image from the newly released video and you have to say it’s the scariest he’s looked since the cover of the Never Let Me Down album.
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 21 Nov 2015”
1970 – 1987 is an ‘albums collection’ Ry Cooder box, issued by Rhino at the end of 2013. The 11CD set is a fantastic way to explore the musician and songwriter’s rewarding back catalogue and I’d encourage you to do so since Amazon Italy are virtually giving it away at present!
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Everyone seems to be talking about David Bowie‘s new album/single ★ (Blackstar), so as you can view the video above. I’m sure you’ll also want to sing along… in which case you can read the full lyrics below.
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Burning Shed, the online music shop ‘run by artists, for artists’, has moved into book publishing this year with a new biography of influential new wave group Japan.
Continue reading “Japan: A Foreign Place / The Biography 1974-1984”
The 2010 40th anniversary edition of Miles Davis‘ genre-busting 1970 classic Bitches Brew was repackaged earlier this year as a compact four-CD ‘bookset’, but here’s an opportunity to pick up the ‘full monty’ BIG super deluxe edition box thanks to a VERY low price over on Amazon Italy at present.
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Concord Music are to issue a limited edition 12-inch vinyl single of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson‘s 1983 hit single Say Say Say for Black Friday Record Store Day.
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David Bowie will release his 28th studio album ★ (pronounced ‘Blackstar’) at the beginning of next year.
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