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Check out this fantastic video that goes behind-the-scenes with rare audio and video to set the scene for the impending release of Bob Dylan‘s The Cutting Edge Bootleg Series Vol 12.
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Roger Waters The Wall is a new film written and directed by Roger Waters and Sean Evans that combines the concert experience of Pink Floyd‘s The Wall album (as performed on Waters’ 2010-2013 The Wall Live tour) with off-stage ‘road movie’ footage of of the musician and songwriter reflecting on the impact of war on his own family.
Continue reading “Roger Waters: The Wall / two-disc blu-ray special edition”
New five-CD box set that promises to collect “every recording” the Small Faces made for Decca. Includes rarities and BBC sessions. 
Massive 24CD Donna Summer singles box which collates 45s from the albums The Wanderer, Donna Summer, Cats Without Claws, All Systems Go, Another Place And Time and Mistaken Identity.
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 9 October 2015”
Universal Music will this week release His Musical Autobiography, a new 12-disc Nat King Cole collection.
Continue reading “Nat King Cole / His Musical Autobiography / 12-disc box set”
This November, Universal Music are to reissue the Allman Brothers Band‘s second album, Idlewild South, across a number of formats including a 3CD+Blu-ray audio set that will include a 5.1 surround sound mix of the 1970 album.
Continue reading “The Allman Brothers Band / Idlewild South 4-disc super deluxe”
You have to hand it to Eagle Rock, they certainly know how to roll out their deluxe video/audio sets. The Rolling Stones Tokyo Dome 1990 ‘From the Vault’ release isn’t even out yet but the follow-up Roundhay Park: Live in Leeds 1982 is scheduled less than a month after it (27 November).
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 3 October 2015”
Rhino will release a new box featuring the ‘Complete Albums’ of Chicago Blues legend Paul Butterfield at the beginning of next month.
Continue reading “Paul Butterfield / Complete Albums 1965-1980 / 14CD box set”
The Who‘s 2015 June 26th show at London’s Hyde Park will be issued as a four-disc deluxe book set in November, along with other special editions.
Continue reading “The Who / Live in Hyde Park deluxe”
Massive saving on the six-CD deluxe edition of the newly announced Bob Dylan The Cutting Edge Bootleg Series Vol 12 set over on Amazon Italy now!
Continue reading “Deal alert / Bob Dylan: Cutting Edge Bootleg Series Vol 12 / 6-disc”
Rhino are to release a new Lou Reed CD box set that collects the eight albums released on the Sire label during a period that spanning almost a quarter of a century.
Continue reading “Lou Reed / The Sire Years: Complete Albums box / 10CD set”
First pictures of Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records the new five-disc set from Cherry Red that brings together the early years of Alan McGee’s label.
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Amazon France have a special promotion TODAY ONLY that offers visitors €10 off any purchase over €50.
Music fans might want to take advantage and to give you a few ideas, below are a some SDE suggestions that could see you save a significant percentage off the purchase price of recent/forthcoming releases…
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Back in June I alerted you to the fact that a Sparks vinyl box was due to be released this winter. At the time there was a question mark over the bonus LP but now everything has been confirmed.
Continue reading “Sparks / The Island Years 5LP box”
This November Chris Rea will release a four-disc ‘artist’s edition’ of the 1996 soundtrack album to his very personal film project, La Passione.
Continue reading “Chris Rea / La Passione deluxe”
Rhino will release The Atlantic Albums Collection, a new 19CD Aretha Franklin box set at the end of next month.
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ELO, or rather “Jeff Lynne’s ELO”, return in November with a new deal inked with Columbia Records and a new album Alone in the Universe.
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This December, Island Records will release Amy Winehouse The Collection, a new 8LP vinyl box set.
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Eric Clapton celebrated his 70th birthday this year with a seven-night run at the Royal Albert Hall, and this performance will be issued commercially across a number of formats by Eagle Rock in November.
Continue reading “Eric Clapton / Slowhand at 70: Live at the Royal Albert Hall”
Five years after Paul McCartney kicked off his Archive Collection reissue series with Band on the Run, he puts out deluxe sets of the widely admired Tug of War and the slightly less admired Pipes of Peace.
Garbage‘s 1995 debut reissued in two separate vinyl packages and a two-CD deluxe. Bizarrely demos and remixes are digital only.
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 2 October 2015”
Be honest, did you ever think a music box set would be released that included “every single note recorded by Bob Dylan in the studio in 1965/1966″? Me neither, but that’s exactly what Sony/Columbia have done with their ‘Collector’s Edition’ of the newly announced Bootleg Series Vol 12, which has the moniker The Cutting Edge. 18CDs isn’t actually that much – we’ve had bigger sets from King Crimson and The Grateful Dead, but I guess it’s quite a lot for such a narrow period of time (two years, 1965-1966).
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 26 Sep 2015”
