Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
As part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, the GratefulDead are issuing a gargantuan 80CD box set that includes 30 unreleased live shows – one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995.
Continue reading “Grateful Dead / 30 Trips Around the Sun / definitive 4CD live set”
In September, Parlophone Records will release Five Years, a 12CD or 13LP box set that will feature “all of the material officially released” by David Bowie between 1969 and 1973.
Continue reading “David Bowie / Five Years 1969-1973: new CD and vinyl box sets”
Another Dry Day is a Lloyd Cole and the Commotions demo that is one of 16 unheard recordings on disc five of the forthcoming six-disc box set Collected Recordings 1983-1989 box set.
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Bob Dylan / The Basement Tapes Raw (2CD)
Leonard Cohen / Songs of Love and Hate VINYL
Rhino follow up their Chicago box from 2012 next month, with a second volume of studio albums set within clamshell packaging that covers the later years.
Continue reading “Chicago / The Studio Albums 1979-2008 / Vol Two 10CD box”
Review coming soon for this Rolling Stones release. The combo packs have been sensational value with both CD+DVD and LP+DVD configurations averaging about £11. 
The Lover Speaks’ (British duo David Freeman and Joseph Hughes) one commercially issued album is remastered and expanded by Cherry Red.
Continue reading “Out This Week / 22 June 2015”
This Rainbow singles box set was issued in February last year and is currently available at the lowest ever price on Amazon UK.
Continue reading “Deal alert / Rainbow CD singles box”
The Decca Years is a new five-CD Small Faces box set scheduled for release later this year.
Continue reading “The Small Faces / The Decca Years”
August 2015 sees the release of The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980 a new vinyl box set collecting the classic era of Status Quo.
Continue reading “Status Quo / The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980 / box set”
Rhino will next month reissue a 4LP vinyl box set of The Sisters of Mercy‘s 1985 debut First and Last and Always.
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Duran Duran‘s new album Paper Gods is due in September and this week we’ve had a look at the artwork. I think it’s fair to say from reading your comments that you’re not overly impressed! Maybe it will get improved/replaced, but if not, then you have to wonder what Warner Bros. are up to. Surely they should have pointed out that it’s simple not good enough, or do major labels feel they no longer have the power to tell acts to up their game?
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 20 June 2015”
Great price on Amazon UK for last year’s five-LP Rod Stewart vinyl box set.
Continue reading “Deal alert / Rod Stewart vinyl box”
Rhino will next month issue The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1977 an eight-CD box set featuring the seven America albums released by the label during the 1970s.
Continue reading “America / The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1977 / 8CD box set”
Iron Maiden will release The Book Of Souls, their first ever double studio album in September this year.
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Universal Music will issue a The Island Years, a Sparks vinyl box set, later this year.
Continue reading “Sparks / The Island Years vinyl box set coming in late 2015”
Although this artwork “is not final” the above image is expected to be the cover of Duran Duran‘s fourteenth studio album, Paper Gods, which will be released in September.
Continue reading “Duran Duran / Paper Gods LP cover”
Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Sting will be among the artists who will contribute music to a new compilation album which is being put together as a tribute to the Dalai Lama who turns 80 on 6 July 2015.
Continue reading “Unheard Kate Bush material coming to new compilation?”
Audio Fidelity will reissue B.B. King and Eric Clapton‘s Riding With The King on hybrid SACD at the end of this month.
Continue reading “B.B. King & Eric Clapton / Riding With The King / hybrid SACD”
Please note all prices are correct at the time of writing and are based on the Amazon UK price. If you are ordering outside the EU these prices will actually be cheaper! Have fun.
Last year’s excellent reissue of Deep Purple‘s Made in Japan – often cited as one of the best live albums of all time – contains the 2013 remix of the original album on disc one, with all the encores on CD 2.
Excellent 2013 reissue for Kim Wilde‘s most successful album comes with a massive 21 bonus tracks including seven-inch mixes, extended versions and B-sides. Another unbelievable deal at just £2.99
I have a confession to make. I didn’t buy Act’s one and only album Laughter, Tears and Rage at the time (1988). A strange thing to do (or not to do), since I was a big fan of anything ZTT and I did pick up their first single, Snobbery & Decay, in ’cabaret-cassette’ guise. Thinking back, that was probably more to do with keeping my ZTT cassette single collection up-to-date that any massive desire to investigate the new ‘group’ formed by Propaganda’s Claudia Brücken and Scottish musician/songwriter Thomas Leer. As it happens, three out of the four tracks on that tape make an appearance on Love & Hate – A Compact Introduction to Act, a new two-CD set from Salvo/Union Square and ZTT.
Continue reading “Review / Love & Hate: A Compact Introduction to Act”
