Bruce Springsteen has launched a new website which offer fans an opportunity to purchase live shows in a variety of formats.
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Deal alert / Velvet Underground 6-disc super deluxe box set
Out next monday, the six-disc Velvet Underground super deluxe edition box set has dropped to a price on Amazon UK that requires a will of steel to not pull the trigger and place an order.
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Grateful Dead / Dick's Picks Vol 14: Boston Music Hall 1973
More classic live Grateful Dead on the way with volume 14 of the long-running Dick’s Picks box sets due next month, with archivist Dick Latvala selecting highlights from two nights of a three-night stand at Boston Music Hall in 1973.
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Review: Todd Rundgren / At the BBC 1972-1982: 4-disc box set
Brent Keefe reviews the new Rundgren box set At the BBC 1972-1982.
When Esoteric announced they would be plundering the Todd Rundgren archive, promising some unreleased nuggets from the vaults, there was much excitement amongst Rundgren fans. However, the initial offerings, the reissue of the previously available (in Japan) and only marginally interesting Disco Jets, along with the Live At The Electric Ballroom 1978 show (which sounds like the compressed, pre-mixed radio broadcast that it is) were welcome, but somewhat disappointing. Only the excellent Live At The Warfield 1990 offset the disappointment.
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Deal alert / Cream: 6LP vinyl box set
The Cream six-LP vinyl box set is available for a bargain price on Amazon Italy.
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Out This Week / 17 November 2014
David Bowie / Nothing Has Changed (greatest hits)
The three-CD version of David Bowie‘s new hits collection remarkably spans 50 years, although the two-CD (pictured) and the double vinyl take slightly narrower view of his back catalogue. 
Bruce Springsteen / The Album Collection, Vol 1 (box set)
The first seven Bruce Springsteen albums remastered and repackaged in CD and LP boxes. We’re hearing great things about the remastering, particularly the early records.
Depeche Mode / Live in Berlin (5-disc box set)
Superb value for this 2CD+2DVD+blu-ray audio box which as well as audio and video of Depeche Mode Live in Berlin, includes a 5.1 hi-res surround mix of Delta Machine.
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Deal alert / The Who: Live in London
The Quadrophenia Live in London box was released in June this year and includes five discs: a blu-ray and DVD of the 2013 concert film (both in 5.1 surround sound audio) ; a two-CD soundtrack of the show; and a 5.1 surround sound mix of the entire 1973 Quadrophenia studio album on blu-ray audio. This superb set is now as cheap as we’ve seen it over at Amazon Germany where it’s much cheaper than the Amazon UK price!
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Manic Street Preachers / Holy Bible 20: five-disc deluxe box with vinyl
Next month the Manic Street Preachers will reissue their 1994 album The Holy Bible as a five-disc deluxe box that will include a vinyl pressing of the album – the first time it has been issued on LP since 1994 (when it was only released as a limited edition picture disc).
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Brian Eno / deluxe reissues
Brian Eno will soon issue expanded versions of four of his albums originally released in the 1990s
Nerve Net (1992), The Shutov Assembly (1992), Neroli (1993) and The Drop (1997) will each be reissued as a two-CD deluxe editions containing the original album and an additional disc of unreleased and rare Eno work specific to each record.
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Review: Wham! / The Final: Japanese K2HD mastered edition
As reported a few months back, amongst some recent releases in Japan comes this K2HD remastering of Wham!’s classic 1986 compilation The Final.
Although the album was effectively a greatest hits (released in May ’86 after just two studio long-players Fantastic and Make It Big) The Final has over the years been accorded almost a de facto ‘proper album’ status thanks to the inclusion of the duo’s last three singles; Last Christmas (late ’84), I’m Your Man (September ’85) and The Edge of Heaven (June 1986). None of those tracks had been on an official Wham! studio album at that point and the addition of new tracks Battlestations (the clearest indication which direction George would move with Faith) and Was (Not Was) cover Where Did Your Heart Go? only increased the appeal.
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Missed out on the Frankie box set? It’s available to pre-order now!
Update 14 November 2014: At the time of writing you can now order Inside The Pleasuredome via Amazon UK for a decent price. They will of course ship to the US and Japan etc. The JPC.de link is now not working as they seem to have stopped selling the box.
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Watch the video for David Bowie's “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)”
The video for David Bowie‘s new ‘single’, Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) has been made available. This track features on his new greatest hits collection Nothing Has Changed which is released next week.
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Frank Sinatra / London box set
A new four-disc box set featuring classic live sets by Frank Sinatra performed in London will be released next month.
Universal Muisc Enterprises have worked with Frank Sinatra Enterprises to create the appropriately titled London which focuses on projects from between 1953 and 1984, bringing to light more than 50 previously unreleased tracks.
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Roxy Music / Japanese SHM-SACDs
Roxy Music‘s eight studio albums will all being reissued in Japan early next year on the hi-res SHM-SACD format.
All the records – Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Country Life, Siren, Manifesto, Flesh And Blood, and Avalon – will feature the usual exacting mini-LP CD cardboard sleeve vinyl replica artwork, and an OBI strip will faithfully replicate the design from the original Japanese LP.
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Daft Punk: Alive 1997 / 2007 box
A box set containing new vinyl pressings of Daft Punk‘s two live albums Alive 1997 and Alive 2007 will be released in December.
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Four fab Beatles vinyl reissues
Universal Music and Apple Corps will reissue four classic Beatles compilations on vinyl later this month.
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Review: KISS / Love Gun deluxe
Graeme Piper reviews the Love Gun two-CD deluxe reissue from Kiss.
US clown white make-up icons, Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees and larger than life rock titans, KISS, are big business these days. Hitting their 40th Anniversary this year, playing in excess of 2,000 live shows and selling over 100m albums worldwide, they are currently ripping Las Vegas a new one in a month long residency at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino with their trademark bombastic live show. Not too shabby by any stretch of the studded codpiece.
Continuing to celebrate in style, Universal Music have just issued a Deluxe Edition of their multi-platinum album Love Gun. Originally released in 1977 when, after three years solid touring and recording, KISS had made themselves into larger than life superheroes and become the biggest rock band in America.
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The David Rhodes Band
Guitarist David Rhodes is probably best known as for his association with Peter Gabriel which goes back to the late 1970s. Before that he was in post-punk band Random Hold and over the years he has played guitar for many well known acts including Talk Talk, Roy Orbison and Blancmange.
This year he was part of The KT Fellowship (aka Kate Bush’s live band for her Before The Dawn shows) which was swiftly followed by a tour of Germany to support his most recent album The David Rhodes Band.
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FIRST PICTURES / Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair box set
Out today is the Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair six-disc super deluxe edition box set (along with other formats).
Especially for SDE readers, here is an exclusive photo gallery to give you a feel for this set. Each disc is packaged in a gatefold card wallet and period artwork and logos are present and correct. The box comes with a 28-page replica souvenir tour programme and a 32-page booklet with new interviews with the band and a full guide to the bonus tracks.
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Out This Week / 10 November 2014
Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair (reissue)
The highly anticipated six-disc super deluxe edition of Tears For Fears‘ 10-million selling Songs For The Big Chair ticks all the boxes; b-sides, remixes, live tracks, unreleased versions, radio sessions, videos, full length period documentary, TV Appearances, 5.1 surround mix, 2014 stereo mix and 8,000 words from the band themselves in the booklet. Do deluxe editions get any better?
Pink Floyd / The Endless River (various formats)
The latest (and last?) Pink Floyd album The Endless River is predominantly an instrumental affair and a tribute to keyboard player Rick Wright who died in 2008. It’s available in many formats and is apparently the most pre-ordered album in Amazon UK’s history.
Bryan Adams / Reckless (4-disc Super Deluxe Edition)
Bryan Adams‘ album from 1984 is packed with classic singles including Summer of ’69 and Run To You. This super deluxe includes seven previously unreleased demos, a BBC In Concert live recording from the era, a DVD with videos AND a blu-ray audio with a 5.1 surround sound mix.
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