SDE is giving away a series of 2026 Record Store Day releases, all of which were featured in the recent unboxing video.
Titles up for grabs are as follows:
Pink Floyd / Live from the Los Angeles Sports Arena 4LP clear vinyl
John Lennon / Love Meditation Mixes 3LP iridescent vinyl
Cream / Wheels Of Fire 3LP black vinyl
Badfinger / No Dice orange vinyl
Thin Lizzy / Live in Cleveland 2LP clear vinyl
OMD / Archive Vol 1: 1981-1990 2LP black vinyl
Marc Bolan/T. Rex : Songs From Marc orange vinyl
Status Quo / Live at Hammersmith ’89 2LP red vinyl
Rainbow / In Concert 1976 3LP coloured vinyl
Ian Dury & The Blockheads / Live in London 1980 orange vinyl
Def Leppard 2LP violet vinyl
These are all unplayed, but were the actual ones used in the unboxing so all have been handled and are unsealed. They also may have had the hype stickers stuck on the rear or perhaps on an inner sleeve (or discarded completely). Just FYI!
To be in with a chance of winning, simply leave a comment below, naming the artist/title you would like to win. ONE title per person, please. The competition is open to all and will end at midnight BST on Sunday 26 April 2026. Eleven winners will be selected randomly and contacted for delivery details. We’ll send out your prize next week. Good luck!
Heaven 17/Penthouse and Pavement & The Luxury GapBlu-ray
The SDE Surround Series moves back to the 1980s with Heaven 17’s first two albums, Penthouse and Pavement (1981) and The Luxury Gap (1983), a pair of the most celebrated and influential albums from the early part of the decade. David Kosten has remixed both albums in Dolby Atmos, 5.1 and Stereo. Pre-orders ship this week and the remaining contingency stock is now available.
As people from the UK of a certain age may recall, ‘Izzy Wizzy Let’s Get Bizzy’ was the phrase that made the magic wand of glove puppet Sooty (from The Sooty Show) cast its spells (or something like that). The programme ran from 1955 to 1992 fronted initially by Harry Corbett and later his son, Matthew.
Anyway, much like Haines’ 2011 album 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s & Early ’80s which was concerned with wrestling, and wrestlers, on UK TV in the ’70s, this new album has a fascination with magic and magicians of British children’s TV of the 1960s and ’70s. It features 14 songs “that conjure up everyone from Mama Cass to Tommy Cooper, and Graham Bond to Mick Robertson via Magic Shops and The Omen 2”.
That’s all we know for now, but the wrestling album was great, so this sounds promising, and I like the cover. Izzy Wizzy Let’s Get Bizzy is out on 10 July 2026 via Cherry Red and Haines is touring the UK in September.
NOW That’s What I Call Music continue with their Yearbook Vault releases of ‘lesser compiled’ tracks with a look at 1985.
4CD and 3LP coloured vinyl collections dig deep into the year’s musical landscape – with 78 tracks on the CD editions and 45 songs across three coloured (green) vinyl LPs.
The 4CD set – which comes in the usual deluxe hardcover book and card sleeve editions opens with Bruce Springsteen’s ‘My Hometown’ – the last single from the mega-selling Born in the USA before moving on to Bryan Ferry and Sting with ‘Windswept’ and ‘Love is the Seventh Wave’. Both of those songs are classic Vault tracks: great tracks off classic albums (Boys and Girls and The Dream of the Blue Turtles, respectively) that peaked WAY short of where many assume they did (neither cracked the UK top 40). Go West’s ‘Eye to Eye’ was only a single in the US, while ABC’s ‘Be Near Me’ was released both sides of the Atlantic, but fared much better Stateside. This disc continues with offerings from Fine Young Cannibals, China Crisis, Simply Red, Thompson Twins and the Art of Noise.
Deluxe hardcover book 4CD set
The second disc has an ‘alternative’ flavour, at least initially, with songs from Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Dream Academy and New Model Army before widening it’s net and scoping up minor hits from the likes of Tina Turner, Matt Bianco, Chris Rea and Squeeze.
CD3 has a dance floor slant with tracks including Cameo’s brilliant ‘She’s Strange’, Sheryl Lee Ralph’s ‘In The Evening’, the Stock Aitken Waterman produced ‘The Heaven I Need’ by The Three Degrees and Divine’s cover of ‘Twisting The Night Away’. Elton John & Millie Jackson’s ‘Act of War’ is a very popular 12-inch at Den Bosch record fair (I’m always seeing it) but it was a minor hit a few years before ‘Nikita’ revived Reg’s commercial fortunes here in the UK.
CD 4 has the kind of artists you’d find on a compilation called ‘American Highway Dreams’ (Pat Benetar, Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, Kim Carnes, Dio, The Cars, Rick Springfield etc.), but since this is a Vault compilation it’s not all the usual big hits which at least means it’s not predictable
NOW Yearbook Vault ’85 will be released on 15 May 2026.
Madonna’s new studio album will be Confessions ll a follow-up to Confessions on a Dance Floor, which was released in late 2005.
Like its predecessor, this record is produced by Stuart Price and Madonna says “When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto”:
We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies. These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect
—with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits andconnecting to a community of like-minded people.
Sound, light, and vibration Reshape our perceptions Pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it.Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.
Quite. There’s a teaser trailer, which you can checkout below.
In terms of formats, the album will be available on single CD and single red vinyl editions which feature 12 tracks and are “non-stop mix” editions (which presumably means the tracks all segue). The CDs here are in a jewel case and the vinyl comes with a double-sided poster.
Then there are 16 track 2LP on pink vinyl and ‘softpack’ CDs which both feature 4 bonus tracks. It appears that these versions offer “12 individual songs” rather than the “non-stop mix” on the single discs. Certainly that’s how the spec reads to SDE at this point in time. The double vinyl includes a double-sided poster and an “exclusive numbered coat check” (which we think is a card ticket).
2LP pink vinyl features 16 tracks and comes with a poster and an exclusive ‘numbered coat check’
There is also a 16-track deluxe CD pocketed in a “unique 7 x 10.25 inch soft cover photo-book featuring exclusive images from the album’s photoshoot”. Additionally, a 16-track translucent pink cassette tape is being made available.
Most of the formats have different/alternate covers, making you wonder which, if any, is the ‘proper’ cover of the album. The main image on the post shows the cover of the 2LP and deluxe CD editions. Inevitably, there will be a plethora of coloured vinyl exclusives, most likely based on the single vinyl LP variant with the 12-track version of the album.
No tracklisting has yet been released and Confessions II will be released on 3 July via Warner Records. The pre-order links in the widgets below a very slow in coming through, but will update automatically.
Duran Duran will release a new single later this month, called Free to Love.
The song features their old mucker Nile Rodgers and will be released on 23 April on the eve of the band’s US/European/UK spring-summer tour which includes a 5 July headline at BST Hyde Park with the Scissor Sisters in support.
‘Free to Love’ appears to be a standalone single (most likely recorded a few years ago during the Danse Macabre sessions) and there’s no word of any physical release (Duran haven’t issued a CD single since 2007’s ‘Falling Down’).
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris/All The RoadrunningBlu-ray
Mark Knoplfer and Emmylou Harris’ rather wonderful collaborative 2006 album All The Roadrunning is reissued for its 20th anniversary on SDE exclusive blu-ray. As usual, there’s a small amount available on the week of release.
A 3CD+blu-rayMotörhead deluxe set with brand new Steven Wilson remix of the original album, extensive recording session outtakes remixed by Richard Digby Smith and blu-ray with an Atmos Mix.
I’m in the Netherlands this weekend – the city of Den Bosch to be precise – to attend the 62nd “Mega Record & CD Fair“. There won’t be updates here, but if you follow SDE on instagram I’ll be posting there showing off some of what’s available and at what prices and hopefully giving you a flavour of the event. If you are there and you see me, come and say hello!
Pink Floyd will release a new ‘best of’ compilation in June, called 8-Tracks.
As the title suggests, this collection features eight songs, all selected from the band’s 1971 – 1979 era. These include ‘Money’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2’, ‘Time’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’, alongside earlier cuts in ‘One Of These Days’ and ‘Wot’s… Uh The Deal’. There is one rarity: the full version of ‘Pigs On The Wing’, with the Snowy White guitar solo, previously only available on the 8-track cartridge version of Animals, released in 1977.
Also, the track sequence has been edited by Steven Wilson using sound effects sourced from the original multitracks to make for a continuous listening experience in “classic Floydian style”. To allow for this Wilson accessed the original multitracks to lift out some of the sound effects to create crossfades between the tracks. This approach may or may not prove controversial, but at least they are doing something a bit different.
8-Tracks will be released on black vinyl, blue vinyl and CD (but not 8-track cartridge, unless we have a ‘surprise’ D2C product coming later) on 5 June 2026, via Sony.
The pre-order window for the Roxy MusicFlesh + Blood SDE exclusive blu-ray closes today. It’s #62 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series.
The band’s seventh studio album was a significant commercial success, reaching No 1 on the UK albums chart and enjoying two top 10 hit singles in ‘Over You‘ and ‘Oh Yeah‘. Third single ‘Same Old Scene‘ reached No 12 in Britain and Wilson Pickett cover ‘In The Midnight Hour’ was released as a single in the US.
This region-free blu-ray audio features a brand new 2026Dolby Atmos Mix, by Bob Clearmountain, who worked alongside original album co-producer Rhett Davies to create this immersive mix. It also includes a 5.1 Mix and the entire album in instrumental form, in Dolby Atmos, the first time Roxy Music have made available an instrumental version of any of their albums to be released. The original 1980 mix also features, remastered for 2026.
Audio streams on the Flesh + Blood SDE exclusive blu-ray:
The blu-ray comes packaged in the same deluxe hardcover mediabook packaging used for the Roxy Music’s Avalon and as ever, Flesh + Blood ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
Dolby Atmos Mixes on blu-ray offer much higher quality than their streaming counterparts – they are not compressed as on streaming platforms. Encoded in Dolby TrueHD Atmos it has a bit rate 10 times higher (up to 8000 kbits/s) than streaming’s Dolby Digital Plus (768 kbits/s).
Flesh + Blood will released on blu-ray on 10 July 2026 (was 19 June), via UMR. The pre-order window closes at midnight GMT tonight – 8 April 2026. Availability after today cannot be guaranteed.
Secure your copy of this SDE exclusive blu-ray of Flesh + Blood by using this SDE shop link or the button below.
Tracklisting
Flesh + BloodRoxy Music/SDE exclusive blu-ray audio
Sony are releasing Bruce Springsteen’s ‘homecoming’ performance in Asbury Park that formed part of the Sea.Hear.Now festival back in 2024.
The set runs for over three hours and is presented across three CDs as Live From Asbury Park 2024. There are no other physical formats, apart from a 5LP RSD edition. Springsteen performed to 35,000 fans with the E-Street Band and played 29 songs that spanned his entire catalogue.
Live From Asbury Park 2024 will be released on 29 May 2026, via Sony Music.
Watch as SDEtv unboxes the recent Aerosmith vinyl super deluxe edition box set. This version of the reissue is D2C only and was released in late March. Links for other versions are below.
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Aerosmith
Aerosmith - 4LP deluxe edition - not the one in the video
Duran Duran/'The Wedding Album' and 'Thank You'Vinyl
Duran Duran’s 1990s album Duran Duran aka ‘The Wedding Album’ and Thank You are to be reissued on vinyl for the first time since their original release.
Cooking Vinyl has announced a standalone blu-ray audio edition of The Alan Parsons Project’s 1982 album Eye in the Sky.
The blu-ray features a brand new 2026Dolby Atmos MixbyAlan Parsons as well as the 5.1 Surround Mix from 2017 (also by Parsons – it won a Grammy!) and a hi-res (96/24) stereo remaster by Miles Showell.
Eye In The Sky was The Alan Parsons Project’s sixth studio album. It was Grammy nominated, selling in excess of two million copies and like other Alan Parsons Project albums, there were a variety of different lead vocalists employed including Chris Rainbow, Colin Blunstone, Lenny Zakatek, Elmer Gantry as well as Eric Woolfson himself. Session musicians included guitarists Ian Bairnson and David Paton and drummer Stuart Elliott (arrangements were by Andrew Powell).
Audio streams on the blu-ray
2026 Dolby Atmos Mix by Alan Parsons (48/24)
5.1 Mix of original album by Alan Parsons (96/24)
Stereo HD Remaster by Miles Showell (96/24)
The 16-page booklet that comes with this blu-ray contains lyrics and Alan Parsons’ thoughts on his Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes.
Eye in the Sky blu-ray will be released on 15 May 2026. Pre-order your copy from the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
Tracklisting
Eye in the SkyThe Alan Parsons Project/Blu-ray Audio
Eye In The Sky In Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound and Hi-Res Stereo
NOW Music pulls on the flares and dons a ‘kipper’ tie as it heads back to the 1970s with its Yearbook series for a thorough musical examination of 1972.
4CD editions (the usual deluxe hardcover book and standard card sleeve sets) include 80 tracks and a blue vinyl 3LP version offers 50.
In terms of the 4CD version disc one offers tracks from John Lennon, Rod Stewart, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney and Wings, Harry Nilsson, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and more.
CD 2 goes Glam/Art-rock with contributions from Roxy Music, Sweet, Slade, Alice Cooper, and Mott The Hoople but also includes songs by Jeff Beck, Argent, Free, ELO, Hawkwind and ends with a certain novelty hit from Chuck Berry.
4CD deluxe edition
Disc three opens in style with Shirley Bassey’s Bond theme ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, and embraces an easy listening vibe with numbers from Andy Williams and Tony Christie (the original release of ‘Is This The Way To) Amarillo’). Soul is represented by The Stylistics, Diana Ross, Jackson 5, The O’Jays and more. The CD closes with Sly & The Family Stone’s ‘Family Affair’.
The fourth and final CD offers more Elton, Rod Stewart (via his vocal on Python Lee Jackson’s ‘In A Broken Dream – featured memorably on the soundtrack to Lars Von Trier’s 1996 film Breaking The Waves), Sweet, Elvis and Don McLean and features The New Seekers’ ‘I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing’.
Everything But The Girl/Eden and Amplified HeartCD
Everything But The Girl offer expanded CD editions of two key albums – their 1984 debut Eden and the million-selling Amplified Heart, from a decade later.
A “definitive” collection of work by the late, great Ryuichi Sakamoto. This anthology brings together iconic film scores, Yellow Magic Orchestra classics, and more. Featured tracks include ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’, ‘Andata’, and ‘Aqua’, alongside never-before-released pieces including ‘for Jóhann’ (a tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson), ‘BB’ (dedicated to Bernardo Bertolucci), and ‘20180219’ (featuring prepared piano). Also available as a 4LP vinyl box, these are far from cheap but the presentation sounds good. The vinyl box comes in a “hand-crafted textured slipcase” with elegant black foil detailing while the CD edition is a deluxe six-panel digipak constructed from premium black stock with black foil stamping and silver text.
t.A.T.u. / All The Things She Said (12-inch picture disc)
Number one in the UK 24 years ago, t.A.T.u.’sAll The Things She Said is reissued (and remixed) for this 12-inch picture disc. If you are wondering why, it’s because the song features in the HBO Max TV Series Heated Rivalry.
Pink Floyd’s 1975 concert at the Los Angeles Sports Arena was first released on blu-ray last year on the Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary reissue. It’s soon to come out on vinyl, via the previously announced 4LP set for Record Store Day but is now confirmed as a 2CD set in late April.
The performance was never professionally recorded so the origins of this recording is via the late bootlegger Mike “Mike the Mic” Millard, whose tapes from concerts across Los Angeles in the 1970s became renowned for their surprisingly clear sound quality. To conceal his recording equipment from venue security, Millard would often pretend to be disabled and arrive to concerts in a wheelchair.
The performance opened with early versions of songs initially titled as ‘Raving and Drooling’ and ‘You’ve Got To Be Crazy’, which later evolved into ‘Sheep’ and ‘Dogs’ which ended up on Animals. ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ in its two parts bookended another new composition, ‘Have A Cigar’. Following these new compositions, the band performed The Dark Side of The Moon in full, with ‘Echoes’ as an encore.
Meticulously restored and remastered by Steven Wilson, this is as good as it’s going to get in terms of a live recording of Pink Floyd’s 1975 tour.
The 4LP clear vinyl edition is released on Record Store Day on 18 April, and the 2CD edition is released six days later on 24 April 2026.
