R.E.M celebrate anniversary of Out Of Time
To mark the 25th anniversary of Out Of Time, R.E.M. have announced a special celebratory edition for 18th November via Concord Bicycle. A 2 CD Set will include a remastered [...]
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The Magnetic Fields ready 69 Love Songs special edition
The Magnetic Fields (aka Stephin Merritt) reissue 69 Love Songs on vinyl on 28th October through Domino Records. The 6 x 10” vinyl box will include a full size 24-page [...]
Various – I’m A Freak, Baby: A Journey Through The British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground 1968-72
It was always there: the blues. Frustration. Angst. Paranoia. The bleaker edge of human experience expressed in song, expressed in sound. As 1967’s Summer of Love faded [...]
The Hollywood Brats – Sick On You
Scour the footnotes of that well-thumbed copy of The History of Rock ‘n Roll and you might – might – find reference to The Hollywood Brats, but more likely [...]
Kevin Shields remixes The Undertones
Union Square Music have announced new vinyl and digital releases of The Undertones‘ highly acclaimed first two albums: The Undertones and Hypnotised. Released on [...]
New box set marks 50th anniversary of Summer of Love
A new 4CD box set, Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds, collects 80 tracks recorded in the tumultuous year of 1967 as Britain fell under the spell of psychedelia. With [...]
Chapter & Verse – Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Dead musicians, eh? These figures that continue to dance around our lives, talking to us, playing on our screens – often they seem to be more in our thoughts than [...]
David Bowie falls to earth … again
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth, STUDIOCANAL have announced that a remastered version of the film will return to UK cinemas [...]
Scott Walker announces film soundtrack
4AD will release Scott Walker‘s orchestral soundtrack to Brady Corbet’s feature film The Childhood of A Leader on 19th August. It’s Walker’s first [...]
The Verve re-issue seminal albums
On 9th September, UMC are set to release expanded editions of The Verve‘s first two albums A Storm In Heaven and A Northern Soul. Both are re-mastered by Chris Potter [...]
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