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Five Star – Luxury: The Definitive Anthology 1984-1991 (2018)
Five Star were managed by their Father, Buster Pearson who harboured the idea that his talented children could be the UK’s 1980s version of an older Jackson 5. Following an appearance on BBC One’s...
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VA – C89 (2018)
C86 was a compilation of UK indie bands given away with the July 1986 issue of NME, and although its collection of performers demonstrated a wide swath of the assorted scenes brewing the time, the...
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Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp – Oneness (2018)
Taking a page from Matthew Shipp‘s playbook, Ivo Perelman declared the duo’s latest release Oneness to be their last. After 2017’s The Art Of Perelman-Shipp series and their stellar duo recording Live...
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UK Subs – The Albums Volume 1 A-M (2018)
English Punk Band U.K. SUBS celebrate their 40th anniversary with a pair of box sets that will round up all 26 of their albums with associated singles and B-sides. The band set out in 1979 to release...
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Woolly Wolstenholme (& Maestoso) – Strange Worlds: A Collection 1980 – 2010...
Esoteric Recordings release Strange Worlds: A Collection 1980 – 2010, a 7CD clamshell box comprising every solo album by Barclay James Harvest founder Woolly Wolstenholme and his band Maestoso....
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Jan Akkerman – The Complete Jan Akkerman (2018)
The Complete Jan Akkerman is a new 26 CD box set which brings together all the studio albums (and more) of Dutch guitar legend Jan Akkerman, who found international success with the band Focus. The...
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VA – John Zorn: The Book Beri’ah (2018)
The Book Beri’ah is the final 92 compositions from Zorn’s Masada cycle. It’s coming in a limited edition box set of 11 CDs. CD1: Keter – SOFIA REI CD2: Chokhma – CLERIC CD3: Binah – SPIKE ORCHESTRA...
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Grateful Dead – Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings (2018)
The Pacific Northwest offers up a rich feast of land, sky, and water. It is ripe with influences, abundant with symbols, deep and spirited. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the Grateful...
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Bert Jansch – A Man I’d Rather Be (Part 1) (2018)
North London’s Earth Recordings has, in a very short time, become one of the premier reissue labels for its quality packages. A Man I’d Rather Be, Pt. 1 is actually their third Bert Jansch archival...
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Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – Where the Shark Bubbles Blow:...
Where the Shark Bubbles Blow: Classic Broadcasts 68-75 limited edition 5cd/booklet clamshell box set. Sourced and mastered radio broadcast live material, spanning the years 1968-1975. The recordings...
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Planet Jarre: 50 Years of Music [Deluxe Edition] (2018)
Sony release Planet Jarre, a 50th anniversary Jean Michel Jarre anthology. This new set features 41 works “hand-picked” by Jarre himself and re-mastered to deliver what the label describes as “a new...
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UK Subs – The Albums Volume 2 N-Z (2018)
English Punk Band U.K. Subs are celebrating their 40th anniversary with a pair of box sets that will round up all 26 of their albums with associated singles and B-sides. Volume two is also a 15CD set,...
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Soft Cell – Keychains & Snowstorms: The Soft Cell Story (2018)
Seminal electronic duo Soft Cell featuring Marc Almond and Dave Ball celebrate their 40th year in 2018 with the release of their anthology through UMG. Entitled Keychains & Snowstorms: The Soft...
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Angelic Upstarts – The Albums 1979-82 (2018)
Boxset which includes the first five albums released by the Angelic Upstarts, originally issued by Warners and EMI/Zonophone. Although viewed as latecomers by the trendies and most of the music press...
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VA – Battleground Korea: Sounds and Songs of America’s Forgotten War (2018)
Where previous Bear Family box sets found new ways to anthologize familiar pop culture subjects, like the Vietnam War (Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record 1961-2008) or the Cold War (Atomic...
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – An American Treasure [Deluxe Edition] (2018)
An American Treasure, the first posthumous Tom Petty project, is designed as an aural biography of the late rocker, telling a tale that begins with a Mudcrutch session from 1974, running through the...
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The House of Love – The House of Love: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2018)
A three-CD deluxe edition of The House of Love‘s debut album was reissued back in 2012 but now Cherry Red go two better by issuing a five-disc 30th anniversary set. This new package is said to offer...
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Phil Collins – Plays Well With Others (2018)
Rhino release a new four-CD box set that shines a light on the collaborative work of Phil Collins. Plays Well With Others features an incredibly broad array of music from a diverse range of artists...
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Joe Strummer - 001 (2018)
Few bands in the history of rock & roll left behind as powerful a legacy as the Clash, and no one in that group symbolized passion and belief like singer, guitarist, and songwriter Joe Strummer....
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Gussie Clarke – Dub Anthology (2018)
Augustus “Gussie” Clarke is one of a handful of committed individuals who have largely determined the state of Jamaica’s contemporary music industry. Very much a behind-the-scenes figure, Gussie’s...
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