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Bog Shed – The Official Bog-Set (2022)
Bog Shed sounded like electroshock therapy. The 1980s post-punk band jittered and flailed, its bass ramped to rattling speed, its singer prone to starting yelps and squeals, its lyrics surreal and...
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Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – Cookin’ With Jaws and the Queen: The Legendary...
Marking saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis’ centennial, the 2023 anthology Cookin’ with Jaws and the Queen: The Legendary Prestige Cookbook Albums spotlights the ebulliently earthy collaborations...
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Muslimgauze – The Extreme Years 1990-1994 (2022)
Bryn Jones was not a practicing Muslim and never went to the Middle East. His recordings as Muslimgauze, however, qualified him as one of the Western artists most explicitly slanted in his favor of...
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Fleetwood Mac – The Alternate Collection (2022)
This box set brings together alternative takes on five Fleetwood Mac albums (originally released individually and separately for Record Store Day) – Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk, Mirage and Tango In...
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VA – Steven Wilson Presents Intrigue: Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative...
Curated by Porcupine Tree guitarist Steven Wilson, the four-disc compilation Intrigue: Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979-89 tackles the entirety of the 1980s with the mission of exposing...
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Slave, Steve Arrington & Aurra – The Definitive Collection (2022)
The Definitive Collection compiles most of the charting singles and best album cuts released by Slave and the associated Aurra and Steve Arrington’s Hall of Fame (latterly Steve Arrington solo) from...
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Kansas – Another Fork in the Road: 50 Years of Kansas (2022)
On the occasion of their 50th anniversary as a band, Kansas celebrates their auspicious career with the release of Another Fork in the Road: 50 Years of Kansas. Featuring carefully-selected songs from...
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Humble Pie – The A&M Box Set 1970-1975 (2022)
…features remastered versions of ‘Humble Pie’ (1970), ‘Rock On’ (1971), ‘Performance Rockin’ the Fillmore’ (1971), ‘Smokin’ ‘(1972), ‘Eat It’ (1973), ‘Thunderbox’ (1974) and ‘Street Rats’ (1975). A...
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Marc Almond – A Live Treasury of Song 1992-2008 (2022)
An unprecedented 147 track Marc Almond live celebration! 73 of the tracks appearing on CD for the very first time as part of this unparalleled package of over 10 1/2 hours of music. From the day...
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Alhaji Waziri Oshomah – Vol. 1-5 (1978-1984) (2022)
In 2022, Luaka Bop released The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah as the third volume in its “World Spirituality Classics” series. It offered a career overview of one of Northern Nigeria’s...
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Wadada Leo Smith – String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (2022)
In the thirty-page booklet that accompanies Wadada Leo Smith’s String Quartets Nos. 1-12, the trumpeter & composer devotes a few paragraphs to the subject of inspiration. He traces an irregular...
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Freddie Hubbard – The Complete Freddie Hubbard Blue Note & Impulse ’60s...
Even if you own all 10 of the Freddie Hubbard albums covered on The Complete Freddie Hubbard Blue Note & Impulse ’60s Studio Sessions, the newly released seven-CD set from Mosaic Records, this box...
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The Strokes – The Singles: Volume 01 (2023)
The Strokes release The Singles – Volume 01, a box set collecting the group’s electrifying early singles set for release on RCA Records/Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music...
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VA – Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection (2023)
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic WATTSTAX event that took place at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum in 1972, Stax Records presents the most comprehensive collection of audio recordings from...
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Tony Rivers – Move In A Little Closer: The Complete Recordings 1963-1970 (2023)
As leader of The Castaways, he made a series of superlative singles before finally scoring a hit in 1969 with the irresistible ‘Move In A Little Closer Baby’ shortly after the band had been relaunched...
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Trapeze – Don’t Stop the Music: Complete Recordings, vol. 1, 1970-1992 (2023)
First three albums from Trapeze circa 1970-72, recorded for the Threshold label. Plus a previously unreleased 1973 live set recorded in Dallas, Texas, along with their intimate Borderline show from...
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Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – The Songs of Bacharach & Costello (Super...
Elvis Costello has sung jazz with The Charles Mingus Orchestra and pianist Marian McParland, explored hip-hop textures with The Roots, recorded with classical artists The Brodsky Quartet and Swedish...
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Genesis – BBC Broadcasts (2023)
Though the exhaustive archival work that accompanied Genesis’ 2007 touring did not extend to the group’s latest (and likely last) outing in 2021 and 2022, this year brings a new box set for fans of the...
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Ocean Colour Scene – Yesterday Today 1992-2018 (2023)
Demon Music kick off an Ocean Colour Scene reissue campaign with Yesterday Today 1992- 2018, a massive 15CD box set. The large format package Includes all 10 of their studio albums: Ocean Colour Scene...
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Dinosaur Jr. – Puke + Cry: The Sire Years 1990-1997 (2023)
When the original trio lineup of Dinosaur Jr. imploded in 1989, guitarist/vocalist J Mascis barely broke his stride when it came to continuing the progress the groundbreaking alt-rock group had been...
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