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The Long Ryders – Final Wild Songs (2016)
The Long Ryders were the Odd Men Out in the Paisley Underground scene that briefly held sway over Los Angeles in the ’80s. Like their peers, they felt a very personal connection with the music of the...
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VA – Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995 (2016)
Let’s get this out of the way at the beginning. Telling the story of the overdriven, dreamlike sound of shoegaze without including a song by My Bloody Valentine is like The Great Gatsby without Gatsby...
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Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook – The Dark Side of the Moog, vol. 1-4 (2016)
Peter Kuhlmann, the artist best known as Pete Namlook who passed away in 2012, was very prolific on his own and alongside many others, including Biosphere, Richie Hawtin and Move D. His work with Klaus...
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Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love – Candy (2015)
Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love have played together in bands like The Thing, The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet and Two Bands and a Legend since 2000 – but in 2007 they started playing as a duo as...
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John Williams – Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection (2016)
With the mammoth cultural fanfare surrounding the release of The Force Awakens, the timing for a massive reissue was a good idea. Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Collection is a monster: 11 discs...
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VA – 20 Years of Henry Street Music: The Definitive Collection (2015)
Physical copies of Henry Street Music: The Definitive Collection were rather compact, perhaps a bit unassuming considering the set’s scope, but its outer shell holds five discs, or well over 50 cuts...
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Ride – Original Album Series (2016)
Ride have released a 5CD boxset including their 4 studios plus Smile, a compilation of Ride’s first two EPs, Ride and Play, both of which were originally released in the first half of 1990. First up,...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Classic Album Selection Volume One (2016)
Classic Album Selection Volume One is a new six-CD Siouxsie and the Banshees collection released in celebration of their 40th Anniversary. This set gathers the band’s first five (The Scream, Join...
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The Cars – The Elektra Years 1978-1987 (2016)
It was the height of disco, the era of Saturday Night Fever and other mega blockbuster film and soundtrack tie-ins like Grease. Yet somehow the Cars managed to gain a toe hold on the charts with their...
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Boris & Merzbow – Gensho [Expanded Edition] (2016)
Expanded edition includes two bonus discs featuring a concert held in November 2015 in Tokyo. Depending on how one counts, Gensho marks the sixth collaboration between Japan’s consummate heavy rock...
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Pere Ubu – Architecture of Language 1979-1982 (2016)
Architecture of Language 1979-1982 is the second in a series of box sets planned by Fire Records that should see the whole of Pere Ubu’s collected works made available again. This project is one of the...
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Todd Rundgren – The Complete Bearsville Album Collection (2016)
Todd Rundgren is the subject of a 13-disc box set containing the records he released between 1970 and 1982. The Complete Bearsville Albums Collection contains the work he did with the label following...
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The End – From Beginning To End…1964-1970 (2015)
In 1965 The End arose from the glowing embers of the earlier Tuxedos, Innocents and Original Topics, and like many of their contemporaries evolved into a psychedelic group. Along the way, they won the...
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Snarky Puppy – World Tour 2015 [Collector’s Edition Box Set] (2015)
Fusion-influenced jam band Snarky Puppy make exploratory jazz, rock, and funk. Formed in Denton, Texas in 2004, Snarky Puppy feature a wide-ranging group of musicians known affectionately as “The...
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Moderat – III [3CD Box Set] (2016)
What, exactly, traumatized Moderat so badly during their first recording sessions that they named their 2003 EP the German equivalent of “At the Cost of Health,” and then took six years to follow it...
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VA – Dust On the Nettles: A Journey Through the British Underground Folk...
This richly realized collection from the Cherry Red label’s psych/garage imprint Grapefruit offers up three heaping discs worth of British folk from its late-’60s and early-’70s heyday. The scene’s...
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Carpenters – The Complete Singles (2015)
On November 5, 1969, the very first single by Carpenters was released on A&M Records. “Ticket to Ride” b/w “Your Wonderful Parade” announced the fresh talents of Richard Carpenter, 23, and Karen...
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VA – 19 (2016)
Promo-only 4CD set covering the years 1961-2000 from Numero Group’s catalog. “This four-CD set compiles highlights, lowlights, and odd lights from the Numero Group’s sprawling collection of songs...
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Todd Rundgren – Box O’Todd (2016)
3-CD set Box O’ Todd draws exclusively on radio broadcasts of Rundgren’s early years, with concerts from 1971, 1972 and 1973. (Unlike the broadcast releases proliferating from countless labels in...
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VA – Various Auras: A Bird’s-Eye View Into A Machiavellian World of Secrecy...
Hospital Productions parade a rogues gallery of extreme souls commissioned to compose original, durational ambient pieces in opposition to contemporary definitions of that sound. The term ‘ambient’ is...
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