The Cure’s 1990 remix compilation is reissued on CD and vinyl. New ‘Torn Down’ mixes issued separately on half-speed mastered vinyl and the 3CD set features Torn Down and an exclusive bonus disc of remixes. 
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Congratulations to SDE reader David Algranti who was randomly selected as the winner of the Black Box Recorder Life Is Unfair 4CD+DVD box set.
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UK: Manic Street Preachers / Everything Must Go 20 2CD deluxe – £3.99
Features Live at Nynex on CD 2 which isn’t in the box set!
In August, Mute Records will issue two new Depeche Mode vinyl box sets that feature the 12-inch singles issued for their first two albums, Speak & Spell and A Broken Frame.
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Surprisingly, despite the lavishness of U2‘s 2011 reissue of Achtung Baby (five physical formats, including vinyl box, super deluxe and uber deluxe editions) there was no straightforward and affordable just-the-album-on-vinyl re-release of the 1991 long-player. That has now been corrected and a vinyl edition will be issued in July.
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To mark Roger Waters‘ Us and Them Tour, Sony are issuing a special numbered and limited green vinyl edition of Is This The Life We Really Want? – one of SDE’s favourite album of 2017.
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English singer-songwriter and guitarist Anna Calvi will issue her third album, Hunter, in August.
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Parlophone will issue This Is Morrissey, a new single-disc Morrissey compilation in July.
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‘Things’ are happening in the Paul McCartney camp right now that suggest some kind of announcement – likely to be news of the release of Macca’s 17th solo studio album – is imminent.
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As Nick Mason prepares to take his new band (Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets) on the road, a new pithily titled box set, Unattended Luggage, brings together his three solo albums, which were all originally issued in the 1980s.
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A frontman announcing the recent death of a loved one isn’t the most conventional way to open a concert, but that’s the unfortunate situation forced upon a bereaved Matt Johnson last week as he kicked off a series of The The concerts in London last week with a date at the Royal Albert Hall.
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a-ha‘s stunning debut album Hunting High and Low will be reissued on a clear vinyl pressing.
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The Time‘s third album Ice Cream Castle will be reissued on ‘Neapolitan’ coloured vinyl in July.
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Yes‘ big selling 90125 album will be reissued on ‘tri-coloured’ vinyl in July. continue reading »
Rhino have created a new compilation of New Wave Hits for their Back to the 80s vinyl reissue campaign and this 10-track compilation will be pressed on blue/red ‘swirl’ vinyl.
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Mammoth Rolling Stones set which includes every studio album from 1971’s Sticky Fingers to 2016’s Blue & Lonesome as half-speed mastered pressings. Also comes with a card for ‘HD digital redemption’.
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UK: Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair vinyl LP – £7.99
Rhino are about to kick off a summer vinyl soundtrack campaign with many classic and cult film soundtracks issued on 140g vinyl, some of them in desirable coloured vinyl pressings.
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Parlophone will no longer replace copies of David Bowie‘s 1977 album Heroes, which suffer from the ‘loss of energy’ issue on the title track, that are included in the A New Career In A New Town box set.
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