Archive for Box Sets

The short career of enigmatic Liverpool indie-pop act The La’s will be celebrated this spring with Callin’ All, a four-disc, 91-track box set that compiles singles, b-sides, unreleased outtakes and live material — and no fewer than six versions of ‘There She Goes,’ the band’s signature tune.

Black Francis has released his long-in-the-works project The Golem, a 4CD/1DVD set and 50-page book chronicling the score to the silent 1920 German expressionist film “Der Golem” that the Pixies frontman wrote for the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2008.

[tweetmeme]Mute Records is capitalizing on renewed interest in Nitzer Ebb — the reunited British EBM act has a new album out, and is touring with Depeche Mode once again — to release Compilation and Catalogue, two new multi-disc box sets that highlight the group’s past output.
Due out Jan. 25 in Europe, the five-disc Catalogue collects [...]

[tweetmeme]The Dukes of Stratosphear — the classic psychedelic-pop side project from XTC’s Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory — is repackaging its slim, yet beloved, discography next month in a “psumptuous” limited-edition box set called The Complete and Utter Dukes.
Enclosed in a purple velvet-lined box, the set — from Partridge’s Ape House Records — [...]

The late John Peel — the legendary BBC DJ who turned generations of music fans on to new and obscure bands during his nearly 40-year career — will be celebrated this fall with a 4CD, 73-track box set called Kats Karavan: The History of the John Peel Show that features 21 never-before-released recordings.

Legendary German electro pioneers Kraftwerk this fall will release newly remastered editions of eight of their classic albums — spanning 1974 to 2003 —  and also compile them in a special collector’s box set entitled 12345678 The Catalogue.
The nearly 40-year-old band — whose influence on past, present and future electronic music is simply without parallel [...]

Morrissey will release a pair of new limited-edition box sets this fall collecting reissued 7-inch singles spanning his initial solo foray in 1988 through his post-Vauxhall and I recordings in 1995.
The 10-record The 7″ Singles ‘88-’91 and the 9-record The HMV/Parlophone Singles ‘91-’95 will be released Oct. 12 and Nov. 2, respectively, according to reports [...]

Expanded box-set reissues of Bauhaus’ first two albums — In the Flat Field and Mask — will help inaugurate the new Beggars Archive series of back-catalog and archival releases from the venerable Beggars Banquet label.
In addition to those titles, Beggars plans to give the deluxe reissue treatment to the Pixies, The Fall, Gary Numan, The [...]

The Cult is reissuing its 1985 breakthrough album Love in two expanded editions this summer to coincide with its worldwide Love Live Tour, which kicks off in San Diego in August.
On Sept. 7 in Europe and Sept. 8 in the U.S. and Canada, Beggars Banquet will issue Love: Omnibus Edition, a limited-edition four-disc box set [...]

U2’s The Unforgettable Fire will be remastered and reissued in a “super deluxe” box set this October that will include “B-sides, rare and previously unreleased songs, and film and video footage.”
Oddly, news of the release — the sixth in the band’s ongoing catalog reissue campaign — came not via press release or posting on U2’s [...]