Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ getting ‘Omnibus Edition’ reissue with new surround mix, demos

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The canonization of the Pixies’ beloved Doolittle continues with Beggars Archives’ just-announced plans to release an “Omnibus Edition” of the 1989 album, with a new surround mix, the record’s demos and possibly a Blu-ray included in the expanded box set.

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Expanded reissues of Buzzcocks’ first three albums to be released in U.S. next month

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[tweetmeme]The expanded 2CD reissues of the Buzzcocks’ first three albums — Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978), Love Bites (1978) and A Different Kind of Tension (1979) — that were released in the U.K. in 2008 will make a belated American appearance next month courtesy of Mute Records.
Due out Feb. 9, the three sets [...]

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Holiday Gift Guide: ’80s college rock CD and vinyl box sets, reissues, multi-disc sets

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[tweetmeme]For music fans of a certain stripe, Christmas — and its Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping splurges — is a great time of year: It’s when you get the people you love to buy you those pricey multi-disc box sets you couldn’t quite cough up for yourself during the year. Here at Slicing Up [...]

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Beggars prepping 3CD ‘Omnibus’ reissue of The Fall’s ‘This Nation’s Saving Grace’

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[tweetmeme]Beggars Archive this week offered the first details of its forthcoming “Omnibus Edition” reissue of The Fall’s beloved 1985 album This Nation’s Saving Grace, which will be re-released next year as a 3CD set filled out with mixes, outtakes and Peel Sessions tracks.
The imprint — a new series of back-catalog and archival releases from the [...]

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Quick Spins: Big Audio Dynamite, Bad Lieutenant, The Cult, Sonic Youth

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The expanded 2CD reissue of This is Big Audio Dynamite — the 1985 debut from Mick Jones’ post-Clash project, Big Audio Dynamite, which featured breakout singles “Medicine Show,” “E-MC2″ and “The Bottom Line”— was due to hit stores Tuesday, but now has been “bumped to 2010,” according to Sony/Legacy. No more specific date has [...]

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New releases: The Cult’s ‘Love’ reissued, Love and Rockets tribute album

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Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new albums, reissues and/or box sets due out Tuesday.
ARTIST: The Cult
RELEASE: Love: Expanded Edition
BACKSTORY: Beggars Archive releases a two-disc remastered edition of the band’s breakthrough 1985 album, featuring a second disc of B-sides and remixes from the record’s three singles (”She Sells Sanctuary,” “Rain” and “Revolution”). [...]

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Bauhaus, Pixies, The Fall up for ‘Omnibus’ reissues from new Beggars Archive imprint

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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 [...]

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The Cult’s ‘Love’ to be reissued in deluxe 4-disc ‘Omnibus’ box set in September

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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 [...]

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The Cult to perform 1985’s ‘Love’ on upcoming world tour

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Keeping in tune with the latest in concert fads, longtime UK rockers The Cult will perform their classic 1985 breakthrough Love in its entirety on a just-announced late-summer/fall trek aptly dubbed the Love Live World Tour.
The band —Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, plus assorted sidemen —promises a main set featuring the full album, including fan [...]

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