Category: Reissues

The Jam’s ‘The Gift’ to be reissued in 30th anniversary box set — submit your photos

The Jam’s ‘The Gift’ to be reissued in 30th anniversary box set — submit your photos

Universal Music is planning a 30th anniversary box set of The Jam’s chart-topping 1982 album The Gift — featuring one of Paul Weller and Co.’s best-known singles, “Town Called Malice” — and is asking fans to submit memorabilia such as “photos, tour tickets, posters or newspaper articles” for inclusion in the reissue.

INXS’ ‘Kick’ to receive expanded 3CD/1DVD 25th anniversary reissue with ‘unheard tracks’

INXS’ ‘Kick’ to receive expanded 3CD/1DVD 25th anniversary reissue with ‘unheard tracks’

INXS’ 1987 album ‘Kick’ sold 6 million copies and spawned four Top 10 singles in the U.S., turning the Aussie rockers into global superstars. Now, 25 years later, the band this fall will release an expanded edition of the album featuring three CDs and a DVD packed with remixes, demos, “unheard tracks” and a documentary.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood ‘Sexmix’ compiles ‘studio adventures,’ 16-minute mix of ‘Relax’

Frankie Goes to Hollywood ‘Sexmix’ compiles ‘studio adventures,’ 16-minute mix of ‘Relax’

ZTT Records next month will issue a new 2CD Frankie Goes to Hollywood compilation entitled Sexmix: Archive Tapes and Studio Adventures, Volume 1 that, as its name implies, pulls together “hundreds of miles of reels of tape, remixes, editions, edits and experiments” generated during the group’s “imperial reign” from 1983 to 1987.

Sex Pistols’ ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ to be reissued in 4CD ‘super deluxe’ box set

Sex Pistols’ ‘Never Mind the Bollocks’ to be reissued in 4CD ‘super deluxe’ box set

The Sex Pistols only released a single studio album during their short initial career, but it’s certainly a landmark — and, fittingly, Universal Music this fall will commemorate the 35th anniversary of ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’ by turning that 11-track album into a four-disc ‘super deluxe’ box set.

Ministry’s ‘With Sympathy’ expanded reissue finally due to be released?

Ministry’s ‘With Sympathy’ expanded reissue finally due to be released?

Al Jourgensen’s reactivated Ministry currently is in the midst of a short U.S. comeback tour, but could the band’s much-loved — and, famously, much-hated by Jourgensen himself — 1983 synthpop debut ‘With Sympathy’ finally be receiving the expanded reissue that was first set for release back in 2008?

The Birthday Party’s ‘Junk Yard’ to be reissued in special 12-inch/7-inch/CD set

The Birthday Party’s ‘Junk Yard’ to be reissued in special 12-inch/7-inch/CD set

4AD and reissue imprint Beggars Archive this week announced a new special-edition 30th anniversary reissue of ‘Junk Yard,’ the second album from Nick Cave’s pre-Bad Seeds outfit The Birthday Party. The set will feature the album on 12-inch, the ‘Release the Bats’ single on 7-inch and a CD combining both.

Jimmy Somerville’s Bronski Beat, Communards catalog reissued as 2CD sets

Jimmy Somerville’s Bronski Beat, Communards catalog reissued as 2CD sets

Jimmy Somerville’s three mid-’80s studio albums with synthpop groups Bronski Beat and the Communards each will be reissued this summer as expanded double-disc sets loaded with a host of B-sides, remixes, live tracks and more — with some of the material making its way to CD for the first time ever.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce final 3 reissues with 5.1 Surround, bonus material

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds announce final 3 reissues with 5.1 Surround, bonus material

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will close out their reissue series by releasing expanded CD/DVD editions of the band’s three most recent albums — 2003’s ‘Nocturama,’ 2004’s ‘Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus’ and 2008’s ‘Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!’ — this summer, with each featuring a new 5.1 Surround Sound mix.

Peter Gabriel announces ‘So’ box set reissue, North American ‘Back to Front’ tour

Peter Gabriel announces ‘So’ box set reissue, North American ‘Back to Front’ tour

Peter Gabriel will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his classic ‘So’ album with a deluxe multi-format reissue plus a 13-date North American tour dubbed “Back to Front,” which will find him performing the album start to finish backed by members of the same band he originally toured the album with.

Merge to reissue Bob Mould’s Sugar catalog in U.S. — download 3 free live MP3s

Merge to reissue Bob Mould’s Sugar catalog in U.S. — download 3 free live MP3s

With expanded reissues of Sugar’s catalog — 1992′s landmark ‘Copper Blue,’ the 1993 companion EP ‘Beaster’ and 1994 sophomore album ‘File Under: Easy Listening’ — coming out over the next few weeks in the U.K., Merge Records has announced it will release trimmed-down versions in the U.S. later this summer.

Skin Yard — proto-grunge act on ‘Deep Six’ comp — remasters catalog for digital release

Skin Yard — proto-grunge act on ‘Deep Six’ comp — remasters catalog for digital release

Seattle proto-grunge rockers Skin Yard — whose members included Jack Endino, producer of Nirvana’s ‘Bleach,’ and future Soundgarden and Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron — this month reissued most of its catalog digitally, with each record remastered and one, 1990’s ‘Fist Sized Chunks,’ remixed.

Bob Mould: Triple-disc reissue, ‘Copper Blue’ in Milwaukee, Amendment One protest gig

Bob Mould: Triple-disc reissue, ‘Copper Blue’ in Milwaukee, Amendment One protest gig

Demon Music Group this summer will reissue two of Bob Mould’s ’90s solo albums with a live disc, Mould will perform Sugar’s ‘Copper Blue’ at Milwaukee’s Summerfest, and he’ll headline a benefit concert in North Carolina this week to help defeat a measure that would prohibit recognition of same-sex marriages.

My Bloody Valentine releases possible photographic evidence of alleged reissues

My Bloody Valentine releases possible photographic evidence of alleged reissues

With My Bloody Valentine’s reissues now due out in a little more than a week, Sony today offered up the first photographic evidence of their existence, posting photos of the what purports to be the packaging of the two reissues and the new ‘EPs 1988-1991’ compilation on the band’s Facebook page.