…contains 51 newly-mixed audio tracks, including 27 unreleased, live, extended, and previously unheard tracks.
“Welcome to one of the best origin stories in rock’n’roll: the long march from genesis to liftoff of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,” trumpets MOJO writer David Fricke’s essay in the beautifully illustrated and informative ‘zine-style guide that accompanies Origins’ 50-plus tracks and Blu-ray of the band’s BBC Old Grey Whistle Test performance. But the actual story is less a glory-bound forward march than a stop-start of slow-downs, double-backs and dead ends before a serendipitous reset. Save for the first two Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers albums not just in toto but with several tracks re-edited to run precious…
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Phil Lynott is best known to most as the frontman of Irish rockers Thin Lizzy, but now, 40 years after his death, his solo work is being celebrated with an 8CD box set called 
Ween is digging deep into its archives with Boognish Provides, a sprawling collection of seven previously unreleased concerts recorded during the band’s 
“How did all these people get in my room?” Frank Sinatra quipped when he strode onstage at The Sands’ Copa Room in January 1966 for his sold-out concerts, but, in truth, there was no doubt that it was Sinatra’s room. Las Vegas was his kind of town. Supported by Count Basie and His Orchestra under the baton of arranger-conductor Quincy Jones, the Chairman of the Board – who had recently turned 50 years old and entered the September of his years, was in his element. His electrifying shows were preserved on his very first live album, 
In 1988, The House of Love’s debut album arrived as a fully-formed piece of pop perfection, following two years of intensive writing, rehearsing and live performances. The Gift explores those two years, as the band leapt from the Camberwell squat scene into the centre of the UK’s indie world as it went overground.
Singer, songwriter, humanitarian, activist, poet, philosopher, artist… as the music legend Labi Siffre prepares to release his first album of new music in 28 years, Demon are making his stellar catalogue available again as vinyl reissues and 3CD sets.
…features 104 tracks, demos, outtakes, live performances, interviews, and other rare recordings half of which are previously unreleased.
Originally released in September 1996, ‘Coming Up’ represented the creative and commercial peak for a rejuvenated Suede… some debut indeed for new band members guitarist Richard Oakes and keyboardist Neil Codling. A UK No. 1 album which spent just shy of an entire year in the album chart, the vivid, electrifying ‘Coming Up’ spawned five UK Top 10 singles – ‘Trash’, ‘Beautiful Ones’, ‘Saturday Night’, ‘Lazy’ and ‘Filmstar’. Elsewhere, grimy glam stompers met elegiac ballads and stadium anthems… and 30 years on, ‘Coming Up’ still packs all its original punch.
1974-1977 brings together five CDs absolutely bursting with music covering the most overlooked, but arguably most pioneering, period of Marc Bolan’s glittering career. It rounds up the final three T. Rex studio albums – Bolan’s Zip Gun, Futuristic Dragon and Dandy in the Underworld – and a string of 10 peerless late-period singles (and B-sides) that included ‘New York City’, ‘Dreamy Lady’, ‘The Soul of My Suit’, and of course ‘I Love to Boogie’. Throughout the journey Marc’s restless muse and creative spark encompasses soul and R&B (‘Ride My Wheels’, ‘Dreamy Lady’), excursions into proto-glam metal (‘Zip Gun Boogie’, ‘The London Boys’) and nervy, spiky-sharp tracks (‘Think Zinc’, ‘Celebrate Summer’) that nod towards the punk explosion happening…
One aspect of the obsessive fascination surrounding Joy Division is the scarcity of their music. Though they were technically active under different band names as early as 1976, the finalized lineup of the group played under the name Joy Division for less than three years, becoming one of the most influential and game-changing entities to ever shift the tides with just two studio albums. In this brief time, the band played somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 or so live shows, which have also played into their legacy. Innumerable bootleg recordings and a smattering of above-board releases have cobbled together as much footage as possible of the band’s extremely limited time on stages, hoping to uncover a better picture of what made them so important.
The Frank Zappa estate have released a 60th anniversary super deluxe edition of his debut album with The Mothers Of Invention, 
The dawn of the British folk revival broke in 1965 when Bert Jansch’s “folk-baroque” finger style revolutionised tradition, providing the early morning light for a burgeoning psychedelic scene which, by 1972 had traveled from folk clubs to the high-concept landscapes of progressive rock, exemplified by the Eastern-tinged sitar-guitar on Yes’s ‘Siberian Khatru’.
In the decades leading up to its release there had been loads and more loads of excellent collections of girl group and related music that originated in the U.K., but Strawberry Records’ 2026 collection 
Cherry Red previously anthologized shoegaze and dream pop with the expansive multi-disc sets 
4CD sequel to 
…Four albums from the McAuley Schenker Group from the late ’80s and early ’90s. All with bonus material.