Four decades after their brief but pivotal run of success on each side of the Atlantic in the mid-to-late ’80s, Fine Young Cannibals come back for a few more bites in the form of a sprawling compilation/box set.
Arriving from London Records, FYC40 reintroduce audiences to the Birmingham trio behind “Johnny Come Home,” “She Drives Me Crazy” and “Good Thing” on a multi-disc set. The most comprehensive version spans four CDs and a DVD, offering expanded editions of 1985’s Fine Young Cannibals and 1989’s The Raw & The Cooked, B-sides, remixes, music videos and live performances. (These are, of course, different track lists than the 2CD expansions of both albums issued in 2020.) Nine of the tracks, including…
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Available on vinyl, digital and compact disc formats for successive late 2025 Record Store Days, Warren Zevon’s final live performance, recorded Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, joins 1980’s Stand in the Fire (issued in expanded form twice) and 1993’s Learning to Flinch, as sterling examples of how the late singer/songwriter so artfully transposed the unique traits of his original material to the concert stage.
…20-track overview of funk-rock combo War’s earliest recordings with British rocker Eric Burdon of The Animals. It includes three unreleased tracks, including an unedited remix of this iteration’s biggest hit, “Spill the Wine.”
Memento Mori: Mexico City is the counterpart to Fernando Frias’s Depeche Mode: M, an artistic endeavour of a film that explores the music of Depeche Mode and the profound appreciation of death that permeates Mexican culture. Interspersed with poetry, Mexican legends and stirring sequences that ruminate on mortality and impermanence, Depeche Mode: M documented Dave Gahan and Martin Gore’s series of concerts at Mexico’s enormous Foro Sol Stadium in 2023.
…a fully remastered digital version. The digital release include the bonus track “St. Charlene,” a tune from the ‘Rabbit Songs’ era that previously was found only on a hard-to-find EP.
…features the remastered original stereo mix, along with an extended introduction version of ‘Rubycon’ mixed by Steven Wilson. The set also features the complete concert recorded at The Rainbow in London in October 1974 over 2 CDs and the complete concert at The Royal Albert Hall in April 1975 (which featured Michael Hoening replacing Peter Baumann) also over 2CDs.
…remastered from the original analog tapes by Pete Lyman at Nashville’s Infrasonic Sound, the first time those tapes have been touched in 40 years, and restored and digitized by Dan Johnson at Audio Archiving Services.
The album features the film’s original songs by the post-punk band Idles, as well as the movie’s original score composed by Rob Simonsen (Deadpool & Wolverine, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Way Back, It Ends with Us, The Age of Adaline, (500) Days of Summer, Nerve, Foxcatcher) and performed by Idles. The soundtrack will released digitally by Pertoza/Partisan Records. As previously reported, a first song (Rabbit Run) has already been released as a digital single last month.
The Paris show from June 1976 had never been officially released in full before, so having a polished, band-sanctioned video of it, from the heyday of the band’s European 1976 tour, is a major archival win.
Live God is the new live album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. It’s a stunning testament to the transcendent Wild God Tour, which wowed audiences across the UK, Europe and North America, and which travels to Australia and New Zealand in 2026.
Ah, Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 — a classic compilation. Released in 2009 by Soundway Records, it’s an epic five-LP set held in the highest esteem by those among us whose attention was caught by the fiery sounds of old West African music. Sixteen years later, the label is giving the album a second life by whittling it down into a lean 10-song suite titled 
…Intrada has prepped one of the most notable as-yet unreleased scores by composer James Newton Howard: his 1990 work for the sci-fi drama Flatliners. It’s a score that has deserved a release for the past 35 years and one of the last major Howard scores to have never been released in any format. It’s a massive work, composed for large orchestra and chorus. Befitting the hyperreal style of the film, the composer tackles big ideas like spirituality and religion head on, with a score as grand as the themes suggest. As Howard recalls, “Some memories I have were having a 90-piece orchestra for the first time to do whatever I wanted and bringing in all kinds of different electronics and sampled stuff, including a specific ‘monkey chant’ from Bali. The main idea for…
35th Anniversary reissue of Oscar-winning composer Maurice Jarre’s original motion picture score to the 1990 thriller ‘Jacob’s Ladder’.
1. Big Thief – No Fear
As we’ve come to expect from Ace’s much-admired series of Jon Savage-curated two-CD collections, this new – and sadly final – volume is a multi-genre delight, taking the listener from house to baggy via post-punk, proto-grunge, minimalist avant-garde, the advent of sampling and more.