The Smashing Pumpkins are revisiting the material that initially marked their final bow with a sprawling, unusual box set.
…a new box set, Machina (Aranea Alba Editio), offer a remixed and resequenced, 48-track quintuple-album drawing from Machina, its sequel Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music and assorted B-sides, plus a further three LPs of 32 rarities and outtakes, with more than 30 tracks entirely unreleased.
It’s an unusual release plan for an unusual series of albums, which brought the Smashing Pumpkins back to their roots and then closed the book on them entirely a quarter-century ago. Machina/The Machines of God was a back-to-basics, grunge-adjacent guitar album that…
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Early Recordings 1994-95 marks the first time that material from 
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British rocker 
Not only had the Bats been making records for over forty years when 2025’s Corner Coming Up was released, but their quality had never dipped even a little. Every record has featured intricate guitar interplay, chugging rhythms, melodic bass lines, Robert Scott’s wistful lead and Kaye Woodward’s supportive harmony vocals, and songs that don’t go for big gestures, instead zeroing in on the tiny moments that meld together to make or break a heart, or build a life.
Holly Golightly took a long break after her 2018 record 
In May, Dua Lipa introduced a special guest at her Sydney gig: Kevin Parker, who duetted with her on a version of ‘The Less I Know the Better’, the biggest hit Parker has ever released under the name Tame Impala. The pair have a longstanding creative relationship – Parker co-produced and co-wrote most of Dua Lipa’s last album, Radical Optimism – but nevertheless made for quite the study in contrasts. She was resplendent in a glittering lace catsuit, stiletto-heeled boots, a fake fur stole draped over her shoulder.
With her full-length 
It’s seven years since the Belgian brothers Dewaele unleashed their fine, largely instrumental and foot-stomping 
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…The new edition was remastered at Abbey Road Studios.
…20th Anniversary Edition of the album includes multiple B-sides from the same time as ‘Feels’, such as crowd favorites from the time like the abstract “People” and the lively, romping “Tikwid.” It also includes a handful of never-before-heard demos for songs that were fully realized on ‘Feels’, and more.
If it had been released any other year, 
…include the newly mixed and mastered tracks, two B-sides and three previously unreleased demo recordings.
Designed in 1962 by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the concrete dome in Tripoli, Lebanon was intended to be one of 15 structures that housed a permanent International Fair, expected to welcome over two million annual visitors. By the time civil war broke out in 1975, construction had not yet been completed, leading to the suspension and eventual abandonment of the project.