Category: Box Sets

Giant David Bowie box set 'A New Career in a New Town' to feature new mix of 'Lodger'

Giant David Bowie box set ‘A New Career in a New Town’ to feature new mix of ‘Lodger’

The third in Parlophone’s series of career-spanning David Bowie box sets will be released in September as a 11 CD, 13 LP or digital download edition that features everything Bowie released between 1977 and 1982, including rarities and a new mix of Lodger by producer Tony Visconti. See full details here.

Watch: 2-minute trailer for upcoming 'Manchester North Of England' 7-disc box set

Watch: 2-minute trailer for upcoming ‘Manchester North Of England’ 7-disc box set

With the release of its sprawling new Manchester-centric box set approaching later this month, Cherry Red Records has debuted a 2-minute trailer to the set, soundtracked by the Mancunian acts — Joy Division, Morrissey, Happy Mondays, New Order, The Stone Roses — featured. Watch it right here.

7-disc 'Manchester North of England' features Joy Division, Stone Roses, Oasis, more

7-disc ‘Manchester North of England’ features Joy Division, Stone Roses, Oasis, more

Cherry Red Records has finalized the tracklist for its massive Manchester North of England box set, a 7-disc collection due out next month that features 146 songs spanning 1977 to 1993 by such fabled Mancunians as Joy Divison, New Order, The Stone Roses, Morrissey (but not The Smiths), The Fall and Oasis. See the full tracklist.

Midnight Oil details huge new 12-disc box set: Demos, rarities, B-sides, hours of live video

Midnight Oil details huge new 12-disc box set: Demos, rarities, B-sides, hours of live video

Back in February, when Midnight Oil announced its global reunion tour, the band also revealed plans for not one but three giant box sets: a collection of the band’s 13 albums and EPs on vinyl, another compiling those releases on CD plus a DVD of videos, and a third featuring a truckload of unreleased material.

'C88' box set to feature The Stone Roses, The House of Love, The Vaselines and more

‘C88’ box set to feature The Stone Roses, The House of Love, The Vaselines and more

Cherry Red Records continues its series of imagined sequels to the NME’s famed C86 cassette with the release this summer of C88, a three-disc box set featuring music released in 1988 by then-indie acts such as The Stone Roses, The House of Love, Kitchens of Distinction, The Vaselines and more.

Sad Lovers & Giants look back with 5-disc 'Where the Light Shines Through' box set

Sad Lovers & Giants look back with 5-disc ‘Where the Light Shines Through’ box set

Long-running British post-punk act Sad Lovers & Giants next month will release a 5-disc box set that’s being billed as the first comprehensive anthology of the group’s music, covering the band’s different lineups through the 1980s and beyond across the set’s 89 tracks.

Ramones to release 10-disc set of pre-1980 7-inch singles for Record Store Day

Ramones to release 10-disc set of pre-1980 7-inch singles for Record Store Day

A box set of 10 pre-1980 singles by the Ramones with reproduced Sire labels and picture sleeves (where applicable) will be released next month as part of Record Store Day in the U.S. and U.K., a collection of “great punk rock tracks that changed the course of rock ‘n’ roll.”

Goth box: 5-disc 'Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986' out in June

Goth box: 5-disc ‘Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986’ out in June

Cherry Red Records this week announced plans to release a five-disc box set titled Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986 that will chart the evolution of the U.K.’s goth movement over 82 tracks that span the late ’70s through the mid ’80s. The collection will be released June 2.

Midnight Oil announces massive 2017 reunion tour, 3 huge box sets with unreleased music

Midnight Oil announces massive 2017 reunion tour, 3 huge box sets with unreleased music

Midnight Oil today unveiled plans for their long-awaited reunion, announcing a world tour that will take the band to North and South America, Europe and the U.K., and New Zealand and Australia this year — plus the release of three different box sets, including one that promises 14 hours of previously unheard and rare material.

Lloyd Cole collects first 4 solo albums, 'lost' 5th LP,  unreleased demos in new box set

Lloyd Cole collects first 4 solo albums, ‘lost’ 5th LP, unreleased demos in new box set

Lloyd Cole will follow up his 2015 box set collecting his work with The Commotions with a new six-CD package that pulls together his first four solo albums, a “lost” fifth solo album that assembles material from other sources and a disc of 20 previously unreleased demos.

The Replacements announce 8-disc album collection, edit Rhino Records' press release

The Replacements announce 8-disc album collection, edit Rhino Records’ press release

To coincide with their first headlining tour in 24 years, The Replacements next month will release an 8-disc box set that collects the band’s seven studio albums and one EP released between 1981 and 1990, an announcement made today via a Rhino Records press release that had been copy edited by the band itself.

Lloyd Cole announces U.S. dates in February, prepping 6-disc Commotions box set

Lloyd Cole announces U.S. dates in February, prepping 6-disc Commotions box set

Next year’s shaping up to be a good one for fans of Lloyd Cole, as the singer-songwriter this week announced a nine-date U.S. tour — with the promise that “there will be more” shows added — and has revealed that he’s at work on a six-disc box set collecting material he recorded with The Commotions.

Simple Minds' 'Sparkle in the Rain' to be reissued as hugely expanded 5-disc box set

Simple Minds’ ‘Sparkle in the Rain’ to be reissued as hugely expanded 5-disc box set

The spate of hugely expanded box-set reissues continues next year with Simple Minds’ breakthrough sixth album Sparkle in the Rain — featuring the singles “Waterfront” and “Up on the Catwalk” — set for re-release a a five-disc set featuring B-sides, remixes, BBC sessions, a previously unreleased concert.