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Big Star Releases Big Box Set in September
Memphis, Tennessee has produced some of music’s greatest legends, from Muddy Waters to B.B. King to Isaac Hayes. Oft-overlooked power-pop pioneers, Big Star also hail from Tennessee's other music city, and fans of the band have something new to look forward to. Keep An Eye On The Sky, a complete four-disc boxed set spanning the band’s work from 1968 to 1975, will hit store shelves on Sept. 15.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSmithsonian's Pete Seeger Box Set Out Today
It's been 73 years since Pete Seeger first picked up a five-string banjo, but that doesn't mean the soon-to-be-nonagenarian is out of the picture. Today, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings released a box set chock-full of the folk legend's best work. Five volumes of it, to be exact. Maybe the folk legend's been kickin' it with Pixies?... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPixies Announce Minotaur Box-Set Collection
Those loud-quiet-loud pre-Nirvana masters of UFO and incest lyrics... read more
Found in: Music, NewsNeil Young's Archives finally coming in June
After various delays, Neil Young is set to release his Archives Vol. 1 box set on June 2. Produced by Young himself, the set will be available as a 10-disc Blu-Ray edition for $299, a 10-DVD box for $199 and a CD version for $99. The box set covers Young's early-career period between 1963 and 1972.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsMetallica to release discography as iTunes box set
How does a band go from Internet archfiend to Internet hero? The answer is pretty simple: you embrace online as part of your business model (though not suing the pants off people probably helps too.) Metallica's long-overdue kiss with the Web is about to get a little bit deeper: the band just announced that its entire discography will be given the box-set treatment on iTunes, starting March 29.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsJohnny Cash Christmas DVD box set out now
Available now, Shout! Factory has released a 4-DVD set of The Johnny Cash Christmas Specials 1976-1979. While '76 and '77 were released last year, the '78 and '79 specials are new and are available separately or as part of the box set. Included on the new set are Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, Steve Martin and Andy Kaufman, amongst others.... read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsMastodon plans box set, keeps touring despite health setbacks
This Tuesday, Nov. 18, Mastodon fans will be able to wrap their giant tusks around a vinyl box set of the Atlanta band's entire discography. Hitting stores via Relapse Records, the collector's edition will be limited to a one-time, 1,000-copy pressing, complete with nine 180-gram LPs spanning the group's entire career, including the final vinyl pressing of the band's debut EP, Lifesblood, as well as covers of songs by the Melvins, Thin Lizzy and Metallica. Bonus swag includes an embroidered logo patch and a custom Mastodon turntable mat.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsNada Surf tours, releases vinyl box set in November
On Nov. 25, Nada Surf will release all five of its studio albums on vinyl, for the first time, in a big limited-edition box set. Only 1,000 are being made and they include the bands first 7" single, a full-color 24-page lyric and photo book, and download codes for MP3 versions of The Proximity Effect, Let Go, The Weight Is a Gift and Lucky as well as codes to rare and out-of-print b-sides and bonus tracks.... read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsFear and Loathing in Hi-Fi: HST's Gonzo Tapes coming soon
The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a five-disc collection of Thompson’s frenzied ramblings, speed freakouts, and drug-addled insights into The American Psyche will see the light of day for the first time on Oct. 28. The tapes document what Thompsonites consider the high point of the Dr. of Journalism's career ('65-'75), featuring notes and interviews that led to Hell’s Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as numerous unfinished or aborted articles on disparate topics like Sigmund Freud's cocaine habit and the end of the Vietnam war. So expect a lot of unfiltered ramblings about... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsPhilip Glass box-set retrospective due in September
In a move that seems suspiciously fitted to its pun-triumphant name, a box set of avant-classical composer Philip Glass's work entitled, yes, Glass Box, will be released on Sept. 23 by Nonesuch Records.... read more
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