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Public Image Ltd. to Reissue Entire Back Catalog

Earlier today NME reported that post-punk pioneers Public Image Ltd. will reissue an extensive portion of their discography in remastered form in 2012 through EMI.  read more

Pulp to Reissue First Three Albums in February

English alternative rock band Pulp are gearing up to re-release their first three albums — 1983's It, 1987's Freaks and 1992's Separations — in February 2012 via August on the Fire.  read more

Smashing Pumpkins: Gish and Siamese Dream Remastered Deluxe Editions

With a fresh look at his band’s first two albums, Gish and Siamese Dream it’s hard to see how anyone — including Nirvana’s first label, Sub Pop, who initially rejected the Pumpkins — didn’t like his approach to begin with.   read more

Deerhoof to Release Limited Edition 7-Inch with David Bazan

San Francisco-based experimental rock trio Deerhoof has recently begun a new series of collaborations in which a special guest artist sings his or her original lyrics over instrumental versions of Deerhoof songs, with each end result being released as an exclusive 7-inch record limited to 2,000 copies.  read more

The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Reissue)

In 1978, with their reputation starting to dwindle amongst music critics, and punk rock threatening to eliminate any cultural significance they had left, The Rolling Stones released Some Girls.  read more

Dinosaur Jr. Reissues Earliest Albums on Cassette Tape

Alternative rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. reissued their first three albums — Dinosaur (1985), You're Living All Over Me (1987) and Bug (1988) — on vinyl last month, and now they're resurrecting an even more seldom-seen medium of music: the cassette tape. In a special box set distributed by Joyful Noise Recordings, the band will now release these first three albums in cassette format.  read more

Pink Floyd: Piper At The Gates of Dawn ("Why Pink Floyd?" Reissue)

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this new series of Pink Floyd reissues, which covers every major album over a nearly forty-year period, is the emphasis on the very odd trajectory of the group, which started out and ended up in very different places. Long before they became the bloated juggernaut that restaged The Wall every other year, they were an ambitious London quartet trying to free themselves from rock’s blues-based strictures.   read more

Hear Three Previously Unreleased Nevermind Tracks

Nevermind is the Nirvana album that many claim as one of the best and most influential albums of the decade. As the album approaches its 20th birthday, three previously unreleased tracks featured in the upcoming box set are currently streaming over at the Seattle radio station 107.7 The End.   read more

Dinosaur Jr. Announces West Coast Bug Tour, Vinyl Preorder

A press release for Dinosaur Jr. announced today that the band will perform the band’s 1988 album, Bug, in its entirety on a six-date west coast tour. The dates start in Costa Mesa, Calif. and end in Seattle, Wash. Pierced Arrows will open the shows, and Henry Rollins will be along for the ride to interview the band before each performance.   read more

Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle Reissue

“There’s a chance it might get weird, yeah it’s a possibility.” That’s Eric Bachmann singing on the first song on the first side of Archers of Loaf’s first album, Icky Mettle. Nearly two decades after they were committed to tape, those lines have proved supremely prescient, neatly summing up the North Carolina indie band’s career—or lack thereof. With only a few singles under their collective belt, the quartet signed with Alias Records in 1994, then spent the ensuing five years working, writing and touring as hard as any of their peers. When they broke up in 1999, however, they had...  read more