• A quick note that both Queensryche's 20th anniversary reissue of Empire and Morrissey's 20th anniversary reissue of Bona Drag - both from EMI - have been moved on the calendar. The latter will now street October 5 (the reissue of the "Everyday is Like Sunday" single will still street September 28) and the former will be released on September 28.
• MusicTAP tweeted this intriguing article from Billboard and Reuters: the Pink Floyd catalogue is now digitally out of print. There was talk for awhile of them moving the catalogue from longtime home EMI; now it looks like more of a reality.
• Two new Hip-o Select titles are available today: a reissue of John McLaughlin's modern jazz classic The Promise for Verve in 1996 and a new volume in Smokey Robinson's solo albums set! Order them here and here and hit the jump for track listings.

John McLaughlin, The Promise (Verve/Hip-o Select, 2010 - originally released as Verve 314 529 828-2, 1996)

1. Django
2. Thelonius Melodius
3. Amy and Joseph
4. No Return
5. El Ciego
6. Jazz Jungle
7. The Wish
8. English Jam
9. Tokyo Decadence
10. Shin Jin Rui
11. The Peacocks

Smokey Robinson, The Solo Albums Volume 2 (Motown/Hip-o Select, 2010)

1. Quiet Storm
2. The Agony and the Ecstasy
3. Baby That's Backatcha
4. Wedding Song
5. Happy (Love Theme from "Lady Sings the Blues")
6. Love Letters
7. Coincidentally
8. When You Came
9. Get Out of Town
10. Do Like I Do
11. Open
12. So in Love
13. Like Nobody Can
14. Castles Made of Sand
15. An Old-Fashioned Man

Tracks 1-7 from A Quiet Storm (Tamla T6-337S1, 1974)
Tracks 8-14 from Smokey's Family Robinson (Tamla T6-341S1, 1975)
Track 15 was a non-LP B-side - Tamla T-54276F, 1976