Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Blue Magic, Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red)

Let the sideshow begin!  SoulMusic Records and TSD are proud to unveil a new 6-CD box set dedicated to the sweet 'n funky soul stylings of Philly quintet Blue Magic ("Sideshow," "Three Ring Circus," "Welcome to the Club," "What's Come Over Me").  Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings brings together expanded editions of the group's five albums for the labels plus all of their released live performances at the Latin Casino with Margie Joseph and Major Harris:

• Blue Magic (1974) plus seven bonus tracks;
• The Magic of the Blue (1974) plus three bonus tracks;
• Thirteen Blue Magic Lane (1975) plus five bonus tracks;
• Mystic Dragons (1976) plus two bonus tracks;
• Blue Magic / Margie Joseph / Major Harris, Live! (Highlights) (1976); and
• Message from the Magic (1978) plus one bonus track.

The set features a total of 74 tracks including 18 bonus tracks: non-LP singles, edits, and remixes by Tom Moulton and Mike Maurro.  TSD's Joe Marchese has penned the new liner notes which include interviews with producer/WMOT co-founder Alan Rubens and songwriter Vinnie Barrett. Read more here!

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Live at Fillmore East 1969 (Rhino)

1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

CSNY's September 20, 1969 concert at New York's late, lamented Fillmore East - comprising both acoustic and electric sets - comes to a variety of formats including 1CD, 2LP, and digital/streaming.  It's been sourced and newly mixed from the original multitrack tapes under the supervision of Stills and Young, and the vinyl versions are AAA (all-analog)-cut. Read more here!

ABBA, The Singles: The First Fifty Years (Polar)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

ABBA's The Singles (The First Fifty Years) updates the concept of 1982's The Singles (The First Ten Years), a double album which collected 23 of the group's A-sides (including new tracks "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack," effectively the final works from the group after members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad as well as Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog divorced).  The First Fifty Years expands the offering to 38 tracks, including all the favorites you know and love.  The set features the band's most complete presentation of A-sides yet, including ones that were released in other territories. And, for the first time on an ABBA compilation, The First Fifty Years also includes tracks from their surprise reunion album, 2021's Voyage. Historian Carl Magnus Palm writes liner notes in an accompanying illustrated 28-page booklet. Read more here.

Green Day, American Idiot: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Reprise)

4CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
8LP/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 
2LP (red/black splatter): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased demos and a 2004 live set at Irving Plaza in New York City that featured the album front to back. Video extras will include the 2015 documentary Heart Like a Hand Grenade and a new documentary along with live performance footage from the BBC. The band's longtime producer Rob Cavallo and Rolling Stone's David Fricke have penned new essays in the liner notes booklet (48 pages for the CD, 36 for the vinyl), and each box comes with an assortment of extra swag (enamel pins, a sticker sheet and cloth patch in the CD box, and in the vinyl version, a flag and a red necktie, just like the one frontman Billie Joe Armstrong wore for much of the album's promotional cycle).  Get more details here.

Queen, I: Collector's Edition (Hollywood (U.S.) / Virgin/EMI (U.K.))

6CD/LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD (CDs 1 and 3 of box set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP (Album Remix Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Queen are going back to the beginning of their recording career on a new box set edition of their debut.  The Collector's Edition of their 1973 self-titled effort - now retitled Queen I - will be a 6CD/LP set featuring a brand-new remix of the album by engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson; demos and studio outtakes; instrumental versions and live recordings. (A 2CD cut-down will include the new mix and the set's third disc, featuring studio alternates.) The box also includes a fold-out poster, photo prints of the four band members and a hardcover book of liner notes and rare archival images. Read more here!

Frank Sinatra, L.A. Is My Lady: 40th Anniversary Edition (FSE/UMe)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The final solo album of Frank Sinatra's remarkable career, 1984's Quincy Jones-produced L.A. Is My Lady, returns in a newly-remixed edition which adds six bonus tracks, three of which are previously unreleased. Get the track listing and more here.

Duran Duran, Danse Macabre: De Luxe (Tapemodern/BMG)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP Box Set: Official Store

Duran Duran has reissued their 2023 album on CD and digitally with three new recordings: an original instrumental, "Masque of the Pink Death," that now opens the album; a cover of Electric Light Orchestra's "Evil Woman"; and "New Moon (Dark Phase)," a re-recording of the band's 1984 Top 10 hit "New Moon on Monday" featuring new contributions by Andy Taylor. Additionally, a triple vinyl box set includes four more unreleased tracks along with extras like art prints, a special booklet, tarot cards and even a "spirit board" with metal planchette to encourage a visitation of your own. Read more here!

Andrea Bocelli, Duets: 30th Anniversary (Decca)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

This career-spanning collection from Andrea Bocelli features 32 songs - both new and old - on 2 CDs; a highlights edition on vinyl has just 12 offerings.  The crossover star's guests include Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Sarah Brightman, Chris Stapleton, Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, Stevie Wonder, the late Luciano Pavarotti and Edith Piaf, and many more.

Bryan Ferry, Selected Recordings 1973-2023 (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

This 5-CD, 81-track box set looks back at fifty years of Ferry with thematically arranged discs: The Best of Bryan Ferry, Compositions, Interpretations, The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, and Rare and Unreleased.  A 100-page hardcover book is also included in this slipcased set.

Melanie, Borders Ballads (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Cleopatra revives this live set recorded at a late, lamented Borders Books and Music location in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on July 24, 1999.  This remastered edition features new artwork and a pair of bonus tracks.

Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (Verve) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Verve has rounded up a baker's dozen of rarities from the late Charlie Parker, all recorded between 1941-1951.  Bird in Kansas City encompasses two sets of private recordings as well as a pair of unreleased 78s, all of which aim to enhance one's appreciation of Parker's time in his hometown.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Graham Parker, Deepcut to Nowhere (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Our friends at Iconoclassic have returned to the Graham Parker discography for the worldwide vinyl premiere of the artist's fifteenth studio album.  2001's Deepcut to Nowhere was released in the weeks preceding 9-11, but the tenor of the album's songs including the opening "Dark Days" seemed to resonate in the wake of that tragic event.  Iconoclassic has presented the album on one 12-inch vinyl plus a bonus 7-inch single.  This limited edition of 1,000 units sports new liner notes from Graham Parker and a fresh remastering from the original co-producer and engineer, Dave Cook. Not to be missed!

Oak Ridge Boys, Mama's Boys (Lightning Rod/Thirty Tigers) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The Oak Ridge Boys release their first album after the passing of longtime member Joe Bonsall.  Ben James steps into Bonsall's shoes on this new set helmed by Nashville uber-producer Dave Cobb; Willie Nelson guests on the lead single "I Thought About You Lord."  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Tears for Fears, Songs for a Nervous Planet: Deluxe (Concord) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

The new album from Tears for Fears, Songs for a Nervous Planet, features four new studio tracks plus live recordings of "Mad World," "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," and more.  This deluxe edition includes 22 tracks on 2 CDs, including six bonus tracks.

Iain Matthews, How Much Is Enough (Sunset Blvd.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Singer-songwriter Iain Matthews delivers what may - or may not! - be his final studio album.  By Matthews' count, it's his 53rd or 54th, but in any event, it's filled with the kind of well-crafted original songs with which he's become synonymous.  Available on CD and digitally.

Ben Folds, Sleigher (New West) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Ben Folds has delivered a Christmas album that's original in every sense of the word.  Sleigher is alternately melancholy, playful, sweet, offbeat, nostalgic, and contemporary.  It's anchored by seven new compositions, most of which find the singer-songwriter-pianist in the mold of a mature balladeer (the wistful "Me and Maurice," the romantic "We Could Have This" with guest vocalist Lindsey Kraft).  There are also beautifully stately instrumentals ("Little Drummer Bolero," "Waiting for Snow"), a goofy musical experiment with AI as lyricist ("Xmas Aye Aye"), and a handful of covers: a straightforward rendition of "The Christmas Song," a rollicking run through Burt Bacharach and Larry Kusik's "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle" modeled after Herb Alpert's A&M recording, and a cheery revival of the Mills Brothers chestnut "You Don't Have to Be a Santa Claus."  Bacharach is also felt in the gently loping gait of the attractive Folds original "Sleepwalking Through Christmas."  There's also some of the artist's trademark irreverence.  He isn't afraid to drop the occasional F-bomb ("Christmas Time Rhyme") - though it's sung with love! - but fans of Folds and the more adventurous side of Christmas music will find a lot to like here.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.