Release Round-Up: Week of June 26
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Metallica, Reload: Deluxe Edition (Blackened Recordings)
15CD/5LP/7″/4DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3CD (* included on bonus discs): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Cassette: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Metallica’s seventh studio album is their latest to get a massive box set treatment: 29 hours of audiovisual material on 15 CDs, five LPs, a 7″ single and four DVDs. Fans will get a deep dive into the before-and-after of the album: early song sketches, demos, outtakes, alternate mixes, 10 full live concerts and even more portions of shows – plus 128 pages of liner notes and rare photos, posters, replica tour laminates and other bonus swag. The package is overseen by Greg Fidelman and remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering.
Tina Turner, Wildest Dreams: 30th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone/Rhino)
4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com
Tina Turner’s long-running series of expanded editions continues with a new 30th anniversary 4CD/1Blu-ray edition of the late superstar’s 1996 album – and ninth solo studio release, overall – Wildest Dreams. The deluxe set, featuring a remaster of the original album, adds a bonus disc of ten singles and remixes. It continues with Turner’s July 20, 1996 concert at London’s famed Wembley Stadium on 2 CDs, while the Blu-ray (with remastered audio in 96/24 stereo and video upscaled from standard definition to 1080p) contains director David Mallet’s Grammy-nominated Live in Amsterdam/Wildest Dreams concert film. A making-of documentary from 1998 is a bonus feature on the Blu-ray. The box set’s booklet offers new liner notes from Jason Draper, incorporating interviews with “In Your Wildest Dreams” co-writer Holly Knight, manager Roger Davies, and producer Trevor Horn. The campaign also sees the release of the remastered original album only on 2 LPs, 1 CD, and digital formats; and a cut-down version of the box with the album and bonus tracks on 2 CDs. Read more here.
Roberta Flack, The Montreux Years (BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
BMG compiles thirteen tracks from five of the late Roberta Flack’s concerts recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival between 1971 and 2008 including renditions of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “To Love Somebody,” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love.” Suzanne Koga provides the liner notes. Available on 1 CD or 2 LPs.
Nancy Sinatra, Movin’ with Nancy (Light in the Attic) (Light in the Attic / Nancy’s Bootique)
Today, Light in the Attic continues its Nancy Sinatra Archival Series with Movin’ with Nancy, the soundtrack to the artist’s 1967 television special. The album features appearances by Dean Martin, Lee Hazlewood, and A Very Close Relative (one guess!). The remastered album is joined on CD by four previously unreleased bonus tracks; however, the CD appears unavailable. Amazon doesn’t have orders open, and both LITA and Nancy’s Bootique are sold out with no word yet on whether more copies will be made available. Orders for the vinyl edition remain open.
The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Ghostlight/Rhino)
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com
To commemorate the Tony-winning musical’s 15-year anniversary on Broadway, Rhino is releasing a new edition of The Book of Mormon‘s Grammy-winning original cast album on both CD and 2 LPs. The 2026 edition features expanded packaging containing lyrics, photos, and new liner notes by David Pogue drawing on commentary by Parker, Stone, Lopez, and musical director-arranger Stephen Oremus. Read more here!
Maren Morris, HERO: A Second Wind (Columbia Nashville)
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Red Vinyl/Signed)
The major-label debut of country singer Maren Morris is one of the genre’s best breakthroughs in recent memory – and for its 10th anniversary, it’ll be reissued with nine bonus tracks, five of them previously unreleased (including demos and non-album tracks).
Rodney Crowell, Then Again (New West) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Singer-songwriter and country great Crowell has rescued a lost album recorded 20 years ago with guests including Emmylou Harris and the late Guy Clark. Available on CD, LP, and digitally.
Boone Creek, Boone Creek (Rounder/Craft Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
The long-unavailable 1977 debut of Boone Creek – a.k.a. Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Wes Golding, and Terry Baucom – returns in an expanded edition remastered from the original tapes with four previously unreleased outtakes. Available on CD, LP, and digitally.
Sting, The Night Watch: Live at the Rijksmuseum (A&M/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
A&M releases this intimate Amsterdam performance with Sting and guitarist Dominic Miller, on which the superstar played a 17th-century vintage guitar made for Louis XIV to reinvent solo and Police classics including “Fields of Gold,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Message in a Bottle,” “Every Breath You Take,” and songs from Sting’s musical The Last Ship. Available on CD, LP, and digitally.
Cecile McLorin Salvant, With Every Breath I Take (Nonesuch) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
The jazz chanteuse releases her first orchestral album, featuring the Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. The album features songs by Cy Coleman and David Zippel (the title track), Stephen Sondheim (“Being Alive,” “Send in the Clowns”), and Duke Ellington (“Sophisticated Lady,” “Lush Life”), among others. Available on CD, LP, and digitally.
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