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August 13, 2020 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

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Looking for a way to celebrate Bob Mould ahead of his next album, Blue Hearts, due next month? British label Edsel is joining forces with the punk icon to collect nearly everything he's ever released into a new CD box set. Distortion 1989-2019, available October 2, offers 24 discs of Mould's work after the dissolution of seminal hardcore outfit Hüsker Dü. It features all his studio albums credited to himself, '90s power trio Sugar and even dance-oriented side projects LoudBomb and Blowoff,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Rock Tags: Bob Mould, Hüsker Dü, Sugar

August 29, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNER, MARK WOLFE!

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Tags: Sugar

July 24, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Booker T. & the MGs, Green Onions (Concord/Stax) The 1962 album from the Stax legends is expanded with two previously issued, live bonus tracks from Los Angeles in 1965.  Read more here. David Cassidy, Cherish / Rock Me Baby (7Ts/Cherry Red) The Partridge Family star was on top of the world when he released his first two solo albums in 1972.  They arrive on American shores today as one two-fer!  Read more here. The Guess Who, # 10 / Road Food (Iconoclassic) Iconoclassic’s series of

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Neil Sedaka, Rodriguez, Slipknot, Sugar, The Guess Who, The Pharcyde

June 12, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Dean Martin, Collected Cool (UMe) Can you believe this is the first ever domestic, career-spanning Dino box set, pallies? And just in time for Father's Day. Sugar, File Under: Easy Listening - Deluxe Edition (Edsel) The last Sugar LP, expanded with B-sides, the live album The Joke is Always on Us, Sometimes, and a DVD of videos and live footage. Gilbert O'Sullivan, Southpaw: Deluxe Edition / A Stranger in My Own Back Yard: Deluxe Edition (Salvo) The latest in Salvo's ongoing expansion

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Sugar

June 5, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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The Beatles, Yellow Submarine (Blu-Ray) (Apple/EMI) Take a trip back to Pepperland with the Fab Four's animated film, now available as a feature-laden Blu-Ray Disc. The 1999 Yellow Submarine Songtrack remix album is also added to the Beatles remaster canon. (Keep a close eye on our giveaway; we're announcing a winner very soon!) Paul Simon, Graceland: 25th Anniversary Edition (Legacy) A man walks down the street, sees many configurations of the Graceland reissue (namely a CD/DVD featuring

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Categories: Giveaways!, News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Lenny Kravitz, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson, Sugar, The Association, The Beatles, Vinyl

May 22, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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First it was The English Beat - now, Bob Mould's power-pop outfit Sugar, whose discography is getting the expanded treatment starting next week, is seeing a dueling reissue campaign in both England and the United States. While Copper Blue, Beaster and File Under: Easy Listening are getting expanded CD/DVD issues from Edsel, Merge Records - for whom Mould will release a new album in the fall - will handle expansions of the albums a bit differently. All the DVD content on the U.S. reissues has

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March 27, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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While Bob Mould has gained rock immortality as one third of the criminally underrated alt-rock outfit Hüsker Dü, his work as frontman for alt-rockers Sugar in the 1990s deserves its own recognition. In May and June, the hard workers at Demon/Edsel will give Sugar its due in the form of expanded, remastered editions of their entire catalogue. After the split of Hüsker Dü in 1988, Mould locked himself away in a Minnesota farmhouse, attempting to write new material and purge himself of the

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