Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! The Replacements, Tim: Let It Bleed Edition (Sire/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Replacements have teamed up with Rhino for their fourth mega-box set edition of a classic album from their catalogue. After heavy-duty expansions of debut Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me and a reorganized version of Don’t Tell a Soul called Dead Man’s Pop, the Minneapolis punk legends have announced the “Let It Bleed” edition of Tim, their first album for a major label and their last…
Not So ‘Last’ Splash: The Breeders’ Landmark Album Gets Reissued with Two Unheard Tracks
The Breeders’ Last Splash – one of the most treasured albums of the ’90s alternative rock explosion – will be newly reissued this fall with a small but intriguing selection of bonus material. The 1993 album was given the deluxe treatment for its 20th anniversary in 2013 – but, it turns out, the original analog tapes could not be located to create that set. In the decade since, they’ve been successfully located, and in addition to newly-remastered favorites like “Cannonball” and “Divine Hammer” on the new reissue, a pair of unearthed outtakes…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 3
Rod Stewart, Rarities (Mercury/UMe) It’s Rod at his rarest: two discs of outtakes, non-LP singles and other good stuff, including two unreleased BBC session tracks. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Jefferson Starship, Live in Central Park NYC May 12, 1975 / Claudia Lennear, Phew! / Ponderosa Twins Plus One, 2+2+1=Ponderosa Twins Plus One / Jo Ann Campbell, All the Hits—Her Complete Cameo Recordings / Joanie Sommers, Come Alive!–The Complete Columbia Recordings / Stonewall Jackson, Original Greatest Hits / The Paley Brothers, The Complete Recordings (Real Gone Music) The latest releases from the folks at Real Gone Music, all of which you can read about here. Jefferson Starship: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Claudia…
Breeders’ Second LP Makes Quite a “Splash” on New Box Set
Two decades after its original release, indie rockers The Breeders will reissue a 20th anniversary edition of their breakthrough LP, Last Splash, that may turn out to be one of the year’s most grandiose packages. The Breeders started as a side project for Kim Deal, bassist for the Pixies. Debut album Pod (1990) featured Deal on guitar alongside Tanya Donnelly of Throwing Muses, Perfect Disaster bassist Josephine Wiggs and Slint drummer Britt Walford. Though sales were slight, critics praised the album, as did one major fan: Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Following the dissolution of…






