September guarantees to be a reissue-heavy month for classic-rock followers – however there are a couple of notable new releases, too.
Neil Younger unveils Second Music, a follow-up collaboration album with the Chrome Hearts after final yr’s Talkin to the Bushes. Elsewhere, Tonight’s the Evening, the remaining album in Younger’s so-called “Ditch Trilogy,” can be being reissued throughout a number of codecs.
Different pending new studio materials contains Europe‘s Come This Insanity and Anthrax‘s Cursum Perficio. Extra info on these and the remainder of the month’s upcoming rock albums, films and books may be discovered under.
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September is just bursting with reissues. Together with Younger’s 1975 High 25 hit LP, among the greatest and most anticipated are units to dedicated to early David Bowie and Frank Zappa, a million-selling Bob Seger comeback and Phil Collins‘ solo debut.
The Bowie materials dates to earlier than his 1967 self-titled first LP. Shel Talmy Recordings contains 21 tracks recorded with the producer of the Who and Kinks. The sixtieth anniversary version of the Moms of Invention‘s Freak Out!, which doubled as Zappa’s debut, features a super-deluxe version with 5 CDs and a Blu-ray.
Collins’ first solo album has been renamed Face Worth (Full Worth) and expanded right into a four-LP forty fifth anniversary set. There’s even be a separate Blu-ray launch with new mixes. Seger’s expanded anniversary reissue of 2006’s Face the Promise – then his first new album in a decade – provides 4 new songs.
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The month’s live performance recordings embrace an enormous field from Pleasure Division. Everlasting (Reside) options 16 performances throughout 14 discs. There’s additionally an upcoming look again at 1975’s Mainstream from Quiet Solar, a progressive-rock facet venture from Roxy Music‘s Phil Manzanera.
Need extra? Bear in mind to bookmark UCR’s constantly up to date checklist for extra particulars on pending rock releases from all year long.
Sept. 1
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: Without end in Bloom: The Legacy Past the Tragedy, Kelly Catlin (e-book)
Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd: Album by Album, Stephen Palmer (e-book)
Queen: A Life in Lyrics: The Official Inventive Legacy of Freddie Mercury, Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin (e-book)
Sept. 4
Settle for, Teutonic Titans: 1976-2026 (digital, 2CD, black and splatter coloured vinyl editions)
Ben Folds 5, Ben Folds 5: thirtieth Anniversary (expanded digital, 2CD or 2LP 180-gram black vinyl reissues)
Cranberries, Reside on the London Astoria II 1994 (first-ever digital, compact disc and vinyl editions)
Dexys Midnight Runners, Love (digital, compact disc, black and yellow vinyl editions)
Emerson Lake and Powell, The Full Assortment (3CD set)
Evanescence, Sanctuary (vinyl version)
Fandango feat. Joe Lynn Turner [Deep Purple/Rainbow], The Full RCA Albums 1977-1980 (4CD field)
Kingdom Come, Kingdom Come (remastered CD reissue)
The Mamas and the Papas, Individuals Like Us (expanded CD reissue)
Micky Dolenz, Timeless (EP with songs from XTC’s Andy Partridge, Replacements’ Paul Westerberg, Bangles’ Vicki Peterson, others)
Neil Younger, Tonight’s the Evening (digital, compact disc, cassette and vinyl reissues)
Speak Speak, The Color of Spring (fortieth anniversary half-speed vinyl reissue)
UFO, Covenant + Sharks (3CD set)
Numerous artists, Teenage Glampage! Can the Glam 2 (4CD field with Mott the Hoople, Sting, the Candy, Cozy Powell, others)
Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Buddha and the Chocolate Field (remastered 180g black 1LP vinyl reissue)
Sept. 8
Blondie: The Different Facet of the Dream: My Life In and Out of Blondie, Clem Burke (e-book)
David Bowie: Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin, Tobias Ruther and Anthony Matthews (e-book)
Eagles: Eagles and Lodge California: 50 Years, Sean Egan (e-book)
John Lennon: Beginning Over with John and Yoko: The Pictures, Roger Farrington and Kenneth Womack (e-book)
Megadeth/Metallica: In My Darkest Hour: A Memoir, Dave Mustaine with Joe Layden (e-book)
Strokes: Is This It: The By no means-Ending Rise and Fall of the Strokes (and Rock ‘n’ Roll), Steven Hyden (e-book)
Sept. 11
The Fall, Peel Classes: 1978 (vinyl launch)
Funkadelic, Maggot Mind (remastered digital, compact disc, SACD, vinyl and cassette reissues)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, The Roaring Silence (fiftieth anniversary digital, 2CD or 2LP reissues)
Pixies, Bossanova; Trompe Le Monde (expanded and remastered digital, compact disc and LP reissues)
Producers [Trevor Horn], Made in Basing Road (Blu-ray reissue that includes Atmos, 5.1 and different mixes)
Quiet Solar [Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera], Mainstream (expanded 2CD/Blu-ray reissue)
Sept. 15
Bob Dylan: Dylan in Cincinnati, Graley Herren (e-book)
Metallica: Metallica Album by Album, Martin Popoff (e-book)
Monkees: I am a Believer: My Lifetime of Monkees, Music and Insanity, Micky Dolenz and Mark Bego (e-book)
Poison: Ghost Notes: My Life in Poison, Rikki Rockett and Martin Svensson (e-book)
Intercourse Pistols: Intercourse Pistols: Poison within the Machine, John Scanlan (e-book)
Stevie Nicks: Classes and Lace: Every thing I Know About Desires, Heartbreak and Magic I Discovered from Stevie Nicks, Rachel Brodsky (e-book)
Sept. 17
Paul Simon: 33 1/3: Paul Simon’s Graceland, Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh and Michael E. Veal (e-book)
Sept. 18
Anthrax, Cursum Perficio (digital, compact disc, black or purple zoetrope 2LP vinyl editions)
Common White Band, Renaissance 1988-2003 (4CD field)
Seashore Boys, Pet Sounds (limited-edition Japanese import compact disc and vinyl reissue)
Beck, Trip Lonesome
Bob Seger, Face the Promise: Expanded Version (digital, compact disc and vinyl reissues)
David Bowie, The Shel Talmy Recordings (digital, compact disc and vinyl editions with Jimmy Web page, Nicky Hopkins, others)
Earth Wind and Hearth, Biggest Hits (aquamarine 2LP reissue)
Echo and the Bunnymen, Apples for Isaac (with Blondie’s Clem Burke)
Gary John Barden [Michael Schenker Group], Empowered Feelings (with Schenker, Brian Tichy, Don Airey, others)
Grateful Lifeless, Summer time Magic 1985 (20CD dwell field); Merriweather 6/30/85 (3CDs or 4 LPs)
Gap, Fairly on the Inside; Reside Via This; Superstar Pores and skin (vinyl reissues)
Howard Jones, Prefer to Get to Know You Nicely: Reside at Excessive Wycombe City Corridor 1983 (CD/DVD or 2LP releases)
John Densmore [The Doors] and Chuck D, Do+pe = No Nation for Previous Males (compact disc, black vinyl and cassette editions)
The Lemonheads, Automobile Button Material (thirtieth anniversary white vinyl reissue)
Neil Younger, Second Music (digital, compact disc and vinyl releases)
Phil Collins, Face Worth [Full Value] (expanded 4LP field or or Blu-ray version with Dolby ATMOS, 5.1 and stereo mixes)
Randy Newman, Toy Story 5: Unique Movement Image Soundtrack (2LP image disc version)
Robin Trower, Shine (digital, compact disc and vinyl editions)
Roger Taylor [Queen], Violence Insane in a Lovely World
Smashing Pumpkins, Pisces Iscariot; Adore (double vinyl reissues)
Susanna Hoffs [Bangles], The Checklist
Numerous artists, Preserve the Hearth Burning: Soul Sister Sides 1968-1982 (3CD set with Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Dionne Warwick, Tina Turner, Pointer Sisters, others)
Numerous artists, No Static at All: A Journey Into AOR 1976-1986 (3CD set with Boston, Chicago, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Sure, Evening Ranger, others)
Whitesnake, Slide It In; Whitesnake; Slip of the Tongue (normal black and unique shade vinyl reissues)
Sure, Magnification (half-speed remastered 180-gram black LP or limited-edition cassette reissues)
Sept. 22
Kansas: The Voice Inside, John Farnham with Poppy Stockell (e-book)
Sept. 25
Albert Bouchard [Blue Oyster Cult], Imaginos IV: Rhyme of the Starclock
DBA: Downes Braide Affiliation [Geoff Downes], Trauma (CD and vinyl editions)
Europe, Come This Insanity
Moms of Invention [Frank Zappa], Freak Out! (expanded sixtieth anniversary reissue with 5CD/Blu-ray, digital, compact disc and vinyl editions)
Gap, Reside Via This (limited-edition all-analog 180g vinyl reissue)
Jack Bruce, I’ve All the time Needed To Do This (expanded and remastered 5CD reissue)
Pleasure Division, Everlasting [Live] (14CD field)
King Crimson, Islands (expanded 1CD/Blu-ray reissue with 2026 Steven Wilson Atmos and 5.1 remixes)
Nektar, A Tab within the Ocean (vinyl launch)
Peter Hammill [Van der Graaf Generator], Tears In Time (compact disc or vinyl editions)
Ratt, Dancing Undercover (Zoetrope vinyl reissue)
Stryper, Throne of Thorns
T. Rex, 1974-1977 (5CD field or 2LP set)
Todd Rundgren, Reside on the Ritz, New York Metropolis 1989 (2CD set)
Sept. 29
Aerosmith: Aerosmith ’72–’82: The Columbia Years, Martin Popoff (e-book)
The Beatles: The Beatles 1967-1970 & Past: Each Album, Each Music, Alberto Bravin and Andrew Wild (e-book)
Bee Gees: The Bee Gees within the Eighties, Andrew Mon Hughes and Grant Walters (e-book)
Bob Seger, Bob Seger: Each Album, Each Music, John Van der Kiste (e-book)
David Bowie: Constellation ‘Heroes,’ Hans Meertens (e-book)
John Mellencamp, John Mellencamp: The Songbook: 50 Years of Music and Poetry, John Mellencamp and Stephen King (e-book)
Kiss: Destroyer: The Definitive Visible Historical past: Making the Legendary Album and Recollections of the Spirit of ’76 Tour, Ken Sharp (e-book)
Toto, Toto: Each Album, Each Music, Jacob Holm-Lupo (e-book)
October and Past
The Beatles, Rubber Soul (remixed and expanded 4CD and 5LP reissues; 1CD or 1LP black, orange or Zoetrope vinyl variations; and 2CD or 2LP and Blu-ray editions)
Elvis Costello, My Purpose Is True (expanded 5CD anniversary reissue)
Queen, Queen Budapest
Genesis, From Genesis to Revelation (4CD/Blu-ray field with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Encompass Sound and stereo mixes, 2LP/1EP black or clear vinyl, and remixed and remastered 2CD reissues)
Paul Simon, The Quiet Celebration Live performance (2CD audio companion for live performance film)
Rick Wakeman, Return to the Pink Planet (digital, CD, CD/Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 encompass sound and hi-res stereo mixes; and black or clear vinyl LP editions)
Tony Iommi, From the Darkish (with Queen’s Brian Might, Jorn Lande and others)
Foghat, Reside & Loud Throughout the usA.
Asia, Indigo (compact disc, CD/Blu-ray and 2LP black and blue vinyl releases)
Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure (2CD, 2LP black or blue pearl vinyl and 3CD/1DVD super-deluxe reissues)
Joni Mitchell, Blue (limited-edition blue vinyl reissue)
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