W♥M227: Reissues Reissues Reissues

YouTube Musickey is here. You can use it for free, but for $10 a month you get ad-free music listening. Although this sounds great (as we all know most young people uses YouTube to listen and make playlists), sometime the audio on YouTube are not the greatest.

Smashing Pumpkins‘ Adore came out as a six-disc box set, totaling over 100 tracks, from Universal Music Enterprises; review here.

Tears for Fears‘s Song From the Big Chair is also getting a 6-disc Super Deluxe Box Set; out now on Universal Music Enterprise.
To help celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Song From the Big Chair, Spotify will host Tears For Fears’ first-ever LIVE Spotify Landmark Session! You can listen to it here.

Velvet Underground‘s self-titled is also getting a 6-disc box set called 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition; out 11/24 on Polydor/Universal Music Enterprise.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds reissued their entire back catalogue on vinyl

Gene reissued their entire back catalogue on vinyl in 2013 (for UK only)

Belle & Sebastian reissued their entire back catalogue on vinyl via Matador Records.

The Afghan Whigs reissued Gentlemen at 21 21 years later on vinyl

11/01 Mary Lambert at Fine Line Music Cafe 11/04 Blonde Redhead at Varsity Theater 11/12 New Pornographers at First Ave 11/13 Judah & the Lion at 7th Street 11/13 James Vincent McMorrow at First Ave 11/14 FKA twigs at Fine Line Music Cafe 11/14 Interpol at First Avenue

11/15 Peter Hook and the Light at Fine Line 11/16 Amanda Palmer at the Cedar 11/17 Julian Casablancas at First Ave 11/17 My Brightest Diamond at Cedar 11/19 Stars at First Avenue 11/20 Better Than Ezra at Varsity Theater 11/24 Death From Above 1979 at First Avenue

12/01/14 Allah-Las and Tashaki Miyaki at Turf Club

12/04/14 Cracker at Varsity Theater

12/11/14 Alvvays at the Turf Club

12/17/14 Soul Asylum at 7th Street (Sold Out)

12/18/14 Soul Asylum at 7th Street (Sold Out)

The 65-track, 6-CD package is housed in a case-bound book and features several different mixes including the remastered stereo mix by MGM house engineer Luis Pastor “Val” Valentin, a set of 1969 recordings, many of which were previously unreleased, from the Record Plant in New York City that were supposed to be the band’s fourth album, several of which ended up on Loaded and Reed’s first two solo releases, and unreleased live recordings from The Matrix in 1969.



The remastered Valentin stereo mix of The Velvet Underground will also be made available as both a single-disc CD, and as part of the two-CD Deluxe Edition version with a 12-track audio bonus disc featuring the best of Live At The Matrix, taped on November 26 & 27, 1969. Digital versions of both the single disc “Valentin mix” and the six-CD, Super Deluxe Edition will also be available through other digital partners including MFiT and HD Audio formats.

Big massive snowstorm at Peter Hook’s show… Vu loves New Order.