New vinyl reissues: September 4, 2026
As I’ve been doing lately, I’ll preface the weekly new reissues post with a roundup of some recent announcements about upcoming releases coming later in the year. As you might expect, there’s been a steady stream of intriguing-sounding things as we ramp up for the holiday buying season.
First off is the latest entry in UMe’s Vinylphyle series: Bee Gees’ 1976 album Children of the World, which further developed the shift toward disco and R&B that the Brothers Gibb had explored on 1975’s Main Course, serving as a precursor to the 1977 blockbuster soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever. (Indeed, Children of the World’s “You Should Be Dancing” reappeared on that soundtrack album.) It’s an immaculate production, largely done at Criteria Studios in Miami, and this new all-analog pressing was cut by Joe Nino-Hernes from a “1976 copy tape” and pressed at RTI. It comes out September 17.
Meanwhile, a deluxe edition of the Who’s 1975 album The Who by Numbers is due October 30. The meat of the campaign is a 5-CD/1-Blu-ray set that includes Pete Townshend’s demos, album tracking sessions and early mixes, and the bulk of a live show recorded in Swansea, Wales, on June 12, 1976, excerpts of which have been released over the years. There’s also a Blu-ray with new stereo, 5.1, and Dolby Atmos mixes and live video shot in Pontiac, Michigan, on December 6, 1975. The 3-LP version just includes the album and the Swansea live tracks, while a 1-LP cream marble colored version of the album is also available. Whether the rest of the material from the CD set will make its way to vinyl remains to be seen, but I wouldn’t hold your breath—I thought we’d get some more vinyl out of last year’s (excellent) Who Are You super-deluxe box, but so far it’s just been a 4-LP set with the album and some (really dang good) live stuff. All the configurations are ready for preorder at the Who’s site; I don’t see it at the uDiscover Music online storefront yet, but Interscope has some of it.
Speaking of archival live stuff, it was a banner week for upcoming live recordings from dead musicians. The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s show at the Berkeley Community Theater in May 1970 has been reconfigured and remixed by Eddie Kramer for Magic Boy, a double-LP set that comes out via Sony Music on October 16. Fellow member of the 27 Club Jim Morrison and his band members in the Doors are also getting in on the action with Unbound and Dangerous, a collection of live material from 1970 (and one track from 1969), some of which appeared on Absolutely Live. That’s due out October 23 on Rhino. And George Michael’s The Faith Tour, recorded live in Paris in 1988, is coming out as a 16-song version on 2 LPs and an 18-song version on 3 LPs. Confusing. That’s due November 6 from Sony.
Here’s this week’s playlist, with songs from all of the new reissues I’ll talk about below, and then some. It’s only available to paid subscribers, but upgrading is easy. Just click on the button below and get weekly playlists as well as eligibility in our monthly vinyl giveaways, commenting privileges, and access to every article on the site. Plus, you’ll be supporting a tiny independent publication as it navigates the high seas of corporate-owned media.
Let’s see what this week has in store.
Woody Shaw: Song of Songs [Jazz Dispensary/Craft]
1973’s Song of Songs was Woody Shaw’s second album as the top-line artist, released on Contemporary Records in 1973, following his 1971 debut for the label, Blackstone Legacy. On Song of Songs, the trumpeter leads a game ensemble through some adventurous compositions that find the common thread through jazz history, hearkening back to forebears like Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington while simultaneously exploring the more experimental elements that developed in jazz during the late 1960s and early 1970s. One side is wholly acoustic while the other features some audacious electric piano from George Cables. This comes out on Craft’s excellently curated Jazz Dispensary imprint, and be aware that while the pre-release materials and hype sticker said it was cut by Kevin Gray, it was actually cut by Bernie Grundman. I’ll have more details on this AAA pressing later this week in the form of a full-length review.
Terry Reid: Seed of Memory [Proper]
It’s an absolute miracle. Terry Reid’s 1976 album Seed of Memory is back on vinyl—for the first time in 50 years. Originally released on ABC Records, this was Reid’s fourth studio album, featuring production by Graham Nash and heavily indebted to the California folk-rock sound. Nevertheless Reid’s excellent guitar work can be heard throughout this terrific album. It’s become a bit of a cult classic over the years, much as his introspective 1973 album River did, but that was eventually reissued on vinyl and Seed of Memory has escaped the same fate. Until now. This reissue comes from the UK label Proper Records; note that some of the online info about the release date is conflicting, although the Record Store Day site for US independent retailers pegs it on September 4. With the US importing/exporting situation screwier than ever, just be aware that it might be a couple of extra weeks before it actually materializes here.
Public Image Ltd: Album [Rhino Reserve]
For PiL’s fifth album, John Lydon went to New York to record with producer Bill Laswell, who mustered up a team of session heavy hitters to back Lydon on what became 1986’s Album. (The title famously reflected the generic packaging of the time—see Repo Man—with the tape and CD configurations titled Cassette and Compact Disc.) Laswell enlisted Tony Williams, Ginger Baker, Steve Vai, Bernie Worrell, Ryuichi Sakomoto, and others to create a hard-charging, deliberately provocative rock record that pokes at mainstream trends while undercutting them. But with Williams and Baker behind the drum kit, the album also has a groove and litheness that adds depth to its bluster. This Rhino Reserve reissue should sound pretty dang huge, as Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab cut it from the analog master tape, with pressing done at Fidelity.
Rush: Rush [Mobile Fidelity]
Mobile Fidelity’s second entry in their Rush reissue series has arrived, following their release of Fly by Night a couple of weeks back. This time they’ve got the Canadian trio’s self-titled debut from 1974, recorded with drummer John Rutsey before Neil Peart had joined the band. The album features a more streamlined hard rock sound without the progressive flourishes that Rush would fully embrace on later work like 2112 and A Farewell to Kings. Rush was self-released by the band on their own Moon Records, and was later picked up by Mercury Records when “Working Man” became a radio hit in Toronto and Cleveland. The MoFi reissue is cut from a DSD transfer of the master tape at 45 RPM across two LPs, with mastering by Krieg Wunderlich and pressing done at MoFi’s Fidelity Record Pressing.
Angel Olsen: My Woman [Mobile Fidelity]
The second Mobile Fidelity coming this week surprised their customer base wjen it was announced, by going outside the usual ’70s audiophile-rock canon and tackling a much more recent title: Angel Olsen’s 2016 album My Woman. It marked Olsen’s full shift from indie folk to a more fiery style of indie rock, with a synthpop digression or two, although the second half of the album finds Olsen exploring a more expansive and introspective sound. The band was mostly tracked live at Vox Studios in LA, and the album is now expanded to two LPs, cut at 45 RPM—a worthwhile alteration, as the album is around 47 minutes long. MoFi’s edition is limited to 2000 copies, with Krieg Wunderlich cutting the lacquer from the 24/96 digital master and superlative pressing from Fidelity Record Pressing. The Olsen reissue is a signpost of a welcome development from MoFi, who have diversified their catalog with upcoming reissues from the likes of the National, Devo, and Rodriguez. Not your daddy’s MFSL.
Buena Vista Social Club: Buena Vista Social Club [World Circuit]
If you lived through the late ’90s, you remember the sensation that was Buena Vista Social Club. Guitarist/producer Ry Cooder and World Circuit Records’ Nick Gold went to Havana and recorded 20 Cuban musicians, some of them from the Afro-Cuban All Stars, as they performed traditional Cuban son, danzón, and bolero music. They also enlisted older Cuban musicians to play trova and filin music as it had been historically performed on the island nation since the 1940s. World Circuit is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the recording sessions with a new 30th anniversary edition, cut on 2 LPs with an extra side of bonus tracks. It uses the 2021 digital remaster, although there was an analog cut by Bernie Grundman back in 2015. This new edition comes pressed on pearl vinyl with a 20-page booklet.
The Wild Magnolias: They Call Us Wild [Jackpot]
The Wild Magnolias are a group of Mardi Gras Indians that in the 1970s made some pretty funky music as well. 1975’s They Call Us Wild was their second album, a New Orleans party-starter that predated the better-known Wild Tchoupitoulas by a couple of years. While the album was issued by Barclay Records in France, it was actually not released in the US at the time, and Portland’s Jackpot Records has taken the mantle to provide the first-ever US vinyl release of this infectious funk record, which incorporates hard R&B, funk, and jazz elements into their New Orleans street-walking sound. Kevin Gray obsessives should peel themselves away from their RHFs and Tone Poets to note that he cut this one as well, from analog tape, with pressing done at Optimal.
Nirvana: Incesticide [Geffen]
After Nirvana exploded onto the scene at the end of 1991, their former label Sub Pop made plans to release some unissued material as part of a compilation album called Cash Cow. But they ended up selling the material to Nirvana’s newfound major label, DGC, for a tidy sum, who released it as Incesticide at the end of 1992. The material collects some of their Sub Pop singles with material released on the Hormoaning EP from Australia, plus compilation tracks and other assorted tidbits. Incesticide has been intermittently available on vinyl over the past couple of decades, but the last pressing was in 2017, so Geffen have reupped with this new pressing that will likely fill some holes in some vinyl collections but shouldn’t trouble anybody who already has this stuff on wax.
Primal Scream: Xtrmntr [Sony UK]
Following up their reissue of 1997’s Vanishing Point, Sony UK is now putting Primal Scream’s 2000 album Xtrmntr (pronounced “Exterminator”) back on disc via a 2-LP red-vinyl pressing. This found the Scottish genre-hoppers delving into a harder electronic sound, with ample white noise and industrial timbres, while also ribboning in bits of dance music and shoegaze (My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields contributed to the album and live shows from this period). It’s a complete about-face from their failed 1994 foray into American soul, Give Out But Don’t Give Up, and takes the darker voids suggested at on Vanishing Point to new extremes. It’s also probably the last truly great Primal Scream record, so its reappearance on vinyl—the first time since Music on Vinyl’s 2011 pressing—is most welcome.
Jazz Alley
In addition to the Woody Shaw title mentioned earlier, there are just a couple of quick additional mentions, headlined by the two new Tone Poets from Blue Note landing this week. Sam Rivers’s Dimensions & Extensions comes from a 1967 session that wasn’t released until 1986, featuring Rivers alongside Donald Byrd, James Spaulding, Cecil McBee, Julian Priester, and Steve Ellington, as they play an enlivened batch of Rivers compositions that explore the fringes of the avant-garde while remaining rooted in the backbeat- and blues-driven post-bop tradition. And Sonny Rollins’s Vol. 2 was recorded in 1957 (in mono) with Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver alternating on piano (they play together on Monk’s “Misterioso”), with Art Blakey on drums, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jay Jay Johnson on trombone. Both were cut from tape by Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI. Meanwhile, Elemental Music is reissuing Mal Waldron’s 1967 soundtrack to the film Sweet Love, Bitter, although I don’t know its mastering provenance.
OTHER REISSUES OF NOTE:
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Absolute Elsewhere: In Search of Ancient Gods remix [Music on Vinyl]
Bryan Adams: Bare Bones [Bad]
The All-American Rejects: Move Along [Interscope]
Lily Allen: Alright, Still (picture disc) [WB/Parlophone]
*Angelo Badalamenti: Blue Velvet soundtrack [Varèse Sarabande/Craft]
*Bananarama: True Confessions [London]
Beyoncé: B’Day [Sony]
*Blackstreet: Another Level [Universal]
Bullangus: Bullangus [Survival Research]
*The Business: Under the Influence [Radiation Reissues]
*The Common People: Of the People/By the People/For the People [Elemental]
Cornell Campbell: Press Along Natty [Lantern]
*Case/Lang/Viers: Case/Lang/Veirs [Anti-]
*Ry Cooder: Chicken Skin Music; Paris, Texas soundtrack [Acoustic Sounds]
*The Cranberries: Live at the London Astoria II, 1994 [Island]
*Dada: Puzzle [Real Gone Music]
Deicide: In Torment In Hell [Real Gone Music]
Celine Dion: Live à Paris [Sony]
*The Donnas: The Donnas [Real Gone Music]
Marcelo Exposito: The Lost Tapes [Geometrick]
Flaw: Through the Eyes [Music on Vinyl]
*Ben Folds Five: Ben Folds Five [Capitol/UMe]
Nelly Furtado: Loose [UMe]
Fu-Schnickens: F.U. Don’t Take It Personal; Nervous Breakdown [Music on Vinyl]
Garden Variety: Garden Variety [Numero Group]
*Mort Garson: Mother Earth’s Plantasia [Sacred Bones]
*The Gentrys: It’s Been So Long [Sun]
Allen Ginsberg: Howl [Craft/Fantasy]
*The Go: Free Electricity [Sub Pop]
Elliot Goldenthal: Pet Sematary soundtrack [Real Gone Music]
The Grateful Dead: Live at Ted Askey’s Pig Farm 1970 [Ozit]
Gucci Mane: Hard to Kill [Big Cat]
Jake Holmes: The Above Ground Sound of Jake Holmes [Cosmic Rock]
Freddie Hubbard & Art Blakey: Feel the Wind [Music on Vinyl]
The Incompetents: A Temporary Convergence of Interests (The Disgruntled Best Of) [Ruptured]
Jingo de Lunch: Ace to Grind [Radiation Reissues]
Korn: Follow the Leader; Untouchables; Take a Look in the Mirror [Sony]
*Ben Kweller: On My Way [Noise Company]
*Barrington Levy: Poor Man Style [Lantern]
The Mamas & The Papas: Farewell to the First Golden Era [Elemental]
The Meters: Struttin’ (black vinyl) [Jackpot]
David Moss: Full House; Dense Band [Yatak]
*Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos: Hot Rod Hootenanny [Ojo de Mujer]
Orchestra Super Mazembe: Their Greatest Hits [Survival Research]
Oregon: Beyond Words [Chesky]
Harold Ousley: The Kid! [Sillitoe]
Pennines: Recordings 2008–09 [Topshelf]
Gwenifer Raymond: Strange Light Over Garth Mountain; You Were Never Much of a Dancer [We Are Busy Bodies]
*Rubel: Pearl [Mr Bongo]
James Ruskin: Further Design [Blueprint]
Scrambled Eggs: Happier Together, Filthier Than Ever [Ruptured]
The Shadow Ring: Lighthouse [Blank Forms]
Sham 69: The Adventures of Hersham Boys; The Game [Music on Vinyl]
*The Simpsons: Songs in the Key of Springfield [Hollywood]
Sister Hazel: Somewhere More Familiar [Music on Vinyl]
Sleeping with Sirens: With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear; Let’s Cheers to This [Rise]
Smashing Pumpkins: Rotten Apples: Greatest Hits [Universal]
*Elza Soares: A Bossa Negra [Survival Research]
Spirit Caravan: Jug Fulla Sun; Elusive Truth; Dreamwheel [Heavy Psych Sounds]
*St. John Green: St. John Green [Cosmic Rock]
*Cat Stevens: Buddha and the Chocolate Box [Cat-o-log/A&M/UMe]
Stone Angel: Stone Angel [Cosmic Rock]
311: Greatest Hits ’93–’03 [Sony]
Os Tincoãs: Os Tincoãs [Music on Vinyl]
21 Savage & Metro Boomin: Savage Mode [Sony]
Venom: Bloodlust: Rare Venom [In Nomine]
The Wannadies: Bagsy Me [Music on Vinyl]
Weezer: Pinkerton [Interscope Vinyl Collective]
*Michael Yonkers Band: Microminiature Love [Sub Pop]
Various Artists: Bristol and Bath Blitz Club Meets Art School Sound - ’80s Explosion [Bristol Archive]
Various Artists: Can’t Stop It! II: Australian Post-Punk 1979–84 [Chapter Music]
Various Artists: The Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack [Survival Research]
Various Artists: Eccentric Soul: The Magic Touch Label Vol. 1 [Numero Group]
Various Artists: Freddy vs. Jason soundtrack [Real Gone Music]
Various Artists: Luciano Ingrosso Presents… JOIA Works Vol. 1 [Music on Vinyl]
Various Artists: Mountain of Soul [Charly]
Various Artists: Skyrager Presents Coconut Dreams Volume One [Mr Bongo]
