Add The Who’s Quadrophenia to the list of classic albums getting the box set treatment in 2011 (along with U2′s Achtung Baby, The Beach Boys’ Smile, and a pair from Pink Floyd; Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.) Quadrophenia, released in 1973, was The Who’s sixth studio album. It’s an ambitious [...]

The original recordings from the Beach Boys legendary Smile sessions (’66-’67) are finally set to be officially released. There will be a double CD version, a double vinyl version, and a 9 disc box set! (Click Here to order the box set on Amazon) What’s In The Smile Sessions Box Set? + Five CDs. + [...]

Are you saving up your important re-issues money this summer, because the autumn is going to be pricy. What with the Pink Floyd extravaganza and all. Well, add to it the “Achtung Baby” blitz and there’s nothing left for Hanukkuh! After the “earnest young men” ’80s, where were they to go next, without expecting diminishing [...]

Sometime ago, our illustrious host here at Music By Day once said that The Beatles were relatively late to the box set game, however I would like to point out that The Beatles were in fact the first to the Box Set game. 12 years in fact before the 1990 Led Zeppelin box set that [...]

The Discovery Box Set This 16 disc box set includes all of Pink Floyd’s fourteen studio albums from 1967′s Piper at the Gates of Dawn to 1994′s The Division Bell. All of the albums have been digitally remastered by James Guthrie (who co-produced The Wall.) The Discovery Box Set also includes an exclusive 60 page [...]

A new John Lennon box set (SIGNATURE BOX) is being released on October 4th (you can pre-order it on Amazon.com now.) This is what the 11 disc set includes: + All eight John Lennon solo albums remastered (hopefully done as well as the remastered Beatles albums in The Beatles Stereo Box Set.) + A disc [...]

I’m jazz novice but I do quite enjoy the Miles Davis stuff that I have (the usual suspects like Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, & Bitches Brew.) But you true jazz freaks (hopefully Howard Moon is reading this…) may want to get your hands on The Complete Columbia Album Collection which is a 70 [...]

With the upcoming release of The Beatles USB (on December eighth) there will be three different flavors of The Beatles new remasters available. (And if the rumors are true then a fourth flavor, vinyl, will be added next year.) FLAVOR ONE: The Beatles in Stereo Box Set Features remastered stereo mixes of every Beatles song [...]

The Beatles Stereo Box Set is back in stock on Amazon.com this Friday. It’s been sold out about two months now and who knows if/when it may sell out again. So if you’re really wanting this for yourself (or as a Christmas present for someone else) I’d definitely head on over to Amazon and order [...]

The “back in stock” date for The Beatles Mono Box Set has been moved up on Amazon.com, it’s now Friday, October 23, 2009 (AKA: Tomorrow!) This means if you order it today, it will be shipped tomorrow. I’m not sure of how many new copies of the box set were made or whether it will [...]