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The Beastie Boys have put out 2 rare EP’s from the late 80’s in celebration of their 30th anniversary of their album ‘Paul’s Boutique’.  The titles are “An Exciting Evening At Home With Shadrach, Meshach And Abednego” and the “Love American Style.  These are the first two EP’s from a total of six rare EP’s they will put out over the next three weeks.

These EP’s will have B-sides, remixes, live versions and a slew of other music.

Thanks to Billboard.com for making this list of Top Album Sales This Week. For the week of May 25, 2019, here’s the top 10:

*Space Between – Sammy Hagar & The Circle
*Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind – Logic
*Here Comes The Cowboy – Mac DeMarco
*United – newsboys
*Map Of The Soul: PERSONA – BTS
*When We All Fall Asleep – Billie Eilish
*Beautiful Trauma – P!nk
*Father of the Bride – Vampire Weekend
*Greatest Hits I, II & III: The Platinum Collection – Queen

It’s nice to see Queen on this list. Freddie Mercury would be proud!

Even though I think Billy Corgan is a big douche, I thought I should still post the recent news.  Smashing Pumpkins are reissuing their early albums over a three year period.  This fall they will release 1993’s “Siamese Dream” and “Gish” then next year it will be the double album “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”, “The Aeroplane Flies High” then “Adore”.  In 2013 it will be “Machina/The Machines of God” and “Machina II: The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music.  Corgan said about the deal:

“What makes the deal with EMI groundbreaking is the band has secured the right to all unreleased materials and will be in charge of any additional releases based on our discretion.  In essence, the band has the keys to the warehouse and can release whatever we want, when we want it.”

On April 5th, Iggy & The Stooges are releasing a special 180 Gram vinyl titled “Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans”. Its their Raw Power performance at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival back on September 3, 2010.

Iggy states:

“Getting this top-notch performance of the entire Raw Power album by The Stooges realized a life long dream. This shit really sizzles and we are so obviously a crack band in a class of our own.”

If you’re a Ronnie James Dio fan then you can’t wait until November. Niji Entertainment Group is the label formed by the late Dio and his wife/manager Wendy Dio and they will be releasing 3 different Dio pieces. First on November 9th it will be ‘Dio At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987’.

You will also be able to get the new CD from David “Rock” Feinstein called ‘Bitten By The Beast” which will have a song called ‘Metal Will Never Die’ with lead vocals from Dio. November 23rd will be a limited edition Picture Disc on vinyl of ‘Holy Diver’.

The label is also working on a CD Box and reissues on 180 gram colored vinyl.

In 1965 Frank Sinatra recorded the classic album “September of My Years” and on August 31, 2010 a remastered version is coming out. Along with the original 13 songs there will also be 2 bonus tracks, an alternate version of “How Old Am I” and a live version of “This Is All I Ask.” If you’re into Sinatra, I’m sure you’ll be getting this.

Porter House Prime Vinyl is releasing the great Circle Jerks “Wonderful” and X “Under the Big Black Sun” on 180 gram 12″ vinyl. On June 8th Circle Jerks “Wonderful” will come out with the original lyric sleeve and X “Under the Big Black Sun” will also come out with original inner lyric sheet.

Last year, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released their first 4 studio albums and now on April 5th they will be releasing their fifth through seventh studio albums ‘Tender Prey’, ‘The Good Son’ and ‘Henry’s Dream’. Each one will be re-mastered and will include b-sides from the singles along with exclusive sleeve notes and videos. There will also be a special short film but Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

D.R.I.’s 1987 album Crossover is due for a reissue on April 13th.  It will come out in digital, LP and CD formats and was remastered by Bill Metoyer who was the original engineer on the album in 1987.  There will also be 6 live tracks, 2 demos and 3 interviews.

Back in July of this year one of my favorite bands, Clutch, put out their great album ‘Strange Cousins from the West’.   Well on December 15th they will be putting out a special vinyl version of that album which will be a double LP with two extra tracks.  Plus the first 4,000 copies will have a coupon that will get you free downloads of the songs from their site at Pro-Rock.com

John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols) is going on tour with his band PiL, Public Image Ltd. on December 15th.  Bummer its going to be in the UK only because I would LOVE to see him play.  I have all PiL’s albums….yes albums as in vinyl.  Well to get people back into him, he’s reissuing their 1979 album ‘Metal Box’ along with a three-CD set with 64 tracks and rarities including the John Peel sessions and remixes. Here’s an old video

Rolling Stones will be reissuing 5 of their live albums that were recorded between 1975 and 2002.  Each will keep its original tracklisting and artwork.  The albums are ‘Love You Live’, ‘Still Life’, ‘Flashpoint’, ‘Stripped’ and ‘Live Licks’.  All this happening on November 9th.