The Fat Angel Sings

George Harrison’s gold-selling album “Living in the Material World” will be expanded with a suite of expanded 50th-Anniversary reissue packages.

The limited-edition super deluxe edition spans 2CDs, 2LPs and a Blu-ray with a new Dolby Atmos mix. Included are 12 previously unreleased recordings, a 60-page booklet and artwork from the Harrison archive. An included seven-inch single also features a previously unheard recording of “Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymund)” with Ringo Starr and members of the Band, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Garth Hudson.

Lovingly overseen by Dhani and Olivia Harrison, “Living in the Material World” has now been completely remixed by triple grammy award winner Paul Hicks from the original tapes for a stunning suite of 50th Anniversary releases. Dhani writing “Finally, we are overjoyed to present to you the 50th anniversary package of George Harrison’s “Living in the Material World”. For those of you who are just discovering this album; This record was released in service and with deep love for all our Brothers and Sisters around the world who populate this dualistic system we live in called Earth. Peace be upon all sentient beings.”

As a preview of the super deluxe edition, they’ve shared a previously unreleased rendition of Harrison’s “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth).” It’s assumedly the 18th take Harrison recorded, as the new track is delineated with a “Take 18” parenthetical. With his signature yearning, raspy vocals and a sole acoustic backing the Beatle, the song is a poignant and authentic reminder of Harrison’s early ’70s majesty.

“I hope you revisit “Living in the Material World” or discover it for the first time, and as you listen, share George’s wish for himself and mankind: ‘Give me Love, give me peace on Earth,'” Harrison’s widow Olivia said in an official statement. She co-produced the reissue project with their son Dhani.

The set will be available as a Super Deluxe Edition including 2LPs, 2CDs, Blu-ray, 7” vinyl, 60-page book with exclusive images, & 12-page recording booklet all housed in a rigid slipcase, as well as 2LP & 2CD Deluxe Editions,

“LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD” 50TH ANNIVERSARY will be released on November 15th.

Talking Heads have announced a Super Deluxe Edition of their debut album, “Talking Heads: 77”. On November 8th, a Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads’ landmark debut, featuring a number of rarities and previously unreleased tracks – including a live set captured at CBGB, New York, on October 10th, 1977.

The three-CD/Blu-ray and four-LP vinyl sets will be available and include’s a remastered version of the original album, a disc of rarities and a disc of live tracks, all previously unreleased.

an acoustic version of “Psycho Killer” featuring Arthur Russell, from the upcoming set, A 4xLP + 4×7” boxset of Talking Heads: 77 which includes the remastered original album, one LP of rare and previously unreleased demos and outtakes, and a double LP of “Live At CBGB, New York, NY, Oct. 10, 1977“. An 80-page hardcover book features never-before-seen photos, fliers, artwork, and liner notes personally penned by each member of the band – Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Jerry Harrison – plus recording engineer Ed Stasium.

The Blu-ray in the CD version features new Atmos Mix, 5.1 Mix DTS-HD MA and 5.1 Mix LPCM overseen by Harrison and a 2024 Stereo Remaster.

The rarities include B-sides and outtakes from the era, including “Sugar on My Tongue” and “(Love Goes to) Building on Fire.” It also features acoustic versions of songs, as well as previously unreleased versions of “Pulled Up” and “Psycho Killer.”

The live set taken from an October 1977 appearance at CBGB around the time of the album’s release includes 13 songs, most taken from “Talking Heads: 77”, which was released less than a month before the show. Among the songs played is a cover of Al Green’s “Take Me to the River,” which would be recorded for their second album, 1978’s “More Songs About Buildings and Food“, and became their first Top 40 single.

The deluxe set features many outtakes/rarities and live tracks with the blu-ray featuring a Dolby Atmos Mix, along with 5.1 and hi-res stereo mixes.

“Talking Heads: 77” (Super Deluxe Edition) released 8th November

“People are saying it’s the first new Lone Justice record in 40 years, and I’m like… is it?” says Maria McKee, the band’s vocalist. The answer is both yes and no. While the group hasn’t released a proper full-length since 1986’s “Shelter“, the upcoming album “Viva Lone Justice” isn’t technically new. McKee recorded the bulk of the material with ex-bandmates Marvin Etzioni and Don Heffington as demos for her 1992 solo effort “You Gotta Sin To Get Saved“.

Dusting off those tapes in the wake of Heffington’s passing in 2021, Etzioni encouraged McKee to turn the sessions into a new solo album. Instead, she suggested they reach out to another former bandmate, guitarist Ryan Hedgecock, to add overdubs and release it under the Lone Justice name.

“Viva Lone Justice” is a rollicking, eclectic ride that puts hillbilly country stomp alongside shimmery folk, barrelhouse blues and a faithfully ripping cover of The Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks”, recorded in honour of Feargal Sharkey who scored his only No 1 single in 1985 with the McKee-composed “A Good Heart”.

“I didn’t do anything,” McKee says of the finished album. “Marvin called me one day and said, ‘It’s done.’ I was completely blown away. It really has this wild energy. This is like fire.”

“This is the closest thing to what our original vision was for a Lone Justice record,” adds Hedgecock. “When we were playing at [famed Hollywood country venue] the Palomino, we’d go from a George Jones song into a Jimi Hendrix song. Nothing else that’s ever been out there has been reflective of the band.”

When Hedgecock and McKee started Lone Justice in 1982, both were becoming soured on the punk and rockabilly scenes in their native LA, finding fresh inspiration in the recordings of George Jones and Rose Maddox. “We just went further back,” says McKee. “There was no way to be subversive any more because punk was everywhere. So going back to the roots of everything was our way of being rebels.”

With McKee’s powerful voice and their rowdy live shows, Lone Justice’s star rose quickly. Before they knew it, the group was being praised by Dolly Parton and finding themselves in the studio with Bob Dylan to record his song, “Go ‘Way Little Boy”. The session was memorably contentious. “I was a brat and he was a brat,” remembers McKee. “I was fearless, and he loved me for it. I was one of the only people he liked because I hated him. He was so sick of everybody kissing his ass. He kept sending me out to sing the song over and over and over again. He was like, ‘You’re doing it all wrong.’ So finally I just did a Bob Dylan impression. When I did, he gave me this wink and said, ‘I knew you had it in you.’”

Neither of Lone Justice’s two albums were wildly successful and the band soon fell apart. That’s not to say they have been completely overlooked. The past few years have seen the release of various archival recordings

Zakk Sabbath, the Black Sabbath cover band featuring guitarist/vocalist Zakk Wylde ( Ozzy Osbourne), bassist Blasko (Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie) and drummer Joey Castillo (Danzig, Queens Of The Stone Age)

“Greatest Riffs” features selected songs from the ZAKK SABBATH albums “Vertigo” (2020) and “Doomed Forever Forever Doomed” (2024). Originally, the tribute band elected to release these albums in physical formats only to hearken back to the originals. Yet their fans kept asking for an official digital release, so at long last the band has agreed to publish a hand-picked collection assembled in homage to one of Black Sabbaths most ubiquitous releases, “We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n Roll”, the ultimate greatest hits album!.

released September 17th, 2024

2024, 2024 Magnetic Eye Records

Van Halen’s third straight No. 1 album with singer Sammy Hagar, and the bands ninth LP overall, gets a two-CD remaster with a disc of rarities and live tracks. The previously unreleased show recordings, from Dallas in 1991, the year of the album’s release, are also included in a Blu-ray along with video clips for the singles “Poundcake,” “Right Now” and two others. Instrumental versions and single mixes round out the expanded set.

In the summer of 1991, Van Halen’s “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” debuted at #1 on release. This summer, you can hear it better than ever! The Triple-Platinum album is getting remastered and reissued.

The Expanded Edition includes previously unreleased alternate versions of “Right Now” and “The Dream Is Over.” The main attraction, however, has to be the previously unreleased concert footage from Van Halen’s December 4th, 1991, performance in Dallas. Captured during the “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Tour,” this electrifying show is a powerful example of Van Halen’s unparalleled stage presence.

The show’s setlist mixes new songs “Judgement Day” and “Poundcake” with songs from “5150” and “OU812“ “(“Best Of Both Worlds” and “Finish What Ya Started”). The band also played “Panama,” a hit from its time with singer David Lee Roth, plus two of Hagar’s hits, “I Can’t Drive 55” and “There’s Only One Way To Rock.”

In addition, the BLU-RAY includes the official music videos for “Poundcake,” “Runaround,” “Right Now,” and “Top Of The World.” Finally, the remastered album is included in the set as a double LP, featuring an etching of the Van Halen logo on the fourth side.

Includes an exclusive BOOKLET loaded with never-before-seen band photos, rare memorabilia, and ephemera. It’s truly incredible and well done. 32-pages, measuring 12″ x 12″.

Released on July 12th

“King of America” became Rhino’s penultimate reissue Of Elvis Costello in 2005, With a front cover sticker cheekily hailed it as “the album that fans, critics and Elvis Costello all agree on.” Perhaps that’s why it’ll be the next of his classic albums to receive a deluxe box set later this year. Elvis Costello will release a sprawling new box set on November 1st, titled “King of America & Other Realms. As its name suggests, the six-disc set includes a newly remastered edition of Costello’s 1986 album “King of America”, originally co-produced with T Bone Burnett. The remastered 1986 album is paired with a disc of demos and outtakes (six of them previously unreleased), The deluxe release follows the super deluxe, vinyl-and-digital-only of The Complete Armed Forces box set.

Additionally, it features a previously unreleased live concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1987, plus more unreleased demos, outtakes and live recordings, a 35-page essay by Costello himself and rare photographs. As a press release succinctly puts it, the set “celebrates and explores the songwriter’s lifelong love, fascination and influence of American music.”

There will also be a two-disc CD version containing the remastered “King of America” and a second disc of highlights from the collection.

Costello’s 10th studio album was a marked departure from his last two records: “Punch the Clock” (1983) and “Goodbye Cruel World” (1984) were slick pop affairs overseen by producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. “Congratulations! You’ve just purchased our worst album.” Undaunted, the singer/songwriter embarked on a tour with American musician T-Bone Burnett under the moniker “The Coward Brothers,” releasing a single, “The People’s Limousine,” in 1985. (Both sides of the single bookend the box’s second disc, “Le Roi Sans Sabots – Demos, Outtakes & Other Realms.”)  The album’s sole worldwide single, a cover of Nina Simone’s “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” was a minor U.K. Top 40 hit, though album cuts “Brilliant Mistake” and “Indoor Fireworks” remain among the most-beloved (and most-played) selections from the album. 

The 12″ x 11.5″ package, produced by Costello and Steve Berkowitz, includes 57 pages of liner notes, including a lengthy essay by Costello on the making of the album plus rare and unseen photos. (A 2CD cut-down will be issued as well.

A complete track listening for the deluxe edition is available along with the newly remastered 2024 version of “Indoor Fireworks.”

Adding to the recent string of indie pop songs that the Death Cab for Cutie frontman has been featured in, this brooding and grungy track from Seattle’s Sea Lemon—aka Natalie Lew—is a meeting point for both musician’s distinct indie rock eras. Ben Gibbard’s trademark low, whispery vocals fuel the song’s darkness, and Lew’s voice is shrouded in an airy mystique as she sings of using manifestation and looking for signs in nature as a way of coping. But while Lew’s verses are more lighthearted and abstract, Gibbard balances the optimism out with a stark dose of a straightforward, traditionally emo mentality—“It seems that all I wanna do is sleep these days / And wake up in about a year and not feel this way.” This meeting of the minds makes for a dreamy and fuzzy blend of the greatest parts of the genre, both new and old.

Seattle-based Natalie Lew has always had a creative mind, whether through designing, writing short fiction or, most recently, the dream-pop concoctions she records as Sea Lemon. Lew’s deceptively luminescent sonic world often hints at darker textures beneath the surface, and debut 2023 EP ‘Stop At Nothing’ balanced a cinematic clarity of vision with undertones of fear and longing. For driving new single “Crystals,” her first of 2024, Lew tapped Death Cab For Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard, a preexisting fan of Lew’s who had previously reached out to duet at a benefit show in Seattle both artists were playing. The resulting collaboration sounds both weightier and more exhilarating than anything Lew has released before: in a rousing arc, the duo’s complementary verses are a perfect pairing alongside a whirlwind of shimmering guitar and the joy felt with finally letting go.

Sea Lemon’s new single “Crystals (feat. Benjamin Gibbard)” is out now on Luminelle Recordings.

For the last, but certainly not least, in a string of excellent singles from their 4th LP “VIVA HINDS”, the Spanish duo have teamed up with Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten on “Stranger,” a track that taps both artists’ most whimsical inclinations. A head-in-the-clouds indie pop rock ballad that rides on a heart-skipping beat, “Stranger” is cute without ever becoming cloying. Listening to the final chorus, you can almost picture Ana Perrote, Carlotta Cosials and Chatten singing to themselves on a screen split in thirds, each lost in their own heads, finding unexpected joy in loneliness and giving their daydreams room to breathe.