The 50th anniversary of the Kinks will be celebrated by BMG/InGrooves with the release of a five-disc boxed set, The Anthology 1964-1971, on November 18. It will contain career-spanning material including rare demos, interviews, alternate mixes, outtakes and more … Mailboat will issue Live, which features performances by Jeff Bridges & The Abiders in Las Vegas, on September 30 … Pretty Music For Pretty People is the new record from the Dead Milkmen, due out October 7 … Pink Floyd has announced the November 10 release of The Endless River, which was started during the band’s 1993 Division Bell sessions, on Columbia … On October 27, the Fall will release Live: Uurop VIII-XII Places In Sun & Winter, Son via Cherry Red … Another classic Jeff Healey Band concert will be issued by Eagle Rock, Live At The Horseshoe Tavern, on October 7 … A 10-year anniversary two-disc Blu-ray edition of Metallica documentary film Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster is set for a November 24 release … Avonmore, the latest album from Bryan Ferry, is due out November 18 via BMG … Columbia/Legacy will issue a boxed set of seven remastered Bruce Springsteen albums, The Album Collection Vol. 1 1973-1984, on November 17 … The 40th birthday of Jethro Tull’s Warchild will be celebrated with an expanded two-CD/two-DVD set—complete with unreleased tracks, orchestral pieces and rare video footage—on November 24 via Parlophone … R.E.M.’s relationship with MTV is chronicled on REMTV, a six-DVD collection of live performances, award-show highlights and a feature-length documentary. It will be available from Rhino on November 24 … This year marks the Who’s 50th birthday, which will be commemorated with a two-disc definitive-hits collection, Who Hits 50!, set for an October 27 release on Geffen/UMe … Sinatra: London is a deluxe three-CD/DVD collection containing more than 50 unreleased tracks by Frank Sinatra, which will be out from UMe on November 25 … Columbia is slated to issue the new AC/DC record, Rock Or Bust, on December 2 … On November 11, earMusic/Eagle Rock will release Status Quo’s Aquostic (Stripped Bare) … Drivin’ And Cryin’ is the subjects of evh pic/Shanzing Films documentary Scarred But Smarter (life n times of drivin n cryin), which will be in stores on DVD and Blu-ray on November 4.
—Emily Costantino
