The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1996 album The Aeroplane Flies High will be reissued by Virgin/UMe as four separate versions: a six-CD boxed set, a five-LP vinyl set and two digital configurations. This limited-edition release, due out July 23, will feature the remastered original tracks along with unreleased demos, alternate versions and live recordings along with extensive track-by-track notes by Billy Corgan … Hesitation Marks is the title of the new Nine Inch Nails album, which will be released by Columbia on September 3. The band will hit the road soon after for North American arena tour in support … On June 25, Alicia Keys’ appearance on VH1 Storytellers will be available on CD, DVD and Blu-ray … The fifth studio album by Amos Lee, Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song, is slated for an October 1 release via Blue Note … Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings have announced that the release of Give The People What They Want and the band’s upcoming tour have been postponed due to Jones’ diagnosis of stage-one bile duct cancer … On July 17, Eric Copeland will issue his new solo album, Joke In The Hole, via DFA … Twenty years have passed since the release of Propagandhi’s How To Clean Everything. This milestone will be celebrated with a new edition, out August 20 via Fat Wreck Chords, which will include three outtakes and the rare HTCE demo … Sugar Hill will issue The Definitive Doc Watson, a two-disc anthology showcasing the work of Doc Watson, on July 16 … Higher! is a deluxe four-disc boxed set celebrating the career of Sly & The Family Stone, available from Epic/Legacy on August 27 … Aerosmith’s first live video release in nine years, Rock For The Rising Sun, will be available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats on July 23 via Eagle Rock … September 24 will mark the release of the new album from Sting, The Last Ship, via Cherrytree/Interscope/A&M. The album was inspired by his forthcoming play of the same name, which will debut on Broadway in 2014 … A new double album, Meet Me At The Edge Of The World, will be issued by Over The Rhine on September 3 via the band’s Great Speckled Dog label … Sony will issue the new Tedeschi Trucks Band album, Made Up Mind, on August 20 … Robbie Fulks’s first Bloodshot release since 2001, Gone Away Backward, will be out August 27 … Mixed Up is a track-for-track remix album of Puscifer’s sophomore album, Conditions Of My Parole, due out August 27.
—Emily Costantino
