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In The News: Nirvana, Against Me!, Bangles, Erasure, Blitzen Trapper, Sugar, Glen Campbell And More

On September 27, Universal Music Enterprises celebrates the 20th anniversary of Nirvana‘s Nevermind with a four-CD/one-DVD deluxe edition of the culture-changing album. The CDs include unreleased recordings, rarities, b-sides, BBC appearances, alternative mixes and live recordings; the DVD features a complete unreleased concert … MAGNET fave Against Me! is reissuing its fifth album, last year’s White Crosses, on July 26 via its brand new Total Treble Music label. The 28-track, two-part, double-CD set features the original 10 songs and four bonus tunes as well as 14 alternate versions and unreleased tracks. The band’s next studio record will also come out via Total Treble Music … On September 13, the Bangles will release their first album of new music in eight years: Sweetheart Of The Sun (Model Music Group) … Erasure returns this fall with Tomorrow’s World (Mute), the synth-pop band’s first album in almost half a decade. A 25-date U.S. tour supporting the Frankmusik-produced LP kicks off August 31 in Tampa … On September 13, Sub Pop will release American Goldwing, the new album by Blitzen Trapper. A North American tour starts July 19 in Salt Lake City … The Ryko label has remastered and reissued Sugar‘s 1992 masterpiece Copper Blue, releasing it on vinyl for the first time. Frontman Bob Mould supervised the reissue, and the likes of Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) and Paul Banks (Interpol) contributed liner notes … Guy Clark is releasing live album Songs And Stories (Dualtone) on August 16. The 23-track LP was recorded at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville … Sadly, the legendary Glen Campbell was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, but he is wrapping up his half century in the music biz with a new album and a farewell tour. The LP, Ghost On The Canvas (out August 30 via Surfdog), features songs written by the likes of Robert Pollard, Paul Westerberg, Jakob Dylan and Teddy Thompson and a band consisting of Chris Isaak, Dick Dale, Billy Corgan, Brian Setzer, Rick Nielsen, Roger Manning, the Dandy Warhols and more … Warren Zanes‘ third solo album, I Want To Move Out In The Daylight, is out July 26 via Ella’s Arms.