Nirvana’s In Utero turns 20 this year, a milestone that will be celebrated with a multi-format reissue on September 24 via UMe. It includes the full remastered album along with b-sides, previously unreleased demos and a DVD of the band’s 1993 “Live And Loud” concert … On October 1, Blitzen Trapper will release its seventh studio album, VII, on Vagrant. The band kicks off a supporting North American tour later this month … The fourth studio album from James Blunt, Moon Landing, will be issued by Atlantic on November 5 … The release of a 34-disc boxed set containing the complete catalog by Herbie Hancock has been announced. Herbie Hancock: The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988 is due out November 12 … Atlantic/Rhino will issue two Rush releases on October 1: a newly remixed version of 2002’s Vapor Trails and a seven-disc boxed set, The Studio Albums 1989-2007, featuring every album the band recorded for Atlantic … Patty Griffin’s unreleased Silver Bell, recorded in 2000, will finally be available from UMe on October 8 … Warring is the final installment of a trilogy of releases by the Darcys for Arts & Crafts, slated for a September 17 release … September 2 marks the release of Sequel To The Prequel, the new Babyshambles record … The first studio album in more than seven years from Gary Numan, Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind), will be available October 15 via Numan’s Machine Music label … Concord has announced the September 17 release of five new titles in its Original Jazz Classics Remasters series from Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie, Oscar Peterson & Stephane Grappelli, Zoot Sims and Art Tatum … Cursive’s Tim Kasher will issue his new solo album, Adult Film, on October 8 via Saddle Creek … The Ghost List, the new EP from Girls Against Boys, will be out from Epitonic on September 24.
—Emily Costantino
