New music releases in September 2024

September will be marked by a series of great live recordings – and the return of a Pink Floyd legend.

Happiness and Strangeness is David Gilmour's first solo album in nearly a decade. Charlie Andrew takes on the role of co-producer after Gilmour released two LPs with Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music. Interesting for Floyd fans: the title track contains an archive recording by Gilmour's late bandmate Richard Wright.

Bob Dylan's historic return to tour in the 1970s is the focus of a new box set. The live recordings from 1974. It contains more than 430 tracks, almost all unreleased, from performances with the band. America also releases a special concert performance, Live from the Hollywood Bowl 1975where they performed with an orchestra conducted by George Martin.

Fleetwood Mac Mirage Tour '82 brings together 22 songs from two sold-out shows at the Los Angeles Forum, performed during a 31-city US tour. Neil Young's 17-CD album Archive Volume III The set contains 198 tracks recorded between 1976 and 1987. The 19-disc box set by Grateful Dead Friend of the Devil: April 1978 contains eight complete, previously unreleased concerts.

Chicago founding trumpeter Lee Loughnane and engineer Tim Jessup returned to the original multitrack tapes to create the 26-track Chicago at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC (September 16, 1971) Live collection. Axl Rose, Slash and Dee Snider are among the guests on Michael Schenker's My years with UFOwhich contains updates of 11 tracks from his time with the band.

You can find more information on these and other upcoming rock albums below, and don't forget to follow our constantly updated list of new music releases for details on records released throughout the year.

6 September
America, Live from the Hollywood Bowl 1975
David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Blu-ray audio disc)
David Gilmour, Happiness and Strangeness
Dead daisies, Light them
Fast Eddie Clarke [Motorhead], Make My Day: The Rock'n'Roll Story of Fast Eddie Clarke (4CD/Book)
Genesis, Nursery Cryme; Selling England by the Pound; The Wind and Wuthering; We Can't Dance; Calling All Stations (remastered vinyl reissues)
King Crimson, Sheltering Skies: Live in Frejus, August 27, 1982
Neil Young, Archive Volume III
Steve Marriot [Small Faces/Humble Pie], From poor man to rich man: 1978-1987
Tom Verlaine [Television], Songs and other things (blue-green vinyl reissue)
That That, Animation

13 September
Black Sabbath, The end (4K UHD reissue)
Johnny Cash, Biggest hits (2LP vinyl reissue)
Eric Clapton, Slowhand at 70: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (4K UHD reissue); Unplugged (purple vinyl reissue)
Frank Zappa, apostrophe (50th anniversary super deluxe edition; reissued on gold metallic vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix experience, Electric Lady Studios: A vision of Jimi Hendrix (3CD/5LP/Blu-ray box)
Nick Lowe, Indoor Safari
Pat Benatar, Crimes of Passion; In the Heat of the Night; Precious Time (various vinyl reissues)
Randy Newman, Located in Pleasantville, 1.7 km from Pleasantville Beach. (Deluxe Edition 2LP, reissue on red, white and blue vinyl)
Stryper, When we were kings
Van Morrison, New arrangements and duets
Velvet revolver, Contraband (Deluxe Edition, 2LP vinyl reissue)

20 September
Bob Dylan and the Band, The live recordings from 1974
Fleetwood Mac, Mirage Tour '82 (3LP vinyl set)
Thankful, Friend of the Devil: April 1978; Duke '78 (3CD/4LP)
Curved air, The Rarities Series (6CD box)
Jackson Browne, For everyone (vinyl reissue)
Michael Schenker [UFO/Scorpions], My years with UFO (with Axl Rose, Dee Snider, Slash and others)
Phil Collins, Both sides: All sides (expanded reissue; 5LP box)
rainbow, Live in Munich 1977 (2CD/DVD set)
Santana, Supernatural: 25th Anniversary Edition (red 2LP reissue)
Skid Row, Live in London

27 September
Alice in Chains, Black is replaced by blue (vinyl reissue)
Chicago, At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC (September 16, 1971) (3CD; 4LP)
Genesis, A Trick of the Tail; And Then There Were Three; Invisible Touch (remastered vinyl reissues)
Kim Wilde, Love moves; love is; now and forever (extended 3CD/DVD reissues)
Steve Howe [Yes], Guitar landscape
Thin Lizzy, 1976 (6CD box); Jailbreak: 2024 Remix (Reissue on grey vinyl); Johnny the Fox: 2024 Remix (brick red vinyl reissue)
Vanilla fudge, Where is my mind: The Atco recordings 1967-69 (9CD box)
Various artists, Cut Me Deep: A History of Indie Pop 1985-1989 (4-CD box set with the Stone Roses, Jesus and Mary Chain, Edwyn Collins, the Sundays and others)
Various artists, Sprinkle a Little Sugar on It: The Chewy, Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum: 1966-1971 (with the Archies, the Monkees, Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum and others)

October and beyond
Joni Mitchell, Archive, Volume 4: The Years in the Institution (1976-1980) (4LP box)
Rick Wakeman, Yessonate (German) (12-inch vinyl)
Various artists, He took us by storm: 25 lost classics from Bob Dylan's folk-rock revolution (with Lou Reed, Bob Seger, David Crosby, Boz Scaggs, Leon Russell and others)
MC5, Heavy lifting
Jerry Cantrell [Alice in Chains], I want blood (with Duff McKagan, Robert Trujillo and others)
Allman Brothers Band, Final concert 28.10.14 (3-CD set)
Bryan Ferry, Retrospective: Selected recordings 1973-2023
Ian Hunter, You are never alone with a schizophrenic; Short back and sides (extended 2CD/LP reissues)
Smash pumpkins, Aghori Mhori Mei (Vinyl edition)

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