It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty-five years.  It’s even harder to believe that the band are seriously considering re-recording it due to a record company dispute, but Def Leppard’s multi-million selling, world-dominating ‘Hysteria’ is now a quarter of a century old.

Sheffield’s finest discussed ‘Hysteria’ at length with US DJ Redbeard, whose syndicated show ‘In The Studio’, which discusses many classic albums, has a strong following.  [The show about Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ is worth a listen]

You can hear the full show on Redbeard’s website at this location.

Deluxe reissue specialists Rhino have announced plans to re-release Pantera’s last three releases on vinyl in the US at the end of July.

‘The Great Southern Trendkill’, ‘Official Live: 101 Proof’ and ‘Reinventing The Steel’ will each be released on high quality 180g vinyl; the first two as double sets and ‘Reinventing The Steel’ as a single LP.

It marks the first time that ‘Official Live’ has been given the vinyl treatment.  ‘The Great Southern Trendkill’ was given a very limited vinyl pressing at the time of its original release in 1996, while ‘Reinventing The Steel’ supposedly came out on viny in 2000, but proved impossible to find.  The new vinyl reissue of ‘Trendkill’ expands the release to two discs and adds a previously missing track ‘Suicide Note Pt 1’.

Over the past year, Rhino have released expanded CD versions of Pantera’s ‘Cowboys From Hell’ and ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ to fan acclaim.  It is known known at this time whether Rhino plans to issue expanded CDs of the other Pantera albums.

It was recently announced that singer-songwriter Beth Orton was to break a long haitus with the release of new material and a short UK tour.

It has now been confirmed her new album will be titled ‘Sugaring Season’ and will be released via Anti Records on October 1st.

Tracklist:
‘Magpie’
‘Dawn Chorus’
‘Candles’
‘Something More Beautiful’
‘Call Me The Breeze’
‘Poison Tree’
‘See Through Blue’
‘Last Leaves of Autumn’
‘State of Grace’
‘Mystery’

‘Sugaring Season’ is Orton’s first new work since the release of ‘Comfort of Strangers’ in 2006.

Jack White hass announced that recordings of The White Stripes’ debut performance will be made available to fans this year.

Three recordings from an open mic night at The Gold Dollar in August 1997 will be issued on a strictly limited edition red vinyl 7″.  Songs included are ‘Jimmy The Exploder’, ‘St James Infirmary Blues’ and ‘Love Potion #9’.

Fans who wish to own these recordings will have to sign up to Jack White’s Third Man Vault, a record collector’s subscription which costs approximately £75 per quarter for UK fans.

Also issued in the next Vault package will be a coloured vinyl 12″ LP containing more White Stripes recordings from a different Gold Dollar show.  Both records will be housed in a limited White Stripes tote bag.

The cut off date for the package subscription is July 31st.

A new interview with hard rock/classic rock vocalist Tony Martin has been posted online.

Although his most recent work is with European guitarist Dario Mollo (released under the Mollo-Martin name), Tony Martin will be best known to many as having been the vocalist with Black Sabbath during the late 80s/early 90s, even though his tenure with the band tends to be the most overlooked.

Between 1987 and 1995, Martin recorded five studio albums with Sabbath, the second of which, 1989’s ‘Headless Cross’ is arguably the best known.  To date, most of Martin’s albums with Black Sabbath have not received the deluxe reissue treatment, with 1987’s ‘Eternal Idol’ being the only one currently on catalogue.

Near the end of 2011, Tony Martin announced tentative plans to reissue his hard to find solo record from 1992.