News last week that working with Neil Young has provided therapeutic benefits to Daniel Lanois as the producer recuperates from a serious motorcycle accident (story) is followed by word that four songs from the album will premier in multimedia form at the stroke of midnight on Oct 2 at the Nuit Blanche festival in Toronto.  Young has also announced that four previously unreleased albums (3 studio, 1 live) being included in his next archive release are being largely 'rebuilt' for release in vinyl form in what he has dubbed a Special Release Series. Young, a steadfast proponent of analog recording, has more company these days, with increasing number of artist opting to offer non-digital recordings of new releases in lp format and re-releases of older albums on vinyl.  Rhino will release remastered vinyl of  five Warner Brothers Grateful Dead albums in a box set Settember 21.  The set includes the self-titled 1967 album, Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Anthem Of The Sun and Aoxomoxoa.  Orders placed through Dead.net will include a picture sleeve 45 of Dark Star backed with Born Cross-Eyed and a repro of a poster WB put out promoting the first album.
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