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Nonesuch releases a deluxe edition of Wilco's 2004 Grammy Award-winning album A Ghost Is Born. The box set comprises nine vinyl LPs and four CDs - including the original album, alternates, outtakes, and demos, charting the making of A Ghost Is Born-plus the complete 2004 concert recording from Boston's Wang Center and the band's "fundamentals" workshop sessions. It includes sixty-five previously unreleased music tracks as well as a forty-eight-page hardcover book with previously unpublished photos and a new liner note by Grammy-winning writer Bob Mehr. An alternate version of "Handshake Drugs," recorded during the studio sessions at New York's Sear Sound, twenty-one years ago this month, on November 13, 2003, is available now.<br/> <br/>A Ghost Is Born was released commercially on June 22, 2004, debuting at No. 8 on the Billboard chart. The album, which Mehr calls "an eclectic array of dark ballads, upbeat pop songs, Krautrock chug, noise rock freakouts, and roots rock abandon," was widely acclaimed as one of 2004's best, appearing in year-end lists of Mojo, NPR, NME, the Associated Press, The Wire, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and Uncut, among many others. The album earned the band its first Grammy, for Best Alternative Music Album. The album also won a Grammy for Best Recording Package.

Perry Lee "Scratch": King Scratch [4 Vinyl LP + 4 CD + Bok]

Limited Edition Box Set (1LP, 3CD)<br/>Celebrate 25 years of Disturbed's debut album, The Sickness, with this limited-edition 1-LP and 3-CD box set. It includes the original album, b-sides, unreleased demos, and an unreleased 14-track concert from The Palladium in LA from April 2001. Plus a book featuring rare memorabilia, an essay with new interviews with the members of Disturbed, and producer Johnny K. The box also includes a poster, a cloth patch, back stage pass, and a set of guitar picks.