Prince’s estate will release a massive Sign O’ the Times box set later this year, and have been releasing a steady stream of unreleased tracks from the Purple One’s vault. While the cuts have been culled from numerous sources, today, they issued one from the Sign O’ the Times era. “Witness 4 the Prosecution (Version 2)” was recorded at […]
The Prince Estate went into the vault for another previously unreleased song, “Cosmic Day.” The track was recorded on November 15, 1986, at Sunset Sound, Studio 3, with engineers Susan Rogers and Coke Johnson. “While the song had floated among ardent collectors as a small snippet, the full version reveals Prince at his most psychedelic,” reads […]
Prince’s estate has just dropped the original version of “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man,” from 1979. The minimal-sounding demo is part of the the ridiculously stacked reissue of Prince’s 1987 double LP, Sign O’ the Times, which is set to drop on Sept. 25. Recorded at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Studio A […]
The Prince Estate will be releasing an expanded reissue of Prince’s 1987 double-album masterpiece, Sign O’ the Times, which SPIN ranked as the third-best album of 1985-2015. In partnership with Warner Records, the reissue looks more like a massive musical package that will include more than 60 previously unreleased audio tracks as well as full […]
The record shops might have been closed up for the last 10 weeks (and plenty are reopening as I write, for better or worse). But that hasn’t stopped the flow of archival releases from keeping quarantined music collectors occupied during lockdown. And for those rare moments when music fans who still collect physical media can […]