Van Morrison to reissue albums
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - More than two-dozen of Van Morrison's albums are about to get the reissue treatment.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Van Halen will announce a 50-date American reunion tour with original singer David Lee Roth during a news conference in Hollywood next week, sources said.
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Rod Stewart returns to rock with his new album, "Still the Same ... Great Rock Classics of Our Time," set for release this fall. Stewart's first rock album in over eight years follows four volumes of his "Great American Songbook" series of standards albums, J Records announced Monday.
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Singer Robbie Williams&#39; greatest-hits album will soon be released in UK music stores, and some phone shops, pre-loaded on a memory card.
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New releases from Velvet Revolver, St. Vincent, Class of 3000 and Kelly Willis.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- A long-lost briefcase full of notes and lyrics that were intended for the 1981 U2 album &quot;October&quot; has been returned, 23 years after it was stolen at a Portland concert.
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The official story goes like this: On the last night of Jim Morrison's life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to records, fell ill and died of heart failure in his bathtub at the age of 27. But rumors have always swirled around the death of The Doors frontman and, 36 years later, a former Paris nightclub manager is telling a different story.
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Bob Dylan is back "on the pavement, thinkin' about the government," and he has a special message for you. Dylan's Columbia Records label is promoting his upcoming greatest-hits collection with an Internet chain letter that mixes personalized greetings delivered by the rock bard with links to his Web site and an online purchase form.
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Fan input will help shape the songs  that will make the cut for &quot;Dylan,&quot; a three-disc Bob Dylan  retrospective and companion greatest hits disc due October 1  via Columbia.
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The Postal Service said Friday it plans to reissue the Purple Heart stamp at the new 41-cent rate.
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Keith Abrahamsson launches the first all-digital reissues label, Anthology Recordings.
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Music weekly NME may have failed in  its campaign to make the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" a  No. 1 single 30 years after it first missed the target, but EMI  still regards its accompanying vinyl reissue program as a  success.
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Who gets the Phil Collins CD collection?
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Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson's  cult-classic 1977 solo album, "Pacific Ocean Blue," will be  released May 13 in an expanded edition by Caribou/Epic/Legacy.  The project has been out of print for more than 15 years due to  copyright disputes.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - After a three-year break between  albums, Lee Ann Womack is back with a new set that has Music  Row buzzing.
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A "new" album of Beatles music mixed by  their legendary producer George Martin and described as a new  "way of reliving the whole Beatles musical lifespan," will be  released in November.
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Marvin Gaye's maligned 1978 album  "Here, My Dear," which chronicled his divorce from Anna Gordy,  will be reissued on January 15 with a bonus disc of reworked  material.