A few short R.E.M. notes today. With the recent sign-off of R.E.M.’s Warner Brothers years catalog to Universal-distributed Concord Records, the new label will be putting the affected titles into the marketplace with the Concord imprint. The titles start with Green and end with Up, with the years from 1988 through 2011.
The titles were released through Concord digitally back in April. On July 1, all of the titles (Green, Monster, Up, Reveal, New Adventures In Hi-Fi, Accelerate, Automatic for The People, Around the Sun, Collapse Into Now), will be re-released on CD.
On July 1, Green will be released as the 2013 2CD 25th Anniversary Edition, the single CD edition, and also as a vinyl LP set.
As hinted earlier, the titles will be getting Deluxe Editions with new remastering, bonus material, and other good things. There is no timeline for any of these as of yet.