Pink Floyd will release its latest compilation of previously-released material under the title of “8-Tracks” on June 5.
Available on CD and LP, the disc will include eight songs from the the band’s “glory years” of 1971-79.
The highlight will be the full version of “Pigs on the Wing (Parts 1 and 2)” that includes a Snowy White solo in the middle. It was previously available only on the 8-track version of the 1977 “Animals” album; and on White’s 1995 compilation “Goldtop.”
This collection has been edited by Steven Wilson using sound effects from the original multitrack recordings for a continuous listening experience.
Sony/Legacy Records will release Pink Floyd‘s April 26, 1975, Los Angeles concert recording for Record Store Day (RSD), April 18.
Originally recorded as a bootleg by Mike Millard at the LA Sports Arena, this is the same recording just released as part of “Wish You Were Here 50,” the 50th anniversary edition of Floyd’s 1975 album.
The RSD title will be available as 4 LPs at a quantity of 15,400; and 2 CDs at a quantity of 7,100.
As for the “Wish You Were Here” anniversary release, the audio’s been restored and remastered by producer/musician Steven Wilson.
The RSD website lists no titles coming from Floyd members Roger Waters, David Gilmour nor Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets.
“Floydian Slip” has partnered with Patreon to allow fans access to our archive of past programs.
When you sign on as a Slipporter at Patreon for $5 a month, you’ll receive on-demand access to the digital archive of our weekly Pink Floyd radio program that goes back to 2009.
“The most-common question I get asked is how people can listen to past episodes,” program producer and host Craig Bailey says. “Now you can.”
Bailey created “Floydian Slip” in 1989 on a campus station as a student at Ithaca College in upstate New York. Over the last nearly 40 years, he’s produced more than 1,550 episodes.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t start saving shows for posterity until I self-syndicated the program in 2009,” he says, which explains why Slipporter access only reaches back to ’09. Still, there are currently more than 850 shows waiting to be made available, and the pool grows each week.
We’re rolling out the archive by making available four (4) past episodes each month. Slipporters will be notifed by email when programs are added to the archive, and can listen to the shows on-demand and commercial-free at Patreon.
Programs will have aired across our Random Precision Radio Network of more than 120 stations at least two (2) years prior to being made available on Patreon.
Sony Music will release a greatly-expanded edition of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” for the album’s 50th anniversary. It will include a number of previously unreleased alternate versions and live recordings.
The album drops Dec. 12 and will be available on 3LP, 2CD, Blu-ray, digital and as a boxset.
Long-time Floyd collaborator James Guthrie has remixed the original 1975 album in Dolby Atmos.
The package also includes 25 bonus tracks made up of nine studio rarities; and 16 live recordings made by bootlegger Mike Millard at Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26, 1975. This marks those bootleg recordings’ first official release. The live audio has been restored and remastered by Steven Wilson.
Among the previously-unreleased tracks is an early version of “Welcome to the Machine,” titled “The Machine Song (Demo #2, Revisited).” Roger Waters‘s original home recording demo of the track is also part of the package.
Other rarities include a previously-unheard instrumental version of “Wish You Were Here” with David Gilmour playing pedal steel guitar; and “Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-9)” joining together for the first time the two halves of the song, newly re-mixed by Guthrie.
Floyd teased the announcement of this 50th anniversary release by updating its website, social media platforms and streaming presence to all appear to be wrapped in opaque black vinyl — a nod to the original LP’s release.
The official online store of the band — shop.pinkfloyd.com — has added a number of items to its inventory to complement the album’s re-release, including a windproof lighter and fire extinguisher. Both refer to the album’s infamous cover photo of stunt man Ronnie Rondell Jr. ablaze while shaking hands with his doppelgänger. (Rondell died last month at age 88. See “‘Wish You Were Here’ burning man dies” [Aug. 17, 2025]).
The concert film “David Gilmour Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome” will hit theaters Sept. 17. A DVD and Blu-ray of the film, as well as a soundtrack, will arrive a month later.
The film, showing in select cinemas including IMAX for one day, is a record of Gilmour’s 2024 concerts in Rome, promoting his album “Luck and Strange.” Filmed against the backdrop of the ancient ruins of Rome and directed by Gavin Elder, it features tracks from “Luck and Strange” as well as Pink Floyd classics.
“I can’t wait for you to relive what were — as far as I’m concerned — the best concerts of my career,” Gilmour says.
An auditory nod to Pink Floyd’s aborted “household objects” project from the mid-1970s will be released in August.
Producers William Hayter and Barry Lamb will release “Household Objects (And Sundry Massed Gadgets),” an album consisting of 14 tracks recorded by various artists using everything except musical instruments.
The album harkens to the time Floyd spent recording in the mid-1970s. Searching for direction following the release of “The Dark Side of the Moon” in 1973, the group began work on an album to be recorded using, not instruments, rather ordinary household objects such as cigar boxes and wine glasses.
Progress was slow and difficult, and the project was eventually scrapped. (Two segments from these sessions appear on the Immersion boxsets of “Dark Side” and “Wish You Were Here” — “The Hard Way” and “Wine Glasses,” respectively. The wine glass experiment also found a home as the opening segment of “Shine on You Crazy Diamond.”)
Participating artists include The Residents, Steve Beresford, Mark Hewins and others.
The CD includes a 32-page booklet with introduction by Floyd’s Nick Mason.
It’s available for pre-purchase on CD now; with digital platforms coming at the end of August.
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Sony Music Vision and Trafalgar Releasing will release in July “This Is Not a Drill – Live from Prague The Movie,” a document of Roger Waters‘ 2022/23 tour of the same name. The film and its soundtrack will be available for purchase Aug. 1.
Recorded and filmed in 8k during Waters’ live show at the O2 Arena in the Czech Republic May 25, 2023, the film is directed by Sean Evans, Waters’ “long-term collaborative partner,” according to a news release.
The performance includes 20 numbers from Waters’ solo catalog and the Pink Floyd catalog, as well as the new track “The Bar.”
Waters’ band for “This Is Not a Drill,” which was billed as his “first ever farewell tour,” includes Jonathan Wilson, Dave Kilminster, Jon Carin, Gus Seyffert, Joey Waronker, Robert Walter, Shanay Johnson, Amanda Belair and Seamus Blake.
The film will show July 23 and 27 in select cinemas worldwide. Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. June 12 at rogerwaters.film.
Physical product coming Aug. 1 includes a 4-LP set, DVD, 2-CD set, Blue-ray and digital audio. It’s available now for pre-order.
Register to win a copy of the soundtrack to “Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII.”
Pink Floyd’s seminal 1972 concert film was digitally restored and returned to theaters last month. This two-disc soundtrack follows suit, recently remixed by Steven Wilson. This is the first time the soundtrack has been made available as a full-length live record.
Register to win now. Deadline: End of day Sunday, June 15. Prizes courtesy Sony/Legacy.
Pink Floyd will release its latest compilation of previously-released material under the title of “8-Tracks” on June 5.
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