Bitch Magnet Gets Deluxe Reissue Set

Band also issues a special "thank-you" to the folks who didn't toss the master tapes in the trash!

By Blurt Staff

A few months ago it was announced that legendary Ohio/North Carolina post-punkers Bitch Magnet was getting back together for the first time since 1989 in order to play All Tomorrow's Parties' "Nightmare Before Christmas" festival in London this coming December 10. Now word arrives that Temporary Residence Limited will re-release the complete studio recordings from the band.

November 15 will see Star Booty, Umber, and Ben Hur  repackaged as as a deluxe, limited edition triple-LP set and as a triple CD. The reissues will also include songs that have never appeared on CD or LP, and a collection of previously unreleased studio recordings newly mixed in October 2010 with John Congleton (Explosions In The Sky, The Walkmen). The albums are remastered from the original analog master tapes.

"Bitch Magnet was a watershed band, both for me and for underground music of the ‘80s and '90s. They had a big hand in challenging and redefining punk rock at a very pivotal time, and laid the groundwork for a template that seems downright institutional at this point," said Jeremy deVine, owner of Temporary Residence Ltd. "It is an enormous honor to be a part of re-introducing these vital recordings to longtime fans and to the uninitiated."

"Were it not for the endless patience of Temporary Residence, which first approached us sometime during the Bush administration, this would not be happening," added Bitch Magnet guitarist Jon Fine. "Also, we owe a big debt to our friends and family across the US, whose residences housed Bitch Magnet master tapes for all these years. We're totally grateful they never quite got around to throwing them out."