September promises to be a reissue-heavy month for classic rock fans – but there are a few notable new releases, too.

Neil Young unveils Second Song, a follow-up collaboration album with the Chrome Hearts after last year’s Talkin to the Trees. Elsewhere, Tonight’s the Night, the final album in Young’s so-called “Ditch Trilogy,” is also being reissued across several formats.

Other pending new studio material includes Europe’s Come This Madness and Anthrax’s Cursum Perficio. More information on these and the rest of the month’s upcoming rock albums, movies, and books can be found below.

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September is simply bursting with reissues. Along with Young’s 1975 Top 25 hit LP, some of the biggest and most anticipated are sets devoted to early David Bowie and Frank Zappa, a million-selling Bob Seger comeback, and Phil Collins’ solo debut.

The Bowie material dates to before his 1967 self-titled first LP. Shel Talmy Recordings includes 21 tracks recorded with the producer of the Who and Kinks. The 60th anniversary edition of the Mothers of Invention’s Freak Out!, which doubled as Zappa’s debut, includes a super-deluxe edition with five CDs and a Blu-ray.

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Collins’ first solo album has been renamed Face Value (Full Value) and expanded into a four-LP 45th anniversary set. There’s also a separate Blu-ray release with new mixes. Seger’s expanded anniversary reissue of 2006’s Face the Promise – then his first new album in a decade – adds four new songs.

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The month’s concert recordings include a massive box from Joy Division. Eternal (Live) features 16 performances across 14 discs. There’s also an upcoming look back at 1975’s Mainstream from Quiet Sun, a progressive rock side project from Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera.

Want more? Remember to bookmark UCR’s continuously updated list for more details on pending rock releases from throughout the year.

Sept. 1
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain: Forever in Bloom: The Legacy Beyond the Tragedy, Kelly Catlin (book)
Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd: Album by Album, Stephen Palmer (book)
Queen: A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddie Mercury, Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin (book)

Sept. 4
Accept, Teutonic Titans: 1976-2026 (digital, 2CD, black and splatter colored vinyl editions)
Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds Five: 30th Anniversary (expanded digital, 2CD or 2LP 180-gram black vinyl reissues)
Cranberries, Live at the London Astoria II 1994 (first-ever digital, compact disc and vinyl editions)
Dexys Midnight Runners, Love (digital, compact disc, black and yellow vinyl editions)
Emerson Lake and Powell, The Complete Collection (3CD set)
Evanescence, Sanctuary (vinyl edition)
Fandango feat. Joe Lynn Turner [Deep Purple/Rainbow], The Complete RCA Albums 1977-1980 (4CD box)
Kingdom Come, Kingdom Come (remastered CD reissue)
The Mamas and the Papas, People Like Us (expanded CD reissue)
Micky Dolenz, Timeless (EP with songs from XTC’s Andy Partridge, Replacements’ Paul Westerberg, Bangles’ Vicki Peterson, others)
Neil Young, Tonight’s the Night (digital, compact disc, cassette and vinyl reissues)
Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring (40th anniversary half-speed vinyl reissue)
UFO, Covenant + Sharks (3CD set)
Various artists, Teenage Glampage! Can the Glam 2 (4CD box with Mott the Hoople, Sting, the Sweet, Cozy Powell, others)
Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (remastered 180g black 1LP vinyl reissue)

Sept. 8
Blondie: The Other Side of the Dream: My Life In and Out of Blondie, Clem Burke (book)
David Bowie: Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin, Tobias Ruther and Anthony Matthews (book)
Eagles: Eagles and Hotel California: 50 Years, Sean Egan (book)
John Lennon: Starting Over with John and Yoko: The Photographs, Roger Farrington and Kenneth Womack (book)
Megadeth/Metallica: In My Darkest Hour: A Memoir, Dave Mustaine with Joe Layden (book)
Strokes: Is This It: The Never-Ending Rise and Fall of the Strokes (and Rock ‘n’ Roll), Steven Hyden (book)

Sept. 11
The Fall, Peel Sessions: 1978 (vinyl release)
Funkadelic, Maggot Brain (remastered digital, compact disc, SACD, vinyl and cassette reissues)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, The Roaring Silence (50th anniversary digital, 2CD or 2LP reissues)
Pixies, Bossanova; Trompe Le Monde (expanded and remastered digital, compact disc and LP reissues)
Producers [Trevor Horn], Made in Basing Street (Blu-ray reissue featuring Atmos, 5.1 and other mixes)
Quiet Sun [Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera], Mainstream (expanded 2CD/Blu-ray reissue)

Sept. 15
Bob Dylan: Dylan in Cincinnati, Graley Herren (book)
Metallica: Metallica Album by Album, Martin Popoff (book)
Monkees: I’m a Believer: My Life of Monkees, Music and Madness, Micky Dolenz and Mark Bego (book)
Poison: Ghost Notes: My Life in Poison, Rikki Rockett and Martin Svensson (book)
Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine, John Scanlan (book)
Stevie Nicks: <emLessons and Lace: Everything I Know About Dreams, Heartbreak and Magic I Learned from Stevie Nicks, Rachel Brodsky (book)

Sept. 17
Paul Simon: <eM33 1/3: Paul Simon's Graceland, Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh and Michael E. Veal (book)