Kylie Minogue has announced details of a new hits round-up.

Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection is ostensibly released to tie-in with her 30^th anniversary as a pop force and her slots at Glastonbury, Brighton Pride and various other festivals this summer.

Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection is Kylie’s fifth greatest hits, following 2012’s The Best of, and while there’s not much new to woo anyone who doesn’t have this stuff already on this latest collection, it will be the first to round up some of her later hits on vinyl, making that quite a desirable affair.

With 51 Top 40 singles, including seven number ones, the collection is a proper trolley dash around all the obvious biggies, but also features fan-favourites such as ‘Your Disco Needs You’ but omits stuff like ‘Chocolate’ and ‘The Word is Out’.

There’s also a bonus of new track ‘New York City’ which is listed as a ‘hidden’ track, and it’s the first time ‘Timebomb’ has featured on a worldwide released album. The collection also follows the pattern of 2004’s Ultimate Kylie with predominantly Parlophone stuff on one disc and the PWL gear on another.

The album will be available as a 42-track 2CD set, a deluxe of which offers enhanced packaging with a 32-page book hardcover book and there’s a trio of vinyl variants – black, limited mint green and picture disc (the latter exclusive to Kylie’s webstore) – each contain 20 tracks and come with a digital download code for all 42 tracks.

There is also a double-cassette edition (oh yes) which is available in five different colours. Like the picture disc, these are exclusive to Kylie’s store, which also offers various bundles.

Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection is released 28 June 2019.

• Pre-order Step Back In Time exclusive 2LP vinyl picture disc
• Browse the store for exclusives and bundles

The B-52’s album Cosmic Thing will be reissued as an expanded two-CD deluxe edition next month, for its 30th anniversary reissue. The 1989 long-player was a big success at the time, spawning the transatlantic top five hit ‘Love Shack’ and ‘Roam’ (also top five in the USA).

This two-CD reissue includes remastered audio and bonus tracks include edits, a megamix, 12-inch remixes and unreleased concert recordings from 1990’s Cosmic Tour.

Cosmic Thing will be reissued on 28 June 2019.

Duo reconvene after over 25 years. Signed CD sets available.

Shakespears Sister are back. Back. BACK!

Marcella Detroit and Siobhan Fahey have patched up their differences and about to hit Rock’s highway later this year for a short tour.

The duo have also announced details of a compilation entitled Singles Party (1988 – 2019), which rounds up all their 45s together as well as featuring two new numbers ‘All The Queen’s Horses’ and ‘C U Next Tuesday’. A two-CD deluxe edition features an array of remixes, rarities and bonus tracks.

Originally forming in 1988 after Siobhan fled Bananarama, Shakespears Sister racked up a number of hits across the end of the eighties/ early nineties, including ‘You’re History’, the eight-weeks-at-number-one smash ‘Stay’ and accompanying album Hormonally Yours. However it all went a bit sour went Siobhan announced cheerio to Detroit at an awards ceremony over 25 years ago, which was news to Detroit at the time, leading to a somewhat undignified separation. Siobhan occasionally carried on with the name in later years, but both her and Detroit finally sat down with each other last year and decided to bury the hatchet and resume operations again.