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Music News- With his upcoming best-of,PLANET JARRE, the Godfather of Electronic Music JEAN-MICHEL JARRE (JMJ) celebrates his 50 years at the forefront of electronic music with an extensive double album that will once more cement his legacy in pop music history. Due for a release September 14 on SONY, PLANET JARRE comprises forty one works from his extensive music catalog, hand-picked by Jarre and completely re-mastered to add a new and sparkling freshness to the sound of the package. Additionally, the Vinyl Book and Ultimate Box Set both come with a download card to enter the world of Jean-Michel Jarrein 5.1. Always fascinated by the best possible sound and technology Jarre mastered some tracks in 5.1. for a unique listening experience. Pre-order is available now here: https://lnk.to/PlanetJarre_2CD
Naturally, in curating the oeuvre himself, JMJ refrained from simply aligning his hits like links on a chain, and instead decided to divide them into four different sections: “Going through the body of my existing work for this project, I realized that I have four quite different styles of composition“, Jarre explains. “There is this common idea that people are focusing on shorter and shorter moments of music by zapping constantly. This is not necessarily true. We are also spending more and more time in our day-to-day life listening to playlists. Wherever we are and whatever we do. This is the reason why I decided to divide this project into four different parts, four different worlds that make up my own world…my own planet. And I hope that you will enjoy the journey.”
Comprising of four parts—Soundscapes, Themes, Sequences, Explorations & Early Works—PLANET JARRE is unmistakably and utterly typically Jarre, highlighting a different creative focus of his work. Soundscapes taps into Jarre’s natural sense for acoustic aestheticism and atmospheric compositiontranslated into nine soundscapes that clearly reference his background in classical music and his passion for motion picture scores. Long and familiar ambient tracks like “Oxygene 1”, “Equinoxe 2” and “Chronology 1” seamlessly follow newer pieces like the original title track of Electronica–The Heart of Noise. Themes features indestructible, timeless melodies and song-like structures such as “Oxygene 2,” “Oxygene 4,” “Zoolookologie” and “Industrial Revolution Part 2” that will resonate with everyone familiar with his repertoire.
Music News- Two-time GRAMMY Award-nominated band The Milk Carton Kids have debuted their hugely anticipated fourth studio album, ALL THE THINGS THAT I DID AND ALL THE THINGS THAT I DIDN'T DO. The album is streaming in its entirety exclusively via NPR First Listen, which wrote, "the band's core ingredients - not to mention a gift for warm, intricate songcraft - render The Milk Carton Kids practically irresistible." ALL THE THINGS THAT I DID AND ALL THE THINGS THAT I DIDN'T DO - available for pre-order now at all DSPs - arrives at last on Friday, June 29.
Music News- Jim James has shared a live video for his single "Throwback" which was recorded recently at Rough Trade NY and directed by legendary music photographer Danny Clinch. Watch the live video of "Throwback", below-
James' third solo album, UNIFORM DISTORTION (out via ATO) is available for pre-order HERE; deluxe bundles featuring limited edition lithographs and clear vinyl are exclusively available for pre-order. All pre-orders are joined by an instant gratus download of the project's lead single, "Just A Fool", also available now for individual purchase at all DSPs and streaming services. "Just A Fool" is joined a new companion visual, directed by Ellis Bahl (The Kills, alt-J) and streaming now. In addition, UNIFORM DISTORTION includes the electrifying new track, "Throwback," streaming now at James' official YouTube channel.
Music News- 'King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller,' releasing August 31 via BMG, pays long overdue respect to one of American music's premier entertainers and songwriters. The two-disc collection contains new renditions of Miller's songs by Ringo Starr, Dolly Parton, Eric Church, Loretta Lynn, John Goodman and more than two dozen others, including Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard on one track. Produced by Miller's son, Dean Miller, and Colby Barnum Wright, 'King of the Road' offers a fresh look at the work of a creative giant who has been gone 26 years but whose genius continues to shape contemporary music in ways both overt and subtle.
Before Miller's premature death of cancer at age 56, the Country Music Hall of Famer had 31 Top 40 Billboard country hits (10 of which crossed over to the pop chart), including his signature songs "Dang Me" and "King of the Road." He held the record for most GRAMMY wins in a single night until Michael Jackson and 'Thriller' broke it in 1984. Miller wrote songs and voiced a character for Walt Disney's 1973 Robin Hood film. He also wrote the music and lyrics for the Tony-winning Big River, helping launch the career of actor John Goodman, who reprises the musical's "Guv'ment" on 'King of the Road.' As Dean Miller writes in liner notes accompanying 'King of the Road,' "Roger Miller was too gigantic to be contained by genres and definitions."
'King of the Road' includes versions of Miller's biggest '60s hits, like "Chug-A-Lug" (Asleep at the Wheel ft. Huey Lewis) and "England Swings" (Lyle Lovett), and lesser-known treasures from a catalog full of gems. As with Miller's own output, the album contains plenty of unexpected turns -- country superstar Eric Church's playful take on Robin Hood's "Oo De Lally," for instance, or Starr's selection of "Hey, Would You Hold It Down?," a song from Miller's long-out-of-print 1979 'Making a Name for Myself' album. By any standard of measurement, Miller was "one of the greatest songwriters that ever lived" -- even if he did say so himself. And he did, in the first of a handful of the album's live-performance interstitials that capture the spontaneous wit of a mind that operated at a breakneck pace.
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The scope of material and performances on 'King of the Road' both capture Miller's personality and convey an astonishing legacy that's still felt today. "Roger Miller didn't have to say much," Dean writes in the liners. "You were simply drawn to him. He had a magnetic smile, and electric wit and a passion for life and music that transcended generations."
'King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller' Tracklist: Disc One Greatest Songwriter (Banter) Chug-a-Lug - Asleep at the Wheel ft. Huey Lewis Dang Me - Brad Paisley Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go - The Stellas/Lennon and Maisy Kansas City Star - Kacey Musgraves World So Full of Love - Rodney Crowell Old Friends (Banter) Old Friends - Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard Lock Stock and Teardrops - Mandy Barnett You Oughta Be Here With Me - Alison Krauss ft. The Cox Family The Crossing - Ronnie Dunn, The Blind Boys of Alabama In the Summertime - The Earls of Leicester ft. Shawn Camp Fiddle (Banter) England Swings - Lyle Lovett You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd - Various Artists Half a Mind - Loretta Lynn Invitation to the Blues - Shooter Jennings, Jessi Colter It Only Hurts Me When I Cry (Live) - Dwight Yoakam
Disc Two Hey, Would You Hold It Down? - Ringo Starr Engine, Engine #9 - Emerson Hart ft. Jon Randall When Two Worlds Collide - Flatt Lonesome Oo De Lally - Eric Church You Can't Do Me This Way and Get By With It - Dean Miller ft. The McCrary Sisters Chicken S#$! (Banter) Nothing Can Stop Me - Toad the Wet Sprocket Husbands and Wives - Jamey Johnson ft. Emmylou Harris I Believe in the Sunshine - Lily Meola Guv'ment - John Goodman Old Songwriters Never Die (Banter) The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me - Dolly Parton ft. Alison Krauss I'd Come Back to Me - Radney Foster ft. Tawnya Reynolds Reincarnation - Cake One Dying and a Burying - The Dead South Do Wacka Do - Robert Earl Keen, Jr. King of the Road - Various Artists
Music News- The Voidz have announced a new series of headline international tour dates this fall - in addition to select festival plays at Beach Goth, Pitchfork Paris, Riot Fest + more, and support dates with Beck and Phoenix. Tickets are on sale now - see full itinerary, below.
The announcement caps a busy stretch for The Voidz; the band's new album VIRTUE (out now on Cult/RCA) received career-best reviews from Rolling Stone ("infectious"), Stereogum ("f*cking fearless....it holds back nothing"), and Vulture, who call it "inarguably [Julian Casablancas'] best album since....pick your favorite early Strokes album." MNN loves it too.
Watch their performance of lead single, Leave It In My Dreams on Fallon-
The new music also earned them sold out residencies in Philly and NYC this month, with Voidz fans coming out in full force for the first leg of their tour. After a scorching set at Elsewhere in Brooklyn last week (complete with a double encore), The Voidz will close out the final half of their residency at Brooklyn's Elsewhere starting this week, with their final Philly performance on Monday (6/25). See full dates below.
Music News- For one night only in April of this year, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds shared a show from their celebrated 2017 world tour on cinema screens worldwide.
Filmed at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena in October 2017, Distant Sky captured an extraordinary and triumphant live concert from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Performing new album Skeleton Tree’s beautiful compositions alongside songs from their essential catalog.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ seven-piece touring line-up features Nick Cave (vocals, piano), Warren Ellis (piano, keyboards, violin, tenor guitar), Martyn Casey (bass), Thomas Wydler (drums), Jim Sclavunos (vibraphone, percussion, piano), George Vjestica (guitar) and Larry Mullins (keyboards, piano).
Now, they've announced the release of a special live EP of audio from that extraordinary show, Distant Sky – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live In Copenhagen, available on Digital and 12” vinyl on September 28th.
The tracklisting of the EP (released on Bad Seed Ltd) is as follows:
Music News - Word is out of “Look Now And Then...It’s Elvis Costello & The Imposters” tour - a 20-show, coast-to-coast tour that commences in Bethlehem, PA on November 2nd and concludes on December 4th in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Tickets go on-sale Friday, June 22nd, promoted by an offer to buy both concert tickets and pre-order the new album for one special price (in select markets). Go to ElvisCostello.com to purchase your tickets.
Further details of this exciting new Concord Records release to be announced...
Elvis Costello 2018 Tour Itinerary-
Fri-Nov-02 Bethlehem, PA The Sands Bethlehem Event Center
Sun-Nov-04 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall
Tue-Nov-06 Asbury Park, NJ Paramount Theatre
Wed-Nov-07 Verona, NY Turning Stone Resort Casino
Fri-Nov-09 Wallingford, CT Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre *
Music News- Exciting news; Brian Fallon and Craig Finn have announced they will be touring together this fall. Neither will be using a band. Just two guys with their songs, stories and guitar. The pre-sale for tickets begins tomorrow, Tuesday, June 19 at 10am local times. Local pre-sale begins Thursday, June 21 at 10am local and the public on sale begins Friday, June 22 at 10am local.
NJ's Fallon has been on the road touring to promote his second solo album, Sleepwalkers (Island), as well as performing with The Gaslight Anthem for the 10th anniversary of The '59 Sound. The Hold Steady's Finn is working on his new album. The complete tour dates are below-
BRIAN FALLON and CRAIG FINNFALL 2018 TOUR ITINERARY-
Music News- Jack White has announced new USA headline tour dates on the BOARDING HOUSE REACH world tour for September 2018. A limited number of pre-sale tickets will be available to Third Man Records Vault members starting Tuesday, June 19th at 10am local time. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10am local time on Friday, June 22nd. The new dates, along with all other current tour dates, can be found below.
The announcement comes after White 's recent performances of " Over and Over and Over " and "Connected By Love " on Saturday Night Live and "Ice Station Zebra" on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, as well as his chat with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show . BOARDING HOUSE REACH is out now and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.
These new dates also follow White's recent headline appearances at Shaky Knees Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Boston Calling Music Festival and Governors Ball Music Festival and Bunbury Music Festival.
Music News- Jim James has announced a career-spanning solo acoustic concert tour, starting November 2, 2018 at Los Angeles, CA's Cathedral Sanctuary and with stops that has him visiting historic theatres and performing arts centers across the USA, ending with a November 21 homecoming show at Louisville, KY's much-loved Louisville Palace.
The dates have the acclaimed My Morning Jacket frontman; accompanied by longtime touring drummer David Givan, perform a career-encompassing repertoire including songs from his eagerly awaited new album, UNIFORM DISTORTION (out on ATO), releasing everywhere on Friday, June 29. Special guest Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff will be support on all dates.
"I am looking forward to exploring all sorts of songs stripped down as they first occurred in their natural habitat -- just voice and guitar. Although I have played many shows by myself, this will be my first tour of this style and I am excited to see everyone out on the open road," says James.
Music News- Leeds UK alt-rockers, alt-J have released a new collaborative version of " In Cold Blood " with Pusha T & Twin Shadow following their performance last night on CBS-TV's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. View/listen, below-
"We are absolutely thrilled to have done this collaboration with Pusha T and Twin Shadow," the band shared. "They are two artists who really sum up the amazing music scene that we have in 2018. What they have done with our track is inventive, playful, and very forward thinking. We hope you love it as much as we do."
Pusha T added, "I've been on festival bills with alt-J around the world for a few years now and was excited to get the call to collaborate with them on this record."
alt-J are currently on tour supporting their 6/9 album release, Relaxer, heading to major festivals Firefly and Mountain Jam this weekend following a recent performance at Bonnaroo. The remaining tour dates also include a major immersive lights and sound show tonight at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NY, which marks the largest venue the band has headlined in North America. The show will feature a surround speaker system, using immersive hyperrealism technology, to envelope the entire audience in an incredible one-of-a-kind surround sound experience. The group then continues the tour for a string of international dates.
Music News- At the first listening of Nick Lowe’s new ‘Tokyo Bay / Crying Inside’ (out today on Yep Roc Records), NPR Music declared that “The Jesus of Cool rocks again,” thanks in part to contributions from Lowe’s Yep Roc labelmates and Mexican wrestling mask clad masters of guitar instrumentals Los Straitjackets. Lowe’s return to, in his own words, “rocking-hard-whilst-hardly rocking,” has also been hailed by American Songwriter, who say the project “recharges Lowe’s roots rocking tendencies,” while maintaining his sense of “sophisticated pop craft” according to Billboard. Los Straitjackets back Lowe on the entirety of ‘Tokyo Bay / Crying Inside,’ after touring with him periodically since 2012.
The sonic departure from Lowe’s recent work marked on ‘Tokyo Bay /Crying Inside’ is hardly the only thing that makes his first release in five years (and first non-holiday recordings in seven) distinct. Along with the two original title tracks, the EP sees Lowe take on the Bee Gees-penned Dionne Warwick hit "Heartbreaker" and Cliff Richard's 1959 UK #1 "Travellin' Light." The EP was self-produced by Lowe, and recorded at the Diamond Mine in Queens, his first New York City sessions in decades.
‘Tokyo Bay / Crying Inside’ is available via all digital platforms and as a double vinyl 45 featuring exclusive artwork with each disc. Listen here: https://lnk.to/tokyobay.
Music News- The second song to be released from Boz Scaggs’ upcoming ‘Out of the Blues’ album (out July 27 via Concord) is a smoldering take on Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “I’ve Just Got To Forget You”. A blast of saxophones opens the track, followed by a snaky guitar riff and Boz’s smooth, mournful voice lamenting a love lost as the lilting groove sets in. “I’ve Just Got To Forget You” is a perfect inclusion on this record, which finds Boz reconnecting with the songs that made him fall in love with music as a boy growing up in Texas and Oklahoma.
The self-produced 'Out of the Blues' features Scaggs applying his iconic voice and gritty guitar skills to a set of vintage classics by such blues greats as Bobby "Blue" Bland, Jimmy Reed and Magic Sam, an unexpected and stirring reading of Neil Young's "On the Beach," and original compositions by his friend and songwriter Jack Walroth. For the occasion, Scaggs assembled a star-studded studio band including guitarists Doyle Bramhall II, Ray Parker Jr. and Charlie Sexton, bassist Willie Weeks, drummer Jim Keltner, keyboardist Jim Cox, and Walroth on harmonica, all supporting Boz himself on guitar, bass and vocoder.
Music News- The John Wetton Estate and Geoffrey Downes are pleased to announce the re-release of the iCon Trilogy of albums, now remastered with bonus tracks in six panel digipacks.
The re-releases have been personally overseen by Geoff Downes and are intended to be a return to the marketplace of individual albums for fans who may wish to purchase a definitive edition. Of his song-writing relationship and the formation of iCon, Geoff Downes said; “Throughout my entire career, there is no doubt in my mind, that some of my proudest achievements have been the songs that I wrote with the late John Wetton. Not only were we great friends, but also blood brothers in the song-writing department. His magic rubbed off on me immensely, and outside of the hugely successful Asia template, we decided to step out together with our Icon project. It was a ‘bromance’ made in heaven, because here we had the chance to expand our innermost thoughts and variety of influences, without interference. It was effectively ‘us’. We also had the luxury of working with some of the finest musicians in the world who were willing participants in the project.”
For fans of the whole iCon legacy, a box set is being planned featuring these albums and all the other recordings of the iCon duo, including previously unreleased material.
Geoff Downes continues,“The Wetton Downes Icon catalog spans across some 4 studio albums, this trilogy plus a prequel album called Zero and various live releases, and incorporates some of our greatest collaborations I firmly believe, and I am happy to impart the news that this entire body of work is being re-released with all of the bonus tracks and some previously unheard renditions of our classic songs. It is in fact Icon in its entirety. If you appreciate the music of John & I, then I sincerely hope you will appreciate these re-issues. Please sit back and enjoy. I know John would be equally proud to see these projects back on the market. All of these recordings mark special periods in our personal and creative lives.
“’Icon 1′ was the foundation of the Asia reunion. ‘Rubicon’ is thronged with the mysticism, symbolism and multi layers that illuminate John’s lyrical prowess, virtually unrivalled in any era of creativity. John married events occurring in both our personal lives with Classical events in Roman History, crossing the Rubicon, the die is cast and some intensely personal reflections. His vocal performance is astounding. I look forward to discussing this amazing period in our lives at greater length in the box set planned for Christmas 2019.
“’Icon 3′ was a further milestone for us, with Dave Kilminster reuniting with John, a Japanese tour and possibly the most fulfilling DVD I have ever been involved in, Urban Psalm, filmed in St Mary Le Bow Church. I could reflect for hours and hours, take up the entire booklet, but for now…May our music live on forever.”
The albums are OUT NOW on the duo’s own Epicon Records via Cherry Red.
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