Friday, October 12, 2018

Sights & Sounds:Elvis Costello, Young the Giant, Neil Diamond, Cold War Kids, Iron Maiden

Plenty and plenty of news in the music world! In addition to updates on Elvis Costello and Young the Giant (both artists have new releases out today!), there are announcements as it relates to Neil Diamond, Cold War Kids and Iron Maiden...

Elvis Costello releases new album 'Look Now' today on Concord Records


Elvis Costello has released Look Now, his first new album in five years and first with The Imposters since the 2008 release of Momofuku. Recorded in Hollywood, New York City and Vancouver, British Columbia, most of the new titles were written solely by Costello, although the album does feature co-writes with Burt Bacharach ("Don't Look Now," "Photographs Can Lie," "He's Given Me Things") and Carole King ("Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter").

Listen to ‘Look Now’: http://found.ee/ElvisCostello_LookNow

In advance of ‘Look Now,’ Elvis Costello discussed the album with Carole King in a historic artist-on-artist conversation for the New York Times:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/arts/music/elvis-costello-carole-king.html
Costello also sat down with NPR’s All Things Considered to chat about this “uptown pop record” twenty years in the making:https://www.npr.org/2018/10/11/656195169/elvis-costello-doesnt-want-your-nostalgia-he-wants-you-to-look-now
Watch a video interview with Rolling Stone diving into the songwriting process behind the album’s “Under Lime”: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elvis-costello-new-album-look-now-735312/

PRAISE FOR ‘LOOK NOW’:
“Sharp, sophisticated…effortlessly tuneful…the kind of wry, well-observed pop classicism that’s been the hallmark of his genius.” – Rolling Stone

“Costello has made a great cake of an album that doesn’t really sound much like any of the 30 before it.” – Variety

“These are very human songs with elegant melodies and arrangements… expertly applied in Costello’s superlative songwriting.” – Associated Press

“His deft pen provides sharp studies of romance and murky motives…lush, sophisticated pop.” – Billlboard 

“There are plenty of moments here reaffirming Costello’s position at the forefront of his generation’s most gifted composers.” – USA Today

“There’s a swanky, sophisticated cool coursing through ‘Look Now… an intricately detailed, meticulously crafted affair.” – Consequence of Sound


‘LOOK NOW’ Full Track-listing:

1. Under Lime
2. Don’t Look Now
3. Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter
4. Stripping Paper
5. Unwanted Number
6. I Let The Sun Go Down
7. Mr. & Mrs. Hush
8. Photographs Can Lie
9. Dishonor The Stars
10. Suspect My Tears
11. Why Won’t Heaven Help Me?
12. He’s Given Me Things

Deluxe Special Edition Tracks:

13. Isabelle In Tears
14. Adieu Paris (L’Envie Des Étoiles)
15. The Final Mrs. Curtain
16. You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way

The band's "Look Now And Then ... It's Elvis Costello & The Imposters" tour will kick off this November in the United States. Find a full list of tour dates here: http://found.ee/ElvisCostello_tour
Capitol/UMe to release 'Neil Diamond – 50TH Anniversary Collector's Edition' on November 30, 2018
Diamond Celebrates A Half-Century Of Music With A 6CD Retrospective
Featuring 115 Tracks, Hard Cover Book, Demos, Rarities
And 15 Previously Unreleased Tracks

On November 30, Capitol/UMe will celebrate a half-century of top-shelf music-making with the release of Neil Diamond’s 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition, a 6CD retrospective that spans the singer/songwriter’s entire storied career. This fully loaded collection contains 115 tracks overall set in a hard-cover book, featuring scores of Diamond’s most beloved hits alongside demos, rarities and 15 previously unreleased tracks.

Diamond’s unique connection with audiences the world over is evident all throughout the breadth of material presented on this box set. Witness the folk-rock reverie of “Solitary Man,” the unbridled exuberance of “Cherry Cherry,” the sweet acoustic twang of “Forever in Blue Jeans,” the pure Americana swing of “Kentucky Woman,” the eternal sing-along sunshine of “Sweet Caroline,” the raw emotionality of “I Am…I Said,” the welcoming arms of “America,” and the deeply expressive heartlight that’s on full display in his chart-topping duet with Barbra Streisand, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” for just the tip of the iceberg of Diamond’s artistic achievements.

A full disc containing 12 unreleased songs, including recently unearthed gems such as “Sunflower,” (written and recently updated by Neil Diamond, originally recorded by Glen Campbell), “Before I Had a Dime” and  “C’est La Vie” a song that Neil co-wrote with friendGilbert Bécaud. Meanwhile, the original demos of two of Diamond’s most indelible tracks, “I Am…I Said” and “America,” give listeners further insight into the creative process behind a pair of his most iconic songs.

Throughout his illustrious and wide-ranging career, Neil Diamond has sold over 130 million albums worldwide and has dominated the charts for more than five decades with 38 Top 40 singles and 16 Top 10 albums. He has achieved record sales with 40 Gold albums, 21 Platinum albums, and 11 Multi-Platinum albums.

A Grammy Award-winning artist, Diamond is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, and has recently received The Johnny Mercer Award, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award, three of the highest honors bestowed upon songwriters and artists. Diamond’s many other achievements include a Golden Globe Award, 13 Grammy nominations, ASCAP Film and Television Award, Billboard Icon Award, American Music Award and 2009’s NARAS’s MusiCares Person of the Year Award. In 2011, Diamond received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime of contributions to American culture.

For the past 50 years and counting, Neil Diamond has been on top of the winds of change in popular music every step of the way. Experience the triumphant drive of his career arc in full with this most inclusive 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.

Preorder Neil Diamond’s 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition here: https://NeilDiamond.lnk.to/50CollectorsEdition


Neil Diamond 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR’S EDITION [6CD, Digital Download]

DISC ONE
  1. SOLITARY MAN – Mono
  2. CHERRY, CHERRY – Mono
  3. I GOT THE FEELIN’ (Oh No No) – Mono
  4. DO IT – Mono
  5. THE BOAT THAT I ROW – Mono
  6. YOU GOT TO ME – Mono
  7. GIRL, YOU’LL BE A WOMAN SOON – Mono
  8. I’M A BELIEVER – Mono
  9. THANK THE LORD FOR THE NIGHT TIME – Mono
  10. KENTUCKY WOMAN – Mono
  11. RED, RED WINE – Mono
  12. BROOKLYN ROADS
  13. GLORY ROAD
  14. HOLLY HOLY
  15. AND THE GRASS WON’T PAY NO MIND
  16. SHILO
  17. SUNDAY SUN
  18. BROTHER LOVE’S TRAVELLING SALVATION SHOW
  19. DIG IN
  20. SWEET CAROLINE
  21. CRACKLIN’ ROSIE
  22. SOOLAIMON
  23. CRUNCHY GRANOLA SUITE
  24. LORDY (Live)

DISC TWO
  1. I AM…I SAID* – Original Demo
  2. I AM…I SAID
  3. DONE TOO SOON
  4. STONES
  5. MORNINGSIDE
  6. PLAY ME
  7. WALK ON WATER
  8. LONELY LOOKING SKY
  9. SKYBIRD
  10. BE
  11. I’VE BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE
  12. THE LAST PICASSO
  13. ROSEMARY’S WINE
  14. SONG SUNG BLUE
  15. LONGFELLOW SERENADE
  16. THE GIFT OF SONG
  17. BEAUTIFUL NOISE
  18. JUNGLETIME
  19. LADY-OH
  20. STREET LIFE
  21. SIGNS
  22. SURVIVING THE LIFE
  23. STARGAZER
  24. IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

DISC THREE
  1. DRY YOUR EYES
  2. DESIRÉE
  3. ONCE IN A WHILE
  4. I’M GLAD YOU’RE HERE WITH ME TONIGHT
  5. AMERICA* – Original Demo
  6. AMERICA
  7. HELLO AGAIN
  8. LOVE ON THE ROCKS
  9. AMAZED AND CONFUSED
  10. SONGS OF LIFE
  11. YESTERDAY’S SONGS
  12. I’M ALIVE
  13. HEARTLIGHT
  14. ON THE WAY TO THE SKY
  15. HEADED FOR THE FUTURE
  16. YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS – Duet with Barbra Streisand
  17. FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS
  18. SEPTEMBER MORN

DISC FOUR
  1. THE STORY OF MY LIFE
  2. IT’S A TRIP (Go For The Moon)
  3. HOOKED ON THE MEMORY OF YOU
  4. BABY CAN I HOLD YOU* – Live in Dublin R.D.S. 1989
  5. HARD TIME FOR LOVERS
  6. ALL I REALLY NEED IS YOU
  7. IF THERE WERE NO DREAMS
  8. SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN YOU
  9. THE WAY
  10. ONE GOOD LOVE – Duet with Waylon Jennings
  11. BLUE HIGHWAY – Featuring Chet Atkins
  12. OPEN WIDE THESE PRISON DOORS
  13. EVERYBODY
  14. NO LIMIT
  15. I HAVEN’T PLAYED THIS SONG IN YEARS
  16. YOU ARE THE BEST PART OF ME
  17. DELIRIOUS LOVE
  18. I BELIEVE IN HAPPY ENDINGS
  19. MAN OF GOD
  20. WE

DISC FIVE
  1. I’M ON TO YOU
  2. WHAT’S IT GONNA BE
  3. SAVE ME A SATURDAY NIGHT
  4. CAPTAIN OF A SHIPWRECK
  5. ANOTHER DAY (THAT TIME FORGOT) – Duet with Natalie Maines
  6. DON’T GO THERE
  7. HOME BEFORE DARK
  8. FORGOTTEN
  9. PRETTY AMAZING GRACE
  10. MELODY ROAD
  11. NOTHING BUT A HEARTACHE
  12. SOMETHING BLUE
  13. IN BETTER DAYS
  14. SEONGAH AND JIMMY
  15. SUNNY DISPOSITION
  16. THE ART OF LOVE
  17. HELL YEAH

DISC SIX
  1. SUNFLOWER*
  2. C’EST LA VIE*
  3. GIRLS GO FISHIN’*
  4. MAYBE*
  5. CARIBBEAN CRUISE*
  6. YOU ARE*
  7. EASY (TO BE IN LOVE)*
  8. BEFORE I HAD A DIME*
  9. THE BALLAD OF SAVING SILVERMAN*
  10. IT DON’T SEEM LIKELY*
  11. LONG NIGHTS, HOLD ON*
  12. MOONLIGHT RIDER*

*Previously Unreleased


Young the Giant release new full-length album 'Mirror Master' today; features introspective new single "Superposition"

STREAM/BUY MIRROR MASTER:
https://lnk.to/mirrormaster

 WATCH RECENT PERFORMANCES ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!:
"Superposition": https://youtu.be/Fjw2n8-jpL0
 "Simplify": https://youtu.be/X8yCT19yRJM


Today, Young the Giant return with their newest full-length album Mirror Master via Elektra Records, which includes the recently shared tracks "Simplify" and "Call Me Back", along with the musing, buzzworthy new single "Superposition". Mirror Master is available to stream or purchase athttps://lnk.to/mirrormaster.
Last week, Young the Giant delivered "soaring" (Billboard) performances of "Superposition" and "Simplify" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and earlier this summer they also appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, with a powerful rendition of "Simplify".
Describing the overall thesis for Mirror Master, vocalist Sameer Gadhia explains, "Within one single day, we're all so many different people. Especially with the use of social media, we're not just living in the now-we're living on several different timelines simultaneously. A lot of the album came from thinking about how we have all these separations within ourselves that allow us to go about our day. At a time when everyone wants to put each other in a box-culturally, socially, musically-we wanted to show that there are a multitude of reflections inside everything. We don't have to be a certain thing; we can contradict ourselves and show all these different sides of who we are."
Since the band's 2010 inception, Young the Giant has made a name for itself in rock as the 'thinking man's band,' winning over fans, radio, and press with their incendiary live shows, strong musicianship, and poignant lyrics. Following 2016's critically-acclaimed Home of the Strange, Mirror Master promises to continue ascending into consciousness, though this time with a heavy focus on personal self-awareness and growth.
Mirror Master finds Young the Giant in a transitional period for America, not only as a culture (for their former album Home of the Strange, NPR's Alisa Chang had an in-depth conversation with Gadhia about the 'modern immigration story', available to read here), but also technologically. The band members have become increasingly aware of society's attachment to social media, cellphones, and elevated, sometimes fabricated, self-portrayals on the internet.
With the new album, the band forgoes the technological obsession and, in an almost meditative way, examines one's relationship with the "self" to instead express a genuine identity.
"Something we want to get across with the album is the idea of taking authorship of your life," continues Gadhia. "Even though it may all be an illusion, there's solace in that illusion. Because if you have control of anything at all, it's your own reflection, how you treat people and how you walk through this life. So if you're an Indian kid and your parents want you to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer, and you just want to make music with your friends, then do that. Don't let people feed you what they want you to think. Do what makes you happy, and realize and that all is good and all is horrible, and everything else in between."
Young the Giant is composed of Gadhia (vocals), Jacob Tilley (guitar), Eric Cannata (guitar/vocals), Payam Doostzadeh (bass), and Francois Comtois (drums/vocals). They are on tour this fall across the US with LIGHTS as main support. For more information and concert tickets, visit youngthegiant.com.
MIRROR MASTER TRACKLISTING:
1) Superposition
2) Simplify
3) Call Me Back
4) Heat of the Summer
5) Oblivion
6) Darkest Shade of Blue
7) Brother's Keeper
8) Glory
9) Tightrope
10) Panoramic Girl
11) You + I
12) Mirror Master

To see Young the Giant's upcoming fall tour dates and get concert tickets visit youngthegiant.com/tour.
CONNECT:
Instagram: @youngthegiant
Twitter: @youngthegiant
Facebook: @youngthegiant




 Cold War Kids to release double disc career-spanning anthology, 'This Will All Blow Over In Time,' collecting together all of their radio singles and an assortment of rare and unreleased tracks
PRE-ORDER LAUNCHES TODAY WITH INSTANT GRAT DOWNLOAD OF UNRELEASED LIVE SONG “VACATION IN CHICAGO”


In their impressive, steadily rising career, soulful, blues-tinted rockers Cold War Kids have proven to be one of the most prolific commercially successful bands around. Never ones to rest, from the beginning they’ve utilized all manners of getting their music out to their fans, releasing a steady stream of EPs and digital singles between their full-length studio albums. As they peer over the horizon at their 15-year anniversary next year and reflect on how far they’ve come since forming in Southern California’s burgeoning indie rock scene in 2004, the band, now signed to Capitol Records, has collected together all of their radio singles spanning their tenure on Downtown Records from 2005 to 2015 along with some of their best unreleased and rare tracks for a double disc collection titled This Will All Blow Over In Time. The anthology will be released December 7 via Downtown Records/UMe on 2CD and digital with a double LP on translucent yellow vinyl to follow in February. The pre-order kicked off today with an instant grat download of the unreleased track “Vacation In Chicago,” a live version of fan favorite “We Used To Vacation,” appropriately recorded in Chicago. Pre-order This Will All Blow Over In Time now: https://UMe.lnk.to/ColdWarKids

Led by rousing frontman Nathan Willett (vocals/piano/guitar), Cold War Kids exploded onto the national spotlight in 2006 with their first single, “Hang Me Up To Dry,” which led to appearances on “Letterman” and “Conan” and prompted RollingStone to dub it one of “The 100 Best Songs Of The Year,” enthusing: “Indie rock with a little sex: Nathan Willett howls like a country bluesman as the other three Kids elbow their way through a mess of art-damaged funk.” Originally released on their third independently released EP Up In Rags, the song was included on the band’s breakout debut full-length Robbers & Cowards along with fellow radio hits “We Used To Vacation” and “Hospital Beds.” This Will All Blow Over In Timeincludes these songs as well as all their radio singles from their first five records.

Sequenced in chronological order from year of full-length album release, the first half of the retrospective, aptly titled Singles Worked At Radio, ranges from the soulful urgency of tracks “I’ve Seen Enough” and “Something Is Not Right With Me,” from Loyalty to Loyalty, the band’s first album to reach the top 50 on the Billboard 200, to “Louder Than Ever” and “Royal Blue” from 2011’s bigger and bolder Jacquire King-produced Mine Is Yours, to the funky, anthemic “Audience Of One” from their 2009 EP Behave Yourself, to the driving piano stomper “Miracle Mile,” their fifth top 40 hot in Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart, and the electro-tinged “Lost That Easy” from 2013’s Dear Miss Lonelyhearts.Their final record for Downtown, 2014’s Hold My Home, is represented with the infectious, dramatic rocker “All This Could Be Yours” and the clap-along anthem “First,” which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart earning the band their highest charting single which has since been certified Gold.

Titled Songs From All Over The Place, the second half brings together an exciting mix of 11 unreleased songs and rarities to give a fuller picture of the band’s eclectic and prolific output over the last decade and a half. Kicking off with the aforementioned “Vacation In Chicago,” it includes the demo for “First,” a cover of Nick Cave’s “Opium Tea,” previously only available to stream online only, and “Goodnight Tennessee,” originally released as an iTunes bonus track for Mine Is Yours. Some of the many other highlights include the dubby remake of “Minimum Day” titled “Minimum Mistake,”produced by the late Richard Swift and originally only available as a download, “Coffee Spoon,” a standout from their seventh EP Behave Yourself, and “In Harmony In Silver” and “Quiet Please” from their long-out-of-print debut EP Mulberry Street released in 2005 on Monarchy Music. The set closes with “Fashionable,” a sprawling track released on the deluxe edition of Mine Is Yours.

This Will All Blow Over Time serves as both the first collection of the band’s many hits and a gift to longtime fans who will revel in the unreleased songs and rare tracks from their hard to find early releases. It also chronicles the band’s trajectory and showcases their continued artistic evolution as they get ready to celebrate a milestone anniversary.

This Will All Blow Over In Time Track Listing

Disc 1 – Singles Worked At Radio
1. Hang Me Up To Dry
2. We Used To Vacation
3. Hospital Beds
4. I’ve Seen Enough
5. Something Is Not Right With Me
6. Louder Than Ever
7. Royal Blue
8. Audience of One
9. Miracle Mile
10. Lost That Easy
11. All This Could Be Yours
12. First

Disc 2 – Songs From All Over The Place
1. Vacation In Chicago
2. First (Demo)
3. Opium Tea
4. Goodnight Tennessee
5. Coffee Spoon
6. Minimum Mistake
7. In Harmony In Silver
8. Quiet, Please
9. Expensive Tastes
10. Romance Languages #1
11. Fashionable



Iron Maiden's 'The Studio Collection – Remastered'
  
Band's acclaimed remasters get the CD Digipak treatment


BMG will continue their reissues series of the IRON MAIDEN catalog with The Studio Collection – Remastered, covering the band’s sixteen-strong studio albums across their career to date.

Following on from 2014/2017’s black vinyl releases and 2015’s Mastered for iTunesproject, The Studio Collection – Remastered will be released on the Digipak CD format, with the track listing matching the original U.K. releases. The recordings are taken from the same remasters as the 2015 hi-res digital releases. The albums will be released chronologically in batches of four, across a nine-month period superseding the previously available studio catalog and all titles will also be made available on streaming platforms. As a bonus for collectors, one CD from each batch of releases will also be optionally available in a specially artworked box featuring a 1:24 scale figurine and exclusive patch. In the November 16thbatch, this will be The Number Of The Beast. 

Maiden founder member and bassist Steve Harris says, “We’ve wanted to revisit these for a long time and I was delighted with the remastering we did in 2015. I thought it was the best that our albums have ever sounded and it was only right that we made them available on CD now too.”

All four albums in this first batch are available for pre-order now from https://666.ironmaiden.com/music.   

1st batch: November 16th
Iron Maiden/ Killers/ The Number Of The Beast (option of standard or collectors boxset edition including TNOTB Eddie figurine and patch) / Piece Of Mind

2nd batch: Feb 2019 date TBC
Powerslave/ Somewhere In Time(standard/collectors) / Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son/ No Prayer For The Dying

3rd batch April 2019 date TBC
Fear Of The Dark (standard/collectors) / The X Factor/ Virtual XI/ Brave New World 

4th batch June 2019 date TBC
Dance Of Death/ A Matter Of Life And Death(standard/collectors) / The Final Frontier/ The Book Of Souls*

*not remastered but appearing in Digipak for the first time 

IRON MAIDEN recently completed the first leg of their Legacy Of The Beast tour, playing sold-out stadium, arena and headline festival shows across Europe to over 750,000 fans. The tour, which was hailed by fans and media alike as the must-see show of the summer, will continue into 2019 with a headline show at Brazil’s Rock In Rio festival recently announced and more dates to follow. See www.ironmaiden.com for updates.
   

Iron Maiden - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J3KHVJ8
Killers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J35G5M7
The Number of the Beast - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J34NSW8
The Number of the Beast Deluxe - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JVF7R6X 
Piece of Mind - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JVF89RS
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