Goo Goo Dolls Announce Rarities; A New Compilation Album Of Rare & Never-Before-Heard Songs From 1995 To 2007

 Happy Friday everyone! Pretty big news here for Goo Goo Dolls fans!

GOO GOO DOLLS ANNOUNCE RARITIES;  A NEW COMPILATION ALBUM OF RARE & NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD SONGS FROM 1995 TO 2007 OUT FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2021 VIA WARNER RECORDS PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW LISTEN TO “DON’T CHANGE (LIVE)” NOW HERE

Goo Goo Dolls - “Rarities” Album Artwork (Courtesy: Warner Records)

May 14, 2021 (Los Angeles, CA) - Today, Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling band Goo Goo Dolls have announced Rarities, a brand new compilation album arriving in digital, vinyl and CD formats on Friday, June 25th via Warner Records.  Rarities is a retrospective collection of 20 songs spanning Goo Goo Dolls’ career from 1995 to 2007; a prolific period during which the band released several chart-topping hits, ascended to mainstream stardom and cemented their footing as one of the most influential rock bands in recent memory. The double LP features numerous tracks never before released on digital streaming platforms or any physical format, including b-sides, live songs, acoustic renditions, radio performances, international releases and additional non-album tracks. Alongside the announcement, the group has debuted the first taste from the record today: “Don’t Change (Live)”, a live cover performance of the famed song originally helmed by INXS. Listen now HERE. Pre-orders for Rarities are available beginning today HERE, and complete track-listing information can be found below for both digital/CD and vinyl releases. In celebration of the new album the band is also offering a signed print with their Rarities 2 LP, and limited edition merch that includes a hat, sweatshirt, puzzle and tee-shirts. All these items can be found in their official online store here. With over three decades and counting together as a band, this special release provides an incredible panoramic view of Goo Goo Dolls’ alternate journey through the past. Rarities includes live tracks such as “Let Love In” and “Listen” that were recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Hollywood, acoustic versions of iconic singles such as “Iris,” “Slide,” and “Name”, international releases including a remix of “Long Way Down” by Grammy® award winning mixer/producer/engineer Tom Lord-Alge, and even a one-minute performance of the Major League Baseball-staple “Take Me Out To The Ball Game”, plus many other rare tracks from the vault. “RARITIES” DIGITAL/CD TRACK-LISTING Hit or Miss Nothing Can Change You  Long Way Down (Chris Lord Alge Remix) Name (Live Acoustic) Don’t Change (Live) Girl Right Next to Me (Live Acoustic) Another Second Time Around (Live Acoustic) Iris (Acoustic) Slide (Acoustic) Naked (Remix) Black Balloon (Live) Naked (Live) Black Balloon (Live from Sessions@AOL) Broadway (Live from Sessions@AOL) We’ll Be Here (When You’re Gone) (Acoustic) Better Days (Acoustic) Let Love In (Live) Listen (Live) Feel The Silence (Live) Take Me Out to the Ball Game “RARITIES” VINYL TRACK-LISTING SIDE ONE Hit or Miss Nothing Can Change You Long Way Down (Chris Lord Alge Remix) Name (Live Acoustic) Don’t Change (Live) SIDE TWO Girl Right Next to Me (Live Acoustic) Another Second Time Around (Live Acoustic) Iris (Acoustic) Slide (Acoustic) Naked (Remix) SIDE THREE Black Balloon (Live) Naked (Live) Black Balloon (Live from Sessions@AOL) Broadway (Live from Sessions@AOL) We’ll Be Here (When You’re Gone) (Acoustic) SIDE FOUR Better Days (Acoustic) Let Love In (Live) Listen (Live) Feel The Silence (Live) Take Me Out To The Ball Game This past April, the band released a surprise extended play titled EP 21 via Warner Records. Produced by frontman John Rzeznik and recorded during the pandemic, the project features stripped-back versions of four fan-favorite tracks from the band’s illustrious catalogue. The band is currently in the studio recording their highly anticipated thirteenth LP.  ABOUT GOO GOO DOLLS: Formed in Buffalo, NY during 1986 by John Rzeznik and Robby Takac, Goo Goo Dolls quietly broke records, contributed a string of staples to the American songbook, connected to millions of fans, and indelibly impacted popular music for three-plus decades. Beyond selling 12 million records worldwide, the group garnered four GRAMMY® Award nominations and seized a page in the history books by achieving 14 number one and Top 10 hits at Hot AC—"the most of any artist.” As a result, they hold the all-time radio record for “Most Top 10 Singles.” Among a string of hits, “Iris” clutched #1 on the Hot 100 for 18 straight weeks and would be named “#1 Top 40 Song of the Last 20 Years.” Thus far, A Boy Named Goo [1995] went double-platinum, Dizzy Up The Girl went quadruple-platinum, and Gutterflower [2002] and Let Love In [2006] both went gold as Something for the Rest of Us [2010] and Magnetic [2013] bowed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Top 200. 2016’s Boxes attracted the praise of People and Huffington Post as Noisey, Consequence of Sound, and more featured them. Their music has been covered by everyone from Taylor Swift to Leona Lewis. Among many accolades, John received the prestigious “Hal David Starlight Award” in 2008 as well. Following a sold-out 2018 twentieth anniversary tour in celebration of Dizzy Up The Girl, Goo Goo Dolls wrote and recorded their twelfth full-length album, Miracle Pill [Warner Records]—igniting a bold and bright new era in the process. In fall 2021, the band began a new chapter with the release of their first-ever holiday record It’s Christmas All Over. With over 30 years together as a group, over 12 million albums sold, and 14 number one and Top 10 hits at Hot AC, Goo Goo Dolls remain at the top of their game and in a league of their own among rock bands.

Sights and Sounds: The Jesus And Mary Chain

So great to see that The Jesus And Mary Chain are set for a full-fledged return! I saw the band at Coachella 10 years ago (in 2007)  and that reunion was fantastic. The group played their best-loved songs, including "Happy When It Rains" and "Just Like Honey," the latter featuring actress-singer Scarlett Johansson on backup vocals...

The Jesus And Mary Chain release new track “Always Sad”

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Long-awaited new album 'Damage And Joy' to be released on March 24, 2017 on ADA / Warner Music

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The Jesus And Mary Chain have released “Always Sad,” the second new track from their upcoming album, Damage and Joy (out March 24 on ADA / Warner Music). Last December, the band released “Amputation” and confirmed plans for their first new studio album in 18-years.

Fronted by the Reid brothers Jim and William, The Jesus And Mary Chain first reformed to play the Coachella festival back in 2007. Despite regular touring – most notably a 2015 world tour which revisited their landmark album Psychocandy – it took some time before they could agree on a plan to record a much-mooted seventh album.

Work on ‘Damage and Joy’ (a reference to the English translation of schadenfreude) began in September 2015, with producer Youth also contributing bass and diplomacy to proceedings during sessions in London, Dublin and Granada, Spain. Alan McGee first confirmed that a new JAMC album was on the way by telling Canada’s CBC Music: “They've made another album! It's a big deal! It's kinda enormous."

The album commences with “Amputation,” in which waves of distorted guitar and Jim’s insouciant vocal delivery collide to create a hypnotic track which addresses his feelings of “being edited out of the whole music business… I felt like a rock ‘n’ roll amputation.”

Other highlights include a refined and re-energised new version of “All Things Must Pass” which previously featured in the TV show ‘Heroes’ and then on ‘Upside Down: The Best of The Jesus and Mary Chain’; and the raw garage-rock of “Facing Up To The Facts” which offers the revealing lyric: “I hate my brother and he hates me / That’s the way it’s supposed to be”.

The album also features performances from the band’s touring drummer Brian Young as well as former Lush bassist Phil King.

‘Damage and Joy’ will be released on digital, CD, vinyl and Cassette formats, and pre-orders are currently open. All pre-orders receive an immediate download of “Amputation” and “Always Sad.”

The full album tracklisting -

1.     Amputation

2.     War On Peace

3.     All Things Pass

4.     Always Sad

5.     Songs For A Secret

6.     The Two Of Us

7.     Los Feliz (Blues and Greens)

8.     Mood Rider

9.     Presedici (Et Chapaquiditch)

10.  Get On Home

11.  Facing Up To The Facts

12.  Simian Split

13.  Black And Blues

14.  Can’t Stop The Rock

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