Cheap Trick share new video for latest single; new album out this Friday

Check out the hard hitting track "The Riff That Won't Quit" off Cheap Trick's forthcoming new album "All Washed Up" and learn more about the band upcoming tour dates too...Robert Kinsler

CHEAP TRICK UNLEASH NEW OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR LATEST SINGLE, “THE RIFF THAT WON’T QUIT” – WATCH   PULSE-POUNDING NEW SINGLE HERALDS EAGERLY AWAITED 21ST STUDIO ALBUM FROM LEGENDARY ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMERS   NEW ALBUM, ALL WASHED UP, ARRIVES VIA BMG THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14   PRE-ORDERS/PRE-SAVES AVAILABLE NOW

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The one and only Cheap Trick have shared a video for their latest single, “The Riff That Won’t Quit.” The pulse-pounding latest single is from their eagerly awaited new album, which arrives this Friday, November 14, via BMG. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ eagerly anticipated 21st studio album will be available digitally as well as on standard black vinyl and CD. A collector’s edition Orange Marble vinyl variant limited to 1,000 units is available to pre-order exclusively via the band's new D2C store. The band's Robin Zander and Tom Petersson appeared on TalkShopLive last week to discuss the new album. WATCH "THE RIFF THAT WON'T QUIT" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE ALL WASHED UP PRE-ORDER ALL WASHED UP ORANGE MARBLE VINYL – D2C EXCLUSIVE Produced by Cheap Trick with longtime associate Julian Raymond and mixed by 5x GRAMMY® Award-winner Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Dave Matthews Band), All Washed Up was recorded at various studios in Nashville and Los Angeles through 2024. The album was heralded this summer by the anthemic first single, “Twelve Gates,” joined by an official animated lyric video streaming now on YouTube. The instantly infectious track was met by praise from such outlets as Ultimate Classic Rock, which hailed it as “a sweet slab of psychedelic guitars, sugary pop-rock hooks and lush, Beatlesque vocal harmonies.” American Songwriter agreed, writing, “The mid-tempo rock song features psychedelic and power-pop elements reminiscent of The Beatles, not surprising for a group that’s always been so heavily and unrepentantly influenced by the Fab Four.” LISTEN TO "TWELVE GATES" WATCH "TWELVE GATES" ANIMATED LYRIC VIDEO CHEAP TRICK ALL WASHED UP (BMG) Release Date: November 14, 2025

Tracklisting: All Washed Up All Wrong Long Gone  The Riff That Won’t Quit Bet It All The Best Thing Twelve Gates Bad Blood Dancing With The Band Love Gone A Long Way To Worcester Wham Boom Bang # # # One of rock’s hardest working live acts, Cheap Trick will celebrate All Washed Up – as well as their iconic body of work thus far – with a typically busy tour schedule resuming tomorrow, October 11, with a co-headline festival performance at Styx’s Rockin’ in Paradise with Styx & Friends at Miramar Beach, FL’s Seascape Resort Golf Club & Tennis Resort and then traveling into December with headline shows, dates alongside Heart, and more. Additional dates will be announced. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.cheaptrick.com/tour-dates.html.   CHEAP TRICK – TOUR 2025   OCTOBER 11 – Miramar Beach, FL – Seascape Resort Golf Club & Tennis Resort * 12 – Oxford, AL – Oxford Performing Arts Center 21 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount 22 – Bethlehem, PA – Wind Creek Bethlehem 24 – Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena 25 – Lynn, MA – Lynn Memorial Auditorium   NOVEMBER 9 – Chandler, AZ – Gila River Resorts & Casino – Wild Horse Pass 11 – Monterey, CA – Golden State Theatre 14 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort and Casino 16 – Turlock, CA – Turlock Community Theatre 18 – Anaheim, CA – HONDA Center + 21 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest 23 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena +   DECEMBER 2 – Omaha, NE – Baxter Arena + 4 – Green Bay, WI – Reach Center + 5 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee 7 – Waukee, IA – Vibrant Music Hall   * Rockin’ in Paradise with Styx & Friends + with Heart Royal Flush Tour 2025 # # # ABOUT CHEAP TRICK: Cheap Trick, the iconic rock band hailing from Illinois, has been rocking stages and winning over fans with their timeless sound for over five decades. Known for their electrifying live performances, catchy melodies, and innovative songwriting, Cheap Trick has become a staple in rock music history. With hits like “I Want You to Want Me”, “Dream Police”, “The Flame”, and “Surrender,” this legendary band continues to inspire and entertain audiences with their signature blend of hard rock and power-pop sensibilities. Cheap Trick is part of the very fiber of American music, inspiring and delighting generations with their unique union of massive melodies and razorblade riffs, their own special brand of mischievous wit and maximum rock ‘n’ roll. They achieved mainstream popularity in the US in 1979 with the triple-platinum live album At Budokan and a Top 10 single, a live recording of “I Want You to Want Me.” More success followed with the album Dream Police in 1979, which reached number 6 on the Billboard 200.The band experienced another resurgence in the late 1980s when they topped US charts with the power ballad, “The Flame.” Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, Cheap Trick maintain an almost constant touring schedule, having performed live more than 5,000 times since their formation, selling more than 20 million albums and building a dedicated cult following.   CONNECT WITH CHEAP TRICK OFFICIAL | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | YOUTUBE

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CRAWLERS share new single 'Kills Me To Be Kind’

Check out the infectious new track "Kills Me To Be Kind" from rising Liverpool-spawned rockers CRAWLERS (I also love the band's 2023 advance cut "Call It Love") and get details on the quartet's forthcoming album due on Feb. 16, 2024...Robert Kinsler

CRAWLERS / Photographer: Megan Doherty

 

CRAWLERS SHARE NEW SINGLE

‘KILLS ME TO BE KIND’ 

 

TAKEN FROM EAGERLY AWAITED DEBUT ALBUM

 ‘THE MESS WE SEEM TO MAKE’

SET FOR RELEASE ON FEBRUARY 16

 

LISTEN HERE

 

 

Today, January 19^th, CRAWLERS share their new single “Kills Me To Be Kind” via Interscope Records. The single comes as the Liverpool alt-rock four-piece ready themselves for the release of their hotly anticipated debut album The Mess We Seem To Make on February 16th.

 

“Kills Me To Be Kind” takes the band into a world of anthemic rock, worthy of stadium crowds and explosive chants, yet holds a sentiment close to the hearts of those in young diminishing relationships. Pre-order The Mess We Seem To Make HERE

 

‘“Kills Me To Be Kind" is a song for all the people pleasers. The ones ready to settle in a relationship where they felt diminished of their true self and finally breaking out of that moment,’ elaborates lead singer Holly Minto of the track.

 

It follows a string of electrifying releases from CRAWLERS including debut album cuts “Call It Love” and “Would You Come To My Funeral,” which launched as a Radio 1 ‘Hottest Record in the World’ in September, and cements their reputation as one of the most exhilarating bands to come out of Liverpool in recent years.

 

Speaking about The Mess We Seem To Make, singer Holly Minto says, “This album debut comes from us honing our craft, being vulnerable with each other, finding our sound and saying exactly what we wanted to. I think that's a lot of what the Crawlers sound is, being honest with each other about how to get the correct emotions out - trying, failing, and pushing each other to keep playing and writing to the limits.”

 

True to their word The Mess You Seem To Make takes on a whole range of challenging topics; trauma, sexual politics, mental health, the general goings on in a young person’s life. Across the record, feelings of loneliness, insecurity and toxic forms of dependence are held up to the light and examined in close context.

 

It digs deeper into what fans already know and love about Crawlers’ eclectic alt-rock sound and builds on the relationship of trust they have with producer Pete Robertson and engineer Tom Roach at Liverpool’s Coastal Studios, crafting anthemic rock songs where each member's playing personality can truly thrive. Rather than forcing themselves in any one sonic direction, they maintained the free-wheeling spirit of 2022’s mixtape Loud Without Noise, producing a striking debut which cements their status as the UK’s next big crossover alternative act.

 

The Mess We Seem To Make features 12 tracks and will be available on various formats including Deluxe CD, white vinyl, blue splatter vinyl and silver glitter cassette.

ABOUT CRAWLERS

To become a great rock band, you often need to begin with a certain alchemy. There needs to be talent, determination, a solid friendship which can withstand the rigors of creative difference or public critique. But you also need a sizable dose of ambition, the kind of unapologetic belief that your voice is one which needs to be heard. Such was already the case for Crawlers way back in 2018, where Amy Woodall, Liv May and Holly Minto were at school together in Liverpool. Having formed in 2018, the band spent their first few formative years gigging around the Liverpool scene. Amy, Holly and Liv were already polishing their grunge-rock sound when they recruited drummer Harry Breen. Newly solidified as a four, their formidable live reputation has already encouraged the kind of organic fanbase that will help them become the UK’s next big crossover alternative act.  Over the years, each new release has sealed CRAWLERS reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting young bands, with last years’ debut mixtape “Loud Without Noise” cementing their global status through helping them to achieve a huge 80+million streams to date.

 

CRAWLERS are Holly Minto (she/they), Amy Woodall (she/her), Liv May (she/they) and Harry Breen (he/him).

 

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XTC “The Big Express” The Surround Sound Series CD/Blu-ray now available!

XTC 'The Big Express' - The Surround Sound Series CD/Blu-ray Now Available

• Classic 1984 XTC album on CD/Blu-ray newly mixed (2023) by Steven Wilson in Stereo, 5.1 Surround & (for the first time with an XTC album), Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio mixes as part of The Surround Sound Series.
• CD features the complete album newly mixed in stereo + three additional tracks.
• Blu-Ray includes the newly mixed material as featured on CD in Hi-Res Stereo, 5.1 Surround and Dolby Atmos + 2023 stereo out-takes & instrumental mixes in Hi-Res stereo.
• Blu-Ray also includes the original album + additional tracks in Hi-Res stereo
• The complete album & more also appear in demo form (16/48 stereo reflecting the source material).
• Packaged in a 2-disc digipak sleeve with 16-page booklet in a cardboard slip case.

“‘The Big Express’ is the closest we ever came to recording a ‘concept’ album. It’s full of Swindon and deep seams of life there, that run through myself, Colin, and Dave, (Terry too of course). It’s populated by members of our families, our hopes and dreams. The things we wished for, or feared, a stew of memories.” - Andy Partridge – excerpted from the book “Popartery”, 2023

XTC’s seventh album, “The Big Express” was virtually ignored on release, much as its immediate predecessor “Mummer” had been. If “Mummer” was XTC’s quiet album, this was its polar opposite: bright, brash, noisy - even cluttered on occasion if the song demanded it - as it became a concept album of sorts, a partly autobiographical reflection on growing up in an industrial town, Swindon, with its history of engineering and railway accomplishments.

Perhaps in keeping with that tradition of technical innovation, the album also made extensive use of (at the time) new technology with Linn-Drum programming (alongside drummer Peter Phipps), E-mu Emulator and other synths claiming space among the more traditional guitars, bass and drums mix under-pinning the vocals. This technology was juxtaposed with technology of a slightly earlier pop/rock era as phasing, backwards tapes and the inclusion of a mellotron hinted at a psychedelic influence that would move more center-stage with the band’s next project – “The Dukes of Stratosphear”.

With XTC no longer touring, the sound radically different to any previous XTC album, in a musical climate where the upper end of the charts reflected national radio, producing the most mainstream result for years: Lionel Richie, Sade, Spandau Ballet, Howard Jones, Tina Turner, Queen – Frank Sinatra’s final solo studio album… the space for a metallic, post-punk concept album about growing up amidst the ghosts of Swindon’s industrial heritage proved non-existent.

Of course, the songs were as good as on any other XTC album - a very high standard indeed – but they went largely unheard. Given that position, it would be easy to conclude that the timing was wrong for the album. But the best musicians follow the music and allow the times to catch up with that; precisely what happened when XTC released its next album “Skylarking” in 1986. Just as “Mummer’s” reputation (and sales) has increased over the years, “The Big Express” is now regarded as a ‘neglected classic’ of its era.

Now remixed by Steven Wilson in stereo, 5.1 Surround Sound & Dolby Atmos, the full impact and power of the album can be appreciated. Already given studio quality previews to an invited audience in London and LA at L-Acoustics studios, the reaction was one of collective awe at the amount of newly apparent detail & clarity in the Atmos mixes. As ever with XTC, the full package on the Blu-ray disc includes every recorded song from the era, ranging from demos through to the aforementioned Spatial Audio mixes.

Coal for the Soul.

CD (2023 Mixes)
1. Wake Up
2. All You Pretty Girls
3. Shake You Donkey Up
4. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
5. This World Over
6. The Everyday Story Of Smalltown
7. I Bought Myself A Liarbird
8. Reign Of Blows
9. You’re The Wish You Are I Had
10. I Remember The Sun
11. Train Running Low On Soul Coal
Additional tracks
12. Red Brick Dream
13. Washaway
14. Blue Overall

Blu-ray
• Album and additional tracks of 2023 Mix in Dolby
Atmos, Hi-Res Stereo and DTS-HD MA Surround
Sound & instrumental mixes in Hi-Res Stereo all
mixed by Steven WIlson
• Plus album and additional tracks of original mix in
Hi-Res stereo, with additional out-takes.
Additional out-takes:
15. Broomstick Rhythm (guide vocal)
16. The Troubles (Big Express Version – Backing
Track)
• Album and additional tracks in demo form in 16/48
Hi-Res stereo with additional demos of songs
written for The Big Express
Additional demos:
15. Now we all Dead (It Doesn't Matter)
16. Work
17. Gangway, Electric Guitar is Coming Through
18. Broomstick Rhythm
19. Shiny Cage
20. A Patriotic Romance

To purchase: https://burningshed.com/xtc_the-big-express_cd_blu-ray 

Simple Minds release Live Album 'New Gold Dream: Live From Paisley Abbey' - out today

The wait is over! Simple Minds' new live album New Gold Dream: Live From Paisley Abbey is out today (Friday, Oct. 27). Make sure to revisit the band's incredible legacy via my review of their first-ever performance in Las Vegas...Robert Kinsler

From left, Simple Minds guitarist Charlie Burchill, singer Sarah Brown and
lead vocalist Jim Kerr performing at the Pearl Theater on October 21, 2018.
Photo credit: Robert Kinsler

Simple Minds NEW GOLD DREAM – LIVE FROM PAISLEY ABBEY

SIMPLE MINDS RELEASE NEW GOLD DREAM: LIVE FROM PAISLEY ABBEY OUT TODAY - OCTOBER 27TH RECORDED FOR SKY ARTS ‘GREATEST ALBUMS LIVE’ SERIES

‘New Gold Dream – Live From Paisley Abbey’ finds Simple Minds at the very top of their game. Reminding people why, after 45 years, they are still such a revered band, and why New Gold Dream is such a critically lauded, groundbreaking album. Having celebrated its 40th birthday last year, the mesmerising New Gold Dream was the album that began Simple Minds crossover as a major force in the pop music of the 1980s, reaching number 3 on the UK album chart. Working with Peter Walsh, the band was able to realise the sophisticated, accessible pop sound they were striving for, whilst continuing their quest for experimentation.  This achievement was reflected in three incredible and successful singles: ‘Promised You A Miracle’, ‘Glittering Prize’ and ‘Someone, Somewhere (In Summertime)’, which U2’s Bono picked as one of his Desert Island Discs when paying tribute to the band and New Gold Dream’s influence on him and U2.  Sky Arts transmitted a one-off filmed live performance of Simple Minds playing their seminal 1982 album New Gold Dream. The performance was filmed a short distance from the band’s hometown of Glasgow, in the stunning setting of the 12th century Paisley Abbey.   Recorded late last year, the programme is part of Sky Arts’ ‘Greatest Albums live’ series, which captures iconic artists playing classic albums from their illustrious careers.  New Gold Dream – Live from Paisley Abbey offers fans the chance to buy the audio of this special one-off performance, either as a digital download, CD or a limited edition red transparent marble vinyl LP housed in a gatefold sleeve.

Order Here

“When it came to choosing a venue to perform New Gold Dream, we wanted to do it somewhere locally. And obviously the band being from Glasgow, it had to be somewhere nearby. But it also had to be somewhere at some Grandeur and something that was just out of the norm, because it is a special album for us. And so Paisley Abbey, knowing its history and knowing the look of the place, we thought this would be something special.” – Jim Kerr