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.
   

The Number of the Beast - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J34NSW8
The Number of the Beast Deluxe - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JVF7R6X 

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Lost Glen Campbell album "Sings For The King," featuring songs recorded for Elvis Presley, discovered & released half a century later via Capitol/UMe

Wow! This is a treasure everyone can enjoy!


LOST GLEN CAMPBELL ALBUM SINGS FOR THE KING FEATURING SONGS RECORDED FOR ELVIS PRESLEY DISCOVERED AND RELEASED HALF A CENTURY LATER
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 16 VIA CAPITOL/UMe


Los Angeles – October 10, 2018 – From 1964 to 1968—in between recording sessions with the Wrecking Crew, touring with the Beach Boys, and recording his own albums—Glen Campbell was recruited to record songs for the King of Rock & Roll,Elvis Presley. Originally intended for Elvis’s ears only, eighteen of these recently unearthed and unreleased gems will be released together on CD, LP and digitally for the first time, more than half a century later, as the lost album Sings For The King on November 16 via Capitol/UMe. The collection will also be available on limited edition 180-gram clear vinyl exclusively at GlenCampbell.com.
Pre-order Sings For The King now: https://UMe.lnk.to/GCSingsForTheKingPR
Sings For The King includes songs written by the songwriting team of Ben Weisman and Sid Wayne. Weisman is significant for having written the most songs recorded by Elvis than any other songwriter in history at 57. Weisman and Wayne turned to Glen Campbell who had perfect pitch and an uncanny ability to match Elvis’s key and even mimic his delivery, to recordfully fleshed out studio versions that they could present to Elvis for his recording consideration. The songs were discovered by Executive Producer Stephen Auerbach who found the fifty-year-old recordings on long-forgotten reel-to-reel tapes in a storage space belonging to his uncle-in-law, Ben Weisman. Of the 29 recordings that have been rescued, there are twelveof Glen’s recordings that went on to be recorded and released by Elvis including “Stay Away Joe,” “Clambake,” “Spinout” and “Easy Come, Easy Go,” which were all made famous with iconic singing performances of the title tracks in his movies.“Easy Come, Easy Go” is available today on all streaming services and as an instant grat download with digital pre-order. Listen to “Easy Come, Easy Go” here: https://UMe.lnk.to/GCSingsForTheKingPR
The variety of the material is striking and ranges from the country-flavored “Any Old Time” to the more rocked-up “I’ll Be Back” to meaty ballads like “I’ll Never Know.” On “I Got Love” Glen begins the song sounding like himself but then subtly shifts into Elvis’s trademark tone. The album opens with the gospel song “We Call on Him,” which features the two legendary voices fused into a duet, giving a real sense of how Glen’s performances teed up these songs for Elvis, and then where The King took them and made them his own. All eighteen songs highlight Glen’s incredible vocal range and guitar skills and draw focus to Weisman and Wayne’s understanding of all the styles of music Elvis could perform.
As noted music journalist and author Alan Light writes in the illuminating liner notes, “With their genre-bending musical exploration and rural Southern roots, it’s no surprise that Glen Campbell and Elvis Presley formed something of a mutual admiration society.” ‘Elvis and I were brought up the same humble way,’ Campbell once said, “picking cotton and looking at the north end of a south-bound mule." The friendship between the Rhinestone Cowboy and the King of Rock and Roll spanned three decades, and they often orbited each other professionally.”
Glen and Elvis first met in 1956, when Elvis performed in Albuquerque, where Glen had recently moved to join his uncle’s band, Dick Bills and the Sandia Mountain Boys. “I saw him in the rough,” Glen later said. “He was so electrifying.” In 1960, Glen headed to Los Angeles to find work as a session musician and took a regular gig at a club called the Crossbow, where Elvis and his friends would sometimes come watch from a small private room upstairs. As a member of the incomparable group of LA studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, Glen appeared on dozens of immortal hits, from “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’ ” to “Strangers in the Night.” In 1963 alone, he added his guitar to almost 600 sessions, including his one and only recording with Elvis, for the “Viva Las Vegas” soundtrack.
By 1967, Glen’s own career was exploding with the release of his breakthrough albums Gentle on My Mind and By the Time I Get to Phoenix, which both reached Number One on the charts, and made Grammy history by sweeping the Song and Performance awards in both the pop and country & western categories. The following year, By The Time I Get To Phoenixtook home the prize for Album of the Year, the first country record to do so. Yet Glen continued to knock out songs for Weisman and Wayne in whatever spare time he had.
The relationship between these two Hall of Famers might have become more extensive: When Elvis was assembling his TCB band in 1969, his two finalists for the lead guitar chair were Glen and James Burton. But while Glen was riding high as a solo artist following the monster hits “Gentle on My Mind,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” and “Wichita Lineman,” Burton was available since his previous boss, Ricky Nelson, had recently broken up his backing band.
As it turns out, though, there was a deep connection between Elvis and Glen that almost no one was aware of—until now, with the release of Sings for the King. This historic collection casts new light on the quiet influence that one musical giant, and an often-overlooked songwriting team, had on America’s greatest rock and roll star.

SINGS FOR THE KING TRACK LISTING
1. We Call On Him (A Duet With Elvis Presley) *
2. Easy Come, Easy Go *
3. Any Old Time
4. Anyone Can Play
5. I Got Love
6. I’ll Never Know *
7. All I Needed Was The Rain *
8. How Can You Lose What You Never Had *
9. Spinout *
10. Magic Fire
11. I’ll Be Back *
12. Love On The Rocks
13. Stay Away, Joe *
14. Cross My Heart And Hope To Die *
15. Clambake *
16. There Is So Much World To See *
17. Do The Clam *
18. Restless
* Recorded by Elvis Presley

TJR and Robert Kinsler discuss Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees for 2019 induction

Check out TJR and Robert Kinsler discuss the field of nominees being considered for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019:

The Bangles, Dream Syndicate, Three O'Clock and Rain Parade salute Paisley Underground days on '3x4' from Yep Roc

Exciting news for fans of the wonderful "Paisley Underground" jangle pop genre that emerged in Southern California in the early 1980s, and especially of the best-known artists associated with that melodic movement...


The Bangles, Dream Syndicate, Three O'Clock and Rain Parade salute their 'Paisley Underground' days together by reinterpreting their past on new collection

Hear The Bangles cover Three O'Clock's "Jet Fighter" courtesy of NPR here


At the dawn of the ’80s, The Bangles (then just known as The Bangs), The Dream Syndicate, The Three O’Clock (originally called the Salvation Army), and Rain Parade were all new bands in Los Angeles who formed the core of the small yet influential Paisley Underground scene. In 2013, the four ensembles got back together to share the bill at L.A.’s Fonda Theatre for a charity concert that benefited the non-profit Education Through Music organization. The show went so well and everybody had so much fun that Danny Benair (The Three O’Clock), Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), and Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) started talking about doing some type of album to celebrate their Paisley Underground beginnings. 
 
The Bangles
The idea quickly formed that each band would cover one song of the three’s. Plans were discussed but lingered. The project didn’t take off until Benair mentioned it to Yep Roc Recordsco-owner Glenn Dicker, who loved the idea. The four groups then got to work, resulting in the terrific twelve-song collection succinctly entitled 3 x 4: The Bangles, The Three O'Clock, The Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, which Yep Roc will issue on purple swirl vinyl double LP and CD for Black Friday Record Store Day (November 23, 2018) with a wider release (including digital formats) coming on January 11, 2019. 
 
The Three O'Clock
The album’s dozen tracks represent a wonderful melding of the original rendition with the personality of the new interpretation. Rain Parade retained the wild sonic assault of the Dream Syndicate’s “When You Smile” but added a twist by going acoustic on the chorus. The Bangles enlisted an Indian percussionist to enhance the dreamy quality of Rain Parade’s “Talking in My Sleep,” while swapping in guitars for keyboards that were on the Three O’Clock’s original “Jet Pilot.”    
 
Because these bands were, and remain, friends who started off performing together at the same time and places, 3 x 4 holds a more personal quality that most tribute projects don’t have. The tunes that each group chose to cover all had deep connections to them. These were their friends’ songs that they admired, that they saw played originally in tiny clubs, in studios, or at parties. 
 
Dream Syndicate
Michael Quericio (Salvation Army/Three O’Clock/Permanent Green Light) recalls, in the liner notes, of being shocked and awed when he first heard “Getting Out of Hand” by the then-still-named Bangs and Rain Parade’s “What She’s Done to Your Mind” on the radio. Wynn, similarly, remembers how he was blown away when he listened to the first Salvation Army single after it came into the record store where he worked; he also admits to just how personal the Bangles’ “Hero Takes a Fall” is to him. 
 
Without giving away too many stories, the liner notes are packed with fond, and perhaps not so fond, remembrances from members of the four groups. They reveal the importance of backyard BBQs and KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, as well as offering several different recollections about an ill-planned group trip to Catalina Island. Quercio and Benair both share their memories of being asked during an interview with the L.A. Weekly if there was a name for their collection of bands, and Quercio casually blurting out “Paisley Underground,” although no one had used that term before. British rock mags soon picked up on the phrase, however, and the name “Paisley Underground” got stuck on them, for better or worse.
 
Paisley Underground, in fact, wasn’t so much a musical genre as a small scene. The bands didn’t share a specific sound but rather similar musical sensibilities. They were all record geeks who were — as Steve Wynn says of the Salvation Army/Three O’Clock in the liner notes — “hip to the grooviest sound of the ’60s but at the same time had been informed by punk rock.” Taking elements of the Velvets’ drone, Sunshine Pop harmonies, British Psychedelia, and choiceNuggets pieces, each group mixed them in varying amounts to create their own distinct sound. 
 
As Vicki Peterson relates in the liner notes: “We joke about it now, but it really is like we went to school together. Paisley High, Class of ’83. We were each a little different: diligent students and fuck-ups, eager newbies and experienced band veterans … but we all shared an anachronistic fascination for the music and culture of the 1960s. When we eventually found each other, in 1981 and ’82, we bonded together like social outcasts on the Quad.”
 
These grads of Paisley High, Class of ’83, all went on to enjoy long careers in music, and are still active today. The Three O’Clock released several albums in the ’80s for Frontier, I.R.S., andPrince’s Paisley Park labels. They reformed in 2013, with principal members Michael Quercio (vocals/bass), Louis Gutierrez (guitars) and Danny Benair (drums) along with keyboardist recruit Adam Merrin, to perform at the Coachella Music Festival. The Bangles enjoyed wide success on Columbia Records throughout the ’80s with hits like “Manic Monday,” “Walk Like an Egyptian,” and “Eternal Flame.” Their 3 x 4 recordings feature a lineup consisting of all four original members, including bassist Annette Zilinskas. 
 
Rain Parade made albums on Enigma and Island during the ’80s before splintering. Matt Piucci spent time with Crazy Horse. David Roback formed the band Opal with the Dream Syndicate’s first bassist, Kendra Smith, before teaming with Hope Sandoval in Mazzy Star(“Fade Into You” fame). Roback’s brother Steven founded Viva Saturn with fellow Rain ParaderJohn Thoman in the ’90s. Those two joined Piucci in reviving Rain Parade in 2012. Between 1982-89, the Dream Syndicate put out a quartet of acclaimed albums. After years of solo or short-term group projects, Steve Wynn reconstituted the Dream Syndicate in 2012 with original drummer Dennis Duck, long-time bassist Mark Walton, and guitarist Jason Victor. 
 
3 x 4: The Bangles, The Three O'Clock, The Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade winds up not just only celebrating these bands’ shared past but also celebrating how the musicians are today. As Steve Wynn puts it: “I’m glad we’ve kept this thing going. I’ll go on a limb here and say that we all like and respect and admire each other as much as we did back in 1982, maybe even more. We’ve lived lives and learned a few things and know how important and lucky it is when like-minded souls find each other and collide on something really exciting. It’s all still happening!”
CD Track List:
1. Getting Out Of Hand (The Bangles) - The Three O'Clock
2. That's What You Always Say (The Dream Syndicate) - The Bangles
3. You Are My Friend (Rain Parade) - The Dream Syndicate
4. As Real As Real (The Three O’Clock) - Rain Parade
5. Tell Me When It's Over (Dream Syndicate) - The Three O'Clock
6. When You Smile (The Dream Syndicate) - Rain Parade
7. Talking In My Sleep (Rain Parade) - The Bangles
8. Hero Takes A Fall (The Bangles) - The Dream Syndicate
9. Jet Fighter (The Three O’Clock) - The Bangles
10. Real World (The Bangles) - Rain Parade
11. What She's Done To Your Mind (Rain Parade) - The Three O'Clock
12 She Turns To Flowers (The Three O’Clock) - The Dream Syndicate

Band photo credits above: The Bangles (Autumn de Wilde); The Three O'Clock (Chris Haston); The Dream Syndicate (Chris Sickich).

New sets celebrate the legacy of essential '70s recordings

A well-known classic from John Lennon comes to life courtesy of a stellar blu-ray while a rediscovered collaboration between Big Star's Alex Chilton and the dB's' Peter Holsapple set for release on Oct. 12 is sure to please fans of those two groundbreaking artists.



Artists: John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Title: Imagine & Gimme Some Truth (Eagle Vision)
You might like if you enjoy: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Harrison
Tell me more: Eagle Vision has released a stellar title featuring both "Imagine" and "Gimme Some Truth" on a single collection (available on blu-ray, DVD and via digital format). Filmed in the summer of 1971, "Imagine" is a freewheeling "video album" that strings together artful films for the 10 songs featured on John Lennon's second solo album Imagine as well as some short video shorts positioned between many of the cuts. Filmed mostly at John and Yoko's home in Ascot, England and in New York, the film features colorful videos for the inspired "Imagine," countrified "Crippled Inside," "cutting "How Do You Sleep?", tender "Oh My Love" and other favorites. Of equal interest is the GRAMMY Award-winning "Gimme Some Truth," a fascinating documentary providing an in-depth look and listen at the sessions that gave rise to the "Imagine" album. The scenes featuring the creation and recording of the songs "Oh My Love" and "How Do You Sleep?" are of special interest to Beatles fans as they showcase George Harrison playing guitar and working with Lennon in the studio. Bonus features on the blu-ray reviewed here include raw studio out-takes for "Jealous Guy," "How" and "Gimme Some Truth." Information: eagle-rock.com.



Artist: Peter Holsapple and Alex Chilton
Title: The Death of Rock: Peter Holsapple vs. Alex Chilton (Omnivore Recordings)
You might like if you enjoy: Alex Chilton, Peter Holsapple, Big Star
Tell me more: The rediscovered tracks that comprise The Death of Rock: Peter Holsapple vs. Alex Chilton make for a joyful listen despite the competing interests of the two artists featured on the 19-track collection. Raw and honest in every way that matters, the genesis of the sessions that yielded this mix of tuneful rock and art damage is likely much easier to process in 2018 than when the cuts were recorded in 1978. Peter Holsapple, who contributes detailed liner notes on the collection, recalls he was chasing the legacy of power pop pioneers Big Star when he left his home in North Carolina and rolled into Memphis and was able to meet and work with that band's co-founder/lead singer Alex Chilton. The Death of Rock is broken down into sections featuring each artist. Holsapple's material is the more tuneful, better capturing the melodic rock style he was honing (just listen to the enticing "Bad Reputation" yearning "House Is Not A Home" and winning garage rocker "The Death of Rock"). Chilton was simultaneously turning his back on the power pop of Big Star's seminal first two albums and was interested in tapping into the burgeoning punk rock movement; indeed his material is loose and intentionally unpolished (as evidenced by a near-destruction of the blues classic "Train Kept A Rollin'," and his low-fi originals "Tennis Bum" and "Marshall Law"). As Holsapple notes in the revealing liner notes: "I caught Alex exiting a world of sweet pop that I was only just trying to enter, and the door hit me on the way in, I guess." Information: OmnivoreRecordings.com.



Robert Kinsler

Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announces nominees for 2019 induction

We new the news was coming today and there is a strong field of candidates for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Radiohead (nominated for the first time in 2017) and The Zombies (this is the legendary British rockers' fourth nomination!), and first-time nominees The Cure are my favorite names on the list. But I also like the seeing Devo and Todd Rundgren. Robert Kinsler



THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR 2019 INDUCTION

Fans Can Cast Their Vote for Inductees at Rockhall.com/vote or In Person at the Museum in Cleveland

CLEVELAND (October 9, 2018) — The Nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 are:

The Zombies have earned their fourth nomination
for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
  • Def Leppard
  • Devo 
  • Janet Jackson
  • John Prine
  • Kraftwerk
  • LL Cool J
  • MC5
  • Radiohead
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Roxy Music
  • Stevie Nicks
  • The Cure
  • Todd Rundgren
  • Rufus & Chaka Khan 
  • The Zombies
To be eligible for nomination, an individual artist or band must have released its first commercial recording at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. Six out of 15 of the Nominees are on the ballot for the first time, including: Def Leppard, Devo, John Prine, Roxy Music, Stevie Nicks, and Todd Rundgren.

Inductees will be announced in December 2018. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2019 Induction Ceremony, presented by Klipsch Audio, will be held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on March 29, 2019. Ticket on-sale information will be announced in January.

Thom Yorke performing with Radiohead.
Ballots will be sent to an international voting body of more than 1,000 artists, historians and members of the music industry. Factors such as an artist’s musical influence on other artists, length and depth of career and the body of work, innovation and superiority in style and technique are taken into consideration.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will again offer fans the opportunity to officially participate in the induction selection process. Beginning October 9 and continuing through 11:59 p.m. EST on December 9, 2018, fans can visit rockhall.com to cast votes for who they believe to be most deserving of induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The top five artists, as selected by the public, will comprise a “fans’ ballot” that will be tallied along with the other ballots to choose the 2019 inductees. Fans will need to login to vote. Voting is capped at one ballot per day.

The Cure are among the top-tier artists on the
ballot this year.
Fans can also visit the Museum in Cleveland to cast their vote in person using the Voice Your Choice interactives adjacent to the 2018 Inductee exhibit in the new Hall of Fame Gallery, presented by KeyBank.







Stevie Nicks performing in December
2016 at The Forum. Photo: Kelly A. Swift


HBO will also once again broadcast the ceremony in 2019 and SiriusXM will also carry a radio simulcast, along with specials leading up to the Ceremony devoted to the Rock Hall’s Inductees—past and present— on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Radio (Ch. 310).

A limited number of pre-sale tickets for the 2019 Induction Ceremony will be made available for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame donors and members in advance of the public sale. 

To be eligible for the member pre-sale opportunity, you must be an active Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member by December 31, 2018. Supporters of the Donor Circle by December 31, 2018 have the opportunity to access premium balcony tickets and VIP packages directly through Rock Hall staff and skip the member pre-sale. Join or renew your Rock Hall membership or donor status by December 31, 2018 to gain access to these opportunities. For more information on how to become a member, call the membership hotline at (216) 515-8425 or email membership@rockhall.org. For information on the Donor Circle, call (216) 515-1222 or email mischay@rockhall.org.
Todd Rundgren.

Klipsch Audio, a leading global speaker and headphone manufacturer, is a strategic partner and presenting sponsor of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, its Induction Ceremony events and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Main Stage. Klipsch’s renowned products deliver the power, detail and emotion of the live music experience throughout the iconic museum.

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