Check out the latest episode of the continuing Top 100 Songs series; in this episode TJR and Robert Kinsler each offer up songs 26-30:
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Bruce Springsteen's 'Western Stars' coming on June 14
Here's the big news for the day...
Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars, New Studio Album out on Columbia Records on Friday, June 14, 2019
Bruce Springsteen’s first new studio album in five years takes his music to a new place, drawing inspiration in part from the Southern California pop records of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The album was recorded primarily at Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey, with additional recording in California and New York. Columbia Records will release Springsteen’s 19th studio album on June 14. Western Stars will be available for pre-order on Friday, April 26.
Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars, New Studio Album out on Columbia Records on Friday, June 14, 2019
“This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements," says Springsteen. "It's a jewel box of a record."
The 13 tracks of Western Stars encompass a sweeping range of American themes, of highways and desert spaces, of isolation and community and the permanence of home and hope.
The song "Hello Sunshine" and a video will be released just after midnight ET tonight.
Ron Aniello produced the album with Springsteen and plays bass, keyboard, and other instruments. Patti Scialfa provides vocals and contributes vocal arrangements on four tracks. The musical arrangements include strings, horns, pedal steel and contributions from more than 20 other players including Jon Brion (who plays celeste, Moog, and farfisa), as well as guest appearances by David Sancious, Charlie Giordano, and Soozie Tyrell. The album was mixed by Tom Elmhirst.
Bruce Springsteen’s recording career spans over 40 years, beginning with 1973's ‘Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ’ (Columbia Records). He has garnered 20 Grammys, won an Oscar and a Tony, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received a Kennedy Center Honor, and was MusiCares’ 2013 Person of the Year. Springsteen’s memoir ‘Born to Run’ (Simon & Schuster) and its companion album ‘Chapter and Verse’ were released in September 2016, and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2016. His historic 236-show run of ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ at Jujamcyn’s Walter Kerr Theatre from October 2017 to December 2018 also yielded an accompanying soundtrack album and Netflix special.
Western Stars Song Titles
1. Hitch Hikin’
2. The Wayfarer
3. Tucson Train
4. Western Stars
5. Sleepy Joe’s Café
6. Drive Fast (The Stuntman)
7. Chasin’ Wild Horses
8. Sundown
9. Somewhere North of Nashville
10. Stones
11. There Goes My Miracle
12. Hello Sunshine
13. Moonlight Motel
All songs written by Bruce Springsteen
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Coachella 2019: Weekend 2 Roundup
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| The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
Those attendees who only arrive at Coachella late in the afternoon miss some of the incredible up-and-coming artists who perform. This writer tried to soak in as many complete performances as possible.
Here is a chronological run through my favorite sets of a magical Coachellafest weekend:
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| Let's Eat Grandma performing in the Gobi tent. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
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| Hurray for the Riff Raff singer Alynda Segarra, left, with keyboardist Sarah Goldstone. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
Brooklyn, New York rock quartet Beach Fossils attracted a huge crowd to the Gobi with their mix of dream pop, melodic rock and lo-fi atmospheric soundscapes. Standouts included the faraway "Sugar," driving New Order-minded "What a Pleasure," shoegaze gem "Sleep Apnea" and otherworldly sortie "May 1st."
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| Kacey Musgraves at Coachella on April 19, 2019. Photo credit: Courtesy of Coachella |
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| The Frights performing in the Sonora tent.Photo credit: Courtesy of Coachella |
What fun The Frights offered up a blistering turn inside the colorfully-decorated Sonora tent, including the use of large balloon arrangements cast into the air to enhance the cool atmosphere. From the time the Poway, California-spawned punk rockers took the stage with "Crutch," fans were moving (some clearly enjoying the mosh pit and even a few brave souls stage diving later on) in time with the hard-edged punk rock. Another highlight was the irreverent "Whatever," with the four member band clearly having a ball at the high-profile gig.
Manchester, England's The 1975 lit up the main Coachella Stage with dance-minded electropop brew including the uptempo opener "Give Yourself a Try," slower "I Like America & America Likes Me," and monster indie rock dance cut "Chocolate."
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| Dylan Minnette of Wallows at Coachella. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
Saturday brought another slew of standout performances, beginning with Los Angeles-based Wallows. The emerging melodic rock outfit proved to be the perfect outfit to welcome the day, recalling all that is great about power-pop, indie rock and the '80s strains of the Psychedelic Underground via great originals like "Ice Cold Pool," "Are You Bored Yet?" and "I'm Full." Singer-guitarists Dylan Minnette and Braeden Lemasters give Wallows an obvious one-two punch; the group's official full-length debut Nothing Happens was released by Atlantic Records in late March.
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| A R I Z O N A performing on the Coachella stage. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
Los Angeles' The Interrupters brought a fun-filled mix of ska and punk rock to their 45-minute outing on the Outdoor Theatre stage. Capturing the spirit of the weekend was the hard-edged "Take Back the Power," with lead singer Aimee Interrupter noting the song is both a song of protest and a call for unity. The band also tore through great songs like "Title Holder," "Gave You Everything," "Family" and set-ending "She's Kerosene."
Vancouver, Canada-based duo Bob Moses (featuring Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance) conjured up a mix of dream pop, electronica and alternative music during an immersive appearance on the Outdoor Theatre stage. The swirling intro "Heaven Only Knows," alt rock dance groove that played out via "Talk," textured "Like It or Not" and dance-heavy "Enough to Believe" were among the tracks that hit the mark.
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| Weezer performing at Coachella in Indio on April 20, 2019. Photo credit: Courtesy of Coachella |
Weezer mixed things up a bit when performing Weekend 2. While the Los Angeles rockers had played with several guests the previous week (including the two members of Tears for Fears), singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, bassist Scott Shriner and guitarist-keyboardist Brian Bell used this turn to handle things on their own. The results and new track listing definitely pleased the massive crowd. After offering up an a Capella vocals-only version of "Buddy Holly," the band then went on to offer the classic version of that 1994 hit via a full-on electric take. The band's set list featured a bunch of great Weezer classics ("Hash Pipe," "Undone - The Sweater Song," "Island in the Sun," etc.) as well as outstanding covers of some of the tracks off the band's 2019 Teal Album." Takes on the Turtles' "Happy Together" (with so many fans singing along) and Toto's "Africa" were especially memorable.
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| Emily King at Coachella. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
I quickly made my way to the Gobi where Emily King was conjuring up magic of her own. A wonderful singer, I watched her lead a band and two backing singers through several tracks including the dance-fueled "Remind Me" and R&B-funk ride "Can't Hold Me."
I stayed put in the Gobi for two more unforgettable performances. First up was boy pablo, a terrific and fun-minded indie pop group from Norway. Singer-guitarist Nicolás Muñoz and his four-man band had a blast, and so did the audience. Faves like the hyperactive "Feeling Lonely," breezy "Everytime" and aptly-pegged "Dance, Baby" were a true reason to move.
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| Alice Merton at Coachella. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
Soccer Mommy draws positive comparisons with a range of greats including Mazzy Star and Moonpools & Caterpillars, but the artist (a moniker for Sophie Allison) is something special on her own. The mix of three textured guitars, some keyboards and hypnotic rhythm section elevated the dreamscapes created in "Try," "Cool," "Wild Flowers" and a great new track titled "Lucy."
My last stop was to check out CHVRCHES in the Mojave tent. The Scottish trio comprised of singer Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty was simply incredible, performing its fun, high-energy synth-pop with artful persuasion for an adoring and massive crowd. The soaring "Get Out," introspective "Graffiti," driving "Forever" and electronica dance cut "Leave a Trace" were among the incredible works offered up with power and perfection in the desert late Sunday night.
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| An artist working on a colorful recycling bin at Coachella. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
Editor's Note: This column was originally published in the April 24, 2019 print edition of The Desert Star Weekly newspaper.
Sights and Sounds: Vintage Trouble, Two Door Cinema Club, Randy Bachman
Wow! So many cool music releases coming over the next few months! As if I wasn't excited enough to see that Vintage Trouble is performing in Dana Point on May 19, now comes word that the band has a new release coming out on May 10...
Vintage Trouble announce the release of 'Chapter II – EP II' on Friday, May 10, 2019
Vintage Trouble has announced the release of Chapter II – EP via Ingrooves on May 10, 2019.
With Chapter II Vintage Trouble distill swaggering rock, soulful rhythm & blues grooves and pop into a bold new sound. This body of work introduces a combination of influences from the gip-gyrational soul dance songs of the band's adolescent years to the revolutionary poetic and powerful protest music of the 1960s and '70s, to today's hard-thumping radio jams, to the intoxicating swing and sway of the Grand Cayman Islands where they recorded it. The songs make your body bounce and your heart swell, with tales of lasting love, lust, lessons and loosening the reigns on life.
Chapter II – EP 1, released late 2018, is a dance record. Featuring five new tracks including acoustic versions of each song, it has the vibes of late-night after hours parties, family barbecues and cruising down Pacific Coast Highway.
Chapter II – EP 2, pays honor to the band's soul roots, and rings of Marvin, Al, Sam, Otis and Percy, but with the fullest modern scoundscaping. It also includes live renditions of five famories captured everywhere from New Orleans to Edinburgh.
Known for their electrifying live shows, Vintage Trouble has logged 3,000 shows across 30 countries on tour with legends such as The Rolling Stones, The Who, AC/DC, Bon Jovi and Lenny Kravitz.
Information: VintageTrouble.com.
Two Door Cinema Club releases "Satellite" - band announces upcoming release of new album "False Alarm" via Glassnote Records on June 14, 2019
"That's a pretty rare thing for a recording artist who gets two No. 1s with two different bands," notes John Einarson," biographer and music historian, at the start of the new documentary, Bachman, chronicling the life of this 74 year old who is still regularly making music and performing. The film follows Bachman as he looks to the past for inspiration from rarely seen footage, pictures and documents that have been stored at the National Archives in Ottawa for decades.
Among the other hits Bachman has written or co-written are "These Eyes," "No Time," "New Mother Nature," "Takin' Care of Business," "Let It Ride," and "Roll On Down The Highway."
"He was like my biggest influence when I was a kid," says Neil Young in the film. "Watching him play guitar, he had an amazing sense about the way he played. And the feeling that you got when you listened to him. It was more than just chops."
Young, who has known Bachman for about 55 years, added, "I hear Randy - when I see him, I hear him, and I feel him."
Posted by Robert Kinsler
Vintage Trouble announce the release of 'Chapter II – EP II' on Friday, May 10, 2019
With Chapter II Vintage Trouble distill swaggering rock, soulful rhythm & blues grooves and pop into a bold new sound. This body of work introduces a combination of influences from the gip-gyrational soul dance songs of the band's adolescent years to the revolutionary poetic and powerful protest music of the 1960s and '70s, to today's hard-thumping radio jams, to the intoxicating swing and sway of the Grand Cayman Islands where they recorded it. The songs make your body bounce and your heart swell, with tales of lasting love, lust, lessons and loosening the reigns on life.
Chapter II – EP 1, released late 2018, is a dance record. Featuring five new tracks including acoustic versions of each song, it has the vibes of late-night after hours parties, family barbecues and cruising down Pacific Coast Highway.
Chapter II – EP 2, pays honor to the band's soul roots, and rings of Marvin, Al, Sam, Otis and Percy, but with the fullest modern scoundscaping. It also includes live renditions of five famories captured everywhere from New Orleans to Edinburgh.
Known for their electrifying live shows, Vintage Trouble has logged 3,000 shows across 30 countries on tour with legends such as The Rolling Stones, The Who, AC/DC, Bon Jovi and Lenny Kravitz.
Information: VintageTrouble.com.
Two Door Cinema Club releases "Satellite" - band announces upcoming release of new album "False Alarm" via Glassnote Records on June 14, 2019
Two Door Cinema Club have today announced details of their fourth studio album False Alarm, out June 14, 2019 via Glassnote. Also unveiled today via Zane Lowe’s World Record on Apple Music’s Beats 1 is new single ‘Satellite”, an infectious Krautpop-influenced slice of future pop that accepts as a species we’re “in it together” – be it Brexit, climate change or any other man-made modern day terror. Details of the release were unveiled in a typically irreverent live stream which saw the trio launching the new album cover into space, whilst simultaneously commentating on the event and answering questions from fans. View the launch event here.
Listen/share "Satellite" here.
False Alarm finds the three piece gloriously unshackled and creatively at the peak of their game. Across its ten tracks False Alarm wryly scans and satirises the social and environmental woes of 2019 through the prism of wonderfully off-kilter pop, simultaneously borrowing from and warping elements of future pop, disco, rock, funk and soul.
“I love the pop thing,” frontman Alex Trimble explains. “I love experimenting and going to different places, I love doing things that are a little bit wonky and I love the idea of doing something we haven’t done before, why can’t we do all of those things at once? That’s what it was, doing whatever felt right… It sounds like Two Door Cinema Club – not a Two Door Cinema Club there’d ever been before but that’s what I love. We can always do something new but it always feels like something we’ve done.”
Elsewhere on Two Door Cinema Club’s eagerly anticipated fourth album ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’, ‘Nice To See You’ and ‘Once’ address our relationships with the dopamine dispenser that is social media through cheery New Romantic style funk, moody Bowie-esque art-pop and grandiose synth-pop respectively. Punk funk channeling anthem ‘Dirty Air’ has Alex prowling a ruined city’s dancefloors, posing through the ecological collapse.
Recorded in sessions between London and LA with producer Jacknife Lee (U2, REM, The Killers), it’s an LP that takes the familiar and twists it, to startling and stimulating effect. Take the distorted boudoir soul of ‘Think’, or ‘So Many People’, which electronically skews classic Chic-style disco guitar, and the multidimensional lounge pop of ‘Break’ which sounds like an AI trying to write a Beatles song. It all makes for a wide-eyed, culture-encompassing leap forward for the band, a record liable to break, ruin and remould pop in 2019.
False Alarm tracklist:
Listen/share "Satellite" here.
False Alarm finds the three piece gloriously unshackled and creatively at the peak of their game. Across its ten tracks False Alarm wryly scans and satirises the social and environmental woes of 2019 through the prism of wonderfully off-kilter pop, simultaneously borrowing from and warping elements of future pop, disco, rock, funk and soul.
“I love the pop thing,” frontman Alex Trimble explains. “I love experimenting and going to different places, I love doing things that are a little bit wonky and I love the idea of doing something we haven’t done before, why can’t we do all of those things at once? That’s what it was, doing whatever felt right… It sounds like Two Door Cinema Club – not a Two Door Cinema Club there’d ever been before but that’s what I love. We can always do something new but it always feels like something we’ve done.”
Elsewhere on Two Door Cinema Club’s eagerly anticipated fourth album ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’, ‘Nice To See You’ and ‘Once’ address our relationships with the dopamine dispenser that is social media through cheery New Romantic style funk, moody Bowie-esque art-pop and grandiose synth-pop respectively. Punk funk channeling anthem ‘Dirty Air’ has Alex prowling a ruined city’s dancefloors, posing through the ecological collapse.
Recorded in sessions between London and LA with producer Jacknife Lee (U2, REM, The Killers), it’s an LP that takes the familiar and twists it, to startling and stimulating effect. Take the distorted boudoir soul of ‘Think’, or ‘So Many People’, which electronically skews classic Chic-style disco guitar, and the multidimensional lounge pop of ‘Break’ which sounds like an AI trying to write a Beatles song. It all makes for a wide-eyed, culture-encompassing leap forward for the band, a record liable to break, ruin and remould pop in 2019.
False Alarm tracklist:
- Once
- Talk
- Satisfaction Guaranteed
- So Many people
- Think
- Nice To See You
- Break
- Dirty Air
- Satellite
- Already Gone
'Bachman: Special Edition' coming to Blu-ray and DVD on May 10, 2019
The story of Randy Bachman from his early days in The Guess Who
to Bachman-Turner Overdrive to present day
As a member of The Guess Who, Bachman was part of the first ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 by a Canadian band with "American Woman / No Sugar Tonight," and then topped the Hot 100 again in 1974 with another band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, with "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet."
"That's a pretty rare thing for a recording artist who gets two No. 1s with two different bands," notes John Einarson," biographer and music historian, at the start of the new documentary, Bachman, chronicling the life of this 74 year old who is still regularly making music and performing. The film follows Bachman as he looks to the past for inspiration from rarely seen footage, pictures and documents that have been stored at the National Archives in Ottawa for decades.
Among the other hits Bachman has written or co-written are "These Eyes," "No Time," "New Mother Nature," "Takin' Care of Business," "Let It Ride," and "Roll On Down The Highway."
"He was like my biggest influence when I was a kid," says Neil Young in the film. "Watching him play guitar, he had an amazing sense about the way he played. And the feeling that you got when you listened to him. It was more than just chops."
Young, who has known Bachman for about 55 years, added, "I hear Randy - when I see him, I hear him, and I feel him."
The documentary made its world premiere in Toronto at Hot Docs 2018 before a festival run, and eventual airing in Canada on CBC's Documentary Channel. Incorporating numerous present-day interviews with family, management, and fellow musicians, director John Barnard (2012's The Sheepdogs Have At It) touches on everything from Bachman's childhood to his various rock bands -- The Guess Who, Brave Belt, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bachman-Turner -- and solo work.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/Fv4v5EZA_ns
Pre-order: https://mvdshop.com/search?q=bachman
Bonus Materials
Bonus Materials
- Neil Young on Winnipeg
- Randy's Crazy Horse
- Building a Reprise 'Here Comes the Sun'
- On Chords
- Songwriting 'When No One Knows'
- Theatrical Trailer
- 5.1 Surround, Stereo
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired
Posted by Robert Kinsler
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
CHVRCHES set new North American dates for this summer
CHVRCHES blew me away at Coachella on Sunday night (April 21, 2019), so I had to share the exciting news about the trio's upcoming just-announced North American tour...
CHVRCHES announce Summer North American Dates
COLLABORATION WITH MARSHMELLO ‘HERE WITH ME’ OVER 100 MILLION STREAMS
(New York, NY – April 23, 2019) CHVRCHES announce new North American headline tour dates including a return to the legendary Radio City Music Hall, plus shows in Kansas City, Toronto and New Haven. The announcement comes hot on the heels of CHVRCHES' biggest Coachella performances to date, which included a surprise appearance from Marshmello (Weekend 1) for their hit collaboration “Here With Me”, as well as their biggest headline US show to date at San Francisco’s Greek Theatre. The full list of dates are below and tickets go on general sale this Friday.
CHVRCHES are Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty. Their collaboration with Marshmello is the band’s highest charting single to date with over 100 million streams worldwide. “Here With Me” is currently #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the multi-format hit song is already Top 15 at Top 40, entering the Top 25 at Hot AC, and Top 30 at Alternative. Check out the band’s performance with Marshmello on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Their acclaimed third album Love Is Dead entered the Billboard Top Rock and Alternative charts at #1 and #11 overall. The album followed their 2013 debut The Bones of What You Believe and the 2015 follow up Every Open Eye. With the soaring success of their first two albums propelling CHVRCHES into new worlds, Love Is Dead is at times euphoric and others bittersweet. Featuring the singles “Miracle” and “Get Out,” as well as the previously released “My Enemy” (feat. The National’s Matt Berninger) and “Never Say Die”, Love Is Dead is an album about growing up and “coming to terms with the fact that there are great things in the world and there are awful things in the world and that you can’t get one without the other,” says Mayberry.
Over the course of their career, CHVRCHES have played countless shows worldwide, with each tour’s production reaching new heights and leaping towards the top of festival bills. This new run of US dates are the next chapter in this phenomenal live success story. See below for dates and www.chvrch.es for tickets.
April 26 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Hall (Lawn)
April 27 – Fort Worth, TX @ Fortress Fest
April 28 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live
April 29 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live
May 1 – St Louis, MO @ Pageant
May 2 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon
May 3 - Beale Street Music Festival
May 24 - Boston Calling Festival
June 29 – Denver, CO @ Westword Music Showcase
July 1 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
July 2 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
July 4 – Ottawa, ON @ Bluesfest
July 5 – Quebec, QC @ Festival D’Ete
July 7 – Toronto, ON @ Rebel
July 9 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
July 11 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall**
July 13 – Minneapolis, MN @ Basilica Block Party
July 14 – Louisville, KY @ Forecastle
**w/ Charly Bliss
CHVRCHES announce Summer North American Dates
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| CHVRCHES / Photo courtesy of the artist |
COLLABORATION WITH MARSHMELLO ‘HERE WITH ME’ OVER 100 MILLION STREAMS
(New York, NY – April 23, 2019) CHVRCHES announce new North American headline tour dates including a return to the legendary Radio City Music Hall, plus shows in Kansas City, Toronto and New Haven. The announcement comes hot on the heels of CHVRCHES' biggest Coachella performances to date, which included a surprise appearance from Marshmello (Weekend 1) for their hit collaboration “Here With Me”, as well as their biggest headline US show to date at San Francisco’s Greek Theatre. The full list of dates are below and tickets go on general sale this Friday.
CHVRCHES are Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty. Their collaboration with Marshmello is the band’s highest charting single to date with over 100 million streams worldwide. “Here With Me” is currently #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the multi-format hit song is already Top 15 at Top 40, entering the Top 25 at Hot AC, and Top 30 at Alternative. Check out the band’s performance with Marshmello on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Their acclaimed third album Love Is Dead entered the Billboard Top Rock and Alternative charts at #1 and #11 overall. The album followed their 2013 debut The Bones of What You Believe and the 2015 follow up Every Open Eye. With the soaring success of their first two albums propelling CHVRCHES into new worlds, Love Is Dead is at times euphoric and others bittersweet. Featuring the singles “Miracle” and “Get Out,” as well as the previously released “My Enemy” (feat. The National’s Matt Berninger) and “Never Say Die”, Love Is Dead is an album about growing up and “coming to terms with the fact that there are great things in the world and there are awful things in the world and that you can’t get one without the other,” says Mayberry.
Over the course of their career, CHVRCHES have played countless shows worldwide, with each tour’s production reaching new heights and leaping towards the top of festival bills. This new run of US dates are the next chapter in this phenomenal live success story. See below for dates and www.chvrch.es for tickets.
April 26 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Hall (Lawn)
April 27 – Fort Worth, TX @ Fortress Fest
April 28 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live
April 29 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live
May 1 – St Louis, MO @ Pageant
May 2 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon
May 3 - Beale Street Music Festival
May 24 - Boston Calling Festival
June 29 – Denver, CO @ Westword Music Showcase
July 1 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
July 2 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
July 4 – Ottawa, ON @ Bluesfest
July 5 – Quebec, QC @ Festival D’Ete
July 7 – Toronto, ON @ Rebel
July 9 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
July 11 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall**
July 13 – Minneapolis, MN @ Basilica Block Party
July 14 – Louisville, KY @ Forecastle
**w/ Charly Bliss
Thursday, April 18, 2019
'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure' Soundtrack coming via Varèse Sarabande Records
Cool news for all fans of composer Danny Elfman, as well as the classic film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure"...
The beloved score to the classic 80’s film is back after a limited release last year. This LP is pressed on red vinyl and includes not only the score to Pee-wee’s Big Adventure on side A, but is also accompanied by a bonus program of Danny Elfman’s score to Back to School on side B. This LP can be purchased on Varesesarabande.com and other fine retailers.
VARÈSE SARABANDE RECORDS ANNOUNCES
'PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE' LP
FIRST WIDE RELEASE in 30 YEARS
The beloved score to the classic 80’s film is back after a limited release last year. This LP is pressed on red vinyl and includes not only the score to Pee-wee’s Big Adventure on side A, but is also accompanied by a bonus program of Danny Elfman’s score to Back to School on side B. This LP can be purchased on Varesesarabande.com and other fine retailers.
In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. This is Elfman’s first score for film, kicking off his award-winning career. For Pee-wee’s Big Adventure he turned to Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek for orchestration assistance. With this iconic score Elfman achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Hermann.
Danny Elfman is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Elfman first became known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the band Oingo Boingo from 1974 to 1995. He is well known for scoring films and television shows, particularly his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton with their latest project being Dumbo. Among his many notable projects are the scores of all the 50 Shades film, The Simpsons theme song, The original Spiderman and Batman film series scores and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
- Overture / The Big Race
- Breakfast Machine
- Park Ride
- Stolen Bike
- Hitchhike
- Dinosaur Dream
- Simone's Theme
- Clown Dream
- Studio Chase
- The Drive-In
- Finale
Side B
Overture
- Do Not Go Gently
- The Brawl
- Action Medley
- Classroom Secretary
- Triple Lindy
- Love Suite
- Study Magazine
ABOUT VARÈSE SARABANDE RECORDS
Founded in 1978, Varèse Sarabande is the most prolific producer of film music in the world, releasing the highest quality soundtracks from the world’s greatest composers. From current box office hits and top television series to the classics of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Varèse Sarabande’s catalog includes albums from practically every composer in every era, covering all of film history; from Bernard Herrmann, Alex North and Jerry Goldsmith to Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino and Brian Tyler. Varèse Sarabande Records is distributed by Universal Music Group.
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Buy: varesesarabande.com
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
The Cranberries release title track from final album 'In The End'
I've been impressed with all of the advance tracks off The Cranberries' forthcoming album In the End, including the wistful title track released today. Make sure to grab a listen...Robert Kinsler
The Cranberries release title track from final album
"In The End" single release out today
New album to be released April 26, 2019 on BMG
Listen to "In The End":
"A fitting and powerful final chapter."
Hi-Fi Choice, 5 Stars
"11 songs of real quality....A fitting, touching elegy for a bewitching talent."
Mojo, 4 Stars
"Touching last will and testament."
Uncut 7/10
As they prepare to release their final album, The Cranberries share the record's title track "In The End." The last song recorded for the album, and the last track on the album, it is an apt conclusion to a record that pays tribute to Dolores O'Riordan and brings to a close the band's singular career.
"What a way to finish the record. To have "In The End" as the last song is just perfect," says Fergal Lawler. "Lyrically it is self-explanatory," adds Noel Hogan. "It speaks for itself, it just is a lovely feeling and it's a gorgeous song"
Ain't it strange?
When everything you wanted
Was nothing like you wanted?
In the end
While many bands may aspire to be timeless, or have a sound that transcends the whims of musical fashion, The Cranberries are one of the few to have achieved that. Play one of the Irish rock group's early anthems such as "Linger" or "Dreams," and they sound as fresh - and deliver as much of an emotional sucker-punch - as when they captured a generation's hearts in the 1990s.
Now, nearly 30 years after the quartet of singer/songwriter and musician Dolores, co-songwriter and lead guitarist Noel, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal first appeared, they are releasing their eighth and final album In the End.
The genesis of In The End began in May 2017 while the band was on tour. By winter of 2017 Noel and Dolores had written and demoed the eleven songs, which would eventually appear on the album. "Dolores was so energised by the prospect of making this record and to getting back out on the road to play the songs live" recalls Noel.
Produced once again by Stephen Street, In the End sees the band coming full circle, with a collection that evokes their very first LP. "When we listened to the demos, the three of us and Stephen were thinking 'this sounds much closer to the first album than anything else'. Dolores was singing very softly on some songs, which was closer to how she would have sung back then, and the simplicity of some of the songs as well brought us back to that time," says Noel.
The album kicks off with a formidable one-two, which is a reminder of their range. The driving "All Over Now" is a classic, widescreen Cranberries anthem, with Dolores giving voice to the fractures of a relationship against a backdrop of chiming guitars; then, following it, the haunting string-swept ballad "Lost" dials the tempo right down, while giving space to Dolores' yearning vocals to soar to soul-piercing heights. Elsewhere, they veer from the grungy release of "Wake Me When It's Over" to the tender, country-inflected "A Place I Know" and the upbeat jangle-pop of "The Pressure."
If there's an overall lyrical theme, it's a sense of wiping the slate clean, and new beginnings, which reflected where Dolores was, both in her personal and her creative life: re-energised and ready for a new phase. "I remember talking to her that summer and she said 'I'm starting all over here' and a lot of the songs discuss that," says Noel. But, as ever with The Cranberries, lyrics that may derive from individual experience masterfully tap into universal emotions, framing them in terms that we can all relate to, whatever age, gender or nationality.
As the huge wave of public adulation in the wake of Dolores' passing showed, The Cranberries may be over, in one sense - but they will forever live on in the musical pantheon.
In The End- TRACKLISTING
1. All Over Now
2. Lost
3. Wake Me When It's Over
4. A Place I Know
5. Catch Me If You Can
6. Got It
7. Illusion
8. Crazy Heart
9. Summer Song
10. The Pressure
11. In The End
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