Archive for the ‘Around The World’ Category

The Cult Prep New Album

2011 Australian tourists The Cult are due to release Choice of Weapon, their ninth studio album, on May 22nd. The record is their first full-length work in five years, though the band has been releasing tasters of new songs and live recordings in recent years. Long-time Cult collaborator and producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Bush) – who produced one of The Cult’s most successful albums, the platinum... Read the full story

Fiona Apple – New Album Coming

It’s been a long time between albums by the prodigiously talented Fiona Apple but it looks like our patience my be rewarded. Last week Epic Records chairman and CEO L.A. Reid promised that the follow-up to Apple’s 2005 album Extraordinary Machine will hit stores sometime in early 2012. “Lots of good music coming from @Epic_Records in the next few weeks. Stay tuned music fans. Welcome... Read the full story

The Smithereens

The Smithereens are kicking off the new year with something special for their US fans. From January 13-21, The Smithereens Winter Tour 2012 will feature special guest Andy Burton on keyboards! Singer/guitarist Pat DiNizio, guitarist Jim Babjak, drummer Dennis Diken, and bassist Severo “The Thrilla” Jornacion are excited to share the stage with Andy, who’s played with Ian Hunter, Robert... Read the full story

NPR Names Top Fifty

Influential American radio network NPR (National Public Radio) Music has announced its list of “50 Favorite Albums of 2011″. Chosen by NPR Music critics, staff and public radio DJs, the selections for the “50 Favorite Albums of 2011″ feature artists as diverse as pop singer Adele, the Mexican garage-punk band Davila 666, country musician Eric Chruch, opera tenor Joseph Calleja,... Read the full story

New Album for Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen will release a new album in February. Titled Old Ideas it is his first album of new material in eight years and the twelfth studio album of his career. The ten-track album can be preordered from Cohen’s website, where a stream of first single Show Me The Place, can be found. The album will cap a remarkable re-birth for Cohen who started touring a few years ago, reportedly due to financial... Read the full story

The Cure Live CD and DVD

December 9, 2011 sees the release of The Cure : Bestival Live 2011, a live recording of the iconic bands fabulous two and a half hour set performed at this year’s Bestival. The double album, which is split over two CDs and also available as a digital download is made up of thirty-two Cure classics, including “The Lovecats”, “The Caterpillar”, “Close To Me”,... Read the full story

Doyle Bramhall Snr Dies

Doyle Bramhall, a longtime favorite son in Austin, Texas who played with Jimmie Vaughan’s first band and, later, with Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died at age 62. A veteran of the Texas blues scene for over 40 years, Bramhall first came to prominence as the drummer for The Chessmen, a band fronted by blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan in Dallas in the 1960s. In the ’70s, he relocated to Austin along... Read the full story

John Wesley Harding New Album Coming

Now 19 albums and three novels into a compelling career, John Wesley Harding is about to release The Sound of His Own Voice. Recorded at the Type Foundry in Portland, Oregon, the album was produced by Harding and Scott McCaughey (The Minus Five, The Baseball Project, R.E.M.) and mixed by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists, Spoon). It features the all-star King Charles Trio (John Moen,... Read the full story

Smile To Be Released

The sessions for the legendary SMiLE album by The Beach Boys will be released in October. Capitol Records have collected and compiled the sessions from 1966 and ’67  when The Beach Boys went in to record the follow-up to their masterful Pet Sounds album in 1966. The master-tapes were shelved and SMiLE went down in history as the most mythical unreleased pop album ever. After 44 years as a secret... Read the full story

Ryan Adams Album Due

Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musical hell-raiser Ryan Adams will release his new album Ashes & Fire in October. His solo album is to be released on his own PAX-AM label and Sony’s Columbia Records. Ryan Adams is a multiple-Grammy-nominated singer songwriter from Jacksonville, NC whose critically acclaimed albums both as a solo artist and with the Cardinals have included ‘Heartbreaker’... Read the full story

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