Tenacious D release album taster

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added: 4 Feb 2012 // by: Noise11 

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Mock-rockers Tenacious D ' Jack Black and Kyle Gass ' release a teaser animation for their new album.

The acoustic joke-metal duo toured Australia with Foo Fighters late last year and now they prepare for their third album Rize Of The Fenix.

In a bitter teaser for the new album, Black claims that critics wrote them off following their last album/film The Pick Of Destiny but they are ready to 'rize' again.

You can hear the song's intro below on SoundCloud but it works a lot better alongside the little animation at their Rize Of The Fenix page here.

Rumour has it that the album will be released in May.

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Quincy Jones talks up Macca album

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added: 4 Feb 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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On December 19th 2011 Paul announced that February 2012 would see the release of his brand new studio album. Last month it was confirmed that the album was to be titled 'Kisses on the Bottom' - a reference to the album' opener 'I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter'. Now ahead of the release music legend and long-term friend of Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones has spoken about the upcoming album.

Jones comments: "The songs Paul chose for Kisses on the Bottom are songs I've heard and loved since I was a kid. I sat with Paul backstage at the first concert of his recent tour and had the privilege of listening to the entire record. These are some of the best songs ever written, and it takes a very special talent to bring them to light. Paul didn't bring 1/8th notes with him to these songs; he knows how to swing like the old school or Sinatra used to say, "he's in the pocket." There is simply no artist today who has the credibility, grace, and depth of character that Paul has. Our 49-year-relationship goes back to before the Beatles came to America and I love that Paul has taken the time to do this album. I've heard a lot of records covering these songs, but none of them have the authenticity that Paul's has."

'Kisses On The Bottom' is a collection of standards Paul grew up listening to in his childhood as well as the two new McCartney compositions 'My Valentine' and 'Only Our Hearts'. With the help of Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band-as well as guest appearances from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, McCartney's new album is a deeply personal journey through classic American compositions that, in some cases, a young Paul first heard his father perform on piano at home.

Paul had some fun with his choice of album title - while causing some confusion amongst those who have historically subjected his every move to microscopic scrutiny (with many fixating on an anatomical interpretation!) - the phrase 'Kisses On The Bottom' actually comes from the album's opener 'I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter'. Originally made a big hit by Fats Waller in 1935, the song opens with the lines "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter and make believe it came from you. I'm gonna write words oh so sweet. They're gonna knock me off of my feet. A lot of kisses on the bottom, I'll be glad I got 'em'".

'Kisses On The Bottom' - Full track-listing:

01. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
02. Home (When Shadows Fall)
03. It's Only A Paper Moon
04. More I Cannot Wish You
05. The Glory Of Love
06. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me)
07. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
08. My Valentine
09. Always
10. My Very Good Friend The Milkman
11. Bye Bye Blackbird
12. Get Yourself Another Fool
13. The Inch Worm
14. Only Our Hearts

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U2 fans pick live album

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added: 30 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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U2 spent a couple of years on the road for the U2360° tour and, as a thank you to their biggest fans, they are releasing a 22-song compilation from the tour.

The limited edition disc will be made available to subscribers of u2.com only.

U2 performed 46 different songs during the U2360° tour spanning nine albums over 30 years and invited fans at u2.com to shortlist them for this release.

'This is really going to be a special CD,' said Adam Clayton tells U2.com. 'I wasn't expecting some of these tunes, it's a really fresh collection and it's going to make very interesting listening.'

Track List:

Bad
Where The Streets Have No Name
Magnificent
One
Ultraviolet
Even Better than The Real Thing
With or Without You
Beautiful Day
City of Blinding Lights
The Unforgettable Fire
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
All I Want is You/Love Rescue Me
Moment of Surrender
Until The End of the World
The Fly
One Tree Hill
Stay (Faraway, So Close)
Walk On
Zooropa
Elevation
Out of Control
Mysterious Way

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ABBA album preview

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added: 30 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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ABBA fans are about to hear the first "new" music from the group since the Thank You For the Music box set in 1994 with the release of a rare and previously unreleased piece.

From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel was a medley of demos recorded but not used on the final Abba album The Visitors in 1981.

A remastered version of the album was released in 1997 and contained extra tracks but not this one. The new Deluxe edition of The Visitors is scheduled for April 23, 2012.

Abba recorded The Visitors between March 16 and November 14, 1981 and released the album on November 30, 1981.

The album was the very first CD pressed at Polygram's CD plant in Europe.

Since the original 1981 album release, The Visitors has been reissued three times, first in 1997, then 2001 and again in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings.

For the record, Abba never officially broke-up but their last appearance together was on the British TV program The Late, Late Breakfast Show on December 11, 1982. Throughout 1983 and 1984, Anna and Frida still talked about another Abba album but it never happened.

The four members have only been seen together twice since the British TV show, once in 1986 and again for the Mamma Mia movie premiere in Sweden in 2008.

Track List:

CD

Original Album
The Visitors
Head Over Heels
When All Is Said And Done
Soldiers
I Let The Music Speak
One Of Us
Two For The Price Of One
Slipping Through My Fingers
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Bonus Tracks
Should I Laugh Or Cry
I Am The City
You Owe Me One
Cassandra
Under Attack
The Day Before You Came
Previously Unreleased Bonus Track
From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel (demos)

DVD

Two For The Price Of One (Dick Cavett Meets ABBA)
Slipping Through My Fingers (Dick Cavett Meets ABBA)
When All Is Said And Done (Original Promo Clip)
ABBA In London, November 1982 (The Late Late Breakfast Show, BBC)
ABBA In Stockholm, November 1982 (Nöjesmaskinen, SVT)
The Visitors TV commercial I (UK)
The Visitors TV commercial II (Australia)
The Singles ' The First Ten Years TV commercial I (UK)
The Singles ' The First Ten Years TV commercial II (Australia)
International Sleeve Gallery

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Brendan Benson new album and free download

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added: 26 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Benson's own newly-minted Readymade label has partnered with British indie Lojinx for the release of his new album What Kind Of World on 23rd April.

Self-produced and recorded in the analog-only environs of Nashville's 'Welcome to 1979' studios, What Kind Of World features members of Big Star, Ryan Adams' the Cardinals and Phantom Planet.

The first taster is piano led ballad Bad For Me, a free download available online now.. http://snd.sc/AEoxwJ
Co-founder of The Raconteurs, Benson has spent a lifetime spread across four states, from a childhood spent on the outskirts of New Orleans, to his years in Detroit, Michigan, sojourns in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and a more recent relocation to Nashville, Tennessee. With five solo albums, one as Well & Goode and two albums apiece with The Mood Elevator and Raconteurs, he has captured his own America in finely hewn power pop.
Created as an outlet for his own writing and production work, Benson's Nashville based label Readymade Records & Publishing will follow the release of What Kind Of World with the debut album from Young Hines in May, produced by Benson himself. Both albums will be released in the UK and Europe by Lojinx.

Brendan Benson will be performing the new material and beloved classics in a string of UK & European dates in May.

Tracklisting - What Kind Of World :
What Kind of World
Bad for Me
Light of Day
Happy Most of the Time
Keep Me
Pretty Baby
Here in the Deadlights
Met Your Match
Thru the Ceiling
No One Else but You
Come On
On the Fence

** Brendan Benson's 'What Kind Of World' will be released in Europe on 23rd of April, on heavyweight vinyl LP in addition to CD and digital formats **

** Young Hines 'Give Me My Change' out on 7th of May **

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Brendan Benson - Bad for Me by lojinx

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Blood Red Shoes album and tour dates

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added: 27 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Brighton-based duo Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell will return this year with new album 'In Time To Voices' out on March 26th and a new single 'Cold', released on March 19th via V2/Co-Operative Music. The band will also be hitting the road throughout the UK for an April and May tour.

Since the release of their debut almost 4 years ago, the duo have embarked on a gruelling, unrelenting tour schedule, seeing them travel the four corners of the globe and earning them an international fanbase. However the life on the road can have its side-effects as Steven speaks of some of their more troublesome moments :

''From getting arrested after spending a night drinking in a biker den, Laura fighting bouncers....twice, to the two of us breaking up onstage or having a giant fight in Prague and me getting found in the street robbed by two prostitutes. Oh and there was that time where we were invited to a hotel demolition party in Paris where we broke into Keith Richards' room and totalled it. These stories are all on the record. I guess being only two people spending more than 300 days a year together makes you kind of...volatile. Modern bands seem way too clean-cut and sensible to us anyway.'

The new album 'In Time To Voices', released March 26th was recorded at The Motor Museum in Liverpool, continuing their successful partnership with Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys/Foals/Tribes) who co-produced the album with them.
The record sees Blood Red Shoes come of age musically, building on their punk rock roots and moving into an ambitious, three-dimensional new sound that encapsulates heavy rock as much as it does as sweeping, melancholy soundscapes and classic songwriting drawn from the likes of Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones.

FULL TRACKLISTING
• In Time To Voices
• Lost Kids
• Cold
• Two Dead Minutes
• The Silence And The Drones
• Night Light
• Je Me Perds
• Stop Kicking
• Slip Into Blue
• Down Here In The Dark
• 7 Years

Touring heavily throughout 2011, this year sees the band back on the road with no signs of slowing down with a full worldwide tour planned and UK dates confirmed, detailed below:

FULL UK DATES

APRIL
27th Concorde 2, Brighton, UK Tickets: www.ticketweb.co.uk / Box office - 01273 673311
28th Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, UK Tickets: www.seetickets.com / Box office - 02392 863911
29th 02 Academy 2, Oxford, UK Tickets: www.alt-tickets.co.uk / Box office - 01912 304474

MAY

1st Trinity, Bristol, UK Tickets: www.alt-tickets.co.uk / Box office - 01912 304474
2nd Waterfront, Norwich, UK Tickets: www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk / Box office - 01603 508050
3rd Heaven, London, UK Tickets: www.gigandtours.com / Box office - 0207 4033331
4th HMV Library, Birmingham, UK Tickets: www.gigandtours.com / Box office - 08442 485037
5th Academy 2, Manchester, UK Tickets: www.gigandtours.com / Box office - 01618 321111
7th Zanzibar, Liverpool, UK Tickets: www.ticketline.co.uk / Box office - 01517 070633
8th Cluny, Newcastle, UK Tickets: www.ticketweb.co.uk / Box office - 01912 304474
9th Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK Tickets: www.gigsinscotland.com / Box office - 08444 999990
10th King Tuts, Glasgow, UK Tickets: www.gigsinscotland.com / Box office - 08444 999990
12th The Cockpit, Leeds, UK Tickets: www.lunatickets.co.uk / Box office - 01132 436743
13th Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK Tickets: www.alt-tickets.co.uk / Box office - 01912 304474

Pre-sale tickets go on sale from www.crowdsurge.com on Wednesday 25th January at 9am

Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday 27th January.

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Joe Walsh solo album on the way

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added: 27 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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It seems fairly difficult pinning Joe Walsh down to a release date for his new album 'Analog Man'.

Joe Walsh is done with his new solo album, Analog Man, and is looking to set a release in May or June. It's his first solo set since 1992's Songs for A Dying Planet.

Not that he's been sitting around those twenty years. There was the Eagles' comeback album, Hell Freezes Over and the very successful Long Road Out of Eden plus the numerous tours with the group, but Walsh is ready to put out a bit of his own work.

Walsh talked to Dave Good of the San Diego Reader about the upcoming album and the state of the union. Even though the album is called Analog Man, the world has gone decidedly digital. 'I just decided I better get with it. After all, it is the digital age. Back when it was all analog, we used to go in the studio, and studios had knobs. We used to turn knobs and say, let's see what this does. Now, we have a mouse. We [the members of the Eagles] spend hours yelling at our computers. My son comes in and he says, Dad, you're really stupid.'

He's obviously not a big fan of the digital age and what it has wrought. 'I was at a Laker's game last night, and everybody there was texting. Now and then they'd look up and check the score.'

Walsh also ranted about the current situation in the U.S. 'First of all, there is no more money. We have spent it all. Why is everybody waiting for things to get better? They're not gonna get better, and that's screamin' at me. Thirty thousand vets are comin' home and nobody gives a fuck.

'Congress is corrupt. There are players inside who are more powerful than the federal government, and they are calling the shots. Partisan politics is out of control. And we're pretending there is more money and there isn't.'

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AC/DC album delayed due to illness

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added: 27 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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Brian Johnson has revealed that the new AC/DC album is on hold because 'one of the boys' is getting over an illness.

We don't know who it is, but Johnson told an American radio program that the recording of the new AC/DC album has been delayed due to the illness of a band member.

Johnson spoke with The Cowhead Show out of St. Petersburg, FL, saying "One of the boys is a little sick and I can't say anything, but he's getting better. He's doing wonderful. Full recovery fully expected."

Brian also talked about the joy of getting back to work with the rest of the band. "It's a wonderful thing when we get in a room. Whenever the boys get back together, I get all excited. The boys, after a while, pick the guitars up, Phil will make his way to the drums, Cliff will pull his bass out and then all of a sudden this noise comes out and I sit there with just this big old grin on my face."

AC/DC's last album was 2008's Black Ice. You can hear the entire interview at the Cowheed Show website.

Johnson, himself, will be practicing another one of his passions on January 28 when he runs in the 50th Rolex 24 Auto Race at Daytona Speedway. Shortly afterwards, he will be undergoing wrist surgery.

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Lionel Richie and friends on new album

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added: 27 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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There is little doubt that Lionel Richie was one of the most successful artists of the late-70's and the 80's, but the last couple of decades have been relatively quiet. Richie is looking to kick start a comeback with the release of Tuskegee, a new duets album with some of the biggest stars out of Nashville. It hits stores on March 27 on Mercury Nashville.

Tuskegee includes many of Richie's biggest hits in new duet versions with the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Blake Shelton, Jennifer Nettles, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean and Blake Shelton.

Richie will also tape a CBS TV special on April 2 at the MGM Grand with many of those who sang on the album along with a few other "friends" including the Band Perry, Lady Antebellum and Martina McBride.

Richie told The Boot that he encouraged each of the artists to bring their own version of his songs into the studio. "So, we custom-made [Deep River Woman] to sound just like Little Big Town. It was just Little Big Town with Lionel Richie visiting ... Darius Rucker with Lionel Richie visiting ... With Rascal Flatts, they played the track. It wasn't like, 'Come on in and we'll get some musicians to back you.' No, they played the song."

Track List:

You Are with Blake Shelton
Say You, Say Me with Jason Aldean
Stuck On You with Darius Rucker
Deep River Woman with Little Big Town
My Love with Kenny Chesney
Dancing On The Ceiling with Rascal Flatts
Hello with Jennifer Nettles
Sail On with Tim McGraw
Endless Love with Shania Twain
Just For You with Billy Currington
Lady with Kenny Rogers
Easy with Willie Nelson
All Night Long with Jimmy Buffett

Artist: Lionel Richie
Title: Tuskegee
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Label: Mercury Nashville
Format(s): CD, DD

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Norah Jones works with Danger Mouse on new album

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added: 26 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Norah Jones is set to release a new album this spring entitled Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI), a collaboration with the producer and musician Danger Mouse.

The two first worked together when Danger Mouse called upon Jones to contribute vocals to his acclaimed 2011 album ROME, and their connection proved deep enough that they decided to collaborate on Jones' fifth studio album. Little Broken Hearts, which features original songs co-written by Jones and Danger Mouse, is the fascinating next step in the artistic evolution of one of the most intriguing singers to have emerged in the past decade. Together they have married their highly personal styles to create an entirely new sound.

It was that singular voice that caught the attention of Danger Mouse as he began to conceptualize ROME, his homage to classic Italian film score music. He already had Jack White in mind for the male role, and he and his collaborator Daniele Luppi realized that Norah's voice would give the project the perfect balance it needed. Jones contributed three standout songs to ROME (check out a stripped-down live acoustic version of 'Black' on RollingStone.com) and around the same time she and Danger Mouse began working on some of the material that would eventually become Little Broken Hearts.

The duo reconvened in Danger Mouse's Los Angeles studio this past fall to finish what they had begun. The songs were all built from the ground up in the studio, with Jones and Danger Mouse sharing all the songwriting credits and performing the majority of the instrumental parts; Jones on piano, keyboards, bass, and guitar, and Danger Mouse contributing drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, and string arrangements.

Jones will tour extensively in 2012, performing at a mixture of festivals, amphitheatres and theatres in the US and abroad, including her return to the Hollywood Bowl, which has been announced as part of the venue's subscriber series. The nine-time Grammy-winning singer will be appearing at the iconic outdoor amphitheatre in Los Angeles on August 10. The public may purchase subscriptions starting January 24. Groups of 10 or more may purchase subscription tickets starting January 30. Patrons may purchase five or more concerts at one time starting March 13. Single tickets go on sale on Saturday, May 5.

Jones will also perform at the Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater in Rochester, New York, on June 29. Tickets go on sale to the public here on Friday, January 27 at 10:00am EST. Many more dates will be announced in the coming months. Visit www.norahjones.com and sign up for the email list to receive tour updates.

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Garbage back with new album

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added: 24 Jan 2012 // by: Noise11 

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Garbage will release their first album in seven years independently in a few months.

The original line-up featuring Shirley Manson (vocals), Steve Marker (guitar, keyboards), Duke Erikson (guitar, keyboards) and Butch Vig (drums, loops) recorded the album in Atwater Village, Los Angeles. It is their first album recorded away from Vig and Marker's Smart Studios in Madison, WI. (Smart Studios closed shop on May 1, 2010).

The last Garbage album was 'Bleed Like Me' in 2005.

The new album will be released on their new indie label STUNVOLUME. It has already been licensed to Michael Gudisnki's Liberator Music/The Mushroom Group in Australia and New Zealand, Sony is Japan, Universal in Canada and Cooperative Music in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Garbage released their first album in 1995. It went double platinum in Australia, the UK and the USA and earned Garbage a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.

Garbage have sold over 12 million albums worldwide. There will be a world tour soon after the new album is released.

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Neil Young completes Crazy Horse album

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added: 24 Jan 2012 // by: Noise11 

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Neil Young has completed work on a brand new album with Crazy Horse, their first album since 2003's 'Greendale'.

Neil Young news site thrasherswheat.org reports that not only has one Crazy Horse album been completed but they are also working on another one.

Young broke the news on Sunday during a master class at the Slamdance Festival where he spoke with film-maker Jonathan Demme about their film together 'Journeys'.

Demme also directed Neil's 'Heart Of Gold' (2006) and the still unreleased 'Neil Young Trunk Show' (2009). Neil also won a Grammy Award for his song 'Philadelphia' from Demme's 1993 movie of the same name.

The origins of Crazy Horse go back to 1963 when Danny Whitten formed Danny & The Memories with Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina. In 1968 they connected with Neil Young around the time Buffalo Springfield had dissolved. Young recruited The Rockets as his backing band for a show at the Whisky A Go Go and then enlisted them to record his second album 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' (1969). The finished album was credited as Neil Young with Crazy Horse.

Crazy Horse and Young have always had 'an open relationship'. Young jumped from Crazy Horse to Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, to solo and back again during his entire career. Young's Crazy Horse albums have come at random times in the past 43 years.

With Crazy Horse he recorded 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere' (1969), parts of 'After The Goldrush' (1970), parts of 'Tonight's The Night' (1975), 'Zuma' (1975), 'American Stars 'n Bars' (1977), parts of 'Comes A Time' (1978), one side of 'Rust Never Sleeps' (1979), 'Live Rust' (1979), 'Re-ac-tor' (1981), parts of 'Trans' (1982), 'Life' (1987), 'Ragged Glory' (1990), 'Weld' and 'Arc' (1991), 'Sleeps With Angels' (1994), 'Broken Arrow' (1996), 'Year Of The Horse' (1997), one song off 'Are You Passionate' (2002), 'Greendale' (2003) and the 1970 recorded 2006 released 'Live at the Fillmore East' (2006).

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Sam Sparro new album �Return To Paradise�

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added: 23 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Following the huge global success his Grammy nominated hit 'Black and Gold' Sam returns to the fore with a brand new album. 'Return To Paradise' captures Sam's electro soul sound and features a wide range of musicians from all over the world.

Production credits on most of the tracks go to long time Sparro collaborator Jesse 'Golden Touch' Rogg and Sam himself. Other Producers include Grammy Producer of the Year Nominee, Greg Kurstin, Jono Sloan (Empire of the Sun), Tim Anderson (Ima Robot) and Lester Mendez. Players on the record include Jamiroquai founding bass player, Stuart Zender, Violinist Caitlin Moe, The Horn Section from Hercules and Love Affair and Midnight Magic, Charlie Wilcocks, Dave Wilder, Felix Bloxsom and Sam's own brother and father on guitars.

Sam also worked with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, Florence and the Machine's Isabella Summers and Swedish singer/songwriter Erik Hassle on some of the song writing.

The results are an eclectic collection of songs about love lost and the quest for happiness. Stylistically, there are songs that range from 80's electro soul and disco dance floor fillers to beautiful ballads.

What does Sam have to say about his new record? 'I'm so proud of these songs and can't wait to share them. It's been a long time coming.'

'Return To Paradise' will be released through EMI in May.

Sam is currently in Paris for fashion week. Stay tuned for all the latest information on upcoming releases, music videos and live performances from Sam.

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Roberta Flack releases first album in thirteen years to sing the Beatles

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added: 19 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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Roberta Flack releases her first studio album in almost thirteen years on February 7 with Let It Be: Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles. The album, from 429 Records, is her first since 1999's Friends: Roberta Flack Sings Mariko Takahashi.

The project has garnered the blessing of Yoko Ono who contributed the liner notes to the album. Newly signed to a partnership of 429 Records, Sony ATV Music Publishing and Flack's RAS Records, the album which was produced by Sherrod Barnes, who has also produced Beyonce' and Angie Stone, with contributing producers Jerry Barnes and Barry Miles.

Says Yoko Ono: "With this collection, Roberta is adding a woman's voice of fun and joy and, again, making people realize how universal these songs are."

Track List:

In My Life
Hey Jude
We Can Work it Out
Let It Be
Oh Darling
I should Have Known Better
The Long & Winding Road
Come Together
Isn't It A Pity
If I Fell
And I Love Her
Here, There, and Everywhere

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Ladyhawke release album preview

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added: 19 Jan 2012 // by: Marco Gandolfi

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LADYHAWKE releases her new single 'Black, White & Blue' on 19 February 2012 on Modular through Island Records. The track is taken from her new album 'Anxiety' due out on 19 March 2012.

'Black, White & Blue' is written and produced by Ladyhawke, aka Pip Brown, alongside long time collaborator Pascal Gabriel. Ladyhawke also played lead guitar, bass and drums on the single as well as performing vocal duties.

The single will be released digitally via all standard retailers and features remixes from Nile Delta, Punks Jump Up and The Big Pink. Fans will be able to hear the track for the first time on Zane Lowe's radio 1 show as 'Hottest Track In The World' on January 23rd.

'Black, White & Blue' is released 19 February and 'Anxiety' is on 19 March.

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Meat Loaf album preview 'Hell in a Handbasket'

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added: 19 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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Meat Loaf will finally see the release of his album Hell in a Handbasket in the U.S. on March 13 via Legacy. The album has been out in most other parts of the world for a number of months.

Performing with Meat Loaf on Hell In A Handbasket is The Neverland Express, his long-time backing ensemble, featuring John Miceli (drums, percussion), Patti Russo (lead and backing vocals), Paul Crook (electric and acoustic guitars), Randy Flowers (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals), David Luther (saxophone, vocals), Justin Avery (piano, organ, keyboard, vocals), and Danny Miranda (electric and upright bass).

Guesting on the album are Chuck D, Patti Russo (his regular female vocalist) and three of his teammates from last year's Celebrity Apprentice, John Rich, Mark McGrath and Lil John.

"Hell In A Handbasket is the most personal record I've ever made," said Meat Loaf. "It's really the first record I've ever put out about how I feel about life and how I feel about what's going on at the moment." The album, produced by Paul Crook, is an expression of life's metaphors, driven by excellent musicianship, and of course, the passionate vocals of Meat Loaf. "Making this album was a great experience," said Meat Loaf, "and I hope my fans enjoy hearing it as much as I did making it."

Track List:

All of Me
Fall From Grace
The Giving Tree
Blue Sky/Mad Mad World/The Good God is a Woman and She Don't Like Ugly (special appearance by Chuck D)
Party of One
Live or Die
California Dreamin' (duet with Patti Russo)
Another Day
40 Days
Our Love and Our Souls (duet with Patti Russo)
Stand in the Storm (special guest appearances from John Rich, Lil Jon and Mark McGrath)
Blue Sky

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The Mars Volta to release new album 'Noctourniquet'

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added: 19 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Known for such landmark releases as the gold-certified De-Loused In The Comatorium and Frances The Mute and 2008's The Bedlam In Goliath which featured Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy winner "Wax Simulacra," The Mars Volta returns in epic and unexpected fashion with its sixth album: Noctourniquet which will be released March 26 by Warner Bros.

While Noctourniquet was, in typical Mars Volta fashion, written by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala and produced by Rodriguez-Lopez, the 13-track album explores musical territories previously uncharted in the duo's 20 or so years of creating music together. The spectrum of musical and emotional textures conceived and created by Rodriguez-Lopez on Noctourniquet ranges from the opening bombast of "The Whip Hand" to the menacing crawl of "The Malkin Jewel" punctuated throughout by hypnotic melodies and borderline electro-ambient washes, most notably in the epic "In Absentia." The bold diversity of the new material combined with Rodriguez-Lopez's assured producer's hand guiding The Mars Volta's most confident and refined performances to date make Noctourniquet an early contender for this year's most challenging and rewarding listen.

As with previous Mars Volta efforts, Bixler-Zavala's lyrics trace a narrative journey with a defined protagonist, this time inspired by disparate elements including '80s UK alt-rockers The Godfathers, Superman comic nemesis Solomon Grundy and the Greek myth of Hyacinthus.

Noctourniquet was performed by The Mars Volta lineup of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Juan Alderete de la Pena, Marcel Rodriguez Lopez, and Deantoni Parks.

A full track listing is posted at the band's website www.themarsvolta.com/

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Biffy Clyro reveal double album details

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added: 18 Jan 2012 // by: Noise11 

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Ambitious, stadium-rocking Scots Biffy Clyro say their new double album will be rather eclectic.

The trio broke through in 2010 with their single 'Many Of Horror' (from their fifth studio album, 2009's Only Revolutions) hitting the UK top ten and getting covered by X-Factor winner Matt Cardle as 'When We Collide'.

They've been touring the world with acts like Foo Fighters and Metallica and playing monster rock festivals while also preparing their follow-up album, which has now been confirmed as a double album.

Frontman Simon Neil told BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, that it will be a 20-song double album which will include keyboards, strings, 'Phil Collins-type' electronic beats, and even veers into a mariachi sound.

Neil said, 'It sounds dangerous when you say it out loud but we're trying to explore writing songs in a different manner,' although he did reassure fans that 'We're not going to throw every song we've ever done on it ' it's not that kind of double album.'

There is still no prospective title or release date for it, but the band have been confirmed for the Isle Of Wight Festival in June so it would be auspicious to have new material out by then.

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Morning Parade set to release self-titled debut album

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added: 17 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Morning Parade announce the release of their long-anticipated self-titled debut album - out in digital and physical formats on 5th March on Parlophone Records.

Since causing waves of excitement with the release of their limited edition single Under the Stars in November 2010, Morning Parade's star has been steadily on the rise. Heavily tipped at the beginning of 2011, Morning Parade side-stepped the hype-trap which many a new band has fallen into by rushing out a quick debut album and instead took their time to write the album they wanted to make whilst building a solid and loyal fanbase all across Europe.

The result is a breathtaking statement of intent, demonstrating a depth of lyric and songwriting which has become increasingly rare amongst many contemporary artists. It is a purposeful, heartfelt and honest collection of songs:

From the bristling and driving rhythms, heartfelt euphoria and melodic charm of Us and Ourselves to the intoxicating, feel good anthem 'Under the Stars', the album takes you on an emotional rollercoaster, beautifully meandering between different textures and dynamics.

The no-holds barred emotionally rousing rock'n'roll of Blue Winter and Headlights pack a considerable punch as album openers whilst the delicate ode to unrequited love that is Monday Morning juxtaposes beautifully with the stunning, life-affirming show-stopper Born Alone, an ending of epic proportions.

Running Down the Aisle's bewitching, shimmering dreamscape complements Close to Your Heart's barrage of intoxicating nostalgia and Carousel's brilliant slice of dirty electro 'rock.

Half Litre Bottle's stripped-back, lo-fi plea to a family member with a history of alcohol problems sends shivers down your spine and Speechless' grandiose wall of sound builds with atmospheric intensity leaving you wanting to throw your hands in the air and hit the dancefloor.
From head-spinning happiness to spine-tingling sadness, glistening widescreen anthems to achingly beautiful, fragile narratives, it is an album that makes an immediate, and lasting impact.

Recorded with acclaimed producer David Kosten (Bats For Lashes, Everything Everything), the self-titled debut will be available physically and Digitally across the UK and Europe. Pre-order the album now at: http://www.morningparade.com

2011 saw the band selling out UK and European headline tours, playing to packed out tents at V Festival, touring with the likes of 30 Seconds to Mars, The Wombats and The Kooks, supporting Biffy Clyro at Ibiza Rocks and sharing a stage with Coldplay at Rock am Ring.

The debut album marks only the beginning of a hugely promising musical journey for one of the UKs most exciting new talents. Soon us, ourselves ' and everyone else - will join the parade.

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Best British Debut Album of 2011 to be revealed as Xfm launches fifth New Music Award

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added: 17 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Global Radio's Xfm launches the search for the Best British Debut Album of theYear with its fifth consecutive Xfm New Music Award ' voted for by the public and a stellar panel of judges.

From today, Xfm listeners will cast their votes for the award - online at www.xfm.co.uk/nma - from a selection of albums released in 2011. Amongst the contenders for the coveted accolade are 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, 'Different Gear Still Speeding' by Beady Eye, 'The Colour of the Trap' by Miles Kane, and 'What Did You Expect from the Vaccines' by The Vaccines. The ten albums that receive the most votes in the poll are then shortlisted with the overall winner selected by a panel of industry experts ' which this year includes Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol and Muse's Dom Howard.

This year's winner will be announced on the evening of Wednesday 8th February at the Xfm New Music Award Night at the HMV Ritz inManchester. The event will be hosted by Xfm's Mary Anne Hobbs and John Kennedy, with performances from All the Young, Dry the River, Spector, Ren Harvieu and Willy Moon ' five acts that Xfm believes will produce great debut albums in 2012.

Previous winners of the award are The Enemy with 'We'll Live and Die In These Towns' (2007), The xx with 'XX' (2009) and Glasvegas with 'Glasvegas' (2008).

The full judging panel for this year, chaired by Xfm's Deputy Programme Director/Head of Music Mike Walsh, includes:

Clint Boon (Xfm) David Mogendorff (MTV)
Craig Potter (Elbow) Dom Howard (Muse)
Danny Wallace (Xfm) Mary Anne Hobbs (Xfm)
Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order)
Gordon Smart (Xfm/The Sun) Tim Burgess (The Charlatans)
John Hirst (HMV) Tim Ingham (Music Week)
John Leckie (producer of Radiohead, Stone Tom Smith (Editors)
Roses, Muse, The Verve etc) John Kennedy (Xfm)

For more information and to vote, visit www.xfm.co.uk/nma

Voting closes at midday on Friday 27th January; the shortlist of the final 10 will be announced on Xfm on Monday 30th January and the ultimate winner subsequently on Wednesday 8th February.

Xfm broadcasts on 104.9 FM in London on 97.7 FM in Manchester, across the country on digital radio & TV and online at xfm.co.uk

According to the latest radio industry figures released by RAJAR *, Xfm celebrated continued growth with just under a million people now tuning in across the UK each week.

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