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Coming in '05 from the EPITAPH family of labels: new CDs by Marianne Faithful (1/25), Sage Francis (2/8) and The Frames (2/8), plus Pennywise reissues, a Refused DVD, Dropkick Murphys Singles Collection 2, and a Suicide Girls compilation.
Alright, this is the portion of the CRYSTAL BALL we like to call “cleaning out the email box.” We have been SWAMPED with Q4 duties, and are wrapping up the year. Most of the releases for ’04 can be found in our general listings at this point, and there are certain ’05 releases I’m not allowed to talk about yet. So, until then, here are some random clippings that may be of interest to you. And if you haven’t heard of some of these acts, then good! the Tipsheet is helping you find out some groovy stuff under the radar. Proceed:
Denver Harbor have continued to post songs from Scenic, their debut album, on their PureVolume.com page. Head here to listen to "The Ride," "Move On," and "Way Back Home" - http://www.purevolume.com/denverharbor. Denver Harbor has been confirmed for a 5 week tour in November/December with Unwritten Law.
FIRST ANNUAL "TASTE OF CHAOS" TOUR TO DEBUT IN FEBRUARY/ "TASTE OF CHAOS" TOUR WILL HAVE A WARPED SENSIBILITY: Kevin Lyman, creator of the phenomenally successful Vans Warped Tour has announced a new winter festival tour called the "Taste Of Chaos." Set to begin in February 2005, the tour will be an annual event. Lyman has conceived the tour to be a multi-artist, multi-media traveling extravaganza following the same principles that have made Lyman so successful in the concert business today. Says Lyman, "'Taste Of Chaos' will combine amazing entertainment with value for the fans, something I've been a proponent of my whole career." "Taste Of Chaos" will be hitting arenas and ballrooms across the United States and Canada. According to Lyman, "Music will not be the only thing on the menu, there will be plenty to do, see, and hear. Fans should expect some interesting surprises!" Anchoring the inaugural year of "Taste Of Chaos" will be Reprise recording artist, The Used.
BRITNEY SPEARS GREATEST HITS: MY PREROGATIVE CD AND DVD IN STORES NOVEMBER 9; “MY PREROGATIVE” #1 MOST REQUEST VIDEO ON MTV TRL (Jive).
WIND-UP RECORDS ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF EVANESCENCE’S TWO DISC DVD/CD anywhere but home ON 11/23/04: Hamish Hamilton directed concert offered in 5.1 and two-track mixes alongside an hour of behind-the-scenes footage and the band’s four music videos with special surprises.
‘SANDBOX’ REFLECTS ON MARK SANDMAN’S LIFE IN MUSIC INCLUDING MORPHINE AND TREAT HER RIGHT IN BOX SET DUE IN STORES NOV. 16: Founding Father of “Low Rock” Celebrated in Two CDs and DVD of Rarities & Unreleased Tracks.
Sandbox: Mark Sandman Original Music, the forthcoming box set retrospective of Sandman’s music, will be released on November 16 on Hi-N-DRY through KUFALA Distribution. Suggested retail price for the set is $29.99.
Beep Beep now on tour with The Faint and TV on the Radio (Sadle Creek).
Now It's Overhead now on tour with Rilo Kiley and Tilly and the Wall (Saddle Creek).
Son, Ambulance has finished their follow-up to 2001's debut full-length, Euphemystic. The new record is entitled Key and will be released October 26th, 2004. Here’s how it works: First, a few adorable songs are written by one Joe Knapp. Next, a think-tank is formulated between an ensemble and Presto producer/engineer A.J. Mogis. The result: The songs are fully realized, any boundary between band and singer/songwriter is seamlessly blended, and a bricolage of youthfully euphoric pop songs and triumphant eight-minute blasts of majesty sure to infect all is formed. Viva Son, Ambulance!
Coming in '05 from Sugar Hill: SONNY LANDRETH (1/25): Look for Grant Street, a live release from slide master Landreth who recorded the album in Lafayette. THE DUHKS (2/8): Old time banjo, Celtic fiddle, Afro-Cuban percussion, and a soulful blues voice meld seamlessly in their treatment of material ranging from French-Canadian folk songs, plaintive Appalachian ballads, Celtic reels and Americana. Look for a new album from the band, Produced by Bela Fleck. RECKLESS KELLY (2/8): Wicked, Twisted Road finds Reckless Kelly back in the studio with super-cool producer Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle et al) to capture their modern day outlaw country/Texas uprising sound.
Eagle Rock Entertainment Presents The Roy Orbison Authorized Bootleg Collection: Live from Batley Variety Club, Live from Birmingham, Live from the Fiesta Club, and Live from Queens Theatre to be Released October 19, 2004
Taking Back Sunday Start Tour, Break 400,000 in Sales, Set to Perform on CBS’s Late Late Show Friday, October 15th!
Atreyu tour with The Used, Taking Back Sunday this fall, announce December U.K. dates. Atreyu are also featured on the new Headbanger’s Ball compilation CD.
Hawthorne Heights Breaks 60,000 Sales Mark, Tours with Mest, Confirms Signings At Independent Record Stores.
Action Action Announce Touring Plans for Fall: Action Action’s “Don’t Cut Your Fabric To This Year’s Fashion” was released on September 14th. They will jump in the van and head out with Mae and The Start for select dates before joining The Beautiful Mistake and Liars Academy for a full U.S. run. Look for Action Action in upcoming issues of AMP Magazine, Devil In The Woods and Beautiful Decay.
Dead To Fall Tour With Most Precious Blood and Remembering Never: The band is excited to announce their inclusion on “The Passion Over Fashion” Tour from November 27th through December 19th with two bands they love, Most Precious Blood and Remembering Never. The tour is sponsored by Peta2.com. Dates will be announced shortly.
Bury Your Dead Release Cover Your Tracks, Tour with Scars Of Tomorrow and A Perfect Murder: East Coast metalcore giants Bury Your Dead are rising up to deliver their new album, “Cover Your Tracks” (out now), Those who read their song titles will notice a certain “affinity” for a popular movie star there – interview Bury Your Dead and find out why!
Voodoo Glow Skulls and Catch 22 Tour, Release New Albums November 2nd: Voodoo is currently on tour with Pistol Grip and will launch their next tour, with Go Betty Go and Big D And The Kids Table from November 8th through December 14th.
Freya and Hoods Release Split CD November 16: This tag-team of hardcore muscle and metal rage has never been attempted before, so stand back. Hoods and Freya take you on with this split CD - a snapshot of the hardcore scene from two of its finest practitioners.
Glasseater Invades Japan, Plans New Album: Glasseater have confirmed a Japanese tour from November 17 – November 29th. Upon their return, they will settle in at home in Miami to plan and write their upcoming album. Expect it to release in early 2005.
Silverstein Tour with Senses Fail, Hot Water Music, Announce U.K. Tour: Silverstein have had an incredible year playing in support of their debut album, “When Broken Is Easily Fixed”. After a very successful headlining tour, they played several weeks of Warped Tour as well as appearing on Skate Fest in Massachusetts. The re-issue of their debut with a bonus DVD hit the street on September 14th and the band headed out on the road with Senses Fail.
Way Out West announce North American Tour Dates: After playing the infamous Glastonbury Festival, Way Out West are about to embark on their Australian leg as supporting act for Faithless. At the end of October, Way Out West hit US soil and will continue to tour North America. Be prepared for quality live performances with now new additions to the group, signifying their move toward more of a band orientated formula. Additions include lead vocalist - Omi, drummer Damon Reece (formerly of Spiritualized and Echo & The Bunnymen), and bass guitarist Joe Allen formerly from Massive Attack, Roni Size and Alison Moyet.
On Tuesday, October 12, AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB will release their first album in about 10 years! It's all the original members including Mark Eitzel, Danny Pearson, Tim Mooney and Vudi.
PRESS WILL BE VERY STRONG FOR ROBYN HITCHCOCK’S new release SPOOKED (ask Yep Roc for the list -- it's pretty damn long).
THE ARCADE FIRE: By now you've probably heard about this crazy new band out of Montreal, Quebec who are making some mighty big waves with the release of their first full length album, FUNERA on Merge Records. By now you've also probably had some difficulty getting your hands on copys of this release. We were totally taken by surprise when Pitchfork gave the band a 9.7 review on the day it came out and the buzz seems to have spread like wildfire!
Victory Records Signs The Junior Varsity and June!
SON VOLT BACK IN STUDIO: NEW LINE-UP ANNOUNCED, ANTHOLOGY IN THE WORKS: Jay Farrar’s popular rock band persona, Son Volt, is heading back into the studio to record their fourth full-length studio album—the first new release since 1998’s Wide Swing Tremolo (Warner Bros. Records). This time around, though, fans will be seeing (and hearing) a different collection of side musicians performing with Farrar. After several months of discussions and planning with the original Son Volt players—Dave Boquist, Jim Boquist and Mike Heidorn—Farrar was unable to reach acceptable business terms with the original line-up. With fifteen Son Volt songs written, studio time booked and engineer John Agnello on board, Farrar now plans to commence recording in St. Louis. Currently set to collaborate with Farrar on these sessions are Brad Rice (guitar--Tift Merritt, Ryan Adams), Andrew Duplantis (bass—Jon Dee Graham, Meat Puppets, Bob Mould), Eric Heywood (pedal steel—Son Volt, Calexico) and Dave Bryson (drums—Canyon). Fans will have access to these sessions through web cameras installed in the studio at www.jayfarrar.net/webcam. Also on the horizon is an anthology of material from the first three Warner Bros. albums—including rare or previously unreleased soundtrack cuts, live tracks, demos and unreleased studio recordings from that era. This anthology, the new studio album, plus a long-awaited tour are all slated for mid-2005.
Butch Walker has been added to the Avril Lavigne tour. Dates are below. Butch Walker's new album Letters is in stores now.
Coming soon from MUTE: Goldfrapp - "Wonderful Electric" 2 x DVD October 19 * Client - "Radio" single October 19 * Laibach - "The Videos" DVD November 2 * CAN - "Monster Movie" reissue November 2 * CAN - "Tago Mago" reissue November 2 * CAN - "Ege Bamyasi" reissue November 2 * CAN - "Soundtracks" reissue November 2 * The Residents - "Commercial Album" CD/DVD November 2 * Erasure - "The Tank, The Swan And The Balloon Live!" DVD November 16 Suicide - "A Way of Life" 2 x CD December 14 * Suicide - "Why Be Blue" 2 x CD December 14 * Laibach - "A Film From Slovenia - Occupied Europe NATO tour 1994-95" December 14 * 2005 Release Schedule (Subject to Change): M83 - "Before The Dawn Heals Us" January 25 * Erasure - "Nightbird" January 25 * Laurent Garnier - "The Cloud Making Machine" February 22 * Mando Diao - "Hurricane Bar" March 8.
One Little Indian U.S. will be releasing Sigur Ros' 1997 debut album, Von domestically in the U.S. for the first time as of 10/26/04.
EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT TO RELEASE MILES ELECTRIC: A DIFFERENT KIND OF BLUE ON DVD 11/16/04: Directed By Academy Award Winning Murray Lerner Showcased At The 42nd New York Film Festival Oct. 9 At The Film Society Of Lincoln Center.
JET SERVES IT UP 'FAMILY STYLE'; IN-CONCERT DVD HITS STORES NOVEMBER 9TH: The DVD features a full-length Jet live concert, shot earlier this year in London. The set list includes raucous renditions of the band's hits - including the chart-topping "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" and "Cold Hard Bitch" - as well as a pair of high-energy covers: lvis Presley's "That's Alright Mama" and the Chocolate Watchband's psychedelic classic, "Sweet Young Thing." In addition, the disc will feature an array of bonus material, including exclusive behind-the-scenes tour footage, 5.1 sound, and much more. The Melbourne-based quartet has just received the 31st Annual American Music Awards' nomination as "Favorite Artist - Alternative Music." The trophies will be handed out on Sunday, November 14th on ABC-TV.
ERASURE RELEASES NEW DVD IN NOVEMBER NEW ARTIST ALBUM OUT JANUARY 2005: Erasure will release a brand new DVD on 11/16/04. The live DVD, entitled The Tank, The Swan and The Balloon Live!, was recorded at the Manchester Apollo in England on the 8/6/92 as part of their Phantasmagorical Entertainment tour and is available here for the first time on DVD.
THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA RETURNS WITH EXPANDED 'BOOGIE WOOGIE CHRISTMAS' CD (SURFDOG/OCT. 12) AND HOLIDAY DATES.
ARTEMIS RECORDS TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM BY AUSTRALIAN ROCK SUPERSTARS POWDERFINGER; 'VULTURE STREET' DUE OUT NOVEMBER 9.
RESCHEDULED: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Anti, from 10/5 to 10/26), the White Stripes DVD (V2, from 10/26 to 11/23), Mars Volta (Strummer/ Universal, to '05), Isaac Hayes (Virgin, TBD), Queens of the Stone Age (Interscope, '05), Beck (Interscope, '05), The Game (Interscope, '05).
Fresh dates from CAPITOL: I-20, Everclear Best of (10/5), The Music (10/19), John Lennon (2 CDs -- Acoustic and Rock ‘N’ Roll), George Harrison DVD, Yellowcard DVD, Now 17, Now DVD Vol. 2 (all 11/2), Beatles Box Set, Chingy (11/16), Dirty Vegas (11/30), Coach Carter Soundtrack (12/10), plus Q105: LeToya, Tina Turner, Faith Evans, Fischerspooner, Aslyn.
Coming soon from INTERSCOPE: Trail of Dead CD single (10/12), Jimmy Eat World CD & DVD (10/19), Yeah Yeah Yeahs DVD (10/19), Vanessa Carlton (11/9), Eminem (Encore, 11/16), Grand Theft Auto Soundtrack (11/16), 2Pac (11/23), Gwen Stefani (Love Angel Music Baby, 11/23), U2 (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, 11/23).
Have a Crunk Christmas -- coming soon from TVT: new, non-holiday themed CDs by Jacki-O (10/26), Ying Yang Twins (11/2), and Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz (11/16).
POSTPONED til 2005: new CDs by Nikka Costa (Virgin), Unwritten Law (Lava).
Coming from WARNER SPECIAL MARKETS: RAY, the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, featuring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles. Soundtrack streets 10/19, movie hits 10/29, Academy Awards to be handed out in February '05. LEFT OF THE DIAL: DISPATCHES FROM THE 80'S UNDERGROUND is 82-track 4-CD collection (10/5), featuring all the songs from the 80s that the cool kids listened to, including classice by The Replacements, Jesus & Mary Chain, R.E.M., Sisters of Mercy, XTC, Ministry, Aztec Camera, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, and liner notes by Greg Ginn! 10/26 brings us a Christmas album by FRANK SINATRA, including two previously unreleased duets with Bing Crosby ("White Christmas" and "The Christmas Song") for a 50's TV Special, as well as an unreleased version of "Silent Night" -- originally recorded with just Frank and a piano, unearthed, cleaned up, and set to new strings by Frank Jr. and performed by original members of Frank's back-up band!
This just in -- HOLLYWOOD inks Kemado, home of Elefant and The Fever! Or, to put it in the words of sales mistress / maven Patti Hauseman -- WHOOOOO - HOOOOO!
NOTES FROM NARM: Staring at a huge stack of folders and notes, plus trying to read my own scribbliongs. It's a ton of info, so here we go. Let me know if I got anything wrong or missed key info.
GREATEST DISCOVERY: Kudos to REDEYE DISTRIBUTION for releasing Conductor, the second CD by THE COMAS on YepRoc. This is a 2-disc set -- one, the CD in its entirety, and the second disc is a complete DVD movie set to the music. In any other presentation, playing the music by itself would elicit an "okay," but when presented with the video, largely a mix of live-action infused with CGI, the result is one big WOW. This release begs to be released in the DualDisc format, but for right now, I'm perfectly happy with keeping the CD in my car and the DVD cued up in my living room. You must go out and buy this today -- simply stunning. PS: The music is fantastic, especially appealing to fans of bands like Secret Machines and any of the myriad Failure spinoffs.
BEST FUN: Who would've thought that an indie could throw the best party at NARM? How about TWO indies topping the list? Congrats go to both MATADOR and the WELK MUSIC GROUP for two incredible events. Matador and ADA hosted a harbor cruise with a performance by Interpol, whose new CD, Antics, streets 9/28. Welk not only had their artists perform the national anthem (Hootie) and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (Chris Thile and Sam Bush), but they hosted a sick little gathering in MLB Commissioner Bud Selig's suite.
Big ups to Lou's Records for hosting the CIMS posse Friday night, M-Theory for the David J instore / AIMS party Sunday night (who played three Love & Rockets and one Bauhaus classic, all acoustic!), Atlantic for having John Butler perform acoustic for a couple dozen people crammed into their suite, Welk again for bringing Bob Schneider and Camper Van Beethoven to perform at Club NARM, and to NARM itself and the respective labels for bringing in Ben Harper & the Blind Boys of Alabama (Virgin), Marc Broussard (Island), Chick Corea (Concord), Brazilian Girls (Verve), John Davis (Rambler), Jason Mraz (Elektra), Bonnie McKee (Warner Bros), and Shinedown (Atlantic). I *know* I missed a few names, so don't kick my ass too hard -- also, thanks to Redeye for having the Supersuckers perform.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES: NARM introduced FOUR new in-house burning solutions for stores that want on-demand production. MICS, TOUCHSTAND, VMS, and MIX & BURN all did dog & pony shows for the retailers to decide what solution they would like to use to meet their customers' needs. In additionto the kiosks, this year's event marked the introduction of the DUAL DISC, and CD / DVD hybrid that plays CDs on one side, DVDs on the other -- all of which plays on 99% of all current devices! Very cool way to enhance content and keep consumers attached to the disc, although I had to skip out before security & price points were discussed. Also, major props to Louis and the Hopeless gang for launching downloadpunk.com, an all-punk site for kids to download WMA & MP3s for $.69, $.79, and $.89 apiece. And let's all welcome the forward-thinking iTunes staff for joining NARM -- very smart move. PS: Look for a portable device from Sirius in the next 60 days! Although it's not totally Walkman-style portable, at least you can take it from place to place -- a very positive step forward, and another nail in the coffin of terrestrial radio (which, to borrow a Southern colloquialism, is about as useful as tits on a boy dog).
Coming soon from REDEYE DISTRIBUTION: Coming on strong with new CDs by Matthew Sweet and Jeru the Damaja (9/28), NRBQ, Poster Children, RuPaul, Visqueen, and Hackensaw Boys (9/21), Robyn Hitchcock, Supersuckers, HotHouse Flowers, CC Adcock, and Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers (10/5), The Gourds, Supersuckers, Jason Falkner, Iris Dement, and Eddie from Ohio (10/19), as well as a new EP by The Minus 5 / Wilco (11/2).
Coming soon from NEW LINE: A Dirty Shame soundtrack (John Waters movie, 9/14), Blade Trinity soundtrack (with 12-page comic booklet and bonus hip-hop animated short DVD, 11/23), Sideways soundtrack (10/12), Elf soundtrack (2004 push around 11/16 DVD release), and ... A John Waters Christmas CD (11/9).
Coming soon from the EPITAPH family of labels: Tom Waits (10/5), Union surf & skate DVDs (10/12), Elliot Smith (10/19), Nick Cave, The Hives (10/26), NOFX, Neko Case, Pennywise, The Coup, Eddie Izzard CD + DVDs (11/9).
Coming soon from WELK MUSIC GROUP: Dolly Parton (DVD & 2-CD set, 9/14), Peter Case (9/14), Beausoleil (9/14), Camper Van Beethoven (10/12), Chris Thile (10/12), Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (Xmas, 10/12), George Jones (50 Years of Hits, 50-track 3 CD anthology, 11/9), and the PBS fave All-Star Bluegrass Celebration CD & DVD (11/9).
Coming soon from ISLAND: Shawnna (9/28), Streets is Watching OST (10/5), Utada (10/5), Sum 41 (10/12), Redman (10/19), Beanie Sigel (10/26), N.O.R.E. (11/2), Ja Rule (11/9), Ashanti (11/16), Ludacris (11/16), and Fat Albert OST (11/23).
Coming soon from SHOUT! FACTORY: Freaks & Geeks OST (9/14), Lenny Bruce box set (9/14 -- you have to see the box / book this thing comes in), American Pimp OST (+ Outtakes DVD, 9/21), William Shatner (w/ Ben Folds & friends, 10/5), Big Ol' Box of New Orleans (4-CD box / book, 10/19), Disco Explostion box set (companion to PBS special, 11/2).
Look for SANCTUARY to do to urban what they've done to rock in 2005 -- 9/28 alone features CD or DVD releases by Wu Tang Clan, Earth WInd & Fire, De La Soul, and Mary J Blige, and 10/5 brings you O'Jays, Kool & the Gang, and Chaka Khan. In other Sanctuary news, look for the new NANCY SINATRA CD (9/28) to feature guests Morrissey, Bono and The Edge, Peter Yorn, Steve Van Zandt, Doves, Calexico, Jon Spencer, Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) -- daaamn! Where's Lee Hazlewood?
Coming soon from UMVD's catalog division: Amy Grant Hits (10/12), Mellencamp (10/19), Bee Gees #1s (single disc, 11/9), Bon Jovi box set (11/16), and, on 11/23, the Nirvana box (3 CDs + 1 DVD, 60 page book, hits, live, rarities, demos, and incredible home-shot footage from the early early days). Also look for NEW DOOR to release new CDs by artists whose catalog in many cases is distributed by UMVD -- first up is Tears for Fears in September, and possibly Joe Cocker in January.
Coming in '05 from WORD DISTRIBUTION: former Superdrag frontman John Davis's solo debut.
Coming soon from SONY's Christian and Gospel: CeCe Winans (Live DVD, 9/14), Be Be Winans (Dream, featuring excerpts from MLK's speech, 11/9). One word to describe each -- OPRAH. In other words, don't be caught short.
Coming soon from IMMORTAL: Mix Master Mike (Scratch / Immortal, 10/19), STRIPPED! Power Ballads Unplugged (Winger, Whitesanke, Warrant, etc., 11/16).
Coming soon from NAVARRE DISTRIBUTION: Clint Black Xmas , Fu Manchu, Mr Cheeks (9/14), Raphael Saddiq, Superjoint Ritual DVD (10/5), Sigur Ros, GWAR, UNKLE, Lit DVD, American Head Charge (10/26), and a DJ Kicks CD by Massive Attack's Daddy G (11/16).
Coming soon from PROVIDENT MUSIC GROUP: FFH, City on a Hill, and Michael W. Smith (Xmas box, 9/28), Caedmon's Call (10/12), Michael W. Smith (studio), BDA, and Day of Fire (10/26), Reed's Temple (11/9), Third Day (live, 11/23).
Coming soon from TOUCH & GO DISTRIBUTION: The Ex, Silkworm, Dollhouse (Swedish MC5), Knockout Pills, Sally Timms, Bloc Party, Decemberists (CD single, new CD in 'early 05), Japancakes (9/14), TV on the Radio single (on tour w/ The Faint), Pinback (video by TVOTR's Tunde), Calexico DVD (on tour w/ WIlco), American Music Club, Richard Buckner, and Camera Obscura (10/12).
More coming soon from INTERSCOPE: Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, 50 Cent, Queens of the Stone Age, Will Smith, Gwen Stefani, 2Pac, and U2 are all slated for November release.
TV ON THE RADIO have a new EP entitled "New Health Rock" coming 10/12 on Touch & Go, featuring an acapella rendition of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song "Modern Romance." Catch TVOTR onthe road with THE FAINT and THE PIXIES in the coming months.
Look for a ton of great indie label news upon our return from a full slate of meetings at NARM. In the meantime, here's some major label info to tie you over:
BRITNEY SPEARS is releasing her first Greatest Hits CD and DVD on November 16, entitled My Prerogative. Early shipments of the CD will include a second, remix CD.
Coming soon from INTERSCOPE: Helmet (9/21),
Marilyn Manson (hits, 9/28), Queen Latifah (jazz album, 9/28), Beck (10/12), Jimmy Eat World (10/19), Vanessa Carlton (10/19), Trail of Dead, Gwen Stefani (Nov), U2....
Coming soon from GEFFEN: Chris Rock (9/14), Talib Kweli (9/21), Shark Tale OST (9/21), John Fogerty (9/21), Mos Def (Oct TBD), Ringside (10/19), Bridget Jones Dairy 2 OST (11/9), Snoop (Nov TBD).
Coming soon from CAPITOL: Kylie Minogue (DVD, 9/7), I-20 (9/21), Skye Sweetnam (9/21), Supergrass (best of + 2 unreleased, US has bonus disc, 9/28), Everclear (best of, 10/5), The Music (10/19), Yellowcard DVD (10/19), Now 17 CD (11/2), NOW DVD Vol 2 (11/2), Now DVD Vol. 2 (11/2), Chingy (11/16), Dirty Vegas (11/30), Faith Evans (12/14).
More than you can shake a stick at -- upcoming from SANCTUARY: 9/28 --
The Mavericks (live In Austin, CD & DVD), Widespread Panic (Jackassolantern), The Mick Fleetwood Band, The Doobie Brothers (live CD & DVD), Blues Explosion, NY Dolls (Live CD & DVD), De La Soul,
WASP, Wu-Tang Clan, Nancy Sinatra, O' Jays, Tony Joe White, Nasio, Better Than Ezra, Jimi Hendrix (Live at Isle of Wight! DVD), Iommi / Hughes, Jackyl (live CD & DVD), Billy Talbot, Mary J. Blige (live DVD), Kool And The Gang Hits, and Glenn Lewis -- all in ONE WEEK. 10/5 --
Earth Wind and Fire, Keith Sweat, Chaka Khan, Damien Dempsey, Wu-Tang Clan DVD. 10/12 -- Hidden Cameras, Banyan live, Barbara Cue (Todd from Panic), Jobriath, and Reggae Pulse IV: Christmas Songs.
Coming soon from SPINART: Augie March (9/14), The Dears (10/12), Frank Black Francis (10/12), Frank Black & The Catholics (Pistolero / ST - 2 for 1 repackage, 11/9), Lilys (Eccsame / Brief History 2 for 1 repackage, 11/9). And on Cooking Vinyl -- The Mekons (Best Of 2 CD, 9/28),
David Thomas(4 CD box set reissue, 9/28), Chuck Prophet (9/28), Violent Femmes (Rock re-issue, 9/28), Glide (11/4).
Coming soon from WARNER BROS: Kasey Chambers (9/14), The Prodigy (9/14), Green Day (9/21), The Used (9/28), Bonnie Mckee (9/28), REM (10/5), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (10/5), Seal (Hits, 10/19), Goo Goo Dolls (live CD / DVD, 10/19), Spongebob Squarepants Soundtrack (featuring Flaming Lips, Shins, and others!, 10/26). Also: OC Vol 2 coming 10/26 (maybe even a compilation of Christmukah music!), and Deftones project Team Sleep possibly 11/2.
New dates for some ZOMBA titles, so here's the latest: 8/24 sees R Kelly (double album), E-40 (Best of), and a Girls Gone WIld Compilation. CDs by Ciara and Bowling for Soup street 9/28.
Coming soon from CENTURY MEDIA: Shadows Fall (9/21), Napalm Death (10/5), Caliban (10/5), The Haunted (10/19), Incantation (10/19), and Diecast (10/19).
Coming soon from EPIC: Butch Walker (8/24), Lamb of God (8/24), Los Lonely Boys (live DVD 8/31), Chevelle (9/21), Good Charlotte (10/5), Hope of the States (10/5), Celine Dion (October), Duran Duran (October), Modest Mouse EP (October), The Zutons (October), Ozzy box (November).
Coming soon from COLUMBIA: Mike Watt (8/24), Mooney Suzuki (8/24), Autolux (9/21), Cake (10/5), NAS (October), Springsteen (MTV Unplugged DVD, October), Harry Connick Jr (Holidays, October), Train live (October), Leonard Cohen (October), Tony Bennett (November), Offspring (November).
Coming soon from LEGACY: Jeff Buckley (Grace Legacy Edition 8/24), Soul Asylum (live, 8/31), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Live at Montreaux 82 & 85, 9/7), The Clash (London Calling 25th Anniversary, 9/21), Toad the Wet Sprocket (live 9/21)
Who the heck is MEGAN SLANKARD? Well, she's a singer/songwriter from Northern Cali who was recently featured on What Not To Wear, the 12th most-watched cable program for the week (rerun airs 9/6, set your TiVo). Within hours, she was receiving 100,000+ daily to her site, her CD hit Amazon's top 10, and currently holds the #1 and #7 best sellers at CD Baby, with hundreds of copies on back order. "Too Bad You" is also receiving airplay on KFOG in San Francisco. (7/27)
We just wrapped up a whirlwind trip to NYC and got the scoop on a TON of great relases coming in the months ahead. Everything is line-listed below, sorted alpha by label. Reach out to your label, publishing, management, or booking contact to get more info in order really make the most of these listings. All info correct as of July 9.
ARTEMIS
8/10 MATT HAIMOVITZ, TIN HAT TRIO, EMER KENNY
8/24 STEVE EARLE, ALAN PARSONS, JIMMY CLIFF
9/7 JESSE COLIN YOUNG, JILL SOBULE
9/21 AL FRANKEN, PAUL KRASSNER, DEEPAK CHOPRA
10/5 SEAN COSTELLO, ALLEN GINSBERG, DOPE, JESSE COLIN YOUNG
10/19 FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, POE, ZEVON TRIBUTE
ASTRALWERKS
7/27 BADLY DRAWN BOY, PHOENIX, KINGS OF CONVENIENCE
8/24 WEST INDIAN GIRL
9/7 RADIO 4, KRAFTWERK REISSUES
9/21 K-OS, VHS OR BETA
10/5 FATBOY SLIM
TBD CHEMS (’05), BETH ORTON (’05)
ATLANTIC
8/17 MOMENTS IN GRACE, RYAN CABRERA
8/24 MRAZ LIVE CD+DVD
SEPT BJORK, NERVOUS RETURN
OCT DREAM THEATRE, FABOLOUS, RUPEE, JET DVD
10/12 RUPEE, TRICK DADDY
10/26 DONNAS, VANESSA WILLIAMS XMAS
NOV PHIL COLLINS LOVE SONGS, SUGAR RAY HITS, FAT JOE, STAIND, NATE DOGG, DARKNESS DVD
11/2 TRICK DADDY & TWISTA REMIX ALBUM
11/9 HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL
11/16 YOLANDA ADAMS
11/23 ROB THOMAS, T.I.
DEC GERALD LEVERT
ATO
8/10 ORBITAL
9/14 GOV’T MULE
BARSUK
8/10 FUTURE SOUNDTRACK FOR AMERICA
BEGGARS GROUP / MATADOR
7/27 TANYA DONELLY
8/10 MARK LANEGAN
8/24 GUIDED BY VOICES
9/28 INTERPOL
BLUE NOTE
8/24 KEREN ANN (pay attention to this one)
9/7 MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD
CAPITOL
9/21 I-20, SUPERGRASS BEST OF, EVERCLEAR HITS, CHINGY
10/5 YELLOWCARD DVD
10/19 THE MUSIC
11/2 FAITH EVANS, NOW 17
EMI
9/21 ULTRA LOUNGE XMAS
10/19 MAZZY STAR ANTHOLOGY
EPITAPH FAMILY
9/7 BLACK KEYS
9/21 CONVERGE , NOFX HITS, HOT WATER MUSIC
10/5 THE COUP, TOM WAITS, NICK CAVE
10/19 THE HIVES
NOV EDDIE IZZARD DVDS
TBD FRAMES, SAGE FRANCIS, REFUSED, PENNYWISE REISSUES, DROPKICKS SINGLES 2
INTERSCOPE
8/17 YOUNG BUCK
9/14 HELMET
ISLAND
8/3 MARC BROUSSARD
8/17 SALIVA
8/31 BLUE MERLE
OCT SUM 41
2005 CKY
LAVA
8/3 NONPOINT
8/24 O.A.R.
8/24 JOHN BUTLER TRIO
8/31 SKINDRED
10/26 UNWRITTEN LAW
OCT SIMPLE PLAN
NOV TRANSIBERIAN ORCHESTRA
LOST HIGHWAY
9/14 WILLIE NELSON (Outlaws), LUCINDA LIVE
9/21 ELVIS COSTELLO
OCT WILLIE (Always Will Be)
TBD CASH 5, JAYHAWKS LIVE, RYAN ADAMS (’05)
NETTWERK
8/24 FINN BROTHERS
9/21 TOM MCRAE
10/5 MAYBE THIS CHRISTMAS TREE
TBD IVY (’05), BE GOOD TANYAS (’05)
NONESUCH
7/27 KD LANG
AUG JOHN ADAMS, FRISELL + WILLNER, LAURA VEIRS, RANDY NEWMAN
SEPT BRIAN WILSON “SMILE”
ONE LITTLE INDIAN
8/25 TWILIGHT SINGERS
SEPT POLLY PAULUSMA (Chris Martin digs her)
PALM
9/28 EARLIMART
10/12 MOVING UNITS
RAZOR & TIE
7/27 HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE OST
8/10 KIDZ BOP 6
9/28 HEIRUSPECS -- A TIGER DANCING
RCA
7/20 FAITHLESS
7/27 PEARL JAM, SAHARA HOTNIGHTS
8/10 CHARLOTTE MARTIN
9/14 CITIZEN COPE
9/28 SILVERTIDE
SEP KELLY CLARKSON
OCT RAY LAMONTAGNE, FANTASIA, DIANE DEGARMO
10/12 RUBEN GOSPEL, CLAY XMAS
TBD LUTHER TRIBUTE, SANTANA, BABYFACE, HEATHER HEADLEY, SHAWN KANE, SHELLS
Q4 DVD MAROON 5, ALICIA KEYS, AGUILERA, ANNIE LENNOX, THE STROKES, ROD STEWART
RED
8/10 ARI HEST
8/24 MOONEY SUZUKI, MIKE WATT, VOODOO GLOW SKULLS
8/31 INSANE CLOWN POSSE
9/7 CLAYPOOL, AUTOLUX, RADNEY FOSTER
9/21 STRAYLIGHT RUN
11/2 PRIMUS
ROADRUNNER
8/31 RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE OST (Slipknot, Used, Cure, Perfect Circle, Killswitch, HIM)
9/14 FEAR FACTORY & CYNIC REISSUES
9/28 CRADLE OF FILTH, THREE INCHES OF BLOOD, HIGH HOLY DAYS,
MTV2 HEADBANGERS BALL VOL II (2 Disc Set -- Slipknot, Shadows Fall, Atreyu, Probot, Kittie)
ROUGH TRADE
8/31 LIBERTINES, ABERFELDY
9/28 HIDDEN CAMERAS
Q105 THE KILLS, ADAM GREEN, EASTERN LANE, HAL, BRITISH SEA POWER
MARCH 05 BAXTER DURY, CORNERSHOP, SCRITTI POLITTI, EMILIANA TORRINI
ROUNDER
8/10 LISA LOEB
9/7 GODSMACK DVD, GREAT BIG SEA DVD
9/14 MADELINE PEYROUX, MINNIE DRIVER
9/28 BRANFORD MARSALIS
TBD ALLISON KRAUSS
Q105 SHIVAREE
RYKO DIST
8/31 PRECIOUS BRYANT
9/14 FONZIE (NO LONGER FOZZIE)
9/21 BEN TAYLOR (MEGAFORCE)
RYKO
TBD MIDNIGHT MOVIES, KELLY WILLIS (05), POSIES (05), LADYTRON (05)
S-CURVE
9/28 JOSS STONE (look for huge support from VH1 + DVD taping around street)
SADDLE CREEK
9/14 THE FAINT
SANCTUARY
8/10 CROSBY & NASH, BIG HEAD TODD LIVE DVD, GENE SIMMONS CD+DVD
8/24 CRAIG ARMSTORNG, W.A.S.P., WON-G
9/14 TEGAN & SARA, BLUE NILE, BLONDIE CD+DVD, FLEETWOOD MAC CD+DVD, MEGADETH,
MEATLOAF LIVE DVD, BIG HEAD TODD LIVE CD, MARY J BLIGE LIVE DVD
9/28 MAVERICKS CD+DVD, JACKYL LIVE CD+DVD, BETTER THAN EZRA LIVE CD+DVD, PANIC
HALLOWEEN III CD, ANTHRAX
SIDE ONE DUMMY
9/14 FLOGGING MOLLY
9/28 ATTICUS 3
SPINART
7/20 BY DIVINE RIGHT
8/3 MACHA (Jet Set)
8/17 THE SUNSHINE FIX
8/31 THE TRASHCAN SINATRAS
9/14 AUGIE MARCH
TVT
8/10 213
8/24 PITBULL
9/7 PAUL WESTERBERG
TBD SAVES THE DAY, DOWN TO EARTH APPROACH, LIL JON
UNIVERSAL
8/24 G LOVE
9/14 THE FEATURES
10/12 RECOVER, DENVER HARBOR
10/26 MARS VOLTA, LE TIGRE
11/2 RAMMSTEIN
11/9 ELTON JOHN
2005 SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
VICE
9/28 PANTHERS
10/12 DEATH FROM ABOVE
V2
9/14 PAUL WELLER
10/26 WHITE STRIPES LIVE DVD + CD
10/26 GRANDADDY DVD
VIRGIN
9/07 STONES LIVE, JANET DVD, GUERILLA BLACK
9/14 THE THRILLS
9/21 BEN HARPER + BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, FIVESPEED, FEDERATION
10/05 NIKKA COSTA, THE EXPLOSION
10/19 ISAAC HAYES, N2U, BROOKE VALENTINE
11/02 A PERFECT CIRCLE DVD
11/16 GORILLAS
11/30 BEN HARPER DVD, KRAVITZ HITS DVD, N.E.R.D. DVD
2005 MASSIVE ATTACK
WARNER BROS
AUG DAMIEN RICE EP, HEAD AUTOMATICA, THE SHORE
9/14 KASEY CHAMBERS, PRODIGY
9/21 GREEN DAY
ZOMBA
8/10 MOBB DEEP, MYSTIKAL (Hits)
8/24 R. KELLY (Double Album), E-40 (Best of)
9/14 CIARA, BOWLING FOR SOUP
WHO?! Everyone will know about STRAYLIGHT RUN by year’s end – they just recorded their first album with Michael Birnbaum (Coheed and Cambria, Bad Brains), hit the road with Rooney and Ozma in June and July. Their self-titled debut on Victory is slated for release in September 2004. (6/09)
MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY, featuring former Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips andSara Watkins, Sean Watkins and Chris Thile of Nickel Creek, have added Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Attractions drummer Pete Thomas for the tour. CD hits July 13. (6/09)
Catch MUSE on the CURIOSA FESTIVAL, which will feature The Cure, Thursday, Head Automatica, and others. (6/09)
Coming August 24 from MSM Music Group/KOCH Records: Throwback, the latest relase from the newly re-formed BOYZ II MEN. (6/09)
Artemis will release Black Magic on August 24, the latest CD by JIMMY CLIFF, produced by Dave Stewart. Appearances include Wyclef Jean, Annie Lennox, Sting, Jools Holland, Kool & The Gang, and one of the last ever recordings by the late Joe Strummer. (6/09)
Coming from ISLAND DEF JAM in August: new CDs from LL COOL J and MARC BROUSSARD (August 3), P Diddy fall guy SHYNE (August 10, from behind bars, no less), JA RULE, and SALIVA (August 17). (6/09)
GREG DULLI is finishing She Loves You, the TWILIGHT SINGERS covers collection, due August 24 on One Little Indian (Navarre). The track listing: Feeling Of Gaze (Hope Sandoval) * Too Tough To Die (Martina Topley-Bird) * Hyperballad (Bjork) * Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday) * What Makes You Think You’re The One (Fleetwood Mac) * Real Love (Mary J. Blige) * Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (Skip James) * A Love Supreme (John Coltrane) * Please Don’t Stay (Once You Go Away) (Marvin Gaye) * Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair (Nina Simone) * Summertime (George Gershwin). (6/09)
Look for JASON MRAZ to release the CD / DVD live collection, TONIGHT, NOT AGAIN: JASON MRAZ LIVE AT THE EAGLES BALLROOM 8/24 on Elektra /Atlantic, recorded and filmed last October at Milwaukee's Eagles Ballroom. Guests include Blues Traveler's John Popper and the world-famous Chicago Storm/Ohio Players Horns (Kenny Anderson: trumpet; JoWestly Boston: saxophone; Johnny Cotton: trombone). Expect the hits + five new Mraz-penned songs. In addition to the full-length concert, the DVD includes a wide array of bonus footage, including exclusive behind-the-scenes segments filmed during Mraz's tours of the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Also featured is a never-before-heard solo acoustic rendition of Elton John's classic "Rocket Man." Look for Mraz on his Curbside Prophet tour before wrapping it all up with a series of live dates with the Dave Matthews Band. (5/27)
Coming on DVD from Eagle Rock 6/15: JOHNNY CASH A Concert: Behind Prison Walls- Special Edition. Cash performs for inmates inside the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville and is accompanied by Linda Rondstadt and Roy Clark. This nationally televised 1976 concert features popular live versions of “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “Hey Porter,” “Boy Named Sue,” “Love Has No Pride” and more. (5/27)
LOLLAPALOOZA’s 2004 Solar Sound Stage is a self-contained stage and sound system run completely off a solar-powered grid with zero emissions. MIKE WATT, BUMBLEBEEZ 81, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, CARINA ROUND, ROSS GOLAN & MOLEHEAD and LIVING THINGS will be playing on it each day. Look for Watt’s latest, The Secondman’s Middle Stand, 8/24 on Red Ink/Columbia. (5/27)
PHISH's June 17 sold-out show at Keyspan Park in Coney Island will be simulcast in high-definition video and Dolby surround sound to 47 select Regal, Edwards and United Artists movie theatres. See local listings for details. (5/27)
Vanguard will release LAWRENCE WELK....remixed on August 10. Upstairs at Larry's, Lawrence Welk Uncorked, is a 15-track CD featuring standards by the LWO (Lawrence Welk Orchestra) remixed by some of today's hottest DJs, including Q-Burns, Groove Junkies, Money Bars, Kaskade, and many others. (5/27)
Congrats to Touch & Go on the continuing success of TV ON THE RADIO – look for the band to be the lead “NEW FACES” feature in the June 1 issue of Rolling Stone. (5/19)
Heads up: MING & FS have a new CD coming August 3 on Studio / Stun, titled Back to One. Ming & FS will be announcing a hefty US tour including a live instrumentation, impromptu remixes, beat-boxing, and skilled turntablism into their DJ sets. Name a TV show, commercial or artist, and they’ve appeared, scored, or remixed it – from Sex & the City, AT&T, Nissan, Adidas, DC Shoes, Brandy, Coolio, Suzanne Vega, to yes, even Lynyrd Skynyrd. (5/19)
Coming soon from SCI FIDELITY (Ryko Dist.): KELLER WILLIAMS Stage (6/29 -- Double live album w/ great covers, previously unrecorded originals + 24 page booklet in a 6 panel digi), UMPHREY’S MCGEE Anchor Drops (6/29 -- 1st national release for Chicago area band with large regional / tour / festival audience), and BEN ARNOLD Calico (7/20). (5/19)
PRETENDER GOES DISCO: TUBE & BERGER’s single “Straight Ahead” featuring The Pretenders’ CHRISSIE HYNDE has hit #1 on the Billboard/Monitor Dance Radio Airplay Chart this week. This marks the first #1 for Artemis Records in the genre. Tube & Berger are two twenty-three year old DJs from Germany, who describe their style of music as “Boogie House Electro Punk.” (5/19)
PHISH have named their home state two-day music & arts festival that wraps up their summer tour August 14 & 15, and it is called COVENTRY. (5/19)
Man, if I’m not getting pelted about LETTER KILLS, whose Island debut The Bridge streets July 27 -- beat up your contact to check ‘em out. (5/19)
THE WALLFLOWERS are doing a two week west coast tour in June (“Back to California”) before holing up with producer Brendan O’Brien in July to record their next CD, slated for Q1 ’05 release. Look for O’Brien play lead guitar on this tour, his first time doing so since touring with Neil Young in 1997. Says Jakob Dylan, "Yes, he is a producer of great distinction, and yes he plays a mean guitar, but he *is* the new guy and we hope he doesn't think he's getting the good bunk on the bus." (5/19)
Congrats to AMBULANCE (TVT) for getting picked for the VIRGIN RECOMMENDS program. The band tore it up to a packed crowd here in LA last night, and their self-titled CD is already on my personal Top 10 list for 2004. Pay attention to this band -- catch them on the road with The Thrills and French Kicks, and look for their first video to hit the airwaves soon. Give them another spin if you haven't done so in a while, and listen for some serious influences from the Velvet Underground to My Bloody Valentine. WICKED stuff. (5/13)
Saddle Creek’s CURSIVE is headlining this year’s Plea for Peace 2004 Tour right now. The tour will take a non-partisan stance and focus primarily on the power and importance of the electoral process itself. The main objective is to get youth communities and young adults excited about voting, let them decide what is right for them and give them a voice for the future. Voter registration will be available in all cities and concert-goers will be able to register with any party. In order to support media diversity, the tour will play non-Clear Channel venues only. A dollar from each ticket will be donated to a charity of the artists’ choice. (5/12)
Things cookin’ over at MUTE: The debut by UK androgynous rockers PINK GREASE streets Stateside 6/15. M83’s US debut hits 7/27, US tour in September. Indie stores like Amoeba and Other Music have already sold 2000 imports of this album. GOLDFRAPP now featured in Nintendo and Coke commercials, as well as in upcoming summer blockbusters D.E.B.S and A Cinderella Story. LIARS are set to release “We Fenced Other Gardens...,” the second single from their latest CD, on June 1. The video is directed by Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Praise for the Liars from the mouth of Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne: "These fuckers are unexcorcizable!!! We are repulsed yet hypnotized!!!! We are skeletons watching the strip tease." (5/12)
RCA’s LONGWAVE hit the road for two weeks beginning June 6 in support of their forthcoming EP, Life of the Party (6/8). The limited edition enhanced release will feature five brand new songs along with three music videos off their debut RCA LP The Strangest Things. Following the tour dates, LONGWAVE will head into the studio to record their second full-length album for RCA with legendary producer John Leckie (Radiohead, Stone Roses, plus the soon to be released latest from New Order) – perfect fit! (5/12)
Coming from the ARTEMIS family of fine labels: JAY FARRAR (6/8), JESSE MALIN (6/28), CHARLIE HUNTER (7/13), KITTIE (7/27), TIN HAT TRIO (8/10), plus new CDs by POE, DOPE, STEVE EARLE, and JILL SOBULE later in the year. (5/12)
Wow wow wow -- word has it RUSH are realeasing a covers EP June 22, in time for their 30th Anniversary tour! Can't wait to hear Rush cover bands like The Who, Love, and The Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield, and others on classics like "Summertime Blues," "7 & 7 Is," "For What It's Worth," "The Seeker," "Crossroads," and "Shape of Things." (5/10)
VAGRANT looking at a busy summer -- look for Another Year on the Street, Vol. 3 this August, a specailly-priced CD of new & unreleased tracks by DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AUDIO LEARNING CENTER, SAVES THE DAY, and many more, as well as new CDs by DOWN TO EARTH APPROACH and HOT ROD CIRCUIT in July. ALKALINE TRIO are working on a new CD, and will be on the first half of the WARPED Tour. (5/10)
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY -- looks like the ATLANTIC family has quite a bit on their plate between now & the rest of the year -- in addition to continuing work on JET, THE DARKNESS, and THE STILLS among others, plus setting up new CDs by BRANDY, THE CORRS, and KEVIN LYTTLE, look for new CDs by PHISH (June), JASON MRAZ DVD + CD (Aug), BJORK (late summer), plus new ones by NATE DOGG, TI, TWISTA, and ROBB THOMAS (solo) later in the year, not to mention CDs on Lava by UNCLE KRACKER (June) and NONPOINT (August). Also, look for SHINEDOWN to open for Van Halen all summer long. (5/6)
Artists to be featured on the 5/31USA Network broadcast of THE 3RD ANNUAL WILLIE NELSON & FRIENDS CONCERT, recorded live at LA's Wiltern Theatre last night: Bob Dylan, The Holmes Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Keith Richards, Toby Keith, Kid Rock, Merle Haggard, Lee Ann Womack, Ben Harper, Lucinda Williams, Al Green, Shelby Lynne, Rickie Lee Jones, Toots Hibbert, Joe Walsh and Los Lonely Boys. (5/6)
SMART MOVE: P.O.D. 35-city headline tour with HAZEN STREET & LACUNA COIL features low ticket prices ($20 - $25), meet & greets with the first 100 fans that purchased advance tickets via P.O.D.'s partnership with Musictoday, and a homecoming show at San Diego club SOMA to wrap it all up. (5/6)
FENWAY NEWS --here's wuzzup with Mark Kates: In addition to just releasing the first CD in 22 years by Fenway Management client MISSION OF BURMA (Matador), Fenway the label has just released Radios Burn Faster by READ YELLOW (touring the US in August w/ Dillinger Escape Plan). bad blood by GERLING hits 7/13, SPIN calls them “the happy place between skinny-tie new wave and electroclash beats.” Touring w/ Suicide Girls in June, then with The Red Light Sting in July. And finally, THE LOVE SCENE are wrapping up their debut album “If I Knew What I Was Doing Do You Think I Would Be Doing This?” with producer Mike Daly (ex-Whiskeytown). (5/6)
Coming from SANCTUARY: New CDs by JJ CALE, GENE SIMMONS, MINISTRY, SCORPIONS, MOTORHEAD, and JONATHAN RICHMAN in June, plus WIDESPREAD PANIC, TOMMY STINSON, .38 SPECIAL, and BUFFSEEDS in July.
Coming from REDEYE DISTRIBUTION this summer -- new ones by CONCRET BLONDE, MARAH, MELISSA FERRICK, and DAVE ALVIN. (5/6)
Just signed to ALLIGATOR RECORDS -- MAVIS STAPLES. Her Alligator Records debut will be coming in August. (5/6)
PHISH DETAILS: Undermind is due 6/15 on Elektra -- recorded at The Barn in Vermont and mixed at Real World Studios in England by producer Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel). Many of the 14 tracks have never been performed live, including first single "The Connection", "A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing", "Nothing", "Access Me", and "Tomorrow's Song". "Army of One", a familiar solo number at Vida Blue and Phish shows, gets a full band treatment here, and "Secret Smile" features string arrangements by noted composer/arranger Maria Schneider. The first pressing of the album will include a special bonus DVD of the 26 minute short film "Specimens of Beauty", directed by longtime Phish photographer Danny Clinch, that chronicles the recording of the album in Vermont. (5/6)
Look for Bert McCracken from The Used on "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison" on MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE's upcoming CD, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. (5/6)
TOM WAITS has been holed up in an old school house in Mississippi, recording a new album, Real Gone for Fall release on Anti. Real Gone is primal rhythmic blues featuring Waits on vocal mouth percussion, Larry Taylor, Mark Ribot (first collaboration since their classic pairing for 1985’s Raindogs), Brain Manita and Les Claypool, Casey X. Waits, and Harry Cody. Engineered by Mark Howard (Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Iggy Pop) and produced by Waits/Brennan. Says Waits, “Feelin’ good about it all. Songs about politics, rats, war, hangings, dancing, automobiles, pirates, farms, the carnival and sinning. Mama, liquor, trains and death. In other words, the same ‘ol dirty business!” (4/29)
Coming June 8 on ATO: WARREN HAYNES Live at Bonnaroo. Look fora new GOV'T MULE disc in September on ATO Records. (4/29)
MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY, a collaboration between Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), and Nickel Creek members Sara Watkins, Sean Watkins and Chris Thile, will be released on Sugar Hill July 13. Rehearsed, recorded, and mixed in just six days with producer Ethan Johns, the album features songs written and sung by Phillips, with accompaniment and other vocals from the Grammy-winning band. Tour to follow. (4/29)
Look for ROUGH TRADE to be hopping from their spanky new US offices headquartered in NYC's famed Chelsea Hotel -- in additon to new releases by THE VEILS (now) and DELAYS (May), look for new music by FIERY FURNACES, LIBERTINES, and THE KILLS before summer's end. (4/27)
Before JEM heads out on her summer US tour, look for LA's favorite British transplant to drop by THE OC to sing the McCartney classic "Maybe I'm Amazed" at a wedding during the season finale. (4/27)
Looks like a grand DOES come for free: VICE RECORDINGS is running a music retail visibility contest for the new CD by THE STREETS, A Grand Don't Come for Free (5/18), contact your Vice or ADA rep for details. The first single, “Fit But You Know It,” has been #1 on the NME chart for two weeks in a row, and the video has been added to FUSE TV, accepted at MTV2, and can be downloaded from MTV.com in the US. 20-date US tour starts 6/11 in San Francisco. (4/27)
HEADCOUNT, an organization dedicated to raising voter participation among live music fans, has announced a contest that will drive voter registration efforts by partnering with BONNAROO. Participants qualify to enter by registering five eligible people to vote. A grand prize winner, chosen at random, will receive a pair of VIP tickets to the 2004 Bonnaroo Music Festival (June 11-13) and will have an opportunity to meet select HeadCount affiliated artists. HeadCount is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization run entirely by volunteers, with affiliations to over 15 acts including The Dead, Galactic, String Cheese Incident, Gov't Mule, moe. and the Disco Biscuits. (4/27)
Where You Want to Be is the title, 7/27 is the release date for the new CD by Victory artists TAKING BACK SUNDAY. Recording is wrapping up right now, then the band hits the road for a month with Blink-182 and Cypress Hill, followed by UK dates (first ever outside North America!) at the Donnington Download Festival with Metallica, plus sold out concerts in London, Glasgow and Manchester. Follow that with a headlining spot on the Warped Tour from June to August, then back to the U.K. for the Reading Festival. Daaaamn! (4/27)
BRANDY's new CD comes out 6/29 on Atlantic. The first single is "Talk About Our Love." (4/27)
Atlantic recording artists JUNIOR SENIOR have been a little busy -- in addition to stints at Coachella this weekend and a massive gig with the B-52's at Stubb's during SxSW, a number of songs from D-D-DON'T DON'T STOP THE BEAT have been featured in major media, including on the soundtrack Mary-Kate & Ashley movie New York Minute ("Shake Your Coconuts"), Queer as Folk (4/25, "C'mon"), Malcom in the Middle (5/2, "Coconuts"), WB's One Tree Hill ("Good Girl Bad Boy"), and the Queer Eye soundtrack ("Move Your Feet"). (4/27)
Relapse Records recording artists THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN have begun the recording of their new full-length album, entitled Miss Machine, which is slated for a 7/20 release. The band is recording at both NYC's Mission and Water recording studios with Steve Evetts (Hatebreed, The Cure, Sepultura), and will be mixed at NYC's Quad Recording Studios. (4/27)
Artemis recording artists KITTIE are set to release their third studio album Until the End on July 27. The album was recorded in March at Longview Farm Studios in Massachussetts and was produced by Steve Thompson (Korn, Anthrax). Joining the Kittie line-up as the permanent second guitarist will be Lisa Marx, formerly of the Seattle hardcore band, To See You Broken. (4/27)
DEANA CARTER has signed a deal with Vanguard Records. Currently in the studio working with engineer James Michael, Carter is taking the production helm on the new album, which will be released in early 2005. (4/27)
The release date for Compromises (PRC/Universal) by NUMBER ONE FAN has been pushed back to 6/29, and will be enhanced with a bonus music video of the lead track, "Come On," directed by Darren Doane. The Appleton, WI 4-piece are now on tour with The Juliana Theory, Bayside, and Anberlin, and will continue with The Rocket Summer (June), plus the Vans Warped Tour (July / Aug). (4/27)
Look for Squeeze's GLENN TILBROOK on his first-ever full-band US tour starting 5/26. The release of Transatlantic Ping Pong (6/8, Compass Records / Quixotic London) will be simultaneous with Tilbrook’s first-ever full band US solo tour, sponsored by VH-1 Classic. (4/27)
Good thing it's on my TiVo list -- kudos to HOLLYWOOD for keeping mum on the super-secret surprise appearance of THE POLYPHONIC SPREE on tonight's episode of SCRUBS. (4/20)
TOUCH & GO is loaded up with new releases in the coming months by THE NEW YEAR (5/18), !!!, (6/8), NINA NASTASIA (6/8), plus THE EX, PINBACK, SILKWORM, SALLY TIMMS, and MEKONS further down the road. T&G-distributed releases include new CDs by ROLLINS BAND (5/18, 2.13.61), LES SAVY FAV (Cold Crush, 6/8), and the MERGE 15th ANNIVERSARY CD (7/13, Merge). (4/20)
NOT A BAD START: Burlingame, California’s APHASIA (four guys, 18-20), have only 3 songs recorded, put them on www.purevolume.com, received 17,000 song downloads in two days, and are now charting as the top Alternative band on the site. Aphasia recently signed an independent record deal with the newly formed Joint Venture Recordings, signed on with Pinnacle Entertainment, landed a slot on 3 west coast dates of this year’s Sno-Core Tour (feat. Trapt, Finger Eleven and Smile Empty Soul), and are hopping into the studio next month to record tracks for a late summer EP release. And oh yeah, “Flatline” has moved Aphasia into the “Best Unsigned Artist” slot on XM Satellite Radio. (4/20)
Coming soon from ROADRUNNER: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE (5/11 The End of Heartache, touring w/ In Flames), THORNLEY (5/11 Come Again, on tour w/ Three Days Grace), ULTRAMAGNETIC MCS (5/18 Critical Beatdown (Remaster), w/ 6 bonus tracks + liner notes feat. Kool Keith, Ced-Gee, Liam Howlett (The Prodigy), Chuck D, Guru (Gang Starr), Posdnous (De La Soul), and KRS-One), and SLIPKNOT (5/25 Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), Leno (Leno!) 5/17, Jagermeister tour now, Ozzfest this summer). (4/20)
LA radio station KCRW has been playing "Changes" by BUTTERFLY BOUCHER & DAVID BOWIE. Where can you find it? Believe it or not, it's featured on the SHREK 2 soundtrack, coming 5/11 (movie hits 5/21). Soundtrack also includes: COUNTING CROWS "Accidentally in Love"; FROU FROU, “Holding Out For A Hero”; LIPPS, INC, "Funkytown"; DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, “As Lovers Go”; EELS, "I Need Some Sleep"; "I'm On My Way" by RICH PRICE; PETE YORN, "Ever Fallen in Love"; TOM WAITS, "Little Drop of Poison"; JOSEPH ARTHUR, "You're So True"; "People Ain't No Good" by NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS; JENNIFER SAUNDERS (who plays the Fairy Godmother in the movie) sings two songs, "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Fairy Godmother Song"; and EDDIE MURPHY & ANTONIO BANDERAS (who provide the voices of Donkey and Puss In Boots) sing a duet of Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca." (4/19)
Google 'em, folks -- people, places, and things name-checked on To the 5 Boroughs, the new BEASTIE BOYS CD hitting June 15 (advance music under *serious* lockdown, you're just gonna have to wait to hear how the Beasties string 'em all together. Quite a few gems on this one, and the first single, "Ch-Check It Out," is a SMASH): Lorne Green, Alpo, Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica, Einstein, the Rappin Duke, Hazel & Darren, Nick at Nite, Mutual of Omaha, Klingons, Levert, Model's, ET, Mike Piazza, Edward R Murrow, John Cutcliffe, All-Tempa-Cheer, Mr Delvedere, Bacardi, Helen of Troy, Wile E Coyote, Jabba the Hutt, Canal St, Carl Sagan, Page 6, Sasquatch, Kings County, Albee Square Mall, Foghorn Leghorn,Yosemite Sam, Toucan Sam, Hoover Dam, Mr Furley, Aunt Shirley, Murray's Cheese Shop, Ernest Shackleton, Thomas Ord-Lees, Mr Rourke, Snidely Whiplash, Dudley Do-Right, Drakes, Winnie the Pooh, George Whipple, New York 1, Wonderama, TV Dinner, Yoda, Rhoda, Bazooka Joe, Fred Sanford, The Keebler Elf, Crazy Eddie, the Hamptons, Chance Gardner, Dolly Parton, 9 to 5, Scrabble, Bedazzler, Blimpie's, Montague's, Bleecker Bob's, BVDs, VIP, Diana Ross, Ron Popeil, Herman Munster, Dr Spock, Radio Shack, Cochese, Darth Vader, Willis Drummond, Cool Whip, Bones McCoy, Sulu, Jean Vie, Japan, Cirque du Soleil, Christian Coaltion, Ghandi, MLK, Amadou Diallo, Bush, and, of course, the 5 boroughs, plus various neighborhoods and subway lines. (4/18)
EPITAPH label group update: Barely Legal by THE HIVES now has an August 10 street date, and the new CD by BLACK KEYS is scheduled for early September. Looks like the gang's gonna be busy with THIRTEEN label acts on this year's WARPED Tour, including ATMOSPHERE, NOFX, MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK, and BAD RELIGION, whose latest, The Empire Strikes First, streets June 8. (4/16)
YEP ROC have three strong titles coming in June -- DEXTER ROMWEBER of the Flat Duo Jets relases Blues that Defy My Soul on June 1, dBs founder CHRIS STAMEY's Travels in the South hits June 15, and Sweetwater by TRES CHICAS (Caitlin Cary (Whiskeytown), Tonya Lamm (Hazeldine), and Lynn Blakey (Glory Fountain)) streets 6/29. (4/16)
SCI FIDELITY and WINCRAFT MUSIC have just rereleased two key CDs with bonus discs packed with unreleased material and live tracks -- Untying the Knot by THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT and About Time by STEVE WINWOOD. (4/16)
Coming from ISLAND: new CDs by EVERLAST (White Trash Beautiful, 5/25), PJ HARVEY (Uh Huh Her, 6/8), THE KILLERS (Hot Fuss, 6/15), and (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY (Armed Love, 6/29). (4/14)
ROOTS update -- new CD coming mid-July. (4/14)
Dates have been announced for VOODOO MUSIC EXPERIENCE 2004 in New Orleans -- October 16 & 17. Artist to be announced in the coming months. (4/14)
Be sure to catch Century Media recording artist WATCH THEM DIE open for GWAR on the road this spring. (4/14)
PHISH have just announced summer tour dates, inlcuding two nights at Coney Island's KeySpan Park (6/17 & 18) and their first-ever home-state festival tentatively slated for the weekend of August 14 & 15. (4/14)
COMING FROM ARTEMIS: JESSE MALIN (digitla / Lp in May, CD in June), KITTIE (7/27), and STEVE EARLE (late August). (4/14)
Coming soon from SADDLE CREEK: the second CD by BROKEN SPINDLES (5/4), and a 6-song EP by THE GOOD LIFE (Lovers Need Lawyers, 5/18) as a precursor to their next LP due out this August.
The EPITAPH family of labels is gonna be a little busy in the coming months -- in addition to new releases by BAD RELIGION and TIGER ARMY in June, look for another volume of PUNK-O-RAMA (June), LARS FREDERIKSEN & THE BASTARDS (June), JOLIE HOLAND (April), NEKROMANTIX (April), US ROUGHNECKS, DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, THE MATCHES, GIFT OF GAB, SCATER THE ASHES, DANNY COHEN (all May), plus new ones by TOM WAITS, BLACK KEYS, and THE HIVES by year's end. (4/7)
CAPITOL has a healthy lineup this summer, including titles by STERIOGRAM (May), BEASTIE BOYS, SLUM VILLAGE, SQUAD FIVE-O, and AUF DER MAUR (June), 1-20 and HOUSTON (July), LETOYA, SKYE SWEETNAM, THE CHELSEA SMILE, and ASLYN (August). Also look for new releases by FISCHERSPOONER, THE MUSIC, and a PAUL McCARTNEY box in the fall. (4/7)
Boca Raton based UNDECIDED RECORDS & FILMS will now be exclusively distributed by VICTORY RECORDS in North America. The initial summer releases include offerings by EVERY TIME I DIE, THE BIG SCREEN, FURTHER SEEMS FORVER, SHINDIG, THINGS IN HERDS, and BURN THE MLUNTAIN DOWN, along with the re-issue of POISON THE WELL's debut full length. (4/7)
SANCTUARY has a slew of new release coming down the pipeline, including CDs by BUDDAHEAD, PETER DISTEFANO, WEEN, and THE WILDHEARTS (5/4), MORRISSEY, GENE SIMMONS, DELAYS, and DOKKEN (5/18), plus MINISTRY, JJ CALE, SIZZLA, and a live DVD by MARY J BLIGE (6/8). (4/5)
CANDY BUTCHERS and THE FIGGS are now on the road together -- Hang On Mike by Candy Butchers is now out on RPM Records/Columbia, Palais by The Figgs streets May 18 on Sodapop/Stomper Records. (4/5)
Look for the new CD by THE ROOTS to street June 29. (4/5)
THE CURE have signed to Geffen! Look for a new CD, *tentatively* scheduled for 6/15. (4/2)
TAKING BACK SUNDAY have a new CD coming from VICTORY in July. (4/2)
RETURN OF THE MINUTEMAN: MIKE WATT will be releasing his latest solo CD, the secondman's middle stand, on Columbia / Red Ink May 11. As always, expect a massive Watt tour to follow. (3/30)
ARTEMIS RECORDS has signed ropeadope Music Entertainment to a long-term distribution deal. Current ropeadaope artists include Ahmir Thompson (aka The Roots drummer ?uestlove), afrobeat sensation Antibalas, Charlie Hunter, DJ Logic, and Dirty Dozen Brass Band. (3/30)
KITTIE just wrapped up three weeks in the studio recording Until the End, coming this summer on Artemis. Expect a very raw, live feel -- the CD was recorded live onto two-inch analog tape, with very little digital editing and absolutely no click tracks used. (3/29)
Coming this summer from Dr. Dre's camp -- GAME, whose summer debut is already starting to buzz. (3/29)
Fresh off the annual Allman Brothers March Madness / Freakin' at the Beacon marathon, expect a new full-length solo disc from WARREN HAYNES on ATO June 8. (3/29)
NEW WEST is on fire -- look for brand new releases by OLD 97's in June and DRIVE BY TRUCKERS in August. Anybody that caught the big Old 97's show at Stubbs will tell you that them boys tore it up good. (3/29)
Look for ANI DIFRANCO to appear on HBO's Def Poetry Jam this April. Ani's new CD, Educated Guess, is out now -- also look for Righteous Babe label mate ARTO LINDSAY's latest, Salt, to bow 5/11. (3/29)
Coming this summer from SUB POP: look for new releases by HELIO SEQUENCE and ALBUM LEAF (June), COMETS ON FIRE and ROGUE WAVE (July), as well as WOLF EYES, CONSTANTINES (1st reissue), FRUIT BATS, and BAPTIST GENERALS. (3/29)
Coming June 8 -- a double disc from LAMB OF GOD (Razor & Tie /Prosthetic) -- As The Palaces Burn. An “Ozzfest” limited edition double disc will also street the same day! (3/29)
On June 8, TRANSMIT SOUND will release JAY FARRAR --Stone, Steel & Bright Lights. Marking the first live collection of his career, this album features 19 songs from Jay's 2003 performances with Canyon as his backing band, including 2 new originals, 2 covers ("Lucifer Sam" & "Like A Hurricane") and 15 selections from the solo releases. A bonus DVD featuring footage from Slim's in San Francisco will also be included. (3/23)
Coming 4/27 from spinART: CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN reissue series: Camper Van Beethoven, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, Camper Van Beethoven II & III -- four seperately-released classics with bonus tracks, as well as the title Vantiquities. (3/23)
SxSW NAME DROPPIN' (a.k.a. "License Their Music Before You Can't Afford 'Em"): Pardon me while I pull some Larry King b.s. and just gush over some great music ...What an amazing festival, really makes you feel good about the state of new music -- NELLIE McKAY and JAMIE CULLUM both blew my mind. Nellie's CD is bound to be on every critics' year-end list, and UK piano impresario Jamie Cullum tore that shit up right. Already double platinum in the UK, expect a major assault on American shores around the 5/11 release of his Verve debut twentysomething. Ubiquitous quality awards go to POLYPHONIC SPREE and THE STILLS, who played every day in every venue available. The Stills's Logic Will Break Your Heart has been warming up since its October release, these guys will break bigtime soon. Look for the new Polyphonic CD coming in July, still touring with Bowie. Bowie! ...TV ON THE RADIO would have been awesome if I could have fit into their overpacked shows, major congrats to Touch & Go for a HUGE first week debut. Their new CD Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes kills, "Staring at the Sun" is a monster of a song...PATTY GRIFFIN and THE OLD 97's will restore the faith in any jaded old codger -- Patty's music gets more incredible with every release (new CD coming in April), and The Old 97's ripped it up (new CD coming this summer on New West). THE KILLERS deliver on the promise of 80's disco alt-inflected rock, and solidly deliver on their UK buzz (not bad for some boys from Vegas!)...I caught a daytime show by THE DEARS at Emo's, and they totally hooked me -- win. The line out the freakin' door for DAVID CROSS, HAR MAR SUPERSTAR, CALLA, THE THRILLS, and FRANZ FERDINAND says a lot about the demand for these folks -- The Thrills are recording a new CD for late '04 release even as So Much for the City continues to sell, David Cross has a new comedy CD hitting in May, and Franz Ferdinand is well, you know ... JOSS STONE: sorry I missed ya, work duties wouldn't let me witness the magic everybody keeps crappin' over...Give up, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE make it look too damn easy to create great music with 500 band members onstage...I love seeing METRIC grow into a solid touring band just as much as those kids in THE LIKE (have they graduated high school yet?) ... MARC BROUSSARD has got some serious soul for a whiteboy -- NAILED it in front of L A Reid ... one of these days I'll catch a show by JONATHAN RICE -- his Warner debut will be coming later in the year, and girls go apeshit over this kid. (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY and THE VON BONDIES both laid waste to the stubb's outdoor stage for the Spin party, and Waylon's kid MASON JENNINGS is more Waylon than Waylon ever was ... Great to see BMG return with their Bar-B-Acoustic (in conjunction with New Times). Performances by allstars CHARLIE MARS, MICHAEL TOLCHER, TOOTS & THE MAYTALS, COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE, and CITIZEN COPE showed some great talent ... COHEED AND CAMBRIA's La Zona Rosa gig was so packed that I missed the first ten minutes of their show at the AP party, and that's a good sign of a growing band...kick me in the ass for missing DENALI, HIGH ON FIRE, MISSION OF BURMA, BAD WIZARD, MAXEEN, OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, ALEXI MURDOCH, and RIGHTEOUS BABE ALLSTARS...wished I had caught SNOW PATROL too, but their oversold LA shows told me that not only were they good, but that they also have a good sixed following before their record has even hit the States... and finally, word has it SUICIDE GIRLS might wanna work on their casting if they think they're gonna take the gothic striptease on the road. Ah well .. apologies to anybody I missed, I'm lucky to recall half this given the entire whirlwind blur the festival was... (3/23)
SONIC NURSE, the new CD by SONIC YOUTH, comes out on Geffen June 8: "Ten songs of American beauty and sonic death with wild and colorful cover art by renowned artist Richard Prince from his notorious Nurse Paintings series." (3/16)
ISLAND artists at the Warped Tour: The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Thursday, Autopilot Off, Fall Out Boy, Letter Kills. In related news, Thrice is hopping on the 2004 Honda Civic Tour with Dashboard Confessional.
COMING FROM SANCTUARY: Blondie, Todd Rundgren (4/6); Ween, Queensryche, The Veils (4/20); Buddahead, Peter DiStefano (5/4); Gene Simmons, Morrissey (5/18). (3/11)
BLINK-182 drummer Travis Barker just opened a new Wahoo's Fish Taco store in Norco, CA (that's just off I-15 in Riverside County), the chain's 34th. Catch Blink on the road with Cypress Hill, The Used, or No Doubt from late April to late June.(3/11)
Known Unknown, the debut CD by VERNON REID & MASQUE hits May 4 on Favored Nations.(3/11)
Catch BEN TAYLOR on "American Dreams" 3/21, playing a folk singer that performs the Beatles song "In My Life." (3/11)
SADDLE CREEK tours: Catch AZURE RAY on the road with Okkervil River and the Elected, NOW IT's OVERHEAD with the Statistics, and CURSIVE with Mike Park and a slew of other openers.(3/11)
RAZOR & TIE, home of Kidz Bop, have a track by YERBA BUENA featured in “Havana Nights,” as well as in a Spanish language Pepsi commercial.(3/11)
Favorite current band name: KILLWHITNEYDEAD have a new CD coming 5/11 on Tribunal, Never Good Enough for You.(3/11)
Congrats to SWIZZLE TREE for being named a band to watch in 2004 by Alternative Press.(3/11)
Geezus, that's big: P.O.D. headlining May / June tour with BLINDSIDE, HAZEN STREET, and LACUNA COIL.(3/11)
When you go to New Orleans, you gotta go see the ROCK N BOWL -- Ponderosa Stomp '04 at Mid-City Lanes, 4/27 & 28.(3/11)
Iceland’s SINGAPORE SLING have already recorded seven songs for the follow-up to their Stinky Records debut, The Curse. When will they be done? Dunno -- songs are so new that they don't even have titles yet. (3/11)
VICTORY bands ATREYU and FREYA co-host MTV2's Headbanger's Ball on April 17.(3/11)
COMING FROM HOLLYWOOD: The new CD from POLYPHONIC SPREE is now set for a July release, new music from LOS LOBOS hits in early May, and early word on BREAKING BENJAMIN (coming in June) is that the tracks are STRONG. PS: The Polyphonic Spree DVD / EP originally slated for April is no longer on the sched. (3/2)
Look for a new DVD by CHEAP TRICK coming from Big3 (ADA) in April -- From Tokyo to You, a chronicle of their '03 tour of Japan. Catch Cheap Trick on their upcoming tour with Aerosmith. (3/1)
COMING FROM ROADRUNNER: New ones from 36 CRAZYFISTS (3/16), SOULFLY (3/30),
MACHINE HEAD (4/20, w/ non-import bonus tracks) , ULTRAMAGNETIC MCS's remastered 1988 hip-hop classic featuring Kool Keith (say wah?, 4/27), KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, THORNLEY, and yes, SLIPKNOT (May). New CDs from CRADLE OF FILTH, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, THREE INCHES OF BLOOD, and a CHIMAIRA DVD.
CORINA ROUND is the first signing to Eurythmic Dave Stewart's Interscope joint venture, Weapons of Mass Entertainment. Corina's PJ Harvey-style debut, The Disconnection (out 3/9), works if you listen to the CD beginning with track 2, the single "Into My Blood." Give it a few spins to get it, look for a stateside tour in April / May.
Look for GEFFEN to start cooking with new releases in the coming months from THE ROOTS, TALIB KWELI, NEW FOUND GLORY, SENSES FAIL, and SONIC YOUTH, plus INSTRUCTION, RINGSIDE SYNDICATE, BUMBLEBEEZ, and RICH PRICE.
Congrats to REVELATION, who just signed two new labels: Rise Records (Portland, OR) and Trash Art (Providence, RI). Look for new releases by FAREWELL MY ENEMY and SMALL TOWN BURNS A LITTLE SLOWER from Rise Records in April, plus new ones from BACKSTABBERS INCORPORATED, XFILESX, and ANOTHER DEAD JULIET from Trash Art in May.
Ed Kowalczyk and Shelby Lynne recently re-recorded LIVE's “Run Away” (from Birds of Prey) as a duet. The new version of “Run Away” will be going to radio March 1.
Look for GOD FORBID on Ozzfest this summer! Their new Century Media release, Gone Forever, hits stores today (2/24) -- look for them on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball this weekend.
COMING FROM ISLAND DEF JAM: New titles from ASHANTI (remixes), AUTOPILOT OFF, SLIPKNOT, and EVERLAST in late April, plus new ones by CAM'RON, METHOD MAN, LIONEL RICHIE, and PATTI LABELLE in May. Also look for CDs from LETTER KILLS, THE KILLERS, and INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONSPIRACY in early summer.
Welcome ADA-distributed BRASH, the Atlanta-based label that's home to the new CD by James Hall's PLEASURE CLUB (coming in May) and the solo debut by The Verve Pipe singer BRIAN VAN DER ARK (3/9). Look for them to release new titles by JUMP LITTLE CHILDREN (4/20), Charlotte band NEW AUGUST, india.irie guitarist TONNY HARRINGTON (May), as well as a few potential signings we're not allowed to divulge yet.
Coming from SANCTUARY in late April: WEEN Live In Chicago and The Runaway Found by THE VEILS.
VICTORY RECORDS is throwing a contest for one lucky winner to win a free show by MADCAP at winner’s house, school or favorite venue.
THE MEAN REDS graduated high school in June. The have toured with The Bronx, have a brand new EP on True Love Records in conjunction with Record Collection. There will be a Mean Reds full length this summer. Lock up your daughters.
THE ROLLING BLACKOUTS headlined the Fuel TV/Skateboard Magazine tour this past summer. They are currently in the studio recording their debut album (with producer Dave Cooley) on Record Collection / True Love records this summer.
VICE is developing a television program with an American network. They need music videos from all around the world - any genre, label funded and DIY bands alike. The basic premise is to curate a program of videos that would never see the light of day on mainstream TV. Make sure that all videos are properly labeled and have current contact info for the artist and/or record label. Please address all videos to: VICE, Music Video Screening Dept, 75 N 4th St, 3rd Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11211
If you find a metal plectrum in your copy of DEICIDE’s Scars Of The Crucifix you could claim an exclusive BC Rich Guitar. What’s a plectrum?
COMING SOON from THE CONTROL GROUP (ADA): New CDs from ALIEN CRIME SYNDICATE (Ten Songs In The Key Of Betrayal, 4/20) and LUCIA (From the Land of Volcanoes, 5/18). Lucia is the solo release from Lucia Cifarelli of KMFDM.
RECENT LICENSING BY SANCTUARY: "The Whip" by THE ETHIOPIANS will appear in a national commercial for the Mini Cooper airing in February; "Pressure Drop" by TOOTS & THE MAYTALS will appear in the Columbia movie "Fifty First Dates" starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, "I Love Marijuana" by LINVAL THOMPSON will appear in the Dreamworks film "Euro Trip."
DOUBLE-WHAMMY FROM SUPERFLY: Superfly Presents announced the lineup to BONNAROO 2004 this week – performers include THE DEAD, DAVE MATTHEWS, BOB DYLAN, WILLIE NELSON, as well as GOMEZ, GRANDADDY, KINGS OF LEON, DAMIEN RICE, MY MORNING JACKET, and tons of others. THE New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival line-up is okay, but Superfly’s night-time shows kill. Performers include WILCO, TORTOISE, GALACTIC, GOV’T MULE, CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO, CHRIS ROBINSON, others.
COMING FROM EPITAPH: BAD RELIGION reissues & a DVD (April), THE MATCHES, SCATTER THE ASHES (May), PUNK-O-RAMA 9, FROM FIRST TO LAST and a new Bad Religion CD (May). Fresh from touring with Atmosphere, EYEDEA & ABILITIES streets in March.
COMING FROM ANTI: New CDs from The Be Good Tanyas founding member JOLIE HOLLAND (April), DANNY COHEN (May), and TOM WAITS (later). Set List, the first live album by THE FRAMES streets just in time for their upcoming tour with Damien Rice.
COMING FROM HELLCAT: New CDs from NECROMANTIX (April) and TIGER ARMY (May). New one from Danish Psychobilly rockers HORRORPOPS is out now, and the DROPKICK MURPHYS DVD hits March 9.
DIVISION OF LAURA LEE's new CD, Das Not Compute (Burning Heart), streets in May.
INTERSCOPE NEWS: My guy at the label laughed and hung up when we asked about new U2 & PAPA ROACH CDs coming in March -- neither are on the books yet, but we'll let you know as soon as they know. In related news, look for discs by SLEEPY BROWN and D-12 in April / May -- D-12 want to release their disc on 4/20 (4/20 -- get it?), but that's kinda tight. GWEN STEFANI's solo debut will hit in the summer, 50 CENT will have a new disc in Q4, and EMINEM will have a new CD whenever he comes out of the studio. And look for a new one by TOBY KEITH (okay, Dreamworks Nashville) in Q4.
COMING FROM SADDLE CREEK: New releases by BROKEN SPINDLES (May), THE GOOD LIFE (EP in May, full-length in August).
BUDDYHEAD SUICIDE is a discount double CD coming in March, featuring previously unavailable material from At The Drive-In, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Icarus Line, Murder City Devils, Burning Brides and many others, not to mention exclusive appearances from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Locust, just to name a few. And the Torture Device returns.
ON THE ROAD: Dios + Grandaddy (new Dios CD 3/23), French Kicks + Walkmen (new French Kicks CD this spring), The Stills, Mary Lou Lord & Gingersol (Feb / March), The Fever (CD coming 4/20), Elefant, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Something Corporate + Yellowcard (March / April), Lo-Pro + 3 Days Grace (March / April), Moments in Grace + Poison the Well, Thrice, Jealous Sound (MiG's EP viewed 10 million times since December on absolutepunk.net), Azure Ray + The Elected (March), Bright Eyes + Jim James of My Morning Jacket & M Ward (Feb), Dexter Freebish (Feb / March), The Strokes (March / April), British Sea Power (Feb / March), Tantric (Feb / March, new CD hits 2/24), Rooney + Michelle Branch (for the Virgin College Mega Tour, sponsored by Dentyne Ice & Dentyne Fire Ice).
Labels should submit artists for consideration for the AMERICANA MUSIC CD SAMPLER coming from NARM & the Americana Music Association before April 20.
LOCAL H have a new CD coming April 6, spring tour starts April 7.
COMING FROM KOCH RECORDS: New CDs by GOODIE MOB (4/27), STEVE FORBERT (5/11), plus
“SPIN THE BOTTLE” – A TRIBUTE TO KISS (feat. members of Melvins, Helmet, Motorhead, Fozzy, Styx, King's X) on 4/27.
COMING FROM ARTEMIS: This May, expect new releases by JEFFREY GAINES (live CD/DVD), LISA LOEB & ELIZABETH MITCHELL (Children's CD/Book), and JESSE MALIN.
COMING FROM SPINART: New releases in April by FRANK BLACK FRANCIS (!!!), PAUL KELLY (with 10-song bonus disc!), classic reissues by CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN (S/T, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, II & III, and Vantiquities - each with at least 4 previously unreleased bonus tracks!), plus a new studio album by GORDON LIGHTFOOT in May.
When It Falls, the new CD from ZERO 7, will be coming March 2 on Elektra, not on Palm as had been originally reported.
COMING FROM SIDE ONE DUMMY: The latest WARPED TOUR compilation streets in June, PIEBALD's latest comes out in May, and AVOID ONE THING have a new CD coming around the same time.
Folks are asking Crystal Ball about printed reports pertaining to new releases by U2 and PAPA ROACH in March. We'll let you know as soon as we hear from the label....
COMING IN APRIL FROM RED DISTRIBUTION: New ones from THE BEAUTIFUL MISTAKE (The Militia Group), LOCAL H (Studio E), INSANE CLOWN POSSE (Psychopathic), SPYMOB (Ruthless), ZAKK WYLDE'S BLACK LABEL SOCIETY (Spitfire), and VERNON REID & MASQUE (Epic).
COMING SOON FROM ASTRALWERKS: Brand new releases by SONDRE LERCHE (March) and BETA BAND (early spring).
PROBOT are the first band to ever perform live on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball." The show airs 2/7, their debut CD streets 2/10. PROBOT, in case you have been living under a rock, includes Dave Grohl and Lemmy, as well as members of Saint Vitus and Trouble.
Look for a slew of tiltes from ONE LITTLE INDIAN this spring as the label officially crosses the pond to America. In addition to three new domestic LLOYD COLE CDs (Music In A Foreign Language (3/30), Etc. (4/20), and Plastic Wood (5/11)), the label will be releasing classic OLI titles stateside by artists like A3, Sneaker Pimps, Daisy Chainsaw, Kukl (early Bjork, 'cubes), and Shamen.
Look for VICTORY RECORDS artists BAYSIDE and MADCAP on tour soon in support of their new CDs. Madcap's latest, Under Suspicion, streets 2/24.
Rair kitty -- country star TERRI CLARK is mulling over whther or not to bare all for a Playboy cover feature. Cool with us, them white t-shirts always had us wondering. In other Mercury Nashville news, look for the self-titled debut release by JULIE ROBERTS this summer.
Former Capitol & Wicked Disc performing artistsTHE PUSH STARS will be releasing their latest CD, Paint the Town, on March 9. This is their first for label 33rd Street Records.
It's official -- GARY JULES has signed with UNIVERSAL. Look for Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets to street March 23. The first single, "Mad World," is so huge that it kept The Darkness out of the top slot on the U.K. charts over the Chirstmas holidays! Universal is also in the setup phase for WAYLON PAYNE and GRAHAM COLTON, whose debut releases street in May.
CANDI STATON -- that's all you need to know for reissue album of the year. Astralwerks and Damon Albarn's Honest Jons label will be releasing a 26-track collection of the Muscle Shoals soulstress's 60's classics for the first time on CD February 24.
Yup, look for the 2-CD Deluxe Edition of WEEZER's self-titled Geffen debut towards the end of March. Just the beginning of 2004 world domination, look for a Weezer DVD on the same day.
May brings us A True Testimonial -- the MC5 DVD, plus the debut full-length by RACHAEL YAMAGATA. Catch Rachael on the road with Gomez now and Liz Phair soon. Both titles are coming from Arista Associated.
COMING FROM ARISTA: Look for a ton of top sellers from the Arista family of labels (Arista, StarTrak, LaFACE, So So Def) in the coming months, including CEE-LO (3/2), BABYFACE (3/23), USHER (3/23), TEARS FOR FEARS (4/6), CLIPSE (4/6), J-KWON (4/6), AUTOMATIC BLACK (4/6), JERMAINE DUPRI (5/18), BONE CRUSHER (5/25), AVRIL LAVIGNE (5/25), and CITIZEN COPE (6/8). (update, 2/25: Tears for Fears & Clipse have both been postponed)
COMING FROM UNIVERSAL: Label debuts by LOST TRAILERS (April) and DONOVAN FRANKENREITER BAND (May, on tour soon with OAR). Keep an eyeball on HIM -- their label debut, Razorblade Romance, has been bubbling since its late 2003 release, and is set to explode as the band finalizes American tour plans for April. Also expect new ones from FLAW, G LOVE, and SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES a little down the road, plus The Other Side by GODSMACK (March), a 7-track CD featuring acoustic reworkings of their biggest hits plus 3 new tracks.
What do you get when you cross QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, IAN BROWN and SOUTH with U.N.K.L.E.? Find out when Global Underground releases CD #026: Romania on March 9, mixed by JAMES LAVELLE. Until American distribution is worked out for 2003's Never, Never Land, this Global Underground release will be the only taste of U.N.K.L.E. Americans will find stateside for a while.
ORGY are releasing their first CD in two years, Punk Statik Paranoia, on their own label, D1 Music, on February 24. It will be distributed through Innovative Distribution Network.
KOCH / LABORATORY recording artist TURK (aka Tab Virgil) was arrested Thursday morning (1/28) in Memphis, and is charged with criminal first degree attempted murder after an incident Monday afternoon that left 2 policemen injured. Bail is set at $1 million. Turk was in Memphis recording for his upcoming album, and working on remixes from his current album, Raw & Uncut. Uh, Crystal Ball say future not so bright for Turk...
GREAT INDIE RELEASES: Look for new music by THE WALKMEN (Record Collection), TRANS AM (Thrill Jockey), ALL NIGHT RADIO (Sub Pop), PILOT TO GUNNER (Arena Rock), LIARS (Mute), PROBOT (Southern Lord), BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE (Arts & Crafts), and WILL OLDHAM (Drag City) in February, plus TV ON THE RADIO (Touch & Go), IRON AND WINE (Sub Pop), JAWBREAKER (Blackball), 40 WATT DOMAIN (Gaki / Hepcat), and ZERO 7 (Palm) in March.
COMING FROM VAGRANT: The Get Up Kids (March), Audio Learning Center (March), Hot Rod Circuit (summer).
The WARNER family of labels (Warner Bros, Reprise, Sire, Maverick) have a slew of great releases coming down the pipeline, including new ones from Alanis Morisette, Brad Mehldau Trio, John Frusciante, Tantric (Feb), 50 First Dates OST (Feb), The OC OST (March), Flaming Lips CDT (that's an EP + t-shirt), The Von Bondies (March), The Living End (March), Eric Clapton (doing Robert Johnson tracks, March), and Jonathan Rice's debut full-length.
Entertainment Weekly tells us to expect new releases by INTERSCOPE artists D12 (March), Eminem (May), 50 Cent (June), and Gwen Stefani (June), but the label cannot confirm these dates at this time. In the meantime, check out quality tracks by developing artists Keane, Butterfly, and Driveblind on the label's newest sampler.
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE have a new CD on Hollywood Records coming this May -- right on!
DIANA KRALL has a new CD coming from Verve in late April -- THE GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM.
COMING FROM ATO: JEM (3/23 -- just added to LA's 101.3), Ben Kweller (4/6), Patty Griffin (4/20).
COMING FROM ROADRUNNER: Soulfly (March), Killswitch Engage (June), Slipknot (late Spring).
COMING FROM ATLANTIC: Brandy (April), Funeral for a Friend (April), Governor (April).
Expect a new CD from Chris Vrenna's TWEAKER on iMUSIC in April.
Now signed to New West -- THE OLD 97's.
Catch MICHEAL TOLCHER on the road with Gavin DeGraw in support of his Octone debut this April.
Look for a new CD by 18 VISIONS on Trustkill
this spring.
CRADLE OF FILTH has signed with Roadrunner and have already written enough material for their Roadrunner debut (their sixth full length to date). They are recording now, release date scheduled for early June.
FELIX DA HOUSECAT is set to release the new
DEVIN DAZZLE AND THE NEON FEVER in May.
THE FRAMES are opening for Damien Rice in March.
SET LIST, their new CD on ANTI, is out on February 24th.
FURTHER SEEMS FOREVER is in the studio with
James Wisner until early February (when they will take a break
from recording to headline the Tooth and Nail Tour) working
on their new record with James Wisner. The CD should be released
sometime around mid-summer.
THE HOLMES BROTHERS just put out a new CD on
Alligator, and it’s EXPLODING like Norah Jones, Solomon
Burke, and The Blind Boys of Alabama did before them –
3 stars at USA Today, glowing reviews in New York Post, Billboard,
and Entertainment Weekly.
Expect a new CD by MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD
coming on Blue Note in April.
ALLISON MOORER’s latest CD, THE DUEL,
will hit in April. This is her first CD for Sugar Hill.
Saddle Creek’s NOW IT’S OVERHEARD
has finished the follow-up to their s/t debut record. It is
called Fall Back Open and we will release it March 2004.
SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES have a new CD coming
in April.
THE STREETS new CD comes out May 4 on Vice.
COMING FROM ARTEMIS: Lisa Loeb & Elizabeth
Mitchell children’s CD (March), Jeffrey Gaines (March),
Joey McIntyre (April)
COMING FROM CAPITOL: The Vines (March), Dilated
Peoples (April), Slum Village (May), Auf der Maur (May)
COMING FROM SANCTUARY: Allman Brothers Band
(live, March), Widespread Panic (live, March), Tesla (March),
Queensryche (live, March), Kelly Osbourne (March), The Tubes
(March), Monster Magnet (March), Dave Mason (March), Anthrax
(April), Blondie (April), Lynyrd Skynyrd (live, April), .38
Special (April), W.A.S.P. (April), Motorhead (April)
COMING FORM VIRGIN: Janet Jackson (March),
N.E.R.D. (March), Gorillaz (budget re-release, March), Jin (March), Federation
(March), Gang Starr (Best of, April)
COMING FROM V2: Toots and the Maytals (April),
Pre) Thing (April), Icarus Line (May), Burning Brides (May) |
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