Category Archives for "Entertainment News"
May 29, 2014
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Officer! Releases Dead Unique
Officer! – the project that this incorrigible collaborator and connector calls his own – surfaced in 1982 with a cassette tape entitled Eight New Songs By Mick Hobbs. It marked the blossoming of a singular writer and improvisor, with a gift for plangent melody, ingenious arrangement and lyrics at once caustic and courtly, playful and profound (two songs from this tape, ‘Life At The Water’s Edge’ and ‘Dogface’, have been remastered for a limited edition 7” release on Blackest Ever Black later this year). The Cold Storage-recorded Ossification LP arrived a year later, followed by Cough (1985) and Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes (1988). Megaphone Records, responsible forOssification’s recent 30th anniversary reissue, rightly describe it as “one of the most unusual, pleasurable and character-filled ‘pop’ records anyone has heard…a timeless anomaly in the history of recorded music.”
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May 29, 2014
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Ace Frehley’s “Gimme A Feelin” Premieres, Space Invader Album To Be Released
Founding KISS guitarist and 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee ACE FREHLEY has debuted an all new single titled “Gimme a Feelin'” exclusively through Rolling Stone today. The new effort serves as the first single from his all new LP SPACE INVADER slated for a summer release via eOne Music.
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May 29, 2014
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Matt Schofield Tours West Coast
Matt Schofield has revealed summer touring plans that include an extensive west coast itinerary. The guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer will launch the run on July 18 in Sacramento, CA at Harlow’s Night Club. Additional appearances will take him through California, Oregon, and Washington before wrapping the western swing at the Kaslo Jazz Festival in British Columbia on August 2. Schofield will then spend August in the Northeastern U.S., and September in the Midwest. Prior, he is touring in Europe where he has become a significant attraction. In North America, the legend inches closer, supported by fans, the Blues community and publications such as the L.A. Times who stated, “In Schofield the UK has produced the best blues guitarist from any country in decades. Head and shoulders above the herd.”
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May 29, 2014
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Lefty Williams Tours And Releases Vinyl
Lefty Williams has announced initial confirmed appearances within a broad routing that will keep the artist on the road throughout 2014. Dates are planned his home state of Georgia alongside Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The initial routing follows below, with additional shows to be confirmed. On August 22, he will host a ALL IN performance / release party at VINYL in Atlanta located at 1374 West Peachtree Street NW. On September 4, he’ll bring the celebration to Athens, with an appearance at the Caledonia Lounge located at 256 West Clayton Street, Williams will be accompanied by Dylan Cornell (guitar), Scott Jegen (bass) and Preston Holcomb (drums).
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May 29, 2014
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Andrew Bird’s “Tin Foiled”
Pitchfork is premiering “Tin Foiled,” the first track from Andrew Bird’s forthcoming collection of Handsome Family covers, Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of…, out June 3 digitally.
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May 29, 2014
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Straight No Chaser Starts The Happy Hour Tour
Atlantic Records recording group Straight No Chaser has announced a massive 58-city, 66-show tour, dubbed “The Happy Hour Tour.” Tour gets underway October 14th at the Rabobank Theater in Bakersfield, California and then travels through to an eagerly anticipated New Year’s Eve finale at San Diego’s San Diego Civic Theatre on December 31st (see attached itinerary). Fan Club tickets are available, and tickets will be available to the public this Friday May 30, at 10:00am local.
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May 29, 2014
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Strange Fruit: The Beatles’ Apple History Available
In 1968, under a haze of publicity, The Beatles opened their collective door to all manner of musicians, writers and artists. Strange Fruit: The Beatles’ Apple Records is the story of a record label which came to exist under extraordinary circumstances, produced some extraordinary records and was operated under the most extraordinary guidelines.
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May 29, 2014
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Metallica’s 5th Album Still #1
Metallica’s self-titled fifth studio album (commonly referred to as “The Black Album”), already the best-selling album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, has become the first album to scan over 16 million units in SoundScan’s history.
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