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Lee Ann Womack Releases THE WAY I’M LIVIN’ Sept. 23 Produced by Award-Winning Frank Liddell, First New Music in Over 6 Years Title Track Bows at WSJ.com 5/22, Arrives at Radio Next Week Photo credit: Scarpati Nashville, TN: Lee Ann Womack never intended to go almost seven years between records, but she knew when she released new music, she wanted […]
Continue readingCounting Crows have signed an agreement with Capitol Records for the Fall release of their forthcoming studio album, Somewhere Under Wonderland, it was announced today by Capitol Music Group Chairman & CEO Steve Barnett. It will be the band’s sixth studio album and first since Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings in 2008.
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Iconic guitarist, songwriter and vocalist BRIAN SETZER will release ROCKABILLY RIOT: ALL ORIGINAL–a straight-ahead rockabilly album from start to finish–via Surfdog Records Tuesday, August 12. The new album, featuring the high-octane first single “Let’s Shake,” marks SETZER’s first studio album since 2011’s Grammy Award-nominated album,Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!.
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The A.V. Club’s “Pioneering” series takes us to Los Angeles this week! The whole series has been incredible to watch– its has featured the Mountain Goats paying tribute to the Ramones in NYC (watch HERE), Protomartyr celebrating The Stooges in Ann Arbor (watch HERE), Those Darlins paying homage to Dolly Parton in Nashville (watch HERE), Sharon Van Etten paying tribute to Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey (watch HERE), and Shakey Graves and Eef Barzelay celebrating Jefferson Airplane (watch HERE).
Continue readingFans of legendary guitarist Neal Schön can click here to check out the exclusive worldwide premiere of the EPK about the making of his new album, SO U, onGuitarPlayer.com. The EPK features interviews with Schön, bassist Marco Mendoza and drummer Deen Castronovo; the three discuss the creative process behind the jazz and blues-inspired hard rock studio album, SO U. SO U is a collaboration between Schön,Mendoza (Black Star Riders, Ted Nugent, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy) and Castronovo (Journey, Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Vai, Hardline). The three musicians split vocal and writing duties, with many of the tracks also co-written by Night Ranger/Damn Yankee’s songwriter, singer and bassist Jack Blades.
Continue readingVeruca Salt – who recently announced their reunion with the release of a 10-inch Record Store Day release and the routing of a summer North American tour – are set to share the stage together for the first time with all four original members since 1996 on Conan this Wednesday, May 21st. They will perform their iconic single “Seether,” and a clip of “The Museum of Broken Relationships” – a brand new track off of their RSD release – will be available online. Tune in to TBS at 11:00 EDT / 10:00 CDT on Wednesday to watch them live!
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Beloved Welsh-born punk rocker/visual artist Jon Langford and his band Skull Orchard released their newest album Here Be Monsters via In De Goot Recordings last month riding a wave of national critical acclaim. With features byNPR’s Fresh Air, Pitchfork, SPIN, New York Times, LA Times, USA Today, Vice, A.V. Club, Consequence of Sound, Flavorwire, Huffington Post, and many more, Langford won’t go quietly into the beyond just yet. In their current May 22nd issue, Rolling Stone described album single “Drone Operator” as “a scathing new country-rock jam” and “the best song yet about 21st-century American foreign policy.”
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FLYLEAF, the five-piece, multi-platinum alternative band from Texas, has officially signed with Loud & Proud Records.
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