Brandy Clark news

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of her critically acclaimed album, Your Life is a Record, eight-time GRAMMY nominee Brandy Clark will release a special new deluxe edition, Your Life is a Record (Deluxe), March 5 on Warner Records.

Pre-save/pre-add HERE.

In addition to all eleven songs from Your Life is a Record, the deluxe album will feature six bonus tracks including “Remember Me Beautiful,” a new song Clark wrote earlier this year as part of NPR’s Morning Edition Song Project. The album will also feature special collaborations with Brandi Carlile (“Like Mine” and “Same Devil”) and Lindsey Buckingham (“The Past is the Past”) as well as live renditions of two album tracks: “Pawn Shop” and “Who You Thought I Was,” the latter of which is out now. Listen/share HERE.

Moreover, in honor of the album’s anniversary, Clark will perform her first ticketed livestream concert Saturday, March 6 at 8:00pm ET/7:00pm CT via Mandolin. Tickets for the show are available now with a selection of purchase options, including a limited number of VIP packages with signed merchandise and a virtual meet & greet. Fans will also have the option to add a digital download of the deluxe album to their livestream ticket, to be delivered on release day. Full details can be found HERE.

The new release continues a triumphant year for Clark, who is nominated for two awards at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards—Best Country Album (Your Life is a Record) and Best Country Solo Performance (“Who You Thought I Was”)—as well as Outstanding Music Artist at the 2021 GLAAD Media Awards.

An eight-time GRAMMY nominee and CMA Awards “Song of the Year” recipient, Clark is one of her generation’s most respected and celebrated songwriters and musicians. Her songs include Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow,” Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart,” The Band Perry’s “Better Dig Two” and Hailey Whitter’s “Ten Year Town.” Her past two solo albums—2013’s 12 Stories and 2016’s Big Day in a Small Town.

YOUR LIFE IS A RECORD (DELUXE) TRACK LIST

1. I’ll Be the Sad Song
2. Long Walk
3. Love is a Fire
4. Pawn Shop
5. Who You Thought I Was
6. Apologies
7. Bigger Boat (feat. Randy Newman)
8. Bad Car
9. Who Broke Whose Heart
10. Can We Be Strangers
11. The Past is the Past
12. Who You Thought I Was (Live From 3rd & Lindsley)
13. Pawn Shop (Live From 3rd & Lindsley)
14. Remember Me Beautiful
15. Like Mine
16. Same Devil (feat. Brandi Carlile)
17. The Past is the Past (feat. Lindsey Buckingham)

Peter Murphy news

Beggars Arkive has announced vinyl reissues for all five Peter Murphy solo releases on Beggars Banquet, plus the release of a new rarities album titled The Last And Only Star.

Each album is pressed on colored vinyl, and the pressings are limited. The albums will be released in a groups beginning in April. There is also the option to purchase all the releases in a box, designed by Chris Bigg. The box is limited to 500 copies worldwide and is only available from the Beggars Arkive webstore.

PREORDER: https://petermurphy.ffm.to/2021reissues

Peter Murphy’s solo career began in 1986 with the release of Should The World Fail To Fall Apart and continues to this day. In addition to his work as the frontman of Bauhaus, he has released ten solo albums, in addition to several live releases. Over the last few years, he staged several multi-night residencies where he performed a different album each night. He also recently reunited with his Bauhaus bandmates for shows.

April 9

SHOULD THE WORLD FAIL TO FALL APART (1986) - Blue vinyl
Produced by Ivo Watts-Russell, who was chosen by Peter due to his This Mortal Coil production, this album was released in 1986.

LOVE HYSTERIA (1988) – Indigo vinyl
1988’s Love Hysteria was produced by Simon Rogers, who at the time was also playing with The Fall. It contains eight songs written by Peter with Paul Statham, plus a cover of Iggy Pop’s “Funtime”.

May 7

DEEP (1989) - Clear vinyl
Peter’s third solo album saw him break with his biggest hit “Cuts You Up” which is often included in lists of the greatest alternative singles. Propelling him into mainstream stardom, Deep also had two additional charting singles - "The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (And That Which Cannot Be Repeat)" and "A Strange Kind of Love". It was also produced by Simon Rogers.

HOLY SMOKE (1992) - Smoke vinyl (clear and black smoke blend)
The fourth Peter Murphy album Holy Smoke contained the single “The Sweetest Drop” which made it onto the modern rock charts. It featured production by Mike Thorne. 

June 25

CASCADE (1995) – Scarlet vinyl, Double LP + four bonus tracks
His last solo album for Beggars, Cascade came after a time of change for Peter Murphy. He had dissolved his longtime backing band and moved to Turkey with his family. He said “It confirmed my belief that writing – like painting or any art form – comes from a very silent place that’s not dependent on outside stimulus. It was like rediscovering the initial innocence and purity that’s there when you join your first band.” The album was written with Paul Statham and produced by Pascal Gabriel. It also contains guitar work by noted artist Michael Brook.
The four bonus tracks added to Cascade are:
Mercy Rain (production rough mix)
Gliding Like A Whale (backing track)
Sail on White (backing track)
Wish (backing track)

THE LAST AND ONLY STAR (Rarities) – Gold vinyl
This album of rarities was curated by Andrew Brooksbank and Stephen Webbon with Peter Murphy’s guidance. It contains 10 rare tracks that are demo versions, remixes and edits.

A1: Final Solution (Club Mix 2)
A2: The Light Pours Out Of Me (Original Version)
A3: Tale Of The Tongue (Single Edit)
A4: I’ve Got A Miniature Secret Camera
A5: Strange Kind Of Love (Remix Edit Version)
B1: Cool Cool Breeze
B2: The Sweetest Drop (Rave Edit)
B3: Groovy Place
B4: Wish
B5: Jemal (Version 2)

'Good Feeling,' the debut from Travis, slated for LP reissue in April

On April 2, Travis’ 1997 debut Good Feeling returns to vinyl in its original format for the first time, with classic sleeve and original packaging replication. The LP, pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl, is available to pre-order today.

Good Feeling was produced by Steve Lillywhite (U2, The Rolling Stones, Morrissey, Peter Gabriel). Featuring the group’s debut single, “All I Want to Do Is Rock” and breakthrough hit, “More Than Us” (which went UK Top 20 in the spring of 1998), the album also included the UK Top 40 singles “U16 Girls,” “Happy” and “Tied to the '90s.”

On welcoming Good Feeling back into the world, frontman Fran Healy reflects: “In December 1996, just out of Woodstock in Upstate New York, Travis assembled in the legendary Bearsville Studios with the legendary producer Steve Lilllywhite to begin recording their debut album Good Feeling. Hailed at the time as one of the debuts of the year by the legendary music critic Andy Gill, Good Feeling is us at our rawest. We’re extremely happy to be reissuing it on vinyl for you all.”

Unavailable since its first release, the original version of “More Than Us” is also now available to stream worldwide HERE.

Track listing:

Side A
1. All I Want to Do Is Rock
2. U16 Girls
3. The Line Is Fine
4. Good Day to Die
5. Good Feeling
6. Midsummer Nights Dreamin'

Side B
1. Tied to the 90's
2. I Love You Anyways
3. Happy
4. More Than Us
5. Falling Down
6. Funny Thing

Stream the album HERE.

Watch Travis videos in HD HERE.

A 2018 London gig from New Order documented in new release

New Order announces the release of a special performance, their only UK show of 2018 (November 9) at London’s Alexandra Palace and the first live show released on Blu-ray from the band’s now established line-up of Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham, and Tom Chapman.

EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT RECREATION will be released on May 7 on various formats including 2CD audio, 2CD+Blu-ray (film plus audio), 3LP, limited edition deluxe boxed set: 2CD+Blu-ray+3LP (clear vinyl)+book+art prints exclusive to the New Order online store.

Setlist:

1. “Das Rheingold: Vorspiel” (this is the introduction music)

2. “Singularity”
3. “Regret”
4. “Love Vigilantes”
5. “Ultraviolence”
6. “Disorder”
7. “Crystal”
8. “Academic”
9. “Your Silent Face”
10. “Tutti Frutti”
11. “Sub-Culture”
12. “BLT”
13. “Vanishing Point”
14. “Waiting for the Sirens Call”
15. “Plastic”
16. “The Perfect Kiss”
17. “True Faith”
18. “Blue Monday”
19. “Temptation”
20. “Atmosphere”
21. “Decades”
22. “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

UB40's debut album 'Signing Off to get LP reissue

Forty years after its release in 1980, the vinyl reissue of Birmingham, England pop/reggae band UB40 debut album Signing Off, will be released on March 14 via EMI/UME.

It opened at #2 on the UK album charts and was later certified Platinum by the BPI, with singles “Food For Thought” and “I Think it’s Going To Rain Today” reaching the top 10 of the UK singles charts.

The 2LP (180g) red vinyl features all 10 original tracks, as well as three bonus tracks (“Madam Medusa”, “Strange Fruit,” and “Reefer Madness”) and can be pre-ordered here.

The cover artwork memorably duplicated the UK’s equivalent of an unemployment benefit card (a “UB40”), with the title Signing Off rubber-stamped in red. Q Magazine once ranked Signing Off at #83 on their “100 Greatest British Albums” list.

TRACK LISTING

UB40 - Signing Off (2LP Set)

LP1 - Side A

1. Tyler

2. King
3. 12 Bar
4. Burden Of Shame

LP1 - Side B

1. Adella
2. I Think It's Going To Rain Today
3. 25%
4. Food For Thought
5. Little By Little
6. Signing Off

LP2 - Side A
1. Madam Medusa

LP2 - Side B

1. Strange Fruit
2. Reefer Madness

Fleetwood Mac news

Fleetwood Mac released its first live album in December 1980. Recorded mostly during the world tour for Tusk, Fleetwood Mac Live delivered a double album with several hits.

Now Rhino Records gives the band’s live debut a new 3CD/2LP reissue that features a remastered version of the original release on both 180-gram vinyl and CD, plus more than an hour of unreleased live music recorded between 1977 and 1982 on the third CD. The set also includes a bonus 7-inch single featuring previously unreleased demos for “Fireflies” and “One More Night.”

FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE: SUPER DELUXE EDITION will be available from Rhino on April 9. An unreleased live performance of “The Chain” recorded in Cleveland in 1980 is available on all digital download and streaming services. Click HERE to listen now.

A special “Tour Edition” is also available for pre-order exclusively at the Rhino.com store for $109.98. Limited to 1,000 copies, the “Tour Edition” features the 3-CD/2-LP/7-inch collection plus replica ephemera from the era including a ticket, backstage pass, ad, button, sticker, and iron on patch.

This Super Deluxe Edition is presented in a 12 x 12 rigid slipcase and comes with a booklet filled with rare photos, a full itinerary for the Tusk Tour, plus a history of the live album by writer David Wild. 

The majority of the original album was recorded live between 1979 and 1980, save for a few exceptions: “Don’t Let Me Down Again,” was recorded in 1975 during the tour for Fleetwood Mac; Dreams” and “Don’t Stop” are from the band’s sound check in Paris; while “Fireflies,” “One More Night,” and a cover of the Beach Boys’ “Farmer’s Daughter” were all recorded in California during a special show for the band’s crew, family, and friends.

The 14 live tracks that debut on the Super Deluxe Edition span a wider range of time than those on the original release. They include seven songs from the Tusk tour (1979-80), four from the Rumours tour (1977) and three from the Mirage tour (1982). These additions include live versions of “Tusk,” “Gold Dust Woman,” and “Songbird,” plus “The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)” – a song written in 1970 by guitarist Peter Green, who founded Fleetwood Mac with Mick Fleetwood and Jeremy Spencer in 1967.

FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE: SUPER DELUXE EDITION

3-CD/2-LP plus bonus 7-inch single

Original Album Remastered

CD Track Listing

Disc One: Original Album Remastered

1. “Monday Morning”

2. “Say You Love Me”
3. “Dreams”
4. “Oh Well”
5. “Over & Over”
6. “Sara”
7. “Not That Funny”
8. “Never Going Back Again”
9. “Landslide”

Disc Two: Original Album Remastered

1. “Fireflies”
2. “Over My Head”
3. “Rhiannon”
4. “Don’t Let Me Down Again”
5. “One More Night”
6. “Go Your Own Way”
7. “Don’t Stop”
8. “I’m So Afraid”
9. “The Farmer’s Daughter”

Disc Three
1. “Second Hand News” *
2. “The Chain” *
3. “Think About Me” *
4. “What Makes You Think You’re The One” *
5. “Gold Dust Woman” *
6. “Brown Eyes” *
7. “The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)” *
8. “Angel” *
9. “Hold Me” *
10. “Tusk” *
11. “You Make Loving Fun” *
12. “Sisters Of The Moon” *
13. “Songbird” *
14. “Blue Letter” *
Bonus Track
15. “Fireflies” – Remix - Long Version

* previously unreleased

Valentine's Day music news: Rod Stewart, Frank Sinatra

Available for streaming on February 12, Rhino aims straight for the heart with CUPID, a new love-themed digital playlist from Rod Stewart. The 16-track collection mixes some of his best-known love songs with five rarities that have never been available digitally until now. In celebration of the release, a new Valentine's Day-themed Instagram filter with audio from the song "Cupid" will make its debut, along with a new lyric video.

"I've always been a hopeless romantic, and this list is perfect for that candlelit date night," says Stewart. "No need to be a DJ, just press play and focus on your lover."

Included are songs like "Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)" (#1US/#5 UK) and "The First Cut Is The Deepest" (#1UK/#21US), both from Stewart's multi-platinum album, A Night On The Town (1976). That prolific era is revisited for "You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" (#3UK/#4US) from the follow-up, Footloose & Fancy Free (1977), the singer's second multi-platinum solo album. Meanwhile, the collection's title track, "Cupid," is a bonus track taken from the 2009 Expanded Edition of Stewart's 19th studio album, Human (2001).

The playlist marks the digital debut for several songs, including two b-sides: "Love In The Right Hands," which accompanied the unplugged version of "Reason To Believe" in 1993, and "One Night," which was the flip side to "Have I Told You Lately."

CUPID taps two of Stewart's best-loved film contributions with the Top 10 US hit, "Love Touch" (1986) from Legal Eagles and the #3 US hit "Faith Of The Heart" (1998) from the Patch Adams Soundtrack; the latter is making its digital debut. A number of songs on the playlist spotlight music the singer released during the 1990s, including the Top 40 hit "This" from A Spanner In The Works (1995), "For The First Time" from the platinum-certified If We Fall In Love Tonight (1996) and his tender cover of Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately" from the platinum-certified Vagabond Heart (1991).

Track Listing:

1. “Cupid”
2. “Have I Told You Lately”
3. “Faith Of The Heart” *
4. “Love Touch”
5. “Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)”
6. “Careless With Our Love” *
7. “For The First Time”
8. “You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)”
9. “Kiss Her For Me” *
10. “If Only”
11. “The First Cut Is The Deepest”
12. “Love In The Right Hands” *
13. “This”
14. “Run Back To Your Arms”
15. “Superstar”
16. “One Night” *
* digital debut

Frank Sinatra: Reprise Rarities Volume 2, a digital collection from Frank Sinatra Enterprises/UMe features 13 Reprise tracks, many making their digital debut. It follows the recent Volume 1 released in honor of Frank Sinatra’s birthday and celebrating the 60th anniversary of “The Chairman of the Board” founding Reprise Records. Both are now available via all digital streaming platforms: Frank Sinatra: Rarities Volume 2, HERE; Frank Sinatra: Rarities Volume 1, HERE.

Additional volumes of Frank Sinatra: Reprise Rarities will continue to be released in 2021. Siriusly Sinatra (SiriusXM Ch. 71) will also air part two of an exclusive ‘Sinatra: Reprise Rarities’ special in February.

FRANK SINATRA — REPRISE RARITIES Volume 2

1. Tina – December 21, 1961

2. Since Marie Has Left Paree – July 17, 1964
3. Blue Lace – November 11, 1968
4. Star! – November 11, 1968
5. Lady Day – August 25, 1969
6. I Love My Wife – November 12, 1976
7. Nancy – March 9, 1977
8. Emily – March 9, 1977
9. Linda – March 14, 1977
10. Sweet Lorraine – March 14, 1977
11. Barbara – March 14, 1977
12. It’s Sunday – February 28, 1983
13. The Girls I’ve Never Kissed – October 30, 1986

FRANK SINATRA — REPRISE RARITIES Volume 1

1. In the Blue of Evening – March 21, 1961
2. As You Desire Me – November 20, 1961
3. Don’t Take Your Love From Me – November 21, 1961
4. Name It and It's Yours – November 22, 1961
5. Come Waltz with Me – January 17, 1962
6. Everybody’s Twistin’ – February 27, 1962
7. I Left My Heart in San Francisco – August 27, 1962
8. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me – February 21, 1963
9. Come Fly with Me – October 11, 1965
10. I'll Never Smile Again – October 11, 1965
11. Younger Than Springtime – September 20, 1967
12. Everything Happens To Me – September 24, 1974
13. Just As Though You Were Here – September 24, 1974