A new Joe Strummer compilation due next month

Dark Horse Records has announced the upcoming release of a new best-of album from late Clash singer/guitarist Joe Strummer. ASSEMBLY arrives March 26 on gatefold 2xLP black vinyl, CD, and digitally for streaming and download; pre-orders are available now HERE.

ASSEMBLY showcases carefully curated singles, fan favorites, and archival rarities from the Joe Strummer solo catalog, including “Coma Girl,” “Johnny Appleseed,” and “Yalla Yalla” (with The Mescaleros) to his rendition of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” and soundtrack contributions like “Love Kills” (from the 1986 film, Sid and Nancy).

This 16-track compilation features three previously unreleased versions of some Clash tracks, including the never-before-heard “Junco Partner (Acoustic)” and live performances of “Rudie Can’t Fail” and “I Fought The Law”, the latter two of which were recorded by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros at London’s Brixton Academy on November 24, 2001. In addition, ASSEMBLY includes exclusive liner notes written especially for this collection by Strummer fan, Jakob Dylan.

Last year saw Strummer’s life and music commemorated with “A Song For Joe: Celebrating the Birthday of Joe Strummer,” a star-studded global live stream featuring performances and testimonials from an array of friends, fans, and musical followers, including Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Tweedy, Bob Weir, Lucinda Williams, Josh Homme, Tom Morello, Jim Jarmusch, members of The Strokes, Brian Fallon and more.

The free event benefitted the National Independent Venue Association’s (NIVA) #SaveOurStages campaign to preserve and nurture the ecosystem of independent live event venues and promoters throughout the United States and is streaming now via Joe’s Official YouTube Channel HERE.

George Harrison's passion for introducing the world to new music expressed itself in May of 1974 when he created his own new label – DARK HORSE RECORDS. The label contained a variety of artists on its roster, including George himself. ASSEMBLY marks the first new Joe Strummer title released via the newly relaunched Dark Horse Records, led by Dhani Harrison and David Zonshine.

TRACK LISTING:

Coma Girl

Johnny Appleseed
I Fought The Law (Live at Brixton Academy, London, 24 November 2001) *
Tony Adams
Sleepwalk
Love Kills
Get Down Moses
X-Ray Style
Mondo Bongo
Rudie Can’t Fail (Live at Brixton Academy, London, 24 November 2001) *
At The Border, Guy
Long Shadow
Forbidden City
Yalla Yalla
Redemption Song
Junco Partner (Acoustic) *

* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

An expanded Go-Go’s reissue out in May

On May 14, The Go-Go’s’ critically acclaimed 2001 reunion album, God Bless The Go-Go’s, celebrates its 20th anniversary and will be reissued on CD, vinyl and digital formats via Eagle Records.

This is the first time the original album version of God Bless The Go-Go’s will be available on LP and is pressed on 140gram, blue colored vinyl. The deluxe CD and digital versions feature new cover art and includes the bonus tracks “I Think I Need Sleep” and “King of Confusion.” Pre-order here.

Featuring Charlotte Caffey (lead guitar, keyboards, vocals), Belinda Carlisle (lead vocals), Gina Schock (drums, percussion, vocals), Kathy Valentine (bass guitar, vocals) and Jane Wiedlin (guitar, vocals), God Bless The Go-Go’s was the band’s first studio album in 17 years following 1984’s Talk Show and reached No. 57 on the Billboard 200 and No. 17 on the Top Internet Albums chart.

The album was produced by Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade (Radiohead, Hole) and features Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong on the single “Unforgiven,” Rame Jaffee (The Wallflowers and Foo Fighters) on “Here You Are,” as well as Roger Manning (Jellyfish. Imperial Drag and The Moog Cookbook) on the track “Daisy Chain.”

In addition, their universally acclaimed, 2020 Critics Choice Award winning documentary THE GO-GO’S is out now through digital download and rental services via Eagle Vision, followed by the 2-Disc set (DVD + Blu-ray) via Polygram/UMe on February 26. Pre order the DVD/Blu-ray here.

'God Bless The Go-Go’s' CD/DIGITAL TRACK LISTING:

La La Land

Unforgiven
Apology
Stuck In My Car
Vision Of Nowness
Here You Are
Automatic Rainy Day
Kissing Asphalt
Insincere
Sonic Superslide
Throw Me A Curve
Talking Myself Down
Daisy Chain
I Think I Need Sleep*
King Of Confusion*
*Bonus Tracks

Summer 2021 North American tour dates:

Jun 18 The Masonic San Francisco, CA +

Jun 23 Humphreys San Diego, CA +
Jun 24 Humphreys San Diego, CA +
Jun 27 Pechanga Resort Casino Temecula, CA +
Jun 29 Orpheum Theater Los Angeles, CA +
Jun 30 Orpheum Theater Los Angeles, CA +
Jul 7 Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY
Jul 8 Parx Casino Bensalem, PA
Jul 10 Foxwoods Resort Casino Mashantucket, CT
Jul 11 Stone Pony Asbury Park, NJ +
+ Date changes

Tom Jones news

Tom Jones has a new album, Surrounded By Time, to be released on April 23 via S-Curve Records. The announcement comes with the release of the album’s first single "Talking Reality Television Blues," accompanied by an official music video that traces the impact and changing role of television throughout history.

Watch the video for "Talking Reality Television Blues" via YouTube:
https://youtu.be/khgdwZmWkXc

"I was there when TV started – didn’t know I'd become a part of it – but it could be that its power is to remind us how wonderful, crazy and inventive we are, but also how scary the reality it reflects can be," explains Tom Jones about the song.

The album was co-produced by Ethan Johns and Mark Woodward.

In 2010, Tom Jones put out Praise & Blame which unveiled his musical roots and lifelong affection for gospel and the blues. It garnered the best reviews of his career and he moved forward with Spirit In The Room and Long Lost Suitcase. 

Track list:

1) I Won’t Crumble With You If You Fall (Bernice Johnson Reagon)
2) The Windmills Of Your Mind (Michel Legrand/Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
3) Popstar (Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam)
4) No Hole In My Head (Malvina Reynolds)
5) Talking Reality Television Blues (Todd Snider)
6) I Won’t Lie (Michael Kiwanuka & Paul Butler)
7) This is the Sea (Michael Scott)
8) One More Cup Of Coffee (Bob Dylan)
9) Samson And Delilah (Tom Jones, Ethan Johns, Mark Woodward)
10) Old Mother Earth (Tony Joe White)
11) I’m Growing Old (Bobby Cole)
12) Lazurus Man (Terry Callier)

Nancy Sinatra reissue campaign kicks off this year with a new compilation

Light In The Attic Records (LITA) is presenting a year-long campaign to honor the legacy of singer, actress and activist Nancy Sinatra. 

The label is paying homage to Sinatra’s popular music career with a selection of archival releases and full-album reissues, including a definitive new collection, Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin’ 1965-1976.

Due out digitally February 5 (with 2LP/CD formats on March 12 in North America and March  26 in the UK/EU), Start Walkin’ surveys Sinatra’s most prolific period over 1965-1976, including her collaborations with Lee Hazlewood, over 23 tracks.

Remastered from the original analog tapes, the collection has liner notes by Amanda Petrusich (author and music critic at The New Yorker) and new interviews with Sinatra, as well as a Q&A with archivist and reissue co-producer Hunter Lea.

The CD edition comes housed in a hardcover book (featuring over 60 full-color pages) and the two-disc vinyl set is presented in a gatefold jacket (featuring a 24-page booklet), with different color editions available exclusively at NancySinatra.com, LightInTheAttic.net, and independent record stores.

Additionally, LITA will reissue a selection of albums from Sinatra’s catalog throughout the year, including her 1966 debut, Boots, plus her first record with Hazlewood, 1968’s Nancy & Lee, and follow-up, 1972’s Nancy & Lee Again. Featuring newly-remastered audio, each title will be available on vinyl, CD, and across digital platforms.

Lately, Nancy co-hosts SiriusXM’s channel Siriusly Sinatra, featuring her weekly “Nancy For Frank” show where she treats listeners to her favorite recordings by her dad and other artists singing from the pages of the songbook that helped Frank become the greatest vocalist of all time. The show features rare recordings from the family archives and Nancy offers reflections on her life with her dad and observations about his music.

Tracklist - Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin’ 1965-1976 (LP):

Side A

1. Bang Bang

2. These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
3. Sugar Town
4. So Long Babe
5. How Does That Grab You, Darlin’?
6. Friday’s Child
7. You Only Live Twice

Side B

1. Summer Wine
2. Some Velvet Morning
3. Lightning’s Girl
4. Sand
5. Lady Bird

Side C
1. Jackson
2. Happy
3. How Are Things in California
4. Hook and Ladder
5. Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham
6. Paris Summer

Side D
1. Arkansas Coal
2. Down From Dover
3. Kind Of A Woman
4. Machine Gun Kelly
5. (L’été Indien) Indian Summer

Chevelle news

Chevelle has unveiled a new song entitled “Peach.” Get it HERE and watch the visualizer HERE. It is the second track to be unveiled from the group’s ninth full-length album, NIRATIAS [Epic Records], out on March 5. The album is available for pre-order and pre-save HERE.

Last month, the stage for NIRATIAS was set with the single "Self Destructor." On the heels of the band’s return, “Self Destructor” dominated Active Rock as the “#1 Most Added Song” and has since vaulted into the Top 20 of the format. Not to mention, it has been on playlists such as Spotify’s New Music Friday, Rock Hard, and Just Hard in addition to occupying the #1 prime spot on Apple Music’s Hard Rock Hero and Hard Rock Hot Tracks. At Amazon, the guys graced the covers of the Rock Scene and Fresh Rock playlists. Thus far, it has racked up close to 875k Spotify streams and over 700k YouTube views on the music video.

For NIRATIAS, the duo teamed with longtime producer Joe Barresi [Tool, Queens of the Stone Age]. They recorded throughout 2019 and 2020. The album artwork, revealed earlier this month, is by Boris Vallejo - the famed and award-winning artist responsible for the posters used for films like Knightriders and National Lampoon's Vacation, as well as iconic 70’s and 80’s science fiction novel covers and magazines (such as Heavy Metal).

Full track list for the album is below. Additionally, revealing further insight into the themes and concepts of the body of work, they revealed that NIRATIAS is an acronym for “Nothing Is Real and This Is a Simulation.”

The multiplatinum Chicago rock band have generated nearly half-a-billion streams, earned seven number one hits at the rock format, and sold out shows worldwide. Their catalog spans the double-platinum Wonder What’s Next highlighted by the double-platinum smash “The Red” and platinum “Send The Pain Below” as well as the platinum This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) and gold Vena Sera. They’ve landed four Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200, including Sci-Fi Crimes [2009], Hats Off to the Bull [2011], La Gárgola [2014], and The North Corridor [2016]. The latter two each captured #1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart.

Track List:

01. Verruckt

02. So Long, Mother Earth

03. Mars Simula

04. Sleep the Deep

05. Self Destructor

06. Piistol Star (Gravity Heals)

07. VVurmhole

08. Peach

09. Test Test...Enough

10. Endlessly

11. Remember When

12. Ghost and Razor

13. Lost in Digital Woods 

Mat Kearney's album 'January Flower' set for May

Nashville-based, Oregon-born singer songwriter and producer Mat Kearney has announced his new album January Flower, set for release on May 21 via Tomorrow Music/Caroline.

The album is available for pre-orders and pre-saves now. It was written between an isolated retreat in Joshua Tree with old friend Marshall Roeman and songwriter Eli Teplin and his home studio in Nashville with longtime collaborator Robert Marvin (who also helmed Kearney’s breakout Nothing Left To Lose and 2011’s chart-topping Young Love).

“It was about digging down and finding the innocence that comes with wanting to make music solely for the love and passion of doing it,” he says. “I wanted to stay true to that voice.”

The opener, “Powerless,” is available to stream or purchase via your preferred listening service. “Powerless” came from those early session in Joshua Tree, with Kearney considering what it means to lose power – both literally and figuratively – and embracing the feeling of your life being pleasantly out of control.

“That mirrors our experience in life,” he notes. “We have all these grand plans and then something else happens and it can become even better than you planned.”

“Powerless” is joined on January Flower by previously released singles “Can’t Look Back” and “Grand Canyon,” both released in the fall. The new LP follows Kearney’s 2018 album, CRAZYTALK, which debuted at #1 on iTunes.

Thanks to a touring history, which includes treks with artists like John Mayer, Sheryl Crow and NEEDTOBREATHE, dozens of synchs on shows like Grey's Anatomy, on performances on TODAY Show, Ellen, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and more, Kearney has amassed 2.5 billion streams over his career and over 1.6 million albums sold.

David Bowie news

Parlophone Records has announced further details for DAVID BOWIE BRILLIANT LIVE ADVENTURES, a series of six live albums from the 1990s which will be released on vinyl and CD as limited one-run only pressings.

There will also be special limited edition boxes for both vinyl and CD to house the full collection. The albums and boxes will be available only via the David Bowie official store and the Rhino.com store. Each release is numbered 1 to 6 respectively on the CD and LP sleeve's spines.

The fourth in the series to be released on February 12 on double CD and triple vinyl, is LOOK AT THE MOON! (LIVE PHOENIX FESTIVAL 97). Recorded live at The Phoenix Festival, Long Marston, England on July 20, 1997, LOOK AT THE MOON! features previously unreleased rarities as a cover of Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman,” which the band had also played at their secret show as 'The Tao Jones Index’ at the festival the previous day.

LOOK AT THE MOON! by David Bowie; David Bowie – vocals, guitar, saxophone, Zachary Alford - drums, Gail Ann Dorsey - bass, vocals, lead vocal on “O Superman,” keyboards, Reeves Gabrels – guitars, synthesizers, vocals, musical director, Mike Garson – piano, keyboards, synthesizers.

TRACKLISTING:

CD 1
“Quicksand” (David Bowie)
“The Man Who Sold the World” (David Bowie)
“Driftin’ Blues” (Charles Brown/Eddie Williams/Johnny Moore)/The Jean Genie (David Bowie)
"I'm Afraid of Americans” (David Bowie/Brian Eno)
“Battle for Britain” (The Letter) (David Bowie/Reeves Gabrels/Mark Plati)
“Fashion” (David Bowie)
“Seven Years in Tibet” (David Bowie/Reeves Gabrels)
“Fame” (David Bowie/Carlos Alomar /John Lennon)
“Looking for Satellites” (David Bowie/Reeves Gabrels/Mark Plati)
“Under Pressure” (David Bowie/Freddie Mercury/Roger Taylor/John Deacon/Brian May)

CD 2
“The Hearts Filthy Lesson” (David Bowie/Brian Eno/Michael Garson/Sterling Campbell/Erdal Kizilcay/Reeves Gabrels)
“Scary Monsters” (and Super Creeps) (David Bowie)
“Hallo Spaceboy” (David Bowie/Brian Eno)
“Little Wonder” (David Bowie/Reeves Gabrels/Mark Plati)
“Dead Man Walking” (David Bowie/Reeves Gabrels)
“White Light/White Heat” (Lou Reed)
“O Superman” (Laurie Anderson)
“Stay” (David Bowie)