Kraftwerk catalog news

To celebrate reaching its 50th Anniversary, Kraftwerk have announced three new editions of their landmark 1975 album Radio-Activity for release on May 15. Using the original 16-track master tapes, Kraftwerk founder Ralf Hütter with engineer Fritz Hilpert have created a brand-new Dolby Atmos Mix.

The formats are:

1. Blu-ray audio disc featuring Dolby Atmos mix plus inner booklet housed in 50th Anniversary artwork. The Blu-ray contains the following audio content:

Dolby Atmos Mix
5.1 mix (re-rendered from the Dolby Atmos Mix)
Stereo Mix (48kHz/24 bit) of 2009 stereo remaster

2. A 12" vinyl picture disc vinyl (2009 stereo remaster)

3. Full digital release of the Dolby Atmos mix through Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal etc

Track list:

01. Geiger Counter

02. Radioactivity
03. Radioland
04. Airwaves
05. Intermission
06. News
07. The Voice Of Energy
08. Antenna
09. Radio Stars
10. Uranium
11. Transistor
12. Ohm Sweet Ohm

Another Neil Diamond and Rick Rubin album collaboration due in May

Neil Diamond will unveil Wild At Heart, his third – and final – entry in his acclaimed collaboration album series with producer Rick Rubin, on May 8 via Capitol/UMe.

The songs were initially done at sessions for Diamond’s chart-topping Home Before Dark in '08. Before that, the pair teamed up with Rubin on 2005’s 12 Songs. Home Before Dark was Diamond's first #1 album on the Billboard charts. 

“My work with Rick was a labor of love,” Neil says, “and I’m so gratified that these songs will finally be set free into the world to complete our trilogy of work.”

Recently revisiting this material, Diamond spent time fleshing out nine new songs to be released for the first time and closed the set with an alternate take of “Forgotten,” which appeared on Home Before Dark.

Wild At Heart formats include CD, vinyl, and digital platforms; limited edition colored vinyl and 2CD versions will also be available. Preorder and Listen to the title track to Wild At Heart HERE.

In anticipation of Wild At Heart’s release, digital Deluxe Editions of 12 Songs and Home Before Dark are now available and include the debut of bonus tracks previously available on limited physical releases. Listen to 12 Songs HERE and Home Before Dark HERE.

Among those on the Home Before Dark sessions: keyboardist Benmont Tench and guitarist Mike Campbell (both from Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers), along with session guitarist Smokey Hormel (beck) and guitarist Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Will Oldham). 

“Working with these guys and having Rick’s ear made it a great deal of fun,” Diamond told Billboard in 2008. “It was magic.”

Diamond, who starred in the 1980 film The Jazz Singer, has seen his life and music turned into the hit Broadway musical A Beautiful Noise. The show debuted in New York City in 2022, and with over 650 performances and was one of the longest-running new musicals on Broadway since the pandemic. Beautiful Noise launched its first tour in 2024 and continues to tour across America with performances set to open in Australia in August, 2026. Listen to the Original Broadway Cast Recording of A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, HERE.

In addition, Focus Features released Song Sung Blue on December 25, a musical drama starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. Directed by Craig Brewer and based on a true story, the film follows two down-on-their-luck musicians who form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band. The movie has been a huge success, with Hudson receiving Oscar, SAG Actor Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations, and will be released via international streaming in late Spring.

Track listing:

Wild At Heart
You Can’t Have It All
Talking It To Death
Shine On
The Secret You

You Never Know

You’re Getting To Me
You Still Look Good To Me
You’re My Favorite Song
Forgotten

Rarities compilation from The Knack set for May

Omnivore Recordings announces Knackology: The Zen Recordings, due out May 8. It features rare studio, live and demo recordings by The Knack — including their cover of Badfinger’s “No Matter What” (originally released on a Badfinger tribute) and other hard-to-find performances. 

Principal songwriter and vocalist Doug Fieger created Zen Records as an outlet for new Knack material, as well as early recordings, demos, and more in order to get them heard. 

Knackology: The Zen Recordings collects more than a dozen Knack performances. From pre-Get The Knack demos (“That’s What The Little Girls Do”), a live “Let Me Out,” more worldwide  performances including “Good Girls Don’t,” “Baby Talks Dirty,” “One Day At A Time,” and “My Sharona.” 

Also included are studio tracks from their releases Zoom (which Fieger called their best album) and Normal As The Next Guy. 

Pre-order here: http://www.omnivorerecordings.com/shop/knackolog

Track listing: 

1. Let Me Out (Live In Los Angeles, 1978)

2. Pop Is Dead
3. (She’s So) Selfish (Live At Mountain View, California, June 10, 1994)
4. Ambition
5. That’s What The Little Girls Do (Fieger/Averre Demo)
6. Les Girls
7. Rock & Roll Is Good For You (Fieger/Averre Demo)
8. Can I Borrow A Kiss
9. Oh Tara (Live From The Rock ’n’ Roll Fun House)
10. Normal As The Next Guy
11. Shine (Live At Leeds, 1991)
12. Good Girls Don’t (Live From The Rock ’n’ Fun House)
13. No Matter What
14. Love Is All There Is
15. One Day At A Time (Live From The Rock ’n’ Roll Fun House)
16. Seven Days Of Heaven
17. Harder On You (Demo)
18. Baby Talks Dirty (Live From The Rock ’n’ Roll Fun House)
19. My Sharona (Live At Mountain View, California, June 10, 1994)

Eagles' 'One of These Nights' album to get Deluxe Reissue in May

The Eagles' fourth album 'One of These Nights,' released in June 1975, was their commercial breakthrough, propelling them to become worldwide superstars. Produced by Bill Szymczyk, it was the Eagles first #1 album on the Billboard charts and includes the Top 10 singles “One of These Nights,” “Lyin’ Eyes,” and “Take It To The Limit.”

The album is now being expanded on May 1 via Rhino Records to include an unreleased live show from Anaheim Stadium, September 28, 1975, featuring a guest appearance from Joe Walsh before he joined the band the following year after Bernie Leadon’s departure.

The set will include photos and ephemera, with the packaging designed by Grammy-Award winning Art Director Jeri Heiden.

ONE OF THESE NIGHTS was nominated for four Grammys and won the award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal (for Lyin' Eyes). The album is 4X platinum in the US, 2X Platinum in Australia and Platinum in the U.K and Canada.

Track listings: 

50th Anniversary Expanded Edition [3 CD/1 BD]

CD 1: (2025 Mix)
1. ONE OF THESE NIGHTS [4:51]
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)

2. TOO MANY HANDS [4:42]
(Don Felder/Randy Meisner)

3. HOLLYWOOD WALTZ [4:04]
(Bernie Leadon/Don Henley/Glenn Frey/Tom Leadon)]

4. JOURNEY OF THE SORCERER [6:39]
(Bernie Leadon)

5. LYIN’ EYES [6:21]
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)

6. TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT [4:48]
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey/Randy Meisner)

7. VISIONS [4:00]
(Don Felder/Don Henley)

8. AFTER THE THRILL IS GONE [3:58]
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)

9. I WISH YOU PEACE [3:45]
(Bernie Leadon/Patti Davis)

Live At Anaheim Stadium, Sept. 28, 1975

CD 2:

1. TAKE IT EASY
(Glenn Frey/Jackson Browne)

2. OUTLAW MAN
(David Blue)
3. DOOLIN - DALTON/DESPERADO
(Glenn Frey/J.D. Souther/Don Henley/Jackson Browne) / (Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
4. ONE OF THESE NIGHTS
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
5. OL’ 55
(Tom Waits)
6. LYIN’ EYES
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
7. TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey/Randy Meisner)

CD 3:

1. BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM
(trad., arr. by Eagles)
2. MIDNIGHT FLYER
(Paul Craft)
3. ALREADY GONE
(Jack Tempchin/Robb Strandlund)
4. TOO MANY HANDS
(Don Felder/Randy Meisner)
5. JAMES DEAN
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey/J.D. Souther/Jackson Browne)
6. WITCHY WOMAN
(Bernie Leadon/Don Henley)
7. ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY - with Joe Walsh
(Joe Walsh)
8. CAROL
(Chuck Berry)
9. THE BEST OF MY LOVE
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey/J.D. Souther)

BD 1:

Atmos/High Resolution Stereo:

1. ONE OF THESE NIGHTS [4:51]
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
2. TOO MANY HANDS [4:42]
(Don Felder/Randy Meisner)
3. HOLLYWOOD WALTZ [4:04]
(Bernie Leadon/Don Henley/Glenn Frey/Tom Leadon)
4. JOURNEY OF THE SORCERER [6:39]
(Bernie Leadon)
5. LYIN’ EYES [6:21]
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
6. TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT [4:48]
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey/Randy Meisner)
7. VISIONS [4:00]
(Don Felder/Don Henley)
8. AFTER THE THRILL IS GONE [3:58]
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
9. I WISH YOU PEACE [3:45]
(Bernie Leadon/Patti Davis)

Live At Anaheim Stadium, Sept. 28, 1975

10. TAKE IT EASY
(Glenn Frey/Jackson Browne)
11. OUTLAW MAN
(David Blue)
12. DOOLIN - DALTON/DESPERADO
(Glenn Frey/J.D. Souther/Don Henley/Jackson Browne) / (Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
13. ONE OF THESE NIGHTS
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
14. OL’ 55
(Tom Waits)
15. LYIN’ EYES
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
16. TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey/Randy Meisner)
17. BLACKBERRY BLOSSOM
(trad., arr. by Eagles)
18. MIDNIGHT FLYER
(Paul Craft)
19. ALREADY GONE
(Jack Tempchin/Robb Strandlund)
20. TOO MANY HANDS
(Don Felder/Randy Meisner)
21. JAMES DEAN
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey/J.D. Souther/Jackson Browne)
22. WITCHY WOMAN
(Bernie Leadon/Don Henley)
23. ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY - with Joe Walsh
(Joe Walsh)
24. CAROL
(Chuck Berry)
25. THE BEST OF MY LOVE
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey/J.D. Souther)

Red Rockers set to release live 2023 reunion album 'It's in Our Blood' in May

I'm always keenly interested in news revolving around alt-rock bands whose heyday was during the Eighties. Read on for info on another promising release from Liberation Hall Records... 

'It’s in Our Blood,' a 2023 Red Rockers live set recorded in the band’s hometown of New Orleans, drops May 22 via Liberation Hall. Formats include Blu-ray, translucent red vinyl LP, CD, and digital, with the Blu-ray featuring bonus tracks. 

Pre-order at Bandcamp. The first digital single, “Peer Pressure,” is out now. 

Best known for the 1983 college radio and MTV hit “China,” the group broke up in 1985, but reunited in 2023. That year, original members John Thomas Griffith (lead vocals, guitar), James Singletary (lead guitar, vocals) and Darren Hill (bass, vocals) reconvened to help promote an expanded edition reissue of '81 debut album 'Condition Red,' which appeared on Liberty Spike Recordings. The trio were then joined by drummer Bryan Barberot to perform the album in its entirety at Tipitina’s. It was that show that provides the audio for 'It’s in Our Blood.'

Both the LP and CD feature 15 tracks, including covers of “I’m So Bored with the USA” by the Clash and “My Generation” by the Who (the latter in a medley with “Condition Red”). The Blu-ray adds a cover of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” and two band originals, “China” and “Nothing to Lose.”

Track listings:

BLU-RAY
1. I’m So Bored with the U.S.A. | 2. Teenage Underground | 3. Peer Pressure | 4. Nothing to Lose * | 5. Can You Hear | 6. Know What I Think | 7. United We Stand | 8. Dead Heroes | 9. Grow Up | 10. China * | 11. Folsom Prison Blues * | 12. Condition Red/My Generation | 13. Hold On | 14. Missing in Action | 15. White Law | 16. Voice of America | 17. Live or Die | 18. Guns of Revolution
* Blu-ray bonus track

LP/CD

1. I’m So Bored with the U.S.A. | 2. Teenage Underground | 3. Peer Pressure | 4. Can You Hear | 5. Know What I Think | 6. United We Stand | 7. Dead Heroes | 8. Grow Up | 9. Condition Red/My Generation | 10. Hold On | 11. Missing in Action | 12. White Law | 13. Voice of America | 14. Live or Die | 15. Guns of Revolution

Lemon Twigs urge fans to 'Look for Your Mind' in May; tour sooner

The Lemon Twigs' new album, Look For Your Mind!, is scheduled for May 8, with a video for its lead single “I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You.” It contains an undercurrent of paranoia and suspicion. “I do think that now is a time of insanity,” admits co-leader Brian D'Addario. “You really have to hold onto your own mind if you don’t wanna lose it.”

New to this album is the inclusion of the live members Reza Matin (drums) and Danny Ayala (bass), as well as Eva Chambers of Tchotchke. With the D’Addario brothers, Brian and Michael, previously having handled everything in the studio themselves, this shows a newfound sense of freedom.

The manner in which The Lemon Twigs surprise is a constant and testament to their vision and abilities. “Every time we try to write something that's completely straightforward, we can't help adding an element which comes out of left field. We always want to write a song we’ve never heard before,” says Brian.

WATCH VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE

“I JUST CAN’T GET OVER LOSING YOU”

Alongside the album announcement, The Lemon Twigs are also announcing 2026 spring and summer tour that includes shows in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. 

The Lemon Twigs’ two previous Captured Tracks albums, A Dream Is All We Know (2024) and Everything Harmony (2023), certainly indicated something of a ground zero in their then five album career. “It was the beginning of making records that we would listen to ourselves,” says Michael D’Addario, the younger Twig brother, now aged 26. By the time of A Dream Is All We Know and the future Michael classic “My Golden Years”, The Lemon Twigs’ new era had truly begun.

North American Tour Dates:

04/24 - Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield

04/25 - Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall
04/27 - Ann Arbor, MI @ The Blind Pig
04/29 - Indianapolis, IN @ Turntable
04/30 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
05/01 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
05/02 - Chicago, IL @ Metro Chicago
05/04 - Newport, KY @ The Southgate House Revival
05/05 - Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar
05/07 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
05/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club (Early Show)
06/11 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
06/12 - Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
06/13 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
06/16 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
06/17 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
06/19 - Santa Ana, CA @ GARDEN AMP
06/20 - San Diego, CA @ Music Box

Track List:

1. Look For Your Mind!
2. 2 or 3
3. Nothin’ But You
4. Gather Round
5. I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You
6. Fire and Gold
7. Mean to Me
8. Bring You Down
9. Yeah I Do
10. I Hurt Yu
11. You’re Still My Girl
12. Joy
13. My Heart Is In Your Hands Tonight
14. Your True Enemy

Death Cab for Cutie to return with new studio album, tour this summer

Anti-Records

Death Cab for Cutie – Benjamin Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr, Dave Depper and Zac Rae – announce their 11th studio album. I Built You A Tower, will be released on June 5 via ANTI- Records.

The move marks the band’s return to their independent roots after 20 years on Atlantic Records. Produced and engineered by John Congleton and assembled from three weeks of sessions, I Built You A Tower was recorded at Animal Rites in Los Angeles, as well as the band members’ homes in Seattle, Bellingham, Los Angeles and Portland.

Alongside the album announcement, Death Cab for Cutie share the album’s first single, “Riptides.” "’Riptides’ is about the challenge of dealing with personal struggles as the world around us experiences tragedy and loss on an unfathomable scale,” says Gibbard. “And how when these two elements intertwine themselves in our psyches, it feels utterly paralyzing." Listen to the song and watch its Jason Lester-directed video HERE.

In recent years, Death Cab celebrated several historic milestones, including massive sold-out tours celebrating the 20th anniversaries of seminal releases Transatlanticism and Plans. Those tours were pivotal to the creation of I Built You A Tower, as behind the scenes, Gibbard weathered the greatest pressure of his professional life — fronting both Death Cab and the Postal Service on arena stages for hours a night — while struggling with the collapse of his personal life in the background. The strain felt too much for one person to bear, and the “tower” originated as a way to protect himself. “There’s this need to find a place in ourselves to put loss and grief,” he explains. “A place that can hold it so we can move on with our lives. But there are these moments where the trauma breaks out of that shell we created for it.”

I Built You A Tower is an album of reconciling with past selves in order to locate a new future. “The anniversary tours exorcised any nostalgia in our systems,” Depper observes. “We felt part of this powerful force greater than all of us and went into the studio with a sense of, how can we capture that feeling and put it into something new?” Harmer continues, “The whole experience of this record got us back to the earliest versions of this band: If the musicians in the room like what we’re working on, that’s enough. We reconnected with the confidence that comes with that.” As such, this is not the dreaded “return to form” narrative, but a reclamation of a core ethos that has run through Death Cab’s 30-year history.

PRE-ORDER I BUILT YOU A TOWER

The band recently announced a North American summer tour, which is on sale now. These performances come on the heels of a sold-out global tour in marking the 20th anniversary of Transatlanticism plus their acclaimed 10th studio effort, 2022’s Asphalt Meadows. 

No. American Tour Dates:

May 29 – Denver, CO – Outside Days

July 10 – Minneapolis, MN – Armory *
July 11 – Milwaukee, WI – Miller High Life Theatre *
July 12 – Indianapolis, IN – Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park *
July 14 – Cincinnati, OH – MegaCorp Pavilion *
July 15 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion *
July 17 – Philadelphia, PA – Highmark Mann Center for the Performing Arts ^
July 18 – Canandaigua, NY – CMAC ^
July 19 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheatre ^
July 21 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion ^
July 22 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek ^
July 24 – St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theatre #
July 25 – Bentonville, AR – The Momentary #
July 26 – Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s Stir Cove #
July 28 – Sandy, UT – Sandy Amphitheater #
July 29 – Sandy, UT – Sandy Amphitheater #
July 31 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre #
August 2 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre #
August 3 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre #
August 4 – San Diego, CA – Gallagher Square at Petco Park #
August 6 – Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas &
August 7 – Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre &
August 9 – San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands

*with Jay Som
^with Japanese Breakfast
#with Nation of Language
&with Lala Lala

Tracklisting:

1. Full of Stars
2. Punching The Flowers
3. Pep Talk
4. I Built You A Tower (a)
5. Envy The Birds
6. Stone Over Water
7. How Heavenly a State
8. Trap Door
9. Riptides
10. The Flavor of Metal
11. I Built You A Tower (b)