FOO FIGHTERS “MAKING A FIRE” (Mark Ronson Re-Version) OUT NOW
The incendiary opening track of FOO FIGHTERS’ critical and commercial smash album MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT— also the first song in the encore of the band’s triumphant Madison Square Garden show — blazes in a whole new way with “MAKING A FIRE,” the Mark Ronson Re-Version.
Produced by Mark Ronson, the re-version features members of Antibalas, the Budos Band, the Dap-Kings, El Michels Affair, La Buya, Menahan Street Band), the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Tuatara — all providing a combustible new backdrop to Dave Grohl’s unmistakable vocal, as well as the irresistible refrain by a back-up vocal quartet featuring Violet Grohl.
Check out “MAKING A FIRE” (Mark Ronson Re-Version) HERE
The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, the new studio album from Damon Albarn, will be released by new label home Transgressive Records on November 12th, 2021.
The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows was originally intended as an orchestral piece inspired by the landscapes of Iceland. This last year has seen Albarn return to the music in lockdown and develop the work to 11 tracks which further explore themes of fragility, loss, emergence and rebirth. The result is a panoramic collection of songs with Albarn as storyteller. The album title is taken from a John Clare poem Love and Memory.
Albarn says, “I have been on my own dark journey while making this record and it led me to believe that a pure source might still exist.”
In a career of perpetual musical shifts and exploration, the record uncovers yet more ground, finding expansive orchestral arrangements nestling with intimate melodies, discordance brushing up against infectious majesty, all set to some of Albarn’s most arresting vocal performances to date. Much like the beauty and chaos of the natural world it soundtracks, The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows vividly documents the emotional ebb and flow of the human condition, in all its extremes, serving as a soul enriching document for our times.
The tracklisting is as follows:
The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
The Cormorant
Royal Morning Blue
Combustion
Daft Wader
Darkness To Light
Esja
The Tower Of Montevideo
Giraffe Trumpet Sea
Polaris
Particles
Alongside a digital release, there will be limited edition vinyl formats, plus CD and cassette. There will also be a deluxe version of the album, taking the form of a casebound book with additional photography, original scanned lyrics and artwork from Damon, alongside a white vinyl version of the album, a high quality digital file and a bonus 7” featuring an exclusive song from the recording sessions.
Albarn debuted a set of songs from the album as part of the Live At Worthy Farm event last month, highlights of which can be seen on BBC iPlayer from June 24th, ahead of a BBC Two documentary ‘Live At Worthy Farm: Backstage’ at 9pm on Sunday June 27th. And this summer, accompanied by a band and string section, Albarn will perform two festival shows to play tracks from across his songbook, including the new album, on 13th July at Manchester International Festival and Edinburgh International Festival on 24th August.
2022 Tour Dates (rescheduled from 2021):
21 & 22 February – London (Barbican) 23 & 24 February – Dublin (National Concert Hall) 26 February – Luxembourg (Philharmonie) 28 February – Brussels (Bozar) 1 March – Brussels (Bozar) 2 March – Eindhoven (Muziekgebouw) 4 & 5 March – Paris (Philharmonie) 6 March – Lyon (Auditorium) 7 March – Hamburg (ElbPhilharmonie) 9 March – Copenhagen (KB Hallen) 11 March – Reykjavik (Harpa)
Damon Albarn is a singer, songwriter, producer and composer whose eclectic musical style and observational lyrics have made him one of the UK’s most influential and consistently interesting musicians.
A founder member of Blur, Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, he is the recipient of six Brits, two Ivor Novello Awards and a Grammy Award. Outside of Blur and Gorillaz, Albarn has a number of other releases, including Mali Music (2002), The Good The Bad and The Queen (2006), Monkey: Journey to the West (2007), Kinshasa One Two (2011), Rocket Juice & The Moon (2012), Dr Dee (2012), Africa Express Presents: Maison Des Jeunes (2013), Africa Express Presents: The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians (2016), Merrie Land (2018), Africa Express Presents: Egoli (2019), as well as his Mercury Award-nominated debut solo album Everyday Robots (2014).
“Foo Fighters’ sold-out, full-capacity Madison Square Garden show welcomed back more than just live music in New York. Over three loud, sweaty, emotional, and supremely fun hours, the band ushered back in the exhilarating familiarity of our pasts, giving an experience many music fans feared wouldn’t come back for a much longer time.”—ROLLING STONE
History repeats as Foo Fighters bring rock & roll back to live once again, this time on their Los Angeles home turf, at The Fabulous Forum — where its members are just as likely to show up in the crowd as on the stage.
On July 17, the band will play the first full capacity concert at the iconic Forum in more than a year.
Tickets will be on sale to the public as of June 25 at 10am PT.
Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of The Black Album Your Way September 10th
The Metallica Blacklist Album Pre-Orders Receive Instant Gratification Tracks “Nothing Else Matters” by Miley Cyrus (feat. WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, Chad Smith) and “Enter Sandman” by Juanes
The Black Album Pre-Orders Receive Instant Gratification Tracks “Enter Sandman (Remastered)”, “Enter Sandman (Live at Tushino Airfield)” and “Enter Sandman (July 12th, 1990 Demo)”
100% Of The Metallica Blacklist Sales To Benefit 52 Charities
Metallica marks the 30th anniversary of its self-titled fifth album — a/k/a The Black Album — with two landmark releases, both out September 10th on the band’s own Blackened Recordings:
The Black Album is one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed records of all time. Its 1991 release not only gave Metallica its first #1 album in no fewer than 10 countries, including a 4-week run at #1 in the U.S., its unrelenting series of singles — “Enter Sandman”, “The Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Matters”, “Wherever I May Roam”, and “Sad But True” — fueled the band’s rise to stadium headlining, radio and MTV dominating household name status. The album’s reception from the press was similarly charged, building over the years from the top 10 of the 1991 Village Voice Pazz & Jop national critics poll to becoming a constant presence in the likes of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. The album’s impact and relevance continue to grow—as proven by one indisputable fact: The Black Album remains unchallenged as the best-selling album in the history of Nielsen Soundscan, outselling every release in every genre over the past 30 years.
To commemorate its 30th anniversary, the GRAMMY-winning, 16x platinum-certified Black Album is receiving its definitive re-release. Remastered for ultimate sound quality, The Black Album remaster will be available in multiple configurations including 180 gram Double Vinyl LP, Standard CD and 3 CD Expanded Edition, digital, and Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set (containing the album remastered on 180G 2LP, a picture disc, three live LPs, 14 CDs (containing rough mixes, demos, interviews, live shows), 6 DVDs (containing outtakes, behind the scenes, official videos, live shows), a 120-page hardcover book, four tour laminates, three lithos, three guitar picks, a Metallica lanyard, a folder with lyric sheets, and a download card).
Much more than a mere tribute album, The Metallica Blacklist celebrates the enduring influence of this musical milestone with one of the most ambitious projects ever conceived by the Metallica team: An unprecedented 50+ artists spanning an unbelievably vast range of genres, generations, cultures, continents and more, each contributing a unique interpretation of their favorite Black Album cut.
The Metallica Blacklist offers up new dimensions of the record whose gravitational pull first drew the mainstream to Metallica—and provides new insights into the universal and timeless appeal that kept it there: the boundary-smashing influence these 12 songs have had on fans and musicians of all stripes. The Metallica Blacklist’s 53 tracks find singer songwriters, country artists, electronic and hip hop artists sharing their love of these songs alongside punk rockers, indie darlings, icons of rock, metal, world music and many, many more… and for 50+ good causes: Profits will be divided evenly between charities of the artist’s choice and Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation.
The Metallica Blacklist is a fitting and limitless homage, one that features bands who’ve shared stages with Metallica alongside artists who are younger than the original album. It’s a truly staggering, at times mystifying assemblage of musicians, dozens of whom have little to nothing in common other than the shared passion for the music that’s united them for this album: 1 Album. 12 Songs. 53 Artists. Unlimited Possibilities.
The Metallica Blacklist will be available in formats including digital, 4 CD and a limited edition 7 LP vinyl pressing. Pre-orders will instantly receive multi-platinum selling recording artist, songwriter, philanthropist and trailblazer Miley Cyrus’ version of “Nothing Else Matters” featuring WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo and Chad Smith, and Colombian-born rock/pop superstar, and winner of 20+ Grammy & Latin Music Grammy Awards Juanes’ interpretation of “Enter Sandman.”
*All profits from The Metallica Blacklist will be split evenly between the All Within My Hands Foundation and 50+ charities chosen by the artists who play on the album. All Within My Hands was founded by the band in 2017 as a way for the entire Metallica family to give back to communities that have supported the band by supporting workforce education, the fight against hunger, and other critical local services.
Record Store Day Exclusive Limited Edition Vinyl LP
In Stores July 17
Photo Credit: Magdalena Wosinska
It’s Record Store Day Night Fever as the Brothers Foo Gibb it to you good with HAIL SATIN, the high Travoltage debut album of Foo Fighters’ disco alter ego the DEE GEES.
Out July 17 as a limited edition vinyl album packaged era-appropriately in a dazzling rainbow mylar sleeve, HAIL SATIN is the bipolar party record of the summer. Side A features Grohl, Hawkins, Mendel, Smear, Shiflett and Jaffee lighting up the floor at Foo Fighters’ 606 studios with faithful renditions of five stone cold Brothers Gibb classics — Bee Gees bangers “You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy” and “More Than A Woman” + Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing” — while side B literally rocks the party with live at 606 renditions of roughly half of Foo Fighters pandemic panacea album MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT.
The full track listing for HAIL SATIN is:
Side A — The DEE GEES: You Should Be Dancing Night Fever Tragedy Shadow Dancing More Than a Woman
Side B — LIVE at 606: Making A Fire Shame Shame Waiting on a War No Son of Mine Cloudspotter
The DEE GEES: HAIL SATIN was recorded entirely at 606. For optimal results, listen with exposed chest hair and little gold spoon necklace (If you know, you know…).
CARNAGE the new album by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis is out on vinyl & CD on Friday, 18 June.
To mark the global release of CARNAGE, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis have recorded a very special conversation together, in which they answer questions from fans about their new album.
The pre-recorded audio conversation will be streamed via YouTube Premiere at 7pm BST on Friday, and will be available online following the streaming event www.nickcave.com/talkcarnage
CARNAGE is a new album by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, recorded over a period of weeks during lockdown. Although the pair have composed & recorded many soundtracks together, and Ellis is a long-term member of The Bad Seeds, this is the first time they have released an entire album of songs as a duo.
Cave describes the album as, “a brutal but very beautiful record nested in a communal catastrophe.”
“Making Carnage was an accelerated process of intense creativity,” says Ellis, “the eight songs were there in one form or another within the first two and a half days.”
Cave & Ellis’ sonic and lyrical adventurism continues apace on Carnage, an album that emerged almost by accident out of the downtime created by the long, anxious, global emergency.
Carnage is a record for these uncertain times – one shot through with moments of distilled beauty and that resonates with an almost defiant sense of hope. Their creative chemistry is rooted in their long history of music making, both as collaborators and as individual artists. They first crossed paths in 1993, when Ellis played violin on several songs for the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album, Let Love In, before going on to join the band as a full time member. The two have also recorded as Grinderman, formed in 2006, and have composed and recorded numerous, film, TV and theatre soundtracks together.
“Carnage will be our greatest lockdown album” The Telegraph ★★★★★
“Master craftsmen at the peak of their powers” NME ★★★★★
Daddy’s coming home to New York City this fall when St. Vincent makes her biggest NYC headlining appearance to date October 12th at Radio City Music Hall.
The Radio City event is the latest addition to St. Vincent’s extensive American tour. In addition to already announced, highly anticipated appearances at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, Life Is Beautiful in Las Vegas, the SLC Twilight Series and Austin City Limits, St. Vincent will visit more than 20 cities. See below for a full itinerary.
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON will be re-airing St. Vincent and the Down and Out Downtown Band’s recent appearance Friday, June 18th—if you missed it the first time or can’t wait to see it again, go HERE.
Produced by Annie Clark and Jack Antonoff, Daddy’s Home was released May 14th by Loma Vista Recordings.
For further information, refer to the tour dates below, or visit ilovestvincent.com
September 3 – Thompson’s Point – Portland, ME September 4 – Higher Ground – Burlington, VT September 7 – The Andrew J Brady ICON Music Center – Cincinnati, OH September 8 – Stage AE Indoor – Pittsburgh, PA September 10 – Egyptian Room – Indianapolis, IN September 11 – Pitchfork Festival – Chicago, IL September 14 – The Armory – Minneapolis, MN September 16 – Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO September 18 – SLC Twilight Series at Gallivan Center – Salt Lake City, UT September 19 – Life Is Beautiful – Las Vegas, NV September 22 – Vina Robles – Paso Robles, CA (direct support: Spoon) September 23 – The Greek Theatre – Berkeley, CA (direct support: Spoon) September 24 – Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles, CA (support: Spoon and Mereba) October 3 – ACL – Austin, TX October 5 – The Criterion – Oklahoma City, OK October 7 – Uptown Theater – Kansas City, MO October 8 – Pageant – St. Louis, MO October 9 – Ascend Amphitheater – Nashville, TN October 11 – The Met – Philadelphia, PA October 12 — Radio City Music Hall — New York, NY October 14 – Boch Center – Wang Theatre – Boston, MA October 15 – College Street Music Hall – New Haven, CT October 18 – Agora Theatre – Cleveland, OH October 20 – Fillmore – Detroit, MI
“Chemical (Chloé Caillet Remix)” Available June 11
Beck opens the door to yet another dimension of his GRAMMY Award-winning Hyperspace, with a Record Store Day exclusive pressing of Hyperspace (2020) out June 12. Limited to 1500 copies and featuring new cover art and holographic etchings, this one-time-only pressing of Hyperspace (2020) also includes the original elements of last year’s Hyperspace A.I. Exploration version of the record: a 24-page booklet with A.I. images and NASA data for each track, bonus tracks “Dark Places (Soundscape)” and Beck’s solo acoustic version of Chris Bell’s “I Am The Cosmos (42420),” and 2020 mixes of “Star”, “Hyperspace”, “See Through” and “Die Waiting”.
Additionally, another new take on a Hyperspace track will be released one day earlier, in the form of “Chemical (Chloé Caillet Remix)”, available digitally June 11. “Chemical (Chloé Caillet Remix)” turns the tables of Beck, giving him the reinterpretation treatment he’s recently applied to Remi Wolf’s “Sauce” and of course his version of “Find My Way” on Paul McCartney’s III Imagined album.
Originally released November 22, 2019 on Capitol Records, Hyperspace was met with universal acclaim, including a 4-star Rolling Stone review likening Beck’s voice to “David Bowie’s Major Tom checking in from distant orbit,” People magazine hailing the album as Beck’s “best in a decade,” and the Associated Press noting “There is not a boring moment on the entire album.” More recently, Hyperspace won Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards.
FOO FIGHTERS REOPEN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ON JUNE 20
FIRST CONCERT AT MSG SINCE MARCH 2020
Tickets On Sale June 11 for First Full-Capacity MSG Show of 2021
It’s the long awaited return of the full-capacity arena rock show, as Foo Fighters and Madison Square Garden welcome fans back to the iconic venue on June 20, 2021 for the first 100% capacity concert in a New York arena since March 2020. This historic moment will mark Foo Fighters ushering in the post-Covid arena rock era with Madison Square Garden’s first concert in more than 460 days.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on June 11 at 10:00AM local time.
“We’ve been waiting for this day for over a year,” said Dave Grohl. “And Madison Square Garden is going to feel that HARD. New York, get ready for a long ass night of screaming our heads off together to 26 years of Foos.”
Foo Fighters first headlined a sold-out Garden in February 2008 on their “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace” Tour, returning to rock the venue for another sell-out show in November 2011 on the “Wasting Light” Tour. Most recently, the band sold-out two nights at The World’s Most Famous Arena in July 2018, on their “Concrete and Gold” Tour. The announcement of the June 20 MSG show follows the news of Foo Fighters’ first six U.S. dates of their upcoming “25th 26th Anniversary” Tour.
Tickets for Foo Fighters’ historic return of rock to the Garden will be available for purchase by the general public beginning June 11 at 10:00AM via http://foofighters.co/MSG and Ticketmaster Charge by Phone (1-866-858-0008). For more information about this show go HERE.
Citi is the official presale credit card of the Foo Fighters Tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, June 8 at 11am ET until Thursday, June 10th at 10pm local time through Citi Entertainment. For complete presale details go HERE.
