On DUETS: RE-WORKING THE CATALOGUE, Van Morrison and the guests selected and recorded some of his songs from the catalog of 360 songs across his career. Deliberately steering away from his more well-known classics, Van enlisted some of the artists he most respects to perform these songs with him to re-craft and re-imagine them. The album was recorded …
Begin Again: Music From & Inspired By The Original Motion Picture
The latest film from writer-director John Carney (ONCE), BEGIN AGAIN is a soul-stirring comedy about what happens when lost souls meet and make beautiful music together. Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who decamp for New York when he lands a deal with a major label. But the …
While it s a rare commodity for a band to tour as consistently as Slightly Stoopid, the group s diligent commitment to live music provides some insight into their loyal fan base and unique creative metamorphosis throughout their existence. As Apparent by their latest studio album Meanwhile…Back at the Lab the Ocean Beach, California-based group led by co-founders …
Family harmonies, ethnic instruments, driving rhythms and soaring anthems all come together to create a new, exciting, and awe-inspiring sound in the contemporary music world. The Willis Clan is family band who have walked the musical path less traveled and kept strong hold of their heritage and roots in Irish and Folk music. Now living in Nashville, they …
‘Rickie Lee Jones has been pushing down musical boundaries for over four decades with her hauntingly beautiful voice and fearless experimentation’ -NPR’a blend of bravado and vulnerability [that] wavers on indefinable borders’-Rolling StoneTwo-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones exploded onto the pop scene with her groundbreaking self-titled debut and has fearlessly experimented with her sound and persona over …
Sammy Hagar and The Circle announce their debut live double album “At Your Service” set for world-wide release on May 19th, 2015.Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham, & Vic Johnson’s debut album live from their critically acclaimed 2014 tour. The new 2015 tour kicks off on April 11,2015 in Las Vegas and runs through September.”At Your Service” captures …
Foo Fighters have confirmed that the making of their upcoming eighth album–due out this fall on Roswell/RCA–will be accompanied by an as yet untitled HBO series documenting the eight-city odyssey during which the record was created.In the series, directed by FF founder Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters tap into the musical heritage and cultural fabric of eight cities–Chicago, …
Uptown Special is Ronson’s most inventive and vibrant work to date. Taken as a whole, the album is inspired by his musical beginnings. As a teenager growing up in New York City in the early 90s, Ronson gravitated towards hip-hop, funk, soul and R&B. Those were the records he lugged around in boxes in the early days of …
Pop, blues, soul, and rock’n’roll singer/ songwriter/ guitarist /banjoist Elle King’s debut album LOVE STUFF will be released on January 13, 2015 on RCA Records.Elle worked with acclaimed collaborators on LOVE STUFF including Jeff Bhasker (Fun., Kanye West, The Rolling Stones), Eg White (Adele, Sam Smith), Jacknife Lee (R.E.M., U2,Crystal Castles), Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, Paul …
Many know Joy Williams as one half of the four-time Grammy-winning folk-rock duo The Civil Wars. Until their 2012 hiatus (and eventual break up in August 2014) the singer-songstress with her long sea witch hair and Mona Lisa half-smile rarely revealed herself, except through the duo s bruising and stark lyrics of romantic conflations and doomed intimacies.On VENUS …