11
Jan
2005
• Hot off the heels of the third volume in KCRW-FM's Sounds Eclectic CD series, Boston's WBOS-FM has just released the second CD in its 92.9 Live from the Archives series of artists performing intimate tunes live in the studio. Benefiting a great cause in the New England area, funds received from the CD support The Genesis Fund, aiding children born with birth defects and mental retardation. Recorded in the radio station's Studio 7, artists on the new CD include Guster, Los Lonely Boys, Alanis Morissette, Juliana Hatfield, Ziggy Marley, and Sarah McLachlan.
• While this coming week is a bit light with new releases, January 25 is like a record industry "running of the bulls," packed with a snortin' stampede of new CDs. I'm welcoming the return of a handful of old friends amid the crowded crush, stepping back into the spotlight and offering their first new music in years. Marianne Faithfull returns with Before the Poison on the white-hot Anti/Epitaph label, pairing the breathy chanteuse with Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, Jon Brion, and PJ Harvey. Master guitarist Adrian Belew is back with Side One, a new studio solo album on the Sanctuary imprint. Look for the master guitarist to announce tour dates soon. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny joins with his old partner, Lyle Mays, on The Way Up on Nonesuch Records. The new album features a new composition running more than an hour long. Chris Stamey debuts his new band, The Chris Stamey Experience, with A Question of Temperature, on Yep Roc Records. This new project from the founding member of the dB's features one heck of a backing band - Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, and James McNew of Yo La Tengo, with guests Tyson Rogers of the North by Northwest Quartet, Caitlin Cary, and former dB's bandmate Gene Holder. Two cool covers make the electric set: a take on the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" and Tom Verlaine's "Venus." Former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin offers his reincarnation in the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex and its Life Begins Again CD on Sanctuary. The album features guest vocalists Rob Dickinson of Catherine Wheel, and - dig this - Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers. Another unique voice returns with Heart & Soul, Joe Cocker's new CD on the New Door/Universal label. Featuring guest guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, this covers collection features his take on R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts," Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," and John Lennon's "Jealous Guy."
• Speaking of big voices, soul legend Solomon Burke is releasing an all-new album in early March, entitled Make Do with What You Got. The Shout Factory! Records release features new songs written specifically for the singer by Dr. John and Van Morrison, and covers of Hank Williams' "Wealth Won't Save Your Soul" and Bob Dylan's "What Good Am I."
• In other covers news, next month brings two nifty cover projects. Motivated by his "discovery" during a cross-country road trip of how great a band The Police were, the owner of Militia Group Records has assembled a new salute to the trio in POLICIA!: A Tribute to the Police. A dozen young bands take up the tribute challenge, including Fall Out Boy, Copeland, No Motiv, Brandtson, and Underoath. Also due in early February is Dying to Be Famous, a new collection of covers under the Underground, Inc. Records banner, with Pigface covering AC/DC, LoLo covering Joy Division, Bagman covering the Ramones, and Opium Jukebox covering Nirvana.
• Who says that budding metalheads can't read? The PUSH imprint of the Scholastic press has announced the publication later this year of Heavy Metal & You, a new novel aimed at junior-high and high-school readers. Author Christopher Krovatin is being touted as a metal-loving Nick Hornby with his tale of boy meeting girl and complications arising, so "boy plays music even louder."
Television Alert:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes Papa Roach tonight, Ozzy Osbourne on Thursday, The Hives on Friday, and Alter Bridge on Tuesday; The Late Show with David Letterman hosts My Chemical Romance on Thursday, Xzibit on Monday, and Ice Cube on Tuesday; Late Night with Conan O'Brien features the Indigo Girls on Monday overnight and Joss Stone on Tuesday overnight; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson boasts Wyclef Jean on Thursday overnight and Mos Def on Monday overnight; and Saturday Night Live's musical guest this weekend is The Killers.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, January 18:
... and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change
The Bellrays - Red, White, & Black (Alternative Tentacles) domestic release of the group's fourth garage-soul album
Black Mountain - Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)
Blood Brothers - Crime (Second Nature) special colored-vinyl LP pressing with a 16-page booklet and poster
Chemical Brothers - "Galvanize" (Astralwerks) new CD and 12-inch single with guest Q-Tip
Earl Greyhound - Earl Greyhound (Some Records) debut EP
Early Day Miners - All Harm Ends Here (Secretly Canadian) from Bloomington, Indiana
Erasure - "Breathe" (Mute) new CD single
Four Volts - Triple Your Work Force (Kanine) raw, energetic shoe-gazing garage rock from Long Island
Fozzy - All That Remains (Ash)
Katastrophy Wife - All Kneel (Sympathy for the Record Industry) new from Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland
Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials & Errors (Secretly Canadian)
Strike Anywhere - To Live in Discontent (Jade Tree) collection of rare tracks and covers
Superpitcher - Here Comes Love (Kompakt) CD and two-LP collection of previously unreleased tracks
Turpentine Brothers - We Don't Care About Your Good Times (Alive!) garage punk seeped in the sound of old labels such as Stax and Fortune
Greg Weeks - Blood Is Trouble (Ba Da Bing) third solo album from the Espers founder
Wires on Fire - Homewrecker (Buddyhead) six-track EP
various artists - The Sympathetic Sounds of Montreal (Sympathy for the Record Industry) 21 tracks from Daylight Lovers, Deadly Snakes, Stack O' Lees, and more
• While this coming week is a bit light with new releases, January 25 is like a record industry "running of the bulls," packed with a snortin' stampede of new CDs. I'm welcoming the return of a handful of old friends amid the crowded crush, stepping back into the spotlight and offering their first new music in years. Marianne Faithfull returns with Before the Poison on the white-hot Anti/Epitaph label, pairing the breathy chanteuse with Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, Jon Brion, and PJ Harvey. Master guitarist Adrian Belew is back with Side One, a new studio solo album on the Sanctuary imprint. Look for the master guitarist to announce tour dates soon. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny joins with his old partner, Lyle Mays, on The Way Up on Nonesuch Records. The new album features a new composition running more than an hour long. Chris Stamey debuts his new band, The Chris Stamey Experience, with A Question of Temperature, on Yep Roc Records. This new project from the founding member of the dB's features one heck of a backing band - Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, and James McNew of Yo La Tengo, with guests Tyson Rogers of the North by Northwest Quartet, Caitlin Cary, and former dB's bandmate Gene Holder. Two cool covers make the electric set: a take on the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" and Tom Verlaine's "Venus." Former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin offers his reincarnation in the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex and its Life Begins Again CD on Sanctuary. The album features guest vocalists Rob Dickinson of Catherine Wheel, and - dig this - Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers. Another unique voice returns with Heart & Soul, Joe Cocker's new CD on the New Door/Universal label. Featuring guest guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, this covers collection features his take on R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts," Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," and John Lennon's "Jealous Guy."
• Speaking of big voices, soul legend Solomon Burke is releasing an all-new album in early March, entitled Make Do with What You Got. The Shout Factory! Records release features new songs written specifically for the singer by Dr. John and Van Morrison, and covers of Hank Williams' "Wealth Won't Save Your Soul" and Bob Dylan's "What Good Am I."
• In other covers news, next month brings two nifty cover projects. Motivated by his "discovery" during a cross-country road trip of how great a band The Police were, the owner of Militia Group Records has assembled a new salute to the trio in POLICIA!: A Tribute to the Police. A dozen young bands take up the tribute challenge, including Fall Out Boy, Copeland, No Motiv, Brandtson, and Underoath. Also due in early February is Dying to Be Famous, a new collection of covers under the Underground, Inc. Records banner, with Pigface covering AC/DC, LoLo covering Joy Division, Bagman covering the Ramones, and Opium Jukebox covering Nirvana.
• Who says that budding metalheads can't read? The PUSH imprint of the Scholastic press has announced the publication later this year of Heavy Metal & You, a new novel aimed at junior-high and high-school readers. Author Christopher Krovatin is being touted as a metal-loving Nick Hornby with his tale of boy meeting girl and complications arising, so "boy plays music even louder."
Television Alert:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes Papa Roach tonight, Ozzy Osbourne on Thursday, The Hives on Friday, and Alter Bridge on Tuesday; The Late Show with David Letterman hosts My Chemical Romance on Thursday, Xzibit on Monday, and Ice Cube on Tuesday; Late Night with Conan O'Brien features the Indigo Girls on Monday overnight and Joss Stone on Tuesday overnight; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson boasts Wyclef Jean on Thursday overnight and Mos Def on Monday overnight; and Saturday Night Live's musical guest this weekend is The Killers.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, January 18:
... and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change
The Bellrays - Red, White, & Black (Alternative Tentacles) domestic release of the group's fourth garage-soul album
Black Mountain - Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)
Blood Brothers - Crime (Second Nature) special colored-vinyl LP pressing with a 16-page booklet and poster
Chemical Brothers - "Galvanize" (Astralwerks) new CD and 12-inch single with guest Q-Tip
Earl Greyhound - Earl Greyhound (Some Records) debut EP
Early Day Miners - All Harm Ends Here (Secretly Canadian) from Bloomington, Indiana
Erasure - "Breathe" (Mute) new CD single
Four Volts - Triple Your Work Force (Kanine) raw, energetic shoe-gazing garage rock from Long Island
Fozzy - All That Remains (Ash)
Katastrophy Wife - All Kneel (Sympathy for the Record Industry) new from Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland
Magnolia Electric Co. - Trials & Errors (Secretly Canadian)
Strike Anywhere - To Live in Discontent (Jade Tree) collection of rare tracks and covers
Superpitcher - Here Comes Love (Kompakt) CD and two-LP collection of previously unreleased tracks
Turpentine Brothers - We Don't Care About Your Good Times (Alive!) garage punk seeped in the sound of old labels such as Stax and Fortune
Greg Weeks - Blood Is Trouble (Ba Da Bing) third solo album from the Espers founder
Wires on Fire - Homewrecker (Buddyhead) six-track EP
various artists - The Sympathetic Sounds of Montreal (Sympathy for the Record Industry) 21 tracks from Daylight Lovers, Deadly Snakes, Stack O' Lees, and more
