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Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement
According to Matador Records:
This fully remastered 23-track compilation will be available on MID-PRICED double LP, CD and digital album formats. The tracks span the entirety of Pavement’s career from 1989 to 1999, from the scratchy and mysterious sounds of their early vinyl-only releases to the rich, multilayered warmth of their final recordings. Although the compilation does not include any unreleased material, it definitely digs deeper than the hits.
It precedes their first live dates since 1999, including dates in the UK in London and Glasgow and at All Tomorrow's Parties and ends with 4 dates in Central Park, New York in September 2010.
Last night saw the launch of the UK Americana compilation Divided By A Common Language
There's also an article on Clubhouse Records and the compilation at The Times Online entitled Hoedown In The Home Counties.
For more of the same there's Come Down And Meet The Folks and Honky Tonkin' Sundays in London on alternate weekends, as well as What's Cookin' sometimes 2 or 3 times a week in London.
Spring Park Motel, everyone's favourite band around London, have released a Christmas song called Frosty, Me & Jim Beam which is available now from soundcloud.com
Take a listen and pass on some Christmas cheer!
Bob Dylan has a new album of Christmas songs called Christmas in the Heart
Also there's a The Beatles Christmas Pack: Limited Edition
But our favourite is The Muppet Christmas Carol
Merry New Year!
Ken Russell directed the film of Tommy and it featured a host of performers including Elton John, Ann-Margret and Tina Turner as the Acid Queen. It was filmed in the Lake District and Portsmouth. I remember the filming and the news that the pier in Southsea had burnt down, which features in the closing seconds of the film. This brought some animosity at the time because of the way the film had disrupted the town.
The DVD features songs from Tommy as well as a host of favourites including Can't Explain, Substitute, Baba O'Reilly (Teenage Wasteland)Pinball Wizard, My Generation and Won't Get Fooled Again
.They also have a single out called "Rock 'n' Roll Train" which has the unique claim to fame of having the first video in an Excel spreadsheet. Get the spreadsheet here: www.acdcrocks.com/excel
or watch it here:
Finally released on CD (also on DVD) - The Clash, opening for The Who on their farewell tour of the US, played two nights at the legendary Shea Stadium (12th & 13th Oct 1982). They had recently released the Combat Rock album, and the singles "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?" were enjoying mass audiences via MTV and radio airplay.
2. London Calling
3. Police On My Back
4. Guns Of Brixton
5. Tommy Gun
6. Magnificent Seven
7. Armagideon Time
8. Magnificent Seven
9. Rock The Casbah
10. Train In Vain
11. Career Opportunities
12. Spanish Bombs
13. Clampdown
14. English Civil War
15. Should I Stay Or Should I Go
16. I Fought The Law
See The Clash also played Shea! on their website
Grantura's debut album is finally released today. It includes the singles 'Waves', 'In Dreams' and 'Down From The Mountain'. The band have been featured on Bob Harris's show on Radio 2, Marc Riley on 6 Music among others.
"This comes as close to the sound of the Californian cosmic cowboys as any group from "south-east London via the lowlands of Lincolnshire" has any right to get. There are echoes of the Byrds, the Dillards, the Clarks and the Burritos, but the best thing of all is that the whole thing manages to smell as much of real ale and cider as it does of whisky sours." - Simmy Richman, The Independent
Gigs on 2nd October at the Betsey Trotwood, London and Buffalo Bar, 20th November.
"As I write this, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m listening to the most extraordinary few minutes of music I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve heard all year." says Mark Edwards in The Times.
Check out his review of the album
Death Magnetic is the upcoming ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It is scheduled for release on September 12, 2008 by Warner Bros. Records.
The album will also be the band's first to feature current bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first to be produced by Rick Rubin. It will also be their first studio album released through Warner Bros., although they still remain with Warner Music Group, which also owns Elektra Records, the band's previous label.
The album will be promoted by the preceding single "The Day That Never Comes", released in August.
The album comes in Standard Edition or the Box Magnetic Death In A Coffin Edition available as a pre-order from Amazon (release date 12th September).
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