The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1996 album The Aeroplane Flies High will be reissued by Virgin/UMe as four separate versions: a six-CD boxed set, a five-LP vinyl set and two digital configurations. This limited-edition release, due out July 23, will feature the remastered original tracks along with unreleased demos, alternate versions and live recordings along with extensive track-by-track notes [...]
AMOS LEE'S MOUNTAINS OF SORROW, RIVERS OF SONG SET FOR OCTOBER 1 RELEASE BY BLUE NOTE RECORDS PRODUCED BY JAY JOYCE, ALBUM INCLUDES SPECIAL GUESTS ALISON KRAUSS AND PATTY GRIFFIN AND FOLLOWS 2011's CHART-TOPPING MISSION BELL Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song , Amos Lee 's fifth studio album, will be released on October 1, 2013 by Blue Note Records. See below for track listing. Lee recorded the 12-song collection in Nashville with Jay Joyce (Emmylou Harris, [...]
Photo by Harper Smith Amos Lee is releasing a new album on Blue Note Records on October 1. The album, Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song , is Lee's fifth studio album and was recorded in Nashville with Jay Joyce. The new studio record is the first to feature Lee's longtime touring band - comprising Freddie Berman, Zach Djanikian, Andy Keenan and Jaron Olevsky - and the first album to be recorded at St. Charles, producer Joyce's brand new studio, which is housed in a converted East Nashville church. Joining Amos on the album [...]
As the average promotional bio can attest, many singer-songwriters and folk artists find a spark in a small, select set of early influences; part of the process of learning to take on the mantle of your own artistry involves imitation of the formative experience. I imagine the process much like that of any fan with even a small modicum of skill on any instrument, wherein the urge to reproduce and channel prompts vocalization and handwork, first tentatively and, finally, with confidence, as we learn from the hidden masters on our stereo. It's not the [...]
If you're a music lover living in New York City, chances are that you've been to at least one show at Rockwood Music Hall in Lower East Side, Manhattan. Though the music venue has only been in existence for the past eight years, it seems as though it has already ...
The compilation The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver sees an official release today and features artists including Sharon Van Etten, J Mascis, Evan Dando, Lucinda Williams, Josh Ritter, Emmylou Harris and many more reinterpreting some of the pop icon's classic tunes. Listen to a few choice selections from it below and order it via iTunes (USA) here . Follow @madmackerel
It's shaping up to be another stellar year for album-length coverage, with pickings so strong we're hard pressed to take them all on in a single feature without burying the lead. Indeed, in the few short months since the year turned, we've already featured close exploration of Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer's Child Ballads EP, touted Levi Weaver's free-to-fans covers EP as a "darling indie set" well worth your time, and helped Slowcoustic's double-length tribute to J. Tillman's Long May You Run take flight. But the hits just keep on coming, and we're [...]
Hear Amos Lee cover John Denver. John Denver is receiving a new tribute via ATO Records. The label will release, The Music Is You, a new compilation album of covers from modern artists....
The very talented Amos Lee has thrown in his hat for a sweet acoustic cover of "Some Days are Diamonds" for the upcoming John Denver tribute LP from ATO Records to be released in April 2nd. stream it below:
Dave Grohl gave an inspiring and insightful Keynote Speech at last week's SXSW [link] Cursive and The Good Life frontman Tim Kasher came to Folkadelphia in his solo acoustic capacity for this week's live session [link] Mondays' My Morning Download featured L.A. five piece The Lonely Wild and their track "Everything You Need" [link] Florida ... Continue reading
Singer-songwriter Amos Lee joins a star-studded group of WXPN favorite musicians including Dave Matthews, Kathleen Edwards, My Morning Jacket, Brandi Carlile, and Lucinda Williams for The Music Is You: A tribute To John Denver, out on ATO Records on April 2nd. Listen to Amos's version of Denver's "Some Days Are Diamonds." Below, listen to My ... Continue reading
Maybe SXSW is to blame, but this week seems a little light on the new albums. Sure, okay, the new David Bowie album is out this week (pictured), and who wants to compete with Bowie? No one! Regardless, it seems like a few are trying. Amos Lee has a DVD out, for instance. The World/Inferno Friendship Society have a comic book. Tape Deck Mountain have an EP. What's going to gain traction this week with that huge music festival going down in Austin? It's hard to tell, but we certainly [...]
Starfish and coffee, maple syrup and jam can just cool their jets, according to Prince' s new song "Breakfast Can Wait". The velvet-funk of this new track harkens back more to his Sign 'O' the Times days, rather than his blusier debut album days like "Screwdriver" did. You can purchase a download of this song for the bargain price of $0.88 at Prince's webstore . If you ever have five minutes to spare, I strongly encourage you to check out Grantland's animated re-enactment of Chappelle's Show creator Neal Brennan's encounter with [...]
As previously reported , impresario Michael Dorf is putting together a tribute to Prince that will be held at Carnegie Hall on March 7th . Today, a number of additional acts set to join house band The Roots in performing at the event have been revealed. Elvis Costello, Amos Lee, D'Angelo, Bhi Bhiman, Citizen Cope & Alice Smith, Princess (feat. Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum) and Sandra Bernhard will join previously announced acts Blind Boys of Alabama, Bilal, Booker T, DeVotchka, Living Colour, Madeleine Peyroux, The Waterboys and Talib Kweli in covering The Purple One at the iconic [...]
Philly songwriter-done-good Amos Lee is releasing a new live DVD on March 12 - his installment of the Live from the Artists' Den series filmed during the Mission Bell tour at Tuscon's Fox Theater. The show included a collaboration with Calexico and a cover of Willie Nelson and Ray Charles' "Seven Spanish Angels", while backstage ... Continue reading
THE ARTISTS DEN AND EMI RELEASE AMOS LEE LIVE ALBUM ON JAN. 9, FULL-LENGTH DVD ON MAR. 12 Amos Lee: Live from the Artists Den concert album and DVD feature 16 songs performed at the historic Fox Theatre in Tucson, Arizona On March 12, 2013 Artists Den Records and EMI Music in conjunction with Blue Note Records will release Amos Lee : Live from the Artists Den on DVD. A live album of music from this concert is also available [...]
In February ATO Records will release an album entitled The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver that features HT faves My Morning Jacket, Dave Matthews, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Old Crow Medicine Show and more covering songs from John Denver's impressive catalog. The tribute is due 15 years after Denver's tragic death and 40 years after the release of Rocky Mountain High. A portion of the proceeds will be benefit environmental initiatives in John’s name. Here's the tracklist for the tribute... “Take Me [...]
Philly soul-folk luminary Amos Lee and indie songwriter Sharon Van Etten are among the artist confirmed for the new The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver, a charity compilation coming out in February of next year on Dave Matthews' ATO Records. The album, which releases around the 40th anniversary of Denver's signature tune ... Continue reading
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