
Well this one has certainly jumped out of the wood work. Everyone's best friend, BECK , is back. He's back with a new track, and an announcement of two brand new albums. Big day for Beck then, ey? Okay, okay, we may have already known that Beck was releasing a new acoustic album later this year, as he announced that he'd been working on it since 2008 about a month ago. The yet-to-be named Acoustic LP, is due out sometime in our Spring. But we wanted this [...]

It's been a whopping five years since Beck released his excellent, Modern Guilt LP. Since then he's produced stuff for, amongst others, Thurston Moore, Stephen Malkmus and Charlotte Gainsbourg , and last December released his Song Reader album-book. All good stuff, but I've been gagging for a new Beck album for ages - so the news that a new song (' Defriended [...]

Mike Tramp (White Lion) to release solo acoustic record, Cobblestone Street, on May 7 On May 7, 2013 Deadline Music (a subsidiary of Cleopatra Records) will release Cobblestone Street , the latest solo record from White Lion vocalist Mike Tramp . Cobblestone Street offers a unexpectedly softer side of the rock front man, with ten acoustic-leaning tracks. "This is the album I've dreamed about making for the last thirty years," said Mike. Cobblestone Street is [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List , Music Appreciation AFP | Getty Justin Bieber is releasing Believe Acoustic this week, which will feature unplugged versions of chart toppers like "Boyfriend" and "Beauty and the Beat" from an album that came out way back in the summer of, um, 2012. This has put us in a reflective mood about the acoustic album (the kind where artists cover [...]

Cheap Girls have announced that they will be releasing an acoustic version of their sophomore album, 2009's My Roaring 20's , digitally via Quote Unquote Records . As with all Quote Unquote releases, the album will be free, with an optional donation. Any donations for the album will go toward paying for Cheap Girls singer/bassist Ian Graham's upcoming knee surgery. Regarding the recording, Graham writes: We recorded this a couple years back and have been trying to figure out a decent time to get it out. [...]
Justin Bieber Tuesday night (December 18) tweeted "studio. #acoustic." meaning he was probably working on his forthcoming unplugged album (due for a January 29 release). That same night, at about the same time, Bieber's manager/mouthpiece Scooter Braun sent out a flurry of tweets saying he was watching an acoustic studio session involving Ed Sheeran . Braun capped everything off by saying, "Not gonna lie. There is magic in the studio tonight. Truly honored to be here." Either he's building up [...]
Perhaps motivated by his Grammys snub , Justin Bieber is already working on new material as well as an acoustic album. The pop star on Thursday (December 6) tweeted : "been writing alot...new stuff...and yeah. the acoustic album, new arrangements, is happening..." So does that mean the acoustic version of "Boyfriend," which was teased in his fragrance ad, will appear on the release? Hear that snippet below, and cross your fingers that it makes the cut, along with more reworked material from Believe . [...]
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The Menzingers have announced plans to release a brand new acoustic album. The eight-track release - titled 'On The Possible Past' - sees the band compile a collection of the original acoustic demos of tracks from their latest album 'On The Impossible Past'. Released on the 15th December through Epitaph Records, the album is set to be released on 1000 copies of vinyl. you can have a listen to their rendition of 'Casey' below. "'On The Possible Past' is a collection of eight acoustic demos recorded during [...]
LA-via-Sacramento songwriter Chelsea Wolfe has a new acoustic album in the works, as well as a U.S. tour which includes a headline performance at the Rickshaw Stop on September 12. The doom-folk heroine released her first official album The Grime and the Glow in 2010, followed by last year's Apokalypsis on Pendu Sound Recordings . While those two albums found Chelsea and her band melding gothic, blues-tinged songwriting with subtle electronic production under a veil of black metal influence, her forthcoming release will be an [...]

Toots & The Maytals 'Unplugged on Strawberry Hill' / 'Reggae Got Soul DVD' via Metropolis; Release date 6th August 2012 Reggae ambassadors Toots & The Maytals unveil their first ever acoustic album this summer through Metropolis, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Jamaican Independence Day. Grammy award-winning Toots Hibbert was the first to use the word reggae on tape in his 1968 classic, "do the raggay", and over the last six decades has defined and redefined the sound. [...]
#4 - The War I'm going to perform all the songs from my new album "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" live from different places in the US during my tour and put them up on YouTube. This is the fourth track from the new album - The War performed Kingston, NY. The full album can be found here: http://music.sofiatalvik.com
Tonight Alive will be releasing a special acoustic album this summer, featuring an acoustic version of every song on their current album What Are You So Scared Of? The album will only be available exclusively at the Tonight Alive booth and the Fearless Records booth at Vans Warped Tour from June 16. The explosive Australian [...]
The Ataris have a new album, The Graveyard of the Atlantic, due out this fall on Paper + Plastick. In order to hold you over until then, the label's got a free acoustic album from Ataris frontman Kristopher Roe available for download. Says the press release of the album, entitled ...

The Owls Are Not What They Seem "...Not dread but a connection with our past is what we feel, a thread running back to the artless creatures we once were when we first heard the oboe-like notes from the Great Horned Owl. In Paleolithic times, we suspected omens in its voice, heard in it questions we were unable to articulate, but which have stayed within us, incomplete and taunting. We are certain that ancient, taloned bird sees what we do not, knows what we never will. And some night, silent as a gliding feather, [...]

"When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes" is the seventh studio album released by American rock band Yellowcard on March 22, 2011 via Hopeless Records. The album has received strong critical acclaim. The album's title comes from a text message sent to a girl by lead singer Ryan Key. On October 24, 2011, Yellowcard released an Acoustic version of When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes. It features all 10 of the album tracks, with special guest vocalist Cassadee Pope from Hey Monday featured on the acoustic version of "Hang You Up." Read more »
It will feature new versions of songs by his various bands plus some covers...

Yellowcard's new acoustic album (the band's latest release, 'When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes' with all the tracks done acoustically), can be streamed in its entirety here . The album is released digitally through iTunes and Amazon tomorrow with physical copies being sold through selected retailers from November 1st.
Tomas Kalnoky is evidently now going by the name Toh Kay (clever) for his debut solo release, Streetlight Dreams, from Pentimento Music Company. It seems like Kalnoky's non-Streetlight Manifesto output is entirely reworked material. His split with Mu330's Dan Potthast had him covering Potthast's solo work and that of Mu330, ...

Tomas Kalnoky, frontman for NJ ska group Streetlight Manifesto, has announced plans for an acoustic album.
News John Corabi (MÖTLEY CRÜE, THE SCREAM, RATT, UNION, ESP) is putting the finishing touches on an acoustic album which he says will include "old songs, new songs and just a sample of things to come." In other news, Corabi will hit the road acoustically this summer as the support act for CINDERELLA.