Music Review: Mitch Ryder - The Promise
Jan 23, 2:38am
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Music @ Blogcritics.orgBefore Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, Iggy Pop, and Jack White, there was Mitch Ryder. The Detroit rocker is back.
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Italian superstar Zucchero has officially released his celebrated album Chocabeck in the US (iTunes / Amazon). The album was co-produced with Don Was (the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan) and Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen), and Bono, Iggy Pop and Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears all contributed English lyrics. Zucchero Releases North American Edition of Chocabeck + Tour Dates Zucchero explained in a recent interview [...]
Lucinda Williams releases Blessed Blessed , the stunning new album from three-time Grammy Award-winner Lucinda Williams is set for release on March 1, 2011 by Lost Highway . Buy CDs, MP3s, more: Lucinda Williams on Amazon.com Lucinda Williams on Amazon.co.uk Considered by many to be one of America's greatest [...]
Paloma recently mentioned a musician - a portly, mustacheod fellow and one quarter of an iconic band of the late '60s - and I reacted with the disdain akin to that Kramer and Newman had for baseball great Keith Hernandez. I had to remind her that several of us had unpleasant encounters with this legend at the record store where we worked and met in the '90s. (in one memorable incident, our jazz buyer - a burly cat in a beret - followed this character to the bookstore next door and verbally smacked [...]
Y ears ago, I read an interesting quote from Bonnie Raitt, in which she shared some advice given to her by Don Was, who produced her 1989 breakthrough album, Nick of Time , and its two multi-platinum follow-ups, Luck of the Draw and Longing in Their Hearts . It went something like this: Never save the best for last. When you're ordering the songs on an album, put the three strongest ones first, because that might be as long as you have to pull in listeners. Most people never make it to the halfway mark. Was [...]
Filed under: Spinner Interview Don Was has been working with the Rolling Stones since 1993, first teaming with the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" to produce 1994's 'Voodoo Lounge' and then helming 1997's 'Bridges to Babylon' and '2005's 'A Bigger Bang.' That made Was the obvious choice to take on the responsibility of mining through 300 hours of tapes from the band's infamous recording sessions in the south of France for 'Exile on Main Street' to compile the 10 bonus tracks on the just-reissued version [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Longtime Rolling Stones producer Don Was , who first worked with the band in '93, recently got to revisit a childhood favorite, mining through 300 hours of tape to come up with the 10 bonus songs for the just-released 'Exile On Main Street' reissue. Despite having worked with the band for 17 years, going back to an album that was influential in his own life as a kid was special for Was. "The honest to god's [...]
Filed under: News The famed Capitol Records building at the corner of Hollywood and Vine has frequently been at the epicenter of Beatle-mania over the last four decades. Monday night saw the phenomenon in full swing once again as Vine Street was closed down and Beatles fans jammed in front of the label home to see Ringo Starr receive the 2,401 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 45-minute ceremony featured Starr's friends Joe Walsh , Don Was and Ben Harper sharing their [...]
Filed under: News , New Music Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has just released a solo Christmas single. The singer's rendition of 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' -- covered in recent years by Coldplay, Bright Eyes and Bob Dylan -- can be heard on AOL Radio's Rock Holiday station and is now available through iTunes. Weiland first performed the song on ' The Tonight Show With Jay Leno ' back in 2006. The song was first made famous by Judy Garland [...]
Filed under: Around the World Khaled , the king of Algerian Rai music, is gearing up for a pretty amazing November concert. He'll be headlining a show that brings artists from across the Arab and North African world, some veterans, some newcomers, gathered fittingly at a noted desert oasis. Er ... Las Vegas. "I expect Las Vegas to be for this one night the capital of Rai & Roll," says the emotive singer, who has revolutionized his birth nation's folk-pop music several times in a career stretching [...]
AFTER TWO NPR "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" STORIES, MAIA SHARP'S ECHO ENTERS TOP 15 OF AMAZON'S BESTSELLERS IN MUSIC - ADULT CONTEMPORARY CHART Produced By Don Was And Featuring Guests Bonnie Raitt And Jim Keltner, 'Echo' Is Set For August 11th Release; Lead Single "John Q. Lonely" Was # 1 Most Added At Triple A Radio For Two Consecutive Weeks U.S. Headlining Tour Underway Heralding Maia Sharp as "A Songwriter Set To Arrive," NPR's All Things [...]
Ecco una lodevole iniziativa, del tutto indipendente e non a scopo di lucro, da parte di musicisti "storici" come Jon Bon Jovi , il suo chitarrista Richie Sambora e il misconosciuto (almeno in Italia) Andranik Madadian (iraniano/armeno cantante conosciuto con il nome di Andy). I tre, insieme ad altri musicisti di livello come Don Was (bassista), Patrick Leonard (tastierista) e Jeff Rothchild (batterista), hanno registrato una particolare cover di Stand By Me , storico brano di Ben E. King scelto per l'occasione. E la cantano sia in inglese che in iraniano (quindi [...]
Jill Sobule's all grown up. She's given up on the label system and like several of the artists this week is releasing a fan funded record on her own label. I've never been a big fan of Jill Sobule (I liked her "hits" as much as the next guy though) but since Songs:Illinois' mission statement is to support artists that are independent and doing it mostly themselves I can't help but do a post on this new record. California Years comes out April 14 on Jill's own label. The song "San Francisco" continues to explore [...]
Photo: Mickey Raphael, Don Was, Ziggy, Willie Nelson Tuff Gong Worldwide will release Ziggy Marley 's third solo album, 'Family Time' , on May 5, 2009. Marley produced the album with legendary producer Don Was . The album will feature a variety of family and friends including Rita Marley (Ziggy's mother), Cedella Marley (sister), Judah Marley (daughter), Paul Simon , Jack Johnson , Willie Nelson , Toots Hibberts , Elizabeth Mitchell , Laurie Berkner , Paula Fuga and two [...]
Italian superstar Zucchero's US album release out now!
Oct 5, 2011, 5:25am
Band Weblogs
Band Weblogs
Italian superstar Zucchero has officially released his celebrated album Chocabeck in the US (iTunes / Amazon). The album was co-produced with Don Was (the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan) and Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen), and Bono, Iggy Pop and Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears all contributed English lyrics. Zucchero Releases North American Edition of Chocabeck + Tour Dates Zucchero explained in a recent interview [...]
Interview: Backstage With American Idol's Paul McDonald
Jul 18, 2011, 8:22am Music @ Blogcritics.org
Music @ Blogcritics.orgPaul McDonald talks about the current AI tour, his original music, and the origin of his rhinestone suit.
Lucinda Williams releases new album Blessed
Feb 18, 2011, 11:51am Band Weblogs
Band Weblogs
Lucinda Williams releases Blessed Blessed , the stunning new album from three-time Grammy Award-winner Lucinda Williams is set for release on March 1, 2011 by Lost Highway . Buy CDs, MP3s, more: Lucinda Williams on Amazon.com Lucinda Williams on Amazon.co.uk Considered by many to be one of America's greatest [...]
Was (Not Was)…Was
Jan 5, 2011, 8:10pm
Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas
Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas
Paloma recently mentioned a musician - a portly, mustacheod fellow and one quarter of an iconic band of the late '60s - and I reacted with the disdain akin to that Kramer and Newman had for baseball great Keith Hernandez. I had to remind her that several of us had unpleasant encounters with this legend at the record store where we worked and met in the '90s. (in one memorable incident, our jazz buyer - a burly cat in a beret - followed this character to the bookstore next door and verbally smacked [...]
Music Review: Elton John and Leon Russell - The Union
Oct 12, 2010, 5:27pm Music @ Blogcritics.org
Music @ Blogcritics.orgElton John and Leon Russell's The Union is a wonderful collaborative effort that should have happened years ago.
How to sequence a hit album (Hint: It's okay to save the best for nearly last. It worked for Eminem!)
Aug 10, 2010, 6:28pm
THEME FOR GREAT CITIES
THEME FOR GREAT CITIES
Y ears ago, I read an interesting quote from Bonnie Raitt, in which she shared some advice given to her by Don Was, who produced her 1989 breakthrough album, Nick of Time , and its two multi-platinum follow-ups, Luck of the Draw and Longing in Their Hearts . It went something like this: Never save the best for last. When you're ordering the songs on an album, put the three strongest ones first, because that might be as long as you have to pull in listeners. Most people never make it to the halfway mark. Was [...]
Rolling Stones Producer Don Was Says 'Exile' Made Him a College Dropout
May 26, 2010, 2:00pm
Spinner.com
Spinner.com
Filed under: Spinner Interview Don Was has been working with the Rolling Stones since 1993, first teaming with the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" to produce 1994's 'Voodoo Lounge' and then helming 1997's 'Bridges to Babylon' and '2005's 'A Bigger Bang.' That made Was the obvious choice to take on the responsibility of mining through 300 hours of tapes from the band's infamous recording sessions in the south of France for 'Exile on Main Street' to compile the 10 bonus tracks on the just-reissued version [...]
Rolling Stones' 'Exile' Producer Hopes to Mine Band's Vaults for More Rarities
May 21, 2010, 12:00pm Spinner.com
Spinner.com
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Longtime Rolling Stones producer Don Was , who first worked with the band in '93, recently got to revisit a childhood favorite, mining through 300 hours of tape to come up with the 10 bonus songs for the just-released 'Exile On Main Street' reissue. Despite having worked with the band for 17 years, going back to an album that was influential in his own life as a kid was special for Was. "The honest to god's [...]
Pieta Brown - One and All
Mar 4, 2010, 3:58pm
Direct Current
Direct CurrentIt's not surprising that Pieta Brown points to the connection of her terrestrial surroundings -- a sense of physical roots -- with the music that she creates. "I think land and music are almost one and the same. You're born, and you're part land and part beat," she says. "There's no way to separate those things." For Brown, a child of the American plains (and noted folk icon Greg Brown), the large open stretches and dusty roads that were the backdrop growing up imbue her songs with a spaciousness, a casual and unhurried ease that sits between the [...]
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Ringo Starr Honored With Hollywood Walk of Fame Star
Feb 9, 2010, 5:00am Spinner.com
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Filed under: News The famed Capitol Records building at the corner of Hollywood and Vine has frequently been at the epicenter of Beatle-mania over the last four decades. Monday night saw the phenomenon in full swing once again as Vine Street was closed down and Beatles fans jammed in front of the label home to see Ringo Starr receive the 2,401 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 45-minute ceremony featured Starr's friends Joe Walsh , Don Was and Ben Harper sharing their [...]
Scott Weiland Drops 'Merry' Christmas Single
Dec 7, 2009, 6:30am Spinner.com
Spinner.com
Filed under: News , New Music Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has just released a solo Christmas single. The singer's rendition of 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' -- covered in recent years by Coldplay, Bright Eyes and Bob Dylan -- can be heard on AOL Radio's Rock Holiday station and is now available through iTunes. Weiland first performed the song on ' The Tonight Show With Jay Leno ' back in 2006. The song was first made famous by Judy Garland [...]
Was (Not Was) to Release Career Spaning "Pick of the Litter"
Dec 4, 2009, 4:38pm
Music News Net
Music News NetMUSIC NEWS - Was (Not Was), who the NY Times has dubbed "the funkier art-funk band" (and we concur) have spanned three decades with their mix of jazz, rock, R&B and funk. On February 23, 2010, Pick of the Litter (1980-2010) , a 19-song disc (out Micro Werks) will be out, and it opens with the ZE/Antilles 12" single "Wheel Me Out" and closes with a trio of tracks from later years which featured Mel Tormé, Leonard Cohen, Kim Basinger and Ozzy Osbourne. The set will contain the band's hits and cult hits, among them [...]
Pieta Brown Signs With Red House, New EP Produced by Don Was Due November 10
Sep 8, 2009, 6:47pm
Time to play b-sides
Time to play b-sidesWhen I saw Bo Ramsey and the Mystery Lights at the Mill back in May, Pieta was kind of hanging back in the shadows of the dark bar and helping her sister sell some Bo Ramsey merchandise. After the show was over I took the opportunity to ask her about her record label situation. After being signed to One Little Indian for her last album, the brilliant Remember the Sun from 2007 the follow-up Flight Time EP was released on T-Records, which incidentally is the label she used to release her 2003 EP [...]
Algerian Rai King Khaled Seeks 'Liberte' in a Different Desert
Aug 25, 2009, 10:00am Spinner.com
Spinner.com
Filed under: Around the World Khaled , the king of Algerian Rai music, is gearing up for a pretty amazing November concert. He'll be headlining a show that brings artists from across the Arab and North African world, some veterans, some newcomers, gathered fittingly at a noted desert oasis. Er ... Las Vegas. "I expect Las Vegas to be for this one night the capital of Rai & Roll," says the emotive singer, who has revolutionized his birth nation's folk-pop music several times in a career stretching [...]
Maia Sharp releases 'Echo', produced by Don Was, ft Bonnie Raitt + 2009 tour dates
Jul 18, 2009, 7:43am Band Weblogs
Band Weblogs
AFTER TWO NPR "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" STORIES, MAIA SHARP'S ECHO ENTERS TOP 15 OF AMAZON'S BESTSELLERS IN MUSIC - ADULT CONTEMPORARY CHART Produced By Don Was And Featuring Guests Bonnie Raitt And Jim Keltner, 'Echo' Is Set For August 11th Release; Lead Single "John Q. Lonely" Was # 1 Most Added At Triple A Radio For Two Consecutive Weeks U.S. Headlining Tour Underway Heralding Maia Sharp as "A Songwriter Set To Arrive," NPR's All Things [...]
Video - Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora e Andy cantano Stand By Me per l'Iran
Jun 30, 2009, 4:57am
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Artist: Andy & BON JOVI Title: stand by me-mastered version Link Text: da qui File Name: standbyme.mp3 Bitrate: 320 kbps
{MP3} Jill Sobule - "California Years" (Pinko Records, April 14)
Mar 27, 2009, 9:35am
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songsillinois
Jill Sobule's all grown up. She's given up on the label system and like several of the artists this week is releasing a fan funded record on her own label. I've never been a big fan of Jill Sobule (I liked her "hits" as much as the next guy though) but since Songs:Illinois' mission statement is to support artists that are independent and doing it mostly themselves I can't help but do a post on this new record. California Years comes out April 14 on Jill's own label. The song "San Francisco" continues to explore [...]
Artist: Jill Sobule Title: A Good Life Link Text: A Good Life File Name: GoodLife.mp3 Bitrate: 192 kbps Year: 2009
Artist: Jill Sobule Title: San Francisco Link Text: San Francisco File Name: SanFrancisco.mp3 Bitrate: 192 kbps Year: 2009
Ziggy Marley NEW children's reggae album 'Family Time' feat Jack Johnson, Willie Nelson
Feb 18, 2009, 7:00am Band Weblogs
Band Weblogs
Photo: Mickey Raphael, Don Was, Ziggy, Willie Nelson Tuff Gong Worldwide will release Ziggy Marley 's third solo album, 'Family Time' , on May 5, 2009. Marley produced the album with legendary producer Don Was . The album will feature a variety of family and friends including Rita Marley (Ziggy's mother), Cedella Marley (sister), Judah Marley (daughter), Paul Simon , Jack Johnson , Willie Nelson , Toots Hibberts , Elizabeth Mitchell , Laurie Berkner , Paula Fuga and two [...]
MP3s: Muldoons - Invincible
Oct 9, 2008, 10:55am
Glorious Noise
Glorious NoiseMP3: The Muldoons - "Invincible" from their new double 7" EP, out now in a limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies on Little Room Records. The EP contains five originals and a cover of Kelly Stoltz's "Are You Electric." When...
Artist: The Muldoons Title: Invincible Link Text: The Muldoons - "Invincible" File Name: invincible.mp3 Bitrate: 87 kbps Year: 2008
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