Ryan Adams Ashes & Fire PAX-AM Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Sit down with most focused record from Ryan Adams in years! Album Review: Ashes & Fire represents Ryan Adams first legitimate solo record since 2007's Easy Tiger . There are no sci-fi metal moments, no Cardinals twang, no covers, and no straying away from the task at hand. It is a record [...]
This afternoon Ryan Adams posted the link to the preorder for his upcoming release Ashes & Fire to Facebook which is due out on October 11th on PaxAm Records through a distribution arrangement with Capitol Records. The album was recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles and produced by Glyn Johns who produced albums from the likes of The Who, The Clash and The Rolling Stones among many others. Glyn happens to be the father of Ethan Johns who worked on Adams' Heartbreaker , Gold and 29 . [...]
We're just past the Ides of March and although he has historically exclaimed "Et Tu, Internets?" this month has brought us a bunch of new Ryan Adams news. The last time we heard from our hero, he had fired up his PaxAm imprint and released two albums that had been hiding in his archives- his Metal Space Opera Orion and Cardinals III/IV which was two albums worth of Easy Tiger -Era recordings with The Cardinals. To accomplish his desired DIY apprach, he assembled a staff to handle the shipping [...]
Since I just finished my Top 20 of 2010 , it has me looking towards 2011 and the releases that are rumored, speculated or actually announced. Here are some releases I'm looking forward to (in no particular order). The Second Dawes Album (May 2011) - I wrote an article about this release and speculation about what tracks are going to be on it . The first Dawes album- North Hills was released in 2009 and has had [...]
For a year when it feels like Ryan Adams has practically been in hiding, when you tally his songs-released total by year's end, he still blows away most active bands. In addition to his "true metal album" Orion , Adams has a double album on deck that he recorded with the Cardinals during the Easy Tiger sessions back in 2007. III/IV will be released on Adams' own Pax-AM Records, though his blog post on the matter contains no actual release date. It does, however, contain this nugget about the thematic content of his [...]
With the holiday season just around the corner, those looking for something unique for the music fan in your life might want to consider the two new vinyl box sets being offered up by Jack White's Third Man Records . The Nashville-based label's limited edition White Stripes box includes these Stripes-infused items - a custom portable record player, turntable slip mat, 3 custom vinyl adapters, Nixon headphones, 7" red vinyl of "Merry Christmas From The White Stripes", record cleaning brush, LP record box and 7" record box - all for the low price of $499 with just [...]
This week the Ryan Adams fans of the world got some news that has been anticipated since the release of Orion earlier this year . The storefront for Ryan's vanity record label PaxAm got a serious makeover in the form of some great vintage video arcade-themed navigation as well as a bunch of new places to keep track of the world of Ryan- a video page , a page for mp3 downloads - the first things up are some jams from the beginning of the Easy Tiger sessions, future [...]
Encouraging news for Ryan Adams fans as the notoriously erratic and prolific song writer unveils plans for several new releases this year and next through his facebook page . This comes after he decided to take some time off in 2009 (although he released a metal album Orion earlier in 2010). Adams himself left a status update that had quite a lot of juicy details in it, the full post read as follows: UPDATE; I've been working on a second batch of tunes. both sessions ( NYC and LA ) sound super cool [...]
<a href=" http://onethirtybpm.com/2010/0 7/13/album-review-ryan-adams-% e2%80%93-orion/" Ryan Adams Orion [Pax Am; 2010] Links: Ryan Adams | Pax Am | Purchase on Insound Posted by Arthur Velez on 13 July 2010 As a songwriter, Ryan Adams is nothing if not versatile. His 2005 releases (with superb backing band, The Cardinals) are a lesson in [...]
I get home last from seeing Local Natives at the Mill in Iowa City with Suckers in support , check my e-mail and I see the above ad in my e-mail! Thank goodness I checked my e-mail before I went to bed! This, of course, is the promised Metal album from Ryan Adams under the moniker Orion I reported on in March . Orion was recorded in 2006 with the final production completed earlier this year with Jamie Candiloro. It's being described as a "fully realized Sci-Fi Metal Concept Album." The track [...]
A little over a week ago, Ryan Adams announced that he would be releasing his "sci-fi metal concept album" in two weeks time. It looks like the album has been made available one week earlier than expected. If you're a Ryan Adams fan, it's time to jump on this new album, Orion -it's an extremely exclusive release. It will only be available on vinyl (for $24.99 USD), but rest assured that you're getting the most for your money. It features : * 1xLP on 180 gram clear vinyl [...]
On Friday, March 12th, the long dormant Twitter account for Ryan Adams passed along this missive: We're going to begin pressing ORION - my most legit METAL record - on vinyl next week. http://ryanada.ms At his website over the weekend, he debuted a song called "Electrosnake" from his upcoming album Orion . This song is still available for free download (as a WAV file!). There was also a survey that was shut down yesterday asking whether respondants would buy this album. [...]
It's week #2 of the Pax-Am reboot and we are treated with another digital single from Ryan Adams's archives. This time we get a track that was dropped from early consideration for Cardinology and another track that surfaced a bit as a "foggy" video . The third track is another demo from Cardinology. Side A is the track "Allumette" clocking in at 1:43 and according to the Ryan Adams scholars on the ryanadamsarchive.com site was listed on an early proposed tracklisting for Cardinology . Apparently [...]
Seems as if our favorite singer-songwriter hasn't quit the business as he purported after all - in fact it would seem the inimitable Ryan Adams has only begun, as he's reemerged from his self-imposed exile with a pair of wonderous new singles. Reviving his PAX-AM music label Adams has released via his website the "PAX-AM Digital Single #1" featuring "Lost and Found" and "Go Ahead and Rain". Definitely going to be looking forward to more tunes from this fantastic artist! Ryan Adams - "Lost and Found" [...]
This week had the 'Net a flutter with news of Ryan Adams's re-launching his website and re-launching his Pax Americana (PaxAm) record label with a downloadable "Digital Single." Pre-orders went up mid-week with a promise of the songs shipping on Friday, September 11th. What you got for $1.49 was a .zip file with the advertised two songs "Lost and Found" and "Go Ahead and Rain" (which is mislabeled "Sunflower Rain") in both FLAC (YAY!) and 128Kbps mp3's plus a so-called "Free Jam" of the demo to the Cardinology song "Sink Ships" in 160Kbps mp3 [...]
Amusing statement from Ryan Adams regarding the digital relaunch of his PAX AM label: Thanks for making Pax Am the number one Ryan Adams merch site online. We would hunt anyone else down though. Did you have a rad summer? Good. If you said no, never worry, Pax Am is here. We are gonna fill your fall and winter up with vinyl, digital singles, and t shirts you don't need. Stay tuned for [...]
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