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Sheryl Crow – Sheryl: Music From The Feature Documentary Released On May 6, 2022

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OnĀ March 11, a full-length documentary film directed byĀ Amy Scott, entitledĀ SherylĀ about Sheryl Crow’s life and career, will premiere at SXSW, ahead of a spring premiere on SHOWTIME. An intimate story of song and sacrifice, Sheryl navigates an iconic yet arduous musical career while the artist battles sexism, ageism, depression, cancer, and the price of fame, before harnessing the power of her gift.

In conjunction, UMe/Big Machine Records will release a new album calledĀ Sheryl: Music From The Feature DocumentaryĀ digitally and on 2CD onĀ May 6. The release featuresĀ Sheryl Crow’sĀ biggest hits, including “If It Makes You Happy,” “Soak Up The Sun, “All I Wanna Do, “My Favorite Mistake, “Redemption Day,” and many more, as well asĀ deep tracks and three newly recorded songs. To preorderĀ Sheryl: Music From The Feature Documentary, clickĀ HERE

“I am excited for the premiere of my documentary,” said Crow. “I hope people will find strength and courage through my story. It was a journey through years and years of incredible memories, and I am proud of the beautiful documentary thatĀ Amy ScottĀ made about my life.”

Sheryl CrowĀ is a nine-time GRAMMY AWARD recipient and an American music icon. Her first nine studio albums have sold 35 million copies worldwide; seven charted in the Top 10, and five were certified for Multi-Platinum sales. Crow has been feted by a new generation of singer-songwriters who have covered her songs and talked about her influence, includingĀ Phoebe Bridgers, H.E.R, Haim,Ā Maren Morris, Lorde, Sasami, Best Coast, andĀ Brandi Carlile.

Track Lists:

Digital:

  1. If It Makes You Happy
  2. LeavingĀ Las Vegas
  3. All I Wanna Do
  4. What Can I Do For You
  5. Run, Baby, Run
  6. Hard To Make A Stand
  7. Sweet Rosalyn
  8. A Change Would Do You Good
  9. Home
  10. Love Is A Good Thing
  11. Strong Enough
  12. Can’t Cry Anymore
  13. Everyday Is A Winding Road
  14. Redemption Day
  15. The Difficult Kind (Live withĀ Sarah McLachlan)
  16. I Shall Believe
  17. Real Gone (Live)
  18. My Favorite Mistake
  19. Riverwide
  20. Crash And Burn
  21. Steve McQueen
  22. Soak Up The Sun
  23. Out Of Our Heads
  24. Detours
  25. Be Myself
  26. Prove You Wrong (feat.Ā Stevie NicksĀ &Ā Maren Morris)
  27. Tell Me When It’s Over (feat.Ā Chris Stapleton)
  28. Beware of Darkness (feat.Ā Brandi Carlile,Ā Eric Clapton, and Sting)
  29. The Worst (feat.Ā Keith Richards)
  30. Story of Everything (feat.Ā Gary Clark Jr., Chuck D,Ā Andra Day)
  31. Everything Is Broken (Live withĀ Jason IsbellĀ at The Ryman)
  32. Redemption Day (withĀ Johnny Cash)
  33. Forever
  34. Still The Same
  35. Live With Me

2CD
Disc 1:

  1. If It Makes You Happy
  2. LeavingĀ Las Vegas
  3. All I Wanna Do
  4. What Can I Do For You
  5. Run, Baby, Run
  6. Hard To Make A Stand
  7. Sweet Rosalyn
  8. A Change Would Do You Good
  9. Home
  10. Love Is A Good Thing
  11. Strong Enough
  12. Can’t Cry Anymore
  13. Everyday Is A Winding Road
  14. Redemption Day
  15. The Difficult Kind (Live withĀ Sarah McLachlan)
  16. I Shall Believe
  17. Real Gone (Live)

Disc 2:

  1. My Favorite Mistake
  2. Riverwide
  3. Crash And Burn
  4. Steve McQueen
  5. Soak Up The Sun
  6. Out Of Our Heads
  7. Detours
  8. Be Myself
  9. Prove You Wrong (feat.Ā Stevie NicksĀ &Ā Maren Morris)
  10. Tell Me When It’s Over (feat.Ā Chris Stapleton)
  11. Beware of Darkness (feat.Ā Brandi Carlile,Ā Eric Clapton, and Sting)
  12. The Worst (feat.Ā Keith Richards)
  13. Story of Everything (feat.Ā Gary Clark Jr., Chuck D,Ā Andra Day)
  14. Everything Is Broken (Live withĀ Jason IsbellĀ at The Ryman)
  15. Redemption Day (withĀ Johnny Cash)
  16. Forever
  17. Still The Same
  18. Live With Me

SiriusXM Signs Exclusive Multi-Year Agreement with Leading Multicultural Audio Network reVolver Podcasts

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SiriusXM today announced an exclusive distribution and sales agreement withĀ reVolver Podcasts, the leading multicultural, audio-on-demand content creator and publisher in the U.S.

reVolver is home to some of the biggest Spanish-language podcasts, includingĀ Erazno y La ChokolataĀ andĀ El Show de PiolĆ­n. The new deal gives SXM Media, the combined advertising revenue organization of Sirius XM Holdings Inc., exclusive global ad sales rights to reVolver’s extensive lineup of podcasts. Additionally, the agreement calls for Stitcher, the Triton-ranked #1 podcast company and SiriusXM subsidiary, to distribute all reVolver content across all podcast platforms.

With more than 70 programs spanning sports, music, finance, entertainment, lifestyle, health and wellness, inspiration, news, and more, reVolver’s podcast network offers something for everyone. Listeners can continue to stream and subscribe to reVolver podcasts on Stitcher, the SXM App, Pandora, and all major podcast listening platforms.

Across the SiriusXM ecosystem, the company offers the expertise and technology that creators of all sizes need to turn their passion into a business, and a podcast business into a powerhouse audio brand. SXM Media is the gateway for marketers to the #1 U.S. podcast advertising network in reaching weekly podcast listeners, per Edison Research. The new agreement with reVolver highlights the company’s continued commitment to providing a platform to, and support for, a diverse ecosystem of voices to better serve its listeners.

The addition of reVolver follows other recent and notable podcasting announcements by SiriusXM and Stitcher, including the acquisition ofĀ 99% Invisible; a global advertising agreement with podcast company Audiochuck and its top-rated programĀ Crime Junkie; an agreement withĀ Tom SeguraĀ and Christine P’s YMH Studios to distribute and develop content; and an agreement for the exclusive rights to manage all audio and video ad sales for the beloved comedy horror showĀ The Last Podcast on the Left.

Watch Courtney Love Fronting Faith No More In 1984

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In late 1982, she attended a Faith No More concert in San Francisco and convinced the members to let her join as a singer. The group recorded material with Love as a vocalist, and performed on this local TV cable show in San Francisco, but fired her soon afterwards; according to keyboardist Roddy Bottum, who remained Love’s friend in the years after, the band wanted a “male energy.”

The Simpsons + Futurama x Pink Floyd = Wait…What?

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R3DUX Studios and xystvyry Productions used past clips of The Simpsons and Futurama mashing it up with the music of Pink Floyd’s Brain Damage.

“What’s in my Bag?” Video Series Is Back with E from Eels

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E of EELS goes shopping at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. EELS’ latest album ‘Extreme Witchcraft’ is available from E Works/PIAS Recordings. His picks:
Roberta Flack – First Take (LP)
Bobbie Gentry – The Windows Of The World (LP)
Bobby Womack – The Womack “Live” (LP)
The Beatles – Let It Be [Special Super Deluxe Edition] (LP)
Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear (LP)
Marvin Gaye – Marvin Gaye Live! (LP)
Little Richard – King of Rock and Roll (LP)
Astrud Gilberto – I Haven’t Got Anything Better To Do (LP)

Folk Duo SPIRIT TRAIL Pay Tribute to the Enduring Power of Standing Rock With ā€œWater Protectorsā€

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Although the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock may have receded from the press and faded from public memory, they continue to have an enormous impact on how many of us now think about the environment and our natural resources. With that, Thompson, Manitoba-based folk duo Spirit Trail pays tribute to that Sioux legacy via their rocking-and-soaring new single, ā€œWater Protectors.ā€

ā€œWater Protectorsā€ begins with a rhythmic, full-bodied acoustic guitar that soon surrenders the spotlight to the seamless interplay of Destiny Fiddler and Chas Piper’s voices. Their harmonies are like an elegant, deftly choreographed dance — with Fiddler’s vibrato soprano blending and dissolving into Piper’s earnest alto, and vice versa, so that at many points it’s impossible to determine where one ends and the other begins.

Punctuated by tambourine as well as wailing electric guitar, the message of ā€œWater Protectorsā€ is one of continuing the fight, the mission, that began at Standing Rock:

Out on the frontline
Rockin’ in the street it’s time
The Water Protectors
Of the Sky and Earth

From Standing Rock, North Dakota
It ain’t over till it’s over
Oh sister and brother
We’ve got to stand
Defend the sacred Mother

That’s because water is a precious resource that Spirit Trail refuses to take for granted. ā€œWater is our lifeblood and it is our responsibility to care for and protect it before it is too late,ā€ Destiny says. ā€œThere’s no time to take lightly the degradation and poisoning of our sacred waters. Where will we be when there’s nothing clean to drink and the medicine won’t grow?ā€

It’s a message the duo hopes will be heard around the globe. ā€œThe song was written to inspire the kind of revolutionary response at Standing Rock here in Canada and all over the world,ā€ Chas says, adding that right now the Wet’suwet’en are defending their sacred headwaters from another pipeline. ā€œPeople need to wake up and realize this fight is theirs, whether they are in a city, on the res, or wherever.ā€

Spirit Trail began in 2019 when Destiny Fiddler and Chas Piper met at a tree-planting camp outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Destiny is Cree, Mathias Colomb First Nation from Pukatawagan, Manitoba, and she grew up in Thompson and Flin Flon, Manitoba. Chas was born in Windsor, Ontario, was raised by a single mom, and also spent some time in foster care; Chas left home at 14 and survived the streets by busking until he made his way to Alberta at 17.

Although they have different backgrounds, their shared experiences of social injustice created an instant connection — as well as their love for poetry and music. They fell madly in love and decided to head west, embarking on a road trip across Canada and writing songs along the way. The mountains and the forests provided inspiration, fueling artistic creativity and writing.

Their single ā€œWater Protectorsā€ is available now.

Alt.County’s HemlockHotel Capture the Emotional Upheaval of Youth with ā€œAngry Young Manā€

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Being young often means dealing with emotions you don’t fully understand; it’s only with age that real perspective and true maturity can be gained. Ottawa-based HemlockHotel captures that conundrum with their melodic, smooth-rockin’ Americana anthem ā€œAngry Young Man.ā€

A warm blend of rich, full-bodied acoustic guitar, wailing electric guitar, and easy beats, ā€œAngry Young Manā€ tells the first-person narrative about a confused young man in conflict with the people he loves, even though he knows it isn’t deserved.

Well, I am a soldier
Without a cause
Well, I keep on fightin’
The people I love
Come on dear Jesus
I’m not a saint

The chorus kicks in and that’s when the narrator admits in honeyed, soaring melody, ā€œWell, I’m an angry young man/Fighting for something I can’t understand.ā€ The inspiration for the song sprung from Greek philosophy, of all places – though it’s not all that surprising when you consider how the Greeks had a word to identify every nuance of emotion.

ā€œI remember taking this course on ancient Greek philosophy,ā€ frontman Rod Leggett says, ā€œand the teacher was going on about thumos.ā€

Thumos is an old word for the concept of ā€œspiritedness.ā€ ā€œAt its worst, it’s rage — like the rage of Achilles,ā€ Leggett continues. ā€œAt its best, it becomes courage.ā€

At one point, Leggett’s teacher told the class that young men are especially prone to thumos. ā€œThat stuck with me,ā€ Leggett recalls. ā€œHe’s right, I mean, young men really are prone to being angry.ā€

Not long after HemlockHotel recorded the song, Leggett knew the band was on the right track as he was listening to another song by another band, ā€œ(Nothing But) Flowersā€ by Talking Heads. Leggett heard the opening lyrics — ā€œā€˜Years ago, I was an angry young man/And I’d pretend/That I was a billboard/Standing tallā€ — and smiled. ā€œI thought, ok, David Byrne gets it. I’m good with that,ā€ he says. ā€œYou know, I really look up to that guy.ā€

HemlockHotel proudly calls Ottawa home, and recently added TJ Jones, formerly of the band Dynasty, on bass. The band also consists of Rod Leggett, Mark ParƩ on lead guitar, and Danny Lee Duke on drums. Despite the pandemic, the now four-piece band is managing to give the occasional live performance and spend time in the studio.

ā€œAngry Young Manā€ is the band’s first release since their 2020 eponymous album. It will be followed by a second single to be released in April 2022. Both songs were recorded with Steve Foley at Audio Valley Studios in Ottawa, and HemlockHotel plans to return to the studio in the Spring to record another suite of songs.

ā€œAngry Young Manā€ is available now.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Release Empowering ā€œNever Had Your Backā€

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Possessing a unique talent for approaching sensitive and relevant issues within the Black community, multi-GRAMMY Award-winning hip hop, rap and soul group Arrested Development channel their trailblazing and history-making talents into the poignant hymn ā€œNever Had Your Back.ā€

Fresh from their newest album, For The FKN Love, and featuring lyrics from Speech and background vocals from Ke’Andra, legendary British Boom-Bap producer Configa wraps everything up in a well-executed production.

ā€œNever Had Your Backā€ features a compelling overall concern for the way that Black women are portrayed in modern media and music. Noticing how depictions were demeaning, the group says they went to work crafting a production that would empower ā€œMelanated Black Queensā€ and raise social awareness.

ā€˜Then pitted your light kids against
The darker kids
Now were conditioned to keeping sparking this
Hating our own women’

ā€œWe were excited to make this tune,ā€ Speech shares. ā€œIt’s a powerful anthem for all women at the end of the day, but it really is a letter from me to my own daughter. I’m on the turntables and I wanted to hear literal scratching. Then, to top it off, Ke’Andra’s vocals are powerful and complement mine for the chorus!ā€

Working with British boombap extraordinaire Configa led to some exciting opportunities; the group found themselves recording this song in two different countries — both the UK to work with Configa on the beat, and Georgia to record with Ke’Andra and turntable scratches. They even found themselves working with JG Biggs, who directed the song’s video.

ā€œI immediately put him up at a local hotel and we started shooting immediately; he brought his portable Insta360 camera which shoots literally everywhere at once. I knew we had to get the whole group over, plus Ke’Andra, the guest vocalists, and just do some impromptu performances.ā€

Arrested Development’s unique catalog of positive and afrocentric music creates an alternative to gangsta rap, and the group continues to dominate the counterculture meant to inspire others.

With 30 years of scene-shaping experience to their credit, Arrested Development was the first hip hop group to ever receive the GRAMMY for Best New Artist while also receiving a Best Rap Single Award after the release of ā€œTennesseeā€ — a single that went on to be named by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the Top 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.

While they’ve continued to perform in sold-out venues across every part of the world for three decades and counting, the group’s introspective yet positive social theming has also been a strong foundation for Arrested Development throughout the years. In September of 2019, the Black Music Honors Awards recognized this timeless group of performers and collaborators with an award that acknowledges artists who have made a significant contribution to African American music.

Experimental Pop Artist CELOGEN Creates Vast Soundscapes & Riveting Stories In New Album ‘Wastebasin Lake’

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Laced with delicately placed melodies shrouded in what appears to be chaos, Canadian experimental pop artist Celogen creates an entirely unique listening experience with his new single, ā€œThe Red Lips Called Snowfinch.ā€

The brainchild of Calgary-based musician Dominic Demierre, the song is the latest to land from Celogen’s most recent LP, Wastebasin Lake — an unleashing of industrial electronics combined with guitars, keyboards, strings, and horns, all of which make their heady debut in ā€œThe Red Lips Called Snowfinch.ā€

Certain melodic elements tempt to lure the listener into a final resting place while counter melodies and dissonance remind you that this is a journey that is just beginning — for both the main character of the story and the listener.

A tale of two young lovers out for a drive at night, ā€œThe Red Lips Called Snowfinchā€ is a sonic adventure through limbo; one falls asleep at the wheel and, when he awakens, his lover, Snowfinch, has transformed into a silkworm. ā€œIn shock, he drives his car into Wastebasin Lake, and the album goes on from there,ā€ Demierre explains.

ā€œI wanted to explore the ability of an album to tell a story beyond a simple emotional arc,ā€ he continues. ā€œThis album represented a change for me… The words are deeply personal.ā€

While ā€œThe Red Lips Called Snowfinchā€ is a stimulating production of its own merit, Celogen prolifically conveys a story that will sit deep in the listener’s gut long after the song ends, leaving them immersed in dramatic and alluring worlds.

ā€˜The red lips called Snowfinch / The air smelling cleaner, you touch her skin.’
ā€˜But warm blood meets cold, long white body spews red flow / you jerk the wheel to the lake below’

Through hauntingly familiar melodies inspired by pop and driven by chaos, the notion is further underscored throughout the release.

For his start on the scene, Demierre found himself playing in a handful of post-punk and emo bands during his years in university; as time went on, however, he found himself boxed in. The chaos of people being drawn into their own separate genre corners drove Demierre to break out — to seek out something unique that he could call his own.

Reaping the benefits of prior experience, Demierre created Celogen: a boundary-stretching solo project.

Three EPs and three full-length albums have been released under the moniker since 2018 – a manifestation of the desire to cut loose from so many readymade aesthetics and seek out something unique. These include 2020’s Celogen Was Built by Ghosts, for Ghosts, 2019’s Goodnight Childsprite, and 2018’s Stonehome, Tameplane, and Doveflood.

Queens of Grunge-Pop Punk BAD SKIN Denounce ā€œClowns For Presidentā€ in Deliciously Aggressive Anthem

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Canada’s reigning queens of grunge-pop punk Bad Skin are back with an aggressive and immersive new anthem in ā€œClowns For President.ā€

The sonic middle finger, per se, unabashedly denounces control and constraint, and lands straight from their recent EP offering, Live Fast Die Punk.

The glorious 4-piece from Quebec swing truth bombs like axes in this pulsating follow-up drop. Refusing to back down, to be censored, or controlled, Bad Skin slices through the narrative and beguiles the listener in a race against conformity; a punk quid pro quo in sending the message that Gen Z is awake, and paying attention to the global society around them. And punk is here to save the day.

For Dope (lead vox, rhythm guitarist), Caro (lead guitar), AurĆ©ly (bass), and Christine (drums), the idea behind the track came from real-life anecdotes from friends forced into situations where they felt incapable of saying ā€œno.ā€

ā€œWe wanted to share with our fans that it’s okay to say ā€˜no’, even when it’s not easy,ā€ says Bad Skin. ā€œOf course with everything going on right now with the COVID situation, we had to pursue that idea at its largest!ā€

No doubt the message couldn’t have been larger — or louder — than the group revving up the female punk scene bop after bop. Dope’s husky vox commanding ā€œno governmentā€ is a near-nod to Pussy Riot; her attitude is a melding pot of Peaches and Dolores O’Riordan. Caro’s expert punk licks lashed around AurĆ©ly’s rumbling bass lay the framework of anarchist punk rock. The track is committed to its rapid tempo thanks to Christine who refuses to back down from the haul — her epic throwdown of the beat snaps together with a familiar nod to original punk masterminds who defined the genre.

ā€œClowns For Presidentā€ wouldn’t be complete with a Bad Skin video to accompany the track. As gritty, dark, and hasty as the song, the track delivers on dark visuals to tell the rest of the story.

ā€œFor this video, we went completely in another direction from our past videos,ā€ the band explains. ā€œIt’s darker and more serious but still with our Bad Skin touch. The video was shot in half of a day and we added actors for the first time. Such an amazing experience! We have a wonderful professional team and we couldn’t ask for more!ā€

A band raising their voice for the voiceless, talented and brazen, refusing to back down, bow down, or explain themselves, Bad Skin isn’t afraid to call it like it is or say it like it is; refusing to comply or conform.

Even if they’re calling them ā€œClowns For President.ā€

ā€œClowns For Presidentā€ and Live Fast Die Punk are both available now.