Today, GRAMMY nominated multi-Platinum singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes announced that his highly anticipated fourth studio album, Wonder, will be released on December 4, 2020.
Today, Mendes released a trailer for the album with the first song from the project, the project’s “Intro”, which can be watched HERE. The album’s first single, and title track from the project, “Wonder,” will be available this Friday, October 2nd.
Mendes also posted this letter speaking on the inspiration behind the album
I’ve missed you all so much! I know it’s been a really scary year for everyone so I’m sending buckets of love to all of you x
I wrote an album. It’s called “Wonder”. it really feels like a piece of me has been written down on paper and recorded into song. I tried to be as real and as honest as I’ve ever been.
It’s a world and a journey and a dream and an album I’ve been wanting to make for a really long time. I absolutely love it. Thank you for being by my side for so many years. I love you all so much
This is the introduction to the album out Dec 4th, and the first single “Wonder” is out this Friday. I hope you can listen front to back.
Wonder follows three consecutive #1 album debuts, 3 platinum albums, and 11+ consecutive platinum and multi-platinum singles.
Apple and Billie Eilish today announced that the highly anticipated documentary feature film, Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, directed by award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler (“Belushi,” “The September Issue,” “The War Room”), will premiere in theaters and on Apple TV+ in February 2021. The documentary is from Apple Original Films, in association with Interscope Films, Darkroom, This Machine and Lighthouse Management & Media.
Billie Eilish released her groundbreaking debut album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? in 2019 via Darkroom/Interscope Records/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, and won Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album at this year’s 62nd Grammy® Awards in January, followed by her rousing performance of The Beatles’ “Yesterday” at the 92nd Oscars®. This year also saw 18-year-old Eilish release her internationally hailed official James Bond theme song “No Time To Die,” for the forthcoming MGM/Eon Productions James Bond Motion Picture.
On September 25th, 1990, Red Hot released its debut compilation album and trailblazing, multimedia HIV/AIDS benefit, Red Hot + Blue. Featuring music, art, fashion and film from David Byrne, Neneh Cherry, Erasure, Jean Paul Gaultier, Keith Haring, Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch, Annie Lennox, k.d. lang, U2, Tom Waits and dozens more paying tribute to the songs of Cole Porter, the project set the precedent for cultural activism as it raised awareness, reduced stigma, changed public behavior and benefited the LGBTQ community and other affected groups like never before. Red Hot + Blue sold over a million copies, led to a radical TV special seen around the world, launched a BBC documentary, and since then, both the non-profit and its co-founder John Carlin have spent the past three decades continuing to fight the global HIV/AIDS pandemic through the power of pop culture, rallying the most influential artists of – or ahead of – the current moment.
Today, after more than 500 collaborations, 20 groundbreaking albums, and tens of millions of dollars raised for hundreds of vital organizations, Red Hot announces that it will celebrate their 30th Anniversary throughout the fall, beginning with a series of five seminal reissues out digitally on October 23rd.
Alongside a twenty-track anniversary version of Red Hot + Blue, Red Hot will release its indie rock anthology Red Hot + Bothered on streaming services for the first time ever, following the 1995 physical edition distributed with fanzines that promoted safe sex. Red Hot will also share digital reissues of 1996’s Offbeat – A Red Hot Sound Trip, a companion album to The Beat Experience – an innovational CD produced with The Whitney Museum of American Art – with ambient, spoken word and post-rock contributions from Amiri Baraka, David Byrne, Moby, My Bloody Valentine, Skylab, Tortoise and more; 1997’s Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin, which focused on fighting HIV/AIDS in Latinx communities and showcased special collaborations between Los Lobos & Money Mark, Cafe Tacuba & David Byrne, Melissa Etheridge and many others; 2001’s Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington from the likes of The Roots, D’Angelo, Mary J. Blige, and Black Star & Ron Carter.
To accompany the news, Red Hot has unveiled a new package of six vintage remixes created for Neneh Cherry’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” distributed physically in 1990 but never released on DSPs until now. As the Red Hot + Blue lead single and album opener, originally paired with an iconic music video directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Neneh Cherry’s take on the song marked one of the first times AIDS was described directly in pop culture.
As the world is faced with yet another pandemic, Red Hot’s decades of work are more pertinent and influential than ever. Co-founder and, along with Leigh Blake, Red Hot + Blue producer/director John Carlin explains to Rolling Stone:
“For those of us living in New York 30 years ago, HIV/AIDS was as devastating as COVID-19 is today. But what made Red Hot + Blue so impactful and different was that it celebrated life and the power of music and art to lift people up during dark times. Leigh Blake and I wanted to invent something different than a live event charity benefit, so we created a multimedia project that combined music, film, fashion and art. I think that’s why it still looks and sounds great as an emblem of the time in which it was made, with some timeless sublime creative elements that we can enjoy and learn from today. This is also because Red Hot pioneered using pop culture for social change – good propaganda – to fight for LGBTQ rights and to promote safer sex. 30 years ago it was condoms, today it’s masks. And we raised millions of dollars through album sales and gave it away in ways that no one else was doing at the time; such as almost a million dollars to ACT UP, which was the only significant outside donation they received and helped them and the affiliated group, TAG (Treatment Action Group), bring the drugs to market that have let people with HIV live normal lives ever since.”
Between now and World AIDS Day on December 1, Red Hot will have more archival materials and even new music to share. From George Michael, Madonna and Nirvana to Wu-Tang Clan and De La Soul, to Bon Iver, The National, Sharon Jones, John Legend, Chance the Rapper and Robyn, Red Hot’s curatorial instincts have consistently captured the spirit of the times for the past 30 years and counting. In addition to Red Hot + Blueand the forthcoming reissues, their discography includes such titles as No Alternative, Red Hot + Rio, America Is Dying Slowly, Fela Kuti tribute Red Hot + Riot, Dark Was The Night, Day Of The Dead and many more you can find here.
Neneh Cherry – “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” Remixes
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Blacksmith “Brixton Bass Mix”)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Original Afrika Baby Bam & Booga Bear Mix)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (David Z Remix)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Ronin “Skin Deep”)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Blacksmith “UPSO”)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Ronin “In Deep”)
Red Hot + Blue Tracklist
I’ve Got You Under My Skin – Neneh Cherry
In the Still of the Night – The Neville Brothers
You Do Something To Me – Sinéad O’Connor
Begin the Beguine – Salif Keita
Love for Sale – Fine Young Cannibals
Well Did You Evah! – Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop
Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of Those Things – The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
Don’t Fence Me In – David Byrne
It’s All Right with Me – Tom Waits
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye – Annie Lennox
Night and Day – U2
I Love Paris – Les Negresses Vertes
So in Love – k.d. Lang
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – Thompson Twins
Too Darn Hot – Erasure
I Get a Kick Out of You – Jungle Brothers
Down In The Depths – Lisa Stansfield
From This Moment On – Jimmy Somerville
After You, Who? – Jody Watley
Do I Love You? – Aztec Camera
You don’t have to be raising the next Beethoven to want your child to learn piano. Whether your little one turns out to be a musical prodigy, the experience of learning to play an instrument offers a lot of benefits for kids.
Studies show that children who learn to play an instrument have improved brain development and stronger educational performance later in life. They’ll be learning a lifelong skill to break out in front of friends and family!
When it comes to the top tier of instrument-learning, piano really is king. Here are just eight of the many reasons your child should learn piano with affordable kids piano classes online.
1. Problem-Solving Skills
Learning to play piano at an early age is primarily a lesson in problem-solving. In addition to working through the technical challenges of reading music and playing chords, kids are also learning broader techniques on how to approach difficult tasks through problem-solving and memory recall.
2. Improved Concentration
In a screen-dominated world where children’s attention spans seem to be shrinking by the minute, piano is a task that requires a child’s true, undivided attention. Successfully learning to play their favorite song will show your child the rewards that concentration and practice bring!
3. Motor Skills
Learning to play the piano is also a serious builder of hand-eye coordination. Not only will your child learn what keys to press with their fingers based on the notes that are on a page, but they’ll also learn how to do this with both hands playing different notes at the same time! Setting your kiddo up with piano lessons is setting them up for success in all future fine motor skills.
4. Better Performance in School
As you may have guessed from all the benefits to problem-solving and concentration, children who learn to play the piano at an early age tend to perform better in school! They’ll be more practiced at working on skills independently, as well as knowing when to ask for help.
5. Creative Outlet
While the influence on your child’s brain functioning has a positive impact on their intellectual success, studies show that playing an instrument reduces stress and anxiety while also improving creativity. Playing piano is rewarding hobby that your child will carry with them through life as a way to relax.
6. Earlier is Better
Just as with language-learning, younger is better when it comes to learning the piano. Children are better at absorbing large amounts of new information, as compared to adults, meaning they can likely learn faster. And establishing the motor skills specific needed for piano at a younger age makes for stronger playing later in life!
7. Higher Self Esteem
All of these improved motor skills, concentration, problem-solving, stress relief, and higher educational performance combine to create kids with higher self-esteem. Children who have successfully worked through challenging tasks at early ages grow up to have more self-confidence, which will carry them through the rest of their lives.
8. Musicality
This one sounds simple, but it’s important to note: learning to play the piano makes your child more musical. And whether your child has professional aspirations when it comes to music, or not, it is undeniable that music is an essential part of culture in every part of the world. It is something that transcends language and country. A love and knowledge of music is valuable in life, no matter where your child ends up!
Bottom Line
Whether it’s on a baby grand or an electric keyboard, your child should start learning all that piano has to offer asap! If you need help finding a teacher, there are some amazing organizations that offer affordable kids piano classes in a classroom, online, or right to your home! Your child could be accompanying the next family sing along in no time.
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the second album by Manchester’s finest, Oasis, an album that was offered to the public slap, bang in the middle of the height of Britpop and arguably still hits the right notes.
Let’s rewind to the early 1990s and consider just how groundbreaking Oasis, and their fellow Britpop acts, were to the not just the music scene, but also across all manner of style, fashion and even political lines.
Oasis set the trend with the brand of ‘in your face’ balladeering, their swagger on stage was matched by a fashion sense that was soon replicated across the UK and beyond.
Liam Gallagher found himself the darling of the press and fronted just about fashion mag doing the rounds, from GQ to Esquire, with every ‘lad’s’ mag in between. He was of course usually pictured alongside an attractive girlfriend, or wife, or two.
Hell, even in 2019 the former Oasis frontman found himself the subject of a lengthy Q+A with Vogue magazine. The cultural impact of the band is undeniable, men of a certain age wanted to be them and certainly did their best to dress and act like them too. Be that while wearing chunky sunglasses, which thankfully you can now consider the option to try on glasses online, or a Fred Perry shirt and stylish Doc Marten boots.
A lot has changed since then.
2020 finds the Gallagher brothers working hard to make the most of their respective solo careers; Noel’s act The High Flying Birds, have released three critically acclaimed albums before going on something of a hiatus since their last major tour in 2019.
Liam put Beady Eye, his previous band, to bed in 2014 and has elected to release his efforts in a more pared down manner, with his last effort, Why Me? Why Not, proving a major success in the UK, but the painful truth is that the pair are never as good as when they are working alongside other members of Oasis.
Listening to What’s the Story Morning Glory, WTSMG, 25 years on still brings goosebumps to those who grew up during the peak of the Britpop era, and the quality of the record lives beyond the sheer nostalgia.
It would have been easy for Oasis to ‘phone it in’ after the unmitigated success of their first album, Definitely Maybe in 1994, but what Liam, Noel, “Bonehead”, “Guigsy”, Alan, and to a lesser extent, Tony, created over the course of three months in a studio south Wales can certainly be considered a modern masterpiece.
Whereas Definitely Maybe benefited from a somewhat rough ambience, a lack of strong production, which gave their debut album the feel of an act looking to burst onto the scene, WTSMG is a more polished effort.
Producer Owen Morris layers the audio superbly, especially on anthemic closer Champagne Supernova, while also allowing show-stoppers such as Roll With It and Some Might Say to truly rock the listener.
The album really comes to life due to the rapid maturity shown by chief songwriter Noel, with classics such as Don’t Look Back in Anger and Wonderwall, that have not only stood the test of time, but have in fact developed an extended appeal all these years later.
The success of the album saw Oasis solidify their base and the supporting live shows were immense in scale. Famously two concerts at Knebworth saw the band perform to over 250,000 people, a show that astoundingly saw 2.5m people apply for tickets.
What’s the Story Morning Glory has gone on to sell in excess of 22 million and saw Oasis do what arch Britpop rivals Blur couldn’t, as they blew a massive hole in the American market. Any cursory glance across all manner of social networks shows that the album is still very much loved, with countless posts celebrating this 25th anniversary milestone effusively.
In 2020 there is a general consensus that Oasis have become something of a marmite act, either you love them or you loathe them. There are some who feel that their overall musical offering is one-note or lacking substance, but such a characterization is unfounded.
Others feel the need to deride the band, electing for some reason to instead laud the likes of Blur or Radiohead, as if there was a need to eradicate the existence of one band in order to praise another. There doesn’t, of course, need to be a mutual exclusivity to the argument.
There was, and still is, plenty of room for all these bands to muster your affection.
If you want to get your music into TV, Film, Games, Apps, streaming media, ads or align with brands, this Canadian Music Week workshop is a must attend event. Join the Sync Summit CEO in a one-hour masterclass where you’ll learn how the sync business works, how you can get your music into media projects, learn about best practices and get access to the information, the people and the resources to succeed in sync and creating original music for media.
Producers Vivek J. Tiwary, Arvind Ethan David and Eva Price are thrilled to announce that the Broadway cast of JAGGED LITTLE PILL, with seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette, will be hosting a virtual Broadway fundraising event to benefit the Biden Victory Fund, on Tuesday October 13, 2020 from 8:00-9:00PM ET (5:00-6:00PM PT). Featuring performances, conversations, and messages from special surprise guests, this officially sanctioned Biden Victory Fund Event supports the BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT campaign to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice President of The United States of America. Tickets are available from $25.00, at bit.ly/JLPforBiden.
“I couldn’t be happier to express my passion for conscionable leadership in America with our Jagged Little Pill Broadway team,” said Alanis Morissette. “Each person within this musical is a force of nature and activism in their own right, and I am thrilled to come together to support TRUE democracy, and political and relational grace, with our whole JLP family.”
“Our show is all about encouraging action and making your voice heard,” said Price, Tiwary and David, who serve as Event Chairs alongside attorney and Broadway investor Andrew Byrnes. “So, we are thrilled to be adding our voice to the Biden-Harris chorus this election season, and we hope to inspire Americans to exercise their right to vote this November. We are indeed fighting for the soul of our country, and the cast of Jagged Little Pill is full of heart and soul.”
Contribution Levels for the Event are: Supporter: $25; Advocate: $100; Sponsor: $250; Champion: $1,000; and Co-Host: $10,000 (write/raise), which includes a virtual meet & greet with the cast of Jagged Little Pill.
An exhilarating new musical inspired by the themes and raw emotions laid bare in Morissette’s seminal album of the same name — which celebrates the 25th Anniversary of its release this year — JAGGED LITTLE PILL features an original story by Academy Award-winning writer Diablo Cody (Juno, Tully) that takes a fearless look at what it means to be alive in 21st century America. Directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Waitress, Pippin) , JAGGED LITTLE PILL opened to critical acclaim on December 5, 2019 at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, receiving a “Critic’s Pick” from The New York Times, who describes the musical as “redemptive, rousing and real… Jagged Little Pillstands alongside the original musicals that have sustained the best hopes of Broadway.” Variety hails the show as “Triumphant! Not Since Rent has a musical invested so many bravura roles with so much individual life.” Rolling Stone awards the production “Four stars! JAGGED LITTLE PILL burns with passion. It’s essential medicine that must be swallowed and enjoyed so we can be cured. I want to see it again, and again.”
JAGGED LITTLE PILL features Movement Direction & Choreography by Olivier Award winner and frequent Beyoncé collaborator Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (“Apesh*t”; “Love Drought/Sandcastles” Live at The Grammys) and Musical Supervision, Orchestrations and Arrangements by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, American Idiot). Starring as The Healys – a seemingly perfect family, who strives to hide the cracks beneath the surface when a troubling event shakes their community – are two-time Drama Desk Award Nominee Elizabeth Stanley as “Mary Jane,” Sean Allan Krill as “Steve”, Celia Rose Gooding as “Frankie” and Derek Klena as “Nick”; alongside Outer Critic’s Circle Honoree Kathryn Gallagher as “Bella,” Drama Desk Award winner Lauren Patten as “Jo,” and Antonio Cipriano as “Phoenix,” all of whom reprise their roles from the musical’s record-breaking, sold-out world premiere at American Repertory Theater. Completing the Broadway cast are Annelise Baker, Maiya Blaney, Yeman Brown, Jane Bruce, John Cardoza, Ken Wulf Clark, Keri René Fuller, Laurel Harris, Logan Hart, Zach Hess, Max Kumangai, Heather Lang, Ezra Menas, Kelsey Orem, Nora Schell, DeAnne Stewart, Kei Tsuruharatani and Ebony Williams.
The ongoing suspension of Broadway performances due to COVID-19 will continue until further notice. While a return date has yet to be determined, #JaggedLittleBroadway is now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased through January 3, 2021.
Personally curated by Elvis Costello, The Complete Armed Forces is the definitive statement of the legendary songwriter and musician’s revered and essential 1979 album, featuring the classic hits “Accidents Will Happen,” “Green Shirt,” “Oliver’s Army” and “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding.” Leaving no musical stone unturned, no lyric notebook unrifled through and no detail left out, this new super deluxe edition vinyl box set is a thorough excavation of Costello’s vault from this metamorphic period of his early beginnings, painting as complete a picture as possible of the events that led to the making of the album, its creation, and the wild success that followed for him, and his band The Attractions, and ignited his career. Armed Forces is explored across nine pieces of vinyl (3 12-inch LPs, 3 10-inch LPs and 3 7-inch singles), including a new 2020 remaster of the album, B-sides, alternate versions and outtakes, demos, and a slew of live recordings – including 23 unreleased live tracks taken from three especially riotous concerts.
Releasing November 6, The Complete Armed Forces will be exclusively available via Elvis Costello’s official online store and UMG’s online stores uDiscover and Sound of Vinyl, in two vinyl versions – 180-gram black vinyl and limited edition 180-gram multi-color opaque vinyl. It will also be available digitally for streaming and download. The collection is proceeded today with the release of a three-track digital EP featuring unreleased live performances of “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?,” “Goon Squad” and “Pump It Up,” taken from the new live LPs, Christmas In The Dominion – Live 24th December ’78, Riot At The Regent – Live In Sydney ’78 and Europe ’79 – Live At Pinkpop.
Pre-order The Complete Armed Forces and stream the new live EP HERE.
This lavish box set fully embraces iconic designer Barney Bubbles’ epic pop-art packaging, including the paint-splattered cover artwork by Bubbles and Bazooka (used for the American release and included in the fold-out UK version) and features a unique origami cover that folds out to beautifully display the bold art and graphics and the six vinyl LPs, which are rounded out by three 7-inch reissues of the album’s singles “Oliver’s Army,” “Accidents Will Happen” and Nick Lowe’s “American Squirm” b/w “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?” This treasure trove contains seven custom notebooks with newly updated liner notes from Costello, totaling nearly 10,000 words, facsimiles of first-draft, handwritten lyrics and examples of his lyrical working methods from his personal archive as well as rare photos, memorabilia and concert ephemera. The notebooks offer fascinating insight into Costello’s songwriting process, showing the evolution from idea to finished work, while the liners detail the making of and stories behind the songs. The accompanying photos and memorabilia provide a vivid window into this exciting era. “Most of this record was written in hotel rooms or on a tour bus, scribbled in a notebook which rarely left my side or failing this, from fragments and phrases scrawled on paper cocktail napkins or hotel notepaper,” Costello writes in the liners.
The comprehensive set also includes a print of the vintage grenade and gun poster and the four original postcards of each band member. Additionally, Costello commissioned acclaimed artist Todd Alcott to create pulp novel book covers of songs from Armed Forces starring himself as the protagonist in a variety of precarious situations.
Armed Forces has been newly remastered by Costello and mastering engineer Bob Ludwig from the original analog tapes to match the sonic fidelity of the initial 1979 UK pressing. Striving for the utmost authenticity, they took care to match the feel and intention of the original mastering. “It sounds as close to the way it sounded to us in the studio as we could make it,” Costello recently revealed to MOJO. “That’s a beautiful thing.”
The album’s evolution is documented on the 10-inch, Sketches For Emotional Fascism A.K.A. Armed Forces, which assembles together B-sides, demos and alternate versions, making many of these songs available on vinyl for the first time in decades.
Costello and The Attractions live prowess is fully celebrated with several previously unreleased concert recordings that bookended the recording and release of the album. Along with selections from the band’s legendary 1978 Hollywood High show, the collection shows off what a powerful force of nature the band was with three additional shows including highlights from the notorious Riot At The Regent – Live In Sydney ’78 and a Christmas Eve concert at London’s Dominion Theatre that same year, presented here as Christmas In The Dominion – Live 24th December ’78. “Riot At The Regent is a souvenir from our days Down Under and a second snap-shot of the Attractions in action during six months either side of the recording of Armed Forces,” Costello pens. Continuing, “We played right up to Christmas Eve and certainly sound full of cheery spirit on ‘Christmas In The Dominion,’ playing a version of ‘No Dancing’ in an apparently spontaneous arrangement that sounds as if we had just heard Blondie’s ‘Heart Of Glass’ on the radio and decided to re-work my song with a similar approach before closing the stand with the same song with which we had opened it: ‘Peace Love & Understanding.’”
Costello’s full set at PinkPop in The Netherlands in 1979, titled Europe ’79 – Live At Pinkpop, is a thrilling concert that showcases the well-oiled band in fine form, exactly one year after their appearance at Hollywood High School, and sees them road testing songs that would end up on their follow up record, 1980’s Get Happy. All of the unreleased live recordings, taken from the original 2” multitracks, have been remixed by Costello’s longtime producer and mixer Sebastian Krys who recently mixed his forthcoming new album, Hey Clockface, and co-produced his 2018 GRAMMY® Award-winning album, Look Now.
Produced by Nick Lowe, Armed Forces was Elvis Costello’s third album and his second with The Attractions – Steve Nieve (keyboards), Bruce Thomas (bass) and Pete Thomas (drums) – following on from the immense success of their first effort, This Year’s Model. As a result, the songs for the album were written on the road while the band were on a non-stop tour where they were becoming tighter and tighter by the show. Moving away from the punk that inspired the previous record, Armed Forces, as Pitchfork wrote in their nearly perfect review of the album, “is extravagantly layered with dense instrumentation and rich, effusive textures,” adding “the production works to the record’s advantage, filling the songs out with bombastic power-pop arrangements and giving weight to their urgency.” At just 23 years old, the album cemented Costello’s legacy as one of the most gifted and articulate songwriters of his generation. Since it’s release it has only grown in popularity and stature, continually landing on best albums ever lists and finding new fans each year.
With The Complete Armed Forces, Costello has provided an exhaustive time capsule that lets us celebrate this timeless album and understand how it came to be.
THE COMPLETE ARMED FORCES TRACKLISTING
Armed Forces 12” LP
SIDE A
1. Accidents Will Happen
2. Senior Service
3. Oliver’s Army
4. Big Boys
5. Green Shirt
6. Party Girl
SIDE B
1. Goon Squad
2. Busy Bodies
3. Sunday’s Best
4. Moods For Moderns
5. Chemistry Class
6. Two Little Hitlers
7. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
Live at Hollywood High & Elsewhere 1978 12” LP
SIDE A
1. Accidents Will Happen
2. Mystery Dance
3. Goon Squad
4. Party Girl
5. Stranger In The House
SIDE B
1. Alison
2. Lipstick Vogue
3. Watching The Detectives
4. You Belong To Me
5. Chemistry Class (Live at The Warner Theatre, Washington D.C.)
Europe ‘79 – Live At Pinkpop 12” LP
SIDE A
1. Goon Squad
2. B-Movie
3. Green Shirt
4. (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea
5. Opportunity
6. So Young
7. High Fidelity
SIDE B
1 Lipstick Vogue
2. Watching The Detectives
3. Big Boys
4. Pump It Up
5. You Belong To Me
6. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
Sketches for Emotional Fascism 10″ LP
SIDE A
1. Clean Money
2. Talking In The Dark
3. Wednesday Week
4. Tiny Steps
SIDE B
1. Crawling To The U.S.A.
2. Big Boys (Alternate Version)
3. Green Shirt (Demo Version)
4. My Funny Valentine
Riot At The Regent – Live In Sydney ’78 10” LP
SIDE A
1. Oliver’s Army
2. Waiting For The End Of The World
3. Big Boys
SIDE B
1. This Year’s Girl
2. You Belong To Me
3. Pump It Up
Christmas In The Dominion – Live 24th December ‘78 10” LP
SIDE A
1. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
2. No Dancing
SIDE B
1. I Stand Accused
2. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
“Oliver’s Army” 7″
SIDE A
1. Oliver’s Army
Side B
1. Big Boys (Demo)
“Accidents Will Happen” 7”
SIDE A
1. Accidents Will Happen
Side B
1. Busy Bodies (Alternate)
Nick Lowe & His Sound – “American Squirm” 7″
Side A
1. American Squirm
Side B
2. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
Featuring frontmen Miles Kane (The Last Shadow Puppets) and Nic Cester (Jet), guitarists Graham Coxon (Blur) and Jamie Davis, plus Matt Bellamy (Muse) on bass and drummer Sean Payne (The Zutons). The Jaded Hearts Club are a new band mining the history of rock and soul music to create original interpretations of lost classics, Northern soul cult hits and jazz standards.
‘I Put A Spell On You’ is the latest track to preview the album after Northern soul banger ‘Love’s Gone Bad’, the life saving ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There’, Marvin Gaye’s hidden gem ‘This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It’s Killing Me)’, boogaloo garage ‘Nobody But Me’ and the World War 2 Vera Lynn classic ‘We’ll Meet Again’.
The band formed in 2017 when Jamie Davis, a British guitarist living in Los Angeles who previously ran Coxon’s Transcopic Records label in England, wanted to book a Beatles covers band to play at his birthday party. The cost proved to be excessive and the available tribute acts were drab, so Davis had a back-up plan. “I realised I knew a bunch of half decent British musician friends living in L.A. so I thought I’d ask if they’d come together to form an early ‘60s Cavern-era Beatles band.”
They kept their plans a secret. So, when family and friends turned up at the party, they were shocked to see an all-star band rampaging through a Cavern Club era Beatles set. “The place went nuts,” smiles Davis, “and everyone had such a good time that we decided to do it again.”
If their debut gig was a big surprise, their second raised the bar in dramatic fashion after Stella McCartney asked Bellamy if the band would play her fashion show in Los Angeles in January 2018. They arrived to see an A-list crowd gathered to see them: Quincy Jones, Katy Perry, James Corden and even Ringo Starr were in attendance. And then things took a turn for the unbelievable. Paul McCartney strolled on stage, winked at Davis and led the Hearts through ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ and ‘Helter Skelter’. In the space of just two gigs, The Beatles covers band had effectively become the surrogate Beatles.
Things progressed in the same way that they had started. They played SXSW; a late night gig in Chicago after Bellamy had completed a stadium show with Muse; supported Roger Daltrey at The Royal Albert Hall in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust; and headlined London’s 100 Club. Expanding their repertoire to cover other classic British rock songs from the Sixties, the 100 Club show was a tribute to Davis’s late father, with all proceeds donated to the Shooting Star Children’s Hospices. The charity further benefited from the limited-edition vinyl only album ‘Live At The 100 Club’.
Back in Los Angeles, Bellamy and Davis wanted to develop the band further and started working on an album, with Bellamy producing at Red Room Studios in Los Angeles. The band decided to focus primarily on recording lost classics from the world of Northern Soul, supplemented by their raw, soulful takes on some famous standards from the era. The duo shifted through 3000 songs as they researched what material they should record.
“Living in L.A. it seems like no-one has heard of Northern Soul,” says Davis. “We just love the story of how the north of England fell in love with American soul music even after it stopped having hits and using that music as the soundtrack to a good night out.”
“I read somewhere recently, which made me laugh, that rock is the new jazz,” adds Bellamy. “It’s becoming an esoteric genre, but still with huge historical and cultural importance. Like jazz, which often reinvents old songs, The Jaded Hearts Club is continuing the tradition of how bands like The Beatles and The Stones started out – finding great soul and blues standards and recording them in a more modern style.”
The band’s motivation, states Davis, is simple. “It goes back to the purest point of why people started bands in the first place – a group of great musicians getting together to play for fun with no pressure. We’re doing it because we have a bloody good time.”
11x GRAMMY Award-winning superstar Bruno Mars is commemorating the 10th anniversary of his milestone solo debut, DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS, with the announcement of a number of new RIAA certifications and much more.
Released October 4, 2010, DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS is now certified 6x platinum for U.S. sales exceeding 6 million. In addition, the album’s many hit singles and track releases have received new certifications, including “Just The Way You Are” (12x platinum), “The Lazy Song” (7x platinum), “Marry You (4x platinum), “Count On Me” (3x platinum), “Talking to the Moon” (2x platinum), “Runaway Baby” (1x platinum). In addition, the GRAMMY Award-winning “Grenade” has ascended to RIAA diamond status with 10x platinum sales, while both “Liquor Store Blues (Feat. Damian Marley)” and “The Other Side (Feat. CeeLo Green & B.o.B)” have earned gold certification.
The milestone 10th anniversary of DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS is being celebrated with today’s premiere of a deluxe YouTube playlist featuring all of the album’s official videos newly remastered in spectacular 4K UHD alongside six brand new lyric videos produced for this occasion. DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS has long been a YouTube favorite, with cumulative plays of all official content now exceeding 4.5 billion. The upcoming anniversary is being further celebrated with social media campaigns on TikTok and Instagram.
The anniversary is being celebrated at the DSPs through a variety of playlist takeovers and cover features. In addition, an array of classic DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS merchandise is on sale now for a limited time at the official Bruno Mars webstore.
As if that weren’t enough, DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS will be available in limited edition yellow vinyl on Friday, November 27th.
DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS marked the landmark debut of a remarkable new artist. The album – which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 – has gone on to achieve global album equivalent sales of 15.5 million. Now boasting more than 7.8 billion total streams, DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS is the longest charting debut album on Top 200 and #4 longest running of all time.
DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS received a wide range of honors and accolades to match its popular success, including GRAMMY Awards for “Album of the Year” and “Best Pop Vocal Album.” The album spawned a string of blockbuster hit singles and companion videos, including “Just The Way You Are,” “Grenade,” “The Lazy Song,” “Talking to the Moon,” “Marry You,” and “Count On Me.”
Indeed, “Just The Way You Are” and “Grenade” proved era-defining hits around the world, reaching #1 on the Billboard “Hot 100” and numerous singles charts around the globe. In addition, “Just The Way You Are” went on to receive the GRAMMY Award for “Best Male Pop Vocal Performance,” while “Grenade” was honored with three GRAMMY Award nominations, including “Record of the Year” “Song of the Year,” and “Best Pop Solo Performance.”
With worldwide sales of more than 130 million albums and more than 173 million singles, Bruno Mars is one of the best-selling artists of all time. His most recent album, the critically acclaimed, 3x platinum certified 24K MAGIC, made an impressive debut atop Billboard’s “Top Digital Albums” and “Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums” charts upon its 2016 arrival. The album includes the 7x platinum certified, #1 single, “That’s What I Like” – Mars’ seventh “Hot 100” chart-topper and first ever #1 on the “Hot R&B Songs” chart, affirming him as one of the few artists to have written and produced each of his #1 hits as well as to have a #1 song on the “Hot 100” from each of his first three studio albums.
Mars and 24K MAGIC proved the biggest winners at 2018’s GRAMMY Awards, winning all seven categories for which he received nominations, including “Record of the Year,” “Album of the Year,” “Best R&B Album,” and “Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.” Furthermore, “That’s What I Like” received the GRAMMY for “Song of the Year,” “Best R&B Song,” and “Best R&B Performance.”
Among his truly countless accolades, Mars is a 4x Guinness World Record holder, with his milestone 2015 NFL Super Bowl Halftime Show drawing a record-breaking total viewership of over 115.3 million. Mars also holds the world record as the “First Male Artist to Achieve Three 10 Million Selling Singles” and “Most Followed Male Chart-topper on Musical.ly,” while 2016’s 2x GRAMMY Award-winning, worldwide #1 collaboration with Mark Ronson, “Uptown Funk,” made history for the “Most Weeks at #1 on the U.S. Digital Song Sales” chart.
