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Tears For Fears Re-Issuing Box Set And Picture Disc Of ‘Songs From The Big Chair’ For 35th Anniversary

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Tears For Fears Re-Issuing Box Set And Picture Disc Of ‘Songs From The Big Chair’ For 35th Anniversary

Spring 2020 sees the 35th anniversary of Tears For Fears iconic ten million-selling album Songs From The Big Chair.

The 35th celebrations will include the release of a limited picture disc version of the album and a reissue of the much sought after super deluxe 4CD/2DVD boxset which currently changes hands for hundreds of dollars.

Songs From The Big Chair was Tears For Fears second album and spawned classic worldwide hit songs such as the US #1 singles “Everybody Wants To Rule the World” and “Shout” as well as “Head over Heels” and “Mother’s Talk.”

Upon its first release, Songs From The Big Chair spent 30 weeks in the UK top ten-album chart, a whole year in the top 30 and only left the charts 18 months later. The story was very much the same all over the world, the album spent five weeks at #1 in the US, and much like the UK, it was in the Billboard Chart for 18 months.

Looking back at the album Roland Orzabal commented, “Pop music was still a growth industry. It hadn’t sort of stagnated, stalled, diversified into streaming like it is nowadays. We were young, we were both good-looking and we had the right music. As we move further and further from that decade and you keep hearing “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” in various forms I do think it is an era-defining album.”

Curt Smith “You would never normally get three songs that strong in an album. But balance that out with tracks like “Listen”, “The Working Hour;” all those things that give it air and give it time to breathe I think is what makes it something more than just the sum of its parts. I think the album had a lot more depth than a lot of those other albums of that time. And albums of more depth tend to stick around longer.”

The album is being made available for the first time as a limited-edition picture disc, and due to overwhelming demand, the super deluxe version will be reissued. The 4CD/2DVD box set features a multitude of remixes, live tracks, BBC sessions, B-sides, previously unreleased tracks and 5.1 surround sound and stereo mixes of the album mixed by four-time Grammy nominee, Steven Wilson.

SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR – LIMITED EDITION PICTURE DISC

SIDE ONE
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Mothers Talk

SIDE TWO
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen

SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR – SUPER DELUXE EDITION – 4CD/2DVD

DISC ONE
Songs from The Big Chair
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Mothers Talk
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen

B-Sides
The Big Chair
Empire Building
The Marauders
Broken Revisited
The Conflict
The Working Hour (Piano Version)
Pharaohs
When in Love with A Blind Man
Sea Song

DISC TWO
“Edited Songs”: 7″ Versions
The Way You Are (7″ version)
Mothers Talk (Short Version)
Shout (Edit)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Single version)
Head Over Heels (Dave Bascombe 7″ version)
I Believe (A Soulful Re- Recording)
Everybody Wants To Run The World

International 7″ Versions
The Way You Are (Edit)
Mothers Talk (US Remix)
Shout (US Single Version)
Everybody Wants to Run the World (Running Version)
Head Over Heels (Hughes 7″ Edit aka Radio Mix)
Mothers Talk (Video version)
Listen (Clean intro)
Interview with Curt and Roland

DISC THREE
Remixed Songs”: 12″ Versions, Dubs and more
The Way You Are (Extended version)
Mothers Talk (Extended version)
Shout (Extended remix)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Extended version)
Broken / Head Over Heels / Broken (Preacher Mix)
Mothers Talk (Beat Of The Drum Mix)
Shout (US remix)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Urban mix)
Mothers Talk (US remix alternate)
Shout (Dub)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Instrumental)
Shout (Acapella)

DISC FOUR
“Unreleased Songs”: Promos, Demos & Live tracks
At The BBC
Head Over Heels (Radio 1 Richard Skinner Session)
The Working Hour (Radio 1 Richard Skinner Session)
Broken (Radio 1 Richard Skinner Session)

Live at Massey Hall
Mothers Talk
Broken/Head Over Heels
Memories Fade
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Shout

Early Mixes
Mothers Talk (Early mix)
The Way You Are (Early mix)
Broken (Early mix)
Shout (Early mix)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (alt 7″ with brass)

DISC 5 DVD AUDIO
Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Mothers Talk
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen

Steven Wilson Stereo Mix
Shout
The Working Hour
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Mothers Talk
I Believe
Broken
Head Over Heels
Listen

DISC 6 – DVD VIDEO
Scenes From The Big Chair (985 documentary) (1hr 14 mins)
Interview with producer Chris Hughes (2005) (35 mins)

Music Videos
The Way You Are (Music video)
Mothers Talk (Music video)
Mothers Talk (alternative UK video)
Shout (Music video)
Everybody Wants to Rule The World (Music video)
Head Over Heels (Music video)
I Believe (Music video)
Mothers Talk (US version)
Everybody Wants to Run the World (Music video)

Tears for Fears at the BBC
The Way You Are (Top Of The Pops)
Mothers Talk (Top Of The Pops)
Mothers Talk (Top Of The Pops)
Shout (Top Of The Pops)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Wogan)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Top Of The Pops)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Top Of The Pops)
The Working Hour (Wogan)

 

Tears For Fears – Roland Orzabal (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Curt Smith (vocals, bass, keyboards) formed in Bath, England 1981. Beyond selling 30 million albums worldwide, performing to countless sold out audiences, and winning various awards, the duo’s DNA remains embedded within three generations of artists on both subtle and overt levels.

Quietly casting a shadow over rock, hip-hop, electronic dance music, indie, and beyond, Kanye West interpolated “Memories Fade” on “The Coldest Winter” from the seminal 808s & Heartbreak, The Weekend infused “Pale Shelter” into Starboy’s “Secrets,” David Guetta sampled “Change” for “Always,” and Drake utilized “Ideas as Opiates” as the foundation for “Lust For Life,” while Ally Brooke Hernandez, Adam Lambert, and Gary Jules recorded popular covers of “Mad World” and Disturbed took on “Shout,” to name a few. Lorde cut a haunting cover of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” for the Soundtrack of the blockbuster The Hunger Games – Catching Fire, which Tears For Fears gleefully would use as intro music live and thus bring everything full circle. Meanwhile, classic songs figure prominently everywhere from The Wire and Donnie Darko to Straight Outta Compton and Mr. Robot. Long before, they became a cultural cornerstone Tears For Fears simply consisted of two school friends growing up in Bath, Somerset UK.

Representing an inimitable intersection of pop palatability, clever and cognizant lyricism, guitar bombast, and new wave innovation, their 1983 debut The Hurting yielded anthems such as “Mad World,” “Change,” and “Pale Shelter,” reaching RIAA Gold status in the United States. 1985’s Songs from the Big Chair became a watershed moment for the group and music at large. Boasting the signature BRIT Award-winning “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Shout,” “Head over Heels,” “Mothers Talk” and “I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording),” it went quintuple-platinum and captured #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Slant dubbed it one of “The Best Albums of the 1980s,” it featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and Consequence of Sound awarded it a rare A+ rating in a 20-year retrospective.

1989’s Seeds of Love proved to be Roland and Curt’s last collaboration together until Everybody Loves A Happy Ending in 2004, which rekindled the creative fire between them.

The band engaged in a three-year touring whirlwind across North America, Japan, South Korea, Manila, and South America beginning in 2010. 2013 saw them return with their first recorded music in a decade: a cover of Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start.” The band returned once more in 2017 with “I Love You But I’m Lost” a track written and recorded with the multi platinum British act Bastille taken from the “Rule The World” best of collection which once more catapulted the band back to the upper echelon of the UK album charts.

With more new material and further reissues on the horizon Roland and Curt remain as loud as ever, while yet another generation gets ready to “Shout” with them all over again.

Little Steven Marks 30th Anniversary Of Nelson Mandela’s Historic Release From Prison By Announcing Remastered Vinyl Edition Of Landmark Protest Album, ‘Sun City’, Ahead Of Its 35th Anniversary This Year

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Little Steven Marks 30th Anniversary Of Nelson Mandela’s Historic Release From Prison By Announcing Remastered Vinyl Edition Of Landmark Protest Album, ‘Sun City’, Ahead Of Its 35th Anniversary This Year

Little Steven, aka Steven Van Zandt, is commemorating today’s 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s historic release from a South African prison after 27 years in captivity with the announcement that his 1985 landmark protest album, Sun City, by Artists United Against Apartheid, the extraordinary supergroup brought together by Van Zandt, producer Arthur Baker and journalist Danny Schechter to fight racial injustice in South Africa, will be released on vinyl for the first time since its initial release 35 years ago. The long-out-of-print LP joins five additional classic albums from Van Zandt making all of Little Steven’s records from his early career once again available on vinyl.

The upcoming releases, previously only available in last year’s limited edition box set, RockNRoll Rebel – The Early Work, and now available individually, have all been remastered and include all of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s solo records between 1982 and 1999: Men Without Women (1982), Voice Of America (1983), Sun City (1985) Freedom – No Compromise (1987), Revolution (1989) and Born Again Savage (1999). Releasing March 13 via Wicked Cool/UMe, all albums will be available on both 180-gram black vinyl and as a special, limited edition version on 180-gram color swirl vinyl mirroring the psychedelic platters released in the box set. The color vinyl variants can be purchased exclusive at uDiscover. Pre-order your copy now: https://UMe.lnk.to/LSVZCareerVinyl

Notably, Revolution will be making its individual US vinyl debut, having previously only seen vinyl release in Europe, while the 2LP Born Again Savage will be available individually on vinyl for the first time ever.

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the most fervent and forceful political statements to emerge from Eighties pop music,” Sun City, celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, remains an undisputed milestone in music and cultural history. The project began with “Sun City,” a song Van Zandt wrote to expose and oppose South Africa’s apartheid system which included the forced relocation of its black population who were also stripped of their right to vote. The song, featuring the memorable chorus of “I ain’t gonna play Sun City,” was a declaration and boycott from a stunningly diverse group of artists that they would refuse to perform at Sun City, a resort located within the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana, one of many internationally unrecognized states created by the South African government to forcibly relocate its black population. To record the track, Van Zandt, co-producer Arthur Baker and journalist Danny Schechter brought together Artists United Against Apartheid – a still breathtaking cadre of international superstars that included Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis, Pete Townshend, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Ringo Starr, Zak Starkey, Darlene Love, Run DMC, U2, George Clinton, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Rubén Blades, Peter Gabriel, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Bobby Womack, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Melle Mel, The Fat Boys, Herbie Hancock, Jackson Browne, Peter Wolf, Bonnie Raitt, Hall & Oates, Jimmy Cliff, Big Youth, Peter Garrett, Ron Carter, Ray Barretto, Gil Scott-Heron, Nona Hendryx, Pat Benatar, Clarence Clemons, Stiv Bators, Doug Wimbish, and Joey Ramone, to name but a few. Named as the top single of 1985 by The Village Voice‘s prestigious “Pazz & Jop” critics poll, “Sun City” was followed that same year by a full-length album that saw many of those same artists joining together for a number of additional exclusive tracks, including “Silver and Gold” (performed by Bono with Keith Richards and Ron Wood), “The Struggle Continues” (featuring Miles Davis, Stanley Jordan, Herbie Hancock, Sonny Okosuns, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, and Richard Scher), and “Let Me See Your I.D.” (featuring Gil Scott-Heron, Miles Davis, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Peter Wolf, Sonny Okosuns, Malopoets, Duke Bootee, Ray Barretto, and Peter Garrett).

Sun City proved a critically acclaimed and globally important work for both its powerful social message – allowing Van Zandt, Baker, and others involved in the project to donate more than a half million dollars to causes supporting the anti-apartheid struggle – as well as its innovative, world-spanning musical approach, ultimately earning inclusion in Rolling Stone‘s “100 Best Albums of the Eighties,” which noted “Sun City threw an effective political punch: Not only did it discourage musicians from playing the South African resort city, but it also helped spread the word about new sounds like rap.” Van Zandt is donating all artist and publishing royalties from Sun City to the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation for the TeachRock.org music history curriculum.

“It took courage for artists to make the leap from social concerns to political action for a cause that was virtually unknown at the time,” said Van Zandt. “Victories that clear cut are rare in the sphere of international liberation politics. Once in a lifetime if you’re lucky.”

The release of Little Steven’s early catalog comes on the heels of the expansive box set, RockNRoll Rebel – The Early Work, released in December. Limited to just 1,000 copies, the comprehensive collection includes all six aforementioned albums across seven colored vinyl LPs housed in a bespoke slipcase. The multi-format set also boasts four CDs of rarities culled from Van Zandt’s personal vault, allowing an in-depth look at his early solo career with 51 tracks spanning previously unreleased demos, B-sides, rehearsals, outtakes, radio spots, non-album singles, classic concert performances, and a number of never-before-heard studio gems, complete with corresponding liner notes from Van Zandt about each of the bonus tracks.

“It’s been a blast going through the archives and finding all these hidden gems,” says Van Zandt. “In addition to demos in various stages of completion, there are entire songs I’d completely forgotten about, and we found some really early things pre-Jukes like Southside Johnny and the Kid (The Kid being me!). I’m excited to have my stuff back on vinyl for the first time in decades!”

All six albums included in RockNRoll Rebel – The Early Work are also now available digitally as individual Deluxe Editions, expanded with the same rare and unreleased material from the era that make up the four discs of rarities in the physical collection. The Early Work, a special digital-only collection compiling 10 previously unreleased tracks of early rehearsals and live performances with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes spanning 1973-77 and capped off with a 1995 live performance of The Temptations’ “I Wish It Would Rain,” is also now available. Also now available digitally is the rare 1985 three-song 12″ EP, Let Me See Your I.D., featuring the Extended Mix, Street Mix and Beat and Scratch Mix of the landmark “Sun City” single. All albums can be streamed/downloaded below:

MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
VOICE OF AMERICA
FREEDOM NO COMPROMISE
REVOLUTION
BORN AGAIN SAVAGE
SUN CITY
THE EARLY WORK
LET ME SEE YOUR I.D.

In addition, a limited edition standalone 144-page, 12″ x 12″ companion book is in the works featuring Van Zandt’s in-depth liner notes for RockNRoll Rebel, alongside memories and stories about the making of each album, lyrics to every song, and hundreds of never-before-seen photos. Pre-orders will be available soon.

Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul recently wrapped up two years of near constant touring – totaling 187 shows across North America, Europe, and Australia – with an epic performance at New York City’s historic Beacon Theatre, bringing the back-to-back Soulfire/Summer Of Sorcery world tours to an end with a suitably triumphant concert filmed for future release.

Harry Styles to Perform for SiriusXM and Pandora in New York City

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Harry Styles to Perform for SiriusXM and Pandora in New York City

SiriusXM announced today that Harry Styles will perform for SiriusXM and Pandora on Friday, February 28 at a secret location in New York City. The intimate set for SiriusXM subscribers and Pandora listeners will feature Styles performing songs from his recent sophomore album, Fine Line, released via Columbia Records. The event will also include an interview with Harry Styles and The Morning Mash Up hosts Ryan Sampson, Nicole Ryan and Stanley T.

The special performance and interview will air on Saturday, February 29 at 6:00 pm ET on SiriusXM Hits1, channel 2 on satellite radios and on the SiriusXM app.

The Morning Mash Up, SiriusXM Hits 1’s live daily morning show airs Monday – Friday from 6:00 am – 12:00 pm ET from the SiriusXM studios in New York City. SiriusXM Hits 1 is also home to Hits 1 in Hollywood, the live daily afternoon show hosted by Tony Fly and Symon from the SiriusXM Hollywood studios in Los Angeles.

SiriusXM subscribers are able to listen to SiriusXM Hits 1 (channel 2) on SiriusXM radios, and those with streaming access can listen online, on-the-go with the SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a wide variety of connected devices, including smart TVs, devices with Amazon Alexa or the Google Assistant, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more. Go to www.SiriusXM.com/streaming to learn more.

Harry Styles has returned with his critically acclaimed second solo album Fine Line — his first piece of new music in two years. It’s a new chapter in the story he’s been building for the past ten years—a musical journey unlike any other. Styles’ Fine Line, released in December 2019 on Columbia Records, achieved an array of history-making records and topped the charts at #1 in over 20 countries.  The album, which features the new single “Adore You,” debuted at #1 in the U.S. on the Billboard 200 with over 478,000 equivalent album units sold, making history as the biggest sales week for a solo U.K. male artist’s album since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales data in 1991, and was the 3rd highest debut for any artist in 2019. Harry is nominated for Best Male and Mastercard Album of the Year at the 2020 BRIT AWARDS. He will kick off his world tour Love on Tour in April 2020 in support of Fine Line. Styles became an overnight sensation with the band One Direction which conquered the world, touring and scoring hits at a frantic pace, while he began to evolve as a songwriter and performer. Styles went his own way in spring 2017 when he dropped his first solo single: the double-platinum piano epic “Sign of the Times,” which Rolling Stone named the Song of the Year. His self-titled debut album released in May 2017, entered the Billboard 200 at #1 and topped charts at #1 in over 55 countries. The timeless 10-track album confirmed Styles as an artist schooled in the classics, while still breaking new ground. He toured the album in 2017 and 2018 with 90 sold-out shows in over 20 countries. He made his acting debut in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-nominated film “Dunkirk” in July 2017, becoming the first British artist with a #1 debut single, album and film in the same year.

Essential Late-Era Nina Simone Album, ‘Fodder On My Wings,’ Reissued Wide Digital Release For The First Time In Standard And Hi-Res Audio

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Essential Late-Era Nina Simone Album, ‘Fodder On My Wings,’ Reissued Wide Digital Release For The First Time In Standard And Hi-Res Audio

Recorded in 1982, not long after she moved to Paris, Fodder On My Wings was one of Nina Simone’s favorite albums yet has remained one of her most obscure. Originally recorded for a small French label and only sporadically available since its initial release, Fodder On My Wings will be reissued in a variety of formats including CD and LP, as well as widely available digitally for the first time, in both standard and hi-res audio, on April 3 via Verve/UMe. The original album will be expanded with three bonus tracks from the recording sessions from a rare French reissue released in 1988. The effervescent opening track “I Sing Just To Know That I’m Alive,” a song that Simone often performed live in her later years, is available now to stream and as an instant grat download with digital preorder.

A lesser-known but important part of Simone’s musical history, Fodder On My Wings contains deeply personal songs, including the aforementioned, “I Sing Just To Know That I’m Alive” and “I Was Just A Stupid Dog To Them,” as well a searing lyrical improvisation about the death of her father on “Alone Again (Naturally).” At the time she recorded the album, Simone was living in France and extremely lonely; her mental illness was worsening and her family life was fractured. It’s out of this despair that one of the many album standouts, the near title track “Fodder In Her Wings,” was birthed. As Pitchfork wrote in their list of 33 of Simone’s most iconic songs, the composition “captured with startling intimacy the pain of this period, and she returned to it frequently through the next decade, cutting another studio version three years later (the synth-heavy take on Nina’s Back!) and including it on several live albums, including an awe-inspiring performance on 1987’s Let It Be Me,” continuing, “Simone’s vocal makes a song of weariness and defeat carry an air of defiance, a wise word from someone who survived to tell the tale.”

Over the years, the album has been reevaluated and has received its due as a significant work in Simone’s prolific catalog. In a 2005 review of the album, Jazz Times hailed the record and especially her emotional performance on “Alone Again (Naturally),” writing: “At the core of the album is a rare, powerful example of Simone with all masks stripped away: Her personal pain explodes to the surface as she reworks Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again (Naturally)” into a diatribe about her dying father that bravely progresses from venomously embittered to cautiously conciliatory.”

Recorded at a time when Simone was feeling rejuvenated by her surroundings and by the African musicians she met in her newly adopted France, Fodder On My Wings is an essential Simone album that is making a long-overdue reappearance and can now be heard however you prefer to listen to music.

FODDER ON MY WINGS TRACK LISTINGS

VINYL
SIDE A

  1. I Sing Just To Know That I’m Alive
  2. Fodder In Her Wings
  3. Vous êtes seuls, mais je désire être avec vous
  4. Il y a un baume à Gilhead
  5. Liberian Calypso
  6. Alone Again (Naturally)

SIDE B

  1. I Was Just A Stupid Dog To Them
  2. Color Is A Beautiful Thing
  3. Le peuple en Suisse
  4. Heaven Belongs To You
  5. Thandewye
  6. Stop
  7. They Took My Hand

CD/DIGITAL

  1. I Sing Just To Know That I’m Alive
  2. Fodder In Her Wings
  3. Vous êtes seuls, mais je désire être avec vous
  4. Il y a un baume à Gilhead
  5. Liberian Calypso
  6. Alone Again (Naturally)
  7. I Was Just A Stupid Dog To Them
  8. Color Is A Beautiful Thing
  9. Le Peuple en Suisse
  10. Heaven Belongs To You
  11. Thandewye
  12. Stop
  13. They Took My Hand

JUNO / Maple Blues Award Winner Steve Hill is “All About The Love” Today in this 70s Rock-Meets-60s Gospel Mashup of Music

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JUNO / Maple Blues Award Winner Steve Hill is “All About The Love” Today in this 70s Rock-Meets-60s Gospel Mashup of Music

JUNO and multi-Maple Blues Award winner Steve Hill is “All About The Love” on this day that is very much about the same thing.

Under the newly minted guise of Steve Hill & The Devil Horns, the rollicking musical mashup of 70s rock mixed with 60s Gospel and Soul is an unexpected hear-to-believe moment in Hill’s extensive library of song craft — and a glimpse into Hill’s forthcoming new album release this year.

“It’s basically a mix of two styles that aren’t really supposed to fit together in the same song,” he says. “Somehow, though… It works.”

Beyond the wildly surprising juxtaposition of genres, the song’s origin story continues with case after case of self-admitted near-misses and thank-goodnesses.

“I had these two ideas — the verse part and the chorus part — in two unfinished songs,” Hill recalls. “The lyrics for the chorus were written in my notebook for a few months before I put them to music, live on stage, one night in Italy in the spring of 2019. It came out exactly like it is, and it’s a good thing my sound man recorded the show, or I may not have remembered it!

“The guitar riff came out of the blue, too,” he continues. “A friend of mine was visiting me in the studio and, while we were talking, I started playing that riff exactly the way it is now.

“Again… It’s a good thing the tape was rolling!”

The way he tells it makes it sound like a series of happy accidents, but “All About The Love” lands as further example of the multi-talented artist’s vast breadth of skill. As the 2015 JUNO Award recipient for Blues Album of the Year for Solo Recordings, Vol. 2 — with two previous nominations for Solo Recordings, Vol. 1 and Call It What You Will respectively — that same year also earned Hill Maple Blues Awards for Electric Act of the Year, Guitarist of the Year, Recording/Producer of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year.

When it comes to one-man bands, Hill has no limits, as seen in additional releases The One Man Blues Rock Band, Solo Recordings, Vol. 3, and Domino, as well as on stages for some of the country’s biggest music festivals, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Ottawa Blues Festival, Mont Tremblant International Blues Festival, Thunder Bay Blues Festival, Kitchener Blues Festival, and more.

In terms of 2020’s addition of The Devil Horns, Hill tells it best: “I had been thinking about trying something with horns for a little while to add some texture and power to my one-man band. I had come up with a band name a few months before — Steve Hill & The Devil Horns — which I thought was pretty cool and funny… I just needed the actual horns!

“I was listening to Queen a lot at the time and their song ‘Dragon Attack’ was the inspiration for the call and response on ‘All About The Love.’ It set the whole mood of the verses. That summer, I got together with my songwriting partner of over 20 years, Joshua Parley, to finish the lyrics, and it all came together.

“I wrote it about a special person but could see right away it could be perceived about a more universal love, too. Lyrics mean so many different things to different people, that I try not to explain them too much.

“For recording, I had a day off in Lyon, France, while on tour in the fall of 2019, which is also the home of fellow one-man band They Call Me Rico.

“Rico and I had our first band together as teenagers 30 years ago, and have been close friends ever since; he also owns Magneto Studio, so I asked him to produce the track and put a horn section together. The whole thing came together in a day, and there’s an energy to the performance that is usually very hard to reproduce in the studio. The fact I had been on tour for three weeks and playing every night really helped.

“I was in the zone.”

“All About The Love” is available now.

STEVE HILL TOUR DATES
February 21 @ Salle de Spectacle du Pôle de Chambly, Chambly QC
March 6 @ Cabaret BMO, Sainte-Thérèse QC
Marc 21 @ Shamrock Pub, Thionville, France
March 22 @ Le Blues autour du Zinc, Beauvais, France
March 23 @ Le Blues autour du Zinc, Beauvais, France
March 24 @ Le Blues autour du Zinc, Beauvais, France
March 25 @ Le Blues autour du Zinc, Masterclass, Beauvais, France
March 26 @ Le Blues autour du Zinc-Magic Mirror, Beauvais, France
March 27 @ Ours Macon, Tence, France
April 3 @ Maison de la culture de Thetford Mines, Thetford Mines QC
April 4 @ Centre Culturel St-John, Bromont QC
April 18 @ Centre d’Art La Petite Église, Saint-Eustache QC
May 29 @ Théâtre Petit Champlain, Quebec QC
May 30 @ Théâtre Petit Champlain, Quebec QC

Ron Sexsmith Releases “When Love Pans Out”

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Ron Sexsmith Releases “When Love Pans Out”

Ron Sexsmith has released a second track from his upcoming album HERMITAGE.  The new single, “When Love Pans Out” follows up on the album’s lead single “You Don’t Wanna Hear It.”  Featuring lyrics such as “I was on my way to you,” and “I swear I love you more,” in Ron’s inimitable style, the song promises to resonate with romantics as it arrives just in time for Valentine’s day. HERMITAGE will be released April 17th

In addition to the new music, Ron will be heading out on a Canadian tour in May of 2020.  The 7 date run will bring him from Victoria to Ottawa, with stops in Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Toronto.  Fans who purchase a ticket to the show will also receive a link to download HERMITAGE.  For full tour details see below or visit ronsexsmith.com.

Ron Sexsmith is one of Canada’s greatest singer songwriters.  He has collaborated with the likes of Daniel Lanois, Mitchell Froom, Ane Brun, Tchad Blake, and Bob Rock.  His songwriting appears on albums from Rod Stewart, Michael Bublé, k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris and Feist.  He has been awarded 3 Juno Awards, having been nominated 15 times including 8 nods for Songwriter of the Year.  For all the latest on Ron Sexsmith follow Ron on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or his website.

 

Tour Dates

May 3

Victoria, BC

Alix Goolden Performance Hall

May 5

Vancouver, BC

Rio Theatre

May 6

Calgary, AB

The National Music Centre

May 8

Saskatoon, SK

Broadway Theatre

May 9

Winnipeg, MB

West End Cultural Centre

May 28

Ottawa, ON

National Arts Centre

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Gordon Lightfoot Releases “Why Not Give It A Try”

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Gordon Lightfoot Releases “Why Not Give It A Try”

Legendary singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has released a new song from his upcoming album SOLO. “Why Not Give it a Try” follows up on the release of “Oh So Sweet,” his first release of new music since 2004’s HARMONY. The new song features Lightfoot singing profound lyrics that touch on love, trying new things and remaining true to oneself. Accompanying the new track is a beautiful lyric video that highlights the songwriter’s powerful words and his prolific career.

Gordon Lightfoot is Canada’s greatest singer-songwriter. He was a genre-defining figure in the folk-pop scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts, as well as being named a Companion of the Order of Canada. His songs are indelible to the Canadian music landscape, and include such national treasures as “Sundown,” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “If You Could Read My Mind.” Lightfoot has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, as well as Canada’s Walk of Fame. His songs have been recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Eric Clapton and The Tragically Hip. For all the latest on Gordon Lightfoot, including upcoming tour dates follow him on Twitter, Facebook or his official website.

Canada’s “Queen of the Fiddle” Natalie MacMaster Receives 8th JUNO Award Nomination for Latest Release, Sketches

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Canada’s “Queen of the Fiddle” Natalie MacMaster Receives 8th JUNO Award Nomination for Latest Release, Sketches

With over 300,000 albums sold, Canada’s most endeared and revered fiddler Natalie MacMaster has received a 2020 JUNO Award nomination for her newest release — and first solo album in eight years — Sketches.

The number eight factors in further, as the nod for Traditional Roots Album of the Year at this March’s 2020 JUNO Awards counts as her eighth nomination. Previously, the Canadian ‘Queen of the Fiddle’ has received a GRAMMY Award win and nomination, two JUNO Award wins and seven previous nominations, 19 East Coast Music Association awards, and five Canadian Country Music Association’s “Fiddler of the Year” nods — as well as three honorary doctorates, an induction into the Casino Nova Scotia Hall of Fame, and a member of the Order of Canada.

For Sketches, the Celtic music superstar is drawing on a different set of numbers for inspiration.

“It is a moment during my 47th year of life, my 37th year of fiddling, my 16th year of marriage, and my 13th year of parenting,” MacMaster says of Sketches, and in reference to her seven children and husband, and fellow fiddler Donnell Leahy. “It’ll be a moment of joyous appreciation inspired by years of parenting, marriage, friendships, music, and life.”

This is a professional life that includes performances with Béla Fleck, Faith Hill, Carlos Santana, The Chieftains, Sharon, Lois & Bram, Buddy MacMaster and Jesse Cook, as well as award-winning collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, and a blended line with award-winning collaborations with Donnell and their children. And speaking on the family-front, she’s distantly related to fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and rocker Jack white, and spends much of her time collaborating with Donnell as well as putting her teaching degree to use homeschooling their children.

Sketches is a return to a solo sound, and the result is a fiery, must-hear collection of traditional tunes and medleys mixed with new compositions. The album teems with retrospect and legacy as MacMaster reflects on her extraordinary journey in both life and career.

“I have something to say through my fiddle,” she says.

Hear what it is; Sketches is available now.

Photo Gallery: Lifehouse at Niagara Falls’ Fallsview Casino

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Photo Gallery: Lifehouse at Niagara Falls’ Fallsview Casino

All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com

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Understanding the Need for SEO

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The full form of SEO is “Search Engine Optimization” or sometimes “search engine optimizer”. It is quite complex to choose the SEO services that can improve the site to rank higher but it is also risky as it can also cause some damages to the site and the reputation too. Before going for SEO, keep a check over the damages and potential advantages that SEO service gives you. Useful services provided by the SEO companies as well as other agencies to the website owners which are mentioned as follows:

  • A quick review of the content and structure of the site.
  • Get technical assistance on website development such as hosting, redirects, error pages and Java Script.
  • Development of Content.
  • Manage online business development campaigns.
  • Search for Keywords.
  • SEO training.
  • Get expertise in a certain market and geography.

There is no benefit of advertising the site on the top search results of Google and Google never accepts any kind of money to advertise the website on top of Google Search results. A bunch of information can be taken from some of the free resources such as Search Console, the official Webmaster Central Blog and discussion forums about the optimization of the site for organic results.

It will take time to show the results of SEO services on your website and the time range varies from four months to a year under which you can take an estimate of the duration to see the benefits of the SEO. You can also take some assistance from the Professional SEO expert but it is somehow difficult to choose the right one. Here are some tactics to pick up the best one.

If you are thinking to hire an expert in the field of SEO, then make sure that they are enough as per the quality of services you are seeking. When you are looking for designing and launching a site, then you can take SEO services. However, a good SEO can improve the performance and ranking of the existing site.

  • It takes time as well as efforts to make the desired changes as advised by the SEO services. It is not even worthy if do not give time to the professionals for serving these services to the website owner.
  • You should interview the SEO professionals like about their previous work, guidelines to follow the Google webmaster, online marketing services, Vital SEO techniques, timeframe for proper SEO and how much experience they do have in the SEO field.
  • Check out the previous references of the SEO Company and as for the quality of services provided by SEO services. Make sure as it is easy to work and produce positive results.
  • Ask the SEO Company to look for the technical and search audit as to how it is done perfectly and what will be the outcome.
  • Take the final decision after calculating all the services of the SEO Company and then go for a suitable one.

 

 

 

 

 

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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.

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