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Frank Zappa’s Live Double Album, “Zappa In New York”, Celebrated With Suite Of 40th Anniversary Releases

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Frank Zappa’s Live Double Album, “Zappa In New York”, Celebrated With Suite Of 40th Anniversary Releases

In 1976, Frank Zappa played four historic sold-out concerts at The Palladium in New York City the week between Christmas and New Year’s. These thrilling shows – described by band member Ruth Underwood as “theatrical, outrageous and raucously funny, but also filled with startling and gorgeous music, dating from Frank’s 1960s output to literally the moment the curtain went up”— served as the source material for the live double album Zappa In New York which was constructed from the best-played performances with overdubs later recorded in the studio. Originally slated for release in 1977, the album was delayed for a year due to record label censorship issues, mostly over the controversial song “Punky’s Whips”, and finally released in 1978. One of Zappa’s most beloved collections of songs, the now classic album included a sensational live version of “Sofa” alongside nine new compositions including the complex percussion-based piece “The Black Page” which has become infamous in the drum community as the ultimate challenge, the Devilish comedic sendup “Titties & Beer” and the notorious aforementioned “Punky’s Whips” about Punky Meadows, the flamboyant guitarist for the band Angel.

In celebration of its eventual release in 1978, Zappa In New York – 40th Anniversary Edition will be released on March 29 via Zappa Records as a suite of expanded anniversary editions to commemorate the album’s recent 40th anniversary. Overseen by the Zappa Family Trust and produced by Ahmet Zappa and Vaultmeister Joe Travers, the expanded versions will be available as a 5CD box set, 3LP on 180-gram audiophile grade vinyl and digitally. The 5-disc collection, which will be housed in a limited-edition metal tin shaped like a NYC street manhole cover and includes a replica ticket from one of the shows, consists of the main album in its original mix, newly remastered by Bob Ludwig in 2018 and available for the first time since its debut. The four additional discs are loaded with relevant Vault nuggets and more than three hours of unreleased live performances from the NYC Palladium concerts, representing every composition played during the concerts and the best alternate performances of every tune Zappa picked for the original album, all newly mixed in 2018. To achieve the highest-level sound quality, the audio team went back to the original two-inch 24-track multi-track master tapes and transferred every reel at 96kHz 24-bit wavs.

The Zappa In New York 40th anniversary editions are available for pre-order now and all digital pre-orders will receive an instant grat download of the unreleased rarity “The Purple Lagoon/Any Kind of Pain”. Recorded on the first night of the four-night stand, the track features Zappa performing the chorus of the song “Any Kind of Pain” in the middle of “The Purple Lagoon”. What makes this so significant is that nobody knew this existed or that Zappa had the idea for this song more than a decade before it was released in 1988 on the live album Broadway The Hard Way until the Zappa Family Trust archived the tapes and made the fascinating discovery. More proof that Zappa was creating at an unmatched pace and always thinking years ahead.

Zappa In New York includes expanded packaging which features previously unseen live photos by Gail Zappa alongside extensive liner notes by band members Ruth Underwood and Ray White (who were part of Zappa’s band for these shows) as well as an insightful essay by Joe Travers with Australian writer Jen Jewel Brown. Underwood also contributes a solo piano version of “The Black Page” that has been newly recorded for this special edition. “‘The Black Page’ has proven to be one of Frank Zappa’s most intriguing and enduring compositions. It is performed in many kinds of venues all over the world. It is taught and studied in schools. Perhaps most exciting is that it is adaptable and lends itself to a variety of orchestrations and re-workings, as FZ himself demonstrated. I am proud that after forty years, mine is finally among them. It is my love letter to Frank and Gail,” Underwood writes in the liners.

The 3LP set, pressed at Pallas in Germany, features all-analog mastering of the original album mix, unavailable since first issued. Plus, an additional LP of select bonus content from The Vault. The digital release marks the debut of the original mix.

Zappa In New York capped off a terrific year for the ever-prolific and always-moving musician which included shows around the globe including his second Australian tour and one and only Japanese jaunt, the release of his album Zoot Allures and Grand Funk Railroad’s record Good Singin’ Good Playin, which he produced, a string of Halloween shows and a performance on Saturday Night Live which ended up having a profound impact on the Palladium shows. Following an on-air collaboration with SNL’s announcer Don Pardo and the show’s house band, Zappa invited them to be a part of the shows after three of the horn players so loved playing with Zappa that they asked if they could be involved. As Travers and Brown write in the illuminating liner notes: “Out of nowhere, the concept of adapting horns to the scheduled concerts became a reality. Frank was immediately swept up in the pleasure and challenge of writing and arranging parts for the existing material.”

The collection showcases some of Zappa’s most masterful guitar playing and electrifying arrangements as he leads an exceptional band featuring Ray White on vocals and guitar, Terry Bozzio on drums and vocals, Eddie Jobson on keyboard, Ruth Underwood on percussion and synthesizer, Patrick O’Hearn on bass and vocals and David Samuels on timpani and vibes. Don Pardo provided “sophisticated narration” and the brass section, featuring jazz duo the Brecker Brothers with Randy Brecker on trumpet and Michael Brecker on tenor saxophone, was rounded out by the SNL players: Lou Marini on alto sax, Ronnie Cuber on baritone sax and Tom Malone on trombone.

Frank Zappa – Zappa In New York (5CD 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION):

DISC 1 – THE ORIGINAL 1977 VINYL MIX
Titties & Beer
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
Big Leg Emma
Sofa
Manx Needs Women
The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1
Black Page #2
Honey, Don’t You Want A Man Like Me?
The Illinois Enema Bandit
The Purple Lagoon

DISC 2: BONUS CONCERT PERFORMANCES – PART ONE
“The Most Important Musical Event Of 1976”
Peaches En Regalia
The Torture Never Stops
The Black Page #2
Punky’s Whips Intro
Punky’s Whips
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
Honey, Don’t You Want A Man Like Me?
The Illinois Enema Bandit
“Two For The Price Of One”
Penis Dimension
Montana

DISC 3: BONUS CONCERT PERFORMANCES – PART TWO
America Drinks
“Irate Phone Calls”
Sofa #2
“The Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For”
I’m The Slime
Pound For A Brown
Terry’s Solo
The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1
Big Leg Emma
“Jazz Buffs and Buff-etts”
The Purple Lagoon
Find Her Finer
The Origin Of Manx
Manx Needs Women
Chrissy Puked Twice
Cruisin’ For Burgers

DISC 4: BONUS CONCERT PERFORMANCES – PART THREE
The Purple Lagoon/Any Kind Of Pain
“The Greatest New Undiscovered Group In America”
Black Napkins
Dinah-Moe Humm
Finale

DISC 5: BONUS VAULT CONTENT
The Black Page #2 (Piano Version)
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth (Alternate Version)
Chrissy Puked Twice
Cruisin’ For Burgers (1977 Mix)
Black Napkins
Punky’s Whips (Unused Version)
The Black Page #1 (Piano Version)

Frank Zappa – Zappa In New York (3LP 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION):

LP 1 / Side 1 – Original Album Mix Remastered
Titties & Beer
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
Big Leg Emma

LP 1 / Side 2 – Original Album
Sofa
Manx Needs Women
The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1
Black Page #2

LP 2 / Side 3 – Original Album
Honey, Don’t You Want A Man Like Me?
The Illinois Enema Bandit

LP 2 / Side 4 – Original Album
The Purple Lagoon

LP 3 / Side 1 – Bonus Vault Content
Black Napkins
Cruisin’ For Burgers (1977 Mix)

LP 3 / Side 2 – Bonus Vault Content
The Black Page #2 (Piano Version)
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth (Alternate Version)
Punky’s Whips (Unused Version)
The Black Page #1 (Piano Version)

James Brown’s Complete, Expanded ‘Motherlode’ Rarities Collection Makes Vinyl Debut With New 2LP Edition

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James Brown’s Complete, Expanded ‘Motherlode’ Rarities Collection Makes Vinyl Debut With New 2LP Edition

James Brown’s complete, expanded Motherlode rarities collection will make its vinyl release debut on March 8 via Polydor. The classic collection’s new 2LP vinyl release also puts three vital tracks on wax for the first time ever: “I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Want To Dance) (Remix)”, “You’ve Changed”, and the epic 12-minute alternate mix of “Bodyheat”.

30 years into forging his unique groove in music, James Brown was inducted as a charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1986. He was then enjoying a double renaissance: riding high on the charts with “Living In America”, his biggest hit in a decade; while on the streets his back catalogue was being rediscovered, sampled and plundered by an international hotbed of DJs, rappers, hip-hoppers and new wave funksters. Honouring Brown’s re-invigoration, Polydor released the collection In The Jungle Groove that year.

Two years later, with samples of Brown’s released classics still thick in the air, came a blast of funk from deep in the vault: Motherlode, released in 1988 with 11 rare and previously unreleased tracks on CD and 10 tracks on a single vinyl LP. Two of the collection’s track debuts were incendiary live cuts, “Say It Loud (Say It Live)”, an outtake from the Sex Machine album recorded in Brown’s hometown of Augusta, Georgia, and, leading off the LP, “There It Is”, a knockout performance from a 1972 show that otherwise did not see the light of day for decades. “Since You Been Gone”, a duet with Bobby Byrd, was an update of their cut “Just Won’t Do Right” from 1956 featuring the young J.B.’s with Bootsy Collins. Two deep-funk instrumentals were also featured, one titled “Funk Bomb” and another so buried in the Godfather’s vault it never received a title.

Three rarities on Motherlode’s original CD release were new in their own way: “She’s the One”, a cover of an old Hank Ballard & the Midnighters single, had just been issued as a single in the U.K. where it cracked the British pop chart’s Top 50; “People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul”, originally issued in 1973 as a 3:40 LP cut on the soundtrack to Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off, was remixed and extended to nine minutes; and “I Got Ants In My Pants”, previously issued as a two-part single in 1972, was remixed and issued in full for the first time on the CD, but not included on Motherlode’s original vinyl LP release.

Motherlode’s complete, expanded 13-track edition first debuted on CD in 2003, adding “You’ve Changed”, recorded in Atlanta with the classic James Brown Orchestra in April 1969, and “Bodyheat (Alternate Mix)” with the latter-day J.B.’s in 1976.

Motherlode’s liner notes are by the late Cliff White, the preeminent journalist internationally recognized for his coverage of the Godfather of Soul. His original notes have been updated for the new 2LP set.

James Brown – Motherlode (Expanded Edition) [2LP vinyl]

Side 1
There It Is (Live) 3:05
She’s The One 2:52
Since You Been Gone (Duet w/Bobby Byrd) 5:33
Untitled Instrumental 3:22
Say It Loud (Say It Live) 4:50

Side 2
Can I Get Some Help 9:45
You Got To Have A Mother For Me 5:10
Funk Bomb (Instrumental) 4:12

Side 3
Baby Here I Come 4:27
People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul (Remix) 9:04
I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Want To Dance) (Remix) 7:27

Side 4
You’ve Changed 3:18
Bodyheat (Alternate Mix) 11:50

The Killers Release “Land Of The Free”; Video By Spike Lee

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The Killers Release “Land Of The Free”; Video By Spike Lee

The Killers have unveiled a new stand-alone song, “Land Of The Free”, with a video by Academy Award-winning director Spike Lee. Recorded at their own Battle Born Studios in Las Vegas, Nevada and produced by Jacknife Lee, with additional gospel vocals by (vocal co-arranger) Lynn Mabry, Dorian Holley, Will Wheaton, Sherree Patrice Brown, Akasha Mabry and Killers’ touring vocalists Amanda Brown, Danielle René Withers and Erica Canales. The Killers invited Spike Lee to make the video for the song, a heartfelt lament inspired by current events and recent national tragedies in the United States.

The band gave Spike Lee full creative rein, and he filmed the video over a few weeks at the tail end of 2018, traveling to the U.S./Mexico border to capture scenes of migrant families as they made their way towards ‘the land of the free’.

Can’t wipe that wind blown smile from across my face
It’s just the old man and me
Washing his truck at the Sinclair station
In the land of the free

His mother Adeline’s family came on a ship
Cut coal and planted a seed
Down in them drift mines of Pennsylvania
In the land of the free
In land of the free

When I go out in my car I don’t think twice,
But if you’re the wrong color skin
You grow up looking over both your shoulders
In the land of the free

And we got more people locked up than the rest of the world
Right here in red white and blue
Incarceration’s become big business
And it’s harvest time out on the avenue
In the land of the free

Move on, there’s nothing to see

So how many daughters?
Tell me how many sons
Do we have to put in the ground
Before we just break down and face it?
We’ve got a problem with guns
In the land of the free

Down at the border
They’re gonna put up a wall
With concrete and rebar steel beams
High enough to keep all those filthy hands off of our hopes and our dreams
People who just want the same thing we do
In the land of the free

Since 2004, The Killers have released five studio albums and a string of hit singles. Every one of their studio albums has charted at #1 on the Official Albums Chart and their most recent – Wonderful, Wonderful – also gave them their first ever U.S. #1. The band recently wrapped a world-wide arena tour. Spike Lee is a recipient of the Academy Honorary Award, BAFTA Special Award and the Honorary Cesar. His last movie, BlacKkKlansman, was awarded the Grand Prix at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration Film Honouring Joni Mitchell Coming To Cinemas On February 7

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Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration Film Honouring Joni Mitchell Coming To Cinemas On February 7

Honouring one of the world’s most revered artists, Joni Mitchell, on her 75th birthday, The Music Center Presents Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration brings an incredible array of singers and musicians to cinemas across the U.S. and Canada for a one-night-only celebration on February 7, 2019 in collaboration with global event cinema distributor Trafalgar Releasing and The Music Center, Los Angeles’s premiere performing arts centre.

Captured live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, this special event features Brandi Carlile; Glen Hansard; Emmylou Harris; Norah Jones; Chaka Khan; Diana Krall; Kris Kristofferson; Los Lobos with La Marisoul, Cesar Castro & Xochi Flores; Graham Nash; James Taylor; Seal; and Rufus Wainwright, who perform many of Mitchell’s songs including “A Case of You”, “Both Sides, Now”, “Down To You”, “For The Roses”, “The Boho Dance”, and “Two Grey Rooms” among others. Co-musical directors, providing the musical arrangements for the show, are percussionist Brian Blade, who recorded three studio albums and toured extensively with Mitchell, and, pianist, composer, arranger producer Jon Cowherd.

Tickets for The Music Center Presents Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration will be on sale beginning today at joni75.com or at participating theatre box offices. The film will be shown in twenty Canadian Cineplex theatres on February 7.

A music icon whose work continues to inspire generations of artists, Mitchell performed on the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage in 1972 and 1974, with the Los Angeles Times describing her 1972 concert as “Joni Mitchell in a Giant Living Room”.

With nine Grammy awards to her name and 16 Grammy nominations, Mitchell’s catalogue of music spans more than five decades. In 2017, Mitchell’s 1971 album Blue was named number one on National Public Radio’s list of the 150 greatest albums made by women. Her work has no boundaries and crosses genres from Folk and Pop, to Jazz and World Music. Mitchell is also a prolific painter and was once quoted as saying, “I’m a painter first, and a musician second.” While Mitchell hails from Canada, she has called Los Angeles home for decades.

Teenage Fanclub Announce North American Tour

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Teenage Fanclub Announce North American Tour

Teenage Fanclub are pleased to announce a North American tour beginning February 21 in Vancouver, BC, and concluding in Saxapahaw, NC, with a very special show to kick off the celebration of the 30th anniversary of their longtime US label, Merge Records. They’ll also be guests on my SiriusXM show, @ThatEricAlper shortly.

The first Teenage Fanclub single, 1990’s “Everything Flows,” was all about getting older and finding your way: Right from the beginning, the Scottish band somehow inherently understood the joy and confusion of forging a creative path. Even with that knowledge, the band’s three equally proficient and prodigious songwriters—Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley, and Gerard Love—probably wouldn’t have predicted that this path would still be unfolding nearly thirty years later. Steadily, Teenage Fanclub have built an incredible catalog of gleaming pop songs. It’s been a relatively straight line in pursuit of pop perfection, from the snarlier early days to the highly vaunted Bandwagonesque to the grand Songs from Northern Britain to their measured, contemplative latest, 2016’s Here.

https://youtu.be/oIS1jmyNRZ4

The band spent a decent chunk of 2018 looking back, something they’re not inclined to do, but duty called: Five classic albums originally released between 1991 through 2000 were remastered at Abbey Road and lovingly reissued in Europe, and Teenage Fanclub took that as a challenge to relearn nearly every song from that era and plan a special series of three-night stands in the UK during which to play them.

A big plus to re-learning the oldies: They’d have a bigger pool of songs to choose from live, something they still cherish. A trip around the world was planned, starting with Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. It turned out, though, that Love’s enthusiasm for touring far-off places had waned, while the rest of the band consider touring to be crucial fuel for creativity. That impasse led to Love’s amicable departure from the band: He’ll play the back-catalog shows in the UK in October and November, and then turn in his Fanclub membership.

McGinley and Blake have nothing but praise for their bandmate; they’ll miss his contributions, but they’re more excited than ever to make songs together—including, sooner than later, brand-new ones. “The three of us have spread the burden of songwriting over the years, so there will be a bit more work involved creatively,” says Blake. “We don’t feel pressure to get somebody in as a songwriter to replace Gerry. Whatever happens, I know that we’ll create something that we’ll be happy to put our name behind.”

Teenage Fanclub on tour:
Feb 21 Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
Feb 22 Seattle, WA – Neptune
Feb 23 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
Feb 25 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Feb 26 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
Feb 27 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
Mar 02 Denver, CO – Bluebird
Mar 04 Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
Mar 05 Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
Mar 06 Chicago, IL – Metro
Mar 07 Detroit, MI – El Club
Mar 08 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre
Mar 09 Montreal, QC – Petit Campus
Mar 11 Boston, MA – Paradise Theatre
Mar 13 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Mar 14 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Music Hall
Mar 15 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Mar 16 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
Mar 18 Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom

Smashing Pumpkins: Reunion

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Smashing Pumpkins: Reunion

Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlin sit down with Zane Lowe to discuss the Smashing Pumpkins reunion, their early success, and fatherhood.

Watch “Heat Vision and Jack”, an unaired TV pilot starring Jack Black as a superintelligent ex-astronaut, Owen Wilson as a talking motorcycle, and Ron Silver as Ron Silver, 1999

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Watch “Heat Vision and Jack”, an unaired TV pilot starring Jack Black as a superintelligent ex-astronaut, Owen Wilson as a talking motorcycle, and Ron Silver as Ron Silver, 1999

Heat Vision and Jack is a 1999 American comedy science fiction television pilot created and written by Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon, directed by Ben Stiller, and starring Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Ron Silver. The pilot was originally ordered by FOX, which ultimately did not order it to series. While the show was not picked up, the pilot became a cult classic and gained an online following.

The pilot opens with Ben Stiller talking about the cancelled Ben Stiller Show, the Emmy award he won for the show, and sarcastically criticizing George Lucas for having not won an Emmy. After a short sting, Heat Vision then opens with a title sequence explaining how Jack gained his new powers, and how Heat Vision came into existence.

Photo Gallery: Lemin with Valley at Live Nation’s Ones To Watch Northside Sessions

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Photo Gallery: Lemin with Valley at Live Nation’s Ones To Watch Northside Sessions

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

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The Fine, Lost Art Of Cassette Tapes

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Well, these just brought back a few hundred memories. Ah, the time when I fully embraced my skill at crafting a sequence with timeless songs with pitiful artwork on a mixtape. These designs are much better, including the lost art of cassette tape spines.

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The Spirit of John (Mann) a Benefit Concert for The Toronto Alzheimer’s Society

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A few years ago, when Spirit of the West’s singer and main song co-writer John Mann was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s, a ripple went through the fairly close-knit Canadian music community. While it was clear that performing music would recede from John’s personal endeavors over time, his love of music has not diminished.

The Spirit of John (Mann) concert is a benefit for the Toronto Alzheimer’s Association Music Project, which provides iPods free of charge to people living with dementia. Loaded with music from each patient’s “soundtrack”, they are able to listen to music connected to meaningful experiences over their life.

Listening to personalized music can be a powerful activity for those with dementia: music has the potential to increase physical and social activity; reignite older memories; and improve sleep, mood, cognition, communication, and overall quality of life.

For the past few years, a core of wonderful musicians have come together to celebrate John’s personal soundtrack in an evening of music and gaiety lovingly dubbed “The Spirit of John“, in support of The Music Project. This year it will be at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, a wonderful venue which we dearly hope to see full to the rafters of fans and supporters on January 31, 2019.

The stellar House Band and Guests will be performing selections from John’s list of favourites, and Spirit of the West will take the stage for a set of SotW chestnuts with various singers in John’s place. We are thrilled and excited to be a part of this event. We’ll be dusting off a setlist and lining up some rehearsal time in anticipation.

Performers include:

Andrew Cash
Jim Cuddy
Andy Maize and Josh Finlayson (Skydiggers)
Royal Wood
Dayna Manning
Dustin Bentall
Miku Graham
Chris Tait (Chalk Circle)
Damhnait Doyle (Shaye, The Heartbroken)
Jessica Mitchell
Danny Greaves (The Watchmen)
Kevin Kane (Grapes of Wrath)
Serena Ryder

In a moving promotional video, the viewer is asked to fill in the lyrics on Spirit of the West songs, we are asked to sing the songs – and if you know the words then you know more than the musician who wrote them. Come sing the songs because John can’t.

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