Jimmy Page is heading back into Led Zeppelin’s vaults for the band’s 50th anniversary next year, and he’s also confirmed there’s unreleased music soon to be out.
In a new 50-minute video for the Academy of Achievement, Page said, “There’ll be Led Zeppelin product coming out, for sure, that people haven’t heard, because I’m working on that. Next year will be the 50th year, so there’s all manner of surprises coming out.”
Every con has its pros. The upcoming Ocean’s reboot starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, with Rihanna and Helena Bonham Carter just dropped and this is going to be huge.
On February 16, Craft Recordings will release a deluxe edition of one of the most iconic and enduring records in jazz. Celebrating its 60th Anniversary in 2017, Way Out West, alongside Saxophone Colossus, cemented Sonny Rollins’ place as one of the top tenor saxophonists of all-time. This meticulously compiled package pays appropriate tribute to the importance of the landmark recording with an audiophile-quality pressing of the original album and a second LP of bonus material featuring rare and previously unreleased tracks from the legendary session. Both records are pressed at Quality Record Pressings on 180-gram vinyl. Grammy® Award-winning writer Neil Tesser contributes liner notes, which include excerpts from a recent interview he conducted with Rollins especially for this release. Rare photos by famed jazz photographer William Claxton round out the collection, which comes housed in a handsome hinged box.
Over his long and distinguished career, Sonny Rollins has made many dozens of albums. Among those recorded during the 50’s — Prestige’s Saxophone Colossus, Blue Note’s A Night at the Village Vanguard, Riverside’s The Sound of Sonny, and especially Way Out West, originally recorded for the Contemporary label — qualify as all-time Rollins classics. The session for Way Out West, Rollins’s first ever in California, was called for at 3 a.m. to accommodate everyone’s busy schedules and included bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne. Sonny, who could never be accused of overstatement, announced after four hours of recording: “I’m hot now.” What transpired on the date was nothing less than magic with Brown and Manne effortlessly supporting Rollins and pushing him to new peaks on “I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande),” “Way out West,” “There Is No Greater Love,” and “Come, Gone,” a cookin’ take on the timeless ballad “After You’ve Gone.” This deluxe edition celebrates this landmark album in Rollins’ career with a full second LP of rare and previously unreleased bonus material, deluxe packaging, new liner notes by Grammy-winning writer Neil Tesser, and rare photos by famed jazz photographer William Claxton.
Rollins has since gone on to win numerous awards, including his first performance Grammy for This Is What I Do (2000), and his second for 2004’s Without a Song (The 9/11 Concert), in the Best Jazz Instrumental Solo category (for “Why Was I Born”). In addition, Sonny received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2004. His continued advocacy for jazz music has earned him recognition of the highest order throughout his exemplary career including, induction into the Academy of Achievement (2006), the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class (2009), membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010), the Edward MacDowell Medal (2010), and the Medal of Arts (2011), which was bestowed upon him by President Barack Obama in a White House ceremony. Rollins accepted the award, the nation’s highest honor for artistic excellence, “on behalf of the gods of our music.”
Track Listing:
Disc One – Original Way Out West Album
Side A
A1. I’m an Old Cowhand
A2. Solitude
A3. Come, Gone
Side B
B1. Wagon Wheels
B2. There Is No Greater Love
B3. Way Out West
Disc Two – Bonus Tracks from the Way Out West Recording Session
Side A
A1. Monologue: You Gotta Dig the Lyrics (previously unreleased)
A2. I’m An Old Cowhand (alternate version)
A3. Dialogue: Titling “Come, Gone” (previously unreleased)
A4. Come Gone (alternate version)
Side B
B1. There Is No Greater Love (alternate version, previously unreleased)
B2. Way Out West (take 1, previously unreleased)
B3. Way Out West (alternate version)
Grandiosa is the most popular brand of frozen pizza in Norway: per Wikipedia, they sell twenty-four million pizzas each year even though the population of Norway is just over 5 million. With offerings like a “Hot Nacho” variety, complete with little baby tortilla chips on top, it’s little wonder why. (By comparison, the most popular brand in the US makes around 90 million pizzas for a population of 325 million.) Grandiosa is so popular that two of their advertising jingles reached #1 on the Norwegian pop charts: “Respekt for Grandiosa” hit in March, 2006 for 2 full months, and “Full Pakke” hit #1 in March, 2007.
Patti-Anne’s accomplishments during her life-long career in the music industry will be honoured at CMW’s annual Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards Gala Dinner at Rebel Nightclub in Toronto on Thursday May 10th, 2018.
Patti-Anne Tarlton currently oversees Ticketmaster’s Canadian business and operations as Chief Operating Officer, Canada. Ticketmaster, a member of the Live Nation Entertainment family, is the world’s leading ticketing company. As COO, she responsible for the features and products that Ticketmaster sells, including the technology that is used to sell and market tickets. Tarlton’s mandate is to ensure its innovative and revolutionary new products and tools deliver exceptional value to Canadian clients and ticket buyers alike.
“Throughout the course of my career, I have had the good fortune to live and work from coast to coast with many of the pioneers that built the industry in Canada. It has been a wild ride and I have met so many inspiring, passionate and creative people. I am incredibly honoured to be invited into the Canadian Music and Broadcast Hall of Fame, the members inducted before me have been my mentors and role models.
Patti-Anne has a deep understanding of the North American Live Entertainment Industry having spent her career as a concert promoter, venue operator and sports & entertainment executive in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. Prior to joining Ticketmaster, Tarlton headed up Live Entertainment Division for Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) as Vice President for 13 years.
Patti-Anne’s curiosity in the music industry came at a very young age as her Uncle, Donald Tarlton, was one of the most prominent record label owners in Canadian music history. Donald Tarlton owned Aquarius Records, which represented April Wine, Sum 41, and Corey Hart. Patti-Anne got her start in operations as a concert promoter and over the next 14 years, she promoted concerts for Perryscope Concerts, DKD Concerts and House of Blues Concerts.
Among Patti-Anne’s accolades, she was recognized as one of Billboard Magazine’s ‘Women in Music 2017: The Most Powerful Executives in the Industry, received the Women of Influence Award from Venues Today, won Coach of the Year from Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, and was nominated for Facility Executive of the Year twice for Pollstar. In addition, Tarlton serves as a Board Member of Musicounts, Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC), Music Canada Live, is an appointed member of the Toronto Music Advisory Council. She is also served on the CARAS board for 8 years.
In a recent interview with Women’s Post, Tarlton shared that she wants to motivate women to reach for influential positions in the music business, “While I have enjoyed a career and not been set back by my gender, I have two girls and I envision a world where they don’t have to think about gender. I do know that we have a network of really talented women across the country though there are not enough women on civic or government advisory boards,” Tarlton says. “I do feel like I have a responsibility to push women along as well as well as motivate and inspire. If I take lessons from my own life, it is about putting yourself out there. I do not think twice about delivering myself in a conversation and pushing something forward without the one to one.”
This bad lip reading includes an extended version of Luke’s snowspeeder rap.
On this Wednesday, December 20, you can own a piece of American punk history. We at Reverb have partnered with Green Day co-founder and frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, to launch the Official Reverb Green Day Garage Sale. The shop will feature a substantial cache of gear that Armstrong has collected over the years, from guitars and amps to pro-audio equipment. You can sign up here to be first to receive information.
As a user of Reverb for both his personal collection and Oakland-based guitar store, Broken Guitars, Armstrong told us how passionate he is about gear continuing to collect stories as it changes hands.
“Used guitars,” Billie Joe says, “in particular, come with a history to them. I love the character you can see looking at a fretboard that’s been used—you can see where someone played it in clubs, in barns, in churches. We had a guitar come through our store, and you could just see the smoke from the clubs it was played in. It was beautiful. I hope the gear from the Green Day Reverb shop goes to someone that plays it.”
Luckily, the Green Day Garage Sale is packed to the brim with all kinds of new and vintage specimens to choose from.
Known for his love of Gibson Les Paul Juniors, Armstrong has picked three from his impressive collection to include in the sale. “When Green Day was on tour, I was always looking for Les Paul Juniors at local guitar shops, and I started to accumulate a collection. At one point, we’d walk in, open the door, and the guy behind the counter would say ‘Les Paul Junior, right?’ And I’d say ‘Yes, sir.’”
Armstrong is also parting with a 1970s Martin D-41 used on “21 Guns” and several other songs from 21st Century Breakdown, and one of three Les Paul Specials that were refinished for him by Jay Black. One of the Specials is currently on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Armstrong continues to play the third on stage. The LP Special up for sale in Armstrong’s Reverb shop is a white 1960 model that he played during Green Day’s American Idiot tour in 2004.
Speaking of American Idiot, also up for sale is the Victoria tweed amp (affectionately known as “Little Vicky”) that Armstrong used to record the unmistakable intro to the album’s title track. “It has this big, nasty sound—I recorded it on everything,” Armstrong told us about Little Vicky. “Why am I selling this thing again?”
In addition to Little Vicky, the Official Reverb Green Day Garage Sale will be packed with:
Rough Trade, the independent music retailer, are excited to announce the US launch of the Rough Trade Club, an Album of the Month membership curated by the shop’s experts (some of whom have been recommending music face-to-face to the great and good of the artist and label community since the late 70’s).
Each month, the arbiters of taste at Rough Trade will select and send an unmissable record (LP or CD) straight to your door, along with a raft of other members-only benefits that cater for all ages and tastes, predominantly those wishing to spend more time enjoying great music, less time having to find it. If they don’t like it, they may swap it out for another album in the shop’s top 10 list. Members of the club will also receive benefits including priority pre-ordering (order exclusive limited edition LPs before anyone else), access to members-only intimate events + exclusive giveaways, and more! The fun part is that the album of the month isn’t revealed until the package is opened (just like having a gift every month!).
Recent “Album of the Month” titles chosen by Rough Trade include: Kelela, Girl Ray, Max Richter, Mac Demarco, Big Moon and Holly Macve. In previous years, the likes of Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, MIA, The xx, all had their debut album’s selected by Rough Trade far ahead of wider acclaim.
Rough Trade first opened in 1976 in West London, on the doorstep of punk. Not simply a place to purchase from a curated selection of vinyl and CD, the shop (now with 5 locations) was (and remains) a celebration of music the art form, a community hub for curious minds, a place to hang out with friends and colleagues, an informal venue to witness the latest and greatest artists perform live, intimately, up-close. Fundamentally, our stores provide creative, independent minds a shared place of discovery and congregation.
While brick and mortar record shops continue to shutter, Rough Trade has been lucky enough to open more shops! Within the last 10 years, they have opened 4 new locations, which include the largest record store in the UK and a New York store, the East Coast’s largest and finest selection of new vinyl and CD.
Rough Trade has been selling records via mailorder since the 70’s and had a version of this club (simply called “Album Club”) for several years in the early 2000’s). The club was an immediate success. Paused to focus on more shop openings, Rough Trade is excited to re-form the club again.
As Rough Trade Club membership grows on both sides of the Atlantic, and the online stores enable an increasing number of music lovers to (re)connect with the joy of exciting music you can truly own, Rough Trade will forever seek to narrow the gap between artist and audience, offering a trusted, much loved interface between the two.
Discogs, the World’s most extensive user-built database of music, announces a monumental landmark today as it exceeds 27.5M vinyl recordings and over 37M physical music items in total listed for sale in the Global online Marketplace. In retrospect, Discogs celebrated its 15th Anniversary in November 2015 with nearly 10M releases. Over the following 24-months, the Discogs Marketplace has grown more than 370% culminating in a record-setting 130,000 orders over the first week of December 2017, another landmark cementing the Discogs Marketplace as the essential music marketplace of the World.
“I’m always in awe of the Discogs community’s passion for carving out the best place to buy and sell records online. From nearly 40 million albums listed for sale worldwide to the ultra-rare Jamaican releases uncovered by our collectors, it feels good to be a part of a growing community of like-minded music lovers.” – Ron Rich, VP of Marketing
Last week Discogs announced the record-breaking sale of The Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do’ at $14,757.00 during a month of sales that included an original 1973 UK pressing of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ selling for over $1,500.00 and a rare Prince Buster 7″, ‘Funky Jamaica’ selling for over $1,100.00. Meanwhile, U2’s ‘Songs Of Experience’ released on December 1, sits at #1 on the Discogs new release chart ending the week of December 8.
What happens when a girl mistakenly addresses her letter to Satan himself instead of to Santa Claus> Anomaly London presents one of the coolest new holiday stories, narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart.
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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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