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INXS Kick 30th Anniversary Edition Arrives On November 24

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INXS Kick 30th Anniversary Edition Arrives On November 24

2017 marks a triumvirate of anniversaries for the legendary Australian rock band INXS. It’s now 40 years since they first formed the band; 30 years since Kick made them global superstars; and 20 years since the untimely passing of their iconic frontman and friend Michael Hutchence. INXS are celebrating these major milestones with a huge suite of CD and vinyl releases, leading off with the 30th anniversary edition of the much-lauded Kick.

Housed in glorious DVD size fan-deluxe packaging, the 30th anniversary edition of Kick extends previous editions with additional B-sides, rare mixes and bonus tracks over 3CDs. In addition, it will feature the album mixed in Dolby Atmos® by producer Giles Martin and Sam Okell at Abbey Road Studios. The new mix appears on a Blu-ray disc along with all the promo videos. Dolby Atmos is an immersive sound technology that delivers the best listening experience on any device with a new dimension of clarity, fidelity and space.

“It is really surreal that 30 years ago when 3 record label companies rejected this album,” says Petrol Records Chairman & CEO, Chris Murphy. “Now, it is revolutionized through the incredible, incredible ATMOS technology through one of my favorite people in the world, Mr. Giles Martin.”

For vinyl enthusiasts, there will also be a Half-Speed Remaster of the classic 1987 album cut over two heavyweight, 180g black vinyl LPs at 45-RPM for supreme fidelity, cut by Abbey Road Studios’ Half-Speed Mastering pioneer, Miles Showell, who says: “Having owned this album since 1987 and even cut the UK 7” lacquers for ‘Need You Tonight’, I was thrilled to be asked to remaster it as a double 45 half-speed mastered LP.” The vinyl release date is February 9.

“Classic, fabulous pop songs that jump out of the speakers, now more than ever before!“ Andrew Farriss of INXS says of Kick’s new edition. “The latest INXS vinyl cuts are an outstanding sonic achievement, especially the Kick album. I was truly amazed to hear INXS’ recordings sounding so incredibly fresh, clear and kick-ass, like vinyl on steroids…”

Originally formed in 1977, INXS’s career spans an extraordinary 40 years, during which they have sold over 40 million records worldwide, including Number 1 albums in four different continents. Delivering an avalanche of hits including “Need You Tonight,” “New Sensation,” “Never Tear Us Apart,” “Devil Inside” and “Mystify,” Kick sold over six million copies worldwide and made INXS one of the biggest bands on the planet.

A force of nature in their prime, the band returned to the top of the Australian charts with the success of 2014 mini-series INXS: Never Tear Us Apart. Ready to turn heads all over again, Kick’s 30th anniversary edition provides the perfect opportunity to get reacquainted with this most timeless and ground-breaking of bands.

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CD 1 – ORIGINAL ALBUM REMASTERED

Guns In The Sky
New Sensation
Devil Inside
Need You Tonight
Mediate
The Loved One
Wild Life
Never Tear Us Apart
Mystify
Kick
Calling All Nations
Tiny Daggers
CD2 – DEMOS, MIXES & MORE

Move On [Guitar Version]
I’m Coming (Home)
Mediate [Live From America]
Never Tear Us Apart [Live From America]
Kick [Live From America]
On The Rocks
Do Wot You Do
Mystify [Chicago Demo]
Jesus Was A Man [Demo]
The Trap [Demo]
Guns In The Sky [Kick Ass Remix]
Need You Tonight [Mendelsohn Extended Mix]
Move On
CD3 – ADDITIONAL MIXES & B-SIDES

Never Tear Us Apart [Soul Version]
New Sensation [Nick 12” Mix]
New Sensation [Nick 7” Mix]
Devil Inside [Extended Remix]
Devil Inside [7” Version]
Devil Inside [Radio Edit]
Different World [12” Version]
Different World [7” Version]
Need You Tonight [Big Bump Mix]
Need You Tonight [Ben Liebrand Mix]
Need You Tonight [Mendelsohn 7″ Edit]
Guns in the Sky [Kookaburra Mix]
Calling All Nations [Kids On Bridges Remix]
Shine Like it Does [Live]
BLU-RAY

Kick Mixed in Dolby Atmos & High Definition Audio
Promo Videos
Guns In The Sky
New Sensation
Devil Inside
Need You Tonight
Mediate
Never Tear Us Apart
Mystify
Kick [New 2017 promo]

Steven Wilson Just Did A Stereo And High-Resolution Mix Of XTC’s Black Sea Album

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Steven Wilson Just Did A Stereo And High-Resolution Mix Of XTC’s Black Sea Album

Black Sea is the fifth in a series of expanded XTC album reissues, including 5.1 Surround mixes, 2017 stereo mixes and High-Resolution stereo mixes by Steven Wilson, along with a wealth of extra audio and visual material. It’ll be released on November 17, 2017. Like everything Steven Wilson produces, the mixes with the input of founder band member Andy Partridge and the full approval of the band.

This cd/blu-ray edition is presented in special packaging with an expanded booklet and sleeve-notes by Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Terry Chambers, Dave Gregory and Hugh Padgham. The CD features a 2017 stereo album mix by Steven Wilson with bonus tracks (many featuring Steven Wilson mixes). The Blu-Ray showcases a 5.1 Surround mix in 24bit/96khz mixed from the original multi-track tapes available in LPCM and DTS HD MA.

• Additional Blu-Ray features include:
– The 2017 stereo album mix in 24bit/96khz LPCM audio.
– Additional songs from the album sessions in stereo and 5.1 (several featuring 2017 Steven Wilson mixes)
– The original stereo album mix in hi-res stereo + bonus tracks.
– Instrumental versions (mixed by Steven Wilson), and several bonus mixes in 24bit/96khz LPCM audio.
– Many album tracks in demo form as recorded (mostly live) at Phonogram Studios prior to the main album sessions.
– Three Andy Partridge demos from Phonogram studios.
– Three Andy Partridge demos from Swindon Town Hall.
– Promo films for Towers Of London, Generals & Majors & Respectable Street.

Photo Gallery: The Pursuit Of Happiness at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern

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Photo Gallery: The Pursuit Of Happiness at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern

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

Photo Gallery: Dallas Smith with The Cadillac Three and Lauren Alaina at St. Catharines’ Meridian Centre

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Photo Gallery: Dallas Smith with The Cadillac Three and Lauren Alaina at St. Catharines’ Meridian Centre

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

The Rolling Stones Video From 1964 Without Music Is HILARIOUS

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The Rolling Stones Video From 1964 Without Music Is HILARIOUS

I’ve posted about Mario Wienerroither and his musicless videos before, and this time, he works on The Rolling Stones’ appearance at the T.A.M.I. show in 1964.

Video: Neil Young Live At Hammersmith Odeon In London, 1976

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Video: Neil Young Live At Hammersmith Odeon In London, 1976

In 1976 Neil Young and Crazy Horse went on an extensive tour, with a stop at theHammersmith Odeon in London from March 28 to 31. Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s album Zuma had been released just a few months earlier.

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Tom Waits performing Eggs and Sausages on the Mike Douglas show, 1976

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Tom Waits performing Eggs and Sausages on the Mike Douglas show, 1976

Tom Waits performing Eggs and Sausages on the Mike Douglas show in 1976.

How sign language innovators are bringing music to the deaf

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How sign language innovators are bringing music to the deaf

Amber Galloway Gallego is one of a growing number of ASL interpreters that specializes in the performing arts, specifically music. She’s interpreted for over 400 artists at this point and has a special knack for interpreting hip-hop acts like Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

Meet Suzanne Ciani, The Woman Who Revolutionised Electronic Music

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In the 1960s the world of electronic music was dominated by men – and Suzanne Ciani was one of the very few women who started to compose synthesizer music. Her music went on to be used widely in adverts, pin ball machines and influenced many musicians. Suzanne’s early recordings have recently been re-released and brought her a new generation of young fans. Suzanne was born in Boston and started out as a classical pianist. She explained to Matthew Bannister how electronic music first came into her life. A new documentary about her life – A life in Waves – will be out soon.

Michael McDonald On The Importance Of Social Media

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You issued a Twitter statement in 2014 about the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African-American man who was shot by police in August of that year. Anything to say about how your ideas about racial injustice and police brutality have come up in your music over the years? And when did those ideas come to fruition?
It’s come up going back as far as Takin’ It to the Streets. Growing up in St. Louis, I remember contemplating, “What if I had been born black? What would my life be like?” In the same town, in the same given day, being restricted to where I could go in the city. That whole idea of it was always kind of disturbing, weird, especially when you’re a kid. You don’t know how to even really think about it. It was always a big question in my mind. I grew up largely in a white community that seemed to have all those social ills. As a kid, you’re kind of wide open. You don’t have all the prejudices that you might gain as an adult.

What about now?
What I notice in today’s particular form of social polarities and prejudices is people don’t want to really look at the problem. They want to deflect to “Well, white lives matter too.” Well, that’s not the point. People are not saying that white lives don’t matter. What they’re saying is there’s a real disparity here, no matter how you want to look at it. No one is saying that the police are evil, wholesale evil. Any kid who grows up in the inner city probably knows as many positive encounters with police as not.

If you’re a young black man in this country, with the social development that has taken place over the years and the injustices involved with that, your idea of being arrested on the street is totally different than any white kid your age because it wasn’t that long ago, especially in certain regions of the country, where if you got pulled over for the smallest infraction, whatever it might be, you better run your ass off and you better not stop. If you got caught, you might wind up in front of a judge in the next five hours and sent off to a chain gang somewhere, and your parents may never hear from you again. That’s just a sad reality.

You’ve also been outspoken in your praise of the Sioux nation in their opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline. On Facebook last December, you wrote, “As we offer our congratulations to the brave and decent folks who stood their ground at Standing Rock, let us also express our gratitude for this was not just a victory for the Sioux nation but a victory for all humanity against corporate greed!”
Everybody wants to go, “They should be dealing with their alcoholism on the reservation and not worrying about this pipeline.” You know, it’s like, That’s not the point. The point is, this is a sovereign nation. They have more of a right to say no than even you and I do because they might use the eminent domain bullshit on you and I, because we live here. The fact is, the Sioux nation is a sovereign nation. It’s the last bit of sovereignty that they have. We’ve broken every treaty with them up to now. Now we’re going to break this one?

It’s more important for these guys to make a few million dollars for the limited amount of jobs, for the limited amount of time, and they pass that off to all of us as “Oh, these are jobs, and this is energy.” It’s bullshit is what it is. It’s a pipeline that they’re going to expect us to maintain, the taxpayers, and they’re gonna pollute these people’s water table. It’s gonna be the next Flint, Michigan. We’ve got to stop bullshitting ourselves.

You’re not afraid to use social media to voice your political opinions.
I’m always struggling between “Does the world really need my opinion on this?” I think we all have to speak up, especially at times like this when what’s going on is pretty frightening. There’s this whole idea that, How do I put this? This has happened before, and it’s happening right under our nose, and I think unfortunately there’s a whole generation that doesn’t really appreciate the recent history of how this has happened before. The United States is not immune to this happening.

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