As a special Thanksgiving gift, starting today (Tuesday) and for the next week, DavidGilmour.com will host clips from the DVD edition of David Gilmour's latest release, Live In Gdańsk, for fans to watch. Different songs will be featured every day; over the course of a week fans will be able to catch “Speak To Me/Breathe/Time/Breathe,” “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” “Fat Old Sun,” “W
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David Gilmour streams Live In Gdansk
John Lennon: we forgive you
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Sure glad we got THAT cleared up.
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Nickelback's new album: "no class, no taste"
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Record Store Day planned for April '09
The record store is dead; long live the record store.Hit by declining sales of hardcopy CDS from brick-and-mortar retail outlets, the traditional record store has been forced to retrench, rethink and renew its approach to business. And now, they're getting some help with that from a likely source.The National Association of Recording Merchandisers, a.k.a. NARM, recently confirmed it will spon...
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Springsteen readies new album for January release
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Bruce Springsteen's new album Working On A Dream is now set for a January 27 release on Columbia Records. Recorded with the E Street Band during breaks on the Magic tour, the album features twelve new songs plus two bonus tracks :1. Outlaw Pete2. My Lucky Day3. Working on a Dream4. Queen of the Supermarket5. What Love Can Do6. This Life7. Good Eye8. Tomorrow Never Knows9. Life Itself10. Kingdo...
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Paul McCartney offers clues to the identity of Eleanor Rigby
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Guns N'Roses: The apocalypse
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All signs suggest the apocalypse is just around the corner... or at the very least, this one does: the 18-years-in-the-making Guns N'Roses album Chinese Democracy will apparently actually be released on November 23. As supporting evidence, we offer the pre-order link now live on iTunes , including immediate access to a download of the title track when you pre-order the full album. What's ...
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Metallica fan(atic)s unite
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Interesting piece on MSNBC.com this morning about the subculture of devoted Metallica fans. As the article chronicles, said fans have been through a lot in the last decade with the band's various musical and personal twists and turns, not to mention Lars Ulrich's little anti-downloading crusade. Fortunately for Metallica , their fans are still devoted enough to do slightly wacky things like...
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Monday roundup
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The items are arriving in bunches these days, so...First of all, it was already widely known that the obnoxious person formerly known as Prince was in the habit of being a jerk to his own fans . Turns out he doesn't like to pay his bills either. What a class act. Raul Malo , lead singer of the superb but star-crossed alt-country group The Mavericks , is preparing to issue his third solo al...
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Rock the vote
We interrupt the normal flow of music-related newsy tidbits and rumors for a serious message. Today is the opportunity for all of us Americans who love to hang around and complain about the way things are going to actually do something about it. Today is our chance to make our voice heard in the most meaningful way possible. So, if you want the right to complain for the next four years, you'...
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Wilco: Kicking Blu-ray
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The film production company that issued the highly-regarded 2002 Wilco documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is now in a very public tussle with the band over release of a Blu -ray edition of the film. The issue is that the original film was shot in grainy super-16mm black and white, and the soundtrack of the Blu -ray edition is identical to the DVD version -- no remastering -- so what...
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R.I.P. Michael Baker of Shadow Gallery
Michael A. Baker, founding member and lead vocalist of well-regarded prog-metallers Shadow Gallery, died of a heart attack this week at age 45. Baker had been the band's frontman for its entire 16-year run, including last year's best-of collection Prime Cuts from Magna Carta Records. The band's five studio albums stand as some of the most dynamic and powerful prog-metal of their day. Our con...
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The latest Led Zeppelin rumor: Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge to tour with Page, Jones & Bonham
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The Led Zeppelin reunion tour rumors are flying so fast and furious these days it's hard to keep up. Robert Plant's going to do it . Oh wait, no he's not . Oh, but now they're looking at other singers . Could be, but who? Steven Tyler jammed with them but kept forgetting the lines to songs . Seriously? Who knows. It's all gotten very weird. And so it is with a very large grain of salt...
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Latest reunion rumors: The Jacksons
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Is the long-whispered Jacksons reunion finally coming together? The Australian Associated Press, quoted here on Pollstar , reports that Jermaine Jackson says it is, and that it will include "the entire family, including little sister Janet . " And to think I put my old flared bell-bottoms in the garage sale just last spring...
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