Tuesday Music Guide - September 7, 2010 |
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| Tuesday, 07 September 2010 10:46 |
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 JERRY LEE LEWIS Mean Old Man www.jerryleelewis.com Dist: Warner Music Canada With a lifetime of triumph and tragedy to draw from, Jerry Lee Lewis sings and plays with the seasoned wisdom of a man who has seen it all and the savvy confidence of a performer who knows that music—and the emotional truths it carries—is the thing that matters most. Mean Old Man features the greatest group of Sidemen and Women Ever Assembled Including Solomon Burke, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, John Fogerty, Merle Haggard, Mick Jagger, Kid Rock, Kris Kristofferson, Nils Lofgren, Shelby Lynne, Tim McGraw, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, Slash, Mavis Staples, Ringo Starr & Ron Wood. Jim Keltner & Steve Bing Produced.  FIVE FOR FIGHTINGSlice www.fiveforfighting.com Dist: Warner Music Canada If every album provides snapshots of where an artist's mind at heart is at the moment, Slice, the latest offering from John Ondrasik (aka Five for Fighting), is a collection of digital jpegs and faded Polaroids. The album takes stories of friends, family and even American servicemen, and sets them to music shot through with the spirit of the great songs of his youth. It's a diary, or a blog, in which Ondrasik speaks his mind about current issues, experiences and sentiments, while setting those thoughts to piano, bass and drums. The title track, featuring Ondrasik's soaring falsetto, comes from a daydream that we've all had at some point in our lives—that moment when we long for a simpler time when life seemed better and the songs were bigger. It's a sly play on one of those grand songs, Don McClean's "American Pie": "There was a time a long, long time ago/Chevies and levies played on the radio/No cell phones just 20,000 lights, swaying on a Saturday night."  ANBERLIN Dark Is The Way. Light Is A Place. www.anberlin.com Dist: Universal Music Canada Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place is the upcoming fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Anberlin. The band entered Blackbird Studios, Nashville, to begin recording the album in March 2010. It was announced on March 3 that the band would be working with Grammy Award- winning producer Brendan O'Brien, who has worked with the likes of Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine. The album title is a reference to the Dylan Thomas work Poem On His Birthday. The album examines themes of battles in life and love. Lead singer Stephen Christian states that "Love is a friction, a chemistry... We need to fight it out in a good way, not with threats of leaving, but to, in love, find an understanding."  STONE SOURAudio Secrecy www.stonesour.com Dist: Warner Music Canada Stone Sour (vocalist Cory Taylor, guitarists James Root and Josh Rand, bassist Shawn Economaki and drummer Roy Mayorga) have returned with a broadened range, a deepened perspective and the determination to make new album AUDIO SECRECY a multi-layered record free of stylistic limitations. “It’s everything I’ve ever wanted to do on one album,” says Taylor. “It’s heavy, it’s melodic, it’s dark, it’s slow, it’s light and it’s beautiful. You’ll hear something different with every listen.” SAY YOU’LL HAUNT ME is the first single and video.  INTERPOLInterpol www.interpolnyc.com Dist: Select You can always go home again, and so after one lap around the Capital Records track, Interpol have returned to Matador Records for the release of their long-awaited fourth album, a self-titled offering. The album INTERPOL finds the New Yorker’s exploring dark musical landscapes of layered depth and intensity. In contrast to 2007’s ‘Our Love To Admire’, this self-titled opus hangs together as an album, a set of very different songs that thematically connect. "The new record falls back towards the first," drummer Sam Fogarino told Paste Magazine recently. "In trying to move forward, there was an unspoken realisation that you can’t let go of your sonic defining tag. There was an effort in Daniel [Kessler]'s guitar tone; he rediscovered it playing in his loft space for a year without anybody. The quality of that tone, played in a big room, is just beautiful. It creates an atmosphere.  SARA BAREILLESKaleidoScope Heart www.sarabmusic.com Dist: Sony Music Canada Sara bareilles returns to center stage with her sophomore album “kaleidoscope Heart.” the album – which Sara wrote and the renowned neal avron produced - is the follow up to her massive grammy nominated debut, “little Voice.” “Little Voice” sold over 1 million copies worldwide, gained the recognition of two grammy nominations, and included the massive hit “love Song,” ensuring that this follow-up will be one of the most anticipated new releases in 2010. “King of Anything,” the first single off the forthcoming album is currently at radio and garnering early critical acclaim from the press.  MEGADETH Rust In Peace Live www.megadeth.com Dist: Universal Music Canada In March of 2010 Megadeth hit the road in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their classic 1990 album, Rust In Peace. The show was filmed on the last night of the tour at the legendary Hollywood Palladium, not far from where Megadeth was formed in 1983. The band played Rust In Peace in its entirety, including all-time classics “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due” and “Hangar 18.” The set list also featured six other fan favorites, including “Trust,” “Symphony Of Destruction” and “Peace Sells.”  THE BEATLESThe 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles Dist: Universal Music Canada Nearly 50 years after the four landmark live performances of The Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show," those legendary appearances with newly remastered audio and carefully restored video will finally be made available worldwide on home video through a major distributor. With a running time of more than 250 minutes, The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows starring The Beatles presents those shows uncut, including not only all of the other performances but also all of the original commercials.  RYAN BINGHAM & THE DEAD HORSESJunky Star www.binghammusic.com Dist: Universal Music Canada Academy Award winner for "The Weary Kind," his hauntingly beautiful theme song for the acclaimed film Crazy Heart, Ryan Bingham returns with his third album Junky Star. Recorded in a matter of days with producer T Bone Burnett, his collaborator on the Crazy Heart soundtrack, the disc delivers a bracing fusion of pensive, gravelly ballads and rock'n'roll cuts that showcase Bingham's incisive, darkly compelling lyrical bent.  JAMES The Morning After (Mini Album) www.wearejames.com Dist: Universal Music Canada The companion piece to The Night Before released earlier this year! The two mini albums are nothing if not intimate, where the The Night Before was a collection of uplifting songs about insecurity, disaffection and mental illness, The Morning After has James pushing the envelope and delivers a low-key campfire feel with some of the saddest and darkest lyrics of Booth’s career.
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