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Prepare Yourself For THE TAKING
The Brand New Album From
DUFF MCKAGAN’S LOADED
~April 19, 2011~
New York, NY (February 3, 2011)—Eagle Rock Entertainment will release The Taking, a brand new studio album from Duff McKagan’s Loaded on vinyl (April 12) and CD (April 19).
A Grammy and American Music Award-winning songwriter/recording artist who has sold over 100 million records, Duff McKagan helped shape the music of an entire generation. He was a founding member of Guns ‘N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, and formed Loaded in 1999. Though most widely know as rock’s premiere bassist, McKagan once again takes front and center on lead vocals and guitars. Long time Loaded members Jeff Rouse (bassist) and Mike Squires (guitar) return along with drummer Isaac Carpenter who joined in late 2009.
Recorded by Terry Date (Soundgarden, Avenged Sevenfold), the album follows the band’s 2009 debut Sick. A feature-length film, The Taking (in the style of A Hard Day’s Night crossed with The Song Remains The Same), is due this summer.
“This record really sort of took a life of its’ own, and the songs really revealed themselves to us as we went along,” says Duff. ”Terry Date came into the picture at a time when his genius ear helped to capture a sonic theme for the record. You can’t underestimate what a guy like TD brings to the table. The Taking is the closest thing to a ‘concept’ record that I have ever been involved with. Pain, loss, triumph, and redemption. Life. Bring it.”
Fans have already been warmed up with tracks “We Win” and “Fight On,” (currently available on all digital service providers). “We Win” was played at Qwest Field, the home of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, McKagan’s hometown. It was also heard during the World Series on the MLB Network. Proceeds from downloads of “Fight On,” a song inspired by America’s military veterans, were donated to the Puget Sound Healthcare System veterans administration.
For more information, visit http://duff-loaded.com/.
Eagle Rock Entertainment is an international media production and distribution company operating across audiovisual entertainment programming. Eagle Rock Entertainment works directly alongside talent to produce the highest quality programming output covering film, general entertainment and musical performance. Eagle Rock Entertainment has offices based in London, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Hamburg, & Paris.
For more information regarding this and other Eagle Rock Entertainment releases, contact Carol Kaye at Carol@Kayosproductions.com, or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Kayos-Productions/102922656447240 . To access photos and/or cover art, please visit www.kayosproductions.com , and click the photo tab.
Track Listing:
1.) Lords of Abaddon
2.) Executioner’s Song
3.) Dead Skin
4.) We Win
5.) Easier Lying
6.) She’s An Anchor
7.) Wrecking Ball
8.) King Of The World
9.) Cocaine
10.) Your Name
11.) Follow Me To Hell
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A Conversation with Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon
MR: Paddy, you’re new album is titled Let’s Change The World With Music. You’re serious about that, aren’t you.
PM: Doesn’t your copy of the record have a giant As if… stenciled beneath the title?
MR: (laughs)
PM: There is an actual title track, but–for various incredibly boring reasons–it failed to make the final selection. Shame, as it might have allowed me to duck this question…which I’m going to do anyway!
MR: So, after listening to the first track “Let There Be Music,” you seem to equate it with creation which many eastern religions believe is the basis of creation. Is that where you stand?
PM: I thought it a nice concept. You know, God as invisible but audible. Like ad men, songwriters are always looking for a new angle. And as there are no new ideas under the sun, we end up retreading some old news. Beaten to the finishing line by incense burning ascetics, probably.
MR: In “Ride,” are you calling out those who would “Ride, ride, home to Jesus…” as in those who are hypocritical about it?
PM: It’s simply a song about goodness, about doing the right thing.
For entire article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragogna/emhuffpost-exclusiveem-br_b_818935.html
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New Blackmore’s Night CD Autumn Sky Tops New Age Charts
Autumn Sky, the new album by “fantasy folk rock” band Blackmore’s Night, has zoomed straight to the top of the Billboard New Age chart.
The 15-song album by legendary guitarist and Fender signature artist Ritchie Blackmore and his wife, Candice Night, was released in the United States on Jan. 18, 2011, and promptly began its rapid chart ascent. This calls to mind the feat of the last Blackmore’s Night album, 2008’s Secret Voyage, which debuted atop the chart and remained in the top ten for 72 weeks.
Autumn Sky continues the band’s now two-decade, eight-album tradition of rock-meets-the-Renaissance music and atmosphere, with Blackmore and Night ably supported by the seven-piece Blackmore’s Night Band. And on a touchingly personal note, the album is dedicated to Blackmore and Night’s newborn daughter, Autumn Esmerelda Blackmore, with whom Night was pregnant during the making of the album.
As always, the nature, myth and fairy tale-inspired lyrics are by Night, with Blackmore composing the melodies and building the arrangements based on musical structures of the early 1600s. Blackmore’s Night is known for its deft combination of traditional and modern-day instrumentation, including keyboards, violins, acoustic guitar, shawm (a medieval woodwind), chanter (a horn of the bagpipe family) and, of course, the electric guitar prowess for which Blackmore is so famous.
The great guitarist was just awarded with the “Honorary Medal of the Prime Minister of Armenia” for his work with the Rock Aid Armenia Project, a humanitarian effort by the British music industry to raise funds for those affected by the devastating 1988 Leninakan earthquake in Armenia. The project is known for its star-studded re-recording of the Blackmore-penned 1972 Deep Purple hit “Smoke On the Water,” in which the guitarist played one of the most famous guitar riffs in rock history. The charity recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Blackmore’s Night returns to the road this summer, with several German tour dates scheduled for July and August.
http://www.fender.com/news/index.php?display_article=661
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New York, NY (February 7, 2011)–Eagle Rock Entertainment have been deeply saddened by the news of the death of Gary Moore, the consummate musician acknowledged as one of the finest guitarists that the British Isles has ever produced. In a career that dates back to the 1960s, there are few musical genres that he has not turned his adroit musical hand to, and on top of his acclaimed solo work he has graced the line-ups of several notable rock bands, Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II and Skid Row to name but three.
Eagle Rock Entertainment were privileged to work with Gary Moore and his team on many projects over the past few years – releasing his three most recent studio albums, a live box set album, three DVDs and a Blu-ray. It was a relationship that began in 2004 and was cherished by all those at the label.
Lindsay Brown of Eagle Rock Entertainment commented, “Gary Moore was truly a giant of contemporary guitarists. We feel honored to have worked with him, released his amazing music and indeed to have called him a friend. He will be sorely missed by all those who knew him, and all fans of original guitar music, and leaves a gap that simply cannot be filled.”
Mike Carden, President of Operations in North America, adds “It isn’t often you get the opportunity to work with a legend who is also a gentlemen. Gary Moore was such a legend he will be sorely missed.”
Eagle Rock Entertainment is an international media production and distribution company operating across audiovisual entertainment programming. Eagle Rock Entertainment works directly alongside talent to produce the highest quality programming output covering film, general entertainment and musical performance. Eagle Rock Entertainment has offices based in London, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Hamburg, & Paris.
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Cut Copy’s new album Zonoscope earns a 8 of 10 rating in SPIN Magazine.
http://www.spin.com/reviews/cut-copy-zonoscope-modular
When Cut Copy offer an ostensible remake of Men at Work’s "Down Under" as the lead single from their third studio disc, is it a sign of the Melbourne trio’s chutzpah or of their essential Aussie-ness? Neither, actually: With its lighter-than-air melody and its bouncy, tom-tom-equipped groove, "Take Me Over" reveals Cut Copy’s eagerness to graduate from dance-rock cult act to something more universally admired. It’s an unabashed bid, in other words, for the sunset slot at Coachella, and it’s hardly alone on Zonoscope, which catches Cut Copy in a pop-attuned mode they’ve only hinted at in the past.
Sure, traces of the band’s body-music background crop up, particularly in "Sun God," the album’s throbbing 15-minute bliss-out closer. And with some studio help from Gnarls Barkley/Animal Collective homey Ben H. Allen, Zonoscope is deeply textured enough to seduce any headphone shut-in — dig the gorgeous synth sparkles in "Pharaohs & Pyramids" or the lushly layered ooohs in "Strange Nostalgia for the Future."
But the record works best at its most focused and extroverted, as on the disco-glammy "Where I’m Going" and "Need You Now," a swooning rush of E-fueled harmony. "We’re gonna drift away," frontman Dan Whitford promises over a cascade of white-soul keyboards in "Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat." Go ahead, trust him—he knows the route.
By Mikael Wood
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Link to Pitchfork review of the Cut Copy song “Need You Now” from their Best New Music section today! This is the first track on their highly anticipated new album Zonoscope due February 8th on Modular Records.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12091-need-you-now/
Cut Copy / Zonoscope (MODCD134 / 602527576428 / C11)
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William Tyler – Tompkins Square – 8.6
Every genre has its icons and its iconoclasts. Rock’n'roll will likely always have both bands that sound like Led Zeppelin and bands that absorbed Led Zeppelin but marched proudly in an unforeseen direction. Country music has chicken grease-and-cheap beer adherents in addition to pop crossover darlings, while rap brims with boom-bap purists and backpacking sonic explorers. These divisions are rarely as evident or amusing as they are in the world of guitar instrumentalists, a realm where either John Fahey is some sanctified combination of Zeus, Athena, and Poseidon or the brilliant dude who has become annoying because he’s the only touchstone most people have. You either fully embrace Fahey– like, say, the late Jack Rose– or you run the other way, like Ben Chasny with his work as Six Organs of Admittance. A middle ground exists, certainly, but it’s rarely been claimed with the grace and elocution of Behold the Spirit, the debut from young Nashville guitarist William Tyler. Arguably the most vital, energized album by an American solo guitarist in a decade or more, it accepts Fahey’s legacy while escaping its shadow. Moreover, it’s simply a joy to hear
For entire feature: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14999-behold-the-spirit/
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Rock musician Duff McKagan shares his passion for sports, music and more in a new weekly sports column in the “ESPN Music” section on ESPN.com. The founding member of GUNS N’ ROSES and current bands VELVET REVOLVER and LOADED debuted his first column on Wednesday, sharing with ESPN.com readers a little bit about himself, his fandom for his hometown teams in Seattle and more. An excerpt follows below.
“My name is Duff McKagan, and I play rock and roll music. The beer on ‘The Simpsons’ show was named after me, and not the other way around. (I suppose it is a testament to how much alcohol I used to drink. Yeah, not too sexy, really.) A couple of years ago, I was offered a weekly column for Playboy.com and Seattle Weekly after goofing around in several other publications with an article ‘here’ and an article ‘there’; it is now supposed that I am a writer to some degree.
“I have two bands at the moment: VELVET REVOLVER and LOADED. Some of you may remember me from GUNS N’ ROSES. I wish I remembered more from then …. Ha!
“I have played my music in most of our major league sports’ venues (football stadiums, basketball and hockey arenas). As a result, I was able to get all of the ‘behind the scenes’ vistas of these venues that most of us only wonder about. Pretty kick-ass. A whole lot of sports teams use my old band’s song ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ as their war cry. This fact alone could have probably sated some of you sports fans’ ‘Why him?’ inquiry. Honestly though, I am a huge sports fan myself, and am glad and honored to be given a bit of a pulpit here to voice some of my opinions and insights.”
Check out the entire debut column at ESPN.com.
DUFF MCKAGAN”S LOADED – New album available soon!
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Sarah Jaffe On Best Of 2010 Lists from USA Today’s Pop Candy, to Paste Magazine, and beyond!
49. Sarah Jaffe. The Texas-based singer-songwriter burst forth with Suburban Nature, a sharp and sweet debut. If her career keeps growing, her nature just might become more urbanized …
The 10 Best New Solo Artists of 2010
3. Sarah Jaffe
Hometown: Denton, Texas
Album: Suburban Nature
For Fans Of: Rachael Yamagata, Sam Phillips, Katie Herzig
“I love Texas,” says Sarah Jaffe, “but it’s pretty it is what it is.’” The 23-year-old singer/songwriter (whose last name rhymes with “taffy”) is at a mall in her hometown, on break from touring and killing time before she catches a movie. “I grew up in a place that was pretty much boring. It was brown and flat, but I think that humbleness is very attractive….”
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2010/12/10-best-new-solo-artists-of-2010.html?p=4
The 50 Best Albums of 2010
39. Sarah Jaffe: Suburban Nature [Kirtland]
Sarah Jaffe is a lot like her home state of Texas. Wide-open, humble and matter-of-fact, she crafts beautiful, raw songs that “are what they are” in the very best way. Playing like wise, witty diary entries marked with teardrops, growing pains and effusive honesty, her debut album, Suburban Nature, ebbs and flows on a sea of candid relationship narratives. “Love is interesting, because when two people come together that way, it can be really hostile and beautiful at the same time,” she says of the inspiration for the album’s 13 songs, some of which were written before Jaffe graduated from high school.—Melanie Gomez
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2010/12/the-50-best-albums-of-2010.html?p=2
The 50 Best Songs of 2010
During the last 12 months, these 50 songs from 50 different artists brought us or joy or enveloped our sadness. These are the melodies that stayed stuck in our heads, the words that spoke to us, even if it simply was with a vitriolic epithet that somehow still made us grin ear-to-ear, as was the case with our #1 song of the year. Some of these were radio hits, but most either made their mark on the Internet or among those few who heard them. In our humble opinion, here are the 50 Best Songs of 2010:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2010/12/the-50-best-songs-of-2010.html
The Best Albums of 2010
Sarah Jaffe was the ONLY artist to have 2 songs included in Amazon’s Top 100 songs
It’s crazy things like that happen!
Well, except that those paying attention know another story. They see the girl who released her debut EP, Even Born Again, back in 2008. The one who won three awards in our reader-voted Dallas Observer Music Awards that year. And who won another three in 2009, bringing her to six total awards (and no defeats) heading into this year, when, at age 24, Kirtland Records released her full-length debut, Suburban Nature, and Jaffe again swept the DOMAs, this time bringing home six awards, and making her one of the most-decorated winners our awards have ever seen, but also the sole nominee to have never lost an award to another artist. People clearly see something special in her music…
#8 Sarah Jaffe will break your heart—and break big.
Sarah Jaffe was mostly local when 2010 began. She had earned positive notice from the likes of NPR and Rolling Stone, but she was still largely a Dallas-Denton-Fort Worth sensation, known for her big voice and big-screen take on folk. Many musicians never move past that point. Then Jaffe went on a European tour with Denton’s Midlake. And opened a string of amphitheater dates for Norah Jones back in the States. And released her debut full-length, Suburban Nature, to widespread acclaim. And went on her first headlining tour—or “first time playing last,” as she says. And then another…
Best Local Releases: 2010
The Top 20 Local Music Videos of 2010
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2010/12/the_top_20_local_music_videos.php?page=4
Listomania
Listomania: The 15 Best Concerts of 2010
11. Sarah Jaffe at the Granada Theater
Why: This September show felt like a coming out party for Jaffe — much bigger than her CD release show back in May, which drew Jaffe about a quarter of the crowd size she drew to this sold-out affair. And, between the debut of her “Clementine” music video and her sparse, encore cover of Radiohead’s “Creep,” Jaffe made sure her fans left feeling as if they’d seen something special. Which, of course, they had.
Excerpt from review: “There still remain a sign or two of her youth and inexperience — like when, just a few songs in to her headlining slot at the Granada Theater on Saturday night, Sarah Jaffe excused herself from the audience so that she could go grab a guitar strap she’d left backstage. But those were but minor quibbles. Because, as she’s been doing all year, the 24-year-old Jaffe continued to prove herself quite the pro on Saturday night. “
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2010/12/listomania_the_15_best_concert.php
The 20 Things You Need to Know For 2011
Suburban Nature by Sarah Jaffe
Kirtland Records
Many of Denton’s fast-rising indie artists have made best-of-2010 lists in big-name publications — both in print and online.
Sarah Jaffe more than earned her spot on those lists.
This year, at age 24, Jaffe released her debut album to warm critical reception. She toured with Norah Jones and packed the house at Dan’s Silverleaf for her showcase concert at the North by 35 Music Conferette — which has changed to 35 Conferette in 2011….
My favorite songs of 2010, and my favorite non-2010 songs of 2010
2010 Favorites, part one: 2010 releases
Sarah Jaffe, “Clementine”
Sarah Jaffe’s Suburban Nature reminds me of Haley Bonar’s Big Star: accessible but nuanced, a twilight-tinged folk-pop album that you can listen to dozens of times.
THE BEST SONGS OF 2010
http://www.speakersincode.com/2010/12/best-songs-of-2010-50-26.html
30 Albums of 2010
http://www.whatstheruckus.com/2010/12/30-albums-in-2010.html
http://www.iguessimfloating.net/2011/01/igif-presents-the-60-5-best-songs-of-2010.html#more-4323
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