On the turntable this Sunday...Egypt Station

Egypt Station is the 18th solo studio album by Paul McCartney. It was released by Capitol Records on 7 September 2018.

Egypt Station was produced by Greg Kurstin, with the exception of one track produced by Ryan Tedder.  The album is McCartney's first studio release on Capitol since 2005's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.  The album's first (double A-side) single, consisting of the two songs "I Don't Know" and "Come On to Me", was released on 20 June 2018.

The name "Egypt Station" is shared by one of McCartney's paintings from 1988, from which the cover art is derived.  It became his first number-one album in the United States since 1982's Tug of War, and his first to debut atop the Billboard 200.

Marcus King Share New 'Carolina Confessions' Track (jambands.com)

The Marcus King Band will release their third full-length studio album, Carolina Confessions, next month on October 5, and today the group shared another preview of the effort with new single “Goodbye Carolina,” which was premiered over at Relix.

Read more @jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2018/09/21/marcus-king-band-share-new-carolina-confessions-track-goodbye-carolina/#ixzz5RqXCJrZo

Widespread Panic Set NYE Run in Atlanta (jambands.com)

This December, Widespread Panic will return to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA, for a three-night New Year’s Eve run to ring in 2019

Read more @ jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2018/09/21/widespread-panic-set-new-years-eve-run-in-atlanta/#ixzz5RqWbguX5

October 2018 New Music Releases (Ultimate Classic Rock)

The list of October 2018 new music releases is highlighted by an unexpected treat for Journey fans: Steve Perry is back with his first solo album in nearly 25 years. Traces was co-produced by Perry and Thom Flowers, who has previously worked with Danny Elfman and Lagwagon, among others.

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock

Mimi Fishman Foundation Launches Online Auction for Phish Fall Tour Tix (jambands.com)

The Mimi Fishman Foundation has teamed up with the WaterWheel Foundation to launch a new online charity auction that offers Phish fans a chance to bid for tickets to stops on the band’s upcoming fall tour, including their Halloween run in Las Vegas.

Read more @jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2018/09/21/mimi-fishman-foundation-launches-online-auction-for-phish-fall-tour-tickets/#ixzz5RqURvke9

KISS Announce Farewell Tour on 'America's Got Talent' (UCR)

Kiss confirmed upcoming farewell concert dates during tonight's episode of America's Got Talent. Details haven't been announced, but the "End of the Road" tour is expected to begin in 2019. A graphic on Kiss' official site promises more details soon.

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock

Arcade Fire Play Full 'Funeral' Album for First Time in LA (jambands.com)

Last Thursday night at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Arcade Fire played the first of three California shows set for this week and surprised fans by kicking off their set with a full-album run-through of their 2004 breakout LP Funeral for the first time ever.

Read more @ jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2018/09/21/arcade-fire-play-full-funeral-album-for-first-time-in-la/#ixzz5RqVyDedE

On the turntable this Sunday...All That You Can't Leave Behind

All That You Can't Leave Behind is the 10th studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and was released on 30 October 2000 on Island Records in the United Kingdom and Interscope Records in the United States. Following the mixed reception to their 1997 album, Pop, All That You Can't Leave Behind represented a return to a more mainstream sound for the band after they experimented with alternative rock and dance music in the 1990s. At the time of the album's release, U2 said on several occasions that they were "reapplying for the job ... [of] the best band in the world". U2 brought back Eno and Lanois, who had produced three of the band's previous albums. The album was originally named "U2000", which had been a working title for their PopMart Tour.

All That You Can't Leave Behind received favourable reviews from critics and sold over 12 million copies. The songs "Beautiful Day", "Walk On", "Elevation", and "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" were all successful singles. The record and its songs won seven Grammy Awards; it is the only album in history to have multiple tracks win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year: "Beautiful Day" in 2001 and "Walk On" in 2002. In 2003, the album was ranked number 139 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", but it was re-ranked at number 280 in 2012.  The supporting Elevation Tour, on which the band returned to playing arenas with a more intimate stage design, was also a critical and commercial success.

The Revivalists Reveal New Album 'Take Good Care' (jambands.com)

After releasing their first single, “All My Friends,” The Revivalists have revealed that their fourth LP, entitled Take Good Care, will be released on Nov. 9.

Read more @jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2018/09/14/the-revivalists-reveal-new-album-take-good-care-share-new-single/#ixzz5RH5mCBiK

Watch Aerosmith and Roots Play 'Walk This Way' (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Aerosmith performed their classic song “Walk This Way” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week using a selection of kids’ instruments including mini guitars, toy drums and kazoos.

Watch clip @ Ultimate Classic Rock

John Butler Trio Share "Just Call" Music Video (jambands.com)

John Butler Trio recently shared the music video for “Just Call,” a track off their forthcoming album HOME.

Read more @jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2018/09/14/john-butler-trio-share-just-call-music-video/#ixzz5RH2zLE8M

Gene Simmons Wants People to Be 'More Caring' (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Gene Simmons said people should “learn to listen” and “be more caring” in a discussion about his new book, 27: The Legend and Mythology of the 27 Club, which explores the history of the wide range of celebrities who died at that age. The notional club includes musicians Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Amy Winehouse, whose deaths all involved some elements of cultural or social failures. However, the Kiss star said there was a closer-to-home concept beneath the glamor of the subject.

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock

Jon Fishman to Join Faculty at Bay Chamber Music School in Maine (jambands.com)

Phish drummer Jon Fishman is headed back to school.

Or, more accurately, he is joining the teaching staff at Rockport, Maine’s Bay Chamber Music School.

Read more @jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2018/09/15/jon-fishman-to-join-faculty-at-bay-chamber-music-school-in-maine/#ixzz5RH2HCJNV

Elton John Kicks Off 'Farewell' Tour (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Elton John kicked off his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour with a career-spanning 24-song show in Allentown, Penn., over the weekend.

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock

On the turntable this Sunday...Little Queen

Little Queen is the second studio album released by the American rock band Heart. It was released in May 1977 on Portrait Records, and re-released in 2004 with two bonus tracks.

The group intended Magazine to be the official follow-up album to the debut Dreamboat Annie. However, a contract dispute with their label, Mushroom Records, resulted in the group signing with the newly formed Portrait Records, a division of CBS Records (now Sony/BMG).

The Mushroom contract called for two albums and the label took the position that they were owed a second one. On that basis, Mushroom attempted to prevent the release of Little Queen and any other work by Heart. They took the five unfinished tracks for Magazine and added a B-side and two live recordings. The first release of the album in early 1977 came with a disclaimer on the back cover.

The dispute dragged on and ended with the court deciding that Heart was free to sign with a new label, but added that Mushroom was indeed owed a second album. So, Heart went back to the studio to rerecord, remix, edit, and resequence the Magazine recordings in a marathon session over four days. A court-ordered guard stood nearby to prevent the master tapes from being erased.

Little Queen was released 14 May 1977 and Magazine was re-released 22 April 1978. With the hit single "Barracuda", Little Queen outsold Magazine handily, eventually achieving 3X Platinum status.  However, the almost contemporary release also gave the band the distinction of having all three of their albums on the charts at the same time

Billy Joel Schedules New Year's Show on Long Island (jambands.com)

Billy Joel will ring in 2019 on his home turf of Long Island, performing a single show at NYCB’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on December 31.

Read more @jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/09/06/billy-joel-schedules-new-year-s-show-on-long-island/#ixzz5QW4A4CJu

Listen to the Marcus King Band's Newest Single "Where I'm Headed" (jambands.com)

The Marcus King Band just shared their new track “Where I’m Headed” with Billboard, with the bandleader describing their impending release Carolina Confessions as a shift toward “songwriting and the structure of the tune itself.”

Read more @jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/09/07/listen-to-the-marcus-king-band-s-newest-single-where-i-m-headed/#ixzz5QW2dI1WJ

Billy Idol to Get Remixed Again on 'Vital Idol: Revitalized' (UCR)

Billy Idol's mid-'80s album Vital Idol was a rarity in the rock world: a collection of dance floor-friendly remixes.

Now he's revisiting the concept with Vital Idol: Revitalized, which is coming out on Sept. 28.

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock

Elvis Costello Shares New Song, "Suspect My Tears" (jambands.com)

Ahead of his new studio LP Look Now (out Oct. 12), Elvis Costello has shared “Suspect My Tears,” a new ballad backed by his Imposters band.










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Kinks Albums Ranked Worst to Best (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Few bands have had the trajectory the Kinks charted during their 30 years together, as you'll see in our list of Kinks Albums Ranked Worst to Best.

See Ultimate Classic Rock's Ranking of Kinks Albums 

Paul McCartney Announces US Tour Dates for 2019 (jambands.com)

After announcing a slate of Canadian and European dates for his upcoming “Freshen Up” tour, Paul McCartney has revealed a batch of US shows as well.

Read more @jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/08/31/paul-mccartney-announces-us-tour-dates-for-2019/#ixzz5Q3sRHgMj

On the turntable this Sunday...Middle Man

Middle Man is an album by Boz Scaggs that was released by Columbia Records in 1980. Scaggs hired members of the band Toto as session musicians and shared songwriting credits with them, returning to the commercial, soul-influenced rock of Silk Degrees (1976).

The album reached No. 8 in the Billboard 200 album chart, and two singles reached the Billboard Hot 100: "Breakdown Dead Ahead" at No. 15 and "Jojo" at No. 17.

Writing for Smash Hits in 1980, David Hepworth described Middle Man as an "impeccably tasteful collection of sophisticated white soul" that was "useful as background music in the more sedate kind of nite spot". Acknowledging that the album was "well done", Hepworth noted that Scaggs' previous albums were "thrilling as well as perfectly formed". Hepworth went on to say that the album sounded as though "they designed the sleeve first and then made the record to go in it".^[4]

Allmusic's retrospective review commented that the album "caps off the decade with equal nods to [Scaggs's] '70s hitmaking formulas and the newer, shinier production techniques of the coming decade." They made a point of noting the album's repeated imitation of then-popular fads, while at the same time opining that these imitations were successful.

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe to Headline Cripple Creek Festival in Kentucky (jambands.com)

This October, Cripple Creek Music Festival will come to Fort Mitchell, KY, with headliner Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe.

Read more @jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/08/31/karl-denson-s-tiny-universe-to-headline-kentucky-s-cripple-creek-festival/#ixzz5Q3raf9aw

Steve Perry Rules Out Return to Journey (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Steve Perry ruled out returning to Journey because he’s aiming to record more solo songs, and discussed the possibility of touring in support of his comeback album Traces, which will be released on Oct. 5

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock

Dave Matthews Band Welcome Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Gorge (jambands.com)

Dave Matthews Band returned to the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA, this weekend for a three-night Labor Day run at the venue, featuring supporting sets from Moon Taxi and Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and the latter two installments of the run featured some guest spots, including members of Pres Hall’s debut sit ins with DMB.

Read more @jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/09/03/dave-matthews-band-welcome-preservation-hall-jazz-band-and-more-at-the-gorge/#ixzz5Q3qvg4wk

Paul McCartney 'Saw God' While Taking Drugs (Ultimate Classic Rock)

Paul McCartney recalled the time be believes he “saw God” while under the influence of drugs during the height of the Beatles’ fame in the ‘60s, and described it the experience as a “clue” to his spirituality. He was in the company of several other people when they took the hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine (DMT).

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock

Phish Close Out Summer Tour (jambands.com)

Phish returned to the Dick’s Sporting Goods Park stage in Commerce City, CO, on Sunday night to close out both their annual three-night Labor Day weekend run at the venue and their summer tour overall. Packing in 23 songs over two sets and an encore, the band delivered an expansive performance that featured plenty of favorites and a couple rarities.



Read more @jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/09/03/phish-close-out-summer-tour-with-dick-s-finale/#ixzz5Q3qKSQNK

Phish Play Old and New at Dick’s (jambands.com)

After a rocking night one, Phish continued their three-night stint at Colorado’s Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Saturday night by playing into old favorites and new jam vehicles alike...

Read more @ jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/09/02/phish-play-old-and-new-for-dick-s-night-two/#ixzz5Q2ZxY2LY

On the turntable this Sunday...Emotional Rescue

Emotional Rescue is the 15th British and 17th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1980. Upon release, it topped the charts in both the US and UK.

Recorded throughout 1979, first in Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas, then Pathé Marconi, Paris, with some end-of-year overdubbing in New York City at The Hit Factory, Emotional Rescue was the first Rolling Stones album recorded following Keith Richards' exoneration from a Toronto drugs charge that could have landed him in jail for years. Fresh from the revitalisation of Some Girls (1978), Richards and Mick Jagger led the Stones through dozens of new songs, some of which were held over for Tattoo You (1981), picking only ten for Emotional Rescue.

Several of the tracks on the album featured just the core Rolling Stones band members: Jagger, Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman. On others, they were joined by keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and co-founder Ian Stewart, sax player Bobby Keys and harmonica player Sugar Blue.

Songs left off the album would find their way onto the next album, Tattoo You ("Hang Fire", "Little T&A", and "No Use in Crying"). "Think I'm Going Mad", another song from the sessions, was released as the B-side to "She Was Hot" in 1984. A cover song sung by Richards: "We Had It All", was released on the 2011 deluxe Some Girls package.

Jeff Tweedy Joins OctFest (jambands.com)

Wilco frontman will replace BadBadNotGood, who have had to pull its own performance due to unforeseen circumstances. OctFest, which is presented by Pitchfork and October, is slated to take place on New York’s Governors Island on September 8 and 9, boasting a mix of musical performers, a curated food program, and 90+ craft breweries from around the world.

Read more @jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2018/08/22/jeff-tweedy-joins-octfest/#ixzz5PE1ZgQAx