The Stooges share "Fun House" from legendary last show with original lineup

THIRD MAN RECORDS SHARES "FUN HOUSE" FROM THE STOOGES' LIVE AT GOOSE LAKE: AUGUST 8TH, 1970 OUT ON VINYL, CD AND DIGITAL ON AUGUST 7, 2020 PREVIOUSLY-UNHEARD SOUNDBOARD RECORDING OF THE ORIGINAL STOOGES LINEUP'S FINAL PERFORMANCE AT GOOSE LAKE FESTIVAL

Third Man Records has shared "Fun House" from The Stooges' Live At Goose Lake: August 8, 1970. This previously-unheard, high-quality soundboard recording of the original Stooges lineup's final performance -- recorded just before the release of their earthshaking 1970 album Fun House -- will be available on vinyl, CD and digital on August 7, 2020, nearly 50 years to the day after the performance. Hear "Fun House" HERE, and pre-save the album HERE. The audio was lovingly restored by Vance Powell (The White Stripes, Chris Stapleton) and mastered by Bill Skibbe at Third Man Mastering, and liner notes were written by Jaan Uhelzski (Creem Magazine). There will be two limited-edition colored vinyl variants available as well -- the Rough Trade version will be on purple-colored vinyl with a standard LP jacket, and the indie exclusive version will be on cream-colored vinyl with a screen-printed LP jacket. Pre-order the album on CD HERE and vinyl HERE. LISTEN TO "FUN HOUSE" The apocryphal tale of the Stooges performance at the Goose Lake Festival has been told countless times  over  the  past  five  decades.  Bassist  Dave  Alexander,  due  to  nerves  or  overindulgence  or whatever  you  choose  to  fill  in  the  blank,  absolutely  spaces  in  front  of  200,000  attendees.  He  does not play a single note on stage. He is summarily fired by Iggy Pop immediately following the gig. Here starts the beginning of the end of the Stooges. But  what  if  that  simply... wasn’t  the  case?  What  if  you  could  prove  otherwise?  Well,  it’d  be  the   proto-punk equivalent of having an immediate, on-the-scene, man on the street report of all those folkies  booing  Dylan’s  electric  set  at  Newport  in  ‘65.  Irrefutable  evidence  of  what  ACTUALLY  went down. Found buried in the basement of a Michigan farmhouse amongst other tasty analog artifacts of the same era, the 1/4” stereo two-track  tape  of  the  Stooges  complete  performance  at  Goose  Lake on August 8th, 1970 is the Rosetta Stone for fans of this seminal band. Not only is this the last ever performance of the original godhead Stooges line-up, but it is the ONLY known soundboard recording of said line-up. Playing the entirety of their canonical 1970 masterpiece Fun House, the sound, the performance, everything about this record is revelatory. Would you believe that... Alexander actually DID play bass on this occasion? Or that, despite grievous failures on some songs, Alexander is damn solid on others? Especially on the bass-led songs “Dirt” and “Fun House”? Does Iggy provoke the crowd to tear down festival barriers? Did the powers that be pull the plug on the Stooges? So many questions are answered only to have more arise. Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the performance, Live at Goose Lake: August 8th 1970,  is  the  rare  release  that  literally  rewrites  the  history  of  these  Rock  and  Roll  Hall of Fame inductees.

LIVE AT GOOSE LAKE: AUGUST 8TH, 1970 TRACK LIST SIDE A 1. Intro 2. Loose 3. Down On The Street 4. T.V. Eye 5. Dirt SIDE B 1. 1970 (I Feel Alright) 2. Fun House 3. L.A. Blues

Juanita Stein shares new video - New album 'Snapshot' out on 2nd October

JUANITA STEIN

NEW ALBUM 'SNAPSHOT' OUT ON 2ND OCTOBER VIA NUDE RECORDS

WATCH TITLE TRACK VIDEO HERE

PRE-ORDER/PRE-SAVE ALBUM HERE

Striding out of Howling Bells’ long shadow, Juanita Stein emerges from the rolling plains of ‘America’ and ‘Until The Light Fades’, clinging to the tracks of her tears on album three, ‘Snapshot’, set for release on 2nd October via Nude Records.

Juanita has now shared the video for the album's title track - recorded using an iPhone and a homemade green screen during the lockdown.

WATCH 'SNAPSHOT' VIDEO HERE

“It feels fundamental to understanding the devastation and eerie silence thrust upon us after his sudden death,” begins the Brighton-based, Australian songwriter Juanita Stein, discussing the moment of great sadness that inspired her new record. “It was a daunting task to sum up the life of one man such as my father. He was endlessly inspiring, charming, deeply talented and passionately spiritual. He admirably, and at times frustratingly, carried the torch for his own musical career until the very end.”

It’s within this processing of a life well-lived and attempting to wrestle with the tides of her own grief, that what would become the album began to ebb and flow out of Stein, who first became known for her work as singer and guitarist in Howling Bells.

“After I felt I had enough songs,” Juanita explains, “I was moved to reach out to producer Ben Hillier, who I’d been a fan of since hearing records he made with Clinic, Elbow ad Doves to see if he might be interested in making this album with me.”

Unlike her first two solo albums, “America” (2017) and “Until The Lights Fade” (2018), which were made in just a few weeks and both at studios in the US, ‘Snapshot’ was recorded over the course of eight months at Agricultural Audio, not far from Juanita’s home.

As she says, “This allowed me the time and distance I so craved. Ben was deeply concerned with allowing the songs to breathe and to take the right shape. We laid down all the defining guitar parts and vocals which were then beds for the band to come in and lay their parts on.”

As the record began to take shape, Juanita “called on my brother, Joel Stein, (guitarist in Howling Bells) to play lead guitar, I knew only he could harness the exact frenzied energy needed for the songs. Both he and I were both going through something pretty momentous and I wanted to shift that energy into the music. Evan Jenkins on drums alternated between freeform and thunderous on some tracks, light and barely-there on others. Jimi Wheelwright on bass held it all together beautifully.”

The result is a record that feels crafted from a life lived as much as it was clearly excavated from loss. It’s a record that strives to capture more than a passing moment and succeeds in laying its hands on something bigger than most of us will ever fully understand.

HEAR 'SNAPSHOT' HERE AND ON SOUNDCLOUD

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Gillian Welch Releases "Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1" On Acony Records

GILLIAN WELCH RELEASES BOOTS NO. 2: THE LOST SONGS, VOL. 1 ON ACONY RECORDS READ INTERVIEW ABOUT BOOTS NO. 2 & NEW COVERS COLLECTION, ALL THE GOOD TIMES, VIA ROLLING STONE COUNTRY BOOTS NO. 2: THE LOST SONGS VOL. 2 & 3 TO FOLLOW IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS

Today, Gillian Welch releases Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 via Acony Records, the independent record label she and partner David Rawlings founded in 2001. Vol. 1 is the first installation of a three-part collection which contains songs unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings.  This remarkable 48 song collection, produced by David Rawlings, was recorded between the making of Time (The Revelator) and Soul Journey. Said the duo about the release, “We stashed these recordings away years ago. Their shortcomings, real or imagined, technical or compositional, no longer seem bothersome today. Hearing them now is like seeing snapshots that captured moments the more formal portraits missed. So here we are hurrying them for release before the next tornado blows the whole shoebox away.” Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 is available digitally now here, with Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 following in the coming months. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings both spoke to Rolling Stone about the collection, it’s inspiration, as well as their recently released cover collection, All The Good Times. In the interview Welch reveals: “Having all the tapes almost destroyed really makes you think. All of our masters were in the tape vaults at Woodland, and when the roof got peeled off like a sardine can and then it rained for four hours and then the ceilings all collapsed, basically everything we have was almost destroyed. … It made us think about our whole archive. It’s one thing to know in your mind that you have these tapes, and it’s another thing to run through the dark with them in your arms, rescuing them from destruction. Once we rescued them at great peril, you think, “Why did I rescue this?” And then you find yourself thinking, “Well, I guess because it means something.” Read the interview here.  “These songs disorient you in time because Gillian Welch blends past and present in a way that makes the past, present.” Jedediah Purdy writes in the album’s liner notes. “To listen through Boots 2 is to feel you have gotten thoroughly lost, and maybe drunk or worse, in a landscape of strangers. It is also to feel that, wandering through that landscape, you might actually never have left your house, and it might not matter whether you did or not, since you have become a stranger to yourself. It is like going through weeks when the sun refuses to shine, or maybe your body just refused to go out and meet it, because the sun had become hateful to you. Saying that it feels this way — which it does — risks making this music sound like a bummer. It is not. It is a trip. It is also a joy.” He further expounds, “by making art of an experience that, in life, is usually fraught with inarticulacy and bewilderment, these songs make obscurity vivid, strangeness intimate, dissolution into something solid and alive. Music like this makes broken existence fleetingly whole.” Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs comes after 2016’s Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg, a double album of unreleased outtakes, alternate versions, and demos from the making of the seminal 1996 debut album. Pitchfork said of the initial collection, “witnessing gradual transformation can be revelatory, and several early takes lay bare the process of refining Gillian Welch into “Gillian Welch” with staggering clarity,” and NPR Music adds, “the whole thing serves as a tremendous reminder of how and why this partnership came to matter so much.” Gillian Welch & David Rawlings recently released All The Good Times, a new album of ten acoustic covers recorded at home on a reel-to-reel. The album contains songs by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Elizabeth Cotten, and Norman Blake, as well as new arrangements of traditional songs. The album is available on all formats here. Boots No. 2 :The Lost Songs Vol. 1 Track listing 1. Johnny Dear 2. First Place Ribbon 3. Give That Man A Road 4. Mighty Good Book 5. Chinatown 6. Fly Down 7. Shotgun Song 8. Apalachicola 9. Strange Isabella 10. Little Luli 11. Valley of Tears 12. Blind On The Inside 13.Back Turn And Swing 14. Roll On 15.Honey Baby 16. Here Come The News http://gillianwelch.com/ http://www.facebook.com/gillianwelch http://www.twitter.com/gillianwelch instagram.com/gillianwelchofficial

Alain Johannes Debuts "If Morning Comes" Video as New Album, Hum, Arrives via Ipecac

	ALAIN JOHANNES DEBUTS “IF MORNING COMES” VIDEO VIA AMERICAN SONGWRITER https://americansongwriter.com/hum-alain-johannes-album-interview/ HUM AVAILABLE NOW VIA IPECAC RECORDINGS https://lnkfi.re/AJHum “Rather than the fuzz fury that characterizes much of his collaborative efforts, Hum rests upon Johannes’ equally accomplished fingerpicking… that harks back to Nick Drake’s Pink Moon - and carries just as much emotional depth.” – Guitar World “With songs like “If Morning Comes”, “Mermaid’s Scream” and the title track, Johannes forged a record that is equally as enlightening to his listeners as to his process making the record.” – American Songwriter “…Alain Johannes’ Hum is basically the record I’ve wanted Queens of the Stone Age to make since Lullabies to Paralyze and the record I’ve wanted Masters of Reality to make since Give Us Barabbas…” – The Obelisk

Click the above image or follow this link to watch the “If Morning Comes” video: https://americansongwriter.com/hum-alain-johannes-album-interview/

	July 31, 2020 – SANTIAGO, Chile – Alain Johannes, who released his third solo album, Hum, today via Ipecac Recordings (https://lnkfi.re/AJHum), has debuted a video for the song “If Morning Comes” (https://americansongwriter.com/hum-alain-johannes-album-interview/) via American Songwriter. “’If Morning Comes’ was one of the most cathartic for me during the making of Hum. Many difficult nights while I was ill those words were like my mantra,” explains Johannes of the song which encapsulates the personal nature of the 10-song album, a release written during a period of illness and mourning that found Johannes taking stock of his existence, and his future. The psychedelic video, which echoes the meditative quality of the song was directed by Liam Lynch. Johannes says of the clip: “My dear friend Liam Lynch created this intense world so visually stunning and resonant with the song. He’s the man!” A series of eye-catching videos have been released in the lead-up to Hum’s arrival: “Hallowed Bones” (https://youtu.be/PF0MSlUcVOU), “Free” (https://youtu.be/dCHuLb5w3MQ) and the title track, “Hum” (https://youtu.be/n_9ua-IjRzk). The clips have celebrated the beauty of life and the world we inhabit.

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	Alain Johannes first came to international prominence with Eleven, a trio that featured Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and with Johannes’ beloved late wife, Natasha Shneider. Eleven released five albums between 1991 and 2003. Johannes and Shneider became sought out contributors, working with Chris Cornell on his celebrated 1999 solo debut, Euphoria Morning—which the couple co-wrote, co-produced, and toured in support of. They also lent their talents to Queens of the Stone Age’s chart-topping 2005 Lullabies To Paralyze and the subsequent two-year touring cycle that followed its release. Along the way, Alain either wrote, produced, or engineered projects for No Doubt, Mark Lanegan, Jimmy Eat World, Brody Dalle, and Arctic Monkeys, to name a few. Not to mention, he performed in PJ Harvey’s live band as well as Them Crooked Vultures where he shared stages worldwide with Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones. A sought-after composer for film, television, and video games, he has penned music for HBO’s Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends) as well as Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands and Breakpoint. Plus, Grohl enlisted him as part of the Sound City Players, co-writing and performing various cuts on the soundtrack for Sound City. Following Natasha’s passing, he unveiled his first solo effort, Spark, in 2010 before delivering the follow-up Fragments and Wholes, Vol. 1 three years later. # # # Alainjohannes.com Alainjohannes.eu Facebook.com/alainjohannesmusic Twitter.com/alainjohannes Instagram.com/alainjohannes Instagram.com/alainjohannestour

Robert Plant shares previously unreleased song from upcoming anthology

ROBERT PLANT SHARES THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, “CHARLIE PATTON HIGHWAY (TURN IT UP – PART 1“), FROM THE DIGGING DEEP ANTHOLOGY LIMITED EDITION 2-CD SET  ALSO AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING AND DIGITAL DOWNLOAD  FIRST EPISODE FROM THIRD SEASON OF ACCLAIMED PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW DIGGING DEEP ARRIVES VIA ES PARANZA ON OCTOBER 2

Today Robert Plant shares the first of three previously unreleased songs from his upcoming career-spanning new 2-CD set DIGGING DEEP. “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up – Part 1),” taken from the soon-to-be-released album Band of Joy Volume 2, is available now at all digital service providers. The limited edition collection – also available for streaming and digital download – gathers 30 extraordinary songs spanning four decades, including three previously unreleased new tracks. DIGGING DEEP will be available worldwide via Plant’s own Es Paranza label on Friday, October 2. “I spent time in the hill country of north Mississippi around Como, dropping back to Clarksdale, the incredible center of black music talent over the years,” said Plant. “I weaved my car through the Delta back roads, listening to the remarkable protestations of Mississippi AM radio. I was looking at my world and my times from this unfamiliar place and found myself exposed to a nightmare world of half-truths.” LISTEN TO "CHARLIE PATTON HIGHWAY (TURN IT UP - PART 1)" PRE-ORDER DIGGING DEEP DIGGING DEEP showcases landmark tracks from each of the 8x GRAMMY® Award-winner’s 11 masterful solo albums, including a number of songs featured on Digging Deep with Robert Plant. Highlights include the #1 rock hit, “Hurting Kind,” and the GRAMMY® Award-nominated “Shine It All Around,” alongside three previously unreleased exclusives. Included besides “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up part 1)” will be “Nothing Takes the Place of You” (written by New Orleans musician Toussaint McCall and recorded for the acclaimed 2013 film, Winter In The Blood), as well as a spectacular duet rendition of Charley Feathers’ rockabilly classic, “Too Much Alike” featuring Patty Griffin. Plant is accompanied throughout DIGGING DEEP by a truly remarkable lineup of musicians, including Jimmy Page, Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin, Phil Collins, Nigel Kennedy, Richard Thompson, and his brothers, Strange Sensation/ The Sensational Space Shifters. The DIGGING DEEP anthology was originally announced earlier this week as it heralded the premiere episode of the third season of Plant’s acclaimed podcast, Digging Deep with Robert Plant. Five brand new episodes will premiere every two weeks, all recorded earlier this year with BBC 6 Music’s Matt Everitt before a live audience at London’s Rough Trade East. LISTEN TO DIGGING DEEP WITH ROBERT PLANT PODCAST Robert Plant’s music is the result of a lifetime of journeys exploring the music from the welsh borders to the Sahara and from Nashville to the misty mountains. The influences and friends collected along the way can be heard in his songs. Digging Deep with Robert Plant finds him delving into his back catalogue to revisit songs recorded on his incredible history while also telling stories of inspiration, collaboration, and intervention. The podcast has fast proven a popular and critical success, with over 1.6 million streams/downloads. Digging Deep with Robert Plant is available from Apple, Spotify, and YouTube, with new episodes available every two weeks.

# # # ROBERT PLANT DIGGING DEEP (Es Paranza) Release Date: Friday, October 2 TRACKLISTING: CD1 Rainbow Hurting Kind Shine It All Around Ship of Fools Nothing Takes the Place of You * Darkness, Darkness Heaven Knows In the Mood Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up - Part 1) * New World Like I’ve Never Been Gone I Believe Dance with You Tonight Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down Great Spirit (Acoustic) CD2 Angel Dance Takamba Anniversary Wreckless Love White Clean & Neat Silver Rider Fat Lip 29 Palms Last Time I Saw Her Embrace Another Fall Too Much Alike (Feat. Patty Griffin) * Big Log Falling in Love Again Memory Song (Hello Hello) Promised Land * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT ROBERTPLANT.COM

Roísín Murphy Announces New Album 'Roísín Machine' + Shares New Track "Something More"

RÓISÍN MURPHY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM RÓISÍN MACHINE FOR SEPTEMBER 25TH (Skint/BMG)  SHARES NEW SINGLE  “SOMETHING MORE” STREAM HERE

Album artwork Today Róisín Murphy shares full details of her highly anticipated new album, the fabulously titled Róisín Machine. Her first full length project since 2015’s Mercury Prize-nominated Hairless Toys and 2016’s equally revered Take Her Up To Monto will be released on September 25th via Skint / BMG. Róisín Machine is the culmination of a rich, decades-long partnership between Murphy and one of her most trusted collaborators Crooked Man aka DJ Parrot. Although packed to the rafters with masterclass singles, including “Simulation,” “Jealousy,” “Incapable,” Narcissus,” and “Murphy’s Law,” it is also an ingeniously and seamlessly edited listening experience, designed to be listened to in one uninterrupted sitting, from start to dazzling finish.  The glorious reign of as British music’s most unpredictable, indefatigable High Priestess of cool continues unabated with her new single “Something More,”  which enters stage left; tear-streaked, melancholy and stripped right back to the core of its soul. It’s a hands in the air, end of the night, come-together anthem and Murphy’s voice has never sounded more commanding, more rich and soulful - it’s both playful and mature.  LISTEN TO “SOMETHING MORE” HERE Murphy’s breath-taking command of emotion is in full force on the song, she explains; ” I interpreted it as a swan-song to how we once lived, there’s plenty of bravado in the lyrics and the character is a kind of antihero but the indefinable yearning and the feeling of arriving at a point of emptiness is universal right now!”  Written by NYC songstress Amy Douglas, it came about like everything in Murphy’s world, quite naturally. “We met last year at a very interesting talk event in london about the psychology and science of Dub. We hit it off immediately, I’m afraid we may have heckled the speakers, who happened to have among them Andrew Weatherall!  I asked her to write me a song about never being full or satisfied, exponential need. She sent a very basic but brilliant demo very soon after, just her singing and playing a piano. The challenge then is to get the music-direction right, the arrangement and the voicing. Our first version was way more straight ahead pop, funky, very camp. It seemed right when we began before lockdown but as a new reality descended upon the world we got tired of its one and only dimension. So when this slow-burn, deep, soulful, groove emerged out of the Crooked remixes, I decided to change tack. It seemed perfect, the perfect arrangement for the song and also perfect for the moment. We’re in darker ages now and this feels like morning, the sun’s coming up and it’s the last record of a very, very, good night. We need space for ‘mood’ and the ‘uncanny’ right now.” From the intoxicating disco-funk of “Incapable,” to the quintessential “Narcissus,” which crystallised New-Disco and established a high watermark for the genre, to “Murphy’s Law,” a 70s inflected stomper, Róisín Machine offers up everything you could ask for on an exquisite plate. Added to the familiar tunes are five new songs, including the Dalek-funk of “We Got Together” and the fantastical “Shellfish Mademoiselle.”   An album that works perfectly on the home sound system but also comes alive in a basement sweatbox, it impeccably sits alongside Murphy’s stellar canon of work released across 25 boundary pushing, trailblazing years, a career encompassing iconic music, directorial, art and fashion moments. “Róisín Machine” tracklist: Simulation Kingdom Of Ends Something More Shellfish Mademoiselle Incapable We Got Together Murphy’s Law Game Changer Narcissus  Jealousy  Pre-order Róisín Machine here

(Photo Credit: Adrian Samson) Róisín Machine will be available in CD and vinyl formats - black gatefold vinyl and a special gatefold blue vinyl package including a signed zine-available available only via Roisin's Official Store. Follow Róisín Murphy Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

JORJA SMITH RELEASES NEW SINGLE "BY ANY MEANS"

JORJA SMITH RELEASES NEW SINGLE
"BY ANY MEANS"

LEAD RELEASE OFF UPCOMING ROC NATION REPRISE PROJECT,
AIMING TO BRING AWARENESS TO SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES



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British singer-songwriter Jorja Smith today shares her new track "By Any Means", the lead single off Roc Nation's upcoming Reprise project. Smith is no stranger to gracefully addressing social issues; her 2016 breakout hit "Blue Lights" speaks to police brutality, and "By Any Means" accurately tackles the urgent energy swirling in 2020 around a larger civil rights movement. "By Any Means" is a bittersweet ballad with an operatic backdrop, reflecting on experience in the moment and offering encouragement to stand together and fight. The lyrics Smith sings speak to her experience as a young Black woman actualizing the change in the world, "I take pride in the things that we've done / Side by side in the revolution / Won't stay silent for things that I love".

Smith states, "The inspiration behind 'By Any Means' really came from going to the Black Lives Matter protest and leaving thinking, what can I do to keep this conversation going? It's not just a post on social media, its life."




Reprise, a collection of songs curated by Roc Nation, is a forthcoming initiative, comprised of multiple artists uniting to let their voices be heard in musical protest. This collection of songs was compiled with hopes to bring awareness to social justice issues. A portion of proceeds will go to funding organizations that support victims of police brutality, hate crimes, and other violations of civil rights.

Over the past two years since the release of her Grammy-nominated debut album Lost & Found, Smith has been celebrated unanimously across the world for her evocative song-writing, powerful delivery, pure emotion and unbridled talent as a young woman navigating her way through the world. Smith has graced covers of magazines, performed at awards ceremonies and on late night TV, and sold out shows across the world, now surpassing over one billion streams across the world. Her 2019 hit single "Be Honest" featuring Burna Boy has become her biggest song to date at almost 200Mstreams worldwide. Smith continues to hone her craft and "By Any Means" serves as a much anticipated prelude for more new music from Smith to come in 2020.


Stream "By Any Means" today to support the Reprise project's efforts and watch for more from Jorja Smith coming soon.

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