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Following the success of the now sold-out initial print, Bauhaus founding member and author; Kevin Haskins revisits “Bauhaus Undead” to create an Expanded Edition of his deluxe coffee table book.

With an additional 78 pages and 7 new stories, Kevin has once again drawn from his personal archive, alongside those of Andrew Brooksbank, Vincent Forrest, original Bauhaus LD and tour manager Graham Bentley and Bauhaus bassist David J.

Maintaining the original design aesthetic created by Jeff Anderson, Donny Phillips and Kaylee Carrington, Kevin worked alongside Fendi Nugroho, (in-house artist at Cleopatra) to design complimentary layouts for the additional content. Once again Kevin has created a fitting tribute and a celebration of the legacy created by this groundbreaking band.

There is one in every band; that one member who, from the inception, collects everything from early “Local Band Makes Good” articles to backstage passes, ticket stubs, original artwork, letters, setlists, posters, contracts, band sketches, fan club material, pins, tour itineraries, handwritten lyrics, home- made flyers, all the way through to comic strips and candid photographs. In this carefully curated coffee table book, Kevin Haskins will once again share his personal collection of mostly never seen before ephemera, and also offer up original stories, littered with poignant and sometimes amusing moments, reflected throughout the bands hallowed career.

The book, now boasting additional content of some 78 pages and incorporating a further seven stories, takes the spectator on a journey from the band’s inception in late 1978 through to their highly successful reformation in 1998, the legendary Coachella performance in 2005 and culminating in the band’s welcome return to the live stage in 2019.

Formed by Daniel Ash in the small industrial town of Northampton, England in the winter of 1978. Bauhaus recorded their now legendary and timeless slab of industrial dub, the nine-minute epic; “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, only five weeks after their formation. That twelve-inch single hit number one in the British Independent chart where it remained in the higher ranks of that chart for more than two years.

Three years on from “Bela” David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve watched the band perform that very song in the dramatic opening scene of Tony Scott’s stylish and sensual vampire movie, “The Hunger” of which Bowie and Deneuve stalk modern-day New York in search of new blood. Seminal and groundbreaking, the group was too busy following its own muse to chase after fly-by-night-trends. The pioneering spirit which has fueled their work established Bauhaus as one of the most important and influential bands of the past four decades.

Their eclectic influences ranged from Psychedelia to Punk, Dub Reggae to Glam, the latter surfacing most notably in their audacious cover of David Bowie’s seminal “Ziggy Stardust”, which earned them their first national chart hit in October 1982. The band went on to record four critically acclaimed albums before disbanding in 1983.

In 1998 the band reformed to play the extremely successful “Resurrection” World Tour, attracting a much larger audience than they had originally enjoyed back in the day, selling out three nights at The Palladium in Los Angeles in a record-breaking fifteen minutes! This was an accolade to the timeless quality of their music and their ever-growing fan base. Over twenty years after recording their last album and against all the odds, Bauhaus recorded and released a new studio LP “Go Away White”, toured with Nine Inch Nails, and played a now-legendary headlining performance at The Coachella Music Festival in 2005. The band returned to the live stage in winter of 2019 to play a short series of highly acclaimed performances.

One of the few groups of the post-punk era to truly achieve mythical status, Bauhaus always has, and continues to be, a pivotal link in the evolution and revolution of contemporary music.

Artists that have name-checked Bauhaus include; Radiohead, Bjork, Massive Attack, Sigur Ros, Nine Inch Nails, Tricky, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Flaming Lips, The Horrors, Jello Biafra, Marilyn Manson, Jane’s Addiction, Tool, Jarvis Cocker, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hole, Interpol, Skinny Puppy, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Nirvana to name just a few.

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As a member of GGOOLLDD, Nicholas Schubert has helped craft some of the catchiest and most upbeat synth-pop earworms Milwaukee has heard in quite some time. Even though the keyboardist has a knack for building fun, infectious, and poppy songs with his longtime friends and band mates in that accomplished project, Schubert—who says he grew up listening to bands like HIM and New Order—also has a darker artistic side that was fighting to get out. Now that goth rock identity has a landing point in a side project called BLOOD, which will release its debut album Friday, October 31.

That album, Testamental, features 10 songs that find the multi-instrumentalist bounding into divergent and decidedly darker territory than fans of his primary project might expect. An instrumental title track sets the tone, with swelling synths and bleary production. That mood-establishing opening track is followed by “BLOODBATH” and “PINK LIGHTS”—each of which offer grandiose instrumentation reminiscent of a Goblin score and reverb-drenched utilitarian vocals from Schubert. Over the course of the self-produced (except for two songs produced by Casey Soyk) and self-recorded record, Testamental dips into “dark wave” expanses, with compositions like the driving and aptly-named “GO,” as well as the guitar-laden “CAN’T SEE IT,” and the flourishing frenzy employed in the ultra-infectious “DESTROY.”

While much of the record lives in the shadows, there are a parts of Schubert’s excellent departure that are touched by the light. “NOTHING”—with its delicate melody and touching lyrics—is a surprisingly sweet standout song for a project that’s called BLOOD, and “WAIT” is a song that’s smooth and vibrant enough to earn a spot on future GGOOLLDD setlists without any risk of audience alienation. Though BLOOD’s impressive debut is certainly a suitable soundtrack for Halloween weekend, it’s also well-orchestrated mood music for all seasons. Before it’s released digitally by Los Angeles label Cleopatra Records this Friday, you can listen to Testamental in its entirety below.

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Produced by HAWKESTREL’S ALAN DAVEY!

Los Angeles, CA – Arthur Brown is a truly groundbreaking rock music icon who pioneered a theatrical approach to musical performance that has been cited as an influence on Rock Hall of Famers Alice Cooper and KISS. Going under the memorable moniker The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Brown achieved breakthrough success with a blockbuster hit single in 1968, the colossal freakout “Fire,” which he used as a launching pad for an incredible career that continues to this day! And today he releases a superb new track, “Zombie Yelp,” just in time to get all the groovy ghoulies, young and old, in the mood for the Halloween season!

Co-written by Brown and Alan Davey, formerly of British space rock kings Hawkwind, who not only produced the track but performs on it as well, “Zombie Yelp” rides a distinctively spooky retro groove laid down by the vintage keyboards of Vanilla Fudge founder Mark Stein as well as Davey’s driving bass guitar all of which set the stage for the Brown’s unearthly vocal delivery that ranges from piercing howls to demonic growls. It’s the perfect mix of psych rock ecstasy and campy fun!

Davey shares these thoughts about working on the track, “It was great fun writing this new song with Arthur, he’s always a hoot to work with and his lyrics on this are funny as feck! I’m proud to have mixed and produced it too. Take your Zombie Yelp this Halloween and see what happens!”

Stein reflects on his own history with Brown, saying “The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Vanilla Fudge shared the stage back in the late ‘60s. Arthur is still crazy after all these years and still killin’ it! ‘Zombie Yelp’ is a wild tune with great grooves and lyrics. I had a blast playing organ on it. Just wait till you hear this track…lovin’ it!”

And Brown sums it up perfectly, in his typically enigmatic fashion, “Spirits lagging? Need some help? Dive right in to the ‘Zombie Yelp’!”

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Today is the day for the newest release from groundbreaking alt-rock / industrial music producer John Fryer – the new ‘These Mortal Covers’ album comes by way of his Black Needle Noise collaborative project.

Presenting a collection of diverse and excellent song covers, involving various (mostly female) singers, here we can also enjoy the talents of Anjela Piccard, Pinky Turzo, Beca, Magic Rebecca Coseboom, and Betty X. Tom Berger is the one male vocalists exception – bandmates from back in Fryer’s DarkDriveClinic days.

As one of the most innovative sonic architects in our age, “John Fryer has practically soundtracked your entire life” (Impose Magazine). He is also one of just two masterminds behind This Mortal Coil (along with Ivo Watts-Russell – not only producing, but also keyboards, strings and synthesizer sequencing).

John Fryer started his career in 1979 at London’s Blackwing Studios (London) and soon began working with seminal bands on 4AD, Mute, Rough Trade and Beggars Banquet, including Depeche Mode, The Wolfgang Press and Cocteau Twins. His achievement in helping develop the latter’s pioneering ethereal and ambient sound ultimately led Watts-Russell to recruit Fryer as his partner for This Mortal Coil.

A sense of expectation about his music has never left him – expectations he often exceeds from release to release, having produced many iconic artists, including Nine Inch Nails, Love and Rockets, Swans, HIM, Cradle of Filth, Clan of Xymox, Nitzer Ebb, Dead Can Dance, Yaz (Yazoo), Xmal Deutschland, Fields of the Nephilim, De/Vision, Stabbing Westward and many others. Fryer has also produced many film soundtracks, such as Seven, Clerks, Johnny Mnemonic, Mortal Kombat, Faust and Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

“The whole idea of doing cover versions started back with DarkDriveClinic. We were backstage for one of our live shows and the floor was grubby and Rebecca asked if she could put on my shoes to get something from the other side of the room and then I said, hey, let’s do a cover of “Walking In My Shoes” and so then the covers album was born back in 2011,” says John Fryer.

Read the full article at The Big Takeover.

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Fans of British new wave icons Duran Duran got the treat of a lifetime when Andy Wickett, the original vocalist of the group who was eventually replaced by Simon LeBon, released Girls On Film – 1979 Demo, a collection of early recordings of the band that included keyboardist Nick Rhodes plus the rhythm section of John & Roger Taylor. And now a second collection of demos has emerged, offering an even deeper look into the early workings of what would become one of rock music’s most prestigious and productive bands from the ’80s! Dreaming Of Your Cars – 1979 Demos Part 2 will be officially released on October 30 courtesy of Cleopatra Records.
Wickett explains, “This is the second demo we did at Bob Lamb’s studio in Moseley, Birmingham. I wrote the song ‘Dreaming Of Your Cars’ with T.V. Eye before I joined the Durans. We were the Durans favourite local band. Later, when I supported Duran Duran with my band World Service on their UK tour in 1996, Nick Rhodes told me he loved that song and wanted to produce it.”

Dreaming Of Your Cars will be available on both CD and colored vinyl as well as on all digital music platforms!

Another rare gem from the early days of British new wave icons, Duran Duran!

Features vocalist Andy Wickett who fronted the band before Simon Le Bon!

Available on CD and colored vinyl!

Track Listing:
1. Dreaming of Your Cars
2. Love Story
3. X Disco
4. To The Shore

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The long awaited new album from one of the most exciting young metal acts on the scene today, Alabama’s BrokenRail!

Beautiful Chaos showcases both the strengths and diversity of this incredible band with stellar musicianship, powerful vocals, melodic ballads, and of course some of the heaviest, horns-in-the-air metal riffs you’re likely to hear all year!

Features the singles “Creatures,” “Demon In Disguise” and “California!”

Produced by Joseph McQueen (As I Lay Dying, Bad Wolves)!

Available on both CD and colored vinyl!

The band has already had their songs featured on ESPN, NBC Sports & more as well as streams in the tens of millions globally, and this new album is set to take them to a whole new level!

Track Listing:
1. Beautiful Chaos
2. Nightmare
3. California
4. Demon In Disguise
5. Creatures
6. On My Own
7. Patterns
8. Never Be The Same
9. The Haunted
10. Reignite

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The Adolescents will release a new album on October 23 via Kung Fu/Cleopatra records. It’s an early punk and pre-prunk covers album and is called Russian Spider Dump. The release is the band’s first LP since the passing of bassist and founding member Steve Soto. Brad Logan of f-minus and Leftover Crack is now in the band on bass. The band covers Redd Kross, the Germs, The Dils, Dickies, Spirit and a lot more. You can see the track list below.

Brand new studio album from SoCal hardcore punk icons, Adolescents!

The album pays tribute to the band’s influences and peers with cover versions of Germs, Redd Kross, The Dickies, Spirit, and many more obscure gems!

This is the first Adolescents album released since the passing of founding member and bassist Steve Soto who was memorialized by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Offspring, Rancid and many more!

Available on both CD and colored vinyl!

Track Listing:
1. Fuck You
2. Lion’s Share
3. Just Say Yes
4. Class War
5. Crayon World
6. Dirty Bomb
7. Pink Piece Of Peace
8. Fast, Fucked & Furious
9. God Bless America
10. Home Is Where
11. I Like Drugs
12. I Got A Line On You
13. Not Going Back Home
14. Not With You
15. Back Door

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The actor turned musical stylist says he approached his new album, “The Blues,” with reverence… except, maybe, in the extreme case of the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins classic.

William Shatner hit upon his share of musical genres in the 2000s and 2010s, as he resumed the long-dormant musical part of his career, which began with 1968’s “The Transformed Man.” In recent years, he’s gone country and punk, done an album of famous space songs and a Jewish oratorio, and covered the Christmas beat. Now he’s found his final frontier — or at least his next final frontier — with “The Blues,” an album that unites his patented speak-singing style with shredding turns from guitarists including Albert Lee, Steve Cropper, Ritchie Blackmore, Sonny Landreth, Brad Paisley, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and Pat Travers.

It’s the last of these joining him on “I Put a Spell on You,” Shatner’s cover of the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins classic, which finds the actor doing some vocal shredding, of sorts, in his own inimitable style. Variety has the exclusive premiere of the ribaldry funny music video for “Spell,” in which director Balázs Gróf animates Shatner as a positively crazed lush, alone with his lusty thoughts in a bar as he obsesses over a buxom and completely oblivious barmaid. Shatner spoke with Variety about coming up with the concept for the video … and why he felt emboldened to take on one of America’s great indigenous artforms.

Shatner says he approached the blues for the album with the utmost reverence — but does agree that maybe that wasn’t a necessary precondition for the already utterly irreverent “Spell.” Given that Hawkins’ spellbinding performance in 1956 would probably come in at No. 1 on any expert’s or neophyte’s list of the most histrionic lead vocals of all time, Shatner could have tried to go over the top, and then multiplied that times 10, and still come up with a rendition that would read as subtle compared to the original.

“I know! I know!” says Shatner, in a phone interview about the new song and album. “As you point out, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, you can’t go further than that; you had to go under that. But it’s a fun song, and done in this way (with the video), it’s got great humor, I think, where the guy is screaming his mind out and. of course, nobody hears. …I said to the animator, here’s what I was thinking when I was getting ready to do the song: I see this guy lusting over the barmaid in a small, smokey bar and he he’s totally nuts about her, and she never hears him, of course — it’s all in his own head. And he just did it superbly.”

That represents most of the extent to which Shatner took a comic approach to the project, however. He’s mining these mostly classic blues songs for all the drama each tortured line is worth, but (apart from “Jay”) taking that angst seriously, with gradations to his tone.

“At the other end of the spectrum is ‘The Thrill Is Gone’,” he says, noting his attempt to refrain from melodrama in lending that weeper a lighter touch. “I didn’t know (B.B. King) personally. Got to know his daughter, Shirley King. But I started to sound like a little bit of an imitation of Mr. King, and then I heard it and thought, ‘That’s not right.’ I went back to what is essential for me, which is to go to the emotion of the song. And then if you are filled with sadness over a love affair that’s over, it’s really sad, if you’re not angry about it — sad that that emotion didn’t and couldn’t last, and how low you are with it.”

Shatner took his research seriously in preparing for the album, taking counsel from a rocker who previously sat in on his Christmas album, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, who doesn’t appear on this album, and a new friend who does, Arthur Adams.

“I really researched all this,” Shatner says. “Billy Gibbons helped me with books that he lent me on the blues. He lives this part of the time here in the Valley, so we’ve gotten together a few times and I was able to partake of his wisdom. I read quite a bit of his material. And Arthur Adams, a wonderful musician who is living in Los Angeles now, and on call all the time, came into the office because I had asked talk to me about the blues. He said, ‘Well, I used to sing the blues when I was a kid, picking cotton.’ And he got up out of his chair and he started miming picking the cotton and putting it in the imagined bag, meanwhile humming and singing some of the call songs they would have used in the fields in Mississippi. And it was just a complete insight into some kid who still hadn’t yet taken up the guitar, and who tried to find his way in the world.

“In any case, I approached it with the reverence that blues musicians feel toward the genre. They’re very protective of it, and they wanted to be very sure that I wasn’t going to mock it. And I certainly didn’t, and did the best I could within my limitations of my interpretation of the blues.”

Shatner admits to non-Mississippian privilege, although he says his very, very northern background did prepare him for this, pre-Hollywood.

“I started off with a handicap of being a white guy from Montreal, Canada. But Montreal is a very musical city, and is the springboard for many musicians. Especially at university there, I was wandering around downtown a lot. There is a tradition of French Canadian music with a fiddle, maybe two fiddles. I’m picturing two French Canadian men who are traditionalists. Their music must’ve come from France, and they’re sitting in a chair beating single time with one foot and double time with the other and sawing away on a fiddle. They were making dancing music for the rest of the French Canadian friends of mine who were up at the country places when schools let out; I was up in the mountains that are, at that time, totally habitant, which is the word for the original Quebecer. And that’s where my music beginnings for the blues began. So I understood that kind of music from whence blues stemmed, and having felt the pain of living, I was in a position to kind of understand more than most people that come to it for the first time.”

The full track list for “The Blues,” which comes out October 2, 2020.

1. Sweet Home Chicago feat. Brad Paisley
2. I Can’t Quit You Baby feat. Kirk Fletcher
3. Sunshine Of Your Love feat. Sonny Landreth
4. The Thrill Is Gone feat. Ritchie Blackmore
5. Mannish Boy feat. Ronnie Earl
6. Born Under A Bad Sign feat. Tyler Bryant
7. I Put A Spell On You feat. Pat Travers
8. Crossroads feat. James Burton
9. Smokestack Lightnin’ feat. Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
10. As The Years Go Passing By feat. Arthur Adams
11. Let’s Work Together feat. Harvey Mandel & Canned Heat
12. Route 66 feat. Steve Cropper
13. In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company feat. Albert Lee
14. Secrets Or Sins

Legendary star of the stage and screen, William Shatner, brings his dramatic interpretive talents to the blues music canon on this superb new album!

Features guest appearances by blues giants Sonny Landreth, Canned Heat & Tyler Bryant PLUS country superstar Brad Paisley, Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore, and many more!

The album’s first single, “Let’s Work Together” featuring Canned Heat, has already been released and stirring up a mighty buzz!

Watch for a fully animated video for “I Put A Spell On You” featuring Pat Travers will be released on the same day as the album!

Available on both CD in a gorgeous digipak as well as limited edition colored vinyl!

Track Listing:
1. Sweet Home Chicago feat. Brad Paisley
2. I Can’t Quit You Baby feat. Kirk Fletcher
3. Sunshine Of Your Love feat. Sonny Landreth
4. The Thrill Is Gone feat. Ritchie Blackmore
5. Mannish Boy feat. Ronnie Earl
6. Born Under A Bad Sign feat. Tyler Bryant
7. I Put A Spell On You feat. Pat Travers
8. Crossroads feat. James Burton
9. Smokestack Lightnin’ feat. Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
10. As The Years Go Passing By feat. Arthur Adams
11. Let’s Work Together feat. Harvey Mandel & Canned Heat
12. Route 66 feat. Steve Cropper
13. In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company feat. Albert Lee
14. Secrets Or Sins

Features Hawkwind Alumni Alan Davey, Ginger Baker, Robert Calvert, Nik Turner, Huw Lloyd-Langton, Simon House, Michael Moorcock, Paul Rudolph, Mick Slattery & Bridget Wishart PLUS Todd Rundgren, Mick Taylor, L. Shankar, David Cross, Arthur Brown, Wayne Kramer, Carmine Appice & more!

Hot on the tail feathers of last year’s debut album from Hawkestrel, the project spearheaded by former Hawkwind bass player Alan Davey, comes this brand-new album from the quintessential Hawkwind supergroup! Made up of more Hawkwind alumni than any previous project, Hawkestrel is truly the next evolution of this legendary British rock legacy. The new album, Pioneers Of Space, continues the sci-fi adventures with a mix of original compositions and bold covers including the wildly adventurous version of Post Malone’s megahit “Circles” featuring some stellar guitar work from Hall Of Fame nominee Todd Rundgren. And Rundgren isn’t the only special guest here; also contributing their talents are former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, prog legend David Cross, electric violinist L. Shankar, wild man Arthur Brown, MC5’s Wayne Kramer, and lots more!

For a taste of what’s in store, the first single from the album “Day Of The Quake” is currently available on all digital platforms. The track is a complete revamp of a rare early ‘80s recording from Hawkwind’s much loved poet laureate, Robert Calvert. Davey enthuses about the track saying, “From the lyrical genius that is Bob Calvert comes ‘Day of the Quake.’ This masterclass of English poetics gets married up to some up-tempo exciting music I wrote with the one and only Mick Taylor guesting on lead guitar and the legendary Nik Turner on sax. Get ready to rumble!”

Stream the single: https://orcd.co/hawkestrel_day_of_the_quake

Pioneers Of Space will be available starting October 16 in a digipak CD and two vinyl configurations: a special double vinyl set with a bonus EP or the single LP set in RED colored vinyl!

Track List:
1. Biometrics
2. Cosmic Divide
3. Day Of The Quake
4. Glass Wolves
5. Atmospheric Window
6. Circles
7. No Doubt
8. Journey
9. Pioneers Of Space

The new album is a follow-up to William Shatner’s 2018 holiday album ‘Shatner Claus’

Via: meaww.com

William Shatner is primarily known as an author, producer, director, screenwriter and especially for his iconic portrayal of Captain James T Kirk in ‘Star Trek’ franchise. Therefore, blues is something that doesn’t come to mind when we hear the legend’s name. However, the 89-year-old artiste is also a singer-songwriter and has been releasing music since 1968.

The talented blues singer is all set to release his brand new album titled ‘The Blues’. The actor made the big announcement through a press release on his official website. The press release talks about how he teamed up with Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore for a rendition of B B King’s 1970 classic ‘The Thrill Is Gone’.

“Despite being popularized by King in 1970, ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ was actually written in 1951, the same year Shatner made his film debut. Since then it has been interpreted numerous times but King’s version was the first to unite the soul-piercing lyrics with absolutely awe-inspiring guitar licks to create the definitive version of the song, and no doubt inspired the Shatner/Blackmore version.

As a special treat, Blackmore’s wife and longtime collaborator in Blackmore’s Night, Candice Night, contributes background vocals to add even more pathos to this inspired track.” The press release then states, “‘Thrill’ is a highlight of Shatner’s fantastic new album ‘The Blues’ which is now available for pre-order on CD, vinyl and digital.”

The new album is a follow-up to Shatner’s 2018 holiday album ‘Shatner Claus’

William Shatner’s ‘The Blues’ will arrive on October 2, 2020, on all the leading social media platforms via Cleopatra Records.

Talking about his heavy guest features in an interview with Consequence of Sound, William Shatner said, “Oh, if you’re at all cognizant of the blues majesty, these are the kings and queens of the blues that have accompanied me, and that is such an honor that they would deign to grant their talents to me. Mostly it was me singing to the rhythm track the producer created and then we’d send it back to these extraordinary people — Brad Paisley, Kirk Fletcher.

Sonny Landreth on the slide guitar He’s a monument. Ritchie Blackmore on ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ and his wife Candice Night singing on it… It goes on like that, one musician after another, some of the best people in the world. Ronnie Earl, for God’s sake! Albert Lee! To have them bring their instruments out and wail with me, it’s fabulous.”

The album comes with a lot of collaborations and will entertain the fans with a total of 14 songs which are as follows:

‘Sweet Home Chicago’ featuring Brad Paisley
‘I Can’t Quit You Baby’ featuring Kirk Fletcher
‘Sunshine Of Your Love’ featuring Sonny Landreth
‘The Thrill Is Gone’ featuring Ritchie Blackmore
‘Mannish Boy’ featuring Ronnie Earl
‘Born Under A Bad Sign’ featuring Tyler Bryant
‘I Put A Spell On You’ featuring Pat Travers
‘Crossroads’ featuring James Burton
‘Smokestack Lightnin’ featuring Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
‘As The Years Go Passing By’ featuring Arthur Adams
‘Let’s Work Together’ featuring Harvey Mandel and Canned Heat
‘Route 66’ featuring Steve Cropper
‘In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company’ featuring Albert Lee
‘Secrets Or Sins’

Check out ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ featuring Ritchie Blackmore here:

One year ago this month, Tom Keifer’s RISE was released! If you haven’t already, check it out today!

Released September 13, 2019 on Cleopatra Records, Rise quickly jumped into the Top 40 on Amazon’s “Best Seller” list within hours of its release, and it debuted at #10 on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Album Sales” chart, #17 on the “Independent Albums” chart, #19 “Internet Albums” chart, #21 on the “Rock Album Sales” chart, #41 on the “Top Current Albums (Sales)” chart and #46 on the “Top Album Sales” chart.

Rise is available on all formats, including CD (digipak), vinyl (in your choice of red, blue, white, or green) and digital.

“Rise” Is Available Now!

CD | VINYL | SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC | ITUNES | AMAZON MUSIC | DEEZER

Track list:
1. Touching The Divine
2. The Death Of Me
3. Waiting On The Demons
4. Hype
5. Untitled
6. Rise
7. All Amped Up
8. Breaking Down
9. Taste For The Pain
10. Life Was Here
11. You Believe In Me

The new album from highly adventurous industrial metal icons, Powerman 5000!

Includes the singles “Black Lipstick” as well as a dark reimagining of The GoGo’s “We Got The Beat!”

Available in digipak CD or limited edition COKE BOTTLE GREEN vinyl!

CD comes with a special bonus track – a 2020 recording of the band’s signature hit “When Worlds Collide!”

1. Cannibal Killers That Kill Everyone
2. Brave New World
3. Play God Or Play Dead
4. Black Lipstick
5. Special Effects
6. Let The Insects Rule
7. Movie Blood
8. Strange People Doing Strange Things
9. We Got The Beat
10. VHS

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Via: bravewords.com

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the release of Rise, the second album by Tom Keifer and #keiferband – Savannah Keifer, Tony Higbee, Billy Mercer, Kendra Chantelle, Jarred Pope and Kory Myers. Since they’re not able to celebrate the momentous occasion with their legions of loyal fans in person, they’re bringing the rockin’ concert party home with the new video for the album’s latest single, “All Amped Up”.

The video for “All Amped Up” (written by Tom Keifer and Savannah Keifer) features live and behind-the-scenes footage shot over several years including their last round of 2019 and 2020 tour dates, which kicked off in Nashville, TN at The Cowan on July 30, 2019. The clip – filmed, produced and edited by Tammy Vega, with additional footage provided by Ryan Azevedo – can be viewed below.

“The song ‘All Amped Up’ was inspired by and written to describe the reckless abandon and rush of a loud rock show,” explains Keifer. “With all the concerts being cancelled this year, I think everyone is starving for that feeling. We’ve filmed so much footage of #keiferband over the last few years and thought since we can’t all be together during this pandemic, we would make a video that brings the show to you. The energy and lyrics of ‘All Amped Up’ felt like the perfect song for a video that would capture that concert energy as well as the feeling of being on tour. We are really missing all of you and looking forward to seeing you out there in 2021! In the meantime, here’s a little ‘Supersonic slam and tonic…all amped up.”

Released September 13, 2019 on Cleopatra Records, Rise quickly jumped into the Top 40 on Amazon’s “Best Seller” list within hours of its release, and it debuted at #10 on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Album Sales” chart, #17 on the “Independent Albums” chart, #19 “Internet Albums” chart, #21 on the “Rock Album Sales” chart, #41 on the “Top Current Albums (Sales)” chart and #46 on the “Top Album Sales” chart.

Rise is available on all formats, including CD (digipak), vinyl (in your choice of red, blue, or green) and digital.

“Rise” Is Available Now!

CD | RED VINYL | BLUE VINYL | GREEN VINYL | SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC | ITUNES | AMAZON MUSIC | DEEZER

Track list:
1. Touching The Divine
2. The Death Of Me
3. Waiting On The Demons
4. Hype
5. Untitled
6. Rise
7. All Amped Up
8. Breaking Down
9. Taste For The Pain
10. Life Was Here
11. You Believe In Me

San Gabriel, CA artist Sleepsk8 has just dropped his first ever full-length album, a warm and memorable slice of guitar-focused bedroom pop filled with melodic hooks and exquisite vocals drenched in luscious reverb. Dubbed A Paralyzing Fear Of Trying, the album is the culmination of 3 years’ worth of work that began on Soundcloud (under his previous moniker TM36) and has resulted in his tracks already amassing one million streams! Now, the singer/songwriter is set to take the next step in his career, partnering with the much venerated indie giant Cleopatra Records, who has released A Paralyzing Fear Of Trying worldwide to all digital platforms.

“My taste in music has always been chaotically juxtaposed and I think it’s reflected in the album. Some songs are melodic and sweet while others are distorted and dramatic. Cleopatra has been great because they’re really all about the music. They don’t want to confine me to a specific sound, so I get to share my unfiltered range with this project.” – Sleepsk8

Via: broadwayworld.com

Fresh from the warm reception of “No Place To Go,” the first single to be released from his brand new studio album, My Blues Pathway, Kirk Fletcher returns with another deeply soulful track that wears its passionate heart on its sleeve. Fletcher, best known for his playing with Joe Bonamossa and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, is one of the most revered blues guitarists in music today who channels for the many varied emotions of the human experience into songs that are both moving and challenging. “Ain’t No Cure For The Downhearted” is a devastatingly sad portrait of a person seeking fulfillment, or “cure” for their depression, in external things. Fletcher explains, “This song is about people who shift the blame of all the things in their life that they regret. People who judge their life by other people’s success or their so-called happiness.”

The video echoes and expands on these sentiments, showing vignettes of people contemplating their life choices culminating in the scene of an old man walking alone, broken down, his unfulfilled life nearly at an end. It’s a powerful expression of the kind of downheartedness that only the blues can communicate.

But there are also subtle traces of hope in Fletcher’s song toward the end as he references one of humanity’s greatest moral leaders (“It was a great man once said he had a dream”) and the video shows scenes of people marching for justice. Ultimately, Fletcher suggests that the “cure,” if there is one at all, doesn’t come from the outside world but rather, “One must find happiness from within. We must think for ourselves and follow our passions (so long as it doesn’t harm anyone or anything).”

“Ain’t No Cure For The Downhearted” is just one of the many highlights from Fletcher’s newest studio album, My Blues Pathway, that also features a special guest performance by legendary harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite on the knock-out closer “Life Gave Me A Dirty Deal.” The album will be available on digipak CD as well as limited edition PURPLE vinyl courtest of Cleopatra Blues, a division of Cleopatra Records, Inc.

A real deal bluesman, guitarist and vocalist Kirk Fletcher, digs deep into his soul for this passionate and compelling new album!

Highlights include the single “No Place To Go,” which will be released along with a video in late July, plus a special guest performance by legendary harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite on the knock-out closer “Life Gave Me A Dirty Deal!”

Fletcher has earned his stripes playing with Joe Bonamossa’s band as well as The Fabulous Thunderbirds and has been nominated for four Blues Music Awards!

Available on both digipak CD as well as limited edition PURPLE vinyl!

Track Listing
1. Ain’t No Cure For The Downhearted
2. No Place To Go
3. Love Is More Than A Word
4. Struggle For Grace
5. I’d Rather Fight Than Switch
6. Heart So Heavy
7. Fattening Frogs For Snakes
8. Place In This World Somewhere
9. D Is For Denny
10. Life Gave Me A Dirty Deal

Via: guitar.com

Ritchie Blackmore has teamed up with William Shatner on a cover of the classic B.B. King tune The Thrill Is Gone. The rendition of the tune will appear on Shatner’s upcoming solo album, The Blues, which features a surprising guest lineup of guitar greats. Take a listen to the track below.

The Blues is due out October 2 through Cleopatra Records. Other guitarists that guest on Shatner’s 14-track tribute to the blues include Brad Paisley, Sonny Landreth, Steve Cropper, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, James Burton, Albert Lee, Tyler Bryant and Kirk Fletcher.

While the lineup is surprising, this isn’t the first time Shatner’s collaborated with big-names in music. For 2018’s Shatner Claus, his Christmas album, Captain Kirk linked up with the likes of Billy Gibbons, Iggy Pop and Todd Rundgren.

Legendary star of the stage and screen, William Shatner, brings his dramatic interpretive talents to the blues music canon on this superb new album! Features guest appearances by blues giants Sonny Landreth, Canned Heat & Tyler Bryant PLUS country superstar Brad Paisley, Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore, and many more!

The album’s first single, “Let’s Work Together” featuring Canned Heat, has already been released and stirring up a mighty buzz! Watch for a fully animated video for “I Put A Spell On You” featuring Pat Travers will be released on the same day as the album!

Available on both CD in a gorgeous digipak as well as limited edition colored vinyl!

Track Listing:
1. Sweet Home Chicago feat. Brad Paisley
2. I Can’t Quit You Baby feat. Kirk Fletcher
3. Sunshine Of Your Love feat. Sonny Landreth
4. The Thrill Is Gone feat. Ritchie Blackmore
5. Mannish Boy feat. Ronnie Earl
6. Born Under A Bad Sign feat. Tyler Bryant
7. I Put A Spell On You feat. Pat Travers
8. Crossroads feat. James Burton
9. Smokestack Lightnin’ feat. Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
10. As The Years Go Passing By feat. Arthur Adams
11. Let’s Work Together feat. Harvey Mandel & Canned Heat
12. Route 66 feat. Steve Cropper
13. In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company feat. Albert Lee
14. Secrets Or Sins

Via: bravewords.com

Get ready to wind the clock back to the glory days of big hair, big guitars and big metal! Deadline Music, the metal imprint of Los Angeles-based indie label giant Cleopatra Records, presents the first ever vinyl pressing of the “lost album” from metal outfit King Kobra.

The band was founded in 1983 when superstar drummer Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge / Rod Stewart) recruited vocalist Mark Free and guitarist Earl Slick, fresh from a stint as David Bowie’s guitarist on the Serious Moonlight Tour (stepping in for Stevie Ray Vaughan) for a set of demos that got the group a deal with Capital Records. They would go on to record two blockbuster albums for Capital including the smash hit single “Iron Eagle (Never Say Die)” featured in the 1986 film of the same name.

Membership and label changes followed but the band soldiered on releasing what was thought to be their final recordings of the 20th century, King Kobra III (1988). However, there was another set of recordings done, a “lost album” that first saw the light of day when Cleopatra released it on CD in 1999 as The Lost Years. But now these supercharged tracks find their rightful place – pressed onto glorious colored vinyl.

Appice had this to say about the release: “This King Kobra vinyl has got songs that show different formations of the band after the first two albums. I’ve always tried to have great singers and musicians surrounding me in King Kobra – and tried to write great rock songs! I hope you enjoy this!”

New to vinyl – this throwback collection of classic metal features superstar drummer Carmine Appice, Earl Slick plus former members of WASP, Keel & Bulletboys!

Limited edition color vinyl pressing!

Tracking Listing:
SIDE A
1. Mean Street Machine
2. Fool In The Rain
3. Young Hearts Survive
4. Your Love’s A Sin
5. Number One

SIDE B
1. Walls Of Silence
2. Lonely Nites
3. Red Line
4. Perfect Crime
5. Poor Boy (You Are My Life)