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Paul Kelly announced his 29th studio album ‘Fever Longing Still’ will be released on 1 November 2024
‘Houndstooth Dress’ is the third and final single to be released ahead of the album
Paul talks ‘Houndstooth Dress’: “There have been many songs over the years based on accessories and apparel – Raspberry Beret, Blue Jean Baby, These Boots Are Made for Walking, Famous Blue Raincoat, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat, Dirty Jeans, Short Skirt/Long Jacket and a whole lot more. My old song Winter Coat belongs to this venerable genre. I think of Houndstooth Dress as the latest in this long line. I wrote it just before going into the studio so threw it to the band without having had a chance to rehearse. Commandeered the piano and taught it to them on the go. Only two chords. In a minor key but not a minor feeling. We got it on the first take as you can hear from the chat at the start.”
‘Houndstooth Dress’ follows first single ‘Taught By Experts’ – a song which Kelly originally recorded as blue grass on his 1999 album ‘Smoke’ with Uncle Bill and now recorded with full band, seamlessly fitting into Paul Kelly’s timeless cannon of classics. And ‘Going To The River With Dad’, a song inspired by the opening essay of Noel Pearson’s book ‘Mission’.
Paul Kelly’s last album was his celebration of all things Christmas with ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’, a #1 ARIA Album. His last album of new material was 2018’s ARIA Award winning and #1 album ‘Nature’
‘Fever Longing Still’, a phrase taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147, has a clear theme running through each song. Love. Kelly explains: “For close to fifty years I’ve written mostly love songs. I never know what I’m doing until I’m in the middle of it but, looking back, it seems this record is an attempt to present all those kinds of love songs into one forty minute album. Urgent love, patient love, happy love, sad love, deluded love, clear-eyed love, complicated love, the beginning of love, the end of love; love gone wrong, love pretty right, love of clan, love between parents and children, love of oblivion, love of pain, love of revenge.”

AUSTRALIA’S FAVORITE SINGER-SONGWRITER PAUL KELLY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM FEVER LONGING STILL OUT NOVEMBER 1 ON GAWD AGGIE/COOKING VINYL

For his latest album, Fever Longing Still, Paul Kelly is focused on the familiar topic of love – the fire of love, the pain of love, love for the family, and love of a memory and place. This topic has been at the core of many of his most beloved songs throughout his nearly five-decade career. Fever Longing Still is Kelly’s 29th studio album and will be released November 1st on Gawd Aggie/Cooking Vinyl.

Taken from a line in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147, Fever Longing Still is Kelly’s first set of new original material since 2018’s Nature . The album’s first single, “All Those Smiling Faces” is an emotional and vivid exploration of recollection, like peering inside the memories in a photo album. In the song, Kelly states “Down the years the family face / Keeps jumping around from place to place / A look, a shape, a nose, an eye / That everlasting thing that’s never gonna die.”

Fever Longing Still is an album driven by a band in peak form. “Looking back on what we’ve done with these songs, it’s really a band record,” Kelly says. “That made me reflect on the longevity of the band, this squad. Pater Luscombe (drums) has been with me for more than 30 years. Bill McDonald (bass) and Dan Kelly (guitar) for 20. Even the newbies Cameron Bruce (keys) and Ash Naylor (guitar) have been with me since 2007.” He continues, “Our philosophy is eclectic; we want to make each song different from the last.”

New Single, “Fight For Your Right,” Out Now on All Platforms

Mötley Crüe returns with the Cancelled EP. Out everywhere on 4/10, the project marks the band’s first new music since 2019 as well as their debut release with Big Machine Rock. Featuring their recent Top 5 Rock Radio hit, “Dogs of War,” alongside their new single, a cover of the Beastie Boys’ “Fight For Your Right,” and the album’s title track, “Cancelled,” the Crüe is back to remind fans why they remain a force to be reckoned with 40+ years into their career.

“It was really great getting in the studio and working on some tracks together,” Mötley Crüe offered in a joint statement. “What started out as a couple demo ideas turned into this EP produced by Bob Rock. We look forward to getting back into the studio again soon and writing more new music, as well.”

Mötley Crüe’s version of “Fight For Your Right” has quickly become a fan favorite since the band first debuted the song live during their secret 2023 surprise club show at The Underworld in London, UK. At its premiere, 450 lucky, sweat-drenched fans who had come out to see a band advertised as “Dogs of War” got the surprise of a lifetime when Mötley Crüe took the stage with the Beastie Boys classic in their set list.

The veil of speculation surrounding the “Dogs of War” pseudonym was finally lifted when the band released their first new single since 2019 by the same name in the spring of 2024. “Dogs of War” subsequently became a Top 5 Rock Radio hit and accompanied a highly acclaimed official video by director Nick DenBoer. The cutting-edge visual, which is entirely CGI-based, features the members of Mötley Crüe navigating an exhilarating post-apocalyptic world. Watch the video for “Dogs of War” HERE .

Cancelled EP Tracklist

1. “Cancelled” (Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, John Lowery)
2. “Dogs of War” (Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, John Lowery)
3. “Fight For Your Right” (Adam Horovitz, Rick Rubin, Adam Yauch)

ABOUT MÖTLEY CRÜE: Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, Mötley Crüe has commandeered the rock pantheon for 40+ years. The band has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, garnered 7 USA Platinum and Multi-Platinum albums, 22 Top 40 mainstream rock hits, 6 Top 20 pop singles, 3 GRAMMY® nominations, 5 New York Times Best Selling books, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a hit Netflix movie. The quartet has amassed nearly 10 billion streams and has over 9.5 million followers on social media. Known for their iconic live performances, Mötley Crüe has sold out countless tours around the world in front of millions of fans and pioneered the Las Vegas rock residency with a sold-out run in 2012. Hit songs, like “Kickstart My Heart” and “Home Sweet Home,” are frequently licensed by major brands, such as NASCAR, Dodge, Coldwell Banker, Carl’s Jr., and KIA, and their music can be heard on hit TV shows, like Stranger Things and Cobra Kai, amongst others. The band’s biography, The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, became a New York Times Best Seller in 2001 and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Members of the band have authored 5 additional New York Times Best Selling books since. In 2019, Netflix premiered The Dirt, a biopic based on the bestselling book. Mötley Crüe remains a huge global draw 43 years into their career, wrapping up a 2-year world tour of stadiums in late 2023. In 2024, the iconic band ushered in a brand-new era, signing to Big Machine Rock and releasing the single “Dogs of War.”

One of Australia’s most enduring and successful touring bands, The Black Sorrows, today release the first single from their forthcoming studio album. One Door Slams is the brand-new song lifted from The Way We Do Business which will be released on 18th October.

The Way We Do Business will be frontman Joe Camilleri’s 55th career album. It’s his seemingly tireless drive to record quality music, which has rewarded him legendary status and well-deserved longevity in the music industry. This year will be 4o years of The Black Sorrows and Joe will celebrate more than 50 years in the business.

Says Joe Camilleri of the new single “One Door Slams started off as some ramblings about a Mercury and a Coupe De Ville. Ended up as a tragic love story about a girl who gave away her love too cheaply but just couldn’t handle the curb…’one more night alone she’s gonna lose her mind. Finally, she realises the world is full of opportunities and all you gotta do is step inside.'”

Since 1984, The Black Sorrows have toured Australia more times than anyone can remember, played sold out shows across Europe, won ARIA & APRA awards, has multiple gold & platinum releases and sold more than a million albums worldwide. Joe Camilleri has shown fans and critics alike that he is a prolific songwriter and performer with an undeniable energy and love of it all.

Paul Kelly announced his 29th studio album ‘Fever Longing Still’ will be released on 1 November 2024
The first single from the album is ‘Taught By Experts’ – a song which Kelly originally recorded as blue grass on his 1999 album ‘Smoke’ with Uncle Bill. Now recorded with full band, ‘Taught By Experts’ seamlessly fits into Paul Kelly’s timeless cannon of classics
With Father’s Day approaching, it’s the perfect time to release a second track from the album in ‘Going To The River With Dad’
Paul Kelly talks on writing ‘Going to the River with Dad’: “Inspired by the opening essay of Noel Pearson’s book ‘Mission’. The end days and the early days are one. We’re back in childhood, rubbing the sleep from our eyes. At least at the start of the song we are. By the end of the song we’re way past that young child. We’ve passed our parents even.”
Paul Kelly’s last album was his celebration of all things Christmas with ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’, a #1 ARIA Album. His last album of new material was 2018’s ARIA Award winning and #1 album ‘Nature’
‘Fever Longing Still’, a phrase taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147, has a clear theme running through each song. Love. Kelly explains: “For close to fifty years I’ve written mostly love songs. I never know what I’m doing until I’m in the middle of it but, looking back, it seems this record is an attempt to present all those kinds of love songs into one forty minute album. Urgent love, patient love, happy love, sad love, deluded love, clear-eyed love, complicated love, the beginning of love, the end of love; love gone wrong, love pretty right, love of clan, love between parents and children, love of oblivion, love of pain, love of revenge.”

‘My love is as a fever longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease’

• From Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

Paul Kelly announces his 29th studio album ‘Fever Longing Still’ will be released on 1 November 2024
The first single from the album is ‘Taught By Experts’ – a song which Kelly originally recorded as blue grass on his 1999 album ‘Smoke’ with Uncle Bill. Now recorded with full band, ‘Taught By Experts’ seamlessly fits into Paul Kelly’s timeless cannon of classics
Paul Kelly said: “I always had a hankering to record it with chiming electric guitars, a la The La’s, right in (Kelly’s band) Ash (Naylor) and Dan’s (Kelly) wheelhouse. We cut it at Roundhead, Neil Finn’s studio in New Zealand. Cam (Bruce) had a very nice grand piano to play with.”
Paul Kelly’s last album was his celebration of all things Christmas with ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’, a #1 ARIA Album. His last album of new material was 2018’s ARIA Award winning and #1 album ‘Nature’
‘Fever Longing Still’, a phrase taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147, has a clear theme running through each song. Love. Kelly explains: “For close to fifty years I’ve written mostly love songs. I never know what I’m doing until I’m in the middle of it but, looking back, it seems this record is an attempt to present all those kinds of love songs into one forty minute album. Urgent love, patient love, happy love, sad love, deluded love, clear-eyed love, complicated love, the beginning of love, the end of love; love gone wrong, love pretty right, love of clan, love between parents and children, love of oblivion, love of pain, love of revenge.”

Cold Chisel have released a new single today, You’ve Got To Move, from their upcoming and definitive Best Of album: 50 Years – The Best Of.

50 Years – The Best Of, which covers all albums and phases of their incredible career, is to be released on Friday, 16 August and coincides with the band’s 50th Anniversary and their huge, sold-out tour, The Big Five-0.

You’ve Got To Move was recorded when the band was recording their #1 album Blood Moon. “We recorded the song back in 2019 and decided to keep it aside for something special,” says guitarist/vocalist, Ian Moss. “Celebrating 50 years is pretty damn special, so now is the perfect time to release it. Kevin Shirley mixed the song in January this year and we knew we had it nailed.”

You’ve Got To Move features a Cold Chisel signature, with vocalists Ian Moss and Jimmy Barnes trading verses across the track, and it originates from the pen of the band’s primary songwriter, Don Walker.

The album 50 Years – The Best Of is a 25 song Double-Vinyl and Double-CD set (it’s also available on streaming and download services) and includes all of Cold Chisel’s classic songs.

All formats feature a unique gatefold montage of images from their 50 year history and include new liner notes by Boy Swallows Universe author Trent Dalton (written specifically for this release).

Further, the CD release comes in an unusual Gold disc format – denoting their 50th anniversary.

The album features Khe Sanh, Standing On The Outside, Flame Trees, Cheap Wine, Forever Now, When The War Is Over, Bow River, Rising Sun, My Baby, The Things I Love In You, Saturday Night, All For You, Lost, Choirgirl, Breakfast At Sweethearts, Getting The Band Back Together – as well as You’ve Got To Move. The album also includes two incredible live performances – Shipping Steel (from The Live Tapes Vol 2: Live At Bombay Rock) and Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye) which appeared on Swingshift – which are arguably the definitive versions of these two Breakfast At Sweethearts classics.

The album was planned for a week later, but all of the vinyl elements landed early and with strong pent-up demand, the band opted to move the album forward one week, to Friday, 16 August.

The song You’ve Got To Move will be accompanied by a studio video, filmed at 301 Studios by the band’s longtime director, Robert Hambling. The video is to be released on Friday, 26 July.

Cold Chisel is:

Jimmy Barnes – Vocals

Ian Moss – Guitars & Vocal

Steve Prestwich – Drums (RIP 2011)

Phil Small – Bass

Don Walker – Piano & Organ

Charley Drayton – Drums (since 2011)

Mark Knopfler has released his tenth solo studio album on his own British Grove label via EMI. Entitled One Deep River, it features 12 unhurriedly elegant new Knopfler songs, and his warm Geordie vocal tone, his poetic storytelling lyrics and deft, richly melodic guitar playing are all present and correct and as dazzling as ever.

The first single from the album Ahead Of The Game, a wistful, perhaps autobiographical, story about a singer/songwriter struggling to make it, set to a distinctively Knopfleresque classic riff, is available now.

The title track One Deep River reflects Knopfler’s deep affection for the river that runs through his childhood home city Newcastle. “Crossing the Tyne is always on your mind,” he says. “It’s what you were doing when you were leaving as a youngster and that feeling is always the same every time you do it. You’re heading out or you’re coming back, and it just connects with your childhood. The power of it doesn’t go away.”

One Deep River offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and influences in blues, folk, rock and beyond, and as usual, reveal their charms with unhurried grace and depth.

One Deep River was produced by Knopfler and his longstanding collaborator Guy Fletcher and was recorded at his state of the art British Grove Studios in London. The album will be available on CD, deluxe 2CD, double gatefold vinyl, cassette and a special limited edition box set that will include the album on both vinyl and CD, 5 bonus tracks on CD, 4 exclusive bonus tracks on LP, a litho print of Mark and some of the guitars played on the record, a guitar pick set and tin, and an enamel badge.

The band on One Deep River features Mark Knopfler on guitars, Jim Cox and Guy Fletcher on keyboards, Glenn Worf on bass, Ian Thomas on drums and Danny Cummings on percussion, Richard Bennett on guitar, and newcomer Greg Leisz on pedal and lap steel; Mike McGoldrick provides whistle and uilleann pipes, and John McCusker plays fiddle, while the Topolski sisters Emma and Tamsin add backing vocals. All songs are written by Mark Knopfler.

Mark Knopfler, singer-songwriter, record producer and composer, is one of the most successful musicians the UK has ever produced and is often cited as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He first came to prominence in the 80s as leader of Dire Straits, who created many of the signature songs of the era. Knopfler broke up the band in 1995 and set off on a new path as a solo artist. In the ensuing years Knopfler has released nine solo albums of sophisticated rootsy rock and has continued to tour the globe with his band. Over the years, Mark has written the music for several films, including Local Hero, Cal, The Princess Bride, Last Exit To Brooklyn and Wag The Dog and has played and recorded with a number of artists, including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Emmylou Harris, Tina Turner, Randy Newman and Chet Atkins. Knopfler was made an OBE in 1999 and was given the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ivor Novellos in 2012.

On 31st January ’24 Christies will auction the Mark Knopfler Guitar Collection. Comprising more than 120 guitars and amps, the collection spans Mark’s 50-year career and chronicles the diverse array of instruments that he has used to write, record and perform his peerless catalogue of music. The auction will include the Gibson Les Paul Mark played on Dire Straits’ ‘Brothers In Arms’ and at Live Aid, a red Mark Knopfler Signature Fender Stratocaster, and a 1951 Martin D-28, as well as a number of guitars used on the recording of One Deep River (including his Ovations, the little Martin, the Stefan Sobell and the Hummingbird).

Mark has teamed up with Brian Johnson, the singer from rock legends AC/DC, to make a six part new TV series for Sky Arts. The two friends take a fascinating look at the history of popular music alongside various special guests including Sam Fender and Emmylou Harris. Broadcast dates to be announced soon.

MÖTLEY CRÜE RETURNS WITH THEIR FIRST SOLO RELEASE SINCE 2015

“The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band” Ushers in a Brand-New Era with Recent Signing to Big Machine Records

Riotous New Single, “Dogs of War,” Out Now Alongside Accompanying Music Video

Assembling within a new generation, Mötley Crüe returns with “Dogs of War,” out now on all platforms via Big Machine Records. Their first solo track since 2015 narrates a rally of resistance against every bastard of life. Unable to sit back and put their legacy on a leash, the Crüe are here to remind listeners why they remain “The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band.” Pushing new lengths in sound and image, just as they have for the past 40 years, there is no fault in confidence that the Crüe have something to say-and we better be all ears.

“It’s always great getting back in the studio with the guys in the band,” Nikki Sixx admits. “We know you’re gonna like this one.”

Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, Mötley Crüe – Vince Neil (vocals), Nikki Sixx (bass), Tommy Lee (drums), and Mick Mars (guitar) – has commandeered the rock pantheon for 40+ years. The band has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, garnered 7 USA Platinum and multi-Platinum albums, 22 Top 40 mainstream rock hits, 6 Top 20 pop singles, 3 GRAMMY® nominations, 5 New York Times bestselling books, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a Netflix hit movie. Mötley Crüe continues touring the world with John 5 on guitar, as they push the visual limits of live performance. The quartet has amassed over 5 billion streams across digital platforms and the band has over 8 million followers on social media.

Known for their iconic live performances, they have sold out countless tours across the globe in front of millions of fans, with groundbreaking production highlights, such as Tommy Lee’s drum-rollercoaster and Nikki Sixx’s flame-throwing-bass. They pioneered the Las Vegas rock residency with a sold-out run in 2012. Mötley Crüe’s hit songs, such as “Kickstart My Heart” and “Home Sweet Home,” are frequently licensed by major brands, such as NASCAR, Dodge, Coldwell Banker, Carl’s Jr., and KIA, to name a few, and their music can be heard on hit TV shows, such as Stranger Things and Cobra Kai, among many others.

The band’s biography, The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, became a New York Times bestseller in 2001 and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Members of the band have authored four additional New York Times bestselling books since. In 2019, Netflix premiered The Dirt, a biopic based on the bestselling book, which became a global hit movie, scoring a 94% positive audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. As a result, Mötley Crüe gained an entire new generation of young fans who discovered the band through the movie and further solidified their iconic status and relevance and the timelessness of their songwriting. Mötley Crüe remains a huge global draw 40+ years into their career, and in the summer of 2022, they co-headlined a nearly sold-out North American stadium tour with Def Leppard.

Continuing to tour throughout 2024, the iconic band is ushering in a brand-new era with their recent signing to Big Machine Records and subsequent single, “Dogs of War.”

Already heralded as the band’s best in decades, Pearl Jam proudly present their anxiously awaited twelfth studio album, Dark Matter, available now via Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records. Listen HERE .

From the kinetic opener “Scared of Fear” through the optimistic exhale of album closer “Setting Sun,” these eleven tracks find the musicians firing on all cylinders. A surge of energy underscores this body of work amplified by thunderous rhythms, skyscraping guitar solos, and vital vocals. Produced by GRAMMY® award winning producer Andrew Watt, Dark Matter, marks the band’s first release since critically acclaimed Gigaton (2020).

Pearl Jam initially set the stage for Dark Matter with the title track and lead single “Dark Matter.” It surged to #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart, where it remained for 3 weeks, netting the band’s first leader on the respective chart since 1998. It also captured #1 on the Billboard Rock & Alternative Airplay Chart.

“I would recommend you play it loud, like, really loud.” – Eddie Vedder, on how to properly listen to Dark Matter. (Via Alt 98.7)

“We’re proud of our twelfth baby after 33 years. So, sit back, close your eyes for the first listen, soak up the sounds and the words, and interpret them individually.” – Jeff Ament, advice on listening to Dark Matter for the first time.

“This one, we’re all in the room at the same time, with Andrew, and we’re all looking at each other, playing off of each other.” – Mike McCready, on the band’s recording process for Dark Matter. (Via Goldmine).

“It’s still making art with your friends. That always excites me. In that collaboration and the mix of being part of something that you’re not really in control of but you know that you’re playing a role in it, that’s a fun place to play. And it’s still fun to play, like a kid.” – Stone Gossard, on band collaboration. (Via Seattle Times)

“Andrew really understands the importance of performance in the studio, which is kind of how I operate, so we were on a really good working relationship from day one.” – Matt Cameron, on collaborating with Andrew Watt on Dark Matter. (Via New & Approved)

The band has staunchly continued their support of independent retailers by offering various, limited-edition galactic color variants of Dark Matter exclusively at select indie retail stores with 8 different colorways in the US and 2 additional for international. More info HERE.

In celebration of Record Store Day, Pearl Jam held 180 listening parties across 150 US stores and 30 international. Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament from the band made a special surprise appearance at Easy Street Records in Seattle for the event. See photos HERE. The band is also celebrating indie record stores with the release of a special edition of Dark Matter available only at participating stores as part of Record Store Day. Get more information and find stores at www.recordstoreday.com.

On Tuesday, April 16th, Pearl Jam collaborated with Abramorama to create a unique global theatrical premiere of Dark Matter in over 45 countries and 900 cinemas. Pearl Jam – Dark Matter – Global Theatrical Experience – One Night Only was an immense success with many cinemas sold out and offering encore screenings of the experience.

Dark Matter album packaging features light painting art by Alexandr Gnezdilov. Light painting is an artistic form of photography where images are created by adjusting a camera’s exposure for an extended period and using a light source, such as a flashlight, to “paint” in the dark. The album cover art was crafted using a large self-made kaleidoscope. Each letter visible on the cover was individually captured and handwritten midair with a specially designed flashlight to create the pearlescent effect. See more info on Alexandr Gnezdilov below.

Dark Matter Tracklist

1. Scared of Fear
2. React, Respond
3. Wreckage
4. Dark Matter
5. Won’t Tell
6. Upper Hand
7. Waiting for Stevie
8. Running
9. Something Special
10. Got to Give
11. Setting Sun