Mar 10
AndrewMusic New Release
Tori Amos will release her next studio album on May 19, according to a post on spinner.com. The album, Abnormally Addicted To Sin, features 17 tracks which will each be heavily tied to mini-films the artist has been developing over the last year.
Amos will play a special showcase for Universal Republic Records at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX on March 19. She is expected to debut new songs at the performance, which is being held at La Zona Rosa.
Abnormally Attracted to Sin tracklist
1. Give
2. Welcome to England
3. Strong Black Vine
4. Flavor
5. Not Dying Today
6. Maybe California
7. Curtain Call
8. Fire to Your Plain
9. Police Me
10. That Guy
11. Abnormally Attracted to Sin
12. 500 Miles
13. Mary Jane
14. Starling
15. Fast Horse
16. Ophelia
17. Lady in Blue
Feb 10
AndrewMusic Compilations, Greatest Hits, New Release, pop music
Accompanying the release of her greatest hits set The Annie Lennox Collection, the artist has dug deep into her collection to supplement the standard release.
The Annie Lennox Collection standard edition will feature 14-tracks comprised of her greatest hits plus two newly recorded covers Pattern of My Life and Shining Light. The collection includes her iconic hits Why, No More “I Love You’s” and the recent single Sing. A limited edition physical release will be packaged with a DVD collection of her video hits and two bonus videos Something So Right and Waiting in Vain from her covers album Medusa. The latter spawned a Mickey Mouse ears trend among her fans.
The real goldmine for fans though will be packaged with iTunes digital release. In addition to the 14 tracks that appear on the CD, the iTunes Super Deluxe packaging will include 8 bonus audio tracks and 4 bonus videos including two previously unreleased music videos.
Among the 8 bonus audio tracks is the obscure cover of Mama that Lennox recorded for 1995 compilation Ain’t Nuthin’ But a She Thing and only performed live once in her entire career to a prerecorded backing track. Additional tracks including her version of Many Rivers to Cross recorded for American Idol: Idol Gives Back and Dream Angus, which appeared on the compilation Carnival: Rainforest Foundation Concert.
Lennox is making a number of TV appearances this week to promote the U.S. release on February 17. She will also have two live performances titled An Evening With Annie Lennox in New York tonight February 10 and in Los Angeles on Friday, February 13. The U.K. release of The Annie Lennox Collection is March 9.
The Annie Lennox Collection CD
1. Little Bird
2. Walking on Broken Glass
3. Why
4. No More “I Love You’s”
5. Precious
6. A Whiter Shade of Pale
7. A Thousand Beautiful Things
8. Sing
9. Pavement Cracks
10. Love Song for a Vampire
11. Cold
12. Dark Road
13. Pattern of My Life
14. Shining Light
Bonus Audio (iTunes Super Deluxe Release)
15. Into The West (from The Return of the King soundtrack)
16. Ladies of the Canyon (b-side to No More “I Love You’s” single)
17. Hush, Hush, Hush (Paula Cole cover, recorded with Herbie Hancock)
18. Many Rivers to Cross (from American Idol: Idol Gives Back)
19. Dream Angus (from Carnival: Rainforest Foundation Concert compilation)
20. Mama (from Ain’t Nuthin’ But a She Thing compilation)
21. Everybody Hurts feat. Alicia Keys (R.E.M. cover)
22. Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (from Red Hot + Blue compilation)
The Annie Lennox Collection DVD
1. Little Bird
2. Walking on Broken Glass
3. Why
4. No More “I Love You’s”
5. Precious
6. A Whiter Shade of Pale
7. A Thousand Beautiful Things
8. Sing
9. Pavement Cracks
10. Cold
11. Dark Road
Bonus Videos (iTunes Super Deluxe Release)
12. Something So right
13. Waiting in Vain
14. Pattern of My Life
15. Shining Light
Dec 31
AndrewMusic Live, New Release
Blue October has set a March 24 release date for their forthcoming studio set Approaching Normal. The album is preceded by the single Dirt Room which is available as a digital single. The band currently has a handful of tour dates lined up overseas in the month of January.
Blue October tour dates
January 20 Cannes, France MIDEM
January 22 Berlin, Germany Lido
January 23 Cologne, Germany Luxor
January 26 Amsterdam, Holland Paradiso
January 27 London, England Underworld
Tour information is up to date at time of publication
Aug 12
AndrewMusic Album, New Release
I wasn’t particularly impressed with the Jonas Brothers album, but then again, I’m not an eleven-year-old girl. The Jonas Bros. got massive buzz touring with Two-Face Miley Cyrus (otherwise known as Hannah Montana) daughter of disposed country star Billy Ray. Now with the release of the A Little Bit Longer (evidently a reference to Nick Jonas’s brush with puberty) the Jonas Bros. are ready to storm the pre-teen world.
A Little Bit Longer is actually their third studio album. Nick in fact, started his Broadway career at six years old, eventually signing with Columbia Records with his two older brothers. The boys are Evangelical Christians (of course) and naturally, their songs are about macking on girls, relationships, all the sordid things that come with playing to the Nickelodeon crowd.
It shouldn’t surprise you, either, to find out that a TV show about the Brothers, including youngest non-bandmate Frankie, is in the works. The details of which I won’t bother you with.
Am I going to review the album? No. Because really, this is not about the music, as it rarely is with boy bands fresh off the oxy clean pads. Honestly, it’s not something I would ever listen to again. I actually thought the single releases, Pushin’ Me Away and Burnin’ Up aren’t even the best songs on the album. The cover is a bit Times Square and a bit Tim Burton and actually kind of freaks me out.
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