Known as one of the most iconic forces in music history, Jeff Lynne’s ELO is set to deliver a new album which will be the first new ELO music in 15 years. Entitled Alone In The Universe, the album is set for global release November 13 on Columbia Records. The album is available globally for pre-order Friday, September 25th (buy links listed below) and the first single “When I Was a Boy” (http://smarturl.it/WhenIWasABoyAudio) is also available Friday. Fans who preorder the album will receive “When I Was A Boy” instantly.
As with ELO’s previous chart-topping albums, Jeff Lynne continues to serve as ELO’s producer, songwriter, arranger, lead singer and guitarist. In September 2014, for the first time in 30 years, Jeff Lynne's ELO headlined BBC Radio 2's "Festival In A Day" in London's famous Hyde Park to a sold-out crowd of 50,000 fans in attendance and nearly a million people tuned in to watch.
Lynne was the creative genius behind ELO which sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, had more than 20 Top 40 Hits across the U.S. and the U.K. and received countless awards and accolades. At the time of ELO’s formation, Lynne had said the goal was to create modern rock and pop songs. A goal that remains true some 30 years later with the creation of new material.
“Music is such a powerful force in our lives. A good song can make people feel much less alone in this universe. And trying to create one of those songs somehow makes me feel less alone too. My whole life—from being that kid with a dream in Birmingham right until today—proves how much music can do,” said Lynne.
“Jeff Lynne is a total master of his craft and ‘Alone In The Universe’ is pure pop perfection. We are thrilled to be involved in the return of ELO and enormously proud to be releasing this contemporary classic on Columbia Records,” said Ashley Newton, President of Columbia Records.
BACKGROUND on Jeff Lynne
Lynne is among the most storied names in music history having created the hit group ELO, and serving as a founding member of the Grammy Award winning supergroup The Traveling Wilburys. He has produced and collaborated with The Beatles, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Tom Petty and Joe Walsh. In 2015, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is an active philanthropist for organizations such as St. Jude Research Hospital, MUSICARES and H.E.A.R.T. (Helping Ease Abuse Related Trauma).
Jeff Lynne (cfr brein achter ELO – met 50 miljoen verkochte albums - mede-oprichter van de Travelling Wilburys, heeft samengewerkt met zowat iedere Beatle...) lost na 15 jaar stilte een nieuw album. Het heet ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE en komt uit op 13 NOVEMBER via Sony Music
Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg has traveled the world, with and without his band, for two decades—but he’s rarely been a tourist. When he’s not working as a musician, he’s often been involved in scientific research on rare birds, a passion that’s taken him to the outer edges of the world, including the far-flung islands of the Falklands [LINK TO QUIETUS ARTICLE] , the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, the Galápagos, a tiny Inuit village in the Canadian Arctic, an Aboriginal settlement in the croc-filled swamps of northern Australia, and the Masoala peninsula of Madagascar.
But his most recent trips have been some of his greatest adventures. Meiburg, who published entertaining and wide-ranging interviews last year with author Peter Matthiessen [LINK] and Iraqi activist Zainab Salbi [LINK] in The Believer, is currently at work on a book for Knopf about the evolution of the wildlife and landscapes of South America, as seen through the eyes of the strange, intelligent birds of prey called caracaras and the prescient, melancholy 19th-century naturalist and novelist William Henry Hudson.
As part of his research for the book, Meiburg spent six weeks this spring in the wild interior of southern Guyana, traveling many miles up the Rewa river into remote, ancient forests with three Guyanese Amerindian men: Brian Duncan, Jose George, and Rambo Roberts, and a Canadian biologist named Sean McCann, who earned his PhD for proving that contrary to previous researchers’ speculations, the weird forest-dwelling birds called red-throated caracaras do NOT secrete a natural wasp repellent. Guyana is home to some of the least disturbed rain forests in all of South America, and in the upper reaches of the Rewa Meiburg and McCann searched for and found a nest of red-throated caracaras and marveled at the birds’ loud, unique “dancing” displays, group-living habits that make them seem more like social primates than birds of prey, and their diet of wasps’ nests; the birds’ flamboyance, ferocity, and oddness have earned them the pejorative but fond nickname, in Guyana, of “Bush Auntie-Man”.
But Meiburg’s journey was about much more than birds. The Rewa flows through a primeval region where people are very infrequent visitors, where rarely-seen wildlife like giant otters, tapirs, capybaras and pumas stared at Meiburg and his companions in surprise, and the river itself was full to bursting with unnerving creatures including 150-pound catfish, the giant, air-breathing scalefish called arapaima, the ghastly, long-toothed vampire fish or paiara, coelacanth-like aymara, electric eels, stingrays, piranhas, and glowing-eyed black caimans as long as a canoe. It was a trip into a world that remains as it was thousands of years ago, a primeval and Edenic place that still exists today, even as international mining and logging interests bear down on it.
Meiburg will describe this journey (which also includes encounters with the world’s largest spider) as part of his book, (due out in 2018), but he’s available to write a piece about it now. He also documented the trip in photographs and audio recordings.
In addition, Meiburg is an enthusiastic backpacker. His South American adventures were bound to a river, but in the US he’s spent a great deal of time lately in the Grand Staircase/Dixie National Forest region of southeastern Utah, where he especially loves the doug firs, volcanic boulders, and patches of snow on the 10,000-foot crest of Boulder Mountain and a thirty-mile stretch of narrow, waterlogged canyon called Death Hollow, which he hiked last year wearing a wetsuit and a dry bag (and to which he’s keen to return). He recently pointed fellow musician Andrew Bird toward a more famous canyon in the area called Coyote Gulch; Bird was so absorbed by the canyon’s remarkable acoustics that he recorded an album there. Meiburg is an adventurer and polymath of a kind we don’t often see these days; your readers would love spending some time with him.
Shearwater’s new album, Jet Plane and Oxbow, comes out January 22nd on Sub Pop.
NYC native Greta Kline began writing songs under the pseudonym Frankie Cosmos in late 2011. Kline’s songs are short and melodic, each poetically telling her story. Her songwriting is inspired in part by Arthur Russell, Connie Converse and poet Frank O’Hara.
Unstoppably prolific, Kline began self-releasing a steady stream of home recorded albums on Bandcamp. In 2013, Kline began to focus more on performing and recording with the help of her newly formed 4 piece band. Kline’s years of songwriting and production culminated in the recording of her first studio album Zentropy, released in 2014. Her debut was met with critical acclaim, gaining her a Rising feature from Pitchfork and ranking as the #1 pop album of the year by New York Magazine.
Frankie Cosmos’ upcoming EP, Fit Me In, is a one-off experiment in “fitting” Kline’s songwriting into an electronic sound, characteristic of current pop culture. The EP is a collaboration with Aaron Maine of Porches, who produced the songs using mostly electronic equipment in place of the live band instrumentation. Frankie Cosmos’ forthcoming album will be the first made with four band members and is slated for release from Bayonet Records in 2015.
Dutch Symphonic Metal sensation DELAIN are known for extremely catchy refrains, bewitching hooks and melodies, symphonic bombast and of course a good dose of Metal! That’s DELAIN and that’s how Symphonic Metal will sound on this upcoming special tour with Anneke van Giersbergen of THE GENTLE STORM and their label mates in AMBERIAN DAWN.
You can get a special VIP upgrade now, that includes the following:
-1 Hour entry before show
-VIP Laminate with lanyard
-Meet & Greet with the band
-Signed exclusive postcard
-A two song acoustic set performed by Delain
This special European tour will start at the end of October and wind up in early November with stops in the European hot-spots of France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. DELAIN are definitely ready to take over here:
DELAIN With THE GENTLE STORM und AMBERIAN DAWN:
/w AMBERIAN DAWN + The Gentle Storm
22.10.15 UK - Bristol / The Marble Factory
23.10.15 UK - Birmingham / Institute Library
24.10.15 UK - Manchester / Academy 2
25.10.15 UK - London / O2 Academy Islington
27.10.15 CH - Solothurn / Kopfmehl
28.10.15 FR – Strasbourg / La Laiterie
29.10.15 FR – Paris / Divan Du Monde
30.10.15 BE – Vosselaar / Biebob
31.10.15 DE – Andernach / Juz Live Club
02.11.15 DE – Munich / Backstage Halle
03.11.15 IT – Milan / Live Club
04.11.15 AT – Graz / Explosiv
05.11.15 HU – Budapest / Club 202
06.11.15 SK – Bratislava / Randal Club
07.11.15 PL – Warsaw / Club Progresia
08.11.15 DE - Berlin / K17
PARADE GROUND composed of two brothers Pierre and Jean-Marc PAULY started performing live in 1981.
They were pioneers of Cold Wave and Electronic Body Music.
Their first single, 'Moan on the sly', was released in 1983 and they remained active until now (However they decided not to release anything between 1988 and 2007, being involved in other artistic projects like novels-writing and plastic art ).
Their style has evolved during the eighties, passing from an icy and radical cold wave to a more dancing sound with noticeable rhythmics and exclusively synthetic melodies mixed up with dreamy visual dadaism.
They regularly collaborated with members of Belgian band FRONT 242, were produced by English producer Colin NEWMAN of WIRE and wrote and composed on two FRONT 242 albums in 1994.
A Room With A View is a missing link in band's long careerer. All tracks originally were recorded at Lights studio Brussels in 1988 and officially released only in 2012 as extra limited tape (no wonder it was sold out rapidly) on Other Voices Records. Now you have the chance to get it both on collector's LP and CD!
You can preorder now, the album will be available in October 2015
Tracklisting:
A1 A Room With A View 3:06
A2 Green File 4:18
A3 Conquerors 3:08
A4 Crying Over Them 3:17
B1 Miss Ivory Girl 4:12
B2 Me In My Love 3:17
B3 Cursed Be My Name 4:07
B4 Give It To Me 4:12
