Posts tagged "outtakes"

Emmylou Harris Following ‘Hard Bargain’ with Duets Album

Emmylou Harris is going back to the roots of her famed Hot Band for her next project. Harris tells Billboard.com that she and original Hot Band guitarist Rodney Crowell are working on a duets album with producer Brian Ahern, who first worked with Harrison on her major label solo debut, "Pieces of the Sky" in 1975. "Rodney and I have known each other since 1974," Harris says

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Mick Jagger Interview: New Rolling Stones Songs and the Sexuality of ‘Some Girls’

Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Kevin Mazur, WireImage The release of the deluxe edition of the Rolling Stones ' 1978 album 'Some Girls' includes a smattering of outtakes that are actually new tracks, not just songs that were written but left by the wayside. As Mick Jagger tells Spinner, he actually had to go back and write new lyrics for many of the songs, including the country tune 'No Spare Parts' and the rocker 'Do You Think I Really Care.' In the following Q&A, Jagger tells us all about the reissue, its New York and disco influences, the lies and rumors about their songs and how the hit track 'When the Whip Comes Down' -- about a gay man living in the city -- surprisingly never led anyone to question his sexuality. There are a lot of blues and country songs on the 'Some Girls' outtakes.

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Listen: Thom Yorke DJs on BBC 6 Music

Thom Yorke dropped by? BBC 6 Music today to spin a selection of his current favorite tracks, as well as outtakes from Radiohead 's recent remix collection, TKOL RMX 1234567 . The two-hour mix was hosted by Yorke alone, with no co-host or presenter.? Yorke played material from? Aphex Twin ,? Erykah Badu , J Dilla ,? PJ Harvey , Flying Lotus ,? James Blake , Low , Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx ,? Autechre , and others, as well as the Burial remix of Yorke's "And It Rained All Night".

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Exclusive Download: Peter Murphy’s Intense, Atmospheric ‘Gaslit’

Click to listen to Peter Murphy's 'Gaslit' The moody richly atmospheric "Gaslit" is the opening track on The Secret Bees of Ninth an EP collecting b-sides and outtakes from Peter Murphy's most recent solo album Ninth The former Bauhaus frontman is as dark and intense as ever on the track which...

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Music: Music Review: Paul McCartney: McCartney / McCartney II

Paul McCartney ’s best asset has always been his effortless mastery of melody; his worst weakness is his how often his songwriting seems a little too effortless. There’s plenty of evidence of both on 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II , two famously low-key handmade solo records featuring one of rock’s most accomplished composers casually flitting about by himself in the studio, playing all the instruments and forsaking the polished professionalism befitting a star of his stature. Instead, these albums—which have been newly re-released in various formats, including deluxe editions rounded out by outtakes and videos ...

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