President プレジデント – 27 3月 2020

A four-CD set that includes Bob Ludwig’s 2020 remastered version of the original album (making its CD debut), along with an entire disc of unreleased studio outtakes, alternate versions and demos that chart the making of the album from songwriting demos to alternate studio arrangements to finished masters.

On Nov. 27, “Black Friday,” independent jazz label Resonance Records will continue its ongoing tradition of releasing previously unissued archival recordings as limited-edition Record Store Day exclusives with a stellar new three-LP collection of historic Sonny Rollins performances, Rollins in Holland: The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings.

Kamasi Washington scored the new Michelle Obama documentary Becoming, which premiered on Netflix today (May 6). The film follows Obama on her tour in support of her best-selling memoir Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice. Washington’s score for the documentary will be released on May 15 (via Young Turks).

Crimson Gold presents The Nolans ‘Gold’, the only Nolans compilation you’ll ever need. As Ireland’s undisputed First Family of Music, The Nolans have been entertaining audiences worldwide for nearly 50 years, audiences that have included former US President Ford, Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra. Currently riding high following the success of their 8 part primetime series, 'The Nolans Go Cruising' on Quest Red. In 1980, they became a global phenomenon with their iconic single “I’m In The Mood For Dancing” topping the charts, subsequently selling over 30 million records worldwide, cementing them as one of the most successful girl groups of all time. The group went on to achieve an additional 7 top 40 UK singles featured on this definitive 3CD set, with 45 tracks.

Bigger, Better, Faster, More! is the only studio album released by alternative rock band 4 Non Blondes, released in 1992. The first single was "Dear Mr. President", which bass player Christa Hillhouse told Songfacts "was about the hierarchy of power and government." The second single, "What's Up?", became a #1 hit in several countries and went gold in the United States, while the album itself went platinum, accumulating sales of 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and 6 million copies worldwide.

On his first LP of original songs in nearly a decade—and his first since reluctantly accepting Nobel Prize honours in 2016—Bob Dylan takes a long look back. Rough and Rowdy Ways is a hot bath of American sound and historical memory, the 79-year-old singer-songwriter reflecting on where we’ve been, how we got here and how much time he has left. There are temperamental blues (“False Prophet”, “Crossing the Rubicon”) and gentle hymns (“I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You”), rollicking farewells (“Goodbye Jimmy Reed”) and heady exchanges with the Grim Reaper (“Black Rider”). It reads like memoir, but you know he’d claim it’s fiction.And yet, maybe it’s the timing—coming out in June 2020 amidst the throes of a pandemic and a social uprising that bears echoes of the 1960s—or his age, but Dylan’s every line here does have the added charge of what feels like a final word, like some ancient wisdom worth decoding and preserving before it’s too late.