The fine folks at Insound got in touch to let me (and likely, a million other bloggers as well) know that you, the faithful ATV reader, can pre-order the pending reissues of In Utero and MTV Unplugged in New York, and your pre-order will ship on November 22nd – a full three weeks before the […]
Category: Upcoming Releases
Traveling on the Super Highway with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
I’ll admit it – I’ve been holding something back from all of you, because for the past month, I’ve been on a secret road trip. I’ve been on the road with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, traveling with the band on the maiden voyage of their Superhighway Tour. Supporting the release of the highly anticipated […]
New Music: Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy
It’s time to share another CD with all of you that’s been a fixture in my player recently: Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, is a tribute to the CT-based former Miracle Legion and Polaris front man and his late wife Melissa, who died suddenly in September 2008. Ciao will be available […]
Free MP3: Brookville – Break My Heart (James Iha remix)
It’s been a little bit more than a month since we saw Brookville, the band featuring Ivy co-founder Andy Chase, as the opener on the Trashcan Sinatras Grog show. Since then, we’ve been listening to the new Brookville album Broken Lights nearly non-stop here at ATV HQ. The album will finally hit stores a week […]
Blue Rodeo to release new album on November 3rd
Blue Rodeo fans will close out the year with a bang, thanks to the release of a new album called The Things We Left Behind. In stores on November 3rd (Canada only), the album will reportedly be a double CD release. BR frontman Jim Cuddy discussed the album recently with The Canadian Press: “It was […]
Mark Knopfler announces spring tour dates
Here’s something that will make many of you smile heading into the weekend – the announcement of spring tour dates from former Dire Straits leader Mark Knopfler! Get Lucky (pre-order via Amazon), the new CD from Knopfler, drops in stores on Tuesday. I’m thinkin’ the Ann Arbor date might have my name on it, tagged […]
New Music: Pennywise/BYO Records
While this particular section of the blog is usually reserved for newer emerging artists, I felt like it was possible that Brian, my high school pal Casey, and others, might show up to kick my ass if I didn’t post this. LA punk label BYO Records is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with the […]
New Otis Redding best of due from Shout! Factory on October 20th
In my list of classic R&B / soul performers, Otis Redding easily lands in my top 5. It’s criminal after all of these years of enjoying Redding’s music, my overall knowledge of his complete output is still woefully incomplete. I definitely need to dig further into his catalog, and one of these days, I will […]
Track listing announced for new Foreigner album available 9/29 exclusively at Wal-Mart
After taking a couple of baby steps into the recording studio with new lead singer Kelly Hansen last year, Foreigner released “Too Late,” the first studio recording with Hansen on vocals, as part of the 2008 Foreigner anthology release No End In Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner. I had the pleasure of seeing the […]
John Bush/Armored Saint/Anthrax fans, pay attention!
A nice surprise came across my desk this morning to share with all of you – a FREE demo track from the upcoming Armored Saint studio album! It makes me so happy just to be able to say the words “Armored Saint studio album,” but then I actually heard the track. And played it again. […]