Sinead O'Connor releases 'Take Me To Church' video - Listen!

Sinead O'Connor will release her brand new single 'Take Me To Church' as the first single to be lifted from her new album 'I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss'. The album will be released via Nettwerk Records on August 11th 2014.

'Take Me To Church' is Sinead at her passionate and melodic best, coming complete with a joyous chorus and huge guitars set around her rousing vocals and powerful lyrics.

The artwork for 'Take Me To Church' features Sinead looking as amazing as she sounds and follows on from the much talked about album artwork which went viral worldwide immediately upon being announced.

'I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss' is the follow up to Sinead's critically acclaimed album 'How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?' which was released in 2011. 'I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss' features twelve brand new songs which showcase the very best of Sinead and what makes her so special, passionate and direct yet with an overarching fragile beauty Sinead's voice and lyrics are as powerful as they are tender.

Newly signed to Nettwerk Records, 'I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss' is her 10th studio album in a career spanning over twenty five years. Sinead is a rare thing in popular music, an absolutely unique artist.

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Smashing Pumpkins to Release 107 Track Deluxe Version of "Adore"

Smashing Pumpkins is going super deluxe on their 1998 album Adore.

The Adore Super Deluxe Package will include 107 tracks over six-CDs/one-DVD, featuring a mono version of the album; In a State of Passage, with demos from Corgan’s home Sadlands studio; Chalices, Palaces, and Deep Pools, devoted to outtakes, among them an instrumental version of For Martha, produced by Flood and Corgan, and Malice, Callous, and Fools, featuring an outtake from the Rick Rubin/Corgan collaboration, Let Me Give the World to You. A sixth disc, Kissed Alive Too, spotlights live tracks recorded in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and L.A.’s Dodger Stadium, among others, while the DVD captures the Smashing Pumpkins in an August 4, 1998 performance at Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. A full booklet with liner notes is also part of the release.

Adore was the Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album and the followup to their hugely successful Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The highly anticipated release was met with a bit of confusion by fans as it took the band in a new direction to a more acoustic and electronica sound. Despite fan reaction, the album went to number 2 in the U.S., 5 in the U.K. and 1 in Australia.

Adore will also be released as a single, remastered CD, a double-vinyl and a 90-track deluxe digital package. All versions are scheduled for September 23 through Virgin/UMe

Track List:

Disc 1 (Stereo remaster)

• To Sheila
• Ava Adore
• Perfect
• Daphne Descends
• Once Upon a Time
• Tear
• Crestfallen
• Appels + Oranjes
• Pug
• The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
• Annie-Dog
• Shame
• Behold! The Night Mare
• For Martha
• Blank Page
• 17

• To Sheila
• Ava Adore
• Perfect
• Daphne Descends
• Once Upon a Time
• Tear
• Crestfallen
• Appels + Oranjes
• Pug
• The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
• Annie-Dog
• Shame
• Behold! The Night Mare
• For Martha
• Blank Page

• Blissed and Gone (Sadlands demo)
• Christmastime (Sadlands demo)
• My Mistake (Sadlands demo)
• Sparrow (Sadlands demo)
• Valentine (Sadlands demo)
• The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete (Sadlands demo)
• What If? (Streeterville demo)
• Chewing Gum (CRC demo)
• The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete (CRC demo)
• The Ethers Tragic (CRC demo/2014 mix - Instrumental)
• The Guns of Love Disastrous (CRC demo/2014 mix - Instrumental)
• Annie-Dog (CRC demo/Take 10)
• Once in a While (CRC demo/2014 mix)
• Do You Close Your Eyes When You Kiss Me? (CRC demo)
• For Martha (CRC demo/Take 1)
• My Mistake (CRC demo/Take 1)
• Blessed and Gone (CRC demo)
• For Martha (CRC demo/Take 2 – Instumental)

• For Martha (Symphonic Snippet - Instrumental)
• Crestfallen (Matt Walker 2014 "Reimagined" version)
• To Sheila (Early Banjo version)
• Ava Adore (Puffy Combs 1998 remix)
• O Rio (Sadlands Demo - Instrumental)
• Waiting
• Once Upon a Time (Sadlands demo)
• Eye (2014 mix)
• Saturnine (Piano and voice version)
• Cash Car Star (Matt Walker 2014 "Reimagined" version)
• Pug (Matt Walker 2014 "Reimagined" version)
• Perfect (No Strings version)
• It's Alright (Instrumental)
• Czarina (Take 1)
• Indecision (Sadlands demo)
• Blank Page (Early version)

• Let Me Give the World to You (Rick Rubin/Adore version)
• Tear (from digital transfer)
• Cross
• Because You Are
• Jersey Shore (Sadlands demo)
• Shame (Take 1)
• Summer (Instrumental) James Iha
• Blissed and Gone (Drone version)
• Heaven (Sadlands demo - Instrumental)
• Daphne Descends (Matt Walker 2014 "Reimagined" version)
• Saturnine (Matt Walker 2014 "Reimagined" version)
• Behold! The Night Mare (Alternate vocal)
• Perfect (Acoustic demo)
• Do You Close Your Eyes?
• The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning

• Ava Adore (Live/São Paulo session)
• Daphne Descends (Live/São Paulo session)
• The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete (Live/São Paulo session)
• Tear (Live/São Paulo session)
• Shame (Live Mancow's Morning Madhouse session, Chicago)
• Blank Page (Live Mancow's Morning Madhouse session, Chicago)
• To Sheila (Live at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville)
• Money (That's What I Want) (Live at Dodger Stadium, LA)
• X.Y.U. Medley (Live at Dodger Stadium, LA)
• Transmission (Live at rehearsals, Chicago)

• To Sheila
• Behold! The Night Mare
• Pug
• Crestfallen
• Ava Adore
• Tear
• Annie-Dog
• Perfect
• Thru the Eyes of Ruby
• Tonight, Tonight
• Once Upon a Time
• The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings
• Shame
• For Martha
• Blank Page
• Transmission

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Previously unheard Jimi Hendrix recordings to be released

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Phil Rudd Of AC/DC To Give Fans Head Job

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been quietly working on a solo album and in late August we will get to hear his debut ‘Head Job’.

Rudd says the album is about his personal experiences “about the shit that goes on”.

The first single from ‘Head Job’ is ‘Repo Man’, out this week.

Rudd assures us that the title track ‘Head Job’ is another one of those great AC/DC double-meanings and is actually about “going to the pub to commiserate with your mates about someone doing your head in”.

Other song titles include “Bad Move” and “Crazy”.

Phil Rudd ‘Head Job’ will be released through Universal on August 29, 2014.

AC/DC have also downed tools on their next album. The yet-to-be titled album is currently being mixed. The release date is still to be determined.

Meanwhile, there is no further update on the health issues plaguing founding member Malcolm Young. Singer Brian Johnson has confirmed that Young is in hospital.

Young stepped down from the band because of his health problems. His nephew Stevie Young has replaced him on the next album.

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The End May Be Near For Blondie

Drummer Clem Burke has been with Blondie since the very beginning in 1975, so he should have a pretty good grasp on the future of the group.

Burke talked to Vancouver's The Province, telling them that lead singer Debbie Harry has hinted that their current tour in support of Ghosts of Download may be their last.

By the time we get to beautiful Vancouver, B.C., we will have toured Europe, played Glastonbury and done a number of big festivals in North America. As for the rumours of the last tour, we've decided we’ll live forever. But Debbie, is older than me and has hinted it could be time. Obviously without her, there is no Blondie."

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Passings: Johnny Winter (1944 - 2014)

Blues-rock guitarist Johnny Winter has died while touring in Switzerland at the age of 70. No official cause of death has been announced but sources are saying that it was a medical situation. Jenda Derringer, wife of Rick Derringer, has stated that he "was not in good health and was very frail and weak."

Johnny and his younger brother Edgar, who were both born with albanism, began performing music at an early age, appearing on local children's shows initially playing guitar. By the age of 15, Johnny was already in the recording studio with his band Johnny and the Jammers and, by early his early 20's, was sitting in with Texas artists like Roy Head.

In 1968, Winter released his first solo album, The Progressive Blues Experiment on Texas' Sonobeat Records (later rereleased by Imperial) which saw him mixing music by Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson and other with his own compositions.

Johnny got his big break in December 1968 when he joined Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper on stage at the Fillmore East in New York to perform. A rep from Columbia Records saw the performance and signed Winter to what was reportedly, at the time, the biggest advance ever, $600,000.

During 1969, Winter released both Johnny Winter and Second Winter which produced songs that became staples of his career including Good Morning Little Schoolgirl and Highway 61 Revisited. The pre-release publicity and his touring made them both minor hits, reaching 25 and 55 respectively.

For his next album, Johnny Winter and, he put together a new band that included former McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer and Derringer's brother Randy Z. With more of a rock orientation, the album failed to equal sales of the first two, reaching only 154 but it has gone on to be considered a classic. It was during this time that Winter fell into heroin addiction for which he eventually sought treatment.

In 1973, Winter was back with a mix of blues and rock on Still Alive and Well which became his highest charting album going to 22. He continued to see success the next year with Saints and Sinners (#42) and John Dawson Winter III (#78).

Johnny fulfilled a lifelong dream in the late 70's when he was able to both play with and produce blues great Muddy Waters. Their time together produced three Waters albums, Hard Again, I'm Ready and King Bee along with the live album Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live.

Since the 70's, Winter released seven more studio albums with an eighth, Step Back, scheduled for release on September 2. He also toured regularly and became popular at festivals including last weekend's Lovely Days Festival in Wiesen, Austria which would become his final performance.

Winter became a member of the Blues Hall of Fame in 1988. He and his brother, Edgar, are also members of the Southeast Texas "Walk of Fame".

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