10.28.04 (MusicPortal.com) Wind-Up Records will release CREED's new "Greatest Hits" album on November 22nd. Featuring 13 songs, "Greatest Hits" also includes a bonus DVD featuring all nine of the band's promotional music videos, plus three additional and previously unreleased live performances of the songs 'Higher,' 'Torn,' and 'Weathered.' With over 30 million records sold internationally, and huge radio hits like 'With Arms Wide Open,' 'My Sacrifice,' and 'Higher,' CREED quickly became one of the biggest radio Pop, Rock and Metal radio bands of the last decade. Despite disbanding earlier this year (3/4 of the group went on to form ALTER BRIDGE, while vocalist Scott Stapp is forging ahead with a solo career), CREED's songs continue to live on with fans around the world and are still staple favorites on radio - a testament to the band's powerful songwriting, gigantic riffs and soaring melodies. "Greatest Hits" Track Listing: 1. Torn • 2. My Own Prison • 3. What's This Life For • 4. One • 5. Are You Ready • 6. Higher • 7. With Arms Wide Open • 8. What If • 9. One Last Breath • 10. Don't Stop Dancing • 11. Bullets • 12. My Sacrifice • 13. Weathered. Bonus DVD Tracklisting: 1. My Own Prison • 2. What's This Life For • 3. Higher • 4. What If • 5. With Arms Wide Open • 6. My Sacrifice • 7. Bullets • 8. One Last Breath • 9. Don't Stop Dancing • 10. Torn (Live) • 11. Higher (Live) • 12. Weathered (Live)
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10.26.04 (AP) JOHN PEEL, a long-time British Broadcasting Corp. disc jockey whose enthusiasm for the offbeat, the eclectic and the obscure launched the careers of dozens of bands, has died, the BBC said Tuesday. He was 65. The broadcaster said Peel suffered a heart attack Monday while vacationing in Peru with his wife, Sheila. Dr. Alcides Vargas, who worked to revive Peel, told Peru's Radioprogramas radio that the DJ suffered a heart attack in a hotel in Cuzco, 350 miles southeast of the Peruvian capital, Lima. He was pronounced dead on the way to a clinic. Peel's program on Radio 1, the BBC's flagship pop music station, exerted a huge influence for more than 30 years. He was often the first to play demo tapes by little-known bands, and his enthusiasm propelled some to fame. Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said Blair - who once played guitar in a college band called UGLY RUMOURS - was "genuinely saddened" by the news. He said Peel "was a unique voice in British broadcasting who used that voice to unearth new talent and different subjects and bring them to the awareness and make them accessible to a much wider audience." Peel promoted Reggae, Hip-Hop, Punk and Metal on the sometimes conservative BBC, and championed acts ranging from JIMI HENDRIX and DAVID BOWIE to THE SMITHS, THE FALL, PULP and Northern Irish punks THE UNDERTONES, whose 'Teenage Kicks' Peel rated as his favorite song. His live studio sessions were coveted by bands, and many were released... [full story]

10.25.04 (MusicPortal.com) "100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong..." (Island Def Jam/UMe), a "thinking outside the box" box set from one of the most popular and successful bands in Rock history, will be released November 16th. Another landmark in BON JOVI's 21-year career, the mammoth four-CD, 50-song collection (plus a DVD) is not a greatest hits collection, but instead is comprised largely of previously unreleased recordings from the band's vast archive. In other words, the band's "greatest hits you never heard." Along with the 38 tracks that make their debuts are a dozen rarities from around the world. The earliest songs hail from 1985, the latest from 2003. Yet each CD was sequenced by the band as a complete album experience rather than chronologically. Also included is a bonus DVD featuring exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. In addition, the hardbound collector's box set package boasts a 64-page booklet with rare photos, fan testimonials, exclusive interviews, and personal content from the band. Marking the 20th anniversary of the band's debut album, "100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong..." is the group's first box set. Whereas most such packages recycle a greatest hits album and add a few previously unreleased bonuses, this collection offers fans the chance to discover their own never before released favorites by presenting dozens of songs that, for whatever reason, never made it onto an album. Typically, BON JOVI record upwards of... [full story]

10.22.04 (MusicPortal.com) EVANESCENCE will release a new 2-disc live CD/DVD set on November 23rd via Wind-Up Records entitled "Anywhere But Home." Capturing their intense concert experience at The Zenith in Paris, France, this amazing first-ever live release from EVANESCENCE includes the entire show on DVD (directed by Hamish Hamilton of U2 and Peter Gabriel fame) as well as on a two-track mix CD, which includes the previously unreleased studio recording of the song 'Missing.' In addition, the DVD also features the band's four promotional music videos, an hour-long behind-the-scenes program, and some special surprises, discovered by the viewer as they navigate the menus designed exclusively for this special release. All of EVANESCENCE's hits from their multi-million selling debut "Fallen" are also included on the "Anywhere But Home" release, as well as the band's cover of the KORN song 'Thoughtless,' which has turned into a cult fan favorite. In other EVANESCENCE news, the band have recently wrapped a successful tour of the U.S. with label-mates SEETHER, and have been nominated for the upcoming 2004 American Music Awards in the category of favorite Pop and Rock band, duo or group. The American Music Awards take place in Los Angeles, CA this year on November 14th.
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10.21.04 (MusicPortal.com) Grammy winning, multi-platinum Pop/Rockers THE DOOBIE BROTHERS will issue a new CD and DVD on November 9th via Sanctuary Records, entitled "Live At Wolf Trap." The two new releases feature music from throughout the group's stylistically wide-ranging repertoire encompassing sales of more than 40 million records, and marks their first live recordings in eight years. Recorded during their 2004 Summer tour at the outdoor Wolf Trap National Park For The Performing Arts in Virginia, "Live At Wolf Trap" captures the venerable line-up of long-time members Tom Johnston (guitars/vocals), Patrick Simmons (guitar/vocals), Keith Knudsen (drums/vocals), John McFee (guitars/strings/vocals) and Mike Hossack (drums) at the peak of their live game. The song list features some of the THE DOOBIE BROTHERS' best-known work, along with choice cuts from their recent studio releases: 'Rockin' Down The Highway,' 'Jesus Is Just Alright,' 'Listen To The Music,' 'China Grove,' 'Black Water' and 'Long Train Running,' along with 'Little Bitty Pretty One' (from the "Long Train Runnin'" box set) and 'People Gotta Love Again' and 'Five Corners' from 2000's "Sibling Rivalry," among others. The DVD features a top-quality, multi-camera shoot along with 5.1 Dolby Surround, 5.1 DTS Surround, and Dolby Stereo audio mixes as well as an extensive photo gallery and new interviews with the group.

10.19.04 (MusicPortal.com) STEREOPHONICS vocalist/guitarist Kelly Jones has written the title track for "Long Way Round," a seven-part documentary series following Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their epic motorbike journey, 20,000 miles around the world. The track 'Long Way Round' was recorded by STEREOPHONICS. Said Jones of his involvement with the project: "I got involved with Ewan and 'Long Way Round' after I met him at our show at the Royal Albert Hall. I gave him a film script I'd written to read, just for some advice & then I went along to the going away party of theirs, and we kept in touch during his round the world trip and our round the world tour. He asked me to write the title sequence song and I wrote a few lines down there and then and put the music to it when I got back from touring. It is a very, very simple song, just trying to catch the sentiment of being away from the people you love even though you love being away doing what it is you do at the same ti! me. Ewan played it to his wife and she phoned me and told me she loved it, and that's all that's important to me. I feel I captured what they both felt being apart from one another and the feelings they went through during the ride." "Long Way Round," which started in the UK earlier this year, took McGregor & Boorman across Europe, then through the Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada and across the USA to their final destination, New York City.
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10.18.04 (AP) Singer MARC ALMOND, whose band SOFT CELL scored a massive international hit in the early 1980s with their version of the song 'Tainted Love,' has been hospitalized after suffering severe head injuries in a road crash, police said. Almond, 47, was riding as a passenger on a motorcycle when it collided with a car in central London on Sunday afternoon, a spokesman for the City Of London Police said. He was thrown from the bike and suffered severe head injuries, the spokesman said, adding that his condition remained critical Monday morning. It was unclear if he had been wearing a helmet. The singer was in stable condition at the Royal London Hospital in the east of the capital, the hospital's governing body said in a statement Monday. The motorcycle's driver, who hasn't been identified, was also seriously injured, police said. SOFT CELL earned a No. 1 hit in Britain along with major U.S. airplay in 1981 with 'Tainted Love,' their electronic synthesizer-laden cover of a classic Gloria Jones soul song. Almond and fellow SOFT CELL band member David Ball broke up the duo in 1984, after which Almond began a successful solo career. MARC ALMOND scored another major hit with a cover of singer/songwriter Gene Pitney's 'Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart' in 1989, which he sang with Pitney.
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