Wednesday, April 13th – Today, UMe, Island Records, and BBC announce the release of Live at Glastonbury 2007– the iconic performance of Amy Winehouse’s Pyramid Stage set at Glastonbury 2007, coming to vinyl for the very first time on Friday, June 3rd. Showcasing the inimitable artistry of one of the UK’s most gifted and accomplished singers of all time, […]
Los Angeles, CA – April 8, 2022 – In celebration of their 50th anniversary, today Aerosmith released one of their earliest known recordings, Aerosmith – 1971: The Road Starts Hear (UMe), on CD and digital and can now be streamed, HERE. This rare recording from 1971 was recently discovered in Aerosmith’s Vindaloo Vaults and was originally only available as a limited-edition cassette and vinyl release for Record Store Day in 2021. The heavily sought-after RSD release quickly […]
Los Angeles, CA – April 1, 2022 – For the first time in over 20 years, 20 of the Sex Pistol’s recordings from 1976 to 1978 are collected together to tell the story of one of the world’s most influential and extraordinary bands. The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings covers a historic period when the band were […]
April 8, 2022 – The legacy of Frank Sinatra – one of the world’s most enduring singers – includes a studio album no one anticipated: Watertown. Recorded in 1969 and released in 1970, the concept of Watertown unfolds as a personal tragedy about a working man with children whose wife suddenly leaves him. Sinatra’s performance elicits sadness, defeat and forlornness. Ultimately, as […]
NEW FRANK ZAPPA BOXED SET, ZAPPA/ERIE, COLLECTS TOGETHER AN EXCITING TRIO OF SHOWS FROM ERIE, PA AND SURROUNDING AREA BETWEEN 1974-76 SIX-DISC BOX/DIGITAL COLLECTION FEATURES MORE THAN SEVEN HOURS OF UNRELEASED LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM THREE DIFFERENT LINE-UPS, INCLUDING UNIQUE ARRANGEMENTS OF CLASSIC SONGS AVAILABLE JUNE 3 VIA ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe Los Angeles – April 8, 2022 – The […]
When Voyage, the first new ABBA album in 40 years, and the accompanying shows in London were announced in September 2021, the global headlines it garnered underlined the phenomenal popularity of ABBA, four decades after they pressed the pause button on their career. We’d all thought that the perfect arc of eight album releases from the […]
March 25, 2022 A legendary event in the incredible 60-year history of the Rolling Stones is being released in full for the first time on Friday, May 13th. Live At The El Mocambo marks the first official appearance of the group’s two famous secret concerts at the 300-capacity Toronto club in March 1977. The album will be available on double […]
Released by Island Records/UMe on May 27, Bob Marley & The Chineke! Orchestra reimagines some of Bob Marley’s greatest songs with contemporary classical orchestration from the globally esteemed Chineke! Orchestra. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios and produced by Nick Patrick (If I Can Dream, Elvis Presley and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, True Love Ways, Buddy Holly and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), reimagined tracks […]
Ready to ignite 2022, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame®-inducted icons and rock music legends Def Leppard return with their twelfth full-length album, Diamond Star Halos [UMe], on May 27th, 2022. It marks the band’s first new work since 2015’s chart-topping self-titled, Def Leppard. It is available for pre-order now in multiple configurations, including a Deluxe Edition, 2-LP Vinyl, Digital formats and more. Exclusive bundles including […]
Los Angeles – March 18, 2022 – Celebrating Frank Zappa and The Mothers special 1971 lineups and a storied chapter in Zappa’s legacy, the monumental and definitive new eight-disc/digital collection, The Mothers 1971, is out now via Zappa Records/UMe. Overseen by the Zappa Trust and produced by Ahmet Zappa and Zappa Vaultmeister Joe Travers, the 100-track, nearly 10-hour set brings together every note of the fabled four […]
May 6, 2022, see the release of the first in a series of half speed mastered studio albums from The Who; My Generation and A Quick One. These limited-edition black vinyl versions have been mastered by long-time Who engineer Jon Astley and cut for vinyl by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios with a half-speed mastering technique which […]
LOS ANGELES, CA — MARCH 17, 2022 — He had a voice like cappuccino, swung like no other, and inhabited some of the greatest love songs ever written — and his music both typified its era and proves everlasting in 2022. Now, to celebrate Nat King Cole’s birthday, March 17, some of his rarest tracks are […]
