August 25, 2006
Guitar Legend John Beland Talks Rick Nelson Tribute
Guitar
legend John Beland who contributed "Young World" to the recent critically
acclaimed Rick Nelson tribute -was a guest onair via telephone on Australia's
"Saturday Night Country" - For the best part of the last decade, John Nutting
has hosted this weekly show across Australia on Local ABC Radio stations
and across the world on Radio Australia and through streaming audio via
the World Wide Web. Beland discusses his time with Rick Nelson and talks
a bit about "Easy To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson." Take a listen.
More great reviews for the Rick Nelson comp continue to pour in...
USA Today raves "That Rick Nelson tribute sounds pretty cool." - Ken Barnes
The V/A "Easy To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson" (PSRCD-046) is out now - remember $1.60 of each cd supports Cancer Care.
MORE TRIBUTES... HEY HEY IT'S THE MONKEES!
Well not quite Davy, Micky, Peter, and Mike but it's quite a fab tribute Planting Seeds' released a few years ago. You may have missed it the first time around but let's celebrate the Monkees' 40th Anniversary with "Through The Looking Glass: A Tribute To The Monkees" (PSRCD-002) - featuring some great contributions from The Mendoza Line, Marykate O'Neil, Astropop 3, Wolfie (Now The Like Young), The Rockets Red Glare (members of The Essex Green), Sunday Smoke Kit and more! buy yours in the Planting Seeds Shop. For more information on the Monkees please visit monkees.net and rhino.com!
Recent Jesus and Mary Chain Biography
Recently released is a pretty comprehensive biography of the legendary Jesus And Mary Chain as compiled and written by Mikko Kapanen --titled Psychotic Chain Reaction (aka Psykoottinen Ketjureaktio),the book was released in Finnish and English editions by publishers Pop Lehti - the English edition is limited to 150! They don't appear to have an English version of the site but their contact details are here if you want to email them in English. Planting Seeds' even has a mention in this book with the out of print fan Mary Chain tribute from 1999 plus the stellar "Sunsets & Silhouettes" - good stuff!
In More Freeheat/JAMC/Jim Reid News
JIM REID has announced another live date in the UK mark your calendars for September, 13 2006 at NIGHT AND DAY - for more info see the tours page For those Listening to your FREEHEAT "Back On The Water" CD and JIM REID "Dead End Kids" single and haven't got a chance to catch it live - well thanks to youtube.com, you can check out two tracks from Jim Reid's recent show at The Carling Academy Islington Bar :
Jim's tribute to the late Syd Barrett - Vegetable Man and the latest single Dead End Kids. While you're at YouTube, check out the rarely seen Jesus & Mary Chain video for 1992's Teenage Lust.
For more info:
April Skies
, Freeheat Homepage, Freeheat Myspace,
Jim Reid Myspace
August 12, 2006
Easy To Be Free
For
those of you in the 21st century, Planting Seeds' latest collection Easy
To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson is now available for digital download
via emusic.com among others. If you
haven't picked it up yet, do it now - $1.60 of each cd sales supports cancercare.org.
Here's what some of the music press worldwide are saying:
"Easy to Be Free rightfully places Nelson back into the limelight as one of the most entertaining acts in early rock and roll." - Treblezine
"Nice compilation that expresses a deserving memorial to a relatively unknown musical legend." - Smother
"Easy To Be gives its subject a much-deserved second glance, doing so in a way that’s both liberating and entertaining." - ENTERTAINMENT NEWS & VIEWS
"a rock-solid, enjoyable album" - Erasing Clouds
"a worthy introduction to Ricky Nelson the songwriter" - Americana UK
"a delicious heartache...a fine tribute to Nelson" - Popmatters
Photo: Gunnar and Matthew Nelson with ETBF Music Supervisor Ian Cooke
Freeheat on the Radio
Back On The Water has been awarded the coveted Album of the Month accolade by the super hot Radio Indie Pop. That means you'll be able to hear the album in its entirety 24/7 throughout the month of August. What are you waiting for? Check it out now! Critics from around have praised Jim Reid, Ben Lurie & CO.'s new release:
"textbook examples of how to do noise-pop right." - Skyscraper Magazine
"loud and carefree...instantly pleasing to the ear" - Erasing Clouds
"hits hard in just the right places...laid back and beautiful...A solid rocker" - Urban Sollution
"brooding, fuzzed-out jangle pop...an excellent continuance of the Chain’s beloved sound." - High Bias
"fresh, bouncy collection of melodic pop tunes buried in wonderfully fuzzy guitars" - Babysue
Pinkie News
Alex Sharkey has been busy the last several months recording tracks for Pinkie's follow-up to 2004's criticial pop masterpiece "Sharon Fussy." Along with recording new music, Alex will be on board playing bass for Matinee Recording artists Harper Lee's tour in support of their latest release "He Holds A Flame" EP (Matinee 061). The first show is scheduled for Pop Revo festival which will be held the 14th-16th of September at Studenterhuset by the harbour in Aarhus, Denmark.Harper Lee will be performing on the 16th. Other great artists to appear are BMX Bandits, Secret Shine, and many more. Pinkie live dates will also be in the works for the near future. For more info and a the official Pinkie blog, go to myspace.com/pinkiemusic.
Pinkie's 2000 mini LP "My Little Experiment will get the remix/remastering treatment via the UK's Space Dog records. No releae date has been set but more news as we get it in.
Hey Mr. Tamborine Folks
For
those awaiting the Planting Seeds' release of UK band The Tamborines single
"What Took You So Long" (PSRCD-043) - that release has been shelved since
the dropping of the band's UK label Decadent. In place will be the 7" release
of "Sally O'Gannon" and "Be Around" as the b side - both newly recorded
tracks from sessions in Oxford, England. It's the first record as a four
piece which also features special guest appearances from Frank Teardrop
(Brian Jonestown Massacre) on mellodica and Mark Gardener (Ride) on vocals.
The single will be the debut release on UK label Sonic
Cathedral and will be released on August 28, 2006. For a taste of the
tamborines visit them at www.thetamborines.com
and myspace.com/thetamborines.
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