I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on Only Murders in the Building, Dolly Parton, Sheryl Crow, Billy Idol, San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2023, James Blake, and Rick and Morty.
Check out the trailer for the upcoming third season of Hulu's "Only Murders in the Building." The Emmy®-nominated series returns with two episodes on Tuesday, August 8. New episodes stream weekly.
- Dolly Parton, a global icon, is collaborating with NBCUniversal on the video for her new song “We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You,” which will be used to promote NBCU’s coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 that begin one year from today. “We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You” is Parton’s cover of the famous rock anthems by Queen and a new song from her upcoming album Rockstar, which was inspired by her 2022 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The album is set for global release on Nov. 17.
- A&M/UMe releases a brand-new Dolby Atmos mix of Sheryl Crow’s career-making major-label debut album, August 1993’s Tuesday Night Music Club in celebration of the album’s 30th Anniversary. Propelled by the playfully descriptive Grammy-winning No. 2 hit single “All I Wanna Do,” Tuesday Night Music Club has also been certified as 7x platinum in the United States, and it is Crow’s best-selling album to date. This stunning Dolby Atmos mix by Mills Logan (Allison Moorer, Keb’ Mo’), enhances the 360-degree breadth of each of Tuesday Night Music Club’s 11 songs. Crow’s breakthrough album, Tuesday Night Music Club ultimately garnered her three Grammy Awards — Best New Artist, Record of the Year (“All I Wanna Do”), and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (“All I Wanna Do”) — and it helped set in motion the trajectory of an influential and original artist who only keeps on growing with each subsequent release. Listen to Tuesday Night Music Club – 30th Anniversary Edition HERE.
- Rock legend Billy Idol releases the expanded edition of his self-titled debut album via Capitol/UMe. The reissue includes the original ten-track album, a previously unreleased recording of Idol’s complete August 12, 1982 concert at The Roxy in West Hollywood, CA, and the recently unearthed and previously unreleased 12-minute Clubland Extended Remix of his classic song “White Wedding.” Fans can purchase the deluxe reissue HERE and watch/share an official video for the Clubland Extended Remix of “White Wedding” HERE. Fans are also encouraged to celebrate the release of this iconic album with a Dolby Atmos®️ aural upgrade by GRAMMY®️-winning engineer Paul Hicks who has remixed albums in Atmos®️ for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, and more.
- Silicon Valley's premier annual music event, San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2023 celebrates the 50th Anniversary of hip-hop with newly confirmed headliner Big Daddy Kane set to perform with a full band and backup singers on The Sobrato Organization Main Stage on Friday, August 11, 2023. One of hip-hop's most innovative and trendsetting MCs who's renowned for bringing the "playa" style to the game, Big Daddy Kane holds an array of career accolades that have catapulted him to legendary status in the genre. From several Gold records and a GRAMMY Award to being recognized as an icon at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors, Big Daddy Kane's hit singles have brought his influential, lyrical baritone voice to the masses across multiple decades being in the hip-hop spotlight. Big Daddy Kane's acclaimed catalogue of albums include Long Live The Kane, It's A Big Daddy Thing, Taste of Chocolate, Prince of Darkness, Looks Like A Job For..., and Daddy's Home. His standout tracks have appeared on film soundstracks such as Lean On Me, Juice, Mo' Money, and Colors, and his distinguished voice can be heard as the narrator of the documentary film, Notorious. As a powerful figure on the rap scene, Kane has collaborated with Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Heavy D, Busta Rhymes, Patti LaBelle, Quincy Jones, among others. Big Daddy Kane performs on the actual 50th Anniversary of the birth of hip-hop at SJZ Summer Fest -- 50 years to the day when DJ Kool Herc played records at a party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, New York. Big Daddy Kane joins a star-studded lineup of headlining artists performing on The Sobrato Organization Main Stage, which features appearances by Blue Note recording artist Gregory Porter, renowned funk/jazz bassist and a UNESCO Artist for Peace Marcus Miller, GRAMMY-winner and platinum-selling Anthony Hamilton Featuring The Ton3s, buzzy rock-inspired traditional African music group W.I.T.C.H., Havana, Cuba's superstar Cimafunk and his nine-person band La Tribu, and eight-member NOLA brass sensation The Soul Rebels. Pete Rock & The Soul Brothers are no longer performing at SJZ Summer Fest 2023. To see the full artist lineup, please visit summerfest.sanjosejazz.org.
- Mercury Music Prize and GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer James Blake has shared a new single entitled “Loading” available now. Listen HERE. “Loading” is the second single from Blake’s highly anticipated sixth studio album, Playing Robots Into Heaven, which will be released on September 8th via Republic Records.
- OOH WEE! Go on an intergalactic adventure across the multi-verse with the epic release of the Rick and Morty: The Complete Seasons 1-6 boxed set on Blu-ray™ and DVD on September 12, 2023. Get Schwifty while you binge on one of cable’s #1 watched comedies that follows the sci-fi misadventures of genius scientist Rick and his family. Rick and Morty: The Complete Seasons 1-6 includes all 61 episodes from six seasons of the award-winning series, copious special features, audio commentary, deleted scenes, “Inside the Episode” segments, numerous featurettes, animatic sketches, and more. For a limited time, fans who purchase the set will also receive an exclusive Rick and Morty poster.
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