Greatest Hits – Skin Back Alley

Bowling For Soup to release Songs People Actually Liked

18/12/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Bowling For Soup are to release a greatest hits package.

The Texas based punks have re-recorded a series of songs from the first ten years of their career and will be releasing them as Songs People Actually Liked – Volume 1 – The First 10 Years (1994-2003) via Que-So Records/Brando Records.

The album will be available from the 26th of January.

Says frontman Jaret Reddick: “It’s been so cool to hear these songs come to life again and all in one place. It’s amazing what 20 years of playing, singing and technology can do. Everything just sounds amazing!”

The LP is set to feature 18 tracks including one new song. Whilst the classic songs have been re-recorded, Bowling For Soup say that they have not been re-arranged or changed in any way.

The tracklist for Songs People Actually Liked is:

01. “The Last Rock Show”
02. “Suckerpunch”
03. “Emily”
04. “Girl All The Bad Guys Want”
05. “You and Me”
06. “The Bitch Song”
07. “Scope”
08. “2113”
09. “Punk Rock 101”
10. “Belgium”
11. “Life After Lisa”
12. “Cody”
13. “Thirteen”
14. “Dance With You”
15. “KoolAid”
16. “Pictures He Drew”
17. “Sandwich”
18. “20 Years (That’s a Lot Of Beers)”

You can watch the band discussing the release below:

New music releases, 29th September 2014

29/09/201428/09/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Here are the new and notable music releases for this week, 29th September 2014:

The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets, Marmozets

Hesitant Alien, Gerard Way
Art Official Age, Prince
Plectrumelectrum, Prince and 3rdeyegirl
Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, Lucinda Williams
R-Kive (Box set), Genesis
Greatest Hits, Levellers
Give My Love To London, Marianne Faithfull
Time To Die, Electric Wizard
Blood Mantra, Decapitated
The Stories We Could Tell, Mr.Big
Back To Oblivion, Finch
Bringing Back The Sunshine, Black Shelton
Soundtracks (Box Set), Ry Cooder
Last Act Of Defiance, Sick Of It All
Pure Heavy, Audrey Horne
Hymns For The Broken, Evergrey
The Ophidian Trek, Meshuggah
Live At The Forum, The Boxer Rebellion
Thrill Of Night, Grand Design
The Great Divide, Enchant
V For Vaselines, The Vaselines
Redemption, Saracen
The Dwarves Invented Rock N Roll, The Dwarves
Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (Remastered), Heads
The Return, Nonpoint
Roads To The North, Panopticon
Sonic Child, Zodiac
Rise Of The Empress, White Empress
Til Endes, Khold

You can buy all of the above – and many more! – at the Skin Back Alley Music Store, powered by Amazon.

Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart announce first show in 20 yrs

12/06/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

UK music legend Jah Wobble is celebrating 36 years in music this year with the release of a career-spanning 6-CD box set, ReDux, and a brand new single, “Let’s Go Psycho.”

To launch the release, Wobble is reforming his group, Invaders Of The Heart, for a one-off show at London’s Under The Bridge. The show will take place on the 10th of October.

Wobble rose to prominence as the original bass player in John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols band, Public Image Ltd. His distinctive sound and style of playing soon garnered him notoriety and led The Guardian to describe him as “a true maverick.”

Invaders Of The Heart released their debut album in 1990, following it up with the Mercury Music Prize-nominated sophomore LP, “Rising Above Bedlam”, in 1991. The band stopped playing live in 1994, even though more studio albums followed.

The 6-CD ReDux set will be released later in the year, with Disc 1 also being released as a stand-alone Greatest Hits package. Disc 6 of ReDux comprises a brand new Jah Wobble album, and also features some exclusive covers.

Invaders Of The Heart will play Under The Bridge, Fulham Road, London, SW6 1HS on the 10th Of October 2014. You can buy tickets from the box office here.

My Chemical Romance release new song

18/02/201418/02/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

My Chemical Romance have unveiled a new song.

‘Fake Your Death’ was released yesterday as had previously been promised via the band’s Twitter account.

MCR announced that they were splitting up last March and have referred to the song as their ‘eulogy’. It will feature on their forthcoming greatest hits album, May Death Never Stop You, which is scheduled for release on 24th March.

Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero and Ray Toro have said in a group statement: “The title is fitting, because as sad as it was to say goodbye to the band, we look at this collection as a celebration of our best songs, and hope the memory of them continues to bring joy to you all as they have for us. We hope you take the journey with us into MCR’s past, and enjoy the small taste of what might have been.”

May Death Never Stop You will be released both as a standard CD and in a Deluxe version which will also include DVD content. There will also be a Physical Deluxe edition including the CD, and a 180-gram vinyl two-LP set.

You can watch the trailer for the album – featuring ‘Fake Your Death’ – below: