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New music releases, 10th November 2014

10/11/201407/11/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

A big week for new music releases this week, 10th November 2014:

Bloodstone & Diamonds, Machine Head

Sonic Highways, Foo Fighters
The Endless River, Pink Floyd
Forever, Queen
Antemasque, Antemasque
White Noise, PVRIS
Cobra Verde, Hideous Divinity
The Seeds Within, Resistance
Back To The Bone: Live 1984, Whitesnake
Reckless (Deluxe Edition), Bryan Adams
Do What Comes Naturally, Handsome Jack
Milking The Stars: A Re-imagining of Last Patrol, Monster Magnet
Kill My Only Enemy, Disdained
Falling Home, Pain Of Salvation
Live In Memphis, Big Star
Sun Eater, Job For A Cowboy
Citadel, Ne Obliviscaris
Guiding Lights, Skyharbor
The Heart Of The Matter, Triosphere
Damn Yankees (Remastered), Damn Yankees
Crazy Lixx, Crazy Lixx
Iv – One With The Storm, Ghost Brigade
Retribution, Nightingale
Nachash, Krokodil
Candlelight Years (Box Set), Insomnium
Sinner (Deluxe Edition), Drowning Pool
Hits, Billy Talent
The Last Great Hope, Electric Mary

All of the above and many more are available through the Skin Back Alley Music Store powered by Amazon.

Listen! Foo Fighters release new track “The Feast and the Famine”

24/10/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Foo Fighters have released another new song.

You can listen to “The Feast and the Famine” below. It’s the second track to be released in full from the Foos forthcoming new album, Sonic Highways.

The new album will be released on the 10th of November, whilst the Sonic Highways series documenting the making of the album premieres in the UK this Sunday night on BBC Four.

Listen! Foo Fighters release new song “Something From Nothing”

17/10/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Fans the world over were finally treated to their first full blast of new Foos yesterday as Dave Grohl and his fellow Foo Fighters released the first song from their new album, Sonic Highways.

“Something From Nothing” is the first track on the new LP which is scheduled for release on the 10th of November. Foo Fighters are currently enjoying a week long residency on The Late Show With David Letterman in the US, where they have played with numerous guest musicians, covering songs by Heart and Black Sabbath.

The band’s documentary series, also called Sonic Highways, begins today on HBO in the USA, with the UK premiere on the 26th of October via BBC Four. The programme is set to document the making of the new album in various cities and recording studios across America.

You can listen to the new song, “Something From Nothing”, below:

The full tracklist for Sonic Highways is:

01. “Something From Nothing”
02. “The Feast And The Famine”
03. “Congregation”
04. “What Did I Do?/God As My Witness”
05. “Outside”
06. “In The Clear”
07. “Subterranean”
08. “I Am A River”

Foo Fighters release new trailer for Sonic Highways

14/10/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Foo Fighters have issued a new trailer for their forthcoming TV show, Sonic Highways.

The documentary series follows the band as they make their new album of the same name across various locations and recording studios throughout the USA.

The show is set to debut in America on the 17th of October, and in the UK on the 26th of October via BBC Four.

As frontman Dave Grohl explains in the new clip: “The process is we come to a city and spend a week and record an instrumental because I interview all of these different musicians. I talk about the regional relevance of the music from that city, the cultural influence that made for the sound of the music.

“There’s no way that you can tell the history of a city’s music in one hour, so we have to do it in a way that relates to the band and goes from point A to point B and becomes a song.”

Sonic Highways the album is slated for release on the 10th of November, with a first single, “Something From Nothing”, due out later this week on the 16th of October.

You can watch the new clip about the TV show below:

BBC4 to show Foo Fighters documentary series

02/10/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Following confirmation that they had bought the rights to show the series in the UK, the BBC have now revealed a broadcast schedule for the HBO produced Foo Fighters documentary series, Sonic Highways.

The series, which documents the making of Foo Fighters’ new album of the same name, will air from the 26th of October on BBC4. HBO have described the programme as “a love letter to the history of American music.”

Each song from the new album was recorded in a different American city, involving a number of high profile guest musicians. The recording process took in visits to Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

BBC Four Editor Cassian Harrison said of the series: “BBC Four is renowned for its music programming and I am delighted we have acquired this innovative series that takes viewers into the very roots of popular music, in an epic nationwide odyssey.”

You can watch the HBO trailer for the series below: