Music News & Notes

SICK OF IT ALL: New Album Artwork Unveiled

"Based On A True Story", the new album from New York hardcore legends SICK OF IT ALL, is scheduled for release on April 20 via Century Media Records. The follow-up to 2006's "Death To Tyrants" was recorded Antfarm Studios in Århus, Denmark with Danish producer Tue Madsen (HALFORD, BEHEMOTH, KATAKLYSM, THE HAUNTED). The cover artwork was created by Ernie Parada .

Reflections Records will re-release the first two albums from SICK OF IT ALL — "Blood, Sweat And No Tears" (originally released on July 12, 1989) and "Just Look Around" (1992). Both albums will feature original artwork but be packaged in a gatefold sleeve. They will be limited to 500 copies.

================================================

DOVECOTE RECORDS TO RELEASE THE FUTUREHEADS & HOORAY FOR EARTH

Dovecote Records is excited to announce upcoming releases by Sunderland, England's The Futureheads AND New York by way of Boston's Hooray For Earth.

The Futureheads' new full-length album, The Chaos will be released June 1st via Dovecote Records. The Chaos is the band's fourth album and arguably their most riotous to date. Following high-profile tours supporting the likes of The Pixies and Foo Fighters, the four-piece buckled down, penning bold, three-minute, heads-down, pop delicacies. The Chaos was recorded over a series of sessions with David Brewis of Field Music and renowned producer Youth.

Also releasing June 1st is Hooray For Earth's MOMO. Originally available as a 5-song EP through the digital eMusic Selects program, a sixth track has been added to the EP and will see a proper physical and digital release from Dovecote Records. Hooray For Earth formed in Boston, MA in 2005, self-releasing an album in 2006.

================================================

Zappa's Music To Come Alive

Don Preston and Bunk Gardner, both original members of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, are going out on a tour of the east coast billed as The Don and Bunk Show. They plan on performing a wide range of Zappa's music plus "zany antics, wild improvisations and strange electronic music the early Mothers were famous for."

"We're doing this tour because I think Zappa fans need to come and hear how Zappa's music was performed by the originals," says Don Preston. "Hey people! We're still doing it!"

================================================

Singer Lesley Duncan Dies

Singer-songwriter Lesley Duncan passed away on Friday after a long illness (age 66). She is probably best remembered for the beautiful duet of her song "Love Story" that was on Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection album, one of the few songs he recorded in his career that he didn't compose himself.

Over her career, she recorded five albums and sang backup for John, the Dave Clark Five, the Alan Parsons Project, Dusty Springfield and Pink Floyd, doing backup vocals on Dark Side of the Moon.