CLASSIC ROCK

T.GRAHAM BROWN

Welcomes Mark Collie

Country hit-maker T. Graham Brown’s LIVE WIRE on SiriusXM’s Prime Country Channel 58 will debut new episodes featuring an interview with Mark Collie. LIVE WIRE is a one-hour show that showcases live cuts & interviews with some of T. Graham Brown’s closest friends and heroes, sharing fun stories about life on the road.

With airings March 18 at 2pm, March 19 at 6pm and March 20 at 12 pm,the show will feature live cuts from artists including The Doobie Brothers, Trisha Yearwood, Dwight Yoakam, The Bellamy Brothers, and The Mavericks along with an interview and live cuts from Mark Collie.

SiriusXM subscribers can listen on SiriusXM radios, and those with streaming access can listen online, on the go with the SiriusXM mobile app, and at home on a wide variety of connected devices including smart TVs, devices with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, and more. Go to siriusxm.com/streaming to learn more.

SHENANDOAH

GRAMMY Award-winning country band Shenandoah is hitting the road on its 2023 cross-country trek, the Revival Tour. The tour name compliments the group’s new single, “Revival,” released Friday, January 27, via 8 Track Entertainment/ Fame Records.

The first leg of the 50+ live concert tour includes stops in Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Kansas, with more to be announced soon.

50+ DATE TOUR

“Revival” is the first single to drop ahead of Shenandoah’s upcoming fulllength album, set for release later this year. “As a songwriter at heart, I love when a song finds its perfect home,” notes Tyler Hubbard who co-wrote “Revival” with Brian Kelley, Corey Crowder and Joshua Miller. “I’m thankful that ‘Revival’ found its place with such a great group as Shenandoah.”

Rare Travis Tritt Album

On April 28, a rare album recorded over three decades ago by multi-platinum-selling, Grammy award-winning artist Travis Tritt will be released on streaming services worldwide. Featuring 11 songs that deliver the quintessential Travis Tritt sound that drove him to the top of the mainstream, Proud of the Country will be released on digital streaming services for the first time via its original label, Copperhill Records.

Proud of the Country is the record that reportedly landed Tritt his first-ever record deal and marked an integral turning point in his career. Then a 2-side album, Proud of the Country was originally released in 1987 on Copperhill Records, a one-off label used by the recording studio Demo Listen Studio in Marietta, Georgia.

The first track off the album is “Get A Little Rowdy.” The classic country-flavored tune mimics Tritt’s days of playing clubs and small honky tonks.

Proud of the Country is produced by Danny Davenport, Billy Suit, and Tritt himself. Tritt wrote or co-wrote all songs on the album.

Red Rose Speedway 50th Anniversary

UMe announced the release of Paul McCartney and Wings’ Red Rose Speedway as a limited edition half-speed mastered vinyl LP. The 50th Anniversary pressing will be available from April 22 for Record Store Day 2023, days before the actual anniversary of the album’s original April 30, 1973 release date.

The first Paul McCartney and Wings album to top the US album chart, Red Rose Speedway kicked off a run of #1 albums that included Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, At The Speed Of Sound and Wings Over America. The album’s sole single, “My Love,” was received with similar warmth, becoming Wings’ first #1 single in the US, as well as a staple of Wings and Paul shows for decades to come.

Red Rose Speedway has steadily grown in stature amongst fans, critics and fellow musicians since its release. Album opener “Big Barn Bed” has been cited as one of Paul’s greatest underrated tracks by the likes of Guitar World and Ultimate Classic Rock, while “My Love” has spawned a staggering array of cover versions by artists including Tony Bennett, Brenda Lee, Nancy Wilson, Cass Elliot, Johnny Gill, Cher and many more.

Kinks Anniversary Anthology

The Kinks, one of the greatest ever British rock groups, celebrate their 60th Anniversary in 2023. Formed in 1963 in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies with their friend Pete Quaife, and joined by Mick Avory in early 1964, the band quickly established themselves as one of the epoch-defining groups of the 60s, with their impact still being felt around the world today.

The Kinks 60 campaign will be a two-year-long celebration of their illustrious musical journey career, confirming their place as one of the greatest and most influential rock groups of all time. As a key part of the campaign, and to mark this milestone, a career-defining anthology, The Journey, will be released on BMG in two parts, with The Journey - Part 1 released on March 24th.

The songs on The Journey - Part 1 (1964-1975) have been handpicked for the first time by Ray, Dave and Mick, curated according to themes inspired by the trials and tribulations of their journey through life together as a band since 1963. Featured hits include “You Really Got Me,” “Waterloo Sunset,” “All Day And All Of The Night,” “Celluloid Heroes,” “Supersonic Rocket Ship,” “Dead End Street,” and “Death Of A Clown.”

Guess Who New Studio Album

The Guess Who is a legendary Canadian band who enjoyed chart topping hits in the late 60s and early 70s with an impressive catalogue of songs including “American Woman,” “These Eyes,” and “No Time.”

Following its critically acclaimed 2018 recording, The Future IS What It Used to Be, the band is currently gearing up to release its latest creation, Plein D’Amour. Band members Derek Sharp, Michael Staertow, Leonard Shaw, Michael Devin, and founding member, Garry Peterson have crafted a collection of songs that raises the bar and continues to take things up a notch both musically and sonically.

In addition to the first single “The King” the album Plein D’Amour includes seven more new tracks. The album Plein D’Amour was recorded at Villa Sound in Singhampton, Ontario, Canada, with Adam Fair.

The Guess Who is currently on tour in North America and dropped the first video and single “The King” from its upcoming album, Plein d’Amour, on February 10.

DEPECHE MODE: “GHOSTS AGAIN”

Depeche Mode’s new album, Memento Mori, will be released March 24 via Columbia Records. Memento Mori’s arrival is heralded by the release of first single “Ghosts Again.” “Ghosts Again” is available now across digital platforms, and as an instant grat with pre-saves and pre-orders of Memento Mori - which is available for pre-order now on 2LP vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital.

“Ghosts Again” has been visually interpreted by longtime Depeche Mode collaborator and Memento Mori album cover and artwork designer Anton Corbijn. Memento Mori is Depeche Mode’s 15th studio album and its first as a twopiece lineup of Gahan and Gore, following co-founder Andrew “Fletch” Fletcher’s passing in 2022.

Produced by James Ford, with additional production work by Marta Salogni, Memento Mori’s gestation took place during the early stages of the Covid pandemic, resulting in themes inspired directly by that period. The album’s 12 tracks chart a vast expanse of moods and textures, from its ominous opening to its closing resolve—running the gamut from paranoia and obsession to catharsis and joy, and hitting myriad points between.

PHISH RETURNS TO MSG

Madison Square Garden announced that as part of their summer tour, Phish will return to Madison Square Garden for seven nights on July 28, 29, 30 and August 1, 2, 4 & 5, 2023. The seven shows will represent the jam band’s 73rd-79th lifetime shows at MSG.

Phish has a long history with Madison Square Garden, from their annual New Year’s Eve run to their wildly successful “The Baker’s Dozen” run of 13 shows in the summer of 2017. In celebration of “The Baker’s Dozen,” a banner was raised to The Garden’s rafters where it hangs alongside banners from just two other musical acts – Billy Joel and Harry Styles.

Tickets for all seven Madison Square Garden shows are available for purchase via ticketmaster.com. If tickets remain, they will also be available at the Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and Beacon Theatre box offices.

KIP MOORE “DAMN LOVE”

Multi-platinum singer/songwriter Kip Moore’s fifth studio album DAMN LOVE will be available on April 28th. Over 13 new tracks co-produced by Moore and Jaren Johnston (The Cadillac Three), emotionally raw and thick with epiphany, Moore explores an internal tug of war and puts it simply enough: Damn Love.

The genre-blending songsmith has a history of entrancing audiences around the world with sold-out headlining shows in Australia, South Africa, The U.K., Europe and a slot at Bonnaroo all slated for 2023. Moore holds on to passion in the persistent anthem, “Heart on Fire,” while “Another Night In Knoxville” captures the magnetic draw of the stage – a sweeping ‘70s-rock ballad that soundtracks a long-cherished memory.

Meanwhile the refreshing “Kinda Bar” conjures magic from a roadside tavern, and a comforting sense of clarity arrives with gentle instant classics, “Some Things” and “One Heartbeat” (featuring Ashley McBryde).

Whitney Houston Gospel Song

The indomitable voice of Whitney Houston lives on with the release of “He Can Use Me,” the powerful new single from I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston, the new gospel album from the legendary singer.

“He Can Use Me” is early gospel recording by a then 17-year-old Whitney. This 1981 recording reveals how even at an early age, she could sing with emotional conviction, vocal power, range and dexterity — all hallmarks of what she would bring to her later recordings. The song is the second release from I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston, following the premiere earlier this month of “Testimony,” another gospel recording by Whitney.

The new song is one of six never-before-released tracks featured on the album, which is set for release on March 24, 2023 and will be accompanied by a documentary TV special and DVD. The album will be available on CD through Gaither Music Group and on all digital streaming platforms via Arista/ Legacy Recordings.

MOE. 3 NITE RUN AT BROOKLYN BOWL

As they geared up to return to the road with a 2-night run at the State Theatre in Portland, moe. announced a special 3-night run at Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn on May 18-20, to cap their 2023 US winter/spring tour. The news follows the return of guitarist Chuck Garvey to the road fulltime following his stroke in 2021. The announcement also follows the news that keyboardist Nate Wilson, who first sat in with the band during Garvey’s recovery last year, is now an official member of the band and will perform at all of moe.’s performances, going forward. Tickets are on sale at https://moe. org/tour

AMERICAN SONGBOOK: A PLACE YOU BELONG

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ newest American Songbook series, celebrates the sounds and scenes that have made New York City a cultural mecca for generations. This year’s series embodies the spirit of four iconic NYC venues where creativity and discovery flourished—led by artists who could not find creative homes in the City’s larger, more established venues. Midtown’s mambo powerhouse the Palladium Ballroom; Soho’s gay underground dance haven, Paradise Garage; Harlem’s home of Lindy Hop, the Savoy Ballroom; and the West Village cabaret Café Society, one of the first racially integrated nightclubs in North America, are celebrated in a series of shows that pay homage to their rich legacies, while spotlighting modern performers with new takes on now classic sounds.

American Songbook: A Place You Belong kicks off April 1 in David Geffen Hall, NYC’s newest cultural hub, with singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff. This special performance, sees Rateliff and his orchestra perform Harry Nilsson’s 1973 LP of Great American Songbook standards A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night from start to finish, in celebration of the album’s 50th anniversary.