Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning artist and producer, Mark Ronson, announced that his highly-anticipated fifth studio album, Late Night Feelings, will be released on June 21^st via Columbia Records. The title track single “Late Night Feelings” feat. Lykke Li is available now.

Late Night Feelings will feature collaborations with a diverse range of artists including Miley Cyrus, Camila Cabello, Alicia Keys, YEBBA, Angel Olson, King Princess, The Last Artful, Dodgr, Diana Gordon, and Ilsey.

Mark has described this album as a collection of “sad bangers,” and the single, like much of the album, is emotionally complex and personal.  “Late Night Feelings” feat. Lykke Li boasts an addictive chorus and was written by Mark Ronson, Ilsey Juber, Lykke Li and Stephen Kozmeniuk. The single was produced by Mark and co-produced by the Picard Brothers at Zelig Studios in LA.

‘The second single is a follow up to 2018’s global smash “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” feat. Miley Cyrus, the platinum certified track has garnered 250 million streams worldwide and 100 million video views.

The new album comes after a landmark year for Ronson, winning an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for his work with Lady Gaga on “Shallow” from A Star Is Born.

Coinciding with the release of new music, Mark has been DJing at pop-up parties, dubbed Club Heartbreak, a reflection of the new music to come.

On album release Mark Ronson will make history by becoming the first artist to release his album on 5 iconic formats simultaneously.  Late Night Feelings will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and limited editions of 8 track and mini disc – the latter two available only on Mark’s website.  Visit http://ron.sn/store for all versions of Late Night Feelings.

Track Listing

1. Late Night Prelude
2. Late Night Feelings (feat. Lykke Li)
3. Find U Again (feat. Camila Cabello)
4. Piece of Us (feat. King Princess)
5. Knock Knock Knock (feat. YEBBA)
6. Don’t Leave Me Lonely (feat. YEBBA)
7. When U Went Away (feat. YEBBA)
8. Truth (feat. Alicia Keys & The Last Artful, Dodgr)
9. Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)
10. True Blue (feat. Angel Olsen)
11. Why Hide (feat. Diana Gordon)
12. 2 AM (feat. Lykke Li)
13. Spinning (feat. Ilsey)

About Mark Ronson

Mark Ronson is an internationally renowned DJ and Academy-Award, seven-time-Grammy-Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning artist and producer.

Ronson spent the first eight years of his life growing up in London, England before moving with his family to New York City.  Already a keen student of music, and a huge fan of hip hop, he was 16 when he first began creating mixtapes and trying his hand at DJing. That early passion set him on a path to music production, recording and songwriting that has resulted in a career highlighted by work on a multi Grammy-winning album by Amy Winehouse, as well as his own Grammy-winning, global smash hit with Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk.”  Along with releasing four successful albums under his own name, his resume includes production work for some of music’s biggest names, including Adele, Paul McCartney, Duran Duran and Lily Allen. More recently, he helmed Lady Gaga’s acclaimed fifth album, Joanne and Queens Of The Stone Age’s lauded Villains. This year he released a string of singles with Diplo under the name Silk City, including the current world wide hit “Electricity” with Dua Lipa, which earned him a Grammy Award for “Best Dance Recording” in 2019.

He is a co-writer of the song “Shallow,” recorded by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper for the movie A Star Is Born, for which he earned an Academy Award for “Best Original Song,” a Golden Globe Award for “Best Song Written for a Motion Picture,” a Grammy Award for “Best Song Written for Visual Media,” and a Grammy nomination for “Song of the Year.”

Most recently Mark collaborated with Miley Cyrus on the hit song, “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart,” the first single  featured from Late Night Feelings set for release June 21^st. Since its release in late November, the platinum certified single has garnered 250 million streams worldwide and 100 million video views.

He is currently based in Los Angeles where he operates his record label, Zelig Records, home to fast rising star King Princess. To date, Ronson has 1 Academy Award, 7 Grammy Awards, 2 Brit Awards, 1 Golden Globe Award and 1 MTV VMA Award to his name.

https://www.markronson.co.uk/

Neil Hannon, one of the country’s foremost songwriters, releases a wonderful new Divine Comedy album ‘Office Politics’ on June 7th. It’s the follow-up to the acclaimed top ten 2016 album ‘Foreverland’.

“Office Politics” is a 16 track tour de force full of inventive, timeless music peopled with a typically irreverent cast of characters. “It has synthesizers. And songs about synthesizers,” Neil says. “But don’t panic. It also has guitars, orchestras, accordions, and songs about love and greed.” But ‘Office Politics’ central characters are the machines. Or ‘Infernal Machines’ as one track rages.

“I do try to make normal records,” Neil says with a smile. ”But it always seems to wander off into odd territories.”

And for that we should be thankful.

The Divine Comedy will play the following UK and Ireland headline tour dates. Tickets on sale from 9.00am on Friday 12th April. Ticket links can be found at www.thedivinecomedy.com

October 2019

Sun 6th                       Dublin, Bord Gais Energy Theatre

Mon 7th                       Belfast, Ulster Hall

Tue 8th                        Cork, Opera House

Thu 10th                       Glasgow, Old Fruitmarket

Fri 11th                        Birmingham, O2 Institute

Sat 12th                       Oxford, O2 Academy 1

Mon 14th                     Bristol, O2 Academy

Tue 15th                       Leeds, Metropolitan University (Leeds Beckett University)

Wed 16th                    Brighton, Dome

Thu 17th                       London, Eventim Apollo

Fri 18th                        Manchester, Albert Hall

‘Office Politics’ Tracklisting:

1. Queuejumper

2. Office Politics

3. Norman And Norma

4. Absolutely Obsolete

5. Infernal Machines

6. You’ll Never Work In This Town Again

7. Psychological Evaluation

8. The Synthesiser Service Centre Super Summer Sale

9. The Life and Soul Of The Party

10. A Feather In Your Cap

11. I’m A Stranger Here

12. Dark Days Are Here Again

13. Philip And Steve’s Furniture Removal Company

14. ‘Opportunity’ Knox

15. After The Lord Mayor’s Show

16. When The Working Day Is Done

The album was written, produced and arranged by Neil Hannon and recorded in Ireland and London. Additional guest vocals courtesy of Chris Difford, Cathy Davey & Pete Ruotolo.

Physical & Digital Release Format Info:

• 16 track ‘Office Politics’ album on 2 x heavyweight 180g vinyl in gatefold packaging.

• Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl LP. 16 track album on 2 x heavyweight 180g coloured vinyl in gatefold packaging

• Standard CD. 16 track ‘Office Politics’ album on 1 CD in gatefold packaging with 12 page booklet containing lyrics and credits.

• Limited Edition Deluxe CD. As per standard CD, with a second CD – ‘Swallows and Amazons – The Original Piano Demos.’ This 15 track album consists of Neil Hannon’s original demos for the stage musical adaptation of ‘Swallows and Amazons.’ The songs from the show have never before been released.
  

• Digital. 16 track ‘Office Politics’ album as per Standard CD
  

• Deluxe Digital. As per Deluxe CD – 1st Volume is the 16 track ‘Office Politics’ album, 2nd Volume is the 15 track ‘Swallows and Amazons – The Original Piano Demos’

Sony Music Entertainment’s Depeche Mode 12″ vinyl singles project continues with the release of Black Celebration | The 12″ Singles and Music For The Masses | The 12″ Singles – out May 31st.

Each of these definitive box sets contains 12″ vinyl singles contemporaneous to either Black Celebration (1986) or Music For The Masses (1987). Both pivotal releases in the Depeche Mode canon, these albums advanced the band’s musical mission, moving the DM sound from industrial pop into darker atmospheric emotional territory.

Following its release in 1986, Black Celebration became the group’s then-highest charting album in both the UK and Germany, expanding their influence across pop culture while inspiring myriad young musicians to start bands of their own.

The next year, Music For The Masses furthered Depeche Mode’s international mass appeal, breaking open the United States and other markets with the record-setting Music For The Masses Tour. An electrifying and historic adventure for band and audiences worldwide, the tour included Depeche Mode concerts in then-communist East Berlin, Budapest, and Prague. The tour’s 101st show, a transcendent performance at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, was attended by more than sixty thousand fans and documented in 101, a concert film and an accompanying live album.

From their earliest days as a band, Depeche Mode championed 12″ vinyl, embracing the singular power of the format and the avenues of innovation it opened up. The 12″ single allowed the band to explore new sonic possibilities while the tactile physical beauty of the packaging gave Depeche Mode room to develop a sophisticated and commanding visual aesthetic. Depeche Mode used their singles discography as a means of offering left field remixes and other delights for their fans.

Both Black Celebration|The 12″ Singles and Music For The Masses|The 12″ Singles extended Depeche Mode’s increasingly mind-blowing run of 12″ singles and featured some of the band’s most sublime artwork to date.  Each of the albums showcased some of the most enduring singles in the DM catalog; Black Celebration featured “A Question of Lust” and “Stripped” while Music For The Masses contained “Never Let Me Down Again” and “Strangelove” (Depeche Mode’s first #1 US Dance chart hit).

Black Celebration | The 12″ Singles contains the four original 12″ releases from the album plus a 12″ vinyl version of the limited edition “A Question of Lust” cassette release, available for the first time internationally in this collection. Music For The Masses | The 12″ Singles includes the seven original and special edition 12″ vinyl singles from the album.

Sony Music Entertainment released the first two box sets in the series Speak & Spell | The Singles and A Broken Frame | The Singles on August 31st, 2018.  The second batch – Construction Time Again | The 12″ Singles and Some Great Reward | The 12″ Singles – arrived on December 14th, 2018.

Each box set in the series contains the singles from each Depeche Mode album on audiophile-quality 12″ vinyl, with audio mastered from the original tapes. The artwork for the exterior of each of the box sets draws on iconography inspired by the original releases, while the vinyl sleeves themselves feature the original single artwork.

The Depeche Mode 12″ Singles Series will continue over the coming years, with plans to release boxes containing the singles from each of the band’s albums in similar deluxe audiophile-grade collector’s editions.

In 2018, Depeche Mode completed their Global Spirit Tour, a worldwide concert itinerary that launched in May 2017 and crescendoed summer 2018 with a pair of shows at the Waldbühne in Berlin on July 23 and 25. The 15-month Global Spirit Tour saw the band play to more than 3 million fans across Europe, North America and South America.

Black Celebration | The 12” Singles

Stripped (12BONG 10)

A Stripped (Highland Mix)

A But Not Tonight (Extended Remix)

B Breathing In Fumes

B Fly On The Windscreen (Quiet Mix)

B Black Day

A Question Of Lust (12BONG 11)

A A Question Of Lust

A Christmas Island (Extended)

B People Are People (Live)

B It Doesn’t Matter Two (Instrumental)

B A Question Of Lust (Minimal)

A Question Of Lust (L12BONG 11)

A A Question Of Lust (Flood Mix)

A Christmas Island

B If You Want (Live)

B Shame (Live)

B Blasphemous Rumours (Live)

A Question Of Time (12BONG 12)

A A Question Of Time (Extended Remix)

B Black Celebration (Live)

B Something To Do (Live)

B Stripped (Live)

A Question Of Time (L12BONG 12)

A A Question Of Time (New Town Mix)

A A Question Of Time (Live Remix)

B Black Celebration (Black Tulip Mix)

B More Than A Party (Live Remix)

Music For The Masses l The 12” Singles

Strangelove (12BONG 13)

A Strangelove (Maxi Mix)

B Strangelove (Midi Mix)

B Fpmip 5.20

Strangelove (L12BONG 13)

A Strangelove (Blind Mix)

A Pimpf

B Strangelove (Pain Mix)

B Agent Orange

Never Let Me Down Again (12BONG 14)

A Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix)

B Pleasure, Little Treasure (Glitter Mix)

B Never Let Me Down Again (Aggro Mix)

Never Let Me Down Again (L12BONG 14)

A Never Let Me Down Again (Tsangarides Mix)

B Pleasure, Little Treasure (Join Mix)

B To Have And To Hold (Spanish Taster)

Behind The Wheel (12BONG 15)

A Behind The Wheel (Remixed By Shep Pettibone)

B Route 66 (Remixed By The Beatmasters)

Behind The Wheel (L12BONG 15)

A Behind The Wheel (Beatmasters Mix)

B Route 66 (Casualty Mix)

Little 15 (12LITTLE 15)

A Little 15

B Stjarna

B Sonata No. 14 in C#m (Moonlight Sonata)

depechemode.com

Cage The Elephant today releases a brand new song ‘Night Running’, with Beck. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming fifth studio album, ‘Social Cues’, out April 19th on Columbia Records.

Cage The Elephant have also recently announced The Night Running Tour in the States, where they will be co-headlining with Beck throughout the summer and will be playing a run of sold-out UK shows this June.

Cage The Elephant play the following UK shows –

June

Fri14^th              London, Heaven                              Sold Out

Mon 17^th         Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms                 Sold Out

Tues 18^th         Birmingham, Institute 2                    Sold Out

Social Cues was produced by John Hill (Santigold, Florence + The Machine, Portugal. The Man, tUnE-yArDs), recorded at Battle Tapes Recording, Blackbird Studio and Sound Emporium in Nashville and The Village Recording Studio in Los Angeles, and mixed by Tom Elmhirst and mastered by Randy Merrill in New York City.

The majority of the material on Social Cues was written during the unravelling of Shultz’s relationship. He explains, “it can be a vehicle to act out things that are hard to confront.” He went on to say, “I let images just arise in my mind and wait for it to evoke an emotional response and then when it does, I know I’m on to something. One listen to ‘Social Cues’ and you’ll agree!

Cage The Elephant is vocalist Matt Shultz, rhythm guitarist Brad Shultz, drummer Jared Champion, bassist Daniel Tichenor, lead guitarist Nick Bockrath and keyboardist Matthan Minster.

WWW.CAGETHEELEPHANT.COM

Keane, one of Britain’s best and most beloved bands, are currently putting the finishing touches to a brand new studio album, their first since ‘Strangeland’ in 2012, set for release later this year.

A stunning recent appearance on the BBC’s Comic Relief, performing ‘Somewhere Only We Know’, sent fans on social media into overdrive. It was like they’d never been away.

After releasing two highly successful solo albums during Keane’s hiatus, frontman Tom Chaplin found himself meeting up with Tim Rice-Oxley, Keane’s songwriter and pianist, and listening to songs that Tim had planned on releasing as part of a solo project. Tom was incredibly moved by the honesty of the writing and knew immediately that he wanted to help bring these emotional songs to life.

“I thought it was the most personal, most vulnerable set of songs that I’d ever heard,” says Tom Chaplin, “and I was very drawn to that. It felt like a story that I could help articulate.”

Tom and Tim soon found themselves in the studio with their old mates, drummer Richard Hughes and bassist Jesse Quin, working on an album that they’re all extremely proud of.

Keane have already announced European festival appearances for the summer including a headlining appearance at Cornbury Festival July 6th and British Summer Time Hyde Park as special guests to Robbie Williams July 14th. Full festival dates below:

Apologies for not writing in such a long time but we’ve been busy! One look at the charts and you can understand why!

First of all congrats to Tom Walker who finally released his debut album ‘What A Time To Be Alive’ after winning a BRIT for British Breakthrough. The LP stormed to #1, went down to #5 week two and is now holding its own at #2 in the midweeks. We can’t wait for his Roundhouse show May 1^st. And look out for a big announcement next Monday!

More congrats to Dido who’s stunning ‘Still On My Mind’ album went in at #3 this week, having battled it out with Foals and Dave all week long. Dido tours for the first time in 15 years this May, landing at the Roundhouse for two nights May 30^th and 31^st. More UK dates just announced for winter.

A big round of applause to Jack Savoretti whose new album ‘Singing to Strangers’ is on course to be #1 on Friday- his first! Bolstered by the glorious singles ‘Candlelight’ and ‘What More Can I Do’, this breakthrough album looks set to be one of the year’s big success stories. Jack tours in May too, finishing at London’s Wembley Arena May 31^st.

Take a bow Lewis Capaldi who celebrates 3 weeks atop the singles chart with ‘Someone You Loved’. He just announced his debut album, the unusually titled ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ – out May 17^th. Lewis’ November UK headline tour is completely sold out.

Next week Lewis is special guest to Ireland’s biggest band Picture Thiswho play 5 sold out shows at Dublin’s 3Arena. Currently doing 5 UK shows, they roll up at the Forum tonight for a sold out show. New album ‘MDRN LV’ out now on Island. More dates in October.

What else have we been up to? We caught Ida Mae’s sold out Omeara show last week and were mighty impressed with husband and wife duo Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean. A cross between the White Stripes and Led Zep 3, Ida Mae are taking blues rock to a new audience armed with songs from their impressive Thirty Tigers debut disc ‘Chasing Lights’ out this summer.

Mark Ronson was in London the other week for the Global Awards and is putting the finishing touches on his remarkable new album. Stay tuned for news of his next single.

Also in London recently was Cage the Elephant front man. Matt Shultzwho charmed everyone he met with tales of the mighty forthcoming album ‘Social Cues’ out April 19^th featuring Beck on stand out track ‘Night Running’. The band play 3 must see UK dates in June. If you haven’t heard their new LP yet, you have one massive sonic treat coming your way!!

A big MBC welcome to Steven Van Zandt who releases his first album of new material in 20 years with ‘Summer of Sorcery’ May 3^rd. They have 6 UK dates in May too including London’s Forum May 24^th.

Taking time off his Foo Fighter duties, guitarist Chris Shiflett put the first track from his forthcoming solo album out with ‘This Ol’ World’. Chris plays 6 UK dates from March 31^st including the Omeara April 1^st.

And finally a huge welcome to the family to Ant Giannaccini who’s made himself at home here at MBC and we’re all the better for it!

www.mbcpr.com

Off the back of a US tour and the release of their phenomenal track, ‘If You Don’t Love Me’, husband and wife duo Ida Mae, (Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean) today announce their debut album ‘Chasing Lights’ – out July 12th on Thirty Tigers. Pre-order HERE.

Ahead of her first album in five years, the stunning Still On My Mind, out now on BMG, Dido has announced her 2019 Nov/Dec tour commencing at the Birmingham Arena, Thu 28 Nov. The announcement marks Dido’s first return to touring in 15 years, and will see her performing material from the new album, as well as classic tracks such as Thank You, Here With Me, White Flag and Life For Rent. Tickets on sale Fri 08 March– Gigsandtours.com 

Four-time Grammy Award-winning artist Joy Williams today releases the stunning video for ‘Front Porch’, taken from her highly anticipated new solo album of the same name which will be released May 3rd via Sensibility/Thirty Tigers and is now available for pre-order HERE. Limited edition 7-inches of ‘Front Porch/This Side of Heaven’ will also be released on March 29th on Thirty Tigers.

The enticing video for ‘Front Porch’ was directed by sister and brother team Alexa and Stephen Kinigopoulos of Running Bear Films (Ruston Kelly, Colter Wall) alongside Kacey Musgraves. The track has already seen major success with 2 million streams on Spotify. Of the song, Williams shares, “When I think of a front porch, I think of welcoming and being welcomed—shoes off, no pretense, no rush, nothing to prove. I wanted to write a universal song that spoke of returning…to what is real, what is now, what is true, what is loving, deep within…and wherever you call home.”

Produced by Kenneth Pattengale of The Milk Carton Kids and engineered by Matt Ross-Spang, Front Porch alludes to the pre-mid-century American house, where friends, neighbours and loved ones might interrupt an evening stroll to sit a spell and catch up on local news and core life stuff. Williams’ second solo album is everything that image might lead you to expect: warm, conversational, intimate, simultaneously sheltered and open, and deeply dusk-and-wine-infused.

“The kind of music I really enjoy is the kind that feels like a conversation,” Williams says. “I really wanted this album to feel like an easy, open invitation to come and hang out…I want it to sound as real and up close as we can get it without my being too much in your face.”

Ahead of her Country2Country shows at London’s O2 Arena this weekend, rising UK star Twinnie has announced her debut headline show at The Lexington in London on 17th April. Twinnie’s debut EP ‘Better When I’m Drunk’ is out now on BMG.

April
Mon 17th The Lexington, London

Tickets for Twinnie’s headline show at The Lexington go on sale Thursday 7th March HERE

Showcasing what a powerhouse talent Twinnie is, lead track ‘Better When I’m Drunk’ is an honest, fun, country fuelled ride with kickass vocals that she describes as “showing the humour and the truth in what people actually feel on a night out vs the morning after”. ‘Type of Girl’ displays Twinnie’s impeccable vocal range at its best, whilst perfectly balancing old school country with a new, pop edge, while the emotional ballad, ‘Superhero’ shows a different side to Twinnie. “I guess love has no place for superheroes” – the melancholy and feeling evident in Twinnie’s beautiful voice.