Day: June 4, 2002

Da Boss Is Back! I For One Welcome Him, And I Know I Am Not Alone.
Bruce Springsteen’s new album, “The Rising,” is due in stores July 30 and E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg calls the new disc “unbelievable.”
I am speechless…

Oooh, That’s A Huge List
Wow! Look at them all! There is a slew of new CD’s bowing in stores today. I’ll let you decide if there are any that are worth your time and effort.
Here are the new music releases for Tuesday, June 4, 2002.
* AVRIL LAVIGNE Let Go (Arista)
* BLACK SABBATH Technical Ecstacy (Warner)
* BRIAN WILSON Pet Sounds Live
* DAVID SYLVIAN Camphor
* DEEP FOREST Music.Detected (Columbia)
* DIRTY VEGAS Dirty Vegas
* DISCHARGE Decontrol – The Singles (Sanctuary Records)
* DJ CAM Soulshine (Columbia)
* DJ SHADOW Private Press
* DONELL JONES Life Goes On (Arista)
* GBH The Punk Singles (Sanctuary Records)
* INXS The Best Of INXS (Rhino)
* INXS Kick (Rhino)
* INXS X (Rhino)
* JESUS AND MARY CHAIN 21 Singles (Rhino)
* LIL’ ROMEO Game Time (Universal)
* LONNIE L. SMITH Explorations (Columbia)
* MARCO BELTRAMI The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys
* MARK CHESNUTT Mark Chesnutt (Columbia)
* MC MARIO Sun Factory 3 (Sony Music Direct)
* MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (Warner)
* NASHVILLE PUSSY Say Something Nasty (Artemis)
* P18 Electropica
* PUFFY AMIYUMI The Illustrated History Of … (Columbia)
* RAVEN All Systems Go (Sanctuary Records)
* ROTHKO A Continual Search For Origins (Too Pure)
* SCOOBY-DOO Scooby-Doo (Lava)
* SCOOBY-DOO Music From And Inspired By Scooby-Doo
* THE DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD Divine Secrets Of The Ya Ya Sisterhood (Columbia)
* THE SPECIALS The Specials (EMI)
* THE SPECIALS More Specials (EMI)
* THE SPECIALS In The Studio (EMI)
* THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS No!
* TIFT MERRITT Bramble Rose (Lost Highway/Universal)
* VENOM In League With Satan (Sanctuary Records)
* X-PRESS 2 Muzikizum (Columbia)

It Should See The Light Of Day In September
Johnny Cash covers Sting and Nine Inch Nails on his new CD.

THE BOSS IS BACK
Bruce Springsteen unveiling his first all-new studio album with the E Street Band in 18 years on July 30, a 14-song set titled “The Rising.”
Oh yeah, baby!

Rush Drummer Issues First Statement About ‘Vapor Trails’
Rush drummer-lyricist Neil Peart hasn’t been giving interviews to promote the Canadian trio’s new album, Vapor Trails, because he doesn’t want to talk about the deaths of his wife and daughter, which sent the band into a five-year hiatus. However, he has issued a three-page statement via Universal Records Canada in which he talks about the record.
Of the title, Peart writes: “A unifying theme sometimes appears in the collected songs and suggests an overall title, like Counterparts or Power Windows; other times a particular song seems emblematic, like Test For Echo or Roll The Bones. Neither approach seemed right this time, so we went with the song title we liked the best, ‘Vapor Trail,’ and made it plural to refer to all the songs…When you set yourself on fire and aim for the sky, you hope to leave behind some sparks of heat and light…Like a vapor trail.”
Peart’s statement also makes a lighthearted reference to Rush’s critics over the years: “Knowing that our music is nothing if not idiosyncratic, and doesn’t really cater to popular ‘taste,’ we also envisioned advertising slogans along the lines of, ‘If you hated them before, you’ll really hate them now!’ Or, ‘And now–more of everything you always hated about Rush!’ But of course, like everyone, we do hope people will enjoy our work, and that our shared enthusiasm, energy, and love for what we do communicates itself to the listener.”
Peart’s statement also credits writers such as Walt Whitman, Thomas Wolfe, and Edward Abbey, as well as Quaker folk artist Edward Hicks, with inspiring some of his lyrics for Vapor Trails. However, he makes no mention of his wife or daughter, or of his emotional travails following their deaths.

Bruce Springsteen to Release New Album July 30
Bruce Springsteen will release his first all-new studio recording with the E Street Band in 18 years on July 30, a 14-song compilation titled “The Rising.”
Springsteen’s public relations company confirmed the release date, which had been widely circulating on fan web sites for the last several weeks, in a statement on Monday.
The album, to be released on Columbia Records, a unit of Sony Corp. was recorded earlier this year at Southern Tracks Recording in Atlanta and produced by Brendan O’Brien, a producer best known for his work with the group Pearl Jam.
While some E Street Band members played on the 1987 Springsteen release “Tunnel of Love”, “The Rising” marks the first recording with the entire band since 1984’s multi-platinum “Born in the U.S.A.,” the statement said.
Springsteen, a perfectionist whose releases are few and far between, put out “Lucky Town” and “Human Touch” simultaneously in 1992. “The Boss” broke from the E Streeters on those recordings and the tour that followed by hiring a new set of hired guns to back him.
The statement made no mention of a concert tour to promote “The Rising.” In April 1999, Springsteen and the band launched a “reunion” tour in Barcelona, Spain, which ended in July of the following year at Madison Square Garden in New York. The final performance of that tour was used for a CD, DVD and HBO special, all titled “Live in New York City.”