Briefly: Wilco, Steve Winwood, RIAA, Oasis, Satyricon
Wilco has set a June 8 release date for "A Ghost is Born," the band's fifth album and the follow-up to its critically lauded 2002 set, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."
The group co-produced the album with Jim O'Rourke, who engineered "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."
The tracklisting, according to the band's official website, is:
At Least That's What You Said
Hell Is
Chrome
Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Muzzle of Bees
Hummingbird
Handshake Drugs
Company in My Back
I'm a Wheel
Wishful Thinking
Late Greats
Theologians
Less Than You Think
Steve Winwood is set to play a March 14 show at New York City's Bowery Ballroom, a day before his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with '60s supergroup Traffic
Backing Winwood at the Bowery gig will be his current band: guitarist Jose Neto, drummer Walfredo Reyes Jr., Randall Bramlett on saxophone/flute/vocals, and Edson “Café” Da Silva on percussion.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday (2/18) at noon Eastern Time at 866.468.7619 and Ticketweb.com, according to a press release.
The Recording Industry Association of America, a trade organization that represents the major record labels, reportedly filed suit against 531 people on Tuesday (2/17) that it claims were illegally distributing songs via Internet file-swapping systems. Last month, the organization filed suits against 532 other people.
Fans with photos and video footage from the early days of Oasis --mostly from 1992 through April of 1995--could see it included on an upcoming Oasis DVD release.
According to a posting on the band's official website, filmmaker Dick Carruthers is looking for material to use in the DVD, and is calling on people to email oasisdvd@metropolis-group.co.uk with information about the footage they have.
European black-metal purveyors Satyricon have signed with eatURmusic, the label run by System of a Down producer/guitarist Daron Malakian.
"Volcano," Satyricon's first album for the label, is set for release in the U.S. on April 6.
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