EARLY GENESIS RETURNS TO VINYL

Rhino Presents Boxed Set Containing 180-Gram, Audiophile Vinyl Versions of Five Acclaimed Genesis Albums Recorded Between 1970-1975 with Singer Peter Gabriel

Five-Album Boxed Set Will Be Available April 14 from Rhino

LOS ANGELES — After upgrading the Genesis catalog of studio albums with a trio of comprehensive boxed sets, Rhino brings the band’s early years back to their vinyl origins with GENESIS 1970-1975, a boxed set that contains five albums with lead singer Peter Gabriel. The collection, on 180-gram vinyl, will be available April 14 from regular retail outlets, www.genesis-music.com and www.rhino.com for a suggested list price of $149.98.

Each reissued album contains new stereo mixes done by Nick Davis. They are presented in heavyweight gatefold sleeves that feature the original covers, faithfully reproduced from their original sources. All of the albums are collected in a protective slipcase.

One of the top-selling recording artists of all time, Genesis has sold more than 150 million albums so far. This five-album set collects some of the band’s most adventurous and ground-breaking records, covering Gabriel’s tenure with the group.

GENESIS 1970-1975 spotlights five albums–TRESPASS, NURSERY CRYME, FOXTROT, SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND and the double LP set, THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY.

Featuring favorites like “The Knife” and “White Mountain,” Genesis’ second album, TRESPASS (1970), marked the beginning of a five-year journey that saw the band create ever-more daring albums of progressive rock. The album includes guitarist Anthony Phillips and drummer John Mayhew, who were replaced on the following album by Steve Hackett and Phil Collins respectively.

NURSERY CRYME (1971) opens with “The Musical Box,” a beautiful 10-minute sprawl that captures the essence of the band’s sophisticated musicality tweaked with freewheeling theatrics. Genesis’ new lineup starts to define its unique voice on songs like “The Return Of The Giant Hogweed” and “The Fountain Of Salmacis.”

The band returned the following year with FOXTROT (1972), a breakthrough album hailed by critics and embraced by fans, especially in England where it reached #12. Two tracks in particular – “Watcher Of The Skies” and “Supper’s Ready” – became live staples for years to come. Nearly filling the album’s second half, “Supper’s Ready” stands as an avant-garde showcase for each member’s individual talents.

Genesis’ popularity continued to grow with its fifth studio album, SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND (1973). These eight songs find the band’s inventive storytelling and imaginative arrangements coming into sharper focus with “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)” – Genesis’ first hit single in the U.K. The album also introduced audiences to “The Cinema Show” and “Firth Of Fifth,” songs that would become popular concert staples.

THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY (1974) is a double album about a Puerto Rican hood searching for his brother. It was to be Gabriel’s final release with Genesis. The band toured for the album, performing the entire 90-minute album along with an ambitious stage show complete with costume changes, theatrical lighting, and pyrotechnics. The title track, “Carpet Crawlers” and “In The Cage” remain popular parts of the band’s live show.

TRESPASS (1970)
Side One
“Looking For Someone”
“White Mountain”
“Visions Of Angels”
Side Two
“Stagnation”
“Dusk”
“The Knife”

NURSERY CRYME (1971)
Side One
“The Musical Box”
“For Absent Friends”
“The Return Of The Giant Hogweed”
Side Two
“Seven Stones”
“Harold The Barrel”
“Harlequin”
“The Fountain Of Salmacis”

FOXTROT (1972)
Side One
“Watcher Of The Skies”
“Time Table”
“Get ‘Em Out By Friday”
“Can-Utility And The Coastliners”
Side Two
“Horizons”
“Supper’s Ready”

SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND (1973)
Side One
“Dancing With The Moonlit Knight”
“I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”
“Firth Of Fifth”
“More Fool Me”
Side Two
“The Battle Of Epping Forest”
“After The Ordeal”
“The Cinema Show”
“Aisle Of Plenty”

THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY (1974)

Side One
“The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway”
“Fly On A Windshield”
“Broadway Melody Of 1974”
“Cuckoo Cocoon”
“In The Cage”
“The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging”

Side Two
“Back In N.Y.C.”
“Hairless Heart”
“Counting Out Time”
“Carpet Crawlers”
“The Chamber Of 32 Doors”

Side Three
“Lilywhite Lilith”
“The Waiting Room”
“Anyway”
“Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist”
“The Lamia”
“Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats”

Side Four
“The Colony Of Slippermen: The Arrival/A Visit To The Doktor/The Raven”
“Ravine”
“The Light Dies Down On Broadway”
“Riding The Scree”
“In The Rapids”
“It.”

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JERRY GARCIA BAND WILL “LET IT ROCK”

Double-Disc Collection Includes Rare Early Performances Of The Group’s Original Lineup, Featuring Legendary Pianist Nicky Hopkins, Recorded Live In Berkeley, November 1975

Available November 10 In Stores And At Dead.net

LOS ANGELES — For Jerry Garcia, 1975 was a seminal year that found him splitting time between recording Blues for Allah with the Dead, directing The Grateful Dead Movie, and forming the Jerry Garcia Band–his long-running side project. JGB’s earliest days are the subject of a two-disc live collection recorded during that momentous year. THE JERRY GARCIA COLLECTION, VOL. 2: LET IT ROCK, JERRY GARCIA BAND, NOVEMBER 17 & 18, 1975, KEYSTONE BERKELEY will be available November 10 from Jerry Garcia Family/Rhino at physical retail outlets and at www.dead.net for a suggested list price of $19.98.

The Jerry Garcia Band–Garcia, his constant collaborator bassist John Kahn and drummer Ron Tutt–played its first show with Nicky Hopkins on piano in August 1975. The ultimate session player, Hopkins’ credits include work with The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and Jefferson Airplane to name a very few. While Hopkins residency was brief with the Jerry Garcia Band, it played an important role in the group’s shift away from big jams toward song-oriented material.

In addition to being a brilliant songwriter himself, Garcia had a great ear for other people's songs and the new band provided him an opportunity to explore others’ works. LET IT ROCK includes covers of Chuck Berry (“Let It Rock”), Little Milton (“That’s What Love Will Make You Do”) and Jimmy Cliff (“Sitting In Limbo.”) It also features performances of Allen Toussaint’s “I’ll Take A Melody” and Hank Ballard’s “Tore Up Over You,” songs that would surface a few months later on Garcia’s Reflections (1976). In addition to other artists’ songs, the band dips briefly into the Dead canon for “Friend Of The Devil” and Garcia’s 1972 solo debut for “Sugaree.” Three Hopkins originals are featured as well, “Pig’s Boogie,” “Lady Sleeps,” and the curiously titled “Edward, The Mad Shirt Grinder,” a song Hopkins first performed with Quicksilver Messenger Service.

While it is not strictly speaking a complete show, THE JERRY GARCIA COLLECTION, VOL. 2 is sequenced to approximate a two-set club gig, highlighting performances recorded November 17 and 18, 1975, during a pair of intimate gigs at Keystone Berkeley in front of a hometown crowd. The shows demonstrate that this lineup was capable of collective improvisation on the same level as the Grateful Dead, says David Gans, host of the Grateful Dead Hour. “Everybody could play melody or rhythm, or both, at any time, flying in and out of formation and always in intimate relation to what the others were playing,” he writes in the collection’s liner notes.

THE JERRY GARCIA COLLECTION, VOL. 2: LET IT ROCK, JERRY GARCIA BAND,
NOVEMBER 17 & 18, 1975, KEYSTONE BERKELEY

Track Listing

Disc One
1. “Let It Rock”
2. “Tore Up Over You”
3. “Friend Of The Devil”
4. “They Love Each Other”
5. “It’s Too Late”
6. “Pig’s Boogie”
7. Band Introductions
8. “Sitting In Limbo”
9. “(I’m A) Road Runner”

Disc Two
1. “Sugaree”
2. “I’ll Take A Melody”
3. “That’s What Love Will Make You Do”
4. “Lady Sleeps”
5. “Ain’t No Use”
6. “Let’s Spend The Night Together”
7. “Edward, The Mad Shirt Grinder”

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FOREIGNER CAN’T SLOW DOWN WITH NEW ALBUM
TO BE AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT WALMART
Three-Disc Set Combines New Music With Album Of Remixed Hits And DVD

Legendary Group To Tour North America This Summer

LOS ANGELES – Foreigner, one of the world’s most popular and enduring rock bands, will release a new three-disc collection, including a CD album of all new music, a CD album of the band’s original hit recordings, and a DVD of the band in concert and beyond. Foreigner’s latest will be available from Rhino Entertainment September 29, exclusively through Walmart, for $12.00.

Twelve tracks on the new album are produced by Mick Jones and Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith and Buckcherry), with celebrated Grammy®-winning producer Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse) contributing the Mick Jones-penned “Fool For You Anyway.” The title track, CAN’T SLOW DOWN, was written by Mick Jones, Kelly Hansen, and Marti Frederiksen as a tribute to NASCAR in celebration of Foreigner’s appearance at the Samsung 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway earlier this year. NASCAR fans bought so many CDs that day that Foreigner’s 2008 release No End In Sight:The Very Best Of Foreigner was propelled back into the Billboard Top 200.
The collection’s second disc contains 10 remixes by Marti Frederiksen and Anthony Focx of some of the band’s most well known songs, including “Feels Like The First Time,” “Cold As Ice,” “Urgent,” “Hot Blooded,” and “I Want To Know What Love Is.” The remixes bring a new energy and sound definition to these classic songs.

The DVD captures the band performing many of its hits live in 5.1 surround sound. The DVD also contains performances filmed during the band’s recently completed European tour. Also featured is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of CAN’T SLOW DOWN, from writing sessions in New York, Nashville, and Los Angeles to the Walmart shareholders meeting where the exclusive partnership behind this project was finalized.

Foreigner has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide. The band will commence a 45-show headline trek across North America today.

CAN’T SLOW DOWN
Track Listing

Disc 1 – New Album
1. “Can’t Slow Down”
2. “In Pieces”
3. “When It Comes To Love”
4. “Living In A Dream”
5. “I Can’t Give Up”
6. “Ready”
7. “Give Me A Sign”
8. “I’ll Be Home Tonight”
9. “Too Late”
10. “Lonely”
11. “As Long As I Live”
12. “Angel Tonight”
13. “Fool For You Anyway”

Disc 2 – Remixes
1. “Feels Like The First time”
2. “Cold As Ice”
3. “Hot Blooded”
4. “Blue Morning, Blue Day”
5. “Double Vision”
6. “Dirty White Boy”
7. “Head Games”
8. “Juke Box Hero”
9. “Urgent”
10. “I Want To Know What Love Is”

Disc 3 – DVD

JULY
30 Morristown, New Jersey
31 Atlantic City, New Jersey

AUGUST
1 Williamsburg, Virginia
2 Williamsburg, Virginia
4 Eaton, Ohio (Dayton)
5 Columbus, Ohio
6 West Allis, Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
8 Maumee, Ohio (Toledo)
9 Quapaw, Oklahoma
12 Sterling Heights, Michigan (Detroit)
14 Biloxi, Mississippi
15 Valdosta, Georgia
16 Orlando, Florida
19 Eugene, Oregon (Portland)
20 Lynden, Washington (Vancouver)
21 Chehalis, Washington
22 Redmond, Washington (Seattle)
25 Boise, Idaho
26 Lancaster, California (Los Angeles)
28 Lodi, California (Sacramento)
29 Cabazon, California (Palm Springs)
30 Thousand Oaks, California (Los Angeles)
31 Saratoga, California

SEPTEMBER
3 Pueblo, Colorado (Colorado Springs)
4 Loveland, Colorado (Denver)
5 Huron, South Dakota (Sioux Falls)
6 Norfolk, Nebraska (Omaha)
17 Phoenix, Arizona
18 Prescott Valley, Arizona
19 Santa Fe, New Mexico
20 Mescalero, New Mexico (El Paso)
24 Frederick, Maryland (Washington DC)
25 Charleston, West Virginia
26 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
27 Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania (Allentown)
29 Indiana, Pennsylvania

OCTOBER
1 Westbury, New York (Long Island)
2 New York City
3 Lakewood, NJ
4 Torrington, Connecticut (Hartford)
6 Englewood, New Jersey
8 San Francisco, CA
10 Irvine, California (Orange County)

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FILTER’S BEST ‘SHOT’S

Rhino Presents Career-Spanning Collection that Spotlights 14 of the Band’s Finest Including Studio Recordings, Rare Radio Edits and Soundtrack Contributions

Available from Rhino March 31

LOS ANGELES — A rare mix of power and finesse, Filter hangs its hard rock angst, electronic sheen and industrial grit on memorable hooks, rendering finely sculpted sonic broadsides that have distinguished the band over the course of four studio albums. Rhino takes aim at the band’s career—so far—with its first retrospective, THE VERY BEST THINGS (1995-2008). The single-disc collection will be available from Rhino Records March 31 for a suggested list price of $11.98 (CD) and $9.99 (digital).

The compilation’s 14 songs encompass studio recordings, rare radio edits and a scattering of soundtrack contributions. It begins with “Hey Man Nice Shot,” the Top 10 hit that put the band on the musical map in 1995 and pushed Short Bus—Filter’s debut—to platinum status. From there, the retrospective touches on songs that reflect the evolution of the band’s music, including “Soldiers Of Misfortune,” from their 2008 album Anthems For The Damned.

THE VERY BEST THINGS features 5 tracks from 1998’s Title Of Record, the certified-platinum follow-up to the band’s debut, including “The Best Things,” “I’m Not The Only One,” and the radio edits for the singles “Welcome To The Fold” and the smash hit “Take A Picture.” Taken from 2002’s The Amalgamut, the collection also features “The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way)” and the single edit version of “Where Do We Go From Here.”

In addition to its studio albums, Filter was also known for writing songs that appeared on a number of popular soundtracks. THE VERY BEST THINGS gathers several, including the savage intensity of “Jurrasitol” from The Crow – City Of Angels; “(Can’t You) Trip Like I Do” the band’s collaboration with The Crystal Method for Spawn: The Album; as well as “One (Is The Loneliest Number)” and “Thanks Bro,” two songs recorded for different X-Files albums.

After a six-year hiatus, Richard Patrick brought Filter back to active duty last spring with the release of the politically charged and critically acclaimed album Anthems For The Damned. The band followed up with the November digital only release Remixes For The Damned, which features brand-new remixes of various tracks from Anthems. Filter is planning a string of U.S. tour dates in the spring, with full details to be announced shortly.

THE VERY BEST OF FILTER
Track Listing

1. “Hey Man Nice Shot”
2. “Welcome To The Fold” – Radio Edit
3. “Jurrasitol”
4. “(Can’t You) Trip Like I Do”
5. “Take A Picture” – Radio Edit
6. “Soldiers Of Misfortune”
7. “Where Do We Go From Here” – Single Edit
8. “Dose”
9. “I’m Not The Only One”
10. “Skinny”
11. “One (Is The Loneliest Number)”
12. “The Best Things”
13. “The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way)”
14. “Thanks Bro”

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THE FILLMORE FAREWELL

DVD Debut Of Out-Of-Print Documentary Captures A Grand Send-Off For The Fillmore West With Performances By The Grateful Dead, Santana, And More

Available June 2 From Rhino Records

LOS ANGELES – When the legendary rock impresario Bill Graham closed the Fillmore West in 1971, the San Francisco venue had become an institution, an integral part of the West Coast music scene in the ’60s. Always the showman, Graham made sure the Fillmore West was sent off in a blaze of glory, scheduling five nights of concerts featuring bands like the Grateful Dead and Santana - that got their start at this storied concert hall. Both the madness leading up to the shows and the concerts were filmed for FILLMORE: THE LAST DAYS, a documentary originally released in 1972. Long out-of-print, Rhino and the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation present the DVD debut of this film on June 2. It will be available from all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $19.99. FILLMORE: THE LAST DAYS is part of special programming airing on PBS stations in May and June 2009 (please check local listings).

The film stands as a vivid time capsule that captures an era in rock history when music had become a major industry and—for some—a huge headache. It delivers a gritty, behind-the-scenes look at the music business at a time when many artists were growing jaded by their success, demanding more and more. Disillusioned by the change, Graham decided to get out, pulling the curtain down with five days of concerts that ended on July 4, 1971.

In the end, the frantic preparations paid off with a host of marvelous performances from a range of artists who made up what was called “The San Francisco Sound.” FILLMORE: THE LAST DAYS features highlights from all five nights, including songs by the Grateful Dead (“Casey Jones,” “Johnny B. Goode”); Santana (“Incident At Neshabur,” “In A Silent Way”); Quicksilver Messenger Service (“Mojo,” “Fresh Air”); Jefferson Airplane (“Volunteers”/“We Can Be So Good Together”); along with performances by Cold Blood, Hot Tuna, and Lamb. Author and original Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres wrote the liner notes for the DVD.

The Bill Graham Memorial Foundation was formed in November of 1991 following the death of legendary rock impresario, Bill Graham. The goal of the Foundation is to continue Bill’s good work in assisting those whose needs are oftentimes not noticed or served by larger philanthropic organizations. Currently, the Foundation awards grants primarily in the areas of music, the arts, and education, while also supporting social work, environmental protection, and spiritual and compassionate projects in the community.

FILLMORE: THE LAST DAYS
DVD Track Listing

“Hello Friends” – Lamb
“You Got Me Hummin’” – Cold Blood
“I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” – Cold Blood
“Candy Man” – Hot Tuna
“Uncle Sam Blues” – Hot Tuna
Rehearsal Jam – The Rowan Brothers
“Isn’t It Just A Beautiful Day” – Lamb
“Fresh Air” – Quicksilver Messenger Service
“Mojo” - Quicksilver Messenger Service
“Volunteers”/ “We Can Be So Good Together” – Jefferson Airplane
“Noodle” – Jerry Garcia
Rehearsal Jam – Jerry Garcia with New Riders Of The Purple Sage
“Casey Jones” – Grateful Dead
“Johnny B. Goode” – Grateful Dead
“White Bird” – It’s A Beautiful Day
“The Sky Is Crying” – The Elvin Bishop Group
“Incident At Neshabur” – Santana
“In A Silent Way”/ “Jam” – Santana
“In A Silent Way” – Santana

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