PETER, PAUL AND MARY SOAR AGAIN
WITH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Rhino Honors The Trio’s Legacy With Album That Pairs Their Unmistakable Harmonies With An Orchestra On Many Of Their Best-Known Songs

Available from Rhino March 9

LOS ANGELES – Folksingers Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers formed a trio in 1960 that would emerge from New York City’s Greenwich Village to become one of the most influential groups of the ’60s. Rhino presents a collection of emotionally powerful performances that feature the trio singing their best-loved songs backed by a full symphony. The album is dedicated to Travers, who passed away September 16, 2009.

PETER, PAUL AND MARY WITH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: THE PRAGUE SESSIONS will be available March 9 from Rhino at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $18.98 (CD) and $10.99 (digital).

The album encompasses 14 live stage performances, all but one previously unreleased, recorded during the ’80s and ’90s by Peter, Paul and Mary and includes many jewels from their celebrated repertoire, such as their #1 hit “Leaving On A Jet Plane,” “Puff, The Magic Dragon,” “Blowin’ In The Wind,” and “Where Have All The Flowers Gone.” The trio’s longtime music director and dear friend Robert DeCormier then combined their voices with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, performing symphonic arrangements DeCormier
had created and developed with Peter, Paul and Mary over the last 30 years. The final track on the album finds the orchestra performing Samuel Barber’s “Adagio For Strings,” an instrumental piece Mary had requested be played at her memorial.

“When the songs and the orchestrations are combined, it’s as if two languages are being spoken simultaneously,” Yarrow says. “One is the language of Peter, Paul and Mary’s voices and the other is a commentary on, and an exchange with, the voices of the trio by the orchestra. In Bob’s hands, the orchestral instruments restate and emphasize the essence of what the trio is feeling.”

Only a few of the songs included here were ever recorded with a symphony orchestra and fewer than 30 live orchestra concerts were ever performed. In the last few years, the trio began discussing how this remarkable aspect of the trio’s musical legacy, one that few of their concert-going fans were able to experience firsthand, should be preserved. Travers was especially resolute that this project be completed. Yarrow recalls that Mary was “determined that this chapter of our creative journey be shared with the public and allowed to tell its story.”

These recordings bring the trio full circle, Stookey says. “This feels like the last page of the photo album, where the family is all collected and everybody’s got their hair combed. It’s Peter, Paul and Mary’s legacy and a way of honoring Mary’s sensitivity to the scope and importance of the music we shared.”

PETER, PAUL AND MARY WITH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:
THE PRAGUE SESSIONS
Track Listing

1. “Weave Me The Sunshine”*
2. “It’s Magic”*
3. “Some Walls”*
4. “Don’t Laugh At Me”*
5. “The Kid”*
6. “Leaving On A Jet Plane”*
7. “Light One Candle”
8. “Jesus On The Wire”*
9. “Day Is Done”*
10. “Puff, The Magic Dragon”*
11. “Greenland Whale Fisheries”*
12. “Where Have All The Flowers Gone”*
13. “Blowin’ In The Wind”*
14. “This Land Is Your Land”*
15. “Adagio For Strings”*

*Previously unreleased

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RHINO SPINS PANTERA VINYL FOR RECORD STORE DAY

2-LP Sets Of Cowboys From Hell, Vulgar Display Of Power, and Far Beyond Driven
Available At Participating Independently Owned Record Stores April 17

LOS ANGELES – For Record Store Day 2010, Rhino will offer deluxe vinyl releases of Pantera’s COWBOYS FROM HELL, VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER and FAR BEYOND DRIVEN. Each album has been cut from the original, high-definition masters and expanded to a 2-LP set for ultimate sound, available for a suggested price of $24.98 each. The blistering metal triumvirate captures the Texas quartet at its best, including the classics “Mouth For War,” “Walk,” “Cemetery Gates,” and “I’m Broken.” COWBOYS FROM HELL and VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER both feature all artwork and photos from their original release, while FAR BEYOND DRIVEN features the infamous “drill bit” album cover, which is being released for the first time in the U.S. Each will be available at independently owned music stores on Saturday, April 17. For a list of participating stores and more information on Record Store Day, visit www.recordstoreday.com.

For more information on Pantera, visit www.pantera.com.

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BROADWAY’S MEMPHIS RELEASES CAST RECORDING NATIONWIDE

FEATURING THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW SCORE BY
BON JOVI’S DAVID BRYAN (MUSIC & LYRICS) AND
JOE DIPIETRO (BOOK & LYRICS)

ALBUM AVAILABLE MARCH 30, 2010
DISTRIBUTED BY RHINO RECORDS

“David Bryan evokes the powerhouse funk of James Brown,
the hot guitar riffs of Chuck Berry, the smooth harmonies of the Temptations, the silken, bouncy pop of the great girl groups of the period”
—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“MEMPHIS ROCKS!”
—Roma Torre, NY1

“THE BIGGEST HIT ON BROADWAY!”
-David Richardson, WOR Radio

LOS ANGELES– Following critically acclaimed and sold-out engagements on the West Coast, the musical MEMPHIS made its Broadway debut October 19, 2009, earning accolades for its score, which features music by Bon Jovi’s founding member/keyboardist David Bryan and lyrics by Bryan and Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change).

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of the celebrated new musical MEMPHIS, distributed by Rhino Records, will be available for purchase at all retail outlets including www.rhino.com on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, for a suggested list price of $18.99 (CD) and $9.99 (digital). The collection contains 19 songs and a bonus track/acoustic version of “The Music of My Soul” with piano and vocals by Bryan.

MEMPHIS features a brand new score with music by Bryan and lyrics by Bryan and DiPietro, who also pens the musical’s book. MEMPHIS is based on a concept by the late George W. George (producer of the Tony®-nominated Bedroom Farce and the film My Dinner With Andre), with direction by Tony nominee Christopher Ashley (Xanadu), and choreography by Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys).

MEMPHIS takes place in the smoky halls and underground clubs of the segregated 50s, a young white DJ named Huey Calhoun (Chad Kimball) falls in love with everything he shouldn’t: rock ’n’ roll and an electrifying black singer named Felicia (Montego Glover). MEMPHIS is an original story about the cultural revolution that erupted when his vision met her voice, and the music changed forever.

MEMPHIS stars Chad Kimball (Huey) and Montego Glover (Felicia), with Derrick Baskin (Gator), J. Bernard Calloway (Delray), James Monroe Iglehart (Bobby), Tony nominee Michael McGrath (Mr. Simmons), and Cass Morgan (Mama).

MEMPHIS: THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING

Track Listing

“Underground”
“The Music Of My Soul”
“Scratch My Itch”
“Ain’t Nothin’ But A Kiss”
“Everybody Wants To Be Black On A Saturday Night”
“Make Me Stronger”
“Colored Woman”
“Someday”
“She’s My Sister”
“Radio”
“Say A Prayer”
“Crazy Little Huey”
“Big Love”
“Love Will Stand When All Else Falls”
“Stand Up”
“Change Don’t Come Easy”
“Tear Down The House”
“Memphis Lives In Me”
“Steal Your Rock ’N’ Roll”
Bonus Track
“The Music Of My Soul” – David Bryan

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JEFF BECK ENTERS BILLBOARD TOP 200 CHART AT #11,
THE HIGHEST DEBUT OF HIS 45 YEAR CAREER

Emotion & Commotion Tallies Over 26,000 Units,
Beck’s Best Sales Week Of The Soundscan Era

Performing With Joss Stone Tonight On “Idol Gives Back” Charity Show

Intimate Live Performance From Grammy Museum In Los Angeles
To Be Webcast Live This Thursday Night, April 22

(Los Angeles, CA) One thing has proved itself crystal clear since the April 13 debut of Jeff Beck’s album Emotion & Commotion, his first in seven years: Beck is back! The legendary guitarist and 2010 Grammy® winner entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart this week at #11, the highest debut of his 45 year career and his highest chart position since 1975’s Blow By Blow. Emotion & Commotion also claimed Beck’s best single sales week of the Soundscan era with over 26,000 units sold.

Continuing to lend his personal notoriety to such worthy causes, Beck will be appearing tonight on the hit television show American Idol for their annual “Idol Gives Back” special. Beck will be joined on stage by songstress Joss Stone to perform their hit duet, “I Put a Spell on You,” the first single from Emotion & Commotion.

Never one to rest on his laurels, immediately following “Idol Gives Back,” on Thursday, April 22, Beck will be performing an intimate live show for 200 guests at the Grammy Museum for legendary Los Angeles radio station KLOS. For those not lucky enough to be there in person, the show will also be webcast live in its entirety at 7:30 PM PT at www.955klos.com/jeffbeck.
The first leg of the Emotion & Commotion U.S. tour kicked-off on April 16 in San Francisco, followed by Los Angeles, where a 22-piece orchestra added to the exciting live show. The tour will continue this week hitting such cities as Houston, Dallas, and Tulsa, before ending at the world famous New Orleans Jazz Festival on May 1. The newly added second U.S. leg will light up the Boston scene on June 3 before hitting Atlanta, New Jersey, Detroit, and Indianapolis, including a stop at this year’s Bonnaroo Festival and an appearance at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festival, to finish the U.S. tour on June 26.
Accompanying Beck on the Emotion & Commotion U.S. tour dates, will be his new touring band, including the Grammy award winning producer and songwriter Narada Michael Walden on drums, Rhonda Smith on bass, and Jason Rebello on keyboards.

Jeff Beck’s Emotion & Commotion Tour (First Leg of U.S. Tour):
April
24 Houston Verizon Wireless Theatre
25 Dallas Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie
27 Tulsa Brady Theatre
28 Kansas City Starlight Theatre
29 St. Louis Fox Theatre

May
1 New Orleans Jazz Festival (Gentilly Stage)

Jeff Beck’s Emotion & Commotion Tour (Second Leg)
June
3 Boston Bank of America
4 Mashantucket Foxwoods Casino
5 Atlantic City Borgata
7 Vienna VA Wolftrap
11 Atlanta Chastain Park
12 Tennessee Bonnaroo
14 Montclair Wellmont Theatre
15 Asbury Park Paramount Theatre
17 Kingston UPAC Theatre
18 Rochester Rochester Festival
20 Detroit The Fillmore
21 Indianapolis Murat Centre, Egyptian Room
23 Cincinnati PNC Pavilion
25 Milwaukee Summerfest
26 Chicago Crossroads Festival

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RHINO KICKS SOME PAST WITH HOT TUB TIME MACHINE

Time-Travel Comedy’s Soundtrack Spotlights The ’80s With Classic Tracks
And Overlooked Gems From The Era

Film Star Craig Robinson Adds Covers of “Jessie’s Girl” And “Let’s Get It Started”

Available March 23 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and United Artists present Hot Tub Time Machine, a madcap time-travel comedy starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, and Chevy Chase. Due in theaters nationwide March 26, the film is directed by Steve Pink with screenplay by Josh Heald and Sean Anders & John Morris and story by Josh Heald.

Days before its theatrical debut, Rhino will release the film’s awesomely ’80s-centric soundtrack. HOT TUB TIME MACHINE: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK will be available March 23 at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $13.98 (CD) and $9.99 (digital).

The film’s soundtrack presents a sonic snapshot of the mid-’80s, featuring the epic power ballad “Home Sweet Home” from Mötley Crüe’s third album, the quadruple platinum Theatre of Pain. Along with glam-metal, the soundtrack’s selections survey the era’s various styles, including alternative rock from The Replacements (“I Will Dare”), New Order (“Bizarre Love Triangle”), and Echo And The Bunnymen (“Bring On The Dancing Horses”); early rap by Salt ’N Pepa (“Push It”); and new wave by Men Without Hats (“The Safety Dance”) and Scritti Politti (“Perfect Way”). The set also includes a newly recorded version of Public Enemy’s “Louder Than A Bomb,” which was originally released on their classic 1988 album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back.

In addition to classic ’80s tracks by David Bowie, INXS, Talking Heads, The English Beat, and Spandau Ballet, HOT TUB TIME MACHINE: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK also features two songs by actor Craig Robinson, who delivers unforgettable covers of Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” and The Black Eyed Peas’ “Let’s Get It Started,” which are both featured in the film as well.

Hot Tub Time Machine follows a group of best friends who’ve become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can’t find the party; Nick’s (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and
video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) won’t leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, heads pounding, in the year 1986. This is their chance to kick some past and change their futures—one will find a new love life, one will learn to stand up for himself with the ladies, one will find his mojo, and one will make sure he still exists.

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK

1. “Louder Than A Bomb (Back Into Time)” – Public Enemy
2. “Perfect Way” – Scritti Politti
3. “The Safety Dance” – Men Without Hats
4. “What You Need” – INXS
5. “Modern Love” – David Bowie
6. “I Will Dare” – The Replacements
7. “Push It” – Salt ’N Pepa
8. “Bring On The Dancing Horses” – Echo And The Bunnymen
9. “Save It For Later” – The English Beat
10. “True” – Spandau Ballet
11. “Jessie’s Girl” – Craig Robinson
12. “Bizarre Love Triangle” – New Order
13. “Once In A Lifetime” – Talking Heads
14. “Home Sweet Home” – Mötley Crüe
15. “Let’s Get It Started” – Craig Robinson

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE is a trademark of MGM and United Artists Production Finance LLC.
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