LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
SOLO ANTHOLOGY - THE BEST OF LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

OUT OCTOBER 5 ON RHINO

NORTH AMERICAN FALL TOUR JUST ANNOUNCED

LOS ANGELES - Lindsey Buckingham is widely considered one of the greatest guitarists and songwriters and musical expressionists of our time. A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and 3 time GRAMMY winner, Buckingham is best known as the producer, guitarist, vocalist and chief songwriter for Fleetwood Mac and as a widely celebrated solo artist. His forthcoming Solo Anthology - The Best of Lindsey Buckingham is a comprehensive record of this illustrious career. Out October 5 on Rhino Records, Buckingham's Solo Anthology will be released as a 3-disc set on CD and digitally and will also be available as a single disc abridged release. A 6-LP vinyl release is slated for November 23. The album is available for pre-order now.

Solo Anthology - The Best of Lindsey Buckingham includes album, live and alternate versions of some of Lindsey's celebrated solo albums including cuts from Law and Order, Go Insane, Out of the Cradle, Under the Skin, Gift of Screws and Seeds We Sow and incorporates songs from his collaborative album with Christine McVie released in 2017. The anthology features Buckingham's film work with "Holiday Road" and "Dancin Across The USA" from the 1983 motion picture soundtrack to National Lampoon's Vacation and "Time Bomb Town" from 1985's Back to the Future. Live versions of Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" and "Go Your Own Way" round out the album, but the most thrilling tracks come in the form of two new songs that have never before been released, "Hunger" and "Ride This Road."

This fall Lindsey Buckingham will head out on a North American Tour in support of his Solo Anthology. The tour kicks off at Revolution Hall in Portland, OR on October 7 and highlights include the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on October 12 and Town Hall in New York on December 4. Every ticket purchased online for the Lindsey Buckingham tour includes a CD or digital copy of the single-disc version of the new Anthology. Fans will receive instructions via email on how to redeem the album after ticket purchase. Tickets begin going on sale this Friday. Please visit www.lindseybuckingham.com for further information.

Pre-order Solo Anthology - The Best of Lindsey Buckingham here
 

US TOUR DATES:
*These markets are not included in the Anthology ticket bundle promotion

Oct 07 - Revolution Hall - Portland, OR
Oct 09 - Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA
Oct 12 - Orpheum Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
Oct 13 - Spreckels Theatre - San Diego, CA
Oct 15 - Boulder Theater - Boulder, CO
Oct 17 - Athenaeum Theater - Chicago, IL
Oct 18 - Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead - Munhall, PA
Oct 19 - Warner Theater - Washington DC
Oct 21 - Knight Theater - Charlotte, NC
Oct 22 - The Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College - Wilmington, NC*
Oct 24 - Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater - Peachtree City, GA
Oct 26 - Capitol Theater - Clearwater, FL
Oct 27 - Knight Concert Hall - Miami, FL
Oct 28 - King Center for the Performing Arts - Melbourne, FL
Nov 05 - Paramount Theater - Austin, TX
Nov 06 - Majestic Theater - Dallas, TX
Nov 08 - Brady Theater - Tulsa, OK
Nov 09 - Riverwind Casino - Norman, OK
Nov 10 - Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts - Salina, KS
Nov 12 - Lyric Fine Arts Theatre - Birmingham, AL
Nov 13 - Walker Theatre - Chattanooga, TN
Nov 14 - Bijou Theatre - Knoxville, TN
Nov 16 - Centre in the Square - Kitchener, ON
Nov 17 - Michigan Theater - Ann Arbor, MI
Nov 26 - Palace Theatre - North Canton, OH
Nov 27 - Riviera Theatre - New Tonowanda, NY
Nov 29 - Garde Arts Center - New London, CT*
Nov 30 - Appell Center for the Performing Arts - York, PA
Dec 01 - Scottish Rite Auditorium - Collingswood, NJ
Dec 04 - Town Hall - New York City, NY
Dec 05 - The Wilbur Theatre - Boston, MA
Dec 06 - Paramount Hudson Valley Theater - Peekskill, NY
Dec 08 - Capitol Center - Concord, NH
Dec 09 - Sands Event Center - Bethlehem, PA


LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM - SOLO ANTHOLOGY
TRACK LISTING

CD One:
1.   Don't Look Down
2.   Go Insane
3.   Surrender The Rain
4.   Rock Away Blind
5.   Holiday Road
6.   Doing What I Can
7.   Trouble
8.   I Must Go
9.   Street Of Dreams
10. Soul Drifter
11. Show You How
12. Shut Us Down (Live)
13. Slow Dancing
14. Countdown
15. Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind
16. In Our Own Time
17. Illumination
18. Gift Of Screws
19. Did You Miss Me
20. Down On Rodeo
21. Treason

CD Two:
1.   Hunger
2.   Not Too Late
3.   Sleeping Around The Corner
4.   I Want You
5.   Time Precious Time
6.   Stars Are Crazy
7.   Love Runs Deeper
8.   You Do Or You Don't
9.   I Am Waiting
10. Time Bomb Town
11. Turn It On
12. Seeds We Sow
13. Underground
14. Dancin' Across The USA
15. Gone Too Far
16. End Of Time
17. D.W. Suite
18. Ride This Road
19. Say We'll Meet Again

CD Three:
1.   Trouble (Live)
2.   Go Insane (Live)
3.   Bleed To Love Her (Live)
4.   Stephanie (Live)
5.   Never Going Back Again (Live)
6.   Big Love (Live)
7.   Under The Skin (Live)
8.   All My Sorrows (Live)
9.   Cast Away Dreams (Live)
10. Holiday Road (Live)
11. Tusk (Live)
12. I'm So Afraid (Live)
13. Go Your Own Way (Live)



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WHITESNAKE UNPLUGS FOR UNZIPPED

5CD/DVD Set Highlights Rare And Unreleased Acoustic Performances Recorded
Over The Past 20 Years, And Includes The North American Debut Of
Starkers In Tokyo

Single-CD, Double-CD, And Double-LP Versions Also Available On October 19

Band On Tour Now

LOS ANGELES - It was the hard rocking sound of hits like "Still Of The Night" and "Give Me All Your Love Tonight" that brought Whitesnake worldwide, multi-platinum success. Even so, the band's founder and lead singer, David Coverdale has never been a stranger to the occasional ballad, going back to his early days with Deep Purple on "Soldier Of Fortune" and, most famously, with Whitesnake on the 1987 #1 smash hit, "Here I Go Again."

After Whitesnake finishes its current summer tour with Foreigner, the band will revisit some of its best acoustic performances with UNZIPPED: SUPER DELUXE EDITION. This 5 CD/DVD collection brings together unplugged and acoustic-based performances recorded over the past 20+ years, including rare and unreleased studio and live recordings, acoustic demos, concert videos, interviews and more. The extensive set will be available on October 19 for $59.98. On the same day, Rhino will also release UNZIPPED in three other formats: single-CD ($9.98), double-CD ($19.98), and double-LP ($29.98). All of the music will be available digitally and via streaming services.

The first disc from UNZIPPED: SUPER DELUXE EDITION mixes rare and unreleased versions of songs like "Summer Rain" and "Forevermore" from the band's recent studio albums, Good To Be Bad (2008) and Forevermore (2011). Also included are songs like "Love Is Blind" from Coverdale's solo album, Into The Light (2000); and a previously unreleased song, "All The Time In The World." All 11 tracks are available on the single-CD, double-CD and double-LP versions of UNZIPPED.

In 1997, Coverdale and guitarist Adrian Vandenberg played an unplugged concert in Tokyo that was recorded and initially released exclusively in Japan as Starkers in Tokyo. That recording has been remixed and will make its North American-debut on the second disc of UNZIPPED: SUPER DELUXE EDITION. The acoustic performance touches on the different stages of Coverdale's career, from his time in Deep Purple ("Soldier of Fortune"), to his solo albums ("Too Many Tears"), and, most famously, with Whitesnake on unplugged versions of hits like "Is This Love" and "Here I Go Again." These 12 tracks, along with all the music on the single-CD version of UNZIPPED, will also be available on double-CD, and double-LP.

"Some of my favourite love songs are on disc one of this collection... and I LOVE, love songs," says Coverdale. "Though reluctant at first to go "unzipped" in public, the shows I did with Adrian Vandenberg in 1997, and then Doug Aldrich in 2006, were incredibly memorable... primarily because it gave me an opportunity to be 'at one' with the crowd... some songs ask for a softer touch... and those are the songs we have here in this collection."

UNZIPPED: SUPER DELUXE EDITION has even more of unreleased, unplugged recordings, including more performances from Coverdale's 1997 tour with Vandenberg, plus several later shows featuring Coverdale and guitarist Doug Aldrich. Plus, more than two dozen of Coverdale's unreleased, acoustic demos are also included in the collection.

A DVD completes UNZIPPED: SUPER DELUXE EDITION with live, unplugged performances filmed around the world between 1997 and 2015, including a complete acoustic show recorded at the Cutting Room in New York in 2008. A highlight for U.S. fans will be the North American debut of the 1997 concert video, Starkers In Tokyo, which has been remixed in 5.1 and Stereo exclusively for this new collection. Additional bonus features include an interview with Coverdale and Vandenberg, bootleg videos, the "Love Is Blind" music video and a slideshow.

Coverdale continues, "These songs are some of the most personal I've been involved with through my almost five decades as a professional musician, singer and composer...This is me at my most unguarded... innocent... writing, as I still do, for the fun... the expression... the poetry... all LOVE songs."

Whitesnake is currently on tour.  More info on tour dates can be found here: https://whitesnake.com/tour
 

UNZIPPED: SUPER DELUXE EDITION
Track Listing:

Disc One: Unzipped... In The Studio: The Love Songs
1.    "Love Is Blind"
2.    "One of These Days" *
3.    "All The Time In The World" *
4.    "Wherever You May Go"
5.    "Easier Said than Done" *
6.    "Fare Thee Well" *
7.    "Summer Rain"
8.    "Forevermore"
9.    "'Till The End Of Time"
Bonus Tracks
10.  "Wherever You May Go" (Instrumental) Strings only *
11.  "Love Is Blind" (Instrumental) Strings only *

Disc Two: Starkers In Tokyo
1.    "Sailing Ships"
2.    "Too Many Tears"
3.    "The Deeper The Love"
4.    "Love Ain't No Stranger"
5.    "Can't Go On"
6.    "Give Me All Your Love"
7.    "Don't Fade Away"
8.    "Is This Love"
9.    "Here I Go Again"
10.  "Soldier Of Fortune"
Bonus Tracks
11.  "Only My Soul" (Acapella) *
12.  "Fool For Your Loving" (Excerpt) *

Disc Three: Snakeskin Boots: Starkers In Europe
Starkers In Warsaw (Poland, April 18, 1997)
1.    Intro
2.    "Sailing Ships"
3.    "Too Many Tears"
4.    "Here I Go Again"
Starkers In Stockholm (Sweden, December 2, 2006)
5.    Intro
6.    "Give Me All Your Love"
7.    "Ain't Gonna Cry No More"
8.    "Only My Soul" (Acapella)
9.    "All I Want Is You"
10.  "Dog"
11.  "Here I Go Again"
Starkers In Cologne (Germany, November 24, 2006)
12.  Intro
13.  "Give Me All Your Love"
14.  "Ain't Gonna Cry No More"
15.  "All I Want Is You"
16.  "Slow & Easy"
17.  "Dog"
Starkers In Paris (France, November 30, 2006)
18.  "Give Me All Your Love"
19.  "Ain't Gonna Cry No More"
20.  "Northwinds" (Acapella)
21.  "All I Want Is You"
22.  "Dog"
23.  "Blindman" (Acapella)
24.  "Here I Go Again"

Disc Four: More Starkers
Promo Tour Rehearsals (2005)
1.    "If You Want Me" *
2.    "Give Me All Your Love" *
3.    "Slow & Easy" *
4.    "All I Want Is You" *
5.    "Judgement Day" *
6.    "Ain't Gonna Cry No More" *
7.    "Dog" *
Starkers In New York (New York City, April 10, 2008)
8.    "Give Me All Of Your Love"
9.    "Can You Hear The Wind Blow"
10.  "All I Want All I Need"
11.  "Lay Down Your Love"
12.  "Fool For Your Loving"
13.  "The Deeper The Love"
14.  "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City"
15.  "Here I Go Again"
"WSTV Jams" Excerpts (2012)
16.  "Easier Said Than Done" (1:34)
17.  "Fare Thee Well"
18.  "Love Will Set You Free"
19.  "Mistreated"
20.  "Slide It In"
21.  "'Till the End of Time
22.  "Shake My Tree"
"Made In Japan" Soundcheck Versions (2011)
23.  "Good To Be Bad"
24.  "Tell Me How"

Disc Five: Up Close & Personal
1.    "Wherever You May Go" (Demo Version) *
2.    "Surrender" *
3.    "Ain't No Doubt About My Girl" *
4.    "Scat Man Blues" *
5.    "Love's A Crazy Game" *
6.    "I Will Love You" *
7.    "Oh Baby You're The One" *
8.    "So Long" (Acapella) *
9.    "So Long" *
10.  "It Would Be Nice" *
11.  "Slide Thingy Blues" *
12.  "Down To The River" *
13.  "Feel Your Love Grow Stronger" *
14.  "Blues Jam Riff" *
15.  "Fun Lick Blues" *
16.  "Don't Wanna Change The World" *
17.  "It's So Hard" *
18.  "River Song" (Early Version) *
19.  "Let's Have A Drink Before I Go" *
20.  "Can You Ever Forgive Me" *
21.  "So Much To Live For" *
22.  "Another Lick While The Missus Is Busy In The Kitchen" *
23.  "Just The Two Of Us (Together You And I)" *
24.  "Oh S___ Blues" (featuring Jessica) *
25.  "Seasons" *

DVD
Starkers In Tokyo (1997)
1.    Sailing Ships
2.    Too Many Tears
3.    The Deeper The Love
4.    Can't Go On
5.    Is This Love
6.    Give Me All Your Love
7.    Here I Go Again
8.    Soldier Of Fortune
9.    Love Ain't No Stranger
10.  Don't Fade Away
11.  Only My Soul (Acapella)
12:  Fool For Your Loving (excerpt)

Starkers In New York (2008)
1.    "Give Me All Of Your Love"
2.    "Can You Hear The Wind Blow"
3.    "All I Want All I Need"
4.    "Lay Down Your Love"
5.    "Fool For Your Loving"
6.    "The Deeper The Love"
7.    "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City"
8.    "Here I Go Again"
Starkers In Warsaw (Poland, April 18, 1997)
9.    Intro
10.  "Sailing Ships"
11.  "Too Many Tears"
12.  "Here I Go Again"
Starkers In Stockholm (Sweden, December 2, 2006)
13.  Intro
14.  "Give Me All Your Love
15.  "Ain't Gonna Cry No More"
16.  "Only My Soul" (Acapella)
17.  "All I Want Is You"
18.  "Dog"
19.  "Here I Go Again"
Starkers In Cologne (Germany, November 24, 2006)
20.  "Give Me All Your Love"
21.  "Ain't Gonna Cry No More"
22.  "All I Want Is You"
23.  "Dog"
Starkers In Sofia (Bulgaria, November 24, 2015)
24.  "Soldier Of Fortune"
Starkers In Paris 2 (France, June 4, 2009)
25.  "Blindman"
Starkers In Wolverhampton (England, June 16, 2011)
26.  "Fare Thee Well"
Starkers In Glasgow (Scotland, June 15, 2011)*
27.  "One Of These Days"

Bonus Features

•    One-on-One with David Coverdale and Adrian Vandenberg discussing "Starkers"
•    Poor Albert's Last: Photographic Slideshow (featuring audio from "Sailing Ships")
•    Purplesnake's "Forevermore" Video
•    "Love Is Blind" Music Video

* previously unreleased

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THE DOORS "HELLO, I LOVE YOU" HIT #1 ON THE BILLBOARD
SINGLES CHART 50 YEARS AGO THIS FRIDAY

"Hello, I Love You" Digital And Streaming Maxi-Single With Previously Unreleased
"Rough Mix" Available Now, 7" Vinyl Single To Be Released On Friday

Also Featured On Upcoming 2-CD/1-Vinyl LP Waiting For The Sun 50th Anniversary
Deluxe Edition Available September 14 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES - This Friday, August 3, marks 50 years since The Doors hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the second time with "Hello, I Love You."

Rhino will commemorate the 50th anniversary with two new releases this week. Out today on all digital download and streaming services is the "Hello, I Love You" maxi-single, featuring a newly remastered version of the song along with previously unreleased "rough mixes" of "Hello, I Love You" along with "Love Street," the single's original b-side.

Available this Friday, exactly 50 years to the date of the track hitting #1, is a new 7" vinyl version of the single with its original b-side "Love Street." This anniversary vinyl release uses mono radio mixes of the songs that were given exclusively to radio stations for airplay in 1968. This version of "Hello, I Love You" was first available last year as part of The Singles CD collection and is making its vinyl debut here, while the "Love Street" mix is being released commercially for the first time. The 7" single will be available on August 3 for $9.98.

"Hello, I Love You" is also featured in the upcoming Waiting For The Sun: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition , available September 14.  This 2-CD/1-LP collection features a new version of the album's original stereo mix on both CD and 180-gram vinyl LP, which has been newly remastered from the original master tapes by Bruce Botnick, The Doors' longtime engineer/mixer. The set also includes a second disc of 14 completely unreleased tracks: nine recently discovered "rough mixes" from the album recording sessions and five never-before-released live songs from The Doors 1968 European tour.

www.thedoors.com

Listen now to the Hello, I Love You maxi-single: https://rh-ino.co/helloiloveyou

Pre-order now at the following links:
Hello, I Love You 7" Vinyl  https://rh-ino.co/helloiloveyou
Waiting For The Sun: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition  https://rh-ino.co/wfts50
 

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LORD OF THE RINGS SOUNDTRACKS

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King: The Complete Recordings

Limited-Edition Boxed Set Available From Rhino On September 21

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers: The Complete Recordings
Available Tomorrow

LOS ANGELES – The Lord of the Rings trilogy remains one of most successful films in cinematic history. Based on the popular J.R.R. Tolkien novel of the same name, The Lord of the Rings was directed by Peter Jackson with a score composed by Howard Shore and earned a total of 17 Academy Awards®. Three of those awards were for the film’s music which enjoyed wide commercial success and has collectively sold seven million copies.

To help celebrate International Tolkien Week (September 14-22) and International Hobbit Day (September 22), Rhino will release the third and final soundtrack from the Trilogy on September 21. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS will be released on vinyl for the first time as a 6-LP boxed set ($134.98). Housed in a collector’s box with a green leather-style spine, the collection is limited to 8,000 individually numbered copies on green vinyl. The soundtrack will also be available as a 4-CD set ($84.98), plus 1-Blu-ray audio disc containing the entire sore in high-resolution 5.1 surround sound, a reactivation of the 2007 box set featuring the entire score from the extended versions of the film. Both versions come with extensive liner notes from author Doug Adams, who analyzes many of the themes and motifs used throughout the score.

The music for all three films was composed, orchestrated and conducted by Howard Shore. The music he wrote for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with contributions from the choirs: The London Voices and The London Oratory School Schola Boys Choir.

The album was certified gold in the U.S. and the U.K. and won two Academy Awards® for Best Original Score and for Best Original Song with “Into the West” performed by Annie Lennox; two Golden Globe Awards® for Best Original Score and Song; and two Grammy Awards® for Best Score Soundtrack Album and Song Written for a Motion Picture.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS is the third in a series of three releases that also includes The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) which was released on April 6 and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) which is out tomorrow, July 27.

There’s probably never been as ambitious a film score as Howard Shore’s 10-hour epic for the “Lord of the Rings” series... the music is rich and complex, drawing on a vast range of styles and exotic instruments to evoke J.R.R. Tolkien’s world of elves, hobbits and warlocks... Shore uses an elaborate leitmotif technique (where musical themes are associated with specific characters or ideas, and are developed across the entire series) to hold the sprawling tale together. Lush, beautiful and full of intriguing surprises, it’s no wonder that it’s become one of the most popular film scores ever written. - Stephen Brookes for the Washington Post, May, 2008

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS
Track Listing:

Side A

1. Roots and Beginnings
2. Journey to the Cross-roads
3. The Road to Isengard
4. The Foot of Orthanc
5. Return to Edoras
6. The Chalice Passed
7. The Green Dragon (Featuring Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan)

Side B

1. Gollum’s Villainy
2. Éowyn’s Dream
3. The Palantír
4. Flight From Edoras
5. The Grace of Undómiel (Featuring Renée Fleming)
6. The Eyes of the White Tower

Side C

1. A Coronal of Silver and Gold
2. The Lighting of the Beacons

Side D

1. Osgiliath Invaded (Featuring Ben Del Maestro)
2. The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
3. Allegiance to Denethor
4. The Sacrifice of Faramir (Featuring Billy Boyd Performing “The Edge of Night”)

Side E

1. The Parting of Sam and Frodo
2. Marshalling at Dunharrow
3. Andúril–Flame of the West
4. The Passing of the Grey Company

Side F

1. Dwimorberg–The Haunted Mountain
2. Master Meriadoc, Swordthain
3. The Paths of the Dead
4. The Siege of Gondor

Side G

1. Shelob’s Lair
2. Merry’s Simple Courage
3. Grond–The Hammer of the Underworld
4. Shelob the Great

Side H

1. The Tomb of the Stewards
2. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
3. The Pyre of Denethor
4. The Mûmakil
5. Dernhelm in Battle
6. “A Far Green Country”
7. Shieldmaiden of Rohan

Side I

1. The Passing of Théoden
2. The Houses of Healing (Featuring Liv Tyler)
3. The Tower of Cirith Ungol
4. The Last Debate (Featuring Sissel Performing Asëa Aranion)
5. The Land of Shadow

Side J

1. The Mouth of Sauron (Featuring Sir James Galway)
2. “For Frodo” (Featuring Ben Del Maestro)
3. Mount Doom (Featuring Renée Fleming)
4. The Crack of Doom
5. The Eagles (Featuring Renée Fleming)

Side K

1. The Fellowship Reunited (Featuring Sir James Galway, Viggo Mortensen and Renée Fleming)
2. The Journey to the Grey Havens (Featuring Sir James Galway)

Side L

1. Elanor (Featuring Sir James Galway)
2. Days of the Ring (Featuring Annie Lennox Performing “Into the West”)
3. Bilbo’s Song

 

 

 

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MC5
CLASSIC ALBUMS SET FOR REISSUE
IN COLORED VINYL BOXED SET MC5 TOTAL ASSAULT

Limited-Edition Collection Features Kick Out The Jams,
Back In The USA, And High Time Available September 21

Founding Guitarist Wayne Kramer Publishes Memoir With Da Capo Press
August 14 Before 50th Anniversary World Tour

LOS ANGELES – The MC5 only released three albums, but they were ferocious, adventurous, and confrontational enough to secure the group’s place as one of the greatest rock ’n’ roll bands ever. This year is the 50th anniversary of the recording of the band’s incendiary debut, Kick Out The Jams, which was recorded live over two nights at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom in October 1968. To celebrate, Rhino will release MC5 TOTAL ASSAULT: 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION, a limited-edition boxed set that features all three of the band’s albums pressed on colored vinyl.

In addition, MC5 co-founder and guitarist Wayne Kramer will release his memoir The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities on August 14 before hitting the road with the MC50, an all-star band that includes Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, and Zen Guerrilla frontman Marcus Durant, as well as Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron on drums and super producer Don Was on bass at select dates. The group will perform Kick Out The Jams in its entirety, along with other MC5 classics.

MC5 TOTAL ASSAULT: 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION will be available on September 21 for $59.98. It includes Kick Out The Jams (red vinyl), Back In The USA (white vinyl) and High Time (blue vinyl). The albums come in sleeves that faithfully re-create the original releases, including gatefolds for Kick Out The Jams and High Times. All three are housed in a hard slipcase with new art and previously unseen photographs by world renowned photographer Raeanne Rubenstein.

The set also includes a new essay by Creem magazine founding editor/writer Jaan Uhelszki, who writes: “Turned loose on a bare stage, the MC5 were among the most awe-inspiring perpetrators of sheer bombast and rock and roll brinkmanship alive…They tore through the stuff they heard on the radio with a fierce intensity that transcended the original artists’ intent. Tunes by James Brown, Chuck Berry, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones vibrated at a higher frequency when the Motor City Five tackled them.”

Singer Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson came together as the MC5 in 1965. The band performed for several years before making its first record. The music on TOTAL ASSAULT shows why the MC5 is held is such high regard today with indelible tracks like “Kick Out The Jams,” “Human Being Lawnmower” and “Sister Anne.”

MC5 TOTAL ASSAULT: 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION
LP Track Listing

KICK OUT THE JAMS

Side One

1. “Ramblin’ Rose”
2. “Kick Out The Jams”
3. “Come Together”
4. “Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)”

Side Two

1. “Borderline”
2. “Motor City Is Burning”
3. “I Want You Right Now”
4. “Starship”

BACK IN THE USA

Side A

1. “Tutti-Frutti”
2. “Tonight”
3. “Teenage Lust”
4. “Let Me Try”
5. “Looking At You”

Side B

1. “High School”
2. “Call Me Animal”
3. “The American Ruse”
4. “Shakin’ Street”
5. “The Human Being Lawnmower”
6. “Back In The U.S.A.”

HIGH TIME

Side A

1. “Sister Anne”
2. “Baby Won’t Ya”
3. “Miss X”
4. “Gotta Keep Movin'”

Side B

1. “Future / Now”
2. “Poison”
3. “Over And Over”
4. “Skunk (Sonicly Speaking)”

MC50 Tour Dates

September
5 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
6 - St. Augustine, FL @ Backyard Stage at St. Augustine Amphitheatre
7 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
8 - Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
9 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
11 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
12 - New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
13 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
14 - Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
17 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
18 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
21 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
22 - Grand Rapids, MI @ 20 Monroe Live
23 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
25 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
26 - St. Louis, MO @ The Ready Room
28 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk
29 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater

October
1 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee
2 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
3 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
4 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
5 - Los Angeles, CA @ John Anson Ford
15 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
16 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
17 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
20 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
23 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
24 - Chicago, IL @ Metro Chicago
25 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
26 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's Hall
27 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore

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