Thursday, June 05, 2003

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Dylan Reissues In August - From RollingStone.com "In chronological order, the fifteen Dylan albums to be reissued are: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Blonde on Blonde (1966), John Wesley Harding (1967), Nashville Skyline (1969), Planet Waves (1974), Blood on the Tracks (1975), Desire (1976), Street Legal (1978), Slow Train Coming (1978), Infidels (1983), Oh Mercy (1989) and his last studio release, Love and Theft (2001). Additionally, five Dylan titles -- Another Side, Bringing It All Back Home, Blood on the Tracks, Slow Train Coming and Love and Theft -- will be reissued in 5.1 surround sound format, the top of the food chain for sound quality." 11:37:44 PM

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EC Boston Contest on KFOG.com Elvis Costello Flyaway to Boston. Answer the trivia questions on the KFOG/SBC Smart Yellow Pages "Spot the Impostor" Quiz and you could win a trip for 2 to see Elvis Costello and The Imposters at the FleetBoston Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts on July 12th! The trip for two includes 2 nights hotel, roundtrip airfare and tickets to the show, from KFOG and SBC Smart Yellow Pages. All Yellow Pages have yellow pages, but not all yellow pages are the official SBC Smart Yellow Pages. Look for the SBC logo on the cover and make sure you don't get stuck with an impostor. <Click Here To Enter> (submitted by Stephen Newbold) 11:32:24 PM

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Rolling Stone reports on new EC record Costello Gets Sweaty Elvis brings strings and horns on upcoming album. Elvis Costello will release his twenty-fourth album in September. Recorded in three weeks in New York, with Kevin Killen co-producing, the album will be more lavishly arranged than 2002's rock & roll-minded When I Was Cruel. "Everything happens in the foreground in pop records, trying to knock your eyes out," Costello says. "I wanted to go for sounds that might be twenty feet away from you." To that end, Costello wrote arrangements that incorporate a nine-piece horn section and a twenty-eight-piece string section. He conducted the strings himself, waving his arms around and trying not to confuse the musicians. "I don't think the New York Philharmonic is going to call me up," he notes dryly. Costello wrote most of the songs after last year's Cruel concerts -- still in his sweaty stage clothes, he would play piano for two hours in a white heat of composition. "I don't know what kind of thing this is," he says of the album's unusual creative process. "I just think it's good." (Submitted by Mike Vallarelli) 11:32:23 PM

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