The Congos
FishermanHeart of the Congos 1977 via VP Music Group
Karen Black, the great ’70s New Hollywood actress who starred in movies like Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, The Great Gatsby, and Nashville, died of cancer in 2013. Black was also a musician who collaborated with elusive folk-rock wanderer Cass McCombs a few times, singing on his songs “Dreams Come True Girl†and “Brighter!†And for the past three years, McCombs has been compiling and co-producing Dreaming Of You (1971-1976), a new collection of Black’s best studio and demo recordings meticulously restored from dusty original tapes with the help of Black’s husband Stephen Eckelberry and restoration engineer Tardon Feathered.
The Metallica Blacklist celebrates the influence of Metallica with 50+ artists spanning a vast range of genres, generations, cultures, continents and more, each contributing a unique interpretation of their favorite Black Album cut. Available on digital & streaming on September 10th and arriving on vinyl & CD on October 1st, all profits will be donated to charities of each contributing artist’s choice along with Metallica’s own foundation, All Within My Hands.
by Paul Oakenfold
Buena Vista Social Club Drop Previously Unreleased Track ‘Vicenta’ From Upcoming Reissue - the 25th-anniversary edition of landmark self-titled album will be packed with unheard material from the original 1996 sessions. Penned by Compay Segundo, “Vicenta†recounts the story of a 1909 fire that destroyed nearly all of the village of La Maya, located outside of Santiago. Buena Vista Social Club’s version of the song is presented as a duet between Segundo and Eliades Ochoa, who was born and raised in La Maya.
orig release 1972
The elusive UK group’s third album in just over a year—to be made available online for only 99 days—renders Black trauma in the eerie, sing-song cadences of children’s rhymes.