John Lennon’s 80th birthday will be celebrated with the release of a brand-new remix album titled Gimme Some Truth: The Ultimate Mixes.

The record has been executively produced by his widow Yoko Ono as well as being produced by his son Sean Ono Lennon and the upcoming record will arrive via Capitol/UMe on October 9, the day that Lennon would have celebrated his 80th birthday.

The album features 36 classic songs which the press release states were “completely remixed from scratch, radically upgrading their sonic quality and presenting them as a never-before-heard Ultimate Listening Experience”.

The statement reads that the tracks were “cleaned up to the highest possible sonic quality,” before being completed using only vintage analogue equipment and effects at Los Angeles’ Henson Recording Studios. It was then mastered in analogue at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton.

There will also be a deluxe edition which will not only include the 36 tracks, a Blu-ray audio disc but also an exclusive 124-page book. Designed and edited by Simon Hilton, the book tells the stories of all 36 songs in Lennon and Ono’s words through archival and brand-new interviews with people who were involved in the creation of the songs.

“John was a brilliant man with a great sense of humor and understanding,” Ono writes in the book. “He believed in being truthful and that the power of the people will change the world. And it will. All of us have the responsibility to visualize a better world for ourselves and our children. The truth is what we create. It’s in our hands,” Hilton said.

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ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, who is a big fan of Prince, has revealed that he became a fan of the icon after hearing the guitar opening of "When Doves Cry."

"'When Doves Cry' is it for me, really," Gibbons told Ultimate Prince of how his fandom for Prince began. "That opening guitar figure is killer. That passage solidified our admiration for Prince as a truly gifted soloist on the six-string — something that was overlooked 'til the sound of that first fill hit the airwaves."

When asked to pick a favorite Prince album, he said, "All the Prince stuff is satisfying. The awe inspired from the realization that he could play everything with a delivery that made total sense nails it.

Prince 'knew what he knew' and brought it forth for enjoyment for many."

When asked whether he would select Purple Rain or Sign O' the Times for a new listener, Gibbons said, "That's the killer combo. Purple hits the mark, bolstered with the essence found in the movie along with Morris Day. The impact from that picture puts true meaning behind the phrase 'Get it on!'"

Gibbons and Prince performed together at the 25th-anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert.

"We performed together one evening in Manhattan, and later that same night, we gathered at a late-night club to exchange angles on all things guitar," Gibbons said. "Prince was always stretching the limits and his guitar prowess out there remains timeless."

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Hear Elvis Costello’s ‘We Are All Cowards Now’ From New LP ‘Hey Clockface’ “I wanted the record to be vivid, whether the songs demanded playing that was loud and jagged or intimate and beautiful,” rocker says of new album out October 30th

Following a string of surprise singles, Elvis Costello has announced his upcoming new album Hey Clockface and with it another new track titled “We Are All Cowards Now.”

Hey Clockface — due out October 30th via Concord Records — was recorded in studios in Helsinki, Paris and New York, with the chilly “We Are All Cowards” serving as the “third and final bulletin from ‘The Helsinki Sound'” portion of the LP, following previous singles “No Flag” and “Hetty O’Hara Confidential.”

“The emptiness of arms/The openness of thighs/The pornography of bullets/The promises and prizes can’t disguise,” Costello sings on the chorus. “We are all cowards now.”

The track was accompanied by an animated video, directed by Eamon Singer and Arlo McFurlow, featuring “images of flowers and pistols, smoke and mirrors, tombstones and monuments, courage and cowardice, peace, love and misunderstanding,” Costello added.

The majority of Hey Clockface, created prior to the coronavirus, was recorded at Paris’ Les Studios Saint Germain with an ensemble dubbed “Le Quintette Saint Germain.”

“I sang live on the studio floor, directing from the vocal booth. We cut nine songs in two days,” Costello said in a statement. “We spoke very little. Almost everything the musicians played was a spontaneous response to the song I was singing. I’d had a dream of recording in Paris like this, one day.”

The New York sessions found Costello collaborating with guitarists Bill Frisell and Nils Cline along with producer Michael Lockhart. “I wanted the record to be vivid, whether the songs demanded playing that was loud and jagged or intimate and beautiful,” Costello added of Hey Clockface, which is available to preorder now ahead of its October 30th release date.

Costello last released the Purse EP in 2019, and his album Look Now in 2018.

Rolling Stone Magazine – By Daniel Kreps

Deftones have announced their first album in four years and have shared the titular track from the 10-song album ‘Ohms’.

Drummer Abe Cunningham recently gave away that they had a new album on the way a couple of months ago when he revealed the album was done. “We actually tracked everything over the summer, last summer — June and July — we were in the studio tracking,” Cunningham explained during an interview at Download Festival TV in June. “But we actually just completed everything. We were down in LA recording, but we mixed up in Seattle.

“We’re working with our old pal Terry Date, who did a bunch of our earlier records and stuff, too,” he continued. “He’s up there [in Seattle] with this whole distancing thing; it was a bit rough, but we figured out a way to kind of do the mixes without being there.”

Adding: “It’s a lot better when we’re all in the room; we can knock it out quick and argue and do our things,” he admitted. “But, yeah, we just completed that. It’s getting mastered right now, and that’s been the main thing. So, it’s been something to do in this strange off time.”

The new record, Ohms, follows 2016’s Gore and was recorded at Henson Studios and Trainwreck Studios. The band worked with producer Terry Date, who they collaborated with on 1995’s Adrenaline, 1997’s Around the Fur as well as 2000’s White Pony.

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