Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters got political this past week. Not that this is a surprise or a first for Waters. This time he spoke at the United Nations Security Council meeting, per a request from Russian officials. In the meeting he said, “The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was illegal and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” Waters said. “Also, the Russian invasion was not unprovoked, so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms. There – that’s got that out of the way.” He then went on to say, “In our… Read more »
Today we talk about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation into the US Supreme Court, The Weeknd’s latest wild vinyl, and Pink Floyd’s first new song in 28 years.
During Valentine’s Day weekend, alternative rock band Angels and Airwaves released its third studio album, Love, free of charge.
London – Members of the children’s chorus who sang on Pink Floyd’s anti-authoritarian 1979 hit, “Another Brick in the Wall,” are owed thousands of dollars in payment, a royalties agent said. Peter Rowan said he was representing one of the group, Peter Thorpe, in a bid for unpaid royalties. Rowan said he hoped other members of the group would join the claim for royalties from a fund set up in 1997 to compensate session musicians. Two dozen students from Islington Green School in north London sang on the chart-topping track from the album “The Wall,” which was recorded at a… Read more »
Although it doesn’t quite have the mega-selling juice of the Beatles’ 1 collection from last year, the new Pink Floyd retrospective Echoes is doing quite well for itself. The album will debut at Number Two in next week’s Billboard, with premiere-week sales of more than 214,000 copies, trailing Britney Spears but topping Michael Jackson. The album’s 26 songs run from the group’s recording debut in 1967 through its latest album, 1994’s The Division Bell, meaning it features material from the brief period Syd Barrett led the band as well as songs recorded after his departure in 1968, when bassist Roger… Read more »
Echoes, Pink Floyd’s long-awaited “best of” compilation, will hit stores November 6th. The album will include twenty-seven of Floyd’s classic tracks – over 140 minutes of music – mixed together into a single piece. James Guthrie, the band’s longtime producer, did the mixing for the two-disc set, which will also be available on vinyl and cassette. The collection will also feature one track never released on CD. “When the Tiger Broke Free,” written by Roger Waters for the film version of the The Wall in 1982 and released that summer as a seven-inch single, chronicles the death of Water’s father… Read more »
Pink Floyd release their much anticipated retrospective album “Echoes – The Best Of Pink Floyd” in November, through Capitol Records in the U.S. and EMI in the rest of the world. Newly remastered and assembled by long time Pink Floyd producer and engineer James Guthrie, “Echoes – The Best Of Pink Floyd” is available as a 2-CD double pack, on vinyl and cassette. Featuring more than 2 hours and 20 minutes of the greatest Pink Floyd tracks ever recorded, and mixed together as one piece of continuous music, “Echoes – The Best Of Pink Floyd” represents the definitive Floyd collection… Read more »
“I never want to say we’re done completely, but we may be,” says Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. “With the length of time since we’ve done something together, it just doesn’t feel like something I’ve missed very much. I don’t want to be touring anymore. I’m fifty-five; it’s a young man’s game.” Gilmour’s revelation comes with the release of Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd, a lavish and thoughtfully assembled double-CD retrospective tracing the band’s thirty-six-year career – from its apprenticeship in the mid-Sixties London club scene and its psychedelic explorations to its reincarnation as the high priests of Seventies… Read more »
Lonely the Brave tackle a classic Pink Floyd song in this week’s (Un)Covered.
Elder Brother (Daybreaker vocalist Dan Rose and The Story So Far guitarist/vocalist Kevin Geyer) released a surprise EP, Wish You Were Here, through Pure Noise Records. The record contains four tracks all titled, “Wish You Were Here,” including an original and three covers by Get Up Kids, Ryan Adams, and Pink Floyd.
