By SDCN Staff Los Angeles, CA–A&M/UMe released a digital-only 35th-Anniversary Expanded Edition of Sting’s stunning second solo album, “…Nothing Like the Sun.”  The album title was lovingly adopted from Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”). The 26-track Expanded Edition features the original 12 songs on the album plus 14 […]

By SDCN Staff Los Angeles, CA–WaterTower Music announced the release of the soundtrack to the upcoming New Line Cinema action-adventure “Black Adam,” starring Dwayne Johnson. The first-ever feature film to explore the story of the uncompromising DC antihero comes to the big screen under the direction of Jaume Collet-Serra (“Jungle Cruise”). The 43-track “Black Adam (Original Motion […]

Los Angeles, CA–Just months before his death, the legendary Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong fired up his reel-to-reel tape recorder at his home in Corona, Queens, New York, and recorded himself reciting Samuel Clement Moore’s beloved poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” popularly known as “The Night Before Christmas.”  It’s unknown why exactly the ailing artist felt […]

By SDCN Staff Los Angeles, CA–On October 28, Capitol/UMe will celebrate the full breadth of Neil Diamond’s holiday spirit with the release of “A Neil Diamond Christmas,” a special, artist-curated compilation of the greatest songs culled from Diamond’s four beloved and best-selling Christmas albums.  The tracks Diamond has personally selected for this compilation all originally […]

By SDCN Staff Paul McCartney, his three eponymous career-spanning solo albums (1970’s McCartney, 1980’s McCartney II, and 2020’s McCartney III) have been packaged together and are now available in one special box set for the first time. Written, performed, and produced entirely by McCartney, the “McCartney I II III” box set is available in three […]

By SDCN Staff Four-time Grammy Award-winning drummer Antonio Sánchez released his groundbreaking new album, “SHIFT (Bad Hombre Vol. II)” this week. To celebrate, Sanchez shares a new video for the song “Eh Hee 2.0,” a collaboration with Dave Matthews and Pat Metheny. Arriving via Arts Music, a Division of Warner Music, “SHIFT (Bad Hombre Vol. […]

By SDCN Editor Los Angeles, CA–Ringo Starr and UMe announced the release of EP3 featuring four brand new tracks from Starr, to be released next month.  These four new tracks were all recorded at Starr’s Roccabella West studio just as he did for his “Change The World” and “Zoom In EPs, featuring longtime collaborators Steve […]

By SDCN Editor Vevo has announced the release of Machine Gun Kelly’s “Official Live Performance” of “more than life” featuring Glaive.  Vevo’s Official Live Performances are the result of close creative collaboration with artists and their teams, resulting in a series of very special exclusive performances.  The performances are the flagship original content for Vevo, […]

By SDCN Editor Santa Monica, CA–Universal Music Group (UMG), Thursday announced an agreement between Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva Zappa (the Zappa Trust) to acquire Frank Zappa’s estate, including his expansive recordings, publishing catalog of iconic songs, film archive, and the complete contents of The Vault, the near-mythic storage facility that houses the late Zappa’s […]

UB40 featuring Ali Campbell and Astro will release their new album “Unprecedented,” July 1 through UMe.  The album will be released as a black 2LP, a limited-edition white-color 2LP, 1CD, limited-edition cassette as well as digitally. All formats include their new single “Sufferer,” which Campbell has dedicated to his beloved friend and bandmate of over […]