Take an album’s worth of traditional Irish songs and spice them up, as a way to both shed a different light on music often regarded as being pretty “uncool” and to celebrate Ireland’s rich songwriting past. “But I’m listening to it and I’m thinking, ‘This is a really good ital,’ a pop song when it was healthy to do good pop songs.” Jurassic 5 is on tour in North America through early November. “I never thought that we could do a song like that,” Cut Chemist says. In keeping with the old-school leanings, Big Daddy Kane guests on “A Day at the Races,” featuring a beat the group’s DJ, Cut Chemist, has been tinkering with for 10 years.Įlsewhere, Nelly Furtado lends her vocals to “Thin Line,” an insightful take on the “sticky situation” of moving a close friendship into more romantic territory. “Power in Numbers,” produced by the group in tandem with Sledge and Omas and the Beatnuts’ Juju, sports 17 tracks that revel in a classic hip-hop vibe along the lines of A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. The video for first single “What’s Golden” is in rotation on MTV2 and Much Music. 33 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tally. 10 on the season premiere of Fox’s “The Simpsons.” The episode, titled “How I Spent My Strummer Vacation,” will feature Petty’s voice and likeness, as well as those of the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, and Brian Setzer.Ĭalifornia-based hip-hop outfit Jurassic 5 this week releases its sophomore Interscope set, “Power in Numbers.” The set is the follow-up to 2000’s “Quality Control,” which debuted at No. 27 in Santa Barbara, Calif., with veteran singer/songwriter Jackson Browne in tow. tour in support of “The Last DJ” begins Oct. 30 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart this week.Ī U.S. The title track, a sharp swipe at today’s corporate radio landscape, is No. Original Heartbreakers bassist Ron Blair plays on two tracks, marking his first contributions since 1981’s “Hard Promises.” Three of the set’s 12 tracks - “Have Love Will Travel,” “Lost Children,” and “Can’t Stop the Sun” - were a fixture in Petty’s live shows this summer. Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham sings on “The Man Who Loves Women,” while producer Jon Brion offers orchestral arrangements for “Like a Diamond,” “Money Becomes King,” and “Dreamville.” studio set, “The Last DJ.” The set, produced by longtime collaborator George Drakoulias, is the follow-up to “Echo,” which debuted at No. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers return this week with a new Warner Bros. The potential for happiness is always there if you keep pressing forward.” Look for the band on tour throughout the world in 2003. The lyrics acknowledge the harshness of life, but they also encourage you to push past those hard times and keep on going. It reinforces the need for us to live each day to its fullest. He follows that line of thought right into the album’s next cut (and first single), “Everyday.” Says Bon Jovi, “‘Everyday’ is about dusting yourself off and getting on with life. Rather than dwelling upon the horror, it celebrates the silver lining the black cloud Sept. Bon Jovi’s feelings about the current state of the world can perhaps be most strongly felt on the anthemic set-opener, “Undivided,” which he says “speaks to the oneness of everyone. 11, he admits that lingering emotions relating to that day waft over a number of its tracks - not to mention his overall perspective as an artist. Though the band’s frontman/primary tunesmith asserts that the project is not completely steeped in sentiments and reactions to Sept. Eventually, many of those diary entries were shaped into songs that comprise “Bounce,” Bon Jovi’s eighth studio album. He says it was a cathartic, necessary exercise after the attacks on the U.S. He also traced the ongoing lives of his family, his friends, and his band mates. He wrote down all the experiences and events that kept his life in motion. 11, 2001, Jon Bon Jovi started keeping a diary.
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