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Briefly: Joni Mitchell, Stewart Copeland, Bob Mould, Alannah Myles
Joni Mitchell has signed on with Starbucks' Hear Music label, which launched with much fanfare earlier this year by releasing Paul McCartney 's latest album, "Memory Almost Full."
Hear Music has announced a Sept. 25 release for Mitchell's forthcoming album, "Shine," which will be available in the US and Canada at both traditional retailers and Starbucks Company-operated locations, according to a press release.
"I am thrilled to be able to work with the Hear Music label on my new CD," said Mitchell. "Starbucks and Concord Music Group are joining me in releasing a project which has enabled me to appreciate what I loved about making music in the first place. I am very grateful to them."
The Police drummer Stewart Copeland will capitalize on the veteran band's current reunion tour with next month's release of "The Stewart Copeland Anthology." Due in stores Aug. 14, the album includes music from Oysterhead (Copeland's side project with Trey Anastasio and Les Claypool), as well as "key tracks from the Notte Della Taranta and GIZMO ensembles ... music from many of his memorable film scores, [and] key tracks from other projects (including a seminal track credited to the multi-instrumentalist Klark Kent)," according to a press release.
"Contained on this album are some of the many musical adventures that I've had," Copeland said in a prepared statement. "Roughly chronological, 'The Anthology' starts with the callow charm of Klark Kent, and ends up with some of the slicker things that I have figured out after four decades of my obsession with music."
"Circle of Friends," a DVD billed as the first full authorized live concert release by Bob Mould , is due out Oct. 9, according to MVD Visual. Captured during Mould's Oct. 7, 2005 concert at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, the film features a mix of material from Husker Du, Sugar and Mould's solo catalog.
In related news, Mould plans to issue a new studio album on Anti records next January. The set will be his first since 2005's "Body of Song."
Grammy-winning singer Allanah Myles has re-recorded an updated version of her chart-topping 1990 hit "Black Velvet." The song will appear in its revamped form as part of a an EP available exclusively via Apple's iTunes Music Store beginning Aug. 14. The three-song collection, which Myles is releasing to mark the 30th anniversary of Presley's death, will also include updated versions of Myles' "Only Wings" and "Faces in the Crowd."