Summer's barely here, but let's look ahead to fall -- new music on the way!
by John Fisher
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posted Jun 26 2012 2:00PM
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Van Morrison will release a new album, Born to Sing: No Plan B, on October 2nd on the legendary Blue Note records. "With most record companies being so corporate I am happy to be working with Don Was and the team at Blue Note," says the often cranky Morrison. "To have such a creative music person as the head of my recording label assures me that all the effort taken to write and record this new album will be rewarded with a music-based focus and marketing approach. I look forward to many fruitful years together.”
Some of the titles of the 10 songs on the disc are "Open the Door (To Your Heart)," "Going Down to Monte Carlo," "Born to Sing," "End of the Rainbow," "Close Enough For Jazz" and "Mystic of the East." Maybe a tour will follow. Van's definitely performing at the London Blues Festival on Friday.
Meanwhile, North Carolina's Avett Brothers will return with their first album in three years this fall -- the followup to their breakthrough release I And Love And You. The Carpenter -- their sixth overall album -- will be out on September 11th. It was produced by the very high-profile studio wizard Rick Rubin. The first single, "Live and Die," will be out as a digital release next month. You can preview it here.
And then there's Green Day, and their very ambitious plan to put out three albums in a row. "Oh Love" is the first single from the first of the three albums, Uno, and it arrives on July 16th. The full-length Uno is due out September 25th, with Dos out on November 23rd and Tre on January 15th.
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