What’s up? Here’s some of today’s latest music news:
- Record Store Day will be on April 21 this year, and Led Zeppelin will release a 7″ with new mixes of “Rock and Roll” and “Friends.” Both recordings were mixed by Jimmy Page, who chose them for release this year, and have never been available for public consumption before.
Led Zeppelin will release a limited edition 7” single featuring 2 previously unheard mixes produced by Jimmy Page: the “Sunset Sound Mix” of “Rock And Roll” and the “Olympic Studios Mix” of “Friends.” Available on April 21, exclusively at Independent Music Retailers. #RSD2018 pic.twitter.com/g0lw8NLY8v
— Led Zeppelin (@ledzeppelin) February 27, 2018
- If you’ve never heard author David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, called This is Water, check it out, as its one of the best in the medium. Hachette Book Group, a publishing company with offices in New York and Philadelphia, will be releasing a vinyl copy of the recording. Some of the other new LP releases by Hachette include Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, Jerry on Jerry by Jerry Garcia, edited by Dennis McNally, and The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer.
- Rock critic Steven Hyden has been going through Bruce Springsteen’s albums on his podcast, Celebration Rock, and just this week he posted episodes five and six of the series, which features a conversation with Phoebe Bridgers about Nebraska and Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers about Born in the USA, respectively. Patterson shares a lot of the same mixed feelings of love and ambivalence that I feel towards most of Bruce’s 1985 album. He’s also a really interesting guy.
- NPRs got a guide to this year’s South by Southwest coming sometime today:
Friends: @NPRMusic's #Austin100, complete with a FREE downloadable bundle of 100 MP3s, will be published Thursday morning. It looks *gorgeous*, the music is incredible, and I'm so, so proud of it. When you see it, please download it, enjoy it, and share it with the world! #SXSW
— Stephen Thompson (@idislikestephen) March 1, 2018