Rarebird's Rock and Roll Nest

For Record Store Day Black Friday in 2024, Garbage issued a vinyl LP titled Copy/Paste , pressed in magenta-colored vinyl and limited to 1,300 copies. The album collected 10 cover songs recorded by the Shirley Manson-fronted alternative band over the course of their 30-year history, nine of which were previously released. An abridged version of the album was made available digitally, featuring six of the ten tracks (marked with an asterisk in the track listing below). The other four tracks can be found digitally as bonus tracks on the Deluxe Editions of the band's first four studio albums. The album begins with a cover of David Bowie's classic "Starman", a song for which Garbage's futuristic sound is well matched; the result has a convincingly cosmic aura. The band's futuristic ethos was equally appropriate for their cover of U2's "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses", one of the songs which helped to redefine U2 as a futuristic band in 1991;...

For Record Store Day 2025, a live EP recorded by Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos is being issued on vinyl, in a 1,300-copy limited edition. Live 3.10.22 was recorded on the titular date at the 6th annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert. The 3-song, 12-inch EP is pressed in red vinyl, with an etching on the second side. This short-but-sweet concert set took place at New York's Beacon Theater, at a concert to benefit God's Love We Deliver, an organization which cooks and delivers meals to sick people in New York City. This concert reunited the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist with the backing band who supported him on his solo albums Talk Is Cheap (1988) and Main Offender (1992), as well as on the respective tours to support those albums. The X-Pensive Winos lineup for this set featured guitarist Waddy Wachtel, Ivan Neville on keyboards, Steve Jordan on drums, and bassist Will Lee (replacing the unavailable Charley Drayton). This appearance was billed as their first ...