Review: Stevie Nicks Mystic Lake Ampitheater - Twin Cities Metro

A Landslide of Awesome! 
By: Mary O'Regan
Twin Cities Metro 

The best thing about Stevie Nicks is that she knows she's a rockstar and she's not afraid to say it. During her enthralling performance at Mystic Lake Ampitheater last night, Nicks told several stories about her life as a musical legend, including one about visiting soldiers in Iraq—a surprise medevac left her humbled as her celebrity status went out the window and parametics pushed her toward the exit. "I arrived a rockstar and left a soldier's mother," she said, before launching into "Soldier's Angel," off her new album, "In Your Dreams."

One of the best parts of the evening was when Nicks introduced her band members. She'd known many of them for thirty or forty years, which made for some gracious, touching stories. She recalled attempting to film a music video at El Mirage Lake in California. They drove for miles, trying to find a lake that got further and further away the closer they came.

Full Review Here

Check out the >> 2 Bonus Tracks << For Lindsey Buckingham's New Album... Listen!

Amazon in the US now have the album sampler up to pre-listen to Lindsey's new "Seeds We Sow" album (in stores September 6th).

CHECK OUT THE TWO

BONUS TRACKS HERE

12. End of Time (Acoustic)

13. Seeds We Sow (Electric)

Quite different from the standard album versions.  Not sure if these are exclusive tracks to the mp3 album download or if Amazon or another retailer will offer the hard copy album with the bonus tracks... Hope it's the latter if this is the mp3 album.

In any case... They sound great!

WIN 2ND ROW SEATS TO STEVIE NICKS From Metro Weekly

Metro Weekly is giving away 2nd Row seats to see 

Stevie Nicks Live in Bristow, VA

Saturday, September 3, at 8 p.m. Jiffy Lube Live

One (1) lucky winners will receive a pair of second row seat tickets to Stevie Nicks at Jiffy Lube Live valued at $362 for the pair.

Winners selected at random from all entries received by Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at noon. Winners will be notified publicly on Facebook and Twitter and also by email.

No purchase necessary to win. Tickets are non-transferable.

You will receive an Email confirmation of your entry.

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Fleetwood Mac: No Recording Plans...Yet

Fleetwood Mac have no definite commitments for the future. 

Talking to Classic Rock, guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham denied reports that the band are currently working on a new album.

“We’ve nothing like that going on at all. Stevie (Nicks) has been busy touring and I’m just about to release my new solo album (Seeds We Sow, out on September 5) and have plans to tour on the back of that. So, right now nothing’s booked for the band.

“However, I would be very surprised if we don’t make a new album at some point. Currently, I have eight or nine new song ideas, some of which might fit in with Fleetwood Mac.”

Classic Rock Blog

Review: Stevie Nicks, old and new | Mystic Lake Casino Amphitheatre

by: Claude Peck
Star Tribune  

Stevie Nicks, whose distinctive voice helped propel Fleetwood Mac into the pop-music record books, is still recording and touring at 63. Her fans caused a miles-long traffic jam Wednesday night near Mystic Lake Casino in the Twin Cities, where she and her tight 10-piece band performed at the new outdoors amphitheater.

After a sundown set by warmup act Michael Grimm, Nicks appeared onstage without much diva fanfare. The 5-foot-one pop star wore stacked black boots, chain-metal-fringed gloves, a crimson shawl over a black dress, her long blond hair catching the cool breeze. She opened her 14-song set with the uptempo hit “Stand Back” from her 1983 solo album “The Wild Heart.”

Full Review at Star Tribune

Chart Updates: UK, Australia, US and The Netherlands...

Billboard Chart Update for the week ending August 21, 2011 and for Billboard Magazine issue September 3, 2011.

USA Charts

FLEETWOOD MAC
Fleetwood Mac still have 3 titles on the Top 200 Catalogue chart this week and all move up the chart except for Rumours which moves down 10 places. Current chart postions and this weeks album sales below (previous week in parenthesis).

# 65 (75) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 2,052 units sold = 2,876,293 total US units (since 1991).
# 95 (118) Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits" 1,713 units sold = 4,485,872 total US units (since 1991).
# 143 (145) Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" 1,436 units sold = 1,435,429 total US units.

STEVIE NICKS
"Crystal Visions The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks" also remains on the Top Catalogue Chart this week moving up to # 149 from # 191 last week.  In Your Dreams although it drops off the Top 200 Album Charts, it remains on the Top 200 Current Albums Chart (Current releases) at # 170.

# 170 (163) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" Top 200 Current Albums Chart
# 149 (191) Stevie Nicks "Crystal Visions The Very Best Of" 1,408 units sold = 381,046 total US units.

UK Charts
For the week of August 27, 2011 Fleetwood Mac re-enter the Top 100 Albums Chart with "Rumours" at # 72 up from # 104 last week.

On the UK Catalogue Chart for the week August 20th Rumours is # 16.


IRELAND
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours re-enters the Top 100 Albums Chart at # 94 for the week ending August 18th.

Tickets prices slashed for Stevie Nicks at SPAC Aug 30th

Travelzoo, a national discount travel website, is offering a substantial discount on orchestra tickets to Tuesday night’s Stevie Nicks concert at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. 

Now you can go see the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Fleetwood Mac frontwoman for $25 (orchestra and front balcony), rather than $55. This price doesn’t account for ticketing fees.

Best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and extensive solo career, Nicks is touring in support of her newly released album, “In Your Dreams” — her first solo release since 2001. The show opens at 8 p.m.

To purchase tickets, click here. Use promo code DREAMS.

Review: Stevie Nicks Mystic Lake Amphitheatre, Minneapolis, MN

The woman's got spunk, and she's got an understated moxie. She's got rockin' bangs, and extreme melodrama. She's still got it all. But the best part is she's got sincerity at its most earnest, and she's charming and gracious as all get-out.

Full Review by Nikki Miller at City Pages 
Photo Slide Show Here by Nikki Miller

After opening her performance with an energetic rendition of her hit "Stand Back," Nicks described the set that would follow as a "journey" which would contain a few of the older gems, as well as the newer output she really believes in. And that she'd like to--hollering louder than your loudest rock dude hollerer--"GET THIS PARTY STARTED!" With that, she kicked things off with the recent "Secret Love," a song and performance that did, as she claimed it would, hold its own against her classic stuff. The rest of her set, as promised peppered with plenty of recent songs, was as strong for its emphasis on the new as on the old. Her stage presence and her at times full and deep, at other times characteristically nasal, voice held up through the entire performance, backed by a beyond-capable band that featured local Peterson family legend Ricky Peterson on keys and Hammond.

Behind The Scenes With Stevie Nicks on For What It's Worth Video

Relaxed in black and looking ever the rock star, Stevie Nicks proves she's still got it in these just released behind-the-scenes photos for her new music video, For What It's Worth.

The song is the second single off Nicks' first studio album in ten years which was released early this May. The Fleetwood Mac legend produced and co-wrote much of the CD In Your Dreams with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame.

Keep an eye out for Stewart and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty + The Heartbreakers who make a special cameo in the video.

Don’t miss Stevie when she Performs live in Central Park this Friday on Good Morning America.

In Your Dreams is in stores now.

Photos by Kristin Burns

ETonline

CBS Baltimore Video: Don had “Coffee With” Stevie Nicks. They talked about her most recent album and new opportunities.