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Monday, February 12, 2024
Monday, February 05, 2024
Stevie Nicks Adds 12 New Dates to 2024 Tour
STEVIE NICK’S HEADLINING North American tour kicks off next week in Atlantic City, but the singer and songwriter is already eager to play even more shows. On Monday, Nicks announced the addition of 12 new dates to the already expansive run, now scheduled to conclude in June rather than March as originally planned.
The new dates run from May 7 through June 18 and include stops in St. Louis, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Denver, Albany, Hershey, Grand Rapids, and more.
Tickets for the new dates will be made available beginning Thursday, Feb. 8 via presales, while general sale begins on Friday, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. local time via Live Nation. - Rollingstone
May 07 - St. Louis, MO - Enterprise Center
May 10 - Thackerville, OK - WinStar World Casino & Resort
May 14 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
May 18 - San Antonio, TX - Frost Bank Center
May 21 - Highland, CA - Yaamava' Resort & Casino - Yaamava’ Theater
May 27 - Salt Lake City, UT - Delta Center
May 30 - Denver, CO - Ball Arena
June 04 - Indianapolis, IN - Gainbridge Fieldhouse
June 09 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Casino
June 12 - Albany, NY - MVP Arena
June 15 - Hershey, PA - Hersheypark Stadium
June 18 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Fleetwood Mac Double Cover Issue of "Record Collector" Feb, 2024
Record Collector Presents... Fleetwood Mac.
Fleetwood Mac are no ordinary rock band, having sold 120 million albums and ruled the airwaves for half a century with an unparalleled catalogue of albums -- so our new special edition, Record Collector Presents... Fleetwood Mac, is no ordinary magazine.
For the first time in RC’s history, we’ve compiled a double-cover issue that devotes equal love and attention to the two halves of the Mac’s career.
Once you’ve read the story of the band’s wild early years, when guitarist supreme Peter Green redefined the blues, flip the mag over for the tale of the even wilder Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham era, when the band were beset by drugs, infidelity and chaos and still produced the unmatchable Rumours. Think you’ve read some crazy stories? Read on…
Record Collector Presents Fleetwood Mac will be in shops on 8th February, but you can pre-order your copy here:
Shipping available world-wide
Fleetwood Mac "Fleetwood Mac" Vinyl Me Please Album of the Month February
Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1975 album, known as "The White Album," is the VMP Essentials Record of the Month for February 2024, at Vinylme Please.
It will be available on 1LP, 180g Black & White Quad vinyl with AAA lacquers cut from master tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound. Includes Listening Notes Booklet By Rachel Brodsky and an Art Print.
Vinylme Please is a monthly subscription service where you receive a vinyl LP per month along with other perks depending on the service you subscribe to.
Join the club or join the wait list if you don't want to join with a monthly subscription. Leftovers after February will be sold to people on the wait list.
Also expected to be released in February at Vinylme Please are Mirage and Tango In The Night on Green Galaxy and Plum Galaxy
Friday, January 19, 2024
Fleetwood Mac Among The Best Selling Artists on Vinyl in 2023
Fleetwood Mac was the 9th best selling artist on vinyl in the US in 2023, with 357,000 albums sold. Of the 357,000, 206,000 were "Rumours".
TOP 10-BEST SELLING ARTISTS ON VINYL
1. Taylor Swift: 3.484 million copies sold on vinyl in the US. She was the best selling artist on the format, with 1 out of every 15 vinyl purchases. 7% of the industry on the format.
2. Lana Del Rey: 646,000 copies sold.
3. Tyler, the Creator: 552,000 copies sold.
4. Travis Scott: 474,000 copies sold.
5. Olivia Rodrigo: 408,000 copies sold.
6. Kendrick Lamar: 382,000 copies sold.
7. Metallica: 378,000 copies sold.
8. The Beatles: 373,000 copies sold.
9. Fleetwood Mac: 357,000 copies sold.
10. Mac Miller: 354,000 copies sold.
TOP 10-SELLING VINYL ALBUMS OF 2023 IN U.S.
1. Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (1.014 million)
2. Taylor Swift, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (510,000)
3. Taylor Swift, Midnights (492,000)
4. Travis Scott, Utopia (373,000)
5. Taylor Swift, Folklore (308,000)
6. Olivia Rodrigo, Guts (267,000)
7. Taylor Swift, Lover (256,000)
8. Lana Del Rey, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (215,000)
9. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (206,000)
10. Lana Del Rey, Born To Die (192,000)
Fleetwood Mac on the charts this week January 19, 2024
Billboard Top 200:
#37 Rumours Fleetwood Mac
#177 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac
Top 100 Album Sales (pure album sales)
#17 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Top 25 Vinyl Albums Chart
#11 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Top 100 Canadian Albums Chart
#30 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
UK Top 100 Albums Chart
#11 Fleetwood Mac ~ 50 Years: Don't Stop
#23 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours
UK Top 40 Vinyl Albums chart
#7 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours
#31 Fleetwood Mac ~ Greatest Hits
UK Top 100 Singles Chart
#89 Fleetwood Mac ~ Everywhere
#100 Fleetwood Mac ~ Dreams
Scotland Top 100 Albums Chart
#9 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours
#55 Fleetwood Mac ~ Greatest Hits
Ireland Top 100 Albums Chart
#5 Fleetwood Mac ~ 50 Years: Don't Stop
#14 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours
Australia's Top 50 Albums
#29 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Fleetwood Mac owns 2 spots on UK Top 40 Albums of 2023
The UK’s Top 40 albums of 2023 have been announced.
Fleetwood Mac owns 2 spots:
#6 - "50 YEARS: DON'T STOP" &
#22 - "Rumours"
"Rumours" also snags 5th in vinyl sales!
Monday, December 18, 2023
Follow The Shawls... Stevie Nicks Live in San Francisco Dec 15, 2023
‘I feel like I’m home’: Stevie Nicks conjures the magic for S.F.
By Tony Bravo
Photo: Dana Jacobs
If you’re trying to find the path to a Stevie Nicks concert in any city, just follow the shawls.
The singer’s trademark accessory was in abundance Friday, Dec. 15, at San Francisco’s Chase Center, along with peasant skirts, top hats and lace as fans dressed in homage to the rock ’n’ roll queen and fashion icon.
“I dressed as Stevie Nicks for Halloween two or three years ago, then my brain chemistry changed and I never stopped,” said Emma Sullivan, who was bedecked in layers of black velvet and Victorian chokers.
Sullivan attended Nicks’ last concert of the year with her equally festooned sister Ysabel. The San Francisco siblings remember listening to Nicks’ music — both her solo albums and hits with Fleetwood Mac — with their parents as children. But for them, Nicks’ appeal is more than just nostalgia.
“She’s a queer icon, a feminist icon,” said Ysabel Sullivan, “and I connect with the spiritual and darker aspects of her music.”
For fellow San Franciscan Warren Sinclair, his fandom also goes beyond an appreciation of her music.
“It’s the closest thing to a religious experience in my life,” said Sinclair, who was attending his 20th Nicks concert in two decades. “Each one is as magical as the first time.”
Nicks, nicknamed “White Witch” by loyal followers, also seemed to be feeling the magic for the two-hour show.
Wearing a black velvet jacket over a black ruched skirt with her long blond hair curly and loose, Nicks had a youthful glow under the stage lights. But she did not shy away from mentioning her age — she proclaimed she’s 75 several times — or her “fairy grandmother” status during the show.
Throughout the night, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer also referenced her deep local roots. Nicks’ family moved to the Bay Area when she was a teenager, and it was during her senior year at Menlo-Atherton High School that she met future musical partner Lindsey Buckingham. The two later attended San Jose State University together before dropping out to pursue music, forming bands Fritz and Buckingham Nicks before finding success with Fleetwood Mac.
Nicks told the audience that while she lived in the Bay Area for only about seven years, her connection to the region remains strong.
“I feel like I’m home,” she said in the first of many stories she shared between songs.
Nicks said being back in San Francisco brought back memories from earlier days, including the time she performed at the Fillmore in “1969 or ’70,” she said, with Buckingham and their band Fritz.
“This guy is heckling me, ‘Hey baby, what you doing?,’ and guess who walks onstage — Mr. Bill Graham,” Nicks recounted, referring to the legendary San Francisco concert promoter. “He stomps out on the stage, and I’m not sure who he is but I know he’s someone … He went, ‘I want you to get out of my f—ing Fillmore and never f—ing come back to this building ever. And if I ever see you come back, I’ll kill you!’ ”
Friday night’s concert, rescheduled from March due to a band member’s COVID illness, closed Nicks’ 2023 leg of her tour before she goes on the road again in February. The crowd spanned generations, with fans in their 70s and 80s mixing with children, at least one of whom was carrying the special edition Stevie Nicks Barbie that was released earlier this year.
Nicks opened the concert with 1981’s “Outside the Rain” from her first solo outing “Bella Donna,” then immediately transitioned into Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” from the band’s 1977 album “Rumours.”
In recent years, Nicks, like many singers her age, has dropped some of the high notes from her songs, but they’re not too missed under the enveloping musical direction of her longtime guitarist Waddy Wachtel. Her voice has become richer and gained color, with her signature vibrato matured into a warmer timbre.
One of the concert’s recurring themes was Nicks’ homages to her late friend and sometimes collaborator, Tom Petty. On the Petty-authored “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” she dueted with Wachtel in Petty’s place, tearing ferociously through the lyrics. Later, she covered Petty’s “Free Fallin’ ” with a soaring freedom in her voice.
Her versions of her Fleetwood Mac classics “Gypsy” and “Gold Dust Woman,” plus her solo hit “Edge of Seventeen,” were expected crowd pleasers. But to many, her lesser-known 2011 “Soldier’s Angel” was a surprise.
She introduced the song by referencing the war in Ukraine, saying, “If I was a guy and wasn’t 75, I’d go” fight for the country, she said, before launching into a performance accompanied by images of the conflict, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the country’s flag.
Although Nicks didn’t change costumes during her performance, she did switch out shawls a number of times, reentering to roars when she sang her solo hit “Bella Donna” draped in the original purple shawl from the album.
For her encores, she sang Fleetwood Mac hits “Rhiannon” — complete with streamer-laden tambourine — and closed with “Landslide,” which she dedicated to her late Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie, who died last year at age 79.
Before exiting the stage, Nicks said that she loves San Francisco and can’t wait to return.
As the crowd exited Chase Center, a sea of gold sequins, fringe and leather moved through Thrive City just outside the stadium, where a few fans continued to twirl in their shawls.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Dave Stewart and Stevie Nicks Potential New Project In The Works
Dave Stewart teases new project with Stevie Nicks: ‘I can’t talk about it, but it’s interesting…’
Dave Stewart might be best known for his work as one-half of Eurythmics with Annie Lennox, but in a decades-spanning career he’s worked with the biggest names in music.
From Anastacia, Geri Halliwell and Katy Perry, to Joss Stone, Bryan Ferry and Mick Jagger, his list of collaborators is varied and impressive, and in 2011 he teamed up with Fleetwood Mac frontwoman Stevie Nicks on ‘In Your Dreams’ – her first solo album in a decade.
Three years later, they reconvened to record ‘24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault’, and speaking in RETROPOP’s December 2023 edition the musician hinted there’s more to come.
“She has called me about something that I can’t talk about, but it’s interesting,” he teases, before musing on the success of his various collaborations.
Read more at Retropop
Charlotte summer music fest Featuring Stevie Nicks
Post Malone, Stevie Nicks to headline Uptown Charlotte summer music fest
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Post Malone headlines a list of 40-plus artists that will be featured during a big summer music fest next year in the Queen City.
The three-day Lovin’ Life Music Fest will be headlined by Post Malone, Stevie Nicks, and Noah Kahan, which runs May 3-5th in Uptown, Charlotte. Tickets on sale now.
Monday, December 11, 2023
Stevie Nicks Live in Phoenix Review "It may have been the strongest solo set I’ve ever seen her play."
Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks in Phoenix: The soundtrack of your life sounds better than ever
By: Ed Masley
Photos: Joe Rondone
Nearing the end of the downtown Phoenix concert on his co-headlining tour with Stevie Nicks at Chase Field on Friday, Dec. 8, Billy Joel paused to reflect on the apparent incompatibility this tour may represent to certain fans on both sides of the aisle.
Even Joel didn’t get it at first. Or so he led us to believe.
“I couldn’t understand the package, as they say,” he recalled after thanking his costar for doing the tour. “OK, Stevie Nicks. And Billy Joel. OK. Why?”
That got a great reaction. Lots of laughter. Then he answered his own question with a shout of “Because it sells tickets, for Christ’s sake.”
This is true. It does sell tickets.
Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks: The soundtrack of your life
But it also makes a lot of sense on levels that go well beyond the ticket-buying super-power that Venn diagram suggests.
They both had massive pop hits in the ‘70s and ‘80s, so regardless of which artist is the bigger draw for you and yours, the other one will also play a lot of songs that occupy a sweet spot on the soundtrack of your life.
You know what came out the same year as Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours”? Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” Think about it. Two career-defining albums all but guaranteed to satisfy the same nostalgic urges.
And Joel and Nicks both know how to work a room, packing a setlist with crowd-pleasing classics while establishing a conversational rapport that draws you even deeper into who they are and what they represent.
Is Nicks a bit more heartfelt? Sure she is. Is Joel a bigger goof? Of course he is.
He wouldn’t have it any other way.
And there was no mistaking the camaraderie between them when Joel made an early appearance during Nicks' set to sing Tom Petty's part on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around,” doing his best to channel Petty in both phrasing and inflection, then hugging it out with Nicks before he left the stage.
It was an easy highlight of the night.
Stevie Nicks was in excellent voice throughout her 90-minute set
Although this is a co-headlining proposition, someone had to go on first, and that task fell to Nicks, who more than rose to the occasion at the helm of a fantastic backing band with longtime musical director Waddy Wachtel often dominating the proceedings on guitar, from “Fall From Grace” to the cover of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worh” and “Edge of Seventeen.”
His slide work, in particular, was consistently brilliant.
And Nicks was in excellent voice throughout her roughly 90-minute set while rocking an impressive assortment of shawls. That voice has deepened through the years, but Nicks is enough of an artist that she’s learned how to harness the power of the voice she has in 2023 and apply it in intriguing ways to classics she recorded in her 20s.
I’ll admit, I wasn’t wild about her messing with the melody to “Dreams” when she first started reimagining those early songs to suit her changing vocal range, but the “Dreams” we heard in Phoenix felt like the way it should be sung. At least in 2023.
It was a powerful performance, rocking with conviction in all the right places.
Because Nicks' image tends to leave a lot of writers searching for more synonyms for haunting and mysterious, we rarely hear about how much a song like “Gold Dust Woman” rocks in the hands of her latest collection of backing musicians.
But in Phoenix, “Gold Dust Woman” was an epic 12-minute rendition that used the Fleetwood Mac recording as a starting point and went off on a far more psychedelic journey that built to a fiery climax that was both majestic and intense. It was a highlight of her 15-song Phoenix setlist.
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Stevie Nicks honored the memory of her mother, Tom Petty and Christine McVie
She took the stage to a recording of Tom Petty doing “Runnin’ Down a Dream” and set the tone for her performance with a dramatic rendition of “Outside the Rain,” which segued seamlessly into “Dreams,” the hit she took to No. 1 with Fleetwood Mac.
That was the first of several Fleetwood Mac songs in a set that found her signing off with two selections she wrote for the self-titled Fleetwood Mac album that introduced the “Rumours” lineup, “Rhiannon” and “Landslide,” the latter of which was accompanied by vintage photographs of Nicks and the late Christine McVie.
She also made her way through countless highlights of her solo years, from the pulsing synth and slide guitar of a “Stand Back” that appeared to have a harder edge than the recording, to the a cappella break of “If Anyone Falls.”
And the heartfelt nod to her friendship with Petty, whose image flashed across the screen as she sang “Free Fallin’,” was exactly as sweet as she meant it to be.
It was after “Dreams” that Nicks reminded everyone that she was born in Phoenix.
“As soon as I get here, I think I’m gonna miss the ocean,’” she said. “And I get here and I don’t miss the ocean.”
As Nicks was preparing to finish her encore with “Landslide,” a bittersweet highlight of that first release with Fleetwood Mac, she dedicated the song to her brother, Christopher, with whom she shared a home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, for 25 years.
It’s as emotional a song as you could ever hope to hear. And after bringing her performance to a vulnerable finish with that undisputed classic, she talked about having met McVie in 1975.
“It’s kind of an empty world without her,” she said.
Then she teared up while recalling the words of her mother, Barbara Nicks, who died in 2012.
“And I want you to also know that my mom always used to say to me, ‘When you are hurt, you run to the stage.’ And I run to the stage every night.”
It may have been the strongest solo set I’ve ever seen her play.
Stevie Nicks was a tough act to follow. But Billy Joel managed
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