STEVIE NICKS PROFILE: THE MUSIC MACHINE WITH BRIAN HARTGEN

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The Music Machine Profile on Stevie Nicks

Nicely put together up to date Profile on Stevie Nicks stretching from her

musical beginnings in the late 60's through to today where her new

album produced by Dave Stewart is in post production.

The profile covers a lot of ground with a lot of music featured plus interview

snippets from through the years.  I particularly love the acoustic version of 

Rhiannon that ends the profile. 

Download the full commercial free 1 hour and 15 minute documentary 

profile on Stevie at The Music Machine with Brian Hartgen on Mushroom FM

Link to Download Profile

Dave Stewart and Stevie Nicks: Audio Shout Out....... From The Last Day In The Studio

Dave and Stevie... give us an audio update...
Very cool of them to do this!
Hit the image to be taken to the site for the audio:

So cool!

CONFIRMATION THAT LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM WORKING ON SOLO ALBUM

His website Lindseybuckingham.com  posted today that he is in fact in the process... No exact release date announced... No title announced.

"Lindsey has been working on a new solo album, which is currently scheduled for an early 2011 release. The album is currently untitled. Check back soon for details!"

Source: Lindsey Buckingham

2011 will be a big year!  This along with Stevie's album... It doesn't get much better then this!

CHRIS LORD-ALGE....

BACK IN THE MIX WITH STEVIE NICKS....

It was announced today (November 1st) that Dave Stewart was meeting up with Chris Lord-Alge for the first day of mixing Stevie's new album. Chris has a long history with Stevie stretching back to 1991's "Timespace". She seems to prefer him over other mixers... which was well documented in the "Destiny Rules" documentary during the recording of Fleetwood Mac's 2003 "Say You Will" album. Chris mixed Stevie's last album "Trouble in Shangri-La in 2001 and did some work on "Say You Will".

It appears things are moving along quite nicely on this album... Won't be long now!

"Chris Lord-Alge has an uncanny knack for making rock tracks both hard-hitting and hit-parade-friendly. The triple Grammy-winning mixer has become a genuine legend of the studio industry, to the extent that Allmusic.com needs eight pages to list his 750-plus credits. The first are from his early days as an assistant engineer at H&L Studios in New Jersey. This was followed by a stint as staff engineer at Unique Recording in New York. Lord-Alge moved to Los Angeles in 1988, and in subsequent years he added names such as Prince, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks, Joe Cocker and Peter Frampton to his résumé.

In Lord-Alge's early days his activities also included engineering, keyboards, programming and producing. But since the late 1990s he's focused exclusively on mixing. The list of those who have benefited from the Chris Lord-Alge mix treatment is inordinately long, but to name just a few: U2, Snow Patrol, Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews Band, Savage Garden, Green Day, Placebo, Alanis Morissette, Bon Jovi, Faith Hill, Melissa Etheridge, the Futureheads, Fleetwood Mac, Pink, Foo Fighters, Black Eyed Peas, Courtney Love, Heather Nova and Santana."

Source

(CHART AND SALES UPDATES) FLEETWOOD MAC "GREATEST HITS" AND "THE VERY BEST OF"

Top 100 Albums Chart - UK

Week of 6th November, 2010

Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" moves down two spots on the Top 100 chart to #69 this week.

Top 40 Catalogue Chart - UK
Week of 30th October, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" moves up to #24 on the Cataloge Top 40.

Top 100 Albums Chart - Ireland

Week of 28th October, 2010

Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" moves down this week 5 spots to #39 from #34 last week.

Top 50 Catalogue & Top 50 Albums Chart - Australia

Week of 1st November, 2010

Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" slides to number #7 on the catalogue chart posting it's 33rd non-consecutive week on the chart. The disc moves down to #42 on the Physical Top 50 Albums Chart posting it's 117 non-consecutive week on that chart.  The set was recently certified 6x Platinum in Australia = 420,000 units shipped in Australia.

Top 200 Cataloge Chart - US
Week ending 24th October, 2010, issue date 6th November, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's 1988 "Greatest Hits" collection is at #102 posting sales for the week ending October 24th in the US of 1,312 units.  Fleetwood Mac's 2002 "The Very Best Of" 2 disc collection is at #185 posting sales for the same week in the US of 989 units.  To-date, (since 1991 when Soundscan began tracking actual sales) "Greatest Hits has sold 4,390,980 (4,057 units in the last 4 weeks alone and a total of 34,500 units since the beginning of June, 2010).  "The Very Best Of" to-date has sold 1,369,404 units (4,175 in the last 4 weeks).

(PHOTOS) LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM PERFORMING AT 826LA BENEFIT

October 29, 2010 - Lindsey Buckingham along with Randy Newman, Garry Shandling, Ryan Adams, Aziz Ansari and Maria Bamford celebrated the release of the Anthology "I Found This Funny" at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, CA Friday night - an evening hosted by Judd Apatow and Dave Eggers.

All proceeds from event ticket sales will benefit 826LA which is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

Photos by FrozenLove (so glad she made it to the event!)

Songs performed: Shut Us Down, Trouble, Never Going Back Again and Big Love

Review of Lindsey's appearance with more pics can be found on The Ledge