Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham plays Sunset Center May 10 in Carmel, CA

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac fame performs Thursday, May 10, at the Sunset Center in Carmel.

By BETH PEERLESS Herald Correspondent

The contrast between indie singer/ songwriter Lindsey Buckingham and his role as guitarist/lead singer in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group Fleetwood Mac couldn't be more pronounced.

Yet Buckingham juggles both with enthusiasm, and embraces the changes that have gone down around his solo work. Away from major label Warner Bros. for the first time in 30 years, he released "Seeds We Sow" on his newly minted indie label Mind Kit.

Full Article - Monterey Herald

Tickets: $58, $68, $78, available at 620-2048, ticketsvcs@ sunsetcenter.org and www.sunset center.tix.com

aDealio Los Angeles: $25 to See Lindsey Buckingham at The Wiltern on May 4th

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Documentary: FLEETWOOD MAC - DON'T STOP Airing on BBC4 May 4th

FLEETWOOD MAC - DON'T STOP
This 2009 Documentary originally aired on the BBC just ahead of Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed tour dates in the UK and Ireland.  

The Documentary takes a look back over the band's long career, from the early blues outfit led by Peter Green in the late 1960s, to their reincarnation in the 1970s with the line-up that went on to record the 40-million-selling album Rumours. Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reveal the truth behind the successes, failures and relationships that have characterised their music and made them one of the most enduring acts in popular music.

Airing on BBC4 Friday, May 4, 2012 9:00pm

Airing on BBC4 Saturday, May 5, 2012 1:25am

Excerpt 1

Excerpt 2 | Excerpt 3

REVIEW

Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop lacked the caustic edge of the Rock Family Trees film about the band from 1995. That contained some great stuff about the fake Fleetwood Mac launched by their former manager Clifford Davis, true confessions from ex-guitarist Bob Weston about his affair with Mick Fleetwood's wife, and the one about addled guitar hero Peter Green wandering around with pieces of cheese in his hair. But inevitably director Matt O'Casey's new film had the advantage of being able to bring the story up to date, notably in a bittersweet coda reflecting on the still-unbridged chasm between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

For all the doggedness of founding father Mick Fleetwood, who increasingly resembles a castaway from a tropical island - funnily enough, he now lives in Hawaii, along with original bassist John McVie - the Mac became the biggest band of their era because of Buckingham and Nicks. Of all the inter-band traumas, theirs was the most spectacular, intense and creative, and it still bites both of them hard to this day.

Nicks, in particular, wasn't pulling any punches. It hurt her when Buckingham wrote "Go Your Own Way" about her, and it still does: "Ladylike, prudish Stevie, which I am, was very offended by him saying 'shacking up is all you want to do', because I was not in any kind of shacking up mood. I was not shacking up with anybody."

By all accounts Buckingham has always been a gifted but bloody difficult band-mate - "one of those people that will go up on the cross to make a point, and die," as Nicks put it - but marriage and children have given him some equilibrium. Yet his history with teenage sweetheart Stevie is still a weeping scab. "Maybe in 10 or 15 years when Lindsey and I are 75, we'll be friends again, when Fleetwood Mac is a distant memory," she said wistfully. But like the Flying Dutchman, maybe the Mac can never stop.

Written by: Adam Sweeting

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Charts: Fleetwood Mac US | UK | Australia | New Zealand | Canada | Netherlands + Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac Catalogue Album and digital track sales move south this week in the US.

USA - Week ending April22, 2012

Top 200 Albums Chart:

Rumours drops off Billboards Top 200 Albums chart this week after re-entering the chart last week at #162.

Top 200 Catalogue Albums & Top 200 Digital Catalogue Albums:

During the sales period in the US running from April 16th through April 22nd Rumours fell 39% dropping from #33 to #134 this week.  Sales for the period were 1,864 vs 3,046 the previous week.  Total sales in the US since November, 1991 = 2,950,328.  

On the Top 200 Catalogue Digital Albums list Rumours moves from #11 to #51 with total digital sales of 1,208 vs 2,491 the previous week. Greatest Hits drops 2% to #189 from #158 last week on sales of 1,519 vs 1,550 the previous week. Total accumulated sales since November, 1991 = 4,542,005.  Greatest Hits on the Top 200 Catalogue Albums list moves from #114 down to #132 on digital sales of 702 vs 740 the previous week.

Top 200 Digital Catalogue Tracks:

Edge of Seventeen drops below the top 200 running this week and therefore does not chart.  The song would have had to sell at least 3,926 units for the week to make the chart. Landslide on the other hand, holds on, but dropping in sales significantly by 31%.  Sales for the week were 4,512 vs 6,576 the previous week.  The song lands at #155 on this weeks listing vs #85 last week.  It too will likely drop out of the top 200 by next week.  Total digital sales for Landslide = 856,260.

USA - April 22, 2012
TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 134  (33) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 189 (158) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 200 CATALOGUE DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
# 51   (11) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 132 (114) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 200 CATALOGUE DIGITAL TRACKS CHART
# 155 (85) Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

UK  - May 5, 2012
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 82 (68) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS - April 28, 2012
# 7 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

IRELAND - April 26, 2012
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 80 (55) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

THE NETHERLANDS - April 28, 2012
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 45 (44) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

AUSTRALIA - April 30 2012
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 34 (34) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

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Meet Ken Caillat in NJ | More Mick Fleetwood in Maui | Lindsey Buckingham May 1st Release

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
"Songs From The Small Machine - Live In L.A." 

will be available for the first time on Amazon and iTunes as a downloadable mp3 album next Tuesday, May 1st.  16 tracks in total comprise the album. The tracks are identical to the cd version that came with the DVD/CD combo package released last November. Three songs that are on the DVD "Go Insane", "Turn It On" and "Treason" are not included on the cd or this mp3 album. 

KING PARIS & MICK FLEETWOOD - Maui

Mick Fleetwood once again appeared at Stella Blues on Maui last evening with King Pain aka Rick Vito as Chandu The Genie Giant.

A few photos from the night from big Fleetwood Mac fan Ron Emery can be found here:  Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3

Check out the King Paris website for photos and a sample of the album plus the Facebook page.

MEET KEN CAILLAT IN NEW JERSEY
Ken Caillat will be at Northvale Square Shopping Center June 8th signing his new book "Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album"

Books & Greetings
Start: 06/08/2012 7:00 pm
271 Livingston Street
Northvale, NJ 07647
Northvale Square Shopping Center

More book signing dates around the US: Making Rumours

Mick Fleetwood - Drummer | Photographer | Environmentalist

Mick Fleetwood to collaborate with environment educator Jean-michel Cousteau and Celebrites Gallery to produce a collection of fine art photography to bring awareness to the ocean's vital role in the survival of all life on earth.

All proceeds will go to Ocean Futures Society, founded by Cousteau. For further details, call 875-6565.

Full article - Art in View - Mauinews.com 

From the same publication April 26, 2012: (I'm sure that's incorrect... or is it?)
"Speaking of musicians, Mick Fleetwood (Art in View) is back in town after cutting a new album with Fleetwood Mac in L.A. and playing on Stevie Nick's solo CD. We hear he's getting set to open his Lahaina restaurant, Fleetwood's on Front Street, hopefully by mid-June."

AND if you are on Maui... Mick Fleetwood will make an appearance at Stella Blues in Kihei Maui with Rick Vito's King Paris Friday, April 27th.