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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

NEW Fleetwood Mac Single "Sad Angel" Gaining Traction at Triple A

"Sad Angel" Picking Up Steam

Triple A Radio Stats - May 25, 2013.

These Triple A indicator Radio lists show the single is gaining at radio.

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REVIEW | PHOTOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in Saskatoon "Buckingham was the straw that stirred the drink"

FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE

MAY 14, 2013 - CREDIT UNION CENTRE

SASKATOON, SK

Fleetwood Mac dispel bad rumours

By Cam Fuller

The Star Phoenix

There have been more than a few rumours of its demise since it formed more than 45 years ago, but Fleetwood Mac has survived it all: a foggy pre-history in British blues, unmanageable success, divorce, breakups, reunions, flops, side projects and rehab.

They're touring the world again, just like they did 35 years ago when the Rumours album made history with all of its No. 1 singles and sales of some 50 million.

Home to about 16 musicians at one time or another, the band's current lineup (but for the absence of the retired and missed Christine McVie) is the one everybody cares about the most: Mick Fleetwood on drums, John McVie on Bass,

Lindsey Buckingham on guitars and Stevie Nicks playing tambourine (and, yes, doing some singing!)

To remind us of its greatness, the band - with backing players and singers - started Tuesday's show at Credit Union Centre with indelible Rumours monster hits like Second Hand News, The Chain and Dreams. They could have played the whole album, in order, without a complaint.

Buckingham was the straw that stirred the drink throughout the concert. He pogoed and did guitar faces during the new song Sad Angel, he asserted his guitar mastery on Big Love, playing expansively, flawlessly and fast. For Never Going Back Again, also on acoustic, he looked like a classical guitarist who moonlights as a rocker. He was lathered up in his leather by then. "Make note that he's sexy," said an advice-giver in the crowd. Uh, no.

Nicks, in her velvet, layered skirt and platformed booties, moved with difficulty when she walked. She seemed so fragile, like a Victorian porcelain doll. The line in Landslide, "I'm getting older too," was extra poignant. But she's still Stevie Nicks, dammit, and despite the fact her high end is gone, she makes you remember her as the cool, aloof girl that's too too.

After reportedly just showing up the last time they were here, the band worked like mad to impress, and they did. It is kind of mind blowing that the same band that did the simple, sad Landslide also turned out the coolest weird song ever in Tusk. This was an early show stopper, done real savage-like with images of teeth and totems on the screen and faded old video of the UCLA marching band.

At well over two hours, fans got most of the best, relived more than a few youthful memories and got to see part of what rock history is made of.

FAN PHOTOS

Above 2 photos by Shleemaan

6 Photos above by: Adrien Begrand

Above photo by Karin Yeske

Above Photos by Dakota Miller

REVIEW: "After all of these years, it’s only right that Stevie Nicks should play it the way she feels it.

Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams (2013)
by Nick DeRiso
Something Else Reviews

Looking back, it seemed preordained. Stevie Nicks met Dave Stewart years ago, and had a good feeling about him. “Maybe,” Stevie Nicks says toward the end of the film In Your Dreams, “this played out for a reason.”

That, of course, hadn't always been so clear.

The rock-umentary (arriving exclusively today on iTunes) begins, as these often things do, with a quick-cut series of gushing fans — but even here, there is something more complex happening. As each, one after another, professes their undying fealty to Nicks and every witchy-woman scarf she ever twirled, there is this sense of disconnect — like something of great portent is just around the bend.

Perhaps that’s because it has always been thus. Nicks’ career path has been marked by precipitous highs and just as dizzying lows, and that very history is probably to blame for the weird dissonance that greets her seeming so, well, happy.

Instead, what happens as In Your Dreams unfolds is the maybe the most surprising, most light-filled, most anthematically inspirational thing of all: Stevie Nicks, right before your eyes, becomes Stevie Nicks again.

"After all of these years, it’s only right that Stevie Nicks should play it the way she feels it. And she is, finally, again."

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

A quick-hitting EP simply cannot contain the songwriting force that is Buckingham/Nicks/McVie

Album Review: Fleetwood Mac – Extended Play EP

BY JON HADUSEK
Consequence of Sound
3/5 Stars

Fleetwood Mac are restless. After dozens of songs, albums, tours, and RIAA certifications, you’d think they would’ve reached a point of satisfied complacency, like when a star athlete hits the twilight of his or her career and admits, “I’ve done it all it’s time to retire.” Maybe Fleetwood Mac did, in fact, reach such a point after 2003’s Say You Will. The band announced an indefinite hiatus — its members diverting their concentration to their personal lives and solo endeavors. The Mac’s future was in question…

But if Michael Jordan wearing a Washington Wizards jersey taught us anything, it’s that you can’t keep The Best at bay while they still have the ability to play … and make lots of money. So in 2009, Fleetwood Mac reunited for a tour (which — just like Jordan on the Wizards — put asses in seats and made tons o’ cash). During the tour, Lindsey Buckingham dropped this nugget: “The time is right to go back to the studio.”

But for three years that promise went unfulfilled as Fleetwood Mac rode the nostalgia train all the way to the bank. Another world tour, TV appearances, and album reissues — no new music.

Until now.

Full Review at Consequence of Sound