Fleetwood Mac Begin Recording with Christine McVie in March! New Tour This Fall

According to an interview Jon Woodhouse of Maui News had with Mick Fleetwood right after the Willie K BBQ Blues Festival on Maui on January 11th, Mick again confirmed Christine's return to the band but also added that she's composed new songs and that Christine will begin recording with most of the rest of Fleetwood Mac beginning in March.  Mick also indicated to Jon that the new Fleetwood Mac tour with all five members will begin this fall.  He didn't indicate where the tour would start.

Mick also said that the door to Christine's return all began on Maui in early 2013 when she appeared on stage for the first time in 15 years with him and his blues band at Castle Theater. You can read all about that night here and also here.

Photo by: Matthew Thayer

New Video: Stevie Nicks talks working with @DaveStewart on "In Your Dreams" film

STEVIE NICKS
Two new video segments posted today by Ultimate Classic Rock.  Stevie sat down for interviews in December upon the release of her "In Your Dreams" documentary... Below she speaks about working with Soldiers and along side Dave Stewart producing the film.

Stevie's "In Your Dreams" documentary is available now on DVD at Amazon

WORKING WITH DAVE STEWART

WORKING WITH THE SOLDIERS

Lindsey Buckingham to Perform Grammy Awards Finale with Dave Grohl and Nine Inch Nails #FleetwoodMac

Nine Inch Nails, QOTSA, Dave Grohl and Lindsey Buckingham to Perform Grammy Awards Finale

Grohl is the connective tissue for SMH pairing of alt-rock icons with Fleetwood Mac man

Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl, and special guest Lindsey Buckingham will give the closing performance at the 56th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, SPIN can exclusively reveal. 

"We're incredibly excited about this number," Grammy executive producer Ken Ehrlich said in a statement. "There's nothing better than when the Grammys can rock out, and to have these artists all together on one stage, doing a number that, when they presented it to us, knocked us out, is going to turn out to be one of those Grammy moments that people talk about for a long time. Long live Trent, Josh, Dave and Lindsey and these great bands!" It will be the first-ever Grammy telecast performance for Nine Inch Nails and QOTSA.

Thirteen-time Grammy winner Grohl, as usual, is the connective tissue, having performed extensively with both bands, most prominently on QOTSA's 2002 LP Songs for the Deaf and Nine Inch Nails' 2005 album With Teeth. Fleetwood Mac guitarist/singer Buckingham, of course, is the wild card, and his role — singing a kickass version of "Tusk" or "The Chain," maybe his solo hit "Go Insane"? — remains to be seen. Buckingham appears in Sound City: Real to Reel, the Grohl-directed documentary about the legendary, now-shuttered L.A. studio where many classic albums were recorded; his Fleetwood-Mac-mate, Stevie Nicks, appears in the film and also joined Grohl on the Sound City Players album and tour last year.

The Grammy Awards will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

Full Article at Spin.com

Chart Updates: Fleetwood Mac | Stevie Nicks USA, Australia, New Zealand, UK

USA - January 25, 2014

After re-entering Billboards Top 200 Albums Chart last week at No.192 Fleetwood Mac's 1988 "Greatest Hits" package takes a giant leap all the way up to No.137 this week.  On the Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart the same album is back in the Top 20 at No.20.

Stevie's new film "In Your Dreams" moves back into the US Top 20 in it's sixth week of release moving up three places on the Top 40 Music Video Sales Chart to No.18 - right behind another DVD she appears in "Sound City" at No.17.

BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 137 (192) Fleetwood Mac - "Greatest Hits"

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 20 (40) Fleetwood Mac - "Greatest Hits"

TOP 40 MUSIC VIDEO SALES
# 17 (19) Sound City "Real To Reel" (Feat. Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood)
# 18 (21) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams"

"In Your Dreams" Chart run thus far:
TW     LW    Weeks On
18       21      6 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
21       22      5 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
22       18      4 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
18       12      3 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
12         7      2 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
  7         -      1  In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks (Debut)

NEW ZEALAND - January 20, 2014
Down 11 spots this week in New Zealand... Fleetwood Mac's "25 Years - The Chain" in it's 40th week in the Top 40 slides to No.26.

TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
# 26 (15) Fleetwood Mac - "25 Years The Chain" [box set]

AUSTRALIA - January 20, 2014

Fleetwood Mac's 4CD box set "25 Years - The Chain" drops a spot this week to No.16 while "The Very Best Of" moves up 8 spots to No.39 and "Greatest Hits" re-enters the Top 100 this week at No.96.  On the Catalogue Chart "25 Years" relinguishes the no.1 spot to Australia's own INXS, "The Very Best Of" holds at No.7 and "Greatest Hits" is up to No.36 from no.44 last week.  The latter two albums also appear on the Top 40 Digital Albums Chart at No.28 and No.47.  "The Dance" DVD also moves up the Music DVD Chart to No.28 from no.37.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 16 (15)  Fleetwood Mac - "25 Years - The Chain" [box set]
# 39 (47)  Fleetwood Mac - "The Very Best Of"
# 96 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - "Greatest Hits"

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS
#  2  (1) Fleetwood Mac - "25 Years - The Chain" [box set]
#  7  (7) Fleetwood Mac - "The Very Best Of"
# 36 (44) Fleetwood Mac - "Greatest Hits"

TOP 40 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
# 28 (36)  Fleetwood Mac - "The Very Best Of"
# 47 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - "Greatest Hits"

TOP 40 MUSIC DVD CHART
# 28 (37) Fleetwood Mac - "The Dance"

UK - January 25, 2014

Up eight spots this week in the UK Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" narrowly misses the top 40 moving up to No.45 from No.53 last week.  Also up on the Top 40 Catalogue Chart "Rumours" moves up to No.13 from No.21 in the last reporting period.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 45 (53) Fleetwood Mac - "The Very Best Of"

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 13 (21) Fleetwood Mac - "Rumours"

SCOTLAND - January 25, 2014
Fleetwood Mac re-enter the Top 40 Albums Chart in Scotland last week with "The Very Best Of" and move up to No.36 this week

TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
#36 (39) Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of"

Refried Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks

Brandi Carlile covers "The Chain"

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes Sweetheart 2014, a collection of indelible, handpicked covers from a remarkable group of modern musical dreamers who artfully grapple, in one way or another, with that most vexing of subject to ever befall mankind, L.O.V.E. Sweetheart 2014 is an adventurous Valentine’s Day collection featuring Jim James, Vampire Weekend, Fiona Apple, Phosphorescent, Brandi Carlile, Beck, The Head and the Heart, Ben Harper, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Valerie June, Blake Mills, Bahamas and Thao & The Get Down Stay Down.

Sweetheart 2014 (Hear Music/Concord Music Group) will be available on CD exclusively at Starbucks and all digital outlets beginning February 4th, 2014. Sound clips available (including Brandi Carlile's cover of "The Chain") at the Sweetheart website.

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs cover "Trouble"

Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs tackle the 80's in volume 3 of their cover albums series. Lindsey Buckingham's "Trouble" is included on this one with Susanna taking the lead.  Sounds great and close to the original. Check out the sample at Amazon and get the album if you like.  Also available at iTunes.

You may recall that on Volume 2 back in 2009 Matthew and Susanna covered Fleetwood Mac's "Second Hand News".

Res - Refried Mac

Soul singer RES and producer Tim Spiker rework Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks classics: Rhiannon, Dreams, The Chain, Little Lies and Edge of Seventeen on this 5 track EP that was released late last year.

Res has a beautiful voice and really takes these four Fleetwood Mac tracks, plus one solo Stevie Nicks track to a different place injecting a funky vibe, a lush chorus (Rhiannon) and infectious beats (Edge of Seventeen and The Chain) that harkens back to early '90's Red Hot Chilli Peppers. I especially love the stripped down reinterpretation of Dreams driven by a what sounds like a ticking clock and a finger popping bass line. 

Refried Mac is available at iTunes and Amazon

THE CHAIN

DREAMS

"The best of the bunch was this haunting number done with Stevie Nicks"

Nice mention for Stevie's contribution to the Sound City soundtrack "Real to Reel" with "You Can't Fix This"

Lana Del Rey, The xx and Stevie Nicks miss out on Oscar nominations for Best Original Song – what else did the Academy overlook?

“You Can't Fix This” from Sound City (performed by Dave Grohl and Stevie Nicks)

Considering songs from Sound City for consideration sort of feels like cheating, since the film, produced and directed by Dave Grohl, was about the historic Los Angeles recording studio where he and Nirvana recorded Nevermind in 1991 (and where we met him and Rick Rubin last year). For the film Grohl collected a group of all-star musicians to record a song with him on the equipment he salvaged. Among them were Paul McCartney, with whom he and the rest of Nirvana recorded the somewhat unfortunate “Cut Me Some Slack”, which, like the album itself, was nominated for a Grammy. The best of the bunch was this haunting number done with Stevie Nicks, who can't not be haunting come to think of it.

Continue to Dazed and Confused for the full list of oscar snubs