We'll need to wait until Sept. 17 to wrap our ears around Elvis Costello's full-length collaboration with the Roots. But in the meantime, we can at least savor the set's first taste.
Elvis Costello's new album with the Roots, 'Wise Up Ghost,' will be released on Sept. 17. The record marks Costello's first on Blue Note Records, the venerable jazz label that's been around since 1939, and first since 2010's 'National Ransom.'
After releasing three albums between 2008-10, Elvis Costello took a few years off from the studio -- a break that he recently ended by recording a new LP with the Roots.
It’s rare that musicians are around to celebrate their 100th birthday with the rigors of a concert tour. Elvis Costello, who was born in 1954, is fully aware of this and has announced six solo concerts in California for this fall that he is calling “2054 – The Centenary Show.”
He might be willing to mug with Muppets, but when it comes to record companies ripping off his fans, Elvis Costello isn’t fooling around — and he recently proved it with a sarcasm-drenched post on his official site, prompted by the eyebrow-raising price tag on his new deluxe live box set, ‘The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook.’
Saying “the price appears to be either a misprint or a sati