Fleetwood’s band delivers ‘only on Maui’ sounds

Photo Aubrey Hord

Rock star drummer Mick Fleetwood performed with his band at the Castle Theater at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on Thursday evening and pulled in a mix of friends and special guests to create a truly unique “only on Maui” moment for music fans. Youth taiko drummers from Zenshin Daiko, directed by Anthony Jones, created a wall of resonant drumbeats to back up the sounds of The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band (Rick Vito on guitar, Lenny Castellanos on bass and Paul Johnstone on keyboard), along with Glen Lacy on the African djembe drum, Carlos Garcia on hand drums and Paul Marchetti on more drums. Willie K and Eric Gilliom added their vocals and guitars, and a brass element was added with Johnny Zangrando on saxophone and Henry Arroyo on trombone.

Source: The Maui News

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A Very Happy Birthday to Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie.

Happy Birthday Christine!

Wishing you the most fabulous day today - and every day!... 

Your fans cannot wait to see you live on stage this fall! 

'71 today, 71 today, I've got the key to the door, never been 71 before'

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" back in the U.S. Top 100 on Billboards Top 200 Album Chart

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is on a little bit of a tear on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart.  In it's second week back on the chart, the album moves into the Top 100 up to No.99 this week, from No.139 last week. On the Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart, the album moves into the Top 20 coming in at No.18 from No.27 last week. The album is trending up, so it should go further up the chart next week.

Incidently, in the U.S. Amazon right now has the MP3 album on sale for $3.99.

In Australia "Greatest Hits" re-enters the Top 100 Albums Chart with the consistently selling "The Very Best Of" down this week to No.78 from No.67 last week.  Another consistent seller in Australia has been the 4CD box set "25 Years - The Chain". This week on the Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart the set drops to No.43 from No.27 last week.

(Previous weeks chart positions in parenthesis).

USA - July 19, 2014
BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 99 (139) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 18 (27) Fleetwood Mac - Rumour

AUSTRALIA - July 7, 2014
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 78 (67)  Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 98 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 16 (11) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 25 (28) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 43 (27) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years The Chain [box set]

IRELAND - July 3, 2014
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 80 (56) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

UK - July 12, 2014
TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 34 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Stevie Nicks is joining "The Voice" as an adviser to Adam Levine's team for the upcoming season.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Stevie Nicks is joining "The Voice" as an adviser to Adam Levine's team for the upcoming season.

Filming is currently underway on the show's seventh season. Nicks, the 66-year-old Fleetwood Mac singer, has been working with Levine and his 12 team members as they assign songs and rehearse with the contestants in preparation for the show's battle rounds.

Levine and Blake Shelton will be joined by Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams as coaches when the NBC show returns on Sept. 22.

The network says it will soon announce other advisers for this season.

Fleetwood Mac is set to embark on a 33-city tour starting Sept. 30 in Minneapolis, with Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and his ex-wife Christine McVie.

ABC NEWS

Stevie Nicks will be joining Adam Levine’s team as his mentor, and “Extra’s” Terri Seymour was with Levine and Nicks to talk about the exciting news.

Video Interview via ExtraTV

AP Photo/NBC, Trae Patton

A little bit about the show and how it works.

Australia TV Alert: Fleetwood Mac Behind The Music July 9-12 on Foxtel

Fleetwood Mac
Forty years, some 16 different band members, and several divorces and group break-ups, Fleetwood Mac has endured as one of the world's most popular groups, selling more than 100 million albums to date.
117 Bio.
Starts: Fri 11 Jul, 7:30 pm. Duration 60 mins.
Starts: Fri 11 Jul, 10:30 pm. Duration 60 mins.
Starts: Sat 12 Jul, 12:30 am. Duration 60 mins.
Starts: Sat 12 Jul, 12:30 pm. Duration 60 mins.

Fleetwood Mac: Behind The Music
This is the story of the band Fleetwood Mac whose on/off relationships and bust ups became as famous as their music.
117 Bio.
Starts: Wed 9 Jul, 3:00 pm. Duration 60 mins.
Starts: Fri 11 Jul, 8:30 pm. Duration 60 mins.
Starts: Sat 12 Jul, 1:30 am. Duration 60 mins.
Starts: Sat 12 Jul, 1:30 pm. Duration 60 mins.

Fleetwood Mac: Behind The Music
805 MAX
Starts: Thu 10 Jul, 3:00 am. Duration 60 mins.

Empire of the Sun gets tongues wagging with picture of band with Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham

The Daily Telegraph
by Christine Sams

THE leading Australian musicians from Empire of the Sun have the industry buzzing about their recording sessions with Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham.

After studio sessions in May, which included an appearance by Buckingham’s son Will, the band’s new project is generating hype here and overseas — mainly because of speculation about whether a single from the session will be released.

An EMI executive in Australia, Scott Horscroft, has reposted images of the band during the Buckingham recording sessions, teasing music fans with the line #StayTunedEmpyreans.

Horscroft also now owns the iconic Grove Studios and has himself produced tracks for bands including The Presets, Silverchair and Sleepy Jackson (Luke Steele’s band before his Empire of the Sun days).

But it’s not only Empire of the Sun fans showing anticipation about potential new music, Buckingham’s legion of Fleetwood Mac fans are also waiting with interest. There have been numerous postings about Buckingham’s studio sessions with the Australian musicians on fan sites.

For music industry bservers, there is also a strong Pnau tie-in to the Lindsey Buckingham sessions, as Nick Littlemore (one half of both Pnau and Empire of the Sun) was there with his Pnau bandmate Peter Mayes.

It was Mayes who initially posted pics of the session with Buckingham.

In what appears to be an ultimate Aussie muso love-in with the Fleetwood Mac legend is sure to turn into one of the more anticipated projects of the year.

Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere" single certified Silver in the UK + Rumours Re-enters US Charts

2013 UK single cover
Available on iTunes

Great news for Christine's "Everywhere" single from the "Tango In The Night" album... It was certified SILVER in the UK by the BPI on July 4, 2014 signifying sales in excess of 200,000 units since it's release. 

The songs renewed popularity in the UK began in early 2013, twenty five years after it's initial release and success in the UK all thanks to cell phone provider 'THREE' and it's marketing campaign focusing on the cute little dancing pony (see video). Not long after the commercial began airing in the UK and made available on-line, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart peaking as high as No.15 giving Fleetwood Mac their first top 20 hit in the UK in 25 years. Incidentally their last top 20 hit in 1988 just happened to be "Everywhere" which peaked at No.4! Later in 2013 "Everywhere" was also included on the new music compilation released in the UK called "Now That's What I Call Music 84".  

original single cover

With streaming music gaining in popularity worldwide and the change in the UK in June to include streaming counts towards charts, sales and certifications (100 streams as being equivalent to 1 single (download or physical single) when sales thresholds are being measured) more and more singles in the UK will and have been certified... So if you subscribe to an on-demand streaming service like Spotify, Deezer, Napster, O2 Tracks, Xbox Music and Sony’s Music Unlimited and rara, stream some Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie or Lindsey Buckingham!

FLEETWOOD MAC - EVERYWHERE
Silver Certification (Single) 04 July 2014
WARNER MUSIC (WARNER BROS)

Also... "Rumours" re-enters Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart in the U.S. this week at No.139 and re-enters the Top 50 Catalogue Albums Sales Chart at No.27.

USA - Chart Date - July 12, 2014
BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 139 (Re-Entry) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 27 (Re-Entry) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Not sure what this means... Could be an album listening meeting.

Not sure what this means... a meeting about Stevie Nicks but a picture of Fleetwood Mac... and a Tango In The Night era shot... hmmm... Is there a connection, or is it that the photo was readily available to snap... Looks like a shot of a framed photo as it's reflecting a room... The photo is likely hanging on one of the walls in the WB offices.  Cool stuff.. Moving forward!  Maybe this was Warner Bros. first listen to the new album!

Post by Dave Stewart.

Why is Everyone in SF Obsessed with Stevie Nicks?

by Peter Lawrence Kane

The Bold Italic 

Stevie Nicks turned 66 years old not long ago, and she’s everywhere. She sang a duet on Jimmy Fallon, with him as Tom Petty. She was on American Horror Story: Coven, having played herself – possibly because Ryan Murphy can’t resist writing his love of her straight into his characters’ minds. She even did a weather report. 

With her vampish hedonism and love of shawls and Victoriana, there is something delightfully absurd about Stevie Nicks’ persona that seems to resonate in San Francisco. She is approachably, unpretentiously weird. As a drag icon for years – although the Night of 1000 Stevies is a New York thing – she’s a recurring specter on the scene. We asked some creative current and former Bay Area residents their thoughts on this brilliant woman, the goth-witch draped in chiffon who sings white-bread songs with universal appeal.

And although they’re skipping San Francisco for Sacramento and San Jose, Fleetwood Mac will tour this fall, in their full lineup. Just in case you were wondering.

Good read...
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Photo: Marlene Stemme