Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Stevie Nicks - IN YOUR DREAMS "Dave Stewart who, co-writing and co-producing, really makes a dream team with Nicks"

Stevie Nicks - IN YOUR DREAMS
CRITIC'S CHOICE 3.5 stars (out of 4)
People Magazine - May 16th (Collectors Issue)

Pop-Rock: Ten years after her last solo studio album, Stevie Nicks is ever the enchantress, bewitching with songs that travel across time ("Secret Love," written in '76 about a clandestine affair she had) and place ("New Orleans," inspired by Katrina). She also transports between fantasy - see the New Moon influenced "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)" - and harsh reality (the war-themed "Soldier's Angel"). The latter enlists Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, but it's Eurythmic Dave Stewart who, cowriting and coproducing, really makes a dream team with Nicks.

(New Video) Stevie Nicks releases new solo album, 'In Your Dreams" (Fox News)







@PerezHilton Chatting With… Stevie Nicks! (Video)




Read highlights from his chat with Stevie at Perezhilton.com from the full interview above!!!

Stevie Nicks talks New Album, Reese Witherspoon, Rhiannon Movie

EXCLUSIVE: Stevie Nicks Says Doc Almost Killed Her, Ruined Chance of Becoming a Mom
Fox News

Stevie Nicks has been to hell and back and lived to write some more songs about it.

Along with being the lead singer for the legendary rock band “Fleetwood Mac” and a successful solo artist, the songstress has also had a lengthy battle with addiction, entering rehab once for cocaine and a second time for pills.

So now at age 62, with a new album drawn from her personal diaries being released this week, what is Nicks' greatest regret?

“The only thing I would change is walking into that psychiatrists office who prescribed me Klonopin," Nicks told FOX411's Pop Tarts in an exclusive interview in her Pacific Palisades mansion. "That ruined my life for eight years."

Klonopin is a tranquilizer generally used to treat seizures and panic disorder. Nicks said it was not for her.

Fulll Interview at Foxnews

One dinner guest was Reese Witherspoon, who met the rock and roll queen through her parents.

“I met Reese’s mom first on an airplane and she is just insane, she is darling. She was going to Nashville and I talked to her the whole way, she had a little Yorkie with her and we instantly bonded. I was going to do a session there and invited her to come,” Nicks said. “Never in a million years did I think she would actually come but she did, along with Dr. Witherspoon. They came and spent six hours in the studio as the audience as I worked on a new vocal, so after I met the mom I then met Reese the daughter.”

SOUND OFF: GLEE Dreams & Fleetwood Mac RUMOURS

Last night GLEE took on the catalogue of Fleetwood Mac - namely, their 1977 Grammy-winning Album of the Year, RUMOURS and proved that you can do justice to the originals - as inimitable as they may be - but still go your own way with them. And, have your own way. Also, Broadway baby Kristin Chenoweth made her long-awaited return as boozy April Rhodes just in time to duet with Matt Morrison on the Stevie Nicks-penned classic "Dreams" and a few of the secondary leads - namely Santana, Artie and Quinn - got a chance to shine with these silvery takes on the solid gold classic rock tracks. While some of the tribute shows have been hit-or-miss in the past, Fleetwood Mac and the self-avowed queen gleek herself, Stevie Nicks - who was on set for Gwyneth Paltrow's taping of "Landslide" earlier this year, cheering the cast on - surely won't be digging an early grave with her silver spoon after hearing and seeing these sensitive and respectful takes on her tunes - and Lindsey Buckingham‘s and Christine McVie‘s, as well. But, I guess if anyone in the group has an issue with any of these covers, they can always cast a spell using some white witches and black magic. Speaking of which - or witch - too bad they didn't do "Gold Dust Woman" or "Silver Springs"! And, no cover of "The Chain"? But, I suppose they're saving them for "Rumours: Part 2" or, perhaps, an all-Stevie Nicks episode - particularly if it happened to feature songs from her splendid new album, IN YOUR DREAMS, which is out this week (her first new album this decade). So, break out your feathers, rings, and shawls, we've got all the gypsy magic you can handle inside thanks to the ever-revolving door of the ever-evolving cast of GLEE paying due respect to the similarly designed/aligned folk/rock super-group of the 70s making their momentous musical marriage somehow oh-so-apropos to the times, no?

Read the full extensive article at Broadway World

Check Out... "I shot the cover of Stevie Nicks ‘In Your Dreams’ " by Kristin Burns

Kristin Burns... Photographer
blogged a little bit about her experience during the recording/filming of Stevie's new album.

Her photos are being used for the packaging, press, billboards, T-shirts, key chains, and the cover!

"Dave and Stevie had the novel idea to film a mini-movie of music videos, interviews, and more to accompany ‘In Your Dreams.’ Dave who is also a photographer asked me to work along side him and document the behind the scenes process of them working together."




(Video) Stevie Nicks talks to Showbiz Tonight about Lindsay Lohan's recent troubles

Will Lohan play Nicks in a movie?  Not until she cleans up her life...



Tuesday, May 03, 2011

(Review) Stevie Nicks' 'In Your Dreams' "“Ghosts Are Gone," captures vintage Stevie"

BY MELINDA NEWMAN
Hitfix.com

Part of Stevie Nicks’ great charm as a songwriter is that she seldom apologizes for her actions in her songs. Whether from her days in Fleetwood Mac or throughout her solo career, she’s concentrated on providing the listener with an insider’s view of her romantic entanglements —and what incredibly entanglements they’ve been— unfiltered by any judgments. It’s a rare, vulnerable trait that has only endeared her further to her millions of fans.

She’s not about to change now on “In Your Dreams,” her first solo album in 10 years out today (May 3).

In the first two songs on the album—first single “Secret Love” and “For What It’s Worth”—she’s involved with taken men. She neither gloats about her bewitching appeal nor recriminates herself for her actions. These are her stories and her feelings. Let others sort out the messiness of such complications.

Mick Fleetwood, legendary drummer and co-founding member of the iconic band, Fleetwood Mac, gets soapy for Japan

Mick Fleetwood, legendary drummer and
 co-founding member of the iconic band,
Fleetwood Mac, gets soapy for Japan with Maui
Fire Department Chief Jeffrey Murray (behind
Fleetwood), The Throwdowns’ Ian Hollingsworth
(right), and Screenwriter Brian Kohne
(back facing camera).
Celebrity Carwash Raises Four Thousand Dollars in Four Hours 
By Wendy Osher
Maui Now

The Aloha for Japan Celebrity Car Wash held over the weekend at the Ho’ole’a Terrace raised an estimated $4,000 in four hours. The funds raised are going towards the American Red Cross tsunami and earthquake relief efforts in Japan.

Over the course of the event, more than 100 cars were soaped up and sprayed down by dozens of volunteers, including familiar names such as Mick Fleetwood, Henry Kapono and Marty Dread.

Check out the full article

(Review) Stevie Nicks' "In Your Dreams," isn't simply a trick. It's Nicks' best music since 1983

It took Stevie Nicks 40 years to become unpredictable.

The Journal
Jeb Inge - Journal Copy Editor

After decades of chart-topping repetition and radio-friendly solo albums, Nicks entered the new millennium seemingly spent. As recently as Fleetwood Mac's 2009 tour, the white winged dove wheezed more than wowed. But like the sorcerers and witches lacing her songs, Nicks always has another trick up her mystical sleeve.

Her latest solo album, "In Your Dreams," isn't simply a trick. It's Nicks' best music since 1983.

"In Your Dreams" is unpredictable in the only way an album from an aging rocker can be: It doesn't sound like microwaved nostalgia. Sure, Nicks still relies on the well-worn themes of California witches and love's labor lost. She's been doing that since she joined Fleetwood Mac with Lindsey Buckingham on New Year's Eve 1974. But in 2011, the era of Cullens, and Bella Swans, and shirtless werewolves, her music regains a youthful glisten.

(Review) "Stevie Nicks' voice sounds as strong and supple as ever on In Your Dreams"

Stevie Nicks' In Your Dreams: Yes, It Really Is Her Best Album in Years
By Niki D'Andrea
Phoenix New Times

Phoenix resident Stevie Nicks' new album, In Your Dreams, was released today. Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield has already given the album rave reviews, calling it Nicks' best album in a decade.

It's hard to argue with that, especially considering that Nicks hasn't released an album in a decade (her last solo record was Trouble in Shangri-La in 2001). But is the Valley songbird's latest album really "her best work since the 80s"? I listened to In Your Dreams, and came to my own conclusions.

First, In Your Dreams is way, way better than Trouble in Shangri-La. The latter album was one of the first times Nicks didn't have a star songwriter or producer working with her -- not that she didn't try. Nicks had met her old friend Tom Petty for dinner at the Copper Star Club near US Airways Center and asked him to write some songs for her. According to Nicks, Petty told her to write her songs herself. The result was a collection of predictable and uninspired pop songs that couldn't be saved even with a guest vocal from then it-girl Macy Gray.

Stevie Nicks Wrote a Letter To Her Fans on Eve of Album Release...

Stevie has written a letter to the fans 
about the new album release.