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.
The Who will close out their U.S. tour on Feb. 28 with a special intimate concert at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Dubbed "Who Cares," the show will benefit their Teen Cancer America charity and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Elvis Costello and the Imposters will serve as the opening act for the evening.
Throughout his long career, Elvis Costello has often placed his songs in movies. Fifteen of those tracks have been compiled in a new CD, 'In Motion Pictures,' and Ultimate Classic Rock is giving away 10 copies, courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises.
North London's Church Studios, which has been home to the creation of records from Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, the Eurythmics, Radiohead and more, may soon cease to exist as a recording studio and could eventually be turned into apartment space.
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."
NBC's 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' continued 'Bruce Springsteen Week' with a surprise for its 600th episode. Although it was announced that Elvis Costello would perform Bruce's 1987 hit 'Brilliant Disguise,' it was not revealed until the show aired that Costello, who's got quite a good catalog of his own songs, would also record a second Springsteen song, 'Fire,' as a web-only exclusive.
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 satire," Costello told fans that he's "unable to recommend" the 'Songbook' box, and took the "unusual step" of recommending an alternative use for his fans' money.
Imagine a time before the 'Napoleon Dynamite' movie, when the name conjured visions not of an eccentric teenager but of an even freakier attraction -- Elvis Costello on tour in the '80s dressed up as a fictitious game show host of the same name, offering up a giant wheel for fans to spin to determine the next song he would play.
Costello and the Imposters recently revisited that era for two concerts at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theater in May of 2011, and those shows have been documented on the new 'Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook' box set.
Elvis Costello is a diversely talented and restless musician who always keeps fans guessing as to what his next move might be. The legendary singer-songwriter has released albums in almost every possible genre, but much of his best-known work feels very much at home on classic rock radio. Costello turns a very spry 57 years old today (Aug. 25), and his
