Register to win a copy of Uncut magazine issue #242, featuring Roger Waters on the cover.
Deadline to enter: End of day Sunday, June 11. Prizes courtesy of Uncut.
Video: Roger Waters’ “The Last Refugee”
Posted May 20, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters has released a video for “The Last Refugee,” a track from his upcoming new album.
“Is This the Life We Really Want” is coming June 2.
Sennheiser issues Floyd-themed headphones
Posted May 17, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Sennheiser is selling a Pink Floyd-themed variation of its Momentum HD 1 headphones.
The product coincides with “Their Mortal Remains,” a new exhibition that opened in London this past weekend. Sennheiser helped create the exhibit’s 3D audio demonstration that simulates a Floyd concert.
According to the company, the band has used Sennheiser mics throughout its career.
The headphones sport “Dark Side of the Moon”-like artwork on the earcups, and rainbow stitching.
Priced at $499.95, the company is accepting pre-orders for the headphones now. It plans to start shipping at the end of June.
Learn more about the headphones and pre-order at the Sennheiser site
Roger Waters in new Uncut magazine
Posted May 17, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters is the cover story for the new Uncut magazine.
Waters talks about his upcoming new album “Is This the Life We Really Want,” dropping June 2.
“It’s not much of a leap from ‘Is This The Life We Really Want?’ to ‘Money’, ‘Us And Them’ or ‘Welcome To The Machine’,” he tells Uncut. “They’re all interconnected in ways that are … unsubtle.”
The magazine will be in U.K. shops tomorrow, arriving in the U.S. some time later.
Roger Waters releases second new single
Posted May 8, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Sony/Columbia has released “Déjà Vu,” the second single from Roger Waters‘ upcoming new album “Is This the Life We Really Want?”
Formerly known as “If I Had Been God,” the song is available from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and other online outlets.
“Déjà Vu” follows the release of the first single, “Smell the Roses,” last month.
“Is This the Life We Really Want?” drops Friday, June 2.
Waters will appear tonight on CBS TV‘s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The show airs at 11:35 p.m. EDT.
New Roger Waters album tracklist; release delayed
Posted April 20, 2017 by Floydian Slip
The release date for “Is This the Life We Really Want?,” the new album from Roger Waters, has been delayed by two weeks. Originally scheduled for May 19, Columbia Records will now release it globally on Friday, June 2.
Pre-orders for the album begin tomorrow in three formats: double 180-gram vinyl LP in a gatefold jacket, four-panel soft pack CD, and digital.
A Columbia press release describes the album as “an unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times” and “a natural successor to classic Pink Floyd albums such as ‘Animals’ and ‘The Wall.'”
It’s produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, U2).
Tracklist for the album is as follows:
- When We Were Young
- Déjà Vu
- The Last Refugee
- Picture That
- Broken Bones
- Is This the Life We Really Want?
- Bird in a Gale
- The Most Beautiful Girl
- Smell the Roses
- Wait for Her
- Oceans Apart
- Part of Me Died
Lyrics for “Wait for Her” were written by Waters and inspired by an English translation by an unknown author of “Lesson from the Kama Sutra (Wait for Her)” by Mahmoud Darwish.
Musicians on “Is This the Life We Really Want?” are: Waters (vocals, acoustic, bass), Godrich (arrangement, sound collages, keyboards, guitar), Gus Seyffert (bass, guitar, keyboards), Jonathan Wilson (guitar, keyboards), Joey Waronker (drums), Roger Manning (keyboards), Lee Pardini (keyboards), and Lucius (vocals) with Jessica Wolfe and Holly Proctor.
Waters will launch his North American “Us + Them” tour in Kansas City, MO, on Friday, May 26. The tour runs through Oct. 28, finishing in Vancouver, BC.
See the Roger Waters website for complete and up-to-date concert dates.
Win: Reverber/ation CD/DVD/Blu-ray set
Posted April 17, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Register to win Pink Floyd’s “Reverber/ation” CD/DVD/Blu-ray set. One of the boxes found within the massive “Early Years” boxset released in November, it includes rare and unreleased music and video from 1971, along with replica memorabilia from the period.
Prizes courtesy of Legacy Recordings/Pink Floyd Records.
Register to win now. Deadline to enter: end of day Sunday, April 23.
Winners: Mojo #282
Posted April 10, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to winners of Mojo #282, featuring Pink Floyd’s “Animals”:
- Rob Grohs, Springfield, MA
- Ryan Niemi, Tower, MN
- Wayne Shelor, Clearwater, FL
- Corbet Stover, Norris City, IL
Win: Mojo magazine
Posted April 3, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Register now to win a copy of Mojo #282, featuring Pink Floyd’s “Animals” on the cover.
Inside there are 15 pages devoted to Floyd, including a new interview with Roger Waters on the 40th anniversary of the “Animals” album; and a preview of “Their Mortal Remains,” the epic Floyd exhibition coming to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in May.
Early “Interstellar Overdrive” to be released
Posted March 21, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Legacy Recordings will release an early, previously-unreleased version of Pink Floyd‘s “Interstellar Overdrive” on April 15.
Recorded Nov. 31, 1966, at Thomson Studio in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, the nearly-15-minute piece features Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Rick Wright and Roger Waters.
A shorter version of the instrumental appeared on Floyd’s first album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,” in August 1967.
The 12-inch one-sided single comes a week before Record Store Day; and will be available for sale at “Their Mortal Remains,” the massive Floyd exhibition opening at the Victoria & Albert’s Museum in London in May.
With artwork taken from an early UFO gig, the 180-gram disc will come with a fold-out poster and postcard featuring the group.
This recording would seem to pre-date the version featured in the Peter Whitehead film “Tonight Let’s All Make Love in London,” and available on the EP “Pink Floyd: London ’66-’67.” Clocking in at just less than 17 minutes, that version was recorded at London’s Sound Techniques on Jan. 11 and 12, 1967.
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