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Elvis Costello's New Album Now Due in November With Impressive Guest List

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Published Aug. 17, 2010 at 10:17 a.m.

Last week, we shared with you that Elvis Costello’s got a new album set to drop in October. Well, the first part’s true, but National Ransom won’t see the light of day until Nov. 2 ...

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New issue of The Word - OUT TODAY!

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After their agents insisted they take a break for the summer, Kate Mossman and Mark Ellen return with what may well be the greatest introductory video to a new issue of The Word magazine yet. Minutes in the making, this epic is now ready for viewer consumption. We hope you enjoy it ... Also in this issue: Laura Marling, Ben Folds & Nick Hornby, the Best & Worst doctors in entertainment, Tom Ravenscroft, Tim Robbins, Ray Manzarak, Martina Topley-Bird, Ian Rankin, Annie Nightingale, Peter Sellers,

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Elvis Costello reveals new album title, release date and artwork

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 5:44 p.m.

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'National Ransom' is due out on October 25 ...

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News Ticker: John Mellencamp, Gene Simmons, Pussycat Dolls

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Published Dec. 28, 2009 at 8:36 a.m.

Photo: Holden/WireImage.com; Ufberg/WireImage.comJohn Mellencamp’s long-in-the-works musical theater collaboration with author Stephen King, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, is assembling its cast for its September debut in Atlanta. According to the Fire Wire (via TwentyFourBit), Kris Kristofferson, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello, Neko Case and boxer Joe Frazier have been cast in the production.Gene Simmons [ ... ] ...

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Second Season of Elvis Costello's TV Show to Premiere in December

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Published Oct. 26, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

The second season of Elvis Costello critically acclaimed seven-part TV series, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, premieres on the Sundance Channel on Dec. 9 ...

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Incubus Cover Prince, Collect Their Hits on “Monuments and Melodies”

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Published July 9, 2009 at 9:12 a.m.

Photo: Mazur/WireImage Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd isn’t scared of releasing a greatest hits album, even if it shows his age. After all, he got into some of his favorite artists, like Elvis Costello and Leonard Cohen, through their greatest hits collections. “It was weird at first, coming to terms with the whole idea of doing [ ... ] ...

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Album: Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Universal/Decca)

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Published May 30, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

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Recorded in Nashville with T-Bone Burnett producing and Jerry Douglas on dobro… SP&S isn't Almost Blue 2 but it is country, bluegrass, the soup of white American folk music thickened up with jam-packed Elvis metre. You might argue that much of what we hear borders on the academic in its pursuit of the idiomatic, but it is also true that it is all done with passion. You'll have to find out for yourself how this all connects with Hans Christian Andersen. A dense, sometimes studiedly beautiful

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Elvis Costello: Secret Profane ? Sugarcane CD review

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Published May 29, 2009 at 11:20 a.m.

Elvis Costello's Secret Profane ? Sugarcane is a return to the singer's ... roots says Andrew Perry. Rating: ...

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Album: Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear Music)

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Published May 28, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

Elvis Costello albums seem to arrive with increasing frequency these days, their diversity appearing more like compensation for their patchiness ...

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Elvis Costello, 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane' (Hear)

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Published May 24, 2009 at 4:36 p.m.

Elvis Costello has always been an idiom savant, pin- balling through arsenic-laced pub rock ( My Aim Is True ), amphetamine-addled soul ( Get Happy!! ), and highbrow chamber pop ( The Juliet Letters ). His latest showcases another readymade style: dirt-floor Americana. Pairing with producer T-Bone Burnett (who helmed 1986's rootsy antecedent King of America ) and a distinguished pickup band of country heavyweights, he gives his typically fussed-over tunes a tent-revival authority. With

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