PREVIEW: New Music Friday 5-12-23


Check out our preview of the Rock and Metal albums coming out this week!

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Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side Of The Moon” 50th Anniversary Boxed Set and Live Album are Released, Global Celebrations Announced


 

Warner Music [Sony Music outside Europe] today release the newly remastered Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon as a deluxe box set to celebrate 50 years since the release of one of the best-selling albums of all time. Click here for details. The album will also be available for the first time in Dolby Atmos on streaming platforms, as well as part of the deluxe box set.

 

Read our retrospective on the album here:

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CLASSIC ALBUMS REVISITED: Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of The Moon” Turns 50


 

Ghost Cult welcomes in guest contributor, podcaster and Pink Floyd expert Nik Cameron of The Glacially Musical Pouredcast to wax on about Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, which turned 50 years old today (March 1st, 2023).

 

The Dark Side of the Moon, 50 Years Later

As we sit here, author and reader, what could be arguably called the greatest prog rock album of all time, The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd, has aged fifty years. At the time of this writing when I attempt some words about this massive achievement, I am 47 years old.Continue reading


Pink Floyd’s Classic Song “Time” Can Be Heard in The Marvel Studios Film “Eternals”


Marvel Studios Eternals hit the big screen this week in theaters around the world and it featured a Prog Rock all-time classic in the opening minutes. Pink Floyd’s single “Time” from 1973 album The Dark Side of The Moon (Harvest/EMI) can be heard in the film, and works perfectly with the cosmic themes of the film.

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Brit Floyd to Kickoff their US Tour This Week at Red Rocks


“The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show” in the world,” Brit Floyd is coming over to the USA to kick off their headline tour this week, making up their 2020 dates that were postponed due to the lockdown year. The band flawless recreates some of the greatest music ever made.. In addition to faithfully recreating the iconic one-of-a-kind sound of the band, the band storms onto our shores with a brand new production recreating the scale and pomp of the final 1994 Pink Floyd tour, complete with a stunning multi million dollar light show, iconic circle screen, lasers, inflatables and theatrics. The set list will draw upon highlights from The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Division Bell, and more. If you never saw Pink Floyd “In The Flesh” – this is the closest you will ever get to the original article. Tickets are on sale now at the link below, as well as the full routing!

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Roger Waters Concert Film “Us and Them” Coming This Month


Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters will release a concert movie shot during his sold-out ROGER WATERS: US + THEM worldwide tour of 2017-2018. Us and Them is being released via 4K, HD and SD Digital, EST & TVOD on the 16th of June via Sony Pictures Entertainment. The tour comprised of a total of 156 shows to 2.3 million people across the globe, it features classic songs from The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here, as well as his most recent album, Is This The Life We Really Want? The film was directed by Sean Evans. Viewers on digital will have access to all-new post-feature content including two additional concert songs not included in the original feature (“Comfortably Numb” and “Smell the Roses”) as well as A Fleeting Glimpse, a documentary short featuring behind-the-scenes moments from the tour. Roger recently lashed out in the press at David Gilmour of Pink Floyd for not allowing him partner access to Pink Floyd’s website and fan community access via social media. Except for the full band reunion at Live 8 in 2005, Roger Waters Was legally separated from Pink Floyd in a court case in the mid-1980s where we argued in court and lost that he “was Pink Floyd”. Watch the trailer now!Continue reading


The Sword’s Kyle Shutt Is Streaming “Doom Side Of The Moon” Online


To celebrate 50 years of Pink Floyd releasing music that changed the world, The Sword‘s guitarist, Kyle Shutt, recently announced that he recorded doom covers of every seminal track from The Dark Side of the Moon. The upcoming record, entitled Doom Side of the Moon, will be released on August 4th, but you can stream it below!Continue reading