Carly Simon's New Memoir Gets "Songs from the Trees" Musical Companion CD Release

Just days before Carly Simon’s long-awaited memoir, Boys in the Trees, arrives, Rhino will release the book’s musical companion, SONGS FROM THE TREES (A MUSICAL MEMOIR COLLECTION).

In the two disc CD collection’s liner notes, the acclaimed singer/songwriter explains the music’s connection to her book: “This is a special album that serves as an additional way to look at my stories. Most of these songs are precursors to what eventually became the book...If you feel like playing this puzzle, there are clues of how to cross-reference the songs with the chapters, pages and words.”

With 31 tracks spread across two disc, the compilation spans a great deal of the award-winning artist’s stellar career, from her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to her meteoric solo career, which yielded 13 top 40 hits, including the #1 song “You’re So Vain.”

MARCO POLO to Discover DVD & Blu-ray in December

Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company are proud to announce the season one home entertainment release of the gripping Netflix drama, MARCO POLO. Featuring over an hour of never-before-seen special features including The Marco Polo Documentary, Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel, Fight Scene Rehearsals and more, MARCO POLO will be available on Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay on December 15, 2015.

This epic adventure follows a young Marco Polo, who finds himself in the court of the great Kublai Khan and must navigate a world of greed, betrayal and sexual intrigue as the Mongol leader wages a bloody campaign to become Emperor of the World.

Re-creating the legendary explorer’s 13th century exploits in the Far East, this historical drama chronicles the intrigues, duplicity and greed running rampant in the court of the Mongolian ruler Khan.

The complete first season of MARCO POLO has a running time of 547 minutes, is not rated, and stars Lorenzo Richelmy (Sotto Una Buona, La Terra e Il Vento), Benedict Wong (The Martian, Prometheus), Zhu Zhu (Could Atlas, The Man with the Iron Fist), Remy Hii (Kiss, Treading Water) Olivia Cheng (Assault on Wall Street) and Joan Chen (Lust, Caution) from creator John Fusco (The Forbidden Kingdom, Hidalgo).

" Lady Antebellum : Wheels Up Tour " Set for DVD/BD Release

Eagle Rock Entertainment is proud to announce the November 13, 2015 release of the Lady Antebellum: Wheels Up Tour on DVD and Blu-ray  [MSRP $19.98 Blu-ray, $14.98 DVD].  This concert film was shot this year at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Irvine, California on June 27.  Their Wheels Up 2015 Tour concerts showcased songs from the band’s most recent album 747, along with hit singles and fan favorites from across their career, including “American Honey,” “Need You Now,” “Bartender,” “Our Kind Of Love,” “Just A Kiss,” “I Run To You,” “We Owned The Night,” “Dancin’ Away With My Heart,” “Compass,” “Love n’t Live Here,” and many more!

The seven-time Grammy-winning act has amassed a multitude of hits and an incredibly loyal fanbase worldwide. Lady Antebellum’s Wheels Up 2015 Tour started in Oslo, Norway at the end of February and traversed Europe, Australia, and North America before it concluded in Las Vegas, at the beginning of October. Scattered between the live songs, the film features behind-the-scenes snippets, highlighting the band meeting fans, the spectacular set design and intimate moments on the tour.

Make Sure to Pick Up "Trash", November 17

Three impoverished street kids stumble onto the key to a far-reaching conspiracy in Trash, a gripping adventure  coming to Blu-ray and DVD on November 17, 2015 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and based on the critically acclaimed novel by Andy Mulligan, Trash breathes new life into a classic genre as it follows a trio of Brazilian teenagers on a mission to untangle a web of political corruption while staying one step ahead of the police.

When three trash-picking boys from the slums of Rio De Janeiro find a wallet at their local dump, they have no idea their lives are about to change forever. But when local police show up offering a handsome reward for its return, the friends realize they've found something important. Academy Award-nominee Rooney Mara (The Girl with Dragon Tattoo, Side Effects), Martin Sheen ("The West Wing," The Departed), Wagner Moura ("Narcos," Elysium) and Selton Mello (The Clown, My Hindu Friend) star in this thrilling adventure based on Andy Mulligan's best-selling novel and adapted for the screen by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, War Horse).
 

David Bowie Plans "Blackstar" January 2016 Release

Classic rocker, and icon David Bowie is planning the release of a new album in January 2016, called “Blackstar,” according to reports.

Bowie put together the seven-tune collection at New York City’s Magic Shop studio with the assistance of several local jazz musicians, according to the Times.  It will be out on January 8, 2016 via ISO/Columbia.  The lead single, also called “Blackstar,” will release on November 19.  The song will be featured in “Lazarus,” a musical the Thin White Duke is co-writing with Enda Walsh.  The track is also used as the theme for UK crime series “The Last Panthers”.

The Times classifies the new LP as “an album of long, jazzy jams mixed with the kind of driving beat pioneered by Seventies German bands Can and Kraftwerk.”  The album is also said to include influences of “Gregorian chants, a soul section, various electronic beats and bleeps and Bowie’s distinctive vocals,” making for a record that a quoted Bowie insider describes as “completely bonkers.”

Bowie’s last full-length album, “The Next Day,” released in 2013.  The timing of  “Blackstar” January 8 release coincides with Bowie’s 69th birthday, January 16, 2016.

Adele Announces Release of "25" Album, Reveals New Song!

Adele has confirmed the release of her third studio album, 25, likely the most anticipated music release of 2015.   25, the follow-up to her 2011 blockbuster 21, will be out on November 20, 2015 via Universal Music,  she revealed this week. 

It was a busy week for the secretive superstar, who previewed a new song during the UK X Factor on Sunday, then shared a note to fans about the new album this past Wednesday morning.  "25 is about getting to know who I've become without realising,” she wrote. “And I'm sorry it took so long, but you know, life happened."

Laurie Anderson's "Heart of a Dog" OST Out Now

The complete soundtrack recording of Laurie Anderson's newest piece, Heart of a Dog, is out now

on Nonesuch Records. Anderson was commissioned by the European TV network Arte to create a feature film—her first in 30 years. Her response was a personal essay entitled Heart of a Dog, a work encompassing joy and heartbreak, at the heart of which is a lament for her late beloved dog Lolabelle. Watch the film's trailer below. The Nonesuch album is the full audio recording of the film, including all music and spoken text.

Heart of a Dog has been shown at the Telluride, Venice, Toronto, London, and New York Film Festivals to critical praise and opened theatrically this week at New York's Film Forum. 

The film invites viewers to spend "75 enthralling minutes with the endlessly associative contents of Anderson's head and heart," says NPR film critic Ella Taylor. "Heart of a Dog is the ultimate realist narrative. It flows along, mimicking the continuous, fleeting, fragmentary flow of consciousness, the haze that lies between sleeping and waking, even between death and whatever lies behind it."

The New York Times' Manohla Dargis has made this "dreamy, drifty and altogether lovely movie" a Critics' Pick. "Heart of a Dog is about telling and remembering and forgetting, and how we put together the fragments that make up our lives," writes Dargis. "At times, it feels as if she too were haunting her movie even as, with every image and word, she fills it with life." New York called it "one of the most moving and provocative films you’ll see this year."