Steely Dan’s fourth album, Katy Lied, which was released in 1975, is set to be reissued on vinyl on January 31, 2025 via Geffen/UMe.

Katy Lied, remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analgo tapes, will be available as a limited edition premium 45 RMP version on Ultra High-Quality Vinyl from Analogue Productions and a Super Audio CD.

UMe’s standard 33 1/3 RPM 180-gram version has been remastered by Joe Nino-Hernes at Sterling Sound from high-resolution digital files and pressed at Precision. They will be housed in reproductions of the original artwork.

The 45 RPM UHQR versions will be pressed at Analogue Productions’ Quality Record Pressings on 200-gram Clarity Vinyl, packaged in a deluxe box, and will include a booklet detailing the entire process of making a UHQR along with a certificate of inspection.

Katy Lied, released on ABC Records in March 1975, marked a significant milestone in Steely Dan’s discography, exemplifying the band’s unique synthesis of rock, jazz, and pop. The album was the first recorded by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen after the exit of guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and drummer Jim Hodder from the group.

Katy Lied, which peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Album chart, has been certified Gold by the RIAA. The record featured the top-40 hit “Black Friday,” along with “Bad Sneakers” and “Doctor Wu.”

Steely Dan, who began reissuing their albums on vinyl in November 2022, have given the vinyl treatment to seven of their albums with the band’s founding member Donald Fagen overseeing the process. The band will close out the series in mid-2025 with 1976’s The Royal Scam.

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KISS recently shared a new 20-minute video recap of their last-ever show at Madison Square Garden, which took place on Saturday, December 2, 2023.

Last year, the iconic band returned to New York City’s Madison Square Garden for the final date of their End of the Road farewell tour.

“One year ago, today – December 2, 2023 – The last KISS Tour ever reached The End Of The Road with one final epic performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City!” the group wrote on social media. “Re-live the magic of that night with this awesome MSG concert recap.”

KISS’s final concert at Madison Square Garden lasted two hours and 15 minutes and saw the legendary rockers perform to 20,000 fans at the second show of a two-night stand.

After the set-closing “Rock And Roll All Nite,” a message was displayed on the video screens, “A new KISS era starts now”, and digital avatars of the four members of KISS appeared, playing the band’s anthem “God Gave Rock And Roll To You”.

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The Cure recently released a new EP, A Fragile Thing, which features a live version of the single as well as a remix by Robert Smith.

The original “Fragile Thing” track appears on The Cure’s 14th studio album, Songs Of A Lost World, which arrived earlier in November.

The four-track A Fragile Thing EP features a live performance of the single from the launch show that took place at the Troxy in London on November 1. The EP also contains “A Fragile Thing – RS24 Remix” by frontman Robert Smith and a shortened audio edit of the original version.

“Thank you again to everyone for helping make the Troxy London night so special – in the room and around the world,” The Cure wrote to announce the release of the EP and the global live-stream of the gig.

The group also said that the live recording was mixed by Smith himself.

Smith had explained in October that “A Fragile Thing” was about “how love is the most enduring of emotion. It’s the most powerful emotion, and it’s incredibly resilient. And yet at the same time, incredibly fragile.”

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Sammy Hagar recently explained to Rolling Stone the reason for Kenny Arnoff replacing Jason Bonham as his band’s drummer.

Arnoff came into the group earlier this year for the final dates of The Best Of All Worlds Summer Tour when Bonham temporarily stepped away due to a family emergency. However, it now seems Arnoff has come to stay for longer and will be part of the group during Hagar’s upcoming Best Of All Worlds Las Vegas Residency in 2025.

“There’s two reasons,” Hagar explained to Rolling Stone. “Number one, he’s one of the greatest drummers on the planet. I think he’s been on more million-selling records than any musician in the world. And he did so well on this tour, and he plays with Joe on a full-time basis.”

“And he blew my mind. I played with Kenny in Chickenfoot, and he blew my mind then too, because when we auditioned him, he learns every song,” he continued. “‘Tell me what songs we’re playing.’ ‘Okay, here they are.’ He charts them out and he sits there, and he can read it, and play it with soul and power perfectly, just one time, the first time he plays it. If that don’t blow a musician’s mind, I don’t know what would, especially these kinds of songs. These songs are crazy. They’re Van Halen arrangements.”

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In an interview with Anthony Mason of “CBS This Morning” that took place at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall a few days after the passing of Grateful Dead co-founder and bassist Phil Lesh, the surviving members of the group – Bonny Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart – revealed that they were planning a reunion to celebrate the band’s 60th anniversary with Lesh next year.

They said they had even scheduled time to rehearse for their comeback performance. Lesh died on Friday, October 25 at age 84.

“I was hoping that we could play with him again one more time,” Kreutzmann said. “So that, that was my sadness…’Cause I know he wanted to play with us again too.”

“We were kickin’ it around,” Weir added. “In fact, we were gonna, we were gonna get together and, and kick some songs around tomorrow.”

“I was hopin’ that we could do it,” Kreutzmann said, and Weir added, “We were gonna see where it goes. But we were just gonna play the four of us.”

Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart last performed with Lesh at the “Fare Thee Well” concerts in 2015 that marked the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead.

The Grateful Dead band’s full interview will be broadcast on CBS Mornings on Wednesday, December 18.

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