More buzz about RVC debuting in top 10

Red Velvet Car

hitfix.com: This week’s Billboard 200 had six debuts in the top 10 and it is likely that next week will match that tally. Also bowing in the upper reaches will be Lyfe Jennings’ “I Still Believe,” which the rapper says will be his last album, at No. 6; Goo Goo Dolls’ “Something for the Rest of Us” at No. 7, Heart’s “Red Velvet Car” at No. 8 and alternative rockers 10 Years’ “Feeding the Wolves” at No. 9.

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In a couple of days we’ll know for sure!

All Music Guide reviews Red Velvet Car

Red Velvet Car

All Music Guide: Some classic rock reunions are driven by marketing, some driven by a desperate need to reconnect to the past, some exist merely for the music. Red Velvet Car, Heart’s first album since 2004’s Jupiter’s Darling, belongs to the latter camp: it’s music with no seeming commercial aspirations, music that is connected to the past but doesn’t strive to replicate it. Heart eschews their teased, corseted ‘80s bombast and sticks to the Zep worship of the ‘70s, an obsession that’s proved quite fertile. The Wilson sisters are clearly older than they were when they belted out “Barracuda” — the tempos are generally slower, Ann’s voice doesn’t reach the same heights — but they embrace their age, a move that gives their excursions into folk including a revival “Sand” from their 1990 Lovemongers sideproject, a record that pointed the way toward the textured movie here. Red Velvet Car has something of a meditative mood — the punchy Townshend power chords are used as color, not fuel — triggered somewhat by a preponderance of textured, acoustic-laden arrangements and miniature epics, all elements that hearken back to Heart’s golden age yet wind up feeling right in line with their vibe in 2010. 3,5 stars out of 5

Philly.com reviews Red Velvet Car

Red Velvet Car

Philly.com (Philadelphia Inquirer):

Heart
Red Velvet Car
(Sony Legacy ***)

The Wilson sisters of Heart were hard rock’s main mamas in the ’70s. Biting, clarion-clear vocalist Ann Wilson; harmony-singing, guitar-slinging sister Nancy; and the pair’s cleanly emotive brand of Zep-inspired folk-and-pop-metal melody ruled the charts. Eventually, they turned into a hair band doing Bic-flicking power ballads and became their own acoustic side project (Lovemongers) in between semiretirements.

Along with gearing up for a catalog overhaul, Heart recorded this stirring first new studio album in six years with warmly dramatic producer Ben Mink. The results are closer in cloyingly contagious melody and intimate lyricism to their early music, as in the cocksure “Queen City.” Yet the album’s mostly acoustic palette of cello, autoharp, banjo, and such allows songs such as the softly sonorous “Hey You” to take your breath away without ever eschewing their ability to rock out, as Heart does on the rousing “WTF.”

Heart: A Legendary Rock Band Looks Ahead

Red Velvet Car

Heart, led by Ann and Nancy Wilson, has survived more than three decades of music and fashion, selling 30 million albums in the process. The band’s hits — including “Magic Man,” “Barracuda” and “These Dreams” — remain staples on classic-rock radio, but Heart is still going strong. It’s back with a new album called Red Velvet Car, which the Wilsons discuss in a recent interview with Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon. Click here to go to npr.org where you can read more about the interview, find audio from the interview and listen to some Red Velvet Car

Red Velvet Car projected to debut at number 8!

Red Velvet Car

STREETPULSE reports DISTURBED”Asylum” (WEA/Reprise) is in the #1 salesposition going into the holiday weekend.

StreetPulse Top Five Sales Breakouts Going Into This Weekend

Debut #1 DISTURBED “Asylum” (WEA/Reprise)
Debut #3 JENNY & JOHNNY “I’m Having Fun Now” (WEA/Warner)
Debut #6 RYAN BINGHAM & THE DEAD HORSES “Junky Star” (UMGD/Lost Highway)
Debut #8 HEART “Red Velvet Car” (SBME/SMG)
Debut #10 RICHARD THOMPSON “Dream Attic” (SBME/Shout)

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*Knocking on wood* If this actually happens, Red Velvet Car will be one of the most highest charting Heart Albums and highest in 20 years.

Streetpulse also has Red Velvet Car debuting at number one on the AC chart (sept 2nd):

Red Velvet Car on vinyl!

Here’s the proof of its existence! However: no where to be found in the shops or online? Unacceptable! Reply here if you want the vinyl to be available!

Vinyl copy in the hands of Jimmy Fallon (sorry Jimmy for the unfortunate timing in the screengrab)

Click here for the online exclusive of Heart playing Barracuda on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

A report from the Q1043 event

RVC

Brett reporting from NYC, September 1st 2010:

It was amazing…The ladies first came out and did like a ten minute interview with some radio host (I want to say his name was Jim Kerr or something) but they talked about the new album and the same old questions each interviewer asks Ann and Nancy like about being women in a male dominated industry, their fixation on the beatles, and so on. The interviewer made sure to speak of how amazingly red velvet car is doing in the market. He spoke of its immediate rise to number one on amazon and said that when he was going through radio stats early in the morning (he works on 104.3 radio) that “Hey You” is being predicted to be Heart’s 21st top twenty single.

Ann & Nancy September 2nd

(Amazing and well deserved news, might I add.) On a side note, Ann was wearing these red kick ass cowboy boots. The interview concluded and the girls were taken off stage for about five minutes and returned with a six song set starting with barracuda. I have been dying to finally see Ann and Nancy with straight acoustics and they did not disappoint. Nancy and Craig were spot on, transforming some of the hardest heart rockers into numbers that suited acoustic guitars well. The rest of the set was as follows: Barracuda, Dog and Butterfly, Hey You, WTF (acoustic and out of this world), Crazy on You, and Dreamboat Annie. A fun little

Red Boots

thing that they did was at the end of Dreamboat Annie where there is normally a flute playing, Nancy sang it in a joking way and a majority of the crowd sang it right along with her. This is my tenth heart show and even though it was only six songs, this ranks among my favorite experiences. I am so thankful I was chosen to attend this event. On the way out the door, everyone who attended was handed a poster to remember this magical night.

Also in other great news, the interviewer had a VINYL COPY of Red Velvet Car!!!!! Ann and Nancy hadn’t even seen it yet…I can not wait to get my hands on that. This show was also filmed with 6 cameras and will be broadcasted on clear channel tv, along with about one hundred radio stations.

More from this event at Q104.3