The man will never quit: Paul McCartney has announced the tracklisting for his latest album, titled Good Evening New York City, to be released on November 23. The CD/DVD duo was recorded over the course of McCartney’s New York Citi Field concerts in July, and features 33 tracks drawn from the whole of his career. The album will be made available on vinyl and as a deluxe edition, of course.

Tracklisting:
Disc 1

‘Drive My Car’
‘Jet’
‘Only Mama Knows’
‘Flaming Pie’
‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
‘Let Me Roll It’
‘Highway’
‘The Long And Winding Road’
‘My Love’
‘Blackbird’
‘Here Today’
‘Dance Tonight’
‘Calico Skies’
‘Mrs Vandebilt’
‘Eleanor Rigby’
‘Sing The Changes’
‘Band On The Run’

Disc 2

‘Back In The USSR’
‘I’m Down’
‘Something’
‘I’ve Got A Feeling’
‘Paperback Writer’
‘A Day In The Life’/'Give Peace A Chance’
‘Let It Be’
‘Live And Let Die’
‘Hey Jude’
‘Day Tripper’
‘Lady Madonna’
‘I Saw Her Standing There’
‘Yesterday’
‘Helter Skelter’
‘Get Back’
‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’/'The End’

DVD

‘Drive My Car’
‘Jet’
‘Only Mama Knows’
‘Flaming Pie’
‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
‘Let Me Roll It’
‘Highway’
‘The Long And Winding Road’
‘My Love’
‘Blackbird’
‘Here Today’
‘Dance Tonight’
‘Calico Skies’
‘Mrs Vandebilt’
‘Eleanor Rigby’
‘Sing The Changes’
‘Band On The Run’
‘Back In The USSR’
‘I’m Down’
‘Something’
‘I’ve Got A Feeling’
‘Paperback Writer’
‘A Day In The Life’/'Give Peace A Chance’
‘Let It Be’
‘Live And Let Die’
‘Hey Jude’
‘Day Tripper’
‘Lady Madonna’
‘I Saw Her Standing There’
‘Yesterday’
‘Helter Skelter’
‘Get Back’
‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’/'The End’

It’s old news that Michael Jackson owned half of the copyrights to a large portion of Beatles songs, and that Sony/ATV Music Publishing owned the rest. But apparently, according to the US Copyright Act of 1976, songwriters are able to regain control of publishing rights on pre-1978 compositions after 56 years. This is all music to Paul McCartney’s ears. Pun intended, dudes! Behind said Act, McCartney will be able to regain control over Beatles compositions from 1962 in 2018 and songs from 1970 in 2026. So at the tender age of 76, just nine years from now, Paul McCartney (who already is worth about $737 million) will be raking in the dough.

Behold: great video up from this past weekend as Neil Young and Paul McCartney covered “A Day In The Life” at Hyde Park.

Not that long ago, MGMT were just two of the many sort of dirty-looking, kind of hippie-vibing kids in Brooklyn. On August 5th and 6th they will opening for Paul McCartney at Boston’s Fenway Park. McCartney recently declared his admiration for the duo’s music and suggested they might collaborate on “some more dancey stuff,” so now that they will most certainly be hanging backstage, expect that pairing to actually happen and for MGMT to become the richest sort of dirty-looking, kind of hippie-vibing kids in all the world. Let that be a lesson to you, Williamsburg: Don’t change a thing.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr joined Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison at the E3 Business & Media Summit in New York today to premiere The Beatles: Rock Band, the next installment of the popular video game and one that’s billed to provide a “revolutionary tour of The Beatles’ music, career, and legacy.”

45 of the Beatles songs will be available to “play” when the game hits stores on September 9, the very same day that the legendary band’s entire catalog will also be made available for the first time digitally on iTunes. Atop the list of exclusive features that make us think this might be a good time to start gaming again: three part harmonies.

Watch the trailer here.

Little did we know when we saw Paul McCartney at Coachella a few weeks ago that Scottish bombshell Shirley Manson was in the audience, too. But according to what she told fellow Scot Craig Ferguson Tuesday night, she was having a little trouble concentrating on the legendary Beatle. Because, naturally, she couldn’t stop thinking about Angela Lansbury. Wait, what?

Apparently a while back Craig told Shirley that he thought McCartney bore a striking resemblance to the “Murder She Wrote” star. And really? We won’t put up too much of a fight here. Maybe not young Paul McCartney, but older, kind of jowel-y Paul McCartney? Yeah, sure. We’ll bite. So it seems that while Shirley wanted to be awed by the fact that she was staring up at a Beatle, all she could think was that she was staring into the strangely masculine doppelganger of Angela Lansbury.

You can watch Shirley’s full re-telling of the incident (and some more photographic proof) here.

Though Morrissey’s vegetarian rants during his Coachella set were priceless, we find it hard to believe no one is talking about Paul McCartney’s set at the festival. Or rather, what was being displayed on the jumbo-tron behind the musician while he played “Got to Get You Into My Life” during his set.

Visuals from the new game The Beatles: Rock Band were unexpectedly streamed live as McCartney (who is also vegetarian as you can see) played the Beatles’ song for fans. As we have told you already, the game isn’t due out till 09.09.09, but the McCartney-set-teaser is making us assume the song will make it onto the final product and at least some of the tablature is done.

During McCartney’s set photo privileges were restricted, but we still managed to get some video footage of the performance for you to see and relish in. McCartney’s website has also confirmed that the footage behind the artist was indeed the new Beatles game, minus the notes and lyrics. As cool an unexpected as this is, we’re still trying to figure out what the big deal over Morrissey’s vocal complaints about the smell of burning flesh and “dry heaving during ‘Girlfriend’ in a coma from the smell of BBQ,” as one of our photographers explained, really is.

Pink Floyd is taking their long term record label, EMI to court; suing the label for allegedly miscalculating royalty payments on their back catalog.

The band has filed a lawsuit against EMI, whom they have been with since 1967, for owed royalties they never received from the sales of their back catalog over the years. Neither the band nor the label has not commented on the amount of money in question, but since the success of the band’s Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall was so large — both of which are among the best-selling records of all time — the back owed royalties could possibly be in the millions.

According to Rolling Stone, the only group that has outsold Pink Floyd’s back catalog over the past 25-years is The Beatles. The lawsuit was most likely brought about after a routine royalty negotiation, which occurs every three years. Pink Floyd would not be the first big band to have trouble with spiraling major label. Since 2007, when EMI paired up with the private equity firm Terra Firma (insert ironic name joke here), the label has seen the loss of Radiohead and Paul McCartney.

So last week we told you about an abundance of Ram cover compilations being released in recent days. Turns out the influential Paul and Linda McCartney album isn’t just an inspiration for musicians. Indie T-Shirt company Rotter and Friends loved the album so much, they created this “Ram On” tee that you can win.

Artist Jess Rotter, a woman that promotes rock bands by day at Kemado Records in New York, is the mastermind of the whimsical t-shirt line, Rotter and Friends. The tees’ prints are playful, heartfelt, and inspired by rare music of the 1960s and 70s. Part of the indie-label’s appeal is that the shirts feature hand-drawn, wickedly irreverent illustrated prints. Collections have included sweet odes to Link Wray, Judee Sill, Captain Beefheart, Bob Seger System, and a slew of Rotter’s crazy dancing hand-drawn characters.

Apparently, one of Rotter’s all time favorite records is the McCartney opus “Ram On”, and paid homage to the tune in her Fall ‘08 collection. Two winners (one male and one female) will be chosen randomly — all you need to do to enter is e-mail us here with the subject line “Ram On” (make sure to include your full contact info*). The contest runs through Monday, March 16 with the winner notified that evening. Now’s your chance to look like Natalie Portman, so don’t mess it up. Good luck!

*Please provide e-mail and full mailing address. Contest will officially end at 6pm EST on Monday, March 16th. E-mail addresses not already on our mailing list will be added.

By now, the rehab jokes have gotten old, but Amy Winehouse just can’t seem to keep herself out of trouble. So with a highly anticipated Coachella performance just over a month away, it somehow doesn’t strike us as surprising that the soul singer has been forced to pull out of the California music festival.

According to her spokesman, Winehouse has been unable to get a work visa to travel to the United States in time to perform at this year’s Coachella. She was set to perform on April 18 with the likes of Paul McCartney and The Killers, but just as she couldn’t obtain a work visa to perform at the 2008 Grammy Awards — she was in rehab for drug use — she is now facing charges of assault, which are preventing the singer from making this appearance.

The frail-boned, bee-hive donning singer was charged with common assault after an incident at a ball in London’s Berkeley Square last year, according to Reuters. The singer has a hearing for the assault case later this month, on March 17 at Westminister Magistrates’ Court. Unfortunately for the Grammy award winning Winehouse, her talent has been largely overlooked within the past few years because of her crazy-girl antics stealing the heat from her success. Coachella organizers have not yet said who will replace the singer at this year’s festival, but we sure are going to miss out on her performance.

Fab Four fans, brace yourselves. Soon you will be able pretend to be John, Paul, George or Ringo not only from the safety of your own home, but with shocking graphics-induced realism, courtesy of the upcoming Rock Band: The Beatles game. The video game officially received a due date today, the unavoidably cute 09-09-09.

Plans for the game were announced late last year by Apple Corps Ltd. (the Beatles’ licensing company), MTV Games and Harmonix. We don’t yet know what songs will be included in the game, but Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones said that the breadth of material would be career-spanning, stretching from Please Please Me to Abbey Road.

What we do know is that there’s a web site with nothing on it but that dramatic release date, 09.09.09, and a sort of poorly animated recording studio. Plus some corporate logos, obviously.

The game was designed and conceived with input from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison. Rock Band-ites who buy the game will also have the chance to buy “a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career.” Because your current fake plastic guitar and fake plastic drums, it seems, will not be as good as these extra-super-special fake plastic guitars and drums.

One million children need to learn how to meditate and half of the original Beatles are going to help them out. Yeah, that’s right, Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are scheduled the headline the David Lynch Foundation’s benefit concert, “Change Begins Within,” at Radio City Music Hall in April, which is a benefit concert  to raise funds for one-million “at-risk” children so they can learn how to meditate.

McCartney and Starr, Donovan, Sheryl Crow, Moby and a host of others will be performing on April 4 to help Lynch with his cause. David Lynch launched his foundation in 2005 in hopes of financing scholarships for students in middle and high schools that wanted to learn about Transcendental Meditation, which Lynch credits as a life-long tool that can help kids overcome stress and violence, as well as gain success later in life. We figure, if it worked for him, TM can’t be too bad.

McCartney, like Lynch, is an advocate of Transcendental Meditation as well, having studied it in India with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. He has accredited the practice for helping him with his music and success over the past 40 years. “In moments of madness, it has helped me find moments of serenity,” said McCartney. “I would like to think that it would help provide them [children] a quiet haven in a not-so-quiet world.”

We’re not entirely sure the reason for Ram being reconceived by not one — but two — respected independent media outlets. We understand it’s a great album, but did we miss the 27th anniversary party or something? Either way, both WFMU and Aquarium Drunkard have managed to recreate some of Paul McCartney’s best solo work with the help of some of today’s best independent musicians.

Enlisting the likes of Earlimart, The Parson Redheads, Los Baby Fools, Naptunes, Travel By Sea, and Le Switch, among others, Aquarium Drunkard has set the stage for a diverse lineup that not only showcase the genius of Paul and Linda McCartney’s album, but also displays the variety of talented musicians are artists harvesting themselves within the L.A. region.

Aquarium Drunkard used The Parson Redheads to record the title track for the cover album, “Ram On”, and Earlimart’s recording of “Too Many People” is another notable staple cover off of the recording, bringing together an interesting redition of what-would-be McCartney’s falsetto on the track, and Earlimart’s distinctive sound. The record is available as a digital download, and can be downloaded for free, but donations for McCartney’s No More Landmines are strongly encouraged.

Meanwhile, as Pitchfork reported this morning, WFMU has enlisted some loftier names to help raise money for — well, WFMU. As we all know, these are tough times for independently run radio stations, so as an incentive for this year’s WFMU pledge drive, which runs through March 15, they’re offering up their version of Ram. The WFMU version is called Tom, after “Best Show” host Tom Scharpling and features Death Cab for Cutie, Ted Leo, Portastatic, Danielson, Aimee Mann, James Pants, Black Hollies, and more covering the classic album. It can be yours — along with a warm fuzzy feeling for helping out a good cause — for a $75 pledge, which you can make here