{"id":30053,"date":"2024-08-02T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-alarm-announces-upcoming-digital-release-of-mtv-inspired-album-music-television\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:03:34","slug":"the-alarm-announces-upcoming-digital-release-of-mtv-inspired-album-music-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-alarm-announces-upcoming-digital-release-of-mtv-inspired-album-music-television\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alarm announces upcoming digital release of MTV-inspired album, ‘Music Television’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twenty First Century Recording Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Alarm<\/strong> is set to release their new album,\u00a0<\/span>Music Television,<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in August.<\/span><\/p>\n

The record features covers of songs made famous in MTV’s heyday, and was supposed to be available on vinyl and CD during the band\u2019s <\/span>Live Today Love Tomorrow <\/span><\/em>tour.\u00a0The tour\u00a0was supposed to launch in May,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>but was postponed after Alarm frontman Mike Peters<\/strong>\u2019 cancer returned.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now the album will be released digitally on Aug. 23, along with an additional recording of \u201cTransition,\u201d\u00a0a song that originally appeared on The Alarm\u2019s 2023 album,\u00a0<\/span>Forwards<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peters was initially\u00a0diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2005 and relapsed in 2022. Right before the tour,\u00a0his cancer\u00a0returned and he\u00a0was diagnosed with a rare condition known as Richter\u2019s syndrome.\u00a0He\u2019s currently hoping to find a donor for a stem cell transplant.\u00a0He says he added \u201cTransition\u201d to the album \u201cas a signal of my intent to survive the transplant and get back to real life sometime in 2025.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have optimistic options ahead of me, and, like all the songs on <\/span>Music Television<\/span><\/em> that have survived the years since they were first written, so will I,\u201d he adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to \u201cTransitions,\u201d <\/span>Music Television<\/span><\/em> features The Alarm\u2019s reinterpretations of such classic MTV staples as\u00a0The Buggles<\/strong>\u2019 \u201cVideo Killed The Radio Star,\u201d which was the first song played on the network;\u00a0Dire Straits<\/strong>\u2019 \u201cMoney For Nothing,\u201d the first song played on MTV Europe; David Bowie<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cThe Man Who Sold The World\u201d;\u00a0Phil Collins<\/strong>\u2019 \u201cIn The Air Tonight\u201d;\u00a0Modern English<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cI Melt With You”; and\u00a0Michael Jackson<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cBeat It.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the track list forMusic Television<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cMoney For Nothing\u201d (Dire Straits)
\u201cVideo Killed The Radio Star\u201d (The Buggles)
\u201cLive Today Love Tomorrow\u201d (The Blow Monkeys)
\u201cImagination\u201d (Belouis Some)
\u201cBeat It\u201d (Michael Jackson)
\u201cDon\u2019t Change\u201d (INXS)
\u201cIn The Air Tonight\u201d (Phil Collins)
\u201cI Melt With You\u201d (Modern English)
\u201cScreaming For Emmalene\u201d (Gene Loves Jezebel)
\u201cThe Man Who Sold The World\u201d (David Bowie)
\u201cMTV Theme\u201d
\u201cTransition\u201d (The Alarm)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty First Century Recording Company The Alarm is set to release their new album,\u00a0Music Television,\u00a0in August. The record features covers of songs made famous in MTV’s heyday, and was supposed to be available on vinyl and CD during the band\u2019s Live Today Love Tomorrow tour.\u00a0The tour\u00a0was supposed to launch inRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}