Bad News. Good News. is here

With canceled shows, closed venues and lost incomes, the pandemic was bad news for many music artists. But it wasn’t only bad news in 2020, as many artists used their struggle to do what they do best during difficult times: create great music. That's why N.E.W.S. Records decided to release ‘Bad News. Good News.’. A limited edition, 500 copy, vinyl record with great songs that couldn’t be played live because of the pandemic. The record itself is made from the ashes of newspapers and magazines containing the bad news that hit the music industry in 2020 (and prevented artists from performing live). As proof that great music always survives bad news, no matter how desperate things can get.

To create the records, N.E.W.S. Records worked with And Vinyly, a UK-based company specialized in pressing vinyl records with ashes.

Many artists collaborated on the project and shared their insight on how the bad news happening in the music world influenced their music, like Johannes Genard, lead singer of School is Cool: “The one good thing about bad times is that they open new perspectives on things you’ve grown accustomed to, and that is exactly our core business as artists: comforting during challenging times; challenging during comfortable times and finding new ways to look at old things.”

The compilation contains some exclusives like the Brihang & Compact Disk Dummies ‘Steentje / I Remember’ mash up, recorded live for ‘Week van de Belgische Muziek’ and Sam De Nef’s cover of the belpop classic ‘Satelliet Suzy’ recorded for StuBru.

Available tomorrow at your local independent record store.

Tracklisting

A1.Brihang & Compact Disk Dummies - Steentje / I remember (live)

A2. Millionaire - Dig a Ditch

A3. Mauro Pawlowski - Spotlight

A4. Het Zesde Metaal - De Onvolledigen (feat. Stefanie Callebaut) (Live)

A5. Sam De Nef - Satelliet Suzy

A6. Hydrogen Sea - These Days

B1. School is Cool - Close

B2. STUFF. - Cumulus

B3. Flying Horseman - Flare

B4. Nordmann - Cascade(s)

B5. Faces on TV - Keep Me Close

B6. Willy Organ - Autostrade

Music Video (3) Bad news. Good News. - YouTube