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Yesterday Govn’t Mule released “Dark Side of the Mule,” an album of Pink Floyd covers.

Recorded Oct. 31, 2008, at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, Mass., the album includes 90 minutes of music.

“Dark Side of the Mule” is the second in a series of live archival releases from the band, following last month’s “Stoned Side of the Mule: Vol. 1,” a collection of music by The Rolling Stones.

The album’s available in three configurations: a standard version, single CD; a deluxe version, three CDs and one DVD package of the entire three-hour performance; and a double vinyl version. All configurations feature audio newly-mixed and mastered.

Govn’t Mule is a Southern rock jam band, formed in 1994 by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody as a side project of The Allman Brothers Band.

The group’s on tour through mid-January.

Learn more about Govn’t Mule.

Pink Floyd‘s upcoming “The Endless River” has become the most pre-ordered titled in the history of Amazon.com.

Senior Amazon executive Steve Bernstein tells Classic Rock Magazine, “It’s an outstanding achievement for Pink Floyd, and it proves they remain one of the most popular groups to grace the UK music scene.”

Here’s the online retailer’s list of all-time most pre-ordered titles:

1. Pink Floyd: The Endless River
2. One Direction: Midnight Memories
3. Robbie Williams: Swings Both Ways
4. Take That: Progress
5. Susan Boyle: I Dreamed A Dream
6. Coldplay: Ghost Stories
7. David Bowie: The Next Day
8. Coldplay: X&Y
9. Take That: The Circus
10. Amy Winehouse: Lioness

“The Endless River” will release Nov. 10 in the U.K., and appear in U.S. stores Nov. 11.

Pink Floyd has made available another track from its upcoming album “The Endless River.”

The 1:56 instrumental “Allons-y (1)” can be purchased on iTunes and heard on Spotify.

The band released “Louder Than Words” on Oct.9.

“The Endless River” will be released Nov. 10 in the U.K. and the following day in the U.S.

Pink Floyd revealed today details about its upcoming “The Endless River,” the band’s first studio album in 20 years, with the launch of a new website devoted to the project as well as a marketing campaign that put the album’s artwork on buildings across the globe.

Originally expected to drop sometime in October, we now know the album will be released Nov. 10 in three formats: a standard CD, a double LP, and a 2-disc boxset. (The Nov. 10 release date, a Monday, is likely a U.K. date, with the U.S. release likely coming Nov. 11.)

Track listing

The track listing is broken into four “sides” to, according to the band’s press release, “invoke the album listening experience.” All tracks are instrumental, except for “Louder Than Words,” with lyrics by Polly Samson.

Side 1
Things Left Unsaid
It’s What We Do
Ebb and Flow

Side 2
Sum
Skins
Unsung
Anisina

Side 3
The Lost Art of Conversation
On Noodle Street
Night Light
Allons-y (1)
Autumn’68
Allons-y (2)
Talkin’ Hawkin’

Side 4
Calling
Eyes to Pearls
Surfacing
Louder Than Words

Three formats

The standard CD will come in a hard-cover bound book package with foil blocking on a cloth spine, and includes a 16-page booklet including previously unpublished photographs from the 1993 sessions.

The double vinyl set will be pressed on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl, mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab in Ojai, Calif. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with full-color inner bags, it comes with a download card and an 11″ x 11″ 16-page booklet including previously unpublished photographs from the ’93 sessions.

The 2-disc boxset includes:

• A 24-page booklet in hard-cover, including previously unpublished photographs from the ’93 sessions
• CD in full-color card wallet with full-color label
• DVD (NTSC) or Blu-Ray disc in full-color card wallet with full-color label
• Three postcards, one with a 3D Lenticular design
• The DVD contains “The Endless River” album in 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital and DTS), plus stereo version in 48kHz/24 bit
• The Blu-Ray disc contains the album in high-resolution 5.1 Surround (DTS Master Audio and PCM, 96/24), plus PCM stereo 96/24
• About 39 minutes of non-album audio/visual material: Six video tracks and three audio tracks, unavailable elsewhere
• Archive video material and still photographs shot during the original ’93 recording sessions

Roots in “The Division Bell”

Produced by David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Youth and Andy Jackson, “The Endless River” is composed of material recorded during the making of 1994’s “The Division Bell.”

“We listened to over 20 hours of the three of us playing together and selected the music we wanted to work on for the new album,” according to Gilmour. “Over the last year we’ve added new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology to make a 21st century Pink Floyd album.

“With Rick gone, and with him the chance of ever doing it again, it feels right that these revisited and reworked tracks should be made available as part of our repertoire,” he adds.

“The Endless River is a tribute to Rick,” says Nick Mason. “I think this record is a good way of recognizing a lot of what he does and how his playing was at the heart of the Pink Floyd sound. Listening back to the sessions, it really brought home to me what a special player he was.”

Cover artwork

The album artwork of a man rowing on a “river” of clouds was created by Ahmed Emad Eldin, an 18-year-old Egyptian digital artist. His image was re-created by UK design agency Stylorouge.

The artwork is displayed on buildings in 10 cities around the world. In London, it’s displayed on an 8-meter-high, illuminated cube installation on the South Bank.

Storm Thorgerson, the man responsible for most of Floyd’s album art since 1968’s “A Saucerful of Secrets,” passed away in 2013. The task of finding an image to represent the new album fell to Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, Thorgerson’s original partner in design team Hipgnosis.

“When we saw Ahmed’s image it had an instant Floydian resonance,”  Powell says. “It’s enigmatic and open to interpretation, and is the cover that works so well for The Endless River.”

Parlophone will release Pink Floyd‘s “The Endless River” on Nov. 10.

Details about the new album — artwork, songlists and more — are available on a new website devoted to the project.

More from us once we’ve had a chance to digest the news …

At the risk of spreading rumor, this image has been circulating the Web, supposedly showing the songlist of Pink Floyd’s upcoming album “The Endless River.”

We can’t confirm its original source, nor its authenticity.