There will be a physical release of the “Tomorrow” single in Germany, according to the Vertigo Berlin/Universal Music website. The CD-single is due for release on January 27th.
No tracklist is available for the moment. Germany is one of the last territories, if not the last, not to have “Tomorrow” on digital music retailers yet.

Music producer Stephen Street, who worked on the upcoming “Roses” album with The Cranberries, told some interesting details about last Spring recording sessions in an interview published on the Miloco Studios website.

Last June, the band went into the Miloco studios in London to work on four extra songs for their upcoming “Roses” album, which was mainly recorded at the Metalworks Studio in Toronto, Canada.

“I was very interested to see what they would come up with after such a long break. At first they were a little hesitant with their writing, but bit by bit they started to find their rhythm and suddenly some really good material came through,” told Street.

The music producer also explained how the band and he worked on going back to their pre-stardom sound. “I was very keen to get them back to sounding like they did on their first record, which had a very intimate sound. I think touring the world and playing to huge audiences in big stadia had possibly distorted their writing output a bit. And so rather than being this group where D[o]lores was almost singing out to the world, I wanted them to go back to how it was on the first record which was more inwards looking, and intimate. And I think we’ve achieved that, and I’m really looking forward to that album coming out next year.”

The preview clips posted on the Australian iTunes store last week (also YouTube below)

“Roses” 2012 – Audio preview”

revealed The Cranberries at their best on “Roses”, with a less pop-rock sound. Guitars are toned down, acoustic and strings arrangements seems to be more dominant, and light electronica elements, similiar to what we heard on Noel Hogan’s “Mono Band” project, were added to some Cranberries tracks.

Like on the band’s first two albums, O’Riordan seems to be more in control of her vocals, with a soft and warm voice far from the raging style of “To the Faithful Departed” and some rock songs from “Bury the Hatchet” and “Wake Up And Smell The Coffee”.

It will be interesting to see if the band will try to integrate this softer style in their upcoming World tour.

Stephen Street produced The Cranberries’ first two albums, “Everybody Else is Doing it, So Why Can’t We?” and “No Need to Argue”, as well as their last effort before their hiatus, “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee”.

Thanks to Jury for the info about the interview!

Hostess Entertainment has launched a japanese version of The Cranberries official website. With a new release date on February 22, the japanese edition of Roses is planned to have bonus content. There is no word yet on the title(s) chosen. In other news, “Tomorrow” is now available on the Japanese iTunes store.

Source: hostess.co.jp/thecranberries

The Cranberries will be headliners of the Aluna Festival in Ruoms, Ardèche (France) next June. The Aluna Festival will take place from June 22 to 24. The 3-day pass costs 75 euro.

Source: ledauphine.com

The Australian iTunes store posted today preview audio clips of every track of the limited edition of Roses. Also available on YouTube now:

“Roses” 2012 – Audio preview”

Thanks to Cordell for the info and to Litsa for the Youtube stream!

It looks like Cranberries fans will not get Roses for Valentine’s Day. This week, almost every online music retailers (iTunes, Amazon) has pushed back the release date of The Cranberries upcoming album to February 26-28, depending on the country.

Wednesday, Cooking Vinyl confirmed the new release date (February 27) for Europe on its website.

Thanks to Juan (cranberries.me) for the information.

Sources: iTunes, Amazon, cookingvinyl.com

“Tomorrow” has made its debut on the Billboard Triple-A radio airplay this week at #30.
Here’s what the American magazine had to say about our ‘Berries:

SWEET SUCCESS: An act that scored four top 10s on Alternative Songs in the ’90s makes its first Billboard chart appearance since 2001.

Ireland’s the Cranberries debut on the adult alternative Triple A radio airplay chart at No. 30 with “Tomorrow.” The group had last drawn chart ink when its fifth album, “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee,” reached No. 46 on the Nov. 10, 2001, Billboard 200.

Source: billboard.com

Music listeners in selected countries can now pre-order their digital version of The Cranberries Roses album on iTunes, with bonus track “Always”.

“Always” was recorded in London last June, along with “Waiting in Walthamstow” and “Losing My Mind”. The Cranberries also recorded 15 tracks in Toronto, amongst them 6 did not made the final cut on the album (“Someday”, “Eyelash”, “Serendipity”, “In It Together”, “Perfect World” and “Stop Me”).

The American Deluxe version plays the nostalgia card and includes live oldies from the 2010 Madrid show (“Linger”, “Zombie”) along with new track “Always”. In other countries, the standard and/or deluxe iTunes versions include a live version of “Dreams”.

Check your iTunes store to see if “Roses” can already be pre-ordered in your country.

Thanks to Juan for coming up with the information about the iTunes pre-order and to PepeTavo for the information about “Dreams”.

Sources: Fanberries, iTunes

The Cranberries will perform in Aukland (New Zealand) on March 15, 2012 at the Trusts Stadium, two days before starting their Australian tour with Lenny Kratvitz.

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, December 14 at www.ticketdirect.co.nz .
This will be the only show in New Zealand.

Sources: voxy.co.nz, 13thfloor.co.nz

The Cranberries will be in North America next February to promote the release of their upcoming “Roses” album, according to a message on their Twitter account.

“We just had some news about appearing on one of the late night talk shows in the US this coming Feb.” So who is going to welcome back The Cranberries on American national television? Leno, Letterman, Fallon, O’Brien? We’ll have to wait and see.

It is likely that the band will visit other media (TV, radio, press) in the U.S.A. and Canada during this period. All the details will be posted in the “Promo Tour” section when they will be made available.

The European media tour might also be planned for January.

Roses will be released on Feb.13 in Europe and Feb.14 in North America. The World tour will start in March in Australia.

Fans from the U.S.A. and Canada can now purchase “Tomorrow” online.
The Cranberries single is now available on Amazon (U.S.A) and the Canadian and American iTunes stores.

ITunes Canada indicates that the single is distributed by mysterious label Gold Lake Records, which does not seems to have a website online. So a different record label up North, eh?

“Tomorrow” is also available in most European countries as well as in Australia and New Zealand.

So, don’t “spend a lot of time in your head” and get your digital copy of “Tomorrow” now!

Sources: amazon.com, iTunes stores

The Cranberries’ single “Tomorrow” is now available digitally in Europe. After the UK and Ireland last month, “Tomorrow” can now be downloaded at digital music retailers of almost every European countries, amongst them Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. One major exception for now: Germany.

Outside Europe, the single is also available in Australia and New Zealand.

“Tomorrow” will be available on December 6 in the U.S. and (most propably) in Canada.

Sources: amazon.fr, iTunes stores

It looks like Japanese fans will be the first to get their copy of The Cranberries upcoming album. According to Hostess Entertainment, which will distribute “Roses” in Japan, the album will be out in stores on February 8, 2012.

Here is a recap of the different release dates:
Japan – Feb. 8, 2012
Australia – Feb. 10, 2012
Europe – Feb. 13, 2012
USA and Canada – Feb. 14, 2012

At the moment, there is no word on the Japanese tracklist. Japanese albums sometimes include bonus tracks not available on international releases.

Thanks to chico from the cranberries.me community for the info about the date.

Sources: hostess.co.jp, amazon sites

After airing the 1991 Dave Fanning session last October, RTÉ radio host Dan Hegarty does it again and brings back from the vault another fan favorite, the other Fanning session, which could include rare tracks “Like You Used To” to and “False”.

“By popular demand (or perhaps gentle persuasion) Dan brings you The Cranberries Fanning Session from 1993“, says the description on Hegarty’s RTÉ blog. Back in October, a confusion on Dan’s blog about the 1991 and 1993 sessions caused quite a commotion in the fan community, who initially thought that they would get a chance to listen to the 1993 session for the first time in 18 years. Hegarty then saved the day by telling the fans he would do his best to find the 1993 session and broadcast it in a near future.

During an interview with Dave Fanning few days before the original 1993 broadcast, singer Dolores O’Riordan and drummer Fergal Lawler explained that they were recording a new version of “Wanted” for that session, plus three new songs. It is likely that those songs are “False”, “Like You Used To” and “The Icicle Melts”. The latter was recorded again a year after for the band’s second album “No Need to Argue”, while the first two were never commercially released.

Be sure to tune in to Dan Hegarty’s show on RTÉ 2fm (not Dave Fanning’s show), next Wednesday night (December 7th) at 11 p.m. (Ireland time).

In the meantime, you can listen to the complete 1991 session on the Fanning Sessions Archive website.

Thanks again to Dan Hegarty! Cheers!!
And thanks to Jury for coming up with this breaking news.

Sources: 2fm.rte.ie, fanningsessions.wordpress.com

Asked about his fantasy band, Jacob Graham from indie band The Drums told British newspaper The Independent that he would pick Fergal Lawler on the drums.

I always thought that The Cranberries had really creative drum parts for a pop band [sic]. A song like “Dreams”, their first big single, is a good example of that. Lawler is really precise, hits hard and is still experimental, without being distracting.

Source: independent.co.uk

Cooking Vinyl confirmed today the tracklist of the 2-disc limited edition of the upcoming Cranberries album, “Roses”. The second CD will contain live versions of 16 past singles and favorites, taken from the 2010 Reunion Tour show in Madrid (Spain).

Let’s hope for another (more daring) limited edition or a EP along the way with the 6 non-album tracks recorded during the Toronto session, the 2003 demos or live/acoustic versions of more recent tracks.

Live stadium versions of past hits, such as “Linger”, “Zombie”, “Salvation” and “Promises” to name a few, were already proposed on numerous CD-singles in the past, as bonus material (“Bury the Hatchet” 2-disc complete session, “Wake Up And Smell The Coffee“,  “Stars“) and on live compilations (“Bualadh Bos“, “Live in Paris 2010“).

You can pre-order Roses (1-CD, Vinyl and 2-CD limited edition) on Cooking Vinyl’s website. Here’s the track list of the limited edition:

Disc One
1. Conduct 2. Tomorrow 3. Fire & Soul 4. Raining In My Heart 5. Losing My Mind 6. Schizophrenic Playboys 7. Waiting In Walthamstow 8. Show Me 9. Astral Projections 10. So Good 11. Roses

Disc Two – LIVE MADRID 12/Mar/2010
1. Analyse 2. Animal  Instinct 3. How 4. Linger 5. Dreaming My Dreams 6. When Your Gone [sic] 7. Wanted 8. Salvation 9. Desperate Andy 10. I Cant Be With You 11. Ode To My Family 12. Free To Decide 13. Ridiculous Thoughts 14. Zombie 15. Shattered 16. Promises

Source: cookingvinyl.com

“Tomorrow” will be released in digital format on December 6 in the U.S., according to Amazon.com. The single will also be released a day earlier in France (December 5). “Tomorrow” is available on amazon.co.uk and on the iTunes stores of Ireland, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand since a few weeks.

Other countries might also get the digital single next week. Watch out your digital music providers on their new release day.

Sources: Amazon sites, iTunes

“Tomorrow” jumps up more than 40 spots on the Italian Top 100 Airplay chart, going from #82 to #40 on its second week.

For now, The Cranberries’ single did not enter any other national airplay chart.

While the song continues to do well on some radio stations all over the world, fans from some countries like Canada and France are still waiting to hear “Tomorrow” on air.

Thanks to Jury for the info about the Italian charts.

Source: charly1300.com

The Cranberries Press would like to take a moment, in the name of all Cranberries’ fans, to offer our sincere condolences to Dolores and her family and friends. Our prayers and thoughts are with you.

Dolores O’ Riordan’s father passed away yesterday, after losing a long battle to cancer.

The first images taken on the set of the “Tomorrow” video were posted today on Flickr by guitarist Noel Hogan. The video was shot in a garage setting, with lead-singer Dolores O’ Riordan performing tied in rope.

The band shot the video for the first single of their upcoming Roses album in Limerick yesterday.

You can see more pictures on Noel Hogan’s Flickr

The Cranberries are scheduled to shoot a video for “Tomorrow” this Friday, according to guitarist Noel Hogan. The video will be filmed in Limerick (Ireland), hometown of the band. There is no word yet about the director of the video.

Their last video was released in 2002, for the title track of their Greatest Hits compilation, “Stars”.

The Cranberries – “Stars”

Source: Noel Hogan’s Twitter account (noelhogan2)

Santa Monica-based radio station KCRW is now streaming back on the Web the 1993 performance The Cranberries offered on the Morning Becomes Eclectic show, which features an acoustic version of rare track, False.

The recording, which was no longer available on Internet for more than a decade, was posted back on the radio station website after a few demands. 🙂

The show features interview segments between the four songs performed in acoustic format.

This performance is one of the most praised in the fan community because of its track list and the laidback attitude of the band performing the songs and during the interview.

Here’s your first chance to hear this recording in high quality!

Track list:
1. Linger
2. False
3. Sunday
4. I Will Always

Source: kcrw.com

A two-disc edition of Roses will be available to purchase on February 13, according to Amazon UK. But don’t get too excited about the bonus material…

The second disc will contain live material recorded during the Reunion Tour in Madrid (Spain) on March 12, 2010, where they played most of their past singles. Tracks are to be confirmed.

This seems like an odd choice for a second disc content, considering the possibilities with more recent material (live stadium versions of “Tomorrow” and “Schizophrenic Playboys”, six non-album tracks recorded for Roses, demos from the 2003 recording sessions, acoustic versions of Roses tracks, etc.).

Live stadium versions of past singles, such as “Dreams”, “Zombie”, “Salvation” and “Promises” to name a few, were already proposed on many CD-singles in the past, as bonus material on their last studio album, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee and their 2002 Greatest Hits, Stars, as well as on a 2010 live compilation, Bualadh Bos, and a 3-disc live album, Live in Paris 2010. The latter was a reissue of a series of limited edition albums proposed to fans after European shows of the Reunion Tour, which also included the Madrid show.

Thanks to chico from the cranberries.me community for the info.

Source: amazon.co.uk

According to Amazon France, “Tomorrow” will be available to purchase in digital format on December 5. Will this be the official release date for all regions of the world?

The song is already available on the UK Amazon site as well as on iTunes in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Another interesting bit of information from the Amazon France:

Copyright: (c) 2011 Timeless Solutions Ltd in association with Shamrock Solutions Ltd under exclusive license to Cooking Vinyl Ltd for the World except Canada

Does this mean that the album will be released on a different label in Canada or that it will be distributed by Downtown Records, as for the U.S.?

More to come soon…

Sources: amazon.fr, amazon.co.uk

“Tomorrow”, The Cranberries’ first single in the digital age of music, is now available on iTunes in several countries. While music listeners in Ireland and the United Kingdom can download the album version of “Tomorrow”, fans from Australia and New Zealand can pimp their ipods with the edit version. The song will be available in other countries in the next weeks (hopefully) on iTunes.

There is still no words of a physical release (CD or vinyl) for “Tomorrow”, nor a digital EP with bonus songs.

Thanks to robertjames and cranberriesMX from the cranberries.me community for the info.

Source: iTunes

Roses cover art was revealed on Internet Wednesday on a Polish site.

Earlier today, we had our first glance of the cover art on the Lenny Kravitz Australian tour poster.

Thanks to Rick from the cranberries.me community for the larger image and the Polish web site link.

Australian news site Adelaid Now reveals today, in an article on Lenny Kravitz, that the American rock star will tour down under with The Cranberries next March. The Cranberries and Kravitz will also be joined by Australian rock band Wolfmother.

Here are the venues and dates revleaded today:

VIC F1 Rocks in Melbourne, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, March 17-18
NSW WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, March 20
Ticketek Sydney Entertainment Centre, March 21
QLD Brisbane Riverstage, March 24
Athletics Stadium, Perth, March 28

Tickets will be on sale starting November 21 on Ticketmaster.

Here’s a look at the tour poster.

Thanks to Crancall from the cranberries.me community for the image.

Source: adelaidenow.com.au

“Tomorrow” arrived at number 8 of the “Taking Off” chart (Triple-A radio format) in the U.S. for the Oct. 31-Nov. 6 period, due to significant spins on WXRT (Chicago).`

As for “Show Me the Way”, the song made top 20 list of the “Taking Off” chart in the Alternative format for the Nov. 1 -7 period. Other alternative songs debuting on radio this week didn’t made the list.

TAKING OFF is a format-by format look at up to the Top 50 currents sorted by the most new spins showing detections for the first time (minimum of 6 detections required).

More and more radio stations (WMMM, Madison WI; KRSH, Santa Rosa CA; Sirius XM) are adding “Tomorrow” to their play lists before its official release date on Triple-A and Hot/Modern/AC radio formats, which is set for November 21.

Source: allaccess.com

Guitarist Noel Hogan revealed today on Twitter that The Cranberries will embark on a European promo (media) tour at the end of the month. Dates are still to be confirmed.

The Cranberries Press intends to keep you informed about this promotional tour. Please check out the new  “Promo tour” section frequently for updates about the media to be visited, the dates and the links for live feeds and podcasts, when available. Frequent updates will be available on Twitter, @Cran_Press .

The Cranberries and Noel also confirmed on their Twitter account that the artwork revealed yesterday is the official cover art for the “Tomorrow” single. There are no words of a physical (CD, Vinyl?) single yet (cross your fingers!).

Update: On November 7, Noel’s tweet message about the promo tour was deleted from his account.

Sources: Noel Hogan’s and The Cranberries’ Twitter account (@noelhogan2 @The_Cranberrries)

San Diego-based radio station 91X WREX revealed “Tomorrow” cover art on its website.

Earlier this week, Brad Savage from WCNR confirmed us that CD promos had been sent out to radio stations in the U.S. Will this also be the graphic style for the album? We’ll have to wait and see!

Thanks again to Rick from the cranberries.me community for the info!

Back in January 1992, The Cranberries recorded a four-track studio session for the John Peel show, more than a year before the release of their first studio album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?. No songs from that session were ever commercially released, but things might change in the next months…

EMI, in partnership with the BBC, released the first volume of a series of Peel Sessions compilations this week. There are no words yet about the release date for the volume covering the early 90’s, nor if a track from The Cranberries will be included.

For their Peel Session, The Cranberries recorded slightly different versions of “Linger”, “Wanted”, “Waltzing Back” and “I Will Always”.

Few years ago, a medium-quality tape recording of this session was featured on an unauthorized bootleg entitled Be with You. Slightly better quality audio files – but nothing compared to the real thing – also circulate in the fan community. Here’s a link (no longer available) for those Cranfans who want it!

For almost 40 years, emerging artists and bands recorded sessions specially intended to be broadcasted on the John Peel show at the BBC. To learn more about the Peel Sessions, visit the Keeping It Peel website.

In Ireland, radio host Dave Fanning from RTÉ (Irish public service broadcaster) gave a similar opportunity to emerging musicians. The Cranberries recorded two sessions for his show in 1991 and 1993. These sessions were (sadly) never commercially released neither. The 1991 session was broadcasted a couple of times in the last few years on the Dan Hegarty show.

Sources: emisessions.com, bbc.co.uk, wikipedia.com

According to allaccess.com, KMTT (Seattle) and KINK (Portland, OR) radio stations have already selected “Tomorrow”, The Cranberries first single for Triple-A radios, as one of this week “hot picks” more than 3 weeks before its official radio release date.

Brad Savage, Program Director at WCNR (Charlottesville, VA), also told The Cranberries Press that his station already began airing “Tomorrow” as well. WCNR made a lot of Cranberries fans happy today by posting on its website an acoustic set that Dolores O’ Riordan performed in December 2007.

As for “Show Me the Way”, WRFF (Philadelphia) has been airing it since October 23.
Is “Tomorrow” or “Show Me the Way” playing at your radio station?

Sources: allaccess.com, Brad Savage from WCNR, radio1045.com

All Access Music Group posted a (radio?) edit version of “Tomorrow” on its website. The edit version, which is 3:43-long, has a shorten musical intro. The remaining part of the song is unchanged. The length of the album version, or at least the version posted on Rollingstone.com, is 3:56.

You can listen to the edit version at allmusic.com, on the Triple-A Future releases page under “November 21”. (link no longer available)

Thanks to Rick from the cranberries.me community for the info!

Source: allaccess.com

Rolling Stone magazine website posted today an exclusive stream of the full studio version of “Tomorrow”.

Rolling Stone describes the song as “a crisp, catchy number that serves as an ideal showcase for frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan’s lovely, heavily accented voice”.

You can listen to the full version of “Tomorrow” here.

Source: Rollingstone.com

After days of speculation about The Cranberries’ first single for Roses, it looks like we are starting to get some answers. At least, for the U.S. market…

According to Allaccess.com, the band will release “Show Me” under the Alternative radio format on November 8 – as reported yesterday, while “Tomorrow” is to be sent out to radio stations two weeks later (November 21), under the Triple-A format (Adult Alternative).

It looks like Americans will get lots of Cranberries, just in time for Thanksgiving. Turkeys, beware!

Thanks again to Rick from the cranberries.me community for the info.

Source: Allaccess.com

Just when we thought that The Cranberries had finally selected their first single for Roses, things became a bit more uncertain today!
After several reports indicating that “Tomorrow” will be the official comeback single for the band, Allaccess.com now lists “Show Me The Way” for a radio release on November 8 under “Impacting Songs”.

Is this a change in the marketing strategy due to the many positive reviews of “Show Me The Way” online since its giveaway release? Is North America getting a different single than the rest of the World? Too many questions, so few answers…

Thanks to Rick from the cranberries.me community for the info!

Source: allaccess.com

Italian website SpazioRock reports that “Tomorrow” could be released on radios around the world as soon as November 18.

Two weeks ago, German website Rockszene was suggesting a late January date for the (commercial?) release of this song.

No dates have been confirmed by the band or the record label yet.

Thanks to irishsoul from IStillDream and alexverveboy from the cranberries community for the info!

Source: spaziorock.it, rockszene.de

Halloween is just around the corner and it looks like zombies are crawling back from the grave! We have found today a slightly rougher studio version of The Cranberries 1994 hit, “Zombie”, which seems to have been forgotten by most of us.

The Radio 1 FM Sessions Volume 2 – Cassette artwork

Recorded for a BBC Radio 1 Evening Session in 1994, this version of “Zombie” was released in 1995 on a giveaway cassette (yes, cassette!) with UK magazine Vox. To our knowledge, this is the only release of this Evening Session version.

Back in 1995, two other songs from the Evening Session (“Empty” and “I Can’t Be With You”) were released on an “I Can’t Be With You” single. The Cranberries’ Evening Session was first broadcasted on September 26, 1994 on BBC Radio 1.

Here is a downloadable mp3 file for the fans to enjoy!
(LINK NO LONGER AVAILABLE!!)

Source: hopeless-m.blogspot.com

New bits of information on some Roses tracks

Cooking Vinyl has just updated its site with a section about The Cranberries, in which new information is revealed about some tracks from Roses. Here are some interesting excerpts:

The result is Roses, 11 new songs from The Cranberries. Produced by the band’s old friend and collaborator Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur and more recently Kaiser Chiefs) the songs on Roses sound like nuggets buried deep inside The Cranberries’ soul harking back to the freshness and acoustic originality of the band’s first two albums, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Cant We? and No Need To Argue.

The songs vary in pace and mood, from the soft and summery “Fire and Soul” to the reggae infused “Raining In My Heart” and the sweeping storm that rages within “Conduct Yourself.”

Some of the songs from the latest album date back to the days before they paused The Cranberries in 2003, like “Astral Projection” and “Raining In My Heart”. Others come from the sound checks in 2010, like “Serendipity,” “Conduct Yourself,” and the seize-the-day themed first single “Tomorrow.” But there were still a few surprises at the last minute during recording at Metalworks in Toronto in April and May of 2011. On an evening off as Dolores was going in to watch the movie Limitless, she listened to a melody Noel had saved for her. She loved it instantly and later that night wrote the lyrics to it calling the song “Roses”.

Thanks to Jury and Litsa for the info.

Source: cookingvinyl.com

In a tweet message today, Noel Hogan confirmed that “Tomorrow” will be the first official single from the Roses album and that “Show Me The Way” is only a free-download track. Some media falsely reported yesterday that SMTW was the first single of the upcoming album. Thanks to Dolitsa for asking Noel.

Earlier today, Hogan posted the first review of “Show Me The Way” published online on Indie Rock Reviews, which is quite positive:

If you have just recently crawled from under a rock then you might have missed that Ireland alternative rock legends, The Cranberries, are back and offering up “Show Me The Way”, their first single from the bands new album ‘Roses’, which comes out Valentines Day, 2012. Their 3 previous track samples have been quite the tease, but now they’ve gone and given us a proper dosage of pure Cranberries genius. ‘Roses’ is shaping up to potentially be one of the best albums The Cranberries have ever released and should have the band back in the limelight, and that’s just where we want them.

Sources: Noel Hogan’s Twitter (noelhogan2), indierockreviews.com

“Show Me The Way” is now available as a free download (link no longer available!!) on The Cranberries Facebook site. The file will be online for two weeks.

You can also listen to the song on Youtube:

The Cranberries – “Show Me The Way” – Promotional

Source: facebook.com/TheCranberries

While everyone in the Cranberries community was expecting the 1993 Dave Fanning Session tonight, RTÉ 2fm broadcasted the 1991 session, which was partly known from the fans.

Besides from “Dreams” “Uncertain” and “Reason”, which had been broadcast on Dan Hegarty’s show in 2010, the Irish radio host dug out of the vault “Put Me Down” for the first time since its first broadcast in 1991.

It looks like there was a bit confusion on the RTÉ 2fm site, which previously announced the broadcast of the 1993 session last Thurday.

Radiohost Dan Hegarty was kind enough to clear out the situation on air and told listeners that he will try to find the 1993 session and broadcast it eventually.

The 1993 Fanning Session includes two unreleased tracks entitled “False” and “Like You Used To”.

You can listen to the complete 1991 Session on the Fanning Sessions Archive website.

Sources: RTÉ 2fm webradio, fanningsessions.wordpress.com