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HEARTLESS BASTARDS Announce Autumn Tour Plans

MUSIC NEWS - Partisan Records has announce that Heartless Bastards have confirmed a run of headlining tour dates in October and November, in addition to the previously announced August and September dates. The tour marks their first time back in several major cities including Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington since the album's release, culminating with a show in the band's hometown of Austin, TX with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. 

Since the February release of Arrow, Heartless Bastards have toured much of the USA, playing both club dates and festivals, including Hangout Music Festival, Pickathon Festival, and Wakarusa Music Festival. The band has played songs from the new record on Late Show with David Letterman and Conan, and the released received NPR's First Listen treatment upon its release.

Steve Forbert Announces "Over With You" Album

MUSIC NEWS - Over With You is Steve Forbert’s first studio album in three years, and is said to be his a focused song cycle with an earnest account of the often-mixed emotions involved in personal relationships.  The ten new compositions combine the plainspoken honesty and insightful contemplations into this topic that perhaps only a man from Mississippi, the home state of both Jimmie Rodgers and Tennessee Williams, could provide. And these songs make the case that Forbert should be considered in the first rank of American songwriters.

Produced by Grammy Award-winner Chris Goldsmith (who has worked with Ben Harper, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Ruthie Foster and Charlie Musselwhite), Over With You will be released September 11, 2012 on Blue Corn Music.

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE Announce Autumn Tour Dates

MUSIC NEWS- Back on tour together for the first time since 2004, Neil Young & Crazy Horse today announced a lengthy autumn North American tour that starts up on October 3 in Windsor Ontario. Los Lobos and Patti Smith have signed on as support acts, seperately on the bill at several of the shows.  The tour will be to promote the first Neil Young & Crazy Horse album in almost nine years; Americana arrives June 5.

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE 2012 Tour Itinerary-

Little Feat Readies ROOSTER RAG Release

MUSIC NEWS- Certainly one of the hardest working bands in show biz, today’s Little Feat is a seven-member powerhouse that carries on the group’s tradition of deftly blending rock, R&B and blues to create a jammin’ blend of Americana that has earned accolades from critics, fellow musicians and fans alike for over four decades.

Their new album, Rooster Rag is out June 26 via Rounder Records and features 10 brand new original songs including four co-writes with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter plus two blues classics, one from Mississippi John Hurt and one from Willie Dixon.  

Fred Tackett contributes four songs that demonstrate some superb songwriting and singing.  Paul Barrere drops a classic cover and a sizzling rocker written with the late Stephen Bruton.  Sam Clayton brings it with a cover of Little Walter.  New band member Gabe Ford keeps Feat’s funky rhythms going in a fashion that would have made Richie Hayward proud.  And Kenny Gradney just keeps on providing a truly superb bottom end.   

DEER TICK Announces Divine Providence Release, Listen Here to

MUSIC NEWS -Today, Partisan Records told us about the October 25, 2011 release of Deer Tick's new record, Divine Providence. Divine Providence was produced by the band along with Adam Landry and Justin Collins, who were also at the helm for lead singer, main songwriter John McCauley's highly acclaimed side project, Middle Brother. 

 

"After so many years of critics praising [and making fun of] us for our 'folk' and 'country' sounds, and hardly ever mentioning the fact that we've also recorded virtually dozens of other kinds of music, we wanted to make a record that was truer to our live set: raw, loud, heartfelt, and completely uninterested in whatever the hell the rest of the music industry is up to," says McCauley. "The results are unlike anything you've heard on a Deer Tick album."

OKKERVIL RIVER- Your Past Life as a Blast MP3, Tour News

MUSIC NEWS - With the release of their latest full-length album I Am Very Far, Okkervil River have had a busy summer. Just this month Okkervil River released a new 7-inch for "Your Past Life As A Blast", listen to the lead single below.

Starting next week Okkervil River will be back on tour in North America. The band kick things off with a string of west coast dates with the Decemberists before embarking on a headlining tour with Wye Oak in support through the rest of North America.  Shows includes the Virgin Mobile Freefest, Fun Fun Fun Fest, The Midpoint Music Festival, Nor'Easter Festival, and the Soundtown Music and Camping Festival.

FARM AID 2011 Live Webcast

MUSIC NEWS - Farm Aid 2011 is at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in Kansas City, KS today! Doors opened at noon and the music got underway at 1pm. If you're not in town to join them, Farm Aid is offering a live webcast starting at 5pm Central.

Catch all the action live via FarmAId.org starting at 5pm central time. You can also hear the concert on Sirius XM radio on Willie's Roadhouse (channel 56) starting at 1pm Central.

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DAWES and BLITZEN TRAPPER Announce Autumn Tour

MUSIC NEWS - Dawes has confirmed a 29 concert fall tour, which they will be co-headlining with Blitzen Trapper.  The tour kicks off on October 7th in Petaluma, CA, and will hit major cities across the North America. This tour follows the June release of their critically acclaimed sophomore album, Nothing Is Wrong (out via ATO Records) . Portland, Oregon's Blitzen Trapper is excited to hit the road in support of their upcoming album "American Goldwing" out September 13 on Sub Pop Records.  The full tour itinerary is below. 

 

Dawes has toured non-stop since Nothing is Wrong released and has rightfully earned a reputation for their road warrior work ethic along with their passionate and epic live performances.  So much so that Dawes was recently hand-picked by Robbie Robertson (The Band) and Jackson Browne to be the backing band for their respective projects; performing with Robertson on some special TV performances (Late Night with David Letterman, The View, and The Jools Holland Show) and with Browne on a recent European tour.  

LYLE LOVETT Kicks Off USA Summer Tour

MUSIC NEWS- With summer weather at its peak, Lyle Lovett and his Large Band take to the road, delivering sweet relief with their distinctive style of soulful Americana music. Kicking off July 30 in Montana, their 26-city USA tour follows a recent trek through Europe showcasing Lovett’s latest album, 2009's  Natural Forces (out via Curb/Lost Highway).

 

The critically acclaimed release is a testament to both his versatile songwriting and ability to interpret material by fellow Texas songwriters who inspired him. Recorded with his Large Band, the album includes gorgeous versions of Townes Van Zandt’s “Loretta,” Eric Taylor’s “Whooping Crane,” and Vince Bell’s “Sun and Moon and Stars,” along with memorable Lovett-penned tunes such as “Farmer Brown,” “Pantry,” and “Natural Forces.”

 

Mellencamp Adds to NO BETTER THAN THIS Tour

MUSIC NEWS- Concert dates for the next leg of John Mellencamp’s No Better Than This Tour, that began last year in Indiana, have just been announced with shows booked for this coming October and November in Eastern, Southern and Midwestern areas of the USA and Canada.  This run of No Better Than This Tour dates concludes with a show at Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis, the site of one of the tour’s earliest stops last year.

Mellencamp’s No Better Than This Tour just returned from dates in Ireland, England, Germany, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland and Italy. For the most part, the fall dates take the current tour to most cities for the first time since it began. Included are Montreal, Columbus, Greensboro, Louisville, London (Ontario), Hamilton (Ontario) Grand Rapids, Reading, Newark NJ, North Charleston, Knoxville, Green Bay, Rockford and Milwaukee. The 17-date tour begins on October 25 at Boston’s Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theater and will be making a stop in Savannah, GA at the Johnny Mercer Theater on November 11.

GILLIAN WELCH Reveals Fall Tour Plans

MUSIC NEWS - Acony Records has announced the second roung of concert tour dates for Gillian Welch. Welch and David Rawlings will tour through the fall of 2011, with dates in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York City, wrapping up at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN.  This makes the second leg of her significant North American tour to promote her long-awaited new album, The Harrow & The Harvest. 

 

Full tour itinerary is listed below.