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Music News - Fresh off their Coachella headlining sets, Tame Impala have announced a series of North American Summer Tour Dates kicking off in Toronto on July 26th and include stops in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Washington DC and the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City on August 21st. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 26 at 10am local time.
In addition to Coachella, Tame Impala will headline Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, GA (May 5), Corona Capital (May 11), Boston Calling (May 25), Barcelona's Primavera Festival (May 31), Glastonbury (June 26), Splendour In The Grass (July 19-21), Lollapalooza (August 1-4) and more, with festival and headline dates planned throughout 2019. Full tour dates below.
Ahead of the festival, Tame Impala (Kevin Parker) released new singles, “ Borderline” and “ Patience,” both via Interscope Records. Parker debuted both tracks on Saturday Night Live on March 30.
Watch Tame Impala perform “Patience” on SNL here .
Watch Tame Impala debut “Borderline” on SNL here .
Tame Impala is Kevin Parker. His last album Currents(Interscope) was released in 2015 earning him a second GRAMMY nomination, RIAA Gold-certification and word-wide critical acclaim. The New York Times labeled it a "a tour de force" and Pitchfork said, "nearly every proper song on 'Currents' is a revelatory statement of Parker's range and increasing expertise as a producer, arranger, songwriter, and vocalist while maintaining the essence of Tame Impala." NPR noted, "[Parker] advocates for constant reinvention... That commitment to evolution helps make Tame Impala an unlikely but worthy candidate for major stardom."
Hailing from Perth, Australia, he first toured the U.S. in 2010, playing small clubs for crowds of 200. A handful of trips to the U.S. later and thanks to the ravenous demand of fans for a transcendent live performance, Tame Impala has gone on to headline festivals and theaters around the world and released three full length albums - Innerspeaker , Lonerism and Currents . As a writer and producer Parker has collaborated with Travis Scott, SZA, Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Kanye West, Kali Uchis, Theophilus London, Miguel, A$AP Rocky and more.
Music News - Guster has announced the dates for their third annual On The Ocean Weekend in Portland, Maine set for August 9th-11th. The last two editions of the summer gathering saw more than 5,000 Guster fans venture to the coastal New England city.
The main event will be taking place at Thompson’s Point on Saturday August 10th and feature two sets from the band, including a 20th anniversary Lost And Gone Forever full album set. Guster will be joined at Thompson’s Point by Rubblebucket, Kat Wright, Tall Heights and Portland’s Weakened Friends. Saturday will also include a Joe’s Place stage with performances from former Guster member Joe Pisapia, Spicy V’s Hot Sauce Contest (together with Vermont’s Butterfly Bakery), a lobster bake, food trucks, family games and more.
Saturday night’s festivities at Thompson’s Point will be capped off with an afterparty at Halo at the Point featuring amazing internationally-acclaimed EDM supergroup PIPPI who will be making their first ever public appearance.
Guster will be kicking off the weekend with an intimate acoustic concert on Friday night at Portland’s First Parish and rounding out the weekend on Sunday with events across Portland including a Reverb service project, an island bike ride, and a storytellers event featuring Guster drummer Brian Rosenworcel. Rosenworcel has been documenting Guster’s touring exploits since 1999 in his road journal and this event will feature him sharing the stage with Guster fans in a Moth-like setting.
Following on the success of 2018’s Big Friendly Pale Ale, Guster will be teaming up with Maine-based brewery Mast Landing once again for a limited edition On The Ocean beer. The custom brew will launch on Friday August 9th and be available throughout Portland all weekend.
Guster’s live shows channel their infectious positive energy into raucous performances that have fans singing along to songs old and new with unbridled enthusiasm, while always promising plenty of eclectic surprises, too. Recently, they shared a clip of children flooding the stage at last year’s fest. Watch below-
Music News - As they ready the release their final album, The Cranberries share the record's title track "In The End." The last song recorded for the album, and the last track on the album, it is an apt conclusion to a record that pays tribute to Dolores O'Riordan and brings to a close the band's singular career.
"What a way to finish the record. To have "In The End" as the last song is just perfect," says Fergal Lawler. "Lyrically it is self-explanatory," adds Noel Hogan. " It speaks for itself, it just is a lovely feeling and it's a gorgeous song"
Ain't it strange?
When everything you wanted
Was nothing like you wanted?
In the end
While many bands may aspire to be timeless, or have a sound that transcends the whims of musical fashion, The Cranberries are one of the few to have achieved that. Play one of the Irish rock group's early anthems such as "Linger" or "Dreams," and they sound as fresh - and deliver as much of an emotional sucker-punch - as when they captured a generation's hearts in the 1990s.
Now, nearly 30 years after the quartet of singer/songwriter and musician Dolores, co-songwriter and lead guitarist Noel, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal first appeared, they are releasing their eighth and final album In the End.
The genesis of In The End began in May 2017 while the band was on tour. By winter of 2017 Noel and Dolores had written and demoed the eleven songs, which would eventually appear on the album. "Dolores was so energised by the prospect of making this record and to getting back out on the road to play the songs live" recalls Noel.
Produced once again by Stephen Street, In the End sees the band coming full circle, with a collection that evokes their very first LP. "When we listened to the demos, the three of us and Stephen were thinking 'this sounds much closer to the first album than anything else'. Dolores was singing very softly on some songs, which was closer to how she would have sung back then, and the simplicity of some of the songs as well brought us back to that time," says Noel.
The album kicks off with a formidable one-two, which is a reminder of their range. The driving "All Over Now" is a classic, widescreen Cranberries anthem, with Dolores giving voice to the fractures of a relationship against a backdrop of chiming guitars; then, following it, the haunting string-swept ballad "Lost" dials the tempo right down, while giving space to Dolores' yearning vocals to soar to soul-piercing heights. Elsewhere, they veer from the grungy release of "Wake Me When It's Over" to the tender, country-inflected "A Place I Know" and the upbeat jangle-pop of "The Pressure."
If there's an overall lyrical theme, it's a sense of wiping the slate clean, and new beginnings, which reflected where Dolores was, both in her personal and her creative life: re-energised and ready for a new phase. "I remember talking to her that summer and she said 'I'm starting all over here' and a lot of the songs discuss that," says Noel. But, as ever with The Cranberries, lyrics that may derive from individual experience masterfully tap into universal emotions, framing them in terms that we can all relate to, whatever age, gender or nationality.
As the huge wave of public adulation in the wake of Dolores' passing showed, The Cranberries may be over, in one sense - but they will forever live on in the musical pantheon.
Music News -Conor Oberst today announced a North American tour for summer 2019. Beginning in Portsmouth, NH on July 17th at the Prescott Park Arts Festival, the series of shows goes on to hit Chicago, Bloomington, Cincinnati, Providence, Woodstock and more before culminating in a performance at the Weesner Family Amphitheater at the Minnesota Zoo in Minneapolis on July 28th. All shows will see Joanna Sternberg as main support. Full tour itinerary below.
Photo Credit: Phoebe Bridgers
Oberst's most recent album release was a collaboration with Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Phoebe Bridgers. Their Better Oblivion Community Center LP was unveiled as a surprise release in January with a performance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His most recent solo album, Salutations, was released in 2017. This short run of shows will see Conor performing songs from his extensive catalog.
Conor Oberst has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will go to The Florence Project and their work providing direct legal and social services for detained adults and children under threat of deportation.
Conor Oberst 2019 Tour Itinerary:
7/17/19 - Portsmouth, NH @ Prescott Park Arts Festival - Free Show
7/18/19 - Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre - TICKETS
7/19/19 - Norwalk, CT @ Wall Street Theater - TICKETS
7/20/19 - Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater - TICKETS
7/21/19 - Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall - TICKETS
7/23/19 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell's Beer Garden - TICKETS
Music News - Beck has offered up a glimpse of the future today in the form of “Saw Lightning,” a stunning new track featuring Beck’s unmistakable raw acoustic slide guitar and harmonica playing. “Saw Lightning” was written and produced by Beck and Pharrell Williams, who contributes drums, keyboards and mumbles.
“Saw Lightning” is out as both a single and as the perfect music to power the new Beats by Dr. Dre Powerbeats Pro campaign, a high-energy film directed by Grammy Award-winning filmmaker Hiro Murai.
“Saw Lightning” is the first track to be released from Beck’s forthcoming Hyperspace album, releasing via Capitol Records at an as yet undetermined point in the space time continuum (aka date). In the meantime, Beck you can tide yourself over with his already prolific 2019 output, including “Tarantula” from Music Inspired by ROMA, “Super Cool” (featuring Robyn & The Lonely Island) from The LEGO Movie 2, and most recently his feature appearance on Cage The Elephant’s “Night Running.”
Listen below-
Hyperspace will be Beck’s 14th album, following 2017’s Colors, which won Best Alternative Music Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 61st GRAMMY Awards earlier this year.
Music News - Based on the huge success of their first tour, which tour industry trade pub Pollstar noted as one of the highest grossing co-headline tours of summer 2018, Ben Folds and CAKE are reuniting for a second round of shows beginning September 5 in Bonner, MT. The co-headline tour will be making stops at venues across the West Coast including Los Angeles, CA's Greek Theater, Mountainview, CA's Shoreline Amphitheater and others. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, April 19. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.cakemusic.com/tour and www.benfolds.com/tour-dates.
"CAKE are masters, and they happen to be my friends," said Folds recently. "So, yes, let's do this!"
"We had so much fun with Ben last summer that we decided to do it again, this time in the west," says CAKE's frontman John McCrea. CAKE's multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist Vince DiFiore adds, "Last year we had the great honor to tour with Ben, who inspired us with incredible musicianship and memorable songs. It was sad to end that tour, so now a great thrill to be anticipating another with the actual artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra."
CAKE & BEN FOLDS TOUR 2019 ITINERARY-
SEPTEMBER:
5 - Bonner, MT - KettleHouse Amphitheater
6 - Redmond, WA - Marymoor Park
7 - Troutdale, OR - McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater
8 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheater
10 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint/Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
11 - Sacramento, CA - Golden 1 Center
13 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
14 - Irvine, CA - FivePoint Amphitheatre
15 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
18 - Austin, TX - Austin360 Amphitheater
19 - Grand Prairie, TX - The Theatre at Grand Prairie
During this tour run, Folds will be releasing his first book, a memoir entitled A Dream About Lightning Bugs - A Life Of Music And Cheap Lessons. Before each show on the tour, he'll be hosting pre-show VIP events where he'll sign copies of his book and conduct a masterclass and Q&A. For more on his book, please visit www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
Music News - Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul have released a new song, "A World Of Our Own," from their forthcoming album Summer Of Sorcery due May 3 on Wicked Cool/UMe. The soulful, euphoric track, which premiered yesterday who described it as having "a shimmering Phil Spector quality," conjures up visions of young love, summer nights and a simpler era when Girl Groups dominated the airwaves. "Growing up, The Shirelles, The Chiffons, The Ronettes, The Crystals and The Shangri-Las were really important to me," says Little Steven aka Steven Van Zandt. "This song is my take on the type of song I might have written for a Girl Group like one of those fantastic acts back in the day."
Summer Of Sorcery will be released on CD, digitally and on vinyl as double LP on 180-gram black vinyl. A limited edition version will be available as a double LP on 180-gram psychedelic swirl vinyl exclusively via uDiscover. All digital pre-orders will receive instant grat downloads of "A World Of Our Own" and the record's jet-fueled first track release, "Superfly Terraplane."
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul have just touched down in Australia for a run of shows that will kick off this Saturday, April 13 in Perth. The 15-piece band will perform a pair of hugely anticipated performances at the 30 th anniversary Byron Bay Bluesfest in Byron Bay (April 18 and 20). They will wrap the tour in Auckland, New Zealand on April 27. The band will then head home to the USA to celebrate Summer Of Sorcery with special record release shows at The Saban in Los Angeles on May 4 and at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, NJ on May 8. A wide-ranging world tour will follow, beginning May 16 at Liverpool, UK's 02 Academy and then making headline stops across the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.
The first leg of the North American tour will begin July 2 at the London Music Hall in Ontario, Canada and take Van Zandt and band all across Canada and the Eastern U.S., culminating at Outlaw Jam in Annapolis, Md. Each show on the American tour will benefit Van Zandt's TeachRock education initiative and offer an introduction to the Teachrock.org curriculum. Before the show, the TeachRock staff will host free professional development workshops designed to engage educators with techniques and content through which they can comfortably use music to inspire students, even if they've never touched an instrument. The free, multimedia K-12 interdisciplinary curriculum meets prevailing standards in English Language Arts, Social Studies/History, the Fine and Performing Arts, and also includes STEAM and advisory material suitable for K-12 teachers of all disciplines, interdisciplinary best practices, and group activities.
Each ticket purchased online for any of the Little Steven and The Disciples Of Soul U.S. tour dates will include a CD of Summer Of Sorcery. Exclusive VIP Meet & Greet Upgrade Packages are also available for most dates. For complete details, updates and ticket availability, please visit www.littlesteven.com/on-tour .
Summer Of Sorcery - which arrives just two years after Little Steven's acclaimed 2017's solo return, Soulfire , and its 2018 live follow-up, Soulfire Live! - was written, arranged, and produced by Van Zandt at his own Renegade Studios in New York City; the album was co-produced and recorded by GRAMMY Award-winner Geoff Sanoff and co-produced by Disciples of Soul musical director and guitarist Marc Ribler . Summer Of Sorcery was mixed and mastered respectively by Van Zandt's career-long collaborators and friends Bob Clearmountain (Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Who, Bryan Adams), and Bob Ludwig (Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, The Band, Sly and the Family Stone). The album - which features an exclusive introduction written by Van Zandt - is adorned with Frank Frazetta-inspired cover art by Van Zandt's longtime art director, Louis Arzonico.
"My first five albums in the '80s were both very personal, and very political," explains Van Zandt. "I wanted the new material to be more fictionalized. The way records were when I grew up. Before it was an artform. The concept was capturing and communicating that first rush of summer. The electricity of that feeling of unlimited possibilities. Of falling in love with the world for the first time. Obviously, there are occasional personal references, and a bit of what's going on socially scattered throughout, but I achieved what I set out to do. I created a collection of fictional movies scenes that feel like summer. I'm quite proud of it."
Little Steven is joined on this thrilling musical journey with his all-star band the Disciples of Soul, a 14-strong ensemble made up of some of the best studio and live musicians in the business. Leading the charge alongside Van Zandt is musical director and guitarist Marc Ribler (Darlene Love, Roger McGuinn, Carole King) who conducts the band consisting of Lowell "Banana" Levinger of The Youngbloods on piano and Wurlitzer, bassist Jack Daley (Lenny Kravitz, Boz Scaggs, Darryl Hall), drummer Rich Mercurio (Ben E King, Sara Bareilles, Idina Menzel), percussionist Anthony Almonte (King Creole and The Coconuts), Andy Burton on B3 organ, piano, synthesizers (Cyndi Lauper, John Mayer, Ian Hunter), the dynamite horn section of horn director Eddie Manion on baritone saxophone (Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny), Stan Harrison on tenor saxophone and flute (David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Duran Duran), Ron Tooley on trumpet (James Brown, John Lennon, Maceo Parker), Ravi Best on trumpet (Aretha Franklin, Stevie, Wonder, Kool and The Gang) and Clark Gayton on trombone (Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Joss Stone, Rhianna). The band is rounded out with the soulful, synchronized dancing backup singers Jessie Wagner (Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Chic), Sara Devine (Alicia Keys, Mary J Blige) and Tania Jones (Disciples of Soul).
Summer Of Sorcery is another landmark work in a four-decade career full of milestones, a spirited collection of songs which conjure up all the wonder and magic of the eponymous season - the beach and the boardwalk, the young love and unbridled lust, the innocence and experience that somehow starts it all.
"I always work thematically," Van Zandt says. "I can't just throw together a collection of songs; there has to be some kind of overriding idea that drives it. This time I wanted to capture the excitement of that first summer of consciousness. That one special summer where you first fall in love with life, that thrill of just being alive."
Van Zandt's first solo album as Little Steven in close to two decades, 2017's Soulfire saw the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer revisiting songs that spanned the length of his career as artist, performer, producer, arranger, and songwriter, focusing on the "soul horns-meet-rock 'n' roll guitars" sound he first pioneered on Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes' classic first three albums and later, his own first solo LP. The album saw Van Zandt uniting an all-new Disciples of Soul, complete with three backing vocalists and a full horn section featuring original Asbury Jukes/Miami Horns saxophonists Stan Harrison (tenor) and Eddie Manion (baritone). Little Steven and his 14-piece big band spent nearly two years traveling the world on the SoulfireTour, not to mention last year's "Soulfire Teacher Solidarity Tour" supporting TeachRock, the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation's national initiative to bring music curriculum into schools across the country. Still, the planetary success of the SOULFIRE project left Van Zandt to ponder: Where do I want to go now ?
"Quite honestly, the Soulfire Tour was something special," he says. "It was a definitive type of tour - I told my whole life story and most of the story of the history of rock 'n' roll simultaneously, it was a show 20, 30, 40 years in the making. So it was like, ok, now what? How do we beat that, or at least equal it? You set these standards and now you've got to reach them."
Reach them he did - Summer Of Sorcery is Little Steven at his omnivorous, humanistic best, expertly crafted and deeply rooted in the many classic genres which taught and inspired the self-proclaimed "walking history lesson" from the jump. With their richly bombastic arrangements, floor-shaking groves, and high-powered performances from all involved, new songs like "Soul Power Twist" and the album kick off "Communion"synthesize Van Zandt's incalculable range of cultural and sonic inspirations into a one-of-a-kind brass-fueled brand of Technicolor rock 'n' soul unlike anyone else's. The album features 10 original new songs alongside "Suddenly You," an outtake from the "Lilyhammer" score, Netflix's first original series, which starred Van Zandt who also composed all the music for trailblazing show, and a reimagining of "Education" which was first recorded for his 1989 album Revolution . "The education system needs to be fixed, needs to be improved," he says. "Teachers need to be supported. There needs to be more support, more funding. That's what I'm trying to get across with my TeachRock program and that's all in this song."
The record culminates with the epic title track, "Summer of Sorcery," an eight-minute mission statement that conjures the euphoric rush of a summer romance and limitless possibility. "The whole theme of the album is summed up in that song, that wizardry, that magic mixture of falling in love in the summer," says Van Zandt.
"I wanted to create a hybrid that would be uniquely me ," he says. "I wanted to hear Sly and the Family Stone, I wanted to hear Sam Cooke, I wanted to hear Tito Puente. I wanted to try and get the Beach Boys in there. James Brown, of course. I had certain touchstones of musical influence that I wanted to integrate into my thing."
Recorded last year mid- Soulfire Tour and then mixed whilst on the road once again, Summer Of Sorcery represents a straightforward progression from its predecessor, the first time in Van Zandt's long career that he's maintained a band line-up and sonic approach from one solo work to the next.
"Instead of embarking on a whole new adventure, I decided, I'm going to evolve this thing," Van Zandt says. "I've always wondered where my sound would evolve to if I ever did the same thing twice, if I ever evolved vertically rather than horizontally. All five of my solo albums before Soulfire are completely different genres. I never had a chance to evolve one particular thing to see where it went."
Not to say Van Zandt didn't push himself towards something new and novel - quite the opposite in fact. Where his prior solo canon was irrefutably linked by both his lifelong activism and deeply personal lyricism, this time Little Steven chose to eschew the overly political and explicitly autobiographical for a more overarching approach, one which allowed him a chance to apply his particular style of studied songcraft for his own album instead of another's.
"With this record I really wanted to travel back to a time when life was exciting, when unlimited possibilities were there every day, says Van Zandt. "That was the feeling in the '60s, the thrill of the unexpected coming at you. Our minds were blown every single day, one amazing thing after another, constantly lifting you up. So you kind of walked around six inches off the ground all the time, there was something that kept you buoyant in your spirit. I wanted to try and capture that first and foremost."
If Soulfire stands as the last word at the end of one chapter of Van Zandt's long career, Summer Of Sorcery marks the start of what comes next.
"Making this record was everything I'd hoped for," Little Steven says. "What I'd hoped would happen was, you put the whole tour, all of those songs, into a funnel and out of that funnel comes a new album. And that's exactly what happened."
SUMMER OF SORCERY TRACK LISTING
1. Communion
2. Party Mambo!
3. Love Again
4. Vortex
5. A World Of Our Own
6. Gravity
7. Soul Power Twist
8. Superfly Terraplane
9. Education
10. Suddenly You
11. I Visit The Blues
12. Summer Of Sorcery
LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL TOUR 2019 ITINERARY-
APRIL
13 - Perth, Australia - Metro City 16 - Adelaide, Australia - Thebarton Theatre 18 - Byron Bay, Australia - Byron Bay Bluesfest *
20 - Byron Bay, Australia - Byron Bay Bluesfest *
23 - Melbourne, Australia - Forum Melbourne
25 - Newtown, Australia - Enmore Theatre
27 - Auckland, New Zealand - Auckland Town Hall
SUMMER OF SORCERY TOUR ITINERARY-
MAY
4 - Los Angeles, CA - The Saban
8 - Asbury Park, NJ - Paramount Theatre
16 - Liverpool, UK - O2 Academy
18 - Leeds, UK - O2 Academy
20 - Glasgow, UK - O2 Academy
22 - Bristol, UK - O2 Academy
24 - London, UK - O2 Forum Kentish Town
26 - Derbyshire, UK - Bearded Theory Festival *
28 - Berlin, Germany - Huxley's
30 - Jelling, Denmark - Jelling Muiskfestival *
JUNE
1 - Stockholm, Sweden - Cirkus
3 - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
5 - Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik
7 - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique (AB)
9 - Emmen, The Netherlands - Hello Festival *
11 - Zurich, Switzerland - Kaufleuten
13 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
15 - Bilbao, Spain - Music Legends Festival *
17 - Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo
20 - Kragujevac, Serbia - Arsenal Festival *
23 - Paris, France - La Cigale
JULY
2 - Ontario, Canada - London Music Hall
4 - Ottawa, Canada - Bluesfest
6 - Quebec City, Canada - FEQ
10 - Toronto, Canada - Phoenix Theatre
12 - Buffalo, New York - Town Ballroom
14 - Clifton Park, NY - Upstate Concert Hall
16 - New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall
18 - Huntington, NY - The Paramount
20 - Glenside, PA - Keswick Theatre
24 - Richmond, VA - The National
26 - Easton, PA - State Theatre Center For The Arts
Music News - The National have shared another album track “Light Years” off their forthcoming album I Am Easy To Find. You can stream the song HERE and watch the accompanying video, Below-
It features scenes from the short film “I Am Easy To Find,” directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners), and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. I Am Easy To Find is the band’s eighth studio album and will be released May 17th on 4AD. With the recent album announcement, the band shared the opening track “You Had Your Soul With You” featuring the vocals of longtime David Bowie collaborator Gail Ann Dorsey. A companion short film with t he same name will also be released with music by The National and inspired by the album. More film details to be released at a later date. Mills, along with the band, is credited as co-producer of the album, which was mostly recorded at Long Pond, Hudson Valley, NY with additional sessions in Paris, Berlin, Cincinnati, Austin, Dublin, Brooklyn and more far flung locations. The album features vocal contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Mina Tindle and more. Tracklisting and tour dates below. Pre-order the album I Am Easy To Find HERE and watch the film trailer here-
This April, the band are presenting “A Special Evening with The National,” five sold out events happening in Paris, London, New York, Toronto and LA. The evening will include a screening of “I Am Easy To Find,” Q&A with the band, Mike Mills and more. An intimate performance will follow with special guests Gail Ann Dorsey (Paris), Kate Stables of This Is The Kit, Mina Tindle, Yuki Numata Resnick, James McAlister, Brooklyn Youth Chorus (New York), and more to be announced. They will then head out on an expansive world tour beginning this June with Courtney Barnett and Alvvays opening select dates. See all tour dates below. For tickets and more information, visit www.americanmary.com .
I Am Easy To Find Tracklisting
1. You Had Your Soul With You
2. Quiet Light
3. Roman Holiday
4. Oblivions
5. The Pull Of You
6. Hey Rosey
7. I Am Easy To Find
8. Her Father In The Pool
9. Where Is Her Head
10. Not In Kansas
11. So Far So Fast
12. Dust Swirls In Strange Light
13. Hairpin Turns
14. Rylan
15. Underwater
16. Light Years
The National 2019 Tour Itinerary:
4/16 - Paris, FR @ Olympia SOLD OUT
4/18 - London, UK @ Royal Festival Hall SOLD OUT
4/22 - New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre SOLD OUT
4/24 - Toronto, ON @ Roy Thomson Hall SOLD OUT
4/26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre SOLD OUT
6/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Mann Center*
6/12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park Bandshell*
6/13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park Bandshell*
6/15 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
6/16 - Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy*
6/17 - St Augustine, FL @ St Augustine Amphitheatre*
6/19 - Washington, DC @ The Anthem*
6/20 - Portland, ME @ Thompson's Point*
6/21 - Montreal, QC @ Place des Arts
6/22 - Hamilton, ON @ Pier 8**
6/24 - Columbus, OH @ Express Live*
6/25 - Ann Arbor, MI @ Hill Auditorium*
6/26 - Indianapolis, IN @ Lawn at White River*
6/28 - Chicago, IL @ Northerly Island**
7/10 - Manchester, UK @ Castlefield Bowl
7/12 - Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Festival
7/13 - London, UK @ Hyde Park
7/15 - Frankfurt, DE @ Jahrhunderthalle
7/16 - Hamburg, DE @ Stadtpark
7/18 - Rättvik, SE @ Dalhalla
8/4 - Waterford, IE @ All Together Now
8/6 - Glasgow, UK @ Summer Nights at the Bandstand
8/7 - Glasgow, UK @ Summer Nights at the Bandstand
Music News - moe. has released the lineup for their 2019 moe.down. The festival, now in its 17th year, will host debut performances by artists such as Drive-By Truckers, Spafford, Cory Wong (from Vulfpeck) and God Street Wine. Booked for July 4 - 6 at Snow Ridge in Turin, NY, moe.down will also include 7 sets of moe. alongside an array of activities.
Tickets for moe.down are currently on sale. All tickets include access to three days of music and general admission tent camping. A VIP ticket option includes additional perks such as early entry to the festival grounds on July 3, golf cart escort to VIP campsites upon arrival, sound check party with moe. and a limited-edition event poster. Layaway plans and RV rentals are also available. For more information, visit https://moedown.org/tickets.
Originally conceived in 2000 as a weekend reunion moe. could host for their friends, family and musical cohorts, moe.down has attracted a wide variety of musical talent including The Black Keys, Gary Clark, Jr. Cracker, TV On The Radio, Ani DiFranco, Umphrey's McGee, Ween and many more.
moe.down officially kicks off moe.'s summer touring season. The band will team up with jam titans Blues Traveler on the co-headline All Roads Runaround Tour presented by SiriusXM JamON. The summer run will showcase one set from each band plus a very special collaborative set each night. Special guest G. Love will join as support. Tickets are on sale now. For more information, visit https://moe.org/.
Founded in 1990, moe. has carved a niche for themselves with a distinct blend of Americana, melodic turns, clever songwriting, and jam band ethics. Members Vinnie Amico (Drums), Rob Derhak (bass/vocals), Chuck Garvey (guitar/vocals), Jim Loughlin (Percussion/Vibes) and Al Schnier (guitar/vocals) have built a dedicated following through their extensive touring and musical output.
Music News - Winnetka Bowling League have just released a new single from their forthcoming EP, Cloudy With A Chance Of Sun, titled “Slow Dances”. Of the track, the band’s singer/songwriter, Matthew Koma , says “‘Slow Dances’ is a song about obsessing over the different endings that could’ve been. Seeing the annoying as endearing in retrospect and hoping she hears the song somewhere out in the world and knows it’s for her.”
The release of “ Slow Dances ” coincides with a hometown show tonight, April 3rd, in Los Angeles at The Hi Hat in Highland Park. Purchase tickets HERE .
Music News - Elvis Costello & The Imposters and Blondie will co-headline a coast-to-coast tour this summer. The 13-city tour will kick off July 20th in Bethel, NY at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts and make stops in Boston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and more, before wrapping August 10th in Seattle, WA.
Artist fan club presale tickets will be available starting today (4/2) at 12pm local time. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Saturday, April 6thth at 10am local time at LiveNation.com.
Elvis Costello and Blondie shared spots near the top of the UK Singles Chart 40 years ago when Blondie's "Heart Of Glass” sat neck-and-neck alongside Elvis Costello & The Attraction’s "Oliver's Army” in the company of The Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor and ABBA. The same week, Blondie's seminal album Parallel Lines reached #1 on the Album Chart while Costello's Armed Forces landed at #3.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters’ last tour in late 2018 found the combo reaching new live performance peaks. The band "came out swinging” (Star Tribune) in Minneapolis, were “unstoppable” in Anaheim (OC Register) and played an “epic and euphoric” (Variety) show in LA that even at nearly three hours “[left] ‘em wanting more.” The Imposters are: Steve Nieve (keyboards), Davey Faragher (bass) and Pete Thomas (drums).
In 2017, Blondie hit the road in support of their most collaborative album yet, Pollinator (out via BMG). Their spectacular live shows drew acclaim for their “flair and precision” (Rolling Stone), while being called “formidable” (LA Weekly) and “artful, rocking” (City Pages). Pollinator was praised by the likes of New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork and many more for its dynamic blend of Blondie's trailblazing sound and new influences from some of modern music's greatest innovators including Sia, Dev Hynes, Charli XCX, Dave Sitek, Joan Jett, and more. It features the euphoric disco-infused single "Fun," the propulsive 80s-esque anthem "Long Time," and the irreverent "Doom or Destiny."
Elvis Costello's wide-ranging recording career began in 1977 with the release of My Aim Is True in a catalog that include such diverse highlights as This Year's Model,Get Happy, Imperial Bedroom, King Of America, Blood & Chocolate, The Juliet Letters with the Brodsky Quartet, The River In Reverse with Allen Toussaint and Wise Up Ghost with The Roots.
Music News - The 2019 summer concert calendar has just been lit up with the announcement of YES‘ North American concert tour, “The Royal Affair Tour.” Headlined by prog rock pioneers and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees YES, who triumphed last year with their acclaimed and hugely successful #YES50: Celebrating 50 Years of YES tour, this must-see best-of-British-rock show will also feature Asia with the return of founding member Steve Howe in a special performance, John Lodge of The Moody Blues, and Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy with guest vocals by Arthur Brown. See trailer below-
Music News - The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler – have announced the June 21 release of their long-awaited new album, HELP US STRANGER (via Third Man Records), which is the GRAMMY Award-winning rock band’s third studio LP and first new album in more than a decade. HELP US STRANGER sees the mighty combo reassembled, stronger and perhaps even more vital than ever before as they continue to push rock 'n' roll forward into its future, bonding prodigious riffs, blues power, sinewy psychedelia, Detroit funk, and Nashville soul via Benson and White’s uncompromising songcraft and the band’s steadfast musical muscle. With HELP US STRANGER , The Raconteurs have returned right when they are needed most, unified and invigorated with boundless ambition, infinite energy and a collectivist spirit operating at the peak of its considerable powers, once again creating a sound and fury only possible when all four of its members come together.
White and Benson wrote all the songs on HELP US STRANGER except one cover, “Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness),” which was written by Donovan. Recorded at Third Man Studio in Nashville, TN, the album was produced by The Raconteurs and engineered by Joshua V. Smith. Longtime friends and musical collaborators helped make HELP US STRANGER , including keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather, Queens of the Stone Age) and Lillie Mae Rische and her sister Scarlett Rische. The album was mixed by Vance Powell and The Raconteurs at Blackbird Studios in Nashville. Full tracklist below.
To coincide with the release, The Raconteurs and Third Man Records have revealed a special HELP US STRANGER -themed Vault Package #40 that features a limited edition electric green/black/copper swirled vinyl LP. Pressed at Third Man Pressing in the Cass Corridor of Detroit, the 180-gram marble vinyl edition also features exclusive Vault-only moving image lenticular cover art. The companion 7-inch single will feature early demo recordings of two songs from the new album – “Help Me Stranger” and “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying.” A Patrick Keeler-designed Raconteurs bandana and an exclusive Raconteurs slip mat are included in the package as well. Additionally, Vault members will receive first pre-sale ticket access to more soon to be announced Raconteurs headline shows. Third Man Vault subscriptions are open now through April 30. All HELP US STRANGER Vault packages will ship to arrive on or close to the album’s street date. For more information regarding Vault Package #40, additional Vault benefits, and subscription details, please visit thirdmanrecords.com .
Music News - On the eve of a sold-out tour, Trey Anastasio has announced the release of an all-new LP, GHOSTS OF THE FOREST. The album's title track can be heard now at all DSPs. On May 24, a 2x 180 gram vinyl release, foil numbered with limited edition rainbow foil packaging will be released. The album is available for pre-order now, and for digital download beginning Friday, April 12.
GHOSTS OF THE FOREST was recorded over the span of just a few days at the Barn Studio in Vermont in April 2018. The record was produced by Anastasio and engineered and mixed by Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White). Rolling Stone has described the album as full of "psychedelic guitar liftoffs, ambitious arrangements and deeply personal lyrics." The Ghosts Of The Forest Tour sold out despite no released music, and features production design from Abigail Holmes (Talking Heads, Roger Waters).
In addition to the album, BETWEEN ME & MY MIND, a new feature-length documentary film about Anastasio and the making of some of his most personal music to date with GHOSTS OF THE FOREST, as well as Phish's ambitious New Year's Eve show at Madison Square Garden, will have its world premiere at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on April 26 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. A special performance from the Trey Anastasio Band will follow.
Following the Ghosts Of The Forest Tour, Trey will resume touring with his long-running Trey Anastasio Band for their first full-length shows since November 2017, including festival headline appearances and a two night stand during the grand opening week of Denver's Mission Ballroom. Trey will also perform a solo acoustic set at Newport Folk Festival, marking Trey's first return to the festival since 2008.
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