Introducing Sound On Sound, a brand-new music festival, from the people behind the Governors Ball Music Festival.  The inaugural Sound On Sound Music Festival will take place September 24th – 25th, 2022 on the bank of the Long Island Sound at the beautiful Seaside Park, Bridgeport, CT.  The festival’s inaugural lineup features performances from 22+ artists including Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, The Lumineers, Stevie Nicks, Brandi Carlile, The National, Father John Misty, Black Pumas, Ziggy Marley, Gary Clark Jr., The Head and the Heart, Caamp, Zach Bryan, Band of Horses, Jenny Lewis, Spin Doctors, Noah Kahan, Trampled by Turtles, Jade Bird, The Main Squeeze, Geese, Trousdale, The Cameroons, Drew Angus, and more. With no overlapping set times on the schedule across 2 stages, attendees will be able to catch every performance.

A special presale for 2-Day GA and VIP tickets will be available exclusively for Citi® Cardmembers from today, February 15th at 10:00 AM EST through Friday, February 18th at 11:59 AM EST. Citi® presale link available HERE.

Subscribers to the Sound On Sound email list and text notifications will also receive a presale code with early access to tickets on Thursday, February 17th at 10:00 AM EST. Fans who aren’t already on the list can sign up at www.SoundOnSoundCT.com.

2-Day General Admission Tickets will be available to the public on Friday, February 18th at 12:00 PM ET via www.SoundOnSoundCT.com. Additionally 2-Day GA+, 2-Day VIP, 2-Day Terrace VIP and 2-Day Platinum Tickets will also be available for purchase.

For an elevated experience, the festival’s premium ticket options offer added perks for attendees. GA+ Tickets provide additional access to a private lounge with air-conditioned restrooms, seating, lawn games and more. VIP Tickets include amenities like VIP Village access next to performance stages, an elevated viewing deck by the main stage, VIP parking, dedicated VIP entrance to the festival, and more. Terrace VIP Tickets offer even more perks, with access to the exclusive 2nd floor elevated viewing platform with unparalleled views of both performance stages and the Long Island Sound, and complimentary beverages. For the ultimate festival experience, Platinum VIP Tickets offer the most high-end fan experience, with exclusive on-stage viewing (subject to artist approvals), front row viewing areas, and an elevated viewing platform at the main stage soundboard with complimentary beverage service, on-site concierge services, access to the amenity-packed Platinum Lounge, and much more. Full information about ticket options can be found here.

On top of the incredible music, Sound On Sound promises to be a unique experience, featuring hyper-local food and beverages, and activities for music fans of all ages. Gourmet food options from some of Connecticut’s best establishments, including vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free offerings will be available, along with craft beer, wine, and cocktails throughout the site. Specialty bars at the festival will also offer lounge spaces to relax between sets while sipping a variety of wines in the Seaside Wine Grove, enjoying a brew and the game at the Craft Beer & Sports Hall, or savoring a specialty cocktail at the Shaken & Stirred lounge. Additionally, Sound On Sound is proud to partner with Adam J. Lewis Academy, Make-A-Wish Connecticut and Special Olympics Connecticut to give back to the local community alongside the festival fun. More details to come.

Founders Entertainment, the folks behind the Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City, have teamed up with Live Nation Connecticut and the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater to bring this unique festival concept to life in Fairfield County.

“It’s been a goal of ours to introduce a world class musical festival to Connecticut; the place where I grew up and where co-founder Tom Russell and I spent our high school years together. Sound On Sound is a 2-day event that we’ve curated for a community that we personally feel so close to. As a Connecticut resident myself, I am proud to present a festival that celebrates exceptional music, hand-selected local food and libations, and outdoor fun spent at the beautiful Seaside Park” said Jordan Wolowitz, Founders Entertainment.

“We’re thrilled to host the first annual Sound On Sound Music Festival at Seaside Park further establishing Bridgeport as Connecticut’s ultimate entertainment destination. Seaside Park is a city treasure with two and a half miles of shore and designed by the renowned Frederick Olmsted, also known for creating Central Park.   We look forward to visitors having a great experience with a high quality event, a variety of music and foods, and enjoyment of the amazing surroundings.” said Mayor Ganim of Bridgeport, CT.

"This amazing line up is just one more thing that makes it clear, Connecticut is the place to be, not just to live and work. You can enjoy everything from great State Parks to incredible music," said Governor Lamont. "We're investing in our cities, our green spaces, and in transportation, and it's paying off. Our State is a growing entertainment hub where more and more concerts are being hosted, movies are being filmed, and families are vacationing."

Fans can sign up to receive email and text message alerts to be the first to receive new information at www.SoundOnSoundCT.com, and follow social media to stay in the loop for all announcements: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | TikTok

Upstate New York-based folk artist Holland Belle is excited to present “What’s Best For You,” the latest song to be lifted from the Friday, May 13 release of her debut solo album, Bird Song (pre-save HERE). With wailing guitars, bold analog synths and Belle’s generous vocal performance exploring an acceptance of struggle, she urges herself to seek neutrality instead of control, embracing the ebbs and flows of the human experience without judgment. “‘What’s Best For You’ asks the question: What if you loved another person for who they were instead of who you dreamed they would become?”, Belle asks. “And if you figured it out, could you turn the mirror and do the same for yourself?” Stream “What’s Best For You” on YouTube HERE and with Under The Radar HERE.

Recorded at Basement Floods Records analog recording studio in Catskill, NY and produced by Dante Bardo, the forthcoming Bird Song is an album about building faith in something greater. Change, evolution and joy take real courage, and while some will be content to stay underwater, Bird Song sees Belle swim towards the surface. On the album, she finds her most natural voice, weaving a folk-tinged thread through a lens of self-reflection and spirituality. It’s here that Belle transforms uncertainty into songs of optimism and strength.

For Holland Belle, the voice has always been an evolving instrument. From childhood she trained to become an opera singer, adhering loyally to the firm boundaries of the classical arts. However as adulthood arrived, so with it came the many colored sounds of the wide world. She found herself experimenting with the voice, bending it into new shapes, like a silver filament that could dance and emote in endless configurations. Belle became a chameleon of sorts, able to shift to various vocal selves, molding them based on whatever the music asked for. It was exciting, and also confusing, for it left her wondering: which of these voices is actually me?

Growing up in Los Angeles, Belle formed much of her musical self in the city. For four years, she co-founded and fronted dream pop band Nightjacket, who’s swirling, hypnotic songs saw them tour with The Besnard Lakes and feature on numerous television shows and movies. After parting ways, Belle began to focus on her solo work, eventually traveling to the Catskills to begin the recording process of Bird Song at analog studio Basement Floods Records. Surrounded by the nourishing presence of her collaborators, engineer Alex Wernquest and producer Dante Bardo, Belle uncovered the sound of her next musical phase, and ultimately kick-started a radical life change. She returned to LA, sold her belongings, gave up her apartment and made the move to New York. This spontaneity and the optimism of trusting your gut permeates throughout Bird Song, as Belle offers a guiding hand through a corridor of renewal.

The catalyst for this collection of songs came from a morning in Berlin, Germany. Belle was living far from home, navigating a recent heartbreak and unsure of where her next steps would take her. On a branch outside her bedroom window, a goldfinch began to sing. Over the next few days, the bird returned to the window, prompting Belle to record this moment of beauty amid a sea of doubt and anxiety. She transformed the bird’s delicate melody into a larger song, which was later split in two to form the album’s title tracks, gently reminding us to rise out of bed and persevere, no matter how tricky the journey may seem.

Birds, frogs, thunderstorms and the sounds of the woods crept into these songs, as Belle’s iridescent, velvet-rich vocal saunters across each track. The result is testament to the observance and acceptance of the present moment, where she welcomes the unexpected and flourishes under the tapestry of the traditional. Belle also invited friends Jonathan Talbot (strings) and Wesley Harper (additional keys) onto the record, while mixing engineer Andy Baldwin (Bjork, St Lucia, Haerts) helped to piece together Bird Song’s intimate and immersive sonic universe.

Life is not meant to be experienced behind a gauze, or guided by memories of the past, and it is throughout Bird Song that Belle offers a platform for sincerity and resolve. It’s a slow breath — a hand on your heart — as you embark on your bravest chapter yet.

Nation of Heat Records and celebrated singer-songwriter Joe Pug are excited to present “I Do My Father’s Drugs | Revisited,” the latest single to be lifted from the Friday, July 22 release of Nation of Heat | Revisited, a reimagined, full-band version of Pug’s acclaimed 2008 debut (pre-order). A tongue-in-cheek turn of phrase, of course, “I Do My Father’s Drugs | Revisited” is intended to explore the idea that once a counter-culture gains enough adherents, it actually becomes the dominant culture itself. Stream the track on YouTube HERE and on all platforms HERE.

Featuring contributions by Brandon Flowers (The Killers), Derry deBorja (Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit), Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket) and Courtney Hartman, Nation of Heat | Revisited is a collection of songs that have earned themselves a passionate following over the years but are given the proper treatment here that Pug had originally intended for them. Revisiting and reinterpreting these songs from a place of experience and perspective. Nation of Heat | Revisited sounds livelier, rowdier, punchier, but also more sophisticated, headier. “It’s how I would’ve wanted the record to sound in the first place if I’d had the money and the ability to do it this way,” Pug says. “But I knew this album couldn’t just be the original songs with a bar band behind me as I played an acoustic guitar. I didn’t want to just add a rhythm section. It had to be a complete reimagining.”

“The songs on this EP are familiar to me, and other people like me, who have been Joe Pug fans from the very beginning. I, for one, welcome this new more fully realized version of these songs, because now I have an excuse to turn them up and listen out loud again.” — Steve Earle

When Joe Pug snuck into a Chicago studio in 2007 to record his debut EP, he had more misgivings than songs. “My most vivid recollections from those sessions,” he says with fifteen years’ hindsight, “involve sitting in the studio between takes and thinking to myself, I have no idea what I’m doing. I can barely play guitar. I can barely play harmonica. I can barely sing on key. I can barely keep time. But there was still something about these songs—something extra about these songs.” They were austere and rough, wounded and bruised, yet they were full of vivid, visceral imagery and turns of phrase both clever and caustic, all delivered in a voice that came across as convincing precisely because it was so untrained and guileless.

A lifetime later, Nation of Heat remains Pug’s most popular release, with more than 20 million streams on Spotify alone, and he keeps these songs in his setlist even now, as though he’s still trying to puzzle out their implications. So with the forthcoming Nation of Heat | Revisited, it couldn’t be simply a do over. Pug had to transform the songs, breathe new life and meaning into them, and open them up to new possibilities. The skeleton key was “Hymn #101”—the opening track of the album and of his career, the song that plants a flag in rocky Americana soil. After that song fell into place, the rest of Nation of Heat | Revisited followed, full of moments that would have been impossible fifteen years ago: the gracefully uneasy sway of “Nobody’s Man,” the resigned yet promising mantra of “Speak Plainly, Diana,” the grim lullaby melody of “Hymn #35.”

It helped that he had so many close friends that he could ask for contributions, all of whom responded enthusiastically, such as Brandon Flowers (the Killers), Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket), Derry deBorja (Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit) and Courtney Hartman, among others. “What this project showed me is that there are a lot of different forms of wealth in this world and there’s a very important kind of wealth that I didn’t even know I had,” Pug says. “I have this community that is committed to the same artistic values that I’m committed to.”

Nation of Heat | Revisited isn’t meant to replace Nation of Heat. Rather, Pug intends this new album to comment on his debut and to sum up everything that has followed it. It’s more thoughtful than a greatest hits package, more revealing than a memoir, and it retains the extra-ness of these songs.

“I’ve never been far away from them,” he says. “These songs are how I’ve paid my rent and my mortgage. They’re how I’ve bought my kids diapers. When I got out on the road, these are the songs that people want to hear, and they’re the songs I want to give people. I’ve spent more than a decade playing them in different cities all over America, all over the English-speaking world, and I trust that they’re able to convey what I want them to convey. For a certain type of listener, I know they’re going to connect.”

Joe Pug will be making the following U.S. appearances in 2022. Dates below with more to be added soon.

JUNE

24 — Catonsville, MD — State Fare

JULY

02 — Three Oaks, MI — Acorn Theater

04 — Berwyn, IL — Fitzgerald’s American Music Festival 2022

SEPTEMBER

07 — Park City, UT — Park City Song Summit 2022

NOVEMBER

17 — Austin, TX — 3TEN

19 — Houston, TX — McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

DECEMBER

01 — St. Paul, MN — Turf Club

02 — Chicago, IL — Hideout

03 — Chicago, IL — Hideout