International Bluegrass Music Hall of Famer Sam Bush is releasing “Radio John,” the only original track off his upcoming tribute album Radio John: Songs of John Hartford. The full LP will be available on November 11th via Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
“Radio John” was written by Bush and bluegrass songwriter John Pennell as a heartfelt tribute to his hero and mentor, John Hartford. It’s the only original track on the album, as the rest of the LP digs deep into the American roots music eccentric’s vast catalog (it even includes some songs that Sam played with Hartford himself in the 70s). “Radio John” is the grand finale to the album as it’s the only track to feature Bush’s full band. Bush plays every instrument on all the others including acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, electric bass, and fiddle.
Sam Bush’s love of the great John Hartford began way back on a Saturday afternoon in 1967 when he first saw Hartford play the three-finger banjo on The Wilburn Brothers Show. Two years later, he got the chance to see him in concert for the first time in Bush’s hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Just a few short years after that, Bush actually began opening up shows for Hartford, and sometimes even joining him in performing onstage! And as they say, the rest is history.
Bruce Springsteen has released "Nightshift" from his upcoming album Only The Strong Survive, a collection of fifteen soul music greats out November 11 on Columbia Records. An essential song selection in the early creation of Only The Strong Survive, the track inspired Springsteen, his producer Ron Aniello and engineer Rob Lebret to christen themselves "The Nightshift" while finishing this new record. "Nightshift" was first recorded by The Commodores on Motown Records in 1985, serving as a tribute to late soul music heroes Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson just after they passed.
Featuring lead vocals from Springsteen, Only The Strong Survives marks his 21st studio album and was tracked at Thrill Hill Recording in New Jersey. Previously, Springsteen announced the new album alongside his version of "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)," which was originally performed and written by Frank Wilson. Only The Strong Survive will feature guest vocals by Sam Moore, as well as contributions from The E Street Horns, full string arrangements by Rob Mathes, and backing vocals by Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore, Curtis King Jr., Dennis Collins and Fonzi Thornton. The album was produced by Ron Aniello, engineered by Rob Lebret and executive produced by Jon Landau.
Todd Rundgren's 'Space Force' has arrived today on Cleopatra Records, a new album of twelve collaborations from the Hall Of Famer that span genres and generations. Building on never-released and unfinished material that derives primarily from his counterparts, 'Space Force' finds Rundgren back in the lauded producer's chair from which he's helped shape half a century of American music. Drawing on relationships with collaborators that range from decades-long friendships to just-made internet connections, Space Force builds on and expands the concepts behind 2017's lauded White Knight, Rundgren's most recent previous studio album.
Rundgren has been teasing the long-anticipated release of Space Force for much of the past few years, including work with The Roots ("Godiva Girl"), Weezer's Rivers Cuomo ("Down With The Ship"), Sparks ("Your Fandango"), guitar extraordinaire Adrian Belew ("Puzzle") and rapper Narcy ("Espionage"). Just last week, he shared the galvaning and groovy "I'm Not Your Dog," created with "She Blinded Me with Science" chart-topper turned music technology pioneer Thomas Dolby. Tracks available for the first time today include contributions from Steve Vai, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Crowded House's Neil Finn, Davey Lane, Alfie Templeman and The Lemon Twigs.
Rundgren will also be performing across North America through the end of the year - including a just-announced new leg of his year-long run with Daryl Hall, and the continuation of his cross-country "Celebrating David Bowie" tour with Space Force and Bowie collaborator Adrian Belew, among many other talented musicians. A full list of dates for each is below.
SPACE FORCE TRACKLIST
PUZZLE (with Adrian Belew)
DOWN WITH THE SHIP (with Rivers Cuomo)
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (with Neil Finn)
GODIVA GIRL (with The Roots)
YOUR FANDANGO (with Sparks)
SOMEDAY (with Davey Lane)
I’M NOT YOUR DOG (with Thomas Dolby)
ESPIONAGE (with Narcy)
STFU (with Rick Nielsen)
HEAD IN THE OCEAN (with Alfie Templeman)
I’M LEAVING (with The Lemon Twigs)
ECO WARRIOR GODDESS (with Steve Vai)
"Celebrating David Bowie":
Oct 13, 2022 - Mystic Lake Casino - Prior Lake, MN
Oct 14, 2022 - Copernicus Center - Chicago, IL
Oct 15, 2022 - The Goodyear Theater & Hall - Akron, OH
Oct 17, 2022 - Theatre Capitole - Quebec City, Quebec Canada
Oct 18, 2022 - L'Olympia (Montreal) - Montreal, Quebec Canada
Oct 20, 2022 - The Cabot Theater - Beverly, MA
Oct 21, 2022 - College Street Music Hall - New Haven, CT
Oct 22, 2022 - American Music Theatre - Lancaster, PA
Oct 23, 2022 - The Tarrytown Music Hall - Tarrytown, NY
Oct 24, 2022 - Sony Hall - New York, NY
Oct 25, 2022 - Sony Hall - New York, NY
Oct 27, 2022 - Union County Performing Arts Center - Rahway, NJ
Oct 28, 2022 - Penn's Peak - Jim Thorpe, PA
Oct 29, 2022 - The Concert Venue at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City - Atlantic City, NJ
Oct 30, 2022 - Keswick Theatre - Glenside, PA
Oct 31, 2022 - Rams Head On Stage - Annapolis, MD
Nov 1, 2022 - Rams Head On Stage - Annapolis, MD
Nov 3, 2022 - The Eastern - Atlanta, GA
Nov 4, 2022 - Taft Theatre - Cincinnati, OH
Nov 5, 2022 - Town Ballroom - Buffalo, NY
Nov 7, 2022 - Schermerhorn Symphony Center - Nashville, TN
Nov 9, 2022 - Orpheum Theatre (Wichita) - Wichita, KS
Nov 10, 2022 - Paramount Theatre - Denver, CO
Nov 11, 2022 - Kiva Auditorium - Albuquerque, NM
Nov 12, 2022 - Tucson Convention Center - Tucson, AZ
Nov 13, 2022 - Celebrity Theatre - Phoenix, AZ
Tour Dates with Daryl Hall:
Nov 19, 2022 - Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater - Syracuse, NY
Nov 21, 2022 - Michigan Theater - Ann Arbor, MI
Nov 23, 2022 - DeVos Performance Center - Grand Rapids, MI
Nov 25, 2022 - Riverside Theater - Milwaukee, WI
Nov 27, 2022 - Orpheum Theater - Madison, WI
Nov 29, 2022 - State Theater - Minneapolis, MN
Dec 1, 2022 - Stifel Theater - St. Louis, MO
Dec 3, 2022 - Old National Events Plaza - Evansville, IN
This week, the digital fan engagement platform / livestreamer Mandolin hosted "You Got Gold: Celebrating the Life and Songs of John Prine," a series of tribute concerts honoring the late country-folk icon.
Streamed from three different locations in Nashville, the five night event featured a surprise lineup of 70 artists including Brandi Carlile, Lucius, Keb Mo, Kacey Musgraves, Margo Price, Bonnie Raitt, Bobby Weir and Dwight Yoakam.
Some of Mandolin's other recent events include the 35th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert (Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, and Stephen Colbert) and the Lumineers live from Wrigley Field. This year, they also were named Fast Company's #1 Most Innovative Music Company.
Rhiannon Giddens’ tremendous 2022 continues today with the release of her book debut - Build A House - illustrated by Monica Mikai and published by Candlewick Press. The picture book was inspired by and features the lyrics of, a song that Giddens wrote and recorded with Yo-Yo Ma to commemorate Juneteenth in 2020. A newly recorded version of “Build A House” has been released today on Nonesuch, listen here: https://rhiannongiddens.lnk.to/buildahouse
Build A House is a moving picture book that tells the story of an enslaved family that will not be moved, and the music that sustains them. In a starred pre-publication review, Kirkus wrote of the book: “Giddens’ powerful, spare poetry, spanning centuries of American history, is breathtaking. Readers who discover her music through this book and the online recording (included as a QR code) will be forever glad they picked up this book. . . . A stunning, honest, yet age-appropriate depiction of historical injustice.” Giddens will be reading the book and performing this month: a community outreach book reading at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles on October 22, and at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum on October 13.
In addition to the book release, Giddens’ fall includes key concerts as a Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist for the ‘22-23 season including a duo performance with Francesco Turrisi on October 15 in Weill Recital Hall and with Our Native Daughters on November 4 in Stern Auditorium. This is the only performance of 2022 for Our Native Daughters, a supergroup of Black female banjo players featuring Giddens with Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah and Leyla McCalla.
Her appearances continue at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles November 12 as part of the Rock My Soul festival; and the LA Opera debut of Omar October 22. Omar was created by Giddens with Michael Abels (Get Out). It was inspired by the autobiographical writings of Omar Ibn-Said (1770-1864), a Muslim scholar forcibly taken from his native Senegal and enslaved in North and South Carolina. Omar will be performed by five more top opera companies in the U.S. over the next two years. Watch this CBS Sunday Morning interview and read rave reviews in NY Times, NPR Morning Edition, and WSJ.
Giddens has also scored music for Questlove’s new film Descendents coming out this month. She performed with Paul Simon at Newport Folk Festival, and at the GRAMMY Salute To The Songs of Paul Simon, which was taped earlier this year and will air on CBS this fall. Black Lucy & The Bard, the Nashville Ballet production scored by Giddens, recently aired on PBS’ Great Performances and was deemed “marvelous television” by the Wall Street Journal. Giddens was also named the Artistic Director of the Silkroad Ensemble and spoke about her work with PBS Newshour, and is the Music Director for the 2023 Ojai Music Festival.
With the release of their 2022 album ‘The Last Goodbye’ and its associated tour, ODESZA has raised the bar across the board for electronic music this year. ‘‘The Last Goodbye’ (released via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) became an immediate fan favorite and an artistic tour de force upon release, earning the GRAMMY-nominated partnership of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight critical acclaim, astronomical ticket sales, and an impressive resume of syncs that have dominated the 2022 media landscape.
Tracks off ‘The Last Goodbye’ have appeared wildly across the pop culture zeitgeist this year, including multiple syncs in Apple’s Keynote at the 2022 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, in commercials with GoPro, Insta360, Sony Playstation, syncs in the recent FIFA 23 video game, recent episodes of Love Island and Fate: The Winx Saga, the official trailer for the Okeechobee ‘23 Festival, the Teton Gravity Research film Magic Hour and became a center point for an activation at HP’s Arctic Dome at this year’s Coachella, and more.
“The Last Goodbye Tour” sold over 450k tickets throughout its amphitheater run with numerous sold-out, multi-night runs including in their hometown of Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena, LA’s The Forum, and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and more (making them one of the only electronic artists to attempt such a tour). The recent groundbreaking tour also earned high praise with a Pollstar cover feature proclaiming that “ODESZA makes history”, while Billboard added “ODESZA is meant to be seen, and heard, live”, and the Seattle Times called them “a ticket selling, dance music force that raised the live performance bar for electronic artists.”
With guest appearances by Bettye LaVette, The Knocks, Ólafur Arnalds, Julianna Barwick, Izzy Bizu, Charlie Houston, Låpsley, & MARO, ‘The Last Goodbye’ is sweeping in nature, delicately and deftly crafted – a stirring collection rife with brightness and emotion, wistful yet rooted in the present. Album highlight “Love Letter (feat. The Knocks)” was accompanied by a cinematic short film music video starring Simone Ashley which was covered by Teen Vogue, Bustle, E! and more.
The album as a whole earned acclaim from Billboard who praised its “lush soundscapes, grandiose moments and productions that are equally complex and emotive,” Associated Press who called it “an indescribable, immersive listening experience”, and Pitchfork who said ODESZA “have found themselves at their most introspective just as they’re primed to make a bigger splash on the stage than ever before.” The album also debuted at no. 2 on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums Chart, and received Times Square billboards in NYC from Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube.
The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series where kids and parents rock out to the classics, just announced a special run of shows over Halloween weekend, October 29 & 30. Featuring the music of The Grateful Dead, Phish, David Bowie, Prince, Tom Petty and even a Halloween Spooktacular at 18 different venues across the country, the Playhouse will be returning to many familiar cities like New York and Philadelphia, as well as stops for the first time in Tacoma, WA, Columbus, OH, Hamden, CT, San Antonio and Houston, TX. Tickets are available here.
From The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Phish, David Bowie, Prince, Aretha Franklin, Dave Matthews Band and more, The Rock and Roll Playhouse introduces the next generation to timeless music while providing kids with early music exposure and encouraging creativity. The Playhouse was founded in 2013 at its flagship venue Brooklyn Bowl by Peter Shapiro, entrepreneur and co-owner of the Bowl and owner of The Capitol Theatre, and Amy Striem, a certified Early Childhood and Elementary teacher. Designed to create opportunities for families to experience live music together in historic venues, The Rock and Roll Playhouse continues to unite families through music with hundreds of unforgettable shows nationwide.
The Rock and Roll Playhouse Halloween Weekend Schedule:
All ages welcome; admission is free for children one years old and under
Industry City - New Orleans Funk & Soul (Brooklyn, NY)
October 30:
Brooklyn Bowl New York - Halloween Spooktacular (Brooklyn, NY)
Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia - Prince (Philadelphia, PA)
Last Concert Cafe - Grateful Dead (Houston, TX)
Portland House of Music - Phish (Portland, ME)
The Espee - Grateful Dead (San Antonio,TX)
The Grey Eagle - Grateful Dead (Asheville, NC)
Thalia Hall - Phish (Chicago, IL)
Mission Theater (AM Show) - Grateful Dead (Portland, OR)
Mission Theater (PM Show) - Grateful Dead (Portland, OR)
City Winery Hudson Valley - Halloween Spooktacular (Hudson Valley, NY)
The Spanish Ballroom - Grateful Dead (Tacoma, WA)
Woodlands Tavern - Grateful Dead (Columbus, OH)
Space Ballroom - Grateful Dead (Hamden, CT)
About The Rock and Roll Playhouse:
The Rock and Roll Playhouse is the largest national concert series for families where kids can “move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon” (New York Times). The Rock and Roll Playhouse was founded in 2014 at its flagship venue, Brooklyn Bowl, by industry pioneer Peter Shapiro, and Amy Striem, a certified Early Childhood and Elementary teacher, who were looking to create opportunities for families to experience live music together in historic music venues. The Rock and Roll Playhouse has since performed to hundreds of thousands of kids and their families in over 42 venues across 30 cities, playing music from the most iconic musicians in history to inspire the next generation of children. Its core audience of kids under 10 explore their creativity dancing to live music from curated local bands, listening to stories and playing interactive activities. The program has raised funds for the Can’d Aid Foundation’s Tunes Programs, VH1 Save the Music Foundation, The Rex Foundation, UNICEF, and Keep the Music Alive, as well as thousands of ticket donations to local school fundraisers and charity auctions around the country.
Fresh off the release of its ‘Jubilation’ album (10.7 via Billy Blue Records), roots “supergroup” (NPR) Appalachian Road Show announces that it will make its Grand Ole Opry debut on Friday, November 25th.
Appalachian Road Show member Jim VanCleve has performed at the Opry countless times with artists including Vince Gill, Mountain Heart, Josh Turner, Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent and many others, but the band is fulfilling its dream of stepping into the circle as a premier Bluegrass supergroup, who The Tennessean says sounds like “the nexus of folk music's traditional Irish roots, the genesis of American popular music at Appalachian barn dances, and the Grand Ole Opry's birth in 1925,” for the first time. The Appalachia-inspired band will follow in the footsteps of country music's biggest icons, spotlighting its unique storytelling abilities and musical virtuosity, which draw inspiration from the rich and vibrant history of the Appalachian region.
“It's always an incredible honor to be asked to play on Country Music's most iconic and legendary stage, in any capacity,” says VanCleve. “But, you can be assured, we count it as an extra special blessing to be asked to perform there as Appalachian Road Show for the first time! We are beyond excited and unspeakably grateful for the opportunity to take our authentic Appalachian music and fun to the Grand Ole Opry Stage!”
For tickets to Appalachian Road Show’s Opry debut, visit opry.com/show/2022-11-25-grand-ole-opry-at-7-pm
Greenwich Entertainment is proud to present the release of their latest music documentary, Let There Be Drums! –– directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of The Grateful Dead's drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The new film is an examination into the essential role drumming plays in great bands and how music passes from generation to generation. Let There Be Drums! features interviews with percussion luminaries like the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland of The Police, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann of The Grateful Dead, Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction, Chad Smith of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Matt Sorum of Guns N' Roses.
Let There Be Drums! is in select theaters and available to stream via Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. A DVD release will follow on November 1. For more information and streaming options go to: https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/let-there-be-drums/
Ever since he was a young boy, director Justin Kreutzmann had the perfect perch to observe a great drummer: His dad, Bill Kreutzmann, was a founding member of the Grateful Dead, and with Mickey Hart provided the drums for the band since the mid-1960s. After Justin was born in 1969, he became a part of the Dead’s tours, often sitting on the riser behind his dad during rehearsals. While Bill hoped his son would become a drummer, the younger Kreutzmann gravitated towards filmmaking. The latter effort resulted in the creation of the rollicking, wild, and fascinating documentary Let There Be Drums! –– a deep-dive into the art of drumming, the musicians who’ve mastered it for 70 years, and the legacies parents pass on to their kids.
To get the definitive take on the world and art of drumming, Kreutzmann sat with some of the best, including Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland of the Police, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann of The Grateful Dead, Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction, Chad Smith of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adrian Young of No Doubt, Matt Sorum of Guns N’ Roses, Tre Cool of Green Day, Steve Ferrone of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and John Densmore of the Doors. Also among the interviews is the late Taylor Hawkins, drummer for Foo Fighters who passed away in March 2022, in what may be his final filmed interview.
The documentary uses the 2015’s Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead as its framework, in which the band’s surviving members — Kreutzmann, Hart, Bob Weir, and Phil Lesh — gathered for what was billed as the final time. Kreutzmann’s camera captured the shows at Levi Stadium and Soldier Field, providing the film with incredible performance and recording material, along with rare and/or never-before-seen footage. Highlights from the footage include Keith Moon speaking in outtakes from The Who’s 1979 documentary The Kids Are Alright, Led Zeppelin’s John “Bonzo” Bonham speaking about fatherhood, No Doubt performing in a basement before they made it big, and a snapshot of a teenage, pre-Beatles Ringo Starr posing with his new drum kit. Let There Be Drums! is sure to be an immediate, essential backbeat for music fans.
Let There Be Drums! takes its title from a famous 1961 song and album by Sandy Nelson of the same name. Nelson was one of the era’s major drummers who came to fame in the late 1950s, a group that also includes Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. In the film, Nelson speaks with Kreutzmann about his own influences and fame. Nelson died in February 2022, after the film had been completed. The documentary shows how drummers who came up in the 1960s and ‘70s looked not only to artists like Nelson, but also jazz drummers as inspiration, part of a long chain of drummers influenced by other guys behind a drum kit.
CREDITS
Directed by Justin Kreutzmann
Written by Justin Kreutzmann, Kevin Lincoln
Produced by Alex Blavatnik, Sean Stuart, Bernie Cahill
Executive Producers, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Dan Braun
Seth Avett releases Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown, a tribute to the songwriting hero Avett considers “one of the finest American poets of the last 40 years.” The solo record is both an expression of admiration and gratitude, as well as a showcase for Avett’s unique abilities as a song interpreter, as he penetratingly captures the spirit, sincerity and beloved characters that populate some of Brown's best songs.
The son of a Pentecostal preacher, Brown – who The New York Times has observed is “as much an authentic creature and interpreter of the Midwest as Lucinda Williams is of the South” – is responsible for some of the most exquisite examples of modern American folk songwriting.
Recorded in hotel rooms in locales from Mexico to North Carolina and co-produced by Avett and Grammy-winning producer, engineer and mixer Dana Nielsen (Bob Dylan, Neil Young), the record touches on the simple human experiences that Brown is so known for bringing to life – trustworthiness, simple love, intimacy, and surprising familiarity – highlighted by Avett’s rich voice and his precise, shimmering acoustics.
Avett hand-picked his favorite songs across Brown’s vast repertoire. One of the album’s standouts – “Just a Bum” – combines capricious fate, smooth harmonies and stunning lines. Elsewhere on the album, Avett effortlessly interprets Brown’s masterpieces of love, lost youth and social decay (“The Poet Game”), a love letter to the Midwest (“The Iowa Waltz”), and redemption (“My New Book”), as the album’s scaled-back sound foregrounds Brown’s poetic narratives — and, like a faithful film adaptation of a short story, deepens one’s appreciation for the original text by highlighting the subtle emotional and melodic undercurrents.
“There's something within music that I don't understand unless I get inside of it,” says Avett of the project. “I wanted to explore, not just through listening, but through my hands, through my body, through my own vocal cords, what some of the deeper meanings of these songs are. They're very malleable – lending themselves more easily to interpretation and discovery.”
Seth previously shared the album’s first two previews, the stripped-down and syncopated “Good Morning Coffee,” and the poignant minor leaguer’s lament, “Laughing River.” He also shared incredible self-shot acoustic performances of “You Drive Me Crazy” and “My New Book.”
Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown Tracklist:
The Poet Game
Good Morning Coffee
Just a Bum
You Drive Me Crazy
I Slept All Night by My Lover
My New Book
Laughing River
Telling Stories
The Iowa Waltz
Tenderhearted Child
Amos Lee has spent much of 2022 bringing the catharsis of his new album Dreamland to larger audiences than ever before: from Red Rocks and The Ryman to Good Morning America and The Late Late Show - but as this banner year comes to a close, he's shining a light on a musical inspiration that's helped him endure his own difficult times. Lee will return on November 18 with My Ideal, a full-album tribute to the much-beloved jazz vocal classic Chet Baker Sings via Dualtone Records. A daily listen for Lee as he weathered the darkest days of the pandemic - which included losing two of his closest mentors in Bill Withers and John Prine - Lee reflects that: "I was drawn to the aching and the tenderness, to the way it expressed sadness with levity, to the way it explored sorrow without becoming beleaguered by the depths of it."
Listen to Amos interpret Chet Baker's signature song "My Funny Valentine," a version he's subtitled "For Oskar and Eli" in tribute to the lead characters of Swedish film Let The Right One In (a personal favorite of his): https://youtu.be/jWhbebw73CM
Backed by a trio of jazz all-stars from his hometown of Philadelphia - David Streim (piano/trumpet), Madison Rast (bass) and Anwar Marshall (drums) - Lee reminds listeners of vocals perfectly suited for the genre while harkening back to the earliest days of his career on legendary jazz label Blue Note Records. A reverential collection without attempting to duplicate Baker's 1954 epic, Lee found himself inspired anew the deeper he dove into the source material: “When you listen to Chet Baker, it sounds like he took a drag on a cigarette and the smoke just came out as a song, but it’s so much more than that. The breath work, the pitch control, the poignancy, the gaiety; the deeper I got inside the music, the more I fell in love with everything about it...it was a revelatory experience. It didn’t just change the way I thought about these songs; it changed the way I thought about myself as a singer and as a songwriter. It changed everything."
"THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS” in partnership with the GRAMMY Museum® has announced a special December 5 event to preview the Armadillo World Studios' upcoming six-chapter, twelve-hour documentary on the history and legacy of Cosmic Cowboys, Honky Tonk Heroes and the Outlaw country-rock movement. A documentary series that features over 100 interviews with the era’s most iconic figures and those who carry the torch today, the event will feature special appearances from musical luminaries who fall into both categories.
The program will feature a special appearance by "THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS" Executive Producer and GRAMMY Hall of Fame Award Recipient Jessi Colter, and a screening from the film that focuses on her life and work. The evening will also feature performances from two-time GRAMMY® nominee Tyler Childers, joined by fellow Appalachian singer/songwriters John R. Miller and Abby Hamilton, and from two-time GRAMMY winner Shooter Jennings.
"THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS" filmmakers Eric Geadelmann and Kelly Magelky will also participate in a roundtable discussion at the event, joined by former Kings of Leon band member Chris Coleman, the musician who created the film series' original music score. Two-time GRAMMY nominee Jack Ingram, the film's narrator who also serves as an executive producer of the project, will moderate the panel and give a performance as well.
Shooter Jennings said: "Eric Geadelmann has spent countless hours and years of his life perfecting an expansive portrait of the history of the Country Music independent's rebellion. He came to us with a vision and has delivered a study of the artists and the paths they took to change the face of the music they loved. Coming together to celebrate this historic work will surely be a highlight of any true music lover's year. I'm excited to be a part of it and the music world will be better for it."
Tyler Childers added, “I’m super excited to be part of this evening’s event. It’s an honor to not only be asked to be in this film, but to also be asked to play some music and share the stage with Jessi Colter. I’m real stoked to see all my buddies too.”
A decade in the making and in final stages of production, "THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS" comes from Geadelmann and Magelky, and takes us back to the cosmic 1970s when Outlaw singers and songwriters began blazing new trails of independence that continue to impact American music. Armadillo World Studios shared the first trailer for "THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS" in a “first look” feature with Rolling Stone. The trailer features clips of the documentary’s interviews with Colter, Childers and Jennings; as well as Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Miranda Lambert, Billy Joe Shaver, Eric Church, Margo Price, and Matthew McConaughey - plus rare performance footage from Austin’s legendary music venue the Armadillo World Headquarters. The six-part epic is executive produced by Colter, Ingram and nine-time GRAMMY winner Ray Benson, in partnership with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Newly-formed Armadillo World Studios is the Austin based “Cosmic Cowboy” division of finance and production group, Shadowbrook Studios, that will formally launch soon with a twelve-film slate of high-profile music and sports documentaries already in production. Shadowbrook Studios was founded by Geadelmann, the technology entrepreneur turned filmmaker. A portion of the proceeds from "THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS" will benefit the nonprofit Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and its educational mission, as well as Mack, Jack and McConaughey (MJ&M), The Wittliff Collections, The Americana Music Association, HAAM (Health Alliance for Austin Musicians), Austin Museum of Popular Culture (formerly SouthPop) and the Texas Heritage Songwriters Association.
Bruce Springsteen's Only The Strong Survive is out today via Columbia Records, a collection of 15 soul music greats that comprise his 21st studio album. Featuring lead vocals by Springsteen, the new album was produced by Ron Aniello and draws from the legendary catalogues of Motown, Gamble and Huff, Stax and many more. Springsteen previously shared his versions of "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)," "Nightshift" and "Don't Play That Song," and today he has released a new full-band performance video for "Turn Back The Hands Of Time," Tyrone Davis' 1970 chart-topper co-written by Jack Daniels and Bonnie Thompson.
To celebrate the album's release, Springsteen will appear on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon three times next week - Monday November 14 through Wednesday November 16 - and once again for a performance on November 24, Thanksgiving night. Springsteen has also recently discussed Only The Strong Survive with Howard Stern on SiriusXM, and with Questlove on his Questlove Supreme podcast.
In addition to Springsteen's lead vocals and Aniello's production, Only The Strong Survive features guest vocals by Sam Moore, full string arrangements by Rob Mathes, The E Street Horns and backing vocals by Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore, Curtis King Jr., Dennis Collins and Fonzi Thornton. The album was engineered by Rob Lebret and executive produced by Jon Landau at Thrill Hill Recording in New Jersey.
Montreal-based jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky releases lively and jazzy versions of Christmas classics “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and “Marshmallow World” via MNRK Music Group. With this release, Yanofsky gives new life to classics that have been loved for years and does so with history in mind.
Songwriter Hugh Martin co-wrote “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” that Judy Garland then made famous in 1944, and “Marshmallow World,” written by Carl Sigman and Peter De Rose, was first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1950. In order to capture the rich history behind these holiday staples, Yanofsky recorded to tape on an old ribbon mic, and the cover was photographed on old film, making for a true retro experience.
The release of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and “Marshmallow World” follows Yanofsky’s recent jazz album Nikki By Starlight, comprised of 15 standards from jazz legends Frank Sinatra, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday and more. ‘Nikki By Starlight’ was co-produced with the JUNO-winning producer/composer and long-time collaborator Paul Shrofel and features contributions from Stevie Wonder’s bandmate Greg Phillinganes, Nathan East (Bobby Womack, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson) and the iconic Cuban-American jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval.
Yanofsky again co-produced these Christmas covers with Paul Shrofel and this time, Shrofel adds soft and tasteful piano accompaniment as well. Yanofsky and Shrofel’s musical relationship stems back to her very first performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival at the age of 12. Yanofsky and Shrofel have always shared a musical connection that has only gotten stronger over the years, and their latest works together serve to prove that.
With this release, Yanofsky again continues to prove her artistry – stemming all the way back to when she sang the National Anthem on live television at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in front of 3.2 billion people. Over the years, Yanofsky has collaborated with well-known jazz musicians, including Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, and more. Yanofsky’s self-titled album ‘Nikki,’ released in 2010, gained the attention of the late prolific songwriter Rod Temperton (“Thriller,” “Rock With You,” “Boogie Nights”), who took her under his wing becoming her mentor, creative coach and musical champion. Her sophomore effort Little Secret, found Yanofsky exploring the velvet-clad sweet spot between jazz and pop with bold sentiments that signaled a self-assured coming of age. In 2020 she released ‘Turn Down The Sound,’ a 10-track LP (eOne Music) that showcases her independence and marks a newfound departure for her career as a young musician, earning praise upon release from Billboard, Uproxx, American Songwriter and more.
After stepping away for a time, Yanofsky writes in a letter about her homecoming to jazz, “My key still works. It’s not too late. Walking in on my own terms, even uninvited, I feel at home. You are familiar, safe and warm, and now that I’m here, I don’t ever want to know the cold again.”
Amos Lee has unveiled My Ideal (A Tribute To Chet Baker Sings) today, a 16-song collection that simultaneously pays tribute to Lee's musical hero, reflects on the Billboard chart-topper's deep jazz roots, shines a light on his Philadelphia music community, and toasts an exciting year of returning to the road and releasing new music. Chet Baker Sings is a record that Amos has always loved, but now holds even deeper meaning as a source of light in the darkest days of the pandemic - where his daily routine included waking up, meditating and playing the 1954 jazz epic front-to-back. During what he describes as a "revelatory period" of diving deep into the nuances of the record, "seeing what it felt like to walk around in Chet Baker's shoes," Lee knew the next step was to take his deep reverence and curiosity into the recording studio. Accompanied by a captivating trio of jazz players from his hometown of Philadelphia - David Streim (piano/trumpet), Madison Rast (bass) and Anwar Marshall (drums) - Lee powerfully brings My Ideal to life.
A limited number of vinyl copies are slated for a December 9 release and available to pre-order now through DualtoneStore.com and retailers nationwide.
The new album finds Lee bringing his own celebrated vocal work to the music of Chet Baker, taking inspiration from the originals without attempting to reproduce or duplicate his hero. Studying the breath work and pitch control behind Baker's legendary output proved to be an exercise that Lee says "changed everything," adding: "the deeper I got inside the music, the more I fell in love with everything about it.” On My Ideal, listeners are reminded of a voice naturally suited for the jazz genre, and of Lee's earliest work on Blue Note Records. But My Ideal does not dwell in the past, neither Lee's nor Baker's, containing many of the same beloved elements that made 2022 such a banner year for Amos. Among those highs are shows at legendary venues like Red Rocks, The Ryman and The Kennedy Center, television performances from The Late Late Show to Good Morning America and the release of his critically-lauded new album of originals Dreamland.
Appalachian Road Show, whose band members have performed with Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and many others, will make its Grand Ole Opry debut next Friday, November 25th. Ahead of the band’s appearance, a limited edition gold vinyl will be released for its ‘Jubilation’ album (10.7 via Billy Blue Records).
Appalachian Road Show released "The Ballad of Kidder Cole" as the newest single from 'Jubilation' this Friday, November 18. Listen to the song today, here: youtu.be/m5-blQ4vfa4
‘Jubilation’ features “timeless sounds” (The Tennessean), "transports listeners with their tight instrumentation, spiraling harmonies, and emotionally moving lead vocals” and features songs that blend “the sonic architecture of Merle Haggard’s 'Big City’” and "the high lonesome sound of Bill Monroe’s 'Blue Moon of Kentucky’” (No Depression). It shares stories of Appalachia that relate to people across the country today, and it is a celebration of humankind’s resilience and joy after a period of hardship. Listen to the new album, here: https://ffm.to/ars_j
Harry Belafonte has been breaking records and breaking down barriers since his unparalleled career began in the 1950s. His tremendous legacy as a musician, activist and actor is being celebrated on November 5th, 2022, when Belafonte will be honored with the Early Influence Award at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Los Angeles. To commemorate the honor, Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment is repressing two of Belafonte’s most influential and enduring albums, Belafonte Sings the Blues (1958) and Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (1959), in partnership with audiophile label Acoustic Sounds. Both titles were mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound and available now HERE. Belafonte Sings the Blues will be released on 200-gram 33RPM vinyl and on SACD. Belafonte at Carnegie Hall will be released as a 200-gram 33RPM double-LP and a special 200-gram 45RPM five-LP boxed set. All vinyl for both titles were pressed at Quality Record Pressings.
In a statement, Belanfonte added: “Thank you, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, for honoring me with this induction. It’s always a thrill to know the music I presented to the world so many years ago still resonates to this day.”
Belafonte has done for civil rights through music what his late confidante, friend, and supporter Martin Luther King, Jr. prodigiously achieved through thought leadership and protest. Known for his lyrical baritone and emotive sound, Belafonte redefined black culture as he introduced many Americans to it, while using his art as an instrument of social change on a global scale.
Belafonte Sings the Blues and Belafonte at Carnegie Hall are both widely celebrated for Belafonte’s vocal performances and the benchmark audio quality of the recordings. A rarity for the time, Carnegie Hall was one of the first popular live concert albums to be released. It stayed on the charts for over three years, and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 1959 GRAMMY Awards. Deemed “the granddaddy of all live albums” by AllMusic, it was released as a double LP and featured a 47-piece orchestra. AllMusic continues, “for sheer scope and genius of performance, this is the quintessential Belafonte package.”
A personal favorite of Belafonte’s, Blues was his first album to be recorded in stereo, and found him interpreting the works of Ray Charles (including “A Fool For You” and “Mary Ann”), Billie Holiday’s “God Bless The Child,” C.C. Carter’s “Cotton Fields” and others with an unrivaled charisma and vocal dexterity that helped establish him as one of the great performers of our time.
Harry Belafonte bio:
Drawing from several musical traditions, Harry Belafonte’s lyrical baritone and emotive singing connected Americans to Black world culture. Singer, actor, producer, activist, and ally, Belafonte used the arts as a mechanism to effect social change on a global scale.
Belafonte was born in Harlem in 1927 to multiethnic parents from the Caribbean. As a child, he moved to his mother’s native Kingston, Jamaica – “an environment that sang” – where he was exposed to the captivating music of calypso as well as prejudice based on his skin tone. Back in New York, Belafonte began acting classes at the New School’s Dramatic Workshop in 1945, where he befriended actor-singer-activist Paul Robeson, the inspiration for Belafonte’s social activism. Swept up in the New York folk scene in 1950, Belafonte created a new repertoire of folk songs, work songs, and calypsos, providing an authentic and dignified look at Black life and earning him a contract with RCA Victor in 1953.
In 1955, Belafonte met Irving Burgie (aka Lord Burgess), whose songwriting on Belafonte's debut album would forever change Belafonte's career. The first album to sell over a million copies in a year, Calypso (1956) introduced Caribbean folk music to American audiences, who dubbed Belafonte the King of Calypso. This early sound made a lasting impact on American music – Gotye, Lil' Wayne, and Jason Derulo have all sampled “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" in recent years, while "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)" was featured in the 1988 film Beetlejuice and its 2019 Broadway musical production.
In the 1960s, Belafonte returned to his musical roots in American folk, jazz, and standards, while also emerging as a strong voice for the civil rights movement. Belafonte was a close confidante, friend, and supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr. He helped organize “We Are the World” and has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 1987. He was a Grand Marshal for the 2013 New York City Pride Parade and advised on the 2017 Women’s March on Washington.
At the age of 95, Belafonte has epitomized the life of a world citizen, living by a single truth: “Get them to sing your song, and they will want to know who you are, and if they’ve made that first step, we can find a solution to hate.”
Congratulations to Judy Collins for earning a Best Folk Album GRAMMY Nomination for her album Spellbound. Spellbound is a remarkable first for Collins - the “ageless wild angel of pop” according to the New York Times: while she’s released nearly 30 studio albums, Spellbound is the very first of all original, self-penned songs in her career. Collins has also been incredibly prolific in the past few years - this is her sixth full album release since 2016.
This is Collins’ first nomination in six years and her seventh GRAMMY Nomination overall. She previously won Best Folk Performance in 1969 for her recording of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.”
Collins dedicated the album to two of her biggest influences, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Spellbound’s songs explore her experiences with substance abuse (she’s now many years sober), the Greenwich Village scene in the early 60’s, her love for the nature and the vast open spaces of Colorado, where she was born and raised, and her appreciation for Thomas Merton, a Trappist Monk and activist who mysteriously died.
Spellbound led to features and interviews with the NY Times, NY Magazine / Vulture, Billboard, People Magazine, NPR's World Cafe and WNYC All of It among others. imbuing them with emotional depth and the incandescent splendor of artistic genius."
Collins, who is still averaging nearly 100 shows a year on the road, has over 30 performances scheduled between November and June. Six of these concerts are dedicated to Wildflowers, her 1967 album. She’ll be performing the album front to back, with a full orchestra.
TOUR DATES:
*Wildflowers performances
11/25 - Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall - Milwaukee, WI
11/29 - Bing Crosby Theater - Spokane, WA
12/02 - South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) - South Orange, NJ
12/03 - Landmark on Main Street - Port Washington, NY
12/04 - Greenwich Odeum - East Greenwich, RI
12/09 - Tarrytown Music Hall - Tarrytown, NY
12/10 - Sacred Heart University Community Theatre - Fairfield, CT
12/11 - The Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts - Toms River, NJ
12/16 - Jonathan’s - Ogunquit, ME
12/17 - Jonathan’s - Ogunquit, ME
12/18 - Tupelo Music Hall - Derry, NH
12/23 - Riviera Theater - North Tonawanda, NY
01/05 - Byham Theatre - Pittsburgh, PA
01/06 - Avalon Theatre - Easton, MD
01/08 - Birchmere - Alexandria, VA
01/11 - Rio Theatre - Santa Cruz, CA
01/13 - Old Town School of Folk Music - Chicago, IL
01/15 - Old Town School of Folk Music - Chicago, IL
01/18 - Van Wezel Performing Arts Center - Sarasota, FL*
01/19 - The Emerson Center - Vero Beach, FL*
01/21 - The Peabody Daytona Beach - Daytona Beach, FL*
01/24 - Mackintosh Church, Queen’s Cross - Glasgow, UK
Bruce Springsteen will celebrate his brand-new album of soul music gems 'Only The Strong Survive' with three more TV appearances this holiday weekend, following up his tremendous takeover of The Tonight Show. If you'd like to catch Bruce around your Thanksgiving festivities, here's where to tune in:
Bruce Springsteen - Thanksgiving Week TV appearances:
* Wednesday, November 23: Springsteen sits down for an interview with Seth Meyers as the lead guest on Late Night (NBC, 12:35am ET)
* Thursday, November 24: Springsteen returns to The Tonight Show for an encore fourth performance from new album Only The Strong Survive (NBC, 11:35pm ET)
* Sunday, November 27: HBO airs 'The Howard Stern Interview: Bruce Springsteen' (10:00pm ET)
Ranky Tanky will bring the music of their Charleston, South Carolina-based and West African-rooted Gullah community back to the GRAMMYs this year, earning their second nomination for Best Regional Roots Album with 'Live At The 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.' The nomination marks two consecutive Ranky Tanky albums to be honored with GRAMMY nominations, following their Best Regional Roots Album win in 2020 for the five-piece's most recent studio collection 'Good Time' (Resilience Music Alliance). With their 2020 win, Ranky Tanky also became the first musicians to earn GRAMMY recognition for Gullah music - a style originated in the Sea Islands of the Southeastern United States by the West African-rooted Gullah community during slavery, and one that is faithfully preserved by their descendants through the present day.
Listen to Ranky Tanky's 'Live At The 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival' here: https://bit.ly/3grqITF
Ranky Tanky (which is a phrase in the Gullah community for “get funky”) are five lifelong friends from Charleston, South Carolina with decorated musical backgrounds primarily in jazz and gospel - Quentin Baxter (drums/percussions), Kevin Hamilton (bass), Quiana Parler (vocals), Clay Ross (guitar and vocals) and Charlton Singleton (trumpet and vocals). In addition to their recent GRAMMY nomination and 2020 win, the group were also the first to bring Gullah music to the top of the Billboard charts - earning a #1 on the Contemporary Jazz Chart for 'Good Time.' They've also recently teamed with fellow South Carolina native Stephen Colbert to bring Gullah music to his Late Show audience, and with longtime fan Al Roker for a performance on The TODAY Show.
'Live At The 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival' was recorded this year during the band's JazzFest debut - bringing Gullah music to an event long admired for shining a light on the music and culture of under-represented communities. The collection consists mostly of fan favorites reimagined for the live stage, culled from 'Good Time' as well as the band's self-titled 2018 debut, and the previously unreleased originals “Lift Me Up” and “Down In My Heart.” In addition to performing at JazzFest, Ranky Tanky have completed multiple European tours recently plus a residency at the iconic Blue Note in New York City and shows as part of their ongoing collaboration sharing the stage with multi-time GRAMMY winner Lisa Fischer, including at San Francisco's SFJAZZ. The group have also begun work on their next studio album, which will be coming in the near future.
Today, Relix announced that it will host the fourth installment of the Relix Music Conference on Monday, April 17 and Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville. Launched in 2017, the Relix Music Conference brings together top executives, thinkers and artists in the music industry for panels, intimate discussions, musical conversations, and keynote speeches. The 2023 conference, which is produced by Brad Tucker, Project Management Director for Dayglo Presents, will feature 40+ speakers, a variety of topics from every facet of the music industry and some of the most notable names in the business. Josh Baron, former longtime editor of Relix, co-author of Ticket Masters and noted ticketing executive, helps book the conference with Tucker.
Previous Relix Music Conference speakers include GRAMMY Award Winning musician Warren Haynes, renowned journalist David Fricke, legendary New York concert promoter Ron Delsener, esteemed record producer Don Was, live entertainment executive Jennifer Justice, independent music entrepreneur Peter Shapiro and many others. Other speakers have included industry leaders spanning a variety of companies including Live Nation, AEG, Madison Square Garden Company, Bowery Presents, Red Light Management, Superfly, Paradigm Talent Agency, WME, SiriusXM, Warner Music, CID Entertainment, Rolling Stone and beyond.
“Incredibly informative, both of the moment and forward-thinking, the Relix Music Conference is a can’t-miss for anyone in the live entertainment business,” says Variety’s executive editor of music, Shirley Halperin.
Brooklyn Bowl Nashville opened its doors to the public in 2021 and is the third location of the award-winning live music venue, bowling alley, restaurant, and nightlife space Brooklyn Bowl. Brooklyn Bowl Nashville was named Best New Concert Venue at the 33rd Annual Pollstar Awards and earned recognition as Best New Venue and Best Bowling Alley in the Nashville Scene’s 2021 Best of Nashville issue upon its opening.
“The Relix Live Music Conference is like a great night out at the Capitol Theatre or Brooklyn Bowl, combined with a righteous mission,” adds David Fricke, whose current work can be found in MOJO, Jazz Times and SiriusXM. “Passionate fans gather to celebrate the music and keep it moving forward. Whether I’m attending a panel, onstage for an interview or just hanging out in between, I always come away with insights, ideas and artists I need to know – something new that goes right into my writing and radio work.”
“We are super excited to bring the Relix Music Conference to Nashville,” says Brooklyn Bowl co-founder Peter Shapiro. “I can’t believe it’s been three years since we hosted the last one. Wow - we have all been through a lot since then! Now, to get to do it at the Bowl in Nashville, it’s going to be a lot of fun to all get together again. See you all down there!”
The first round of programming will be announced in January, 2023. In the meantime, early bird passes are available now and more information can be found at relixmusicconference.com.
Armadillo World Studios in partnership with the GRAMMY Museum® has announced that 12x GRAMMY-winning musician, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and critically-acclaimed solo artist Chris Shiflett has been added as host of the upcoming special documentary series preview event for "THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS” on Monday, December 5. The program will go behind the scenes of the upcoming six-chapter, twelve-hour documentary on the history and legacy of the Cosmic Cowboys, Honky Tonk Heroes and the Outlaw country-rock movement. The event will feature a special appearance by "THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS" Executive Producer and GRAMMY Hall of Fame Award Recipient Jessi Colter, and a screening from the film that focuses on her life and work.
Chris Shiflett, also a key player in the series, will guide a discussion with filmmakers Eric Geadelmann and Kelly Magelky, who will be joined by two-time GRAMMY nominee and film series narrator, Jack Ingram and musician Chris Coleman. The evening’s performances will feature two-time GRAMMY® nominee Tyler Childers, joined by fellow Appalachian singer/songwriters John R. Miller and Abby Hamilton, and from two-time GRAMMY winner Shooter Jennings joined by Jesse Daniel.
“I love the Outlaw era of Country Music and am excited to chat and hang with all these great artists next week at the GRAMMY Museum,” says Chris Shiflett. “I know ‘THEY CALLED US OUTLAWS’ has been a long time coming and I'm honored that Eric and Jack asked me to be a part of it.”
“Chris Shiflett is a major highlight of this entire project,” says filmmaker Eric Geadelmann. “His outlaw ethos and troubadour spirit elevate the film series, with a unique perspective that enhances the story beats of the narrative, making them even more relevant. We are beyond enthused for Chris to join us for this incredible event.”
Aoife O’Donovan — who was just nominated for three 2023 GRAMMY Awards for her 2022 album Age Of Apathy — shares an intimate acoustic version of “Age Of Apathy” (produced with Darren Schneider). The performance is essential Aoife: delicately expressive phrasings, instinctive accompaniment, and the elemental power of that voice cast against sparse instrumentation.
The acclaimed, Joe Henry-produced (Bonnie Raitt, Rhiannon Giddens) Age Of Apathy is nominated for the Best Folk Album GRAMMY as well as Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song (both of those for “Prodigal Daughter” featuring Allison Russell).
This is far from O’Donovan’s only bout of recognition this year: Rolling Stone called the album “stunning,” NPR Music “a moving self-portrait,” and No Depression “an astounding accomplishment.” Pitchfork says O’Donovan “taps into the propulsion of prime Joni Mitchell,” while The New York Times praises the album’s “musical surprises: daring melodic leaps, unexpected chord progressions, [and] subtle rhythmic shifts.”
Earlier this year, O’Donovan also was the subject of a Jon Pareles-penned The New York Times profile, read that here.
Last month, PBS aired O’Donovan’s performance at The Kennedy Center’s presentation of A Joni Mitchell Songbook, a celebration of the venerated artist’s music led by multi-Grammy Award winner Vince Mendoza and accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra. This one-of-a-kind concert includes performances by O’Donovan, Renée Fleming, Lalah Hathaway, Jimmie Herrod, and Raul Midón. Stream A Joni Mitchell Songbook at PBS.
In late 2021, O’Donovan shared an album-length live cover performance of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska for Bandcamp Friday. This winter, she takes her versions on the road for Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska. Dates include the UK and US, see below.
Says Greil Marcus of Aoife's interpretation of Nebraska’s title track: "As exposed in a vacuum as Bruce Springsteen was when he made the song, she lets you hear how meticulously his first-person account of Charlie Starkweather’s death rampage was crafted to follow the structure of a traditional murder ballad — or maybe it’s her voice, the way it hovers over the details in the story, that’s rewriting the song that way."
“The original album was desperate and dark, with doubt coursing through its tracks like murky blood,” says The New York Times. “O’Donovan treats them as canon, saluting Springsteen’s songcraft with clear, pitch-perfect articulation and affable delivery.”
Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska
Jan 30 — London, UK @ Kings Place
Jan 31 — Glasgow, UK @ Center For Contemporary Arts
International punk band Gogol Bordello is celebrating 15 years of their infamous New Year’s Eve shows this year at Brooklyn Bowl New York & Philadelphia from December 28-31. Led by Ukrainian frontman Eugene Hütz, the band just announced lineups for the Brooklyn shows, toasting the unbreakable spirit of NYC: hardcore legends Murphy’s Law are joined by Incendiary Device and fresh faces Balaklava Blues (whose debut single “Gimme” already reached 1M+ YouTube views), Crazy & The Brains and Puzzled Panther. A new trio featuring Eugene Hütz alongside punk legends Walter Schreifels (Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand) and Jesse Malin (D Generation) will also be playing as Hardcore Highwayman - complete lineups, dates & tickets here and below.
Gogol Bordello has started a fundraiser for people who donate to Nova Ukraine to win a trip to New York with hotel stay, goodies and two VIP tickets to the New Year’s Eve show at Brooklyn Bowl on December 31 at https://fandiem.com/sweeps/bordello.
Since the band’s genesis in the Lower East Side punk-rock scene of 1999, Gogol Bordello have been riling up audiences with an inimitable patchwork of raucous punk and Eastern European Gypsy-swing. Latest album Solidaritine takes them back to hardcore roots with a renewed sense of urgency, as Hütz explains: “Solidaritine is the substance that unlocks our empathy and our full human potential…May this be your punky uplift for our packed with troubled times.”
Hütz has also appeared in art house films such as Liev Schreiber’s Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood and Filth and Wisdom helmed by Madonna. Gogol Bordello has lit up stages around the world alongside System of a Down, Primus, Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, dueted with Regina Spektor and cut albums with legends Rick Rubin and Steve Albini. More collaborations to come.
On Thursday, January 12 at City Winery NYC, Next Jazz Legacy — a program created by New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice that addresses gender and racial inequities by providing opportunities for mentorship and professional development to those who have been underrepresented in jazz — will cap off a monumental first year with a special NYC Winter JazzFest performance from its 2022 cohort of emerging women and nonbinary musicians. The performance will kick off an evening of music curated by GRAMMY-winner and Next Jazz Legacy co-founder Terri Lyne Carrington. Preceding the performance, there will be a panel discussion about why initiatives like Next Jazz Legacy are a critical resource for women and non-binary jazz artists, and how those artists are shaping the music's future. The panel will be moderated by Melanie Charles, and will feature a discussion with Carrington (Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice), NJL co-founder Vanessa Reed (New Music USA), NJL Mentor/Bandleader Mary Halvorson, and NJL artists Kalia Vandever and Lexi Hamner.
More information on the evening can be found here.
Co-founded by NEA Jazz Master and founder of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Terri Lyne Carrington and New Music USA President & CEO Vanessa Reed (with major funding from the Mellon Foundation), Next Jazz Legacy made a remarkable impact over its first year of existence. NJL’s inaugural cohort of awardees gained invaluable experiences to aid in their artistic development. The program arranged apprenticeships under distinguished jazz icons including Esperanza Spalding, Lizz Wright, Marcus Miller, Mary Halvorson, Tia Fuller, Linda May Han Oh and Chris Potter. Luminaries like Wayne Shorter, Bobby McFerrin, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Brandon Ross, Bill Stewart, Kris Davis and Jen Shyu were also brought in by NJL to provide creative mentorship. And throughout the year, awardees performed on prestigious stages at local and national jazz events throughout the country, including at the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival and as part of a special Livestream Concert produced by WBGO.
Watch a recent profile of Next Jazz Legacy on PBS NewsHour HERE.
Next Jazz Legacy launched with seven awardees from Boston, New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati representing a wide range of instrumentation and approach to performance and composition. The 2022 cohort of awardees includes Anastassiya Petrova (Piano/Organ), Ivanna Cuesta (Drums), Lexi Hamner (Voice/Trombone), Keyanna Hutchinson (Guitar), Alexis Lombre (Piano), Loke Risberg (Guitar) and Kalia Vandever (Trombone).
Next Jazz Legacy will be announcing its 2023 awardees in January 2023. Keep an eye out for the latest news, and for more special programming coming from Next Jazz Legacy throughout 2023.
WHEN: Thursday, January 12, 2023, beginning at 5pm
WHERE: City Winery (25 11th Ave., New York, NY 10011)
RUN OF EVENING:
● 5PM: Doors open.
● 5:30PM: "Why the Jazz World Needs Gender Equity" panel. Join us for a discussion about why initiatives like Next Jazz Legacy are a critical resource for women and non-binary jazz artists, and how those artists are shaping the music's future. Featuring Next Jazz Legacy’s co-founders, NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington (Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice) and Vanessa Reed (New Music USA), with NJL Mentor/Bandleader Mary Halvorson and NJL artists Kalia Vandever and Lexi Hamner. Moderated by Melanie Charles.
● 7:00PM: Next Jazz Legacy performance. A rare and exciting set featuring all seven of the inaugural Next Jazz Legacy awardees performing together: Ivanna Cuesta (Drums), Lexi Hamner (Vocals Trombone), Keyanna Hutchinson (Guitar), Alexis Lombre (Piano/Keys), Anastassiya Petrova (Keys/Piano), Loke Risberg (Guitar) and Kalia Vandever (Trombone).
● 8:00PM: New Standards live. Curated by Terri Lyne Carrington and featuring an exciting assemblage of musicians, this debut performance will celebrate the recent publication of New Standards, a songbook featuring lead sheets by 101 women composers, the first of its kind. Featuring Linda May Han Oh, Kris Davis, Mary Halvorson, Helen Sung, Michele Rosewoman, Rahsaan Carter, Michael Mayo, Devon Gates, Sara Serpa, Tia Fuller, Caroline Davis, Veronica Leahy, Julius Rodriguez, and Tcheser Holmes.
Anchored by headliners Kentucky native Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan, Railbird Music Festival is set to return to Lexington, KY June 3 & 4, 2023 at The Infield at Red Mile. The two-day experience will feature more than 30 artists performing across three stages, offering an unparalleled bourbon and equine experience. The presale begins Thursday, December 8 at 12pm ET at railbirdfest.com/tickets.
On Saturday, June 3, the lineup features Zach Bryan, Weezer, Marcus Mumford, Whiskey Myers, Sheryl Crow, Charley Crockett, Jenny Lewis, Lucius, Morgan Wade, Valerie June, Dehd, Neal Francis, The Heavy Heavy, Madeline Edwards, The Local Honeys, and Wayne Graham.
The lineup on Sunday, June 4 includes Tyler Childers. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, The Head and the Heart, Goose, Nickel Creek, Amos Lee, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Sierra Ferrell, Charles Wesley Godwin, Molly Tuttle, 49 Winchester, Town Mountain, Cole Chaney, flipturn, Calder Allen, and Brit Taylor.
In addition to music, Railbird celebrates the spirit of Kentucky with highly-curated bourbon experiences in The Rickhouse. Fans will have the opportunity to purchase from an impressive lineup of hand-selected barrels from Kentucky’s finest distilleries chosen in collaboration with co-owners Justin Sloan and Justin Thompson of Lexington’s treasured Justins’ House of Bourbon.
1-Day and 2-Day General Admission (GA), GA+, VIP and Platinum Tickets will be available via presale beginning Thursday, December 8 with a general on-sale to follow. Fans can visit railbirdfest.com/tickets to sign up for presale access.
In 2023, New York’s iconic Blue Note Jazz Club is rolling out special programming that will highlight the synergies between the funk, jazz, and jam music communities. Featuring shows from one of the world’s most accomplished turntablists DJ Logic, funk-bands Soulive, Lettuce, Galactic featuring Special Guests, Antibalas, saxophonist Karl Denson, Ghost Note, Butcher Brown and more, the series will be a stomping ground for innovation and improvisation, showcasing the fluidity of the artists who perform within these funky genres, and with more special show announcements in January 2023.
Blue Note Director of Programming Alex Kurland: “The power of jazz has impacted and influenced many musical genres, and has its fingerprint deep within jam band culture and funk. Blue Note greatly celebrates this legacy and presents a broad range of artistry. We feel it's important for us to embrace jam band culture, funk, progressive and soulful music all of which have been influenced by jazz. We're proud to have genre-bending artists upcoming at Blue Note ranging from Lettuce, Soulive, Galactic & Friends, to Ghost Note, and Butcher Brown. Jazz and improvisation lives and breathes within progressive funk and jam band artistry. As a legendary jazz institution, it’s Blue Note’s responsibility to continue presenting innovative and soulful artists with musical integrity influenced by its exposure to jazz and improvised music."
Read more about the rest of the shows in the series below, including New Orleans jam band Galactic, who today also announced their residency special guests including Matisyahu, Robert Randolph, James Carter and Nicholas Payton.
DJ Logic & Friends (Jan 19 - 22)
Special guests will include:
Jan 19 - 20: James Carter, James Genus, Robert "Sput" Searight, Neal Evans
Jan 21: James Genus, Robert "Sput" Searight, Neal Evans, Casey Benjamin
Jan 22: John Popper, Paul Shaffer, James Genus, Robert "Sput" Searight, Casey Benjamin
As one of the world’s most accomplished turntablists, DJ Logic is widely credited for introducing jazz into the hip–hop realms and is considered by most as a highly-respected session musician and an innovative bandleader. Since his emergence in the early nineties amidst the Bronx hip-hop scene, the New York City based deejay has been amassing a veritable mountain of collaborations, including a full-fledged band with members of Blues Traveler (The John Popper Project ft. DJ Logic), a trio with Steve Molitz & Freekbass (Headtronics), a jazz project with Georgian prodigy Beka Gochiasvili, and as a member of Grammy-winning Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s The Offense of the Drum album. He also has a long list of other collaborations with artists ranging from the likes of Bob Weir, John Mayer, Medeski Martin and Wood, Christian McBride, O.A.R., Carly Simon, Marcus Miller, Jack Johnson, Vernon Reid, Warren Haynes, Charlie Hunter, Jack DeJohnette, Ben Harper, Mos Def, The Roots, Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell, Melvin Gibbs, Fred Wesley, Sean Kuti and many more.
Galactic (Jan 25 - 29)
Special guests will include:
Jan 25: James Carter
Jan 26 - 27: Robert Randolph
Jan 28: Matisyahu
Jan 29: Nicholas Payton
Galactic draws on 25 years together in order to progress with each performance and subsequent record. After 10 albums, over 2,000 gigs, and tens of millions of streams, the proud New Orleans, LA quintet—Ben Ellman [saxophone, harmonica], Robert Mercurio [bass], Stanton Moore [drums, percussion], Jeffrey Raines [guitar], and Richard Vogal [keyboards]—have kept the torch burning.
They laid the groundwork for this future upon coming together in 1994. Along the way, they released seminal albums such as 2007’s From the Corner to the Block, boasting collabs with the likes of Chali 2na, Juvenile, Trombone Shorty, DJ Z-Trip, and Boots Riley. During 2015, Into The Deep marked their first debut in the Top 25 of the Billboard Top 200 and second straight #1 bow on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart. Not to mention, it boasted the title track “Into The Deep” [feat. Macy Gray], racking up nearly 20 million streams and counting. Along the way, they performed alongside the likes of Dave Matthews Band, The Roots, Jack Johnson, Talib Kweli, the Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic, B.B. King, Counting Crows, James Brown, and many more. They’ve also recorded and performed with the likes of Allen Toussaint [“Bacchus”] and Big Freedia [“Double It”].
Karl Denson Project (Feb 23 - 26)
Band line up will include:
Feb 23 - 26: Keyon Harrold, James Francies, Burniss Travis & Blaque Dynamite
Saxophonist Karl Denson met Lenny Kravitz during a recording session in 1988. The following year, Kravitz called Denson and asked him to do the solo on the single “Let Love Rule” from Kravitz’s album of the same name. As it turned out, Denson played on the whole album, joined the band for the supporting tour, and was invited back to play on and tour in support of the next two Kravitz albums. In 1994, Denson became one of the founders and leaders of San Diego’s Greyboy Allstars as saxophonist, flutist, and singer. Eventually Denson formed a new band, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe (commonly referred to by jam/groove band fans as KDTU). KDTU’s all-night, sold-out concerts during Jazzfest in New Orleans have featured sit-ins by everyone from Lenny Kravitz & Steve Winwood (with whom Karl has also recorded and toured) to avant garde luminaries Marc Ribot & Boyfriend. Chuck Leavell and Bernard Fowler (Karl’s bandmates in The Rolling Stones where Karl replaced the great Bobby Keys as saxophonist in 2014) have joined onstage and on record, as have Lukas Nelson, John Oates, Michael Franti, Warren Haynes, Ivan Neville, Anders Osborne, Big Daddy Kane, Roy Hargrove, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Joshua Redman, Marcus King, and Bernie Worrell, among others. Touring the country with the Allman Brothers, My Morning Jacket, D'Angelo, The Roots, Public Enemy, Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead, Parliament Funkadelic, Slightly Stoopid, Widespread Panic, very few concert goers have been untouched by the Tiny Universe live.
Krasno Moore Project ft. Eric Finland (March 16 - 19)
Soulive and Lettuce co-founder, Eric "Kraz" Krasno is a New York-based Grammy-winning guitarist, songwriter, recording artist, and producer. His own musical roots lie in funk, jazz, rock, and hip-hop, and he has written songs and produced records for a variety of artists in a range of genres including Norah Jones, Aaron Neville, Talib Kweli, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ledisi, 50 Cent, and Matisyahu. Krasno began his career as a producer on Kweli's Quality in 2002. His reputation spread among hip-hop artists, and under various monikers he worked with a variety of rappers including Redman and Pharoah Monche, and R&B, jazz, pop, and rock artists including Keyshia Cole, Allen Stone, Dave Matthews Band, Justin Timberlake, and NigelHall. As a guitarist, Krasno's work has graced albums and tours by everyone from the Beatnuts, Snoop Dog, and Sonya Kitchell to Vieux Farka Toure, Christian McBride, Joshua Redman, and Dr. Lonnie Smith. Krasno issued Reminisce, his debut solo album in 2010 on SOI, and toured with his own group while continuing to play and record with Lettuce and Phil Lesh & Friends.
Butcher Brown with Special Guests (May 8 - 10)
Pulsing from the nerve center of Jellowstone Studios in Richmond VA, Butcher Brown takes careful note of the history and legacy of jazz and throws caution to the wind. Their musical vibe blends jazz with hip hop, funk, rap, rock and soul. The group honors each musical genre and, at the same time, challenges traditional musical boundaries. The result is their most exciting collection of tracks to date. Butcher Brown features Tennishu, Morgan Burrs, Corey Fonville, Andrew Randazzo, and DJ Harrison.
Antibalas (May 18 - 21)
It’s hard to believe that more than twenty years have passed since Antibalas’s humble beginning as a neighborhood dance / protest band in the block parties and underground parties in pre-gentrified Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Over the past two decades they have evolved into what The Guardian called “one of the world’s finest Afrobeat bands” while enjoying equal renown for their cross-genre collaborations with legends of popular music. With a heavy balance of experience and new blood, the group leaps into 2020 with their new Daptone Records full-length “Fu Chronicles.” Antibalas has also served as the house band for several star-studded tribute shows at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater paying tribute to the music of Aretha Franklin, David Byrne, Paul Simon, and Billie Holiday, backing dozens including Allen Toussaint, Cee Lo Green, Sharon Jones, Santigold, and Angelique Kidjo.
Ghost Note (June 1 - 4)
Headed by Snarky Puppy’s multi-Grammy–winning percussion duo of Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth, Ghost-Note is an explosion of sound. With an expansive roster of next-level musicians—representing members of Prince, Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Marcus Miller, Toto, Justin Timberlake, and more—the band is pushing funk music into the future, building on the uplifting, pioneering foundations laid out by the likes of James Brown and Sly & The Family Stone and infusing their fresh take with tastes of afrobeat, hip-hop, psychedelia, world folklore, and more.
Lettuce (June 8 - 11, Festival)
Lettuce, a sextet composed of Adam Deitch (drums), Ryan Zoidis (saxophone), Adam Smirnoff (guitar), Erick Coomes (bass), Nigel Hall (keyboards/vocals), and Eric ‘Benny’ Bloom (trumpet), is approaching thirty years since its humble Boston Beginnings. The relentlessly soulful funk outfit has essentially lived on the road, embodying, night after night, the sly wink of its moniker: Let us play! They have played on the Royal Family Ball tour with Soulive and accompanied the likes of Soul Rebels Brass Band and Rashawn Ross of the Dave Matthews Band. Their members have worked independently to span genres and play with artists from Norah Jones to Justin Timberlake, from Lady Gaga to The Game.
Soulive (June 15 - 18 & 29 - July 2)
Soulive has never made any bones about what they do best; it's right there in their name. Since forming in 1999, the trio of guitarist Eric Krasno, drummer Alan Evans and keyboardist Neal Evans has carried the torch for the soul-jazz organ trio -- that venerable, funky institution pioneered by the likes of Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff and Groove Holmes in the late '60s. In their 20 years together, Soulive has followed the muse in the direction of hip-hop, R&B, blues and rock, collaborating with the likes of Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli, John Scofield, Derek Trucks, Maceo Parker, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph, Joshua Redman, Kenny Garrett, Fred Wesley, The Roots, Ivan Neville and so many others, even going so far as to record a full album of covers by The Beatles (Rubber Soulive). But, no matter how they push the limits of the organ trio, they always come back to their bread and butter: blistering solos and grooves that don't quit.
If you're looking to get funky this New Year's, look no further than Ranky Tanky..."get funky," after all, is literally how their name translates from the Gullah language to English. The South Carolina-based and West African-rooted five-piece will bring their new 2023 GRAMMY-nominated collection to NPR's Toast Of The Nation broadcast on New Year's Eve; sharing some of the sounds and stories that've been passed down in their communities for centuries and generations.
Ranky Tanky are global ambassadors for an underrepresented slice of the American experience heroically preserved in the coastal American South throughout slavery and faithfully carried on by descendants into the present day. For their part, Ranky Tanky have brought Gullah music to PBS Newshour, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and even Preisdent Joe Biden's inauguration.This GRAMMY nomination is their second in four years...in 2020 they became the first ever Gullah group to be recognized with music's highest honor.
In 2023, they'll return with a Best Regional Roots album nomination for their first-ever live album, captured at the New Orleans JazzFest earlier this year (their debut at the festival)...it's a profound document of Gullah music being performed the way it's always been passed down.
The latest GRAMMY-nominated recording by engineer/producer duo Ulrike Schwarz and Jim Anderson, Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1, is featured on this month’s digital cover of MIX. The 4-page story highlights the mind-boggling recording process that “pushed [soprano saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom] to the creative limits,” and ultimately led to a nomination for Best Immersive Audio Album at the 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards®. Recorded by Ulrike Schwarz in Ultra High Resolution (384kHz/32bit) using the internet for communication between musicians, Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1 represents the intersection of audio science and improvisational art in an all-encompassing, 3D musical experience.
GRAMMY-Award winner Jane Ira Bloom, the first musician commissioned by the NASA Art Program (and has an asteroid named after her!), has been steadfastly developing her singular voice on the soprano saxophone for over 40 years. Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1 finds her collaborating with (and inspired by) fellow trailblazing women in the arts. The 8-song collection was inspired by the science photography of NYC photographer Berenice Abbott and features percussionist Allison Miller, recently named a “rising star drummer” by Downbeat, and Koto player Miya Masaoka. The project was recorded by acclaimed tonmeister Ulrike Schwarz with cutting edge technology that allowed the musicians to improvise together in real time over the internet. With Schwarz at the helm, and Bloom’s unique ability to “convey more of the human spirit than most remote collaborations” (Downbeat), WBGO writes that “the distance was no match for their musical bond.”
Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1 was funded by a prestigious grant from the NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music, & Theatre by the City of New York's Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment in association with the NY Foundation for the Arts.
Listen to Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1 in Stereo, 5.1 Surround Sound and Immersive Audio HERE.
A broadly acclaimed engineer and producer, Ulrike Schwarz is a trailblazing audio innovator with more than two decades of experience across the film, television, radio, and recording industries. Born and raised in Germany, Schwarz discovered she had perfect pitch at an early age, and as a teenager, she became one of only three students to be accepted into the exclusive Tonmeister program at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. After earning her degree, Schwarz worked with German public radio and spent more than ten years serving as the senior sound engineer for large orchestral and jazz productions at the famed Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, where she broke the mold as a woman in a male-dominated field and garnered numerous honors for her recordings and broadcasts, including multiple Echo Klassik, Diamant D’Opera, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenindustrie, and Diapason d’Or awards. In 2015, Schwarz moved to New York full time to team up with her now-husband and production partner Jim Anderson, with whom she’s created a groundbreaking body of work in the field of immersive audio. As creative technically as she is artistically, Schwarz designed and built her own custom portable recording setup from scratch, and in just the last few years alone, she’s garnered multiple Grammy nominations for her work with artists as diverse as American jazz stalwart Patricia Barber and contemporary Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk. In 2022, Schwarz was named Vice President of the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister (The Association of German Sound Professionals) and received a prestigious grant from the Women’s Fund of the New York Foundation of the Arts for her work on Jane Ira Bloom’s Picturing The Invisible – Focus 1.
The Capitol Theatre kicks off the new year with performances from Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, Brandi Carlile, Regina Spektor, Elvis Costello, Goose, Lake Street Dive and more.
More great shows coming up include Long Island Medium: Theresa Caputo, Joe Gatto's Night Of Comedy, Greenwich Wine + Food bringing the sights, sounds and flavors of NOLA and beyond.
See below for highlights - full show calendar here. All times are 6:30 PM doors, 8:00 PM show unless noted otherwise. Updated health and safety protocols here.
Last night, Aoife O'Donovan who is nominated for 3 GRAMMYs this year for her album Age Of Apathy was joined by Allison Russell for a performance of their song "Prodigal Daughter" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. It's a stunning performance of a track nominated for Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song, watch it here.
The acclaimed, Joe Henry-produced (Bonnie Raitt, Rhiannon Giddens) Age Of Apathy is nominated for the Best Folk Album GRAMMY as well as Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song, both of those for Prodigal Daughter featuring Allison Russell. Rolling Stone called the album stunning, NPR Music a moving self-portrait, and No Depression an astounding accomplishment. Pitchfork says O'Donovan taps into the propulsion of prime Joni Mitchell, while The New York Times praises the albums musical surprises: daring melodic leaps, unexpected chord progressions, [and] subtle rhythmic shifts.
Blue Note Records has announced a February 17 release of Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre, an eclectic new collection that features a wide range of artists who are part of London’s vibrant Total Refreshment Centre community including Byron Wallen, Jake Long, Matters Unknown, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, Neue Grafik, and Resavoir. The album is available for pre-order now on vinyl, CD, or download and the lead single “Visions” by Soccer96 featuring MC Kieron Boothe is out today.
All the best music has a community underneath it, and the extended family around TRC—a music venue and recording studio founded by Lex Blondel that serves as a vital hub in London’s jazz scene—connects continents and generations, creating the rich relationships that are in full effect on Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre. The collection draws from new school jazz, hip hop, dub, soul, funk, and drill: sounds you’ll hear trailing out of cars as they spin up the Kingsland Road or spiraling out of doorways like so much smoke. Turn it up loud to hear the widescreen young cousins of Guru’s landmark Jazzmatazz in full effect: top players from London, Chicago, and Melbourne seeking out new collaborations, new ways of working, or just new tunes, always coming back to that central truth – that we all need each other.
The track listing for Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre is as follows:
Today, Aoife O’Donovan shares a spare, melancholic version of Sharon Van Etten’s “I Love You But I’m Lost,” the latest preview of The Apathy Sessions, a deluxe edition of her multiple GRAMMY-nominated 2022 album Age Of Apathy due out Friday. Aoife's known for her incredible ability as an interpreter of songs — she's nailed covers of Townes Van Zandt, The National, Joni Mitchell, and, earlier this month, Bill Callahan's "Drover" — and this performance is no different.
Age Of Apathy is now nominated for the Best Folk Album GRAMMY as well as Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song, both of those for “Prodigal Daughter” featuring Allison Russell. She's also nominated for Best Album and Best Song at Folk Alliance International's International Folk Music Awards.
Ahead of next month’s GRAMMYs, Aoife has made a bevy of television appearances.
Last weekend she performed on CBS Saturday Morning. Watch that here.
And earlier this week, she performed “Prodigal Daughter” alongside Allison Russell for The Kelly Clarkson Show. Watch that here.
Recorded through a unique residency with Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL, O’Donovan wrote and recorded Age Of Apathy on-site at their studio with GRAMMY-nominated engineer Darren Schneider while collaborating entirely remotely with producer Joe Henry (Bonnie Raitt, Rhiannon Giddens).
Rolling Stone has called Age Of Apathy “stunning,” NPR Music “a moving self-portrait,” and No Depression “an astounding accomplishment.” Pitchfork says O’Donovan “taps into the propulsion of prime Joni Mitchell,” while The New York Times praises the album’s “musical surprises: daring melodic leaps, unexpected chord progressions, [and] subtle rhythmic shifts.”
In late 2021, O’Donovan shared an album-length live cover performance of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska for Bandcamp Friday. Soon she'll be taking her version of Nebraska on tour in the UK and US. “The original album was desperate and dark, with doubt coursing through its tracks like murky blood,” says The New York Times. “O’Donovan treats them as canon, saluting Springsteen’s songcraft with clear, pitch-perfect articulation and affable delivery.” Full dates can be found below.
Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska
Jan 30 — London, UK @ Kings Place
Jan 31 — Glasgow, UK @ Center For Contemporary Arts
Coinciding with the launch of their U.S. summer tour (full list of dates below), Dave Matthews Band will release Walk Around The Moon – their 10th studio album and the follow-up to their chart-topping 2018 album, Come Tomorrow – on May 19. Most of the album’s 12 original songs were recorded with producer Rob Evans, including the first single, “Madman’s Eyes,” which was released today. Longtime collaborator, John Alagia, served as executive producer of the album. Walk Around The Moon took shape during the pandemic and is as much a reflection on the current times as it is an urge to find common ground.
After playing a trio of dates in Mexico, Dave Matthews Band will kick off its U.S. tour at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, TX on May 19. The headline run will include the band’s first show at the historic Forest Hills Stadium in New York on June 9. Dave Matthews Band will play two-night stands in Wilmington, NC; Charleston, SC; Noblesville, IN; Chicago, IL; Gilford, NH; Saratoga Springs, NY; Camden, NJ; West Palm Beach, FL and Irvine, CA. The tour will conclude with the band’s traditional three-day, Labor Day weekend celebration at Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA (September 1-3). See below for the itinerary.
An online ticket presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association is underway now at www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com. Citi is the official card of the Dave Matthews Band 2023 tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, February 14, at 10:00 AM local time until Thursday, February 16, at 10:00 PM local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on February 17 at 10 am local time. For the complete itinerary, see below or visit http://www.davematthewsband.com.
Today also marks the release of the epic and ominous first single release from Walk Around The Moon. “Madman’s Eyes” weaves Middle Eastern textures with heavy horns and strings as Matthews asks unflinchingly, “When it’s too late to untwist the knife / How do we face hatred with the love inside us.” View the visualizer HERE. Dave Matthews Band gave “Madman’s Eyes” its live debut at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH in November 2021. The full album track listing is below. The pre-order for the physical album, featuring a limited-edition deluxe vinyl option, is exclusively available now at DaveMatthewsBand.com.
Dave Matthews’ ongoing partnership with The Nature Conservancy has resulted in three million trees being planted since 2020. This year’s continued partnership will bring the total to four million trees. Fans can join in this mission by adding an optional donation of $2 per ticket to plant a tree with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign – a major forest restoration effort with the goal of planting a billion trees around the world by 2025. For additional details, visit www.dmbtrees.org. Once again, Dave Matthews Band will offset carbon emissions for band/fan travel with the assistance of REVERB, creating a climate positive tour. REVERB will also produce the tour’s annual eco-village.
Named as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2019, Dave Matthews Band has a long history of reducing their environmental footprint, going back to their first shows in 1991. The band has sold more than 25 million tickets since its inception, making them the second largest ticket-seller in history, and has sold a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Date – City/State/Province – Venue
5/9 – Mexico City, DF – Auditorio Nacional
5/11 – Monterrey, NL – Auditorio Pabellon M
5/13 – Guadalajara, JAL – Teatro Diana
5/19 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
5/20 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
5/23 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP
5/24 – Southaven, MS – BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove
5/26 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
5/27 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
5/30 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park
5/31 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park
6/2 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
6/3 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
6/9 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
6/10 – Hartford, CT – Xfinity Theatre
6/14 – Darien, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
6/16 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre
6/17 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
6/23 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
6/24 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/27 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
6/29 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheatre
6/30 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/1 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/7 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/8 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/11 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/12 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/14 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/15 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
7/19 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
7/21 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/22 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/25 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
7/26 – Orange Beach, AL – The Amphitheater at the Wharf
7/28 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
7/29 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Today, Aoife O’Donovan shares The Apathy Sessions, a deluxe edition of her multiple GRAMMY-nominated 2022 album Age Of Apathy. Listen to The Apathy Sessionshere.
Earlier this week, O’Donovan shared a cover of Sharon Van Etten’s “I Love You But I’m Lost,” due out Friday. Van Etter herself expressed her admiration for O’Donovan’s performance in a recent tweet. Listen to Aoife O’Donovan’s “I Love You But I’m Lost” here.
Recorded through a unique residency with Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL, O’Donovan wrote and recorded Age Of Apathy on-site at their studio with GRAMMY-nominated engineer Darren Schneider while collaborating entirely remotely with producer Joe Henry (Bonnie Raitt, Rhiannon Giddens). Rolling Stone has called Age Of Apathy “stunning,” while Pitchfork says O’Donovan “taps into the propulsion of prime Joni Mitchell.”
Age Of Apathy is now nominated for the Best Folk Album GRAMMY as well as Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song, both of those for “Prodigal Daughter” featuring Allison Russell. She's also nominated for Best Album and Best Song at Folk Alliance International's International Folk Music Awards.
On February 3, Aoife O’Dononvan will perform on the Rachael Ray Show. This appearance follows recent television performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS Saturday Morning, and The Kelly Clarkson Show.
This spring, O’Donovan will be taking her acclaimed full album cover version of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska on tour in the UK and US. Full dates can be found below.
Aoife O’Donovan Plays Nebraska
Jan 30 — London, UK @ Kings Place
Jan 31 — Glasgow, UK @ Center For Contemporary Arts
Bay Area collective Moonalice will release their third studio album, Light Side of the Moonalice - An Acoustic Adventure, on February 24 via Nettwerk. Recorded in August 2022 with 4x-Grammy Award-winning engineer Dave Way (Fiona Apple, Pink, Norah Jones), the project sees Moonalice rework staples from their recent pair of EPs Full Moonalice Vol. 1 and Full Moonalice Vol. 2, including “Time Has Come Today” and “Love Peace & Happiness.” Arriving today is the brand new single “Arms Reach Out.”
“Arms Reach Out” marks the first collaboration between Moonalice and Nashville-based hit songwriter Dylan Altman (Tim McGraw, Jake Owen). The song spotlights the band’s invigorating arrangements and humble storytelling, with lyrics that speak to the power of community and nature. Upbeat Americana instrumentation and uplifting folk-rock vocal callouts encourage us to let our “arms reach out” while our “roots grow down."
Trust and opening up was fundamental to the songwriting process: "Three of us (Chloe Tietjen, Erika Tietjen, and Dylan Altman) took what started as a seed of a song and worked together to flesh it out, adding verses and a bridge and really having fun playing with the breakdown,” the band shares. “We easily found a great flow and are looking forward to writing more songs together in the future."
While primarily known for its electric psychedelic soul sound, Moonalice has a long history of acoustic performances. Light Side of the Moonalice was inspired by a video the band recorded for Acoustic Guitar magazine that featured live versions of “Nick of Time” and “Woo Woo.” New studio recordings of both songs are included on this album.
“All of us in Moonalice are all folkies at heart,” states Roger McNamee. “We write our songs on acoustic instruments and it was fantastic to record them that way. The early feedback from fans has been gratifying. We may have to book some acoustic concert dates!”
This spring, Moonalice resumes their live shows, kicking things off with the annual hometown 4/20 celebration at San Francisco’s The Chapel. The group is also confirmed to make their triumphant returns to Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival and Skull & Roses Festival in Ventura, CA.
Moonalice recently partnered with One Tree Planted, a nonprofit organization focused on global reforestation. Since 2014, the organization has planted over 40 million trees in more than 47 countries across the globe. For every fan that follows Moonalice on Spotify, One Tree Planted will plant one tree.
Today, 3x Grammy award-winning reggae band Morgan Heritage –– currently comprised of the Trinity: Peetah Morgan, Gramps Morgan, and Mr. Mojo Morgan, all the children of late reggae great and Father of A Nation, the Hon. Ras Denroy Morgan –– share their new single and music video “Just A Number.” The new track serves as an awareness anthem, sparking conversation around the topic of cancel culture and the ephemeral nature of fame. The accompanying music video was directed by Samo (Koffee, Chronixx, Protoje), and filmed at Independence Park (National Stadium) in Kingston, Jamaica.
Recorded and mixed in Kingston and Florida, “Just A Number” was “inspired by historic and current figures in the entertainment industry,” says Morgan Heritage. “The song speaks directly to upcoming sports, film, tv, and music entertainers and anyone pursuing a professional career. We want to warn them that it’s possible to work hard and sacrifice all their lives yet lose everything due to personal views or opinion.” Morgan Heritage continues, “As students of history, we know it is better to open minds than to close them. And that’s what we hope to do with this song.”
“Just A Number” is just the first release in what promises to be a very busy year for Morgan Heritage. Stay tuned for more information on new music, live performances and much more.
More about Morgan Heritage
Heralded as the Royal Family of Reggae, Morgan Heritage has released 12 studio albums, including Strictly Roots, which won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. With a career spanning over two decades, Morgan Heritage has worked with numerous multi-GRAMMY award-winning artists and producers across multiple genres of music. Along with the group's global success, they also command a significant sonic impact over the reggae genre, fusing it with various rhythms and sounds from around the world. They bring a riveting stage presence and showmanship to the culture which has made them synonymous with Reggae's worldwide appeal.
ODESZA, The groundbreaking duo of Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight, will enter GRAMMY week next week with a nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album (for their latest LP 'The Last Goodbye') as well as headlining spots at this year's Bonnaroo & Governors Ball, further proof that not only are they helping redefine the electronic music space but also the live music world as well.
Blending cinematic visuals, cutting edge pyrotechnics, a massive drumline, & a light show unlike any other, ODESZA's live performances are immersive experiences that defy easy categorization. They will bring this experience to Okeechobee Music Festival, CRSSD Festival, & Electric Forest as well this year, following a massive 2022 tour that broke ground with the electronic act performing at numerous amphitheaters & included numerous sold-out, multi-night runs including in their hometown of Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena, LA’s The Forum, and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and more). Check this short live trailer and I'm sure you'll be entranced!
Billboard recently spotlighted ODESZA's multiple festival headlining spots saying that "electronic duo's top billing at Bonnaroo and Governor's Ball 2023 is the result of two hugely successful tours, a dedicated fanbase and 10 years of strategy," before chatting with members of their team to discuss the way they have redefined the electronic touring world.
Greenwich Wine + Food has announced the culinary talent that will be participating in The Big Easy at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York on Saturday, March 4, bringing the flavors and fun of New Orleans to life. Beneficiaries include two national non-profit organizations with roots in Connecticut - The Jacques Pépin Foundation and Wholesome Wave. Premium sponsors include Wagoneer and Greenwich Hospital.
This completely new, dine-around evening event will invite guests to wander the New Orleans-style grand tasting event featuring signature Cajun and Creole dishes from area chefs from 6:30pm-8:30pm. Bourbon Street’s iconic drinks such as Hurricanes and Mudslides, as well as premium wine, beer and spirits, will be served throughout the entire evening. Special ticket options will invite guests to begin their culinary travels thirty-minutes early at 6pm, a private pre-party, access to a second-floor bar and seating area, VIP parking and more.
Musical talent for the evening includes headliner Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Big Head Todd & the Monsters and Dumpstaphunk + Cyril Neville (opening the evening’s musical line-up at 6:30pm). Longtime supporter of Greenwich Wine + Food Gary Dell’Abate (The Howard Stern Show) and member of the organization’s board of advisors will serve as one of the evening’s emcees, alongside Suni Unger, founder and CEO of Unger Media, the parent company behind Greenwich Wine + Food and Serendipity Magazine.
The culinary line-up includes:
Avellino Family Barbecue, Stamford, Connecticut
Fortina, Stamford, Connecticut and Armonk, Rye and Yonkers, New York
Grumpy Dumpling, Norwalk, Connecticut
Jacob’s Pickles, New York, New York and Norwalk, Connecticut (opening soon)
L’Inizio, Ardsley, New York (and opening in 2023, Freebird, Greenwich, Connecticut
Little Pub, Fairfield, Greenwich, Old Saybrook, Stratford and Wilton, Connecticut
Milestone, Redding, Connecticut
Milton Point Provisions, Rye, New York
Penny Lick Ice Cream, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
@PopUpBagels, Redding and Westport, Connecticut and New York
Rebel Daughter Cookies, Norwalk, Connecticut
Sysco Culinary Experts
Tickets are now on sale and include food, unlimited drinks and all musical performances. Prices range from $325 (VIP Floor Badge) to $450 (Diamond VIP Loge Badge). A limited number of private booths are available via sponsorship opportunities. The full schedule of programming and tickets are available at www.greenwichwineandfood.com.
Please note that talent, chefs and dates for the celebration are subject to change. Parameters for weather, age restrictions, and health and safety guidelines also be available on www.greenwichwineandfood.com.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band launched their 2023 international tour last night at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida - offering fans a high-energy 28-song set that included live staples like "Dancing In The Dark" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" alongside new material from Springsteen's most recent studio albums Letter To You and Only The Strong Survive. This return to the road marked Springsteen and The E Street Band's first live performance together since the conclusion of The River Tour in 2017, and first in North America since 2016.
Press quotes on last night's show:
"This was a night that reaffirmed the power of music and community...Springsteen is increasingly peerless, which makes his live shows circa 2023 all the more must-see." - SPIN
"Ecstatic, emotional...Springsteen and The E Street Band were locked in tight, beaming with joy, and feeding off the frenzied atmosphere in the crowd...let’s enjoy every second of it while we can." - Rolling Stone
"Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rocked like their lives depended on it...two hours and 45 minutes of revved up rock, soul and remembrance." - USA Today
"If you’d wandered in from across the street, you’d likely assume they had been on the road for months already...the group was cooking from the opener...they were back in business." - Billboard
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band - Tampa, FL - February 1, 2023 Setlist:
No Surrender
Ghosts
Prove It All Night
Letter To You
Promised Land
Out In The Street
Candy's Room
Kitty's Back
Brilliant Disguise
Nightshift
Don't Play That Song
E Street Shuffle
Johnny 99
Last Man Standing
House Of A Thousand Guitars
Backstreets
Because The Night
She's The One
Wrecking Ball
The Rising
Badlands
Burnin' Train
Born To Run
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Glory Days
Dancing In The Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
I'll See You In My Dreams
Musicians on 2023 international tour:
Bruce Springsteen
Roy Bittan
Nils Lofgren
Patti Scialfa
Garry Tallent
Stevie Van Zandt
Max Weinberg
Soozie Tyrell
Jake Clemons
Charlie Giordano
Lisa Lowell
Michelle Moore
Ada Dyer
Curtis King
Barry Danielian
Eddie Manion
Ozzie Melendez
Curt Ramm
Anthony Almonte
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will continue touring across the United States through April 14, before traveling to Europe for summer shows and back to North America for more to-be-announced shows this fall. A full list of dates can be found on Springsteen's website: https://brucespringsteen.net/tour/
Michael Winters, former Operations & House Manager of The Capitol Theatre and a crucial figure of the New York live music scene passed away 5 years ago on July 1, 2018. To commemorate his life and legacy, a tribute concert will be held at Garcia's at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York on Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 4:20PM a day before what would have been his 57th birthday.
Friends and staff of The Capitol Theatre have organized the event to celebrate the life of Mike rather than his departure. Mike, who was often referred to as "the heart and soul of The Cap," had an invaluable impact on the theater, where he is credited with helping to name the lobby bar Garcia’s, before retiring after five years. Before his time at The Capitol Theatre, Mike and his brother, Brad, were partners in Manny's Car Wash, a renowned blues club in Manhattan.
Mike's love for music began at the age of 12 when his brother and sister took him to see Frank Zappa on Halloween. His passion for music continued to be fueled by bands like the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band. The tribute concert, named "With the Gold of Sunshine" after his favorite Grateful Dead song, "Ripple," will feature performances by local Grateful Dead-inspired bands Grateful BRO and Dead Meat. The proceeds from the event will be donated to Songcatchers, a charity dedicated to fostering the next generation of music fans by providing affordable music education.
"When Mike worked at the Cap, everyone was so kind, they were a tight knit crew and became the original Capitol Family. After his passing, they have continued to make me feel like part of the Cap Fam." said his wife, Lara Winters. "It truly means the world to me that he had such a positive impact on the many he touched and that his memory will be honored with love in a meaningful way.”
Join us for an evening of music, friendship, and giving back to the music community as we celebrate the life of Michael Winters. The event will also feature a charity auction and raffle including a collection of music memorabilia. Friends are encouraged to bring a photograph of Mike for the memorial display board.
Today, Melbourne’s WILSN – real name Shannon Busch – releases her debut album, the masterful Those Days Are Over, via Ivy League Records/Universal Music Australia (Rolling Blackouts C. F., Hatchie).
An exciting fusion of modern soul, pop, jazz and Motown, together with production that is simultaneously nostalgic and contemporary, WILSN's lived experience is poured into each song and delivered effortlessly through Busch’s jaw-dropping vocal performances.
To celebrate the release of Those Days Are Over – an album that finds a new power on stage - WILSN has announced her headline 10-date Australian tour this year, fresh off tour with Allen Stone. Tickets are on sale now. Fans can get a taste of what’s to come with the release of the live video for "Every Day and Every Night", a soaring Motown-inspired track and album highlight.
WATCH/SHARE: "EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT"
Those Days Are Over has all the hallmarks of an instant classic. The record features singles "Those Days Are Over" – released last month as the #1 most playlisted song by an Australian artist that week – and "Hurts So Bad", a duet with The Teskey Brothers’ front man Josh Teskey, which was added to a jaw-dropping 20+ Spotify editorial playlists across the US, Europe and Australia, and featured in KCRW's ‘5 Songs To Hear This Week’.
"Tell Me" (featured on Spotify US’s ‘Best Retro Songs of 2022’), "You Know Better" and "If You Wanna Love Me" ooze with the sound, feel and all the emotion of classic soul, championed by ABC, Double J, triple j, NME, Under The Radar, FLOOD Magazine & more.
“Soul music never goes out of fashion because it’s pure,” WILSN describes. “It’s all about a great melody, a great beat and harmony that moves you and makes you feel something. In today’s landscape of artists trying so hard to do something different often for the sake of being different, it’s nice to just engage with the human voice in an unadulterated way.”
Celebrated alt-country band Rusty Truck has announced that Sheryl Crow will join the band for their Grand Ole Opry debut on February 28. RT frontman Mark Seliger, who also happens to be one of the modern era’s preeminent portrait photographers, has captured countless photos of Crow over the past three decades, including her iconic 1996 cover of Rolling Stone and her Be Myself album cover in 2016. Crow is featured on Rusty Truck’s latest single “Find My Way” and will join the band for the first-ever live performance of the song during RT’s Opry debut on February 28.
"What a thrill and honor it was for me to sing and collaborate on my dear friend Mark's song ‘Find my way,’” says Sheryl Crow. “I have known Mark going on 30 years. Not only is he one of the most gifted photographers of our generation but his love and passion for songwriting and performing are proving to be equally as brilliant."
"Rarely do I get to work with such a talented artist like Sheryl,” says Mark Seliger. “Our portraits together started in the 90’s during the ‘Tuesday Night Music Club’ through ‘Be Myself’ and then some. She generously played and sang on ‘Cold Ground’ from Rusty Truck's 1st record and most recently ‘Find My Way’ and ‘Corner of Life’ on the new album. Her voice is magical and she carves the lonely into lonesome. I can't remember them now without her.”
More info on Rusty Truck’s Grand Ole Opry debut (featuring special guest Sheryl Crow) on February 28 HERE.
Today, international punk band Gogol Bordello announced a European tour, set to kick off in the UK on May 25. Led by Ukrainian frontman Eugene Hütz, this comes on the heels of four sold out New Year’s Eve shows in the US, a tradition they’ve celebrated for 15 years. The band recently performed for Rolling Stone and WNYC’s Soundcheck, with Eugene continuing to be a “flagbearer of the cultural resistance…as the one-year mark of the war in Ukraine approaches” - listen to his interview on CBC Radio's The Sunday Magazine here.
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Since the band’s genesis in the Lower East Side punk-rock scene of 1999, Gogol Bordello has been riling up audiences with an inimitable patchwork of raucous punk and Eastern European Gypsy-swing. Latest album Solidaritine takes them back to hardcore roots with a renewed sense of urgency, as Hütz explains: “Solidaritine is the substance that unlocks our empathy and our full human potential…May this be your punky uplift for our packed with troubled times.”
Hütz has also appeared in art house films such as Liev Schreiber’s Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood and Filth and Wisdom helmed by Madonna. Gogol Bordello has lit up stages around the world alongside System of a Down, Primus, Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, dueted with Regina Spektor and cut albums with legends Rick Rubin and Steve Albini. More collaborations to come.
Ranky Tanky - the Charleston, South Carolina-based global ambassadors for Gullah music - have won the 2023 GRAMMY Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album, their second GRAMMY win in a four year span. Celebrating the music of their West African-rooted Gullah community, Ranky Tanky were honored in 2023 for their first-ever live album - which was captured during their debut at the iconic New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival last year. Ranky Tanky previously took home Best Regional Roots Music Album in 2020 for their studio album 'Good Time,' marking the first-ever GRAMMY Award win for an album of Gullah music. The five-piece have now won Best Regional Roots Album for two consecutive releases, and become the most awarded group in the history of the category.
"Live performance is at the heart of what we do as Ranky Tanky and to be recognized for our inaugural set on the historic New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival stage is a high honor," the band said during their acceptance speech. "Once again, it is an honor to be able to stand on the shoulders of our Gullah Ancestry and continue to bring this music and message to the world!"
The 2023 GRAMMY win is just the latest in a long line of 'firsts' that Ranky Tanky has achieved for the music of the Gullah community. The five-piece also reached #1 on each of the Billboard, Amazon and iTunes jazz charts, brought their songs and stories to national television on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The TODAY Show and PBS Newshour - and even performed during President Joe Biden's 2020 inauguration festivities. 'Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival' features a setlist of Ranky Tanky fan favorites reimagined for the live stage, culled from their GRAMMY-winning album 'Good Time' and the band's self-titled 2018 debut, plus previously unreleased originals “Lift Me Up” and “Down In My Heart.”
For more information on Ranky Tanky and a full list of upcoming tour dates, visit: https://www.rankytanky.com
Following their attendance at this last weekend’s GRAMMY Awards in support of their nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album for their 'The Last Goodbye’ LP, beloved musical trailblazers ODESZA (Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight) release the second remix EP around their critically acclaimed latest album.
Released via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune, ‘The Last Goodbye Remixes N°.2’ EP features the previously dropped Hayden James remix of the source album’s title track, “The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette)”, and includes additional sonic reimaginings by Hot Chip, Joseph Ray, NASAYA, Neil Frances, Nosaj Thing, obli, & Parra for Cuva.
Its release comes ahead of a busy first half of 2023 for ODESZA, which will include headlining slots at Bonnaroo, Governors Ball, Okeechobee Music Festival, CRSSD Festival, Electric Forest and FVDED In The Park. Billboard recently spotlighted “how ODESZA became one of the biggest headliners of summer festival season” in a feature that credits their recent massive groundbreaking amphitheater tour and dedicated fanbase as contributors for their continued success in the live performance world.
Looking back, 2022 was a bar-setting year for the Seattle duo, with not only the release of ‘The Last Goodbye’ to critical acclaim, but also the record’s first companion remix EP (‘The Last Goodbye Remixes N°.1’), and the aforementioned tour. “The Last Goodbye Tour” sold over 450k tickets throughout its amphitheater run with numerous sold-out, multi-night runs including in their hometown of Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena, LA’s The Forum, and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and more (making them the first electronic artists to attempt such a tour). The recent tour also earned high praise with a Pollstar cover feature proclaiming that “ODESZA makes history”, while Billboard added “ODESZA is meant to be seen, and heard, live”, and the Seattle Times called them “a ticket selling, dance music force that raised the live performance bar for electronic artists.”
Track Listing For ‘The Last Goodbye Remixes N°.2’ EP
1. The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette) - Hayden James Remix
2. Light Of Day (feat. Ólafur Arnalds) - Parra for Cuva Remix
3. Equal (feat. Låpsley) - NASAYA Remix
4. This Version Of You (feat. Julianna Barwick) - Joseph Ray Remix
5. Love Letter (feat. The Knocks) - obli Remix
6. North Garden - Neil Frances Remix
7. Wide Awake (feat. Charlie Houston) - Hot Chip Remix
8. This Version Of You (feat. Julianna Barwick) - Nosaj Thing Remix
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have announced additional North American dates on their 2023 international tour in 18 cities, with newly-added shows beginning at Chicago's Wrigley Field on August 9 and running through December 8 at San Francisco's Chase Center. Multiple nights have been scheduled for Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park (August 16 and 18), New Jersey's MetLife Stadium (August 30 and September 1), Toronto's Scotiabank Arena (November 14 and 16) and Los Angeles' Kia Forum (December 4 and 6). Tickets for the 22 added North American shows will go on sale over the course of the next two weeks, with the first onsale beginning this Friday February 19 at 10am local time (full details below).
The 2023 international tour began February 1 in Tampa, Florida with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's first North American show in seven years. Opening night featured a high-energy 28-song set which included rocking fan favorites like "Born To Run," "Prove It All Night," and "Wrecking Ball," with The E Street Band effortlessly shifting to soul and R&B while complemented by a horn section and backing vocalists. Rolling Stone called the band's return "ecstatic and emotional," and SPIN added it was a "must-see." USA Today said they "rocked like their lives depended on it" and the Associated Press noted the "energy was as high as ever...every song seemed epic.”
For many cities, the tour will be using Verified Fan via Ticketmaster. Verified Fan requires pre-registration at https://verifiedfan.ticketmaster.com/springsteen and is open through Sunday February 19 at 11:59pm ET. Verified Fan is intended to make it easier for fans to get tickets, and harder for resellers and bots.
The Heavy have released their brand new single “I Feel The Love”, taken from the forthcoming album AMEN (out April 21). “I Feel The Love” jumps with the Pentecostal pop fever full of Mississippi heat and the video finds the trans-Atlantic four-piece delivering their thought-provoking sermon of upbeat gospel rock to a rapturous congregation.
Kelvin Swaby says, “The world feels as if it’s burning down at times and that it’s being torn apart by divisive agendas and evil personality traits. This is a solid reminder that as challenging as that is and may feel from day to day, we feel and will always believe, in Love. Always and forever.”
“I Feel The Love” follows the release of AMEN lead single “Hurricane Coming”. The track tore through like a buzz funk tornado, kicking the door down on the new album with an exhilarating maelstrom of ‘60s R&B riffs, horns and gospel harmonies. It has received critical praise from the likes of The Independent, Louder, Afropunk, American Songwriter, 1883 Magazine among many others, and was recently the #1 most added single for AAA US commercial radio.
The Heavy’s sixth album AMEN was recorded at Rockfield Studios, produced with Tchad Blake (The Black Keys, U2) and engineered with Real World Studios’ Joe Jones. Elsewhere on the album there’s the grimy swamp glam of “Bad Muthafucker” and gnarled roadhouse rocker “Stone Cold Killer”, while “Whole Lot Of Me”, “Feels Like Rain” and “Without A Woman” evoke the string-drenched classic soul of Sam Cooke and Curtis Mayfield with a sly modern crackle.
Their corrupted R&B power is unstoppable and, revived to full blast from the pandemic lull, they’re hurtling into 2023, whipping and writhing with seditious blues drama, soul and gospel passion, the crunch of prime hip-hop and garage punk’s visceral electricity pulsating through AMEN.
The response to The Heavy’s return has been ecstatic. The band put UK headline shows on sale for March 2023 which sold out in minutes, prompting additional dates to be added for their September headline tour. They will play a set of U.S. dates in May including Elsewhere in Brooklyn and The Troubadour in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now via www.theheavy.co.uk and full tour dates are listed below.
Hurricane Coming
Ain’t A Love
Bad Muthafucker
I Feel The Love
Messin’ With My Mind
Just Like Summer
Stone Cold Killer
Whole Lot Of Me
Feels Like Rain
Without A Woman
RTZ has announced ‘The Distance’ today (out April 21), a debut album from the jack-of-all-trades musician who’s perhaps best-known for joining Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Cheap Trick as a touring member while still just in his early 20s. Even more remarkable is that RTZ plays every instrument in the band, rotating effortlessly between Cheap Trick’s lead guitar, bass and drum duties as needed. On ‘The Distance,’ RTZ shows his songwriting and production chops are just as masterful as his playing - sharing a collection of eleven songs that serve as the culmination of his musical life to date. He’s still in his 20s, but most of these songs are nearly a decade in the making - evolving and growing right beside him from one stage of life to the next. Already included on lists of the “Most Anticipated Albums of 2023” by Stereogum and Ultimate Classic Rock, ‘The Distance’ finds RTZ once again playing each of the core instruments while teaming with mentor and legendary producer Jack Douglas - whose credits include John Lennon, Aerosmith, The New York Dolls and Patti Smith - for the first-ever release on Douglas’ newly-formed Confidential Records.
Listen to lead single “High N Low” here, and watch an accompanying performance video of RTZ backed by his five-piece band here: https://youtu.be/99TPGUGQcHo
“The original date that I wrote this was January 2015, but it had never been released,” explains RTZ. “The production is entirely inspired by the music of The Beach Boys, The Beatles and the Bee Gees, it's a tip of the hat to them. Their vocals and harmonies are why I sing and write music. It's a little pop, a little British, a little Beatlesesque. We worked hard on the overdubs, singing the same line four times to make one big sound. It's about people passing from unfortunate events that could have been avoided. How we deal with death and how it depends on the person. Some drink to ease the hurt, some turn to another for a distraction. It's a reassuring song. 'It's not going to be like this forever.' It's something I think about a lot when something tough is happening.”
Recorded in Catskill, New York by co-producer Kenny Siegal (Neko Case, Langhorne Slim), ‘The Distance’ features contributions from many members of the Woodstock music community nearby - including new wave legend Wreckless Eric, harpist Mikaela Davis (who also provides backing vocals) and a horn section led by Jay Collins of Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble Band, alongside the region’s next generation of players. The album draws from his love of vintage and contemporary music alike - artists like T. Rex and Harry Nilsson, alongside Cate Le Bon and Melody’s Echo Chamber - but is defined by RTZ cementing his own sound within those vast inspirations. Alongside his live shows with Cheap Trick, RTZ will tour with his own band across the United States this spring - a full list of dates will come soon.
3x Grammy award-winning reggae band Morgan Heritage –– currently comprised of the Trinity: Peetah Morgan, Gramps Morgan, and Mr. Mojo Morgan, all the children of late reggae great and Father of A Nation, the Hon. Ras Denroy Morgan –– unveil a new visualizer for their latest single “Just A Number.” A powerful and polemical commentary on the topic of cancel culture, the piece explores the ephemeral nature of modern fame through a succession of public figures who have touched its third rail.
“In a world where ‘cancel culture’ is present, we need the next generation of talented individuals to be made aware that actions have consequences.” says Mojo Morgan. “As students of history, we know it is better to open minds than to close them. And that’s what we hope to do with this song.”
Listen and watch the visualizer for “Just A Number” here
The “Just A Number” visualizer comes after the release of the song’s official music video, which you can watch here. The video was directed by Samo (Koffee, Chronixx, Protoje), and filmed at Independence Park (National Stadium) in Kingston, Jamaica.
Morgan Heritage is prepped to share some exciting news in the coming weeks, stay tuned for more information.
About Morgan Heritage
Heralded as the Royal Family of Reggae, Morgan Heritage has released 12 studio albums, including Strictly Roots, which won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. With a career spanning over two decades, Morgan Heritage has worked with numerous multi-GRAMMY award-winning artists and producers across multiple genres of music. Along with the group's global success, they also command a significant sonic impact over the reggae genre, fusing it with various rhythms and sounds from around the world. They bring a riveting stage presence and showmanship to the culture, making them synonymous with Reggae's worldwide appeal.
A dazzling array of musicians, across generations and genres, have contributed to a new album that celebrates the deep influence and legacy of Doc Watson, the North Carolina guitarist, singer and songwriter who would have turned 100 on March 3 of this year. I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 features new renditions of some of Watson’s most beloved recordings from his expansive catalog. It will be released April 28 on FLi Records / Budde Music and features Nora Brown, Rosanne Cash, Jerry Douglas, Chris Eldridge, Steve Earle, Bill Frisell, Corey Harris, Valerie June, Jack Lawrence, Lionel Loueke, Jeff Parker, Dolly Parton, Ariel Posen, Marc Ribot, Matthew Stevens and Yasmin Williams. It was produced by guitarist/songwriter/producer Matthew Stevens (known for his work producing and performing with esperanza spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington) over the past year and executive produced by Mitch Greenhill, Matthew Greenhill and Peer Steinwald.
Today the first preview of I Am A Pilgrim has been shared. Listen to Dolly Parton’s recording of “The Last Thing On My Mind” here:
“The Last Thing On My Mind,” written by Tom Paxton in the early 60s, was a staple of Watson’s catalog and recorded/performed by Parton throughout her career. She released a recording of it in 1967 with Porter Wagoner, and Watson and Parton performed it together in 2001 at MerleFest.
"Doc Watson is everyone's hero and a great guitar player. Some say he is the absolute best, and I was honored to get to work with him a few times in my career,” says Dolly Parton.
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson earned 7 GRAMMY Awards and 23 nominations including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1997 from President Clinton and has been the subject of multiple books, boxed sets and compilation albums. He was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina on March 3, 1923, grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family and learned guitar at a young age. In the 1950s he played electric guitar in regional dance bands and was encouraged to play acoustic music by folklorist and Smithsonian curator Ralph Rinzler, who met Watson on a trip to North Carolina. Watson was an integral part of the early 1960s folk revival and became known as one of the greatest flatpicking guitarists of all time, a style that influenced the playing of countless guitarists. Watson, who lost his eyesight at a young age, was also considered a master of the banjo. He released nearly 30 albums spanning 50 years and collaborated with Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Del McCoury, Taj Mahal, Mississippi John Hurt, David Grisman and many others. His work embraced the regional music of North Carolina and he helped to change what people thought about mountain music through his repertoire of traditional and folk recordings. Watson also presided over MerleFest from its inception in 1988, founded to honor the memory of his son, Merle, as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Taking place each spring since 1988, MerleFest has become one of the premiere music festivals in the country and I’m A Pilgrim will be released timed to this year’s festival. Watson continued performing until he passed away in May of 2012.
I Am A Pilgrim is bursting with influence of Watson’s talent and charisma. A mix of vocal and instrumental tracks, it finds a host of musicians - including Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, numerous GRAMMY Award winners, countless NPR Tiny Desk alumni and recipients of countless other awards and accolades - interpreting his work through a prismatic lens of not only folk and bluegrass but blues, jazz, and influences of experimental and rock music as well. Given Watson’s seismic impact on guitar playing, it’s no surprise that so many guitar playing styles are represented here, from the finger tapping style of Yasmin Williams (“Doc’s Guitar,” a Watson original) to the slide guitar of Ariel Posen (“Will The Circle Be Unbroken”) and the harmonics featured on Lionel Loueke’s version of “Reuben’s Train.” Valerie June and Bill Frisell join forces for a haunting version of “Handsome Molly,” a traditional song that Watson released in 1961. Nora Brown, a teenager turning heads with her take on old time music, contributes a moving rendition of the hymn “Am I Born To Die.” Rosanne Cash and Steve Earle each reimagine classic traditionals embraced by Watson with moving renditions of “I Am A Pilgrim” and “Make Me A Pallet,” respectively. The album concludes with “Your Lone Journey,” a song that Watson penned while mourning his son. It was recorded by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for their Raising Sand album and lovingly interpreted here by Bill Frisell.
Producer and album performer Matthew Stevens is an accomplished guitarist, composer and recent GRAMMY Award winner. His songs and guitar playing are featured on over 70 recordings including those by Christian Scott atunde Adjuah, Anna B. Savage, esperanza spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington. Stevens has released six solo albums that have been praised by Pitchfork, Stereogum, MOJO, The Fader and beyond, and is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
I Am A Pilgrim was executive produced by musician/composer/author Mitch Greenhill alongside Matthew Greenhill and Peer Steinwald. Mitch Greenhill also penned the album’s liner notes and is President of Folklore Productions/FLi Artists. Greenhill had a close relationship with Watson, having worked with him for decades. Greenhill is known for his book Raised By Musical Mavericks, written about the lessons he learned from meeting a number of towering figures of folk and blues music at a young age through the work of his father, Manny Greenhill, who founded Folklore Productions in 1957.
I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 Track List:
Shady Grove - Jerry Douglas
The Last Thing On My Mind - Dolly Parton
Am I Born To Die - Nora Brown
Alberta - Jeff Parker & Matthew Stevens
Make Me A Pallet - Steve Earle
I Am A Pilgrim - Rosanne Cash
Florida Blues - Jack Lawrence
How Long Blues - Corey Harris
WIll The Circle Be Unbroken - Ariesen
Handsome Molly - Valerie June & Bill Frisell
Doc's Guitar - Yasmin Williams
Little Sadie - Chris Eldridge
Reuben's Train - Lionel Loueke
The Lost Soul - Marc Ribot
Your Lone Journey - Bill Frisell
Singer/songwriter Acantha Lang has swiftly become one of modern soul music’s best-kept secrets. Now, the rising talent, Robert Randolph-collaborator and Soul Tracks readers’ Best New Artist is preparing to release her debut album ‘Beautiful Dreams’ (April 14th) and today shares the latest taste and self-affirmative anthem “Ride This Train.”
Speaking to her humble beginnings, “Ride This Train” charts Acantha’s unrelenting drive and move from New Orleans to Harlem, where she ultimately began her career, performing regularly with New York’s biggest session musicians at the legendary Harlem Grill for her weekly residency ‘Monday Night Blues.’
After nearly three years at the Grill, Acantha was headhunted for Manhattan’s renowned cabaret, The Box, where she became the club’s first female MC — a role that ultimately catapulted her to London to open the UK’s sister club. There, she was able to put together her band, write her own music, and start polishing her sound, evolving her voice into the mesmerizing, full-bodied instrument that American Songwriter has compared to the venerable vocal flutter of Aretha Franklin. “When I started making the music I wanted to make… there was no second thought, no confusion,” says Acantha. “I knew exactly what I wanted to do, exactly what I wanted to say… and I couldn’t have done that before now.”
‘Beautiful Dreams’ arrives on the heels of two very successful years for Acantha who in 2021 landed on Spotify’s Best Retro Soul Songs list for her song “Sugar Woman” and their Best Funk Songs list in 2022 for single “River Keep Runnin.’”
In 2022 she won 'New Artist of the Year Award' (Soul Tracks Readers' Choice Awards) and 'Blues Artist of the Year Award' presented by Jools Holland (Boisdale Music Awards). Last year, she was accepted into the Recording Academy’s 2022 member class and her single “It’s Gonna Be Alright” was on the first round ballots in three categories “to be considered” for Grammy nominations.
Acantha is undoubtedly one-to-watch with over 1 million streams and counting. Thus far, she's earned praise from American Songwriter, Wonderland, Jazz FM, and BBC 6Music Funk & Soul’s Craig Charles who distinguished her as "brilliant… an independent artist destined for world domination" in a recent interview for Blues & Soul Magazine.
In just a few short years, Acantha has also built a dedicated fan following through her "Standing On The Shoulders Of…" Soul series (currently over 9 million cumulative views across IG, YT & TikTok) where she honors past stax and soul legends with spirited reimaginings of jukebox classics. Her exceptional take on the song, “I Wish I Knew How I Would Feel To Be Free,” ultimately landed her a recent McDonald’s TV spot in Europe, too, proving she’s the perfect Nina Simone vocal stand-in.
This month Acantha begins a 23-date Spring tour directly supporting Roachford across the UK. Stay tuned for much more to come from Acantha Lang soon.
Coinciding with the launch of their North American spring tour (full list of dates below), Grammy-Award-winning guitarist Eric Krasno and Grammy-Award-winning drummer Stanton Moore will release Krasno Moore Project: Book of Queens, digitally on March 17 via Concord Jazz. CD and Vinyl packages drop on October 6 and are available for pre-order now.
Recorded at the magical Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, New York, and mixed by Jim Scott (Tedeschi Trucks Band, Wilco), Krasno Moore Project: Book of Queens is a lively tribute to women in music. Across nine soulful covers, the longtime friends reimagine the work of female musical icons Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, Billie Eilish, Sharon Jones, H.E.R, Kacey Musgraves, Brittany Howard, Peggy Lee, and Aretha Franklin. Krasno and Moore are joined by accomplished organist Eric Finland throughout the record and the album features special guest appearances by Branford Marsalis, Cory Henry, and Robert Randolph. Today the group shares their cover of Brittany Howard’s “Stay High” featuring Cory Henry.
“When Stanton and I got together and decided to make a record we knew we wanted to focus on a concept that we both believed in,” explains Eric Krasno. “With the help of our wives (Lauren and Lauren), we started discussing a few ideas and agreed that a tribute to our favorite female singers and songwriters would be perfect. There are so many amazing songs to choose from spanning every genre and every era. Stanton and I zoned in on songs that had the right melodies and moods for an organ trio format. As soon as we started adapting the songs, adding grooves, and making demos with Eric Finland (organ/keys) we knew we had something special.”
Stanton Moore continues, “With this record, we wanted to create an album that we would be proud to play for our wives…something that we could listen to while making dinner or hanging on the beach. Our goal was to assemble a collection of songs that created an instant vibe from beginning to end, and could be enjoyed with family and friends time and time again.”
Eric Krasno and Stanton Moore first met in the mid-90s, when Eric was attending college in Northampton, MA. Stanton frequently passed through the area on tour and Eric became a fan of his drumming. Eager to make an impression on Stanton, Eric would always give Stanton demos of his latest guitar work. Stanton listened to these CDs and soon realized that kid Krasno was on to something. Krasno went on to found Lettuce and Soulive, while Moore founded Galactic and Garage-a-Trois. Through their various projects, the pair have crossed paths and shared stages together countless times over the past 25 years, forging a friendship along the way.
During the 2022 New Orleans Jazz Fest, Krasno and Moore discussed the possibility of working together on a more regular basis with a consolidated project in mind. Together, they came up with the concept of making an organ trio record of covers that would focus on female artists and honor the endless amount of incredible music they have gifted the world. They brought on their friend Eric Finland to round out the sound. The result is a stunning collection of covers that sound vaguely familiar, yet quite unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.
Kicking off March 10 at Ardmore Music Hall in Philadelphia, the group will embark on a North American tour. The headline tour includes shows at New York City’s Blue Note, LA’s Knitting Factory, City Winery in DC, Boston and Chicago, Denver’s Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, and more. Tickets are on sale now at https://linktr.ee/krasno.moore
Krasno Moore Project: Book of Queens – Track Listing
1. You Know I’m No Good
2. Nobody’s Baby
3. Slow Burn
4. Lost Cause
5. Stay High feat. Cory Henry
6. Fever feat. Branford Marsalis
7. A Natural Woman
8. Carried Away
9. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free feat. Robert Randolph
KRASNO MOORE PROJECT – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Bay Area collective Moonalice releases Light Side of the Moonalice - An Acoustic Adventure, via Nettwerk. Recorded in August 2022 with 4x-Grammy Award-winning engineer Dave Way (Fiona Apple, Pink, Norah Jones), the acoustic project sees Moonalice rework staples from their recent pair of EPs Full Moonalice Vol. 1 and Full Moonalice Vol. 2, including “Time Has Come Today” and “Love Peace & Happiness.” The group also shares their single “More & More,” and describes how love transforms the simple pleasures in life to the sublime. With a touch of Western swing and sweet lyrics, “More & More” is an upbeat celebration of how love grows. The album features another new original, "Arms Reach Out", by Chloe Tietjen, Erika Tietjen, and Nashville hit songwriter Dylan Altman.
Moonalice may be known for their electric psychedelic soul sound, but they have a long history of acoustic performances. Light Side of the Moonalice - An Acoustic Adventure was inspired by a video the band recorded for Acoustic Guitar Magazine featuring live versions of “Nick of Time” and “Woo Woo,” both of which are included on the album as new studio recordings.
“All of us in Moonalice are folkies at heart,” states Roger McNamee. “We write our songs on acoustic instruments and it was fantastic to record them that way. The early feedback from fans has been gratifying. We may have to book some acoustic concert dates!”
Moonalice has big plans for the spring, and are kicking off their return to live shows with the annual hometown 4/20 celebration at San Francisco’s The Chapel. The group will also return to Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival and Skull & Roses Festival in Ventura, CA. Moonalice recently partnered with One Tree Planted, a nonprofit organization focused on global reforestation. Since 2014, the organization has planted over 40 million trees in more than 47 countries across the globe. For every fan that follows Moonalice on Spotify, One Tree Planted will plant one tree.
Light Side of the Moonalice - An Acoustic Adventure Tracklist
1) Love Peace & Happiness
2) Arms Reach Out
3) More & More
4) Nick of Time
5) Time has Come Today
6) Woo Woo
7) People Get Ready
8) California Dreamin…
MOONALICE – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Date City/State/Province Venue
4/20 San Francisco, CA 420 Gathering of the Tribe @ The Chapel
Today, rising London band Palace announce their biggest North American headlining tour to date, with 18 shows in 1000+ capacity rooms across the US and Canada, including nights at Brooklyn Steel, DC’s 9:30 Club, The Wiltern in Los Angeles and over a dozen more. These landmark dates continue the band’s explosive growth in the US and Canada. With over 1.5 million monthly Spotify listeners, recent sell-outs at Webster Hall and back-to-back nights at The Fonda, and a massive headlining show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton, as well as a debut Australian tour in December 2022 and recent US festival appearances at Life Is Beautiful, Portola, and Format, it’s a near-certainty that Palace, as Line Of Best Fit says, “will be filling stadiums before long.
Alongside today’s tour announce, Palace share “All We’ve Ever Wanted,” their first new music since their acclaimed 2022 album Shoals.“‘All We’ve Ever Wanted’ is about dreams and desires.” explains singer Leo Wyndham about the track that straddles the anthemic, lighters-aloft sentiment of Britpop’s finest and an artfully applied sheen of shoegaze noise. “It’s about wondering if things ever can come to pass exactly as we’ve pictured them in our mind's eye, and confronting the reality that things often don’t move in a predictable straight line. In the end, new growth seems to occur from the soil of the unexpected.” “All We’ve Ever Wanted” is taken from a new EP due for release this spring — further details to follow.tour to date, with 18 shows in 1000+ capacity rooms across the US and Canada, including nights at Brooklyn Steel, DC’s 9:30 Club, The Wiltern in Los Angeles and over a dozen more. These landmark dates continue the band’s explosive growth in the US and Canada. With over 1.5 million monthly Spotify listeners and recent sell-outs at Webster Hall, back-to-back nights at The Fonda, and a massive headlining show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton, as well as a debut Australian tour in December 2022 and recent US festival appearances at Life Is Beautiful, Portola, and Forma
WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “ALL WE’VE EVER WANTED” HERE
2022’s Shoals is a profound and pensive album, boldly exploring some of life’s greatest questions over its 12 mesmerising tracks. The album deftly explores the interplay of three central existential dilemmas against a broader backdrop of wonder at the vastness and power of the ocean, concluding its arc with the stunning opus “Where Sky Becomes Sea.” Through diving into themes of the subconscious, dreams and existentialism, Shoals’ is broadly a record about living with and processing fear.
Leo Wyndham, Matt Hodges and Rupert Turner released their acclaimed debut EP Lost In The Night in 2014, followed by the Chase The Light EP the following year, their debut album So Long Forever in 2016 and sophomore album Life After in 2019.
On his debut album, Yellow Peril, Nat Myers carries on the traditions of the blues while simultaneously shattering every stereotype that comes with them. A Korean-American poet raised on hardcore and hip-hop, Myers found his calling early in the hundred-year-old sounds of artists like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Charley Patton. Drawing from his heroes, he uses the blues to shine a light on the injustice he sees around him, and specifically the dark wave of Asian hate that accompanied the global pandemic. Produced by Dan Auerbach, who oversaw sessions for the first time in his own Nashville home (which acts as another instrument on the record), Yellow Peril arrives June 23rd via Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound.
In advance of the album release, listen to the title track “Yellow Peril” here featuring Myers backed by Auerbach and songwriting luminary Pat McLaughlin (John Prine, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal), with an accompanying visual by Andy M. Hawkes.
Myers on “Yellow Peril”: “I knew they were going to blame us yellow folks for the virus. I’d felt it already. ‘Yellow Peril’ is a very evocative term, and I liked the idea of putting that concept into a blues song. I want this record to raise my folks up.”
Myers’ ten-song debut stems from a passion for the blues that began while the Northern Kentucky musician was immersing himself in the world of American poetry: “it dawned on me that the real epics were being told by these itinerant musicians from the ’30s and ’40s, even before recorded sound. That’s when I did my deep dive into the blues, so I could write my own epic,” Nat recalls. Yellow Peril finds Myers pulling from a wide range of historical threads while remaining thoroughly modern - using fleet riffs, complex rhythms, and quick tempos to tell tales full of intelligence, soul, contradiction and nuance. Working with Auerbach and McLaughlin - as well as blues giant Alvin Youngblood Hart - Yellow Peril leans on its creator’s idiosyncrasies to deliver nothing short of an American epic for the post-pandemic age.
Nat Myers will tour Yellow Peril throughout 2023, with a full list of currently-announced dates below.
YELLOW PERIL TRACKLIST:
75-71
Trixin’
Yellow Peril
Ramble No More
Duck N’ Dodge
Roscoe
Misbehavin’ Mama
Heart Like A Scroll
Undertaker Blues
Pray For Rain
NAT MYERS TOUR DATES:
Mar. 15 ~ Wed ~ Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA*
Mar. 16 ~ Thu ~ Arcata Theatre Lounge, Arcata, CA*
Mar. 17 ~ Fri ~ McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom*, Portland, OR*
Mar. 18 ~ Sat ~ The Showbox @ The Market, Seattle, WA*
Mar. 23 ~ Thu ~ 10 Mile Music Hall, Frisco, CO*
Mar. 24 ~ Fri ~ Agave, Avon, CO*
Mar. 25 ~ Sat ~ Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO*
Mar. 26 ~ Sun ~ Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO*
Mar. 30 ~ Thu ~ House of Blues, New Orleans, LA*
Mar. 31 ~ Fri ~ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall, Dallas, TX*
Apr. 1 ~ Sat ~ Stubb’s Waller Creek Ampthitheater, Austin, TX*
Apr. 2 ~ Sun ~ White Oak Music Hall Downstairs, Houston, TX*
Apr. 5 ~ Wed ~ The Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ*
Apr. 6 ~ Thu ~ Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA*
Apr. 7 ~ Fri ~ The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano, CA*
Apr. 8 ~ Sat ~ Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA*
Jul. 13-15 ~ Thu-Sat ~ Masters Musicians Festival, Somerset, KY
A second preview of the forthcoming tribute album I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 has been released. The recording features Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal performing “I Am A Pilgrim,” and honors what would have been Doc Watson’s 100th birthday today. I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 celebrates the deep influence and legacy of the North Carolina guitarist, singer and songwriter and features new renditions of some of Watson’s most beloved recordings from his expansive catalog.
Listen to Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal’s “I Am A Pilgrim” here. Watson was known to perform “I Am A Pilgrim” during each of his concerts, a traditional American hymn traced back to the mid-1800s.
“Doc is the fountainhead of the deepest well of American music. He is timeless, original, and a continual source of inspiration for us, and for generations to come. We are honored to be a part of this tribute to him.” - Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal
I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 will be released April 28 on FLi Records / Budde Music and features Nora Brown, Jerry Douglas, Chris Eldridge, Steve Earle, Bill Frisell, Corey Harris, Valerie June, Jack Lawrence, Lionel Loueke, Jeff Parker, Dolly Parton, Ariel Posen, Marc Ribot, Matthew Stevens and Yasmin Williams. The album was produced by guitarist/songwriter/producer Matthew Stevens (known for his work producing and performing with esperanza spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington) over the past year and executive produced by Mitch Greenhill, Matthew Greenhill and Peer Steinwald.
The album announcement issued last month included Dolly Parton’s version of “The Last Thing On My Mind,” a song that was written by Tom Paxton, first recorded by Parton in 1967 and performed by Parton and Watson at Merlefest together in 2001. It was featured in stories by Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Spin, No Depression and more.
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson earned 7 GRAMMY Awards and 23 nominations including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1997 from President Clinton and has been the subject of multiple books, boxed sets and compilation albums. He was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina on March 3, 1923, grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family and learned guitar at a young age. Watson was an integral part of the early 1960s folk revival and became known as one of the greatest flatpicking guitarists of all time, a style that influenced the playing of countless guitarists. Watson, who lost his eyesight at a young age, was also considered a master of the banjo. He released nearly 30 albums spanning 50 years and collaborated with Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Del McCoury, Taj Mahal, Mississippi John Hurt, David Grisman and many others. His work embraced the regional music of North Carolina and he helped to change what people thought about mountain music through his repertoire of traditional and folk recordings. Watson also presided over MerleFest from its inception in 1988, founded to honor the memory of his son, Merle, as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Taking place each spring since 1988, MerleFest has become one of the premiere music festivals in the country and I’m A Pilgrim will be released timed to this year’s festival.
I Am A Pilgrim is bursting with influence of Watson’s talent and charisma and includes a host of musicians - including Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, numerous GRAMMY Award winners, and several NPR Tiny Desk alumni - interpreting his work through a prismatic lens of folk, bluegrass, blues, jazz, experimental and rock music. Given Watson’s seismic impact on guitar playing, it’s no surprise that so many guitar playing styles are represented here, from the finger tapping style of Yasmin Williams (“Doc’s Guitar,” a Watson original) to the slide guitar of Ariel Posen (“Will The Circle Be Unbroken”) and the harmonics featured on Lionel Loueke’s version of “Reuben’s Train.” Valerie June and Bill Frisell join forces for a haunting version of “Handsome Molly,” originally released by Watson in 1961. Nora Brown, a teenager turning heads with her take on old time music, contributes a moving rendition of the hymn “Am I Born To Die.” The album concludes with “Your Lone Journey,” a song that Watson penned while mourning his son, and lovingly interpreted here by Bill Frisell.
Producer and album performer Matthew Stevens is an accomplished guitarist, composer and recent GRAMMY Award winner. Stevens has released six solo albums that have been praised by Pitchfork, Stereogum, MOJO, The Fader and beyond, and is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Executive producer Mitch Greenhill penned the album’s liner notes and is President of Folklore Productions/FLi Artists. Greenhill had a close relationship with Watson, having worked with him for decades. Greenhill is known for his book Raised By Musical Mavericks, written about the lessons he learned from meeting a number of towering figures of folk and blues music at a young age through the work of his father, Manny Greenhill, who founded Folklore Productions in 1957.
23-year-old Bronx native Samara Joy, who recently took home awards for Best New Artist and Best Jazz Vocal Album at her first-ever GRAMMYs, has shared a piano-vocal duo version of “Guess Who I Saw Today.” The stripped-down rendition of the tune, which she performed with a full band on her latest studio album Linger Awhile, features four-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist Gerald Clayton. Samara Joy reinvigorates the spine-tingling classic with her “one of a kind voice" and "ageless talent" (CBS Mornings).
Since Samara’s GRAMMY wins last month, Linger Awhile has been rapidly climbing the charts, hitting #1 on Amazon Best Sellers, Billboard Jazz, Pandora Trendsetters, iTunes and Amazon’s digital-music and CD-sales, and more. She’s garnered nearly 2 billion views on TikTok, and her tour dates all over the world are selling out, including highly-anticipated headline shows at NYC’s Village Vanguard in April. Simultaneously, outlets like Vulture are declaring “jazz is back, baby” and notable artists like Sam Smith are calling her “my favourite female voice right now.” Jimmy Fallon said “unbelievable… she is my jam!” before Samara’s recent performance of “Guess Who I Saw Today” on The Tonight Show, which marked the young vocalist’s late night TV debut. Other recent TV appearances include the TODAY Show, MSNBC, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Drew Barrymore.
Linger Awhile, out now on Verve, was recorded by Chris Allen and produced by Matt Pierson and features exemplary musicianship by Pasquale Grasso (guitar), Ben Paterson (piano), David Wong (double bass), and Kenny Washington (drums). The collection finds Samara Joy reinvigorating beloved songs and standards for a fresh audience with her timeless, irresistible sound. The tracklist is comprised of treasured songs by George Gershwin (“Someone To Watch Over Me”) and Thelonious Monk (“Round Midnight”), and also includes Samara’s original lyrics on Fats Navarro’s “Nostalgia (The Day I knew).”
Listen to Samara Joy’s GRAMMY-winning album Linger Awhile here.
Following a string of international tour dates, Samara Joy will return to the US for performances in Detroit, Los Angeles, St. Louis, New York City, San Diego and more this Spring and Summer. For all upcoming dates, please visit https://www.samarajoy.com/.
Concord Jazz recently announced London Brew, a new album inspired by Miles Davis' Bitches Brew from a crème de la crème collection of UK jazz luminaries, due for release as a 2LP set, 2CD and digitally on March 31, 2023. Pre-order London Brew here: https://found.ee/LondonBrew
Comprised of a veritable who's who of some of the most important and innovative musicians of the 21st century, London Brew features contributions from Benji B, Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Dave Okumu, Tom Skinner and more, brought together by Producer and guitarist Martin Terefe and Executive Producer Bruce Lampcov.
Today, a second single is shared from the project in the guise of 'Raven Flies Low', the album's closer named for violinist Raven Bush who was fundamental to the track's gorgeous textures as he played his violin through electric pedals to stunning effect - seemingly a nod to how Davis ran his trumpet through tape delay on the original album.
Of the London Brew sessions, Bush offers: "Being able to play in a beautiful studio with this amazing group of musicians was an honour. With this type of record-making process, the music is just constantly unfolding in the room, so many brilliant moments are passing you by. I’m always somewhere else during improvisations….It was great to be reminded of this vibe we had going, I’m into it.”
“When a recording session like this happens, the amount of ideas that gets generated is considerable," he continues. "I don’t know how Martin [Terefe] and Bruce [Lampcov] managed to choose what made the album, there were so many dope moments!”
Terefe further explains: “When I started mixing the section that became ‘Raven Flies Low’ I fell into focusing on the continuous flow Raven’s violin melodies and electronic pedal orchestrations. His mini compositions moved so brilliantly under the radar and this one blew my mind. I chose the title inspired by the track ‘John McLaughlin’ on Bitches Brew. Simply a hats off to a maestro at work.”
'Raven Flies Low' was preceded by the album's lead single 'Miles Chases New Voodoo in the Church' (Single Edit), of which Nubya Garcia explains, “this single is our interpretation of Miles Davis’ ode to Jimi Hendrix (‘Miles Runs the Voodoo Down’). I’ve always been very inspired by the creative minds of both Miles and Jimi…. Both were innovators who carved their own lanes, which is something I’ve aspired to in my own career. For a while now I’ve been experimenting and using pedals and effects with my instrument, so to be able to do that on this track, while paying tribute to their legacies, was a joy both creatively and personally.”
The track has received support from publications as diverse as Pitchfork, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, Jazzwise, The Fader, MOJO, Crack, Stereogum and Uncut.
Revisit 'Miles Chases New Voodoo in the Church' (Single Edit) here:
London Brew reflects an emotional journey through the period in which it was conceived, having been recorded during the pandemic and after many months of isolation and the inability to collaborate in person. Recorded in December 2020 at Paul Epworth's Church Studios in London, Terefe explains how the resulting music is "sometimes uncomfortable, other times it's familiar and joyous and other times it's like deep meditation."
What began as a plan for a live performance at the Barbican in honor of the 50th anniversary of Bitches Brew in early 2020 - an event that was sadly to be scuppered by the pandemic - would eventually blossom into so much more. London Brew is a collection of original recordings rooted in inspiration and celebration - not just a rapturous, moving tribute to one of the most totemic figures in modern music but equally a one-off moment in London's musical history captured forever on four sides of vinyl. As Lampcov writes in the album's liner notes, "London Brew is also inspired by... London. The city, the people, her creativity and her struggles. London Brew is primordial, born out of a year of trying to get to grips with what being human is about. The sounds and melodies cover the gamut of human emotion from delicate and caring to coarse and angry. Nothing is left unsaid."
An intelligent, dexterous assault on the senses from a group of artists united in their freewheeling vision, London Brew's eight tracks are unified by an experimental, improvisatory fire. "In all my years of recording, I'd never been involved in an improvisatory process on this scale," offers The Invisible's Dave Okumu. "It's ease and sense of endlessness is surely a testament to the caliber of each musician and the unique manner in which they've taken on the lessons Miles set before us through his recording and performances."
Theon Cross highlights how "the possibility of playing with a larger group of people [at the end of a year marked by the pandemic] with such an open and free approach was an incredibly powerful and moving experience," while Shabaka Hutchings comments: "For me, that's what Bitches Brew is. It's a bunch of musicians making music because of the love of making music, as a social force and as a social construct. They are creating something that expresses unity and motion. That's what it is to be alive… you know, you have unity, you have motion, and you have vibration. You don't get any more alive than that. That's Bitches Brew." That's London Brew, too, and you won't have ever heard anything quite like it.
London Brew is:
Benji B: Decks, Sonic Re-cycling
Raven Bush: Violin, Electronics
Theon Cross: Tuba
Nubya Garcia: Saxophone, Flute
Tom Herbert: Electric Bass, Double Bass
Shabaka Hutchings: Saxophone, Woodwinds
Nikolaj Torp Larsen: Synthesizers, Melodica
Dave Okumu: Guitar
Nick Ramm: Piano, Synthesizers
Dan See: Drums, Percussion
Tom Skinner: Drums, Percussion
Martin Terefe: Guitar, Electronics
London Brew is available from March 31st, 2023, on 2LP, 2CD and digitally via Concord Jazz. Pre-order here: https://found.ee/LondonBrew
This week marks what would have been the 89th birthday of the iconic organist Shirley Scott, who WRTI praises for combining "ebullient soulfulness with a graceful, pianistic touch laced with an edge of Philly grit."
This year on Record Store Day (April 22) Jazz Detective, the label of Downbeat Producer Of The Year Zev Feldman, and Reel to Real Records, the partnership between Zev and Vancouver-based impresario and musician Cory Weeds, will deliver a trio of hard-hitting, previously unissued LP releases including Shirley Scotts Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank (Reel to Real / out digitally on April 28).
So named because of Scotts sobriquet the Queen of the Hammond B-3, this gig showcases the organ originators soulful style in a trio format with Left Bank regular George Coleman and drummer Bobby Durham, captured at the Famous Ballroom on Aug. 20, 1972; the gifted jazz vocalist Ernie Andrews sits in on three of the albums 10 numbers. As the late jazz organ star Joey DeFrancesco said of Scott: Her legacy is her tremendous contribution to jazz organ that will live on forever...She has some great records, but live is a whole other thing because the people are so free to go in whatever direction they like. When you have the cast of musicians like this to do it with, the sky is the limit and it all shows on this recording.
Today, 3x Grammy award-winning reggae group Morgan Heritage –– currently composed of the Trinity: Peetah Morgan, Gramps Morgan, and Mr. Mojo Morgan, all the children of late reggae great and Father of A Nation, the Hon. Ras Denroy Morgan –– announce their new studio album, The Homeland, out April 21. The star-studded 21-track collection –– the group’s first since Denroy Morgan’s passing last year –– marks a new era for Morgan Heritage, as they expand their global reach from the Caribbean to the African Continent and beyond with guest contributions from Popcaan, Youssou N’Dour, Shaggy, Beenie Man, Shatta Wale, Mádé Kuti, and more. This album is a project of rebirth for the Morgan brothers, built upon a lineage that has lasted decades and one that will continue to forge forward. Musically, they take the listener on a journey that not only reminds them of days past, but the future ahead.
The Homeland kicks off a busy year for Morgan Heritage, who will also appear at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and tour the globe later this year. See below for confirmed dates with more to be announced soon.
Pre-save the album here
To accompany the album announcement, Morgan Heritage has shared lead single “Who Deh Like U” feat Bounty Killer, Cham & Stonebwoy, which debuted at #1 on the US iTunes Afro-Beat chart. “It’s hard to find anyone to compare to you. Even from a million miles away your value will never diminish because you are so unique…” says Mojo Morgan about the meaning of the track. “It will be hard to find another like you anywhere in the world.”
Listen to “Who Deh Like U” feat Bounty Killer, Cham & Stonebwoy HERE
Watch the visualizer HERE
This announcement comes after a successful release of their first single and video “Just A Number,” which you can watch here. The track serves as an awareness anthem, sparking conversation around the topic of cancel culture and the ephemeral nature of fame. The accompanying music video was directed by Samo (Koffee, Chronixx, Protoje), and filmed at Independence Park (National Stadium) in Kingston, Jamaica.
At the end of the month, Morgan Heritage will be at the GRAMMY Museum (at L.A. Live) as guests for The Drop Series on March 28. This is set to kickstart the culturally-iconic band's global promotional tour, with planned stops in Los Angeles, New York, England, Germany, France, Uganda and Ghana.
Show Dates
March 28, 2023 Los Angeles, CA Grammy Museum: The Drop
May 04, 2023 New Orleans, LA Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 06, 2023 Las Vegas, NV Reggae In The Desert
May 12, 2023 Cayman Islands Lover’s Rock Cayman 2023
Thee Sacred Souls have shared their first new song of 2023, “Running Away”, out today (Penrose / Daptone Records). “Running Away” is an original song, written by Thee Sacred Souls, and was recorded at Daptone’s Riverside studio in California by producer Gabe Roth. The 45, backed with “Love Comes Easy,” will be released April 7.
Listen to “Running Away” here:
The breakout San Diego-based sweet soul band has had a truly remarkable run since the release of their self-titled album debut released last summer. That run includes national TV performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS Saturday Morning and for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
They also enter their first proper summer festival season as a touring band with a statement-making itinerary: Bonnaroo (June 17) and Lollapalooza in August, in addition to performances with Portugal. The Man at Red Rocks (July 23) and at Radio City Music Hall (July 27). They will perform across the US, UK and Europe between April and November, playing their biggest stages yet, and in most cases selling them out. At SXSW last week, Thee Sacred Souls performed a number of high profile sets, including at Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion, and in January they sold out the 1800 capacity Brooklyn Steel in NYC.
At radio and streaming, the story follows suit: several songs have over 15 million streams each on Spotify, and their recent single “Love Is The Way” cracked the Top 10 at Triple A radio with significant support from key tastemaker stations across the country.
Thee Sacred Souls were formed by Sal Samano and Alex Garcia when they were just 23 years old, inspired by everything from trailblazing East LA band Thee Midniters to Italian library music. They met lead singer Josh Lane on Instagram, who was studying classical voice at the time. The band was rolling tape with Daptone’s Gabe Roth just three days after Roth saw one of their first gigs, in 2019. Their all-analog yet distinctly modern debut weaves together hints of Chicano, Philly, Chicago, Detroit and even Panama soul.
TOUR DATES:
4/4 Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds - Sold Out
4/6 Brighton, UK - Concorde 2 - Sold Out
4/7 Bristol, UK - Thekla - Sold Out
4/8 Manchester, UK - Band On The Wall - Sold Out
4/10 Rouen, FR - Le 106
4/12 La Roche-sur-Yon, France - Quai M
4/13 Paris, FR - Trabendo
4/15 Cologne, DE - LUXOR
4/17 Frankfurt, DE - Zoom Club
4/18 Munich, DE - Ampere
4/19 Berlin, DE - Hole 44
4/21 Amsterdam, NL - Melkweg OZ - Sold Out
4/22 Rotterdam, NL - BIRD - Sold Out
5/26 Napa, CA - The Uptown Theater / BottleRock After Dark
5/28 Monterey, CA - California Roots Music & Arts Festival
6/2 Ogden, UT - Ogden Music Festival
6/10 Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace
6/11 Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace
6/17 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
6/23 Greenfield, MA - Green River Festival
7/2 Denver, CO - City Gates
7/21 Troutdale, OR - McMenamins Edgefield
7/22 Glendale, AZ- Desert Diamond Arena
7/23 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
7/27 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
8/3-6 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
8/10-14 St. Giles, Dorset UK - We Out Here Festival
8/27 Port Townsend, WA - Thing Music & Arts & Other Things
Yusuf / Cat Stevens has announced King of a Land, his seventeenth studio album, set for release via BMG / Dark Horse Records on June 16, 2023. Pre-order here.
King of a Land is an epic body of work. More than a decade in the making, its 12 new songs are full of extraordinary surprises. Unique and transportive, Yusuf’s new music, words and melodies paint a vivid picture of a world which embraces the lost lands of truisms and stainless youth, and brings it into touching distance. His poetic storytelling invites the listener on a journey towards the gates of an alternative universe to that which we presently inhabit - where happy endings can possibly happen.
"Looking at the jagged journey of my music, beginning as I did in the 60’s, I would say this new record is a mosaic. A very clearly defined description of where I've been and who I am." – Yusuf / Cat Stevens
Opening a delightful entrance to the powerfully childlike theme of the album is the closing track, “Take The World Apart.” Released today alongside an accompanying animated lyric video created by Peter Reynolds, it matches the joy and optimism Yusuf’s music naturally evokes, and is destined to charm. Watch / listen here.
"Sometimes you have to take something apart, to find the peace you’re looking for." – Yusuf / Cat Stevens
The news of King of a Land and “Take The World Apart” arrives amidst a wave of celebratory activity for 2023 including the announcement of Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ Glastonbury Festival debut. Set to take place on June 25, Yusuf will perform the coveted Sunday legends slot at the Pyramid Stage, a highly prestigious billing previously occupied by Diana Ross, Kylie Minogue, Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, Brian Wilson and many more. The performance will come just one month ahead of Yusuf’s milestone 75th birthday, and will closely follow the anticipated release of King of a Land.
The album’s artwork was also created by Peter Reynolds, the award-winning Canadian children’s illustrator. King of a Land is the continuation of a collaboration between Yusuf and Peter that began with the New York Times best selling ‘Peace Train’ picture book in 2021. As well as the King of a Land cover art, Peter has created illustrations for each of the songs portraying the album’s lyrical themes that feature in the record’s accompanying booklet.
"Someone pinch me. Illustrating the Peace Train picture book was an honour, but when Yusuf asked me to create the album art and animation for King of a Land... well, I feel like I'm dreaming. The music and lyrics are truly what the world needs now more than ever." – Peter H. Reynolds
King of a Land is an album not bound by genre, but a deeply meaningful and moving self-portrait by one of popular music’s most enduring and beloved songwriters. From the gloriously unexpected hard-rock intensity of “Pagan Run” to the Tchaikovsky-inspired orchestration on “How Good It Feels,” the delicate acoustic balladry of “He Is True” through to the driving Phil Spector-goes-gospel vibe of “Highness.” The Travelling Wilburys-styled rolling Americana groove of “All Nights, All Days,” and the ornate, atmospheric “Son Of Mary.”
Early recording sessions for King of a Land stretch back to 2011 at Berlin’s Hansa Studios (the setting for classic albums such as David Bowie’s Low, Heroes and U2’s Achtung Baby). From there, recording locations moved through the years from ICP Studios in Brussels to La Fabrique in Provence, South of France. Additional overdubs and a 60-piece orchestra were recorded in Air and Angel studios in London, with some key work originally recorded in Yusuf’s own garage-based home studio in Dubai he calls “Dubville.” “Most of the songs started with me playing and recording everything at home in the garage - it’s as close as you can get to being inside my head,” Yusuf says.
Overseeing the recording process was Yusuf’s long-term producer (since 1970’s Mona Bone Jakon), and later co-producer, ex-Yardbird, Paul Samwell-Smith. In choosing the musicians for the album, Yusuf and Paul assembled a top-flight team including bass-player Bruce Lynch (who first worked with him on 1974’s Buddha and the Chocolate Box), keyboard-player Peter Vettese (Jethro Tull, Bee Gees, Simple Minds) and drummer Russ Kunkel (Joni Mitchell, Carole King, James Taylor, CSN&Y), as well as his familiar two-piece band of Kwame Yeboah and Eric Appapoulay.
The final mix down of King of a Land took place in Henley-on-Thames, at George Harrison’s private studio lodged in his former home, Friar Park. “We were very privileged to be in Friar Park,” says Yusuf, “and to be one of the first outsiders to enter that control room and mix an album. George Harrison has been an immense influence on me spiritually, from the very beginning. He pioneered certain thoughts and ideas, which stretched way east, and that was very important. If you listen to some of these songs on this album, you’ll hear a kind of spirit of George.” The album is also released through Dark Horse Records, Harrison’s own label run by his son Dhani.
The enduring success of Yusuf’s musical legacy is built on a myriad of factors but key among them is the uncanny ability he has to translate his vibrant imagination into musical form. This hunger and drive to write, record and entertain, is abundant throughout King of a Land’s new creative landscape. It has not waned. Nearly 60 years have passed since a 17 year old ‘Cat’ burst upon the pop scene with hits such as “Matthew and Son” and “I’m Gonna Get Me a Gun,” writing timeless classics like “The First Cut Is The Deepest” and “Here Comes My Baby.” These early songs were just the start of a long musical adventure that continues right up to the present.
King of a Land is available for pre-order on green vinyl in a gatefold format with a 36 page booklet featuring illustrations by Peter Reynolds. The CD also features a booklet illustrated by Peter Reynolds - pre-order here. An exclusive edition of the album, pressed on white vinyl, is available from the official Yusuf / Cat Stevens online store along with album merchandise - visit the official store here.
Summerfest presented by American Family Insurance is excited to announce over 100 artists for the festival’s 55th anniversary. The multi-genre lineup includes Eric Church, Dave Matthews Band, ODESZA, Zach Bryan, Imagine Dragons, Santa Fe Klan, Earth, Wind & Fire, Noah Kahan, Ava Max, The Pretty Reckless, Sean Paul, Coi Leray, Japanese Breakfast, Yellowcard, Smokey Robinson, Fleet Foxes and more.
The 2023 edition of Summerfest will take place over three weekends (Thursdays through Saturdays) June 22-24, June 29-July 1, and July 6-8. Summerfest, produced by the nonprofit organization Milwaukee World Festival, Inc., is an independent music festival.
“Celebrating 55 years of live music is a true testament to this festival. Together with the City of Milwaukee, we look forward to hosting music fans from across the globe at Summerfest and delivering a world-class lineup with hundreds of artists during our nine-day run” said Don Smiley, CEO of Milwaukee World Festival, Inc.
Tickets for Summerfest are ON SALE NOW at Summerfest.com with single day general admission starting at only $26. In celebration of our 55th anniversary, the UScellular™ Power Pass is available for $55 - includes admission for all nine days of the festival (on sale now through Wednesday, March 29 at 11:59pm).
Visit Summerfest.com for the full festival lineup, including artist date, stage, and time slot.
About Summerfest presented by American Family Insurance
Located in downtown Milwaukee, Summerfest presented by American Family Insurance is one of the most iconic celebrations of music in America, hosting the industry’s biggest acts for an unforgettable live music experience. Since its inception in 1968, Summerfest continues to distinguish itself as a premier national music festival and has developed an unrivaled reputation, consistently featuring hundreds of performances across 12 stages, throughout the 75-acre festival grounds along Lake Michigan. The 2023 edition consists of three weekends (Thursdays – Saturdays) June 22-24, June 29-July 1, and July 6-8, 2023. For the latest information, visit Summerfest.com, or Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok: @Summerfest.
Milwaukee World Festival, Inc., producer of Summerfest, continues to fulfill its nonprofit mission of bringing the community together and providing a showcase for performing arts, activities, and recreation to the public, through music and special events.
GRAMMY Award-winning music pioneer Alison Brown’s banjo “is an instrument possessed of a unique sonic signature and an inescapable beauty” (Billboard), and it shows on her new collaboration with GRAMMY Award-winning musician/actor/author Steve Martin, “Foggy Morning Breaking,” available everywhere tomorrow (3.24).
Watch the “Foggy Morning Breaking” video, here: youtu.be/lFMX4t4FHsc
Entertainment Weekly has said Brown’s music "honors tradition even as she cultivates it.” On “Foggy Morning Breaking,” she reinforces that point by tipping her hat to two of the most influential banjo players of the 20th century: Earl Scruggs, the father of bluegrass banjo and whose classic tune “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” the title riffs on, and the legendary John Hartford (“Gentle On My Mind”) from whom she borrows the title. The tune features Steve Martin, who co-wrote the tune with Brown, and who worked with Hartford on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the 60s. Martin’s delicate clawhammer technique, alongside Brown’s Scruggs-style picking (both played in the old-time double C ‘sawmill’ tuning), gives listeners the chance to hear equal parts tradition and innovation while bringing their own interpretations and emotions to the melody.
"Is there any sweeter sound than clawhammer and 3-finger banjo in double C tuning?” asks Brown. "I wrote the A melody for this tune and texted Steve a voice memo asking if he wanted to add to it. Within a day, he sent back the perfect B section. In the spirit of the times, we hammered out the bridge over Zoom. The title comes from a clever turn of phrase courtesy of John Hartford."
“Foggy Morning Breaking” features some of the most revered players in acoustic music with Brown and Martin leading on banjo. The pair are joined by 2x GRAMMY-nominated virtuoso Sierra Hull on mandolin, 3X GRAMMY-winner Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Punch Brothers’ Chris Eldridge on guitar and 2x GRAMMY winner Todd Phillips on bass.
"Foggy Morning Breaking” is the second single from Brown’s brilliant new record ‘On Banjo,’ which comes out May 5th via Compass Records. It follows the trailblazing banjoist's recently released “Sun And Water”, a mash-up of The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun” and Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim's “Águas de Março,” that offered listeners a hint of the exciting and unexpected sounds they’ll hear on ‘On Banjo.'
Pre-order for ‘On Banjo’ is available now at found.ee/onbanjo. For more information on Alison Brown, visit alisonbrown.com.
Alison Brown on Tour:
Fri., Apr. 28 | MerleFest 2023 | Wilkesboro, NC
Sat., May 6 | International Bluegrass Music Museum Hall of Fame | Owensboro, KY
Sun., May 7 | Mountain Stage | Marietta, OH
Fri., May 19 | Analog, The Hutton Hotel | Nashville, TN
Sat., May 20 | FreshGrass | Bentonville, AR
Thurs., Jun. 22 | UC Park & Market | San Diego
Fri., Jun. 23 | Musical Instrument Museum | Phoenix, AZ
Fri., Jul. 14 | Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival 2023 | Oak Hill, NY
Guitarists Jeff Parker and Matthew Stevens have shared a new recording of “Alberta,” featured on a new tribute album to the pioneering legacy of Doc Watson. I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 will be released April 28 on FLi Records / Budde Music. Jeff Parker is an experimental musician that has released a number of acclaimed solo recordings and key projects in the worlds of jazz, electronic, rock and improvisational music. Matthew Stevens is a GRAMMY-winning guitarist, composer and producer; he produced this loving tribute to Watson, and his many notable credits include his work with esperanza spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington. “Alberta” is Parker and Stevens’ first recording together, a beautiful and warm take on a traditional blues song with a rich history that became a staple of the folk revival, thanks in part to Doc Watson’s embrace of it.
Watson recorded “Alberta” for his 1966 album Southbound, considered a pivotal point in his career for his approach to not only traditional music but also his own original material and reworking of newer country songs of the time. “Alberta” was also recorded by Bob Dylan (Self Portrait) and Odetta among others.
Says Parker: “ It’s such a privilege to get to make music with my friend, the great guitarist Matthew Stevens, and channel some of the mournful beauty within Doc Watson’s ‘Alberta.’”
I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 celebrates the deep influence and legacy of the North Carolina guitarist, singer and songwriter and features new renditions of some of Watson’s most beloved recordings from his expansive catalog.
On March 3, which would have been Doc Watson’s 100th birthday, a recording of “I Am A Pilgrim” featuring Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal was released and was covered by NPR’s Fresh Air, Garden & Gun, and more. The album announcement issued in February included Dolly Parton’s version of “The Last Thing On My Mind,” a song that was written by Tom Paxton, first recorded by Parton in 1967 and performed by Parton and Watson at Merlefest together in 2001.
In addition to Parker, Stevens, Parton and Cash/Leventhal, the album features Nora Brown, Jerry Douglas, Chris Eldridge, Steve Earle, Bill Frisell, Corey Harris, Valerie June, Jack Lawrence, Lionel Loueke, Ariel Posen, Marc Ribot and Yasmin Williams. It was executive produced by Mitch Greenhill, Matthew Greenhill and Peer Steinwald.
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson earned 7 GRAMMY Awards and 23 nominations including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1997 from President Clinton and has been the subject of multiple books, boxed sets and compilation albums. He was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina on March 3, 1923, grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family and learned guitar at a young age. Watson was an integral part of the early 1960s folk revival and became known as one of the greatest flatpicking guitarists of all time, a style that influenced the playing of countless guitarists. Watson, who lost his eyesight at a young age, was also considered a master of the banjo. He released nearly 30 albums spanning 50 years and collaborated with Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Del McCoury, Taj Mahal, Mississippi John Hurt, David Grisman and many others. His work embraced the regional music of North Carolina and he helped to change what people thought about mountain music through his repertoire of traditional and folk recordings. Watson also presided over MerleFest from its inception in 1988, founded to honor the memory of his son, Merle, as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Taking place each spring since 1988, MerleFest has become one of the premiere music festivals in the country and I’m A Pilgrim will be released timed to this year’s festival.
I Am A Pilgrim highlights Watson’s talent and charisma and features contributions from Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, numerous GRAMMY Award winners, and several NPR Tiny Desk alumni - interpreting his work through a prismatic lens of folk, bluegrass, blues, jazz, experimental and rock music. Given Watson’s seismic impact on guitar playing, it’s no surprise that so many guitar playing styles are represented here, from the finger tapping style of Yasmin Williams (“Doc’s Guitar,” a Watson original) to the slide guitar of Ariel Posen (“Will The Circle Be Unbroken”) and the harmonics featured on Lionel Loueke’s version of “Reuben’s Train.” Valerie June and Bill Frisell join forces for a haunting version of “Handsome Molly,” originally released by Watson in 1961. Nora Brown, a teenager turning heads with her take on old time music, contributes a moving rendition of the hymn “Am I Born To Die.” The album concludes with “Your Lone Journey,” a song that Watson penned while mourning his son, and lovingly interpreted here by Bill Frisell.
I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 Track List:
Shady Grove - Jerry Douglas
The Last Thing On My Mind - Dolly Parton
Am I Born To Die - Nora Brown
Alberta - Jeff Parker & Matthew Stevens
Make Me A Pallet - Steve Earle
I Am A Pilgrim - Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal
Florida Blues - Jack Lawrence
How Long Blues - Corey Harris
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Ariel Posen
Handsome Molly - Valerie June & Bill Frisell
Doc's Guitar - Yasmin Williams
Little Sadie - Chris Eldridge
Reuben's Train - Lionel Loueke
The Lost Soul - Marc Ribot
Your Lone Journey - Bill Frisell
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have added two new North American dates to their 2023 international tour, announcing a long-awaited return to San Diego on December 2 at Pechanga Arena, plus a second night at Foxborough, Massachusetts’ Gillette Stadium on August 26 due to overwhelming demand. Near-immediate sell-outs have seen Springsteen and The E Street Band also add second nights at Chicago's Wrigley Field (August 9 and 11), Pittsburgh's PPG Paints Arena (September 12 and 14) and San Francisco's Chase Center (December 8 and 10) - plus a third night at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium over Labor Day weekend (August 30, September 1 and 3).
The 2023 international tour began February 1 in Tampa, Florida with a high-energy 28-song set deemed "ecstatic and emotional" by Rolling Stone and a "must-see" by SPIN. As the tour has continued across the United States, it's been called "the most rewarding, spirited and fulfilling...concert probably ever by a rock icon" by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and a "once-in-a-decade moment of thunder" by the Austin American-Statesman. The 2023 international tour continues across the United States through April 14, before a run of European shows this summer and a return to North America for tour dates into December.
Tickets for the newly-announced shows in Foxborough, MA and San Diego, CA will go on sale this Friday, March 24 at 10AM local time. Tickets for Gillette Stadium in Foxborough will be available via ticketmaster.com, and tickets for Pechanga Arena in San Diego will be available via axs.com.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band - New 2023 Tour Dates
Today, Sound Mind Live announces its fifth annual Sound Mind Music Festival for Mental Health, presented this year as a free, all day street festival between Irving Ave and Wyckoff Ave in Bushwick, Brooklyn on Saturday, May 20th. Starting at 12pm, the festival will feature full sets from Iron & Wine, Hiss Golden Messenger, Langhorne Slim, KAMAUU, and Pom Pom Squad. In addition to the performances, there will be dance parties & DJ sets (in partnership with House of Yes) throughout the day, as well as Sound Sessions – holistic mental health programming experiences including movement and yoga, mindfulness and breathwork sessions, and creative activities. Iconic New York institution Smorgasburg will provide food & drinks for the event, which will be livestreamed in partnership with YouTube Health.
Dance parties will be taking place in between main stage performances so that no one will have to choose between watching inspiring performances and letting loose on the dance floor. Through breath and sound, some of the most accessible forms of meditation, Sound Sessions will help to ground festival attendees in the resonant vibrations within themselves and between one another.
“Mental health is such a significant part of our well-being and the advocacy work Sound Mind Live does by creating dialogue and community through music is often an important first step to those in need,” Iron & Wine says. “I’m really happy to be involved and looking forward to taking part in this year’s event.”
In honor of the festival, BetterHelp, the world’s largest online therapy platform, has partnered with Sound Mind Live to provide a month of free therapy for their combined communities. Learn more at the ticket link below.
"We're so proud to partner with Sound Mind on this amazing festival," Co-founder of House of Yes Anya Sapozhnikova says. “Mental health has long been at the top of causes that House of Yes supports, and this gives us a wonderful opportunity to foster community and action around mental health in partnership with a united coalition of artists and organizations."
In partnership with Absurd Conclave, the festival will host a series of panels on mental health, including Mental Health in Communities of Color, Mental Health in the Music Industry, The Importance Of Fostering Community, and more.
One in four youth have contemplated suicide since the pandemic and PTSD symptoms have by increased 53%. The post-pandemic mental health crisis is real and experts anticipate these mental health impacts to last 3-5 years on top of the existing struggles we all face in our own mental health journeys. This year’s Sound Mind Music Festival for Mental Health is dedicated to fostering deeper community connections for healing, and elevating conversations and resources that can help those in need find affordable resources sooner.
"Over the past several years the world recognized that mental health issues impact us all in one form or another,” Executive Director of Sound Mind Live Chris Bullard says. “We’re proud to open up this year’s festival for free for the first time ever - enabling artists, organizations, and the whole community to join and advocate for a healthier future built on compassion, empathy, and support. Together we demand that social and cultural systems support the mental health of all equally with human-centered solutions NOW, and we celebrate the beauty and joy that is created when we unite to support one another - particularly through music and the arts."
In addition to the free elements of the festival, attendees will have the opportunity to make a donation to enjoy an elevated VIP experience located directly next to the main stage where all the musical performances will be taking place. The VIP experience will include an enhanced viewing area, a private bar, and complimentary swag bags.
The event is in partnership with over 10 music artists, 3 local venues, and over 20 mental health organizations including National Alliance on Mental Illness, JED Foundation, TransLifeline and more. The event is made possible with support from Society of Valued Minds (an initiative of Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.), BetterHelp, Sozosei Foundation, and G4D Productions. Media partners include YouTube Health and Consequence.
In honor of the festival, BetterHelp, the world’s largest online therapy platform, has partnered with Sound Mind Live to provide a month of free therapy for their combined communities. Learn more at www.betterhelp.com/soundmindfest
Today, rising Americana star William Prince releases two more singles ahead of the April 14 release of his new album Stand in the Joy. The first is “Goldie Hawn,” a sparkling ode to the divine feminine. As William puts it: “‘Goldie Hawn” is about surrendering to the love of a woman, and seeing within her the beauty, talent, and grace of all great women — the likes of Joni Mitchell, Georgia O’Keefe, and Goldie Hawn.”
Prince also shares the bar band shuffle of “Easier and Harder,” which stylistically and lyrically pays homage to one of his musical heroes. "I wrote this song the morning after John Prine passed away," says Prince, an influence made explicit by the song’s reference to the folk legend’s “In Spite Of Ourselves.” "'Easier and Harder' is about giving love a chance to mature. The lessons we learn when we get past the honeymoon stage. The benefits of not giving up and getting to love someone entirely; not only for their strengths but their shortcomings as well. There’s a comedy to it that I feel gives a peek into what long-term love is like. Live and learn. Give and take.”
Produced by GRAMMY-winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile),Stand In The Joy is a crystallization of William Prince’s long-evident songwriting talent. Unburdened by grief and regret, Prince celebrates life’s gorgeous little moments in songs that provide earned wisdom and encouragement to embrace love in our day-to-day lives. Buoyed by Cobb’s unobtrusive but warm production, these songs feel lived-in and earnest, providing a subtly powerful backing for Prince’s rich baritone and earnest story-telling.
2023 is already off to a hot start for Prince: In February he made his Grand Ole Opry debut and performed additional shows in Nashville, New York, and Los Angeles. He also announced an extensive spring tour with The War & Treaty (full dates below) and will be coming to Austin for a series of SXSW performances, including a special performance at Potluck, Luck Reunion’s annual fundraising dinner for Farm Aid (full SXSW schedule below). And next week on March 11, William Prince will return to CBS Saturday for a performance of songs fromStand In The Joy — check your local listings.
In his home country of Canada, Prince is a star: He sold-out his national theater tour (including Toronto’s legendary Massey Hall), opened for Neil Young, and collaborated with Buffy Sainte-Marie as part of a CBC celebration of her profound musical legacy. Internationally, Prince’s profile continues to grow. His 2022 included a bevy of festival performances— including New Orleans Jazz Festival, BottleRocks Napa Valley, and AmericanaFest in Nashville — as well as extensive tours across the US, Europe, and the UK, on his own and with artists like Yola and Katie Pruitt.
William Prince’s music has resonated with so many, appearing everywhere from NPR’s Tiny Desk to the hit television series Yellowstone, and a listen to any of his records quickly reveals why. Prince’s debut Earthy Days won a JUNO Award, and he followed that up with a pair of albums in 2020. The first of those, Reliever, “captures what makes William Prince such a beautiful presence” (NPR Music) and earned him his US television debut performance on CBS Saturday Morning. Prince followed that up with Gospel First Nation, which Rolling Stone called “fantastic” and was named as one of NPR Music’s favorite releases of 2020. On the back of these two 2020 releases, Prince amassed 11 awards, including Folk Alliance International Artist Of The Year for 2021 and a Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album Of The Year for Reliever.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters - with their special guest Charlie Sexton - are proud to announce: “We're All Going On A Summer Holiday” – a 23 date tour produced by Live Nation. Commencing on June 7th in Vancouver, B.C. Canada, the tour includes stops at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and the Beacon Theatre in NYC. Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets will open all of the coast-to-coast dates.
TICKETS: The general on sale for We're All Going On A Summer Holiday will begin Friday March 31, 2023 at 10am Local on ElvisCostello.com.
Since returning to the road in the summer of 2021, in the guise of "Elvis Costello & The Layabouts", E.C. and The Imposters - Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, Davey Faragher and augmented by Texas guitarist Charlie Sexton - have undertaken three tours in the United States and one in the U.K. and northern Europe. Most recently Costello played the highly-acclaimed “100 Songs and More”, a ten-night engagement at the Gramercy Theater, NYC at which he played more than 230 original songs, repeating only three titles. The shows that began in solo performance went on to spring nightly surprises, involving everything from an ensemble including musical saw, fiddle and Uillean pipes to an eight-person Broadway vocal chorus led by M.D. Rob Mathes, duets with jazz bassist, Endea Owens and, from the halfway point, performing with Steve Nieve at the piano before adding two different horn sections, led by trumpet player and arranger, Michael Leonhart. The stand included guest vocal appearances by Rebecca Lovell, La Marisoul and JSWISS and concluded with a more than three hour finale performance with the full band line-up.
The "We're All Going On A Summer Holiday " dates will follow two headlining appearances at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia, three nights at the Sydney Opera House and a show at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne. In May, Costello and Steve Nieve will return to the concert hall stage together for the first time in twenty years, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Further dates are planned for later in the year and will be announced shortly.
Since 2018, Costello has issued ten record releases; the most recent being, “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello,” a 4-CD, 2-LP box-set celebrating his nearly 30-year songwriting collaboration with Burt Bacharach. It was named Best New Reissue by Pitchfork. The Grammy Award-winning Elvis Costello and The Imposters album "Look Now" of 2018 was followed by the companion E.P., "Purse" while a French language E.P., "La Face Du Pendule à Coucou" followed the album, "Hey Clockface" - recorded in Helsinki and, Paris. Together with co-producer, Sebastian Krys, Costello also completed work on "Spanish Model" - an adaptation of 1978's album "This Year's Model" with new vocals recorded in lyrical adaptation and translation with a cast of Latin music performers. In 2022, the latest Elvis Costello and The Imposters release, "The Boy Named If," was followed into the stores by "The Resurrection of Rust,” - the recording debut after fifty years of Rusty - the duo of Liverpool-based singer-songwriters, D.P. MacManus and Allan Mayes, accompanied by The Imposters for new recordings of their 1972 repertoire including two Nick Lowe compositions from his days in the band Brinsley Schwarz.
Preparations for a return to the stage in 2021 (and again in the summer of 2022) led to the release of "The Boy Named If (Alive at Memphis Magnetic)'", which found the band running down live arrangements of their new songs along with the Jagger/Richards song, "Out Of Time" and Nick Lowe's 1976 Dutch release, "Truth Drug". The collection was completed by a brand new version of "Magnificent Hurt" by the Japanese duo, chelmico.
D.P. MacManus and Lowe first met in a public house, opposite The Cavern in Liverpool in 1972. Lowe went on to produce "Elvis Costello's" largely ignored Stiff Records debut 45rpm, "Less Than Zero" and the subsequent failed singles releases, "Alison" and "Red Shoes", although the same songs received more attention upon the release of his debut album, "My Aim Is True" in July '77 in the U.K. and in a Columbia Records release late in the same year.
Between late 1977 and 1980, Nick Lowe produced the Elvis Costello and the Attractions albums, "This Year's Model", "Armed Forces", "Get Happy" and ‘"Trust,". In the Spring of 1979, Elvis Costello and the Attractions and Mink Deville were joined by Rockpile - featuring both Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds - and undertook a three-month package tour of the United States. At this time, Costello's version of a song from the last Brinsley Schwarz album, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding" saw its first release as the B-Side of the Radar Records single, "American Squirm", credited to "Nick Lowe And His Sound" with the producer seen on the picture sleeve seated at the mixing board of Eden Studios in tinted horn-rims, cradling a Jazzmaster guitar with a newly inlaid fretboard reading, "Costello". The track was subsequently added to the U.S. edition of Elvis Costello and the Attractions, third album, "Armed Forces".
In 1984, Costello took the producer's chair for the first and only time at a Nick Lowe session for the Hi Records-informed single, "L.A.F.S." which was also included on the F-Beat Records album, "Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit". In the same year, the duo recorded the Burt Bacharach/Mack David/Barney Williams song, "Baby It's You" at Lowe's Am-Pro Studios in Shepherd's Bush, London, also the location for a Boxing Day (1979) recording session with Lowe's then father-in-law, Johnny Cash which yielded the hit release, "Without Love" and the Cash/Costello duet, "We Ought To Be Ashamed". In 1986, Nick Lowe produced the Attractions' last complete album, "Blood & Chocolate" at Olympic Studios, before returning for a bass-playing cameo on "Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)” for the 1990 Warner Brothers album, "Mighty Like A Rose". In 1993 Nick Lowe (or Costello himself) played bass on nine of the songs on the album, "Brutal Youth", which some mistook for a full Attractions reunion. They most recently performed together last summer on The Boy Named If & Other Favourites tour.
On Record Store Day (Saturday, April 22), the long-running Silver Spring, MD record store Joe’s Record Paradise invites music fans to join them for a special celebration of Baltimore’s Left Bank Jazz Society. Joe’s Record Paradise will host a panel discussion featuring Left Bank’s own John Fowler, who will share anecdotes from Left Bank Shows starring Lee Morgan, Sonny Stitt, and the great Duke Ellington. One such story: the Duke, on his birthday, arrived solo to a show after his band’s plane was delayed and went on to put on a classic one-man show, walking the audience through a rough history of jazz and his own musical development.
Full event details are below.
WHAT:
A celebration and panel discussion about Baltimore’s Left Bank Jazz Society
WHEN:
Saturday, April 22, 2023 (Record Store Day), beginning at 2pm ET
WHO:
Left Bank’s John Fowler, Joe Lee (owner of Joe’s Record Paradise), award-winning archival producer Zev Feldman (of the new Jazz Detective record label), and Katea Stitt (Program Director at WPFW and daughter of jazz musician Sonny Stitt, the subject of an upcoming Jazz Detective release). If you attended Left Bank jazz shows in the past and you want to share your stories, please come on by.
WHERE:
Joe’s Record Paradise (8700 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910)
OTHER INFO:
Food will be available from Anabel’s Mobile Kitchen.
Contact Joe’s Record Paradise at (301) 585-3269 // [email protected]
Baltimore’s Left Bank Jazz Society was a hub for jazz musicians during the era. John Fowler, who worked on Left Bank’s concert promotions from the organization’s inception in 1964, notes the affection the players had for their Baltimore hosts: “After a while, it became the place to play. In the 50 years that we were in existence, no musician ever left Baltimore without their money, which I understand is unheard of. Once word got out that you can go to Baltimore, have a good time, get fed and get free drinks — and you’re going to get your money, it came a flood. Everybody wanted to play.”
The Left Bank Jazz Society is at the center of the latest project from Jazz Detective, the label of Montgomery County resident Zev Feldman (GRAMMY-nominee and Downbeat's “Producer Of The Year”), and Reel to Real Records, the partnership between Feldman and Vancouver-based impresario and musician Cory Weeds: A trio of hard-hitting, previously unissued LP releases by saxophonist Sonny Stitt, organist Shirley Scott, and pianist Walter Bishop Jr. for Record Store Day (April 22, 2023). The collection — spurred by Joe Lee’s introduction of Feldman to John Fowler — deepens Feldman and Weeds’ fruitful excavation of hitherto unheard music from shows mounted at the Left Bank Jazz Society in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
ODESZA have just announced the much-anticipated follow-up to 2022’s The Last Goodbye Tour. The second leg, produced by Live Nation, will follow headlining performances at Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and Electric Forest, taking the GRAMMY-nominated duo to stops in San Diego, Columbus, Indianapolis, New Orleans, and more, featuring support from Bob Moses, Bonobo (DJ set), Big Boi, TOKiMONSTA, Drama, Neil Frances, and QRTR & Olan on select dates (outlined below).
TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with an Artist presale via Laylo beginning Wednesday, March 29 at 10 AM local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week, with all presales ending Thursday, March 30 at 10 PM local time. The general on sale will begin Friday, March 31 at 10 AM local time at odesza.com.
ODESZA and the nonprofit REVERB are continuing their partnership to reduce the environmental footprint of their tour and take action on the climate crisis. In addition to a comprehensive tour sustainability program, the band will be supporting REVERB’s climate portfolio which funds projects that measurably reduce greenhouse gas pollution, address climate justice, and directly decarbonize the music industry. Fans will have the ability to join the effort by visiting ODESZA's Action Village at every show.
ODESZA’s live performances have become a modern legendary wonder, mixing stunning visuals, expert musicianship, pyrotechnics and an immersive environment to transform whatever venue they are at into an otherworldly experience. Last year’s tour sold over 450k tickets throughout its amphitheater run with numerous sold-out, multi-night runs including in their hometown of Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena, LA’s Kia Forum, and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and more (making them the first electronic artists to attempt such a tour). The recent tour also earned high praise with a Pollstar cover feature proclaiming that “ODESZA makes history,” while Billboard added “ODESZA is meant to be seen, and heard, live,” and the Seattle Times called them “a ticket selling, dance music force that raised the live performance bar for electronic artists.”
ODESZA also recently attended the 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards in support of their nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album for ‘The Last Goodbye’ (released via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) and released their new single “To Be Yours (feat. Claud)” which Billboard said “perfectly tows the line between each of the artists’ respective worlds, employing the crystal clear production work of the sought-after dance pair as well as the confessional songwriting of the fast-rising bedroom pop singer into one gloriously fun single.”
FULL ODESZA 2023 TOUR DATES
June 14 - Montreal, QC - Place Bell + #
June 30 - Milwaukee, WI - American Family Insurance Amphitheatre @ = # ~
Aug 30 - Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center * ^ #
Sept 1 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater * ^ #
Sept 2 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake * ^ #
Sept 3 - Indianapolis, IN - Ruoff Music Center * ^ #
With more than 20 gold, platinum and multi-platinum records, WAR have cemented their righteous strains of funk and soul in the fabric of global culture and consciousness. But in the 50 years since The World Is A Ghetto made the Southern Californian street band a crossover sensation and became the best-selling album of 1973, the group's sound has continued to transcend genres and generations.
Today, to further mark the 50th Anniversary milestone of The World is a Ghetto, WAR announce a brand new collection called WAR: The Remixes. Out May 12th on Avenue / Rhino Records, the EP expands the influence of WAR's music on the worlds of contemporary hip-hop, as esteemed DJs, producers and musicians including Beastie Boys turntablist Mix Master Mike, DJ Logic, Jesse Perez, Preditah and Saxsquatch reimagine eternal hits like "The World is a Ghetto," "Spill The Wine," "Why Can't We Be Friends" and more that spans several of the band's magnum opuses.
Hear Mix Master Mike Remix "The World is a Ghetto" & "Slippin' Into Darkness" On The First Single Out Now: https://war.lnk.to/WarxMMM
Across WAR's six decades and counting, the band spread its messages of harmony and inclusion through songs that have soundtracked the anti-Vietnam movement, Watergate, the first Congressional Black Caucus, the first US-Soviet space mission and multiple Barack Obama summer playlists. Bolstered by the gold-selling success of the title track and the boundary-breaking power of "The Cisco Kid," The World is a Ghetto topped Billboard's pop and R&B charts, launching WAR's legacy not only of creative and commercial triumph, but of timely and timeless relevance. Music from The World is a Ghetto has been sampled by 2Pac, A$AP Mob, Cypress Hill, DJ Shadow, Janet Jackson, Method Man and Scarface, among others, while the likes of De La Soul, Kendrick Lamar, Shaggy and many more have honored and celebrated WAR throughout the years.
Led by Lonnie Jordan, WAR remains one of the busiest bands on the road today, and throughout 2023 they will headline dozens of shows, in addition to appearing at festivals like BottleRock Napa Valley and more to be announced soon. Stay tuned for additional news tied to the 50th Anniversary of The World is a Ghetto, and find upcoming performances here.
WAR: The Remixes Tracklist
"Slippin' Into Darkness" (Mix Master Mike Remix)
"The World is a Ghetto" (Mix Master Mike Remix)
"Why Can't We Be Friends" (Saxsquatch & Stephen Walking Remix)
London Brew is out today on Concord Jazz, a new album inspired by Miles Davis' Bitches Brew from a crème de la crème collection of UK jazz luminaries, available now on 2CD and digitally, with the 2LP release - available on black vinyl, limited edition opaque blue and indie-exclusive voodoo maroon vinyl - to follow on April 14.
Comprised of a veritable who's who of some of the most important and innovative musicians of the 21st century, London Brew features contributions from Benji B, Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Dave Okumu, Tom Skinner and more, brought together by Producer and guitarist Martin Terefe and Executive Producer Bruce Lampcov.
Speaking of the album's release, Lampcov offers: "I can hardly contain my excitement now that London Brew is finally ready to be served to the world, after the idea for it was conceived more than three years ago. This record was inspired by Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, shaped by the trials of a global pandemic, and created with the exceptional talents of London's finest musicians. It is a testament to the creative ingenuity and collaborative spirit of these musicians, as well as the support of numerous allies who have helped bring it to fruition."
To tie in with the album's release, a new single from the album also sees release today, 'It's One of These': an abstracted, syncopated Afrobeat maelstrom that cooks up a storm at the heart of London Brew's running order and allows Hutchings ample space to shine.
Of the track, Terefe explains: "After choosing various pieces of the source material to work on, this is the one I finished mixing first. It’s starts with such a dirty groove and then comes Shabaka’s initial formula one race through and around the inner workings of the ensemble. Then all of a sudden it falls apart, new sections appear as trying to and rev it all up again but it starts and stops in the most magical way. I followed the melodies and loved what I found."
Two previous singles have been shared from the project previously, its incendiary lead single 'Miles Chases New Voodoo in the Church', which debuted alongside word of the album in January of this year, and its follow-up 'Raven Flies Low', London Brew's hypnotic closer, named for violinist Raven Bush who was fundamental to the track's gorgeous textures as he played his violin through electric pedals to stunning effect. The full-length versions of both tracks are now available to hear as part of the album.
Since its announcement in January, London Brew has received support from publications as diverse as The New York Times, Pitchfork, The Observer, NME, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, Jazzwise, Loud and Quiet, Jazziz, The Fader, The Independent, MOJO, Crack, Stereogum and Uncut. Meanwhile at UK radio it's been championed by the likes of Craig Charles, Jamz Supernova and Mary Anne Hobbs on 6Music, John Kennedy on Radio X and Gilles Peterson on Worldwide FM.
London Brew reflects an emotional journey through the period in which it was conceived, having been recorded during the pandemic and after many months of isolation and the inability to collaborate in person. Recorded in December 2020 at Paul Epworth's Church Studios in London, Terefe explains how the resulting music is "sometimes uncomfortable, other times it's familiar and joyous and other times it's like deep meditation."
What began as a plan for a live performance at the Barbican in honour of the 50th anniversary of Bitches Brew in early 2020 - an event that was sadly to be scuppered by the pandemic - would eventually blossom into so much more. London Brew is a collection of original recordings rooted in inspiration and celebration - not just a rapturous, moving tribute to one of the most totemic figures in modern music but equally a one-off moment in London's musical history captured forever on four sides of vinyl. As Lampcov writes in the album's liner notes, "London Brew is also inspired by... London. The city, the people, her creativity and her struggles. London Brew is primordial, born out of a year of trying to get to grips with what being human is about. The sounds and melodies cover the gamut of human emotion from delicate and caring to coarse and angry. Nothing is left unsaid."
An intelligent, dexterous assault on the senses from a group of artists united in their freewheeling vision, London Brew's eight tracks are unified by an experimental, improvisatory fire. "In all my years of recording, I'd never been involved in an improvisatory process on this scale," offers The Invisible's Dave Okumu. "It's ease and sense of endlessness is surely a testament to the calibre of each musician and the unique manner in which they've taken on the lessons Miles set before us through his recording and performances."
Theon Cross highlights how "the possibility of playing with a larger group of people [at the end of a year marked by the pandemic] with such an open and free approach was an incredibly powerful and moving experience," while Shabaka Hutchings comments: "For me, that's what Bitches Brew is. It's a bunch of musicians making music because of the love of making music, as a social force and as a social construct. They are creating something that expresses unity and motion. That's what it is to be alive… you know, you have unity, you have motion, and you have vibration. You don't get any more alive than that. That's Bitches Brew." That's London Brew, too, and you won't have ever heard anything quite like it.
London Brew is:
Benji B: Decks, Sonic Re-cycling
Raven Bush: Violin, Electronics
Theon Cross: Tuba
Nubya Garcia: Saxophone, Flute
Tom Herbert: Electric Bass, Double Bass
Shabaka Hutchings: Saxophone, Woodwinds
Nikolaj Torp Larsen: Synthesizers, Melodica
Dave Okumu: Guitar
Nick Ramm: Piano, Synthesizers
Dan See: Drums, Percussion
Tom Skinner: Drums, Percussion
Martin Terefe: Guitar, Electronics
London Brew is available now on 2CD and digitally via Concord Jazz with the 2LP vinyl release out April 14th.
London Brew - London Brew // Concord Jazz - out now
London Brew (23:34)
London Brew Pt.2 - Trainlines (15:49)
Miles Chases New Voodoo in the Church (7:27)
Nu Sha Ni Sha Nu Oss Ra (8:55)
It's One of These (6:53)
Bassics (2:51)
Mor Ning Prayers (9:52)
Raven Flies Low (12:53)
Lake Nakoma have emerged with their debut single "Burying Old Bones" today, a triumphant ode to starting anew which showcases the undeniable and effortless chemistry between the musicians at its helm. A collaboration years in the making from Alabama Shakes guitarist Heath Fogg and fellow Athens, AL musician Colin Woltmann - Lake Nakoma developed their dreamlike sonic world with help from community members like Fogg's Alabama Shakes bandmate Zac Cockrell, keyboardist/engineer Ben Tanner (Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Nicole Atkins) and drummer Derrek Phillips (Alison Krauss, Hank Williams Jr., Dr. John). Initially uniting to work on Woltmann's solo material, the pair quickly realized how well-suited they were for collaboration - finding an almost-uncanny symmetry between Fogg's guitar arrangements and Woltmann's vocal delivery. The results radiate powerfully and impeccably throughout their self-titled debut album, which comes May 9 via the Muscle Shoals-based, GRAMMY and Libera-winning independent label Single Lock Records.
Listen to Lake Nakoma's "Burying Old Bones" and pre-save the debut full-length album (out May 9 on Single Lock Records) here: https://link.singlelock.com/lakenakoma
On "Burying Old Bones," Lake Nakoma offer a gripping portrait of battling adversity head-on and finding the strength to use those lessons for the positive..."burying old bones, just to bring them back to life." It's an ode to the difficulties of change, and the power of shifting perspective. To healing from pain and loss, but keeping alive the spirit of what was lost in the first place. To discovering hope in the darkest of times, and working to make something good out of something bad. Woltmann recalls: “I wrote that at a time when my wife and I were dealing with a lot of difficult transitions in our lives. There’s a theme of transformation woven throughout the record, and that song is the beginning phase of the whole process.” Behind a gorgeous assemblage of sonic details - woozy guitar tones from Fogg, ethereal synths, spontaneously captured field recordings of a chirping bird - "Burying Old Bones" masterfully captures the magic of Lake Nakoma on an altogether-alluring introduction.
Nat Myers has returned with "75-71" today, a blistering blues ode to the Korean-American artist's Kentucky upbringing. Namechecking the places that helped form him, from Rabbit Hash to Kenton Vale, "75-71" is the latest offering from Myers' upcoming debut album 'Yellow Peril' - produced by Dan Auerbach and out June 23 on Easy Eye Sound. "75-71" was recently included as the lead entry in a WNYC retrospective on the contemporary state of the blues, with host John Schaefer comparing the material on 'Yellow Peril' to "the great Delta bluesmen" and specifically Charley Patton’s “High Water Everywhere." Patton used “High Water Everywhere" to recount the great Mississippi River flood of 1927 and how African-Americans were left to fend for themselves - not unlike Myers shining a light on the injustice of the AAPI experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Yellow Peril, Nat Myers explores a passion for the blues that began while the Kentucky musician was immersing himself in the world of American poetry: “it dawned on me that the real epics were being told by these itinerant musicians from the ’30s and ’40s, even before recorded sound. That’s when I did my deep dive into the blues, so I could write my own epic,” Nat recalls. Yellow Peril finds Myers pulling from a wide range of historical threads while remaining thoroughly modern - using fleet riffs, complex rhythms, and quick tempos to tell tales full of intelligence, soul, contradiction and nuance. Yellow Peril was recorded by Myers with Auerbach, who oversaw sessions for the first time in his own Nashville home (which acts as another instrument on the record), and also finds Myers working with special guests like songwriting luminary Pat McLaughlin (John Prine, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal) and blues giant Alvin Youngblood Hart. Combining each of these factors, this ten-song debut leans on its creator’s idiosyncrasies to deliver nothing short of an American epic for the post-pandemic age.
YELLOW PERIL TRACKLIST:
75-71
Trixin’
Yellow Peril
Ramble No More
Duck N’ Dodge
Roscoe
Misbehavin’ Mama
Heart Like A Scroll
Undertaker Blues
Pray For Rain
NAT MYERS TOUR DATES:
Mar. 30 ~ Thu ~ House of Blues, New Orleans, LA*
Mar. 31 ~ Fri ~ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall, Dallas, TX*
Apr. 1 ~ Sat ~ Stubb’s Waller Creek Ampthitheater, Austin, TX*
Apr. 2 ~ Sun ~ White Oak Music Hall Downstairs, Houston, TX*
Apr. 5 ~ Wed ~ The Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ*
Apr. 6 ~ Thu ~ Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA*
Apr. 7 ~ Fri ~ The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano, CA*
Apr. 8 ~ Sat ~ Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA*
Jul. 13-15 ~ Thu-Sat ~ Masters Musicians Festival, Somerset, KY
Justin Cucci’s Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox is in full swing, presenting a lineup of electrifying live concerts and delicious food and cocktails! Upcoming shows include Outlaw Country Revisited, Disco Bingo, Nattali Riz, Max Creek and much much...much more! You can find all updated upcoming shows and menus at opheliasdenver.com.
New Breed Brass Band is putting a fresh spin on a New Orleans tradition - the second-line brass band. The up and coming band has announced their debut album today with music that both honors the second-line tradition and brings it into the future with a mix of funk, rock, hip-hop, R&B and bounce music. Made In New Orleans (out April 28) is a thrilling collection of songs that captures the relentless energy of their street party sensibilities. It was mixed and mastered by Count (The Rolling Stones, Run the Jewels, Radiohead) and produced by Trombone Shorty aka Troy Andrews and recorded at his own Buckjump Studios in New Orleans. Troy is not only bandleader and snare-drummer Jenard Andrews’ uncle but a New Orleans music scene lynchpin and one of its most visible ambassadors.
The album will arrive just in time for New Breed’s performance at Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue’s legendary Treme Threauxdown taking place at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans on April 29. The band is a special guest on the 7th annual edition of this concert, and the lineup also includes Eric Church, Mavis Staples and Robert Glasper.
One week later, New Breed will perform at the Jazz and Heritage Festival, Friday, May 5 at 3:50pm on the Jazz & Heritage stage.
Along with the album announcement, the 9-piece band has released “Drop It How You Feel It.” The song recruits local legends Wild Wayne and the late great 5th Ward Weebie for a joyous bout of toasting that reaches peak street party vibes when they rhyme “Judge Judy” with “booty.” Snares snap and horn lines blare, but the real marvel is when the arrangement strips back and sounds like the band sampling itself — just drums and distant horns — before re-building the controlled chaos to an even higher level.
New Breed’s signature sound is influenced by a multitude of artists and Made In New Orleans showcases these influences with traces of expected local antecedents like Rebirth Brass Band and Soul Rebels Brass Band, but also funk arrangements inspired by Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower Of Power as well as rhythmic twists pulled from Cuban jazz, New Orleans bounce beats, and even rock drummers like Dave Grohl. This is second line music in conversation with everything from Caribbean music to No Limit Records to modern R&B in the vein of Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak’s Silk Sonic. It’s joyful and vital and distinctly of the moment — second line music for and by the next generation. The album features guest appearances by saxophonist Jeff Coffin of The Dave Matthews Band, Kango Slim (of Partners-N-Crime) and hometown bounce music legend Big Choo.
New Breed Brass Band is Jenard Andrews (bandleader and snare-drummer), Revon Andrews (trombone), Mike Brooks (sousaphone), Yirma Yisrael and Orlando Gilbert (saxophone), Emanuel Mitchell and Chris Cotton (trumpet), and Tyreek Andrews and George Brown (bass drum). Jenard himself was born into second-line music: his father is the great New Orleans trumpeter James Andrews, who has played at jazz festivals around the world.
The band made their street debut in November 2013 at the Nine Times Second Line. Since then, they have showcased their originality touring in North America and Europe as well as opening for such diverse bands as The Fray, Red Baraat, Blackalicious, Dr. John, The Waterboys, and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. With Made In New Orleans, they’ve forged a new path for 21st century second lines — it’s just up to listeners to follow their lead down the parade route.
Made In New Orleans Tracklist
Come On Out
Drop It How You Feel It
Can’t Let Go
Move Something
Give It To Me
Tender Fender
Have Some Fun
Treme Island
All On Me
St. Philip Street
Won’t Bow Down
Singer-songwriter, musician and producer Ben Harper has announced his new studio album WIDE OPEN LIGHT, the follow up to his GRAMMY-nominated record BLOODLINE MAINTENANCE, to be released on June 2 via Chrysalis Records. Today, he shares the new single “Yard Sale” featuring long-time collaborator Jack Johnson, and revealed tour dates for summer 2023.
WIDE OPEN LIGHT is described by Ben as a family of songs he's written where each track is a close relative to the next. It's deliberately minimalist and the songs themselves do as much of the heavy lifting as the production. “There was once a time when albums didn’t need an adjacent story or fable. When the songs were enough,” Ben says. “I’m excited to return to this.”
The new single “Yard Sale,” Ben explains, “follows a man through the final blurred stages of a breakup. With each passing verse the couple grows further beyond reach or repair. By the song's end, he’s more confused than when the song began.”
Following the release of WIDE OPEN LIGHT, Harper will tour on select dates with The Chicks, before heading out on his own extensive US tour this fall. Harper’s tour begins in Richmond, VA on September 29th, and will feature shows in Portland, ME, Buffalo, NY, Cincinnati, OH, MIlwaukee, WI and more, and will include performances at the Oceans Calling Music Festival and Sound on Sound Music & Arts Festival.
This month, Ben appears in the new AppleTV+ series "Extrapolations,” a fictional drama based in the near future when the effects of climate change have become embedded in our daily lives. The limited series features an all-star cast that also includes Daveed Diggs, David Schwimmer, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker, Gemma Chan, Heather Graham, Meryl Streep, Tobey Maguire, Yara Shahidi and many more.
As a 3x-GRAMMY-winner, Harper has amassed international critical applause and a worldwide fan following for his own genre-traversing body of work while also producing acclaimed albums by Mavis Staples, Rickie Lee Jones, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Natalie Maines, Ziggy Marley, and others. An inveterate collaborator, Harper has also recorded with a diverse span of artists ranging from John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, to Ringo Starr, Keith Richards and, most recently, Harry Styles, to contribute his signature guitar work to the superstar’s chart-topping album, HARRY’S HOUSE. Harper joined Styles for an astounding 12 nights of performances at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles this past fall.
Harper has recently been featured on CBS Mornings, ABC News, Forbes, SPIN and Variety, to name a few.
The Royal Albert Hall is Eric Clapton’s home away from home in London. Since his debut at the historic venue with the Yardbirds in 1964, Clapton has performed there over 200 times (and counting), more than any other artist.
He also holds the record for the longest run of concerts at the venue. He set it in 1990 with 18 shows, then broke it the following year with 24 concerts. They were some of the most ambitious shows of Clapton’s career. Each night featured him performing a career-spanning set with one of three lineups – a rock band, a blues band, or an orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen. Kamen previously worked with Clapton on the Lethal Weapon soundtracks, plus the TV show Edge of Darkness. Before his untimely passing in 2003, Kamen had become a leading film & TV composer, with X-Men, Die Hard & Band of Brothers among his many credits.
To commemorate that record-setting run, Clapton released 24 Nights in October 1991. The double live album and home video delivered great performances but only covered a fraction of what was filmed and recorded. That’s about to change.
Warner Records is giving the concerts the release they deserve this summer with THE DEFINITIVE 24 NIGHTS. This limited-edition boxed set includes nearly six hours of live music, and 35 unreleased performances. The collection distills Clapton’s 1990-91 Albert Hall residencies using the best performances from the rock, blues, and orchestral nights to create full concerts for each genre.
All the audio and video included in THE DEFINITIVE 24 NIGHTS was painstakingly restored and upgraded by Clapton’s team of Simon Climie (audio production and mixing), producer Peter Worsley (Slowhand at 70 and The Lady In The Balcony), and director David Barnard (The Lady In The Balcony).
THE DEFINITIVE 24 NIGHTS will be available on limited edition boxed sets as either 6-CDs ($139.98) or 8-LPs ($199.98) on June 23. Both versions come with three Blu-ray discs for the video content, a hardbound book, and an individually numbered lithograph featuring a photograph of Clapton by Carl Studna. Each are limited edition versions and available now to pre-order HERE.
Standalone versions of the individual concerts – 24 Nights: Rock, 24 Nights: Blues, and 24 Nights: Orchestral – will be released the same day in 2-CD/DVD ($29.98) and 3-LP (Rock and Orchestral) ($49.98) and 2-LP (Blues) ($39.98) configurations.
Clapton’s previously unreleased 1991 orchestral performance of “Layla” is available today digitally. Click HERE to listen now.
Clapton surrounded himself with superlative musicians for the performances on THE DEFINITIVE 24 NIGHTS. The roster includes greats like Johnnie Johnson, Jimmie Vaughan, Chuck Leavell, Phil Collins, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Nathan East, Greg Phillinganes, Steve Ferrone, Ray Cooper, and Jerry Portnoy.
For the rock concert, Clapton played many of his classic songs including “Sunshine Of Your Love,” “Can’t Find My Way Home,” “Layla,” and “Wonderful Tonight.” Covers of “Crossroads”, and a reggae version of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” with Phil Collins on drums are highlights. Clapton also featured several tracks from his most recent studio album (1989’s Journeyman), including the hits “Pretending,” “Running On Faith,” and “Bad Love.”
With Clapton aided by special guests Buddy Guy, Albert Colins and Robert Cray, the blues concert delivered a master class in the genre with ripping versions of standards like “Key To The Highway,” “Sweet Home Chicago,” “Black Cat Bone,” and “Reconsider Baby.”
The orchestral concert is the most unique of the collection. For those performances, Clapton’s nine-piece band was joined by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by legendary composer Michael Kamen. The collaboration resulted in stunning arrangements for “Layla,” “White Room,” “Bell Bottom Blues,” “I Shot The Sheriff,” “Lay Down Sally,” and more.
The biggest highlight from the orchestral concert – and possibly the entire boxed set – is the previously unreleased 30-minute epic, “Concerto For Guitar.” Kamen composed the piece especially for Clapton, which made its live debut at Albert Hall. In the set’s liner notes, music journalist David Fricke writes about the version included in the collection: “Near the halfway mark in this 1991 reading, [Clapton] takes off on guitar as if he has the rest of Cream at his heels – at once precisely melodic and jubilantly unhinged – as Kamen echoes that ferment in the strings and brass.”
Eric Clapton fans will also now have the opportunity to experience the excitement of the legendary Royal Albert Hall concerts on the big screen as Unique X and Iconic Events present the Across 24 Nights cinema event globally on May 17th, with encore screenings from May 21st. Edited from the original footage and remastered in Dolby ATMOS and 5.1 Surround Sound, Across 24 Nights will bring fans together to celebrate the ultimate musical event cinema experience. For further information & tickets, please visit: www.ericclaptoncinema.com and watch the trailer HERE.
THE DEFINITIVE 24 NIGHTS
Track Listing
24 Nights: Rock
“Pretending”
“Running On Faith”
“Breaking Point” *
“I Shot The Sheriff” *
“White Room”
“Can’t Find My Way Home” *(Feat. Nathan East on lead vocals)
“Bad Love”
“Before You Accuse Me” *
“Lay Down Sally” *
“Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” *
“Old Love” *
“No Alibis” *
“Tearing Us Apart” *
“Cocaine” *
“Wonderful Tonight”
“Layla” *
“Crossroads” *
“Sunshine Of Your Love” *
24 Nights: Blues
“Key To The Highway” *
“Worried Life Blues”
“Watch Yourself”
“Have You Ever Loved A Woman”
“Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” *
“Something On Your Mind” *
“All Your Love (I Miss Loving)” *
“It’s My Life Baby” *
“Johnnie’s Boogie” *
“Black Cat Bone” *
“Reconsider Baby” *
“My Time After A While” *
“Sweet Home Chicago” *
“Watch Yourself” (Reprise) *
24 Nights: Orchestral
“Crossroads” *
“Bell Bottom Blues”
“Lay Down Sally” *
“Holy Mother” *
“I Shot The Sheriff” *
“Hard Times”
“Can’t Find My Way Home” * (Feat. Nathan East on lead vocals)
“Edge Of Darkness”
“Old Love” *
“Wonderful Tonight” *
“White Room” *
“Concerto For Electric Guitar” *(composed by Michael Kamen)
“A Remark You Made” *(A tribute to Jaco Pastorius)
“Layla” *
“Sunshine Of Your Love” *
This May, Garcia's – The Capitol Theatre’s "venue within the venue” created in partnership with Jerry Garcia’s family – will celebrate its ten year anniversary with a string of live performances by local artists and nationally touring acts across the musical spectrum. With the official anniversary date falling on Tuesday, May 16, Garcia’s will be celebrating ten years of magic all month long with performances earlier in the month by The Rock and Roll Playhouse performing the music of Dave Matthews Band for Kids, Finders Keepers, Mihali (of Twiddle), SoulShine, Liquorcake followed by Gimme Gimme Disco and Brown Eyed Women. Tickets here. Garcia’s will also offer a signature anniversary drink all month, the Cherry Jerry, made with Spiced Rum, Cherry Dr Pepper, a splash of lime and of course a cherry on top!
Over the last ten years Garcia’s has presented an eclectic mix of exciting acts such as Dinosaur Jr., Black Pumas, Goose, Yola, Marcus King, Twiddle, Mihali, Melvin Seals, Warren Haynes, Orebolo, Keller Williams, Eric Krasno, Dopapod and many more. As a hub for the development of next generation artists, Garcia’s Talent Buyer & Manager Josh Cohen has booked emerging acts early on such as Daniel Donato, Eggy, Dogs In A Pile, TAZ, Mikaela Davis among others, that have now gone on to playing large scale venues across the country.
Previously the Marketing Director for B.B. King Blues Club, at Garcia’s Cohen has been focused on nurturing & growing the inclusive environment that is so unique to the historic Capitol Theatre. He likens the venue to a majestic tree in the middle of a village where the locals congregate to dance and celebrate life: “When bands play Garcia's, we see them summon the energies of The Capitol Theatre and find footing in the rich history of improvisational music and the community through which it lives on. The vibe you find when attending a Garcia's show is that of an ever-growing, loving family who is eager to welcome new faces with open arms. Whether we come for the music and stay for the vibe or vice versa, we are together, listening to every note and dancing with delight.”
DeadCenter nights have also become a local fixture and staple of the venue, with local Grateful Dead tribute bands playing regularly like Stella Blue's Band who have played the venue more than any other band, and are nearing their 100th show, 8Track, Dead Meat, Spadtastics, Deadgrass, Grateful BRO, Finders Keepers and SoulShine, an Allman Brothers Band tribute. DeadCenter nights have become such a mainstay, that these upcoming shows will celebrate 1,425 performances to date.
My Music with Rhiannon Giddens celebrates America’s rich and varied musical traditions and their modern offshoots through engaging performances and conversations. This new series is produced by the Will and Deni McIntyre Foundation, the creative force behind the long-running PBS series David Holt’s State of Music. Presented by PBS North Carolina and distributed nationally through PBS Plus, My Music with Rhiannon Giddens will roll out to broadcast and streaming services for seven weeks of new episodes beginning the week of May 1, 2023.
In seven half-hour episodes, Grammy winner and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Rhiannon Giddens hosts musical performances and conversations with exceptional guest artists filmed on location around the South. Conservatory educated and with deep roots in traditional music, Giddens has far-ranging musical interests and is passionate about her mentors, inspirations and the ongoing relevance of folk music to modern issues.
“It’s thrilling to host a new PBS series that celebrates the intersection of music and storytelling,” says host Rhiannon Giddens. “I’m joined by some amazing artists—fellow collaborators, chosen family and friends—who have forged unconventional paths to find their voices. I hope you’ll be a part of this new journey with me—this is only the beginning!”
“In addition to being a massively talented performer, Rhiannon is a music scholar whose understanding extends well beyond genre boundaries,” says director Deni McIntyre. “In this series, she shares not only her talent but also her vision of America’s diverse musical legacy.”
Guests this season include singer-songwriter and activist Allison Russell; country music artist and artist advocate Rissi Palmer; Indigenous Lumbee/Tuscarora singer Charly Lowry; Southern gothic blues artist Adia Victoria; virtuoso guitarist and singer Joy Clark; Giddens’ life partner and collaborator Francesco Turrisi; Carolina Chocolate Drops cofounder Justin Robinson; Giddens’ sister, singer Lalenja Harrington; and longtime friend, singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett.
“Rhiannon Giddens is a North Carolina treasure,” says Rachel Raney, PBS North Carolina’s Director of National Productions. “We’re thrilled to bring her new series to PBS viewers around the country and introduce our devoted arts audience to these inspiring musicians.”
Schedule
Below is a full list of episodes airing as part of season 1. Watch the preview.
Episode 1: Friends in Music
Thursday, May 4, at 9:30 PM (Stream beginning Monday, May 1)
Rhiannon Giddens shares a musical visit with three lifelong friends: Justin Robinson, cofounder of the groundbreaking Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops; her sister, singer Lalenja Harrington; and singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett.
Episode 2: Allison Russell
Thursday, May 11, at 9:30 PM (Stream beginning Monday, May 8)
Rhiannon Giddens shares a musical visit with longtime friend Allison Russell, the Canadian singer-songwriter and activist whose album Outside Child has received three Grammy nominations and many international accolades.
Episode 3: Rissi Palmer
Thursday, May 18, at 9:30 PM (Stream beginning Monday, May 15)
Rhiannon Giddens visits Rissi Palmer, a passionate voice for country music artists of color and those who have been marginalized by the mainstream music establishment. Palmer performs her first hit song, “Country Girl,” and 2019’s “Seeds.”
Episode 4: Charly Lowry
Thursday, May 25, 9:30 PM (Stream beginning Monday, May 22)
Charly Lowry is a singer-songwriter of Lumbee/Tuscarora descent whose Native American roots and experiences inform her music. Rhiannon Giddens visits Lowry’s tribal homeland of Robeson County, North Carolina, for songs and conversation.
Episode 5: Adia Victoria
Thursday, June 1, at 9:30 PM (Stream beginning Monday, May 29)
Indie artist Adia Victoria grew up not far from Nina Simone’s childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina. Rhiannon Giddens meets her there to share music and hear stories about her strict religious upbringing and her self-discovery through the blues.
Episode 6: Joy Clark
Thursday, June 8, at 9:30 PM (Stream beginning Monday, June 5)
New Orleans native Joy Clark is a lyrical guitarist and rising singer-songwriter on the Americana music scene. She and Rhiannon Giddens share music and talk about her religious upbringing and her lifelong love affair with the guitar.
Episode 7: Francesco Turrisi
Thursday, June 15, at 9:30 PM (Stream beginning Monday, June 12)
Rhiannon Giddens sits down with her partner and collaborator, Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, for a look back at their meeting, the discovery of their musical affinities and their shared vision of musical heritage that crosses borders.
About Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens is an acclaimed American musician known for folk music. She most recently won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album for They’re Calling Me Home, which she made with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. Giddens is a two-time Grammy Award winner and eight-time nominee for her work as a soloist and collaborator. She has performed for the Obamas at the White House and wrote the music for the touring ballet Lucy Negro Redux. Her original opera, Omar, premiered at the Spoleto USA Festival in 2022. She curated a four-concert Perspectives series as part of Carnegie Hall’s 2022–2023 season, and she currently serves as artistic director of Silkroad Ensemble, which was founded in 2000 by cellist Yo-Yo Ma with a mission to promote cross-cultural collaboration. Her lifelong mission is to lift up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been neglected, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of our musical origins.
Consummate entertainer Ann-Margret has unveiled her first new studio album in over a decade, Born To Be Wild, out today on Cleopatra Records. It’s a collection of brand-new recordings of her favorite rock ‘n’ roll and pop gems from the ‘50s through the ‘70s, featuring an all-star group of friends and fans including The Who’s Pete Townshend, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Paul Shaffer, Pat Boone, country legends Mickey Gilley (on one of his final recordings), The Oak Ridge Boys, T.G. Sheppard, Stax guitarist Steve Cropper, Linda Gail Lewis, Robben Ford, and many more. Featuring golden-era favorites like “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Son Of A Preacher Man,” “Volare” and “Why Do Fools Fall In Love,” Ann-Margret remains at the top of her game (and still rides her lavender Harley Davidson) while possessing a voice that's enchanting as ever.
Ann-Margret has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, won five Golden Globe Awards, won an Emmy, and received five other Emmy nominations. She is a three-time winner of the “Female Star of the Year” award and has been twice honored as “Outstanding Box Office Star of the Year” by the Theatre Owners of America. Ann-Margret was also nominated for a Grammy for her album God is Love: The Gospel Sessions. She has performed at the White House, received presidential citations for entertaining the U.S. armed forces overseas and was honored by the USO World Board of Governors. She has made over fifty-five films, including such hits as “The Cincinnati Kid,” “State Fair,” “Tommy,” “Carnal Knowledge,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Viva Las Vegas.”
For Born To Be Wild, Ann-Margret teamed with producers Jürgen Engler (David Hasselhoff, Robby Krieger), Adam Hamilton (William Shatner, Missing Persons) and Danny B. Harvey (Nancy Sinatra, Wanda Jackson), as well as engineer Chris Lietz.
Born To Be Wild Tracklist
SIDE A:
“Rock Around The Clock” feat. Joe Perry & Jim McCarty
“Bye Bye Love” feat. Pete Townshend & T.G Sheppard
“Son Of A Preacher Man” feat. Steve Cropper & Brian Auger
“Earth Angel” feat. The Oak Ridge Boys & Harvey Mandel
“Why Do Fools Fall In Love” feat. Robben Ford & Chip Z’Nuff
“The Great Pretender” feat. Paul Shaffer, Danny B. Harvey & Adam Hamilton
“Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” feat. Cliff Richard & Rick Braun
SIDE B:
“Born To Be Wild” feat. The Fuzztones
“Splish Splash” feat. Mickey Gilley, Linda Gail Lewis & The Rockats
“Somebody’s In My Orchard” feat. Don Randi
“Teach Me Tonight” feat Pat Boone, Rick Wakeman & Damiano Della Torre
“Volare” feat. Lee Rocker & Slim Jim Phantom
“Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” feat. Sonny Landreth
“Being offered an opportunity to work with Ann-Margret, especially on an Everly Brothers song, was just too romantic to pass. Ann-Margret’s work on the Tommy movie back in 1974 (when she was most certainly not old enough to pretend to be Roger Daltrey’s mother) was a joy from beginning to end. Her sonorous voice, her Scandinavian beauty, her sense of humour, her stamina and her strength all shone through.”
- Pete Townshend
"I am very honored and proud to have had this opportunity to record 'Born To Be Wild' for Brian Perera's Cleopatra Records. What fun I had, and then to find all of the great artists that lent their support for this project. Reading the quote from my dear friend Pete Townshend brought back such great memories. Thank you all - Brian, Tim, Ken, Adam, Jurgen, Shore Fire, and everyone involved."
- Ann-Margret
“From the time we were much younger Oak Ridge Boys until this present day, Ann-Margret has been a bigger than life superstar. She is one of the most beautiful women on the planet, who can sing, dance, and act. Even though several years have passed by all of us, Ann-Margret is still a unique force of nature, so when we were invited to sing with her on ‘Born to Be Wild’ we admittingly turned into little boys. What an honor for us to sing one down with Ann-Margret. We felt like Elvis in Viva Las Vegas. Four Lucky Jacksons singing and dancing with Rusty Martin. That sounds like a stretch, but it’s how we felt. Thank you, Ann! You are indeed an EARTH ANGEL!”
- Oak Ridge Boys
“Ann-Margret is a national treasure who can still rock the country like few can. It was an honor to play on her record.”
- Paul Shaffer
“To be invited to sing a duet with Ann-Margret was definitely a bucket list moment. To also be among other legendary friends such as the Oak Ridge Boys and Mickey Gilley, who are also singing with her on this fun project, is truly a great honor. I had a blast being in the studio recording ‘Bye Bye Love’ with her. After all it’s not every day you get a chance to sing with such an iconic star like Ann-Margret.”
- T.G. Sheppard
“Recording with my cousin, Linda Gail Lewis, on ‘Splish Splash’ and bringing family and music together with Ann-Margret has really made this a special project for me. We’re excited to be working together and thrilled we could participate on Ann-Margret’s new album by sharing our love of music with Ann-Margret and our fans!”
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band capped the opening leg of their 2023 international tour tonight; a cross-country 28-show run which marked their first North American dates together since 2016. Kicking off February 1 in Tampa, Florida and concluding tonight in Newark, New Jersey - the high-energy performances featured Springsteen and The E Street Band backed nightly by The E Street Horns and The E Street Choir. Tour setlists have ranged from house-rocking staples like "Dancing In The Dark," "Badlands" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" to live debuts for "Ghosts," "Nightshift," and "Last Man Standing." Interspersed throughout were special additions for each show - including the first performance of "If I Was The Priest" since 1972, covers of The Standells' "Dirty Water" and Jimmy Cliff's "Trapped," and the long-awaited return of "Jungleland," "Jersey Girl," and "Born in the U.S.A."
Springsteen and The E Street Band will return to North America from August through December; including multiple nights in each of Chicago, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Beforehand, they'll kick off the first of 31 European shows on April 28 in Barcelona. Find a full list of dates here: https://brucespringsteen.net/tour
Stewart Copeland, influential drummer/founder of seminal 80s band The Police and acclaimed film, opera, and orchestral composer, continues his musical journey with Police Deranged for Orchestra, a new album set for release on June 23 (Shelter/BMG). With his latest album Copeland explores the band’s best-known tracks through a new lens, inspired by his recent forays into expansive musical forms and instrumentation.
Beginning originally in 2021, Copeland created his newest project, Stewart Copeland: The Police Deranged for Orchestra, which focused on the epic rise of his career. The concert was an evening bursting with The Police’s biggest hits including ”Roxanne,” “Don’t Stand Too Close To Me” and “Message in a Bottle” arranged for full symphony orchestra as well as hand-picked highlights from Copeland’s compositions. The project has toured with sold-out dates across the US and Europe, and will continue through the summer.
Read more here in an exclusive interview with Grammy.com.
The resulting album revisits Police hits newly arranged for full orchestra alongside bassist Armand Sabal Lecco (Paul Simon), guitarist Rusty Anderson (Paul McCartney), and vocalists Amy Keys, Carmel Helene, and Ashley Támar. Percussion and drums were arranged, orchestrated, and co-produced by Copeland. The music was conducted and co-produced by Edwin Outwater and produced and mixed by Craig Stuart Garfinkle.
Police Deranged for Orchestra kicks off today with a new rendition of the Grammy Record of the Year-winning track “Every Breath You Take.” Stream “Every Breath You Take” here.
Unlike his earlier compositional work, Copeland explains that the “derangement” of The Police’s music began as a score for a movie he made out of Super8 footage of the band that he had shot during their rise to glory.
In his own words Copeland says, “Film puts capricious demands on music, so I had to carve up the songs to serve the scenes in the movie, and once the scalpel was out, a whole new frenzy of inspiration from Police music began.”
He continues. “delving into the multi-tracks of our original recordings and live performances revealed lost guitar solos, bass lines, and vocal improvisations that were just too cool to leave in obscurity… this discovery is what brings us to this performance: Sting’s songs, Andy’s inventions, and my impunity; all on the page for a wild ride with orchestra and unique musicians from around the world to adapt some of the most loved The Police hits for old and new audiences alike.
This year also brings the fall release of Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries, published by Rocket 88 Books. The book is based on and includes Copeland’s personal pocket diary entries from 1976-79. With scans of original pages and Copeland’s new background commentary, its pages are illustrated with classic and previously unseen photos from the early “starving years” of a band poised for global success. More information on Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries can be found here.
Concurrent with his early work with The Police, Copeland developed a solo recording alter-ego, Klark Kent, releasing singles and a self-titled 1980 album on which he played all the instruments, - even vocals. The cult album is also scheduled for re-release on April 14th (Record Store Day) on BMG. Klark Kent was credited with inspiring Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) among many others.
The Police Deranged for Orchestra Live tour, with U.S. and international dates, features performances by locally based symphony orchestras along with the core six-member band/ vocal ensemble. The tour, now underway, will soon announce additional dates.
POLICE DERANGED TRACKLIST
Don’t Stand So Close To Me
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
King of Pain
Demolition Man
Murder by Numbers
Roxanne
Tea in the Sahara
Can’t Stand Losing You / Regatta de Blanc
Every Breath You Take
POLICE DERANGED WITH ORCHESTRA LIVE
April 28: London, England – London Coliseum
May 19: Waukegan, IL – Genesee Theatre
July 12: Udine, Italy – Piazzale del Castello
July 14: Umbria, Italy – Umbria Jazz Festival, Arena S. Guilana
ODESZA (the GRAMMY-nominated duo of Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight) made a special appearance this past Saturday at Coachella, performing a surprise DJ set at the Do Lab stage. The electronic trailblazers dazed their audience with an appearance by acclaimed violinist, vocalist and songwriter Sudan Archives who joined the duo to premiere the new ODESZA remix of her hit “Selfish Soul”. Shortly after their performance, a studio version of “Selfish Soul (ODESZA Remix)” dropped on all DSPs, giving the track a bass-heavy, euphoric & spacey reimagining. This is the first remix from ODESZA in eight years.
The track drop and Coachella appearance follows the recent announcement of ODESZA’s forthcoming headlining slot at the 2023 Life Is Beautiful festival, added to a list of spring/summer appearances that also include top-billing slots at Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands & Electric Forest, as well as their recently announced fall tour kicking off in September. Full dates below.
"Sudan Archives was one of our favorite artists we discovered over the past year. This song in particular was incredibly inspiring to us and we’re grateful to be a part of it.”
"Thank you ODESZA for remixing my song in a way I could never have imagined!” added Sudan Archives.
ODESZA also recently attended the 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards in support of their nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album for ‘The Last Goodbye’ (released via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) and released their new single “To Be Yours (feat. Claud)” which Billboard said “perfectly tows the line between each of the artists’ respective worlds, employing the crystal clear production work of the sought-after dance pair as well as the confessional songwriting of the fast-rising bedroom pop singer into one gloriously fun single.”
Last year’s headlining tour sold over 450k tickets throughout its amphitheater run with numerous sold-out, multi-night runs including in their hometown of Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena, LA’s Kia Forum, and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and more (making them the first electronic artists to attempt such a tour). The recent tour also earned high praise with a Pollstar cover feature proclaiming that “ODESZA makes history,” while Billboard added “ODESZA is meant to be seen, and heard, live,” and the Seattle Times called them “a ticket selling, dance music force that raised the live performance bar for electronic artists.”
ODESZA 2023 TOUR DATES
June 10 - New York, NY - The Governors Ball
June 14 - Montreal, QC - Place Bell + #
June 17 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
June 22 - Rothbury, MI - Electric Forest
June 30 - Milwaukee, WI - American Family Insurance Amphitheatre @ = #
Aug 5 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
Aug 11-13 - San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands
Aug 30 - Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center * ^ #
Sept 1 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater * ^ #
Sept 2 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake * ^ #
Sept 3 - Indianapolis, IN - Ruoff Music Center * ^ #
The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series where kids and parents rock out to the classics, just announced a special run of shows over Earth Day Weekend benefiting international non-profit Oceanic Global on Saturday April 22 and Sunday, April 23. Featuring the music of Bob Marley and The Grateful Dead, The Rock and Roll Playhouse will bring family fun to 13 different venues across the country. Tickets are available here.
Senior Director of The Rock and Roll Playhouse, Stephen Grybowski shares “Supporting Oceanic Global on Earth Day Weekend is not just about bringing families together through the power of music, but also about teaching the next generation the importance of preserving our planet. By creating unforgettable experiences for families while supporting a worthy cause, we can inspire a love for music and a passion for environmental activism in our children that will last a lifetime.”
“Oceanic Global believes in the power of music and art to ignite emotion, bridge connection, and inspire action for the issues that impact us all. And, we value live music in particular for its ability to bring joy and build community within the environmental movement. We are so proud to be partnering with The Rock and Roll Playhouse in honor of Earth Day on this shared approach and to be celebrating as well helping to nurture the next generation’s relationship to our blue planet” says Natasha Berg, Board of Directors & Head of Communication, Oceanic Global.
From The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Phish, David Bowie, Prince, Aretha Franklin, Dave Matthews Band and more, The Rock and Roll Playhouse introduces the next generation to timeless music while providing kids with early music exposure and encouraging creativity. The Playhouse was founded in 2013 at its flagship venue Brooklyn Bowl by Peter Shapiro, entrepreneur and co-owner of the Bowl and owner of The Capitol Theatre, and Amy Striem, a certified Early Childhood and Elementary teacher. Designed to create opportunities for families to experience live music together in historic venues, The Rock and Roll Playhouse continues to unite families through music with hundreds of unforgettable shows nationwide as the largest national concert series for families where kids can “move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon” (New York Times).
The Rock and Roll Playhouse Earth Day Weekend Schedule:
All ages welcome; admission is free for children one years old and under
Duane Betts’ debut solo album, Wild & Precious Life, brings a fresh perspective to southern rock with sharply-crafted songs and exquisite guitar work that capture the emotional release of overcoming struggle, appreciating the fleeting nature of life and the joys of being present. Recorded at Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks’ Swamp Raga Studio, it features guests including Trucks, Marcus King, and Nicki Bluhm. The album will be released July 14 on Royal Potato Family.
The son of legendary guitarist Dickey Betts, Duane grew up on the road with The Allman Brothers Band, watching hundreds of shows from the wings as a teenager. He spent the better part of a decade playing guitar in his father's band, Dickey Betts & Great Southern, and traveled the country as a touring member of Dawes. He also released an EP of his own songs, 2018's Sketches of American Music, and two albums with The Allman Betts Band in 2019 and 2020.
Betts started writing Wild & Precious Life when the world slowed down in 2020, in a state of reflection. He wrote some of the songs while at home in Florida, in the presence of his larger than life father, who is now 80. Others capture the joy of finding his soulmate, and getting married in 2019. His journey to sobriety influenced the songs, too. "We're here for such a short period of time," Duane explains. "We see people come and people go — people we love and people we miss. We've all lost loved ones, yet we're still here. You really have to take advantage of your time and make the most of it."
While it took nearly a lifetime to get to this moment of making his solo album debut, the songs, and the recording, happened quickly and organically. Attending a birthday party in the Florida Keys, Duane found himself talking to Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi. "I told them I wanted to make a solo album and really capture that old school Florida vibe," says the Sarasota native, "and Susan said I should just use their studio." Duane assembled his dream team of musicians — including guitarist Johnny Stachela, bassist Berry Duane Oakley, keyboardist John Ginty, and drummer Tyler Greenwell — and headed to Tedeschi and Trucks’ Swamp Raga Studio in Jacksonville, where Wild & Precious Life was recorded to analog tape during live-in-the-recording-studio performances over the span of just a couple weeks.
Wild & Precious Life offers up a timeless version of American music — a cosmic, joyous mix of blues, rock, folk, and country, brimming with twin guitar harmonies. "Waiting on a Song" is a timeless tribute to patience, faith, and the muse itself, laced with fiery fretwork from Duane's Les Paul Gold Top. "Circles in the Stars" is equal parts cowboy campfire song and folk ballad, with Duane singing a love letter to his wife over the earthy resonance of a vintage, post-WWII Martin D28 acoustic guitar that once belonged to his father. Even the album's exploratory and epic instrumental track, "Under the Bali Moon," seems to conjure up its own storyline, thanks to a combination of evocative slide guitar and non-western twinkles of piano.
Betts and his band Palmetto Motel have also announced a spring/summer tour that will start in New Orleans during the first weekend of the Jazz & Heritage Festival, on April 30. See below for the full itinerary of headlining shows and festival appearances. Tickets go on sale today.
Evergreen
Waiting On A Song
Forrest Lane
Colors Fade
Saints To Sinners
Stare At The Sun
Under The Bali Moon
Sacred Ground
Cold Dark World
Circles In The Stars
Tour Dates:
4/30 - New Orleans, LA - Chickie Wah Wah
5/18-5/21 - Todos Santos, Mexico - Cosmico Festival
5/28 - Healdsburg, CA - Cosmico Festival
6/17 - Hudson Valley, NY - Follow The Arrow
7/2 - Scranton, PA - The Peach Music Festival
7/14 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
7/15 - Saint Petersburg, FL - Jannus Live
7/16 - Jacksonville, FL - The Bier Hall at Intuition Ale Works
7/18 - Charleston, SC - Pour House Charleston
7/19 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
7/20 - Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theatre
7/21 - Roanoke, VA - 5 Points Music Sanctuary
7/22 - Lewes, DE - The Room at Cedar Grove
7/23 - Patchogue, NY - Great South Bay Music Festival
Today, VICE News announced the world premiere of Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story at Tribeca Film Festival on June 13th. An intimate, career-spanning portrait of Ukrainian immigrant and punk legend Eugene Hütz, Scream of My Blood chronicles Hütz’s childhood journey to the U.S., his rise to fame with punk band Gogol Bordello and his defiant return to Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
Through never-before-seen photo and video archives spanning two decades – including concert performances, backstage moments and intimate interviews – Scream of My Blood follows the epic journey of Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello frontman and one of the greatest storytellers of our time, as he uses music as a rallying cry for the cultural identity of Ukraine while it continues its fight for sovereignty. Born in Ukraine to a family with Romani roots, Hütz fled his homeland during the Chernobyl disaster. Now, after years of exorcizing demons through his music, he is going home to face down the biggest demon of all. A wild punk-rock-doc that explodes off the screen, Scream of My Blood is a testament to the power of speaking your truth, no matter the cost.
“Only the true friendship of two dedicated craftsmen and maniacs can give an insight like this documentary. Often on his own dime, Nate Pommer traveled the world with us, documenting Gogol Bordello’s impact for over the course of two decades, while tectonic changes were taking place, with empires and minds crumbling around us. When the war in Ukraine broke out once again, he fearlessly followed us, bringing along the VICE News team on our mission to support troops and refugee hubs. A trip that once again distilled our true callings. Much respect to Eric Weinrib and the VICE team for keeping the story of Ukrainian tragedy and its heroic resilience in the news, and helping to get the story out at the hardest time for the nation.” - Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello)
“This film was a natural fit for us at VICE, where we’ve always taken a fearless approach to News. Nate Pommer, Eric Weinrib, Bev Chase and of course, Eugene, are best in class storytellers and we can’t wait for the world to see what so many fans already understand about Gogol Bordello and the power of screaming your truth.” - Subrata De (VICE News EVP)
Executive Produced by Liev Schreiber and Suroosh Alvi, Scream of My Blood is a timely and poignant story of the dramatic rise of a band’s wild and electrifying frontman who came up in the Kyiv underground punk rock scene behind the Iron Curtain. With Ukrainian culture under threat once again, the music of Gogol Bordello and Eugene Hütz has taken on new meaning. The team behind The Gogol Bordello Story, including Directors Nate Pommer and Eric Weinrib, Producer Beverly Chase and Executive producers Subrata De and Craig Thomson, have garnered numerous industry awards including the Peabody, the duPont, Tony Award, NY & LA Press Club Awards, News & Documentary Emmys®, Grammys, as well as Primetime Emmy®, IDA and Golden Globe nominations.
The film will premiere worldwide at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on June 13th.
Known for delivering a unique brand of psychedelic soul and rock-tinged Americana, Bay Area collective Moonalice ushers in the 4/20 holiday with a smokin’ version of “Am I High?,” the cult stoner singalong anthem from 10x-Grammy-winning Asleep at the Wheel. Asleep at the Wheel’s founder and vocalist Ray Benson joins Moonalice on their new version, singing the song’s bridge and harmonizing in unison with the T Sisters. Accompanying the single release is a smoke-filled music video starring the famed Grateful Dead roadie Big Steve Parish. “Am I High?” is timed with Moonalice's annual hometown 4/20 celebration, Moonalice’s Gathering of the Tribe, happening tonight at San Francisco's The Chapel. Moonalice will livestream the 4/20 show for free on Thursday at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on www.moonalice.com.
“From its very first show in 2007, at a concert in support of medical usage, Moonalice has promoted the end of criminalization of cannabis and the civil rights abuses that stemmed from it,” said Moonalice band leader, Roger McNamee. “Our annual Gathering of the Tribe on April 20 combines music, liquid lights, and poster art in celebration of a plant that brings joy and relief to millions.”
Speaking on the new version of “Am I High?” Ray Benson shares, “I met a few of the Moonalice folks backstage at Hardly Strictly in San Francisco and they told me about recording it and the concept. I lit a joint and said sure I'd love to sing on it!”
Conceived in a cloud of smoke, Moonalice played their first concert at a medical marijuana benefit in 2007 and has campaigned for the legalization of cannabis ever since. Their annual 4/20 celebration has become one of the Bay Area’s premier outtings for over a decade now. Following a three-year hiatus, the Gathering of the Tribe returns this year in partnership with Humboldt Family Farms, who are committed to capturing and preserving the roots of the Emerald Triangle Cannabis culture in the same way that Moonalice is committed to embodying the spirit of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture that inspires their music. Hippie icon Wavy Gravy returns to emcee this year’s festivities. Legendary farmer Nik Erikson of Full Moon Farms along with Founder of Humboldt Family Farms, Scott Vasterling, will be on-site to discuss Cannabis culture, history, and their sun-grown Cannabis offerings as well as giving away gift bags to all ticket holders throughout the event. Additionally, 25 posters by 23 artists were created to commemorate this show. Each attendee will receive a special set of posters.
“Am I High?” is the group’s first release since Light Side of the Moonalice - An Acoustic Adventure. Recorded in August 2022 with 4x-Grammy Award-winning engineer Dave Way (Fiona Apple, Pink, Norah Jones), the acoustic project saw Moonalice rework staples from their Full Moonalice Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 EPs, including “Time Has Come Today” and “Love Peace & Happiness.”
Following the 4/20 festivities, Moonalice returns to Skull & Roses Festival in Ventura, CA, and Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival. Moonalice recently partnered with One Tree Planted, a nonprofit organization focused on global reforestation. Since 2014, the organization has planted over 40 million trees in more than 47 countries across the globe. For every fan that follows Moonalice on Spotify, One Tree Planted will plant one tree.
MOONALICE – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Date City/State/Province Venue
4/20 San Francisco, CA 420 Gathering of the Tribe @ The Chapel
Today Dave Matthews Band releases “Monsters,” the second single from their 10th studio album Walk Around The Moon, out May 19 via RCA Records. The song’s full-bodied production is accented by siren-sound guitar wails, lush chords, and a steady groove. Nostalgia-inducing lyrics evoke timeless feelings and yearnful memories: “Chutes and ladders / Pick up sticks / Counting cards and counting bricks / Driving past that old five and dime / Can’t get nothing for a nickel since a long long time.” Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds debuted “Monsters'' earlier this year during their annual Riviera Maya concerts.
View “Monsters” video, created by artist Justin Zielke
Walk Around The Moon is Dave Matthews Band’s first album in four years. Largely written throughout the pandemic, the body of work is as much a reflection on the current times as it is an urge to find common ground. Most of the album’s 12 original songs were recorded with producer Rob Evans. “Monsters” was produced by longtime collaborator, John Alagia.
Fans can pre-order the physical album, featuring a limited-edition deluxe vinyl option, exclusively at DaveMatthewsBand.com.
Coinciding with the release of Walk Around The Moon, Dave Matthews Band will hit the road on an extensive U.S. summer tour (full list of dates below), performing at large stadiums and amphitheaters across the country. After playing a trio of dates in Mexico, Dave Matthews Band will kick off its U.S. tour at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, TX on May 19. The headline run will include the band’s first show at the historic Forest Hills Stadium in New York on June 9. Dave Matthews Band will play two-night stands in Wilmington, NC; Charleston, SC; Noblesville, IN; Chicago, IL; Gilford, NH; Saratoga Springs, NY; Camden, NJ; West Palm Beach, FL and Irvine, CA. The tour will conclude with the band’s traditional three-day, Labor Day weekend celebration at Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA (September 1-3). See below for the full tour routing.
Dave Matthews’ ongoing partnership with The Nature Conservancy has resulted in three million trees being planted since 2020. This year’s continued partnership will bring the total to four million trees. Fans can join in this mission by adding an optional donation of $2 per ticket to plant a tree with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign – a major forest restoration effort with the goal of planting a billion trees around the world by 2025. For additional details, visit www.dmbtrees.org. Once again, Dave Matthews Band will offset carbon emissions for band/fan travel with the assistance of REVERB, creating a climate positive tour. REVERB will also produce the tour’s annual eco-village.
Named as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2019, Dave Matthews Band has a long history of reducing their environmental footprint, going back to their first shows in 1991. The band has sold more than 25 million tickets since its inception, making them the second largest ticket-seller in history, and has sold a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Date – City/State/Province – Venue
5/9 – Mexico City, DF – Auditorio Nacional
5/11 – Monterrey, NL – Auditorio Pabellon M
5/13 – Guadalajara, JAL – Teatro Diana
5/19 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
5/20 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
5/23 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP
5/24 – Southaven, MS – BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove
5/26 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
5/27 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
5/30 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park
5/31 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park
6/2 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
6/3 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
6/9 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
6/10 – Hartford, CT – Xfinity Theatre
6/14 – Darien, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
6/16 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre
6/17 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
6/23 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
6/24 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/27 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
6/29 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheatre
6/30 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/1 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/7 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/8 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/11 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/12 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/14 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/15 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
7/19 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
7/21 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/22 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/25 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
7/26 – Orange Beach, AL – The Amphitheater at the Wharf
7/28 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
7/29 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Valerie June and Bill Frisell have joined forces on a fresh interpretation of Doc Watson’s “Handsome Molly” featured on new tribute album I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 out next Friday, April 28. Valerie June is a renowned singer-songwriter with a distinct and rich voice whose soulful vocals and captivating stage presence have earned her critical acclaim, while Grammy-winning artist Bill Frisell’s innovative guitar playing has made him a legend in the music world. The collaboration showcases their fresh spin on the beloved Doc Watson recording originally released by Watson in 1961.
“Handsome Molly” is a traditional Appalachian folk tune that dates back to the early 20th century. It tells the story of a woman named Molly with lyrics that portray themes of unrequited love and longing. Watson often performed "Handsome Molly,” showcasing his mastery of flatpicking guitar. Doc Watson's renditions of "Handsome Molly" were known for their authenticity and heartfelt delivery, resonating with audiences who appreciated his ability to capture the essence of traditional folk music while adding his own unique touch.
“Doc Watson added an effervescence and spark to American music,” says Valerie June. “I’m so grateful that his music brought me together with one of my guitar idols, Bill Frisell. By covering “Handsome Molly”, we are welcoming the world to enjoy the wonder and imagination that sends a simple folk song soaring through starry skies.”
“Doc Watson. The one and only. What an honor and privilege to have been invited to take part of this beautiful project,” says Bill Frisell. "So thankful to meet Valerie June for the first time. What a joy this was. We just played. No effort. No fear. Nothing to figure out. Thanks so much to Matt Stevens for giving us this opportunity. He and Jeremy Loucas created a space and welcomed us into it. A place where we could be ourselves. Magic happens. I feel so Lucky.”
I Am A Pilgrim: Doc Watson at 100 celebrates the deep influence and legacy of the North Carolina guitarist, singer and songwriter and features new renditions of some of Watson’s most beloved recordings from his expansive catalog. In addition to Valerie June and Bill Frisell, it features Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash, John Leventhal, Jeff Parker, Matthew Stevens, Nora Brown, Jerry Douglas, Chris Eldridge, Steve Earle, Corey Harris, Jack Lawrence, Lionel Loueke, Ariel Posen, Marc Ribot and Yasmin Williams. It was executive produced by Mitch Greenhill, Matthew Greenhill and Peer Steinwald.
Previously shared songs from the album include Jeff Parker and Matthew Stevens' take on "Alberta," Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal’s “I Am A Pilgrim,” and Dolly Parton’s version of “The Last Thing On My Mind,” a song that Parton recorded in 1967 and performed by Parton and Watson at Merlefest together in 2001. The music has been covered by NPR’s Fresh Air, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Garden & Gun and more.
I Am A Pilgrim highlights Watson’s talent and charisma and features contributions from Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, numerous GRAMMY Award winners, and several NPR Tiny Desk alumni - interpreting his work through a prismatic lens of folk, bluegrass, blues, jazz, experimental and rock music. Given Watson’s seismic impact on guitar playing, it’s no surprise that so many guitar playing styles are represented here, from the finger tapping style of Yasmin Williams (“Doc’s Guitar,” a Watson original) to the slide guitar of Ariel Posen (“Will The Circle Be Unbroken”) and the harmonics featured on Lionel Loueke’s version of “Reuben’s Train.” Nora Brown, a teenager turning heads with her take on old time music, contributes a moving rendition of the hymn “Am I Born To Die.” The album concludes with “Your Lone Journey,” a song that Watson penned while mourning his son, and lovingly interpreted here by Bill Frisell.
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson earned 7 GRAMMY Awards and 23 nominations including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1997 from President Clinton and has been the subject of multiple books, boxed sets and compilation albums. He was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina on March 3, 1923, grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family and learned guitar at a young age. Watson was an integral part of the early 1960s folk revival and became known as one of the greatest flatpicking guitarists of all time, a style that influenced the playing of countless guitarists. Watson, who lost his eyesight at a young age, was also considered a master of the banjo. He released nearly 30 albums spanning 50 years and collaborated with Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Del McCoury, Taj Mahal, Mississippi John Hurt, David Grisman and many others. His work embraced the regional music of North Carolina and he helped to change what people thought about mountain music through his repertoire of traditional and folk recordings. Watson also presided over MerleFest from its inception in 1988, founded to honor the memory of his son, Merle, as a fundraiser for Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Taking place each spring since 1988, MerleFest has become one of the premiere music festivals in the country.
New Breed Brass Band has released the second single from their forthcoming album, Made In New Orleans. "Give It To Me" is a testament to the band's versatility and musicianship, combining sophisticated brass chord voicings with a sleek pop-forward bounce sound that's sure to make you want to move. Kango Slim’s lissome vocal plays off the relentless bounce toasting of the great Big Choo, as ribbons of saxophone and brass fanfare lend a swooning, celebratory atmosphere. The single is a symbol that New Breed Brass Band is pushing the boundaries of their genre and creating something new and exciting, blending brass and bounce.
"Give It To Me" is a departure from the traditional second-line style that the band is known for, but still showcases all of the elements that make New Breed Brass Band so unique and exciting. Listen here: https://youtu.be/fxzhYFpMFtY
New Breed Brass Band announced their debut album, Made In New Orleans, in early April. The album, out April 28, is a thrilling collection of songs that both honors the second-line tradition and brings it into the future with a mix of funk, rock, hip-hop, R&B and bounce music. It was mixed and mastered by Count (The Rolling Stones, Run the Jewels, Radiohead) and produced by Trombone Shorty aka Troy Andrews and recorded at his own Buckjump Studios in New Orleans. Troy is not only bandleader and snare-drummer Jenard Andrews’ uncle but a New Orleans music scene lynchpin and one of its most visible ambassadors.
The album arrives just in time for New Breed’s performance at Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue’s legendary Treme Threauxdown taking place at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans next week on April 29. The band is a special guest on the 7th annual edition of this concert, and the lineup also includes Eric Church, Mavis Staples and Robert Glasper.
The week following, New Breed will perform at the Jazz and Heritage Festival, Friday, May 5 at 3:50pm on the Jazz & Heritage stage.
Along with the album announcement earlier this month, the band released “Drop It How You Feel It.” The song recruits local legends Wild Wayne and the late great 5th Ward Weebie for a joyous bout of toasting that reaches peak street party vibes when they rhyme “Judge Judy” with “booty.”
New Breed’s signature sound is influenced by a multitude of artists with traces of expected local antecedents like Rebirth Brass Band and Soul Rebels Brass Band, but also funk arrangements inspired by Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower Of Power as well as rhythmic twists pulled from Cuban jazz, New Orleans bounce beats, and even rock drummers like Dave Grohl. This is second line music in conversation with everything from Caribbean music to No Limit Records to modern R&B in the vein of Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak’s Silk Sonic. Second line music for and by the next generation.
New Breed Brass Band is Jenard Andrews (bandleader and snare-drummer), Revon Andrews (trombone), Mike Brooks (sousaphone), Yirma Yisrael and Orlando Gilbert (saxophone), Emanuel Mitchell and Chris Cotton (trumpet), and Tyreek Andrews and George Brown (bass drum). Jenard himself was born into second-line music: his father is the great New Orleans trumpeter James Andrews, who has played at jazz festivals around the world.
The band made their street debut in November 2013 at the Nine Times Second Line. Since then, they have showcased their originality touring in North America and Europe as well as opening for such diverse bands as The Fray, Red Baraat, Blackalicious, Dr. John, The Waterboys, and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. With Made In New Orleans, they’ve forged a new path for 21st century second lines — it’s just up to listeners to follow their lead down the parade route.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right: today, April 20th, the Grateful Dead launches its official TikTok account, @gratefuldead. In conjunction with Rhino Entertainment, the channel will serve as an outlet to celebrate the decades of music, generations of community, and endless array of creativity that has woven the band and its fans into every new era of the world's counterculture and consciousness. For its inaugural post – soundtracked by a remastered 1969 live recording of "St. Stephen" at San Francisco's Fillmore West – a 30-second video stitches together archival concert footage, candid scenes from Shakedown Street, handmade artwork and other technicolored ephemera, as an answer to the question, "People are crazy about the Grateful Dead, how can you account for that?"
The Grateful Dead's official TikTok account arrives after the introduction of the band's music to the platform last month, allowing users to feature recordings from across the band's colossal catalog in their own video creations. Stay tuned for other Grateful Dead-related news coming from Rhino soon.
Easy Eye Sound have shared the latest offering from their compilation Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues) out August 11, a recently-announced collection which brings together wide-ranging voices from across the genre landscape compiled by label founder Dan Auerbach. Initially sharing the surging title track from Louisiana blues master Robert Finley, Easy Eye Sound (Billboard’s 2022 Blues Label of the Year) are now highlighting one of the genre’s top up-and-coming voices: Chicago-based Gabe Carter.
Steeped in the 100 year old traditions of bluesmen like Jack Owens, Carter revitalizes the singular sounds of Bentonia, Mississippi. With today’s release, “Buffalo Road,” Carter offers a raw juke joint blues: sauntering, boot-stomping rhythms that showcase his gritty guitar work.
"Featuring hypnotic guitar riffs, Carter’s sharp-yet-raspy voice, and an old-fashioned AM radio quality in the best of ways, “Buffalo Road” showcases those raw sensibilities that often make blues music so attractive," praises American Songwriter.
Watch Gabe Carter’s “Buffalo Road” here:
Pre-order Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound)here.
Composed of exclusive recordings cut at Easy Eye Sound’s Nashville studio, Tell Everybody! features legends like the Hill Country’s R.L. Boyce, Betonia’s Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, unsung Ohio hero Glenn Schwartz, and the Delta gospel sounds of Leo “Bud” Welch. Throughout the collection, Carter is also joined by fellow brilliant youngbloods like Detroit duo The Moonrisers and Korean-American Kentucky native Nat Myers — along with a pair of never-before-heard tracks from both The Black Keys and Auerbach’s solo work.
Listen to Robert Finley’s “Tell Everybody”, which finds the instantly-captivating singer-songwriter-guitarist backed by high-powered Hill Country playing from Kenny Brown (guitar), Eric Deaton (bass) and Kinney Kimbrough (drums): Listen here.
Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound) Track List
RL Boyce - Coal Black Mattie
Robert Finley - Tell Everybody
Moonrisers - Tall Shadow
Dan Auerbach - Every Chance I Get (I Want You In The Flesh)
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes - Catfish Blues (Mono)
Gabe Carter - Anything You Need
Nat Myers - Willow Witchin’
Leo Bud Welch - Don't Let The Devil Ride (Mono)
The Black Keys - No Lovin’
Glenn Schwartz - Daughter Of Zion (Featuring Joe Walsh)
With more than 20 gold, platinum and multi-platinum records, WAR have cemented their righteous strains of funk and soul in the fabric of global culture and consciousness. But in the 50 years since The World is a Ghetto made the Southern Californian street band a crossover sensation and became the best-selling album of 1973, the group's sound has continued to transcend genres and generations.
Today, to further mark the 50th Anniversary milestone of The World is a Ghetto, WAR announce a brand new collection called WAR: The Remixes. Out May 12th on Avenue / Rhino Records, the EP expands the influence of WAR's music on the worlds of contemporary hip-hop, as esteemed DJs, producers and musicians including Beastie Boys turntablist Mix Master Mike, DJ Logic, Jesse Perez, Preditah and Saxsquatch reimagine eternal hits like "The World is a Ghetto," "Spill The Wine," "Why Can't We Be Friends" and more that spans several of the band's magnum opuses.
Hear Mix Master Mike Remix "The World is a Ghetto" & "Slippin' Into Darkness" On The First Single Out Now: https://war.lnk.to/WarxMMM
Across WAR's six decades and counting, the band spread its messages of harmony and inclusion through songs that have soundtracked the anti-Vietnam movement, Watergate, the first Congressional Black Caucus, the first US-Soviet space mission and multiple Barack Obama summer playlists. Bolstered by the gold-selling success of the title track and the boundary-breaking power of "The Cisco Kid," The World is a Ghetto topped Billboard's pop and R&B charts, launching WAR's legacy not only of creative and commercial triumph, but of timely and timeless relevance. Music from The World is a Ghetto has been sampled by 2Pac, A$AP Mob, Cypress Hill, DJ Shadow, Janet Jackson, Method Man and Scarface, among others, while the likes of De La Soul, Kendrick Lamar, Shaggy and many more have honored and celebrated WAR throughout the years.
Led by Lonnie Jordan, WAR remains one of the busiest bands on the road today, and throughout 2023 they will headline dozens of shows, in addition to appearing at festivals like BottleRock Napa Valley and more to be announced soon. Stay tuned for additional news tied to the 50th Anniversary of The World is a Ghetto, and find upcoming performances here.
3x Grammy award-winning reggae group Morgan Heritage –– currently composed of the Trinity: Peetah Morgan, Gramps Morgan, and Mr. Mojo Morgan, all the children of late reggae great and Father of A Nation, the Hon. Ras Denroy Morgan –– release their new studio album, The Homeland, which has debuted #1 US iTunes World Music Albums chart. Slated as 2023s must hear world music project, the 21-track collection marks a new era for Morgan Heritage as they expand their global reach from the Caribbean to the African Continent and beyond. With the aim of bridging their parents’ home of Jamaica to their ancestral homeland of Africa, Morgan Heritage brought together the biggest names across caribbean and African music, including: Shaggy, Beenie Man, Popcaan, Shatta Wale, Ice Queen Cleo, Youssou N’Dour, Mádé Kuti, Alpha Blondy, Otile Brown, Eddy Kenzo, Busy Signal, Capleton and more.
The Homeland is a project of rebirth for the Morgan brothers, built upon a lineage that has lasted decades and one that will continue to forge forward. Musically, they take the listener on a journey that not only reminds them of days past, but the future ahead. Take a listen to the albums “infectiously upbeat” (Brooklyn Vegan) lead single “Who Deh Like U” feat Bounty Killer, Cham & Stonebwoy, which debuted at #1 on the US iTunes Afro-Beat chart.
Listen to “Who Deh Like U” feat Bounty Killer, Cham & Stonebwoy HERE
Morgan Heritage joined GRAMMY Museum (at L.A. Live) last month as guests for The Drop Series, hosting an intimate conversation about their career, creative process, and their new album. This kicked off the culturally-iconic band's global promotional tour, with planned stops in Los Angeles, New York, England, Germany, France, Uganda and Ghana.
The Homeland Tracklisting
Bambulele ft. Brothers & Sisters Art Organization
Can U Feel It ft. Gentleman & Rophnan
I’ll Be There ft. Busy Signal * Mádé Kuti
U Got To (See The World) ft. S’Villa & Eddy Kenzo
Diamond Love ft. Popcaan & Mr Killa
The Homeland ft. Youssou N’Dour
Positive ft. Shaggy & Beenie Man
Direct Contact ft. Floda Graé
Just A Number
Ready ft. Shatta Wale, J Chameleon & RJ the DJ
Heaven ft. Krissy Yamagucci & Fayross
Who Deh Like U ft.Bounty Killer, Cham, & Stonebwoy
Headline Fi Front Page ft. Jahshii, Rytikal, & I-Octane
Wacha Nikupende ft. Otile Brown
Maria ft. Jah Prayzah
Levels ft. Macky 2 & Ice Queen Cleo
They Gonna Be Alright
Remember ft. Alpha Blondy & Capleton
Afreeca The Future ft. Lord Alajiman & Rocky Dawuni
I Will Never Forget ft. Raiah, Esh Morgan & Jemere Morgan
Long To Be Home ft. Eddy Kenzo
Show Dates
May 04, 2023 New Orleans, LA Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 06, 2023 Las Vegas, NV Reggae In The Desert
May 12, 2023 Cayman Islands Lover’s Rock Cayman 2023
Two of Little Feat’s best – Sailin’ Shoes and Dixie Chicken – have been newly remastered for upcoming Deluxe Editions that will introduce unreleased live and studio recordings that capture peak Feat.
Rhino will release SAILIN’ SHOES (DELUXE EDITION) and DIXIE CHICKEN (DELUXE EDITION) on June 23. Each collection will be available in two different configurations, a 2-CD set for $24.98 and a 3-LP 180-gram vinyl version for $59.98. Pre-order HERE.
Released in 1972, Sailin’ Shoes was the second studio album from the founding quartet of singer-guitarist Lowell George, drummer Richard Hayward, keyboard player Bill Payne, and bassist Roy Estrada. Ted Templeman produced the record, which was the first to feature artwork by illustrator Neon Park, who created covers for nearly all of Little Feat’s albums.
SAILIN’ SHOES (DELUXE EDITION) opens with a newly remastered version of the original album, which introduced signature tunes like “Easy To Slip,” the title track, and an updated version of “Willin’” a song that also appeared in 1971 on the band’s eponymous debut. Several outtakes from the album’s recording sessions make their debut on the Deluxe Edition, including alternate versions of “Cold, Cold, Cold,” “A Apolitical Blues,” and “Willin’.”
The magic that Little Feat conjured in concert takes center stage in the new set with a newly discovered and previously unreleased complete show recorded at the Palladium in Los Angeles on August 28, 1971. This live set marks the only multi-track recording in existence to feature the original lineup of the band. The performance features songs from both Sailin’ Shoes (“Tripe Face Boogie,” “Teenage Nervous Breakdown”) and Little Feat (“Hamburger Midnight,” “Snakes On Everything.”) The set also comes with illustrated liner notes written by acclaimed music journalist, David Fricke.
Dixie Chicken, the band’s third studio album, emerged in 1973 and introduced fans to Little Feat’s evolving sound and new line-up. The group’s shift toward New Orleans-style funk was accompanied by the arrival of three new members, guitarist Paul Barrere, percussionist Sam Clayton, and bassist Kenny Gradney (who replaced Estrada).
DIXIE CHICKEN (DELUXE EDITION) contains the newly remastered album, which features classics like “Two Trains,” “Fat Man In The Bathtub,” and the title track. Several unreleased session recordings debut in the new set, including alternate versions of “Roll Um Easy,” “On Your Way Down,” and “Juliette.” The unreleased live music was recorded at Paul’s Mall in Boston on March 1, 1973. They feature songs from Dixie Chicken (“Two Trains,” “Walkin’ All Night”) and the band’s earlier albums (“Willin’,” “Got No Shadow.”) The illustrated liner notes included in the collection were written by author Dennis McNally, who got his start as the Grateful Dead’s publicist.
Little Feat will celebrate these deluxe editions with “The Albums Tour” this fall, which will feature the band playing each album in its entirety across back-to-back nights at select venues (night one will be Sailin’ Shoes and night two will be Dixie Chicken). Preceding “The Album Tour,” the band is currently in the midst of their “Boogie Your Spring Away” tour, making their way across the East Coast in the coming days before making special appearances at the MerleFest in North Carolina April 27 and The Green River Festival on June 25 in Massachusetts. After a short break, Little Feat will hop back on the road for the “Boogie Your Summer Away” tour, kicking off July 12 in Atlanta and wrapping up summer dates at the Hot August Music Festival on August 19 in Maryland.
In a brand new song released today titled "King of a Land," Yusuf’s lyrics speak to a clear frustration with the state of the postmodern world: “If I was a king of a land, I’d free every woman and man…If I ran the schools of this world…If I had a mountain of gold.”
Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, Yusuf expresses his hope that the new Monarch will use his role to make a positive impact on the future of the country and the world. “While politicians bicker and scrum in the basement quarters, somebody upstairs should be watching where those political party goers are taking us. Frankly, democracy needs a bit of dusting,” Yusuf laments.
“One of the privileges of being an artist is to express what seems unimaginable, and then hang it up there for people to ponder; we can say things that others can’t. Sure, I know full well music can’t necessarily solve the world’s problems, but it can help to direct the narrative. There are a few aspirations in my song, ‘King of a Land,' that I hope resonate with His Majesty.”
Yusuf / Cat Stevens has shared ‘A Manifesto for a Good King,' a message to King Charles III in which he lists 10 essentials that he believes all leaders should consider. Yusuf will also be writing to the future King directly, in his own hand, to share his message.
“The major message of the song - and this applies to all those in positions of leadership - is, don't forget that there’s One above you, and be careful to look out for those who are below you.”
Manifesto for a Good King
1. Even if you are a King, you are still a servant of God.
2. Remove hatred through education and spread peace.
3. Feed the hungry.
4. We are all humans that make mistakes, so be forgiving.
5. Help the sick and homeless.
6. Beware of negative people in your circle.
7. Everyone has a part to play, teach them to work together.
8. Be just and don't show favouritism.
9. Listen to constructive criticism.
10. Be a guardian to all faiths, and the precious Earth we all share.
The new song, also the title of Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ forthcoming new album, retells the story found in the beautiful illustration bedecking the album’s cover - created by NY Times #1 best-selling illustrator, Peter H. Reynolds, in collaboration with Yusuf. The song is immortalized in a brand new music video, also released today, where Yusuf's lyrics and Reynolds' illustrations are both brought to life. “King of a Land” is the story of a small boy who imagines what he would do if he were king of a land called “Woodbee.” Childlike faith and dreams are brought back into touching distance as Yusuf takes us on a new journey. His voice, words and stunning melodies lead the listener to the gates of a much nicer, optimistic world than the one we presently inhabit.
Peter H. Reynolds said: "Yusuf / Cat Stevens has created a vivid world of the possible. How wonderful to imagine if children ruled the world, how peaceful and just it would be. The lyrics immediately conjured a small boy with a paper crown. His kingdom: a little train set with a miniature village. His mission: to ensure that every inhabitant of this little kingdom was free, educated, fed and able to celebrate the possible... of all that should be, could be, would be. The ‘Land of Woodbee’ welcomes everyone to hop on the ‘Peace Train’ and move forward - together - to a better world."
Listen to ‘King of a Land’ Here / Watch the official music video Here
“King of a Land” arrives amidst a wave of celebratory activity, closely following the announcement of Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ Glastonbury Festival debut. On Sunday June 25, Yusuf will perform the coveted Sunday tea-time legends slot at the Pyramid Stage. The performance is just one month ahead of Yusuf’s milestone 75th birthday, with the release of his anticipated seventeenth studio album shortly after.
Yusuf unveiled the album’s lead single “Take The World Apart” last month. The “cheerful” (Associated Press) track was featured in Rolling Stone’s “Songs You Need To Know” roundup and earned Yusuf praise from The Times, NME, and MOJO Magazine.
King of a Land is set for release via BMG / Dark Horse Records on 16th June 2023. The album is available for pre-order on green vinyl in a gatefold format with a 36 page booklet featuring illustrations by Peter Reynolds. The CD also features a booklet illustrated by Peter Reynolds - Pre-order here. An exclusive edition of the album, pressed on white vinyl, is available from the official Yusuf / Cat Stevens online store along with album merchandise - visit the official store here.
ODESZA and their GRAMMY-nominated album ‘The Last Goodbye’ continues to dominate the electronic music world with the surprise DSP release of a deluxe edition of the epic LP today. They also have announced a forthcoming physical 3LP limited edition deluxe box set (limited to 2,500 units sold), featuring a 2LP press of 'The Last Goodbye' on transparent crystal rose and transparent clear sky color vinyl along with a third transparent hazy gold icosahedron shaped LP featuring four bonus songs. The box set also comes with a 50-page bound photo book with images from The Last Goodbye tour.
In addition to the core set of tracks (which Associated Press called “an indescribable, immersive listening experience”), the deluxe edition of ‘The Last Goodbye’ includes ODESZA’s VIP remixes of two beloved tracks from their ‘In Return’ era: “All We Need (feat. Shy Girls)” & “Sun Models (feat. Madelyn Grant)”. It also includes the studio version of “Hopeful”, a live fan favorite from their 2022 tour, and their acclaimed most recent original track “To Be Yours (feat. Claud)” which Billboard said “[employs] the crystal clear production work of the sought-after dance pair as well as the confessional songwriting of the fast-rising bedroom pop singer into one gloriously fun single.”
ODESZA recently put on a surprise DJ set at Coachella’s Do LaB stage which included a guest appearance by Sudan Archives. In conjunction, an ODESZA remix of Sudan Archives’ “Selfish Soul” dropped on DSPs. The duo’s set follows the recent announcement of ODESZA’s forthcoming headlining slot at the 2023 Life Is Beautiful festival, added to a list of spring/summer appearances that also include top-billing slots at Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands & Electric Forest, as well as their recently announced fall tour kicking off in September. Full dates below.
‘The Last Goodbye’
1. This Version Of You (feat. Julianna Barwick)
2. Wide Awake (feat. Charlie Houston)
3. Love Letter (feat. The Knocks)
4. Behind The Sun
5. Forgive Me (feat. Izzy Bizu)
6. North Garden
7. Better Now (Feat. MARO)
8. The Last Goodbye (Feat. Bettye LaVette)
9. All My Life
10. Equal (Feat. Låpsley)
11. Healing Grid
12. I Can’t Sleep
13. Light Of Day (feat. Ólafur Arnalds)
Deluxe Edition Tracks
1. Hopeful
2. To Be Yours (feat. Claud)
3. All We Need (feat. Shy Girls) (ODESZA VIP Remix)
4. Sun Models (feat. Madelyn Grant) (ODESZA VIP Remix)
ODESZA 2023 TOUR DATES
June 10 - New York, NY - The Governors Ball
June 14 - Montreal, QC - Place Bell + #
June 17 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
June 22 - Rothbury, MI - Electric Forest
June 30 - Milwaukee, WI - American Family Insurance Amphitheatre @ = #
July 2 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up (ODESZA DJ Set) SOLD OUT ~
Aug 5 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
Aug 13 - San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands
Aug 30 - Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center * ^ #
Sept 1 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater * ^ #
Sept 2 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake * ^ #
Sept 3 - Indianapolis, IN - Ruoff Music Center * ^ #
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band launched their European summer stadium tour this weekend with two house-rocking nights at Barcelona's Estadi Olímpic on Friday April 28 and Sunday April 30. Over 117,000 fans were on hand to witness a pair of three-hour performances, which included staples like "Dancing In The Dark," "Badlands" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" alongside tour debuts each night, high-energy covers and an opening night performance of "Glory Days" featuring Patti Scialfa with special guests Kate Capshaw and former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama.
The tour's European debut was given a 5 star review on the front page of The Times in the UK, as well as by The Telegraph who noted "if you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing the greatest rock star of our times with the greatest rock and roll band in the world, I would urge you to catch this tour." European dates will continue through late July, including multiple nights planned in each of Dublin (May 5, 7, 9), Paris (May 13, 15), Amsterdam (May 25, 27), Gothenburg (July 24, 26, 28), Oslo (June 30, July 2), London (July 6, 8) and Copenhagen (July 11, 13). In total, Springsteen and The E Street Band's 31 Europe shows have sold over 1.6 million tickets.
In the spring of 1973, the Grateful Dead was universally praised for delivering a consistently spectacular series of performances. The band was dialed in for the season’s final five shows, including back-to-back nights at RFK Stadium, co-headlining with the Allman Brothers Band. Without a doubt, the June 10 finale belongs on the shortlist of must-hear Dead concerts. Clocking in at nearly five hours, the show is one for the ages: an epic musical journey, peaking with a third-set encore that includes Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks of the Allman Brothers sitting in with the Dead.
HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 is a limited-edition, 17-CD boxed set with five previously unreleased, highly sought-after shows, including: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73), Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73), Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73), and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. (6/9/73) and (6/10/73). The collection is available now for pre-order and will be released on June 30. The set is limited to 10,000 individually numbered copies and is available exclusively from Dead.net for $189.98. The complete audio will also be available as a digital download exclusively at Dead.net in Apple Lossless ($99.98) and FLAC 192/24 ($124.98).
This unique box was painstakingly designed by GRAMMY® Award-winning Art Director Masaki Koike and is bursting with vibrant graphics and unexpected treasures. With liner notes provided by Canadian author Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and Grateful Dead’s Archivist and legacy manager, David Lemieux. The set features five complete, previously unreleased performances housed in individual, custom-designed folios, each including additional, show-specific notes by Robertson. Additionally, the box contains a custom-dyed Tenugui and an Exclusive Poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer. The audio boasts Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction, with mastering by Jeffrey Norman, and was produced for release by David Lemieux.
RFK STADIUM, WASHINGTON, D.C. (6/10/73) will be released separately as a 4-CD set ($39.98) as well as digitally on June 30 and as a limited-edition 8-LP set ($174.98) on July 28 at all regular retail outlets. This show, and the previous night, were originally recorded in exquisite clarity by the Dead’s famed sound visionary, Owsley “Bear” Stanley. Few shows deliver the goods like this. It’s one of the Dead’s most unique, powerful, and inspired performances, from its statement opener, “Morning Dew,” through lengthy workouts on “Bird Song,” “Here Comes Sunshine,” and an otherworldly “Dark Star.”
A previously unreleased performance of “Ramble On Rose” from the RFK 6/10/73 show is available today on all digital download and streaming services. Listen now.
HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 covers one of Lemieux’s favorite eras: “In my early tape-trading days, 1985–1987, I only had a few 1973 shows, but my goodness, did I ever love them. There was a fresh, nimble feel that was entirely different from the 1972 Dead sound taking all of the great elements of the Year of Europe and building upon that excellence. The few shows I distinctly remember having in my collection were 2/9/73, 5/26/73, and 6/10/73. Even with hundreds of tapes at my fingertips, I returned to these 1973 shows frequently. That old saying, ‘I listened to that show so often, I wore the tape out?’ It was created because of shows like this.”
Despite the joyous playing, the band was mourning the loss of its co-founder, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, who passed away on March 8. 1973. He’d been too sick to perform with the band for several months, playing his final show in June 1972. After Pigpen’s death, the band’s lineup solidified for the next two years with Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux.
In the liner notes, Ray Robertson writes: “…maybe what makes this year (and ’74 as well) so endlessly compelling most of all is the jazzy direction the band had taken over the last year or so…This was a group of musicians that listened to each other’s playing. The sum is greater than the already pretty great parts because the parts were paying attention to—and frequently being inspired by—the other parts. That’s jazz. And 1973 is the Dead at their jazzy best.”
During the spring, the band road-tested most of the songs they would record that summer for Wake of the Flood – their first studio album in three years – including early live versions of “Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo,” “Row Jimmy,” “Stella Blue,” “Eyes Of The World,” and, the set’s namesake, “Here Comes Sunshine.” Also tucked into the collection are songs destined for the Dead’s 1974 studio album, From the Mars Hotel – “China Doll,” “Loose Lucy,” and “Wave That Flag,” a precursor to “U.S. Blues.”
The new repertoire slipped neatly into the fluid setlists alongside songs honed on the 1972 European tour (“Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Brown-Eyed Women”), Chuck Berry perennials (“Promised Land,” “Around And Around”), classic country (“Big River,” “The Race Is On”), and incredible jam sequences: “He’s Gone”> “Truckin’”> “The Other One”> “Eyes Of The World.”
In addition to the music, Dead.net is also introducing a limited-edition merchandise collection in connection with the boxed set.
Season Seven of the band’s official podcast, the GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST, debuts today. This season will explore 1973 Dead as they embark on new business adventures and takes an extended look at each of the shows from HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973. Deadcast is currently collecting stories from concertgoers at stories.dead.net.
In anticipation of R&B, funk and soul icons Kool & The Gang celebrating their 60th anniversary next year, they’ve announced a new album today – People Just Wanna Have Fun is out July 14, 2023 on Astana Music Inc, distributed by BFD/The Orchard. With six decades of hits, the internationally celebrated group continues to tour the world and recently performed on Good Morning America. “Let’s Party” (feat. Sha Sha Jones) is the red carpet first single from the upcoming album, which Billboard’s Gail Mitchell spoke about with the group here. The band is led by founding members Robert “Kool” Bell (bassist) and George “Funky” Brown (keyboardist, drummer & producer of this album), whose book Too Hot: Kool & the Gang & Me will be released on July 11, 2023.
Continuing to release music that makes the good times better and the bad times more bearable, this collection will be the band’s 34th studio album, featuring some of the last studio work by founding horn players, Kool’s brother Ronald “Khalis” Bell and Dennis “D.T.” Thomas, who passed in 2020 and 2021. Lead vocals on the album also include Sha Sha Jones, Shawn McQuiller, Lavell Evans, Dominique Karan, Rick Marcel and Walt Anderson, plus rappers Ami Miller & Ole’.
Both Bell and Brown view People Just Wanna Have Fun as a summation of their long career, during which they sold 70 million albums worldwide with hit singles like “Celebration,” “Ladies Night,” “Get Down on It,” “Hollywood Swinging” & beyond. Since their start in 1964, the group has amassed two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, a BET Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award and star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kool’s bass guitar is even featured in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
From Newark to Nairobi, Kool & the Gang have performed continuously longer than any R&B group in history and are the most sampled R&B band of all time, including by Madonna, Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill and P. Diddy. Not to mention their music on soundtracks from Rocky, Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction to Wreck-It Ralph and many more.
Yet throughout all the success, Kool & The Gang has remained true to their roots while pushing into the future. Bell says of the new album, “You’ve got the funk, you’ve got the jazzier tracks, we have a few ballads on there. Then there are songs that cross over to a pop sort of thing. We go from the ‘70s, the ‘80s, right into now. It’s old school, it’s new school — we kinda captured it all here. With all our music over the years, people have had fun. So I’d say this album just about sums it all up.”
Work on the album started five years ago, recording at Brown’s Alley Cat Studio in Woodland Hills, CA for sessions spread out over several months. Though the group recorded much of People Just Wanna Have Fun during the height of the pandemic, Brown says, “It’s all done live. Nothing was flown in. We made sure we had the ultraviolet lights and the sprays and the masks. Nobody got sick. We kept the number of people in the studio way down.”
Up next, the band is looking forward to this summer’s “Kool and the Gang Rock the World Tour,” which will be sponsored by Bell’s own Le Kool Champagne. He’s served as US ambassador of music and the arts to many countries like the Ivory Coast of Africa, and the band has shared stages before with Van Halen & Elton John to Dave Matthews Band & The Roots.
Next year will see the group continuing to celebrate six decades of having fun.
Album Track List:
1. Let’s Party
2. Movie Star
3. People Just Wanna Have Fun
4. We Are The Party
5. V.I.P.
6. Na Na Na
7. Go Get It
8. Give Love
9. I Want It All
10. Heaven’s Gift
11. Obsession
12. The Woman In You
13. My Weakness
14. That’s What I Love About You
15. 99 Miles To JC
Tour Dates:
May 5 @ Westgate Resort & Casino - Las Vegas, NV
May 6 @ Westgate Resort & Casino - Las Vegas, NV
May 11 @ Hampton Beach Casino & Ballroom - Hampton Beach, NH
May 12 @ NYCB Theatre - Westbury, NY
May 13 @ Toyota Oakdale Theatre - Wallingford, CT
May 14 @ MGM Music Hall - Boston, MA
May 20 @ Ion Arena - Leesburg, VA
May 27 @ The Majestic Theatre - San Antonio, TX
June 1 @ indigo @ The O2 - London, UK
June 3 @ Dreamland - Margate, Great Britain
June 9 @ Hampton Court Palace - East Molesey, Great Britain
June 11 @ Childerley Orchard - Cambridge, Great Britain
June 12 @ Ancient Theatre - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
June 30 @ Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre - Detroit, MI
July 1 @ Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre - Youngstown, OH
July 2 @ Haddad Riverfront Park - Charleston, NC
July 14 @ Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles, CA
July 15 @ Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles, CA
July 22 @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park - Corona, NY
September 16 @ Mable House Barnes Amphitheater - Mableton, GA
Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One will be released August 18 on Nonesuch Records. The album is the GRAMMY, MacArthur and Pulitzer-winning singer, composer, and instrumentalist’s third solo studio album and her first of all original songs; her last solo album was 2017’s critically acclaimed Freedom Highway. This collection of 12 songs written over the course of Giddens’ career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants. The album was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Tank and the Bangas) and recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami with a band composed of Giddens’s closest musical collaborators from the past decade alongside musicians from Splash’s own Rolodex, topped off with a horn section, making an impressive ten- to twelve-person ensemble.
It was also announced yesterday that Giddens has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for the opera Omar, which she co-wrote with Michael Abels (Get Out, Nope). Omar, based on the autobiography of an enslaved Muslim man, Omar Ibn Said, who lived in Charleston, SC in the 19th century, made its world premiere last year at Spoleto Festival and has been performed at LA Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and North Carolina Arts, with San Francisco Opera scheduled for this November.
Giddens has also announced the biggest headlining shows of her career, including performances at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in September, plus the Barbican Centre in London, the Beacon Theatre in New York City, and the Ace Theater in Los Angeles next spring. See below for her full itinerary.
The first single from the album – its title track – is also available today. “You’re the One” was inspired by a moment Giddens had with her son not long after he was born (he's now ten years old, and she has a fourteen-year-old daughter as well).
"Your life has changed forever, and you don't know it until you're in the middle of it and it hits you," Giddens says. "I held his little cheek up to my face, and was just reminded, 'Oh my God, my children—they have every bit of my heart.'" Listen to “You’re the One” here: https://rhiannongiddens.lnk.to/youretheone + https://youtu.be/o7-o13fK4p4
Giddens made You’re the One with some of her closest musical collaborators from the past decade, including her partner, Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, plus multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu. The album features electric and upright bass, conga, Cajun and Piano accordions, guitars, a Western string section, and Miami horns, among other instruments, capturing the inclusive spirit that channels through all of her work.
"I hope that people just hear American music," Giddens says. "Blues, jazz, Cajun, country, gospel, and rock—it's all there. I like to be where it meets organically. They're fun songs, and I wanted them to have as much of a chance as they could to reach people who might dig them but don't know anything about what I do. If they're introduced to me through this record, they might go listen to other music I've made and make some new discoveries.”
You’re the One opens with "Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad," an R&B blast (complete with background "shoops" and horns) that takes a titan for inspiration. "I listened to a bunch of Aretha Franklin, and then turned to fellow Aretha-nut Dirk Powell and said, ‘Let’s write a song she might have sung!'" Giddens recalls. Her danceable, vivacious tribute to Franklin's sound is a vocal showcase, spotlighting her soaring high notes and nearly-growling low ones. Another highlight, "If You Don't Know How Sweet It Is," intentionally puts an edgier spin on the sass of Dolly Parton's early work.
One of the album's most powerful moments is "Another Wasted Life," inspired by the tragic story of Kalief Browder, who was incarcerated on Rikers Island for three years without trial. The lone featured guest on the album is Jason Isbell on “Yet to Be,” the story of a Black woman and an Irish man falling in love in America.
As Pitchfork once said, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and to American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.” Giddens’ previous album They're Calling Me Home won the GRAMMY for Best Folk Album in 2022, making her a two-time winner and eight-time nominee. She also had her PBS’ Great Performances debut with the Nashville Ballet in Black Lucy and the Bard, which she composed and performed the music for with Francesco Turrisi, and released a children's book inspired by a song she wrote for Juneteenth called Build A House. She is also the creative director of the Silkroad Ensemble, is this year’s musical director of the Ojai Festival, created a 10-part video series about the banjo on Wondrium, and is hosting a new series on PBS this summer called My Music. Giddens has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Costello and Daniel Lanois, appeared on the Kennedy Center Awards for Joan Baez, and has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, CBS Saturday Morning, and the recent GRAMMY Salute to Paul Simon on CBS.
Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad
You’re the One
Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell)
Wrong Kind of Right
Another Wasted Life
You Louisiana Man
If You Don’t Know How Sweet It Is
Hen in the Foxhouse
Who Are You Dreaming Of
You Put the Sugar in My Bowl
Way Over Yonder
Good Ol’ Cider
TOUR DATES:
May 11: Union Chapel, London, UK~
May 12: Saint Andrews & Blackfriars Hall at Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Norwich, UK~
May 13: Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, England~
May 14: Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, UK~
May 26: Our Common Nature: An Appalachian Celebration, Knoxville, TN
May 27: Bijou Theatre, Knoxville, TN%
June 8-11: Ojai Festival, Ojai, CA~
July 6: Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy~
July 12: Umbria Jazz, Perugia, Italy~
July 15: Pori Jazz Festival, Pori, FI$
July 17: Wigmore Hall, London, UK$
September 13: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA^
September 14: The Sheldon, St. Louis, MO^
September 15: Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN^
September 17: Athenaeum Center, Chicago, IL*
September 18: Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI*
September 19: St. Cecilia Music Center, Grand Rapids, MI^
September 20: Royal Conservatory, Toronto, ON^
September 22: House of Blues, Boston, MA^
September 23: University of Maine, Orono, ME^
September 24: FreshGrass MASS MoCa Festival, North Adams, MA
September 26: Keswick Theater, Philadelphia, PA^
September 27: University of Maryland, College Park, MD^
September 28: Carolina Theater, Greensboro, NC^
September 30: University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC^
October 1: Modlin Center at University of Richmond, Richmond, VA+
October 2: Paramount Theatre, Charlottesville, VA*
Grace Potter, “one of the greatest living voices in rock today” (SPIN), will release her fifth studio LP Mother Road via Fantasy Records on August 18, 2023. An audacious and heart-pounding map of the soul, Mother Road finds Grace deconstructing her deepest fears and darkest regrets, charting the fallout with brutal honesty and emotional daring. Today, she shares the first single, the inviting, irresistibly twangy title track, “Mother Road.” LISTEN HERE, and watch the track’s official video, a phenomenal Pulp Fiction meets Thelma and Louise styled romp HERE. Pre-order Mother RoadHERE.
Grace Potter on the meaning of Mother Road:
“In Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck called Route 66 the ‘The Mother of all roads...the road of flight.’ As I zeroed out my odometer and started west on my road trip across the US, I hoped that driving the road of flight would give me a bird’s eye view of my life. But it didn’t take long to realize that I was not flying; I was running away. In the solitude, I found myself smashing open the piggy bank of deeply-buried memories. Those gems of my real-life exploits spilled into my creative consciousness and emboldened me to write an album that reaches far beyond what actually happened–launching me down the alternate-reality roads of what could have happened.”
Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) and recorded at RCA’s famed Studio A in Nashville and Topangadise in Topanga, CA, Mother Road follows Grace’s 2019’s acclaimed, 2X GRAMMY-nominated album, Daylight. Throughout the album’s 10 original tracks, Grace, along with contributions from a top-flight band including guitarist Nick Bockrath, bassist Tim Deaux, drummer Matt Musty, pedal steel guitarist Dan Kalisher, and keyboardist Benmont Tench, commands an expansive soundscape of soulful rock, roots, funk, country, and R&B.
Mother Road’s myriad high points include the searing “Ready Set Go,” which ricochets with stinging slide guitar and attitude to burn; “Lady Vagabond,” a paean to anti-heroines everywhere; the self-deceptive “Rose Colored Rearview;” the spirit-purifying “All My Ghosts;” and the album’s wild, theatrical finale, “Masterpiece.” At the album’s center is “Little Hitchhiker,” a beautifully detailed story-song co-written by superstar songwriter Natalie Hemby, which poignantly re-imagines the time nine-year-old Potter ran away from home, a profound experience that sparked much of Mother Road’s narrative.
Grace is currently on tour throughout the U.S. For the complete itinerary and full ticketing information visit https://www.gracepotter.com
Singer-songwriter, musician and producer Ben Harper has shared the new single “Love After Love” from his upcoming new studio album WIDE OPEN LIGHT, which will be released on June 2 via Chrysalis Records. The new song comes with an acoustic music video (watch here).
“‘Love After Love’ illustrates love as the ultimate renewable resource,” Ben shares. “Resurrected and restored like an ill-kept ancient Stradivarius Violin. Not only learning to love again but learning to trust again. Inventing a new language for two. A shorthand for the long haul.” The new single follows his recent track release “Yard Sale” which features long-time collaborator Jack Johnson.
WIDE OPEN LIGHT, the follow up to his GRAMMY-nominated record BLOODLINE MAINTENANCE, is a family of songs Ben has written where each track is a close relative to the next. It's deliberately minimalist and the songs themselves do as much of the heavy lifting as the production.
WIDE OPEN LIGHT arrives fresh off the heels of his recent appearance in the AppleTV+ series "Extrapolations,” a fictional drama based in the near future when the effects of climate change have become embedded in society. The show includes an all-star cast featuring Meryl Streep, Kit Harington, Forest Whitaker, and many more.
Ben was a recent guest on The Jennifer Hudson Show where he talked about the new album. This month, Ben is also featured in Harper Bazaar as their Music Director for their May issue (read here). Ben has also recently been featured on CBS Mornings, ABC News, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly and Variety, to name a few.
Following the release of WIDE OPEN LIGHT, Harper will have an extensive European summer tour, then select dates with The Chicks, before a string of headlining dates on tour in the US this fall. Harper’s fall tour begins in Richmond, VA on September 29th, and will feature shows in Portland, ME, Buffalo, NY, Cincinnati, OH, MIlwaukee, WI and more, and will include performances at the Oceans Calling Music Festival and Sound on Sound Music & Arts Festival.
As a 3x-GRAMMY-winner, Harper has amassed international critical applause and a worldwide fan following for his own genre-traversing body of work while also producing acclaimed albums by Mavis Staples, Rickie Lee Jones, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Natalie Maines, Ziggy Marley, and others. An inveterate collaborator, Harper has also recorded with a diverse span of artists ranging from John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, to Ringo Starr, Keith Richards and, most recently, Harry Styles, to contribute his signature guitar work to the superstar’s chart-topping album, HARRY’S HOUSE. Harper joined Styles for an astounding 12 nights of performances at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles this past fall.
Joni Mitchell stunned the Newport Folk Festival audience last summer when she gave a surprise performance – her first in 20 years – delivering a heartfelt set filled with some of her greatest songs.
Mitchell’s triumphant return to the stage on July 24, 2022, will be featured on a new live album from Rhino, AT NEWPORT, available on July 28, 2023 on CD and 2-LP black vinyl. Produced by close collaborator Brandi Carlile, along with Mitchell, the music will also be released the same day on digital and streaming services and Dolby Atmos. A clear-vinyl version of the 2-LP set will be available exclusively from Indie Retail and Barnes & Noble. Mitchell’s Newport performance of her classic song “Both Sides Now” is available today digitally. Click HERE to listen now.
Mitchell was joined on stage at the Newport Folk Festival by a star-studded band led by Carlile, the 9x GRAMMY®-winning singer/songwriter. Other performers included Carlile’s bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth, Wynonna Judd, Marcus Mumford, Celisse, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, and more.
Mitchell delighted the audience, blending her voice with the other singers on stage on classics like “Big Yellow Taxi,” “A Case Of You,” and “Both Sides Now.” For good measure, she even flashed her guitar prowess, playing a solo instrumental version of “Just Like This Train.”
In his liner notes for AT NEWPORT, Cameron Crowe writes about Mitchell’s arduous and miraculous recovery from a life-threatening brain aneurysm in 2015, that led to her emotional return at Newport.
“Mitchell emerged from the side of the stage, swaying smoothly, in fine summer-style with beret and sunglasses. Her good-natured mood instantly set the tone. This performance would be an intimate gathering of friends, not unlike the Joni Jams she’d been hosting in her own living room over the last few years of recovery. Smiling broadly, Mitchell made her surprise appearance, taking her on-stage seat alongside Carlile. Within minutes, the news had rocketed around the globe. Mitchell was back, sparkling with enthusiasm, delivering a tender and passionate set of 13 songs, ending with a joyful sing-along of ‘The Circle Game.’”
On June 10, 2023, Mitchell will headline a once-in-a-lifetime “Joni Jam” at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington, with special guest Brandi Carlile. Mitchell’s first ticketed show in 20 years, the concert sold-out immediately when it was announced last fall.
Mitchell’s ongoing return to the public eye continued in March when she was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at an all-star tribute concert in Washington, D.C. The show featured performances by James Taylor, Graham Nash, Annie Lennox, Herbie Hancock, Cyndi Lauper, Angelique Kidjo, Ledisi, and Diana Krall, along with several artists from the Newport concert, including Carlile. The concert – “Joni Mitchell: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” – was broadcast on PBS stations on Friday, March 31. Watch HERE.
This year's event is the Dead's first ever concert at Chicago's Soldier Field on June 22, 1991, from the original six-camera stadium video feed with pristine soundboard audio. The Soldier Field show was filled with fan favorites, including "Shakedown Street," "Brown-Eyed Women," "Playing In The Band," "Terrapin Station," "Dark Star," and more.
The cinema event will also feature bonus content including the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast Presents: Here Comes Sunshine and an introduction from Grateful Dead legacy manager and archivist David Lemieux.
Lemieux said, "By the Summer of 1991, the new iteration of the Grateful Dead featuring Vince Welnick on keyboards and vocals, along with Bruce Hornsby at most shows, had been on the road and gelling since September 1990, after Brent Mydland's untimely passing after the Summer Tour of 1990. After a magnificent Spring Tour of 1991, followed by West Coast shows later in the Spring, the Dead hit the road for a June tour mixed between amphitheaters, arenas, and stadiums. Like some of the Dead's best tours such as Europe '72, Spring 1977, Spring 1990, the Summer Tour of 1991 featured a consistency of excellence that puts it up there with these great tours from the past. And amongst this terrific tour's nightly perfection and inventive, inspired, and reinvigorated playing, Soldier Field on June 22, 1991, is widely considered one of the greatest nights on this tour, and of the entire 1990s. Originally slated for the Grateful Dead's 2020 Meet-Up At The Movies, we're thrilled to be bringing this to you in all its sonic and visual glory for two fun nights in theatres."
View the event trailer HERE and a clip of "Hell In A Bucket" HERE.
WHEN:
"Meet-Up At The Movies" hits big screens in select territories worldwide on June 22 and 24.
A year after Brent Mydland's passing, the Grateful Dead returned to the summer stadium circuit, with two keyboard players filling the seat Brent left vacant. Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick's presence and musical contributions reinvigorated and revitalized the Grateful Dead, and the inspiration of the Dead's playing was palpable. On a Saturday night in front of 60,000 fans, the Dead played what is often considered one of the greatest shows of the Bruce-Vince era, up there with the second Giants Stadium show from a few days earlier.
On Saturday, May 20, “Original Rock Palace” The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY will celebrate 1000 shows since reopening in 2012 with a Dark Star Orchestra show - tickets here. Attendees will receive a “1000th show” button, marking another important milestone for the legendary venue. Music entrepreneur Peter Shapiro revived and renovated the iconic theater 11 years ago, which has welcomed every artist imaginable since its inception, from The Rolling Stones & Brandi Carlile to Janis Joplin & Kacey Musgraves – a true hub of culture & community in the northeast. On September 4, 2012, the Capitol reopened its doors to one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Bob Dylan, kicking off a decade of unforgettable performances from Ringo Starr, Skrillex, Bonnie Raitt, Snoop Dogg, The Strokes, Tom Petty, Cyndi Lauper, and Willie Nelson, as well as comedians like Kevin Hart and Amy Schumer.
Last Fall, the 2,000-capacity venue hosted a season-long toast to its 10 year anniversary by organizing community gatherings throughout Port Chester, NY, charity events, and concerts. Continuing in the celebratory spirit, this March Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh performed at The Cap for both his 83rd birthday and his 100th show at the venue. In the same month Jimmy Fallon surprised audiences on stage during Goose’s run (Rolling Stone).
Performing to critical acclaim for over 20 years and over 3000 shows, Dark Star Orchestra continues the Grateful Dead live concert experience. On any given night, the band will perform a show based on a set list from the Grateful Dead's 30 years of extensive touring or use their catalog to program a unique set list for the show. By recreating set lists from the past, and by developing their own sets of Dead songs, Dark Star Orchestra offers a continually evolving artistic outlet within this musical canon. Honoring both the band and the fans, Dark Star Orchestra's members seek out the unique style and sound of each era while simultaneously offering their own informed improvisations. "For us it's a chance to recreate some of the magic that was created for us over the years," keyboardist and vocalist Rob Barraco explains. "We offer a sort of a historical perspective at what it might have been like to go to a show in 1985, 1978 or whenever. Even for Deadheads who can say they've been to a hundred shows in the 90s, we offer something they never got to see live."
The Capitol Theatre’s "venue within the venue” Garcia’s (created in partnership with Jerry Garcia’s family) will also celebrate its ten year anniversary this May. You can expect performances by Finders Keepers, Mihali (of Twiddle), SoulShine, Liquorcake followed by Gimme Gimme Disco and Brown Eyed Women, and even a signature anniversary drink, the Cherry Jerry. Over the last ten years Garcia’s has presented an eclectic mix of exciting acts such as Dinosaur Jr., Black Pumas, Goose, Yola, Marcus King, Twiddle, Mihali, Melvin Seals, Warren Haynes, Orebolo, Keller Williams, Eric Krasno, Dopapod and many more. Tickets here.
Today, Warner Records released Eric Clapton’s previously unreleased 1991 rock performance of “Knockin’ On Heavens Door” at The Royal Albert Hall. Listen to the reggae-infused song HERE which includes Phil Collins on drums and will be included on the upcoming album The Definitive 24 Nights out June 23. Pre-order HERE and watch the album’s short film narrated by David Fricke HERE.
Clapton fans will also have the opportunity to experience the excitement of the legendary Royal Albert Hall concerts on the big screen today as Unique X and Iconic Events present the Across 24 Nights cinema event globally. Edited from the original footage and remastered in Dolby ATMOS and 5.1 Surround Sound, Across 24 Nights will bring fans together to celebrate the ultimate musical event cinema experience. For further information & tickets, please visit ericclaptoncinema.com and watch the trailer HERE. Encore screenings will begin May 21.
The Royal Albert Hall is Eric Clapton’s home away from home in London and he has performed there over 200 times, more than any other artist. He also holds the record for the longest run of concerts at the venue as he performed 24 of his most ambitious concerts there in 1991. Each night featured him performing a career-spanning set with one of three lineups – a rock band, a blues band, or an orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen. Kamen previously worked with Clapton on the Lethal Weapon soundtracks, plus the TV show Edge of Darkness. Before his untimely passing in 2003, Kamen had become a leading film & TV composer, with X-Men, Die Hard & Band of Brothers among his many credits.
To commemorate Clapton’s record-setting run at The Royal Albert Hall in London, he released 24 Nights in October 1991. The double live album and home video delivered great performances but only covered a fraction of what was filmed and recorded. That’s about to change as Warner Records will release The Definitive 24 Nights on June 23. All the audio and video included in The Definitive 24 Nights was painstakingly restored and upgraded by Clapton’s team of Simon Climie (audio production and mixing), producer Peter Worsley (Slowhand at 70 and The Lady In The Balcony), and director David Barnard (The Lady In The Balcony).
Available as limited edition boxed sets as either 6-CDs ($139.98) or 8-LPs ($199.98), both versions come with three Blu-ray discs for the video content, a hardbound book, and an individually numbered lithograph featuring a photograph of Clapton by Carl Studna. This limited-edition boxed set includes nearly six hours of live music, and 36 unreleased performances. The collection distills Clapton’s 1990-91 Albert Hall residencies using the best performances from the rock, blues, and orchestral nights to create full concerts for each genre.
Clapton surrounded himself with superlative musicians for the performances on The Definitive 24 Nights. The roster includes greats like Johnnie Johnson, Jimmie Vaughan, Chuck Leavell, Phil Collins, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Nathan East, Greg Phillinganes, Steve Ferrone, Ray Cooper, and Jerry Portnoy.
For the rock concert, Clapton played many of his classic songs including “Sunshine Of Your Love,” “Can’t Find My Way Home,” “Layla,” and “Wonderful Tonight.” Covers of “Crossroads”, and a reggae version of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” with Phil Collins on drums are highlights. Clapton also featured several tracks from his most recent studio album (1989’s Journeyman), including the hits “Pretending,” “Running On Faith,” and “Bad Love.”
With Clapton aided by special guests Buddy Guy, Albert Collins and Robert Cray, the blues concert delivered a master class in the genre with ripping versions of standards like “Key To The Highway,” “Sweet Home Chicago,” “Black Cat Bone,” and “Reconsider Baby.”
The orchestral concert is the most unique of the collection. For those performances, Clapton’s nine-piece band was joined by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by legendary composer Michael Kamen. The collaboration resulted in stunning arrangements for “Layla,” “White Room,” “Bell Bottom Blues,” “I Shot The Sheriff,” “Lay Down Sally,” and more.
The biggest highlight from the orchestral concert – and possibly the entire boxed set – is the previously unreleased 30-minute epic, “Concerto For Guitar.” Kamen composed the piece especially for Clapton, which made its live debut at Albert Hall. In the set’s liner notes, music journalist David Fricke writes about the version included in the collection: “Near the halfway mark in this 1991 reading, [Clapton] takes off on guitar as if he has the rest of Cream at his heels – at once precisely melodic and jubilantly unhinged – as Kamen echoes that ferment in the strings and brass.”
The Definitive 24 Nights Track Listing
24 Nights: Rock
1. “Pretending”
2. “Running On Faith”
3. “Breaking Point” *
4. “I Shot The Sheriff” *
5. “White Room”
6. “Can’t Find My Way Home” * (Feat. Nathan East on lead vocals)
7. “Bad Love”
8. “Before You Accuse Me” *
9. “Lay Down Sally” *
10. “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” *
11. “Old Love” *
12. “No Alibis” *
13. “Tearing Us Apart” *
14. “Cocaine” *
15. “Wonderful Tonight”
16. “Layla” *
17. “Crossroads” *
18. “Sunshine Of Your Love” *
24 Nights: Blues
1. “Key To The Highway” *
2. “Worried Life Blues”
3. “You Better Watch Yourself”
4. “Have You Ever Loved A Woman”
5. “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” *
6. “Something On Your Mind” *
7. “All Your Love (I Miss Loving)” *
8. “It’s My Life Baby” *
9. “Johnnie’s Boogie” *
10. “Black Cat Bone” *
11. “Reconsider Baby” *
12. “My Time After A While” *
13. “Sweet Home Chicago” *
14. “You Better Watch Yourself” (Reprise) *
(Note: “Sweet Home Chicago” segues into “You Better Watch Yourself (Reprise)” and is listed as one track on the Blues vinyl.)
24 Nights: Orchestral
1. “Crossroads” *
2. “Bell Bottom Blues”
3. “Lay Down Sally” *
4. “Holy Mother” *
5. “I Shot The Sheriff” *
6. “Hard Times”
7. “Can’t Find My Way Home” * (Feat. Nathan East on lead vocals)
8. “Edge Of Darkness”
9. “Old Love” *
10. “Wonderful Tonight” *
11. “White Room” *
12. “Concerto For Electric Guitar” * (composed by Michael Kamen)
13. “A Remark You Made” *^ (A tribute to Jaco Pastorius)
Today Dave Matthews Band releases “Walk Around The Moon,” the title track from their 10th studio album, Walk Around The Moon, out this Friday, May 19 on RCA Records. Dave Matthews Band first debuted “Walk Around The Moon” at their July 2021 Walnut Creek Amphitheatre concert. Matthews told the audience, “This song is about taking a walk in the woods with unexpected consequences.” The psychedelic slow-burner sees Matthews playfully recount a fungus-filled adventure blurring the lines between reality and a dreamlike state. The song’s catchy lyrics echo, “It’s blue, and it’s red / Found a new door inside of my head / How could I go to bed / Think I’ll walk around the moon instead.”
Largely written throughout the pandemic, Walk Around The Moon is as much a reflection on the current times as it is an urge to find common ground. Most of the album’s 12 original songs were recorded with producer Rob Evans, including the title track. “Walk Around The Moon” is the third album single to be released, following “Monsters” and the stirring “Madman’s Eyes.”
Fans can pre-order the physical album, featuring a limited-edition deluxe vinyl option, exclusively at DaveMatthewsBand.com.
Coinciding with the release of Walk Around The Moon, Dave Matthews Band embarks on an extensive U.S. summer tour (full list of dates below), kicking off this Friday at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, TX. The headline run includes the band’s first show at the historic Forest Hills Stadium in New York on June 9 and stops at large stadiums and amphitheaters across the country. Dave Matthews Band will play two-night stands in Wilmington, NC; Charleston, SC; Noblesville, IN; Chicago, IL; Gilford, NH; Saratoga Springs, NY; Camden, NJ; West Palm Beach, FL and Irvine, CA. The tour concludes with the band’s annual three-day, Labor Day weekend celebration at Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA (September 1-3). See below for the full tour routing.
Dave Matthews’ ongoing partnership with The Nature Conservancy has resulted in three million trees being planted since 2020. This year’s continued partnership will bring the total to four million trees. Fans can join in this mission by adding an optional donation of $2 per ticket to plant a tree with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign – a major forest restoration effort with the goal of planting a billion trees around the world by 2025. For additional details, visit www.dmbtrees.org. Once again, Dave Matthews Band will offset carbon emissions for band/fan travel with the assistance of REVERB, creating a climate positive tour. REVERB will also produce the tour’s annual eco-village.
Named as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2019, Dave Matthews Band has a long history of reducing their environmental footprint, going back to their first shows in 1991. The band has sold more than 25 million tickets since its inception, making them the second largest ticket-seller in history, and has sold a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
5/19 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
5/20 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
5/23 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP
5/24 – Southaven, MS – BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove
5/26 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
5/27 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
5/30 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park
5/31 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park
6/2 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
6/3 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
6/9 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
6/10 – Hartford, CT – Xfinity Theatre
6/14 – Darien, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
6/16 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre
6/17 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
6/23 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
6/24 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/27 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
6/29 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheatre
6/30 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/1 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/7 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/8 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/11 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/12 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/14 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/15 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
7/19 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
7/21 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/22 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/25 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
7/26 – Orange Beach, AL – The Amphitheater at the Wharf
7/28 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
7/29 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
For the first time ever, witness the awe-inspiring ODESZA live show as an immersive concert film with “ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience.” Presented in cinemas worldwide for one night only on Friday, July 7, “ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience” shows one of electronic music’s most important modern-day innovators as you’ve never seen them before, providing an intimate look into the process of creating the group’s wildly successful and record-setting return to the touring stage with “The Last Goodbye Tour.” This cinema event features significant behind-the-scenes content, including personal interviews with ODESZA’s Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, their fans, and members of their creative team, all spanning across the past 10 years. The conversations are woven in with full concert footage filmed in part at one of ODESZA’s hometown shows at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena and in part elsewhere along their 2022 national tour. Viewers will experience transformative visuals and pyrotechnics, as well as full stage choreography - including a horn section, vocalists, and the now famous ODESZA drumline - all collaborating with Harrison and Clay.
Presented worldwide by Trafalgar Releasing, tickets for “ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience” go on sale on Thursday, May 25 at 10am EDT / 3pm BST, at www.thelastgoodbye.film.
“We wanted to give a look behind the curtain of The Last Goodbye and spotlight the unsung heroes that make this show come to life,” said Harrison and Clay about the film. “For years, we have strived to make our show a theatrical production. It now feels like the right time to put out the film version of this performance, and the only person we saw fitting to take the director’s seat was Sean Kusanagi. He has been there with his camera since our first show, capturing the true formation of ODESZA, our life on the road, and the creation of this live show. Sean’s hard work and dedication to his craft is apparent in every frame of this project.”
Of creating the film, director Sean Kusanagi said, “We wanted to do more than a standard concert film – we wanted to highlight the meticulous process of building a 90-minute live show, and then bring it to life through cinematic camera shots, visual overlays, and an immersive 5.1 Dolby surround mix. It's actually like witnessing the blueprints of the show come together from the front row.” He added, “We wanted to design something for the big screen. You want to feel the bass in your chest, the audio blanketing around you, and the visuals flying right at you. Even if you’ve seen the show live, you may be surprised how much you may have missed after seeing it through this whole new perspective.”
“Movie audiences are in for an epic night with ‘ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience’,” said Kymberli Frueh, SVP for Programming and Content Acquisitions for Trafalgar Releasing. “The group’s live performances and otherworldly visuals are perfect for the big screen.”
The first leg of ODESZA’s “The Last Goodbye Tour” sold over 450k tickets throughout its amphitheater run with numerous sold-out, multi-night runs including in their hometown of Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena, the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, making them the first electronic artists to attempt such a tour. Their live show has earned high praise with a Pollstar cover feature proclaiming, “ODESZA makes history,” the Seattle Times calling them “a ticket selling, dance music force that raised the live performance bar for electronic artists” and Rolling Stone describing their show as “a spaceship-circus of geometrically pleasing lights, smoke, video and a six-member drumline.”
The Last Goodbye album (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune) debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart and earned ODESZA a nomination (their third overall) for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 65th GRAMMY Awards. RAC’s remix of ODESZA’s “Say My Name” was also nominated for Best Remixed Recording at the 2016 ceremony.
ODESZA recently announced the second leg of “The Last Goodbye Tour” kicking off this summer and featuring support from Bob Moses, Bonobo (DJ set), Big Boi, TOKiMONSTA, Drama, Neil Frances, QRTR & Olan, and The Midnight. The tour coincides with several headlining performances at Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Austin City Limits and Electric Forest.
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Today Dave Matthews Band releases their 10th studio album, Walk Around The Moon, on RCA Records. One of Pitchfork’s “Most Anticipated Albums of Summer 2023,” Walk Around The Moon is a pandemic-born record that is as much a reflection on the current times as it is an urge to find common ground. The twelve-track album, recorded with producer Rob Evans in studios throughout Seattle, Charlottesville, and Los Angeles, uniquely captures this moment in time.
Leading into the album’s release, the band road-tested several of the new tracks at stops on their annual summer tours. During the group’s 2021 tour, fans were treated to live debuts of the fungus-fueled title track “Walk Around The Moon” and the heavy-hitting “Madman’s Eyes."
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds played “Monsters” for the first time ever earlier this year during their Riviera Maya concerts.
Coinciding with the album release, Dave Matthews Band embarks on another North American tour, kicking things off tonight with a headline show at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, TX. The headline run includes the band’s first show at the historic Forest Hills Stadium in New York on June 9 and stops at large stadiums and amphitheaters across the country. Dave Matthews Band will play two-night stands in Wilmington, NC; Charleston, SC; Noblesville, IN; Chicago, IL; Gilford, NH; Saratoga Springs, NY; Camden, NJ; West Palm Beach, FL and Irvine, CA. The tour concludes with the band’s annual three-day, Labor Day weekend celebration at Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA (September 1-3). See below for the full tour routing.
Dave Matthews’ ongoing partnership with The Nature Conservancy has resulted in three million trees being planted since 2020. This year’s continued partnership will bring the total to four million trees. Fans can join in this mission by adding an optional donation of $2 per ticket to plant a tree with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign – a major forest restoration effort with the goal of planting a billion trees around the world by 2025. For additional details, visit www.dmbtrees.org. Once again, Dave Matthews Band will offset carbon emissions for band/fan travel with the assistance of REVERB, creating a climate positive tour. REVERB will also produce the tour’s annual eco-village.
Named as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2019, Dave Matthews Band has a long history of reducing their environmental footprint, going back to their first shows in 1991. The band has sold more than 25 million tickets since its inception, making them the second largest ticket-seller in history, and has sold a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
5/19 – The Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
5/20 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
5/23 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP
5/24 – Southaven, MS – BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove
5/26 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
5/27 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
5/30 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park
5/31 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park
6/2 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
6/3 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium
6/9 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
6/10 – Hartford, CT – Xfinity Theatre
6/14 – Darien, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
6/16 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre
6/17 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
6/23 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
6/24 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/27 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
6/29 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheatre
6/30 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/1 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/7 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/8 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/11 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/12 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/14 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/15 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
7/19 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
7/21 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/22 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/25 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
7/26 – Orange Beach, AL – The Amphitheater at the Wharf
7/28 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
7/29 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Rhino is synonymous with high-quality reissues, pioneering the catalog business with award-winning audio releases for the past 45 years. The legendary label is setting the standard once again with the launch of the exclusive premium vinyl series, Rhino High Fidelity (Rhino Hi-Fi). These high-end, limited-edition vinyl reissues of classic albums represent the pinnacle of sound and packaging.
The first two Rhino High Fidelity albums are available today exclusively at Rhino.com – The Cars (1978) by The Cars and Coltrane’s Sound (1964) by John Coltrane. Each Rhino High Fidelity title is limited to 5,000 individually numbered copies and retails for $39.98. Order now.
To ensure consistent sonic excellence, Kevin Gray will cut lacquers for all Rhino Hi-Fi releases, and Optimal will press the 180-gram vinyl records. The releases boast high-quality glossy covers and “tip-on” jackets, an old-school aesthetic that evokes the golden age of vinyl.
Kevin Gray says, “It will be an honor to master this series! There is so much variety to explore in the Rhino catalog - everything from Jazz to Rock to R&B. Rhino has a very deep catalog spanning across 5 decades. The possibilities are incredible! I look forward to all of it.”
Another hallmark of the new Rhino High Fidelity series is exclusive content. The Cars features a new interview with guitarist Elliot Easton about the gear used on the album, plus producer Roy Thomas Baker’s tracking notes for “Good Times Roll.”
Upon hearing the Rhino High Fidelity pressing, Easton said, "It's like being in your studios. It's like listening to a studio playback… It just blew my mind." He then reflected on the making of the album, “We felt like we were doing something that hadn't been done before, like we were breaking some ground and making some sounds that hadn't been recorded before. That was very exciting. It was just completely the chemistry of the five of us. It's nothing you can calculate or plan. It just either happens or doesn't. It's magic.”
Coltrane’s Sound includes notes and images from the master tapes along with an archival essay by legendary producer Tom Dowd, the recording engineer on this album, and hundreds of other classics on Atlantic Records.
Dowd recalled "It was amazing, even after an hour of solid playing [Coltrane] would be as calm and composed as when he first started. Normally when someone works this hard, they tense up. Not John. As I observed him playing, I could not detect any of the joints of his hands or fingers. He didn't seem to have any bones. He played with "feathers." His technique involved complete confidence, control, and composure."
Rhino High Fidelity will take full advantage of Warner Music’s vast music catalog, creating superlative versions of landmark albums from the worlds of jazz, blues, rock, pop, and beyond.
The Rhino High Fidelity series will continue to release two classic albums quarterly, each with the same audio and packaging quality of the initial pair in strictly limited editions. The next round of Rhino High Fidelity releases will be announced in the coming weeks.
Yusuf / Cat Stevens has unveiled a new song “All Nights, All Days,” the latest to be taken from his upcoming album ‘King of a Land’, due for release via BMG / Dark Horse Records on June 16, 2023. Pre-order here.
The track is another ear-catcher from Yusuf with a rolling, Traveling Wilburys-styled groove and an Americana country feel. Yusuf says: “I like to take on different genres, ‘All Nights…’ just felt naturally born for that - but it could easily have ended up somewhere else!”
The lyrics rail against how “the rich tax the poor” and, with wry humor, Yusuf suggests a real solution for the world, which is to “lock those leaders in London Zoo”. “The only way that we can get on in peace is to get rid of most of them. Not all, perhaps. But most …”
Accompanying the track is a vibrant and colorful mixed media video produced by Studio Linguine that references the cult classic film Harold and Maude, for which Yusuf provided the iconic soundtrack.
Harold and Maude appear as main characters in the clip, which brings the narrative of the song to life in a child-like manner. Politicians are depicted as evil characters who chase Harold through a forest, ultimately getting their comeuppance as they are captured and locked up in London Zoo.
The new single follows ‘King of a Land’, which coincided with the crowning of King Charles III. "I wish they'd give him a bit more power actually. I despair a bit about politics. I think it’s great to have someone who oversees things and maybe walks in and reminds everyone how they should behave. If they don’t, then I would suggest that he takes the initiative and locks up all the troublesome ones - in London Zoo, as opposed to the Tower.”
The release of Yusuf’s new album ‘King of a Land’ arrives amidst a wave of celebratory activity, closely following the announcement of his Glastonbury Festival debut. Set to take place on June 25th, where he will perform the coveted Sunday legends slot at the Pyramid Stage, the performance will come just one month ahead of Yusuf’s milestone 75th birthday, and closely follow the anticipated release of his seventeenth studio album.
In a 8/10 review, Uncut raves that ‘King of a Land’ presents “Lyrically teasing exercises in self examination…Yusuf breaks ground.” First single “Take The World Apart” has been tipped as “an optimistic work of which this closing track is the hopeful pinnacle” by The Times, seen Yusuf described as “an icon” by the NME, and "King of a Land has royalty in its sights" by MOJO Magazine. Vulture highlighted the album as a “Best Upcoming Release,” adding that Yusuf “blends his usual gorgeous folk stylings with children’s music that simplifies these complexities for all to hear, learn, and hopefully put into practice.”
King of a Land is set for release via BMG / Dark Horse Records on June 16, 2023. The album is available for pre-order on green vinyl in a gatefold format with a 36 page booklet featuring illustrations by Peter Reynolds. The CD also features a booklet illustrated by Peter Reynolds - Pre-order here. An exclusive edition of the album, pressed on white vinyl, is available from the official Yusuf / Cat Stevens online store along with album merchandise - visit the official store here.
Today, Duane Betts releases the latest taste from his forthcoming album Wild & Precious Life with the epic, guitar driven “Stare At The Sun” featuring Derek Trucks. The song’s title originated from something that Trucks said to Betts about his father Dickey Betts’ guitar-playing: “He’s a player that’s not afraid to stare directly at the sun.” With that fearlessness and power in mind, Duane and Derek cut a track that builds slowly, determinedly, to a fiery finale.
On July 14th, Duane Betts will emerge from a two-plus decade career spent sitting-in regularly with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, The Allman Brothers Band, leading rock outfits Backbone69 and Whitestarr, playing alongside his father in Dickey Betts & Great Southern, and touring as the guitarist for folk-rockers Dawes to unveil his solo debut: Wild & Precious Life, a fierce record that captures the emotional release of Betts’ journey to sobriety, his experience falling in love with his soulmate, and acknowledging the fleeting joys of life.
Betts also previously shared “Waiting on a Song” when he announced the album in April, and spoke to Garden & Gun about it.
Featuring Marcus King and Nicki Bluhm in addition to Trucks, Wild & Precious Life was recorded live to tape over two weeks in Trucks and his wife Susan Tedeschi’s Swamp Raga studio. A compelling addition to the wider catalog of music under The Allman Brothers Band’s musical family umbrella, Wild & Precious Life celebrates wild, swampy rock n’ roll while breaking new ground in the genre.
Duane Betts and his band Palmetto Motel will be touring all summer in support of Wild & Precious Life. In addition to a previously announced headline tour surrounding the album’s release in July, Betts & Palmetto Hotel have just added eight co-bill shows with Maggie Rose in June. That run will also include their debut performance at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. See below for the full itinerary of headlining shows and festival appearances.
Evergreen
Waiting On A Song
Forrest Lane
Colors Fade
Saints To Sinners
Stare At The Sun
Under The Bali Moon
Sacred Ground
Cold Dark World
Circles In The Stars
Tour Dates:
5/18-5/21 - Todos Santos, Mexico - Cosmico Festival
5/28 - Healdsburg, CA - Cosmico Festival
6/17 - Hudson Valley, NY - Follow The Arrow
6/22 - Columbia, MO - Rose Music Hall ^
6/23 - Kansas City, MO - Knuckleheads ^
6/27 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry House
6/29 - Virginia Beach, VA - Elevation 27 ^
6/30 - Washington, DC - The Hamilton Live ^
7/1 - Annapolis, MD - Rams Head Tavern ^
7/2 - Scranton, PA - The Peach Music Festival
7/14 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
7/15 - Saint Petersburg, FL - Jannus Live
7/16 - Jacksonville, FL - The Bier Hall at Intuition Ale Works
7/18 - Charleston, SC - Pour House Charleston
7/19 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
7/20 - Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theatre
7/21 - Roanoke, VA - 5 Points Music Sanctuary
7/22 - Lewes, DE - The Room at Cedar Grove
7/23 - Patchogue, NY - Great South Bay Music Festival
Today, international punk band Gogol Bordello & friends, led by Ukrainian frontman Eugene Hütz, release a collaborative single for charity, “United Strike Back.” Out on Hütz’s own label, Casa Gogol, the track features punk & hardcore heavy hitters like Tre Cool (Green Day), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Joe Lally (Fugazi, The Messthetics), Roger Miret (Agnostic Front), Monte Pittman (Ministry), Sasha (Kazka) and Puzzled Panther. Hütz shares “Here, living legends of punk and hardcore who always meant so much to me, come together to show their much needed support for Ukrainian freedom fighters.” The powerful punk anthem fights back against imperialism and dictatorship, with a unifying cry of “That's the way united people strike back. That's the way your palace crumbles, that's the way the house of cards tumbles, that's the way the dictator’s story ends, as we stand with brothers, sisters, lovers and friends.”
All proceeds will go to Kind Deeds to help wounded Ukrainian defenders regain mobility with prosthetics.
The release precedes Gogol Bordello’s EU & US Summer Tour (stopping at The Atlantis on August 5), as well as the world premiere of VICE News original film Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story at Tribeca Film Festival on June 13. Executive Produced by Liev Schreiber, the doc covers Eugene’s rise in the Kyiv underground scene and NYC, to a recent groundbreaking trip to Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
The band recently performed for Rolling Stone, The Recording Academy’s Global Spin and WNYC’s Soundcheck, with Ukrainian frontman Eugene Hütz continuing to be a “flagbearer of the cultural resistance…as the one-year mark of the war in Ukraine approaches” (CBC Radio's The Sunday Magazine).
Stewart Copeland, the influential drummer/founder of the seminal English rock band The Police and acclaimed composer in his own right, releases a dazzling reimagining today of The Police classic “Message In A Bottle.” Featuring vocals from Amy Keys; Carmel Helene; Ashley Támar; and taking daring new liberties in its instrumentation, “Message In A Bottle” arrives just ahead of the June 23rd (Shelter/BMG) release of Police Deranged for Orchestra. The album explores The Police’s best-known tracks through a new lens, inspired by Copeland’s recent forays into expansive musical forms and instrumentation. Upon its original release in 1979 “Message In A Bottle” landed The Police the first of their UK number one singles and landed on Rolling Stone’s list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" and has been hailed as the Police's best song, by Ultimate Classic Rock who praises the "foolishly simple guitar riff devised by Sting but played to perfection by Summers" the "cacophony of percussive brilliance by Copeland" and "Sting’s most plainspoken and razor-sharp lyric."
Stewart Copeland: The Police Deranged for Orchestra began in 2021 as an evening concert bursting with The Police’s biggest hits including ”Roxanne,” “Don’t Stand Too Close To Me” and “Message in a Bottle” arranged for full symphony orchestra as well as hand-picked highlights from Copeland’s compositions. The project which went on to become the genesis for the album has toured with sold-out dates across the US and Europe, and will continue through the summer.
“‘Message in a Bottle’ was like a diamond and I could not mess with it; the form of it is what it has to be, “ Copeland told Grammy.com earlier this year. “I did mess with the orchestration, with the sound textures and so on, but the song itself resisted all of my attempts at de-arrangement. But I did orchestrate the heck out of it.”
The resulting album revisits Police hits newly arranged for full orchestra alongside bassist Armand Sabal Lecco (Paul Simon), guitarist Rusty Anderson (Paul McCartney), and vocalists Amy Keys, Carmel Helene, and Ashley Támar. Percussion and drums were arranged, orchestrated, and co-produced by Copeland. The music was conducted and co-produced by Edwin Outwater and produced and mixed by Craig Stuart Garfinkle.
Unlike his earlier compositional work, Copeland explains that the “derangement” of The Police’s music began as a score for a movie he made out of Super8 footage of the band that he had shot during their rise to glory.
This year also brings the fall release of Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries, published by Rocket 88 Books. The book is based on and includes Copeland’s personal pocket diary entries from 1976-79. With scans of original pages and Copeland’s new background commentary, its pages are illustrated with classic and previously unseen photos from the early “starving years” of a band poised for global success. More information on Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries can be found here.
Concurrent with his early work with The Police, Copeland developed a solo recording alter-ego, Klark Kent, releasing singles and a self-titled 1980 album on which he played all the instruments, - even vocals. The cult album is also scheduled for re-release on April 14th (Record Store Day) on BMG. Klark Kent was credited with inspiring Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) among many others.
The Police Deranged for Orchestra Live tour, with U.S. and international dates, features performances by locally based symphony orchestras along with the core six-member band/ vocal ensemble. The tour, now underway, will soon announce additional dates. See updated information at www.stewartcopeland.net/716/events-and-tours and a full list of tour dates below. Stay tuned for more to come from Stewart Copeland soon.
Today, internationally renowned singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette celebrates her birthday. Nearly two decades ago, she released her jampacked greatest hits CD, The Collection, which will see its vinyl debut this summer.
THE COLLECTION will be available on August 25 as a 2-LP ($34.98) on black vinyl. Pre-order HERE. A transparent grape-vinyl version ($34.98) will be available the same day exclusively from Target, as well as a crystal-clear version at your local indie retailer.
THE COLLECTION covers the seven-time Grammy® Award-winner’s career between 1995 and 2005, when the Canadian popstar first broke out in the States. It includes a handful of Morissette’s well-known singles, several soundtrack selections, and her performance of Seal’s hit “Crazy,” which debuted on THE COLLECTION in 2005.
Five songs from her #1 album, Jagged Little Pill (1995), appear on the set, including the smash singles “You Oughta Know,” “Ironic,” and “You Learn.” The album catapulted Morissette to global stardom, earning her five Grammy® awards, including Album of the Year. The record was certified 16x platinum, selling over 33 million copies worldwide. It is the 16th best-selling album of all time in the U.S. and the third best-selling album by a female artist.
Morissette returned in 1998 with the triple-platinum album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which is represented on THE COLLECTION by a trio of songs, including the Top 20 hit “Thank You.” “Hands Clean” from her 2002 platinum album, Under Rug Swept, is featured along with “Eight Easy Steps” from 2004’s So-Called Chaos.
Several songs on THE COLLECTION weren’t released on Morissette’s studio albums, like “Princes Familiar” from her 1999 gold-certified MTV Unplugged album and “Sister Blister” from the 2002 compilation Feast on Scraps. A few of the singer’s soundtrack contributions are featured here, including “Still” from Kevin Smith’s 1999 film, Dogma, where Morissette played the role of God.
William Prince has gone from homelessness and the depths of grief to now being on the verge of a huge breakout. He’s just been nominated for Emerging Artist Of The Year at the 2023 Americana Music Association Awards and, today, announces that he’ll be a showcasing artist at AMERICANAFEST 2023.
His new album Stand In Joy — which was produced by GRAMMY-winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile) — celebrates the small, accessible moments of happiness in each day, with a “noble baritone” (Associated Press) and an everyman eye for detail reminiscent of John Prine. He excavates the circumstances of his upbringing on a Peguis First Nation reservation in Canada in search of a universal human element.
William Prince’s name has been ascendant in recent years: he’s opened for Neil Young and Buffy Saint-Marie and had his music played on both Yellowstone and at NPR’s Tiny Desk. He recently made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry and performed with Willie Nelson at a Farm Aid fundraiser.
Today Dave Matthews Band announces a pair of shows in South Africa. The band is set to headline SunBet Arena in Pretoria on December 10 and Grand Arena in Cape Town on December 12. These shows mark the band’s first performances in Dave Matthews’ home country of South Africa since 2013.
An online ticket presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association begins on Wednesday, June 7 at 7:00 am local time via www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com. The Discovery presale is open to Discovery Cardholders through Ticketmaster.co.za beginning Wednesday, June 7, at 9:00 am local time until Friday, June 9, at 8:59 am local time.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 9 at 9 am local time. For more information, see below or visit http://www.davematthewsband.com.
The South African shows come off the heels of Dave Matthews Band releasing their 10th studio album, Walk Around The Moon, on RCA Records last month. Walk Around The Moon is a pandemic-born record that is as much a reflection on the current times as it is an urge to find common ground. The twelve-track album, recorded with producer Rob Evans in studios throughout Seattle, Charlottesville, and Los Angeles, uniquely captures this moment in time.
Led by powerful singles “Madman’s Eyes,” “Monsters,” and the title track “Walk Around The Moon,” the acclaimed album debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200, #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums, and #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums charts.
Before heading to South Africa, Dave Matthews Band continues their expansive North American tour. The headline run includes the band’s first show at the historic Forest Hills Stadium in New York on June 9 and stops at large stadiums and amphitheaters across the United States. Dave Matthews Band will play two-night stands in Noblesville, IN; Chicago, IL; Gilford, NH; Saratoga Springs, NY; Camden, NJ; West Palm Beach, FL and Irvine, CA. The stateside tour concludes with the band’s annual three-day, Labor Day weekend celebration at Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA (September 1-3). See below for the full tour routing.
Dave Matthews’ ongoing partnership with The Nature Conservancy has resulted in three million trees being planted since 2020. This year’s continued partnership will bring the total to four million trees. Fans can join in this mission by adding an optional donation of $2 per ticket to plant a tree with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign – a major forest restoration effort with the goal of planting a billion trees around the world by 2025. For additional details, visit www.dmbtrees.org. Once again, Dave Matthews Band will offset carbon emissions for band/fan travel with the assistance of REVERB, creating a climate positive tour. REVERB will also produce the tour’s annual eco-village.
Named as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2019, Dave Matthews Band has a long history of reducing their environmental footprint, going back to their first shows in 1991. The band has sold more than 25 million tickets since its inception, making them the second largest ticket-seller in history, and has sold a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – 2023 WORLD TOUR
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
6/9 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
6/10 – Hartford, CT – Xfinity Theatre
6/14 – Darien, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
6/16 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre
6/17 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
6/23 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
6/24 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/27 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
6/29 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheatre
6/30 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/1 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
7/7 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/8 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/11 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/12 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
7/14 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/15 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
7/19 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
7/21 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/22 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
7/25 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
7/26 – Orange Beach, AL – The Amphitheater at the Wharf
7/28 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
7/29 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
8/24 – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Resort and Casino
8/25 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre
8/26 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre
8/29 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
9/1 – George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre
9/2 – George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre
9/3 – George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre
SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR DATES
10/10 – Pretoria, GT – SunBet Arena at Time Square
Today, Eric Clapton’s previously unreleased 1991 performance of the blues classic “Key To The Highway (Live at Royal Albert Hall)” is available digitally via Warner Records (listen to the track and watch the video HERE). Clapton delivers a masterful performance of the song which leads off the Blues set in his upcoming album The Definitive 24 Nights out June 23 (pre-order the album and boxed sets HERE, and watch the album’s short film narrated by David Fricke HERE).
The Definitive 24 Nights 2023 reissue expands the live collection of Clapton’s record-setting 1990-91 run of 24 concerts at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall with nearly six hours of live music and 36 unreleased performances that were painstakingly restored and upgraded by Clapton’s team of Simon Climie (audio production and mixing), producer Peter Worsley (Slowhand at 70 and The Lady In The Balcony), and director David Barnard (The Lady In The Balcony). Available as limited-edition boxed sets as either 6-CDs ($139.98) or 8-LPs ($199.98), both versions of The Definitive 24 Nights come with three Blu-ray discs for the video content, a hardbound book, and an individually numbered lithograph featuring a photograph of Clapton by Carl Studna.
During Clapton’s legendary run at the Royal Albert Hall, he performed a career-spanning set with one of three lineups – a rock band, a blues band, or an orchestra. The Definitive 24 Nights collection distills Clapton’s Royal Albert Hall residencies using the best performances from the rock, blues, and orchestral nights to create full concerts for each genre.
With Clapton aided by special guests Buddy Guy, Albert Collins and Robert Cray, the blues concert delivered a master class in the genre with ripping versions of standards like “Key To The Highway,” “Sweet Home Chicago,” “Black Cat Bone,” and “Reconsider Baby.”
For the rock concert, Clapton played many of his classic songs including “Sunshine Of Your Love,” “Can’t Find My Way Home,” “Layla,” and “Wonderful Tonight.” Covers of “Crossroads,” and a reggae version of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” with Phil Collins on drums are highlights. Clapton also featured several tracks from his most recent studio album (1989’s Journeyman), including the hits “Pretending,” “Running On Faith,” and “Bad Love.”
The orchestral concert is the most unique of the collection. For those performances, Clapton’s nine-piece band was joined by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by legendary composer Michael Kamen. The collaboration resulted in stunning arrangements for “Layla,” “White Room,” “Bell Bottom Blues,” “I Shot The Sheriff,” “Lay Down Sally,” and more.
THE DEFINITIVE 24 NIGHTS Track Listing
24 Nights: Rock
1. “Pretending”
2. “Running On Faith”
3. “Breaking Point” *
4. “I Shot The Sheriff” *
5. “White Room”
6. “Can’t Find My Way Home” * (Feat. Nathan East on lead vocals)
7. “Bad Love”
8. “Before You Accuse Me” *
9. “Lay Down Sally” *
10. “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” *
11. “Old Love” *
12. “No Alibis” *
13. “Tearing Us Apart” *
14. “Cocaine” *
15. “Wonderful Tonight”
16. “Layla” *
17. “Crossroads” *
18. “Sunshine Of Your Love” *
24 Nights: Blues
1. “Key To The Highway” *
2. “Worried Life Blues”
3. “You Better Watch Yourself”
4. “Have You Ever Loved A Woman”
5. “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” *
6. “Something On Your Mind” *
7. “All Your Love (I Miss Loving)” *
8. “It’s My Life Baby” *
9. “Johnnie’s Boogie” *
10. “Black Cat Bone” *
11. “Reconsider Baby” *
12. “My Time After A While” *
13. “Sweet Home Chicago” *
14. “You Better Watch Yourself” (Reprise) *
(Note: “Sweet Home Chicago” segues into “You Better Watch Yourself (Reprise)” and is listed as one track on the Blues vinyl.)
24 Nights: Orchestral
1. “Crossroads” *
2. “Bell Bottom Blues”
3. “Lay Down Sally” *
4. “Holy Mother” *
5. “I Shot The Sheriff” *
6. “Hard Times”
7. “Can’t Find My Way Home” * (Feat. Nathan East on lead vocals)
8. “Edge Of Darkness”
9. “Old Love” *
10. “Wonderful Tonight” *
11. “White Room” *
12. “Concerto For Electric Guitar” * (composed by Michael Kamen)
13. “A Remark You Made” *^ (A tribute to Jaco Pastorius)
When Joni Mitchell mesmerized the Newport Folk Festival audience last summer with a surprise performance, she “breathed new meaning into some of her most famous lyrics” (New York Times). Today, the powerful live recording of her beloved hit “A Case Of You” is available digitally. Originally released in 1971 on Blue, this new live recording features vocals by Marcus Mumford and Brandi Carlile.
Click HERE to listen to “A Case Of You,” available digitally today. Watch the live performance video HERE.
The entire At Newport live album will be available on July 28 - Newport Folk Festival 2023 weekend - via Rhino
In 2018, Pink Talking Fish created an epic experience at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY called Junta Circus. The show was a full performance of Phish’s album “Junta” with Pink Floyd and Talking Heads intertwined. It also included classic circus attractions which were thematically integrated into the music; aerialists for Divided Sky/Great Gig In The Sky, giant puppets for Esther, performers dancing in giant bubbles for Foam, a clown show for Union Federal and so much more! This was an unforgettable experience for the audience and since then, people have been begging PTF to produce another Circus Show. Ask and you shall receive...Come one, come all and join us on Saturday, October 14 for the next Pink Talking Fish Adventure!
PINK TALKING FISH PRESENTS: THIS MUST BE THE CIRQUE
This Must Be The Cirque, the follow-up to 2018’s critically-acclaimed Junta Circus transforms The Cap into a magical circus voyage set to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd, Talking Heads and Phish. PTF is teaming up with cirque troupe Modern Gypsies who has worked with Phish, String Cheese Incident and more to enhance the live music experience.
If you were at Junta Circus this show is not to be missed! If you missed out on Junta Circus then this show is an absolute must!!
The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series where kids and parents rock out to the classics, just announced a special run of shows on Saturday, June 17 and Sunday, June 18 over Father’s Day Weekend benefiting Rex Foundation, A non-profit organization created by the Grateful Dead family and friends in 1983. Featuring the music of the Grateful Dead for Kids, The Rock and Roll Playhouse will bring family fun concerts to 24 different venues across the country, culminating in one of their largest weekend of shows to date! Tickets are available here.
Following their Mother’s Day weekend shows featuring music of The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Shania Twain, WHYY (PBS / NPR) shared “Spending Mother’s Day with the folks who made you a mom already seems like a great idea, but adding classic music so your kids can grow to appreciate it means you’ve won the parenting prize.” Let’s keep it going for Father’s Day!
Senior Director of The Rock and Roll Playhouse, Stephen Grybowski shares “Live music is the heartbeat of the human soul. It's truly one of the few things on earth that can unite any two people from any two walks of life, anywhere in the world. To be able to help parents share the music that they love with their children and the next generation is the best part of what I do.” When asked who has more fun, the kids or the parents? “It's really hard to compare! Children are experiencing this music often for the first time in their lives, so the beauty of that is pretty unrivaled. At the same time, it means so much to a parent to share the music that they grew up with and love so deeply with their children.”
From The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Phish, Dolly Parton, David Bowie, Prince, Aretha Franklin, Harry Styles, Beyoncé, Dave Matthews Band and more, The Rock and Roll Playhouse introduces the next generation to timeless music while providing kids with early music exposure and encouraging creativity. The Playhouse was founded in 2013 at its flagship venue Brooklyn Bowl by Peter Shapiro, entrepreneur and co-owner of the Bowl and owner of The Capitol Theatre, and Amy Striem, a certified Early Childhood and Elementary teacher. Designed to create opportunities for families to experience live music together in historic venues, The Rock and Roll Playhouse continues to unite families through music with hundreds of unforgettable shows nationwide as the largest national concert series for families where kids can “move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon” (New York Times).
The Rock and Roll Playhouse Father’s Day Weekend Schedule:
All ages welcome; admission is free for children one years old and under
Stevie Nicks released her solo debut in 1981, a quadruple-platinum #1 smash that launched her immensely successful solo career. The beloved singer-songwriter has released eight acclaimed solo records, selling nearly 10 million albums in the U.S. and influencing generations worldwide. She’s also the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, first as a member of Fleetwood Mac and then as a solo artist in 2019.
Rhino combines all of Nicks’ solo studio albums in a new, career-spanning boxed set. It comes with eight albums: Bella Donna (1981), The Wild Heart (1983), Rock a Little (1985), The Other Side of the Mirror (1989), Street Angel (1994), Trouble in Shangri-La (2001), In Your Dreams (2011), and 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault (2014). The collection also features Rarities, a new compilation of hard-to-find tracks only available with the set. Several albums were newly remastered from the analog masters for this release, including Rock a Little, The Other Side of the Mirror, Street Angel, and Trouble in Shangri-La.
COMPLETE STUDIO ALBUMS & RARITIES will be available on July 28 as a 10-CD set ($99.98) and digitally. A newly remastered version of “ONE MORE BIG TIME ROCK AND ROLL STAR” from RARITIES is available today on all digital download and streaming services. Originally released as the B-side to “Talk To Me”, the lead single from Stevie’s 1985 album Rock A Little, “One More Big Time Rock & Roll Star” was also included as a part of The Enchanted Works of Stevie Nicks box set in 1998. Click HERE to listen now.
A 16-LP version ($299.98), limited & numbered to 3,000 units globally, and pressed on crystal-clear vinyl, will be available the same day exclusively from Rhino.com. Several albums in the collection are making their vinyl debut, including Street Angel, Trouble in Shangri-La, and In Your Dreams. All three – plus The Other Side of the Mirror and 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault – will be released as double LPs housed in gatefold sleeves. The new Rarities collection comes as a 3-LP set in a tri-fold sleeve.
COMPLETE STUDIO ALBUMS & RARITIES follows Nicks’ musical journey across four decades and features her Top 10 hits, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), “Leather And Lace” (with Don Henley), “Stand Back,” and “Talk To Me.” Other essential hits include “Edge Of Seventeen,” “If Anyone Falls,” “I Can’t Wait,” and “Rooms On Fire.”
The boxed set underscores Nicks’ longevity as a solo artist. Six of her eight studio albums were Top 10 hits in the U.S., including her solo debut, Bella Donna, which topped the Billboard 200 in 1981. That album was certified quadruple platinum and remains her best-selling solo effort. Her other albums enjoyed incredible commercial success as well. The Wild Heart is double platinum, Rock a Little and The Other Side of the Mirror are platinum, while Street Angel and Trouble in Shangri-La are certified gold.
Rarities collects 23 of Nicks’ best non-album tracks, including numerous contributions to film and television soundtracks like “Blue Lamp” from Heavy Metal and “Free Fallin’” from Party of Five. Several B-sides are featured in the set, including “One More Big Time Rock And Roll Star,” the flipside to her 1985 hit, “Talk To Me.” A trio of songs originally released on Nicks’ 1991 hits collection Timespace also appear, including “Love’s A Hard Game To Play.” Rarities closes with Nicks’ most recent release, her 2022 cover of Buffalo Springfield’s classic “For What It’s Worth."
Nicks has concerts scheduled this summer and fall, including several stadium shows co-headlining with Billy Joel. Her next performance will be on June 16 in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial Field. See below for a complete list of upcoming tour dates.
Tour Dates:
June 16 Philadelphia, PA Lincoln Financial Field *
GRAMMY-winning musician and Compass Records co-founder Alison Brown is known as one of the world’s top banjo instrumentalists. The Banjo Hall of Famer has collaborated with artists across every genre, delivering eye-opening revelations for the wide stylistic reach of the banjo. On her recently released record On Banjo, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums Chart, Brown is joined by mandolin wunderkind Sierra Hull for a blistering chamber-grass duet called “Sweet Sixteenths."
Today (6.14), Brown shares the “Sweet Sixteenths” video featuring a fiery yet delicate instrumental duel between Brown and Hull that spans the entire fretboard of the banjo and mandolin from the lowest notes to the highest during the skillful, adventurous performance.
Watch the “Sweet Sixteenths” video, here: youtu.be/fpdVh7rqIMA
While Brown and Hull both share deep roots in bluegrass music, the two are like-minded musical adventurers and their collaboration on “Sweet Sixteenths” simultaneously offers a tip of the hat to classical music and the bluegrass banjo/mandolin duets that banjoist Alan Munde and mandolinist Sam Bush recorded in the ‘70s. The video was filmed at Compass Sound Studio during the recording session, offering viewers a behind the scenes glimpse of the two master instrumentalists at work.
“I’ve always loved the sound of the banjo and mandolin together and I wrote this tune specifically with Sierra in mind,” says Brown. One of my favorite bluegrass albums when I was starting out was Sam Bush and Alan Munde’s Together Again for the First Time. Their banjo/mandolin duet on “Howdy in Hickman County” really caught my ear. I was trying to capture some of that spirit though, admittedly, “Sweet Sixteenths” has a few more notes!”
“Alison has long been one of my favorite collaborators in the studio so recording this duet was extra special,” Hull adds. “It’s really rewarding and exciting to work on a piece of music this complex with a fellow female musician. We shared a lot of laughs and smiles arranging and recording this!”
“Playing with Sierra is always a joy and I was thrilled that she was up for recording this with me,” Brown continues. She has the most amazing touch and dexterity - I still have no idea how she was able to play the ascending run that used every fret on the first string, and nail it every time!”
Brown’s On Banjo record has been called “a masterclass” (No Depression), “refreshing” (NPR/KUTX), “dazzling” (AllMusic) and more. In addition to Hull, On Banjo includes collaborations with fellow female virtuosos Sharon Isbin and Anat Cohen, as well as actor/comedian/banjoist Steve Martin and Kronos Quartet among others. Listen to the new record, here: found.ee/onbanjo
Last month, she had the honor of performing the iconic Gibson banjo of the legendary Earl Scruggs at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s donation event. This month, she’ll perform in her hometown of San Diego, and across the U.S. with dates in Phoenix, Tucson, Cleveland and more. For a full list of tour dates, visit alisonbrown.com/home#tour.
Alison Brown on Tour:
Thurs., Jun. 22 | UC Park & Market | San Diego
Fri., Jun. 23 | Musical Instrument Museum | Phoenix, AZ
Fri., Jul. 14 | Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival 2023 | Oak Hill, NY
Fri., Aug. 11 | The Ark | Ann Arbor, MI
Sat., Aug. 12 | Cain Park | Cleveland, OH
Sun., Aug. 13 | Homer Center for the Arts | Homer, NY
Mon., Aug. 14 | Chautauqua Institution | Chautauqua, NY
Fri., Sep. 8 | Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival | Bristol, TN/VA
Sat., Sep. 23 | FreshGrass Festival | North Adams, MA
Blind Boys of Alabama will return on August 25 with 'Echoes Of The South,' which finds the Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductees coming home to honor those they've lost, on a bold declaration of how far they still plan to go. The eleven-song collection is a portrait of perseverance from a group well-versed in overcoming incredible odds - from singing for pocket change in the Jim Crow South, to performing for three different American presidents, soundtracking the Civil Rights movement and helping define modern gospel music as we know it. Recently, the group's decades-long mission of spreading light and love has taken on even deeper context, as they've reckoned with the loss of two of their own, Paul Beasley and Benjamin Moore, both longtime members of the Blind Boys tight-knit family. 'Echoes Of The South' is released in their honor - as well as for the group's recently-retired leader Jimmy Carter - and keeps the Blind Boys' long-held mission statement at its core: “As long as everybody gives all that they have to give and we sing songs that touch the heart, we'll live on forever.”
True to that message, the Blind Boys have shared their version of Homer Banks and Lester Snell’s “Friendship” today, made famous as one of the last songs ever recorded by Pops Staples, which finds Beasley and Moore sharing in lead vocal duties. Like each track on ‘Echoes Of The South,’ it was co-produced by Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, John Prine), Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes, Jason Isbell) and Charles Driebe.
On a collection named after the first radio show that ever booked the Blind Boys as guests (out of WSGN in Birmingham), 'Echoes Of The South' is an album all about coming home. Tracked fully in their home state at The NuttHouse Recording Studio in Sheffield, the album also marks the group's first full-length release for Alabama's own GRAMMY-winning indie label Single Lock Records. The Blind Boys' rich history and own personal touches can be felt everywhere on 'Echoes Of The South,' from including braille on the album cover for the first time to a tracklist of the music that’s most inspired them over their careers: long-lost gospel classics, traditional spirituals and timeless R&B/soul cuts made famous by artists like Staples and Curtis Mayfield. Teaming with each of their co-producers, these recordings transcend genre and era to touch deep and fundamental elements of friendship, joy, gratitude and persistence.
'Echoes Of The South' marks the first new album release for the Blind Boys of Alabama since 2017's 'Almost Home.' Hailed as "gospel titans" by Rolling Stone, the Blind Boys have collaborated with artists as diverse as Stevie Wonder, Chrissie Hynde, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Raitt and Bon Iver. While winning multiple GRAMMYs and being profiled on CBS' 60 Minutes, the Blind Boys' have left their mark on popular music by making gospel their own and "adding jazz and blues idioms, turning up the volume and creating a sound like the rock 'n' roll that grew out of it” (New York Times). Most recently, they were nominated for a 2023 GRAMMY Award for Best Americana Performance (their 12th total nomination) and performed on The View earlier this year to help celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
‘ECHOES OF THE SOUTH’ TRACKLIST
1. Send It On Down
2. Work Until My Days Are Done
3. Friendship
4. You Can't Hurry God
5. Jesus You’ve Been Good To Me
6. The Last Time
7. Keep On Pushin'
8. Paul's Prayer
9. Wide River to Cross
10. Nothing But Love
11. Heaven Help Us All
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA TOUR DATES
June 5 - Gospelfest at Riverfest - Wichita, KS
June 7 - Historic Temple Theatre of Viroqua - Viroqua, WI
June 8 - Chicago Blues Festival 2023 - Chicago, IL
June 9 - Dakota - Minneapolis, MN
July 19 - Mendocino Music Festival 2023 - Mendocino, CA
August 19 - CHOMP - Redmond, CA
August 27 - Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival - Vancouver, WA
September 9 - Paramount Center for the Arts - Saint Cloud, MN
September 10 - Reif Performing Arts Center - Grand Rapids, MN
September 11 - Pablo Center at the Confluence - Eau Claire, WI
September 15 - City Winery Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA
September 16 - City Winery Boston - Boston, MA
September 17 - City Winery New York - New York, NY
November 26 - Lone Tree Arts Center - Lone Tree, CO
January 13-20 - Sandy Beaches Cruise 2024 - Fort Lauderdale, FL
Today, the internationally renowned Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens, announced the official opening date of its new state-of-the-art building, preserving and expanding the legacy and ideals of America’s first Black popular music icon. The Louis Armstrong Center will open on Thursday, July 6. Armstrong’s values of Artistic Excellence, Education and Community will be fostered in Here to Stay, the new Center’s exhibition, curated by award-winning pianist, composer and Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz, Jason Moran. Grounded in the new building design by Caples Jefferson Architects, the new Center will be a permanent home for the 60,000-piece Louis Armstrong Archive (the world's largest for a jazz musician) and a 75-seat venue offering performances, lectures, films, and educational experiences.
“This is a landmark moment for the Louis Armstrong House Museum,” said Executive Director Regina Bain. “Standing on the shoulders of the jazz and community greats who have come before us, the new Louis Armstrong Center invites today’s musicians, neighbors, and global fans to discover Louis and Lucille Armstrong's story from a new perspective. We will bring the Armstrongs' unique archives alive through new interactive events. And we will ensure that music once again rings out on 107th Street through groundbreaking programs in collaboration with emerging artists and contemporary icons.”
The Louis Armstrong Center will become a new international destination celebrating Armstrong’s distinctive role in African-Diaspora history and vitality, offering year-round exhibitions, performances, readings, lectures, and screenings through an array of public programs for all ages. With longstanding partners Queens College and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, and with a growing list of members, supporters and programmatic collaborators, the museum and center will become a Queens-based hub for inspiration and learning, economic development and tourism - from New Yorkers to the world.
The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation donated the Armstrong archives in the 1980s and provided the funds to purchase the lot on which the new Center sits. CUNY and Queens College officials, working with state and city legislators and executive offices, led the advocacy for the funding of the $26 million building across the street from the original Armstrong home. Funds were awarded by the Office of the Governor, the New York State Senate, New York State Assembly, Office of the New York City Mayor, Office of the Queens Borough President, and the New York City Council. The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) led the construction project. The staff and board of the museum for the past 15 years, including former Director, Michael Cogswell, worked tirelessly to ensure the new building’s success.
The opening of the Center has spurred the creation of new programming. The Museum is announcing the upcoming season of its groundbreaking Armstrong Now, which will feature the creation and debut of new works by Esperanza Spalding, Amyra León and Antonio Brown. Armstrong Now contextualizes Louis Armstrong’s immense contributions in a contemporary era and provides established and emerging artists with a platform to create new work inspired by Armstrong’s legacy, as well as the vast collection of artifacts and documents in the Armstrong archives.
The Museum also recently launched an outreach program to local schools, providing trumpet lessons, made possible by a donation of musical instruments from Ken Karnofsky, a descendant of the same family who helped Armstrong buy his first instrument.
Ticketing and information about all of the museum’s events and programs can be found at www.louisarmstronghouse.org.
This National Historic Landmark museum welcomes its new addition across the street during Black Music Month and the 80th anniversary of Louis and Lucille Armstrong moving to the legendary jazz trumpeter & singer’s restored home. Visitors have included Wynton Marsalis, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Charlie Watts, Ken Burns, Jon Batiste, Ron Howard, Bette Midler and many more.
“Louis Armstrong is the greatest of all American virtuosos,” states Wynton Marsalis, President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. “With his trumpet and voice, Armstrong redefined what it meant to be modern by testifying to the range and depth of humanity from the vantage point of the bottom social strata in post-Reconstruction America. He was able to evoke deep blues and spiritual feeling, to dance notes with extreme rhythmic sophistication, and to improvise meaningful melodies on the spot with absolute harmonic accuracy. His genius and charisma influenced generations of musicians from all over the world. His generosity and unique personality have made him an international icon. Louis Armstrong’s trumpet is the sound of freedom and with it, he left the world so much richer than how he found it. We need his consciousness, intelligence and broad understanding now, more than ever. The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation was the baseline grantor of the Louis Armstrong House Museum and we have been in full support throughout the growth of this historic site. We are so proud of the Museum, and now, the new Armstrong Center. This great achievement is a physical representation of the down-home soulful world of Pops. It is much, much more than just a place. It’s a way for all people from everywhere to physically interact with the profound and deeply moving legacy of Lucille and Louis Armstrong.”
The new Center’s exhibition curated by Jason Moran, Here To Stay will look at Louis Armstrong’s five-decade career as an innovative musician, rigorous archivist, consummate collaborator and community builder – entertaining millions from heads of state and royalty to the kids on his stoop in the working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens.
“The Here to Stay exhibition is a declaration of Louis Armstrong's infinite love of music and humanity,” said Moran. “Armstrong's musical innovations combine with his empowerment of himself and those around him. As an incredible artist and archivist, he thoughtfully documented his life's journey through a variety of media: cameras, typewriters, reel-to-reel recorders, and his iconic music. His magnetic musicianship allows each breakthrough in technology to catapult his star power. In Here to Stay, we amplify Louis Armstrong's ability to connect with communities locally and globally. His star shines bright worldwide, but especially here at his home in Corona, Queens. I consider this one of the ‘wonders’ of the world, meaning, we have Lucille and Louis' magnificent home, and now a museum dedicated to his life and archive. To have these things for an African-American musician of such stature is rare and will be celebrated forever. We thank Lucille Armstrong for her vision of what the Armstrongs mean to Queens.”
Working with the museum’s Grammy-winning Director of Research Collections Ricky Riccardi and Executive Director Regina Bain, C&G Partners (MoMA, 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Smithsonian, NASA) designed the exhibition with Art Guild (Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Martin Guitar Museum). The 60,000 photos, recordings, manuscripts, letters & mementos in the Louis Armstrong Archive will be returning home to the block where the Armstrongs lived and built the collection.
Caples Jefferson Architects designed the 14,000-square-foot building to expand the capacity of the historic house museum and to allow many more people to appreciate the legacy of Louis Armstrong, the man and his music. Armstrong was both down-home and revolutionary and this building reflects that breadth. Caples Jefferson kept the building at the scale of the modest neighborhood that he loved, while creating an urban precinct for his music that welcomes in all visitors. This new building establishes the final piece of the campus that now comprises the museum as whole; it now includes the home itself that reflects the personal values of Louis Armstrong, the garden that serves as a place for gathering and a place for live performances, the donated home of next-door neighbor Selma Heraldo, reflecting the deep roots within the community, and the new center, designed as an interpretation of Armstrong’s music, where the public can learn even more about the icon who is Louis Armstrong.
“In a neighborhood comprised of modest two-story houses, we wanted to keep the building in the scale of its surroundings while creating an urban precinct that notes the singular work of the man whose music underlies so much of what we listen to today,” explain Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson of Caples Jefferson Architects. “The design of the museum is simultaneously exuberant and restrained, and is, in every way, a celebration of the legacy of Louis Armstrong.”
When funk icon Bootsy Collins and his wife visited Franklin L. Williams M.S’s Little Kids Rock (now Music Will) children’s music education program in 2011, he knew he would continue his commitment to kids’ music education. Having donated a bass, given the children a bass lesson, and rapped with them while they played the blues, Collins cemented his commitment to the nonprofit’s mission.
Next month he’ll continue his work with Music Will for their annual Modern Band Summit that’s coming up on Wednesday, July 12th at CSU in Fort Collins, Colorado. Bootsy will deliver a keynote at the annual Modern Band Summit, a three-day professional development conference where music educators from all over the country come together to learn, teach, play music, and experience the modern band curriculum.
About Music Will:
Music Will runs the largest nonprofit music program in the U.S. public school system. Its teachers currently serve over 500,000 students in more than 600 cities and towns across the country. For two decades now, their programs have taught students such popular American genres as rock, pop, R&B, Latin, rap and country—alongside styles already taught in schools, such as classical and jazz. Today, a national network of K-12 districts has adopted the Music Will program as their own. Additionally, more than 70 colleges and universities now use their approach to music education majors. Several state departments of education have partnered with Music Will to grow music education in the schools they serve. Its mission of transforming lives by transforming music education has grown into a movement.
Yusuf / Cat Stevens has released a new album of original music today, King of a Land, via BMG / Dark Horse Records. More than a decade in the making, the twelve-song collection serves as a deeply meaningful and moving self-portrait by one of popular music’s most enduring and beloved songwriters - touching on themes of unity, peace, joy, and childlike wonder. Listen to 'King Of A Land' in full here: https://yusufcatstevens.lnk.to/KingOfALandPR
A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, Yusuf had previously shared the album's lead single "Take The World Apart" - deemed a Song You Need To Know by Rolling Stone - as well as the title track "King of a Land" (an impassioned message for the recently-coronated King Charles III) and the "gorgeous" (Consequence) ear-catcher “All Nights, All Days” - which was inspired equally by Harold and Maude, Thomas More and The Traveling Wilburys. To celebrate the release of 'King Of A Land,' as well as his upcoming 75th birthday next month, Yusuf will make his Glastonbury Festival debut on June 25 - performing in the coveted "Legends" slot previously held by artists including Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, Diana Ross and James Brown.
The roots of 'King of a Land' date back more than a decade to 2011; a project co-produced by Yusuf with his collaborator of over fifty years Paul Samwell-Smith. The record features a sixty-piece orchestra plus an all-star cast of musicians including bassist Bruce Lynch (Kate Bush), keyboardist Peter Vettese (Jethro Tull, Paul McCartney), drummer Russ Kunkel (Joni Mitchell, Carole King), background vocalist Kwame Yeboah (Stevie Wonder), and guitarist Eric Appapoulay (Neneh Cherry, Lionel Richie). Most of the tracks were written in Yusuf’s own garage-based home studio in Dubai and later recorded at premiere studios all over the world - Hansa Studios in Berlin, ICP Studios in Brussels, La Fabrique in the south of France, and Air and Angel Studios in London. The final mix down took place at George Harrison’s private studio in his former home, Friar Park, and the album is being released through Dark Horse Records, Harrison’s label.
“We were very privileged to be in Friar Park,” remembers Yusuf, “and to be one of the first outsiders to enter that control room and mix an album. If you listen to some of these songs on this album, you’ll hear a kind of spirit of George.”
The enduring success of Yusuf’s legacy is built on a myriad of factors but key among them is the uncanny ability he has to translate his vibrant imagination into musical form. This is apparent throughout King of a Land - and, in that sense, this new collection carries on the spirit of his much-loved, award-winning and chart-topping classics like "Peace Train," "Wild World," "Father and Son," "Morning Has Broken" and "The First Cut Is The Deepest."
Bay Area collective Moonalice shares their single “Old & Proud.” Written alongside Nashville songwriter Dylan Altman, who has penned #1 hits for Tim McGraw and Jason Aldean, the call-and-response single confidently embraces aging, and is an anthem for the older generation. The song’s lyrics also tell the first-hand story of Moonalice vocalist Lester Chambers. Lester sings,
“I was born the year 1940, oh, that seems so long ago
State fair and river bank fishing was our favorite place to go
Moved to California when I was 14 years old
I heard some rock n roll music and, man, I lost control”
Speaking on the song, Lester adds: “At the age of 83, ‘Old and Proud’ has quickly become a new anthem for me. I see and hear so many ways to be thankful and proud and especially happy to be this age. To those of you who have made it this far along in your journey of life, I say ‘God Bless You’ and for all of those who wish to make it to your golden years, I say ‘God Help You.’ Remember, no matter what your age, you can sing it out, ‘I’m Old, I’m Proud and I Like my Rock n’ Roll Loud!’”
Born in 1940 in Carthage, Mississippi, Lester Chambers grew up in the Jim Crow South. He miraculously escaped a sharecropper's life and relocated to LA in the '50s, alongside his brothers George, Joe and Willie, with whom he played music together in a family band called The Chambers Brothers. The band was at the forefront of black psychedelia, which T: The New York Times Style Magazine called “one of the most lasting and influential artistic movements of the 20th century.” In 1967, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the Chambers Brothers' cowbell-infused “Time Has Come Today” became an anthem for the disenfranchised and disillusioned youth of America. The song sat at #11 for five weeks on the Billboard Top 100 and propelled the group to national stardom.
Lester's storied rock and roll life continues today through Moonalice, where alongside his son Dylan Chambers, he continues to uplift the community and inspire the next generation through messages of “love, peace, and happiness.” Fresh off performances at Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival and Skull & Roses Festival in Ventura, CA, Moonalice is heading to Alaska next month to perform at Salmonfest and the South East Alaska Fair.
Moonalice recently partnered with One Tree Planted, a nonprofit organization focused on global reforestation. Since 2014, the organization has planted over 40 million trees in more than 47 countries across the globe. For every fan that follows Moonalice on Spotify, One Tree Planted will plant one tree.
ODESZA won the award for Best Electronic Record (presented by Ingrooves) at the Libera Awards courtesy of A2IM (The American Association of Independent Music, Inc.) for their latest LP ‘The Last Goodbye’ (released via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune).
The award win follows their recent GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album for ‘The Last Goodbye’, a headlining spot last weekend at Governors Ball, and the release of a deluxe edition drop for the LP including ODESZA’s VIP remixes of two beloved tracks from their ‘In Return’ era: “All We Need (feat. Shy Girls)” & “Sun Models (feat. Madelyn Grant)”.
ODESZA are set to headline Bonnaroo this weekend as well as Electric Forest, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Life Is Beautiful and Austin City Limits, embark on the second leg of their “The Last Goodbye Tour” this fall, and will debut their first immersive concert film on July 7 when “ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience” hits 700+ theaters in 23+ countries worldwide.
The first leg of ODESZA’s “The Last Goodbye Tour” sold over 450k tickets throughout its amphitheater run with numerous sold-out, multi-night runs including in their hometown of Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena, the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, making them the first electronic artists to attempt such a tour. Their live show has earned high praise with a Pollstar cover feature proclaiming, “ODESZA makes history,” the Seattle Times calling them “a ticket selling, dance music force that raised the live performance bar for electronic artists” and Rolling Stone describing their show as “a spaceship-circus of geometrically pleasing lights, smoke, video and a six-member drumline.”
ODESZA 2023 TOUR DATES
June 17 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
June 22 - Rothbury, MI - Electric Forest
June 30 - Milwaukee, WI - American Family Insurance Amphitheatre @ = #
July 2 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up (ODESZA DJ Set) SOLD OUT ~
Aug 5 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
Aug 13 - San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands
Aug 30 - Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center * ^ #
Sept 1 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater * ^ #
Sept 2 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake * ^ #
Sept 3 - Indianapolis, IN - Ruoff Music Center * ^ #
Two of Little Feat’s best – Sailin’ Shoes and Dixie Chicken – have been newly remastered for upcoming Deluxe Editions that will introduce unreleased live and studio recordings that capture peak Feat.
Rhino will release SAILIN’ SHOES (DELUXE EDITION) and DIXIE CHICKEN (DELUXE EDITION) on June 23. Each collection will be available in two different configurations, a 2-CD set for $24.98 and a 3-LP 180-gram vinyl version for $59.98. Pre-order HERE.
Released in 1972, Sailin’ Shoes was the second studio album from the founding quartet of singer-guitarist Lowell George, drummer Richard Hayward, keyboard player Bill Payne, and bassist Roy Estrada. Ted Templeman produced the record, which was the first to feature artwork by illustrator Neon Park, who created covers for nearly all of Little Feat’s albums.
SAILIN’ SHOES (DELUXE EDITION) opens with a newly remastered version of the original album, which introduced signature tunes like “Easy To Slip,” the title track, and an updated version of “Willin’” a song that also appeared in 1971 on the band’s eponymous debut. Several outtakes from the album’s recording sessions make their debut on the Deluxe Edition, including alternate versions of “Cold, Cold, Cold,” “A Apolitical Blues,” and “Willin’.”
The magic that Little Feat conjured in concert takes center stage in the new set with a newly discovered and previously unreleased complete show recorded at the Palladium in Los Angeles on August 28, 1971. This live set marks the only multi-track recording in existence to feature the original lineup of the band. The performance features songs from both Sailin’ Shoes (“Tripe Face Boogie,” “Teenage Nervous Breakdown”) and Little Feat (“Hamburger Midnight,” “Snakes On Everything.”) The set also comes with illustrated liner notes written by acclaimed music journalist, David Fricke.
Dixie Chicken, the band’s third studio album, emerged in 1973 and introduced fans to Little Feat’s evolving sound and new line-up. The group’s shift toward New Orleans-style funk was accompanied by the arrival of three new members, guitarist Paul Barrere, percussionist Sam Clayton, and bassist Kenny Gradney (who replaced Estrada).
DIXIE CHICKEN (DELUXE EDITION) contains the newly remastered album, which features classics like “Two Trains,” “Fat Man In The Bathtub,” and the title track. Several unreleased session recordings debut in the new set, including alternate versions of “Roll Um Easy,” “On Your Way Down,” and “Juliette.” The unreleased live music was recorded at Paul’s Mall in Boston on March 1, 1973. They feature songs from Dixie Chicken (“Two Trains,” “Walkin’ All Night”) and the band’s earlier albums (“Willin’,” “Got No Shadow.”) The illustrated liner notes included in the collection were written by author Dennis McNally, who got his start as the Grateful Dead’s publicist.
Little Feat will celebrate these deluxe editions with “The Albums Tour” this fall, which will feature the band playing each album in its entirety across back-to-back nights at select venues (night one will be Sailin’ Shoes and night two will be Dixie Chicken). Preceding “The Album Tour,” the band is currently in the midst of their “Boogie Your Spring Away” tour, making their way across the East Coast in the coming days before making special appearances at the MerleFest in North Carolina April 27 and The Green River Festival on June 25 in Massachusetts. After a short break, Little Feat will hop back on the road for the “Boogie Your Summer Away” tour, kicking off July 12 in Atlanta and wrapping up summer dates at the Hot August Music Festival on August 19 in Maryland.
In the spring of 1973, the Grateful Dead was universally praised for delivering a consistently spectacular series of performances. The band was dialed in for the season’s final five shows, including back-to-back nights at RFK Stadium, co-headlining with the Allman Brothers Band. Without a doubt, the June 10 finale belongs on the shortlist of must-hear Dead concerts. Clocking in at nearly five hours, the show is one for the ages: an epic musical journey, peaking with a third-set encore that includes Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks of the Allman Brothers sitting in with the Dead.
HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 is a limited-edition, 17-CD boxed set with five previously unreleased, highly sought-after shows, including: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73), Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73), Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73), and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. (6/9/73) and (6/10/73). The collection is available now for pre-order and will be released on June 30. The set is limited to 10,000 individually numbered copies and is available exclusively from Dead.net for $189.98. The complete audio will also be available as a digital download exclusively at Dead.net in Apple Lossless ($99.98) and FLAC 192/24 ($124.98).
This unique box was painstakingly designed by GRAMMY® Award-winning Art Director Masaki Koike and is bursting with vibrant graphics and unexpected treasures. With liner notes provided by Canadian author Ray Robertson, The Owsley Stanley Foundation, and Grateful Dead’s Archivist and legacy manager, David Lemieux. The set features five complete, previously unreleased performances housed in individual, custom-designed folios, each including additional, show-specific notes by Robertson. Additionally, the box contains a custom-dyed Tenugui and an Exclusive Poster featuring an illustration by Mary Ann Mayer. The audio boasts Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction, with mastering by Jeffrey Norman, and was produced for release by David Lemieux.
RFK STADIUM, WASHINGTON, D.C. (6/10/73) will be released separately as a 4-CD set ($39.98) as well as digitally on June 30 and as a limited-edition 8-LP set ($174.98) on July 28 at all regular retail outlets. This show, and the previous night, were originally recorded in exquisite clarity by the Dead’s famed sound visionary, Owsley “Bear” Stanley. Few shows deliver the goods like this. It’s one of the Dead’s most unique, powerful, and inspired performances, from its statement opener, “Morning Dew,” through lengthy workouts on “Bird Song,” “Here Comes Sunshine,” and an otherworldly “Dark Star.”
A previously unreleased performance of “Ramble On Rose” from the RFK 6/10/73 show is available today on all digital download and streaming services. Listen now.
HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 covers one of Lemieux’s favorite eras: “In my early tape-trading days, 1985–1987, I only had a few 1973 shows, but my goodness, did I ever love them. There was a fresh, nimble feel that was entirely different from the 1972 Dead sound taking all of the great elements of the Year of Europe and building upon that excellence. The few shows I distinctly remember having in my collection were 2/9/73, 5/26/73, and 6/10/73. Even with hundreds of tapes at my fingertips, I returned to these 1973 shows frequently. That old saying, ‘I listened to that show so often, I wore the tape out?’ It was created because of shows like this.”
Despite the joyous playing, the band was mourning the loss of its co-founder, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, who passed away on March 8. 1973. He’d been too sick to perform with the band for several months, playing his final show in June 1972. After Pigpen’s death, the band’s lineup solidified for the next two years with Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux.
In the liner notes, Ray Robertson writes: “…maybe what makes this year (and ’74 as well) so endlessly compelling most of all is the jazzy direction the band had taken over the last year or so…This was a group of musicians that listened to each other’s playing. The sum is greater than the already pretty great parts because the parts were paying attention to—and frequently being inspired by—the other parts. That’s jazz. And 1973 is the Dead at their jazzy best.”
During the spring, the band road-tested most of the songs they would record that summer for Wake of the Flood – their first studio album in three years – including early live versions of “Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo,” “Row Jimmy,” “Stella Blue,” “Eyes Of The World,” and, the set’s namesake, “Here Comes Sunshine.” Also tucked into the collection are songs destined for the Dead’s 1974 studio album, From the Mars Hotel – “China Doll,” “Loose Lucy,” and “Wave That Flag,” a precursor to “U.S. Blues.”
The new repertoire slipped neatly into the fluid setlists alongside songs honed on the 1972 European tour (“Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Brown-Eyed Women”), Chuck Berry perennials (“Promised Land,” “Around And Around”), classic country (“Big River,” “The Race Is On”), and incredible jam sequences: “He’s Gone”> “Truckin’”> “The Other One”> “Eyes Of The World.”
In addition to the music, Dead.net is also introducing a limited-edition merchandise collection in connection with the boxed set.
Season Seven of the band’s official podcast, the GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST, debuts today. This season will explore 1973 Dead as they embark on new business adventures and takes an extended look at each of the shows from HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973. Deadcast is currently collecting stories from concertgoers at stories.dead.net.
Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens has released a new single from her forthcoming album You’re the One (August 18 / Nonesuch Records). “You Louisiana Man” blends Giddens’ celebrated voice and banjo work with horns, organ, fiddle, and accordion to create a Zydeco-funk jam. Her first album of all original songs was announced in May and has been covered by NPR’s All Songs Considered, the New York Times Playlist, Pitchfork, Variety, Rolling Stone, SPIN, and more. It was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Tank and the Bangas). Giddens also recently announced the biggest headlining shows of her career, including performances at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in September, plus the Barbican Centre in London, the Beacon Theatre in New York City, and the Ace Theater in Los Angeles next spring (dates below).
The studio video was filmed while the album was being recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami, FL. Says Giddens, “This was the first song we recorded together in the studio, and it was the one that set the tone for the rest of the week. Like kids on the first day of school, we were feeling out everyone in the room musically and in that moment it all clicked. My folks, Jack’s folks- we all listened to each other and found this beautiful place at the center of all our different sounds.”
You’re the One features twelve songs, written over the course of Giddens’ career, that burst with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants. It was recorded with a band composed of Giddens’s closest musical collaborators from the past decade alongside musicians from producer Splash’s own Rolodex, topped off with a horn section, making an impressive ten- to twelve-person ensemble. The collaborators include Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi plus multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu. The album features electric and upright bass, conga, Cajun and piano accordions, guitars, a Western string section, and Miami horns, among other instruments, capturing the inclusive spirit that channels through all of her work.
Giddens—the GRAMMY and MacArthur-winning singer, composer, and instrumentalist—was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for the opera, Omar, with libretto and music by Giddens in collaboration with Michael Abels (Get Out, Nope). Additionally, she just served as the musical director for this year’s Ojai Music Festival.
As Pitchfork once said, “Few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and to American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.” Giddens’ previous album They're Calling Me Home won the GRAMMY for Best Folk Album in 2022, making her a two-time winner and eight-time nominee. Over the last two years, in addition to the debut of Omar, Giddens also made her PBS’ Great Performances debut with the Nashville Ballet in Black Lucy and the Bard, which she composed and performed the music for with Francesco Turrisi, and released a children's book inspired by a song she wrote for Juneteenth called Build a House. She is also recently became creative director of the Silkroad Ensemble, created a 10-part video series about the banjo on Wondrium, and launched a new series on PBS called My Music. Giddens has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Costello, and Daniel Lanois; appeared on the Kennedy Center Honors Awards for Joan Baez; and appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, CBS Saturday Morning, and the recent GRAMMY Salute to Paul Simon on CBS.
Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad
You’re the One
Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell)
Wrong Kind of Right
Another Wasted Life
You Louisiana Man
If You Don’t Know How Sweet It Is
Hen in the Foxhouse
Who Are You Dreaming Of
You Put the Sugar in My Bowl
Way Over Yonder
Good Ol’ Cider
TOUR DATES:
July 6: Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy~
July 12: Umbria Jazz, Perugia, Italy~
July 15: Pori Jazz Festival, Pori, FI$
July 17: Wigmore Hall, London, UK$
September 13: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA^
September 14: The Sheldon, St. Louis, MO^
September 15: Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN^
September 17: Athenaeum Center, Chicago, IL*
September 18: Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI*
September 19: St. Cecilia Music Center, Grand Rapids, MI^
September 20: Royal Conservatory, Toronto, ON^
September 22: House of Blues, Boston, MA^
September 23: University of Maine, Orono, ME^
September 24: FreshGrass MASS MoCa Festival, North Adams, MA
September 26: Keswick Theater, Philadelphia, PA^
September 27: University of Maryland, College Park, MD^
September 28: Carolina Theater, Greensboro, NC^
September 30: University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC^
October 1: Modlin Center at University of Richmond, Richmond, VA+
October 2: Paramount Theatre, Charlottesville, VA*
November 17: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA@
February 10, 2024: Maison de la culture de Creteil, Creteil, France
February 11, 2024: Doornroosje Main Hall, Nijmegen, Netherlands
February 13, 2024: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 14, 2024: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
February 17, 2024: Elb Philharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
February 18, 2024: Lido, Berlin, Germany
February 19, 2024: Kulturkirche Ost, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Today, 3X GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Grace Potter shared the rough ‘n rowdy single “Good Time,” the second track from her highly anticipated new album Mother Road, due August 18, 2023, via Fantasy Records. The Stones-inflected rocker follows "Mother Road," the twangy title track which Potter revealed last month. Pre-order/save the forthcoming album and listen to “Good Time”: HERE.
“When I was writing ‘Good Time,’ I was thinking about all the times when there were no boundaries between me and the world at large,” Potter shares. “As you get older, there’s this expectation that you need to fall in line, that you can’t keep living a fantasy your whole life. But I don’t know about that - maybe we can.”
Tickets are on-sale now for Potter’s Mother Road Tour, which kicks off at Collin Centers for the arts in Orono, ME on Saturday, September 7. The 18-date fall tour also includes two performances at Shelburne Museum in her native Vermont, and shows at New York City’s Pier 17, Milwaukee’s Pabst Theatre, Chicago’s Riviera Theater and Atlanta’s Tabernacle among other great cities and venues before finishing up at The Fillmore in Charlotte, NC on November 18. See below for the full itinerary. For tickets information please visit https://www.gracepotter.com.
Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) and recorded at RCA’s famed Studio A in Nashville and Topangadise in Topanga, CA, Mother Road, the follow-up to Potter’s 2019 acclaimed, 2x GRAMMY-nominated album, Daylight, finds the rock and soul artist deconstructing her deepest fears and darkest regrets and charting the fallout with brutal honesty and emotional daring. Throughout the album’s 10 original tracks, Potter, along with contributions from top-flight musicians including guitarist Nick Bockrath, bassist Tim Deaux, drummer Matt Musty, pedal steel guitarist Dan Kalisher, and keyboardist Benmont Tench, commands an expansive soundscape of soulful rock, roots, funk, country, and R&B.
Eric Clapton and Warner Records today announce the highly-anticipated release of The Definitive 24 Nights album and boxed sets which expand the live collection of Clapton’s record-setting 1990-91 run of 24 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall with nearly six hours of live music and 36 unreleased performances including today’s release of the fan-favorite “Crossroads (Live at The Royal Albert Hall 1991).” This timeless Robert Johnson composition has been a staple in most Clapton setlists for decades, but the first section of this almost 9-minute version of the song features Clapton and the band playing an inspired improvised introduction. The 9-piece rock line-up then takes over for an electric performance of this classic, featuring trademark guitar solos from Clapton.
Painstakingly restored and upgraded by Clapton’s team of Simon Climie (audio production and mixing), producer Peter Worsley (Slowhand at 70 and The Lady In The Balcony), and director David Barnard (The Lady In The Balcony), The Definitive 24 Nights is now available as limited-edition boxed sets of either 6-CDs ($139.98) or 8-LPs ($199.98). Both versions of the boxed sets come with three Blu-ray discs for the video content, a hardbound book, and an individually numbered lithograph featuring a photograph of Clapton by Carl Studna.
Since Clapton’s debut at the Royal Albert Hall with the Yardbirds in 1964, he has performed there over 200 times, more than any other artist as he also holds the record for the longest run of concerts at the venue – he set it in 1990 with 18 shows, then broke it the following year with 24 concerts. Each night of those legendary 24 concerts featured him performing a career-spanning set with one of three lineups – a rock band, a blues band, or an orchestra.
To commemorate that record-setting run, Clapton released 24 Nights in October 1991 which delivered great performances but only covered a fraction of what was filmed and recorded. Today's release of The Definitive 24 Nights expands that live collection with previously unreleased live music from Clapton’s 1990-91 Albert Hall residencies using the best performances from the rock, blues, and orchestral nights to create full concerts for each genre. In the album’s liner notes music journalist David Fricke says it best, “The Definitive 24 Nights is – in that sense, more than 30 years down the line – right on time, the first full-scale portrait of the Royal Albert Hall experience in all of its 1990 and 1991 iterations…”
Clapton surrounded himself with superlative musicians for the performances on The Definitive 24 Nights as the roster includes greats like Johnnie Johnson, Jimmie Vaughan, Chuck Leavell, Phil Collins, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Nathan East, Greg Phillinganes, Steve Ferrone, Ray Cooper, and Jerry Portnoy.
For the rock concert, Clapton played many of his classic songs including “Sunshine Of Your Love,” “Can’t Find My Way Home,” and “Wonderful Tonight.” Covers of “Crossroads,” and a reggae version of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” with Phil Collins on drums are highlights. Clapton also featured several tracks from his most recent studio album (1989’s Journeyman), including the hits “Pretending,” “Running On Faith,” and “Bad Love.”
With Clapton aided by special guests Buddy Guy, Albert Collins and Robert Cray, the blues concert delivered a masterclass in the genre with ripping versions of standards like “Key To The Highway,” “Sweet Home Chicago,” “Black Cat Bone,” and “Reconsider Baby.”
Joined by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by legendary composer Michael Kamen (Lethal Weapon, Edge of Darkness, X-Men, Die Hard, Band of Brothers), Clapton’s orchestra concert is the most unique of the collection. The collaboration resulted in stunning arrangements for “Layla,” “White Room,” “Bell Bottom Blues,” “I Shot The Sheriff,” “Lay Down Sally,” and the previously unreleased 30-minute epic, “Concerto For Guitar.” Kamen composed the piece especially for Clapton, which made its live debut at the Albert Hall.
The Definitive 24 Nights Track Listing
24 Nights: Rock
1. “Pretending”
2. “Running On Faith”
3. “Breaking Point” *
4. “I Shot The Sheriff” *
5. “White Room”
6. “Can’t Find My Way Home” * (Feat. Nathan East on lead vocals)
7. “Bad Love”
8. “Before You Accuse Me” *
9. “Lay Down Sally” *
10. “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” *
11. “Old Love” *
12. “No Alibis” *
13. “Tearing Us Apart” *
14. “Cocaine” *
15. “Wonderful Tonight”
16. “Layla” *
17. “Crossroads” *
18. “Sunshine Of Your Love” *
24 Nights: Blues
1. “Key To The Highway” *
2. “Worried Life Blues”
3. “You Better Watch Yourself”
4. “Have You Ever Loved A Woman”
5. “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” *
6. “Something On Your Mind” *
7. “All Your Love (I Miss Loving)” *
8. “It’s My Life Baby” *
9. “Johnnie’s Boogie” *
10. “Black Cat Bone” *
11. “Reconsider Baby” *
12. “My Time After A While” *
13. “Sweet Home Chicago” *
14. “You Better Watch Yourself” (Reprise) *
(Note: “Sweet Home Chicago” segues into “You Better Watch Yourself (Reprise)” and is listed as one track on the Blues vinyl.)
24 Nights: Orchestral
1. “Crossroads” *
2. “Bell Bottom Blues”
3. “Lay Down Sally” *
4. “Holy Mother” *
5. “I Shot The Sheriff” *
6. “Hard Times”
7. “Can’t Find My Way Home” * (Feat. Nathan East on lead vocals)
8. “Edge Of Darkness”
9. “Old Love” *
10. “Wonderful Tonight” *
11. “White Room” *
12. “Concerto For Electric Guitar” * (composed by Michael Kamen)
13. “A Remark You Made” *^ (A tribute to Jaco Pastorius)
Duane Betts has released a new single from his full length solo album debut - Wild & Precious Life (July 14 / Royal Potato Family). “Saints to Sinners” captures a feeling of joy and triumph: guitar, slide guitar, piano, organ, crashing cymbals and percussion create a wall of sound, over which Betts meditates on the challenges of choosing the right path. Says Betts, “I think each of us has things in our lives that gnaw at us, pull us in directions we don’t want to go. ‘Saints To Sinners’ is a song about my desire to always be moving in the right direction. We all have a saint and sinner in us. The challenge is to push through to the good things.”
Betts has emerged from a two-plus decade career spent sitting-in regularly with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Allman Brothers Band, leading rock outfits Backbone69 and Whitestarr, playing alongside his father in Dickey Betts & Great Southern, and touring as the guitarist for folk-rockers Dawes to unveil his solo debut. It’s a fierce record that captures the emotional release of Betts’ journey to sobriety, his experience falling in love with his soulmate, and acknowledging the fleeting joys of life.
The album features Derek Trucks, Marcus King and Nicki Bluhm, and was recorded live to tape over two weeks at Trucks and Susan Tedeschi’s Swamp Raga studio in Jacksonville, Florida. A compelling addition to the wider catalog of music under The Allman Brothers Band’s musical family umbrella, Wild & Precious Life celebrates wild, swampy rock n’ roll while breaking new ground in the genre.
Betts has shared two other songs from Wild & Precious Life, “Waiting on a Song” and “Stare At The Sun,” an ode to his father featuring Derek Trucks on slide guitar. Betts discussed the project recently with Garden & Gun and Goldmine, which calls the album “masterful,” and adds: “while it’s taken 20 years for Betts to make his official debut, this record was worth the wait.”
Duane Betts and his band Palmetto Motel will be touring all summer in support of Wild & Precious Life. The run gets underway today, a co-headline bill with Maggie Rose that includes Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Betts and his band are also hosting a 3-night festival in Jackson Hole, WY, called Horseshoe Music Festival that was just announced and will include late night DJ sets, curated food, a wellness retreat and artist/fashion vendors. See below for the full itinerary of headlining shows and festival appearances.
Evergreen
Waiting On A Song
Forrest Lane
Colors Fade
Saints To Sinners
Stare At The Sun
Under The Bali Moon
Sacred Ground
Cold Dark World
Circles In The Stars
TOUR DATES:
6/22 - Columbia, MO - Rose Music Hall ^
6/23 - Kansas City, MO - Knuckleheads ^
6/24 - Little Rock, AR - Revolution Music Room ^
6/27 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry House
6/28 - Richmond, VA - The Broadberry ^
6/29 - Virginia Beach, VA - Elevation 27 ^
6/30 - Washington, DC - The Hamilton Live ^
7/1 - Annapolis, MD - Rams Head Tavern ^
7/2 - Scranton, PA - The Peach Music Festival
7/14 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
7/15 - Saint Petersburg, FL - Jannus Live
7/16 - Jacksonville, FL - The Bier Hall at Intuition Ale Works
7/18 - Charleston, SC - Pour House Charleston
7/19 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
7/20 - Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theatre
7/21 - Roanoke, VA - 5 Points Music Sanctuary
7/22 - Lewes, DE - The Room at Cedar Grove
7/23 - Patchogue, NY - Great South Bay Music Festival
7/25 - Pembroke, MA - Soundcheck Studios
7/26 - Burlington, VT - Nectar’s
7/28 - Asbury Park, NJ - Wonder Bar
7/29 - New York, NY - The Cutting Room
8/12 - Denver, CO - Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox **
8/13 - Fort Collins, CO - The Aggie **
8/16 - Indianapolis, IN - HI-FI**
8/17 - Hamilton, OH - Riversedge Amphitheater **
8/18 - Harrisburg, PA - Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center**
8/20 - Morristown, NJ - The Homestead**
8/22 - Port Chester, NY - Garcia’s**
8/25 - Evanston, IL - SPACE**
9/1-3 - Jackson Hole, WY - Horseshoe Music Festival
Stewart Copeland, influential drummer/founder of seminal 80s band The Police and acclaimed film, opera, and orchestral composer, continues his musical journey today with Police Deranged for Orchestra, a new album(Shelter/BMG) which explores the band’s best-known tracks through a new lens, inspired by his recent forays into expansive musical forms and instrumentation.
Stewart Copeland: The Police Deranged for Orchestra began in 2021 as an evening concert bursting with The Police’s biggest hits including ”Roxanne,” “Don’t Stand Too Close To Me” and “Message in a Bottle” arranged for full symphony orchestra as well as hand-picked highlights from Copeland’s compositions. The project which went on to become the genesis for the album has toured with sold-out dates across the US and Europe, and will continue through the summer.
The resulting album revisits Police hits newly arranged for full orchestra alongside bassist Armand Sabal Lecco (Paul Simon), guitarist Rusty Anderson (Paul McCartney), and vocalists Amy Keys, Carmel Helene, and Ashley Támar. Percussion and drums were arranged, orchestrated, and co-produced by Copeland. The music was conducted and co-produced by Edwin Outwater and produced and mixed by Craig Stuart Garfinkle.
Unlike his earlier compositional work, Copeland explains that the “derangement” of The Police’s music began as a score for a movie he made out of Super8 footage of the band that he had shot during their rise to glory.
This year also brings the fall release of Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries, published by Rocket 88 Books and available in three editions. The book is based on and includes Copeland’s personal pocket diary entries from 1976-79. With scans of original pages and Copeland’s new background commentary, its pages are illustrated with classic and previously unseen photos from the early “starving years” of a band poised for global success. More information on Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries can be found here, and read more here in the meantime at Rolling Stone.
“It's full of my original diary pages, hand-made poster designs, ragged accounts, callow observations and other scribblings of a proto-rock star, illuminated by hitherto unseen vintage photos from the deepest vaults,” Copeland told SPIN earlier this year. “It’s a big, noisy book about one heckuva ride.
Concurrent with his early work with The Police, Copeland developed a solo recording alter-ego, Klark Kent, releasing singles and a self-titled 1980 album on which he played all the instruments, - even vocals. The cult album was re-released on April 14th (Record Store Day) on BMG. Klark Kent was credited with inspiring Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) among many others.
The Police Deranged for Orchestra Live tour, with U.S. and international dates, features performances by locally based symphony orchestras along with the core six-member band/ vocal ensemble. The tour, soon underway once more, has also announced a string a four additional dates in the Midwest and Northeastern US . See updated information at www.stewartcopeland.net/716/events-and-tours and a full list of tour dates below.
POLICE DERANGED TRACKLIST
Don’t Stand So Close To Me
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
King of Pain
Demolition Man
Murder by Numbers
Roxanne
Tea in the Sahara
Can’t Stand Losing You / Regatta de Blanc
Every Breath You Take
POLICE DERANGED WITH ORCHESTRA LIVE
June 30: Luxembourg - Kinnekswiss Loves Festival, Parc Municipal
July 12: Udine, Italy – Piazzale del Castello
July 14: Umbria, Italy – Umbria Jazz Festival, Arena S. Guilana
July 16: Trento, Italy – Parco dei Tre Castagni
July 24: Gardone Riviera, Italy – Vittoriale
July 25: Florence, Italy – Piazza S. Annunziata
July 27: Taormina (Sicily), Italy – Teatro Antico
September 30: Omaha, Nebraska, US - Holland Center
October 5: Denver, Colorado, US - Boettcher Concert Hall
October 8: Detroit, Michigan, US - Orchestra Hall
October 19: Carmel, Indiana, US - The Palladium - Center for the Performing Arts
October 21: Erie, Pennsylvania, US - Warner Theatre
October 22: Erie, Pennsylvania, US - Warner Theatre
Rhino is a respected name in the audiophile community, renowned for their exceptional and quality catalog releases. Following the success of The Doobie Brothers: Quadio (2020) and Chicago Quadio (2016) sets, Rhino will release a slew of seminal 1970s albums recorded in quadraphonic sound.
Quadraphonic sound, or 4.0 surround sound, utilizes four audio channels connected to four speakers positioned at the corners of a listening space. The multi-tracked audio is mixed dimensional, immersing the listener in an expansive soundscape.
Unavailable in quadraphonic audio for nearly 50 years, four iconic titles have been digitized from the original analog four-track Quad mixes - Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, The J. Geils Band’s Nightmares… and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle, and Jefferson Starship’s Red Octopus.
The collection of Quadio releases will be available on June 23 as Blu-ray discs exclusively at Rhino.com. Each title will be $24.98, with a bundle of all four albums retailing at $79.98. Order HERE.
Steve Woolard, Director of A&R for the Quadio series, stated, “I can’t wait for these to come out! Following in the footsteps of the Chicago and Doobie Brother’s Quadio sets, these are transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters at 192/24 resolution and sound amazing. Considering they’ve been in the vault for 50 years, the tapes were in pristine condition and needed no tweaks or fixes. They sound as fresh, rich, and powerful as the day they were created. And, of course, there’s also a 192/24 stereo program from the two-track master as well. Just because.”
ODESZA today have announced the ‘Flaws in Our Design’ collaborative EP with Yellow House (Cape Town-based songwriter/producer/instrumentalist Emile van Dango) that will drop on July 21 via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune.
The ‘Flaws in Our Design’ EP will also be available on clear sky blue vinyl Sept 29. A limited edition cassette housed in a printed o-card sleeve will also be offered only via ODESZA’s online store.
ODESZA & Yellow House are teasing the upcoming dreamy EP with first single “Heavier”, out now. The song captures the forthcoming EP’s transformative amalgamation of ODESZA’s epic, symphonic compositions and Yellow House’s psychedelic alterna-folk.
Of “Heavier”, Emile van Dango said that the track was “the idea that sparked the entire collaboration 5 years ago. From the jump, it had that unmistakable energy of having discovered something special. It captures the exact moment our two worlds met.”
“Heavier was a collaboration that started 5 years ago,” said ODESZA’s Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight. “We discovered Emile/Yellow House on SoundCloud and were immediately drawn to his voice and delivery. After finding success working on a few demos we flew him over from South Africa to work with us in our Seattle studio. From the jump, the music had that unmistakable energy of having discovered something special. We found ourselves drawn to a unique blend of electronic production and Emile’s incredible ability to create nostalgic melodies and storytelling lyrics. From there we went about creating a number of tracks and exploring various different combinations of the two worlds.”
Today’s announcement and track drop follows an already busy 2023 for ODESZA. The duo attended this year’s GRAMMY Awards in support of their nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album for their ‘The Last Goodbye’ EP, which recently saw a deluxe edition release. The album also recently won Best Electronic Record at A2IM’s Libera Awards. ODESZA also recently headlined Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Electric Forest, and are also set to perform top-billing slots at Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Austin City Limits and Life Is Beautiful. They are also recently announced the second leg of “The Last Goodbye Tour” kicking off this summer and featuring support from Bob Moses, Bonobo (DJ set), Big Boi, TOKiMONSTA, Drama, Neil Frances, QRTR & Olan, and The Midnight. Also For the first time ever, fans will be able to witness the awe-inspiring ODESZA live show as an immersive concert film with “ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience.” Presented in cinemas worldwide on Friday, July 7, “ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience” shows one of electronic music’s most important modern-day innovators as you’ve never seen them before, providing an intimate look into the process of creating the group’s wildly successful and record-setting return to the touring stage with “The Last Goodbye Tour.”
GRAMMY Award-winning music pioneer Alison Brown’s song, "Foggy Morning Breaking," featuring GRAMMY Award-winning musician/actor/author Steve Martin, has reached #1 on today's (6.30) Bluegrass Today and Grassicana charts. This stunning collaboration between the critically acclaimed banjoists is featured on Brown’s new album, On Banjo, available now via Compass Records.
Entertainment Weekly has said Brown’s music "honors tradition even as she cultivates it.” On “Foggy Morning Breaking,” she reinforces that point by tipping her hat to two of the most influential banjo players of the 20th century: Earl Scruggs, the father of bluegrass banjo and whose classic tune “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” the title riffs on, and the legendary John Hartford (“Gentle On My Mind”) from whom she borrows the title. The tune features Steve Martin, who co-wrote the tune with Brown, and who worked with Hartford on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the 60s. Martin’s delicate clawhammer technique, alongside Brown’s Scruggs-style picking (both played in the old-time double C ‘sawmill’ tuning), gives listeners the chance to hear equal parts tradition and innovation while bringing their own interpretations and emotions to the melody.
"Is there any sweeter sound than clawhammer and 3-finger banjo in double C tuning?” asks Brown. "I wrote the A melody for this tune and texted Steve a voice memo asking if he wanted to add to it. Within a day, he sent back the perfect B section. In the spirit of the times, we hammered out the bridge over Zoom. The title comes from a clever turn of phrase courtesy of John Hartford."
“Foggy Morning Breaking” features some of the most revered players in acoustic music with Brown and Martin leading on banjo. The pair are joined by 2x GRAMMY-nominated virtuoso Sierra Hull on mandolin, 3X GRAMMY-winner Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Punch Brothers’ Chris Eldridge on guitar and 2x GRAMMY winner Todd Phillips on bass.
"Foggy Morning Breaking” is the second single from Brown’s brilliant new record ‘On Banjo,’ now available via Compass Records. It follows the trailblazing banjoist's release of “Sun And Water”, a mash-up of The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun” and Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Jobim's “Águas de Março,'' that offered listeners a hint of the exciting and unexpected sounds that can be heard on ‘On Banjo.'
‘On Banjo’ is available now at found.ee/onbanjo. For more information on Alison Brown, visit alisonbrown.com.
Known for their innovative fusion of progressive rock and folk influences, Jethro Tull announces the 40th-anniversary edition of their 14th album Broadsword And The Beast. Originally released in 1982, the ground-breaking album captivated fans with its distinctive blend of rock, folk, and progressive influences. The album's masterful storytelling, accompanied by Ian Anderson's unmistakable flute melodies, garnered critical acclaim and has become a fan favorite over the years.
The 40th Anniversary packaging includes new mixes from Steven Wilson, demos, rough mixes, live recordings, and sessions from 1981, with a 5-CD and 3-DVD set forming the Monster Edition and a 3LP set as the Vinyl Edition, and available digitally.
Tracklisting:
The Monster Edition
5CD + 3LP
Disc 1 – The Broadsword and The Beast – Steven Wilson remix Disc 2 – Early 1981 Sessions – Steven Wilson remix
Disc 3 – Demo recordings
Disc 4 – Live in Germany 1982
Disc 5 – Live in Germany – 1982
DVD 1 – Album remixed to 96/24 LPCM stereo, DTS and 5.1 surround sound
DVD 2 – Associated recordings remixed to 96/24 LPCM stereo, DTS and 5.1 surround sound
DVD 3 – Live in Germany remixed to 96/24 LPCM stereo, DTS and 4.1 surround sound
The Vinyl Edition
4LP
LP 1 – The Broadsword and The Beast – Steven Wilson Remix
LP 2 (2LP) – Double-Edged Sword – Steven Wilson remixes of additional Broadsword recordings
LP 3 – The Maison Rouge Demos
Digital
Beastie (Steven Wilson Remix)
Clasp (Steven Wilson Remix)
Fallen on Hard Times (Steven Wilson Remix)
Flying Colours (Steven Wilson Remix)
Slow Marching Band (Steven Wilson Remix)
Broadsword (Steven Wilson Remix)
Pussy Willow (Steven Wilson Remix)
Watching Me, Watching You (Steven Wilson Remix)
Seal Driver (Steven Wilson Remix)
Cheerio (Steven Wilson Remix)
Fallen on Hard Times (1st Master, Dec ’81 Sessions) (Steven Wilson Remix)
Beastie (2nd Master Dec ’81 Sessions) (Steven Wilson Remix)
Fallen on Hard Times (2nd Master, Dec ’81 Sessions) (Steven Wilson Remix)
Seal Driver (1st Master, Dec ’81 Sessions) (Steven Wilson Remix)
Cheerio (Ensemble Vocal Version) (Steven Wilson Remix)
Jack-A-Lynn (Acoustic Version) (Steven Wilson Remix)
With Pharoah Sanders’ blessing, this forthcoming box set, due September 15 on Luaka Bop, will present the definitive, remastered version of Pharoah, his seminal record from 1977, along with two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece “Harvest Time." An accompanying 24-page booklet includes a treasure trove of rarely seen photographs, archival materials, interviews with many of the participants, and a conversation with Pharoah himself.
This record’s origin story is as elusive as Pharoah was about everything Pharoah. It was born out of a misunderstanding between him and India Navigation producer Bob Cummins, and was recorded when he was at a crossroads in his career with a group of musicians so unlikely that they were never all in the same room again. There was the guitarist Tisziji Muñoz who was also a spiritual guru, the organist Clifton “Jiggs” Chase who would go on to co-write and produce Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s “The Message,” and a classically trained pianist—his wife at the time, Bedria Sanders—who played the harmonium despite never having seen one. At times ambient and serene, at others funky and modal, Pharoah radically departed from his earlier work. It would become one of the artist’s most beloved records and one of the great works of the 20th century.
The simple misunderstanding that resulted in this album’s wholly unrepeatable sound was this: Pharoah wanted to make a certain kind of studio album, and Bob Cummins didn’t have the experience or place to pull it off. Bob suggested they make a duo record together, but Pharoah had other ideas. The first time Pharoah showed up at Bob’s studio, he brought a veritable rock band with him—electric guitar, organ, bass, drums—and surprised Bob with the number of people. Needless to say, the recording didn’t go well as well as either hoped. Pharoah was so disappointed with the sound that it hung in the balance whether the record would ever be released. But Pharoah and Bob agreed to try again, and the second time they met, Pharoah played the composition that has since been recognized as one of his greatest artistic achievements, “Harvest Time.”
There are no drums on “Harvest Time,” just guitar, bass, harmonium, and saxophone. Bedria thinks the composition was spontaneous. Tisziji remembers it that way too, recalling that Pharoah just turned to him and told him to start. “Pharoah said, ‘Man, you know, come up with something.’ So I came up with something and it stuck,” Tisziji said. “He would also often ask me for a harmony instrument; let the harmony play, set a vamp so that the guys can blow on it. So, I set that vamp up, he was fine with it, very simple. Bass player got into it, we all got into it, and I guess it became a masterpiece for people. Write two chords. Write the two-chord masterpiece in C minor. Beautiful, perfect.”
Then, Pharoah asked Bedria to name it. “I guess it’s just what came to my head because it was in the fall, you know,” she said. “It was harvest time in September. That’s my favorite time of the year.”
In her liner notes, Harmony Holiday calls Pharoah “a love letter” to Bedria. Her presence is all over the album—she was the only one of Pharoah’s wives to ever play on a record of his, and it’s clear from his wild, improvised vocals on “Love Will Find a Way,” that Bedria was the inspiration for much of the music.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas at the height of the Jim Crow era, Pharoah Sanders was one of the last icons of his generation when he passed last fall, on September 24, 2022. He was handpicked by John Coltrane and played on his late-career masterpieces, and thereafter released a string of expansive recordings under his own name for the Impulse! label, which have been cited as a pivotal influence by everyone from Prince to Iggy Pop to Marvin Gaye. With Coltrane, Sanders recorded some of the most revered — and controversial — albums in jazz history, embracing a wild, anarchic sound that would reverberate across genres for decades to come. Sanders’ subsequent solo output was similarly bold and influential, eventually winning a GRAMMY in the late ’80s.
In 2016, the National Endowment for the Arts bestowed him with its prestigious Jazz Master title, the genre’s highest honor. His last album Promises, released in 2021 with Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra, was heralded as “a late-career masterpiece,” and was awarded Album of The Year in several national newspapers around the world, including #1 in TIME Magazine and The New York Times, and #2 in The New Yorker who called it “...an extraordinary intimate experience…”.
Luaka Bop, who developed the collaboration with Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points, had been in discussion with Sanders about reissuing Harvest Time for several years, finally coming to an agreement in the spring of 2022. More than forty years after the record’s initial release, his attitude toward it hadn’t changed very much. He was like that as an artist, always critical of his playing and unsure of his accomplishments. Over the years, Pharoah’s silence around the record had created a kind of mystique—fans saw it as the Holy Grail of his recordings, which eventually resulted in a trove of bootlegs. This brought Pharoah a great deal of stress, and often made it impossible for him to discuss the record. In the late summer of 2022, they were making real progress in piecing together its story: For the first time, he began to open up about the making of the record and was eager to talk—and even encouraged them to speak with others about it, too, something that he’d never done before. There was even talk about Pharoah performing it live, or going back to Europe to play again. Shortly after, and unexpectedly at the time, he passed away.
This box set looks closely at this chapter of Pharoah’s life in a way that has never been done before. Through interviews, photographs, and ephemera that have never been shared, Pharoah’s personality and his intention for this record come alive. Some of this, which is the result of extensive research throughout Europe and North America by a dedicated research team, will be shared with the public throughout the fall on PharoahSanders.com/HarvestTime, with pieces by Harmony Holiday, Marcus J. Moore, and Pierre Crépon, who wrote essays that accompany this box set, among many others.
Forty-five years later, the remastering of the India Navigation album seeks to correct for the technical difficulties that plagued the recording process and to finally do the music justice, hemming closer to what Pharoah envisioned. For “Love Will Find a Way” and “Memories of Edith Johnson,” the result is a revelation. Alongside the remastered India Navigation album, Luaka Bop has included two previously unreleased live recordings of “Harvest Time.” Performed during an intense European tour in the late summer of 1977, these exciting live versions turn the original composition on its head.
In 2023 and 2024, this release will be supported by a series of unique performances around the world of The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders, a bespoke concert featuring the original guitarist and a selection of different musical ensembles who will come together in different iterations to reinterpret the composition “Harvest Time.” Each performance will diverge from each other as much as Pharoah’s own wildly different performances. The world premiere will take place at Le Guess Who? (Nov 12), featuring Irreversible Entanglements, Domenico Lancellotti, and special guest Tisziji Muñoz, under the musical direction of Joshua Abrams. A special workshop performance will take place at National Sawdust (Oct 14), in honor of Pharoah's birthday.
For seasoned listeners and new acolytes both, Pharoah will never sound the same.
Today, 3X GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Grace Potter debuts the cinematic video for her latest single “Good Time,” directed by Catherine Fordham. Set in the same remote desert cafe as Potter’s video for “Mother Road,” the album’s title track released last month, “Good Time,” is the next audacious chapter of the story and finds Lady Vagabond vibing to the Stones-inflected rocker, living her best life, and looking back with no regrets or inhibitions. Watch the video HERE and pre-save Mother Road HERE.
Grace Potter comments on the new “Good Time” video:
“I’m delighted to bring you “Good Time,” the newest cinematic installment from a world I created while driving and writing songs for MOTHER ROAD. In this music video, we explore one of my favorite characters, Lola Nomada Vasquez, the mischievous author of the beloved children’s book series, “Lady Vagabond”. Since the mid-century, Lola has lived and written in the fast lane, creating instantly iconic characters, but these days, she spends her time conjuring her next masterpiece from her favorite booth at her favorite diner. “Good Time” picks up where we left off at the end of “Mother Road”: Hurricane’s Drive-In Restaurant on Old Route 66. As the diner empties out, Lola lets loose, throwing herself a salacious party - fueled in equal parts by wine, unbridled imagination, and an unraveling mind. I invite you all to join me and a bunch of blow-up dolls as we dive head-long into the dazzling shadow-world of Lola’s GOOD TIME!
Please enjoy responsibly.”
Tickets are currently on sale for Potter’s Mother Road Tour, which kicks off at Collin Centers for the Arts in Orono, ME on Saturday, September 7. The 18-date fall tour also includes two performances at Shelburne Museum in her native Vermont, as well as shows at New York City’s Pier 17, Milwaukee’s Pabst Theatre, Chicago’s Riviera Theater and Atlanta’s Tabernacle among other great cities and venues, before concluding at The Fillmore in Charlotte, NC on November 18. See below for the full itinerary. For tickets information please visit https://www.gracepotter.com.
Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) and recorded at RCA’s famed Studio A in Nashville and Topangadise in Topanga, CA, Mother Road, the follow-up to Potter’s 2019 acclaimed, 2x GRAMMY-nominated album, Daylight, finds the rock and soul artist deconstructing her deepest fears and darkest regrets and charting the fallout with brutal honesty and emotional daring. Throughout the album’s 10 original tracks, Potter, along with contributions from top-flight musicians, commands an expansive soundscape of soulful rock, roots, funk, country, and R&B. Watch the Mother Road album trailer: HERE.
Mother Road - Track List:
1. Mother Road
2. Truck Stop Angels
3. Ready Set Go
4. Good Time
5. Little Hitchhiker
6. Lady Vagabond
7. Rose Colored Rearview
8. All My Ghosts
9. Futureland
10. Masterpiece
Full Grace Potter tour dates below, official Mother Road Tour Dates in BOLD:
Mick Fleetwood, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, celebrates the memory of his beloved bandmate Christine McVie, who died last November, with a poignant instrumental version of her signature composition, “Songbird.” This rendition features the extraordinary talent of ‘ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro and is available today, on what would have been McVie’s 80th birthday. LISTEN HERE.
Also today, Rhino revealed plans to release newly remastered versions of McVie’s final two solo albums, Christine McVie and In The Meantime. CD, vinyl, and digital versions of both albums will be available on November 3, along with a new Dolby Atmos mix of In the Meantime. Pre-order HERE.
Today’s release of “Songbird” was years in the making. Fleetwood and Shimabukuro, who both live in Hawaii, have been eager to collaborate for over a decade. When the opportunity finally arose this spring to record some music at Fleetwood’s studio in Maui, it was Shimabukuro who suggested they record “Songbird.” Fleetwood recalls, “We cut it in April, and it turned out beautifully, but there was no plan yet to release it. But when I heard about Christine’s upcoming birthday, it felt like the right time to share this as a tribute to all the lovely music she created, both on her own and with Fleetwood Mac.”
“Songbird” holds a special place in the hearts of Fleetwood Mac fans around the world, and McVie’s impassioned vocals have made it an enduring classic since its debut on Rumours in 1977. That’s why Fleetwood says he was initially cautious about reinterpreting such a cherished song. “When something is that well known, it becomes hallowed ground to a certain extent. But when we did it, I remember there was a hush when we listened back, and we felt that we had touched on something.” At that moment, Fleetwood says, he felt McVie’s presence in a powerful way.
In his heartfelt dedication at the end of the instrumental, Fleetwood adapts a lyric from McVie’s original. He says, “As the songbird sings, now from the heavens, to you Christine, I wish you all the love in the world. But, most of all, I wish it from myself.”
Surprisingly, “Songbird” wasn’t the only Fleetwood Mac song inspiring them in the studio. The drummer reveals that the track’s soft, insistent rhythm was influenced by another instrumental piece, “Albatross.” Written by the band’s founder and guitarist Peter Green, the song topped the U.K. charts in 1969. Fleetwood describes the songs as musical siblings. “They’re as simple as can be, but Peter Green always used to say, less is more.”
Shimabukuro says it was an honor to record “Songbird” with Fleetwood. He recalls the experience, saying, “His haunting drum groove transported me to a place filled with love and peace. It was a very special moment in the studio that I will never forget.”
Fleetwood commends Shimabukuro’s remarkable ability to balance audacious technical prowess with profound emotional sensitivity on the recording. “He has certain echoes he uses that make it sound like different melody parts all being played at the same time. He’s really astute in the way he put it together. And all that was done in one take with no overdubs.”
Fleetwood says the continued public outpouring of love for McVie since her passing is well deserved but believes it would have surprised her. “Christine was a North Country girl, and she would have no idea why they were closing down stadiums during half time and putting her picture up. I don’t think she really realized how powerful her music was, still is, and will be. And ‘Songbird’ certainly represents all of that.”
Today, Duane Betts releases his long-awaited debut solo album Wild & Precious Life. A collection of songs that fuse swampy southern soul with SoCal cosmic country and dazzling guitar work, Wild & Precious Life has been met with early praise, performances and profiles with Garden & Gun, SiriusXM Outlaw Country, Q104.3, Guitar Player, Guitar World, No Depression, the Tennessean, American Songwriter, Relix and much more. Betts also just made his Grand Ole Opry debut while on a co-headlining tour with Maggie Rose, and a headlining run with his band Palmetto Motel kicks off tonight in Ft. Lauderdale. The first leg heads up the East Coast to the Carolinas and New England, wrapping in New York City on July 29.
He’s also shared a new music video for “Saints To Sinners,” which was recently filmed while on tour in Charleston, SC and at Ventura Music Hall in Ventura, CA. It’s a song that Betts wrote about “how we all have a saint and sinner in us, the challenge is to push through to the good things.”
More than two decades in the making, Wild & Precious Life is an intimate and deeply personal debut. After years spent performing alongside Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Allman Brothers Band, leading Malibu rock outfits Backbone69 and Whitestarr, playing alongside his legendary father in Dickey Betts & Great Southern, and touring as the guitarist for folk-rockers Dawes, Betts explains: “It felt like the right time to make something that was entirely my own vision… It’s an album about who I am, where I come from, and what I believe in.”
Recorded live to tape in just two weeks at Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi’s Swamp Raga studio in Jacksonville, Florida last year, Wild & Precious Life features contributions from Derek Trucks, as well as Marcus King and Nicki Bluhm. Each track is honest, exploring Betts’ struggles with sobriety, the bliss of falling in love, and appreciation of life for all of its highs and its lows, just as the name suggests.
Today’s focus track, “Evergreen,” was inspired by a trip to Mexico and contributed to by dear friend and collaborator Devon Allman. In line with the themes of the album, the track is an ode to family and prioritizing what matters most in life. Other previously released songs from the record include the triumphant “Saints to Sinners,” the “breezy summer jam” “Waiting on a Song”, and “Stare At The Sun,” an ode to his larger-than-life father featuring Trucks on slide guitar.
To celebrate the release of Wild & Precious Life, Betts will tour through the summer with his band Palmetto Motel. He’ll also serve as host for the 3-night Horseshoe Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY, where much of the record was written. The festival will include late night DJ sets, curated food, a wellness retreat and artist/fashion vendors. See below for the full itinerary of headlining shows and festival appearances.
Wild & Precious Life Tracklist:
Evergreen
Waiting On A Song
Forrest Lane
Colors Fade
Saints To Sinners
Stare At The Sun
Under The Bali Moon
Sacred Ground
Cold Dark World
Circles In The Stars
TOUR DATES:
7/14 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
7/15 - Saint Petersburg, FL - Jannus Live
7/16 - Jacksonville, FL - The Bier Hall at Intuition Ale Works
7/18 - Charleston, SC - Pour House Charleston
7/19 - Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
7/20 - Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theatre
7/21 - Roanoke, VA - 5 Points Music Sanctuary
7/22 - Lewes, DE - The Room at Cedar Grove (Sold Out)
7/23 - Patchogue, NY - Great South Bay Music Festival
7/25 - Pembroke, MA - Soundcheck Studios
7/26 - Burlington, VT - Nectar’s
7/28 - Asbury Park, NJ - Wonder Bar
7/29 - New York, NY - The Cutting Room
8/12 - Denver, CO - Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox **
8/13 - Fort Collins, CO - The Aggie **
8/16 - Indianapolis, IN - HI-FI**
8/17 - Hamilton, OH - Riversedge Amphitheater **
8/18 - Harrisburg, PA - Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center**
8/20 - Morristown, NJ - The Homestead**
8/22 - Port Chester, NY - Garcia’s**
8/25 - Evanston, IL - SPACE**
9/1-3 - Jackson Hole, WY - Horseshoe Music Festival
Easy Eye Sound — the Nashville based label headed by Dan Auerbach and named Billboard’s 2022 Blues Label Of The Year — has spent the past six years not only preserving the blues, but uplifting unsung voices in the genre and, in the process, building a thriving, multigenerational community that has earned 16 GRAMMY® nods, 4 Billboard #1 Blues Albums, and widespread acclaim.
Today, Easy Eye Sound releases an all-new solo track from Dan Auerbach — The Black Keys frontman, Easy Eye Sound label head and 2023 GRAMMY-nominated Producer Of The Year himself. Titled “Every Chance I Get (I Want You In The Flesh)”, the insistent instrumental drone on Auerbach’s solo track will remind some listeners of Canned Heat’s 1967 recording “On the Road Again” — “I loved that song as a kid,” says Auerbach — which itself borrowed from Chicago bluesman Floyd Jones’ “Dark Road” (1953) and its inspiration, Mississippi Delta deity Tommy Johnson’s “Big Road Blues” (1928).
Listen to “Every Chance I Get (I Want You In The Flesh)” HERE
“Every Chance I Get (I Want You In The Flesh” is the latest preview of Easy Eye Sounds’s upcoming blues anthology, Tell Everybody! (out August 11), which surveys the modern blues scene and is composed of exclusive, Auerbach-produced recordings from Easy Eye Sound Studios. Featuring blues legends like Bentonia’s Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and the Delta gospel sounds of Leo “Bud” Welch; alongside brilliant youngbloods like Detroit duo Moonrisers and Korean-American Kentucky native Nat Myers, Tell Everybody! is the latest iteration of Easy Eye Sound’s mission to uplift unsung voices in the blues genre.
Previous releases include Glenn Schwartz’s “Daughter Of Zion (ft. Joe Walsh)” — an incredible lick of Ohio blues from the formative mentor to Easy Eye Sound's founder, as well as to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joe Walsh — the title track by Louisiana powerhouse Robert Finley, the hypnotic Hill Country boogie of GRAMMY-nominated R.L. Boyce, and Chicago-based Gabe Carter’s “sharp-yet-raspy in the best of ways” (American Songwriter) original “Buffalo Road.”
Blind Boys of Alabama have shared “Work Until My Days Are Done,” which finds the five-time GRAMMY winners shifting between heart-wrenching doo-wop and a raucous, rafter-raising second half; recalling the group’s rich history “epitomizing a livelier breed of gospel” (New York Times). While the Blind Boys make this standard their own, the themes of “Work Until My Days Are Done” perfectly suit the group’s long-held mission statement: “as long as everybody gives all that they have to give and we sing songs that touch the heart, we'll live on forever.” That belief has taken on even deeper meaning recently, as they've reckoned with the loss of two of their own - Paul Beasley and Benjamin Moore - and they’ll release their first album in six years Echoes Of The South (Single Lock Records) on September 8 in their honor. “We lost two great champions in Ben and Paul,” reflects 91-year-old group leader Jimmy Carter. “But I know they would want the Blind Boys to keep on going.” Both the new album and song were co-produced by Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, John Prine), Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes, Jason Isbell) and Charles Driebe.
Echoes Of The South marks the first album that the Blind Boys of Alabama have ever fully made in their home state - a homecoming for the ages. The album’s title takes its name from a Birmingham radio show that the Blind Boys grew up idolizing - tuning into groups like the Golden Gate Quartet each afternoon - before they eventually became guests on the show themselves. The tracklist is similarly rooted in coming home, drawing from the music that’s most inspired them over their careers: long-lost gospel classics, traditional spirituals and timeless R&B/soul cuts made famous by artists like Pops Staples and Curtis Mayfield. Even the album’s cover features braille for the first time; among the personal touches that establish Echoes Of The South as a "homecoming" in so many senses of the word.
Blind Boys of Alabama are Gospel Music Hall of Fame members who overcame incredible odds to become legends - from singing for pocket change in the Jim Crow South, to performing for three different American presidents, soundtracking the Civil Rights movement and helping define their genre as we know it. Hailed as "gospel titans" by Rolling Stone, the Blind Boys have collaborated with artists as diverse as Stevie Wonder, Chrissie Hynde, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Raitt and Bon Iver. Still regularly touring across the globe, the group currently have North American tour dates announced into 2024 - with a full list below.
‘ECHOES OF THE SOUTH’ TRACKLIST
1. Send It On Down
2. Work Until My Days Are Done
3. Friendship
4. You Can't Hurry God
5. Jesus You’ve Been Good To Me
6. The Last Time
7. Keep On Pushin'
8. Paul's Prayer
9. Wide River to Cross
10. Nothing But Love
11. Heaven Help Us All
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA TOUR DATES
July 19 - Mendocino Music Festival 2023 - Mendocino, CA
August 19 - CHOMP - Redmond, CA
August 27 - Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival - Vancouver, WA
September 9 - Paramount Center for the Arts - Saint Cloud, MN
September 10 - Reif Performing Arts Center - Grand Rapids, MN
September 11 - Pablo Center at the Confluence - Eau Claire, WI
September 15 - City Winery Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA
September 16 - City Winery Boston - Boston, MA
September 17 - City Winery New York - New York, NY
November 19 - Edwin J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall - Akron, OH
November 26 - Lone Tree Arts Center - Lone Tree, CO
January 13-20 - Sandy Beaches Cruise 2024 - Fort Lauderdale, FL
February 8 - Fred Kavli Theatre (with Bobby Rush) - Thousand Oaks, CA
The Roxy Theatre turns 50 this fall, and the iconic music club of the legendary Sunset Strip will celebrate with a full-slate of concerts, exhibits and events marking the milestone. In an LA Times online feature out today, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Roxy owner Lou Adler announced the return of Neil Young to The Roxy for a special performance taking place on September 20; fifty years to the day after he headlined the venue's opening night in 1973. The event will benefit The Painted Turtle and Bridge School. This milestone anniversary will also be celebrated in partnership with the GRAMMY Museum and West Hollywood Library, who have each detailed the Roxy50 activations they'll open this fall. Adler spoke to the LA Times about these events, as well as memories from The Roxy's earliest days (stories were also shared by Slash, Linda Ronstadt, Todd Rundgren, David Foster, Cheech Marin and Peter Asher), plus all that's still to come: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-07-18/the-r…
The GRAMMY Museum's exhibit, The Roxy: 50 Years On The Sunset Strip, will open September 15 with a special film screening, a rooftop reception and a Q&A with Adler and his sons Nic and Cisco. The exhibit will run through January 7, 2024, and feature rare/behind-the-scenes photographs of performers and notable regulars; plus Roxy memorabilia like the original white piano from the club’s infamous On The Rox (played by the likes of John Lennon, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and others) and items from The Rocky Horror Show, which made its US debut at The Roxy in 1974. For more information and tickets, please go to: www.grammymuseum.org.
The West Hollywood Library exhibit will open September 12 with a reception that features Lou Adler and Nic Adler in conversation for the city's Artists and Icons series at the West Hollywood Council Chambers. The exhibit will run through May 2024 at the library, featuring photographs from the venue curated by Jasen Emmons and accompanied by written anecdotes from the key players involved. The exhibit will be free and open to the public for its duration, with an online RSVP link opening August 1 via weho.org.
The Roxy has hosted many of the biggest names in music at early stages of their careers over the past 50 years and continues to be a career defining moment for emerging talent. The Roxy has been immortalized on live albums by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, The Ramones, Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry (featuring Tina Turner), Emmylou Harris, Frank Zappa, Richard Pryor, Gladys Knight, Guns N’ Roses, Buzzcocks, George Benson, Todd Rundgren and Warren Zevon. The Roxy is also where Adler launched The Rocky Horror Show in the US, to an opening night audience that included Jack Nicholson, Cher, Mick Jagger and John Lennon. In September 1973, the club was co-founded by Adler and his then partner Elmer Valentine, with music industry legends Elliot Roberts, David Geffen, Bill Graham and Peter Asher participating as investors and/or consultants.
Fleetwood Mac was at the top of its game in August 1977 when the band returned to its adopted home in Southern California to play three shows at The Forum in Los Angeles. Rumours had only been out a few weeks when the band left in February to tour the world, returning six months later to play three shows at The Forum for nearly 50,000 fans.
Rumours was the #1 album in America and well on its way to becoming one of the most successful ever released. Rumours eventually sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and has just been certified 21x platinum in the U.S. The record has also been certified 14x Platinum in the U.K., and 13x Platinum in Australia and New Zealand, all countries where the album reached #1.
RUMOURS LIVE captures the energy and excitement of the band’s opening night at The Forum on August 29, 1977. The nearly 90-minute performance includes live versions of most of the songs from Rumours and Fleetwood Mac, the group’s first multi-platinum #1 album, which came out in 1975.
The concert remained unreleased for decades until 2021, when “Gold Dust Woman” from the show was included as a bonus track on Live: Deluxe Edition, Rhino’s expanded version of Fleetwood Mac’s 1980 concert album. The other 17 songs on the collection have never been released before.
RUMOURS LIVE will be available on September 8 as 2-CD and 2-LP sets. The black-vinyl version has two 180-gram records in a gatefold jacket with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Pre-order HERE. Also, a crystal clear-vinyl version of RUMOURS LIVE will be released the same day exclusively at Walmart.
The music will be available from digital and streaming platforms. Unreleased live version of “DREAMS” from RUMOURS LIVE is available today digitally. Listen HERE.
The concert’s setlist draws almost exclusively from Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, the first two albums recorded by the band’s latest incarnation: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie, and the newest members, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham. The lone nod to Fleetwood Mac’s other nine studio albums is a performance of “Oh Well,” a rock-guitar masterpiece originally released in 1969 and written by the band’s founder, guitarist Peter Green.
Engineer Ken Caillat, who helped record Rumours, also recorded the concert at The Forum using the Record Plant’s mobile recording truck. He captured the band’s impassioned performance at a moment of peak Rumours frenzy, including powerful versions of “Landslide,” “Never Going Back Again,” “Songbird,” and “The Chain.”
In the liner notes from RUMOURS LIVE, Sam Graham observes: “The songs are familiar: ‘Dreams,’ ‘Go Your Own Way,’ ‘Say You Love Me,’ ‘Over My Head,’ and on and on. But most of these live versions are more muscular, more ferocious, than the album recordings, driven by the powerhouse Fleetwood-John McVie rhythm section and Buckingham’s febrile guitar playing; and instead of a rote recital of the hits, the group stretches out in concert, as songs like ‘Rhiannon,’ ‘World Turning,’ and ‘I’m So Afraid’ blossom into exuberant tours de force onstage.
Today, Bay Area collective Moonalice shares an acoustic version of the soulful anthem “Old & Proud.” Led by Moonalice vocalist Lester Chambers, the single is a tribute to the spirit of the older generation. Chambers confidently embraces aging on the call-and-response track, now reimagined with stripped-down instrumentation.
“Old & Proud” is part of a new batch of Moonalice songs written alongside esteemed Nashville songwriter and producer Dylan Altman. The song chronicles Chambers’ journey escaping the 1950s Jim Crow South and moving to California to pursue a life in music.
Speaking about the song, Lester adds: “At the age of 83, ‘Old and Proud’ has quickly become a new anthem for me. I see and hear so many ways to be thankful and proud and especially happy to be this age. To those of you who have made it this far along in your journey of life, I say ‘God Bless You’ and for all of those who wish to make it to your golden years, I say ‘God Help You.’ Remember, no matter what your age, you can sing it out, ‘I’m Old, I’m Proud and I Like my Rock n’ Roll Loud!’”
Born in 1940 in Carthage, Mississippi, Lester Chambers grew up in the Jim Crow South. He miraculously escaped a sharecropper's life and relocated to LA in the '50s, alongside his brothers George, Joe and Willie, with whom he played music together in a family band called The Chambers Brothers. The band was at the forefront of black psychedelia, which T: The New York Times Style Magazine called “one of the most lasting and influential artistic movements of the 20th century.” In 1967, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the Chambers Brothers' cowbell-infused “Time Has Come Today” became an anthem for the disenfranchised and disillusioned youth of America. The song sat at #11 for five weeks on the Billboard Top 100 and propelled the group to national stardom. In the summer of 1969, The Chambers Brothers starred at the Harlem Culture Festival, a performance featured in the Oscar-winning documentary, “Summer of Soul.”
Lester's storied rock and roll life continues today with Moonalice, where alongside his son Dylan Chambers, he continues to lift up the community and inspire the next generation through messages of “love, peace, and happiness.” Fresh off performances at Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival and Skull & Roses Festival in Ventura, CA, Moonalice is heading to Alaska this month to perform at Salmonfest and the South East Alaska Fair.
Moonalice recently partnered with One Tree Planted, a nonprofit organization focused on global reforestation. Since 2014, the organization has planted over 40 million trees in more than 47 countries across the globe. For every fan that follows Moonalice on Spotify, One Tree Planted will plant one tree.
MOONALICE – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Date, City/State, Venue
7/21, Novato, CA Summer, Concerts on the Green
7/28 + 7/29, Haines, AK, Southeast Alaska Fair
8/2, Talkeetna, AK, Sheldon Community Arts Hangar
8/4 + 8/5, Ninilchik, AK, Salmonfest
8/18, Oakland, CA, Jerry Garcia Night @ Oakland Coliseum
Today, ODESZA have digitally released their ‘Flaws in Our Design’ collaborative EP with Yellow House (Cape Town-based songwriter/producer/instrumentalist Emile van Dango), via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune. A dreamy, transformative amalgamation of ODESZA’s epic, symphonic compositions and Yellow House’s psychedelic alterna-folk, ‘Flaws in Our Design’ is yet another example of the dexterity of ODESZA’s talents & the endlessness of their creative vision.
The ‘Flaws in Our Design’ EP, out on vinyl September 29, is available for pre-order everywhere now on 140g Clear Sky Blue Vinyl, housed in yellow dust jacket inside a 12” old school uncoated sleeve. A limited edition cassette encased in a printed o-card sleeve will also be offered exclusively via ODESZA’s online store.
Of the new EP, ODESZA’s Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight shared that “We discovered Emile/Yellow House on SoundCloud and were immediately drawn to his voice and delivery. After finding success working on a few demos we flew him over from South Africa to work with us in our Seattle studio. From the jump, the music had that unmistakable energy of having discovered something special. We found ourselves drawn to a unique blend of electronic production and Emile’s incredible ability to create nostalgic melodies and storytelling lyrics. From there we went about creating a number of tracks and exploring various different combinations of the two worlds.
Today’s release follows an already busy 2023 for ODESZA. The duo attended this year’s GRAMMY Awards in support of their nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album for their ‘The Last Goodbye’ EP, which recently saw a deluxe edition release. The album also recently won Best Electronic Record at A2IM’s Libera Awards. ODESZA also recently headlined Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Electric Forest, and are also set to perform top-billing slots at Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Austin City Limits and Life Is Beautiful. They are also recently announced the second leg of “The Last Goodbye Tour” kicking off this summer and featuring support from Bob Moses, Bonobo (DJ set), Big Boi, TOKiMONSTA, Drama, Neil Frances, QRTR & Olan, and The Midnight.
Earlier this month, for the first time ever, fans were able to experience the awe-inspiring ODESZA live show as an immersive concert film with “ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience.” Presented in cinemas worldwide, “ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience” serves as a showcase for one of electronic music’s most important modern-day innovators as never seen them before, providing an intimate look into the process of creating the group’s wildly successful and record-setting return to the touring stage with “The Last Goodbye Tour.”
Today, dancing pop-violin sensation Lindsey Stirling releases her cover of Led Zeppelin’s rock anthem “Kashmir” via Lindseystomp Music. Renowned for her unique blend of hard-hitting violin, electrifying dance, and contemporary beats, Lindsey Stirling's interpretation of "Kashmir'' pays homage to the iconic rock classic while infusing it with her unmistakable style and virtuosity. Combining her signature violin mastery with bold electronic elements and an infectious energy, Stirling's rendition revitalizes the beloved track, giving it a fresh and modern twist.
"’Kashmir’ has always been one of my favorite rock songs and I'm so excited I got to work with the legendary producers Howard Benson (Motörhead, All American Rejects) and Neil Sanderson (Three Days Grace, My Darkest Days) on imagining a way to bring it to life in my style,” Lindsey shares.
As an artist who has consistently pushed the boundaries of what’s possible with the violin, Lindsey Stirling's "Kashmir" cover serves as a testament to her musical innovation and her ability to seamlessly bridge the gap between genres. Her arrangement captivates listeners with its dynamic range, showcasing her ability to transition from delicate and ethereal moments to explosive crescendos. Lindsey’s electric violin folds into the epic melody of the rock classic seamlessly, in a unique take on Led Zeppelin’s song.
Alongside the song, today, Lindsey Stirling will make her Lollapalooza Paris debut on the mainstage, just before kicking off her five-week US summer tour. Stirling’s live show amazes audiences with a “combination of cutting-edge performances… along with her signature genre-bending, amped-up orchestrations” (Consequence). Stirling has performed for more than 800,000 people on her headline tours, and her run of dates with Evanescence was named one of Live Nation’s best-selling amphitheater tours. Multi-platinum pop band Walk off the Earth will support Stirling on her US tour. See full tour routing below.
Lindsey Stirling Tour Routing
Tuesday, August 1st - Bridgeport, CT - Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater
Wednesday, August 2nd - Portsmouth, VA - Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion
Thursday, August 3rd - Doswell, VA - After Hours Concerts at The Meadow Event Park
Friday, August 4th - Sylvania, OH - Centennial Terrace
Saturday, August 5th - Columbus OH - Ohio State Fair
Monday, August 7th - Charlotte, NC - Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
Tuesday, August 8th - Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheater
Thursday, August 10th - Cincinnati, OH - PNC Pavilion
Friday, August 11th - Interlochen, MI - Interlochen Center for the Arts
Saturday, August 12th - West Allis, WI - Wisconsin State Fair
Monday, August 14th - Maryland Heights, MO - Saint Louis Music Park
Tuesday, August 15th - Indianapolis, IN - TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park
Wednesday, August 16th - Des Moines, IA - Iowa State Fair
Friday, August 18th - Southaven, MS - BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove
Saturday, August 19th - Oklahoma City, OK - Oklahoma Zoo Amphitheatre
Monday, August 21st - Lincoln, NE - Pinewood Bowl Theater
Tuesday, August 22nd - Waite Park, MN - The Ledge Amphitheater
Wednesday, August 23rd - Moorhead, MN - Bluestem Amphitheater
Friday, August 25th - Casper, WY - Ford Wyoming Center
Saturday, August 26th - Bonner, MT - KettleHouse Amphitheater
Monday, August 28th - Nampa, ID - Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
Tuesday, August 29th - Airway Heights, WA - Northern Quest Resort & Casino
Friday, September 1st - Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
Saturday, September 2nd - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Rhiannon Giddens today shared a new single from her forthcoming album You’re the One, which is due August 18 on Nonesuch Records. “Yet to Be” features Jason Isbell and tells the story of a Black woman and an Irish man falling in love in America. Giddens chose to collaborate with Isbell due to his steadfast advocacy and support for black women in the industry. Beyond being an exceptional singer, he stays true to himself, and she genuinely admires him as a person of great character.
You’re the One, Giddens’ first album of all original songs, has already received critical praise, with Uncut calling the album an “accomplished tour d’horizon by [a] prolific polymath.” The Art’s Desk describes the album as, "Mingling Memphis-style horns with an Appalachian feel and her own particular soulful Americana, this isn't tricksy music, just upfront, inclusive, immediate and human." Of the title track “You’re the One,” New York Times says, “the song explodes out of her string-band foundations — banjo and fiddle — into full-tilt rock choruses, bursting with euphoria.”
The album also has been featured by NPR’s All Songs Considered, Pitchfork, Variety, Rolling Stone, SPIN, and more. You’re the One was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Tank and the Bangas). Giddens also recently announced the biggest headlining shows of her career, including performances at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in September, plus the Barbican Centre in London, the Beacon Theatre in New York City, and the Ace Theater in Los Angeles next spring (dates below).
It’s been a remarkable 2023 for Giddens thus far. The multi-faceted artist, GRAMMY-winner, and MacArthur fellow was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her collaborative opera, Omar. Giddens is also featured on Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business list and is a host on Arts Talk, a new PBS program on which she, Elvis Costello, and Brian Stokes Mitchell discuss their careers.
You’re the One features twelve songs, written over the course of Giddens’ career, that burst with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants. It was recorded with a band composed of Giddens’s closest musical collaborators from the past decade alongside musicians from producer Splash’s own Rolodex, topped off with a horn section, making an impressive ten- to twelve-person ensemble. The collaborators include Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi plus multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu. The album features electric and upright bass, conga, Cajun and piano accordions, guitars, a Western string section, and Miami horns, among other instruments, capturing the inclusive spirit that channels through all of her work.
As Pitchfork has said, “Few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.” Giddens’ previous album, They're Calling Me Home, won the GRAMMY for Best Folk Album in 2022, making her a two-time winner and eight-time nominee. Over the last two years, in addition to the debut of Omar, Giddens also made her PBS’ Great Performances debut with the Nashville Ballet in Black Lucy and the Bard, for which she composed and the music (and performed it with Francesco Turrisi), and released a children's book called Build a House inspired by a song she wrote for Juneteenth. She also became artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble, created a 10-part video series about the banjo on Wondrium, and launched a new series on PBS called My Music. Giddens has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Costello, and Daniel Lanois; appeared on the Kennedy Center Honors Awards for Joan Baez; and appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, CBS Saturday Morning, and the GRAMMY Salute to Paul Simon on CBS.
TRACK LIST:
Too Little, Too Late, Too Bad
You’re the One
Yet to Be (feat. Jason Isbell)
Wrong Kind of Right
Another Wasted Life
You Louisiana Man
If You Don’t Know How Sweet It Is
Hen in the Foxhouse
Who Are You Dreaming Of
You Put the Sugar in My Bowl
Way Over Yonder
Good Ol’ Cider
TOUR DATES:
September 13: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA^
September 14: The Sheldon, St. Louis, MO^
September 15: Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN^
September 17: Athenaeum Center, Chicago, IL*
September 18: Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI*
September 19: St. Cecilia Music Center, Grand Rapids, MI^
September 20: Royal Conservatory, Toronto, ON^
September 22: House of Blues, Boston, MA^
September 23: University of Maine, Orono, ME^
September 24: FreshGrass MASS MoCa Festival, North Adams, MA
September 26: Keswick Theater, Philadelphia, PA^
September 27: University of Maryland, College Park, MD^
September 28: Carolina Theater, Greensboro, NC^
September 30: University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC^
October 1: Modlin Center at University of Richmond, Richmond, VA+
October 2: Paramount Theatre, Charlottesville, VA*
November 5: George Mason University Center for the Arts Concert Hall, Fairfax, VA@
November 9: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA@
November 10:Balboa Theater, San Diego, CA@
November 11: Soka Performing Arts Center, Aliso Viejo, CA@
November 12: The Soraya at CSUN, Northridge, CA@
November 15: Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA@
November 16: Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis, Davis, CA@
November 17: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA@
November 18: Green Music Center, Sonoma, CA@
February 10, 2024: Maison de la culture de Creteil, Creteil, France
February 11, 2024: Doornroosje Main Hall, Nijmegen, Netherlands
February 13, 2024: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 14, 2024: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
February 17, 2024: Elb Philharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
February 18, 2024: Lido, Berlin, Germany
February 19, 2024: Kulturkirche Ost, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
February 21, 2024: Barbican Centre, London, UK
February 23, 2024: Pavillion Theatre, Glasgow, UK
February 25, 2024: Vicar St., Dublin, Ireland
March 14, 2024: Worcester, MA, Holy Cross University
In 1973, following the recent passing of founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and the temporary exit of drummer Mickey Hart, the Grateful Dead released Wake Of The Flood. As the debut album from their own record label, Grateful Dead Records, the studio LP marked a period of transition, growth, endurance and optimism for the band, introducing a fresh lineup that included new members Keith and Donna Godchaux on keys and vocals. While songs like "Eyes Of The World," "Stella Blue," and "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" were largely road-tested for more than half a year beforehand, and have remained staples of live sets by any number of Dead-related bands ever since, the album and record label delivered both a profound artistic statement and proof of concept for the community, ideals and future the band were building. Together they ushered in a new era of the Grateful Dead – one defined by hope, independence, ambition and accessibility – and in celebration of its 50th Anniversary, Wake Of The Flood has been newly remastered and expanded with unearthed and unheard material.
Out September 29th via Rhino, Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) will be available as two-CD and digital sets, featuring the album's seven original songs and previously unreleased demo recordings of "Eyes Of The World" and "Here Comes Sunshine." Recorded in early 1973, just before the Grateful Dead performed on February 9th, the demos feature Jerry Garcia singing and playing a pair of new songs he and Robert Hunter had been creating. He presumably shared them with the rest of the band members so they could start learning, and amongst these demos was this beautiful, primitive rendition of "Eyes Of The World." It provided the basis of what would become one of the Dead's most beloved and frequently played songs for the next 20+ years.
Additionally, the deluxe edition includes a bonus disc of live material from the final night of a brief tour that immediately followed Wake Of The Flood's release. Captured at Northwestern University's McGaw Memorial Hall on November 1st, 1973, the set is bookended with "Weather Report Suite" and "Mississippi Half-Step," and features one of the most creative and inspired jams of the entire run: "Morning Dew">"Playing In The Band">"Uncle John's Band">"Playing In The Band."
Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Remaster) will also be released on September 29th as a single 180-gram black vinyl LP, limited edition 12" vinyl picture disc, limited edition "coke bottle clear vinyl" exclusive to Barnes & Noble, and Dead.net Exclusive, limited edition "Watermark" Custom Vinyl. Since the launch of Workingman's Dead "Oil Stained" Custom Vinyl in 2020, each installment of Dead.net's Custom Vinyl series has quickly sold-out, delivering a unique and cohesive narrative specific to that release. Between specialty designed labels, prints, inserts, stickers and designs, the package goes far beyond colored wax. All pressings of Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Remaster) feature Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction and are newly mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer, David Glasser, and produced for release by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux.
Writing about the time he first heard Wake Of The Flood, David Lemieux, says, "I was enthralled with the beautiful arrangements of some of the Dead's greatest songs, everything so clear and present. The songs and vocal treatments all sounded so mature, like these were guys who knew things and they wanted to share what they'd learned in the eight years since forming the Grateful Dead. And what REALLY caught my ear were the many additional sounds that were striking at first, but I can’t imagine these songs, on this record, without these many additional contributors."
During the summer of 1973, the Grateful Dead's impact was beginning to expand in ways that surprised even them. That August, just weeks after a legendary Watkins Glen concert brought 600,000 fans to a New York raceway to hear the Dead, the Allman Brothers Band and The Band, the Dead primarily recorded Wake Of The Flood in just nine days at Sausalito, CA's Record Plant. In addition to Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, plus new members Keith and Donna Godchaux, Wake Of The Flood sessions welcomed a wide range of friends and musicians who provided everything from vocals and percussion to horns, harmonica, and even fiddle, courtesy of bluegrass legend Vassar Clements. The breadth of instruments and widened arrangements gave Wake Of The Flood a tapestry of tones that Jerry Garcia would further embellish with pedal steel and pastoral feelings.
In the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition's accompanying liner notes, former UC Santa Cruz Grateful Dead archivist Nicholas G. Meriwether writes that with Wake Of The Flood, the Grateful Dead were "not only building a musical microcosm, a unified narrative that described the state of the Dead's project, but also providing an example of what that project could accomplish, what it was designed to do: to create a viable alternative, an artistic vision of the beauty that could be created within and despite the sad, messy strife of the world…And they let that message speak for itself. In an album rife with religious imagery and overtones, they never preached; they just revealed."
In tandem with today's announcement, the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast has premiered its eighth season, focused on Wake Of The Flood. The first installment of the ten-episode podcast series features never-before-heard interviews with late Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones tour manager Sam Cutler and is available now, beginning with a look into the famed Watkins Glen performance that music historians call the peak of the festival era. As the band's biggest concert yet, it served as a powerful statement of the Dead's appeal, though events at home were about to become even more dramatic.
For more special guests and new episodes released on a weekly basis, subscribe to Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast here: https://www.dead.net/deadcast
2023 marks 75 years since the iconic independent label Folkways Records was founded by Moses Asch and Marian Distler in New York City, and, to honor this anniversary, Smithsonian Folkways will be reissuing four classic albums from their storied catalog. From the powerful poetic expressions of Black joy and unity of Sarah Webster Fabio to the ecstatic old-time and bluegrass of New Lost City Ramblers & Cousin Emmy and the croaks and ribbits on Sounds of North American Frogs, these reissues reach into exciting, disparate corners of the Folkways universe. Folkways has also released limited-edition items based on classic Folkways Records designs.
The four albums being reissued and re-pressed on vinyl in 2023 - each for the first time in many years - will be:
Folkways is also rolling out programming and events, merch, and a special subscription service throughout the year in celebration of the anniversary. Earlier this month, Folkways partnered with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival for a special one-day performance, “Folkways at 75,” featuring Jake Blount and No-No Boy, and in November, the label will be partnering with the Brooklyn Folk Festival for an expansive weekend of programming, November 10–12 featuring performances by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Dom Flemons, Alice Gerrard, and more.
In celebration of Rhino's 45th Anniversary, the label is launching Rhino Reds, a new series of limited-edition reissues pressed on custom "Rhino Red" vinyl.
Over the next few months, Rhino will release classic albums and rarities from its vast music archive, showcasing records by key artists from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Each complete reissue will feature a bonus 7-inch, both pressed on translucent "Rhino Red" vinyl, based on the PMS color used in Rhino's logo.
To ensure the highest audio fidelity, all 12 titles' lacquers were cut at various mastering studios, including Bernie Grundman Mastering, The Bakery, and Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl (more details below). All the titles have been pressed at Third Man's state-of-the-art pressing plant in Detroit.
"What better way to honor Rhino's 45th anniversary than with a series of limited-edition 'Rhino Red' vinyl and 45s that spotlights our rich legacy of artists over the decades and highlights our continuing commitment to delivering unique releases for audiophiles." – Mark Pinkus, President of Rhino
The series begins on July 28th with the 1960s and features titles by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, The Doors, and Love. Rhino.com will have an exclusive bundle of all 4 releases for $99.98.
Available On July 28th:
Aretha Franklin - Soul '69 [Stereo] + Bonus [Monophonic] 7"*
*"I Can't See Myself Leaving You" / "Gentle On My Mind"
Strictly Limited To 3,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Franklin's 14th studio album, Soul '69, reached number 1 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart and 15 on the Top Albums chart when it was released in January of 1969.
*"That's A Good Idea" / "Free Me" / "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher" / "I'll Let Nothing Separate Us"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Love Man is the third posthumous album by Redding, released in 1969 and produced by Steve Cropper and features Booker T. and the M.G.'s. The album reached number 46 on the Billboard 200 and number 8 on the R&B Albums chart. Love Man will come with a deluxe gatefold jacket and a mono promo 7" picture sleeve.
A 1968 compilation released exclusively in Japan featuring The Doors' tracks from their first three studio albums, The Doors, Strange Days, and Waiting for the Sun. The release comes with a deluxe gatefold jacket with a tipped-in lyric insert and a 7" picture sleeve. For the very first time, this Japanese compilation is available worldwide and will not be available in any stores.
The 3x platinum album, Minute by Minute, was released in 1978 and stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for 87 weeks. The song "What a Fool Believes" became their biggest hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 and winning three Grammys.
Ramones - Ramones [Mono] + Bonus 7" [Mono]*
*"Blitz" / "Havana Affair"
Strictly Limited To 3,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Released in April 1976, Ramones' debut album has been deemed one of the most influential punk albums of all time. Featuring the infamous tracks “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”
Todd Rundgren - Runt + Bonus 7"*
*"We Gotta Get You A Woman" / "Baby Let's Swing/Last Thing You Said/Don't Tie My Hands"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Bernie Grundman Mastering
Rundgren's debut album, Runt, was released in September 1970 and peaked at No. 185 on the Billboard 200. The featured single, "We Gotta Get You A Woman," reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1971.
Chicago - Chicago V + Bonus 7"*
*"Saturday In The Park" / "Alma Matter"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $39.98
Mastering By The Bakery
Released in July 1972, Chicago V hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart along with the single "Saturday in the Park," reaching No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100. This reissue includes two exclusive posters of the full band.
Available On September 22nd:
Foreigner - Agent Pro + Bonus 7" with picture sleeve*
*"I Want To Know What Love" / "Street Thunder"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Foreigner's triple platinum fifth album, Agent Provocateur, released in 1984, reached number one in the UK and top 5 in the US. The album's single "I Want to Know What Love Is" was a massive hit, reaching number one in both countries.
B-52's - Bouncing Off The Satellites + Bonus 7" with picture sleeve*
*"Summer Of Love" / "Housework"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
The fourth studio album from the American new wave group, the B-52’s, was released in September 1986 with hit tracks "Wig" and "Summer of Love."
Zapp - Zapp + Bonus 7" with picture sleeve*
*"More Bounce To The Ounce. Part I" / "More Bounce To The Ounce. Part II"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Zapp released their debut gold-certified self-titled in July 1980 and landed at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B chart for two weeks.
Starship - Knee Deep In The Hoopla + Bonus 7" with picture sleeve*
*"We Built This City" / "Private Room"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Starship's platinum debut, Knee Deep in the Hoopla, was released in September 1985 and features their biggest tracks, "We Built This City" and "Sara."
About Rhino Entertainment
Rhino is the catalogue development and marketing division of Warner Music Group. Founded in 1978, Rhino continues to set the standard for excellence in the reissue business it pioneered in both the physical and digital worlds with an emphasis on flawless sound quality, bonus tracks, informative liner notes, award-winning creative packaging, and a strong social conscience. Rhino has also expanded the definition of what a catalogue music company is, as evidenced by the label's name and likeness representation deal with Frank Sinatra and its multi-faceted relationship with the Grateful Dead. The catalogue of more than 5,000 releases includes material by Led Zeppelin, Eagles, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, The Doors, Chicago, Ray Charles, Black Sabbath, John Coltrane, Yes, Phil Collins, The Ramones, and The Monkees, among many others.
Today, 3X GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Grace Potter shares “Ready Set Go” and “Lady Vagabond,” the newest tracks off her highly anticipated album Mother Road, out August 18, 2023, via Fantasy Records. Each track reveals one of the many wild characters Potter manifests in Mother Road’s twisted odyssey. “Ready Set Go” finds Potter as a 20-year-old, happy-go-lucky, wayward hitchhiker locked in an alternate reality, while the dramatic “Lady Vagabond,” wrapped in spaghetti-western bravado, illuminates the lawless superhero within. Watch track visualizers for “Ready Set Go” HERE and “Lady Vagabond” HERE. Pre-order Mother Road HERE.
“‘Ready Set Go’ is one of the very first songs I wrote for Mother Road. I’d been driving solo for about a week and I must’ve been desperate for some company because any time I stopped, I got this bizarre urge to jump in every car, truck, train or bus I saw drive by! While I didn’t indulge that highly questionable and risky idea in reality, I did explore it through song...and my imaginary co-pilots took me down some very unexpected roads.” Potter shares. “On the other hand, along the many stops on Mother Road, ‘Lady Vagabond’ is, without a doubt, the steepest exit ramp to another dimension from which you cannot return.”
Tickets are currently on sale for Potter’s Mother Road Tour, which kicks off at Collin Centers for the Arts in Orono, ME on Saturday, September 7. The 18-date fall tour also includes two performances at Shelburne Museum in her native Vermont, as well as shows at New York City’s Pier 17, Milwaukee’s Pabst Theatre, Chicago’s Riviera Theater and Atlanta’s Tabernacle, among other great venues, before concluding at The Fillmore in Charlotte, NC on November 18. See below for the full itinerary. For tickets information please visit gracepotter.com.
Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) and recorded at RCA’s famed Studio A in Nashville and Topangadise in Topanga, CA, Mother Road - the follow-up to Potter’s 2019 acclaimed, 2x GRAMMY-nominated album, Daylight - finds the rock and soul artist deconstructing her deepest fears and darkest regrets and charting the fallout with brutal honesty and emotional daring. Throughout the album’s 10 original tracks, Potter, along with contributions from top-flight musicians, commands an expansive soundscape of soulful rock, roots, funk, country, and R&B. Watch the Mother Road album trailer: HERE
In celebration of Rhino's 45th anniversary this year, the label is launching Rhino Reds, a new series of limited-edition reissues pressed on custom "Rhino Red" vinyl.
The Rhino Reds series debuts with a reissue of GOLDEN ALBUM, a 1968 compilation by The Doors that was released exclusively in Japan. This reissue was mastered by Bruce Botnick with lacquers cut by Bernie Grundman Mastering. Limited to 5,000 copies worldwide, the "Rhino Red" version of Golden Album will be available on July 28 for $34.98 exclusively at The Doors and Rhino webstores. This album will not be available in stores.
The album is a compilation of 12 songs from the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers' first three studio albums: The Doors, Strange Days, and Waiting for the Sun. Many of The Doors' biggest hits include the #1 smashes "Light My Fire" and "Hello, I Love You." Five songs from the compilation appear on the bonus 7", including the Top 40 hits "People Are Strange" and "Unknown Soldier."
Golden Album comes in a deluxe gatefold jacket with a tipped-in multi-page insert including lyrics to all 12 songs plus a picture sleeve for the bonus 7". There's also a vintage Elektra Records listing promoting The Doors albums available at that time.
The Rhino Reds series pays tribute to Rhino's rich legacy of artists and is a hallmark of the last 45 years. Each vinyl will be pressed at Third Man's state-of-the-art pressing plant in Detroit to ensure the highest audio fidelity. Likewise, Rhino's close attention to detail will bring the replica packaging to life, with gatefold jackets and tipped-in inserts for a vintage feel.
The creative duo of two-time Grammy-winning album Divine Tides---Stewart Copeland and Grammy-winning Indian musician/composer Ricky Kej—announce their latest world music collaboration, Police Beyond Borders. Furthering their mission to feature leading talent from around the world, the album, recorded in Bangalore, is a reinterpretation of the seminal 80s band’s classic songs with diverse interpretations and artist representation from South Africa, India, Japan, China, Canada, the U.K., and more.
Copeland and Kej have enlisted top international artists, including South Africa’s Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir; China’s “Father Of Rock” Cui Jian; U.S.-based Berklee Indian Ensemble; Japanese Grammy-winner for Best Global Music Album, Masa Takumi; South Africa’s acclaimed Mzansi Youth Choir; leading Indian composer/singer Shankar Mahadevan; renowned British classical trumpeter Alison Balsom; multi-award winning Canadian flutist Ron Korb; legendary Bollywood composers and brother duo Salim-Sulaiman, hammered dulcimer virtuoso Max ZT; and multi-instrumentalist Serj Tankian of metal band System of a Down.
Of the recording Stewart Copeland said, “It was Ricky Kej who suggested that we make a global album out of the Police derangements. It was a lightbulb moment. Of course! The Police was always a global band; we toured all over it and Sting wrote songs about the bigger picture of humanity.
The idea of hearing the songs in exotic languages was immediately inspiring and Ricky set about finding the magnificent talents on this record. As with all of the musicians and singers on this record, we exhorted them to step beyond, to take the songs into new places. They sure did do that!
The Police’ music essentially derives from Black culture, and it was particularly spine-tingling to hear that culture arriving back in Africa. Every Breath You Take in Zulu! All the flavors of the different languages lit up these tunes that are so familiar. I hope that familiarity will give a comfortable vantage point for anyone to experience music styles that might otherwise sound alien.
Music evolved in Homo sapiens as a bonding social skill. My humble hope is that this record can contribute to that human bonding on this shrinking planet.”
“It was a huge honor to collaborate with my musical idol Stewart Copeland yet again. After having won 2 Grammy awards with Stewart, Police Beyond Borders is now the biggest, most epic album I have ever been a part of. It is a truly global album featuring musicians, voices and languages from across the world. These are songs that I have grown up listening to, songs that have shaped my music career.. so during the making of this album I paid a lot of respect to its legacy. I am certain our listeners will enjoy these legendary songs in a way they would have never imagined, and realize that music is the most universal language,” said Ricky Kej.
POLICE BEYOND BORDERS TRACKLIST
King of Pain (feat. Berklee Indian Ensemble)
Roxanne (feat. Mzansi Youth Choir)
Message in a Bottle (feat. Salim-Sulaiman, Masa Takumi)
Tea in the Sahara (Cui Jian)
Don’t Stand So Close To Me (Soweto Gospel Choir, Ron Korb)
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic (feat. Berklee Indian Ensemble)
Can’t Stand Losing You (Mzansi Youth Choir, Max ZT)
Murder By Numbers (Alison Balsom, Shankar Mahadevan, Max ZT)
Demolition Man (featuring Serj Tankian)
Every Breath You Take (Soweto Gospel Choir)
The recently released Police Deranged for Orchestra (Shelter/BMG) is Copeland’s exploration of the Police’s popular tracks through a new orchestral lens and was inspired by his forays into expansive musical forms and instrumentation. It features performances by locally-based symphony orchestras with a core, six-member band/vocal ensemble. Copeland has now toured with sold-out dates across the U.S. and Europe, and will continue with additional U.S. dates this fall. See updated information at www.stewartcopeland.net/716/events-and-tours
STEWART COPELAND ON TOUR: POLICE DERANGED FOR ORCHESTRA
September 30: Omaha, Nebraska, US - Holland Center
October 5: Denver, Colorado, US - Boettcher Concert Hall
October 8: Detroit, Michigan, US - Orchestra Hall
October 19: Carmel, Indiana, US - The Palladium - Center for the Performing Arts
October 21: Erie, Pennsylvania, US - Warner Theatre
October 22: Erie, Pennsylvania, US - Warner Theatre
Van Halen will release a new boxed set this fall spotlighting the iconic band's second incarnation, with singer Sammy Hagar, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony. The upcoming set includes newly remastered versions of four multi-platinum studio albums, along with a selection of rarities recorded between 1989 and 2004.
THE COLLECTION II will be available on October 6 on 5 LPs for $124.98 and 5 CDs for $49.98. Pre-order both versions HERE. All the music in the set was mastered directly from the original master tapes, a process overseen by the band's longtime engineer, Donn Landee.
The new set is the long-awaited sequel to The Collection, a compilation released in 2015 that focused on the six studio albums recorded by the band's original line-up, which featured singer David Lee Roth. THE COLLECTION II picks up where its predecessor left off and covers the four consecutive #1 albums released during the Hagar era: 5150 (1986), OU812 (1988), For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991), and Balance (1995).
The journey begins with 5150, Van Halen's seventh studio album and the band's first to claim the top spot on the Billboard 200. Certified platinum six times in the U.S., the record treated fans to hits like "Dreams," "Love Walks In," and "Why Can't This Be Love," which peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group returned two years later with OU812, a quadruple-platinum smash that delivered four Billboard Hot 100 hits, including "Finish What Ya Started" and "When It's Love."
The accolades continued with For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, which earned Van Halen its first Grammy® Award for Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Album. Debuting at #1 and staying there for three weeks, the album achieved triple-platinum certification. The record produced an incredible seven singles, including hits like "Poundcake," "Top Of The World," and "Right Now."
In 1993, the band released its first live album, Live: Right Here, Right Now, before returning in 1995 with Balance, its final studio album with Hagar. The album was another commercial triumph, debuting at #1, selling more than three million copies, and earning a Grammy® nomination for "The Seventh Seal."
THE COLLECTION II concludes with Studio Rarities 1989-2004, an exclusive compilation that assembles eight gems from the Hagar era for the first time. Among these rarities is "Crossing Over," the B-Side to Balance's "Can't Stop Lovin' You," and the band's only non-album B-side.
The compilation boasts other exceptional highlights, including the band's cover of Little Feat's "A Apolitical Blues" and the instrumental "Baluchitherium," which were originally left off the vinyl versions of OU812 and Balance, respectively. Additionally, the set features two songs the band contributed to the Twister Soundtrack – "Humans Being" and the Grammy®- nominated "Respect The Wind."
Rounding out the set are "It's About Time," "Up For Breakfast," and "Learning To See," which were recorded during the band's temporary reunion with Hagar in 2004. All three debuted that year on Van Halen's second greatest hits collection, The Best of Both Worlds.
Today, Bay Area collective Moonalice shares a spirited reimagination of “Attics of My Life.” Led by the T-Sisters vocal trio of Erika, Chloe, and Rachel Tietjen, Moonalice puts a soulful spin on the Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter-penned Grateful Dead classic. The single arrives during the week that is known to Deadheads as The Days Between, an annual global celebration of Jerry Garcia’s legacy. Moonalice will continue to honor Garcia this month when they perform at The Oakland Athletics Jerry Garcia Night on August 18 and at the second iteration of the Terrapin Presents: Sunday Daydream event on August 27.
Speaking on the new recording, Rachel Teitjen explains, “The beautiful lyrics and melody of Attics of My Life drew us to this song and it was the first Grateful Dead song the T Sisters recorded back in 2015. We had arranged it a capella but the song soared to new heights when we brought our vocal arrangement to the band and combined our sister harmony with the band’s exceptional musicianship. We hope you enjoy it!”
Comprised of the father-son duo Lester and Dylan Chambers, the T-Sisters vocal trio of Erika, Chloe, and Rachel Tietjen, and musicians Barry Sless, Pete Sears, John Molo, Jason Crosby, and Roger McNamee, making music is more than just a career; it’s in their blood.
“Attics of My Life” is one of the many T-Sisters-lead Grateful Dead songs that are part of the Moonalice catalog. Their inimitable, angelic harmonies can also be heard across Moonalice’s renditions of “Uncle John’s Band” and “Brokedown Palace.” Grateful Dead's music and ethos are essential to the band's history, and the Dead is almost an extended branch of the Moonalice family tree. Pete Sears collaborated with Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart on his 1988 Watchfire album. Roger MacNamee became an advisor for the Grateful Dead in the mid-90s. Their friendship blossomed and MaNamee ended up playing alongside Bob Weir and Mickey Hart at political benefits for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. John Molo has toured as a part of The Other Ones and Phil Lesh and Friends, Barry Sless has performed with Lesh and Weir’s Wolf Bros, and Jason Crosby has also played with Weir and Lesh.
Moonalice recently partnered with One Tree Planted, a nonprofit organization focused on global reforestation. Since 2014, the organization has planted over 40 million trees in more than 47 countries across the globe. For every fan that follows Moonalice on Spotify, One Tree Planted will plant one tree.
MOONALICE – 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
8/18 – Oakland, CA – Jerry Garcia Night @ Oakland Coliseum
8/27 – Novato, CA – Terrapin Crossroads Presents: Sunday Daydream
Easy Eye Sound - the Nashville based label headed by Dan Auerbach and named Billboard’s 2022 Blues Label Of The Year - has shared Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound) today; a gripping anthology surveying the current state of the blues. Featuring exclusive recordings, including a new song by The Black Keys, cut at Easy Eye Sounds’ Nashville studio, this snapshot of 21st century juke joint music captures a wide-ranging collection of artists brought together by a label that's earned 16 GRAMMY®-nominations, four Billboard #1 Blues Albums, and widespread acclaim since its founding in 2017. But beyond any of these accolades, Easy Eye Sound works to preserve the blues, uplift unsung voices in the genre and, in the process, build a thriving, multigenerational community. Across its twelve tracks, Tell Everybody! serves as a living embodiment of that core mission.
Throughout its tracklist, Tell Everybody! features masters like Louisiana powerhouse Robert Finley, North Mississippi’s RL Boyce, Betonia’s Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, and the Delta gospel sounds of Leo Bud Welch; alongside brilliant youngbloods like Detroit duo Moonrisers, Chicago-based Gabe Carter, and Korean-American Kentucky native Nat Myers. Auerbach shares a pair of never-before-heard tracks from both The Black Keys and his solo work, and can be heard with members of The Arcs alongside Joe Walsh backing the late Ohio blues hero Glenn Schwartz - a seminal if unsung guitar mentor for both Auerbach and Walsh alike.
To celebrate the release, Easy Eye Sound threw a Juke Joint Jam album release party earlier this week at Nashville's Brooklyn Bowl. The event was headlined by The Black Keys, with the band that created the GRAMMY-nominated Delta Kream album — including Hill Country blues legends Kenny Brown (guitar) and Eric Deaton (bass) — and a special guest performance from Robert Finley with guest drummer Jeffrey Clemens. Additional sets were performed by Tell Everybody! contributors Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Gabe Carter, who was joined by the Hill Country’s own Kinney Kimbrough on drums.
Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound) Track List
RL Boyce - Coal Black Mattie
Robert Finley - Tell Everybody
Moonrisers - Tall Shadow
Dan Auerbach - Every Chance I Get (I Want You In The Flesh)
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes - Catfish Blues (Mono)
Gabe Carter - Anything You Need
Nat Myers - Willow Witchin’
Leo Bud Welch - Don't Let The Devil Ride (Mono)
The Black Keys - No Lovin’
Glenn Schwartz - Daughter Of Zion (Featuring Joe Walsh)
Today, 3X GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Grace Potter shares “Masterpiece,” the finale track from Mother Road, her “dynamite new album” (Guitar Player) out this Friday, August 18, 2023, via Fantasy Records. A coming-of-age autobiography in cabaret-pop form, “Masterpiece” envisions Potter’s libertine young adulthood𑁋and the lust for life that propelled her out into the world in whimsical detail. Watch the “Masterpiece” visualizer HERE. Pre-order Mother Road HERE.
“‘Masterpiece’ came from going back home, driving by my high school every day, and feeling childhood memories rushing back, one of the silver linings of going back home,” Potter shares. “The kids I’d grown up with were there with a million stories about me, every story got weirder and wilder than the last. But I love that that’s how they remembered me and that I’m living those stories out through Mother Road.”
Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) and recorded at RCA’s famed Studio A in Nashville and Topangadise in Topanga, CA, Mother Road - the follow-up to Potter’s 2019 acclaimed, 2X GRAMMY-nominated album, Daylight - finds the rock and soul artist deconstructing her deepest fears and darkest regrets, and charting the fallout with brutal honesty and emotional daring.
Throughout the album’s 10 original tracks, Potter, along with contributions from top-flight musicians, commands an expansive soundscape of soulful rock, roots, funk, country, and R&B. Watch the Mother Road album trailer HERE.
Tickets are currently on sale for Potter’s Mother Road Tour, which kicks off at Collin Centers for the Arts in Orono, ME on Saturday, September 7. The 18-date fall tour also includes two performances at Shelburne Museum in her native Vermont, as well as shows at New York City’s Pier 17, Milwaukee’s Pabst Theatre, Chicago’s Riviera Theater and Atlanta’s Tabernacle, among other great venues, before concluding at The Fillmore in Charlotte, NC on November 18. See below for the full itinerary. For ticket information please visit gracepotter.com.
Mother Road - Track List:
1. Mother Road
2. Truck Stop Angels
3. Ready Set Go
4. Good Time
5. Little Hitchhiker
6. Lady Vagabond
7. Rose Colored Rearview
8. All My Ghosts
9. Futureland
10. Masterpiece
Full Grace Potter tour dates below:
Official Mother Road Tour Dates in BOLD:
Sep-1-23 Snowmass Village, CO - JAS Aspen Snowmass
Sep-07-23 Orono, ME - Collins Center for the Arts
Sep-08-23 Providence, RI - Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Sep-09-23 Lewiston, NY - Artpark
Sep-10-23 Hammondsport, NY - Pavilion at Point of the Bluff Vineyard
Sep-14-23 Concord, NH - Capitol Center for the Arts
Sep-15-23 Shelburne, VT - Shelburne Museum - Ben & Jerry's Concerts on The Green - SOLD OUT
Sep-16-23 Shelburne, VT - Shelburne Museum - Ben & Jerry's Concerts on The Green - SOLD OUT
Sep-17-23 Albany, NY - The Egg
Sep-22-23 Branford, CT - Stony Creek Brewery
Sep-23-23 New York, NY - Pier 17
Sep-24-23 Jim Thorpe, PA - Penn's Peak
Sep-27-23 Wilmington, NC - Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
Sep-29-23 Richmond, VA - Maymont
Sep-30-23 Harrisburg, PA - Southside Stage
Oct-1-23 Ocean City, MD - Oceans Calling Festival
Oct-04-23 Kalamazoo, MI - State Theatre
Oct-05-23 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
Oct-06-23 Des Moines, IA - Hoyt Sherman Place
Oct-07-23 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theater
Nov-11-23 Highlands, NC - Highlands Food & Wine Festival
Nov-17-23 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
Nov-18-23 Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
Mar-18-22-24 Miami, FL to Cozumel, MX - Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea
Each year, the Pace Women’s Justice Center (PWJC) commemorates Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October with the culmination of its Raising the Bar Benefit Concert. This year’s concert will take place at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday, November 3, at 8:00 PM. Tickets are on sale Friday, August 18 at thecapitoltheatre.com. The full-length concert will be exclusively performed by the Grammy-winning duo, Indigo Girls. The singer-songwriter twosome of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray is considered one of the most successful folk duos in history, with 16 recorded studio albums and over 15 million records sold. Popular for their crowd singalong 1990’s chart hits “Galileo,” “Shame on You,” and “Closer to Fine,” which was recently featured in the box office summer hit movie Barbie. Together, these two women are known for their activism and championing of causes.
“We are thrilled and honored to have the Indigo Girls perform for our benefit concert to raise awareness about domestic violence,” states Cindy Kanusher, Executive Director for PWJC. “As activists with a longstanding commitment to women’s health and human rights, and our common mission to amplify the voices of women and survivors of abuse, we are eager for this opportunity to show solidarity and support for PWJC’s work to end abuse.”
Each October, the nonprofit honors an individual who has dedicated themselves to supporting the PWJC mission and its clients with the Making a Difference Award. This year, Daniel Seymour, President of Cannae Advisors LLC, has been selected as PWJC’s honoree and will be given a special recognition at the benefit concert. Dan has been a devoted advocate as an Advisory Board member for over four years. His generous professional insight, and dedication to supporting the organization’s legal services has helped further the mission to combat the social justice challenges clients face. “I am in awe of the dedication and commitment to the victims of abuse that the Pace Women’s Justice Center serves,” said Seymour. “Cindy Kanusher and the team at PWJC work to increase access to legal services for victims of abuse, which fulfills a critical need in our community. I am humbled to be recognized by PWJC and honored to support this important organization.”
The fundraising event’s title, Raising the Bar Benefit Concert, is a nod to PWJC’s commitment to increasing access to justice and providing FREE critical legal services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The funds raised will allow PWJC to continue helping their clients on their journeys toward empowerment and healing. For information on individual tickets and sponsorships, visit www.PWJCRaisingTheBar.com
ABOUT PACE WOMEN’S JUSTIC CENTER
The Pace Women’s Justice Center (PWJC) is a self-funded nonprofit legal center located at Elisabeth Haub School of Law, under the 501(c)(3) status of Pace University. Each year, PWJC provides free legal services to over 3,500 victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse, as well as conducts or participates in over 140 training and outreach events. Serving Westchester and Putnam Counties, PWJC’s mission is to pursue justice for victims and prevent abuse through quality legal services, community partnerships, education, and awareness. With an experienced staff and a team of dedicated volunteers, including attorneys, other professionals, and students, PWJC has built an effective, coordinated community response to interpersonal violence. (For more information https://law.pace.edu/wjc)
The Roxy have expanded their 50th anniversary celebrations, announcing a series of new events and festivities taking place this September in conjunction with the historic milestone. In an LA Times front-page feature highlighting the initial wave of “Roxy50” activity, it was announced that Neil Young with Crazy Horse would play a special benefit show at the club on September 20. Now, a second night has been added in their return to The Roxy, taking place September 21. These performances occur exactly fifty years to the day after Young opened The Roxy, headlining the club’s first-ever shows during a multi-night run in September 1973. Both events, September 20 and 21, will benefit The Painted Turtle and Bridge School.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Roxy owner Lou Adler will curate an upcoming ‘Live At The Roxy’ compilation album, featuring legendary recordings made at The Roxy by Young, Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, The Ramones, Nicolette Larson, George Benson, Warren Zevon, Brian Wilson and many more. The compilation will initially be available to listen to at The GRAMMY Museum's upcoming The ROXY: 50 and Still Rockin’ exhibit; and available for purchase to benefit MusiCares. Find out more information here. This collection of live recordings spans back to the earliest days of The Roxy, which was co-founded in 1973 by Adler and live music pioneer Elmer Valentine; largely credited with putting the Sunset Strip on the map after opening the Whisky A Go-Go and the Rainbow Bar & Grill, in addition to The Roxy.
The GRAMMY Museum will also open their The ROXY: 50 and Still Rockin’ exhibit next month, as previously shared with the initial group of festivities. An opening night celebration has been announced for Sunday September 17 with a special film screening, a rooftop reception and a panel featuring Cisco Adler (musician, songwriter, producer), Paul Tollett (president/CEO of Goldenvoice and co-founder of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival), Allison Hagendorf (music journalist, media personality, & host of “The Allison Hagendorf Show”), Steve Appleford (LA Times music journalist) and Julie Pilat (award-winning music, media and digital entertainment executive). More details and ticket information are available here. The City of West Hollywood will present Lou Adler and Nic Adler in conversation for the City’s Artists & Icons series on September 12, 2023 at the West Hollywood City Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room. The event coincides with the debut of a photographic exhibit about the Roxy’s 50th Anniversary at the adjacent West Hollywood Library, curated by Jason Emmons and accompanied by written anecdotes from key players. The exhibit is free and open to the public through May 2024 during the library’s open hours. RSVP for Artists & Icons will open on September 1 at www.weho.org/arts.
Hailed in the LA Times for its place as “both a hallowed venue where rock gods minted their legends and a still-thriving venue at the heart of the city’s musical nightlife,” The Roxy will also highlight top emerging talent throughout its 50th anniversary celebrations. Today, the club has announced a performance by Los Angeles’ own Wallows, which will take place September 23. Register now through tomorrow at 10pm PT to be randomly selected to purchase tickets (beginning August 22 at 10am PT). The Roxy have also announced a night of Stephen Marley performing his father Bob Marley’s legendary album ‘Live at Roxy,' recorded at the club in 1976, which will take place September 24. Tickets for Stephen Marley at The Roxy will be available August 18 at 10am PT here. Additional performances during the fall celebrations will include d4vd (September 6), it’s murph (September 8), Keke Palmer (September 11), Paris Texas (October 1), Better Lovers (October 15), Tigers Jaw (October 16), underscores (October 25), STRFKR (October 27), Nation of Language (October 28), Unknown Mortal Orchestra (November 6), Saint Levant (November 10) and Dillon Francis (November 30). The Roxy will be running a ticket giveaway for select shows (excluding the Neil Young with Crazy Horse benefit shows), taking place from today (August 15) through August 30. More information available here.
The Roxy have hosted many of the biggest names in music at early stages of their careers over the past 50 years and continues to be a career defining moment for emerging talent. In addition to the astounding list of musical performers above, the club is also where Adler launched The Rocky Horror Show in the US, to an opening night audience that included Jack Nicholson, Cher, Mick Jagger and John Lennon. It has also played a pivotal role in the careers of comedians like Cheech & Chong, Paul Reubens and Richard Pryor. In September 1973, the club was co-founded by Adler and Valentine, with music industry legends Elliot Roberts, David Geffen, Bill Graham and Peter Asher participating as investors and/or consultants.
Today, the legendary Jessi Colter announces the release of her new album, Edge of Forever, marking an exalting return to the chart-topping sound, style and songwriting that originally made her the First Lady of Outlaw Country. Out October 27th on Appalachia Record Co., the ten-track collection was produced by Margo Price and mixed by Shooter Jennings, son of Colter and her late husband Waylon Jennings. Together with Price's unbeatable live band, they recorded the LP over the course of several days in a Nashville studio, creating what would become a sonic culmination of the many touchstones that make up Colter's storied and still-evolving career. As the followup to 2017's Lenny Kaye-produced The Psalms, Edge of Forever has songs that span the past decade and far beyond, from never-before-heard tunes that Jessi Colter and Waylon Jennings wrote during the outlaw era's golden age in the 1970s, to long-lost sheet music discovered in an old briefcase, newer gospel-influenced numbers, honky-tonk hymns and collaborations with her daughter, Jenni Eddy Jennings.
Pre-order the album HERE, and listen to "Standing on the Edge of Forever," Jessi Colter's first new single in six years: HERE
As her 13th studio album release, Edge of Forever brings the start of a bright new chapter for Jessi Colter, arriving in the same year that she celebrates her return to the stage, a recent remarriage and more. On album opener "Standing on the Edge of Forever" she sings about confidence, religion and a desire for new experiences, self-reflecting over a sultry arrangement of psychedelic rock and soul-stirring gospel. Songs like "I Wanna Be With You" (feat. Margo Price) may have never seen the light of day after they were written in the 1970s, but on Edge of Forever they take on new life from an artist who has never let themselves be boxed in. Previously recorded favorites such as "With or Without You" and "Maybe You Should" (feat. Margo Price) are resurrected with timeless verve, while "Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus" reworks an old spiritual into a scorching, rock n' roll celebration. Elsewhere across the album – on "Angel in the Fire," which Jessi Colter wrote for her friend Lisa Kristofferson, or "Fine Wine" (written by Jenni Eddy Jennings & Margo Price) and "Secret Place" (written by Jessi Colter & Jenni Eddy Jennings) - Colter contemplates lasting impressions of loved ones, and the powers of peace, compassion and redemption.
"It was really sheer enjoyment for me to be able to do, because I really hadn't planned anything much further. Edge of Forever is a love project," says Jessi Colter, who became instant friends with Margo Price after first meeting at a book event in 2017.
"When the force of nature that is Jessi Colter rolled into my life and picked me up in her Mercedes convertible, I knew I was in for a wild ride," adds Margo Price, who also contributes vocals, guitar and percussion to the LP, alongside a virtuosic band of engineer and guitarist Alex Munoz, pianist Micah Hulscher, guitarist Jamie Davis, bassist Kevin Black, drummer Dillon Napier, pedal steel and dobro player Luke Schneider, guitarist and harmonica player Jeremy Ivey, and more. "When I felt lost, I could call on her and she would pray for me - with me. Jessi has such a strong faith, it's inspiring to be near her. When she sang 'Standing on the Edge of Forever' and 'Angel in the Fire' back to back for me, I was blown away. It was such refined writing, the work of someone who had been continuously, quietly honing her craft. I knew she had to make another album and told her I would love to be a part of that experience."
In 2023, Jessi Colter's legacy speaks for itself, and will only be further solidified with the release of Edge of Forever. As a GRAMMY Hall of Fame Award recipient and certified country star, Jessi Colter is the artist who brought outlaw music to the Top 40 with the chart-topping "I'm Not Lisa" in 1975, which has since been covered by Marianne Faithful, Faith Hill and more. She was the lone woman to appear on the genre-defining Wanted! The Outlaws compilation alongside Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Tompall Glaser – the first country album to go platinum. Having grown up playing piano at tent revivals led by her Pentecostal minister mother, she turned towards gospel music in the latter half of her career, and her vision and voice have always remained singular. "Jessi Colter's sound drew only from the richest source material," praised Rolling Stone, when naming I'm Jessi Colter among the Greatest Country Albums of All Time. "Country, certainly, but also gospel, funk, and blues.
Following a performance at The Ryman Auditorium this past spring, Jessi Colter will soon return to Nashville, where she'll play 3rd and Lindsley as part of AmericanaFest on September 20th. Find tickets and more details HERE.
Come 1972, Joni Mitchell’s singular songwriting talent and poetic gifts were undeniable. Fresh off the back-to-back Platinum-certified releases of 1970’s Ladies of the Canyon and 1971’s Blue — totemic albums whose artfulness and ubiquity would influence generations of songwriters — Mitchell had grown wary of mounting media scrutiny. Everything from her style choices to romantic partners became the subject of far more gossip column inches than were ever dedicated to the lifestyle minutiae of her male counterparts.
In response, she had pulled back, announcing an early retirement from the stage in 1970 and moving to the quiet expanses of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast. It was a fruitful change of scenery. Inspired by her proximity to nature and refreshed by the peaceful seclusion, she began constructing the songs that would become For The Roses. This respite thrust Mitchell into a remarkably fertile creative period, yielding a run of albums — 1972’s For The Roses, 1974’s Court And Spark, and 1975’s The Hissing Of Summer Lawns — that would simultaneously expand and refine the scope of her music. Her adventurous, intricate arrangements and growing formidability as a bandleader injected these songs with a clarity of purpose, a potent muscularity, and a sense of possibility — it is among the most exciting eras of a near peerless career.
This era comes into even greater focus on Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975), out October 6, 2023 on Rhino Records. It’s the latest entry in Rhino’s ongoing, GRAMMY-winning series exploring the vast untapped archives of rare Joni Mitchell recordings — a project guided intimately by Mitchell’s own vision and personal touch. Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) will be available both in a 5CD / digital version and a 4LP cut-down version, both with an accompanying book featuring photos and a conversation about this period between Joni Mitchell and longtime friend Cameron Crowe.
As Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) — which won a 2022 GRAMMY Award for Best Historical Album — and Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) did, Vol. 3 boasts an embarrassment of riches. The collection begins with an early cut of “Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire,” one of two songs (along with “For The Roses”) test-driven during a visit to a Graham Nash David Crosby recording session at Wally Heider’s in Hollywood.
From there, listeners are treated to early demos and alternate versions from sessions from For The Roses, Court & Spark, and The Hissing Of Summer Lawns; historic live show recordings, including the entirety of Mitchell’s triumphant 1972 return to Carnegie Hall and a definitive gig with her Court And Spark backing band Tom Scott & the L.A. Express; and tracks from sessions cut alongside James Taylor, Graham Nash, and Neil Young.
Alongside today’s announcement, Rhino shares an early demo of Court And Spark’s “Help Me,” a track that would go on to be Joni Mitchell’s biggest ever chart and radio hit. While the official version is assured and sophisticated, this newly unveiled demo shows the song’s rawer, original form.
As she approaches her 80th birthday later this year, Joni Mitchell is reaffirming the vitality and resonance of her music. Last month, she released At Newport, a live album commemorating her incredible comeback performance at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival. Pitchfork described it as “a joyous surprise, a moment of wonder,” while NPR Music says it “[shows] Mitchell's legacy in action and how younger generations of musicians carry forth her spirit of imagination and fearless reconfiguration.”
Back in June, Mitchell held her first ticketed performance in over 20 years at a sold-out Gorge Amphitheatre in Quincy, WA. Rolling Stone called it “The triumph of the human spirit we all desperately craved…a powerful celebration of Mitchell’s life and resiliency.”
Released on Sept 29: Four studio albums on 180 gram black vinyl, available now at jonimitchell.com.
3X GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter and “one of the greatest living voices in rock today” (SPIN), Grace Potter releases Mother Road via Fantasy Records. Across 10 dynamic tracks, Potter deconstructs her deepest fears and darkest regrets, charting the fallout with brutal honesty and emotional daring. Stream Mother RoadHERE.
“While writing Mother Road, I spent two years driving back and forth across America, exploring the backroads & byways of Route 66, favoring alternate routes whenever possible. I spent the time reflecting on my roles as a woman, a mother, and a dreamer,” Potter shares. “As Mother Road unfolds, my central narrative begins to fragment into multiple paths. Each path becomes a character, and each character weaves in and out of my present-day consciousness at important milestones along the way. The album is my take on what it means to be alive and how to live life to the fullest.”
Produced by Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) and recorded at RCA’s famed Studio A in Nashville and Topangadise in Topanga, CA, Mother Road - the “dynamite” (Guitar Player) follow up to Potter’s 2019 acclaimed, 2X GRAMMY-nominated album, Daylight - commands an expansive soundscape of soulful rock, roots, funk, country, and R&B.
Potter is set to appear on CBS Saturday Morning next Saturday, August 26. The appearance will include three electric performances of tracks off the new album. Earlier this week, she was featured on Billboard’s Behind the Setlist Podcast as well as on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast and, today, she can be heard on SiriusXM’s Howard 101 for a ‘Songs I Want to Hear’ segment.
Tickets are currently on sale for Potter’s Mother Road Tour, which kicks off at Collin Center for the Arts in Orono, ME on Saturday, September 7. The 26-date fall tour includes newly announced shows across Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Chattanooga, and more. The tour will also feature two sold out performances at Shelburne Museum in her native Vermont, as well as shows at New York City’s Pier 17, Milwaukee’s Pabst Theatre, Chicago’s Riviera Theater and Atlanta’s Tabernacle, among other great venues, before concluding at The Fillmore in Charlotte, NC on November 18. See below for the full itinerary. For tickets and information please visit gracepotter.com.
Mother Road - Track List:
1. Mother Road
2. Truck Stop Angels
3. Ready Set Go
4. Good Time
5. Little Hitchhiker
6. Lady Vagabond
7. Rose Colored Rearview
8. All My Ghosts
9. Futureland
10. Masterpiece
Full Grace Potter tour dates below:
Sep-1-23 Snowmass Village, CO - JAS Aspen Snowmass
Sep-07-23 Orono, ME - Collins Center for the Arts
Sep-08-23 Providence, RI - Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Sep-09-23 Lewiston, NY - Artpark
Sep-10-23 Hammondsport, NY - Pavilion at Point of the Bluff Vineyard
Sep-14-23 Concord, NH - Capitol Center for the Arts
Sep-15-23 Shelburne, VT - Shelburne Museum - Ben & Jerry's Concerts on The Green - SOLD OUT
Sep-16-23 Shelburne, VT - Shelburne Museum - Ben & Jerry's Concerts on The Green - SOLD OUT
Sep-17-23 Albany, NY - The Egg
Sep-22-23 Branford, CT - Stony Creek Brewery
Sep-23-23 New York, NY - Pier 17
Sep-24-23 Jim Thorpe, PA - Penn's Peak
Sep-27-23 Wilmington, NC - Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
Sep-29-23 Richmond, VA - Maymont
Sep-30-23 Harrisburg, PA - Southside Stage
Oct-1-23 Ocean City, MD - Oceans Calling Festival
Oct-04-23 Kalamazoo, MI - State Theatre
Oct-05-23 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
Oct-06-23 Des Moines, IA - Hoyt Sherman Place
Oct-07-23 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theater
Oct-08-23 Columbia, MO - Rose Park
Nov-01-23 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
Nov-04-23 Cleveland, OH - Agora Theatre
Nov-08-23 Columbus, OH - KEMBA Live!
Nov-09-23 Fort Wayne, IN - The Clyde Theatre
Nov-10-23 Cincinnati, OH - Andrew J Brady Music Center
Nov-11-23 Highlands, NC - Highlands Food & Wine Festival
Nov-15-23 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
Nov-16-23 Chattanooga, TN - Walker Theatre
Nov-17-23 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
Nov-18-23 Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
Mar-18-22-24 Miami, FL to Cozumel, MX - Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea
Talking Heads joined forces with director Jonathan Demme for the groundbreaking concert film Stop Making Sense. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the concerts filmed for Stop Making Sense, a newly restored 4K version of the film will return to theaters for a global theatrical run with A24.
Today, Rhino releases a deluxe version of the soundtrack that will now include the complete Stop Making Sense concert for the first time. STOP MAKING SENSE (DELUXE EDITION) is available now as a limited edition, 2-LP set ($39.98) and digitally along with a Dolby Atmos mix of the complete concert, mixed by Jerry Harrison and E.T. Thorngren, who also mixed the original release. Order now.
Both versions will feature every song performed in the film, including two that have never been released – “Cities” and “Big Business / I Zimbra.” The limited edition vinyl version features a 28-page booklet with previously unpublished photos along with new liner notes from all four band members — Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison.
Stop Making Sense returns to theaters with a TIFF World Premiere and Global IMAX Live event on September 11. The special IMAX Live 40th anniversary event will include a screening of the film followed by a Q&A, which will be live-streamed from TIFF to select IMAX theatres around the world, and moderated by filmmaker Spike Lee with all four original band members in attendance.
The film will then be available exclusively in IMAX beginning September 22 and in theaters everywhere on September 29. Tickets on sale now.
The inspiration for Stop Making Sense came when director Jonathan Demme saw Talking Heads perform during the band’s 1983 tour for Speaking in Tongues. Afterward, he approached them with the idea of making the show into a concert film. They agreed and worked together over the next few months to finalize the details. Ultimately, Demme filmed three shows at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983 to create Stop Making Sense.
The concert film presents a retrospective of the band up to that point, with a performance that weaves together songs from all six of its studio albums. The show progresses methodically, opening with Byrne onstage performing “Psycho Killer” alone with a drum machine. After each song, he’s joined by a new band member until Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison are all on stage with him. The group continues to grow throughout the concert as members of the stellar touring band are added: keyboardist Bernie Worrell, percussionist Steve Scales, guitarist Alex Weir, and back-up singers Lynn Mabry and Ednah Holt.
The band performs 18 songs in Stop Making Sense, including its recent single at the time, “Burning Down The House.” That summer, the song was in heavy rotation on radio and MTV, helping the song become the band’s first top 10 hit in America. It was, however, a different song from Speaking in Tongues that was destined to deliver one of the film’s signature moments. Byrne would perform “Girlfriend Is Better” wearing his now iconic, oversized suit inspired by costumes worn in traditional Japanese theater. For good measure, a picture of him in the suit also graces the album cover.
Stop Making Sense focuses mainly on music by Talking Heads but does include a few songs recorded outside the band: “Genius Of Love” by Tom Tom Club, and “What A Day That Was” and “Big Business” from Byrne’s 1981 album, The Catherine Wheel. Limited edition vinyl versions of both of these albums, along with Harrison’s The Red And The Black, were released for this year’s Record Store Day.
Stop Making Sense was an artistic and commercial triumph when it arrived in September 1984. The film had people dancing in theatre aisles while the soundtrack sold over two million copies. Just last year, the Library of Congress added Stop Making Sense to the National Film Registry in recognition of its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.
In the STOP MAKING SENSE (DELUXE EDITION) liner notes, the four band members share their thoughts and memories of the project.
Weymouth praises Demme as a collaborator: “…Jonathan was a very enthusiastic, highly adaptive, and imaginative guy who was just as good a listener as he was a talker and collaborator. From the get-go you just got the impression he was as flexible as he was disciplined. Being team players, that boded well for a great relationship and a great film!”
Harrison says the film still holds up today: “To me, Stop Making Sense has remained relevant because the staging and lighting techniques could have been created in a much earlier time period. For example, Vari-Lights, lights with motors to re-aim them, had just come into vogue. Had we used them, there would have been a timestamp on the film, and it eventually would have felt dated...The absence of interviews, combined with the elegant and timeless lighting, created a film that can be watched over and over.”
Byrne says it’s interesting that this album was – for many people – an introduction to Talking Heads. “We had done a live album before this, but coupled with the film, and with the improved mixes and sound quality, this record reached a whole new audience. As often happens, the songs got an added energy when we performed them live and were inspired by having an audience. In many ways, these versions are more exciting than the studio recordings, so maybe that’s why a lot of folks discovered us via this record.”
Frantz recalls the sheer joy surrounding the entire Stop Making Sense experience. “I’m talking about real, conscious, transcendent joy… I’m talking about what the Southern gospel people call ‘getting happy,’ which means ‘to be filled with the Spirit.’ That is what happened to us onstage every night, and from my seat behind the drums, I recognized that this was happening to the audience too. Joy was visible in front of me and all around me every night.”
Dan Auerbach’s debut solo album, Keep It Hid, will return to physical formats next month, with the seminal 2009 collection being reissued on vinyl, cassette and CD via Easy Eye Sound - the label that Keep It Hid first inspired him to create. The fourteen-song debut marked Auerbach’s first major work outside of The Black Keys, helping to establish his multifaceted career as a GRAMMY®-winning producer, mentor to emerging talent and founder of Easy Eye Sound, which is now Billboard’s reigning Blues Label Of The Year. Easy Eye Sound’s reissue of the long-out-of-print Keep It Hid will arrive on September 29, equipped with new album art and six updated vinyl variants, as well as a limited-edition cassette release for the first time. Auerbach stopped by MSNBC’s Morning Joe today to detail the Keep It Hid reissue, as well as to discuss Easy Eye Sound and all that’s to come.
Pre-order Keep It Hid here on CD, cassette and vinyl - including exclusive variants for US Indie Record Stores (Orange + Black Marble), Tennessee Indie Record Stores (signed copies on Peach + Black Marble), Easy Eye Sound’s online store (limited signed copies on Orange + Yellow Splatter), Vinyl Me, Please (Maroon Marble, limited to 750 copies) and Newbury Comics (signed copies on Orange + Black two-sided vinyl): https://click.ees.link/keepithid
Keep It Hid was originally recorded by Auerbach as he was building his first home studio in Akron, Ohio - a precursor to his Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville, where Auerbach now records and produces most of the label’s current releases. Inspired by trips to many of his all-time favorite rooms - from Suma Recording in Cleveland to Robin Hood in Texas to Toe Rag in London - Auerbach discovered a passion for studio work that remains at the center of his musical world nearly fifteen years on. Also tapping into his love of record-collecting and crate-digging more than ever before, Keep It Hid was inspired by forgotten 60s psych rock, obscure British power-pop, bluegrass family bands and even the lyricism of his own father, Chuck Auerbach (Dan would go onto produce Chuck’s debut album, Remember Me, in 2018). Another major influence was Dr. John's acid-voodoo classic Gris-Gris, one of Auerbach’s heroes that he would go on to produce just a few years later. The resulting collection spans from echo-laden garage rock ("Heartbroken, In Disrepair") and fuzz-scarred blues ("The Prowl") to haunted Southern soul ("Real Desire") and bittersweet-country comfort ("When The Night Comes"). The album was hailed as “intimate and thrilling” by NPR’s Fresh Air upon its original release, with reviewer Ken Tucker adding it “sounds like a clearing of the throat and mind.”
Today, Margo Price brings listeners deeper down the psychedelic rabbit hole of an album that The New Yorker and more have hailed as her strongest work yet: Strays. Out in full on October 13th, Strays II expands the original 2023 opus with nine new songs that will arrive in the form of three distinct acts, each telling its own unique story of love, grief and acceptance. On Act I: Topanga Canyon, available now via Loma Vista Recordings, Margo Price is joined by Strays producer Jonathan Wilson, as well as new collaborators including Buck Meek of Big Thief, plus singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ny Oh. Together they dive deeper into the sacrifices it takes to find freedom, the grit it takes to make it, and the consequences that come with all of it. Recorded at Wilson's Topanga studio during the same life-changing sessions as the rest of Strays – and partially written amidst the formative, six-day psilocybin trip that Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey took the summer prior – all three acts of Strays II further complement and intensify the resilient, resounding and hard-rocking proclamation that Price delivered across the initial LP earlier this year.
Listen to Act I: Topanga Canyon, including "Strays," "Closer I Get (feat. Ny Oh)" and "Malibu (feat. Jonathan Wilson, Buck Meek)":
Accompanied by a three-part short film directed by Chris Phelps and recently previewed at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles, Strays II will continue to unfold throughout the coming weeks with the release of Act II: Mind Travel and Act III: Burn Whatever's Left. All nineteen tracks will then combine into the double album's digital release on October 13th, followed by a vinyl LP release of the nine new Strays II songs on November 10th – pre-order it here. Of the three new additions out today, Margo Price says:
"The title track is the story of how my husband Jeremy and I met and fell in love in Nashville two decades ago. I wrote most of the words and Jeremy wrote the chords and melody. It also reflects how we have always tried to stay true to who we are as people: 'Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.'
'Closer I Get' (co-written with Jeremy Ivey) was originally meant to open this double album with the line, ‘Being alive costs a lot of money but so does dying.' I've always thought it was unfair that the moment we are born, we immediately start racking up debt just for existing. This song was conjured from the ashes of our initial psychedelic trip – sometimes your perception and depth of field changes depending on where you're at in life.
'Malibu' was written with Mike Campbell in his Malibu home after Jeremy and I had driven through the canyon fleeing a forest fire to get my guitar from our Airbnb. I had the start of the song and brought it to him looking to finish it out. I wanted to write something with a country funk/Bobbie Gentry feel, a good long rambling story about the minutiae of the day, like 'Ode to Billy Joe.' Mike added the long 'California' yodel and the bridge and was exactly what the song needed. My favorite line is 'love and grief are a package deal, the more you have, the more you feel.'"
Like Strays and its many "stoic pearls of wisdom" (Pitchfork), Strays II reveals more of what makes Margo Price so "unstoppable, unsinkable, uninhibited" (The New York Times). Surmounting loss, trauma, substance abuse, demons of self-worth and more, the songs of Strays have cemented her place as a singular storyteller, with so much to say but nothing to prove. Since the album's release, Price has earned nominations for Artist of The Year, Album of The Year and Song of The Year ("Change of Heart") at the upcoming Americana Honors & Awards, tying for the most nominations of any single artist in 2023.
Recently, Margo Price also revealed details of the new Jessi Colter album that she produced (Edge of Forever), hosted a star-studded tribute to John Prine for Newport Folk Festival, performed with My Morning Jacket and Angel Olsen, celebrated Willie Nelson at his 90th birthday, played shows with Chris Stapleton and Tyler Childers, published a powerful, personal essay about gun control at Rolling Stone, met with Tennessean lawmakers and sang alongside Dr. Jill Biden at Nashville's vigil for the Covenant shooting victims. She has brought Strays songs and stories to CBS Mornings and The Late Late Show with "Radio" collaborator Sharon Van Etten, discussed her memoir Maybe We'll Make It during the closing keynote of SXSW, taped an episode of Austin City Limits, reigned for 14 weeks at #1 on the Americana radio charts with "Change of Heart," and released a new version of that song with Sierra Ferrell.
Following a long-awaited return to the UK this week, Margo Price and her band will hit the road for a fall leg of her 'Til The Wheels Fall Off Tour. In addition to headline dates across the country, Price will play festivals including Hopscotch, XPoNential, Pilgrimage and Farm Aid, where Price is the first female artist to sit on the board of directors. Find the full list below and tickets at margoprice.net/tour.
Since its inception in the late 1960s, Yes has consistently pushed the boundaries of rock music, carving a path into new and uncharted sonic landscapes. Rhino is introducing a new collection that is the first to feature rare single versions of the band’s biggest hits on vinyl.
YESSINGLES will be available on October 6 on 140-gram black vinyl and a special splatter-vinyl version at local retailers for $24.98. Pre-order both HERE. The Promo Radio Edit version of “And You And I (Part One)” is available digitally today. This version has never been available digitally until now. Listen HERE.
The collection boasts new artwork created exclusively for the album and features 12 songs that have resonated with generations of devoted fans. Yessingles moves chronologically through the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s career, starting in 1971 with the group’s first Top 40 hit, “Your Move,” and ending in 1984 with its smash, “Leave It.” In between, Yessingles touches on the band’s different eras, ranging from intricate prog-rock tapestries like “Starship Trooper” and “America” to the unforgettable soundscape of its chart-topping sensation, “Owner Of A Lonely Heart.”
With a discography spanning over five decades, Yes’ influence on rock remains immeasurable, and Yessingles reaffirms the band’s status as the most enduring, ambitious, and virtuosic progressive band in history.
YESSINGLES
LP Track Listing
Side One
1. “Your Move” – Single Version
2. “Starship Trooper: Life Seeker” – Single Version
Rhiannon Giddens’ new album You’re the One is out now (Nonesuch Records) and has been met with enthusiastic media response, including three national TV appearances in the past week. Her first album comprising all original music was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Tank and the Bangas). It features twelve songs, written over the course of Giddens’ career, that burst with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply as well as its pop descendants.
Giddens had an eventful release week: She performed two songs on the Today Show (August 16) and three songs on CBS Saturday (August 19), and was profiled by CBS Mornings in an extensive interview that aired yesterday. Other recent interview features appeared in the New York Times, Vulture’s “A Long Talk,” NPR’s Morning Edition, the Associated Press, GRAMMY.com and Garden & Gun, with additional coverage and reviews from Variety, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork, NPR Music and much more. Pre-release events included a conversation and acoustic performance at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville and a Grammy Museum event at National Sawdust in Brooklyn that included a Q&A with bassist and composer Christian McBride as well as a performance with her band. The biggest headlining tour of Giddens’ career starts September 16, including shows at The Ryman in Nashville, the Beacon Theater in NYC and the Ace Theater in Los Angeles. See below for the full itinerary.
Giddens has also shared a new video on the making of the album, watch here:
The multi-faceted artist, GRAMMY winner, and MacArthur fellow was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her collaborative opera, Omar, along with Michael Abels.Giddens is also a host on Arts Talk, a new PBS program on which she, Elvis Costello and Brian Stokes Mitchell discuss their careers. Arts Talk begins broadcasting on PBS September 1, check local listings for air times. She was also recently featured on Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business list.
You’re the One was recorded with a band composed of Giddens’s closest musical collaborators from the past decade alongside musicians from producer Splash’s own Rolodex, topped off with a horn section, making an impressive ten- to twelve-person ensemble. The collaborators include Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi plus American fiddler Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu. The album features electric and acoustic bass, conga, Cajun and piano accordions, guitars, a Western string section, and Miami horns, among other instruments, capturing the inclusive spirit that channels through all of her work. Music videos have previously been released for “You Louisiana Man” and “Yet To Be,” which features Jason Isbell. “ Yet To Be,’” says Pitchfork, “shows Giddens at her best: allowing the musical textures to enliven and elaborate the story she’s telling, drawing on threads from the past to communicate a pressing immediacy that feels all her own.”
As Pitchfork has also said, “Few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming her one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.” Giddens’ previous album, They're Calling Me Home, won the GRAMMY for Best Folk Album in 2022, making her a two-time winner and eight-time nominee.
TOUR DATES:
September 13: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA^
September 14: The Sheldon, St. Louis, MO^
September 15: Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN^
September 17: Athenaeum Center, Chicago, IL*
September 18: Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI*
September 19: St. Cecilia Music Center, Grand Rapids, MI^
September 20: Royal Conservatory, Toronto, ON^
September 22: House of Blues, Boston, MA^
September 23: University of Maine, Orono, ME^
September 24: FreshGrass MASS MoCa Festival, North Adams, MA
September 26: Keswick Theater, Philadelphia, PA^
September 27: University of Maryland, College Park, MD^
September 28: Carolina Theater, Greensboro, NC^
September 30: University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC^
October 1: Modlin Center at University of Richmond, Richmond, VA+
October 2: Paramount Theatre, Charlottesville, VA*
November 5: George Mason University Center for the Arts Concert Hall, Fairfax, VA@
November 9: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA@
November 10:Balboa Theater, San Diego, CA@
November 11: Soka Performing Arts Center, Aliso Viejo, CA@
November 12: The Soraya at CSUN, Northridge, CA@
November 15: Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA@
November 16: Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis, Davis, CA@
November 17: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA@
November 18: Green Music Center, Sonoma, CA@
February 10, 2024: Maison de la culture de Creteil, Creteil, France
February 11, 2024: Doornroosje Main Hall, Nijmegen, Netherlands
February 13, 2024: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 14, 2024: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
February 17, 2024: Elb Philharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
February 18, 2024: Lido, Berlin, Germany
February 19, 2024: Kulturkirche Ost, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
February 21, 2024: Barbican Centre, London, UK
February 23, 2024: Pavillion Theatre, Glasgow, UK
February 25, 2024: Vicar St., Dublin, Ireland
March 14, 2024: Worcester, MA, Holy Cross University
March 16, 2024: Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
March 19, 2024: State College, PA, Penn State
March 20, 2024: Cincinnati, OH, Memorial Hall
April 15, 2024: Vancouver, BC, Chan Centre
April 17, 2024: Beaverton, OR, The Reser
April 18, 2024: Beaverton, OR, The Reser
April 19, 2024: Seattle, WA, Meany Center
April 21, 2024: San Francisco, CA, The Fillmore
April 22, 2024: Monterey, CA, Golden State Theater
April 23, 2024: Santa Barbara, CA, Granada Theater
The creative duo of two-time Grammy-winning album Divine Tides---Stewart Copeland and Grammy-winning Indian musician/composer Ricky Kej—announce their latest world music collaboration, Police Beyond Borders. Furthering their mission to feature leading talent from around the world, the album, recorded in Bangalore, is a reinterpretation of the seminal 80s band’s classic songs with diverse interpretations and artist representation from South Africa, India, Japan, China, Canada, the U.K., and more.
Copeland and Kej have enlisted top international artists, including South Africa’s Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir; China’s “Father Of Rock” Cui Jian; U.S.-based Berklee Indian Ensemble; Japanese Grammy-winner for Best Global Music Album, Masa Takumi; South Africa’s acclaimed Mzansi Youth Choir; leading Indian composer/singer Shankar Mahadevan; renowned British classical trumpeter Alison Balsom; multi-award winning Canadian flutist Ron Korb; legendary Bollywood composers and brother duo Salim-Sulaiman, hammered dulcimer virtuoso Max ZT; and multi-instrumentalist Serj Tankian of metal band System of a Down.
Of the recording Stewart Copeland said, “It was Ricky Kej who suggested that we make a global album out of the Police derangements. It was a lightbulb moment. Of course! The Police was always a global band; we toured all over it and Sting wrote songs about the bigger picture of humanity.
The idea of hearing the songs in exotic languages was immediately inspiring and Ricky set about finding the magnificent talents on this record. As with all of the musicians and singers on this record, we exhorted them to step beyond, to take the songs into new places. They sure did do that!
The Police’ music essentially derives from Black culture, and it was particularly spine-tingling to hear that culture arriving back in Africa. Every Breath You Take in Zulu! All the flavors of the different languages lit up these tunes that are so familiar. I hope that familiarity will give a comfortable vantage point for anyone to experience music styles that might otherwise sound alien.
Music evolved in Homo sapiens as a bonding social skill. My humble hope is that this record can contribute to that human bonding on this shrinking planet.”
“It was a huge honor to collaborate with my musical idol Stewart Copeland yet again. After having won 2 Grammy awards with Stewart, Police Beyond Borders is now the biggest, most epic album I have ever been a part of. It is a truly global album featuring musicians, voices and languages from across the world. These are songs that I have grown up listening to, songs that have shaped my music career.. so during the making of this album I paid a lot of respect to its legacy. I am certain our listeners will enjoy these legendary songs in a way they would have never imagined, and realize that music is the most universal language,” said Ricky Kej.
POLICE BEYOND BORDERS TRACKLIST
King of Pain (feat. Berklee Indian Ensemble)
Roxanne (feat. Mzansi Youth Choir)
Message in a Bottle (feat. Salim-Sulaiman, Masa Takumi)
Tea in the Sahara (Cui Jian)
Don’t Stand So Close To Me (Soweto Gospel Choir, Ron Korb)
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic (feat. Berklee Indian Ensemble)
Can’t Stand Losing You (Mzansi Youth Choir, Max ZT)
Murder By Numbers (Alison Balsom, Shankar Mahadevan, Max ZT)
Demolition Man (featuring Serj Tankian)
Every Breath You Take (Soweto Gospel Choir)
The recently released Police Deranged for Orchestra (Shelter/BMG) is Copeland’s exploration of the Police’s popular tracks through a new orchestral lens and was inspired by his forays into expansive musical forms and instrumentation. It features performances by locally-based symphony orchestras with a core, six-member band/vocal ensemble. Copeland has now toured with sold-out dates across the U.S. and Europe, and will continue with additional U.S. dates this fall. See updated information at www.stewartcopeland.net/716/events-and-tours
STEWART COPELAND ON TOUR: POLICE DERANGED FOR ORCHESTRA
September 30: Omaha, Nebraska, US - Holland Center
October 5: Denver, Colorado, US - Boettcher Concert Hall
October 8: Detroit, Michigan, US - Orchestra Hall
October 19: Carmel, Indiana, US - The Palladium - Center for the Performing Arts
October 21: Erie, Pennsylvania, US - Warner Theatre
October 22: Erie, Pennsylvania, US - Warner Theatre
This year also brings the October release of Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries, published by Rocket 88 Books and available in three editions. The book is based on and includes Copeland’s personal pocket diary entries from 1976-79. With scans of original pages and Copeland’s new background commentary, its pages are illustrated with classic and previously unseen photos from the early “starving years” of a band poised for global success. More information on Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries can be found here, and read more here in the meantime at Rolling Stone. “It's full of my original diary pages, hand-made poster designs, ragged accounts, callow observations and other scribblings of a proto-rock star, illuminated by hitherto unseen vintage photos from the deepest vaults,” Copeland told SPIN earlier this year. “It’s a big, noisy book about one heckuva ride.”
Concurrent with his early work with The Police, Copeland developed a solo recording alter-ego, Klark Kent, releasing singles and a self-titled 1980 album on which he played all the instruments, - even vocals. The cult album was re-released on April 14th (Record Store Day) on BMG. Klark Kent was credited with inspiring Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) among many others.
In celebration of Rhino's 45th Anniversary, the label is launching Rhino Reds, a new series of limited-edition reissues pressed on custom "Rhino Red" vinyl.
Over the next few months, Rhino will release classic albums and rarities from its vast music archive, showcasing records by key artists from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Each complete reissue will feature a bonus 7-inch, both pressed on translucent "Rhino Red" vinyl, based on the PMS color used in Rhino's logo.
To ensure the highest audio fidelity, all 12 titles' lacquers were cut at various mastering studios, including Bernie Grundman Mastering, The Bakery, and Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl (more details below). All the titles have been pressed at Third Man's state-of-the-art pressing plant in Detroit.
"What better way to honor Rhino's 45th anniversary than with a series of limited-edition 'Rhino Red' vinyl and 45s that spotlights our rich legacy of artists over the decades and highlights our continuing commitment to delivering unique releases for audiophiles." – Mark Pinkus, President of Rhino
The series begins on July 28th with the 1960s and features titles by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, The Doors, and Love. Rhino.com will have an exclusive bundle of all 4 releases for $99.98.
Available On July 28th:
Aretha Franklin - Soul '69 [Stereo] + Bonus [Monophonic] 7"*
*"I Can't See Myself Leaving You" / "Gentle On My Mind"
Strictly Limited To 3,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Franklin's 14th studio album, Soul '69, reached number 1 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart and 15 on the Top Albums chart when it was released in January of 1969.
*"That's A Good Idea" / "Free Me" / "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher" / "I'll Let Nothing Separate Us"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Love Man is the third posthumous album by Redding, released in 1969 and produced by Steve Cropper and features Booker T. and the M.G.'s. The album reached number 46 on the Billboard 200 and number 8 on the R&B Albums chart. Love Man will come with a deluxe gatefold jacket and a mono promo 7" picture sleeve.
A 1968 compilation released exclusively in Japan featuring The Doors' tracks from their first three studio albums, The Doors, Strange Days, and Waiting for the Sun. The release comes with a deluxe gatefold jacket with a tipped-in lyric insert and a 7" picture sleeve. For the very first time, this Japanese compilation is available worldwide and will not be available in any stores.
The Doobie Brothers - Minute By Minute + Bonus 7"*
*“What A Fool Believes” / “Don’t Stop To Watch The Wheels”
Strictly Limited To 2,000
Mastering By Bernie Grundman Mastering
The 3x platinum album, MINUTE BY MINUTE, was released in 1978 and stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for 87 weeks. The song "What a Fool Believes" became their biggest hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 and winning three Grammys.
Released in April 1976, Ramones' debut album has been deemed one of the most influential punk albums of all time. Featuring the infamous tracks “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.” The 40th anniversary mono mix was included in the deluxe boxed set from 2016. This is the first time the album has been available in mono on its own.
Released in July 1972, CHICAGO V hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart along with the single “Saturday in the Park,” reaching No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100. This reissue includes two exclusive posters of the full band.
*“We Gotta Get You A Woman” / “Baby Let’s Swing/Last Thing You Said/Don’t Tie My Hands”
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Mastering By Bernie Grundman Mastering
Rundgren’s debut album, RUNT, was released in September 1970 and peaked at No. 185 on the Billboard 200. The featured single, “We Gotta Get You A Woman,” reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1971. Todd fans will certainly have heard of a mistaken rare 2nd pressing that featured a different version of the album with unique mixes and edits. Rhino set out to duplicate that album, but could not find the actual tapes. What they did find was an unissued early version of the album that is also very different in terms of mixes, edits, and sequencing. A third version!
Foreigner - Agent Pro + Bonus 7" with picture sleeve*
*"I Want To Know What Love" / "Street Thunder"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Foreigner's triple platinum fifth album, Agent Provocateur, released in 1984, reached number one in the UK and top 5 in the US. The album's single "I Want to Know What Love Is" was a massive hit, reaching number one in both countries.
B-52's - Bouncing Off The Satellites + Bonus 7" with picture sleeve*
*"Summer Of Love" / "Housework"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
The fourth studio album from the American new wave group, the B-52’s, was released in September 1986 with hit tracks "Wig" and "Summer of Love."
Zapp - Zapp + Bonus 7" with picture sleeve*
*"More Bounce To The Ounce. Part I" / "More Bounce To The Ounce. Part II"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Zapp released their debut gold-certified self-titled in July 1980 and landed at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B chart for two weeks.
Starship - Knee Deep In The Hoopla + Bonus 7" with picture sleeve*
*"We Built This City" / "Private Room"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Starship's platinum debut, Knee Deep in the Hoopla, was released in September 1985 and features their biggest tracks, "We Built This City" and "Sara."
About Rhino Entertainment
Rhino is the catalog development and marketing division of Warner Music Group. Founded in 1978, Rhino continues to set the standard for excellence in the reissue business it pioneered in both the physical and digital worlds with an emphasis on flawless sound quality, bonus tracks, informative liner notes, award-winning creative packaging, and a strong social conscience. Rhino has also expanded the definition of what a catalog music company is, as evidenced by the label's name and likeness representation deal with Frank Sinatra and its multi-faceted relationship with the Grateful Dead. The catalog of more than 5,000 releases includes material by Led Zeppelin, Eagles, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, The Doors, Chicago, Ray Charles, Black Sabbath, John Coltrane, Yes, Phil Collins, The Ramones, and The Monkees, among many others.
Today, Dave Matthews Band announced plans to tour the U.S. this fall. The headline run, which will kick off on November 7 at Enmarket Arena in Savannah, GA, will also include a show at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, SC plus two-night stands at John Paul Jones Arena in the band’s hometown of Charlottesville, VA, Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT and New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
A portion of proceeds from the John Paul Jones Arena shows will benefit the band’s ongoing commitment to the resident-led redevelopment of Charlottesville’s public housing. This contribution is in addition to the five million dollars that Bama Works, Dave Matthews Band and Red Light Management have already committed to the project.
An online ticket presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association is underway now at www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com. Citi is the official card of the Dave Matthews Band 2023 tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, September 12, at 9:00 AM ET until Thursday, September 14, at 10:00 PM ET through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 15, at 10:00 AM local time. For the complete itinerary, see below or visit http://www.davematthewsband.com.
Dave Matthews Band’s ongoing partnership with The Nature Conservancy has resulted in three million trees being planted since 2020. This year’s partnership, which will continue with the fall tour, will bring the total to four million trees. Fans can join in this mission by adding an optional donation of $2 per ticket to plant a tree with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign – a major forest restoration effort with the goal of planting a billion trees around the world by 2025. For additional details, visit www.dmbtrees.org.
Their summer tour draws to a close with the band’s traditional three-day, Labor Day weekend celebration at Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA (September 1-3). Named as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2019, Dave Matthews Band has a long history of reducing their environmental footprint, going back to their first shows in 1991. Having sold more than 25 million tickets since inception, making them the second largest ticket-seller in history, “DMB is synonymous with summer” for many fans, The New York Times declared in this feature.
Following their fall U.S. dates, Dave Matthews Band will head to South Africa to play shows in Pretoria and Cape Town. Matthews and guitarist Tim Reynolds will travel to Mexico’s Riviera Maya in 2024 for the seventh in their series of all-inclusive concert vacations. Set for February 15-18, the outing is nearly sold out.
Dave Matthews Band has sold a collective 38 million CDs and DVDs combined. Matthews recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal about Walk Around The Moon, the band’s new album, and their passion for touring. Read the feature HERE. In this GQ video, he breaks down the band’s most iconic tracks. Matthews also appeared on “The Howard Stern Show.”
Fleetwood Mac was at the top of its game in August 1977 when the band returned to its adopted home in Southern California to play three shows at The Forum in Los Angeles. Rumours had only been out a few weeks when the band left in February to tour the world, returning six months later to play three shows at The Forum for nearly 50,000 fans.
Rumours was the #1 album in America and well on its way to becoming one of the most successful ever released. Rumours eventually sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and was recently certified 21x Platinum in the U.S. The record has also been certified 14x Platinum in the U.K., and 13x Platinum in Australia and New Zealand, all countries where the album reached #1.
RUMOURS LIVE captures the energy and excitement of the band’s opening night at The Forum on August 29, 1977. The nearly 90-minute performance includes live versions of most of the songs from Rumours and Fleetwood Mac, the group’s first multi-platinum #1 album, which came out in 1975.
The concert remained unreleased for decades until 2021, when “Gold Dust Woman” from the show was included as a bonus track on Live: Deluxe Edition, Rhino’s expanded version of Fleetwood Mac’s 1980 concert album. The other 17 songs on the collection have never been released before.
RUMOURS LIVE will be available on September 8 as 2-CD and 2-LP sets. The black-vinyl version has two 180-gram records in a gatefold jacket with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Pre-order HERE. Also, a crystal clear-vinyl version of RUMOURS LIVE will be released the same day exclusively at Walmart.
Previously unreleased live version of “GO YOUR OWN WAY” from RUMOURS LIVE is available today digitally. “GO YOUR OWN WAY” was written by Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, and originally released in December 1976 as the lead single from the 21x Platinum-certified Rumours album. The song became the band’s first top-ten hit in the US, peaking at #10 on the US Billboard Chart in March 1977. Listen HERE.
The concert’s setlist draws almost exclusively from Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, the first two albums recorded by the band’s latest incarnation: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie, and the newest members, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. The lone nod to Fleetwood Mac’s other nine studio albums is a performance of “Oh Well,” a rock-guitar masterpiece originally released in 1969 and written by the band’s founder, guitarist Peter Green.
Engineer Ken Caillat, who helped record Rumours, also recorded the concert at The Forum using the Record Plant’s mobile recording truck. He captured the band’s impassioned performance at a moment of peak Rumours frenzy, including powerful versions of “Landslide,” “Never Going Back Again,” “Songbird,” and “The Chain.”
In the liner notes from RUMOURS LIVE, Sam Graham observes: “The songs are familiar: ‘Dreams,’ ‘Go Your Own Way,’ ‘Say You Love Me,’ ‘Over My Head,’ and on and on. But most of these live versions are more muscular, more ferocious, than the album recordings, driven by the powerhouse Fleetwood-John McVie rhythm section and Buckingham’s febrile guitar playing; and instead of a rote recital of the hits, the group stretches out in concert, as songs like ‘Rhiannon,’ ‘World Turning,’ and ‘I’m So Afraid’ blossom into exuberant tours de force onstage.”
DEVO marks half a century of de-evolution as the trailblazing band resumes their global tour this fall. Rhino pays tribute to the influential group today, unveiling a new career-spanning boxed set that encompasses all of Devo’s hits and a selection of rarities.
50 YEARS OF DE-EVOLUTION (1973-2023) will arrive in various configurations on October 20. The first is a 4-LP set pressed on clear vinyl that’s limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, available exclusively from Rhino.com. This deluxe version comes in a slipcase with a 28-page book, a Devo air freshener, and a foldable paper hat that resembles the band’s iconic red energy domes. Additionally, a lithograph of the album artwork is included. A 2-CD version of the 50-song collection will also be available. Pre-order HERE.
On the same day, a 25-song version of 50 YEARS OF DE-EVOLUTION (1973-2023) will be released as a 2-LP set on black vinyl, and a 2-LP special edition featuring blue and red vinyl will be available exclusively at retail. Today, the 7” version of “Disco Dancer” from the upcoming set is making its streaming debut. Listen HERE.
"In the past this information has been suppressed. But now it can be told. Come celebrate 50 years of De-evolution with a mind-blowing, 50th Anniversary box set from Devo." states Gerald Casale.
Mark Mothersbaugh adds: “This box set represents a great cross section of early experiments and later creations. I was looking to create a new sound, a concept in art and music that represented a new way of thinking about life on planet earth. With Devo, I think we did just that. Farewell to the first 50, Let's get the next 50 started!”
To continue the celebration, DEVO has also partnered with the disruptive clothing brand Brain Dead who will host and launch a special DEVO event as well as merchandise capsule. Join DEVO on October 17th at Brain Dead’s Fairfax Theatre for a screening of "A Face In The Crowd" accompanied by a short band Q&A and a trailer of Devo video rarities. And for those seeking to commemorate the occasion in style, a meticulously designed Devo capsule merch collection awaits, courtesy of Brain Dead. For more information visit WeAreBrainDead
Devo was formed in 1973 by two sets of brothers – Bob and Gerald Casale and Bob and Mark Mothersbaugh – and Alan Myers. The band took its name from the concept of de-evolution – the notion that society is regressing rather than progressing. It was their response to the infamous 1970 shootings at Kent State University, which some band members witnessed while attending the school.
Devo started out performing around Akron, Ohio and garnered early support from David Bowie and Iggy Pop, helping the group secure a deal with Warner Bros. Records. Soon after, the band began working with legendary producer Brian Eno on its 1978 debut, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!. The album was an underground success despite the mainstream music press overlooking Devo’s insightful cultural satire.
A year later, the band returned with Duty Now for the Future before achieving mainstream recognition in 1980 with its platinum-certified third album, Freedom of Choice, which included the hit single “Whip It.” The song’s iconic music video became a fixture on MTV, contributing to Devo’s growing popularity in the 1980s. That decade saw the band release more hits (“Beautiful World” and “That’s Good”) and a string of memorable studio albums: New Traditionalist (1981), Oh No! It’s Devo (1982), Shout! (1984), and Total Devo (1988). After 1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps, the band took an extended hiatus to pursue film and television projects before returning in 2010 with Something for Everybody.
Today, Devo’s innovative music and thought-provoking performances are celebrated for their profound influence on generations of new-wave, industrial, and electronic artists. 50 YEARS OF DE-EVOLUTION (1973-2023) stands as a testament to the band’s legacy, compiling key tracks from all nine of Devo’s studio albums, as well as rarities like the 1974 demo for “I’m A Potato” and single mixes for “Come Back Jonee,” “Snowball,” and “What We Do.”
The Roxy have continued to find new ways to celebrate their 50th anniversary this month, announcing the first ‘Sunset & Vinyl Market’ record fair on September 17 and the addition of even more new shows to their illustrious fall lineup. ‘Sunset & Vinyl Market’ will be open to the public adjacent to The Roxy (9009 Sunset Blvd) from 8AM to 1PM on September 17, featuring iconic West Hollywood vendors like the Rainbow Bar & Grill and Holey Grail donuts and coffee; alongside booths from Los Angeles vinyl leaders like Record Safari, Deadly Wax, Boogie Maru Sounds, AudioPhileUSA, Shattered Music, Galaxy Music, Str33trecords, and many more. Exclusive and limited-edition merchandise for The Roxy’s 50th anniversary will also be available, curated by Oscar Adler and featuring the club’s classic “Rockin’ R” logo, at https://theroxymerch.com/.
New shows have also been added to this milestone celebration for the iconic Sunset Strip music club. Adding to a fall lineup that already features two special shows from Neil Young with Crazy Horse (September 20 and 21) - benefitting The Painted Turtle and Bridge School - The Roxy has added performances from Metric, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? on October 12 (tickets here), Ricky Lee Jones on October 18 (tickets here) and Tkay Maidza on November 7 (tickets here). Additional shows that were previously announced include the return of Los Angeles’ own Wallows to The Roxy on September 23 and Stephen Marley performing his father Bob Marley’s legendary album ‘Live at Roxy,' recorded at the club in 1976 (taking place September 24, with a second “late show” now added that same night, tickets here).
Fall highlights for the club’s “Roxy50” celebrations will also include d4vd (September 6), it’s murph (September 8), Keke Palmer (September 11), Paris Texas (October 1), Better Lovers (October 15), Tigers Jaw (October 16), underscores (October 25), STRFKR (October 27), Nation of Language (October 28), Unknown Mortal Orchestra (November 6), Saint Levant (November 10) and Dillon Francis (November 30).
This month, The GRAMMY Museum will also open their The ROXY: 50 and Still Rockin’ exhibit, as previously shared with the initial group of festivities. An opening night celebration has been announced for Sunday September 17 with a special film screening, a rooftop reception and a panel featuring Cisco Adler (musician, songwriter, producer), Paul Tollett (president/CEO of Goldenvoice and co-founder of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival), Allison Hagendorf (music journalist, media personality, & host of “The Allison Hagendorf Show”), Steve Appleford (LA Times music journalist) and Julie Pilat (award-winning music, media and digital entertainment executive). More details and ticket information are available here.
The City of West Hollywood will present Lou Adler and Nic Adler in conversation for the City’s Artists & Icons series on September 12 at the West Hollywood City Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room (RSVP here). The event coincides with the debut of a photographic exhibit about the Roxy’s 50th Anniversary at the adjacent West Hollywood Library, curated by Jason Emmons and accompanied by written anecdotes from key players. The exhibit is free and open to the public through May 2024 during the library’s open hours. RSVP for Artists & Icons is now open at www.weho.org/arts.
The Roxy have hosted many of the biggest names in music at early stages of their careers over the past 50 years and continues to be a career defining moment for emerging talent. The Roxy has been immortalized on live albums by Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Bob Marley, The Ramones, Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry (featuring Tina Turner), Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Frank Zappa, Gladys Knight, Guns N’ Roses, Buzzcocks, George Benson, Todd Rundgren and Warren Zevon. In addition to the astounding list of musical performers above, the club is also where Adler launched The Rocky Horror Show in the US, to an opening night audience that included Jack Nicholson, Cher, Mick Jagger and John Lennon. It has also played a pivotal role in the careers of comedians like Cheech & Chong, Paul Reubens and Richard Pryor. In September 1973, the club was co-founded by Adler and Valentine, with music industry legends Elliot Roberts, David Geffen, Bill Graham and Peter Asher participating as investors and/or consultants.
7th September 2023 - October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s classic collection of cover songs, PIN UPS, originally released 19th October 1973 - a mere six months after the legendary ALADDIN SANE and three months after the infamous final Ziggy Stardust show at Hammersmith Odeon, where he put the Ziggy persona to rest along with The Spiders From Mars.
On 20th October 2023, one day after its Golden Jubilee PIN UPS will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP. This new pressing of PIN UPS was cut on a customized late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. John Webber cut the half-speed at AIR Studios.
Recorded at Château d’Hérouville in France, where Bowie would later return to record the masterpiece LOW, PIN UPS was a collection of cover songs paying tribute to bands and artists that had inspired him and that he had seen at clubs such as The Marquee in London in the mid to late 60s. Artists he covered for the album included The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, The Who, Pretty Things, The Easybeats and more.
Just one single was taken from the album in the UK, a version of The Mersey’s SORROW which peaked at number four in the UK, and the album reached number one. The striking sleeve image featuring David and British model Twiggy, taken by Justin de Villeneuve, was originally slated to appear on the cover of Vogue, when the magazine passed on the idea, Bowie chose it for PIN UPS.
Even though Bowie did not tour the album, it is beloved by fans to this day who have often wished for a long-rumoured follow-up PIN UPS TOO, but as was his style, by February 1974, he had released REBEL REBEL as a single and a whole new adventure had begun.
Joni Mitchell has unveiled a never-before-heard song “Like Veils Said Lorraine” today from the forthcoming Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975). Mitchell wrote “Like Veils Said Lorraine” and recorded it as a demo in late 1971/early 1972 at A&M Studios in Hollywood, CA. Listen HERE. Watch the visualizer HERE. Read the lyrics HERE.
Joni Mitchell explains to Cameron Crowe in the Archives Vol. 3 liner notes: “[‘Like Veils Said Lorraine’] was a piece of dialogue that happened with the real-estate woman. I had almost found the land where I would build my little (stone-cabin) house. Lorraine was the real-estate woman who showed me properties. She had a Marlene Dietrich kind of look. She was a platinum blond and she was elegant. She had lived in China with her husband, so she was kind of worldly… and glamorous. It’s an account of our conversation. At some point, I switched to another realtor, and found the property where I would live. It was a piece of an old lumber-jack town. It wasn't on the market, but it called out to me. Houses are important to me, and I know how to pick them. I investigated it and I found out who owned it. I paid what she wanted, and she thought she took me. I thought I got a deal. (laughs) So we were both happy.”
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) is set for release on October 6, 2023 via Rhino.
On Sept 13, GRAMMY-nominated duo ODESZA will harness the talent found on their own label and artist community, Foreign Family Collective, to release the label’s second artist collective album ‘Rare.wavs Vol. 2’. Including contributions from TOKiMONSTA, EVAN GIIA, OLAN, Parra for Cuva, Mood Talk, bad tuner, edapollo, Jerry Folk, and ODESZA’s own new track “In The Rain” (which they have been teasing while on their current North American tour), ‘Rare.wavs Vol. 2’ is an amalgamation of both up-and-coming groundbreakers and modern day trailblazing legends that are all helping redefine electronic music both individually and collectively.
ODESZA’s “In The Rain” will be released as a 7” single on limited edition clear vinyl, available HERE
Of the forthcoming album, Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight (ODESZA) said “We love the Rare.wavs project from Foreign Family Collective because it gives artists the chance to step outside of their comfort zone and try new directions, which may not work as part of a full record release of their own.” They shared that their own new track "In the Rain," was “written on the road while performing our The Last Goodbye Tour. We wanted to make something fun and high energy that would particularly work well in a live environment.” ODESZA is currently on the road for the second leg of the aforementioned tour, which follows recent festival headlining spots at Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Electric Forest, and will include headlining performances at Austin City Limits and Life Is Beautiful. Dates HERE.
Of her contribution, TOKiMONSTA said "When approaching this song, I wanted to touch back on my roots in LA. My early influences are varied, but very much anchored in underground hip-hop and electronic music. While those influences are apparent in my current work, I wanted this song to have a touch of nostalgia — a throwback to who I was a decade ago."
The collection is as eclectic as it is emotionally captivating, be it with a snapshot of unbridled joy on Mood Talk’s “Girl” which Jamie Lloyd-Taylor said stemmed from wanting “to create a euphoric sunset moment – the moment you jump off a cliff into the ocean, then stick it in slow mo,” a deep moment of self-excavation on OLAN’s “Feel For You” which was birthed from a place to “make me feel good when I didn't think I had a lot of reasons to at the time,” to even EVAN GIIA finding solace in her contribution “SWIM” that was inspired by the heartbreaking sudden loss of her uncle and serves as “a message to my family as we grieved… I am so excited to finally let this special song out into the world and to keep Patrick’s memory alive forever.”
“Community is the core of everything we do at FFC and we love how Rare.wavs is a chance for artists to come together in this spirit,” said Kyle Kusanagi, head of A&R at Foreign Family Collective. He added “Thematically, this package is about creative freedom and offering artists an outlet to explore outside of their normal process. While each artist brought their own unique inspiration and style to the music, collectively the songs feel connected by the underlying pursuit of freely exploring new sounds, techniques, and ideas.”
‘Rare.wavs Vol. 2’ Track Listing
“In The Rain” - ODESZA
“Say Tell Me” - TOKiMONSTA
“Tratado” - Parra for Cuva
“don't say (feat. pluko)” - bad tuner
“Think Like That” - edapollo
“Feel For You” - OLAN
“Girl” - Mood Talk
“SWIM” - EVAN GIIA
“Shibuya” - Jerry Folk
RCA Records/Legacy Recordings will mark the 25th anniversary of Dave Matthews Band’s Before These Crowded Streets by releasing a special two-LP vinyl edition on November 3. Originally released on April 28, 1998, Before These Crowded Streets, the band’s third studio album, was their first to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – and, in doing so, it ended the 16-week reign of the Titanic soundtrack atop the tally. The band’s next five studio albums would go on to enter the Billboard 200 at No. 1.
A fan favorite for over two decades – with its songs featured nightly in the band’s live sets – the 4x Platinum Before These Crowded Streets was both a critical and commercial success. The Los Angeles Times said, “On this album, the band places an even higher premium on musical proficiency. Songs such as ‘Rapunzel’ and ‘The Stone’ are built around vertiginous polyrhythms and serpentine riffs that dart around Matthew’s clenched vocals, yet always manage to lock into an enjoyable groove.” Guests on the album included Tim Reynolds, who played on every track and is now a full-time band member, Béla Fleck, Alanis Morissette, The Lovely Ladies, Greg Howard, John D’earth and Kronos Quartet.
Available for pre-order HERE, the 25th anniversary edition comes as a yellow translucent 2 LP set, pressed on 180g vinyl. The lacquers were cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. In the band’s store, an exclusive color variant – red and blue swirl – is also available for pre-order. The package includes an exclusive new booklet featuring rare photos and liner notes written by acclaimed journalist Grayson Currin.
Noting that bassist Stefan Lessard calls it “maybe our most collaborative album,” Currin observes, “What started in The Mill with Dave alone and then with Stefan became a playground for everyone. Boyd’s solo during ‘Crush’ is ecstatic…Carter’s playing is a wondrous mix of power and poetry, the muscle of ‘The Last Stop’ and the delicacy of ‘The Dreaming Tree’ forming a compact survey of his underrated range. When [producer Steve] Lillywhite asked LeRoi to show him what else he had, could he have imagined the self-made flute-and-horn duo he shaped for the end of ‘The Dreaming Tree’ or just how much grit and funk he blew into every corner of ‘Stay’?”
On November 7, just days after the release of Before These Crowded Streets – 25h Anniversary Edition, Dave Matthews Band will launch its fall North American headline tour. An online ticket presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association is underway now at www.warehouse.davematthewsband.com. Citi is the official card of the Dave Matthews Band 2023 tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, September 12, at 9:00 AM ET until Thursday, September 14, at 10:00 PM ET through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 15, at 10:00 AM local time. For itinerary, visit http://www.davematthewsband.com.
Today, with the release of Act II: Mind Travel, Margo Price shares three more songs that widen the time-bending world of Strays II. Out in full on October 13th, the nine-track expansion to 2023's acclaimed Strays LP is a triptych of musical exploration, each part telling its own unique story of love, grief and acceptance. With contributions from Strays and Strays II producer Jonathan Wilson, as well as Buck Meek and Ny Oh, Act I: Topanga Canyon reflected on the pain and sacrifice it takes to find freedom. Act II: Mind Travel enters the parts of a psychedelic journey where one learns to both ponder the past, and embrace the present with open arms. Inspired by beat poetry, out-of-body experiences and the loss of Price's family farm, Strays II’s second of three acts includes the previously unheard "Black Wolf Blues," "Mind Travel" and "Unoriginal Sin (feat. Mike Campbell)," all available now via Loma Vista Recordings.
Since announcing Strays II last month, Margo Price has further expounded upon the double album with Light Me Up, a three-part short film directed by Chris Phelps. Each vignette brings viewers into the Topanga studio and life-changing sessions where the music was recorded: Part I: Light Me Up sees Price discussing the role that mushrooms and sex played in her writing process, and Part II: County Road reminisces on the passing of a beloved friend, whose life is honored in one of the Strays' stirring centerpieces. The final installment, Part III: Unoriginal Sin, debuts today and illustrates the surreal feeling of co-writing with Mike Campbell. Watch it HERE, and read more from Margo Price on the collaboration and the rest of Act II: Mind Travel:
"The psychedelic journey continues down the blurry rabbit hole of time and space. We were lucky to have Mike Campbell co-write a dark rocker called 'Unoriginal Sin.' Working with him on some of these songs was like having a master class in songwriting. Sometimes there are dark corners you haven’t explored for some time, but it does some good to clean them out.
'Mind Travel' is one of the more lyrically strange songs I’ve written. Jeremy and I wrote it in South Carolina. It’s pretty much beat poetry on drugs with a back beat – it was influenced by having an out of body experience on psilocybin. We both had some pretty incredible breakthroughs about accepting death and just reckoning with how fast it's all going. It's okay to be reflective and remember the past as long as you don't get stuck back there. This part of the trip is where you learn to be satisfied with the present.
I love how these songs came together. 'Black Wolf Blues' in particular, Jeremy started writing the words from my exact point of view – he found myself reflecting on my ancestors, my grandparents (Paul & Mary Price) and their love and how it grew despite the drought and the loss of their farm. I wrote the chords and the melody and helped finish the verses and chorus. Even though it has a sweetness and a nostalgic way about it, there is a looming darkness – the wolf who's been watching and weaving his way like a stray throughout the entire album. Look for him. It's like an invisible plague hanging in the air, it's the man in the suit and tie who's lying to you through his straight, white teeth. He hides in shadows."
Following the digital, double album release of Strays II on October 13th, all nine of the new Strays II songs will be available on vinyl on November 10th. Before then, Margo Price will return to the Americana Honors & Awards next week, where she is up for Artist of The Year, Album of The Year and Song of The Year. Tied for the most nominations of any single artist in 2023, the accolades have cemented Strays as “her strongest solo work yet” (The New Yorker).
In recent weeks, Margo Price performed at the Grand Ole Opry with Tyler Childers, detailed the new Jessi Colter album that she produced, hosted a star-studded tribute to John Prine for Newport Folk Festival and more. Her latest episode of Austin City Limits premieres on October 28th as part of Season 49 of the PBS program, and her tireless year of touring rolls on with a fall leg of Til The Wheels Fall Off, including numerous headline shows, dates with Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell, Orville Peck's Rodeo, and festivals such as XPoNential, Pilgrimage and Farm Aid, where Price is the first female artist to sit on the board of directors. Find the full list below and tickets at margoprice.net/tour.
"The First Lady of Outlaw Country has returned" (Rolling Stone): On October 27th, the legendary Jessi Colter will release her new album Edge of Forever, and ahead of a busy week at Nashville’s AmericanaFest she has just shared its latest preview. "I Wanna Be With You" features vocals from the record’s producer, Margo Price, and while lead single "Standing On The Edge of Forever" delivered a psychedelic, self-confident reflection on the turning of a page, this second song shifts from sultry to sweet, showcasing another side of her chart-topping sound and timeless style. Written with her and her late, longtime husband Waylon Jennings' close friend Basil McDavid during the heyday of the Outlaw era, "I Wanna Be With You" is a classic piece of piano-driven pop music, about gleefully giving oneself to the thrill of a new love. Jessi Colter first recorded it for her Rock and Roll Lullaby LP in 1984, but as she and Price seamlessly trade verses and fill the arrangement with vibrant, honeyed harmonies, they revive the song with fresh life and meaning. "Edge of Forever marks a return to the classic sound of her days as one of the key figures in the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s," says Garden & Gun.
Listen to "I Wanna Be With You" (feat. Margo Price), Out Now on Appalachia Record Co.
Produced by Margo Price and mixed by Shooter Jennings, son of Jessi Colter and Waylon Jennings, Edge of Forever is an exalting collection and sonic culmination of the many touchstones that make up Colter’s storied and still-evolving career. Before recording the album, Colter wasn’t sure if she would ever make another one, but together with Price’s unbeatable live band, they recorded the whole thing over the course of several days in Nashville. Now, as her 13th studio LP and first since 2017’s Lenny Kaye-produced The Psalms, Edge of Forever brings the start of a bright new chapter for Jessi Colter, and this Wednesday, September 20th, she will debut some of the music live at Nashville’s 3rd and Lindsley. The show follows a special appearance at the Americana Honors & Awards earlier that night, as well as a performance at the Ryman Auditorium this spring. Find tickets and more details here.
Like "Standing on the Edge of Forever" and "I Wanna Be With You" (feat. Margo Price), the music on Edge of Forever spans the past decade and far beyond. There are never-before-heard songs that Jessi Colter and Waylon Jennings wrote in the 1970s, plus long-lost sheet music Colter discovered in an old briefcase, newer gospel-influenced numbers, honky-tonk hymns, ruminations on religion and redemption, as well as collaborations with her daughter, Jenni Eddy Jennings.
In 2023, Jessi Colter’s legacy speaks for itself, and will only be further solidified with the release of Edge of Forever. As a GRAMMY Hall of Fame Award recipient and certified country star, she is the artist who brought outlaw music to the Top 40 with the chart-topping "I'm Not Lisa" in 1975, which has since been covered by Marianne Faithful, Faith Hill and more. She was the lone woman to appear on the genre-defining Wanted! The Outlaws compilation alongside Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Tompall Glaser – the first country album to go platinum. Her vision and voice have always remained singular, and as No Depression recently said, "When outlaw country royalty speaks, it's best to listen."
Today, world-famous Brooklyn Bowl announces 2023’s full fall line-up of shows across the musical and entertainment spectrum. The 50+ show line-up includes a wide array of performers, from up and coming as well as established acts including Andy Frasco, Antibalas, Bahamas, Bombino, Melvin Seals & JGB, the 21st Annual New York Burlesque Festival Premiere Party, The Hold Steady, and more!
Late night dance parties are one of Brooklyn Bowl’s unique traditions and happen every weekend. Whether the DJ is spinning tracks by ABBA or Jay-Z, Brooklyn Bowl has something for everyone.
Brooklyn Bowl rang in the New Year with 3 epic nights with New York City based gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello last year. This year, they will grace the Brooklyn Bowl stage for a 4-night run of celebratory New Years’ shows from December 28th-31st.
The original Brooklyn Bowl has introduced a groundbreaking integration of premiere music, expansive bowling, locally crafted beers, and an exquisite dining menu from the acclaimed Blue Ribbon Restaurant Group. Located in the beautiful, 19th-century Hecla Iron Works building, the venue -- aka "rock and roll heaven" (Village Voice) -- boasts a sound system and amenities that "no other local rock club can offer" (The New York Times).
BROOKLYN BOWL FALL 2023 LINEUP
September 21st: Bombino
September 21st: DJ set by Duran Duran’s Dom Brown
September 22nd: Dopapod
September 23rd: George Porter Jr.
September 24th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Bob Marley (daytime)
September 28th: Durand Jones
September 29th: 21st Annual New York Burlesque Festival Premiere Party
September 29th:The Midnight Bowl (late night)
September 30th: Monophonics
October 1st: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Coldplay (daytime)
October 4th: Common Kings
October 5th: Underground Springhouse
October 6th and 7th: Futurebirds
October 7th: Take On Me: Retro 80s Party (late night)
October 8th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Grateful Dead (daytime)
October 11th: Long Beach Dub Allstars + Passafire
October 12th: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
October 13th and 14th: Andy Frasco
October 15th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music Fela Kuti (daytime)
October 15th: Vintage Trouble
October 19th: Próxima Parada
October 20th: Bahamas
October 21st: Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country
October 21st: Emo Night Brooklyn (late night)
October 22nd: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Rihanna (daytime)
October 26th: Walrus in Wonderland: Jamified Alice in Wonderland Party
October 27th: Talib Kweli Live with Full Band!
October 27th: Taylor’s Version (late night)
October 28th: Melvin Seals & JGB
October 28th: This Party is Killing You: The Robyn Party Robyn-O-Ween 2023 (late night)
October 29th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Presents Halloween Spectacular (daytime)
October 31st: Saved By the 90s with The Bayside Tigers
November 2nd: Mac Sabbath
November 3rd and 4th: Antibalas
November 9th: Trouble No More: Music of The Allman Brothers
November 5th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Elton John (daytime)
November 11th: Couch
November 11th: Can’t Feel My Face (late night)
November 12th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Blink-182 (daytime)
November 15th: Madame Gandhi
November 16th: The Pharcyde
November 17th: Boy Named Banjo
November 17th: Nicki Night (late night)
November 18th: Eggy
November 19th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Harry Styles (daytime)
November 24th: Boogie T.RIO & Manic Focus Live Band
November 26th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of ABBA (daytime)
November 29 - December 2nd: The Hold Steady: Massive Nights 2023
December 3rd: Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Jay-Z (daytime)
December 8th: Big Freedia
December 10th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of Taylor Swift (daytime)
December 15th: Krasno Moore Project + Special Guests
December 16th: The Slackers
December 17th: The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays the Music of The Beatles (daytime)
December 22nd: The Weight Band’s 10 Year Celebration: Music of “The Band”
In celebration of Rhino's 45th Anniversary, the label is launching Rhino Reds, a new series of limited-edition reissues pressed on custom "Rhino Red" vinyl.
Over the next few months, Rhino will release classic albums and rarities from its vast music archive, showcasing records by key artists from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Each complete reissue will feature a bonus 7-inch, both pressed on translucent "Rhino Red" vinyl, based on the PMS color used in Rhino's logo.
To ensure the highest audio fidelity, all 12 titles' lacquers were cut at various mastering studios, including Bernie Grundman Mastering, The Bakery, and Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl (more details below). All the titles have been pressed at Third Man's state-of-the-art pressing plant in Detroit.
"What better way to honor Rhino's 45th anniversary than with a series of limited-edition 'Rhino Red' vinyl and 45s that spotlights our rich legacy of artists over the decades and highlights our continuing commitment to delivering unique releases for audiophiles." – Mark Pinkus, President of Rhino
The series begins on July 28th with the 1960s and features titles by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, The Doors, and Love. Rhino.com will have an exclusive bundle of all 4 releases for $99.98.
Available On July 28th:
Aretha Franklin - Soul '69 [Stereo] + Bonus [Monophonic] 7"*
*"I Can't See Myself Leaving You" / "Gentle On My Mind"
Strictly Limited To 3,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Franklin's 14th studio album, Soul '69, reached number 1 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart and 15 on the Top Albums chart when it was released in January of 1969.
*"That's A Good Idea" / "Free Me" / "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher" / "I'll Let Nothing Separate Us"
Strictly Limited To 2,000, $29.98
Mastering By Jeff Powell
Love Man is the third posthumous album by Redding, released in 1969 and produced by Steve Cropper and features Booker T. and the M.G.'s. The album reached number 46 on the Billboard 200 and number 8 on the R&B Albums chart. Love Man will come with a deluxe gatefold jacket and a mono promo 7" picture sleeve.
*"Hello, I Love You" / "Strange Days" / "The Unknown Soldier" / "Light My Fire" / "People Are Strange"
Strictly Limited To 5,000, $34.98
Exclusively Available At Rhino.com And TheDoors.com
Mastering By Bruce Botnick
Lacquers Cut By Bernie Grundman Mastering
A 1968 compilation released exclusively in Japan featuring The Doors' tracks from their first three studio albums, The Doors, Strange Days, and Waiting for the Sun. The release comes with a deluxe gatefold jacket with a tipped-in lyric insert and a 7" picture sleeve. For the very first time, this Japanese compilation is available worldwide and will not be available in any stores.
The Doobie Brothers - Minute By Minute + Bonus 7"*
*“What A Fool Believes” / “Don’t Stop To Watch The Wheels”
Strictly Limited To 2,000
Mastering By Bernie Grundman Mastering
The 3x platinum album, MINUTE BY MINUTE, was released in 1978 and stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for 87 weeks. The song "What a Fool Believes" became their biggest hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 and winning three Grammys.
Released in April 1976, Ramones' debut album has been deemed one of the most influential punk albums of all time. Featuring the infamous tracks “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.” The 40th anniversary mono mix was included in the deluxe boxed set from 2016. This is the first time the album has been available in mono on its own.
Released in July 1972, CHICAGO V hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart along with the single “Saturday in the Park,” reaching No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100. This reissue includes two exclusive posters of the full band.
*“We Gotta Get You A Woman” / “Baby Let’s Swing/Last Thing You Said/Don’t Tie My Hands”
Strictly Limited To 2,000
Mastering By Bernie Grundman Mastering
Rundgren’s debut album, RUNT, was released in September 1970 and peaked at No. 185 on the Billboard 200. The featured single, “We Gotta Get You A Woman,” reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1971. Todd fans will certainly have heard of a mistaken rare 2nd pressing that featured a different version of the album with unique mixes and edits. Rhino set out to duplicate that album, but could not find the actual tapes. What they did find was an unissued early version of the album that is also very different in terms of mixes, edits, and sequencing. A third version!
Foreigner’s triple platinum fifth album, Agent Provocateur, released in 1984, reached number one in the UK and top 5 in the US. The album's single "I Want to Know What Love Is" was a massive hit, reaching number one in both countries.
Released in the fall of 1985, The Replacements’ major label debut, Tim peaked at #192 on the Billboard charts, selling just 75,000 copies. Over time, however, the record would find a mass audience among successive generations thanks to the enduring appeal of anthems like “Bastards of Young” and “Left of the Dial” and ballads like “Swingin Party” and “Here Comes a Regular.”
Even with Tim’s evolving status as an all-time classic, The Replacements remained unsatisfied with the sound of the record, largely centered on the mix done by the album’s producer, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer Tommy Erdelyi, aka Tommy Ramone. Now, after four decades, the LP has finally been given a long overdue sonic overhaul as part of TIM: LET IT BLEED EDITION.
The 4CD/1LP deluxe boxed set is built around a stunning new mix of Tim by legendary producer/engineer Ed Stasium (Ramones, Talking Heads) and features a collection of previously unheard tracks (Sons of No One: Rare & Unreleased) and a classic concert from 1986 (Not Ready For Prime Time). TIM: LET IT BLEED EDITION is now available from Rhino for $89.98. Order HERE.
"The cultural relevance of Tim is at an all-time high," proclaims the New Yorker, and they continue by saying, "The reissue of Tim shows both the prescience and the unrealized promise of the beloved band.” The set has been met with widespread acclaim with Slate adding, "Stasium’s new mix is like hearing Tim for the first time…”
Stasium, who was a close friend and longtime production partner of the late Erdelyi (who died in 2014), has fashioned the definitive mix of the 11-track Tim. Also included is a new and improved mastering of Erdelyi’s original 1985 mix of the album. This deluxe edition also includes a disc of unreleased recordings (among them, unearthed material from the band’s January 1985 session produced by Big Star legend Alex Chilton); as well as The Replacements’ entire January 11, 1986, show at the Cabaret Metro in Chicago. In total, the box includes 65 tracks–50 of which have never been heard before.
The fans that purchase TIM: LET IT BLEED EDITION at Rhino.com will also receive a limited edition 7” vinyl single featuring two songs from the Chilton sessions: the rollicking road song “Nowhere is My Home” b/w the previously unreleased “Cello Version” of “Can’t Hardly Wait.” Those who purchase directly from Rhino will also have access to exclusive merch bundles.
Presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book – loaded with dozens of previously unseen photos - the set features a detailed history of the Tim era written by Bob Mehr, who produced the box with Rhino’s Jason Jones. Mehr, author of The New York Times bestseller Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements, won a Grammy® award for his album notes to the band’s 2019 release, Dead Man’s Pop.
Mehr writes: “After nearly 40 years, Tim remains a charmed collision of intention and accident, a balance of deliberate anthems and tossed-off gems, of raucous release and refined beauty—and a record that perfectly captures the band’s fraught but always compelling ascent on the ladder of success.”
In addition to the revelatory new mix, the TIM: LET IT BLEED EDITION also boasts a fresh cover, featuring an instantly iconic 1985 image of the band in its Minneapolis rehearsal space, taken by noted photographer Moshe Brakha. Coincidentally, Brakha shot the cover of The Ramones' 1977 album Leave Home, a record which marked the first collaboration between Tommy Erdelyi and Ed Stasium.
Stasium – who was originally considered to co-produce Tim with Erdelyi back in 1985 – was entrusted with the remix in 2022 and went back to the original multi-tracks, spending several months creating a fuller, deeply detailed and ultimately more satisfying version of the record, which finally captures the band’s raw power. Stasium also completed work on several previously unreleased Tim songs and alternates and did mixes of the Alex Chilton session material.
“I really loved working on this project,” noted Stasium. “It’s a great record, and now you can hear even better what’s great about it. But the best thing for me was that, in a funny and really beautiful way, I got to work with my dear friend Tommy Erdelyi once again.”
Even before signing with Sire/Warner Bros. in early 1985, The Replacements – singer/guitarist Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, drummer Chris Mars and lead guitarist Bob Stinson – began recording new material with their musical/spiritual godfather Alex Chilton that January in their hometown of Minneapolis. They followed up by cutting initial demos with Erdelyi in April, then starting the Tim sessions in earnest that summer. Sons of No One: Rare & Unreleased collects all that material, including illuminating alternate versions of songs like “Can’t Hardly Wait,” “Bastards of Young,” and “Hold My Life” – plus a unique and previously unheard original, “Havin Fun,” written by Tommy Stinson, and sung by Westerberg.
The final disc, Not Ready For Prime Time, captures the band performing live at Chicago’s Cabaret Metro in January 1986. A soundboard recording made by the band’s live mixer, the late Monty Lee Wilkes, the show was a one-off date that came just a week before the group’s infamous appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which ultimately saw them banned from the network. The 28-song Metro performance finds the original lineup of the band at its final peak, with incendiary versions of Replacements classics (“Color Me Impressed,” “Answering Machine”), rarely played deep cuts (“Mr. Whirly,” “Go”), as well covers of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Sham 69, plus a rare lead vocal turn from Bob Stinson on The Novas’ Minnesota garage rock classic “The Crusher.”
Additionally, TIM: LET IT BLEED EDITON includes Stasium’s new mix of the record on 180-gram vinyl, cut by Chris Bellman of Bernie Grundman mastering.
Khruangbin just announced that "Live at the Fillmore: Khruangbin and Toro y Moi" LP is now available on Dead Oceans, in collaboration with Night Time Stories, Ltd. This highly anticipated release can be explored here: https://khruangbin.lnk.to/Live-at-The-Fillmore-Miami.
If you haven't caught up, this year has seen Khruangbin in the middle of an impressive year-long journey that salutes their continually refined live performance. With contributions from esteemed friends globally, this initiative celebrates the band's flair for improvisation, their varied touring companions, and the memorable live shows they deliver.
As part of this endeavor, they've been unveiling a sequence of LPs spotlighting live renditions from the band alongside guest performances from the likes of Kelly Doyle, Ruben Moreno, The Suffers, and Robert Ellis at Austin, Texas' Stubb’s (LP1); Nubya Garcia at NYC’s Radio City (LP2); Men I Trust at RCB Echo Beach in Toronto (LP3); and now, the outstanding Toro Y Moi at The Fillmore, Miami (LP4).
Although Khruangbin is currently off the touring circuit, their past engagements speak volumes about their global influence. The band has featured in numerous global tours and has taken the stage at nearly all major global festivals including Glastonbury, Primavera, Coachella, and several others.
Renowned as a dedicated touring ensemble, 2022 saw Khruangbin undertake their most significant tour yet. Highlights from this journey include multiple sold-out nights at LA’s Greek Theatre, NYC’s Radio City Music Hall, and a mesmerizing act at London's legendary Alexandra Palace. As Khruangbin's live performances continue to garner a loyal fanbase, the band remains equally zealous about spotlighting their chosen musicians, emphasizing a vibrant spectrum of touring companions.
Today, R&B, funk and soul icons Kool & The Gang have released physical copies of their new album People Just Wanna Have Fun on Astana Music Inc (distributed by BFD/The Orchard). Copies are available as CD, black double LP, and a multi-color double LP. The band is led by founding members Robert “Kool” Bell (bassist) and George “Funky” Brown (keyboardist, drummer & producer of this album), whose book Too Hot: Kool & the Gang & Me is also out. As the longest continuously performing R&B group and most sampled band in history, the internationally celebrated group continues to tour the world.
Continuing to release music that makes the good times better and the bad times more bearable, this collection will be the band’s 34th studio album, featuring some of the last studio work by founding horn players, Kool’s brother Ronald “Khalis” Bell and Dennis “D.T.” Thomas, who passed in 2020 and 2021. Lead vocals on the album also include Sha Sha Jones, Shawn McQuiller, Lavell Evans, Dominique Karan, Rick Marcel and Walt Anderson, plus rappers Ami Miller & Ole’.
Both Bell and Brown view People Just Wanna Have Fun as a summation of their long career, during which they sold 70 million albums worldwide with hit singles like “Celebration,” “Ladies Night,” “Get Down on It,” “Hollywood Swinging” & beyond. Since their start in 1964, the group has amassed two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, a BET Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award and star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kool’s bass guitar is even featured in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
From Newark to Nairobi, Kool & the Gang have performed continuously longer than any R&B group in history and are the most sampled R&B band of all time, including by Madonna, Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill and P. Diddy. Not to mention their music on soundtracks from Rocky, Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction to Wreck-It Ralph and many more.
Yet throughout all the success, Kool & The Gang has remained true to their roots while pushing into the future. Bell says of the new album, “You’ve got the funk, you’ve got the jazzier tracks, we have a few ballads on there. Then there are songs that cross over to a pop sort of thing. We go from the ‘70s, the ‘80s, right into now. It’s old school, it’s new school — we kinda captured it all here. With all our music over the years, people have had fun. So I’d say this album just about sums it all up.”
Work on the album started five years ago, recording at Brown’s Alley Cat Studio in Woodland Hills, CA for sessions spread out over several months. Though the group recorded much of People Just Wanna Have Fun during the height of the pandemic, Brown says, “It’s all done live. Nothing was flown in. We made sure we had the ultraviolet lights and the sprays and the masks. Nobody got sick. We kept the number of people in the studio way down.”
Up next, the band is looking forward to this summer’s “Kool and the Gang Rock the World Tour,” which will be sponsored by Bell’s own Le Kool Champagne. He’s served as US ambassador of music and the arts to many countries like the Ivory Coast of Africa, and the band has shared stages before with Van Halen & Elton John to Dave Matthews Band & The Roots.
Next year will see the group continuing to celebrate six decades of having fun.
Album Track List:
1. Let’s Party
2. Movie Star
3. People Just Wanna Have Fun
4. We Are The Party
5. V.I.P.
6. Na Na Na
7. Go Get It
8. Give Love
9. I Want It All
10. Heaven’s Gift
11. Obsession
12. The Woman In You
13. My Weakness
14. That’s What I Love About You
15. 99 Miles To JC
Tour Dates:
September 23 @ Antelope Valley Fair - Lancaster, CA
September 24 @ Mountain Winery - Saratoga, CA
October 5 @ Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino - Las Vegas, NV
October 6 @ Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino - Las Vegas, NV
October 7 @ Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino - Las Vegas, NV
October 8 @ Gretna Heritage Festival - Grenta, LA
October 26 @ Plaza Theatre Performing Arts Center - El Paso, TX
To celebrate 50 years since the start of Tina Turner’s iconic solo career, Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll is a huge compilation of 55 tracks that compiles an incredible anthology of Turner’s legendary solo career through her singles. From her cover of “Whole Lotta Love” to the Kygo remix of “What’s Love Got to Do With It” in 2020, this is the first time her singles collection has been released as one set.
Available to pre-order now, it will be released on November 24 as a 3-CD and 5-LP sets and digitally with a cut-back 12-track vinyl version. All sets come with a foreword from Bryan Adams - her longtime friend and collaborator.
Turner’s first release as a solo artist was the 1974 album Tina Turns The Country On! whilst still touring and releasing albums as the duo Ike & Tina Turner Revue. The album spawned no singles, but in 1975, upon the release of her second album - Acid Queen - her cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” was released, which kicks off this set and goes on to include duets with other legendary performers like David Bowie, Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart as well as some of the most unforgettable and celebrated pop and rock singles of all time such as “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” “Private Dancer,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” “The Best,” “Steamy Windows,” “I Don’t Wanna Lose You,” “Disco Inferno.”
To celebrate the legacy of the undeniable and inimitable Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, this collection also features a new version of “Something Beautiful Remains,” retitled to simply “Something Beautiful.” The track has been reworked by legendary producer and long-time collaborator of Turner, Terry Britten. It is an emotive and fitting final tribute to the power of her legacy that Britten made shortly after her passing. He stated, “Dear Tina, the experience of working with you could never be repeated, but in my heart something beautiful remains. Love, Terry”.
Turner is revered around the world, inspiring millions through her own personal story, her singing, her dancing and beyond; her music legacy is a collection of some of the best-known songs of all time.
She is unquestionably one of the most important artists ever inspiring, amongst many others, Beyoncé who, at the Kennedy Center Honours tribute event for Tina in 2005 said, “I will never forget the first time I saw you [Tina Turner] perform, I had never in my life seen a woman so powerful, so fearless and so fabulous” (watch her tribute here) and their performance of ‘Proud Mary’ together is regarded as some of the most iconic Grammy moments ever. Watch here.
Turner has sold over 200 million records and has had 10 UK top-hit singles and nine UK top 10 albums. She was the first female artist to have a top 40 hit in six consecutive decades in the UK. Her albums combined are 20 times platinum in the UK and nine times platinum in the US, whilst also achieving huge sales throughout the rest of the world. She has won eight Grammy® Awards and has been nominated for 25. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and has stars on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and St. Louis Walk of Fame. Her 1988 Break Every Rule tour broke the world record for the largest paying audience at a solo concert, with 184,000 at the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, and Rolling Stone Magazine named her No. 17 in 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and No. 63 in the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Yet, regardless of all the success and fame throughout her career, Turner remained relatable and adored for the person she was. In Bryan Adam’s beautiful and personal foreword, he sums up perfectly the effect she has had on him that reflects on so many around the world…
“From obscurity to the stages of the UK and Europe, I credit Tina for changing the course of my life and I’m so grateful to have had some of her precious time. She was a force of nature, no one had her energy or her voice, I suppose it’s fitting to say, it’s only love, and that's all.”
Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Tracklist
5LP
Side 1
Whole Lotta Love (1975)
Acid Queen (1976)
Root, Toot Undisputable Rock’n Roller (1978)
Viva La Money (1978)
Sometimes When We Touch (1979)
Music Keeps Me Dancin’ (1979)
Side 2
Let’s Stay Together (1983)
Help (Edit) (1984)
What’s Love Got To Do With It (1984)
Better Be Good To Me (1984)
Private Dancer (1984)
I Can’t Stand The Rain (1985)
Side 3
Show Some Respect (1985)
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (1985)
One Of The Living (1985)
It’s Only Love (with Bryan Adams) (1985)
Typical Male (1986)
Two People (1986)
Side 4
What You Get Is What You See (1987)
Girls (1987)
Break Every Rule (1987)
Paradise Is Here (1987)
Afterglow (1987)
Side 5
Tearing Us Apart (with Eric Clapton)
Addicted to Love (Live in Europe) (1988)
A Change is Gonna Come (Live in Europe) (1988)
Tonight (with David Bowie) (Live in Europe) (1988)
River Deep, Mountain High (Live in Europe) (1988)
Side 6
The Best (Edit) (1989)
Steamy Windows (1989)
I Don’t Wanna Lose You (1989)
Look Me In The Heart (1990)
Foreign Affair (Edit) (1990)
Side 7
Be Tender With Me Baby (1990)
It Takes Two (with Rod Stewart)
Nutbush City Limits (The 90’s Version) (1991)
Love Thing (1991)
Way Of The World (1991)
Side 8
I Want You Near Me (1992)
I Don’t Wanna Fight (1993)
Disco Inferno (1993)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (1993)
Proud Mary (1993)
Side 9
Goldeneye (1995)
Whatever You Want (1996)
On Silent Wings (1996)
Missing You (1996)
In Your Wildest Dreams (with Barry White) (1996)
Cose della Vita (with Eros Ramazzotti)
Side 10
When The Heartache Is Over (1999)
Whatever You Need (2000)
Open Arms (2004)
Teach Me Again (with Elisa) (2017)
What’s Love Got to Do With It (Kygo remix) (2020)
Something Beautiful (2023 Version)
3CD/Digital/Streaming
CD1
Whole Lotta Love
Acid Queen
Root, Toot Undisputable Rock ‘n’ Roller
Viva La Money
Sometimes When We Touch
Music Keeps Me Dancin’
Let’s Stay Together
Help
What’s Love Got To Do With It
Better Be Good To Me
Private Dancer
I Can’t Stand The Rain
Show Some Respect
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
One Of The Living
It’s Only Love (with Bryan Adams)
Typical Male
Two People
What You Get Is What You See
Girls
CD2
Break Every Rule
Paradise Is Here
Afterglow
Tearing Us Apart (with Eric Clapton)
Addicted to Love (Live in Europe)
A Change is Gonna Come (Live in Europe)
Tonight (with David Bowie) (Live in Europe)
River Deep, Mountain High (Live in Europe)
The Best (Edit)
Steamy Windows
I Don’t Wanna Lose You
Look Me In The Heart
Foreign Affair
Be Tender With Me Baby
It Takes Two (with Rod Stewart)
Nutbush City Limits (The 90’s Version)
Love Thing
Way Of The World
CD3
I Want You Near Me
I Don’t Wanna Fight
Disco Inferno
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight?
Proud Mary
Goldeneye
Whatever You Want
On Silent Wings
Missing You
In Your Wildest Dreams (with Barry White)
Cose della Vita (with Eros Ramazzotti)
When The Heartache Is Over
Whatever You Need
Open Arms
Teach Me Again (with Elisa)
What’s Love Got to Do With It (Kygo remix)
Something Beautiful (2023 Version)
1LP
Side 1
What’s Love Got To Do With It
Let’s Stay Together
Private Dancer
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
Nutbush City Limits (The 90s Version)
River Deep, Mountain High (Live in Europe)
Side 2
Steamy Windows
I Don’t Wanna Lose You
I Don’t Wanna Fight
When The Heartache Is Over
Proud Mary
The Best
The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY welcomes LA-based, independent rock band Dogstar on Tuesday, October 10 for their Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees Tour. Today, they’ve announced a global livestream of the show will be available on FANS.live on Tuesday, October 10 at 9:00pm Eastern.
The global livestream will closely follow the release of the band’s new album Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees, which arrives October 6 via Dogstar’s own label Dillon Street Records and is distributed through ADA. The record has already been hailed one of the “most anticipated albums of Fall 2023” by the likes of Pitchfork and AV Club, and is available for pre-order. Fans can hear a glimpse into the record with previously released singles “Everything Turns Around,” “Breach,” and “Glimmer.”
Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Bret Domrose, drummer Robert Mailhouse and bassist Keanu Reeves, Dogstar was born in 1991 as a band of friends who came together in a garage in Southern California and simply dreamed of playing music together and making a little noise. Now, all these years later, Domrose, Mailhouse and Reeves took some time at the tail end of an historic lockdown to create this collection of songs that fully encompasses who they are as artists today. The happily reunited rock trio’s official return came in May 2023 – more than 20 years since their last performance together.
Independent rock band Dogstar, comprised of guitarist/vocalist Bret Domrose, drummer Robert Mailhouse and bassist Keanu Reeves, comes to the Capitol Theatre for their Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees Tour.
Dogstar kicked off the second leg of their 35+ city headline tour yesterday with a sold-out show in Houston. The first leg – which kicked off August 10 and made stops in US cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Denver before the band traveled overseas for a three show run in Japan – sold out on the first day of ticket sales prompting the band to announce 14 additional dates last month due to overwhelming fan demand.
Hailed as one of the “essential rock tours to catch in Fall 2023” by Consequence, the Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees Tour continues with stops in St. Louis, Columbus, Niagra, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville and more. Limited tickets remain in select cities; please visit www.dogstarofficial.com for all dates and details.
“Nashville’s new star” (CBS This Morning) Brittney Spencer announces her highly-anticipated debut album, My Stupid Life, out January 19th via Elektra. The first track, “Bigger Than The Song,” showcases Spencer’s ability to excel on the fringe of genre periphery with her honest and free-spirited songwriting, and it’ll be performed on NBC’s TODAY Show this morning in the 9 AM ET hour.
The album’s 13 tracks are a culmination of her experience during her time trying to “make it” in Music City, discovering herself in the process. The Baltimore native moved to Nashville ten years ago, and this album is Spencer’s commitment to be unapologetically herself. Recorded at Sound Emporium Studios and Blackbird Studio in Nashville, the album is produced by GRAMMY award-winning Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, Brett Eldredge), with the exception of two tracks, Marcus “MarcLo” Lomax (Monsters & Strangerz, Maren Morris, Justin Bieber, Kelsea Ballerini), who produced the lead single — “Bigger Than The Song” — and Romil Hemnani (BROCKHAMPTON), who produced “New To This Town.”
“This feels like a long time coming,” says Spencer. “It took me three years from the time I released my first EP Compassion to now to release my first album. These songs serve as my introduction to country music and I wanted to give them all the time and care that they (and my fans) deserve. I wrote a lot of songs from the back corners of my mind because I wanted to take a good, deeper look at myself and create something true to who and where I am at this time in my life. The more I put the pen to my feelings and thoughts, the more I realize I’ve heard similar sentiments throughout my life. Through making this album, I’ve learned we’re not alone in our heads, and I hope this album hugs the tiny, loud parts of our overthinking brains that sometimes need it most.”
The project features award-winning collaborators including Grace Potter, Maren Morris, Abbey Cone & Sarah Buxton, plus guitar contributions by Jason Isbell.
Today, Spencer shares the album’s first preview, “Bigger Than The Song.” Produced by Lomax, the track is Spencer’s tribute to artists who curated the soundtrack to her life – Reba McEntire, Aretha Franklin, Alanis Morissette, Janet Jackson, Dolly Parton, Beyonce, Britney Spears, and more. Written by Spencer, Jennifer Anne Wayne (Runaway June) and Tofer Brown (Little Big Town, Elle King, Jason Mraz), the song is a celebration of the simple joys of good music and the impact a great song can have on someone’s life.
CMT and BET will air the song’s official music video (also out today) on the Viacom Times Square Billboard.
Watch the “Bigger Than A Song” official video here
Spencer’s debut album announcement follows her 2022 EP if i ever get there: a day at blackbird studio, which landed her on NPR’s “Best of 2022” and Paper Magazine’s “Best Country Songs of 2022.” Next month, Spencer will make her Austin City Limits TV debut, plus her debut at ACL Fest. She’s set to play Stagecoach in 2024 and was the only country artist featured in Rolling Stone’s “Music's Future 25” – read her full feature here.
12. “My Stupid Life” (Spencer, James Brock Human, McConnell)
13. “Reaching Out” (Spencer, Joe Kirkland)
My Stupid Life Credits:
Produced by: Daniel Tashian
Select songs produced by: Marcus “MarcLo” Lomax*, Romil Hemnani+
Mixed by: Dave Clauss, Manny Marroquin, Jonathan Low, Jason Agel
Mastered by: Greg Calbi
Engineered by: Gena Johnson, Konrad Snyder, Marcus “MarcLo” Lomax, Garry Purohit
Background vocals: Grace Potter (“Reaching Out”), Maren Morris (“Night In”), Abbey Cone (“The Last Time,” “Desperate”) & Sarah Buxton (“I Got Time,” “My First Rodeo,” “The Last Time,” “Deeper,” “Desperate,” “If You Say So”)
Featured instrumentalist: Jason Isbell (“First Car Feeling,” “Reaching Out”)
About Brittney Spencer:
As a Baltimore native, Brittney Spencer is known for her free spirit and standout ability to mold life, truth, and wild imagination into songs. She has earned praise by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and others, and she’s appeared on CBS Mornings with Anthony Mason, as well as performed on NBC's Today Show, The Late Show (After Dark), the CMA Awards, ACM Awards and more. Spencer was featured as part of Victoria’s Secret Global “UNDEFINABLE” campaign, and she appeared in Amazon’s “For Love & Country” Documentary. Deemed a “one to watch” by PEOPLE Magazine, Spencer has shared stages with Jason Isbell, The Highwomen, Willie Nelson, Reba, Bobby Weir, and Maren Morris to name a few. She’s also performed the National Anthem at The 148th Kentucky Derby, the Preakness in 2022 alongside Megan Thee Stallion and Lauryn Hill, and the 2023 NFL Draft. As an outspoken advocate for her community and the planet, Brittney is an active supporter of many causes, including Habitat for Humanity, the Women's March, CARE, and more.
Nashville’s Jaime Wyatt has released her cover of The Grateful Dead’s iconic song “Althea” today as a way to connect with her late father and reflect on the innumerable times she attended Grateful Dead’s shows as a child. Wyatt’s “Althea” is soulful, sultry, and evokes Al Green, all while honoring the song’s original groove and sound. Produced and featuring guitar licks by Adrian Quesada of The Black Pumas, Wyatt embraces “Althea” in a more soulful light. Listen to her reimagining of “Althea” here: http://newwst.com/altheaPR
While growing up, she watched Bob Weir, one of the founding members of The Grateful Dead and a longtime friend of her father, drink wine and jam out together in their living room. “Getting back into The Dead, and finally learning their catalog, began as a way to connect to my late father,” explains Wyatt. Then, after the bond of Wyatt and her manager, Don Strasburg, formed around their mutual love of the band, Wyatt knew she had to cover one of their songs.
“We had great renditions of ‘Loser’ and ‘Friend of the Devil’ on the road, but after much searching, I decided, ‘I'm an Althea Guy,’” Wyatt explains. The Grateful Dead’s “Althea” stood out in particular, because according to Wyatt, “it’s such a sexy and soulful song.”
“I was always taken with the lyrics and it has been quite satisfying and cathartic to sing the lines, ‘Self-centered to the extreme.’ The story feels like turmoil, confusion and conspiracy, a sentiment which is universal to us humans, but if you've ever been on drugs or been addicted to a person, you really understand these words.” Wyatt continues.
“Althea” is just one of many cathartic songs off of Wyatt’s forthcoming Adrian Quesada-produced album, Feel Good, out November 3rd via New West Records. Already, she has released singles from the album, including “World Worth Keeping” and “Love Is A Place” which have received praise from Billboard, Spin, No Depression, American Songwriter, Original Rock, and more.
2023 has been a milestone year for Jaime Wyatt. In addition to making major touring strides this year, debuting at Stagecoach, Newport Folk, and being added to the Dead Ahead and ACL lineups, Jaime’s been turning heads at radio with Feel Good lead single “World Worth Keeping” and touring with ZZ Ward. Revisit “World Worth Keeping” here see tour dates below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iNUQa8s_Y
Today, alongside the physical and digital release of Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), Grateful Dead fans can explore the pivotal album in more distinct detail than ever before. Available at dead.net, Playing In The Band: Wake Of The Flood is an interactive mixing board that delivers an experience of the LP's songs in their most revelatory form. As a continuation of the group's pioneering devotion to complete accessibility – and the latest showcase of their influential ability to share their music and open their archives in brand new ways – Dead Heads can listen, learn and jam along to “Eyes Of The World,” “Stella Blue,” "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” and more Wake Of The Flood classics. With the option to solo and combine an array of the album's original multitrack recordings, Playing In The Band's mixing board allows one to fill in for any band member on their instrument of choice. The user could hone their skills and musical mastery of the catalog in real time with Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, or they could sit back and hear all of the individual elements that make Wake Of The Flood one of the Grateful Dead's most beautiful, deeply textured and collaborative albums: from Jerry Garcia's pastoral pedal steel to Martin Fierro's saxophone and flute, to the fiddle of bluegrass legend Vassar Clements, the band's first-ever use of synths and more.
Experience Playing In The Band: Wake Of The Flood Here:
Out now via Rhino, Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) arrives as a two-CD and digital set, featuring the album's seven remastered songs and Jerry Garcia's previously unreleased demos for "Eyes Of The World" and "Here Comes Sunshine." The deluxe edition also includes a bonus disc of live material from the final night of a brief tour that immediately followed Wake Of The Flood's release. Recorded at Northwestern University's McGaw Memorial Hall on November 1st, 1973, it captures one of the most creative, inspired jams of the entire run, with "Morning Dew">"Playing In The Band">"Uncle John's Band">"Playing In The Band." Additionally, Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Remaster) is available as a 180-gram black vinyl LP, limited edition 12" vinyl picture disc, limited edition "coke bottle clear vinyl" exclusive to Barnes & Noble, and Dead.net Exclusive, limited edition "Watermark" Custom Vinyl. All pressings of Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Remaster) feature Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction and are newly mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer, David Glasser, and produced for release by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux.
Listen to Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Here:
Furthermore, in celebration of Wake Of The Flood's 50th Anniversary, the Grateful Dead vaults were recently reopened to reveal a treasure trove of previously unheard studio material. For the third edition of The Angel's Share series, more than two hours of expertly-curated session tapes were released for the first time ever on all DSPs worldwide. Similar to previous installments that accompanied milestone reissues of Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share brings together the outtakes, alternate versions, and in-studio conversations behind the creation of the album. Unexpected moments and revelations can be found in takes of "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away," Keith Godchaux's first and only vocal on a Grateful Dead studio record, and Bob Weir's continually evolving "Weather Report Suite." Also featured is the track "Phil's Song (Unbroken Chain)" that appeared later on The Mars Hotel. As the curtains are pulled back, Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share transports the listener to August 6-17, 1973 at Sausalito, CA's Record Plant, turning it into a fly-on-the-wall experience of the band's joyous and collaborative process.
Explore Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share Here:
Following the recent passing of founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and the temporary exit of drummer Mickey Hart, the Grateful Dead recorded Wake Of The Flood during a period of transition and immense ambition. As the debut album that would be released on their own record label, Grateful Dead Records, it was a crucial first piece and proof of concept for the independent ecosystem and massive community the band were building. A lot hinged on the LP, yet the music on Wake Of The Flood and Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share shows a fearless sense of experimentation and optimism. After playing for a record-setting crowd of 600,000 people at Watkins Glen just weeks prior – the biggest concert in North American history at that time – the Dead introduced a fresh studio lineup that included new members Keith and Donna Godchaux on keys and vocals. Together they ushered in a new era of the Grateful Dead, one defined by hope, growth, endurance and accessibility.
In addition to the 2+ hours of tapes featured on Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share, the complete 6+ hours of never-before-heard material from Wake Of The Flood sessions will drop on October 15th, exactly 50 years after the album was first released. The recordings will stream live as a YouTube Live Exclusive Event, synced up to the original tape box so viewers can experience it all in real time.
In tandem with Wake Of The Flood's 50th Anniversary, the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast's current eighth season has been wholly dedicated to the album. While the first two episodes focused on the famed Watkins Glen performances, the latest installments of the podcast have offered track-by-track breakdowns of the LP in full, featuring such special guests as Donna Godchaux, late tour manager Sam Cutler and more.
2X GRAMMY winner Samara Joy is set to release a holiday EP ‘A Joyful Holiday’ next month. The 6-song collection of seasonal favorites is an extension of her latest album Linger Awhile and features a similar cast of jazz musicians - Pasquale Grasso on guitar, David Wong on bass and Kenny Washington on drums - plus Sullivan Fortner on piano. The tracklist includes previously-released singles “O Holy Night” (performed with multiple generations of her family) and “Warm in December,” in addition to a new recording of Stevie Wonder’s “Twinkle Twinkle Little Me” and both a studio and live version of “The Christmas Song.” Produced by Matt Pierson, the EP is set for release on October 27 via Verve and will be available as an exclusive D2C emerald green color variant LP. Pre-order / Pre-save ‘A Joyful Holiday’ HERE.
The “Verve Vinyl Collection” - comprised of Joy’s 3 Verve LPs ‘Linger Awhile,’ ‘Linger Awhile Longer,’ and ‘A Joyful Holiday’ - has also been announced today, set for release on November 17. Pre-order HERE.
With today’s announcement, Samara Joy has unveiled a lightly-swinging arrangement of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.” Listen HERE.
The holiday EP continues a whirlwind year that saw Joy take home the auspicious Best New Artist and Best Jazz Vocal Album awards at this year’s GRAMMYs. Since her breakout wins, Linger Awhile has reached #1 on Amazon Best Sellers, Billboard Jazz, Pandora Trendsetters, iTunes and Amazon’s digital-music and CD sales, and more. Joy has garnered over 1 million followers on social media, and her tour dates all over the world have rapidly sold out. Her voice, rich and velvety yet precociously refined, has already earned her legions of fans in addition to millions of likes on TikTok — cementing her status as perhaps the first Gen Z jazz singing star.
Throughout the remainder of 2023, Samara Joy will be touring across the globe, making stops in Athens, Berlin, Paris, London and more. The “A Joyful Holiday Tour” featuring members of the McLendon family kicks off December 1 in Houston, and includes shows in Nashville, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and two highly-anticipated hometown shows at the Apollo Theater in NYC. For all upcoming tour dates, please visit https://www.samarajoy.com/.
‘A Joyful Holiday’ Tracklist
1. Warm In December
2. Twinkle Twinkle Little Me ft. Sullivan Fortner
3. The Christmas Song
4. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
5. O Holy Night
6. The Christmas Song (Live)
Samara Joy 2023 Tour Dates
9/28 - 10/1 – Seattle, WA @ Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Jazz
10/4 – Davis, CA @ Mondavi Center
10/6 - 7 – New York, NY @ Rose Hall at The Lincoln Center
10/14 – Kansas City @ Folly Theater
10/15 – Denver, CO @ Newman Center
10/18 – Easton, PA @ Williams Center for the Arts / Performance Series
10/20 – Storrs, CT @ Jorgenson Center
10/22 – Brookville, NY @ Tilles Center
10/24 – Columbia, MO @ Missouri Theater
10/25 – Iowa City @ Hancher Auditorium
10/27 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11/3 – Zurich, Switzerland @ TVD
11/5 – Athens, Greece @ Megaron Athens
11/7 – Hamburg, Germany @ Elb Philharmonic
11/8 – Berlin, Germany @ TBD
11/12 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
11/17 – Bologna, Italy @ TBD
11/18 – Milan, Italy @ TBD
11/19 – London, UK @ Barbican Center, London Jazz Festival
12/3 – Austin, TX @ Bass Concert Hall, UT Austin
12/4 – Nashville, TN @ Nashville Symphony
12/7 – Los Angeles, CA @ Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts
Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens is collaborating with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project on a fundraising initiative and a powerful music video for her song "Another Wasted Life.” The music video was released today, on the 10th annual Wrongful Conviction Day. The “Another Wasted Life” video features 22 wrongfully convicted people, clients of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. It aims to raise awareness for the stories and voices of those who have experienced the injustices of the criminal legal system.
Watch “Another Wasted Life”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ2_2A4vP4I. Giddens recently filmed the video in Philadelphia with the 22 formerly incarcerated people, who collectively spent more than 500 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. It features their names and the number of years that each spent wrongly incarcerated. The video was directed by Daniel Madoff.
Inspired by the tragic story of Kalief Browder, a young man wrongfully incarcerated at New York City’s Rikers Island for three years, where he was subjected to nearly two years of solitary confinement, Giddens wrote "Another Wasted Life" as a reminder of the human toll exacted by wrongful convictions and the importance of prison reform.
Says Giddens: “I wrote ‘Another Wasted Life’ after reading about the tragic suicide of Kalief Browder – another soul caught up in the incarceration system for a crime he didn’t commit. He was put into solitary for almost 2 years, a torture no one deserves, no matter what they did or did not do. The whole for-profit prison industrial complex – an outgrowth of slavery – is a stain on the American story; the people and families caught up in it, and in the numerous gaping holes in the social safety net, need incredible amounts of support.
If you know anything about my work, you know my music tends to have a mission – one that amplifies underrepresented voices and stories. My new album is a little bit different, and this track is stand-alone in its mission due to the weight of its place in our world.
These ongoing societal struggles are so far beyond any one of us, and have been long at play; but, I will use my platform to take things just one step further in the conversation.”
Giddens and the Pennsylvania Innocence Project have also launched a fundraising initiative to support the legal and reentry services provided by innocence organizations. In addition to placing a fundraising link on the video, Giddens has fundraised for local innocence organizations throughout her tour. She partnered with a wrongfully incarcerated artist named Spel to create limited-edition merchandise items, with all proceeds going to support each local organization. Spel’s case was one of the first to be picked up by Pennsylvania Innocence Project at its inception in 2009 and is still open almost 15 years later. She has also invited innocence organizations across the country to set up information tables at shows, is highlighting their work on stage, and has dedicated all tips at the merchandise table to them.
“We are proud to have Rhiannon Giddens standing with us this Wrongful Conviction Day in support of innocence work. We are grateful for her efforts to lift up the voices of our clients - those who have been exonerated and those who are still fighting for freedom - and to raise support to keep our work going,” says Meredith Rapkin, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project.
Go to http://www.anotherwastedlife.com to learn more about this collaboration and the merchandise with Spel’s design. Visit http://PAinnocence.info to see more about the innocent people featured in the video and to donate.
“Another Wasted Life” is featured on Giddens’ You’re the One, released in August on Nonesuch Records. Giddens’ first album of all original songs has recently been featured on Today Show, CBS Saturday, CBS Mornings, the New York Times, Vulture’s “A Long Talk,” NPR’s Morning Edition, the Associated Press, GRAMMY.com and Garden & Gun, with additional coverage and reviews from Variety, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork, NPR Music and much more. Giddens’ touring continues into next year with headlining shows at the Beacon Theatre in New York City and the Ace Theater in Los Angeles. She was also recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her collaborative opera, Omar, along with Michael Abels. Giddens is also a host on Arts Talk, a new PBS program on which she, Elvis Costello and Brian Stokes Mitchell discuss their careers. She was also recently featured on Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business list. Giddens is also the Artistic Director of Silkroad, an organization and Ensemble, with a project dedicated to performing in prisons (Project MUSIC).
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project works to exonerate those convicted of crimes they did not commit, to prevent innocent people from being prosecuted and convicted, and to help those wrongfully convicted transition to freedom. https://PAinnocence.org/
UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
October 2: Paramount Theatre, Charlottesville, VA*
November 5: George Mason University Center for the Arts Concert Hall, Fairfax, VA@
November 9: The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA@
November 10: Balboa Theater, San Diego, CA@
November 11: Soka Performing Arts Center, Aliso Viejo, CA@
November 12: The Soraya at CSUN, Northridge, CA@
November 15: Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA@
November 16: Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis, Davis, CA@
November 17: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA@
November 18: Green Music Center, Sonoma, CA@
February 10, 2024: Maison de la culture de Creteil, Creteil, France
February 11, 2024: Doornroosje Main Hall, Nijmegen, Netherlands
February 13, 2024: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 14, 2024: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
February 17, 2024: Elb Philharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
February 18, 2024: Lido, Berlin, Germany
February 19, 2024: Kulturkirche Ost, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
February 21, 2024: Barbican Centre, London, UK
February 23, 2024: Pavillion Theatre, Glasgow, UK
February 25, 2024: Vicar St., Dublin, Ireland
March 14, 2024: Worcester, MA, Holy Cross University
March 16, 2024: Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
March 19, 2024: State College, PA, Penn State
March 20, 2024: Cincinnati, OH, Memorial Hall
April 15, 2024: Vancouver, BC, Chan Centre
April 17, 2024: Beaverton, OR, The Reser
April 18, 2024: Beaverton, OR, The Reser
April 19, 2024: Seattle, WA, Meany Center
April 21, 2024: San Francisco, CA, The Fillmore
April 22, 2024: Monterey, CA, Golden State Theater
April 23, 2024: Santa Barbara, CA, Granada TheaterApril 25, 2024: Ace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
In 1973, the best-selling album in America was The World Is a Ghetto by WAR. This fall, the multi-ethnic SoCal band is giving fans a new way to experience its mega-million-selling classic with a new 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition available exclusively for Record Store Day Black Friday.
THE WORLD IS A GHETTO: 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR'S EDITION is a one-of-a-kind 5-LP boxed set available exclusively at participating independent music retailers on November 24 while supplies last. Limited to 4,000 copies, the deluxe collection was curated by WAR's producer, Jerry Goldstein, founding member Lonnie Jordan, and Jeremy Levine. It includes the original album, newly remastered, as well as six unreleased bonus tracks and unreleased "the making of" recordings that trace the evolution of each of the six original album tracks from the first note to the master take. The original album and bonus tracks are pressed on two gold-vinyl LPs, while "the making of" tracks are pressed on three black-vinyl LPs.
A previously unreleased version of "War Is Coming" from the forthcoming set is available digitally on Friday. Pre-save it HERE.
The World Is A Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition introduces six unreleased bonus tracks recorded during the sessions for the album. These previously unreleased recordings include original jams that later developed into future WAR songs. For example, versions of "War Is Coming" and "L.A. Sunshine" would appear on Platinum Jazz in 1977.
In the 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition liner notes, Goldstein and Lonnie Jordan (lead singer and founding member) share insights into the "making of" recordings introduced in the set. Goldstein states these tracks show the songs taking shape in the studio. "The nice part about all these 'making of' tracks is that the final take of all of these tracks is the actual final master that we used in The World Is a Ghetto, without edits, without overdubs, just raw." Jordan cleverly adds, "Then we turned it around… R-A-W to W-A-R."
In 1972, The World Is a Ghetto soared to the top of the Billboard album and R&B charts, becoming Billboard's No. 1 Album of the Year for 1973, generating two gold singles, including the title track and "The Cisco Kid," which shipped gold and remains WAR's highest-charting song on the Billboard Hot 100. This album also marked the beginning of an extended period of creative and commercial triumph for WAR, which boasts 17 gold, platinum, or multi-platinum albums in the band's remarkable career.
Today, WAR's music provides an inexhaustible source of inspiration for R&B and hip-hop artists. Samples from four of the six songs on The World Is a Ghetto have appeared on tracks by artists like A$AP Mob, Geto Boys, Janet Jackson, and a hip-hop supergroup featuring Method Man, Redman, and Cypress Hill.
WAR continues to tour steadily, with live shows scheduled for the fall. (See the band's itinerary below.)
THE WORLD IS A GHETTO: 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR'S EDITION
5-LP Track Listing
LP One: Original Album
Side One
1. "The Cisco Kid"
2. "City, Country, City"
3. "Four-Cornered Room"
Side Two
1. "Where Was You At?"
2. "Beetles In The Bog"
3. "The World Is A Ghetto"
LP Two: Bonus Tracks
Side One
1. "L.A. Sunshine" – Original Jam*
2. "War Is Coming" – Original Jam*
Side Two
1. "Lonnie's Wednesday Night Jam"*
2. "Lee's Latin Jam"*
3. "Blues For Papa Dee"*
4. "This Is My Song Milton James"*
LP Three: Making of the Tracks
Side One
The Making Of "The Cisco Kid"
Side Two
The Making Of "Where Was You At?"*
LP Four: Making of the Tracks
Side One
The Making Of "City, Country City"*
Side Two
The Making Of "Four-Cornered Room"*
LP Five: Making of the Tracks
Side One
The Making Of "The World Is A Ghetto"*
Side Two
The Making Of "Beetles In The Bog"*
*previously unreleased
WAR 2023 Tour Dates
Oct 4 - The Big Fresno Fair - Fresno, CA
Oct 5-8 - Jazz Alley - Seattle, WA
Oct 14 - Music Hall Center - Detroit, MI
Oct 20 - Chumash Casino Resort - Santa Ynez, CA
Oct 21 - Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - San Francisco, CA
Oct 25 - The GRAMMY Museum - Los Angeles, CA
Nov 4 - Hutchinson Fox Theatre - Hutchinson, KS
Nov 11 - Primm Valley Casino Resorts - Primm, NV
Nov 16 - The Plaza Theater Performing Arts Center - El Paso, TX
Amos Lee has long made “music to help listeners heal” (Salon), but after the release of his critically-lauded 2022 album Dreamland - he found himself diving back into the songs he personally leans on in trying times. Specifically, Lee revisited his “songwriting hero,” Lucinda Williams - the iconic musician he describes as “unapologetically sincere” and “a spiritual guide for me.” Now, Lee pays homage to Williams with a full album of covers from her iconic songbook - Honeysuckle Switches (The Songs of Lucinda Williams) - coming out on Record Store Black Friday (November 24) via Thirty Tigers. Williams has been a formative artist for Lee dating back to his teenage years - as an avid listener of WXPN in his native Philadelphia - and later he’d get the chance to collaborate with her on his Billboard chart-topping record Mission Bell, while the pair have also shared many stages over the years.“She is the most genuine and kind person,” recalls Lee. “As someone who wasn't always readily available, her vulnerability opened my heart.”
Reckoning with his own loss and grief over the past year, Lee turned to the songs of his mentor as a source of healing - crafting Honeysuckle Switches as a way to thank Williams for getting him through life’s most difficult moments time and time again: “She has this persistence and will in her perspective, she embraces the sadness but is never enveloped by it.” Honeysuckle Switches features Williams originals from her breakout Sweet Old World to the modern-era classic Blessed. With the announcement of the album, Lee has also shared his soulful interpretation of “Greenville,” Williams’ collaboration with Emmylou Harris from her 1998 masterpiece Car Wheels On A Gravel Road. “It’s a breakup song but there’s also a kindness to it,” says Lee of “Greenville.” “There’s a lot of love in the lyrics - we’ve all been difficult and impulsive, but we are not unlovable or unsalvageable.”
Pre-order Honeysuckle Switches (The Songs Of Lucinda Williams) here before its release for Record Store Day Black Friday: https://orcd.co/honeysuckleswitches
Honeysuckle Switches follows a banner 2022 for Lee - which saw him perform on stages from Red Rocks to The Ryman, while bringing his latest album Dreamland to national television audiences on Good Morning America, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Rachael Ray and The Late Late Show with James Corden. Teaming with Record Store Day for the album’s release marks a full-circle moment for Lee, who discovered his lifelong musical passion while working at the independent Papa Jazz Record Shoppe in Columbia, South Carolina. Alongside the release of Honeysuckle Switches, he’ll also continue to tour through the end of 2023 - with a full list of announced dates at https://www.amoslee.com/tour.
Amos Lee - Honeysuckle Switches (The Songs Of Lucinda Williams)
Are You Alright
Fruits of My Labor
Get Right With God
Compassion
Everything Has Changed
Born to Be Loved (digital exclusive)
Greenville
Little Angle, Little Brother
Sweet Old World
I Envy The Wind
West
Bus to Baton Rouge
Amos Lee - Fall 2023 Tour Dates (Solo)
October 5 - Tower Theatre - Oklahoma City, OK
October 6 - Liberty Hall, Lawrence, KS
October 7 - Hoyt Sherman Place - Des Moines, IA
October 9 - Pablo Center at the Confluence - Eau Claire, WI
October 10 - Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts - Bloomington, IL
October 12 - St Cecilia Music Center - Grand Rapids, MI
October 13 - The Kent Stage - Kent, OH
October 14 - Egyptian Room at Old National Centre - Indianapolis, IN
Rhino takes a deep dive into Yes’ third studio album with an upcoming boxed set that presents a newly remastered version of The Yes Album expanded with rarities, two previously unreleased concerts, and fresh mixes by Steven Wilson, including an immersive Dolby Atmos Mix.
THE YES ALBUM (SUPER DELUXE EDITION) contains 4 CDs, a Blu-ray disc, and an LP arriving on November 24. Pre-order HERE. The music will also be available from digital and streaming platforms on the same day. As a preview, an early take of “I’ve Seen All Good People” is out digitally today. Listen HERE.
THE YES ALBUM (SUPER DELUXE EDITION) includes Steven Wilson’s newly remastered version of the original album on both CD and LP. Two previously unreleased concerts from 1971 will debut in the set as well. The first was recorded just a few weeks before The Yes Album was released, while the second was recorded six months later during the band’s U.S. tour. These remarkable performances include live versions of songs from the album, such as “Yours Is No Disgrace” and “Perpetual Change,” as well as “Astral Traveller” and “Everydays” from the previous album, Time and a Word (1970).
"The Yes Album represents to me the invention of 70's Yes. This was aided by leaving outside material off the record and heavily investing in the influences we brought together, particularly the arrangement skills and utilizing the available best technology.
Our adventurism shows in the originality of the music and lyrics, as none of us had done anything quite like this before. " - Steve Howe
Wilson features the 2014 remixed The Yes Album and instrumental versions of all six album tracks in the upcoming Super Deluxe Edition. In addition, the Blu-ray disc offers four new mixes of The Yes Album, including two versions in 5.1 Surround Sound, the 2023 Remaster, and the Dolby Atmos Mix.
Wilson shares his insights into the new mixes in the set’s liner notes: “For the Atmos Mix, I used my 5.1 as a starting point but found myself taking quite a different approach on some parts of the music, partly by virtue of now having the extra speakers to place the sounds in, but also because I’ve learned a few things in the nearly ten years since I first remixed the album…I hope you enjoy The Yes Album in its new, fully spatialized form. To me, it still sounds as fresh as the day it was recorded.”
“The Yes Album welcomed new guitarist, Steve Howe, into the band and Yes ascended to new heights.” – Tony Kaye
Initially released in the U.K. on February 19, 1971, it was the group’s - Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Tony Kaye, Bill Bruford, and Steve Howe - first album to feature all-original material and introduced signature epics like “Starship Trooper” and “I’ve Seen All Good People.” The album peaked at No.4 in the U.K. and was the group’s first to crack the Top 40 in the U.S., where it would eventually be certified platinum.
Today, Yes is the most enduring, ambitious, and virtuosic progressive band in history, with a discography spanning over five decades. The Grammy® Award-winning band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
“It’s wonderful to know that 50 years later our music is still appreciated. It was a “make or break” time for the band on many levels. The harmony within the band was really special at that time, and it came through in the music.” - Jon Anderson
Jaime Wyatt returns with the release of the bright new track “Back To The Country.” The song is a retrospective look on her wild life and the impact of a journey around Nashville with a fan-turned-friend.
Also featuring Joshy Soul, Ryan Hartman, Scott Davis, Will Rockwell, and Trevor Nealon on keys “Back To The Country” is the latest preview from Wyatt’s genre-defying work of healing and self-love Feel Good, out November 3rd on New West.
“Back To The Country” follows Wyatt’s most recent soulful reimagining of the Grateful Dead’s “Althea,” and original tracks “Love Is A Place” and “World Worth Keeping” which thus far have earned widespread praise from Billboard, Relix, Spin, No Depression and beyond.
Wyatt also says, “‘Back to the Country’ is dedicated to the memory of a fan who became a friend and lost their battle with cancer. They came on a trip to Nashville and I took them around to Honky Tonks and out to the country in Goodlettsville to feed mini ponies. It was one of the funnest times I've ever had honestly. My friend passed away a couple months later and it made me start valuing my life and my time here on Earth. The lyrics have a lot of my own nostalgia, looking back on a wild youth and remembering all the hilarious and sweet and difficult dynamics I've shared with people over the years.“
Today Wyatt also announces a US headlining tourfollowing consistent touring behind ZZ Ward, The Head And The Heart, The Revivalists, Sierra Ferrell, Grace Potter, the Avett Brothers, her debut at Stagecoach, Newport Folk and Austin City Limits festival. Wyatt will play at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in NYC, The Troubadour in Los Angeles, Lincoln Hall in Chicago and more. Tickets for all US shows will go on sale this Friday, October 20th AT 10 AM local time with pre-sale beginning this Wednesday at 10 AM local time (PW: FEELGOOD). See the full list of tour dates below and here: https://www.jaimewyatt.com/tour
Additional praise for Jaime Wyatt’s come from Pitchfork, NME, Fader, and NPR who love her “remarkable voice” as well as Rolling Stone who’ve applauded her “lush, layered, and complex” performances. Feel Good is undoubtedly her most ambitious album yet where Wyatt pushes her sound to new sonic and emotional heights.
Recorded with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, Feel Good is bold and ecstatic, built on tight, intoxicating grooves that belie the songs’ substantial emotional stakes, showcasing Wyatt's unparalleled artistry and musical prowess. Wyatt’s writing is unguarded and intuitive here, tapping into the deep recesses of her subconscious as she reckons with grief and growth, and her delivery is visceral to match, cutting straight to the bone with equal parts sensitivity and swagger. Taken as a whole, the collection stands as a radical act of creative liberation from an artist already known for pushing limits, a genre-defying work of healing, queer joy and self-love that tips its cap to everything from Al Green and Otis Redding to Waylon Jennings and Bobbie Gentry in its relentless pursuit of peace and pleasure.
Smithsonian Folkways, the nonprofit record label dedicated to preserving cultural heritage and amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities and artists, is launching a new charitable giving program, Friends of Folkways, today. As part of Smithsonian Folkways’ 75th anniversary celebration, Friends of Folkways invites music enthusiasts and supporters of Smithsonian Folkways to become an integral part of the label’s mission by making its 60,000+ track digital catalog available on the Smithsonian Folkways website for a minimum tax-deductible donation of $5 a month. One of the few nonprofit labels in operation today, Folkways is committed to the people it serves and does not receive operational support from the US federal government. The Friends of Folkways program not only supports the label but will provide patrons with complete access to one of the world’s largest and most eclectic musical archives. Contributions will also support the artists directly in the form of streaming royalities.
Click HERE to learn more about Friends of Folkways and sign up.
Folkways’ catalog is a treasure trove that transcends genre, place, and time, and the innovative offering made possible by Friends of Folkways highlights its astounding breadth and depth. At 60,000+ tracks, Folkways’ collection is truly one of unprecedented scale for an independent label. From American singer-songwriter legends like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Lucinda Williams, to spoken-word recordings by political figures like Angela Davis, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bernie Sanders, the catalog offers a snapshot into not just music history, but history of the world at large. In addition to its historical recordings, Folkways’ catalog also includes contemporary artists taking its legacy forward, such as Our Native Daughters, Jake Blount, Kronos Quartet, No-No Boy, Lula Wiles, and more. There are a wealth of recordings from all corners of the globe, music from subsidiary labels such as Arhoolie, Folk-Legacy, and Paredon, and significant collections such as Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection, Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection,, and Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971.
And this Fall, to further celebrate 75 years of Folkways, the label is also reissuing classic LPs from its collection (including Sounds of North American Frogs on 11/3, more info on the full slate HERE), releasing new, contemporary albums from artists like Cass McCombs and Matmos which are emblematic of the label’s future, and will host a Folkways 75 takeover at The Brooklyn Folk Festival, November 10-12. Taking place at Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Church, the takeover will feature performances from Folkways artists such as Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Dom Flemons, Alice Gerrard, and more. Folkways has also announced a variety of new 75th Anniversary merchandise for sale based on classic Folkways Records designs (shop HERE).
About Smithsonian Folkways:
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the "National Museum of Sound," makes available close to 60,000 tracks in physical and digital format as the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian, with a reach of 80 million people per year. A division of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the non-profit label is dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among people through the documentation, preservation, production and dissemination of sound. Its mission is the legacy of Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document "people's music" from around the world. For more information about Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, visit folkways.si.edu.
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Today, Margo Price fully expands her 2023 opus with the release of Strays II. Building on and further intensifying the resilient, resounding and hard-rocking proclamations that made Strays her "strongest solo work yet" (The New Yorker), and "the most comprehensive iteration of her continually evolving palette" (Rolling Stone), this expanded collection delivers both a double album and a psychedelic sequel. With production and special appearances from Jonathan Wilson, as well as new collaborations with Buck Meek of Big Thief, Mike Campbell and Ny Oh, its nine new songs unfold in the form of three distinct acts, each telling its own unique story of love, grief and acceptance. Act I: Topanga Canyon reflects on wild young lust, the cost of living and the sacrifice it takes to find freedom. Inspired by beat poetry, out-of-body experiences and the loss of Price's family farm, Act II: Mind Travel enters the parts of a trip where one ponders the past but embraces the present with open arms. Out now via Loma Vista Recordings, Act III: Burn Whatever's Left is the come down and the reckoning.
Listen to Strays II and the previously unheard Act III: Burn Whatever's Left, including "Homesick (feat. Jonathan Wilson)," "Where Did We Go Wrong" and "Burn Whatever's Left"
"We are at the end of the journey," says Margo Price. "You might feel nostalgic that it's over. You may have regrets but you're not going to dwell on things you can't change. After all, what would Joan of Arc do? 'Strike a match and start again, light the rope from either ends, so many pages I can't forget, tear them out and burn whatever's left.'"
Recorded at Jonathan Wilson's Topanga studio during the same life-changing sessions as the rest of Strays – and partially written amidst the formative, six-day psilocybin trip that Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey took the summer prior – Strays II reveals more of what makes Margo Price so "unstoppable, unsinkable, uninhibited" (The New York Times). Surmounting loss, trauma, substance abuse and demons of self-worth, these "stoic pearls of wisdom" (Pitchfork) have cemented her place as a singular storyteller, with so much to say but nothing to prove.
Since the release of Strays, Margo Price earned nominations for Artist of The Year, Album of The Year and Song of The Year at the Americana Honors & Awards, tying for the most nominations of any single artist in 2023. She has brought Strays songs and stories to CBS Mornings, Howard Stern, NPR and The Late Late Show with "Radio" collaborator Sharon Van Etten, discussed her memoir Maybe We'll Make It during the closing keynote of SXSW, appeared on the covers of Relix, Pollstar and The Nashvillian magazines, reigned for 14 weeks at #1 on the Americana radio charts with "Change of Heart," and released a new version of that song with Sierra Ferrell. Throughout the year she also celebrated Willie Nelson's 90th birthday at the Hollywood Bowl, published a powerful, personal essay about gun control at Rolling Stone, met with Tennessean lawmakers, sang alongside Dr. Jill Biden at Nashville's vigil for the Covenant shooting victims, and headlined sold-out tour dates across the country.
Margo Price will perform songs from Strays and more in her new episode of Austin City Limits, premiering October 28th on PBS. In recent weeks, Price has also shared the stage with Chris Stapleton and Tyler Childers, detailed the new Jessi Colter album that she produced, and welcomed Sturgill Simpson to her set at Farm Aid, where she is the first female artist to sit on the board of directors, alongside Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Willie Nelson. Between now and the end of the year, you can catch her on the road for shows with Jason Isbell, Orville Peck and more at margoprice.net/tour.
Today, as 2023 approaches its end, Sierra Ferrell reminds listeners that she is still just getting started. Following a streak of collaborations with Zach Bryan, Diplo, Margo Price and more in recent months, as well as singular covers of songs by Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, the inimitable and untamable star of Nashville has shared her first new, original song of the year. Out now on Rounder Records, "Fox Hunt" offers an early glimpse into Ferrell's forthcoming, unannounced followup to her debut album, 2021's Long Time Coming. Through her enchanted and enthralling vocal performance, scorching string arrangement, spectral chants and hard-stomping rhythm, the single blazes a deeper trail into the wild and fantastical world of her creation. As the music conjures mystical visions of lush forests, flowing rivers and fertile land, the accompanying "Fox Hunt" video combines illustrations reminiscent of familiar children's books with a far-out, free-spirited style that can only be described as Sierra Ferrell. "Ferrell's singing has clear antecedents—Loretta Lynn's holler-raised twang, Dolly Parton's effortless melodiousness, Bessie Smith's confident rasp," praises Pitchfork. "But her nods to those legends always feel heartfelt, never academic. Already, she's learned to sound only like herself."
Listen to "Fox Hunt," and watch the music video animated by Rob Fidel:
Since the release of Long Time Coming, Sierra Ferrell won Emerging Artist of The Year at the 2022 Americana Honors & Awards, and was nominated for Artist of The Year last month. She sold out every one of her headline shows in 2023, in addition to playing festivals such as Bonnaroo, Newport Folk and Stagecoach, and has earned 50 million album streams on Spotify alone. While she has recently collaborated with Zach Bryan, Diplo and Margo Price, contributed to new records from The Black Keys, Ray LaMontagne and Shakey Graves, shared stages with Lana Del Rey, The Avett Brothers and Nathaniel Rateliff, and been covered by Kelly Clarkson, the themes of survival and train car imagery in the "Fox Hunt" video and lyrics harken back to her formative, nomadic roots.
"Ferrell built her act not from the comfort of a bedroom but in freight-train boxcars, and by playing on the streets as a romantic musical vagabond," says The New Yorker. From growing up in small-town West Virginia to singing Shania Twain covers at seven years old in a dead-end bar, to joining a traveling pack of homeless musicians and busking on the streets of New Orleans and Seattle, Sierra Ferrell brings her signature sense of eclecticism to every stage, truckstop or alleyway she plays, driven by the constant desire to expand her audience's capacity for wonder.
Sierra Ferrell's upcoming performances include a run of arenas, baseball stadiums and football fields with Zach Bryan, with more to be announced soon. Find dates, tickets and additional information at sierraferrellmusic.com/tour.
Sierra Ferrell Tour Dates
11/10 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry
12/30 - San Diego, CA - Petco Park*
3/3 - Steamboat Springs, CO - WinterWonderGrass Colorado
4/6 - Olympic Valley, CA - WinterWonderGrass Tahoe
4/9-4/13 - Puerto Aventuras, QR - The Avett Brothers' At The Beach
On Sunday, October 22nd, NTS, the global music platform and radio station, will be hosting a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the iconic label Folkways Records, a collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Broadcasting all day, from 7am - 7pm EDT / 11am - 11pm BST, we’re inviting friends and admirers of the label onto the airwaves to share some of their favorite recordings from the label’s seven-decade history, as well as speaking to figures who were key in making Folkways the cultural institution it is today.
We sit down for a conversation with ethnomusicologist and producer Verna Gillis, and hear from one of the most revered living folk artists: Peggy Seeger. Ahead of their new Smithsonian Folkways release Return to Archive, Matmos present an hourlong manipulation of sounds, noises, and voices taken from albums originally released by the Cook and Folkways record labels - stacking, slicing, filtering, and transforming them into different shapes. We’ve also drafted in some Folkways superfans to share their favorite sounds from the extensive catalog: psych heroes Animal Collective mix ethnographic recordings with early experimental and electronic LPs, while Angel Bat Dawid plays her favorite recordings by pioneering jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams, and director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, My Brother’s Wedding) picks from the label’s vast blues archive.
Check out the full line-up below, and tune in from 7am EDT on Sunday October 22nd on
The globe-trotting, genre-bending Houston, Texas trio Khruangbin closes out their year long collection of live albums with the announcement of Khruangbin: Live at Sydney Opera House, a double LP exclusively comprised of Khruangbin compositions, available December 1st on Dead Oceans, in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd. In conjunction with the announcement today the band also released “People Everywhere (Shifting Sands Remix),” their own fresh take on The Universe Smiles Upon You classic.
The effort bookends an ambitious year-long undertaking for the band that pays homage to their ever-sharpening live show celebrating the band’s improvisational prowess and iconic setlists.
Here, career-spanning songs like “A Calf Born in Winter,” “Maria También,” “So We Won’t Forget,” “Shida” and “Friday Morning” arrive in their full interplanetary glory, recorded at one of the most celebrated venues on earth, the Sydney Opera House. The band’s debut solo performance at the famed Opera House arrived in style in November 2022 with a three-night sold-out run cementing themselves amongst the innumerable stars who have also taken the stage.
The double LP follows four live albums from the band released earlier this year with guests including Kelly Doyle, Ruben Moreno, The Suffers and Robert Ellis from Austin, Texas’ Stubb’s, Nubya Garcia at NYC’s Radio City, Men I Trust at RBC Echo Beach in Toronto and Toro y Moi at The Fillmore, Miami.
Known for their marriage of sounds from across the world – including “a mix of R&B, reggae, surf rock, Middle Eastern melodies, Persian phrasing, Latin rhythms, ’90s hip-hop, West African instrumentation, ethereal harmonies, psychedelic effects and rump-shaking disco,” says Vanity Fair— Khruangbin has been on countless global tours, and graced nearly every major festival stage in the world including Glastonbury, Primavera, Coachella, & more.
A tried and true touring band, Khruangbin embarked on their most monumental tour to date in 2022 which included multiple sold out nights at LA’s Greek Theatre, NYC’s Radio City Music Hall and a legendary performance at London's iconic Alexandra Palace. As their own live show grows a steadfast following, the band has been equally committed to showcasing their favorite musicians with an effervescent palate highlighting a diverse repertoire of touring-mates.
Alongside these ground-breaking touring accomplishments, Khruangbin collaborated with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré last year on a collaborative album honoring Vieux’s late father, Ali Farka Touré which was highlighted everywhere from The New York Times and NPR (“labyrinthine fusion of dub, blues and Malian grooves,”), to GQ who says “there’s a placelessness to the band Khruangbin that, counterintuitively, gives them their gravity.” The band also released their second collaborative EP with Leon Bridges, that same year, the sultry, chart-topping Texas Moon, which garnered award nominations and widespread critical acclaim from The New York Times, NPR, Uproxx, Vulture, FADER and more while pushing the boundaries of R&B.
The Number 3
The Number 4
August 10 / Master of Life
Two Fish and an Elephant
White Gloves
First Class
So We Won't Forget
Shida
Friday Morning
Lady and Man
Pelota
Evan Finds the Third Room
Maria Tambien
Time (You and I)
People Everywhere (Shifting Sands Remix)
A Calf Born in Winter
Zionsville
As the end of another year approaches, we welcome you to the 31st edition of the annual Grateful Dead Almanac. A lot has changed since this mailer first began in paper form more than three decades ago, as a way to spread an early dose of holiday cheer to a circulation of tens of thousands of Dead Heads. Yet so much remains the same: the ever-evolving community and time-honored traditions, a pioneering devotion to complete accessibility, and the band’s enduring commitment to sharing their music and opening their archives in unprecedented ways. From the 2023 release of the Here Comes Sunshine box set to the 50th Anniversary of Wake Of The Flood, new installments of The Angel’s Share outtakes and Playing In The Band’s interactive mixing board, Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast’s latest seasons and special guests, Dead & Company’s Final Tour, old tales and current updates on band members, family and friends, exclusive merch offerings and more, the Grateful Dead ecosystem is as vibrant and voluminous as ever.
As you’ll see in the link below, the Grateful Dead is the only band that continues to superserve their fans this comprehensively and consistently.
So whether you were one of the first subscribers to receive your eight-page, color newspaper version from Grateful Dead Productions, or this is your first time ever hearing of the Almanac, we hope you’ll spend some time reading this one. Especially as it includes initial details on the forthcoming Dave’s Picks Volume 49, and a teaser for a mind-blowing Volume 50. Now entering its 13th year, the beloved series has grown from 12,000 units of each volume to 25,000, guided by the endless mission to deliver complete, top-grade Grateful Dead shows that sound better than ever, beautifully packaged and released four times a year. As Grateful Dead Legacy Manager, Audio Archivist and Dave’s Picks curator David Lemieux says, “This is a testament to Rhino never veering off the path of its vision to treat Dead Heads with respect and caring.” Learn more about Volume 49 and 2024 Subscription Benefits in the Almanac and his accompanying seaside chat:
Smithsonian Folkways is proud to announce that Jerron Paxton has signed with the label for his next, long-awaited full-length release, due out in 2024. Paxton joins Folkways contemporaries such as Dom Flemons, Jake Blount, Our Native Daughters and others exploring the diverse roots of Black folk music in America and highlighting its continued importance and influence.
Paxton is a skilled interpreter of Black traditional music, having spent his life learning the multifaceted musical dialects of blues, old-time, ragtime, and Cajun music and playfully dressing them up in their brightest hues. He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, banjo, piano, fiddle and other instruments with deep histories and ties to Black American music — each with a master’s touch.
Born in South Central Los Angeles into a family steeped in Southern music and culture, he has been based in New York City for nearly his entire adult life. He has appeared on the covers of The Village Voice and Living Blues and has earned praise from numerous other publications. The Bluegrass Situation captures Paxton’s holistic approach to his craft: “He is not merely a preservationist mining bygone decades for esoteric material or works that fit a certain aesthetic or brand. He simply takes music that is significant to his identity, his culture, and his experience and showcases it for a broader audience.”
Paxton has performed at Lincoln Center in NYC and Kings Place in London. On November 11, he will perform at the Brooklyn Folk Festival (in St. Ann’s Church) as a part of the festival’s celebration of Folkways’ 75th anniversary. Tickets are available here.
Amos Lee has shared a soulful and buoyant reimagining of Lucinda Williams’ “Fruits of My Labor” off her GRAMMY-nominated album World Without Tears, the second advance track from his forthcoming tribute record, Honeysuckle Switches (The Songs of Lucinda Williams), out for RSD Black Friday (November 24) via Thirty Tigers. Lee offers a rhythmic acoustic take on the track from his “songwriting hero” layered with powerful vocals, dynamic harmonies, twangy slide guitar, and upright bass. Lee had first heard Lucinda’s song anew while on tour in St. Louis, listening to actress Britt Lower (Severance)perform it in a way he had never heard before; “It unlocked something,” he recalls.
Pre-order Honeysuckle Switches (The Songs Of Lucinda Williams) here before its release for Record Store Day Black Friday: https://orcd.co/honeysuckleswitches
Following the release of his critically-lauded 2022 album Dreamland, Lee didn’t set off with the intention of creating a tribute record. The process came about rather organically, as he dug into Williams’ catalog and felt drawn to the songs he needed most as a source of healing. Honeysuckle Switches is an expression of gratitude towards Williams and her music for giving strength to face life's most trying moments. Williams has been a formative artist for Lee dating back to his teenage years, getting hooked on her writing while listening to Car Wheels on WXPN in his native Philadelphia. Later, he’d get the chance to collaborate with her on his Billboard chart-topping record Mission Bell, while also sharing stages together across the country. Honeysuckle Switches features Williams originals from her breakout Sweet Old World to the modern-era classic Blessed. Last month, Amos shared his take on "Greenville," Williams' Emmylou Harris collaboration from her 1998 masterpiece Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, listen here.
Honeysuckle Switches follows a banner 2022 for Lee - which saw him perform on stages from Red Rocks to The Ryman, while bringing his latest album Dreamland to national television audiences on Good Morning America, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Rachael Ray and The Late Late Show with James Corden. Teaming with Record Store Day for the album’s release marks a full-circle moment for Lee, who discovered his lifelong musical passion while working at the independent Papa Jazz Record Shoppe in Columbia, South Carolina. Amos has announced two tour dates for May 2024; for more info and all upcoming tour dates please visit https://www.amoslee.com/.
Amos Lee - Honeysuckle Switches (The Songs Of Lucinda Williams)
Are You Alright
Fruits of My Labor
Get Right With God
Compassion
Everything Has Changed
Born to Be Loved (digital exclusive)
Greenville
Little Angle, Little Brother
Sweet Old World
I Envy The Wind
West
Bus to Baton Rouge
Amos Lee - Spring 2024 Tour Dates (Solo)
May 7 - SKyPAC - Bowling Green, KY
May 9 - Schermerhorn Symphony Center (With The Nashville Symphony) - Nashville, TN
Today, Jaime Wyatt releases a genre-defying work of healing and self-love, produced by Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, her new album Feel Good via New West.
Hailed by Pitchfork as one of the “most exciting and skillful storytellers” working today, Wyatt is the kind of generational talent whose raw, honest lyricism is matched only by the power of her huge, unmistakable voice. Today, her third and most ambitious album yet - Feel Good, cements this notion, pushing her sound to new sonic and emotional heights, while blurring the lines between classic roots, southern soul, and vintage R&B.
Also out today is the desert-immersed video for album title track, “Feel Good” shot in Sante Fe, New Mexico whilst Wyatt was on tour.
Watch here:
Video Director Taylor McFadden & Video Producer Lavinia Jones Wright
The lead single featuring towering gospel vocals, “Feel Good” is one of Wyatt’s favorite songs she’s ever written. She thought she had to assimilate, she thought she had to be straight, but she never did. At its core the song is about building a relationship with herself, and making space for herself to feel good.
Additional praise for Jaime Wyatt has come from Pitchfork, NME, Fader, and NPR who love her “remarkable voice” as well as Rolling Stone who’ve applauded her “lush, layered, and complex” performances. Already a number of cathartic songs have been unveiled from Feel Good including the country beckoning “Back to the Country,” her soul-filled reimagining of the Grateful Dead’s “Althea,” the defiant queer anthem “Love Is A Place” and lead single “World Worth Keeping” which have received praise from Billboard, Spin, No Depression, American Songwriter, GLAAD and more.
Recorded with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, Feel Good is bold and ecstatic, built on tight, intoxicating grooves that belie the songs’ substantial emotional stakes, showcasing Wyatt's unparalleled artistry and musical prowess. Wyatt’s writing is unguarded and intuitive here, tapping into the deep recesses of her subconscious as she reckons with grief and growth, and her delivery is visceral to match, cutting straight to the bone with equal parts sensitivity and swagger. “Where The Damned Only Go,” for example, is perhaps Wyatt’s opus. The song was written for the missing indigenous women and people of color whose cases go uninvestigated by law enforcement. “It took me at least a year to finish,” says Wyatt. “It was a labor of love and I knew I needed to finish it but it had to be right. It moves in between keys in a way that I’m very proud of. Lyrically, it is very abstract, as it was written as a tribute to the forgotten people of society,” she continues.
Taken as a whole, Feel Good stands as a radical act of creative liberation from an artist already known for pushing limits, a genre-defying work of healing, queer joy and self-love that tips its cap to everything from Al Green and Otis Redding to Waylon Jennings and Bobbie Gentry in its relentless pursuit of peace and pleasure.
A West Coast native, Wyatt first began turning heads with her breakout 2017 debut, Felony Blues, which chronicled her now much-publicized battle with addiction and transformative journey through the criminal justice system. Her 2020 follow-up and New West debut, Neon Cross, tackled even more profoundly personal revelations and arrived to tremendous acclaim with NPR praising Wyatt’s “remarkable voice” and Rolling Stone lauding her “lush, layered, and complex” performances.
Next year, Wyatt will kick off a US headlining tour following consistent tours this past year behind ZZ Ward, The Head And The Heart, The Revivalists, Sierra Ferrell, Grace Potter, the Avett Brothers, her debut at Stagecoach, Newport Folk and Austin City Limits festival. Wyatt will play at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in NYC, The Troubadour in Los Angeles, Lincoln Hall in Chicago and more. See the full list of tour dates below and here: https://www.jaimewyatt.com/tour
Feel Good Tracklist:
World Worth Keeping
Feel Good
Back To The Country
Love Is A Place
Hold Me One Last Time
Where The Damned Only Go
Althea
Fugitive
Jukebox Holiday
Ain’t Enough Whiskey
Moonlighter
Jaime Wyatt Tour Dates
11/10/2023 @ Orville Peck Rodeo 2023 - Pioneertown, CA
12/15/2023 @ Ball Arena - Denver, CO w/Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Mt. Joy
1/12/2024 @ Dead Ahead Fest 2024 - Cancun, MX
1/17/2024 @ The Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA *
1/18/2024 @ Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA *
1/20/2024 @ Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA *
1/21/2024 @ Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR *
1/23/2024 @ Remington Bar - Whitefish, MT *
1/24/2024 @ The Rialto Theatre - Bozeman, MT *
1/26/2024 @ Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO ^
1/27/2024 @ Reverb Lounge, Omaha, NE ^
1/28/2024 @ xBk Live - De Moines, IA ^
1/30/2024 @ Turf Club - Minneapolis, MN ^
1/31/2024 @ High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI ^
2/1/2024 @ Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL ^
2/3/2024 @ Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON ^
2/6/2024 @ The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA ^
2/7/2024 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, New York ^
2/8/2024 @ World Cafe Live - Philadelphia, PA ^
2/9/2024 @ The Southern Cafe & Music Hall - Charlottesville, VA ^
2/10/2024 @ The Atlantis - Washington, DC ^
2/15/2024 @ Basement East - Nashville, TN ^
2/16/2024 @ The Earl - Atlanta, GA ^
2/20/2024 @ Antone’s - Austin, TX ^
2/22/2024 @ Sons of Hermann Hall - Dallas, TX ^
2/23/2024 @ White Oak Music Hall - Houston, TX ^
2/24/2024 @ House of Blues, Parish Room - New Orleans, LA ^
WAR ushers in the holiday season with its first-ever Christmas song, "(Yes It's) Christmas." On the track, the revered Southern California ensemble offers an irresistibly funky groove that radiates sunny vibes and the holiday spirit.
"(Yes It's) Christmas" is available today through various digital and streaming platforms, along with a Dolby Atmos mix. Listen HERE.
WAR began in the late Sixties when Jerry Goldstein brought Eric Burdon of The Animals together with a stellar lineup of Los Angeles musicians. This collaboration resulted in two albums: Eric Burdon Declares “War” (featuring the hit "Spill The Wine") and the double album, The Black-Man's Burdon. In 1970, Burdon departed, but the band continued to thrive as WAR. The new lineup struck a chord with audiences, delivering three consecutive #1 R&B albums: The World Is a Ghetto, Deliver the Word, and Why Can’t We Be Friends? The band scored major hits with "Slipping Into Darkness," "Why Can't We Be Friends?," and "The Cisco Kid." Notably, their R&B classic "Low Rider" was inducted into the Grammy® Hall of Fame in 2014.
Adding to the holiday cheer, later this month, WAR will release The World Is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition. Limited to 4,000 copies, this 5-LP boxed set will be available exclusively at select independent music retailers on November 24 for Record Store Day Black Friday. Curated by WAR's producer, Jerry Goldstein, it features a newly remastered version of the original album (the best-selling album in America in 1973) along with unreleased session outtakes. There are also previously unheard "making of" recordings that provide a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of each album track, from jams to finished songs.
Today, the Grateful Dead have tied the record for most Billboard Top 40 albums by any act in history. Having previously broken the record as the group with the most Top 40 albums, the band has just earned their 58th album in the Top 40, with the debut of Dave's Picks Vol. 48 at #33 on this week's Billboard 200. The Grateful Dead are now tied with both Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, and are just one release away from breaking the all-time record.
Produced and curated by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux, Dave's Picks Vol. 48 is the 40th installment in the beloved series to enter the Top 40. Each edition delivers complete, top-grade Grateful Dead shows that sound better than ever, beautifully packaged and released four times a year. Dave's Picks Vol. 48 is also the Grateful Dead's 44th Top 40 title released by Rhino Entertainment, and as Lemieux says, "Dave's Picks is a testament to Rhino never veering off the path of its vision to treat Dead Heads with respect and caring."
"Working with the Grateful Dead is such a unique experience because they really are one of one," adds Mark Pinkus, President of Rhino. "With over 2300 amazing shows in their illustrious 30-year career, Rhino has the wonderful responsibility to present those shows to new and old fans alike in a meaningful and magical way. Their continued chart success simply proves what we already know, there are still a lot of Dead Heads in the world and they dig what we do."
"This is a testament to the enduring connection between the Grateful Dead and their audience – a bond that is as strong today as it ever was and now spans multiple generations with huge numbers of new followers discovering them every day," said Bernie Cahill, Founding Partner, Activist Artists Management and manager of the Grateful Dead.
This latest achievement caps another milestone year for the Grateful Dead and Deadheads everywhere. As detailed in last week's 31st edition of the annual Grateful Dead Almanac, 2023 proved that the band's ecosystem is as vibrant and voluminous as ever. From the release of the Here Comes Sunshine box set to the 50th Anniversary of Wake Of The Flood, new installments of The Angel's Share outtakes and Playing In The Band's interactive mixing board, and so much more, the Dead remains committed to serving their ever-expanding community and time-honored traditions, with a pioneering devotion to complete accessibility.
Rhino and the band continue to open their archives in unprecedented ways, and on today's episode of the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast, the podcast uncovers an extraordinary lost session by Robert Hunter and the Grateful Dead – the only known time the band's legendary lyricist led the group in an extended studio session. Captured during the mixing session for the "Eyes of the World" single in November 1973 and channeling the band's most experimental side, "Prelude" (aka "Tuesday Night Jam") is a 35-minute studio improvisation by the Dead (minus Jerry Garcia, working with Old & In The Way that night) with Hunter writing lyrics, overdubbing vocals with the group, and mixing the tape down over the course of a single evening, Tuesday, November 6th, 1973. According to musician Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the intent was to play the tape over the PA before Grateful Dead concerts, which they did several days later at Winterland in San Francisco. Along with a handful of never-heard Hunter/Dead originals and improvisation on instruments not usually heard in the Dead's music, "Prelude" contains a rare duet of Keith and Donna Godchaux singing "Sweet Inspiration," the 1968 hit the couple sang together before joining the Dead.
Hear the full session and story exclusively on the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast, the official podcast of the Grateful Dead
Announced last week, Dave's Picks Vol. 49 is due out in the first quarter of 2024 via Rhino, and will feature a 4-CD mega set of two complete Grateful Dead shows at Stanford University's Frost Amphitheater on April 27 and 28, 1985. Before then, Rhino will also begin to reissue all eight albums from the Grateful Dead's Arista years, 1977-1990. Dropping in pairs between now and July 2024, the series begins this Friday, November 10th, with the band's final studio album, Built To Last, and the 3-LP collection of historic live performances from the late-Brent Mydland era, Without a Net. Available to worldwide retail on limited edition black vinyl and Barnes & Noble exclusive red vinyl, each title has been newly remastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser, and produced for release by David Lemieux.
Catalan singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Lau Noah has announced the January 12 release of her newest and most ambitious album A DOS, a genre-blurring collection of original duets with many of her friends and heroes from the worlds of roots, jazz and global music. Accompanying today’s announcement, Lau releases “Lesser Men Would Call it Love” featuring multiple Grammy-winner Chris Thile, with whom she has previously toured. The glowing single comes with a video for the song recorded live in the studio, watch here. This release follows “If A Tree Falls In Love With a River,” Lau’s duet with another multiple-Grammy winner Jacob Collier, plus collaborations with Silvia Perez Cruz and Jorge Drexler all of which will be included on A DOS. Other special guests on the album include: Shai Maestro, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Gaby Moreno, Salvador Sobral, and Angeles Toledano. Over more than a year Lau traveled to London, Barcelona, Madrid, Los Angeles, and back home to NYC to capture these remarkable collaborations. See below for a full tracklist.
Lau spoke on the album stating, ¨’A DOS’ is the bridge between song and symphony. The place where counterpointal complexity fits into the ancestral structure of a simple song. And I have some of the best storytellers of our time helping me carry out this endeavor.¨
Today also marks the first date of Lau’s tour of the United Kingdom and Europe supporting Ben Folds. Spanning a month and nearly 20 shows, the tour will bring Lau to the Royal Albert Hall among other historic stages. US performances celebrating the release of A DOS will be announced soon.
Lau Noah is heavily influenced by her Catalan upbringing, however, she developed her unique style of singing and playing guitar in counterpoint after moving to NYC. Her singular approach to music composition has earned praise from other artists such as Phoebe Bridgers and Moses Sumney (“she a genius”) plus a stunning performance at NPR’s Tiny Desk, making her the first Catalan artist ever to perform for the prestigious series. Billboard says Lau “is enchanting listeners one song at a time,” and WBGO observes “Lau Noah’s music somehow defies category while also belonging to various places and times at once.”
A DOS TRACK LISTING
1 - Aunque Suene Bonito Feat. Gaby Moreno
2 - Lesser Men Would Call It Love Feat. Chris Thile
3 - Que Pasen Cosas Feat. Silvia Perez Cruz
4 - If A Tree Falls In Love With A River Feat. Jacob Collier
Today, six decades after his first release, folk legend Jim Kweskin announces his new album Never Too Late, out January 26th through StorySound Records. The album features captivating duets with some of his favorite female singers, while simultaneously spotlighting the genre- and generation-hopping nature of Kweskin’s musical interests. Across 18 tracks, Never Too Late suggests a Great American Songbook where Leadbelly’s “Relax Your Mind” precedes the Tin Pan Alley tune “Sheik of Araby,” which leads into 1940’s country hit, “Remember Me.”
To accompany the announcement of Never Too Late, Kweskin shares the bouncy, conversation-like “Let's Get Happy Together” with Maria Muldaur, who first collaborated with him in the 1960s as part of Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band.
When discussing the background of the song, Kweskin shares: “I learned this song from Maria Muldaur. We were going to record it together in New Orleans on the album she did with that wonderful New Orleans street band Tuba Skinny. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make the session. While I was putting together the songs and singers for this album, I asked Maria if she would record it with me now. She graciously agreed. The song was written and recorded in 1938 by Lil Hardin Armstrong, who, back in the 1920s, was Louis Armstrong's wife. The funny thing is, it's called ‘Let's Get Happy Together,’ but nowhere in the song do we sing ‘Let's get happy together’—we sing ‘Let's be happy together.’ Lil did too but since she titled it ‘Let's Get Happy Together,’ we did the same.”
In addition to Maria Muldaur, Never Too Late features duets with longtime collaborators Samoa Wilson and Meredith Axelrod, who have released full-length albums with Jim Kweskin. Meanwhile, Rose Guerin and Juli Crockett have been frequent performers at his concerts on both the East and West coasts, and Fiona Kweskin, his granddaughter, lends her vocals to several tracks and has been a recent addition to his live shows.
On several tracks, Kweskin also steps aside from lead vocals, allowing his guests to take center stage. Samoa Wilson delivers a soulful rendition of "Honey in the Rock," and Rose Guerin masterfully interprets Memphis Slim's "Mother Earth." In a particularly poignant moment, "The Lone Pilgrim" showcases the stirring voice of Nell Foote, a dear friend of Kweskin who had never ventured into a recording studio before.
Jim Kweskin recorded Never Too Late in early 2023 at Dimension Sound Studios in Jamaica Plain, MA, near his Boston home base. According to Kweskin, “almost every song on Never Too Late was either the first or second take because everyone was so good and prepared.” Joining Kweskin on this album are fiddler Suzy Thompson, dobro & steel guitar player Cindy Cashdollar, harmonicist Annie Raines, and his regular bassist/producer Matthew Berlin.
Jim Kweskin's music career took off in 1963 when Maynard Solomon, Vanguard Records co-founder, saw him play at Club 47 in Cambridge, MA. Suitably impressed, Solomon offered to record Kweskin, leading him to assemble the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, featuring key members Geoff Muldaur and Fritz Richmond. This unconventional group gained fame with their spontaneous and unscripted performances, in contrast to the formal folk groups of the early 60s. Despite only lasting five years and releasing four studio albums, they left an enduring impact on the music scene. Esteemed critic Ed Ward ranked them among the most important bands of the early 60s, and their influence can be seen in the likes of the Lovin' Spoonful, the Grateful Dead, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks.
To celebrate the release of Never Too Late, The Jim Kweskin Extravaganza will take place at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA on February 4, 2024. Find more details here.
Let’s Get Happy Together - with Maria Muldaur
You’re Just In Love - with Fiona Kweskin
Honey In The Rock - with Samoa Wilson
Mother Earth - with Rose Guerin & Group
Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny) - with Meredith Axelrod
Side By Side - with Fiona Kweskin
Sally Don’t You Grieve - with Meredith Axelrod
Never Too Late - with Juli Crockett
Engine 143 - with Samoa Wilson
The Lone Pilgrim - with Nell Foote & Group Choir
Moby Dick - with Juli Crockett
Relax Your Mind - with Rose Guerin
The Sheik Of Araby - with Maria Muldaur
Remember Me - with Samoa Wilson
What Does The Deep Sea Say - with Fiona Kweskin
Live And Let Live - with Juli Crockett
I Ain’t Never Been Satisfied - with Rose, Samoa, & Fiona
The Cuckoo - with Jessie Benton
On the heels of selling out every one of her live shows this past year, Sierra Ferrell has just announced an initial run of more than 20 U.S. tour dates for spring 2024. Before joining Zach Bryan at a series of arenas and stadiums next summer, Ferrell will headline Nashville's Ryman Auditorium with special guest Nikki Lane, LA's Fonda Theatre, two nights at Chicago's Thalia Hall, DC's 9:30 Club and dozens of other cities from March 1 through May 22, with additional stops to be revealed soon. Each night of the Shoot For The Moon Tour will feature brand new music from Nashville's "rising star" (Rolling Stone), in support of the unannounced but highly-anticipated followup to her debut album, 2021's Long Time Coming.
Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale at 10 a.m. local time on Tuesday, November 14, ahead of the general onsale at 10 a.m. local time on Friday, November 17. Fans can sign up for early access beginning today at 10 a.m. PST, by visiting sierraferrellmusic.com/tour
In recent weeks, with the release of scorching new single "Fox Hunt," Sierra Ferrell has continued to prove that "she is, without a doubt, one the most exciting country musicians in all of America" (Paste). Since the release of Long Time Coming, Ferrell won Emerging Artist of The Year at the 2022 Americana Honors & Awards, and was nominated for Artist of The Year this fall. In addition to selling out every headline performance in 2023, she played festivals including Bonnaroo, Newport Folk and Stagecoach, and has shared stages with the likes of Lana Del Rey, The Avett Brothers and Nathaniel Rateliff. "Fox Hunt" previews the enthralling live set she will bring all across the country in the coming months — as Billboard praises, "The instrumentation and Ferrell's voice display a masterful musicianship that can veer on the edge of untamed, while maintaining exquisite control."
Following a streak of collaborations with Zach Bryan, Diplo, Margo Price and more, Sierra Ferrell will also have a new song in the soundtrack of upcoming film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, out November 17. Before then she will return to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry and will celebrate Gram Parsons at LA's GRAMMY Museum.
While she has now become one of Nashville's most-wanted musicians, whose viral ascent has brought her to much larger stages and screens, "Ferrell built her act not from the comfort of a bedroom but in freight-train boxcars," explains The New Yorker, "and by playing on the streets as a romantic musical vagabond." From growing up in small-town West Virginia to singing Shania Twain covers at seven years old in a dead-end bar, to joining a traveling pack of homeless musicians and busking on the streets of New Orleans and Seattle, Sierra Ferrell brings her signature sense of eclecticism to every venue, truckstop or alleyway she plays, driven by the constant desire to expand her audience's capacity for wonder.
Congratulations to Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens on her Grammy nominations for Best Americana Album for her album You’re The One (Nonesuch) and Best American Roots Performance for her song “You Louisiana Man” from You’re The One. Giddens is a 2-time GRAMMY Award winner and with today’s nominations, now a 10-time nominee. Her previous album, 2021's They're Calling Me Home, won the GRAMMY award for Best Folk Album.
You’re the One, released in August, is Giddens’ first album of all original songs and was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June, Tank and the Bangas). It was written over the course of Giddens’ career and draws from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants. Collaborators include Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi plus American fiddler Dirk Powell, bassist Jason Sypher, and Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu. Jason Isbell is the sole guest on the record, contributing to "Yet to Be," a tale of a Black woman and an Irish man finding love in America.
The album has been met with major acclaim, profiles and TV appearances. Giddens just recently performed and was the interview guest on The Daily Show. Other coverage includes the Today Show, CBS Saturday, CBS Mornings, New York Times, Vulture’s “A Long Talk,” NPR’s Morning Edition, the Associated Press, GRAMMY.com, American Songwriter and Garden & Gun, with additional pieces and reviews from Variety, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork, NPR Music and more. The album is also featured on Rolling Stone’s Best Albums of 2023 So Far, and in their review said: "One of Americana music's most vital voices expands her sound without abandoning her roots.”
Giddens’ touring continues into next year with headlining shows at the Beacon Theatre in New York City and the Ace Theater in Los Angeles. She was also recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera, Omar, with collaborator Michael Abels. Omar is currently playing at San Francisco Opera and this Saturday’s show will be live-streamed at 7:30pm PT / 10:30pm ET. Tune in here.
Giddens is also the Artist Director of the Silkroad Ensemble. Their Phoenix Rising EP was released last week, four songs recorded live at Tanglewood in Summer 2022 that features vocals from Giddens on three of them. Giddens is currently on a tour with Silkroad Ensemble across the U.S. performing music related to the underclasses of people who built or were displaced by the American railroad. For the tour, Rhiannon has arranged a version of the bluegrass standard “Swannanoa Tunnel,” a recently uncovered work song from African Americans forced to labor on the North Carolina railroad.
Giddens also just released her second children's book, We Could Fly (Candlewick Press). The picture book, a companion to 2022’s Build a House, is a tale of grace and transcendence, with illustrations by acclaimed artist Briana Mukodiri Uchendu. The book draws on lyrics from the song “We Could Fly,” which Giddens wrote with Dirk Powell and recorded for her 2017 Nonesuch album, Freedom Highway. It draws on a heritage of African folklore for a dialogue between a mother and daughter, paired with illustrations that celebrate love, resilience, and the spiritual power of the “old-time ways”—tradition and shared cultural memory—to sustain and uplift. Watch a video interpretation of the book here.
As Pitchfork has said, “Few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration”—a journey that has led to NPR naming Giddens one of its 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21st Century and American Songwriter calling her “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.”
UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
November 10: Balboa Theater, San Diego, CA@
November 11: Soka Performing Arts Center, Aliso Viejo, CA@
November 12: The Soraya at CSUN, Northridge, CA@
November 15: Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA@
November 16: Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis, Davis, CA@
November 17: Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA@
November 18: Green Music Center, Sonoma, CA@
February 10, 2024: Maison de la culture de Creteil, Creteil, France
February 11, 2024: Doornroosje Main Hall, Nijmegen, Netherlands
February 13, 2024: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 14, 2024: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
February 17, 2024: Elb Philharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
February 18, 2024: Lido, Berlin, Germany
February 19, 2024: Kulturkirche Ost, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
February 21, 2024: Barbican Centre, London, UK
February 23, 2024: Pavillion Theatre, Glasgow, UK
February 25, 2024: Vicar St., Dublin, Ireland
March 14, 2024: Worcester, MA, Holy Cross University
March 16, 2024: Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
March 19, 2024: State College, PA, Penn State
March 20, 2024: Cincinnati, OH, Memorial Hall
April 15, 2024: Vancouver, BC, Chan Centre
April 17, 2024: Beaverton, OR, The Reser
April 18, 2024: Beaverton, OR, The Reser
April 19, 2024: Seattle, WA, Meany Center
April 21, 2024: San Francisco, CA, The Fillmore
April 22, 2024: Monterey, CA, Golden State Theater
April 23, 2024: Santa Barbara, CA, Granada TheaterApril 25, 2024: Ace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Congratulations to five-time GRAMMY winners and Gospel Music Hall of Famers The Blind Boys of Alabama on their 2024 Grammy nominations for Best American Roots Performance (“Heaven Help Us All,”) Best Americana Performance (“Friendship”) and Best Roots Gospel Album (Echoes of the South). With today’s nominations, which are the most-ever in a single year for the group, The Blind Boys of Alabama are now 16-time Grammy nominees. Their first Grammy nomination was 52 years ago for their self-titled album at the time The Five Blind Boys of Alabama. Listen to Echoes of the South here.
Echoes of the South, released in September, is the Blind Boys’ first new album in six years, and the first made entirely in their home state. The eleven-song collection is a declaration of their tenacity over the span of 80 years: from singing for pocket change in the Jim Crow South, to performing for three different American presidents, “soundtracking the Civil Rights movement” (CNN) and helping to define - and redefine - modern gospel music as we know it. It also finds the Blind Boys paying profound tribute to two members they've recently lost - Benjamin Moore and Paul Beasley.
The Echoes of the South tracklist draws on the music that's most inspired them throughout their careers: long-lost gospel classics, traditional spirituals and timeless R&B/soul cuts made famous by artists like Stevie Wonder, Pops Staples and Curtis Mayfield. Echoes Of The South was co-produced by Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, John Prine), Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes, Jason Isbell) and Charles Driebe. The album is named for the first radio show that ever booked the Blind Boys as guests (out of WSGN in Birmingham), and the cover art features braille for the first time — two of the many personal touches that establish Echoes Of The South as a "homecoming" in so many senses of the word.
The Blind Boys will continue to bring their life-affirming music and message across the globe, with a slate of North American tour dates announced into 2024, including their Christmas tour which begins in Atlanta on 11/20. For more information and all upcoming tour dates, please visit http://www.blindboys.com
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA TOUR DATES
11/15 - Wexner Center for The Arts - Columbus, OH
11/16 - City Winery Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
11/19 - Edwin J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall - Akron, OH
11/20 - Eddie's Attic - Decatur, GA, United States
11/24 - Single Lock Records: 10th Anniversary Celebration - Florence, AL
11/25 - The Lincoln Center - Fort Collins, CO
11/26 - Lone Tree Arts Center - Lone Tree, CO
11/28 - Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ
11/29 - Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ
12/1 - Jefferson Performing Arts Center - Metairie, LA
12/3 - Brown County Music Center - Nashville, IN
12/5 - St. Cecilia Music Center - Grand Rapids, MI
12/7 - Jazz Alley - Seattle, WA
12/8 - Jazz Alley - Seattle, WA
12/9 - Jazz Alley - Seattle, WA
12/10 - Jazz Alley - Seattle, WA
12/12 - Sweetwater Music Hall - Mill Valley, CA
12/13 - The Center for The Arts - Grass Valley, CA
12/14 - Nashville Social Club Carson City - Carson City, NV
12/16 - Central Park Performing Arts Center - Largo, FL
12/17 - Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County - Miami, FL
12/13-12/20 - Sandy Beaches Cruise 2024 - Fort Lauderdale, FL
The 5 Volume, 20-LP Deluxe Box set packaging was designed by Jeri Heiden and John Heiden with contributions from dozens of artists, and The Birdsong Project was produced by Randall Poster, the Grammy Award-winning producer and music supervisor known for his longtime work with Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese. It was conceived and inspired by Executive Producer Rebecca Reagan, who brought a grand creative vision and wisdom to the project. Additional executive producers are Elliot Bergman, Stewart Lerman and Lee Ranaldo.
The complete 5-volume collection from The Birdsong Project is available digitally for streaming though the full collection is also available as a limited edition 20-LP deluxe box set, which features a 60-page book including an essay by musician-ornithologist Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater and a package bursting with paintings and illustrations of birds by well-known artists.
Of the nomination the Heidens say of the work,”We are honored to be a part of this visionary project, and extend our gratitude to producer Randall Poster, and all of the diverse creative artists who contributed their works to this extraordinary compilation. Coming together – with one hope in mind – to help bring attention to the threats birds face around the world. For the birds!”
Poster adds,” I am thrilled to have The Birdsong Project receive a Grammy nomination - it would not have been possible without the endless imagination and creativity of Jeri & John Heiden. They have been mainstays of the project and have created the most enchanting box set ever. For the birds.”
“The National Audubon Society is proud to be a part of The Birdsong Project, which brings together artists, actors, writers, and bird lovers to celebrate birds and the joy they bring to our lives,” said Dr. Elizabeth Gray, Chief Executive Officer of the National Audubon Society. “Together as a community, we are channeling our work and creativity to protect birds and the places they need, and to address the environmental challenges our planet faces.”
The project’s expansive collection of 242 recordings represents a remarkable assemblage of diverse talent from across the creative community in support of an important cause, including GRAMMY, Oscar, Emmy, Pulitzer, Peabody and James Beard Award winners Ad-Rock, Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Beck, Cassandra Jenkins, Dan Deacon, Julia Holter, Daniel Lanois, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips, Haden Triplets, Jeff Tweedy, Jim James, Kamasi Washington, Karen O, Kurt Vile, Atlas Sound & L’Rain, Makaya McCraven, Arturo O’Farrill, Hania Rani, Mark Ronson, Nick Cave, Stephin Merritt, Mark Mothersbaugh, Terry Riley, Tyondai Braxton, UNKLE, Yo-Yo Ma, and many more. The majority of the recordings were made specifically for this project.
Spoken-word contributions recorded and donated to the project feature an array of writers and actors including Jonathan Franzen, Maggie Smith, Ocean Vuong, Alice Waters, George Saunders, Florence Welch, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Jelani Cobb, Matthew McConaughey, Natasha Lyonne, Regina King, Robert Pattinson, Sean Penn, Tilda Swinton, Tim Blake Nelson, Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde, and more.
Proceeds from The Birdsong Project benefit the National Audubon Society, a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to protecting birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow.
The four nominations join 30 previous Folkways nominations, and 9 wins to date. The Folkways catalog also contains 11 lifetime achievement award recipients.
"We're deeply honored to receive this recognition from the Recording Academy, especially as we celebrate 75 years of Folkways in 2023. These nominations top off a historic year for Smithsonian Folkways, and we look forward to the ceremony in February," said Maureen Loughran, Director and Curator for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
The four nominations are:
Best Album Notes: Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971 (album notes by Jeff Place & John Troutman)
Best Historical Album: Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971
Best Folk Album: Dom Flemons - Traveling Wildfire
Best Bluegrass Album: Sam Bush - Radio John: Songs of John Hartford
The contemporary incarnation of the independent label founded by Moses Asch in 1948 in NYC, Smithsonian Folkways' artists, sounds, styles, and audiences this year - including the three nominated works - could not have been more diverse, but were all united by the notion that to fully realize and shape the potential of our future and understand the present, we must reflect on the past.
More information on Playing for the Man at the Door, the long-awaited, 3-CD, 6-LP box set release of music from Mack McCormick's legendary blues archive; Traveling Wildfire, Dom Flemon's masterpiece collection of folk songs from his own repertoire; and Radio John: Songs of John Hartford, International Bluegrass Music Hall of Famer Sam Bush's tribute to the music of the enigmatic musician (and his friend) - is below.
In the 1950s and 60s, the blues thrived as the primary form of Black vernacular music in Texas and its surroundings. Robert “Mack” McCormick, a dedicated blues enthusiast, captured this vibrant community through photographs, recordings, and interviews with local musicians. His extensive collection, comprising 590 reels of sound recordings, 165 boxes of manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia, remained largely unreleased. "Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971" is the first compilation from this legendary archive, showcasing both renowned and lesser-known artists. The music spans various genres, shedding light on the diverse cultural tapestry of the region. Accompanying this music is a 128-page book featuring McCormick's captivating photographs and essays on his life and the communities he documented. This release is in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Listen HERE and read a Sunday Arts feature in the Washington Post HERE
Dom Flemons has built a reputation on presenting 100 years of American roots music, but now, with Traveling Wildfire, his own songwriting prowess comes into the spotlight. Carefully selected from his personal repertoire, these original songs reveal his love of country, western, blues, Americana, bluegrass and folk music as they tell of true love, family legacy, survival, time travel, and the juxtaposition between light and dark. Traveling Wildfire weaves through the themes of hope and humor as it rises above the hard times with strength and lightheartedness.
Radio John: Songs of John Hartford is Sam Bush’s heartfelt tribute to his hero and mentor, John Hartford. With dedication, admiration, and love, Bush takes on personal favorites from Hartford’s vast catalog, including songs he played with Hartford on stage and in the studio in the 1970s. Bush plays every instrument on nearly every cut, pouring himself into the performances. Radio John is a testament to the impact Hartford had on American traditional music as a songwriter, an instrumentalist, and, most importantly, someone who fostered the careers of musicians like Bush and countless others reinventing roots music in the last half of the 20th century.
Listen to "In Tall Buildings" HERE, and listen to 'Radio John' HERE
"Not only a musical love letter but a peek into the relationship between two of bluegrass music’s biggest innovators ... a loving tribute to a dear friend." - The Bluegrass Situation
About Smithsonian Folkways:
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the "National Museum of Sound," makes available close to 60,000 tracks in physical and digital format as the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian, with a reach of 80 million people per year. A division of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the non-profit label is dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among people through the documentation, preservation, production and dissemination of sound. Its mission is the legacy of Moses Asch, who founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document "people's music" from around the world. For more information about Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, visit folkways.si.edu.
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Congratulations to Ibrahim Maalouf for earning a GRAMMY nomination for Best Global Music Performance for his song “Todo Colores” featuring Tank & the Bangas and Cimafunk. This is the French-Lebanese trumpeter/composer and global music star’s second career GRAMMY nomination. Last year he earned his first nomination for Best Global Album for Queen Of Sheba, created with Angelique Kidjo. “Todo Colores” is featured on Maalouf’s Capacity To Love, released last November: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_0JagrQlhY
“Todo Colores” is a perfect example of Maalouf’s musical mission: that community and a sharing of ideas between cultures is the only way for humanity to prevail. The track explodes from the downbeat, a hard-hitting and high energy mash-up of Maalouf’s Middle Eastern roots and dazzling trumpet, Cuban star Cimafunk rapping in Spanish, and New Orleans contemporary musical royalty Tank Ball of Tank & The Bangas’ trademark spitfire delivery. Listen here, and watch this live performance video of “Todo Colores” filmed during GRAMMY weekend 2023 in Los Angeles as part of JAMMCARD's signature event, the JammJam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHfk3Z_wF7E
Maalouf recently announced his biggest North American headlining tour to date for April-May 2024, including New York City’s Webster Hall. A major star at home in France, Maalouf will also headline the Accor Arena in Paris on November 29. This is Maalouf’s third time headlining and selling out France’s biggest arena, with a capacity of 17,000. See below for his full ‘23-24 performance itinerary.
Capacity To Love - Maalouf’s 15th studio album - is unlike any he’s previously made, and has been celebrated by New Yorker, NPR All Things Considered, NPR Music, the New York Times, PRI’s The World, People Magazine, WNYC and more. Featuring Sharon Stone, D Smoke, Pos from De La Soul, Erick the Architect, Gregory Porter, Cimafunk, Tank and the Bangas and many other international stars, it smashes together an array of sounds and all original songs, inspired by hip-hop, r&b, jazz, music from across the globe and Maalouf’s signature trumpet style rooted in his Lebanese roots. The album begins with Charlie Chaplin’s famous speech in The Dictator and concludes with a trenchant spoken word that Sharon Stone wrote and recited for this album.
Other recent highlights include a Q&A event at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles which included a chat and performance with special guest and collaborator Angelique Kidjo. Maalouf also performed at his mentor Quincy Jones’ 90th birthday tribute concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in July, playing alongside Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Jacob Collier and Samara Joy. He also recently shared a music video for “The Pope” featuring D Smoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHrCN6W_Zg
Hailed as a “virtuoso” by The New York Times, Maalouf has spent his career crossing borders and blurring genres, mixing jazz, pop, classical, electronic, Middle Eastern, and African influences into a cross-cultural swirl. Born in the midst of a deadly civil war, Maalouf escaped Beirut with his family and spent his formative years in France, where he fell in love with music’s power to transcend geography and language. He has performed in 40 countries, sold out arenas from Paris to Istanbul, has been scouted by Quincy Jones and raised millions for charity. In the fall of 2021 he performed on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, introduced by Jon Batiste as “a living legend of jazz” and performed in front of the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day for an audience of six million. In 2022 Maalouf released two albums - Capacity To Love, as well as Queen of Sheba, which SPIN Magazine said “may be the most interesting album of the year.” A soaring 7-part suite, the album was inspired by, and reinvents, the myth of Queen Sheba, an African Queen who heard about the reputation of King Salomon and traveled to Jerusalem to witness the king’s wisdom.
Today, Rhino’s premium vinyl series, Rhino High Fidelity (Rhino Hi-Fi), continues with the next installment of timeless quality reissues. The Doobie Brothers’ The Captain And Me (1973) and Herbie Hancock’s Crossings (1972), are available exclusively at Rhino.com and select Warner Music stores worldwide. Each is limited to 5,000 numbered copies and retails for $39.98. Order Here.
An exclusive bundle of The Captain And Me and the 2022 hardcover book Long Train Runnin’: Our Story of The Doobie Brothers, signed by Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons, will also be available on December 1 at Rhino.com. Limited to 300 signed copies, the bundle retails for $59.98. Order Here.
Rhino High Fidelity continues to set the industry standard for sound quality and packaging, a testament to Rhino's 45-year legacy of award-winning audio releases. To ensure an unrivaled listening experience, all album lacquers are AAA cut directly from the original stereo master tapes by Kevin Gray, while Optimal handles the 180-gram vinyl pressing. The meticulous attention to detail extends to the aesthetic experience, with glossy covers and "tip-on" jackets reminiscent of vinyl’s golden age.
Crossings is celebrated jazz pianist Herbie Hancock’s 10th studio album, increasing his group of collaborative players to a septet with the addition of Patrick Gleeson. With Gleeson on the Moog synthesizer, Crossings saw the three-track album continue with the avant-garde style of Mwandishi and experimenting with an electronic and funk jazz fusion. Order Here.
The set includes scans of the original master tape boxes, a reproduction of the original album label, and unreleased photographs. Detailed liner notes from Gleeson expand on Hancock and the ensemble’s compositional strengths, sharing they “had a marked effect on the band’s solos, changing, even reversing, the usual relationship between soloist and accompaniment.”
Riding the high of their breakthrough sophomore album, Toulouse Street, The Doobie Brothers released the hit-filled The Captain & Me. Continuing to work with producer Ted Templeman, the group moved towards a country-rock sound that saw the album peak at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and earn a 2x platinum status from the RIAA. Order Here.
The High Fidelity set contains scans of the original master tape boxes and lacquer-cutting notes for fan-favorite tracks “Long Train Runnin’” and “Without You.” Along with a liner note excerpt from Long Train Runnin’: Our Story of The Doobie Brothers following the album's making.
Rhino High Fidelity will continue to tap into Warner Music’s extensive music catalog, bringing music enthusiasts and audiophiles superlative versions of landmark albums from diverse genres, including jazz, blues, rock, pop, and beyond. The series will introduce two classic albums quarterly, maintaining the same exceptional audio and packaging quality that has quickly defined Rhino High Fidelity.
Herbie Hancock - Crossings Tracklisting
Side A
1. Sleeping Giant
Side B
1. Quasar
2. Water Torture
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain & Me Tracklisting
In a groundbreaking collaboration, Gogol Bordello, led by Ukrainian frontman Eugene Hütz, and Bernard Sumner from the legendary bands Joy Division and New Order, have come together to release their cover of “Solidarity” by Angelic Upstarts. This release is available on Eugene Hütz’s label, Casa Gogol Records.
Their version of “Solidarity” pays homage to the punk and anti-Soviet movement, echoing a message of support and unity. The proceeds from this song will directly benefit injured Ukrainian soldiers through the charity Kind Deeds, an organization committed to providing aid and support. The collaboration stands as a beacon of hope and solidarity with oppressed groups worldwide.
In conjunction with this release, Eugene Hütz proudly announces the re-launch of Casa Gogol Records. The label, deeply embedded in the New York music scene, aims to showcase a fusion of new sounds from New York and collaborations with punk, rock, and hardcore legends.
Among the upcoming projects on Casa Gogol Records is the debut EP from the punk girl duo Puzzled Panther. This exciting release, featuring contributions from Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Brian Chase and Eugene Hütz himself, is set to make waves in early 2024.
About Casa Gogol Records: Casa Gogol Records, founded by Eugene Hütz, is a label that stands at the forefront of the New York music scene. It is dedicated to bringing fresh, dynamic sounds and collaborations that bridge the gap between the underground and the mainstream.
Hollow Coves have returned with a fresh serving of resonant and “stunning” (Billboard) indie folk today on their new song and video “Milk & Honey. Hailing from the scenic sands of Australia’s Gold Coast, the duo’s latest original elevates a signature style that’s seen them become one of the most-used artists on social media platforms like Instagram Reels, while topping one billion total streams and earning Gold records across continents. These accolades are the result of Hollow Coves emerging as a trusted soundtrack to their fans’ special life moments, with “Milk & Honey” serving as a clear example of how that came to be - instantly-memorable melodies bolstering an all-important ode to following your dreams, embracing childlike wonder in the universe, and remembering that “life is more than making money,” despite what societal pressures often tell us. Written by Hollow Coves’ Matt Carins and Ryan Henderson, with assists from Matt’s brother Ryan Carins and producer Matt Corby (an ARIA “Song Of The Year” winner in his own right) - “Milk & Honey” arrives with a fun-loving, farm-set visual channeling Hollow Coves’ love of Wes Anderson and killer Western wear in equal parts.
With the release of “Milk & Honey,” Hollow Coves have also shared a full run of 2024 tour dates across Europe and North America. In tandem with their blossoming momentum across streaming and social media, the group will also play larger venues than ever before in major cities on both continents - including their highest-capacity rooms to date in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and many more. The newly-announced shows underscore the impact Hollow Coves have across the globe, recently playing to arena-sized crowds at home in Australia alongside The Lumineers - as well as top worldwide festivals like Osheaga, Pukkelpop and Woodford Folk. The tour news and “Milk & Honey” follow recent Hollow Coves releases “Letting Go” and “Harder To Fake It,” with more new music and announcements expected into 2024.
HOLLOW COVES 2024 TOUR DATES:
Europe:
March 26 - Gebäude 9 - Cologne, Germany
March 28 - Muziekgieterij - Maastricht, Netherlands
March 29 - TivoliVredenburg, Ronda - Utrecht, Netherlands
March 30 - Zeche Carl - Essen, Germany
March 31 - Uebel & Gefährlich - Hamburg, Germany
April 2 - Columbia Theater - Berlin, Germany
April 3 - MeetFactory - Prague, Czech Republic
April 4 - Simm City - Vienna, Austria
April 5 - Technikum - Munich, Germany
April 7 - Magazzini Generali - Milan, Italy
April 8 - Komplex 457 - Zurich, Switzerland
April 9 - Les Docks - Lausanne, Switzerland
April 11 - halle02 - Heidelberg, Germany
April 12 - Opderschmelz - Dudelange, Luxembourg
April 13 - Le Trabendo - Paris, France
April 14 - AB Ballroom - Brussels, Belgium
April 16 - O2 Forum Kentish Town - London, United Kingdom
April 17 - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, United Kingdom
April 18 - Academy 2 - Manchester, United Kingdom
North America:
June 5 - Union Stage - Washington, D.C.
June 6 - The Foundry @ The Fillmore - Philadelphia, PA
Today, the globe-trotting, genre-bending Houston, Texas trio Khruangbin closes out their year long collection of live albums with the release of Khruangbin: Live at Sydney Opera House, a double LP exclusively comprised of Khruangbin compositions, available on Dead Oceans, in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd.
To commemorate the release of Live at Sydney Opera House, nugs.net will be livestreaming the full performance of Khruangbin’s show recorded at the iconic venue on November 27, 2022. Exclusive for nugs.net subscribers, the stream will premiere on nugs.net/khruangbin this Friday December 1st at 8PM ET and will be available until December 18, 2023.
nugs.net is generously offering a complimentary stream code to anyone who pre-orders or has already pre-ordered the Live at Sydney Opera House album directly from Secretly Store. You’ll receive the code via email from Secretly Store on the day of release. For those who have pre-ordered from Bandcamp or another retailer, they can email [email protected] with proof of purchase to receive the code.
The effort bookends an ambitious year-long undertaking for the band that pays homage to their ever-sharpening live show celebrating the band’s improvisational prowess and iconic setlists.
Earlier in the year the band released “People Everywhere (Shifting Sands Remix),” from the set, which was their own fresh take on The Universe Smiles Upon You classic. Revisit here: khruangbin.lnk.to/people-everywhere-shifting-sands-rmx
Here, career-spanning songs like “A Calf Born in Winter,” “Maria También,” “So We Won’t Forget,” “Shida” and “Friday Morning” arrive in their full interplanetary glory, recorded at one of the most celebrated venues on earth, the Sydney Opera House. The band’s debut solo performance at the famed Opera House arrived in style in November 2022 with a three-night sold-out run cementing themselves amongst the innumerable stars who have also taken the stage.
The double LP follows four live albums from the band released earlier this year with guests including Kelly Doyle, Ruben Moreno, The Suffers and Robert Ellis from Austin, Texas’ Stubb’s, Nubya Garcia at NYC’s Radio City, Men I Trust at RBC Echo Beach in Toronto and Toro y Moi at The Fillmore, Miami.
Known for their marriage of sounds from across the world – including “a mix of R&B, reggae, surf rock, Middle Eastern melodies, Persian phrasing, Latin rhythms, ’90s hip-hop, West African instrumentation, ethereal harmonies, psychedelic effects and rump-shaking disco,” says Vanity Fair— Khruangbin has been on countless global tours, and graced nearly every major festival stage in the world including Glastonbury, Primavera, Coachella, & more.
A tried and true touring band, Khruangbin embarked on their most monumental tour to date in 2022 which included multiple sold out nights at LA’s Greek Theatre, NYC’s Radio City Music Hall and a legendary performance at London's iconic Alexandra Palace. As their own live show grows a steadfast following, the band has been equally committed to showcasing their favorite musicians with an effervescent palate highlighting a diverse repertoire of touring-mates.
Alongside these ground-breaking touring accomplishments, Khruangbin collaborated with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré last year on a collaborative album honoring Vieux’s late father, Ali Farka Touré which was highlighted everywhere from The New York Times and NPR (“labyrinthine fusion of dub, blues and Malian grooves,”), to GQ who says “there’s a placelessness to the band Khruangbin that, counterintuitively, gives them their gravity.” The band also released their second collaborative EP with Leon Bridges, that same year, the sultry, chart-topping Texas Moon, which garnered award nominations and widespread critical acclaim from The New York Times, NPR, Uproxx, Vulture, FADER and more while pushing the boundaries of R&B.
The Number 3
The Number 4
August 10 / Master of Life
Two Fish and an Elephant
White Gloves
First Class
So We Won't Forget
Shida
Friday Morning
Lady and Man
Pelota
Evan Finds the Third Room
Maria Tambien
Time (You and I)
People Everywhere (Shifting Sands Remix)
A Calf Born in Winter
Zionsville
On the heels of selling out every one of her live shows this past year, Sierra Ferrell has just expanded her extensive run of U.S. tour dates for spring 2024. Before joining Zach Bryan at a series of arenas and stadiums next summer, Ferrell will now headline two nights at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, two nights at LA's Fonda Theatre, and a newly added stop at NYC's Webster Hall, all on top of the nearly two dozen performances she announced last month. Each night of the cross-country Shoot For The Moon Tour will feature brand new music from Nashville's "rising star" (Rolling Stone), in support of the unannounced but highly-anticipated followup to her debut album, 2021's Long Time Coming.
Tickets to the newly added dates will be available starting with an artist presale at 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday, December 6, ahead of the general onsale at 10 a.m. local time on Friday, December 8. Fans can sign up for early access beginning today at 10 a.m. PST, by visiting sierraferrellmusic.com/tour
Sierra Ferrell Tour Dates
12/30 - San Diego, CA - Petco Park*
1/15 - Indianapolis, IN - The Egyptian Room (WTTS Rock to Read)
3/1 - West Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom
3/2 - Omaha, NE - The Admiral
3/3 - Steamboat Springs, CO - WinterWonderGrass Colorado
3/4 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up Aspen
3/7 - Monterey, CA - Golden State Theatre
3/8 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
3/9 - Del Mar, CA - The Sound At Del Mar
3/10 - Santa Barbara, CA - Campbell Hall
3/20 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
3/21 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
4/3 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre
4/4 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre
4/6 - Olympic Valley, CA - WinterWonderGrass Tahoe
4/9-4/12 - Puerto Aventuras, QR - The Avett Brothers At The Beach
Steve Martin and the Board of The Steve Martin Banjo Prize have announced two winners for this year’s prize. Building on the Board’s mission to recognize excellence across the spectrum of banjo styles, this year’s recipients represent excellence in both 5-string bluegrass and 4-string plectrum banjo traditions.
Martin comments: “Once again, we are all honored to acknowledge these dedicated and highly-skilled musicians.” Martin will introduce viewers to the winners on December 11th at 6PM EDT on the Deering Banjo Company’s livestream show Deering Live on their YouTube channel. The live stream will be co-hosted by board co-chair Alison Brown and will be co-posted on the Facebook pages of sponsors FreshGrass Foundation and Compass Records as well as No Depression, Folk Alley and the International Bluegrass Music Association. The program will include interviews and musical performances. Viewers can click HERE to watch the live stream.
The 2023 winners are Cynthia Sayer of New York City, NY and the late Terry Baucom of Elkin, North Carolina. Each recipient will receive a $25,000 unrestricted cash prize, with Baucom’s prize being accepted by his family.
Cynthia Sayer:
Praised for her “drive and virtuosity” by The New York Times, instrumentalist/vocalist/bandleader Cynthia Sayer is renowned for bringing the swinging sounds of jazz banjo, the original fretted instrument of jazz, to concert and festival audiences worldwide. An American Banjo Hall of Famer and pioneer on her instrument, Sayer pays tribute to America’s jazz heritage through her virtuoso playing, relatable vocals, and informative, entertaining anecdotes. Sayer is a multi-instrumentalist heard on feature film and TV soundtracks and has appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows, performed at The White House, played with The New York Philharmonic and The New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and is a longtime founding member of Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band. She is also an avid educator with a long track record of jazz workshops, lecture/demos, and educational programming for all ages.
Terry Baucom:
Over the course of a 50-year career, Terry Baucom set the bar for bluegrass banjo players with his inimitable, hard-driving style. Nicknamed the “Duke of Drive” for the constancy of his timing, clean playing and clear tone, Baucom played with some of the most influential musicians in bluegrass and has helped to expand the possibilities for 3-finger banjo. In 1975, he co-founded the groundbreaking group Boone Creek with Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas. In 1979 he became a founding member of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver and, in the early 90s, he founded IIIrd Time Out. In 2023, Baucom received the Distinguished Achievement from the International Bluegrass Music Association for his contributions to the furtherance of bluegrass music. He was also a member of the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame and a mentor to aspiring musicians. Sadly, Terry Baucom passed away on December 7th following a brief but debilitating illness, just days after receiving word that he had been selected as one of this year’s recipients.
Rhino is kicking off the New Year with 18 limited-edition titles releasing throughout January. Start Your Ear Off Right features releases from celebrated artists like Black Sabbath, The Doors, The English Beat, Grateful Dead, Stevie Nicks, Velvet Underground, Yes and more. Kicking off January 5, these exclusive releases will be available at participating brick-and-mortar and online retailers.
For more information on participating retailers in North America, visit rhino.com/syeor.
Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy-winning producer Larry Campbell and singer-guitarist Teresa Williams - named “The First Couple of Americana” by Mojo - have announced their 4th studio album All This Time. Set for release on April 5 via Royal Potato Family, the ten track collection celebrates 40 years of music and marriage for the duo. Produced by Campbell with contributions from Grammy-winner Justin Guip (Levon Helm, David Bromberg) who recorded and mixed the album and contributed percussion, Little Feat legend Bill Payne on piano and organ, new band member Brandon Morrison on bass and vocals, and a special appearance by Levon Helm on drums, recorded shortly before his passing.
“The biscuit making in telling the collective story is in being honest about our own story, pain and all,” says Williams of the forthcoming project. “This is what we do, and why we do it. When we settled on the album title, suddenly I saw in this circle of songs, that Larry had unwittingly written the ‘for better or worse’ tale of a long relationship — All This Time, complete with the beauty and tragedy of how quickly it goes.”
Listen to lead single “Desert Island Dreams” out today and pre-order / pre-save All This Time (due out April 5, 2024 on Royal Potato Family) here: https://orcd.co/desertislanddreams.
Although they made their marks separately - Campbell as an indispensable multi-instrumentalist with Bob Dylan, kd lang, Sheryl Crow, Keith Richards, Emmylou Harris and others, and Williams as a stage actor in productions like Keep On the Sunny Side where she portrayed Sara Carter and Always… Patsy Cline - their performing partnership was molded while recording and touring with Levon Helm, iconic drummer and voice of The Band. Since the pair’s 2015 debut, they’ve toured the world with the likes of Jackson Browne, Phil Lesh & Friends, John Prine and Little Feat. In 2020 Campbell and Williams were profiled in the ten-part documentary series titled It Was the Music on Amazon Prime which gave viewers an intimate view of the realities of pursuing careers - and a lasting marriage - as professional musicians.
All This Time follows Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams (2015), Contraband Love (2017), and Live at Levon’s (2023). Highlights among its ten tracks include songs like “Desert Island Dreams,” a dazzling ode to escapism, which showcases Teresa’s vocal power and Larry’s Jeff Beck-flavored guitar riffs, “Ride With Me,” a classic road song, which mythologizes the fabled promise of two lovers taking to the road, and “The Way You Make Me Feel,” a swaggering roots rocker that features Larry on lead vocals, most certainly expressing his affection for Teresa. An album centerpiece, its title track, recognizes love’s humbling power as it testifies, “All I want, all I need, is right in front of me.’’ This celebration of love and commitment continues on three songs by outside songwriters: “I Love You,” written by Julie Miller, bursts with joy, while the country standard, “That’s All It Took,” confesses “I still tremble at your name.” For the album’s closing number, the duo offer Jesse Colin Young’s “The Pretty And The Fair,” a gorgeous ballad that turns its attention from the connection between two people to an all encompassing embrace of compassion and empathy for nature and humanity: "As my hands reach to touch those who will not forget to care, I will live for the pretty and the fair.”
All This Time takes stock of Larry and Teresa’s journey through the years and turns it into a series of deep, rooted Americana songs that honor an enduring love meant to go the distance.
Throughout 2024, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams will perform across North America, making stops in Boston, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta and more. Please find all upcoming tour dates below, including their anticipated return to the 30A Songwriter Festival this weekend in South Walton, Florida.
All This Time track list
1. Desert Island Dreams
2. All This Time
3. Ride With Me
4. The Way You Make Me Feel
5. I Think About You
6. That’s All It Took
7. A Little Better
8. I Love You
9. We Done Earned It
10. Pretty and The Fair
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams 2024 tour dates
1/13 - South Walton, FL - 30A Songwriter Festival
1/14 - South Walton, FL - 30A Songwriter Festival
1/17 - Cancún, Quintana Roo - Feat Camp
1/18 - Cancún, Quintana Roo - Feat Camp
1/19 - Cancún, Quintana Roo - Feat Camp
1/20 - Cancún, Quintana Roo - Feat Camp
4/16 - Boston, MA - City Winery
4/17 - Fairfield, CT - Stage One
4/18 - Ardmore, PA - Ardmore Music Hall
4/20 - Vienna, VA - Jammin' Java
4/21 - Pittsburgh, PA - Thunderbird Music Hall
4/23 - Columbus, OH - Natalie's
4/24 - Detroit, MI - Magic Bag
4/26 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk Music
Today, Sierra Ferrell invites listeners to join her on a beautifully untamed and time-bending journey through the Trail of Flowers. Announced this morning and out March 22nd on Rounder Records, the new LP has already been hailed as one of the "most anticipated albums of 2024" (Variety), from one of "the most exciting country musicians in all of America" (Paste). Following her 2021 debut, Long Time Coming – which turned the West Virginia-born, Nashville-based Ferrell from train-hopping, hitchhiking vagabond to a viral sensation and "rising star" (Rolling Stone) – Trail of Flowers reveals the wealth of wisdom and wild imagination behind her inimitable voice, shapeshifting sound and wondrous inner-world. Across the record's 12 songs, Ferrell blends boldly new ideas and old-time music to tell spellbinding stories about her struggle to build a life in a culture consumed by capitalism. Between dive bar romances, murder ballads and feverish tales of fending for food, the words and emotions are informed by her nomadic and ragged upbringing, busking everywhere from truck stops to alleyways, boxcars and the streets of New Orleans with a group of young, itinerant musicians.
Pre-orderTrail of Flowers and watch the video for brand new single
"Dollar Bill Bar," featuring backing vocals from Nikki Lane and Kristen Rogers
On the heels of 2023's scorching "Fox Hunt," Trail of Flowers' latest preview, "Dollar Bill Bar," illustrates a swinging and wistful cycle of longing, regret and recklessness, as Sierra Ferrell fills the song with intricate poetry, fleeting lust and scenes of broken-down dreams. In addition to Nikki Lane and Kristen Rogers, Trail of Flowers features contributions from illustrious musicians like Lukas Nelson and Chris Scruggs. It was primarily recorded at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studios and produced by Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton) and Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Gillian Welch). On making the album, merging classic musicianship with decidedly modern concerns, and fulfilling her longstanding mission to transcend the barriers of time, Sierra Ferrell says:
"With Trail of Flowers, I wanted to make a fuller sound with bigger drums, but still stay true to the stripped-down feel of old-time music whenever it felt right. I wanted to create something that makes people feel nostalgic for the past, but excited about the future of music. I'm just trying to put words and melodies together and build it into something people can pour their feelings into, all their happiness and sorrows, so that it changes their reality a little bit and gives them some comfort. To me music is like medicine. Whenever I write a song and it feels healing to me, I know it can heal other people too."
While she has drawn comparisons to "Loretta Lynn's holler-raised twang, Dolly Parton's effortless melodiousness, Bessie Smith's confident rasp" (Pitchfork), Trail of Flowers is completely and distinctly Sierra Ferrell: unconventional, unbreakable, and unforgettable. Tonight, she will showcase that singular style as she makes her national television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Tune in to ABC at 11:35pm ET / 10:35pm CT.
Since the release of her 2021 album Long Time Coming, Sierra Ferrell earned Emerging Artist of The Year at the 2022 Americana Honors & Awards, and sold out every one of her live shows in 2023. She has become one of Nashville's most in-demand musicians, collaborating with Zach Bryan, Diplo, Margo Price, Shakey Graves and The Black Keys, sharing stages with Lana Del Rey, The Avett Brothers and Nathaniel Rateliff, being covered by Kelly Clarkson, and enchanting every audience through her eccentric and enthralling performances.
Before the arrival of Trail of Flowers, Sierra Ferrell will begin debuting more of the new music on her cross-country Shoot For The Moon Tour, including sold-out shows at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and DC's 9:30 Club, as well as multiple nights at LA's Fonda Theatre and Chicago's Thalia Hall, stops at NYC's Webster Hall and dozens of other venues, ahead of a stadium run with Zach Bryan and newly added dates with The Avett Brothers. Find the full list below, and tickets at sierraferrellmusic.com/tour.
Today, Rhino releases another set of high-quality quadraphonic releases, back in circulation after nearly 50 years; this next set features Average White Band’s Self-Titled (1974), Gil Evans’ Svengali (1973), Randy Newman’s Good Old Boys (1974) and WAR’s The World Is A Ghetto (1972).
Available now, each title makes its Blu-ray debut with both a quadraphonic and 192/24 stereo mix. Currently exclusive to Rhino.com, with limited quantities at Warner stores internationally, each title retails for $24.98, with a bundle of all four available for $79.98. Fans can also mix and match any four Quadio titles from the series for $78.98. Order HERE.
Quadraphonic sound, or 4.0 surround sound, utilizes four audio channels connected to four speakers positioned at the corners of a listening space. The multi-tracked audio is mixed dimensional, immersing the listener in an expansive soundscape.
Steve Woolard, Director of A&R for the Quadio series, states, “It’s been exciting to see the overwhelmingly positive reception with the relaunch of the Quadio series. These are transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters at 192/24 resolution and sound amazing. Considering they’ve been in the vault for 50 years, the tapes were in pristine condition and needed no tweaks or fixes. They sound as fresh, rich, and powerful as the day they were created. And, of course, there’s also a 192/24 stereo program from the two-track master as well. Just because.”
Scottish funk group Average White Band’s self-titled sophomore album dominated the charts after its 1974 release, with the hit track “Pick Up the Pieces” peaking at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100.
Gil Evans, renowned jazz composer and arranger, released his live orchestral jazz album Svengali in 1973, featuring a star-studded lineup of jazz musicians, including Ted Dunbar, Howard Johnson, David Sanborn, Hannibal Marvin Peterson, and more.
Randy Newman's concept album Good Old Boys explored the social and economic issues of the Deep South and found commercial success, peaking at No. 36 on the Billboard 200 and featuring the tracks “Louisiana 1927” and “Every Man a King.”
The 1973 Billboard Album of the Year, WAR’s The World Is A Ghetto, saw the group leaning towards a progressive soul and jazz sound. The record housed the gold-certified tracks “The Cisco Kid” and “The World Is A Ghetto.”
Rhino’s Quadio series will continue to dig deep into Warner’s archives to reintroduce the greatest hits from Rock, Blues, R&B, and more in their highly anticipated quadraphonic sound. Audiophiles can expect more amazing quadraphonic experiences from Rhino in the future.
Trombone Shorty took over Havana last weekend, leading a group of all-star American artists and teen musicians from the Trombone Shorty Foundation to the schools, clubs and streets of Cuba to celebrate the New Orleans – Cuba connection and unite around music. The five-day cultural exchange trip took place from January 11-15, 2024, marking the third edition of the “Getting Funky in Havana” festival. Since 2018, the Trombone Shorty Foundation has been building a relationship with Cuban musicians and students as a part of the “Getting Funky In Havana” program, in partnership with Afro-Cuban rockstar Cimafunk.
Shorty led a who’s who of New Orleans musical luminaries—Ivan Neville, Anders Osborne, PJ Morton, Tarriona “Tank” Ball (of Tank and the Bangas), Mannie Fresh, Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, Big Chief Juan Pardo and Big Freedia. Ten students from the Trombone Shorty Academy also joined the group, along with Cuban powerhouse musicians— percussionist Pedrito Martinez and drummer Yissy Garcia, both of whom now live in the States, and funksters Keyon Harrold and Nik West.
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue joined forces with Cuban legends Los Van Van, the premier Cuban salsa group of the last half-century, and Cuba’s 20-year-old reparto sensation Wampi to throw a mega concert on Saturday, January 13th at Club 500, drawing a crowd of over 15,000 people, the largest concert to be held in Cuba in the last four years. Several Cuban and American artists joined Trombone Shorty on stage throughout the night, including bounce artist Big Freedia, making it the largest crowd in Cuba to see an openly gay person perform. Trombone Shorty bussed in hundreds of Cuban music students, some of whom joined him on stage and performed a second line in the crowd together with American students from the Trombone Shorty Foundation.
Trombone Shorty also played cohost to the largest and most high-profile U.S-Cuba jam session to be held in Cuba. Over 30 artists from the U.S. and Cuba took the stage at Havana’s epic music venue the Fabrica de Arte Cubano, rocking the house for 2 hours to a sold-out crowd and thousands in line outside. The core band of Ivan Neville, Keyon Harrold, Nik West, Pedrito Martinez, Pete Murano and musical directors PJ Morton and Yissy Garcia was joined by New Orleans artists Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, Big Chief Juan Pardo, Big Freedia, Mannie Fresh and “Tank” Ball and Cuban artists Brenda Navarrete, Ibeyi, Reyna y Real, Rolando Luna, Wampi and X Alfonso.
A centerpiece of the “Getting Funky in Havana” experience is the ongoing collaboration with the Guillermo Tomas Music Conservatory in the city’s Guanabacoa neighborhood, which reflects the nation’s deep Afro-Cuban community. While at the school, the students from the Shorty Academy learned from and collaborated with the Cuban students, who last year visited New Orleans to perform with the Academy at New Orleans Jazz Festival and Shorty Fest, the foundation’s annual fundraiser. Trombone Shorty and all the visiting professional musicians took part in this day of cultural exploration and sharing, and Trombone Shorty and his foundation gave away much-needed new instruments to the school through a partnership with the non-profit Horns to Havana.
“New Orleans is my home away from home and nothing makes me happier than connecting the youth in our two countries,” says Cimafunk, who helps curate the program. “Cuba and New Orleans have centuries of shared culture and traditions that we need to continue to embrace, celebrate and share with the world. I’m so grateful to Trombone Shorty, PJ Morton, Big Freedia, Tank and all the other New Orleans artists for bringing their art to Cuba.”
"The 'Getting Funky in Havana' program is all about celebrating the connection between New Orleans and Cuba,” says Trombone Shorty. “Bringing artists from both places onto the same stage gives us the chance to show off the transformative and unifying essence of music. This trip is a reminder of how music can connect people across nations, keeping the roots of New Orleans music alive and setting the stage for the next generation of musicians to come.”
Shorty’s connection with Havana dates back to 1988, when he, alongside his brother James Andrews, embarked on a transformative journey to Cuba as part of a cultural exchange program. The profound impact of this journey on Shorty has served as the inspiration behind his mission to recreate aspects of that experience through his foundation and the Havana Funk Expedition. In 2019, Shorty led the inaugural cultural exchange trip under his foundation’s name, followed by a second trip last year. You can find NPR's coverage of the 2023 trip here.
ABOUT TROMBONE SHORTY
If anybody knows their way around a festival, it’s Grammy-winning artist Trombone Shorty. Born Troy Andrews, he got his start (and nickname) earlier than most: at four, he made his first appearance at Jazz Fest performing with Bo Diddley; at six, he was leading his own brass band; and by his teenage years, he was hired by Lenny Kravitz to join the band he assembled for his Electric Church World Tour. Shorty’s proven he’s more than just a horn player, though. Catch a gig, open the pages of the New York Times or Vanity Fair, flip on any late-night TV show and you’ll see an undeniable star with utterly magnetic charisma, a natural born showman who can command an audience with the best of them. Since 2010, he’s released four chart topping studio albums; toured with everyone from Jeff Beck to the Red Hot Chili Peppers; collaborated across genres with Pharrell, Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson, Foo Fighters, ZHU, Zac Brown, Normani, Ringo Starr, and countless more; played Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Newport Folk, Newport Jazz, and nearly every other major festival; performed four times at the GRAMMY Awards, five times at the White House, on dozens of TV shows, and at the star-studded Sesame Street Gala, where he was honored with his own Muppet; launched the Trombone Shorty Foundation to support youth music education; and received the prestigious Caldecott Honor for his first children’s book. Meanwhile in New Orleans, Shorty now leads his own Mardi Gras parade atop a giant float crafted in his likeness, hosts the annual Voodoo Threauxdown shows that have drawn guests including Usher, Nick Jonas, Dierks Bentley, Andra Day, and Leon Bridges to sit in with his band, and has taken over the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s hallowed final set, which has seen him closing out the internationally renowned gathering after performances by the likes of Neil Young, the Black Keys, and Kings of Leon.
Today, renowned singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JJ Grey unveils a new song, "Wonderland," from his upcoming album Olustee (out February 23 on Alligator Records). The single release today comes alongside an animated video, watch here. JJ Grey & Mofro have also announced a massive, months-long tour headlining iconic venues across the US, including The Ryman in Nashville, The Riviera in Chicago, The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, among many others.
"Wonderland" has already had great reception at radio with 13 adds at Triple-A (Adult Album Alternative), and 14 adds on Americana making it the #2 most added single at Americana and #1 highest debut on Americana singles chart.
On Olustee, Grey's first self-produced album, the North Florida-born and bred JJ sings his personal stories with universal themes of redemption, rebirth, hard luck, and inner peace. With his music, Grey also celebrates good times with lifelong friends, often mixing the carnal with the cerebral in the very same song. Fueled by his vividly detailed, timeless originals, spun from his own life and experiences in the Northern Florida swampland, Grey’s gritty baritone drips with honest passion and testifies with a preacher’s foot-pounding fervor.
JJ Grey spoke about "Wonderland" saying, "When I was younger it was so hard for me to write a song about simple happiness. This song is almost like a post-it note for me, there to remind me that every day is the first day of my life." Last month, Grey released the first two singles from the album, "The Sea" and “Rooster”. AllMusic says JJ Grey’s music is “as authentic as the ground under your feet, because that’s where it comes from -- just before it moves, simply and directly, through the body of the listener, into the human heart.”
Today, with the release of the galvanizing opener and strikingly self-honest title track from their forthcoming album, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers further show why Revelations is their most resilient and raw, blunt and biting, compassionate and celebratory set of music to date. Out March 29th on Abeyance Records/Thirty Tigers, the 10-song collection was self-produced by bandleader River Shook (they/them) for the very first time, with their unwavering integrity and working-class character at its autobiographical core. Shook's chief coping mechanism has always been songwriting, and on "Revelations" they use their singular collision of punk-rock truth telling and outlaw-country twang to illustrate the constant, unstable struggle of navigating mental health under the confines of capitalism. In between references to pittance payments and the old guard dictating one's worth, River Shook describes black clouds, sleepless nights and barely scraping by, all of which is brought to life in a stirring music video directed by Jordan Gibson.
Listen to "Revelations," and watch as River Shook stares down their demons: HERE
"Revelations" follows the recently released "Backsliders," which Rolling Stone named a Song You Need to Know, as River Shook "brings honesty and heart to every line they sing" (American Songwriter). Across the rest of the album, they channel the commanding energy and ferocious spirit of their live shows into pointed rally cries that capture the full gamut of the human experience. Whether it's denouncing patriarchs, fighting for queer love, coming to terms with issues of substance abuse and unhealthy relationships, or finding beauty at the end of the world, feelings of anger, sadness, confusion and acceptance all fill the LP, as Shook reaches the top of their game and reflects on their evolution as both an artist and a person.
While River Shook is based in Chapel Hill, NC, they live hundreds of dates a year on the road, making them an expert collector of human experiences and the ways in which people are getting by, keeping on and going through many of the same things together. Beginning this week, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers will perform the music of Revelations around the country, kicking off a 2024 tour that has just been extended with more than 20 new dates across the east and west coasts - including NYC's TV Eye, LA's Zebulon, and dozens of other stops that are on-sale now. See the expanded list of shows below, and find tickets at disarmers.com/tour.
Today, nine-time Grammy® Award Winner, Rock & Rock Hall of Famer, Kennedy Center Honoree, Gershwin-prize winner and music icon Joni Mitchell announces her first show in Los Angeles since 2000 to take place at the Hollywood Bowl on October 19, 2024. Mitchell’s live return to California will feature Brandi Carlile and the Joni Jam. Tickets will be available for Joni’s presale on Wednesday, January 31st and the tickets for the general public will go on sale Friday, February 2nd. Tickets will be available for purchase here.
This Sunday Joni Mitchell will perform at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards. This will be Mitchell’s first-ever performance at the GRAMMY Awards®; she is currently nominated for Best Folk Album (Joni Mitchell at Newport). Mitchell received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, having been described as "one of the most important female recording artists of the rock era" and "a powerful influence on all artists who embrace diversity, imagination and integrity".
In the past two years, Mitchell has triumphantly returned to the stage. First, at Newport Folk Festival in 2022, and this past June, she headlined a once-in-a-lifetime “Joni Jam” at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington. Some featured guests included Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Wendy and Lisa of Prince’s Revolution, Lucius and more. Mitchell’s show at The Gorge was her first ticketed show in 20 years.
Mitchell’s live return was commemorated earlier this year with Grammy-nominated JONI MITCHELL AT NEWPORT, the live album released by Rhino on CD and 2-LP black vinyl produced by close collaborator Brandi Carlile, along with Mitchell and featured liner notes by Cameron Crowe.
Over the past three years, Mitchell's expansive musical career has been archived through Grammy® Award-winning historical boxed sets released via Rhino Records. The Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967), Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971), and Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) feature unreleased home, live, and radio recordings of Mitchell's illustrious songwriting and singing.
About Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, the beloved Canadian singer-songwriter, profoundly impacted folk, rock, and pop music through her distinctive voice, innovative guitar playing, and a unique ability to craft poetic and thought-provoking lyrics.
Her prolific recording career began in 1968, resulting in a remarkable 19 studio albums and six live records, including platinum and multi-platinum selling. She is celebrated for her ability to seamlessly blend folk, jazz, and rock influences to create an instantly recognizable sound that is both timely and timeless. Her classic songs like “Big Yellow Taxi,” “A Case of You,” “Help Me,” and “Both Sides, Now,” continue to strike a chord with listeners. Beyond her musical talents, Mitchell is also a gifted painter, having said she considers herself a "painter derailed by circumstance” and her artwork often graces her album covers, underscoring her boundless creativity.
For nearly six decades, Mitchell’s extensive contributions to music have earned her numerous accolades. She is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1997) and a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1981). Rolling Stone ranks her among the greatest songwriters (#9), singers (#50), and guitarists (#9) of all time. Her most recent Grammy win came in 2022 when the first volume of her ongoing Joni Mitchell Archives series earned the award for Best Historical Album.
Today, Mitchell’s influence is undeniable. The Kennedy Center Honors recognized her lifetime contribution to American culture in 2021. In 2023, she was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at an all-star tribute concert in Washington, D.C.
For more than four decades the songwriter, New York Times best-selling author (The Wind Done Gone), and acclaimed educator Alice Randall has been one of the few Black female writers on Nashville’s Music Row, and the first to pen a #1 hit (Trisha Yearwood’s "XXXs and OOOs"). And while she has seen her songs recorded by multiple generations of country artists - from Glen Campbell and Mo Bandy, to Marie Osmond and Yearwood - none of those artists looked like her. Until now.
On April 12, Oh Boy Records will release My Black Country, a collection of Randall’s most beloved songs as interpreted by some of the strongest Black female voices in modern country, roots and folk music including Rhiannon Giddens, Saaneah Jamison, Valerie June, Miko Marks, Leyla McCalla, Rissi Palmer, Allison Russell, Sistastrings, Adia Victoria, Sunny War, and Alice’s daughter Caroline Randall Williams.
Produced by Ebonie Smith - whose credits include Hamilton, Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy, Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, Sturgill Simpson’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth and more - My Black Country is an exploration of the history of Black contributions to the country, roots and folk genres, and a poignant reclamation of Randall's own work depicting powerful Black narratives.
To coincide with the album announcement, Oh Boy Records is sharing "Went for a Ride," performed by singer-songwriter Adia Victoria. Listen to the single here
Reflecting on her work, Alice Randall says “Because all the singers of my songs had been white, because country has white-washed black lives out of country space, most of my audience assumed the stars of my songs were all white. I wanted to rescue my Black characters. This album does that; it centers black female creativity, but it welcomes co-creators and allies from a myriad of identities. This is the good harvest: abundant love and beauty for all.”
Of the project, Fiona Prine says “It’s been one of the highlights of my career to have worked on this important project. I am humbled that Alice trusted me with her ideas and dreams. These are important songs with lyrics that speak to today. Oh Boy Records is proud and excited to introduce this project to the world”
Adia Victoria says “To join the circle of Black women coming together to re-imagine the songs and stories of Alice Randall was the definition of blues work. This is the work of reclaiming, re-conjuring, re-centering and resurfacing Black, Southern storytelling that has too long been denied its due outside the “qualifier” of Whiteness. The Storybook of Alice Randall allows for a closer listening—a truer listening—to the lives and stories of the Black Southern women I always imagined living the lyrics in Alice’s songs.”
The My Black Country album release will coincide with the publication of Alice’s memoir of the same name, out April 9 on Atria/Black Privilege Publishing via Simon & Schuster. Alice wrote the book to honor the pioneering figures of Black Country and to chronicle her own four-decade journey through the genre.
Stay tuned for news and events celebrating My Black Country, to be announced soon.
My Black Country Tracklist:
Small Towns - Leyla McCalla
Girls Ride Horses - SistaStrings
Went for a Ride - Adia Victoria
Sally Anne - Rhiannon Giddens
Solitary Hero - Sunny War
Cry - Miko Marks
Many Mansions - Allison Russell
Get The Hell Outta Dodge - Saaneah Jamison
Who’s Minding The Garden - Rissi Palmer
Big Dream - Valerie June
XXX’s and OOO’s - Caroline Randall Williams
About Alice Randall:
Alice Randall, a distinguished professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often wise” (The New York Times Book Review) voice, stands as a trailblazer in Nashville, making her mark as one of the few Black Country songwriters in the city. Her notable contributions extend to legendary artists like Trisha Yearwood and Johnny Cash. Drawing inspiration from the first family of Black country music, including DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries, Randall finds solace in their history. My Black Country emerges as a celebration of the quintessentially American music genre, highlighting the profound influence of Black culture on the country.
Due to overwhelming demand, nine-time Grammy® Award Winner, Rock & Rock Hall of Famer, Kennedy Center Honoree, Gershwin-prize winner and music icon Joni Mitchell announces a second Hollywood Bowl show on October 20, 2024. These will be her first shows in Los Angeles since 2000. Mitchell’s live return to California will feature Brandi Carlile and the Joni Jam. Tickets will be available for Joni’s presale Thursday, February 1 with the general on sale Friday, February 2nd.
This Sunday Joni Mitchell will perform at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards. This will be Mitchell’s first-ever performance at the GRAMMY Awards®; she is currently nominated for Best Folk Album (Joni Mitchell at Newport). Mitchell received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, having been described as "one of the most important female recording artists of the rock era" and "a powerful influence on all artists who embrace diversity, imagination and integrity".
In the past two years, Mitchell has triumphantly returned to the stage. First, at Newport Folk Festival in 2022, and this past June, she headlined a once-in-a-lifetime “Joni Jam” at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington. Some featured guests included Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Wendy and Lisa of Prince’s Revolution, Lucius and more. Mitchell’s show at The Gorge was her first ticketed show in 20 years.
Mitchell’s live return was commemorated earlier this year with Grammy-nominated JONI MITCHELL AT NEWPORT, the live album released by Rhino on CD and 2-LP black vinyl produced by close collaborator Brandi Carlile, along with Mitchell and featured liner notes by Cameron Crowe.
Over the past three years, Mitchell's expansive musical career has been archived through Grammy® Award-winning historical boxed sets released via Rhino Records. The Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967), Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971), and Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) feature unreleased home, live, and radio recordings of Mitchell's illustrious songwriting and singing.
About Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, the beloved Canadian singer-songwriter, profoundly impacted folk, rock, and pop music through her distinctive voice, innovative guitar playing, and a unique ability to craft poetic and thought-provoking lyrics.
Her prolific recording career began in 1968, resulting in a remarkable 19 studio albums and six live records, including platinum and multi-platinum selling. She is celebrated for her ability to seamlessly blend folk, jazz, and rock influences to create an instantly recognizable sound that is both timely and timeless. Her classic songs like “Big Yellow Taxi,” “A Case of You,” “Help Me,” and “Both Sides, Now,” continue to strike a chord with listeners. Beyond her musical talents, Mitchell is also a gifted painter, having said she considers herself a "painter derailed by circumstance” and her artwork often graces her album covers, underscoring her boundless creativity.
For nearly six decades, Mitchell’s extensive contributions to music have earned her numerous accolades. She is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (1997) and a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1981). Rolling Stone ranks her among the greatest songwriters (#9), singers (#50), and guitarists (#9) of all time. Her most recent Grammy win came in 2022 when the first volume of her ongoing Joni Mitchell Archives series earned the award for Best Historical Album.
Today, Mitchell’s influence is undeniable. The Kennedy Center Honors recognized her lifetime contribution to American culture in 2021. In 2023, she was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at an all-star tribute concert in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations are in order today to the For the Birds: The Birdsong Project who on Sunday earned a Grammy Win for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package.
The 5 Volume, 20-LP Deluxe Box set packaging was designed by Jeri Heiden and John Heiden with contributions from dozens of artists, and The Birdsong Project was produced by Randall Poster, the Grammy Award-winning producer and music supervisor known for his longtime work with Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese. It was conceived and inspired by Executive Producer Rebecca Reagan, who brought a grand creative vision and wisdom to the project. Additional executive producers are Elliot Bergman, Stewart Lerman and Lee Ranaldo.
The complete 5-volume collection from The Birdsong Project is available digitally for streaming though the full collection is also available as a limited edition 20-LP deluxe box set, which features a 60-page book including an essay by musician-ornithologist Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater and a package bursting with paintings and illustrations of birds by well-known artists.
Of the win the Heidens say,”On behalf of The Birdsong Project and the National Audubon Society we are thrilled to receive this recognition from our peers in the music industry. We hope that it will continue to inspire people toward conservation of birds and their habitats.”
Randall Poster adds,” We are thrilled to see the Birdsong Project recognized by the music community. John and Jeri designed the most beautiful box set ever.”
"We are incredibly proud to stand alongside the Grammy Award-winning Birdsong Project," said Dr. Elizabeth Gray, Chief Executive Officer of the National Audubon Society. "This project celebrates birds and the joy they bring to our lives. At Audubon, our unwavering commitment to the conservation of birds is rooted in the understanding that they serve as critical indicators of our planet's health. As they thrive, so do we.”
The project’s expansive collection of 242 recordings represents a remarkable assemblage of diverse talent from across the creative community in support of an important cause, including GRAMMY, Oscar, Emmy, Pulitzer, Peabody and James Beard Award winners Ad-Rock, Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Beck, Cassandra Jenkins, Dan Deacon, Julia Holter, Daniel Lanois, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips, Haden Triplets, Jeff Tweedy, Jim James, Kamasi Washington, Karen O, Kurt Vile, Atlas Sound & L’Rain, Makaya McCraven, Arturo O’Farrill, Hania Rani, Mark Ronson, Nick Cave, Stephin Merritt, Mark Mothersbaugh, Terry Riley, Tyondai Braxton, UNKLE, Yo-Yo Ma, and many more. The majority of the recordings were made specifically for this project.
Spoken-word contributions recorded and donated to the project feature an array of writers and actors including Jonathan Franzen, Maggie Smith, Ocean Vuong, Alice Waters, George Saunders, Florence Welch, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Jelani Cobb, Matthew McConaughey, Natasha Lyonne, Regina King, Robert Pattinson, Sean Penn, Tilda Swinton, Tim Blake Nelson, Bobby Cannavale, Olivia Wilde, and more.
Proceeds from The Birdsong Project benefit the National Audubon Society, a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to protecting birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow.
Blind Boys of Alabama have won the 2024 GRAMMY Award for Best Roots Gospel Album for Echoes Of The South, marking the sixth total win for the Gospel Music Hall Of Fame and Alabama Music Hall Of Fame inductees. A group credited with "soundtracking the Civil Rights Movement" (CNN), the Blind Boys received their first GRAMMY nomination in 1972 before taking home Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album in 2002 for Spirit Of The Century. In total they have been nominated for 16 GRAMMYs - with 14 of those nominations and all six wins coming during the group's 21st century renaissance (including three nominations this year, their most ever in a single year). Additionally they were honored with a GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
Echoes Of The South marks the first album that the Blind Boys of Alabama have ever fully made in their namesake state - a homecoming for the ages. The album’s title takes its name from a Birmingham radio show that the Blind Boys grew up idolizing - tuning into groups like the Golden Gate Quartet each afternoon - before they eventually became guests on the show themselves. The tracklist is similarly rooted in coming home, drawing from the music that’s most inspired them over their careers: long-lost gospel classics, traditional spirituals and timeless R&B/soul cuts made famous by artists like Stevie Wonder, Pops Staples and Curtis Mayfield. Even the album’s cover features braille for the first time; among the personal touches that establish Echoes Of The South as a "homecoming" in so many senses of the word. Echoes Of The South was co-produced by Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, John Prine), Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes, Jason Isbell) and Charles Driebe.
The GRAMMY win kicks off an exciting 2024 for The Blind Boys of Alabama, who have penned a memoir with historian Preston Lauterbach - Spirit Of The Century - coming March 19 via Hachette Books. The group also star in the upcoming PBS Special 'A Symphony Celebration: The Blind Boys of Alabama with Dr. Henry Panion, III' which features the group performing alongside a full symphony orchestra, and a 300-member choir from Alabama's Historically Black Colleges and Universities. They will also continue touring throughout the year, and return with a brand new single featuring multiple collaborators for Record Store Day 2024 - including their friend Bobby Rush, who won a GRAMMY this year as well for Best Traditional Blues Album.
A full list of currently-announced Blind Boys of Alabama tour dates can be found here, including four West Coast shows with Bobby Rush this week.
Today, the Grateful Dead have broken the record for most Billboard Top 40 albums of all time, by any act in history. Further cementing the legendary band as one of the world's most treasured musical and social phenomena, Dave's Picks Vol. 49 debuts at #25 on this week's Billboard 200, and marks the Dead's 59th album in the Top 40. On the heels of Dave's Picks Vol. 48, which tied both Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley's chart records this past fall, the latest edition of the beloved 13-year-old series pushes the group into a category of one. But beyond this staggering statistic, the historic achievement serves as a tangible testament to the enduring connection between the Grateful Dead and their ever-expanding audience. Nearly 60 years since the band's inception, that bond is as strong today as it has ever been, spanning several generations and bringing newer and younger followers into its fold every day. As fans continue to adopt the group as part of their personal identity, the Grateful Dead's all-encompassing ecosystem continues on its precedent-setting path of growth in the modern era.
Dave's Picks Vol. 49 consists of two complete Grateful Dead shows from Stanford University's Frost Amphitheatre on 4/27/85 and 4/28/85; back-to-back hometown performances that reaffirmed the band – then twenty years into their immortal run – as a San Francisco institution. Like each of Dave's Picks quarterly installments, the top-grade, beautifully packaged compendium was produced and curated by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux. Vol. 49 is Dave's Picks' 41st title to enter the Top 40 and the Grateful Dead's 45th Top 40 record released by Rhino Entertainment. It also debuts #1 on Billboard's Top Album Sales this week, marking the first time the Dead have topped that chart.
"This could be the most unlikely and unexpected record in music history, and is a testament to a few things," says David Lemieux, who celebrates his 25th Anniversary with the Grateful Dead in 2024. "First and foremost is the exceptional and consistent quality of the Grateful Dead's more than 2,000 live shows. On the heels of this is the loyalty and passion of the many Dead Heads who have made this record possible. And to top it off, the Grateful Dead have a partnership with Rhino that ensures these many album releases are produced with care, love, and respect for both the band's music and legacy, and the Dead Heads themselves. It's an honour and privilege to work for this community, and our aim is to keep building on this record by delivering the quality of recordings Dead Heads have come to expect for many years ahead."
Mark Pinkus, President of Rhino, adds, "It is truly remarkable to witness the Grateful Dead's enduring legacy and profound impact. Their music and culture transcend time, and this groundbreaking achievement is a testament to their ongoing influence. Rhino is honored to continue to share their meaningful and magical music with Dead Heads, both old and new."
"This remarkable achievement speaks not only to the genius and vision of the Grateful Dead, it is also a reminder of their truly epic live shows that reinterpreted their great American songbook every single time they took the stage! Simply put, this is another incredible milestone for a band who has never compromised, and has always done everything on their own terms," says Bernie Cahill, Founding Partner, Activist Artists Management and manager of the Grateful Dead.
With the impending release of Dave's Picks Vol. 50 (Palladium, New York City - 5/3/77), in addition to 50th Anniversary reissues, high-fidelity vinyl pressings, a new season of the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast and so much more on the horizon in 2024, the Grateful Dead remain committed to serving their always-growing community and time-honored traditions, with a pioneering devotion to complete accessibility.
Rhino congratulates Joni Mitchell, who shortly after earning her 10th GRAMMY Award yesterday, made history with her first-ever performance on the GRAMMYs stage. The Rock & Rock Hall of Famer, Kennedy Center Honoree and Gershwin-prize winner, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday, dazzled the audience with a “powerful performance” (Pitchfork) of her timeless classic “Both Sides Now,” supported by an all-star cast of “Joni Jammers” including Brandi Carlile, Jacob Collier, Lucius, Blake Mills, Allison Russell, and SistaStrings. Mitchell “seemed to stop time” (New York Times) and “brought the tears” (Rolling Stone) during what the Associated Press called “an emotional highlight” of the evening. “The entire audience rose to their feet” (CNN) after the moving performance, which “felt rich with gravitas and grace” (Washington Post). “In performing an instant-classic awards-show set, she affirmed her timelessness—and her influence on a new generation of artists,” writes the Atlantic.
Mitchell, who was previously honored with the Recording Academy’s “Lifetime Achievement” Award in 2002, also received her 10th GRAMMY Award for Best Folk Album with Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino), the live recording of her surprise return to the stage at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival. The album was produced by Mitchell and Brandi Carlile, features new live performances of Mitchell’s most beloved songs including “Big Yellow Taxi,” “A Case Of You,” and “Both Sides Now.” Listen to Joni Mitchell At Newport here: https://jm.lnk.to/JMAtNewport
Last week, Mitchell announced two headline shows at The Hollywood Bowl set for October 19th and 20th, 2024, marking her first headline shows in Los Angeles in nearly 25 years. The anticipated performances, which sold out just seconds after going on sale, will feature Brandi Carlile and the Joni Jam. For more information, please visit https://jonimitchell.com/
With the recent launch of Casa Gogol Records (Rolling Stone), Eugene Hütz, frontman of NYC’s celebrated Gogol Bordello, is on a mission to amplify a New New York sound. His new band Puzzled Panther is led by principal songwriter Victoria Espinoza, Kay Bontempo, Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Alex Ryaboy.
On Wednesday, February 21, Puzzled Panther kicks off the art punk party of the year at Baby's All Right, with material from their upcoming self-titled EP. The night is a double bill with Knifethrower, a new band founded by former Skeleton Key frontman Erik Sanko. Knifethrower draws on their past experiences and collaborations with James Chance and the Contortions, John Cale, SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch), The Lounge Lizards, and Yoko Ono.
Puzzled Panther is set to release their self-titled debut EP on Casa Gogol Records in Spring 2024. Their new video for “Smoke and the Mirrors We Broke” is out now - single is produced by post-punk legend Nick Launay (Nick Cave, Amyl and the Sniffers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Idles).
Coming off the heels of a debilitating pandemic, the live music scene in New York is back with a vengeance and buzzing with new artists. Puzzled Panther’s show at Baby’s All Right will kick off Hütz’s New New York Continuity Project, an accelerator showcase for young artists in New York City. This project, born out of Casa Gogol’s mission to foster New New York talent, will continue on to Heaven Can Wait residency starting on March 1 with DJ HÜTZ and Mary Shelley. The New New York Continuity Project will showcase young New York bands playing iconic tracks from iconic New York bands. Think Puzzled Panther does Sonic Youth, or Mary Shelley does The Talking Heads…
“NYC has the most incredible musical lineage, we can't let it slip away! We have to preserve it and strengthen it. Thus NYContinuity project, where New School collaborates with OG’s” - Eugene says.
CashorTrade has unlocked the power of the face value movement by providing the only fan-to-fan social ticketing platform where real fans buy, sell, and trade tickets at face value. It has revolutionized the ticketing landscape by forming direct partnerships with events and lobbying for ticket legislation.
The mission is to provide a safe alternative from the predatory scalping and scamming in the resale market that destroys the ticket buying experience and creates friction at the box office. With over a million fans across its website, app, and social networks, CashorTrade has established itself as a trusted marketplace designed for and by the fans.
With the growing competition in the live event space and rising prices, fans demand a resale option if they can no longer attend the event. They have become frustrated with the resale space profiteering from the artificial inflation brokers create when re-listing high quantities of tickets obtained by hacker-bot software.
The exorbitant fees on top of the purchase price puts tickets out of reach for real fans. CashorTrade has teamed up with artists to elevate the fan experience by increasing ticket sales by selling direct to fans through running pre-sales and ticket drops, reducing the operational and financial risk by managing the events fan exchange, and bolstering event holders' commitment towards protecting their customers.
Founded in Burlington, VT, by web developers and brothers Brando Rich and Dusty Rich, CashorTrade has become the go-to app to safely transact. The platform has restored trust in ticketing by providing a transparent interface where users create profiles, connect with friends, and leave reviews.
Unlike other apps, CashorTrade allows fans to sell their tickets without any fees. Buyers benefit from a minimal 10% platform contribution, which is waived for gold members. Every transaction is safeguarded by Trader’s Protection™ escrow and insurance, ensuring a secure purchase with a money-back guarantee.
A range of successful partnerships in 2023 played a key role in CashorTrade’s robust growth. Highlights included:
**Partnered with 46 artists, events, and festivals, and across all 50 U.S. states and 46 countries. (See a full list of partners below.)
**Closed a $1 Million dollar Investment Series Seed Round of funding this past October and grew its in house team to 30 and extended its advisory board to include Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield, former Music Today Exec Mark Meyerson, NBA’s Grayson Allen of the Phoenix Suns and Jesse Itzler a renowned entrepreneur, author, and rapper.
**Added to the steering committee of the National Independent Venue Association’s “Fix the Tix,” a national coalition supporting proposed federal legislation to ensure fair and transparent ticket sales. These efforts reflect the need for essential systemic changes, many of which originally inspired CashorTrade’s mission.
**Official Fan Exchanges invited artists, festivals, and venues to link fans directly to the platform, providing a free, scalper-free service reducing box office friction.
**Partnering festivals---including High Sierra Music Festival, DelFest, FloydFest, Red Wing Roots, Secret Dreams, Borderland, Blue Ox, Northlands, Rooster Walk, and more---saw an average 16% increase in their ticket sales.
**CashorTrade’s Primary Ticket Drops and Presales connected with artists (including Tyler Childers, Billy Strings, String Cheese Incident, Goose, Sylvan Esso, and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead), venues, and festivals to sell limited batches of tickets to real fans, not scalpers.
**Fans can now donate to partnering artist charities through the app, building goodwill and aligning with organizations that share the company’s values.
“Dusty and I are thrilled to see the success and growth of CashorTrade, an initiative we started to help frustrated ticket buyers like ourselves,” CashorTrade CEO Brando Rich said. “Our mission has always been to prioritize the fan experience and provide a platform where tickets are traded ethically and securely.”
CashorTrade has exciting plans for 2024. A newly designed Beta app featuring updated UI/UX, ticket wallet/uploader, streamlined checkout, extended banking features including ACH transactions, and anti-scalper technology will be launched in the spring, as well as soon to be announced API integrations direct with primary ticket companies.
Tickets for even more musical genres will be included this year, forging new platform partnerships and fan connections. The company is also planning to expand ticket services across sports, comedy, theater, beer festivals and more. These new areas of experience will create abundant opportunities for new fans and partnerships, growing the Face Value Movement.
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan has unveiled a new single “Daughters” from her forthcoming studio album All My Friends, due out March 22nd via Yep Roc Records. As with the entire collection, “Daughters” is a meditation on the eternal quest for women’s rights and equality. O’Donovan infuses the experiences of the Suffragettes, who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment and paved the way for their daughters, with her own experiences as a modern woman who wants to build a future for her own daughter. “Looking back from the next century, what will they see?” She sings in the first verse.
O’Donovan recorded vocals live at Full Sail University in Orlando with guitar, bass and drums before adding the lush string arrangement by The Knights, recorded in NYC and conducted by Eric Jacobsen, O’Donovan’s husband and album co-producer. The track also features brass quartet The Westerlies and mesmerizing vocal harmonies by the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus (aged 12-18).
O’Donovan’s new solo album All My Friends is inspired by the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. The project - O’Donovan’s first self-produced album - features a number of special guests including Anaïs Mitchell, Sierra Hull, Noam Pikelny, Alan Hampton, Griffin Goldsmith and more. Most of the songs on the album grew out of two commissions O’Donovan took on - from the Orlando Philharmonic where she now lives, and the FreshGrass Festival in her native Massachusetts. Following performances with both institutions, O’Donovan continued to explore the themes that would become All My Friends in full. Listen to the title track “All My Friends” HERE.
In addition to the new single, O’Donovan has announced a handful of US tour dates with instrumental acoustic ensemble Hawktail today, including an album release show at Nashville’s American Legion Post 82 on March 29, a few days after her anticipated return to the Grand Ole Opry on March 27. Please see all upcoming dates below, including previously-announced performances at Big Ears Festival (featuring the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra), FreshGrass Bentonville and more, plus her Barbican Hall debut in London on June 18, with Eric Jacobsen conducting the Guildhall Session Orchestra and Music Centre London Session Choir.
“Light In The Eastern Sky”, a new festival curated by Aoife O’Donovan has also been announced today. Presented by Virginia Arts Festival, the one day event will take place on June 1 in Norfolk, VA and the lineup will feature O’Donovan + Virginia-based artists Yasmin Williams and The Wildmans. More info on the one-day musical event, including workshops and a performance by O’Donovan, HERE.
Aoife O’Donovan 2024 Tour Dates
February 10, 2024 - West Palm Beach - Kravis Center
March 24, 2024 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears !
March 27, 2024 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry
March 29, 2024 - Nashville, TN - American Legion Post 82 %
March 30, 2024 - Denver, CO - Newman Center for the Performing Arts %
May 17, 2024 - Bentonville, AR - FreshGrass Bentonville
May 23, 2024 - Healdsburg, CA - Little Saint %
May 24, 2024 - Menlo Park, CA - The Guild Theatre %
May 25, 2024 - Grass Valley, CA - Strawberry Music Festival %
June 1, 2024 - Norfolk, VA - Light in the Eastern Sky (presented by Virginia Arts Festival)
June 7, 2024 - Charleston, SC - Spoleto Festival #
June 18, 2024 - London, UK - Barbican Hall ~
July 25-28, 2024 - Cambridge, UK - Cambridge Folk Festival
August 15-18, 2024 - Manchester, VT - Green Mountain Bluegrass Festival %^
! performing with the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra
% performing with Hawktail
# performing with members of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra
~ performing with Guildhall Session Orchestra and Music Centre London Session Choir
Deep Purple unleashed one of the best guitar riffs since the invention of rock and roll with “Smoke On The Water,” a song dubbed the Beethoven’s 5th of hard rock. Since its 1972 debut on Machine Head, the song and the album have left an indelible mark on music, inspiring countless bands around the world.
Warner Records and Rhino Entertainment honor the album’s enormous legacy with a comprehensive version introducing new mixes and previously unreleased live recordings. MACHINE HEAD: SUPER DELUXE EDITION will be available on March 29 as a 3-CD/LP/Blu-ray.
Highlighting the collection are several different versions of the album, including new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes by Dweezil Zappa. The 1974 quadraphonic mix and a newly remastered version of the original album are also featured, adding depth to the extraordinary set. Zappa’s newly remixed stereo version of “Smoke On The Water” is available today digitally. Listen HERE.
The Super Deluxe Edition also contains two captivating live performances. The first, recorded on March 9, 1972, at the Paris Theatre in London, captures the group’s unrivaled stage presence during the “Machine Head Tour.” The second, previously unreleased, was recorded in April 1971 at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland. The band planned to record Machine Head there that December, but the venue burned down right before the sessions began, an event immortalized in “Smoke On The Water.”
In the aftermath, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, keyboardist Jon Lord, singer Ian Gillan, bassist Roger Glover, and drummer Ian Paice relocated to the nearby Grand Hotel (empty for the winter season) to record the album. Despite the chaos, the band managed to create its most successful album ever, topping the U.K. album chart and cracking the Top 10 in the U.S., earning a double platinum certification in 1986.
The previously unreleased Montreux concert promises to be a highlight for fans. The audience recording covers songs the band recorded prior to Machine Head, including “Child In Time” (from 1969’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra), “Speed King” (from 1970’s Deep Purple in Rock), and “Strange Kind Of Woman” (from 1971’s Fireball).
The new Dolby Atmos and 2024 mixes provide fresh and immersive perspectives on this classic album and were made by Zappa using the original tapes. In the liner notes, Zappa says: “It’s one of those records where I think, ‘How did they come up with this?’ It’s got classical influences in the guitar and the keyboard, but then it’s got the blues and there’s little bits of funkiness. And you have this singer who has the most killer voice. All these things come together in a way where it doesn’t sound like commercial music, yet people got really excited about it. It’s a fascinating recipe.”
This summer, the high octane of New Orleans' Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue take center stage on a headlining tour with support from legendary Big Boi from Outkast. The run will begin in June and includes the Hollywood Bowl in LA on September 4. An additional date in June includes The Rooftop at Pier 17 with support from Neal Francis. See below for the full itinerary. Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 9 (10AM local).
Trombone Shorty recently teamed up with his childhood friend Sammy Cyrus for a special project named Saint Brass. Ahead of Mardi Gras festivities, the duo has dropped "Mardi Gras Morning," an irresistibly joyful track that captures the vibrant spirit of New Orleans. Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6thMyli9L0
It will be another busy year for the New Orleans ambassador and road warrior. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue just announced that their beloved Treme Threauxdown concert will return for its eighth year, taking place at New Orleans' Saenger Theatre on Saturday, April 27 during the first weekend of the Jazz and Heritage Festival. The list of guest stars will be revealed soon, but past shows have seen everyone from Jon Batiste, Mavis Staples, Allen Toussaint, and Dr. John to Eric Church, Usher, Joan Jett, and Gary Clark, Jr., and have also included surprise appearances by artists from Nick Jonas to Dierks Bentley to Steve Miller to Wyclef Jean.
On February 16, just three days after Mardi Gras, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue will embark on the first-ever Shorty Gras tour, bringing their high-energy New Orleans party to the East Coast for a special 3-week run of performances. They’ll be joined by another New Orleans staple, The Soul Rebels. Shorty Gras has become a beloved New Orleans tradition since its inaugural year in 2020, a featured event as part of the Krewe de Freret Parade in the lead-up to Mardi Gras (the Krewe de Freret Parade is scheduled for February 3, 2024). Trombone Shorty leads the parade on his own signature float, and concludes with the Shorty Gras ball at Mardi Gras World, featuring a who’s who of musical guests. Previous performers include Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, Flo Rida, Big Freedia, Tank and the Bangas, Rebirth Brass Band. This year, Shorty will bring this distinctly New Orleans Mardi Gras party on the road for the first time.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue just returned from a five-day cultural exchange trip to Cuba, which took place from January 11-15. It marked the third edition of the “Getting Funky in Havana” festival, celebrating the New Orleans – Cuba connection through music. The highlight was a mega concert on January 13 at Club 500, where Trombone Shorty, Orleans Avenue, and Cuban legends Los Van Van and Wampi drew a record-breaking crowd of over 15,000 people, the largest in Cuba in the last four years. Additionally, Trombone Shorty cohosted the largest U.S-Cuba jam session at Havana’s Fabrica de Arte Cubano, featuring over 30 artists from both countries. A centerpiece of the event was the collaboration with Guillermo Tomas Music Conservatory, with Trombone Shorty's Foundation donating instruments to the school through a partnership with Horns to Havana. Read more here: https://shorefire.com/releases/entry/trombone-shorty-all-star-cast-of-m….
Trombone Shorty also produced New Breed Brass Band’s debut album “Made In New Orleans” (released last April), which was led by his nephew, Jenard Andrews, and was nominated for a GRAMMY for "Best Regional Roots Music Album.” It was also recorded at Shorty’s Buckjump studio. Other recent highlights include performing at the MusiCares gala during 2023’s GRAMMY Awards weekend and celebrating a decade of playing the closing set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. In 2022, Shorty released “Lifted,” his most recent album, and has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Good Morning America, Today Show, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade for the past three years. He also won a GRAMMY for his work on Jon Batiste’s Album of the Year-winning “We Are.”
TOUR DATES
June 11: Koka Booth Amphitheatre; Cary, NC *
June 13: Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater; Bridgeport, CT *
June 14: Leader Bank Pavilion; Boston, MA *
June 16: The Rooftop at Pier 17; New York, NY ^
June 18: Rose Music Center at The Heights; Huber Heights, OH *
June 20: Cain Park Evans Amphitheater; Cleveland Heights, OH *
‘Paris’, the double live album by The Cure, has turned 30 years old, and to celebrate, remastered 2LP and 1CD versions will be reissued featuring two bonus tracks.
‘Paris’ has been remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London. The LP, which is being issued on black vinyl for the first time since 1993, was cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road.
‘Paris’ was the second of two live records documenting the band’s 1992 tour in support of their ninth album ‘Wish’. The first album ‘Show’ was released in September 1993 and reissued in July last year.
The 14-track album was recorded over three nights at Le Zénith de Paris in October 1992 and includes the singles “Lovesong”, “Catch”, “A Letter To Elise”, “Charlotte Sometimes”, “Close To Me” and the perennial Cure live favourites “Play For Today” and ‘One Hundred Years’.
The Cure’s 30th anniversary re-issue of ‘Paris’ has now been expanded with the addition of two recently discovered previously unreleased tracks “Shake Dog Shake” and “Hot Hot Hot!!!” which now top and tail the album. The album running order has also been reconfigured accordingly.
In December, The Cure concluded their 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim.
THE CURE
‘PARIS’
30th Anniversary Edition
2LP Remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios.
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got To Do With It, a brand new suite of special edition albums are to be released on April 26. The 4CD/1DVD boxed set will include the original album remastered on CD1, with CD2 featuring a collection of edits, remixes and acapella. CD3 and CD4 features Turner’s live show at the Blockbuster Pavilion in 1993 remastered, which can also be watched on the DVD along with three music videos. The boxed set also includes a poster and a 24-page booklet. Additional album formats include a 1-LP and 2-CD and is available to stream digitally. Pre-order here.
Originally released on June 15, 1993, What’s Love Got To Do With It was a commercial and critical success. The album was the soundtrack for the Tina Turner biographical film of the same name and reached No.1 in the UK, also making the top 10 in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Canada, and the top 20 in the US. The album went on to be a platinum record across the world, including the US, UK and Switzerland. It was a collection of songs, some of which were re-recorded from Turner’s ‘Ike & Tina Turner’ period, including “A Fool In Love,” as well as five brand new songs, one of which - “I Don't Wanna Fight" - became a top 10 hit in both the US and UK. The album also includes Turner's version of The Trammps' disco classic "Disco Inferno," a song she had often performed live in concert in the late 70s but never previously recorded in the studio. Two tracks from her 1984 breakthrough solo album Private Dancer are also included - the title track and a different re-mixed version of "I Might Have Been Queen."
Turner has sold over 200 million records and has had 10 UK top 10 hit singles and nine UK top 10 albums and was the first female artist to have a top 40 hit in six consecutive decades in the UK. Her albums combined are 20x platinum in the UK and 9x platinum in the US whilst also achieving huge sales throughout the rest of the world. She has won eight Grammy® Awards and has been nominated for 25. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame® in 1991 and has stars on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and St. Louis Walk of Fame. Her 1988 Break Every Rule tour broke the world record for the largest paying audience at a solo concert, with 184,000 at the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, and Rolling Stone Magazine named her No.17 on the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and No.63 on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
I DON’T WANNA FIGHT
ROCK ME BABY
DISCO INFERNO
WHY MUST WE WAIT UNTIL TONIGHT?
STAY AWHILE
NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS
(DARLIN’) YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU
PROUD MARY
A FOOL IN LOVE
IT’S GONNA WORK OUT FINE
SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER
I MIGHT HAVE BEEN QUEEN
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT
TINA’S WISH
CD2
Single Edits, Remixes and Rarities
I Don’t Wanna Fight (Single edit)
Disco Inferno (7” Edit*
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (7" Single Edit)
Proud Mary (Edit)
I Don't Wanna Fight (Urban Mix)
Disco Inferno (12" Version)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (Tony Dofat Remix)
I Don't Wanna Fight (Holiday Inn Lounge Mix)
I Don't Wanna Fight (Clubhouse Mix)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (Tony Dofat 7" Edit)*
I Don't Wanna Fight (Jerry Moran Dance Mix)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (Instrumental)
I Don't Wanna Fight (Urban Radio Instrumental)
Disco Inferno (12" Dub)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (Acapella)
Proud Mary (Acapella)*
*previously unreleased
CD3
What’s Love, Live - I
Steamy Windows
Typical Male
Foreign Affair
Undercover Agent For The Blues
Private Dancer
We Don't Need Another Hero
I Can't Stand The Rain
Nutbush City Limits
Addicted To Love
The Best
CD4
What’s Love, Live - II
I Don't Wanna Fight
Let's Stay Together
What's Love Got To Do With It
Proud Mary
Legs
Better Be Good To Me
Encore
Disco Inferno
(Darlin’) You Know I Love You
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight
DVD
What’s Love, Live
Live from the Blockbuster Pavilion San Bernardino, California on September 15, 1993
Steamy Windows
Typical Male
Foreign Affair
Undercover Agent For The Blues
Private Dancer
We Don't Need Another Hero
I Can't Stand The Rain
Nutbush City Limits
Addicted To Love
The Best
I Don't Wanna Fight
Let's Stay Together
What's Love Got To Do With It
Proud Mary
Legs
Better Be Good To Me
Encore
Disco Inferno
(Darlin’) You Know I Love You
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight
2CD (30th Anniversary Edition)
CD1
What’s Love Got to Do With It
I DON’T WANNA FIGHT
ROCK ME BABY
DISCO INFERNO
WHY MUST WE WAIT UNTIL TONIGHT?
STAY AWHILE
NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS
(DARLIN’) YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU
PROUD MARY
A FOOL IN LOVE
T’S GONNA WORK OUT FINE
SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER
I MIGHT HAVE BEEN QUEEN
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT
TINA’S WISH
CD2
Single Edits, Remixes and Rarities
I Don’t Wanna Fight (Single edit)
Disco Inferno (7” Edit)*
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (7" Single Edit)
Proud Mary (Edit)
I Don't Wanna Fight (Urban Mix)
Disco Inferno (12" Version)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (Tony Dofat Remix)
I Don't Wanna Fight (Holiday Inn Lounge Mix)
I Don't Wanna Fight (Clubhouse Mix)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (Tony Dofat 7" Edit)*
I Don't Wanna Fight (Jerry Moran Dance Mix)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (Instrumental)
I Don't Wanna Fight (Urban Radio Instrumental)
Disco Inferno (12" Dub)
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight? (Acapella)
Proud Mary (Acapella)*
*previously unreleased
1LP Vinyl - 2023 Remaster
What’s Love Got to Do With It
Side 1
I DON’T WANNA FIGHT
ROCK ME BABY
DISCO INFERNO
WHY MUST WE WAIT UNTIL TONIGHT?
STAY AWHILE
NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS
(DARLIN’) YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU
Side 2
PROUD MARY
A FOOL IN LOVE
IT’S GONNA WORK OUT FINE
SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER
I MIGHT HAVE BEEN QUEEN
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT
TINA’S WISH
Original Album (digital) - 2023 Remaster
What’s Love Got to Do With It
I DON’T WANNA FIGHT
ROCK ME BABY
DISCO INFERNO
WHY MUST WE WAIT UNTIL TONIGHT?
STAY AWHILE
NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS
(DARLIN’) YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU
PROUD MARY
A FOOL IN LOVE
IT’S GONNA WORK OUT FINE
SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER
I MIGHT HAVE BEEN QUEEN
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT
TINA’S WISH
Since announcing her new album Trail of Flowers, out March 22nd via Rounder Records, Sierra Ferrell has been called "one of country and roots music's most fascinating and fastest-rising artists" (Rolling Stone), "one of Americana, bluegrass and country's most talented artists" (Billboard), and "one of the brightest young lights playing acoustic music" (Variety). Today, with the release of new single "I Could Drive You Crazy," she opens another doorway into her beautifully untamed, time-bending world. Arriving in the form of a foot-stomping and self-effacing singalong, "I Could Drive You Crazy" is a joyous shot of love, underlined by the hollering harmonies, fiddle hooks and booming drums that Ferrell deploys across this twelve-song LP, further expanding her shapeshifting sound. "'I was hanging out with some friends and we had an idea for a song where you're telling someone, 'I'm not good at this and I'm not good at that, but one thing I can do is drive you crazy,'" Sierra Ferrell says. "We decided to put in some audio of my New Year's Eve crowd at the end, so you can hear them howling on there. I always love getting everyone to howl at my shows—it's a good, free feeling."
"I Could Drive You Crazy" follows both the wistful "Dollar Bill Bar" and the barn-burning "Fox Hunt," which Sierra Ferrell and her band recently brought to their national TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Ferrell seamlessly shifts from spectral chants to a biting snarl and soaring belt, culminating in an explosive jamboree and breathtaking vocal run that you can watch: HERE
Across the rest of Trail of Flowers, the West Virginia-born, Nashville-based artist reveals the wealth of wisdom and wild imagination behind her wondrous voice and inimitable style. Produced by Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton), with additional production by Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Gillian Welch), the album sees Ferrell merge classic musicianship with decidedly modern concerns to tell spellbinding stories about her struggle to build a life in a culture consumed by capitalism. Between dive bar romances, murder ballads and feverish tales of fending for food, the words and emotions are informed by her nomadic and ragged upbringing, busking everywhere from truck stops to alleyways, boxcars and the streets of New Orleans with a group of young, itinerant musicians.
Having collaborated with Zach Bryan, Lana Del Rey, Diplo, Margo Price, Shakey Graves, The Black Keys and more, Sierra Ferrell has become one of the moment's most in-demand musicians, and on Trail of Flowers she extends her creative universe with contributions from Chris Scruggs, Lukas Nelson, Nikki Lane and other illustrious players. In addition to joining forces with Mitski, Zach Bryan and The Avett Brothers for a series of stadium, arena and amphitheater shows this spring and summer, Sierra Ferrell has been met with overwhelming demand for dozens of headline tour dates kicking off soon.
Following SOLD-OUT shows at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and LA's Fonda Theatre (second nights added!), as well as NYC's Webster Hall, DC's 9:30 Club and more, Sierra Ferrell's Shoot For The Moon Tour will now bring her to Newport Folk Fest, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Toronto and other cities just announced today. Find the full list of 55+ tour dates below, with tickets and on-sale info available at sierraferrellmusic.com/tour.
Sierra Ferrell Tour Dates
3/1 - West Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom !
3/2 - Omaha, NE - The Admiral !
3/3 - Steamboat Springs, CO - WinterWonderGrass Colorado
3/4 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up Aspen w/ East Nash Grass
3/7 - Monterey, CA - Golden State Theatre $
3/8 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield $
3/9 - Del Mar, CA - The Sound At Del Mar $
3/10 - Santa Barbara, CA - Campbell Hall
3/20 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium w/ Nikki Lane
On Thursday, April 11, Rock The River is back at The Capitol Theatre to honor longtime supporters at the “original rock palace” and benefit Sunrise Day Camp-Pearl River! This year’s Sunrise Community Partner Award will be presented to The Capitol Theatre, Owner Peter Shapiro and General Manager Bruce Wheeler. The Sunrise Champion Award will be presented to The Capitol Theatre’s Head of Special Events Emily Schmalholz. These awards recognize 10 years of partnership, collaboration and rock & roll. The event will be hosted by John Berman, CNN Anchor.
Money raised from this benefit will support the vital work Sunrise Day Camp–Pearl River does for the community. Sunrise Day Camp brings the simple pleasures of childhood back to children struggling with cancer, changing months of loneliness and isolation into summers filled with sunshine, laughter and happiness. This event has raised over $4.4M for Sunrise Day Camp – Pearl River and sent hundreds of children with cancer and their siblings to camp each summer. The Capitol Theatre partnership has been instrumental in the success, and Sunrise Association is thrilled to recognize this institution and individuals this year.
Sunrise Champion Award honoree Emily Schmalholz shared “We are honored & grateful to be the host venue of Rock The River for 10 years! Live music provides an impressive and organic sense of connection, this event is a natural fit. Over the years, we have formed an amazing partnership with Sunrise which has grown Rock The River year after year, working together to raise money for this incredibly important cause. I play just a small part in the success of this event and will continue to do my best to champion the cause in every way possible. I have no doubt that this partnership between The Capitol Theatre and Sunrise Day Camp will continue to grow so that we can continue to raise as much money as possible to send hundreds more children with cancer & their siblings to this incredible camp.”
The Capitol Theatre will welcome back former Journey lead vocalist STEVE AUGERI to the famed stage, having performed at the first Rock the River 10 years ago. Past Performers have included Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot, Max Weinberg, Wyclef Jean, Melissa Etheridge, Jessie’s Girl and Tramps Like Us. Past Honorees have been Eric Kahn, Allison and Larry Fehrenbaker, Beth Stark and Howard Fiddle, Michelle and Justin Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz Charitable Foundation, and Tammi and Jason Wild.
11th Annual Rock The River
Thursday, April 11 2024
Doors 6:30pm / Show 8:00pm
The Capitol Theatre - 149 Westchester Avenue, Port Chester, NY
Husband-wife duo Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams have unveiled a swaggering new tune “The Way You Make Me Feel” today from their forthcoming album All This Time (out April 5 via Royal Potato Family). A playful, twangy Johnny and June Cash-inspired ode to courtship, “The Way You Make Me Feel” looks back on their 40 year relationship. “The lyric was inspired by recalling when I first got together with Teresa,” says Campbell. “The inspiration for that guitar lick came from working on a Dixie Hummingbirds record in the early 2000s. The Hummingbirds’ guitar player, Lyndon Baines, was a great gospel quartet guitarist. I didn’t quite grab what he was doing, but after messing with it since, I was able to write the song.”
“I completely enjoy singing this, and have from the first time we did it,” says Williams. “The groove, the words, the lightheartedness. It’s funny and fun. ‘I got a brand new couch, and we can watch TV. Put an arm around you — we’ll see whatever you wanna see…’ Now that’s good flirting!”
Although they made their marks separately - Campbell as an indispensable multi-instrumentalist with Bob Dylan, kd lang, Sheryl Crow, Keith Richards, Emmylou Harris and others, and Williams as a stage actor in productions like Keep On the Sunny Side where she portrayed Sara Carter and Always… Patsy Cline - their performing partnership was molded while recording and touring with Levon Helm, iconic drummer and voice of The Band. Since the pair’s 2015 debut, they’ve toured the world with the likes of Jackson Browne, Phil Lesh & Friends, John Prine and Little Feat. In 2020 Campbell and Williams were profiled in the ten-part documentary series titled It Was the Music on Amazon Prime which gave viewers an intimate view of the realities of pursuing careers - and a lasting marriage - as professional musicians.
“The Way You Make Me Feel” follows lead single “Desert Island Dreams,” a dazzling ode to escapism, which showcases Williams’ vocal power and Campbell’s Jeff Beck-flavored guitar riffs. Both singles are featured on the pair’s new album All This Time, which is produced by Campbell with contributions from Grammy-winner Justin Guip (Levon Helm, David Bromberg) who recorded and mixed the album and contributed percussion. Other musicians on the record include Little Feat legend Bill Payne on piano and organ, new band member Brandon Morrison on bass and vocals, and a special appearance by Levon Helm on drums, recorded shortly before his passing. The 10-song collection takes stock of Campbell and Williams’ journey through the years and turns it into a series of deep-rooted Americana songs that honor an enduring love meant to go the distance.
Throughout 2024, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams will perform across North America, making stops in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta and more. Please find all upcoming tour dates below and on their website here: https://www.larryandteresa.com/
All This Time tracklist
1. Desert Island Dreams
2. All This Time
3. Ride With Me
4. The Way You Make Me Feel
5. I Think About You
6. That’s All It Took
7. A Little Better
8. I Love You
9. We Done Earned It
10. Pretty and The Fair
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams 2024 tour dates
3/17 - Northampton, MA - Academy of Music Theatre
4/11 - Marlboro, NY - The Falcon
4/16 - Boston, MA - City Winery
4/17 - Fairfield, CT - Stage One
4/18 - Ardmore, PA - Ardmore Music Hall
4/20 - Vienna, VA - Jammin' Java
4/21 - Pittsburgh, PA - Thunderbird Music Hall
4/23 - Columbus, OH - Natalie's
4/24 - Detroit, MI - Magic Bag
4/26 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk Music
Today, Oh Boy Records unveils Rhiannon Giddens’ stirring rendition of "The Ballad of Sally Anne,” the second track from My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall. The track delves into the harrowing reality of lynching in the American South, presenting a poignant narrative that challenges listeners to confront the historical atrocities often overlooked in the country music genre. My Black Country is Randall’s reclamation of the history of Black contributions to the genre, specifically hers. The LP is a collection of Randall’s most beloved songs as interpreted by some of the strongest Black female voices in modern country, roots and folk music including Giddens, Saaneah, Valerie June, Miko Marks, Leyla McCalla, Rissi Palmer, Allison Russell, Sistastrings, Adia Victoria, Sunny War, and Alice’s daughter Caroline Randall Williams.
Randall's powerful lyrics in "The Ballad of Sally Anne" illuminate the brutality of this dark chapter in American history, employing the conventions of the country music genre to confront anti-Black terror head-on. The track masterfully intertwines themes of love, loss, and resistance, offering a haunting portrayal of the aftermath of lynching and the enduring pain it inflicts on communities. In this reimagined version, Giddens embodies the spirit of Sally Anne with haunting authenticity, elevating the song to new heights of emotional resonance.
Listen to Rhiannon Giddens’ "The Ballad of Sally Anne" here
The album release will coincide with Alice’s book, also titled My Black Country, scheduled to hit the shelves just ahead of the album via Simon and Schuster on April 9. In 2020, Alice decided to start writing the book to honor the pioneering figures of Black Country and to chronicle her four-decade journey on Music Row with the intention to pay homage to the genre's overlooked history. After discussions with Rhiannon Giddens and Allison Russell, the project evolved into a collaborative effort with a group of Black female artists re-recording Randall's impactful songs, and releasing an LP to accompany the book. Led by producer Ebonie Smith whose credits include Hamilton, Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy, Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, Sturgill Simpson’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth and more, the album boasts a stellar lineup of featured artists: Rhiannon Giddens, Adia Victoria, Allison Russel, Valerie June, Leyla McCalla, Caroline Randall Williams (Alice’s daughter), SistaStrings, Miko Marks, Sunny War, Saaneah, and Rissi Palmer. My Black Country is more than an album; it's a celebration of overlooked history and a tribute to the essence of Country—a unique blend of Celtic, African influences, and evangelical Christianity.
Alice was adamant about partnering with a label that aligned with their vision—enter Oh Boy Records. Founded by John Prine, whose music sustained Alice in her darkest hours, Oh Boy represented more than recognition. Fiona Prine, a powerful ally, understood the importance of reclaiming Alice's envisioned Black narratives.
My Black Country Tracklist:
Small Towns - Leyla McCalla
Girls Ride Horses Too - Sistastrings
Went for a Ride - Adia Victoria
The Ballad of Sally Anne - Rhiannon Giddens
Solitary Hero - Sunny War
I’ll Cry for Yours - Miko Marks
Many Mansions - Allison Russell
Get the Hell Outta Dodge - Saaneah
Who’s Minding the Garden - Rissi Palmer
Big Dream - Valerie June
XXX’s And OOO’s (An American Girl) - Caroline Randall Williams
About Alice Randall:
Alice Randall, a distinguished professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often wise” (The New York Times Book Review) voice, stands as a trailblazer in Nashville, making her mark as one of the few Black Country songwriters in the city. Her notable contributions extend to legendary artists like Trisha Yearwood and Johnny Cash. Drawing inspiration from the first family of Black country music, including DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries, Randall finds solace in their history. My Black Country emerges as a celebration of the quintessentially American music genre, highlighting the profound influence of Black culture on the country.
JJ Grey & Mofro unveil their highly anticipated new album Olustee on Alligator Records. The album marks their first release in nearly a decade and first-ever release produced by Grey. With Olustee, JJ Grey has once again pushed the boundaries of his own creative musical, lyrical and vocal talents, delivering an album that is destined to become a classic. Many of the songs are steeped in the mythical Southern stories of his ancestral Florida home and filled with people from JJ’s life. The songs overflow with the sights and sounds of the region as told through the eyes of a poet and sung with pure, unvarnished soul.
JJ Grey spoke on the inspiration behind the title track saying, "Olustee was the only battlefield in Florida for the civil war but has absolutely nothing to do with the song. My grandfather was from the area immediately to the south of Olustee. "Olustee" the song is a compilation of a couple different stories I’ve heard, plus my own experience getting caught in a wildfire." Watch the lyric video for “Olustee” here.
JJ Grey & Mofro have also announced a massive, months-long tour headlining iconic venues across the US, including The Ryman in Nashville, The Riviera in Chicago, The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, among many others. Dates below. JJ Grey & Mofro are also set to return to The St. Augustine Amphitheatre for their annual performance at the Blackwater Sol Revue May 25 & 26. The shows will feature JJ Grey & Mofro, Lucero, American Aquarium, Satsang, and Smokestack, The Allman Betts Band, G Love & Special Sauce, Anders Osborne (duo), and Kendall Street Company. Tickets to all shows are available here: www.jjgrey.com/tour. As part of the Olustee World Tour, the band will perform in the UK and the Netherlands before joining Blues Traveler for a selected number of Western U.S. performances.
Early offerings from the album include “Wonderland”, "The Sea" and “Rooster.” The album’s eleven songs range from the raucous, celebratory first radio single,” Wonderland,” to an escape from an out-of-control wildfire in the title track, to the inward-looking closer, “Deeper Than Belief.” Singing of his own personal triumphs and struggles, his hopes and desires, his friends and family, Grey’s message is simple and strong -- respect the natural world and always try to live in the moment. And never forget the importance of having a good time.
JJ Grey has also just launched Rolling Rooster, his own bourbon brand in partnership with St. Augustine Distillery, that combines elements of his new album with his love for bourbon. More info available here: https://www.jjgrey.com/rollingrooster
JJ GREY & MOFRO OLUSTEE WORLD TOUR
March 6 - Augusta, GA - Miller Theater
March 7 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
March 8 - Atlanta, GA - The Eastern
March 9 - Charleston, SC - Firefly Distillery
March 10 - Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center
March 13 - Little Rock, AR - The Hall
March 14 - Rogers, AR - The Victory Theater
March 15 - Omaha, NE - Steelhouse Omaha
March 16 - Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom
March 20 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre
March 21 - Milwaukee, WI - The Riverside Theater
March 22 - Chicago, IL - The Riviera Theatre
March 23 - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theatre
March 24 - Indianapolis, IN - Old National Centre
March 27 - Kalamazoo, MI - Kalamazoo State Theatre
March 28 - Columbus, OH - KEMBA Live!
March 29 - Cleveland, OH - The Agora Theatre
March 30 - Port Chester, NY - The Capitol Theatre
April 3 - Patchogue, NY - Patchogue Theatre
April 4 - New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall
April 5 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
April 6 - Portland, ME - State Theatre
April 7 - Derry, NH - Tupelo Music Hall
April 10 - Buffalo, NY - Electric City
April 11 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
April 12 - Glenside, PA - Keswick Theatre
April 13 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore Silver Spring
April 14 - Richmond, VA - The National
April 17 - Roanoke, VA - Shaftman Performance Hall
April 18 - Charlotte, NC - The Amp Ballantyne
April 19 - Memphis, TN - Shell Daze Music Festival
April 20 - Chesterfield, MO - Chesterfield Amphitheater
April 21 - Bloomington, IL - The Castle Theatre
April 25 - Wilmington, NC - Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
April 26 - Maryville, TN - The Shed
April 27 - Birmingham, AL - Avondale Brewing Company
April 28 - Chattanooga, TN - The Signal
May 1 - Macon, GA - Macon City Auditorium
May 3 - Miramar Beach, FL - Sun Sand & Soul
May 4 - Hattiesburg, MS - Hattiesburg Saenger Theater
May 5 - Sugar Land, TX - Sweet Beats Music Festival
May 11 - Scaly Mountain, NC - Bear Shadow Festival
May 25 & 26 - St. Augustine, FL - JJ Grey's Blackwater Sol Revue
June 12 - Amsterdam, NL - Tolhuistuin
June 13 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje
June 14 - Grolloo, NL - Holland International Blues Festival
June 15 - Tunbridge Wells, UK - Black Deer Festival
June 17 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club
June 18 - London, UK - Union Chapel
July 4 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
July 6 - Jackson, WY - Venue TBA
July 7 - Salt Lake City, UT - Venue TBA
July 9 - Bonner, MT - KettleHouse Amphitheater
July 10 - Boise, ID - Outlaw Field at Idaho Botanical Garden
July 12 - Forest Grove, OR - McMenamins Grand Lodge
Today, WAR officially announce The World Is a Ghetto 50th Anniversary Tour, further expanding the rightful celebration behind the #1 Billboard top-selling album of 1973. From coast to coast this spring and summer, the legendary SoCal street band will perform songs from the record that cemented their legacy as “one of the most seminal bands in music” (Billboard), “one of the greatest American bands” (Paste), and “both a heavyweight live band and a sophisticated pop machine, slicker than Sly and the Family Stone and more down to earth than Funkadelic” (Pitchfork). In addition to classic cuts such as “The Cisco Kid” and “The World Is a Ghetto,” WAR will also fill their sets with eternal hits like “Why Can’t We Be Friends,” “Low Rider” and more that have become ingrained in America’s collective conscious, impacting generations and genres for nearly six decades. Upcoming dates include several stops across the Los Angeles area and the band’s native California, plus festivals and numerous other shows to be added soon. Find the initial run below and tickets HERE.
The World Is a Ghetto 50th Anniversary Tour comes on the heels of The World Is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition. Released via Avenue/Rhino Records, the 5-LP compendium was named one of the Best Box Sets of 2023 by The New York Times and Variety, earning rave reviews and re-evaluations from Pitchfork, Billboard, Associated Press, SPIN and more. Curated by WAR's producer, Jerry Goldstein, founding member and lead vocalist Lonnie Jordan, and Jeremy Levine, the Collector’s Edition features a newly remastered version of the album, six previously unheard bonus tracks from the original studio sessions, and unheard “making of” recordings that trace the entire evolution of the songs, from first note to master take. Following its limited edition vinyl run, both a CD and digital release of The World Is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition will be arriving this year.
In recent appearances on MSNBC, ABC News, Fox & Friends, NPR, KCRW and beyond, Lonnie Jordan has reflected on both The World Is a Ghetto and WAR’s continued mission to spread its message of harmony and inclusion, through songs that have soundtracked everything from the anti-Vietnam movement to the first Congressional Black Caucus, the first US-Soviet space mission, Barack Obama’s summer playlists and more.
Having racked up more than 20 gold, platinum and multi-platinum records, earning three Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominations, four #1 albums, nine Top 10s and twenty Top 40 songs, the way they sing out against racism, hunger, crime and other universal conflicts has made WAR as relevant today as they have ever been. The World Is a Ghetto served as the launching point for the band’s creative and commercial success, while also igniting WAR’s inexhaustible influence on R&B and hip-hop. The LP's songs have since been sampled, covered and referenced by Janet Jackson, Tupac, A$AP Mob, Geto Boys, Method Man, Rage Against The Machine, Sublime and more. The Muppets, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Shaggy, George Clinton, The Isley Brothers and so many others have also honored WAR's music over the years, with fans ranging from Dave Matthews to George Lopez, Korn, Phish and beyond.
The World Is a Ghetto 2024 Tour Dates
3/8 - Albuquerque - Isleta Casino
3/9 - Chandler, AZ - Wild Horse Pass Casino
3/14-3/17 - Ft Lauderdale, FL - 70's Rock & Romance Cruise
3/22 - Orlando, FL - Plaza Live
3/23 - Immokalee, FL - Seminole Casino
4/20 - Visalia, CA - Visalia Convention Center
4/27 - Dania Beach, FL - The Casino at Dania Beach
Today, international punk band Gogol Bordello announces their West Coast Tour this May, kicking off in San Diego on May 18 hitting Bottlerock Festival and Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival on the way. Tickets are on sale this Friday, March 1.
Since the band’s genesis in the Lower East Side punk-rock scene of 1999, Gogol Bordello has been riling up audiences with an inimitable patchwork of raucous punk and Eastern European Gypsy-swing. Latest album Solidaritine takes them back to hardcore roots with a renewed sense of urgency, as Hütz explains: “Solidaritine is the substance that unlocks our empathy and our full human potential…May this be your punky uplift for our packed with troubled times.”
Today, The Avett Brothers return with news of their first album in five years, out May 17th via Ramseur Records/American Recordings/Thirty Tigers. Produced by longtime collaborator, friend and early champion Rick Rubin, The Avett Brothers is as much untitled as it is self-titled, for as Thomas Keating said: "Silence is God's first language – everything else is a poor translation."
From the album's all-vocal opening to the sharp, scrappy and scorching rock n roll blast of lead single "Love Of A Girl," to the novel strains of folk, roots, synth and strings that have landed The Avett Brothers numerous Billboard Top 5 and chart-topping albums, three GRAMMY nominations, five Americana Music Awards, a documentary co-directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, and so much more, this record is one that revealed itself naturally over time.
Pre-Order The Avett Brothers, and listen to "Love Of A Girl" now:
Recorded in Malibu's Shangri-La Studios, as well as Nashville, Mar Vista, and the band's hometown of Concord, NC, The Avett Brothers is a collection of songs seen through a lens of independently studied spirituality; questions and considerations in the interest of the divine unknowable. In an ongoing attempt to comprehend existence and our interpersonal connectedness, these songs seek the sacred in the commonplace: a cheap cup of coffee, the smallest movement of love, broken hearts and school bus lessons, a baby's first and second steps, growing older and holding on to one's roots, losing someone and accepting fate, rediscovering hope and finding sanctity in tragedy...ultimately reveling in the fun and surrender of what we cannot understand.
As their first full-length release on Ramseur Records/Thirty Tigers since 2007's Emotionalism, The Avett Brothers is both a cumulative opus and fresh start for the band's future as a multifaceted and singular force. In the time that has passed since their last album, the band have also debuted Swept Away, a new musical inspired by and featuring their music, backed by a cast and crew that have earned a collective nine Tony Awards. Hailed as a "spellbinding tale" and "worthy of a broadway christening" (The Washington Post), the show has completed successful runs in Berkeley, CA and Washington, DC, with more news to be announced soon. Furthermore, the North Carolina Music Hall of Famers recently earned a Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance from the Americana Honors & Awards, while Seth Avett released a solo album celebrating his songwriting hero Greg Brown, Bob Crawford created a podcast about John Quincy Adams, and Scott Avett had multiple exhibits for his work as a figurative painter (while creating all the artwork and illustrations that will accompany The Avett Brothers LP).
The Avett Brothers will begin performing music from The Avett Brothers on a far-reaching tour this spring and summer, including their own five-day festival in Mexico, a headline show at NYC's Forest Hills Stadium on album release day, three nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, LA's SoFi Stadium with Luke Combs, and more across the US. Find the full list of dates below and tickets at theavettbrothers.com/tour.
The Avett Brothers Tracklist
Never Apart (w/ Vocal Prelude)
Love Of A Girl
Cheap Coffee
Forever Now
Country Kid
Orion's Belt
2020 Regret
Same Broken Bones
We Are Loved
The Avett Brothers Tour Dates
4/9-4/13 - Riviera Maya, MX - The Avett Brothers At The Beach
4/19 - Buffalo, NY - Highmark Stadium #
5/3-5/5 - Charlotte, NC - Lovin' Life Festival
5/16 - Philadelphia, PA - The Mann Center w/ City and Colour
5/17 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium^
5/18 - Boston, MA - Suffolk Downs^
5/21 - New Haven, CT - Westville Music Bowl^
5/23 - Albany, NY - MVP Arena^
5/24 - Canandaigua, NY - CMAC^
6/14 - Los Angeles, CA - SoFi Stadium #
6/15 - Paso Robles, CA - Vina Robles
6/16 - Sacramento, CA - Memorial Auditorium
7/3 - Taos, NM - Kit Carson Park w/ Iron & Wine
7/5 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Little Feat
7/6 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Melissa Etheridge
7/7 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Dawes
7/10 - Missoula, MT - Big Sky Brewing Co
7/12 - Redmond, WA - Marymoor Park
7/13 - Troutdale, OR - Edgefield
7/14 - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
7/26 - Washington, DC - FedExField #
8/16 - Des Moines, IA - Iowa State Fair
8/17 - Maryland Heights, MO - St. Louis Music Park w/ Trampled by Turtles
8/18 - E. Troy, WI - Alpine Valley w/ Trampled by Turtles
8/20 - Columbus, OH - KEMBA Live!*
8/21 - Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre*
8/23 - Cleveland, OH - Jacobs Pavilion*
8/24 - Newport, KY - MegaCorp Pavilion
11/8-11/10 - Miramar Beach, FL - Moon Crush "Avett Moon"
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams will join forces with musical friends old and new to present Larry & Teresa’s July Jam at Arrowood Farms in Accord, NY on July 20th, 2024. The one-day festival is a not-to-be-missed celebration of some of the best performers in Americana music in a picture-perfect Hudson Valley setting. Following the release of the duo’s newest album, ‘All This Time,’ on April 5 via the Hudson Valley’s own Royal Potato Family records, July Jam is a double milestone for Larry & Teresa.
In addition to Larry & Teresa and bandmates Brandon Morrison (bass/vocals) and Justin Guip (drums), July Jam will feature Hot Tuna Acoustic, Jackie Greene, The Secret Sisters, Connor Kennedy & Onestar plus special guests Cindy Cashdollar, and Jim Weider and Brian Mitchell from The Weight Band. Tickets are on-sale this Friday, March 1 via: https://impactconcerts.tixr.com/julyjam
Larry & Teresa’s relationships with the artists sharing the bill span decades. They have worked with Hot Tuna’s Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady on stage and in the studio since 2011. Larry produced Tuna’s most recent album, ‘Steady as She Goes’ plus Jorma’s solo albums ‘River of Time’ and ‘Ain’t in No Hurry.’ They also share a musical secret weapon: Justin Guip, the drummer and studio engineer behind Larry and Teresa’s albums fills that role with Tuna.
Campbell & Williams met west coast-based guitarist singer Jackie Greene courtesy of Phil Lesh in 2012 when the three toured with Phil and Friends including the historic fourteen day stand at New York’s Nokia Theater. Jackie toured with the likes of the Black Crowes, Bob Weir and Gov’t Mule, and his songs have been featured in films like Brokeback Mountain. From Muscle Shoals, Alabama’s The Secret Sisters burst onto the Americana scene in 2010 working with luminaries like Dave Cobb, Brandi Carlile and T Bone Burnett. Their soon to be released album, ‘Mind, Man, Medicine’ features Larry on guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and pedal steel. Connor Kennedy first connected with Larry & Teresa at Levon Helm Studios where he has been a mainstay at the Rambles for some time. Connor, who has toured with Donald Fagan and Rachael Yamagata will open the festival with his band Onestar whose members include Brandon Morrison, Lee Falco and Will Bryant.
Three of Woodstock’s most cherished musicians will also lend their talents to the show: Cindy Cashdollar (dobro) who’s played with everyone from Asleep At The Wheel to Bob Dylan, Jim Weider (guitar) and Brian Mitchell (keyboards) from The Weight Band. This impressive cast promises to keep the ‘jam’ in July Jam and remind everyone of the joy that happens when good friends come together to create music.
Impact Concerts is the Hudson Valley's premiere concert and festival producer, creating carefully curated music and lifestyle events showcasing internationally-renowned artists alongside local crafts, food, libations, and cannabis.
Arrowood Farms is a sustainably minded farm brewery, distillery, dining and event destination in the beautiful and bountiful Hudson Valley, regularly hosting concerts and festivals including the Woodsist Festival, Dirt Farmer Festival, Felice County Fair, and Follow The Arrow Festival.
Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water” has become a rite of passage for any guitar player who wants to pay homage to the gods of rock. It’s instantly recognizable. For the first time ever as part of the campaign to celebrate the release of the Super Deluxe Edition of Machine Head, the album on which the track was first released, the track has received an official music video.
Conceived by UK-based Chiba Film, the animated production faithfully interprets the story of the song’s inception. As the legend goes, Deep Purple were in Montreux to record some tracks in a mobile recording studio rented from The Rolling Stones. They were due to record at the casino there after Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention played. However, during the concert, a member of the audience shot a flare gun toward the roof, which instantly caught fire. The entire building burned down, and the song recounts the events of that fateful evening.
“It’s been an honour to put visuals to this song, undeniably one of the greatest rock tracks of all time. The fact that the song is itself a story meant we had no shortage of inspiration for the scenes that accompany the music. Our idea for the video follows the fact that the band were under pressure to make this record on time after the events that unfolded at the casino. We wished to depict all these events and band members accurately, but also elevate the animated video into an exciting action packed chase that sees the band pursued by the stylus as they ride along the deep grooves of the record. On their journey we visit the places and heroes mentioned in the song, as well as encounters with fire, water, smoke, police and even dragons as they strive to take control of the record stylus and cut their track into the vinyl. The writing of the album was an adventure summed up in the lyrics, and we hope we have created an accompanying adventure that existing and new fans will enjoy.” - Dan Gibling & Luke McDonnell, Directors, Chiba Film.
The video utilizes the 6-minute-plus 2024 remix of the hit, which reached the top 5 of the Billboard Singles Chart in 1973 and has since been enshrined as one of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”
The 2024 remix was done by Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa, in a full-circle moment celebrating the inspiration for the lyrics.
The video will premiere on the band’s official YouTube at 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET TODAY, March 1, and enjoy its FAST and CTV Television premiere exclusively with XITE at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET today.
Warner Records and Rhino Entertainment honor Machine Head, the album which featured “Smoke on the Water” with a comprehensive version introducing new mixes and previously unreleased live recordings. MACHINE HEAD: SUPER DELUXE EDITION will be available on March 29 as a 3-CD/LP/Blu-ray and available digitally for streaming and download.
In addition to the newly remixed original album, which is included on LP and CD, The Super Deluxe Edition also contains two captivating live performances. The first, recorded on March 9, 1972, at the Paris Theatre in London, captures the group’s unrivaled stage presence during the “Machine Head Tour.” The second, previously unreleased, was recorded in April 1971 at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland, before the events depicted in “Smoke on the Water.” The set is available for pre-order here.
Today, indie folk singer-songwriter Ana Egge announces her new album Sharing in the Spirit out May 17th via StorySound Records. The 10-track album which combines 8 original compositions with covers of songs by Ted Hawkins and Sinéad O'Connor is a mix of politics, addiction, sex, and love. It promises listeners a bold and honest ride, beginning with the album cover, which is an image of a young Ana captured in her childhood town of Ambrose, North Dakota, now a ghost town reclaimed by prairie grass.
Alongside the album announcement, Egge shares "Where Berries Grow," a near-biblical, bluegrass beauty. In each line, Egge explores metaphors representing loved ones, such as a "drink divine," a "stand of trees," and a "dark angel," allowing for deeply personal and spiritual expression. Listen to “Where The Berries Go” HERE.
Egge reflects on the genesis of the track, sharing:
“I started thinking of each person's name in a new way. I got curious about the meanings of all their names and was inspired by the imagery and poetic connections that arose. All of their earth-body-spirit-stories became, 'Where Berries Grow'.”
Throughout what NPR describes as a “rich career,” Ana has collaborated with esteemed artists such as Billy Strings, Rob Moose (known for his work with Paul Simon, Phoebe Bridgers, and yMusic), Buck Meek (of Big Thief), Steve Earle and has toured extensively with Iris DeMent. Coming out as gay during her teenage years, Ana has navigated hazards stemming from physical, cultural, and political sources. It's through these challenges that she discovered the transformative power of music and its ability to uplift and connect people in seemingly magical ways, leading her to be described as having an “ever-interesting mastery over music” (No Depression).
Sharing in the Spirit is fueled by Egge’s creative momentum and collaboration with longtime producer and friend, Lorenzo Wolff (Taylor Swift, Bartees Strange, Teddy Thompson). Despite each single maintaining its unique energy, Egge’s distinctive voice as both a writer and singer ensures that they come together beautifully. The opener, "Don’t You Sleep,” is sexy folk slipping into determined noisy garage rock. Meanwhile, "Mission Bells Moan" and her take on Ted Hawkins’ "Sorry You're Sick" delve into themes of alcoholism and sobriety. Throughout the album, Egge's multifaceted talents and diverse musical interests are on full display, showcasing her versatility across genres.
This spring, Egge will be hitting the road, taking her music across the United States and Canada with a number of headlining shows and dates supporting Iris DeMent and Bella White. Check out the full list of dates below.
Sharing in the Spirit Track List
Don’t You Sleep
Door Won’t Close
Sharing In The Spirit
If It Were Up To Me
Mission Bells Moan
Sorry You’re Sick
Where Berries Grow
Ready For The Darkness
Ending We Need
Last Day Of Our Acquaintance
Ana Egge Tour Dates
4/5 Raleigh, NC - Pinecone Concerts *
4/7 Lynchburg, VA - Village Concerts
5/16 Ottawa, Canada - NAC Opera House
5/17 Saratoga Springs, NY - Caffe Lena
5/18 Saugerties, NY - The Local
5/19 Brooklyn, NY - Littlefield
5/21 Oklahoma City, OK - Tower Theater +
5/23 Dallas, TX - The Kessler +
5/24 Houston, TX - The Heights Theater +
5/25 Kerrville, TX - Kerrville Folk Festival ++
6/1 Seattle, WA - Lippe HC
6/2 Portland, OR - Showbar
6/5 Ferndale, CA - Ferndale
6/6 Healdsburg, CA - Little Saint
6/7 Lost Church, San Francisco, CA
6/8 Sand City, CA - Sandbox
6/30 North Adams, MA - Wilco's Solid Sound Festival ++
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band return to the road on March 19, building on a triumphant 2023 hailed as "a masterclass in the uplifting power of rock-and-roll" (Washington Post). Kicking off in Phoenix, Arizona - the 2024 world tour will find Springsteen and The E Street Band delivering their "ecstatic and emotional" (Rolling Stone) live performances in 17 countries, taking place through late November. Earlier today, the number of 2024 dates expanded to 52 - with the addition of a hometown Asbury Park headlining show at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival on September 15.
This extensive international tour arrives on the heels of Bruce Springsteen performing at the 2024 MusiCares Person Of The Year ceremony, the 17th Annual Stand Up For Heroes benefit, and at the New Jersey Hall of Fame induction honoring Patti Scialfa. Springsteen has also made appearances at the 81st Golden Globe Awards (where he was nominated for Best Original Song for “Addicted To Romance”), as well as alongside Darlene Love to present her with a Platinum record for “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” and multiple events at the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music on the campus of Monmouth University. After being diagnosed with a peptic ulcer last year, Springsteen announced he was symptom free on the November 20 episode of his E Street Radio show ‘From My Home To Yours.’
The recently-announced Best Of Bruce Springsteen collection will also arrive this spring, a career-spanning celebration of Springsteen's original music out April 19 - bringing together his early-career favorites, live staples, best-selling breakouts and recent releases for the first time. Arriving via Sony Music, Best Of Bruce Springsteen captures a 50-year body of work that has earned him honors and accolades including 20 GRAMMY Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, a special Tony Award, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, a Kennedy Center Honor and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. It has also made Springsteen one of the world's most in-demand artists - topping 140 million records sold across the globe, more than 70 million in the United States alone, and becoming the first artist in history with a Top Five album in six consecutive decades.
Beginning on March 19, the opening leg of Springsteen and The E Street Band's 2024 tour will include ten U.S. performances that were rescheduled from 2023, and a newly-added Las Vegas stop at T-Mobile Arena. The band's remaining rescheduled North America dates will take place from August 15 through November 22 following a return to Europe for 26 more shows this summer. The European tour will follow up a successful trip to the continent last year, which sold over 1.6 million tickets and earned widespread praise as some of the best shows of the band’s career, with Billboard deeming it “the greatest show on earth.” Across the entire year, and despite the postponed North American dates, Springsteen and The E Street Band’s international run finished as the #3 tour of 2023 per Pollstar, behind only Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND - 2024 TOUR DATES:
March 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
March 22 - Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena
March 25 – San Diego, CA @ Pechanga Arena
March 28 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
March 31 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
April 4 – Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
April 7 – Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
April 12 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
April 15 – Albany, NY @ MVP Arena
April 18 – Syracuse, NY @ JMA Wireless Dome
April 21 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena
May 5 - Cardiff, Wales @ Principality Stadium
May 9 - Belfast, Northern Ireland @ Boucher Road
May 12 - Kilkenny, Ireland @ Nowlan Park
May 16 - Cork, Ireland @ Páirc Uí Chaoimh
May 19 - Dublin, Ireland @ Croke Park
May 22 - Sunderland, England @ Stadium of Light
May 25 - Marseille, France @ Orange Vélodrome
May 28 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Airport Letnany
June 1 - Milan, Italy @ San Siro Stadium
June 3 - Milan, Italy @ San Siro Stadium
June 12 - Madrid, Spain @ Cívitas Metropolitano
June 14 - Madrid, Spain @ Cívitas Metropolitano
June 17 - Madrid, Spain @ Cívitas Metropolitano
June 20 - Barcelona, Spain @ Estadi Olímpic
June 22 - Barcelona, Spain @ Estadi Olímpic
June 27 - Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Goffertpark
June 29 - Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Goffertpark
July 2 - Werchter, Belgium @ Werchter Park
July 5 - Hannover, Germany @ Heinz von Heiden Arena
July 9 - Odense, Denmark @ Dyrskuepladsen
July 12 - Helsinki, Finland @ Olympic Stadium
July 15 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Friends Arena
July 18 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Friends Arena
July 21 - Bergen, Norway @ Dokken
July 25 - London, England @ Wembley Stadium connected by EE
July 27 - London, England @ Wembley Stadium connected by EE
Aug. 15 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
Aug. 18 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
Aug. 21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park
Aug. 23 – Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park
Sept. 7 – Washington, DC @ Nationals Park
Sept. 13 – Baltimore, MD @ Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Sept. 15 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Sea.Hear.Now Festival
Oct. 31 – Montreal, Quebec @ Centre Bell
Nov. 3 – Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena
Nov. 6 – Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena
Nov. 9 – Ottawa, Ontario @ Canadian Tire Centre
Nov. 13 – Winnipeg, Manitoba @ Canada Life Centre
Nov. 16 – Calgary, Alberta @ Scotiabank Saddledome
Nov. 19 – Edmonton, Alberta @ Rogers Place
Nov. 22 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena
“Once in a lifetime the power is ours, but we’d rather stare at our phones,” Grammy-Award winner Aoife O’Donovan sings on the first verse of her new single “Over The Finish Line.” Written by O’Donovan shortly after the murder of George Floyd, “Over The Finish Line” reflects on the state of the country and reminds listeners of our civic duty to vote and fight for positive change. The poignant, wistful track features Luke Reynolds on pedal steel and Tony and Grammy-Award winning musician Anaïs Mitchell, marking one of Mitchell’s first releases since the well-received opening of Hadestown in London’s West End.
Aoife O’Donovan’s new solo album All My Friends is inspired by the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. O’Donovan infuses the experiences of the Suffragettes, who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment and paved the way for their daughters, with her own experiences as a modern woman who wants to build a future for her own daughter. The project - O’Donovan’s first self-produced album - features a number of special guests including Anaïs Mitchell, Sierra Hull, Noam Pikelny, Alan Hampton, Griffin Goldsmith and more. Most of the songs on the album grew out of two commissions O’Donovan took on - from the Orlando Philharmonic where she now lives, and the FreshGrass Festival in her native Massachusetts. Following performances with both institutions, O’Donovan continued to explore the themes that would become All My Friends in full. Listen to the title track “All My Friends” HERE.
Throughout the month of March, O’Donovan will host intimate album release events in Los Angeles, New York City, and Nashville:
Los Angeles (Santa Monica) - March 12th / 7:30PM
An Evening Listening To The New Album ‘All My Friends,’ presented by The Bluegrass Situation
Location: McCabes Guitar Shop
New York City (Manhattan) - March 25th / 7:30PM
A New York Evening with Aoife O’Donovan, moderated by Rosanne Cash, presented by The Grammy Museum and The Americana Music Association
Location: The Greene Space - 44 Charlton St, New York, NY 10014
Nashville (East Nashville) - March 29th / 7:00PM
‘All My Friends’ Album Release Show with Hawktail
Location: American Legion Post 82
Additionally, O’Donovan will tour the globe throughout 2024, with performances at Big Ears Festival (featuring the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra), FreshGrass Bentonville, and The Grand Ole Opry (March 27), plus her previously-announced Barbican Hall debut in London is confirmed for June 18, with Eric Jacobsen conducting the Guildhall Session Orchestra and Music Centre London Session Choir. O’Donovan has also curated a new festival called “Light In The Eastern Sky,” taking place on June 1 in Norfolk, VA, presented by Virginia Arts Festival and featuring O’Donovan and Virginia-based artists Yasmin Williams and The Wildmans. Full list of 2024 tour dates (including several shows with instrumental acoustic ensemble Hawktail) below and via https://www.aoifeodonovan.com/#tourDates.
Today, The Rock and Roll Playhouse proudly presents its anxiously awaited debut album, FRIENDS ROCK!, out now via Republic Records: Kids & Family. It notably marks the first full-length body of work from the #1 Kids Live Concert Series in the U.S.!
The album’s core cast of lovable characters - Mick, Stevie, Tina, Quinn, and Jerry - gleefully “kid-ify” a myriad of rock ‘n’ roll songbook staples. They translate the classic choruses and unmistakable melodies of rock music’s most recognizable anthems into age-appropriate singalongs for your little ones. Among many highlights, Queen’s “You’re My Best Friend” doubles as a sweet ode to friendship. Paying homage to another classic, they reimagine The Beatles’s “We Can Work It Out” for the next generation. Heralding the record last year, they even took the Friends theme song—“I’ll Be There For You” by The Rembrandts—for a spin. The tune remains as uplifting as ever as they promise, “I’ll be there for you, ‘cause you’re there for me too.” Plus, FRIENDS ROCK! boasts originals such as “The Rock And Roll Playhouse Anthem” and more.
Check out the full tracklisting below.
In other news, The Rock and Roll Playhouse continues to book family-concerts in the country’s most legendary rock clubs. A variety of live shows notably spans the music of Billy Joel, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, and Taylor Swift, to name a few. They kick off March 9th with a performance at Bluebird Theater in Denver, CO and Boston, MA for “Music of Grateful Dead For Kids” and rolling through New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and beyond.
Nothing rocks quite as much as FRIENDS…
Founded by live music entrepreneur Peter Shapiro, The Rock and Roll Playhouse has quietly emerged as one of the most exciting purveyors of children’s music and a touring staple. The music is high-quality and multi-generational, focusing on the power of friendship.
About the release, Peter Shapiro commented, “I cannot wait to witness the magic that happens when you introduce our interpretations of classic rock and roll to families through these upcoming albums.”
To further expand the Rock and Roll Playhouse brand, Shapiro tapped Angela C. Santomero, creator of “Blue’s Clues” and “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.” Santomero added prominent music producer, Stef Fink from Music Box who is series songwriter/producer for the smash Nickelodeon show “Monster High,” as they had recently worked together on the hit musical feature movie, “Blue’s Big City Adventure,” which was released by Republic Records: Kids & Family in November 2022.
Santomero says, “The albums are inspired by the popularity of kid’s audiobooks and podcasts -- mixed with everyone's favorite rock songs. I love how the characters come alive to celebrate friendship through song!"
See the full list of tour dates below. Purchase tickets HERE.
TRACKLISTING
The Rock and Roll Playhouse Anthem
Best Friend
We Can Work It Out
With A Little Help From My Friends
You've Got A Friend
What About Your Friends
Count On Me
You're My Best Friend
I'll Be There For You
I'll Be The One
The Rock and Roll Playhouse Tour Dates:
3/9 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
3/9 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
3/10 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
3/10 Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
3/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
3/16 Evanston, IL @ SPACE
3/16 Port Chester, NY @ Garcia’s at The Capitol Theatre
3/17 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
3/17 S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom
3/17 Portland, ME @ Portland House of Music
3/17 Keene, NH @ Colonial Performing Arts Center
3/23 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
3/23 Cincinnati, OH @ Ludlow Garage
3/23 Ardmore, PA @ Ardmore Music Hall
3/24 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
3/24 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
3/24 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
3/24 Concord, NH @ BNH Stage
3/30 San Diego, CA @ Music Box
3/30 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
3/30 Port Chester, NY @ Garcia’s at The Capitol Theatre
3/30 Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia
3/30 Wantagh, NY @ Mulcahy's
3/31 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
4/7 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
4/7 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
4/7 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
4/13 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
4/13 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
4/14 S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom
4/14 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
4/14 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
4/14 Ardmore, PA @ Ardmore Music Hall
4/20 Wantagh, NY @ Mulcahy's
4/20 Athens, GA @ Touch of Brews
4/20 Port Chester, NY @ Garcia’s at The Capitol Theatre
4/21 Concord, NH @ BNH Stage
4/21 Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
4/21 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
4/27 Cincinnati, OH @ Ludlow Garage
4/28 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bowl
4/28 Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
5/5 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
5/11 Port Chester, NY @ Garcia’s at The Capitol Theatre
5/11 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
5/25 Vail Village, CO @ SpringFree Bluegrass Festival
5/26 Vail Village, CO @ SpringFree Bluegrass Festival
6/16 Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia
Today, Daryl Hall and Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton have announced a co-headlining summer run across North America. The 22-city tour kicks off on June 2 at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, OR making stops at Los Angeles’ The Greek Theatre, Las Vegas’ Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Toronto’s Budweiser Stage, Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway, New York’s Radio City Music Hall and many more before wrapping up in Vienna, VA at Wolf Trap Filene Center on July 25.
Regarding the tour with Elvis, Daryl says “It’s fantastic to be able to rekindle a musical relationship. Get ready for lots of great music.”
“We are looking forward to kicking off the show in style in the certainty that Daryl will deliver a slam-bang finish.” says Costello.
Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Daryl Hall had an exciting 2023 on a solo tour with longtime friend and fellow Hall of Fame inductee support act, Todd Rundgren. Daryl also recently performed in front of 65,000 people at the historic American Express BST Hyde Park. And, a new season of his award-winning "Live from Daryl’s House" returned on November 1 on Hall’s dedicated YouTube channel.
Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton toured recently to rave reviews. The Nashville Scene wrote that "Costello is proving he’s an indefatigable force of nature, and one of the greatest showmen in the history of rock ’n’ roll. (1/30/24)” while in St. Louis the Riverfront Times concluded that "Elvis Costello showed St. Louis Friday that he’s earned his legend status (1/30/24).” The Imposters are: Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher. They will once again be joined on the road by guitarist Charlie Sexton.
TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale beginning on Monday, March 11. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning on Friday, March 15 at 10 AM local time at DarylHall.com and ElvisCostello.com.
DARYL HALL AND ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS WITH CHARLIE SEXTON TOUR DATES:
Sun Jun 02 – Troutdale, OR – McMenamins Edgefield
Tue Jun 04 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest
Thu Jun 06 – Seattle, WA – Remlinger Farms
Sat Jun 08 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Mon Jun 10 – Saratoga, CA – Mountain Winery
Wed Jun 12 – Lincoln, CA – Thunder Valley Casino
Fri Jun 14 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
Sun Jun 16 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU
Tue Jun 18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
Fri Jun 21 – Rancho Mirage, CA – Agua Caliente Casino
Sun Jun 23 – Las Vegas, NV – Fontainebleau Las Vegas
Thu Jul 04 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
Sat Jul 6 – Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival
Mon Jul 8 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple Theatre
Wed Jul 10 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann
Fri Jul 12 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
Sun Jul 14 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Tue Jul 16 – New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
Thu Jul 18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
Sat Jul 20 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Today, The Avett Brothers add more than a dozen additional dates to an already-expansive tour this spring, summer and fall. Beginning next month, the band will embark on a North American run of nearly 50 shows that now extends through November. On top of previously revealed stops at Forest Hills Stadium on their upcoming album release day, plus three nights at Red Rocks, LA's SoFi Stadium with Luke Combs and beyond, the newly-announced leg will bring them to arenas and amphitheaters across the Midwest and South.
Tickets for all the latest tour dates are on-sale at 10am local time on March 22nd, with an Avett Guild pre-sale starting at 12pm local time on March 19th. Find the updated routing below and more information at theavettbrothers.com/tour
Each performance will see The Avett Brothers play sets full of music from The Avett Brothers, their first new album in five years. Out May 17th via Ramseur Records/American Recordings/Thirty Tigers, and produced by Rick Rubin, The Avett Brothers is as much untitled as it is self-titled: a collection of songs that revealed themselves naturally over time.
Recorded in Malibu's Shangri-La Studios, as well as Nashville, Mar Vista, and the band's hometown of Concord, NC, The Avett Brothers is also an album interested in the divine unknowable, with music and lyrics that seek the sacred in the commonplace, ultimately reveling in the fun and surrender of what we cannot understand.
The “First Couple of Americana,” (Mojo), Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, have shared “Ride with Me” the final advance track from their forthcoming album All This Time, out April 5 via Royal Potato Family. The breezy, romantic tune is a metaphoric portrayal of a budding relationship grounded by Williams’ velvet-toned vocal. “Can’t tell you where we’re gonna go / We don’t need to know right now,” the female half of this duo sings.
“‘Ride With Me’ is about wanting to connect, wanting to share experiences with someone with whom you share an initial attraction, without a goal or obligation, just to follow the journey wherever it may lead,” says Campbell.
“This was my favorite song to sing on this record,” Williams attests. “It’s a different vocal quality than I usually get to do. The song put itself in a specific place/feel in my voice and I gave in to that; I floated on that, as if I were lying in a hammock with lots of gauzy white sheers floating in the breeze around me.”
“Ride With Me” follows singles, “The Way You Make Me Feel,” a playful, twangy Johnny and June Cash-inspired celebration of courtship, and “Desert Island Dreams,” a dazzling ode to escapism, which showcases Williams’ vocal power and Campbell’s Jeff Beck-flavored guitar riffs. All three singles are featured on the pair’s new album All This Time, which is produced by Campbell with contributions from Grammy-winner Justin Guip (Levon Helm, David Bromberg) who recorded and mixed the album and contributed percussion. Other musicians on the record include Little Feat legend Bill Payne on piano and organ, new band member Brandon Morrison on bass and vocals, and a special appearance by Levon Helm on drums, recorded shortly before his passing. The 10-song collection takes stock of Campbell and Williams’ journey through the years and turns it into a series of deep-rooted Americana songs that honor an enduring love meant to go the distance.
Although they made their marks separately - Campbell as an indispensable multi-instrumentalist with Bob Dylan, kd lang, Sheryl Crow, Keith Richards, Emmylou Harris and others, and Williams as a stage actor in productions like Keep On the Sunny Side where she portrayed Sara Carter and Always… Patsy Cline - their performing partnership was molded while recording and touring with Levon Helm, iconic drummer and voice of The Band. Since the pair’s 2015 debut, they’ve toured the world with the likes of Jackson Browne, Phil Lesh & Friends, John Prine and Little Feat. In 2020 Campbell and Williams were profiled in the ten-part documentary series titled It Was the Music on Amazon Prime which gave viewers an intimate view of the realities of pursuing careers - and a lasting marriage - as professional musicians.
Throughout 2024, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams will perform across North America, making stops in New York, Woodstock, Boston, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta and more. Larry & Teresa will also be joining forces with musical friends old and new to present their inaugural July Jam at Arrowood Farms in Accord, NY - a one-day festival and not-to-be-missed celebration of some of the best performers in Americana music in a picture-perfect Hudson Valley setting. Please find all upcoming tour dates below and on their website here: https://www.larryandteresa.com/
All This Time tracklist
1. Desert Island Dreams
2. All This Time
3. Ride With Me
4. The Way You Make Me Feel
5. I Think About You
6. That’s All It Took
7. A Little Better
8. I Love You
9. We Done Earned It
10. Pretty and The Fair
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams 2024 tour dates
3/17 - Northampton, MA - Academy of Music Theatre
4/11 - Marlboro, NY - The Falcon
4/16 - Boston, MA - City Winery
4/17 - Fairfield, CT - Stage One
4/18 - Ardmore, PA - Ardmore Music Hall
4/20 - Vienna, VA - Jammin’ Java
4/21 - Pittsburgh, PA - Thunderbird Music Hall
4/23 - Columbus, OH - Natalie’s
4/24 - Detroit, MI - Magic Bag
4/26 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk Music
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its original release in October 1999, Genesis’ multi-platinum-selling Turn It On Again: The Hits is being made available on vinyl for the first time.
Releasing on May 3, it will come as a 2-LP set on black vinyl, a special edition 2-LP set in “Invisible Touch” clear vinyl available exclusively through here, as well as on CD. The album contains 18 tracks that span the band's whole career. From their earliest period with tracks such as “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)” and a version of “The Carpet Crawlers” on to their early 80’s global smash hits such as “Turn It On Again” and “Mama” and their massive hits later that decade and into the early 90s with “Invisible Touch” and “I Can't Dance.”
The album's artwork remains loyal to the original, with the lettering of GENESIS pulled from various album covers of the band and the infamous ‘I Can’t Dance’ silhouette of Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford taken from the song's video.
All formats are available to pre-order now. The special edition 2-LP set in “Invisible Touch” clear vinyl is available exclusively through here.
For more than a half-century, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Genesis have defied the odds, rising to become one of the world’s best-selling bands amid personnel shake-ups, shifting styles, and changing times. Formed in 1967 by four classmates in Surrey, England (vocalist Peter Gabriel, keyboardist Tony Banks, lead guitarist Anthony Phillips, and bassist/rhythm guitarist Mike Rutherford), Genesis established themselves as one of prog-rock’s most innovative acts. The band developed their sound with 1970’s Trespass and solidified their line-up with drummer/backing vocalist Phil Collins and guitarist Steve Hackett, going on to release critically acclaimed albums like Selling England by the Pound (1973), and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974). With the departure of Gabriel in 1975, drummer Phil Collins took over as frontman, leading the group into an era of unprecedented success, beginning with 1976’s A Trick of the Tail and Wind & the Wuthering. By the turn of the decade, Genesis had transformed into a tightly-knit trio, embracing a pop aesthetic with the albums …And Then There Were Three…(1978) and Duke (1980), as well as in hits like “Follow You Follow Me” and “Misunderstanding.”
The ‘80s found each band member embarking on successful solo careers – a fact that only solidified their collective songwriting prowess. With their expansive, synth-based hooks and reverb-heavy drums, Genesis set the tone for the decade, dominating global charts with Abacab (1981), Genesis (1983), and Invisible Touch (1986) and conquering the Billboard charts with a string of hits, including “That’s All,” “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight,” “Land of Confusion” and the US No.1, “Invisible Touch.” In 1991, We Can’t Dance (featuring “No Son of Mine,” “Hold on My Heart,” and the GRAMMY®-nominated “I Can’t Dance”) marked Collins’ final studio album with the band. While Banks and Rutherford announced the band’s retirement from the stage and studio in 2000, all three members continued to reunite sporadically – most recently for 2021’s The Last Domino? Tour.
Today, Genesis’ generation-spanning catalog includes 15 studio albums, six live LPs, and dozens of charting singles. In addition to their 2010 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band has received a coveted Ivor Novello Award, a GRAMMY®, an American Music Award, and the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at Britain’s Progressive Music Awards.
Turn It On Again: The Hits - Tracklist
2-LP
Side A
“Turn It On Again”
“Invisible Touch”
“Mama”
“Land of Confusion”
“I Can’t Dance”
Side B
“Follow You Follow Me”
“Hold On My Heart”
“Abacab”
“I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”
Side C
“No Son of Mine”
“Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”
“In Too Deep”
“Congo”
Side D
“Jesus He Knows Me”
“That’s All”
“Misunderstanding”
“Throwing It All Away”
“The Carpet Crawlers 1999”
CD
“Turn It On Again”
“Invisible Touch”
“Mama”
“Land of Confusion”
“I Can’t Dance”
“Follow You Follow Me”
“Hold On my Heart”
“Abacab”
“I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”
“No Son of Mine”
“Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”
“In Too Deep”
“Congo”
“Jesus He Knows Me”
“That’s All”
“Misunderstanding”
“Throwing It All Away”
“The Carpet Crawlers 1999”
"Wake up again in an old motel, is it somewhere different? I can't tell. Every set of curtains opens to the open road…": This Friday, March 22nd, Sierra Ferrell will release Trail of Flowers, and in those very first lines of "American Dreaming," the album's opening number and final preview, she sets the scene for a remarkable journey of resilience. In her transformation from train-hopping vagabond to viral sensation, Sierra Ferrell has honed her strange, spellbinding strain of musical magic in trailer parks, dive bars, truck stops, street corners and everywhere in between. While her ragged path and nomadic past have now led to her proving herself as a generational talent, she introduces Trail of Flowers by reflecting on a continued struggle to build a life in a culture consumed by capitalism. As the arrangement erupts into beautiful crashes of steel guitar, banjo, piano, celeste, and backing vocals from Lukas Nelson and Melody Walker, Ferrell showcases her extraordinary capacity to merge timeless musicianship with modern concerns, reckoning with loneliness, happiness and sorrows in her warm, world-weary rasp.
"American Dreaming" begins Trail of Flowers with a climax that is sustained through barnburners ("Fox Hunt"), barstool romances ("Dollar Bill Bar"), and self-effacing singalongs ("I Could Drive You Crazy"), highlighting the many sides of Sierra Ferrell's shapeshifting sound and inimitable style. As one of Nashville's most in-demand musicians, she has seamlessly collaborated with artists as eclectic as Zach Bryan, Lana Del Rey, Diplo, Margo Price, The Black Keys and more. But it is this collection of 12 songs that captures the true breadth of her wild imagination and wealth of wisdom.
Produced by Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton), with additional production by Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Gillian Welch), Trail of Flowers is Sierra Ferrell's first new album since her 2021 debut, Long Time Coming. It is also why she is being called "one of country and roots music's most fascinating and fastest-rising artists" (Rolling Stone), "one of Americana, bluegrass and country's most talented artists" (Billboard), and "one of the most exciting country musicians in all of America" (Paste), who "has what it takes to bridge the hillbilly/hippie/mainstream divide" (Variety).
Leading up to the album release, the West Virginia native made her national TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and has generated a widespread fervor that is further matched by the excitement of fans who keep selling out her tour dates. This Wednesday and Thursday, Sierra Ferrell will headline two nights at the historic Ryman Auditorium, before kicking off the next leg of her national Shoot For The Moon Tour. The 50-date run includes sold-out stops at LA's Fonda Theatre, Chicago's Thalia Hall, NYC's Webster Hall, DC's 9:30 Club and more, as well as the stadiums, amphitheaters, and arenas that she will play with Zach Bryan, The Avett Brothers and Mitski. See Sierra Ferrell's tour dates listed below, and find tickets at sierraferrellmusic.com/tour.
Sierra Ferrell Tour Dates
3/20 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium w/ Nikki Lane
Today, Osiris Media announces the launch of The Jam, a new podcast hosted by music industry leader Jonathan Shank, exploring the evolution of music through personal conversations and journeys with artists, industry icons, legendary bands, and tastemakers. Produced by critically acclaimed podcast network Osiris Media, The Jam debuts today with two episodes—featuring legendary bassist and producer Randy Jackson & Relix editor-in-chief Dean Budnick.
Episode One lays the groundwork for the season, featuring best-selling author and Relix editor-in-chief Dean Budnick diving into the evolution of the jam scene. Episode Two welcomes legendary bassist and producer Randy Jackson talking with Shank about his Louisiana roots, epic collaborations, and connection to pop culture.
Additional season one guests include Robby Krieger (The Doors), Billy Cobham (Miles Davis), Bill Payne (Little Feat), Dave Mason (Traffic), George Porter Jr (The Meters), rock photographer Henry Diltz, Cymande, and The Disco Biscuits.
Each episode of The Jam will feature exclusive music offerings and be accompanied by a slice of toast and jam pairing. The B-52’s join Particle from the Jammy’s 2002 for an explosive 14 minute “Love Shack” as part of the first episode, which Shank and Budnick produced.
The Jam was inspired by podcasts including Promoter 101 and Questlove Supreme, as well as JEMP Radio. Shank conceived the idea as an outlet for artists and industry stalwarts to tell untold stories, lift up musical heroes, and find the connective tissue between the jam scene and the mainstream. Having worked with everyone from Mickey Hart to Mickey Mouse, he lends an incredibly unique perspective in these free flowing unscripted conversations. Taking fans all the way back to the seeds of the scene up through Horde and Bonnaroo to the present.
Here are just a few of the notable quotes from Season 1 interviews:
“Trey and Phish—those guys are bringing it and pushing the envelope. Those guys are carrying the torch. Trey is an unbelievable player."
- Randy Jackson
“I’m psyched. I can't wait to hear this podcast and what comes next."
- Dean Budnick
Shank shares: “It’s such an honor and privilege to be joined by so many amazing artists, friends, and fellow travelers. The Jam is a place for people to listen, learn, laugh, and lift up. I’m blown away by the response to the podcast so far and can’t wait for the music lovers around the world to come on this journey with us.”
Listen to The Jam here. The podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever podcasts are available.
Summerfest presented by American Family Insurance today revealed over 140 festival headliners over three weekends, June 20-22, June 27-29, and July 4-6, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“Our 2024 lineup embodies the essence of what makes Summerfest so special. With a curated selection of artists spanning genres and styles, the festival reflects the vibrancy of today's music scene," said Sarah Pancheri, President and CEO of Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. " With 600 artists at a 75-acre permanent festival park, Summerfest creates a one-of-a-kind environment that our fans look forward to every summer."
Tickets for Summerfest are ON SALE NOW at Summerfest.com with single day general admission starting at only $28. For a limited time only, the UScellular™ Power Pass is available for $65 and includes admission for all nine days of the festival (limited time Power Pass offer available now through Thursday, March 28 at 11:59pm).
Visit Summerfest.com for the full festival lineup, including artist date, stage, and time slot.
SUMMERFEST LINEUP
WEEKEND ONE
American Family Insurance Amphitheater:
· Kane Brown with Kameron Marlowe and Nightly – June 20
· Mötley Crüe with Seether and Buckcherry – June 21
FESTIVAL STAGES:
· GOO GOO DOLLS
· TOOSI
· BLACK PUMAS
· CHELSEA CUTLER
· TAKING BACK SUNDAY
· DAVID KUSHNER
· BRITTANY HOWARD
· O.A.R.
· UMPHREYS MCGEE
· LATIN MAFIA
· KEVIN KAARL
· EN VOGUE
· THREE DOG NIGHT
· GIN BLOSSOMS
· DAWES
· JAMILA WOODS
· BRYCE VINE
· THE WAR & TREATY
· WYATT FLORES
· BETTER THAN EZRA
· ALLEN STONE
· THE 502S
· LILY ROSE
· HERE COME THE MUMMIES
· RESTLESS ROAD
· LUIS FIGUEROA & BRENDA K. STARR – LATIN MUSIC DAY
· BLACK VIOLIN
· SHOVELS & ROPE
· CHANCE PENA
· CITIZEN
· LITTLE RIVER BAND
· TAYLOR BENNETT
· DROWNING POOL
· DOOM FLAMINGO
· ARATH HERCE
· JESUS JONES
· CHARLOTTE CARDIN
· PROXIMA PARADA
· JONAH KAGEN
· LOYAL LOBOS
· VIISI
· ABRAHAM ALEXANDER
· LITTLE STRANGER
· MINDI ABAIR
· JEFFREY OSBORNE
· MODERN ENGLISH
· WINONA FIGHTER
· HANS WILLIAMS
· BROTHER ELSEY
· FIELD GUIDE
· MC4D
· THE PRODUCERS
· MARY SHELLEY
· LILY FITTS
WEEKEND 2
American Family Insurance Amphitheater:
· ILLENIUM – June 27
· Tyler Childers with S.G. Goodman and Adeem the Artist – June 28
· Keith Urban with NEEDTOBREATHE and Alana Springsteen – June 29
FESTIVAL STAGES:
· MUNA
· JESSIE MURPH
· ALLISON WONDERLAND
· KEY GLOCK
· HIPPO CAMPUS
· FLETCHER
· REO SPEEDWAGON
· SLEATER-KINNEY
· THE HOLD STEADY
· BOYS LIKE GIRLS
· CHARLES WESLEY GODWIN
· ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES
· KEN CARSON
· MARIO
· METRIC
· BRISTON MARONEY
· THE CHURCH
· THE AFGHAN WHIGS
· AMOS LEE
· ETHEL CAIN
· K CAMP
· HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS
· HYO
· BIGXTHAPLUG
· FLIPTURN
· MIKE CAMPBELL & THE DIRTY KNOBS
· ANBERLIN
· BRENT COBB
· THE DANDY WARHOLS
· ZIGGY ALBERTS
· MAUDE LATOUR
· DONAVON FRANKENREITER
· XANA
· BRIGITTE CALLS ME BABY
· MATT HANSEN
· maryjo
· CHERRY GLAZERR
· SARAH KINSLEY
· NOLAN TALOR
· CERTIFIED TRAPPER
· BRISCOE
· AUSTIN WILLIAMS
· MO LAWDA & THE HUMBLE
· J STONE
· TRACEY BONHAM
· SAWYER CLIP
· MILLYZ
· GROUPTHERAPY
· CEDRIC BURNSIDE
· BEN CHAPMAN
· MCKINLEY DIXON
· BASSEL & THE SUPERNATURALS
WEEKEND 3
American Family Insurance Amphitheater:
· AJR with Carly Rae Jepsen and mxmtoon – July 4
· Maroon 5 – July 5
· Lil Uzi Vert with Lil Yachty, JID, Rico Nasty & LIHTZ – July 6
Grammy-Award winner Aoife O’Donovan has released her new solo album, All My Friends, today. The 9-song collection - O’Donovan’s first self-produced LP - is inspired by the passage of the 19th amendment and the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. As O’Donovan recently explained in an interview with Jezebel, she measures her own perspective as a woman and mother in the present, against those of the past across the album, specifically the perspectives of the suffragettes who paved the way for women today. She artfully draws on speeches and letters by Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Voters, to write intricately filigreed new, original songs infused with modern viewpoint. Amidst a lush, genre-blurring soundscape featuring brass, orchestra, girls’ choir, and O’Donovan’s own “stunning” (Rolling Stone) voice, All My Friends wrestles with questions of what has - and hasn’t - changed for American women in the 100 years since gaining the right to vote.
O’Donovan has unveiled the official music video today for “Someone To Follow,” a declaration of hope for the future, featuring Noam Pikelny on banjo and Rob Burger on accordion. “As I sketched out the song further, I realized I was also singing to my own daughter, calling for her to be a leader, to achieve greatness and be whole,” says O’Donovan. Watch the music video, directed by Caitlin Gerard, here.
Earlier this week, O’Donovan performed the single on NBC’s The Kelly Clarkson Show. Watch the moving performance here.
All My Friends - co-produced by O’Donovan, Eric Jacobsen and Darren Schneider - was mostly recorded at Full Sail University in Orlando by Schneider, Brooklyn Recording in Brooklyn and Power Station in Manhattan. The album was mixed by Schneider and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Bob Weston and features a number of special guests including Anaïs Mitchell, Sierra Hull, Noam Pikelny, The Knights, The Westerlies, The San Francisco Girls Chorus, Alan Hampton, Griffin Goldsmith and more. Most of the songs on the album grew out of two commissions O’Donovan took on - from the Orlando Philharmonic where she now lives, and the FreshGrass Foundation in her native Massachusetts. Following performances with both institutions, O’Donovan continued to explore the themes that would become All My Friends in full. Read more about the commissions via No Depression here.
O’Donovan hopes the collection will empower the next generation to use their voices for positive change. “It is my firm belief that voting and participation in democracy is not political. It is your civic duty. As American citizens we owe it to ourselves and our neighbors to be active participants in the society in which we live,” she recently explained to WGBH Morning Edition. “It is an intense time to be a woman in America. It’s shocking to me, especially as the mother of a daughter, that every morning I turn on the news and see these stories of our rights - which we did feel were solidified - being taken away from us. But I urge people to educate themselves, to vote, to participate, to go outside and be the change that we want to see.”
The project follows O’Donovan’s 3x GRAMMY nominated 2022 album Age of Apathy, which NPR named “a moving self-portrait,” and No Depression called “an astounding accomplishment.” In addition to appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS Saturday Morning, Kelly Clarkson and PBS Newshour, Pitchfork said O’Donovan “taps into the propulsion of prime Joni Mitchell,” while The New York Times praised the album’s “musical surprises: daring melodic leaps, unexpected chord progressions, [and] subtle rhythmic shifts.” Following the release of Age of Apathy, O’Donovan also recorded and toured behind a full album reinterpretation of Bruce Springsteen’s landmark Nebraska album, with performances at Newport Folk Festival, Tønder Festival, and more. While Age of Apathy centered around coming to terms with indifference, All My Friends reminds us of the power of collective action.
All My Friends is available digitally today and on CD and multiple colored LP versions, representing the colors of the women’s suffrage movement: violet for loyalty, green for hope, and gold for purpose. The standard LP is pressed on Violet color vinyl. The indie/D2C only version has alternate cover art and is pressed on Ochre/gold color vinyl with an autographed insert. In addition, Magnolia Record Club has an exclusive version with standard cover art pressed on Green vinyl with an autographed insert.
Aoife O’Donovan 2024 Tour Dates
March 24, 2024 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears !
March 25, 2024 - New York, NY - The Greene Space (presented by the GRAMMY Museum)
March 27, 2024 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry
March 29, 2024 - Nashville, TN - American Legion Post 82 %
March 30, 2024 - Denver, CO - Newman Center for the Performing Arts %
May 13, 2024 - New York, NY - Carnegie Hall
May 17, 2024 - Bentonville, AR - FreshGrass Bentonville
May 23, 2024 - Healdsburg, CA - Little Saint %
May 24, 2024 - Menlo Park, CA - The Guild Theatre %
May 25, 2024 - Grass Valley, CA - Strawberry Music Festival %
June 1, 2024 - Norfolk, VA - Light in the Eastern Sky (presented by Virginia Arts Festival)
June 7, 2024 - Charleston, SC - Spoleto Festival #
June 12, 2024 - Bristol, UK - St. George’s Bristol
June 15, 2024 - Egeskov Castle, DK - Heartland Festival
June 18, 2024 - London, UK - Barbican Hall
July 12, 2024 - Lexington, VA - Lime Kiln Theater %
July 13, 2024 - York, PA - Capitol Theatre %
July 14, 2024 - Westport, CT - Levitt Pavilion %
July 16, 2024 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall %
July 17, 2024 - North Truro, MA - Payomet Performing Arts Center %
July 18, 2024 - Westerly, RI - United Theatre %
July 19, 204 - Groton, MA - Groton Hill Music Center %
July 25-28, 2024 - Cambridge, UK - Cambridge Folk Festival
August 15-18, 2024 - Manchester, VT - Green Mountain Bluegrass Festival %^
September 27-29 - Sisters, OR - Sisters Folk Festival %
! performing with the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra
% performing with Hawktail
# performing with members of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra
~ performing with Guildhall Session Orchestra and Music Centre London Session Choir
Today, Kaufman Music Center announces the 25th annual New York Guitar Festival, which will be held at KMC’s esteemed venue, Merkin Hall from June 14-15th, 2024. The festival is co-presented by Kaufman Music Center, World Music Institute, New York Guitar Festival, and New Sounds Live.
Exploring virtually every aspect of the guitar’s personality since 1999, the New York Guitar Festival has presented many of the world’s most influential guitarists at iconic NYC venues large and small. From multi Grammy-winners to emerging artists, NYGF performers have included masters of the classical repertoire as well as blues, jazz, pop, indie, folk and Americana as well as sounds of Central and South America and genre-defying innovators.
The festival is hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer and will include a wide range of performances across the two days from artists like Marc Ribot & Leyla McCalla, Yasmin Williams, Neel Murgai, Kunal Prakash, Medicine Singers, Lee Ranaldo, Yonatan Gat, Maalem Hassan BenJaafar, Mamady Kouyaté and additional special guests.
Friday, June 14th’s programming is hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer and will include performances from Marc Ribot & Leyla McCalla, Yasmin Williams, Neel Murgai & Kunal Prakash.
**The duo of Marc Ribot, the New York guitarist, and Leyla McCalla, the New Orleans cellist and banjo player, may seem unlikely at first. Ribot is known for his work with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, his own avant-noise trio Ceramic Dog and much more; McCalla writes songs that draw on the African-American string band tradition, Cajun music and her own Haitian heritage. But Ribot was also a student of the Haitian classical guitarist/composer Frantz Casseus, and the two musicians share a strong genre-agnostic streak.
**Yasmin Williams has extended the “tapping” technique into a whole new way of approaching the guitar, and occasionally adds tap shoes and kalimba to the sound, becoming a literal one-woman band.
**Sitarist Neel Murgai, co-director of the globally-inspired Brooklyn Raga Massive, is accompanied by Jeff The Brotherhood guitarist Kunal Prakash.
Saturday, June 15th’s programming includes the Medicine Singers, Lee Ranaldo & Yonatan Gat, Maalem Hassan BenJaafar, Mamady Kouyaté and additional special guests.
**Medicine Singers is the name of an ongoing collaboration between Yonatan Gat, the wildly virtuosic Israeli-born, New York-based guitarist, and the Eastern Medicine Singers, an Eastern Algonquin pow wow group from Rhode Island.
**Now joined by the legendary Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Medicine Singers combines ancient trance and spirituality with modern psychedelia, and makes inventive use of the similarities – and differences – between the steady pulse of Indigenous American drumming and the rhythms of rock.
**Maalem Hassan BenJaafar is the lead singer and Artistic Director of Innov Gnawa. As Maalem he teaches the other members of the band and they perform in clubs, festivals, museums, universities, schools and other venues in the New York area and throughout the USA, including Coachella, Lincoln Center and Red Rocks Amphitheater. Internationally, they perform in venues including La Renaissance Theater in Rabat, the Ganga Gnawa Festival in Taroudant, Morocco and the Amare Gnawa Festival in The Hague. In November, 2017 Maalem Hassan and Innov Gnawa were nominated for a Grammy in Dance/Electronic for Bonobo Featuring Innov Gnawa: Bambra Koyo Ganda, a song that Maalem Hassan adapted from traditional repertoire.
**The Mandingo Ambassadors was founded in New York City by griot-guitarist Mamady Kouyaté in 2005. As a veteran of the great orchestras of the golden age of Guinean dance bands, Mamady Kouyaté is a living library of musical science inherited from his ancestors and from a half century of experience as an arranger, band leader, accompanist and soloist. Kouyaté carried this heritage with him to New York, where he has collaborated with members of the West African diaspora and Western musicians to continue the great tradition and sound of Guinean Afro-jazz. Since 2008 the group has been in residence at Barbes, performing every Wednesday night at this well-known Brooklyn venue. In addition, they have performed at many clubs, events and festivals including Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Celebrate Brooklyn and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
ABOUT KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER:
Kaufman Music Center is the premier destination for learning and listening to music in New York City. Their schools offer outstanding education in music, dance, and theater to people of all ages and experience levels, along with their intimate performance hall that presents world-renowned artists. Established with the mission of providing access without barriers, the Center proudly programs a comprehensive musical experience for students, performers and audiences in New York and beyond. Merkin Hall, the Center’s performance venue, provides unparalleled access to today’s most compelling artists, workshops and competitions, offering students, artists and audiences alike the chance to share music at the highest level. Its acclaimed Artist-in-Residence program also gives those performers the resources to develop groundbreaking, multidisciplinary projects as well as educational opportunities to mentor and inspire. Kaufman Music Center continuously cultivates and nurtures new generations of artists through Special Music School, New York’s only K-12 public school prioritizing an intensive, immersive and musically-focused education without financial barriers, as well as Lucy Moses School, Manhattan’s largest community performing arts school for students of all ages.
50 years ago, the Grateful Dead were cooking with gas. It was spring 1974, the band had successfully emerged from a series of hectic, harrowing times, and would soon follow their transformative Wake Of The Flood with the second acclaimed album release on their very own Grateful Dead Records: From The Mars Hotel. During the mere eight months that had passed between those two beloved LPs, the group also played some of their most exploratory live music and largest venues to date, famously amplified by the homemade, 75-ton Wall of Sound that they debuted on March 23rd, 1974, at their hometown Cow Palace in Daly City, CA. Eternal staples such as "Scarlet Begonias," "Ship Of Fools" and "U.S. Blues" would first be introduced into setlists along that season's tour, before the Grateful Dead spent two months recording and honing them in the studio for From The Mars Hotel. Not to mention perennial classics like "China Doll" and "Loose Lucy," or "Pride of Cucamonga" and "Unbroken Chain" – the final two tracks Phil Lesh would sing on a Grateful Dead studio album. Now, as Grateful Dead members and tributaries continue to celebrate and bring so many of these formative songs to the masses, From The Mars Hotel has been remastered and expanded with newly unearthed material and rarities, in honor of its 50th Anniversary.
Out June 21st via Rhino, six days before the album's original release on June 27, 1974, From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) features remastered audio by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser, with Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. Produced for release by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux, the deluxe edition also includes demos of "China Doll" and "Wave That Flag" – the song that became "U.S. Blues" – as well as a previously unreleased live performance of the Grateful Dead at University of Nevada-Reno on 5/12/1974. As the band filled an outdoor football stadium with epic highs like a huge "China Cat Sunflower" > "I Know You Rider," Mars Hotel cuts including "U.S. Blues" and classics such as "Brown-Eyed Women," "Tennessee Jed," "Mississippi Half-Step," "Truckin'" and "Sugar Magnolia," a massive wind storm was no match for the Wall of Sound. Designed to improve the listening and performance experience at what were becoming larger gigs and longer, more dynamic and varied sets, the Wall of Sound required 21 stage hands, and underlined the resounding effect the Grateful Dead were having on American audiences and culture at the time, even as the entire operation remained homespun and humble.
Pre-orderFrom The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) on 3CD and digital formats, and hear "Wave That Flag (Demo)," available on DSPs for the first time today
In addition to the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Remaster) will be released on June 21st as a single 180-gram black vinyl LP, limited edition Neon Pink vinyl, limited edition "Ugly Rumors" custom vinyl exclusive to Dead.net, and a specially-designed picture disc created in partnership with zoetrope pioneer Drew Tetz. When viewed with a camera or strobe, the zoetrope LP will appear to animate, and can be pre-ordered along with the rest of From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Remaster) variants HERE.
Recorded in San Francisco's Coast Recorders studio, From The Mars Hotel finds Keith Godchaux particularly shining across a variety of keys, from the "China Doll" harpsichord to the pounding piano on Bob Weir's "Money Money," to the churchy organ that elevates "Ship Of Fools." Lyricist Robert Hunter packs "U.S. Blues" with a barrage of imagery, pop-culture references and sardonic asides – as Canadian author Ray Robertson writes in the 50th Anniversary Edition's liner notes, it "carries an undeniable whiff of late-capitalism ennui…it's the most fun you'll ever have dancing to the end of the American Empire." Jerry Garcia's jaunty lead guitar drives bouncing melodies across the LP, while guests include Ned Lagin's unnerving synth effects on "Unbroken Chain," Clover member John McFee's country-rock pedal steel on "Pride Of Cucamonga," and more.
From The Mars Hotel peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1974, contributing to the Grateful Dead's historic achievement last month, when they broke the all-time record for Most Top 40 albums on the Billboard 200.
In tandem with today's announcement, the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast will premiere its ninth season tomorrow, March 28th. Following 5 million downloads and counting, the official Grateful Dead podcast will now unlock the many secrets of From The Mars Hotel. Along with a track-by-track breakdown of the album, this season will tell the story of the game-changing Wall of Sound, with archival audio of its mastermind – legendary LSD chemist Owsley Stanley – and new interviews with those who made the larger-than-life speaker system a reality.
Today, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers release Revelations, an album that The New York Times says is "the work of a songwriter relishing newfound clarity and confidence." Self-produced for the first time by bandleader River Shook (they/them), and recorded in two breakneck but clear-eyed days, these 10 songs are their most righteous, rousing and resilient to date. From navigating class division and capitalism to fighting for queer love, tackling mental health turmoil and toxic relationships, cultivating compassion and coming to terms with issues of substance abuse, Revelations finds River Shook commanding their own path of self-discovery and perennial perseverance.
Listen to Revelations via Abeyance Records/Thirty Tigers, and watch the brand new music video for album closer "Criminal" (dir. Jordan Gibson): HERE
As their self-described gay cowboy song, "Criminal" is about defying social taboos through unabashed desire. With lyrics like "If lovin' you will always be a crime I'll always be a criminal," River Shook says, "That line got me thinking about how we as queer people have been persecuted, and how we so often have to keep all kinds of things under wraps because of the law because of social taboo. I wanted 'Criminal' to portray these feelings of longing and desire that two gay people can have for each other. They're complicated feelings because human beings are complicated. Gay love is every bit as complicated as straight love."
Across the rest of Revelations, River Shook captures the Disarmers' spirit like no one else can, channeling the ferocious energy of their live shows into anthems for barbacks and service workers ("Backsliders"), galvanizing takes on depression ("Revelations"), and kiss-offs to villainous men ("Motherfucker").
In a captivating new profile, The New York Times traces the arduous and even life-threatening journey it took River Shook to arrive at the music of Revelations, between a tumultuous childhood in an ultraconservative family, discovering country music at age 23, playing 150 shows a year, getting sober, coming out as nonbinary and embracing their identity more openly than ever. Now they are writing their most liberating songs yet – read the story HERE.
Beginning with a hometown release show tonight and a stop in Nashville this weekend, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers are bringing the music of Revelations all around the country this spring and summer, on a 2024 tour of nearly 50 dates and counting. See the latest list of shows below, and find tickets at disarmers.com/tour.
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Tour Dates
3/29 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle ((
3/30 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle >>
3/31 - Nashville, TN - 3rd and Lindsley %
4/2 - Wisconsin Dells, WI - Showboat Saloon #
4/3 - St Paul, MN - Turf Club #
4/4 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club @
4/5 - Berwyn, IL - Fitzgerald's =
4/6 - St Louis, MO - Central Stage +
4/7 - Eureka Springs, AR - Ozark Mountain Soul Festival
5/2 - Pittsboro, NC - Shakori Hills 2024
5/3 - Newport, KY - MoonRunners Festival
5/4 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe &
5/5 - Philadelphia, PA - Sing Us Home Festival
5/7 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison &
5/8 - Montreal, QC - L'Escogriffe Bar Spectacle &
5/9 - Portland, ME - One Longfellow Square &
5/10 - Gloucester, MA - The Cut &
5/11 - New Haven, CT - Cafe Nine &
5/12 - Queens, NY - TV Eye &
5/18 - Prescott, AZ - Pure Imagination 2024
6/8 - Richmond, VA - Richmond Music Hall
6/9 - Winchester, VA - Bright Box Theater
6/10 - Rochester, NY - Abilene Bar & Lounge
6/11 - Providence, RI - Alchemy
6/13 - Troy, NY - The Hangar on the Hudson
6/14 - Lewistown, PA - Shy Bear Brewing
6/15 - Washington, DC - Songbyrd Music House
7/6 - Orillia, ON - Mariposa Folk Festival 2024
7/7 - Ferndale, MI - Magic Bag
7/9 - Kansas City, MO - Knuckleheads
7/10 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
7/11 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
7/12 - Bozeman, MT - Live from the Divide
7/13 - Whitefish, MT - Under the Big Sky Festival
7/15 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern ***
7/16 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios ***
7/17 - Sisters, OR - The Belfry ***
7/18 - Davis, CA - Davis Live Music Collective !!!
7/19 - Cloverdale, CA - Friday Night Live at the Plaza $
Sonya Cohen Cramer (1965-2015), the singular vocalist, graphic designer, art director, and member of the Seeger family, will finally get her musical due on May 17th when the first-ever collection dedicated fully to her music, ‘You’ve Been a Friend to Me,’ is released on Smithsonian Folkways. A musician who mostly practiced the craft for her own enjoyment and fulfillment while she worked as, among other things, a designer of over sixty Smithsonian Folkways record packages, Sonya was a true “singer’s singer” whose musical admirers included Jeff Buckley, Loudon Wainwright III, Joe Boyd, and Meredith Monk.
Following the full arc of her musical life through collaborations with her Aunt Peggy and Uncle Pete Seeger, Elizabeth Mitchell, Daniel Littleton, and the folk-fusion group Last Forever, the new set features nearly thirty years of Sonya’s work. A life-long student of traditional folk music, and re-interpreter of classic old-time ballads, her performance of the title track of the collection, “You’ve Been a Friend to Me,” reveals the emotional integrity she championed through each song she recorded. Originally published as sheet music in 1858 and made widely known through a 1936 recording by the Carter Family, “You’ve Been a Friend to Me” first provided a theme for Sonya’s recording sessions with Mitchell and Littleton (who feature prominently on the track) in 2014, and then evolved into a personal anthem as she navigated the challenges of cancer in her last year. A few months before she passed away in 2015, she sang it to a large group of friends assembled to celebrate her 50th birthday.
Listen to “You’ve Been a Friend to Me,” the first single to be released from the collection, HERE.
Born in New York City in July 1965, Sonya Cohen grew up in Putnam Valley, New York in a family with deep musical and artistic roots. She was the daughter of John Cohen, member of folk revival music group The New Lost City Ramblers, and Penelope Seeger, a potter whose elder siblings were folk musicians Mike, Peggy, and Pete Seeger. She was the granddaughter of seminal musicologist Charles Seeger and the avant-garde composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, and her godfather was Folkways founder Moe Asch. When she was only a few days old, her parents took her to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival where her Uncle Pete dedicated the evening's performance to her, saying she represented the hope for the future. Later that same historic night, Dylan “went electric."
During her college years at Wesleyan University, Sonya explored the connections between feminist theory and art through books, printmaking, and collage. She began to study and perform in a range of musical traditions originating outside of North America. She sang South Indian music, studying with T. Viswanathan, saying his "radiating warmth and love opened up the richest possibilities of life to me."
After college, Sonya moved to New York City and began her graphic design career. While in New York, she became the vocalist for the folk-fusion music group Last Forever, a project and collaboration with Dick Connette based on new and old songs out of the American tradition. Signed originally to Nonesuch Records, they released music from 1997 until Sonya’s death in 2015. The New York Times music critic Stephen Holden, reviewing Last Forever, wrote that Sonya’s “plain, twangy voice embodies the spirit of Mr. Connette's austere, beautifully constructed rural ballads. A haunting evocation of American prairie life in an era before television.” On “Hide and Seek” and “In the Pines” - two Last Forever songs that appear on ‘You’ve Been a Friend to Me’ - the nostalgia of Sonya’s more traditionally rendered stylings blends with chamber-folk atmospherics for a sound that’s deeply felt, almost spiritual.
Like her family, Sonya cared about where the old tunes and stories she heard came from, and she valued the contributions of the music-makers and the keepers of culture. In addition to her work with Last Forever, she also recorded with her relatives throughout her career. Although Ruth Crawford Seeger passed away long before Sonya was born, she made sure to honor her grandmother’s legacy, alongside other living members of her extended family, by contributing to two recordings of her grandmother’s influential songbooks – ‘American Folk Songs for Christmas,’ and ‘Animal Folk Songs for Children.’ The second song on ‘You’ve Been a Friend to Me,’ “A Squirrel is a Pretty Thing,” which features Sonya’s Aunt Peggy on piano, originally appeared on the latter collection.
On the spare, heart-wrenching “When I Was Most Beautiful,” Sonya is accompanied by her Uncle Pete on guitar, working from a translation of a Japanese poem that Pete originally set to music in 1969. This recording originally appeared on the Grammy-winning Pete Seeger at 89 (Appleseed Recordings, 2008), and Sonya and Pete also performed the song together at the Library of Congress in 2007.
During the early 2000s, Sonya enjoyed a rich career as a graphic designer for Folkways. She ultimately designed 64 covers for the label, honoring her interests in American folk music, and international music traditions like Bulgarian and Indian music in doing so. Her design work on a series of Folkways Records with Elizabeth Mitchell was especially gratifying - through that work, they formed the deep personal and musical bond which led to them recording many songs together and with Daniel Littleton.
Through all of the music Sonya recorded in her 50 years, one thing was always prioritized: honesty. From the way she honored music from over a century ago (the Mississippi John Hurt-inspired “Louis Collins / Spike Driver Blues”), to just a few decades prior (the Townes Van Zandt cover “No Place to Fall”), and from chamber-folk and pure acapella (“Oh Blue”), Sonya recorded everything with heart and soul, stripped-down to their core elements and with room left for listeners to fill in their own blanks. Acclaimed Joe Boyd once said, “I remember very well the first time I heard Sonya’s voice … I was just so stunned, charmed, and intrigued by the simplicity, the honesty, the deep feeling in everything she sang, and I never got tired of listening to Sonya’s voice … she was such a wonderful person and wonderful singer, and sorely missed.”
‘You’ve Been a Friend to Me’ is out on May 17th - pre-save it HERE.
This week, following the release of her long-awaited, widely-lauded and world-building new album, Sierra Ferrell has debuted #1 on Billboard's Emerging Artists, Heatseekers and Tastemakers charts. Out now on Rounder Records, Trail of Flowers also landed in the Top 5 on Billboard's Vinyl Albums chart, Top 10 on Album Sales and Americana/Folk Albums, Top 20 on Independent Albums and Top 25 on Country Albums, as well as Top 40 on the Billboard Artist 100. Bringing listeners on a time-bending journey of resilience and rebirth, merging classic musicianship with decidedly modern concerns, these 12 songs have quickly become a place for Ferrell's fans to pour their own feelings, whether she is singing about the search for love, livelihood or the American Dream.
Listen to Trail of Flowers, and watch the music video for "American Dreaming":
In her transformation from train-hopping vagabond to viral sensation, Sierra Ferrell has honed her spellbinding style of storytelling in trailer parks, dive bars, truck stops and everywhere in between. In a new profile that aired on CBS Mornings, she opens up about the remarkable path it has taken to now becoming "one of country and roots music's most fascinating and fastest-rising artists" (Rolling Stone). As correspondent Anthony Mason shows, "the only thing more amazing than her voice is her story."
Watch the full piece from CBS Mornings, where she discusses growing up in West Virginia, hitchhiking, running wild and busking on street corners, seeing the other side, landing in Nashville and coming into her own.
Trail of Flowers marks Sierra Ferrell's first new album since 2021's Long Time Coming, and since then she has become one of the moment's most in-demand musicians. She has collaborated with Zach Bryan, Diplo, Margo Price, Shakey Graves and The Black Keys, been covered by Kelly Clarkson, and shared stages with Dave Matthews, Lana Del Rey and Nathaniel Rateliff. She earned Emerging Artist of The Year at the 2022 Americana Honors & Awards, sold out all her live shows in 2023, and is reaching far greater heights in 2024.
Leading up to Trail of Flowers, she made her national TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and sold out two nights at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium. She returns to the road with two sold-out shows at LA's Fonda Theatre this week, followed by more of her biggest headline performances to date, and a series of stadiums, amphitheaters and arenas she is about to play with Zach Bryan, The Avett Brothers and Mitski. Find all the Shoot For The Moon Tour stops and tickets at sierraferrellmusic.com/tour.
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams have made a triumphant return with their fourth album All This Time out now via Royal Potato Family. This ten track collection serves as a poignant celebration of their enduring love and nearly 40 years of marriage, earning them the endearing title of the "First Couple of Americana" (Mojo). Emerging out of a difficult time that ultimately strengthened their bond, the record is a testament to the resilience of love through their journey as partners and professional musicians - their “most intimate album to date” (Relix). “All This Time feels more intuitive to me than the earlier records, less experimental, evidence that we’ve grown more aware of who we are and what we have to offer” says Campbell.
What the pair offer is an intensely romantic album creatively melding elements of folk, blues, and country, decorated with Campbell’s inspired guitar work, William’s alternately fierce and velvet-toned vocals, and tasteful accompaniment featuring pedal steel, organ, mandolin and more. Associated Press called the album “a rousing and romantic testament to the power of love both forever and fleeting.” Read the full review here.
The album was produced by Campbell with contributions from Grammy-winner Justin Guip (Levon Helm, David Bromberg) who recorded and mixed the album and contributed percussion. Other musicians on the record include Little Feat legend Bill Payne on piano and organ, new band member Brandon Morrison on bass and vocals, and a special appearance by Levon Helm on drums, recorded shortly before his passing.
Arriving on the heels of lead single "Love Of A Girl" – which is simultaneously climbing charts at Triple A, Americana and Alternative radio, and has helped push the band past 1.6 billion career streams – "Country Kid" is the second preview of The Avett Brothers' first new album in five years. Out May 17th via Ramseur Records/American Recordings/Thirty Tigers, and produced by Rick Rubin, The Avett Brothers is as much untitled as it is self-titled: a collection of songs that revealed themselves naturally over time.
Like "Country Kid," The Avett Brothers is filled with music and lyrics that seek the sacred in the commonplace. Recorded in Malibu's Shangri-La Studios, as well as Nashville, Mar Vista, and the band's hometown of Concord, NC, it is an album interested in the divine unknowable, ultimately reveling in the fun and surrender of what we cannot understand. "It's very raw and energetic and it sounds killer," said The Needle Drop, on "Love Of A Girl," which Consequence praised for its "hopeful, free, careless energy," and Relix called "a hard reboot for the trailblazing Americana outfit and a studied, attentive return to its roots."
The Avett Brothers will begin performing music from The Avett Brothers on an expansive US tour this spring and summer, including their own five-day festival in Mexico, a headline show at NYC's Forest Hills Stadium on album release day, three nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, LA's SoFi Stadium with Luke Combs, and more that now extends through November. Find the full list of dates below and tickets at theavettbrothers.com/tour.
The Avett Brothers Tour Dates
4/9-4/13 - Riviera Maya, MX - The Avett Brothers At The Beach
4/19 - Buffalo, NY - Highmark Stadium #
5/5 - Charlotte, NC - Lovin' Life Festival
5/16 - Philadelphia, PA - The Mann Center w/ City and Colour
5/17 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium^
5/18 - Boston, MA - Suffolk Downs^
5/21 - New Haven, CT - Westville Music Bowl^
5/23 - Albany, NY - MVP Arena^
5/24 - Canandaigua, NY - CMAC^
6/14 - Los Angeles, CA - SoFi Stadium #
6/15 - Paso Robles, CA - Vina Robles
6/16 - Sacramento, CA - Memorial Auditorium
7/3 - Taos, NM - Kit Carson Park w/ Iron & Wine
7/5 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Little Feat
7/6 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Melissa Etheridge
7/7 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Dawes
7/10 - Missoula, MT - Big Sky Brewing Co
7/12 - Redmond, WA - Marymoor Park
7/13 - Troutdale, OR - Edgefield
7/14 - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
7/26 - Washington, DC - FedExField #
8/16 - Des Moines, IA - Iowa State Fair w/ G. Love & Special Sauce
8/17 - Maryland Heights, MO - St. Louis Music Park %
8/18 - E. Troy, WI - Alpine Valley %
8/20 - Columbus, OH - KEMBA Live!*
8/21 - Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre*
8/23 - Cleveland, OH - Jacobs Pavilion*
8/24 - Newport, KY - MegaCorp Pavilion*
9/12 - Indianapolis, IN - Gainbridge Fieldhouse w/ Houndmouth
Today, ODESZA announces ‘The Last Goodbye Tour Live’ – the GRAMMY-nominees’ forthcoming live album set for release on May 31 via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune. For the first time in their career, ODESZA will be releasing live versions of their songs as a fully cohesive album, bringing to life the nearly-indescribable magic of their expansive and immersive concert experience.
The album will be offered on 3LP Ghostly Clear Vinyl, housed in a bespoke trifold sleeve with a center die-cut. The package contains three interchangeable matte varnish inner sleeves that allow fans to choose their own cover. Preorder is available now on ODESZA’s store.
Produced and engineered by ODESZA (the duo of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight), ‘The Last Goodbye Tour Live’ was recorded throughout their monumental 2022-2023 The Last Goodbye Tour, the first amphitheater tour ever attempted by an electronic act. Referred to as VIP edits, almost every song has been thoughtfully revised and rearranged deliberately for the live show and ODESZA’s creativity and ingenuity is abundantly clear throughout the album. ‘The Last Goodbye Tour Live’ is complete with the ODESZA Drumline, two horn players, and a rotating cast of vocalists including Naomi Wild, Sudan Archives, Izzy Bizu, MARO, Mansionair and Charlie Houston.
To tease the record, ODESZA has released two singles today – “Forgive Me (Live) (feat. Izzy Bizu)” and “A Moment Apart (Live) (ODESZA VIP Remix)”. The band has also shared a video of “Forgive Me (Live) (feat. Izzy Bizu)”, a visual illustration of the nostalgia and community that has surrounded the tour. Watch the video HERE.
"We're endlessly grateful to our incredible fans who have attended our shows over the years!” said Harrison and Clay. “Your energy and support inspires us to do what we do. We love the opportunity to reinterpret our work for the live show setting and share it with you on stage. Through the release of these live recordings, we hope that people will be able to revisit and relive the live performances that have brought us so much joy and connection throughout our careers."
The forthcoming live album will showcase why ODESZA have become live music must-sees, having headlined nearly every major music festival over the past few years (including Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Austin City Limits, Electric Forest, Gov Ball, and others).
The live album will precede ODESZA’s massive The Last Goodbye Finale tour dates taking place this summer and capping the duo’s incredible current musical era. ODESZA is set to end the current chapter on their career on a major high note, with numerous dates, many of which are sold out, in iconic rooms such as Madison Square Garden, The Greek Theatre Berkeley, BMO Stadium, The Gorge and Folsom Field.
While on the road, ODESZA has partnered with nonprofits PLUS1 and REVERB to support them and other diverse organizations working for climate sustainability, equity, access, and dignity for all. ODESZA and REVERB are continuing their partnership at shows to reduce the environmental footprint of their tour and take action on the climate crisis. In addition to a comprehensive tour sustainability program, fans will have the ability to join the effort by visiting ODESZA’s Action Village at every show.
Tracklist for ‘The Last Goodbye Tour Live’ album:
1. This Version of You (Live)
2. Behind the Sun (Live)
3. All We Need (Live) (ODESZA VIP Remix)
4. Love Letter (Live) (ODESZA VIP Remix)
5. Say My Name x Late Night (Live)
6. In the Rain (Live)
7. Pretty Lights - One Day They'll Know (Live) (ODESZA VIP Remix)
8. Wide Awake (Live) (feat. Charlie Houston)
9. Bloom (Live) (ODESZA VIP Remix)
10. Equal x Boy (Live)
11. All My Life (Live)
12. Better Now (Live) (feat. MARO)
13. Line Of Sight (Live) (feat. Mansionair & Naomi Wild)
14. Forgive Me (Live) (feat. Izzy Bizu) (ODESZA VIP Remix)
Today, with Rhino's surprise release of From The Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share, the Grateful Dead vaults have once again been opened. Featuring 16 newly unearthed session recordings, the digital collection brings listeners directly into San Francisco's Coast Recorders during the spring of 1974, revealing the band's real-time process as they crafted such eternal staples as "Scarlet Begonias," "Ship Of Fools," "China Doll," "U.S. Blues," "Unbroken Chain" and more that would make up their classic From The Mars Hotel LP. The evolution of all of those songs and other album highlights is charted throughout this fourth edition of the band's fan-favorite Angel's Share series. Like previous installments that accompanied milestone reissues of Workingman's Dead, American Beauty and Wake Of The Flood, From The Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share brings together hours of expertly-curated outtakes, alternate versions, acoustic mixes, unexpected moments and revelations that have never been heard or available on DSPs until now.
Join the Grateful Dead as a fly on the wall of the studio, and explore From The Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share: HERE
As these Angel's Share recordings further showcase, the Grateful Dead were cooking with gas in the runup to From The Mars Hotel. The band had successfully emerged from a series of hectic, harrowing times, and would soon follow their transformative Wake Of The Flood with this second self-released album from their very own Grateful Dead Records. During the mere eight months that had passed between the two beloved LPs, the group also played some of their most exploratory live music and largest venues to date, famously amplified by the homemade, 75-ton Wall of Sound that they debuted on March 23rd, 1974. While several of the album's formative songs would first be introduced into setlists along that season's tour, the Grateful Dead spent two months recording and honing them in the studio for the album.
In honor of its 50th Anniversary, From The Mars Hotel has also been reissued and expanded with rediscovered material and rarities. Out June 21st via Rhino, six days before the album's original release five decades ago, From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) features remastered audio by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser, with Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. Produced for release by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux, the deluxe edition includes demos of "China Doll" and "Wave That Flag" – the song that became "U.S. Blues" – as well as a previously unreleased live performance of the Grateful Dead at University of Nevada-Reno on 5/12/1974, where a massive wind storm was no match for the Wall of Sound.
Furthermore, From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Remaster) will be released on June 21st as a single 180-gram black vinyl LP, limited edition Neon Pink vinyl, limited edition "Ugly Rumors" custom vinyl exclusive to Dead.net, and a specially-designed picture disc created in partnership with zoetrope pioneer Drew Tetz. When viewed with a camera or strobe, the zoetrope LP will appear to animate, and can be pre-ordered now along with the rest of From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Remaster) variants.
Explore the special collection at Dead.net, and pre-order From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition): HERE
As part of From The Mars Hotel’s 50th Anniversary celebration, the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast is unlocking the many secrets behind the album. Along with a track-by-track breakdown of the LP, the podcast's ninth season is currently telling the story of the Wall of Sound, with archival audio of its mastermind – legendary LSD chemist Owsley Stanley – and new interviews with those who made the game-changing, larger-than-life speaker system a reality. With five million downloads and counting, new episodes of Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast will continue to premiere every other week HERE.
Today, The Daydream Library Series releases “Rewilding” by Thurston Moore to celebrate Earth Day 2024. It’s an introspective and dreamy four minute and twelve second surprise inspired by the United Kingdom’s rewilding movement. “This terrain is changing / Rewilding, rearranging .…” Thurston sings over Deb Googe’s deep bass melody, percussionist Jem Doulton’s coconut drum beats, and Jon Leidecker’s otherworldly synth lines and textures.
Thurston delivers lines that are chilling as he ruminates on the removal of the human hand from nature, “…Don’t stir anything…”. The musician questions what can be accomplished in an era of renewal, a time for friends of the Earth to sleep and realize a natural way by “Coral Morphologically dreaming.” The musician says the rewilding movement aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems.
In weeks following the release of this single, Sonic fans will also receive the official word on a release date and details of the new album entitled Samurai Walkman: Flow Critical Lucidity, including special guests who appear on the record, as well as cities of the select tour dates.
In 2023, Thurston released two singles: the energetic Isadora Duncan-inspired “Isadora” with a music video starring Sky Ferreira and “Hypnogram,” which the press called “one of the most intensely cerebral cuts Moore has ever released, he blends the more melodic moments of his former band with the layered, heady flourishes of his bassist Deb Googe’s main band, My Bloody Valentine. Emphatically conveying the feeling of dreams, the new material has fans excited for what the American has in store with his next album.”
Thurston Moore has recently returned home to London from North America, where he played a duo with Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones at Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival. Thurston has confirmed only a select number of appearances in 2024, including reading engagements and a carefully curated selection of live concerts with his group currently comprised of Alex Ward on guitars & clarinet, Deb Googe on bass, Jon Leidecker (aka ‘Wobbly’) on electronics and Jem Doulton on drums.
For the Birds: The Birdsong Project and committed bird conservation non-profit the National Audubon Society announce today a summer slate of event programming in Aspen, Colorado with a collection of local organizations and events at local festivals.
Celebrations will begin at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado on June 3rd and continue into neighboring communities with far-reaching programming aimed at both entertaining and educating community members of all ages.
Kicking off the summer’s events, Audubon Rockies and Anderson Ranch Arts Center are partnering on a workshop June 3rd-7th called “Wildlife Wonder.” Participants ages 6-8 will learn how to draw, paint, and build their favorite animals in realistic and creative forms using various artistic mediums, such as bookmaking and weaving. Audubon Rockies Community Naturalists will help participants explore birds through the themes of migration, bird song and adaptations. The Community Naturalists deliver environmental education programs to people of all ages to create lasting connections with nature in their communities across Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming and are thrilled to partner with Anderson Ranch Arts Center in bringing these subjects to life through art.
For the Birds: The Birdsong Project and the National Audubon Society will partner with ACES in bringing to life a musical performance from the GRAMMY-winning Birdsong effort on Saturday, July 27th from 12-2 pm. Guests are invited to bring a picnic lunch and listen to an opening educational talk with Audubon's Chief Scientist Chad Wilsey, sharing examples of how birds connect people across the hemisphere through their amazing migratory journeys and ultimately, how art can help drive conservation action. Students from the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) will arrange and perform what promises to be a dazzling afternoon performance at ACES Catto Center at Toklat.
Two additional pop-ups in town will take place Saturday, July 27th in collaboration with AMFS, starting 11 am-2 pm with the famous Aspen Saturday Market, where The Birdsong Project and Audubon will have copies of the GRAMMY-winning For the Birds: The Birdsong Project 20LP vinyl box set on display and available for purchase, as well as information on how to support birds by becoming a National Audubon Society member. On Saturday night from 7-9 pm, The Birdsong Project and Audubon will take over the plaza outside the beloved Paradise Bakery and delight the public with a musical evening arranged and performed by AMFS students.
“Birds have inspired art for millennia with their multi-colored plumage, their long-distance migrations, and their birdsong. Birds also tell us that they need our help. Through the Birdsong Project we can inspire people across the western hemisphere to protect birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow,” said Dr. Chad Wilsey, chief scientist at the National Audubon Society.
The Birdsong Project is the sweeping, Grammy-winning music collection of 242 recordings by leading artists inspired by birdsong that has been prominently featured by the NY Times, The Guardian, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, and CBS Sunday Morning. It was released digitally throughout five volumes, in 2022 and you can listen to the full collection HERE.
“We’re very happy to be bringing the Birdsong Project to Aspen this summer,” says Randall Poster. “We are thrilled with the variety of events and activities planned, and promise some lovely surprises as well. Music by the birds and for the birds.”
The Birdsong Project and Audubon were originally introduced to local Aspen partners, starting with ACES, by resident artist, environmentalist, and philanthropist Isa Catto. Inspired by The Birdsong Project, Catto created her own original artwork featuring environmentally threatened birds printed on notebooks, tote bags, and silk scarves, all available for purchase via the Isa Catto Studio website in support of Audubon’s conservation mission.
"I became a birder after my godfather gave me an Audubon membership and my first pair of binoculars,” explains Catto. “Bird sightings permeate my childhood memories .. and I know birding laid the foundation for being an artist. It made me more observant, and I developed patience. I do know that when you look at anything in the natural world, wonder comes calling. Reverence keeps your heart open and pushes away absolute thinking."
SUMMER OF BIRDS 2024 Programming
Aspen, Colorado
Wildlife Wonder Children’s Workshop
with Audubon Rockies
June 3rd-June 7th
Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Picnic Lunch, Afternoon Talk + Live Musical Performance
With Audubon’s Chief Scientist Chad Wilsey + AMFS Student Quartet
12-2pm July 27th
ACES Catto Center at Toklat
Pop-up at AMFS Tent
For The Birds: The Birdsong Project Box Set + Audubon Membership Drive
11am-2pm July 27th
Aspen Saturday Market
Pop-up at Paradise Bakery Plaza
Live Musical Performance with AMFS Student Quartet
7-9pm July 27th
Paradise Bakery, Aspen
Morning Bird Outing + Live Musical Performance
July 28th
With Roaring Fork Audubon Society + AMFS Student Quartet
Carbondale, CO
About For the Birds: The Birdsong Project: The Birdsong Project was produced by Randall Poster, the Grammy Award-winning producer and music supervisor known for his longtime work with Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese. It was conceived and inspired by Executive Producer Rebecca Reagan, who brought a grand creative vision and wisdom to the project. Additional executive producers are Elliot Bergman, Stewart Lerman, and Lee Ranaldo. The project features a who's-who of decorated actors, Pulitzer prize winners, top musicians, and beyond, including Olivia Wilde, Sean Penn, Robert Pattinson, Greta Gerwig, Mark Ronson, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Ad-Rock, Bette Midler, Danielle Haim, Florence Welch and hundreds more. The Producers and Artists of this collection are proud donors to the National Audubon Society and its mission to protect birds and the places they need today, tomorrow, and for all of our futures. Earlier this year, For the Birds: The Birdsong Project earned a Grammy Win for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package. The 5 Volume, 20-LP Deluxe Box set packaging was designed by Jeri Heiden and John Heiden with contributions from dozens of artists.
About the National Audubon Society: The National Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation organization that protects birds and the places they need today and tomorrow. Birds act as early warning systems about the health of our environment, and they are telling us that our planet is in trouble. As a long-time leader in the conservation movement, Audubon is rising to meet the urgency of this moment. Like the birds we love, our work spans the Americas – from Boreal Canada to coastal Chile. In communities across the hemisphere, we are tackling change, protecting and restoring important places for birds and people, and fostering a community where the joy of birds sparks action for our planet.
Co-created by Grammy Award-winning Music Supervisor Randall Poster (Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes) and Executive Producer Rebecca Reagan, For the Birds: The Birdsong Project was released as an art-filled, 20-LP box set in 2022 featuring Yoko Ono, Elvis Costello, Laurie Anderson, Yo-Yo Ma, Beck, Karen O, Tilda Swinton, Robert Pattinson, Jeff Goldblum, Greta Gerwig and many more to benefit the National Audubon Society. For the Birds: The Birdsong Project has been dedicated to protecting birdlife representing cultures from 31 countries, from small towns in Northwest Africa to the rural countryside of Ireland and bustling cities like Paris, Tokyo, and New York.
Dayglo Presents, a leading live entertainment and media company led by independent concert promoter Peter Shapiro, today announced that it has taken over operations of the historic Bearsville Theater. Located in a bucolic setting just outside the town of Woodstock, New York, the storied theater, built by Albert Grossman, legendary manager of such legends as Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Band, and Janis Joplin, and restored by owner Lizzie Vann, has served historically as a focal point for nurturing the musical and artistic community in the region. Dayglo Presents will oversee the revived theater’s next chapter with deep respect for the venue’s connection to music history and a desire to offer unforgettable experiences for its new and returning audiences. The revived Bearsville Theater team includes new General Manager Frank Bango and Talent Buyer Mike Campbell.
Bearsville’s reopening features a full slate of leading performers including Don Was, Guster, Dawes, Guided By Voices, Drive-By Truckers, Mdou Moctar, The Beths, Andy Frasco & The U.N., Dresden Dolls, The Zombies, The Jayhawks and more to be announced.
Tickets can be purchased at bearsvilletheater.com. Bearsville Theater is located at 291 Tinker Street in Woodstock, NY,
Bearsville Center, a 15-acre enclave in Woodstock, has served as a touchstone in music history since the 1960s, when then-owner and leading artist manager/entrepreneur Albert Grossman welcomed musical luminaries---including longtime client Bob Dylan---to his Catskills home for creative inspiration. With the construction of Bearsville Studios in 1969, major artists, including Patti Smith, The Rolling Stones, REM, Muddy Waters, Todd Rundgren, Rush, and The Pretenders, recorded at Bearsville until the studio’s closing in the early 2000s. The renowned performance space, Bearsville Theater, which opened in 1989, was constructed from an 18th-century ‘Dutch’ barn and designed by John Storyk, creator of Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix. Today, the property named Bearsville Center comprises the Bearsville Theater, two restaurants, a café and bar, residences, and the Utopia Sound Stage, a live Recording Studio, designed in 1979 as an innovative video studio for Todd Rundgren.
Peter Shapiro, Founder, Dayglo Presents, said, “I have led the creation of new concepts and built great venues from scratch like Brooklyn Bowl, but I’ve also been fortunate to breathe new life into some historic venues, like Wetlands and The Capitol Theatre. The Bearsville Theater has a deep and amazing history that I am excited to preserve and lift, as we put our touch on a new era for this legendary Woodstock icon. We want to thank Lizzie Vann for her passion and dedication to Bearsville since she bought and lovingly restored the property in 2019. We appreciate her trust in us and are looking forward to a long working relationship.”
Frank Bango, General Manager, Bearsville Theater, said, “Through my conversations with Pete and Chris Moody (Dayglo Presents), I could feel the passion and heart that they were going to be bringing to this legendary space. Pete’s reputation is far-reaching and highly esteemed. When I coupled that with the opportunity to help reignite the musical flame in Woodstock and the offer to provide hospitality to world class musicians in a revered building, I quickly realized I’d be an idiot not to accept their offer. In the short time I’ve been on board, I’ve been welcomed by a stupendous team of hard working, passionate music lovers that understand the importance music plays in bringing people together and building community. In this day and age, I find that an irresistible combination.”
Mike Campbell, Talent Buyer, Bearsville Theater, said, "I've admired the work Peter has done at Brooklyn Bowl, The Capitol Theatre and Wetlands from afar for years. When he let me know that he was taking over the operations of Bearsville and asked me to book the calendar, I knew that there was no one better to be at the helm of this new venture than he and the talented individuals he has assembled around him at Dayglo Presents. I am honored to be a part of the Dayglo family, and do not take lightly the responsibility of maintaining the legacy of Bearsville while providing the Catskills and Hudson Valley with world class live events.”
ABOUT PETER SHAPIRO
Independent music entrepreneur Peter Shapiro continues to explore a range of passion projects. He has owned and operated renowned venues Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas, Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia, The Capitol Theatre, Garcia’s and Wetlands Preserve. In 2015, he produced Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA and Chicago’s Soldier Field. Shapiro founded Lockn’, a four-day music and camping festival held in Nelson County, Virginia as well as Jazz & Colors, an experiential music event held in Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the creator of FANS, the immersive livestreaming platform with its innovative “Be in the Stream'' feature that allows audiences to tune in and appear alongside the artists. He also originated the Rock and Roll Playhouse, developing the family concert series into a weekly national concert series that takes place in over 25 markets across America. His other endeavors include the IMAX concert films U2 3D and All Access, the Jammys awards show, the Green Apple Earth Day Festival, and Easy Rider Live. Shapiro serves as publisher of Relix magazine and sits on the board of a number of civic and charitable organizations, including: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, New York Public Radio, and City Parks Foundation. In 2019, Peter was named Chairman of HeadCount, one of the leading youth voter engagement and participation organizations in America.
ABOUT FRANK BANGO
Frank Bango has been living full-time in The mid-Hudson valley since 2012 after 23 years in New York City. Much of his early time in NYC centered on developing as a musician and songwriter, releasing albums on his own Sincere Recording Company label, performing live in music venues across NYC and the country, and having his music placed in television, film, and international ad campaigns. In the late 90's he began an association with the founders of the Bowery Ballroom as they launched the venue that has enjoyed a fabled reputation among musicians and audiences alike. During his tenure, Bango acquired a full spectrum of skills in the concert promotion and live music industry and went on to assist the team in launching other landmark venues in the city—namely, Music Hall of Williamsburg and Terminal 5—as well as in organizing systems for remote concerts in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park and other outdoor locations throughout the city. In The spring of 2008, Bango was tapped to be the GM of the Bowery Ballroom, which, under his tenure, was awarded Pollstar magazine’s Best Venue in the USA. Bango takes on the General Manager role at Bearsville Theater in June 2024.
ABOUT MIKE CAMPBELL
Mike Campbell has made the Hudson Valley his home since 2013 and has worked in nearly every facet of the music industry. Campbell was the Talent Buyer and Venue Manager for The Colony in Woodstock, NY from 2017-2023, and during his tenure, the Colony was voted Best Music Venue in The Hudson Valley several years in a row. Campbell has also worked as a music publicist and as a tour manager, production coordinator, and stage manager in club, theater, arena and stadium-sized venues. He is himself a touring and recording artist, having lent his musicianship to dozens of commercially released albums, and performed on countless national and international tours. It is this 360-degree view of a life in music that gives him a unique aptitude for curating and executing singular, unforgettable live music experiences for fans and artists alike.
ABOUT DAYGLO PRESENTS
Dayglo Presents is a live music and media company led by independent music impresario Peter Shapiro. Since its inception as Dayglo Ventures in 2012, Dayglo has built a reputation for creating unique and meaningful experiences. The company operates Brooklyn Bowl venues in multiple cities, The Capitol Theatre and Garcia’s in Port Chester, New York, and LOCKN’ Farm in Arrington, Virginia. In April 2024 it was announced that Dayglo would be taking over the historic Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY.
Dayglo Presents also originated The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a national family concert series in over 26 states across America. Dayglo created FANS.live, the immersive livestreaming platform. Dayglo Presents also publishes Relix Magazine, two highly trafficked music websites Relix.com and Jambands.com, and owns digital ad agency Hear & There.
Other live events and experiences created and/or produced by Peter Shapiro and his team at Dayglo Presents include Fare Thee Well, Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead, Jazz & Colors, a unique set of concerts in Central Park and other locations, The Women’s March, The March for Science, Easy Rider Live, Brooklyn Bowl Family Reunion at SXSW and the Bob Weir & Phil Lesh Duo tour.
Filmed in February 2024 before a live audience at Town Hall in New York City, Judy Collins: Wildflowers in Concert features the legendary folk singer performing her groundbreaking 1967 album, Wildflowers, plus additional popular songs from her career. Wildflowers is Collins’ highest-charting album, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and certified Gold. This concert special, exclusive to public television, will premiere on select stations and on Passport in the PBS App beginning May 30, 2024.
Collins is a singer, songwriter, author, activist and poet, and deemed “the ageless wild angel of pop” by the New York Times. AllMusic’s Shane Haney shares that her “blend of folk and meditative music paints a tapestry of soft, nurturing colors that transcends the mind of the listener and seeks one's soul.” This unique and instantly recognizable sound is on full display with Collins’ new Wildflowers concert special.
Accompanied by the Harlem Chamber Players, Collins sings her artful, self-penned Wildflower originals, “Since You Asked," "Sky Fell," and "Albatross.” She also incorporates her chart-topping, Grammy-winning rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” along with songwriter/poet/musician Leonard Cohen’s “Priests,” “Sisters of Mercy,” and “Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye.”
Featuring additional favorites such as “Spellbound” from her 2023 Grammy-nominated album and her autobiographical hit “Mountain Girl,” Judy Collins: Wildflowers in Concert captures an icon reflecting on her early work. Collins closes the concert with one of her signature songs, Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” which won Song of the Year at the 1976 Grammy Awards.
A 7-time GRAMMY nominee, Collins is an award-winning folk singer-songwriter who has released 55 recordings during her prolific career. She has released six albums since 2015 alone, and her 2023 album Spellbound is her first of all original, self-penned songs. Recent features and profiles include the New York Times, New York Magazine, People Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, World Café and WNYC to name a few. Collins is also a published author, filmmaker, keynote speaker for mental health and podcast host.
Judy Collins: Wildflowers in Concert is supplied by Wildflower Records in association with American Public Television’s Premium Service, a co-production, co-financing and acquisition fund that provides fundraising specials to member stations, now in its 35th season. With the financial backing of their public television client stations, APT Premium Service has secured many of public television’s most prestigious and highest-rated programs.
Today, one of the world’s premier jazz archives, The Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library (Wilton, CT), announced the launch of its enhanced and interactive digital archive, making the 22,000+ item collection catalog easily searchable and browsable online for the first time to everyone worldwide. This new digital archive also includes more than a thousand digitized photos, recordings, scores, and documents.
This robust collection, established by Dave Brubeck and his wife, Iola, features unreleased music, interactive tour maps, photos, correspondence, concert programs, posters, and song timelines, from the biggest–selling jazz single of all time “Take Five” - which Dave Brubeck Quartet member Paul Desmond composed 65 years ago - to Brubeck’s achievements in the classical world with his prolific compositions which include oratorios, orchestral works, choral pieces, quartets, ballets, and chamber works. Made available on International Jazz Day, this rich resource shares Brubeck’s legacy with musicians, students, researchers, jazz aficionados, and anyone curious about the artist’s broad cultural impact and many dimensions: from his music and family life to his involvement in the 1950s and 60s Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Jazz collections of a comparable scope include Duke Ellington’s at the Smithsonian, Ella Fitzgerald’s at the Library of Congress, and Benny Goodman’s at Yale University.
“Creating an online digital archive for The Brubeck Collection was an essential step in making its broad scope of materials accessible worldwide,” The Brubeck Collection Curator Michael Bellacosa said. “Dave Brubeck was an internationally renowned musical pioneer and we have been honored to steward his legacy, at Wilton Library and now everywhere. We hope people will enjoy visiting us online as well as in-person, where the full range of this large and important collection can be experienced.”
Dave Brubeck (1920-2012), a pianist and composer whose legendary career spanned more than six decades, was one of the most popular and innovative musicians in the jazz world. The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s acclaimed 1959 Time Out album was the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and the album’s track “Take Five” - composed by alto saxophonist and longtime collaborator Paul Desmond, who left all the composition proceeds to the Red Cross - became a Top 40 hit and remains the biggest–selling jazz single of all time. Other well-known Brubeck works that have become jazz classics include “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” “In Your Own Sweet Way,” “Unsquare Dance,” and “The Duke.”
In addition to his decades of success in jazz, Brubeck had a lifelong interest in interweaving jazz and classical music (having studied with famed French composer Darius Milhaud). His compositions include the popular Christmas choral pageant “La Fiesta de la Posada,” ground-breaking collaborations with Leonard Bernstein, “Upon this Rock”—written for Pope John Paul II’s U.S. visit, and “Elemental Brubeck,” choreographed by Lar Lubovitch and part of the San Francisco Ballet’s repertoire.
Brubeck was a revered performer at international jazz festivals and concert halls and performed at the White House many times. Throughout his career, he received numerous honors and awards including the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a 1954 TIME magazine cover as the leader of a new jazz age. Brubeck was designated a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress and on his 89th birthday in 2009, he received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors Award.
Active in the 1950s & 60s Civil Rights Movement, Brubeck refused to play anywhere audiences were segregated, saying “jazz would always represent the music of freedom.” While serving in World War II, Brubeck’s Wolf Pack Band was the first integrated military band. The Brubeck Collection also includes a letter he received from the University of Alabama’s Music Department Chair Wilbur Rowand, thanking Brubeck for helping him integrate a 1964 university concert, despite threats from the Ku Klux Klan.
Born a rancher’s son in California and part of a musical family, Brubeck met his wife, Iola Whitlock, while they attended the College of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. She became his collaborator and wrote lyrics for many of his compositions while working as his manager, booker, and publicist — all while raising six children. After amassing the archival collection, Dave and Iola Brubeck sent the materials to their alma mater in 2000. After Dave and Iola passed, the Brubeck family decided to place the Collection at Wilton Library, located in the family’s hometown for more than 60 years.
About Wilton Library:
For more than 128 years, Wilton Library has served as the cultural and intellectual center of Wilton, CT with the mission to inform, enrich, connect, and inspire our community. Home to The Brubeck Collection, one of the world’s premier jazz archives, the library is located at 137 Old Ridgefield Road in the heart of Wilton Center.
Greenwich Entertainment has announced the June 28 release of REVIVAL69: The Concert That Rocked The World, a feature-length documentary that explores the nearly-unbelievable story of the 1969 Toronto Rock N Roll Revival. Through the iconic vérité lens of D. A. Pennebaker, once-in-a-lifetime moments are captured between the festival’s cross-generational bill - like Jim Morrison admiring Chuck Berry’s performance from side-stage, or Alice Cooper backing ‘50s icon Gene Vincent before launching into his own raucous solo show. But perhaps most remarkable is the debut of The Plastic Ono Band, and how two Canadian kids in their early 20s came to organize John Lennon’s first major performance outside The Beatles.
Promoted by John Brower and Kenny Walker, the 1969 Toronto Rock N Roll Revival marked the first time John Lennon had performed without The Beatles since before their rise to stardom - taking the stage that night with Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White. The behind-the-scenes road to booking Lennon is outlined in detail in the film - including near-cancellations, threats from biker gangs and rehearsals onboard transatlantic flights. The fact that Lennon quietly left The Beatles a week later (a decision that would not be made public until the following year) only adds to the historical weight of his performance captured in Revival69.
Additionally, featured throughout the documentary are commanding performances from legends in their prime like Little Richard, Bo Diddley and Jerry Lee Lewis - alongside an interview with Robby Kreiger about The Doors headlining set. First-hand perspective is also given by Alice Cooper, John Brower, Klaus Voorman and Alan White, as well as notable attendees including Geddy Lee, Robert Christgau, Claudja Barry and Shep Gordon. Revival69 is directed by Ron Chapman, written by Phyllis Ellis and produced by Chapman and Ellis alongside Trish Dolman, Andrew Williamson and Sally Blake. The film’s executive producers include Chris Hegedus, Frazer Pennebaker, Kirk D'Amico and the late D. A. Pennebaker.
Greenwich Entertainment is an independent film distribution company specializing in compelling documentaries and distinctive narrative features. For more information visit: GreenwichEntertainment.com
Today, international punk band Gogol Bordello announces their Casa Gogol Fall U.S. Tour with special guests Puzzled Panther and Crazy & The Brains. Tickets are on sale to the public this Friday, May 3 with members only presale on new fansite beginning Wednesday, May 1. Tour dates here.
Alongside the announcement, Gogol Bordello is launching their first official fan site Wonderlust Kingdom, an online community where fans can connect and have access to cool perks and access for $10 a month. With sign up, fans will receive an exclusive Wonderlust Kingdom t-shirt, early ticket sale access, early entry to shows, live chats with Gogol Bordello and fans, unheard demos, live recordings and collaborations from the archives as well as unreleased Gogol Bordello video footage.
Wonderlust Kingdom presale for the upcoming Casa Gogol Fall U.S. Tour will begin on Wednesday, May 1 with a members only code upon signup, available now. The first live event on the site will kick off with a Q&A from frontman Eugene Hütz on Tuesday, April 30 at 6:00pm ET. Bring your questions and post them in the chat!
True to its inception story, Casa Gogol first began as a touring series curated by Hütz, focusing on bringing like-minded artists on the road with Gogol Bordello. These uncompromisingly innovative musicians have included A Tribe Called Red (now The Halluci Nation), Mariachi El Bronx, Man Man and recently Amigo the Devil amongst countless others. Now Hütz’s imprint, Casa Gogol Records (Rolling Stone) has released an electric debut EP Puzzled Panther and powerful Gogol Bordello collaboration cover of Angelic Upstarts’ “Solidarity” with Bernard Sumner (Joy Division and New Order). Listen to Bernard Sumner’s “Right To Freedom” Mix and Gogol Bordello’s “Unity” Mix. This tribute to the punk and anti-Soviet movement will benefit injured Ukrainian soldiers through Kind Deeds, and stand in solidarity with oppressed groups worldwide. Other 2024 releases on Casa Gogol Records will include hypnotic singer-songwriter Grace Bergere, Jesus Christoph of Crazy & The Brains, Brooklyn art dance punk band Mary Shelley and beyond.
In support of Hütz’ home country of Ukraine, Gogol Bordello continues to release benefit songs like the recent “United Strike Back” to raise funds and support for Ukrainian soldiers. The track features Tre Cool (Green Day), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Joe Lally (Fugazi, The Messthetics), Roger Miret (Agnostic Front), Monte Pittman (Ministry), Sasha (Kazka) & Puzzled Panther.
In June 2023, Vice documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (Executive Producer Liev Schreiber) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, leaving with a Special Jury Mention for Best New Documentary Director Award and praise like “Hütz’s story is fascinating and triumphant. Scream of My Blood’ remains essential.” (Variety). The film has also been shown at the Warsaw Film Festival (Audience Award for Documentary Feature), Centre Film Festival (Audience Award), SXSW Sydney, In-Edit International Music Documentary Film Festival and more as it continues to screen around the globe including a stop at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C on May 5.
ABOUT GOGOL BORDELLO
Since 1999, International punk band Gogol Bordello, led by Ukrainian frontman Eugene Hütz, has been filling up rooms with an energy that could run a whole city. Their latest album Solidaritine is no exception, going back to their hardcore roots. A lifelong lover of the punk scene growing up in Ukraine, Hütz finally found himself where he felt he belonged, in New York’s Lower East Side in the late 90s, where he went to shows and later performed at the legendary CBGB. Crashing at friends’ apartments and playing acoustic sets in NYC Ukrainian bars, his group steadily grew to an 8 piece multicultural band, combining Eastern, Western and Latin traditions. Since then the band has lit up stages around the world alongside System of a Down, Primus, Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, dueted with Regina Spektor, and cut albums with legends Rick Rubin and Steve Albini.
Russia's war in Ukraine is personal for Eugene & the band, who have been tirelessly advocating for Ukrainian solidarity, partnering with Nova Ukraine, ArtDopomoga, and putting together benefits with Patti Smith, The Hold Steady, Suzanne Vega, Magnetic Fields, Matisyahu and more. Hütz has also appeared in arthouse films such as Liev Schreiber’s Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood, Filth and Wisdom helmed by Madonna and Vice documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (Executive Producer Liev Schreiber).
GRAMMY and Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens made her return to the Jimmy Kimmel Live! stage last night, performing a rousing rendition of her GRAMMY-nominated song “You Louisiana Man” featured on her widely celebrated album You’re The One. The performance is the latest in what has been a tremendous 2024 for Giddens so far. Her international tour continues with shows this week in Austin and at the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, with Newport Folk Festival confirmed for July 27. In March, Giddens sold out the Beacon Theater, her biggest-ever show in New York City, and last week sold out the United Artist Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles.
Since the release of You’re The One - her first album of all original music - Giddens has made a number of television appearances, including a performance and interview on The Daily Show, as well as Today Show, CBS Saturday, CBS Mornings, and PBS’s Amanpour. Other profiles and coverage includes the New York Times, Vulture’s “A Long Talk,” NPR’s Morning Edition, Associated Press, GRAMMY.com, American Songwriter and Garden & Gun, with additional pieces and reviews from Variety, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork and NPR Music.
Giddens has also recently made headlines for her banjo and viola contributions to Beyonce’s history-making song "Texas Hold 'Em,” igniting new conversations surrounding Giddens' long standing dedication to shining a light on the often unacknowledged role of Black music and artistry in country and roots music. For more, watch her recent interview on Nightline.
Giddens has also just revealed details about the second season of her PBS special, My Music With Rhiannon Giddens. Scheduled to debut in May, it will feature six episodes spotlighting her collaboration with the Silkroad Ensemble on "American Railroad," a flagship initiative under her role as Silkroad's Artistic Director. Each episode will showcase a half-hour performance and discussion with a distinguished musician representing a culture pivotal to the transcontinental railroad's history. The first episode will be available to stream on PBS.org starting today.
In addition to the aforementioned GRAMMY nomination for “You Louisiana Man,” You’re The One also earned a Best Americana Album nomination, making her a 10-time nominee. She won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in music for her opera Omar, which she wrote in collaboration with Michael Abels, and is a MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient. A multi-faceted artist, she has also published two children’s books featuring her lyrics, hosts the Aria Code podcast on WQXR, has composed music for ballet and film, and one of her songs is featured in the hit video game Red Dead Redemption 2. Her musical versatility has led her to collaborations with Questlove, Yo-Yo Ma, and Samuel L. Jackson; she also has fans in Elvis Costello, John Turturro, and Lucy Liu.
TOUR DATES:
May 2, 2024: Austin, TX, Paramount Theatre
May 4 - 5, 2024: New Orleans, LA, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
July 2, 2024: Helsinki, Finland, Kulttuuritalo
July 3, 2024: Milan, Italy, Teatro Dal Verme
July 4, 2024: Roskilde, Denmark, Roskilde Festival
July 6, 2024: Kirklington, UK, Gate To Southwell
July 27, 2024: Newport, RI, Newport Folk Festival
Aug 2, 2024: Skaneateles, NY, Robinson Pavilion
Aug 3, 2024: Katonah, NY, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
Aug 4, 2024: Kennett Square, PA, Longwood Gardens
Aug 12, 2024: Port Townsend, WA, McCurdy Pavilion
Nov 7, 2024: Chicago, IL, Harris Theater
Nov 8, 2024: Ann Arbor, MI, Hill Auditorium
Nov 10, 2024: Nashville, TN, Schemerhorn Symphony Center
Today, in collaboration with Definitive Authentic and Mercy Community Healthcare, The Naomi Judd Estate has released ‘Artist’, the first in a series of virtual exhibits of rare and never-before-seen artifacts from the life of activist, philanthropist, and American cultural icon Naomi Judd. Today’s release commemorates the two-year anniversary of The Judds induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Country music’s highest honor.
Featuring behind-the-scenes photos, awards, a personal stage map with handwritten notes, a shooting script for the "Grandpa" music video, countless well-wishes from country music luminaries, and more, the Naomi Judd ‘Artist’ artifact collection frames the icon as not only a beloved musician, but a figure whose groundbreaking vision went well beyond the recording studio, as evidenced by her lifelong support of numerous philanthropic causes. In tribute to that philanthropic spirit, a portion of the proceeds from this exhibit (and the following exhibits) will be donated to The Naomi Judd Mental Health Clinic: A Bridge to Hope - a brand new mental health wing at Mercy Community Healthcare in Franklin, TN.
The ‘Artist’ collection was announced by the Estate on April 16th and was notably previewed by Billboard, American Songwriter, and People Magazine, who stated “fans of the late Naomi Judd will soon be able to feel connected to her in an all-new way.”
Speaking about the collection, Wynonna Judd commented: “Mom was always the family historian. She had over a hundred scrapbooks and photo albums organized by decade, year, month. She was so proud of her collection. I am thrilled to be able to share her personal and professional archives to give Judd fans a glimpse into her life and who she was, and to continue to honor the legacy of Naomi Judd.”
Ashley Judd also noted: "What a sweet and meaningful opportunity to connect with Mom, to share with our family what mattered to her. She was a great one to squirrel away pieces that were endowed with story. Now, together, we can hear from her, and remember for ourselves where we were when these things were unfolding in our own lives, learn more about her internal life, and connect with the special woman she was. Thank you for joining us on our ongoing family journey."
The release of the Naomi Judd ‘Artist’ collection kicks off a packed 2024 for Judd fans around the world, with several exciting announcements coming in the near future. Notably, there will be the first-ever vinyl release in the US of The Judds final studio album, Love Can Build A Bridge (1990), to include lyric sheets and never before seen photos from Naomi's personal scrapbooks, among other exciting projects. More info to come.
With the release of new single and video "Forever Now," The Avett Brothers have shared the final preview of their first new album in five years. Out May 17th via Ramseur Records/American Recordings/Thirty Tigers, and produced by Rick Rubin, The Avett Brothers is a collection of nine songs that seek the sacred in the commonplace. As much untitled as it is self-titled, the LP is interested in the divine unknowable, ultimately reveling in the fun and surrender of what we cannot understand: "How long is now," they ask in the opening line of the new song available today. "We could stay but we don't know how."
Listen to "Forever Now," and watch the music video, shot and edited by Seth Avett: HERE
"Forever Now" follows lead single and radio hit "Love Of A Girl," as well as the recently released "Country Kid," featuring a music video that finds the band roller skating as a priest, bear, superhero and more. The Avett Brothers recorded The Avett Brothers in Malibu, Nashville, Mar Vista, and the band's hometown of Concord, NC, but earlier this month they performed the new material live for the very first time in Mexico, as they took the stage during their own five-day festival, Avett Brothers At The Beach.
Furthermore, The Avett Brothers will now be giving fans across the country an early experience of the album in its entirety. At a series of just-announced Listening Events on May 15th, local record stores in more than 30 different cities will be playing The Avett Brothers front to back. Free and open to all, attendees will also receive an exclusive poster by Scott Avett, who illustrated all of the artwork for the album, its accompanying booklet and impeccable packaging. See the participating locations HERE.
Shortly after the special album listening events, The Avett Brothers will begin performing even more of the music from The Avett Brothers on an expansive US tour that spans spring, summer and fall. In addition to a headline show at NYC's Forest Hills Stadium on album release day, the nearly 50-date run includes three nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, LA's SoFi Stadium with Luke Combs, and so much more, with support from City and Colour, Sierra Ferrell, Iron & Wine, Little Feat, Dawes, Melissa Etheridge, G. Love & Special Sauce, Trampled by Turtles, Sammy Rae & The Friends, Houndmouth and Jamestown Revival. Find the list of dates below and tickets at theavettbrothers.com/tour.
The Avett Brothers Tour Dates
5/5 - Charlotte, NC - Lovin' Life Festival
5/16 - Philadelphia, PA - The Mann Center w/ City and Colour
5/17 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium^
5/18 - Boston, MA - Suffolk Downs^
5/21 - New Haven, CT - Westville Music Bowl^
5/23 - Albany, NY - MVP Arena^
5/24 - Canandaigua, NY - CMAC^
6/14 - Los Angeles, CA - SoFi Stadium #
6/15 - Paso Robles, CA - Vina Robles
6/16 - Sacramento, CA - Memorial Auditorium
7/3 - Taos, NM - Kit Carson Park w/ Iron & Wine
7/5 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Little Feat
7/6 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Melissa Etheridge
7/7 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre w/ Dawes
7/10 - Missoula, MT - Big Sky Brewing Co
7/12 - Redmond, WA - Marymoor Park
7/13 - Troutdale, OR - Edgefield
7/14 - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
7/26 - Washington, DC - Commanders Field #
8/16 - Des Moines, IA - Iowa State Fair w/ G. Love & Special Sauce
8/17 - Maryland Heights, MO - St. Louis Music Park %
8/18 - E. Troy, WI - Alpine Valley %
8/20 - Columbus, OH - KEMBA Live!*
8/21 - Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre*
8/23 - Cleveland, OH - Jacobs Pavilion*
8/24 - Newport, KY - MegaCorp Pavilion*
8/25 - Simpsonville, SC - Marcus King Band Family Reunion
9/12 - Indianapolis, IN - Gainbridge Fieldhouse w/ Houndmouth
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