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Zac Brown Band’s New Album ‘JEKYLL + HYDE’ Out April 28, North American Stadium Tour Kicks Off May 1 in Nashville
Zac Brown Band’s forthcoming album ‘JEKYLL + HYDE’ will be out April 28, 2015, on Southern Ground/John Varvatos Records/Big Machine Label Group/Republic Records. The band will premiere new music from the album this weekend during their first performance on Saturday Night Live.
Describing the album’s direction, Zac told Rolling Stone earlier this year that it will have “things that people will expect and things that they won’t.” Digital pre-orders will include immediate downloads of “Homegrown”, “Dress Blues” and “Heavy Is the Head (feat. Chris Cornell)” at select partners. “Homegrown” — the band’s highest chart debut, which is bulleted at #10 on country radio this week — has earned massive fan support and early praise for its “rock feel” (Country Weekly) and “intricately arranged vocal harmonies” (Billboard); “Dress Blues”, written by Jason Isbell, is a somber and stirring tribute to members of the military who have been killed in service; and “Heavy Is the Head”, which features Chris Cornell, the multi GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter and legendary frontman for pioneering rock bands Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog, makes its world premiere this Friday, March 6th, on iHeartRadio’s Mainstream and Active Rock station. The album also features a collaboration with Sara Bareilles.
‘JEKYLL + HYDE’ physical copies are available for pre-order now at: www.ZacBrownBand.com
‘JEKYLL + HYDE’ follows Zac Brown Band’s three platinum-selling albums, ‘Uncaged’, ‘You Get What You Give’, and ‘The Foundation’, and their 2013 project ‘The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1’, which have together sold over seven million copies, produced a historic series of eleven #1 hit singles and earned three GRAMMYs.
During release week, the band kicks off their North American stadium tour in Nashville, and throughout the summer returns for headlining shows at Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and Citi Field, in addition to several new baseball stadiums, and festivals including Hangout Music Festival and Summerfest.
Ticket pre-sale for Zac Brown Band fan-club members is available for select dates starting March 10th; for all fan club information visit www.ZacBrownBand.com. Tickets for the general public go on sale starting March 13th; for ticket information visit www.ticketmaster.com. Additional travel packages will also be available for the MLB Stadium shows via CID Entertainment
Zac Brown Band is: singer/guitarist Zac Brown, violinist/singer Jimmy De Martini, multi-instrumentalist/singer John Driskell Hopkins, guitarist/organist Coy Bowles, multi-instrumentalist/singer Clay Cook, drummer Chris Fryar, percussionist Daniel de los Reyes and bassist Matt Mangano.
‘JEKYLL + HYDE’ TRACKLIST:
1. Beautiful Drug
2. Loving You Easy
3. Remedy
4. Homegrown
5. Mango Tree (feat. Sara Bareilles)
6. Heavy Is the Head (feat. Chris Cornell)
7. Bittersweet
8. Castaway
9. Tomorrow Never Comes
10. One Day
11. Dress Blues
12. Young and Wild
13. Junkyard
14. I’ll Be Your Man (Song for a Daughter)
15. Wildfire
16. Tomorrow Never Comes (Acoustic Version)
ZAC BROWN BAND 2015 TOUR DATES:
• May 1 / Nashville, TN / Bridgestone Arena
• May 7 / Raleigh, NC / Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
• May 8 / Alpharetta, GA / Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park
• May 9 / Alpharetta, GA / Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park
• May 16 / Gulf Shores, AL / Hangout Music Festival
• May 21 / Maryland Heights, MO / Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
• May 22 / Cincinnati, OH / PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
• May 23 / Cuyahoga Falls, OH / Blossom Music Center
• May 24 / Burgettstown, PA / First Niagara Pavilion
• June 4 / Charlotte, NC / PNC Music Pavilion
• June 5 / Virginia Beach, VA / Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
• June 6 / Hartford, CT / XFINITY Theatre
• June 7 / Bangor, ME / Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion
• June 13 / Jacksonville, FL / Florida County Superfest
• June 27 / Ozark, AR / Thunder on the Mountain Festival
• June 28 / Milwaukee, WI / Summerfest
• July 3 / Denver, CO / Coors Field
• July 9 / Salt Lake City, UT / USANA Amphitheatre
• July 10 / Boise, ID / Taco Bell Arena
• July 11 / George, WA / Gorge Amphitheatre
• July 12 / Ridgefield, WA / Amphitheater Northwest
• August 6 / Darien Center, NY / Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
• August 7 / Boston, MA / Fenway Park
• August 8 / Boston, MA / Fenway Park
• August 14 / Washington, DC / Nationals Park
• August 15 / Philadelphia, PA / Citizens Bank Park
• August 21 / Flushing, NY / Citi Field
• August 23 / Bethel, NY / Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
• September 3 / Toronto, ON / Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
• September 6 / Saratoga Springs, NY / Saratoga Performing Arts Center
• September 11 / Chicago, IL / Wrigley Field
• September 12 / Detroit, MI / Comerica Park
• September 19 / Del Mar, CA / Kaaboo Music & Arts Festival
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Kim Gordon on “Selling Out”
Barnes And Noble Review: In 1990, Sonic Youth decided to sign to a major label. You received a lot of criticism for it — people said you’d “sold out,” a term that seems dated now. How did you feel about it at the time?
Kim Gordon: Well, we may have gone to a major label, but when we went on tour with Neil Young, we learned pretty quickly that we weren’t part of the mainstream – his audiences hated us! And being on a major label didn’t change us. We pretty much continued to do what we wanted to, including a lot of experimental stuff. Geffen never really promoted us, but in return they never pressured us either, or told us we had to go back and edit a song to turn it into something commercial. It was only when we signed with Matador that I realized in some ways that “These are our people,” and not the other guys.
BNR: The term “sellout” seems very ’90s — today, as you write of New York, “creative ideas and personal ambition are no longer mutually exclusive.” That punk-rock puritanism has sort of gone out of style, but have we moved too far in the opposite direction?
KG: I’m of the opinion that individuals need to look into their own souls and figure that out for themselves.
Mumford & Sons Announce Third Album Details and 2015 Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers
Mumford & Sons have today announces the details of their forthcoming third album, Wilder Mind. Wilder Mind will be released in North America through Glassnote Records on May 4, 2015. It is produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, HAIM, Florence & The Machine) and features twelve new tracks, written collaboratively by the band in London, Brooklyn, and Texas.
A number of the new songs were written and demoed at Aaron Dessner’s (The National) garage studios in Brooklyn. The band also returned to Eastcote Studios in London, where they recorded Sigh No More, for further writing and demo sessions. The album was recorded at AIR studios in London.
This new album marks a significant departure for the young British band from their previous records, 2009’s Sigh No More, and 2012’s Babel. The early sessions in New York and London witnessed a change in the band’s approach not just to writing and recording, but to texture and dynamics, too. There is a minimalist yet panoramic feel to the new album, whose sound Marcus Mumford describes as “a development, not a departure.” It came about by both accident, and by conscious decision.
“Towards the end of the Babel tour, we’d always play new songs during soundchecks, and none of them featured the banjo, or a kick-drum,” says Marcus Mumford. “And demoing with Aaron meant that, when we took a break, we knew it wasn’t going to involve acoustic instruments. We didn’t say: ‘No acoustic instruments.’ But I think all of us had this desire to shake it up. The songwriting hasn’t changed drastically; it was led more by a desire to not do the same thing again. Plus, we fell back in love with drums! It’s as simple as that.”
“It felt completely natural, though,” says Ben Lovett, “like it did when we started out. It was very much a case of, if someone was playing an electric guitar, drums were going to complement that best; and, sonically, it then made sense to add a synth or an organ. We chose instruments that played well off each other, rather than consciously trying to overhaul it.”
Wilder Mind follows the 2012 release of Mumford & Sons’ sophomore album, 2012’s Grammy-winning Babel, which was the follow-up to their 2009 debut album, Sigh No More.
Mumford & Sons Wilder Mind Tracklisting:
1. Tompkins Square Park
2. Believe
3. The Wolf
4. Wilder Mind
5. Just Smoke
6. Monster
7. Snake Eyes
8. Broad-Shouldered Beasts
9. Cold Arms
10. Ditmas
11. Only Love
12. Hot Gates
To promote Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons have announced the first details and line-ups for their 2015 Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers. Each Stopover is a two-day event that combines the intimacy of a community celebration with the excitement of a world-class music festival. Mumford & Sons will headline the Saturday shows, alongside an eclectic and energetic roster of artists curated by the band themselves. A series of smaller events involving local businesses, venues, and, most importantly, local people will happen in and around the town.
About this year’s upcoming Stopover tour, Mumford & Sons said: “The Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers are all about live music. We get to put them on in towns not normally frequented by touring bands in busses or splitter vans. We deliberately look for towns that have something unique, or some vibe of which they are proud, explore them and enjoy what they have to offer.”
Like 2012 and 2013, these outdoor events will take place in carefully selected and unique locations internationally, and will feature a host of acclaimed acts including Foo Fighters, Alabama Shakes, My Morning Jacket, The Flaming Lips, and many others, including more to be announced. This year’s host towns include Seaside Heights, NJ; Waverly, IA; Walla Walla, WA; and Salida, CO.
Tickets will go on sale at 10 am local time on March 6th from gentlemenoftheroad.com/tickets. Please visit the website for all ticket details.
Mumford & Sons Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers
Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA
June 5th + 6th – Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, Alabama Shakes, The Vaccines, The Maccabees, Dawes, The Very Best, Jenny Lewis, Little May, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills + more TBA
Waverly, Iowa, USA
June 19th + 20th – Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Dawes, Jenny Lewis, The Maccabees, The Very Best, Rubblebucket, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills + more TBA
Aviemore, Scotland, UK
July 31st + August 1st – Mumford & Sons, Primal Scream, Simian Mobile Disco, Ben Howard, Lianne La Havas, The Maccabees, Jack Garratt, Honeyblood + more TBA
Walla Walla, Washington, USA
August 14th + 15th – Mumford & Sons, Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, The Vaccines, Dawes, Jenny Lewis, TuneYards, James Vincent McMorrow, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills + more TBA
Salida, Colorado, USA
August 21st + 22nd – Mumford & Sons, The Flaming Lips, Dawes,
Jenny Lewis, The Vaccines, TuneYards, James Vincent McMorrow, JEFF The Brotherhood, Blake Mills + more TBA
So Cute! Panda asks for hug to get down from tree
A breeder in China’s Sichuan Province wants to take this panda down from a tree, but the lovely panda wants a reward. So it asks the breeder for a hug before moving. Daaaw!
Taylor Swift Does It All – Save The Music Industry AND Stops Babies From Crying
6-month-old Rosie loves Taylor Swift, and it looks like Taylor Swift loves Rosie.
THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.
http://t.co/4bNzbBdcsX
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) March 2, 2015
Music is your best friend when nobody else understands you.
Canadian Arts/Media Job Posts For March 4, 2015
Bumstead is looking for a Jr. Artist Manager to assist in the day-to-day management of artists. Applications accepted through March 12, 2015 at info@bumstead.com
Projectcore in Toronto is hiring a Marketing and Communications Coordinator.
Brock University has an opening for a Director, Research Services.
Rock ‘N’ Roll Didn’t Start In The 1950s
I just finished reading author and photograph collector Jim Linderman’s book called The Birth of Rock and Roll that includes many found photographs of the types of musicians who contributed to what eventually became known as rock ’n’ roll music. It’s a facinating read to those of us who believed the genre started in the 1950s, or with Nirvana. I kid.
Linderman spoke with Lisa Hix of Collector’s Weekly in a fine article, published last week: “We have this notion that rock ’n’ roll started in Memphis in 1955, and it really didn’t,” Linderman says. “Bob Wills was playing in the ’30s and ’40s in Oklahoma, and Chuck Berry modeled ‘Maybellene’ on a Bob Wills song. The roots of rock go back a lot further than we realize. It came from the church, from vaudeville, from the music played in after-hours clubs, from juke joints. Some of it came from Ireland. It’s such a conglomeration, and that diversity is the real back story of rock ’n’ roll. Without any trouble at all, I was able to include people of all races in this book. I was able to show the melting pot in America, which came together to create this phenomenon.
“I was especially happy to be able to include so many women performers, because they never got their due,” he continues. “Which is why we don’t know who they are now. I love being able to illustrate how broad the music used to be, because now it’s so narrow and pigeonholed. It seems we’ve lost some of the breadth that used to be there.”
Amanda Palmer races to $13,000 per release in Patreon crowdfunding
From The Guardian:
Every time US musician Amanda Palmer releases a new song, video or long-form piece of writing, she’ll earn more than a total of $13,000 from her 1,400 backers on crowdfunding site Patreon, making her one of the site’s most popular creators.
It took just over 14 hours for the musician to reach that figure after launching her profile on the US-based site, with her fans pledging to pay an average of $9.28 each whenever she releases a new piece of content to her “patron-only” feed.
Palmer famously raised $1.2m in 2012 from fans on Kickstarter to fund the release of her last album, plus an art book and tour. She’s now shifting her efforts to Patreon, with its model of regular, smaller payments from fans to support the work of creators.
Canada’s Walk Of Fame Announces The Return Of The “Emerging Artist Music Mentorship Program”
Canada’s Walk of Fame announces the return of the highly successful Emerging Artist Music Mentorship Program, supported by RBC, as part of Canada’s Walk of Fame Emerging Artists Programs and Scholarships. Valued at more than $100,000, the 2015 national competition will once again focus on the world of music, calling all aspiring Canadian musicians to visit www.canadaswalkoffame.combeginning today for details on eligibility and submission requirements. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 11:59 pm ET.
In 2014, over 200 submissions were received from highly gifted emerging artists across Canada. After winning last year’s Grand Prize, Guelph, Ontario’s own NEFE opened for Canadian icon Burton Cummings during his Canada’s Walk of Fame Festival performance at Massey Hall and recently signed a recording contract with Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company.
“Last year’s Grand Prize winner was ‘discovered’ through this program, and we couldn’t be more proud of this. NEFE is an amazing talent,” says Melanie Hurley, CEO, Canada’s Walk of Fame. “When we launched this competition, our goal was to offer gifted Canadian musicians opportunities to develop their careers that they otherwise might not have. This mentorship program allows us to do just that with opportunities for exposure, mentorship, and access to key influencers and monetary support. It is an all-encompassing opportunity to provide aspiring musicians with the tools to flourish.”
“Through the RBC Emerging Artists Project, we are committed to providing opportunities and funding to artists in the early stages of their careers,” said Shari Austin, Vice President, RBC Corporate Citizenship and Executive Director, RBC Foundation. “We’re proud to partner with Canada’s Walk of Fame on this initiative, and are honoured to be able to contribute to the professional success of Canada’s next generation of musicians through this program.”
PRIZING DETAILS
Chosen by a selection committee comprised of music and industry experts, and announced later this year, the Grand Prize winner will receive:
- A cash prize of $25,000
- Performance opportunities at Canada’s Walk of Fame events
- Twenty (25) hours of private recording studio time with a producer, periodically mentored by established Canadian music talent
- Introductions to music industry executives
- Album cover artwork design
Six additional winners will also be chosen. Their prize will include:
- A cash prize of $7,000 for a Second Prize winner
- A cash prize of $1,200 each for five additional winners
- Performance opportunities at Canada’s Walk of Fame events
All winners will also be invited to participate in a private Music Industry Career Development Information Session with Q&A. The approximate value of the prizing in total is over $100,000.00 CDN.
“Canada’s Walk of Fame is a celebration of everything that makes our nation great, and the mentorship program ensures that the next generation of artists achieve this greatness,“ said Randy Lennox, President and CEO, Universal Music Canada. “Universal is honoured to be attached to such a wonderful mentorship program with RBC, and we look forward helping the next bumper crop of talented Canadians reach their goals both at home and abroad. As we have seen with last year’s winner NEFE, who signed with Universal Music for the world, the campaign is helping Canadian artists grow into the stars of the future.”
To be eligible for this year’s Emerging Artist Music Mentorship Program supported by RBC:
- Candidate must be between the ages of 10-35. Anyone under the age of 18 must have consent by a parent or legal guardian in order to participate, should they be selected.
- Must be enrolled in an accredited Canadian school or institution at the time of entry, or provide a resume which demonstrates a continuing commitment to developing a career in music.
- Must submit a maximum 60-second video or audio file, of a solo or group musical or vocal performance via the entry form on canadaswalkoffame.com in one of the following formats: WebM files, .MPEG4, 3GPP, MOV files, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV, MP3
- Only one submission per applicant will be accepted.
