SPOON “WRITTEN IN REVERSE” VIDEO PREMIERE LIVE NOW AT PITCHFORK
Additional U.S. Shows Sell Out
Australian Tour Dates Confirmed
(Friday, February 5) The video for “Written In Reverse,” the first single from Spoon’s recently released seventh album Transference, will be premiered today at Pitchfork.com. The video, directed by Danny Clinch (photographer extraordinaire whose directorial credits include Tom Waits’ “Lie To Me,” Bruce Springsteen’s Devils & Dust DVD and Foo Fighters’ Skin + Bones), documents an actual live performance of the song recorded expressly for the video, expertly rendered in stark black and white.
Tickets recently went on sale for Spoon’s 2010 North American tour, which commences with a March 17 headlining appearance at Stubbs in Austin kicking off the annual South by Southwest conference. The tour’s March 27 show at Boston’s House of Blues and the first of two Minneapolis shows, April 2 at First Avenue, have just sold out, joining a pair of advance sell-outs March 22 and 23 at Washington DC’s 9:30 Club.
Spoon has also announced a run of Australian dates following the conclusion of the current run April 17 at the Coachella festival. The Australian tour kicks off April 30 in Melbourne.
SPOON ON TOUR 2010
14-Feb Glasgow UK - King Tuts
15-Feb Manchester UK - Academy 3
16-Feb London UK - Electric Ballroom * SOLD OUT
18-Feb Amsterdam NL - Paradiso
19-Feb Cologne GER - Luxor
20-Feb Berlin GER - Frannz Club * SOLD OUT
17-Mar Stubbs - Austin, TX
18-Mar Republic - New Orleans, LA
19-Mar Workplay Soundstage - Birmingham, AL
20-Mar Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA
22-Mar 9:30 Club - Washington, DC * SOLD OUT
23-Mar 9:30 Club - Washington, DC * SOLD OUT
24-Mar The National - Richmond, VA
26-Mar Radio City Music Hall - New York, NY
27-Mar House of Blues - Boston, MA, USA * SOLD OUT
29-Mar Sound Academy - Toronto, ON
30-Mar Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal - Oak, MI
1-Apr Aragon Ballroom - Chicago, IL
2-Apr First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN * SOLD OUT
3-Apr First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
5-Apr Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
6-Apr Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
7-Apr In the Venue - Salt Lake City, UT
9-Apr Moore Theatre - Seattle, WA
10-Apr Moore Theatre - Seattle, WA
11-Apr Orpheum Theatre - Vancouver, BC
13-Apr Fox Theater - Oakland, CA
18-Apr Indio, CA - Coachella
30-April Melbourne - Billboard
1-May Bendigo - Groovin’ The Moo
2-May Townsville - Groovin’ The Moo
3-May Brisbane - The HiFi
6-May Coolangatta - The Cooly Hotel
7-May Sydney - The Forum
8-May Maitland - Groovin’ The Moo
9-May Canberra - Groovin’ The Moo
13-May Adelaide - Fowlers
14-May Perth - The Astor
15-May Bunbury - Groovin’ The Moo
*White Rabbits support on all UK/Euro dates
*Deerhunter direct support on all North American dates
*New Orleans - Royal Oak w/ The Strange Boys
*Chicago - Oakland w/ Micachu & the Shapes
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AFI “Beautiful Thieves”
MTV NETWORK-WIDE PREMIERE TODAY
Fan Questions To Be Submitted Immediately After For February 11 Live Video Chat
(New York NY - February 4) AFI will premiere its new video for “Beautiful Thieves,” the new single from its acclaimed Crash Love album, across all MTV channels today.
Immediately following the premiere, AFI fans will be invited to submit questions about the video, the song, Crash Love and/or anything AFI-related via Facebook at http://facebook.com/afireinside
AFI will answer selected questions during a live video chat taking place on 4:00 p.m. PST February 11. Fans can tune in then at http://facebook.com/afireinside to see if their questions are answered, while at the same time chatting live with members of AFI and fellow fans.
The February 11 event, hosted by livestream.com, will also feature the world premiere of a “Making of ‘Beautiful Thieves’,” a look at what went into making the newest AFI video featuring never seen before behind the scenes performance and interview footage.
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ARCADE FIRE LICENSE “WAKE UP” TO NFL FOR CHARITY
100% OF PROCEEDS FROM SUPER BOWL AIRING TO GO TO PARTNERS IN HEALTH
Arcade Fire, Partners in Health, the NFL, Merge Records and Bank Robber Music have collectively agreed upon a unique 100% for charity Super Bowl licensing of “Wake Up” from the band’s 2004 album Funeral. All proceeds from the song’s airing on the live Super Bowl broadcast and subsequent airings on the NFL Network will go directly to Partners In Health’s Stand With Haiti relief efforts.
For further information on Partners In Health’s efforts regarding the Haiti crisis, go to http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti or see the information posted at http://www.arcadefire.com/
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COHEED AND CAMBRIA
YEAR OF THE BLACK RAINBOW
FIFTH ALBUM OUT APRIL 13-PRE-SALE TO BEGIN THIS WEEK
COHEED AND CAMBRIA
YEAR OF THE BLACK RAINBOW
FIFTH ALBUM OUT APRIL 13-PRE-SALE TO BEGIN THIS WEEK AT http://www.coheedandcambria.com
Deluxe Edition To Include 300+ page “Year of the Black Rainbow “Novel, Penned by Claudio Sanchez and Bestselling Author Peter David
Four Of Eight Pre-Release Club Shows Completely SOLD OUT
Appearing April 17 at Coachella
Coheed and Cambria has confirmed April 13 as the release date of Year of the Black Rainbow, its heavily anticipated fifth studio album. The eagerly awaited prequel to “The Amory Wars” tetralogy, Year of the Black Rainbow will be released by Columbia in both a standard format and a deluxe edition including a 352-page Year of the Black Rainbow novel, penned by the band’s Claudio Sanchez and New York Times Bestselling author Peter David.
Presale orders for the deluxe edition of Year of the Black Rainbow can be placed beginning this week at http://www.coheedandcambria.com. In addition to the CD and novel, the deluxe edition will include a “Making of” DVD featuring studio and interview footage as well as a Coheed and Cambria “Black Card,,”which will allow fans early entrance to shows, discounts on band merchandise and exclusive downloads and offers. Sneak peeks at the new album’s artwork and other exclusive visuals can be seen at http://www.coheedandcambria.com.
Year of the Black Rainbow provides the long awaited prequel to the band’s four previous inter-related concept albums - The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007) - which comprise “The Amory Wars,” the conceptual narrative driving the band’s lyrics, penned by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. Year Of The Black Rainbow is also likely to be the final installment of the narrative of “The Amory Wars.”
Year of the Black Rainbow is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). According to the Sanchez, “They have helped us evolve our sound to be more powerful and dynamic than ever and we think it’s definitely our best work to date.” The new record also features the studio debut of Coheed and Cambria drummer Chris Pennie, who has been playing alongside Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever and bassist Michael Robert Todd since 2007 and was featured on Neverender: Children of the Fence Edition, the CD/DVD box set documentation of the fall/winter 2008 four-night stands during which the band played its catalogue in its entirety, one album per night, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London.
Year Of The Black Rainbow’s release will be preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs on the northeastern U.S., four of which are already sold out. Earl Greyhound supports on the dates, which are as follows.
Tue-Mar-23 - Rochester, NY - Harro East Theatre & Ballroom
Wed-Mar-24 - Syracuse, NY - The Westcott Theater (SOLD OUT)
Thu-Mar-25 - Clifton Park , NY - Northern Lights
Fri-Mar-26 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground - Ballroom
Sun-Mar-28 - Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
Mon-Mar-29 - Hartford, CT - Webster Theater
Tue-Mar-30 - Scranton, PA - Hardware Bar (formerly Tinks) (SOLD OUT)
Wed-Mar-31 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg (SOLD OUT)
Sat-Apr-17 - Indio, CA - Coachella
The complete track listing for Year of the Black Rainbow is:
One
The Broken
Guns of Summer
Here We Are Juggernaut
Far
The Shattered Symphony
World of Lines
Made Out of Nothing
Pearl of the Stars
In the Flame of Error
When Skeletons Live
The Black Rainbow
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THEM CROOKED VULTURES TO MAKE SNL DEBUT FEB. 6
NYC, Charlotte, Atlanta Shows Confirmed
Them Crooked Vultures has confirmed its debut appearance on Saturday Night Live. The band - featuring SNL vets Dave Grohl and Josh Homme and, in his first ever appearance on the stage at 30 Rock’s famed Studio 8H, John Paul Jones - will be music guest on SNL’s February 6 show. Ashton Kutcher will host.
In addition, Them Crooked Vultures has confirmed three east coast shows immediately following the SNL festivities: February 8 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, February 10 at the Fillmore in Charlotte NC and February 11 at the Tabernacle in Atlanta.
For further information, sign up at themcrookedvultures.com.
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JAGUAR LOVE: HOLOGRAM JAMS
Sophomore Album out March 2 on Fat Possum
Pre-Order With Exclusive Handmade Bonus Gift Begins January 25 at:
http://fatpossum.com/products/hologram-jams
Band Ready to “Rumble” with February Club Dates
Jaguar Love has confirmed the release date of its second album and first for new label partners Fat Possum. Hologram Jams, in stores March 2, 2010, is the first Jaguar Love album to feature the band’s stripped down and rebuilt from the ground up two-piece line up of Johnny Whitney (Vocals, keys, drum machines) and Cody Votolato (Guitars, vocals, drum machines), both formerly of the late, lamented Blood Brothers.
“Cody and I have always had a strong bond, both creatively and as friends - and working on this album together was the most productive, free flow of ideas I have ever been a part of,” said Whitney.
The album’s release will be preceded by a pre-order at http://fatpossum.com/products/hologram-jams starting Monday, January 25th, that will come with a special bonus: Johnny and Cody have hand-made a limited number of Jaguar Love wristbands that will be hand numbered, and will be included free with the pre-purchase of Hologram Jams.
Produced by the band and John Goodmanson and featuring a sound that combines soulful howls colliding with and coursing over relentless dance beats and heavy glam guitars, Hologram Jams is bursting with hooks. The complete track listing for the album is:
I Started A Fire
Polaroids And Red Wine
Cherry Soda
Don’t Die Alone
Up All Night
Jaguar Warriors
Everything Is Awesome
Evaline
Sad Parade
A Prostitute An Angel
Freak Out
Beginning February 1, the duo will headline The Rumble, a series of mostly West Coast dates at intimate venues, presented by Future Sounds and sponsored by the likes of WOXY, Noise Pop, Owl Magazine and many others. The Rumble dates are as follows:
February 1 - Seattle, WA - Havana Club
February 2 - Portland, OR - Holocene
February 3 - San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord
February 4 - Los Angeles, CA - Three Clubs
February 5 - Oceanside, CA - The Royal Dive
February 6 - San Diego, CA - Bar Pink
February 7 - Las Vegas, NV - The Aruba
For further information, contact Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e laura@nastylittleman.com
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GORILLAZ RETURN WITH PLASTIC BEACH
New Album Out March 9
First Single “Stylo” Available January 26
April 18 Coachella Headline Slot Confirmed
20 January, 2009 - Plastic Beach the new album from Gorillaz, will be released by Virgin on 9 March, 2010.
The album is preceded by first single Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack) which will receive its radio broadcast premiere tonight and will be available for download January 26.
When reached with news of the leak that pushed up the premiere of the “Stylo” single, Gorillaz bass god Murdoc Niccals ranted via Twitter http://twitter.com/MurdocGorillaz: “A leak! A leak! Plastic Beach has sprung a leak! One of those Russian pirates has put a bullet hole in my island! My single’s leaked! STYLO!”
Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc and co. return with Plastic Beach. The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a Plastic Beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity. This Plastic Beach is the furthest point from any landmass on Earth; the most deserted spot on the planet.
The world’s biggest animated band, Gorillaz formed in 1998, and have since sold 12 million copies over two albums Gorillaz (2000) and Demon Days (2005). They have hit number 1 in more than a dozen countries and picked up awards including Grammys, Novellos, VMAs and EMAs.
The Gorillaz’ return will be marked by a headline appearance at this year’s Coachella festival. The Sunday April 18 performance will be the first Gorillaz live spectacle on U.S. soil since the awe-inspiring Demon Days Live run in April 2006 at New York’s Apollo Theater.
Plastic Beach is produced by Gorillaz.
The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. Orchestral Intro (featuring Sinfonia ViVA)
2. Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach (feat. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
3. White Flag (feat. Kano, Bashy & The National Orchestra For Arabic Music)
4. Rhinestone Eyes
5. Stylo (feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def)
6. Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul)
7. Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
8. Glitter Freeze (feat. Mark E Smith)
9. Some Kind Of Nature (feat. Lou Reed)
10. On Melancholy Hill
11. Broken
12. Sweepstakes (feat. Mos Def & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13. Plastic Beach (feat. Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)
14. To Binge (feat. Little Dragon)
15. Cloud Of Unknowing (feat. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
16. Pirate Jet
For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e laura@nastylittleman.com
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AFI ADD NORTH AMERICAN DATES
On Sales Begin January 16 For March Run
By popular demand AFI has added a spring run of dates to its ongoing worldwide campaign in support of its recent Crash Love. The new dates, which go on sale January 16 (coincidentally the same day the current leg of the Crash Love tour kicks off at the Knitting Factory in Reno NV), will commence March 12 in Nashville and conclude with a March 19 appearance at new Orleans’ House of Blues.
As mentioned above, all shows go on sale January 16 with the exception of New Orleans and Pensacola which go on sale January 23.
AFI’s new dates will follow a January run through much of western North America as well as a February 15-March 1 Japan/Australia jaunt. Following the conclusion of the newly announced March dates, the band will head abroad once more in April for a month-long UK/Europe tour. See below for a full listing of upcoming AFI dates.
Crash Love, the eighth full length AFI studio album, was released in September 2009 on DGC/Interscope. Preceded by the single “Medicate” and followed by customarily relentless touring, the record more recently rocked Alternative Press’ year-end poll, landing in the editorial staff’s Best Albums of ‘09 list (”We were beyond stoked to see AFI get back to the business of being a punk rock band with a new age Morrissey as their frontman”) and their readers voting the band’s Jade Puget best guitarist.
For further information and updates on AFI touring, check back at afireinside.net
AFI LIVE 2010
01/16/10 - Reno, NV - Knitting Factory
01/18/10 - Boise, ID - Big Easy Concert House
01/19/10 - Missoula, MT - Wilma Theatre
01/21/10 - Spokane, WA - Big Easy Concert House
01/22/10 - Seattle, WA - Showbox Sodo
01/24/10 - Vancouver, Canada - Commodore Ballroom
01/25/10 - Portland, OR - Roseland Annex
01/27/10 - Fresno, CA - Rainbow Ballroom
01/28/10 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst
01/30/10 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theater
01/31/10 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
02/15/10 - Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro
02/16/10 - Tokyo, Japan - Club Quattro
02/20/10 - Brisbane, AU - Soundwave Festival
02/21/10 - Sydney, AUS - Soundwave Festival
02/23/10 - Sydney, AUS - Big Top Luna Park
02/24/10 - Melbourne, AUS - Festival Hall
02/26/10 - Melbourne, AUS - Soundwave Festival
02/27/10 - Adelaide, AUS - Soundwave Festival
03/01/10 - Perth, AUS - Soundwave Festival
3/12/10 - Nashville, TN - Rocketown
3/13/10 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
3/15/10 - Jacksonville, FL - Plush
3/16/10 - Tampa, FL - The Ritz
3/18/10 - Pensacola, FL - Seville Quarter
3/19/10 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
04/05/10 - Nottingham, UK - Nottingham Rock City
04/06/10 - London, UK - Brixton Academy
04/08/10 - Glasgow, UK - ABC
04/09/10 - Manchester, UK - Academy
04/11/10 - Newcastle, UK - Academy
04/12/10 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Academy
04/14/10 - Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit 36
04/17/10 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
04/21/10 - Warsaw, Poland - Stodola
04/24/10 - Meerhout, Belgium - Groezrock Festival
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BECK.COM PRESENTS OPENING OF COLORSPACE OLAF BRUENING TO BE FIRST FEATURED ARTIST VIRTUAL ART GALLERY JOINS RECORD CLUB, IRRELEVANT TOPICS, PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE AND OTHER EXCLUSIVE BECK.COM CONTENT http://www.beck.com/colorspace
Beck.com has unveiled the virtual art gallery Colorspace (http://www.beck.com/colorspace) as the newest of the site’s expanding array of exclusive features. Colorspace will serve as an online showcase for new visual talent, featuring new artists every month, and also making available limited edition T-shirts, prints, posters and more.
The first artist to be featured at Colorspace will be Olaf Bruening. Breuning’s artistic sensibility was developed, steeped in and informed by the music of Talking Heads, Eurythmics and Grace Jones, the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman, and the sculpture of Jeff Koons. He cites as influences everything from sci-fi to horror via Vikings and haunted houses. His photographs, installations, and films feature a recurring vocabulary; face-painting, eyeballs attached to inanimate objects, long cheap wigs, naked breasts or direct movie allusions.
Bruening’s most recent showcase took place this March at the Whitney Biennale in New York. Taking inspiration from one of the exhibition buildings, the 18th century Upper East Side Armory, he created an installation called The Army, consisting of 30 miniature metal soldiers with identical spherical bodies and different heads resembling sci-fi robots marching as if to war.
Beck.com’s current featured content includes Record Club’s third installation (Beck, Wilco, Feist and friends’ recording of Skip Spence’s Oar), Irrelevant Topics (unsupervised co-interviews between Beck and Will Ferrell, Tom Waits, and others), and the regularly updated Planned Obsolescence, Videotheque, and more.
For further information, check back at http://www.beck.com/colorspace hourly.
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BROKEN BELLS SELF-TITLED DEBUT FROM JAMES MERCER AND DANGER MOUSE’S NEW BAND OUT MARCH 9 ON COLUMBIA RECORDS
First Single “The High Road” To Premier December 21 at Brokenbells.com
James Mercer and Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse have completed work on the first album by their new and ongoing band Broken Bells. The album, also titled Broken Bells, will be released by Columbia Records March 9, 2010.
The album features 10 melodically seductive and psychologically provocative songs co-written and performed by Mercer and Burton. Titles include “The High Road,” “Vaporize,” “Your Head Is On Fire,” “The Ghost Inside,” “Sailing to Nowhere,” “Trap Doors,” “Citizen,” “The Mall and Misery” and more.
Broken Bells features Mercer on vocals, guitars and bass while Burton plays organ, drums, piano, synths and bass. The pair play all the instruments on the album with the exception of a full string section arranged by Daniele Luppi. Broken Bells was recorded by Todd Monfalcone and Kennie Takahashi at Mondo Studio in Los Angeles and produced by Burton.
Each a long-time fan of the other’s work, Burton and Mercer first met face-to-face backstage at the 2004 Roskilde Festival in Copenhagen. The pair immediately hit it off and kept in touch over the prevailing half decade and in May 2008 seized the opportunity to finally collaborate on original music together. Once in the studio, the musical floodgates opened, an intuitive ease and seemingly ego-less telepathy producing an astonishing flow of new material over the course of a year. From more than 20 pieces of new music written and recorded, Broken Bells was assembled from 10 songs that coalesced together the most seamlessly.
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Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse has been nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, as both an artist and a producer, winning two in 2006 — Best Alternative Music Album (St. Elsewhere) and Best Urban/Alternative Performance (”Crazy”) — for his work with Cee-Lo as Gnarls Barkley. Picked by Esquire magazine as one of the “75 most influential people of the 21st century,” Burton has previously collaborated with a range of artists including Beck, Gorillaz, the Black Keys and others.
James Mercer is best known as the founder, principle songwriter and frontman of the Shins. The Portland OR-based group’s massively successful third album, Wincing the Night Away, debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart in January 2007, becoming the highest charting album to have ever been released solely on the iconic SubPop label before its nomination for the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
Mercer and Burton previously worked together on the track, “Insane Lullaby,” a song appearing on the Dark Night of the Soul multi-artist collaboration with David Lynch.
Mercer and Burton will continue to work as a band in the future.
For more information, please contact Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man e: laura@nastylittleman.com
For online inquiries, please contact Arbell Camron at Sony Music
e: arbell.camron@sonymusic.com
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PAUL McCARTNEY’S Good Evening New York City A SMASHING DEBUT
“PAUL McCARTNEY: GOOD EVENING NEW YORK CITY” A THANKSGIVING EVENT ON ABC
Good Evening New York City, Paul McCartney’s multi-disc CD/DVD documenting his historic three-night musical christening of New York’s Citi Field, sold fifty-five thousand copies last week landing at #15 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. Universally hailed as a concert experience for the ages, Good Evening New York City (released by Hear Music/Concord Music Group) holds special significance for McCartney and generations of his fans. Citi Field is the site of the former Shea Stadium, the same hallowed ground that The Beatles, in 1965, played the 34-minute show that would set the precedent for the modern day stadium rock show - and where in 2008 McCartney joined Billy Joel for the final rock show before the original stadium’s demolition.
The 30+ songs and nearly 3 hours of music comprising Good Evening New York City are a must-have for attendees wishing to relive the July 17, 18 & 21 shows and/or anyone interested in an audiovisual document of a living legend. “I’m Down” from the 1965 set list was revived for the Citi Field shows, and the set includes faithful takes on Beatles classics “Drive My Car,” “Got To Get You Into My Life,” “The Long And Winding Road,” “Blackbird,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Back In The USSR,” “Paperback Writer,” “Let It Be,” “Hey Jude,” “Helter Skelter” “Something” and “A Day in the Life” just to name a few. Wings era chestnuts include “Band On The Run,” “My Love,” “Let Me Roll It” and the pyrotechnic tour de force of “Live And Let Die,” while timeless McCartney solo material ranges from “Here Today” to the upbeat “Flaming Pie” and “Dance Tonight” to a pair of numbers from Electric Arguments, the 2008 album released under the alias of The Fireman.
The 2CD/2DVD deluxe edition of Good Evening New York City contains a bonus DVD featuring footage of McCartney’s July 15 performance on the outdoor marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater, previously available only as a webcast on the Late Show with David Letterman website. The marquee set, which marked McCartney’s return to the site of The Beatles’ U.S. television debut, generated front page headlines and literally stopped traffic as word of mouth generated a crowd that packed Broadway from Columbus Circle to Times Square.
On Thanksgiving night, November 26th at 10:00PM ET/PT, the ABC Network will air “Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City” a one hour concert special that includes rarely seen footage, revealing interview clips and of course the indelible songs and amazing performances culled from the three hours of music and video that make up Good Evening New York City. The program is an emotional journey through his iconic 50 year musical career and includes footage of the original Beatles concert at Shea. McCartney also talks candidly about those early days and what it was like to return to a place he performed at the height of Beatlemania.
For Paul McCartney, please contact:
Steve Martin - 212-343-0740
steve@nastylittleman.com
For Hear Music/Concord Music Group, please contact:
Joel Amsterdam - 310-385-4206
joel.amsterdam@concordmusicgroup.com
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RECORD CLUB #3 LIVE NOW AT BECK.COM
Beck, Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell Perform Skip Spence’s Oar In Its Entirety
RECORD CLUB, the informal and irregular gathering of various musicians to record an album in one day’s time, has begun posting tracks from its third endeavor. The current album is SKIP SPENCE’s classic OAR and as reinterpreted by Beck, Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell. First track “Little Hands” is up now at Beck.com and new tracks will be posted every Thursday in the same order as the original album sequence.
RECORD CLUB’s version of OAR came together in June of this year when Wilco joined Beck and Lidell managing to record all 12 tracks in a night. Leslie Feist happened to be in town editing her documentary and joined in, as did drum legend James Gadson, known for his timeless work with Bill Withers. The session took place at Sunset Sound Studios in the same room where the Rolling Stones recorded much of Exile On Main Street.
Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in one day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up at BECK.COM once a week. As you will hear, some of the songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens. And those who aren’t familiar with the albums in question will hopefully look for the songs in their definitive versions.
The two previous RECORD CLUB subjects have been THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO and SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN.
For further information, go to http://www.beck.com/record_club
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ALKALINE TRIO FORM HEART & SKULL LABEL; NEW ALBUM TO BE RELEASED EARLY 2010
ON EPITAPH / HEART & SKULL
Alkaline Trio has announced the birth of Heart & Skull, the band’s own label formed in partnership with Epitaph Records. The band will release its seventh album through Epitaph/Heart & Skull in early 2010.
Commenting on the formation of the new imprint, named for the band’s longstanding logo, Alkaline Trio singer/guitarist Matt Skiba commented, “We made the decision to form Heart & Skull to put out our own records after having been through every kind of label deal in the industry, big indies, small indies, majors. We knew it was time to adapt to the shifting tides of the music industry and we could not be more thrilled about doing that in conjunction with the team at Epitaph. Taking control of our own label situation was something we always wanted to do but never thought was possible, but now thanks to Brett Gurewitz and the fine folks at Epitaph, it is. All three of us in Alkaline Trio have always had the utmost respect for the music and the work ethic of the Epitaph, Anti- and Hellcat family and now we’re honored to be working together under one big happy roof. Heart & Skull/Epitaph is truly a dream come true for us.”
Alkaline Trio bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano added, “For our band at this time it really makes sense to release our own records, but we wanted to make sure we could partner up with good people who we would want to share in something very special to us. When Brett called and said he wanted to be involved, that was it. Epitaph is a label I’ve admired and supported for more than half of my life! I couldn’t be more excited for how this is turning out!”
Alkaline Trio first emerged from Chicago in 1996 and has since released the full length studio albums Goddamnit, Maybe I’ll Catch Fire, From Here To Infirmary, Good Mourning, Crimson and last year’s Agony & Irony, which was the highest charting record of the band’s career to date. The band is comprised of Skiba, Andriano and drummer Derek Grant, all of whom are partners in Heart & Skull.
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For More Information:
www.alkalinetrio.com
www.myspace.com/alkalinetrio
www.epitaph.com
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LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
To Celebrate Record Store Day’s Vinyl Saturday Nov. 7 with Exclusive “Bye Bye Bayou” 12″ Commercial Release To Follow on Nov. 24
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM will commemorate Record Store Day’s Vinyl Saturday this November 7 with a vinyl 12″ of its take on “Bye Bye Bayou” from Alan Vega’s eponymous 1980 solo debut. The single will be released by DFA/Virgin Records and will be available at your favorite local Independent record store. The complete list of stores can be found at: http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues
The single will receive a Nov. 24 worldwide commercial release through standard digital channels.
“Bye Bye Bayou” will NOT appear on the third LCD SOUNDSYSTEM album, which is currently being recorded and expected out sometime in the early months of 2010.
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FOO FIGHTERS GREATEST HITS TRACK LIST AND DELUXE EDITION CONTENTS REVEALED
CAREER-SPANNING COLLECTION WITH TWO NEWLY RECORDED TRACKS IN STORES NOV. 3
The track listing and contents of Foo Fighters’ Greatest Hits have been confirmed, for both a 16-track standard edition as well as a deluxe version featuring a DVD encompassing a select videography of the band’s classic clips as well as live performances captured at Wembley Stadium, Hyde Park, the intimate Skin + Bones theater tour and more–not to mention a few possible treats for Easter egg hunters. The deluxe edition will also include a 28-page bound book featuring numerous never before seen photos chronicling the band’s 15-year history.
Both the standard and deluxe configurations, as well as a collectors 180 gram vinyl edition, will be released November 3 on Roswell/RCA. In addition to the dozen-plus anthems that have charted the band’s rise to Grammy winning, multi-platinum, arena and stadium headlining status the world over, Foo Fighters’ Greatest Hits features two newly recorded songs available only on this compilation: The new single “Wheels” and “Word Forward”–both recorded especially for this collection at the band’s own fabled 606 studio complex with producer Butch Vig. “Wheels” is also the subject of the latest soon to be
classic Foo Fighters video, appropriately included on the deluxe DVD and reuniting the band with director Sam Brown who lensed the unforgettable clip for “The Pretender.”
Greatest Hits covers every phase of the 15-year-and-counting run that began with 1995’s Foo Fighters, with its classic singles “This Is A Call” and “Big Me,” and has since yielded six platinum-plus records and as many Grammys. The double-platinum The Colour & The Shape, originally issued in 1997 and since reissued in a deluxe 10th anniversary edition is recalled here not only by “Monkeywrench,” “Everlong” and “My Hero,” but by the first ever studio recording of “Everlong (acoustic).” Consecutive Best Rock Album Grammy winners here Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999) and One By One (2002) are represented by two pairs of classics respectively: “”Learn To Fly” and “Breakout,” and “All My Life” and “Times Like These,” while 2005’s two-disc electric/acoustic 10th anniversary opus In Your Honor yields the perennial FF final encore “Best Of You.” The intimate 2006 acoustically augmented theater tour documented on the Skin + Bones album and DVD is commemorated here by that collection’s title track.
Greatest Hits is completed by “The Pretender” and “Long Road To Ruin,” a double shot from 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, which earned the Foos their third Best Rock Album Grammy and set off the band’s biggest ever headlining tour, which peaked with a two-night stand at London’s Wembley Stadium attended by 165,000 fans-setting the venue’s two-night attendance record-and immortalized on the 18-song Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium DVD.
FOO FIGHTERS: GREATEST HITS
All My Life
Best Of You
Everlong
The Pretender
My Hero
Learn To Fly
Times Like These
Monkey Wrench
Big Me
Breakout
Long Road To Ruin
This is a Call
Skin and Bones
Wheels
Word Forward
Everlong (acoustic)
For further information, please contact Steve Martin or Amy Grote, amy@nastylittleman.com
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TOKYO POLICE CLUB SIGN U.S. DEAL WITH MOM+POP
SOPHOMORE ALBUM OUT EARLY 2010
Tokyo Police Club, the Newmarket Ontario quartet hailed by Rolling Stone as “poised to become the biggest Canadian export since Molson,” have signed an exclusive U.S. recording deal with mom+pop. The band is currently recording its second full length album, with an expected release projected for early 2010.
Tokyo Police Club is made up of Greg Alsop (drums), Josh Hook (guitar), David Monks (vocals, bass) and Graham Wright (keys/percussion). The band formed in 2005 and released its debut EP A Lesson In Crime the following year to instant and universal acclaim, with Entertainment Weekly raving “we can hardly wait for the full length.” One more EP, a digital-only single and a few laps around the world later, Tokyo Police Club’s debut album, Elephant Shell was released in April 2008. Elephant Shell’s release was preceded by multiple sold out shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto, and followed by appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and, oddly enough, Desperate Housewives. Critical response to the full length was even more enthusiastic and diverse, with the likes of GQ (”Strokes-caliber catchiness”), Elle (”a smart, furiously played sugar-rush debut”) and Men’s Health (”an aural adrenaline rush all the way”) all lavishing praise. The band toured relentlessly to support Elephant Shell, appearing in the U.S. as recently as the August 2009 All points West Festival.
mom+pop was formed in 2008 by Cliff Burnstein, Peter Mensch and Michael Goldstone. Burnstein and Mensch are the owners of Qprime, one of music’s most respected management firms, with a roster featuring the likes of Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol, Muse, Silversun Pickups, and The Mars Volta, among others. Goldstone is a veteran A&R exec whose most recent tenure at Sire saw him sign Regina Spektor and Tegan and Sara. In August 2008, he inked Joshua Radin as the first artist on the mom+pop label. Radin’s album, Simple Times, released 21 days later on September 9, has since sold over 100,000 units and 400, 000 tracks. Other mom+pop artists include An Horse, signed to the label by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara. mom+pop is a fully staffed label distributed independently by RED.
