Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Beastie Boys have received a pair of Grammy nominations for The Mix-Up, the all-instrumental “collection of full-on funkateering” (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) released June of this year.

The album itself was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album, while the track “Off The Grid” garnered a nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

The band is currently holed up in its own Oscilloscope studio complex in lower Manhattan working on its next opus.

For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man
tel 212.343.0740 or laura@nastylittleman.com

FOO FIGHTERS
ALBUM OF THE YEAR, RECORD OF THE YEAR, ROCK SONG, ROCK ALBUM & HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
Four-Time Grammy Winners Stand To Increase Career Tally To Nine
Tour Continues With Sold Out Madison Square Garden, Wembley Stadium Dates
Dates Added in Oakland, Reno, Council Bluffs IA and Glendale AZ

Foo Fighters have been nominated for five Grammy Awards, including their first ever nods in the Album of the Year and Record of the Year categories. This makes the Foos’ career Grammy take a potential nine when the band attends the 50th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday, February 10 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, to be broadcast live on CBS.

The full list of Foo Fighters’ nominations is as follows: Album of the Year (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace), Record of the Year (”The Pretender”), Best Rock Song (”The Pretender”), Best Rock Album (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace) Best Hard Rock Performance (”The Pretender”).

Of course Foo Fighters are no strangers to Grammy wins and nominations: the band’s 2005 double opus In Your Honor received no less than five nominations, while their prior two albums, One By One and There Is Nothing Left To Lose, took home Best Rock Album statuettes in 2004 and 2000 respectively. The Foos have collected four Grammys overall, the other two being the “All My Life” single’s 2003 Best Hard Rock Performance win, and the “Learn To Fly” video’s 2000 Short Form Music Video Grammy.

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, the Foo Fighters’ sixth studio album, was released September 25th to the biggest worldwide fanfare of the Foo Fighters’ 12-year-plus career. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY awarded the record an A, calling it “Perfect” and noting “The band has taken everything it’s always done best and brought it to the next level,” while the band’s U.S. tour was recently announced, including a first ever headline date at New York’s Madison Square Garden that sold out in minutes. Elsewhere, Echoes… entered the UK chart at #1 with the biggest first week sales by an international artist in 2007 and the biggest first week sales ever on iTunes UK. More recently, the band announced and instantly sold out a 163,000 capacity two-night stand at Wembley Stadium.

Foo Fighters’ U.S. tour dates are as follows:

1/16 – Sunrise, FL – BankAtlantic Center
1/17 – Orlando, FL – Amway Arena
1/19 – Birmingham, AL – BJCC Arena
1/20 – Pensacola, FL – Pensacola Civic Center
1/22 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
1/23 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
1/25 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum
1/26 – Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
1/28 – Fayetteville, AR – Barnhill Arena
1/29 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
2/1 – Reno NV – Reno Events Center
2/2- Oakland CA – Oracle Arena
2/18 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center
2/19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden (SOLD OUT)
2/21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Spectrum
2/24 – Detroit, MI – Joe Louis Arena
2/25 – Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena
2/27 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
2/28 – Council Bluffs IA – Mid America Center
3/2 – Glendale AZ – Jobbing.com Arena

For further info, please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man 212 343 0740 or eliot@nastylittleman.com.

TOUR INCLUDES FIRST EVER APPEARANCE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
RECORD-SETTING WEMBLEY STADIUM SHOWS SELL OUT INSTANTLY

After selling a staggering 163,000 tickets in 24 hours for their June 6 & 7 stand at London’s Wembley Stadium, Foo Fighters have set their sights on America. The band has confirmed the bulk of their first American tour in support of their new album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (a handful of dates remain TBA). This will be the band’s biggest American tour to date and includes the Foos’ first ever show at New York’s Madison Square Garden. As on their warm up dates earlier this fall, core Foo Fighters Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Taylor Hawkins and Chris Shiflett will be joined by Pat Smear on guitar, Rami Jaffee on keyboards, Drew Hester on percussion, and Jessy Greene on strings.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is Foo Fighters’ sixth studio album and has proven itself a worthy addition to the band’s discography, as songs like ‘The Pretender’ and new single ‘Long Road To Ruin’ are holding their own every night alongside known barnburners like ‘My Hero’ and ‘Best Of You’. As Entertainment Weekly said of the new album, “the band has taken everything it’s always done best… and brought it to the next level.”
For fans who want to ensure themselves good seats and support a good cause at the same time, a limited quantity of premium tickets for a number of shows will be available only through Ticketmaster auctions. Auction proceeds will benefit local tree planting through TreeBank, an online donation system dedicated to urban forest tree planting. Each auction will run for approximately two weeks following each show’s on-sale date, and TreeBank will distribute auction proceeds to local “branches” for tree planting in every community on the Foo Fighters tour. The Ticketmaster auction page is:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/ibnms8

TreeBank is a program of TreeLink®, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that offers information to educate and work with government, professionals and volunteers in community forests. You can find more information about the program at the below links:
https://www.itreebank.org/
http://www.treelink.org/

Confirmed tour dates below, all tickets go on sale weekend of 12/1 except as noted:
1/16 – Sunrise, FL – BankAtlantic Center
1/17 – Orlando, FL – Amway Arena
1/19 – Birmingham, AL – BJCC Arena
1/20 – Pensacola, FL – Pensacola Civic Center
1/22 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
1/23 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center (on sale now)
1/25 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum (on sale now)
1/26 – Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium (on sale now)
1/28 – Fayetteville, AR – Barnhill Arena
1/29 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
2/18 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center (on sale now)
2/19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
2/21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Spectrum (on sale now)
2/24 – Detroit, MI – Joe Louis Arena (on sale now)
2/25 – Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena
2/27 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center

For more information on Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace and the upcoming tour dates please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man

Email: eliot@nastylittleman.com, phone: 212.343.0740

NEW EP FOLLOW THE LIGHTS IN STORES NOW

Continuing an apparently endless run of some of the best-reviewed performances of his career, Ryan Adams and his Cardinals have confirmed their first dates of January ‘08.

The west coast tour extends what has already been an immensely productive year. In addition to the unanimously acclaimed new album Easy Tiger (lauded by Time as “a career breakthrough”) Ryan & The Cards recently released an EP entitled Follow The Lights, comprised of “reflective and sober renditions of a handful of Mr. Adams’ near-classics” (The New York Times). The two new songs on Follow The Lights (the title track and “My Love For You Is Real”) will be featured prominently in the ABC primetime drama “October Road”, which premiered Thanksgiving night. Finally, the band’s live shows continue to thrill audience and critics alike; The Washington Post recently noted that “[Ryan’s] perfectionism was apparent from the stunning arrangements and interplay with The Cardinals…the group sounded rehearsed and precise without sounding at all formulaic.”

The itinerary for the January tour is below. All shows go on sale the weekend of Nov 30, with the exception of San Diego, which is on sale now.

1/16 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
1/18 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theater
1/19 – San Diego, CA – Spreckels Theatre
1/21 – Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theater
1/22 – Claremont, CA – Bridges Auditorium
1/23 – San Rafael, CA – Marin Center
1/25 – Salem, OR – Elsinore Theater
1/26 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theater
1/28 – Berkeley, CA – Zellerbach Hall
1/30 – Los Angeles, CA – UCLA Royce Hall

For more information on the tour, Easy Tiger, and Follow The Lights, contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man.

Tel: 212.343.0740 email: eliot@nastylittleman.com

JAYMAY
AUTUMN FALLIN’ CONFIRMED FOR MARCH 11 U.S. RELEASE ON BLUE NOTE
DECEMBER 12 HOMECOMING SHOW AT NEW YORK’S MERCURY LOUNGE

New York City songstress Jaymay has confirmed a March 11 U.S. release for her debut full length Autumn Fallin’ on Blue Note Records.

Currently touring the UK where Heavenly Recordings has released Autumn Fallin’ to slew of 4-star reviews (see above), Jaymay got her start at a NYC open mic night in 2003. Soon after she was invited to play at various Lower East Side venues such as Pianos, Mercury Lounge and her much buzzed about (and oversold) Living Room Residency, which moved Gothamist to gush “Girls with Guitars are everywhere in this city, but this one –like a siren–was pulling people into this room and leaving them silent, speechless even. Shocked and lulled into a stupor.”

Jaymay eschewed the inevitable and numerous label offers that came in the wake of these shows, opting to self-release the beautiful Sea Green See Blue EP, which scored an “indie spotlight” on iTunes and frequent rotation on Los Angeles’ influential KCRW). She then began work on Autumn Fallin, a song cycle that vividly details the story of a New York City relationship gone south for the Winter.

Ultimately, EMI made her an offer she creatively couldn’t refuse, resulting in perfect homes at Heavenly Records in the UK and Blue Note here in the states.

Since then, Jaymay (born Jamie Kristine Seerman) has taken up residence in London, touring Europe and the UK with the likes of Bright Eyes, Jose Gonzales and in coming weeks Caribou and Okkervil River.
She will be returning to New York to round out her year with a one-off homecoming show at the Mercury Lounge December 12th at 7pm.

For more info and to RSVP to the Dec. 12 show, please contact Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man tel 212 343 0740 email Laura@nastylittleman.com

THE BEDLAM IN GOLIATH OUT JAN. 29, 2008 ON UNIVERSAL
“Goliath The Soothsayer” Game Exclusive To Amazon.com Beginning Jan. 2, 2008

Beginning the first week of January, visitors to the Amazon.com music page (http://amazon.com/music) will be the first to experience “Goliath The Soothsayer,” an online game based on The Mars Volta’s forthcoming The Bedlam In Goliath. The game will be available exclusively via Amazon.com from January 2nd through January 29th, the official street date for the new record. Pre-order is not necessary to play to the game.

“Goliath The Soothsayer” is based on the true story that inspired the narrative laid out on The Bedlam In Goliath. Like previous Mars Volta efforts De-Loused In The Comatorium and Frances The Mute, the album is a thematically linked whole, the songs chapters in a bigger story, inspired by real people, places and events. The Bedlam In Goliath chronicles The Mars Volta’s time with the “Soothsayer” a/k/a the Ouija board owned by vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and its mutation from a source of amusement during the tour supporting the band’s Amputechture album into a malevolent psycho-spiritual force that nearly tore the group apart, collectively and individually.

A trailer for the game can be viewed at:
http://video.umrg.com/marsvolta/goliath_the_soothsayer/quicktime.asp
The Mars Volta was formed by guitarist/producer/arranger Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist/vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and issued its first recorded work, the Tremulant EP in 2002. The band has since released three full-length albums, De-Loused In The Comatorium (2003), Frances The Mute (2005)–both of which have been certified gold–and Amputechture (2006). The Bedlam In Goliath will be The Mars Volta’s fourth studio album. Like Frances The Mute and Amputechture, it was produced by the band’s own Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.

For more information, please contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man. 212-343-0740 laura@nastylittleman.com

“The Henry Fonda theatre was rocked to its core Monday night by the Foo Fighters, as they tore through their set, never letting off the gas pedal…”
– LAist.com

“New songs, old songs, it didn’t matter: the Foos rocked and fans ate it up.”
– Albany Times-Union

As they wrap up a run of arena shows in the UK, Foo Fighters have announced the first several dates of what will be the first full American tour in support of their new album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. As on the warm up dates earlier this fall, the tour will feature additional Fighters beyond the core foursome – Pat Smear on guitar, Rami Jaffee on keyboards, and Jessie Greene on strings.

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is Foo Fighters’ sixth studio album and has already proven itself a worthy addition to the band’s discography, as songs like ‘The Pretender’ and new single ‘Long Road To Ruin’ are holding their own every night alongside known barnburners like ‘My Hero’ and ‘All My Life’. As Entertainment Weekly said of the new album, ‘the band has taken everything it’s always done best…and brought it to the next level.”

For fans who want to ensure themselves good seats and support a good cause at the same time, a limited quantity of premium tickets for a number of shows will be available only through Ticketmaster auctions. Auction proceeds will benefit local tree planting through TreeBank, an online donation system dedicated to urban forest tree planting. Each auction will run for approximately two weeks following each show’s on-sale date, and TreeBank will distribute auction proceeds to local “branches” for tree planting in every community on the Foo Fighters tour. The Ticketmaster auction page is:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/ibnms8

TreeBank is a program of TreeLink ®, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that offers information to educate and work with government, professionals and volunteers in community forests. You can find more information about the program at the below links

https://www.itreebank.org/
http://www.treelink.org/

Confirmed tour dates listed below, for further confirmations keep an eye on www.foofighters.com

1/23/08 – Dallas TX – American Airlines Center
1/25/08 – Memphis TN – FedEx Forum
1/26/08 – Nashville TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
2/18/08 – Worcester MA – DCU Center
2/21/08 – Philadelphia PA – Wachovia Spectrum
2/24/08 – Detroit MI – Joe Louis Arena

For more information on Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace and the upcoming tour dates please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man
Email: eliot@nastylittleman.com, phone: 212.343.0740

2006-2007 marked the undeniable apex of AFI’s unrelenting 15-year climb: AFI’s seventh album, DECEMBERUNDERGROUND, entered the Billboard 200 at #1, the smash single “Miss Murder” nabbed the 2006 MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video, the band made a SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE appearance and swept ROLLING STONE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BLENDER, ALTERNATIVE PRESS and REVOLVER’s Best of 2006 lists.

Throughout all of this, however, it was the AFI live experience that catapulted the band to arena status, as they wrapped the first leg of their U.S. headline tour by selling out the Long Beach Arena and SF’s Bill Graham Civic in record time. On November 13, the release of I Heard A Voice: Live From The Long Beach Arena will provide an aural document of the aforementioned Long Beach show.

The connection between AFI and its fans–many of whom belong to the fiercely loyal Despair Faction–in the live setting is absolute. As documented on I Heard A Voice, every single audience member is as emotionally invested in the show as the band members themselves. And much like their recorded output, the unique AFI live ritual has captured the attention of the mainstream: THE LOS ANGELES TIMES’ review of southern California radio giant KROQ’s Christmas show gave AFI “the show’s MVP award,” while SPIN recently named AFI one of the current music world’s “Greatest Live Bands.”

For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man tel 212 343 0740 e-mail laura@nastylittleman.com

On January 1, 2008, TBD Records/ATO Records Group will release in North America the physical version of Radiohead’s In Rainbows.

Released in download format earlier this year, In Rainbows has already received tremendous acclaim in the press. British music magazine Q wrote “In Rainbows is a brilliant work” while Rolling Stone said the album “delivers an emotional punch that proves all other rock stars owe us an apology.” New York magazine raved, “Radiohead has made their best music in years, maybe ever.”

TBD/ATO are currently focusing on both “Bodysnatchers” and “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” as the North American radio singles.

Produced by Nigel Godrich, In Rainbows is the band’s seventh studio album and the follow-up to 2003’s RIAA certified Platinum Hail to the Thief.

More information about the album release and the band’s touring plans to follow.

For additional information please contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at Nasty Little Man. 212.343.0740 laura@nastylittleman.com

EXCLUSIVE NEW YEARS EVE SHOW JUST ANNOUNCED
“Wax Simulacra” Webisode Online Now

The Mars Volta has confirmed a January 29, 2008 release for its fourth studio album, The Bedlam In Goliath (Universal). The album was produced by the band’s own Omar Rodriguez Lopez and is comprised of the following tracks:

1. Aberinkula
2. Metatron
3. Ilyena
4. Wax Simulacra
5. Goliath
6. Tourniquet Man
7. Cavalettas
8. Agadez
9. Askepios
10. Ouroboros
11. Soothsayer
12. Conjugal Burns

The Bedlam In Goliath’s release will be preceded by a one-off New Year’s Eve extravaganza at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. The band promises “una serata con amici e sorprese presentata in un modo straordinario.” Attendees should note that costumes are required.

Additionally, a homemade video “webisode” set to the track “Wax Simulacra” is online now at http://video.umrg.com/marsvolta/waxsimulacra_revised/quicktime.asp . Further installments may surface prior to the album’s release.

The Mars Volta was founded in 2001 by Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez Lopez. The band’s previous recorded output has included its 2003 debut De-Loused In The Comatorium, 2005’s Frances The Mute and last year’s Amputechture. The Bedlam In Goliath finds Bixler Zavala and Rodriguez Lopez joined by returning members Marcel Rodriguez Lopez, Adrian Terrazas Gonzales, Pablo Hinojos- Gonzales, Isaiah Ikey Owens, Juan Alderete de la Pena, new drummer Thomas Pridgen and full-time Red Hot Chili Pepper and frequent Volta collaborator John Frusciante.