Today, Billie Eilish returns with her latest single and music video, “my future”.
“we wrote this at the very beginning of quarantine. it’s a song that’s really really personal and special to me. when we wrote this song, it was exactly where my head was at – hopeful, excited and a craaaazy amount of self-reflection and self-growth. but recently it has also taken on a lot of new meaning in the context of what’s happening in the world now. i hope you can all find meaning in it for yourselves,” Said Billie in an email to her fans today.
Written and recorded in Los Angeles during lockdown, and produced by her brother FINNEAS, “my future” follows the 18-year-old’s groundbreaking 2019 multi-GRAMMY® Award winning debut album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO and the 2020 release of her official James Bond song “No Time To Die.”
The beautifully animated official music video accompanying this release was created by Australian artist Andrew Onorato.
2020 started off with Billie Eilish winning 5 GRAMMYs at the 62nd GRAMMY® Awards in January, where she bagged Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album. February saw Billie take the stage with her brother FINNEAS to deliver a rousing rendition of The Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’ at the 92nd Oscars. Later that month, she released her internationally hailed, official James Bond theme song ‘No Time To Die.’ March came, and the global pop-sensation was ready to embark on her first ever SOLD-OUT WHERE DO WE GO? world arena tour, only for it to be postponed just days into the North American leg of the tour, as the country went into lockdown.
Back home isolating in Los Angeles —with more time and space on her hands— “my future” is the product of an assured young woman, coming into her own, as she contemplates what’s ahead of her, signifying a new chapter for the iconic teen-trailblazer.
The wait is over, Joe Bonamassa’s new solo studio album Royal Tea inspired by his British heroes Jeff Beck, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin and Cream was recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios and will be released on October 23rd via J&R Adventures. Bonamassa also surprised his fans this past Friday with his latest single, “Why Does It Take So Long To Say Goodbye.”
Bonamassa is known for taking risks and venturing into uncharted territory throughout his wide-ranging career but now he has found a new way to surprise his fans and music lovers. Royal Tea brings Bonamassa full-circle. “This whole adventure,” admits Joe, “was a bucket-list thing for me.” This album reconnects the 43-year-old with the guitar-slinging kid from upstate New York, who stumbled across the best of British blues music in his dad’s vinyl collection – whose influences have shaped him to be the player he is today. “I would have been about twelve years old, and it was the sound I heard in my head. Like, ‘OK, I’m in. That’s what I want to be’.”
These ten original tracks were co-written by Joe and a cast of homegrown notables including former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden, ex-Cream lyricist Pete Brown and national-treasure piano man Jools Holland. “Writing this record in London has done its job,” reflects Bonamassa. “It really does sound inherently British. Bernie and I, we finish each other’s sentences. We’re cut from the same cloth.” Bonamassa’s long-standing producer Kevin Shirley and regular touring band flew in for the recording sessions, which included Anton Fig (drums), Michael Rhodes (bass) and Reese Wynans (keys).
Alongside the announcement of the Royal Tea album, Bonamassa revealed today that he will perform a special Livestream Concert from the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on September 20th. This concert will feature the songs from his new album before the official release. Joe has never performed a full, unreleased album for audiences like this before, giving fans from around the world the opportunity to come together for an unforgettable night of blues-rock music. Along with Royal Tea he’ll perform classic remixes from his 20th anniversary album A New Day Now. The evening will continue with a one hour “After Party” featuring several live performances from an array of some of the hottest rising stars in blues-rock music.
The live stream tickets and packages for “Joe Bonamassa Live in Concert Worldwide” presented by Keeping The Blues Alive are available for purchase at https://joeb.me/JBW
There are a variety of pricing levels available for fans worldwide to be a part of this special “audience.” Tickets to the livestream event starts at $20. Fans may also purchase a $35 ALL-ACCESS PASS which includes access to the livestream event on September 20th, the Royal Tea digital album available on October 23rd, and a 1-year all pass for Bonamassa’s on-demand service which includes 17+ concert releases from Joe Bonamassa, Black Country Communion, and Rock Candy Funk Party – available at any time on most devices.
As part of this unique concert event, fans also have the option to purchase a Commemorative VIP ticket giving them an experience they will never forget. VIP ticket holders will have their photo printed out and placed in a seat at the legendary Ryman Auditorium as part of Joe’s audience for that special night. VIPs will also get a picture of Joe with his “audience” which will be sent to them via email to keep. The VIP ticket holder’s name will also be included in the credits at the end of the live stream event, as well as being included in the upcoming DVD credits for this performance!
This one-of-a-kind concert is presented by Bonamassa’s non-profit, Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation (KTBA). Each ticket purchase will include a $1 donation to Joe’s Fueling Musicians Program, which to date has raised over $295,000 and has supported more than 163 musicians in need due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While much of the applause Bonamassa receives should be credited to his sheer talent, some part of his success needs to be attributed to Joe and his business partner for having the foresight and ability to become some of music’s savviest entrepreneurs. Bonamassa now 43, and his partner Roy Weisman have together devised a 360-degree independent business model that has survived and thrived during one of the music industry’s most uncertain eras, particularly considering the challenges created by the current pandemic.
Bonamassa’s Royal Tea and A New Day Now follow his instrumental side project called The Sleep Eazys, who released their stunning debut album, Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell, earlier this year. The album, which the Associated Press touted as making “instrumental dreams,” was produced by Bonamassa and features some of his frequent collaborators, along with his all-star touring band. The Sleep Eazys project is Joe’s second time in the studio as a producer, after Reese Wynans’ long-awaited debut solo album Sweet Release.
In addition, Joe continues to crank out weekly programming for Sirius XM’s Bluesville channel for his radio show “Different Shades Of Blue.” More recently, he kicked off a new at-home weekly interview series “Live From Nerdville” on his Facebook and YouTube page, featuring episodes with Neal Schon of Journey, John Oates of Hall & Oates, Glenn Hughes, Paul Stanley of Kiss, Warren Haynes, Keb’ Mo’, Walter Trout and esteemed singer-songwriter Dion. On June 5, Bonamassa released music icon Dion’s critically-acclaimed new album Blues With Friends on he and his Manager Roy Weisman’s new record label Keeping The Blues Alive Records and Dion’s first single “Blues Comin’ On” also features Bonamassa on slide guitar.
To keep up with everything Bonamassa, visit jbonamassa.com, and be sure to stay connected on social media.
JOE BONAMASSA – “ROYAL TEA” 1. When One Door Opens 2. Royal Tea 3. Why Does It Take So Long To Say Goodbye 4. Lookout Man! 5. High Class Girl 6. A Conversation With Alice 7. I Didn’t Think She Would Do it 8. Beyond The Silence 9. Lonely Boy 10. Savannah
On September 25, 2020, Guns N’ Roses’ 2004, multi-platinum best of compilation Greatest Hits (Geffen/UMe) will be released on vinyl for the first time. Previously only available digitally and on CD, Greatest Hits will be pressed as a 2LP set on 180gram audiophile black vinyl, a 2LP set on silver colored vinyl with red and white splatter, plus a 2LP picture disc available exclusively through the band’s official store. The vinyl edition of Greatest Hits will also feature the band’s single “Shadow of Your Love,” which hit No. 5 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Originally recorded in December 1986, “Shadow of Your Love” made its debut on the 2018 box set Appetite For Destruction.
In 2004,Greatest Hitsreached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and in 2007 hit No. 1 on the Catalog Albums chart. Featuring all eight of the band’s Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 tracks (six of them RIAA-certified “gold,” i.e., sales of more than 500,000 units), Greatest Hits spans the group’s five album releases, including their cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil” for the 1995 film Interview With The Vampire.
The first full-length album from Guns N’ Roses, 1987’s Appetite For Destruction, is one of the most popular hard rock albums in history and has been on the Billboard Top 200 albums or Top Pop Catalog chart for a total of 746 weeks. Certified 18 times platinum in the U.S., Appetite For Destruction charted No. 1 for five weeks and includes three Top 10s: the anthem “Welcome To The Jungle” (No. 7), the frenzied rocker “Paradise City” (No. 5) plus their platinum selling No. 1 single “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” The video for “Sweet Child O’ Mine” recently hit over 1 billion views on YouTube.
1988’s G N’R Lies, comprised of songs from the group’s independently-released 1986 EP Live?!*@Like A Suicide plus new studio recordings, followed Appetite For Destruction up the charts, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The Grammy®-nominated album (for Best Hard Rock Performance) was five times platinum (each platinum level connotes sales of more than one million units) and claimed the gold No. 4-charting ballad “Patience.”
Then, on September 17, 1991, with one of the most anticipated releases ever in music, both Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II debuted. Use Your Illusion I featured two gold singles with “November Rain” (No. 3) and “Don’t Cry” (No. 10) plus another Top 40 with “Live And Let Die” (No. 33). Use Your Illusion II boasted another gold hit with the previously-released single “You Could Be Mine” (No. 29), heard in the film Terminator II: Judgement Day. Each of the Use Your Illusion albums went seven times platinum with Use Your Illusion I going to No. 2 and Use Your Illusion II hitting No. 1. Use Your Illusion I was Grammy® nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance as was the Wings cover “Live And Let Die.” Greatest Hits also culls from II “Yesterdays,” “Civil War” and GN’R’s take on Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.” Both Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II have sold over seven million copies to date.
A collection of Guns N’ Roses covers of classic, mainly punk, songs that had influenced the bandmembers since their early days, 1993’s The Spaghetti Incident? hit No. 4 and is certified platinum. Included on Greatest Hits are its renditions of The Dead Boys’ 1978 track “Ain’t It Fun” and an unlikely cover of The Skyliners’ ’50s doo-wop gem “Since I Don’t Have You.”
The Jerry Garcia Foundation invites everyone around the world to help raise funds for COVID-19 relief programs. Participants can generate funds for the project by listening to a new compilation album titled, “My Sisters and Brothers.” The album will be released Aug. 1 on the foundation’s OnlyLove record label. The music can be accessed on mobile phones and other digital devices via streaming platforms such as Spotify and iTunes.
All streaming proceeds will support the Jerry Garcia Foundation’s OnlyLove Relief Fund, which has designated to assist in COVID-19 relief. The following 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations will receive proceeds for their relief programs through individual grants: MusiCares, WhyHunger and the IBMA Relief Fund, an affiliate of the International Bluegrass Music Association.
In addition to the music, a giclée print of Jerry’s “California Mission” watercolor painting will be available for online auction on the Charity Buzz website. The painting was used as album cover art for this project.
An art booklet, complete with liner notes, will be available at the Terrapin Gallery.
“Music heals,” said a spokesperson for the Jerry Garcia Foundation. “It has the potential to lift our spirits and connect us with one another. It is our hope that this music will bring comfort where needed.”
The artists appearing on this album are members of the Jerry Garcia Band in its various incarnations from 1976 to 1990.
The “My Sisters and Brothers” track list includes the following:
“The Wheel”
“My Sisters and Brothers”
“Palm Sunday”
“I’ll Be With Thee”
“Turtle Dove”
“Who Was John”
“Ride Mighty High”
“Magnificent Sanctuary Band”
Album compiled for release at Joe Gastwirt Mastering.
The art booklet includes a liner-notes story titled, “The Magnificent Sanctuary Band,” written by Jesse Jarnow, author and WFMU radio host. Band personnel information was generously provided by Joe Jupille, University of Colorado social sciences professor and Jerry Garcia scholar.
Jerry’s daughter, Keelin Garcia, and his wife, Manasha, served as the project’s producers.
Filmmaker and director Justin Kreutzmann joined the production team and contributed his video for “The Wheel” as a complement to the first track on the album.
The nonprofit organizations receiving grants from this project have created relief programs addressing COVID-19 in addition to their ongoing charitable activities.
WhyHunger believes a world without hunger is possible and has focused on the growing hunger needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic. MusiCares has concentrated on the music community, including composers, performers and other professionals affected by the pandemic. The International Bluegrass Music Association promotes the well-being of the entire bluegrass music community and has established the IBMA Trust Fund specifically to address the pandemic.
Award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter Michael Vincent Quattro has seen it all between his late-90s chart-topping hit “Fallen For Your Love” to today’s release of “Save Our World” — available now.
It’s this storied career and life-library of experiences that had the multi-talented artist consider the world’s current situation as a whole.
“One evening as I sat at the piano to write for my new album, I started pondering the impact of the global pandemic and the effect it’s understandably having on people of any status and background,” Michael Vincent says. “I became very emotional as I began to put my thoughts together.”
Michael Vincent first rose to pop-rock prominence with the Top 10 RPM-charting hit “Fallen For Your Love” in the late 1990s. Since then he’s won a Voce D’oro (Golden Voice) Award and the Song Festival Toronto, and released a series of critically acclaimed singles, including the 2018 holiday hit “A Christmas Gift of Love.”
Personal tragedies including the untimely loss of his beloved mother, sister and father have inspired other deeply personal song work, including “Up to Heaven.”
A compassionate creative, Michael Vincent’s newest song amplifies his intentions to inspire and connect the community, especially through troubling times.
“I think connecting spiritually is first and foremost the answer to getting through this time in our lives,” he considers. “It is the foundation of working together along with worldwide cooperative measures to overcome this unprecedented challenge.
“As I said in the song, ‘the life we all knew will be forever changed, but with faith and new heroes hope is unchanged.”
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American alt-pop rockers The Light Workers have released a fresh, feel-good take on the inherent need to be free with their new single “Peppermint” — and debut self-titled album — available now!
With piercing imagery, sincere vocals, swelling cello undercurrents, and multi-layered guitars, the song stands as a take-notice intro to the newly minted musical collaboration from artists Anne Luna and Evan Woodward.
While it’s often said ‘that thing’s bigger’n she is,’ Luna makes playing the upright bass look easy; her graceful yet hard driving work is often found mostly in the bluegrass and acoustic roots fields, and she’s recorded with the likes of Alan Munde, Kenny Maines, Amanda Shires, and more.
For his part, Woodward is also no stranger to the stage or stacked streams: his solo work has earned him more than 21,000+ plays across Spotify via 2017 album, Ramblin’ on the Coast Highway, and his forthcoming sophomore offering Epilogue is slated for release this Fall.
“As The Light Workers, our goal is to be a positive force in the universe through music, storytelling, and conveying the complexities of life through song,” Woodward shares. “We were only able to rehearse together just once in 2020 before we cut the release, but we were determined to write and record beautiful music even in the face of the pandemic.”
The result speaks for itself; produced by legendary engineer Ken Riley, The Light Workers features several stop-in-your-tracks original pieces, including Woodward’s heartfelt handiwork behind the evocative “The Tiny Blue Mountains” and memory-laden tribute to a friend who’s passed on in “Free Ride (For Jerry),” as well as Luna’s beautiful, moody ode to her man on “Jeremy.”
The album closes with a stunning cover of Neil Young’s cult classic, “Albuquerque” — which, when played in the New Mexico town, often surprises audiences as they’re unfamiliar with it, something The Light Workers aim to remedy — and opens with “Peppermint,” a track co-written with Luna’s bandmate from her other touring outfit, the Hard Road Trio. “This song was crafted surrounded by a tea party set and dress-up wardrobe,” she laughs, remembering the songwriting session. “The Hard Road Trio was on tour in March — just as COVID-19 was making headlines across the country — and I’d asked Steve Smith from that band to help me out with the song.
“We set up in his great-niece’s play room, and worked on giving it a different groove and adding more interest in the chorus and bridge.
“One of my favourite ways to get out of my head and past my inner critic to just get something on paper is an exercise I’ve adapted from author and teacher Natalie Goldberg,” she continues, crafting even earlier context for how “Peppermint” came to be. “I use props, which can be anything from small trinkets to photos, names, phrases, colours, tastes, smells, etc, as a starting point before setting a timer for two to five minutes. From there, the only rule is to keep the pen moving.
“I was leading this exercise at a songwriting camp and had passed around different essential oils,” Luna continues. “I took a whiff of peppermint and the first lines of the song came out onto the page.”
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The seed of the story conjured up through the association of smell harkens back to Luna’s college days. “A friend and I were relating the smell of peppermint to signalling the beginning of Christmas break back when we were still in school. We said peppermint was like the ‘smell of freedom.’
“From there, the song is an observation of ‘stuckedness’ and wish for ‘her’ — which is me, you and everybody — to be our free, creative selves — ‘the way that it was meant to be.’
“I thought of times I have felt so stuck in life, wondering how I got there, and of times I’ve witnessed others creating their own cages. From the outside, it’s always easy to say ‘you have the key! Free yourself!’ But it’s harder to take our own good advice.”
“Peppermint” and The Light Workers are available now.
Canadian pop-soul artist Tali is stepping out of the Shadows with this month’s release of her new single, “(Don’t) Wanna Be Yours” — available now.
And not a moment too soon.
An old soul in a modern world, hopeless romantic in a heartless era, and a timeless artist in a disposable age, the emerging Toronto singer-songwriter introduces us to them all on her darkly compelling (and aptly titled) forthcoming EP, Shadows.
But she also presents someone even more vital: A gifted, dynamic and unique talent whose boundless creativity and commanding presence are matched only by her spiritual commitment to her calling. “When I sing, I feel like I connect to my source, to my higher self,” Tali explains. “It’s like a channel for me. One of my favourite quotes — I forget who said it — is ‘The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.’ That speaks to me. I’ve been carrying those words with me ever since I first read them.”
She’s deployed them to devastating effect on Shadows. Seductive, nocturnal and intoxicating, the three-track EP marries old-school songcraft to contemporary cutting-edge sonics and production. The result: Proficient, polished tracks without expiration dates. Tracks that hit the sweet spot between pop, soul, R&B, jazz and electronica. And tracks that share Tali’s self-assured reflections on the universal conflicts and contradictions of love and life — along with hard-earned lessons about letting go and trusting your gut. “That’s also what the title means to me,” she elaborates. “It’s about leaving the past in the shadows and going with the flow. It took me a long time to learn that. I used to obsess over things.”
Case in point: The cigar-puffer who inspired the opening cut “(Don’t) Wanna Be Yours.”
A can’t-live-with-him, can’t-live-without-him romantic conundrum, it sets a torchy vocal atop a stark, haunting post-modern electro-waltz. “There was this one particular moment when he pissed me off,” she shares. “He lit up a chocolate-flavoured cigar when I’d asked him if he would not smoke around me, and he still did.
“I wrote this song about all the things he did that bothered me, and all the ways he’d get on my nerves in our short-lived romance.
“But even so, I was still very much interested in him,” Tali admits. “It was so contradictory.”
While Shadows documents her emotional growth, Tali’s artistic journey began decades earlier. It’s been a colourful and eventful trip. While still in elementary school, her mother introduced her to the artists that still infatuate and influence her — immortals like Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan, and her primary influence: Leonard Cohen. “I still own every single LP of his, every single book of his,” she says. “His words are always so deep. He has a lot to do with how serious I am.”
A sympathetic teacher — also named Cohen and hailing from Quebec — let the precocious singer turn her classmates into her first audience. On her 14th birthday, armed with her erstwhile DJ brother’s humble midi keyboard, the budding poet put her words to music, penning her first song to support a troubled friend. Soon she was a full-blown DIY whirlwind, writing and producing songs in her makeshift home studio and posting them on Soundcloud. One caught the attention of production duo Hippie Sabotage, whose unofficial remix of the track garnered more than 20 million online spins.
That’s when the floodgates — and her world — opened. “A lot of people reached out to me. Labels and industry people wanted to hear my songs and what I was doing.” At 19, she found herself in Minneapolis, recording with Prince’s drummer under the gaze of Nate Vernon, brother of Bon Iver leader Justin Vernon. (“No big deal,” she downplays jokingly.) She was courted by a major label in the U.K., where she wrote two of Shadows’ cuts while soaking up songwriting skills and secrets.
But when it comes to songwriting trips, you can’t beat the one that birthed “(Don’t) Wanna Be Yours”: “That was written in the middle of the jungle in Nicaragua in a hut, with monkeys climbing trees outside and a gorgeous ocean view,” she laughs. “Pretty random, I know. But pretty amazing.”
And there’s plenty more where they came from. The prolific night owl — “I have a million notebooks with poetry and lyrics and words that strike a chord with me” — has amassed a backlog of killer tunes being readied for digital release. Someday, she plans to add live shows back into the artistic mix. But no matter what happens and when, you can rest assured Tali will continue to trust her gut and go with the flow. “It’s really important to me on my journey not to be like anyone else. Everyone’s path is unique. That’s something I wish I had known years ago. But I know it now.”
Folk-rock singer/songwriter Moira Lazarus relies on simple, honest emotional expression when it comes to her newest single, “Listen To Your Heart” — available now.
“I wrote this song some years ago, and it has always been a favourite of mine,” she confides of the track’s earliest journey which, she adds, pretty much wrote itself. “It was a very direct, heartfelt plea, and an example for me of the alchemic and healing process of songwriting.
“When you’re communicating from the heart, something beautiful can come out of something painful.”
The song serves as an enthralling peek behind the curtain when it comes to the southeast London-based artist’s forthcoming EP, Rise the Phoenix, set for release this Summer 2020.
“Although I was classically trained in the violin and piano, I was always drawn to the guitar,” Lazarus shares. “I taught myself how to play because I knew that it would give me the freedom to sing the songs that I loved — and, crucially, to write my own songs.
“I still love an eclectic range of music and my diverse musical background has definitely influenced my songwriting.
“It all comes together on this EP.”
A direct extension of the signature heartfelt, incisive lyrics and harmony-rich, melodic music Lazarus has long-nurtured, Rise the Phoenix heralds the multi-instrumentalist’s breadth of talent through an inventive combination of sounds that land in a unique, warm and enveloping result.
“Listen To Your Heart” is available now. Rise the Phoenix is available Summer 2020.
