Huey Lewis talks about his hearing loss, being diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, celebrities that have reached out to him, his new album ‘Weather,’ and doing an impromptu concert to raise money while hitchhiking through Africa and Spain after losing his passport in the 60’s.
Toronto’s All-Girl Teen Pop Supergroup Girl Pow-R Land First JUNO Award Nomination for Breakout Album, This Is Us
Chart-topping and touring powerhouse Canadian all-girl teen pop band Girl Pow-R are once again inspiring young women across the country as they receive their first JUNO Award nomination for 2020 Children’s Album of the Year!
The ceiling-shattering nod as one of the youngest acts to ever receive a nomination lands for their debut release, This Is Us — available now.
Hot on the heels of the album’s critically acclaimed hits “Never Let Go” — which debuted on the iTunes Canada Children’s chart at #2 (second only to cultural force “Baby Shark” but ahead of genre mainstays such as Sharon, Lois & Bram, The Wiggles, and Raffi), and #15 in the U.S. — the album’s title track “This Is Us” has received more than 500,000 streams across all available platforms.
With members ranging in age from 11 – 17, Girl Pow-R’s greatest strength lies in the diversity in their ages, backgrounds and life experiences. The universal things that join them together are dynamic skill sets and a shared mission of empowerment among young women in the world today. With lyrics like “passionate for some change,” “take our message, shout it out,” and “we won’t be pushed around, we are strong, we are proud,” the title song from the all-girl supergroup continues to embody their core mission of banding together and uplifting their peers.
In continuing their inspirational mission of spreading confidence and kindness, Girl Pow-R — as seen on Breakfast Television, CP24, SiriusXM, YTV, TVO Kids, CityTV, eTalk Canada, Girls’ Life, Tiger Beat, J-14, Celeb Secrets, Fresh 95.3 and more — are proud their debut album This Is Us is encouraging girls to stay confident in their individuality and avoid the pitfalls of peer pressure and online influence in today’s hyper-digital age.
This Is Us is available now.
Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Stand On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme with 2020 JUNO Award Nomination
Five time JUNO Award winner and three time GRAMMY Award nominee — plus recipient of the Order of Canada, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, and the Premier’s Award for Excellence — Jane Bunnett and her all-female collective Maqueque have been nominated for a 2020 JUNO Award.
The nod for Jazz Album of the Year: Group comes for the collective’s latest release, On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme (Linus Entertainment).
In just five years, Bunnett harnessed her veteran jazz icon status and talent as a soprano saxophone player, flautist and composer to evolve Maqueque from a creative mentorship into a GRAMMY Award-nominated, critically acclaimed and industry heralded support platform that honours, amplifies and elevates the newest generation of young, female musicians hailing from around the world.
DownBeat Magazine lists Maqueque as one of their Top Jazz Groups, and says the “band sounds like no other;” the New Yorker described Bunnett and her role as “an inspiration.”
All group members wrote a piece for the recording; Maqueue features guitarist and vocalist Nikki D Brown, as well as founding member and muse for the group Afro Cuban jazz starlet Dayme Arocena, pianist and one of Bunnett’s closest collaborators Danae Olano, drummer Yissy Garcia, percussionist Mary Paz, bassist Tailin Marrero, and vocalist Joanna Majoko. The album also features contributions from past member Melvis Santa, and producer Larry Cramer.
Critics and fans alike heard for themselves start to finish On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme. Prior to recording, the group went from strength to strength, touring constantly from Yukon, Canada, to Colombia, Brazil, Cuba and Panama, to major U.S. jazz festivals and venues.
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque’s On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme is available now.
Photo Gallery: Richard Marx at Niagara Falls’ Fallsview Casino
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Charli XCX Celebrates “Single Awareness Day” … (which really should be every day!)
Valentine’s Day may be over but if you’re still single – you do you! You can be your own date. You can have your own fun. Plan your own party. At least that’s the idea behind Bud Light’s campaign for Valentine’s Day – or, should we say, “Single Awareness Day?”
Bud Light partnered with recording artist Charli XCX to celebrate singles and what better way to celebrate your singlehood than by mocking modern dating trends? It’s a fun way to remember that being single can be, as Charli puts it, bad-ass. Although, Charli XCX is indeed herself a millennial, she like many of us know the trend of online dating continues to rise with no sign of slowing down. To keep the party going, Charli preformed in Toronto to a room full of lucky singles to show that music can bring people together to have a great time – even if you’re single on Valentine’s Day.
The video below features Charli XCX celebrating the fun of being single by playing a game of “Swipe Left or Right on Dating Trends.” Check out the full video at the linked photo below.
The Masked Singer Unveils 45+ City U.S. National Tour
On the heels of last week’s Season Three debut of FOX’s #1 hit THE MASKED SINGER, Right Angle Entertainment today announced that an all new live show, THE MASKED SINGER National Tour, will hit the road in 2020, bringing the #1 show on television to the next level on its first-ever North American tour.Presented by Live Nation, THE MASKED SINGER National Tour tour kicks off in Detroit, MI, on May 28 before zigzagging its way to more than 45 cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Audiences can expect to see their favorite characters brought to life onstage, as well as surprise celebrity guests, amazing new performances and a can’t-miss spectacular live show for audiences of all ages. Tickets for the tour are on sale now at LiveNation.com.
“As the formation of FOX Alternative Entertainment allowed us to bring production of THE MASKED SINGERunder the FOX banner, we can now explore new and exciting ways to grow this hit franchise,” said Rob Wade, President, Alternative Entertainment and Specials, FOX Entertainment. “THE MASKED SINGER National Tour is a perfect example of this growth and, more importantly, a fun way for us to bring THE MASKED SINGERand its beloved characters to fans and families across the across the country, live and in person.”
THE MASKED SINGER’s Season Three premiere posted a 9.1/40 Live + 3 Day rating and 26.7 million total viewers, making it television’s highest-rated and most-watched reality telecast in eight years. It also ranks as television’s #1 entertainment telecast in two years and FOX’s highest-rated and most-watched entertainment telecast in six years. With 28.6 million multi-platform viewers, THE MASKED SINGER posted its highest-rated, most-watched and most-streamed telecast ever.
The live show will feature two celebrity guest hosts, as well as one local celebrity who will be in a top-secret disguise, keeping the audience guessing until they are unmasked at the end of the night.
Right Angle Entertainment in partnership with Guy Phillips are producing the tour, and Mark “Swany” Swanhart will direct. With decades of experience in television, film and live entertainment, Phillips, Swanhart and Right Angle Entertainment have transformed television hits, including “Dancing with the Stars,” “America’s Got Talent” and “The Bachelor,” into live stage productions that entertain audiences around the world.
For more information including the full tour schedule and ticket information, visit www.themaskedsingertour.com.
The 2020 tour schedule (subject to change) includes:
Thursday, May 28, 2020 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
Friday, May 29, 2020 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
Saturday, May 30, 2020 Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday, May 31, 2020 Columbus, OH Palace Theatre
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre
Thursday, June 4, 2020 Des Moines, IA Des Moines Civic Center
Friday, June 5, 2020 Rosemont, IL Rosemont Theatre
Saturday, June 6, 2020 St. Louis, MO Stifel Theatre
Sunday, June 7, 2020 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 Cleveland, OH KeyBank State Theatre at Playhouse Square
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Baltimore, MD Hippodrome Theatre at TheFrance-Merrick Performing Arts Center
Thursday, June 11, 2020 Washington, DC Warner Theatre
Friday, June 12, 2020 Newark, NJ NJPAC
Saturday, June 13, 2020 Boston, MA Boch Center Wang Theatre
Sunday, June 14, 2020 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Aren
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Philadelphia, PA The Met
Thursday, June 18, 2020 Richmond, VA Dominion Energy Center
Friday, June 19, 2020 Durham, NC DPAC
Saturday, June 20, 2020 Charlotte, NC Ovens Auditorium at the Bojangles Arts Center
Sunday, June 21, 2020 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre
Monday, June 22, 2020 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Thursday, June 25, 2020 Jacksonville, FL Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts – Moran Theater
Friday, June 26, 2020 Orlando, FL Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday, June 27, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday, June 28, 2020 St. Petersburg, FL The Mahaffey Theater
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Birmingham, AL BJCC Concert Hall
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 New Orleans, LA Saenger Theatre
Thursday, July 2, 2020 Sugar Land, TX Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 San Antonio, TX Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Friday, July 10, 2020 Irving, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Saturday, July 11, 2020 Tulsa, OK Brady Theater
Sunday, July 12, 2020 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Denver, CO Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Thursday, July 16, 2020 Salt Lake City, UT Kingsbury Hall
Saturday, July 18, 2020 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
Sunday, July 19, 2020 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic Auditorium
Friday, July 24, 2020 Las Vegas, NV The Smith Center
Saturday, July 25, 2020 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Theatre
Sunday, July 26, 2020 Fresno, CA William Saroyan Theatre
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Tucson, AZ Tucson Music Hall
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Federal Theatre
Thursday, July 30, 2020 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre
Saturday, August 1, 2020 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
Lennon Stella Reveals North American Headlining Tour Dates
Nashville-based singer, songwriter, actress, and multi-instrumentalist, Lennon Stella recently released her new single “Golf on TV” featuring JP Saxe, and in conjunction, Lennon also announces her North American headlining tour, as well as the title of her debut album, Three. Two. One. The tour will hit 28 cities across North America and see the singer play venues such as RBC Echo Beach in Toronto, Canada on May 26th, Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, NY on June 1st, Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA on June 23rd, and Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN on July 12th. In addition, she will also play at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival this summer.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, February 21st at 10AM local time. Official pre-sales will start on Tuesday, February 18th at 10AM local time with Lennon’s Artist pre-sale. The artist pre-sale code is available to any fan now who signs up for the code for their show on Lennon’s tour dates website: https://www.lennonstella.com/tour/
Additional pre-sales will be offered from Spotify, Ticketmaster, Citi, Live Nation, and Local Promoters.
Included with every purchase of a show ticket in the US will be a CD copy of Lennon’s upcoming debut album. VIP meet & greet packages will be available in all markets for purchase during this entire period.
Lennon’s new single “Golf on TV” featuring JP Saxe is the follow up to her most recent track “Kissing Other People.” Click HERE to view the music video!
Lennon Stella first rose to popularity when she was just 12 years old as part of the duo Lennon & Maisy, alongside her younger sister. The pair gained national attention with a cover of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”. Lennon went on to star in the ABC/CMT smash Nashville as Maddie Conrad for six years. Kickstarting her solo recording career, Lennon debuted with her 2018 Love, me EP which bowed in the Top 5 of the Billboard “Heatseekers Albums” chart, that included the single “La Di Da,” amassing more than 96 million Spotify streams and counting. Lennon is named among Refinery29’s “Young Celebrities to Watch in 2019”, Teen Vogue’s “16 Musicians You Need to Be Listening to in 2019” and most recently Amazon Music’s Artist to Watch for 2020.
2020 TOUR DATES
2/14 Gibson Club Frankfurt, DEU
2/16 Kaufleuten Zürich, CHE
2/17 Gloria Cologne, DEU
2/19 Le Maroquinerie Paris, FRA
2/20 La Madeleine Brussels, BEL
2/22 Melkweg Amsterdam, NLD
2/24 SWG3 Glasgow, GBR
2/25 02 Ritz Manchester Manchester, GBR
2/26 Olympia Theatre Dublin, IRL
2/28 02 Institute Birmingham Birmingham, GBR
2/29 Anson Rooms Bristol, GBR
3/2 02 Shepard’s Bush Empire London, GBR
3/3 02 Shepard’s Bush Empire London, GBR
5/22 Old Forester’s Paristown Hall Louisville, KY
5/23 Express Live! Columbus, OH
5/24 The Fillmore Detroit, MI
5/26 RBC Echo Beach Toronto, ON
5/27 MTELUS Montreal, QC
5/29 House of Blues Boston, MA
5/30 The Fillmore Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA
6/1 Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom New York, NY
6/3 The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD
6/5 The Fillmore Charlotte Charlotte, NC
6/6 Tabernacle Atlanta, GA
6/7 Iron City Birmingham, AL
6/12 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN
6/16 ACL Live at Moody Theatre Austin, TX
6/17 House of Blues Dallas, TX
6/19 Paramount Theatre Denver, CO
6/20 The Depot Salt Lake City, UT
6/23 Hollywood Palladium Hollywood, CA
6/24 Fox Theater Oakland, CA
6/27 McMenamins Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR
6/28 Showbox SoDo Seattle, WA
6/30 Orpheum Theatre Vancouver, BC
7/3 Winspear Centre Edmonton, AB
7/6 Burton Cummings Theatre Winnipeg, MBV
7/7 Fillmore Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN
7/8 The Sylvee Madison, WI
7/10 The Pageant St. Louis, MO
7/11 House of Blues Chicago, IL
7/12 Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN
AJR And Quinn XCII Announce Everything Everywhere Tour
Multiplatinum indie pop trio AJR and genre-bending artist Quinn XCII announce their Everything Everywhere Tour,produced by Live Nation. The shows kick off Tuesday, July 21 at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Dallas, TX and will feature special guests Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers and Ashe.
Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, February 21 at 10 AM local time at LiveNation.com. Fans will have access to AJR, Quinn XCII and Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers artist presales from Monday, February 17 at 10 AM local time to Thursday, February 20 at 10 PM local time. Visit AJRBrothers.com, QuinnXCII.com and HoboJohnson.com for more information.
Citi is the official presale credit card of the tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets from Tuesday, February 18 at 10 AM local time to Thursday, February 20 at 10 PM local time through Citi Entertainment®. For complete presale details visit CitiEntertainment.com.
The announcement comes on the heels of the release of AJR’s newest single and video “BANG!” which is out now via AJR Productions/S-Curve Records/BMG.The track racked up over 2 million total streams in the first 48 hours of its release and is the latest offering from AJR following their third full-length album Neotheater, which debuted at the top of the Billboard charts last spring (No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Alternative and Rock Albums charts), and features Gold certified single “100 Bad Days.” In their decade music roundups, Spotify named AJR’s smash “Sober Up” one of the Best Rock Songs of the 2010s and Apple Music named AJR’s hit “Weak” one of the Best Alt Songs of the 2010s.
AJR recently sold out the most prestigious, high-capacity venues of their career including NYC’s Radio City Music Hall and Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater on the first leg of their Neotheater World Tour and sold over 130,000 total tickets in 2019. They will head back on the road this spring for a string of festival dates and more than 20 cross-country North American performances on their Neotheater World Tour Part II prior to kicking off the Everything Everywhere Tour with Quinn XCII.
With his ability to seamlessly blur the lines between pop, hip-hop, electronic and soul, Quinn XCII quickly paved his own lane with his unique sound. Over the last 5 years, Quinn XCII has consistently grown his audience and expanded his crowd, currently drawing over 7 Million monthly listeners on Spotify and accumulating over 1.2 billion streams worldwide. He has played major music festivals across the globe including Lollapalooza, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, and many more, recently sold out the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver in just two days, and has sold out 4 consecutive nationwide headline tours since 2017.
Quinn XCII is set to have his biggest year, recently achieving a spot in Rolling Stone’s Breakthrough Artists as he prepares for the release of his upcoming third album via Columbia Records. The album will include his latest single “Two 10s” and also previous single “Stacy,” which have accumulated over 45 million streams to date collectively. His previous releases include his debut album, The Story of Us, which was led by the standout RIAA Certified Gold single “Straightjacket.” He followed with his sophomore album From Michigan With Love in early 2019, which features collaborations with Jon Bellion, Elohim, Yoshi Flower, Noah Kahan, Ashe and Louis Futon and serves as a deeper dive into who he is as an artist, while therapeutically unleashing his inner thoughts and battles with anxiety and mental health into his music.
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE TOUR DATES:
July 21 – Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory *
July 24 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre *
July 25 – Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park *
July 28 – Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion *
July 30 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center *
July 31 – Boston, MA @ Xfinity Center *
August 1 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion *
August 2 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater *
August 4 – Toronto, ON @ RBC Echo Beach *
August 5 – Detroit, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill *
August 6 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center *
August 8 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island ~
August 9 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center *
August 10 – St. Louis, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park *
August 13 – Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center –
August 14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre *
August 18 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre *
August 20 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre *
August 22 – Portland, OR @ Sunlight Supply Amphitheater *
August 23 – Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheater *
* with AJR, Quinn XCII, Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers and Ashe
~ with AJR, Quinn XCII and Ashe
– with AJR and Ashe
Will Ferrell Explains the Tiara He Wore in a High School Picture
The comedian stars alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus in “Downhill,” a film about a family ski trip that was shot in the Austrian Alps.
Pearl Jam’s New Single ‘Superblood Wolfmoon’ Can Be Heard By … Pointing To The Moon?
POWSTER—an award-winning interactive creative studio/production company for over 150 movie distributors and multi-GRAMMY Award-winning band Pearl Jam join forces for the launch of the single “Superblood Wolfmoon,” from the upcoming Pearl Jam album “Gigaton.” Beginning February 13, 2020, through the single’s release date on February 18, listeners can launch an immersive experience to get an exclusive sneak peek of the song and music video.
The creative team at POWSTER developed this concept to celebrate Pearl Jam’s highly anticipated 11th studio album, Gigaton, scheduled to be released on March 27, 2020. Using interactive technology through a proprietary Pearl Jam web app, fans can point their mobile phone camera at the moon, which will trigger on-screen animations around and over the moon, timed with a preview of Superblood Wolfmoon and an in-app option to pre-order the song.
POWSTER employed cutting-edge technology and immersive storytelling to create this activation, drawing Pearl Jam fans to face the moon and enjoy the artistic value and lunar inspiration of the new single. Once the mobile phone camera tracks the moon, AR technology creates an artistic depiction of the Superblood Wolfmoon on-screen, imitating a red lunar eclipse. This unlocks a preview of the single that plays while the red moon expands and sketched rays scatter outwards while animated band members appear around the enlarged moon and perform.
The Superblood Wolfmoon experience is available on all Android and iOS-enabled devices with a camera, and can be accessed at moon.pearljam.com.