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Cat Power Shares “Horizon” Video, Announces Fall North American Headline Tour

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Wanderer, the 2018 album from Cat Power, delivers a highlight in “Horizon”, the gorgeous emotional centerpiece of the record. Today, Cat Power, a.k.a. the singer, songwriter, and musician Chan Marshall, is pleased to share the video for the song.

Directed by Greg Hunt, who has helmed all four Wanderer videos, it was shot in NYC and LA and features a cast of Marshall’s friends and loved ones.

In tandem with the video’s release, Cat Power announces a fall US headline tour, with dates spanning the East and West coasts. This new tour takes place following a summer of European and UK appearances, including a Hyde Park show on July 12th with Neil Young and Bob Dylan.

The new album Wanderer marked the return of a beloved American voice, with the New York Times exalting Marshall as “too vibrant a songwriter, with too extraordinary a voice”. Accolades from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, the New Yorker, NPR, New York Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly followed, along with appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Live From Here with Chris Thile, and Song Exploder. Sold-out tours across America, Europe and Australia followed, with consensus on Marshall appearing in the best form of her singular career.

Cat Power Tour Dates

June 27 – Oxford, UK – O2 Academy Oxford
June 28 – Shepton Mallet, UK – Glastonbury Festival
June 29 – Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – Siren’s Call Music & Culture Festival
July 1 – Lille, France – Théâtre Sébastopol
July 2 – Montreux, Switzerland – Montreux Jazz Festival
July 4 – Paris, France – Festival Days Off
July 5 – Lyon, France – Festival Les Nuits de Fourvière
July 6 – Brugge, Belgium – Cactus Festival
July 7 – Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France – Festival Beauregard
July 9 – Cologne, Germany – Live Music Hall
July 10 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
July 12 – London, UK – Hyde Park London *
July 13 – Madrid, Spain – Mad Cool Festival
July 15 – Munich, Germany – Backstage Werk
July 16 – Lorrach, Germany – Stimmen Festival
July 18 – Lisbon, Portugal – Super Bock Super Rock
July 19 – Luzern, Switzerland – Blue Balls Festival
July 21 – Suffolk, UK – Latitude Festival
Aug 17 – Santa Barbara, CA – Lobero Theatre
Sept 12 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live
Sept 13 – Tampa, FL – The RITZ Ybor
Sept 14 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham
Sept 16 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Sept 17 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground at the Fillmore Charlotte
Sept 18 – Charlottesville, VA – The Jefferson Theater
Sept 20 – Northampton, MA – Academy of Music Theatre
Sept 21 – Asbury Park, NJ – Sea.Hear.Now Festival
Sept 22 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
Sept 24 – Boston, MA – ROYALE
Sept 25 – Washington, DC – The Lincoln Theatre
Sept 27 – Niagara Falls, NY – The Rapids Theatre
Sept 28 – Ithaca, NY – State Theatre of Ithaca
Oct 25 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater
Oct 26 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center
Oct 28 – Vancouver, BC – The Commodore Ballroom
Oct 29 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
Oct 30 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
Nov 1 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
* w/ Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and others

New Pandora Student and Military Plans Offer Premium Features at Special Discounted Rates

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In terms of value, I think personalized, on-demand Pandora Premium at $9.99/month is already right up there with unlimited breadsticks (and a subscription to SiriusXM, of course), and starting today, those Premium features are even more affordable for qualified students and military members.

The Pandora Student Plan offers full Pandora Premium features for just $4.99/month, with a 60-day free trial. That’s 50% off the regular price for students on a budget who still want to listen to the music they want, whenever they want, ad-free, on or offline, with customizable playlists that always kick the party (or, uh…study group?) into high gear.

The Pandora Military Plan offers the same Premium features to those with qualified military status (including active duty, reservists, retirees, veterans, and military family) for just $7.99/month, with a 60-day free trial. Pandora salutes those who serve, and who have served, and are proud to count our active military, vets, and families among our millions of listeners.

Qualified students and military can click the links above to start their 60-day free trial and discounted Premium plans now! And don’t forget our Pandora Premium Family Plan: all Premium subscription benefits for up to six family members under one billing account for just $14.99/month.

Cage the Elephant reject the responsibility of keeping rock and roll alive

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Author: Jorge Costa

‘Social Cues’ is the newly released album of the Kentucky band Cage the Elephant. Launched on the 19th of April, the collection is available on Spotify already, and it counts with a special participation of Beck, featured on the song Night Running. The track has already its own videoclip, published on Youtube last week , where Matt Shultz and the gang get into a retro themed trip with the iconic Los Angeles musician.

Cage the Elephant have been hitting the rock charts pretty hard during the last decade, but this album confirms a tendency to move away from that label. Since 2008, they have achieved first place in the Billboard Alternative Songs for eight times, same number of times of U2 and just behind Red-Hot Chili Peppers, Linkin Park, Green Day and Foo Fighters.

However, the leadman Matt Shultz, on an interview to Uproxx, one week before the album release, rejected the duties of keeping the rock spirit alive. Asked whether they would keep their traditions of classic rock or move away, just like Arctic Monkeys did on their last album Tranquility Hotel and Casino, Matt already hinted on the possibilities of going into a path of their own.

“We think about things much more based in each song and much more on a level of character”, he said. “But we try to pull away from anything that is persona-based, and I mean rooted in rock stardom or rock and roll or hip-hop or any of those words you might associate with a genre”. He admitted the band is more focused “on the specifics, like the communitive properties of songwriting”.

According to Shultz, the band is not keen on being attached with the “rock and roll” label and they are eager to experiment and do their own thing, based also on the opportunities that technology offers to musicians.

The voice of the ‘Elephants’ believes that people “forget the versatility of several instrumentalists composing together”. “You don’t have to be tied down to those confines. I’m just really excited with all the new software that’s emerging, all the new technology and instruments, and the ideas of approach”.

Further in the interview, Matt assumed one of his influences is the iconic legacy of David Bowie. “It was so incredible that he was entrenched in the avant-garde mediums and styles but was very aware of what was happening in contemporary culture”, he confesses.

Nonetheless, after four years, the Elephants are loose again and, although, the composition happened around the same time of Matt Shultz’s divorce from model Juliette Bechs, don’t expect a melancholic compilation reminiscing on the past. ‘Social Cues’ has somewhat of a sci-fi influence, with part being inspired by the film collection of John Carpenter, specially focusing on Halloween and its villain Mike Myers.

Still, the album does have some pieces that reflect Matt’s state of mind after the divorce, like in the song ‘Goodbye’, a ballad that the artist wrote for his wife, after their seven-year marriage came to an end. He recognized that “there was a fair amount of self-medication and intense isolation”, but he is happy to be able to get back on the right tracks.

The new collection has been getting mixed reviews from the critics, with Independent and Rolling Stone saying this is the best work of the band so far, while the website The Line of Best Fit says the album is a tasteless experience and an easily forgotten album. So far though, it holds a 75% rating on Metacritic.

This is the fifth studio album of the band and the successor of ‘Tell me I’m pretty’, from 2015, who brought successes such as “Cold Cold Cold” and “Trouble”. Other songs that became highly popular were “Cigarrete Daydreams” and “Come a Little Closer”, from “Melophobia” (2013), along with “Ain’t no rest for the wicked” and “Back against the wall”, included in their self-titled first album (2008).

Besides the vocalist Matt Shultz, the band is composed with his older brother Brad (guitar and keyboards), Jared Champion (drums), Daniel Tichenor (bass and backing vocals), Matthan Minster (piano and keyboards) and Nick Bockrath (guitar). Until 2013 Lincoln Parish was also a guitarist for the band, when he left to become a producer on his own.

 

 

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME – Official Trailer

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Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.

Tail Winds Music Festival To Feature Rock Greats Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Black Stone Cherry, Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime, King’s X, & Sass Jordan

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If you are a rock fan and live nearby Wappingers Falls, New York, then Saturday, June 29th is a date you will want to leave open – it is the day that the 2019 edition of the Tail Winds Music Fest will take place at Hudson Valley Regional Airport. The all-day event will feature headliner Chris Robinson Brotherhood, with additional sets by the likes of Black Stone Cherry, Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime, King’s X, and Sass Jordan.

General admission tickets are priced at $65, and a VIP experience is also available for $165 (tickets for kids twelve years of age and under will be $25) – very affordable prices indeed for such renowned rock acts. Tickets are available for purchase via tailwindsmusicfest.com.

And the artists are very much looking forward to rocking that day, as recently told to Chris Alo from More Sugar Music Magazine…

CHRIS ROBERTSON (BLACK STONE CHERRY)
Man, two bands I have always wanted to see my whole life was Kings X and The Black Crowes. To be on the bill and sandwiched between Kings X and The Chris Robinson Brotherhood is just amazing. Kings X, they are one of the greatest groove rock and roll bands of all time, in my opinion. They have just a massive sound, what they get out of three people is just amazing. I am a huge fan of Chris Robinson and just everything that he has done. It’s awesome and overwhelming to be on the bill with such amazing artists. We are just excited to be coming up to play this festival. We are excited about playing with some artists that we have never got the chance to play with before. We hope everyone at the festival accepts us and has a great time.

SASS JORDAN
Some of my old buddies in Geoff Tate’s Operation Mindcrime are playing the Tailwinds Music Festival. I haven’t seen them since I toured with them in 2014. I’ve met Chris Robinson before and I know Doug from Kings X, but I haven’t seen him in about a thousand years. I’m really looking forward to this show, I think it’s an awesome cause and I think it will be just a great show. I do hope that a lot of people come out to the show and that everyone can hang out and that we have a fantastic party. That’s what it’s all about, we are there to celebrate life. I’m assuming I will be on first because I’m the least famous of the lot, I think. So, I will be on early and then I’m going to watch the rest of the show, so then I can have a few drinks with everyone.

GEOFF TATE
I’m definitely looking forward to the show, I haven’t seen Sass Jordan since she toured with us and sang on “Suite Sister Mary”. I know King’s X for sure and I haven’t done a show with Chris Robinson in a long time. Queensryche did a big Monsters of Rock show in Europe with AC/DC and Metallica, Black Crowes was the opening band. I haven’t seen him since then.

JERRY GASKILL (KING’S X)
Oh yeah, I am looking forward to it. I always look forward to doing festivals and playing new things like that. It will be our first weekend after we record our new album. Really? Wow, I really would have never guessed that [concerning Chris Robertson’s admiration of King’s X], I like those guys too. I’m always honored by that sort of thing. It’s a beautiful thing to think that people that I look up to could turn around and look up to me as well. It’s a pretty great thing to be a part of. I don’t think we have ever done a show with any of these other artists. Sass Jordan has covered one of our songs. There’s a video somewhere of her playing “Summerland”. I have done a few cruises with Geoff Tate, just him, not the whole band. That’s always fun.

Hosted by CM-MC Festivals, Inc., the Tail Winds Music Fest is presented by iHeartMedia and Z93FM at the Hudson Valley Regional Airport located at 263 New Hackensack Road in Wappingers Falls, New York. The impressive 40’ main stage sits alongside the runway, and will feature additional performances by Big Guns, The PlayBack and Jason Gisser Band, with gates opening at 11 am.

There will also be a variety of food trucks, craft beer breweries (as well as other beverage vendors), sponsor displays, tent alley, helicopter rides, mobile lockers, vendors and activities for all attendees to take part throughout the day such as cornhole. An exciting addition like no other is the Exclusive VIP Experience, which includes a one-of-a-kind hospitality lounge, world renowned all you can eat buffet and a VIP private viewing area.

The 5,000+ music fans will have an amazing experience all while raising money for a very important cause!

Nick Jonas, Kelly Clarkson, And Pitbull Revealed Which Songs They Wished They Never Recorded

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Nick Jonas, Kelly Carkson, and Pitbull from the upcoming movie “UglyDolls” sit down to talk about their first embarrassing moments, first red carpets, and even which songs from their own discographies would be the first to get the axe.

blink-182 Announce North American Summer Tour

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Multi-platinum and Grammy nominated band blink-182 announced they’ll be hitting the road on tour across North America this summer. Special guest Neck Deep will join on all dates and Canada’s own Simple Plan will also support in Toronto. Produced by Live Nation, the massive 38-city outing will kick off June 27th in Columbus, OH and make stops in Toronto, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, and more before wrapping September 16th in Cincinnati, OH. The tour will see the band playing indoors and outdoors in arenas and amphitheaters across the U.S. and Canada all summer long.

Fans can expect a tour like no other from the band who has both defined and defied the pop punk genre over the past two decades. They have seen incredible success in their long-lasting career with the astonishing number of awards, multi-platinum albums and singles and #1 songs – a testament to their long standing and loyal fan base.

Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, May 10th at 12pm local time at LiveNation.com

blink-182 North American Tour Dates:

DATE CITY VENUE
Thu Jun 27 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
Sat Jun 29 Hartford, CT XFINITY Theatre
Sun Jun 30 Atlantic City, NJ Vans Warped Tour
Mon Jul 01 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Wed Jul 03 Indianapolis, IN Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
Fri Jul 05 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium*
Sat Jul 06 Burgettstown, PA KeyBank Pavilion
Sun Jul 07 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage
Tue Jul 09 Holmdel, NJ P.N.C. Bank Arts Center
Wed Jul 10 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
Thu Jul 11 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
Sat Jul 13 Bangor, ME Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion
Tue Jul 16 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
Wed Jul 17 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Amphitheatre
Sat Jul 20 Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
Sun Jul 21 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
Tue Jul 23 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
Thu Jul 25 West Palm Beach, FL Coral Sky Amphitheatre
Fri Jul 26 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sat Jul 27 Atlanta, GA Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood
Mon Jul 29 Jacksonville, FL Daily’s Place
Wed Jul 31 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Thu Aug 01 Austin, TX Austin360 Amphitheater
Fri Aug 02 Dallas, TX The Dos Equis Pavilion
Sun Aug 04 El Paso, TX Don Haskins Center
Mon Aug 05 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
Wed Aug 07 San Diego, CA North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
Thu Aug 08 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
Tue Aug 27 Irvine, CA FivePoint Amphitheatre
Fri Aug 30 Portland, OR Sunlight Supply Amphitheater
Sat Aug 31 Seattle, WA White River Amphitheatre
Mon Sep 02 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
Wed Sep 04 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Fri Sep 06 Wichita, KS Hartman Arena
Sat Sep 07 Council Bluffs, IA Stir Cove
Sun Sep 08 Kansas City, MO Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
Tue Sep 10 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Fri Sept 13 Chicago, IL Riot Fest
Sat Sep 14 St. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Mon Sep 16 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center

Nick Cave Announces New North American Dates For “Conversations With…” Speaking Tour

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Following a short debut run on the East coast early last year, Nick Cave brings his evenings of talk and music back to North America for a full tour.

Having recently taken this special show to sold out venues in Australia & New Zealand, and with a sell out tour of the UK and Europe to come this Spring, Cave will return to North America in the Fall. During this series of music and open discussion events, he will take questions direct from the audience on all manner of subjects and perform some of his most beloved songs on piano.

Described by Cave as “an exercise in connectivity”, no subject is sacred and audiences are encouraged to be bold and challenging, confrontational and unafraid.

The relationship between Cave and his audience has always been open and intense, but deepened during his recent shows with the Bad Seeds, inspiring these unconventional and unique evenings of unfiltered, unscripted and unmoderated Q&A.

“I thought that a direct conversation with the audience might be valuable – in the recent live shows we have all shown a kind of willingness to open up,” says Cave.

Fri Sept 20 The Lincoln Theatre, Washington, DC
Mon Sept 23 Town Hall, New York, NY
Wed Sept 25 Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Fri Sept 27 Eglise Du Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montreal, QC
Sat Sept 28 Convocation Hall, Toronto, ON
Mon Sept 30 Copernicus Center, Chicago, IL
Tue Oct 1 Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
Thu Oct 3 James K. Polk Theater, Nashville, TN
Sun Oct 6 Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater, Austin, TX
Tue Oct 8 Revolution Hall, Portland, OR
Thu Oct 10 Massey Theatre, New Westminster, BC
Fri Oct 11 Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA
Sun Oct 13 Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA
Tue Oct 15 Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

My Next Read: Neil Young’s ‘To Feel the Music: A Songwriter’s Mission to Save High-Quality Audio’

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Neil Young took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music — all music — the way it was meant to be heard.

Today, most of the music fans listen to is streamed via online services and highly compressed. It’s convenient, but, frustratingly, this comes at the cost of quality. Gone are the days when it was technologically necessary to compress music into the smallest possible file size, yet this remains the industry standard.

The result is music that is robbed of its original quality—muddy and flat in sound compared to the rich, warm sound artists hear in the studio. It doesn’t have to be this way, but the record and technology companies have incorrectly assumed that most listeners are satisfied with these low-quality tracks.

Neil Young is challenging the assault on audio quality—and working to free music lovers from the flat and lifeless status quo.

To Feel the Music, out September 10, 2019, is the true story of Neil’s quest to bring high-quality audio back to music lovers—which he considers the most important undertaking of his career. Inside, follow Neil as he discovers the step by step deterioration of recorded sound as analog is methodically replaced by digital CDs, MP3s, and low-price, low-quality streaming; gathers others committed to his goal of delivering music the way artists intend for it to sound; and eventually develops the Neil Young Archives, a high-res streaming site that gives users unprecedented access to all of Neil’s music—in the best quality their devices can handle—videos, photos, and more.

Neil’s efforts to bring quality audio to his fans garnered media attention when his Kickstarter campaign for his Pono player—a revolutionary music player that would combine the highest quality possible with the portability, simplicity and affordability modern listeners crave—became the third-most successful Kickstarter campaign in the website’s history. It had raised more than $6M in pledges in 40 days. Encouraged by the enthusiastic response, Neil still had a long road ahead, and his Pono music player would not have the commercial success he’d imagined. But he remained committed to his mission, and faced with the rise of streaming services that used even lower quality audio, he was determined to rise to the challenge.

An eye-opening read for all fans of Neil Young and all fans of great music, as well as readers interesting in going behind the scenes of product creation, To Feel the Music has an inspiring story at its heart: One determined artist with a groundbreaking vision and the absolute refusal to give up, despite setbacks, naysayers, and skeptics.

You can get it here.

Liz Phair to Release Memoir ‘Horror Stories’ This Fall

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From the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville comes a haunting memoir in stories in the tradition of Patti Smith’s M Train.

When Liz Phair was just starting out in the Wicker Park, Chicago, music scene in the early 1990s, she encountered some people–mostly men, who didn’t respect her and were determined not to see her fail, exactly, because they didn’t care enough about her to wish failure on her–they just wanted her to get out of their space, to disappear. “Girly Sound” was the name of the cassettes she used to pass around in those days, and in 1993 those songs became the landmark album Exile in Guyville, which turned Phair, at twenty-five, into a foul-mouthed feminist icon.

Now, like a Gen X Patti Smith, Liz Phair tells the story of her life and career in a memoir titled Horror Stories about the moments that have haunted her most. Horror is in the eye of the beholder. For Phair, horror is what stays with you–the often unrecognized, universal experiences of daily pain, shame, and fear that make up our common humanity. In Phair’s case it means the dangers of falling for “the perfect guy,” and the disaster that awaits her; the memory of a stranger passed out on a bathroom floor amid a crowd of girls, forcing her to consider our responsibilities to one another, and the gnawing regret of being a bystander; and the profound sense of emptiness she experienced on the set of her first celebrity photoshoot.

Horror Stories is a literary accomplishment, and reads like the confessions of a friend. It is a book that gathers up all of our isolated shames, bringing us together in our shared imperfection, our uncertainty and our cowardice, smashing the stigma of not being in control. But most importantly, Horror Stories is a memoir that asks questions of how we feel about the things that have happened to us, how we cope with regret and culpability, and how we break the spell of those things, leeching them of their power over us. This memoir is an immersive experience, taking readers inside the most intimate moments of Phair’s life. Her fearless prose, wit, and uncompromising honesty transform those deeply personal moments into tales about each and every one of us–that will appeal to both the serious fan and the serious reader.

The book will be released October 8, 2019, and you can get it here.