1500 people gathered in Brisbane’s Tivoli club to perform Backstreet Boys’ 90s classic I Want It That Way, under the direction of Astrid Jorgensen of Pub Choir.
“Enter Sandman” sung in 20 styles
Musician Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs performs Metallica’s Enter Sandman in 20 different musical styles.
Jason Isbell and Father John Misty Are Going Out On Tour And 2019 Just Got THAT Much Better
For the first time, critically acclaimed, award-winning artists Father John Misty and Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit will co-headline a national tour that will run throughout June. The tour will begin on June 5th in San Diego, with stops that include Berkeley, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Dallas and Houston before wrapping up in Tulsa, OK on June 29th. Support for these dates will come from Jade Bird (June 6th-25th) and Erin Rae (June 27th-29th). See a full list of tour dates below.
Four-time Grammy Award winner, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit are touring in support of their album The Nashville Sound (winner of Grammys for Best Americana and Best American Roots Song for “If We Were Vampires”) and the highly praised live set Live From The Ryman. Isbell has become one the most respected songwriters of his generation, with a penchant for articulating some of our deepest human emotions and creating poignant narratives inspired by the working class. Together with the mighty 400 Unit – Derry deBorja (keyboards), Chad Gamble (drums), Jimbo Hart (bass), Sadler
Vaden (guitar) and Amanda Shires (fiddle) – they have become one of the strongest live acts on the road today.
Father John Misty is currently supporting God’s Favorite Customer, his acclaimed release from 2018. Written largely in New York between summer 2016 and winter 2017, the album reflects on the experience of being caught between the vertigo of heartbreak and the manic throes of freedom. God’s Favorite Customer reveals a bittersweetness and directness in Tillman’s songwriting, without sacrificing any of his wit or taste for the absurd. God’s Favorite Customer earned placement on over 30 “Best Albums of 2018” lists & readers polls including Esquire, KCRW, NME, NPR, PASTE, Pitchfork, Q, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Uncut, Under the Radar, Uproxx, and Village Voice’s “Pazz & Jop.”
Presale tickets for these shows begin Wednesday, February 13th @ 10 am (local). The fan presale code for these shows will be “FJMISBELL.” Tickets will then go on sale to the general public Friday, February 15th @ 10 am (local).
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit / Father John Misty Tour Dates:
June
06 – San Diego, Calif. @ Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater*
07 – Santa Barbara, Calif. @ Santa Barbara Bowl*
08 – Berkeley, Calif. @ Greek Theatre*
09 – Bend, Ore. @ Les Schwab Amphitheater*
11 – Redmond, Wash. @ Marymoor Park Concerts*
14 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ The Armory*
15 – Chicago, Ill. @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island*
16 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ BMO Harris Pavilion*
17 – Detroit, Mich. @ Fox Theatre*
19 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival*
20 – Canandaigua, N.Y. @ Constellations Brands – Marvin Sands Pavilion*
21 – Columbia, Md. @ Merriweather Post Pavilion*
22 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Metropolitan Opera House*
24 – Richmond, Va. @ Altria Theater*
25 – Cary, N.C. @ Booth Amphitheatre*
27 – Irving, Texas @ Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory^
28 – Houston, Texas @White Oak Music Hall – Lawn^
29 – Tulsa, Okla. @ BOK Center^
(* – with Jade Bird)
(^ – with Erin Rae)
Aha! Weezer’s Take On Me video is here! Starring Calpurnia!
Aha! Weezer’s Take On Me video is here! Starring Calpurnia: Finn Wolfhard, Ayla Tesler-Mabe, Malcolm Craig, Jack Anderson.
‘I Am Richard Pryor’ Official Trailer Is Out Now
Trailblazer, comic, icon. Richard Pryor always spoke his truth and opened the doors for countless comics and performers who came after him. ‘I Am Richard Pryor’ comes to the Paramount Network March 15th at 10/9c.
The original documentary series “I Am” is an inside look at the lives of extraordinary individuals as told by the people who knew them best.
Watch The Trailer For New Beatles-Fueled “Yesterday” Movie Directed By Danny Boyle
Yesterday, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become a very big deal. From Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) and Richard Curtis, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and Notting Hill, comes a rock-n-roll comedy about music, dreams, friendship, and the long and winding road that leads to the love of your life.
Jack Malik (Himesh Patel, BBC’s Eastenders) is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie (Lily James, Mama Mia! Here We Go Again). Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that The Beatles have never existed … and he finds himself with a very complicated problem, indeed.
Performing songs by the greatest band in history to a world that has never heard them, and with a little help from his steel-hearted American agent, Debra (Emmy winner Kate McKinnon), Jack’s fame explodes. But as his star rises, he risks losing Ellie — the one person who always believed in him. With the door between his old life and his new closing, Jack will need to get back to where he once belonged and prove that all you need is love. The movie also stars Ed Sheeran, seen suggesting that Jack choose “Hey Dude” as the title for his soaring “new” composition.
Featuring new versions of The Beatles’ most beloved hits, Yesterday is produced by Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (Love Actually, About A Boy, the Bridget Jones series) alongside Matthew James Wilkinson and Bernie Bellew. Curtis and Boyle also produce. Nick Angel and Lee Brazier serve as executive producers.
My Next Read: The Final Days Of EMI: Selling the Pig
The Beatles. The Beach Boys. Blur, Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Kate Bush and Coldplay. EMI was one of the big four record companies, with some of the biggest names in the history of recorded music on its roster. Dominating the music industry for over 100 years, by 2010 EMI Group had reported massive pre-tax losses. The group was divided up and sold in 2011. How could one of the greatest recording companies of the 20th century have ended like this? With interviews from insiders and music industry experts, Eamonn Forde pieces together the tragic end to a financial juggernaut and a cultural institution in forensic detail. The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig is the story of the British recording industry, laid bare in all its hubris and glory.
You can get it here.
Pearl Jam Are Your 2019 Record Store Day Ambassadors
Your 2019 Record Store Day ambassadors are Pearl Jam, producing videos, and also creating some fantastic releases to mark the day, which takes place on April 13. Past ambassadors for Record Store Day have included Run The Jewels, St. Vincent, Metallica, and Dave Grohl.
“Pearl Jam is honored to be Record Store Day’s Ambassador for 2019. Independent record stores are hugely important to me, and have been ever since I was 12 years-old. Before I even really knew what they were — there was a certain feeling of ‘this is a dream come true,’ and it’s a wonderland and there’s so much to learn in here… and it’s still that way. “I always feel a little bit better when I come out of a record store.
Support every independent record store that you can. They’re really a good part of society. Know if you love music, this is the place to find it. And it helps people who work here and that’s important, too. And it kind of takes an effort, you have to look for something that you want; you have to talk to people. I had to talk to people to figure out which Aerosmith record to get first or anything back in the day. It’s a place to learn. It’s a place to have fun. And it’s a place to discover new music.
Come out on Record Store Day, but also make it Record Store Year.”
Hey Rosetta!’s Tom Baker Announces Canadian Tour And New Album, Forever Overhead
At the end of 2017, twelve years after their inception, the multi-award-winning band, Hey Rosetta! went on hiatus, after selling 10,000 tickets to five farewell shows. For the band’s principal songwriter and lead vocalist Tim Baker, this was the start of a new chapter.
On his debut solo album Forever Overhead, Baker warmly welcomes you to it. The first words we hear him sing, on the first single “Dance,” is akin to a toast: “here’s to the other side.” What follows are eleven songs that centre on kinship and show that Baker’s sharp songwriting, the heart of Hey Rosetta!, is as affecting as ever.
When crafting the album, Baker drew from 70s songwriters, like Jackson Browne and Randy Newman, whose music filled his childhood home and from his contemporaries (Feist, Leif Vollebekk, The Barr Brothers). Produced by Marcus Paquin (The National, Local Natives), Forever Overhead blends piano ballads with ebullient folk-rock tracks featuring Liam O’Neill (Suuns), Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), as well as Mishka Stein & Joe Grass (Patrick Watson).
In the album’s opening track “Dance,” Baker moves alongside soft piano chords as buoyant, 70s pop style instrumentation and a piercing guitar riff steadily build, bolstering his words of longing. He sings of connectivity and the tender emotions that are coupled with glances across a gym’s confetti-lined linoleum floor, the air thick with potential. Like Forever Overhead as a whole, Baker brings beauty and hope into listeners’ lives.
Tour Dates:
4/20 St. John’s, NL – Holy Heart Theatre
4/23 Toronto, ON – Great Hall
4/26 Ottawa, ON – Bronson Centre
4/27 Quebec City, QC – Maelstrom
4/29 Fredericton, NB -Wilmot United Church
4/30 Moncton, NB – Tide and Boar Ballroom
5/2 Charlottetown, PE – ECMAs
5/4 Halifax, NS – St. Matthew’s United Church
5/7 Montreal, QC -Le Ministère
5/8 NYC, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
5/29 Edmonton, AB – The Starlite
5/30 Calgary, AB – Commonwealth
6/1 Vancouver, BC – Imperial
6/3 Seattle, WA – Columbia City Theater
6/4 Portland, OR – Old Church
6/7 Los Angeles, CA – Hotel Cafe
6/8 San Francisco, CA – Hotel Utah
FOREVER OVERHEAD Track Listing:
1) Dance
2) All Hands
3) Hideaway
4) Spirit
5) Strange River
6) The Eighteenth Hole
7) Two Mirrors
8) Pools
9) The Sound of the Machines
10) Our Team
11) Don’t Let Me Go Yet
A Brief History of Guitar Distortion
Polyphonic takes us through the blues and rock scenes from the 1940s to the 1980s to look at the invention and evolution of the electric guitar distortion. The ’90s could have been its own video, I know.