“Should you be penalized for giving people joy? Screw ’em. Do what you want.” Truer words have never been spoken.
Long John Silver’s Launches Record Label, Issues Audio Coupons for Lent
Long John Silver’s is offering more than just tasty seafood this Lent season. The nation’s largest quick-service seafood restaurant company is now offering — one could say — dinner and a show for its most loyal followers. The company recently launched its own record label, Fish Yeah! Records, and signed the DC-native “surfgaze” band, the Coral Benders, just in time for the busy, fish fest season of Lent.
In celebration of the new venture, Long John Silver’s is today releasing audio coupons for stores nationwide. The coupons can be redeemed by playing one of the ocean-themed songs by The Coral Benders from the freshman record dropped on #NewMusicFridays on Soundcloud.
New songs from the freshman album, complemented by original artwork, are announced via Twitter, can be heard on Soundcloud each Friday, and will be trailed by a new audio coupon the following week.
Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan Releases “Chip Away” And Announces May 31st Release For Solo Album “TENDERNESS”
Guns N’ Roses bassist and New York Times bestselling author DUFF McKAGAN has released “Chip Away,” a new track from his much-anticipated solo album, TENDERNESS ahead of its May 31st release.
“‘Chip Away’ is somewhat of a rail against cable news and divisive agendas…all for the almighty dollar,” says McKagan. “The song also highlights the fact that history repeats itself over and over, and that we will all get past this, together.”
The full track listing for TENDERNESS is as follows:
“Tenderness”
“It’s Not Too Late”
“Wasted Heart”
“Falling Down”
“Last September”
“Chip Away”
“Cold Outside”
“Feel”
“Breaking Rocks”
“Parkland”
“Don’t Look Behind You”
Also available for pre-order is a special limited edition TENDERNESS deluxe book, which includes the album on 180-gram yellow & red starburst vinyl, the CD, and features an exclusive lithograph signed and numbered by McKagan. The hard cover book contains 40-pages of photos from the recording sessions and also presents liner notes written by Duff detailing his experiences with each song and the project as a whole. The vinyl features 10 tracks and a unique sequence carefully selected by McKagan and the album’s GRAMMY-winning producer Shooter Jennings, while the CD includes 11 tracks.
TENDERNESS sees McKagan reflecting on his experiences traveling the globe over two and a half years on Guns N’ Roses’ Not In This Lifetime tour. Encountering heartbreak, anger, fear, confusion and divide on his travels during this tumultuous time in our world history, McKagan channeled a collective hurt into songs of monolithic power.
“We’re becoming divided at a time when we need each other most,” says McKagan. “When huge industries get replaced because of modernization, it’s time to retrain and bolster up those who get swept aside. Homelessness and drug addiction are avoidable in this country if we come together and get private and public cogs turning together in a positive direction. We can at least try to tackle mental illness while we’re at it. But alas, we stump and lie, point fingers and divide. We’re way better than this. As a father, I must say and do something now because I love my girls and my wife, and I love my country, and I feel I must be strong and use my voice now, do it while I’m able or perhaps never get a chance ever again.”
McKagan and Jennings began recording Tenderness a year ago this month, working out of Station House studios, located in Echo Park, CA, where they wrote and recorded in-between McKagan’s tour with seminal rock band Guns N’ Roses and the release of Jennings’ eponymous album, Shooter. TENDERNESS features Jennings and his band along with appearances by The Waters and The Suicide Horn Section (which features Duff’s brother Matt McKagan on trombone), amongst others.
Twelve months later, they’re gearing up to take these songs on the road for a North American tour that kicks off May 30at TLA in Philadelphia. Prior to the tour’s launch, Los Angeles-based fans can catch McKagan and Jennings discussing the album and giving a special performance at the GRAMMY Museum in downtown LA.
Duff McKagan 2019 U.S. Tour
May 30 — Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
May 31 — Washington, DC @ City Winery
June 1 — Boston, MA @ City Winery
June 3 — New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
June 6 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
June 8 — Nashville, TN @ The Cannery
June 10 — Austin, TX @ Scoot Inn
June 13 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
June 14 — San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
June 15 — Portland, OR @ Aladdin
June 16 — Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Santana, Jay-Z Headline Woodstock 50 Festival
Woodstock 50 Music and Arts Fair announced the official lineup of its three-day 50th anniversary celebration today, with more than 80 musical acts. Taking place on its 50th anniversary weekend, Aug. 16-18, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. The most iconic music festival in American history is bringing peace, love and music back for a new generation of fans. Woodstock 50’s lineup reflects its mission –uniting people in a shared experience with great artists and encouraging active support of equality, inclusion and a shared sustainable future.
Legacy acts, in addition to original Woodstock ’69 icons Santana and Dead & Company, include Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters, David Crosby and Friends, John Fogerty, Canned Heat, Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian and Melanie.
Scheduled on Aug. 16, Friday: The Killers, Miley Cyrus, The Lumineers, The Raconteurs, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, Run The Jewels, The Head and The Heart, Maggie Rogers, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bishop Briggs, Anderson East, Akon, Princess Nokia, Grandson, Fever 333, Larkin Poe, Dorothy, Flora Cash, Brian Cadd, Ninet Tayeband more.
Scheduled on Aug. 17, Saturday: Chance The Rapper, The Black Keys, Sturgill Simpson, Greta Van Fleet, Portugal. The Man, Leon Bridges, Gary Clark Jr., Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Dawes, Margo Price, Nahko And Medicine For The People, India.Arie, Jade Bird, Rival Sons, Emily King, Soccer Mommy, SiR, Taylor Bennett, Amy Helm, Courtney Hadwin, Pearl, John-Robert, IAMDDB. and more.
Scheduled on Aug. 18, Sunday: Jay-Z, Imagine Dragons, Halsey, Cage the Elephant, Brandi Carlile, Janelle Monáe, Young the Giant, Courtney Barnett, Common, Vince Staples, Judah and The Lion, Earl Sweatshirt, Boygenius, Reignwolf, The Zombies, Pussy Riot, Cherry Glazerr, Leven Kali, The Marcus King Band, Victory, Hollis Brown, John Craigie, Amigo The Devil, Liz Brasher and more.
“We’ve lined up artists who won’t just entertain but will remind the world that music has the power to bring people together, to heal, to move us to action and to tell the stories of a generation,” said Michael Lang, co-founder and producer of the 1969 and 2019 Woodstock festivals. “Our hope is that today, just as in 1969, music will be the constant that can inspire positive change.”
Woodstock 50 also announced the lineup of some of its nonprofit cause partners addressing issues that impact all generations.
- Conservation International has been protecting nature for 30 years. Today it continues its work to build a healthier more prosperous and productive planet through science, policy and partnerships with countries, communities and companies.
- Dolphin Project is dedicated to the welfare and protection of dolphins worldwide, and aims to educate the public about captivity, and where feasible, retire and/or release captive dolphins.
- Felix Organization provides inspiring opportunities and new experiences to enrich the lives of children who are growing up in the foster care system.
- Happy Hippie Foundation rallies young people to find injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations.
- HeadCount is a non-partisan organization that works with musicians to promote participation in democracy by staging voter registration drives at concerts.
- Hiring America is dedicated to helping veterans find jobs – providing valuable information to help ease the transition for veterans entering the civilian workforce.
- March For Our Lives was started by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., with a mission to end gun violence.
- REFORM Alliance exists to dramatically reduce the number of people who are unjustly under the control of the criminal justice system.
- Seva Foundation is a global eye care organization that transforms lives and strengthens communities by restoring sight and preventing blindness.
- SocialWorks aims to empower youth through the arts, education, and civic engagement while fostering leadership, accessibility, and positivity within Chicago.
Lang shared that the festival will also include highly curated neighborhoods that celebrate unique experiences in all the arts – including emerging talent, specialty food offerings, workshops and crafts – as well as a dedicated “Kidstock” area.
Tickets to this once-in-a-lifetime event will go on sale on Earth Day, April 22.
Can’t Be In Miami For ULTRA Music Festival? Tune Into SiriusXM For Live Broadcast
SiriusXM announced today that for the 15th consecutive year, it will broadcast live from ULTRA Music Festival, the world famous outdoor electronic dance music festival, beginning Friday, March 29. ULTRA Music Festival will take place this year at an all new and larger festival grounds at Virginia Key on Biscayne Bay in Miami.
SiriusXM listeners will hear live DJ sets from The Chainsmokers, Marshmello, Tiësto, Afrojack, Nicky Romero and others all weekend long. SiriusXM’s “UMF Radio” channel will launch on Tuesday, March 26 at 12:00 pm ET and will air through Monday, April 1 via satellite on channel 51, and through the SiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.
SiriusXM also announced that it will kick off Miami Music Week with live broadcasts for the first time ever from the 34thannual Winter Music Conference at the Faena District (WMC). The live programming will offer listeners an insider look at the WMC festivities through artist interviews and DJ performances.
Additionally, SiriusXM will broadcast its 3rd annual House of Chill live from the Faena Hotel Miami Beach on Wednesday, March 27 at 4:00 pm ET on SiriusXM’s “UMF Radio.” This year’s House of Chill will feature exclusive downtempo performances from AMTRAC, Conro, SG Lewis and other surprise guests. SiriusXM will also broadcast the 33rd annual International Dance Music Awards after-party, live from The Faena Theater featuring DJ sets from MK, ILLENIUM and more. The live broadcast from the IDMA after-party will air on Thursday, March 28 from 9:30 pm ET – 12:00 am ET on SiriusXM’s “UMF Radio.”
After ULTRA Music Festival, SiriusXM’s “UMF Radio” channel will feature highlights from this year’s festival and will be available through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.
UMF Radio is also a weekly show on SiriusXM’s Diplo’s Revolution channel. The two-hour weekly show features a mix of the genre’s most prominent and up-and-coming artists. UMF Radio airs Saturdays from 6:00—8:00 pm ET.
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus Is Coming To Theaters In April
ABKCO Films in collaboration with Screenvision Media, a national leader in cinema advertising, announced today ticket availability for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. Theatre screenings for the iconic 1968 concert show will take place April 1, 3, 4, and 5 in select theatres nationwide, including markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas. Fans can purchase tickets at www.rockandrollcircusthefilm.com.
The live concert special’s restoration has been sourced from the 35mm internegative and will be presented in both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound. The Dolby Vision laser projection system delivers astonishing brightness, incomparable contrast, and captivating color that more closely matches what the human eye can see. Dolby Atmos places and moves sounds anywhere in the Dolby Cinema, including overhead, to make audiences feel they are truly attending The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. Together, Dolby Cinema’s combination of powerful image and sound technologies creates an engaging, multi-sensorial cinema, and concert, experience for viewers.
Through 2019 technology, the audience is whisked back to 1968. The 4K restoration beautifully captures and recreates this historic event, creating a truly unique and immersive experience that fans won’t be able to get anywhere else.
Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was originally conceived as a BBC-TV special and was filmed before a live London audience in 1968. The film centers around the original lineup of The Rolling Stones—Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and Billy Wyman—who serve as the show’s hosts and featured attraction. It stars the band performing fan favorite classics like “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, as well as extraordinary live performances by The Who, Jethro Tull, and more.
This performance marks the first musical concert in which John Lennon performed before an audience outside The Beatles, as part of supergroup The Dirty Mac, which also included music legends Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Mitch Mitchell. The Rolling Stone Rock and Roll Circus is also the only time Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath performed with Jethro Tull, and the last time Brian Jones would perform with The Rolling Stones in front of an audience.
Don Cherry’s Meditative, Inventive 1975 Album ‘Brown Rice’ Reissued On Vinyl
Out of print in the U.S. for more than four decades, Don Cherry’s meditative, inventive outsider jazz classic, Brown Rice, is available on vinyl once again as of today via Verve/UMe. The Corrado Baccheli-produced album is pressed on standard weight black vinyl and housed in a replica sleeve with original liner notes from acclaimed jazz critic Stanley Crouch.
Brown Rice contains the apogee of Cherry’s influences: African, Indian, Arabic and American music are all thrown into the same psychedelic stew. This inventive combinative MO was a resting state for Cherry. Taught at the feet of avant-garde saxophonist Ornette Coleman, the trumpeter accelerated quickly into the unknown.
He recorded with Coleman, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders and the New York Contemporary Five — and helmed free jazz classics like 1961’s The Avant-Garde (with Coltrane), 1965’s Complete Communion and 1971’s Orient. Where those albums were fiery and provocative, Brown Rice is a subtler, more accessible listen — without losing an ounce of Cherry’s experimentation.
The title track is all disembodied whispers and yawps of saxophone noise; electric pianist Ricky Cherry grounds the eerie vibe with a hypnotic motif. “Malkauns” pits Charlie Haden’s bluesy upright bass against Moki Cherry’s tamboura drone — until the two are joined by drummer Billy Higgins and burst into a frenetic, serpentine dance. On “Chenrezig” and “Degi-Degi,” he dug into thrumming Middle Eastern pulses — and transcended “world music” in favor of a borderless musical language. As Stanley Crouch begins his liner notes: “There is joy laced with confidence in this music, and sadness, or pathos, that is as much connected to the Blues as it is to the huge yearning of that sound in Eastern music.”
The result is a wonderful entryway into the work of Cherry — whose revolutionary approach looms large in the jazz world. Notably, “Chenrezig” was recorded by Michael Mantler, the Austrian trumpeter who brought Cherry’s cross-cultural fusions into his work for ECM Records. Cherry’s children and stepchildren, Eagle-Eye Cherry, David Ornette Cherry, Christian Cherry, Neneh Cherry and Titio have made waves in the jazz, hip-hop and alternative rock spheres.
Brown Rice has been unavailable on vinyl in the US since 1977, but those interested in the outer limits of American music can now own a far-out classic once again. Whether you’re a student or an uninitiated musical seeker, it’s never been easier to get lost in the poignant cries of Cherry.
Brown Rice Track Listing
Side A
1. Brown Rice
2. Malkauns
Side B
1. Chenrezig
2. Degi-Degi
Photo Gallery: The Interrupters with Masked Intruder at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall
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Announcing Carl Palmer’s Prog-Rock Camp Featuring Master Classes, Workshops, And Performances
World famous drummer/musician Carl Palmer will be hosting a musical learning experience for drummers, guitarists, bassists, keyboardists and vocalists called Carl Palmer’s Prog-Rock Camp. Featuring Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy and very special guests guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-Guns N Roses; Sons Of Apollo) and Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater, Alice Cooper, Sons Of Apollo), the camp will run for 3 days in Philadelphia and allow the attendees to learn first hand from some of rock’s greatest musical icons.
“This camp will be a special dream come true for me,” says Carl Palmer, who has spent many years as an educator and demonstrator of advanced percussion. “It is not designed to be a ‘fantasy’ event, but rather, a complete three day educational adventure for those who really want to improve and advance their musical craft. Of course, fans who want to take in the experience, are welcomed, as well. This is a chance to sit one on one with some of the contemporary musical greats and learn.”
The Camp will begin on Friday, November 8th and will include three days of events, and the cost is $1,399 and includes all events, classes, concert, meals, parking, and hotel lodging. A deposit is required at registration, which will cap at 100 campers. You can go here to register.
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Nelly, TLC And Flo Rida Announce Summer Amphitheater Tour
Music icons Nelly, TLC, and Flo Rida have announced they will be hitting the road together for an epic tour across North America. The Billboard chart-topping hitmakers will join forces to bring a show like no other to outdoor amphitheater stages all summer long. Fans can expect an incredible, non-stop party with each artist delivering hit after hit all night long.
Produced by Live Nation, the 21-city outing will kick off July 23 in Tuscaloosa, AL at Tuscaloosa Amphitheater and make stops in Atlanta, Toronto, Detroit, Austin and more before wrapping August 31 in Irvine, CA at FivePoint Amphitheatre.
Nelly, TLC and Flo Rida 2019 Tour Dates:
Jul 23 — Tuscaloosa, Ala. @ Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Jul 24 — Atlanta, Ga. @ Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood
Jul 26 — Charlotte, N.C. @ PNC Music Pavilion
Jul 27 — Raleigh, N.C. @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park
Jul 30 — Bristow, Va. @ Jiffy Lube Live
Jul 31 — Virginia Beach, Va. @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
Aug 1 — Wantagh, N.Y. @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
Aug 3 — Gilford, N.H. @ Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
Aug 7 — Toronto, Ont. @ Budweiser Stage
Aug 8 — Pittsburgh, Pa. @ KeyBank Pavilion
Aug 9 — Bethel, N.Y. @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Aug 11 — Boston, Mass. @ The Xfinity Center
Aug 15 — Cleveland, Ohio @ Blossom Music Center
Aug 17 — Detroit, Mich. @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug 18 — Chicago, Ill. @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*
Aug 20 — Rogers, Ariz. @ The Walmart AMP
Aug 22 — Austin, Tex. @ Austin360 Amphitheater
Aug 23 — Houston, Tex. @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Aug 27 — El Paso, Tex. @ Don Haskins Center
Aug 30 — Mountain View, Calif. @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
Aug 31 — Irvine, Calif. @ FivePoint Amphitheatre
* — Does not include Flo Rida