Greta Van Fleet’s heavy rock sound is said to be heavily influenced by the work of Led Zeppelin although they are mostly influenced by traditional artists from blues, soul, funk and folk music, along with many other rock acts. Lead vocalist Josh Kiszka has a voice that has been compared to Robert Plant’s “husky howl,” says Billboard.
So, here’s Led Zeppelin’s The Wanton Song and Greta Van Fleet’s When the Curtain Falls mashed up together by DJ Cummerbund.
On Friday Billboard premiered Portland, Oregon-based indie pop musician Logan Lynn’s 9th studio record, My Movie Star alongside a new interview about the project, review of the album, and new music video. Read the whole article here.
The 20 song, 2 disc My Movie Star LP was co-produced by Logan Lynn and actor / comedian Jay Mohr (Saturday Night Live, Jerry Maguire) and features collaborations with 80s pop icon Tiffany (I Think We’re Alone Now), alternative rock gods The Dandy Warhols, Australian neo-soul king Jarryd James and dozens of other bands, artists and producers.
In their review of the new album, Billboard writes “For nearly 20 years, dance-pop artist Logan Lynn has made a career out of crafting catchy, disorderly songs that almost all include big beats, fun melodies and cheeky lyrics. But on his latest album, My Movie Star, Lynn has traded in his signature sound for a more somber, melancholy tone — a dynamic new album consisting of Lynn’s new piano-driven songs and filled with remixes and covers by other industry greats.”
Spill Magazine calls Logan Lynn’s My Movie Star “his most intimate work yet…so spare and spellbinding it threatens to stop time entirely. Or at the very least, force you to put that mobile device down and actually listen.” while Innocent Words Magazine writes “Logan Lynn is a modern day Gene Kelly.”
The album is available now on deluxe edition double CD, vinyl and digital download wherever music is streamed and sold. Lynn, who just wrapped up a summer tour raising awareness about mental health on the road with fellow Portland rockers Portugal. The Man, will be touring the U.S. in support of My Movie Star this spring.
The 1975 announced their 2019 tour today. The band will perform in Guadalajara, Mexico on March 20 before kicking off their North American run in Phoenix on April 15. Special guests Pale Waves and No Rome will appear on select dates outlined in the routing below.
Produced by Live Nation, the North Am outing will visit theaters and amphitheaters ending in Toronto on June 3. Tickets are available to the general public starting Friday, October 26 at 10am local time. Mexico is on sale starting Saturday, October 27 at 11am local time.
On November 30th The 1975 will release their third album, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. Watch the new video for “Love It If We Made It” below.
THE 1975 TOUR DATES
Wed March 20 Guadalajara, Mexico Auditorio Telmex
Mon April 15 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre$
Tue April 16 Las Vegas, NV The Joint$
Thu April 25 Seattle, WA WaMu Theater*$
Fri April 26 Vancouver, BC Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre$
Sat April 27 Portland, OR Veterans Memorial Coliseum$
Mon April 29 Orem, UT UCCU Center$
Tue April 30 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre$
Thu May 02 Dallas, TX The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory$
Fri May 03 Austin, TX Austin360 Amphitheater$
Sat May 04 Sugar Land, TX Smart Financial Centre$
Tue May 07 Minneapolis, MN The Armory$
Wed May 08 Chicago, IL United Center$
Sat May 11 Detroit, MI Meadow Brook Amphitheatre$
Sun May 12 Cincinnati, OH PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center$
Tue May 14 Columbus, OH The LC Pavilion$
Wed May 15 Nashville, TN Ascend Ampitheater$
Sat May 18 Atlanta, GA State Bank Ampitheatre at Chastain Park$
Sun May 19 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Metro Credit Union Ampitheatre$
Tue May 21 Washington, DC The Anthem$
Sun June 02 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Amphitheater+
Mon June 03 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage+
$Pale Waves
+No Rome
Since their inception in Melbourne in 1981, Dead Can Dance have been informed by folk traditions from all over Europe, not just solely in terms of instrumentation, but also by secular, religious and spiritual practices.
Their forthcoming album, Dionysus, took shape as Brendan Perry became fascinated by long established spring and harvest festivals that had their origins in Dionysian religious practices throughout Europe. Dionysus brings to the fore the rites and rituals that today continue to be informed by the Greek god. The album’s seven movements, in the form of an oratorio, represent different facets of the Dionysus myth and his cult. As with the rest of the Dead Can Dance catalogue, rhythms inspired by world traditions play a key role, with tracks seeming less like songs and more like fragments of a cohesive whole. Perry blends all of the album’s elements together using field recordings and chanting, including a goatherd in Switzerland, beehive’s from New Zealand, and bird calls from Mexico and Brazil. Perry uses this not only to invoke the album’s atmosphere and symbolic references but also to demonstrate how music can be found everywhere.
On Dionysus, sounds blend into one another to create an esoteric, atmospheric, at times magical realist experience for the listener.
R.E.M. grew up with the BBC, and this historic relationship is lovingly celebrated across an incredible R.E.M. At The BBC collection that beautifully illustrates the career trajectory of one of modern music’s greatest bands. The collection comprises a treasure trove of rare and unreleased live and studio recordings culled from the BBC and band archives. This is a must-have collection for R.E.M. fans and an authoritative introduction for newcomers, and it gets released on October 18, 2018.
In-studio performances featured in the 8-CD/1-DVD box set include a John Peel Session (1998), Drivetime and Mark and Lard appearances (2003) and a glorious Radio 1 Live Lounge performance (2008). Live broadcasts include a rough-and-tumble show from Nottingham’s Rock City (1984), the stunning 1995 Milton Keynes Monster Tour (their first after a six-year break), a blistering 1999 Glastonbury headline set and an invitation-only 2004 show at London’s St James’s Church.
The DVD kicks off with a sixty-minute intimate retrospective of the band’s legendary performances at the BBC in the Accelerating Backwards film – previously broadcast only in the UK and available commercially for the first time here. Accelerating Backwards also includes revealing interviews with Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe, further testifying to R.E.M.’s long, special relationship with the BBC. The DVD also offers a complete 1998 Later….With Jools Holland episode uniquely dedicated to the band, plus TV appearances on Top of the Pops and more.
Disc: 1
1. World Leader Pretend 4:36
2. Fretless 5:16
3. Half A World Away 3:33
4. Radio Song 4:05
5. Losing My Religion 4:42
6. Love Is All Around 3:09 John Peel Studio Session, 25 October 1998
7. Walk Unafraid 4:04
8. Daysleeper 3:18
9. Lotus 4:13
10. At My Most Beautiful 3:16 Mark and Lard, BBC Radio 1, 15 October 2003
11. Bad Day 4:03
12. Orange Crush 3:55 Drivetime, BBC Radio 2, 15 October 2003
13. Man On The Moon 4:59
14. Imitation Of Life 3:41 Radio 1 Live Lounge, 26 March 2008
15. Supernatural Superserious 3:23 16. Munich 3:18
Disc: 2
1. Introduction :26
2. Losing My Religion 4:44
3. New Test Leper 5:53
4. Lotus 4:48
5. Parakeet 4:23
6. Electrolite 4:23
7. Perfect Circle 4:39
8. The Apologist 4:40
9. Daysleeper 4:44
10. Country Feedback 7:23
11. At My Most Beautiful 4:14
12. Walk Unafraid 4:52
13. Man On The Moon 6:11
Disc: 3
1. Second Guessing 2:57
2. Hyena 2:57
3. Talk About The Passion 3:04
4. West Of The Fields 3:07
5. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville 4:29
6. Auctioneer (Another Engine) 3:01
7. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) 4:51
8. Old Man Kensey 4:24
9. Gardening At Night 3:26
10. 9 – 9/Hey Diddle Diddle/Feeling Gravitys Pull 5:39
11. Windout 1:49
12. Driver 8 3:25
13. Pretty Persuasion 3:33
14. Radio Free Europe 3:49
15. Wendell Gee 3:21
16. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) 4:47
Disc: 4
1. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? 3:58
2. Crush With Eyeliner 4:42
3. Drive 3:51
4. Turn You Inside Out 4:17
5. Try Not To Breathe 3:50
6. I Took Your Name 4:15
7. Undertow 5:16
8. Bang And Blame 4:58
9. I Don’t Sleep I Dream 4:14
10. Strange Currencies 4:31
11. Revolution 3:20
12. Tongue 4:38
Disc: 5
1. Man On The Moon 5:46
2. Country Feedback 6:49
3. Half A World Away 4:04
4. Losing My Religion 4:54
5. Pop Song 89 3:27
6. Finest Worksong 3:48
7. Get Up 2:54
8. Star 69 4:00
9. Let Me In 3:59
10. Everybody Hurts 7:24
11. Fall On Me 3:11
12. Departure 3:52
13. Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) 5:15
Disc: 6
1. Lotus 4:36
2. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? 4:09
3. So Fast, So Numb 4:47
4. The Apologist 4:36
5. Fall On Me 3:26
6. Daysleeper 3:29
7. The Wake – Up Bomb 5:01
8. The One I Love 3:27
9. Sweetness Follows 5:50
10. At My Most Beautiful 3:37
Disc: 7
1. Losing My Religion 5:24
2. Everybody Hurts 6:47
3. Walk Unafraid 4:17
4. Star 69 3:04
5. Finest Worksong 4:22
6. Man On The Moon 5:43
7. Why Not Smile 2:10
8. Crush With Eyeliner 4:40
9. Tongue 5:19
10. Cuyahoga 4:37
11. Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) 6:58
Disc: 8
1. Intro :47
2. So Fast, So Numb 5:13
3. Boy In The Well 5:20
4. I Wanted To Be Wrong 5:19
5. E – Bow The Letter (with Thom Yorke) 5:09
6. Around The Sun 5:02
7. Aftermath 3:58
8. Losing My Religion 4:47
9. Walk Unafraid 5:10
10. Leaving New York 4:48
11. Imitation Of Life 4:35
12. Man On The Moon 5:34
Disc: 9
1. Accelerating Backwards
2. Moon River
3. Pretty Persuasion
4. Pop Song 89
5. Orange Crush
6. Losing My Religion
7. Half A World Away
8. Crush With Eyeliner
9. Man On The Moon
10. Daysleeper
11. Imitation Of Life
12. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
13. All The Way To Reno (You’re Gonna Be A Star)
14. Leaving New York
15. Later… with Jools Holland Presents R.E.M.
16. Intro
17. Losing My Religion
18. Lotus
19. New Test Leper
20. Daysleeper
21. Electrolite
22. At My Most Beautiful
23. The Apologist
24. Country Feedback
25. Parakeet
26. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
27. Walk Unafraid
28. Man On The Moon
29. The Passenger
30. Bonus Videos
31. I’ve Been High
32. Nightswimming
33. Bad Day
Bill Murray tells us the story of how he got his sense of humor back, thanks to “the humor of John Prine.”
The 8-Bit Big Band presents a wonderfully fun and jazzy cover version of the Atlantic Theme from the Nintendo classic Yoshi’s Island.
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