Watch The Vinyl Factory’s short film in the art of vinyl mastering, featuring Rashad Becker of Dubplates and Mastering, Andreas ‘Lupo’ Lubich of Calyx Mastering and Noel Summerville of 3345 Mastering.
Bruno Mars 24K Magic World Tour Announces New Special Guests Boyz II Men, Charlie Wilson, Ciara, and Ella Mai
Bruno Mars announced special guests Boyz II Men, Charlie Wilson, Ciara, and Ella Mai will join upcoming U.S. dates as part of his 24K Magic World Tour this fall.
Mars, who is currently nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for his TV special “24K Magic: Live At The Apollo,” recently announced that his international outing will close with a trio of homecoming performances in Honolulu, Hawaii. The three dates at Aloha Stadium are a record-breaker for the venue, with no other artist in its history to have booked that number of successive dates.
Produced by Live Nation, Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic World Tour has traveled the globe since 2017, and will have made over 135 stops across North America, Latin America, Europe, and the U.K once wrapped this November. The massively successful outing by the multiple-GRAMMY Award winner has sold out stadiums and arenas around the world, and was credited with selling 1 million tickets in a single day.
The 24K Magic World Tour celebrates Mars’ multiple GRAMMY Award-winning, 2x RIAA Platinum-certified album, 24K Magic, released in November 2016 via Atlantic Records. The 24K Magic World Tour has been Mars’ first full-length tour since his hugely successful Moonshine Jungle World Tour in 2013, an international blockbuster that sold 2 million tickets worldwide across 155 sold-out dates.
| Friday, September 7, 2018 | Denver, CO* | Pepsi Center |
| Saturday, September 8, 2018 | Denver, CO* | Pepsi Center |
| Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Wednesday, September 12, 2018 |
St. Paul, MN^ St. Paul, MN^ |
Xcel Energy Center Xcel Energy Center |
| Saturday, September 15, 2018 Sunday, September 16, 2018 |
Detroit, MI^ Detroit, MI^ |
Little Caesars Arena Little Caesars Arena |
| Wednesday, September 19, 2018 | Philadelphia, PA* | Wells Fargo Center |
| Thursday, September 20, 2018 | Philadelphia, PA* | Wells Fargo Center |
| Saturday, September 22, 2018 | Toronto, ON** | Scotiabank Arena |
| Sunday, September 23, 2018 | Toronto, ON** | Scotiabank Arena |
| Thursday, September 27, 2018 | Boston, MA** | TD Garden |
| Friday, September 28, 2018 | Boston, MA** | TD Garden |
| Monday, October 1, 2018 | Newark, NJ** | Prudential Center |
| Tuesday, October 2, 2018 | Newark, NJ** | Prudential Center |
| Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Brooklyn, NY^^ | Barclays Center |
| Friday, October 5, 2018 | Brooklyn, NY^^ | Barclays Center |
| Sunday, October 7, 2018 Monday, October 8, 2018 |
Nashville, TN^^ Nashville, TN^^ |
Bridgestone Arena Bridgestone Arena |
| Thursday, October 11, 2018 Friday, October 12, 2018 |
Tulsa, OK^^ Tulsa, OK^^ |
BOK Center BOK Center |
| Sunday, October 14, 2018 | Dallas, TX^ | American Airlines Center |
| Monday, October 15, 2018 | Dallas, TX^ | American Airlines Center |
| Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | Los Angeles, CA* | STAPLES Center |
| Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | Los Angeles, CA** | STAPLES Center |
| Friday, October 26, 2018 | Los Angeles, CA^^ | STAPLES Center |
| Saturday, October 27, 2018 Thursday, November 8, 2018 Saturday, November 10, 2018 Sunday, November 11, 2018 |
Los Angeles, CA^ Honolulu, HI Honolulu, HI% Honolulu, HI% |
STAPLES Center Aloha Stadium Aloha Stadium Aloha Stadium |
*Boyz II Men
^Charlie Wilson
**Ciara
^^Ella Mai
%The Green & Common Kings
StarLicks Master Sessions with Joe Walsh Is Awesome
In a career spanning more than forty years, Joe Walsh has been a member of five successful rock bands: James Gang, Barnstorm, Eagles, the Party Boys, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. Walsh admits to having struggled with alcohol and drug addictions for most of his early career and has been in recovery since 1993. He once told a story that in 1994 he woke up after blacking out on an airplane to Paris. When he arrived, he had his passport, but did not remember getting on the plane. That was his turning point, and he has been sober ever since.
But a year before that, he created a how-to video on guitar playing that is bizarre, entertaining and strange to watch, even if you’re not a musician. He would likely hate it, though, for obvious reasons.
Phil Collins On Getting THAT Drum Sound. You Know The One.
How clearly do you remember establishing the drum sound on “Intruder” for Peter Gabriel?
Phil Collins: Like it was yesterday. That was at a time when Peter didn’t really have a band since he couldn’t afford an American band full time. I was at a loose end and going through a divorce. I think I’d done most of my demos for Face Value and said, “If you need a drummer, man, I’m around. I’m free.” He took me up on the offer and I went down to his house in Bath along with a couple of other people. [Bassist] John Giblin was one and [guitarist] Jo Partridge was the other. We just kind of lived there for month and played every day and helped him prepare some of these songs that were going to be on the third album.
Steve Lillywhite wasn’t convinced by me, I don’t think. He wanted to audition me. Anyway, that happened at a rehearsal room near London Bridge. I turned up at the town house in London, Shepherd’s Bush, and we started routining some of these songs that we’d been working on in Bath. The first thing happened when I got here is that Peter said, “Take away the cymbals. I don’t want any metal on the record.” I thought that was a little stubborn on his part, but it’s his album.
We started putting tom-toms up where there would be cymbals and I started to play around the drums, getting comfortable. [Engineer] Hugh Padgham started getting a sound. I had asked Hue, as I usually did when I was working with an engineer, to let me hear what they were doing in the headphones. I heard this sound being achieved and I started playing with the sound that I was hearing. And so I started to play like a John Bonham type thing [imitates the “Intruder” drum pattern with his voice]. And Peter said, “What is that you’re playing?” I said, “I’m just playing with the sound.” He said, “I like that. Give me that for 10 minutes.”
So I did. At the end of it I said, “What are you going to do with it?” He said, “I don’t know yet.” So I said, “Can I have a copy of it?” because I felt part ownership. I got a copy and when it turned out he was going to adapt one of his songs to fit the drum part I said, “Can I have a credit, at least? If I can’t use the thing, I’d like to have a credit.” He agreed to that and I started my very strong friendship with Hugh Padgham and we went from there to do my records and Genesis records. The rest is sonic history.
Lindsey Buckingham Announces Solo North American Tour
Lindsey Buckingham is widely considered one of the greatest guitarists and songwriters and musical expressionists of our time. A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and 3 time GRAMMY winner, Buckingham is best known as the producer, guitarist, vocalist and chief songwriter for Fleetwood Mac and as a widely celebrated solo artist. His forthcoming Solo Anthology – The Best of Lindsey Buckingham is a comprehensive record of this illustrious career. Out October 5th on Rhino Records, Buckingham’s Solo Anthology will be released as a 3-disc set on CD and digitally and will also be available as a single disc abridged release. A 6-LP vinyl release is slated for November 23rd.
This fall Lindsey Buckingham will head out on a North American Tour in support of his Solo Anthology. The tour kicks off at Revolution Hall in Portland, OR on October 7th and highlights include the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on October 12th and Town Hall in New York on December 4th. His November 16 date in Kitchener is the only Canadian date. Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 18th here. Every ticket purchased online for the Lindsey Buckingham tour includes a CD or digital copy of the single-disc version of the new Anthology. Fans will receive instructions via email on how to redeem the album after ticket
purchase.
Billy Corgan on the Realities of Being a Rockstar
Joe Rogan asks Billy Corgan about what is the reality of being a rockstar.
New Order Celebrates 4 Decades Of Music With…”Decades” Music Doc
Almost forty years to the day of Joy Division’s TV debut, “New Order: Decades” which will air on Saturday 22nd September at 9pm on Sky Arts is a unique and timely feature-length film about one of the UK’s most original and truly iconic bands.
Part concert, part documentary, this film follows the band’s preparations in the re-staging of their acclaimed collaboration So It Goes.. with the artist Liam Gillick and the 12-piece synthesiser orchestra that spectacularly captured the headlines during Manchester International Festival 2017. The complexities extend beyond the technical and logistical: this is a band that rarely looks backwards, yet for this project they had to reflect on – and de-construct – the band’s history, in order to create something very new.
With full access to New Order and their collaborators, this film is an unprecedented and intimate celebration of their story and their music. Through personal interviews with the band members and close collaborators including Gillick and art director Peter Saville, ‘New Order: Decades’ offers a rare chance to enter the band’s private world, understand the visual philosophy of their aesthetic and design, and witness their collaborative, creative processes first hand. The full-length New Order and Joy Division song performances featured in the film – captured from the spectacular concert, designed by Gillick and augmented by the synth orchestra – look and sound simply incredible. They also serve as a perfect cross section of the musical journey the band have undertaken in their incredible career over the last four decades, and the perfect soundtrack to this very special film.
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Set To Release Memoir, “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)”
Few bands have inspired as much devotion as the Chicago rock band Wilco, and it’s thanks, in large part, to the band’s singer, songwriter, and guiding light: Jeff Tweedy. But while his songs and music have been endlessly discussed and analyzed, Jeff has rarely talked so directly about himself, his life, and his artistic process.
Until now. In his long-awaited memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc., Jeff will tell stories about his childhood in Belleville, Illinois; the St. Louis record store, rock clubs, and live-music circuit that sparked his songwriting and performing career; and the Chicago scene that brought it all together. He’ll also talk in-depth about his collaborators in Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and more; and write lovingly about his parents, wife Sue, and sons, Spencer and Sam.
Honest, funny, and disarming, Tweedy’s memoir will bring readers inside both his life and his musical process, illuminating his singular genius and sharing his story, voice, and perspective for the first time. It gets released on November 13, and pre-order starts here.
Jimmy Rankin Adds More Dates To Canadian Tour, Announces New Album, “Moving East”
Now this is big news. One of the true originals in Canadian music has moved from Nashville to Nova Scotia, and is celebrating with music only he could make. Jimmy Rankin’s new Moving East (out September 28, True North Records) is pure East Coast, a homecoming album featuring true stories, tall tales and bittersweet ballads, and the classic folk-rock sound that Rankin helped pioneer.
Just at a time when people are searching out authentic cultural voices, strong stories and well-crafted songs, Rankin has made an unapologetically East Coast folk-rock record, with a raw, unsentimental and current edge. “I’m putting the party back in the kitchen” quips Rankin.
It’s called Moving East because that’s exactly what Jimmy’s done. He’s moved back to Nova Scotia after seven years living and working in Nashville. Hooking up with fellow Nova Scotian Joel Plaskett as producer, he’s made an album appealing to young and old alike, with songs running the gamut from gritty pub tunes to soulful ballads all featuring great storytelling, and fine songwriting.
One of the most famed Canadian songwriters, Jimmy Rankin wrote such classic Rankin hits as “North Country,” “You Feel The Same Way Too,” and the Juno winning single “Fare The Well Love,” voted the #1 East Coast song of all time by CBC listeners across Canada. His own hits include “Followed Her Around,” “Morning Bound Train,” and “Cool Car.” Jimmy’s the guy who wrote “Mull River Shuffle” a Cape Breton anthem with an all-ages cult following, jamming dance floors and mosh pits at parties, weddings and raves as the last big song of the night.
Says Rankin “With Moving East, I was trying to distil the fabric of Maritime culture into a musical collection replete with life’s highs and lows, and breathe life into stories that capture a feeling, a moment in time, live off the floor and organic.” It’s an album full of classic Cape Breton storytelling, unashamedly celebrating his moving back, and making the music he loves. Now that’s a homecoming.
Jimmy Rankin Tour
* New Dates In Bold
28-Sep-18 Oshawa, ON Regent Theatre
29-Sep-18 Cookstown, ON Ironhorse
2-Oct-18 Belleville, ON Empire Theatre
3-Oct-18 London, ON Aeolian Hall
4-Oct-18 Toronto, ON Great Hall
5-Oct-18 Hamilton, ON The Studio
6-Oct-18 Burnstown, ON Neat Café
9-Oct-18 Winnipeg, MB West End Cultural Centre
10-Oct-18 Regina, SK Casino Regina
11-Oct-18 Saskatoon, SK Bassment
12-Oct-18 Fort Sask, AB Shell Theatre
14-22 Oct-18 Northwest Territories Various Venues
26-Oct-18 Red Deer, AB The Elks Lodge
28-29 Oct-18 Calgary, AB Ironwood
2-Nov-18 Sidney, BC Charlie White Theatre
3-Nov-18 White Rock, BC Blue Frog Studios
13-Nov-18 Halifax, NS Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
15-Nov-18 Truro, NS Marigold Centre
16-Nov-18 Glace Bay, NS Savoy Theatre
17-Nov-18 Port Hawkesbury, NS Civic Centre
22-Nov-18 Mount Stewart, PEI Trailside Cafe And Inn
23-Nov-18 Summerside, PEI Harbourfront Theatre
Jack White Announces Canadian Tour For Fall, 2018
Jack White will continue his BOARDING HOUSE REACH world tour with a trek across Canada beginning November 2 at Edmonton, AB’s Rogers Place and culminating on November 14 at Halifax, NS’s Scotiabank Centre. A limited amount of pre-sale tickets will be available to Third Man Records Vault members starting tomorrow, August 14 at 10 am. Tickets go on sale to the public at 10am local time on Friday, August 17. For tickets and complete details, please visit here. A full list of Jack’s world tour can be found below.
White – who earlier this year sold out Toronto’s Budweiser Stage – has a long history of touring Canada. Summer 2007 famously saw The White Stripes play shows in every province and territory in the country – marking the first and still only band to do so. The tour in support of ICKY THUMP also included the band’s 10th Anniversary show held in Glace Bay, NS. The historic trek was captured by filmmaker Emmett Malloy in the 2009 documentary (and accompanying CD/Double LP) UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS.
JACK WHITE’S TOUR OF CANADA 2018
November 2: Rogers Place – Edmonton, AB
November 3: Stampede Corral – Calgary, AB
November 6: Bell MTS Place – Winnipeg, MB
November 8: Budweiser Gardens – London, ON
November 9: The Arena at TD Place – Ottawa, ON
November 10: Place Bell – Laval, QC
November 12: Videotron Centre – Quebec City, QC
November 13: Moncton Events Centre – Moncton, NB
November 14: Scotiabank Centre – Halifax, NS
Recently announced as 2018’s biggest selling vinyl album thus far in the US, BOARDING HOUSE REACH debuted at #1 in both the US & Canada upon its March 2018 release = White’s third consecutive chart-topping debut for a new solo release.
JACK WHITE LIVE 2018
August 13: WaMu Theater – Seattle, WA (SOLD OUT) +
August 15: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium – San Francisco, CA (SOLD OUT) +
August 16: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium – San Francisco, CA +
August 18: Rabobank Theater – Bakersfield, CA %
August 19: Santa Barbara Bowl – Santa Barbara, CA (SOLD OUT) %
August 21: Viejas Arena – San Diego, CA %
August 22: Comerica Theatre – Phoenix, AZ %
August 23: The Chelsea @ The Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV (SOLD OUT) %
August 24: The Chelsea @ The Cosmopolitan – Las Vegas, NV %
September 15: Municipal Auditorium – Shreveport, LA
September 17: OneOK Field – Tulsa, OK
September 21: Las Vegas, NV – iHeartRadio Music Festival *
September 22: Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival – Franklin, TN *
October 1: Adrenaline Stadium – Moscow, Russia
October 3: Palladium Riga – Riga, Latvia (SOLD OUT)
October 4: Siemens Arena – Vilnius, Lithuania
October 6: Gdynia Arena – Gdynia, Poland
October 7: MTP2 – Poznan, Poland
October 9: Torwar – Warsaw, Poland
October 10: Tauron Arena Kraków – Kraków, Poland
October 12: Verti Music Hall – Berlin, Germany
October 13: Zenith – Munich, Germany
October 14: Warsteiner Music Hall – Dortmund, Germany
October 16: Brighton Centre – Brighton, UK
October 17: Birmingham Academy – Birmingham, UK
October 18: Hull Venue – Hull, UK
October 20: Liverpool Space By Echo Arena – Liverpool, UK
October 21: Usher Hall – Edinburgh, UK (SOLD OUT)
November 2: Rogers Place – Edmonton, AB
November 3: Stampede Corral – Calgary, AB
November 6: Bell MTS Place – Winnipeg, MB
November 8: Budweiser Gardens – London, ON
November 9: The Arena at TD Place – Ottawa, ON
November 10: Place Bell – Laval, QC
November 12: Videotron Centre – Quebec City, QC
November 13: Moncton Events Centre – Moncton, NB
November 14: Scotiabank Centre – Halifax, NS
+ with Olivia Jean
% with William Tyler
* Festival Performance