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Slayer Announces A Second North American Leg For Its Final World Tour

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Mar 5, 2018

Slayer Announces A Second North American Leg For Its Final World Tour

Literally by popular demand – with more than half the tour’s Leg One dates already either completely sold out or a sell-out imminent – today Slayer announces Leg Two, North America, of its final world tour, set to kick off on Thursday, July 26 at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, NH. The tour will travel to 20 cities over about five weeks, culminating at San Jose’s SAP Center on August 26. Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament and Napalm Death will accompany the band on all dates. The general ticket on sale for most dates begins this Friday, March 9 at 10AM (local). Very limited Slayer onstage + Meet & Greet + exclusive merchandise packages will be available.

A second North American leg for this tour had been considered to take place at some point down the line, but within 48-hours of the initial January 26 ticket on sale date, that all changed.

“We were blown away by the speed of sales for the final run,” said Rick Franks, President of Touring for Live Nation, one of the tour’s promoters. “Thirty-six years later and Slayer is bigger than ever before.”

On January 22, 2018, Slayer announced that it would do one last concert tour around the globe to thank their fans for all of their support over the years, for making the last three-and-a-half decades so packed with good times and unforgettable experiences, and then move on.

New and previously announced dates for Slayer’s final world tour, North America Legs One and Two, are as follows:

LEG ONE
MAY
10 Valley View Casino Center, San Diego, CA
11 FivePoint Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA SOLD OUT
13 Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA
16 Pacific Coliseum Vancouver, BC
17 South Okanagan Events Centre, Penticton, BC
19 Big Four, Calgary, AL SOLD OUT
20 Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton, AB SOLD OUT
22 Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg, MB
24 The Armory, Minneapolis, MN SOLD OUT
25 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL
27 Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill, Detroit, MI SOLD OUT
29 Budweiser Stage, Toronto, ON SOLD OUT
30 Place Bell, Montreal, PQ SOLD OUT

JUNE
1 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT SOLD OUT
2 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
4 Santander Arena, Reading, PA SOLD OUT
6 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
7 Blossom Music Center, Cleveland, OH
9 KeyBank Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA
10 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
12 Veteran’s United Home Loans Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA
14 PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, NC
15 Orlando Amphitheater, Orlando, FL
17 Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land, Houston, TX SOLD OUT
19 The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX SOLD OUT
20 Austin360 Amphitheater, Austin, TX SOLD OUT

LEG TWO
JULY
26 Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, Gilford, NH
27 Impact Festival, Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor, ME
29 Northwell Health at Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY
31 The Pavilion at Montage Mountain, Scranton, PA

AUGUST
1 Times Union Center, Albany, NY
3 Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Lake, NY
4 Lakeview Amphitheater, Syracuse, NY
6 Budweiser Gardens, London, ON
7 Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI
9 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, St. Louis, MO
10 Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
12 Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN
13 Walmart AMP, Rogers, AR
15 Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, TX
16 The Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City, OK
18 Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Denver, CO
19 USANA Amphitheatre, Salt Lake City, UT
21 Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater, Boise, ID
23 Sunlight Supply Amphitheater, Portland, OR
26 SAP Center, San Jose, CA

Childish Gambino Announces North America Tour With Rae Sremmurd

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Childish Gambino Announces North America Tour With Rae Sremmurd

Today, GRAMMY, Golden Globe and Emmy-Award winning and multi-talented recording artist, actor, and producer Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino announced dates for his upcoming North American tour with special guest Rae Sremmurd. Produced by Live Nation in partnership with Wolf + Rothstein, the month-long outing will visit 13 cities across North America, kicking off in Atlanta on September 6 and wrapping in Vancouver on September 30.

Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, March 9 at12pm local time at Ticketmaster.com. American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Tuesday, March 6 at 12pm local time through Thursday, March 8 at 10pm local time.

Childish Gambino’s last live music production, “PHAROS,” was a runaway success in 2016. The highly-acclaimed performances took place in Joshua Tree, California, where Gambino debuted songs from his third studio album “Awaken, My Love!” The performances were recorded and later accompanied the vinyl release of the album, along with a VR headset and an app that allowed owners to access the “PHAROS” performances. The critically-acclaimed, certified gold album was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2018 GRAMMY Awards, while “Redbone” won for Best Traditional R&B Performance and received nominations for Record of the Year and Best R&B Song.

“PHAROS” returns this year to New Zealand on November 23, 24 and 25. More information and tickets are available now through the Pharos Earth mobile app here.

CHILDISH GAMBINO WITH SPECIAL GUEST RAE SREMMURD TOUR DATES:
Thu Sep 06 Atlanta, GA Infinite Energy Arena
Sat Sep 08 Chicago, IL United Center
Mon Sep 10 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Wed Sep 12 Boston, MA TD Garden
Fri Sep 14 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Tue Sep 18 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Wed Sep 19 Washington DC Capital One Arena
Sat Sep 22 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Sun Sep 23 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Wed Sept 26 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
Thu Sept 27 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
Sat Sept 29 Seattle, WA KeyArena
Sun Sep 30 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena

Setting Up a Home Recording Studio: Is It Worth Doing?

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For many aspiring musicians, the music industry is tough and often unforgiving. You won’t be a successful musician if you can’t land a contract with one of the big labels in the industry. In reality, however, there are more ways you can succeed as a musician than ever before, especially with the internet on your side.

We now have more recording tools, affordable instruments, and free software that you can use to produce high-quality tracks. There are channels like YouTube and the iTunes, through which you can distribute your music and garner avid fans. All you need to get started is a way to record your music properly. So, is it time to consider setting up a home recording studio?

Accessible Recording for Everyone

One of the main reasons why more musicians now record their tracks from home is the affordability of even the best home recording kits and other supporting gear. You can start recording with a $50 USB microphone or audio interface and a laptop; that’s all you need!

With home recording gadgets becoming more affordable, getting started is no longer difficult. You can freely set a budget for your home recording studio and work your way towards constructing a kit that suits you perfectly.

It doesn’t stop there either. There are DIY tutorials and other great resources that will help you get professional-grade sound from the average home recording kits. Even choosing the right gadgets to buy is very easy now that you have sites like buzzharmony.com offering gear reviews and more.

A Wealth of Opportunities

If the fact that you can now set up a home recording studio for less than $100 – and easily too – doesn’t excite you just yet, then the wealth of opportunities that come with being able to record audio from home will. Producing your own tracks and releasing them to the world is really just the beginning.

We’re seeing the return of podcasts. You too can start your own podcast and talk about music, movies, and other topics you love with the same recording gadgets you already have. You can invite guests and further strengthen your online presence by releasing a new podcast every week.

It’s Very Scalable

The best thing about jumping in and setting up your own home recording studio today is how scalable the studio will be. Sure, you can start with a $100 kit so you can start recording instruments and vocals. As you gain more followers and start making money from your music, you can upgrade individual parts of the kit to boost your production quality.

You only need to look at successful YouTube musicians to see how scalable the idea of owning a home recording studio is. Most of the artists you know today started with a simple kit a few years ago; check their old YouTube covers if you don’t believe us.

They’ve made it with a home recording studio. Now it’s your turn; all you need to do is take the first step towards making your dreams a reality.

That Time Kate Bush Created The Music For Fruitopia’s TV Ads

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That Time Kate Bush Created The Music For Fruitopia’s TV Ads

Fruitopia was a pet project of Coke’s former marketing chief, Sergio Zyman. It was a fruit-flavoured drink introduced by the Coca-Cola Company in 1994 and targeted at teens and young adults, and was invented as part of a push by Coca-Cola to capitalize on the success of Snapple and other flavored tea drinks.

Today I found out Fruitopia had rather unusual commercials despite the simplicity of the product behind them. Along with being inspired by the 1960s feel of hippydom and free spirituality, the background music on several of the ads was provided by Kate Bush.

When Kate Bush took the assignment to do the music for Coca-Cola’s Fruitopia ads, it was indeed free rein for her. Chiat/Day, New York, creative director Marty Cooke and executive producer Andrew Chinich were overjoyed when Bush agreed to do not only one, but all nine of the spots in the Fruitopia campaign. Perhaps the fact that they told her she could do anything she wanted with the scores had something to do with it. In any case, Cooke and Chinich were just glad to get Bush on the job, which she did from London with a bunch of hand-picked musicians. “She said she was interested in providing a lot of variety, from Japanese drummers to Moroccan music… and she came through in spades,” Cooke says.

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Stan Lee on bigotry and racism

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Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies Original Cards

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Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies Original Cards

Oblique strategies is a set of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt used to break deadlocks in creative situations. Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking. Whenever you’re stuck you draw a card and ponder how it applies to your situation. You may draw as many cards as you wish. In late 1974, Schmidt and Eno combined them into a single pack of cards and offered them for general sale. The set went through three limited edition printings before Schmidt suddenly died in early 1980, after which the card decks became rather rare and expensive. Sixteen years later software pioneer Peter Norton convinced Eno to let him create a fourth edition as Christmas gifts for his friends (not for sale, although they occasionally come up at auction). Eno’s decision to revisit the cards and his collaboration with Norton in revising them is described in detail in his 1996 book A Year with Swollen Appendices. With public interest in the cards undiminished, in 2001 Eno once again produced a new set of Oblique Strategies cards. The number and content of the cards vary somewhat from edition to edition. In May 2013 a limited edition of 500 boxes, in burgundy rather than black, was issued.

Their website is an online version of the deck, containing many cards from the printed editions.

The Perfect Gift For Any Morrissey Fan Is Here

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The Perfect Gift For Any Morrissey Fan Is Here

Check out this full, graphic exploration of Morrissey’s musical influences, from girl groups to glam rockers, pop idols to obscurities, created by Alejandro De Luna, and available for sale here. This music poster looks at the diverse artists and genres involved and joins them up in a comprehensive, endlessly fascinating infographic.

This unique infographic print features:

songs by other artists that Morrissey and The Smiths have covered;
every song mentioned in Morrissey’s autobiography;
the songs Morrissey features pre-show, post-show and for his stage entrance;
lists of Morrissey’s favourite songs from Desert Island Discs, Under The Influence, Singles To Be Cremated With and others;
Morrissey’s favourite LPs, such as Raw Powerby Iggy & The Stooges, Horses by Patti Smith and Born To Quit by The Smoking Popes.

Morrissey is a man of idiosyncratic tastes, expressed through the cultural figureheads displayed on The Smiths’ iconic record sleeves, provocative lyrical topics and the many different musical influences reflected in his solo music and that of The Smiths.

There are over 80 artists features in the main body of the poster, with around a further 350 featured in the sidebar text.

Steve Earle on Politics And Art: “The best way to write a political song is to make it about what we have in common and not what drives us apart.”

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Steve Earle on Politics And Art: “The best way to write a political song is to make it about what we have in common and not what drives us apart.”

“Politics and art are not antitheses. Art and politics are both forces of nature. I’m an artist. I’m not a pop singer. It may not be part of the pop mainstream anymore, but I come from the moment in the ‘60s. I was an Elvis fan, Beatles fan, and then gravitated more toward acoustic music, because my dad wouldn’t let me have an electric guitar in the house. So, I listened to those Dylan records, and the Vietnam war was still going on. Politics was always going to be part of what I did. I thought we got past that mind-set a long time ago.

“The best way to write a political song – to write any song is to make it about what we have in common and not what drives us apart. I had a song on my first record about living on the road, separated from my son, ‘Little Rock ‘n’ Roller.’ The first conversation I ever had with Johnny Cash, he told me how much he loved that song. It was a really big deal to me, but two weeks later a truck driver came up to me and told me the same thing. What all three of us had in common is that we loved and missed our kids.”

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Hear The Isolated Vocals Of The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”?

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Hear The Isolated Vocals Of The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”?

“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” was written by Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, and Mike Love for The Beach Boys, and released as the opening track on their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Its lyrics describe a couple in love lamenting about being too young to run off to get married, fantasizing about how nice it would be if they were adults. Tony Asher credits the song’s idea to Brian Wilson: “The innocence of the situation—being too young to get married—seemed to be immensely appealing to him.” Wilson composed the music, while the lyrics were written almost entirely by Asher over the course of one or two days. Mike Love’s contribution was the ending couplet “Good night my baby / sleep tight my baby”.