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Carlos Santana Will Bring Transmogrify Tour to the U.S. This Spring

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Feb 11, 2017

Carlos Santana Will Bring Transmogrify Tour to the U.S. This Spring

en time GRAMMY-Award, three time Latin GRAMMY®-Award winning rock icon and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carlos Santana and his band SANTANA will bring The Transmogrify Tour to the U.S. this spring, performing passion-filled songs from their forty years of career, including fan favorites from Woodstock to Supernatural and beyond. More tour dates will be announced soon.

Delivered with a level of passion and soul equal to the legendary sonic charge of his guitar, the sound of Carlos Santana is one of the world’s best-known musical signatures. For more than four decades—from Santana’s earliest days as a groundbreaking Afro-Latin-blues-rock fusion outfit in San Francisco—Carlos has been the visionary force behind artistry that transcends musical genres and generational, cultural and geographical boundaries.

For 40 years and as many albums later, Santana has sold more than 100 million records and reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide. To date, Santana has won ten GRAMMY Awards and three Latin GRAMMY Awards. He won a record-tying nine GRAMMYs for a single project for 1999’s Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “Smooth”) as well as three Latin GRAMMY’s. He has also received the Billboard Century Award (1996), was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1998), received the Billboard Latin Music Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honor (2009), and was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Award (2013). Among many other honors, Carlos Santana has been cited by Rolling Stone as #15 on their list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” And, with the 2014 release of Corazón, Santana surpassed the Rolling Stones and is one of only two music acts in Billboard history to score at least one Top Ten album for six consecutive decades from the 1960s on. April 15, 2016 marked the release date of Santana IV, which debuted at No. 5 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart and marks Santana’s fourteenth Top 10 album. Santana is currently headlining a multi-year residency at House of Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. In the fall of 2014, Carlos Santana released his memoir “The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light.”

The Transmogrify Tour 2017:

6/23/17	Woodinville, WA	Chateau Ste. Michelle
6/24/17	Woodinville, WA	Chateau Ste. Michelle
6/25/17	Goldendale, WA	Maryhill Winery
6/27/17	Boise, ID	Idaho Botanical Garden
6/30/17	Phoenix, AZ	Ak-Chin Pavilion
7/1/17	Albuquerque, NM	Isleta Amphitheater
7/3/17	Sugar Land, TX	Smart Financial Centre
7/4/17	San Antonio, TX	Majestic Theatre
7/7/17	Durant, OK	Choctaw Grand Theater
7/8/17	Durant, OK	Choctaw Grand Theater
7/10/17	Morrison, CO	Red Rocks Amphitheatre
7/12/17	St. Louis, MO	Fox Theatre
8/4/17	Bethlehem, PA	Musikfest
8/5/17	Bethel Woods, NY	Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
8/9/17	Sterling Heights, MI	Freedom Hill Amphitheatre
8/13/17	Nashville, TN	Ascend Amphitheater
8/18/17	Canandaigua, NY	Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
8/19/17	Uncasville, CT	Mohegan Sun Arena
8/20/17	Atlantic City, NJ	Borgata Spa & Resort
9/11/17	Anaheim, CA	House of Blues Anaheim

Muse Announce Summer Tour With Special Guest Thirty Seconds To Mars

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Muse Announce Summer Tour With Special Guest Thirty Seconds To Mars

Grammy Award-winning rock band Muse today announced a tour of North American amphitheaters with worldwide multi-platinum selling band Thirty Seconds to Mars. Produced by Live Nation, PVRIS will be the support band for the tour which will kick off May 20th in West Palm Beach, FL and wind down September 20th in Salt Lake City, UT.

Muse is Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme. Their last album, Drones, was released in June of 2015 and debuted at No. 1 in 21 countries around the world including their first No. 1 album in the United States. The album spawned the number one hit “Dead Inside,” and the band went on to win the Grammy Award, their second, for Best Rock Album in February of 2016. Since forming in 1994, Muse have released seven studio albums selling upwards of 18 million albums worldwide and won numerous awards around the world including: two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album; an American Music Award; and the O2 Silver Clef presented by Queen’s Roger Taylor and Brian May. They have won press awards for Best Live Act, Best Album and Best British Band, and they have received an Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.

Thirty Seconds to Mars – comprised of Jared Leto, Shannon Leto and Tomo Milicevic – has sold over five million albums and millions of concert tickets worldwide. The group has received numerous awards, including a dozen MTV awards worldwide, a Billboard Music award, and a Guinness World Record for the Longest Running Tour in history. The band released their critically acclaimed music documentary ARTIFACT on iTunes worldwide where it has been a regular at the top of the charts. It chronicles the band’s legal battles with record label EMI/Capitol/Virgin. They also recently announced their 3rd Annual Camp Mars Festival that takes place every summer in Malibu, CA. Thirty Seconds to Mars are currently working on their highly anticipated 5th studio album to be released later this year.

“Get acquainted with the mysteriously awesome PVRIS before they become the biggest thing in rock. For fans of The Neighbourhood, CHVRCHES, and Paramore, PVRIS are the best thing since sliced bread.” That’s what MTV said about the Boston-based trio of vocalist Lynn Gunn, guitarist Alex Babinski and bassist Brian MacDonald and the band is certainly living up to the hype: over the past few months, they performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” were spotlighted on “Last Call with Carson Daly,” hit the road with Fall Out Boy and Awolnation for a North American arena tour and were featured on the cover of Alternative Press. That followed a year in which they hit No. 1 on Billboard’s “Emerging Artists” and “Trending 140” charts, played to packed-house crowds around the world and racked up over 12 million total YouTube views and 15 million total streams in the US alone (the latest being more than 14.7 million Spotify streams and 3.4 million views for their “You And I” video).The band is led by 21-year-old vocalist Lynn Gunn, who the Huffington Post described as “a force that cannot be denied.” They’re currently putting the touches on a much-anticipated new album, due out later this year.

Tour Itinerary:

May 20	West Palm Beach, FL	Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre
May 21	Tampa, FL	MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 3	Nashville, TN	Ascend Amphitheatre
June 6	Atlanta, GA	Lakewood Amphitheatre
June 8	New Orleans, LA	Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square
June 10	Austin, TX	Austin 360 Amphitheatre
June 12	Kansas City, MO	Starlight Theatre
June 13	St. Louis, MO	Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
June 15	Charlotte, NC	PNC Music Pavilion**
July 18	Toronto, ONT	Budweiser Stage
July 22	Wantagh, NY	Jones Beach Theater
August 1	Burgettstown, PA	KeyBank Pavilion
Sept. 15	Mountain View, CA	Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sept. 18	Red Rocks, CO	Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Sept. 20	Salt Lake City, UT	USANA Amphitheatre

From busking to selling out concert venues worldwide. Here’s Tash Sultana on World Cafe Next

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From busking to selling out concert venues worldwide. Here’s Tash Sultana on World Cafe Next

In a very short amount of time, 21-year-old singer-songwriter Tash Sultana has gone from busking in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia, to selling out concert venues worldwide. But the bigger challenge has been extracting herself from addiction and drug-induced psychosis, which threatened her mental well-being and her life. She credits doing only what made her happy for her recovery. That meant it was out of school and onto Melbourne’s sidewalks, where she used a looping pedal to construct her own backing for her powerful songs.

Hear two songs from Sultana’s new EP, Notion.

Watch Alejandro Escovedo Perform “Heartbeat Smile” For Austin City Limits

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Watch Alejandro Escovedo Perform “Heartbeat Smile” For Austin City Limits

Longtime, but now former Austinite Alejandro Escovedo returns to Austin City Limits. His episode premieres February 11th on PBS. His band? Yeah, that’s Peter Buck, Minus 5’s Scott McCaughey, ex-Fastbacks Kurt Bloch, Decemberists’ John Moen, and vocalists Kelly Hogan and Karla Manzur.

8-bit highlights from Super Bowl 51 Atlanta Falcons vs New England Patriots

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8-bit highlights from Super Bowl 51 Atlanta Falcons vs New England Patriots, one of the greatest games ever played.

Bumstead Productions President and Founder Larry Wanagas To Retire

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Bumstead Productions President and Founder Larry Wanagas To Retire

After 38 years, music industry veteran, and founder/ President of Toronto-based Bumstead Productions, Larry Wanagas, has announced he will be retiring in August of 2017. Since it’s inception in 1979, Bumstead Productions, has represented a number of artists including, Big Sugar, Colin James, Emma-Lee, Erasure (North America), John Ford, k.d.lang, Madeline Peroux, Peter Elkas, Poor Young Things, Rocketface, Staggered Crossing, Susan Aglukark, The Blue Shadows, The East Pointers, The Lazys, The Modern Minds (featuring Moe Berg), The Trews, Tim Chaisson, Two Hours Traffic and Yukon Blonde.

“I would like to acknowledge the support that Bumstead has received over many years from our artists and business associates including, Ralph James and the team at United Talent Agency, Fred Bohlander at Paradigm, Carl Scott formerly of Warner Bros Records, Seymour Stein/ SIRE Records, Bob Hunka, Norman Perry of Perryscope, Erin Kinghorn at eEK Productions, Susan Abramovitch, Stephen Stohn and Graham Henderson,” said Wanagas. “I would also like to thank all the Bumstead staff, past and present, in particular, Matt Finkelstein, Caitlin North, Aimee Ross, Tim Des Islets and Annie MacDonald, who devoted some of their most formative years to Bumstead, and a special thank you goes to my wife Sheryl Wanagas who has been with me since the beginning of this musical adventure.”

Wanagas began his career in Edmonton as Entertainment Director at the University of Alberta. After two years, Wanagas left college behind to open his own recording studio, Homestead Recorders. At the same time, he launched Bumstead Productions, focusing on artist management, an independent label, and music publishing. Wanagas immediately distinguished himself signing a young k.d. lang to a 360 deal which encompassed, artist management, recording and publishing agreements. Under Wanagas’ guidance this would lead to a 15 year run of successful international tours, multi-platinum album sales, accolades and countless awards.

Wanagas then took the position of President of independent label MUTE Records US in New York City, a tenure that lasted two years until 1996. He then relocated to Toronto in 1999, where today Bumstead Production’s award winning roster includes The East Pointers, The Trews and Tim Chaisson.

Wanagas also serves on the board of the Cultural Human Resources Council, served as Director of the Music Manager’s Forum, Director of the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR), co-founder and General Manager of the Alberta Recording Industry Association, and was on the Music Industry Advisory Committee, Ontario Media Development Corporation. In 2012, Wanagas was honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Music Manager’s Forum.

GTA-made modern vinyl presses are up and running in Toronto thanks to Microforum

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GTA-made modern vinyl presses are up and running in Toronto thanks to Microforum

Toronto’s Microforum is the second place in the world to get its hands on new high-tech vinyl pressing devices.

Katy Perry Unleashes New Single, “Chained to the Rhythm”

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Katy Perry Unleashes New Single, “Chained to the Rhythm”

oday, Capitol Records released “Chained to the Rhythm,” the first single from Katy Perry’s forthcoming album. She will perform the song live for the very first time at the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards, which will air on CBS this Sunday, February 12, at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT. Katy co-wrote “Chained to the Rhythm” with Max Martin, Sia Furler, Ali Payami and Skip Marley. The song is available everywhere for streaming and download here.

http://vevo.ly/DyjRnM

Katy Perry’s cumulative streams now exceed 18 billion worldwide and she is the most-followed person globally on Twitter. She made her Capitol Records debut with 2008’s One of the Boys and cemented her status as a global superstar with the follow-up album, Teenage Dream (2010). PRISM, her 2013 album, debuted at No. 1 on iTunes in 100 countries and has sold more than 12.5 million adjusted albums worldwide. With the singles “Firework” and “Dark Horse” each surpassing the 10 million threshold including song sales and streams, Katy is the first female artist to earn two RIAA Digital Single Diamond Awards. Cumulatively, she has sold more than 40 million adjusted albums and over 125 million tracks worldwide. Katy played to a total of two million people on the sold-out, 151-date Prismatic World Tour and headlined the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show, which set a record as the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show ever.

Hercules & Love Affair Announce New Album And Return With “Controller” Single

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Hercules & Love Affair Announce New Album And Return With “Controller” Single

Hercules & Love Affair return to the fray with “Controller”, a pulsing, propulsive new song that signals the first salvo from their long-awaited new album. Featuring The Horrors’ Faris Badwan on vocals, it takes the Hercules’ disco-house heritage and fuses it with starker post-punk stylings.

“Recently I’ve been aesthetically interested in the raw experimentation of early 80s electronic dance outside the glossier new wave pop music we know from the time,” admits head honcho Andy Butler, “Cabaret Voltaire, lots of noisier older music. It’s funny that I ended up in Belgium, considering all of the music that came from here – Front 242, Telex, and so on.”

“When I became aware of music, aged around 12, I was listening to the Jesus & Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, Ministry, “ he recalls, “That was my formative music, the college album charts, what became alt-rock. I found I could relate to this outsider music, stuff that wasn’t pop- I already had a love for Yazoo and Depeche Mode which got me into synthesizers. It was a rebellious, angst-ridden period and I was an industrial goth kid, stockings and make-up, which then dovetailed into the whole grindcore extreme stuff. But at 15 I heard LFO’s ‘Frequencies’ and was like whoa– I walked away from vocal music initially, walked away from that aggression towards psychedelic utopia and acid house…”

With ‘Controller’ he’s reconnected. He knew he wanted a male voice for the song “a vocalist who flirted with the darkness, someone who had a touch of an Ian Astbury or Andrew Eldritch about them, or even of Ian Curtis.”

In London, working with fashion designer James Long, Andy came across The Horrors’ live version of Frankie Knuckles & Jamie Principle’s seminal Chicago house cut ‘Your Love’. He realized he’d found his voice, a rock artist willing to engage with dance culture’s history.

“Controller” is the result, a contagious song containing a hint of seamy ‘80s electro-pop underbelly, but also recalling edgy early house records by the likes of Lil Louis and Bam Bam. And then there’s the whole sub-dom, master-and-servant thing going on in the lyrics…

“That’s a fair assessment,” Andy laughs, “but actually the new album is a lot about spirituality. Faris was happy to engage with that. He went into the recording booth, would come out with something, and I’d say, “Did you just sing, ‘I love what you’re making me do’?” He’d say, “No, but that sounds cool.” That’s how the song was made, it unfolded out of an unconscious process. It’s about being used by a higher entity but there’s this second layer which is a play on intense sub-dom sexual roleplay!”

As raunchy and contentious as it is catchy, ‘Controller’ is the first single from Hercules’s fourth album on which they consolidate this sonic palette yet further, while never losing sight of their following on the dance floor. Details to be announced soon…..

Bill Murray Is Performing At Toronto Royal Conservatory Gala

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Bill Murray Is Performing At Toronto Royal Conservatory Gala

The one-and-only Bill Murray will read Hemingway, Capote, and Mark Twain, dance a tango, and sing on the Koerner Hall stage. An ensemble led by his friend, cellist Jan Vogler, will perform works by Bach, Piazzolla, Ravel, and Bernstein, in this evening where music and literature meet in a clash of words and notes. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 10 at 10am here.