At the close of the first season of The Muppet Show, the crew of successful television show performed the opening song and a few skits without the Muppets. So THIS is what happens when the behind-the-scenes folk decide to have a little fun.
Queen in the ’80s
Highlighting some of Queen’s most epic moments of the 80s, their official YouTube channel celebrate the group now playing stadium shows and their sound adapting to match. Including the legendary Wembley concerts and Rock in Rio where they performed to the largest paying crowd in concert history. Also including official videos for Don’t Stop Me Now and Under Pressure, among many other gems.
Bryan Ferry announces 2019 world tour celebrating Roxy Music’s classic Avalon album
British music icon and soon to be inducted Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Bryan Ferry has announced the U.S. leg his brand new 2019 World Tour playing songs from Avalon, solo & Roxy Music hits.
Since the release of his first record with Roxy Music in 1972, Bryan Ferry has been internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative and stylish musicians, songwriters and singers to emerge in pop and rock music. Widely regarded as the embodiment of the glamorous and romantic worlds evoked by his songs, Ferry is also lauded as an icon of sartorial and personal cool.
A former student of Fine Art, Bryan Ferry remains as involved in the visual aspects of his work as he is in the composition and performance of the music and has conceived and directed some of the most original, controversial and critically applauded album artwork of the last four decades.
Bryan Ferry is an artist and musician that possesses the rare distinction of being regarded as both classic and timelessly contemporary – an accomplishment achieved by both his recordings with Roxy Music and the range and intensity of his solo albums.
Bryan Ferry Avalon tour 2019
2/14–Cape Town, South Africa–Grand Arena
2/16–Pretoria, South Africa–Time Square Arena
2/21–Perth, Australia –Kings Park & Botanic Garden
2/23–Yarra Valley, Australia–Rochford Wines
2/26–Melbourne, Australia–Margaret Court Arena
3/1–Sydney, Australia–ICC Sydney Theatre
3/3–Mount Cotton, Australia –Sirromet Wines
3/5–Wellington, New Zealand –TSB Arena
3/7–Auckland, New Zealand–Spark Arena
3/11–Osaka, Japan–Namba Hatch
3/13–Tokyo, Japan–Bunkamura Orchard Hall
5/20–Groningen, Netherlands–De Oosterpoort
5/22–Eindhoven, Netherlands–Muziekgebouw Frits Phillips
5/24–Amsterdam, Netherlands–Royal Theatre Carre
5/26–Frankfurt, Germany–Alte Oper
5/28–Essen, Germany–Theater Und Philharmonie Essen
5/30–Hamburg, Germany–Elbphilharmonie
6/1–Berlin, Germany–Tempodrom
6/3–Wroclaw, Poland–Narodowe Forum Muzyki
6/5–Prague, Czech Republic–Forum Karlin
6/7–Vienna, Austria–Stadthalle
6/9–Linz, Austria–Brucknerhaus
6/11–Munich, Germany–Circus Krone
6/13–Lucerne, Switzerland–KKL
6/15 –Brussels, Belgium–Palais des Beaux-Arts
6/–London, United Kingdom–Royal Albert Hall
6/20–Vejle, Denmark–Byparken Vejle
7/30–Toronto, Ontario–Sony Centre
8/1–Chicago, IL–Chicago Theatre
8/3–Detroit, MI–Fox Theatre
8/5–Boston, MA–Boston Opera House
8/7–Port Chester, NY–Capitol Theater
8/9–New York, NY–United Palace Theater
8/11–Philadelphia, PA–The Met
8/13–Washington, DC–The Anthem
8/15–Atlanta, GA–Tabernacle
8/17–Nashville, TN–Ryman Auditorium
8/21–Dallas, TX–Majestic Theatre
8/23–Austin, TX–ACL Live at the Moody Theater
8/25–Denver, CO–Paramount Theatre
8/27–San Diego, CA–Copley Symphony Hall
8/29–Los Angeles, CA–Greek Theatre
8/31–Oakland, CA–Fox Theatre
9/3–Seattle, WA–Moore Theatre
9/5–Vancouver, British Columbia–Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Watch Broken Social Scene, joined by Feist, reveal new songs, jam classics and cover Bonnie Tyler in the House Of Strombo
Broken Social Scene teased new songs “Can’t Find My Heart” and “1972” were joined by Feist to perform “Lover’s Spit”, Jason Collett to perform “I’ll Bring The Sun” and a few other BSS jams, including a cover of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” during “Ibi Dreams Of Pavement.”
Duran Duran’s Hungry Like The Wolf On A Solton Ketron Programmer 24 From 1985
The Solton Programmer 24 is a programmable drum machine with 8-bit samples, featuring a sequencer, and uses analog sounds for the bass-line and the solo synth. It also has a polyphonic string-ensemble and polyphonic organ both using a 3 BBD chorus. It was produced in Italy by Ketron in 1985, which is all technological jargon for this remake of Duran Duran’s 1983 hit Hungry Like The Wolf is what you need today.
Tori Kelly Announces The Acoustic Sessions Tour
GRAMMY nominee Tori Kelly will kick off The Acoustic Sessions on February 25 at the Fox Theatre in Tucson. The North American headline tour will include a February 28 concert at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles and an April 3 show at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. See below for itinerary.
A ticket pre-sale for members of Tori’s fan club will begin on Tuesday, January 22, at 10:00 AM local time. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, January 25, at 10:00 AM local time. The stripped-down acoustic excursion follows Tori’s fall 2018 Hiding Place tour, which included sold-out shows in such cities as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Dallas.
Earlier today, Tori revealed the title and cover art for her new single, “Change Your Mind,” which will be released soon. “Never Alone” (Feat. Kirk Franklin) – the single from her new passion project, Hiding Place – claimed the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart last week. Tori is nominated for two GRAMMY Awards – Best Gospel Performance/Song for “Never Alone” and Best Gospel Album for Hiding Place.
Produced by Franklin, a 12-time GRAMMY Award winner, Hiding Place debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart, earning more first-week streams than any gospel album in history. Hiding Place also topped Billboard’s Gospel Streaming Songs and Gospel Digital Song Sales charts plus the Apple Music Christian genre chart. The collection features guest artists Lecrae, Jonathan McReynolds and The Hamiltones.
Tori’s 2015 debut album Unbreakable Smile entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2 and contained the Gold-certified singles “Nobody Love,” “Should’ve Been Us” and “Hollow.” Hailed as an artist to watch by such publications as Rolling Stone, USA Today and SPIN, she was nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best New Artist category and received the Billboard Women in Music Breakthrough Artist award. Unbreakable Smile has earned more than one billion cumulative streams worldwide and sold 1.3 million adjusted albums.
Tori Kelly – The Acoustic Sessions
Date City State Venue
2/25 Tucson AZ Fox Theatre
2/26 Phoenix AZ Marquee
2/28 Los Angeles CA Orpheum
3/2 Anaheim CA House of Blues
3/5 San Diego CA Copley Symphony Hall
3/8 Oakland CA Fox Theatre
3/9 Las Vegas NV The Pearl
3/11 Salt Lake City UT Eccles Theater
3/14 Seattle WA Paramount Theatre
3/16 Vancouver BC Queen Elizabeth
3/17 Portland OR Crystal Ballroom
3/19 Denver CO Paramount
3/21 St. Paul MN The Palace
3/22 Omaha NE Holland
3/24 Kansas City MO Midland Theatre
3/26 St. Louis MO The Pageant
3/28 Indianapolis IN Murat Theatre
3/29 Columbus OH Express Live
3/31 Toronto ON Roy Thomas Hall
4/2 Boston MA House of Blues
4/3 Brooklyn NY Kings Theatre
4/5 Philadelphia PA The Fillmore
4/6 Lynchburg VA Liberty University
4/9 St. Petersburg FL Mahaffrey Theater
4/10 Orlando FL Hard Rock Live
4/13 New Orleans LA The Fillmore
King Crimson Announce 50 Shows For 50th Anniversary Tour
As part of a series of events and releases for their 50th anniversary, King Crimson’s 2019 tour will include special concerts across three continents, including both festivals and headline shows. Since the band’s return to live performance in 2014, with critically acclaimed sell-out shows all over the world including two defining shows at the Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, previously home to Pink Floyd, the audience has been reinvented, as much as the band itself:
With its fiftieth anniversary, it seems that the wider world is finally ready to embrace King Crimson. A process that began with Kanye West’s sampling of “21st Century Schizoid Man” for his 2010 hit “Power”, now sees their song “Starless” as the soundtrack to the opening scenes of Nicholas Cage’s new 2018 film “Mandy”.
The band’s packed three-hour shows regularly include material from twelve of their thirteen studio albums, including many of the songs from their seminal 1969 album “In The Court of the Crimson King”, described by Pete Townshend, as an “uncanny masterpiece”. The new 8-piece line-up plays many historic pieces which Crimson have never played live, as well as new arrangements of Crimson classics – “the music is new whenever it was written”. There are also new instrumentals and songs, as well as the compositions by the three drummers, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey, which are a regular highlight. A unique show, where eight of the best musicians in the world play music without distraction or adornment.
“MELTDOWN” – A BluRay filmed at the band’s five sell-out shows in Mexico City in 2017, together with 3 CDs, was released in October 2018.
“COSMIKC F*KC” – an in-depth documentary of King Crimson will appear in 2019.
King Crimson 2019 Celebration Tour: U.S. Dates
Sep. 3 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
Sep. 10 – Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
Sep. 21 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
Maren Morris Announces Girl: The World Tour
Twenty-eight-year-old Columbia Nashville singer/songwriter Maren Morris has quickly established herself with vocal stylings that reflect her country, folk and pop influences. She kicks off her year with the launch of a new single “Girl” and an international tour to kick off her 2019.
Morris wrote the song with Grammy-winning producer Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia, Kelly Clarkson) and Sarah Aarons, who co-wrote the Top 5 hit “The Middle” featuring Morris, Zedd and Grey. “The Middle” is nominated for record of the year and song of the year, which goes to songwriters, at this year’s Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, and Morris was also nominated for best pop duo/group collaboration.
The ‘Girl: The World’ tour kicks off with a pair of festival dates in February — Brandi Carlile’s Girls Just Wanna Weekend destination event in Riviera Maya, Mexico on February 1st, followed by the Kaaboo Festival in the Caymans on February 15th.
Morris is lined up for festival plays in North America in the summer, including a gig at Bonnaroo, as well as Faster Horses, the LakeShake Festival, Country Jam, and the Merritt Rockin’ River Festival before she heads across the Pacific for a run in Australia and New Zealand.
Cassadee Pope and RaeLynn will provide support on select dates of the tour.
Maren Morris’s 2019 Itinerary
3/9/19 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
3/13/19 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
3/15/19 – Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland
3/16/19 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
3/18/19 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
3/19/19 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union
3/21/19 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
3/23/19 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
3/26/19 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
3/28/19 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues Anaheim
3/30/19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
4/11/19 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
4/12-14/19 – Fort Lauderdale, FL Tortuga Festival
4/18/19 – Houston, TX – Revention Music Center
4/19/19 – Dallas, TX – Bomb Factory
4/20/19 – New Braunfels, TX – Whitewater Amphitheatre
4/25/19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
4/26/19 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
4/27/19 – Boston, MA – House of Blues – Boston
5/2/19 – Washington, DC – Anthem
5/3/19 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
5/4/19 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
5/9/19 – Saint Louis, MO – The Pageant
5/10/19 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
5/11/19 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
5/17/19 – Berlin, DE – Columbia Theatre
5/18/19 – Cologne, DE – Kantine
5/19/19 – Zurich, CH – Mascotte
5/21/19 – Hamburg, DE – Gruenspan
5/22/19 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
5/24/19 – Dublin, IE – The Academy
5/25/19 – Leeds, UK – O2 Academy Leeds
5/26/19 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow
5/27/19 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
5/29/19 – Bristol, UK – O2 Academy Bristol
5/30/19 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute
5/31/19 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall
6/15/19 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
6/21/19 – Chicago, IL – LakeShake Festival
7/19/19 – Brooklyn, MI – Faster Horses
7/20/19 – Eau Claire, WI – Country Jam USA
8/2/19 – Merritt, BC – Merritt Rockin’ River Festival
8/3/19 – Duncan, BC – Sunfest Country
8/8-11/19 – Oro, ON – Boots and Hearts Music Festival
8/16/19 – Auckland, NZ – The Logan Campbell Centre
8/17/19 – Christchurch, NZ – Town Hall
8/19/19 – Brisbane, AU – Brisbane City Hall
8/21/19 – Melbourne, AU – Forum Theatre
8/22/19 – Sydney, AU – Enmore Theatre
8/23/19 – Canberra, AU – UC Refectory
8/30/19 – Grand Island, NE – Nebraska State Fair
Matt Andersen Releases “Halfway Home by Morning” On March 22
Award-winning Canadian soul-bluesman Matt Andersen today announces the forthcoming release of Halfway Home by Morning (True North Records) — available worldwide Friday, March 22nd, 2019.
Unbridled joy springs eternal from Halfway Home by Morning. His tenth full-length release, the album was recorded live off the floor in Nashville, Tennessee and deftly captures the New Brunswick-native’s long-signature and internationally celebrated sound: sweat-soaked soul meets incendiary rhythm and blues, with full doses of heartsick folk and Americana grit mixed in for good measure.
Much like legends who graced the space before them — see: Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, and Jerry Lee Lewis, to name a few — Andersen and the band left everything they had on the floor of Southern Ground studio over the course of recording Halfway Home by Morning’s 13 tracks.
The recording space, too, soon came to feel like home Andersen. The kitchen fulfilled its all-important role as de-facto ‘war room’ for musicians who join on the release, like Steve Dawson, Jay Bellerose, Chris Gestrin, Amy Helm, The McCrary Sisters (Ann, Regina, and Alfreda), Jim Hoke, Charles Rose, and Steve Hermann, and after the day’s work was done, Andersen and bassist Mike Farrington routinely found themselves kicking back, listening to the horn sections and reminisce about the players they’d shared stages with before.
That home-like feel fed the belly and fuelled the fire within Halfway Home by Morning; the release inspires soulful rejuvenation, looking outward at the anxious state of the world and offering a helping hand while, at the same time, searching inward to clarify what really matters.
The result? A record teeming with such warmth and verve, listeners can’t help but keep comrades close and feelin’ right. “There really is nothing like listening back in the studio and everybody has the same smile on their face over what we’re hearing,” Andersen shares. “You can’t fake the vibe of musicians playing together, responding to the choices others are making in that moment.”
Fakery has never been a factor for Matt Andersen. Nearly two decades into his storied career now, Andersen’s room-shaking, heart-quaking voice has won him countless awards, including two European Blues Awards, seven Maple Blues Awards, plus an International Blues Challenge, and a Canadian Independent Music Association nod, not to mention a JUNO Award nomination, his lengthy tenure as Canada’s resident blues-man speaks for itself.
The proof is further in the previous: 2016’s Honest Man debuted in the top five on Soundscan for albums in Canada, following Adele, Justin Bieber, Macklemore & Lewis, and The 1975, and its supporting tour sold more than 25,000+ tickets nationwide.
Halfway Home by Morning is the sound of an artist doing was he was born to do — laying his soul bare using the music that can’t help but run through him, and doing it with more jubilation than he ever has before.
Halfway Home by Morning is available Friday, March 22nd, 2019. Andersen’s tour dates are below, with more to be announced.
MATT ANDERSEN 2019 UK & EUROPEAN TOUR
2019-02-07 Winters, CA – The Palms Playhouse
2019-02-08 Buellton, CA – Standing Sun Wines
2019-03-19 Cologne, DE – Kulturkirche
2019-03-20 Utrecht, NL – TivoliVredenburg
2019-03-22 London, UK – Dingwalls
2019-03-23 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
2019-03-24 Glasgow, UK – The Blue Arrow
2019-03-25 Nottingham, UK – Bodega
2019-03-29 Baden, CH – Royal
2019-03-30 Mezzago, IT – Italian Blues River at Bloom Club
2019-04-01 Munich, DE – Technikum
2019-04-02 Hamburg, DE – Elbphilharmonie
2019-04-03 Berlin, DE – Passionskirche
2019-06-29 Montreal, QC – Montreal Jazz Festival
Re-create the 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono Bed-In
In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged a bed-in at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montréal, Canada where they penned and recorded the iconic pacifist song “Give Peace a Chance.” 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of this historic moment in music history, and this year’s Folk Alliance International conference is taking place in the same hotel.
Commemorate this event and celebrate its spirit of peace and solidarity through music. The conference invite all conference attendees and all their folk friends around the world to join them by live-streaming a performance of “Give Peace a Chance” from your own beds on Saturday, February 16th at 9:30 am ET.
How to Participate:
1. RSVP to be part of the official register of participants.
2. JOIN FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL BY LIVE STREAMING YOUR OWN BED-IN PERFORMANCE OF THE SONG at 9:30 am ET on Saturday, February 16.
Use the preferred platforms, Facebook and Instagram Live and follow along with the hashtag #GiveFOLKaChance.
Registered participants at the conference can stop by the merch table to pick up a complimentary Folk Peace banner to hang behind your bed for the live-stream. For anyone participating from home, you can print your own here.