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Sia to embark on North American “Nostalgic for the Present” Tour

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May 16, 2016

Sia to embark on North American “Nostalgic for the Present” Tour

International icon, five-time GRAMMY Award nominee, and multi-platinum selling artist/songwriter/hit maker Sia today announces her North American Nostalgic For The Present Tour, her first ever arena tour and return to the road in five years. The 22-city tour, produced by Live Nation, kicks-off on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at Key Arena in Seattle, Wash. with special guests Miguel and AlunaGeorge and includes stops at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

Citi card members will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, May 17 at noon local time through Citi’s Private Pass Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Tickets for the general public go on-sale beginning, Friday, May 20 starting at 10 a.m. ET on www.livenation.com.

The unprecedented trek will bring her powerhouse vocals across the continent, offering fans a chance to experience elements from her critically-acclaimed Coachella performances which were heralded as “one of the greatest moments in Coachella’s 17-year history” by Yahoo! Music. “Her set was freakin’ legendary…will blow your goddamn mind” stated Buzzfeed and Time Magazine anointed her performance as “one of the festival’s best.”

Sia released her new album THIS IS ACTING (Monkey Puzzle Records/RCA Records) earlier this year to much critical acclaim. The New Yorker described it as “the Platonic ideal of a modern pop album,” with rave reviews across the board from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Fader and many more. The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 Chart, peaked at #1 on the ITunes chart in over 50 countries, and charted Top 10 in 8 countries worldwide, including #1 in her native Australia and #3 in the UK. Currently, Sia’s single “Cheap Thrills” is Top 5 on Spotify globally and is #1 on Shazam’s Global Chart for three consecutive weeks.

Grammy Award-winning recording artist, producer and songwriter Miguel first hit the mainstream in 2010 with his infectious first single “All I Want Is You,” and “Sure Thing,” which hit #1 on Billboard’s Hip-Hop/R&B chart. His critically-acclaimed, four-time Grammy Award nominated sophomore album Kaleidoscope Dream, featured the intoxicating “How Many Drinks?” as well as his third US #1 hit single “Adorn,” which garnered Miguel his first Grammy Award for Best R&B Song and resided at #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hip Airplay chart for more than 23 weeks, becoming the longest running #1 in the history of the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hip Airplay chart. Miguel’s critically acclaimed third studio album, “Wildheart,” released in 2015, claimed the #1 spot on Billboard’s R&B Albums chart for the second time and debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. The album was recently nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Urban Contemporary Album category, and its lead single “Coffee,” was nominated in the Best R&B Song category.

AlunaGeorge, which is singer/lyricist Aluna Francis and producer George Reid, have barely stopped since they released their 2012 single “You Know You Like It” followed by their critically lauded debut album, Body Music in 2013. Last year, DJ Snake’s remix of “You Know You Like It” became one of the most streamed songs of all time crossing double platinum in sales with over 85 million YouTube views. The London duo is confirmed to perform at a number of festivals this season including Lollapalooza, HARD Summer, Glastonbury and more. Earlier this year they released the first single, “I’m In Control” featuring Jamaican dancehall artist Popcaan, from the band’s forthcoming sophomore studio album entitled, I Remember, to be released this fall via Interscope Records.

NOSTALGIC FOR THE PRESENT TOUR DATES
*All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.
Thursday, September 29 Seattle, WA KeyArena
Saturday, October 1 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
Tuesday, October 4 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Resort Arena
Wednesday, October 5 San Diego, CA Viejas Arena
Friday, October 7 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay
Saturday, October 8 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
Thursday, October 13 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Saturday, October 15 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
Sunday, October 16 Chicago, IL United Center
Wednesday, October 18 TBA
Wednesday, October 19 Washington, DC Verizon Center
Friday, October 21 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Saturday, October 22 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Sunday, October 23 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Wednesday, October 25 TBA
Wednesday, October 26 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Saturday, October 29 Sunrise, FL BB&T Center
Sunday, October 30 Orlando, FL Amway Center
Tuesday, November 1 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Thursday, November 3 New Orleans, LA Smoothie King Center
Friday, November 4 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Sunday, November 6 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center

Instagram will start showing demographics, post impressions, reach & more

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Instagram is preparing to launch a series of new tools for the businesses and brands using its platform, including business profiles with contact buttons and access to maps and directions, as well as tools for tracking the analytics around posts, and a mobile ad-buying experience. Now we’re able to see what Instagram’s analytics feature looks like in action, thanks to a leak from one of the product’s early testers.

Details of the new analytics feature were first posted on Instagram scheduling toolLater.com’s blog – the same site that first unveiled photos of the forthcoming business profiles, as it turns out.

Note, however, that these screenshots were snapped ahead of the user interface revamp that turned Instagram’s interface from blue-and-white to black-and-white. That means when this feature launches more broadly, it will have a different visual appearance, though the content being tracked will not likely change.

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How music helps the dating world

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Many studies and researches are performed to find what make people fall in love with each other, what traits are most attractive and what kind of profiles on dating sites have more chances to be viewed and will lead to a real date and maybe long-term relationship. Certainly, physiologists and professors do not work hard in vain. Thanks to their effort we know some secrets of how to behave, start communicating and which information to give about yourself. But I guess there is a special group of people who do not care of any findings. The only thing they need know about a person to get along with him/her is music compatibility. These people are music lovers; they cannot imagine their life without listening to their favorite band and singer. In case your music tastes coincide, nothing more matters for them.

I was surprised to know that people loving music so much had sparked interest from scientists and had been studied by them. So, now we have scientific proofs why music lovers are special folks. You can freely use them in arguing with a person saying that music lovers are one-track people (music is meant under the track surely). Let’s see how powerful music is.

Our brain consists of grey matter and white matter. The first one is in charge of emotions, memory, decision-making, speech, self-control, information processing, hearing, seeing and so on. As studies revealed this important substance likes music. Its volume increases thanks to music listening. The older we are, the less grey matter gets. So if your boyfriend/girlfriend is a music lover, you can’t worry about his/her intellectual health in future.
If you spend a lot of time with music-addict partners, you are likely to notice them bobing their head in time with the song. They catch the rhythm easily and fast. This ability is very helpful in learning languages. All you need to do is just to inspire them to learn it. You can be sure their progress in mastering it will be faster than others’ one.
One doesn’t often come up with lovers of classical music. They can boast of higher IQ level than the lovers of rock and pop music. Unfortunately, there is no information about whose IQ is higher, classical musician’s one or a composer’s one. It is reliable known that the last one is more popular with women.
Music is a great healer. Listening to your favorite compositions helps to overcome stress and anxiety. Music is a bunch cheaper than any antidepressants. The positive side effect of music is that it saves money and cares of your health. Music in our ears while we are running boosts our energy and invigorates us. Running with music is faster and better than just outdoor running.
A bonus of living with a music lover who constantly listens to music is faster growing plants. Cows like music too and gives more milk. Surely, the advice to get a cow would be ridiculous, though, the idea to have more plants is quite good.

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$20 Live Nation Promotion Has Started

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May 15, 2016

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TORONTO, May 13, 2016 – As the number one provider of live entertainment, Live Nation wants to do everything it can to help fans get out and see their favorite artists this summer. Live Nation announced a special Kickoff to Summer offer, giving fans access to select shows for just $20 per ticket.

Tickets are available for some of the hottest shows at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, TD Echo Beach and many other venues, including some of Live Nation’s most in-demand summer tours. A full list of artists is included below.

The promotion starts this Friday, May 13 and runs through May 20. Click here to purchase tickets and for more information on the offer.

Artists featured in $20 Kickoff to Summer:
5 Seconds of Summer
AWOLNATION
Black Sabbath
Bloc Party
Blue Rodeo
Brad Paisley
Bryan Adams
CBC Music Festival
City and Colour
Counting Crows
Def Leppard
Demi Lovato
Disturbed
Dolly Parton
Duran Duran
Emblem3
G-EAZY/Logic
Goo Goo Dolls
Gwen Stefani
Daryl Hall & John Oates
Jacob Whitsides
Jeff Healey – 50th Celebration
Keith Urban
Korn
Lamb of God
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Meat Loaf
Meghan Trainor
Noel Gallagher
Slipknot
Snoop Dog
Toby Keith
Yanni

Don’t cue up Nashville’s exit music just yet. The show just might be back.

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Don’t cue up Nashville’s exit music just yet. The show just might be back.

Don’t cue up Nashville’s exit music just yet. Lionsgate is searching actively for a new home for the country-music drama, which got the ax at ABC after four seasons. Lionsgate, which produces the country-music drama, is shopping the series to other outlets after it was canceled by ABC on Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Nashville is currently in its fourth season and was on track to hit its 100th episode in season five if it had been picked up at ABC. AXS TV snagged off-network cable rights to the series last year, with seasons one through three currently in rotation on the cabler. Hulu, which saved The Mindy Project last year after it was canceled by Fox, has the SVOD rights to Nashville.

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U2’s The Edge Reveals How The Band Unlocks Creativity

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U2’s The Edge Reveals How The Band Unlocks Creativity

The Edge was born in England to a Welsh family, and was raised in Ireland after the Evans family relocated there while he was still an infant. In 1976 at Mount Temple Comprehensive School he formed U2 with his fellow students and his older brother Dik. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. They eventually became one of the most popular acts in popular music, with successful albums such as 1987’s The Joshua Tree and 1991’s Achtung Baby. Over the years, the Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. With U2, the Edge has also played keyboards, co-produced their 1993 record Zooropa, and occasionally contributed lyrics.

Watch Prince’s “Motherless Child” And Still Be Amazed He’s Not Here Anymore

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Watch Prince’s “Motherless Child” And Still Be Amazed He’s Not Here Anymore

I still walk past the magazine racks with Prince tribute covers and stories and still can’t believe he’s gone.

This is stunning. That is all.

https://youtu.be/XP6MnljUqBM

U2 Releasing iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris DVD And Download On June 10

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U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris will be released worldwide on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on Friday, June 10th.

The concert film captures the groundbreaking tour as it returned to the French capital in December. The New York Times put it like this: “The Paris show that concluded U2’s Innocence and Experience tour was concert as personal memoir, archetypal story, prayer, exorcism and vow of unity.”

The 2.5 hour film, directed by Hamish Hamilton, includes guest performances by Eagles of Death Metal and, on the deluxe version, by Patti Smith, which also features behind-the-scenes footage, additional music videos and live tracks and a tour of the visuals narrated by the band’s lifelong friend Gavin Friday.

“Directing iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE was scary,” says live broadcast director Hamish Hamilton who previously worked with U2 on 2001’s Elevation Tour. “A technical nightmare married with a creative rollercoaster. It challenged everything I knew on so many levels…What blew my mind were the multiple narrative arcs combined with the number of emotional arcs you are taken through as you journey through the show. There’s a lot of good shows out there – but very few great shows.”

U2’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour kicked off in Vancouver in May 2015 and, to date, has played to over 1.2 million fans in 22 cities across Europe and North America. Staged in the round, the tour features multiple performance areas plus a state of the art 100 foot LED screen suspended above a 118 foot walkway running the length of the arena floor. Combined with an innovative suspended sound system, the tour has delivered mindblowing sound and visuals from every seat in every venue. As Rolling Stone put it, “U2 reinvent the arena show.”

From ‘Songs of Innocence’ musical highlights include “Cedarwood Road”, “Song for Someone” and the stripped down live version of “Every Breaking Wave”. Career-spanning staples include ‘”I Will Follow”, “Pride (In the Name of Love)”, “Vertigo”, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, “Until The End of the World”, “Beautiful Day” and “Where The Streets Have No Name”.

U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris is released on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download. The Standard DVD features 30 tracks (see listing below), the Deluxe DVD and Blu-ray formats come with bonus material including Gavin Friday’s guide to “Cedarwood Road”, a behind-the-scenes piece with director director Hamish Hamilton’s behind-the-scenes documentary, on-stage tour videos for “The Wanderer” and “The Troubles” as well as six music videos commissioned for single releases from Songs of Innocence.

Highlights of the Super Deluxe Box collection include all of the above as well as an exclusive USB lightbulb, a 64-Page Hardback Book, Dog Tags, Stencil Set, Pin Badges and a special code to download the video of the entire show. Full details below.

STANDARD DVD

1. People Have The Power
2. The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
3. Vertigo
4. I Will Follow
5. Iris (Hold Me Close)
6. Cedarwood Road
7. Song For Someone
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Raised By Wolves
10. Until The End Of The World
11. The Fly
12. Invisible
13. Even Better Than The Real Thing
14. Mysterious Ways
15. Elevation
16. Every Breaking Wave
17. October
18. Bullet The Blue Sky
19. Zooropa
20. Where The Streets Have No Name
21. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
22. With Or Without You
23. Stephen Hawking ‘Global Citizen’
24. City Of Blinding Lights
25. Beautiful Day
26. Mother & Child Reunion
27. Bad
28. One
29. People Have The Power (With Eagles Of Death Metal)
30. I Love You All The Time (Eagles Of Death Metal)