When you’re a band and go over the allotted curfew time to get off the stage, the venue doesn’t like to mess around. If you’re the Foo Fighters and this happens…the thousands of people in the crowd don’t mind a whit. It just allows them to sing louder.
Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins are performing Bauhaus, Love and Rockets on tour
The tour dates for Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins’ project Poptone have been confirmed. The two will be joined by Haskins’ daughter Diva Dompe and will be performing music spanning the pair’s career. Expect to hear cuts from the Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets catalogs—including Tones on Tail songs Go!, Happiness and Movement of Fear, and Bauhaus track Slice of Life. And don’t forget, Peter Murphy still tours doing Bauhaus material, so…
Nine concerts scheduled in five states along the Western U.S. with tickets to go on sale Friday—with more dates to be announced in the future
Dates:
April 20: Swing House Studios, Los Angeles, CA (sold out)
April 21: Swing House Studios, Los Angeles, CA (sold out)
May 11: The Marquee, Tempe, AZ
May 12: Brooklyn Bowl, Las Vegas, NV
May 17: House of Blues, San Diego, CA
May 30: Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA
May 31: Strummer’s, Fresno, CA
June 2: Neptune, Theatre, Seattle, WA
June 3: Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
June 6: Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CA
June 7: Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
Foreigner Announces 40th Anniversary Canadian Tour Dates and Forthcoming Musical “Juke Box Hero”
“I Want To Know What Love Is.” “Cold As Ice.” “Hot Blooded.” “Juke Box Hero.”
FOREIGNER, the band behind these and other classic and iconic songs, is turning 40 this year and celebrating with a Canadian tour, 40th Anniversary Album, and new musical; Juke Box Hero, premiering in Alberta sometime in 2018.
Foreigner’s 10-city Canadian tour is set to launch in Calgary, AB on October 11th, and trek across Western Canada as the band – Mick Jones (lead guitar), Kelly Hansen (lead vocals), Jeff Pilson (bass, vocals), Tom Gimbel (rhythm guitar, sax, vocals), Michael Bluestein (keyboards), Bruce Watson (guitar) and Chris Frazier (drums) – bring Foreigner’s arsenal of hits to Canada. Tickets go on sale June 2nd, 2017 at www.jeffparrypromotions.com/foreigner.
This tour will feature a companion album, a new career-spanning compilation titled 40 that features 40 hits from 40 years. RHINO will release 40 on May 26th as a double-CD set that includes 40 songs recorded between 1977 and 2017. A double-vinyl version that features 23 songs will be released on June 2. 40 brings together the best songs from Foreigner’s nine studio albums, including all 16 of its Top 30 hits: “Feels Like The First Time,” “Urgent,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You” and more. The collection features “Too Late” from the group’s 2008 retrospective No End In Sight and “The Flame Still Burns,” the title track from a vinyl EP released just last year, making its debut on CD in this collection. All prior recordings have been remastered and the album features two new tracks recorded especially for this release, “Give My Life For Love” and a new version of “I Don’t Want To Live Without You.”
Another milestone as part of Foreigner’s 40th Anniversary celebration is the announcement of the forthcoming musical, Juke Box Hero, premiering in Alberta in 2018. Based on the screenplay written by the prolific writing duo, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, responsible for films The Commitments and Across The Universe, and The Tracey Ullman TV Show, Juke Box Hero is a coming of age saga written to the music of Foreigner.
“I never could have imagined when I set out to create Foreigner forty years ago, that we’d still be touring around the world and performing the music we love all these years later,” says founding member and lead guitarist Mick Jones. “I am so proud that these songs will now be reinterpreted for stage, and am honored by the team that is helping bring this music to life. I can’t express the gratitude I feel when fans share stories of how our songs have been woven into their milestones and memories over the years. I had so many great times with Foreigner in Canada and I look forward to bringing the band back here for our 40th anniversary tour. I’m thrilled that Canada will see the premiere of our brand new musical, Juke Box Hero, in 2018.”
Since the 1977 release of their first hit “Feels Like The First Time” and their self-titled debut album on Atlantic Records, FOREIGNER has been universally hailed as one of the world’s most popular rock acts with 10 multi-platinum albums, 16 Top 30 hits, and worldwide album sales exceeding 75 million. Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold as Ice,” “Feels Like The First Time,” “Urgent,” “Head Games,” “Say You Will,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Long, Long Way From Home,” and the worldwide #1 hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” FOREIGNER continues to rock the charts more than thirty years into the game.
Recent albums including Juke Box Heroes, a new compilation of digitally recorded Foreigner hits, and The Best of Foreigner 4 & More, recorded live from The Borgata, Atlantic City, both entered the Billboard Top 200 chart. Foreigner also featured strongly in every category in Billboard’s recently released “Greatest of All Time” listing. Catalog sales often eclipse those of Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Def Leppard, Van Halen and most of their Classic Rock peers (Source: Nielsen SoundScan 2/11/16 – 2/3/16).
Check out the tour at any of the following stops. Fans can check out www.jeffparrypromotions.com/foreigner for updates on tour dates and news.
Wed Oct 11 Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee
Thu Oct 12 Edmonton, AB – Northlands Coliseum
Fri Oct 13 Red Deer, AB – Enmax Centrium
Sun Oct 15 Lethbridge, AB – Enmax Centre
Mon Oct 16 Regina, SK – Conexus Arts Centre
Tue Oct 17 Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place
Thu Oct 19 Dawson Creek, BC – Encana Events Centre
Fri Oct 20 Prince George, BC – CN Centre
Sat Oct 21 Penticton, BC – South Okangan Events Centre
Sun Oct 22 Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre
Photo Gallery: CBC Music Festival at RBC Echo Beach featuring Scott Helman, Walk Off The Earth, Serena Ryder
All photos taken by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Conan O’Brien On The End Of Television As We Know It
Over the past decade, Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton heard a lot of people in Silicon Valley talk about the end of the cable business. They’ve talked about so-called cord-cutters, so called never-cords, and the rise of over-the-top streaming options like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. For the most part, the data backs them up. During the last quarter alone, in fact, half-a-million TV subscribers sliced the cord. It’s far more rare, however, to hear people in the television industry talk about the increasing irrelevance of cable television. Yet that’s exactly what Conan O’Brien, the host of TBS’s Conan, told Nick during their conversation on this week’s Inside the Hive podcast. “Five or 10 years from now—because TV is changing so rapidly—I might not have a late-night TV show,” O’Brien said in a conference room in his office. He then added: “But I might have something that you can get on the Internet. At a certain point, I don’t care how people experience me. It’s getting to the point where it doesn’t matter to me; I just want people to see the stuff.”
What A Beatboxer’s Larynx Looks Like
Renowned beatboxer Tom Thum visited ENT doctor and Laryngeal surgeon Dr Matthew Broadhurst to find out how his larynx functioned when performing compared to how it functions normally with speech, and whether or not there were any abnormalities in his laryngeal anatomy. I also had very little idea of what the inside of our throats and all the noise producing mechanisms actually looked like. The results were fascinating yet horrifyingly graphic and will probably make a few people get a little sick. Worth a watch! Heh.
Evanescence’s Amy Lee Performs Using a Hello Kitty Keyboard
Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee performs a candlelit version of Death Cab for Cutie’s I Will Follow You Into the Dark on a Hello Kitty keyboard
Hope Sandoval on Writer’s Block
Some people talk about songwriting like it’s a business. Others feel it’s much more muse-driven and more spontaneous. Isn’t writer’s block just the most archaic idea?
Hope Sandoval: I didn’t even know what that was until the late ‘90s. Like, what the hell is that? People aren’t able to do something? That’s crazy. What does that mean, “writer’s block?” What the hell does that mean? You can’t write or play music or paint? That’s just crazy. It’s like a posh term. You’ve gotta be super rich to fucking have writer’s block, you know what I mean?
Because it’s not your full-time job and it’s just a hobby on the side, so you can take time to muse about writer’s block.
Sandoval: [Mocking] “I’ve got writer’s block, guys. I can’t work!” Honestly, writer’s block is baby crap. Get it together, people. Stop thinking about it and just do it. That’s just overthinking it. It’s not so precious; it’s just a song. It’s just art and art is nothing. Art is not precious, anybody can do it. A five-year-old can do it. It’s not a big deal.
How mastering the Buchla 200 synth changed Suzanne Ciani, and the music industry
A true synthesizer pioneer, Suzanne Ciani’s love of electronic music began in 1968 during a field trip to MIT, but it was her decade-long adventure mastering the Buchla 200 that would define her career. She worked in commercials and in the late 80’s and 90’s redefined herself again as a five-time Grammy-nominated new age artist. In her 2016 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, she talked about her history as well as her recent collaborative effort with fellow Buchla player Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.
Why social media might be bad for musicians’ psychological health
The always-on culture of social media and its increasing demands for musicians’ time may be bad for their psychological health, according to Cooking Vinyl owner Martin Goldschmidt.
“One of the big changes that has happened is that artists have to be incredibly engaged in social media – and this has been a massive [shift] for artists over the last 10 years,” he said, speaking on a The Future of the Music Industry panel at the BIME conference in Bilbao.
“They have to be on several social media platforms and I am just wondering if the next stage is if they are going to have to visually record part of the recording process. Not only will you be able to stream the new release, but you can also see it in VR.”
Goldschmidt was backed up by Gerhard Behles, CEO of Ableton, who was speaking on the same panel.
“An artist 30 years ago was very proficient in one facility or two; they might have been a fantastic writer and play an instrument very well,” said Behles. “Most of the people we deal with now have to be proficient at writing, performing, recording [and so on]. That is just going to expand. Now they have to be really good with their social channels. I wonder what kind of personality can survive that.”
Goldschmidt added: “In the 1980s, fan engagement was shagging groupies and scoring drugs from the front row of a gig. Now it’s horrendous what an artist has to do. The pressure that is put on an artist when they are 24/7 exposed to social media and the internet; that is massive psychologically and it causes massive psychological problems, actually. And it is going to get worse because of VR and the way that things are going.”