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Legacy Recordings to Release Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story – An Album to Benefit War Child on May 5

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Legacy Recordings to Release Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story – An Album to Benefit War Child on May 5

On May 5, Legacy Recordings (a division of Sony Music Entertainment) will release Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story – An Album to Benefit War Child. This historic collection features newly recorded versions of all fourteen songs from Carlile’s breakthrough T Bone Burnett-produced 2007 album The Story, which just last month was certified Gold by the RIAA. Adele, The Avett Brothers, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Pearl Jam, and Margo Price are among the artists and activists lending their voices to celebrate the album’s 10th anniversary, and Barack Obama will provide a foreword. All proceeds from the album will benefit War Child UK, an organization dedicated to supporting children affected by conflict. Carlile’s nonprofit, the Looking Out Foundation, launched the Story Campaign last year to raise awareness and funds for War Child UK.

“This is a David and Goliath story,” says Carlile. “Since becoming a mother, the reality of a child’s beautiful life being torn apart by war felt like too big of a problem for me. So I asked my heroes and friends to help me launch a rock at the giant that is our refugee crisis and help in the only way we know how, through the power of music.” She adds, “It’s not how hard you can throw, it’s how high you’re willing to aim.”

Cover Stories was recorded mostly over a series of sessions in 2016 (with the exception of Adele’s take on “Hiding My Heart” which was originally released as a bonus track to her 2011 album 21, and Ruby Amanfu’s “Shadow on the Wall,” originally released in 2015), with many special guests contributing to the already star-studded lineup. Chris Stapleton adds guitar to Kris Kristofferson’s take on “Turpentine,” and Miranda Lambert lends backing vocals to Anderson East’s “Josephine.” Dave Cobb produced tracks by Kristofferson, Parton, and Price; Patrick Carney of the Black Keys produced Ruby Amanfu; Carlile and longtime bandmates The Twins (Tim and Phil Hanseroth) produced the Secret Sisters and TORRES.

Carlile and The Twins have confirmed a run of special tour dates to celebrate the release of Cover Stories called An Acoustic Evening with Brandi Carlile Performing The Story in Its Entirety and More. The nine-date run kicks off April 21 and shows in Birmingham, Athens, Austin + Los Angeles are already sold out. See below for a full list of dates.

Reflecting on The Story’s 10th anniversary Carlile says, “This album defined our band and welded The Twins and me to one another forever. It’s been a transformative experience to revisit it 10 years later and watch it become something bigger than me. To hear the songs through the voices of my heroes is both surreal and humbling.”

Catherine Carlile, Executive Director of the Looking Out Foundation, emphasizes the importance of artists using their platform to amplify the voices of children in war. “When powerful artists come together and lend their voices to a cause, they deliver an indelible message. Today’s headlines will soon be yesterday’s news, but music endures and transcends and the story lives on.”

Rob Williams, CEO of War Child UK says, “War Child has a strong and enduring story of harnessing the power of music to support children forced to live with the brutality of war. This fantastic album will help fund our vital work – from supporting Syrian children to access education, to reintegrating child soldiers in the Central African Republic and working in juvenile justice in Afghanistan.”

Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates Ten Years of The Story – An Album to Benefit War Child tracklisting:
Late Morning Lullaby – Shovels & Rope
The Story – Dolly Parton
Turpentine – Kris Kristofferson
My Song – Old Crow Medicine Show
Wasted – Jim James
Have You Ever – The Avett Brothers
Josephine – Anderson East
Losing Heart – Secret Sisters
Cannonball – Indigo Girls
Until I Die – TORRES
Downpour – Margo Price
Shadow On The Wall – Ruby Amanfu
Again Today – Pearl Jam
Hiding My Heart – Adele

An Acoustic Evening with Brandi Carlile Performing The Story in Its Entirety and More
April 21 – Birmingham, AL – Lyric Theatre – SOLD OUT
April 22 – Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre – SOLD OUT
April 24 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
April 25 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
April 28 – Houston, TX – Cullen Performance Hall
April 29 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at Moody Theatre – SOLD OUT
April 30 – Dallas, TX – The Majestic Theater
May 5 – Los Angeles, CA – John Anson Ford Amphitheatre – SOLD OUT
May 6 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic

Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray and Emily Saliers Are Going On Tour Together

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Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray and Emily Saliers Are Going On Tour Together

Legendary artists and long-time friends Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers announced that they will share the stage in a special group performance as Four Voices in June. These exclusive summer tour dates will include stops at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, Chicago’s Chicago Theatre and Toronto’s Massey Hall. For ticket details, go here.

The friendship between these four acclaimed artists began over twenty-five years ago when Baez invited Ray and Saliers to perform at a 1991 benefit at the Berkeley Community Theater for her human rights organization, Humanitas. Upon accepting the invitation, Ray and Saliers suggested enlisting Carpenter as well. After a successful performance, the four of them reconnected a year later at an Earth Day Celebration in Boston and at the Newport Folk Festival. Most recently, while together at Baez’s 75th birthday concert at the Beacon Theatre, they discussed the possibility of going on tour together and—one year later—the Four Voices Tour was confirmed.

Baez’s career has spanned over 50 years during which she unselfconsciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963, marched on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement with Martin Luther King, inspired Vaclav Havel to fight for a Czech Republic and continues to this day to stand passionately on behalf of causes she embraces. She is the recipient of many honors including the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award as well as Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience award and, in April, will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Her early albums introduced songs that found their way into the rock vernacular including “House Of the Rising Sun” (The Animals), “John Riley” (The Byrds) and “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You” (Led Zeppelin).

Over the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has recorded 14 albums and sold over 14 million records. Beloved by fans and critics alike, she has won five Grammy Awards (with 15 nominations) and is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Her most recent album, The Things That We Are Made Of, was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb and was released last year to widespread acclaim. The Associated Press calls it, “…an evocative collection of songs,” while The Huffington Post declares, “…Carpenter is now at the height of her musical career, painting a compelling, relevant piece of art tinged with mixed feelings of grief and joy, all without preaching or darkening our minds with sadness.” Previously, in 2014, Carpenter released her debut orchestral album, Songs From The Movie, which was arranged and co-produced by six-time Grammy winner Vince Mendoza. Since it’s release, Carpenter has performed alongside the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra, the L.A. Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra among many others.

Twenty years after they began releasing records as the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have politely declined the opportunity to slow down. With a legacy of releases and countless U.S. and international tours behind them, the Indigo Girls have forged their own way in the music business. Selling over 14 million records, they are still going strong. Amy & Emily are the only duo with top 40 titles on the Billboard 200 in the ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘00s and ‘10. The duo has balanced their long, successful musical career by supporting numerous social causes – the Indigo Girls don’t just talk the talk; they walk the walk. Having established an intensely dedicated fan base, the duo continues to remain relevant and attract new fans. In 2015 Indigo Girls released their 16th studio album, One Lost Day, produced by Jordan Brooke Hamlin and mixed by Brian Joseph.

FOUR VOICES SUMMER TOUR:
June 3—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium
June 5—Raleigh, NC—North Carolina Museum of Art
June 6—Charlottesville, VA—Sprint Pavilion
June 8—Kettering, OH—Fraze Pavilion
June 9—Rochester Hills, MI—Meadow Brook Amphitheatre
June 11—Chicago, IL—Chicago Theatre
June 12—Grand Rapids, MI—Meijer Gardens
June 14—Toronto, ON—Massey Hall
June 16—Gilford, NH—Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
June 17—Lenox, MA—Tanglewood

Ride Unveil First New Song In 20 Years ‘Charm Assault’

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Ride Unveil First New Song In 20 Years ‘Charm Assault’

Ride today unveil ‘Charm Assault’, their first new music in twenty years. Produced by legendary DJ, producer and remixer Erol Alkan, ‘Charm Assault’ sees Ride on classic form as driving drums, and chiming guitar lines underpin Andy Bell’s unmistakable vocals on this urgent and vital opening salvo from their eagerly anticipated forthcoming album. The album, scheduled for release this summer, will be released through Wichita Recordings and sees the band reunited with label co-founders Mark Bowen and Dick Green, who they worked with during the band’s early years on Creation Records. It also brings the band back together with mixer Alan Moulder (Arctic Monkeys, Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers) who mixed their seminal 1990 album Nowhere and produced it’s follow up Going Blank Again.

Andy Bell says “Charm Assault is a pretty straightforward expression of frustration and disgust at the people who currently run our country. The tour in 2015 was a good way of reminding us what we were good at in the first place and Charm Assault feels like a natural continuation from our peak. When we started writing together again we tried to imagine we’d kept on making music all this time, and this was just the latest one.”

Erol Alkan says: “’Nowhere’ and ‘Going Blank Again’ were big records for me and my friends when we were growing up. I’ve vaguely known Andy for a few years through his brother-in-law but we didn’t actually meet until a couple of years back. I had an email from them asking if I’d like to collaborate with the band, and once I’d heard the demos, I was 100% in. Andy’s very well versed in electronic music, so we had a common bond in that as well as alternative music. The new music contains all the great elements you want from Ride – Great songs, loud guitars, beautiful harmonies, powerful rhythms.”

The revitalised four piece – comprising of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence Colbert, and Steve Queralt – reformed and returned to the live scene in 2014, selling out headline tours around the world to a plethora of critical acclaim, as well as show stopping turns at festivals including Coachella, Primavera and Field Day.

Metal On A Sitar? It Can Be Done…

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Metal On A Sitar? It Can Be Done…

Musician Rob Scallon proves that with the right technique, you can play any genre of music on any instrument, even if it’s a sitar and metal.

Pixies announce second leg to 2017 North American Tour

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Pixies announce second leg to 2017 North American Tour

With more than half of Leg One already sold out, Pixies announce the addition of Leg Two to its 2017 North American touring schedule.  The band will kick off the second leg September 19 in New Haven, CT, and will perform in major and secondary markets over a five-week period.  Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 24; log onto www.pixiesmusic.com for pre-sales details and complete purchasing info.

Pixies, a long time leader in helping to break the ticket scalper stranglehold, will be working to get their face-value tickets to their fans, and not to touts for inflated resale, something they did very successfully during last Fall’s UK tour.  Said Pixies manager Richard Jones, “On this tour, we are asking the promoters and the venues to make avaialble as many tickets as possible for pre-sales.  That way, we can help insure that tickets get into the hands of the fans and not the scalpers.  We’ve also asked the promoters to remove any secondary site links and to use their anti-tout teams and technology to help combat the scalper market.”

Leg Two will also include additional New York shows as well as this cycle’s first Canadian shows, scheduled in Toronto and Montreal.   Sunflower Bean, who Rolling Stone called “NYC’s coolest young band,” will provide support on the first half of the tour with Brooklyn’s Mitski (“one of the most compelling voices in the sphere of indie rock” – Pitchfork) opening the shows on the second half. The confirmed itinerary is below and includes the band’s upcoming international dates.

On the 2017 dates, Pixies – Joey Santiago/guitar, Black Francis/guitar & vocals, David Lovering/drums, and bassist Paz Lenchantin – are introducing to its global audiences a brand new stage set designed by their longtime production manager Simon Foster and lighting designer Myles Mangino.  The design is simple and sleek and fashioned around special pods that are positioned behind the band, housing all of the lighting.  Fans can expect a set list comprised of the classics and catalogue rarities as well as newer songs from Indie Cindy and the band’s latest release, Head Carrier.  As is the norm, there will be no firm setlist for Pixies’ shows; their sets, while pulled from nearly 90 songs that the band has rehearsed and is prepared to play, will change somewhat from night to night with every number determined just before it’s performed.

Pixies launched the European leg of this 2016-17 global run last November, playing sold-out shows throughout the UK and wrapping up in Birmingham on December 8.  The band is back on the road as of February 25, playing a series of dates in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and, for the first time, South Africa.  Following the April/May North American leg, Pixies will head to Europe to play a series of major summer festivals.
Confirmed dates are below:
February 25 – March 18, 2017
Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
North American Tour, Leg One
APRIL
21   Fox Theatre, Pomona, CA*
22   Cal Coast Open Air, San Diego, CA*
23   House of Blues, Anaheim, CA*
25   Ace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA*
29   Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX*
30   White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX*
MAY
1   Stubbs, Austin, TX*
3   Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, LA*
5   Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN*
6   Madison Theatre, Covington, KY*
7   Express Live Amphitheatre, Columbus, OH*
9   The National, Richmond, VA**
11  Durham PAC, Durham, NC**
12  Shaky Knees Music Festival, Atlanta, GA**
14  Rams Head Live, Baltimore, MD**
16  Lincoln Theatre, Washington, DC**
17  Lincoln Theatre, Washington, DC**
19  House of Blues, Boston, MA**
20  House of Blues, Boston, MA**
21  Paradise Ballroom, Boston, MA**
23  Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA**
24  Webster Hall, New York, NY**
25  Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY**
26  Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY**
* Public Access TV will support
** Cymbals Eat Guitars will support

July 6 – August 11, 2017
UK/Europe

North American Tour, Leg Two
SEPTEMBER
19   College Street Music Hall, New Haven, CT*
22   The Westbury Theatre, Westbury, NY*
23   Stone Pony Summerstage, Asbury Park, NJ*
24   The Capitol Theatre, Portchester, NY*
26   State Theatre, Portland, ME*
27   Metropolis, Montreal QC*
29   Massey Hall, Toronto, ON*
30   Massey Hall, Toronto, ON*
OCTOBER
1   UB Centre for the Arts, Buffalo, NY  (support TBA)
3   The Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH*
4   Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA*
6   The Fillmore Detroit, Detroit, MI*
7   20 Monroe Live, Grand Rapids, MI**
8   The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL**
11  Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN**
14  Peabody Opera House, St. Louis, MO**
15  Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland, Kansas City, MO**
18  Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO**
21  The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, NV**
* Sunflower Bean will support
** Mitski will support

Virginia To Vegas Confirmed “Utopian” Tour Dates In Eastern Canada

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Virginia To Vegas Confirmed “Utopian” Tour Dates In Eastern Canada

Following a successful run of western Canadian dates with Marianas Trench and Shawn Hook, singer-songwriter and platinum recording artist Virginia To Vegas, aka Derik Baker, revealed the first round of dates on his headlining “Utopian Tour” today. Named after the notable 2016 full-length album “Utopian” (Wax Records/Universal Music Canada), which spawned the Top 10 hit “Lights Out”, and the platinum-selling smash “We Are Stars” featuring Alyssa Reid, the Utopian Tour kicks off on March 23rd in Waterloo and includes stops in Montreal, Toronto and London. Additionally, Virginia To Vegas will make an appearance during the JUNO Awards festivities in Ottawa this coming April, headlining a JUNOfest show on April 1st at Live! On Elgin. St. John’s indie rock outfit Repartee joins the Utopian Tour as special guest for all dates except Toronto.

Also announced today, Virginia To Vegas will release the brand new track “Selfish” to radio this Friday (2/24). The follow up to 2016’s Gold-certified “Lights Out” – a Spotify mainstay with close to 5 million streams, “Selfish” sees Virginia To Vegas once again join forces with the powerhouse team of writers and producers behind his Top 10 hit and fastest rising single to date to deliver another modern crafted pop song.

Recognized as a fitting example of tomorrow’s global music star, Virginia To Vegas, aka Derik Baker, hails from Guelph, Ontario where he was raised on his parent’s eclectic record collection and cut his teeth in the music industry writing songs for a variety of pop artists. Discovered on YouTube in 2013 by Wax Records Jamie Appleby, he released his debut single “We Are Stars”, which quickly introduced the exciting new talent to thousands of fans, and saw him top radio charts and earn a platinum-selling single. Virginia To Vegas followed his highly praised success with the release of the EP “Volume 1”, which included the popular singles “Don’t Fight the Music” and “Colourful”.

The past couple of years have seen Virginia To Vegas travel the continent, film music videos in Las Vegas and New York, share arena stages with Alyssa Reid and Hedley and perform on the Much Music Video Awards (MMVAs).

In 2016, Wax Records, one of Canada’s leading independent record labels entered into a distribution deal with Ultra Music – the world’s premiere electronic music label and a division of Sony Music Entertainment, to license Virginia To Vegas’ hit single “Lights Out” and forthcoming album for the world, excluding Canada. Virginia To Vegas joins some of today’s hottest international artists including; Calvin Harris, Omi and Kygo on the Ultra Music label around the world with anticipated releases in the US, UK and key European markets throughout 2017.

*JUNOfest show
^with special guest Repartee
March 23 – Waterloo, ON – Maxwells^
March 30 – Montreal, QC – Belmont^
April 1 – Ottawa, ON – Live! On Elgin^*
April 6 – Toronto, ON – Mod Club
April 13 – London, ON – Rum Runners^

Terrence Malick’s “Song To Song” Film Gets Its First Trailer

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Terrence Malick’s “Song To Song” Film Gets Its First Trailer

Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas. Haley Bennett, Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Christian Bale, and Benicio Del Toro star in the Terrence Malick-directed film.

PPL reveals most-played Nirvana songs for Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday today

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PPL reveals most-played Nirvana songs for Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday today

UK Collecting society PPL has compiled a list of the most played Nirvana songs on UK TV and radio to mark what would have been frontman Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday today.

“Kurt Cobain was one of the most visionary figures in music in the late 1980s and early 1990s”, says PPL’s Head Of Music Reporting Services Tim Silver. “He inspired countless young people all over the world to start learning an instrument and to have the confidence to begin writing their own music. On what would have been his 50th birthday, we are delighted to be able to honour him with a chart of the 20 most-played Nirvana songs on radio and TV. There are a lot of their best-known tracks in there but also one or two curveballs as well”.

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Come As You Are
3. Lithium
4. Heart-Shaped Box
5. In Bloom
6. The Man Who Sold The World (MTV Unplugged)
7. All Apologies
8. About A Girl
9. Aneurysm
10. On A Plan
11. Drain You
12. Stay Away
13. Breed
14. Love Buzz
15. Serve The Servants
16. Lounge Act
17. Something In The Way
18. Molly’s Lips
19. Dumb
20. Territorial Pissings

Teenager Gets To Play With Bruce Springsteen Onstage In Australia, For The Second Time

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Teenager Gets To Play With Bruce Springsteen Onstage In Australia, For The Second Time

Bruce Springsteen played in Brisbane Thursday night. A teenager held up a sign that said he was missing school for the concert, and could he play Growin’ Up? Springsteen called the young man up on stage to play. Fifteen-year-old Nathan Testa knew the song well enough to ask The Boss, but here’s the even stranger part. This was the second time he’s been pulled from the audience. While attending a Brisbane concert with his family in 2013, Testa, then 11, was pulled on stage to play Waitin’ on a Sunny Day.

Mind-Blowing Video Of Robotics, Projection Mapping And Software Engineering Will Make You Go “Whoa”

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Mind-Blowing Video Of Robotics, Projection Mapping And Software Engineering Will Make You Go “Whoa”

This video was made with the help of large-scale robotics, projection mapping, software engineering. Bot & Dolly’s technology is an integrated software/ hardware platform providing innovative control of 6-axis industrial robots, and other things I am completely at ease to say I don’t understand. All the more impactful like a magician’s trick at the end of the evening, and more questions than before I started watching.

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