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November 18, 2014

Damien Rice To Tour For …Faded Fantasy

Damien Rice is set to embark on a nationwide tour this spring—his largest U.S. run in nearly a decade—including stops at the Beacon Theater in New York City, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Of his live set, Billboard hails, “Spellbinding, captivating, riveting, mesmerizing, dazzling—there aren’t enough words in the thesaurus to convey the bravura and depth it takes to hold an entire room in 2014 for two hours with no production, no visuals, no frills, just songs and stories.”

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November 17, 2014

Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars’s “Uptown Funk” Premieres

Today, GRAMMY® award-winning producer and musician Mark Ronson unveils the music video for his infectious new single “Uptown Funk” featuring Bruno Mars. “Uptown Funk” premiered on November 10th, and in just one week it has skyrocketed to be the #1 most added song on Top 40 Radio at over 100 stations, #2 most searched for song on iTunes, and the YouTube audio stream has garnered more than 1.2 million views. The song was co-written and co-produced by Mars and Ronson, and is the first from Ronson’s highly-anticipated new album Uptown Special, which will be released via RCA Records on January 27th, 2015.

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November 17, 2014

Lorde Lords Over Mockingjay Music

The highly anticipated soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 [Republic Records] is available for purchase today! Curated by 18-year old Grammy Award winning artist LORDE, who also contributed to 4 tracks on the album, the album features unforgettable collaborations from artists including Stromae, Pusha T, Q-Tip, Haim, CHVRCHES, Tove Lo, Charli XCX, Simon Le Bon, Major Lazer feat. Ariana Grande, Raury, Grace Jones a special Kanye West rework of LORDE’s already released hit single “Yellow Flicker Beat, and more.

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November 17, 2014

The Decemberists Set For “World” Tour

The Decemberists will launch their first North American tour in over three years on March 21, 2015 in their hometown of Portland, Oregon. Tickets for the 16-date run go on sale to the general public on November 21, with a fan pre-sale beginning on November 19 at thedecemberists.com. The tour is in support of the band’s seventh studio album, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, which will be released January 20 in the U.S. on Capitol Records. The album will be released by Rough Trade Records in the U.K. and Europe the day prior, January 19.

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November 17, 2014

Trans-Siberian Orchestra “Gift A Ticket” For Christmas Attic Tour

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is on tour now performing their rock opera The Christmas Attic live for the first time in arenas across the nation. The 2014 Winter Tour, presented by Hallmark Channel, began on November 13 and will find TSO playing more than 120 shows in 71 cities across North America before wrapping-up on Jan 4, 2015. While 1998’s The Christmas Attic features one of the band’s most popular songs “Christmas Canon,” surprisingly, it is the only album of The Christmas Trilogy never to be performed live.

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