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February 18, 2015

Stetson & Neufeld Collaborate On Album

Colin Stetson has developed a unique and highly-acclaimed voice as a performer/composer, chiefly on bass and tenor saxophones, rallying an array of technical strengths and innovations to make some of the most captivatingly organic, darkly soulful and otherworldly solo instrumental work of recent years with his New History Warfare trilogy. The solo violin work of Sarah Neufeld has emerged more recently, and especially through 2011-2014, in the period between her primary band Arcade Fire’s last two albums; she’s forged a distinctive and evocative solo violin practice combining rock, folk, ambient and modernist sensibilities, culminating with her debut solo album Hero Brother in 2013.

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February 18, 2015

Umphrey’s McGee Brings The London Sessions

What do you do with 12 hours booked at the world’s most famous recording studio? You make the most of it! Never a band to play things safe, Umphrey’s McGee surprised their fans and broke the news via Rolling Stone about a special new studio album titled The London Session. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in one day, the innovative group will release The London Session on April 7th.

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February 18, 2015

Gabriel Kahane To Tour

Gabriel Kahane announces new tour dates. Starting this month, on the heels of a critical success at BAM, John Tiffany’s staging of The Ambassador travels home to Los Angeles for a two day run at the Freud Playhouse presented by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. Of the staging at BAM, Alex Ross at The New Yorker said, “What mattered most…was the sense that a solitary voice had fostered an original world.” The New York Times, in selecting The Ambassador as a “Critics’ Pick,” wrote that “Mr Kahane’s City of Angels is a harsh and hazy pipe dream in which legendary places vanish overnight but somehow never disappear, not as long as artists like Mr. Kahane and Mr. Tiffany can reclaim them from the repository of memories that has been given such resonant life here.”

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February 18, 2015

Good Old War To Tour

Philadelphia’s Good Old War announce their first US tour dates in two years. The band is excited to also share the news that drummer Tim Arnold will re-join them for the run, having left Good Old War late last year after re-locating to Atlanta for the birth of his first child. The dates kick-off at Rough Trade in Brooklyn on March 30th and has Good Old War playing intimate venues throughout the Northeast and Midwest where they’ll be doing a set filled with fan favorites as well as some songs from their forthcoming full-length album due out this summer on Nettwerk.

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February 18, 2015

July Talk Debut Out March 3rd

Award-winning Canadian alt-blues rock quintet July Talk took to Billboard today to announce March 3rd as the release date of their self-titled debut album on Island Records, and to premiere the video for their brand new non-album track “Someone,” shot in Lake Ontario by director Matt Greyson.

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February 18, 2015

Greg Holden’s “Hold On Tight” Streams

New York-based singer and songwriter Greg Holden has teamed up with Brent Lindeque, the founder behind the global movement #RAK15, and BuzzFeed Media to premiere the very special video for his brand-new single “Hold on Tight,” which is now streaming here. #RAK15 encourages people to perform one random act of kindness, film it happening, post the video on social media, and challenge friends to do the same.

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