Category Archives for "Entertainment News"
April 22, 2015
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R.E.M. By TV Gets Blu-ray’d
R.E.M. and MTV came of age together. From the start, their fates were intertwined with the band releasing its first single in July 1981, just weeks before the network premiered its first music video. From that point on, MTV documented everything about the Grammy® Award winning band – their music, their stories, and ultimately their decision to disband in 2011. R.E.M. BY MTV, the acclaimed feature-length documentary by filmmaker Alexander Young, draws exclusively from archival events and traces the history of R.E.M. and MTV in real time, which makes it feel as exciting and immediate as it did when it took place.
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April 22, 2015
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Pokey LaFarge Tours For Something In The Water
Pokey LaFarge’s Something In The Water, which was released April 7 on Rounder, is charming audiences and critics around the world. LaFarge’s tour of New Zealand and Australia, which saw the band play to packed houses on every date of the tour, was a smashing success. Steve McCabe of New Zealand’s 13th Floor applauded the band’s “wildly, infectiously, exuberantly catchy songs,” noting that LaFarge “sang with power and intensity, leading a band that knew exactly what he needed.” The Sydney Morning Herald’s Bernard Zuel proclaimed it “good-time music that would make you forget for an hour or so the grimness of daily life.”
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April 22, 2015
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Nick Jonas Comes To Hilton@Play’s Periscope
Tonight, fans are invited to have a virtual front row seat as Hilton streams Nick Jonas’ performance, part of the Hilton@PLAY concert series, exclusively on Periscope, Twitter’s live streaming video service. Fans can tune-in at 8:15 p.m. CST (9:15 EST) by following @HiltonHHonors on Twitter and downloading the Periscope app. This marks the first time an entire live concert will be broadcasted via Twitter and Periscope.
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April 21, 2015
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Kaiser Chiefs’ “Falling Awake” Premieres
Kaiser Chiefs have spent the last few months on a whirlwind stadium tour of South America and the UK with The Foo Fighters but they are now finally returning to the US this week. Starting with a show in Seattle tomorrow night, the band will be traveling across the country from Tucson to Austin to New York and beyond over the next few weeks.
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April 21, 2015
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Passion Pit Debuts Kindred
In celebration of the release, Passion Pit will tour North America this spring, playing intimate venues in the U.S. and Canada. The band will make stops including Big Guava Music Festival, Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre, two nights at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club and many more.
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April 21, 2015
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Loverboy’s Working For The Weekend And Beyond
Time to haul out those iconic red leather pants and bandanas from mothballs, because Canadian hard-rocking legends Loverboy are ready for a full slate of summer touring, including a run of dates with fellow ’80s hitmakers Rick Springfield and The Romantics for one of the season’s must-see tripleheader concert events. Loverboy are currently enjoying a cultural renaissance, with major companies such as Taco Bell and RadioShack using the band’s image and music to promote their products to the ’80s generation which grew up on the group, and others who are just being introduced to their anthems. These days, Loverboy’s not just “Working for the Weekend,” but “Lovin’ Every Minute of It,” too, performing for those fans who “Get Lucky” enough to catch one of their shows.
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April 21, 2015
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Melissa Etheridge To Tour With Blondie And Joan Jett
Oscar and Grammy Award winning artist Melissa Etheridge will hit the road this summer on a US tour making stops in over 50 cities nationwide. Melissa’s summer tour schedule is comprised of a mixture of solo dates, full band gigs, festival stops as well as 10 co-headline dates with Blondie; kicking off on June 10th at the Riverbend Festival in Chattanooga, TN and concluding in Hyannis, MA on August 30th. Melissa Etheridge will be performing songs off her 13th studio album, This Is M.E., including “Take My Number,” “Monster,” and “A Little Bit of Me,” plus classic hits like “Come To My Window,” “I’m The Only One” and “Bring Me Some Water.”
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April 21, 2015
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Blackalicious’ Imani Vol. 1 Coming
Ten years after 2005’s The Craft, BLACKALICIOUS’ self-release, Imani, Vol. 1 arrives August 14, 2015. Fans can hear “On Fire Tonight” via Rolling Stone and support their Pledge Music campaign, whose proceeds go towards launching the record, here: http://goo.gl/hKVvMZ. Three years in the works, the album stays true to rapper Gift of Gab’s clever tongue-twisting wordplay and DJ/producer Chief Xcel’s unique beats through a mix of production and live instruments. A tour is expected later this year.
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