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April 16, 2015

Incubus Meets Deftones On Tour

Alternative Rock heroes, Incubus and Deftones, announced today they will set out on a co-headlining summer tour visiting nearly 20 cities throughout the United States with more to be announced. The tour, produced by Live Nation, will kick off on July 22 at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Mich. and take the two bands to New York City, Chicago, Boston, Houston, Dallas and more before wrapping up on August 30 in San Diego, Cali. Death From Above 1979 and The Bots will join the tour as special guests. Tickets go on sale beginning April 24 at www.livenation.com.

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April 16, 2015

Sonny Landreth Brings Bound By The Blues

Mascot Label Group’s Provogue Records will release Sonny Landreth’s new album Bound By The Blues on June 9. The recordings mark a return to the slide guitarist’s musical roots, presenting a bold, big-sounding collection of tracks that swagger like the best of classic rock, climb to stratospheric heights of jazz informed improvisation, and inevitably remain deeply attached to the elemental emotional and compositional structures that are at the historic core of the blues. Landreth offers, “Ever since The Road We’re On [his Grammy-nominated 2003 release], fans have been asking me, ‘When are you going to do another blues album?’ After expanding my songs for Elemental Journey into an orchestral form, I thought I’d get back to the simple but powerful blues form. I’d been playing a lot of these songs on the road with my band, and we’ve been taking them into some surprising places musically. So going into the studio to record them with just our trio seemed like the next step.”

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April 16, 2015

Bill Kreutzmann Presents Dear Jerry

Legendary Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann has announced that his band Billy & The Kids will perform at Washington, DC’s 9:30 Club as a pre-party to celebrate the next night’s sold out DEAR JERRY: CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF JERRY GARCIA, the once-in-a-lifetime concert event honoring one of the most influential musicians and cultural icons of our time. The show will feature performances by: Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann’s Billy & the Kids, Bob Weir, Bruce Hornsby, Buddy Miller, David Grisman, Eric Church, Greensky Bluegrass, Jimmy Cliff, Jorma Kaukonen, Los Lobos, Moe., O.A.R., Railroad Earth, The Disco Biscuits, Trampled By Turtles, Widespread Panic, Yonder Mountain String Band and Communion featuring Phil Lesh, Stu Allen, Grahame Lesh, Ross James, Alex Koford, and Jason Crosby.

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April 16, 2015

Josh Groban Hits The Stage For Stages

Multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban has announced that he will launch a Fall 2015 North American tour in support of his upcoming album Stages. The tour, produced by Live Nation, will begin on Sept. 12 in Atlanta and continues through early November. THE STAGES TOUR will visit specially selected theaters around the country, giving fans accustomed to seeing Groban perform in arenas (as he did on his 2013 “In The Round” and “All that Echoes” tours) a more uniquely intimate experience. Tickets go on sale April 24 at www.livenation.com. With every ticket purchased online, fans will receive a choice of either a standard physical or a standard digital copy of Stages.

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April 15, 2015

Girlpool Reveals “Before The World Was Big”

Today Girlpool have shared “Before The World Was Big”, the lead single and title track for their debut LP, out June 2nd on Wichita Recordings. The Philadelphia by way of Los Angeles duo are following up their critically acclaimed self-titled EP with the release of Before The World Was Big. The album is available for pre-order now. Pre-order bundles through the Wichita store include a signed poster (while supplies last).

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April 15, 2015

Downtown Boys’ “Wave Of History” Arrives

Downtown Boys debut LP Full Communism is a thrashing record of songs about smashing the prison-industrial complex, racism, queerphobia, capitalism, fascism, boredom, and all things people use to try to close our minds, eyes and hearts. Released May 4th on Don Giovanni Records, the band was hailed by SPIN as “Band Most Likely to Make You Enter the Pit” at SXSW and will take their ferocious live show on a headlining tour this spring.

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