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French-born musician Le Volume Courbe will release a brand new double A-side single ‘The House / Monte Dans Mon Ambulance’ on February 24 via Ring The Alarm. Stream “The House” (featuring Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine playing a toy gun) on Pitchfork. Pre-order the single on iTunes and 12″ vinyl.
Continue readingGrammy®-winning singer, songwriter, actor, Tim McGraw, who is set to perform at the 87th Oscars this Sunday, announced major touring news today revealing details of his highly-anticipated summer Shotgun Rider Tour 2015. The tour will kick off June 5 at the Verizon Arena in Little Rock, AR and travel across North America before concluding September 19 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA. Other cities include Dallas, Toronto, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle and Denver. The four-month trek will hit amphitheaters, arenas and festivals and feature supporting acts Billy Currington and Chase Bryant.
Continue readingGavin James will open for fellow Dubliners Kodaline on the “Ones To Watch With Skype” tour, which will kick off on April 15 at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, MI. The North American outing will include shows at Terminal 5 in New York City (April 25), The Wiltern in Los Angeles (May 5) and Chicago’s House of Blues (May 18).
Continue readingColin 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.
Continue readingWhat 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.
Continue readingGabriel 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.”
Continue readingPhiladelphia’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.
Continue readingAward-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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