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May 21, 2014

Adam Zwig’s Sticks, Bones & Skin Released August 18th

On his forthcoming EP, the captivating Stones, Bones, and Skin (Conscious Records), singer-songwriter Adam Zwig channels a hypnotic and harmonious hybrid of Americana, pop, rock, folk and world music. Due out on August 18th, Stones, Bones and Skin contains five new sparkling tracks produced by the Grammy Award-winning David Bianco (Bob Dylan, U2, Johnny Cash) and Stuart Sikes (The White Stripes, Loretta Lynn), the pair responsible for Zwig’s recent full-length Visions of the Shimmering Night. Portland, Oregon-based Zwig together, with his band, including drummer Brian MacLeod (Madonna, Tears for Fears, “Tuesday Music Club” with Sheryl Crow) and bassist Davey Faragher (Elvis Costello, Elton John, Cracker), bring the dynamic EP to life.

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May 21, 2014

Avatar Appears In Top 100

Sweden’s most exciting export, AVATAR, have cracked the Billboard Top 200 with their most recent release, Hail the Apocalypse, for the first time in the band’s career. The LP comes in at #97, selling over 3,500 units in its first week of release. “America has become our second home, thank you for embracing our Music!” says frontman Johannes Eckerström.

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May 21, 2014

Aaron Freeman’s Marvelous Clouds And “The English And Western Stallion”

Listening to Marvelous Clouds, Aaron Freeman’s 2012 debut under his own name, fans might have felt that he was ignoring an elephant in his room-a drug-and-alcohol-related onstage flame-out that made viral headlines the year before. But Clouds, a deceptively chill Rod McKuen covers record, was just a warm-up for the artist once known as Gene Ween. In the opening minutes of FREEMAN, the self-titled debut from his new band, Freeman addresses addiction and its aftermath with the combination of merciless self-inventory and artful songcraft that earned Ween one of the most devoted fan bases in contemporary pop. This song, the unmistakably autobiographical “Covert Discretion,” is a quiet shocker. “Save your judgments for someone else,” Freeman sings. “Be grateful I saved me from myself.”

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May 21, 2014

Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense’s 30th Anniversary Hits Theaters

Palm Pictures will release the Talking Heads’ acclaimed concert film Stop Making Sense for the first time digitally on July 15. Watch a montage from the film here. Directed by Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia) and produced by Gary Goetzman (The Silence of the Lambs, Where the Wild Things Are), Stop Making Sense was originally released in 1984 and has continued to receive critical acclaim: The New York Times raves “Mr. Demme has captured both the look and the spirit of this live performance with a daring and precision that match the group’s own” while the Los Angeles Times proclaims “[David] Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and keyboardist Jerry Harrison seemed to be simply bursting with inspired elements to pack into Stop Making Sense” and the AV Club declares “There never has been, and in all likelihood never will be, a more glorious intersection of live music and cinema than Stop Making Sense.” A special limited theatrical engagement of the film will begin this summer, including screenings in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

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May 21, 2014

Communion Presents Takes Bonnaroo’s Sonic Stage June 12

Communion Presents, the critically acclaimed promotions team, will host an evening of music at Bonnaroo’s intimate Sonic Stage on Thursday June 12. Of their live events, The New York Times hails, “Communion has evolved into a promotions giant and global musical tastemaker,” while Paste praises their “mix of grassroots intensity, unwavering selflessness and giddy idealism.”

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