Category Archives for "Entertainment News"
April 22, 2015
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Janina Gavankar Covers Martin Garrix’s “Don’t Look Down”
Actress and musician, Janina Gavankar, re-imagines Martin Garrix’s EDM single “Don’t Look Down” featuring Usher. By returning to her roots for this video and performance, her vision and arrangement included 50 members Drum and Bugle Corps. While in NYC filming NBC’s “Mysteries of Laura” this past month, she self funded this video and recruited The Jersey Surf, a world- class drum corps to join her for this innovative video. Janina has had a personal obsession with drum corps since the early age of 13 and has a passion for supporting arts education in schools since it helped her achieve her goal as an actress and musician.
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April 22, 2015
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Ron Sexsmith Tours Behind Carousel One
“Songwriters’ Songwriter” (New Yorker) Ron Sexsmith has confirmed a string of West Coast dates this June. The dates follow sold out shows in New York City, Chicago, Nashville and more celebrating the release of Sexsmith’s fourteenth album, Carousel One, out now on Compass Records.
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April 22, 2015
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Son Little’s “O Mother” Video Debuts
It’s tragic that Son Little’s new song “O Mother” is so absolutely relevant. In a better world it would be unnecessary, never written. Matters of racism and oppression would be relegated to history, lessons learned and transcended. Recent events tell us otherwise. And with the compassionate anger of “O Mother,” Son Little addresses these matters from an intensely personal perspective. The New Yorker compared the track to Marvin Gaye’s powerful “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” calling it “a deeply personal slow jam which takes up where Gaye’s song left off.”
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April 22, 2015
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Justin Hayward Tours For Spirits Of The Western Sky
Justin Hayward, vocalist, lead guitarist, and composer of the Moody Blues, will embark on a northeast solo tour of North America this August, following a UK run in July.
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April 22, 2015
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Spoon’s Inside Out Remixes Coming
It was kismet last Friday when Justin Vernon of Bon Iver released his own haunting version of “Inside Out” from Spoon’s acclaimed album They Want My Soul. Today, four more versions of the song are revealed as Spoon releases an EP of remixes by Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes, Operators, Tycho and Brian Reitzell. The four track EP is available via digital retailers April 28.
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April 22, 2015
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Magnolia Fest Revs Up Roster
Magnolia Fest celebrates its 19th year at the magnificent Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL on October 15-18, 2015 and is thrilled to welcome to the 2015 stages Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Keller Williams Grateful Gospel, Steep Canyon Rangers, Donna the Buffalo, Jim Lauderdale, Col Bruce Hampton, The Lost Bayou Ramblers, The Lee Boys, The Corbitt Brothers, Sloppy Joe, Quartermoon, Grandpa’s Cough Medicine, Quebe Sisters, The Frontier Needs Heroes, Jackson Vegas, and many more will be announced. Tickets are on sale in advance and at the gate.
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April 22, 2015
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Dee Dee Bridgewater Visits New Orleans On …Feathers
Dee Dee’s Feathers, a journey through the history of New Orleans as told through song and the collaboration of Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO), is set for release August llth, 2015, via OKeh/Sony Music/DDB Records. Recorded at New Orleans’ Esplanade Studios, a studio in a reconverted historical church in the heart of the city that was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the release of “Dee Dee’s Feathers” will be accompanied by tour dates worldwide including stops at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the Barbican in London and New York City’s famed Apollo Theatre on Halloween.
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April 22, 2015
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The Flaming Lips Meets Howard Stern Meets The Beatles
The lunatics are taking over the asylum! Howard Stern is surrendering his SiriusXM radio studio to THE FLAMING LIPS on Friday, April 24th. Portlandia star Fred Armisen will host the show, which will feature the Lips doing songs from their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band tribute album With A Little Help From My Fwends as well as other surprises. This being The Flaming Lips, expect the unexpected. The special premieres at 11pm ET / 8pm PT on Howard Stern’s exclusive SiriusXM channel Howard 101 and through the SiriusXM App on smartphones and other connected devises, as well as online at http://www.siriusxm.com/.
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