Los Angeles, CA – March 3, 2008 – Apocalyptica will be headlining a U.S. Tour kicking off on April 11 at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, NV. Along with the tour, they are set to release their sixth studio album Worlds Collide on April 15. Their first single, “I’m Not Jesus” featuring Corey Taylor, is surging up the charts, currently Top 20 at Active Rock Radio.
Apocalyptica is its own unique and maverick musical animal, one that continues to reinvent itself. Formed solely of cellists in 1993, a drummer was added in 2005 to complete the Finnish band.
Tour Dates:
4/11 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
4/12 San Diego, CA House of Blues
4/13 Orangevale, CA The Boardwalk
4/14 West Hollywood, CA The Roxy
4/16 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
4/17 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
4/18 Seattle, WA El Corazon
4/21 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue
4/22 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre
4/23 Kansas City, MO Beaumont Club
4/24 Sauget, IL
4/26 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Cafe
4/27 Chicago, IL House of Blues
4/28 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
4/29 Pontiac, MI The Crofoot
5/2 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
5/4 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero Theatre
5/5 New York, NY The Fillmore @ Irving Plaza
5/7 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
5/8 Charlotte, NC Amos’ Southend
5/9 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
5/10 New Orleans, LA Parish at House of Blues
5/11 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
5/12 Dallas, TX House of Blues
5/14 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
5/15 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
*additional dates to be released
Apocalyptica are Eicca Toppinen (cello), Paavo Lötjönen (cello), Perttu Kivilaakso (cello), and Mikko Sirén (drums).
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Blue Note Records is proud to present the release of The Wood Brothers’ Loaded, available April 1st. Produced by John Medeski, this is the first record where Chris and Oliver Wood combine their songwriting skills. Check below for some streams.
Streaming Audio for “Postcards From Hell”:
Windows Media: http://bluenote.edgeboss.net/wmedia/bluenote/wood_brothers_audio/loaded/postcards_from_hell.asx
Quicktime:
http://bluenote.edgeboss.net/qtime/bluenote/wood_brothers_audio/loaded/postcards_from_hell.mov
Streaming Audio for “Pray Enough”:
Windows Media: http://bluenote.edgeboss.net/wmedia/bluenote/wood_brothers_audio/loaded/pray_enough.asx
Quicktime:
http://bluenote.edgeboss.net/qtime/bluenote/wood_brothers_audio/loaded/pray_enough.mov
The Wood Brothers Official Website:
http://www.thewoodbrothers.com
and on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/thewoodbrothers
Pre-Order Link:
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The Wood Brothers - Loaded
Ways Not To Lose, the 2006 debut from the Wood Brothers had, in a sense, been a lifetime in the making—the first public collaboration between vocalist and guitarist Oliver Wood, who fronts Atlanta-based blues band King Johnson, and upright bassist Chris Wood, of the long-running, genre-blasting trio Medeski Martin and Wood. As players, they displayed an easy-going virtuosity; as siblings, they had an extraordinary rapport. Their folk and acoustic blues tunes, tinged with gospel hopefulness and country melancholy, were welcomed like old friends by both fans and pundits. National Public Radio named their debut disc one of their top ten discoveries that year. Rolling Stone declared, “The flip, easygoing party music on ‘Lose’ disguises sneakily deep inquiries into what it means to be alive, struggle with temptation, and every once in a while seek some truth.”
With Loaded, the Wood Brothers engage in a more expansive musical dialogue that commenced well before they hit the studio; they collaborated for the first time on writing material together. John Medeski, returning as producer, got into the mix as the songs were just taking shape, and he plays keyboards on several tracks. The crew, working at a studio near Woodstock, New York, opened up the sessions to other musicians and friends—singers Amos Lee, Pieta Brown and Frazey Ford, steel guitarist Darick Campbell, violinists David Mansfield and Jennifer Choi, cellist David Eggar, drummers Billy Martin and Kenny Wolleson, and percussionist Donnie McCormick—making this a more fleshed-out, multi-layered band effort compared to the spare, live-in-the-studio approach of Ways Not To Lose.
Oliver still does the lead singing, in a voice that is, by turns, weathered, wounded or yearning, but Chris takes his first lead-vocals turn at the mic on the gentle “Don’t Look Back,” bolstered by Frazey Ford of Canadian roots music trio The Be Good Tanyas. Jokes Chris, “After being in an instrumental band for eighteen years, it was pretty weird to be stuck in front a microphone. When MMW fans see us play, they say, that’s the first time I ever heard you speak, much less sing.”
“We initially just brought our songs and our musicianship to the table,” continues Chris, “We had a chemistry that was good and we captured that on the first record. It’s been almost two years now and, having played constantly for the last two years together and written things together, we’ve just evolved. We have different things to say, different things are happening in our lives, and we combined our efforts much more. That combined voice has taken us to a different place and this record illustrates that.”
Songwriting, as well as playing gigs, became an important connection for the brothers, as Oliver explains, “Chris and I live pretty far apart, so unless we’re on the road, we really don’t see each other. A lot of times one of us will start a song, introduce some music or some lyric. It took a little while, but we got used to the idea of getting the other person involved to where both of us have our hearts invested in a song. That’s a different feeling than, ‘Hey, here’s my song, let’s play it together.’ It’s different for both of us to have something at stake there.”
Most importantly, their songwriting and playing got them through some tough times for their family, Oliver says, “We lost our mom last spring to ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was deteriorating over the last year or two, so we couldn’t help but have that influence what we were feeling and what we were writing about. It’s a unique situation because we are working together, but we’re also family, so we were both hit in kind of the same way by the passing of our mom. That definitely shows up in the music quite a bit.”
Loaded is bookended with a pair of wistful tunes, ”Lovin’ Arms” and “Still Close,” that address loss but also hint at spiritual regeneration. That’s a theme that recurs throughout the album. For the Wood Brothers, the blues offer solace from downheartedness; there’s a soulful quality in their work that grows increasingly compelling—not to mention, comforting—the more familiar these songs become. “Postcards From Hell” takes the Robert Johnson legend and flips it, telling the story of a singer who manages to keep his sound pure by closely guarding his soul. “Pray Enough” brings humor to a gospel exhortation, with label-mate Amos Lee joining in on backup vocals. (Lee reappears later in the album to swap verses of Jimi Hendrix’s “Angel” with Oliver.) And there’s real tenderness to “Walkaway,” an understatedly arranged breakup number in shuffle time, with drums from Chris’s MMW band-mate Billy Martin.
Along with “Angel,” the Wood Brothers cover the traditional “Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor,” turning it into a loose back-porch jam highlighted by Donnie McCormick who adds vocals and percussion by rhythmically scratching the wires of a chicken coop (“with no chickens in it,” Oliver hastens to add). The lilting melody of Bob Dylan’s “Buckets Of Rain” unfolds in a beautiful slo-mo tempo, with Oliver playing stop-start guitar leads. He hesitates before singing each line, as if he’s pulling poetry right out of the air. Says Chris, “Oliver has a magical way of playing behind the beat, an amazing laid back thing, one of those indescribable things that you can’t teach. Either you’ve got it or you don’t.”
Though the pair had a good time in the studio with their extended lineup, they plan to hit the road again simply as a duo. Multi-tasking on their individual instruments, they can cook up a mighty groove or create a seriously laid-back mood. Oliver admits, “There is something special about performing as a duo, a uniqueness to it, whereas oftentimes a group with drums and keyboards doesn’t stand out as much. In some ways we really stand out as a duo, making a whole bunch of a racket with just the two of us.”
Chris concurs: “There is a certain flexibility we have as just the two of us that we are learning to take advantage of more and more. When you don’t have a drummer back there, you can really play with the rhythm, slow down a phrase or speed it up, and be more liquid that way.”
Expect to see—and hear—a lot more of the Wood Brothers this year, on tour and on Loaded. And count on being treated like family.
Leona Lewis, winner of the British TV talent show “X Factor,” a British talent show executive-produced by American Idol’s Simon Cowell, lands in the US this spring with her debut CD Spirit hitting stores April 8th.
“Bleeding Love” Audio Streams:
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Leona Lewis, who has taken the world by storm with the #1 single on the European charts with the most played song on radio around the world, will be appearing live on The Oprah Winfrey Show this Monday, March 17th. Her debut album SPIRIT is set for release in the US on April 8th. The U.S. album includes two new brand new songs from Akon and Madd Scientist and completely new versions and mixes of songs from the international release, featuring tracks by superstar collaborators Ryan Tedder, Dr. Luke, Ne-Yo, Max Martin, J.R. Rotem, Stargate, and more.
Her hit single “Bleeding Love” is at #2 and climbing fast on today’s iTunes chart. The video for “Bleeding Love,” scored the coveted video channel programs MTV’s “Discover and Download” and Vh-1’s “You Oughta Know, “ and the track is the most played and most requested single at Top 40 and Rhythm Radio.
About Leona Lewis:
Lewis, a 22-year-old London native and winner of the hit TV show the X Factor, Simon Cowell’s British talent show, has broken all-time sales records in the UK with SPIRIT entering the album chart at Number One and becoming Britain’s fastest-selling debut ever. SPIRIT has scanned more than a 2.5 million copies worldwide since its release in November. In addition, SPIRIT’s lead-off single “Bleeding Love, ”co-written and produced by OneRepublic frontman Ryan “Alias” Tedder, was the U.K.’s best-selling single of 2007. For the first time, Davis and Cowell teamed up to sign Lewis to J Records/SyCo Music (Cowell’s division of Sony BMG), and were both actively involved in the recording process and the marketing campaign for SPIRIT’s release.
Leona Lewis Official Site:
http://www.leonalewismusic.com
MySpace page:
http://myspace.com/leonalewis
YouTube Channel:
http://youtube.com/leonalewis
Spirit Amazon pre-order link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSpirit-Leona-Lewis%2Fdp%2FB0012TBGYC%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1201534203%26sr%3D8-9&tag=j%5Frecords-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
Spirit iTunes pre-order link:
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Most young bands today can’t say they have performed together for 18 years, but sisters Lisa and Jessica of The Veronicas have done just that. The vocal chemistry that has evolved from singing together from the age of five is showcased in their dramatic single, “Untouched” which pairs intense strings with an electro-dance beat. The emotional ferocity of the single has also found its way into the video for “Untouched” with a cinematic elegance that not only compliments but magnifies the power behind The Veronicas’ vocals.
“Poison” showcases Reilly and his bandmate Ed Tinley as producers unencumbered by the major label system and willing to frame a song in any vibe needed to hold the melodies and tales of Reilly’s unique vision.
Beginning with the title track, “Poison The Hit Parade” continues Reilly’s prolific assault with images of characters in a conflicted middle America: patriotic doubt, the celebration of life and death, high school girls in summer dresses and more theoretical assassination attempts.
His longtime band, The Assassination, is present on several of the tracks here, but many other fine musicians can be heard on these recordings made in Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, New York City, Jamaica and Ireland.
STREAMING AUDIO:
IKE REILLY - “Poison The Hit Parade”
IKE REILLY - “Janie Doesn’t Lie”
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.ikereilly.net
The Grammy winning R&B/pop superstar Kelly Rowland is back with her new studio album, Ms. Kelly: Diva Deluxe, a groundbreaking digital-only collection of new songs and scorching remixes available exclusively through all major online digital music providers on Tuesday, March 25.
Ms. Kelly: Diva Deluxe premieres five new Kelly Rowland tracks as well as remixes of Kelly’s co-compositions “Come Back” (Karmatronics Remix) and “Like This” featuring Eve, a Redline Remix of Kelly’s international smash and #1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play recording.
“The tracks on Diva Deluxe are too hot to hold onto,” said Kelly Rowland, “so I decided to release them digitally so my fans could get into them as soon as possible. I hope everyone enjoys the new songs as much as I did recording them.”
Kelly Rowland is currently enjoying the mounting international success of her latest single, “Work,” which is the #9 Top Digital Single across Europe and is charting in the UK (#8, #1 TV Airplay), Ireland (#12), France (#11), Germany (#1 Club Record), Switzerland, Sweden (#3 Video Chart), Denmark (Top 20 Dance) and Australia (#2 Most Added at radio). “Work” will be released as an extended play of dance mixes to US digital music providers on February 26 with an extended play of dance mixes of Kelly’s new single, “Daylight,” going to US digital music providers on March 4.
Ms. Kelly: Diva Deluxe is Kelly’s first new collection of songs since June 2007 when Ms. Kelly, her second solo album, entered the Billboard Top 200 at #6, giving Kelly her first Top 10 album as a solo artist, while debuting on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart at #2.
Ms. Kelly was the long-awaited successor to Rowland’s best-selling 2002 gold-certified solo debut album, Simply Deep, which has sold more than two million copies worldwide. Peaking at #1 in the UK, #3 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album chart, and #12 on the Billboard Top 200, Simply Deep included the smash hit, “Dilemma,” Kelly’s duet with the rapper Nelly, which earned the Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2003 and spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100.
One of the vocal superstars, and founding member, of Destiny’s Child, the top-selling female group of all time, Kelly Rowland proved a major contributing force as the trio racked up sales of more than 60 million records worldwide while earning two Grammy Awards in the Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals category (2000: “Say My Name”; 2001: “Survivor”).
Kelly’s natural charm and charisma have opened up the doors to roles in movies and on television. Her big screen acting credits include starring roles in the 2003 horror blockbuster, “Freddy vs. Jason,” and 2004’s comedy-romance, “The Seat Filler,” executive produced by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. Among her television appearances, she has appeared as “Carly” in three episodes of “The Hughleys” and as “Martha Reeves” (of Martha & the Vandellas) on “American Dreams.” She has performed on “Saturday Night Live” and as a guest host on “The View.”
Kelly Rowland has appeared as celebrity spokesperson for the “Dark & Lovely” hair product line from Soft Sheen-Carson (consumer products division of L’Oreal USA, Inc.).
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Ms. Kelly: Diva Deluxe - tracklisting
1. Daylight (featuring Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes) – 3:30
2. Broken – 3:24
3. Come Back (Karmatronics Remix) – 6:20
4. Like This (Redline Remix) – 2:48
5. Love Again – 3:50
6. Unity – 3:51
7. No Man No Cry – 3:28
Daylight (Remix EP)
1. Hex Hector Remix
2. Maurice Joshua NuSoul Remix
3. Karmatronics Remix
4. Lost Daze Remix
5. Dan McKie Remix
Work (Remix EP) – timings forthcoming
1. Freemasons Club Mix
2. Freemasons Dub Mix
3. Steve Pitron& Max Sanna Radio Edit
4. Steve Pitron& Max Sanna Extended Remix
www.kellyrowland.com
www.welovekelly.com
www.myspace.com/kellyrowland
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