Land Of Talk have just debuted a new video for “It’s Okay”. Directed by WeWereMonkeys “It’s Okay” is the third of three new Land Of Talk videos; preceded by clips for “The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle)” and “Troubled” All three videos can be found on the bands new Fun & Laughter EP along with four new songs. You can find the songs corresponding to the videos on their debut album Some Are Lakes.
Watch the new Land of Talk videos on YouTube:
“It’s Okay”
“Troubled”
“The Man Who Breaks Things (Dark Shuffle)”
The band also begins a North American tour today in San Diego with a free in-store at Lou’s Records in Encinitas. Check out the dates below:
Fall 2009
Mon-Oct-26, Encinitas, CA, Lou’s Records (free in-store at 5pm)
Tue-Oct-27, San Diego, CA, Casbah
Thu-Oct-29, Los Angeles, CA, Spaceland
Fri-Oct-30, Visalia, CA, Cellar Door
Mon-Nov-02, San Francisco, CA, Cafe Du Nord
Wed-Nov-02, Portland, OR, Doug Fir Lounge
Thu-Nov-05, Seattle, WA, High Dive
Fri-Nov-06, Bellingham, WA, Nightlight
Sat-Nov-07, Vancouver, BC, Biltmore Cabaret
Thu-Nov-12, Montreal, QC, Segal Centre
Wed-Nov-18, Cambridge, MA, Middle East
Fri-Nov-19, Burlington, VT, Club Metronome
Sat-Nov-20, Northampton, MA, Iron Horse
Sun-Nov-21, New York, NY, Mercury Lounge
10/27-11/6 with Eulogies
He was born Tijs Michiel Verwest in the Netherlands. And he has had many aliases over the years. But today, he is known the world over by the name Tiësto. The world’s top trance DJ, he became the first DJ to perform live onstage at an Olympic Games in 2004. He has also performed energetic sets that last up to twelve hours. And he had a residency at the largest club in the world for a couple of months in 2008, and again in 2009. Also in 2009, he released his fourth album, Kaleidoscope. In this video, WatchMojo.com chats with Tiësto about his collaborations, his record company and where he’s at in his career.
For more information, click http://www.tiesto.com/
The All-American Rejects have just debuted the music video for their single “I Wanna.” In true Rejects fashion, the Paul Hunter (Gwen Stefani, Lenny Kravitz) directed clip features the ultimate house party and rock star performance. Watch the video to see Tyson’s unconventional love story unfold through a series of cell phone screens.
When The World Comes Down is available now.
Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will release The Fall, her fourth studio album on Blue Note Records on November 17, 2009. Jones wrote nearly all of the songs in the past two years since completing tours in support of her 2007 global chart-topping, U.S. double-platinum album Not Too Late.
Beloved by fans for her sultry vocals and jazz-informed, piano-driven pop songwriting, Jones has taken a new direction on The Fall, seeing it as a chance to experiment with different sounds and an opportunity to work with a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones also enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris.
“I knew I wanted to try some different things on this album,” Jones says. “I’d been playing with the same musicians for a long time. We’re all still friendly and I hope we play together again, but it felt like a good time to work with new people and experiment with different sounds. As far as a producer, I wanted someone who could take me out of my comfort zone and find the right musicians to capture what I wanted to do with this collection of songs. I got in touch with Jacquire initially because he engineered one of my favorite records of all time, Tom Waits’ Mule Variations. He was really eager to do it and we got along really well, which was important.”
Stream The Fall album single “Chasing Pirates”
King helped Jones put together a new group of musicians to perform on the album, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). Jones and King tailored the songs to the musicians’ strengths. “I think the record sounds different due to the variety of musicians we used,” Jones says, “I knew I wanted to play with grooves more than I have on previous albums. Some of these new songs lent themselves to having driving rhythms underneath.”
Another noticeable change on Jones’ upcoming album is that she plays mostly guitar. “I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano,” she says. “It just felt more natural for me to play it on these songs.”
Since coming on the scene in 2002, Jones’ has sold a collective 36 million albums worldwide. Her three studio albums, 2002’s eight-time Grammy Award-winning Come Away With Me, 2004’s Feels Like Home, and 2007’s Not Too Late have each topped the Billboard top 200 album charts in the U.S. and gone to No. 1 around the world. All three have been certified multi-platinum, while Come Away With Me has been certified diamond.
Since 2007, Jones has collaborated with a number of artists, including Herbie Hancock, Talib Kweli, Willie Nelson, Q-Tip, Irma Thomas, and Andy Samberg’s comedy troupe The Lonely Island. She has also contributed to various soundtracks, including Ken Burns’ The War, Ethan Hawke’s The Hottest State, and Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights, as well as the Fats Domino tribute album Goin’ Home. In 2007, Jones starred opposite Jude Law in My Blueberry Nights and made a cameo in this year’s season finale of 30 Rock. Also this year, Jones was featured as a flagship artist on Apple’s GarageBand, presenting a tutorial on how to perform her song “Thinking About You.”
The track listing for The Fall is as follows:
1. Chasing Pirates (Norah Jones)
2. Even Though (Norah Jones/Jesse Harris)
3. Light As a Feather (Norah Jones/Ryan Adams)
4. Young Blood (Norah Jones/Mike Martin)
5. I Wouldn’t Need You (Norah Jones)
6. Waiting (Norah Jones)
7. It’s Gonna Be (Norah Jones)
8. You’ve Ruined Me (Norah Jones)
9. Back To Manhattan (Norah Jones)
10. Stuck (Norah Jones/Will Sheff)
11. December (Norah Jones)
12. Tell Yer Mama (Norah Jones/Jesse Harris/Richard Julian)
13. Man Of The Hour (Norah Jones)
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“Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didn’t see it then it was something you pretended you saw.”
–Kerrang (October 2003)
“The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up… Cobain’s ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise.”
–Rolling Stone (October 29, 1992)
Ranked #1 in Kerrang Magazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” and voted as “Nirvana’s #1 Greatest Moment” by fans in an NME poll, Nirvana’s historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the UK’s Reading Festival is one of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock n roll. Now, fans will have an opportunity to own a pristine copy of that entire performance — color-corrected video from the original film with audio sourced from the original multi-track masters. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition CD+DVD Deluxe Edition as well as DVD-only, CD-only configurations on November 3, 2009, followed by a 2LP version on November 17, 2009.
While the show’s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn’t be released until 2 years later on In Utero: “All Apologies,” “Dumb,” and in its first ever public performance, “Tourettes.” The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band’s 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and first single “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-‘80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound – “The Money Will Roll Right In” by Fang and “D-7″ by The Wipers.
Only 2 of the 25 performances on the DVD have ever been released before. Watch “School” now, exclusively on Amazon.com.
Nirvana Live At Reading DVD:
1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. Tourette’s
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
21. Spank Thru
22. Love Buzz*
23. The Money Will Roll Right In
24. D-7
25. Territorial Pissings
* not included on CD/LP
The Avett Brothers are a unique band of 2 brothers who play a fusion of Bluegrass, Punk and Rock who are set to release their major label debut I and Love and You, which was produced by super producer Rick Rubin. That’s right, the same guy who produced records for Jay-Z, Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers to name a few. The band definitely has something special going on and word is that their live show is transcendent. The album is officially released on September 29th, but you can listen to it in advance over at NPR.org.
“Like many songs on I and Love and You, “The Perfect Space” captures the Avetts’ willingness to infuse their words with genuine insight: “I wanna have friends that I can trust,” Scott Avett sings, adding, “that love me for the man I’ve become, not the man that I was.” It’s a kind, comfortable song that feels not only lived-in, but also lived. That’s how it is with The Avett Brothers’ music: Moving and smart, catchy and warm, it’s a band — and an album — that anyone could love.” - NPR.org
National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master and 10X Grammy-winning, legendary musician George Benson will release his new album on August 25th entitled Songs and Stories, his second for Concord Records / Monster Music. The album is a collection of tunes penned by some of the most prolific and enduring songwriters of the last half-century. Some were written specifically for this new recording, such as Bill Withers’ (who came out of retirement to write “A Telephone Call Away” for George), Rod Temperton’s “Family Reunion” and Lamont Dozier’s “Living in High Definition”; while others, including James Taylor’s “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight”, Donny Hathaway’s “Someday We’ll All Be Free” and Tony Joe White’s “Rainy Night in Georgia” were hand-picked by Benson for their ability to convey simple but universal truths about the human experience.
Songs and Stories was produced by Concord’s Grammy winning, creative head John Burk and renowned bassist /composer / producer Marcus Miller. Benson, Miller, keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, guitarist Jubu and drummer John Robinson make up the core unit for the project. They were joined by special guests: guitarists Lee Ritenour, Steve Lukather, Wah Wah Watson and Norman Brown, vocalists Lalah Hathaway and Patti Austin, keyboardist David Paich, saxophonists Tom Scott and Gerald Albright along with several others. “Brother, with that team, you can do just about anything,” said Benson. “We recorded in the studio for three days straight, and everything we touched had something on it that made us all glad we were there. It was just the right mix of people and material.”
And yet, for all of the high-caliber musicians on hand, the most important guests are the songwriters, says co-producer Miller. “Smokey Robinson doesn’t perform on this record, but he’s still a guest,” he says. “Lamont Dozier is a guest. Bill Withers, Rod Temperton and James Taylor are guests. If you take great songs from writers like these, and you put them in the hands of George Benson and a great band, you’d better just get out of the way and let things happen, because the result is going to be something great.”
Indeed, the record captures the somewhat underappreciated essential brilliance of his storied career; the ability to simply touch people through authentic lyrics and beautiful melody. On Songs and Stories, George Benson’s musical artistry has perhaps never been on sharper display.
To celebrate the release of Songs And Stories, fans can visit the official Benson website, georgebenson.com and receive a free mp3 download of “Living In High Definition”, the new song written by legendary composer Lamont Dozier. Additionally on the website, fans can view “The George Benson Sessions: The Making Of Songs And Stories”, a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the new record. The series will be updated with a new video each week leading up to and through the August 25 release.
Concord Records is proud to once again partner with Monster Music® on presenting the newest George Benson album Songs and Stories on High Definition Surround™ Sound SuperDisc™. The Monster® version, also available August 25th, is a specially priced two-disc package that consists of Songs and Stories on compact disc mixed in traditional stereo and a bonus DVD, containing Monster’s High Definition Stereo and Surround mixes. In addition, the bonus DVD features behind-the-scenes video footage of the making of the record including an in-depth interview with George Benson. With its innovative High Definition Surround technology Monster Music is revolutionizing the listening experience. Mastered in the highest resolution possible, HDS SuperDiscs are specially engineered to capture the true harmonic depth and tonal richness of the music. THX certified HDS SuperDiscs deliver the music through a 5.1 speaker system just the way the artist heard it in the studio when it was recorded, the way they intended you to hear it.
First Single: “Living In High Definition”
Buy It HERE
We had a chance to speak with acoustic rock singer-songwriter Matt Lowell on his new EP, touring with the greats and what he’s been up to! Check it out below.
What can fans expect when listening to the “Second Storm EP”?
I think on this EP I focused much more on the songwriting and lyrics then on any of my other work. Crit Harmon and I spent a long time making sure these songs had the emotion both in the lyrics and the tracks. I think, or at least I hope from a fan prospective that they can get inside these songs and feel each one emotionally on the same level or from the same place I wrote them. If they are familiar with my “First Taste EP” this is definitely a much more lyrically and emotionally crafted EP.
What is your favorite track off the EP and why?
I think it is a tie between “Second Storm” and “No Regrets”. “Second Storm” was really the last tune I wrote for this EP and it just seemed to come together very naturally and organically. The lyrics and the music kind of wrote themselves if that makes any sense? That tune also pointed my songwriting chops in a new direction and I said to myself “Wait I have to top this now, bring it on”. “No Regrets” had almost the exact same easiness to it, but that song just seems to resonate with me, it’s probably the most open and honest I’ve been. I think loving someone with “No Regrets” is an incredible feeling, and no matter how the relationship ends up you can at least leave it knowing at one point there wasn’t a grey area, only honesty. I try to live my life with that “No Regrets” attitude. We all know Love is a very strong emotion.
I heard you worked with Crit Harmon, what was that like?
Crit and I met a couple of years ago and I approached him because I loved his work with Marty Sexton. He came to a show and decided he would produce my “First Taste EP” along with co-writing a few of the tracks. Since that time we have become very close friends and writing partners and it just made complete sense for us to write and produce the “Second Storm EP”. He is incredibly talented, probably the best writer I’ve ever met or worked with, and I owe a lot of my musical growth and direction after Berklee to him. He is now a great friend and I know always will be.
Your songs have great emotion, is there a certain setting or mood you have to be in to write?
Thanks for noticing or thinking that; I think that is my job as a writer. I would be lying to you if I said I was crying over the sheets of paper as I am writing my tunes, BUT I will say every emotion was felt at one time. While I was happy or down I definitely wrote some of those feelings on a pad and eventually they turn into songs. Lyrics take a little while for me, I think they need to marinate, although tunes like “Second Storm” and “No Regrets” were easy, the idea was sitting in my head for a little while before a light went off and the melody and lyrics worked as one.
You have opened for some great acts such as Eve6, Martin Sexton and Will Dailey, what has been your favorite show to play so far?
I don’t have a favorite, and when I think about some of the artists I have played with it is awesome to me. I saw Eve6 open for Bon Jovi at Giants Stadium in ‘01 and now I get to hang with them, its pretty freaking cool. Marty Sexton has always been an inspiration to me, and when Crit took me to a show to meet him it was pretty amazing. It was the first time an artist I looked up to was seeing me as another artist. After that Marty asked me to open for him and it was incredible. He is the best solo acoustic live performer I have ever seen. Will Dailey is a great writer and was very big in the Boston scene while I was at Berklee. His new record is incredible and he is a great guy. So a long-winded answer but I don’t have a favorite show, it is an absolute blessing to be able to share the stage with other artists. That’s what music is all about for me, and I hope this list grows
What can fans expect from a live show?
I have always put a ton of emphasis into my live shows. I love to improvise and went to a lot of shows and still do. I take what I like from artists and try to adapt it into my own shows. The solo acoustic shows have been a challenge for me, but I really try to bring something more to the songs that you just can’t get from listening to the record in the car or on headphones. I always want more when I go to a show, so why shouldn’t I bring more?
What kind of music were you listening to growing up? What was your first concert?
My very first concert was Billy Joel and Elton John at Nassua Colliseum. I was very young and my grandparents took me. I distinctly remember falling asleep and we were probably 5th row. I also remember my grandfather telling the man in front of us to “put out his marijuana cigarette” hahaha great times, I had no idea what that was. I must say my dad and sister were the hip musical influences on me. My dad and I spent a lot of early mornings in the car driving to hockey practice, and he always had a new record to show me. He played the first Coldplay “Trouble”, the first Dave Matthews Band, but there was always a ton of Paul Simon and the other classics. Dad just had a way of “discovering” bands, he used to say “this band is going to be huge” and no one knew them at the time. I still wonder how he did it, because he was always right! Maybe a record label will read this and make him head of A&R I think he would have pretty good things to say about me hahaha. My sister always had the pop hits blasting from her room (She is nine years older) so NKOTB and Madonna, Michael Jackson. Music was always on in my house so there were so many others.
Was there a certain point in your life when you knew that music was going to be a career for you?
At the end of my sophomore year in high school I knew I was going to pursue music. I had played a lot of hockey up to that point, went to school for it played all through out the summer, and devoted my entire life to it. I had always been a drummer, but sophomore year of high school I picked up the guitar and wrote a song about 9/11. That was the point I knew I wanted to write, which is pretty ironic because it is 9/11 as I type this. I went to a boarding school called Pomfret School in CT and Mr. Bill Pratt, my high school music teacher guided me and gave me the tools I needed to pursue music. Hockey started to take a back seat to music, and by my senior year I knew I was going to go to Berklee, and try making music my career. Music and performing had completely taken over my life. That senior year happened to be the best hockey season of my life knowing it would be my last, I still draw from all those experiences. It was a relief to give up my first passion for this new burning desire to play music. I almost think of it as the start of a new life, its weird for me to think about it.
If you weren’t playing music, what would you be doing?
Wow that’s a crazy question. Well since I decided to pursue music I never ever thought about a Plan B, BUT now that you mention it! I think it would be sick to be a professional athlete. I am a huge sports fan, of course my first choice would be an NHL player and I have a lot of friends that are just that. Although a back-up or bullpen catcher for the Mets would be awesome. I say back up or bullpen because I am an awful baseball player.
What’s next for Matt Lowell?
Right now I am working on some new material and a new direction in the studio. I am working on another batch of songs with my good friend John Davis in Brooklyn. He is a genius, and I am excited for these tunes to be released. Also I am very excited to be joining Josh Hoge and Tony Lucca on their upcoming November and December tour. They are both awesome singer/songwriters and I am so happy they are having me out.
For more on Matt visit:
http://www.mattlowell.com
http://www.myspace.com/mattlowell
Concord Jazz is proud to announce the signing of three-time Grammy award winning trumpet player and composer Terence Blanchard. With more than 29 albums to his credit, Blanchard has established himself as one of the most influential jazz musicians and film score composers of his generation. Blanchard’s new album Choices will be released on August 18, 2009.
Blanchard’s legacy has helped shaped the contours of modern jazz. As a musician he is a multi-Grammy Award winner, most recently winning earlier this year for his instrumental solo for “Be-Bop” on Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival. In addition to receiving the award, Blanchard performed live on the Grammy telecast along with other New Orleans artists including Lil’ Wayne, Allen Toussaint and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and singer Robin Thicke. In 2008, Blanchard won a Grammy for his CD, A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina), a beautifully haunting and impassioned song cycle about Hurricane Katrina and the ravages incurred upon the City of New Orleans and its residents.
Blanchard’s Concord debut, Choices, was recorded in his hometown of New Orleans at the Ogden Museum of Art. The album addresses the choices we all make in life – both as a society and on a personal level. Blanchard will premiere the project at the Ogden in late July, and the show will be filmed for an upcoming documentary. Accompanying Blanchard on the album are longstanding band members Fabian Almazan on piano, Derrick Hodge on bass, Kendrick Scott on drums, Lionel Loueke on guitar and newcomer Walter Smith lll on saxophone, all of whom significantly contributed to the album’s compositions. Guest artists on Choices include writer, speaker, educator and activist Dr. Cornel West and singer, musician and composer Bilal. West performs spoken word pieces on the album with Bilal providing vocals on several of the tracks.
“It’s good to be back where I originally started my career. I’m excited about the possibilities of working with a staff that has the same passion for music and creativity as I do. At Concord, I feel we both look forward to an exciting future of creating new traditions in jazz,” said Terence.
“Terence is the quintessential jazz artist. He uses his extraordinary talent and creativity to constantly break new musical ground and explore new horizons,” said John Burk, Chief Creative Officer of Concord Music Group. “We are extremely honored to welcome him back to the Concord family.”
Terence and his band will be touring worldwide in support of the new release.
Streaming Link for “When Will You Call”:
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http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/audio/qtl/Terence_Blanchard_When_Will_You_Call_featuring_Bilal.qtl
Buy It:
http://amazon.com/Choices-Terence-Blanchard/dp/B002FUI4B0/?tag=concordreco0c-20
After putting down the guitar and leaving the music scene for twenty years, Roy Jay re-discovered the fire that had been burning all along. After teaming up with lyricists Marsha Garcia and Jeff Zampino as well as producer Chris Seefried (Quincy Jones, Roseanne Cash) Jay was able to create an incredible album, Lucky Guy.
The album takes on simplistic happy-go-lucky vibes, such as on the title track, “Lucky Guy” as well as more narrative tracks like “California Grey”. All in all, Lucky Guy is a great easy listening CD for anyone and any occasion.
Jay will also be performing on the second half of the “Evening of the Feeling Song” tour with Tony Lucca, Jay Nash and Matt Duke. The tour will be traveling around the US where it will end at the two-day singer-songwriter event of the year, Hotel Carolina in the Isle of Palms, South Carolina.
You can see Jay on these dates:
9/15 – New York, NY – Canal Room
9/16 – Boston, MA – Middle East
9/17 – Piermont, NY – The Turning Point
9/18 – Easton, MD – Night Cat
9/19 – Fredericksburg, VA – Colonial Tavern
9/20 – Vienna, VA – Jammin’ Java
9/22 – Nashville, TN – 3rd and Lindsley
9/23 – Atlanta, GA – Smith’s Old Bar
9/25 – Isle of Palms, SC – Hotel Carolina
9/26 – Isle of Palms, SC – Hotel Carolina
http://www.royjaymusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/royjaymusic
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