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22 May
2012

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Currently Streaming Forthcoming Release “Here”

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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros are currently streaming their forthcoming album Here in its entirety via NPR Music. The band’s second release will be available everywhere on May 29th via Community Music.

PRE-ORDER HERE ON AMAZON / iTUNES

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS – LIVE DATES
5/21 – Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
5/24 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre SOLD OUT
5/25 – Minneapolis, MN – Cabooze Outdoor Plaza
5/26 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theatre
5/30 – Columbus, OH – The LC Pavilion
5/31 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
6/1 – Ozark, AR – Wakarusa Festival

www.edwardsharpeandthemagneticzeros.com

20 May
2012

Antony and the Johnsons Announce New Album Cut The World

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Antony and the Johnsons will release CUT THE WORLD on August 7th on Secretly Canadian (August 6th in the UK). Antony and the Johnsons: CUT THE WORLD is a collection of live symphonic performances of songs from the band’s 4 full length albums (SWANLIGHTS, THE CRYING LIGHT, I AM A BIRD NOW, S/T). Recorded in Copenhagen, DK with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra, CUT THE WORLD features arrangements by Nico Muhly, Rob Moose, Maxim Moston and Antony.

Additionally the title track “Cut The World” is featured here for the first time. It is one of Antony’s new songs for The Life and Death of Marina Abramović directed by Robert Wilson and staring Antony, Marina Abramović and Willem Dafoe.

CUT THE WORLD was recorded live on September 2nd and 3rd, 2011 at the DK Concert Hall in Copenhagen, DK and represents Antony’s continued meditation on light, nature & femininity. Antony discusses his ideas on the track “Future Feminism”, a speech he made during one of the concerts. Addressing the affects of patriarchy on the global ecology, Antony explores the possibility of shifting towards feminine systems of governance in a gesture to restore our world.

Track Listing:

Cut The World
Future Feminism
Cripple and the Starfish
You Are My Sister
Swanlights
Epilepsy Is Dancing
Another World
Kiss My Name
I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy
The Rapture
The Crying Light
Twilight

TOUR DATES:
06/02/12 – Moscow, Russia – Ahmad Tea Festival with Novaya Opera Orchestra
06/05/12 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Holland Festival with The Metropole Orchestra
07/03/12 – Paris, France – Salle Pleyel with L’ Orchestre National d’Ile de France
07/06/12 – Lyon, France – Théâtre antique de Fourvière with Orchestre de L’Opera de Lyon
07/09/12 – Istanbul, Turkey – Cemil Topuzlu Open Air Theater with Philharmonia Istanbul
07/11/12 – Gent, Belgium – Gent Jazz Festival with The Metropole Orchestra
07/13/12 – Ostrawa, Czech Republic – Colours of Ostrawa Festival with The Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra
07/15/12 – Joensuu, Finland – Ilosaarirock Festival with The Joensuu City Orchestra
07/19/12 – Molde, Norway – Molde Jazz Festival with The Trondheim Solistene
07/22/12 – San Sebastian, Spain – Jazzaldia Festival with The Et Incarnatus Orkestra
07/25/12 – Lisbon, Portugal – Cascais Music Festival with The Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa
07/28/12 – Lucern, Switzerland – Blue Balls Festival and orchestra
08/03/12 – Stockholm, Sweden – Stockholm Music and Arts Festival with The Swedish National Radio Orchestra
08/01-12/12 – London, England – MELTDOWN: Antony curates MELTDOWN at The Southbank Centre

http://antonyandthejohnsons.com/

18 May
2012

Matchbox Twenty Announces New Album “North” Due Out September 4th

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Atlantic recording group Matchbox Twenty has announced the release of their hugely-anticipated new album scheduled to arrive everywhere on September 4th.

“NORTH” marks Matchbox Twenty’s fourth full-length studio recording and first all-new album in a decade. “The title refers to us finding our way,” says Matchbox Twenty’s Paul Doucette. “We went into this record with a lot of material. Many different songs that could have taken us in many different directions. It sort of overwhelmed us for a bit. But, at a certain point, we figured it out. We figured out where North was.” The album’s electrifying first single, “She’s So Mean,” is slated to be unveiled in June.

“NORTH” sees Matchbox Twenty driving their pop-rock sound further forward; magnifying the indelible melodies, crafty lyricism, and glorious hooks that have always defined their multi-platinum body of work. The band—Rob Thomas, Paul Doucette, Kyle Cook and Brian Yale,– lived together last Summer in a house in Nashville where they all collaborated on the new material before once again joining forces with the Grammy Award-winning producer Matt Serletic at his Emblem Studios in Calabasas, California. The result of their labors stands among Matchbox Twenty’s finest, with songs like “Overjoyed” and “Put Your Hands Up” marked by the band’s instantly identifiable sonic approach and unadulterated high spirits.

“NORTH” follows Matchbox Twenty’s most recent release, 2007’s RIAA gold certified “EXILE ON MAINSTREAM.” In addition to compiling such classic hits as “Push,” “Bent,” and “Unwell,” the album featured six new tracks, including still another smash single, the Steve Lillywhite-produced “How Far We’ve Come,” which is the band’s biggest selling single to date. The group also did a SRO global tour in support of “EXILE ON MAINSTREAM” playing in front of their largest crowds ever in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Matchbox Twenty immediately established themselves as one of modern pop-rock’s most popular and talented new bands with the arrival of their blockbuster debut album, 1996’s “YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU.” The album generated five extraordinary hit singles – including “Long Day,” “Back 2 Good,” and “3 am” – on its way to RIAA Diamond Award certification for total U.S. sales now exceeding 12 million. Two further multi-platinum albums followed, with 2000’s “MAD SEASON” and 2002’s “MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE” each spawning a steady stream of hugely successful singles, including such chart-topping favorites as “If You’re Gone,” “Disease,” and “Bright Lights.”

In addition to more than 30 million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty has also earned countless accolades, including five Grammy nominations, four American Music Award nods, and the 2004 People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Musical Group.” What’s more, Rob Thomas has proven one of the most highly decorated artists of recent years, receiving three Grammy Awards, 11 BMI Awards, and two Billboard “Songwriter of the Year” honors for both his chart-topping solo work as well as collaborations with such legends as Santana, Mick Jagger, and Willie Nelson. Thomas’ collaboration with Carlos Santana on “Smooth” was also named the #2 Most Popular Song Ever on Billboard’s List of the 100 Most Popular songs behind “The Twist.” He was also named to Billboard’s Top 20 List of Hot 100 Songwriters 2000-2011 at #5 and was the top ranking artist/songwriter on the list.

matchboxtwenty.com

18 May
2012

Right Away, Great Captain! (Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull’s Solo Project) Announces New Album And Tour

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On June 12, Manchester Orchestra frontman Andy Hull will release “The Church of the Good Thief,” the third album in the trilogy of his solo project, Right Away, Great Captain! This new chapter completes the tale Hull began on 2006′s “The Bitter End” and 2008′s “The Eventually Home” of a sailor who, upon discovering his wife cheating on him with his brother, runs away to sea and gradually descends into a vengeful rage.

“The Church of the Good Thief” will be released via all major digital retailers, and will also be available, along with “The Bitter End” and “The Eventually Home,” in a four-LP vinyl box set. Additionally, the deluxe pre-order package for the vinyl box set will include “The Lost Sea,” a collection of unreleased songs, demos and outtakes, as well as a handmade lyric book and keychain, and a photo print by Ryan Russell, all hand-numbered and signed by Hull. The album pre-order begins today at http://rightawaygreatcaptain.bandcamp.com/

Hull will support the album with a brief Midwest and East Coast solo tour in July, hitting markets including Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York; see below for a complete list of dates. Tickets are available to fans now via a Ducat King presale at http://rightawaygreatcaptain.ducatking.com/ and go on sale to the general public on Thursday, May 24 at 12:00 PM local time.

Hull began the Right Away, Great Captain! project in 2006 as a writing exercise. “I had the storyline for the first album in my head,” he explains, “and started to write it in this other characters body. It was really rewarding as a writer to put yourself in someone else’s position and give yourself some walls that you could not break. I had always wanted to embark on something like a trilogy and from the beginning, I felt like three albums could sum up the story. If I didn’t set out for it to be a trilogy, I could have extended this story and it would have gotten stale and I don’t know if I ever would have finished it. What I could not have ever expected was the amount of growth that I went through personally from ages 19 to 25, because you don’t really think about that when you’re 19. As I began to grow, the character grew, and when the character grew, the story grew too.”

“The Eventually Home” ended with our protagonist returning home from three years at sea and standing over his wife and brother asleep in bed, trying to decide whether to murder her. As “The Church of the Good Thief” commences with the song “Blame,” we’re just 30 minutes later in the storyline, as he chooses to kill his brother instead, while his wife watches in terror. His children witness the slaying, neighbors hear the commotion, and the sailor is quickly arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. The remainder of this final album finds him alone in his prison cell, reflecting on his tragic life, communicating with the ghost of his captain and mentor from the first album, and attempting to make peace with his family and his God before his execution.

Hull intentionally created an album to close out this trilogy that sounds and feels as solitary as the conflicted emotions that the character is experiencing. “Both of the previous albums contained a lot of different settings, but my hope on this record was to have it sound like a man in a jail cell with just a guitar and a piano,” he says. “I wanted my voice to be used as a narrative during his isolation.” Hull spent last winter recording during his breaks from touring, and as with the first two Right Away, Great Captain! records (and the entire Manchester Orchestra catalog), teamed up with his longtime producer/collaborator Dan Hannon. The album was recorded in Hannon’s living room studio in Atlanta, and mixed by Hannon, Hull, another longtime studio collaborator, Brad Fisher; and Manchester Orchestra guitarist Robert McDowell at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC.

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“The Church of the Good Thief” track list:

1. Blame
2. When I Met Death
3. I Am Aware
4. Old Again
5. Fur Stop Caring
6. I Wait For You
7. Barely Bit Me
8. Rotten Black Root
9. We Were Made Of Lightning
10. Memories From The End Pt. 1
11. Memories From The End Pt. 2

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Right Away, Great Captain! tour dates:

July 11 — Chicago, IL — Subterranean
July 12 — Pontiac, MI — The Pike Room
July 13 — Akron, OH — Musica
July 15 — Pittsburgh, PA — Shadow Lounge
July 17 — Hoboken, NJ — Maxwell’s
July 18 — Hamden, CT — The Space
July 19 — Boston, MA — Brighton Music Hall
July 20 — Philadelphia, PA — North Star Bar
July 21 — Baltimore, MD — Ottobar
July 22 — Brooklyn, NY — Knitting Factory

http://facebook.com/rightawaygreatcaptain

16 May
2012

Fang Island Premiere New Song “Asunder”

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Brooklyn’s beloved guitar-anthem optimists Fang Island premiere the first track, “Asunder,” from their forthcoming sophomore album today at Pitchfork.

Fang Island announce their return with an album befitting its title: Major. In anticipation of the album’s summer release, the band has posted teaser videos. Watch them below:

Like the painstakingly chiseled marble of the album artwork, Major is hefty, solid, monolithic and regal. Whereas Fang Island described their celebrated 2010 self-titled Sargent House debut as, “everyone high-fiving everyone,” Major is evermore confident, triumphant and brimming with infectious enthusiasm. Its warm harmonies are given proper berth with more expansive dynamics and focused pop song craft.

“One of our core ideas has always been that our songs would be all of your favorite parts of the song that other bands make you wait 8 minutes to get to,” explains guitarist/vocalist Jason Bartell. “We wanted to be the band that’s nothing but your favorite hooks back to back.” Major shows Fang Island deftly achieving that aim.

Kicking off with the overlapping neoclassical piano pirouette and chiming harmonized guitars of album opener “Kindergarten”, Fang Island makes it clear from the outset that this is an album of musical and sonic growth, while at the same time a chorus of voices repeat the mantra, “all I know/ I learned in / kindergarten.” It’s that same unabashed embracing of childlike wonder filtered through visionary artistic sophistication that gives Fang Island its unique charm and sets the tone for this (ahem) major step forward for Bartell, guitarist/vocalist Chris Georges and drummer Marc St. Sauveur. Without a moment’s rest, the definitive summer pop jam “Sisterly” launches the album skyward, led by the thick hook of a wah-wah pedal “chunka-chunka-chunka” riff that’s guaranteed to have listeners busting out their air guitar moves. “Never Understand” revisits the classic Fang Island guitar harmony dog pile while what sounds like a cheery mob repeatedly intones, “I hope I never understand.” Elsewhere, the rollicking anthem “Asunder” quickly builds momentum like a rolling snowball that eventually careens into a summertime BBQ — the explosive payoff as the elements collide is pure pop bliss.

Throughout, Major highlights the band’s endeavor to elevate positivity as an art form. “It’s kind of similar to writing songs about being sad,” Bartell says. “It can come across as simplistic, or easy. Positive songs often run the risk of sounding shallow, but we feel there are a lot of shades and depths to positivity that can be explored.” That exploration becomes clear from the first notes of Major.

However, Georges sums up the album’s bold steps best in this short sampling of the band’s nearly 1,000 bullet point explanation of the album title:

“Some reasons we called the album Major:
- Major key (the first song is minor though!)
- Valley girl colloquialism
- Because we are on an independent label
- Because the rank under Sargent (House) is major
- It sounds like a constellation
- Steely Dan’s “Any Major Dude” was in rotation a lot during the sessions
- The record is packaged to look like stone because it’s ROCK. I really wanted people to hold a piece of rock when they picked up the record.”

Major will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download via Sargent House on July 24th, 2012.

Artist: Fang Island
Album: Major
Label: Sargent House
Release date: July 24th, 2012

Track list:
01. Kindergarten
02. Sisterly
03. Seek it Out
04. Make Me
05. Never Understand
06. Asunder (MP3)
07. Dooney Rock
08. Regalia
09. Chompers
10. Chime Out
11. Victorinian

fangisland.com
sargenthouse.com

15 May
2012

Alberta Cross Announces New Album “Songs of Patience” and Tour Dates

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Alberta Cross will release their highly anticipated sophomore album, Songs of Patience, on ATO Records on July 17th, 2012. Additionally, the band will hit the road for the first live dates in support of Songs for Patience, kicking off in New York City on June 24th as part of this year’s Governor’s Ball Music Festival on Randall’s Island. Alberta Cross will also be touring with Everest starting on July 5th in Chicago for a run of summer dates. Tickets for these shows go on sale Friday, May 18th. All tour dates are listed below.

The title of Alberta Cross’ new album, Songs of Patience, is, in many ways, literal. After touring extensively behind their debut 2009, Broken Side Of Time, with bands like Them Crooked Vultures, Oasis, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and stopping at festivals like Bonnaroo and Sasquatch, Alberta Cross headed to an old, abandoned house in the middle of nowhere near Woodstock, NY. There, they braved the freezing winter and embraced a sense of the building’s haunted past to envision ideas for a new record.

The Woodstock session opened the doors to craft the songs that would appear on Songs of Patience (ATO Records), but the group needed more inspiration. For core band members Petter Ericson Stakee (vocals/guitar) and Terry Wolfers (bass), the album they knew they could make was seemingly just out of their grasp. Ericson Stakee moved from New York City to Los Angeles in search of a new perspective, but when the rest of the band joined him in early 2011, the songs they knew would propel them forward remained elusive. Alberta Cross had a finished album that just didn’t feel right; so, they did what many great artists have done to move forward – they went backwards.

This, of course, meant that Ericson Stakee and Wolfers had to find their way back to what inspired Alberta Cross in the first place, which resulted in pairing down the Alberta Cross lineup to its original incarnation as a two-piece, in addition to stepping away from what they had created in order to look it in the face. This allowed them to admit that it needed revision, a step that ultimately allowed them to open up their creativity, pen additional tracks and re-mix/re-track a few songs from the L.A. sessions once they’d returned to New York. There, they laid down new songs, rounding out the original album to be an expansive, thoughtful portrait of their experiences. The result is one of the finest, most visceral rock albums of 2012.

Ultimately, Songs of Patience is both a throwback to Alberta Cross’ roots and a progression forward. It’s a record that is as soulful as it is driven. The album veers from the melodic sprawl of opener “Magnolia” to the pensive provocation of “Lay Down,” a song bolstered by crashing guitars and one of the record’s most thrilling choruses. “Wasteland” is a hook-laden, no-holds-barred rocker showcasing Ericson Stakee’s voice at its best, while “Crate of Gold” explores the motivations of the Occupy movement in all of its fuzzed-out, bass-driven glory. Indeed, Songs of Patience is the sum of three years’ worth of parts – a struggle that concluded in one hell of an album, and a brilliant new chapter in the musical journey of Alberta Cross.

Songs of Patience track listing:
1. Magnolia
2. Create Of Gold
3. Lay Down
4. Come on Maker
5. Ophelia On My Mind
6. Wasteland
7. I Believe In Everything
8. Life Without Warning
9. Money For The Weekend (Pocket Full of Shame)
10. Bonfires

Tour dates:
6/24/12 New York, NY @ Randall’s Island (Governor’s Ball Music Festival)
7/3/12 Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
7/5/12 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall*
7/6/12 Columbus, OH @ The Basement*
7/7/12 Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot – Pike Room*
7/9/12 Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall*
7/10/12 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas*
7/12/12 Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel*
7/14/12 Cincinnati, OH @ Sawyer Point Park (Bunbury Music Festival)
7/16/12 Nashville, TN @ The High Watt*
7/17/12 St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway*
7/19/12 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge*
7/22/12 San Diego, CA @ Casbah*
7/24/12 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour*
7/25/12 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent*
7/27/12 Portland, OR @ Peter’s Room*
7/28/12 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile*
7/29/12 Vancouver, BC @ Media Club*

*with Everest

15 May
2012

The Gaslight Anthem Reveal “Handwritten” Album Cover, Announce Tour Dates, 5/16 MHOW Webcast

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With their brand new single, “45,” available now at iTunes (http://smarturl.it/i45) and Amazon (http://smarturl.it/a45), THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM will take the stage this week for two intimate sold-out gigs at Music Hall of Williams­burg in Brooklyn (on May 16) and the Roxy in West Hollywood (May 18). The shows are the prelude to a full schedule of tour dates, festivals, and television appearances through the summer in support of their fourth album, HANDWRITTEN, scheduled for a July 24 release on Mercury Records, a division of Island Def Jam Music Group.

On June 28, The Gaslight Anthem will appear (for the third time!) on CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman. The band will also make a return appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on July 27. In addition to Letterman and Fallon, the band has appeared on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The Gaslight Anthem will kick off the HANDWRITTEN album release campaign with a live stream of the Music Hall of Williamsburg show presented by Vans, starting at 9:00 p.m. on May 16, at http://new.livestream.com/thegaslightanthem. In conjunction with the show, The Gaslight Anthem and Bowery Presents are working with Food Bank For New York City to hold a Food & Fund Drive to collect canned goods and funds for hungry New Yorkers. They are asking fans to help in bringing nonperishable food donations and putting them in the white food drive bins located by the front door of the venue. The top 10 most needed items include canned beans, milk, fruit, vegetable, juice, meat, fish, soup, stew, and peanut butter. There will also be a Virtual Food Drive as another way to donate (link to be announced in the days ahead).

Leading up to the release of HANDWRITTEN on July 24, The Gaslight Anthem has scheduled a cross-country North American tour, opening July 5 at the Independent in San Francisco. The 12-city tour will wrap up on the new album’s release day, July 24, at Webster Hall in New York City. (See dates below)

HANDWRITTEN, The Gaslight Anthem’s first album on Mercury Records, was produced by two-time Grammy Award®-winner Brendan O’Brien, known for his work with Bruce Springsteen (Best Rock Album Grammy, 2002), Pearl Jam, Incubus, and many others. The track listing for HANDWRITTEN is as follows: 1. 45 * 2. Handwritten * 3. Here Comes My Man * 4. Mulholland Drive * 5. Keepsake * 6. Too Much Blood * 7. Howl * 8. Biloxi Parish * 9. Desire * 10. Mae * 11. National Anthem.

In addition to Williamsburg and the Roxy (both sold out in minutes), The Gaslight Anthem has already set several major festival appearances, including opening for Bon Jovi at Bamboozle in East Rutherford, NJ, on May 20; appearing at the Metallica Orion Festival in Atlantic City, NJ, on June 23; and Lollapalooza at Grant Park in Chicago. European dates include Le Zenith de Paris on May 29 and Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin on May 31.

Prior to HANDWRITTEN, The Gaslight Anthem – Brian Fallon (lead vocals, guitar), Alex Rosamilia (guitar, vocals), Alex Levine (bass, vocals), and Benny Horowitz (drums, percussion) – has released three full-length indie albums to date: Sink Or Swim (2007, XOXO Records), The ’59 Sound (2008, SideOneDummy Records), and American Slang (June 2010, SideOneDummy). In the spring of 2011, they performed “Bring It On,” a track from American Slang, on Letterman.

For more information on The Gaslight Anthem, go to http://www.thegaslightanthem.com.

The Gaslight Anthem on tour:

JULY
05 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
07 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
08 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile
11 – Minneapolis, MN – Fineline
12 – Lawrence, KS – Bottleneck
13 – St. Louis, MO – Firebird
14 – Cincinnati, OH – Bunberry Festival
16 – Toronto, ON – Opera House
18 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
19 – Chapel Hill, NC – Cat’s Cradle
20 – Washington, DC – U Street
22 – Boston, MA – Middle East
24 – New York, NY – Webster Hall

http://www.thegaslightanthem.com

14 May
2012

Animal Collective To Release New Album CENTIPIDE Hz On September 4th

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Animal Collective has announced the initial details of their upcoming album CENTIPIDE Hz. It’ll be released on September 4th on Domino Records. Check out a teaser video now at http://www.myanimalhome.net and the full tracklisting below.

1. Moonjock
2. Today’s Supernatural
3. Rosie Oh
4. Applesauce
5. Wide Eyed
6. Father Time
7. New Town Burnout
8. Monkey Riches
9. Mercury Man
10. Pulleys
11. Amanita

14 May
2012

10 Years Unveil Cover Art For New Album “Minus The Machine”

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With their new album Minus The Machine hitting stores July 31, Knoxville’s 10 Years is excited to reveal the album’s cover art in advance of the tour. You can check out the cover for Minus The Machine on the right.

The band will kick off the “Minus the Machine” headlining tour on June 27 in New Orleans, supported by Fair to Midland and KYNG. They’re hitting over 20 cities nationwide including a date in their hometown of Knoxville, and a handful of festivals like Rockfest and Summerjam. They will be touring to support the release of the new album, and they’re excited to play some new songs this time around. This year, the band is playing Rocklahoma, sharing the bill with artists like Rob Zombie, Chevelle, Slash, and Creed.

After a solid and successful two years of Brian Vodinh touring as the band’s guitarist, he is looking forward to returning to the drum kit. Brian announces, “even though I started the band with the intention of playing guitar, for some reason drums have been always been the heartbeat of my thought process for the songwriting. After touring for more than two years with me playing guitar, we collectively decided that it felt like the heartbeat had just changed a little and it was time to pump that old blood back into the veins of 10 Years. I will be returning to the drum kit with a renewed passion and drive and with the release of Minus the Machine, our fans are in for the most emotional and energetic album and live show they have ever seen from us.” This tour is shaping up to be an experience that no 10 Years fan would want to miss.

Minus the Machine will be the band’s fifth studio album, following their successful 2010 release Feeding The Wolves,which broke into the Billboard Top 200 list at #12. Billboard proclaims “10 Years hits a sweet spot between rock and metal” and Outburn declares the band “succeeds at making solid rock songs with subtle unique touches and nuances.”

The band will release their new record on their own Palehorse Records in conjunction with Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group. The album marks the band’s first release on their own label after a long tenure at Universal. 10 Years frontman Jesse Hasek explains the decision to release the album independently, saying “We wanted to create an album that has no boundaries.” He continues, “When you feel like you’re being told to go through motions and jump through hoops, it takes the heart out of it. It’s better to do what comes naturally and then figure out the after-effect.”

10 YEARS TOUR DATES:
May 19 – Maryland Heights, MO @ KPNT Pointfest, Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre
May 21 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
May 22 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
May 23 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
May 25 – Abilene, TX @ Lucky Mule Saloon
May 26 – Rocklahoma – Pryor, OK @ Catch The Fever Festival Grounds
June 27 – New Orleans, LA @ Southport Hall
June 29 – Dallas, TX @ Trees
June 30 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
July 1 – Corpus Christi, TX @ Brewster Street Ice House
July 3 – Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
July 5 – Tallahassee, FL @ Coliseum
July 6 – Knoxville, TN @ The Valarium
July 7 – Chattanooga, TN @ Track 29
July 8 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
July 10 – Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head Live
July 11 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
July 13 – Portland, ME @ Asylum
July 14 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Wally’s Pub
July 15 – Bristol, CT @ Bleachers
July 18 – Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop
July 19 – Ft. Wayne, IN @ Piere’s
July 20 – Rockfest- Cadott, WI @ Chippewa Valley Festival Grounds
July 21 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
July 24 – Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge
August 4 – Summerjam- Centreville, VA @ Bull Run Park

http://www.10yearsmusic.com

10 May
2012

Morning Parade To Release Self-Titled Album On June 19th, Announces Tour Dates with Walk The Moon

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Hailing from Essex, England, Morning Parade is proud to announce the release of their long-anticipated debut full-length on June 19th as well as live tour dates in June as special guests of Ohio natives, Walk The Moon.

The band is already causing waves of anticipation with the release of their debut single, “Headlights” which is gaining swift momentum at alternative radio across the U.S., in addition to six spectacular shows at SXSW, live dates as special guests of The Kooks in March and recently premiering their video on RollingStone.com.

Heavily tipped at the beginning of 2011, Morning Parade side-stepped the hype-trap which many a new band has fallen into by rushing out a quick debut album and instead took their time to write the album they wanted to make whilst building a solid and loyal fanbase all across Europe.

The result is a breathtaking statement of intent, demonstrating a depth of lyric and songwriting which has become increasingly rare amongst many contemporary artists. It is a purposeful, heartfelt and honest collection of songs:

From the bristling and driving rhythms of “Us and Ourselves” to the feel good anthem “Under the Stars”, the album takes you on an emotional rollercoaster, meandering between different textures and dynamics. The rousing no-holds barred rock’n’roll of “Blue Winter” and “Headlights” pack a considerable punch as album openers while the delicate ode to unrequited love that is “Monday Morning” juxtaposes with the life-affirming show-stopper “Born Alone.”

Recorded with acclaimed producer David Kosten (Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything), the self-titled debut album will be available physically and digitally across the U.S.

2011 saw the band selling out UK and European headline tours, playing to packed out tents at V Festival, touring with the likes of 30 Seconds to Mars, The Wombats and The Kooks, supporting Biffy Clyro at Ibiza Rocks and sharing a stage with Coldplay at Rock am Ring.

Live Dates as Special Guests of Walk The Moon:

6/4 Hollywood, CA Troubadour

6/6 Phoenix, AZ The Rhythm Room

6/8 Dallas, TX The Prophet Bar

6/9 Austin, TX The Parish

6/11 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom

6/12 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre

6/13 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room

6/14 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue

6/15 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall

6/16 Pontiac, MI iLounge

6/18 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club

6/20 New York, NY Mercury Lounge

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