The Beach Boys, one of the world’s most legendary and influential bands, have reunited for a global 50th Anniversary Tour. Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks will tour together for the first time in more than two decades.
The 40+ city tour, which will begin in April, will feature a headlining date at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on April 27th and a performance at The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 10th. A second show at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT has already been added for May 13 due to overwhelming demand. The previously announced May 12 performance at the Mohegan Sun Arena sold out in one day.
Get your calenders out and mark this one down, global pop superstar Katy Perry has announced that she will release a special edition of her triple-platinum certified album Teenage Dream on March 27th, 2012. The first run of the release will feature a limited edition lenticular cover. Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection includes all 12 tracks from the original version of Katy’s second album, including the singles “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.,” “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” and “The One That Got Away,” which all peaked at No. 1 on the BillboardPop Songs chart.
It also features three brand new songs as well as versions of “E.T” featuring Kanye West, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” featuring Missy Elliott, and a moving acoustic version of “The One That Got Away” produced by Jon Brion. None of these alternative versions have ever been available on a physical CD until now. Also included on The Complete Confection is a 7 minute Tommie Sunshine megamix featuring all six No.1 hits.
“This is the complete story of Teenage Dream. It was an incredible honour to tie the King of Pop’s Billboard Hot 100 record, but I’m moving forward and had a few things left to get off my chest. So this is the complete special edition of my album for my fans,” states Katy.
Teenage Dream has generated more than 25.5 million in digital song sales and earned Katy six Grammy Award nominations, including “Album of the Year” and “Record of the Year.” In December, Katy wrapped her hugely successful sold-out arena tour, the 124-date California Dreams World Tour. She was also selected MTV’s “Artist of the Year” in 2011 and won a Juno Award for International Album of the Year.
“The Singles” is a career-spanning album from Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory which features tracks from critically acclaimed albums as well as 2 new songs written especially for this release.
“Yellow Halo” & Melancholy Shy are the newest of all to be released.
Heading to us straight from the UK, Morning Parade are bringing us their much anticipated EP “The Hated And The Loved” on March 13, 2012. The must-listen tracks have got to be “Us and Ourselves” & “Headlights” which only pump us up for their self-titled debut album on June 19, 2012.
Also, today Morning Parade launch a competition in partnership with cutting-edge creative community, Talenthouse, to create a brand new music video for the band’s future single “Headlights.”
The band are inviting artists to create their own music videos for “Headlights” before submitting them for a public and band vote. The winning submission, chosen by the band and announced on April 2, will become the official music video for the single and will be featured and promoted on MUZU, YouTube, VEVO, Daily Motion and other key digital platforms. In addition, the winner will receive $1000.
A ‘People’s Choice’ winner will also be selected via a public vote across the band’s social networks and will win a Canon Digital Camera and an EMI merchandise bag.
for more info check Morning Parade’s facebook page.
Secret City is pleased to announce the release of Patrick Watson’s new album, Adventures In Your Own Backyard,on April 17th in Canada. The 12-track album will see release in the rest of the world via Domino.
Adventures In Your Own Backyard, the fourth full-length effort from Patrick Watson, was recorded in Montreal after a grueling five-year run that saw Patrick and his band (bassist Mishka Stein bass, guitarist Simon Angell and drummer Robbie Kuster) tour the world in support of two critically-acclaimed and successful albums, including the Polaris Music Prize-winning Close To Paradise.
The album’s title is a nod to both Watson’s attempt to make a more “personal, humble” record—and to the fact that it was recorded almost entirely in his apartment in Montreal. By contrast, both Close to Paradise and especially 2009’s Wooden Arms were recorded over long periods of time, in many different locations around the globe. As Kuster explains, “Pat’s studio environment allowed us to be relaxed and feel like we were in an informal space…our own. That really let us dig in to the writing and the arranging.” The result is an album that is still ripe with the touchstones one has come to expect from Patrick Watson and his collaborators, but permeated with a greater sense of patience, and confidence.
Adventures In Your Own Backyard is preceded by the single for the sweeping, elegant “Into Giants,” which is available to all at www.patrickwatson.net and via the widget below. Patrick and his band have already lined up shows before the album’s release that will include a headlining appearance at South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas in March, and support dates with Andrew Bird in the US this May, with many more dates to follow throughout the world.
Can you believe it has been a quarter of a century since Locomotion was released in 1987? Twenty five years later Kylie Minogue is still at the top of her game and she is ready to celebrate!
Kylie has chosen to mark this incredible milestone with a year of surprises and gifts for her fans.
To kick-start the celebrations, Kylie will be releasing a specially recorded acoustic version of ‘Finer Feelings’ (a Stock and Waterman hit from 1992) available to view from Kylie.com. The release is the first in a series of especially commissioned new recordings of classic Kylie songs, recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Further tracks will be made available periodically throughout the year. The songs Kylie has recorded are a surprise and will be revealed on the day they become available.
Kylie will be asking her fans to ‘tweet to unlock’ the video. We will need 25,000 people to tweet #k25fans from 7pm on Wednesday 25th January, before the video will be ‘unlocked’ and available for everyone to view.
Kylie re-entered the studio last year, following the spectacular Aphrodite: Les Folies world tour, and teased fans throughout the process on Twitter with photos from inside the studio. She has been recording with long time collaborators and renowned producers Steve Anderson and Colin Elliot, the amazing Aphrodite Band, four backing vocalists and a 24 piece string orchestra, led by Cliff Masterson.
Plants and Animals are pleased to announce a North American tour this March and April in support of their new album, The End of That, out February 28 on Secret City. This is the band’s first tour as a four piece, having added a bassist to their live show. A full list of dates is below.
The band will also release a 7” for “Lightshow,” the first single off of The End of That, which will be available in stores on the same day as the CD/LP. The 7” features a live cover of Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything” on the B-side. A digital version is now available on iTunes and other online retailers.
Have a listen, download, and share it with your friends off Soundcloud!!! (more…)
The Decemberists have announced the March 13, release of We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11), a 20-track live double-album (and triple-vinyl set) culled from the band’s 2011 tour supporting their chart-topping, Grammy-nominated album The King Is Dead. With songs spanning their entire first decade as a band—from their debut EP 5 Songs through each of their six LP’s—We All Raise Our Voices To The Air is the first-ever live album from a band that has grown into one of rock’s most thrilling live acts.
The performances on We All Raise Our Voices To The Air are drawn from 12 different shows at venues including the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, Marymoor Amphitheatre in Seattle, and their final two shows at McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheatre in their hometown of Portland, which featured the addition of a horn section that can be heard on several songs.
This live double-album is bound to be a must have! Be sure to add it to your musical collection on March 13, 2012!
The Beach Boys announced today that they have reunited for a new album and upcoming tour! This is in celebration of their 50th Anniversary! Although it’s December, I’ve had “Surfin’ USA” in my head all day! Can’t wait to hear new tracks… luckily we have a sneak peek for you in the video below of the guys in the studio together
This week for ‘Cover Wednesday’ we have Boyce Avenue performing an acoustic cover of Katy Perry’s ‘The One That Got Away’, which is Katy’s fifth single off “Teenage Dream”.
What a great cover guys you really made it your own. If you have not heard the original yet it is posted below, so take a listen and enjoy. The album is available on iTunes so be sure to pick up your copy today!
