The Beach Boys are well into their 50th Anniversary Tour and we cannot wait for them to stop in toToronto & Montreal we want everyone to be ready for the awesome show the Boys put on! To prepare we’ve put togther a playlist of awesome songs! Take a listen here:
This week is a very exciting week for us in music! So we wanted to share our newsworthy tracks with you via our rdio playlist ‘EMIxtape #3′
We start things off with Damon Albarn’s newest project ‘Dr. Dee- The Marvelous Dream’. The whole album is an opera based on the infamous 16th-century alchemist John Dee.
For Track #2 we turn our dial to The Beach Boys with ‘That’s Why God Made The Radio’ their new single celebrating their 50th anniversary as a band! Their Anniversary Tour is a hot ticket this summer! Who doesn’t wanna hear their summer soundtrack LIVE from the ‘Boys’ themselves??
We’ve been waiting for this album to arrive in our hands, and we are no longer ‘So Close’! It’s here! ‘Cosmonaut And The Girl’ by BC Boy Shawn Hook is now available! Check him out on twitter.
Jarvis Church has launched his new project ‘The Soul Sessions’ with the first track ‘Do It Better’. There’s nothin’ better than good ol’ soul music!
Next up- ‘Next To Me’ by Brit sensation Emeli Sande! We can’t say enough amazing things about Emeli! She did 2 buzz shows in Toronto this winter and we are counting the days until she comes back. Her album drops June 5th- mark your calendars!
She needs no introduction, Norah Jones! Happy Pills is her first single off the album, but further down the record we are enjoying the haunting tune ‘Miriam’. What do ya think?
At #7 we’ve got Winterlseep. The band are gearing up for an album launch & tour this spring/summer and we’ve been cranking up this rock track ‘In Came The Flood’. Join us!
Heading down under for this next one. Sam Sparro brings us some Aussie tunage with ‘I Wish I Never Met You’. You can also take a peek at his old-school gangster style, MJ inspired video.
For track 9 we wanted to highlight this St. Lucia-born, now student in Canada, KAYO. While finishing up his university degree he’s been on tour with Hedley, writing music, making videos and we are assuming with this track he fits in a few parties here and there too KAYO- ’1 Night’.
To top off this EMIxtape, we end with non other than Beastie Boys- ‘Make Some Noise’. RIP MCA.
Hope you like our EMIxtape this week! Come back next Tuesday for more!
Legendary Band’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Includes New Album, a Major International Tour, and Commemorative Catalog Releases
Canadian Tour Dates Include Toronto (June 19th) & Montreal (June 20th)
National Television and Radio Appearances Confirmed
Hollywood, California – April 25, 2012– The founding members of The Beach Boys, one of the world’s most legendary bands in popular music history, have reunited for a global 50th Anniversary celebration, including a new album release, a major international tour, and commemorative catalog releases. Today, The Beach Boys announce details about their new studio album, That’s Why God Made The Radio, to be released June 5 by Capitol/EMI.
Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks recently completed their recording sessions at Los Angeles’ Ocean Way Studios for That’s Why God Made The Radio, the band’s 29th studio album (including 2011’s The SMiLE Sessions), the first in decades to feature all of the band’s surviving original members. Produced by Brian Wilson and executive produced by Mike Love, the album’s 11 new songs illustrate The Beach Boys’ unique and evocative West Coast story with the band’s timeless signature sound.
The album’s lead single, “That’s Why God Made The Radio,” showcases The Beach Boys’ soaring harmonies in an upbeat, beaming ode to music’s radio champions around the world. Beginning today, the song is available for download purchase from all major digital service providers, and it makes its national radio premiere today on “Mike & Mike In the Morning”on ESPN Radio and ESPN 2. A new lyrics video for the single has been launched today on VEVO and The Beach Boys’ YouTube channel, where a video about the making of the song is also available for streaming.
“Radio was my whole education,” says Brian Wilson. “Chuck Berry, Rosemary Clooney, The Four Freshmen, Phil Spector, Little Richard… To hear ‘That’s Why God Made The Radio’ on the radio would be a thrill beyond belief, it really would. It would be a thrill beyond belief.”
“I got a lot of my appreciation for all of the creativity in the world, in terms of music, through the radio,” says Mike Love. “For all of us who grew up in the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and beyond, the radio has played such a huge, important part in our lives. When we were kids, we’d sneak out of the house and go and sit in Brian’s car and listen to the local radio stations on his car radio.”
The album’s other new songs include “Think About The Days,” “Isn’t It Time,” “Spring Vacation,” “Private Life Of Bill And Sue,” “Shelter,” “Daybreak Over The Ocean,” “Beaches In Mind,” “Strange World,” “My Life Suite,” and “Summer’s Gone.”
The Beach Boys’ collaborative approach to writing and recording their new music is evidenced throughout the album, with all of the band members participating to create its glorious harmonies, lyrics, and arrangements.
“We’ve come full circle,” says Al Jardine. “Sharing our memories and ourpresent in the studio has been really remarkable. I can especially feel it when we’re all singing around the mic together, because we all hear each other and we really lock in.”
“We have reunited as a band, but we never ‘un-reunited’ as friends,” says Bruce Johnston. “To be back in the studio with these guys is like a prayer that’s been answered and I am thrilled to be sharing it with everybody.”
“This is more like a family reunion than anything,” says David Marks. “When we’re together, we get along great. The chemistry always works the same as the last time we were together, and the five of us become a single element.”
The Beach Boys’ 50th Anniversary tour, the band’s first major outing to include Brian Wilson in more than two decades, began this week in Tucson, with other North American stops including their first concert at the Hollywood Bowl since 1965, headlining performances at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (“Jazz Fest”) and Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and concerts in major cities including New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Washington, DC, Toronto, and Montreal.
The Beach Boys have also confirmed concerts throughout Europe with additional European territories to be announced shortly. The Beach Boys will also perform shows in Japan, and concerts in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia will be announced soon. All confirmed tour dates can be found on TheBeachBoys.com.
The Beach Boys have confirmed several other national television appearances, including an interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” to air this Sunday, April 29, a multi-song performance and interview on NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on May 7, a performance on NBC’s “Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on June 6, and more to be announced.
Special radio events have also been confirmed, including a SiriusXM “Artist Confidential” performance and Q&A special to air Saturday, May 26 at 12 PM ET within the satellite network’s “Beach Boys Endless Summer Weekend,” a four-day Memorial Day Weekend tribute airing on ‘60s on 6, channel 6. Also during Memorial Day Weekend, Cumulus Radio Networks will premiere an exclusive, hour-long Beach Boys 50th Anniversary special on more than 150 Classic Hits/Oldies and AC stations across the U.S.
The Beach Boys and Capitol/EMI have also partnered for 50th Anniversary commemorative releases celebrating the band’s entire catalog, with a new hits collection and a career-spanning box set planned for later this year.
For five decades, America’s first pop band to reach the 50 year milestone has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer. Founded in Hawthorne, California in 1961, The Beach Boys were originally comprised of the three teenaged Wilson brothers: Brian, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine. In 1962, neighbor David Marks joined the group for their first wave of hits with Capitol Records, leaving in late 1963, and in 1965, Bruce Johnston joined the band when Brian Wilson retired from touring to focus on writing and producing for the group.
The Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records in July 1962 and released their first album, Surfin’ Safari, that same year. The album spent 37 weeks on the Billboard chart, launching the young group known for its shimmering vocal harmonies and relaxed California style into international stardom. The Wilson/Love collaboration resulted in many huge international chart hits, and under Brian Wilson’s musical leadership, the band’s initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include other themes, making The Beach Boys America’s preeminent band of the 1960s.
In 1966, The Beach Boys were one of the first bands to found its own record label with the launch of Brother Records, Inc. (BRI), with the band’s members as its shareholders and Capitol Records as its distribution partner. BRI continues to manage The Beach Boys’ intellectual property, including the band’s catalog with Capitol/EMI and other label partners, as well as its name, logos, image and likeness.
The Beach Boys continue to hold Billboard / Nielsen SoundScan’s record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles, and they are also the American group with the most Billboard Top 40 chart hits (36). ‘Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys’ has achieved triple-Platinum sales status, and ‘The SMiLE Sessions,’ released to worldwide critical acclaim in November, has been heralded as 2011’s #1 Reissue of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, The Beach Boys are an American institution that is iconic around the world.
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.
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
Hollywood, California – April 15, 2009 – The Beach Boys have long been the world’s leading, harmonious voice of summer fun, with an ocean’s swell of universally-loved songs about the beach, surfing, hot rods, and in no small measure, girls and sun-kissed romance. 20 of The Beach Boys’ best love songs, from tender ballads to boisterous romps, have been gathered for Summer Love Songs, a new 20-track CD and digital collection to be released May 19 by Capitol/EMI. Three classic tracks have been mixed in stereo for the first time, exclusively for this release, and three others have received new stereo mixes. Two of the new stereo mixes have been created from long lost, newly-recovered analog multi-track masters. A rare track, previously unreleased in the U.S. and long out-of-print in the U.K., is also included.
KAYO- ’1 Night’.
