Sunday, March 10, 2013

SXSW Preview: Depeche Mode; Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale; John Fogerty; The Coathangers

Over the past several weeks, my inbox has been flooded with invitations and updates relating to SXSW. Sadly I won't be Austin this week, but I still wanted to post some highlights; I'll kick things off with news related to Depeche Mode's first-ever trek to South By Southwest...

Depeche Mode / Photo credit: Accu Soft Co

Depeche Mode Announce Showcase Presented by Yahoo! @ SXSW Music Festival
on Friday, March 15th

Previously Announced Panel Discussion With The Band @ SXSW To Be Held on Wednesday, March 13th & Will Be Moderated By
Jason Bentley—Music Director of KCRW in Los Angeles

Depeche Mode's SXSW performance will be available on Yahoo! Music (http://music.yahoo.comon March 26

Following on the heels of their panel announcement, Depeche Mode have confirmed their first ever showcase at South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival on Friday, March 15, 2013Presented by Yahoo! the exclusive show will take place at Austin’s Brazos Hall with Depeche Mode scheduled to take the stage at 10pm. The concert will give lucky fans an exclusive preview of the band’s new album, Delta Machine, which is due out on Columbia Records on March 26, 2013.

Depeche Mode released news earlier this week that they will also sit down for a discussion moderated by KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley. This unique look inside the legendary band will be held on Wednesday, March 13th at 5 p.m. at the Austin Convention Center. The discussion is open to all Music and Platinum badges as well as Artist Wristbands

The band’s new album, Delta Machine, was recorded over the last year in Santa Barbara, California and New York City and was produced by Ben Hillier and mixed by Flood. Alongside a standard CD format, Depeche Mode will release Delta Machine in an exclusive Deluxe Edition with four additional new tracks and accompanied by a 28 page hardcover book including photos by longtime artistic collaborator Anton Corbijn. The first single, “Heaven,” was released earlier this month to critical acclaim. Depeche Mode will kick off their European tour on May 7th in Tel Aviv with North American tour details to be announced in the coming weeks.

FULL RUN OF SHOW & SET TIMES:
Doors 7:00 PM
Feathers
The Neighbourhood
Depeche Mode
ERIC PRYDZ

Here are some other announcements related to SXSW...

BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE
CONFIRM SXSW 2013 APPEARANCES
  
SXSW MARKS AUSTIN STOP ON MONTH-LONG U.S. TOUR IN
SUPPORT OF CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED LP BUDDY AND JIM
OUT NOW ON NEW WEST RECORDS

"As a duo, Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale may have released only one record, the appropriately titled Buddy and Jim, but their 30-plus years of friendship made their show at World Cafe Live on Friday night feel like a long-awaited reunion." 
Philadelphia Inquirer

"...Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller performed a well-crafted, expertly executed set of Americana music that was exhilarating, entertaining, and well, just plain fun."
The Huffington Post

photo credit Jacob Blickenstaff
Critically acclaimed, Grammy® Award winning musicians/songwriters Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale will bring their energetic, musically inspiring performances to Austin, TX for the annual South By Southwest Music Festival.  Buddy and Jim, who are taking the spotlight together for the first time in their 30+ year friendship, will play the official Americana Music Association Showcase, the HGTV/Paste Magazine day party, the South by San Jose day party and the New West Records official showcase at the Parish on Friday night with label mates Max Gomez, John Hiatt, Richard Thompson, Steve Earle and The Devil Makes Three (dates and times below.)

Buddy and Jim are out on tour in support of their new duets record titled Buddy and Jim, which was recorded and produced at Buddy's home studio in Nashville.  As two of the most prolific writers and in demand musicians, who the The Chicago Tribune recently described as "...couple of Nashville mavericks who've written, sang, played on or produced some of the best records of the last 25 years," the two friends explained during an interview with The New Yorker that"...it took seventeen years to find the three days they needed to record their first album together."  Buddy and Jim has been in the top 5 on the Americana Radio chart 14 weeks since the record debuted, including three straight weeks in the #1 position.  

In addition to making music together, Buddy and Jim co-host a weekly radio show that can be heard on SiriusXM Outlaw Country Channel 60 Saturdays 10 pm ETThey also join forces annually for the Americana Honors and Awards show, which Jim hosts while Buddy leads the all-star band.  Both artists have taken home multiple wins over the past several years at the Americana Honors and Awards show.  
SXSW PERFORMANCES:
3-14                9:00 pm                     Antones / Americana Music Association Showcase
3-15                12:00 pm                   Stages on Sixth / Paste Magazine Showcase
3-15                4:00 pm                     San Jose Hotel / South by San Jose
3-15                9:00 pm                     The Parish / New West Records Showcase



JOHN FOGERTY
TO CLOSE OUT SXSW ON A HIGH NOTE:

LEGENDARY ROCKER
TO PERFORM SPECIAL SHOW WITH HIS BAND
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
AT THE ACL MOODY THEATRE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS
It’s almost Saturday night.

JOHN FOGERTY will close out SXSW this year on a high note with a special performance Saturday, March 16 at 10 p.m. at the ACL Moody Theatre in Austin, Texas. This show with the legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist’s band comes as the excitement is building for the May 28 release of his new self-produced album for Vanguard Records, WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE.  A celebration of his iconic songbook, it is a collection of 12 classics and deep tracks from his remarkable canon of hits recorded in collaboration with other artists, plus two brand new solo songs. FOGERTY will also perform Thursday, March 14 at SXSW at Stubb’s as part of theSound City Players, the all-star band assembled by Dave Grohl.

This past Tuesday (March 5), FOGERTY appeared with the Sound City Players on“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” playing the classic FOGERTY original “Fortunate Son.” FOGERTY performs a new version of this song with the Foo Fighters on WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE. To see the “Kimmel” performance, which took place on Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TODQc2Lu3Js

FOGERTY recently appeared at album playbacks for media and tastemakers, talking about each song on WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE in sessions moderated by Bill Flanagan (in New York at Iridium) and David Wild (in Los Angeles at Hotel Café).

USA Today’s Edna Gundersen, writing about the Los Angeles event, praised the new version of “Fortunate Son”: “The Foo Fighters join in on a fierce, raucous all-too-timely remake of Fogerty's bitter slap at the entitled class” (2/24/13). Read the full piece here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/02/24/john-fogerty-wrote-a-song-for-everyone-album-preview/1944281/

Billboards Thom Duffy noted that FOGERTY “songs like ‘Proud Mary,’ ‘Bad Moon Rising,’ and ‘Fortunate Son’ not only created a soundtrack for those tumultuous years in America, they've transcended that era to define rock n' roll for the ages.” Duffy also said: “As a solo artist Fogerty's songwriting gift has been undiminished, with tunes like the joyous anticipation of ‘Almost Saturday Night’ or the wheels-on-fire celebration of ‘Hot Rod Heart’ from his Grammy-winning Blue Moon Swamp album” (2/14/13). Read the full piece here: http://m.billboard.com/v/News/JohnFogertyTalksJoyf/?KSID=421b4969d216305d2e8658d1205e20e2

WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE--performed alongside an array of today’s biggest superstars from the  country, pop and rock worlds--marks FOGERTY's ninth studio solo album since disbanding Creedence Clearwater Revival.  Mixed by Bob Clearmountain, it was recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville except for "Proud Mary" which was recorded in New Orleans with Allen Toussaint and the Rebirth Brass Band.  FOGERTYrecorded “Fortunate Son” with Foo Fighters at their 606 studio using "the" legendary Neve recording console featured in the #1 iTunes documentary Sound City. In an in-studio feature in Rolling Stone (2/14/13), Clearmountain is quoted as saying: “It’s no nostalgia fest. It’s like they’re new songs.”

WROTE A SONG FOR EVERYONE tracklisting:
1. Fortunate Son (with Foo Fighters)
2. Almost Saturday Night (with Keith Urban)
3. Lodi (with Shane Fogerty and Tyler Fogerty)
4. Mystic Highway (John Fogerty solo)
5. Wrote a Song for Everyone (with Miranda Lambert feat. Tom Morello)
6. Bad Moon Rising (with Zac Brown Band)
7. Long As I Can See the Light (with My Morning Jacket)
8. Born on the Bayou (with Kid Rock)
9. Train of Fools (John Fogerty solo)
10. Someday Never Comes (with Dawes)
11. Who'll Stop the Rain (with Bob Seger)
12. Hot Rod Heart (with Brad Paisley)
13. Have You Ever Seen the Rain (with Alan Jackson)
14. Proud Mary (with Jennifer Hudson feat. Allen Toussaint and the Rebirth Brass Band)

THE COATHANGERS ON TOUR NOW + HEAD TO SXSW



LISTEN TO DEREK’S SONG PREMIERED BY SPIN HERE
Atlanta’s reigning garage rock daughters, The Coathangers, are set to hit the road and play Savannah Stopover, 35 Denton, Galax Z Fair festivals before making their way down to Austin for this year’s SXSW.  The Coathangers take their devil-may-care attitude and rowdy house-show vibe on a short stint of US dates before crossing over to Europe for a tour with Trail of Dead.

Come March 19, The Coathangers release a split 7” with labelmates Nü Sensae which will be the third installment in their series of split 7”s on Suicide Squeeze.  Both new listeners and longtime fans of The Coathangers will be whipped into a frenzy with “Derek’s Song,” a party-banger perfectly encapsulating the quartet’s capacity for sharp hooks and jagged instrumentation - listen on Spin
 here or on Soundcloud here:https://soundcloud.com/suicide-squeeze-records/dereks-song-by-the-coathangers(please repost / share)

SXSW SHOWS

WED 3/13:
1:00 PM
 - Thrasher @ Scoot Inn
12:00 AM – Suicide Squeeze @ Holy Mountain – 617 E 7th Street

THURS 3/14:
2:00 PM –Needle Drop/Terror Eyes @ The Museum of Human Achievement - 3600 Lyons Road

FRI 3/15:
5:00 PM
 – Suicide Squeeze/Hardly Art @ The North Door – 501 N IH 35

SAT 3/16:
4:15 PM
 – Burger Records @ Hotel Vegas Compound – 1500 East 6th Street

THE COATHANGERS TOUR DATES

3/7: Savannah Stopover Fest – Savannah, GA
3/8: Bird’s Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack – Tallahassee, FL
3/9: Siberia - New Orleans, LA
3/10: 35 Denton Festival – Denton, TX
3/11: Galax Z Fair – McAllen, TX
3/13 – 3/16: SXSW – Austin, TX
3/17: Spillover Fest – Dallas, TX
3/19: Proud Larry’s – Oxford, MS
3/24: Zwischenbrau - Rostock Germany $
3/25: Ubel & Gefayehrlich Hamburg Germany $
3/27: Vera Groningen, Holland $
3/30: Leipzig Germany, Conne Island $
4/1: Düsseldorf Germany, Zakk $
4/2: Bielefeld Germany, Forum $
4/4: Sankt Hanshaugen Norway, John Dee $
4/7: Stockholm Sweden, Debaser $
4/9: Berlin Germany, Astra $
4/10: Warsaw Poland, Proxima $
4/11: Wroclaw Poland, Firlej $
4/12: Munich Germany, Theaterfabrik $
4/13: Vienna Austria, WUK $
4/15: Wil Switzerland, Gare de Lion$
4/16: Zurich Switzerland, Mascotte $
4/17: Paris France, La Maroquinerie $
4/19: Manchester UK, Academy 2/3 $
4/20: Glasgow UK, SW3 $
4/21: Wolverhampton UK, Slade Rooms $
4/22: Cardiff UK, The Great Hall 2 $
4/23: Bristol UK, Academy $
4/24: Nottingham UK, Rescue Rooms $
4/25: London UK,  Islington Academy $


$ = w/ And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

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