Lady Gaga to Replace Beyoncé at Coachella; Depeche Mode coming to Hollywood Bowl in early October 2017

Here is the latest news as it relates to the upcoming Coachella 2017

According to multiple sources, including Billboard, Lady Gaga has been confirmed to replace Beyoncé and will headline on Saturday nights (April 15 and 22) both weekends of Coachella 2017.

Coachella is set to be held at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, CA April 14-16, 2017, and again the following weekend, April 21-23, 2017.

According to Billboard, "officials with festival organizers Goldenvoice and AEG Live are finalizing plans to bring Gaga's huge stage production to Coachella and will make the announcement in the coming days."

Last week Beyoncé, who is pregnant with twins, was forced to pull out of performing at Coachella. The entertainer is slated to perform at the event in 2018.

Check in at Coachella.com for all the details as they are made official.



Depeche Mode to perform at Hollywood Bowl on October 12 & 14, 2017; launch North American tour in late August 2017

As promised, Depeche Mode continues to roll out theirGlobal Spirit Tour, with the second leg bringing their stunning live show to fans across North America this fall.

Following an extensive European summer tour, the 28 show North American run, exclusively promoted by Live Nation, will kick off on August 23^rd in Salt Lake City, UT and will stop in 26 cities across the United States and Canada, before wrapping up in Edmonton, Alberta on October 27^th.

Fans can register now for early access to tickets at presale.depechemode.com. By registering, fans will reserve a spot in line for the fan presale, which they can then improve by sharing their unique presale link with friends and family, or by preordering Depeche Mode's new album Spirit. On March 6, days before tickets go on general sale to the public, fans who have registered will be let into a special ticket presale in waves, based on their place in line.

The European stadium leg of the Global Spirit Tour, running May through July, has already sold over 1.5 million tickets and has sold-out shows across Europe - just the start of what is poised to be a record-breaking global tour. The Global Spirit Tour will later bring the band to Latin America, with details to be announced shortly.

The Global Spirit Tour is in support of the band's upcoming 14^th studio album, Spirit, out on March 17^th via Columbia Records.  The album's powerful and timely first single, "Where's The Revolution", has already been well-received by critics and fans alike, lauded as a strong "return to form" for Depeche Mode. Spirit has already garnered critical acclaim in early previews, with Q Magazine calling it "the most energized Depeche Mode album in years".

Pre-order Spirit from digital retailers here:smarturl.it/Spirit

Depeche Mode Global Spirit Tour - Fall 2017 North American Tour

August 23	Salt Lake City, UT	USANA Amphitheatre
August 25	Denver, CO	Pepsi Center
August 27	Detroit, MI	DTE Energy Music Theatre
August 30	Chicago, IL	Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
September 1	Uncasville, CT	Mohegan Sun Arena
September 3	Toronto, ON	Air Canada Centre
September 5	Montreal, QC	Centre Bell
September 7	Washington, DC	Verizon Center
September 9	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden
September 11	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden
September 13	Tampa, FL	MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
September 15	Miami, FL	AmericanAirlines Arena
September 18	Nashville, TN	Ascend Amphitheater
September 20	Austin, TX	Austin360 Amphitheatre
September 22	Dallas, TX	Starplex Pavilion
September 24	Houston, TX	Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
September 27	Phoenix, AZ	AK-Chin Pavilion
September 30	Las Vegas, NV	T-Mobile Arena
October 2	Santa Barbara, CA	Santa Barbara County Bowl
October 6	San Diego, CA	Mattress Firm Amphitheatre
October 8	San Jose, CA	SAP Center
October 10	Oakland, CA	Oracle Arena
October 12	Los Angeles, CA	Hollywood Bowl
October 14	Los Angeles, CA	Hollywood Bowl
October 21	Seattle, WA	KeyArena
October 23	Portland, OR	Moda Center
October 25	Vancouver, BC	Rogers Arena
October 27	Edmonton, AB	Rogers Place

On the North American leg of the Global Spirit Tour, the band will continue their charity partnership with Swiss watch maker Hublot, raising money and awareness for charity: water toward their mission of providing safe drinking water to everyone in the world.

Citi® is the official credit card of the Global Spirit Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, March 7 at 10AM through Citi's Private Pass® program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

AT&T is sending customers to the front of the line with AT&T priority pre-sale ticket access also beginning on Tuesday, March 7 at 10AM via the AT&T THANKS program. For complete pre-sale details visit att.com/frontoftheline.

American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets to the Hollywood Bowl performances before the general public beginning Tuesday, March 7 at 10AM.

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About Depeche Mode: One of the most influential, beloved and best-selling musical acts of all time, Depeche Mode have sold over 100 million records and played live to more than 30 million fans worldwide. Formed in 1980, Depeche Mode - Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andy Fletcher - continue to win critical and commercial acclaim around the world both in the studio and on the road, with innumerable artists citing them as inspirations and innovators.  The band's 13 studio albums have reached the Top Ten in over 20 countries, including the US and UK. Their last studio album, 2013'sDelta Machine, debuted at #1 in 12 countries around the world, and launched a world tour that saw the band play to more than 2.5 million fans. In fall 2016, Depeche Mode's Video Singles Collection, a definitive 3 DVD library anthology containing more than four hours of their groundbreaking music videos, was released by SONY Music Entertainment. Their upcoming 14^th studio album Spirit and the Global Spirit Tour are poised to continue the band's history of musical innovation and the band's critical and commercial success.   

Sights and Sounds: LOGAN soundtrack, Aimee Mann, The Jesus And Mary Chain

I have plenty of great music-related news to share! I had to lead off with the 'LOGAN' update; I am super excited to see Hugh Jackman's last movie starring as Wolverine.

'LOGAN - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features original music by Marco Beltrami

Lakeshore Records will release the LOGAN- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on March 3 and on audio CD March 31, 2017. The album contains original music by Marco Beltrami (BEN-HUR, THE HURT LOCKER) who previously scored two films for director James Mangold, 3:10 TO YUMA, for which Beltrami earned an Academy Award® nomination, and THE WOLVERINE.

“When I first watched LOGAN I was really impressed with its originality,” Beltrami stated.  “Although it’s a Marvel superhero movie, it is also many other movies as well, all tied up into a delicate balance of brazenness and subtlety. Jim is a master at moving fluently between genres and subverting them to present a new emotional landscape, and it was in trying to define this landscape in musical terms that I found my puzzle.”

In the near future, a weary Logan (Hugh Jackman) cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces. 

“LOGAN was an extremely demanding but very inspiring film score to work on. Jim distilled the innovation of an indie within the framework of a tentpole,” Beltrami explained.  “He played me scores he liked and which inspired the tone of the film for him—Taxi Driver, Paper Moon (the film itself), The Gauntlet. He liked the directness and rough edges, the unpolished tone, the energy. Somehow I had to capture this while simultaneously creating a modern score. It did not need grandiose thematic music and verbose melodic statements. It was all about vibe.”

Marco Beltrami is an award-winning composer who built his reputation as a genre innovator with non-traditional horror scores for the SCREAM franchise and DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK. Beltrami’s musical palette has since expanded to virtually all film genres. He has received two Oscar nominations for Best Original Score, for THE HURT LOCKER and 3:10 TO YUMA. He has received two Critic’s Choice Award nominations, and he was Emmy nominated for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for THE PRACTICE. In 2011, he won the Golden Satellite Award for Best Score from The International Press Academy for SOUL SURFER and in 2014 was nominated for a World Soundtrack Award for Film Composer of the Year, for his incredible range of projects including CARRIE (2013), A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (2013), The Homesman (2014), Snowpiercer (2013), Warm Bodies (2013), The Wolverine (2013) and WORLD WAR Z (2013).  Current projects for Beltrami include scoring the hit Fox television show, LUCIFER, which recently got picked up for its third season.

20^th Century Fox presents LOGAN in theaters on March 3, 2017.  Lakeshore Records will release the LOGAN – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally on March 3 and on audio CD on Friday, March 31, 2017.

Aimee Mann shares 'The Making of Mental Illness' video

Singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Aimee Mann has revealed a behind the scenes look at the making of her new album Mental Illness (due out March 31, 2017 on her own SuperEgo Records). Watch here: https://youtu.be/XSUF_umjo0E. 

Mental Illness shows off Mann’s rich, incisive and wry melancholia in an almost all-acoustic format, with a “finger-picky” style inspired by some of her favorite ‘60s and ‘70s folk-rock records, augmented by haunting strings arranged by her longtime producer, Paul Bryan. Aimee remains a student of human behavior, drawing not just on her own experiences to form the characters in the songs but tales told by friends. 

MENTAL ILLNESS TRACKLIST
1. Goose Snow Cone
2. Stuck In The Past
3. You Never Loved Me
4. Rollercoasters
5. Lies Of Summer
6. Patient Zero
7. Good For Me
8. Knock It Off
9. Philly Sinks
10. Simple Fix
11. Poor Judge

AIMEE MANN LIVE
April 20 /// Washington, DC /// Lincoln Theatre
April 21 /// Philadelphia, PA /// Keswick Theatre
April 22 /// New York, NY /// The Town Hall
April 23 /// Boston, MA /// The Wilbur Theatre
April 25 /// Albany, NY /// The Egg Center For The Performing Arts
April 26 /// Toronto, ON /// Danforth Music Hall 
April 28 /// Ann Arbor, MI /// The Ark
April 29 /// Chicago, IL /// Park West
April 30 /// Milwaukee, WI /// Pabst Theater
May 2 /// Madison, WI /// Barrymore Theatre
May 3 /// Saint Paul, MN /// Fitzgerald Theater
May 5 /// Boulder, CO /// Boulder Theater
May 6 /// Salt Lake City, UT /// The State Room
May 8 /// Missoula, MT /// The Wilma
May 9 /// Seattle, WA /// Neptune
May 10 /// Portland, OR /// Revolution Hall
May 12 /// San Francisco, CA /// The Fillmore 
May 13 /// Los Angeles, CA /// The Theatre at Ace Hotel

The Jesus And Mary Chain announce Spring North American Tour dates

Tickets on-sale this week

LONG-AWAITED NEW ALBUM ‘DAMAGE AND JOY’

TO BE RELEASED MARCH 24^TH ON ADA / WARNER MUSIC

The Jesus And Mary Chain set to return in 2017.
Photo by Steve Gullick

The Jesus and Mary Chain have announced Spring North American tour dates. The upcoming shows are set to follow the band’s highly anticipated new studio album ‘Damage and Joy’ – out March 24^th on ADA / Warner Music – and will see the duo performing new tracks from the LP live for the first time in the US & Canada. The trek begins on May 9^th in St. Paul, MN and is expected to hit Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA, among others. Tickets are on-sale this week via the band’s website.

Fronted by the Reid brothers Jim and William, The Jesus And Mary Chain first reformed to play the Coachella festival back in 2007. Despite regular touring – most notably a 2015 world tour which revisited their landmark album ‘Psychocandy’ – it took some time before they could agree on a plan to record a much-mooted seventh album.

Work on ‘Damage and Joy’, the band’s first album since ‘Munki’ in 1998, began in September 2015. The album commences with ‘Amputation’, in which waves of distorted guitar and Jim’s insouciant vocal delivery collide to create a hypnotic track which addresses his feelings of “being edited out of the whole music business… I felt like a rock ‘n’ roll amputation.”

Other highlights include a refined and re-energised new version of ‘All Things Must Pass’ which previously featured in the TV show ‘Heroes’ and then on ‘Upside Down: The Best of The Jesus and Mary Chain’; and the raw garage-rock of ‘Facing Up To The Facts’ which offers the revealing lyric: “I hate my brother and he hates me / That’s the way it’s supposed to be”.

The album also features performances from the band’s touring drummer Brian Young as well as former Lush bassist Phil King.

“The interesting thing about this record is what comes out of the speakers,” declares Jim. “To make a good record is an achievement if you’re twenty-two, but to do it in your fifties, the way we are, I think is a minor miracle.”

‘Damage and Joy’ will be released on digital, CD, vinyl and Cassette formats, and pre-orders are currently open. All pre-orders receive an immediate download of ‘Amputation’.

The full album tracklisting -

1.     Amputation

2.     War On Peace

3.     All Things Pass

4.     Always Sad

5.     Songs For A Secret

6.     The Two Of Us

7.     Los Feliz (Blues and Greens)

8.     Mood Rider

9.     Presedici (Et Chapaquiditch)

10.  Get On Home

11.  Facing Up To The Facts

12.  Simian Split

13.  Black And Blues

14.  Can’t Stop The Rock

The Jesus and Mary Chain North American Tour Dates: 

5/9 - St. Paul, MN @ The Palace

5/10 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera

5/12 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall

5/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel

5/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern

5/20 - Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theater

5/22 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom

5/23 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo

5/24 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre

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