CHANCE THE RAPPER, LITTLE BIG TOWN, AND STURGILL SIMPSON TO PERFORM ON THE 59TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS®
WILLIAM BELL AND GARY CLARK JR. TAPPED FOR A SPECIAL COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE
Music's Biggest Night® — Hosted By James Corden — Airs Live On CBS, Feb. 12, 2017
WILLIAM BELL AND GARY CLARK JR. TAPPED FOR A SPECIAL COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE
Music's Biggest Night® — Hosted By James Corden — Airs Live On CBS, Feb. 12, 2017
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| Gary Clark Jr. performing at Anaheim House of Blues in September 2013. Photo: Kelly A. Swift |
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| Sturgill Simson. Photo: Reto Sterchi |
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Feb. 2, 2017) — Music's Biggest Night® just got bigger with newly added performances by two-time current GRAMMY® nominee William Bell and GRAMMY winner Gary Clark Jr.; current seven-time GRAMMY nominee Chance The Rapper; two-time GRAMMY winners Little Big Town; and current two-time GRAMMY nominee Sturgill Simpson.
Previously announced performers include Adele, Daft Punk, Dave Grohl, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Bruno Mars, Metallica, Maren Morris, Anderson .Paak,A Tribe Called Quest, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, and The Weeknd. Award-winning television personality and performer James Corden is set to host the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards® for the first time. Taking place at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Additional performers will be announced shortly.
"It's important to The Recording Academy that the GRAMMY stage showcases artists across all disciplines and genres, and we take pride in our ability to elevate the best in music while, at the same time, introducing audiences to sounds and songs they’d previously not heard," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "As fans' access to music has increased, so has their appetite for variety expanded. This year's lineup already reflects that—and we're still not done!"
Bell is nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance ("The Three Of Me") and Best Americana Album (This Is Where I Live).
Chance The Rapper is nominated for Best Rap Album (Coloring Book), Best New Artist, Best Rap/Sung Performance ("Ultralight Beam"), and Best Rap Performance ("No Problem"). He's also nominated three times in the Best Rap Song category ("Ultralight Beam," "No Problem," and" Famous").
Simpson is nominated for Album Of The Year and Best Country Album (A Sailor's Guide To Earth).
The 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards are produced by AEG Ehrlich Ventures for The Recording Academy. Ken Ehrlich is executive producer, Louis J. Horvitz is director, Ben Winston is a producer, and David Wild and Ehrlich are the writers.
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ROBYN HITCHCOCK WANTS
TO TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT HE WANTS
ICONIC BRITISH ARTIST ANNOUNCES SELF-TITLED NEW ALBUM
EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION MARKS 21ST STUDIO RECORDING
AND FIRST EPONYMOUS RELEASE OF FOUR-DECADE CAREER
NORTH AMERICAN LIVE DATES INCLUDE NYC PERFORMANCES
OF CLASSIC SOLO DEBUT, BLACK SNAKE DIAMOND RÖLE,
ACCOMPANIED BY YO LA TENGO
ROBYN HITCHCOCK ARRIVES ON APRIL 21
Yep Roc Records has announced the self-titled new album from Robyn Hitchcock. The 21st studio recording and first-ever eponymous release of the legendary British artist's four-decade career, ROBYN HITCHCOCK is available for pre-order now at the official Yep Roc Store; the album arrives everywhere on Friday, April 21.
Described by its creator as "an ecstatic work of negativity," ROBYN HITCHCOCK is heralded by the metamorphic new single, "I Want To Tell You About What I Want." The track premiered yesterday exclusively at NPR Music.
"The original title of the song was 'My Vision of World Empathy,'" Hitchcock says. "Either we will become extinct and eventually be replaced by cats with articulated thumbs who have evolved the way apes slowly evolved into us. Or we will become empathic and mildly telepathic - people like Donald Trump won't happen because biologically no human will be born with that lack of empathy. We will become a species that isn't capable of bullying because we can feel what we're doing to other people. There is obviously some evolutionary step between the human and the angel that needs to take place. Maybe when we have enough suffering credits our DNA will go, Right! Here we go! Homo angelicus - it can read your mind, it's compassionate, it can levitate, and it's a great lover! It shares its fish sticks with you and flies you back in time to see the Velvet Underground! That is what we need to become."
ROBYN HITCHCOCK immediately stands among the most energized and ambitious recordings of the iconic troubadour's long career. The album sees the East Nashville-based Hitchcock casting familiar shapes into surprising new forms, the sci-fi fueled sounds and visions that first stimulated his work now ribboned with experience and hard-earned wisdom. Songs like "Sayonara Judge" are gorgeous and intense, rife with avant imagery, astringent wit, and righteous anger. Spanning dystopic psychedelia ("Mad Shelley's Letterbox," "Time Coast"), inspired folk baroque ("Raymond and the Wires," "1970 In Aspic"), even rambunctious liver-fried country ("I Pray When I'm Drunk"), ROBYN HITCHCOCK marks both a masterful new chapter and ideal entry point into Hitchcock's wildly brilliant oeuvre.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK was recorded in Nashville, TN, with producer Brendan Benson and backing by a crack band of fellow Music City pickers and players that includes guitarist Annie McCue, bassist Jon Estes, and drummer Jon Radford. Harmony vocal contributions come courtesy of Emma Swift, Grant Lee Phillips, Gillian Welch, and Wilco's Pat Sansone.
Hitchcock will celebrate the new album by continuing to spend much of his life on the road. In addition, Hitchcock will team with longtime friends Yo La Tengo for a pair of once-in-a-lifetime live performances of his classic 1981 solo debut, BLACK SNAKE DIAMOND RÖLE, set for Tuesday, February 28th at Brooklyn, NY's Rough Trade NYC and Wednesday, March 1st at NYC's Bowery Ballroom (now officially sold out). Full details, tour updates, and much more can be found at robynhitchcock.com/tour.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK marks Hitchcock's first full-length release since 2014's THE MAN UPSTAIRS. Produced by Joe Boyd, the album earned international acclaim for its evocative originals and striking interpretations of classic songs by Roxy Music, Psychedelic Furs, and The Doors. "THE MAN UPSTAIRS stands amongst (Hitchcock's) all-time best albums," raved The Quietus.
For additional news and information, please visit www.robynhitchcock.com and www.yeproc.com/artists/robyn-hitchcock.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK
ROBYN HITCHCOCK
(Yep Roc)
Release Date: Friday, April 21
TRACKLISTING:
1.I Want To Tell You About What I Want
2. Virginia Woolf
3. I Pray When I'm Drunk
4. Mad Shelley's Letterbox
5. Sayonara Judge
6. Detective Mindhorn
7. 1970 In Aspic
8. Raymond and the Wires
9. Autumn Sunglasses
10. Time Coast
COLD WAR KIDS RELEASE NEW SINGLE & VIDEO, "LOVE IS MYSTICAL" TODAY
Band Announces New Album,
L.A. Divine, Set For April 7, 2017
Release
On Capitol Records
North American Headline Tour Kicks Off March 3, 2017
February 2, 2017 - (Hollywood, CA) - Cold War Kids return with the stirring new anthem "Love Is Mystical." The track debuted as an iHeartRadio World Premiere, broadcast every three hours across all of their Alternative & Triple A stations and is now available at all digital partners. "Love Is Mystical"is the first single from the band's forthcoming album, L.A. Divine. Set for release on April 7 via Capitol Records, the album is an ode to Cold War Kids' hometown of Los Angeles. The official video for "Love Is Mystical" also premiered today on Vevo- watch it HERE.
The band shot the clip in downtown Los Angeles at St. Vincent Court, an atmospheric alley that is a California historical landmark. "Love is mystical/love will break the chains/you might feel invincible/you might be afraid/light in darkness/will show you the way/give you the power to believe again," sings Cold War Kids' Nathan Willett as a diverse troupe of dancers cross paths, pair off, and kiss in a celebration of the powerful force of love. The video was directed by Phillip Lopez and choreographed by Amy Gardner, artistic director for annoDAM Dance, which uses dance to raise awareness for global issues.
"It's about supernatural love - looking for inspiration and meaning, surrendering to feeling, love calling out your name and that journey we must go on to find it," says Nathan Willett about "Love Is Mystical."
The band will preview songs from L.A. Divine on its upcoming North American headlining tour, which kicks off on March 3rd at the Okeechobee Festival in Florida. Tickets are available at www.coldwarkids.com. See below for all dates.
L.A. Divine- the band's sixth studio album and first for Capitol - follows 2014's Hold My Home, which debuted at No. 8 on Billboard's Alternative Album chart. The album contained the Gold-certified single "First," which spent eight weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart where it remained for sixty-four weeks, making it the second-longest-running single in the chart's history. The track has more than 90 million combined streams.
Cold War Kids are Nathan Willett, Matt Maust, Joe Plummer, Matthew Schwartz, and David Quon. Formed in 2004 in Fullerton, CA, the band has sold more than 800,000 adjusted albums, over two million singles, and racked up nearly 200 million streams to date.
Cold War Kids Spring tour dates are as follows:
03/03 Okeechobee, FL Okeechobee Festival
03/04 Columbia, SC Music Farm ^
03/05 Charlotte, NC Fillmore ^
03/06 Saxapahaw, NC Haw River Ballroom ^
03/07 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle ^
03/10 Baton Rouge, LA Varsity Theatre ^
03/11 Fayetteville, AR George's Majestic Lounge ^
03/12 Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium ^
03/14 Madison, WI Majestic ^
03/15 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
03/17 Columbia, MO Blue Note
03/18 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre ^
03/19 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian ^
03/21 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall ^
03/22 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall ^
03/23 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE ^
03/24 Covington, KY Madison Theater ^
^ with special guests Middle Kids
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