The Head And The Heart release video for “Don't Show Your Weakness"

I really enjoyed seeing The Head And The Heart at the Greek Theatre on Aug. 20 (see my review of the concert HERE). Here is more news about the band, including the premiere of their compelling new music video...Robert Kinsler

The Head And The Heart performing at the Greek Theatre
in Los Angeles on Aug. 20, 2022. Photo credit: Robert Kinsler

The Head And The Heart release official video for "Don't Show Your Weakness"

EVERY SHADE OF BLUE  OUT NOW ON WARNER RECORDS

ON TOUR WITH SHAKEY GRAVES & HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER!

The Head And The Heart / Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez

August 30 – (Los Angeles, CA) – The Head And The Heart have released the video for “Don’t Show Your Weakness,” a track off of their latest album Every Shade of Blue that came out this past spring via Warner Records/Reprise Records. Watch it below.

The video was directed by Jacqueline Justice and creative directed by Charity Rose Thielen. Charity noted “The initial inspiration for the video came after Matty showed me a two plus minute video of his recent endoscopy examining his vocal cords. Jacquline and Drew helped further develop this concept using both surreal and real references to the exam footage, weaving animation with real life.” The band went on to say that “Don't Show Your Weakness explores fragility and strength and revels in the often blurry territory in which these two seemingly opposing traits intersect. This colorful and mysterious video is a celebration of the liberation that comes when we allow the most vulnerable parts of ourselves to be laid bare for all to see.” The Head And The Heart recently released acoustic versions of “Virginia (Wind In The Night)” and the title track of their latest studio album “Every Shade of Blue.” Since the album's late April 2022 release, it has generated 25 million streams globally. Listen to the acoustic versions here. The Head And The Heart will resume their Every Shade of Blue 2022 North American Tour on September 10th. Special guests joining the band in select cities include Shakey Graves and Hiss Golden Messenger. Tickets for all shows are now on sale. Every Shade of Blue was produced by GRAMMY-award winning songwriter, producer and engineer Jesse Shatkin (Sia, Pink, The Shins, Tegan and Sara) except for album tracks “Shadows”, “Don’t Show Your Weakness” and “Love We Make” which were produced by Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Wet), and “Paradigm”, produced by John Hill and Sammy Witte (Florence + The Machine, Portugal The Man, Cage The Elephant), and mastered by Emily Lazar and Chris Allgood at The Lodge, NY.

Download high-res album art here Every Shade of Blue Tracklist: 1. Every Shade of Blue 2. Tiebreaker 3. Paradigm 4. Virginia (Wind In The Night)  5. Same Hurt 6. Hurts (But It Goes Away) 7. Don’t Show Your Weakness 8. Love We Make 9. Starstruck 10. Love Me Still  11. Shut Up 12. Family Man 13. Taking My Time (Wrong Woman) 14. Enemy Lines 15. Shadows 16. GTFU Every Shade Of Blue Tour 2022   9/10/22 - Abiquiu, NM - Ladder to the Moon Festival  9/11/22 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theater 9/13/22 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up LOW TICKET WARNING 9/14/22 - Denver, CO - Mission Ballroom % 9/15/22 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre % - SOLD OUT 9/17/22 - Richmond, VA - Altria Theater # LOW TICKET WARNING 9/18/2022 - Asbury Park, NJ - Sea.Hear.Now 9/20/22 - Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre # 9/21/22 - Wilmington, NC - Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park # 9/23/22 - Columbus, OH - KEMBA Live! # 9/24/22 - Dover, DE - Firefly Festival 9/25/2022 / Bridgeport, CT / Sound on Sound 9/27/22 - Toronto, ON - RBC Echo Beach #  9/29/22 - Detroit, MI - Oakland University - Meadow Brook Amphitheatre # 9/30/22 - Indianapolis, IN - TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park # LOW TICKET WARNING 10/1/22 - Chicago, IL - Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island # 10/3/22 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee # LOW TICKET WARNING 10/4/22 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee # 10/6/22 - Omaha, NE - The Admiral Theater 10/7/22 - Minneapolis, MN - Armory # 10/8/22 - St. Louis, MO - Saint Louis Music Park # 10/10/22 - Birmingham, AL - Avondale Brewing Company # 10/11/22 - North Charleston, SC - Firefly Distillery 10/13/22 - St Augustine, FL - The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre # 10/14/22 - Atlanta, GA - Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park # 10/15/22 - Nashville, TN - Ascend Amphitheater # 10/21/22 - Knoxville, TN - Knoxville Riverbreeze Friday Concert Series   # Shakey Graves % Hiss Golden Messenger More about The Head And The Heart Initially self-released in 2011, The Head and The Heart’s self-titled breakout debut produced instant classics including “Rivers and Roads,” “Down In The Valley” and “Lost In My Mind” (#1 at AAA) and is now Certified Gold. 2013’s Let’s Be Still and 2016’s Signs of Light, settled into Billboard’s Top 10 albums chart, with Signs of Light securing the #1 position on Rock Album Charts, securing the band’s first #1 at Alternative position with “All We Ever Knew” and also held the #1 spot at AAA for nine straight weeks. The band’s fourth full-length album, Living Mirage, was released to critical praise in 2019. “Missed Connection” which secured the #1 position on the Alternative Chart and #1 at Mediabase and BDS alternative charts, already having achieved #1 on the AAA chart. The album’s breakout track, “Honeybee”, became a fan favorite with 153M+ total global streams and 1M+ global weekly streams. They have appeared in Cameron Crowe’s Roadies, with music featured in countless other commercials, films and TV, among them Corona, Silver Linings Playbook and more. The band has established their status as a touring powerhouse, having landed prime time mainstage slots at Coachella, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. In total, the band has performed 15 times on national television including appearances on Ellen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Austin City Limits and more. Every Shade of Blue is the band’s fifth studio album.

'Holidays Rule' comp featuring Paul McCartney, The Shins, Sharon Van Etten and more set for 10th anniversary vinyl release

A beloved holiday compilation is coming to vinyl in celebration of its 10th anniversary...Robert Kinsler

SEASONAL MUSIC COMPILATION HOLIDAYS RULE

TO GET FIRST-EVER VINYL PRESSING

 

Featuring Paul McCartney, The Shins, fun., The Civil Wars,

Rufus Wainwright, Sharon Van Etten, Andrew Bird, and many more

 

Covering holiday classics like “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),” 

“Wonderful Christmastime,” “Auld Lang Syne,” and more

 

2-LP set due out September 30 on Craft Recordings 

Available now to pre-order

Los Angeles, CA (August 24, 2022)—In celebration of its 10^th anniversary, Craft Recordings is set to release the first-ever vinyl pressing of Holidays Rule, a deliciously diverse collection of seasonal music featuring glittering contributions from across the musical spectrum. Due out September 30^th and available to pre-orderbeginning today (8/24) as a 2-LP set pressed on translucent red vinyl and housed in a gatefold jacket (seen above). In addition, a limited clear-with-red-and-green splatter variant is available exclusively at the Craft Recordings store. Lacquers were cut by Dave Cooley at Elysian Mastering from the original hi-resolution sources, mastered by Gavin Lurssen at Lurssen Mastering.

 

Originally released in 2012, the set boasts 17 recordings of timeless holiday classics from artists including pop phenoms fun., the legendary Paul McCartney, indie-pop luminaries The Shins, Americana favorites The Civil Wars, adored singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright (featuring Sharon Van Etten), playful popstars Fruit Bats, bluegrass revisionists Punch Brothers, soul icon Irma Thomas (with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band), cinematic rockers Calexico, eclectic troubadour Andrew Bird, Latin neo-traditionalists Y La Bamba, Texas twang-rock troupe Heartless Bastards, alt-folk standard-bearer Holly Golightly, roots quintet Black Prairie (featuring Sallie Ford), choral revival collective AgesandAges, Fiery Furnaces alumna Eleanor Friedberger, and Seattle Americana outfit The Head and the Heart.

 

Holidays Rule delves into a rich assemblage of Americana, alt-pop, folk, electronica, country, American standards, singer-songwriter, New Orleans gospel, garage rock, and more to create a melting pot of sounds that still feel like a cohesive album, rather than a holiday hodgepodge.

 

Some of the numerous highlights include fun. whipping up a distinctly postmodern take on the rollicking “Sleigh Ride,” adding a frosty techno swirl to the winter perennial. Paul McCartney’s velvety rendition effortlessly conjures the warmth of the fireside with “The Christmas Song.” The Shins, meanwhile, take McCartney’s own “Wonderful Christmastime” in a cheekily retro direction, turning the track into a musical homage to the Beach Boys. Wainwright and Van Etten deliver a fittingly seductive “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”

 

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band collaborates with the legendary Irma Thomas on a soulful and horn-heavy rendition of “May Ev’ry Day Be Christmas,” while the GRAMMY®-winning duo The Civil Wars work their intimate magic on “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” with only acoustic guitar and their spellbinding vocal blend. Calexico’s “Green Grows the Holly” works similarly spooky-rural terrain (with their trademark border-town brass for expressive contrast). Punch Brothers’ mandolin-spiced rendition of the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” is the most overtly religious track but offers its own set of unexpected twists and turns. On the album’s final track, Andrew Bird harkens back to his Bowl of Fire days with the violin charge of “Auld Lang Syne.” 

 

Click here to pre-order Holidays Rule on vinyl.

 

 

Tracklist:

 

Side A

1. fun. – “Sleigh Ride” 

2. The Shins – “Wonderful Christmastime” 

3. Rufus Wainwright feat. Sharon Van Etten – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” 

4. Paul McCartney – “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)” 

 

Side B

1. Black Prairie feat. Sallie Ford – “(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag” 

2. The Civil Wars – “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day” 

3. Calexico – “Green Grows The Holly” 

4. AgesandAges – “We Need A Little Christmas”

Side C

1. Holly Golightly – “That’s What I Want For Christmas” 

2. Irma Thomas with Preservation Hall Jazz Band – “May Ev’ry Day Be Christmas” 

3. Heartless Bastards – “Blue Christmas” 

4. Eleanor Friedberger – “Santa, Bring My Baby Back To Me” 

5. Fruit Bats – “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”

Side D

1. Y La Bamba – “Señor Santa (Mister Santa)”

2. Punch Brothers – “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” 

3. The Head and the Heart – “What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?” 

4. Andrew Bird – “Auld Lang Syne” 

 

 

About Craft Recordings

Craft Recordings is home to one of the largest and most essential collections of master recordings and compositions in the world. Its storied repertoire includes landmark releases from icons such as Joan Baez, John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Celia Cruz, Miles Davis, Isaac Hayes, John Lee Hooker, Little Richard, R.E.M., Joan Sebastian and Traveling Wilburys. Plus, the catalog recordings of celebrated contemporary acts including A Day to Remember, Evanescence, Alison Krauss, Nine Inch Nails, Taking Back Sunday and Violent Femmes, to name just a few. Renowned imprints with catalogs issued under the Craft banner include Fania, Fantasy, Fearless, Musart, Nitro, Panart, Prestige, Riverside, Rounder, Specialty, Stax, Vanguard, Varèse Sarabande, Vee-Jay and Victory, among many others. Craft creates thoughtfully curated packages, with a meticulous devotion to quality and a commitment to preservation—ensuring that these recordings endure for new generations to discover. Craft is also home to the Billie Holiday and Tammy Wynette estates which preserve and protect their respective names, likeness and music through day-to-day legacy management of these cultural trailblazers. Craft Recordings is the catalog label team for Concord Recorded Music. For more info, visit CraftRecordings.com and follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify. 

Dawes, The Head and the Heart bring magic to the Greek Theatre

The Head and the Heart performing at the Greek
Theatre in Los Angeles on Aug. 20, 2022.

Who: The Head and the Heart, Dawes

Where: The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA

When: Saturday, August 20, 2022

Review and photography by Robert Kinsler

Dawes performing early in their set at the Greek Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. From left, guitarist Trevor Menear, keyboardist Lee Pardini, singer-guitarist Taylor
Goldsmith, drummer Griffin Goldsmith and bassist Lee Pardini.

Few concert-going experiences beat enjoying a warm summer night at the Greek Theatre. Such was the case on Saturday night when Seattle's The Head and the Heart and Los Angeles' own Dawes shared the bill at the legendary venue.

From left, singer-guitarist Taylor Goldsmith, drummer-backing vocalist
Griffin Goldsmith and bassist Wylie Gelber.

Both ensembles delivered powerful and memorable sets at the event, with Dawes opting to take the bold step of performing the band's recently-issued Misadventures Of Doomscroller from start to finish with little time to perform any material from the group's other seven albums. 

From left, brothers Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith.

I, for one, felt absolutely no disappointment. The group's new album is an artistic triumph and it provided the perfect track listing to showcase the power of Dawes in a live setting. The album's rich sonicsphere blending the best of Laurel Canyon folk rock and stylish Steely Dan jazz rock was a bona fide thrill in the hands of the group (singer-songwriter/guitarist Taylor Goldsmith, drummer-backing vocalist Griffin Goldsmith, bassist Wylie Gelber, keyboardist Lee Pardini and touring auxiliary guitarist Trevor Menear). 

Keyboardist Lee Pardini at the Greek Theatre on Aug. 20.

Opening with the ambitious 10-minute "Someone Else's Cafe/Doomscroller Tries To Relax," the quintet brought nuance and sublime musicianship to the multi-tiered work. The first section was relatively quiet, before the song exploded into a jazzy instrumental jam featuring all the players; there was then a harmonies-filled section that gave way to an affecting guitar solo offered by Taylor Goldsmith.

From left, brothers Griffin Goldsmith and Taylor Goldsmith.

Other early highlights included the shimmering "Comes in Waves" and buoyant "Everything is Permanent" (the latter featuring some stunning instrumental back-and-forth amongst the players throughout).

From left, Taylor Goldsmith, Griffin Goldsmith and
Wylie Gelber at the Greek Theatre.

On "Ghost in the Machine," a propulsive rhythm fueled by the work of Griffin Goldsmith and Wylie Gelber was cast early; later in the cut Menear showcased his fiery lead guitar work before Pardini came in with a masterful solo to end the jazz-tinged rock original. The disc-ending rock opus "Sound That No One Made (Doomscroller Sunrise)" capped the flawless presentation of one of 2022's strongest and most original new albums.

Members of the Head and the Heart joining Dawes
for "All Your Favorite Bands" at the Greek.

Dawes ended their 55-minute set with a rousing take on their 2015 favorite "All Your Favorite Bands," with several members of the Head and the Heart coming on stage to add vocal harmonies to the track. 

The Head and the Heart at the Greek Theatre.

Headlining the night was the Head and the Heart, with the six-member troupe performing a winning 100-minute set featuring material spanning from the group's self-titled 2011 release through their ambitious 16-track album Every Shade Of Blue (released in April 2022 via Warner Records).

The Head and the Heart performing on Aug. 20, 2022.

This marked this writer's first time ever seeing the Head and the Heart in concert and I was impressed by the songwriting, musicianship and vocals of the group. Songs such as the luxurious "Every Shade of Blue," the acoustic Americana-flavored "Another Story" (from the 2013 album Let's Be Still), the soulful "Same Hurt," the more experimental "Paradigm," driving "Shake" and soaring "Virginia (Wind in the Night)."

The Head and the Heart ended the night with a poignant take on "Rivers and Roads," with many in the audience singing along.

Sights and Sounds: Hoodoo Gurus, The Head and the Heart, Jackson Browne, Jade Bird, 2CELLOS

 Plenty of good news from across the sonic universe for music fans...Robert Kinsler

After 10 Years, Hoodoo Gurus ready new album

LP preceded by new single "World of Pain"

Check out the video HERE

Hoodoo Gurus take the reins of year 2021 — their 40th year as a band — to embark upon one of their most eventful years to date. Their new album (as yet untitled), due in the final quarter of the year, is the first full-length recording with relative new recruit to the band’s lineup. 

 

This year also marks the release a new Hoodoo Gurus single, the explosive glam stomper “World of Pain,” available now.

 

Hoodoo Gurus founder, singer and chief songwriter Dave Faulkner explains that the song “details the misadventures of a night on the town, beginning with a drunken altercation with another punter (‘Your fist smashes my face/Chairs fly all over the place/What a sorry sight’) and concludes with our hapless narrator waking up in bed fully dressed, in the throes of a hangover, all the while trying to remember where he last saw his cell phone.” 

 

That’s a world of pain indeed. Mind you, this is a fictional story. Faulkner is not necessarily saying these things happened to him but, cumulatively, he may have learned a thing or two about coming off the worse for wear after a big night.

 

Musically, “World of Pain” marries a stomping glam-rock verse to a boozy barroom-blues chorus, proving the Hoodoo Gurus have lost none of their edge. The Gurus give listeners all of the thrills of a night on the town with none of the unwelcome aftereffects. Cheers to that!

 

The long-awaited album, their first in more than a decade (the longest interval between Hoodoo Gurus albums in their history), alongside their return to the stage, makes for a year for which the band is full of a palpable and infectious level of determination, drive and spirit, evident in their current state of mind.

 

As Faulkner explains: “The last 12 months have been frustrating and nerve-racking for everyone, but for the Hoodoo Gurus this dark cloud has had a silver lining. Forced to rely on ourselves instead of the outside world for validation, there has been a creative rebirth within the band that has resulted in a string of singles and a new album. Most important of all, the musical bonds between the four of us have never been stronger. When the discussions are all about which songs we’re sad about having to leave off the record, that’s a damn good sign. I’m tellin’ ya, folks, we’ve got a real spring in our step right now.”

 

The event-filled calendar for Hoodoo Gurus in 2021 comes after the release of three tracks in the last 18 months. The punk-snarl of “Answered Prayers” emerged in late 2019, followed by the politically charged “Hung Out to Dry” in July 2020 and a slice of soaring power pop in the form of “Get Out of Dodge” in October of last year. 

 

Since their formation in 1981, Hoodoo Gurus earned nine ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Top 20 albums, nine ARIA Top 40 singles, and a host of multi-platinum albums. The band’s evocative and relatable lyricism, peerless song writing — with a hint of punk attitude — placed in a distinctively Australian context have resulted in a balance of critical success and enduring mainstream appeal for 40 years. Among the many artists who have publicly namechecked Hoodoo Gurus are Steve Van Zandt, Manic Street Preachers and Courtney Love, and they’ve been perpetually influential to generations of artists who’ve arrived after them.

Few other groups have toured as comprehensively, achieved such an enduring reputation over successive generations, enjoyed such loyalty from fans and maintained such high currency for their work, both within Australia and abroad.

 

The enduring legacy of Hoodoo Gurus is reflected in sell-out tours, the numerous tracks that are indisputable staples of radio, inclusion in “best album” countdowns, even having songs played at weddings and funerals — these are just some of the barometers of the strong legacy the band enjoys. 

As elder statesmen of Australian rock ’n' roll, the Hoodoo Gurus are held in the same high esteem by their peers as they are by their fans. In 2007, the group was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Two years earlier, a cross-section of the Australian music community paid the band the ultimate homage by lovingly producing a tribute album of Gurus covers entitled Stoneage Cameos. 

Through their chart-topping successes throughout the ’80s and ’90s, their international triumphs and countless sold-out Australian tours, from their 1998-2003 break-up through to their comeback, Hoodoo Gurus have been — and remain — one of the most popular and successful musical acts Australia has ever produced.

THE HEAD AND THE HEART 

RELEASE COVER OF 

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG’S “OUR HOUSE” 

Transcendent Cover Is Available Today Digitally, 

In Celebration Of New Reissue Of CSNY’s Déjà Vu

LISTEN NOW

CSNY Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Is Available Now 

Featuring The Original Album Remastered,

Plus Over Two Hours Of Rare And Unreleased Music

“When we first started as a band, we shared a two bedroom apartment where ‘Our House’ was played so much it became like a mantra of unity and connection to each other, as we discovered what we wanted to do within our music. To say it’s an honor to now be asked to cover that very same song is an understatement. Happy 50th anniversary you legends! Déjà Vu Forever!” – The Head and The Heart

LOS ANGELES – The Head and The Heart, coming off their acclaimed fourth album Living Mirage, have released a transcendent new cover version of the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s “Our House,” available today digitally. The original version, written by Graham Nash, has been a longtime inspiration to the band and was originally released on the landmark Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album, Déjà Vu, which is available now as an expansive 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition with over two hours of rare and unreleased audio.

The single cover art designed for The Head and The Heart’s version of “Our House” serves as an homage to the original CSNY Déjà vu cover and features an image of the actual house in Seattle that was an early home to the band.

Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is an expansive collection that includes a newly remastered version of the original 8x platinum album on both 180-gram vinyl and CD along with nearly two-and-a-half hours or rare and unreleased demos, outtakes, and alternate takes. In addition to topping the pop charts, the album also featured three Top 40 singles, “Woodstock,” “Teach Your Children,” and “Our House.” 

Presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book, the collection comes illustrated with rarely seen photos from the era and annotated by writer/filmmaker Cameron Crowe, whose revealing liner notes recount the making of the album through stories told by the people who were there, including David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young. A deluxe vinyl version is also available with the full content across 5 LPs of 180-gram vinyl. The deluxe vinyl version is available for pre-order exclusively at CSNY.com and Rhino.com for $249.98. The music is also available now on digital download and streaming services and in high-resolution audio at www.neilyoungarchives.com.

Jackson Browne's new single

“My Cleveland Heart” out now

 

New Album Downhill From Everywhere out July 23, 2021

Jackson Browne has released his new single "My Cleveland Heart," available to stream/purchase worldwide. The single, co-written with his longtime guitarist Val McCallum, comes from Browne’s forthcoming album Downhill From Everywhere due out on July 23, through his label Inside Recordings. The album is also now available to preorder through Browne's website.

 

Stream/purchase "My Cleveland Heart" HERE

 

Preorder Downhill From Everywhere HERE

 

This week, Browne shared the music video for "My Cleveland Heart," directed by

Alissa Torvinen featuring a cameo by Phoebe Bridgers, with Rolling Stone saying, "It’s fitting for Bridgers — who has cited Browne as an influence and recently enlisted him to duet on 'Kyoto' — to receive his heart, almost like Browne is passing down the singer-songwriter torch."

 

Follow Jackson Browne:

Website - Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - YouTube

Jade Bird

Announces her new album: 

Different Kinds of Light

Due for release on August 13th via Glassnote Records

(pre-order HERE)

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Releases Title Track

(Listen HERE)

The video for title track can be viewed HERE

Having teased her new album with a series of taster singles and live performances, acclaimed young British singer-songwriter Jade Bird has today confirmed details of the release. Different Kinds of Light is Jade’s sophomore record and will be released via Glassnote Records on August 13th, 2021. 

 

In advance of confirming details of the new album, Jade released  "Headstart" and  "Houdini" at the back end of 2020, followed more recently by the BBC Radio 1 play-listed single "Open up the heavens" and the live EP RCA Studio A Sessions, taken from her live stream show from the iconic studios earlier this year which once again showcased her natural talent, uncompromising sense of self and enviable musicianship to the world. Jade also recently played a sold out, socially-distanced US tour and turned in a brilliant performance of "Headstart" for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (HERE).

 

The RCA studios in Nashville and the americana/alt-rock music scene feature heavily in the life cycle of this new album as that’s where Jade majoritively recorded ‘Different Kinds of Light’ with powerhouse producer Dave Cobb (John Prine, Lady Gaga). Over the last 2 years, Jade has organically become part of a community of American songwriters and artists, and the likes of Jason Isbell, Sheryl Crow and Jade’s friend and collaborator, Brandi Carlile have all taken the British voice firmly under their wing.

 

Jade Bird’s self-titled debut album was received with much critical acclaim when it was released in 2019. Even as a first offering from the then 21 year old, the album helped set the bar for female musicianship in the current age, carried along by Jades mature and sharply observed narrative vignettes of relationships, divorce and everything in between. With this new album, Jade has grown, she’s travelled the world, collected stories, met fascinating new people, fathomed her own emotions and settled in Austin amongst a new and empowering musical family who showed her that a happier, more holistic and sustainable way of working was possible. This journey has helped her see love and relationships in a new light from her teenage self growing up in the UK. It’s been a gateway to self-discovery and an untangling of held onto experience. 

 

On the record Jade says "Different Kinds of Light at its most basic is about falling in love and at its most complex, the chaos of trying to get away from your past. I’ve written about fictional characters, about myself and people who don’t exist, or at least only exist in my mind, memory and imagination.

 

This record started in Japan, a small getaway from a busy year. We took it to Mexico, to Nashville and to upstate New York adding pieces of songs along the way until it became the different phases of who I am, what my relationship is and what my relationship to other people has become.

 

It’s been a big exploration through evenings and mornings spent under strange skies. With Different Kinds of Light came different kinds of clarity in my life."

 

For Jade, it’s always been important to stay connected to the music that she had written (as always), not capitalising on momentum or anyone else’s idea of a career plan. She had a taste of the hype cycle, making the BBC’s 2018 Sound Of… poll and being tipped everywhere from Vogue to Rolling Stone. Her debut album arrived a year later. Despite those early garlands, she didn’t become an overnight success. “I was really glad,” she says. “Musically I was not ready. Lyrically I was not ready. And mentally I was not ready.” Nevertheless, ‘Jade Bird’ received plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork and NPR. And it showed Jade, an obsessive at bettering her craft, how she wanted to build on the foundations she had laid.

 

If her debut reflected on “literally every male family member being absent, present, absent, present”, she says, ‘Different Kinds of Light’ reflects on what it means to stay, to love, to allow yourself to be loved. It’s about “being with somebody who you adore more than the whole world that hasn’t got the foundations to believe in themselves,” she says. “Hasn’t had people supporting them in a way that their potential can be realised, ‘cause they’ve been crippled by the people or environments that surround them.”

 

Jade translated these conflicted emotional states into sharply observed narrative vignettes that show her flair as a storyteller: the guy oblivious to what’s in front of him, the escape artist who confesses to being “asleep at the wheel my whole damn life”; the wastrel burning through their promise. “If I had a penny for all your potential, I’d be left drowning in my mouthful of metal,” Jade sings on Now Is the Time. It speaks to how quickly her writing has matured from the more polemical storytelling of her debut. “When you’re young, you sit in a chaos of emotions and desperately try to write out of it,” says Jade, who’s still only 23. “But when you’re older, you work out what’s affected you and why more clearly. It’s amazing what two years can do: it’s like you’re writing as you’re watching instead of writing to see.” 

 

In the studio with Dave Cobb, the two let Jade’s sound find its groove, joining tough 90s alt-rock and the melodicism of Blur and Oasis at their sweetest to the taut rattle of Iggy Pop’s The Passenger. “That rock element that I’ve been missing and deeply love,” is how Jade describes it. “If I’m in the car, that’s what I put on.” There’s also the spirit of Fleetwood Mac’s pop epics. Stevie Nicks’ Storms inspired Different Kinds of Light’s title track, written in summer 2019 while Jade toured the US with Jason Isbell and Father John Misty. “It says so much: ‘did not deal with the road’, ‘I have always been a storm’. There's so much in that record that breaks my whole being,” she says, melting. 

 

Any trepidation Jade might have felt about her profession on her debut album has now dissipated. “I never felt like I could call myself an artist – like, we’ll see. Whereas I know that’s my occupation now. That’s who I am, and that’s incredibly reassuring.” 

 

Jade Bird remains one of the most individual and exciting female voices out there. With Different Kinds of Light we find her cool, calm and collected - confidently striding ahead into her sure-to-be enthralling next chapter of her life and music. 

 

Different Kinds of Light - out August 13th on Glassnote Records -  Pre-order HERE

 

Tracklisting:

1. DKOL

2. Open up the heavens

3. Honeymoon

4. Punchline

5. Different Kinds Of Light

6. Trick Mirror

7. I’m Getting Lost

8. Houdini

9. 1994

10. Now is the Time

11. Candidate

12. Red White and Blue

13. Rely On

14. Prototype
     

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2CELLOS RELEASE HAUNTING RENDITION OF

IMAGINE DRAGONS’ “DEMONS”

 

MARKS THE SECOND SINGLE & VIDEO RELEASE

FROM THE DUO IN 2021

 

GET THE SINGLE HERE; WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

New York, NY (May 21, 2021) – Croatian duo Luka Šulić and HAUSER of 2CELLOS are back with a new single and video, a beguiling cover ofImagine Dragons’ hit song, “Demons,” available today via Sony Music Masterworks. This rendition is the second release from the pair in 2021 to celebrate their 10-year-anniversary.

 

Filmed in a mysterious bunker in Istria, Croatia, the video for “Demons” begins with an ominous door in the middle of a forest. As the strings on the track continue to build in a hauntingly beautiful way, Hauser enters the frame, and takes viewers on a journey into the unknown. Luka and HAUSER see themselves on their cellos as they burst through each verse, the chorus, and the bridge. The combination of the visuals and the track is a cinematic, suspenseful, and soul-stirring experience.  

 

Purchase and stream “Demons” here.

Watch the music video here.

 

“We tried to simplify the arrangement without losing the power of the song,” said 2CELLOS. “We wanted to make sure it was a 2CELLOS arrangement without adding too much. It’s the perfect example of a combination of the emotional, beautiful, and powerful at the same time. It’s the nature of what we do.”

 

2CELLOS is the eclectic, international sensation comprised of two classically trained cellists who reached video viral fame on YouTube from their 2011 rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal.” The pair, Luka Šulić and HAUSER, have since created a name for themselves with their electric and dynamic playing style. Together, 2CELLOS have amassed a staggering 1.3 billion YouTube views, 5.5 million YouTube subscribers, 1 billion streams, and have sold nearly 1 million tickets. 2CELLOS have taken the cello to unimagined heights as their signature style breaks down the boundaries between genres of music, from classical and film music, to pop and rock. Known for their electric live performances, 2CELLOS have sold out shows across the globe at historic venues including New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. The duo has performed alongside musical greats Steven Tyler, Andrea Bocelli, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age and George Michael, to name a few, and was hand-picked by Sir Elton John to perform both as an opener as well as part of the iconic singer’s live band. 2CELLOS are celebrating their 10^th anniversary this year, and are working hard to continue reaching new stratospheres.

 

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