​SOUNDS GOOD, FEELS GOOD is Big Beat’s swinging, high-energy party of original, pop, funk, soul, R&B, and gospel tunes performed by a 19-piece orchestra made up of the some of the finest up-and-coming East Coast musicians who are destined to populate the upper echelons of the jazz firmament. BIG BEAT is a band comprising mostly younger musicians who have taken up the big band mantle, imbuing the music with a contemporary edge while still hewing to the traditional big band spirit. The co-leaders and founders of the band are four young men who all graduated with Master’s Degrees in Jazz Arranging from William Paterson University in New Jersey. They are bassist CHARLIE DOUGHERTY, saxophonist PHIL ENGSBERG, trombonist CALEB RUMLEY, and pianist RYAN TOMSKI. In addition to their mastery of their respective instruments, each one is a top-notch arranger and composer. The band also features vocalist ALLISON MCKENZIE, a young woman with a powerful but lyrical voice that easily bridges the jazz and pop worlds. She is a superb songwriter and contributed four original tunes to this album. Based on the modern jazz tradition, Big Beat’s innovative arrangements bring the big band sound into the 21st Century.  With McKenzie’s soaring vocals and the band’s tight-knit, spot-on musicianship, SOUNDS GOOD, FEELS GOOD, as the name indicates, is an album that undoubtedly sounds good and feels good.

​VIDEO “I’ll Be Burning For You” :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7P3WLboHI&feature=youtu.be&t=51
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​Tracks
1. I WANNA TALK WITH YOU  4:11
2. KNOCKS ME OFF MY FEET  5:04
3. I WANT YOU BACK  5:57
4. JUST TOO MUCH  8:25
5. IT’S LOVE  4:35
6. I’LL BE BURNING FOR YOU  5:29
7. ALL THE LOVE  5:57
8. A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS  9:01
9. MISS AMERICA  4:34
 
Personnel
CONDUCTOR
CALEB RUMLEY trombone
VOCALS
ALLISON MCKENZIE
SAXOPHONES
NICK BRUST soprano & alto,   PHIL ENGSBERG soprano & alto
MATT TISCHIO tenor,   DANE ALEXANDER tenor
SAM TOBIAS baritone, flute & piccolo
TRUMPETS
MIKE SPENGLER (lead),   CHRIS ROGERS,    BEN HANKLE
RICH POLATCHEK 
TROMBONES
ADAM MACHASKEE (lead),   STEPHEN JUSTICE,   COLLIN BANKS,   TIM NEWMAN BASS
RHYTHM
ARATH CORRAL guitar,   WILL DOUGHERTY keyboards
CHARLIE DOUGHERTY bass,    JOE SPINELLI drums
PRODUCER  PETE MCGUINNESS
VOCAL PRODUCER  DENISE RENEE
 

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Born in 1992, August Kann from Ski in Norway started playing music at the age of 9 when he and some friends established a rock band. August’s interest in music continued growing, and he eventually went on to study jazz vocals at Norges Musikkhogskole. August describes his music as ‘simple’; although his poppy and folky singer-songwriter music is comfortable easy-listening, it’s very well-executed and reaches out to the listeners heart in the best possible way. His lyrics are often inspired by both his own stories and day to day conversations with others. Hopeless love, politics and the ups and downs of life, are just some of the themes he visits. Accompanied with guitar, piano, drums, fiddle and violin, it is impossible to hear this (self-written/recorded/produced) album with getting hit in the heart. August’s characteristic, hoarse vocals just puts the cherry on top, and you can hear that he sings from the soul. The music combines references from artists such as Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Bon Iver, Jack Johnson and Thomas Dybdahl.

During the recent years he has also joined other bands in addition to his solo career, like the pop band Kloversvingen, the impro band Karwowski and the soul/funk band Freddie Panda. August loves playing his music for people and is a frequent addition to many local stages around the country. In addition to using his voice, August also plays both piano and guitar. His live performances are known for being cozy, yet August looks a bit absentminded when playing gigs. However, he knows how to win over the crowd by a good dosage of humor and charm.
With a soundscape that overflows of comfort and soothing sounds through thirty gorgeous minutes, August Kann has made an album perfect for both late summer nights and long rainy days.

Legendary rock band Angel released their critically acclaimed new album “RISEN” on October 4th on Cleopatra Records. The band features original members Punky Meadows and Frank Dimino with Danny Farrow, Charlie Calv, Steve Ojane, and Billy Orrico. They describe the songs from “RISEN” as very diverse ranging from Heavy to very Melodic with real strong hooks featuring many elements of the classic Angel sound. 
 
Angel would like to thank all of their devoted fans as well as Cleopatra records in helping their new album “RISEN” hit multiple Billboard Charts this past week.: #14 Hard Rock Album Sales, #34 Independent Albums, #36 Rock Album Sales, #82 Top Current Albums (Sales), and #98 Top Album Sales!

 
Watch their Lyric video for “We Were The Wild”: https://youtu.be/EJ-fF5htKPU

Focus on the essential. Enjoy the silence. Calm down. To be here and now. All this is "In Silence", the new EP by Thomas Lemmer.

The EP will be released on 8 September 2019 by the well-known Ambient/Downtempo label Sine Music and will be available on all streaming and download portals and as limited edition CD. 

After his two collaboration albums "Night Travellers" with Andreas Bach and "Meerblick" with Christoph Sebastian Pabst, Thomas Lemmer plays a Neo-Classic EP with the focus on the instrument that accompanied him his whole life, the piano.
"For some years now, I have wanted to produce an album or an EP on which I play classical piano pieces. Pieces that were written entirely on the piano and that convince through their simplicity. Piano music that touches and you want to immerse yourself in its sound carpet.“

"In Silence" has become exactly that, a piano album with a unique sound. Here and there the titles are supported with soft strings or warm basses by analog vintage synthesizers. The attention to detail and sound design can be heard in the sophisticated arrangements.

Pearling piano arpeggios in "The sparkle of your eyes" or "And suddenly you were there" alternate with dreamy and moving songs like "Silent tears" or the single "It's good in your arms". You can get lost in thoughts with the song "In thoughts with you“.

Enjoy the sound of silence with the new EP "In Silence" by Thomas Lemmer.

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Gonzo Multimedia is releasing the highly anticipated debut studio album from Rodney Matthews and Jeff Scheetz with Oliver Wakeman titled “Trinity” and is now available for pre-order.
 
World renowned British fantasy artist and drummer Rodney Matthews and American rock guitarist and Director of Education at TrueFire Jeff Scheetz, along with British award-winning composer and former Yes keyboardist Oliver Wakeman are to release a prog rock album inspired by Matthews’ fantastical images.
 
Having illustrated over 140 rock album covers Matthews knew who to call upon to play across the ten eclectic tracks composed and arranged by himself, Scheetz, Wakeman and TV/film composer and multi-instrumentalist Pete Coleman. The stellar line-up also includes none other than legendary Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman on the title track, three bass players – Asia FJP’s John Payne, Magnum’s Tony Clarkin and in-demand jazz/blues/rock session player Steve Amadeo – and world class saxophonist Charles McNeal, plus vocals by Sarah Prothero and narration by Mark A. Williams.
 
The distinctive styles and diversity of contributions from these musicians lends perfectly to the largely instrumental album, encapsulating in music, images both familiar and new, from the thunderous ‘Heavy Metal Hero’ and dramatic ‘Night on the Bare Mountain’ to the majestic ‘Mirador’ and ethereal ‘Trinity’ (and everything in-between).  
 
The album will be available on CD and double Vinyl with bonus tracks. Also, for collectors, both will be included in a lavish limited-edition boxed set, accompanied by Matthews’ illustrated guide to the artwork, two giclée prints and a set of eleven postcards.
 
Of the album, many years in the making, Matthews says: “I’ve waited all my life to record an album, to do so with this group of high calibre musicians was beyond my wildest dreams - and trust me, being a fantasy artist, I can dream pretty wild!”
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Nick Cave komt op woensdag 29 april 2020 naar Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam en op donderdag 30 april 2020 naar het Sportpaleis in Antwerpen. Hij zal er samen met The Bad Seeds het nieuwe album 'Ghosteen’ voorstellen.

'Ghosteen’ verscheen eerder deze maand op alle digitale platformen en komt op 8 november ook op CD en Vinyl uit. Het album werd al wereldwijd geprezen als hun beste werk tot nu toe. "...Stunning double album that sets desperation against empathy and faith. On one level, it shouldn’t be surprising that it’s as good as it is...Nevertheless, listening to Ghosteen, it’s very hard indeed not to be taken aback” The Guardian ★★★★★

In 2017 stonden Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds met 'Skeleton Tree’ in een uitverkocht Sportpaleis. Dat resulteerde in ★★★★★- recensies in alle media: "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in het Sportpaleis: zo mooi dat het pijn deed.” (De Morgen) en "Na tweeënhalf uur zweefde het publiek buiten, alle vermoeidheid van een werkweek lang vergeten, gelouterd in een bad van diepe emoties.” (De Standaard).

Enkele maanden geleden stond Nick Cave in De Roma met zijn Conversations tour, waarbij Cave muziek combineert met een 'gesprek’ met zijn publiek. Hij voegde onlangs twee Belgische data toe aan deze tournee. Bij de verkoop van de zitjes voor 'Conversations with Nick Cave’ in de Brusselse BOZAR overschreed de vraag meermaals het aanbod.

Nick Cave is niet enkel een charismatische frontman, songwriter en multi-instrumentalist. De Australiër is ook een bekroond auteur, die zich in The Red Hand Files (een elektronische nieuwsbrief) ontpopt als levenscoach voor zijn fans.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds werd opgericht in 1983 en kent sindsdien een groeiend succes. Artistieke hoogtepunten aanstippen, is een onmogelijke opdracht. Live worden The Bad Seeds een steeds hechtere groep. Een collectie karakterkoppen (Thomas Wydler, Martyn P. Casey, Jim Sclavunos, George Vjestica, Larry Mullins en natuurlijk luitenant Warren Ellis) die Nick telkens boven zichzelf doet uitstijgen.
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Brisbane’s Hollow Coves will release their anticipated debut full-length album Moments on October 18th, and shared lead single “When We Were Young,” which premiered via Billboard.com.  The track pairs a soft beat, lush acoustic guitar, and dreamy piano with reflective lyrics, and a shared harmony between the two underscores pensive and poetic nostalgia. 
 
Listen + Share “When We Were Young” Below:
https://youtu.be/5J-tXfM2YO8


Produced by Chris Bond [Ben Howard, Justin Nozuka, Xavier Rudd] and recorded in the countryside in the south of England, the 11 songs that make up Moments were inspired by reflecting on a variety of moments and unforgettable shared experiences in their lives, and the lives of those around them, over the past three years.  “After our EP came out, we got a lot of messages from people saying that our music helped them through tough or stressful times,” recalls Matt. “I think that definitely motivated us when we were working on Moments. We wanted to continue to write songs that could help to shine light and bring a bit of peace into people's lives.” Adds Ryan, “I guess in a way we wanted the album to be the music equivalent of some sort of new-age retreat where people might go to sit still, renew their mind, and shift their focus to something more positive.”
The album follows their debut EP Wanderlust (2017), featuring standout track “The Woods,” which garnered over 40 million streams on Spotify alone, while two of the other songs, “Coastline” and “Home,” each surpassed 30 million Spotify streams.

A dynamic indie folk group brimming with their passion for travel and observing different shades of the world, Hollow Coves is the project of Ryan Henderson and Matt Carins. After meeting in 2013 through mutual friends and a shared love of acoustic music, the boys began writing together with no real expectations for where it might lead. Five years later, Ryan and Matt’s memories from their travels across all corners of the globe have led to a range of new music influenced by their journeys. Blending an earthy folk sound, acoustic melodies & vocal harmonies; Matt and Ryan take turns delivering lyrics of reflection, frequently harmonizing as their voices blend together and complement each other.
 
Hollow Coves will be touring extensively through Europe in support of their upcoming album Moments:
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01.11.2019 DE-Berlin - Frannz Club (upscaled from Badehaus) *
02.11.2019 DE-Leipzig - Neues Schauspiel Leipzig *
04.11.2019 CH-Zürich - Dynamo *
05.11.2019 DE-Frankfurt - Nachtleben *
07.11.2019 CZ-Prag - Futurum *
08.11.2019 DE-München - Folks *
11.11.2019 NL-Amsterdam - Vondelkerkerk
12.11.2019 NL-Amsterdam - Vondelkerkerk
13.11.2019 DE-Hamburg - Nochtspeicher ^
15.11.2019 DE-Köln - Artheater ^
16.11.2019 FR-Paris - Le 1999 ^
17.11.2019 BE-Hasselt - Muziek-O-Droom ^
19.11.2019 UK-London - Dingwalls ^
20.11.2019 UK-Manchester - YES ^
21.11.2019 UK-Leeds - Hyde Park Book Club ^
23.11.2019 IR-Dublin - The Sound House ^
24.11.2019 UK-Glasgow - Stereo ^

​JONAS WINTERLAND
"LAURA" 
uit op 18 /10
Een nummer uit het nieuwe album 'Berichten uit de Schemerzone'
( via Evil Penguin Records - releasedatum TBC)

Na ‘Plaats onder de zon (ft. Chantal Acda)’ verschijnt met ‘Laura’ een tweede single uit ‘Berichten uit de schemerzone’, het 4e full album van Jonas Winterland. Daarop brengt Winterland verslag uit over een persoonlijke en artistieke zoektocht naar zichzelf. Dat heeft deze keer niet alleen liedjes opgeleverd, maar ook een collectie kortverhalen
 
‘De titel van de song verwijst naar Laura Marling, een songwriter naar wie ik het afgelopen jaar veel geluisterd heb. Zij slaagt er als geen ander in om verlies te transformeren tot prachtige songs. De melodie voor ‘Laura’ had ik al een hele tijd liggen, maar voor de tekst vond ik pas inspiratie toen ik mijn sabbatjaar onderbrak voor een benefietconcert in een psychiatrische centrum. Die avond is lang blijven nazinderen. Om te beginnen voelde ik toen pas hoe hard ik het podium miste en hoe belangrijk het voor mij is om mijn ervaringen in songs te blijven gieten. Muziek geeft mij zuurstof. Ik heb al vaker geschreven over de kwetsbare, struikelende mens, maar misschien ben ik met de zin ‘Je kan beter mooi verliezen dan winnen zonder glans’ ongeveer tot de kern gekomen van wat ik daarover te zeggen heb.’ 

Luister hier naar de single: ​https://orcd.co/laura_single

Beatlesfans kunnen na de speciale uitgave van Abbey Road opnieuw uitkijken naar een bijzondere release. Op 22 november komt een box uit met daarin alle uitgebrachte singles op vinyl. Ze zijn daarvoor speciaal opnieuw gemixt. Het gaat met de B-kantjes erbij in totaal om 44 tracks, kondigt platenmaatschappij Universal vandaag aan.
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Eind september verscheen de speciale editie van Abbey Road. Het album was toen precies vijftig jaar en bevatte naast de originele opnames ook verschillende demo's en een boek met onder meer handgeschreven songteksten en foto's van bandleden Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr en George Harrison.

In verschillende landen waaronder Nederland en Groot-Brittannië brak Abbey Road een record door na vijftig jaar weer op nummer 1 in de albumlijst te komen.

Streamingdienst HBO werkt aan een nieuwe spin-off-serie gebaseerd op de hitfilm ‘Grease’ uit 1978. Dat meldt The Hollywood Reporter. Eerder werd al aangekondigd dat er ook een bioscoop-prequel in de maak is, die vertelt het verhaal vóór de film met John Travolta en Olivia Newton-John.

​‘Grease’ vertelt over Sandy en Danny, die elkaar op vakantie ontmoeten en verliefd worden. Als Sandy verhuist en op dezelfde school als Danny belandt, blijkt hij een heel andere jongen dan hij in de zomermaanden leek te zijn. Het tweetal gaat in het origineel naar de school Rydell High, dat zal ook de titel van de nieuwe serie worden.
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Sommige personages uit de film zullen ook in Rydell High terugkeren. De muzikale serie speelt zich af in de jaren vijftig, maar zal ook serieuze moderne tienerthema's als groepsdruk, puberteit in het puriteinse Amerika en 'coming of age' aansnijden. Het is nog niet bekend wie de serie gaat schrijven, wie de hoofdrollen gaan spelen of wanneer Rydell High te zien zal zijn. Eerder maakte de producent van ‘Rydell High’ al een veelgeprezen registratie van een theaterconcert van de 'oude' ‘Grease’.

Marking the 30th anniversary of the visionary album that Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and keyboardist Merl Saunders recorded to call attention to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest was planned long before “the lungs of the planet” caught fire this past summer. Saunders’ son, bassist Tony Saunders, who toured for a year with his father and Garcia to perform music from “Blues From The Rainforest – A Musical Suite,” continues the vital mission by helming Rainforest Band (https://rainforestband.net), which will release “Peace To The Planet” on October 25. Continuing partnerships that began with the original album, a portion of the proceeds from “Peace To The Planet” album sales will go to The Jerry Garcia Foundation and Rainforest Action Network.   
 
While Garcia and Merl Saunders branded “Blues From The Rainforest – A Musical Suite” as “environmental earth music,” “Peace To The Planet,” featuring Tony Saunders, guitarist Vernon “Ice” Black and keyboardist Sylvester Burks, is rooted in contemporary jazz, R&B and gospel music. Joining the trio on the album to spread the message of preservation in the face of the global climate crisis are Billboard chart-topping saxophonist Jeff Ryan, noted keyboardist Gail Jhonson, drummer Austin White and percussionist Maquinto Brasil. Black produced the collection comprised of a dozen songs written by the three band members who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 
The celebrate the record release and to raise funds for the two nonprofit partners, Rainforest Band will perform at Terrapin Crossroads Grate Room in San Rafael on November 1 with special guests Grammy winner Narada Michael Walden, percussionist Juan Escoveda and saxophonist Angelo Luster along with Johnson and Brasil. Garcia’s wife and daughter, Manasha and Keelin Garcia, who manage The Jerry Garcia Foundation and have collaborated with Tony Saunders on multiple projects over the years, will be present to lend their support. 

Exact dertig jaar na het verschijnen van zijn debuutplaat 'Let Love Rule', kondigt rockster Lenny Kravitz een nieuwe tournee aan. De 'Here To Love Tour' houdt op dinsdag 23 juni 2020 halt in het Sportpaleis. Tickets voor dat concert zijn beschikbaar vanaf vrijdag 18 oktober om 10u.
 
Lenny is ontegensprekelijk één van de meest gewaardeerde rockartiesten van deze tijd. Op zijn feilloos palmares staan tien sublieme albums, waarvan meer dan 40 miljoen exemplaren wereldwijd verkocht. Goed voor een hele resem onsterfelijke hits én vier Grammy Awards. Lenny Kravitz wordt gelauwerd voor zijn talenten als zanger, acteur, schrijver, producer, multi-instrumentalist en natuurlijk ook als live performer. Hij heeft in drie decennia carrière een ware legacy opgebouwd en is vastberaden die met zijn nieuwe tour opnieuw alle eer aan te doen!

 
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​Overleden Amerikaanse muzieksterren als rapper Notorious B.I.G. en soulzangeres Whitney Houston maken kans om te worden opgenomen in de prestigieuze Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ze maken deel uit van de zestien genomineerden die vandaag werden bekendgemaakt.

​De beroemde Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wordt al een tijdje ook voor andere muziekgenres opengesteld. Daardoor maakt ook Whitney Houston, die in 2012 op 48-jarige leeftijd stierf, kans op een vermelding. De zangeres van hits als 'I Will Always Love You' en 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody' geldt ook zonder opname in de Hall of Fame als een van de meest bekroonde zangeressen aller tijden.

Een andere opvallende genomineerde is hiphoplegende Notorious B.I.G. of 'Biggie Smalls', die bekend is van nummers als 'Hypnotize' en 'Mo Money Mo Problems'. Hij werd op 9 maart 1997 op 24-jarige leeftijd doodgeschoten in nooit volledig opgehelderde omstandigheden. Zijn rivaal Tupac Shakur, die in 1996 eveneens werd doodgeschoten, werd in 2017 al opgenomen in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Bij de genomineerden bevinden zich ook de Britse synthpopformatie Depeche Mode en rockbands als Motörhead, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Judas Priest en MC5. Ook de Duitse groep Kraftwerk, pionier op het vlak van elektronische muziek, prijkt op de lijst.

De overige genomineerden zijn Pat Benatar, Dave Matthews Band, The Doobie Brothers, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Todd Rundgren, T. Rex en Thin Lizzy.

In januari zal duidelijk worden welke genomineerden ook werkelijk hun intrede kunnen doen in beroemde hal in Cleveland (Ohio). Op 2 mei vindt de inhuldigingsceremonie plaats.

Om in de Hall of Fame te komen, moet een artiest of groep al minstens 25 jaar geleden een eerste album hebben uitgebracht.

Met de remix van "Lament", een knappe track uit het album "Book of Many" verschijnt op 18/10 een nieuwe single. De tour loopt van nu tot eind 2019. Alle data vind je hier.
​Guido Verelst, de regisseur van de magistrale video voor de single 'How Beautiful" werd bekroond met de Best Director award op het Global Nonviolent Film Festival. De video werd tevens geselecteerd voor het Parijse Lift Off Film festival. Bekijk de video hier.

​Metalband Channel Zero, bekend van hits als "Black Fuel" en "Help", blaast dit jaar 30 kaarsjes uit. Frontman Franky De Smet-Van Damme kwam het verjaardagsconcert in de Brusselse Ancienne Belgique aankondigen bij Studio Brussel.


"Wat we precies gaan doen, ga ik nog niet volledig verklappen. Misschien iets met vleermuizen. En net zoals in 2010 willen we iets doen met een doek dat pas naar beneden valt wanneer de band al aan het spelen is", vertelt De Smet-Van Damme.

In 2010 verkocht Channel Zero maar liefst 6 keer de AB uit. Dat was heel lang het record, tot dEUS eerder dit jaar de iconische concertzaal 8 keer uitverkocht. "Het zou heel leuk zijn om dat record te verpulveren natuurlijk", aldus De Smet-Van Damme.

Tickets voor het verjaardagsconcert op vrijdag 30 oktober 2020 zijn vanaf donderdag 17 oktober, om 10:00, te koop via de site van de AB.
​Tickets kosten 36 euro.

​De musical ‘MJ’, over de muziek en het leven van de reeds overleden popster Michael Jackson, gaat volgende zomer in première op Broadway in New York. Dat meldt Variety donderdag.Pulitzerprijswinnaar Lynn Nottage heeft de musical geschreven en Tony-awardwinnaar Christopher Wheeldon is verantwoordelijk voor de regie en de choreografie. In eerste instantie kreeg de musical de naam ’Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’, maar dat werd recent veranderd in het huidige ‘MJ’.
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In de musical over The King of Pop passeren onder meer nummers als ‘Beat It’, ‘Billie Jean’ en ‘Smooth Criminal’. Het officiële debuut van ‘MJ’ vindt plaats op 13 augustus. De kaartverkoop start op 15 januari.

Seasick Steve heeft een drukke zomer achter de rug. Intense schrijfsessies voor het volgende album dat in het voorjaar van 2020 zal verschijnen, hielden bompa blues bezig. Ter ere van het nog titelloze album, trekt Steve in maart en april volgend jaar op pad doorheen Europa. Op vrijdag 27 maart staat hij voor het eerst in De Roma in Antwerpen. Met zijn long-time drummer Dan Magnusson aka Crazy Dan mee trouw op post op het podium en hun koffer vol country- en rauwe bluesdeuntjes met een vleugje boogiewoogie. De ticketverkoop start vrijdag 18 oktober om 10u.
 
Steve heeft een aantal verrassingen in petto voor 2020, maar kijkt nu al enorm uit naar de nieuwe tour. “We rock. That’s what we do. When I see a club full of people, or a field full of people, they’re just with us and ready to get down in the mud (sometimes real mud!). We love it, and we love them!”
 
Dit concert is een coproductie van Live Nation en De Roma.

 
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 Na vijf jaar afwezigheid kondigt wereldster en onvervalst popicoon Avril Lavigne haar grote terugkeer aan! De Canadese zangeres zal op 18 maart 2020 optreden in Vorst Nationaal in het kader van haar aankomende Europese tournee. Dat wordt een blij weerzien met haar Belgische fans! Tickets zijn verkrijgbaar vanaf vrijdag 18 oktober om 9u.
 
Avril Lavigne gaf de jaren 2000 kleur met een indrukwekkend salvo aan hits in haar eigen punky pop-stijl. Met energieke, opgewekte melodieën, gevoelige maar scherpe teksten en haar authentieke, oprechte persoonlijkheid pakte ze een hele generatie in. Enkele maanden na de release van haar zesde plaat ‘Head Above Water’, gaat Avril eindelijk weer op tournee! Van “Let Go” tot “Complicated” over “Sk8er Boi” en “I’m With You”; in de nieuwe tournee komen ze allemaal aan bod, en trakteert ze ons natuurlijk ook op haar gloednieuwe songs. Avril Lavigne is helemaal terug, en dat komt ze ons op 18 maart bewijzen op het podium van Vorst Nationaal!
 
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Per verkocht ticket gaat €2 naar The Avril Lavigne Foundation. The Avril Lavigne Foundation ondersteunt mensen die getroffen werden door de ziekte van Lyme, een ernstige ziekte of een handicap. Met behulp van programma’s en subsidies zorgt de foundation voor preventiemiddelen en financiering van behandelingen, en versnelt ze het onderzoek dat hoop moet geven en levens moet veranderen.

 
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Charlie Hager is a singer/songwriter from Nashville, Tn. He credits the majority of his musical abilities to his father, James Bernard, a longtime West Virginia bluegrass player from the 1940's to his death in 1981. His writing styles and influences come mostly from Texas based singer/songwriters from Billy Jo Shaver, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and J.J. Cayle. In his youth, Charlie, decided to not attend a large high school in Nashville and instead moved out the the Tennessee countryside to a small rural high school in Trousdale County which instilled his small town values. After graduation and a few years at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, he decided to join the U.S. Marine Corps and travel the world and for the first time started playing and writing. In 1991, he returned to Nashville and began playing local venues in the area. In the summer of 1993, he was married and had 3 children. During this time his music was placed on a back burner. In 2011 and after a divorce, Charlie returned to the Nashville music scene and with the help of some of his musical friends began playing regular shows and writing songs again. 
In 2016, American Saga, his first album was released. It was received well by the media.  During 2016 and 2017 Charlie played with his band at numerous venues around Nashville and on several radio stations live in both Nashville and Knoxville. Also, he began working on his sophomore album, "Truth and Love".
In July of 2018, he relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada because of his work with a production company. He is also working on establishing himself on the west coast.
At the end of 2018, the new album was completed and will now be released on Flour Sack Cape Records. The album is a collection of new songs and songs that have been written up to 10 years ago. Touching on folk and country, Charlie says of the album: 

"Technically, the Truth and Love album was conceived in 2015 just prior to the release of my American Saga album in March of 2016. Originally, I had this idea of making an album called “The X-files” in honor of my life with my x-wife. However, in May of 2016, I was watching the news about the primaries and noticed how just about everyone involved in the election was lying so I started writing a song which eventually ended up being the title track."
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1. Truth and Love                3:46
2. Stole My Heart                2:36
3. Never Good                      3:26
4. Big Star                              3:24
5. This Ain’t Love                  3:20
6. All Yours                             2:56
7. She Wants to Believe       5:02
8. Nothing to Do With You   3:15
9. Trying To Lay The Blame   2:52
10. Stand A Chance At All        2:57

All Tracks FCC Clean 
Focus Tracks : 1, 5, 9, 10
 
Vocals- Charlie Hager
Drums/Percussion- Erin Nelson 
Bass Guitar/Electric and Acoustic Guitar- Joe Lekkas 
Electric Guitar/Harmonies- Andrew Lipow
Harmonies- Ryan Dishen and Benjamin Douglas 
 Trumpet- Robert Gay
Fiddle- Daniel Foulks
Steel Guitar- C. J. Colandrea
Keyboard -Benjamin Douglas
Produced by Joe Lekkas
Album Design- Ben De La Cour
Recorded at Greenland Studios, East Nashville, TN
All songs written by Charlie Hager (Flour Sack Cape/BMI)
Except “Never Good” by Charlie Hager (BMI)/Eddie Crummer (BMI)/Chris Thaete (BMI) and
“Big Star by Charlie Hager (BMI) and Dave Nooe (BMI)

​After wowing audiences at SXSW last year and earning enormous critical praise from the AV Club, Noisey, Stereogum and others for their album Night Swimming, Dentist is back and ready to share a brand new track with the world. The new single, “Someone Like You,” proves that this band is only getting stronger with each new release, refining their sound and honing in on the pop elements that have made them one of the most exciting new indie rock surf punk bands in recent years!
 
The song is accompanied by a new video directed by Sean Bell that shows the band hard at work on a home improvement project, handling all manner of heavy gear and various powertools with the skill and precision you’d expect from a group of NJ punk rock kids. So it’s not terribly surprising when the blood starts to splatter on vocalist/bassist Emily Bornemann as guitarist Justin Bornemann smashes his hand to a bloody pulp while drummer Matt Hockenjos pounds on his sawdust covered kit - all of which is greeted with a winking eye and knowing grin (and even a casual lunch break).
 
Check out the video for “Someone Like You” here: https://youtu.be/nBSfyBn622k
 

Brooklyn-based art pop project SAN FERMIN today release their new album THE CORMORANT I via Better Company, bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s new imprint under Sony Music Masterworks.  Envisioned as the first of a two-part album release, The Cormorant I ushers in a new era for San Fermin and sets the tone for the overall project, which will include an eventual counterpart to be released next year.  Described by Ludwig-Leone as both a “stand-alone narrative in itself” as well as “the first piece of a larger two-part story,” The Cormorant I is available everywhere now. 
 
Also making its debut today is San Fermin’s newest video for “Saints,” a surreal visual that follows vocalist Claire Wellin on a sleepless night spent within the confines of her bedroom – watch here. 
 
Taking place in the ordinary yet enchanted spaces of childhood, The Cormorant I centers on the tension between growing up and longing for innocence. Paired with a storybook grandeur that entwines the real and the mythic, The Cormorant I invites listeners on a trip of willful delusion, described by Ludwig-Leone as, “creating fictions from your life as a way to deal with a more complicated reality.”
 
"The Cormorant I starts with a visit from a strange bird, a death augur, which haunts two characters throughout their lives,” he notes of the album’s namesake. “The track listing is chronological: the first few songs are about childhood, while the later tracks follow the characters into their more complicated adult lives. Finally, the last song imagines the return of the bird and their eventual deaths."
 
After writing most of the music in Ísafjörður, Iceland, Ludwig-Leone returned to Brooklyn and sculpted the record’s rich sonic landscape with the help of his bandmates: vocalist Allen Tate, vocalist/violinist Claire Wellin, trumpet player John Brandon, saxophonist Stephen Chen, percussionist Michael Hanf, and guitarists Tyler McDiarmid and Aki Ishiguro, as well as a cast of new collaborators, including Attacca Quartet and harpist Lavinia Meijer.
 
In that process, San Fermin dreamed up a two-part album of kinetic and spellbinding movement, spinning a deliberately wayward narrative that follows its two main characters from their earliest years, with Tate portraying the male protagonist while the album’s female perspective is provided by a revolving cast of vocalists, including Wellin, Karlie Bruce (a new addition to the touring group), Sarah Pedinotti (of Lip Talk), and Samia Finnerty (of Samia).
 
“The second part is like the fever dream, upside-down response to Part I,” Ludwig-Leone explains of the eventual paired album release.  “The jumps between the past and present are more jagged, and memories are subjected to a more critical eye. As I was writing, I was thinking a lot about how memories change over time— the stories you tell yourself and the actual events aren’t always in synch."
 
The album’s lead single “The Hunger” is one of the most thrillingly urgent tracks, illuminating the inner dialogue fundamental to dating in the modern age.  Moving from lonesomeness to angst to glorious self-lionization with pure conviction, “The Hunger” was named one of the best new releases of the week by TIME, UPROXX, Under The Radar and WNYC’s New Sounds.  The single’s June debut also included a companion music video, available now to watch.  Most recently, the group also debuted an acoustic version of the track – listen here.     
 
Meanwhile, San Fermin’s follow-up single “The Living” details a seemingly futile search for late-night connection in the city, a pursuit that becomes increasingly intensified by the track’s heartbeat-like rhythms.  Of the track, Ludwig-Leone says, “So much of what we do is this willful tricking of our own minds in order to feel something. ‘The Living’ is about a very common version of that, getting too drunk and wandering around the city at night, trying to feel like part of something bigger than yourself. There’s a sense that some profound moment is always right around the corner, but somehow it never quite comes into focus.”
 
The album’s opener and title track “The Cormorant” takes its name from a snake-like seabird, which acts as a thematic omen of life and death throughout the album’s narrative.  “The first song is a wake-up call, with this ominous bird that says: ‘Show me the people and the things that mattered in your life, because now you’re going to die,’” Ludwig-Leone explains. “It’s a high-stakes way to start an album, but it jumpstarts this crazy myth that spins out from there.” The Cormorant rushes forward with a fever-dream intensity, endlessly slipping between hazy memory and real-time reflection. On “Cerulean Gardens,” for instance, San Fermin offer a stark meditation on what Ludwig-Leone refers to as “getting older and realizing you’re starting to deviate from your parents’ narrative,” with Tate’s warm vocals channeling a loving nostalgia. Several songs later, on “Summer by the Void,” that looking-back shapeshifts into a deeply sensory reminiscence of teenage romance. (“I wanted it to sound like summer outside of the house I grew up in,” Ludwig-Leone says, “so I ended up sitting in this freezing-cold room in Iceland, making these absurd noises into a microphone to try to replicate the sound of cicadas.”)  Elsewhere, “Saints” reveals the quiet hostilities in cohabitation, and on “The Myth,” San Fermin close out The Cormorant I with a hushed confession of existential uncertainty (“I would sing for my life/If I knew the words”).
 
The Cormorant I arrives just ahead of a three-month run of North American tour dates.  Kicking off October 16 at Concord, NH’s Capitol Center for the Arts, the tour will continue before a hometown finale set for December 6 at New York’s Brooklyn Steel.  Additional dates will be announced. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.sanferminband.com/tour.
 
SAN FERMIN – THE CORMORANT I
TRACK LIST

1. The Cormorant
2. Cerulean Gardens
3. Hickman Creek
4. The Hunger
5. Summer by the Void
6. Saints
7. The Living
8. The Myth

 
 
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ABOUT SAN FERMIN
San Fermin is the project of Brooklyn-based composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ellis Ludwig-Leone, who pairs lushly avant-garde arrangements with pop-minded melodies that are brought to life by his bandmates.  Formed in 2012 – shortly after Ludwig-Leone completed a job assisting composer Nico Muhly – San Fermin made their debut with a self-titled 2013 release hailed by NPR as “one of the year’s most ambitious, evocative, and moving records.” The band’s sophomore effort Jackrabbit arrived in 2015, debuting at #8 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. With their third studio album Belong released in April 2017, San Fermin has sold out shows worldwide, appeared at major festivals like Lollapalooza, and opened for the likes of St. Vincent, The National, Arctic Monkeys, and alt-J.  Garnering widespread critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, NPR, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, the group now gears up for the next chapter of their career, signing to Sony Music Masterworks in advance of new music.  
 
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​Seminal contemporary jazz band Spyro Gyra decided to do something completely different for their first new album in six years. The New York institution that began 45 years ago curated a collection of songs they listened to on vinyl during their formative youth and then put them through a process they call “warping.” They dared to take apart classic rock and jazz hits and imaginatively rebuild them into something entirely new, changing tempos and textures, rhythms and tones, and adding extensions and solos in the process that refreshed the nine songs, often making them hardly recognizable from their original form. Spyro Gyra produced and brazenly arranged “Vinyl Tap,” which dropped last Friday on the Amherst Records label.
 
Over the last few weeks, the disc’s first single, a wistful reading of Blind Faith’s “Can’t Find My Way Home” that steps soulfully to an Americana cadence, has been garnering airplay and playlist adds.
 
As the album arrives that Jazziz magazine named one of the “10 Albums You Need to Know: October 2019,” Spyro Gyra prepares to roll out on a monthlong concert trek in support of “Vinyl Tap” beginning at the Cancun Jazz Festival in Mexico on October 23. The global whirlwind will visit Ireland, England, Netherlands, Bahrain, Italy, Germany and Israel before playing a string of U.S. dates.
 
Free from the pressure of having to write great music, Spyro Gyra had fun in the studio making “Vinyl Tap,” which is available as a limited edition, 180-gram clear vinyl disc with a full-color printed inner sleeve in a full-color printed jacket. The band members – saxophonist Jay Beckenstein,  keyboardist Tom Schuman, guitarist Julio Fernandez, bassist Scott Ambush and drummer Lionel Cordew –  have a wide range of ages, which accounts for the wide variety of songs selected to “warp.” Stylistically, the quintet mines jazz of every primary hue – straight-ahead, contemporary and fusion – along with R&B, pop, rock, Latin and country music.
 
“Vinyl Tap” opens with a hipster’s mashup of “Secret Agent Man” and “Alfie’s Theme.” The “warping” continues with a Latin big band revision of Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love.” Listeners are caressed during a yearning exploration into the soulful depths of The Doobie Brothers’ “What A Fool Believes.” The beats are layered on the percussion-heavy revisit of War’s “The Cisco Kid.” The Beatles’ “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away” becomes a sweet soprano sax serenade while Squeeze’s “Tempted” is recreated as a bluesy, power rock ballad. Complex rhythms highlight an incendiary fusion presentation of Oliver Nelson’s jazz standard “Stolen Moments.” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s “Carry On” brings the session to a climactic conclusion with gusto.     

Roberto Fonseca wordt door critici beschouwd als een van de grootste talenten uit de jazzwereld. Geboren op het muzikaal rijke Cuba, leerde hij al snel Caraïbische ritmes om te zetten in dynamische sounds. Zijn stuwende pianospel kreeg toen al lof van onder meer Herbie Hancock. Na zijn debuutalbum in 1999, mocht hij onder meer op tour met de legendarische Buena Vista Social Club.

Dit weekend verschijnt Yesun, zijn nieuwe album: 

"Yesun is het album dat ik altijd al heb willen maken", zegt Fonseca, Een plaat die alles combineert, van jazz en klassieke muziek tot rap, funk, reggaeton en electronica, en dat alles met weinig regeltjes ! “Al mijn invloeden zijn hier terug te vinden. Alle geluiden en vibes die me maken tot wie ik ben. '

Het is een trio-album geworden met 12 originele nummers door de band van Fonseca, drummer Raúl Herrera en contrabassist Yandy Martínez Rodriguez. Gasten zijn onder meer de Amerikaanse saxofonist Joe Lovano, de Frans-Libanese trompettist Ibrahim Maalouf, de Cubaanse rapper / zanger Danay Suarez en de bolero diva Mercedes Cortés. Zijn nieuwste single "Aggua" is een mix van Afro-Cubaanse percussie, jazz, hiphop en urban.

‘The most exciting pianist in Cuba.” The Guardian
“Does something new with the old, without every denying his origins, and opens himself to the world.” Le Figaro
“Makes all possibilities seem possible, and the moment feel perfect, intensely true.” New York Time

Je kan Fonseca meemaken in concert 23/11 in de Botanique te Brussel. 

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Laura Cox is exactly what she promises to be: a badass rock’n’roll lady who makes her guitar produce sounds that are about to shake the world in a groundbreaking fashion. With this, she is catapulting herself among the ranks of the great female guitarists. Seriously, could you think of anything cooler than Nancy Wilson, Nita Strauss (Alice Cooper), The Runaways or Joan Jett, just to name a few.
Even though the guitar shooting star has, so far, only released a single album, her powerful soli, catchy choruses and raw voice have not only taken the internet by storm (380,000 YouTube subscribers - 90 million views) but Laura Cox has been playing sold-out headlining shows for years.
 
The singer/guitarist has not been oblivious to the fact that her life as a female guitarist might differ from her male colleagues’. Still, Laura Cox has repeatedly stressed that she doesn’t care about sex appeal, all she cares about is her guitar.
 
Hence, her debut album “Hard Blues Shot” (2017), sold 10,000 copies in France, after only  a few months in 2017, and Laura has gained huge notoriety amongst guitar players and beyond with a hugely successful YouTube Channel!
 
The second, upcoming album, “Burning Bright”, is “high voltage rock´n roll”, in the style of AC/DC and DANKO JONES meets JOAN JETT, mixed with Southern and Blues influences. Taking this into account, Laura define her style as “Southern Hard Blues” – a mix of bands she grew up with!
Recorded at the legendary ICP studios, backed up by an impeccable band and mastered by the great Howie Weinberg (Aerosmith, Oasis, The White Stripes), “Burning Bright” offers 10 rock bombs that are influenced, depending on the songs, by blues, classic rock or even hard rock.

Bad Luck Blues (Official Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlLiUnlur1s

WHYES is een vijfkoppige band uit het Antwerpse die zeer aanstekelijke en dansbare indie-pop maakt. Hun sound is beïnvloed door het betere werk van 80ies bands als Duran Duran, maar evenzeer ook door MGMT of zelfs Fleetwood Mac, Opzwepende synths en een dansbare sound maken het geheel helemaal af. 
Whyes werd in het verleden al eens geselecteerd voor de nieuwe lichting van Studio Brussel, en hun vorige single “Future Isles” vergaarde al airplay op verschillende radiozenders, bovendien deden hun beide vorige singles (cfr ook 'Sometimes') het ook al erg goed op Spotify. 

PS WHYES is een van de nieuwe signings van 62TV Records' (Naast watchoutforthegiants en Philemon).  Het Brusselse label viert volgend jaar zijn 25 jarig bestaan en het is bedoeling is om met die bands dit jaar enkele singles uit te brengen, om in het jubileumjaar, deze bands met een eerste album of EP helemaal in de spotlights te zetten.

Tijd nu voor "MJ", een nieuwe single van Whyes, een - erg aanstekelijke - voorloper van hun eerste EP (in een productie van Luuk Cox).  Het  nummer is het relaas van een avondje stappen met de vrienden, een 'boy meets girl' verhaal dat fout loopt door haantjesgedrag, maar gelukkig bestaan er nog tweede kansen.  


Check de clip hieronder.