Taumei “Big John” Akapo is a presence in Hawaii, not just in his physical stature, but in the commanding nature of his soulful blues voice and ringing guitar playing that have enthralled residents and visitors to the Islands for decades. With the release of his debut CD, Paradise Blues, on October 19 from Mensch House Records, listeners from around the globe will get to experience what all the excitement is about.  
 
Watch a video of John performing “Caramac Blues,” a track off the new CD, at the Honolulu BBQ Festival here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3irc4NoOvDI&feature=youtu.be
 
Paradise Blues showcases John Akapo at his very best, with 10 songs that mix both his love of Delta blues and his American Samoan DNA for a blend unlike any other performer in contemporary blues/roots music. Produced by Akapo, the 10 tracks on his new disc include seven originals, as well as his own unique take on songs from some of his mentors, such as Robert Johnson (“Ramblin’ on My Mind”), Muddy Waters (“I Can’t Be Satisfied”) and Tommy Johnson (“Big Road Blues”).  
 
John Akapo is a nomad who followed the music: from his early days as a kid growing up in Alaska, where he fell in love with the guitar, to his youth spent in American Samoa singing acapella and learning how to loop, John Akapo has been magnetically connected to a path of musical discovery. 
 
John's family heritage runs deep into the music. As a kid, John was constantly surrounded by music and his uncles were touring musicians who played guitar. His parents had watched family members succumb to addiction from the rock-and-roll lifestyle, so they did their best to keep John and his brothers away from the same pitfalls.
“My parents were firmly against the idea of me taking up the guitar,” John says. “I would have to hide my interest in singing and especially playing the guitar. I looked to my brother's friend for guitar lessons and quietly dove into a wormhole of music that I have never climbed back out of. I would learn to play songs from watching VHS tapes or whatever I could get my hands on. That was how I discovered Eric Clapton performing his MTV Unplugged set and my whole world changed. I was still too young to have known who he was or that he was even part of the British revival of the Blues. All I knew was I wanted more.”
John immersed himself into the origins of the blues and never looked back. Taking a cue from the legends like Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy, and B.B. King, he began to explore and absorb as much as he could from recordings, movies, books and magazines. Blues had become his solace.
Recording his own original works, John began a professional career as a luau musician, bandleader, solo entertainer, and more recently, a hip-hop producer and vocalist for 13 years. When he sits down to write music, he always ends up with a blues song. It's only fitting that he has finally decided to release his first album, Paradise Blues, as a blues artist bringing him right back home. 
“I think my music is like a tree rooted in traditional blues but sprinkled with Pacific salt water,” John explains. “I’m merely telling a story of where I’m from, and how I got here, set to a mellow acoustic blues soundtrack. I play the blues because it feels familiar to me. I feel a connection to the story behind the blues and I’m just trying to continue the story from another perspective. Give me a try and see if I can’t make you feel good about being blue.”
Akapo's eclectic style has won over fans across the globe, including the likes of comedians J. Anthony Brown and Russell Peters, who sang John's praises on his Instagram feed.
On his musical journey, John Akapo never turned his back on his Samoan heritage or his Hawaiian roots, and his experiences on the Islands have helped shape him as a person, as well as a guitarist. John embodies the spirit, beauty, sadness, and struggle of the Islands with every guitar lick.
“The blues fans that have seen me play, appreciate the fact that I’m from Hawaii, yet I make them feel like they’re at home in the mainland,” he summarizes. “The blues is at home here in the Islands, and it’s nothing new. I think the entire blues scene could use some of this Paradise Blues

Epic-aggressive, mystical-melodic – that’s the sound of Bad Butler. The metallers vocally work foremost with high-contrast growl, melodious harmonies and powerful vocals. Energetic guitar riffing with catchy tunes and a driving rhythm complete the total package.
Bad Butler manages to build a unique mystic-dynamic sound atmosphere which carries you away and gets under your skin.
In their songs they deal with apocalyptic scenarios. They describe the horror, evil and the devil. In that historical-political events play as much a role as the seven deadly sins or classics by Steven King. The sophisticated sound is brought on stage with a lot of power, passion, and much blood, sweat and tears with Bad Butler’s year-long experience in other famous bands.
The project Bad Butler was founded in 2013. The two well attuned guitarists Christian Lautemann and Gary Bonassi start to write songs together. It soon becomes clear that young and willing men are needed to present the works. 
Since the beginning of 2016 the rhythmical foundation is set with drummer Thomas Diener and bass player Christian Junker.
Last but not least Dominik Kockler joins the group as frontman and vocalist. The first album ‘Not Bad at All’ was released in August 2017 recorded by the group in an in-house production.
As Pit Schneider aptly put it: the debut is ‘hard, fast and luscious, but still melodic’.
The title developed over the years of the band’s formation. Every time after writing texts, the first instrumental recordings, and the spontaneous vocal backings, these entirely humble words were uttered.
The music video to the first single ‘Nameless Thing’ registered over 5.500 views after a few weeks. 
And at least since the radio gig at Classic Rock Radio’s Rocktalents it’s certain: ‘Bad Butler rock your brains out!.’

Na twee fantastische concerten op Les Nuits Botanique in het voorjaar en op Cactus Festival deze zomer, kondigt Charlotte Gainsbourg haar terugkeer naar ons land aan. Ontdek haar uitzonderlijk talent op vrijdag 14 december in De Roma en op zaterdag 15 december in de Ancienne Belgique.
Al van bij de release van ‘5:55’ in 2016 laat de Française zich van haar meest charismatische en breekbare kant zien met heerlijk poëtische albums, waarvoor ze o.a. samenwerkte met Air, Jarvis Cocker, Beck en Connan Mockasin. Eind 2017 verscheen haar vijfde studioalbum, een magistrale plaat die tot stand kwam met de medewerking van grootheden als Paul McCartney, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk) en Owen Pallett. Puur, intiem, schaamteloos. ‘Rest’ is een betoverend meesterwerk met subtiele arrangementen en dromerige melodieën, zoals te horen op nummers als “Rest”, “Deadly Valentine”, “Ring-A-Ring O’Roses” en “Sylvia Says”. Met het album vindt Charlotte Gainsbourg zich niet alleen voor de zoveelste keer opnieuw uit, ze maakt na jarenlange introspectie ineens ook korte metten met demonen die nog in haar hoofd spookten sinds het overlijden van haar zus in 2013. Een parel!
Als actrice de hemel in geprezen door de beste regisseurs (Iñárritu, Gondry, Blier, von Trier, Attal, Ivory). Als zangeres het ultieme icoon van de Franse scene en de lieveling van critici van over de hele wereld sinds erg jonge leeftijd (Lemon Inceste, Charlotte For Ever). Het moge duidelijk zijn dat je haar concerten onder geen beding gemist mag hebben! Afspraak op 14 december in Antwerpen en op 15 december in Brussel.

Het Antwerpse concert is een coproductie van Live Nation Belgium en De Roma.
 
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Op 21 september 2018 brengt Therapy? het door Chris Sheldon geproduceerde nieuwe (15e) studio-album ‘Cleave’ uit, waarvan vorige maand de eerste single ‘Callow’ verscheen. ‘Cleave’ is de opvolger van ‘Disquiet’ uit 2013 en het eerste muzikale wapenfeit voor Therapy’s nieuwe label Marshall Records.
 
Frontman Andy Cairns: " ‘Cleave’, is voor mij, therapy? op ons meest gefocust. Ik hou van onze meer experimentele kant, maar ik vind het ook geweldig dat deze plaat klinkt alsof ze gemaakt is door een band die allemaal vanuit hetzelfde script aan het lezen is en met dezelfde vastberadenheid en honger vooruitgaat. De manier waarop ik ‘Cleave’ heb beschreven aan mensen die hebben gevraagd, is dat het een beetje zoals Nurse and Pleasure Death-era ontmoet Troublegum, maar dan met een volledig moderne productie van de 21e eeuw. "
 
De productie van ‘Cleave’ was in handen van oudgediende Chris Sheldon, die al eerder met de band werkte voor ‘Troublegum’ (1994), ‘Semi-Detached’ (1998) en ‘High Anxiety’ (2003).
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Andy: "We weten dat we Chris kunnen vertrouwen. Hij heeft een geweldige geschiedenis met de band en een vrije  agenda. Het is niet alsof hij singles wil maken, maar hij wil ook dat de band maximaal kan presteren, en hij is erg goed in het aanwijzen van problemen zonder je te beledigen! In de pre-productie hebben we veel van de nummers ingekort en direct ter zake genomen. Je kunt in je eigen kleine bubbel stappen als je songs schrijft, dus het is geweldig om iemand objectief te laten zijn en je uitdagen om dingen opnieuw te bedenken. "
 
Therapy? 1989-2018
In 1989 opgericht in Noord-Ierland bleken gevoelens van vervreemding, frustratie en ontwrichting voor Therapy? een uitstekende inspiratiebron. Het gevoel van achterdocht en verwarring dat deze eigenwijze band als buitenstaander en eeuwige underdog sinds het begin van zijn carrière voelde en verwoordde in zijn muziek, songteksten en video’s sluit nog immer bij de huidige tijdsgeest aan. Gecombineerd met een inktzwart en idosyncratisch wereldbeeld kreeg Therapy? de reputatie van één van de meest eigenwijze, compromisloze, creatieve en onafhankelijke bands van zijn generatie.
 
A track-by-track guide to Cleave, by Andy Cairns
 
Wreck It Like Beckett
 
This song originated with Michael. He told me he had a riff which reminded him of She Watch Channel Zero by Public Enemy and he sent me over a bass riff, a guitar riff and a drum beat. I thought the riff was incredible, and so we chopped it up in the rehearsal room, to make it more stop-start, like [classic Therapy? tracks] Knives or Screamager, and that really worked. Lyrically, it’s about trying to start anew. The reason that [Irish playwright and poet] Samuel Beckett is referenced in the title is that each time Beckett began a new project he used to imagine that he was sitting at a desk and could swipe his arm across the desk to clear away all the sheets of paper so that he could make a fresh start. This is a song that sets the album up as a new chapter for Therapy?
 
Kakistocracy
 
Michael actually sent me this riff too. It was mid-paced, with a heavy groove, a bit like Helmet. We’ve had a song idea kicking around for a while based around the line ‘It’s okay not to be okay’ and when we got this riff it was such a great head-nodder that it reminded us of something like Unbeliever from Troublegum, with that same kind of chunky riff. Lyrically, it’s about division again, the division between the haves and the have-nots. There’s an awful lot of anger and frustration out there right now, and you look at this wealthy country and how it treats people, and so this song is kinda saying ‘You’ve got a right to be pissed off.’ People in our country don’t kick off against injustice enough…
 
Callow
 
Callow is one of two songs on the album that I wrote start-to-finish. Everyone who knows anything about our band know that I love Hüsker Dü and The Buzzcocks and Ramones, and this is another melodic punky song in the vein of Nowhere and Screamager and Lonely, Cryin’, Only, with maybe a hint of the Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible too. My son Jonah is really into a rapper called Lil Peep, which sounds to me like emo with trap drum beats, with lyrics about fucked up and lost and lonely he feels, and I managed to get Jonah a ticket for his show in London last year. A few months later he said to me, ‘Lil Peep is dead’, and I could see that he was really affected by it: I realised that, for him, this was like the passing of John Lennon or Ian Curtis or Kurt Cobain. In some of his music, Lil Peep talked about the antidepressant Xanax, the over-use of which has become a real problem in the UK, and while I was thinking about that I remembered a Stephen Fry quote where, after he was prescribed antidepressants to combat his manic depression, and he said that he felt like a zombie for months. He said something like, ‘If you take away my demons, you’ll also take my angels.’ His point was that, yes, there were dizzying heights and terrifying lows without antidepressants, but he’d rather have that than constant numbness. So this song is talking about how we negotiate the chaos of life right now, and to understand why someone might numb out so that they don’t notice our divides.
 
Expelled
 
This was co-written by Michael and I. Michael had an idea which was reminiscent of Killing Joke and I added some Black Flag descending chords to it. Going back to something I touched on earlier, this is a song about class division. There’s a line ‘I wasn’t born pretty, I wasn’t born rich, everything I’ve got I’ve had to fight for’, which references the idea of one’s environment and background and upbringing, and how depressing it is that people currently seem really determined to divide the country into categories of people. I’m living out my inner John Lydon a little with the vocals here.
 
Success Success Is Survival
 
This reminds me of something like Perversonality from Nurse, it’s a big, stomping tune, with a bassline from Michael and my chorus. The idea behind the lyric started with Leonard Cohen. I was watching a Leonard Cohen documentary and someone was speaking to him backstage somewhere in 1977/’78 and asked him, ‘How do you define success?’ His answer was, ‘Well, for me, success is survival’. This is probably the most overtly political song on the record, without explicitly naming and shaming anyone. My wife works for a charitable organisation and she works a lot with the homeless, and so I see first-hand what she has to deal with. Just trying to survive now seems even harder now than it used to be. The opening line paraphrases Samuel Beckett, where he said, ‘The cream of this country, rich and thick.’
 
Save Me From The Ordinary
 
This originated with a bass and drums line that Michael wrote. He wasn’t sure that it was something I would like, or something that we would do, but once Neil played drums on it, it made sense. Its initial title was Quotidian. Lyrically the idea came from watching Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin, which is a great film, about a little man getting caught in the cogs of a machine. Beckett was always enthralled by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin films because he saw a lot of sadness in man’s pathetic attempts to wriggle free of troubled situations and there’s something of that pathos here.
 
Crutch
 
This is the second track on the record that I wrote from start-to-finish, in this instance on an acoustic guitar, sitting at my kitchen table. While thinking about duality in personalities, I thought about how much certain people change when they add alcohol, and so this is about alcohol addiction. It’s not pointing fingers: with any big major fuck up that I’ve made in my life or any seriously rash decisions I’ve made that I’ve come to regret, alcohol was always involved. The melody line here is almost like a country song, with an element of our song Die Laughing too.
 
I Stand Alone
 
We had this riff which was kinda …And Justice For All-era Metallica-meets-The Young Gods but we just couldn’t get it to sound like Therapy? And then Neil suggested we try it with a similar approach to how we wrote Skinning Pit or Fantasy Bag on Pleasure Death and that seemed to work. The verses remind me a little of Nine Inch Nails. Lyrically it is inspired by Gaspar Noé’s movie Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) which is a brilliant film about a middle-aged butcher in Paris who has the ultimate mid-life crisis, completely melts down and goes on the rampage.
 
Dumb Down
 
The music here is 100 per cent Mr Cooper. Neil bought himself some sampling gear and keyboards and music software and he sent me a piece of music which had him drumming and playing the bass and guitar parts on a synthesizer. It sounded like a bizarre but brilliant Daft Punk track, with a really great riff. Because it was played on a keyboard we spent ages trying to transpose it to the right key so that we could play it, but we copied Neil’s synth parts on the bass and guitar and then I added the lyrics later on.  The lyrics were inspired by a conversation I had at a dinner party immediately post-Brexit. My neighbor was hosting this party and at some point the conversation, inevitably, turned to Brexit and I said that I disagreed with it. This middle class, middle-aged man said, ‘Well, if you don’t like it, you can always go home.’ I looked at him and said, ‘What, next door?’ That kinda summed up Brexit to me, that this guy actually felt empowered to say something like that now.
 
No Sunshine
 
I think this is my favourite track on the album. Michael wrote the verses and pre-chorus, and I wrote the chorus. Initially this sounded like Portishead, with a very slow trip-hop beat and what sounded like a double bass playing a descending line, but Neil thought it was missing something, so then we added an almost black metal pre-chorus. Then I wanted to add a huge chorus that would lift the song right up. Lyrically, this song is completely autobiographical: I’m prone to depression at times and having talked about other people’s depression on Callow, this is a more personal take on it, where I tried to think of how I feel when I’m really, really down and make the lyrics as frank as possible.

Britse hardrockband Bigfoot heeft een nieuwe songtekstvideo uitgebracht voor 'Uninvited', het is de finale-video / single van hun debuutalbum uit 2017. Bigfoot gaat op tournee in een paar weken door Engeland en Europa en hopen jullie binnenkort allemaal te zien op een show!
 
De video kan hier bekeken worden: https://youtu.be/aQH5_UE-N9c
 
Bigfoot is een van de nieuwe teelten van geweldige bands die uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk komen die je kunt bekijken, met geweldige liveoptredens en uitverkochte shows in het VK. De band groeit in populariteit, zowel in het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Europa.
 
September
13th - BOULEVARD, WIGAN, UK
15th - ROCKING BULL, ANTWERP, BE
16th - COLOSSEUM, GENK, BE, Tickets: https://goo.gl/D7b9hx
20th - KULTURBAR SOL, MÜLHEIM, DE, Tickets: https://goo.gl/eNWVw6
21st - GASTHOF GRÜNER BAUM, DESSAU, DE, Tickets: https://goo.gl/d6cJjJ
23rd - LEGEND CLUBm MILANO, IT
28th - ELEVEN, STOKE, UK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/pBG8An
29th - REBELLION, MANCHESTER, UK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/ZHN6Up
30th - YARDBIRDS, GRIMSBY, UK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/16T9q4
Oktober
4th - IRONROAD, EVESHAM, UK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/sEHfFW
5th - QUEENS HALL, NUNEATON, UK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/wrxhSX
6th - NEW CROSS INN, LONDON, UK, *, Tickets: https://goo.gl/hbK13p
7th - FUEL, CARDIFF, UK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/KGWcmm
10th - FULFORD ARMS, UK, YORK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/voQvBZ
11th - BANNERMANS, UK, EDINBURGH, Tickets: https://goo.gl/AmVNr9
12th - JUMPIN JACKS, UK, NEWCASTLE, Tickets: https://goo.gl/t6ffMu
13th - BRICKYARD, UK, CARLISLE, Tickets: https://bit.ly/2GAn6eH
14th - CORPORATION, UK, SHEFFIELD, Tickets: https://goo.gl/49shk3
18th - WATERLOO, BLACKPOOL, UK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/EA34tx
19th - KEY CLUB, LEEDS, UK, Tickets: https://goo.gl/5ppgBh
20th – ROCKINGHAM, UK, NOTTINGHAM*, Tickets: https://goo.gl/mr2yLB
November
3rd - Communion of Rock Festival, Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd, UK *
30th - The Slade Rooms Wolverhampton, UK
December
1st - Planet Rockstock, South Wales, UK *
14th - The Underground Bradford - Live Music Venue UK
15th - 53 Degrees, Preston UK
* Festival Appearances
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Bigfoot is:
Sean Seabrook - Vocals
Sam Millar - Guitar
Mick McCullagh - Guitar
Matt Avery - Bass
Tom Aspinall – Drums

Bigfoot is een 5-delige Hard Rock band gebaseerd in Wigan, Engeland. Gevormd in het voorjaar van 2014 met krachtige vocalen, dual lead gitaren, een donderende ritmesectie en enorme drums. Met invloeden die afkomstig zijn van veel verschillende genres van The Eagles tot Pantera is dit een band die gewaardeerd en genoten kan worden door een breed scala aan muziekfans.
In de korte tijd sinds het vormen van de band heeft zwaar getoerd en had 3 releases. Na twee succesvolle zelf uitgebrachte EP's tekende de band bij Frontiers Records en bracht hun titelloze debuutalbum uit in oktober 2017, dat in kaart werd gebracht in de Britse top 40-rockalbums.
Opvallende zang, een tweelinggitaaraanval met felle staccato-ritmes en bliksemgitaarlijnen en een stampende beat combineren je om je aandacht te trekken. - 8/10 Classic Rock Magazine
 
Dit langverwachte debuut is overvol met voedzame, vlezige goedheid die een succulente nasmaak achterlaat, lang na consumptie. - Fireworks Magazine
 
Dit is een van de leukste rock die je het hele jaar kunt horen. - 10/10 Powerplay Magazine
 
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een update over komende optredens voor 2018
 
* Solitude Within: 31/08/2018  BE, Marke @ Road Rock Café.
* Thorium supporting Q5: 31/08/2018  NL, Tilburg @ Little Devil.
* Royce: 31/08/2018  BE, Oud-Turnhout @ Frietrock Festival.
* An Evening With Knives: 01/09/2018  NL, Eindhoven @ Loud Bird Fest(EP Releaseshow).
* Solitude Within + Primal Creation: 01/09/2018  BE, Oud-Turnhout @ Frietrock Festival.
* Harbour Of Souls + Our Common Sense + Primal Creation: 01/09/2018  NL, Westdorpe @ Kreekrock Festival.
* Cathubodua + Chalice + Poseydon: 02/09/2018  BE, Oud-Turnhout @ Frietrock Festival.
* Serenity: 07/09/2018  BE, Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont @ Le Cercle.
* Crowsview: 08/09/2018 BE, Roeselare @ De Verlichte Geest(CD Releaseshow).
* Ironborn supporting Emetropie: 08/09/2018  BE, Hamme @ Rockfest.
* Alien Weaponry: 08/09/2018  BE, Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont @ Le Circle.
* Beyond Our Sight: 14/09/2018  BE, Gent @ JH Asgaard.
* Kamelot: 14/09/2018  NL, Tilburg @ 013.
* Poseydon: 15/09/2018  BE, Roeselare @ De Verlichte Geest.
* Sleeping Romance: 18/09/2018  BE, Maasmechelen @ Jan Hertog.
* Sleeping Romance: 19/09/2018  NL, Gouda @ Studio Gonz.
* Sleeping Romance: 20/09/2018  NL, Hengelo @ Metropol.
* Van Canto: 20/09/2018  NL, Amsterdam @ Melkweg.
* Sleeping Romance: 21/09/2018  BE, Roeselare @ De Verlichte Geest.
* Van Canto: 21/09/2018  BE, Vosselaar @ Biebob.
* 23 Acez: 21/09/2018  BE, Ertvelde @ The Maple.
* Hell City: 21/09/2018  BE, Hasselt @ Muziekodroom(CD Releaseshow).
* Depths Of Kronos: 22/09/2018  NL, Oostburg @ The Lane/Kashfest.
* Hell City: 22/09/2018  BE, Deinze @ Elpee(CD Releaseshow).
* Evil Invaders: 22/09/2018  BE, Antwerp @ Trix Venue.
* Primal Creation: 22/09/2018  BE, Poperinge @ Blue Angels' Club Concert.
* Depths Of Kronos: 22/09/2018  NL, Oostburg @ The Lane/Kashfest.
* Stoned Jesus: 22/09/2018  NL, Nijmegen @ Doornroosje.
* Stoned Jesus: 23/09/2018  NL, Amsterdam @ Melkweg.
* Black Mirrors: 27/09/2018  BE, Brussels @ AB Club(CD Releaseshow).
* Ethernity + Chalice: 29/09/2018  BE, Zillebeke @ OC In ‘T Riet/Devils Rock For An Angel Fest.
* Thorium: 05/10/2018  BE, Deinze @ Elpee(CD Releaseshow).
* Thorium: 06/10/2018  NL, Eindhoven @ The Jack(CD Releaseshow).
* Fabulae Dramatis supporting Black Majesty: 06/10/2018  BE, Roeselare @ De Verlichte Geest.
* Enemy Of Reality: 11/10/2018  NL, Eindhoven @ Café Altstadt(Female Metal Event Pre-Party).
* Endtime Odyssey: 12/10/2018  BE, Diest @ JH Tijl(CD Releaseshow).
* Chalice: 13/10/2018  NL, Zoetermeer @ Latenstaan.
* Kamelot: 13/10/2018  BE, Brugge @ Het Entrepot.
* The Silent Wedding supporting Threshold: 13/10/2018  NL, Zoetermeer @ Boerderij.
* Crowsview: 13/10/2018  BE, Ieper @ Vort 'N Vis.
* Life Of Agony: 14/10/2018  NL, Leeuwarden @ Neushoorn.
* FireForce: 20/10/18  BE, Roeselare @ Kerelsplein/Evil or Die Fest.
* Poseydon: 20/10/2018  BE, Mol @ Peir Oan.
* Skarlett Riot supporting Kobra and the Lotus: 21/10/2018  BE, Vosselaar @ Biebob.
* Chalice + Temptations for the Weak: 27/10/2018  BE, Deinze @ Elpee.
* Life Of Agony: 30/10/2018  BE, Sint Niklaas @ De Casino.
* Life Of Agony: 31/10/2018  BE, Luik @ Reflektor Club.
*Beyond The Labyrinth: 31/10/2018  BE, Antwerp @ Rocking Bull.
*Sister May: 31/10/2018  BE, Roeselare @ De Verlichte Geest(CD Releaseshow).
*Life Of Agony: 02/11/2018  NL, Eindhoven @ Klokgebouw/Sound Of Revolution Fest.
*FireForce + Everglow + Poseydon + Warckon: 03/11/2018  BE, Deerlijk @ CC De Wieke/M.A.C.C. Festival.
*Our Common Sense + Six o'Five: 09/11/2018  BE, Olen @ Kapao Hardcore Horror.
*Wildheart: 17/11/2018  BE, Kuurne @ St. Pieterszaal/KMF Fest.
*Endtime Odyssey: 18/11/2018  BE, Leuven @ Libertad.
*Black Mirrors supporting The Night Flight Orchestra: 25/11/2018  NL, Zoetermeer @ Boerderij.
*Black Mirrors supporting The Night Flight Orchestra: 26/11/2018  NL, Arnhem @ Willemeen.
*Black Mirrors supporting The Night Flight Orchestra: 27/11/2018  BE, Vosselaar @ Biebob.
*Wildheart supporting Crazy Lixx: 30/11/2018  BE, Roeselare @ De Verlichte Geest.
*Thorium + Hell City: 15/12/2018  BE, Oosterzele @ Zaal Ambacht/Pluto Metal Fest.
*Skeptical Minds: 05/01/2019  BE, Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont @ Le Cercle.
*Grave Digger: 20/01/2019  NL, Rotterdam @ Baroeg.
*Grave Digger: 30/01/2019  BE, Vosselaar @ Biebob.

Het dynamische rock / metal gezelschap Gods Army met huidige en voormalige leden van Helloween, Scanner, Firewind, Outloud, Vivaldi Metal Project, Joe Stump's Tower of Babel zal hun tweede volledige album 'Demoncracy' op 12 oktober 2018 uitbrengen via ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records. Het album zal beschikbaar zijn als Digipack-cd en zwart vinyl (beperkt tot 300 exemplaren wereldwijd).
 
'Democracy' werd gemasterd door Ade Emsley bij 'Table of Tone Mastering' in Londen (Iron Maiden). Het artwork en lay-outontwerp is gemaakt door Anestis Goudas.
 




Digipack CD track listing:
You Are You
Free Your Mind
Enemy Maker
Final Destination
Games Without Frontiers
The All Seeing Eye
Before The Fall
The Replicant
Heroes & Demons
My Way

Black Vinyl track listing:
Side A
You Are You
Free Your Mind
Enemy Maker
Final Destination
Games Without Frontiers
The All Seeing Eye
Side B
Before The Fall
The Replicant

The album can be pre-ordered here: http://bit.ly/GA-Demon-mm & http://bit.ly/GA-Demon-roar
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GOD'S ARMY is:
John ABC Smith – Vocals/Bass guitar
Mark Cross – Drums/Backing vocals
Ian O´Sullivan – Guitar/Backing vocals
Eddie van Dahl – Guitar

Gods army heeft absoluut niets te maken met religie en alles wat met muziek te maken heeft. Hun geluid kan worden omschreven als een goede mix van traditionele rock en metal, NWoBHM, op hun nieuwe album dat progressiever is dan de voorganger met een shot van adrenaline en een vleugje melodieuze rockgevoeligheid met pakkende refreinlijnen en melodieuze hooks die heeft bijgedragen aan de ontwikkeling van een sound die de aandacht van veel verschillende bronnen wist te trekken.
Vandaag, bestaat de band uit John A.B.C. Smith on Bass & Lead Vocals, Mark Cross on Drums, Ian O'Sullivan on Guitar en de recente toevoeging van Eddie van Dahl als tweede gitarist.
Het creatieve proces voor het tweede album is voltooid na een lange strijd tussen 4 verschillende studio's om tot het eindresultaat te komen. Met hun tweede album 'Demoncracy' heeft God's Army een hoogstandje in modern metaal geleverd. Als je een bericht in je muziek leuk vindt, krijg je er hier een! Hier is een band die weigert te buigen voor trends. Als je songs wil horen op basis van fantasie of horror, dan is dit niet het album voor jou. Tekstueel houdt God’s Army zich serieus in wat ze doen en dit komt tot uiting in de muzikale thema's die werden onderzocht op Demoncracy: een album om je uit je dagdroom te wekken ....
 
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Simply The Best, The Musical is terug van weggeweest. Na een succesvolle eerste passage in ons land vorig jaar, keert de spectaculaire show over de muzikale carrière van Tina Turner terug naar België! Niet één maar twee nieuwe data staan op het programma. Vrijdag 3 mei in de Gentse Capitole en zaterdag 4 mei in de Antwerpse Stadsschouwburg.
 
Het muzikale spektakel is een productie van Bernhard Kurz, die eerder ook al hoogstaand eerbetoon aan andere wereldsterren bracht met projecten als ‘Elvis, The Musical’ en ‘All You Need Is Love - The Beatles Musical’. In de hoofdrol schittert Coco Fletcher. Al bijna 20 jaar belichaamt zij de populaire rock-n-rolldiva. Niet enkel de fysieke gelijkenis, maar ook haar unieke stemtimbre is treffend! Fletcher leeft zich enorm in in haar rol en wil Tina Turner zo nauwgezet mogelijk imiteren. "Tina Turner’s live-prestaties zijn totaal anders in vergelijking met die van andere artiesten. Ik ben altijd gefascineerd geweest door haar enorme energie en presence op het podium", aldus Fletcher. Ze wordt op het podium vergezeld van blueslegende Vasti Jackson, die de rol van Ike Turner vertolkt. Samen met het background-trio 'The Ikettes' en de band brengen zij de sound van de jaren ’60 tot ’90 weer helemaal tot leven.
 
Laat je meevoeren op een reis doorheen de glamoureuze carrière van een wereldster en beleef Tina Turner’s onsterfelijke hits als "What's Love Got To Do With It", "The Best", "Proud Mary", "Private Dancer" en "We Don't Need Another Hero". Simply The Best, The Musical. Een schitterende muzikale show op vrijdag 3 mei in de Capitole Gent en op zaterdag 4 mei in de Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen. Tickets zijn beschikbaar vanaf vrijdag 31 augustus om 13u.

 
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Young sibling pop/country group The Runaway Hamsters (TRHibe) continue to build on their success with the release of their brand new EP Brothers and Sisters.  Each of the songs on their third studio project includes the signature stamp of honest, heartfelt music fans love. Though, as the group is recognizing their own evolution and beginning to also use the name TRHibe – their music is growing with them. 
 
Brothers and Sisters contains six new, original songs each written by TRHibe and produced by Kent Wells, prominent Grammy-nominated Nashville producer (Dolly Parton). The EP is available on iTunes, Spotify and all digital retailers .
Encompassing a common theme of inspiration and hopefulness, this EP delves into many real-life themes sung through age-appropriate lyrics and memorable melodies that will have listeners of all ages singing along.  The songs relay messages of togetherness and positivity including the fan-favorite title track Brothers and Sisters and the follow-your-dreams inspired lead single, GO! Ballads, One and One and Water explore emotions of loneliness and bullying while Nothing’s Sweeter Than This and Wish All Day mix in love and hope with a dose of wit. This eclectic and cohesive collection of songs is sure to leave fans wanting more.  
 
About The Runaway Hamsters: This group consisting of Isabella and her triplet siblings — Abby, Gabby and brother, Riley — has accomplished a lot relative to their age. Best known for combining their musical talent and huge hearts, they create music that is original, engaging and heartfelt. This effervescent group started in early grade school and gained notoriety when they used both their musical and songwriting abilities to raise money, which helped the hospital caring for a second-grade friend with cancer. Since then, they have continued to use their talent, big hearts and music to help others.
 
The Boise, Idaho natives have performed from Nashville to LA, opened for Andy Grammer, took part in The National Finals Rodeo Cowboy Christmas in Las Vegas for the past two years, appeared on numerous TV networks, performed on WSM-AM (home of the Grand Ole Opry), been submitted twice for a Grammy consideration in the children’s category, played the famous Bluebird Café and participated in CMA Music Festival for the past few years where they met fans, signed autographs and performed. All of their success stems from their hard work and the fantastic team they have in their corner.  This includes working with Grammy nominated producer Kent Wells in the studio and Roman White (2009 MTV Music Video Award for Taylor Swift’s You Belong With Me and 2007 and 2008 Director of the Year) on all of their official music videos. They are gearing up to release a brand new music video for their current single GO! which will be released soon.  With over 35k followers on Facebook and over a million views on their YouTube channel, the hamster wheel continuously spins with the Hamstercast, a free podcast to inspire, relate and positively influence fans of their age with their own personal stories and views. It is available for download on iTunes. 
 
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Website: www.TRHibe.com  
Facebook: @TheRunawayHamsters (over 35k followers) 
Twitter: @TheRunawayHamst (over 8k followers)
Instagram: @TheRunawayHamsters (over 25k followers)
YouTube: TheRunawayHamsters (over a million views)

Tash Sultana has shared the fantastic lyric video for her new single ‘Salvation’,
taken from highly anticipated debut album FLOW STATE, out 31 August.
 
Tash Sultana, het best bewaarde geheim van de Australische pop (De Morgen)
In haar eentje schudde ze Klub C (Rock Werchter) wakker, blootsvoets op een tapijtje, gitaar rond de nek, batterij effectpedalen voor haar en een sampler en loopstation aan haar zij. (De Standaard)
 
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Woensdag 26 Juni 2019 - SPORTPALEIS (Antwerpen)
 

Multi-instrumentalist and global sensation – Tash Sultana –releases a smooth-hypnotic new single entitled ‘Salvation’. Taken from Tash’s forthcoming highly anticipated debut album FLOW STATE – out August 31st– this mesmerising new release directly follows previous FLOW STATE anthem ‘Harvest Love’. Pre-order FLOW STATE now.
 
Tash Sultana recently announced a very special one-off Australian headline show on January 12th, 2019, at Pineapple Fields on the Sunshine Coast as part of the 'Flow State World Tour'. Joining Tash for this special outdoor camping event is a mega line up including Ocean Alley, Oka, Lime Cordiale, Son Zephyr, Big Words, Reuben Stone and Greta Stanley. This will be the first headline show in over a year on Australian soil, with Tash playing a full two-hour set. Tash will also perform a special headlining set at Lost Picnic Festival in October, debuting the highly anticipated album live for fans in Melbourne on October 7th and Sydney on October 13th.

All of the songs on FLOW STATE are produced, written, performed and arranged by Tash, who plays every one of the 15 instruments and sounds that feature throughout, including saxophone, pan flute, grand piano and guitar to name a few. The album was engineered by Nikita Miltiadou, mixed by Dann Hume and mastered by Andrei Eremin.
 
The one-person powerhouse started out playing open mic nights with a fake ID and busking on the streets of Melbourne. Now Tash is selling out every headline show, from theatres to arenas across multiple countries, and playing dozens of high profile festivals around the globe. Just last week, Tash performed to 6000 loyal fans in severe rain at RBC Echo Beach in Toronto – and even in the downpour – Tash kept the electric energy and the stage alive with an absolutely killer performance. Check it out here.
 
Recent accolades for Tash Sultana include over 200 million streams of the Notion EP, topping the iTunes chart in multiple countries, achieving Gold ARIA sales for the EP and Platinum sales for the single ‘Jungle’, which came in at #3 in triple j’s Hottest 100 and also featured in FIFA 18. In 2017, Tash also won the prestigious Unearthed J Award, was nominated for 4 x ARIA Awards, multiple APRA Awards and recently performed standout sets at Coachella and Lollapalooza 2018.

L e W i s (Louis De Roo) is een jonge Belgische beloftevolle songwriter en performer die zijn muzikale ambities kracht bijzet met studies aan LIPA in Liverpool, het befaamde door Sir Paul McCartney opgerichte  Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Hij schreef zijn eerste songs op z’n elfde, was op z’n zeventiende reeds buskend on the road en zocht en vond een publiek in de straten van Londen tot Barcelona, van Amsterdam tot Rome, zelfs de oversteek wagend  en tevens naar Australië en Canada trok. Hij werd op jonge leeftijd onder hoede genomen door een voormalig EMI UK manager, wat resulteerde tot een eerste album en scoort hoog in de finale van de Internationale Imagine wedstrijd in 2015 waar hij o.m. de Sabam prijs wegkaapt. Na heel wat  live optredens in binnen en buitenland was hij ook te zien in de Vlaamse versie van The Voice en werd geselecteerd voor de Nieuwe Lichting van Studio Brussel. Eind Augustus 2018 wordt hij als enige Belg ook geselecteerd voor het prestigieuze internationale Copenhagen Songwriter Festival.
 
Zijn roots liggen  in folk, indie-rock, shoegazer, new wave en dream pop. Emotionele lyrics die melancholische verhalen vertellen en die het publiek meteen in het hart treffen, gecombineerd met klassieke songwriting en een eigentijdse sound met veel oor voor detail en avontuur.
 
Electrisch, akoestisch, solo of met zijn Belgische/Britse band, L e W i s geeft altijd zijn hart en ziel, en zingt alsof elke noot zijn laatste kan zijn. Een artiest pur sang die geen keuze heeft, die moét schrijven, die zijn verhalen moét  kunnen delen met een publiek.
 
Later dit jaar wordt zijn debuut single “Mathilda” door Starman Records gereleased. De track werd in Liverpool opgenomen met producer Nick Draper die met heel wat jonge Britse bands werkt zoals Blossoms en Rival Sons, en onderscheiden werd voor zijn werk met de Engelse charity band The Justice Collective met daarin o.m. Paul McCartney, Mick Jones (The Clash), Shane MacGowan (The Pogues) en Robbie Williams. 

Geen twijfel over mogelijk dat Billie Eilish de wereld zal veroveren. Haar songs, haar stemgeluid, haar stijl en haar looks, in alle opzichten is ze uniek en amper te overklassen! Na een eerste uitverkocht concert in de Botanique in februari 2018, begroet de jonge Californische van amper 16 jaar oud haar fans in La Madeleine op 25 februari 2019.
 
Billie Eilish wordt geboren in Los Angeles in 2001 en sluit zich op 8-jarige leeftijd aan bij het Los Angeles Children's Chorus. Als jonge tiener schrijft ze haar eerste nummers en al op haar 14de gooit ze haar eerste nummers op het web, waaronder “Ocean Eyes”, intussen goed voor meer dan 100 miljoen streams op Spotify en bijna 19 miljoen views op YouTube. Ze tekent bij Interscope en niet veel later brengt ze met ‘Don’t Smile At Me’ een eerste EP uit die bol staat van de onweerstaanbare melodieën. Elektronische klanken worden afgewisseld met akoestische toetsen in een onberispelijke productie. In het voorjaar van 2018 dropt ze opnieuw een bommetje met een reeks nieuwe nummers die haar eerste full album inluiden. Voor het schitterende “Lovely” werkte ze overigens samen met niemand minder dan Khalid. Een rijzende ster die overloopt van talent en alle online records aan diggelen slaat. Laat je meevoeren in het unieke universum van Billie Eilish!

 
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Het staat vast. De soundtrack bij het jaar 2018 is zonder twijfel van de hand van de vijf kerels van Editors! Sinds de release van hun zesde album in maart, concerteren ze aan de lopende band. Keer op keer goed voor een adembenemende show. Nadat ze eerder dit jaar het Sportpaleis tot de nok vulden, en als headliner voor een memorabele editie van TW Classic zorgden, was het vol ongeduld wachten op de volgende stap in hun avontuur. En daar is het nieuws! Een nieuwe afspraak met hun Belgische publiek. En wat voor één!
 
Editors kiezen voor het intieme kader van het Koninklijk Circus voor het weerzien met hun fans. Tom Smith, Russell Leetch, Edward Lay, Justin Lockey en Elliott Williams brengen er niet alleen hun grootste hits live, maar ook een greep uit de nieuwe nummers van hun jongste plaat ‘Violence’. Als kers op de taart gaat het niet om één, maar om twéé optredens. Editors staan zowel op donderdag 6 als op vrijdag 7 december op het podium van het Koninklijk Circus. Twee uitzonderlijke en niet te missen concerten. Hou je klaar, want de ticketverkoop start op vrijdag 31 augustus om 10u. Geen minuut te verliezen!

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Met fluo dreadlocks, een resem tattoos en zijn superhelden-attitude als voornaamste handelsmerken bestormt Lil Pump als een wervelwind de internationale rapwereld, dankzij onnavolgbare hits als “Gucci Gang”, die al 800 miljoen views telt op YouTube. In afwachting van zijn tweede album kondigt hij ons alvast de ‘Harverd Drop Out Tour’ aan, waarmee hij op zondag 25 november halt houdt in Paleis 12 (Brussel).
 
Op zijn 18de maakt Gazzy Garcia alias Lil Pump grote sier als hét nieuwe icoon van de Amerikaanse hiphop. Hij is intussen goed voor ruim 2 miljard video- en audiostreams. Het fenomeen uit Miami wordt door zijn fans op handen gedragen en laat niemand onverschillig. Zijn zelfgetitelde debuut kwam in oktober 2017 meteen binnen op nummer 3 in de Billboard-hitlijst, en voerde een week later de streaminglijsten aan. Dit jaar is het jonge talent goed op weg om alle records te verpletteren. Zijn nieuwe plaat ‘Harverd Dropout’, met singles “Esskeetit” en “Drug Addicts” (samen goed voor ruim 350 miljoen views en 530 miljoen streams), zal ongetwijfeld een onuitwisbare indruk nalaten in 2018.
 
Na straffe prestaties op Les Ardentes en Tomorrowland deze zomer, trekt de jonge ster dit najaar met een zaaltournee doorheen Europa. Mis de kans niet om hem aan het werk te zien, op 25 november in Paleis 12 in Brussel. Tickets zijn verkrijgbaar vanaf vrijdag 31 augustus om 10u.
 
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De Vlaamse zanger Tim Visterin is overleden. Dat meldt de VRT. Visterin raakte vooral bekend met de hit ‘De vogel’ uit 1970.
Tim Visterin speelde aanvankelijk als muzikant in de jazzgroep The Jokers en de rockgroep Roland et les Bémols, maar hij werd vooral bekend met zijn lied De vogel. Dat was een bewerking van het Franse nummer Dites-moi, Monsieur van Jean-Claude Darnal, die in Vlaanderen een gigantische hit werd. Het nummer, over een jongen die aan tovenaar Merlijn sterke vleugels vraagt om een mooie vogel te worden, werd opgenomen met het Mechelse Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-knapenkoor (met onder meer een jonge Frank Deboosere, Eric Melaerts en Pat Donnez) en ging meer dan 100.000 keer over de toonbank.
Visterin, geboren in Antwerpen in 1940, werd 77 jaar oud.
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REVOLUTIONIZING JAZZ THROUGH TAP

Sarah has become one of the art form’s pop culture ambassadors, thanks to her appearances in videos with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox. Her videos with them (A Star Wars–themed tribute, “The Tap Awakens,” & “Thriller”, a Michael Jackson cover featuring Wayne Brady) have garnered millions of views on YouTube, all receiving rave reviews. She has toured the world with Postmodern Jukebox playing prestigious venues such as Radio City Music Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Sydney Opera House as well as a televised PBS special filmed in Las Vegas.

Sarah Reich (Performer, Choreographer, Instructor, Composer) has emerged as one of the new leaders in the Art Form of Tap Dance. At the young age of 15, this Los Angeles native was featured in Dance Spirit Magazine’s article, “20 Hot Tappers Under 20” and was named one of the “25 To Watch” in the 2017 Dance Magazine article. Sarah has been sought after to perform, choreograph, and teach in over 40 countries. “I want to continue to bring tap into mass media with great respect and quality,” she says, focusing on “reprogramming the minds of the general public on their perception of tap dance.” (Dance Magazine 2017)

Sarah Reich’s New Change album brings the world of tap to you. Her impeccable rhythmic ideas have created songs that linger in your soul. A master class in what the tap dance legends provide for Sarah will feel as though you’re being the humble student with her. This album expresses the heart and soul of what being a tap dancer is all about. Her expressive rhythmic qualities range from funk grooves, jazzy trades with a drummer, emotional darkness, and swingin’ happiness. Who knew tap could be so versatile? Sarah is a seasoned tap artist and this is just the beginning. No tap dancer has created an album to this extent. Sarah continues to push boundaries to keep tap fresh while preserving its past.
Previously she was seen on Season 11 of FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance with Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies and Season 8 with Jason Samuels Smith’s, A.C.G.I. With her own company, Tap Music Project, she has choreographed and performed at the Ford Amphitheatre, UCLA’s JazzReggae Music Festival, Blue Whale jazz club, and the televised LA County Holiday Celebration. Sarah was also a performer at Madison Square Garden for the opening of the NY Knicks 2013-2014 season. She was sought out to perform at Jazz at the Lincoln Center for a tribute to Duke Ellington in New York City in 2017.

In addition to her vast international travels and countless television appearances, Sarah has had the honor to perform at some of the most prestigious venues back home in Los Angeles such as The Hollywood
Bowl, the Greek Theater with Mexican Pop-Star, Cristian Castro and the Kodak/ Dolby Theater with the great Herbie Hancock.  With her Tap Music Project intensives in various cities, Reich teaches tap dancers how to dance with more musicality, communicate with musicians and write music. Using a live band in class, she instructs students on how to “scat” rhythms or transcribe choreography with rhythm notation, among other skills.

Sarah is developing new, and exciting works with her company Tap Music Project, with her debut Tap Jazz Album titled New Change. This album is originally produced, composed from percussive tap rhythms, and performed by a great selection of musicians to create a unique sound. She hopes this is just the beginning: “I want to be the first tap dancer to win a Grammy Award!”

1. Harold Cromer (Intro)

2. Tap City (2:31)
Sarah Reich- tap, Danny Janklow- sax, Mike Cottone- trumpet,
Alex Boneham- bass, Sam Barsh- piano, Aaron McLendondrums

3. Respect The Dance (3:20)
Sarah Reich- tap, Maiya Sykes- vocal, Gorden Campbell- drums,
Dave Yaden- keys, Darwin Johnson- bass, Sean Erick- trumpet,
Leon Silva- Sax, Kevin Williams- trombone & flute

4. Ted Louis Levy (interlude)

5. It’s Tappening (3:37)
Sarah Reich- tap, Danny Janklowsax,
Mike Cottone- trumpet,
Jonah Levine- trombone,
Sam Barsh- piano, Jonathan
Pinson- drums, Alex
Boneham- bass

6. Brenda Bufalino
(interlude)

7. Revive (3:33)
Sarah Reich- tap,
Artyom Manukyancello

8. Jason Samuels-
Smith (interlude)

9. The Groove (2:57)
Production by Sam Barsh, Divine Dubar, Sarah Reich. Excerpts
from tap documentaries “About Tap” & “No Maps On My Taps”

10. New Change (3:47)
Sarah Reich- taps, Danny Janklow- sax, Mike Cottone- trumpet,
Alex Boneham- bass, Brandon K. Brown- electric bass, Aaron
McLendon- drums

11. Arthur Duncan (interlude)

12. Baked Bean Blues (4:37)
Sarah Reich- tap, Danny Janklow- sax, Mike Cottone- trumpet,
Jonathan Pinson- drums, Alex Boneham- bass, Sam Hirschpiano

13. Ivery Wheeler (interlude)

14. Scat Rap (1:40)
Sarah Reich- tap, Brandon K. Brown- electric bass

15. Gemini Vibe (4:19)
Sarah Reich- tap, Lee How- rap, Danny Janklow- sax, Mike
Cottone- trumpet, Aaron McLendon- drums, Sam Barsh- piano,
Alex Boneham- bass

16. For Chance (2:23)
Sarah Reich- tap

17. Dianne Walker (interlude)

18. My Baby Just Cares for Me (3:24)
Sarah Reich- tap, Maiya Sykes- vocal, Scott Bradlee- piano

Featuring two “lost” songs and a sound that evokes the classic recordings of John Lee Hooker and Lightnin’ Hopkins, this Jody White-produced album is a testament to the 75-year-old artist’s versatility and deep Southern roots.
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Tony Joe White’s music is as primal as a lizard’s backbone. It echoes from the magnolia groves and bayous of his Louisiana childhood, and looms into the present every time he unleashes the molasses and tanned-leather combination of his guitar and voice. The legendary songwriter’s new blues-based album, Bad Mouthin’, which arrives September 28, comes straight from the swamps with its blend of classics and five White originals, including two of the first songs he wrote — just before penning his breakthrough hits “Polk Salad Annie” and “A Rainy Night in Georgia” in 1967.
 
“When and where I grew up, blues was just about the only music I heard and truly loved,” says White, who’s 75 and, if anything, an even more visceral performer than in his youth. “I’ve always thought of myself as a blues musician, bottom line, because the blues is real, and I like to keep everything I do as real as it gets. So, I thought it was time to make a blues record that sounds the way I always loved the music.”
 
And that’s down-to-the-bone raw. Over the course of Bad Mouthin’ ’s 12 songs, White conjures a world of meaning that transcends the lyrics of classics like Jimmy Reed’s “Big Boss Man,” Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “Awful Dreams,” and Charley Patton’s “Down the Dirt Road Blues,” using his deep river of a voice and the dark, spartan tones of his guitar to evoke the mystical South — a place where ghosts roam among abandoned pecan groves covered in Spanish moss and, indeed, the Devil might be encountered at a moonlit crossroads.
 
That White — who has written hits and cuts for a compendium of fellow legends from Elvis Presley (“Poke Salad Annie”) to Brook Benton (“A Rainy Night in Georgia”) to Dusty Springfield (“Willie and Laura Mae Jones”) to Eric Clapton (“Did Somebody Make a Fool Out of You”) to Tina Tuner (“Steamy Windows”) to Willie Nelson (“Problem Child”) to Kenny Chesney (also “Steamy Windows”) to Robert Cray (who recorded White’s “Don’t Steal My Love” and “Aspen, Colorado” just last year) — would now craft a blues album after more than 50 years spanning the rock, country, R&B, and Americana genres is an incredible testament to his versatility as well as to his roots.
 
Mostly, Bad Mouthin’ features White accompanied solely by his road-worn 1965 Fender Stratocaster, the guitar he’s favored for his entire career. That’s all he needs to conjure the same kind of simmering emotional magic that John Lee Hooker distilled into his historic solo recordings — just one man and one guitar essentially defining what it means to be human in a story as simple and yet as profound as a Zen koan.
 
Five Bad Mouthin’ stories, “Stockholm Blues,” “Rich Woman Blues,” “Cool Town Woman,” “Sundown Blues” and the title track, are plucked from his own past. In “Bad Mouthin’,” about an abusive lover, White’s voice rings with the weariness of a man pushed to his limits. And in “Sundown Blues,” his spare lyrics capture the essence of a lonely heart over a slow smoky shuffle reminiscent of Hooker’s famed lowdown boogie beat.
 
On both of those tunes — which are early, rediscovered compositions that White first recorded for a local label in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1966 — and two others, drummer Bryan Owings backs White. Owings is White’s frequent accompanist on tour, in the two-man band format that White enjoys. Owings has also performed and recorded with Emmylou Harris, Justin Townes Earle, Wanda Jackson, and many others. Bassist Steve Forrest joins the duo on two numbers. The album was produced by Jody White and engineered by Ryan McFadden.
 
Their recording strategy was unconventional. White moved a hodgepodge of gear from his home to his barn, where two former horse stalls became their studio. “The cement-floor saddle room with unfinished wood paneling had a window unit air conditioning box that had to be turned off for recording,” says McFadden. “The next stall over had a dirt floor covered with glued composite board. Tony cancelled the first session, saying he couldn’t sing in there because of the chemical smell of the glue. When I went back, Tony had filled the stalls with bowls of coffee grounds, cups of rice, dryer sheets, and decorative brooms made of bound twigs that were drenched in a cinnamon scent, sold at grocery stores around Halloween.” After that, each song was cut live in one or two takes. The approach perfectly captured the laidback open sound and sliding chords with thumb-plucked low-string lines that defines White’s blues-drenched guitar style. Since White plays good and loud, they put his 1951 Fender Deluxe amplifier in the back of his Land Rover, so its bawling tones wouldn’t interfere with the vocals and percussion tracks.
 
White, who was born in 1943 as the youngest of seven children on a cotton farm about 20 miles from the nearest town, Oak Grove, Louisiana, says the foundation of his music “comes from hearing blues singers play guitar with maybe just a harmonica or stomping their feet for accompaniment.” Adding a drummer, he cut his teeth playing school dances and then moved on to nightclubs along the Texas and Louisiana “crawfish circuit” of rough and tumble watering holes. And then the hits started happening, with “Polk Salad Annie” reaching number eight on the pop charts in 1968. Two years later, Brook Benton’s recording of “A Rainy Night in Georgia” topped the soul charts, and it’s been a wild ride since: decades of touring and recording marked by hit songs and collaborations with the likes of Eric Clapton, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mark Knopfler.
 
“If there’s anything like a line connecting everything that I’ve done, I would say it’s realness,” says White. “Even my songs that are sweet little love ballads —those are all real, inspired by real love and real life. Being real, being focused on what’s really going on around you, is something I learned early in my life.”
 
He pauses and laughs. “When you’re a little kid growing up down in the swamps, and you step on a cottonmouth … that’s real.”
 

Available on Double Vinyl LP, Deluxe 8-Panel Gatefold CD Digipak, and Hi-Res Download 
 
Album Features Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, Willie Jones III, and Special Guests George Coleman and Russell Malone, Plus String Arrangements by Marty Sheller
 
The thought of Steve Turre inevitably conjures the image of a dauntless virtuoso. Over the course of a remarkable career spanning more than five decades, Turre has proved time and time again that he’s one of the foremost masters of the trombone, able to steer his challenging instrument through breakneck turns and imaginative leaps at dizzying speed.
 
On The Very Thought Of You, Turre shows off a less celebrated side of his brilliant artistry: his moving, heartfelt way with a ballad. Luxuriating in timeless melodies and swathed in lush strings, Turre makes his horn sing with delicate lyricism and subtle beauty. Of course, the irrepressible trombonist can’t help but unleash his fiercely swinging side, peppering his ballad set with a few pulse-quickeners here and there.
 
Available now on Smoke Sessions Records, The Very Thought Of You features a stellar quartet ideal for a session that calls for a light touch combined with the soul-stirring depth of feeling that Turre brings to everything that he plays. Turre is joined by pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Buster Williams, and drummer Willie Jones III, supplemented on four of the pieces by a string octet conducted by veteran arranger Marty Sheller. An outstanding pair of guests, legendary tenor saxophonist George Coleman and guitar great Russell Malone, both lend their breathtaking mastery to the music as well.
 
“There’s a challenge to playing ballads on any instrument,” Turre admits. “It’s not about showing off; it’s about trying to play beautiful, to touch somebody with your sound and with your phrasing. The reason I wanted to do it is because I’ve never done it before. I’ve done so many records where I play fast and complicated. It was time to play ballads.”
 
Especially on the four immortal classics to which Sheller added strings – “Never Let Me Go,” “Shadow of Your Smile,” “Danny Boy,” and the title track – Turre likened his role to that of a singer, ceding the solo spotlight to his bandmates while focusing his own playing on the interpretation of the songs’ incredible melodies.
 
“I don’t know anybody on the trombone that can play faster than Curtis Fuller could,” Turre explains. “But when I first came to New York in 1973, I met Curtis and he told me that the hardest thing to do is to play simple and have it mean something. So my role wasn't as the improviser; I was the singer, and my focus was to make the melody say something without over-embellishing it.”
 
It was some of the music’s most renowned vocalists that inspired Turre’s choice of standards on The Very Thought Of You. Nancy Wilson’s versions of the title tune and “Never Let Me Go” convinced the trombonist that he wanted to take on those melodies, while a live rendition of “The Shadow of Your Smile” so captivated him that he added it to the setlist. “Carmen McRae sang nothing but the melody and it was so astounding,” Turre recalls.
 
The Very Thought of You is not the first time that Turre has melded his voice with strings. On Lotus Flower (1999), he led a sextet where the frontline swapped sax and trumpet for Akua Dixon’s cello and Regina Carter’s violin. And on his 1997 self-titled album he teamed with Sheller – a longtime colleague on the Latin jazz scene – for a string arrangement of the Machito classic “Ayer Lo Vi Llorar” featuring the iconic Afro-Cuban singer Graciela. But the new album marks the first time that Turre has utilized strings in the traditional vein of classics like Clifford Brown with Strings or Nat King Cole’s elegant sound.
 
“With ballads, it’s not about playing loud and boisterous, it’s about playing with subtlety,” Turre says. “The strings help to bring that out. Plus, Marty Sheller’s writing was just sublime, so tasteful and lush and not overdone but complimentary to a T.”
 
After opening the album with a swooning “The Very Thought of You,” the band is joined by Malone for the first time on an up-tempo but laid-back romp through “September in the Rain.” Then Turre and Malone pair off for the trombonist’s intimate duet piece “No Regrets.” The song was originally written back in the ‘70s while Turre was playing bass in drummer Chico Hamilton’s band, where once a night the leader would take a break and leave Turre to play duo with guitarist Rodney Jones. On “Freedom Park, SA” Turre and Jones go head to head with a free improv sparked by a melody conceived by Turre while playing a festival in South Africa last year.
 
Turre contributes his own ballad to the proceedings with the wistful “Time Will Tell,” then nods to his late mentor J.J. Johnson (as well as his wife) on the trombone giant’s touching “Carolyn in the Morning.” Coleman’s heart-wrenching solo on “Never Let Me Go” is a highlight of the album, but Turre welcomes him back to let loose on a rip-roaring take on Charlie Parker’s “Yardbird Suite.”
 
The album concludes on a poignant note with the sentimental Irish ballad “Danny Boy,” a particularly meaningful choice for Turre. He fell in love with the song through Ben Webster’s version, but never played it until his brother-in-law, frail but still alert at 100 -years-old, made the request. On the opposite end of the age spectrum, Turre’s gentle but jaunty “Sachiko” is named for a baby whose smile touched his heart during a chance encounter in San Francisco.
 
There are countless musical moments that might come to mind at the thought of Steve Turre: his formative stint with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, his innovative collaborations with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, his tenures on the road with Ray Charles or Woody Shaw, his decades as a member of the Saturday Night Live band, his ground-breaking use of conch shells as musical instruments, countless collaborations with the greatest artists in jazz and popular music. With The Very Thought of You, Turre offers a beautifully vulnerable and lyrical side to that catalogue of memories.
 
"The Very Thought of You" was produced by Paul Stache and Damon Smith and recorded live in New York at Sear Sound's Studio C on a Sear-Avalon custom console at 96KHz/24bit and mixed to ½" analog tape using a Studer mastering deck.
Available in audiophile HD format
 
Available on double vinyl LP album (mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI with double gatefold tip-on cover); on deluxe 8-panel gatefold CD digipak; and as a high resolution download with digital album booklet.
 
For more information on Steve Turre, please visit: www.steveturre.com

The momentary bliss of your self-woven, buffering cocoon. You’ve escaped your harsh reality, sequestered yourself from relentless monotony, and you relax here, protected and fully present in the eye of your dreams.  Instead of being allowed to metamorphose, silkworms have their cocoons stolen for silk.  "That's sort of humanity," Lindner says. "We're all just spinning our cocoons and we're slaves to the society and the machine, and our cocoon's never going to be finished, because we're just going to keep weaving and weaving it, like the silkworm."  Featuring Jason Lindner (keyboards), Justin Tyson (drums), Panagiotis Andreou (bass).
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While William Shatner’s greatest claim to fame will always be his iconic role as Star Trek‘s Captain James T. Kirk, he’s also released a few music albums over the course of his career. Later this year, Shatner will once again unleash his particular musical style with Shatner Claus: The Christmas album. This time, Shatner is being joined by several famous musicians who will lend their voices to his Christmas song covers. Henry Rolins, Brad Paisley, Iggy Pop, Mel Collins, and Judy Collins are among the contributors for the album.
Amazon has already listed Shatner Claus for pre-orders, and it will be available on CD and as a vinyl record. Currently, there are no audio previews for this record, but presumably Shatner will recapture the spoken music sound of his previous albums. Shatner released his first album, The Transformed Man, in 1968, and his subsequent studio albums were Has Been, Seeking Major Tom, and Ponder the Mystery.
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Track list:

Jingle Bells Feat. Henry Rollins
Blue Christmas Feat. Brad Paisley
Little Drummer Boy Feat. Joe Louis Walker
Winter Wonderland Feat. Todd Rundgren & Artimus Pyle
Twas the Night Before Christmas Feat. Mel Collins
Run Rudolph Run Feat. Elliot Easton
O Come, O Come Emmanuel Feat. Rick Wakeman
Silver Bells Feat. Ian Anderson
One for You, One for Me
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Feat. Billy Gibbons
Silent Night Feat. Iggy Pop
White Christmas Feat. Judy Collins
Feliz Navidad Feat. Dani Bender
 
Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album is slated to be released on October 26.

Bob Baldwin continues to unload catalog in continuance of his 30-year artist anniversary with his latest Beatles Tribute release "Bob Baldwin Presents Abbey Road and the Beatles", while the single "Club Life" features a record 10 soloists on one track.

Stays on plan to release 10 projects in a calendar year.
 
New York, NY (20 August, 2018): As we enter into the fall of 2018, pianist/keyboardist Bob Baldwin has unleashed several projects this year in celebrating his 30th year as an artist, and  10/1/18 will mark his 10thyear on the air with his NewUrbanJazz Radio Network, which begun with a humble five stations in the NPR Radio chain. The show continues to grow with over 45 terrestrial stations and a listening base of over 500,000 listeners. The show can be consumed with a NewUrbanJazz app via your smartphone, or you can listen in from your desktop computer at work. Archived weekly shows appear on Soundcloud.
In 1988, his debut release I've got A Long Way To Go on Malaco Jazz announced to the world that he would continue to be a mainstay in the Contemporary/Smooth Jazz format. He now has over 25 discs released as a solo artist, having recorded some of them on 5 continents, including the countries of Brazil, the U.K., Dubai, and South Africa. His recent acquisitions of product from Shanachie includes Cool Breeze and The American Spirit, both of which are owned by his label, City Sketches Records, which launched in 1997.

"I anticipate that there was going to be some seismic shifts in the music business, so I anticipated what those changes would be", says the native Mt. Vernonite. "When iTunes came to the party in the mid 2000's, the message was to own your material, and that's what I've been striving for since 2000. A lot of my peers didn't answer the call, and now, most of them are playing catch-up. People are stealing the music, downloading less and streaming more...and most labels aren't sharing all the revenues...less than 15% of industry revenues trickle down to the artists, while the labels clean up. I'm happy to say that I'm both the artist and the label, which is a huge advantage". That Nostradamus-like prediction has enabled Baldwin to flood the market with music in 2018 without label interference.

So what way to further celebrate 30 years in the music business? By releasing even more music. His soon to be released Bob Baldwin Presents Abbey Road the Beatles featuring House groove singer CeCe Peniston, Smooth saxman Euge Groove, Flutist Ragan Whiteside and Washington DC vocalist Lori Williams.  His creatively arranged arrangements of classic tracks by Lennon, McCartney and the rest of the Abbey Road gang has been on the back burner for several years, but Baldwin had to time it perfectly to record and release the project in 2018.

Additionally, Baldwin has been working on a track that has evolved in history measures. His project by The Groove Pact featuring Marion Meadows and himself, entitled "Club Life" features a record ten soloists on one single 4:16 track, with solo appearances by Walter Beasley, Joey Sommerville, Ragan Whiteside, Oli Silk, U-Nam, Nils, Tom Browne and the aforementioned Baldwin and Meadows. The project has some proceeds to benefit the How Big Is Your Dream Foundation, which encourages young students to learn about music through performance seminars, based in the Atlanta, GA market.

Three re-mix projects with some new material are already in the works, beginning with the most popular disc, "Never Can Say Goodbye a Tribute to Michael Jackson (Remixed and Re-Mastered)". The out-of-print recording which now sells on Amazon starting at an eye-popping $55.00 will now be re-released to ward off all rogue record retailers, released as a normally-priced disc. 

A Mount Vernon, New York native who has become a longtime resident of Atlanta, Baldwin debuted in 1988 with "I've Got A Long Way to Go" and his 25 albums – eight of which climbed into the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Top 20 – are jazz, R&B and gospel outings. Over the years, he's worked as a producer, songwriter and performer alongside George Benson, Gerald Albright, Euge Groove, Will Downing, Phil Perry, Pieces of a Dream, Paul Taylor, Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum and Chuck Loeb. Since 2008, he has hosted the nationally syndicated radio program "The NewUrbanJazz Lounge," which attracts nearly 500,000 listeners weekly. His City Sketches, Inc. is the umbrella entity that houses a production and event planning company, the radio network and NewUrbanJazz Hats. Baldwin is also the author of a book about the music industry, "You Better Ask Somebody / Staying On Top of Your Career in the 'Friggin' Music Business."


He now has recorded some of them on 5 continents, including the countries of Brazil, the U.K., Dubai, and South Africa.
 
For more information, please visit Bob's Home Page.
 
(November 2017 – Current) Recent Releases
 
1)   The Groove Pact – "Club Life" featuring Bob Baldwin and Marion Meadows
With solos by: Walter Beasley, Joey Sommerville, Ragan Whiteside,
Oli Silk, U-Nam, Nils, Tom Browne – going for radio adds 9/3/18
 
2)   "Bob Baldwin Presents Abbey Road" contains the following songs: 
01.  Come Together (Can't We All Just Get Along)
02.  (Mellow) Yellow Submarine
03.  And I Love Her (Real Talk)
04.  (Don't Wanna Be) The Fool on the Hill – f/ CeCe Peniston
05.  Imagine (Living as One)
06.  Michelle (My Girl) – f/ Ragan Whiteside
07.  Something (In the Way She Moves)
08.  My Love – f/ Lori Williams
09.  Abbey Road – f/ Lori Williams
10.  Yesterday
11.  Eleanor Rigby
12.  Never Can Say Goodbye (Remixed and Re-Mastered)
13.  Something (In the Way She Moves)
 
3)   Bob Baldwin - "Never Out of Season / Remixed and Re-Mastered" 
 
4)   Bob Baldwin - "Welcome To The Games / Remixed and Re-Mastered" 
 
5)   Bob Baldwin - "Cool Breeze" (Reissue) featuring Larry Coryell, Marion Meadows,
Freddy V.
 
6)   Bob Baldwin - "The American Spirit" (Reissue) featuring Kim Waters, Marion Meadows,
Phil Perry, Chieli Minucci, Chuck Loeb, Dean James, Vaneese Thomas
 
Other upcoming releases:
 
7)   Madoca "On the Beach with You" –
Radio single produced by Bob Baldwin (Going for radio adds 8/14)
 
8)   Lori Williams featuring Bob Baldwin – "Out of the Box" (Release date: 8/3/18)
 
9)   Bob Baldwin - "Welcome to the Games" Remixed and Re-Mastered (Coming Nov. 2018)
 
10) Bob Baldwin – 'NewUrbanJazz.com" – Remixed and Re-Mastered (TBA)

Jazz Superstars Jimmy Haslip, Scott Kinsey and Gergoö Borlai team up to deliver a powerful album with gorgeous songs, deep grooves and inspiring improvisations. Featuring guest appearances by Vinnie Colaiuta, Gary Novak, Steve Tavaglione and Judd Miller. "Arc Trio" is a must-have for fans of virtuosic musicianship.
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Featuring:
Electric Bass - Jimmy Haslip
Keyboards / Piano: Scott Kinsey
Drums: Gergö Borlai
Special Guests: 
Drums - Vinnie Colaiuta (tracks 4, 7)
Drums - Gary Novak (tracks 8, 10)
EVI - Judd Miller (track 6)
Soprano Saxophone / Flute / EWI - Steve Tavaglione(tracks 2, 4, 6, 10)
Produced by:  Jimmy Haslip & Scott Kinsey
Executive Producer:  Rick Denson
Recording/Mixed/Mastered:  Scott Kinsey
Album Design: Hélène Côté & Mike Charlasch c/o of Morphist
 
For more info visit: BlueCanoeRecords.com

Ed King, een vroegere gitarist van de Amerikaanse rockband Lynyrd Skynyrd, is op 68-jarige leeftijd overleden, zo heeft de zender Fox News op gezag van een mededeling van zijn familie op zijn Facebookpagina gemeld.
King belandde in 1972 bij de gitaarrockband om daar Leon Wilkinson op bas te vervangen. Maar hij schakelde over naar gitaar waardoor de Southern Rockband ook live de voor de kenmerkende drie gitaarpartijen kon brengen.

De gitarist tekende aldus mee voor de bekendste nummers van Lynyrd Skynyrd: 'Sweet Home Alabama', dat hij meeschreef, en het epische 'Free Bird'. In 1975 verliet King de groep.

In 1987 keerde hij terug, maar vanwege problemen aan het hart ging Lynyrd Skynyrd vanaf 1996 zonder hem verder.

Ed King was ook stichtend lid van de psychedelische rockband Alarm Clock. Die werd in 1967 bekend met 'Incense and Peppermints'.

De musicus is woensdag in zijn woning in Nashville overleden.                 

NORTHWARD, the hard rock project from masterminds Floor Jansen and Jorn Viggo Lofstad, have finally unleashed their debut single 'While Love Died', alongside a video for the track. The single is a part of their upcoming debut album "Northward" (release: October, 19th).

"We are both very proud and happy to finally get to show you all what we have been up to. Here is our first single! We hope you will enjoy it", comments guitarist Jorn Viggo Lofstad.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/bAiPeSsqD-4
Get the single here: http://nblast.de/NWWhileLoveDied
Presave at Spotify: http://nblast.de/NORTHWARDpreSav

The video was produced by Ville Lipiäinen (NIGHTWISH, PAIN and more)

08.09.2018
Openluchttheater Rivierenhof, Deurne
Verkoop via oltrivierenhof.be

TICKETS

 

We konden de afgelopen maanden al genieten van prachtige zomeravonden in het OLT met artiesten als Elvis Costello, Dweezil Zappa, Steve Earle en Steve Winwood. Muziekicoon David Crosby, bekend van The Byrds en supergroep Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, mag daar niet aan ontbreken en sluit op zaterdag 8 september de zomer van OLT Rivierenhof af.
De carrière van David Crosby is ongeëvenaard: al zes decennia lang is de Californische muzikant actief. Eerst als een van de oprichters van The Byrds in het midden van de jaren '60, vervolgens als lid van Crosby, Stills & Nash én Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Maar de laatste decennia doet hij het ook als soloartiest.
Halverwege de jaren '70 had de man al een bijzonder palmares opgebouwd, met een indrukwekkende reeks platen, waarop minstens een handvol klassiekers staan.
De folkrockpionier werd in 2009 dan ook terecht opgenomen in de prestigieuze Songwriters Hall of Fame, maar wil van geen ophouden weten. De laatste jaren bracht de 76-jarige Crosby heel wat nieuwe muziek uit, zoals het prachtige Croz (2014), het minimalistische  Lighthouse (2016) en vorig jaar verscheen met Sky Trails een meer jazzy album van zijn hand.
Maar bovenal blijft muziekicoon David Crosby een gerespecteerd muzikant en lichtend voorbeeld voor een nieuwe generatie folk-, rock- en jazzmuzikanten zoals Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, The National, Bon Iver en Sufjan Stevens.
Tickets te koop via greenhousetalent.be.