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Austin's Nakia, Seen by Millions on NBC's the Voice, Returns to Texas to Tour and Record
Using new exposure and connections to best benefit, Nakia returns to what he does best: writing and singing great soul-steeped music. AUSTIN, Texas—To millions of American television viewers, Nakia—a semi-finalist on NBC's hit reality program The Voice—was a new artist. Not so in Texas, where, known for his larger-than-life, soulful performances and ability to connect with ...
Oz's Wagons Announce U.S. Tour Right Behind CD Release
Frontman Henry Wagons described by Justin Townes Earl as “Dr. Seuss meets Conway Twitty, a great performer, a good man (strutting) like a Tennessee Walking Horse on PCP." MELBOURNE, Australia—While the title Rumble, Shake & Tumble aptly describes Wagons' unruly yet easy-to-like roots-rock sound, all you really have to do is listen to the disc's opening ...
Paul Kelly's "Greatest Hits: Songs from the South, Volumes 1 & 2" to be Released in U.S. Sept. 6
Australian artist plays “A to Z" live dates this September in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Vancover and Toronto. MELBOURNE, Australia—In North America, Paul Kelly is loved by a fervent following of devoted, discerning listeners. In his native Australia, though, where his songs are lodged deeply in the country's soundtrack, Kelly is virtually a national hero. ...
Concord Music Group's Stax Remasters Series Continues on September 13 with Reissues from Rufus Thomas, the Dramatics, and Shirley Brown
Rufus Thomas's Do the Funky Chicken, Shirley Brown's Woman to Woman, and the Dramatics' Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get are fortified with bonus tracks LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In 1968, on the heels of the label's severance from Atlantic Records, Stax Records president Al Bell decided to initiate a massive 28-LP release program that would auger the label's ...
Thomas Dolby's First New Studio Album in 20 Years
Release follows conclusion of groundbreaking transmedia game. Guests include guest artists Mark Knopfler, Regina Spektor, Natalie MacMaster, Bruce Woolley and Imogen Heap. LONDON, U.K.—Thomas Dolby, the iconic '80s star whose smash hits “She Blinded Me With Science" and “Hyperactive" helped define the MTV generation/revolution, will break his 20-year silence with a new release later this year ...
Jackie Deshannon's New Album Revisits Classic Hits
Included are newly-recorded, timelessly produced versions of “Put a Little Love in Your Heart," “Bette Davis Eyes" and other originals, plus one song apiece by Jack Nitzche/Sonny Bono and Burt Bacharach/Hal David. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—"Think of your fellow man, lend him a helping hand, put a little love in your heart." That was the opening mantra ...
Alberta Hunter's "Downhearted Blues: Live at the Cookery"; Coming On Rockbeat Redfords
Backed by pianist Gerald Cook and bassist Jimmy Lewis on this 1981 album, Hunter was at the height of her career revival. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—It's difficult to decide which was the most remarkable facet of pioneering blues chanteuse Alberta Hunter's incredible career. Was it her role in the vanguard of the “classic blues" movement of the ...
Slaid Cleaves Readies 2-CD "Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge"
Career retrospective is full of stories, conversation, audiences singing and, most importantly, the clinking of glasses. AUSTIN, Texas—When Slaid Cleaves moved from Portland, Maine, to Austin, Texas, at the tail end of 1991, he landed on South Lamar Boulevard, a few blocks from the legendarily seedy Horseshoe Lounge. But as he points out on his new ...
Thomas Dolby Debuts "The Floating City" Transmedia Game
Iconic synth pioneer dreams up revolutionary way to access new music LONDON, England—Best known as the singer/synthesist behind the Top 5 smash hit “She Blinded Me With Science" and as the co-inventor of the Beatnik polyphonic ringtone engine, Thomas Dolby today announced his latest creation: The Floating City is a rich transmedia game with a living ...
Tea Leaf Green, with Current Album "Radio Tragedy" Brewing, Announces Summer Tour 2011
Band pays tribute to Clarence Clemons at historic Stone Pony in Asbury Park. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—This past Sunday, Father's Day, Tea Leaf Green performed at the fabled Stone Pony bar and frequent home of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in what became a tribute concert for legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons. Springsteen and Clemons met ...
