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Adrian Quesada Announces New Album, Jaguar Sound, Out November 18th

October 14, 2022 – 10:35 am

On the heels of his acclaimed Boleros Psicodélicos LP, Adrian Quesada announces the release of Jaguar Sound. Out November 18th, the twelve-track collection marks the second new album of the year from the Grammy-winning guitarist, producer and Black Pumas co-founder, further showcasing his singular and signature ability to build a bridge between seemingly disparate worlds of music. Steeped in a heady fusion of hip-hop, psychedelic soul and the opulent orchestration of Italian film scores from the 1970s, the LP draws inspiration from life during the first few isolated months of the pandemic, as well as his experience growing up on the border of multiple countries, cultures and languages. Featuring a special appearance from Ikebe Shakedown, as well as harp by Mary Lattimore, Neal Francis on piano, keys from David Garza and an array of strings, horns and percussion, Jaguar Sound was produced, written, engineered, mixed and largely performed by Adrian Quesada at his own Electric Deluxe studio in Austin, TX.

Pre-order Jaguar Sound and listen to lead single “Noble Metals,” out now:

https://atorecords-ffm.com/noblemetals 

Originally conceived during the onset of the COVID-19 lockdown, Jaguar Sound is an instrumental opus filled with musical themes, motifs and an amalgamation of genres that reflect a particular time, emotion and personal set of obsessions in Adrian Quesada’s life. “I just rode my bike every single day and listened to The Alchemist,” he says. “I’d come back home and crank out beats. Film scores and 1970s library music have always played a big part in my musical language as they paint a cinematic picture without words and that is very much something I draw influence from. It eventually got to the point where I wanted to bring them to life in my own way and turn them into songs. I started setting some aside that matched thematically, and I began recording live instrumentation. I find as I get older that sometimes I feel a responsibility to show the possibility to build bridges and coexist between different worlds. I want someone to discover something they normally wouldn’t entertain.”

Jaguar Sound Tracklist

Reflection with Two Children

Noble Metals

Rise of the Have Nots

Spirits feat. Ikebe Shakedown

Starry Nights

Alberto’s Loop

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

Fireflies

Turk’s Cap

The Inquisitor

DG on the Keys

Final Portrait

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Will Sheff Releases Debut Solo Album, Nothing Special, Out Now

October 14, 2022 – 10:25 am

Will Sheff  has released his debut solo album, Nothing Special. Produced by Sheff and recorded over three different sessions with John Congleton (St. Vincent, The War On Drugs), Matt Linesch (Edward Sharpe, Gil Landry), andMarshall Vore (Phoebe Bridgers, Conor Oberst), Nothing Special finds Sheff reprocessing his sense of self, reflecting on misguided past ambitions, and reclaiming his sense of purpose. It’s an album that consolidates Sheff’s considerable strengths as a songwriter — deft poeticism, earnest and earned emotionality, a knack for melodic catharsis — and casts them onto a broad and unhurried sonic architecture. Like the album’s artwork, it finds Sheff gazing out into the expanse and witnessing the possibilities that await.

Listen to Nothing Special here.

Watch the video for album opener “The Spiral Season” — a triumphant piece of music that depicts Sheff’s personal journey with fantastical metaphors, before culminating in an ecstatic guitar solo — here.

Says Sheff about “The Spiral Season”:

“The Spiral Season” went through many incarnations. It was a fantasy narrative, and then an autobiography of myself, and then it turned into an autobiography of a 16th century magician, and then I opened the window and all of those ideas flew out and the California landscape came crashing in with all its grandeur and its vulnerability, and fireworks went off and the moon rose overhead and Benjamin Lazar Davis and I wrote a big shouty chorus and everything finally started to make sense. And then we went into the studio and everybody played it wonderfully, and Will Graefe jumped in with that soaring guitar solo that we just let run out as long as it needed to be because it felt so good.”

Recording with some old friends (guitarist Will Graefe and bassist Benjamin Lazar Davis) as well as new collaborators (singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson, Dawes drummer Griffin Goldsmith, and Death Cab For Cutie pianist Zac Rae, as well as guest vocals from Cassandra Jenkins and Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats and Bonny Light Horseman), Sheff took a less participatory and more painterly approach than his production on Okkervil River records. The result is a gorgeously orchestrated record that eschews pop orthodoxy in favor of letting its knotty narratives play out and allowing the musicians to explore the more daring passages just a little longer.

Will Sheff has also announced national headlining tour dates in support of Nothing Special. See full dates below.

Tour Dates

10/07 — Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge @ Hollywood Forever

11/03 — Iowa City, IA    @ Englert Theatre

11/04 — Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center

11/05 — Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music

11/06 — Milwaukee, WI @ Collectivo

11/08 — Bloomington, IN @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater

11/09 — Grand Rapids @ Pyramid Scheme

11/10 — Toronto, ON @ Great Hall

11/11 — Ferndale, MI @ Otus Supply

11/13 — Atlanta, GA @ The Earl

11/14 — Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle

11/15 — Washington DC @ Black Cat

11/17 — Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live

11/18 — New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge

11/19 — Woodstock, NY @ Colony

11/20 — Somerville, MA @ Crystal Ballroom

11/21 — Portland, ME    @ SPACE

1/18 — Vancouver, BC @ Wise Hall

1/19 — Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s

1/20 — Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios

1/21 — Arcata, CA @ Arcata Theatre Lounge

1/22 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

1/25 — San Diego, CA @ Casbah

1/26 — Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar

1/27 — Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole

1/28 — Sante Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf

1/29 — Boulder, CO @ eTown Hall

1/31 — Denver, CO @ Bluebird

2/1 — Ft Collins, CO @ Bohemian (The Armory)

2/3 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge

2/4 — Flagstaff, AZ @ Yucca North

3/2 — Liverpool, UK @ Futureyard

3/3 — Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute

3/4 — Glasgow, UK @ Stereo

3/5 — Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

3/7 — Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade

3/8 — London, UK @ Omeara

3/10 — Brussels, BE @ Botanique Rotonde

3/11 — Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire

3/12 — Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso

3/14 — Hamburg, DE @ Molotow

3/15 — Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree

3/16 — Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen

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The Murlocs New Album, ‘Rapscallion’, Out Now

September 19, 2022 – 11:21 am

The sixth full-length from The Murlocs, Rapscallion, is a coming-of-age novel in an album form, populated by an outrageous cast of misfit characters: teenage vagabonds and small-time criminals, junkyard dwellers and truck-stop transients. Over the course of 12 hypnotic and volatile rock-and-roll songs, the Melbourne-based five-piece dream up a wildly squalid odyssey partly inspired by frontman Ambrose Kenny-Smith’s own adolescence as a nomadic skate kid. The most magnificently heavy work yet from The Murlocs, the result is an endlessly enthralling album equally steeped in danger and delirium and the wide-eyed romanticism of youth.

North American Tour

10/29: Austin, TX @ LEVITATION ^

Stubb’s Outdoor – Waller Creek Amphitheater

10/31: Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion #

11/2: Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre #

11/7: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts *

11/9: New York, NY @ Webster Hall *

11/10: Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair *

11/11: Montreal, QC – Fairmount Theatre *

11/12: Toronto, ON @ The Axis Club *

11/14: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom *

11/15: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall *

11/16: St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club *

11/17: Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge *

11/18: Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater *

11/20: Boise, ID @ Neurolux *

11/22: Seattle, WA @ Neumos @

11/23: Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre @

11/25: Portland, OR @ Star Theater @

11/27: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall @

11/28: Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s @

11/29: Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe’s @

12/2: Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom @

^ w/ King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

# w/ King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Leah Senior

* w/ Paul Jacobs

@ w/ Shannon Lay

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New Rhett Miller Solo Album, ‘The Misfit’, Out Now

September 19, 2022 – 9:56 am

Rhett Miller has released The Misfit, his first solo album in four years. The 11-song project was co-written and produced by Miller’s Hudson Valley neighbor Sam Cohen, (Kevin Morby, Sharon Van Etten, Danger Mouse) continuing their musical partnership that began on 2018’s The Messenger. The 11 songs that comprise The Misfit are an elegant blurring of psychedelia, dream pop, and electronic-leaning indie rock, grounded by the vulnerable songwriting and unaffected vocal presence Miller has perfected as the frontman for legendary alt-country band Old 97’s for the last three decades.

 

Rhett Miller Tour Dates:

10/20 – Austin, TX – Stateside at the Paramount

10/21 – Spring, TX – Dosey Doe The Big Barn

10/22 – Denton, TX – Dan’s SilverLeaf

10/27 – Dallas TX – Community Beer Co – Breathe Easy Concert (a benefit for the Cystic

Fibrosis Foundation)

10/28 – Fort Worth, TX – The Post at River East

11/4 – New Haven, CT – Cafe Nine

11/6 – Hopewell, NJ – Hopewell Theater

11/5 – Beacon, NY – Towne Crier

11/12 – Albany, NY – The Swyer Theatre at The Egg

 

Old 97’s Tour Dates:

9/16 – Ardmore, PA – Ardmore Music Hall

9/17 – Hummelstown, PA – The Englewood Barn

9/18 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage

9/20 – Newport, KY – The Southgate House

9/21 – Columbus, OH – The Bluestone

9/22 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues

9/23 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall

9/24 – Grand Rapids, MI – Elevation at The Intersection

9/25 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave II

9/27 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre

9/28 – LaCrosse, WI – Cavalier Theater

9/29 – Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s

9/30 – La Cygne, KS – Firewater Music Festival

10/1 – Indianapolis, IN – The Hi-Fi

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Rayland Baxter “If I Were A Butterfly” Out November 4th

September 1, 2022 – 2:47 pm
If I Were A Butterfly, out November 4 is the fourth studio album from Rayland Baxter. The album examines loss and existential ruminations on happiness and freedom and was completed in the wake of his father, the legendary Bucky Baxter’s (Bob Dylan’s longtime pedal steel player and member of Steve Earle’s Dukes) passing. His late father appears on the album along with a host of collaborators including Shakey Graves, Zac Cockrell of Alabama Shakes, members of Cage the Elephant, Stella, Rose, Morning Teleportation’s Travis Goodwin, and legendary Motown drummer Miss Bobbye Hall, among many others. If I Were A Butterfly was in large part recorded while Baxter was living alone at Thunder Sound, an abandoned rubber-band factory turned studio in Kentucky with later sessions taking place in California, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.
The Nashville eccentric and ever-evolving journeyman’s most recent release was Good Mmornin, a tribute to the late Mac Miller. Prior to that he released three full-length studio albums – Wide Awake, Imagainery Man, feathers & fishHooks and the EP ashkeLON. Rayland Baxter will be on tour throughout 2022 and 2023. Full tour dates are below.  “Baxter tends to keep his references oblique, working his commentary into the fabric of storytelling that leaves equal space for love songs and humorous vignettes,” said Rolling Stone. Popmatters notes that  “the amount of craft evident in Baxter’s lyricism borders on breathtaking at times.” It’s this wit and songcraft that is so front and center on If I Were A Butterfly, Baxter’s most fully evolved and wisest body of work to date, but it also bears the sonic freedom of someone who’s got nothing left to lose.
For the making of his fourth album If I Were a Butterfly, Rayland Baxter holed up for over a year at a former rubber-band factory turned studio in the Kentucky countryside—a seemingly humble environment that proved to be something of a wonderland. “I spent that year living in a barn with the squirrels and the birds, on my own most of the time, and I discovered so much about music and how to create it,” says the Tennessee-bred singer/songwriter. “Instead of going into a studio with a producer for two weeks, I just waited for the record to build itself. I’d get up and go outside, see a butterfly and connect that with some impulsive thought I’d had three months ago, and suddenly a song I’d been working on would make sense. That’s how the whole album came to be.”
Even in its most somber moments, If I Were a Butterfly wholly fulfills Baxter’s mission of imparting a certain purposeful joy. “It’s been a weird few years, but I think the big picture is for us to just exist and find love and be loved, and try to see that all the daily bullshit is simply bugs on the windshield,” says Baxter. “I hope that this album makes people feel the way I do whenever I listen to my favorite records, and that it gives them a platform to dream on.”
TOUR DATES:
Nov 4 – Nashville, TN – Grimey’s in-store
Nov 5 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Nov 6 – Charleston, SC – The Windjammer
Nov 11 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
Nov 16 – New York – Brooklyn Made
Nov 18 – Philadelphia, PA – Ardmore Music Hall
Nov 19 – Washington D.C – The Hamilton
Jan 14 – Portland OR – Portland’s Folk Fest
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Nick Hakim “COMETA” Out October 21st

September 1, 2022 – 1:33 pm

Nick Hakim’s new album COMETA will be released on October 21st. COMETA is truly a collaborative effort and the highlight for Hakim is having so many special guests from his community that play supportive roles–this talented roster of peers includes Alex G, Isaiah Barr, and DJ Dahi. Hakim refers to the bassist Kyle Myles as the glue that has held his musical life together for the past decade along with the pianist Jake Sherman, drummer Vishal Nayak, and guitarists Joe Harrison and Dylan Day. “Happen” includes Abe Rounds on drums and Alex G on piano, and “Slid Under” features Helado Negro on synths. Hakim’s younger brother, Danny Hakim, wrote the chords for “Perfume,” a sweet song about falling in love with someone’s scent, which he also plays acoustic guitar on.

The album title is the Spanish translation of “kite,” which is a symbol for elevation in Hakim’s personal life. He sees this as a really beautiful way to speak about feeling uplifted and gravitating toward the idea of being in your own orbit while everything else floats around you like comets in space. Hakim points to a specific lyric from “Happen” that fully encapsulates this concept: “A supernova/ Exploded and changed my world.” 

COMETA is a collection of romantic songs that explore various iterations of love that are guided by the full scope of Hakim’s own personal experiences from the mutual love he shares with his community to embracing self-love and falling in love with someone in a way that made him feel like he was floating. “The common thread is I’m lucky to have a support system and love not just in a romantic way, but in friendship with the people that I have around me,” he explains. “It’s really about different lenses looking at moments where I felt captivated and then in moments where I was trying to tap into how someone else might have felt or how I wish I felt sometimes.”

This dizzying outer body sensation is another theme that anchors the album as Hakim uses the extreme distance between a kite and a comet as a metaphor for the depth of one’s love for someone else and being so humbled by it. After spending time reflecting on the misguided path of seeking validation from others, what he’s ultimately learned is that you lose parts of yourself in the process. “The key is to find that extremity of love for yourself,” Hakim says. “It’s about growing into someone you want to be; it’s about finding pure love within yourself when the world around us seems to be crumbling.”

Of all the instruments that he has mastered over the years, Hakim believes that singing is his strongest. When you listen to COMETA, it’s very clear that Hakim challenged himself as a vocalist as he seamlessly guides the listener through every song. While the presentation of his work is important, more than anything, Hakim wants the music to speak for itself. Without a doubt, it most certainly does. “I’m not making conceptual records, I’m reflecting in the moment,” he says. “Every single record that I’ve made is just a reflection of feeling into a certain space and dealing with beautiful and really difficult things that we all deal with. I’m just trying to observe things, create them, and make them into songs. I also just really love instruments, they have their own language, and I feel like it’s so fucking interesting… I would not know what I would be doing if it wasn’t for this.”

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New Honey Harper Album, ‘Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky’ Out October 28th

September 1, 2022 – 10:46 am

Honey Harper’s sophomore album, Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky will be released on October 28. The follow-up to their 2020 full-length debut Starmaker, Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky emerged from a deliberate revamping of the band’s creative approach with Honey Harper co-founder and keyboardist Alana Pagnutti taking on a far greater role in the songwriting process alongside frontman William Fussell, adding a palpable new depth to their lyrical output. Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky is now available for pre-order.

The 12 song collection also marks their first time recording with their stacked band, The Infinite Sky, featuring their longtime bassist and contributing writer Mick Mayer, pianist John Carroll Kirby (Solange, Steve Lacy), Spoon keyboardist Alex Fischel, guitarist Jackson MacIntosh (Drugdealer, Jessica Pratt), pedal-steel player Connor Gallaher (Black Lips, Calexico), and TOPS drummer Riley Fleck. The album was mixed at Wowcat Studios in Los Angeles by Joel Ford (yes/and, Ford & Lopatin).

The band released the album’s debut single “Broken Token” along with a live performance video filmed at EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, CA.

““Broken Token” is our take on a new kind of southern rock anthem, whether you were home in 1973 or 2073, we wanted to take you all the way there,” explains Fussell. “We wrote and recorded the song in just 30 minutes taking cues from the Allman Brothers Band’s bluesy breed of Southern Rock & The Grateful Dead’s pastoral lyrics, unfolding in soulful harmonies and free-flowing rhythms.”

Informed by a vast range of influences from George Jones to the Bee Gees, Greek mythology to sci-fi futurism, Bowie to Baudrillard, Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky mines decades of musical history and places the most time-worn touchstones in unexpected new contexts. A postmodernist pastiche befitting of a band praised by Pitchfork for a “celestial twang that owes as much to Spiritualized as it does to Merle Haggard,” the album represents a seamless merging of Fussell and Pagnutti’s distinct artistic paths.

“Baudrillard talks about how the world we live in is so far removed from the original source, it’s impossible to distinguish between what’s authentic and inauthentic,” explains Fussell. “But with country music, every former generation questions the authenticity of the new guard: in the ’60s all the players from the ’50s said, ‘That’s not real country music,’ and that way of thinking has kept repeating itself to this day. With this record we wanted to question and play with the idea of authenticity, to push against the limits of country and hopefully create something that’s never been done before.”

Despite the high level of conceptualization that went into its creation, the record embodies an irresistibly loose and groove-heavy sound that hits with an immediate impact. While Starmaker was touted as “country music for people who don’t like country music,” Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky is “country music for everyone.”

Honey Harper will kick off a tour supporting Amanda Shires on September 6 in Asheville, NC. Find a full list of tour dates below.

Tour Dates supporting Amanda Shires:

9/6 – Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle

9/7 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre

9/9 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

9/10 – Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theatre

9/11 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou

9/13 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre

9/14 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live

9/17 – Nashville, TN @ AmericanaFest – The 5 Spot

9/19 – Homer, NY @ Center for The Arts

9/21 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle

9/22 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse

9/23 – Charleston, SC @ Music Farm

9/24 – Chattanooga, TN @ Songbirds

10/6 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre

10/7 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Commonwealth Room

10/9 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s

10/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

10/11 – San Diego, CA @ Belly Up

10/12 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

10/15 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios

10/16 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern

10/22 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme

10/24 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe

10/25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

10/27 – Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar

10/28 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi

11/3 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners

11/4 – Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark

11/5 – Evanston, IL @ The Space

11/7 – Minneapolis, MN @ Amsterdam

11/8 – Kansas City, MO @ Madrid Theater

11/9 – Oklahoma City, Ok @ Beer City Gardens

11/11 – Dallas, TX @ The Kessler

11/12 – Houston, TX @ Heights Theater

11/13 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s

11/15 – Little Rock, AR @ Rev! Room

11/16 – St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House

11/18 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre

11/19 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s

11/20 – Omaha, NE @ Barnato

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Primus Releases Music Video For “Follow The Fool,” The Latest Single From Their New EP, ‘Conspiranoid’

August 5, 2022 – 9:10 am

Primus has unveiled a music video for “Follow The Fool,” the final single off their new ‘Conspiranoid’ EP. Their first new music in more than five years, the EP features several commentaries on what frontman Les Claypool described as “the mental state of the contemporary world,” with “Follow The Fool” asking the pointed question – “who’s the bigger fool? Is it the fool, or is the fool who follows the fool.” A special vinyl release of the ‘Conspiranoid’ EP is out now. 

Primus announced the ‘Conspiranoid’ EP in April with the release of its epic, 11-minute opening track, “Conspiranoia.” “I’d been itching to record an opus–basically a long, winding, bastard of a song, reminiscent of some of the compositions I cut my teeth (or ears) on, in my music-hungry adolescence,” bassist Les Claypool said. “”Conspiranoia” was sprouted from a seed I had planted in my notebook a year or so ago–a few lines commenting on the mental state of the contemporary world.”

The release of the “Follow The Fool” video comes just before the final US shows of Primus’ wildly popular ‘A Tribute To Kings’ Tour in Vail, CO on 8.12-13, which will find them performing Rush’s 1977 album ‘A Farewell To Kings’ in its entirety, following a set of their own music. As Claypool told Rolling Stone, the ‘A Tribute To Kings’ Tour was about paying tribute to a band that has given him so much inspiration over the years. The band will also be performing a two-night run of ‘A Tribute To Kings’ on 11.2-3.

“Hemispheres was my first concert,” Claypool said, referring to Rush’s 1978 album and tour. “Originally we’d always kind of joked around about doing Hemispheres…but we settled on Kings, because A) it was the first Rush record I ever heard and B) it contains ‘Cygnus X-1,’ which has always been my favorite Rush tune. It seems to be a good one for us to tackle; 2112 seemed a little obvious.”

PRIMUS ‘A TRIBUTE TO KINGS’ TOUR DATES

Friday, August 12 – Vail, CO – Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre

Saturday, August 13 – Vail, CO – Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre

Wednesday, November 2 – Santiago, Chile – Teatro Coliseo

Thursday, November 3 – Santiago, Chile – Teatro Coliseo

 

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Amanda Shires New Album ‘Take It Like A Man’ Out Now

July 29, 2022 – 12:56 pm

GRAMMY-winning, singer-songwriter/violinist Amanda Shires has released her triumphant new album Take It Like A Man. Written and recorded during lockdown, the new album is a fearless song cycle of ruthlessly candid tunes documenting Amanda’s life as a woman, a wife and mother during a tumultuous time.

Produced by Lawrence Rothman (Angel Olsen, Girl in Red, Kim Gordon), featuring Jason Isbell on guitar and guest vocals by Maren Morris and Brittney Spencer, the album is filled with revealing and autobiographical songs that crackle with pain, resentment, longing, anger, and ennui.

Searing with a renewed sense of creativity, and a bonded connectivity with Rothman, Shires gave birth to the new material through her own unique process. She explains, “My writing process is I take the journals that I have kept and go through with a highlighter and pick out words, partial lines, ideas, or themes. Sometimes just a metaphor or something my daughter has said or an observation. Then I copy all highlighted words onto an index card with a black Sharpie and I put the index cards in a box. Then I put the journals in the shredder, and I put the shredder in the compost, which goes to my tomatoes in the summer.” In less than a month Shires had written 26 songs deciphering what had been going through her mind, from 2018, where her To the Sunset album left off, to the present.

Highlights on the album include the “moody” and “anthemic” (BrooklynVegan) “Hawk For The Dove“, the “tender” (Consequence) “Empty Cups” featuring Maren Morris, the haunting title track “Take It Like A Man” which Stereogum called an “intense rumination,” and the seductive “Bad Behavior.” “Fault Lines” was the first song Shires wrote for the album, which The New York Times fittingly noted is “perhaps the most devastating song” on the album in a recent extensive Arts & Leisure profile on Shires.

Following notable shows this past week with The Highwomen in Chicago opening for Chris Stapleton, and a celebratory album release headline show at Nashville’s Blue Room, Shires will bring her dynamic live performances on the road for an extensive fall tour kicking off September 6th in Asheville, NC, with stops in major cities including Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Brooklyn, Dallas and more. See below for complete itinerary.

Since getting her start playing fiddle with the legendary Texas Playboys at the young age of 15, Amanda has brought her boundless originality to her solo albums, collaborated with the likes of John Prine and Justin Townes Earle and earned the 2017 Emerging Artist of the Year prize from the Americana Music Association (AMA). Amanda is a member of Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit and founded The Highwomen – a supergroup she also performs in alongside Maren Morris, Natalie Hemby, and Brandi Carlile. The band hit #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with their self-titled 2019 debut. A fierce activist, Amanda has eloquently spoken to Rolling Stone and Yahoo! Life recently regarding the importance of women’s reproductive rights.

 

AMANDA SHIRES FALL U.S. TOUR

Tuesday, September 6, 2022 Asheville, NC Grey Eagle

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Athens, GA Georgia Theatre

Friday, September 9, 2022 Washington, DC 9:30 Club

Saturday, September 10, 2022 Charlottesville, VA Jefferson Theatre

Sunday, September 11, 2022 Knoxville, TN Bijou

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live

Friday, September 16, 2022 Providence, RI Fete Ballroom

Saturday, September 17, 2022 Fredericton, NB Harvest Jazz & Blues Fest

Monday, September 19, 2022 Homer, NY Center for the Arts

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle

Thursday, September 22, 2022 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse

Friday, September 23, 2022 Charleston, SC Music Farm

Saturday, September 24, 2022 Chattanooga, TN Songbirds

Sunday, October 2, 2022 Florence, AL Shoals Fest

Thursday, October 6, 2022 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre

Friday, October 7, 2022 Salt Lake City, UT Commonwealth Room

Sunday, October 9, 2022 Pioneertown, CA Pappy & Harriets

Monday, October 10, 2022 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall

Saturday, October 15, 2022 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios

Sunday, October 16, 2022 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern

Friday, October 21, 2022 Nashville, TN Ryman

Saturday, October 22, 2022 Grand Rapids, MI Pyramid Scheme

Monday, October 24, 2022 Toronto, ON Horseshoe

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg

Thursday, October 27, 2022 Columbus, OH A&R Music Bar

Friday, October 28, 2022 Indianapolis, IN Hi-Fi

Saturday, October 29, 2022 Birmingham, AL Moonstone Festival

Thursday, November 3, 2022 Louisville, KY Headliners

Friday, November 4, 2022 Ann Arbor, MI The Ark

Saturday, November 5, 2022 Evanston, IL SPACE

Monday, November 7, 2022 St. Paul, MN Amsterdam

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Kansas City, MO Madrid Theatre

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Jim James – Regions of Light And Sound of God (Deluxe Reissue) Out Today

July 29, 2022 – 10:55 am

A Deluxe Reissue of the Landmark Solo Debut – Out Today

 

Featuring

*The original album + bonus LP w/12 previously unreleased tracks
*2 LP’s on clear vinyl with an opaque purple “color-in-color” effect
*Deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket with rainbow foil
*New custom inner-sleeves, labels and a fold-out insert

Over the course of a decades-long and infinitely surprising career, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James has created the kind of mind-expanding music that transports the listener into liminal spaces: the intangible terrain between reality and dream, perception and imagination, the sensory world and the super mundane. On his 2013 debut solo album Regions of Light and Sound of God—a critically lauded release now reissued as a deluxe edition with 12 never-before-heard b-sides, demos, and alternate takes—the Kentucky born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist stepped further into unknown and otherworldly territory.

While Regions of Light and Sound of God explores some heady existential questions (the impermanence of life, the search for self-transcendence), each song reveals James’s immense capacity for wonder and rare gift for awakening a euphoric sense of curiosity in his audience. Self-produced and recorded at his Louisville home—with James handling every instrument except for strings and drums—the album encompasses a dizzying expanse of sounds, drifting from art-pop to cosmic folk to time-bending R&B with a warm and restless elegance.

Hailed by Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke as “an eccentric, gently compelling pleasure: George Harrison‘s Seventies classic-rock spiritualism reborn in the laptop age,” Regions of Light and Sound of God set the tone for a solo career that’s continually led James into new and unexpected directions.

 

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