Today, Lee Ann Womack releases her latest video for “Hollywood” exclusively via Refinery29. Featuring custom-made dolls and intricate stop-motion animation, the video reinvents a story of Tinseltown heartache, set to this moody and mournful tune of faded love.
Director Chris Ullens (Rex Orange County, Fergie) paired footage of iconic California landmarks like the Hollywood sign, and wind farms at Golden Hour with the video’s custom-made dolls through hours of filming and editing.
The video follows a relationship riddled with doubt and uncertainty. Mainly set in a desert motel, it’s a shattered portrait of a couple staying together out of habit, but isolated in forlorn self-reflection. With no spark or attraction, they want their relationship unravel on the silver screen.
Lee Ann teased the video on her socials this week with a series of “Hollywood” movie posters featuring quotes from her friends Reba McEntire, Buddy Miller and Willie Nelson.
“Hollywood” is the second single from Womack’s ‘The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone’, which earned two 2019 GRAMMY nominations for Best Americana Album and Best Americana Roots Song for the album’s lead single “All the Trouble.” These were her eleventh and twelfth of Womack’s storied career, and her first as a songwriter. The album is a breathtaking hybrid of country, soul, gospel and blues, earning praise from NPR, The New York Times, Garden & Gun, Vice Noisey, Stereogum, Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal, who called it “remarkably strong, an album that’s bound to last.”
The “Hollywood” video will available to share on Saturday, April 20th at 9am EST.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Friday, May 3 – Musical Instrument Museum – Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, May 29 – Cactus Cafe – Austin, TX
Thursday, May 30 – Cactus Cafe – Austin, TX
Friday, May 31 – Cheatham Street Warehouse – San Marcos, TX
Wednesday, July 3 – J.M. Caldwell Sr. Community Park – Princeton, TX
Saturday, August 10 – Sugar Creek Casino – Hinton, OK
Friday, October 4 – City Winery – Chicago, IL
Saturday, October 5 – City Winery – Chicago, IL
Fresh off headlining the opening night of Central Park’s iconic SummerStage on Saturday, Emily King was announced as support on Sara Bareilles’ Fall North American tour – the latest highlight in an amazing year for the vibrant R&B singer-songwriter. King and Bareilles are long-time friends and collaborators, most recently on Bareilles’ new track ” If I Can’t Have You“, which was produced by T Bone Burnett. Tickets for all dates are on-sale now and all upcoming tour dates can be seen below, including King’s upcoming Lollapalooza play this August.
Mar 29 – Richmond, VA @ The National
Mar 30 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival
Mar 31 – Fairfield, CT @ The Warehouse
Apr 02 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
Apr 03 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground Ballroom
Apr 05 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
Apr 06 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
Apr 07 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
Apr 11 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
Apr 12 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The Rex Theater
Apr 13 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
Apr 16 – Columbia, SC @ The Senate
Apr 17 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
Apr 18 – Charleston, SC @ Music Farm
Apr 19 – Wilmington, NC @ Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
Apr 20 – Norfolk, VA @ The Norva
May 10 – Florianopolis, Brazil @ Stage Music Park
May 11 – São Paulo, Brazil @ Encontro das Tribos
May 12 – Vitoria, Brazil @ Álvares Cabral
May 26 – Monterey, CA @ California Roots Festival
Jun 02 – Cedar Rapids, IA @ McGrath Amphitheatre
Jun 05 – Bloomington, IL @ Grossinger Motors Arena
Jun 06 – Papillion, NE @ SumTur Amphitheater
Jun 07 – Bonner Springs, KS @ Providence Amphitheater
Jun 08 – Wichita, KS @ Wichita River Festival
Jun 10 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheater
Jun 12 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Great Saltair
Jun 13 – Reno, NV @ Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort
Jun 14 – Las Vegas, NV @ Mandalay Bay
Jun 15 – Tuscon, AZ @ AVA Amphitheater
Jun 16 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Pepsi Amphitheater
Jun 18 – Paso Robles, CA @ Vina Robles Amphitheater
Jun 19 – Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery
Jun 21 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival
Jun 23 – Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park Concerts
Jun 26 – Billings, MT @ Zoo Montana
Jun 28 – Nampa, ID @ Idaho Center Amphitheater
Jun 29 – Helena, MT @ Last Chance Music Fest
Jul 05 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Jul 06 – Heights, MI @ Freedom Hill
Jul 11 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Casino
Jul 12 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
Jul 13 – Marshfield, MA @ Levitate Music and Arts Festival
Jul 19 – Patchogue, NY @ Great South Bay Music Festival
Jul 20 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap
Jul 21 – Cary, NC @ @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre
The fourteenth album since their 2012 debut – and their first following the release of five vastly different albums in 2017 – Fishing for Fishies is a blues-infused blast of sonic boogie that struts and shimmies through several moods and terrains. From the soft shuffle Outback country of the opening title track through the sunny easy listening of ‘The Bird Song’ (think the lysergically-soaked Laurel Canyon circa 1973) and on through the party funk of ‘Plastic Boogie’ (which somehow summons the spirit of Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions) the road-trucking, Doors-like highway rock of ‘The Cruel Millennial’ and ‘Real’s Not Real’ – it’s a dizzying, dazzling display which addresses a number of pertinent environmental issues along the way.
“We tried to make a blues record,” says frontman Stu Mackenzie. “A blues-boogie-shuffle-kinda-thing, but the songs kept fighting it – or maybe it was us fighting them. Ultimately though we let the songs guide us this time; we let them have their own personalities and forge their own path. Paths of light, paths of darkness. This is a collection of songs that went on wild journeys of transformation.”
Stu and Eric from King Gizzard will mark the release of the album with events in both LA & NYC. Click the flyers below for full details.
March 28 – Istanbul, Turkey @ Babylon
April 3 – Glasgow, Scotland @ CCA
April 4 – Manchester, UK @ YES
April 5 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
April 6 – Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
April 8 – Leicester, UK @ O2 Academy Leicester University
April 9 – London, UK @ Evolutionary Arts Hackney
April 11 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
April 12 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla
April 13 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford
April 14 – Brighton, UK @ The Haunt
April 16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet
April 17 – Hamburg, GER @ Nochtwache
April 18 – Berlin, GER @ Kantine am Berghain
April 19 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Motel Mozaique
April 21 – Vienna, Austria @ Chelsea Club
April 22 – Munich, GER @ Ampere
April 24 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Exil
April 25 – Koln, GER @ Blue Shell
April 26 – Paris, FRA @ Le Point Ephemere
April 29 – Brussels, BEL @ Les Nuits Botanique Festival
April 30 – Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Merleyn
May 1 – Utrecht, Holland @ ACU
June 1 – Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
July 19-21 – Melt! Festival, Germany
July 23 – New York, NY @ Rough Trade
July 24 – Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
July 30 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
July 31 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
August 1 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
August 2 – Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx
August 3 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
August 8-12 – Belle & Sebastian Boaty Weekender
August 15-18 – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales
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WATCH EMILY’S LATE NIGHT PERFORMANCE HERE
Upcoming Tour Dates From The Shed In NYC To Coachella
GRAMMY®-nominated recording artist Emily King mader her debut appearance on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers last night. Taken from her acclaimed new album, Scenery (ATO), Emily and her band performed “Teach Me” for the Late Night audience. WATCH the performance HERE.
The performance followed a stunning performance in Minneapolis on Saturday as Emily joined guest host Jon Batiste for a special taping of NPR’s Live From Here. Listen to the show HERE.
Today, Emily will perform at a special event in NYC for Rolling Stone’s “Women Shaping The Future” issue before heading out on the road again next month for a coast-to-coast tour. These spring dates include a hometown show at The Shed in Manhattan as part of Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen’s Soundtrack of America – a five-night concert series celebrating the unrivaled impact of African American music on contemporary culture. Soundtrack traces a musical “family tree” of spirituals and blues, jazz and gospel, R&B, rock and roll, house, hip hop, and trap that has inspired a new generation of artists who continue to develop that legacy – as well as a stop in Indio, CA for Emily’s Coachella debut. (All tour dates below.)
Scenery, which landed at #3 on the Billboard R&B Album Chart and #6 on the Heatseekers’ Chart upon release in February, was produced by long time musical cohort Jeremy Most and mixed Tom Elmhirst (Adele, Amy Winehouse, David Bowie) was recorded in upstate New York, nestled in the Catskill Mountains, where Emily now makes her home after a lifetime of Lower East Side living. Scenery follows the critically acclaimed album The Switch (2015) which included the hit “Distance”.
Scenery has received an avalanche of critical acclaim and Emily and recently visited Jimmy Kimmel Live (WATCH “Can’t Hold Me” HERE) and CBS This Morning (WATCH “Look At Me Now” HERE).
TOUR DATES Tickets HERE
4/4/19 – Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club
4/5/19 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
4/7/19 – Boston, MA – The Sinclair
4/9/19 – New York, NY – The Shed
4/14/19 – Indio, CA – Coachella
4/21/19 – Indio, CA – Coachella
4/23/19 – Austin, TX – Antone’s
4/24/19 – Houston, TX – Heights Theater
4/25/19 – Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater
4/28/19 – Nashville, TN – 3rd & Lindsley
4/30/19 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
5/1/19 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
5/3/19 – Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar
5/4/19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Lecture Hall
5/5/19 – Woodstock, NY – The Colony
Praise for Emily King:
“..an irresistible piece of anthemic R&B that captures the retro-cinematic quality of that first drive and the breathless feeling of greeting something new…flawless in its execution, every element a reminder of the joy through mastery and care that is King’s own.” – NPR Music
“Next level sass” – Pitchfork
“One of the best songwriters around at the moment.” – BBC’s Radio 1
“Unreal talent. In complete awe of this girl. Thank you for the music.” – Sam Smith
“I. Love. Her. Voice” – Justin Timberlake
ATO is excited to announce Dylan LeBlanc’s new studio album Renegade, produced by Grammy Award winner Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson), available everywhere June 7th. Pre-order the album on limited-edition vinyl and listen to the scorching 80’s inspired title track below.
Recorded at Cobb’s RCA Studio A in Nashville, TN, the 10-song album feature LeBlanc and his longtime band, The Pollies. Of the album, LeBlanc shares, “I wanted to write the same type of songs that matched the atmosphere the band and I were bringing live. So, I started with ‘Renegade,’ which was fitting since I felt myself going in a new, more intense direction with this record. In the studio, I let go almost absolutely and let Dave Cobb do his work. It was a different experience for me—how focused Cobb was and how quickly we would get live takes down. Mostly in one or two takes. Never more than three. It left me spinning at how quickly it all came together. Over the course of ten days Renegade was complete and ready for mastering. And I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you.”
In celebration of the new album, LeBlanc will embark on an extensive headline tour this spring and summer, including shows at DC’s Pearl Street, Brooklyn’s Rough Trade, Chicago’s Schubas and Nashville’s Basement East. He will also perform several shows later this week as part of SXSW. See below for complete details.
DYLAN LEBLANC SXSW SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 14
• 4:00pm—Luck Reunion
• 9:30pm—ATO Records x Caroline Official SXSW Showcase @ Baracuda
Saturday, March 16
• 3:00pm—SXSJ @ Hotel San Jose
DYLAN LEBLANC CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
June 12—Atlanta, GA—The Earl
June 13—Carrboro, NC—Cat’s Cradle Back Room
June 14—Washington, DC—Pearl Street
June 15—Philadelphia, PA—Boot & Saddle
June 18—Bethlehem, PA—Blast Furnace
June 19—Brooklyn, NY—Rough Trade
June 20—Pittsburgh, PA—Club Cafe
June 21—Detroit, MI—El Club
June 22—Winnetka, IL—Winnetka Festival
June 23—Chicago, IL—Schubas Tavern
June 25—La Crosse, WI—Charmant Hotel
June 26—Minneapolis, MN—Turf Club
June 27—Iowa City, IA—The Mill
June 28—St Louis, MO—Old Rock House
June 29—Nashville, TN—Basement East
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced their new album Fishing for Fishies available everywhere April 26th! ATO’s vinyl pre-order will go on sale Friday, March 15th at 9am EST in our official online store.
Sit back and strap yourself in as seven-headed Aussie rock beast King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return with Fishing for Fishies, perhaps their most perfectly-realized album to date. Here is a world where the organic meets the automated; where the rustic meets the robotic. Where the past and future collide in the beautiful present.
The fourteenth album since their 2012 debut – and their first following the release of five vastly different albums in 2017 – Fishing for Fishies is a blues-infused blast of sonic boogie that struts and shimmies through several moods and terrains. From the soft shuffle Outback country of the opening title track through the sunny easy listening of ‘The Bird Song’ (think the lysergically-soaked Laurel Canyon circa 1973) and on through the party funk of ‘Plastic Boogie’ (which somehow summons the spirit of Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions) the road-trucking, Doors-like highway rock of ‘The Cruel Millennial’ and ‘Real’s Not Real’ – what The Carpenters might have sounded like had they existed entirely on vegemite and weed – it’s a dizzying, dazzling display.
And that’s all before we even get to ‘Acarine’, a futurist blues tune which heads off into previously unchartered territories of shimmering Eno-esque ambient and dark John Carpenter-style electro, and the electro squelch of album-closing single ‘Cyboogie’, on which five of the seven King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard members play synths. It’s a stomping vocoder-lead anthem akin to Georgio Moroder or Trans-era Neil Young and a triumphant conclusion to an album that is as surprising as it is thrilling, as unexpected as it is effortless.
Newcomers to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will find an entire self-contained universe awaits them in a thrilling body of work. Here are grand concepts where albums overlap, riffs resurface, circular songs chase their own tails, grand narratives are told, cryptic lyrics endlessly analysed and a whole army of fans regurgitate the band’s output via a deluge of remixes, memes, visual loops, mind-melting cut-ups and just generally pontificate wildly about everything in The Gizzverse, much of it available on Youtube and internet forums.
Best of all, anyone can step into The Gizzverse – anytime, anywhere. No prior understanding is necessary. So whether it’s psyche rock played with breakneck precision (2014’s I’m In Your Mind Fuzz), life-giving acoustic folk and Tropicalia (2015’s Paper Mâché Dream Balloon), a three-part sci-fi/prog album (2017’s Murder Of The Universe) or an album uploaded on an open license so that budding labels worldwide could press their own copies, which they duly did, currently 240 different pressings according to Discogs (2017’s, Polygondwanaland), King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard provide it. As Pitchfork noted, they have waged war against two tired clichés: “One, that rock is dead; and two, that the album is dead.”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return to the US this summer to play their largest venues to date.
8/13 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
8/14 – San Francisco, CA – SVN West
8/15 – San Francisco, CA – SVN West
8/16 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
8/17 – Vancouver, BC – Harbour Event Centre
8/18 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
8/20 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
8/21 – Denver, CO – TBA
8/23 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
8/24 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
8/26 – Montreal, QC – Olympia
8/27 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
8/28 – New York, NY – SummerStage, Central Park
8/30 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
8/31 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
9/01 – Asheville, NC – New Belgium Brewing Company
9/02 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
9/03 – New Orleans, LA – Joy Theater
9/04 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Outdoor
9/06 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory