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U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE TOUR RETURNS TO PARIS

U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE TOUR RETURNS TO PARIS

Postponed November Dates Rescheduled to December 6th & 7th, 2015

© Ross Stewart
© Ross Stewart

 

U2 will return to Paris in early December to play their two concerts postponed from earlier in November. The new dates – Sunday, December 6th and Monday, December 7th at the Accorhotels Arena in Bercy – are confirmed by Live Nation today. Tickets for the previously scheduled November 14th performance will be valid for the December 6th event. Tickets for the previously scheduled November 15th performance will be valid for the December 7th event. Complete ticket information below.

Speaking from Dublin ahead of tonight’s opening night of U2’s four-night run in their hometown, Bono commented: “So much that was taken from Paris on the tragic night of November 13th is irreplaceable. For one night, the killers took lives, took music, took peace of mind – but they couldn’t steal the spirit of that city. It’s a spirit our band knows well and will try to serve when we return for the postponed shows on December 6th and 7th. We’re going to put on our best for Paris.”

U2 tour promoter and tour producer Arthur Fogel added, “The band wanted us to reschedule as soon as possible so that they could honour the commitment to their audience.”

And as originally planned, U2’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour will be broadcast live from Paris on HBO. The concert on Monday 7th December 2015 will be filmed live and will be shown on HBO at 9:00pm ET.

Ticket Information:

Tickets for the previously scheduled performances will be honoured at the door. Tickets for the previously scheduled November 14th performance will be valid at the December 6th event. Tickets for the November 15th performance will be valid at the December 7th event.  Fans who are unable to attend the rescheduled show dates may refund their existing tickets through November 30th 2015. Tickets may be refunded at point of purchase. Any returned tickets will be immediately released for sale.

For Live Nation press enquiries, please contact: fawzi.meniri@livenation.fr

For U2 press enquiries, please contact: Bridin@rmplondon.co.uk

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A STATEMENT FROM FOO FIGHTERS

It is with profound sadness and heartfelt concern for everyone in Paris that we have been forced to announce the cancellation of the rest of our tour. In light of this senseless violence, the closing of borders, and international mourning, we can’t continue right now. There is no other way to say it. This is crazy and it sucks. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who was hurt or who lost a loved one.

FOO FIGHTERS: “ROPE”

“ATOMIC BEAST OF A SINGLE” (ROLLING STONE) STREAMING ON FOOFIGHTERS.COM NOW

AVAILABLE MARCH 1 AS DIGITAL SINGLE AND iTUNES PRE-ORDER INSTANT GRAT

ARTWORK UNVEILED  FOR NEW ALBUM WASTING LIGHT OUT APRIL 12

“White Limo” Video Approaching One Million Views at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJ2brErERQ

Beginning today, February 23, “Rope”–the single that Rolling Stone ranks #1 on its current Hot List and hails as a “hairy-testicled, devil-dicked atomic beast”–has become the first full taste of Foo Fighters’ upcoming Wasting Light to impact the internet and the airwaves. The song is currently streaming at foofighters.com and http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191618494205417

“Rope” will be available beginning March 1 both as a digital single and as an instant grat with iTunes pre-orders of Wasting Light.

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Wasting Light will be released April 12 on Roswell/RCA. The band recently unveiled the artwork to its seventh full length studio opus, which features the core Foo Fighters quintet of Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear.

Produced by Butch Vig and mixed by Alan Moulder, Wasting Light was recorded entirely on analog tape in the garage of Grohl’s home in California’s San Fernando Valley. The no computers/no software back to basics approach has resulted in arguably the strongest and most cohesive effort of the band’s 15-year-plus career: From  the opening one-two punch of “Bridge Burning” and lead single “Rope” to the beautifully bipolar “These Days” to stunning guest spots from Bob Mould (“Dear Rosemary”) and Krist Novoselic (“I Should Have Known”), Wasting Light is a singular triumph: a band that’s headlined arenas, stadiums and festivals the world over stripping itself down to the bare essentials and coming up with a world class band’s finest hour.

Concurrent with the album’s release, Exclusive Media Group’s documentary division Spitfire Pictures are producing a feature documentary about the Foo Fighters directed by Academy Award winner James Moll (The Last Days, Running The Sahara).  Co-produced and co-financed by Exclusive Media Group and RCA Records, Moll’s documentary chronicles the entire history of the Foo Fighters, from the cassette demos Grohl recorded during his tenure as Nirvana’s drummer through their ascent to their Grammy-winning, multi-platinum, arena and stadium headlining status as one of the biggest rock bands on the planet.   This chronicling of the Foo Fighters’ triumphs and tragedies  culminates in an in-depth behind the scenes perspective on the making of the new album: A process in which the band pushed itself forward by returning to its roots and recording in Grohl’s garage completely on analog tape.

THIRD MAN RECORDS JOINS THE NASTY LITTLE MAN FAMILY

New Green Series 45s From Jerry King and Amy Walker Out Now
New Blue Series 45s From Pokey LaFarge and We Are Hex Out Mid-March

nasty little man is proud and elated to welcome Jack White and Third Man Records to our family.

The alliance coincides neatly with Third Man’s February 22 release of two new installments of its spoken word/instructional Green Series. Joining the esteemed company of past Green Series participants BP Fallon and Conan O’Brien is Amy Walker, an actress known worldwide for her expertise in the field of replicating accents from all over the globe, as evidenced by the 5 million-plus views of her “21 Accents” video on YouTube–not to mention appearances on the Today Show and Inside Edition.

The A-side of Amy’s Green Series single showcases her wide selection of different accents, both in an improvisational rolling internal dialogue and a reading from a random article in the local newspaper, each sentence in a different inflection. The B-side features her being interviewed by Jack White on a variety of topics. The Amy Walker single will be released in an unprecedented 30 different sleeves, each one depicting Amy as a different persona or character.

Also out this week is a Green Series 45 from from Fletcher, NC master auctioneer Jerry King. Whether selling farm equipment, real estate, vintage autos or homemade baked goods, Jerry is truly one of the world’s greatest auctioneers.  Jerry’s single starts off with a fascinating 8-minute interview conducted by Jack White that probes deep into the history, cadence, rhythm and speed of Jerry’s auctioneering. The flipside is both a vinyl rarity and a first for Third Man: 2 separate tracks on 2 separate grooves. Depending on where the listener drops the needle, he or she will be greeted with Jerry King setting up one of two hypothetical auctions:  an automobile auction or a tobacco/chocolate cake auction.

Both the Jerry King and Amy Walker Green Series 45s will be available via the Third Man Records store, in all fine independent record stores, and iTunes worldwide on February 22nd. Details will be available soon re: limited edition Tri Color editions of these singles.

The middle of March will mark the release of two more singles from Third Man’s Blue Series: Pokey LaFarge And The South City Three’s “Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time in Cheatham County”/“Pack It Up” and We Are Hex’s “Twist The Witch’s Titty” / “Through The Doldrums To The Dum Dums”

Hailing from St. Louis MO, Pokey LaFarge is a traditional American music purist who dabbles in everything from jazz, string ragtime, country blues, and western swing. Musically timeless and stylistically original, Pokey and his band blend all of these styles of music into something new and swinging. His booming voice has an incredible range that has to be heard to believed.

Since 2009, Indianapolis IN’s We Are Hex has written and recorded on their own frequency from their home and studio, The Hex Hause. Described somewhere between The Stooges and The Cure, We Are Hex is scratching, creeping, dirty slop – refreshingly raw, honest and urgent—and now responsible for possibly the two most interesting song titles in the brief history of the Third Man Blue Series!

Exact release date and news re: limited edition Tri Color releases of these singles will be made available as confirmed. The songs are currently available for listening on the Third Man Monkey Band at the label’s Nashville record shop, for the price of a quarter.

ARCADE FIRE FULL U.S. TOUR ANNOUNCED

Album Of The Year Grammy Winners Confirm Balance of April 9-May 6 Dates

ARCADE FIRE FULL U.S. TOUR ANNOUNCED
Album Of The Year Grammy Winners Confirm Balance of April 9-May 6 Dates
Album of the Year Grammy winners Arcade Fire have confirmed all remaining dates of their upcoming U.S. tour.

The shows kick off April 9 in Denver and include previously announced sold out appearances including an April 16 Coachella headlining set, an April 22, 24, 25 three-night stand at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion. The band’s May 6 Jazz Fest headline in New Orleans will be the tour’s final date.

The April 9-May 6 run is Arcade Fire’s latest in support of its critically acclaimed third album The Suburbs, which recently took Album Of The Year, top prize at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards.

The Suburbs was released August 3, 2010 on Merge Records, debuting at #1 on the U.S. Top 200 and selling nearly 500,000 copies as of press time. The record has been supported by an extensive world tour that has included two nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

See below for a full itinerary. For further information, check arcadefire.com or contact Steve Martin or Amy Grote at nasty little man, amy@nastylittleman.com 212 343 0740

SAT4/9/2011    Broomfield, CO    1st Bank Center    *
MON4/11/2011    Orem, UT    The UCCU Center    *
WED4/13/2011    Phoenix, AZ    Comerica Theatre    *
THU4/14/2011    Las Vegas, NV    The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel *
SAT4/16/2011    Indio, CA    Coachella    (Sold out)
MON4/18/2011    Santa Fe, NM    Santa Fe Convention Center
WED4/20/2011    Kansas City, MO    Starlight Amphitheatre   **
FRI4/22/2011    Chicago, IL    UIC Pavilion   (Sold out)  **
SUN4/24/2011    Chicago, IL    UIC Pavilion      (Sold out)  **
MON4/25/2011    Chicago, IL    UIC Pavilion      (Sold out)  **
WED4/27/2011    Indianapolis, IN    The Lawn at White River State Park    **
THU4/28/2011    Memphis, TN    Orpheum Theatre
SAT4/30/2011    Dallas, TX    Gexa Energy Pavilion    ***
TUE5/3/2011    Austin, TX    The Backyard    ****
WED5/4/2010    The Woodlands, TX    Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion    ****
FRI5/6/2011    New Orleans, LA    Jazz and Heritage Festival

*  Local Natives Support
**  The National Support
***  Okkervil River Support
****    Explosions in the Sky Support

RA RA RIOT PREMIERES “TOO DRAMATIC” ON MTV

ANNOUNCES “TOO DRAMATIC” SINGLE

NEW TOUR STARTS MARCH 3rd

“Too Dramatic”, the second video from Ra Ra Riot’s brilliant sophomore release The Orchard, debuted today at MTV.   Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang (Avi Buffalo, Maximum Balloon, Delphic) the video features the band performing in an other-worldly terrain that blossoms and transforms into a vast, constantly shifting animated landscape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRo7Ed4yfvo

http://www.mtvu.com/music/video-premiere/ra-ra-riot-too-dramatic/

The band is also excited to announce that a “Too Dramatic” single will be available exclusively on iTunes on March 8th.  The single will include “Megafauna”, a previously unreleased song from The Orchard sessions, an alternate version of The Orchard favorite “Keep It Quiet” by one of the band’s many alter-egos, GOP, and a remix by The Morning Benders.

Too Dramatic (single) tracklisting:
1. Too Dramatic (Album Version)
2. Megafauna
3. Too Dramatic (The Morning Benders Remix)
4. Keep It Quiet (GOP)
5. Too Dramatic Video

Consequence of Sound recently premiered a remix of “Too Dramatic” by 19-year old LA-based DJ Jordan Elliot, who has garnered recent buzz in the electro community under the moniker The Kids Are Radioactive.  You can hear “Too Dramatic (The Kids Are Radioactive Remix)” here:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/02/15/cos-premiere-ra-ra-riots-too-dramatic-the-kids-are-radioactive-remix/

Finally, the band is excited to announce new tour dates and here they are:

3/03 – Baltimore, MD        Ram’s Head Live! *
3/04 – Charlottesville, VA    Jefferson Theatre &
3/06 – Jacksonville, FL        Jack Rabbit &
3/07 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL    Culture Room &
3/08 – Orlando, FL        Social &
3/09 – Tampa, FL            Crowbar &
3/11 – New Orleans, LA    One Eyed Jacks @&
3/12 – Baton Rouge, LA    Spanish Moon &
3/14 – Columbia, MO        Mojo’s %
3/15 – St. Louis, MO        Firebird %
3/16 – Indianapolis, IN        Earth House %
3/18 – Louisville, KY        Headliner’s Music Hall %
3/19 – Newport, KY        Mad Hatter Club %
3/20 – Charleston WV        Mountain Stage
4/07 – Syracuse, NY        Westcott Theatre
4/08 – Cleveland, OH        Beachland Ballroom
4/09 – Columbus, OH        LC Outdoor Amphitheater – CD 101 Day
4/10 – Detroit, MI        Magic Stick
4/11 – Holland, MI        Hope College

* w/ Anamanaguchi
& w/ The Luyas
% w/ Pomegranates
@ w/ Givers

Ra Ra Riot’s sophomore album The Orchard debuted at #36 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. It was produced by Ra Ra Riot and Andrew Maury and mixed by Chris Walla (with the exception of “Do You Remember,” which was mixed by Rostam Batmanglij). Its August 24 release date marked two years, nearly to the day, since the release of the band’s debut album, The Rhumb Line, which debuted at #109 on the U.S. album chart and has gone on to sell in excess of 70,000 copies.

RADIOHEAD’S NEW ALBUM “THE KING OF LIMBS” NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD

NEW VIDEO “LOTUS FLOWER” LIVE NOW AT http://www.youtube.com/radiohead

Radiohead have brought forward the digital release of their new album “The King Of Limbs” by 24 hours with the album now being sent to those who pre-ordered it earlier this week. It is also available for new orders through www.radiohead.com at a fixed price of $9 for MP3, $14 for WAV.

With everything ready on their website, the band decided to bring forward the release rather than wait until the previously announced date of Saturday, Feb 19  to deliver the music.

Orders for “The King Of Limbs” “Newspaper Album” special edition are also still being taken at www.radiohead.com . The made-to-order deluxe editions will come in a unique “newspaper” package and will contain “The King Of Limbs”  in three formats–on two clear 10″ vinyl records, CD and instantly available digital download-as well as artwork exclusive to the special edition. The “Newspaper Album” edition will ship May 9, and is available at fixed prices of $48 for the version including an MP3 download, and $53 with WAV.

A video for the track “Lotus Flower” can now be seen at http://www.youtube.com/radiohead

The general CD/vinyl U.S. release of The King Of Limbs will take place March 29 via tbd records.

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE TO COMMEMORATE DEBUT REISSUE WITH LIMITED RUN OF NORTH AMERICAN DATES

Queens Of The Stone Age will commemorate the upcoming reissue of its self-titled debut album with a limited series of intimate shows at which the band will play the record in its entirety, plus B-sides and other rarities and hits from the early Queens catalogue up to the present.

The tour, which kicks off  March 16 in Austin TX and concludes April 12 in Los Angeles. celebrates the expanded, remastered re-release of the 1998 classic on Queens’ Joshua Homme’s own Rekords Rekords label. The album will be the first released via a worldwide alliance between Rekords Rekords and Domino Records to market, promote and distribute selected titles from their catalogue.

Tickets for the tour will begin going on sale  February 18. Customers purchasing tickets will have an opportunity to pre-order the CD or LP, and if they choose to do so will receive an instant digital download of the album, directly from Rekords Rekords/Domino–nearly a month before its commercial release.

The record will be released commercially in March at a date yet to be determined.

The genesis of Queens Of The Stone Age-the band and this first album-goes back to the 1995 dissolution of the criminally overlooked Kyuss, specifically founding guitarist Homme’s migration from the California Desert to the Pacific Northwest to work on a new project concurrent with spending time on the road as second guitarist in Screaming Trees. Homme discarded the sludgy low-end expanses of his former band for much tighter song structure (for the most part) and honest-to-goodness capital ‘H’ hooks and what was originally christened Gamma Ray was quickly changed to Queens Of The Stone Age shortly after its 1996 birth.

Homme returned to his old stomping grounds and reunited with latter day Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez to record as a fake trio (bass player “Carlo Von Sexron” is a nom-de-boom for Homme) and QOTSA came into full bloom, releasing the original version of this first album in 1998. If this re-issue doesn’t document “hour zero,” it’s only a few minutes past. “Regular John” introduces Homme as a smooth and assured vocalist with great melodic instinct. Tracks like “Avon” and “Walkin On Sidewalks” lock into heavy riffs that are in entrancing in their repetition and subtle shifts. And it’s hard to believe that insistently catchy “How To Handle A Rope” didn’t make a greater impact on mainstream radio upon its initial release.

The Rekords Rekords/Domino re-issue has been fully remastered from the original tapes and has been expanded by three tracks: “The Bronze” and “These Aren’t the Droids Your Looking For” from the  long out of print 1998 QOTSA/Beaver split EP and “Spiders and Vinegaroons” from the posthumous Kyuss/QOTSA split EP. Listen to album opener, Regular John, here: http://soundcloud.com/qotsa/regular-john

Queens Of The Stone Age will be available on CD (REK001CD), double vinyl LP (REK001LP) and via digital download (REK001D).

The complete itinerary for the Queens Of The Stone Age commemorative tour is as follows:

03/16/11 – Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa
03/18/11 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
03/19/11 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay Soundstage
03/20/11 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
03/21/11 – Atlanta, GA – Center Stage
03/23/11 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
03/24/11 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
03/25/11 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
03/26/11 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
03/27/11 – Montreal, Canada – Metropolis
03/29/11 – Toronto, Canada – Sound Academy
03/30/11 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
03/31/11 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
04/01/11 – Chicago, IL – The Riv
04/02/11 – Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
04/04/11 – Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom
04/05/11 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
04/06/11 – Kansas City, MO – Beaumont Club
04/08/11 – Denver, CO – Ogden
04/11/11 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
04/12/11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern

FOO FIGHTERS: WASTING LIGHT

TRACKLISTING REVEALED FOR SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM OUT APRIL 12 ON ROSWELL/RCA

FIRST SINGLE “ROPE” AVAILABLE MARCH 1

FF FANS GIFTED WITH SPECIALLY DEDICATED VALENTINE AT whitelimo.foofighters.com

The title and track listing of Foo Fighters’ upcoming seventh full length studio album has been revealed. Wasting Light will be released April 12 by Roswell/RCA and will consist of the following tracks:

Bridge Burning
Rope
Dear Rosemary
White Limo
Arlandria
These Days
Back & Forth
A Matter Of Time
Miss The Misery
I Should Have Known
Walk

First single “Rope” will be available beginning March 1 both as a digital single and as an instant grat with the iTunes pre-order of Wasting Light.

Meanwhile, Foo Fighters celebrated Valentine’s Day with a gift to their beloved fans: Those valentines who visited (or continue to visit) whitelimo.foofighters.com received a token of affection dedicated to them by Dave Grohl: A kick-ass shot-on-VHS video of “White Limo” starring Motorhead’s own Lemmy Kilmister as the driver and Grohl (and wife Jordyn), Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear as players in scenarios no doubt familiar to any aficionado of “classic” ’80s hard rock videos.

“White Limo” can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJ2brErERQ

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Produced by Butch Vig and mixed by Alan Moulder, Wasting Light was recorded entirely on analog tape in the garage of Grohl’s home in California’s San Fernando Valley. The no computers/no software back to basics approach has resulted in arguably the strongest and most cohesive effort of the band’s 15-year-plus career: From first single “Rope” to the frenetic opener “Bridge Burning” to the beautifully bipolar “These Days” to stunning guest spots from Bob Mould (“Dear Rosemary”) and Krist Novoselic (“I Should Have Known”), Wasting Light is a singular triumph: a band that’s headlined arenas, stadiums and festivals the world over stripping itself down to the bare essentials and coming up with a world class band’s finest hour.

Concurrent with the album’s release, Exclusive Media Group’s documentary division Spitfire Pictures are producing a feature documentary about the Foo Fighters directed by Academy Award winner James Moll (The Last Days, Running The Sahara).  Co-produced and co-financed by Exclusive Media Group and RCA Records, Moll’s documentary chronicles the entire history of the Foo Fighters, from the cassette demos Grohl recorded during his tenure as Nirvana’s drummer through their ascent to their Grammy-winning, multi-platinum, arena and stadium headlining status as one of the biggest rock bands on the planet.   This chronicling of the Foo Fighters’ triumphs and tragedies  culminates in an in-depth behind the scenes perspective on the making of the new album: A process in which the band pushed itself forward by returning to its roots and recording in Grohl’s garage completely on analog tape.

PJ HARVEY SECOND NEW YORK CITY SHOW ADDED

LET ENGLAND SHAKE OUT TOMORROW

LIVE WEBCAST THIS AFTERNOON ON deezer.com, arteliveweb.com AND pjharvey.net

(NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2011) — PJ Harvey has added a second show at New York City’s Terminal 5. The new date will take place April 19, the day before the previously announced April 20 show which sold out completely within hours of on-sale.

PJ Harvey will be making two other U.S. appearances in support of her new album Let England Shake: an already sold out April 14 date at the Warfield in San Francisco and an April 17 set at Coachella.

Let England Shake is out tomorrow in the U.S. and today, February 14th,  in the UK and Europe-the same day PJ Harvey will debut her new album live in a one-off, special show from Paris to be streamed live at 8pm GMT by the French music site Deezer  www.deezer.com and the cultural chanel ARTE www.arteliveweb.com

The webcast will also be available on the official PJ Harvey site www.pjharvey.net

Let England Shake, Harvey’s eighth studio album has already received exceptional reviews internationally.  This week’s NME awards it a rare 10/10, calling it “arguably her most brilliant record to date.” Here in the U.S., SPIN said in a 9/10 review that raved “Harvey’s eclecticism — her ability to gracefully flit between genres and tones — is what keeps her work so vital, yet Let England Shake is still something of a revelation.”

Harvey will play two sold out shows at The Troxy in London later this month, as well as sold-out dates in Brussels, Berlin, and Paris.