“BLUE MOON” NOMINATED FOR BEST ROCK SONG & BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
Three-time Grammy winner Beck stands to add four more awards to his career tally at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards—including the night’s top honor Album of the Year.
Beck’s universally acclaimed Morning Phase was also nominated for Best Rock Album, while its lead single “Blue Moon” was nominated in the Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance categories.
Morning Phase was also recognized in the Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical) category.
Beck has three previous Grammy wins to his credit: Two Best Alternative Music Performance award for the albums Mutations and Odelay and one Best Male Rock Vocal Performance award for the song “Where It’s At.”
The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards will air Sunday, February 8, 2015 on the CBS Television Network from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
LAZARETTO UP FOR BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM, TITLE TRACK FOR BEST ROCK SONG & BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
WHITE ALSO NOMINATED FOR BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE AS ART DIRECTOR FOR THIRD MAN RECORDS & REVENANT RECORDS’ THE RISE & FALL OF PARAMOUNT RECORDS, VOLUME 1 (1917-27)
THIRD MAN RECORDS RECOGNIZED FOR SIX GRAMMY® AWARDS
Jack White has tallied another four nominations to his already staggering GRAMMY® legacy including: Best Alternative Album for Lazaretto, as well as Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance, both for the album’s title track.
Additionally, Jack has been nominated for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package as art director for the Third Man & Revenant Records-released The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-27).
These nominations bring Jack’s career total to 29—of which he was won nine.
Jack’s Third Man Records label was also recognized in six total categories, including the four aforementioned nominations for Jack himself, as well as Best Album Notes for The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-27) andBest Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package for the vinyl box set release of Neil Young’s A Letter Home.
Closing out an exceptional year at Third Man Records is a release that’s pretty near and dear to us. It should come as no surprise to the TMR faithful that Lillie Mae Rische is a complete bad-ass and an all-around powerhouse of melody. She first joined the TMR family a little over two years ago and ever since – whether onstage with Jack White and his band or in the studio – she’s been, how you say, delivering us from evil with fiddle playing so stupefying as to propel listeners into the jaws of heavenly awe. Feel me on this, y’all?
Here we have Lillie Mae Rische center stage. Her contribution to our Blue Series showcases two original songs, charming and plaintive, with the B-side hitting us with a story of hearts on the road, having to reconcile distance and desire. Meanwhile, the A-side is a gentle yet stern anthem about the sweet and sour circumstances of being alone. All in a voice that’s sweeter than peach brandy.
Joining her are some longtime Third Man contributors Carl Broemel, Dominic Davis, Jack Lawrence, and local drum god, Whip Triplet.
The 7” inch vinyl is now available for pre-order and we be made available in fine record stores worldwide on December 9th.
Digital bundle to include Paul’s original anthem from one of the biggest entertainment releases of the year Destiny plus four exclusive mixesHope For The Future
Paul McCartney’s new song “Hope For The Future” will be globally released on December8 . The song was written by Paul for the record-breaking video game Destiny, and until now has been exclusively available within the game itself. Produced by Giles Martin, “Hope For The Future”is as epic as the game, which sold more than $325 million worldwide in its first five days*.
It goes without saying that Paul McCartney has written countless hit singles, orchestral scores, electronica works, film themes, and has consistently changed the world with his music. Listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time, Paul has now added another first to his impressive list: “Hope For The Future” marks the first time that Paul has ever written specifically for a video game — one poised to become the most successful franchise of its kind.
Details of the release are confirmed today and the original version of the track from the Destinycredits will be made digitally available alongside four special mixes.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1) Hope For The Future (Main)
2) Hope For The Future (Thrash)
3) Hope For The Future (Beatsession Mix)
4) Hope For The Future (Jaded Mix)
5) Hope For The Future (Mirwais Mix)
Talking about the writing process Paul said:
“When you’re writing something like ‘Hope For The Future’, which is custom made, it is like doing a portrait for someone. You have to use your imagination and work out what they need, what they’re going to want and then what you want to give them. Then you’ve got to combine those three things into something that you still think maintains integrity. So in the game you’re a Guardian of the last city on Earth so that suggested to me the ‘hope for the future’ idea and I went from there. Then I thought it is not just a game song, this will get played outside the game so it has got to be stand alone too, you can’t have references to aliens or people will think ‘what’s he talking about?’ So it had to have its own stand alone meaning and integrity.”
From Bungie, the creators of the Halo® franchise, Activision Publishing Inc., the creators and publishers that brought you Call of Duty®,Destiny is the biggest new video game franchise launch in history and one of the biggest entertainment launches of the year.
*according to Chart-Track, first parties, retail customer sell-through information and Activision Blizzard internal estimates.
In Destiny, you are cast as a Guardian of the last city on Earth, able to explore the ancient ruins of our solar system in a social, living universe filled with other players. You will journey through environments spanning the red dunes of Mars to the lush jungles of Venus while creating your own legend as you and your friends venture out into the stars to reclaim the treasures and secrets lost after the collapse of humanity. Over the course of your adventures you will become more powerful as you wield rare and exotic weapons, gear, and super abilities. In addition to the story campaign, you can take your unique character into any co-operative or competitive activity, including the ability to compete with or against your friends in The Crucible, Destiny’s competitive multiplayer mode featuring numerous playlists and maps spanning diverse environments across the galaxy.
Destinyis rated T for Teen by the ESRB (Animated Blood and Violence), and is available now for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system (PlayStation Plus required for some features), PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system and Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft (Xbox Live Gold required for some features).
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading global producer and publisher of interactive entertainment. Activision maintains operations throughout the world. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company’s website, www.activision.com.
Halo is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Microsoft is not the publisher of Destiny. Activision has no affiliation with Halo.
Yeah, we don’t know where 2014 went either. But we do know time flies when you’re listening to great music and we heard plenty of that this year. And a year wouldn’t be complete without the annual roundup of the Nasty clan’s favorite albums and reissues from the year that was. When you’ve finished perusing, head over to our Nasty curated YouTube playlist for a trip down memory lane. See you in 2015!
THE 15 BEST ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2014:
RYAN ADAMS: Ryan Adams (Pax Am/Blue Note)
DAMON ALBARN: Everyday Robots (Warner Bros)
BAND OF HORSES: Acoustic at The Ryman (Brown Records/Kobalt)
BECK: Morning Phase (Capitol)
THE BIRDS OF SATAN: The Birds of Satan (Shanabelle)
BROKEN BELLS: After the Disco (Columbia)
FOO FIGHTERS: Sonic Highways (Roswell/RCA)
THE HADEN TRIPLETS: The Haden Triplets (Third Man Records)
CHRISSIE HYNDE: Stockholm (Will Travel/Caroline)
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: The Long Goodbye (Warner Bros)
BOB MOULD: Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
PHILIP SELWAY: Weatherhouse (Bella Union)
SPOON: They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
JACK WHITE: Lazaretto (Third Man Records/Columbia)
THOM YORKE: Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes (Self-released)
THE BEST REISSUES OF 2014:
BECK: Song Reader All-Star Album (Warby Parker/Capitol)
PAUL McCARTNEY: NEW Collector’s Edition (Hear Music/Concord Music Group)
For the last minute shoppers, several coveted reissues will be released on December 16. The reissues include The Kinks’ Anthology 1964-1971 (BMG/InGrooves) and four albums from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds back catalog being released by BMG: From Her to Eternity, The Firstborn is Dead, Kicking Against The Pricks and Your Funeral…My Trial.
Eleven classic Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds albums dating back to 1984’s critically-acclaimed debut From Her To Eternity are to appear on heavyweight, 180g vinyl for the first time.
Four albums will be released December 16, 2014 with the remaining titles to follow in 2015. The campaign follows the recent acquisition of the Mute Records catalogue by BMG.
Each album has been re-mastered in a process overseen by former Bad Seed and founder member, the multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey. All album artwork reflects the original release from the cover to the printed inner sleeves.
BMG Director of Masters and Product Management Didier Dehauteur said, “The Bad Seeds catalogue is a precious piece of rock history. We are determined to deliver a set of reissues which genuinely pay tribute to a seminal band.”
The following titles will be released on December 16, 2014:
From Her To Eternity – Single LP
(Original Release Date June 18, 1984)
Recorded in London Studios The Garden and Trident, From Her To Eternity marked the debut of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds after the break-up of Nick Cave’s former band The Birthday Party. Features Blixa Bargeld, of Berlin’s Einstuerzende Neubauten, on guitar. Said Cave at the time, “I don’t really think he knows how to play in the conventional sense at all. He just makes these incredible sounds.”
The Firstborn is Dead – Single LP
(Original Release Date June 3, 1985)
Album number two was recorded in Berlin. Co-produced by Flood and the band, it was rich with references to the blues and bluesmen, the American South, and especially to Elvis Presley. Soundsdescribed the album as “the most evocative blues record for years.”
Kicking Against The Pricks – Single LP
(Original Release Date Aug 18, 1986)
The band’s third album was a collection of cover versions of songs ranging from “I’m Gonna Kill That Woman” (John Lee Hooker) to “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” (Jimmy Webb) to “Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart” (Roger Greenaway, Roger Cook). Said Cave, “They were all done for different reasons. Some songs were tributes…other songs we didn’t think the song was ever done particularly well in the first place. Some songs had just haunted my childhood, like ‘The Carnival Is Over’ (Tom Springfield), which I always loved.”
Your Funeral…My Trial – Double LP
(Original Release Date Nov 3, 1986)
First released as a double EP, Your Funeral…My Trial has a notable melancholy tone. Cave himself later said, “(This is) my favorite of the records we’ve done, is very special to me and a lot of amazing things happened, musically, in the studio. There are some songs on that record that as far as I’m concerned are just about perfect as we can get really – songs like ‘The Carny,’ ‘Your Funeral, My Trial,’ and ‘Stranger Than Kindness.’”
Earlier this year Paul McCartney made history when he performed the last concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, the very same stadium that saw The Beatles last public concert 48 years ago, almost to the day.
A new app launched today by Jaunt allows fans to relive the magic of that night—more accurately experience it for the first time in a completely immersive 360-degree virtual environment offering access to Paul McCartney like never before: the Jaunt VR app puts you right there in the crowd, onstage, backstage, or even right by Paul’s side in the midst of the climactic pyro, as he performs “Live and Let Die” live at Candlestick.
In addition to his obviously peerless status as a musical legend and fearless innovator, Paul McCartney has never stopped looking for new and interesting ways to reach audiences, from his work on this year’s single biggest entertainment release, the video game “Destiny,” to this collaboration with Jaunt enabling fans to experience his music and live performance in a previously unimaginable new way.
Jaunt, the technology company behind the app, is building the hardware and software to make truly immersive cinematic VR possible. This special footage of the world’s revered musician marks the launch of their first publicly available content. Jaunt is making this revolutionary experience freely available for consumers to download and view for the first time. The content is available now through Jaunt’s app on Google Play for Google Cardboard and Android Phones, and will be coming soon to Samsung’s Gear VR and the Oculus Rift.
Paul’s performance of “Live and Let Die” was filmed using state of the art technology – Jaunt’s proprietary 360 degree, stereoscopic 3D cameras and 3D sound-field microphones. Viewers will experience a completely new level of immersion: complete freedom to look in any direction and experience every moment of the performance in true stereoscopic 3D with reactive, omnidirectional audio.
“The concert at Candlestick put Sir Paul McCartney in front of 70,000 live fans, and with our technology and the launch of our app, we’re opening up this access to many more,” said Jens Christensen, CEO of Jaunt. “We’re creating a completely new medium for entertainment. This is just the first step of our broader mission to bring viewers immersive access to the latest concerts, movies, sporting events and more through virtual reality.”
“Live and Let Die” is the first of these recordings to be released by Jaunt, and it also marks the very first public release of content in Jaunt’s cinematic VR library.
Jaunt, which emerged from stealth in early 2014, delivers a completely new way to present and experience media. The Jaunt platform makes use of advanced algorithms and computational photography software to enable the creation of seamless, omnidirectional 3D experiences. The company will continue to focus its efforts on enabling top content producers to create a diverse array of cinematic VR experiences that will be available for consumers to view and download across many platforms.
In another upcoming McCartney first is the aforementioned release of “Hope,” a track Paul wrote and recorded exclusively for the end credits of video game “Destiny,” the first time Paul has ever composed for a video game.
Consumers can now download Jaunt’s cinematic VR recording of Paul’s “Live and Let Die” for Google Play. To download, visit: http://www.jauntvr.com/content
About Jaunt
Jaunt is developing the hardware, software, tools, and applications to enable cinematic VR and put the power of virtual reality in the hands of today’s best content creators. Jaunt’s algorithms for complex computational photography allow content producers to create incredible immersive 360 degree, stereoscopic 3-D, cinematic VR experiences using existing production software. The company’s investors include Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Peter Gotcher, Blake Krikorian, and British Sky Broadcasting (corporate.sky.com). Experience more at www.jauntvr.com.
STADIUM & ARENA HEADLINES TO INCLUDE FENWAY DOUBLEHEADER, CITI FIELD DEBUT, PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED 20TH ANNIVERSARY BLOWOUT AT RFK, SOLD OUT WRIGLEY & MANY MORE
BEAT THE BOTS: BOX OFFICE ONLY PRE-SALE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 AT 10AM
It’s official: Foo Fighters are following up the release of the band’s most ambitious album with its biggest ever North American tour to date.
In the wake of Sonic Highways’ climb into the top 3 of charts worldwide and the announcement of the band’s first ever U.S. stadium dates, Foo Fighters have now unveiled a full North American stadium/arena/amphitheater assault for summer/fall 2015. This most massive North American on-the-road undertaking in FF history will see Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear headline multiple historic U.S. stadiums for the first time: New York’s Citi Field on July 16, a debut doubleheader at Boston’s Fenway Park on July 18 and 19, as well as the previously announced August 29 Chicago headline at Wrigley Field that sold out in one day, and the July 4 all-day 20th anniversary blowout at DC’s RFK stadium.
Royal Blood has been confirmed to support on the July/August run of these newly added dates – with the exception of August 27 in Indianapolis and the first Fenway show on July 18, which will feature a special appearance from hometown heroes and post-punk pioneers Mission of Burma.
And there’s more… Tickets for the Foo Fighters 2015 tour (with the exception of Fenway Park) will first go on sale via the BEAT THE BOTS: BOX OFFICE ONLY PRE-SALE this Saturday at 10am. Fans sick of Scalper-BOTS programmed to clog online queues and snatch up huge amounts of tickets to resell them will get first shot at tickets to these shows. Visit http://foofighters.com for a complete list of box office locations and details.
Online Pre-Sales for Foo Fighters 2015 tour begin Monday, December 1, with general on sales commencing December 4 & 5, check your local listings.
FOO FIGHTERS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2015 New Dates in BOLD
7/4/15 – Washington DC – RFK Stadium 7/6/15 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center * 7/9/15 – Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre * 7/16/15 – New York, NY – Citi Field * 7/18/15 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park ** 7/19/15 – Boston, MA – Fenway Park * 8/12/15 – Edmonton, AB – Rexall Place * 8/13/15 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome * 8/17/15 – Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre * 8/19/15 – Maryland Heights, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater * 8/21/15 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center * 8/22/15 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center * 8/24/15 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre * 8/25/15 – Pittsburgh, PA – First Niagara Pavilion * 8/27/15 – Indianapolis, IN – Klipsch Music Center
8/29/15 – Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field (SOLD OUT) 9/11/15 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena 9/12/15 – George, WA – Gorge Amphitheatre 9/14/15 – Portland, OR – Moda Center 9/16/15 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
9/18/15 – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center 9/21/15 – Los Angeles, CA – The Forum 9/25/15 – Phoenix, AZ – AK-Chin Pavilion 9/27/15 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater 9/29/15 – Oklahoma City, OK – Chesapeake Energy Arena 9/30/15 – Wichita, KS – INTRUST Bank Arena 10/4/15 – Atlanta, GA – Centennial Olympic Park 10/5/15 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena 10/7/15 – Memphis, TN – FedExForum
* w/ special guest Royal Blood
** w/ special guest Mission of Burma
“a sweeping suite full of moody psychedelic arrangements” – Rolling Stone
“a pop record with an artful touch that further develops his tender emotional spin on the expansively moody sounds” – Stereogum
“Selway’s distorted croon ricocheting off dubby synth wobbles and oceanic guitar pings… he sounds reinvigorated” – Relix
Philip Selway is excited to premiere the new video for the track “Around Again” off his stellar second album, Weatherhouse (Bella Union). The “Around Again” visuals retain the dreamy, mystical nature of Philip’s previous videos for “Coming Up For Air” and “It Will End In Tears”. The video, directed by the Spanish film collective NYSU, features a pivoting camera that follows a woman’s circuitous path as she leaves various items and poses in her wake, resulting in a completely altered setting. Watch the video here.
Having stunned the audience in studio and at home with his recent Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon performance of “It Will End In Tears,” Philip will at long last bring his solo works to life on a New York City stage with a performance at the esteemed Le Poisson Rouge on April 10, 2015. Tickets for his headlining set are available here.
Due to a family matter, Foo Fighters regrettably must postpone Friday’s appearance in Austin for their Sonic Highways screening and Austin City Limits taping.
The band sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience and promises to make it up when they return to Austin on Thursday, November 20, 2014. All passes for the original engagement will be honored.
Tonight’s Sonic Highways preview screening will go on as scheduled.
