Ezra Koenig

Ezra Koenig

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Vampire Weekend To Tour North America This Summer In Support Of New Album

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With a new album, 'Father Of The Bride,' due out in spring, the GRAMMY-winning rock band gets set to hit the road
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jan 30, 2019 - 12:22 pm

Just last week, Ezra Koenig and his band Vampire Weekened gifted fans two new songs and announced their forthcoming album, Father Of The Bride, is coming this spring. Now, the band have revealed plans for a sprawling North American tour in support of the new album.

The extensive run kicks off May 17 at Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala., and wraps up at the world-famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, making stops along the way in Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, and New York City,  at Madison Square Garden. The tour will also send Vampire Weekend to Europe for a few dates during the month of July.

In an odd glimpse of their upcoming album, the band teased their new project with 120 minutes of guitar riffs of one song, "Harmony Hall," which was one of the two new tracks unleashed last week.

Vampire Weekend earned their first career GRAMMY for Best Alternative Album for 2013's Modern Vampires Of The City. Their new album will be their first since Modern Vampires… and their fourth overall studio album. An exact release date is yet to be announced.

 

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Neon Indian Returns With Invasion Musical Total Tour Of North America

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Alan Palomo plots his chillwave project's extensive run of dates this fall
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jul 16, 2019 - 4:47 pm

Mexico-born, Texas-raised music machine Alan Palomo has annunced an extensive fall North American tour for the return of his chillwave project Neon Indian. 

The Invasion Musical Total Tour kicks off October 9 at The Glass House in Pomona, Calif., after a quartet of “¡Eso Es!” shows Aug. 29-31 and Sept. 1 with Empres Of, La Goony Chonga and more. The tour runs 29 dates across the U.S., Mexico and Canada before coming to a close Nov. 29 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Palomo's most recent Neon Indian album is 2015's VEGA INTL. Night School, but he's been busy of late, directing a short film last year called 86'd and creating it's theme song, "Heaven's Basement."

A full list of dates and ticket info is available at Neon Indian's website, with tickets for all shows before Oct. 8 already on sale.

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Elvis Costello & The Imposters Plot Fall Tour, But Will They Play Your Favorite Song?

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The Just Trust tour will follow the band's summer co-headlining trek with Blondie with two dozen more U.S. dates
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jun 24, 2019 - 12:13 pm

Just Trust Elvis Costello & The Imposters. So goes the name of E.C.'s newly announced fall U.S. Tour, which will hit 24 cities in October and November.

Explanation of the tour's title may offer fans some insight on what to expect from the shows. A statement reveals, "The tour is entitled, 'Just Trust' in answer to the musical questions: 'Will they play my favourite song?,' or, 'Are they going to frighten the horses with a lot of excellent songs that are rarely performed?,' not to mention, 'Can I expect the hits of yesteryear and those of tomorrow?'

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The Just Trust tour begins Oct. 23 in Charlottesville, Va., and wraps up Nov. 26 in Milwaukee, Wis, making stops along the way in Nashville, Tenn., Atlanta, New Orelans, Memphis, Chicago and Minneapolis, to name a few.

In addition to mainstay band members Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas and Davey Faragher, singers Kitten Kuroi and Briana Lee will join Costello on stage, the same personnel heard on the group's latest release, 2018's Look Now, which marked Costello's first studio album in five years.

The extended road run is double good news for fans, as this time last year Costello revealed he'd been diagnosed with cancer and was forced to cancel his remaining European tour dates to focus on recovery, which he has since confirmed is going well. Earlier this month, he was awarded the prestigious O.B.E. honor, the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for "services to music." Next month he and the Imposters head out on a co-headlining stint with Blondie for the cleverly coined Blondie & The Beastly E.C. tour 

If you're ready to take the trust plunge, tickets for the Just Trust tour begin to go on sale June 28. Visit Costello's website for a full list of dates and ticket info.

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Above & Beyond Announce New Album 'Flow State' Inspired By Yoga & Mindfulness

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The anthemic dance group follow up last year's 'Common Ground' with a "panoramic journey of ambient compositions and warm, neo-classical soundscapes"
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jun 21, 2019 - 5:00 pm

Above & Beyond have always gone, well, above and beyond any musical limitations associated with dance music. From recording an acoustic album to releasing a single in 2018 called "Red Rocks" inspired by the Colorado amplitheatre of the same name, they pull inspiration from anywhere and channel it any way they please, always with their signature upbeat spin. Today, the English trio announced a new album inspired by yoga and mindfulness, Flow State, due out band’s Anjunabeats imprint on July 19.

According to a statement from the group, "Flow State is the culmination of a journey which began at Burning Man in 2014. A chance encounter on the Playa led to a spontaneous sunset yoga set on the infamous Robot Heart stage, guided by renowned yogi Elena Brower. A magical and spiritual experience for those present, it inspired Above & Beyond to begin opening their biggest global gigs with yoga sets, creating transformative experiences for 25,000 strong crowds at The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington and Huntington Beach, California. The original Burning Man yoga set has subsequently gone on to amass over 2 million streams on Soundcloud."

The new album follow's 2018's highly acclaimed Common Ground., which earned the group their second GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Recording for "Northern Soul."  

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“Our music has always been about getting in touch with, and understanding and accepting our emotions. After those amazing yoga sets, we realized that there is a bigger place for this more reflective music within our little universe,”  said A&B's Paavo Siljamaki. “With the Flow State project, we want to help bring people’s attention and focus towards helping themselves find better mental fitness and overall happiness in life. Through raised awareness, being more present, one can reach a state of flow: a creative and free state of mind where time, fear and stress dissipate.”

Flow State is a 49-minute experience the statement calls a "panoramic journey of ambient compositions and warm, neo-classical soundscapes that offer moments of meditative calm in these busy and often overwhelming times." A three-song sampler EP of Flow State drops today and coincides with International Yoga Day, and the album will be accompanied by a 13-minute talk on self-acceptance from Brower. The album is available now for pre-order.

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Thom Yorke Announces New Album, 'ANIMA'

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The Radiohead frontman's third solo album will feature several songs he debuted during his Tomorrow's Modern Boxes tour
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jun 20, 2019 - 12:56 pm

Thom Yorke fans can rejoice, the suspense is finally over. The elusive experimental artist has confirmed details for his follow-up to 2014's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes. ANIMA, the GRAMMY-winning Radiohead frontman's third solo studio album, will be released digitally by XL Records on June 27, followed by a physical release on July 19.

A press release states that the album's nine tracks include "several songs that were debuted live over the course of Thom Yorke, [producer] Nigel Godrich and [audiovisual artist] Tarik Barri's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes performances." As Pitchfork points out, the tracklist contains a song called "Dawn Chorus," which diehard fans may recognize as one of Radiohead's mystery songs they have used but never released.

The trio will be bringing the trippy, immersive Tomorrow's Modern Boxes experience on tour again soon, with new fall North American dates recently announced, to follow the July shows in Europe and Asia. All new shows go on sale to the general public tomorrow, June 21, with venue pre-sales currently open. You can find complete tour info here, and pre-sale info from the specific venues and ticketing platforms.

The new album is currently available for pre-order, which includes several vinyl options, all of which come with a bonus track, "Ladies & Gentlemen, Thank You for Coming." The limited-edition orange deluxe double vinyl comes with a hardcover lyric and art book.

The new album will be accompanied by a visual short of the same name, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, with music by Yorke, featuring three tracks from the LP. The mysterious trailer, which you can watch below, was released today by Netflix, who will host the "one-reeler" video on June 27.

Earlier this year, Yorke released two new instrumental songs, which he was commissioned to write by the Philarmonie de Paris for French pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque, as part of the "Minimalist Dream House." His most recent full-length release was 2018's Suspiria, an instrumental score he recorded for Luca Guadagnino's film of the same name. Radiohead's most recent album is 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool.

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