The Stepkids Drop New Album; Tour

The Stepkids will release the anticipated follow up to their self-titled 2011 debut album this fall. Troubadour is set for release this fall on Stones Throw Records. Look for additional album details to be released in the coming weeks. They will also bring their live show to the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, a headline show at NYC’s Brooklyn Bowl and more. See full tour routing below.

The Connecticut trio is also set to perform tonight on NBC’s Last Call With Carson Daly. Shot at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theater while on tour with Kimbra last fall, they will perform “Suburban Dream” and “Shadows On Behalf.”

The band also recently performed new album track “The Art of Forgetting” as part of the “In The Red Bull Studio” series, a new video series that features influential and emerging artists performing songs from new and upcoming releases live from Red Bull Studio in Los Angeles. The video sees the band playing alongside eclectic geometric art installations that reflect psychedelic lighting that brings the song to life. In the accompanying interview, The Stepkids–Jeff Gitelman, Daniel Edinberg & Tim Walsh–discuss their forthcoming album, their deep roots in jazz music, performing live and more.

IN THE RED BULL STUDIO Videos
“The Art of Forgetting” Video: http://youtu.be/o1fCnNBW_PM
Interview: http://youtu.be/57ABBqjZ72U

TOUR DATES
May 18 Columbus, OH – Woodlands Tavern
May 20 Minneapolis, MN – The Cowles Center
May 22 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl
Jun 13 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music Festival
Jun 29 Rothbury, MI – Electric Forest Festival
Jul 19 Thornville, OH – All Good Festival

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@thestepkids

The Airborne Toxic Event Release New Album, Such Hot Blood; Tour Dates

Island Records group The Airborne Toxic Event are excited to release their newest album Such Hot Blood today. Such Hot Blood marks TATE’s first album with Jacquire King, the three-time Grammy Award®-winning producer, engineer, and songwriter/musician whose credits range from Kings of Leon, Of Monsters and Men, and Cold War Kids, to Buddy Guy, Tom Waits, and Norah Jones. The album is currently at #1 Alternative Chart on iTunes and #5 overall.

Such Hot Blood is the follow-up to All At Once, released April 2011, TATE’s second album and their first for Island Records (following their self-titled indie debut on Shout! Factory’s Majordomo imprint, released in 2008). The release of All At Once was supported with an unprecedented series of multi-venue five-night residencies in the world’s three rock capitals – London, Los Angeles, and New York – encompassing venues of increasing size and capacity in each city. Prior to those shows, TATE played a series of European residencies in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris.

Such Hot Blood is available NOW on iTunes, Amazon, and most other places.

To mark the release of the album, The Airborne Toxic Event will also be performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live this Thursday, May 2. Tune in at 11:35/10:35c on ABC to watch the band’s special performance.

The band are also touring in support of the new album’s release, with a number of upcoming dates already sold out, including two nights in Washington DC. For full itinerary, please see below.

The Airborne Toxic Event – Mikel Jollett (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steven Chen (guitar, keyboards), Anna Bulbrook (viola, keyboards, tambourine, backing vocals), Noah Harmon (bass, backing vocals), and Daren Taylor (drums) – earned their reputation as an aggressive touring band, known for playing more than 350 dates in support of their debut album release, opening for Kings of Leon, Franz Ferdinand, the Ting Tings, and many others.

The Airborne Toxic Event, who take their name from an incident in Don DeLillo’s terrifying 1985 novel White Noise (involving a poisonous cloud that erupts after a chemical spill from a railcar), are known for stretching the rock envelope at its seams. The band is no stranger to grand musical gestures, for example, being the only modern music act to play at the esteemed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles during its 2009 fall season. The result was the concert-documentary film All I Ever Wanted (2010), chosen as an official selection to the Raindance Film Festival. The band has performed with the Colorado Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, and frequent collaborators the Calder String Quartet.

THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT ON TOUR
Sat May 4 – West Palm Beach, FL – SunFest – TICKETS
Sun May 5 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre – FEW TICKETS REMAINING (w/Kodaline)
Mon May 6 – Carrboro/Chapel Hill, NC – Cat’s Cradle – FEW TICKETS REMAINING (w/Kodaline)
Wed May 8 – Washington D.C. – 9:30 Club – SOLD OUT (w/Kodaline)
Thu May 9 – Washington D.C. – 9:30 Club – SOLD OUT (w/Kodaline)
Fri May 10 – Boston, MA – House of Blues – SOLD OUT (w/Kodaline)
Sat May 11 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground – TICKETS (w/Kodaline)
Sun May 12 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center – TICKETS
Tue May 14 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Theatre – FEW TICKETS REMAINING (w/Kodaline)
Wed May 15 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theater – FEW TICKETS REMAINING (w/Leagues)
Thu May 16 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall – FEW TICKETS REMAINING (w/Leagues)
Sat June 1 – Visalia, CA – Fox Theatre – SOLD OUT
Sat June 8 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham – TICKETS (w/Leagues)
Sun June 9 – St Petersburg, FL – The State Theatre – TICKETS (w/Leagues)
Mon June 10 – Jacksonville, FL – Freebird Live – TICKETS (w/Leagues)
Wed June 12 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues – TICKETS (w/Leagues)
Thu June 13 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall – TICKETS (w/Leagues)
Fri June 14 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue – TICKETS (w/Leagues)
Wed June 19 – Providence, RI – Lupo’s – TICKETS (w/Joy Formidable)
Thu June 20 – Albany, NY – Upstate Concert Hall – TICKETS (w/Leagues)

Emily Wells Strips Down Album; Tour Dates

Emily Wells presents Mama Acoustic Recordings, a stripped down reworking of her 2012 record, Mama, which will be released digitally and on vinyl on June 11th via Partisan Records. This new effort sees the NYC-based singer/musician/producer casting it all aside, re-imagining songs first heard on 2012′s Partisan debut, Mama. Where that collection was marked by Wells’ extraordinary fusion of hip hop, experimental dance music, lyrical introspection, and classical complexity, the new album is stunningly austere, recorded solely with voice and guitar. Wells will headline US shows this spring and summer, playing major cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. The tracklisting and full list of tour dates is below.

From the start, Wells’ musical interests were simply too wide ranging for but one instrument. Trained as a classical violinist, the Texas native soon created her own sonic “spaceship,” an ever-growing pulsating arsenal of synthesizers, effects pedals, and toy instruments, all tied together with live sampling and a genre agnostic approach that is diverse, distinctive, and utterly her own. Wells honed her sound on a series of independent releases – including a groundbreaking cover of The Notorious B.I.G.’s classic “Juicy” – while also playing countless live dates both as bandleader and solo performer.

Mama Acoustic Recordings is a kind of accidental album, recorded last year while Wells was on self-described “sabbatical” living with friends in Portland, Oregon. Having spent much of the past five years on the career track, Wells treated herself to a long deserved breather. Of course, an artist as restlessly creative as Wells can’t stay silent for long. The powerful fan reaction to her acoustic version of “Darlin’” – released as a Mama bonus track – led her to a revelatory reassessment of her own work.

Wells began experimenting with her traveling reel-to-reel, recording gentle new versions of “Mama’s Gonna Give You Love” and “Johnny Cash’s Mama’s House” with just her voice and acoustic guitar (and beloved Fostex Spring Reverb unit). Peeling off her own ornate production, she revealed her songs to herself, exposing new meaning though stark minimalism.

Before long Wells had recorded 10 tracks – including one new song in the plaintive “Los Angeles.” The naked renditions of Mama highlights like “Passenger” and “Fire Song” were both striking and subtle, reminiscent of such iconic works of pastoral folk as Karen Dalton’s classic In My Own Time and Iron & Wine’s The Creek Drank The Cradle (like Mama Acoustic Recordings, its hushed tone determined by others sleeping in the next room). Though Wells hadn’t previously given much thought to releasing the material, upon reflection it was clear that the recordings demanded something more.

Wells’ unaccompanied efforts were complimented by a series of collaborative undertakings alongside a remarkably varied range of artists. She penned “Becomes The Color” to serve as closing theme to Chan-Wook Park’s acclaimed psychological thriller, Stoker, while her teaming with the film’s score composer, Clint Mansell, “If I Ever Had A Heart,” is featured as a bonus cut on the official soundtrack. As if that weren’t enough, 2013 has also seen the long awaited release of Pillowfight, Wells’ slinky partnership with the one and only Dan the Automator.

“I’ve always been sort of stunned at how, as an artist, people expect you to keep doing the same thing,” she says, “and I never do.”

Tracklisting:
1. Passenger
2. Darlin’
3. Los Angeles
4. No Good
5. Johnny Cash’s Mama’s House
6. Mama’s Gonna Give You Love
7. Let Your Guard Down
8. Fire Song
9. Dirty Sneakers & Underwear
10. Piece of It

Tour Dates:
4/7 – Iowa City, IA – Mission Creek Festival
5/1 – Mechanicsburg, PA – Larsen Student Union at Messiah College
5/2 – Ithaca, NY – The Haunt
5/3 – Buffalo, NY – Ninth Ward
5/5 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
5/8 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick Lounge
5/9 – Indianapolis, IN – Radio Radio
5/10 – Chicago, IL – Schuba’s
5/17 – Blairstown, NJ – Historic Blairstown Theater
6/13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
6/14 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
6/19 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
6/20 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
8/8 – Hart, MI – Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (Main Stage)

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Austra Announces New Album ‘Olympia’;Listen to “Home” Now

Olympia is an album of transformation. Though it has only been two years since Austra’s 2010 debut Feel It Break, it presents a quantum evolution in the Toronto-based band’s sound, structure and style.

After three years of non-stop international touring with the likes of the xx, Grimes and the Gossip, when it came time to record Olympia, Austra had evolved into a complex collaborative effort between its six members. “Previously, I would flesh out songs before I brought them to the band, but this time I left them bare and let the others fill them in” explains Katie Stelmanis, the principal songwriter/vocalist.

Olympia is also the first confessional record for Stelmanis as evidenced by the heartfelt lyrics of piano driven lead single “Home” (stream here!). “Home” expresses the anxieties of waiting up all night for a lover to return. “I was mad and upset and the song just wrote itself,” says the singer. The album touches on a range of sentiments that stem from a relationship ending, a relationship beginning, and friends’ struggles with addiction and motivation. Despite the sometimes dark lyrics written in collaboration with band member Sari Lightman, Olympia is bubbly and buoyant— fundamentally a dance record, which Stelmanis says was the band’s aim all along. “We are really into dense harmonies and big beautiful melodies, but I also love techno and dance music. I wanted to bring those elements together.”

Though Olympia is filled with electronic and synthetic sounds that reference everything from Trax Record classic cuts to Yazoo’s Upstairs At Eric’s, it’s free of programming and loops. Everything was played live by the band in the studio and all of the percussion including a wild set up of marimbas and congas was performed by drummer Maya Postepski. “Maya played a huge role in the production of the album,” says Stelmanis, who has been playing with the drummer for eight years since their previous band, Galaxy. “There is a major percussive element running through every song,” Stelmanis laughs, “this is the album where we discovered rhythm.”

The album was produced by Austra with additional production by Mike Haliechuk, vocal production by Damian Taylor (Bjork, the Killers), engineered by Bill Skibbe and Leon Taheny and mixed by Tom Elmhirst (Adele, Erasure, Hot Chip).

Austra is Katie Stelmanis (lead vocals), Maya Postepski (drums), Dorian Wolf (bass), Ryan Wonsiak (keys), Sari & Romy Lightman (backing vocals).

Olympia will be available on CD, 2xLP, and digitally June 18 (US) / June 18 (Canada on Paper Bag Records) / June 17 (Rest of the world) on Domino.

Austra Online:

http://www.austramusic.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Austra/124441027607242

https://twitter.com/austratalks

http://www.dominorecordco.com/austraolympia (Rest of the world label)
http://www.paperbagrecords.com (Canadian label)

Tour Dates:
03-13 Austin, TX – Vice Land (Vice SXSW)
03-14 Austin, TX – Hype Hotel (Hype Machine SXSW)
03-15 Austin, TX – The Mohawk (Windish SXSW)
03-16 Austin, TX – Elysium (Moog SXSW)
03-16 Austin, TX – Old Emo’s (Brooklynvegan SXSW)
06-02 Dublin, IE – Forbidden Fruit
06-06 Zurich, SE – Plaza
06-07 Luzerne, SE – Sudpol
06-08 Yverdon-les Bains, SE – L’Amalgame
06-10 Amsterdam, NL – Bitterzoet
06-12 Paris, FR – Nouvelle Casino
06-14 Berlin, DE – Lido
06-17 London, UK – Hoxton Bar Grill
06-20 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (Buy tickets)
06-23 Los Angeles, LA – Troubadour (Buy tickets)
06-26 San Francisco, CA – The Independent (Buy tickets)

Olympia Track Listing:
1. What We Done?
2. Forgive Me
3. Painful Like
4. Sleep
5. Home
6. Fire
7. I Don’t Care (I’m a Man)
8. We Become
9. Reconcile
10. Annie (Oh muse, you)
11. You Changed My Life
12. Hurt Me Now

DOWN Announce Headline Tour Dates Plus Vinyl LP Release Of “Down IV Part 1″ Out 2/26!

Heavy metal rockers DOWN has announced that they will perform a handful of headline dates this May. Kicking things off on May 23 in Birmingham, AL – the band will stop in 7 cities in the Southeast including Baltimore’s Maryland Deathfest, and wrap things up with a hometown show in New Orleans on May 31. Tickets go on sale to the general public on February 16 and include VIP Packages with opportunities to meet the band and hang out at soundcheck. For more information, visit DOWN-NOLA.com.

DOWN is touring in support of their latest release, Down IV Part I. The 6-song EP will be released on vinyl on February 26 (Down Records/ADA). The EP – a collection of dark, dangerous and decisive metal tracks – debuted at the top of the Hard Music Album Chart and sat comfortably at the #1 spot on Metal Radio for several weeks upon its official release last September. The release was critically acclaimed, with Rolling Stone praising “a typically aggressive Anselmo vocal against a twisting, grinding musical backdrop,” while Noisecreep proclaims “Down specialize in the kind of Saint Vitus-kissed grooves and vocal hooks that get stuck inside your head long after it leaves your stereo.” Additionally the band was featured on the January cover of Decibel.

DOWN’s notorious dark and unique southern-infused brand of hard rock/metal consists of lead singer Phil Anslemo’s (Pantera) gut-wrenching vocals, Pepper Keenan (C.O.C.) and Kirk Windstein’s (Crowbar) grinding guitar riffs, Jimmy Bower’s (Eye Hate God) thunderous drums, and Pat Brunder’s (Crowbar) blasting bass cords leave even the most dedicated and hardcore of fans in complete shock and awe. DOWN are back with a vengeance, and intend to show everyone exactly why they are one of heavy metal’s most iconic figures.

DOWN TOUR DATES:
May 23, 2013 – Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco
May 24, 2013 – Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre
May 25, 2013 – Baltimore, MD @ Sonar – Maryland Deathfest
May 27, 2013 – Augusta, GA @ Sky City
May 28, 2013 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
May 30, 2013 – Broussard, LA @ The Station
May 31, 2013 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues

The Airborne Toxic Event Release New Single “Timeless” – Listen Here!

Island Records group The Airborne Toxic Event caps a near two-year hiatus between album releases and major touring with news of a brand new single, “Timeless” that premieres today at XXX. “Timeless” heralds the arrival of TATE’s third album, SUCH HOT BLOOD, due this spring. To hear “Timeless,” CLICK HERE. .

In support of the “Timeless” release, The Airborne Toxic Event will play two shows in New York this week, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 15th and 16th, at Webster Hall, both dates sold out in advance. Another show will follow on January 23rd back home in Los Angeles at the Mayan Theatre, also sold out in advance. Touring picks up on March 30th at the House of Blues in San Diego, a nine-city North American trip that wraps up at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on April 11th. (Please see tour dates below.)

At the same time, The Airborne Toxic Event is among the latest roster of artists to be confirmed for this year’s South By Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences and Festivals, scheduled for March 8-17th. Other recent additions include Ra Ra Riot, Chris Carrabba, Cold War Kids, Robyn Hitchcock, the Joy Formidable, and Richard Thompson.

“There’s nothing like Nashville for starting new in music.” said the band. “It gets in your blood, the rhythm of the place, the people. Making a record with Jacquire King at Blackbird Studios was the most challenging and all-encompassing experience we’ve ever had as a band.

SUCH HOT BLOOD marks TATE’s first album with Jacquire King, the three-time Grammy Award®-winning producer, engineer, and songwriter/musician whose credits range from Kings of Leon, Of Monsters and Men, and Cold War Kids, to Buddy Guy, Tom Waits, and Norah Jones.

SUCH HOT BLOOD is the follow-up to All At Once, released April 2011, TATE’s second album and their first for Island Records (following their self-titled indie debut on Shout! Factory’s Majordomo imprint, released in 2008). The release of All At Once was supported with an unprecedented series of multi-venue five-night residencies in the world’s three rock capitals – London, Los Angeles, and New York – encompassing venues of increasing size and capacity in each city. Prior to those shows, TATE played a series of European residencies in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris.

The Men Announce New Album ‘New Moon’ Out March 5

Ahhh… King B approved, The Men.

With their fourth full-length album to be released in as many years, The Men proudly present the sweeping New Moon, the most intensely personal and immersive installment yet. New Moon is the follow up to their well-received 2012 release, Open Your Heart. The record’s first single, “Electric”, will be released on 7-inch vinyl on January 22.

The Men quit the city in early 2012 to head for Big Indian, NY – transforming a remote Catskills locale into a full-fledged stray dog studio home. Taking complete advantage of dry eyes and clear mountain mornings, the band thoroughly surrendered their writing process and themselves to the recording environment.

Entering with only the most skeletal sketches, the house was selected as an incubator for its technical limitations, 32-hour orbit and predisposal to celestial intervention. Familiar faces remain, the core of guitarists Nick Chiericozzi and Mark Perro, with drummer Rich Samis all returning from 2012’s much-acclaimed Open Your Heart. Friend and producer Ben Greenberg (Pygmy Shrews, Hubble, Zs) officially joins the ranks as bassist on paper, and full-bore compositional partner in practice. In tandem, wayward brother Kevin Faulkner occupies his most substantial sphere to date, dreaming aloud on lap steel.

The Men’s oft-cited commitment to their “no-one-is-frontman” maxim surely insists itself all the more emphatically here. — so much so that it practically creates a new band in the process. This smiling observance induces a fresh fluidity amongst their roles and instrumentation, incorporating at various junctures piano, mandolin, harmonica, four-part vocal harmonies and even no-input harsh noise. New Moon is simultaneously an expansion of palette and a contraction of focus. It is a love letter devoted in bowed humility to the grand continuum, exposing the hoax of the great divide. Allegiances to the glowing patinas of Detroit and San Francisco, New York and Nashville all abound, but ‘nostalgia’ is not her name. The band’s clear ethos is to revisit but never retread.

NEW MOON TRACK LIST
01. Open The Door
02. Half Angel Half Light
03. Without A Face
04. The Seeds
05. I Saw Her Face
06. High and Lonesome
07. The Brass
08. Electric
09. I See No One
10. Bird Song
11. Freaky
12. Supermoon

LIVE DATES
Mar 07 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Mar 09 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
Mar 14 Paris, FR – Point FMR
Mar 15 Kortrijk, BE – De Kreun
Mar 16 Bruxelles, BE – Magasin 4
Mar 17 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
Mar 18 London, UK – Rough Trade
Mar 19 London, UK – Garage
Mar 20 Nijmigen, NL – Merlyn
Mar 21 Copenhagen, DK – Stengade
Mar 22 Berlin, DE – Festaal
Mar 23 Prague, CZ – 007 Club
Mar 24 Vienna, AT – Arena
Mar 25 Budapest, HU – Gozsdu Mano Klub
Mar 26 Ljubljana, SL – Menza
Mar 27 Zagreb, CR – Club Mocvara
Mar 28 Belgrade, SE – Grad Beograd
Mar 29 Skopje, MA – Menza Pro Koritu
Mar 30 Tessaloniki, GR – 8 Ball Club
Mar 31 Athens, GR – AN Club
May 31 Austin, TX – Chaos in Tejas
Jun 01 Austin, TX – Chaos in Tejas

Listen to the first single “Electric” now:
http://youtu.be/4MKGz5c8p2M

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Slightly Stoopid Debuts New Track TODAY On SlightlyStoopid.Com!

The Tracks crew are big fans of Slightly Stoopid and their Stoopidheads, so news of their upcoming album created quite a buzz. We’ve gotten our hands on the entire album, and it’s sounding spliff-aliciously good! But for now, go check SlightlyStoopid.com TODAY, and hear the title track from “Top of the World”!
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Slightly Stoopid is giving fans a taste of their upcoming new album today, as the band debuts the title track to Top of the World beginning at 10 am PDT on www.slightlystoopid.com as well as the band’s Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. “Top of the World” is indicative of the band’s signature mash-up of eclectic grooves – a track threaded with a hypnotic guitar line, hip-hop beat and undeniable vocal hooks. Their highly-anticipated seventh studio album, which features several high-profile collaborations, will be released on August 14 on their own label Stoopid Records. The group’s previous Stoopid Records releases have combined for sales of nearly one million copies.

Click here to watch the video of “Top of the World”

The seven-piece band continues to explore a variety of styles on Top of the World, with help from some of their biggest influences and heroes including: reggae legends Barrington Levy and Don Carlos of Black Uhuru; “unofficial 8th member” Karl Denson of Greyboy Allstars; longtime band friend and touring partner G. Love; Fishbone frontman Angelo Moore; ex-Jurassic Five emcee extraordinaire Chali 2na; Dumpstaphunk’s Ian Neville; and hit-making singer/songwriter Angela Hunte.

Since forming in 1995, Slightly Stoopid has toured virtually non-stop, and this summer is no different. Slightly Stoopid has joined forces with 311 for the party of the summer, as the two bands recently launched Unity Tour 2012. This installment of the annual trek is hitting amphitheaters nationwide through September 5.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer To Re-Issue First Albums As Deluxe Editions

Razor & Tie is set to release the first two Emerson, Lake & Palmer re-issues of the band’s first two albums: Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970 – Studio Album) and Tarkus (1971 – Studio Album) on September 11th. Both records will be available as 3-disc deluxe editions containing never before released 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo Mixes, including previously unheard out-takes. Three time Grammy-nominated producer and engineer Steven Wilson (who has also recently remixed classic albums by Jethro Tull and King Crimson for acclaimed 40th anniversary editions) worked from the original Greg Lake produced multi-track tapes to remix both albums.

Fans can also purchase Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Tarkus deluxe editions at http://elp.merchnow.com/ where the albums will be bundled with a variety of ELP t-shirts perfect for any collector. Pre-orders are available now for the deluxe albums, vinyl re-presses and a selection of Emerson, Lake & Palmer t-shirts.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Tarkus will also be released on limited edition 180 gram audiophile vinyl. The records will be re-pressed and released with their original packaging and track listings. The vinyl re-presses will be available September 11th as well.

Both albums will also be digitally, specifically mastered for iTunes by Grammy-award winning engineer Brad Blackwood (Alison Krauss & Union Station, Maroon 5, North Mississippi Allstars, Saving Abel).

AXS TV will also exclusively premiere the Emerson, Lake & Palmer 40th Anniversary concert this August. The legendary Rock Band reunited to celebrate their 40th Anniversary and headlined London’s first High Voltage Rock Festival. This was the historic moment when Emerson Lake and Palmer performed for the first time since 1998. This spectacular performance with extravagant special effects and lighting recaptured the magic and musical genius of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer as they performed their greatest hits in front of thousands of fans and leaving a lasting memory of the stunning musicianship of these three legendary performers.

Razor & Tie’s full catalogue re-issue campaign will continue with the release of newly expanded, re-mastered, editions of four additional ELP classic albums: Pictures At An Art Exhibition (1971- Live Album), Trilogy (1972- Studio Album), Brain Salad Surgery (1973- Studio Album), and Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends – Ladies & Gentlemen (1974- Live Album).

Considered by many to be one of rock’s original first super-groups, Emerson Lake & Palmer formed in England in 1970 consisting of Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (bass guitar, vocals, guitar) and Carl Palmer (drums, percussion). The band created a brand new world of music, combining classical and symphonic rock fused with beautiful vocals. Their penchant for appropriating themes from classical music and the group’s more nuanced, textured approach to symphonic arrangements set ELP apart from their more bombastic guitar-based contemporaries of the time. This subtler and more sublime approach carries on today in the expansive atmospherics of Radiohead and Muse and also in the prog-influenced sphere of band’s like Porcupine Tree, Dream Theatre, Opeth and many others, making ELP one of the more relevant torchbearers of the progressive rock sound. Along with Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, and Rush, Emerson Lake and Palmer ushered in the Prog era and as one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1970’s having sold over 40 million albums. ELP’s dramatic flair, sincere passion, labyrinthine song structures, and symphony-worthy virtuosity proved that classical rockers could compete for arena-scale audiences as the band headlined stadium tours around the world.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer Deluxe Edition Track List:
Disc One: Original Album
The Barbarian
Take A Pebble
Knife-Edge
The Three Fates
i. Clotho ROYAL FESTIVAL
HALL ORGAN
ii. Lachesis PIANO SOLO
iii. Atropos PIANO SOLO
Tank
Lucky Man
Disc Two: Bonus Tracks (2012) THE ALTERNATE ELP NEW 2012 STEREO MIXES (Previously Unreleased)
The Barbarian
Take A Pebble
Knife Edge (with Extended Outro)
Promenade
The Three Fates: Atropos
Rave Up
Drum Solo
Lucky Man
Bonus Tracks:
Take A Pebble (Alternate Version)
Knife Edge (Alternate Version)
Lucky Man (First Greg Lake Solo Version)
Lucky Man (Alternate Version)

Disc Three: DVD Audio NEW 2012 – 5.1 MIX (Previously Unreleased)
The Barbarian
Take A Pebble
Knife-Edge
The Three Fates: Atropos
Rave Up
Lucky Man
NEW HIGH RES 2012 STEREO MIXES (Previously Unreleased)

7. The Barbarian
8. Take A Pebble
9. Knife Edge (with Extended Outro)
10. Promenade
11. The Three Fates: Atropos
12. Rave Up
13. Drum Solo
14. Lucky Man
15. Take A Pebble (Alternate Version)
16. Knife Edge (Alternate Version)
17. Lucky Man (First Greg Lake Solo Version)
18. Lucky Man (Alternate Version)

Tarkus Deluxe Edition Track List:
Disc One: Original Album
Tarkus
i.Eruption
ii. Stones Of Years
iii. Iconoclast
iv. Mass
v. Manticore
vi. The Battlefield
vi..Aquatarkus
Jeremy Bender
Bitches Crystal
The Only Way (Hymn)
Infinite Space (Conclusion)
A Time And A Place
Are You Ready Eddy?
Disc Two: The Alternate Tarkus 2012 Stereo Mixes
Tarkus
Eruption
Stones Of Years
Iconoclast
Mass
Manticore
The Battlefield
Aquatarkus
Jeremy Bender
Bitches Crystal
The Only Way (Hymn)
Infinite Space (Conclusion)
A Time And A Place
Are You Ready Eddy?
Oh, My Father
Unknown Ballad
Mass (Alternate Take)
Disc Three: TDVD Audio New 2012 5.1 Mixes
Tarkus
Eruption
Stones Of Years
Iconoclast
Mass
Manticore
The Battlefield
Aquatarkus
Jeremy Bender
Bitches Crystal
The Only Way (Hymn)
Infinite Space (Conclusion)
A Time And A Place
Are You Ready Eddy?
Oh My Father
2012 Stereo Mixes
Tarkus
Eruption
Stones Of Years
Iconoclast
Mass
Manticore
The Battlefield
Aquatarkus
Jeremy Bender
Bitches Crystal
The Only Way (Hymn)
Infinite Space (Conclusion)
A Time And A Place
Are You Ready Eddy?
Oh My Father
Unknown Ballad
Mass

LINKS
www.emersonlakepalmer.com

http://elp.merchnow.com/

The Toadies’ “Play. Rock. Music.” Out July 31

It’s been 23 years since the Toadies started playing rock music in Fort Worth, Texas, but even the band will admit that the road they’ve taken over that lengthy period of time has been anything but smooth.

Through lineup changes, shelved albums, member departures, band break-ups, one-off reunions and full-on reformations, the Toadies are an act that has experienced nearly everything — except, perhaps, the freedom to grow as they choose.

On July 31, the Toadies will release their fifth full-length album — a disc fittingly called Play.Rock.Music., because, perhaps for the first time in their career, the band feels capable of unapologetically doing just that.

After bursting onto the national scene with their breakthrough Rubberneck album, which begat their signature single “Possum Kingdom,” the successful follow-up single “Away” and the immense fan favorite “Tyler,” the Toadies returned to the studio in 1998 with the pressure of trying to match their first album’s success. The result was a disc called Feeler, an album the band’s then-label home, Insterscope Records, was supposed to release in 1998/99 but decided to shelve despite the band’s protests. So it was back to the drawing board for the 2001-released Hell Below/Stars Above, an awkwardly timed sophomore album that enjoyed moderate success and almost universal critical acclaim but was ultimately doomed because of the seven-year wait it took to arrive.

Disappointed and dejected, the band dissolved just a few months after that album’s release. Bassist Lisa Umbarger quit music altogether. Drummer Mark Reznicek joined Dallas country band Eleven Hundred Springs. Guitarist Clark Vogeler moved to Hollywood, where he became an Emmy Award-winning editor for breakout cable reality series Project Runway. Front man and primary songwriter Vaden Todd Lewis formed a new band called the Burden Brothers.

It was a reunion show in Dallas in 2006, originally planned as a one-off gig, which reignited the band’s spark. The following year, the band embarked on a surprise tour of Texas. A year later, they fully re-formed, recording and releasing 2008’s No Deliverance for Dallas’ Kirtland Records and ushering bassist Doni Blair (formerly of Dallas band Hagfish) into Umbarger’s former role.

Immediately, fans of the band ecstatically welcomed the Toadies’ return. On stage at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits, they played to the largest — and maybe even rowdiest — crowds of their careers. On tours in support of No Deliverance, they played across the country to sold-out rooms and eager audiences.

Refreshed and inspired, the band launched their own annual festival in 2008, and, each summer since, thousands have traveled to remote Texas locations to attend Dia De Los Toadies — not only to observe the festival’s namesake in action, but to watch the band’s favorite up-and-coming Texas talents as well.

In 2010, redemption finally came: The band re-recorded their Feeler tracks and, rather cathartically, released for Kirtland, the second Toadies album that never was.

This past spring, the band, joined by Grammy-nominated producer Chris “Frenchie” Smith (Jet, Built to Spill, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead), entered an Austin recording studio with a clean slate — and, for the first time in the run of the band, Lewis says, without any fully written tracks in tow.

“I just wanted to do something I wouldn’t have ordinarily done,” Lewis says. “I wanted to broaden my abilities as a writer. And it turned out to be a beautiful process. If it felt good right then and there in the studio as we fleshed it out, then we knew it was pretty good. And it just worked, man.”

So much so that the sessions, which were originally planned so the band could record a new EP release, ended up providing the Toadies with a complete full-length’s worth of material. And not for naught: The songs on Play.Rock.Music. are some of the best the Toadies have ever released. The trademarks of the band are all present — Lewis’ howl, the chugging guitars, the unrepentant angst — but they’re also improved upon

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