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TODD SNIDER EXPANDS NATIONAL TOUR WITH 25 ADDITIONAL DATES
SUPPORTING AGNOSTIC HYMNS & STONER FABLES

Todd Snider

Todd Snider has added 25 headlining tour dates to his spring tour, including new stops in Seattle, Portland, and Dallas. The 40+ date will feature Snider backed by a full band and wraps up with a special hometown show at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium. Justin Townes Earle co-headlines two shows in Tennessee. All new April, May, and June tour dates go on sale February 3.

The spring tour supports Snider’s new album Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables out March 6 (Aimless Records), which casts a critical eye on the state of the world with his trademark blend of wry wit and compassion for the 99%. Full tour dates below.

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** – w/ Justin Townes Earle (co-headline)

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Atmosphere with Common, Budo and Grieves :: 01.27.12 :: Red Rocks Amphitheatre :: Morrison, CO

Atmosphere Setlist

God Loves Ugly, The Woman With the Tattooed Hands, Shoulda Known, The Best Day, Just For Show, She’s Enough, Gods Bathroom Floor, Puppets, Don’t Ever Fucking Question That, Abusing of the Rib, Little Man, Yesterday, Until the Nipple’s Gone. [Encore]: Sunshine, Trying To Find A Balance, Cats Van Bags (with Brother Ali)

1/27/12 – Common, Atmosphere, Grieves and Budo @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre (Morrison, CO) View Photos

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GRAMMY-WINNING REGGAE GROUP ROLL OUT 2012 PLANS

Steel Pulse

British reggae group Steel Pulse have lined up tour dates this Winter and Spring, starting with a string of East Coast dates in February. They’ll join Galactic, Corey Glover, Soul Rebels Brass Band and Corey Henry on 2/25 in NYC and 2/26 in Boston.

From there, the group will pick it back up in April with dates in Florida, California, and a stop at NOLA Jazz Fest on April 27.

Steel Pulse are currently working on a new album which will be released later in the year and also a documentary of their long career which features live footage and interviews.

Steel Pulse is David Hinds (Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar) and Selwyn Brown (Vocals, Keyboards).

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06/02/12 Sat 5th Street Beach Stage Virginia Beach, VA

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There’s an improper division of wealth in America, with too much money going to a small few, and too little money going to the vast majority. Being a celebrity, your inclination is to keep things this way, as you’re part of the small few. How do you do that? Human slavery.

BELGIAN ELECTRO-INDUSTRIAL OUTFIT’S
FIRST FULL-LENGTH ALBUM IN 12 YEARS

Deep Chills

Lords of Acid, the Belgian electro-industrial outfit who turned the dance music world on its ear in 1991 with the legendary single “I Sit On Acid,” return with their first album in twelve years, Deep Chills, which is slated for an Apr. 10 release on Metropolis Records.

The 14-track album was recorded in Belgium and Los Angeles with Praga Khan and longtime collaborator Erhan Kurkun working on the music and arrangements. Vixen vocalist DJ Mea takes center stage throughout the album.

Deep Chills’ first single, “Pop That Tooshie,” finds adult superstar Alana Evans guesting on vocals while Zak Bagans, the star of Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures and Paranormal Challenge, lends his voice to the track “Paranormal Energy.”

Deep Chills track listing:

14. Surfin’ Hedgehog

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LIVE VIDEOS COMING NEXT WEEK!

On Wednesday of this week, SOJA, in partnership with the all-new Chevy Sonic, performed an hour long concert as part of the new Sonic Live series, which was streamed right here on JamBase. Next week we’ll be sharing some choice video from this performance but in the meantime we have these killer shots of the session from photographer Dominick Mastrangelo to show how much fun went down.

MAPS & ATLASES ANNOUNCE SOPHOMORE LP

Maps & Atlases will release their sophomore full-length Beware and Be Grateful on April 17.

The band released a teaser trailer for the album, featuring the track “Remote And Dark Years,” available at www.mapsandatlases.org. The band is also heading to South By Southwest in Austin, TX, and have just announced a string of Midwest dates before and after the festival as well as dates in Europe and the UK in April. A full headlining US tour starting in May will be announced shortly.

The album – which follows the Chicago-based band’s acclaimed 2010 debut, Perch Patchwork – was recorded last year in a series of week-long sessions at Omaha’s ARC Studios with producer Jason Cupp (Nurses, Good Old War) once again behind the board.

Maps & Atlases On Tour

10. Important

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ALTERNATIVE ROCKERS TO PLAY SUMMER CAMP

Summer Camp Music Festival have added seminal alternative rockers Jane’s Addiction as one of the headliners. Read the announcement below by festival founder/director Ian Goldberg, posted on the Summer Camp facebook page. The 12th annual Summer Camp Music Festival is held May 25-27 at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois.

“Hello Summer Campers. This is Ian Goldberg, founder and director of Summer Camp Music Festival. I have to tell you how excited I am to make this announcement. This is one of my all time favorite bands, who not only turned me on to what became the alternative music movement of the 90′s, but also created the music festival that changed my life and is largely responsible for me creating Summer Camp Music Festival. I followed the first Lollapalooza tour around like I was on dead tour, seeing as many shows as I could. The mix of some of my favorite bands along with a village highlighting many different social and environmental causes showed me that you really can use music as a uniting force to bring people together for positive change. This was largely responsible for my choice to go into the music business, and why I am so proud to now be able to present to you, Creado y Regalo de Los Angeles … Jane’s Addiction!”

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PRIMUS PERFORMS TWO CUTS ON FALLON

Last night, Primus stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to play “Lee Van Cleef” off their recent record Green Naugahyde, and as a web-only performance, their classic “Jerry was a Race Car Driver” off 1991′s Sailing the Seas of Cheese. Check out both clips below.

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LUTHER DICKINSON, ANDERS OSBORNE,
KARL DENSON JOIN SNOWLIVE

It has been announced that Talib Kweli will not be appearing at the Snowlive event in Tahoe/Crystal Bay. All is not lost, however, as Luther Dickinson, Anders Osborne and Karl Denson have joined the expanding list of special guests. More names are due to be added in the coming days.

Snowlive is 4 days of Soulive with special guests every night at the Crystal Bay Club in Crystal Bay, NV on February 22-25. In addition to guests, each night will feature a different musical theme incorporating guests, as well as a Classic Soulive Throwdown on Saturday night. Click here for tickets.

Special Guests:

George Porter Jr.

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ERALDO BERNOCCHI, HAROLD BUDD & ROBIN GUTHRIE

CREATE AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES ON
WINTER GARDEN

At a time when music is becoming faster, louder, glitzier and everyone is looking for the perfect hook, three visionary artists have pooled their talents to bring a cleansing breath to the modern musical landscape. With Winter Garden (out March 13), producer-sound designer and RareNoiseRecords co-founder Eraldo Bernocchi has teamed up with the enigmatic poet-pianist-composer and ambient music pioneer Harold Budd and multi-instrumentalist-sound engineer Robin Guthrie to present an ambient music offering of rare beauty.

Contrary to more conventional band recordings, Winter Garden, can be thought of more as a studio concoction; Budd plays piano, while Guthrie’s subtle touches of guitar, piano, keyboards and auxilliary instruments is radically treated with reverb and effects in the post-production stage. A pastiche of shimmering, tranquil soundscapes that gently insinuate themselves into the subconscious, Winter Garden may serve as the perfect antidote to urban frenzy.

With such evocative titles as “Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You,” “Losing My Breath,” “Harmony and the Play of Light” and “South of Heaven,” the music heard on Winter Garden can be considered a modern day extension of such early ’80s ambient music classics as Brian Eno‘s Music for Airports and Budd’s atmospheric collaborations with Eno on The Pavilon of Dreams, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl. Only two pieces – the pulsating “Entangled” and “Stay With Me” – stray from the ambient nature of the project by incorporating beats and groove. Click
here to listen to those two tracks and see the tracklisting below.

Winter Garden Tracklist

10. Dream On

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THE DEFINITIVE VISUAL ANTHOLOGY OF ONE OF THE MOST

On April 17 the Grateful Dead will be celebrated with a 14-DVD box set titled All The Years Combine: The DVD Collection, to be released by Shout! Factory in collaboration with Rhino Entertainment.

Conceived as the ultimate tribute to the band’s legendary on-stage prowess, the set includes 12 concert films; a 40-page booklet containing rare photos and new liner notes by Blair Jackson; and all bonus features from previous releases of the DVDs in the set.

As a special treat for fans, it also includes an exclusive bonus disc containing five previously unreleased live performances from the Grateful Dead archive, Backstage Pass, the 1992 documentary directed by Justin Kreutzmann, and a brand-new interview with Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux.

Fans who preorder All the Years Combine: The DVD Collection directly from Shout! Factory will receive an exclusive bumper sticker with their order, while supplies last. Click here for more information.

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Brand-new interview with Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux

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Check out the spring U.S. tour dates with a full band here!

New Album

Reinvention is a tricky business. Veer too far from the known and one loses existing fans, stick too close to well trod paths and risk being predictable and safe. Rodrigo y Gabriela have gone their own way since they emerged with a bang in the early 2000s as a hypnotizing duo that mingled flamenco attack with metal accents, jazz seductiveness and more. With just two acoustic guitars (and some choice effects and smart use of volume), Rodrigo Sánchez (lead guitar) and Gabriela Quintero (rhythm guitar) have become an international sensation, a position gained through raw talent, a unique vision and dedication to pushing themselves into new areas. This last point is shiningly evident on their new release, Area 52 (released January 24 on ATO), which finds them reimagining signature pieces like “11:11” and “Hanuman” with a group of skilled Cuban musicians and some handpicked guests like metal drummer extraordinaire John Tempesta and sitarist Anoushka Shankar. It is a lively affair, vigorously engaging with familiar territory and finding much new in these fresh hands, which layer horns, violin, piano and oodles of percussion onto their songs. The duo themselves similarly stretch, taking up electric instruments including lap steel and generally throwing hesitation to the wind in order to stir up new sounds.

We spoke with Sánchez about the genesis of this project and what it means within the music that’s established them as international stars.

Rodrigo Sánchez by Mike Hardaker

JamBase: There’s been an appetite amongst some fans to hear what you two would sound like with a smoking band cooking behind you, but how did you end up in Cuba, which doesn’t seem like the obvious choice on the surface of things?

Rodrigo: Honestly, the original idea I had at the beginning didn’t turn out the way I thought it would. It was more like a project in the middle of two albums, but as my first approach – to work with a Latin band – arrived and I told our managers, who liked the idea, it was interesting. But as we started to build the whole thing, I realized Cuba would be a good place to do it. I had been in New York and saw a show with a big Latin jazz band, and thought, “That’d be interesting to do.”

At the same time, my management said, “You have another year to go touring, so when after that are you going to jump into the studio for the next album?” To me, that sounded crazy because we’ve been on tour for SO long. So, I had to come up with something to keep them happy AND get us a break. But, it didn’t turn out to be much of a break [laughs]. I’m happy now and embrace it because the results are good. I listen to it and like it. I don’t listen to it the same way I listen to my other albums. I think of it as if I were listening to another band, which I enjoy.

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JamBase: It’s exciting to hear your music, familiar pieces to any fan, take on new life. The new version of “11:11” is so fearless, so ready to go somewhere it hasn’t gone before.

Rodrigo: That’s true, and it’s one of my favorite tracks. In fact, that’s the kind of track I hoped we’d go to. Going to Cuba was like taking a music course. We never went to music school, so we don’t know how to read or write music – everything is in our hands. So, we got involved with musicians who knew how to get into the music with their hands, too, but also knew how to read and understand music in both worlds. It was hard work but we learned a lot. We pushed ourselves to get to their level, and we got to change solos and add to and extend pieces. I got to play the electric guitar again!

That’s one of the more striking elements on this album, especially captured with a full rhythm section and the other instrumentation.

It was something I hadn’t tried before on the other two albums and Gabriella as well. She added some of the wah-wah elements she uses onstage but normally doesn’t do much on the albums. For her, it was an amazing experience to learn different rhythms that wouldn’t clash with all the percussive elements but still retained her guitar as a clear part of the rhythm section. It was a challenge but it came out pretty good.

What did you find came up in your music as it came into contact with Cuban music? Cuban music has an energy and flow that’s unique.

Gabriela Quintero by Mike Hardaker

When we were building the whole thing we were sent videos of all the musicians by this guy in Cuba who was setting up everything so we could pick [who would be involved]. If we were looking for a flute player, he’d send us videos of five flute players that were available and well recommended. So, we looked for a balance between young and very experienced musicians, but we didn’t want to go all the way with traditional musicians. We didn’t want to do something like the Buena Vista Social Club [laughs].

There’s definitely a temptation to do something along those lines. Record labels love that sort of thing.

Exactly! To be honest, that was my speech when I sold [the idea] to labels. I thought they’d like that…and they did! I knew I didn’t want to go so traditional, but they didn’t know that [laughs].

That’s great [laughs]! I think it’s important with your music, which is young and coming from a different place than the usual corporate music industry, that you would also play with other younger musicians with the same mindset.

Yes! I know that and though we had a lot of young musicians, we also had, for example, the bass player Feliciano Arango Noa, who is a legend in Cuba where he’s played on over 200 albums and with all the big stars you can imagine. He’s older than anyone, but even he said, “I need to do something different.”

Rodrigo y Gabriela

The younger musicians were SO happy. They weren’t aware of us because the Cuban people aren’t aware of anything really [due to state control of all imported news and entertainment]. These musicians watched what we did and really got into it. They were really fearless. They were willing to change the clave, which normally for them is a big, big deal.

It’s always exciting when someone says there are no rules. This is often where the best music emerges.

Totally! In the classical world, they might not be that excited by this idea because they don’t have the same kind of skills the Cubans have. When they go to school in Cuba, they learn classical music not Cuban music. In fact, they don’t have schools to teach traditional Cuban music. That’s amazing to me. All the music they play is coming from generations on the street.

It’s kept alive person to person.

But they also understand classical music, and everyone can read music and all that, which is why they are so good.

Are there any plans to tour with this group? Being from Cuba, I imagine there are all sorts of complications and challenges to making that happen.

It’s very difficult, but we are going to do a couple of tours. The first one is in February in Europe, and then the second in America in April. We’re not sure if we’ll be able to bring them all but we want to keep most of the band together. A lot of them play with big bands in Cuba and have other commitments. But we don’t want to just hire any musicians to just play. The idea is to add something to our show to reveal something of these tracks [to audiences]. Hopefully, it will be special.

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