RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS: CARDINOLOGY OUT OCTOBER 28

The Cardinals--Ryan Adams (vocals, guitar, keys), Neal Casal (guitar, vocals), Chris Feinstein (bass, vocals), Jon Graboff (pedal steel, vocals) and Brad Pemberton (drums)--have confirmed an October 28 release for Cardinology, the band's latest collection of all-new studio material for the Lost Highway label. They will return to their TV-home-away-from-home, THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, the following evening.

Like its predecessor Easy Tiger, which TIME magazine hailed as "a career breakthrough," Cardinology is a concise and focused collection of twelve unadorned gems, the final sequence of which will be:

Born Into A Light
Go Easy
Fix It
Magick
Cobwebs
Let Us Down Easy
Crossed Out Name
Natural Ghost
Sink Ships
Evergreen
Like Yesterday
Stop

First single "Fix It" will be digitally released to radio Tuesday, September 23, while "Stop" will receive a sneak premiere in the Tuesday, September 30 episode of THE CLEANER on the A&E network (check local listings).

In other news from Planet Cardinal, Infinity Blues, Ryan Adams' first ever collection of non-musical writing will be published March 16, 2009 by venerable independent house Akashic Books. Infinity Blues will be available for pre-order through Akashic's website beginning Monday, October 6. Pre-orders will include a signed hardcover copy of "Infinity Blues," with a bonus poetry chapbook by Ryan Adams titled "Sad American Mythology." The limited edition signed and numbered chapbooks will be available only through the Akashic Books website as part of this pre-order.

Tour Dates:
September 25th - Albany, NY - The Egg * NOTE NEW VENUE *
September 26th - Syracuse, NY - Landmark Theater
September 27th - Rochester, NY - Auditorium Theater
September 29th - Columbus, OH - Palace Theater
September 30th - Cleveland, OH - Palace Theater
October 2nd - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theatre
October 3rd - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theater
October 4th - St. Louis, MO - Fox Theater
October 5th - Madison, WI - Overture Hall
October 7th - Ames, IA - Stephens Auditorium
October 9th - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
October 10th - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
October 11th - Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theater
October 13th - Austin, TX - Paramount
October 14th - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
October 16th - Tuscaloosa, AL - Bama Theater
October 17th - Atlanta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Ane Brun - New Video - New Record - New Tour Dates

Norwegian guitarist and vocalist, singer and songwriter Ane Brun adds more dates to her tour with Tobias Froeberg and Theresa Andersson!

Check out her beautiful video for Don’t Leave

After wowing stateside critics and fans with her US debut “A Temporary Dive” in 2006, Ane will release her US sophmore effort Changing of the Seasons on Cheap Lullaby Records on October 21st.

Changing of the Seasons entered the Scandinavian charts at #1!

Rolling Stone: “...elegantly strange songs mix surreal whimsy with Scandinavian darkness”

Time: “...most compelling of all is her voice--- a mix of Bjork’s unpredictability and Joni Mitchells directness...”

Paste: “...full of evocative melodies, heartfelt lyrics and razor sharp guitar picking”

Singer, songwriter, guitarist and vocalist, Ane Brun, hails from Norway but makes her home in Stockholm. She started her indie label DetErMine Records together with The Tiny´s lead singer Ellekari Larsson in 2002 where she released her Scanadvian debut “Spending Time with Morgan”. The album was subsequently released all over Europe to rave reviews and was nominated for the Swedish Independent Music awards “Manifest” in 2003.
Her second album “A Temporary dive” was released in Europe, the US and in Japan. The album got wonderful reviews all over the world, and it gave her a Norwegian Grammy for best Female Artist 2005. She was nominated as best Norwegian Act on European MTV Music Awards 2005, best Norwegian song of the century (Norwegian National Radio) and best Swedish Female Pop Artist at the Grammis.

In November 2005 she released “Duets” which is an album consisting of 10 duets with 10 wonderful artists. The single “Lift” with Norwegian band Madrugada became a radio favorite, and gave her another Norwegian Grammy. The album “Duets” consists of songs feat. Teitur, Tobias Fröberg, Liv Widell, Wendy McNeill, Ron Sexsmith, Syd Matters, Tingsek, Ellekari Larsson from The Tiny, Madrugada and Lars Bygden.

The last few years Ane Brun has been touring all over the world. After a tour with the DMF String Quintet, Staffan Johansson and Nina Kinert around Scandinavia in 2006, she released her first live album ”Live in Scandinavia”, winter 2007. The album is a collection of the songs from Ane’s 3 three albums, but this time dressed up in new arrangements for strings.

Ane’s fifth album, and third studio album, and second US release ”Changing of the Seasons” will be released in 2008. The album is produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson (Björk, Sigur Ros, Múm, Bonnie Prince Billy, Coco Rosie, Maps, and more).

US Tour dates:
10:22- The Living Room-New York, NY
10.23- Tin Angel- Philadelphia PA
10.24- Iota Club and Café- Arlington, VA
10.25- Attucks Theatre- Norfolk, VA
10.28- Café Du Nord- San Fransico, CA
10.30- Hotel Café- Los Angeles, CA
11.01- Schubas Tavern- Chicago, IL
11.06- London Music Club- London, ON
11.07- El Mocambo- Toronto, ONT
11.08- Lee Saints- Montreal- QUE
11.11- Great Scott- Boston, MA

The Walkman Give Exclusive Performance To Pitchfork TV's Juan's Basement

Click Here To View The Walkmen on Juan’s Basement

Click Here To View “In The New Year” Video

Pitchfork Media (Best New Music/8.5) : “This is the sound they've reached for since the very beginning, and they've never played it as gracefully or confidently as they do here."

NPR All Songs Considered Previews “If Only It Were True"

Spin - “Indie rock luminaries craft an intimate sound with new full-length... The album bordering on retro sees singer Hamilton Leithauser’s vocals in a new light, at times channeling those of Robert Plant, and others, Bob Dylan, especially with “In The New Year”.

The music that inspired the Walkmen to compose You and Me follows in a tradition of song writing that goes back to early rock 'n' roll: the intimacy and energy of Elvis Presley's and Buddy Holly's early recordings, and the massive voice and orchestration of Roy Orbison. And it carries on through people like Bob Marley and Randy Newman and on to bands like The Pogues and The Modern Lovers - the sort of songs that are very much a product of their time and place while firmly rooted in tradition. The vocals were performed live right in the room with the full band, and sometimes a horn section too.

With some romance and drama, You and Me harnesses a sense of classic live-band production into meticulously constructed, unique-sounding rock songs. The sound would definitely not be mistaken for old, but it would be impossible to ignore the most timeless influences. You and Me offers a distinctive twist to the"Walkmen" sound of their first three records. Each song shows focus, and an up-beat enthusiasm apparent in all lyrics, music, and performances. It is a long record, clocking in at just under an hour, and it presents a wide range of ideas. The pacing is very important, as the band felt it was essential to set the right tone, and show each song in its proper light.

Writing and recording of You and Me happened over a vibrant and rigorous 2-year period, during which the members of The Walkmen were split between Philadelphia and New York. The band rode China Town busses five days a week to work in two small rehearsal spaces (an old nightclub in Chelsea, New York and a warehouse in Fish Town, Philadelphia) to freeze by the kerosene heater in the winter, and sweat it out in the summer. By the time of the record's pressing there were over four hundred cast-off 8-track tapes littering both spaces.

The song “I Lost You” was the first major breakthrough, and inspired many songs to follow. Maroon was teaching himself the viola and trumpet at the time, and the song was the culmination of many 8-track experiments. The new warmth and romance in the music seemed to beg for the same from the lyrics, so the cold and stand-offish tone that had run a-ground in recent years was abandoned for a more personal and real approach. “I Lost You's” strange pacing, and the way in which both the music and the lyrics together pushed towards an Orbison-like crescendo, was the new direction everyone had hoped for. Songs like “Red Moon”, “On the Water”, “If Only it Were True”, and “In the New Year” were soon to follow.

The album was recorded in two installments - the first at Sweet Tea studios in Oxford, Mississippi (where they had worked on Bows and Arrows) with engineer John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Hold Steady, Sonic Youth) and in a couple of sessions in New York's Gigantic Studios (built by Phillip Glass) with engineer Chris Zane, who also produced Les Savy Fav, Asobi Seksu, White Rabbits and who the boys consider "the best f@#king engineer in the world" and a "f@#king god-send".

You and Me is a solid and complex showcase of inspired songwriting. Romantic and celebratory, this is the sound of The Walkmen returning to classic form.

2008 Fall Tour:
9/18: Middle East, Cambridge
10/02: Cats Cradle, Carrboro
10/03: The Earl, Atlanta
10/04: Club Downunder, Tallahassee
10/05: The Social, Orlando
10/08: Republic, New Orleans
10/09: Walters on Washington, Houston
10/10: The Parish, Austin
10/11: Pontiac Garage @ HOB, Dallas
10/12: Hi Tone, Memphis
10/13: The Basement, Nashville
10/14: Southgate House, Newport, KY

Stellastarr* Announce Tour

Stellastarr* have been hard at work in the studio finishing up their third album, due out next year, and they’re ready to get back on the road. The band recently played their first show in over a year in Central Park with The Kooks and Illinois, and are now gearing up for an east coast run to begin in November. This time they'll be hitting small venues and road testing new material in Boston, DC and Philly before heading back to their hometown of New York to play a five night run at Piano's.

Fall East Coast Tour
November 5th || Boston @ Great Scott || Doors 8:00 PM
November 9th || Washington DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel || Doors 7:30 PM
November 10th || Philadelphia @ Johnny Brenda’s || Doors 8PM
December 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th || NYC @ Pianos || Doors 7PM

Tori Amos Live At Montreux, to be released on September 30th

Everyone's favorite red head, Tori Amos will be releasing a live CD and DVD titled, Tori Amos Live At Montreux, on September 30th. The performances took place just a year apart from each other in July 1991 and July 1992 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. This CD and DVD include Tori’s original music as well as cover songs like “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

Click here to watch “Thank You” at the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival performed by Tori Amos.

Tori Amos descended on the scene in the early ‘90s brimming with newfound creativity, intelligence, sensitivity and an exacting literary bearing. Celebrated by critics and the public alike, that first spotlight was a heady time in the young singer/songwriter’s career. On September 30, 2008, Eagle Rock Entertainment, through its wholly-owned Eagle Eye Media subsidiary, will release Tori Amos Live At Montreux 1991/1992 on both CD (16 songs) and DVD (90 minutes, 19 songs) simultaneously sold separately. It is a rare glimpse into that initial breathy rush of a great artist’s ascendancy.

The ’91 gig came only months before her Little Earthquakes debut had catapulted her into an instant icon, the ’92 appearance shortly thereafter. The progression in both performance and audience receptivity is appreciable. Material includes most of her stellar debut but also tracks from her indie EPs and some notable covers (Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and “Thank You” as well as Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”).

Tori Amos’ stark confessional style immediately garnered millions of young fans searching for some semblance of self in an all too imperfect world. Tori’s melodic sense, coupled with her unerring eye for the human foibles of a generation twice removed from the ‘60s sensibilities of her influences, made for a uniquely special art. There was no, and is no, precedent for such a talent. Tori’s obliquely personal oeuvre digs down deep into such dramatic lyrical topics as sexuality, religion and personal tragedy. She touches that universal chord. It’s small wonder she became a major voice right from the outset of her career.

1991 DVD TRACK LISTING 1) Silent All These Years 2) Precious Things 3) China 4) Crucify 5) Leather 6) Song For Eric 7) Upside Down 8) Happy Phantom 9) Winter 10) Thank You

1992 DVD TRACK LISTING 11) Little Earthquakes 12) Crucify 13) Silent All These Years 14) Precious Things 15) Happy Phantom 16) Whole Lotta Love/Thank You 17) Me And A Gun 18) Winter 19) Smells Like Teen Spirit

CD TRACK LISTING 1991 show: 1) Silent All These Years 2) Precious Things 3) China 4) Crucify 5) Leather 6) Song For Eric 7) Upside Down 8) Happy Phantom 9) Winter 10) Thank You

1992 show: 11) Little Earthquakes 12) Precious Things 13) Whole Lotta Love/Thank You 14) Me And A Gun 15) Winter 16) Smells Like Teen Spirit

The Heavy Ready US Headline Tour, Release New EP October 28th

THE HEAVY ripped and roared their way through Europe in the Summer of ’08 – including appearances at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and the UK Latitude Festival in Norfolk. Big Bad Wolf howls also rang clear across Germany, Poland, and Belgium, rattling bones wherever the stage was hot and the moon was lit.

It was a phenomenal summer for these renegades of Noid, England, but the band is now ready to bring the pain State-side, as an encore to their eye-opening US run this past Spring. Come October/November, the band will stomp through a 5-city US Tour wielding a battle-axe, a road map, and the hardest-hitting live set you’ll have the opportunity to see this year.

US TOUR DATES
October 30 || +1, People Food, Mr. Roboto Presents Halloween Party @ The Echo || Los Angeles (w/ The Gray Kid, Pop Levi) **EP release show for The Gray Kid’s ‘Free Music!!!'
October 31 || Mr. Roboto Presents Halloween Party @ 103 Harriet || San Francisco
November 1 || Adrenaline Presents @ The Casbah || San Diego (w/ Kenan Bell)
November 3 || The World Café || Philadelphia
November 5 || Mercury Lounge || New York, NY

In addition, the band will release an EP, entitled ‘SET ME FREE,’ to be released through iTunes and other digital retailers this October 28th!!!

Also very pleased to report that the iTunes exclusive bonus track from the ‘Set Me Free’ EP (a Johnny Cash cover of ‘Doin’ My Time’) will be part of an upcoming tribute to the late music legend, a compilation entitled ‘JOHNNY CASH REMIXED,’ due out on October 14th via Compadre Records. “My father made his stead by defying the expected and accepted way of things,” says John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash and Executive Producer of the Academy Award©-winning film Walk the Line. “He would have loved this remix record.” A documentary following the making of this album is also in production, featuring interviews from select remixers, filmed in their home studios, including Snoop Dogg with his version of ‘I Walk The Line’ at the Cash Recording Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Finally, the band has collaborated on a track for The Crystal Method’s new record set for release in 2009, and remixed a Louis Armstrong song, ‘Zat You, Santa Claus?’, for a Christmas album to be released this year (September 23rd in the US, September 30th in Europe) by Verve Records.

Click here to see The Heavy perform ‘That Kind Of Man’ on their network television debut on ‘Last Call with Carson Daly.’ You can also hear ‘That Kind of Man’ on the soundtrack for the forthcoming FIFA 2009 video game, and, of course, on The Heavy’s debut album ‘GREAT VENGEANCE AND FURIOUS FIRE’ (out now on Counter/+1 Records).

BAND WATCH - BRETT DENNEN

Singer/songwriter Brett Dennen's October release Hope For The Hopeless on Dualtone Music Group/Downtown Music will be followed by a pared-down mini-tour sponsored by organic drink-maker Guayaki Yerba Mate. Tickets become available September 18 for the intimate tour which starts in Portland, OR on November 3 and wraps at New York City's Canal Room November 18. Please see below for a full list of dates. The mini-tour is a return to the smaller venues Brett began playing just five years ago; Dennen and his full band are preparing a larger headlining tour for early 2009.
The tour celebrates the release of Brett's third album Hope For The Hopeless out October 21. Fans can pre-order through www.brettdennen.net beginning September 15 and the first 200 fans to order will receive an autographed album and a chance to win a Martin acoustic guitar hand-painted by Brett.

Billboard wrote that "Dennen is just as in demand as a solo performer [as a supporting act]." This summer, while on the road with John Mayer, USA Today listed Brett among three artists worth arriving early for stating, "these opening acts are the talent before the star storm." Brett's audiences have consistently doubled in size with each return to a city. Adding fuel to the fire is Hope For The Hopeless' first single, "Make You Crazy" featuring Afro-Beat king Femi Kuti. It is an infectious, uptempo song already playing on tastemaker stations across the U.S.

Hope For The Hopeless features an increasingly electric take on Brett's narrative-rich songs and pop, folk, rock and Afro-Caribbean sounds. The album was recorded at the Village Recorder Studios in Los Angeles with multi-platinum producer John Alagia (John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band). Brett cites inspiration ranging from Fela Kuti's Expensive Shit/Ransome Kuti, to Joni Mitchell's Court And Spark, to The Rolling Stone's Exile On Main St.

Click Here to Listen to Aint No Reason {MP3}

Upcoming Tour:
November 3 Portland, OR Doug Fir
November 5 Seattle, WA Triple Door
November 6 San Francisco, CA The Independent
November 7 Los Angeles, CA Hotel Café
November 8 Los Angeles, CA Hotel Café
November 10 Denver, CO Walnut Room
November 11 Austin, TX The Continental Club
November 13 Chicago, IL Schubas
November 14 Annapolis, MD Ramshead Onstage
November 15 Philadelphia, PA Tin Angel
November 16 Boston, MA Passim
November 18 New York, NY Canal Room

Brett Dennen's break-through 2006 release, So Much More, prompted Rolling Stone to name him one of their "Artists to Watch in 2008." He has performed on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Last Call with Carson Daly" and NPR. The Washington Post called him "a folk rock revelation" and Entertainment Weekly enthused, "He's a big talent with a fresh face and an old soul."

John Mayer, Michael Franti and Jason Mraz are outspoken advocates and Brett's songs have been featured in episodes of "Grey's Anatomy," "Scrubs" and "House," among others. Brett joined Mayer's 2008 Summer Tour, prompting USA Today to affirm him one of the summer's "opening acts worth arriving early for." He recently co-headlined a theater tour with Mason Jennings and has also toured with the John Butler Trio, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Ben Folds.

The 6' 4" former camp counselor from Northern California seems an unlikely front man—with his long red hair, trademark headband and guitar held high on his frame he nonetheless radiates confidence and ease in his own skin. His smooth sound is in stark contrast to his persona and the combination of wit and sentiment amount to a captivating performance. As the audience grows, Brett remains the folky, soulful, witty and insightful artist that first captured hearts in California coffee houses five years ago.

Much like the theme of Brett's new album, Guayaki Yerba Mate is providing Hope for the Hopeless as it relates to the plight of the rainforest of South America and its native people. Brett is an avid supporter of Guayaki Yerba Mate's mission to protect the rainforest and proud to be featured on the label of the award-winning Guayaki Organic Yerba Mate Drinks distributed throughout the U.S.