Nashville, Tenn. – Arena ready rocker Nathan Lee releases his latest album, Risk Everything on September 1st through One Revolution Entertainment. With a new collection of heartfelt rock anthems, a weekly concert series in Nashville benefiting World Vision and an upcoming appearance on TLC’s LA Ink, this multi-faceted artist is ready to turn heads and make a difference.
Lee kicks off the album with “Open Road,” a windows-down, pounding rock anthem. His raspy growl brings an expressive resonance to songs like “El Diablo Y El Angel” and “Bring Down the Fire” as he explores issues of choice and redemption. His ability to blend foot-stomping, heart-pounding music with the intrinsic spirituality of his lyrics allows listeners to join him on his journey from “Broke and Hollow Man” to “Hold Me Down.” Living up to its title, Risk Everything is an intimate portrait of an artist who is still searching for the answers.
The new album is available on September 1st with a direct to fan pre-sale that begin on July 15th. Nathan Lee is a creative force with undeniable talent and a huge heart. With his determination to touch people in all facets of his music, from the raw intensity of his live performance to the international imprint of giving, Lee continues to live by his self-imposed Risk Everything challenge.
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Ruben Blades releases new CD after 6-year absence
PANAMA CITY — Famed salsa musician Ruben Blades has released a new album after a six-year absence from the music scene.
The 61-year-old Grammy winner from Panama says the CD, "Songs of Underdevelopment," is a tribute to Cuba, his mother's homeland.
In a statement Monday, he says the CD will be sold through his Web site. He plans a tour that will start Aug. 21 with a concert in Puerto Rico.
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Herb Alpert New LP - First In Ten Years
Music Legend Herb Alpert Releases First Album in 10 YearsConcord Music Group presents "Anything Goes," Herb Alpert and his wife Lani Hall’s live collection of beautifully reinterpreted standards.08.17.2009 – Los Angeles, CA -- Music icon, legendary trumpet player and philanthropist Herb Alpert will release his first album in 10 years entitled "Anything Goes" LIVE on Tuesday, August 18, 2009. "Anything Goes" is a live collection of beautifully reinterpreted standards featuring his wife and musical partner Lani Hall. Accompanied by tour dates around the country, "Anything Goes" is a tribute to their enduring personal and professional relationship.
Anything Goes" was produced by Herb Alpert and Lani Hall and recorded live at venues in Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Washington DC, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and the Napa Valley Opera House. The 14-song collection features American standards such as Cole Porter’s original song and title track “Anything Goes” as well as a few instrumental songs including “Laura” and Consuelo Velazquez’s “Besame Mucho.” Lani also sings in Portuguese on the tracks “Pararaio” and “Dinorah/Morning.”
The recording features Herb Alpert on trumpet and vocals, Lani Hall on vocals, Michael Shapiro on drums and percussion, Bill Cantos on keyboards and background vocals and Hussain Jiffry on electric bass.
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Dirty Projectors EP
Brooklyn-based six-piece Dirty Projectors will release a new four-track EP, Temecula Sunrise, on September 28th. The release includes Bitte Orca album tracks, “Temecula Sunrise” and “Cannibal Resourse”, alongside new tracks, “Ascending Melody” and “Emblem of the World”.
The release will available on 12-inch vinyl.
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Built to Spill Reveal Album Cover and Tracklist for There is No Enemy
Following Built to Spill's hiatus between 2001's Ancient Melodies of the Future and 2006's You In Reverse, the three years we've had to wait for the band's upcoming LP There Is No Enemy seem as breezy as BtS' own inimitable brand of guitar rock. As we wind down to the album's Oct. 6 release, a steady trickle of details about a supporting tour have emerged, and now the tracklist and album art have been unveiled to boot. The mildly ominous and quasi-impressionist cover above depicts an indistinct giant hunched over a small cottage. It's no doubt a bellwether for the album's politically-charged content, as if the name wasn't enough of a hint (Martsch has also frequently professed his admiration for Noam Chomsky and the Democracy Now! TV show.)
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BBC Beatles Documentary
Nearly 40 years after the breakup of the Beatles, the Fab Four’s lasting legacy will once again take center stage in September 2009: In addition to the upcoming release of both The Beatles: Rock Band and the entire remastered catalog reissues, the BBC are set to air a new documentary dedicated to the band titled The Beatles on Record. The week-long tribute will feature the history of the Beatles in the studio, complete with never-before-heard outtakes and conversations from the band in the studio, plus rare footage and photographs.
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon will provide archival narration, along with producer George Martin. More than 60 Beatles songs will be featured in the doc, which was directed by Bob Smeaton, who also directed 1995’s The Beatles Anthology.
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Smashing Pumpkins Find Drummer
Billy Corgan officially announced that drummer Mike Byrne is now a member of Smashing Pumpkins, adding that the 19-year-old will make his official debut on the band’s next tour and album. Corgan also hinted that an announcement regarding that album — the Pumpkins’ first since 2007’s Zeitgeist — would be made in September. “I’m super excited to be playing with the band. Dream come true, man,” Byrne said on the Pumpkins’ official site.
Before Byrne makes his Smashing Pumpkins debut, the drummer will perform six shows with Corgan and the Spirits in the Sky, a tribute band to the Seeds’ Sky Saxon. Check out the group’s newly-announced tour dates below:
August 26 - Visalia, CA @ Tazzaria
August 27 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Muddy Waters
August 28 - Long Beach, CA @ Open
August 29 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s Palace
August 30 - San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe
August 31 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Cafe
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Dolly Parton Gets Career Spanning 4-CD Box Set
On October 27, RCA Nashville/Legacy will release Dolly, her first multi-CD box set career restrospective. Drawing on the libraries of Goldband, Mercury, Monument, RCA Victor and Columbia Records, the 4-CD set covers Parton's music from her first single in 1957 up through the 1993 hit Romeo from her Slow Dancing on the Moon album.
In between are 99 songs, 98 as performed by Parton and one by Bill Phillips who recorded Dolly's Put It Off Until Tomorrow, a song she wrote when she was 19 and her first composition to ever hit the charts.
Included in the package is a 60-page book with never-before-seen photographs and memorabilia. The introduction was written by Laura Cantrell and a 5,000-word biographical essay by Holly George-Warren.
There are also seven previously unreleased recordings.
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