Following her performance on Sports Personality of the Year and the release of ‘The Architect – Zeitgeist Edition’, Paloma Faith releases her infectious new single ‘Your Ex’. The track is one of the bonus tracks to be taken from the deluxe edition of her #1 album ‘The Architect’ which is also out now on RCA Records and has already sold 400,000+ copies.

Watch the Randolph Avenue Session of ‘Your Ex’ HERE

Written by Paloma, Thomas Barnes, Benjamin Kohn, Peter Kelleher, Ella McMahon and Phil Cook and produced by TMS (Little Mix, Jess Glynne, Emeli Sandé) and Phil Cook (Olly Murs, Little Mix, Ellie Goulding), ‘Your Ex’ immediately establishes itself as a pop anthem with it’s contagious piano line and soulful vocal melody.

Lyrically, Paloma’s typically poetic verse captures the overwhelming feeling of jealousy and obsession that is prevalent in the social media age. “I thought when writing this song that if I told as many people as possible I am addicted to looking at my boyfriend’s ex on Instagram either she would block me and it would stop or I would stop doing it naturally because I was so embarrassed” say Paloma “so far, neither has happened.”

‘The Architect – Zeitgeist Edition’ features 6 new songs including the pop gem ‘Your Ex’; ‘Loyal’, a powerhouse, emotionally charged anthem; ‘Make Your Own Kind Of Music’, the hit song that sound tracked Paloma’s iconic Skoda campaign and ‘Lullaby’ her summer smash hit with superstar DJ and producer Sigala.

Paloma Faith’s first 3 albums went double platinum, joining Adele as the only British female artist this decade to achieve that feat, putting Paloma on course to become the first ever British female artist to achieve four double platinum records.

www.palomafaith.com

Four-time Grammy Award-winning artist Joy Williams’ highly anticipated new solo album, Front Porch, will be released May 3 via Sensibility/Thirty Tigers and is now available for pre-order HERE. The album features twelve songs including the title track, which debuts today. Each digital pre-order comes with an immediate download of “Front Porch” as well as two previously released songs, “Canary” and “The Trouble With Wanting.”

Listen to ‘Front Porch’ HERE

Produced by Kenneth Pattengale of The Milk Carton Kids and engineered by Matt Ross-Spang, Front Porch represents a new chapter in Williams’ career, who recorded the album in Nashville during the pregnancy of her second child. She reflects, “There is an energy that is very creative in having a baby. It gives a sense of urgency on top of all the creative energy.”

“So much of this is about coming home,” says Williams. “Whether to a physical place or to yourself. The lines on my face, I can see them more clearly now. But a lot of them are laugh lines. This record feels like breathing more deeply into who I am. Come what may.”

Joy Williams is the winner of four Grammy Awards. She has released four solo albums and four EPs since her self-titled debut in 2001. She was half of The Civil Wars from 2009 until 2014, after which she released her solo LP, 2015’s VENUS, which was praised by NPR Music for it’s “new, more adventurous pop sound,” furthering, “Williams takes on this material without shirking its heaviness, but her gift for melodies that rise up like warm winds brings a climate of grace to even the most difficult subject matter.”

In celebration of the release, Joy Williams will embark on an extensive US headline tour kicking off in Phoenix on February 25th, with UK dates to be announced shortly. Watch this space.

FRONT PORCH TRACK LIST

1. Canary
2. Front Porch
3. When Does a Heart Move On
4. All I Need
5. The Trouble With Wanting
6. No Place Like You
7. One and Only
8. When Creation Was Young
9. Preacher’s Daughter
10. Hotel St. Cecilia
11. Be With You
12. Look How Far We’ve Come

www.joywilliams.com

Dido Releases her stunning new single ‘Give You Up’, taken from her first album in five years, ‘Still On My Mind’, out March 8th on BMG.

Listen to ‘Give You Up’ HERE

Incredibly empowering and moving, ‘Give You Up’ was written by Dee Adams and Australian duo The Opposite Kids. “It’s just so perfect,” Dido said of the track. “It’s a good break up song, where you’ve been hurt but feel strong. It’s that point in a relationship where you are pulling yourself out of the gutter and deciding that it’s their loss.  Which I can totally relate to.”

‘Still On My Mind’ is Dido’s 5th studio album and was written and recorded in England, a result of the fruitful and incredibly natural production/songwriting partnership with her long term collaborator and brother (Faithless founder) Rollo.

The multi-million selling singer goes on a world tour throughout 2019 which includes the following UK and Irish dates:

May 2019
Sun 26th    Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall   SOLD OUT
Mon 27th    Dublin, Olympia Theatre         SOLD OUT
Wed 29th    Manchester, Albert Hall         SOLD OUT
Thur 30th    London, The Roundhouse     SOLD OUT
Fri 31st        London, The Roundhouse    SOLD OUT

With sales of more than 40 million albums worldwide, Dido is one of the best- selling UK artists ever. Both ‘No Angel’ and its 2003 follow-up, ‘Life For Rent’, still rank among the UK’s biggest-selling albums of all-time.

WWW.DIDOMUSIC.COM

KELSEA BALLERINI has released a deluxe edition of her sophomore album, UNAPLOGETICALLY and returns with fan-favourite “Miss Me More” as her new single. Produced by Forest Glen Whitehead and Jason Massey, Ballerini penned the up-tempo track alongside David Hodges and Brett McLaughlin. Watch the video for “Miss Me More” here.

UNAPOLOGETICALLY (Deluxe Edition), introduces fans to four new songs with the clever “Fun and Games” (Kelsea Ballerini, Forest Glen Whitehead and Shane McAnally); a solo write from Ballerini, “I Think I Fell In Love Today”; a live acoustic cover of Fleetwood Mac’s legendary “Landslide” (Stephanie Nicks); and her global smash collaboration with The Chainsmokers, “This Feeling” (Andrew Taggart, Alex Pall and Emily Warren). Watch the video for “This Feeling” here.

“I’m such a fan of these guys as people, artists, and songwriters,” shares Ballerini. “I’ve covered a few of their songs on different tours, and as far as collaborators, they’ve always been at the top of my list! I’m really excited for people to hear our worlds blend in ‘This Feeling.’” Ballerini and The Chainmokers performed the smash hit on a number of major US television shows: The Victoria Secret Show, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Monday Night Football.

Ballerini assumed her anticipated role on The Voice as their first-ever fifth coach during the premiere episode of the Comeback Stage. The 10-part companion series followed Ballerini as she mentors six Comeback Artists not chosen during Blind Auditions.  Elsewhere she made solo TV appearances on Good Morning America, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Late Night with Seth Myers, Mickey’s 90th Spectacular, American Music Awards, CMA Awards, ACM Awards, CMT Awards, and more.

After wrapping 58 dates on Keith Urban’s ‘Graffiti U World Tour’, Ballerini announced her own ‘Miss Me More’ Tour across the US in 2019, and that she will link up with fellow The Voice coach Kelly Clarkson as direct support on her ‘Meaning Of Life’ tour.

Award nominations and wins continue to abound for Ballerini. Major nominations include Female Vocalist of the Year and Video of the Year  (ACM Awards), Top Country Female Artist  (Billboard Music Awards), Best Crush Song, Country Favorite Song (Radio Disney Music Awards), Choice Country Artist (Teen Choice Awards), Female Vocalist of the Year (CMA Awards), Country Artist of the Year (People’s Choice Awards), and Favourite Female Country Artist (American Music Awards). Award wins include Female Artist of the Year (MusicRow Magazine’s Country Breakout Awards), Country Favourite Artist (Radio Disney Music Awards), and recognition as one of the select all-female honorees at 2018’s CMT “Artists of the Year”.

Ballerini has also received her second Grammy nomination, for Best Country Album (for UNAPOLOGETICALLY (Deluxe Edition).

UNAPOLOGETICALLY (Deluxe Edition) Tracklisting

1.    Graveyard – Ballerini, Whitehead & McAnally
2.    Miss Me More – Ballerini, Hodges & McLaughlin
3.    Get Over Yourself – Ballerini, Copperman & McAnally
4.    Roses – Ballerini, Crowell & Gorley
5.    Machine Heart – Ballerini, Wells & Abrahart
6.    In Between – Ballerini, Robbins & McAnally
7.    High School – Ballerini
8.    End of the World – Ballerini, Lindsey & Rimes
9.    I Hate Love Songs – Ballerini, Rose & McAnally
10. Unapologetically – Ballerini, Whitehead & Lindsey
11. Music – Ballerini, Robbins, Galyon & Denmark
12. Legends – Ballerini, Whitehead & Lindsey
13. Fun and Games – Ballerini, Whitehead & McAnally
14. I Think I Fell In Love Today – Ballerini
15. Landslide (Live from Nashville)” – Nicks
16. This Feeling (The Chainsmokers feat. Kelsea Ballerini) – Taggart, Pall & Warren. Produced by The Chainsmokers

https://kelseaballerini.com/

BOTH BANDS’ SETS TO STREAM LIVE WORLDWIDE AT HERE
GO JACKALOPES! 

Who didn’t see this one coming… It’s official: Foo Fighters’ DIRECTV Super Saturday Night February 2 at Atlantic Station in Atlanta with special guest Run The Jewels is 100% SOLD OUT. Nothing you can do short of impersonating the Fed Ex or pizza delivery person or taking out a second mortgage can get you into this once in a lifetime show now…

There is good news, though: Both performances—Foo Fighters and Run The Jewels—will be streamed live to fans across the world on Twitter or on AUDIENCE NETWORK on DIRECTV CH 239 or on DIRECTV NOW. The live stream begins at 3:30am with FOO FIGHTERS hitting the stage at 4am.

Yes, the stadium-shaking anthems that have earned Foo Fighters 12 Grammy Awards, sold 25 million records and continue to sell millions of tickets the world over will come to your living room if you can’t make it to Atlanta. And don’t sleep on this one: The band has been circling the globe crushing it with rock marathons since its latest album, the international #1 Concrete and Gold, was released in September 2017. There are fewer Foo Fighters U.S. gigs left on the itinerary than you can count on two hands so make sure you’re in front of that phone, tablet or TV screen February 2. It may be your last dose of live Foo Fighters for quite some time to come. And Run the Jewels are sure to crush it too. If there was ever a night to make any excuse to stay in and go big…

In the meantime, get psyched for the big show the night before the big game, specifically: Get Jacked on Jackalopes! Go to https://supersaturdaynight.rocks for a brand new short film written and directed by Foo Fighters’ own Dave Grohl, featuring Curt Menefee, Terry Bradshaw and Michael Strahan—and of course some more familiar faces—in a hilarious time warping homage that presents the familiar Foo Fighters comedic chops in a classic 1970s cinematic style and story (and don’t forget the cheerleaders):

Larry Butz (Dave Grohl) sponsored by Butz Bail Bonds

Helmuut Pyle (Pat Smear) sponsored by Pyles Adult diapers

Jake Schenker (Chris Shiflett)

Bertrand Hitchens (Nate Mendel) sponsored by 1 800 Ferns

Bret Rogers (Taylor Hawkins)

The Longest Yard and Invincible got nothing on the Jackalopes—you’ll be on the edge of your seat dying to know “WILL THEY MAKE IT TO SUPER SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE BIG GAME?”

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Available to Pre-Order Here

Watch new lyric video ‘My Babe’

In 1988 Keith Richards released his first ever solo album, ‘Talk Is Cheap’, an eleven track masterclass in everything good about rock ‘n roll.

It all began in 1986 when Keith was restless. The Stones were inactive and as Keith says It was one of those “forget about it times”. He’d worked with drummer Steve Jordan on the Chuck Berry film ‘Hail Hail Rock ‘n Roll’ and was looking for another challenge. He’d never before considered making a solo album and admits to initially being “dragged kicking and screaming” into the studio.

Throughout his storied career with the Rolling Stones, he had always been a one band man. “My central focus had always been that one thing,” Keith says. “I felt like in the Stones I had the perfect vehicle for what I wanted to do. I couldn’t imagine putting something else together would be equally satisfying.”

Thankfully he put together the incomparable X-Pensive Winos. From the start it felt like a band, with guitarist Waddy Wachtel an obvious first addition to Steve Jordan. “Waddy and I are like Ronnie and me,” Keith says. “Within five minutes it’s like you’ve known each other all your lives.”

With Charley Drayton, who plays bass and drums, three became four, then five with singer and keyboard player Ivan Neville. All of them were mutli-instrumentalists, musical all-rounders who set up camp at Le Studio, outside Quebec. Isolated from big city distractions, the music flowed from the start. “There was a roll going on and all I had to do was hang onto it,” Keith says.

One of the first tracks they recorded was the explosive ‘Take It So Hard’, a tight but loose classic that easily illustrates why Keith is called the human riff. It defines modern rock music.

Recording later moved onto Montserrat, Bermuda and other locales with guest appearances from an all-star cast including Sarah Dash, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, the Memphis Horns, Patti Sciafia and Mick Taylor.

There’s a joyous swagger to ‘Talk Is Cheap’ that permeates each and every song. It sounds as good today as it did thirty years ago – in Keith’s words “as fresh as the day it was made”. This reissue also includes 6 bonus tracks, four of which feature pianist Johnnie Johnson including Eddie Taylor’s ‘Big Town Playboy’, ‘Blues Jam’, ‘’Slim’ and the kinetic Jimmy Reed cover ‘My Babe’.

The Super Deluxe and Deluxe box set includes special, exclusive housing and folios, extensive sleeve notes by Anthony De Curtis telling the story” of the album’s production, release and cultural impact, unseen photo’s and rare memorabilia.

“This album holds up,“ Keith Richards says. “I’ve been listening to it and not through the mists of nostalgia either because it doesn’t affect me that way. This is more than the sum of its parts. I really admire it. We were having fun and you can hear it.”

‘Talk Is Cheap’ will be released as CD, vinyl, Deluxe and Super Deluxe box set.

‘Talk Is Cheap’ Single CD and vinyl full tracklisting:

1.     Big Enough
2.     Take It So Hard
3.     Struggle
4.     I Could Have Stood You Up
5.     Make No Mistake
6.     You Don’t Move Me
7.     How I Wish
8.     Rockawhile
9.     Whip It Up
10.   Locked Away
11.  It Means A Lot

‘Talk Is Cheap’ Deluxe & Super Deluxe Box Set includes these extra bonus tracks:
1.     Blues Jam
2.     My Babe
3.     Slim
4.     Big Town Playboy
5.     Mark On Me
6.     Brute Force

‘Talk Is Cheap’ Deluxe Box Set also comes with
–       180g LP album &180g LP bonus material
–       the 7” Single (Take It So Hard / I Could Have Stood You Up)
–       the 7” Single (Make No Mistake / It Means A Lot)
–       CD album & CD containing bonus material
–       80 page hardback book featuring Anthony De Curtis essay, new interview with Keith Richards and extensive photos,
–       Memorabilia: 1x tour laminate, 2x lyric sheets, original ‘Talk Is Cheap’ playback invite, tour guitar pick and 2x posters
–       Housed in a folio pack wrapped in Fender guitar case material

‘Talk Is Cheap’ Super Deluxe box set
–       Limited & Numbered
–       All content matches the Deluxe Box set
–       Comes with added special feature, a one-of-a-kind exclusive casing replicating Keith’s favourite Fender Guitar ‘Micawber’
–       Features hand-reliced ash wood with original Fender guitar elements, handmande at the Fender Custom Shop in California

GRAMMY® Award winner Patty Griffin has announced the release of her long-awaited new album. The acclaimed singer-songwriter’s 10th studio recording and first-ever eponymous LP, PATTY GRIFFIN arrives Friday, March 8 on her own PGM Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. The album was recorded predominantly at Griffin’s home in Austin, TX, with Griffin and longtime collaborator Craig Ross co-producing, while the band is made up of a number of friends and frequent accompanists, including Ross, guitarist David Pulkingham, drummer/percussionist Conrad Choucroun, cellist Lindsey Verrill, pianist Stephen Barber, and Robert Plant, who contributes backing vocals to the LP’s “What Now” and “Coins.”

PATTY GRIFFIN is heralded by the powerful first track, “River.” The track premiered exclusively via People Magazine. “’Isn’t she a river?’ just kind of came out and the rest sort of followed,” said Griffin. “Sometimes songs are like that.  I wasn’t really reaching for anything intentionally – just playing some chords with a feeling inside and there you go.”

LISTEN TO “RIVER” HERE

PATTY GRIFFIN represents an extraordinary new chapter for this incomparable singer-songwriter and immediately stands among the most deeply personal recordings of her remarkable two-decade career. The album – which follows 2015’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated Servant of Love – collects songs written during and in the aftermath of profound personal crisis, several years in which she battled – and ultimately defeated – cancer just as a similar and equally insidious disease metastasized into the American body politic. Yet as always, like very few others, Griffin’s power lies in how, as Holly Gleason in the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette observed, “her songs seem to freeze life and truth in amber.” It’s in how Griffin can express the strikingly intimate while never making it about herself, all wrapped in sparse arrangements that breathe an incomparable force and import into her songcraft.

Griffin will celebrate the new album with a much anticipated world tour, which includes a show at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on May 15th. Tickets for all announced shows go on sale next Friday, January 18th and tickets for the London show go on sale Wednesday 30th. Full details, tour updates and much more can be found at www.pattygriffin.com/tour.

PATTY GRIFFIN – PATTY GRIFFIN
(PGM RECORDINGS/THIRTY TIGERS)
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 8, 2019

Tracklisting:

Mama’s Worried
River
Where I Come From
Hourglass
Had a Good Reason
Bluebeard
What Now
Luminous Places
Coins
Boys From Tralee
The Wheel
What I Remember
Just The Same

Patty Griffin will play the following Europe and UK tour dates:

May
Fri 3rd    CORK, IRELAND, Cyprus Avenue
Sat 4th                            DINGLE, IRELAND, Féile na Bealtaine Arts Festival
Sun 5th                           KILKENNY, IRELAND, Roots Festival
Tues 7th                           BELFAST, Black Box
Thu 9th                            EDINBURGH, Queens Hall
Sat 11th                           POCKLINGTON, Arts Centre
Sun 12th    SHEFFIELD, Memorial Hall
Mon 13th                        GATESHEAD, The Sage (Hall 2)
Wed 15th                        LONDON, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Fri 17th                            ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, Lantaren Vester
Sat 18th                           AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, Het Zonnehuis

About Patty Griffin:

Patty Griffin is among the most consequential singer-songwriters of her generation, a quintessentially American artist whose wide-ranging canon incisively explores the intimate moments and universal emotions that bind us together. Over the course of two decades, the GRAMMY® Award winner – and seven-time nominee – has crafted nine classic studio albums and two live collections, a remarkable body of work in progress that prompted the New York Times to hail her for “[writing] cameo-carved songs that create complete emotional portraits of specific people…(her) songs have independent lives that continue in your head when the music ends.”

The Austin, TX-based singer and songwriter made an immediate impact with her 1996 debut, Living With Ghosts, and its 1998 follow-up, Flaming Red – both now considered seminal works of modern folk and Americana. Since then, Griffin’s diverse body of work spans such classic LPs as 2002’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated 1000 Kisses – later ranked #15 on Paste’s “The 50 Best Albums of the Decade (2000-2009),” — to 2007’s Children Running Through, honored by the Americana Music Association with two Americana Honors & Awards including “Artist of the Year” and “Album of the Year.” To date, Griffin has received seven total nominations from the Americana Music Association, affirming her as one of the far-reaching genre’s leading proponents. 2011’s Downtown Church – which blends traditional gospel favorites with Griffin’s own spiritually questioning material – debuted at #1 on both Billboard’s “Folk Albums” and “Christian Albums” charts before winning 2011’s “Best Traditional Gospel Album” GRAMMY® Award, Griffin’s first solo GRAMMY® triumph among seven total career nominations. Griffin’s most recent LP, 2015’s Servant Of Love, marked the first release on her own PGM Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. Applauded by The Guardian as “bravely experimental,” the collection saw Griffin earn still another GRAMMY® Award nomination, this time in the “Best Folk Album” category.

Widely regarded among the best pure songwriters of this era, Griffin has had her work performed by a truly epic assortment of her fellow artists, among them Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Solomon Burke, Dixie Chicks, Kelly Clarkson & Jeff Beck, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert, Melissa Etheridge and Susan Boyle, to name but a few. Her songs have also been showcased in a variety of film, TV, and theatre projects, with her original music and lyrics featured in the 2007 musical, 10 Million Miles, produced Off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theatre Company and directed by Tony Award-winner Michael Mayer. Griffin has also been joined in the studio by a veritable who’s-who of contemporary Americana, including Harris, Buddy & Julie Miller, Shawn Colvin, Jim Lauderdale, Raul Malo, Ian McLagen, JD Foster, and many others. As if her own remarkable career weren’t enough, Griffin has found time to collaborate with a wide range of like-minded artists, among them Joshua Radin, Todd Snider, Dierks Bentley, Robert Plant, Jack Ingram, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings.

In addition to her creative career, Griffin has also devoted considerable energy and focus towards the wellbeing of the planet as well as showing compassion for the less fortunate among us via personal and public acts of charity including helping to create the Lampedusa tours supporting the Jesuit Refugee Service.

Having crafted a rich catalog that chronicles love and death, heartache and joy, connection and detachment, Patty Griffin continues to push her art forward, as always imbuing every effort with compassion and craft, uncanny perception, and ever-increasing ingenuity.

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Metallica and Arrogant Consortia, a Stone Brewing imprint, have announced ‘Enter Night Pilsner’.  Launching in the US now, and internationally this spring, ‘Enter Night Pilsner’ is a unique expression of the shared values that have helped define Metallica and Stone Brewing: fiercely independent, transcending genres, shattering preconceptions and challenging convention.

‘Enter Night Pilsner’ is the outcome of a genuine creative spark between two entities that grew to become international forces of nature in their respective worlds, yet came from the fringes. An intensity of vision combined with a shared middle finger to the status quo makes ‘Enter Night Pilsner’ a chorus of collaboration worth celebrating.

The members of Metallica and the leadership of Stone participated at every step alongside their talented brewing team. From Metallica’s Bay Area HQ and the brewery HQ in San Diego, to many beers backstage at shows, the spirit of collaboration was powerful. Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Stone co-founder Greg Koch even enjoyed multiple occasions at Lars’ home ‘discussing’ (industry-speak for ‘drinking’) beers.  After all, there was only one chance to get this right, and anything less than an incredible result was not an option.

“The amount of ideals and outlooks that Metallica and Stone Brewing share are endless,” says Lars. “I’m always blown away about how similar our paths forward have been. Our view of the worlds that we each inhabit, of creativity and process, and sense of place in relation to our peers and ‘The Man’ are almost identical. This collaboration is beyond effortless and pure, and we can’t wait to share this incredible beverage with everyone out there.”

“I remember seeing Metallica on the cover of a magazine just after the Black Album was released,” recalls Greg Koch. “On the cover was a quote that resonated with me to this day: ‘Metallica didn’t go to number one, number one came to them.’  I loved what that meant. Do it your way and never compromise your art. If you’re great at what you do people will come. I view that simple quote as one of the founding philosophical elements of Stone Brewing.”

Aside from its intense drinkability, craft enthusiasts will note ‘Enter Night’s’ remarkable flavour and aroma which artfully combine the beauty of a traditional Northern German Pilsner with Arrogant Consortia’s modern overtones of aggression. The resulting genre-defying pilsner is hop forward with sound bitterness on the finish. It first appeared for the most worthy few in exclusive releases at Metallica’s shows this past fall. The beer will gain full US distribution in the first quarter 2019, and its global domination will roll out this April covering Europe, Australia, China and beyond.

Arrogant Consortia is a wholly owned imprint of Stone Brewing. It’s often aggressive and always self-righteous line-up of beers includes ‘Arrogant Bastard Ale’ and ‘Bourbon Barrel-Aged Arrogant Bastard Ale’, among others. The world-renowned brewery is well-known for waving the proud flag independent craft brewing, while rallying against the bland, boring nature of industrialized, commoditized ‘fizzy yellow beer.’ ‘Enter Night Pilsner’ is brewed to be enjoyed fresh and is best enjoyed with your friends… be it in bars, backyards, or tailgates… with your favourite music.

Quick Facts:

‘Enter Night Pilsner’ Release Dates:

·       September 2018 – Select states in the US

·       November 2018 – California

·       1st Quarter 2019 – Nationwide roll out

·       April 2018 – International

Stats: 5.7% ABV, 45 IBUs

Packaging: 16oz six-pack cans and draft

Beer finder: find.arrogantconsortia.com

Metallica Concerts: Metallica.com/tour

#EnterNightPilsner

Tasting Notes:

Arrogant Consortia and Metallica make the perfect collaboration: A fiercely independent band hooks up with a rebellious craft brewery. Both have been able to innovate and remain on the cutting edge while pushing boundaries of their respective genres. This is a bold Pilsner that has all the elegance of a traditional Pilsner, but as if it was played through a distortion pedal. It’s the perfect beer for… fuck that, it’s the perfect beer!

What a 12 months it’s been for Tom Walker! After seeing his single  ‘Leave A Light On’ become an international hit in 2018, the UK’s biggest breakout star has started 2019 with a bang having been nominated for two BRIT Awards: British Breakthrough Act and British Single! His new single ‘Just You And I’ impacts February 22nd on Relentless/Sony Music.

‘Leave A Light On’ was named in the top 40 songs of the year in the UK, was no.1 on iTunes in 20 countries, became the 6th most Shazammed track in the world, went platinum in 10 countries and saw him perform on the X Factor (twice) and TOTP! The year ended with Tom also bagging a number of awards including Sync Artist of the Year at the Music Week Sync Awards and the ASCAP Vanguard Award (previous recipients include Dua Lipa, Jess Glynn and Calvin Harris).

Taken from his debut album ‘What A Time To Be Alive’ (out March 1st), ‘Just You And I’ is produced by Mark Ralph (Years & Years, Clean Bandit, Rudimental) and has already become a firm fan favourite, sound-tracking First Dances at many a wedding!

Having played to over 800,000 people across the globe in 2018, Tom and his band will play the following UK dates this Spring:

April
Tues 23rd   Nottingham, Rock City                        SOLD OUT
Wed 24th    Newcastle, O2 Academy
Fri 26th       Glasgow, Barrowlands                        SOLD OUT
Sat 27th      Manchester, Manchester Academy  SOLD OUT
Sun 28th     Bristol, O2 Academy                           SOLD OUT
Tue 30th     Southampton, O2 Guildhall              SOLD OUT
May
Wed 1st      London, The Roundhouse, London,
Thurs 2nd   Cambridge, Cambridge Corn Exchange

www.iamtomwalker.com

In 1978, after having sold millions of records and become one of the biggest international artists of the 1970s, Cat Stevens decided to step out of the rock star spotlight and walk away. That year, he was to release his final album under that name.

While Stevens’ legions of fans were saddened by the news, along with the musicians who had played with him on record and stage, the singer himself was exhilarated by the prospect of moving on. “It was like going back to my original nature,” he reflected at the time. “Back to wide-eyed childhood again.”

The appropriately-titled Back To Earth was his parting gift: an album that saw the London-born singer saying farewell to his fans, while obliquely explaining his decision to quit in songs such as ‘Last Love Song’ and ‘Just Another Night’.

“What’s going on behind the appearance of stardom or the stage itself can be a completely different world,” he says now, “and that’s what it was a lot of the time. I kept my sanity and I kept my eyes open.”

In 2019 Back To Earth is to be reissued in various formats on Cat-O-Log Records/BMG, including a deluxe boxset featuring the original album (remastered at Abbey Road), along with demos, unreleased tracks, and material from UNICEF’s 1979 Year Of The Child concert, the singer’s last live performance as Cat Stevens.
The release marks the first in a series of reissues and expanded editions that will cover Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ entire recording career, spanning a remarkable five decades.

Upon its original release, Back To Earth received rave reviews. “Cat has come up with the kind of quality album that originally made him a superstar,” declared the London Evening News. “Just one knockout song after another.” Billboard meanwhile applauded the album’s “tender, folksy ballads [and] up-tempo and spirited pop tunes”. Hot Press hailed it as “a lush and intricately woven tapestry of fine melodies…really a return to form.”

Cat Stevens had been thinking long and hard for some time about quitting his music career. Aside from general disillusionment with fame, the singer had experienced a spiritual epiphany after being caught in a rip current and nearly drowning when swimming in the Pacific Ocean three years earlier. Crying to the heavens, “If you save me, I’ll work for you,” he was rescued by a gentle wave which carried him back to the shore.

What he calls his “gradual awakening” and decision to become a Muslim in 1977, changing his name to Yusuf Islam, was sparked by his brother gifting the singer a copy of the Quran for his 27th birthday. “I had discovered a new way to view the universe,” he explained back then. “Like a kid who had travelled by spiritual rocket to an exciting new world.”

“There are many intriguing messages in the songs and lyrics of this album; ‘The Artist’ has no words, because I couldn’t find the word to praise the Creator of this incredible universe enough; ‘Daytime’ gives a sense of the innocence I’d rediscovered; finally, ‘Never’ is befittingly the last track and is justifiably full of hopeful feelings.”

Back To Earth was indeed a remarkable return to form, reuniting Stevens with Paul Samwell-Smith, the producer of his landmark, multi-platinum albums Tea For The Tillerman (1970) and Teaser And The Firecat (1971), as well as continuing his creative partnership with long-time guitarist Alun Davies.

Musically, the album was a blend of the acoustic balladeering and spiritually-questing style that had made the singer a worldwide star, along with more distant echoes of his years growing up as Steven Demetre Georgiou in London’s West End. Tracks such as ‘New York Times’ and ‘Randy’ recalled the influence upon him of the UK capital’s theatre land, and – since parts of the album had been recorded in New York City – Broadway.

“There was this other side of me which was the sort of musical composer,” he remembers.  “I loved musicals and I was surrounded by them where I lived.  So, I had Bernstein in my blood.”

Long overdue for re-evaluation, Back To Earth is a brilliant and fascinating album capturing Yusuf/Cat Stevens at a defining point in his life.

“Now,” as he said at the time of his departure from the music world, “I’ve come down from the stars.”

BACK TO EARTH: SUPER DELUXE EDITION

CD ONE: Back To Earth
The original 1978 album remastered from original analogue tapes to stunning effect at Abbey Road Studios

1.     Just Another Night
2.     Daytime
3.     Bad Brakes
4.     Randy
5.     The Artist
6.     Last Love Song
7.     Nascimento
8.     Father
9.     New York Times
10.  Never

CD TWO: Return To Earth: The Original 2001 Stereo Master.
1.     Just Another Night
2.     Daytime
3.     Bad Brakes
4.     Randy
5.     The Artist
6.     Last Love Song
7.     Nascimento
8.     Father
9.     New York Times
10.  Never

CD THREE: Distant Planets: Unearthed Gems.
Back To Earth live tracks, rare demos and two beautiful, completely unheard recordings.
1.     Toy Heart (Previously Unreleased)
2.     Butterfly (Previously Unreleased)
3.     Just Another Night (Demo) Previously Unreleased
4.     Last Love Song (Demo) Previously Unreleased
5.     Bad Brakes (Instrumental) Previously Unreleased
6.     New York Times (New Mix) Previously Unreleased
7.     Nascimento (Instrumental) Previously Unreleased
8.     Daytime (Live 2017)
9.     Just Another Night (Live 2016)
10.  Last Love Song (Live 2014)
11.  Never (Live 2013)
12.  Bad Brakes (Live 2011)

CD FOUR: Alpha Omega (A Musical Revelation)
Completion of the circle.  Yusuf helps his brother David realise his own musical ambition by producing the 1978 album Alpha Omega, featuring the much loved ‘Child For A Day’

1.     Universe
2.     I Who Am I
3.     Paradise
4.     Inventions
5.     I See That Face
6.     Child For A Day
7.     Sing, Love Is Everywhere
8.     Alpha Omega
9.     Music Is The 7th Wonder
10.  Dreamer
11.  World
12.  Listen To Me
13.  I Believe

CD FIVE: UNICEF Year Of The Child Concert at Wembley Arena 1979.
The last love song.  Yusuf performs, what he believes will be his final farewell at UNICEF’s 1979 Year Of The Child charity concert at London’s Wembley Arena.

1.     The Wind with introduction from Paul Gambaccini
2.     On The Road To Find Out
3.     Just Another Night
4.     Daytime/Where Do The Children Play?
5.     Father & Son
6.     Morning Has Broken (With The Belmont Junior School Choir)
7.     Peace Train
8.     Child For A Day (With David Essex And Richard Thompson)

Blu-ray ONE: UNICEF Year Of The Child Concert at Wembley Arena 1979 footage + High Res Original Album remastered

LP ONE: Original Album Remastered

LP TWO:  UNICEF Year Of The Child Concert at Wembley Arena 1979

+ 50-page hardcover book featuring all new interviews and liner notes by Tom Doyle with contribution from Paul Gambaccini
+ replica original press pack, photos, fanzine, posters and more

BACK TO EARTH: DELUXE EDITION

CD ONE: Back To Earth
The original 1978 album remastered from original analogue tapes to stunning effect at Abbey Road Studios
1.     Just Another Night
2.     Daytime
3.     Bad Brakes
4.     Randy
5.     The Artist
6.     Last Love Song
7.     Nascimento
8.     Father
9.     New York Times
10.  Never

CD TWO: Return To Earth: The Original 2001 Stereo Master.
1.     Just Another Night
2.     Daytime
3.     Bad Brakes
4.     Randy
5.     The Artist
6.     Last Love Song
7.     Nascimento
8.     Father
9.     New York Times
10.  Never
+ Plus four previously unreleased demos, live and unheard recordings

And page booklet with new liner notes by Tom Doyle, interviews and contributions from Paul Gambaccini

Standard CD and LP formats include original album remastered

Pre-order all formats including the super deluxe box set and 2 CD deluxe edition and other exclusive items here: https://yusufcatstevens.pmstores.co

Pictures here: https://we.tl/t-hDEoljxVwd

Rising UK stars Ward Thomas (24 year old twin sisters Catherine and Lizzy), begin 2019 by setting themselves and their fans the New Year’s Resolution challenge of taking time away from social media every Sunday.

The girls who have been outspoken on the subject of mental health and social media, which is a topic they also tackled on their upcoming album ‘Restless Minds’ (Out Feb) set the task to remove themselves from the addiction of scrolling to help with their peace of mind and creative process, whilst encouraging others to do the same.

“After experiencing our own levels of anxiety through our constant use of social media and the addiction to scrolling, we drew on these feelings in some of our new songs and consequently feel that it is important to practice what we preach”. Catherine said on the idea behind #NoScrollSunday, “Sometimes we have felt time just slips by as we are mindlessly scrolling, when instead we could have picked up our guitar, we could have gone for a walk, we could have sat in that moment and come up with a song idea”.

Lyrically the twins have tackled issues close to their hearts on ‘Restless Minds’, including pertinent observations on social media, the women’s movement, what ‘the truth’ means in 2018 and mental health. The girls address fakeness on their current single ‘No Filter’, which is a titular nod to one of Instagram’s most popular, often misused, hashtags. “We couldn’t help but address social media and the subconscious competition it creates,” says Lizzy. “There’s a fake reality that everyone our age is falling for right now. Scroll down, see my page, look at my perfect life!”

Restless Minds is the follow up to their 2016 No.1 charting major label debut ‘Cartwheels’ and firmly establishes Ward Thomas as leading exponents of new wave country tinged pop. ‘Restless Minds’ is available to pre-order now.

Ward Thomas play the following UK dates in 2019 with support coming from fellow Brits The Wandering Hearts.  For more info visit: wardthomasmusic.com/live/

February 2019
Sun 24th                           BEXHILL, De La Warr Pavilion
Mon 25th                           YORK, Barbican
Tues 26th                          GUILDFORD, G-Live
Wed 28th                           BRISTOL, O2 Academy
March 2019
Fri 1st                                CAMBRIDGE, Junction
Sat 2nd                               NORWICH, Open
Mon 4th                              CARDIFF, St David’s
Tues 5th                              LEICESTER, De Montfort Hall
Wed 6th                              MANCHESTER, Albert Hall
April 2019
Mon 1st                               BIRMINGHAM Institute
Tues 2nd                              SOUTHAMPTON, O2 Guildhall
Wed 3rd                               LONDON, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Fri 5th                                  GLASGOW, SWG3
Sat 6th                                 GATESHEAD, Sage

www.wardthomasmusic.com

Grammy-nominated, global superstar Avril Lavigne has announced that her highly anticipated sixth studio album, ‘Head Above Water’ will be released on February 15 via BMG. Alongside the announce, Avril has unveiled the album’s cover art, title and track listing and another sneak preview in the form of “Tell Me It’s Over” with the accompanying music video bring premiered exclusively on YouTube here.

Of the album Lavigne states, “I feel like I’ve really opened up on this record more than I ever have before. Each song tells a story that will hopefully inspire others to believe in themselves and stand up for what they know is right and what they truly deserve!”

“’Tell Me It’s Over’ is an anthem about being strong, finally putting your foot down and closing the door on a relationship that you know is wrong after time and time again of falling for their games.” says Lavigne of the new track. “If someone doesn’t treat you the way you deserve to be treated, don’t put up with it. It’s understandably so hard because in the past every time you saw them, they sucked you in and you fell right back into their web, but not anymore starting now!”

“The vocals and the lyrics are very vulnerable which is reflective of the feelings I had in relationships like these. I wanted to write something classic and have been inspired by some of the timeless queens I listen to everyday at home, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin and Etta James. They represent women who stand up for women and aren’t going to put up with a man’s bullshit anymore!”

“Tell Me It’s Over” is the follow up to the singer’s critically acclaimed first single, “Head Above Water,” which has earned over 125 million global streams and marked her first new music in 5 years. Vogue Magazine praised the track “a fierce piano ballad that documents a culminating moment in Lavigne’s years-long struggle with Lyme disease,” and Rolling Stone proclaimed the song a “power ballad” with “Lavigne belting over a steady-building mix of piano, strings, synths and thunderous drums.”

HEAD ABOVE WATER TRACK LISTING:
1.    Head Above Water
2.    Birdie
3.    I Fell In Love With The Devil
4.    Tell Me It’s Over
5.    Dumb Blonde
6.    It Was In Me
7.    Souvenir
8.    Crush
9.    Goddess
10. Bigger Wow
11. Love Me Insane
12. Warrior

WATCH “TELL ME IT’S OVER” HERE: https://avrillavigne.lnk.to/TellMeItsOverVideoPR

PRE-ORDER “HEAD ABOVE WATER” HERE: https://avrillavigne.lnk.to/HeadAboveWaterAlbumPR