Flyleaf Promo Tour To Preview Memento Mori

Starting tonight in Seattle, FLYLEAF is hosting nine special listening parties to preview their new MEMENTO MORI album.

Sept 28 - El Corazon, Seattle, WA
Sept 29 - Slim's, San Francisco, CA
Oct 01 - Boardner's, Hollywood, CA
Oct 03 - KFMA Fall Ball Show (Pima County Fairground), Tucson, AZ
Oct 06 - BLVD @Crash Mansion, New York, NY
Oct 07 - Church, Boston, MA
Oct 08 - The Rock Nightclub, Minneapolis, MN
Oct 10 - Smartbar, Chicago, IL
Oct 13 - The Absolute Space, Dallas, TX

All events are 7-9PM local time; are ALL AGES and free (entry will be on a first come basis). Fans who pre-order the new album at these events will get a limited-edition FLYLEAF Lithograph. Each event will include a special appearance by singer Lacey Mosley (Sturm) and guitarist Sameer Bhattacharya or guitarist Jared Hartmann.

Watch a montage from the L.A. RTMM event at Boardner's with a cameo by 1888 Media's Baron Reventón:



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23rd Annual Bridge School Benefit Line-Up Announced

The 23rd Annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts

Saturday, October 24, 2009 – 5:00pm
Sunday, October 25, 2009 – 2:00pm
Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. – The lineup for the 23rd annual Bridge School Benefit concerts was unveiled today, bringing another star-studded lineup to Shoreline Amphitheatre including acoustic performances by Neil Young, No Doubt, Jimmy Buffett (performing Saturday only), Chris Martin of Coldplay, Adam Sandler (performing Sunday only), Sheryl Crow, Fleet Foxes, Monsters of Folk (featuring Conor Oberst, Yim Yames, M. Ward and Mike Mogis), Wolfmother and Gavin Rossdale.

These iconic annual concerts hosted by Neil and Pegi Young benefit The Bridge School, a program for the communicative and educational development of children with severe speech and physical impairments.

Tickets for the 23rd Annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts are on sale at Livenation.com or charge by phone at (877) 598-6659. Tickets may be purchased at the Shoreline Amphitheatre Box Office between 10am to 2pm on Sundays with no service charge. Advance tickets are $150.00 and $75.00 for reserved seating and $39.50 for general admission plus applicable service charges. Four packs of general admission tickets may be purchased for $99.00. There is a 4 ticket limit for reserved seats and an 8 ticket total purchase limit for these shows.

There are a limited number of lower level reserved seats available via a LiveNation auction at Ticketmaster. Auction ends Wed Sept 30, 2009 at 12:00PM PST. Proceeds from these auction tickets will benefit the Bridge School.

Past performers at the Bridge School Benefit concerts have included Paul McCartney, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Phish, Thom Yorke, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab For Cutie, Wilco, Beck, David Bowie, Bonnie Raitt and dozens more.
Ticket info - Saturday
Ticket info - Sunday

BRIDGE SCHOOL INFO

EVEREST Headlines KROQ Troubadour Show

Vapor Records artist EVEREST is set to headline The Troubadour in West Hollywood for the first time as a part of KROQ's Locals Only showcase. In addition to world-famous KROQ radio, quite a swath of L.A-based media have been strong supporters of EVEREST and they came to the party once again this week:

BUZZBANDS.LA sums it up nicely: "In two short years, EVEREST has gone from nice-local-guys-making-warm-and-fuzzy-Americana to full-fledged touring rockers, who, through their affiliation with Neil Young’s Vapor Records, gained slots opening for the likes of Young, Wilco and My Morning Jacket and played festivals such as Bonnaroo and Bumbershoot. It’s been a period of revelation and growth for frontman Russell Pollard and bandmates Jason Soda, Joel Graves, Elijah Thomson and Davey Latter. With touring slowing down and side projects winding up (Pollard and Soda were working on a new Watson Twins album, Thomson doing production work on new Delta Spirit music), Everest is in the early stages of work on a follow-up to its 2008 debut, “Ghost Notes.” But first: a hometown headlining gig tonight at the Troubadour." READ the BUZZBANDS.LA interview with EVEREST singer Russell Pollard

AQUARIUM DRUNKARD - Diversions feature with EVEREST guitarist Joel Graves waxing poetic on 9 lesser-known Neil Young tracks.

LAist - EVEREST at the Troubadour is the 'Entertainment Pick of the Day' for Friday September 18th, 2009

RADIO FREE SILVER LAKE - Interview with singer Russell Pollard

Listen to BLACK COVERS (Recorded live on April 25, 2009 at The Enmax Center in Lethbridge, Alberta Canada while on tour with Neil Young)

L.A. institution Amoeba Records are fans as well.
Watch EVEREST'S entire 41-minute Amoeba in-store performance from May of '08. Songs performed:

Stumble Waltz - 3:51
Trees - 3:03
Standing By - 5:40
Into Your Soft Heart - 5:18
Only In Your Mind - 4:43
Black Covers - 3:45
I See It In Your Eyes - 6:49
Rebels In The Roses - 4:45
Reloader - 3:40

More @ EverestBand.com

FLYLEAF Announces MEMENTO MORI Tour

FLYLEAF has announced initial dates in support of their new MEMENTO MORI album due October 27th via A&M/Octone.

Thu October 29 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
Sun November 1 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
Tue November 3 Seattle, WA @ Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room
Wed November 4 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
Fri November 6 Salt Lake City, UT @ Murray Theater
Sat November 7 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
Mon November 9 Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
Tue November 10 Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge
Wed November 11 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
Tue November 17 Boston, MA @ Middle East
Wed November 18 New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theatre
Sat November 21 Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of the Living Arts

Fan club pre-sale begins today. Fans who join the FLYLEAF Fan Club have the option to buy a VIP package to an upcoming show.

Each VIP package is an additional $30 and includes:

- A General Admission Ticket
- A 1-year membership (or extension) in The Passerby Army – Flyleaf’s exclusive Fan Club
- Access to a Meet and Greet with the band
- A Limited edition new Flyleaf Passerby Army T-shirt.
- A Limited edition Flyleaf Tour VIP laminate.

All shows on sale this Saturday Sept. 19th.

FLYLEAF TOUR INFO

Jets Overhead Added To Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert

Los Angeles, CA – Victoria, BC quintet JETS OVERHEAD is set to play select U.S. shows in support of NO NATIONS (Vapor Records), their second full-length album.

Oct 14 - The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA (with The Temper Trap)
Oct 17 – The Crocodile, Seattle, WA (with The Temper Trap)
Oct 22 - Arlene's Grocery, New York, NY (CMJ - 11pm set time)
Oct 24 – Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA (Bridge School Benefit Concert)

The band’s performance at the Bridge School event will mark the debut appearance at this prestigious Benefit Concert by Jets Overhead. Headlining the two-day event will be Gwen Stefani (w/No Doubt), Chris Martin (of Coldplay), Jimmy Buffett and Adam Sandler. Other top names scheduled to perform at both concerts include Sheryl Crow, Fleet Foxes, Wolfmother, Gavin Rossdale and the event's organizer, Neil Young. The Monsters of Folk, the indie-pop dream team of Conor Oberst, Yim Yames, M. Ward and Mike Mogis will round out the line-up.

These upcoming dates will showcase the soaring melodies constructed throughout No Nations. Propelling the album’s free-flowing modern rock textures is the breathy vocal interplay of the husband and wife duo of Adam Kittredge and Antonia Freybe-Smith. Guitarist Piers Henwood (a cousin of Kittredge), bassist Jocelyn Greenwood and drummer Luke Renshaw coalesce the band’s trademark atmospheric sound evident in the single “Heading For Nowhere” which recently made its video world premiere through AOL’s Spinner Network in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

•All Music.com – “No Nations, is a pleasant, gently trippy throwback to the '90s shoegaze scene filled with waves of guitars, dreamily hazy vocals, and sweetly sung melodies.”

•CitizenDick.org - “No Nations has a solid balance of fist pumping and navel gazing… an album that is worth your attention.”

•ReaxMusic.com – “No Nations is an incredibly nuanced album of slow-burn art-pop meditations”

•SpectrumCulture.com – “Heading for Nowhere” is full of coma-inducing hooks and dreamtime lyrics.”

•The Lefsetz Letter - "No Nations" is a throwback to that era. Drop the proverbial needle and the everyday world will fall away. You'll be immersed in a bath of warm oil. ”

LISTEN TO HEADING FOR NOWHERE

JASON YATES Touring In Citizen Cope's Band

JASON YATES, the go-to keyboard / Hammond B3 organ player for Ben Harper, Natalie Merchant (Tigerlily), Macy Gray, Michael Franti and G. Love, has once again been handpicked to round out Citizen Cope’s touring band which is gearing up to traverse the U.S. through the end of 2009. The next leg of dates are:

Sep 17 2009 9:00P Mystic Theatre Petaluma, California
Sep 18 2009 9:00P The Fillmore San Francisco, California
Sep 19 2009 9:00P The Fillmore San Francisco, California
Sep 22 2009 8:00P House of Blues West Hollywood, California
Sep 23 2009 8:30P House of Blues Anaheim, California
Sep 24 2009 9:00P Wave House San Diego, California
Sep 25 2009 8:00P Marquee Theatre Tempe, Arizona
Sep 27 2009 8:00P Fox Theatre Boulder, Colorado
Sep 28 2009 9:00P Fox Theatre Boulder, Colorado
Sep 29 2009 8:00P The Crossroads Kansas City, Missouri
Oct 01 2009 8:00P Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa, Oklahoma
Oct 03 2009 5:00P Austin City Limits Festival Austin, Texas
Oct 05 2009 9:00P Republic New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 07 2009 9:00P Valarium Knoxville, Tennessee
Oct 08 2009 8:00P Live on the Green Nashville, Tennessee
Oct 09 2009 9:00P Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, North Carolina
Oct 10 2009 10:15P The National Richmond, Virginia

YATES will return from these dates just in time for the release of his self-titled Vapor Records album on October 13th.

If sharing a name with his album makes JASON YATES a definition of the man, Jason himself is less interested in the minutiae of such a definition than in its underlying essence. “There was always a certain way I wanted to play, no matter what band I was in,” Jason explains. “It had to be natural, and have a strong groove to it. When I was writing the songs on the new album, that idea was at the front of my mind the whole time.”

That groove traverses blues and rock, gospel and soul; it flirts with jazz and country. There’s a sense of space here, whether that space resonates with impressionistic guitar licks and Jason’s B3 on songs like “Nobody’so Far” and “Paper Tents,” or it’s filled only with the melancholy of the bare and beautiful closing track “Sing For You.”

To get the right feel for the new songs, YATES called on his L.A-based nucleus of Mark Lightcap (Acetone, Matmos), Oliver Charles (Ben Harper & Relentless7, Common, De La Soul) and Gary Mallaber (Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Miller Band) to play on the sessions, with C.C. White (Ryan Adams, Edwin McCain, Ben Harper & Relentless7) on guest vocals and Marc Ford (The Black Crowes, Ben Harper, Gov’t Mule) on guitar. They recorded live with virtually no overdubs at Manuel Nieto’s Estudio in East Los Angeles.


JASON YATES
JASON YATES
1. My Way Out (co-written with Leon Mobley)
2. Nobody So Far
3. Comin’ On Back
4. Paper Tents
5. I Run
6. To Reason
7. To Chance
8. Tear Drops
9. Sing For You (co-written with Marc Ford)

JASON YATES @ MY SPACE

Vic Chesnutt 'Skitter on Take-Off' Due 10/6

THE VIC CHESNUTT RECORD AND WHY ME AND TOMMY WANTED TO DO IT by Jonathan Richman

"My drummer Tommy Larkin and I were driving in the van across the United States as we do two or three times a year on our tours of clubs and I said, “Y’ know, we should produce Vic’s next record!” And he said he thought so too. We both were thinking that the way to get the feeling for Vic as a listener was to hear just Vic – no arrangements, no guest guitar solo guys, no “ironic” touches or anything else to cloud his voice or his poetry. His guitar playing is also the guitar playing on this recording because we think no help is needed.

Tommy and I have toured with Vic several times and he’s long been one of our favorites. So we’re both proud of this record and glad for the chance to make it our way. A lot of it was brand new stuff - a few hours old or becoming a song right there as he sang."

Vic Chesnutt has recorded with many different people for all kinds of labels, but he’s never made an album like his debut on Vapor Records. Chesnutt’s first two releases were produced by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, and from there he was featured in the PBS documentary Speed Racer and his songs were recorded for Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation. A wide range of artists including Garbage, Madonna, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M. and Live all covered Chesnutt originals. He has recorded with other groups like Widespread Panic and Lambchop and musicians as varied as Bill Frisell and Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto. Chesnutt recently performed on Cowboy Junkie’s Trinity Revisited, with others and over a dozen different releases of his own.

SKITTER ON TAKE-OFF allows Vic Chesnutt to create his most dramatic album yet, recording devastating songs like “Rips in the Fabric” and “Dick Cheney” live with no overdubs. This album becomes a unique addition to his history, and allows the singer-songwriter the chance to collaborate with an important influence. “I’m honored to work with Jonathan Richman. Over the years he’s taken me under his wing and mentored me in a very meaningful way, truly shaping me into the songwriter and performer I am today. And it is an ongoing process.” Chesnutt and Richman’s work together is one for the ages.

VIC CHESNUTT
SKITTER ON TAKE-OFF
1) Feast in the Time of Plague
2) Unpacking My Suitcase
3) Dimples
4) Rips in the Fabric
5) Society Sue (LISTEN)
6) My New Life
7) Dick Cheney
8) Worst Friend
9) Sewing Machine

Vic Chesnutt (vocals, guitar)
Jonathan Richman (guitar, harmonium)
Tommy Larkin (drums)
Produced by Jonathan Richman & Tommy Larkin

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Jets Overhead 'Heading For Nowhere' Video To Premiere On Spinner

Victoria, B.C. quintet JETS OVERHEAD announces the world premiere of their video “Heading for Nowhere” on Thursday, September 3 via AOL’s Spinner. The video will also be added to rotation on Canada’s MuchMoreMusic video channel this weekend. “Heading for Nowhere” is the second video supporting the band’s current Vapor Records album, No Nations.

Known for their scenery driven videos (a clip for the album’s title track was shot in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen while on a mini-tour of China) and broad musical and visual consciousness, “Heading For Nowhere” was filmed amongst a beautiful old abandoned train station on the edge of their hometown of Victoria. Directed and edited by Jeremy Lutter, the four-minute piece was shot in High-Definition and makes use of varied effects including stop-motion, color-contrast and antique filtering. Jets Overhead vocalist Antonia Freybe-Smith fondly recalls the making of the video. "We shot ‘Heading For Nowhere’ over the span of two gorgeous summer days in Victoria, Canada, and everyone was very relaxed and vitamin D replenished so there was lots of good vibes and laughter, sunshine through windows, and golden hazy grass moving in the warm breeze."

Mike Spinella, Director, Partner Relations for AOL Music Network chimes in on the unveiling, "We are looking forward to continuing to work with Jets Overhead by hosting the premiere of the ‘Heading For Nowhere’ video on Spinner."

Listen to HEADING FOR NOWHERE

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