Every week, somewhere in the world, singers gather in clubs and halls to sing the songs of Nick Drake. It is sobering to think that more people now hear his songs in a month than ever heard them in his lifetime.” – Joe Boyd

Undoubtedly one of the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years, Nick Drake found little mainstream success during his lifetime; however, since his untimely death at the age of 26, his fragile acoustic, autumnal music has touched the hearts of millions of people.

Over the years since Drake’s death, his original producer Joe Boyd has explored the possibility of producing an album in tribute to his songwriting. But despite many well-known artists wishing to participate, he always resisted, because it seemed the only practical way to accomplish it would be for each artist to supply a track recorded separately, with their own chosen musicians.

Finally the album has come together. Entitled Way To Blue – The Songs of Nick Drake, it will be released on April 15, 2013 on Navigator Records. The contributing artists are a stellar bunch to say the least. They include Teddy Thompson, Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Robyn Hitchcock, Lisa Hannigan, Scott Matthews, Krystle Warren, Danny Thompson and more – recorded live in London and Melbourne.

Boyd felt that the only way to avoid the pitfalls of the typical Tribute Album would be to have everyone together for a week in a rural studio, backing each other with harmonies and guitar parts, creating an organic whole of an album. By performing Way To Blue fifteen times over the course of four years, he has accomplished something resembling his original dream.

The songs have been honed and shaped over the course of time, and the spirit of togetherness among the Way To Blue company has proved inspiring to all participants.

The recordings on this new CD are the edited highlights of concerts in London and Melbourne; the interpretations provide evidence, if such evidence was ever needed, of the timeless depth of Nick Drake’s qualities as a songwriter. The result is an album with the quality of a studio production and the spontaneity of a live performance.

Writing in the album sleeve notes, Joe says, “Selecting singers has been one of the most rewarding parts of this exercise. One criterion was that none of them should sound like Nick.”

“Vashti Bunyan is the one singer who actually knew Nick. I tried to get them to write songs together, but should have known that two such self-contained people would have trouble provoking one another into a collaboration. Since that time, the arc of Vashti’s career has been almost as remarkable as Nick’s, with the gratifying difference that she has survived to enjoy the late (but not too late) adulation of a generation of singers, songwriters and fans.”

“Robyn Hitchcock was too young to know Nick, but not by much. He grew up, he says, “with his nose pressed up against the glass of the Sixties” and has carved out a brilliant career, bringing to his own songs and his interpretations of Dylan, Syd Barrett, the Incredible String Band and Nick Drake a genuinely original evocation of the mad spirit of those years.”

“Shortly after the Birmingham Town Hall show, as I was preparing a concert of Incredible String Band songs at the Barbican, I learned that Green Gartside, whose Scritti Politti recordings I had loved in the ‘80s, wanted to come and ‘play some back-up guitar or sing harmony’. I asked him whether he was equally fond of Nick Drake. You can hear the response in his performance of “Fruit Tree” on this CD.”

“Lisa Hannigan is a magnetic and melodic singer with clever, thoughtful songs. I had but to mention Nick to her and she was on the team. Her wild take on “Black Eyed Dog” brought down the house the first night and has done so ever since.”

“Scott Matthews, a Midlands singer-songwriter who went from small clubs in Wolverhampton to earn an Ivor Novello Award, sell 80,000 copies of his debut cd and duet and tour with Robert Plant. The passion and power of his version of “Place To Be” has all the more impact for the fact that it sneaks up on you.”

“Krystle Warren is an African-American woman with a powerful voice and impeccable taste who loved Nick and wanted to sing “Time Has Told Me”. I saw in her the realization of a dream I had from the time I first heard Nick’s demo of the song and was convinced it should be Roberta Flack’s follow-up to “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”.

“Teddy Thompson is the talented son of my old friends and colleagues Richard and Linda Thompson. Teddy has his mother’s exquisite phrasing and sense of humour and his father’s intensity. Teddy’s seemingly effortless rendering of “Riverman” became one of Way To Blue’s highlights.”

“When we received an offer to tour Australia, we decided to bring six singers with us and add two locals. The male choice of Shane Nicholson was easy – he has become one of Australia’s favourite singers, winning award after award. Shane slotted easily into the show and delivered the impeccable “Poor Boy” you hear on the CD.”

“The female voice proved more difficult until I discovered the mesmorizing singing of Australian Zoe Rendell who with Steve Hassett, comprises the duo Luluc. The lineup was complete.”

“From his characteristic entry at the start of the second verse on “Things Behind The Sun”, many will recognize the “Danny Thompson feel” underpinning Way To Blue. A jazzer, he has lent his skills to dozens of my productions and hundreds of albums by artists across the pop, folk and jazz fields. Nick loved Danny, both for his playing and for the way he teased and cajoled him, never letting him retreat into his shell, drawing laughter from him whenever they met.”

“Nick was never a folkie and some from that world have been uncomfortable with his privileged education and accent. Yet Neil MacColl, son of that founding anchor of British folk, Ewan MacColl, is the most supremely accomplished virtuoso of the impossibly complex Drake guitar parts. Which needn’t be that much of a surprise – his mother Peggy Seeger is a banjo and piano virtuoso who can startle the uninformed by playing brilliant renditions of Debussy and Scriabin!”

“Kate St John insisted on Zoe Rahman for the piano chair. Zoe has been a revelation. She is a jazz player, but her own albums deftly weave in the music of her Bangladeshi heritage; making the leap to the very English art-song of Nick Drake seems just another effortless step accomplished with the fluency of a virtuoso devoid of any hint of jazz cliché.”

“Guitarist Leo Abrahams warmed my World Music heart by adding the Ukrainian bandura to his adventurous use of effects. When he was unable to make the Australian tour, Steve Jones proved a more than able deputy. He shares with Leo a background of working with Brian Eno and composing film scores.”

“Also bringing World Music chops to the party is drummer Martyn Barker, who performs with the Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara duo as well as Billy Bragg and Beth Gibbons.”

“Each concert featured a section of seven string players. The personnel have altered with each tour, but first violins Oli Langford and Jules Singleton have provided brilliant leadership and all the British, Italian and Australian players have given us wonderful energy and have clearly loved playing Robert Kirby’s and Kate St John’s arrangements.”

“The sadness of honouring a poet who died so young was compounded when Robert Kirby passed away as we were preparing for the first Way To Blue tour. Robert was a classmate of Nick’s at Cambridge; the musical context of Nick’s first two albums is that of a collaboration between two friends. He took Nick’s music on its own elegant terms and created a body of work that has lasted far past both his and Nick’s life spans.”

“It would be impossible to imagine Way To Blue without Kate St John. Her impeccable taste on accordion and cor anglais combine with her arrangements and direction to provide the glue that holds this diverse project so sweetly together.”

FEATURES HISTORIC LIVE RECORDINGS FROM BUDDY GUY’S ORIGINAL LEGENDS CLUB IN CHICAGO AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED STUDIO RECORDINGS

GUY ADDS KENNEDY CENTER HONORS TO PRESTIGIOUS LIST OF AWARDS

If you’ve never had the chance to experience the great blues icon Buddy Guy perform live, now is your chance to be enthralled by his musical magic on Live at Legends.

Live at Legends features Guy’s last live recordings from his now-shuttered original Legends blues club in Chicago, captured during his January residency there in 2010. The album features a number of Buddy Guy live favorites including two amazing medleys: John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom” into Cream’s “Strange Brew;” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child” into Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love.” In addition to the live recordings, Live at Legends includes 3 previously unreleased studio recordings from Guy’s critically acclaimed Living Proof album sessions: “Polka Dot Love,” “Coming For You,” and “Country Boy.”

The recipient of over 30 awards and accolades, Guy was recently selected to receive the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors alongside Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova and Led Zeppelin.

In a career that spans nearly 50 years with over 50 albums released, the illustrious Buddy Guy has received 28 Blues Music Awards (formerly W. C. Handy Awards), 6 Grammy Awards, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, the first annual Great Performer of Illinois Award, a Billboard Music Awards’ Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement and the Presidential National Medal of Arts.

Live at Legends track listing:

01 Intro
02 Best Damn Fool
03 Mannish Boy
04 I Just Want To Make Love To You
05 Skin Deep
06 Damn Right I Got The Blues
07 Boom Boom/Strange Brew
08 Voodoo Chile/Sunshine Of Your Love
09 Polka Dot Love
10 Coming For You
11 Country Boy

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Winnipeg indie pop outfit Boats makes impossibly hooky pop songs about death, being old, girls, glowing bears and escaping the spectral plane of existence and reappearing at a football game — all of which can be found on the band’s sparkling third album, A Fairway Full Of Miners, due out Feb. 5, 2013 via Kill Rock Stars (Corin Tucker Band, Elliott Smith, Decemberists, Deerhoof).

Recorded in the spring/summer of 2012 by Ryan McVeigh at Prairie Recording Studios/UMFM and mixed by David Carswell in Vancouver (Destroyer, New Pornographers), A Fairway Full Of Miners comes as the follow-up to Boats’ acclaimed 2010 sophomore album, Cannonballs, Cannonballs — named the No. 1 album of 2010 by Winnipeg college radio station 101.5 UMFM and hailed by critics for its inventiveness and mega-watt charm. But if Cannonballs, Cannonballs was all about giddy exuberance, A Fairway Full Of Miners is about growing up and finding yourself bored. There are still plenty of manic, sloppy-on-purpose junk-store pop tunes that burst with pop-rocks-and-Coke energy (O Telescope), but the new record also sees the band stretch out over more ambitious epics (Animated GIFs) and heartfelt ballads (Advice on Bears). It’s eclectic, but not unfocused; the whole thing is unified by frontman/band leader Mat Klachefsky’s helium-high yelp of a singing voice.

Maturity has become almost a cliché when it comes to describing albums — especially third albums — but A Fairway Full Of Miners has a focus to it that comes with relentless touring (Boats has done eight North American tours) and a sophistication that comes with refining a particular sound over the span of three albums). But don’t confuse mature with boring; Boats albums give you that thrilling feeling of being on the verge of spinning wildly, dizzingly out of control.

Look for A Fairway Full Of Miners in early February. A three-song cassette tape will be released this December.

Boats is:

Mat Klachefsky – Guitar/Vocals
Ashley Roch – Keyboards/Trumpet
Rory Ellis – Guitar/Other Stuff
Louis Levesque-Cote – Bass
Luke Bergen – Drums

TRACK LISTING:

01. The Noodle Mountains
02. Animated Gifs
03. Great Skulls
04. Advice On Bears
05. Sad Legs
06. O Telescope
07. Advice On Bioluminescent Bears
08. We Got Pillow And Blankets
09. We Got Tables and Chairs
10. O Jumbotron
11. Getting Worst.jpeg
12. The Salteen Coast

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Watch: Recording The Album ‘A Fairway Full of Miners’

Columbia Records and Apple today announced that AC/DC’s entire catalog is now available digitally for the first time exclusively on the iTunes Store worldwide (www.itunes.com). From their 1976 debut High Voltage to seminal classic Back In Black and 2008 smash hit Black Ice, all of AC/DC’s 16 studio albums, along with four live albums and three compilation albums, are available for the first time ever on the iTunes Store.

All tracks are Mastered for iTunes, and fans have the ability to download full albums or simply purchase their favorite individual songs. Fans can also choose from two specially packaged digital compilations: The Complete Collection, the complete iTunes-exclusive AC/DC catalog; and The Collection, which includes all 16 studio albums.

AC/DC’s thunderous and primal rock and roll has excited fans for generations with their raw and rebellious brand of music, which also resonates with millions of new fans discovering AC/DC everyday. Their growing legion of fans will now experience the intensity of AC/DC’s music in a way it has never been heard before. AC/DC’s music has been Mastered for iTunes, ensuring the music is delivered to listeners with increased audio fidelity, more closely replicating what the artists, recording engineers and producers intended.

The full catalog which has all been Mastered for iTunes includes:

Collections

The Collection (all studio albums for $99.99)
The Complete Collection (all studio albums, live albums and box sets for $149.99)

16 Studio Albums

High Voltage (1976)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976)
Let There Be Rock (1977)
Powerage (1978)
Highway To Hell (1979)
Back In Black (1980)
For Those About To Rock We Salute You (1981)
Flick Of The Switch (1983)
74 Jailbreak (1984)
Fly On The Wall (1985)
Who Made Who (1986)
Blow Up Your Video (1988)
The Razors Edge (1990)
Ballbreaker (1995)
Stiff Upper Lip (2000)
Black Ice (2008)
4 Live Albums
If You Want Blood You’ve Got It (1978)
Live (1992)
Live (2 Volume Collector’s Edition) (1992)
Live At River Plate (2012)
3 Compilation Albums
Bonfire (1997)
Backtracks audio (2009)
Iron Man 2 soundtrack (2010)

With 2013 around the corner, Passion Pit is excited to announce a headlining North American tour in February and March with special guests Matt & Kim. The tour starts on February 5th in Norfolk, VA, three nights before the bands previously announced headlining debut at Madison Square Garden. The tour continues with a hometown show in Boston, MA on February 9th at the Agganis Arena, before heading west for theatre and arena shows in Denver, Salt Lake City and more – making this the band’s largest headlining tour to date! See the full list of dates below.

The band recently completed a three night stand at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club, where the Washington Times raved that “Passion Pit is the personification of pop music.” While in D.C., Michael Angelakos and Ian Hultquist from the band stopped by the NPR offices to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. After a triumphant return to the stage this fall, Passion Pit will finish out this year with a small European tour and a series of U.S. radio dates.

Passion Pit is featured on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 soundtrack, with an original track titled “Where I Come From.” The song is featured in the beginning of the film (out Nov. 16th), and you can preview it now on iTunes.

Four months after the bands #4 Billboard chart debut with Gossamer, Passion Pit is seeing their first top 5 Alternative chart hit with “Take A Walk.” Passion Pit made their first TV appearance in support of Gossamer last month performing “Take A Walk” and the infectious album cut “Carried Away” on Saturday Night Live. Additionally, the band is the face of Brooks Brothers 2012 fall line.

Passion Pit 2013 tour dates:
Fan presales for the shows start Wednesday, November 7th at 12pm local time, with the public on-sale kicking off Friday, November 9th for most shows. For more info and tickets, visit http://passionpitmusic.com/tour Additional dates for this tour will be announced in the upcoming weeks.

2/5 Norfolk, VA NorVa*
2/8 New York, NY Madison Square Garden*
2/9 Boston, MA Agganis Arena*
2/12 Portland, ME State Theater*
2/15 Montreal, QC Metropolis*
2/16 Toronto, ON Kool Haus*
2/18 Rochester, NY Main Street Armory*
2/23 Madison, WI Orpheum*
2/25 Columbia, MO Jesse Auditorium*
2/28 Ames, IA Hilton Coliseum at Iowa State University*
3/1 Denver, CO First Bank Center*
3/2 Salt Lake City, UT Complex*

*all dates are with Matt & Kim

Barbra Streisand’s private music vault holds all the master tapes she’s recorded for five decades. Now, she’s sharing 11 previously unreleased songs, spanning a cross-section of her career from 1963 to the present. The collection titled, Release Me will be available on Vinyl September 25th and CD October 9th. You can stream the entire album by scrolling down below.

In an unparalleled career, Streisand has released more than 60 albums. Many of the sessions for these albums yielded extra recordings, which weren’t included on the albums they were intended for. They’ve all been stored in her vault until now. Over the past year, Barbra has painstakingly gone through the recordings to come up with this collection, Release Me.

Highlights include: “Didn’t We” written by Jimmy Webb – recorded in 1970 for an unreleased album project titled The Singer; the standard “Willow Weep For Me” – an unreleased track recorded in 1967 for Simply Streisand, arranged by Ray Ellis noted for his legendary work with Billie Holiday; A striking version of Randy Newman’s “I Think It’s Going Rain Today,” with Barbra on vocals and Newman on piano – from the 1971 Stoney End sessions; an unreleased studio version of “With One More Look At You” from A Star Is Born; Two tracks from the unreleased sequel to the acclaimed The Broadway Album, titled Back To Broadway – “Home” (from The Wiz) and “How Are Things In Glocca Morra ? / Heather On The Hill” (from Finian’ s Rainbow / Brigadoon).

Reflecting on the album, Streisand noted, “The thing I’m happiest about is that I still have great affection for all these songs. They appealed to me at the time…and still do. Listening now, I actually think to myself, ‘The girl wasn’t half bad.’”

With the exception of two songs where the original masters couldn’t be located, all the tracks on Release Me were transferred from first generation master tapes. Every attention was paid to preserving the sonic perspective of the sessions as they were originally recorded and mixed.

Speaking of the unreleased recordings that reside in Barbra’s music vault, her long-time A&R man and co-producer of Release Me, Jay Landers says in his liner notes, “All of Barbra’s glorious music…her ideas…the collaborative efforts of the fortunate songwriters, arrangers, mixers and producers who have come into her orbit…the experiments…the occasional missteps and the many triumphs – all driven represent the unstoppable force of one woman’s vision.”

The complete track listing for Release Me features:

1. Being Good Isn’t Good Enough (from Hallelujah, Baby!)
2. Didn’t We
3. Willow Weep For Me
4. Try To Win A Friend
5. I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
6. With One More Look At You (from A Star Is Born)
7. Lost In Wonderland
8. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? / Heather On The Hill
(from Finian’s Rainbow / Brigadoon)
9. Mother And Child
10. If It’s Meant To Be
11. Home (from The Wiz)

You can stream the entire album Release Me here:

ABOUT BARBRA STREISAND:

The most accomplished female recording artist ever, Barbra Streisand has received 10 Grammys—including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement and Grammy Legend Awards—51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums. According to the RIAA, Barbra Streisand is the #1 best-selling female recording artist in history and the only woman to make the Top 10 all-time best-selling artists list.

An artist of unparalleled accomplishments in multiple entertainment fields, Streisand has made her mark as an award winning actress of stage and screen, recording artist, concert performer, film director, producer, screenwriter, songwriter, philanthropist, designer, photographer, author and activist.

Barbra Streisand is the only artist ever to receive an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards as well as France’s Legion d’Honneur and the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is, in fact, the recipient of 2 Oscars, 5 Emmys, 10 Grammys, a Tony and 12 Golden Globes including the Cecil B. DeMille Award. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honours. The three films she directed received 14 Oscar nominations.

The Streisand Foundation has given millions of dollars in more than 2100 grants to over 700 non-profit organizations including her substantial underwriting of The Cedars-Sinai Barbra Streisand Women’s Cardiovascular Research and Education Program which addresses the leading cause of death among women in the United States, as well as men. The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors recently honoured Streisand, for her generous support and dedication to the Cedars-Sinai Women’s Heart Center.

Watch: “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today”

Barbra Streisand “I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today” from Columbia Records on Vimeo.

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Forty-five years ago, the world’s first ever lyric video appeared in the documentary film about Dylan titled Don’t Look Back. Using that as an example, fans have been asked to submit photos of themselves holding white signs with their favourite lyric from Dylan’s first single, or inspiring photos superimposed with their favourite lyric from “Duquesne Whistle,” off his stellar new album, Tempest.

The lyrics for “Duquesne Whistle” can be found on MetroLyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/duquesne-whistle-lyrics-bob-dylan.html.

Fans from around the world can submit photos via Instagram by tagging #DylanLyricPhotos. Submissions will be accepted until Sunday, October 7th at midnight. The best photos will be featured in the official lyric video for “Duquesne Whistle,” which will premiere exclusively on MetroLyrics on October 16, 2012. Please note, only Canadian residents (excluding Quebec) are eligible to enter the contest to win the Sony Cyber-shot Digital Camera TX20.

Visit http://www.bobdylan.com/ca/bobdylaninstagramcontest to learn more about the contest.

On Monday, August 27, the opening track from Tempest, “Duquesne Whistle” will have its world premiere on NPR Online here. The song was recently described by the Los Angeles Times as, “the folky sound of old-time country blues guitar licks quietly unfurling before the full band explodes into a driving big-beat rhythm as rollicking as the train ride the song explores.”

Two days later, on August 29 at 9 a.m. GMT (4 a.m. EDT), the brand new video for “Duquesne Whistle,” featuring Bob Dylan, will have its world premiere on the website of The Guardian (guardiannews.com). The video was directed by Nash Edgerton, who also directed the clip for “Beyond Here Lies Nothing” from Dylan’s 2009 release, Together Through Life.

On Friday, August 31, fans who visit listentobobdylan.com will find a map of locations in the U.S. and nine other countries where selected songs from Tempest will be streamed to mobile devices. The tracks will be randomly streamed only when users are within the Tempest-tagged geographic areas, utilizing the free web-based Sound Graffiti app (which can be accessed directly through listentobobdylan.com). In addition to the U.S., other countries in which Sound Graffiti locations will be found include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Fans who stream the song will also be given an opportunity to pre-order Tempest from iTunes while they listen.

On Monday, September 10, dedicated Bob Dylan Tempest “pop-up” stores will open for a seven day period in New York City, Los Angeles and London. At these stores, fans can purchase the new album, as well as other Bob Dylan releases and exclusive merchandise commemorating these week-long events, including a limited quantity of CDs hand-signed by Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan Tempest stores will be open from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, September 10 so that fans can buy Tempest a full day in advance of its official release, and will remain open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Sunday, September 16. Stores will be located at the following U.S. locations:

819 Washington Street, New York, NY 10014

7763 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046

A Bob Dylan Tempest store will also open in London on Monday, September 10 and remain open through Monday, September 17 at the following location:

47 Beak Street, London, W1F 9SE

Additionally, the well-known Dussmann store in Berlin will be dedicated to Tempest and feature special promotions and other activities beginning September 7. Its hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to midnight and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.:

Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus GmbH, Friedrichstraße 90, 10117 Berlin

While detailed reviews of Tempest will not be published by media outlets until next week, early notices have hailed Bob Dylan’s 35th studio album as one of his finest works. Neil McCormick of The Telegraph wrote, “It is fantastic to be able to report that popular music’s greatest troubadour is still as brilliant and bewildering as ever…. This is an album I can’t wait to hear again, the sound of a great artist approaching the twilight of his career with fearless creativity.” Author and pop music critic Robert Hilburn wrote, “Dylan set the bar high for himself with the series of rich, engaging albums that began with Time Out of Mind, and he clears the hurdle again gloriously with Tempest. A stunning work.” Michael Simmons of Mojo Online wrote, “Tempest is astonishing.”

Earlier this year, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” He was also the recipient of the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and numerous other honors.

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Due to the continued incarceration of LAMB OF GOD singer Randy Blythe in the Czech Republic, the band’s co-headline tour with Dethklok scheduled to begin August 1st in Seattle is being cancelled. The band regrets the decision but the uncertainty of Randy’s release makes it impossible to carry on with the tour. Upon Randy’s release, it is the band’s intention to rebook a tour in the fall and at this time the band fully intends to participate in the Mayhem Cruise in December.

LAMB OF GOD wishes to thank Dethklok, Adult Swim and Gojira for their support and patience as well as all of the promoters who had dates on the tour. Last but certainly not least, the band thanks all of the fans who bought tickets for the tour and who have been supportive of Randy and the band over the last month that Randy has been held in Prague. Without the fans, there is no LAMB OF GOD.

Cancelled Lamb of God Tour Dates:
8/1 – Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theater
8/2 – Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theater
8/4 – AB, Calgary @ Big 4
8/5 – Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Centre
8/7 – Winnipeg, MB @ Convention Centre
8/9 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
8/10 – Columbus, OH @ LC Pavilion
8/11 – Toronto, ON @ Heavy TO – Downsview Park
8/12 – Montreal, QC @ Heavy MTL – Parterre Parc Jean Drapeau
8/14 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Delta Plex
8/15 – St. Louis, MO @ Family Arena
8/17 – Pacific Junction, IA @ Mid America Metroplex (“Knotfest”)
8/18 – Somerset, WI @ Somerset Amphitheater (“Knotfest”)
8/19 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland by AMC
8/21 – Chicago, IL @ Congress Theater
8/22 – Plymouth, MI @ Compuware Sports Arena
8/23 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE, Outdoor Stage
8/24 – Charlotte, NC @ Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheater
8/25 – Norfolk, VA @ Constant Convocation Center
8/26 – Baltimore, MD @ Pier 6 Pavilion
8/29 – New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
8/30 – Lowell, MA @ Tsongas Arena
8/31 – Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale Theater
9/1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Outside at the Electric Factory
9/2 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Park Convention Hall
9/4 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
9/5 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
9/7 – Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
9/8 – San Antonio, TX @ Sunken Garden
9/9 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theater
9/11 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore
9/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theater
9/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Gibson Amphitheater
9/15 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic

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(July 17th, 2012, Toronto, ON) – On September 11, RCA Records will release Dave Matthews Band’s Away From The World, which the group recorded with Steve Lillywhite, who produced its first three studio albums – Under The Table And Dreaming, Crash and Before These Crowded Streets. See below for track listing.

The pre-order for Away From The World is underway now at www.davematthewsband.com. The album will be available in CD, digital and vinyl formats. Deluxe versions of the CD and digital editions – containing three exclusive new live tracks – will also be available. A super-deluxe edition will include the deluxe CD, a DVD, a 2012 tour photo book and more. Individuals who pre-order any configuration of the album will receive five bonus tracks, recorded live on Dave Matthews Band’s 2012 summer tour, upon the release of Away From The World. Members of The Warehouse (the group’s official fan association) who pre-order the album will receive eight bonus tracks.

Dave Matthews Band has been playing several songs from the forthcoming record on its current tour, including “Mercy,” which will be the first single. The group plays the second of two shows at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ tonight and will perform at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, PA this Friday, June 29. The summer outing will conclude on September 9 with a show at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. See below for itinerary or visit www.davematthewsband.com/#/tour for further details.

Rolling Stone hailed Dave Matthews Band as the “kings of summer” in a recent “On The Road” feature, praising the mixture of new tunes and rarities they played at the sold-out tour opener. “‘Gaucho,’ a song primed for the band’s forthcoming album, was a bright, propulsive burst,” said The Boston Globe.

Dave Matthews Band – comprising Carter Beauford (drums), Stefan Lessard (bass), Dave Matthews (vocals, guitar) and Boyd Tinsley (violin) – has sold a collective 37 million CDs and DVDs combined. With the debut of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King at No. 1 on The U.S. Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the Canadian Nielsen Soundscan sales charts in 2009, Dave Matthews Band became one of only two groups in chart history to have five consecutive studio albums enter atop the chart in the U.S.. The band was the biggest ticket seller worldwide of the past decade and has sold over 17 million tickets since its inception.

The track listing for Away From The World is as follows:

1. Broken Things
2. Belly Belly
3. Mercy
4. Gaucho
5. Sweet
6. The Riff
7. Belly Full
8. If Only
9. Rooftop
10. Snow Outside
11. Drunken Soldier

Dave Matthews Band 2012 Summer Tour

Date City/State Venue Support

6/27 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center The Head and the Heart
6/29 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium The Head and the Heart
6/30 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Delta Spirit
7/3 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center Brandi Carlile
7/6 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre Brandi Carlile
7/7 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre Brandi Carlile
7/10 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre Brandi Carlile
7/11 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Brandi Carlile
7/13 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion SOJA
7/14 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion SOJA
7/18 Tampa, FL 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphitheatre Tower of Power
7/20 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre Tower of Power
7/21 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre Tower of Power
8/31 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre The Avett Brothers, Allen Stone
9/1 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre The Avett Brothers, Allen Stone
9/2 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre The Avett Brothers, Allen Stone
9/7 Chula Vista, CA Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre Allen Stone
9/8 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Allen Stone
9/9 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre Allen Stone

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