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| The Wallflowers New Album |
The Wallflowers have announced they are back in the studio and putting the finishing touches on a long-awaited new studio album
that will be released by Columbia Records this fall. Currently recording in Nashville at Dan Auerbach’s (The Black Keys) Easy Eye
Sound studio, the new album finds frontman Jakob Dylan joining original band members Greg Richling (bass) and Rami Jaffee
(keyboards), with Wallflowers’ longtime guitarist Stuart Mathis and drummer Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam) rounding
out the lineup. The album is being produced by Jay Joyce (Emmylou Harris, Cage the Elephant) and mixed by Rich Costey (Bruce
Springsteen, The Shins).
The Wallflowers have taken their deep history and defining sound into new territory with the release of their upcoming album. The
new record has the band doing what it does best while continuing to find new ground to cover. “It's been a while since we've felt this
energized and creative. We haven't changed our stripes so much as we're continuing to redefine the animal,” said Jakob Dylan.
In addition to their new album, The Wallflowers have announced a series of tour dates that will kick off in select U.S. cities in July
(please see dates below). On these dates the band expects to give fans a preview of the new material, which finds them rediscovering
their sound while reflecting the varied influences they have accumulated over the years.
Formed in Los Angeles, The Wallflowers rose to fame with their 4x platinum album Bringing Down The Horse, which featured four top
charting singles including “6th Avenue Heartache,” “One Headlight,” “The Difference,” and “Three Marlenas.” The two-time Grammy
Award winners went on to sell over 7 million records worldwide with a series of critically acclaimed albums before going on hiatus in
2007. During the group’s break from recording, Jakob Dylan released two solo albums, which also garnered significant praise, 2008’s
Seeing Things and 2010’s Women and Country.
that will be released by Columbia Records this fall. Currently recording in Nashville at Dan Auerbach’s (The Black Keys) Easy Eye
Sound studio, the new album finds frontman Jakob Dylan joining original band members Greg Richling (bass) and Rami Jaffee
(keyboards), with Wallflowers’ longtime guitarist Stuart Mathis and drummer Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam) rounding
out the lineup. The album is being produced by Jay Joyce (Emmylou Harris, Cage the Elephant) and mixed by Rich Costey (Bruce
Springsteen, The Shins).
The Wallflowers have taken their deep history and defining sound into new territory with the release of their upcoming album. The
new record has the band doing what it does best while continuing to find new ground to cover. “It's been a while since we've felt this
energized and creative. We haven't changed our stripes so much as we're continuing to redefine the animal,” said Jakob Dylan.
In addition to their new album, The Wallflowers have announced a series of tour dates that will kick off in select U.S. cities in July
(please see dates below). On these dates the band expects to give fans a preview of the new material, which finds them rediscovering
their sound while reflecting the varied influences they have accumulated over the years.
Formed in Los Angeles, The Wallflowers rose to fame with their 4x platinum album Bringing Down The Horse, which featured four top
charting singles including “6th Avenue Heartache,” “One Headlight,” “The Difference,” and “Three Marlenas.” The two-time Grammy
Award winners went on to sell over 7 million records worldwide with a series of critically acclaimed albums before going on hiatus in
2007. During the group’s break from recording, Jakob Dylan released two solo albums, which also garnered significant praise, 2008’s
Seeing Things and 2010’s Women and Country.
| Alejandro Escovedo's "Big Station" |
Alejandro Escovedo will release his 11th solo album Big Station, June 5th, 2012 on Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group. Produced by
Tony Visconti, Big Station finds the ever-evolving Texas rocker highly-charged with spirit and purpose. The album's hard snap and sharp
arrangements recall much of the great music Escvovedo absorbed as it blasted out of AM and FM radios throughout the 60's and 70's.
Largely co-written with frequent collaborator Chuck Prophet, the album's 12 songs bristle with tension and hope as Escovedo fights to
keep faith in a changing world and hold onto love.
'Big Station' follows Escovedo's critically lauded 2010 album Street Songs of Love, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers
chart and earned rave reviews from Rolling Stone, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and many more. Earlier
this month, Escovedo took SXSW by storm with a slew of stellar performances including two appearances with Bruce Springsteen.
Escovedo, undeniably on the short list of celebrated Texas songsmiths, brings the entirety of his hard-won poetic gift to Big Stations' 12
songs. He artfully chronicles his hometown and own personal decline in "Bottom of the World," saying "Austin's changed, it's true/Show me
what hasn't" as he watches "the cities of the world reduced to ashes" on television. Similarly, on the ultra danceable pop number "Party
People" he intones, "One time I knew just how to get around knew all the secrets in this dirty town."
The evocative "Sally Was a Cop," vividly wound together by a single muted trumpet, paints a grim portrait of Mexico's violent drug wars
and political corruption. "Seems like everybody's trying to sell me something I don't need," Escovedo sings on the whole-hearted,
exquisitely melodic "San Antonio Rain," adding "But the last thing I need is something that'll dull my pain." The super-punchy "Common
Mistake" primed with crackling horns and Joe Jackson-like staccato is existential new wave fun of the highest order.
Salvation is found in Escovedo's wide and deep roots. He looks to the sacrifice of his parents for strength on "Can't Make Me Run," and
he closes the album with his first ever recording in Spanish: "Sabor a Mi." Written by the late Mexican composer Alvaro Carrillo in 1959,
the song's title translates as "Be True To Me."
Tony Visconti, Big Station finds the ever-evolving Texas rocker highly-charged with spirit and purpose. The album's hard snap and sharp
arrangements recall much of the great music Escvovedo absorbed as it blasted out of AM and FM radios throughout the 60's and 70's.
Largely co-written with frequent collaborator Chuck Prophet, the album's 12 songs bristle with tension and hope as Escovedo fights to
keep faith in a changing world and hold onto love.
'Big Station' follows Escovedo's critically lauded 2010 album Street Songs of Love, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers
chart and earned rave reviews from Rolling Stone, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and many more. Earlier
this month, Escovedo took SXSW by storm with a slew of stellar performances including two appearances with Bruce Springsteen.
Escovedo, undeniably on the short list of celebrated Texas songsmiths, brings the entirety of his hard-won poetic gift to Big Stations' 12
songs. He artfully chronicles his hometown and own personal decline in "Bottom of the World," saying "Austin's changed, it's true/Show me
what hasn't" as he watches "the cities of the world reduced to ashes" on television. Similarly, on the ultra danceable pop number "Party
People" he intones, "One time I knew just how to get around knew all the secrets in this dirty town."
The evocative "Sally Was a Cop," vividly wound together by a single muted trumpet, paints a grim portrait of Mexico's violent drug wars
and political corruption. "Seems like everybody's trying to sell me something I don't need," Escovedo sings on the whole-hearted,
exquisitely melodic "San Antonio Rain," adding "But the last thing I need is something that'll dull my pain." The super-punchy "Common
Mistake" primed with crackling horns and Joe Jackson-like staccato is existential new wave fun of the highest order.
Salvation is found in Escovedo's wide and deep roots. He looks to the sacrifice of his parents for strength on "Can't Make Me Run," and
he closes the album with his first ever recording in Spanish: "Sabor a Mi." Written by the late Mexican composer Alvaro Carrillo in 1959,
the song's title translates as "Be True To Me."
| Susanna Hoffs New Album on July 17 |
Susanna Hoffs – singer/songwriter/musician and founding member of the Bangles – returns with a new solo album, Someday, on July 17.
Produced and orchestrated by the revered Mitchell Froom, it’s an intensely personal song cycle that doubles as a musical love letter to
the music of the 1960s, which “has always been my reference point for everything,” says Susanna.
Los Angeles fans will get a preview of Someday when Susanna plays a solo show at McCabe’s Guitar Shop inSanta Monica on April 28.
The set will include new songs, along with Bangles hits and some of her favorite covers.
“This album was inspired by my yearning to sing songs that were as melodic and emotional as my favorite music of the 1960s,” Susanna
says. “We recorded ten original songs, eight of which I wrote in a flurry over a period of a few months with Andrew Brassell. He’s a 27-
year-old musician from Nashville, who’s been on the indie club scene there since he was a teenager. So the project started with me, this
talented boy from Nashville, two guitars and a reverb pedal.”
Someday’s tracks include the summery groove of “This Is the Place,” the evocative “November Sun” and the lilting“Picture Me,” with its
Bacharach-style sophistication, lush retro arrangements and modern state-of-the-art production enclose Hoffs’ one-of-a-kind voice in an
aural tapestry of velvet and lace. Someday also features updates of two older songs.
One of them is “Raining,” which Susanna wrote with Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers back in 1989. “I rediscovered an old cassette of
it in a box, and Brassell and I did a rewrite of it to bring it up to date,” she says. “And then there was ‘November Sun,’ a song I’d been
carrying in my pocket since 1998. The melody was so natural to sing, and it had a baroque folk/pop style that ended up becoming the
template for the rest of the album.”
Froom (known for producing such diverse artists as Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crowe, Paul McCartney, Suzanne Vega, Crowded House,
Randy Newman, Indigo Girls, Los Lobos and Bonnie Raitt) first met Hoffs when he played the signature keyboard riff on the Bangles’
“Manic Monday” in 1986. After hearing Hoffs perform the new songs on acoustic guitar at his home studio, Froom enthusiastically signed
on to produce Someday. In addition to his behind the scenes magic, Froom played keyboards throughout the recording. Additional
musicians include Elvis Costello’s Imposters rhythm section–drummer Pete Thomas and bassist Davey Faragher–who played on the
album’s initial sessions in June of 2011, with Val McCallum and Brassell playing guitar. A few of the songs were tracked withMichael
Urbano on drums and Bob Glaub on bass.
Beyond her ongoing work with the Bangles (which SUSANNA formed with Vicki and Debbi Peterson more than 30 years ago), HOFFS has
collaborated with a variety of musicians. They include writing and recording with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, blending her voice with
those of Jenny Lewis and Chris Robinson on Gary Louris’ 2008 LP Vagabonds, singing on David Byrne’s “Wild Wild Life,” and covering
Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It With Mine” (inspired by Nico’s recording of the song on Chelsea Girls) and the Velvets’ “I’ll Be Your Mirror” on the
Rainy Day album, produced by David Roback (who went on to form Mazzy Star), and most recently an enduring collaboration with indie
pop icon Matthew Sweet on their Under the Covers series.
Produced and orchestrated by the revered Mitchell Froom, it’s an intensely personal song cycle that doubles as a musical love letter to
the music of the 1960s, which “has always been my reference point for everything,” says Susanna.
Los Angeles fans will get a preview of Someday when Susanna plays a solo show at McCabe’s Guitar Shop inSanta Monica on April 28.
The set will include new songs, along with Bangles hits and some of her favorite covers.
“This album was inspired by my yearning to sing songs that were as melodic and emotional as my favorite music of the 1960s,” Susanna
says. “We recorded ten original songs, eight of which I wrote in a flurry over a period of a few months with Andrew Brassell. He’s a 27-
year-old musician from Nashville, who’s been on the indie club scene there since he was a teenager. So the project started with me, this
talented boy from Nashville, two guitars and a reverb pedal.”
Someday’s tracks include the summery groove of “This Is the Place,” the evocative “November Sun” and the lilting“Picture Me,” with its
Bacharach-style sophistication, lush retro arrangements and modern state-of-the-art production enclose Hoffs’ one-of-a-kind voice in an
aural tapestry of velvet and lace. Someday also features updates of two older songs.
One of them is “Raining,” which Susanna wrote with Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers back in 1989. “I rediscovered an old cassette of
it in a box, and Brassell and I did a rewrite of it to bring it up to date,” she says. “And then there was ‘November Sun,’ a song I’d been
carrying in my pocket since 1998. The melody was so natural to sing, and it had a baroque folk/pop style that ended up becoming the
template for the rest of the album.”
Froom (known for producing such diverse artists as Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crowe, Paul McCartney, Suzanne Vega, Crowded House,
Randy Newman, Indigo Girls, Los Lobos and Bonnie Raitt) first met Hoffs when he played the signature keyboard riff on the Bangles’
“Manic Monday” in 1986. After hearing Hoffs perform the new songs on acoustic guitar at his home studio, Froom enthusiastically signed
on to produce Someday. In addition to his behind the scenes magic, Froom played keyboards throughout the recording. Additional
musicians include Elvis Costello’s Imposters rhythm section–drummer Pete Thomas and bassist Davey Faragher–who played on the
album’s initial sessions in June of 2011, with Val McCallum and Brassell playing guitar. A few of the songs were tracked withMichael
Urbano on drums and Bob Glaub on bass.
Beyond her ongoing work with the Bangles (which SUSANNA formed with Vicki and Debbi Peterson more than 30 years ago), HOFFS has
collaborated with a variety of musicians. They include writing and recording with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, blending her voice with
those of Jenny Lewis and Chris Robinson on Gary Louris’ 2008 LP Vagabonds, singing on David Byrne’s “Wild Wild Life,” and covering
Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It With Mine” (inspired by Nico’s recording of the song on Chelsea Girls) and the Velvets’ “I’ll Be Your Mirror” on the
Rainy Day album, produced by David Roback (who went on to form Mazzy Star), and most recently an enduring collaboration with indie
pop icon Matthew Sweet on their Under the Covers series.
