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May 2019

02 May

ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo – Loews Hollywood Hotel (LA, CA)


ASCAP’s annual expo is the only music conference completely dedicated to exploring what it takes to be a professional music creator in today's industry. The expo attracts over 3,000 creators from the pop, country, EDM, Latin, hip-hop, and video game music worlds for three days of panels, workshops, master classes, keynotes, and one-on-one sessions with top hitmakers. This year’s speakers include Lee Ann Womack, “Shallow” co-writer Anthony Rossomando, and Zedd collaborator Matthew Koma.

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02 May

Morrissey – Lunt-Fontanne Theater (NYC)


Moz makes his Broadway debut with this intimate career-retrospective show covering his early days to his new covers album, California Son (5/24 via Etienne Records/BMG). Longtime fans will get a rare opportunity to see the star enter new territory and take the stage in another milestone for an already storied career. Show days are May 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, and 11.

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02 May

Eli “Paperboy” Reed – (Le) Poisson Rouge (NYC)


The Brooklyn soul singer, with his horn-heavy live band, tours the US following the release of his exuberant new album, 99 Cent Dreams (Yep Roc). The LP marks a return to the timeless music Reed fell in love with as a young man – performing in the juke joints of Clarksdale, MS, and the Chicago church of Chess Records artist-turned-preacher Mitty Collier.

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03 May

ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo – Loews Hollywood Hotel (LA, CA)


ASCAP’s annual expo is the only music conference completely dedicated to exploring what it takes to be a professional music creator in today's industry. The expo attracts over 3,000 creators from the pop, country, EDM, Latin, hip-hop, and video game music worlds for three days of panels, workshops, master classes, keynotes, and one-on-one sessions with top hitmakers. This year’s speakers include Lee Ann Womack, “Shallow” co-writer Anthony Rossomando, and Zedd collaborator Matthew Koma.

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03 May

Stereolab/ ‘Mars Audiac Quintet’/ Warp Records/Duophonic UHF Disks


"One of the most influential groups of the 1990s" (LA Times) and “one of the era's most creatively dynamic bands" (Pitchfork) reissue the first albums from their legendary Elektra run. These LPs are expanded and re-mastered on vinyl, compact disc, and digital, with additional titles to follow in August and November. Each album has been re-mastered from the original half-inch tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by guitarist Tim Gane. Bonus material will include alternate takes, four-track demos, and unreleased mixes.

Contact: Greg Jakubik

03 May

03 May

03 May

03 May

03 May

03 May

Stereolab/ ‘Transient Random Noise-Bursts With Announcements’/ Warp Records/Duophonic UHF Disks


"One of the most influential groups of the 1990s" (LA Times) and “one of the era's most creatively dynamic bands" (Pitchfork) reissue the first albums from their legendary Elektra run. These LPs are expanded and re-mastered on vinyl, compact disc, and digital, with additional titles to follow in August and November. Each album has been re-mastered from the original half-inch tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by guitarist Tim Gane. Bonus material will include alternate takes, four-track demos, and unreleased mixes.

Contact: Greg Jakubik

04 May

ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo – Loews Hollywood Hotel (LA, CA)


ASCAP’s annual expo is the only music conference completely dedicated to exploring what it takes to be a professional music creator in today's industry. The expo attracts over 3,000 creators from the pop, country, EDM, Latin, hip-hop, and video game music worlds for three days of panels, workshops, master classes, keynotes, and one-on-one sessions with top hitmakers. This year’s speakers include Lee Ann Womack, “Shallow” co-writer Anthony Rossomando, and Zedd collaborator Matthew Koma.

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04 May

04 May

PJ Morton

PJ Morton – City Winery (NYC)


After winning a GRAMMY and selling out his first headlining Kennedy Center performance, the busiest man in R&B announces a career first: a “Keys & A Mic” tour. Morton will perform acoustic sets in the smallest rooms he's played in years accompanied by sister duo The Amours, who also appear on his GRAMMY-nominated live album, Gumbo Unplugged.

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07 May

Mogli

Mogli – Rough Trade (Brooklyn, NY)


Berlin’s DIY ambassador makes her “Mirrors” Tour – the first US tour of her career — a spiritual musical experience with the pulsating synths and somber electro-pop of her melancholic Patience EP. Like the EP, Mogli’s live performance is a perspective-shifting affair.

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09 May

Briston Maroney – The Echo (LA, CA)


At 21 years old, Maroney emanates an "arresting, invigorating vibe" (NPR) and is creating some of Nashville’s most visceral, yet also vulnerable and sophisticated, DIY rock ‘n’ roll right now. His live sets channel the energy of the house shows where he got his start, unwavering whether he's performing for hundreds or completely alone. Maroney plans to release a new EP amid tours with Liz Cooper and Wallows this spring and summer.

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09 May

Eli “Paperboy” Reed – Exit/In (Nashville)


The Brooklyn soul singer, with his horn-heavy live band, tours the US following the release of his exuberant new album, 99 Cent Dreams (Yep Roc). The LP marks a return to the timeless music Reed fell in love with as a young man – performing in the juke joints of Clarksdale, MS, and the Chicago church of Chess Records artist-turned-preacher Mitty Collier.

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09 May

Jenny Tolman – Whiskey Jam (Nashville)


Rolling Stone praises Tolman for having “the sass of Nikki Lane mixed with the clever wordplay of Brandy Clark.” Tolman will bring that sass, along with a lifetime of experience growing up in Music City, to the stage with a backing band and will perform songs from her debut LP, There Goes The Neighborhood (7/19 via Old Sol Records).

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10 May

SonReal/ ‘The Aaron LP’/ Black Box


Whether its folk-tinged acoustic ballads like the album opener “Fearless” and “1000 Highways,” the soul-infused tracks “Healing” (ft. Jessie Reyez) and “Quit,” or the intensely personal joints “Voicemail” and “Ted,” every song is a deeply relatable look into the person behind the music - Aaron Hoffman.

Contact: Grace Fleisher

10 May

The Mountain Goats – Cannery Ballroom (Nashville)


Songwriter and guitarist John Darnielle, bassist Peter Hughes, drummer Jon Wurster and multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas play some of their biggest venues to date on this extensive headlining US tour. These shows follow a busy 2018 for the band, in which they co-produced several episodes (and a live event) of the acclaimed podcast I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats; wrote a song for WWE professional wrestler Sasha Banks (at her request); and surprise-released the Hex of Infinite Binding EP, earning immediate praise from NPR and Pitchfork, noting the songs' “vivid characters, both real and fictionalized, [employed] as conduits for complicated ideas."

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11 May

Lee Fields & The Expressions – Brooklyn Steel (Brooklyn, NY)


The 68-year-old Godfather of the New York Soul Revival and “the coolest mother****er to sing words into a microphone” (Vice) celebrates his 50+-year career with an extensive international headlining tour. Fields' longtime backing band, The Expressions, joins the tour, and together they will debut music from the new album, It Rains Love (Big Crown Records).

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12 May

PJ Morton

PJ Morton – City Winery (Nashville)


After winning a GRAMMY and selling out his first headlining Kennedy Center performance, the busiest man in R&B announces a career first: a “Keys & A Mic” tour. Morton will perform acoustic sets in the smallest rooms he's played in years accompanied by sister duo The Amours, who also appear on his GRAMMY-nominated live album, Gumbo Unplugged.

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13 May

Henry Jamison – The Basement (Nashville)


The Burlington, VT, singer-songwriter deconstructing “toxic fraternity” on new album Gloria Duplex (Akira Records) presents his first headlining tour. Jamison has spent years honing his live chops touring internationally with Big Thief, Caroline Rose, Darlingside, Nick Hakim, Guster, and more. Rolling Stone recently praised Jamison’s “dreamy and downy soft, laced with orchestral strings and a Sufjan Stevens-worthy vocal" folk arrangements, which now will be fleshed out on stage with a full band.

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14 May

14 May

15 May

15 May

Black Pumas – Knitting Factory (Brooklyn, NY)


“The breakout band of 2019” (NPR) makes its NYC debut. Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada show off their Austin-bred “Wu-Tang Clan meets James Brown” (KCRW) sound best fit for the live stage; Rolling Stone named them “One Of The 30 Best Bands We Saw In Austin” during this year’s SXSW.

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16 May

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Tedeschi Trucks Band – The Orpheum Theatre (LA, CA)


Guitarist Derek Trucks and vocalist/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, “two of the best roots rock musicians of their generation” (NPR), and their GRAMMY-winning 12-member band return from Europe with this two-night stand for new album Signs (Fantasy Records/Concord). Unrivaled in their blend of American soul, blues, rock and country, the band will play multiple nights in some of America’s biggest cities.

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16 May

16 May

ODESZA

ODESZA – Los Angeles State Historic Park (LA, CA)


The GRAMMY-nominated duo “redefining electronic music” (NPR) ends its yearlong “A Moment Apart” Tour with this epic finale. Harrison Mills' and Clayton Knight's Foreign Family Collective label will be featured prominently at this historic show. Former FFC signee and current Counter Records labelmate Big Wild will support, preceded by FFC artists EVAN GIIA, MEMBA, and ford.

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17 May

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Tedeschi Trucks Band – The Orpheum Theatre (LA, CA)


Guitarist Derek Trucks and vocalist/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, “two of the best roots rock musicians of their generation” (NPR), and their GRAMMY-winning 12-member band return from Europe with this two-night stand for new album Signs (Fantasy Records/Concord). Unrivaled in their blend of American soul, blues, rock and country, the band will play multiple nights in some of America’s biggest cities.

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17 May

17 May

17 May

Dan Tepfer/ ‘Natural Machines’/ Sunnyside Records


Using Yamaha's self-playing Disklavier piano as his only instrument, “one of the moment’s most adventurous and relevant musicians” (New York Magazine) sets a new framework for how humans can make meaningful art. These songs, simultaneously written and recorded in single takes, are products of Tepfer's improvisations interacting with his own computer programs; his algorithms process the music to instantly create counterparts and trigger the Disklavier's keys to express sound.

Contact: Greg Jakubik

17 May

Junius Meyvant – Baby’s All Right (Brooklyn, NY)


The 2019 NPR “Artist to Watch” from Iceland returns to the US for a mini-tour with his six-piece band. Horn section included. Across The Borders, Meyvant’s Glassnote debut from earlier this year, earned nods from NPR Music, Rolling Stone, and TIME, which featured album standout “New Waves” in its “Songs You Need to Listen To” release week roundup alongside Vampire Weekend and Dua Lipa.

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17 May

Nick Lowe

Nick Lowe/ ‘Love Starvation / Trombone’/ Yep Roc


Lowe, the “master songwriter who never takes himself too seriously” (Rolling Stone), and Los Straitjackets, America’s beloved masked men of surf-and-spy guitar instrumentals, team up once again. Recorded in Woodstock, NY, over a short break from touring, the EP features three new Lowe originals and a cover of “Raincoat In The River,” an obscure gem originally recorded by Sammy Turner and produced by Phil Spector.

Contact: Amy Bailey

17 May

Bruno Major – Regent Theater (LA, CA)


Major’s first tour of 2019 and his new single, “Old Fashioned,” kick off another promising year for the North London crooner with “tremendous vocals” (Clash). Last year, he sold out two US headlining tours, including back-to-back nights at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom and Rough Trade and two nights at LA’s Masonic Lodge. He also made debuts on late-night TV (The Late Late Show with James Corden) and festivals (Bonnaroo), and he toured with Sam Smith in the UK.

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18 May

Bruno Major – The Observatory (Santa Ana, CA)


Major’s first tour of 2019 and his new single, “Old Fashioned,” kick off another promising year for the North London crooner with “tremendous vocals” (Clash). Last year, he sold out two US headlining tours, including back-to-back nights at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom and Rough Trade and two nights at LA’s Masonic Lodge. He also made debuts on late-night TV (The Late Late Show with James Corden) and festivals (Bonnaroo), and he toured with Sam Smith in the UK.

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18 May

Freakonomics Radio Network

Freakonomics Radio – The Theatre at Ace Hotel (LA, CA)


Freakonomics Radio will host its first live tapings on the West Coast. Host Stephen J. Dubner will bring to the stage the same kind of factual, inquisitive journalism from his weekly show but disguised as entertaining, unexpected, and sometimes ridiculous conversation. Joining him are Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti; Angela Duckworth, author of Grit; Luis Guerra, the podcast’s composer who will debut his new “Freakonomics Radio Orchestra”; and more.

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22 May

Dan Tepfer – Bar Bayeux (Brooklyn, NY)


“One of the moment’s most adventurous and relevant musicians” (New York Magazine) explores the possibilities of real-time VR with his new interactive performance. Each show features live visuals rendered by Tepfer's playing in real time. The projections take the sonic data from his Disklavier piano to represent foundational aspects of each piece – pitch, dynamics, rhythm, harmony, and more – in both two dimensions and virtual reality. 

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24 May

24 May

24 May

Morrissey/ ‘California Son’/ Etienne Records/BMG


Moz follows up last year's "heartfelt" (Rolling Stone) cover of the Pretenders' "Back on the Chain Gang" with a covers album of ‘60s and ‘70s protest songs. "One of the most influential figures in the history of British pop" (BBC) takes on luminaries of the era (Joni Mitchell, Dionne Warwick, Bob Dylan) while also delving into the likes of early gay icon Jobriath and political activist Phil Ochs. The collection boasts collaborations with alt-rock royalty Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), Ed Droste (Grizzly Bear), Sameer Gadhia (Young the Giant), and LP.

Contact: Eduardo Rios Pulgar

25 May

Chaos Chaos – Market Hotel (Brooklyn, NY)


Asya and Chloe Saavedra’s live show is as glossy, brainy, and infectious as its new single, “Armed And Dangerous.” The sister duo – playing drums and synth respectively – are joined by a full band for these select dates. Together, the sisters have performed with Pearl Jam, Death Cab For Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, and more.

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30 May

Henry Jamison – Rough Trade (Brooklyn, NY)


The Burlington, VT, singer-songwriter deconstructing “toxic fraternity” on new album Gloria Duplex (Akira Records) presents his first headlining tour. Jamison has spent years honing his live chops touring internationally with Big Thief, Caroline Rose, Darlingside, Nick Hakim, Guster, and more. Rolling Stone recently praised Jamison’s “dreamy and downy soft, laced with orchestral strings and a Sufjan Stevens-worthy vocal" folk arrangements, which now will be fleshed out on stage with a full band.

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30 May

31 May

Tal Wilkenfeld – Brooklyn Bowl (Brooklyn, NY)


The “formidable singer-songwriter” (Rolling Stone) and bassist for Jeff Beck, Prince, Herbie Hancock, and more embarks on a full-band headlining tour. She’ll highlight songs from Love Remains, a debut album featuring singing that Billboard calls “rich, expressive.”

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31 May

31 May

31 May

31 May