The legendary British reggae-pop group, featuring original singers Ali Campbell and Astro, joins Shaggy for a world tour. The reggae figureheads will play their greatest hits as well as newer tracks for outdoor amphitheaters across North America with an ensemble of eight musicians.
Co-written entirely by Cauthen at The Belmont Hotel in Dallas, TX, “one of the most fascinating, and eccentric, new voices in country music” (Rolling Stone) lived every single line of this record, and he’s survived to tell the tale.
Contact: Olivia Del Valle
Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, the “slow-burning, steadily rising duo [that] exudes gentle elegance” (NPR), add a second full-band headlining show after selling out night one. They’ve sold out every one of their headlining US performances in 2018, and the tender acoustics of new album Tides Of A Teardrop (Yep Roc) sounds heavier and more expansive on stage.
Little Ghost is a balancing act between modern funk ("Wise Women", "Onto Me") and the upper echelons of soul ("Too Much to Ask", "The Other Side"). With the trio in top form, long-time listeners will find something to sink their teeth into while new fans will unearth a treasure trove of an experimental R&B record tailor-made for the modern age.
Contact: Jerome Ware
One of The Guardian’s 100 most influential women tours the globe in 2019 around the release of Celia (Verve/Universal Music France), her new LP reimaging and celebrating “The Queen of Salsa” Celia Cruz. The three-time GRAMMY winner’s 2018 radical reimagining of the Talking Heads album Remain In Light was deemed “transformative” (New York Times), “visionary” (NPR Music), and “one of the year’s most vibrant albums” (Washington Post).
The former Shakespearean-trained actor known for her literate, detailed songwriting and versatile, expressive vocals announces The Ghost of Charlemagne, a collection of exquisite lyrical portraits in miniature about “life and death and the journey of all dreamers.
Contact: Andrea Evenson
Joe Kay, Apple Music's Beats 1 radio host and founder of artist collective Soulection, announces the Joe Kay Experience. This intimate US DJ tour features special four hour sets displaying his eclectic taste. These shows follow recent and exciting Soulection events around the world: London's Somerset House; Coachella; Smokin' Grooves Festival; and Midsummer Brunches in LA, Miami, and New York.
Morrissey enlists Interpol for a coast-to-coast US fall tour in support of his forthcoming record of ‘60s/’70s covers album, California Son (Etienne Records/BMG).
Songwriter Andrew Marlin and multi-instrumentalist Emily Frantz make their headlining Ryman debut. This is a special add-on to the duo’s 2019 tour as their grassroots success story continues to grow. This follows a stellar 2018 in which they sold out every one of their headlining US performances, and new album 'Tides Of A Teardrop' (Yep Roc) is building on 100 million catalog streams and 1.3 million monthly Spotify listeners while earning early praise from Rolling Stone Country, Paste and NPR Music, which hail the North Carolinians as a "slow-burning, steadily rising duo [that] exudes gentle elegance."
Britain’s most celebrated gospel choir embarks on their first North American tour. They’ve performed for Bill Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II, Nelson Mandela, and more. The group’s cover of “Stand By Me” at The Royal Wedding of Prince Harry of Wales and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, at Windsor Castle has over two billion views.
In honor of his new album, Room 41 (September 6th via Lightning Rod Records), Cauthen extends his 2019 tour. The “muscular voiced outlaw” (LA Times) recently toured with Margo Price, Midland, Elle King, and Ryan Bingham, and Uproxx declared that Cauthen’s “live show is unmissable.”
Tuesday, Sept 10 / EXIT/IN / 8 PM
Wednesday, Sept 11 / Basement East / 10 PM
Thursday, Sept 12 / The Anchor / 9:30 PM
The GRAMMY-winning musician, songwriter, and go-to collaborator/producer for Solange, John Legend, Mary J. Blige, D’Angelo, and more tours behind his first solo album in eight years, the ambitious and personal Jimmy Lee (out August 23rd via Columbia). Saadiq also will headline this year’s Afropunk Paris festival.
You may have spotted Payne playing Jerry Lee Lewis in Walk The Line – now see the GRAMMY-nominated songwriter (co-writes with Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack, Ashley Monroe, more) at this year’s AmericanaFest.
In honor of his new album, Room 41 (September 6th via Lightning Rod Records), Cauthen extends his 2019 tour. The “muscular voiced outlaw” (LA Times) recently toured with Margo Price, Midland, Elle King, and Ryan Bingham, and Uproxx declared that Cauthen’s “live show is unmissable.”
Tuesday, Sept 10 / EXIT/IN / 8 PM
Wednesday, Sept 11 / Basement East / 10 PM
Thursday, Sept 12 / The Anchor / 9:30 PM
When the 22-year-old Egyptian/Lebanese/Belgian singer with a three-octave range recently performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, Bob Boilen praised him as having “one of the most remarkable and memorable voices to ever grace the Tiny Desk.” Now you can see him live and hear for yourself on this short, intimate tour.
Shakespeare storytelling meets folk-pop in a typically rousing Amy Speace set. This tour highlights new songs from Me And The Ghost Of Charlemagne, Speace’s most spare and stripped-down album about life and death and the journey of all dreamers.
The Polaris Music Prize finalist and Juno-nominated Montrealer plays music from his new record, New Ways (November 1st via Secret City Records). Vollebekk just wrapped a run with Shakey Graves in the UK and has shared the stage with Gregory Alan Isakov, Angie McMahon, Daniel Lanois, Patrick Watson, Natalia Lafourcade, Mandolin Orange, Beth Orton, Sinéad O’Connor, and more.
In honor of his new album, Room 41 (September 6th via Lightning Rod Records), Cauthen extends his 2019 tour. The “muscular voiced outlaw” (LA Times) recently toured with Margo Price, Midland, Elle King, and Ryan Bingham, and Uproxx declared that Cauthen’s “live show is unmissable.”
Tuesday, Sept 10 / EXIT/IN / 8 PM
Wednesday, Sept 11 / Basement East / 10 PM
Thursday, Sept 12 / The Anchor / 9:30 PM
Staged in the “Unresolved” format, this debate brings together five foreign policy experts to tackle pressing questions on geopolitics in the Middle East, including: Is Trump right on Saudi Arabia? Is the world safer without the JCPOA? And is Turkey an asset to NATO?
You may have spotted Payne playing Jerry Lee Lewis in Walk The Line – now see the GRAMMY-nominated songwriter (co-writes with Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack, Ashley Monroe, more) at this year’s AmericanaFest.
Following 2016’s I’m Alone, No You’re Not, which was hailed as “an appealing mix of swoony delicacy and punchy anthems” by NPR Music, the new album is a road movie in album form, an odyssey at turns emotional, existential, and entirely literal.
Contact: Mikaela Duhs
Unearthed from obscure 45s found in attics, sheds, and crates across the American south, the second volume in the David Byrne-founded label’s World Spirituality Classics series presents a subset of 70s-era gospel, focusing not on Jesus or God, but instead on ourselves, and how we exist with each other.
Contact: Jerome Ware
A War On Everything is a daring 14-track collection of stadium-ready, “dirty, sweaty rock” (Alternative Press) rife with devastating moments of vulnerability and searing insight into universal truths about anxiety, sadness and isolation in the 21st century.
Contact: Grace Fleisher
This eight-piece Pittsburgh powerhouse, led by fiery, Joe Cocker-like frontman Clinton Clegg, will win you over with a sound “so explosive...it [could] summon a biblical thunderstorm” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). The band will preview new album Pressure (August 16th via Jullian Records) through songs like “Do Right,” which American Songwriter says, “radiates true soul” and “reverberates through your core.” They’ve shared the stage with Gary Clark Jr. and performed on the Outlaw Music Festival tour with Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Sturgill Simpson, and more.
On his current tour, Wrabel takes the stage solo and debuts live songs off his upcoming EP one of those happy people, including the single “magic."
Contact: Alena Joyiens
Cauthen celebrates the release of his new album Room 41 (September 6th via Lightning Rod Records) with this Opry show. Uproxx declared that Cauthen’s “live show is unmissable.” He’ll bring that show to the Opry stage and play with the house band. The “muscular voiced outlaw” (LA Times) recently toured with Margo Price, Midland, Elle King, and Ryan Bingham.
Joe Kay, Apple Music's Beats 1 radio host and founder of artist collective Soulection, announces the Joe Kay Experience. This intimate US DJ tour features special four hour sets displaying his eclectic taste. These shows follow recent and exciting Soulection events around the world: London's Somerset House; Coachella; Smokin' Grooves Festival; and Midsummer Brunches in LA, Miami, and New York.
Over an influential 60-year career, the “Godfather of Americana” (Rolling Stone) has toured with the Beatles, backed Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf, and performed SNL multiple times. The multi-GRAMMY winner keeps moving in 2019 with a tour with his band, the Self-Made Men + Dana.
The larger scale of Bon Iver's new tour reflects their growing community in both recording and live performance, inviting the audience to gather for an exciting new production. Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes) joins Justin Vernon, Sean Carey, Matthew McCaughan, Michael Lewis, and Andrew Fitzpatrick to form the live band. Feist, Indigo Girls, Sharon Van Etten, and Yo La Tengo support select dates.
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“Nashville’s next big star” (PAPER) heads out on his first headline tour. In addition to Austin City Limits and Pitchfork Paris, he'll play dozens of shows across the US, Europe, and the UK, as well as dates with Cold War Kids.
The album pays tribute to the iconic “Queen of Tex-Mex”, with songs like “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” and “Dreaming of You”, that both loyal fans and newcomers will enjoy. With the passionate sounds of her popular music transformed into soothing, beautiful instrumentals, using wood blocks, glockenspiels, xylophone and more, your baby is sure to fall asleep snuggled by the soft melodies of one of the greatest Latin artists of all time.
Contact: Hannah Schwartz
On what would have been Mike Seeger’s 86th birthday, Smithsonian Folkways has announced a 2-CD and DVD set that collects the fruits of Seeger’s final trip through Appalachia in 2009, documenting regional banjo styles, techniques, and tunes.
Contact: Andrea Evenson
When the 22-year-old Egyptian/Lebanese/Belgian singer with a three-octave range recently performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, Bob Boilen praised him as having “one of the most remarkable and memorable voices to ever grace the Tiny Desk.” Now you can see him live and hear for yourself on this short, intimate tour.
This 11- track collection steeped in self-reflection explores the ebbs and flows of friendships and romances while focusing on a deep connection to nature.
Contact: Mikaela Duhs
Black Pumas are, according to NPR, “The Breakout Band of 2019.” Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada show off their Austin-bred “Wu-Tang Clan meets James Brown” (KCRW) sound best fit for the live stage.
Marco Benevento’s new studio album finds the keyboardist, singer and songwriter exploring exciting new territory, introducing a gritty, soulful edge to his celebrated and self-described “hot dance piano rock.”
Contact: Natalie Maher
The newly remastered 1969 classic film will screen with its influential soundtrack performed live. This unparalleled cinematic experience, combined with a rock band, is a first-of-its-kind performance at Radio City that celebrates the film’s 50th anniversary. T-Bone Burnett, John Kay, Roger McGuinn, Peter Fonda, and more contribute.
The GRAMMY-winning MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient tours behind a number of new 2019 projects including there is no Other (Nonesuch), an album recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi that is at once a condemnation of "othering" and a celebration of the ties that bind.
What began as a solo project of Londoner Josh Edwards – a student of Spanish guitar and the charango – is now a full-blown “dexterous, poignant, and softly addictive” (Clash) exploration of Andalusian and Latin music. This tour previews the project’s debut album, On the Other Side (April 3rd via Yucatan Records).
When the UK chart-topping, Mercury Music Prize-nominated band announced a New York show, it sold out so quickly they built an entire US tour around it. This tour – extended to the West Coast – marks the triumphant live return of the beloved British guitar institution, which has a new album, Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, out early next year.
When the UK chart-topping, Mercury Music Prize-nominated band announced a New York show, it sold out so quickly they built an entire US tour around it. This tour – extended to the West Coast – marks the triumphant live return of the beloved British guitar institution, which has a new album, Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, out early next year.
Steep Canyon Rangers are Asheville, North Carolina’s multi-GRAMMY winners, perennial Billboard chart-toppers, and frequent associates of the renowned banjoist (and occasional comedian) Steve Martin. Their international 2019 tour follows their collaboration with Boyz II Men and the Asheville Symphony on a complete overhaul of the Rangers’ 2007 song “Be Still Moses.”
The legendary British reggae-pop group, featuring original singers Ali Campbell and Astro, joins Shaggy for a world tour. The reggae figureheads will play their greatest hits as well as newer tracks for outdoor amphitheaters across North America with an ensemble of eight musicians.
A fusion of Demi Lovato’s powerhouse range and Selena Gomez’s wistful, bone-chilling honesty, the 19-year-old delivers brightly textured pop music, equally built on bubbly melodies, deeply heartfelt lyrics and exploring heavy emotional terrain.
Contact: Andrea Evenson
Smithsonian Folkways has announced the release of Songs from the Bardo, a collaborative long-form composition by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Tibetan singer and multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and activist and composer Jesse Paris Smith,
Contact: Andrea Evenson
The Portland sister trio, known for its otherworldly harmonies, is ready to hit the road for an international tour, as its gritty new album (Good Luck, Kid, out September 13th via ATO) is a road movie in album form. Joseph has toured with James Bay and Amos Lee and has played prestigious festivals like Coachella, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and Outside Lands.
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