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The New HITS 97.3 presents HITS Sessions Starring Steve Aoki at Revolution Live in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, Friday October 14th! Doors open at 7:30pm!
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For Majid Jordan, music and motion become one in the same.
“A lot of the process of making music is driving to it,” affirms Jordan. “There’s something to be said about that movement. You don’t have an end point. When we’re driving around and listening to songs, we’re not going somewhere per se; we’re just driving.”
Majid continues, “Our music is definitely about being on and navigating a journey. This path leads towards love.”
The Toronto pair—Majid Al Maskati, 25, and Jordan Ullman, 22—have definitely made the most of their ride thus far. In 2011, the Bahrain-born Majid linked up with the Canadian Jordan, while attending the University of Toronto. Bonding over a mutual passion for music, they started recording under the name GOOD People, releasing the afterhours mixtape. Their chemistry yielded a powerful dynamic with Jordan handling instrumentation and production and Majid assuming mic duties.
“We both have two younger sisters,” says Majid. “In a sense, we each assume the role of the brother we never had. That’s what makes this so special: the brotherhood we share.”
Producer Noah “40” Shebib heard their music on Soundcloud in 2013 and invited them to meet him and Drake. Soon after, the duo inked a deal with OVO Sound/Warner Bros. Records. Majid Jordan featured on and co-produced Drake’s triple-platinum #1 hit “Hold On, We’re Going Home” from Nothing Was The Same. Their next collaboration with the hip-hop superstar was “Mine” for Beyoncé’s self-titled fifth offering. Solidifying their sound and identity, 2014’s EP A Place Like This would see them construct the framework for their self-titled full-length debut, Majid Jordan, in 2016.
“Once we began working on the album, we had more room for experimentation and exploration,” adds Majid. “We’ve learned so much over the past few years, and that experience enabled us to make this music. Everything was a stepping stone to where we are now.”
In early 2015, the guys moved to a rented house in Van Nuys, CA to begin work on what would become Majid Jordan. In between soaking in the Southern California sun and cruising the Pacific Coast Highway, they hit the studio with the likes of Illangelo [The Weeknd] and Nineteen85 [Drake, Nicki Minaj].
“The surroundings really played a role in the recording,” says Jordan. “It helped inform the sound and direction. You can really feel that up-tempo energy in some of the songs.”
Majid Jordan gave listeners a taste of the album with the airy, tribal bounce of “My Love” [feat. Drake] in August 2015. Its icy, sexy video would open the gateway into their latest body of work. The first 2016 single “Something About You” sees Jordan and Illangelo conjure an echoing groove and ethereal percussion punctuated by Majid’s show-stopping falsetto and expansive range.
“Chronologically, it came out after ‘My Love,’ and they both follow a theme,” explains Majid. “In ‘My Love,’ you’re unsure, and you’re questioning the intentions of somebody’s love for you. That unsettled feeling comes through. Then, you get to ‘Something About You,’ and you don’t let the past experience jade the way you look at the world. You’re no longer scared of love. You’re moving forward.”
Elsewhere, “Learn From Each Other” sees Majid’s voice glide over a lush instrumental backdrop, while “Shake Shake Shake” stands out as a seductively upbeat and undeniable dancefloor anthem.
“Our chemistry really carries through this music,” exclaims Jordan. “There’s a real synergy that we’ve had since day one, and it’s only growing.”
Now, everybody can move with them.
“Ultimately, I want this to pique people’s interest,” Jordan concludes. “This is a project we’ve really been working towards for most of our lives. I hope they can’t wait to see where we go next.”
“This is the first step of the journey,” Majid agrees. “This is Majid Jordan.”
“I can’t pin-point one exact moment that put me over the edge, it was more of an accumulation of many things when I slipped into a fog of partying and booze. I tried to detach myself from any and all responsibility whatsoever,” Whibley reflects. He spent the next year doing just that, and at the end found himself in a Los Angeles hospital fighting for his life.
Whibley spent most of April and May 2014 in and out of the ICU with his mother and fiancée by his side. When he was finally released as an outpatient he realized that his journey was just beginning, and it was then that he began to write while simultaneously going through intense physical therapy. “Being sober and out of the fog made me realize that the only things I really cared about were music, making a record, and getting better so I could get back on stage again.”
The music came together in tandem with Whibley’s health; he recalls: “Due to neuropathy, muscle atrophy and medication that caused permanent nerve damage in my legs and feet left me unable to walk and in excruciating pain for months. I had to learn how to do everything again—my motor skills, learning how to play guitar. It was really difficult, but at the same time if I didn’t have a record to make, I don’t think I would have recovered as quickly, or even at all.”
He continues, “Writing music gave me a purpose and I started from scratch with absolutely nothing to work with. I would put on movies with no sound and start writing guitar riffs and music to the images. Mostly movies from Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino like Edward Scissorhands, Sweeny Todd, Kill Bill and Inglorious Bastards. The process led me in a direction that I had never gone in before which made me feel like I was writing a theatrical score called “hard-score punk”.
Soon, he was gathering his bandmates at his home in Los Angeles to begin laying down tracks for what would become the group’s sixth full-length album, 13 Voices. The record includes a surprise return from original guitarist Dave Brownsound, who parted ways with the band a decade prior. The first song Dave played guitar on was “Goddamn I’m Dead Again” a track that proves that the fiery guitar riffs that came to define SUM 41 are back.
In addition to bassist Cone McCaslin and lead guitarist Tom Thacker, Sum 41 would also formally welcome Frank Zummo (Street Drum Corps, Krewella, Thenewno2, Dead By Sunrise) behind the kit.
Whibley produced and engineered 13 Voices entirely on his own in his house. Drums were set up in the living room, guitar amps in the bedrooms. The end result stands tall as SUM 41’s most intense, cathartic and all-around finest work in years.
The album was written from a place of optimism, and speaks to the necessity of Whibley’s drastic fall before he was able to rise again. Opener “A Murder Of Crows,” the first track written upon the frontman’s release from the hospital, is about how those closest to Whibley quickly abandoned him when things got bad. The song’s haunting refrain (“You’re all dead to me”), repeated over bombastic percussion and steadily building guitars, is Whibley’s rallying cry; he’s letting go of the past in order to salvage his future.
He touches upon the theme of letting go further in “Fake My Own Death,” the fan track being released first from the record. “I just wanted to get away from everything that I had been doing. I needed to start a new life—like faking my own death.”
With the upcoming release of this album we see SUM 41 as an impenetrable unit putting everything they’ve got out into 13 Voices. The result is a dynamic, impassioned collection of melodic, guitar wielding, rock songs. “I can’t say whether this is our best record or not, as I don’t know if it is,” states Whibley. “All I can say is I did the best I possibly could during the toughest period of my life”.
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5THANNUAL
BUTTONSOUTH CLASS REUNION
The 5thannual Button South Class Reunion will be held on September 23 & 24 2016 atRevolution Live in Ft Lauderdale Fl.
The ButtonSouth Class Reunion has become an annual event to celebrate a legendarynightclub. It’s a reuniting of customers,employees, bands & musicians that drove the soundtrack of Rock N Roll inSouth Florida from the late 70’s, starting as the Agora Ballroom to the mid90’s. The Button hosted literallythousands of concerts in those years, being open till 6am 7 nights a week. The stage was dark for only brief moments ofthose hours for set changes & breaks because in the Button South Kingdomlive Rock N Roll ruled.
Just a few of the divergent nationalacts that graced the Button South stage: PANTERA- TED NUGENT – LIVING COLOR – CYNDI LAUPER – FAITH NO MORE – GEORGIA SATELLITES- DOKKEN – FASTER PUSSYCAT – THE ROMANTICS – PAT TRAVERS – OVERKILL – BADLANDS -DREAM THEATRE – JEFF HEALY – HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH – BLURR – ICE T – JOHNNY WINTER – MOTHERS FINEST – THE FIXX
The Button South had the likes of Johnny Depp’s The Kids, Marilyn Manson, Saigon Kick & NuclearValdezplaying there on a regular basis prior to being discovered by therest of the planet. It was host to regionalcover & local original bands by the dozen on any given week. Bartenders, waitresses, soundmen & doorstaff wanted to work there. Customerswanted to drink, party & dance there. But most of all every musician wanted to play there.
The ButtonSouth Class Reunion recreates, if only for a weekend once a year, the aura& attitude that was TheButton South. All 10 bands playing over the 2 nights playedthere, all video screens will be filled with footage filmed there & all themusic you hear was played there. It iswithout a doubt
This year’s scheduled reunion performersare:
CANAVERAL- GYPSY QUEEN – HEARTLESS – RACE – ACTUAL PROOF
CHARLIE PICKETT & THE EGGS -STRANGER – MOTOR – JOHN WESLEY BAND
TheButton South All Star Band
Featuring 15 members from 15 bands
Fury, Cold Turkey, Psychodrama, Autodrive
& more!
This year’s celebrity hosts are:
Madman Mike – Liz Wild – SteveStansell – Glenn Richards – Billy Murphy
Friday Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/1rptEQW
Saturday Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/1TtZNO9
2 Day Pass Link: http://bit.ly/26UsP3i
5THANNUAL
BUTTONSOUTH CLASS REUNION
The 5thannual Button South Class Reunion will be held on September 23 & 24 2016 atRevolution Live in Ft Lauderdale Fl.
The ButtonSouth Class Reunion has become an annual event to celebrate a legendarynightclub. It’s a reuniting of customers,employees, bands & musicians that drove the soundtrack of Rock N Roll inSouth Florida from the late 70’s, starting as the Agora Ballroom to the mid90’s. The Button hosted literallythousands of concerts in those years, being open till 6am 7 nights a week. The stage was dark for only brief moments ofthose hours for set changes & breaks because in the Button South Kingdomlive Rock N Roll ruled.
Just a few of the divergent nationalacts that graced the Button South stage: PANTERA- TED NUGENT – LIVING COLOR – CYNDI LAUPER – FAITH NO MORE – GEORGIA SATELLITES- DOKKEN – FASTER PUSSYCAT – THE ROMANTICS – PAT TRAVERS – OVERKILL – BADLANDS -DREAM THEATRE – JEFF HEALY – HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH – BLURR – ICE T – JOHNNY WINTER – MOTHERS FINEST – THE FIXX
The Button South had the likes of Johnny Depp’s The Kids, Marilyn Manson, Saigon Kick & NuclearValdezplaying there on a regular basis prior to being discovered by therest of the planet. It was host to regionalcover & local original bands by the dozen on any given week. Bartenders, waitresses, soundmen & doorstaff wanted to work there. Customerswanted to drink, party & dance there. But most of all every musician wanted to play there.
The ButtonSouth Class Reunion recreates, if only for a weekend once a year, the aura& attitude that was TheButton South. All 10 bands playing over the 2 nights playedthere, all video screens will be filled with footage filmed there & all themusic you hear was played there. It iswithout a doubt
This year’s scheduled reunion performersare:
CANAVERAL- GYPSY QUEEN – HEARTLESS – RACE – ACTUAL PROOF
CHARLIE PICKETT & THE EGGS -STRANGER – MOTOR – JOHN WESLEY BAND
TheButton South All Star Band
Featuring 15 members from 15 bands
Fury, Cold Turkey, Psychodrama, Autodrive
& more!
This year’s celebrity hosts are:
Madman Mike – Liz Wild – SteveStansell – Glenn Richards – Billy Murphy
The Ritz Glitz Revue is back with a Classic Tease. Come watch these beautiful women shimmy, shake & strip their was to your hearts. This show sell out so get your tickets early. Tickets can be purchased at the revolution live box office, Ticketmaster and Stache door day of 21+
Attendee safety is of paramount concern and due to recent hazards in Wynwood, we’ve opted to switch venues. If you’ve already purchased tickets, don’t worry they will be honored. Please note, the event has been bumped from all ages to 16+.
Joey Bada$$, A-Trak, Hudson Mohawke, Lil Yachty, Playboi Carti, Ape Drums, Nick Catchdubs, River Tiber, Bosco & Speakerfoxxx, Damaged Goods
The DAY OFF FLORIDA lineup is here and it’s innnnnnnsane! Our 2016 throwdown on Saturday, 9/17 is a 16+ event for the history books. Fool’s Gold’s BK neighbor and Pro Era general Joey Bada$$ headlines alongside A-Trak & Friends (will he top last year’s surprises of 2Chainz and Juvenile?) and Hudson Mohawke, fresh off supercharging Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo and Boys Noize’s latest LP. Young ATL heroes Playboi Carti and Lil Yachty set fire to the rap rulebook, FG sparkplugs Ape Drums and BOSCO & Speakerfoxxx provide tropical vibes, and turntable vets Nick Catchdubs and Damaged Goods keep the party going all day long.
Tory Lanez was one of the more versatile artists to surface during the early 2010s. A songwriter and producer who flits between and fuses R&B and rap — his vocals alternate between swift and rugged boasts and smooth and sensitive come-ons — he made steady strides toward the mainstream with numerous mixtapes, guest appearances, and self-directed videos. He spent parts of his early life in Toronto, his birthplace, as well as in Montreal, Miami, Atlanta, and New York. Although he was known underground well before his 20th birthday, and was supported early on by Sean Kingston, he made some of his biggest moves in 2014. During that year, he was featured on “Me & My Bitch” — a track off YG’s Top Five album My Krazy Life — and among his own tracks that circulated in 2014 was “The Mission,” his first cut to hit Billboard’s Twitter Emerging Artists chart. In July 2015, after he had signed an Interscope-affiliated deal with Benny Blanco’s Mad Love label, he released “Say It,” an R&B slow jam that sampled Brownstone’s mid-’90s hit “If You Love Me.”
The New HITS 97.3 presents HITS Sessions Starring Hailee Steinfeld at Revolution Live in Downtown Fort Lauderdale, Thursday September 15th! Doors open at 7:30pm!
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Our teams are gathering THIS SUNDAY NIGHT alongside the @celebrationftl family for Worship Night! We are pretty excited about it.
If you’re in the area, join them at Revolution Live at 6pm!
September 11 | Revolution Live | 6pm
Even before the dawn of our space age, humanity had the audacity to conceive of ourselves as a life form not bound to the planet that birthed us. More than anything, leaving terra firma required all of our amassed knowledge, talent, and imagination. Such is the case with BLIND GUARDIAN, a band from Krefeld, Germany that refuses to be bound to the genre of music that spawned them and whose accumulated knowledge, talent, and imagination have created portals into senses beyond the five we experience in common, ordinary life.
With that background established, prepare yourself for a trip that will overwhelm all your known senses and reveal something truly extraordinary.
Greatly inspired by life experience, world myths, legends, and their own fervent creativity, metal’s most epic storytellers BLIND GUARDIAN continually aspire to define themselves on a whole new level. With their highly‐anticipated, orchestral tenth studio album »Beyond The Red Mirror«, they have successfully captured the scope of their essence with unprecedented accuracy.
By far, the most important fact about the new album is this: there are no compromises. Not one.
This is not a typical soundtrack or musical or rock opera. It is, simply, typical BLIND GUARDIAN. Set for release in early 2015, »Beyond The Red Mirror« has raised the bar on the gold standard trajectory the band had set themselves on when they first formed. Contemplating the band’s extremely successful thirty‐year career when asked to describe
the band’s guiding principles for the creation of this new release, BLIND GUARDIAN guitarist
André Olbrich shares: “We want to surprise and impress with our music. Nowadays, music tends to be arbitrary and predictable. But we want to keep developing our music.” This strategy has been followed to the letter and there will be nothing comparable to this anywhere in the panorama of music until BLIND GUARDIAN decides to record again.
It’s been over four‐and‐a‐half years since the release of 2010’s world‐renowned »At The Edge Of Time« album (which debuted at #2 on the German album charts and at #1 on the American Billboard Heatseekers chart & #108 on the American Billboard Top 200 Albums chart). In October of 2012, the band settled into Twilight Hall Studios in Grefrath, Germany with producer Charlie Bauerfeind (SAXON, HAMMERFALL, HELLOWEEN) to begin recording
»Beyond The Red Mirror«. For the next two years, the band worked relentlessly at infusing their inimitable, emotion‐rich music with classical orchestrations within and throughout.
“Seeing how orchestra songs come alive is a very special and intense moment for us,” confesses BLIND GUARDIAN vocalist & lyricist Hansi Kürsch. “Thanks to ‘Sacred Worlds” and
‘Wheel Of Time’ [from 2010’s »At The Edge Of Time« album], I can say that we have learned a lot about scoring, recording, and mixing when it comes to such music. You will notice a great improvement when you listen to the final result of this adventurous trip we have started so long ago.”
Working with three different classical choirs – one from Prague (the Czech Republic), one from Budapest (Hungary), and one from Boston (United States) – plus two grand orchestras featuring 90 musicians each, the brilliant, cumulative talents captured on »Beyond The Red Mirror« have generated absolutely spellbinding results that ‐ at key moments ‐ mimic the feeling of flying, making this new album everything BLIND GUARDIAN fans have been hoping for.
Gracing the cover and pages of this musical masterpiece is artwork by long‐time collaborator Felipe Machado. “I have never worked with an artist who is so much into things and who is so quick on the uptake at the same time,” Hansi reveals. “He truly is a magician. Whenever I throw in a few mumbling words, he comes back with art. It is amazing.”
These ten new tracks will transport the listeners ‐ via a mysteriously powerful red mirror ‐ into an otherworldly dimension that includes tyrants, gods, and the Holy Grail. And it’s no coincidence that »Beyond The Red Mirror« bears strong lyrical ties to 1995’s »Imaginations From The Other Side«, for we are reunited with the young protagonist we first met twenty years ago in the songs ‘Bright Eyes’ and ‘And The Story Ends’ who stood before a magic door, unsure whether to make the leap into a new, unknown world or to stay in his own. Now an adult, the impact of this important moment in the protagonist’s life is the launching point for the entire album.
Opening with a surging tidal wave of emotion created by a spine‐tingling choir and a full orchestra is »Beyond The Red Mirror«’s first gem, the nine‐and‐a‐half minute ‘Ninth Wave, a consciousness‐expanding palette of landscapes and moods bearing the message of an urgent mission still desperately searching for a resolution.
“A story between science fiction and fantasy,” explains Hansi. “The story begins with our 1995 album, »Imaginations From The Other Side«. The two worlds described therein have changed dramatically for the worse since then. While there used to be several passages between the worlds, there is only one gate left now: The Red Mirror. It has to be found at any cost.”
An endeavour demanding that attention be paid to the lyrics as much as to the music, what follows is a desperate search for truth, an exploration of the relativities of good and evil, the consequences of lost opportunities, a glimpse into a distant universe’s dystopian society, a prophecy, a promise of revolution, a plot for revenge, and a miracle machine with powers far beyond what mere mortals could have dreamed possible.
Closing with an explosion of heroic harmonies & choral glories with a second nine‐and‐a‐half minute, self‐contained saga named ‘Grand Parade’ (cited as “the best song we have ever written” by Olbrich), BLIND GUARDIAN’s grandiose, uplifting, and ingenious storytelling is guaranteed to leave you breathless.
With »Beyond The Red Mirror«, you will experience why BLIND GUARDIAN is so undeniably influential and absolutely without equal in the pantheon of heavy metal music.