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The Nick & Knight Tour

 

The Nick & Knight Tour

Having fronted two of the biggest pop groups of all time with collective album sales of over 210 million worldwide, Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys and Jordan Knight of New Kids On The Block are joining forces for one of the hottest collaborations in years!! The multi-platinum singer-songwriters will drop their highly anticipated new studio album “Nick & Knight” on September 2, before embarking on a not-to-be-missed 39-date north american tour.

Jordan Knight rose to fame in the late 1980’s with pop powerhouse New Kids On The Block, selling over 80 million records worldwide with monster hits such as “The Right Stuff (You Got It)” and “I’ll Be Loving You (forever)”. A heart throb adored by millions of screaming fans, Jordan has been named one of People Magazines ’50 Most Beautiful People’ and in 1999 he went on to launch his successful solo career with his first gold certified album “Jordan Knight” featuring the platinum certified single “Give It To You”. Knight later released three additional highly acclaimed solo efforts, including his most recent album titled “Unfinished” in May 2011, followed by the “Live & Unfinished” tour in 2012.

Named No.9 on People Magazines’s “50 Most Beautiful People” in 2000 and Cosmogirl’s “Sexiest Man in the World” in 2002, Nick Carter shot to super stardom as a member of TRL favorites Backstreet Boys. Thanks to smash hits such as “I Want It That Way” and “Everybody (Backstreets Back),” Backstreet Boys went on to sell in excess of 130 million records worldwide. Nick launched his solo career in 2002 with the gold certified album “Now or Never”, which he followed with 2011’s “I’m Taking Off”. In between musical projects, he has been busy with his first book, “Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It” as well as starring in the upcoming VH1 reality series “I ❤ Nick Carter”. Touring together is nothing new for Nick and Jordan. The New Kids and Backstreet Boys joined forces to form the super-group NKOTBSB and embarked on a sold-out tour across the world in 2011. Forming a firm friendship, “Nick & Knight” decided to combine their creative talents and powerful vocals to create a truly unique experience for their ever-loyal fan base. This is a rare opportunity for fans to witness their favorite “boy-banders” up close and personal, as they showcase their new music in intimate venues across the country. This is “Nick & Knight” as you have never seen them before. Fusing R&B, Dance and Pop tunes with infectious melodies, watch these two icons strut their stuff on stage and continue to dominate the scene together, just as they have for three decades. Expect the unexpected during this once in a lifetime concert tour coming to a city near YOU!

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Jeezy

Young Jeezy has been through it all, the worse and the worst, before taking the limelight of life with his niche in rapping. He was born Jay Jenkins on October 12, 1977 and was a native to Columbia, South Carolina. Together with his family, he relocated to Duncan Block of Georgia and soon lived in juggled custody. His parents decided to end their marriage and shared the custody of him with their relatives. Frequently being in his aunts’ house, Jeezy developed a close bond to his cousins who later introduced him to the dark world of drug dealing. By 12, he was already making money through selling the illegal substance and got arrested several times for it. At one point he even had to serve 9 months in a boot camp as a result of being busted by the police.

Under the layer of the sad childhood, Jeezy became a strong person who had a thing with words. He was apt in shooting verses and had a talent in melody that led him wanting to jump in the music business. He was a CEO for Corporate Thugz Entertainment and was determined to sit behind the desk before the urge to …

step up to the spotlight as a performer took over. “Before music I was just trying to survive out this motherfucker. I had other artists, some local cats off the street, but it didn’t work out,” he recalled. “So I just decided to do it myself. Ain’t nobody gonna go as hard as you gonna go. I saw the bigger picture at the time. I have a way with words and I know how to hustle.” At the age of 24, he released an indie album called “Thuggin’ Under Influence” with Lil J as his moniker. The following years, he spawned more mixtapes that impressively sold averagely around 100,000 copies within a year.

Soon his name traveled to P. Diddy‘s label, Bad Boy Records that signed him in 2004 as one part of rap group Boyz N Da Hood. With the boys, he released a self-titled album in 2005 that peaked at #5 on Billboard Hot 200 chart. Despite the success, he left the group and the label to go under Def Jam as a solo artist. Spanning only a month apart from the Boyz N Da Hood album, he released a debut solo album “Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101” under the new label. It went on platinum at the end of 2005 and propelled him as a capable olo artist. Like many other rap artists, Jeezy was a vocal one in what was happening in the society. When the Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, he criticized the way government handled the crisis and opened his house to provide shelters for the victims. However, being a true street artist, he was also never off from controversy and rivalries. In March 2006, he was arrested following a shooting in Miami Beach, Florida and charged with illegal firearm possession.

Back on his track, Jeezy released a second studio album called “The Inspiration” in December 2006 and the effort, too, received a huge success by selling over a million copies since its release. Jeezy then took time to concentrate on his other project, United Streets Dopeboyz of America (U.S.D.A.). He established the rap group in 2005 and was ready to launch their career in May 2007 with the release of a debut album titled “Young Jeezy Presents USDA: Cold Summer”. It reached number 4 on the Hot 200 chart and was certified gold. He also became a favorite collaborator in the …

Hip-Hop realm with his name attached to many of popular singles such as Christina Milian‘s “Say I” and Usher‘s “Love in This Club”. All the while, Jeezy still thrives on his solo career, working on a third studio album that he called “The Recession“. The effort is slated to be released on September 2, featuring Kanye West, Nas, Trey Songz and a couple more hip-hop heavyweights.

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New Politics with Bad Suns, SomeKindaWonderful

Rambunctious Danish indie rockers New Politics formed in the late 2000s around the talents of vocalist David Boyd, guitarist/vocalist/keyboard player Søren H and drummer Poul Amaliel. The band’s high-energy, guitar-driven blend of punk, pop, and electronically induced dance rock (Boyd specializes in wildly unpredictable stage posturing) eventually caught the ears (and eyes) of RCA, who signed the group in 2009. Fearing American anonymity, the band relocated to New York City, or more specifically, the indie rock center of the universe, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Their self-titled debut full-length was released in July of 2010, followed by a sophomore effort, A Bad Girl in Harlem, in 2013. They are currently on the Monument Tour with Fall Out Boy and Paramore.

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Figure presents: Terrorvision

Small-town producer Josh Gard has had a long history in music, but lately he has been rapidly rising up the ranks of all things bass. Just a few short years ago he donned the name of Figure and began making electro house, and he has since become a regular name in the realms of dubstep and drumstep. Scoring positions in Beatport’s top ten charts may have gotten him recognition, but a fantastic amount of praise has been raining down on him lately as some of the leading artists in electronic music have valued his live performance skills as some of the best in the business. It’s those kind of endorsements that load up Figure’s tour calendar and make him a moving target that’s hard to put crosshairs on…

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The Black Dahlia Murder with Suicide Silence, Chelsea Grin, Alterbeast

Having dropped five genre-defining albums The Black Dahlia Murder have made it impossible to discuss melodic death metal without mention of their name. With Everblack, they once again demand the respect of peers and followers alike. “We’ve always tried to create something that’s rooted in classic death metal but at the same time offers something fresh and new, and Everblack is everything that we collectively love about the genre,” asserts vocalist Trevor Strnad. “To us, the challenge is always in wanting to make something better than what has come before, and something that will really excite the fans. But I think with all those albums behind us we have become the band fans can depend on, and we couldn’t be more proud of what we have achieved with this new record.”

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New Found Glory with We Are the In Crowd, Fireworks, Candy Hearts

Hometown boys from Coral Springs, Florida, punk-pop band New Found Glory were formed in mid-1997. Having recently graduated from high school, the bandmates wasted little time amassing a cult following, eventually rising to the upper tier of punk-pop music alongside Good Charlotte, Saves the Day, and other Warped Tour-affiliated bands. Renowned for their energetic live shows, New Found Glory toured up and down the East Coast in the late ’90s, selling out the entire pressing of their 1997 debut EP, It’s All About the Girls, along the way. The full-length debut effort Nothing Gold Can Stay followed in when New Found Glory signed a major-label contract with MCA. The band’s first gold-selling album, the self-titled New Found Glory, was followed by a high-profile tour with blink-182, an opening slot on the Warped Tour, and an appearance in the teen flick American Pie 2. This helped increase New Found Glory’s exposure. NFG snagged a headlining spot for the Warped Tour and watched their album climb to gold certification. After the tour and its resulting hype, New Found Glory then reentered the studio with a newfound restlessness. The result was Catalyst, which found the band’s sugary punk-pop steeped in new influences ranging from hardcore to thrash to new wave. The concert DVD This Disaster: Live in London documented the band’s strength as a live act. Catalyst peaked at number three on Billboard’s Top 200 and eventually went gold, propelled in part by the success of “All Downhill from Here.” They have continued to push the envelope with their music and tour consistently making their live acts not to be missed.

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SOMO with Francesco Yates, Sarah Lenore

SoMo—aka Joseph Somers-Morales—will never forget being on stage as a kid. At six-years-old, he sang at a popular club on historic 6th Street in Austin, TX.

“I was way too young to be in a bar,” he laughs.

However, his life took a bit of a detour away from music for quite some time. It certainly loomed in the background, but he had other things on his mind.

“My dad was in a jazz rock band called Duck Soup, and he wasn’t always there,” admits SoMo. “Because of the lifestyle, I just wanted to grow up, be normal, and have a family. My mom really raised my brother and me. I didn’t fight music, but I didn’t necessarily embrace it either. I wanted to do my own thing.”

Throughout high school in Denison, TX, that’s precisely what he did. He played football and hung out with friends, distancing himself from the proverbial “stage” as much as possible. However, in 2009, music called to him in the strangest and most serendipitous way. Receiving a piano from his mom for Christmas, he taught himself how to play by ear and recorded a cover of Chris Brown’s “Crawl”.

Uploading the performance to YouTube, it soon went viral. With his brother John’s encouragement, he teamed up with producer and engineer Cody Tarpley and continued to cut covers periodically over the next year. Prior to the release of Drake’s Take Care in 2011, he recorded a medley of the entire album and dropped it on the album’s release day. That medley would go on to garner over 4 million views, and it started to solidify the SoMo phenomenon.

Throughout 2012, the singer and songwriter began to buckle down and work on his first original music. His efforts in the studio yielded the independent debut mixtape, My Life. A powerful, palpable, and passionate collection, it merged R&B spirit with pop soul, showcasing his dynamic voice and songwriting prowess. Released for free on his birthday September 11, My Life opened up SoMo’s world.

“It was important to stand out,” he goes on. “On My Life, we implemented different styles to show I could write over any type of music. At the same time, it’s a cohesive story about my actual life since I started making music. There are party moments. There’s heartbreak. There’s love. It’s real.”

My Life spawned his first hit “Ride”. Without any radio support and no label at the time, the track began selling 10,000 digital tracks weekly, while its music video directed by Dan Gotti accumulated over 3 million views. It offered a fitting introduction to SoMo with its sexy hook and slick, soaring, and seductive sound.

“It just happened one night,” he remembers. “A girl came over, and I was drinking some red wine. I started playing the piano, and I hit my favorite chord. I wrote the hook right away. I was deeply in love with this girl and the song essentially says, ‘I’m going to ride. I’d die for you. My love is forever’. Of course, there is that sexual element though. It’s fun.”

Simultaneously, SoMo released a cover every single Sunday as part of his “SoMo Sunday” campaign. Speaking directly to his fans, he offered up new music each week, and the series has accrued 50 million-plus views on YouTube.

As “Ride” continued to gain steam, SoMo hit the road for a sold out headline tour. Struck by all of his success, Republic Records reached out and offered him a deal in October 2013. Now, he’s prepping his self-titled major label debut for a 2014 release. For the artist, nothing has changed though.

“That’s why I’m calling the record SoMo,” he reveals. “That name has been with me for so long. In seventh grade, a girl wrote me a note and called me JoSoMo. I thought it was cool so I made an AIM screen name JoSoMo. All of my football teammates and coaches started calling me SoMo on the field. This is who I am.”

Ultimately though, it’s his intimate, infectious, and irresistible music that’s going to make everyone remember that name. “When I sing, I really mean it,” he leaves off. “If I’m singing about a woman in the studio, I sing into the mic like it’s her ear. If I’m singing about something sad or happy, I’ll put myself in that mood. My music is driven by emotion from the inside. My motto is, “If it sounds good, people will listen.”

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Citizen Cope – Clarence Greenwood Recordings 10th Anniversary Tour

Citizen Cope – Clarence Greenwood Recordings 10th Anniversary Tour

with Full Band

 

“This full band tour celebrates the 10th  anniversary of the release of the Clarence Greenwood Recordings.  For the first time ever Citizen Cope will perform the record in its entirety, plus a second set of other Citizen Cope favorites.”

$1 per ticket sold will go to Turnaround Arts to purchase musical instruments for middle schoolers in Lame Deer, Montana—a community on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Lame Deer is part of Turnaround Arts http://turnaroundarts.pcah.gov/ , a program of President Obama’s President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that is using arts education to help students succeed.

 “Rawness improbably balanced by a mixture of danger and delicacy,” says one Rolling Stone writer, “is what gives Citizen Cope his edge. As a singer, songwriter and producer, he stands alone—an artist immune to corruption.”

Dug deep into the rich soil of American music, Cope’s roots are complex. You may think of Bill Withers or Neil Young or John Lee Hooker or Van Morrison or Willie Nelson or Al Green. Yet, listening to Cope, you also may think of none of the above. You may not think at all, but rather feel a man exposing stories that haunt his heart.  In the past years, he has produced albums of depth and distinction, each a critical chapter in his search for a sound that paints an auditory American landscape in which despair wars with hope and hope, tied to love, is elusive.  Cope finds his groove that, with only slight variations, will fuel his tales of seeking hope in hell. The groove becomes a mantra and the mantra, sung in a voice that is both disarmingly sincere and studiously ironic, stops us in our tracks. Cope tracks the relationship between terror, fantasy and reality.  Art requires defense. Without art, we can’t cope. But Cope’s art isn’t the high art of elitism; it’s the low art of funk. The voice of the singer is half-hoarse, half-hilarious, wholly hypnotic.  He has toured tirelessly.  He has brought his stories—with a band or simply with his guitar—to whatever venue would have him. His motivation to make music directly in front of people, no matter the size of the crowd, has won him a vast audience in America and abroad.

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You Me At Six with Young Guns and Stars in Stereo

British pop-punk band You Me at Six made their album debut in 2007 with Take Off Your Colours on Slam Dunk Records in the United Kingdom and Epitaph Records in the United States. The album reached number 25 on the U.K. albums chart and spawned the hit singles “Save It for the Bedroom,” “Finders Keepers,” and “Kiss and Tell.” Thanks in part to heavy touring, the popularity of You Me at Six grew steadily in the wake of their album debut and earned them a nomination for Best British Band at the 2008 and 2009 Kerrang! Awards. You Me at Six released their second album, Hold Me Down (2010), on Virgin Records in the U.K. and Epitaph Records in the U.S. Featuring the singles “Underdog” and “Liquid Confidence,” it reached the Top Five of the U.K. albums chart. The following year the band located to L.A. to work on their third release, Sinners Never Sleep. The record saw them move in a heavier direction alongside gritty guitar riffs. The album arrived in late-2011 and peaked at number three in the U.K. album chart. The final date of their nationwide tour that year was at a sold-out Wembley Arena, which the band recorded and released as a live CD/DVD set the following year. They teamed up with Fall Out Boy producer Neal Avron in mid-2013 and started work on their fourth studio release. Titled Cavalier Youth, it arrived in early 2014 and went straight to the top of the U.K. Album Chart.