Wednesday, September 12, 2018



ALL THEM WITCHES UNCOVER "DIAMOND" VIDEO

FLOOD PREMIERES TODAY

"DIAMOND" HERALDS EAGERLY ANTICIPATED NEW LP, ATW

EPIC WORLD TOUR BEGINS OCTOBER 12 AT DESERT DAZE
IN LAKE PERRIS, CA

ATW ARRIVES EVERYWHERE ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28


All Them Witches has announced today's premiere of an extraordinary new visual. "Diamond" is streaming now at the Nashville-based psych-rock experimentalists' official YouTube channel. In addition, the track is available now at all DSPs and streaming services. FLOOD magazine premiered the video earlier today, saying, "Nashville's sludgiest jam band carry over their genre-blending brilliance to the video for their latest single."

WATCH "DIAMOND"

Directed by All Them Witches drummer Robby Staebler, "Diamond" heralds All Them Witches' hugely anticipated fifth studio album, ATW, out September 28th via New West Records and available now for pre-order in a variety of unique formats HERE.
"Visually I wanted to present the song in a cinematic and contemplative way," says Staebler, "something that people enjoy re-watching and finding new details in. I wanted a lush landscape and a peaceful and patient environment to work in. Something that would bleed its own blood into the final product by simply existing in the place. I shot the video on 16mm film on location and in studio. Film bleeds its own blood too and I think this video holds the real feelings of the song, the environment and the medium."
"I wanted 'Diamond' to show two sides of a common problem I have with my ego and personality," adds All Them Witches singer-bassist Charles Michael Parks, Jr. "The first is being content with where I am, physically and mentally, and the second being a constant drive to leave, to go anywhere other than where I am, to let my scattered thoughts draw me to a comparable scattered lifestyle. If forced to go to town, I seem to develop the city equivalent of allergies and slowly take note as my windpipe or nasal cavities shut down. I don't get sick at home and I seem to always get sick on tour. Music does not exist in the country though. I can't get on stage in the cow pasture and let my aggression out, so I go on tour to satiate a lust for a non-sedentary lifestyle and stay home to drown out the sensory Hellscape of the city. Both personalities can and do appear at random, and both can take the wheel and lead me anywhere."
Produced by All Them Witches guitarist Ben McLeod and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Kurt Vile), ATW also includes the recently unveiled single, "Fishbelly 86 Onions," available for streaming and download HERE; an official visualizer is streaming now at the band's official YouTube channel HERE.
All Them Witches will celebrate ATW with an epic North American headline tour, kicking off Friday, October 12th at Lake Perris, CA's Desert Daze alongside such like-minded artists as Tame Impala, Warpaint, Connan Mockasin, and more. That Sunday, October 14th, will then see All Them Witches rocking the Monster Energy Aftershock Festival, joining a stacked bill that also features System of a Down, Alice In Chains, At The Drive-In, and many others. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.allthemwitches.org/tour.
In addition, All Them Witches will cross the Atlantic next year for a major European tour, set to begin April 11th in Helsinki, Finland before making stops in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, England, and Wales.

ALL THEM WITCHES
WORLD TOUR 2018-19

OCTOBER
12 - Lake Perris CA - Desert Daze Festival
14 - Sacramento, CA - Monster Energy Aftershock Festival
31 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn

NOVEMBER
1 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
2 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall: Upstairs
3 - Austin, TX - Antone's
4 - Dallas, TX -  Club Dada
7 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
8 - Las Vegas, NV - Beauty Bar
9 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
10 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
13 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
15 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
16 - Seattle, WA - Freakout Festival
17 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre
19 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
20 - Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room
21 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
23 - Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
24 - St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill Duck Room

APRIL 2019
11 - Helsinki, FIN - On The Rocks
13 - Oslo, NOR - John Dee
14 - Stockholm, SWE - Debaser
15 - Copenhagen, DK - Hotel Cecil
17  - Leffinge, BE - De Zwerver
18 - Sint-Niklaas, BE - De Casino
19 - Hasselt, BE - MOD
22 - Paris, FR - Maroquinerie
24 - Madrid, ESP - Caracol
25 - Barcelona, ESP  - Razzmatazz 2
26 - Nimes, FR - Paloma Club
27 - Milan, ITA - Bloom
29 - Vienna, AT  - Arena
30 - Prague, CZ - Rock Cafe

MAY 2019
1 - Poznan, POL - U Bazyla
2 - Warsaw, POL - Hydrozagadka (Noebo*)
4 - Nijmegen, NL - Sonic Whip Festival @ Doornroosje
6 -  Brighton, UK - The Haunt
8 - Manchester, UK - Band On The Wall
9 - Cardiff, UK - Clwb Ifor Bach


ATW follows All Them Witches' sprawling fourth studio LP, SLEEPING THROUGH THE WAR, acclaimed worldwide upon its 2017 release. "Stoner rock is crying out for an overhaul," wrote Classic Rock. "Thankfully, All Them Witches are taking it apart and piecing it back together again. Not for them the slavish Iommi worship of your average bong-huffing longhairs. The Nashville band's fourth album parties like it's 1969 and 2019, looking forward to the future as much as it does backwards over a well-trodden past." "SLEEPING THROUGH THE WAR is a slow burning experience but once that fire is lit then there's no putting it out," enthused The Quietus. "Harnessing classic rock tropes and transposing them to the present, it encapsulates All Them Witches beautifully, a mélange of influences and contemporary statement that smolders before blinding ignition." "Bands have been ladling big, colourful spoonfuls of psychedelia over the bare bones of the blues for generations," declared CLASH in a 9/10 rave, "but somehow All Them Witches find a way to make it sound exciting and brand new...(SLEEPING THROUGH THE WAR) is so flawlessly crafted that I could happily compare it to Zep's 4 without feeling blasphemous, a rare honour indeed."

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Friday, September 7, 2018

MITCHELL TENPENNY’S “DRUNK ME” BLITZES TOP 20
The Nashville Native’s Buzzworthy Major Label Debut Nears GOLD 
Billboard Taps Tenpenny to Break Out in 2018
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Riser House/Columbia Nashville’s Mitchell Tenpenny first noticed his boozy “Drunk Me” felt different than the other songs he’d released independently while on the road earlier this year with Maren Morris. However, it wasn’t until this week when the single breached Top 20 at Country radio that it really clicked for the Nashville native who grew up playing in the hallways of some of the most esteemed Music Row houses under the watchful eye of his grandmother, industry veteran and first female CEO of Sony/ATV, Donna Hilley. 

“Growing up around the business of the music industry, I remember thinking some days really inspire creativity and others can just take it right out of you. I think that’s why I write the way I do as the business is like songwriting: there’s beauty and pain, it just depends on your perspective,” reflects Tenpenny. “‘Drunk Me’ is an aberration, yet we’ve all been there. We’ve had fans tell us after performing it on the road that it’s helped them – and not just kept them from drunk dialing, but it’s helped them grieve and connect in a way we never expected the song to do, so in that way, this being our first Top 20 is really special as it’s taken on different meanings with so many people.”

It’s that unique perspective that has Billboard predicting Tenpenny’s breakout success in 2018, noting, “Whether it's the desperation in ‘Drunk Me,’ the acidic revenge in ‘Bitches’ or the lack of self-control in ‘Alcohol You Later,’ he approaches a microphone with a biting ferocity,” and has Taste of Country opining, “Tenpenny doesn't just write — he builds songs.”

Tenpenny wrote 56 songs for his first full album expected later this year, having since narrowed it down to what will become his first major label release. He adds, “I’m so humbled to be in this position – I know the work that goes into even getting a song played on the radio, so to be Top 20 on our first single, and to have the fans requesting it like they are, is so special. I’ve waited my whole life for this moment. Thank you for giving ‘Drunk Me’ a shot!” 


About: Mitchell Tenpenny is a rugged individualist who operates with confidence in the space between contradictory themes. He’s an authentic, fearless songwriter and performer penning hits and touring with Maren Morris, Jake Owen, Brett Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Dustin Lynch among others. He has already been tapped as the opener on two major tours in 2019 with details coming soon. Multiplicity is also reflected in his diverse musical taste and soulful vocal delivery, which is gaining an ardent audience. His self-titled EP on Riser House/Columbia Records has garnered more than 70 million On-Demand Audio + Video Streams and Top 20 single “Drunk Me,” has amassed more than 60 million On-Demand Streams at the astonishing rate of more than 3 million a week, securing “Drunk Me” as the highest-charting debut single on both country charts.

For more information, visit 
mitchelltenpenny.com. 


Jackson Browne to Receive 2018 Gandhi Peace Award Presented by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 

 


On September 14 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will introduce Jackson Browne as he receives the Gandhi Peace Award from Promoting Enduring Peace at the Lyman Center for the Performing Arts starting at 7:30 pm. 
Kennedy, the second son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is an American environmental attorney, author, and activist who serves as president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999.
Dr. Joseph Bertolino, president of Southern Connecticut State University, will greet the audience, as will Andrew Wolf, New Haven's Director of Arts, Culture and Tourism. Ben Grosscup and Luci Murphy of the People's Music Network will begin the evening with musical tributes. Chris George of IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services) and Frida Berrigan, columnist for Waging Peace and daughter of Philip Berrigan, will also speak.
Jackson Browne is the first artist to receive the Gandhi Peace Award. He is being honored for extraordinary contributions of time and talent to the inseparable causes of world peace, environmental harmony, and social justice. The Award comes with a cash prize and a medallion forged from peace bronze composed of metals salvaged from the control systems of U.S. nuclear missiles. The Award Ceremony will feature short musical tributes by local performers, an appeal for action on the local and planetary levels, and the presentation of the Award itself. Consistent with tradition, Browne has been invited "to present a message of challenge and hope" to those in attendance.
The Gandhi Peace Award, named after Indian anti-imperialist and nonviolence advocate Mohandas Gandhi, derives its international renown from those who have accepted it over the years, beginning with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960. Among the other 53 awardees are Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King, Jr., Norman Thomas, William Sloane Coffin, Benjamin Spock, Wayne Morse, U Thant, Dorothy Day, Daniel Ellsberg, Kay Camp, César Chávez, Marian Wright Edelman, and George McGovern. Since 2011 the Award has been accepted by Arik Ascherman (Rabbis for Human Rights), Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), Bill McKibben (350.org), Medea Benjamin (Code Pink), Omar Barghouti (BDS), and Ralph Nader (Public Citizen).
Jackson Browne has composed and performed songs widely regarded as among the most literate and moving songs in popular music, defining a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion, and personal politics. Inducted in 2004 into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and in 2007 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, he has three albums counted among Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest albums of all time and Rolling Stone numbered him among the top 40 "greatest songwriters of all time."
Browne has organized or participated in numerous benefit performances to support the environment, social justice, and human rights as well as causes such as music and arts education in public schools and has worked with two former Gandhi Peace Award recipients, Amnesty International (1978) and the Children's Defense Fund (1990). He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by Occidental College for "a remarkable musical career that has successfully combined intensely personal artistry with a broader vision of social justice."
Several of his albums, such as Lives in the Balance, World in Motion, Looking East, and Standing in the Breach, directly challenge imperialist foreign policy, environmental short-sightedness, and corporate greed, and question the sustainability of the present civilization. The title track of Lives in the Balance calls out the "shadow on the faces / Of the men who send the guns / Of the wars that are fought in places / Where their business interest runs" in civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
In response to the Three Mile Island nuclear near-catastrophe in 1979, Browne co-founded the groups Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) and in more recent years, Nukefree.org. During the 1980s he was active in the Central America solidarity movement, co-organizing concerts in Nicaragua, Cuba, and elsewhere.  Lately he has turned his attention to the seas as a founding member of the advocacy group Ocean Elders.
Last December Browne released the moving song "The Dreamer" to shine light on the new deportation threat under the Trump administration for those who have been protected temporarily under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
BISHOP GUNN CONFIRM NEW TOUR DATES WITH WHISKEY MYERS  
DEBUT ALBUM NATCHEZ OUT NOW TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM
   
Album cover; photo credit: Anthony Scarlati
Emerging rock band Bishop Gunn have confirmed new dates supporting Whiskey Myers throughout November and December. The dates will follow their current tour with The Marcus King Band, as well as past performances with Lynyrd Skynyrd and Blackberry Smoke. The band have also confirmed appearances at Pilgrimage Music Festival in Nashville this month and The Southern Rock Cruise in January. See below for details.
Bishop Gunn continue to support their debut album Natchez (named after the band’s hometown in Mississippi), which entered the Billboard Blues Chart at #4 and the Heatseekers South Central Chart at #8. The record continues to receive widespread critical acclaim:
“Anyone can cite the Muscle Shoals sound as an influence,
but few acts can actually pull off making music worthy of such a claim. Nashville
band Bishop Gunn is one of those acts…The resulting music is the perfect blend of Nashville and the Shoals, and is the rare album that builds upon its influences rather
than resorting to outright mimicry.”—Rolling Stone Country
“If you’re looking for some seriously good Southern rock, look no further than
Bishop Gunn. The Natchez, Miss., four-piece draws from the best parts of the
genre—like white-hot guitar licks, wailing harmonica, and big, soulful vocals—and
kicks all the bad (Confederate flags, for instance) to the curb.”—Nashville Scene
“Its 11 songs rope gospel, country and of course blues into a sound that is as
much a Stones-style refraction of the Southern thing as it is the thing itself. But it’s
nitty-gritty enough.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Bishop Gunn emerged, like torchbearers for a new wave of blues to come
out of the Mississippi Delta.”—Culture Collide
Four songs from Natchez were recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 2017 with producer Mark Neill (The Black Keys). The album’s lead single, “Shine,” is the first release of material tracked inside the legendary MSSS since it reopened in January 2016. Watch/share the video for “Shine” here: https://youtu.be/F3A_coTcUek. At MSSS, the band recorded simultaneous live tracking of guitars, drums, vocals, bass—something they’d never done before. The album also features a song tracked at Muscle Shoals’ FAME Studios as well as six songs cut at The Purple House, a Leiper’s Fork, TN home studio operated by Grammy-winning producer Casey Wasner.
Bishop Gunn is Travis McCready (vocals), Burne Sharp (drums), Drew Smithers (guitar) and Ben Lewis (bass). Following many years in steelwork in Natchez, McCready decided to go into music full time. After both playing music in various incarnations, McCready and Sharpe connected at the big annual festival in Natchez. A friendship and collaboration formed, rooted in the history and sounds of their home and the surrounding Delta. They added members and Bishop Gunn’s current lineup stuck shortly thereafter. Now, the band members live together, write and have set up a home studio in a farmhouse just outside Leiper’s Fork, TN. They rehearse at a repurposed grocery store in the area.
NATCHEZ TRACK LIST:
1. Southern Discomfort
2. Anything You Want
3. Right There With Me
4. Devil is Woman
5. Shine
6. Silver Street
7. All The Ways
8. Wheels
9. Makin’ It
10. Baby What You Want
11. Alabama
BISHOP GUNN LIVE:
September 5-6—Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA*
September 7—The Mint—Los Angeles, CA
September 10—The Catalyst-Atrium—Santa Cruz, CA*
September 11—Great American Music Hall—San Francisco, CA*
September 12—Mystic Theatre—Petaluma, CA*
September 14—The Commonwealth Room—Salt Lake City, UT*
September 15—Ullrs Tavern—Winter Park, CO
September 16—Gothic Theatre—Denver, CO*
September 18—Bourbon Theatre—Lincoln, NE*
September 19—Delmar Hall—St. Louis, MO*
September 21—Zydeco—Birmingham, AL*
September 22—Pilgrimage Music Festival—Nashville, TN
September 23—Bogart’s—Cincinnati, OH*
September 25—The Vogue Theatre—Indianapolis, IN*
September 26—Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL*
September 27—Amsterdam Bar & Hall—St. Paul, MN*
September 28—Gabe’s—Iowa City, IA*
September 29—Kilbourn City Live—Wisconsin Dell, WI
September 30—Turner Hall Ballroom—Milwaukee, WI*
October 5-6—Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheatre, Kid Rock’s Fish Fry—Nashville, TN
October 11—Soul Kitchen—Mobile, AL†
October 12—The Stage at Silver Star Smoke—Bossier City, LA†
November 29—The Paramount—Huntington, NY†
November 30—Wescott Theatre—Syracuse, NY†
December 1—The Bluestone—Columbus, OH†
December 5—Palace Theater—Stafford Springs, CT†
December 6—Town Ballroom—Buffalo, NY†
December 7—Chameleon Club—Lancaster, PA†
December 8—The Broadberry—Richmond, VA†
December 9—State Theatre—Greenville, NC†
January 7-11—The Southern Rock Cruise—Port Tampa Bay, FL
*with Marcus King Band
†with Whiskey Myers
http://bishopgunn.com/

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Shares New Video, "Poor Until Payday"
 
Releases New Single "Dirty Swerve"
 
New Album Poor Until Payday 
 Out October 5th
via Thirty Tigers/Family Owned Records

 
 
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band have shared a new video for their song "Poor Until Payday," the title track from their upcoming album. The video is currently streaming with Guitar World who notes that the video "features 300 volunteers, two closed roads in two different towns, one 1962 tow truck, one 1970 Cadillac Deville and a lot of fantastic slide playing." The colorful street scene that the Rev commands in the video encapsulates the riotous energy that he and his Big Damn Band have been bringing to the stage for years. The Band will release their new album Poor Until Payday on October 5th, via the band's own Family Owned Records label through Nashville indie Thirty Tigers. The album is currently available for pre-order here.
 
Watch: The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - "Poor Until Payday"
 
 
"The reason the whole record is named after the song is because it’s almost like a bigger thing," The Rev. Peyton explains. "It’s not just about payday at the end of the week. It’s waiting on that real payday to come. So that’s what it is for me. And that’s what the song is kind of about, too.” Wide Open Country recently praised the song writing, "the rowdy and joyous country-blues track is all about looking forward to cashing in and easing your mind, if only for a few days or one great night on the town."
 
Also out today is their new single "Dirty Swerve," which premiered on Relix. "The song really just started as a nod to the dance craze called the Dirty Swerve," writes The Rev., "but it's grown into this fun trance blues number that we love to play.”
 
Listen: The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - "Dirty Swerve"
 
 
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band are the world’s greatest practitioners of classic country-blues, featuring the foremost finger-picking steel guitar player in the Rev, and the sensational rhythm and vocal accompaniment of Washboard Breezy, Rev’s wife of 15 years, who has played by his side since the band's inception and is known for setting her washboard on fire, Jimi Hendrix-style, as part of the group’s dynamic live performances.
 
A devotee of what he calls “front porch blues” since he was 12 years old, Rev and the band have followed their lifetime immersion in and devotion to this music with pilgrimages to its birthplace of Clarksdale, MI, and the Chess Studios in Chicago. A student of Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Furry Lewis, Bukka White and Mississippi John Hurt, Rev’s style has been honed through studying with the late David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Robert Belfour and T-Model Ford. 
 
Rev is even a bit of a YouTube star, featured in a pair of viral videos, one that features him playing (and shooting) a guitar made from a 12-gauge shotgun, the other in which he chops wood with one fashioned out of an axe.
 
With their European tour wrapping up, the band have recently announced a new run of headline dates for the fall including stops in Chicago, New Orleans, Washington D.C., Houston, New York City and more. See full list of dates below.
 
Poor Until Payday Tracklist:
1) You Can't Steal My Shine
2) Dirty Swerve
3) Poor Until Payday
4) So Good
5) Church Clothes
6) Get The Family Together
7) Me And The Devil
8) Frenchmen Street
9) I Suffer I Get Tougher
10) It Is Or It Aint
 
Tour Dates:
 
Sep 06 - Mezz - Breda, NDL
Sep 07 - Räucherei - Kiel, Germany
Sep 08 - Das Kieselstein - Chemnitz, Germany
Sep 22 - Holler On The Hill - Indianapolis, IN
Sep 26 - McGarvey's - Altoona, PA
Sep 27 - The Soundry - Columbia, MD
Sep 28 - The Hamilton Live - Washington, DC
Sep 29 - OktoberWest Festival - Charleston, WV
Oct 05 - Knuckleheads - Kansas City, MO
Oct 06 - Blues, Brews & BBQ - Newton,KS
Oct 10 - Fort Worth Live - Fort Worth, TX
Oct 12 - HOB - New Orleans, LA
Oct 13 - The Mucky Duck - Houston,TX
Oct 14 - Gas Monkey Grill - Dallas, TX
Oct 15 - Antone's - Austin, TX
Oct 18 - Launch Pad - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Oct 19 - Orpheum Theatre - Flagstaff, AZ
Oct 20 - Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ
Oct 21 - The Hotel Congress - Tucson, AZ
Oct 24 - The Siren - Morro Bay, CA
Oct 25 - Alex's Bar - Long Beach, CA
Oct 26 - World Records - Bakersfield, CA
Oct 27 - Soda Bar - San Diego, CA
Oct 28 - Nov 4 Legendary Rhythm Cruise - San Diego, CA
Nov 06 - Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT
Nov 08 - Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO
Nov 10 - Reverb Room - Omaha, NE
Nov 13 - Cosmic Charlies - Lexington, KY
Nov 14 - Zanzabar - Louisville, KY
Nov 15 - Exit-In - Nashville, TN
Nov 16 - The Ramkat - Winston-Salem, NC
Nov 17 - Asheville Music Hall - Asheville, NC
Nov 18 - Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
Nov 23 - The Vogue - Indianapolis, IN
Nov 24 - Southgate House - Newport, KY
Nov 29 - Kent Stage - Kent, OH
Dec 04 - Stanhope House - Stanhope, NJ
Dec 06 - Thunder Road - Somerville, MA
Dec 07 - Bijou Theatre - Bridgeport, CT
Dec 08 - Ottobar - Baltimore, MD 
Dec 09 - Mercury Lounge - New York City, NY
Dec 28 - Martyrs - Chicago, IL
Dec 29 - Blueberry Hill - St. Louis, MO
Dec 31 - The Bluebird - Bloomington, IN
 
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Online:
 

STING & SHAGGY's 44/876 Joint Tour Kicks Off September 14 In North America!   

Hitting The Pageant in St. Louis

Performing their Greatest Hits Plus Songs Off their Chart-Topping, Island-Inspired Album, Together

"The mash-up everyone is talking about!" (Good Morning America)



Following their critically-acclaimed European tour, STING and SHAGGY will kick off The 44/876 Tour in North America on September 14 in Jacksonville, Florida before making stops in major cities across the continent (full tour itinerary below), as announced by the Cherrytree Music Company and Live Nation. For a sneak peek of The 44/876 Tour, check out: https://bit.ly/2wKCvC6.
Hailed "one of the most anticipated concerts of the year" and "a two-hour musical melting pot," the dynamic and vibrant joint live show finds the two GRAMMY-award winning artists combining their bands to perform songs from their island-flavored album, 44/876 (A&M/Cherrytree/Interscope Records) which has spent twelve weeks atop Billboard's Reggae album chart, and collaborating on each other's most celebrated hits such as "Every Breath You Take," "Englishman In New York," "Message In A Bottle," "It Wasn't Me," "Mr. Boombastic" and "Angel."
While many of the concerts have already sold out, tickets for select cities are still available at www.ticketmaster.com and usual outlets. Every online ticket purchase includes one physical or digital copy of Sting & Shaggy's album, 44/876.
Stay tuned to www.sting.com for special events popping up along the tour, including an in-store signing and Q&A at the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis, MN before Sting & Shaggy's show at The Armory on September 30. For access to this private event, please visit https://www.electricfetus.com/ for details.
Sting and Shaggy will be joined on The 44/876 Tour by Sting's longtime collaborators Dominic Miller (guitar), Josh Freese (drums) and Rufus Miller (guitar), as well as Shaggy's band members Melissa Musique (backing vocals), Gene Noble (backing vocals) and Kevon Webster (keyboards).
The tour is produced by RZO Entertainment and promoted by Live Nation Global Touring.

STING & SHAGGY: THE 44/876 TOUR ITINERARY
‪Sept. 14
Jacksonville, FL
Daily's Place
Sept. 15
Miami, FL
Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater
‪Sept. 17
Atlanta, GA
Tabernacle
‪Sept. 19
Washington, DC
The Theater at MGM National Harbor
‪Sept. 20
Philadelphia, PA
The Fillmore
‪Sept. 21
Atlantic City, NJ
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
‪Sept. 25
Boston, MA
House of Blues
‪Sept. 26           ‪
New York, NY
The Rooftop at Pier 17, Seaport District NYC
Sept. 28
Toronto, ON
The Phoenix Concert Theatre
‪Sept. 30
Minneapolis, MN
The Armory
‪Oct. 01
St. Louis, MO
The Pageant
‪Oct. 02
Chicago, IL
The Aragon Ballroom
‪Oct. 04
Kansas City, MO
Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
‪Oct. 05
Denver, CO
Fillmore Auditorium
‪Oct. 08
San Francisco, CA
The Masonic
‪Oct. 09
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara Bowl
‪Oct. 10
Phoenix, AZ
The Van Buren
‪Oct. 12
Rancho Mirage, CA
Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa
‪Oct. 13
Las Vegas, NV
Park Theater
‪Oct. 15
Los Angeles, CA
The Wiltern
Oct. 16
Funner, CA
Harrah's Resort South California
For tour itinerary, tickets and/or further information, please visit:www.sting.com
www.shaggyonline.com
www.cherrytreemusiccompany.com
About Live Nation Entertainment
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.
About the Cherrytree Music Company
The Cherrytree Music Company was founded in 2005 by GRAMMY-nominated songwriter, producer and music executive Martin Kierszenbaum and is a modern, full service music firm providing artist management, record label and publishing services to musically and culturally progressive artists. www.cherrytreemusiccompany.com

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