They Might Be Giants New Album Nanobots Out 03/05/13 + US Tour Dates Announced Including 3 NYC New Year's Eve Shows

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Album & Tour News from They Might Be Giants
Nanobots Out March 5 on Idlewild Recordings

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SOLD OUT Brooklyn New Year’s Shows kick off 2013 Tour

They Might Be Giants have perfected their deliriously catchy, original sound over the past three decades. The two-time GRAMMY winning Brooklyn originals return with charming wit, electrifying pop melodies and just enough bass clarinet on their 16th studio album. Created at the private studio of their long time collaborator and producer Patrick Dillett (David Byrne, Mary J. Blige, Tegan and Sara), Nanobots will be released March 5, 2013 via Idlewild Recordings and distributed through Megaforce.

TMBG “combine a Dadaist sensibility with smart hooks.” —The New Yorker

“They make defiantly uncool look and sound unbelievably cool…” —Village Voice

Nanobots finds the band in fine form. Title track Nanobots puts a dark cartoonish spin on the world of technology while the call and response chorus and percussive guitar line of “You’re On Fire” dares even the grumpiest wallflower not to dance. Blending the band’s signature storytelling, some dueling horns and sly humor, “Call You Mom” is a caffeinated pop gem. Download the "Call You Mom" MP3 where it premiered with Rolling Stone today & we encourage you to post & share.

They Might Be Giants’ innovative Dial-A-Song service and imaginative high concept, low budget music videos stood the band apart early in their career quickly rocketing the alternative rockers to mainstream success. Known for recording numerous themes most notably The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the GRAMMY-winning Malcolm In the Middle theme, the band has 2 platinum albums, 2 gold albums, and have been nominated for 3 GRAMMYs, winning two. Known for their energized live show and love of the road, the band will kick off a 60-date international tour on February 27. Lucky fans in NYC will have several chances to experience the band’s explosive live show once more in 2012 at their three SOLD OUT New Year’s shows at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg. Stay tuned for more from They Might Be Giants coming soon!

They Might Be Giants Tour Dates
NYC New Years Shows + 2013 Dates throughout the US

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12/29 12/30 12/31 2/27 2/28 3/01 3/02 3/03 3/05 3/06 3/07 3/08 3/09 3/12 3/13 3/14 3/15 3/16 3/17 3/19 3/20 3/21 3/22 4/03 4/04 4/05 4/06 4/07 4/09 4/10 4/11 4/12 4/13 4/14

Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY Portland, ME Burlington, VT Rochester, NY Columbus, OH Cincinnati, OH Louisville, KY Nashville, TN Birmingham, AL New Orleans, LA Houston, TX Dallas, TX Tulsa, OK Columbia, MO St Louis, MO Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Detroit, MI Pittsburgh, PA Tarrytown, NY Huntington, NY Boston, MA Boston, MA Philadelphia, PA Baltimore, MD Richmond, VA Charlottesville, VA Carrboro, NC Charleston, SC Asheville, NC Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA

Music Hall of Williamsburg Music Hall of Williamsburg Music Hall of Williamsburg Port City Music Hall Higher Ground Historic German House Newport Music Hall Madison Theatre Headliners Cannery Ballroom Workplay Theatre House of Blues House of Blues House of Blues Cain's Ballroom The Blue Note The Pageant Vic Theater Beachland Ballroom Majestic Theater Mr Small's Tarrytown Music Hall The Paramount Paradise Rock Club Paradise Rock Club Theatre of Living Arts Ram's Head Live The National Jefferson Theatre Cat's Cradle Music Farm Orange Peel Variety Playhouse Variety Playhouse

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Listen to Select Tracks from They Might Be Giants:

Delerium Reveals 'Days Turn Into Nights' EP; Includes Remixes by Andy Caldwell, Seven Lions & Solarstone

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Delerium Releases
Days Turn Into Nights EP
INCLUDES REMIXES BY ANDY CALDWELL, SEVEN LIONS & SOLARSTONE

Click Below to Listen to the Days Turn Into Night EP:

The nine-song EP includes several remixes by house impresario Andy Caldwell, dubstep producer Seven Lions (aka Jeff Montalvo) and English trance artist Richard Mowatt, better known as Solarstone. With each remix comes various edits on the standout track.

With two decades worth of music, Delerium continues to make waves in the electronic world, with Days Turn Into Nights as the #1 Breakout song this week on the Billboard Clubs chart.

For Days Turn Into Nights, Delerium incorporates a male singer for the second time in 12 years! In the past, Delerium has featured strong female vocalists—having worked with Leigh Nash (of Sixpence None the Richer), Miranda Lee Richards, Butterfly Boucher, Emily Haines (of Metric) and the most commercially successful single, Silence, featured Sarah McLachlan. Only once since Matthew Sweet on Daylight (from 2000’s Poem) has Delerium brought in a male vocalist.

Bill Leeb (Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy), the creator/brainchild of Delerium—which includes collaborators Rhys Fulber, Jared Slingerland and Jeremy Inkel—has sold over 3 million units worldwide and over a million albums in North America.

Stay tuned for more announcements in the coming weeks.

Days Turn Into Night Tracklist:

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1. Days Into Nights (Seven Lions Remix)
2. Days Into Nights (Andy Caldwell Remix)
3. Days Into Nights (Solarstone Pure Mix)
4. Days Into Nights (Album Edit)
5. Days Into Nights (Andy Caldwell Dub Mix)
6. Days Into Nights (Solarstone Pure Dub)
7. Days Into Nights (Seven Lions Remix Edit)
8. Days Into Nights (Andy Caldwell Remix Edit)
9. Days Into Nights (Solarstone Pure Edit)

Sub Focus - The Electric Brixton

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Just before Christmas I was commissioned by Mercury Records to shoot Sub Focus at the The Electric in Brixton. I knew his lighting and stage set up was going to be amazing so I was really looking forward to shooting the gig. It definitely did not disappoint, visually it is such a spectacle. I think I shot about 2000 images during the hour. The crowd were going mental too, it was a proper rave up.

  

Ben Howard - Southampton Guildhall

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Ben Howard has emerged as one of the biggest artists in 2012.  I have to admit I only listened to his music after I shot this gig but can see why many people I know have been raving about him, amazing voice. Shooting the gig however was probably the trickiest of 2012, so dark for 2 songs and then the lighting all over the place for the last.  Not going to moan that much as the show was fantastic and I'm pretty happy with the shots :)

Don't Look Now (1973)

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The film which is set in Venice, Italy is about a couple who recently lost their daughter who tragically drown. It is in Venice that John and Laura Baxter begin to experience mysterious occurrences whilst John is working for commission on a Church in the city. The film adds to the stereotypical viewing of Venice as a dark and disengaged place, the couple who are mourning their daughter meet a ‘psychic’ women in a restaurant that claims to be able to communicate with their daughter.The couple are then submit to various unexplainable events such as visions of their daughter, this leads them to stay in contact with the psychic and try and keep in contact their lost child. 


The psychic warns John to leave Venice as he is in danger, and it is at this point when Laura leaves the city to visit their son who has fallen ill in England that John begins to experience strange visions and premonitions. John searches Venice for his wife believing that he has witnessed her and that she has been kidnapped or hurt by the ‘psychic’. 


It is in this point that John is put into danger, and is ultimately killed by a crazy dwarf like character who is running around the streets of Venice one late night, after pursuing the character who appears much like John’s daughter in an iconic red coat, the character turns around and cuts John’s throat. The final scene of the film is John’s funeral with Laura and the psychic lady on board and it is this image that John had ‘seen’ in his ‘premonition’ causing his initial distress about his wives where abouts but ironically he should have been more concerned for his own. 


The film carries many of the stereotypical values that are often attached to Venice in media representations, portraying Venice as a dark and sinister city, although depicting a strong bond of love in the relationship between the characters of John and Laura which again reinforces the notion of Venice being a city of Love. 


The people that John and Laura meet are all quite strange and this creates a sense of being alone and isolated. The way in which the city is captured on film is quite one dimensional in the sense that it is mostly filmed during the night so the city streets appear daunting and scary, the Church that John is working on has much connotative values and the imagery of the stain glass windows is used through the film, captured from an angle which make the building appear threatening. 


Though out the film their are clear connotations to the Church and the death of  the daughter the link is established in the montage of shots whilst the daughter is dying to the images that John is processing of the Church in Venice and it is almost a warning not to go buythis is only apparent to the viewers. Although their is a link between the Church and the Death it is not clear or extensive.

Ultravox's Vienna tops 'number two' poll

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Ultravox's 1981 hit Vienna has been voted the nation'sfavourite number two single.
The song toppedthe poll by BBC Radio 2 and the Official Charts Company to find the greatesttrack to miss out on the number one spot.
Vienna was heldoff by novelty track Shaddup You Face by Joe Dolce.
Ultravoxfrontman Midge Ure said winning the poll had "restored our faith in theidea that the public will always recognise the good in music".
"We areextremely pleased and very humbled to have been given this honorary number one,especially knowing the outstanding records which were also in therunning," he added.
Christmasfavourite Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl was voted intosecond place.
The 1987 hitwas originally beaten to the top by the Pet Shop Boys' cover of Elvis Presleyhit Always On My Mind.
Other songs tofeature in the top 10 include The Beatles' Penny Lane/Strawberry FieldsForever, which was held off by Engelbert Humperdinck's Release Me in 1967 andA-ha's 1985 hit Take On Me, which was pipped to the top by The Power Of Love byJennifer Rush.
The Who's MyGeneration was 12th in the list, Wonderwall by Oasis finished at 13, Adele'sRolling In The Deep was at 34 and Rocket Man by Sir Elton John was at 37.
The poll waslaunched to celebrate 60 years of the singles chart.
A panel ofexperts - including Radio 2's Ken Bruce and Janice Long, Radio 1's AnnieNightingale, Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot and 6 Music'sSteve Lamacq - compiled a shortlist from 941 singles which have made it tonumber two. Radio 2 listeners then voted.
"Ultravox'sVienna has beaten off some truly great, classic tracks to claim the title ofthe UK public's favourite number two single," said Mr Talbot.
"It isalso probably the most apt winner, given the fact that it was kept from thechart summit by Joe Dolce's Shaddup You Face, which has long been consideredone of the biggest chart injustices of all time."
The top 40songs will be played by Tony Blackburn in his three-hour show, The Nation'sFavourite Number Two Single, from 14:00 GMT on Tuesday.
TOP 10 NUMBER TWOS1. Ultravox- Vienna, 1981 (beaten by Shaddup You Face - Joe Dolce)2. ThePogues ft. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York, 1987 (Always On My Mind -Pet Shop Boys)3. DonMcLean - American Pie, 1972 (Son Of My Father - Chicory Tip, Without You -Nilsson)4. James -Sit Down, 1991 (The One And Only - Chesney Hawkes)5. TheStranglers - Golden Brown, 1982 (Town Called Malice - The Jam)6. TheKinks - Waterloo Sunset, 1967 (Silence Is Golden, The Tremeloes)7. TheBeatles - Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever, 1967 (Release Me, EngelbertHumperdinck)8. Queen -We Are The Champions, 1977 (The Name Of The Game - Abba, Mull Of Kintyre/Girls'School - Wings)9. TheBeach Boys - God Only Knows, 1966 (Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby - TheBeatles)10. A-ha -Take On Me, 1985 (The Power Of Love, Jennifer Rush)
Source: BBC
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Rare version of Beatles album finally sells for £12,000

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A rare copy of a Beatles LP signed by all four bandmembers has finally been sold - for the sum rejected at auction in Sussex a fewweeks earlier.
Chris Collins,from Eastbourne, and his sister, Liz Chambers, from Worthing, initially turneddown a £12,000 bid for a copy of the album, Please Please Me.
They had hopedto get £15,000 for the LP, which was given to their late father during adrinking session.But thesiblings have now accepted £12,000 from private buyers.
The album wassigned by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr afterthey used it as a drinks coaster during a card game in 1963.
Kept in drawer
Mr Collins hadplayed it repeatedly until an expert revealed that because of its provenance -and the fact that it had the rarer black-and-gold label - it was worth asubstantial amount.
The album wentinto Mr Collins's sock drawer until they finally put it up for sale, atCampbell's auction house in Worthing, just before Christmas.
It waswithdrawn from sale after failing to reach its £15,000 reserve price, butauctioneer Paul Campbell said: "The record has now sold for a hammer priceof £12,000, to a private buyer."
He said thevendors had decided to cut their losses and accept £12,000 following renewedinterest from a Dutch Beatles enthusiast living in Worthing and his father.
The auctionhouse even slashed its commission to enable the sale to go through.
"The salecame just too soon for these buyers, but they came back immediately after thesale and said they would have it," Mr Campbell added.
Please PleaseMe was The Beatles' first album, released in March 1963.
The earliestcopies had black and gold labels and are more valuable than the subsequentversions, featuring black and yellow ones.
Source: BBC
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Don't Look Now (1973)

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The film which is set in Venice, Italy is about a couple who recently lost their daughter who tragically drown. It is in Venice that John and Laura Baxter begin to experience mysterious occurrences whilst John is working for commission on a Church in the city. The film adds to the stereotypical viewing of Venice as a dark and disengaged place, the couple who are mourning their daughter meet a ‘psychic’ women in a restaurant that claims to be able to communicate with their daughter.The couple are then submit to various unexplainable events such as visions of their daughter, this leads them to stay in contact with the psychic and try and keep in contact their lost child. 


The psychic warns John to leave Venice as he is in danger, and it is at this point when Laura leaves the city to visit their son who has fallen ill in England that John begins to experience strange visions and premonitions. John searches Venice for his wife believing that he has witnessed her and that she has been kidnapped or hurt by the ‘psychic’. 


It is in this point that John is put into danger, and is ultimately killed by a crazy dwarf like character who is running around the streets of Venice one late night, after pursuing the character who appears much like John’s daughter in an iconic red coat, the character turns around and cuts John’s throat. The final scene of the film is John’s funeral with Laura and the psychic lady on board and it is this image that John had ‘seen’ in his ‘premonition’ causing his initial distress about his wives where abouts but ironically he should have been more concerned for his own. 


The film carries many of the stereotypical values that are often attached to Venice in media representations, portraying Venice as a dark and sinister city, although depicting a strong bond of love in the relationship between the characters of John and Laura which again reinforces the notion of Venice being a city of Love. 


The people that John and Laura meet are all quite strange and this creates a sense of being alone and isolated. The way in which the city is captured on film is quite one dimensional in the sense that it is mostly filmed during the night so the city streets appear daunting and scary, the Church that John is working on has much connotative values and the imagery of the stain glass windows is used through the film, captured from an angle which make the building appear threatening. 


Though out the film their are clear connotations to the Church and the death of  the daughter the link is established in the montage of shots whilst the daughter is dying to the images that John is processing of the Church in Venice and it is almost a warning not to go buythis is only apparent to the viewers. Although their is a link between the Church and the Death it is not clear or extensive.

They Might Be Giants New Album Nanobots Out 03/05/13 + US Tour Dates Announced Including 3 NYC New Year's Eve Shows

To contact us Click HERE

Album & Tour News from They Might Be Giants
Nanobots Out March 5 on Idlewild Recordings

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SOLD OUT Brooklyn New Year’s Shows kick off 2013 Tour

They Might Be Giants have perfected their deliriously catchy, original sound over the past three decades. The two-time GRAMMY winning Brooklyn originals return with charming wit, electrifying pop melodies and just enough bass clarinet on their 16th studio album. Created at the private studio of their long time collaborator and producer Patrick Dillett (David Byrne, Mary J. Blige, Tegan and Sara), Nanobots will be released March 5, 2013 via Idlewild Recordings and distributed through Megaforce.

TMBG “combine a Dadaist sensibility with smart hooks.” —The New Yorker

“They make defiantly uncool look and sound unbelievably cool…” —Village Voice

Nanobots finds the band in fine form. Title track Nanobots puts a dark cartoonish spin on the world of technology while the call and response chorus and percussive guitar line of “You’re On Fire” dares even the grumpiest wallflower not to dance. Blending the band’s signature storytelling, some dueling horns and sly humor, “Call You Mom” is a caffeinated pop gem. Download the "Call You Mom" MP3 where it premiered with Rolling Stone today & we encourage you to post & share.

They Might Be Giants’ innovative Dial-A-Song service and imaginative high concept, low budget music videos stood the band apart early in their career quickly rocketing the alternative rockers to mainstream success. Known for recording numerous themes most notably The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the GRAMMY-winning Malcolm In the Middle theme, the band has 2 platinum albums, 2 gold albums, and have been nominated for 3 GRAMMYs, winning two. Known for their energized live show and love of the road, the band will kick off a 60-date international tour on February 27. Lucky fans in NYC will have several chances to experience the band’s explosive live show once more in 2012 at their three SOLD OUT New Year’s shows at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg. Stay tuned for more from They Might Be Giants coming soon!

They Might Be Giants Tour Dates
NYC New Years Shows + 2013 Dates throughout the US

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12/29 12/30 12/31 2/27 2/28 3/01 3/02 3/03 3/05 3/06 3/07 3/08 3/09 3/12 3/13 3/14 3/15 3/16 3/17 3/19 3/20 3/21 3/22 4/03 4/04 4/05 4/06 4/07 4/09 4/10 4/11 4/12 4/13 4/14

Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY Portland, ME Burlington, VT Rochester, NY Columbus, OH Cincinnati, OH Louisville, KY Nashville, TN Birmingham, AL New Orleans, LA Houston, TX Dallas, TX Tulsa, OK Columbia, MO St Louis, MO Chicago, IL Cleveland, OH Detroit, MI Pittsburgh, PA Tarrytown, NY Huntington, NY Boston, MA Boston, MA Philadelphia, PA Baltimore, MD Richmond, VA Charlottesville, VA Carrboro, NC Charleston, SC Asheville, NC Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA

Music Hall of Williamsburg Music Hall of Williamsburg Music Hall of Williamsburg Port City Music Hall Higher Ground Historic German House Newport Music Hall Madison Theatre Headliners Cannery Ballroom Workplay Theatre House of Blues House of Blues House of Blues Cain's Ballroom The Blue Note The Pageant Vic Theater Beachland Ballroom Majestic Theater Mr Small's Tarrytown Music Hall The Paramount Paradise Rock Club Paradise Rock Club Theatre of Living Arts Ram's Head Live The National Jefferson Theatre Cat's Cradle Music Farm Orange Peel Variety Playhouse Variety Playhouse

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Listen to Select Tracks from They Might Be Giants:

Delerium Reveals 'Days Turn Into Nights' EP; Includes Remixes by Andy Caldwell, Seven Lions & Solarstone

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Delerium Releases
Days Turn Into Nights EP
INCLUDES REMIXES BY ANDY CALDWELL, SEVEN LIONS & SOLARSTONE

Click Below to Listen to the Days Turn Into Night EP:

The nine-song EP includes several remixes by house impresario Andy Caldwell, dubstep producer Seven Lions (aka Jeff Montalvo) and English trance artist Richard Mowatt, better known as Solarstone. With each remix comes various edits on the standout track.

With two decades worth of music, Delerium continues to make waves in the electronic world, with Days Turn Into Nights as the #1 Breakout song this week on the Billboard Clubs chart.

For Days Turn Into Nights, Delerium incorporates a male singer for the second time in 12 years! In the past, Delerium has featured strong female vocalists—having worked with Leigh Nash (of Sixpence None the Richer), Miranda Lee Richards, Butterfly Boucher, Emily Haines (of Metric) and the most commercially successful single, Silence, featured Sarah McLachlan. Only once since Matthew Sweet on Daylight (from 2000’s Poem) has Delerium brought in a male vocalist.

Bill Leeb (Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy), the creator/brainchild of Delerium—which includes collaborators Rhys Fulber, Jared Slingerland and Jeremy Inkel—has sold over 3 million units worldwide and over a million albums in North America.

Stay tuned for more announcements in the coming weeks.

Days Turn Into Night Tracklist:

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1. Days Into Nights (Seven Lions Remix)
2. Days Into Nights (Andy Caldwell Remix)
3. Days Into Nights (Solarstone Pure Mix)
4. Days Into Nights (Album Edit)
5. Days Into Nights (Andy Caldwell Dub Mix)
6. Days Into Nights (Solarstone Pure Dub)
7. Days Into Nights (Seven Lions Remix Edit)
8. Days Into Nights (Andy Caldwell Remix Edit)
9. Days Into Nights (Solarstone Pure Edit)