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Seal Tickets – See Him Live Before He Slips Away

This summer fans will get an unforgettable dose of Seal.  The award-winning singer and songwriter is scheduled to kick off his summer UK tour with a concert at the NIA in Birmingham on June 22, 2009.  The tour will support the release of the musician’s chart-topping brand new album called Soul.  This most recent effort has sold more than two million copies worldwide since its release in November of last year.  It is the sixth studio album for the artist and has already won praise across the board from music critics.  Take a listen to some of the featured classic soul ballads like “A Change Is Gonna Come,” “I’ve Been Loving You too Long” and “People Get Ready.”  For more information on upcoming tour dates, be sure to visit http://www.stubhub.com and don’t forget to purchase your very own pair of Seal tickets as soon as possible.

Seal first emerged on the music scene in the early 1990s when he helped to provide vocals for techno artist Adamski’s 1990 hit song “Killer.”  Shortly after its release, Seal signed a solo record contract and subsequently recorded his self-titled debut album with Trevor Horn.  The first single, “Crazy,” reached number seven on the charts in the U.S. and number 15 on the charts in the U.K.  The album eventually sold over three million copies around the world and established the aspiring Seal as a household name.

Fans had to wait three years to hear Seal’s follow-up album to his successful debut.  The sophomore effort, which was also titled Seal, dropped in the summer of 1994.  The record did quite well upon its immediate release and peaked at the number 20 mark on the charts by the spring of 1995.  One year later it really reached its stride when the single “Kiss From a Rose” was featured on the soundtrack to the film Batman Forever.  It also reached the number one spot on the pop music charts in the U.S.  As a result, the second Seal reached multi-platinum status, quite an accomplishment for the young singer.

Seal followed up these previous accomplishments with several other successful releases that included- Human Being and Seal IV.  Best-1991-2004 appeared in October 2004 and featured some of the artist’s best work.  He went onto issue the live CD/DVD Live in Paris one year later, then emerged with the studio full-length effort System.  Each album did well on the market and all of them seemed to impress critics.  His fan following was growing, and people of all ages started flocking to his concerts around the world.  He had certainly set the stage for his future success and his most recent effort shows his creative style and skill.

Soul captures the essence of Seal and has become a huge sensation in the music industry.  Seal is certainly no newcomer as a singer/songwriter and has developed a huge fanbase around the world.  Take a listen to his latest effort and be sure to catch him live onstage in the coming months as he journeys on his U.K. tour!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Tickets – Yeah Yeah Yeahs New Album Leaks

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ latest album, It’s Blitz! will arrive digitally March 10 via Interscope. The New York-based band moved up the release date for the album, which hits stores March 31, because it leaked on the web last month. The band made the announcement on their Web site: “The cat’s out of the band after It’s Blitz! escaped from our clutches into the big bad world last week. Why should some have and some have-not? YYYs have been brimming with nervous excitement in anticipation of releasing this record to the world! Leaks are NO FUN but it’s out of our hands.”
The band stepped into the studio with producers Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio on the Radio and Nick Launay, who have both worked with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on previous albums, for It’s Blitz! TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone make cameos on the record along with Antibalas saxophonist Stuart Bogie and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ touring band member Imaad Wasif. The full track listing for the album is: “Zero,” “Heads Will Roll,” “Soft Shock,” “Skeletons,” “Dull Life,” “Shame and Fortune,” “Runaway,” “Dragon Queen,” “Hysteric” and “Little Shadow.” The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ will take the stage at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA on April 19, after which they will kick off a European tour. In addition, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will open for Depeche Mode in Ramat Gan stadium in Israel. As for U.S. dates, the band is set to play Sasquatch in Washington and Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN. Check out http://www.stubhub.com for Yeah Yeah Yeahs tickets.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs emerged during the garage rock revival ushered in by fellow New Yorkers the Strokes. Comprised of singer Karen O, guitarist Nicolas Zinner and drummer Brian Chase, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs started after Zinner and O formed a folk duo called Unitard in 2000. They were inspired to take a different, electric, direction by the Ohio avant punk scene (both O and Chase attended Ohio’s Oberlin College and met Zinner upon moving to New York). Chase was added to the lineup when their original drummer backed out and they were soon supporting the Strokes and the White Stripes. In late 2001 the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ released an eponymous EP via their own Shifty label after working with Boss Hog’s Jerry Teel.
After taking the stage at Austin’s South by Southwest, touring the States with Girls Against Boys and Europe with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in addition to their own U.K. tour, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs set to work on their debut full-length, but before its release they played shows in the U.S. with Sleater-Kinney, Liars and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. The Machine EP arrived first and then, after moving to Interscope, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released Fever to Tell in 2003. In addition to garnering more critical acclaim for the band, Fever to Tell also secured commercial success thanks to hit single “Maps.” After Karen O moved to California, the bicoastal band took a hiatus from recording to pursue solo projects; O lent her vocals to “Hello Tomorrow,” a collaboration with producer Squeak E (the track was featured in a Nike shoe commercial directed by Spike Jonze) and Zinner recorded with side project Head Wound City.
Clean produced the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ next album, Show Your Bones, which was released in 2006 and was hailed their most polished effort to date. The band toured for the rest of the year in support of the album, which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard charts, before issuing the Is Is EP in 2007. After you pick up their new album, get your Yeah Yeah Yeahs tickets!

Morrissey Tickets – This Charming Man Heads Back on Tour!

Since the 1980s, Morrissey has been a saint to the young and broken-hearted. It’s not just that the band he fronted at the time—the Smiths—made some of the catchiest rock in the alternative scene. It was also his biting sarcasm, and his ability to mix sharp humor with lovelorn despair that made him a hero to angsty teenagers everywhere. Sadly, the Smiths broke up, and bad blood has left the wounds between Morrissey and certain bandmates unhealed.
Fortunately for music fans everywhere, this wasn’t the end of Morrissey’s career. He went on to form a highly successful solo career, one in which his lyrics took center stage and continued to charm fans. But when he originally broke away from the band, there were many who speculated that Morrissey’s career was finished. Johnny Marr, the Smiths incredibly guitarist, was half of the band’s equation. Many critics doubted that Morrissey could operate on his own. Perhaps there was a little bit of schadenfreude at work; Morrissey had been a notorious enfant terrible when he was with the Smiths, deliberately making provocative statements, whether they were about politics, his ardent vegetarianism or his ambiguous sexuality. After causing so much mischief in the press, there were probably quite a few people who simply wanted to see Morrissey go away.
As it turns out, he remained an influential figure in the British rock scene, with his first solo album, 1988’s Viva Hate, earning strong reviews and eventually becoming considered a classic and one of the must-have albums in his solo discography. He didn’t let up on some his old ways with that record—there are plenty of song about relationships gone wrong (“Suedehead”) and a few that would raise the ire of his critics (“Margaret on the Guillotine,” about Margaret Thatcher).
The quality of his work would vary tremendously from album to album as the ‘90s and ‘00s wore on—the drawback of not working with Marr was that Morrissey was continually working with different backing bands, some of them less qualified to support the frontman than others. Still, 1992’s Your Arsenal and 1994’s Vauxhall and I are remembered as being two extremely strong albums.
After 1997’s Maladjusted, Morrissey suddenly became very quiet. Fans didn’t hear from him again until 2004, when a comeback of sorts was organized. Morrissey released You Are the Quarry, with the great single “Irish Blood, English Heart.” “Irish blood, English heart, this I’m made of / There is no-one on earth I’m afraid of / And I will die with both my hands untied,” he sings on that.
The following year, he followed up with a fantastic live album, Live at Earl’s Court, and another album the year after, Ringleader of the Tormentors. After a two year hiatus, he put out his most recent record, 2009’s Years of Refusal. On that, Morrissey seems to revel in his role as the saint of the singles.
Now’s your chance to see the artist live. Get Morrissey tickets now!

Morrissey Tickets – Morrissey to Begin World Tour After Short Setback

Morrissey resumes his worldwide tour in support of his latest album, Years of Refusal, March 6 after cancelling four shows in Florida. Tour promoter Live Nation released a statement saying the singer was forced to cancel shows in Boca Raton, Orlando, Jacksonville and Saint Petersburg due to illness but will take the stage for his next schedule appearance at the House of Blues in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina March 6. Fans with tickets to the cancelled shows will be able to get a refund, but if you want to see the singer perform when he makes his way near your city in the near future, check out http://www.stubhub.com for Morrissey tickets!
Morrissey first became known for his thoughtful lyrics and dramatic stage presence as lead singer of prolific British indie outfit the Smiths in the 1980s. The Manchester, England native formed the Smiths with guitarist Johnny Marr and they released their debut single, “Hand in Glove,” in 1983. Morrissey became the target of media scrutiny early on in the Smiths’ career, after exhibiting erratic behavior during interviews and even proclaiming celibacy at one point (when his sexuality came under questioning). Morrissey courted more controversy on 1984’s The Smiths, which boasted lyrics that advocated vegetarianism and denounced Margaret Thatcher.
In 1986 the Smiths released what has been hailed their best album, The Queen is Dead. Strangeways, Here We Come arrived one year later and then Marr exited the lineup. Not longer after Marr’s departure, Morrissey launched his solo career with the release of two singles, “Suedehead” and “Everyday Is Like Sunday.” His debut solo album Viva Hate was well received in the U.K. but fans in his native country were disappointed by 1991’s Kill Uncle. His 1992 album Your Arsenal received critical acclaim but he continued to remain a media target and eventually crossed the pond to live in the States, where he was an instant success, selling out the Hollywood Bowl faster than the Beatles for one concert. The L.A. resident then released 1994’s Vauxhall and I and 1995’s The World of Morrissey and Southpaw Grammar. In subsequent years Morrissey remained a major concert draw despite constantly label-jumping, but he made his comeback in 2004 with You Are the Quarry (his first solo album in seven years). Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex), Ringleader of the Tormentors arrived in 2006 via Sanctuary.
Years of Refusal made its debut mid-February via Decca and scored the number 11 spot on the Billboard 200 chart. The former free agent signed with Polydor/Decca after years of being without a label home and released the lead single from Years of Refusal, “Black Cloud,” February 2. The former Smiths singer is sure to sell out spots along his current tour so make sure to get your Morrissey tickets before they’re all gone!

Phish Tickets – Despite Weakened Economy, Phish Phans Come Phlocking

Trey Anastasio and his ultimate jam band Phish left phans across the globe holding their breaths in 2004 when the Vermont rockers announced “we’re done” to a hometown crowd of 65,000 on a farm in Coventry, but done apparently didn’t mean forever, as this stoner band’s revival onto the music scene in 2009 has sparked the biggest craze of the year, bracing Phish addicts for a summer ’09 tour and an accompanying album to follow.
While people across the nation are feeling the sting of a weakening economy, the show must go on – for Phish, at least – and it won’t be tough. The first string of Phish performances at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia sold out in a matter of minutes, and ticket vendors are expecting this sort of trend for all Phish performances this summer. Phish phrontman Trey Anastasio recently made a statement as to why his band chose to reunite for a tour during this time of economic hardship, claiming that “for people in hard times, we can play long shows of pure physical pleasure. They come to dance and forget their troubles. It’s like a service commitment.” With Phish tickets being resold for prices upwards of $1,000, a demand to see this ultimate college-rock band in concert is clearly evident, and fans hope to see Phish rock the stage live in more than just 2009.
Phish is one of those American traditional rock bands that will forever hover over the music scene, and this Grateful Dead spinoff got started in the late 1980s, piecing together jazz-driven rock, country and bluegrass free-form music in an eclectic new genre of its own. Life was breathed into the musical entity known as Phish in 1983, when Trey Anastasio (guitar/vocals), Jon Fishman (drums), Jeff Holdsworth (guitar) and Mike Gordon (bass) started jamming together at the University of Vermont. The group began making local public appearances but took the long route to mainstream success, mostly dead-ending until 1988, when Phish released its debut album Junta. A handful of other EPs followed, and by 1992 Phish had scored a recording contract with Elektra and had struck gold with 1991’s A Picture of Nectar, their second major-label release that caught the eyes and ears of America.
1994’s “Down with Disease” became an instant MTV staple and set Phish ablaze, and the band’s successive strings of live performances quickly made them known as an incredible live act first and a group of recording artists second. Phish blew through the rest of the ‘90s with unstoppable force, arriving into the new millennium with a strong release titled Farmhouse that garnered raving reviews and thousands of record sales. After a vigorous touring schedule Phish announced an extended break in 2000, coming back together in 2002 for another round of live shows. Band members overextended themselves once again, however, and the combination of a hectic touring schedule and conflicting family lives kept wearing down the band; finally in 2004 Phish announced that they were going on indefinite hiatus.
Since 2004, band members have pursued successful solo projects while posthumous Phish releases also peppered the music scene. Late in 2008, rumors of a reunited Phish and subsequent tour started making the rounds, and the jam band eventually confirmed the speculation, announcing in January 2009 several tour dates for the Phish Summer Tour 2009. Tickets for Phish shows have been selling out in just minutes, but StubHub has tickets on sale for the stragglers.