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Zac Brown Band Tickets- On Their Way to the Top
At this year’s 43rd Annual CMA Awards Show, one band is going to be mentioned again and again: the Zac Brown Band. They may be relative newcomers to the mainstream country stage, but over the last year they have shown fans they are anything but rookies. The Zac Brown Band will be performing at the CMA Awards on Nov. 11, and they also have multiple chances to take home one of the awards. They are nominated for Best New Artist as well as Vocal Group, and their single “Chicken Fried” is nominated for Best Single and Best Song. Those nominations put them with the likes of Brad Paisley, Jamey Johnson and Billy Currington.
That isn’t the only honor the band has received lately. They will join quite the lineup to be featured on the DVD set Live from Bonnaroo 2009, which is due out on Dec. 15. Joining them on the release will be Phish, Bruce Springsteen, the Beastie Boys, Snoop Dogg, Elvis Costello, Ben Harper, Andrew Bird, the Decembrist, The Del McCoury Band and Cage the Elephant. Zac Brown Band’s performance on the DVD will be for “Who Knows.” The Bonnaroo festival took place in June in Tennessee and is one of the largest musical events in the country.
The members of the Zac Brown Band may be rising to fame because of their top hits, but it is their live shows that stand as the most telling indicator that this group is here to stay. They have been crisscrossing the country to support their album and have received a warm welcome at every stop. There are still many upcoming dates, and fans can get Zac Brown Band tickets from StubHub.com.
Zac Brown spoke about being onstage to Great American Country recently, saying, “I’m right there with ‘em. I’m in my own world, I’m in my own element. I mean, you’re givin’ yourself away and they’re givin’ it back, and what it does is create this turbine of energy. Once you get it rollin’ in the room, [you] try to see how big you can whip it up, [so] we’re ridin’ it right there with ‘em. That’s the good stuff.” In light of the reactions of his fans, it seems as if the turbine of energy has been reaching great heights at many of his tour stops.
The namesake of the band, Zac Brown, is a Georgia native who started gaining acclaim as a solo artist with a stunning ability to flat-pick. His instrumental and vocal talent was only matched by his songwriting skills. In the mid 2000s, he teamed with like-minded musicians to form the Zac Brown Band. After a couple of self-releases, they finally landed a record deal with Live Nation. In 2008, they released The Foundation and quickly started gaining a fan base with the single “Chicken Fried,” which won them the USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year at the CMT Music Awards. They showed they were much more than one-hit wonders by following with two more high-charting singles, “Whatever It Is” and “Toes.”
Wilco Tickets – On the Road Again
Wilco is ready for 2010, mapping out a winter U.S./Canadia tour while finishing up the band’s current fall set. The group, which finished its current tour Oct. 18-19 in Chicago’s UIC Pavilion, will return to the big stage Feb. 7 at Missoula, Mont.‘s Adams Center before continuing touring through Portland, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Vancouver; Edmonton; Calgary; Saskatoon; Duluth, Minn.; Madison, Wis.; East Lansing, Mich.; Hamilton and London, Ontario; Montreal; Ottawa and finally Halifax on Mar. 3.
The guys of Wilco aren’t really taking a break between their U.S. fall stint and their winter one, though; instead, they will be heading to Europe for several live shows, for which the dates are currently posted on their website. If you want to see Wilco in action this winter, you better act now to get your hands on Wilco tickets from http://www.stubhub.com.
The set promoted by Wilco on tour is the self-titled follow-up to 2007’s Sky Blue Sky, a June 2009 release via the Nonesuch label. The much-anticipated album featured the group’s first duet and debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 upon release. “Most of us are feeling that this record, this lineup, epitomizes Wilco,” drummer Glenn Kotche said to LiveDaily. “This is the longest it’s ever been a steady lineup in Wilco. We’re on our five years with this membership, which the other lineups hadn’t even come close to that.”
The band Wilco first formed from the bones of the roots rock outfit Uncle Tupelo in 1994 with members Jeff Tweedy, Ken Coomer, John Stirratt and Max Johnston (the latter two part-time members), and Jay Bennett. The group’s debut album appeared in 1995, and the quintet followed it up with 1996’s Being There, a two-disc feature.
Just after the release of their sophomore set, Max Johnston left the group and was replaced by Bob Egan. Meanwhile, Stirratt, Bennett and Coomer started focusing on their side project, Courtesy Move, while still working steadily with Wilco, which then released the third Summerteeth and Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2. At that point, Ken Coomer left the band and was replaced by Glenn Kotche, and before finishing the fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, guitarist Bennett left Wilco, as well.
The departures led to label tensions, so the group (which included Tweedy, Kotche, Stirratt and Leroy Bach) bought the studio tapes from the unreleased set and toured in support of their new material. The album was eventually released on Nonesuch Records while Tweedy worked on the 2002 Ethan Hawke film, released the same year.
Once Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was released, Leroy Bach left the group and was subsequently replaced by guitarist Nels Cline, keyboardist Mike Jorgensen and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone. The group remained focused, however, working on A Ghost is Born after the public announcement that Tweedy was going into rehab, which was followed up by Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, the group’s hometown, and finally their seventh studio set Sky Blue Sky. The group released its most recent and first synonymous set a month after Bennett’s accidental overdose in his home, and Wilco has since been touring in support of its psychedelic power pop music.
Tim McGraw Tickets – He’s Got a Sweet, ‘Southern Voice’
When you think Tim McGraw, you might be thinking of your favorite song – if not, you might be picking out a new one as the sexy southerner released Southern Voice on Curb Records Oct. 20 and has already seen a plenty of publicity for his hit single “It’s a Business Doing Pleasure with You.” The ballad hit No. 13 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. It is the 10th studio album from the country singer, as well as with producer Byron Gallimore.
Nearly two years have passed since McGraw released a new album, the last being 2007’s Let It Go. In fact, Southern Voice was recorded over three years ago in the fall of 2006 at Dark Horse studio in Franklin, Tenn. “I was still in my 30s (when the album was recorded),” McGraw said to Reuters. “It was a whole other decade for me. I feel like it’s a great collection of songs, and sonically I think the band [Dancehall Doctors] sounds really great. I think it has a real grounded earthiness to it.” He is scheduled for a few tour dates this year, and you can see him live via Tim McGraw tickets from http://www.stubhub.com.
Though McGraw is finally excited to let the public hear these tunes, he isn’t as dedicated to the album as he has been with previous releases. It also doesn’t help that he’s already moved on from Southern Voice to a new album, which he admits he begins recording in about a month. Though McGraw has been with Curb Records his entire career, he says “I thought [the new studio album] was coming out a lot quicker than it did and then the greatest-hits records kept dropping. I’ve got one record left on this label, and I can’t help but think that it was a stall tactic to add another year to my contract.” Though McGraw has been vocal over the years about Curb’s forcefulness in releasing new greatest hits albums, he still remains one of the hottest selling country acts of all time.
With a career that began in the 1990s, McGraw has sold nearly 40 million records (which includes 30 No. 1 singles) and has also picked up 14 Academy of Country Music Awards, 11 Country Music Association Awards, 10 American Music Awards, three Grammys and three People’s Choice Awards.
Tim McGraw’s family includes country star wife Faith Hill. McGraw and Hill first met during McGraw’s tour for the 1995 album All I Want, which included the hit single “I Like it, I Love it.” The album was his third release, but second effort to actually spur mainstream success following the breakthrough popularity of 1994’s Not a Moment Too Soon and the single “Indian Outlaw.”
Following the McGraw-Hill wedding, McGraw released 1997’s Everywhere that saw serious mainstream promotion thanks to the high profile country nuptials. Appearing on that album was the couple’s first duet, “It’s Your Love,” which made it to the Pop Top 10 and the Country No. 1. The album included several more Top 10 hits, helping McGraw claim the country throne just as Garth Brooks started to descend from the business. Since then McGraw has remained on top with five more albums and three greatest hits releases, keeping his ‘Southern Voice’ a prominent figure in the biz.
Tim McGraw Tickets – Southern Voice 2010 Tour Announced
Country crooner Tim McGraw has been blowing up the country music scene recently with the smash songs “It’s a Business Doing Pleasure with You” and “Southern Voice,” his first set of singles in more than two years and the leading tracks from his brand new album Southern Voice, and now Mr. Faith Hill has announced an accompanying tour to go along with his recent rampant success. The Southern Voice Tour, set to begin in February of 2010, will be McGraw’s first full tour in years, and it’s sure to attract country music fans across the country in the upcoming months.
Tim McGraw’s Southern Voice Tour will feature opening acts Love and Theft (popular for the hit song “Runaway”) and the Lost Trailers (“Holler Back”), who will rotate in the opening position, and Lady Antebellum will also join the lineup for all tour dates. Tim McGraw tickets to concerts next year are sure to fly off the shelves, especially as more and more catchy singles from the album Southern Voice are unleashed.
Though he’s playing a smattering of concert dates this fall and winter, the Southern Voice Tour will officially open on Feb. 11 with a performance in Omaha, Neb., and it will tentatively run though August of 2010 with McGraw at the helm. Outback Steakhouse and Fritos are the official sponsors of the tour, and some money from ticket sales will go to the charity Neighbor’s Keeper Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, which was started by McGraw and wife Faith Hill.
McGraw hasn’t toured avidly for years, but of the upcoming engagement the country music icon said, “I’m real excited to have this opportunity to hit the road next year with the Southern Voice Tour and look forward to playing new songs and old favorites for all my fans.” McGraw fans can get tickets to shows on the tour from StubHub, and tickets are sure to be hot sellers over the next few months.
Before he was one of the defining voices of the contemporary country music movement in the 1990s, Tim McGraw was a relative unknown, raised in the backwoods of Louisiana (his father was the famous Phillies pitcher Tug McGraw, though he didn’t know it growing up.) Eventually, McGraw migrated to Nashville and hit up the Music City scene with his smooth guitar and golden vocals, landing a minor hit with his debut single “Welcome to the Club” in 1992.
After testing the waters, McGraw plunged onto the country music scene in 1994 with the critically acclaimed album Not a Moment Too Soon, which harbored the hit singles “Indian Outlaw” and “Don’t Take the Girl.” By this time, Tim McGraw was a household name, and things haven’t changed much since then for this cowboy crooner. After marrying fellow country music heartthrob Faith Hill, McGraw continued onward with his country music domination, releasing a slew of number ones throughout the ‘90s and into the ‘00s.
Southern Voice, Tim McGraw’s most recent full-length album release, is his 10th studio album and yet another overwhelming success in his repertoire, and the album has already sparked the Billboard favorites “It’s a Business Doing Pleasure with You” and “Southern Voice,” the latter of which still making its way up the charts.
Wolfmother Tickets – New Wolfmother Lineup Lays ‘Cosmic Egg’
When Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale parted ways with founding band members bassist Chris Ross and drummer Lyles Haskett in August 2008, fans of the Aussie rock band were worried, and rightfully so. After announcing the split, due to “longstanding frictions,” Stockdale told Billboard.com while in Los Angeles, Wolfmother’s current home base, “The Beatles lasted seven years, we lasted four. We toured our arses off around the world. We did 300 shows. It takes a certain type of person to want to continue to live that kind of life.” Drummer Dave Atkins, who previously played with Brisbane, Australia bands Pangaea and Resin Dogs, guitarist Aidan Nemeth and bassist/keyboardist Ian Peres replaced Ross and Haskett and the revamped band is readying to release a new album later this month. Other new additions to the Wolfmother pack are manager Cory Brennan, who founded New York-based 5B Artist management, and British producer Alan Moulder.
Wolfmother’s forthcoming new album, Cosmic Egg, is set to arrive on October 23 in Australia via Modular Recordings/Universal, October 26 in the U.K. via Island and October 27 in the U.S. via Interscope. While Wolfmother’s signature hard-rocking sound remains intact despite the lineup changes and is highlighted on tracks like “California Queen” and “In the Morning,” the album also ventures into blues rock territory. Joked Stockdale about Cosmic Egg, “I can listen to the whole record without cringing, which is a good sign,” before adding, “I wanted to take it back to an old-school hi-fi sound.” Cosmic Egg’s predecessor, 2006’s Wolfmother, sold 537,000 U.S. copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and also garnered the band a 2007 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance, thus the new album has a hard act to follow. Said Modular’s A&R manager Glen Goetze of Wolfmother’s internal issues, “It’s a difficult situation to come back from. But [Stockdale has] worked his way through it. It’s like starting from scratch on a debut record all over again, but we already have a sizable fan base out there.”
The current incarnation of Wolfmother was one of only two bands to play both the Sound Relief bushfire benefit concerts held at Melbourne Cricket Ground and Sydney Cricket Ground this past March and also performed “Black Round” to close down the MTV Australia Awards on March 27. A non-album track, “Black Round,” was previously available as a free download on the band’s official website as well as the Guitar Hero 5 site, as the fifth edition of the game features the Aussie band. Also among Wolfmother’s stealthy string of comeback shows was a six-date gig opening for the Killers in August and September. The band is set to kick off its own month-long U.S. headlining tour at the House of Blues in Dallas on October 29 and fans can check out StubHub.com for Wolfmother tickets, as Modular managing director Steve Pavlovic told Billboard.com they will be on the road a lot in the near future. Said Pavlovic, “They’ll be touring a lot. A third of Wolfmother album sales were in America, two-thirds in the rest of the world. You’d have to think there’s a pretty decent market outside America. They’ll spend two-thirds of their time addressing it.”
Expect to see a lot more of Wolfmother soon, as the band is slated to appear in Absolut’s upcoming Rock Edition ad campaign and will open AC/DC’s March 2010 homecoming show Down Under. According to Interscope, appearances on Late Show With David Letterman and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson are already taped as well. Stockdale collaborated on one song for Slash’s next record and told Billboard.com, “We might do a few shows or some surprise guest appearances. I’d love to have him play at some Wolfmother shows.” Although Wolfmother’s success seems sealed, Stockdale remains cautions saying, “At the start when people were saying, ‘Wolfmother returns,’ I was like, ‘Don’t say it’s a comeback.’ But maybe a comeback is a good thing. A bit of s struggle, a challenge, is a healthy thing to have in life. Every time I do a gig now, I think, ‘Wow, this is incredible.’” Comeback or not, Wolfmother tickets are sure to go fast!
