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Owl City Announce Whirlwind Summer Tour Including Shows With Relient K
Indie electro-pop sensation Owl City reveals details for their whirlwind summer on the road: a first EVER headlining US tour that includes a show at NYC's famed Bowery Ballroom on May 7th, a late May/early June West Coast trek with Relient K and performances at Bamboozle, Sasquatch, and Summerfest festivals. The band also announces a series of monthly single releases on the first Tuesday of each month starting with "Hot Air Balloon" on May 5th and leading up to the release of Owl City's new full-length album Ocean Eyes - due out September 1st. Over the next four months fans will be introduced to four new songs that will be featured on the upcoming album and get a chance to check out Owl City live!
Hailing from the quiet town of Owatonna, MN, Owl City is already something of a phenomenon, with over 200,000 tracks and 20,000+ albums sold digitally. Most recently, the tracks "Hello Seattle" and "Rainbow Veins," held spots in the top 10 on iTunes Top Electronic Tracks Chart alongside M.I.A., Daft Punk, and The Postal Service and Owl City's previous self-released albums - Of June and Maybe I'm Dreaming - also charted with iTunes and both currently hold spots in the top 10 on the iTunes Top Electronic Albums Chart. In a true testament to the mass appeal of the music, Owl City has become a MySpace sensation with over 6 million profile views and over 25 million plays and is making a colossal impact on the music scene.
Owl City played their first ever shows this past February when they headlined the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, MN and Schuba's in Chicago, IL. A live story started in a way many bands dream of - with two sold out shows. This is further proof that Owl City has captured the hearts and ears of many through their music. With Ocean Eyes set for release this fall and the band's first headlining tour just around the corner, Owl City is poised to break out on an even bigger scale.
Owl City Confirmed Tour Dates
May 3rd Meadowlands Sports Complex/Bamboozle East Rutherford, NJ
5th Café 939 Boston, MA
6th North Star Bar Philadelphia, PA
7th Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
9th Jammin' Java Vienna, VA
11th Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH
12th The Pike Room @ Crofoot Pontiac, MI
14th Subterranean Chicago, IL
15th Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN
23rd Gorge Amphitheatre/Sasquatch Festival George, WA
26th Glass House Pomona, CA*
27th The Dome Bakersfield, CA*
28th The Boardwalk Orangevale, CA*
29th Indigo District Eugene, OR*
30th Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR*
31st Neumo's Seattle, WA*
June 2nd Knitting Factory Spokane, WA*
3rd Knitting Factory Boise, ID*
4th Murray Theatre Salt Lake City, UT*
19th Rocketown Nashville, TN
20th Vinyl Atlanta, GA
22nd The Orange Peel Asheville, NC
23rd Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, NC
25th Sonar Baltimore, MD
26th Water Street Music Hall Rochester, NY
27th The Basement Columbus, OH
29th Riverside Ballroom Green Bay, WI
30th Grandma's Sports Garden Bar & Grill Duluth, MN
July 1st Cornerstone Farm Marietta, IL
2nd Granada Theatre Lawrence, KS
3rd Slowdown Omaha, NE
5th Summerfest Milwaukee, WI
*- with Relient K
Christian Music News Source
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
New record deal, new album for CCM hitmakers Relient K
AMERICAN rock hitmakers Relient K have fulfilled their contract with Gotee Records, have signed with Mono Vs Stereo and begun recording. Read a statement from the band's frontman Matt Thiessen, "We started recording the new record! Right now we're working at Dark Horse Recording with our favourite producer, Mark Lee Townsend, and after we get some tracks recorded, we're going to travel back to California to make some tunes with John Feldmann at the helm. After we turned in 'The Bird And The Bee Sides' we fulfilled our first record deal (six albums) with Gotee Records. This made us free agents. Our plan? Matt Hoopes and I just signed up to begin positions as A&R for the soon to be resurrected Mono Vs Stereo Records. We'll sign a few bands a year and also release Relient K's material through the label. We'll set up some email addresses soon with the specific purpose of receiving demos from unsigned artists. All this to say, we may eventually end up partnering up with the least evil of majors that expresses interest in giving us a helping hand. We'll just have to see."
Christian Music News Source
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Three 6 Mafia and Relient K scheduled for Spring Concert
Two mainstream artists are close to signing a contract for this year's Ultimate Spring Concert, scheduled for April 24 at the Titan Stadium, but nothing is official yet.
The gritty hardcore hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia might be the headliner along with Relient K, a Christian rock band turned pop rock.
But Joseph Lopez, Associated Students Inc. Productions administrative director, said contracts for the artists have not been signed yet, and he hopes the lineup will be made official by this weekend.
"One thing is we don’t want people to get excited and then let down," he said. "In the past it doesn’t end up always working out."
Coordinators decided to go with a "multi-genre" show this year to appeal to both hip-hop and rock fans.
"Last year was both rock, we wanted to go with multi-genre this year," Lopez said.
Last year, bands New Found Glory and The Academy Is... performed for the concert and the show has previously brought out the likes of Rage Against the Machine and Kanye West.
ASI President Curtis Schlaufman said he is "pretty sure" the artists will follow through, but the artists were found later than expected.
"Theoretically, they could back out before they sign the contract," said ASI President Curtis Schlaufman. "Once the contract’s finalized it will be official. Hopefully pretty soon, because we did sign the artists later than we hoped to. I can pretty much bet we will have the concert with these artists."
The event is expected to cost about $115,000 for publicity, sound, lighting, security, police and other arrangements, said Lindsay Qwek, spring concert coordinator for ASIP. The artists will cost $65,000.
ASI approved a contract for $3,000 to go toward the budget during a board meeting Tuesday.
If the artists fall through, however, then ASIP has a backup plan with the hip-hop group The Cool Kids, Qwek said.
But Qwek said the current lineup is the most well-known artists available.
"No one is as prominent as the one's we've pitched to you right now," she told ASI.
The show is expected to dazzle a crowd of 3,000 people, with 2,500 expected students and 500 guests.
Tickets are free for students and $10 for guests and are expected to be distributed next month.
The first black music group to win an Academy Award for Best Song in 2006 for the jam, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp," from Hustle & Flow soundtrack, Three 6 Mafia is known for its hardcore lyrics and members who decorate their "grills" (teeth) in gold.
A few hit songs have been "Stay Fly" and "Poppin' My Collar." The original six-member group is from Tennessee.
Relient K, from Canton, Ohio, began its career in the Contemporary Christian Music circuit and has since become popular with the pop rock album "MmHmm," released in 2004.
Signed with Capitol Records label, the band has recently been featured on the Warped Tour and will be touring this fall with Katy Perry, Qwek said.
ASIP will continue promoting the event with spring concert fairs at the center quad, leading up to the performance.
Christian Music News Source
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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