Sacramento, CA’s Dance Gavin Dance has unveiled a new track, “Don’t Tell Dave”, from their forthcoming release ‘Happiness’ on their MySpace page.

With combined sales of over 50,000+ units in the US, over 16,000,000 total plays on MySpace and a successful headlining tour behind them, Dance Gavin Dance’s 4th album for Rise Records is a progression and it clearly shows.

They are able to play with just about any band out there and are often referred to as a “bands band”. Blending a myriad of genres into their songs, Dance Gavin Dance is always pushing the envelope, while somehow maintaining a sense of melody and urgency. Featuring artwork from famous Swedish artist Mattias Adolfsson, ‘Happiness’ is their proudest moment and it clearly shows.

‘Happiness’ will be released on June 9, 2009. That same day, the band will appear at a CD signing at Dimples Records in Sacramento, CA, as well as playing a free CD Release Party show at Club Retro in Orangevale, CA. This will be followed by a run of dates with The Audition, Closure in Moscow and Endless Hallway.

Starting June 26, fans can catch Dance Gavin Dance on the SmartPunk stage on the Vans Warped Tour.

Buy Music:

Dance Gavin Dance on amazon.com

Dance Gavin Dance on amazon.co.uk

For tour dates, music and more, go to:

Dance Gavin Dance MySpace

On June 2, 2009 Warner will release Dave Matthews Band’s ‘Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King,’ the group’s seventh studio album and its first since 2005’s ‘Stand Up’. The 13-track record was written by Dave Matthews Band and produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day and My Chemical Romance).

With its celebratory spirit and lyrical ruminations on fragile mortality, ‘Big Whiskey’ pays tribute to the band’s saxophonist, LeRoi Moore, and features some of his last recordings. Moore passed away in the summer of 2008, halfway through the making of the album.

The remaining founding members – Carter Beauford (Drums), Stefan Lessard (Bass), Dave Matthews (Vocals, Guitar) and Boyd Tinsley (Violin) – regrouped at a New Orleans, LA studio in early 2009 to complete the album. They were able to integrate much of the material Moore had recorded during their 2008 sessions in Charlottesville, VA and Seattle, WA, providing an immensely powerful twist to the overall feel of the album. Guitarist Tim Reynolds, trumpeter Rashawn Ross and saxophonist Jeff Coffin also played on ‘Big Whiskey’ and will join the band on tour.

“When Roi died, it shook the whole band and left us saying, ‘What do we do now?’” recalls Dave Matthews. “We knew that first of all, we had to finish this record that he was already in love with. So all of us went back in with the attitude ‘We can’t mess around with this one, because this one is an ode.’”

New York Magazine praised lead single “Funny the Way It Is” as “pure muscle – it’s got a bulletproof groove and the type of bounce that has marked the band all along” while Rolling Stone hailed ‘Big Whiskey’ as the group’s “heaviest album yet, both musically and emotionally.”

P.T.O.

Going on to note: “Throughout, Carter Beauford beats out elaborate, propulsive groves; bassist Stefan Lessard lays down Flea-style funk bass lines; violinist Boyd Tinsley plays cresting, intense runs; and Matthews mirrors Moore’s saxophone lines with scatlike singing.”

Dave Matthews created all of the artwork for the album, including the richly detailed cover illustration that puts a GrooGrux spin on New Orleans’ traditional Mardi Gras parades while evoking the joy and the sorrow expressed in the album’s songs.

The group, named the top-drawing American band in the world by Billboard, kicked off an extensive tour with a show at Madison Square Garden (April 14th) and will be on the road until October 2nd, traveling throughout America and appearing at numerous European festivals.

Dave Matthews Band returns to the UK for the first time since 2007, where they join Bruce Springsteen at the top of London’s Hard Rock Calling bill. Directly before the Hyde Park show they play two dates at Brixton Academy (June 25th, 26th).

Dave Matthews Band UK tour dates:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

June 2009
Thu 25th LONDON, Brixton Academy – SOLD OUT
Fri 26th LONDON, Brixton Academy
Sun 28th LONDON, Hard Rock Calling with Bruce Springsteen
Mon 29th WOLVERHAMPTON, Civic Hall

Track listing for ‘Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King’:

1. Grux
2. Shake Me Like A Monkey
3. Funny the Way It Is
4. Lying In the Hands of God
5. Why I Am
6. Dive In
7. Spaceman
8. Squirm
9. Alligator Pie
10. Seven
11. Time Bomb
12. Baby Blue
13. You & Me

Buy Music:

Dave Matthews Band on amazon.com

Dave Matthews Band on amazon.co.uk

Dave Matthews Band Official Website
MySpace
Dave Matthews on Twitter

Envy & Other Sins have confirmed the details and artwork for their debut album, ‘We Leave At Dawn‘, out 31 March 2008.

The full tracklisting for ‘We Leave At Dawn’ is:
Morning Sickness
Almost Certainly Elsewhere
Highness
Step Across
Man Bites God
Don’t Start Fires
The Company We Keep
(It Gets Harder To Be A) Martyr
Talk to Strangers
Shipwrecked

The band are currently in the Townhouse studios putting the finishing touches to the new album with producer Danton Supple (Coldplay, The Doves, Starsailor, Kylie Minogue).

Envy & Other Sins debut single, “Highness”, is out 3 March via A&M.

Watch “Highness” video

The band have been confirmed as tour support for The Hoosiers (click for tour dates) in March 2008! In between shows they’ll be playing a few headline slots of their own.

For more information, go to:

Envy & Other Sins on Myspace
Envy & Other Sins Official Website

Swedish rockers The Hives will release the infectious, funky anthem that is “We Rule The World (T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S)” as a single on 25th February, 2008 (Polydor).

Recorded with hop-hop producer Pharrell Williams in Miami for ‘The Black and White Album’ it is an electrifying collaboration, a meeting of great minds and big ideas, taking The Hives into new sonic terrain.

The single will be released digitally and as a Limited 10″ Vinyl backed with exclusive remixes: Matt Helder from Arctic Monkeys shakes up “We Rule The World (T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S)” while Nick Zinner from Yeah Yeah Yeahs gets his magic fingers on previous single “Tick Tick Boom” with his Post Colonization Mix.

Competition:

The Hives are inviting submissions for the sleeve artwork for the new single from their fanbase. Anyone can enter the competition and the winning design will adorn the 10″ single sleeve and accompany the digital release when it hits stores in February 2008.

Competition details:
Entries must be submitted by 21st January 2008
Keep it (mostly) Black and White!
Submissions should work to a square format, be delivered at 300DPI, to: thehivescoverart@googlemail.com

For more information about the competition and for inspiration go to:

The Hives on Myspace
The Hives Official Website