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Photo Courtesy: Atlantic Records KID ROCK BORN FREE Word of a follow-up to Kid Rock’s 2007 Rock-N-Roll Jesus finally has a title and release date: Born Free will hit stores September 7. Born Free is the title track of the album that arrived in late June. The record is said to venture into many different genres Rock enjoys and boasts music all-stars like rapper T.I., country star Martina McBride, and classic-rocker Bob Seger. The album was tentatively scheduled to release in 2009, but in the summer of last year, Rock announced he was recruiting Red Hot Chili Peppers producer Rick Rubin to help him rework the material. Originally, Born Free was going to be a three disc package, but Rock said it was “sensory overload” and that’s why he turned to Rubin. The finished product is what Rock calls “a very organic album that just made sense”. Recently, the singer-songwriter has been hitting the stage this summer with Bon Jovi, but he’s holding the real tour for sometime after the album’s fall release.
Photo Courtesy: Universal Republic and Universal Music Latino EUPHORIA FOR ENRIQUE IGLESIAS LATEST Last month, Spanish pop singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias released his ninth studio album, Euphoria. The record is Iglesias’ first in three years and his first bilingual album that boasts guest appearances from artist like Usher, Akon, Nicole Scherzinger, Puerto Rican reggeaton duo Wisin and Yandel and the legendary Lionel Richie. “I think it’s a good time for it,” he says about Euphoria. “Artistically, I needed it. It made me very enthusiastic about this album. I grew up in Miami, speaking Spanglish, and being able to finally do an album where I’m not just thinking of English or Spanish, when it came down to the songwriting, it really helped. The minute I got bored writing in English, I would write in Spanish, and vice-versa.” The album includes hits that are already chart toppers like Cuando Me Enamoro (featuring Latin superstar Juan Luis Guerra) and I Like It (featuring Pitbull). Cuando Me Enamoro is Iglesias’ 21st No. 1 on the Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart, more than any other artist in history. And I Like It recently teamed up with the Jersey Shore cast for a special edition video of the song, the heart-throb’s biggest English-language hit in several years. Currently, the star is anticipating the release of No Me Digas Que No and is planning a 2011 tour.
Photo Courtesy: Big Machine TAYLOR SWIFT’S SPEAK NOW Music sensation Taylor Swift recently had an online chat with her fans and announced that her follow-up to the Fearless record will be released this fall. The LP titled Speak Now is scheduled to be released on October 25, with its first single Mine hitting the airwaves on Swifts new website, SpeakNow13.com on August 16. “Track by track, each song is a different confession to a different person,” Swift explained during the live chat. “In the past two years, I’ve experienced a lot of things that I’ve been dying to write about.” Swift went on to explain that she has spent the past two years writing tracks for this record. Speak Now is co-produced with longtime collaborator Nathan Chapman and for this record she’s even more excited because it was written entirely by the superstar herself. “Ever since we put out Fearless, we’ve been writing for this record and conceptualizing it,” Swift said. “I like to take a lot of time between records to work on the next one. I did the same thing for Fearless. I took two years between it, and for me, I write everything that I live. You have to give yourself a lot of time to live a lot.” As for Mine, Swift said the song is about “my tendency to run from love...Every really direct example of love that I’ve had in front of me has ended in goodbye and has ended in breakups and things like that. So I think I’ve developed this pattern of sort of running away when it comes time to falling in love. This song is sort of about finding the exception to that.”
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CRACKER BLUES This Southwest Florida high energy blues band is a five musician ensemble that plays a well rounded mix of blues. Familiar tunes by Muddy Waters and Jonny Lang, and titles such as “Stormy Monday”, “Caledonia”, “Let the Good Times Roll” and many more will entertain the crowd. Blues it up with the Cracker Blues Band on: - August 21: 8 pm at Gulf Coast Town Center at the Pavilion in the Market Plaza in Fort Myers, FL. MIKE IMBASCIANI Mike Imbasciani is a 13-year-old with an old musical soul. A classic rock and blues music aficionado, Mike is all about Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and much more. His musical knowledge is way beyond his years and Mike’s groove is that of a seasoned musician. Enjoy some music with “The Kid” on: - August
6: 5 - 9 pm at Hideaway Sports Bar in Fort Myers, FL. STRINGTOWN Stringtown is a musical collaboration amongst some of the area’s most visible working musicians. Rick Russell from Deb & The Dynamics, along with his wife Danette and drummer Steve Gomes, decided to put this entertainment medley together. Joined by Joe Connors and Pat Hayes both from The Juice and The Bunche Band, Stringtown will provide crowds with a musical combination of all forms of American Roots Music, everything from blues and country to gospel and funk. Catch a sneak peak of this exciting project in the works on: - August
13 & 20: 7:30 – 11 pm at Bert’s Bar in Matlacha, FL. |
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