Pick of the Week: Flyleaf May 6

Flyleaf w/10 years
Marquee Theatre, Tempe
All Ages
Thu, May 6, 6pm – 11pm

Daughtry at Jobing.com Arena 04.28.2010

Daughtry performed at Jobing.com Arena April 28, 2010

Photos by Stephanie Baldwin:

Lifehouse at Jobing.com Arena 04.28.2010

Lifehouse performed at Jobing.com Arena April 28, 2010

Photos by Stephanie Baldwin:

Vh1 Best Cruise Ever Pics and Reviews

We’re finally able to recover our files (04.28.10) Yippie! Since we have over 800 photos to go through, we should ahve them up by the weekend…. no really!

If you’d like to share your review email us at contribute@fromthecrowd.com

Photos:

Lifehouse Thursday Performance on the Lido Deck:

http://fromthecrowd.com/1348/vh1-best-cruise-ever-lifehouse-thursday-performance/

Carolina Liar Sunday Performance in the Paris Lounge:

http://fromthecrowd.com/1368/carolina-liar-vh1-best-cruise-ever/

Lifehouse Saturday Performance:
Coming Soon

Lifehouse Sunday performance:
Coming Soon

Finger Eleven:
Coming Soon.

Shinedown Saturday Night coming Soon

3 Doors Down: Friday Night Coming Soon!

VH1 Best Cruise Ever Lifehouse Thursday Performance

Lifehouse performed on the Lido Deck on Thursday on the Vh1 Best Cruise Ever.

Photos by Stephanie Baldwin:

Pick of the Week Daughtry w/Lifehouse 04/28

Daughtry w/ Lifehouse, Cavo
Jobing.com Arena, Glendale
All Ages
Wed, April 28

Pick of the Week: 04/23 Vertical Horizon Rock the Zoo

ROCK THE ZOO! (formerly known as ZooBrew) is one of the largest fundraisers for the Phoenix Zoo and continues to be a favorite event for 3,000 Valley residents each year.  This unique event features live music from VERTICAL HORIZON and MARCY PLAYGROUND, beverage sampling and a variety of fun event activities.  Join us and “get your wild on”! All proceeds from the event support the not-for-profit Phoenix Zoo. 

http://www.phoenixzoo.org/rockthezoo2010/

Pick of the Week: Norah Jones April 25

Norah Jones Tickets

• All Ages

RIHANNA ANNOUNCES 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

RIHANNA ANNOUNCES 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
LAST GIRL ON EARTH

KE$HA TO JOIN RIHANNA ON 25-DATE TREK

SMASH SINGLE “RUDE BOY” OWNS 3RD WEEK AT #1 ON THE HOT 100

Thursday, July 22 – Cricket Wireless Pavilion

Tickets On Sale This Saturday, April 17th at 10am

Rihanna, in the midst of her 4th critically-acclaimed album release
Rated R, a smash #1 single with “Rude Boy,” and a highly anticipated
upcoming international tour, has confirmed dates for her 2010 North
American tour, Last Girl On Earth
<http://www.livenation.com/artist/rihanna-tickets> .  The multi-platinum
and Grammy award winning superstar, who recently broke a Billboard
record with her current number one single “Rude Boy,” becoming the only
female artist of the past decade to have six #1 singles on the Billboard
Hot 100 chart in the United States, will be joined by rising star Ke$ha
who will open all dates on the Live Nation produced tour.  

The tour will make a stop at Cricket Wireless Pavilion on Thursday, July
22nd.  Very Special guest Ke$ha will open the 7:30pm show.

Tickets On Sale This Saturday, April 17th at  10am at  
www.livenation.com <http://www.livenation.com/> , or to charge by phone
call 1-800-745-300.  Reserved tickets will be priced at $95.75, $65.75
and $35.75 with a limited number of Golden Circle tickets also
available.  Lawn tickets will be priced at $25.75.   All dates, acts,
and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are
subject to applicable taxes, and service and handling charges

“We’ve never done a tour to this capacity.  The production is
unbelievable and the costumes, we just took it to a whole new level.
Visually and sonically it’s going to be a big step up from the last
time. We just keep growing and this time it is a massive production that
I cannot wait for,” said Rihanna in a recent interview with AOL.

With a total of over 121 million in audience nationwide – up over  25
million this week alone – “Rude Boy” continues its chart onslaught as
the #1 Hot 100 Airplay song and the #1 Greatest Gainer/Airplay on the
chart for the 7th week in a row.

Rihanna’s Last Girl On Earth
<http://www.livenation.com/artist/rihanna-tickets>  tour will make 25
stops, at mix of top amphitheaters and arenas throughout North America
this summer, beginning on July 2nd at the White River Amphitheater in
Seattle through August 25th at the United Center in Chicago, with more
dates to be announced soon. A dynamic performer renowned for her
cutting-edge stage looks and designs, Rihanna’s Last Girl on Earth
promises to be a visual spectacle on a scale unlike anything she has
accomplished in her already legendary career.

Fan club members will have access to pre sale tickets beginning
Wednesday, April 7th at 10:00 am local time.  Citi(r) cardmembers will
also have access to presale tickets beginning Wednesday, April 7th at 12
noon local time through Citi’s Private Pass(r) Program. For complete
presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com
<http://www.citiprivatepass.com/> .

Released in November 2009, Rihanna’s fourth studio album Rated R debuted
atop the Billboard R&B Albums chart at #1and was the biggest first-week
Soundscan tally of Rihanna’s career. The eagerly anticipated album
arrived to a chorus of acclaim from critics and fans alike. Rolling
Stone raved “one of the best pop records of the year.” The Chicago Sun
Times called it “by far the best, most layered and most heartfelt effort
of the 21-year-old artist’s career.” In its year-end recap,
Entertainment Weekly named Rated R the Pop Album of the Year.

Rated R is the long-awaited follow-up to the RIAA double-platinum Good
Girl Gone Bad (May 2007), which contained the non-stop string of hit
singles that began with the MTV VMA and Grammy Award-winning global #1
hit “Umbrella” (featuring Jay-Z), then “Shut Up and Drive,” “Hate That I
Love You” (featur-ing Ne-Yo), and “Don’t Stop the Music.”  Good Girl
Gone Bad spent 98 total weeks on the Soundscan chart, earned cumulative
global sales of more than 36-times platinum in at least 18 territories
around the world.  The CD+DVD package Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded
(January 2009) continued the string of hits with the #1 “Take A Bow,”
the #1 “Disturbia” and Top 20 “Rehab.”

Good Girl Gone Bad was the third album release in less than two years by
Barbados native Rihanna, who turned 22 on February 20th.  It followed-up
2006′s RIAA platinum A Girl Like Me, which contained the back-to-back
hits, “S.O.S.” and “Unfaithful”; and her RIAA gold debut from 2005,
Music Of the Sun, featuring the world-wide smash, “Pon De Replay.”  

Stay tuned for more details on Rihanna’s Last Girl On Earth tour.  For
additional ticket and tour information, visit RihannaNow.com
<http://www.rihannanow.com/>  and LiveNation.com
<http://www.livenation.com/artist/rihanna-tickets> .  Additional dates
to be announced soon.

Below is a link to footage from Rihanna’s tour rehearsals.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoURNZLTkTM

Artists of the Month: Cavo

Cavo will be opening in support of Daughtry April 28th at Jobing.com Arena.

Get your tickets here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1E00442CD64A9CDB?brand=jobingarena

Cavo, after nearly nine years together, had a good shot of getting where they are today: releasing their major-label debut album, Bright Nights * Dark Days, last summer on Reprise Records. With songs like the propulsive first single “Champagne,” the uplifting power ballad “Let It Go,” the blistering “Cry Wolf,” and the strutting “Blame,” the album is a passionately played collection of hard-hitting rock and roll with keenly felt lyrics about life, love, and the acceptance that comes with realizing that all we can do is to try and be the best person we can for those we love. “I think it’s amazing when a songwriter can open up a piece of themselves and let the whole world see it,” says Walker, who writes Cavo’s lyrics. “It may not be beautiful, in fact it may be really ugly, but great art comes from an honest place. It has to. And that’s what we try to do with our songs.”
 
The current line-up of Cavo — which also features Chris Hobbs on guitar, Chad La Roy on drums, and Brian Smith on bass — solidified after Smith came on board in 2006, but the original nucleus formed when Walker hooked up with Hobbs and La Roy in March 2001. Walker had wanted to front a rock band ever since seeing Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder onstage for the first time. “I had sung since I was kid,” Walker says, “but seeing him made me realize that writing songs and singing with a rock band were what I had to do. And I knew immediately that Chris and Chad were doing something special. We all shared the same passion for it. Chris is someone I consider to be a musical soul-mate; he’s very artistic and has a great sense of how the end result should sound. Chad is just pure energy; his playing is like a shot of adrenaline. They’re the kind of guys who, even if they weren’t signed to a label, would still be playing music together, and that’s how I felt.”
 
That commitment to music got Walker, Hobbs, and La Roy through some rough times ahead — the group endured numerous production setbacks, a former member’s alcohol addiction, and the end of another member’s marriage, all of which is chronicled on Cavo’s aptly titled independent album, The Painful Art of Letting Go, which they self-released in 2006. “We’ve had some major losses and some major gains throughout this process, but it has only made us stronger as a band and as friends,” La Roy says. After Letting Go was released in September, Cavo were ready to hit the road. The only problem was they didn’t have a bass player. Walker knew Brian Smith from the St. Louis scene and asked him to join. “Brian coming onboard literally changed everything for Cavo,” Walker says. “When he started playing with us, everything was different. It was more intense. His technical ability gave Chris the opportunity to start indulging his creative side, which in turn shaped the sound on our new album.”
 
In January 2007, Cavo wrote their first song as a four-piece — the ringing, tribal-sounding “Useless,” which Walker feels encapsulates everything about their musical direction. “It was clearly different than anything on our previous album. It was more aggressive, probably because of Brian. He plays parts, not just notes, and that made the music more aggressive. So I had to step up my game and become a more aggressive singer to match where the music was headed.” Soon they had two more songs, “Champagne” and “Cry Wolf,” both of which made it onto an EP that got the attention of the program director at St. Louis radio station The Point, which put “Champagne” into rotation. A few live showcases in the summer of 2008 later and Cavo signed on the dotted line with Reprise Records last October. “Signing with Reprise meant everything to us,” La Roy says. “It’s a chance for the world to hear and feel our music, and an opportunity that many people can only dream about.”
 
Record producer David Bendeth, who has worked with Breaking Benjamin, Paramore, and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, among others, caught Cavo at their showcase in New York City and told the band he wanted to help them make a great album that could stand the test of time. “He basically said that he wanted to record with us whether we signed a deal or not, and his passion for our music was really inspiring,” Walker says. “In the studio, he spent the time to make the songs the best they could be. He cared about the final product and it shows.”  Adds La Roy: “I had a feeling this record was going to be something unbelievable and epic, but when I heard the final tracks, I was speechless.”
 
In addition to Cavo’s own songs, Bright Nights * Dark Days features an additional track, the powerfully emotional “Ghost,” co-written by Nixons singer/guitarist Zac Maloy, who has also worked with David Cook and Chris Daughtry, and the Norwegian songwriting team Espionage. “I was a Nixons fanatic,” Walker says, “so I had to get my geek moment out of the way when I first met Zac.”
 
“One of great things about being signed to a major label is that it allows our band so many amazing opportunities,” Walker continues. “It was also validation — like somebody telling you that what you’ve been focusing on your whole life wasn’t a waste of time. People would ask me, ‘How long are you going to keep playing in this band; when are you going to quit this hobby?’ Being in a band isn’t a hobby, it’s really hard work. But when it works, and you’re out there playing music with your best friends, it’s the best job ever.”

Learn more: http://www.cavomusic.com/

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