Easy Star All Stars have released an exclusive free listening album premier – listen to it here. Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band was released on April 14, premiering at #1 on the Billboard reggae charts, outselling Jah Cure’s The Universal Cure and Mavado’s Mr Brooks… A Better Tomorrow. It is the #2 downloaded iTunes album in the US and UK, falling only behind Bob Marley’s Legend remastered edition. It is also on it’s way to being yet another crossover hit for the Easy Star crew, premiering at #117 on Billboard’s Top 200 list, which hasn’t happened since Stephen Marley’s Mind Control in 2007, which went on to win a Grammy.
Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band is all over these other Billboard charts:
#2 on the Top Heatseekers Chart
#9 on the Top Independent Label Releases Chart
#26 on the Top Current Digital Chart
#29 on the Top Internet Chart
#30 on the Top Overall Digital Chart
Dub & Reggae has a full review of Easy Star All Stars‘ Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band here.
Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band Track Listing
- With A Little Help From My Friends (feat. Junior Jazz)
- Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (feat. Frankie Paul)
- Getting Better (feat. The Mighty Diamonds)
- Fixing A Hole (Extended Dub Mix) (feat. Max Romeo)
- She’s Leaving Home (feat. Kirsty Rock)
- Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite! (feat. Ranking Roger)
- Within You Without You (feat. Matisyahu)
- When I’m Sixty-Four (Extended Dub Mix) (feat. Sugar Minott)
- Lovely Rita (feat. Bunny Rugs & U Roy)
- Good Morning Good Morning (feat. Steel Pulse)
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise
- A Day In The Life (feat. Michael Rose & Menny More)
You can also listen to the full album on imeem.
Easy Star All Stars Tour Schedule
(Also available on their website.)
| 4/29/2009 | Manchester Academy | Manchester, UK 0161 275 2 | |
| 5/1/2009 | Bergenfest 2009 | Bergen, Norway +47 552150 | Festival running since 1994 going from April 28 to May 2 this year. Other performers on May 1 inclu |
| 5/2/2009 | Festival Labadoux | Ingelmunster, Belgium 89898 | |
| 5/5/2009 | BEVRIJDINGS FESTIVAL | Stadspark / Groningen, Netherlands 8696986 | Free |
| 5/5/2009 | Liberation Festival | Brabant Vlijmenseweg 2’s Hertogenbosch / ?, Holland 00000 | free festival |
| 5/6/2009 | Birmingham 02 Academy 2 | Birmingham, United Kingdom 00000 | 0844 477 2000 www.kililive.com |
| 5/7/2009 | Nottingham Rescue Rooms | Nottingham, United Kingdom 00000 | 0871 3100 000 www.alt-tickets.co.uk |
| 5/8/2009 | The Arches Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom 00000 | 0141 565 1000 www.thearches.co.uk |
| 5/9/2009 | The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Belfast | Belfast, United Kingdom 00000 | www.cqaf.com |
| 5/14/2009 | Higher Ground | 1214 Williston Rd. / South Burlington, VT 05403 | (802) 652-0777; all ages; $13 adv/ $15 DOS |
| 5/15/2009 | Middle East | 472 Massachusetts Avenue / Cambridge, MA 02139 | (617) 864-3278; 18+; $17 adv/ $20 DOS |
| 5/16/2009 | The Asylum | 121 Center Street / Portland, ME 04101 | (207) 772-8274; ages 21+; $15 adv/DOS |
| 5/20/2009 | World Cafe Live | 3025 Walnut Street / Philadelphia, PA 19104 | (215) 222-1400; all ages; $15 adv/DOS |
| 5/21/2009 | B.B. King Blues Club & Grill | 237 W. 42nd St. / New York, NY 10036 | (212) 997-4144; all ages; $16 adv $18 DOS |
| 5/22/2009 | Stephen Talhouse | 161 Main Street / Amagansett, NY 11930 | (631) 267-3117; $35 for all |
| 5/24/2009 | Summer Camp Three Sisters Park | Chillicothe, IL 00000 | 3 day pass for $140; daytime festival show and late night set |
| 6/3/2009 | Ram’s Head Live | 20 Market Place / Baltimore, MD 21202 | (410) 244-1131; all ages; $15 adv/DOS |
| 6/4/2009 | 9:30 Club | 815 “V” Street NW / Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20001 | (202) 265-0930; all ages; $15 adv/DOS; time starts tba |
| 6/5/2009 | IS Venue | 709 W. Main Street / Charlottesville, VA 22903 | W. Trumystic |
| 6/6/2009 | he Soap Box Laundro-Lounge | 255 North Front Street / Willmington, NC 28401 | w. Trumystic 21+ $13 adv |
| 6/7/2009 | Cat’s Cradle | 300 East Main Street / Carrboro, NC 27510 | all ages w. trumystic $14 adv |
| 6/15/2009 | Belly Up Tavern | 143 s. cedros ave / Solana Beach, CA 92075 | $15 adv w. Blue King Brown |
| 6/16/2009 | The Key Club | 9041 Sunset Blvd. / West Holywood, CA 90069 | w. Blue king Brown 17 adv |
| 6/17/2009 | Downtown Brewing Co | 1119 Garden Street / San Luis Obispo, CA 934101 | W. Blue king Brown $18 adv |
| 6/18/2009 | Fishlips | 1517 18th street / Bakersfeild, Ca 93301 | W. Blue king Brown $16 adv 21+ |
| 6/19/2009 | The Catalyst | 1011 Pacific Ave / Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | W. Blue king Brown $14 adv 16+ |
| 6/20/2009 | 8:00 pm | Slims | San Francisco, CA |
About Easy Star All Stars
The Easy Star All-Stars are a collective family of some of the finest reggae musicians in the New York area. The band features a rotating cast drawn from a talented pool of players, meaning that every show has its own nuances and its own life. The masterminds behind the All-Stars are Easy Star musical director Michael Goldwasser (a.k.a. Michael G), frequent production partner Victor Axelrod (a.k.a. Ticklah), and Easy Star execs Eric Smith and Lem Oppenheimer. These four were the team behind the album Dub Side of the Moon (2003), the complete reggae re-vision of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and one of the most successful reggae albums of the 21st century. It has spent over 5 years on Billboard’s Top Reggae Chart and Reggae Catalog Chart.
In 2006, Easy Star All Stars followed up with Radiodread, a complete reggae re-vision of Radiohead’s OK Computer. That record has also been a huge success, sparking great reviews, and even garnering praise from Radiohead. The band’s vocalists and instrumentalists have toured and recorded with Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Gil Scott-Heron, The Toasters, The Meditations, and many others.
Read more about Easy Star All-Stars here.
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