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Paul Stanley of KISS joined Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast to talk about a wide range of topics. Why the band sold its music royalties and name & likeness to Swedish company Pophouse. How the KISS legacy will live in the coming years. His love of soul music and his band, Paul Stanley's Soul Station. His feelings about KISS's final tour. His painting career. And his work with About Face, a Canadian non-profit for people with facial differences.
Links
Paul Stanley home page
About Face
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Violinist Lindsey Stirling made a name for herself in 2010 by reaching the quarter finals of America's Got Talent with a unique mixture of classical music, pop sensibilities and dancing. Within a few years, she was on a path to gold and platinum albums, world tours and an unexpected success in holiday music. Her latest album, Duality, sees Stirling pushing her sound further into rock and EDM. Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast talks to Stirling about her music, her love of EDM, her physically demanding concerts and a non-profit she founded in 2020, The Upside Fund, that has erased $15 million of medical debt to date.
Links
Lindsey Stirling home page
Lindsey Stirling tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Brandon Boyd and Mike Einziger of the rock band Incubus are currently on the band's Morning View + The Hits tour, a 10-city arena tour during which they'll play their 2001 album Morning View in its entirety — plus some more songs ("the hits"). And as many other bands have done lately, Incubus released a re-recorded version of the album, Morning View XXXIII, which features such beloved songs as "Wish You Were Here" and "Nice to Know You," in May. Boyd and Einziger talk to Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast about playing the album front to back in concert, going into the studio to record new material, why they love playing in South America, what they do to stay healthy while on the road, and much more.
Links
Incubus home page
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Perry Farrell is one of a kind. He co-founded Jane's Addiction and left a lasting mark on rock music with the original band members' initial run of three albums: Jane's Addiction (1987), Nothing's Shocking (1988) and Ritual de lo Habitual (1990), the latter getting a boost into the mainstream from the song "Been Caught Stealing." Farrell also co-founded the traveling music festival Lollapalooza for the band's farewell tour in 1991 but continued the tour annually until 1998 (it brought back to life in Chicago in 2005 and has since expanded to Chile, Brazil and Argentina). Farrell and the three original members of Jane's Addiction are back with a new single, "Imminent Redemption" (released June 24) and a co-headlining tour of the U.S. with Love and Rockets. That kicks on August 9 in Las Vegas and runs to Sept. 26 in Indianapolis.
Links
Jane's Addition home page
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Melissa Etheridge had wanted to perform at a prison for decades. In fact, she grew up within a stone's throw of a penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, where Johnny Cash performed in 1970. "Prisons must be a place of great entertainment," she thought to herself, "and someday I'm gonna grow up and play a prison." Decades later, after a string of platinum albums and multiple Grammy Awards, Etheridge fulfilled her wish. The concert is memorialized in a moving two-part docuseries, "I'm Not Broken" (available not on Paramount+) and a new live album, I'm Not Broken: Live at Topeka Correctional Facility. Melissa talks to Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast about how the show and series came together, her new song "A Burning Women," and why it was unlike any other concert she's ever performed.
Links
Melissa Etheridge's home page
Melissa Etheridge's tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Mat Kearney's self-titled, 8th studio album (released May 15 through Middle Kid Records) adds a dash of the early '80s to his highly crafted songwriting. Mat was enamored by the band The Brook & The Bluff, he tells Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast, and had them back him in the studio to capture the exact sound he wanted (he also went for the sound of one of his favorite albums, Paul Simon's Graceland). Mat also talks about the contentedness he feels at this stage in his career, why he loves playing mid-sized theaters, his creative process in the studio, his popularity on the West Coast, the joy of touring and performing as a trio, the rising cost of renting a tour bus, and that one time he played Camila Cabello's "Havana" at a show in Oakland.
Links
Mat Kearney's home page
Mat Kearney's tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Pat Monahan co-founded the rock band Train and gave his soaring voice to such hits songs as "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)," "Meet Virginia," "Calling All Angels" and "Hey Soul Sister." Pat joins Billboard's Behind the Setlist to talk about building a setlist for the band's current tour with REO Speedwagon, his wine businesses (Save Me, San Francisco Wine Co.), his talented bandmates, how he takes care of his voice while constantly touring and performing, some differences between audiences in Europe and the United States, and what it's like to perform on a cruise ship surrounded by fans, comedians and other bands.
Links
Train's home page
Train tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Adam Lazzara is the frontman for Taking Back Sunday, whose single "S'old" from the album 152 spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart in late 2023 and early 2024. Taking Back Sunday broke out of Long Island, New York to put four albums inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart: Where You Want to Be, Louder Now, New Again and Happiness Is. 152 is the band's 8th studio album and 1st for Fantasy Records.
Links
Taking Back Sunday homepage
Taking Back Sunday tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Rising country star Chayce Beckham wrote and performed the song “23,” which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart in April. He also performed the song on season 19 of "American Idol" and joined such luminaries as Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson and Scotty McCreery by winning the talent competition. To support his album Bad For Me (released in April 2024 through Wheelhouse Records), Chayce is hitting the road this summer and fall with a slew solo dates as well as shows with Luke Bryan's Mind of a Country Boy Tour and Parker McCollum's Burn It Down Tour.
Links:
Chayce Beckham home page
Chayce Beckham tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Birdy (Jasmine van den Bogaerde) broke into the mainstream in 2011 when, at the age of 14, she released a cover of Bon Iver's "Skinny Love," a song that remains a staple in her live performances. "Skinny Love" was a hit in the U.K. and Australia and helped her debut, self-titled album top album charts in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium. Birdy's latest album, Portraits, is a blast of '80s orchestral synth-pop that recalls the best of the Eurythmics and Kate Bush. She will perform at festivals throughout Europe in the summer of 2024.
Links
Birdy's home page
Birdy @ Setlist.fm
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
Behind the Setlist archive
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K.Flay (Kristine Flaherty) released her latest album, MONO, on Sept. 15, 2023 on Giant Music. Known for songs like "High Enough" and "Blood in the Cut," K.Flay says she recorded MONO like it was a debut album. "I just didn't have a ton of judgment," she says. "In a good way. I wasn't self censoring, or self judging, going, 'Man, that's a stupid idea.'" The result is "a no-holds-barred futuristic rock record" (When the Horn Blows) with "a fresh and rare auditory experience" (Spill Magazine).
On Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast, K.Flay talks about her live shows, how she connects with her audience, the value of collaborating with other musicians, her hesitancy to use social media, how artists deal with mental health issues and what she does when she comes off stage.
Links
K Flay home page
K Flay tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney join Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast (Glenn Peoples from Billboard and Jay Gilbert from Label Logic) to talk about the upcoming album, Ohio Players, out April 5. The debut single, "Beautiful People (Stay High)" and other tracks were inspired by the rock, R&B and funk 7" singles they played during their Black Keys Record Hang gigs at clubs around the U.S., Europe and Mexico City in 2023. "The way that a lot of those classic 45s are, there's there's no wasted space," says Carney. The guys talk about writing the song "On the Game" with Noel Gallagher of Oasis fame at a studio in London and, separately, the advice his brother Liam Gallagher gave them about how to build a setlist for a festival gig.
The Black Keys currently have some European dates set for April and May and one U.S. date, the NASCAR Chicago Street Race Weekend two-day festival on July 6.
Links
The Black Keys home page
The Black Keys tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Neil Finn of Crowded House joined Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast to chat about the band's upcoming album, Gravity Stairs, out May 31 through BMG, and the first single, "Oh Hi" (watch the amazing video at YouTube here). Neil shares some insights into the songwriting craft, the band's live performances and Crowded House's long history.
Crowded House was formed in 1985 after the break-up of Neil's previous band Split Enz ("I Got You," "Message to My Girl"). The group's 1986 debut album was a huge success in the U.S., the group's native Australia and New Zealand and elsewhere. "Don't Dream It's Over" reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 singles chart in 1987, and "Something So Strong" reached No. 7 the same year. The band went on to continued success with the albums Temple of Low Men in 1988, Woodface in 1991 and Together Alone in 1993. After a pause, Crowded House returned with Time on Earth in 2007 and Intriguer in 2010. After yet another pause, they returned with Dreamers are Waiting in 2021.
Links
Crowded House home page
Crowded House tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Success — and longevity — isn't lost on Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson. "It just seems unreal to me that I've been in a band called Barenaked Ladies for three and a half decades," Robertson tells Behind the Setlist. Best known for their 1998 hit "One Week" and the theme song to the comedy TV show "Big Bang Theory," Barenaked Ladies is still going strong. They released their 14th studio album, In Flight, in September 2023 and are preparing for a U.K. tour in the spring before returning to more shows in the States. The band's joyous live shows have earned them a huge touring business at arenas and amphitheaters through the U.S. and Canada, their home country. Robertson says the band chose build a career in North America rather than try to break in Europe, Latin America and Asia. "We'll take any gig," says Robertson, "and we will deliver."
Links:
Barenaked Ladies homepage
Barenaked Ladies tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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No other band sounds like Gogol Bordello. Frontman Eugene Hütz has crafted a caustic blend of styles that meld his affection for punk with the Romani music from his native Ukraine. Gogol Bordello released its ninth studio album, Solidartine, in 2022. This year, Hütz launched a new label, Casa Gogol Records, with a collaboration with New Order's Bernard Sumner, "Solidarity," and put out a track to benefit Ukraine, "United Strike Back," featuring Tre Cool (Green Day), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Joe Lally (Fugazi) and Roger Miret (Agnostic Front).
Links
Gogol Bordello home page
Gogol Bordello tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Andy Summers is best known as the guitarist in The Police. But in certain circles, he's also known as an accomplished photographer with numerous books and his own camera, the Leica M Monochrome "Signature" by Andy Summers. Andy is currently mixing his two passions with A Cracked Lens + Missing String, a solo tour in the U.S. and Canada where he performs in front of a backdrop of his photographs. His latest book, A Series of Glances, was released by ACC Art Books on April 12, 2023. He joins Behind the Setlist to talk about his musical influences, his travels around the world and performing with The Police, as a solo artist and as a member of Call the Police, a Police cover band that features Rodrigo Santos (Red Baron /Barão Vermelho)on bass and vocals and Joao Barone (Os Paralamas do Sucesso) on drums.
Links
Andy Summers home page
Andy Summers tour dates
Andy Summers tour history at Setlist.fm
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Veteran singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield joins Behind the Setlist to talk about her upcoming album, her concert setlists and her long career in music. Juliana will release her 20th solo studio album on Nov. 17 — Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO, a collection of 10 covers of songs by Electric Light Orchestra. It's Juliana's third album of covers songs after Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John in 2018 and Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police in 2019. Her career began with the Blake Babies while she was a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston. After a brief stint playing bass in The Lemonheads, her breakthrough came in 1994 when her song "Spin the Bottle," released by The Juliana Hatfield Three, appeared on the soundtrack to the Winona Ryder-Ethan Hawke film Reality Bites. More recently, she paired with Paul Westerberg, known best as the frontman of The Replacements, to form a duo called The I Don't Cares and release an album, Wild Stab, in 2016.
Links
Juliana Hatfield home page
Juliana Hatfield tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Grace Potter's '70s influences come through on her new album, Mother Road (out August 18 through Fantasy Records). The Vermont native built her name as the leader of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, sang on a hit song ("You and Tequilla" in 2010) with country star Kenny Chesney and had a song ("Something That I Want") on the 2010 Disney movie Tangled. Now with countless tour dates and five solo albums under her belt, Grace joins Behind the Setlist to talk about the meaning behind Mother Road, the new material, how she chooses songs to play in her sets, her '70s and '90s musical influences, her music festival and advice a record executive gave to a young Grace Potter.
In this episode:
4:50 The meaning behind Mother Road
5:30 What Grace did during the lockdown
9:00 Playing Red Rocks Amphitheatre
10:30 How the setlist changes night to night
13:00 Considering photographers when choosing the first three songs
15:00 Her parents record collection and making mix tapes
19:00 Covering Lee Hazlewood’s “Some Velvet Morning” with Lukas Nelson
22:50 Playing “Something That I Want” at Red Rocks
25:30 Playing the (at the time) unreleased “Rose Colored Rearview”
29:40 Singing “You and Tequilla” with Kenny Chesney
31:00 The status of the Grand Point North Festival?
34:00 A young Grace Potter getting advice from a record executive
40:00 Picking the songs to close a set
Links:
Grace Potter home page
Grace Potter tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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Rock-folk-blues musician Peter Case began busking in San Francisco in the '70s, co-founded the Nerves ("Hanging on the Telephone") in 1974 and the Plimsouls ("A Million Miles Away") in 1978 and has been a solo artist since 1986. Since three albums for Geffen Records, Case has recorded for indie labels such as Vanguard, Yep Roc and, most recently, Sunset Blvd. Records. On his 16th studio album, Doctor Moan (released March 31, 2023), Case trades his acoustic guitar for a piano and Hammond B3 organ with often stunning results. His life and career were examined in the excellent 2023 documentary Peter Case: A Million Miles Away.
Links:
Peter Case home page
Peter Case tour dates
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
Billboard podcast page
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Les Claypool is the co-founder of the rock band Primus and is currently touring with the return of Colonel Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, one of his many bands and collaborations that showcase his unique skills on the bass and a penchant for psychedelic, absurdist and oddball music.
The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade tours through July 15 and breaks until a gig at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA, on Oct. 11. That tour continues through Nashville, TN, on Oct. 31.
Inside the episode:
3:10 The origins of Colonel Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
6:00 Les talks about his music influences: Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, John Paul Jones, Larry Graham and Louis Clark, among others.
8:20 The origins of his music’s humor and absurdist qualities came from his love of British comedy. Where did the psychedelic element of Primus and other Claypool come from?
11:18 Les talks about his equipment, first the Rickenbacker 4001, then a Carl Thompson, and later designing his own instruments.
13:52 Why do so many musicians want to collaborate with Les?
15:45 The current set lists includes Pink Floyd’s Animals but gives the band room to play other material and improvise.
19:00 They want to do a longer set in the fall, without an opening band, to have more room to play songs other than the songs from Animals.
20:25 Who goes to the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade shows?
22:26 Les talks about his winery, Claypool Cellars.
Links:
Les Claypool home page
Les Claypool tour dates
Claypool Cellars
Jay Gilbert @ Label Logic
Glenn Peoples @ Billboard
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