k.d. lang & the Siss Boom Bang Appear on NYC's WFUV, Launch North American Tour
k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang kick off their North American spring and summer tour at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York, tonight for the 2011 Rochester Jazz Festival. The tour will feature songs from lang and the band's recent Nonesuch release, Sing it Loud, as well as favorites from throughout lang's career. Supporting them at various tour stops along the way are The Belle Brigade, Justin Jones, The Secret Sisters, and Teddy Thompson. For the complete list of currently scheduled tour dates, see below; for further details and ticket links visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
To pick up a copy of Sing it Loud, head to the Nonesuch Store, where orders include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album at checkout.
Before the launch of the tour lang sat down for an interview withSpinner, which calls her "one of the modern era's most classic crooners" and describes Sing it Loud as "an album that easily stands up amongst her best." Watch the interview at spinner.com.
k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang stopped by the studios of New York's listener-supported radio station WFUV 90.7 FM to talk with the station's music director Rita Houston and play songs from Sing it Loud. You can listen to the session on the radio and streaming live online at wfuv.org tonight at 9 PM ET. Check out a black-and-white video of their acoustic performance of the album track "Sugar Buzz" at WFUV here:
"k.d. lang's voice hovers in the twilight somewhere between heartache and desire," writes the paper's Frank De Blasé. He cites her voice's "elastic range, creamy tone, power, and seduction," calling her "one of the finest crooners of this generation."
Writing about Sing it Loud, De Blasé says: "Though the material is fresh and sticks its fingers in different pies, it's still textbook k.d. lang ... Simply put, the new album is a rock record."
FYI: The Cascade Theatre is in Redding, CA, not in Rochester NY.
Posted by nonesuch | June 18, 2011 10:40 PM
Thanks, Cat. Sorry about that. We were so excited about last week's tour opener in Rochester, we put the city down twice. We've now corrected it above.
k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang kick off their North American spring and summer tour at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York, tonight for the 2011 Rochester Jazz Festival. The tour will feature songs from lang and the band's recent Nonesuch release, Sing it Loud, as well as favorites from throughout lang's career. Supporting them at various tour stops along the way are The Belle Brigade, Justin Jones, The Secret Sisters, and Teddy Thompson. For the complete list of currently scheduled tour dates, see below; for further details and ticket links visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
FYI: The Cascade Theatre is in Redding, CA, not in Rochester NY.
Thanks, Cat. Sorry about that. We were so excited about last week's tour opener in Rochester, we put the city down twice. We've now corrected it above.
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