As previously reported it has been confirmed that the band will be playing The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on 9.14.09, and they will be playing on Ellen on 9.16.09. Also Dave will be interviewed on Tavis Smiley on 9.14.09. Lastly, The October 3rd season premiere of “Austin City Limits” will feature Dave Matthews Band.
As reported by Antsmarching.org “The Dave Matthews Band is set to perform on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. A source familiar with the booking schedule for the show says that DMB is booked to perform September 14.” There is no announcement yet from The official site.
Many speculate that You and Me will be played but only the band will know that for sure. Lets Keep our eyes peeled.
The band is hooking everyone up that participates with a free live album, with SO MUCH TO SAVE 2009 downloadable album. SO MUCH TO SAVE 2009 features live tracks from Dave Matthews Band as well as supporting acts on tour including Avett Brothers, Gomez, Hill Country Revue, Switchfoot, Umphrey’s McGee, and Yonder Mountain String Band. Here’s how to get it, “Look for the SO MUCH TO SAVE volunteers and recycling bins at concerts in the venue parking lots, and help keep the lots clean. Recycle at one of the SO MUCH TO SAVE stations or with a volunteer and receive a card with a unique code. Use the code to download the SO MUCH TO SAVE 2009 album—for free! If you have already recycled at a show or are not able to make it to a show – you can still download the album by pledging to recycle and save energy. Visit the SO MUCH TO SAVE website for complete information on DMB’s SO MUCH TO SAVE Bama Green Project and to download the free album!
SO MUCH TO SAVE volunteers are needed at the shows – email volunteer@musicmatters.net and include your name and the show date(s)!”
The music video for the first single, Funny The Way It Is, off the band’s latest release has hit VH1, and will be featured on the weekly Top 20 Countdown. If you haven’t seen the incredibly strange, almost Sledgehammer-like video, the link is after the break.
In our continuing effort to provide you, our visitors, with the most and the most in depth information possible, we have added a Singles page to our Discography pages, and it can be accessed right now! It is available under the Discography menu, or you can go straight there by following this link: http://www.dmbfansite.org/discography_singles.php
Enjoy the addition, and expect a Videos section to come soon!
On a side note, Happy Earth Day!
UPDATE: The videography page has been added! We now have a full discography of everything that the band has publicly released. The videography page can be accesed from the menu above, or through it’s link: http://www.dmbfansite.org/discography_videography.php
RCA Records have released a press release regarding the free download of Funny The Way It Is, which went online earlier today. The press release also goes into detail about the tracklist of the album, the artwork, and what the different packages of the pre-order will contain.
Two previously unknown songs can be confirmed, Seven and My Baby Blue. Some song titles have changed; You N Me Stripped Down is now You and Me, Cockadile is Alligator Pie (Cockadile), Skwirm is Squirm, and the intro has a name, Grux. This brings the total to 13 songs, and the positions are also confirmed.
In regards to the pre-order, “it will be available in three versions: standard, deluxe (with scenes from Big Whiskey, a documentary on the making of the album) and super-deluxe, which includes bonus tracks, a photo book and lithographs in addition to the CD and documentary.” Also, all fans who pre-order the CD off the website will receive Live Trax 15, Alpine Valley Music Theatre, for free.
Great news today, as the Dave Matthews Band have released their first single off the new album ‘Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King’, Funny The Way It Is. Courtesy of the band, and with Dave breaking the news through twitter, the single can be downloaded for free at the following site: http://rcarecords.com/dmbfreedownload/
At the same site, one can pre-order the new album. There are two options; a CD/DVD set, or just a CD/Digital Download.
UPDATE: A week is up, and thus the free download period is over. However, you’ll be able to download the song on iTunes and other online music retailers.
The Dave Matthews Band released the cover art for their upcoming album, ‘Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King’ on their website as a puzzle. On the site were the 8 images that were released over a couple days, that were scrambled. Once you unscramble them to get the border, the missing piece was filled in, completing the puzzle and revealing the complete cover art.
The cover art features a GrooGrux King float, being the late LeRoi Moore, in what appears to be a New Orleans funeral parade. It is filled with symbolism, most of which we have yet to discover.
The cover art is drawn by the band’s very own Dave Matthews.
The discography has been updated. Full sized image after the break. Enjoy!
Warning: The image is a fairly large file, so old computers beware.
Billboard has put up an article about the Band, titled ‘Dave Matthews Band’s ‘Big Whiskey’ Is A Toast To LeRoi Moore‘. In it, the impact the new album would produce on the tour was discussed.
The band plans to make new material part of the set list and, as is typical, the “GrooGrux” songs will find a new life onstage. “We’ve played them all but we’re going to have some extensive rehearsals before the tour starts – get them all oiled, lubed up and ready to go,” Beauford says. “By the time we step onstage for the first show these tunes are going to be ready. By the middle of the summer, it’s going to be a whole other story then, because most of the new tunes that we do always develop and grow into something fresh and new by the middle of the tour.”
The article then links to a fairly extensive interview with Dave Matthews, where they talk about the nature of the album, how LeRoi is incorporated, Dave’s songwriting, and many songs, including Dive In, Space Man, which we find out is a love song, and Cockadile, a new addition to the confirmed songs list.
The band will be featured on the cover of Issue 15.
Lastly, an album preview video was created, where you can hear clips of Shake Me Like a Monkey, what appears to be a 12-string Sister, and Funny The Way It Is, the single slated to be released on April 14. The video can be viewed after the break.
A lot of info has come in on the upcoming Dave Matthews Band album, set to be released on June 2nd. The title is now known; Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King. The “GrooGrux King” mentioned in the title is most likely a reference to the late LeRoi Moore, as this was his nickname within the band. No cover art for the album has surfaced yet, but song names have come up. Confirmed song names include: Lying In The Hands of God, Why I Am, Funny The Way It Is, Shake Me Like A Monkey, Dive In, Time Bomb, Squirm, and Spaceman. From the look of this info, it appears that most, if not all songs, will be completely new and unheard. However, there have been two “leaks” of what the songs sound like; the first, widely believed to be Why I Am was shot in the studio and then released online. The video is found on Antsmarching, and can be found here: http://www.antsmarching.org/video/studio2009-video1.php. The second is an official leak, and is believed to be the first song of the album. That video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKOUUFpSeFQ. The video features 15 lucky Canadian fans that are invited to the studio for a listen, and that’s exactly what they get. The song starts about halfway through the video.
However great the leaks are, all fans are anxious to hear some full songs. On April 14th, that’s exactly what they’ll get, as the first single, Funny The Way It Is, is slated to be released. This coincides with the first show of the spring tour, to take place the same day at MSG.