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.
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.
Starring Sissy Spacek, Rebecca Romjin, Dave Matthews & Troy Garity, Lake City tells the story of a young man in trouble with dealers running back to the most unlikely of places; where he grew up. The film has already opened and screened in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin, and its final opening will be in Seattle on December 12. The official site can be accessed by clicking the banner below.
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Hundreds of people have already become “followers” of Dave on the social site known as Twitters, where users can post updates that can be read by almost anyone. This isn’t the first instance of a band member has done something like this; Stefan has a Myspace and has been writing blogs and responding to fans for quite some time now.
Dave Matthews, along with numerous other artists such as Bela Fleck, Jimmy Buffet, and Bob Seger, are in Little Feat’s new album, entitled “Join the Band.” Dave Matthews sings in the first song along with Sonny Landreth; the song is named “Fat Man in The Bathtub.” The album can be previewed over at 429 Records, and will be released on August 26th. The discography page has also been updated.
From Weekly Dave Speak: “Dave Matthews is in Los Angeles this week to take part in Adam Sandler’s newest film, “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.” Zohan is a film about a Mossad agent who fakes his death so he can move to New York and become hair stylist… In Zohan, Dave will be playing a “red neck terrorist” and will be on set for three days of shooting. The film is being directed by Dennis Dugan and will shoot through the month of December.”
According to The Frederick News-Post, Dave Matthews bought a few horses from Frederick Tour & Carriage Co., “who has a farm in Charlottesville, VA”. I quote, “Wilms’ carriages were, for years, part of the ambiance of downtown Frederick. Besides weddings and other special events, visitors could take a tour of downtown in a carriage. The carriages were used for holidays and festivals throughout the year“.