For the second time in less than a month, a whopping nine of the top 10 albums on Billboard’s Top Album Sales are debuts, as Nos. 1-9 on the chart dated May 29 are all new entries.
TAMPA â Ben Folds will bring his âIn Actual Person Live for Real Tourâ to the Tampa Bay area for a performance Thursday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m., in the Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 5223 Orient Road, Tampa.
Tickets, starting at $45, are available through Ticketmaster or online at seminolehardrocktampa.com.
Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.
He has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. His last album was a blend of pop songs and his âConcerto for Piano and Orchestraâ that soared to No. 1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.
Acclaimed modern Americana duo
YEAR OF LOVE arrives via Nettwerk Records on Friday, June 11.
Written and recorded over the course of 2020, YEAR OF LOVE sees the Wilmington, NC-based duo – Benjamin “Ben” Mabry and Brent Holloman – taking a moment to breathe in life’s simplest inspiration and, ultimately, urging everyone else to do the same. The album collects songs first featured on Beta Radio’s recently released WAY OF LOVE and AFRAID OF LOVE EPs alongside four brand new tracks including the evocative new instrumental single “The Lowlands,” premiering today at all DSPs and streaming services.
“From the beginning, we’ve always loved writing instrumental songs,” says Brent Holloman. “‘The Lowlands’ is an exercise in trying to hold the tension for as long as possible musically speaking, while still being (hopefully) enjoyable. We wanted it to not be predictable, but to flow from one part to another. Finding bits and pieces of it along the way, it came
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Ben Howard has shared a live version of his song, “Finders Keepers”. The song is also part of Howard’s forthcoming Record Store Day release on June 12, which features 4 live session/stripped back tracks from Howard’s UK chart-topping album,
Collections From The Whiteout. You can check the new “Finders Keepers” live video out below.
The British singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album,
Collections From The Whiteout,
was first issued on March 26 via Republic Records. Produced with Aaron Dessner (The National, Sharon Van Etten, Taylor Swift), its recording marked the first time that Howard has opened his studio doors to an outside collaborator.