Chillaxin With Trevor Hall

Trevor Hall Chillaxin
Photo: Emory Hall

Chill dude, Trevor Hall is an accomplished musician. His music with it's eclectic mix of acoustic rock, reggae and Sanskrit chanting – echo with the names and teachings of divinities, while maintaining an incredibly and refreshingly universal message. While on the road, Trevor sees the stage as his moving temple, a place where he can share in the experience of his spiritual journey with his audience. His latest album Chapter of the Forest reflects all of the above and more...it's chillaxin time with Trevor Hall!

MS: Hey Trevor how are you?

TH: I'm good, thanks.

MS: I was listening to your latest album Chapter of the Forest right before you called, I liked that listening to it was like taking a journey, you start one place and end up another.

TH: Thank you, thanks so much.

MS: Your music is very spiritual and a mixture of rock, folk, pop and world music.

TH: Right, right. I had to disguise the world music with more popular forms of music so that people would understand the message better.

MS: You took off on a pilgrimage to India right after a successful run in music, what made you want to do that?

TH: Well I've been traveling to India for, seven years. I got burnt out and needed to get my strength back and India is that place, I just took a long time off and went there for about three and a half months or so. It was out of a need to connect again and get my spiritual strength back and physical strength, so I went on a retreat, no phones, no E-mails, nothing like that.

My healing started to happen and when I came back I really started writing a lot of the songs for Chapter of the Forest. 

MS: You met your wife in India and got engaged to her. Did you meet her on this pilgrimage or before that?

TH: I met her in India the year before. Then when we went back in 2013 I proposed to her then in the same place where we met. 

MS: How cool! Being a spiritual person are you into yoga by any chance?

TH: Not really a lot of Hatha Yoga, what people call yoga today in the West. There are actually many, many limbs of yoga, so I practice kind of different things. I probably should be doing yoga more because my back is tight after being on the tour bus. (laughs) The tour is actually really amazing that were on right now, Michael Franti is super into yoga so before every show during the day they have a huge yoga class for all of the musicians. So if I wanted to get healthy this is the tour to do it! (laughs)

MS: So how is the tour going?

TH: It's going great, last night we were at San Diego State University it was such a nice time because there were so many wonderful bands on the bill. Also I am traveling with a super fun group of guys, it's just a really nice time. Sometimes tours, ya know, you don't know who you are traveling with, they play a different style music and they clash or something, but on this one everyone is like a big ole family it's been really enjoyable.

MS: Tell me a little bit about the inspiration for Chapter of the Forest, something other than your pilgrimage to India.

                                                           "Chapter of the Forest"
TH: Chapter of the Forest is the meditation I did and it's about going back inside. The forest for me is a mystical place for solitude and silence. Obviously I believe in the external forest, but I also believe that all these sacred landscapes are also inside our own body. Chapter of the Forest in our hearts or in our mind is that place of stillness, meditation , reflection and rejuvenation type of thing. I'm really influenced by the Indian Saints, one of the Saints says that you can't live in the world continuously or else you'll drown. From time to time you have to retreat in solitude. Whether that be the corner of a room for an hour, or a forest for a month or a year. 

I took that really literally and said: "Stop I'm burnt out" and went up into the forests of Vermont and Maine with my wife and just really tried to slow down. As that happened after a while I started picking up my guitar, not because I had to but because I wanted to, I love music and that was the feeling I was trying to get again after being so burnt out, it became just a job for me at some point. That's when Chapter of the Forest really started to come to life and as that was happening all the experiences I had, had in other forests all over the world, like India and Nepal, these memories started to resurface and give me inspiration and that's where a little of the Indian element came from on the album. 

But I really wanted to do something rootsy and raw, and not be chasing that number one single. Something that was really pure and from my heart, that's what this album is all about. 

MS: I completely get it, it can become disheartening when you are creating for the sole purpose of making money.

TH: Yeah.

MS: Make yourself happy first, that's the most important thing I think.

TH: Right, right, I agree.

MS: Here's something random, when I did a Google search of your name a meme came up with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka saying: "You test drove Trevor Hall, tell me about his triangle"
do you know what that means? (laughs)

TH: Tell me about his triangle? I have no idea what that means (laughs) Yeah I have no idea what that could mean. 

MS: Thanks Trevor, have fun on the rest of your tour.

TH: Thanks man.

Join Trevor in the forest at: http://www.trevorhallmusic.com/

Pentatonix Are: Pitch Perfect 2

PTX: Their Pitch Is Perfect, 2

I guess the first Pitch Perfect was a hit, well that's cool because Entertain Me favorites, Pentatonix aka PTX are now in the sequel! Alright all you PTX fans raise your lighters in the dark! Oh and it's called Pitch Perfect 2, the best surprise is no surprise. 

Pentatonix, in case you have been living under a rock are the five-person ensemble that rose to fame after winning the third season of NBC’s The Sing-Off, will play a rival group to the Barden Bellas, the collegiate acappella singers at the center of the sequel, hitting theaters in 2015

Tell me more, tell me more, like do you have a falsetto? “We’re wearing some pretty interesting things,” teases PTX's Scott Hoying. “You can definitely tell it’s the five of us, but what we’re wearing and who we’re portraying is definitely not Pentatonix.” 

Pitch Perfect 2 finds the original Bellas—Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, and others—returning for another year at Barden University, where they’re ushering a new crew of members into the national-winning group. Expect the five members of Pentatonix to offer threatening competition to the Bellas’ well-oiled machine.

The gang won’t get any dialogue, “Let’s be honest, it’s probably for the best,” laughs Scott Hoying, but they did get some major screentime—and some off-camera facetime with the gals who play their competition. “I will say, all the Barden Bellas are hot,” states fellow PTX'er Kevin Olusola. “So I was pretty happy.”

PP2 on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2848292/

PTX on the N.E.T: http://ptxofficial.com/

Go Bangin' Rackettes With Clairy Browne

“JENNY” VIDEO PREMIERE ON YAHOO.COM

NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING EP
LOVE CLIQUES TO BE RELEASED ON AUGUST 5^TH

Currently on U.S. Summer Tour through October 1st

Get your Rackettes on with the Bangin' Clairy Browne!!!

Australian sensations CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES have just premiered their new video “Jenny” on Yahoo.com.  “Jenny” is the new single from the band’s upcoming EP LOVE CLIQUES to be released on August 5th.  The four track EP will be available digitally, and a limited edition 10" vinyl version will be available at retail locations exclusively via AEC (Alliance Entertainment Corporation).  

LOVE CLIQUES is in follow up to the band’s highly acclaimed U.S. Vanguard debut album BABY CAUGHT THE BUS which featured the internationally successful single “Love Letter.”  

Praised by NPR who described their sound as “Rich In harmony…. a little bit of soul fused with blues, doo-wop, jazz and R&B,” Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes returned to the U.S. this past weekend kicking off their national cross country tour on Saturday, June 21st headlining at the Summer Fest in Ann Arbor, MI. On June 28ththe nine piece Australian band will bring their unique indie soul to the Vino Fest inWashington, DC; On June 29th they’ll perform on The Jewel for a Rocks Off Boat Cruise and on July 17, 18 & 19th, the band returns for their third residency at The Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas. Following their U.S. tour which wraps at The Troubadour in Los Angeles on October 1st, the band will remain in the States to begin recording their follow-up album, due for release in 2015 on Vanguard Records.

WATCH THE YAHOO! PREMIERE OF “JENNY” HERE

It's Hard Out There For A Rackette

CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN RACKETTES U.S. Summer Tour 2014:

2014-06-25     Columbus OH - The Basement
2014-06-26     Pittsburgh, PA – The Club @ Stage AE
2014-06-27     Bordentown, NJ – The Record Collector
2014-06-28     Washington, DC – Vino Fest
2014-06-29     New York, NY – Jewel Boat Cruise
2014-07-17     Las Vegas, NV – Cosmopolitan
2014-07-18     Las Vegas, NV – Cosmopolitan
2014-07-19     Las Vegas, NV – Cosmopolitan
2014-07-22     Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
2014-07-24     Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
2014-07-25     Austin, TX – The Belmont
2014-07-26     Little Rock, AR – Juanita’s Café & Bar
2014-07-27     Nashville, TN – 3^rd & Lindsley
2014-07-29     Birmingham, AL – Zydeco
2014-07-31     New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
2014-08-01     Shreveport, LA – Strange Brew
2014-08-02     Monroe, LA – Live Oaks
2014-08-04     Jackson, MS – Duling Hall
2014-08-05     Atlanta, GA – The Earl
2014-08-07     Miami, FL – Bardot
2014-08-08     Orlando, FL – Bombshell’s Tavern
2014-08-11     Charlottesville, VA – The Southern Café & Music Hall
2014-08-13     Boston, MA – The Sinclair
2014-08-14     Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
2014-08-16     Toronto, ON, Canada – Horseshoe Tavern
2014-08-17     Rochester, NY – California Brew Haus
2014-08-20     Hamden, CT – The Space
2014-08-22     New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
2014-08-28     Providence, RI – Fete Lounge
2014-08-29     Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
2014-09-01     Montreal, QC – Casa del Popolo
2014-09-06     St. Louis, MO – Firebird
2014-09-07     Lawrence, KS – Granada Theatre
2014-09-08     The Blue Note – Columbia MO
2014-09-09     Vanguard Music Hall – Tulsa OK
2014-09-11     Oklahoma City, OK – ACM @ UCO Theatre
2014-09-13     Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre
2014-09-14     Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
2014-09-16     Doug Fir Lounge – Portland OR
2014-09-18     San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Club
2014-09-20     Reno, NV – Cargo
2014-09-25     San Diego, CA – Casbah
2014-10-01     Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour

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Yes, Hayden Panettiere, There Is A Stork

Hayden Panetierre & Wladimir Klitschko 

Hayden Panettiere who plays my favorite character on Nashville Juliette Barnes is pregnant in public, OMG! although she has not verbally addressed the impending bundle of joy via the media, the bump in her midriff says it all.

The petite actress flashed her burgeoning belly while strolling the streets of Porto Cerve, Italy, with her fiancé, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Wladimir Klitschko.

Hayden modeled a midriff-baring top and matching pants, soon to be all the rage for the petite and pregnant that will be sold at a Target near you. OK, kidding, or am I?

Ms. Panettiere said to Glamour Magazine recently: 

"I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother. Sometimes people speak about [having kids] like, 'Your life ends—you're never going to be able to do anything again!' And I'm like, 'What are you talking about?' Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there's nothing that I feel like I can't accomplish while having children in my life."

She also joked about what a child with Klitschko might look like on The Ellen Degeneres Show: "He's got bowlegs and I've got knocked knees, so they're going to have straight legs." 

Congratulations Hayden & Cheers!

Hayden Panettiere on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659363/?ref_=tt_cl_t2
Wladimir Klitschko on the Net: http://www.klitschko.com/

Grab An O.A.R. And Start A Revolution

O.A.R.’S THE ROCKVILLE LP

DEBUTS 
#13 ON BILLBOARD TOP 200 
#1 INDEPENDENT ALBUMS
#6 TOP CURRENT ROCK ALBUMS 
#7 CURRENT DIGITAL ALBUMS 


Are you ready for a revolution? 

The Rockville LP, O.A.R.’s eighth studio album makes its debut at #13 on the Billboard Top 200.  The album also makes a solid impact coming in at #1 on the Independent Albums chart, #6 on the Top Current Rock Albums chart and #7 on the 

Current Digital Albums chart. Upon its release on June 10^th, The Rockville LP hit the top spot on the iTunes Rock Albums chart and #3 on iTunes Overall Albums chart. O.A.R. has been riding high propelled by the success of their hit single, “Peace,” which hit #1 this week on the iTunes Rock Singles chart coupled with television performances on The Today Show, Conan, VH1’s Big Morning Buzz Live and a national tour. 

O.A.R. is currently in the midst of a 24-city co-headlining tour with Phillip Phillips, which kicked off in St. Louis on June 12 and wraps up in Atlanta on July 26. Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper called O.A.R. “visionary,” in a recent feature in advance of their show this Friday at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica.

For every ticket sold on the tour, O.A.R. and Phillip Phillips are donating $1 to Habitat for Humanity. The tour will also host online auctions for a VIP experience in each city, including two premium tickets and an opportunity to meet with the artists. Proceeds from the auctions will go to directly local Habitat affiliates.
 
Watch O.A.R. & P.S. 22 Chorus performance of “Peace” here: PS 22 PERFORMANCE
 
Since their formation in 1996, O.A.R. (singer Marc Roberge, drummer Chris Culos, guitarist Richard On, bassist Benj Gershman and saxophonist Jerry DePizzo) has logged millions of miles on the road and released eight studio albums, spawning such hit singles as “Shattered” “Heaven” and “Love and Memories” in addition to their current hit, “Peace.”  The band is renowned for their incredible live shows and sell-out performances at massive venues such as Red Rocks and Madison Square Garden. 


O.A.R. and PHILLIP PHILLIPS 2014 SUMMER TOUR

DATE                           CITY                            VENUE

6/18/14	Wed	Pittsburgh, PA	Stage AE
6/20/14	Fri	Cleveland, OH	Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
6/21/14	Sat	Chicago, IL	FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
6/22/14	Sun	Sterling Heights, MI	Freedom Hill Amphitheatre
6/27/14	Fri	Indianapolis, IN	Farm Bureau Ins. Lawn at White River (O.A.R. only)
6/28/14	Sat	Cincinnati, OH	Riverbend Music Center
6/29/14	Sun	Milwaukee, WI	Summerfest (O.A.R. only)
7/2/14	Wed	Lewiston, NY	Art Park
7/5/14	Sat	Gilford, NH	Meadowbrook
7/6/14	Sun	Mashantucket, CT	Foxwoods Resort Casino
7/10/14	Thu	Boston, MA	Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
7/11/14	Fri	Wantagh, NY	Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
7/12/14	Sat	Holmdel, NJ	PNC Bank Arts Center
7/13/14	Sun	Raleigh, NC	Red Hat Amphitheater
7/16/14	Wed	Charlotte, NC	Uptown Amphitheatre at the NC Music Factory
7/18/14	Fri	Philadelphia, PA	Festival Pier at Penn's Landing
7/19/14	Sat	Columbia, MD	Merriweather Post Pavilion
7/20/14	Sun	Portsmouth, VA	nTelos Wireless Pavilion
7/24/14	Thu	Glen Allen, VA	Innsbrook After Hours
7/25/14	Fri	Charleston, SC	Family Circle Magazine Stadium
7/26/14	Sat	Atlanta, GA	Chastain Park Amphitheatre

Start a revolution at: http://ofarevolution.com/

An Ode To Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

For those of you who think Ms. Helena Bonham Carter only has a career because of her partner Tim Burton, that just proves how Mother F#cking young you are!

She has been around for a while and has had a quite successful acting career long before that.

I first remember seeing the amazingly talented Helena in the great film "A Room With A View" if you don't know it, check it, with my friend Jennifer DiMartino of the "Americana With Twisted Roots" band, The Drews, she is a fellow Helena fan, FYI.

Not to mention the lovely film "Howard's End" and one of my all time favorites "Fight
Club."

Helena's career has been a unique one, she has always marched to the beat of her own drummer and ALWAYS let her freak flag fly!

Here is what she has to say about why she does not have a stylist:

"I've had a stylist once or twice, but it doesn't really work out because basically, I don't like being told what to wear. I don't like being told what to do, so there's no point. A lot of people suggest that I should."

Keep on bucking the trends and keep being you Helena, we will always love ya!

XOXO

HBC on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000307/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1

Hollywood Walk Of Fame 2015 Honorees Announce

EXCLUSIVE:

HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNOUNCES

NEW WALK OF FAME HONOREES FOR 2015

Life is a mystery everyone must stand alone - Madonna "Like A Prayer"

Yep, this quote pretty much sums up the 2015 honorees on Hollywood's beloved Walk of Fame.

A few not, all of my personal favorites, Julianna Margulies, Snoopy, Pharrell Williams and Ennio Morricone. I don't want to slam anyone but really, Jennifer Garner?!

Anyway love them or think they don't deserve one, here is the 2015 list, people!

A new group of entertainment professionals in Motion Pictures, Television, Live Theatre, Radio and Recording have been selected to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, it was announced today by the Walk of Fame Selection Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. These individuals were chosen from among hundreds of nominations to the committee at a meeting held on June 16, 2014 and ratified by the Hollywood Chamber’s Board of Directors.

“The Walk of Fame Selection Committee is excited to announce the Class of 2015 Star Honorees to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We know that the new selections represent the best of the entertainment industry, and will be a great addition to the Walk of Fame for both the Hollywood community and fans from around the world who visit Hollywood every year,” stated Maureen Schultz, Chair of the Walk of Fame selection committee for 2014-2015. “We look forward to welcoming all our new honorees to one of the most popular tourist attractions in California.”

Walk of Fame Chair Schultz along with Hollywood Chamber President & CEO Leron Gubler announced the new selections to the world on Thursday, June 18, 2014 on the official website www.walkoffame.com.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame recipients for the year 2015 are:

MOTION PICTURES: Raymond Chandler (posthumous), Eugenio Derbez, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Garner, Peter Jackson, Bob Kane (posthumous), Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Rudd, Snoopy, Melissa McCarthy and Christoph Waltz

TELEVISION: James L. Brooks, Ken Ehrlich, Bobby Flay, Seth MacFarlane, Julianna Margulies, Chris O’Donnell, Jim Parsons, Amy Poehler, Kelly Ripa and Sofia Vergara.

RECORDING: Lukasz ‘Dr. Luke’ Gottwald, Kool & The Gang, Pitbull, Al Schmitt and Pharrell Williams.

RADIO: Larry Elder.

LIVE THEATRE/LIVE PERFORMANCE: Kristin Chenoweth, Dick Gregory and Ennio Morricone.

The Hollywood Chamber and the Walk of Fame Selection Committee congratulate all the new honorees. Dates have not been scheduled for these stars. Recipients have five years to schedule star ceremonies from date of selection before they expire. Upcoming star ceremonies are usually announced ten days prior to dedication on official website www.walkoffame.com and via social media.

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CHECK WEBSITE FOR UPCOMING STAR CEREMONIES:

Walkoffame.com, Hollywood Walk of Fame on Facebook or follow on twitter @WOFstargirl