The Dream Team: Kelly Clarkson & Pentatonix

GRAMMY AWARD WINNER KELLY CLARKSON ANNOUNCES

2015 PIECE BY PIECE TOUR

Sixth Studio Album, Piece By Piece, Available Today

Special Guests Pentatonix

& Eric Hutchison To Join The Tour

Tickets On Sale Starting March 14 at LiveNation.com

Kelly announcement:  http://smarturl.it/PTXPieceByPiece?IQid=ptxtw …

Yes it's a dream come true! Kelly Clarkson is touring with the world's favorite acapella group Pentatonix, get all the 411 below...see you there!

Earlier today on Good Morning America, global superstar and GRAMMY® Award winner Kelly Clarkson announced her 2015 PIECE BY PIECE TOUR. The 36-city tour, promoted exclusively by Live Nation, will start on July 11 in Hershey, Pennsylvania and culminate on Sept. 20 in Camden, New Jersey. Joining Kelly on the tour will be recent GRAMMY® winners Pentatonix and singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson. Kelly will be touring in support of her sixth studio album, Piece By Piece, which is available in stores and digitally today.

Fans will be able to access special pre-sales by being members of Kelly’s free online fan club, Kellebrities. To sign up and get more details, visit www.KellyClarkson.com.  Citi® cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, March 10 at 10:00 a.m. local time through Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Tickets for the general public go on sale starting Saturday, March 14. For more information on the tour and specific on-sale dates, please visit www.KellyClarkson.com or www.LiveNation.com.  Join the 2015 PIECE BY PIECE TOUR conversation at #PieceByPieceTour.

Kelly kicked off her U.S. promotion on Sunday with a profile on CBS Sunday Morning, followed by a performance and skit on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night. Critics have been raving about Piece By Piece, TIME saying it’s, “a record that’s loaded with slick power-pop and uplifting empowerment anthems,” while Billboard states, “Clarkson doubles down on songs that put her skyscraping voice first. And it sounds better than ever.” Kelly can also be seen on the cover of this week’s People Magazine.

Kelly Clarkson 2015 PIECE BY PIECE TOUR Dates

All dates, venues and cities below subject to change.

Date	City	Venue	On-Sale Date
Sat July 11	Hershey, PA	Hersheypark Stadium	Sat March 14
Sun July 12	Mansfield, MA	Xfinity Center	Sat March 21
Tue July 14	Holmdel, NJ	PNC Bank Arts Center	Sat March 21
Thu July 16	New York, NY	Radio City Music Hall	Sat March 21
Fri July 17	New York, NY	Radio City Music Hall	Sat March 21
Sun July 19	Pittsburgh, PA	First Niagara Pavilion	Sat March 14
Tue July 21	Darien Center, NY	Darien Lake Performing Arts Center	Sat March 14
Thu July 23	Uncasville, CT	Mohegan Sun Arena	Sat March 21
Sat July 25	Toronto, ON	Molson Canadian Amphitheatre	Sat March 21
Sun July 26	Clarkston, MI	DTE Energy Music Theatre	Sat March 14
Tue July 28	Cincinnati, OH	Riverbend Music Center	Sat March 14
Thu July 30	Indianapolis, IN	Klipsch Music Center	Sat March 14
Sat Aug. 1	Rosemont, IL	Allstate Arena	Sat March 21
Sun Aug. 2	St Louis, MO	Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre	Sat March 14
Tue Aug. 4	St Paul, MN	Xcel Energy Center	Sat March 21
Thu Aug. 6	Denver, CO	Pepsi Center	Sat March 14
Sat Aug. 8	Salt Lake City, UT	USANA Amphitheatre	Sat March 14
Mon Aug. 10	Portland, OR	Moda Center	Sat March 14
Wed Aug. 12	Seattle, WA	KeyArena	Sat March 14
Sat Aug. 15	Las Vegas, NV	Mandalay Bay Events Center	Sat March 28
Sun Aug. 16	San Diego, CA	Viejas Arena	Sat March 14
Wed Aug. 19	Los Angeles, CA	Staples Center	Sat March 28
Fri Aug. 21	Wheatland, CA	Toyota Amphitheatre	Sat March 21
Sun Aug. 23	Mountain View, CA	Shoreline Amphitheatre	Sat March 21
Tue Aug. 25	Phoenix, AZ	Ak-Chin Pavilion	Sat March 14
Thu Aug. 27	Albuquerque, NM	Isleta Amphitheater	Sat March 14
Sat Aug. 29	Austin, TX	Austin360 Amphitheater	Sat March 14
Sun Aug. 30	Dallas, TX	Gexa Energy Pavilion	Sat March 14
Tue Sept. 1	Houston, TX	Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion	Sat March 14
Thu Sept. 3	Little Rock, AR	Verizon Arena	Sat March 14
Sat Sept. 5	Nashville, TN	Bridgestone Arena	Sat March 14
Thu Sept. 10	Atlanta, GA	Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood	Sat March 21
Sat Sept. 12	Vienna, VA	Wolf Trap National Park For The Performing Arts	Sat March 21
Sun Sept. 13	Vienna, VA	Wolf Trap National Park For The Performing Arts	Sat March 21
Tue Sept. 15	Tampa, FL	MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre	Sat March 14
Thu Sept. 17	West Palm Beach, FL	Coral Sky Amphitheatre	Sat March 21
Sat Sept. 19	Raleigh, NC	Walnut Creek Amphitheatre	Sat March 14
Sun Sept. 20	Camden, NJ	Susquehanna Bank Center	Sat March 21

For more information, please visit:

Official Website: www.kellyclarkson.com

Twitter: @kelly_clarkson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellyclarkson

YouTube: http://smarturl.it/HBSpv

Listen to Piece By Piece on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/PxPSpotify?IQid=pressrelease

Purchase Piece By Piece (iTunes): http://smarturl.it/PxPiT?IQid=pressrelease

Lady Gaga & Taylor Kinney Take The (Polar) Plunge

Baby It's Cold Outside: Taylor Kinney & Lady Gaga

Recently engaged couple Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney took part in the Polar Plunge on March 1st.

Participants in the plunge jump into Chicago's icy & frigid Lake Michigan as a fundraiser for the Special Olympics.

Gaga shared the experience to her Instagram followers telling them: "My weave froze!!" further spilling "Taylor gave me his hat I thought my wig was gonna freeze into and become one with the lake."

Awwwwwwwwwww.....these two sound like they are made for each other.

Hey, the couple that freezes together, stays together.

Find out more about the Special Olympics at:

http://www.specialolympics.org/

Trip Out On "Memory Lane"

Memory Lane coming on March 24th        A brilliant science thriller that has been                compared to independent  sci-fi               classics  Pi , Memento and Primer       "Shawn Holmes, an Afghan War veteran, spent the last of of his savings to make "Memory Lane."  So glad the lead character in this film has one of those things, you know, your childhood, your past, oh a memory... The psychological thriller tells the story of a war veteran who travels the real world and the afterlife in search of his fiance's killer by stopping and restarting his heart. Holmes started writing around the third grade and has been writing with his friend Hari Sathappan for years. "Memory Lane is really just a combination of a lot of stuff that we have written from way back then to the middle of college so we just kind of combined everything we had and it turned out to be this," said Holmes. Friends were all over the set while making "Memory Lane" and when they were off set, too. Holmes' two roommates Zac Snyder and Michael Guy Allen, who is an Afghan War vet like his character, star in the movie. "I wrote a lot of it around his experiences as an Afghan War combat veteran," said Holmes. "My other friend Zac Snyder also lived with us at the time, he stars in the movie. All the actors just volunteered so it was really easy to shoot being that I lived with two of the stars." Once finished, "Memory Lane" was shown by the West Virginia Filmmakers Guild and Holmes was the youngest nominee ever for WV Filmmaker of the Year. Holmes then released "Memory Lane" online for one weekend and reached 22 thousand hits including the Wall Street Journal and Yahoo which helped build buzz and land Holmes in Hollywood where he's currently working on various high level projects. Synopsis:  When PTSD-plagued war vet Nick returns home and finds that his finance Kayla has committed suicide, he decides to take his own life, but what he sees in flashbacks moments before he is resuscitated leads him to believe Kayla was murdered. Now Nick must travel back and fourth between our world and the afterlife in a search of her killer - but to do it, he will need to die over and over again.  Pre-Order: http://mvdb2b.com/s/MemoryLane/MVD6957D  Website: https://beta.smplmchn.com/films/250/memory-lane Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MemoryLaneMovie Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQwdpncamF4

Leonard Nimoy, Go Boldly Into The Next Adventure

Leonard Nimoy as Spock: Live Long and Prosper

Leonard Nimoy most known for his iconic role as Spock on the TV series Star Trek, which later spawned a string of successful movies with the original cast and then a later a new one has passed away.

While I was never into Star Trek I respect it's place in television history and the cultural impact it has had.

So I asked my friend and Trekkie Rhonda Bernstein to speak to the passing of Mr. Nimoy:

"I was very saddened and surprised to hear of his passing. Spock, as written and portrayed by Nimoy, was truly an iconic figure and one of the most complex, endearing and enduring characters in all the Star Trek iterations. Nimoy used his fame to advance numerous artistic and charitable causes.  His lifetime of achievements, both before and off the screen, enriched us all."

Well put! 

R.I.P. Spock

Leonard Nimoy on IMDB: 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1

"Unpack Your Memories" With Trevor Hall

Trevor Hall: He's Back and Ready to Chill

Trevor Hall

To Release New EP 

Unpack Your Memories on March 27^th

Australian Tour Begins on April 2^nd followed by U.S. dates in late Spring

“Songs come and songs go. Some get lost in the folds of time, while others are passed on and shared in infinitude.” – Trevor Hall

Chill dude Trevor Hall is Back! 
Check out my full length chat with him about his last effort Chapter Of the Forrest here, cheers -

http://mshinafelt.blogspot.com/2014/06/chillaxin-with-trevor-hall.html

Singer-songwriter Trevor Hall has announced the release of a new EP Unpack Your Memories, due out on Vanguard Records on March 27^th. This five song collection includes some of Hall’s most personal tracks recorded solely by him, on his laptop.  

Hall talks about the history of these songs and why he chose to share them with the world at this time. “Unpack Your Memories  is a collection of songs that have been in my “vault” for a long time now,” Hall says. “Some just didn’t make the other albums and some were just too intimate to share at the time. Now they are ready to breathe and be shared with others. The name of the album says everything … These are all songs that have become memories for me. I am reaching into my bag and unpacking them - unpacking their meaning, the memory of where I was when I wrote them, and the feelings that they brought me so many years ago. As the saying goes, ‘You never meet the same river twice.’ Every time I hear these songs, they teach me something new or offer me the gift of a new perspective.  There are many other songs that are still in my vault, but I felt these were the most important to share at this time. The songs all came up together like the roots of a tree, and have taken form in the EP.”

Click here to listen to the title track “Unpack Your Memories.” The Unpack Your Memories EP is available for pre-order from the Vanguard Records store here .

Following the release of Unpack Your Memories, Trevor will be back on the road in Australia for his Bluesfest debut and in the U.S. Performances include the Soulshine Festival, California Roots Festival, Wanderlust and more. See a full list of tour dates below. Additional information on purchasing tickets can be found here .

2015 Tour Dates

APR 2	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	SOULSHINE Fest -Festival Hall
APR 5	Sydney, NSW, AUS	SOULSHINE Fest - Enmore Theatre
APR 6	Byron Bay, NSW, AUS	Bluesfest
APR 9	Maroochydore, QLD, AUS	Sol Bar
APR 10	Brisbane, QLD, AUS	Tivoli (with Michael Franti)
APR 11	Cairns, QLD, AUS	Tivoli (with Michael Franti)
APR 12	Cairns, QLD, AUS	Tivoli (with Michael Franti)
MAY 19	Humboldt, CA, USA	Hum Brews
MAY 20	Mill Valley, CA, USA	Sweetwater
MAY 22	Monterey, California, USA	California Roots Fest
MAY 23	Hermosa Beach, CA, USA	Saint Rocke
MAY 24	San Diego, CA, USA	Belly Up
JUN 16	Wilmington, DE, USA	World Cafe Live Delaware
JUN 17	Brooklyn, NY, USA	Music Hall of Williamsburg
JUN 18	Portland, ME, USA	Port City Music Hall
JUN 20	Stratton, VT, USA	Wanderlust Festival
JUN 21	Stratton VT, USA	Wanderlust Festival (extra activities)
JUN 26	Rothbury, MI, USA	Electric Forest Festival
JUN 27	Chicago, IL, USA	Lincoln
JUL 18	Lake Tahoe, CA, USA	Wanderlust Festival
JUL 19	Lake Tahoe, CA, USA	Wanderlust Festival (extra activities)

www.trevorhallmusic.com 

It's Murder Ballad Time With Dudley Saunders

Check out Dudley Saunders exploring his inner Nick Cave, here is a message from the artist:

Here's the third lyric video from IN THESE BOXES.  ROSEWOOD CASKET is a murder ballad, and so much more of a full narrative than the other songs.  

"People disappear because their lives can't become stories. We tell the stories of heroes, but most people aren’t heroes. Their stories get stopped before they can happen. And that means only the unfinished stories tell us who we really are.

My father’s people are from Flemingsburg, farm country just outside of Appalachia. Appalachia was mostly settled by people from the border country between Scotland and England. When England and Scotland warred, they mostly just attacked the Border people. And this turned them strange – distrustful, paranoid, angry. And they took that anger with them when they settled Appalachia.  

But on the other side of anger is guilt. You must have done something to make God hate you so much.

In 1888 – the year my grandmother was born – Johnny meant to leave Appalachia, to start his life, and then didn’t. The reason was in this hunting knife."

Check out the video below:

Explore your inner Nick Cave with Dudley at:

https://www.facebook.com/DudleySaundersMusic
https://twitter.com/dudleysaunders
http://www.reverbnation.com/dudleysaunders

Pee Wee Herman "Bowtie is the New Black"

Need I Say More?

I'm so excited, and, no, I'm not going to hide it...so there! This ayem while checking out the news, entertainment and otherwise I found this awesome item via Vulture online:

"The news has been rumored for a while, but now it's confirmed: Judd Apatow's long-gestating Pee-wee Herman movie is headed to Netflix, the streaming giant announced today. Pee-wee's Big Holiday will tell the story of how "a fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday." It's being produced by Judd Apatow and Paul Reubens, written by Reubens and Paul Rust and directed by first-timer John Lee (Broad City). "Bowtie is the new black," said "Pee-wee" in a statement. He's on-brand already!"

Oh Hell to the yes! Pee Wees Big Adventure is one of my favorite films, I remember seeing it my freshman year of college. It was directed by first time and then unknown Tim Burton and it was pure genius! 

Years later I sat next to him opening night of my friend E.G. Daily's one woman show Listen Closely, remember her as his girlfriend Dottie in his big adventure? That was so cool! 

The pairing of he and Judd Apatow is genius....I'm pulling for you Pee Wee!

PS - Please put E.G. in it too.

Pedal with Pee Wee at:
https://www.facebook.com/PeeweeHerman
Go Judd at: 
https://twitter.com/juddapatow
Listen Closely to E.G. at:
https://www.facebook.com/eg.daily