Happy Hump Day! Matt Bomer In Hawaii

Matt Bomer at Your Service

Nothing says Hump Day like a photo of actor Matt Bomer frolicking in his swim trunks while walking in Hawaii.

Matt is part of the cast of American Horror Story: Hotel...Hell to the yes!

I thought this would make everyone's Wednesday a little brighter and help you get over that bad ass hump.

Enjoy!

Matt on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093589/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1

American Idol Live! 2015 Tour

We're Touring in 2015! 

AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE! 2015 TOUR

AMERICAN IDOL^® returns this summer with its 14th consecutive

American Idol Live! Tour.

For the first time ever, enjoy an up close and personal evening spotlighting all Top 5 finalists from Season 14.

Special Guest Performances From Additional Season 14 IDOLS Confirmed.

37-SHOW TOUR KICKS OFF JULY 7 IN CLEARWATER, FL

Hey everyone, as we all know AI is headed into it's last season next year. So here is the next to the last AI tour you will ever see. It' s the end of one of the most successful shows ever! Lick it up!

AMERICAN IDOL^®, the most successful music competition show in television history, returns this summer with an unprecedented 14th consecutive national tour.  The 37-show concert tour launches Tuesday, July 7 in Clearwater, FL, and stops in major cities, including New York, Chicago, Houston and Nashville before wrapping in Riverside, CA, on Friday, August 28^th.  Tickets are available now via AmericanIdol.com/tour.

AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE! will give fans an opportunity to get up close and personal with the Top Five IDOLS from Season 14.  Entertainment Weekly said “Idol’s 14^th season is pitch-perfect with finalists who truly command the stage.”  Newly crowned winner Nick Fradiani along with Jax, Tyanna Jones, Rayvon Owen and Clark Beckham will showcase their individual artistry and talents in a never before “Storytellers” style show all set to a live band. 

In addition, 19 Entertainment, Inc. has also confirmed that select IDOLS from Season 14 will join the tour in various cities as special guest performers.  To kick things off, Top 10 favorite Joey Cook will join the tour for the first 6 nights in Clearwater, Sarasota, Melbourne, Orlando, Fort Myers and Fort Lauderdale, FL.  

AMERICAN IDOL^® LIVE! 2015 Tour Dates:

DATE                    CITY                                     VENUE

July 07                   Clearwater, FL                     Ruth Eckerd Hall

July 08                   Sarasota, FL                         Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

July 09                   Melbourne, FL                     King Center For The Performing Arts

July 11                   Orlando, FL                          Hard Rock Live

July 12                   Fort Myers, FL                     Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall

July 14                   Fort Lauderdale, FL            Parker Playhouse

July 15                   Jacksonville, FL                   Florida Theatre

July 17                   Nashville, TN                        Ryman Auditorium

July 18                   Louisville, KY                       The Kentucky Center – Whitney Hall

July 19                   Durham, NC                         Durham Performing Arts Center

July 21                   Richmond, VA                     Carpenter Theater

July 22                   Morristown, NJ                     Mayo Performing Arts Center

July 24                   Chautauqua, NY                 Chautauqua Institute Amphitheatre

July 25                   Bethlehem, PA                     Sands Bethlehem Event Center

July 28                   Worcester, MA                     Hanover Theatre For The Performing Arts

July 29                   Hampton Beach, NH         Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom

July 30                   Portland, ME                        Maine State Pier

August 01              Atlantic City, NJ                  Caesars Atlantic City - Circus Maximus

August 02              Red Bank, NJ                       Count Basie Theatre

August 03              Providence, RI                     Veterans Memorial Auditorium (The VETS)

August 05              New York, NY                      Beacon Theatre

August 07              Detroit, MI                            MotorCity Casino Hotel

August 08              Chicago, IL                           Chicago Theatre

August 09              Indianapolis, IN                   Murat Theatre

August 10              St. Louis, MO                       Peabody Opera House

August 12              Grand Prairie, TX                 Verizon Theatre At Grand Prairie

August 13              Houston, TX                         Bayou Music Center

August 14              San Antonio, TX                  Majestic Theatre

August 16              Mesa, AZ                              Mesa Arts Center

August 18              San Diego, CA                      Humphrey's

August 20              Los Angeles, CA                 Orpheum Theatre

August 21              Reno, NV                              Silver Legacy Resort & Casino

August 22              Santa Rosa, CA                   Wells Fargo Center for the Arts

August 23              San Francisco, CA               Warfield Theatre

August 25              Seattle, WA                           McCaw Hall

August 27              Saratoga, CA                        The Mountain Winery

August 28              Riverside, CA                       Fox Performing Arts Center

Tickets are subject to applicable service charges.  Event times and dates subject to change.

For the latest tour and ticketing information please visit: www.americanidol.com/tour

Andrew McMahon Plays With Toys

Andrew McMahon Shares His Toys

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness Debuts New Video

for Special "Cecilia and the Satellite" Performed on Toy Instruments

"Cecilia" Top 10 at Alternative Radio This Week,
Climbing at Hot AC Format

Gorgeous New Live Session Featuring "Cecilia" and "High Dive"
Available Now on The Wild Honey Pie

The first time I have heard of this artist was in an E-mail today from his publicist, I found him unique, talented and interesting. Thus I am foisting him on you, enjoy!

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness has shared a new video for his chart topping hit, "Cecilia and the Satellite" today. The clip features a re-recorded version of "Cecilia" created entirely with toy instruments. Andrew re-arranged the song and recorded and filmed it in a single day. He said of the experience: 

"What do you do when you have a spare afternoon in Nashville?  Find a studio, a camera, a box of toy instruments and see if you can't make something cool happen. I had no idea what I was getting into when I showed up for this experiment, but I'm so pleased with how it all turned out." 

"Cecilia" is also now Top 10 at Alternative radio and Top 15 at Triple A radio. The song is gaining at Hot AC and on course to top the charts soon. 

WATCH: "Cecilia and the Satellite" on Toy Instruments

The Wild Honey Pie also released their Buzzsession with Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness this week. The sessions highlight Andrew's glorious wail and deft piano-playing on a gorgeous grand piano at Douglass Street Records.

WATCH: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness on The Wild Honey Pie
 

McMahon's self-titled album,  Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, is out now on Vanguard Records. The disc had smashing Top 5 debuts upon release where it was #2 on the iTunes Alt Albums chart, #3 on the Billboard Indie Albums chart, #4 on the Billboard Alt Albums chart and #5 on the Billboard Rock Albums chart.  

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness will also play several festival dates including Firefly and Summerfest along with a string of one-off US shows this summer, before heading to Australia and Japan. All current tour dates are listed below.  

For updates and more information visit:  http://www.andrewmcmahon.com/ 
 

TOUR DATES

05/30/15 – Virginia Beach, VA @ 17th Street Park (Patriotic Festival)
06/05/15 – Bloomington, IN @ The Castle Theatre
06/06/15 – Kalamazoo, MI @ District Square
06/07/15 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park (Alt 103 ALT-imate Birthday)
06/19/15 – Richmond, VA @ The National w/ X Ambassadors & Grizfolk
06/20/15 – Dover, DE @ The Woodlands (Firefly Music Festival)
06/21/15 – Scranton, PA @ Pavilion at Montage Mountain (92.1 FUZZ Fest)
06/23/15 – Lansing, MI @ The Loft w/ X Ambassadors
06/25/15 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest 2015
06/26/15 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly's w/ X Ambassadors
06/27/15 – Lincoln, NE @ The Bourbon
07/10/15 – Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre
07/11/15 – Denver, CO @ Fiddler's Green Amphitheater (KTCL Channel 93.3's Big Gig)
07/18/15 – Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater (Point's Big Summer Show)
07/25/15 – Kansas City, KS @ Sporting Park (96.5 The Buzz Beach Ball)
08/21/15 – Brisbane, AUS @ Max Watt's (The Hi-Fi)
08/22/15 – Sydney, AUS @ The Factory Theatre
08/23/15 – Melbourne, AUS @ 170 Russell
08/25/15 – Adelaide, AUS @ Fowlers Live
09/01/15 – Tokyo, JP @ Club Quattro
09/02/15 – Osaka, JP @ Soma
09/04/15 – Honolulu, HI @ The Republik
09/06/15 – Columbus, OH @ Arena District (Fashion Meets Music Festival)

LINKS

http://www.andrewmcmahon.com/
https://www.facebook.com/andrewmcmahonmusic
http://instagram.com/amnthewilderness/
http://youtube.com/andrewmcmahonmusic
https://soundcloud.com/andrewmcmahon

Funday Sunday: Almost Famous Reunion

l-r Billy Crudup, Eric Stonestreet & Kate Hudson

Kate Hudson recently posted a photo on her Instagram of herself, Billy Crudup and Eric Stonestreet from her the film that made her a star and won her a Golden Globe and scored her an Oscar Nomination Cameron Crowe's classic Almost Famous.

Kate as you may recall played uber groupie Penny Lane. You know, named after The Beatles song -

"Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes. There beneath the blue suburban skies Penny Lane"

She captioned the pic: "'Your mom called....she freaked me out. And then there's that other guy far left.' #AlmostFamousLove."

Kate Hudson on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005028/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1

80's Flashback! Stray Cats

Meow! Stray Cats

Stray Cats "Live At Rockpalast" 

DVD and DVD / 2CD set available on July 7th 

The icons of neo-rockabilly, captured at their best in two amazing 

'81 and '83 Rockpalast concerts...

Young, raw, and wild!

Remember the 1980's? Remember "Stray Cats Strut?" - Yeah, I do too.

Every era has its heroes and every scene has its legends. The 80's had the Stray Cats and today they are the indisputable icons of neo-rockabilly. 

When the US trio stormed the top of the charts in their adopted country of England, punk still reigned supreme in the United Kingdom. But Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker brought that certain something that the mo-hawked men also had: a feeling for danger and rebellion. Impressive footage of this time includes two performances in Germany: one in 1981 in Cologne and one in 1983 at the Loreley that were recorded by WDR. These are genuine recordings that make the trio's sound still accessible today. Both concerts are released here for the first time in the best possible quality and with a superb sound on DVD and CD. The Stray Cats will come to life at home just as they were at their best: young, raw and wild!

Brian Setzer, today a "statesman" of rockabilly and a many times platinum seller, works passionately as he struck the strings on the stage of the Cologne Satory Halls. He was a "rebel without a cause," similar to the young James Dean. But this guitarist has a desire: he wants to bring Rock n' Roll back to life. He wants to play his guitar as Eddie Cochran did. No question that he has succeeded; he is still loved for this today and this is why he is the first guitarist after the legendary Chet Atkins to have his own signature Gretsch model.

The Stray Cats aren't only made up of Setzer with his phenomenal guitar playing and his powerful vocals. Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom are responsible for their special sound, too: Phantom's simple drumming became an example for rockabilly drummers worldwide and his wild screams in the songs belong to Stray Cats exactly as Brian Setzer's licks and Lee Rocker's clattering bass do. He treated his instrument like a lover or like monkeybars on which he did gymnastics. The bad boy attitude was internalized by the "street cats."

Both concerts also underline how rapidly Stray Cats' career progressed. Between both recordings were full worlds. In 1981 they were young rockers and by 1983 they had become full-fledged rock stars and known as tender teddy boys in part of the scene. The band rocked the mixed audience and were even honored by their discoverer Dave Edmunds. Next to Stray Cats were acts such as U2, Joe Cocker and Steve Miller.

The influence Stray Cats had on music and fashion is in hindsight undeniable. Where would psychobilly legends such as Meteors or Demented are Go!, who were founded as a counter movement to rockabilly, be today? Would the sound of the 50s still be so popular today if the Stray Cats had not brought it back to life in the 80s?

Classics like as "Stray Cat Strut," "Runaway Boys," "Rumble in Brighton," and "Rock This Town" will live forever through these two concert recordings.

Pre-order at Amazon: http://amzn.to/1A3WMkc

Can We Talk? Ian Harvie Part II

Ian Harvie
Photo: Austin Young

"I don't understand it, but I accept it is societies go to phrase. It stops us from really putting ourselves in someone else's place. It keeps us from really going there. But we could go there, and if we allowed ourselves to do that we would really understand it." - Ian Harvie

The above quote is a little paraphrased but it stuck with me after I turned off the recorder and Ian and Myself were chatting off record. This is one of the most eye opening, honest things I have heard in a long time.

For those of you not in the loop Ian is a transgender comedian/actor and friend. Post Bruce Jenner's recent interview let's keep the dialogue flowing...

Note: This is part II of my interview with Ian, here is the link to part I:

http://mshinafelt.blogspot.com/2015/05/can-we-talk-ian-harvie-part-i.html

MS: I get feeling comfortable in your own skin. Now that I am almost fifty twenty somethings are hitting on me all the time. When I was in my twenties I could never get guys my own age interested. 

IH: Their attraction is now, that you posses something inside that they wished they had. Let's take our exteriors out of this. I think people today, as we get to this place, we still deem exteriors important on some level, but...I'm in recovery, and I remember when I first got sober, the person that you ask to sponsor you, they have something that you want. There is something about them that reflects how you want to live your life. Someone might be pretty on the outside, but when you are really attracted to someone it's that they posses something that you wish you had, that you know you have, and you want to crack it open in some way. Sometimes for me it's on the surface, but usually it's what someone says, and I'm like: "Oh shit that was good!"

MS: I was headed there with this.

IH: Well, I just cut you off, sorry (laughs)

MS: Hey, this is an open forum. (laughs) You are really fearless with your comedy shows. 

IH: I won't be exhausted with it until everybody fucking gets it. People ask me "are you tired?" I'm like: "No, no I want everybody to hear this." I will say it to whoever and as many times as I need to. Maybe I will say it differently with new material, but it's a really important part of what I want to do in this art medium. 

MS: Awesome!

IH: Let's jump back to The Nightly Show for a second. 

MS: Go for it.

IH: What I thought was really awesome about it was, that this is the Comedy Central demographic watching this show. Hearing these words and these perspectives, maybe for the first time. Maybe, maybe not, there was a live audience there and there were eruptions of applause. When I said there should be etiquette on behalf of Cisgender people to Transgender people everyone applauded. But that's a live New York audience, the average viewer of that show, who gets their information from what used to be The Colbert Report and what is now this show, most likely hasn't heard this before. What a great gain to have that dialogue on Comedy Central and their demographic. 

MS: Absolutely.

IH: I was like Fuck Yeah! Fuck Yeah! Fuck Yeah, good!

MS: You did discuss Bruce Jenner on the show, I loved your Kardashian joke about all of them having plastic surgery by the way,

IH: Seriously with all the work that entire family has had done this should not be a shock. (laughs)  Yes, it's someone who was male at birth, an iconic athlete who has been in  the homes of all of America for years. Yes, so this is a new story, someone officially coming out like this is going to save lives. It's funny I use to tell a similar joke about Chaz Bono and Cher with all the work she has had done. (laughs) I like thinking of things that flip the narrative and to say the opposite of what everybody is thinking. This is not just a Trans peoples issue to figure out it is also other people's work to do as well. So I like thinking about things in reverse terms, thinking about them in other ways. 

MS: Well in West Hollywood, CA they now have all access bathrooms and I love that because I know when I want to pee, I don't care where I go, I just want to go!

IH: How many times is there a line in one bathroom or the other? I mean, we all use the same bathroom when we are at home. But when we cross the threshold into the public: WE CAN NOT USE THE SAME BATHROOM! (laughs)

MS: One last thing. What the fuck are incinerating boobs?

IH: I just did a podcast where I discussed my chest surgery and was asked what happened to my boobs afterward. I said I didn't know they were probably in a incinerator somewhere in San Francisco. (laughs) 

Keep it real with Ian at:
http://ianharvie.com/
https://twitter.com/ianharvie

D.O.A. "The Cops Shot A Kid"

D.O.A. Are A O.K.

D.O.A. releases new single "The Cops Shot a Kid"

Their here they're D.O.A. - get used to it!!!

In reaction to the recent deaths of African Americans at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland and New York City, D.O.A. one of the world's most political bands has released a new single: "The Cops Shot a Kid (Gonna Be A Riot)," the first single from D.O.A.'s upcoming studio album "Hard Rain Falling" on Sudden Death Record. The single will be officially released on I Tunes Wednesday May 13th ( HERE).

Joe Keithley, Canada's punk godfather had this to say "I am outraged by the deaths of unarmed suspects at the hands of various police forces in the USA. Of course I realize that there are a lot of good cops that do a difficult job every day, but some of the recent killing sure looks like it's rooted in racism. So I wrote this song about these injustices and the inevitable reaction that will likely follow from the folks in that neighborhood Police should be wearing body cams while on duty. Look at it this way if it weren't for bystanders with cell phones, the public would be not seen what had happened and the truth could have been severely impeded."

D.O.A. is still working on their new 12-song studio album "Hard Rain Falling" and their Kickstarter Campaign will be active until the end of the month.

The band started in 1978 and is known as Canada's punk pioneers. Canada's godfather of punk Joe Shithead Keithley originated the term 'hardcore" back in 1980 and the band pushed the term into the common vernacular with their landmark album Hardcore 81. 

"When I started writing songs for Hard Rain Falling I listened to our early stuff like Hardcore 81 and the Disco Sucks EP and I tried to take same direct to the point, wild and political approach," says Keithley. "So it's back to D.O.A.'s roots the way we are approaching this album."

Keithley with the help of his notorious rhythm section, Paddy Duddy (drums) and Mike Hodsall (bass) will record an album that harks back to the basics of early punk. It will contain fast, short, frantic songs that dive deep into urgent issues of out time: racism, war, gangs, oil pipelines and environmental degradation. 

REMAINING TOUR DATES

Wednesday May 13th - Neurolux, Boise, ID 

Thursday May 14th - Big Dipper, Spokane, WA 

Friday May 15th - Highline, Seattle, WA 

Saturday May 16th - Emerald of Siam, Richland, WA 

Joe Keithley is on Twitter! Follow Joe and the D.O.A. gang on Twitter @DOAJoe and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DOAPUNK