The Fireman aka (Sir Paul McCartney) has signed with Dave Matthews/Coran Capshaw's record label ATO Records and will be releasing "Electric Arguments" on November 25th.
During the 1990s, McCartney collaborated with Youth of Killing Joke under the name of the Fireman, and have released two electronic albums: Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (1993) and Rushes (1998). In 2000, he released an album titled Liverpool Sound Collage with Super Furry Animals and Youth.
First word of the movie "Lake City" came nearly two years ago. Dave Matthews signed on to play the villain in the movie.
Lake City is making its official big screen debut at Quad Cinema in New York, NY on Friday, November 21st and will also be featured in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin and Seattle at a later date. It was recently screened in Irvine, California and has been featured in a number of film festivals including Tribecca.
Dave Matthews has a supporting role in the movie along with Oscar award winner Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and Rebecca Romijn.
The current issue of Rolling Stone magazine highlights the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time." Current artists were asked about their thoughts on some of these top singers. Dave Matthews offered his thoughts on Bob Marley and wrote a short article featured in Rolling Stone.
You may remember Dave Matthews article on the band Radiohead in a 2005 issue of Rolling Stone. Radiohead recently signed to Dave Matthews independent record label, ATO Records.
Read Dave Matthews article on Bob Marley
If you bought a ticket for the 2008 Dave Matthews Band summer tour via Ticketmaster or the warehouse, your wait is almost over for the FREE digital album as announced before in the spring.
The "Live Trax 2008" album will contain a compilation of the best picks from the 2008 summer tour and will be available via download through the iTunes store. Both Warehouse members and all of those who purchased tickets through Ticketmaster will receive redemption codes via email on Thursday, November 13, 2008.
You will need this redemption code in order to download the album and it will only be available on itunes. Live Trax 2008 will be available for purchase through iTunes US/Canada in mid-December.
Don't have itunes? Download it here. It's free.
UPDATE: 11/11/08
Track List
Dave Matthews Band has a new live 3 CD release, "Live At Mile High" comes out just in time for Christmas.
Pre-orders for the new release is now available through dmband.com with various ordering options, like FLAC and MP3 formats as well as bundle packages and will be shipped on December 16th.
While there was a web cast for this show and the entire festival, there will be no official DVD included with this release. This release also does not include a "bonus disc" like many other past release have offer with a pre-order.
The concert took place on July 20th, 2008.
