Neptune News

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) is gearing up to release her highly anticipated new album Saint Cloud, out March 27th worldwide. Critics are already hailing Saint Cloud as a career-defining album with Crutchfield's songwriting front and center.

M. Ward has unveiled the video for his current single “Unreal City.” Directed by Beatrice Pegard and filmed in Paris, France, the video comes ahead of the April 3rd release of highly anticipated new album Migration Stories (Anti Records). Pegard adds, 'The video is about finding joy and wonder in the most random moments and places, paying homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the New Wave.'

Leslie Odom, Jr. has announced the postponement of three of his upcoming tour dates, originally set for this month.

Adult Improvisation Funshop comes to ABET on Sunday, March 29 from 4-6pm. For tickets, go to www.abettheatre.com or call 249-7177.

Dervish, one of the world's most imaginative interpreters of Irish folk music and recently recognized with a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, have confirmed a new tour of North America this spring. Having devoted the last three decades to gently reinventing the traditional songs of their homeland, Dervish were widely celebrated in 2019 for their album The Great Irish Songbook which featured such luminaries as Vince Gill, Rhiannon Giddens, Steve Earle and others. On this new tour the group will play songs from the album among various tunes performed throughout their career as well as fan favorites.

The Grand Theatre has announced its 2020/2021 Season. Running from September 2020 to May 2021, it is a season that includes a grand re-opening of refreshed and updated lobby spaces, performances in ten venues that span both our city and the country, partnerships with Neptune Theatre and Shaw Festival, and the return of a record-breaking, made-in-London production. It will be a season of what Artistic Director Dennis Garnhum describes as a?oea highly-eclectic journey to unexpected and unexplored territory. The Grand will be in ten different venues across the country. You will see us in places you would never expecta?"from a circus tent, to a coffee shop, from intimate studio theatres, to the largest national stagesa?"it is a season of bold and exciting theatre that we are proud to present.a??

SOUVENIR comes to ABET this March!

With 'a crash of drums, a flash of light,' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the internationally acclaimed musical/dance extravaganza explodes on The Jersey Shore Arts Center stage in Ocean Grove. Produced by NENAproductions Theater Project, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's opens on Friday, March 6, with performances Fridays and Saturdays through March 15 at 7:30 PM with a matinee on Sunday, March16 at 3 PM. The Arts Center is located at 66 Main Street, in Neptune, at the entrance to Ocean Grove, NJ.

SWANS have announced a European Summer Tour, following a European Spring tour ​​​​​​​and North American tour in late Spring/early Summer. This Summer they're performing a series of festivals and dates throughout August before returning to the UK for a tour that will include Brighton, Bristol, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Manchester and Liverpool. The band will perform at London's Islington Assembly Hall on 28 August, a return to the city after three sold out shows at EartH from 25-27 May - full dates below.

I'm only recently discovering my own musical identity outside of the things I listened to in my parents' cars growing up. I discovered The Secret Sisters around the same time I discovered horror movies, around the same time I discovered a new kind of higher-stakes storytelling. “You Don't Own Me Anymore” was a masterclass in harmony and tension. It was a collection of those kinds of higher-stakes stories; the haunting beauty of a song about murdering your child taught me more about writing a character than pretty much any play or movie or TV show I've ever watched; naming and admonishing Davey White on “He's Fine” showed me an unapologetic way to channel anger and heartbreak. The whole album shrieks unapology, except it's not shrieking; it's speaking quietly but pointedly, in harmony and in unity. The title song is anthemic. It's feminine angst; less loud but more directly expressive than any other album of its kind I'd ever heard.

Allen MacInnis has announced that he will step down as Artistic Director of Toronto's Young People's Theatre (YPT) at the end of the 2020.21 season, after 19 outstanding years. He is the longest-serving Artistic Director in the theatre's 54-year history as North America's oldest a?" and Canada's largest a?" professional producer and presenter of theatre for young audiences.

Rising London artist Khushi premieres the abstract visual for 'This Is, Pt. II,' featured on his debut album Strange Seasons. The new release serves as a continuation to Khushi's creative 'This Is, Pt. I' video, which was released last year and sparked an official remix from Khushi's friend and collaborator, GRAMMY Award-winning artist James Blake. Khushi's music has also generated support from NPR, TIME, Complex, Interview Magazine and many more. Watch Khushi perform live this spring as a part of Ásgeir's North American tour (see full dates below).

International drag performer and global fashion icon Violet Chachki has announced her debut North American tour A Lot More Me. She'll take her one-woman show across the country from April 21 through May 31. Tickets go on-sale on Friday at 10 AM EST at VioletChachki.com.

Today, the Brooklyn-based trio Wilsen released a new single 'Align' ahead of their new album Ruiner out this Friday, February 21 via Secret City Records / Dalliance Recordings. The Fader said, 'It's a record defined by its restraint, each song seemingly bursting at its seems but never rising in volume above a heady but muffled swirl, always anchored by Tamsin Wilson's whisper-clear voice.' Ruiner has just received 4 star reviews by MOJO, The Line of Best Fit and The Sun in the UK days before being officially released.

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has shared 'Lilacs,' the latest single and video from her highly anticipated new album, Saint Cloud, out March 27th worldwide.

It's a provincial holiday on P.E.I. today and to celebrate, Confederation Centre of the Arts is offering a special 'Islander Day' sale for Charlottetown Festival tickets. Artistic Director Adam Brazier has also announced the casting of four of the lead roles in Anne of Green Gablesa?"The Musical.

Today, the acclaimed indie-pop duo Tennis has released their highly anticipated fifth studio album, SWIMMER via their own Mutually Detrimental label. Produced by Tennis and mixed by four-time GRAMMY® Award-nominee Claudius Mittendorfer (Panic! At The Disco, Parquet Courts), SWIMMERsees the Denver, CO-based husband and wife duo of Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore elevating their distinctive pop approach to heretofore unexplored new heights, experimenting with atypical instrumentation, complex time changes, and an increased focus on lyrical storytelling fueled in part by a series of life-changing experiences that only served to strengthen their already powerful personal and creative bond. As with their 2011 debut album, CAPE DORY, and their acclaimed fourth LP, 2017's YOURS CONDITIONALLY, the new album was written largely on the sea, this time during a four-month sailing excursion in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico as well as Tennis' own Denver, CO recording studio.

Grammy and Tony Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, author and actor Leslie Odom, Jr. has unveiled the music video for “Go Crazy.” 

Can audiences 'handle the truth?' That is the pivotal question at the centre of the famed legal drama A Few Good Men, which opens the highly-anticipated 2020 Season at the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse. The hit play about military corruption and the quest for justice will be on stage for three weeks only from March 4 to March 22.

Cyn returns today with a fiery new track, 'Lonely Gun,' her contribution to the official soundtrack for the Margot Robbie-lead 'Birds Of Prey' film, which is out today. The soundtrack, also out today via Atlantic Records, is jam-packed with an ALL-STAR cast of powerhouse female artists including Lauren Jauregui, K.Flay, Halsey, Megan Thee Stallion, Normani, Doja Cat and more. 'Lonely Gun' was co-written by Cyn and produced by Matias Mora. Listen to it below!