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EASYSTAR.COM RELAUNCHED
We are very pleased to present the newly designed Easy Star website, which went live on August 24th. To kick off the new site, we have brought back our popular contest, so see if you can guess what will be the next classic album The Easy Star All-Stars are going to tackle and win prizes. Make sure you launch our Easy Star Radio so you can listen to our latest tracks while you check out our expanded Photos pages, our popular New York Reggae Scene page, as well as our new Media and Video sections. In the coming months, we will be adding lots of new content to the site so keep checking back. You also can utilize RSS feeds to keep current with what is happening. More info »

ESAS TOUR UK & BEYOND IN OCTOBER
The Easy Star All-Stars will be returning to the UK and Ireland and playing their first ever shows in Holland and Belgium this coming October. The band's tour kicks off October 15 at the legendary Melkweg in Amsterdam before moving on to Nijmegen, Holland and Brussels, Belgium. From there, the band will jet to the UK to play 13 more shows all around the Kingdom and 1 show in Dublin. This includes the band's first ever show at London's Shepherd Bush Empire, along with stops in Brighton, Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, Glasgow, Southampton and more. Opening all shows in the UK will be Ed Rome, who brings classic British songwriting to the classic sounds of Jamaica. Two of the shows (London and Bristol) will also feature a performance by PAMA INTL. The All-Stars will be playing material from Dub Side of the Moon, Radiodread, Until That Day and perhaps debuting a song from the next tribute album that they have been secretly working on. All of the show dates and info can be found on the tour page. More info »

PRE-ORDER AMPLIFY
You can now pre-order the brand new studio album from John Brown's Body! The progressive reggae band's sixth studio album comes out in the US, Canada and Japan on September 30 and features recent live favorites like "Give Yourself Over," "Zion Triad," and "Be At Peace," along with nine other groundbreaking tracks and a guest appearance by Vaughn Benjamin of Midnite. Place your pre-orders quickly because the first 200 copies will be signed by the band and they'll go fast. You can also pick up a new shirt or a tank top for women (offered for the first time ever in this pre-order) for only $12 more. Plus, if you pre-order, you will automatically be entered into a contest with a chance to win tickets to upcoming shows on the band's fall tour. One grand prize winner will get to pick the band's set list at the show they go to. Click here to pre-order. More info »

ESAS IN BC
The Easy Star All-Stars just got back from a fun trip to British Columbia in Canada. They played to a sold out audience in Whistler, a near sell out in the beautiful Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, and an enthusiastic crowd at the 9th Annual Victoria Ska Festival. Look for new photos from the trip soon. The band thanks the people of BC for an excellent trip and expects to return in the not-too-distant future. More info »

JBB'S NEW ALBUM COMING
The Easy Star team is very happy to announce the release of the new album from JOHN BROWN’S BODY. AMPLIFY will come out on Easy Star Records September 30, 2008, in North America and Japan (followed by an early 2009 release in all other territories).

AMPLIFY continues an evolution in the band’s sound that started with Spirits All Around Us and continued through the 2005 Easy Star release, Pressure Points. It is an explosive album, featuring twelve tracks of drum & bass-heavy, dub-inflected electro grooves that make up the sound JBB is known for, with a forward-thinking, fearless approach to tempos, feel, and beats that expands the genre of roots reggae as a whole. Songs that have become recent live showstoppers like “Give Yourself Over,” “Zion Triad,” and “Push Some Air” are included, as well as many new songs guaranteed to move both long time fans and new converts, such as “Speak Of The Devil,” which features a vocal collaboration with Midnite’s Vaughn Benjamin.

JBB’s last album, Pressure Points, represented one more step moving the band from its roots reggae beginnings towards a more envelope-pushing, futuristic sound. Since then, JBB has gone through significant changes—including the death of bassist Scott Palmer (which is addressed in the song “Ghost Notes,” a touching track that evokes his spirit over music Bon Iver and Steel Pulse might have written had they produced a song together), as well as throat surgery for lead singer Elliot Martin and the departure of several band members. Emerging out of these changes, the band’s new line-up is an astonishingly focused and more experimental outfit ready to rock their fans like never before.

AMPLIFY will be available for pre-order through Easy Star’s web store in mid-July. Look for more info on the pre-order and other JBB news soon. JBB has already scheduled a number of shows in July and August, with a full US tour planned from late September through the end of the year. Dates will be announced in the coming weeks. More info »

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