Lifehouse has confirmed a new release date for their fifth studio album, Smoke & Mirrors. The album will now hit stores February 2, 2010, and will be available in a standard edition as well as a deluxe edition that will include four additional tracks. In anticipation of the release, however, the band recently debuted the cover art on their official website.
In the meantime, “Halfway Gone” – the first single from Smoke & Mirrors – is rapidly climbing the charts. It is available for purchase now on iTunes.
OneRepublic have released a new song on iTunes called “Good Life” which appears on their forthcoming album Waking Up due out next week. They have been unveiling a new song each week on iTunes as a countdown to the album’s full release on November 17th. (I will have my review on the whole album on Monday! I can’t stop listening to it.)
The band has just announced a brand new headlining tour date at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA on November 18th. Fans in the Southern California area can also help celebrate the release at a CD signing and free performance on November 19th. Visit OneRepublic.net for more information on the concert and event at The Americana at Brand in Glendale, CA.
Serabee is releasing her new EP tomorrow November 10th. I have talked about Serabee before. She has an amazing sound that you haven’t really heard yet. I think that it will get her far. I’ve listened to the whole EP and I love it. I will be buying it tomorrow!
My two favorite songs on the EP were Driving Me Stupid and The Rest Of Me. I love how she sings about how in love you can get…how it can make you feel like you are crazy. And with her soulful and upbeat love songs you are sure to be able to relate to her.
There’s no doubt Serabee’s nomadic musical instincts fan the flames on the fiery self-titled debut. Note perfect and a helluva’ lot of fun, she’s a soul siren who’s not afraid to let loose in ways almost forgotten on contemporary records tempered by auto-tune. Also known for her emotive, uplifting auditions, it was the piano-tinged romp she put on for the executives at Universal republic that would ultimately seal the deal.
“I guess I’ve never been afraid to show what I’ve got,” she smiles, slyly reverting to that wry lyric on “The Rest Of Me”: /’Who cares what I look like under this dress./ I know that you will be impressed….you’ll love the rest of me…’ “
The truly amazing feat is that she was able to pour such an undeniable essence into every groove of her new EP.
Lifehouse announces the release of their fifth studio album Smoke & Mirrors on Geffen Records December 8th. First single “Halfway Gone,” co-written by Lifehouselead singer Jason Wade, Kevin Rudolf (”Let It Rock”) and producer Jude Cole (Rocco Deluca, Beth Orton, MoZella), has already been serviced to radio and is available on all digital outlets now.
With Smoke & Mirrors; lead singer/guitarist Wade, drummer Ricky Woolstenhulme Jr., bassist Bryce Soderberg, producer Cole, and live guitarist Ben Carey have created a set that combines their live sound with great record making.
Smoke & Mirrors showcases two sides of Lifehouse — songs like “Smoke & Mirrors,” “Wrecking Ball” and “Had Enough” (with guest vocals by Chris Daughtry) have a raw and stage driven feel to them capturing the live, rock side of the band; a sound they had perfected after 10 years of solid touring. While tracks like “All In,” “Here Tomorrow Gone Today” and the first single “Halfway Gone” are songs sure to be heard on radio for years to come.
Lifehouse’s multi-platinum 2000 debut, No Name Face, produced “Hanging by a Moment,” a #1 alternative hit which crossed over to become Top 40’s Most Played Song of 2001, while 2002’s Stanley Climbfall solidified the band as a touring force. Their 2005 self-titled platinum effort yielded “You and Me,” a giant hit ballad (Wade, Cole) that set a record by spending more than 60 weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. 2007’s Who We Are, also produced by the Smoke & Mirrors team, included the hits “First Time,” “Whatever It Takes” and “Broken,” which combined sold over 3 million digital downloads. To date Lifehouse has sold over 5 million albums.
