Sony Legacy to release “Red Velvet Car” by Heart

New picture!

Red Velvet Car will be released on Sony Legacy, according to this article! Thanx to Seattleboy for this great news! In the meanwhile Heart’s management has confirmed it’s the label for “Red Velvet Car”!

The band is touring to drum up anticipation for their upcoming 13th studio album, Red Velvet Car, scheduled for release this summer on Sony Legacy. “I like to say we went to the University of Ben Mink,” says Wilson of the recording of Red Velvet Carunder the Canadian producer. “There’s a level he expects and likes to achieve that took us farther musically, I think, than we’ve gone for a long time, and we were ready to go there.” Mink, the longtime collaborator of k.d. lang, had worked on Ann Wilson’s solo album Hope & Glory in 2006. As with that album, he helped the sisters craft songs for Red Velvet Car that used warmer, old-fashioned tube amps, and encouraged the band to cut as much of the music live in the studio as possible. ”That’s kind of one of the more missing-in-action things these days in music,” says Wilson. “It’s the sound of people having a musical conversation together at the same time so that its not a digital construct of a digital conversation. It’s an actual conversation with people responding to each other as players. The release of Red Velvet Car will be accompanied by a concert DVD of the same name, featuring live performances of several of the new songs as well ’70s rockers like “Magic Man” and “Crazy on You” and ’80s chart hits like “Alone” and “What About Love.” The DVD also features a guest appearance by Allison Krauss, who sings on “These Dreams” and a version of “Your Long Journey” off of her Robert Plant collaboration Raising Sand.

Also a new picture can be seen on thefair.com, where you also find news about their September 25th performance on the Puyallup Fair in Washington State.

Heart to play “An Evening with Women” to support LGBT community

Ann & Nancy Wilson

May 1st 2010, Beverly Hilton Los Angeles! Click here for more information. As this is a charity event, tickets start at 300 dollars.

An Evening with Women is an annual event that raises much-needed funds for the women-specific services of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. This year’s event, held for the second year in the posh International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, will be steeped in rock ’n' roll chic and include a hosted reception, dinner, star-studded show and auction of unique, exclusive and exotic items.

In 2010, Heart will be releasing their first new album in six years. Red Velvet Car, produced by Grammy-winning Canadian producer, Ben Mink, and supported by a headline tour of the United States and Canada, and a full slate of television appearances.

New tourdate for Ohio

OHIO!!!!

August 5th 2010, 7 pm, Ohio State Fair, Columbus OH

On Sale Saturday, March 20 at Noon $30

ALSO: Heart is playing Thunder Bay Community Auditorium in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada on July 20th

3 Canadian dates in March!

A&N

March 8 – Victoria, BC – Save On Foods Center
March 9 – Vancouver, BC – Orpheaum

Heart will be playing the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Center, in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada on March 10, 2010.

These dates will have songs from the upcoming album on the setlist.

Have fun!

Press release:

Return to British Columbia where it all began with concerts in Victoria & Vancouver

Tickets on sale Monday, February 8 AT 10AM

CALGARY, Feb. 5 /CNW/ – Concerts North Ltd. is pleased to bring legendary rockers HEART to Victoria, March 8 at the Save On Foods Memorial Centre and in Vancouver, March 9 at the Orpheum. Tickets for both performances go on-saleMonday, February 8 at 10 AM.

Ann Wilson and her younger sister, Nancy first showed the world that women can rock when their band HEART stormed the charts in the ’70s with hits like “Crazy on You,” “Magic Man,” “Barracuda,” “Straight On,” “Even It Up,” and “Kick It Out”. They continued topping the charts through the ’80s and ’90s with huge hits like “These Dreams,” “Alone,” “What About Love,” “If Looks Could Kill,” and “Never”.

HEART started their career in British Columbia, where the group’s first record “Dreamboat Annie” was written, recorded and first released in Canada on Mushroom Records in 1976. Since then, HEART has sold more than 30 million records, have garnered 21 top 40 hits, sold out arenas worldwide, and had a profound influence on rock music. HEART was also ranked No. 57 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”.

In the mid-’90s, Ann and Nancy returned to Seattle and formed The Lovemongers, with long-time collaborator Sue Ennis and performer Frank Cox. After playing a number of sold-out shows in Seattle, Lovemongers cut Led Zeppelin’s “Battle of Evermore” for the triple platinum soundtrack from the movie Singles, which was one of Nancy’s first of five soundtrack collaborations with filmmaker Cameron Crowe.

Ann and Nancy reunited as HEART in early 2002, during which time they released a critically acclaimed live concert film on DVD and CD, Heart Alive In Seattle, followed in 2004 by Jupiters Darling, the first new HEART studio album in a decade. Classic Rock magazine hailed Jupiters Darling as a career tour de force, calling it “the only record you need to buy this year.”

HEART is currently in the studio with Grammy winning producer, Ben Mink, working on a new CD for release later this year. HEART’S performances in Victoria and Vancouver will feature brand new tracks from the upcoming currently untitled album, as well as their powerhouse hits.

Heart on May 30th at Raley Field Sacramento

Sacred!

Heart and Sammy Hagar will headline the Walk N’ Rock for Kids Benefit Concert on Sunday, May 30th at Raley Field. The event, which will also include a 5k walk starting and ending at Raley Field, will benefit Hope Productions, a foundation created to support youth and children’s charities in greater Sacramento.

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Thanx to skbrash for the scoop!

Reuters: Ann, Nancy Wilson In Harmony on Next Heart Album

Studio NEWS!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock ‘n’ roll sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have been making music together for more than 30 years, but they have rarely shared the vocal spotlight.

Ann did most of the singing, while guitarist Nancy occasionally contributed backing vocals. The formula served them well, producing such classic-rock chestnuts as “Barracuda” and “Crazy on You.”

But things will be a little different for the group’s next album, on which they are currently working. Nancy will take a greater share of the vocal duties as the sisters experiment more with harmonies.

“It’s just a way of reinventing, and having more fun, and taking some of the pressure off of Ann as a singer,” her younger sister said in a recent interview with Reuters.

“As you probably can imagine, her voice is really a gift from above. It’s an instrument like few others. To couch a vocal style together more would be something fresh and new and more fun. Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!”

Wilson described her vocal style as “more limited,” although she has sung lead on a handful of tunes including the 1985 chart-topping power ballad “These Dreams.” The sisters also notably traded off each other on their cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Battle of Evermore.”

“I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads I always covet the chance. But it’s always got to be the perfect fit for a voice like mine,” she said.

LABEL WOES

The Wilsons are taking their time with the album, but hope it will come out in the summer of 2010. The last Heart album, “Jupiters Darling,” was released independently in 2004 after the band ended a lengthy stint at Capitol, and quickly disappeared from rock music.

“There was no clout and there was no real thrust behind it (the record) after we’d worked so hard,” Wilson said. “We’re just really looking skeptically at all the (label) options right now.”

So far, they have recorded about eight songs, and will return to the studio in a few weeks with producer Ben Mink, who is best known as k.d. lang’s collaborator.

Wilson described the songs so far as “very personal, very honest, vital … not always super-serious either. But quite romantic. Leaning toward poetic as hard as we can!”

Perhaps like many other musicians, it’s hard for the Wilsons to escape the nagging feeling that all the hard work in the studio might be for naught given that few people seem to buy albums anymore. In moments of self-doubt, Wilson has to remind herself of the therapeutic benefits of music.

“I’ve been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It’s a healing thing, and it’s a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing. I like my job. I’ll work my butt off to do something well.”

To that end, the Wilsons and their four-person band maintain a vigorous touring schedule. A co-headlining tour with Journey is scheduled to begin in July.