Showing posts with label Walking On A Dream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walking On A Dream. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
EMPIRE OF THE SUN ADDS 3 EXCLUSIVE U.S. SHOWS
In support of their album Walking On A Dream, Empire Of The Sun is proud to announce three exclusive North American tour dates in August in addition to Lollapalooza. Released just last year on Astralwerks, Walking On A Dream’s success has remained unstoppable.
· 7 ARIA Award wins in Australia including Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Best Group and Best Pop Release
· Two Brit Award nominations in February
· An appearance on Jay-Z’s latest album
· Double-Platinum status at home in Australia, Gold status in the UK, and a chart hit worldwide
The electro- psychedelic project is led by Luke Steele, the enigmatic wunderkind behind Australia's The Sleepy Jackson. Exotic, lavish, larger-than-life, Walking On A Dream is a bold, visionary and quite brilliant album, which manages to sound exhilaratingly contemporary, audaciously forward-looking, yet also curiously archaic all at once. The singles “Walking On A Dream”, “We Are The People”, “Standing On The Shore” and “Without You” feature a groundbreaking aesthetic of electronic beats, pop melodies and psychedelic overtones.
Empire Of The Sun’s debut live shows were a talking point across the globe and you can view a snippet of them here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_ja0-lHgE8
“Luke Steele promised to deliver a show that was larger than life, and indeed he did.” –Cairns Post (Australia)
“…brilliantly did the unthinkable by bringing real, rich art to a dance party.” Sydney Morning Herald
“Hot pink square guitars and men in full laboratory jumpsuits were what I spotted on stage, and I knew we were in for something special. Sure enough, when Luke Steele hit the stage his world of dreams exploded with him and I witnessed one of the most stunning debut live performances ever. Beautiful lights, otherworldly video projections, and Luke with his spiky headware and flanked by four costumed dancers, taking to the stage. Pitch perfect, he ran through Empire of the Sun's debut album with costume changes, heavy beats, and a world of intergalactic colour and light filling the stage. The dancers changed costumes almost every song. I pondered to a friend if this was the work of a genius art director but no, this is what is inside Luke Steele's head. Empire of the Sun put so much into their maiden voyage into live performance, and it blew me away.” Zan Rowe, Triple J
Empire Of The Sun US Our Dates:
August 7 Chicago Lollapalooza – Grant Park- Perry’s World Stage
August 8 Toronto Sound Academy - on sale 4/30 @ 10am
August 9 New York, NY Terminal 5 - on sale 4/30 @ 12pm
August 11 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theatre - on sale 5/1 @ 10am
Thursday, April 23, 2009
WALKING ON A DREAM - OUT NOW!!
EMPIRE OF THE SUN'S DEBUT ALBUM WALKING ON A DREAM OUT ON ASTRALWERKS NOW!Empire Of The Sun release their debut album Walking On A Dream on Astralwerks today.
The electro- psychedelic project led by Luke Steele, the enigmatic wunderkind behind Australia's The Sleepy Jackson and Pnau's Nick Littlemore has already reached Platinum status at home in Australia and has been a chart hit worldwide.
Empire Of The Sun's "Walking On A Dream" is this week's iTunes Single of the Week. What does that mean? It means you should head over to iTunes or click the link below and get a free MP3 of the song that was described as "the hottest record in the world" by Zane Lowe's BBC1 Radio show. Enjoy!!
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In addition, "Walking on a Dream" is heating up at Specialty Radio and is currently #5* on the FMQB Singles Chart.
Exotic, lavish, larger-than-life, Empire Of The Sun brings together these two unlikely collaborators from Australian pop. Their friendship which Luke describes as "this fireball of electricity", eventually resulted in Walking On A Dream - a bold, visionary and brilliant album, which manages to sound exhilaratingly contemporary, audaciously forward-looking, yet also curiously archaic all at once. From Nick and Luke's collective unconscious arose a rare marriage of rock and electronica, immediacy and depth, futurism and tradition, hi-tech production and creative spontaneity, pop melody and the cinematic.
The video for "Walking On A Dream" has received over 3.8 million YouTube views. The fantastic video, filmed in Shanghai can be seen here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=
Their new video for "We Are The People", filmed in Mexico has already received over 700,000 YouTube views in just 7 weeks. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
WALKING ON A DREAM MUSIC VIDEO
Watch Walking On A Dream by Empire Of The Sun. The video was shot in Shanghai, China. Directed by Josh Logue of Mathematics. They are my latest music obsession - very MGMT!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
AUSTRALIA HERE I COME!!
I have just 12 more days until my big adventure down under - I'm FREAKING OUT! I have even been getting familiar with the Australian music scene in hopes I get a taste of it when I'm there. And so far I'm liking what Oz has to offer in regards to music. Empire Of The Sun is my latest obsession, and their song "Walking On A Dream" is FAN-EFFING-TASTIC! YOU MUST listen to this song!!
EMPIRE OF THE SUN TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM
WALKING ON A DREAM ON ASTRALWERKS ON APRIL 21, 2009
"World domination quite literally awaits" - NME
Empire Of The Sun - an electro- psychedelic project led by Luke Steele, the enigmatic wunderkind behind Australia's The Sleepy Jackson and Pnau's Nick Littlemore, will release their debut album Walking On A Dream on April 21, 2009 on Astralwerks.
Exotic, lavish, larger-than-life, Empire Of The Sun brings together these two unlikely collaborators from Australian pop. Their friendship which Luke describes as "this fireball of electricity", eventually resulted in Walking On A Dream - a bold, visionary and brilliant album, which manages to sound exhilaratingly contemporary, audaciously forward-looking, yet also curiously archaic all at once. From Nick and Luke's collective unconscious arose a rare marriage of rock and electronica, immediacy and depth, futurism and tradition, hi-tech production and creative spontaneity, pop melody and the cinematic.
Walking On A Dream album and debut single of same name have both already achieved Top 10 status in the band's native Australia and are well on the way to Platinum. Empire Of The Sun has been widely tipped as one of the acts to watch in 2009 by BBC radio and the UK press. They have also received over 5.5 million hits on Myspace for the "Walking On A Dream" video and track and over 1.2 million YouTube views for "Walking On A Dream" video. You can check out the video which was filmed in Shanghai here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=
"Song of the year and it's still only January... "Walking on a Dream" has staked it's claim to that accolade for 2009, setting the bar extremely high for future songs to come..."- Clash
"Ladies and gentlemen we already have a contender for 2009 album of the year"- Guardian
"Already being talked up as one of the albums of the year…" Evening Standard
"4 Stars" - Q
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