The Go-Go's Notebook: April 2011

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

2011 Capitol/I.R.S. Press Release

April 26, 2011

PR Newswire, New York. Anonymous. Source: Capitol/I.R.S.

The Go-Go's 1981 landmark debut, Beauty and the Beat, remastered and expanded for 30th anniversary edition to be released May 17th by Capitol/I.R.S.; 2 CDs & two digital collections feature exclusive, previously unreleased concert recordings; remastered original album to be reissued on pink vinyl; the Go-Go's Ladies Gone Wild cross the U.S. this summer.

Excerpt from article:

Hollywood, Calif., The Go-Go's double platinum debut album, Beauty and the Beat. Beauty and the Beat was the Go-Go's debut album, released in 1981 by I.R.S. Records. The album hit #1 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart, and was the first album to top the charts by an all-female band that wrote and performed its own songs. The album's singles, 'Our Lips Are Sealed' and 'We Got the Beat' also charted in several countries, fueling album sales of more than two million in the U.S. alone. Beauty and the Beat is considered on the the decade's defining albums and it is on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of Al Time.

The Go-Go's will hit the road this summer on their Ladies Gone Wild tour, a national U.S. trek with the legendary Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Jane Wiedlin and Kathy Valentine. The tour will include a very special Los Angeles homecoming show at the Greek Theater on August 17, Belinda's birthday. An exclusive VIP package will be available in most tour markets for fans to meet and band and purchase limited edition merchandise. In August, the Go-Go's will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Last summer the Go-Go's had scheduled a farewell tour which was subsequently canceled when guitarist Jane Wiedlin required surgery after suffering injury to her knees in a hiking fall. During the band's time off, they decided they were not quite ready to hand up their instruments and set to work preparing for this summer's 30th Anniversary spectacular Ladies Gone Wild.

Their story truly is a punk version of the American Dream. They came, they saw and they conquered the charts and airwaves with their kicky kitsch and sparking California appeal, five feisty role models for future generations of ready-to-rock girls. From their current status as superstars who pioneered a genre, the Go-Go's preside over an amazing three-decade reign as high priestesses of pop.

Today, the Go-Go's live show continue to deliver every bit of the raw energy of their now-legendary punk beginnings, tempered with the wisdom of three decades of pop perfection. Don't miss the celebration and a chance to go wild with the ladies of the Go-Go's.

The Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat 2 CD; digital collection.

Disc 1 (original album, remastered)

1. Our Lips Are Sealed
2. How Much More
3. Tonite
4. Lust To Love
5. This Town
6. We Got the Beat
7. Fading Fast
8. Automatic
9. You Can't Walk in Your Sleep
10 Skidmarks On Your Heart
11. Can't Stop the World

Disc 2 (Live at the Metro in Boston, 1981 - All tracks previously unreleased)

1. Skidmarks On Your Heart
2. How Much More
3. Tonite
4. Fading Fast
5. London Boys
6. Cool Jerk
7. Automatic
8. Lust To Love
9. Can't Stop the World
10. This Town
11. You Can't Walk in Your Sleep
12. Our Lips Are Sealed
13. Let's Have a Party
14. We Got the Beat
15. Surfing and Spying
16. (Remember) Walking in the Sand
17. Vacation

The Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat (Digtal Collection 2)

1. Our Lips are Sealed
2. How Much More
3. Tonite
4. Lust to Love
5.This Town
6. We Got the Beat
7. Fading Fast
8. Automatic
9. You Can't Walk In Your Sleep
10. Skidmarks On My Heart
11. Can't Stop The World
12. Skidmarks On My Heart (live)
13. Can't Stop The Worlk (live)
14. Our Lips Are Sealed (live)
15. Let's Have a Party (live)
16. We Got the Beat (live)

The Go-Go's 2011 Ladies Gone Wild Tour

May

29 Hershey, PA Hershey Theater

June

1 Morristown, NJ Community Theater at Mayo Center Center for the Performing Arts
3 New York, NY Irving Plaza
4 Atlantic City, NJ House of Blues
5 Mashantucket CT MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods
7 Westbury, NY Theater at Westbury
9 Boston, MA Bank of America Pavilion
10 Vienna, VA Wolf Trap for the Performing Arts
11 Orlando, FL Universal Studios Florida Music Plaza Stage
14 Apple Valley, MN Zoo Amphitheater
16 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theater
17 Highland Park, IL Ravinia Festival
18 Kettering, OH Fraze Pavilion for the Performing Arts

August

12 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
13 Portland, OR Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre
14 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo
16 San Francisco The Fillmore
17 Los Angeles The Greek Theater
20 Temecula, CA Pechanga Resort & Casino
23 Aspen, CO Belly Up
24 Denver, CO Ogden Theater
26 Dallas, TX House of Blues
27 Houston, TX House of Blues
28 Austin, TX Paramount Theater

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

2011 April Web Notes

April 27, 2011

San Francisco Citizen: OMG, The Go-Go's are Back and They're Going to Play the Fillmore August 16, 2011.

April 27, 2011

Undercover News: The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat to be Reissued
by Paul Cashmire

April 26, 2011

Digital Journal: The Go-Go's are Back on Tour
by KJ Mullins

April 2011

95.5 WPLJ - New York Radio
ABC News Radio
Go-Go's to Release 30th Anniversary Edition of Beauty & the Beat, Lauch Summer Tour

March 28, 2011

Bust.com - The Go-Go's On Tour!
by Kristina Uriegas-Reyes

Friday, April 22, 2011

2011 April Press Notes

April 5, 2011

Animalistic Lineup at the Zoo Startribune.com (Minneapolis Star Tribune) by Chris Riemenschneider

Excerpt from the article:

Add Los Lobos, Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken" and the ‘Ladies Gone Wild Tour’ by the Go-Go’s to all the critters, including the Monkees, appearing at this year's Music in the Zoo series.While concerts by the Monkees and Florence & the Machine were previously announced, most of the shows in the Minnesota Zoo's 19th annual outdoor concert series were revealed Monday. Joining the Monkees' July 1-2 gigs on the reunion circuit were the Go-Go’s for the season's opening show June 14, plus Boyz II Men Aug. 18. In the way-back flashback department comes the so-called Hippiefest on Aug. 21 with Dave Mason (of Traffic), Rick Derringer, Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad) and Felix Cavalieri of the Rascals, while jazzmen David Sanborn, George Duke and Marcus Miller will land together Aug. 8.

April 14, 2011

Band Still Go-Going Strong The Daily News Lebanon, PA (Anonymous)

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Hershey Theatre has announced that the Go-Go's will kick off their national tour in Hershey on Sunday, May 29, at 7:30 p.m.Tickets for this show are $120, which includes a meet-and-greet; $65, $60 and $45 (processing fees apply) and are available at Hershey Theatre box office. They can be charged by phone at 534-3405 and online at www.HersheyTheatre.com.

Thirty years after the release of Beauty and the Beat, their double-platinum debut album that featured such smash hits as "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat," the Go-Go's and their fans are preparing for a slew of 30th-anniversary activities for the summer of 2011 and beyond.

Kicking off the festivities will be Ladies Gone Wild a national U.S. tour with the band's members: Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Jane Wiedlin and Kathy Valentine.
This summer will also see the release of a deluxe edition of Beauty and the Beat,available May 17 from EMI, including a limited edition on hot-pink vinyl. The deluxe edition includes a bonus audio CD that features previously unreleased music from a 1981 live show.

In 1981, the Go-Go's delivered Beauty and the Beat hot on the heels of their debut U.S. single, "Our Lips Are Sealed." The album hit No. 1, the first by an all-female band that wrote and performed their own songs to make it to the top of the Billboard charts.

Today, the Go-Go's live show continues to deliver the raw energy of their now-legendary punk beginnings, tempered with the wisdom of three decades of pop perfection, according to one critic.
For more information about the Go-Go's visit their website at www.GoGos.com

April 28, 2011

Single Tickets for Music in the Zoo Shows Available Monday

Anonymous. Saint Paul Pioneer Press. Saint Paul, Minn

Excerpt from article:

Single tickets for the bulk of the shows in this summer's Music in the Zoo series - from the Go-Go's to Gaelic Storm - will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday through Ticketmaster. Mow in its 19th season, Music in the Zoo features rain-or-shine sows in the Minnesota Zoo's out door Weesner Family Amphitheatre.

Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre tickets Saint Paul, MN.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

2011 (March/April) Web Notes

New Publicity Photo

March 16, 2011

Jane Wiedlin: 'When the Go-Go's Started, We Were Terrible Musicians' Ultimate Guitar.com

March 27, 2011

New Go-Go web site !!! www.gogos.com

March 31, 3011

PerezHilton announces upcoming Go-Go's tour

April 6, 2011

Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion Power Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Open May 13, 2011 - February 26, 2012 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum: Floors 5 & 6

April 11, 2011

Valentine Hoppin' Mad after latest Go-Go's snub by Rock Hall Austin 360.com by Michael Corcoran

April 13, 2011

Why the Go-Go's Matter in Rock History. The Ben Franklin Follies by Sheree

April 18, 2011

Martha Quinn Presents Interview with Kathy Valentine

April 22, 2011

The Rock Hall address that GoGo's Problem. Scene Magazine: CleveScene.com by Michael Galluci

April 25, 2011

Spinning Platters interview with Jane Wiedlin

April 26, 011

Gary Leonard: Selling Out @ 60. LA Weekly Slideshows

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

2011 Feb - March Press Notes

February 17, 2011

Go-Go's Singer still Got the Beat Daily News Tweed Heads
N.W.W. (Australian Provincial Newspaper) Anonymous

Excerpt from article:

BELINDA Carlisle is a Grammy Award-nominated American singer and best-selling author and she's bringing her music to audiences on the Tweed and Gold Coast tomorrow night.
Carlisle gained worldwide recognition as the lead vocalist of the most successful all-female band, The Go-Go's, who made history as the first all-female music group to write their own songs and play their own instruments to top the Billboard charts. As part of The Go-Go's, Carlisle sold more than seven million albums with such hits as Our Lips Are Sealed, We Got the Beat, Vacation, Head Over Heels, Can't Stop the World and many others.
She later went on to a successful solo career that spawned hits such as Mad About You, Summer Rain, I Get Weak, Leave a Light On and Heaven is a Place On Earth, which topped the charts internationally.
Her autobiography, Lips Unsealed, reached number 27 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
And now Carlisle is touring Australia.
Her first venture into music was as the drummer for the LA punk band The Germs, under the name Dottie Danger. It didn't last long and so she left and joined The Go-Go's. After the initial break-up of The Go-Go's in 1985, Belinda picked herself up, dusted herself off and embarked upon a solo career. Her first solo album, Belinda, was released in 1986 and it was also that year she married Morgan Mason, son of the British actor James Mason.
Carlisle flaunted her glamorous image on the cover of her second album 1987's Heaven on Earth, her second solo album. Critics and fans noticed that not only was her image more glamorous than during her time with The Go-Go's, but also her solo music was more polished.
The new sound was certainly due in part to producer Rick Nowels, who had previously worked with Stevie Nicks and would later work with Madonna among many others.

March 10, 2011

Girl Scouts of the USA and Roland Corporation U.S. Launch National ‘Girls Rock!’ Initiative to Empower Girls Through Music Anonymous. PR Newswire. New York

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The Go-Go's and Former Girl Scout and Disney Star Shelby Spalione Give New Generation the Beat

LOS ANGELES, -- Roland Corporation U.S. and Girl Scouts of the USA have announced the launch of a national Girls Rock! initiative which includes workshops designed to inspire and empower girls through music. Girls Rock! Powered by Roland will reach thousands of Girl Scouts and their parents, delivering the message that you can have a "Better Life with Music." The fun, interactive curriculum co-developed by Roland and Girl Scouts of the USA aims to get girls pumped up about making music and music education. Girls Rock! is designed to provide girls ages 8-14 a hands-on experience playing popular music; an opportunity fewer girls are receiving due to school music budget cuts.

The Go-Go's, the original groundbreaking all-female rock band, are showing support by lending their mega-hit "We Got the Beat" to the curriculum. Charlotte Caffey, Go-Go's guitarist who wrote "We Got the Beat" will be on hand at the Los Angeles launch on March 19. Caffey says, "This year will mark the 30th anniversary of Beauty and the Beat. As a female musician and songwriter and mother of a 16-year-old daughter myself, I love that the Girl Scouts and Roland have partnered to bring girls across the country access to making music. The Go-Go's are thrilled to be a part of the next generation of girls 'getting their beat!'" Former Girl Scout and Disney star Shelby Spalione, previous lead singer of the all-girl teen rock band KSM, inspired by the Go-Gos, will be on hand at each of the workshop locations to sing "We Got the Beat" with the Rockin' Roland Girls Band, to talk to the girls, and inspire them to learn to make their own music and follow their dreams. Spalione, 17, who opened for the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato last year as lead singer of KSM, is currently working on a solo project.

At each workshop, after Spalione and the Rockin' Roland Girls Band performance, girls will then be lead into break-out sessions featuring activities utilizing Roland's Lucina AX-09 Shoulder Synthesizer, HD-1 V-Drums(R) Lite, Rock Band 3, an interactive instrument display, and karaoke station. The curriculum is based on the latest Girl Scout leadership journey: It's Your Story---Tell It!, which uses a storytelling theme in fun and relevant ways to help girls understand themselves and their potential. Building a strong sense of self is an underlying goal of the series, which was made possible by a generous grant from Dove. Roland will also conduct "Better Life with Music" sessions for interested parents and troop leaders, presenting the latest research and information regarding the benefits of music education in the lives of their children.

The Girls Rock! workshop launch will take place in Los Angeles (Girl Scouts of Greater LA) on March 19th, with subsequent workshops in Miami (Girl Scouts Council of Tropical Florida on April 30); Minneapolis (Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys on May 7); Chicago (Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana on May 14) and New York City (Girl Scouts of Greater New York City on May 21). Girl Scouts chapters will offer the workshop in their respective areas on a first-come, first-served basis.

"We know that music is an important part of social and academic development for girls, and that through music we learn to express ourselves and our views," said Chris Bristol, President, Roland Corporation U.S. "Not only does learning to play an instrument boost self-esteem, confidence and a sense of accomplishment, it also generates cognitive development in ways not reached by any other discipline. We're thrilled to partner with Girl Scouts to produce quality workshops that expose girls to the opportunities making music can provide."

"Girl Scouts of the USA believes that girls develop self-esteem through taking action," said Kathy Cloninger, CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA. "Most girls have the desire to play music. Research indicates that the action of making music is a key factor in healthy social and academic development, increasing self-esteem and developing skills needed by the 21st century workforce. We look forward to working with Roland to bring important music making opportunities directly to girls, equipping them with tools necessary to discover, connect, and take action - three keys to leadership and the cornerstone of Girl Scouts of the USA's core values."

Post-workshop tools will be available at RolandUS.com so that chapters across the country can access and re-create Girls Rock! in their own communities. Roland will serve as a liaison between local Girl Scout chapters connecting music retailers and teachers to help provide access to instruments and instruction.

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