Review: Stevie Nicks Bristow, VA

all words: John Thornley
all photos: Lauren Bulbin

Stevie Nicks is a rock'n'roll woman. Her performance on Saturday night only enforced that. Playing to a pavilion only crowd at Jiffy Lube Live, she swept through 4 decades of hits while also promoting songs off her new album, "In Dreams." Watching the crowd file in for the show there was mix of good ole southern MD and VA types, smoking up in their cars while listening to Fleetwood Mac pre-show, to the "Leather and Lace" types that seem to have their Bella Donna era costumes on lock.

Full Review Here + loads of photos

NEW DATE: Stevie Nicks Live at the Mountain Winery Oct 5th

STEVIE NICKS LIVE

The Mountain Winery

Saratoga, CA
October 5, 2011

Tickets on sale Friday 10am

Ticketmaster

Onsale to General Public
Start: Fri, 09/09/10 10:00 AM PDT

Presale
Start: Wed, 09/07/11 10:00 AM PDT
End: Thu, 09/08/11 10:00 PM PDT

US $75.00 - US $250.00
US $75.00 Ticket + US $14.90 Fees = US $89.90
US $250.00 Ticket + US $26.00 Fees = US $276.00

Stevie Nicks Live at The Fillmore San Francisco Oct 8 & 9

STEVIE NICKS LIVE 

The Fillmore
San Francisco, CA

October 8th & 9th, 2011

Onsale to General Public

Start: Fri, 09/09/11 10:00 AM PDT

US $102.50

US $102.50 Ticket + US $18.00 Fees = US $120.50

Livenation Oct 8th | Livenation Oct 9th

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Review: Stevie Nicks Jones Beach

Stevie Nicks w/Michael Grimm
Nikon Theater At Jones Beach
Sunday, September 4

Better than: A radio stuck on the classic rock station.

"Welcome, Jones Beach," Stevie Nicks said before her second song on Sunday night, the last night for both her current mini-tour and the Long Island oceanfront amphitheater's 2011 season. "If you know me, you know there's nowhere I'd rather be than the ocean. I love it here." The crowd—even those people flouting her request to not hoist their cameraphones and get video of her performance that night—cheered.

For the rest of the evening—a 14-song set almost evenly split between her back catalog's most memorable songs and selections from this year's In Your Dreams—Nicks and the audience kept up this rapport, with her at one point wishing that she had another hour tacked on to the show to tell her stories; that the audience consistently responded to her reminiscences about the distant and recent past in kind, even breaking out into whoops and applause when she merely mentioned the Aspen mountains that had inspired Fleetwood Mac's monster hit "Landslide," was a pretty convincing sign that the feeling was mutual. (This even though the weather conditions were such that every audience member could feel as if they, too, were standing in front of a wind machine. Solidarity!) In her inimitable voice, she offered up the backstory for her military spouse's lament "Soldier's Angel" and tagged it with a plea to donate to the USO; she lost herself in the music, shimmying and twirling and giving her musicians Dances Of Stevie's Veils when they soloed; she gave a splendid introduction to her opening act Michael Grimm, a former America's Got Talent winner who'd pulled off a pleasant, if somewhat reserved, set of Stevie Ray-leaning blues-rock earlier in the evening.

By Maura Johnston

Full Review at the Village Voice

Lindsey Buckingham on His New Solo Album and the Fleetwood Mac ‘Machine’

Lindsey Buckingham on His New Solo Album and the Fleetwood Mac ‘Machine’

As a singer and songwriter for Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham has produced some of the most well-loved and commercially successful songs in the history of pop music. But he still considers himself an outsider. “The fringe is where my heart is,” he told us. Today he demonstrates his indie spirit by putting out his first ever non-major-label release, the solo album Seeds We Sow. We spoke with Buckingham about balancing creativity with domesticity, his new approach to writing lyrics, and keeping the peace within Fleetwood Mac.

Full Article Here

NEW DATE: Lindsey Buckingham Live in Albany Nov 2nd

Lindsey Buckingham Live

in Albany, NY

The Egg Performing

Arts Center

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Tickets on sale Sept 9th

Ticket Prices: $32.50 - $55.00

The Egg

NEW DATE: Lindsey Buckingham Live in Tulsa Nov. 14th

Lindsey Buckingham Live 

in Tulsa, OK

November 14, 2011

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Tickets on sale September 29th

Ticket Prices: $45

TULSA, Okla. – Lindsey Buckingham left his mark on legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac and has since built an international following as a solo performer. On Nov. 14, the guitarist will perform at The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa.

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NEW on iTunes: Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow" with Bonus Track

Finally!  Something on itunes in North America!

Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow"

Includes one bonus track:

"Sleeping Around The Corner"

iTunes

Review: Lindsey Buckingham Seeds We Sow ★★★/5 Rollingstone Mag

Lindsey Buckingham
Seeds We Sow
Mind Kit
★★★/5

Lindsey Buckingham's 2008 Gift of Screws, assembled with some of his Fleetwood Mac compadres, was a shockingly good set from a dude who hardly needed to prove anything. This self-released and -produced LP is a true solo affair. The best moments - the title track, the Rumours-echoing "Rock Away Blind" - show a sweet guitar picker, a haunting high-tenor and an unmistakable melodic touch. But the recording suffers from thin, uneven sound and, on tracks like "Stars Are Crazy," a surfeit of muddling reverb. Sometimes a man needs to go it alone, but sometimes it's good to bring your buds.

By WILL HERMES
Rollingstone Magazine

Review: Lindsey Buckingham Seeds We Sow ★★★ 1/2 out of 4 Chicago Tribune

In the increasing down time between Fleetwood Mac tours and albums, Lindsey Buckingham has become unusually prolific as a solo artist, doubling his career output in the last five years by producing three albums. The latest, “Seeds We Sow” (Eagle Rock Entertainment), is essentially a one-man-band affair, with Buckingham donning his mad-scientist lab coat to orchestrate mood swings on voice, guitar and percussion.

Unencumbered by the commercial and ego demands in Mac, Buckingham affirms his talent for turning eccentricity into twisted pop songs. He tackles big themes: how time reveals consequences; the grudging arrival of enlightenment. He favors undulating guitars, voices woven into choirs, a shimmering sense of space. Not that he’s gone soft. Instead, he’s restless, anxious, as exemplified by the protagonist in “Stars Are Crazy” who awakens in the middle of the night to torture himself with questions he can’t answer.

The turbulence lurking just beneath the surface crashes through on “One Take,” a nasty song about a despicable character (A politician? A rock star?  Buckingham himself?) who’s “got a publicist who covers up the avarice.” The jumpy beat gives way to a lovely vocal interlude, only to have Buckingham shatter the fine china with a crazed guitar solo.

Buckingham has a knack for disrupting beauty, intruding on the serene. A deceptively hushed vocal brings “Seeds We Sow” to a seething finish. Tense guitar-playing and furtive percussion overtake “In Our Own Time.” And even as mortality closes in on “End of Time,” the narrator still can’t let go of the lies and hostility that wrecked a relationship.

A cover of the Rolling Stones’ “She Smiled Sweetly” makes for a particularly apt closer. The guitarist is a huge fan of the Stones’ mid-‘60s pop era, a time of gloriously jaded singles and social commentaries. He plays “She Smiled Sweetly” as a sparse, haunted, 3 a.m. reckoning, exhaling the lines as if he were expiring. “Don’t worry,” the song’s femme fatale advises as the narrator stresses out, his fate sealed.


Greg Kot - Music critic
Chicago Tribune

AN EVENING WITH LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM - DUBLIN AND BELFAST CONCERT DATES CONFIRMED

Lindsey Buckingham has just confirmed two intimate Irish concert dates. An Evening With Lindsey Buckingham comes to the Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Thursday 15th December and The Waterfront, Belfast on Friday 16th December. Tickets for both concerts will go on sale this Friday 9th September at 9.00am.

Lindsey Buckingham has accomplished almost everything that can be done in rock 'n' roll, earning a spot in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with Fleetwood Mac, winning countless awards, selling out venues around the world, and helping define the sound of rock for the last 3 decades. He's the predominant musical force behind such Mac albums as Rumours and the innovative Tusk, and has created a critically acclaimed body of solo work that yielded the hits, 'Trouble,' 'Go Insane,' and 'Holiday Road.

An Evening With Lindsey Buckingham

Olympia Theatre, Dublin - Thursday 15 December

The Waterfront, Belfast - Friday 16 December

Tickets On Sale Friday 9th September at 9.00am

A number of special VIP Packages will also be available for Dublin and Belfast and can be purchased via Ticketmaster. Details as follows:

MEET & GREET WITH SOUND 
* Exclusive Meet & Greet with Lindsey Buckingham before the show
* Attendance at the Sound Check
* Front row ticket to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert
* Photo opportunity
* Signing opportunity
* Official tour programme
* Commemorative VIP laminate
* Event Manager in attendance

Lindsey Buckingham Meet & Greet with Sound Dublin €429.00

Lindsey Buckingham Meet & Greet with Sound Belfast £375.00

SOUND CHECK
* Exclusive opportunity to attend the Sound Check
* Ticket in the first three rows to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert
* Official tour programme
* Commemorative VIP laminate
* Event Manager in attendance

Lindsey Buckingham Sound Check Dublin €259.00

Lindsey Buckingham Sound Check Belfast  £225.00

Artist | Date | Venue | Price | Tickets
Lindsey Buckingham Thu 15 Dec, 2011 Olympia Theatre, Dublin from €44.05
Lindsey Buckingham Fri 16 Dec, 2011 The Waterfront, Belfast from £35.00

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