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Alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five have announced a second London Brixton Academy show for their December UK tour. Ben Folds Five Tickets (/ben-folds-five-tickets) for the new show are on sale from 9am on Friday 25th May. Click Here to Compare & Buy Ben Folds Five Tickets (/ben-folds-five-tickets).  

When the last Ben Folds Five album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, came out in 1999, Folds, Robert Sledge and Darren Jessee didn’t have iPhones to tend to between songs. Twitter obviously didn’t exist yet, so interacting ...  

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I've started down the musical thing quite a few times, once with Michael Stipe, and we didn't do it, and, actually, the last one I worked on with Stephen Ramis and he musically directed Book of Mormon. The fact he and I didn't work together meant he ended ...  

Ben Folds Five are making a new record, and they're doing it through PledgeMusic, an interesting initiative to let musicians finance their own records with support from fans. Here's a track from the album, scheduled for release sometime this year... YouTube Video  

A lot has changed in the 13 years since the Ben Folds Five last recorded an album. “We didn’t have cell phones last time. It’s true. They were invented, but everyone didn’t carry a cell phone. No one in the band had them and no one in ...  

Be a part of Ben Folds' history. Alt-rock trio Ben Folds Five have launched an interactive pre-sale campaign on PledgeMusic to enable fans to participate in the release of their forthcoming album. Fans will receive exclusive videos, tracks ...  

Here's how things were different the last time Ben Folds Five released an album ... either--in the same way baseball's late-90s power binge put luminaries like Greg Vaughn and Dante Bichette in the company of much better players on the all-time home ...  

Alt-rock trio Ben Folds Five have launched an interactive pre-sale campaign on PledgeMusic to enable fans to participate in the release of their forthcoming album. Fans will receive exclusive videos, tracks, photos and blogs and will be the first to receive the new album. Throughout the campaign, Ben Folds Five will be raising awareness and funding for Music Education and Music Therapy through  

Ben Folds Five are gearing up for their reunion album, and recently they posted a demo from one of those sessions on Ben Folds’ Facebook page. Head below to download the chorus-less jam “Do It Anyway,” a piano-led cut that grows more and more frenetic and pleading as it progresses. Ben Folds Five – “Do [...]  

Folds and bandmates Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge have been at work on a new studio LP, the first Folds record since ‘The Unauthorised Biography Of Reinhold Messner’, and are expected to release it before the year is out.  

"In Nashville, I was running eight miles a day, hanging out with my friends ... On April 28, 2009, Folds released Ben Folds Presents University A Cappella, an album consisting of college student's a cappella arrangements of his music performed ...  

Last year, Ben Folds‘ three-disc compliation The Best Imitation Of Myself: A Retrospective — one of our 10 favorite albums of 2011, complete with the previously unreleased Ben Folds Five track “House” — was both a walk down memory lane and a tease of what could be if the threesome had stayed together. So when news broke in ... More »  

"In Nashville, I was running eight miles a day, hanging out with my friends ... On April 28, 2009, Folds released Ben Folds Presents University A Cappella, an album consisting of college student's a cappella arrangements of his music performed ...  

Ben has released a new Ben Folds Five song, "Do It Anyway" which you can download here: Ben Folds Five - Do It Anyway The song is an unmastered cut from the studio sessions that the boys have recently completed. The album itself remains incomplete but is slated for an autumn release. Ben also adds that the reformed Ben Folds Five are not signed yet and that they are going to heavily rely on the online community to promote the album. Do you...  

Hot on the heels of the free track, and following the news that the new Ben Folds Five album is not attached to any label yet, the guys have opened it up to us fans to help them make the record. Head over now to watch a pledge video with new BFF music and shots of the studio: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/benfoldsfive After only three hours the project is already 49% funded, so get your skates on if you want to get your hands on such...  

Successful campaigns include Rachael Yamagata, Rhett Miller, The Libertines, Juliana Hatfield, Luscious Jackson, David Lynch Foundation Music, The Damnwells, Funeral For A Friend, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Madi Diaz, The Lumineers, Kopecky Family ...  

Ben and the boys are westward bound! Read more posts by Eliot Glazer Filed Under: clickables ,music ,ben folds five  

After only a few hours, the band has already met 60 percent of their target, and so, with 60 days still to go, we might finally get to see that Ben Folds Five album recorded on the moon that no one's ever talked about until now. Or, they were just being ...  

  Ben Folds Five Announces 1st UK Dates » REUNITED BAND TO TOUR THE UK IN NOV/DEC  » INCLUDES LONDON XMAS SHOWS  » AS YET UNTITLED ALBUM SET FOR AUGUST RELEASE   This winter, original members of Ben Folds Five (Ben Folds, Darren Jessee, Robert Sledge) will return to the United Kingdom for the first time since Christmas 1999. They will be playing at least 9 shows across the UK and Ireland. The tour is scheduled to begin in Bournemouth on...  

We’re nearly done and I think it’s a cracker.” This will be their first album since 1999′s The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. Ben Folds Five is also offering up the chance for super fans to be a part of the album.  

In response, Sing-Off fans, Folds and his fellow judges Sara Bareilles and Shawn Stockman have led an online rally to "Save the Sing-Off," urging viewers to sign an petition at www.SaveTheSingOff.com. "I can't think of anything more pure than ...  

He’s rockin’ the classics, bringing the new school to the old school and vice versa. Join renowned musician, singer, songwriter, solo artist, music judge and former Ben Folds Five piano frontman Ben Folds as he makes his Bass Hall performance debut with the Fort Worth Symphony Orc...  

As previously reported, the reunited Ben Folds Five are at work on a new album ... old-timey barroom brawls and a bass line that could make a guitarist jealous. Listen to it below. Folds’ Facebook post also discussed how BFF is taking ...  

As NBC plans to give fans of The Voice a double dose of the hit show during the 2012-13 season (with separate cycles in the fall and spring), the network’s other singing competiton, The Sing-Off, appears to have gotten the ax. The a capella ...  

photo: NBCNBC hosted its Upfronts presentation this Monday, and along with the network's fairly awesome announcement that "The Voice" will be returning for a third season in September came the quite un-awesome news that NBC's other, more underrated vocal ...  

No Doubt has announced September 25 as the release date for their long-awaited comeback album. The band has been working on and off on new material since 2008 and went on tour in 2009. The new record will be the pop-rockers' first since 2001's Rock Steady.  

Tickets go on sale next Friday the 4th fo May. Last year Ben Folds Five reunited to record three tracks for Ben Folds, 'The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective'. The groups last album was The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner back in 1999.  

After finding success on “The Sing-Off” last fall, the Dartmouth Aires have been reaping the benefits ever since, and next on their agenda is the fundraiser and a cappella showcase “A Cappella Palooza.” Taking place on April 29 at Boston University’s Agganis Arena, the event will be hosted by Ben Folds and feature groups from “The Sing-Off,” with all proceeds going to Massachusetts General Hospital’s Cancer Center. The Pentatonix, who won the...  

Alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five have announced a November and December UK tour following their recent reunion following an eight year split.  

The trio last released an album together in 1999, 'The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner', but are now working on its follow-up and will release the as yet untitled record in late summer. The tour is the band's first with Sledge and Jessee since ...  

Over the weekend, Ben Folds spent a little of his downtime (on a flight to Boston) drafting a meaty response to the oft-asked “what’s your advice for aspiring musicians” question before posting his musings to Facebook. He taps into many of the usual ...  

For jazz singer Sara Gazarek, satisfying an audience isn't necessarily about dazzling them with displays of virtuosity. "The truth is, I think what people generally want walking away from a musica...  

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Ben, Robert, and Darren came over to shake our hands and I screwed ... Copland wrote this symphony as a fanfare for the uncommon man, its inaccessible musical hooks distancing itself from any hoedowns or outlaws still over the musical horizon.  

Another week, another round of Summerfest headliners. ZZ Top, Chicago and Ben Folds Five top a diverse list of grounds stage names that includes 311, Burton Cummings, David Gray, Fountains of Wayne, The Heartless Bastards, The Hives, Kool and ...  

Ben Folds sat at his piano onstage at Meymandi Concert Hall Thursday night, gazed out at the crowd and got a glint in his eye. He was playing the first of a two-night run with the NC Symphony, and he’d just coached the crowd to sing along on the old Ben Folds Five standard “Not the Same.”  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Celebrities and musicians including Ben Folds and Clay Walker visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts as part of Arts Advocay Day. The musicians as well as actors Alec Baldwin, Hill Harper ...  

While other singing competitions often turn into sparring matches between the judges (yes, we mean you Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger, Adam Levine and Xtina) and America loves every minute of it, Ben Folds and Sara Bareilles from NBC’s The Sing-Off ...  

Ben Folds, known for his work as front man for Ben Folds Five ... the lecture’s sponsor and the organization that brings hundreds of arts supporters to lobby on Capitol Hill each spring. A sample of Folds follows. Folds is also on the board ...  

TheDC asked Folds, who is in Washington to advocate for more arts funding, how he responds to those who say that Congress should be cutting domestic spending given America’s current fiscal challenges. “Any business that needs to be creative ...  

It started as a simple idea: Ben Folds would sign the keys of his damaged piano and sell them to help raise money for the Schermerhorn Symphony Center Schermerhorn Symphony Center Latest from The Business Journals What Ben Folds means for ...  

Reunited trio will play eight shows later this year  

O.A.R., Paul Oakenfold, Phantom, Rocker and Slick, The Roots, Thievery Corporation, Young the Giant, and the Country Throwdown Tour featuring Gary Allan, Rodney Atkins, Josh Thompson and Sunny Sweeney. Dates, times and locations -- along with ...  

Last year's judges were Sara Bareilles, Boyz II Men's Shawn Stockman and Ben Folds of the Ben Folds Five. Vocal Point amazed millions who had never heard of them prior, and touched many with their high-energy, yet diverse and sensitive abilities.  

The concert will feature music from the show, and the show’s host Ben Folds will also be performing. “The idea was that it was going to be a ‘Sing-Off’ reunion in support of the hospital,” Aires member Danny Freeman ’13 said.  

Keys to Music City from Nashville Symphony on Vimeo. A very cool idea from… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

A messy situation in Edgewater looks like it may well be coming to a head. The Edgewater Music Society (EMS), a group of roughly 30 members, has been using the Edgewater Community Hall for about 11 years to put on a variety of performances ranging from musical acts to plays.  

CONCORD, NH 8211 The Bach's Lunch Series continues on April 5th with a lecture and demonstration by David Surette entitled 8220American Beauty The Traditional Folk Roots of the Grateful Dead.8221  

Another week, another round of Summerfest headliners.