Dave Matthews Band

All albums are now also available for purchase and download as Windows Media, MP3, and/or lossless FLAC files from the Dave Matthews Band website. In February 2005 she did a guest appearance on the Canadian television show Degrassi: The Next Generation along with Dogma co-star Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith.
. Morissette refers to herself as a Canadian-American. [3] (http://www.dmbnewstudioalbum.com/). On 11 February 2005, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States while still maintaining her Canadian citizenship. DMB also hosts a new website containing current information, videos, and audio samples from the new album. She performed the song "Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love", and had a brief acting role as an anonymous stage performer.

The album, Stand Up, is slated for release on May 10, 2005. In July 2004, Morissette appeared in the motion picture De-lovely, a tribute to composer Cole Porter. In the fall of 2004, the Dave Matthews Band returned to their studio in Charlottesville, Virginia with a new producer, Mark Batson. The date of the wedding has not yet been finalized. Three private lawsuits have been filed against the band and bus driver Stefan Wohl as a result of this incident. In June 2004, Morissette announced her engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds. [2] (http://www.davematthewsband.com/news/news_popup_update_to_chicago.asp) On the same day, the band donated $50,000 each to the environmental groups Friends of the Chicago River and The Chicago Park District. On January 19, 2005, Cook County filed criminal charges against bus driver Stefan Wohl, accusing him of reckless conduct and discharging contaminates to cause water pollution. On May 18, 2004, the cable channel Oxygen taped an unprecedented eight hours of live footage, showing Morissette in New York City promoting the release of her new album.

On October 22, 2004, the band released a statement for the first time about the incident. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart to generally favorable critical reviews. Even though the band denies that it happened, Chicago police claim to have surveillance tapes from local businesses showing the bus on the bridge at the time of the incident.[1] (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0825042_dave_matthews_1.html) No band members were on their buses at the time of the alleged incident. In May 2004, Morissette released So-Called Chaos. On August 8, 2004, the Illinois attorney general alleges that a driver of the band's tour buses dumped "80 to 100 gallons of liquid human waste" into a Chicago river architectural tour boat. clips and eventually childhood footage, the clips were digitally edited to make it appear that Morissette was singing the song at all of those times. Not only did the band release music in 2004, but it was also accused of releasing human waste into the Chicago river. Beginning in present day and passing through former videos, movie and T.V.

The second release, DMB Live Volume 2: 9.12.04 Golden Gate Park, included the guitarist Carlos Santana and gave fans previews of newly-penned songs "Joyride", "Hello Again", and "Sugar Will", all presumably destined for release on a 2005 studio album. Morissette's music video for the single "8 Easy Steps" featured various video clips spanning her career in music, film and television. The first such release, DMB Live Volume 1: 12.8.98 Worcester, MA, featured guests Tim Reynolds, Béla Fleck, and Jeff Coffin and had been nearly universally accepted as one of the greatest shows in the Band's history. The joke was, however, that Morissette was still forced to "remove" her pasted-on nipples and pubic hair because they were not allowed to be shown on public television. Later in the year it was announced that highlights from the Band's extensive live archives would be available for purchase via the official website. Stepping out of a nightgown and wearing a semi-nude bodysuit, Morissette said, "We live in a land Canada where we still think the human body is beautiful and we're not afraid of the female breast.". The Band also released a 6-disc CD set from the same run featuring all three nights, with each night spanning across two CDs. At the event, Morissette satirized the public outrage caused by Janet Jackson's breast-baring incident during the Super Bowl.

In June, "Dave Matthews Band: The Gorge", a combination 2-CD/1-DVD set with highlights from their 3-night tour closer at The Gorge in George, WA from 2002, was sold in stores. Sporting a short, new hairdo, Morissette looked like a drastically different person from the angry, long-haired woman who once wrote and sang "You Oughta Know". 2004 saw the band release more music than any previous year. In April 2004, Alanis Morissette hosted the Juno Awards of 2004, which was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The live release highlighted songs from both Everyday and Busted Stuff. "Everything", the first single off of Morissette's fourth international studio album So-Called Chaos, was released to radio in March 2004. Produced by Stephen Harris, the recording engineer under Lillywhite on previous albums, the resulting CD provided new treatments of much of the Lillywhite Sessions material, along with newly written songs "You Never Know" and the hit single "Where Are You Going?". Busted Stuff received moderate critical and commercial success and was generally well-received by the band's fanbase. Later that year the band released its fourth live album, Live at Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado, recorded July 11, 2001. In response to the Super Bowl halftime controversy that occurred earlier in 2004, and the stricter Federal Communications Commission regulations that followed, Morissette changed the first line of her song, "Everything", from "I can be an asshole of the grandest kind" to "I can be a nightmare of the grandest kind" for radio.

In 2002 the band returned to the studio to record Busted Stuff. In November 2003, Morissette appeared in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated as Sunny Jacobs, a death row inmate freed after proof surfaced that she didn't commit the crime. The Lillywhite Sessions would, however, finally have their chance to shine. Morissette and her concert attenders later indicated that she had in fact said, "Thank you, bless you", but by then the damage to her reputation had already been done. Tracks such as "Bartender", "Captain", and "Grace is Gone" caused many to wonder aloud whether the band had thrown away its best (albeit unfinished) work. In September 2003, Morissette made headlines for supposedly exclaiming, "Thank you, Brazil!" after a show in Lima, Peru. After critical comparison of the two simultaneous albums, many fans were frustrated with the band's decision to scrap the work in exchange for "Everyday". In December 2002, Morissette released a dual CD/DVD combination package, Feast on Scraps, which included live concert footage and eight previously unreleased songs from the Under Rug Swept recording sessions. The album was nominated for a Juno for Music DVD of the Year.

Better known as The Lillywhite Sessions, this rough album was universally lauded by both the fanbase and the popular press. The album was overlooked by the Grammy Awards, most likely due to its release date, but Morissette won yet another Juno Award for Producer of the Year. Over established internet channels such as the Dave Matthews Band Mailing List, the tracks spread like wildfire. Despite eleven very well-received songs, Maverick Records only released two of them as singles, a move criticized by many fans. The conflict came full circle when, in March of 2001, the 2000 studio sessions with producer Steve Lillywhite were leaked on the internet. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold close to a million copies in the United States alone, even though only one song from the album received any substantial radio airplay. Its poppy, slick sound (including Dave Matthews' first ever recording sessions on electric guitar) was a great departure from the band's previous work and the complete antithesis of the songs recorded with Lillywhite. The song's multi-layered lyrics told the story of a young Morissette's affair with an older man from two points of view:.

But like the band itself, the fanbase was disappointed with the release. The album spawned the hit single "Hands Clean". The February 2001 release of Everyday was a huge commercial success—the singles "I Did It", "The Space Between" and "Everyday" gained the band an even larger level of popularity. For the first time, Morissette took on the role of sole writer and producer. Drummer Carter Beauford's sarcastic jibe that the band had "charts and everything" ready for them shines light on a session where the band, which had in the past collectively composed its music, was turned into a backing band for Matthews with no creative input. In 2002, after a four-year absence, Alanis Morissette released her third international studio album Under Rug Swept, with the notable absence of Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie collaborator Glen Ballard. In the end, the album was completed but the band seemed unsatisfied. She also appeared on the hit HBO comedies Sex and the City and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and starred in the play The Vagina Monologues.

While the album gave the band a much-needed fresh start, Ballard's slick pop-music approach to production was very different from the creative process used to produce previous studio albums. She had to turn down the female lead, and by the time her schedule allowed her to participate in the film, only the role of God, which involves virtually no speech and appears at the very end of the film, was left. The band soon joined Matthews in a Los Angeles studio, quickly recording what was to become Everyday. Smith, who claimed to be a big fan of Morissette, asked her to be in the film several times. In October 2000, an energized Matthews began writing with Glen Ballard, most famous for his work with Alanis Morissette. She appeared as God in the motion picture Dogma, directed by Kevin Smith. Some believe the band was unhappy with the atmosphere of the songs and frustrated with Lillywhite's often perfectionist style of production, while others believe Lillywhite was made into a scapegoat for the band's lack of professionalism during the recording sessions. In 1999, Alanis Morissette expanded her résumé by delving into acting.

In August of 2000 the sessions were scrapped and the band's seven-year relationship with Lillywhite was over. Many fans now consider Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie to be Morissette's strongest work to date. In the end, the studio sessions were a failure. Many critics wrote off the album as a flop; however, repeating the incredible success of Jagged Little Pill was an almost impossible task that Morissette never expected nor set out to do. The band's attentions wandered during the seemingly never-ending recording sessions; they spent more time riding four-wheelers through the countryside and playing video games than writing or recording music. That same year, Morissette released the live acoustic album MTV Unplugged. Heavily influenced by personal conflicts, notably the death of his uncle and his resulting alcoholism, the songs recorded with Lillywhite rank as some of the darkest Matthews has ever written. The first single, "Thank U", was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

With longtime producer Steve Lillywhite at the helm, the band began work on a fourth studio album. In 1999, the song "Uninvited" won two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. During the year 2000, the band set up its own recording studio in a large house in the country outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Its wordy, personal lyrics turned many fans off, and after only 38 weeks, it left the Billboard 200, selling "only" 2.5 million, a huge drop from Jagged. The Dave Matthews Band is taper-friendly. As a follow-up to Jagged Little Pill, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie had very little staying power. While Dave Matthews Band are unquestionably the driving influence behind this sub-genre as it exists today, the style arguably owes its roots to Widespread Panic of Athens, Georgia. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, breaking the record for the most albums sold in a single week by a female artist.

It's perhaps more accurate to state that the band's music and that of the many bands influenced by it is a breakaway sub-genre of jam band. and "I Was Hoping", which recounts several experiences that shaped Morissette's life, including an encounter in a restaurant with a chauvinistic waiter:. Arguments have raged throughout both the Dave Matthews Band's fanbase and online communities dedicated to discussing bands such as Phish and the Grateful Dead as to whether or not they are a true jam band. Most of the songs on the disc challenged "traditional" song formulas, including "The Couch":. In 1999 the band released two live albums: Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Live at Luther College, from a 1996 acoustic concert played by Matthews and longtime friend guitarist Tim Reynolds, and Listener Supported, a concert from September 1999 that was also partially shown on PBS. Obviously, Morissette was no longer pursuing commercial success. Instead of relying on upbeat hit singles, the album as a whole stunned many with its complexity and would be regarded as the band's greatest studio effort. 2, which would have been the commercially savvy thing to do.

Before These Crowded Streets represented a great change in direction. Morissette didn't release Jagged Little Pill, Pt. In late 1997 the band returned to the studio with producer Steve Lillywhite and an array of collaborators, including banjoist Béla Fleck, vocalist Alanis Morissette, guitarist Tim Reynolds, keyboardist Butch Taylor, and the Kronos Quartet, to compose and record Before These Crowded Streets, their third album with RCA. Fans and critics alike were shocked. This album featured popular songs from the band's three previous albums and included longtime collaborator and guitarist Tim Reynolds. Morissette once again collaborated with Glen Ballard, but this time she helped produce the album as well. To combat an increasingly and illegally profitable bootleg market, the band released a live album, Live at Red Rocks 8-15-95. Later that year, she released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (lyrics (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/wojtkiewicz/supposed.html)), an experimental album with a wordy title and lyrics to match.

A year later, Morissette auditioned for a role on the Canadian children's television show You Can't Do That on Television, shot in Ottawa, her hometown. With the help of her childhood mentor Leslie Howe, Morissette released "Fate Stay With Me" when she was 11 years old. In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:. I want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you.".

When she was 9 years old, she went to the home of singer Olivia Newton-John, one of her early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: "Hi, I'm Alanis. Morissette showed a love for singing and songwriting at an early age. She has an older brother, Chad, and a twin brother, Wade. Alanis Morissette was born on June 1, 1974, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette.