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Our Lady Peace Discusses New Album ‘Curve’

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Members of the rock band Our Lady Peace are discussing their thoughts and emotions when entering the studio to record their eighth studio album, Curve, which comes out April 3, 2012. The band has already released a single entitled Heavyweight (iTunes) and has announced a short US tour this spring (tour dates below).

“This is the record we’ve been trying to make for the past 10 years. There’s something to be said about being beaten up and being able to dust yourself off and get back in the ring,” says vocalist/lyricist Raine Maida.
“[Co-producer] Jason [Lader] and I had a very frank discussion about the early recordings of Curve before he came in,” says Maida.  “He asked why we weren’t making a record that we’d like to listen to ourselves. That was our impetus for abandoning what we started, bringing in Jason and truly challenging ourselves to come up with something more authentic and inspired. He helped us operate without the filter predicated by walking the major label tightrope.”

“While writing for Curve the focus was on being musically brave,” states bassist Duncan Coutts. “It became the mantra in our sessions.”
Drummer Jeremy Taggart: “This feels the most like it did in the early days. We just tried to let our ideas flow without worrying about radio or anything like that. It’s easier to be creative when you let something grow naturally as opposed to trying to fit in into something.”
Our Lady Peace tour dates:
March 29th – London, ON – Concert Theatre
March 31st – Peterborough, ON – The Venue
April 2nd – Montreal, ON – Corona
April 3rd – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix
April 5th – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
April 6th – Buffalo, NY – Club Infinity
April 7th – Detroit, MI – St Andrew’s Hall
April 8th – Chicago, IL – Subterranean
April 10th – North Bay, ON – The Wall
April 12th – Thunder Bay, ON – Community Auditorium
April 13th – Winnipeg MB – Garrick
April 16th – Calgary, AB – Flame Central
April 17th – Edmonton, AB – Starlite 
April 19th – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
April 20th – Seattle,WA – The Crocodile Cafe
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‘The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only Live’ Concert Event to Make Streaming Debut Next Month

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July 14, 2026

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The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only Live

AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.

The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.

Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24. 

Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”

Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.

The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.

Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.

The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.

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