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Apr 16 2010 - 6:55pm
On April 16, VEVO.com will premiere a 30 minute program featuring songs from Melissa's recent April 1 concert in Palm Springs CA. A short interview with Melissa will also be included.
If you weren't able to catch the show, this is your chance to see the amazing debut of Melissa's new songs as well as some of her greatest hits performed live! VEVO is currently the largest online music network in North America.
Apr 16 2010 - 2:36pm
Melissa and Tammy Etheridge are saddened to announce that they are now separated. The former couple add in a statement: "We ask for consideration and respect for our family as we go through this difficult period."
Melissa, 48, and Tammy (formerly Tammy Lynn Michaels) exchanged vows in Malibu in September 2003. Tammy, 35, gave birth to their children – son Miller and daughter Johnnie Rose – in 2006, after Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. Etheridge is also mom to two children, Bailey, 13, and Beckett, 11, with former partner Julie Cypher. People Magazine
Apr 16 2010 - 5:00pm
Melissa will be performing a mix of new songs and greatest hits on Q Sessions Live, QVC Studio Park in West Chester PA on Tuesday, April 20 from 9:30pm - 10:00pm. Check your local listings for channel in your area.
QVC is now taking PRE-ORDERS for Melissa's upcoming Fearless Love album.
You can pre-order the album bundled with a bonus DVD: "The Making Of Fearless Love - a behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration behind the songs that make up Melissa's latest album. Spend an hour in relaxed conversation with Melissa as she describes her creative process, and explains in detail the inspiration for the title track, "Company," "Indiana," and the other songs that make up this amazing album. (This will include all the song reveals that are being premiered on MelissaEtheridge.com over the next few weeks.) The DVD (to be released on April 27) will also include the video for "Fearless Love."
Apr 16 2010 - 3:28pm
Announcing the first round of Fearless Love North American tour dates! The fan club pre-sale for some of these shows will start on Monday, April 19 so be sure to check the events page DAILY for updates. We have a fresh new look to the tour page. Familiarize yourself with it so you'll be ready to get your tickets when they go on sale. Also note that we are going on sale earlier than we have in the past (7AM PST / 10AM EST).
M.E.I.N. member only pre-sales will start Monday at 7AM PST / 10AM EST and more shows will be added each 1/2 hour. We will send out an email on Sunday night (April 18) with updated onsale info, but make sure you check the tour page Sunday night for any changes or additions to the schedule. M.E.I.N. ticket pre-sales will begin with online sales only. Phone lines will open at 1:00PM PST / 4:00PM EST. We encourage members to buy online for a quicker experience.
As always, M.E.I.N. tickets are assigned by seniority and random draw, so the time you purchase your tickets doesn't affect where you are sitting. We do encourage members to buy their tickets the first day of the fan club pre-sale as we may sell out of M.E.I.N. tickets in some markets. We always try to hold enough tickets but sometimes that is not possible as the number of tickets we can hold is restricted. So....buy early but you don't have to rush the gates!
Also note that there will be a Ticketmaster general pre-sale which will bundle a digital download of Fearless Love with the ticket purchase. This pre-sale will start on Monday on April 19 as well. This is NOT an M.E.I.N. fan club pre-sale. Don't worry or get confused. The M.E.I.N. seats are in front of the Ticketmaster pre-sale holds.
May 4 2010 - 1:52pm
Don't miss Melissa performing "Fearless Love" on Ellen (May 5 @ 4PM). Check local listings for time and station in your area.
Apr 20 2010 - 3:38pm
Don't miss Melissa's performance on Oprah, Friday April 23. Check local listings for time in your area.
Apr 22 2010 - 4:06pm
Tickets & Travel Packages are on sale now for the Fearless Love 2010 summer tour. This is a concert experience you don't want to miss and M.E.I.N. has awesome tickets. Meet Melissa on one of our Travel Packages in Amsterdam, London, Boston, Houston or Chicago. Choose your show now!
Apr 25 2010 - 3:07pm
Ryan Seacrest played "Fearless Love" today and asked people to vote if they wanted to see it on the top 40. Go to RyanSeacrest.com and you can vote in 2 places. Under 'radio' in the top navigation bar, click on American Top Five and/or American Top 40. Fill in "Fearless Love" to request the song. Let's get Melissa in the Top 40!
Apr 26 2010 - 11:11am
"On the cusp of 50 and more than two decades into her career, Ms. Etheridge remains a primal force, a singer of intensity and clarity." NY Times Critics' Choice List
“Fearless Love” (Island)
Every week on “American Idol” this season, the young roots singer Crystal Bowersox puts on a bravado vocal display, and every week she leaves unanswered the question of how exactly her sound might matter outside the confines of the competition. “Idol” hasn’t reliably generated pop stars on a scale equal to the popularity of the show, but agents within the record business, handed these anointed if unfocused singers, have done their best to squeeze them into familiar paradigms: country queen, blue-eyed soul diva, blunt-force-trauma rocker.
Ms. Bowersox, with a scraped-up Joplinesque voice and a tangle of dreadlocks, isn’t likely to be any of these. That said, she could do far worse than to mainline a pop star of a whole different sort, Melissa Etheridge. On the cusp of 50 and more than two decades into her career, Ms. Etheridge remains a primal force, a singer of intensity and clarity and — not insignificantly to a likely future “Idol” winner — popularity.
“Fearless Love,” her often resplendent 10th studio album, is all about familiar subjects: the futility of denial, the uselessness of walls. “If you can’t hold me now/You will never hold me again,” she wails on the title track, rejecting an incomplete, tentative love. That’s followed by “The Wanting of You,” about a woman privately struggling with her sexuality: “She married in high school/Oldest was well upon her way/But that wild night, Chicago/It left a mark she can’t erase.”
Ms. Etheridge has been openly lesbian for most of her career, but the songs on “Fearless Love” where she addresses sexuality are some of her most potent. “Miss California” is a furious harangue against the state that’s dangled gay marriage only to yank it back: “Your self-destruction gives me sticks and stones/Your propositions make me feel so cold/When the hand that’s trying to hold me down is the one that I’m trying to hold.”
All of these songs come on the first half of this album, which is impressively bracing. Ms. Etheridge is a gloriously old-fashioned belter, limber enough to switch easily, and often, between crisp, detailed singing and impassioned howling. Sometimes, as on “Indiana” and “Company,” she recalls Don Henley or John Mellencamp, and on gentler songs like “Gently We Row,” she suggests a world-wearier version of Lucinda Williams.
Mostly, though, she’s tough, and this album, ambitiously produced by John Shanks, matches up, with broad, bruising rock arrangements. (The second half of the album softens musically and the lyrics veer toward inspirational blandness.) The pairing is most impactful on the thrashing, assured “Drag Me Away,” about Ms. Etheridge’s struggle with breast cancer. “It’s going to take more than that to get rid of me,” she sings, indignant. “It’s going to take more than that to make me fade.” JON CARAMANICA
Apr 27 2010 - 2:27pm
"It's so great! Buy it, crank it up and be fearless!" - Oprah
"Ms. Etheridge remains a primal force, a singer of intensity and clarity." - NY Times
"The album is a joy to listen to from start to finish. Fearless Love is an inspirational spring release sure to bring smiles to Etheridge fans old and new alike." - Access Hollywood