Prog-rock legends Yes have announced they'll be releasing a new studio album, Heaven & Earth, July 22 through Frontiers Records.
For Heaven & Earth, Yes teamed up with Grammy winner Roy Thomas Baker (Queen, the Cars, Guns N’ Roses, Foreigner, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice Cooper, etc.), who handled the production, and Billy Sherwood (Toto, Paul Rodgers, Air Supply, etc.), who mixed the album. Also on board is Roger Dean, who again brings his masterful artistic creativity to the album’s cover art and packaging.
Tracklisting for Heaven & Earth:
01. Believe Again
02. The Game
03. Step Beyond
04. To Ascend
05. In A World Of Our Own
06. Light Of The Ages
07. It Was All We Knew
08. Subway Walls
To coincide with the release the new album, Yes — Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes and new singer Jon Davison — announced they’ll launch a 35-date summer tour. As the tour's highlight, they'll perform their 1971 album, Fragile, for the first-time ever, followed by 1972's Close to the Edge and other hits.
Yes on Tour 2014:
Tue 7/8 Boston, MA Blue Hills Bank Pavilion Wed 7/9 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall Fri 7/11 Wallingford, CT Toyota Oakdale Theatre Sat 7/12 Westbury, NY NYCB Theatre at Westbury Sun 7/13 Newport, RI Newport Yachting Center Tue 7/15 Washington, DC Warner Theatre Wed 7/16 Hampton, NH Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom Fri 7/18 Salamanca, NY Seneca Allegany Casino Sat 7/19 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theater Sun 7/20 Munhall, PA Carnegie Music Hall Tue 7/22 Rochester Hills, MI Meadow Brook Wed 7/23 Northfield, OH Hard Rock Live Northfield Park Fri 7/25 Madison, WI Overture Hall Sat 7/26 Chicago, IL Copernicus Center Mon 7/28 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium Tue 7/29 Louisville, KY Louisville Palace Wed 7/30 Atlanta, GA Symphony Hall Fri 8/1 Hollywood, FL Seminole Hard Rock Live Sat 8/2 St. Petersburg, FL Mahaffey Theater Sun 8/3 Orlando, FL Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Tue 8/5 Houston, TX Bayou Music Center Wed 8/6 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie Thu 8/7 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland Sat 8/9 Denver, CO Paramount Theatre Mon 8/11 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre Tue 8/12 Mesa, AZ Ikeda Theatre at Mesa Arts Center Wed 8/13 Albuquerque, NM Legends Theater at Route 66 Casino Fri 8/15 Las Vegas, NV The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sat 8/16 Anaheim, CA City National Grove of Anaheim Mon 8/18 San Diego, CA Humphrey’s Concerts By the Bay Tue 8/19 San Jose, CA City National Civic Thu 8/21 Tulalip, WA Tulalip Amphitheatre Fri 8/22 Grand Ronde, OR Spirit Mountain Casino Sat 8/23 Lincoln, CA Thunder Valley Casino Resort Sun 8/24 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
