Jewel's album is now available for pre-order online at Amazon.com. The
initial release will be a special, limited edition package including the
CD enhanced with an exclusive Jewel video, PLUS a bonus collectible card
that unlocks exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage, live performance videos
and more. Please note that Atlantic stated in error in an early email that
the initial package would include a bonus DVD and apologizes for any
confusion this may have caused. You can pre-order Jewel's next album now
at this URL:
This week on the official site (jeweljk.com) there are some photos of a concert that took place last year. These photos were taken at the Interlochen Fine Arts Academy in Michigan. Jewel graduated from Interlochen in 1992.
"Intuition, Jewel's first single from her forthcoming album, is now
available as an audio stream at jeweljk.com. You'll find it at Jewel's
home page now, located at:
http://www.jeweljk.com/low/home.html
There's also an e-card available that includes the music, a message from
Jewel about the album, and that's not all! "Intuition" is being
simultaneously released as Jewel's first-ever "digital single." For 99
cents you can download a high-quality MP3 file of the song; then listen to
it on your computer, transfer it to a player, or burn to a CD. You can get
it here:
Well I hear it for the first time this morning, and I listened to it again. The song is certainly different than anything on This Way. I think it could be a successful single. The background music is pretty good. I was quite skeptical when I first heard about the change in style. This song is much more Britney SpearsISH than anything Jewel has done before. Normally that would be an insult, but it actually works. Its like the adult version of Britney Spears.
The one question in my mind is the lyrics. I need to listen to the song a few more times to get the context right. I'm not one to pick up on lyrics the first few times through... what I do pick out does not sound good right now.
In short, the music is good. The lyrical content has the jury still out.
Beginning next Monday, April 7th and airing five different times over the
next five consecutive days, channel XM Cafe (on XM Satellite Radio) will
broadcast an exclusive never-before-broadcast one hour Jewel concert
recorded at Lowell's Memorial Auditorium on the 2002 solo tour. Here is
the broadcast schedule:
Monday, April 7 (broadcast premiere)
XM Cafe channel at 9:00 pm est, 6:00 pm pst
Tuesday, April 8:
XM Cafe channel at 6:00 pm est, 3:00 pm pst
Wednesday, April 9:
XM Cafe channel at 9:00 am est, 6:00 am pst
Thursday, April 10:
XM Cafe channel at 12:00 midnight est, 9:00 pm pst
Friday, April 11:
XM Cafe channel at 6:00 pm est, 3:00 pm pst
Later this month, following this run of airings on the XM Cafe channel,
this new radio concert will air several additional times on the XM Live
channel.
Today I will be working on the server extensively. That means the site might be up and down a bit. I have already upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 RC, Mysql 4.0.12, and the newest modssl.
There is a small photo of Jewel and a quote in the April issue of Cosmo
Girl, "Beauty Music" on page 113. You'll also find a photo of Jewel in US
Weekly's Oscar edition. With so much paparazzi at the Oscars, you'll also
possibly find Jewel popping up in other media coverage of the Oscars and
surrounding events.
Jewel will be appearing on two Los Angeles radio shows next week to
premier her new single, "Intuition." On Tuesday, April 1st, she'll be on
around 8:00 am on KISS FM on Rick Dees' morning show and Tuesday afternoon
she'll be on STAR FM with Ryan Seacrest. We're not sure what time, but it
will be between 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm in the afternoon.
