Travis Frontman Chats Going Indie With ITN

Fran Healy speaks out in the clip below. Watch Travis's video for 'Song To Self' here.


MP3: Travis - Writing To Reach You

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Travis Shares Acoustic Session

Enjoy a stunning performance of 'Song To Self' below. Watch the official clip here.


MP3: Travis - Writing To Reach You

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Travis Unfetters New Video

Three clips in four weeks! Enjoy 'Song To Self' below. Watch the others here.


MP3: Travis - Writing To Reach You

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Travis Unveils New Video

'J. Smith' illustrates the struggles of a man trapped in an elevator for 40 hours!


MP3: Travis - Writing To Reach You

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Travis Unleashes New Video

Enjoy 'Something Anything' below. Download a Travis selection at bottom of post.


MP3: Travis - Writing To Reach You

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Retro Clip: Travis Visits Jools Holland, Circa '01

Enjoy The Invisible Band's 'Flowers In The Window' below. MP3 at bottom.


MP3: Travis - Flowers In The Window

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Travis Unveils 'New Amsterdam' Clip

Enjoy their latest NYC-themed video below. Download a Travis tune at bottom of post.


MP3: Travis - Sing

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The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #329

Travis - Baby One More Time

An oldie but a goodie.

Dare I say classic!

Keep up to date on Travis at their official site.

MP3: Travis - Baby One More Time

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The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #239

Travis - We Are Monkeys

This tune can be found on the extended single for The Man Who's 'Turn'. Full track listing is as follows. Purchase the short-player here at Amazon. 'Monkeys' MP3 at bottom.

1. "Turn"
2. "River"
3. "Days Of Our Lives"
4. "We Are Monkeys"
5. "Baby One More Time"

MP3: Travis - We Are Monkeys

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Travis Covers Squeeze On KCRW

Check out the band's beautiful take on 'Up The Junction' from their recent visit to KCRW, below. Download Travis's cover of Joni Mitchell's classic tune, 'River', at bottom.


MP3: Travis - River

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Free Travis LP In This Weekend's Daily Mail

Here's more: *Next week The Mail on Sunday brings you yet another brilliant CD. You'll find a complete 12 track album by Travis FREE inside every copy of the paper. Not only does it include the massive hits Why Does It Always Rain On Me and Sing, it also features their fantastic new single My Eyes, which is already climbing up the charts. This is the complete single which is now for sale in the shops for around £4.00! Exclusively compiled and approved by Travis themselves, this is an absolutely sensational free CD. Demand for the paper is bound to be huge, so if you don't have a regular order, be sure to tell your newsagent to reserve you a copy. Here's the full track listing.

Travis Mail on Sunday CD:

1. Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
2. Re-Offender
3. Sing
4. All I Want To Do Is Rock
5. Driftwood
6. Somewhere Else
7. My Eyes
8. Side
9. Three Times And You Lose
10. Slide Show
11. Good Feeling
12. Turn*

MP3: Travis - Writing To Reach You

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Maximo Park Touring With Travis This Fall

View all dates for the joint sojourn below:

11/13 -- Calgary, AB -- MacEwan Hall
11/14 -- Edmonton, AB -- Event Center
11/16 -- Vancouver, BC -- PA Center
11/17 - Seattle, WA -- Moore
11/18 - Portland, OR -- Crystal Ballroom
11/20 - San Francisco, CA -- Warfield
11/21 - Los Angeles, CA -- Wiltern
11/23 - Las Vegas, NV -- Joint
11/24 - Anaheim, CA -- House of Blues
11/25 –Phoenix, AZ -- Celebrity Theatre
11/26 - San Diego, CA – House of Blues

MP3: Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure

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Fran Healy Hearts Amateur YouTubers

Contact Music reports: *TRAVIS frontman FRAN HEALY encourages fans of the band to take pictures and film their concerts to post online, because it gives them another perspective of their act. The Scottish rocker has attacked American security guards who recently confiscated audio equipment from Travis fans at a U.S. gig - and has called on more devotees to capture their performances on stage. He says, "From a purely selfish view it helps me. I can go onto the internet and check out a song - at any given time you have 100 amateur cameramen taking a picture of your show from a variety of angles. "It's a great way of finding out what works and what doesn't. The quality may not be great, but you get the vibe."*

MP3: Travis - One Night

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Mew, Interpol & Travis Donate Songs To 'Give.Listen.Help.'

The sale of each album (available at Urban Outfitters around the globe) will benefit Art of Elysium, an organization that promotes art therapy for hospitalized children. Full track listing can be found below. Learn more about Art of Elysium here.

DISC ONE:
1 Beastie Boys: "The Mix-Up" (B-side)
2 Coldplay: "Pour Me" (live at the Hollywood Bowl)
3 Band of Horses: "The End's Not Near"
4 Rilo Kiley: "Big Break"
5 Hot Hot Heat: "Money & Reputation"
6 The Stooges: "Claustrophobia"
7 Kaiser Chiefs: "Out of My Depth"
8 Travis: "Up the Junction"
9 The Go! Team: "Bull in the Heather"
10 The Decemberists: "Shankill Butchers"
11 Menomena: "Gay A"
12 Cold War Kids: "A Change Is Gonna Come" (live)
13 The A-Sides: "Diamonds" (live at WOXY.com)
14 Annie Stela: "White June"
15 Mew: "White Lips Kissed" (live in Japan)
16 Two Sheds: "Psycho Killer"
17 Patti Smith: "Perfect Day"

DISC TWO:
1 Silversun Pickups: "Lazy Eye" (Brian LeBarton remix)
2 Blonde Redhead: "Signs Along the Path" (Maps remix)
3 Interpol: "The Heinrich Maneuver" (The Scientist Dub mix)
4 Air: "Mer du Japon" (remix by the Teenagers)
5 Peter Bjorn & John: "Young Folks" (Punks Jump Up remix)
6 The Wolfmen: "Jackie Says" (Alan Moulder mix)
7 The Pipettes: "We Are the Pipettes" (live from the Cherrytree House)
8 Carina Round: "January Heart" (Buffalo Bill remix)
9 Low: "Hatchet" (Optimimi version)
10 Mando Diao: "Good Morning Herr Horst" (RAC remix)
11 Magnet: "Hold On" (Metronomy mix)
12 The View: "Face for the Radio" (live at Caird Hall)
13 The Maccabees: "XRay" (filthy dukes remix)
14 Ladytron: "Soft Power" (Vicarious Bliss Gutter mix)
15 Datarock: "Fa Fa Fa" (Riton New School remix)
16 Fields: "Song for the Fields" (Eliot James remix)

MP3s: Interpol - NYC + Travis - Writing To Reach You

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Travis Gives Us An Eyeful

See below for Travis' new clip to The Boy With No Name's 'My Eyes', one of the stronger tracks on their latest full-length. Enjoy an MP3 of the tune at bottom of post.


MP3: Travis - My Eyes

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Travis Frontman Relives 'Cocky' Threat

Please disregard my awful pun and read this bizarre story, lifted from Contact Music:

*TRAVIS frontman FRAN HEALY was once threatened with a knife after refusing to sign a fan's penis. The Scottish rocker was confronted after a gig in New York in 2000.

He says, "It was outside the Plaza. It was a really great show. Then this guy outside says: 'Sign my d**k.' "And I said, 'What's your name?' and he said: 'Paul'.

"And I said 'There's too many letters in it'. I was cheeky.

"And he pulled a knife, which is daft. Then he ran into a bar and got arrested."*

MP3: Travis - Out In Space

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Travis At Fillmore, Attempt #2

The first batch of Travis shows scheduled at The Fillmore @ Irving Plaza, earlier this year, were mysteriously cancelled a few weeks before the gigs. Here are the new dates. Keep your fingers crossed that they become a reality!

Saturday, July 14 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, July 15 at 8:00 pm

Tickets on sale tomorrow at 10am via Ticketbastard online and The Fillmore box office.

MP3: Travis - My Eyes

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Travis Recruits Demetri Martin For 'Selfish Jean'

I haven't seen this much symbolic t-shirt doffing since Michael Stipe's infamous MTV Music Awards acceptance speech from the early 90s. Below is the brand new clip for Travis' 'Selfish Jean'. It's a one-taker with comedian Demetri Martin as the star. In the clip, he removes over thirty t-shirts, each complete with an emotion, lyric or general inspiring message to accompany the transition of the tune. Genius.


Travis' new LP, The Boy With No Name, is in stores today (yesterday, for you UKers).

MP3: Travis - Selfish Jean

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The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #25

Travis - River

A Joni Mitchell cover from the band's 'Turn' single dating back to '99's The Man Who. The single also included The Scots' now infamous cover of Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' (perhaps to be featured in a future TWOB&R...).

The original tune can be found on Joni's breakthrough 1971 album, Blue. The track was writtten about a Christmastime breakup and has been covered endlessly over the last thirty-six years. Some artists that have tackled the song include (but are not limited to): Tori Amos, Rosanne Cash, Aimee Mann, Beth Orton & Rachael Yamagata. However, there have been very few male-vocalled 'River' attempts (in similar fashion to Bright Eyes' delivery of Feist's 'Mushaboom'), which makes the Travis cover ever the more unique.

MP3: Travis - River

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Travis: MySpace Obsessed

Here's what the Scots recently told The Tripwire regarding MySpace, their back catalog and their overall excitement for all things internet-related.

Frontman, Fran Healy: "We've released 130 songs in A-sides, B-sides and album tracks since we started out. Now there's finally a place where we can put up four brand new tracks a week that people haven't heard before. We've been doing that for 12 weeks and we've still got hundreds of songs to put up. We might have to slow it down a bit, but we can pretty much go on indefinitely!"

Drummer, Neil Primrose: "The last time we released a record it was a different world. There was no YouTube, no MySpace, the internet was still finding its feet. Now it's incredibly exciting to learn about it and see how it works."

The Boy With No Name will be released next month. Check out the album's cover art here.

MP3: Travis - Sing (via Indie Muse)

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