MUSIC NEWS - Soulive, the New York-based funk-powerhouse trio, now with their own record label, Royal Family Records, having released it's latest studio effort, UP HERE, as a download earlier this year, today released it on CD with a bonus live DVD. The band has toured nationally this past Spring, launched their own festival, the Royal Family Get Down, and will hit the road again this Fall (itinerary below).



The physical release of UP HERE includes a bonus DVD of footage filmed live at the Blue Note in Tokyo in Summer 2008. UP HERE is the debut release on the band's Royal Family Records. The album was recorded in Soulive drummer Alan Evan's Play on Brother Studio in Hatfield, MA in Fall 2008. "This is the Soulive album I've always wanted to record - I've been hearing it in my head for years," says Evans, who also tracked and mixed the record.



Soulive's fall tour begins on Sept 12 at their festival, The Royal Family Get Down. The line up features Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Charlie Hunter Trio, Nigel Hall and Soulive's own headlining set with special guest, jazz guitarist, John Scofield. Soulive then heads out west for a series of dates anchored by stops at the Monterey Jazz Festival and four nights at Yoshi's in Oakland and San Francisco. The fall tour will then head back east for a series of Northeast dates including the Bowery Ballroom in NYC and Burlington's Higher Ground.