Check back regularly at Joseph's official YouTube channel to follow the tour as it progresses!

See the TOUR page for dates and ticket info.

WEST COAST SPECIAL GUESTS

The Troubadour shows with Ben Harper are now available for download in the Download Store and CDs available in Joseph's Hard Goods Store. Click here for sound samples.

To assist relief efforts in Haiti, the paintings will be available for purchase at the end of each show, with bids starting at $500. 100% of the proceeds will go to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

JOSEPH'S ART AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
The Stanfield Gallery has curated an avant-garde visual-art exhibit by influential musicians and pop-art icons that will be on display throughout the daily Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe series of shows.

Joseph will be showing two of his paintings.

The digital only release is now widely available, including on and is currently #1 at Amazon.com.

JOSEPH ARTHUR CRAFTS ONE-MAN LOOPING ORCHESTRATIONS OF HIS BACK CATALOG & UPCOMING SOLO TOUR

First Solo Full-Length Album Since 2006’s ‘Nuclear Daydream’ to be Released in 2010

"Jo is one of those rare writer-performers where you get the sense, whatever your belief, that something greater is being channeled through his music and voice…Like Patti Smith, Grant Lee Phillips, Thom Yorke, he trances, and the voice, the meaning, becomes bigger than him, bigger than a few pop chords or words strung together. It touches something very deep and universal." – Michael Stipe (for the LA Times)

Armed with an acoustic guitar, little electronic boxes and some magic, songsmith and visual artist Joseph Arthur is set to premiere inspired one-man looping orchestrations of his back catalog – everything from ‘Big City Secrets’ to ‘Temporary People’ and beyond - for his upcoming U.S. solo tour this winter.

Following the release of 2008’s acclaimed ‘Temporary People’ by the Lonely Astronauts and his four-EP solo collection, Joseph seized 2009 with an ongoing exhibition of his paintings at Toronto’s 360 Gallery, television placements of new music in “House,” “Lie to Me,” “Hung” and “Friday Night Lights”, the release of a coloring book comprised of his artwork, ‘Color Me Courageous,’ two sold-out European tours (Arthur bootlegs himself and has made every show available for purchase), writing for his poetry blog, a continuing residency at NYC’s City Winery, bicycling and painting - all the while crafting his first solo follow-up to ‘Nuclear Daydream’ in his Brooklyn studio.  

In Rolling Stone’s Best of the Decade, David Browne names ‘Come To Where I’m From’ his favorite album of the decade, and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam names Joseph in his top 25.

We invite you to catch the live show. Check the TOUR page for details!

RECORDINGS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TOUR NOW AVAILABLE

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JOSEPH APPEARS ON JENNI MULDAUR'S 'DEAREST DARLING'

You can listen to the "Dearest Darling" on Jenni's MySpace page. The album is out now.

"WALK AWAY" FEATURED ON HBO'S ORIGINAL SERIES 'HUNG'

"WALK AWAY" from 'COULD WE SURVIVE'
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"COLOR ME COURAGEOUS" COLORING BOOK CONTEST

 We need you to color in and submit a single Joseph Arthur drawing from his new "Color Me Courageous" coloring book.  We would ask that all submissions be sized to 9" x 12" at 300 dpi and sent to josepharthur@store-08.com.  The deadline for submission is September 30th 2009.

All the submissions will be posted on the Joseph Arthur website for everyone to see, including Joseph, who will select his favorite interpretation.  The winner of the contest will receive a $100 gift certificate to the Joseph Arthur Online Store. So get your box of crayons out and let's make some color!

Please note: this contest has NO AGE RESTRICTIONS.

RECORDINGS FROM THE COMPLETE MARCH FRANCE TOUR NOW AVAILABLE

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JOSEPH ARTHUR - LIVE FROM MONTREAL - ITUNES EXCLUSIVE

The 11-track album is available for $5.99.

Track listing:

1. Temporary People
2. Faith
3. Say Goodbye
4. Dead Savior
5. Face in the Crowd [previously unreleased]
6. All the Old Heroes [previously unreleased]
7. I Donated Myself to the Mexican Army
8. Turn You On
9. Slide Away
10. Birthday Card
11. You Are Free

Released via Lonely Astronaut Records.

'Crazy Rain,' the second of four EP releases in 2008 by Joseph Arthur on hiis own label Lonely Astronaut Records, is out now!

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'Could We Survive,' with its raw, atmospheric pop, is the first in a series of four EPs Joseph Arthur will be releasing in 2008 on his own label, Lonely Astronaut Records.

Special pre-order package including a Joseph Arthur original art poster available exclusively through josepharthur.com!

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JOSEPH TO PERFORM ON DAVID LETTERMAN

Joseph will be performing his beloved, anthemic single “In the Sun.”   In 2006, the song became the heart of the In The Sun Foundation, a project launched by Michael Stipe in response to the hardship experienced by thousands of residents of the Gulf Coast.  Multiple versions of “In the Sun” are available exclusively through iTunes with all proceeds to Mercy Corps, via the In The Sun Foundation.  The EP features renditions by Stipe, Chris Martin and Joseph Arthur, along with  remixes by Justin Timberlake and will.i.am.

This will be the first time in a decade since Joseph has performed the song on national television.

Check out a video of "Slide Away" from Joseph's performance on the Late Show with David Letterman on October 10th, 2006.

PASTE MAGAZINE - November 2006

The multitalented Joseph Arthur (view his striking artwork at JosephArthur.com) is a metaphysician who fashions his complex interior monologues into deceptively simple pop songs. Nuclear Daydream, his fifth album, is post-apocalyptic religious music, endlessly ponderable and disturbigly beautiful. It opens with the piano chord, throbbing bass and tambourine of "Too Much To Hide," introducing Arthur's deadly earnest voice as he considers the secrets humans hide from each other within a lithe melody that lifts him to the edge of his aching falsetto. The following, "Black Lexus," seems inspired by Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush," sounding like something the former inhabitants of Earth might sing when their silver seed touches down on their new home atop the sun. The arrangement is distinguished by stacked chorus harmonies that hang glistening below the melody, like stalactites in a cavern. Then comes the New Order-ish "Enough to Get Away," allowing the listener to take one last breath before Arthur begins his descent in earnest. The album becomes more intoxicatingly hermetic with each sucessive song, taking you as deep as you dare to go.
-Bud Scoppa

Spiritualized
Arthur puts his faith in the healing power of art. Plus, the dude can sing.

At the Bowery Ballroom last month, Joseph Arthur had a costume change before his encore and came out wearing a white suit, no shirt, and a big cross dangling around his neck. With tangled hair and a three-day beard, he looked like some mental-ward Evangelist, and then he started singing like one, too. Joined onstage by Michael Stipe, Arthur belted out his signature anthem “In the Sun,” with its rousing hook, “May God’s love be with you, always, always.” The crowd, a typical downtown assortment of 30-year-olds in hoodies and jeans, knew every word and lustily sang along, as if trying to atone for all those Sunday-school classes they blew off.

“I hate religion,” Arthur had told me a few days earlier, when we met at his loft in Dumbo. "But I do believe there’s some intelligence guiding this whole thing. You can call it Jesus or whatever you want.”

Onstage and on record, Arthur exudes a coolness that makes you think he could be world famous. And at one point in his career, he was marked for stardom. The mini-legend of Joseph Arthur goes like this: When he was a 25-year-old nobody working at a guitar shop in Atlanta (“They told me I was the worst employee in the history of the store,” he says), a demo tape of his made its way, via friends of friends, into the hands of Peter Gabriel, who invited him to record at his studio in England. This is, in certain music circles, the equivalent of being summoned to Rome to pray with the pope. Arthur went with proper humility. “There were all these major people there, like Joe Strummer. I thought they’d maybe let me play a little bass. But then Peter asked me to write some lyrics, and the next thing I know, I’m in there singing with him.”

It’s been almost ten years since, and Arthur’s career has proceeded fitfully. There’s been one constant, however: He has made consistently excellent rock music. His latest album, Nuclear Daydream, is his fifth, and it is a tutorial in finely textured songwriting. The tunes are generally slow to mid-tempo, built from simple chord progressions and driven by a powerful, versatile voice that blends bits of Jagger, Dylan, Bowie, and Stipe. Arthur’s lyrics tend to be blunt vignettes about the struggles of love and faith, and they do occasionally veer into solipsistic clichés. But because his delivery is so full bore, you find yourself helplessly singing along even to lyrics that might otherwise make you wince, such as “Woman, you make me feel / Woman, are you for real?” And though the sentiments are often bleak, Arthur takes such cathartic pleasure in expressing them that even the darkest moments contain a glimmer of hopefulness.

Arthur is a solo artist in the truest sense of the word. He plays nearly all the instruments on his albums, and after shuttling through a series of major and minor labels, he now operates his own record company, Lonely Astronaut. Fortunately, technology and the trajectory of the music business favor the solo practitioner. With a few thousand bucks of computer equipment, a lone dude like Arthur can construct homemade walls of sound that would blow what’s left of Phil Spector’s mind. You don’t need a band, except to tour, and not necessarily even then. Arthur used to go out on the road alone with an acoustic guitar and electronic sampling equipment. Such a lean operation gave him the best chance to make a living in a business where you can expect to be robbed by your own fans.

Even as he becomes an entrepreneur, Arthur remains singularly focused on making art. When I visited him at his loft, a barely postindustrial den that might as well be a stop on the F train for how loud it sounds going by, the floor was covered with kids’ drawings, several dozen of them. From across the room, they looked like a glorious Technicolor quilt, but up close, you could see that each little picture depicted a horrific scene—soldiers killing and raping, helicopters spewing gunfire. These had been produced by orphans at a refugee camp in northern Uganda, where Arthur had just visited to deliver art supplies and help the kids learn to draw. In the few days since he’d returned, he’d been on a creative binge himself, writing five new songs.

“It’s the first time in my life I’ve ever done anything like that,” he says of the trip to Uganda, “and it was totally amazing. These people have experienced so many horrible things, and yet we saw more joy there than you see on the streets of New York. Happy, you know, just to be alive. And the kids were ecstatic to make their own drawings and express what was inside of them. If that doesn’t inspire you as an artist, nothing will.”
- Hugo Lindgren

Joseph Arthur's 2004 release, Our Shadows Will Remain, marked a career high for the NYC-based singersongwriter— the album's soaring sonic grandeur fulfilled potential only hinted at on the artist's prior efforts. After such a triumph, it's easy to view Nuclear Daydream, Arthur's fifth full-length (and first for his own Lonely Astronaut label), as something of a regression. Where Shadows was jagged and intense, Daydream feels safe and soft. But that doesn't make the album any less worthwhile. Featuring some of Arthur's strongest songwriting to date,Daydream is easily Arthur's most consistent collection—there are none of the mid-album lulls that weighed down prior releases—and arguably his most beautiful. Arthur has not backed away from Big Issue lyrical themes, but he delivers his heavy messages in memorable melodies and captivating arrangements that can seem simple but reveal layers and depths on repeated listens. While it may be a slight step backward, Arthur makes every inch of his journey an important one.
-- Michael Patrick Nelson

INSTORE DATES ANNOUNCED
Wednesday October 18th Fingerprints in Long Beach, CA 7:00pm
Wednesday October 25th Waterloo in Austin, TX 5:00pm
Saturday, October 28th Music Factory in New Orleans, LA 4:00pm