John Mayer Announces New Album, Tour

John Mayer's newest offering, Continuum, has been slated for a Sept. 22 release date, and Mayer will embark on a tour starting at the end of August and running through mid-October, sharing the bill with songstress Sheryl Crow on most dates. Mayer will support Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at their show in Glendale, Ariz., and hit both the Austin City Limits Festival and the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival. New shows are being added almost daily at johnmayer.com, so keep checking back for more information. You can pre-order the record on the website as well, and find out—to the...  read more

Herbie Hancock Joins Forces with John Mayer

Seminal jazz pianist Herbie Hancock has pieced together a new band, Headhunters ’05 (named for his classic album Headhunters), featuring John Mayer, Marcus Miller, Roy Hargrove and others. The group has announced tour dates beginning tonight in St. Louis, Mo., and culminating with a two-night stint at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. The full Headhunters ’05 lineup includes Hancock (piano), Terri Lyne Carrington (drums), Hargrove (trumpet), Kenny Garrett (saxophone), Munyungo Jackson (percussion), Lionel Loueke (guitar), Mayer (guitar) and Miller (bass). In addition, Hancock has been named Bonnaroo’s first artist-in-residence. The role involves performing with other artists...  read more

John Mayer Has A TV Show

VH1 has announced singer/songwriter John Mayer will host his own variety/talk show. John Mayer Has A TV Show premieres Thursday, Dec. 9 at 11 p.m. and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Mayer’s life on the road. Shot guerrilla style, the show will be one part documentary, one part travelogue and one part sketch comedy. Footage for the show was captured during Mayer's most recent summer tour, and the show aims to give audiences a glimpse of how he spends his day when he's not singing to sold-out crowds. Mayer takes rapper Trick Daddy on a tour of downtown...  read more

John Mayer

“When I first finished the record, I thought, ‘I can’t talk about this. It’s like fishing through your own poop,’” says John Mayer, fresh from sound check prior to an outdoor concert in Irvine, Calif. He’s draped his lanky 6-foot-4 frame over the built-in settee in his tour bus, which is parked beside the stage. “But I’ve had a little time to think about what the record is and what it does. Bottom line, I think it speaks for itself.” Is Mayer saying he doesn’t want to talk about his second album, Heavier Things? Get serious. If there’s anything this...  read more