For Immediate Release

NERO RELEASES ALBUM RE-PACK WELCOME REALITY +

WITH NEW ORIGINAL MATERIAL AND SKRILLEX/NERO REMIX

OCTOBER 22^nd ON CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE

“PROMISES” SINGLE HITS GOLD STATUS IN THE US AND NORTH AMERICAN DJ TOUR KICKS OFF OCTOBER 24

September 11, 2012 — (Santa Monica, CA) — Nero, the electronic group comprised of British-born producers, remixers, DJs, and artists Dan Stephens, Joe Ray and vocalist Alana Watson, are one of the biggest names in dance music. The trio received RIAA certified Gold-Record status in the US this month for their smash single “Promises”, which also stormed straight to the top of the charts in the UK, and are now announcing a deluxe re-packaged release of their critically acclaimed hit album Welcome Reality +  featuring all new original material and a North American DJ tour in October.

Cherrytree/Interscope are set to release a deluxe re-package of Nero’s debut album Welcome Reality +  on October 22, the re-pack includes two brand new original Nero tracks, “Won’t You (Be There)” and “Etude” plus the huge Skrillex/Nero remix of “Promises”.

Coinciding with the album re-release, and on the back of 2012 headlining slots at Coachella, Lollapalooza, IDENTITY Festival and their live show at HARD Summer, Nero will tour North America in October and November, DJing nine shows, including stops in New York, Boston, Toronto and Washington DC. Additional  November and December tour dates will be announced soon.  

Welcome Reality, was one of the best reviewed dance records of the year, receiving raves from Spin, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly,andBillboard.  “Promises” was also featured in a commercial for the HP dm4 Beats Edition, and the track’s official video has racked up over 16 million plays on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llDikI2hTtk

Here’s what the press had to say about ‘Welcome Reality’:

"Nero's Joe Ray and Dan Stephens ache to bestow post-dubstep with its can-you-believe-this-shit? flash of stadium-size euphoria, enhancing (or defiling, depending on your perspective) the genre's bass-heavy payload with trancey synths and wailing vocals,” Spin 

“The music flaunts vintage synthesizers and echoes of dance-music past: the raw swoops of early-1990s rave, the arpeggios of synth-pop, the string-section jabs of disco, even some 1980s rock-anthem guitar…“Welcome Reality” pulls dubstep toward the arena-pop spotlight without leaving its shadows behind.”The New York Times

“Blistering beats and serious electro-pop sparkle” Entertainment Weekly

“Welcome Reality” will inevitably soundtrack thousands of blowouts. ...Nero understand how to make things burn."  Los Angeles Times

"Glorious, splinter-thin moments when a sound is both free to do whatever it wants and still functioning as a new power source…" , The New Yorker

Nero North American Tour dates:

10/24                    Montreal, Canada                La Mouche

10/25                    Toronto, Canada                 The Hoxton

10/26                    Atlanta, GA                          Wild Bills

10/26                    El Paso, TX                           Buchanan’s Event Center

10/27                    Houston, TX                          Sam Houston Race Park

10/27                    New York, NY                         Hammerstein Ballroom

10/29                    Boston, MA                             Royale Nightclub

10/31                    Tampa, FL                              Amphitheater

11/02             Washington, DC                            Echostage

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NERO TO SUPPORT MADONNA ON HER NORTH AMERICAN “MDNA TOUR” THIS FALL

BRITAIN’S PREMIERE DUBSTEP DUO ALSO SET TO APPEAR AT LOLLAPALOOZA, HARD SUMMER LA, AND ON THE IDENTITY FESTIVAL

DEBUT ALBUM, WELCOME REALITY, OUT NOW ON CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE RECORDS

June 5, 2012 — Santa Monica, CA — London’s premiere dubstep duo NERO is pleased to announce that they will join one of the biggest tours of the fall: Madonna’s MDNA Tour. Nero, which is British-born producers, remixers, DJs, and artists Dan Stephens and Joe Ray, will open for The Material Girl on the North American leg of her eagerly anticipated tour in support of her most recent album, MDNA on select dates including New York’s Madison Square Garden, and Miami’s American Airlines Arena. Nero will open the show with a DJ set, featuring live vocals from Alana. 

Nero recently appeared at Coachella, Sasquatch, and the Electric Daisy Carnival NYC festivals and is also set to perform several shows on this summer’s IDentity Festival, as well as at Lollapalooza in Chicago and Hard Summer Los Angeles in August. Please see below for all of Nero’s upcoming tour dates. 

Nero has been touring all year in support of their debut album Welcome Reality, which was released by Cherrytree/Interscope Records in December to rave reviews from Spin, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Billboard. With its thunderous bass, hail of house rhythms, lightning flashes of rave synths, and showers of guitar, the album “pulls dubstep toward the arena-pop spotlight without leaving its shadows behind,” as the New York Times put it in its review, while Billboard noted that Nero “comes off like a dubstep-powered pop band.”

Released in the U.K. in August 2011, Welcome Reality debuted at No. 1 and rapidly earned gold status, fueled by its singles “Innocence,” Guilt,” “Promises” (which also stormed straight to the top of the UK charts) and “Me and You,” which was the most played record on Radio 1 for three weeks in a row and is the first U.S. single from the album. The official video for the song has racked up more than 13 million plays on YouTube. Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llDikI2hTtk

NERO’S upcoming festival dates are as follows:

07/19        Cincinnati, OH      Riverbend Music Center/Identity

07/20        Detroit, MI            Phoenix Theater/Identity

07/21        Toronto, ON         Molson Canadian Amphitheatre/Identity

08/03        Chicago, IL           Grant Park/Lollapalooza

08/04        Los Angeles, CA     State Historic Park/Hard Summer

08/10        Dallas, TX            Gexa Energy Pavilion/Identity

08/11        Woodlands TX     Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion/Identity

Madonna The MDNA Tour with special guest NERO tour dates are as follows:

08/28        Philadelphia, PA     Wells Fargo Center

08/30        Montreal, QC        Bell Centre

09/12        Toronto, ON         Air Canada Centre

09/13        Toronto, ON         Air Canada Centre

09/15        Atlantic City, NJ     Boardwalk Hall

10/13        Las Vegas, NV      MGM Grand

10/14        Las Vegas, NV      MGM Grand

10/16        Phoenix, AZ         US Airways Center

10/18        Denver, CO          Pepsi Center

10/20        Dallas, TX            American Airlines Center

10/21        Dallas, TX            American Airlines Center

10/24        Houston, TX         Toyota Center

10/25        Houston, TX         Toyota Center

10/27        New Orleans, LA     New Orleans Arena

10/30        Kansas City, MO     Sprint Center

11/01        St. Louis, MO       Scottrade Center

11/03        St. Paul, MN         Xcel Energy Center

11/04        St. Paul, MN         Xcel Energy Center

11/06        Pittsburgh, PA       Consol Energy Center

11/08        Detroit, MI            Joe Louis Arena

11/10        Cleveland, OH      Quicken Loans Arena

11/12        New York, NY     Madison Square Garden

11/15        Charlotte, NC        Time Warner Cable Arena

11/17        Atlanta, GA          Philips Arena

11/19        Miami, FL             American Airlines Arena

11/20        Miami, FL             American Airlines Arena

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January 31, 2012

BRITAIN’S PREMIERE DUBSTEP DUO NERO LAUNCHES HEADLINING “SECOND REALITY” U.S. TOUR IN MARCH, PLUS APPEARANCES AT COACHELLA

LONDON DUO TOURING IN SUPPORT OF DEBUT ALBUM WELCOME REALITY, OUT NOW ON CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE RECORDS

Fan Pre-Sale Happening Now; Tickets Come With Digital Album

(Santa Monica, CA)  — Having already introduced their special brand of melodic dance mayhem to North American electronic music fans with roof-raising DJ sets at nightclubs in December, London’s premiere dubstep duo Nero is gearing up for a triumphant return to the U.S. in March for their headlining “Second Reality” live tour, as well as eagerly awaited appearances at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in April. Nero will also launch their exclusive 2012 DJ residency at Surrender and XS Nightclubs, located at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, performing first at Surrender between the weeks at Coachella.

Tickets for the “Second Reality” tour will be available to Nero fan club members via a pre-sale happening now at http://us.thisisnero.com/tickets/ Those who purchase tickets will each receive an immediate digital download of Nero’s debut album Welcome Reality along with an exclusive laminate that unlocks additional digital content.  The fan pre-sale runs now through February 3^rd. 

Nero is British-born producers, remixers, DJs, and artists Dan Stephens and Joe Ray, who are joined by dynamo singer Alana Watson for their live concerts, which find them performing high atop a custom-built booth consisting of ghetto blasters, retro TV’s, old amps, and an arcade machine centerpiece. 

Nero is touring in support of Welcome Reality, which was released to rave reviews by Cherrytree/Interscope Records in December. With its thunderous bass, hail of house rhythms, lightning flashes of rave synths, and showers of guitar, the album “pulls dubstep toward the arena-pop spotlight without leaving its shadows behind,” as the New York Times put it in its review, while Billboard noted that Nero “comes off like a dubstep-powered pop band.”

Released in the U.K. in August, Welcome Reality debuted at No. 1 and rapidly earned Gold status, fueled by its singles “Innocence,” Guilt,” “Promises” (which also stormed straight to the top of the UK charts) and “Me and You,” which was the most played record on Radio 1 for three weeks in a row and is now the first U.S. single from the album. Nero’s indie/dubstep hybrid smash Me and You Remix EP is also currently available digitally, and features a brand-new remix of “Me And You” by Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia, and a Skrillex remix of "Promises" (previously unavailable in the U.S.) that has racked up more than 10 million plays on YouTube.

Check out the video trailer for HARD Summer 2012 here featuring “Promises” (Skrillex & Nero Remix) and Nero’s Dan Stephens.   

With nominations from BBC’s Sound of 2011, XFM’s Sound of 2011, and Music Week’s Top 15, Nero also won 2010's Beatport Award for Best Dubstep Act and Best Dubstep Track for “Act Like You Know.” The duo have performed at all the major UK music festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival, Reading, and Wireless, and still found the time to produce remixes for The Streets, La Roux, deadmau5, N*E*R*D and Daft Punk. 

CHECK OUT WHAT THE PRESS HAS TO SAY ABOUT NERO:

"Nero's Joe Ray and Dan Stephens ache to bestow post-dubstep with its can-you-believe-this-shit? flash of stadium-size euphoria, enhancing (or defiling, depending on your perspective) the genre's bass-heavy payload with trancey synths and wailing vocals.” — Spin

“Welcome Reality is nearly as nostalgic as it is futuristic. The music flaunts vintage synthesizers and echoes of dance-music past: the raw swoops of early-1990s rave, the arpeggios of synth-pop, the string-section jabs of disco, even some 1980s rock-anthem guitar.” — The New York Times

With [singer Alana] Watson, Nero comes off like a dubstep-powered pop band — and with Welcome Reality, the act’s very polished debut, it’s a hit away from broader fame.” — Billboard

“Blistering beats and serious electro-pop sparkle.” — Entertainment Weekly

“Welcome Reality” will inevitably soundtrack thousands of blowouts. ...Nero understand how to make things burn." —  The Los Angeles Times

"Glorious, splinter-thin moments when a sound is both free to do whatever it wants and still functioning as a new power source.” — The New Yorker

NERO’S UPCOMING U.S. TOUR DATES

03/29               Washington, DC          9:30 Club

03/30               Philadelphia, PA          Electric Factory

03/31               New York, NY             Roseland Ballroom

04/03               Boston, MA                 House of Blues

04/04               Montreal, QC              Metropolis

04/05               Guelph, ON                 Guelph Concert Theatre (DJ set)

04/06               Toronto, ON                Sound Academy

04/07               Chicago, IL                  Congress Theater

04/08               Milwaukee, WI                        Riverside Theater

04/09               Minneapolis, MN         Minute Myth

04/13               San Francisco, CA     Warfield Theater

04/15               Indio, CA                     Coachella

04/18               Las Vegas, NV            Surrender Nightclub (DJ set)

04/20               El Paso, TX                 Buchanan’s Event Center (DJ set)

04/22               Indio, CA                     Coachella

04/24               Denver, CO                Ogden Theatre

04/26               Dallas, TX                   House of Blues

04/27               Houston, TX                Verizon Wireless Theater

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 Nero DJ dates through December Announced

 Nero, aka North West London producers, remixers du jour, DJs and artists Dan Stephens and Joe Ray, now one of the biggest names in both dubstep and drum and bass unleash their debut album WELCOME REALITY on the U.S. December 13^th. 

 Their August single “Promises” stormed straight to the top of the UK charts, while WELCOME REALITY did the same, debuting in the U.K. at #1 and rapidly reaching Gold status across the pond.  Nero’s indie/dubstep hybrid smash ME AND YOU REMIX EP is available digitally now, and features a never- before released brand new remix of “Me And You” by Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia, plus a Skrillex remix of "Promises" that has over 3 million plays on YouTube and has not been available for sale in the US until now.  "Me and You’ charted at number 15 in the UK, was the most played record on Radio 1 for three weeks in a row and is now the first U.S. single from WELCOME REALITY. 

 The epic, cinematic, widescreen quality to Nero’s grimy symphonies come from their love of movie soundtracks: Joe, a trained classical guitarist, loves the stabbing strings and eerie atmospheres of Bernard Herrmann’s scores, as well as the baroque works of his favorite composers. He believes Nero offer a shorter, more compact and intense version of that classical sound in dance form. Stadium rock, electro-funk, jazz and classical music, movie soundtracks, rave, the beats of drum’n’bass and the distorted subsonic basslines and production methods of dubstep... then factor in the freaktronic 90s releases of the Warp label (Aphex Twin, Squarepusher) and you’ve got the recipe for a superb album. WELCOME REALITY is that album.

 A distillation of 30 years of dance, from disco to dubstep, with some rock thrown in. Fourteen tracks, and one hour, of melodic dance mayhem, it was recorded in the same South London studio used by Shy FX, Caspa and Nero's MTA label bosses Chase & Status, featuring music written and self- produced using equipment both new and vintage, with some of the iconic 80s synths - a Roland Jupiter 8 and Yamaha CS80 - that the likes of Madonna, Prince and Duran Duran used. The lyrics were also penned with some help from their regular singer Alana Watson who also performs live with Nero.  “We’ve known her since we were 16,” explains Dan. “She’s always been part of the Nero gang, and she’s been on all the singles. Alana helps give us a ‘band’ feel, a bit like Massive Attack.  The only outside assistance came from a guitarist friend called Bush, and a certain 80s megastar called Daryl Hall, who provided a cameo on the track ‘Reaching Out’. 

 “We wanted to make a dance album that takes you on a journey,” reveals Dan, “with segues and a sense of flow from beginning to end.” “It’s the sort of album we’d have loved as kids,” adds Joe, who admits that the benchmarks for WELCOME REALITY as a coherent, near-conceptual piece of work were Radiohead’s OK Computer, Daft Punk’s Discovery and Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On.  “We wanted it to sound memorable but not dated,” says Dan. “Some albums are very ‘now’ but won’t be relevant in a year. We want ours to last.”
Mission accomplished.  In fact, fully expect WELCOME REALITY to rip the roof off a club and/or do damage to whatever the future version of your bedroom stereo will be in, at the very least, the year 2808.

 Nero will be playing select DJ dates this December. They return for live dates this Spring.  The visual led performance includes a custom built booth consisting of ghetto blasters, retro TVs, old amps and an arcade machine centre piece. Additional DJ dates are also announced and all dates are below.

 With a live show not to be missed, the musical storm of Nero’s set with its thunderous dubstep bass, whirlwind drum’n’bass and hail of house rhythms, lightning flashes of rave synths, squall of orchestra, and occasional showers of guitar is truly epic.  With nominations from BBC’s Sound of 2011, XFM’s Sound of 2011, and Music Week’s Top 15, Nero have also won several awards including 2010's Beatport Awards for Best Dubstep Act and Best Dubstep Track for “Act Like you Know.”  The duo spent their summer performing on all the major UK music festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival, Reading, and Wireless, and still found the time to produce remixes for The Streets, La Roux, deadmau5, N*E*R*D and Daft Punk. 

" Nero's Joe Ray and Dan Stephens ache to bestow post-dubstep with its can-you-believe-this-shit? flash of stadium-size euphoria, enhancing (or defiling, depending on your perspective) the genre's bass-heavy payload with trancey synths and wailing vocals,” Spin

“Welcome Reality” will inevitably soundtrack thousands of summer and fall blowouts. ...Nero understand how to make things burn."   Los Angeles Times

"Glorious, splinter-thin moments when a sound is both free to do whatever it wants and still functioning as a new power source…" , The New Yorker

NERO NORTH AMERICA TOUR DATES:

12/15/11                      Boston MA                Royale NightClub  (DJ set) Buy Tickets

12/16/11                      Hartford CT              Webster Theater  (DJ set) Buy Tickets

12/17/11                      Atlantic City, NJ         Showboat Hotel & Casino - House of Blues (DJ set)                                                                               Buy Tickets

12/20/11                      Victoria BC                9one9 (DJ set) Buy Tickets

12/21/11                      Edmonton AB            Edmonton Events Centre (DJ set) Buy Tickets

12/22/11                      Los Angeles, CA        Music Box (DJ set)  Buy Tickets  

12/23/11                      Los Angeles, CA        Music Box (DJ set)  Buy Tickets  

12/27/11                      San Diego, CA           House of Blues (DJ set) Buy Tickets

12/29/11                      San Francisco, CA       Ruby Skye (DJ set) Buy Tickets

12/30/11                      Vancouver, BD           Vogue Theater (DJ set) Buy Tickets

12/30/11                      Miami, FL                  The Fillmore Miami Beach (DJ set)
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12/31/11                      New York, NY             Webster Hall (DJ set) Buy Tickets

12/31/11                      Seattle, WA                Showbox Sodo (DJ set) Buy Tickets