New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Guitar Center and DIRECTV have announced season 10 of the retailer's award-winning music television series Guitar Center Sessions presented by JBL. The series will return May 29, 2015, with nine new episodes available Friday nights at 9 p.m. exclusively on DIRECTV's Audience Network (channel 239). Artists starring in season 10 include rock bands Lifehouse, The
Offspring and Silversun Pickups; The Killers'
Brandon Flowers; country icon Dwight Yoakam; triple-threat singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas; indie darlings
Best Coast and Hanni El Khatib; and multi-GRAMMY® winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz.
Watch a preview of Guitar Center Sessions season 10 here: https://youtu.be/jyQMoBM88QE
Guitar Center Sessions Season 10 Schedule:
May 29, 2015
Brandon Flowers
June 5, 2015 Lifehouse
June 12, 2015 Hanni El Khatib
June 19, 2015 Dwight Yoakam
June 26, 2015 Nick Jonas
July 17, 2015 Best Coast
July 24, 2015 Jason Mraz
July 31, 2015 The Offspring
August 7, 2015 Silversun Pickups
Guitar Center Sessions provides award-winning music television content to all of DIRECTV's more than 20 million subscribers, presenting exclusive live performances in stunning high definition and 5.1 surround sound. In addition to show-stopping performances, each episode features intimate interviews conducted by renowned journalist Nic Harcourt, offering rare insights into the celebrated careers of these icons and the inspirations behind their music. Born out of Guitar Center's desire to deliver high quality music programming to music fans nationwide, the series has since gone on feature artists as diverse and iconic as
Peter Gabriel, Soundgarden, Snoop Dogg, Linkin Park, OneRepublic, Phantogram, Joan Jett, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Cliff, Damon Albarn,
Social Distortion and more.
"'Guitar Center Sessions' is an outlet through which we celebrate the music and the musicians that have inspired so many of us to pick up an instrument and learn to play. To be able to say that we have an award-winning television show entering its 10th season and nearing 100 episodes is a pretty remarkable accomplishment." - Brian Berman, Vice President of Marketing, Guitar Center
About Audience:
Audience is a unique and exclusive television experience available only to DIRECTV subscribers. The channel first made its mark in 2008 (as The 101 Network) by partnering with NBC to produce and air three additional seasons of the Emmy Award-winning series Friday Night
Lights and in 2010 it became the exclusive home of the critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning drama Damages, starring
Glenn Close. DIRECTV continues its commitment to original content with series including ROGUE, an exclusive suspense-drama starring award-winning actress Thandie Newton, and Full Circle, the television debut of acclaimed writer Neil LaBute, starring Kate Walsh, Julian McMahon, Minka
Kelly and
David Boreanaz. The network has become the premier destination for smart, innovative and critically acclaimed TV fare as we search the globe for the best new series such as
Black Mirror (United Kingdom), Secret
State (United Kingdom), and Rake (Australia) The Dan Patrick Show, and its companion series The Box Score, keep sports fans up to date with the latest sports talk. Viewers also enjoy the Guitar Center Sessions series and major events such as the annual DIRECTV Celebrity Beach Bowl. For more info, please visit www.directv.com/audience
