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Jeep® Compass Kicks Off Summer as Exclusive Automotive Sponsor of the Dave ...

. The Dave Matthews Band Caravan is a three-day event featuring the Dave Matthews Band as well as an array of diverse musical talent performing on multiple stages. Attendees will have an opportunity to participate in the "Jeep Journey to Stardom" road tour experience featuring the Jeep Compass. Along with its sponsorship of the Dave Matthews Band Caravan, the Jeep brand will partner with emerging artists as they begin to embark on their journey in the music industry.

"By tapping into music partnerships such as the Dave Matthews Band Caravan and emerging artists enables us to introduce the Jeep brand and its product portfolio to a new audience," said , President and CEO – Jeep Brand, Chrysler Group LLC. "This sponsorship is a unique way to facilitate a widespread conversation and expose consumers to the 2011 Jeep Compass."

Jeep Journey to Stardom

The "Jeep Journey to Stardom" is a custom test-drive experience designed exclusively for the Dave Matthews Band Caravan Festival. Set up at each of the four cities, attendees will experience the steps to becoming a star, including: 

Jeep Wall Of Fame – Start the journey by getting inspired from the "Wall of Fame" where they will view the timelines of the Jeep brand's rich history and lyrics from the brand's emerging artists posted throughout the area. Attendees will be able to tag their own messages of what inspires them, thereby inspiring future artists.  Jeep Recording Studio & Jeep Track Bar – Attendees can record a song in a custom Jeep recording studio, experience getting signed to recording contract and go on tour with a personal tour manager.  Jeep Journey to Stardom "Road" Tour – Test-drive the on-road and off-road course with the 2011 Jeep Compass, highlighting the vehicle's capabilities over obstacles representing the four major stops on the Caravan Festival Tour –

To find out more information about the Dave Matthews Band Caravan or to purchase tickets visit - www.dmbcaravan.com . 

Compass Emerging Artists Program

This summer, the Jeep brand also will launch exclusive partnerships with emerging artists across various genres of the music industry. Each artist will take a 2011 Jeep Compass on tour as they travel across the country to their various destinations, posting live tweets and updates along the way.

Artists include rockers ( www.AlbertaCross.net ), hip-hop artist Elzhi ( www.elzhi.com ) and rapper MGK ( www.mgklaceup.com ).

The Devil in Dave Matthews: Rolling Stone's 2004 Cover Story ...

"That's right, kitty. You're beautiful, But I'm not going to touch you. I don't know where you've been, and I hope you're not related to the devil." These days it's hard for Dave Matthews to trust anything, not even a small black cat desperate for attention. He doesn't need any more bad luck. "Trouble, get behind me now," he sings on his solo debut, Some Devil. "Trouble, let me be." He acknowledges that his best album with Dave Matthews Band is five years behind him and says no God gives a shit about him and that suicide crosses his mind more often than you may think. "I've been in situations where I haven't been able to see how I'll get by," he says. But Matthews also says he has a "pretty solid sense of joy." He is happily married, his two-year-old twin girls, Grace and Stella, worship him, and, as he puts it, he makes "an exorbitant living," estimated to be north of $20 million annually. In order to stay out of a lunatic asylum, Matthews has resolved to distract himself with projects, big and small. There's the solo album, which expands on Matthews' constant themes of loss, death and love; a craft project that involves designing and hand-painting a deck of cards; a president he vows to remove from the White House; the winery he operates on his Virginia estate; and ATO Records, the label he oversees (David Gray, Ben Kweller, My Morning Jacket and five others are signed to ATO). "I want to, as desperately and joyfully as possible, fill my life with unusual experiences — make my life full of challenges and accept them," he says. "Change is like a vacation." What's taking over his fantasies at the moment is the thought of writing the next DMB album at the band's brand-new studio complex in Charlottesville, Virginia. "It's, like, my crazed ambition."

In Thibodaux, Louisiana, a bayou town fifty miles southwest of New Orleans, Matthews, who will turn thirty-seven on January 9th, has diverted his short attention span to acting. Sporting a full beard, he's on the set of Because of Winn-Dixie, directed by Wayne Wang. Matthews plays an ex-con drifter who arrives in Naomi, Florida, and settles in as the owner of a pet shop, where he imparts his wisdom to a young girl. He'll also contribute new songs to the soundtrack. "I always said that if I ever do a part in a movie, I would refuse to play music," he says. "But I realized that this is the perfect part for me." His character, Otis, has trouble stringing thoughts together without a guitar in his hand.