The seven-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist John Mayer will perform at the Stephen Talkhouse on Aug. 26 in this year’s edition of the annual SiriusXM satellite radio concert held at the Amagansett live-music venue.
The artist curates and hosts the Life With John Mayer channel, which launched in November 2023, on the satellite radio provider. An interview with the television and radio host Andy Cohen will precede Mr. Mayer’s concert at the Talkhouse, his only live performance of the summer.
Mr. Mayer is to perform a career-spanning set with his full band. The concert will air on Aug. 29 at 8 p.m. on Life With John Mayer and will also be available on the SiriusXM app. Mr. Cohen’s interview with him will air on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel on Aug. 28 at 10 a.m.
SiriusXM subscribers and fans can enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the performance at bit.ly/4gZ6OfB. Those who do not live in the vicinity of the Stephen Talkhouse can also enter for a chance to win a V.I.P. trip to the concert, with details at bit.ly/4hwFVj9.
The concert will be the latest in a series that has seen internationally renowned artists perform inside the intimate venue, or under a tent adjacent to it, including Brandi Carlile, Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll, the Killers, Mumford & Sons, and, last year, Metallica, whose concert promoted the launch of SiriusXM’s Maximum Metallica channel. The concerts have drawn celebrities including Paul McCartney, Howard Stern, Sylvester Stallone, Colin Jost, Ed Burns, and Chad Smith, all of whom attended last year’s performance.
Mr. Mayer’s debut album, “Room for Squares,” from 2001, is certified quintuple-platinum, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The subsequent releases “Heavier Things,” “Battle Studies,” and “Born and Raised,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. His song “Daughters,” from “Heavier Things,” won the Song of the Year Grammy Award in 2005. “Waiting on the World to Change,” won a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2007, and “Gravity” won the Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance Grammy in 2009.
In a 2004 discussion of multitrack recording technology for The Billboard Musician’s Guide to Touring and Promotion, an industry periodical, Mr. Mayer spoke of the importance of the song in its pure form, rather than the sonic adornments of instrumentation and high-end production. “Recording with multitracks is a brilliant thing; writing with multitracks can be a real mistake,” he told this reporter. “It certainly doesn’t allow you to rely on the weight of the song, and you start relying on things that aren’t the main idea. You start getting into drum sounds, guitar sounds, and the way layers sound. . . . My first recordings were always things you couldn’t go back and change, so you had to make it good.”
The artist has earned seven U.S. No. 1s on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart and 25 entries on the Hot Rock Songs chart, the most for any solo artist. He has also performed as part of Dead & Company, which plays music of the Grateful Dead and included Bob Weir, a founding member of that band who died in January.
In a statement, Mr. Mayer said that “SiriusXM has created a great tradition of an annual summer concert in the Hamptons, and I’m excited to be this year’s performer. I’ve had such a great time building Life With John Mayer, and recording the show live for the channel is the perfect way to bring it all full circle.”