Tour Dates: The Baseball Project Goes To Spring Training

With the football season wrapping up this past weekend, many of us around the HT HQ are eagerly anticipating the return of baseball, which officially gets underway this weekend as pitchers and catchers begin to report to Spring Training. This spring the soundtrack around the ballparks will get a dose of indie-rock as The Baseball Project will be headed to Arizona to play a string of shows at select Cactus League games. The baseball-centric band, who will release their sophomore effort Vol 2: High & Inside on March 1, will hit five stadiums this March, along with club gigs and an appearance at SXSW.

If you can’t make it to any of the band’s Cactus League dates, than maybe you’ll be able to hit one of these recently announced tours…

• New Porns & The Walkmen team up for a co-headlining run
• YMSB announce the dates for their Harvest Music Festival
• Alt.country act Phosphorescent line up a lengthy world tour
• Black Angels bring their brand of psych-rock to a town near you
• Peter, Bjorn & John put together a 28-date globe-trotting trek
• Pixies add even more Doolittle full album gigs for this spring

Finally, for his upcoming Revolver Tour with The Imposters, Elvis Costello has decided to dust off his “Spectacular Spinning Songbook” wheel to determine the setlist for each night’s show. The game-show wheel, which was originally used some 25 years ago, will feature 40 song-titles, including hits, rarities and very unexpected covers. According to Costello’s website  – audience members will be invited onstage to spin “The Wheel” and then will be offered a chance to enter the “Hostage to Fortune Go-Go Cage”, while their selection is performed or to take a seat in the on-stage “Society Lounge”, where light refreshments will be served. The 12-date tour kicks offs on May 7 at the Grand Sierra Theater in Reno, NV and includes a pair of tour ending shows at New York’s Beacon Theater on May 22 & 23.