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Dave Matthews Band has scheduled a short run of dates to close out 2005. The trek will begin Nov. 26 in Minneapolis and run through Dec. 15 in Boston. Opening acts include Soulive, Gavin DeGraw and former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty.

Before the tour, Matthews will play solo Oct. 28 at the Vegoose Festival in Las Vegas and Oct. 30 at the Bridge School Benefit concert in Mountain View, Calif.

Nov. 26: Minneapolis (Target Center)
Nov. 27: Omaha, Neb. (Qwest Center)
Nov. 29: Madison, Wis. (Kohl Center)
Nov. 30: Champaign, Ill. (Assembly Hall)
Dec. 3: Detroit (Joe Louis Arena)
Dec. 4: Toronto (Air Canada Centre)
Dec. 6: State College, Pa. (Bryce Jordan Center)
Dec. 7: Rochester, N.Y. (Blue Cross Arena)
Dec. 9-10: New York (Madison Square Garden)
Dec. 12: Manchester, N.H. (Verizon Wireless Arena)
Dec. 13: Philadelphia (Wachovia Center)
Dec. 15: Boston (TD Banknorth Garden)

Source: billboard

Rock act Garbage will take “an indefinite break” after its Australian tour ends Oct. 1 in Perth. “We’re taking a hiatus — I don’t know if we’re calling it a day,” singer Shirley Manson told the Melbourne Herald Sun. A group spokesperson had no comment on the developments.

Rumors have been circulating that things were not right in the Garbage camp after the band cancelled European dates scheduled after the Australian tour.

Band members admitted Garbage almost broke up during the making of its latest album, “Bleed Like Me,” but later insisted they were thrilled with the finished product. “Because we were on the verge of losing it all, we made the album of our career,” drummer Butch Vig told Billboard. “We feel completely rejuvenated.”

The set debuted in April at a career-best No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 245,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It spawned the band’s first top 10 Modern Rock hit since 1998 with “Why Do You Love Me,” which reached No. 8.

“We’ve not stopped for 10 years,” Manson told the newspaper. “We always swore if it wasn’t 100% fun, we’d stop it.”

Source billboard.com.

moe. has soldified their plans for the end of 2005 with a thanksgiving run in New York City and a New Year’s Eve run in Asheville, NC. Following a show on 12/29 at The Orange Peel, moe. will celebrate the ball drop on 12/30 and 12/31 at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.

11/25 – 11/26 – Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY

12/29 – The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC

12/30 – 12/31 – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville, NC

For more info see moe.org

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy will spend the bulk of November on a solo tour, which will kick off Nov. 5 in Madison, Wis., and run through Nov. 22 in London. The tour follows a short run of fall Wilco dates, which will finish up Oct. 22 at Brazil’s Tim Festival, as well as the Nov. 1 release of the Wilco live album “Kicking Television.”

A highlight of Tweedy’s itinerary is a Nov. 16-17 stand in New York as part of the first Wall Street Rising concert series. Tickets are free and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Oct. 17 at the Downtown Information Center on Broad Street and Exchange Place.

Nov. 5: Madison, Wis. (Orpheum Theatre)
Nov. 6: Minneapolis (First Avenue)
Nov. 8: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Michigan Theater)
Nov. 9: Columbus, Ohio (Southern Theatre)
Nov. 10: Grand Rapids, Mich. (Calvin College Fine Arts Center)
Nov. 12: Grantham, Pa. (Brubaker Auditorium)
Nov. 13: Northampton, Mass. (Calvin Theatre)
Nov. 14: Albany, N.Y. (Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center)
Nov. 16-17: New York (Tribeca Performing Arts Center)
Nov. 18: Kingston, N.Y. (Ulster Performing Arts Center)
Nov. 22: London (Shepherd’s Bush Empire)

Source: billboard.com

New Jersey-based national touring act Railroad Earth has announced it will play a four-night run of shows in December with Honkytonk Homeslice (Bill Nershi of String Cheese Incident and Jilian Nershi). The shows signal a growing kinship with the SCI family; Railroad Earth has teamed up with SCI

Rock veteran John Mellencamp is among the nominees for a new class of inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by jazz legend Miles Davis, rap pioneers Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and Blondie.

Cat Stevens is also nominated, along with pioneering punk rock acts the Patti Smith Group, the Sex Pistols and the Stooges.

Southern rock stalwart Lynyrd Skynyrd, heavy metal band Black Sabbath, 1960s beat group Dave Clark Five, Boston-area blues-rockers J. Geils Band, dance masters Chic and Texans Joe Tex, and the Sir Douglas Quintet are also on the ballot.

Source: billboard

NYC’s Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden jointly hosted

Three previously unreleased Nirvana songs will surface November 1st when Geffen/Universal issue Sliver, a compilation of Nirvana rarities and demos. The twenty-two-track CD will be rounded out with material from With the Lights Out, the Nirvana box set released last November.

Sliver marks the first time Frances Bean Cobain, the thirteen-year-old daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and rocker Courtney Love, has taken an active role in her father’s legacy. “We’re pulling Frances into the family business,” Love told Rolling Stone.

In addition to helping select the title, Frances Bean also played a role in choosing the cover image. “Courtney and I involve Frances in Nirvana/Kurt decisions whenever we can,” says Peter Asher, who manages Love and the Cobain estate. “She’s very perceptive and has cool ideas.”

With the Lights Out was delayed for several years due to legal battles between Love and surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, but there were no such troubles with Sliver.

Source rollingstone.com.

As first reported in billboard last November, Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis will release her solo debut in January. “Rabbit Fur Coat” will be issued by Team Love, the label run by Bright Eyes leader Conor Oberst. Rilo Kiley was formerly labelmates with Bright Eyes on Saddle Creek before establishing its own Brute/Beaute imprint via Warner Bros.

“Rabbit Fur Coat” sports host of top-shelf guest artists, including Oberst, Death Cab For Cutie vocalist Ben Gibbard, Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine, and singer/songwriter M. Ward, who co-produced with Saddle Creek veteran Mike Mogis. Among the songs set for inclusion are “Melt Your Heart,” “Happy,” “Rise Up With Fists” and the title track.

Rilo Kiley is finishing its stint opening for Coldplay’s North American tour, which hits Minneapolis tonight (Sept. 20). Lewis will then hit the road with a cast of backing musicians to be announced around the release date of “Rabbit Fur Coat.”

Meanwhile, fellow Rilo Kiley principal Blake Sennet is planning to release an album early next year with his side band the Elected, which also features Rilo Kiley’s Jason Boesel.

Source billboard.com.

California rock act Grandaddy is putting the final touches this week on the follow-up to its 2003 V2 release, “Sumday.” Titled “Just Like the Fambly Cat,” the album will be a departure from the band’s previous work, according to lead singer Jason Lytle.

The band has spent a year-and-a-half recording in Lytle’s home studio in Modesto, Calif. Over this time, the decision was made to release an EP before the full-length. “It just seemed like a good idea,” Lytle says. “I mean, it has been so long since the last album, so rather than barge in on someone’s house unannounced [with the album] we thought we’d rather call on the phone, and say, ‘We’re coming over.’ That’s what the EP does.”

On Sept. 27, “The Excerpts From the Diary of Todd Zilla EP” hits the shelves. The title is not an ode to a band friend, fan or foe, but rather a name seen on a truck’s vanity plate. “I’ve probably met Toddzilla a bunch of times throughout my life,” Lytle says. “He’s a guy who is not very intelligent, and just kind of there. But I didn’t meet the actual Toddzilla.”

No tour plans are in the works and according to Lytle, “they are very much up in the air. It will be much different this time, in what comes with the album.”

Source: billboard