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Trey Anastasio Live: Let It Shine, a new one-hour radio special featuring Trey live on stage and in the studio, is set to air on radio stations nationwide in April 2006.

The setlist includes his best-known solo and Phish songs live, with his new band at NYC’s Madison Square Garden this past New Years Eve, and solo from an exclusive acoustic session recorded in New York a few weeks ago.

In an intimate conversation with host, Rita Houston, Trey discusses everything from his new album and songs to his time and relationship with Phish to his fledgling hockey career.

Participating stations and show details are expected to be released shortly

Aussie buzz band Wolfmother has inked in a batch of U.S. dates between appearances at South by Southwest and Coachella.

The group has two weeks of shows booked in April, starting at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco and wrapping at Atlanta’s Drunken Unicorn. The trio will take a break from headlining duties April 4 to open for The Flaming Lips in Toronto.

The band – comprising Andrew Stockdale, Chris Ross and Myles Heskett – toured the U.S. briefly in February before heading to the U.K. for around a dozen dates.

The folks back home have been going wild over the band’s debut album since it was released in Australia last October. Fans in the U.S. will have to make do with the Dimensions EP until May 2, when the self-titled full-length is released Stateside.

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The Walkmen will launch more than a month’s worth of North American tour dates May 24, the day after releasing their third album, A Hundred Miles Off.

The tour begins at home in New York City at Webster Hall. The group will stay on the road for five weeks, stopping for two shows at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall June 12-13 and finishing in Boston June 29.

The five-piece – comprising Hamilton Leithauser, Paul Maroon, Matt Barrick, Pete Bauer and Walter Martin – will hit Coachella and the U.K. prior to the tour.

To spice things up a bit in the live department, a couple members recently decided to pull a little switcheroo, according to the band’s official Web site.

“In the past, Martin would play the organ and Maroon would play either piano or guitar; now, Bauer plays primarily piano and organs, as well as gourd and lap steel. Barrick remains behind the drums.”

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The Drive By Truckers, who will be releasing their new album, A Blessing and a Curse on April 18th, have announced a series of U.S. dates co-headlinig with Son Volt. The tour kicks off at the Heritage Motorcycle Rally and winds through a number of selected cities.

Tour Dates

Fri April 14 – Ladson, SC – Heritage Motorcycle Rally, Exhange Park Fairgrounds

Tue Apr 18 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge

Thu April 20 – Charlottesville, VA – Charlottesville Pavilion w/ Robert Randolph (DBT opens)

Thu April 27 – Baton Rouge, LA – Sogo Live

Fri April 28 – Dallas, TX – Gypsy Ballroom

Sat April 29 – Austin, TX – Stubbs BBQ

Sun April 30 – Albuquerque, NM – El Rey Theatre w/ Son Volt

Tue May 2 – San Diego, CA – Cane’s Ballroom w/ Son Volt

Wed May 3 – Los Angeles, CA – House Of Blues w/ Son Volt

Thu May 4 – Los Angeles, CA – House Of Blues w/ Son Volt

Fri May 5 – San Francisco, CA – Fillmore w/ Son Volt

Sat May 6 – San Francisco, CA – Fillmore w/ Son Volt (DBT opens)

Mon May 8 – Portland, OR – Roseland w/ Son Volt

Tue May 9 – Seattle, WA – Showbox Theatre w/ Son Volt

Wed May 10 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom

Wed May 17 – Minneapolis, MN – First Ave Nightclub

Thu May 18 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre

Fri May 19 – Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre

Sat May 20 – Louisville, KY – Headliner’s

TBA June – Telluride, CO – 2006 Telluride Bluegrass Festival

This summer’s Lollapalooza lineup has been announced and the Chicago event goes like this:

Three days, 120 artists including Red Hot Chili Peppers; Chicago’s own Kanye West, Wilco, Common, Umphrey’s McGhee, Poi dog Pondering, Smoking Popes, the Redwalls and the M’s.; Manu Chao, The Flaming Lips, Ween Death Cab for Cutie, Raconteurs, Queens of the Stone Age, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Matisyahu, Ryan Adams, Sonic Youth, Nada Surf, the New Pornographers, Dresden Dolls, Sleater-Kinney, Sparta, She Wants Revenge … and the list goes on and on.

“We want the fans to discover and explore,” said Perry Farrell, founder and creator of what is considered the “original” modern festival. “That’s what Lollapalooza is all about: sounds of all genres swirling about as you walk through the expanse of Grant Park.”
Tickets are now officially on sale for the August 4-6 party in Grant Park. The schedule for each day hasn’t been nailed down yet, but all the artists are listed at www.lollapalooza.com.

Band List

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West, Manu Chao, Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, The Raconteurs, The Flaming Lips, Ween, Queens of the Stone Age, The Shins, Common, Matisyahu, Ryan Adams, Umphrey’s McGee, Sonic Youth, Thievery Corporation, Sleater-Kinney, Nickel Creek, Blues Traveler, Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Iron & Wine, Poi Dog Pondering, Coheed And Cambria, The Secret Machines, Eels, Panic! At the Disco, The Disco Biscuits, She Wants Revenge, The Dresden Dolls, Reverend Horton Heat, The Smoking Popes, Andrew Bird, Gnarls Barkley, Stars, Cursive, Blackalicious, Editors, Lyrics Born, Lady Sovereign, Calexico, Nada Surf, Feist, Aqualung, The Frames, The Hold Steady, The Go! Team, Mates of State, Pepper, Particle, The Redwalls, Mute Math, Wolfmother, Sparta, The Subways, Of Montreal, Blue October, Jeremy Enigk, Living Things, Sound Team, The M’s, Hot Chip, The Benevento-Russo Duo, Matt Costa, The New Amsterdams, deadboy & the Elephantmen, Sybris, Anathallo, The Burden Brothers, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Manishevitz, Husky Rescue, The Towers of London, Ohmega Watts, Boy Kill Boy, Jim Noir, The Standard, Be Your Own Pet, Elvis Perkins, Trevor Hall, Midlake

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MerleFest 2006 has announced the release on March 14 of a limited edition audio compact disc, Fresh Faces at MerleFest 2006. The CD celebrates the diversity of music performed at MerleFest by compiling tracks either by artists making their MerleFest debut this year or returning after several years

Widespread Panic’s May 9 show at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre will be simulcast at movie screens nationwide through a deal with Regal Cinemas and National Cinemedia. Director Blake Morrison will shoot the concert, which fans can view live for $15 at 150 Regal, United Artists and Edwards screens coast to coast.

The Fox show, to be preceded by a May 8 performance to work out technical issues, will come on the heels of April 21-22 dates at the 20,000-capacity Alltel Pavilion in Raleigh, N.C., to complete the band’s spring live work.

The cinema deal is geared to set up the Widespread/Sanctuary Records June 13 release of the new Panic album “Earth to America,” which is also the title of the simulcast. The album’s production wrapped in January at Compass Point in Nassau, with veteran producer Terry Manning twisting the knobs.

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Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted and former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke have formed a new band, Supernova, and will utilize the CBS reality show “Rock Star” as the vehicle by which to select a lead singer. The show will premiere this summer.

Once a singer has been selected, Supernova will hit the studio with producer Butch Walker (Pink, Avril Lavigne) to record an album that will be released in the fall. A world tour will follow in early 2007.

Guitarist Dave Navarro and actress Brooke Burns will return as the show’s hosts. Navarro promises appearances from Slash, Macy Gray, Moby and Rob Zombie during the competition.

Last fall, “Rock Star” debuted as a talent search for a new INXS frontman. With winner J.D. Fortune in tow, the group has revived its career with a new album, “Switch,” and an extensive tour. INXS will return the road April 21 in Memphis.

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Nine Inch Nails has drafted goth legends Bauhaus and its new Interscope labelmate TV On The Radio for its summer North American tour. The trek will begin May 27 in Ridgefield, Wash., and will feature 13 subsequent shows with TV On The Radio. Bauhaus will continue as the opening act through the outing’s July 8 conclusion in Mountain View, Calif., in tandem with another group to be announced.

Beforehand, NIN will complete a run of smaller North American markets on a tour that continues on to Greenville, S.C., tomorrow (March 16). As previously reported, the Trent Reznor-led group will also play Miami’s Global Gathering Festival on Saturday and the Sasquatch Festival in George, Wash., on May 26.

TV On The Radio’s Interscope debut, “Return to Cookie Mountain,” is expected sometime later this spring or early summer.

Here are Nine Inch Nails’ summer tour dates:

May 26: George, Wash. (Sasquatch Festival)
May 27: Ridgefield, Wash. (Clark County Amphitheatre)
May 28: Nampa, Idaho (Idaho Center)
May 30: Morrison, Colo. (Red Rocks)
May 31: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion)
June 2: San Antonio (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
June 3: Dallas (Smirnoff Music Centre)
June 4: Woodlands, Texas (Mitchell Pavilion)
June 6: Birmingham, Ala. (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
June 7: Atlanta (Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre)
June 9: Raleigh, N.C. (Alltel Pavilion)
June 10: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
June 11: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
June 13: Bristow, Va. (Nissan Pavilion)
June 14: Camden, N.J. (Tweeter Center)
June 16: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
June 17: Wantagh, N.Y. (Jones Beach)
June 18: Saratoga, N.Y. (Saratoga PAC)
June 20: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Center)
June 21: Portland, Me. (Cumberland County Civic Center)
June 23: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center)
June 24: Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre)
June 25: Clarkston, Mich. (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
June 27: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (Blossom Music Center)
June 28: Columbus, Ohio (Germain Amphitheatre)
June 30: Burgettstown, Pa. (Post-Gazette Pavilion)
July 1: Chicago (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)
July 2: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheatre)
July 3: Noblesville, Ind. (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
July 7: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
July 8: Mountain View, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheatre)

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New York-based indie rock act the Hold Steady has signed with Vagrant Records. The group will hit the studio in May to record the follow-up to its 2005 French Kiss swansong, “Separation Sunday,” which is expected to be out before the end of the year.

Several new tunes have been appearing in recent set lists, including “Hot Soft Light,” “Same Kooks” and “Massive Nights.” The group’s only scheduled show at present is April 7 at Warsaw in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Before releasing his first album in six years, Ice Cube will get fans hyped with a lengthy North American tour.
Six weeks’ worth of dates are booked, starting in Anaheim, Calif., April 20. The rap legend will do several California dates, then make his way up the West Coast and across the country, with Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New York all on the itinerary.
The tour wraps back home in California at West Hollywood’s House of Blues.
Laugh Now, Cry Later is due June 6 and is Ice Cube’s first album released on his own label, Lench Mob Records.
“I’m putting my money where my mouth is because there’s nothing a major label can do for me that I can’t do for myself,” he said.
“Not being signed to a particular label, putting it out myself, not having to worry about what a company or anyone else has to think about the record, being able to just go in and do it how I feel it with no timelines or deadlines, it made me comfortable.
“I was able to recommitment myself to rhyming and rapping.”
Ice Cube hasn’t been on the road since 2000, when he appeared on the Up In Smoke tour and released his sixth album, War & Peace – Volume 2.

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Seventeen years after the last tour by The Cars – one of the most successful and influential bands of the late ’70s/early ’80s “New Wave” era – two of its seminal members have customized a modern model that’s ready to hit the road this spring in the form of The New Cars. Joining The Cars’ original guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboardist Greg Hawkes for Road Rage Tour 2006 Presented by VH1 Classic, will be an all-star group of rockers: vocalist/guitarist Todd Rundgren, fellow Utopia bassist/vocalist Kasim Sulton and former Tubes drummer Prairie Prince.

Newly inducted Rock Roll Hall of Famers, Blondie will ride shotgun with The New Cars, performing classics from their new Greatest Hits- Sound Vision album (Capitol/EMI) which includes the new hit “Rapture Riders,” a mash-up of Blondie’s “Rapture” and The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm.” The Los Angeles Times calls it “one of the best mash-ups ever produced.” Other classics on the new CD include “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “The Tide is High” and “Sunday Girl.”

VH1 Classic Presents: The New Cars and Blondie – Road Rage Tour 2006

5/12 – Robinsonville, MS – Grand Casino Tunica Event Center
5/13 – Grand Prairie, TX – Nokia Theatre
5/17 – Phoenix, AZ – Dodge Theatre
5/19 – Las Vegas, NV – Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts
5/20 – Universal City, CA – Gibson Amphitheatre
5/23 – Alpine, CA – Viejas Casino
5/25 – Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Winery
5/26 – Reno, NV – Reno Events Center Downtown
5/27 – Kelseyville, CA – Konocti Field Amphitheater
5/30 – Englewood, CO – Coors Amphitheatre
6/1 – Hinckley, MN – Grand Casino Amphitheatre
6/3 – Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Pavilion
6/4 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Cetner
6/6 – Vienna, VA – The Filene Center
6/7 – Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion
6/9 – Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach Music Theater
6/10 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
6/13 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live (Universal Studios)
6/14 – Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall
6/15 – Hollywood, FL – Seminole Hard Rock Hotel Casino
6/17 – Atlanta, GA – Chastain Park Amphitheater
6/18 – North Charleston, SC – Oyster Shell North Charleston Coliseum
6/21 – Toronto, ON – Molson Amphitheatre
6/23 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
6/24 – Atlantic City, NJ – The Borgata Event Center
6/25 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort
6/30 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre

The Temecula Music Festival has announced all of the selections for the 2006 festival. This year

According to NME.com Courtney Love has said she is preparing to sell a share of her rights to the Nirvana back catalogue.

Love has been in London over the last week. While in the UK she’s had meetings about a new record deal, making a TV documentary, taking a theatre role in the West End, and been to various gigs.

“I have decided that I need some co-management and a strategic partner [to help me] as it’s such a huge responsibility,” Love told NME.COM of her Nirvana plans. “This is the right thing to do for my family…whoever I do this deal with, I really have to like.”

Love is also quoted in the Sunday Mirror (March 12) as saying that she’s thinking about selling “25 per cent of the catalogue for quite a lot of money.”

Love was married to Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain prior to his suicide in 1994.

Between an ugly feud among Blondie members spilling over onstage and a rancorous letter from the absent Sex Pistols, the latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class did not enter quietly on Monday.

The animosity even made Ozzy Osbourne, inducted with Black Sabbath, seem sedate.

As midnight arrived under the chandeliers of the Waldorf-Astoria’s grand ballroom, Lynyrd Skynyrd was performing the song that launched countless cigarette lighters, “Free Bird,” to celebrate their own induction. Famed jazz trumpeter Miles Davis completed the honorees.

When Blondie, the most commercially successful band to emerge from a fertile New York rock scene that also produced Talking Heads and the Ramones, reformed after 15 years, they didn’t include former members Frank Infante and Nigel Harrison. They sued unsuccessfully to join.

Infante, Harrison and Gary Valentine, another former member left behind in a business dispute, were barely acknowledged by former chums Deborah Harry, Chris Stein and Clem Burke as they received their awards.

Infante begged to perform with the band.

“Debbie, are we allowed?” he pleaded before Blondie performed their hits “Heart of Glass,” “Rapture” and “Call Me.”

“Can’t you see my band is up there?” Harry replied. The three rejected members walked offstage, but not before Infante groaned into the microphone.

Punk rockers the Sex Pistols had turned down the honor in a profane letter that compared the hall to “urine in wine.” Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner read the letter, and invited the band to pick up their trophies at the rock hall in Cleveland.

“If they want to smash them into bits, they can do that, too,” Wenner said.

Behind the unnerving stare of singer Johnny Rotten and the lacerating lyrics of “God Save the Queen” and “Pretty Vacant,” the Sex Pistols appeared the most shocking of the first punk-rock generation in the mid-1970s. The Pistols imploded after one album, with Rotten saying, “ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” before walking offstage after their last show for decades.

Osbourne may be better known now as an addled reality TV star, but his musical legacy with Black Sabbath got its due with the band’s induction.

Osbourne has badmouthed the hall of fame for waiting a decade to induct Sabbath, a cause taken up by Metallica member Lars Ulrich in his induction. Metallica guitarist James Hetfield and Ulrich both said their band would not exist without the example of Black Sabbath.

“If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy,” Ulrich said. “No fun.”

Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward did not perform, but Metallica rattled the walls with versions of “Iron Man” and “Hole in the Sky.”

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Radio Woodstock, founder of the Mountain Jam Music Festival, has joined forces with world renowned guitarist Warren Haynes (Allman Bros. & Gov

Lucero is set to release a re-issue of The Attic Tapes on CD and vinyl April 11th on the band’s Liberty & Lament label, thru East West. It’s a re-release of their first EP which was originally co-released by Soul Is Cheap and Lucero guitarist Brian Venable’s own label.

Alternative Press once named The Attic Tapes “One of the top 5 home recordings EVER.” The recordings capture the sound of the band at its inception better than anything else currently in print. The re-issue includes 5 bonus tracks, including the original 7″ recording of “My Best Girl” and its b-side, a cover of Jawbreaker’s “Kiss The Bottle”. The latter has become a Lucero live staple. The limited edition LP version will feature a collectable re-pressing of the band’s first “My Best Girl/Kiss The Bottle” 7″ inserted inside the vinyl album.

To celebrate this reissue, as well as to road test new material, Lucero hits the road in March for SXSW and then 3 weeks of touring in April with Langhorne Slim supporting. The band are set to enter the studio in May with producer David Lowery at Sound of Music studios in Richmond VA to record the follow up to 2005’s Nobody’s Darlings.

Just a week after the new album, Youth was released, The New York Times reported today that Matisyahu has breached his contract with JDub Records (with a term of three years remaining), and dropped the non-profit independent label which gave the artist his start and supported his remarkable rise to stardom.

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As Matisyahu’s love for hip-hop and his dedication to Orthodox Judaism grew, he hit the clubs in a black suit, hat and full beard, and with JDub behind him made one of the most unlikely rises in pop music history. He is surely the only Hasidic reggae singer to sell out 2,000-to-3,000-seat concert halls regularly around the country, and last week he released “Youth” (JDub/Or/Epic), his major label debut, which is widely expected to make it high in the Top 10 when the charts are compiled later this week.

But a few days before “Youth” was released, Mr. Bisman and his partner, Jacob Harris, received an unexpected phone call from their prize talent, telling them their management services were no longer required. “He was in Kansas,” Mr. Bisman said. “He said, ‘I don’t know if you guys are old enough or have enough experience.’ ”

For Mr. Bisman, 25, and Mr. Harris, 26, it was a shock from an old friend and a potential blow to their business. They had shepherded Matisyahu through his early career, setting up gigs and handing out fliers and the like

A pair of apparent Ryan Adams fans ran afoul of a new law making it a crime to publish songs before their release to the general public when they made portions of the singer’s latest album available on a Web site frequented by his fans.

Robert Thomas of Milwaukee and Jared Bowser of Jacksonville, Fla., were indicted under a provision of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) law that makes it a separate federal crime to pirate music and movies before they are released to the public, Memphis-based U.S. attorney Jim Vines and FBI special agent My Harrison said.

The indictments are believed to be the first under the prerelease provision of the 2005 FECA law. The men are alleged to have posted portions of Adams’ “Jacksonville City Nights” on a fan Web site about a month before its official release last September. Adams records for Lost Highway Records, whose Universal Music Group parent did not grant authority for the Internet distribution.

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