April 15, 2003

Overshadowed by the many ambitious festivals in the jam scene, the Field Day Festival in Calverton, New York on June 7th and 8th presents an absolute amazing lineup in the heavier alternative genre. Radiohead has just been announced to play the first night of the festival. Other acts confirmed for the first day include: Beck, Beth Orton, Interpol, The Raveonettes, Spiritualized, Thievery Corporation, and Tortoise.
Confirmed bands for the second day are just as impressive and include: The Beastie Boys, Sigur Ros, The Roots, Elliot Smith, N.E.R.D., Blackalicious, and Le Tigre.
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Ween’s highly anticipated next studio album will be called “quebec,” but guitarist Dean Ween (real name: Mickey Melchiondo) says a few wrinkles still have to be ironed out before the 16-song set sees the light of day. “I can’t give you a definitive release date right now,” he wrote on the band’s official Web site. “We were in negotiations with a record label and things fell apart, setting us back even further.”
“I have no idea how this will affect our summer touring plans just yet as we planned on having the record out by June at the latest. It is still possible that this may happen,” he continued. “As for the record itself, it is heavy, dark, psychedelic and musically intricate at times, and musically really f***ing cheap at times as well. All and all it’s a great record that we put a lot of time and love into and it was produced by Andrew Weiss, mostly recorded in his living room.”
Source Billboard.com.

The Grateful Dead’s “View From the Vault” archive series has moved into its fourth volume, with DVD and CD audio documents of a pair of summer 1987 California concerts: July 24 at Oakland Stadium and July 26 at Anaheim Stadium. As with past releases in the series, the Monterey Video DVD is culled from the four cameras that projected stage action onto large video screens in each venue.
At the time, the Dead was at the height of its second wave of popularity, thanks to a string of sold-out concerts (some with Bob Dylan) and the single “Touch of Grey,” was rising on the charts.
The DVD features the full Oakland show, and most of the drastically different set list of the Anaheim date. The four-disc Grateful Dead Records audio CD includes both in their entirety, restoring “Friend of the Devil,” “Me and My Uncle,” and “Big River,” cut from the DVD due to time limitations.
In other Dead news, it was announced that Bob Dylan will be opening up leg two of the band