Eighteen years since their formation, the Jayhawks might finally have the breakthrough album they have been destined to record with Rainy Day Music
The San Francisco based five-piece Vue, has been rolling along for four years and are about to undergo a big switch. The switch that so many indie bands before them have taken: jumping from an indie to a major label. Though guitarist Jonah Buffa won’t hesitate to tell you that his band’s success has been totally impulsive, when he exclaims, “who let us in the backdoor and left the door unlocked?”
Colorado has always been a hotbed for bluegrass, and though they may not have been born and raised in the mountains, the four boys of the Yonder Mountain String Band are melding jam-tinged exploration with classic style pickin’. With their own festival, a full summer tour, and a newly released album comprised of Benny Galloway tunes, YMSB is a young force with Old Hands.
Five years ago, Mike Rivard set out to create an ongoing experiment. What if his bassline could be the constant focal point, a musical lighthouse, where a rotating cast of allstars including John Medeski, DJ Logic, and the late Mark Sandman, could come together, listen, and be free to just go off to wherever they wanted to lead the music. The result: the creation of a perfect balance between chaos and order.
Former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus and his band the Jicks will open the first leg of Radiohead’s upcoming North American tour. The initial portion of the trek will run Aug. 12-Sept. 5, although a full announcement is not expected for another two weeks. It is not known who will support Radiohead on the tour’s second leg, running from late September through mid-October.
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Dave Matthews will release Some Devil, his first solo recording in September. The album will be the second by a Dave Matthews Band member this year; violinist Boyd Tinsley
Phish will sing the national anthem at Game Four of the NBA Finals between the New Jersey Nets and the San Antonio Spurs. The game takes place at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, NJ on Wednesday, June 11. The game airs at 8:00 pm on ABC.
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Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Citizen Cope, and Pamela Laws (Seven Day Diary) will perform at a June 9 literacy fundraiser in New York. The Bowery Ballroom show will benefit the Brooklyn-based Carter G. Woodson Cultural Literacy Program, which helps at risk students in the New York borough’s Brownsville and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods.
Sponsored by the independent publishers alliance BigSmallPressMall, the event will also feature fiction readings by Jonathan Franzen, Mary Gaitskill, and Colson Whitehead. Tickets are $20 in advance and available through TicketWeb or $25 at the venue on the day of the show.
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An assorted variety of Darkman poetry.
