The Joe Jackson Band has announced a second US tour on the heels of their latest release, Volume 4. The tour begins August 9th in Hartford followed by a date at the Avalon in Boston on August 10th. A number of US dates follow and can be seen by visiting JoeJackson.com..
Jackson first reunited the band — bassist Graham Maby, guitarist Gary Sanford, drummer Dave Houghton, and Jackson on vocals and piano — last year, and played a string of club shows in the U.K. prior to recording a new album. The band is known for their signature style of brash piano punk and infectious melodic tunes with past hits like
Velvet Revolver — the new group featuring Guns N’ Roses vets Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, David Kushner of Suicidal Tendencies and former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland — will play its first show tonight (June 19) at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre.
“[Weiland] is just awesome,” Slash said. “We’ve been writing new songs. He’s a great singer, and he’s a great arranger. The music just sounds unique. We just fit together as a band. There’s not this weird subconscious pressure going on that something’s not right.”
The group’s single, “Set Me Free,” which hit stores this week as part of Decca/Universal’s score/soundtrack to “The Hulk,” leaked to radio early and is already among the most-requested songs on alternative stations WBCN in Boston and KROQ in Los Angeles. The group’s managers, Dana Millman-DuFine and David Codikow of Immortal Entertainment, pacted with Apple’s new iTunes download service to offer the single, and it’s already the No. 2 most-downloaded song.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs is going after independent record labels in hopes of adding them to their iTunes music store. This could increase the number of songs the service offers to 400,000 within four months. Labels that would be included are Sub Pop and Bay Area electronica label Delvian Records. Although Apple would make no comment, it
Currently on the East coast leg of their tour, The Dead will make a brief stop in NYC to play The Late Show With David Letterman tonight. Also appearing on the show will be Sarah Jessica Parker.
Check local CBS listings for details
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A 2000 ruling against former Dead Kennedy’s frontman Jello Biafra was unanimously upheld by a California Court of Appeals yesterday. The three-judge panel found that Biafra still owed bandmates guitarist East Bay Ray, bassist Klaus Flouride and drummer D.H. Peligro more than $200,000 in compensatory and punitive damages because his label, Alternative Tentacles, withheld money from the band partnership, Decay Music. Biafra’s attempts to dissolve the partnership and gain sole custody over the Kennedy’s music was also denied.
Source RollingStone.com.
Three of hip hop’s most intriguing groups have been assembled for this year’s version of the Sprite Liquid Mix Tour. The 20-date outing, headlined by the Roots, N.E.R.D. and Talib Kweli with more acts to come, begins with a doubleheader at Denver’s Pepsi Center (August 14 and 15), followed by any eastward progression that concludes with a September 15 performance at the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Tickets are on sale now; for more information, check out Sprite’s Web site, www.sprite.com.
