Radiohead has added two October shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden to the itinerary for its North American tour, set to kick off Aug. 13 in Boston. The Oct. 9-10 shows in New York will close the 22-date tour, following an Oct. 6 engagement in Atlanta.
Tickets for the New York gigs and an Oct. 2 appearance in New Orleans go on sale July 18. A Sept. 25-26 stand at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles goes on sale July 19, along with dates in Houston, Atlanta and West Palm Beach, Fla. Tickets to the Sept. 23 concert in Mountain View, Calif. go on sale July 20. As usual, Radiohead’s online fan organization Waste is also offering tickets to its members.
Supergrass will open the second leg of the tour; former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus and his band the Jicks will provide support for the tour’s first twelve dates.
Source Billboard.com.
Singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt continues to work the road hard in support of his eleventh album, “Silver Lake,” which reached stores in March. Former Squeeze singer/guitarist Glenn Tilbrook has set up dates for his fifth U.S. solo tour since the breakup of the band.The club tour will kick off July 26 in San Francisco and is slated to wrap Sept. 9 in New York.The solo acoustic performances come in support of “The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook.” His debut solo album, the set was released in May 2001 on Tilbrook’s own Quixotic Records label (through W.A.R.? in the U.S.), and features songwriting collaborations with Aimee Mann and Ron Sexsmith. The shows will offer a mix of material from the album and a healthy dose of Squeeze favorites.
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Thirty-one-year-old speed-hiking phenom Ted E. Keizer, better known as Cave Dog, recently added another record to his list of accomplishments by climbing all 40 of the Southern Appalachians’ 6,000-foot peaks in four days, 23 hours, and 28 minutes.
Last July, Cave Dog attracted media attention by hiking the 46 peaks of the Adirondacks in three days, 18 hours, and 14 minutes, breaking the 1977 record by more than a day (see Outside Online’s July 1 news brief, “‘Cave Dog’ Nails Adirondack Peaks Record”). In September 2000, he climbed all 55 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in ten days, 20 hours, and 26 minutes (see “Trail Hound,” Outside July 2002).
Cave Dog’s latest challenge began on June 15 at 5:45 A.M. in the Smoky Mountains, atop Clingman’s Dome. From there he ran and climbed solo through six mountain ranges: the Smokies, the Plott Balsams, the Great Balsams, the Craggies, the Blacks, and the Roans. In order to reach all of these mountains via one contiguous run, Cave Dog used woods, roads, trails, and bushwhacks, mainly following the Mountain to Sea Trail. He reached his final destination, the summit of North Carolina’s Grassy Ridge Bald, at 5:13 A.M. on Friday, June 20.
From the first day of the journey, Cave Dog encountered rainstorms, fog, and lightning, which made his nighttime bushwhacking segments particularly treacherous. He traveled approximately 60 miles per day over a cumulative distance of 300 miles, and was supported by “The Dog Team,” a group of 18 friends and family members who provided him with provisions and dry socks and shoes at periodic points along the way. He navigated the course without the aid of a map or GPS system, relying solely on his memory of the trails as he had learned them during his two and a half months of scouting and training runs prior to beginning the challenge.
Cave Dog’s challenges in Colorado and the Adirondacks involved breaking previously set speed records over a range of peaks, but his recent feat in the Southern Appalachians (which he calls the “South Beyond Insanity Megamarathon”) marked a first record for that region. The Dog Team’s Web site, www.thedogteam.com, lays out the basic rules for future challengers to his new record: they must stick to trails whenever possible, do as many or more peaks in less time than he did, and refrain from using any type of vehicle for propulsion.
Cave Dog’s next goal: “I’ve been thinking about challenging the record for the oldest long-distance trail in the United States, The Long Trail,” he says. “It traverses the spine of the Green Mountains down the full length of Vermont. It’s 272 miles long, and the record is four days and 15 hours.”
Source outsideonline.com.
French natives Les Nubians are embarking on a North American tour that will see them taking their sophisticated brand of R&B across the continent for nearly six weeks.. A cappella quintet Zap Mama is scheduled to support on select dates. Les Nubians – comprising sisters Helene and Celia Faussart – are heading out in support of their latest offering, One Step Forward. The disc was recorded in Jamaica, Cameroon, London and Paris with a wide array of musicians, including legendary African saxophonist Manu Dibango and underground hip-hop star Talib Kweli.
The new album finds the two singers, who were raised in France and Chad (that’s in Africa, for the geographically challenged), branching out into English lyrics after having sharpened their linguistic skills on the road.The group’s first release, Princesses Nubiennes, was a worldwide hit, selling more units in America than any other foreign-language album of the
