Archive: 2003

Before the summer shows have even begun, String Cheese Incident has announced the dates for their upcoming fall tour. The 18 show tour will begin with a two night run at Red Rocks, featuring opening acts DJ Logic, STS9 and DJ Greyboy. Also included will be an appearance at the Austin City Limits Festival, and two night stands at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Tower Theatre in Philly, and the Orpheum in Boston.
see the band’s website for full dates:stringcheeseincident.com.

British electronic duo the Chemical Brothers head in a new direction on “The Golden Path,” a song they recently recorded with help from Oklahoma-based rock trio the Flaming Lips. “Wayne Coyne is really infectious,” says Chemical Brother Ed Simons. “He makes you feel really excited about the music. What he’s done for us, the words, the song he’s grafted on to our music, it’s the next level of Chemical Brothers music — it’s just really good.”
The new tune, which Simons’ partner Tom Rowlands calls “psychedelic, up-tempo and emotional wide-screen,” will be included on the Chems’ upcoming CD/DVD career retrospective The Singles: 1993-03, due in September.
Source Rollingstone.com.

The Italian Job is a modern day remake of the identically named 1969 Michael Caine classic. However, the modern day interpretation takes very little from the original script.

Grammy Award winning artist Norah Jones says she has recorded 11 songs for her next album and hopes to release it next year. She describes the music as more up-tempo and funky — but still very much Norah Jones.
“When we were making it we were like, `Wow, this is a way different record! This is like a funky record!’ And then we listened to it again, and we’re like, wow it’s still a snoozer,” she says, laughing. “I’m just a mellow chick. I can’t help it.”
Source Billboard.com.

Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers will embark on an acoustic tour of the West Coast. The run launches July 1 in San Diego and wraps up around July 27th in Boulder, CO. Joining the band on this tour is their on again-off again drummer Matt Chambelain. Wallflowers fan club members will have access to pre-sale ticket information. For dates and more information, visit the band’s site..

Scott Weiland, lead singer for the Stone Temple Pilots , is now the official new lead singer for the new band comprised of ex Guns N Roses members: Slash, Duff McKagen, and Matt Sorum. The band is called

In the form of last year

A day after the town board tabled a vote on a key permit, Riverhead Town Supervisor Robert Kozakiewicz announced this morning that a two-day rock concert scheduled for this weekend in Calverton would not happen.
Christopher Kent, a lawyer for the for the Field Day Festival promoters, said they are now seeking a new location in the New York City metropolitan area for the concert, which they will announce by the end of the day. He said refunds will be given to ticket-holders who request them.
Stating that at a new venue the concert which was to feature headline acts such as the Beastie Boys, Radiohead, and Beck, would be a “different type of event,” Kent said that the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey was one site under consideration. He added that there will be no camping at the concert’s new location.
The Field Day concert was to occur at the former Grumman property, on 2,900 acres of town-owned land that has been targeted for economic development. The town had hoped the rock festival — and another scheduled for August — would put Riverhead on the map and lure future clients to the site.
Ashley Capps, one of the promoters of Bonnaroo NE, the August festival — slated to last three days and feature acts including Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and The Dead — said he was keeping an eye on the Field Day developments but wasn’t concerned about the impact it would have on his own event. “We’ve been going through our own process in our own way, and we feel like we’ve been working very hard to dot the i’s and cross the t’s,” he said. “These are two very separate events.”
Source Newsday.com.

The Field Day Music Festival has been reconfirmed as a one-day event this Saturday, June 7 at Giants Stadium.
All tickets purchased for the Calverton festival will be automatically refunded to the credit card on which they were purchased, and will not be honored at Giants Stadium.
for new ticket details, please see:http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/866575.

Pearl Jam is putting together more than fifty rare and previously unissued tracks from their vaults for a retrospective album tentatively for release this year. Pearl Jam

Led Zeppelin scored its first No. 1 album since 1979’s “In Through the Out Door” this week with the three-CD live set “How the West Was Won.” The Atlantic collection sold 154,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, and debuts on top of The Billboard 200. It was released simultaneously with the “Led Zeppelin DVD,” which set a record for highest debut-week and highest single-week sales for a music DVD. No word yet on whether Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, son of the late John Bonham will reunite for some well-needed live shows.
Source Billboard.com.

On August 14th Sonic Youth will perform with a re-united version of Iggy and the Stooges in Detroit. This will be only the second performance of the Stooges with frontman Iggy Pop in 28 years, following a performance at the Coachella festival in California in April.
Source Sonicyouth.com.

In the footsteps of Live Phish, The Dead will be printing and selling CDs of all the live shows from its upcoming Summer Getaway Tour, both online and at the venues. Each concert will fit on 3 CDs and will cost $22 per show. The Dead will also be offering a limited edition box set that will contain every show from the tour. These shows to be released will be titled “The Official Concert Recording Series.”

British guitar rock band, The Music, is on work at their second album, as they head to back to the U.K. with a brief break in their touring schedule. Their sound is as a cross between Led Zeppelin, Janes Addiction and Oasis, although it also reflects in some of 80 metal

A quartet of classic Santana albums will be reissued Aug. 12 via Columbia/Legacy. All four titles — “Caravanserai,” “Moonflower,” “Love Devotion Surrender” (with Mahavishnu John McLaughlin), and “Welcome” — date back to the 1970s, and have been remixed and remastered for re-release. They feature newly written liner notes by Hal Miller; all but 1972’s “Caravanserai” feature bonus tracks.
“Caravanserai” marked the beginning of the Carlos Santana-led band’s jazz fusion foray. “Love Devotion Surrender”
The former features Carlos Santana and fellow guitarist McLaughlin, both at the time followers of spiritual guru Sri Chinmoy, joined by members of Santana and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The resulting five-track album was a near-religious experience that kicked off with an interpretation of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.” An alternate take of that cut, as well as an alternate take on Coltrane’s “Naima,” have been added to the reissue.
The title cut of “Welcome” is also a Coltrane original. The previously unreleased song “Mantra” bolsters the re-release of the album.
Finally, 1977’s double-disc “Moonflower” was a mix of live and studio material that grows here with the inclusion of single versions of three of the album’s songs: “Black Magic Woman,” “I’ll Be Waiting,” and the Zombies’ “She’s Not There.”
Source Billboard.com.

Former Police drummer Stewart Copeland has amicably settled his lawsuit against two surviving members of the Doors, now touring under the moniker the Doors of the 21st Century.Copeland had sued the group for breach of contract, claiming founding members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger reneged on a promise to use him during the tour and on an upcoming studio album.
This incarnation of the Doors has been peppered with lawsuits since last year. Original drummer John Densmore, who is not a part of the reunion, sued Manzarek and Krieger for breach of contract, claiming that after lead singer Jim Morrison died in 1971, the three remaining members agreed they would split any future profits from the Doors’ music equally. He alleged the members also agreed the band’s name would not be used unless all three of them were involved.
Source Etonline.com.
Last month, a judge denied Densmore’s request for a temporary restraining order preventing Manzarek and Krieger from touring. The group has 13 dates on tap for a summer tour, beginning June 20 in Detroit and including a previously announced Aug. 30 appearance at the Coors Mountain Jam outside Denver.
Here are the Doors of the 21st Century’s tour dates:June 20: Detroit (DTE Energy Music Theater)June 21: Cleveland (Nautica Stage)June 22: Burgettstown, Pa. (Post Gazette Pavilion)June 24: Chicago (Chicago Theater)July 19: Seattle (Summer Night at the Pier)July 25: Costa Mesa, Calif. (Pacific Amphitheater)July 27: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion)Aug. 22: Virginia Beach, Va. (Harbor Center)Aug. 23: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)Aug. 24: Wantagh, N.Y. (Jones Beach)Aug. 30: Morrison, Colo. (Red Rocks / Coors Mountain Jam)Sept. 5: San Diego (Street Scene)

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.