2003

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.
Source Billboard.com.

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.
Source Phish.com.

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.
Source Billboard.com[/url.

Living legend Carlos Santana joined the Trey Anastasio Band for a majority of the band’s performance May 31st the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, CA.Although Phish has opened up for Santana numerous times in the past, this is the first collaboration between Santana and Anastasio in years, each of whom they consider to be close friends. The five piece horn section and latin beats of percussionist Cyro Baptista must have made Santana feel right at home.
Santana joined the band in the first set for “Last Tube” and “The Way I Feel.”The second set consisted of Santana playing the four song second set, a segue of songs including Mr, Completely, Night Speaks to a Woman, and Caravan.