Compromises is the debut album from Appleton, Wisconsin’s Number One Fan. Though their website doesn’t tell you an awful lot of the fellas, we do learn who their influences are, though one listen to the first few songs on Compromises will answer that question for you rather loudly.
Akron, Ohio-based rock duo the Black Keys will spend the bulk of the fall on the road in support of their third studio album, “Rubber Factory,” due Sept. 7 via Fat Possum/Epitaph. North American dates begin Saturday (Sept. 4) at Seattle’s Bumbershoot festival and run through an Oct. 9-10 stand in Cleveland, just north of the pair’s hometown.
After a two-week break, the Keys will cross the Atlantic for 12 dates in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Spain. “Rubber Factory” is led by the single “10 A.M. Automatic,” a video for which was recently conceived and directed by comedian David Cross.
The set is the follow-up to 2003’s “Thickfreakness,” which crept onto Billboard’s Top Independent Albums chart at No. 50. “Last time, we had a bunch of songs we’d been playing and we knew exactly what we were going to do,” vocalist/guitarist Dan Auerbach told Billboard.com in May. “This time, we went in with basically nothing. I’d written a lot of songs and had worked stuff out on my own, but me and [drummer] Patrick [Carney] hadn’t played anything together. It took us a couple months to get it all working right.”
Here are the Black Keys’ tour dates:
Sept. 4: Seattle (Bumbershoot Festival)
Sept. 7: Portland, Ore. (Aladdin Theater)
Sept. 10: Hollywood, Calif. (Avalon)
Sept. 11: San Diego (Brick by Brick)
Sept. 12: Phoenix (Mason Jar)
Sept. 15: Denver (Gothic Theatre)
Sept. 16: Omaha, Neb. (Sokol Underground)
Sept. 17: Lawrence, Kan. (Granada)
Sept. 18: Columbia, Mo. (Mojo’s)
Sept. 21: Minneapolis (First Avenue)
Sept. 23: Milwaukee (Mad Planet)
Sept. 24: Chicago (Metro)
Sept. 28: Toronto (Lee’s Palace)
Oct. 1: Boston (Paradise)
Oct. 2-3: New York (Bowery Ballroom)
Oct. 6: Washington, D.C. (9:30 Club)
Oct. 7: Pittsburgh (the World)
Oct. 8: Columbus, Ohio (Newport Music Hall)
Oct. 9-10: Cleveland (Beachland Ballroom)
Oct. 26: London (Scala)
Oct. 27: Bristol, England (Anson Rooms)
Oct. 29: Glasgow (Garage)
Oct. 30: Leeds, England (Cockpit)
Oct. 31: Manchester, England (Academy 2)
Nov. 1: Wolverhampton, England (Wulfren Hall)
Nov. 3: Brussels (AB Club)
Nov. 4: Evreux, France (MJC)
Nov. 5: Paris (La Boule Noir)
Nov. 7: Bordeaux, France (Le Cat)
Nov. 9: Bilbao, Spain (Azkena)
Nov. 11: Barcelona (Razzmatazz 3)
Source billboard.com.
Ween has lined up a seven-date tour of the West Coast, beginning Oct. 8 in Girdwood, Alaska, and wrapping Oct. 17 in San Diego. The group will be taking a break from work on its next studio album, which will be the follow-up to 2003’s “Quebec” (Sanctuary). That set reached a career-best No. 50 on The Billboard 200 and has sold nearly 69,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Here are Ween’s tour dates:
Oct. 8: Girdwood, Alaska (Alyeska Resort)
Oct. 10: Bellingham, Wash. (Mt. Baker Theatre)
Oct. 12: Eugene, Ore. (McDonald Theatre)
Oct. 14: Santa Cruz, Calif. (Rio Theatre)
Oct. 15: Ventura, Calif. (Ventura Theatre)
Oct. 16: Los Angeles (Wiltern)
Oct. 17: San Diego (Cane’s)
]i] Source billboard.com.
Back in the day when Too Short and N.W.A were pioneering gangsta rap, a more light-hearted group of artists was mixing up the hip-hop scene with its own brand of alternative beats and rhymes. De La Soul has outlived many of its peers and predecessors. The group continues to evolve and create a more amicable style of hip-hop in contrast to today’s top-selling bling-and-booty obsessed rappers.
In support of its upcoming album, The Grind Date, which is scheduled for release on September 28 on Sanctuary Records, the idiosyncratic old-school hip-hop act has announced a September – November tour that will be sure to please fans of the Long Island trio.
The trek kicks off in Chicago September 18 at the city’s House of Blues. De La Soul crisscrosses the nation, making stops in California, Arizona, the South, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Utah, Oregon and finishes up in Seattle November 15.
Since the group’s high school formation in 1987, the three musketeers – Posdnuos (Kelvin Mercer), Trugoy the Dove (David Jude Jolicoeur) and Pasemaster Mase (Vincent Mason) – have released seven full-length albums.
Their colorful 1989 debut, 3 Feet High and Rising, was hailed at the future of hip-hop until their unique stylings were drowned out by the sound of gangsta rap.
Through ups and downs in their career, however, the low-key New Yorkers didn’t lose sight of their music or their loyal fan base; De La Soul has stayed in touch through touring.
An interesting De La Soul factoid: The group was involved in a precedent setting lawsuit that would affect all musicians who use sampled material.
A legal battle ensued when they sampled a song by the
Nate Wilson, songwriter and keyboardist of Percy Hill, and the Assembly of
Dust (AOD), will bring his own group to The Stone Church in Newmarket, NH
for a month long residency beginning in September.
With the arrival of September and fall just around the corner, here
