2004

Bruce Hornsby has slated a trio of late-October New York performances in vastly different settings. Under the banner of “Three Nights on the Town,” the veteran artist will host an Oct. 26 jam session at famed jazz club the Blue Note, an Oct. 28 solo piano performance at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and a full band show the next night at Town Hall.

With a capacity of 200, the first show, dubbed “Jammin’ at the Blue Note,” promises to be the most intimate. While “special guests” are expected, it is unknown exactly who will fulfill that promise. The possibilities are exciting, seeing as Hornsby is a one-time touring member of the Grateful Dead and an artist who has shared stages with Bruce Springsteen, Chick Corea and Ricky Skaggs, among many others.

Add to that Hornsby’s latest album, “Halcyon Days,” which boasts guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Sting and Elton John. Bumped one week to Tuesday (Aug. 17), the set will be Hornsby’s first for Columbia after a career spent with RCA.

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At the conclusion of the band’s summer tour, Galactic and Theryl “The Houseman” DeClouet will part company. A member of the jam band for nearly its entire decade-long career, the veteran singer is exiting amicably.

“We all view our years of collaboration as a magical experience,” the band says in a statement. “From the beginning, Theryl has been a musical inspiration, mentor, partner and most importantly a friend. Although Theryl will not be continuing with us he will always remain a huge part of the Galactic family… We look forward to the times when we will collaborate in the future.”

Galactic’s summer tour kicks off tomorrow (Aug. 12) in Steamboat, Col., and will close with a Sept. 10-11 stand at San Francisco’s Fillmore Theater. An October instrumental tour is being planned.

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Due to popular demand, a second Wilco show has been added to Radio City Music Hall in New York City on October 6th. In addition the band has announced a handful of new dates including shows in: Burlington, VT, Northampton, MA and Saratoga Springs, NY. For more details visit the band’s website..

Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell, Tortoise, Stereolab, Luke Vibert and Money Mark are among the artists contributing new songs to the “Moog” soundtrack, due Sept. 14 from Hollywood Records. The film of the same name chronicles the life of Moog synthesizer creator Bob Moog, revered as a pioneer in the evolution of electronic music.

“The musicians who play our instruments show us what our instruments are capable of,” Moog says. “This CD covers an amazing range of music — music of the sort that has done so much to shape our contemporary culture. To me, this CD is a tribute to all the musicians who have used Moog instruments to express their musical visions.”

The documentary was directed by Hans Fjellestad and shot in Asheville, N.C., London, New York, San Francisco, London and Tokyo. Among the artists appearing in the film include Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, DJ Spooky and Mix Master Mike.

“Moog” will arrive Sept. 17 in a limited U.S. theatrical release. It is expected to hit DVD by Christmas via Plexifilm, which previously issued the Wilco documentary “I am Trying To Break Your Heart.”

Here is the “Moog” track list:

“Abomination,” 33
“Variation One,” Stereolab
“Bob’s Funk,” the Moog Cookbook
“Unavailable Memory,” Meat Beat Manifesto
“Beautiful Love,” Tortoise
“Nanobot Highway,” Money Mark
“I am a Spaceman,” Charlie Clouser
“You Moog Me,” Jean-Jacques Perrey and Luke Vibert
“Sqeeble,” Plastiq Phantom
“The Sentinel,” Psilonaut
“When Bernie Speaks,” Bernie Worrell and Bootsy Collins
“Realistic Source,” Bostich
“Endless Horizon (I Love Bob mix),” Electric Skychurch
“Micro Melodies,” the Album Leaf
“You Have Been Selected,” Pete DeVriese
“Mixed Waste 4.2,” Baiyon
“Another Year Away,” Roger O’Donnell

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In a recent partnership with jazz insurgents Soulive, independent labels Pirate Entertainment and DiscLive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Immediatek (OTCBB: ITEK) teamed up to continue their commitment to deliver live recordings to music fans in ways that have revolutionized the industry’s traditional retail model.

These days Soulive’s raw energy and high spirit rarely finds its way into a venue as small as Tribeca Rock Club. While frenzied fans lined up around the block beginning in the morning’s early hours, coming from as far as Italy to wait in the city’s concrete mid-summer heat, Pirate Entertainment’s and DiscLive’s production teams and engineers worked inside the venue, preparing to record every moment of the band’s live performance and, using state-of-the-art technology, to make the double CD sets available for sale just hours after each show.

After Pearl Jam reassembles in early October for its first live shows in nearly a year, the Seattle rock outfit will get busy on its eighth studio album. “I think they’re planning on going back to the studio this winter,” manager Kelly Curtis tells Billboard.com. As for a possible release date, Curtis would only say, “When they’re done, they give it to us and we go.”

The group will play six shows in October as part of the Vote for Change tour, which Curtis helped organize with the managers of Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, R.E.M. and the Dixie Chicks. The trek kicks off Oct. 1 in Pennsylvania and will proceed to eight additional presidential election battleground states.

“We were getting bombarded with requests to play around the election, and I thought I would seek out some advice,” he says of the tour’s genesis. “So I called [Sprinsgteen manager] Jon Landau to see how they were dealing with all the stuff coming in. The more we talked, the more we thought it would be a good idea to get a bunch of managers together and try to get educated.”

“What came out of there was five managers connecting and deciding that we should try to pull off some kind of swing-state tour. Then, it became a logistical nightmare,” he adds with a laugh. Curtis declined to comment on the possibility of additional acts being added to the tour or rumors of an Oct. 10 all-star finale show in Florida.

As for Pearl Jam’s specific concerts with Death Cab For Cutie, on-sale dates are still being finalized. Curtis doesn’t expect the shows to be made available as part of Pearl Jam’s ongoing authorized bootleg series, because “it might be a little shorter set from Pearl Jam [than usual], or a lot of collaboration. But then you’re dealing with other people’s record companies and it gets too complicated.”

Curtis hinted at additional Pearl Jam shows in 2004 but declined to reveal specifics. Asked if the band would unveil some new material at Vote for Change appearances, he said, “I’m sure that will be the case.”

Having left longtime label Epic last year, Pearl Jam crowned its free agent status with the July 27 release of “Live at Benaroya Hall” via its own Ten Club fan organization and a distribution deal with BMG. The set debuted last week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Internet Album Sales tally and No. 18 on The Billboard 200 thanks to first-week sales of 52,000 copies.

“This was a perfect record to try something new with some different folks,” he says. “Luckily, we don’t have to decide [about potentially signing with a new label] right now. We want to do as much as we can ourselves, and for what we can’t do or don’t want to do, we’ll rely on someone else.”

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