Set out on fulfilling their mission of songs that sounded like songs, instead of placing jam noodlings over words, the Stockholm Syndrome have broken forth with a record that aches of pain and soul, However, Holy Happy Hour still has its moments of sunshine.
Blues Traveler fans in several U.S. cities have a unique opportunity this summer to see the group for free and possibly win a trip to the band’s concert in Prague, Czech Republic.
As part of the “Picture Yourself in Prague” contest, the band will perform free club shows in Denver, New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Atlanta. Tickets will be distributed to adults of legal drinking age on a first-come, first-served basis except in NYC, where they’ll be given out at noon the day of the show.
The concerts take place between July 3 and August 5 and are sponsored by Czech brewer Pilsner Urquell. The company will provide special disposable cameras for fans to take “original, creative” photos featuring Blues Traveler or the beer.
The cameras will be collected after the shows and the pictures judged. One finalist from each city will be chosen to compete for the grand prize: a five-day, four-night trip to Prague for the winner and three guests.
The spring 2005 vacation will include a tour of the company’s brewery and, of course, tickets to Blues Traveler’s Prague concert.
Blues Traveler’s new album, Live On The Rocks, comes out July 13, the day of the NYC stop. In addition to the free shows, they’ll play a number of regular-price gigs this summer, culminating in an August 6 headlining performance for Atlanta’s On The Bricks concert series.
Source pollstar.com.
Joe’s Corsage, the first in a series of unreleased Frank Zappa recordings, is available at zappa.com. The album consists of demos from 1965 — the year before Zappa’s Mothers of Invention released their debut album, Freak Out! — with bits of interviews interspersed throughout.
“We wanted to stay as close to the bone as we could,” says Gail Zappa, Frank’s widow. “Frank Zappa was a composer, and he had a bad habit, which was writing music. To support that habit, he became a bandleader and began playing other things that he liked to hear in different context, and you can hear that throughout his music.”
Joe’s Corsage (the title a play on Zappa’s 1979 multi-part concept album, Joe’s Garage) is the beginning of an avalanche of unreleased material, which will include complete albums like the guitar-solo-based Trance-fusion and the synth-heavy Dance Me This, as well as live recordings and “other little nuggets the fans know about and have been waiting for.” Zappa died of cancer in 1993.
“We’re sitting on forty album projects in various stages of completion,” says Gail Zappa, who adds that the material was put on ice due to a ten-year deal with Rykodisc. “That period ends in October, so we’ll open the doors to the vault.”
Source rollingstone.com.
In a show of consummate solidarity, The Walkmen and Modest Mouse, two bands that were scheduled to be on the entire Lollapalooza tour, have confirmed a Summer tour together. Touring on the strength of their second studio album, Bows And Arrows, and its powerful first single, “The Rat”, The Walkmen have also confirmed headline dates on the days they will not be playing with Modest Mouse.
The dates for the tour are below:
7/13: NEUMOS, SEATTLE
7/14: BERBATIS PAN, PORTLAND
7/16: SENATOR THEATER, CHICO (W/ MODEST MOUSE)
7/17: THE WARFIELD, SAN FRANCISCO (W/ MODEST MOUSE)
7/18: AVALON, LOS ANGELES (W/ MODEST MOUSE)
7/19: THE WILTERN, LOS ANGELES (W/ MODEST MOUSE)
7/20: GALAXY THEATER, SANTA ANA
7/21: CASBAH, SAN DIEGO
7/23: CELEBRIY THEATER, PHOENIX (W/ MODEST MOUSE)
7/25: EMOS OUTSIDE, AUSTIN
7/28: FIRST AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS (W/ MODEST MOUSE)
7/30: AXIS, BLOOMINGTON W/ MODEST MOUSE (NOT CONFIRMED YET)
7/31: EAGLES BALLROOM, MILWAUKEE (W/ MODEST MOUSE)
8/01: HIGH NOON SALOON, MADISON
8/02: BLUEBERRY HILLS DUCK ROOM, ST LOUIS
8/03: THE INTERSECTION, GRAND RAPIDS
8/04: BLIND PIG, ANN ARBOR
8/05: LEES PALACE, TORONTO
8/06: LITTLE BROTHERS, COLUMBUS
8/07: BEACHLAND BALLROOM, CLEVELAND (this is in the ballroom)
8/08: SOUTHGATE HOUSE, NEWPORT, KY
8/10: ICE GARDEN, ROSTRAVER, PA (W/ MODEST MOUSE)
8/11-14: pending w/ Modest Mouse
Having been graced by such collaborators as Elvis Costello, Tom Waits and Richard Thompson on its latest album, “The Ride,” Los Lobos returns the favor on the seven-track mini-album “Covered.”
Due Aug. 3 via Mammoth/Hollywood, the set finds the Latin rock act interpreting material by Costello (“Uncomplicated”), Waits (“Jockey Full of Bourbon”), Thompson (“Shoot Out the Lights”), Bobby Womack (“More Than I Can Stand”), Thee Midnighters (“It’ll Never Be Over for Me”), the Blasters (“Marie Marie”) and Ruben Blades (“Patria”).
Source billboard.com.
Rapper/singer/songwriter Everlast will show off tunes from his new album, White Trash Beautiful, on North American stages this July and August.
He’ll do a West Hollywood show at the Conga Room July 1, two weeks before the tour kicks off in earnest at Tequila in Calgary, Alberta. Alt-rocker Buddahead will open on the jaunt, which runs through early August.
White Trash Beautiful is Everlast’s first album since 2000’s Eat At Whitey’s, and finds him further exploring the guitar-based songwriting he first exhibited on the multiplatinum Whitey Ford Sings The Blues.
“A lot of what’s on this album is growing up,” he said. “When I was 19, let’s get drunk and jump around was my emotion, but I’m 34 now.”
Citing influences such as Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, he explains his broadening musical tastes as a natural part of growing up.
“When I was 20, I found rap and it was a form of rebellion. Now I’m reaching back to the things I shunned because it was my parents’ music.”
The album is his third solo effort since House Of Pain broke up, but his fourth overall: He recorded a lesser-known debut, Forever Everlasting, in 1990 when he was a member of Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate outfit.
Source pollstar.com.
While The String Cheese Incident was sorry to hear that promoters and
organizers decided to scrap the plans for Lollapalooza 2004, the band is
in no way discouraged by the hesitancy of a hurting concert industry. Just
back from a hugely successful Bonnaroo weekend and their own sold-out
Horning’s Hideout shows in North Plains, Oregon, SCI sees plenty of
vitality within the music scene. As bassist Keith Moseley explains,
“Despite what the industry is saying, we still believe people want to see
live shows.”
The band is excited to launch a busy summer season with two performances
at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado with The Allman Brothers Band on
July 9 and 10. Both shows are already sold out.
The complete String Cheese Incident summer tour dates are as follows:
Sun Jul 4 Detroit Lakes MN 10,000 LAKES FESTIVAL
Fri Jul 9 Morrison CO RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE
Sat Jul 10 Morrison CO RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE
Fri Jul 16 Garberville CA BENBOW LAKE
Sat Jul 17 Chico CA THE SENATOR THEATER
MonJul 19Tahoe CA CEASARS TAHOE
TueJul 20San Francisco CA WARFIELD THEATER
WedJul 21San Francisco CA WARFIELD THEATER
FriJul 23Los Angeles CA THE WILTERN
Sat Jul 24 Las Vegas NV THE JOINT
Sun Jul 25 Las Vegas NV THE JOINT
Thu Jul 29 Kansas City MO UPTOWN THEATRE
FriJul 30Omaha NE OMAHA MUSIC HALL
Sat Jul 31 Cedar Rapids IA PARAMOUNT THEATER
SunAug 1Milwaukee WI EAGLE’S BALLROOM
FriAug 06Terra Alta WV JERRY GARCIA’S BIRTHDAY BASH
Sat Aug 07 Terra Alta WV JERRY GARCIA’S BIRTHDAY BASH
SunAug 08Terra Alta WV JERRY GARCIA’S BIRTHDAY BASH
Thu Aug 12 Pittsburgh PA CHEVROLET AMPHITHEATRE @ STATION SQUARE
Sat Aug 21 Raleigh NC ALLTEL PAVILION @ WALNUT CREEK
Tue Aug 24 Houston TX
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On the heels of the best selling book Fast Food Nation, and recent suit
filed against McDonald’s, claiming that the company’s food led to obesity,
Morgan Spurlock chows the unthinkable in the documentary film Super Size Me.
A set of early 1960s Thelonious Monk performances grace the upcoming set “Monk ‘Round the World.” The second release to stem from a partnership between Thelonious Records and Hyena is due Aug. 10 and includes a bonus DVD capturing the jazz pianist/composer at London’s Marquee Club in 1965. Basketball great and devout Monk fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar contributes liner notes.
Focusing on performances featuring longtime saxophonist Charlie Rouse, the audio disc boasts recordings from Copenhagen’s Odd Fellow Palaet in 1961 (“Rhythm-A-Ning”), California’s Monterey Jazz Festival in 1963 (“Epistrophy”), and the Alhambra in Paris in 1964 (“Blue Monk,” “Ruby, My Dear”). Also included are performances tracked in Sweden in 1961 (“Bemsha Swing”) and an undetermined European location in 1964 (“Hackensack”).
Sanctioned by the Monk estate, the releases are overseen by Thelonious Records founders T.S. Monk (the artist’s son and a performer in his own right) and Dr. Peter Grain and Hyena’s Joel Dorn, who produced the set. The collaboration seeks to issue legitimate versions of recordings that have been bootlegged for years, as well as make available previously unreleased vault performances.
Source billboard.com.
