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Legends cast large shadows, but such observations bare little weight when speaking of Sarah Lee Guthrie, daughter of Arlo and granddaughter of Woody. With the help of songwriter and husband Johnny Irion, Guthrie has released Exploration, the duo’s debut studio recording; an acoustic, rock-and-hum album enlivened by honey-sweet harmonies and modest hooks.
Saddle Creek fans are in for a treat this spring: Two of the label’s star acts are sharing the bill on a six-week North American tour.
Bright Eyes and The Faint will hit the road April 28 in Lawrence, Kan., and will gig relentlessly through the June 10 finale in San Diego. So fervent are the bands’ fans that two-night stands have been booked in Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Tempe, Ariz. In New York City, they’ll play a whopping five nights in a row at Webster Hall.
Both bands will appear at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., May 1.
Before heading out with their labelmates, Bright Eyes will open for R.E.M. on a two-week tour of Australia and New Zealand. Ever the workaholics, Conor Oberst et al will play extra shows on their own in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth on the tour’s off-days.
Bright Eyes is currently riding high on its two January releases, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. The Faint is supporting Wet From Birth.
Source pollstar.com.
Jim Morrison may have died nearly thirty-five years ago, but now you can stay at his place any time you like.
The owner of the Los Angeles apartment where the Doors singer lived with longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson before moving to Paris in 1971 (where he would be found dead later that year) is allowing fans to relive a piece of rock history for $200 a night, or $1000 for a week.
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Paul Hester, the drummer from popular 1980s Australian rock band Crowded House, hanged himself in a park in southern Australia, an emergency services spokeswoman said Monday.
Hester, 46, had failed to return home after taking his two dogs for a walk on Friday night. The drummer’s body was later found in a park near his home in the southern city of Melbourne.
Ambulance officers arrived on the scene shortly after midday Saturday and tried to resuscitate him, but “he was dead when they arrived,” Metropolitan Ambulance Service spokeswoman Liraje Memishi said.
Source CNN.com.
Scotland’s Snow Patrol is one of those bands that’s been known in the U.K. a lot longer than they’ve been known in the U.S. The gushing reviews for the first album released in the U.S., Final Straw, is actually their third album if you live across the Pond.
But their first U.S. tour last year did great and after a hard-earned rest, they’ll be back in April, kicking things off at Stubb’s in Austin, Texas on the 24th. Traveling through Dallas, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Calgary, Winnipeg and other cities before winding things down in Minneapolis May 11th.
The band just changed its founding bass player, and this time they’re bringing a band called Embrace, a Leeds-based unit that has built a following overseas. They’ve only done a few showcase dates here and SxSW, but the response has been overwhelming. According to Embrace’s label, Lava Records, fans lined up for hours to get into their L.A. show.
Source pollstar.com.
