After selling 12 million albums since their debut in 2000, 3 Doors Down releases their third, Seventeen Days.
Having witnessed every spring Beacon stand since 1994 (countless guests, breakout tunes and mammoth jams included) I naively thought I had seen all the Allman Brothers Band could do inside the walls of this Manhattan landmark.
Celebrating their fourth consecutive year, Bockman (formerly Bockman
Singer/songwriter Nellie McKay is making progress on her as-yet-untitled sophomore album for Columbia. The artist tells Billboard.com she is eyeing a September release for the set, which will feature a duet with Cyndi Lauper on a track titled “Bee Charmer.”
The new album will be the follow-up to McKay’s 2004 double-disc debut, “Get Away From Me,” which peaked at No. 7 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and has sold 100,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
A DualDisc version of “Get Away From Me” was released last month, the DVD side of which features eight songs taped in November 2004 in San Francisco, plus the previously unreleased audio tracks “Teresa” and “John-John.”
McKay says she may play some shows this summer, but at deadline, there are only two performance on her schedule: tonight (April 29) in New Orleans and a May 23 benefit at New York’s Irving Plaza with Lauper and Natalie Merchant. “I don’t want to promote the record before it’s ready,” the artist says.
Proceeds from the New York show will be donated to the family of former Elektra Records employee Theresa Wilson, who died March 20. The event will also feature performances by Chris Whitley, Steve Forbert, Dan Baird and Sandra Bernhard
In the meantime, McKay has just sealed up her debut film role in “Safety Glass,” which will also star Mandy Moore, Amanda Peet and Michelle Williams. “I play a girl named Sue, who has a bit of a ‘Children of the Corn’ thing going on,” she reveals.
Source billboard.com.
Patti Smith will headline this summer’s Meltdown Festival at London’s South Bank Centre, which will run from June 11-26. The event will be highlighted by a complete performance of her acclaimed 1976 album “Horses” on June 25 at Royal Festival Hall, on a bill that will also feature the set’s producer, John Cale.
Smith will perform with several of the acts throughout the event, including Sinead O’Connor, Beth Orton and Kristin Hersh on June 18 under the billing “Songs of Innocence, Protest Songs and Lullabies.” She will also join My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields and Cat Power for a June 22 show at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Tickets go on sale Thursday (May 5) via the event’s official Web site.
The only other live activity on Smith’s schedule comes Sunday (May 1), when she will revisit New York’s CBGB, the club at the center of the ’70s punk explosion she led with the Ramones, Television and Blondie, among others.
Here is the Meltdown festival lineup:
June 17: Rachid Taha, Patti Smith (Royal Festival Hall); Yoko Ono (Queen Elizabeth Hall)
June 18: Patti Smith, Sinead O’Connor, Beth Orton, Kristin Hersh (RFH); Billy Bragg (QEH)
June 19: Steve Earle and Patti Smith (RFH)
June 22: Patti Smith, Cat Power, Kevin Shields (QEH)
June 23: Bertolt Brecht tribute with Patti Smith, Marc Almond, Neil and Tim Finn, Antony & the Johnsons, Dresden Dolls, London Sinfonietta (RFH)
June 24: Antony & the Johnsons (QEH)
June 25: “Horses” performance with Patti Smith and John Cale (RFH)
June 26: Jimi Hendrix tribute with Patti Smith, Jeff Beck, Flea, John Frusciante (RFH)
Source billboard.com.
G. Love & Special Sauce, The Black Keys, Donavon Frankenreiter, Medeski Martin & Wood, Gomez, Ray Lamontagne, Toots & The Maytals, Jurassic 5 and Galactic, are among the artists who have been announced for this summer
Photos by George Weiss of the Wanee Festival in Live Oak, FL held on April 14th and 15th, 2005. Artists included the Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Max Creek, The Derek Trucks Band, Galactic, The John Popper Project & DJ Logic, Ekoostik Hookah, Dark Star Orchestra, Oteil and the Peacemakers, Yellowman and more.
Questions loses points for its mildly unoriginal content, considering Us3 were once breakthrough pioneers, the 14 track album mirrors different snippets in the soul/funk/R&B hits of the past decade – including of course two more “Cantaloop” remixes.
What an incredible weekend of celebration, improvisation, and jubilation as the Everyone Orchestra took over Portland Oregon
Eclectic hip-hop outfit the Roots are eyeing a February 2006 release date for their next Geffen studio album, “Game Theory.” “We’re about 60% finished with the new album,” drummer ?uestlove tells Billboard.com. The set will likely feature a collaboration with Black Star’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli called “Where I Come” and one song with just Mos Def, “Workin’ on It.”
“Game Theory” will be the follow-up to the Roots’ 2004 effort “The Tipping Point,” which debuted at No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 395,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The Roots have a host of summer shows lined up, including a run with fellow hip-hop outfit Floetry. Headlining dates get underway Friday (April 29) in Bridgeport, Conn., and are booked through a July 1 appearance at New Orleans’ Essence Festival. The group will head to Europe in August.
Here are the Roots’ tour dates:
April 29: Bridgeport, Conn. (Fairfield University)
April 30: Washington, Pa. (Washington & Jefferson University)
May 1: Memphis (Tom Lee Park)
May 16: Philadelphia (Electric Factory; w/ Floetry)
May 18: Boston (Roxy; w/ Floetry)
May 20: Cleveland (House of Blues; w/ Floetry)
May 21: Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State University; w/ Floetry)
May 23: Detroit (Royal Oak Theatre; w/ Floetry)
May 26: Milwaukee (the Rave; w/ Floetry)
May 28: Chicago (Vic Theatre; w/ Floetry)
May 30: St. Louis (Pageant; w/ Floetry)
June 2: Atlanta (Tabernacle; w/ Floetry)
June 4: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Revolution; w/ Floetry)
June 6: New Orleans (House of Blues; w/ Floetry)
June 8: Houston (Hush; w/ Floetry)
June 11: Dallas (Gypsy Tea Room)
June 15: San Francisco (the Grand; w/ Floetry)
July 1: New Orleans (Essence Festival)
Aug. 23: London (Shepherd’s Bush Empire)
Source billboard.com.
