Contrary to their album title, More Adventurous, Rilo Kiley’s performance was played straight, in true to album form for the sparse Saturday night crowd. Perhaps, a low key warm-up before opening for Coldplay on their national tour.
In the first night of a five-night run in New York City’s historic Greenwich village, where Bob Dylan rose from a coffeehouse open-mic regular to legendary status., Bright Eyes brought their music to the forefront. With the release of two critically acclaimed, and vastly different, albums earlier this year, Bright Eyes has quickly gained notoriety and popularity resulting in his face gracing the covers of practically every indie music magazine around.
Hasidic reggae rapper Matisyahu will release his next album this fall via a new deal with Epic. Having recently demoed two songs with noted producer Bill Laswell, Matisyahu and his band plan to hit the studio in the next two weeks to begin work on the follow-up to last month’s “Live at Stubb’s” (Or Music/JDub), which reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Reggae Albums chart.
Hasidic reggae rapper Matisyahu will release his next album this fall via a new deal with Epic. Having recently demoed two songs with noted producer Bill Laswell, Matisyahu and his band plan to hit the studio in the next two weeks to begin work on the follow-up to last month’s “Live at Stubb’s” (Or Music/JDub), which reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Reggae Albums chart.
“We have material ready, but a lot of the way we write material is to just come together in a room and someone will have an idea that forms into a song,” the artist tells Billboard.com. “It happens pretty quickly.” As for why Laswell was chosen to produce, Matisyahu says, “We thought Bill would get the dub thing and the reggae thing.”
While he’s out West in the coming days to perform at the Sasquatch! Festival outside Seattle, Matisyahu will also record a track intended to appear on rap/rock outfit P.O.D.’s next album, due later this year via Atlantic.
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Snoop Dogg, the White Stripes, 311, the Black Eyed Peas and the Pixies are among the acts confirmed for the 2005 edition of the San Diego Street Scene festival. Set for July 29-30 at an area adjacent to the city’s Qualcomm Stadium, the event will feature more than 30 artists.
Others on the bill are Garbage, the Used, Flaming Lips, Method Man, Unwritten Law, Flogging Molly, Dashboard Confessional, Social Distortion, Death Cab For Cutie, Kasabian, Hot Hot Heat, Rise Against, Louis XIV, the Adolescents, (International) Noise Conspiracy, Autolux, Von Bondies, Swollen Members, Morningwood, the Locust, West Indian Girl, Mixmaster Mike and Hard-Fi. More artists are expected.
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Nas, Redman, the Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon and Ghostface (performing material from their 1995 album “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx”) and Gang Starr MC Guru lead the lineup for the Rock the Bells festival, to be held July 30 at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernadino, Calif.
The show will be hosted by Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA, Cypress Hill’s B-Real and the Beat Junkies’ Mr. Choc. Pre-sale tickets go on sale Friday (May 27) and will gradually increase in price as the show date approaches.
The Rock the Bells lineup will also boast performances by Sage Francis, Q-Bert, Cut Chemist, Living Legends, Heiroglyphics, Supernatural, DJ Muggs and Nonphixion.
At last year’s show, the Wu-Tang Clan reunited with all of its principal members, including the now deceased Ol’ Dirty Bastard, for the first time in years. That performance will form the basis of the film “Rock the Bells (The Documentary),” which will hit theaters and DVD later this year.
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In support of their new live album, Live In Japan, The Bad Plus will be touring the world. The jazz trio will kick things off in Norway, with dates planned through early 2006.
Tour Dates
Wed 05/25/05
Sam Beam’s Iron And Wine alter ego will hit the road this June with dates throughout the East Coast and South.
The trek will start off, conveniently enough, in Beam’s home state of Florida with a performance at Tallahassee’s Beta Bar June 8. Then it’s up through Louisiana and ol’ Miss. on the way to Bonnaroo. Iron And Wine will do a June 11 set at the three-day Manchester, Tenn., festival.
After taking a day off to recover – or perhaps just to enjoy Bonnaroo – Beam will head up to Ohio and back across the East Coast. He’ll play two nights in a row at New York City’s Webster Hall before making his way down the seaboard, winding up in Florida once again by the end of the month and closing the tour with a June 24 show in Jacksonville.
Horses will open on all dates.
Iron & Wine’s latest release, the Woman King EP, dropped in February.
Last year, Beam went into the studio with members of Calexico to record a collaboration EP called Lays In The Reigns. The disc is scheduled for a fall release on Overcoat, and tour dates are expected to follow.
Tour Dates
Wed 06/08/05
