Coachella, with its desert setting and an abundance of visual and musical treats, is two days of pure everything that still remains legit in today’s music scene.
As noted in the message posted below on the zoomatour.com website, this year’s travelling festival featuring Trey Anastasio and Ben Harper has been cancelled.
“The producers of the ZOOMA Tour regret to announce that this summer’s Tour has been canceled. Ticket refunds for all dates will be given through the outlets where the tickets were purchased.
The Zooma Tour was conceived to provide fans with an exceptional musical and entertainment experience. Due to unforeseen circumstances, it has become clear that it would not be possible to provide that experience at the level initially envisioned. Rather than go forward with a tour that falls short of what was conceived, everyone involved has mutually agreed that it is best to cancel the tour altogether.
We want to thank all of the fans for their support and the tour’s staff for their dedication and hard work on this project. We look forward to exploring new and exciting opportunities in the future.
If you purchased your tickets through Trey Anastasio or Ben Harper ticketing pre-sales, the card you placed your order with will automatically be refunded for ticket face value plus all other service and shipping charges. Refunds will begin Friday May 27 and continue until June 2nd. Once the refund is processed you will automatically receive an email confirmation. Please note: it can take up to 2 business days for the refund to show up on your account. If you have any questions, please e-mail [email protected]”
Production is underway for a new feature-length documentary about the Who, tentatively titled “My Generation: Who’s Still Who.” Scheduled to hit theaters in early 2006 via Spitfire Pictures, the film is being overseen by Oscar-winning director Murray Lerner and is being produced with the assistance of surviving Who members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey.
The film will follow the band’s influential career through archival footage, clips from performances at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight, interviews and “never-before-seen private materials” from the Who’s archives.
Lerner is calling on fans to provide amateur footage of the band, or anecdotes that could be relevant to the project, via the film’s official Web site.
The DVD of “Who’s Still Who” will contain two supplementary films, one comprising segments devoted to each band member and the other boasting previously unreleased footage from a 1969 show at the London Coliseum.
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Two members of the Cure have exited the veteran U.K. rock act, which has long featured a revolving door of musicians backing up leader Robert Smith. Keyboardist Roger O’Donnell announced his departure today (May 27) on his official Web site, while a fan site dedicated to guitarist Perry Bamonte conveyed the same news about his fate.
“As of Tuesday this week I am no longer a member of the Cure,” O’Donnell wrote. “It was sad to find out after nearly 20 years the way I did but then I should have expected no less or more.” He added that he was looking forward to touring in support of an upcoming solo album “in a more relaxed and happy atmosphere than has surrounded the Cure these last couple of years.”
It is unclear how these moves will affect the band’s recently confirmed first shows of 2005, including stops Aug. 5 at Spain’s Benicassim Festival and Sept. 3 at the Rock N’ Coke Festival in Istanbul.
Rumors have circulated that Siouxie and the Banshees principal Steve Severin will fill in at these shows in some capacity. Severin and Smith are longtime friends who recorded a 1983 side-project album, “Blue Sunshine,” under the moniker the Glove.
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Random stabbings and artless critiques of ten new records you haven't heard about.
Sure, Mercury Rev shares the same hot shot producer of The Flaming Lips,
on The Secret Migration. Sure, lead singer Jonathan Donahue was even once a roadie for the Flaming Lips. And sure, Donahue even sings in the same childish wonder of Wayne Coyne, while narrating like Bob Ross, with words of “swirling clouds” and “green forests.” But does that mean that Mercury Rev is a Flaming Lips clone? No way.
What Nitty has is a great party album for people to dance and get down to.
This is the first book written by a band member that deals directly with the Grateful Dead and the inner workings of this American Institution.
Joe Strummer often spoke of reissuing the lone album from his mid-Seventies pre-Clash band, the 101ers. But the punk legend’s untimely death of a heart attack in 2002 gave the project a new urgency that will finally land it in shops again on June 14th, almost twenty-five years after its original release.
Richard Dudanski, Strummer’s longtime friend and former 101ers drummer, is overseeing the release of Elgin Avenue Breakdown (Revisited) (Astralwerks), which features newly unearthed live tracks that showcase Strummer’s raw, R&B beginnings.
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Nebraska-based indie rock outfit Cursive has rounded up 12 rare and unreleased tracks for “The Difference Between Houses and Homes (Lost Songs and Loose Ends 1995-2001.” Due Aug. 23 via Saddle Creek, the set features all but one track with original guitarist Steve Pedersen, who was later replaced by Ted Stevens.
“Lost Songs” opens with the previously unreleased 1995 track “Dispenser” and includes tracks from such 7-inch singles as 1996’s “The Disruption,” 1997’s “Zero Hour” and the following year’s “The Icebreaker.”
The set also includes “I Thought There’d Be More Than This,” an unreleased cut from 1996 put to tape in Otho, Iowa, constituting the lone song here not recorded in Lincoln, Neb., with producers Mike and AJ Mogis.
The only song recorded by Cursive’s present lineup (Stevens, guitarist/vocalist Tim Kasher, cellist Gretta Cohn, bassist Matt Maginn and drummer Clint Schnase) is 2001’s “Nostalgia,” released on a split single with Small Brown Bike.
Here is the track list for “Lost Songs and Loose Ends”:
“Dispenser”
“Pivotal”
“Sucker & Dry”
“Icebreakers”
“And the Bit Just Chokes Them”
“There’s a Coldest Day in Every Year”
“Disruption in the Normal Swing of Things”
“Nostalgia”
“Knowledgeable Hasbeens”
“Polar”
“Disruption in our Lines of Influence”
“I Thought There’d Be More Than This”
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