Mike Doughty and Ray Lamontagne sharing a bill is like Dave
Chappelle followed by Steven Wright. Both are talented at hat they do, but what they do is equally different.
Moviegoers expecting a goggle-eyed computer graphics spectacle from Steven Spielberg are going to be slightly disappointed by the newest film adaptation of H.G. Welles’s novel.
With more and more fans saying hello from across the Pacific, as well as dropping by Lotus sets at High Sierra, the band figured it was about time to visit Japan. Lotus will make its first trip to Japan in September for at least 6 shows. Stay tuned to lotusvibes.com for complete details and more information as it arises.
Starting today, you will once again be able to purchase advance tickets to most Lotus shows via their own ticketing site:
lotusvibes.musictoday.com
Lotus Tour dates:
07-16 Masontown, WV | All Good Music Festival
07-24 New York, NY | Zen II @ Exit2
08-06 Pomfret, CT | The Stone Bear
08-12&13 Cherokee County, SC | Fire Lake Festival
FALL TOUR
09-10 Tokyo, Japan | The Loft
09-13 Toyama, Japan | Mairo
09-15 Osaka, Japan | Big Cat
09-16 Toyohashi, Japan | Lahaina
09-17 Shizuoka, Japan | TBA
09-18 Yokohama, Japan | Lizard
10-04 Manchester, CT | The Main Pub
10-05 Burlington, VT | Higher Ground
10-06 Northampton, MA | Iron Horse Music Hall
10-07 Allston (Boston), MA | Harper’s Ferry
10-08 New York, NY | Knitting Factory
10-11 Asbury Park, NJ | The Stone Pony
10-12 State College, PA | Crowbar
10-13 Buffalo, NY | Nietzsche’s
10-14 Pittsburgh, PA | Mr. Smalls Theatre
10-15 Goshen, IN | The Umble Center
10-18 Cincinnatti, OH | Viper Room
10-21 Chicago, IL | Subterranean
10-22 Milwaukee, WI | Shank Hall
10-25 Iowa City, IA | Yacht Club
10-26 Urbana, IL | Canopy Club
10-28 Cleveland, OH | Grog Shop
10-29 Baltimore, MD | The Funk Box
10-30 Plains, PA | River Street Jazz Cafe
Phish is pleased to continue the tradition of releasing choice shows from the band’s archives with the “Island Tour”, available on CD at Phish Dry Goods and download (FLAC or MP3) at LivePhish.com.
The four shows from this legendary run have been mastered from the original two-track soundboard recordings and are available in all formats on July 20th or for immediate pre-order now. This is the first Phish archives release to be offered simultaneously as both CD and download and the first to feature filler tracks from the soundchecks.
The Shows:
April 2nd, 1998 – Nassau Civic Center, Uniondale, NY
April 3rd, 1998 – Nassau Civic Center, Uniondale, NY
April 4th, 1998 – Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI
April 5th, 1998 – Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI
To celebrate the Island Tour release, a Live Phish Listening Party takes place July 19th at the Canal Room in New York City. Archivist Kevin Shapiro will be on hand with vintage Phish audio, rare video and stills from the Phish Archives with visuals presented by J.O.E. Tickets are on sale now and are only $15 with service charge.
Complete information on tickets and the releases can be found at the band’s website at phish.com.
The Decemberists know how to take a hint.
Their six-week spring tour was largely sold out – even at Boston’s nearly 2,000-capacity Avalon – and frontman Colin Meloy played to packed houses in the cities lucky enough to get a spot on his January solo mini-tour.
So what’s a band to do? Book its most ambitious tour yet, of course.
This September, the Portland, Ore.-based indie rockers will kick off a two-month nationwide tour, called – we kid you not – “The Flight of the Mistle Thrushes.” The schedule includes double gigs at San Francisco’s Fillmore, New York City’s Webster Hall, Los Angeles’ Music Box at the Fonda, Chicago’s Metro and the Big Easy in Boise, Idaho.
Fans in the group’s Pacific Northwest home can catch some pre-tour gigs in August, including shows with the Violent Femmes and Death Cab For Cutie.
The Decemberists will make a trip to NYC’s SummerStage in Central Park August 18 and play Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival main stage September 5 before officially starting the tour in San Francisco September 11.
The packed itinerary includes two Texas dates with Built to Spill – one of them a co-headliner in Houston.
Sons and Daughters will open on the first half of the tour, with Cass McCombs taking over support duties from October 5 through the end of the month.
The tour wraps October 30 at the Voodoo Festival in New Orleans’ City Park.
Source pollstar.com.
