D12 member Proof is gearing up for the Aug. 9 release of his first solo album, “Searching for Jerry Garcia.” The set will be issued via the artist’s own Iron Fist label and features such guests as longtime collaborator Eminem, 50 Cent, Method Man, Nate Dogg, Obie Trice and his D12 cohorts.
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Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden just released his latest Domino album, “Everything Ecstatic,” but the electronica artist is already busy with several other projects. Among them are a new album with his band Fridge, a collaborative project with veteran drummer Steve Reid and a DVD of videos for tracks from “Everything Ecstatic.”
The album with Reid came about after he and Hebden played one-off shows together in Paris and London. “He’s a jazz drummer and he use to play with James Brown for a while and he played with Motown,” Hebden tells Billboard.com. “It’s just improvised music — just drums and electronics.”
The set will likely be dubbed “The Exchange Sessions,” after the London studio where it was recorded. “We literally have just finished it so we are going to start organizing a release next week,” Hebden says.
As for Fridge, with which Hebden began his rock career as a teenager, the group began assembling ideas last Christmas for its first album since 2001’s “Happiness,” with an eye on having it ready by next year.
“The last few sessions we did were literally throwing all sorts of ideas around,” he says. “Some of it was coming out quite aggressive [with] really quite heavy pounding drums. There’s lots of really sparse, sort of folk bits as well. o we are all over the place. I have no idea what the album is going to sound like.”
Hebden is cautiously optimistic Fridge could mount a tour in support of the album. “I’d like to think so,” he says. “It’s just the eventual timing in our lives. I don’t know how available everyone is going to be, but it’d be nice to.”
Beginning Sept. 15 in Orlando, Fla., Hebden will hit the road in support of “Everything Ecstatic” on what will be his longest headlining tour in North America to date. The album’s companion DVD will be released in November and will feature “a different director on each different track,” according to the artist.
One of the things I wanted to do was give opportunities to people who have never made a video before and see what I came up with,” Hebden offers. “I have a friend who does these animations by painting directly on the film and then putting them through a projector. I think it’s 45 drawings for one second of footage. It’s really, really nice — she’s done an incredible video.”
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Los Angeles is a city filled with big dreamers, wide boulevards, palm trees, and a saccharine sunshine feel. It
Guitar upstart DJ Williams looks like he ought to be serving you fries, not the kind of heavy jazz-tinged funk and soul on his debut, Projekt Management. The surprisingly mature young bandleader relies heavily on his Projekt of Richmond funk all-stars for the record
The Killers will headline the first U.S. edition of the U.K.’s successful Download Festival, Billboard.com has learned. The event will be held Oct. 8 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., and will also boast performances by Modest Mouse, the Arcade Fire, Doves, H.I.M. and Mindless Self Indulgence. Tickets go on sale Sunday (July 31).
Like the U.K. version of the event, which drew 150,000 people this year to London’s Donnington Park, the U.S. edition will offer cutting-edge technology and media experiences.
Last year’s festival, with Linkin Park, Metallica, Korn, Sum 41 and Iggy Pop on the bill, grossed $7.3 million, the 10th highest gross of the year, according to Billboard Boxscore.
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Photos by Richard Clark of moe. and the Allman Brothers Band at Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA 7.23.05
As a child, Mike Gordon and his family took a trip to the Bahamas. It was there, sitting by the pool, that he first heard the smooth, calypso rhythms of the Mustangs. Years later he would bring “Ya Mar” to the Phish table, but those island sounds would stay with him for much longer.
Keller Williams is a one man band for the digital age. Using innovative looping technology and innate musical genius, Keller’s live solo performances pack more music on one stage than a full fledge rock ensemble might. With summer festival performances at Bonnaroo, High Sierra, and the traveling BIG Summer Classic, Keller had plenty of opportunity to display his inspired live shows to enthusiastic crowds. This fall, Keller heads back indoors into the more intimate theatre setting.
Fall tour dates include:
Sat Aug 13 Gathering of the Vibes, Duanesburg NY
Sun Aug 14 Fire Lake Music Festival, Gaffney SC
Sat Aug 20 Cannery Row, Nashville TN
Sun Aug 21 Nelson Ledges Quarry, Garrettsville OH
Thu Aug 25 Twilight Concert Series, Salt Lake City UT
Sat Aug 27 Friends UV Nature and Knowledge Festival, Bean Blossom IN
Fri Sept 2 Moe.down, Turin NY
Fri Sept 9 Baker Theatre, Dover NJ
Wed Sep 14 Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte NC
Thu Sep 15 Orange Peel, Asheville NC (w/ The Keels)
Fri Sep 16 Tabernacle, Atlanta GA
Sat Sept 17 Florida Theater, Jacksonville FL
Tue Sept 20 The Moon, Tallahassee FL
Thur Sept 22 House of Blues, Orlando FL
Fri Sept 23 Carefree Theater, West Palm Beach FL
Sat Sept 24 Tampa Theater, Tampa FL
Sun Sept 25 Centre Stage (Plex), Charleston SC
Wed Sept 28 Ziggy’s, Winston-Salem NC
Thur Sept 29 House of Blues, Myrtle Beach SC
Fri Sept 30 Alabama Theater, Birmingham AL
Sat Oct 1 Homegrown Festival, Raleigh NC
Sun Oct 2 Pavilion, Charlottesville VA
Thur Oct 6 Norva, Norfolk VA
Fri Oct 7 Jefferson Center, Roanoke VA
Thur Oct 13 Orpheum, Boston MA
Fri Oct 14 Nokia Theater, New York NY
Sat Oct 15 Electric Factory, Philadelphia PA
Thur Oct 20 Meridian, Houston TX
Fri Oct 21 Gypsy Ballroom, Dallas TX
Sat Oct 22 Stubb’s Outdoors, Austin TX
Fri Nov 04 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Tickets on sale Tuesday, August 2nd at baselineticketing.com.
More tour dates to be announced soon.
In June Keller released his first ever performance DVD, SIGHT. Finally, a visual souvenir of Keller’s awe-inspiring live shows! For those who have yet to see Keller Williams perform live, SIGHT offers the perfect opportunity to actually watch this mad scientist of music create on-stage. Recorded at Mr. Smalls’ state-of-the-art theatre facility in Pittsburgh, PA, SIGHT features over 100 minutes of top quality concert footage, plus plenty of hilarious b-roll footage recorded over his many years on the road. It’s been hailed as one of the most entertaining performance DVD’s ever!
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The Rolling Stones’ “A Bigger Bang” isn’t just the legendary rock act’s first new album in eight years — it’s also their most substantial since 1972’s “Exile on Main Street.” Due Sept. 6 via Virgin, the set features 16 new tracks, including the singles “Streets of Love” and “Rough Justice,” which will be released Aug. 22 in the U.K. on CD and seven-inch vinyl.
“A Bigger Bang” also boasts two tracks sung by guitarist Keith Richards (“Infamy” and “This Place Is Empty”) as well as “Oh No, Not You Again,” which the Stones premiered during a May press conference at New York’s Juilliard School to announce their 2005 tour.
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Multiplatinum recording artist Moby will release an iTunes Originals featuring an exclusive interview and unreleased performances on July 26, 2005.
Launched June 29, 2004, iTunes Originals combine select album tracks with exclusive in-studio live performances, and comprehensive interviews to provide career-spanning portraits of some of the biggest recording artists in contemporary music.
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