July 2005

Kabir To Play Mercury Lounge Sat. July 30th

Boston based hip hop artist Kabir brings his live hip hop band to the Mercury Lounge, Saturday night July 30th. London born, half Indian – half Italian, Kabir moved to Cambridge, Ma as a young kid. His influences are as wide ranging as the nightime sky. His lyrics are socially and politically conscious, positive, and thought-provoking, while his grooves are deep and body-shaking.

Kabir hits the stage around 9pm at the Mercury Lounge. Other acts that night include; Beans (from the Antipop Consortium), Dub Trio, and Kudu. The Mercury Lounge is 21+ and is located at 217 E. Houston Street.

For more info see: myspace.com/mckabir and sonicbids.com/kabir.

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Earl Pickens: Country Music Jukebox

Honky-tonk bars and love-sick cowboys aren’t exactly common on Long Island. And they certainly don’t make it into the New York punk scene. But somehow Earl Pickens managed to transition his Anti-Folk, East Village holler to more subdued, Lone Star drawl and do just that.

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Aqualung: Breathing Underwater (Matt Hales Interview)

Matt Hales is Aqualung, or at least the most vital part of the English based band. Drawing vocal comparisons to Thom Yorke and musical hints to Coldplay and Keane, it’s been the “year of America” for Matt and his four-piece band, as they’ve traveled the U.S. for the better part of 2005.

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Widespread Panic Closes Out Lollapalooza With Over 2 1/2 Hour Show

Widespread Panic performed two separate sets yesterday (July 24) to close out the second night of Lollapalooza in Chicago, the first time the 1990s touring festival has been held as a single-city event. Sunday’s attendance equaled that of Saturday’s with 33,000 people, according to a festival spokesperson.

Perry Farrell noted that Widespread Panic was the first act he thought of for Lollapalooza 2005. In turn, the group was rewarded with 150 minutes of set time, nearly double what any other act enjoyed.

Lollapalooza on Sunday sometimes felt closer to a jam band event than the multi-genre, eclectic sort of festival it was known as throughout much of the ’90s. Saturday also saw performances from Blue Merle, G. Love and Special Sauce, Sound Tribe Sector 9 and Farrell’s new rock/funk/electronic collective Satellite Party, which featured Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal and percussionist Gabriele Corcos.

Full Article: Billboard.com

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Queen To Play U.S. For First Time Since 1982

A successful 32-date European tour now complete, Queen + Paul Rodgers have scheduled two fall U.S. shows, one on each coast. In the east, the tour will on Oct. 16 visit East Rutherford, N.J.’s Continental Airlines Arena, while an Oct. 22 stop is scheduled California’s famed Hollywood Bowl. Queen has not played the U.S. since 1982.

An additional date in each venue is also possible, according to a source, but no additional U.S. dates are being considered in 2005. As previously reported, a larger slate of 2006 shows is under consideration.

Tickets go on sale Saturday (July 30) for the New Jersey date (priced $37-127) and Sunday for the Hollywood show (prices unavailable at deadline). Tickets can be purchased via Ticketmaster, Queenpluspaulrodgers.com, Queenonline.com and Paulrodgers.com. The artist-related Web sites will also have information about pre-sale opportunities and VIP ticket packages.

Ramping up to the Stateside dates, the group will play Oct. 8 at the Aruba Music Festival. After the U.S., it heads on for four Japanese dates (Oct. 26-27 in Tokyo, Nov. 1 in Nagoya and Nov. 3 in Fukuoka).

Rodgers, a veteran of rock acts Bad Company, Free and the Firm, stands in for Queen’s charismatic frontman, Freddie Mercury, who died of complications from AIDS in 1991. He joins original Queen members Brian May (guitar/vocals) and Roger Taylor (drums), with former Blue Oyster Cult bassist Danny Miranda filling the role of John Deacon, who has retired from touring. The touring group is rounded out by guitarist Jamie Moses and keyboardist Spike Edney.

Recent shows have found the group airing out such Queen favorites as “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” “Fat Bottomed Girls,” “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You” as well as Rodgers-associated songs like Free’s “All Right Now” and “Wishing Well” and Bad Company’s “Can’t Get Enough” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love.”

More than 45 songs from the European tour can be purchased at Queenpluspaulrodgers.com. In the U.K., the songs are also available as mobile phone downloads.

Source billboard.com.

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Electric Six Returns

Electric Six isn’t known for its seriousness as a band. In fact, the sextet admits it changed its name from the Wildbunch because the group “wanted a shot at the big time.”

Even the band members aren’t sure if they’ve hit the big time yet, but one thing for certain is that the group will hit the road this fall, beginning September 22 at Lee’s Palace in Toronto. E6 is scheduled to spend two more days in Canada before heading Stateside.

In support of its latest release, Senor Smoke, E6 will head to the U.S. October 3 for a gig at Carrboro, N.C.’s Cat’s Cradle. The band will play three shows in what the band calls “our neighbors to the South, the great nation of Florida,” before heading to Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan in mid-October.

The Detroit natives – who “use stage names because we had a stupid idea one night and now we have to live with it” – have been through approximately four guitar players, four bass players, five keyboard players, and three drummers.

Source pollstar.com.

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John Densmore Wins Doors Bout

Former Doors drummer John Densmore won a permanent injunction against his ex- bandmates Friday, preventing keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger from continuing to tour or record under any name that contains the words “The Doors.” The two had been touring with various members under the name “The Doors of the 21st Century” since 2003.

“I think our old lead singer would be happy,” Densmore told Rolling Stone on Saturday, referencing the late Jim Morrison, who died in 1971, effectively ending the original incarnation of the group.

Densmore was joined in his suit by Morrison’s parents, as well as the parents of Morrison’s common-law wife, Pamela Courson. Under the terms of the ruling, Manzarek and Krieger are required to give Densmore and the Morrison estate portions of the profits from their recent tours. The ruling also restores the band partnership that the group began with, where each of the four members held an equal share.

“It’s a sweet little democracy that Jim orchestrated with no lawyers, in a garage in Venice, California,” Densmore told Rolling Stone after filing the suit in 2003. “And he included veto power in case anybody didn’t like what went down. I’m just trying to keep the integrity of what we did a long time ago.”

Krieger and Manzarek could not be reached for comment by press time.

Source rollingstone.com.

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Herbie Hancock Collaborates With Big Names On New Album

Herbie Hancock collaborates with some of the biggest stars and music and helps them revamp a number of classic tunes on his new album, “Possibilities.” As previously reported, the 10-track set is due Aug. 30 via a consortium of Starbucks’ Hear Music, Vector and Hancock’s own Hancock Music imprint.

Enlivened by unlikely collaborations, “Possibilities” is highlighted by a piano/guitar/percussion-backed recording of Paul Simon’s “I Do It for Your Love,” featuring Simon. While the original (from 1975’s “Still Crazy After All These Years”) was a vaguely whimsical tale of a rainy day wedding, the new rendition strengthens the undercurrent of enduring romance with a heartfelt vocal performance by Simon and a spare but sparkling arrangement.

Elsewhere, Raul Midon covers his idol Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called To Say I Love You” on a version that blends drumless, synth-heavy sections with moments of swinging piano jazz. Sting lends a hand on a new recording of his “Sister Moon” which is nearly double the length of the original on 1987’s “Nothing Like the Sun.”

Other collaborators sprinkled throughout include Carlos Santana, former Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, John Mayer, Annie Lennox and, Christina Aguilera, the latter on a surprisingly effective cover of Leon Russell’s “A Song for You.”

Hancock is about to begin a five-night tour of Japan with Santana that kicks off July 27 in Yokohama.

Here is the track list for “Possibilities”:

“Stitched Up” featuring John Mayer
“Safiatou” featuring Carlos Santana and Angelique Kidjo
“A Song for You” featuring Christina Aguilera
“I Do It for Your Love” featuring Paul Simon
“Hush, Hush, Hush” featuring Annie Lennox
“Sister Moon” featuring Sting
“When Loves Comes to Town” featuring Joss Stone and Jonny Lang
“Don’t Explain” featuring Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan
“Gelo No Montana” featuring Trey Anastasio
“I Just Called To Say I Loved You” featuring Raul Midon

Source billboard.com.

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Robert Pollard Works On New Projects

Former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard has revealed details of several upcoming projects, including a highly anticipated second volume of the “Suitcase” archival series and an accompanying vinyl “Briefcase” release with extra tracks.

First up on Sept. 27 will be the EP “Music for ‘Bubble'” via Pollard’s Fading Captain label. According to the artist’s official Web site, Pollard was approached by director Steven Soderbergh to record music for his upcoming film “Bubble,” which arrives this fall in U.S. theaters. The EP sports four full-band tracks and two instrumentals.

Due Oct. 31, the material on the four-disc, 100-track “Guided By Voices: Suitcase II — American Superdream Wow” ranges from the late ’70s through this spring, and, as on the first volume, credits each song to a different band depending on the musicians involved.

The full track listing has not been announced, but the set includes “I Am Decided,” which was later recorded by the Amps, as well as tracks from Ben Zing, Modular Dance Units (M.D.U.) and the Fake Organisms. The first 900 copies of the box set will be autographed by Pollard.

The vinyl-only “Briefcase 2 — The Return of Milko Waif” includes 16 tracks from “Suitcase 2” such as “I Am Decided,” “Mannequin’s Complaint,” “Perch Warble,” “You’re Not the Queen Anymore” and “Lonely Town.” The collection also boasts two tracks not found on the box set: “Lion W/Thorn in Paw” and “Superwhore,” the latter recorded with Steve Albini.

In related news, Pollard will be on hand for book signings the week of Nov. 14 in New York and Chicago to coincide with James Greer’s upcoming biography of the band, “Guided By Voices: A Brief History — Twenty-one Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll.” The book will be released in late October or early November via Grove/Atlantic and includes an introduction by Soderbergh.

Source billboard.com.

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Returns

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club went through an uncertain past year, losing – and regaining – drummer Nick Jago, and recording a new album, appropriately titled Howl.

Without a recording contract at the outset (BRMC is now signed to RCA Records), the band dug into its own wallets to finance recording. Relentless touring during recording breaks reportedly took its toll on Jago, who quit the band and then returned.

With the album completed and the indie rock trio regrouped, BRMC is preparing to kick start another North American tour after warming up with festivals in Japan and England.

Howl, a title borrowed from beat poet Allen Ginsberg’s classic, marks BRMC’s third full-length effort, so it’s only fitting the tour in support kicks off in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall on September 12.
The 19-city tour also stops in Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas and Los Angeles, where the outing wraps October 8 at the Henry Fonda Theatre.

Source pollstar.com.

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