The third annual 10kLF event held in Northern Minnesota turned out to be one of the best festivals of the summer with amazing sets from almost every act floating into the stratosphere from four stages.
Stepping away from his regular band, ThaMuseMeant, singer/songwriter Nathan Moore teams up withThe Slip, to rejuvenate Surprise Me Mr. Davis, a whimsical band that grew out of a Boston blizzard a few years ago.
Days after the announcement that Ozzy Osbourne is retiring as the headliner of Ozzfest, the festival has canceled what was to be the final show of the 2005 tour. The performance was originally scheduled for Aug. 7 at Floatrite Park in Somerset, Wis., but was then moved to Sept. 10 to accommodate doctors’ orders that Osbourne not perform consecutive shows with Black Sabbath.
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Tupac Shakur’s July 4, 1996, concert at Los Angeles’ House of Blues will be released on DVD in October via Eagle Rock. The project represents what is believed to be last performance footage of Shakur before he was murdered later in the year.
At the show, the rapper was joined by such guests as Snoop Dogg, the Outlawz, Kurupt, Nate Dogg; Jodeci and Daz Dillinger. The DVD will be filled out with a handful of music videos and will also be available in UMD format for Sony PlayStation Portable devices.
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New York City’s Stellastarr* is taking a break from rocking hometown venues like Luna Lounge, Don Hill’s and Mercury Lounge to venture out on a North American tour in support of its upcoming release.
The band and its masterful combination of Brit guitar-rock and ’80s new wave will play two Canadian gigs before hitting the U.S. at Columbus, Ohio’s Basement September 12.
The following day, Stellastarr* celebrates the release of its second full-length album, Harmonies for the Haunted with a show at Chicago’s Metro / Smart Bar.
According to the band’s publicist, the album was the No. 1 most added to college radio with the single “Sweet Troubled Soul.”
Following the 2003 release of their self-titled debut album, the group embarked on a rigorous touring cycle, crisscrossing the States, U.K., Europe and Japan, supporting giants like Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Jane’s Addiction, Placebo and more.
By the end of the tour, Stella singer/guitarist Shawn Christensen was beat.
“It was a long road,” he said. “A year and a half of touring left me creatively stifled, and I needed a rest.”
After returning home and taking a much needed break, the band regrouped and began working on its next record.
Following a short stint in the Northwest, Stellastarr* will head to California, where it’ll play a total of five shows in late September. Expect to see them at L.A.’s El Rey Theatre, San Francisco’s Pop Scene and Independent, and San Diego’s Belly Up Tavern.
From there – Christensen, Amanda Tannen (bass, vocals), Arthur Kremer (drums, keyboards) and Michael Jurin (guitar, vocals) – will head through Texas, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., before returning home to play New York’s Irving Plaza October 6.
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The String Cheese Incident released their fifth studio album, One Step Closer, on June 28, 2005 on their own record label, SCI Fidelity Records. With the new release SCI divulge, perhaps for the first time, their genuine songwriting voice, and it’s every bit as ambitious as you’d expect.
One Step Closer was recorded at a friend’s home in the hills of Colorado’s Front Range, and was produced by Malcolm Burn (Bob Dylan, Chris Whitley, Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois). The recording experience proved to be cathartic for the five members of SCI, and the high and low points of the process are revealed in an accompanying DVD that features 30 minutes of exclusive B-roll footage. The end result: a gritty, free-wheeling and powerfully honed collection of 13 original songs, and a band reborn and re-inspired to continue their legacy as one of today’s most visionary and talented rock bands.
Thu Oct 06 Portland ME STATE THEATRE
Fri Oct 07 Portland ME STATE THEATRE
Sat Oct 08 Hampton Beach NH HAMPTON BEACH BALLROOM
Sun Oct 09 Hampton Beach NH HAMPTON BEACH BALLROOM
Mon Oct 10 Ithaca NY HISTORIC ITHACA’S STATE THEATRE
Tue Oct 11 Ithaca NY HISTORIC ITHACA’S STATE THEATRE
Thu Oct 13 Scranton PA CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
Fri Oct 14 Pittsburgh PA CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL
Sat Oct 15 Lincroft NJ COLLINS ARENA @ BROOKDALE COLLEGE
Mon Oct 17 Myrtle Beach SC HOUSE OF BLUES
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Radiohead will enter a “proper studio” in an unnamed city today (Aug. 18) to continue work on its seventh studio album, according to a post from frontman Thom Yorke at the “Dead Air Space” section of the group’s official Web site. No release date has yet been penciled in for the set.
Radiohead has been recording on and off at its own studio since early 2004, but it is unknown how much time has been devoted specifically to the as-yet-untitled new project. “We don’t take time off very well,” guitarist Jonny Greenwood previously told Billboard.com. “We’re enjoying it still, so why just go home and do nothing?”
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After two U.S. headlining club tours, Toronto rock duo Death from Above 1979 have been handpicked to open for Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails when they kick off their North American arena tour October 16th in San Antonio, Texas.
DFA 1979 is a heavy-ass, noisy, dance-punk rhythm section, comprised of singer/drummer Sebastien Grainger and bassist/keyboardist Jesse Keeler. Formed in 2001, the pair released an indie EP, Heads Up, finally releasing their full-length U.S. debut, You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, last fall to plenty of buzz.
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme did a remix for the DFA 1979 track “Black History Month” for a U.K. vinyl pressing — also set to appear on DFA 1979’s remix/B-sides/live album due in the fall — and now the bands will be hitting the road together, even though they have yet to meet in person. Says Grainger, “We’d been passing notes like kids in school, through other bands.”
The duo doesn’t seem concerned about being dwarfed on such large stages and has no plans to alter its live presentation on the seventeen-date tour. “We’re going to get the White Stripes in and ask them how they do it,” jokes Keeler. “I think the answer is to not change anything, because what makes you famous will also keep you famous. We will continue to do what we do.”
After playing summer festivals overseas, as well as some Canadian shows, DFA 1979 are writing for their next album, which they hope to have completed by the end of December. The band has a handful of songs finished now, which Keeler believes are a leg up on the punk/industrial “You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine.” “We’re a lot better at what we do, and what’s going to be different on the next record is, now that I’ve got your attention, I can do what I want to do. The last record we made was like [Radiohead’s] Pablo Honey, and this one will be more like Kid A.”
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