October 27, 2005

Several support acts are now confirmed for Trey’s upcoming fall tour. San Francisco’s Tea Leaf Green will open eight shows in the midwest and east coast. Chris Wood of MMW and his brother Oliver, performing as the Wood Brothers, will open at Roseland Ballroom in New York City. Yerba Buena will support at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA, fellow Vermonters Grace Potter and the Nocturnals will join Trey in Albany and Boston while the Hackensaw Boys will close out the tour on the west coast. Limited tickets still remain for select shows on the tour, which kicks off after Vegoose at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis next Wednesday. Please visit The Tourdates Page for specific ticketing and venue information.

FALL TOUR 2005

10/28 Alladin Theatre, Las Vegas, NV *Tea Leaf Green Opens*
10/30 Vegoose Music Festival, Las Vegas, NV *Tea Leaf Green Opens*
11/2 Orpheum Theatre , Minneapolis, MN *Tea Leaf Green Opens*
11/3 Orpheum Theatre, Madison, WI*Tea Leaf Green Opens*
11/4 NIU Convocation Center, Dekalb, IL *Tea Leaf Green Opens*
11/5 Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, OH*Tea Leaf Green Opens*
11/8 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY *The Wood Brothers Open*
11/10 Shea’s Performing Arts Center, Buffalo, NY *Tea Leaf Green Opens*
11/11 Stanley Performing Arts Center, Utica, NY *Tea Leaf Green Opens*
11/12 Grey Gymnasium, Lewiston, ME*Tea Leaf Green Opens*
11/15 Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA *Yerba Buena Opens*
11/16 Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA *Grace Potter and the Nocturnals open*
11/18 Palace Theatre, Albany, NY *Grace Potter and the Nocturnals open*
11/19 Chevrolet Theatre, Wallingford, CT *Opener TBA*
11/26 The Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO *Opener TBA*
11/29 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA *The Hackensaw Boys Open*
11/30 Roseland Theater, Portland, OR *The Hackensaw Boys Open*
12/2 Warfield, San Francisco, CA *The Hackensaw Boys Open*
12/3 Warfield, San Francisco, CA *The Hackensaw Boys Open*
12/6 4th & B, San Diego, CA *The Hackensaw Boys Open*
12/7 The Wiltern LG, Los Angeles, CA *The Hackensaw Boys Open*

“Shine” is now featured online at VH1. You can listen to streaming audio of the record in its entirety and also watch the video for the title track and first single, “Shine,” featuring performance and backstage footage from Trey’s summer tour. In addition to the VH1 feature, you can view the video by clicking on the link below.

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Canadian chanteuse Neko Case has set a March 7 release date for her next solo album, “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.” The Anti- set features guest appearances by the Band’s Garth Hudson, the Sadies, Kelly Hogan, Giant Sand leader Howe Gelb, and, as first reported here, Calexico principals Joey Burns and John Convertino.

“Being a good producer means you have to have a saint’s patience, which does not occur in me naturally,” Case says of her role as co-producer. “I had to generate some temporarily, and I think it worked out in the end.”

“Flood” is the follow-up to Case’s 2002 studio effort “Blacklisted,” which debuted at No. 31 on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums chart. Last year, she issued a live collection, “The Tigers Have Spoken,” which opened at No. 14 on the Heatseekers tally.

Case will resume touring with the New Pornographers Tuesday (Nov. 1) in London. A solo tour is being eyed for early next year, but beforehand, she will perform two shows Nov. 17 at New York’s Joe’s Pub and Nov. 21 at Los Angeles’ Barnsdall Gallery Theater.

Source billboard.com.

Yep Roc Records’ comprehensive Billy Bragg reissue series is back on the schedule for a Feb. 21 release. As previously reported, the label had expected to put out expanded versions of the singer/songwriter’s “Life’s a Riot With Spy vs. Spy,” “Brewing Up With Billy Bragg,” “Talking With the Taxman About Poetry” and “The Internationale” in September, as well as box them together with a bonus DVD.

Less than a week after the label announced the plan, the artist pulled the plug, stating that he wanted to be sure he could “fully support these releases on both sides of the Atlantic” upon their release. Bragg has only played a handful of dates in 2005, but is expected to mount some level of touring behind the Yep Roc re-releases.

Earlier this month, a trio of songs Bragg co-wrote with patients facing life-threatening illnesses as part of a project known as Rosetta Requiem were released as downloads via iTunes and on CD through Townshend Records. Details of the project can be found on the artist’s Web site.

Source billboard.com.

Ben Folds’ two March concerts with an 83-piece orchestra are in the spotlight on a new DVD. Due Dec. 6 via Epic, “Ben Folds and WASO Live in Perth” finds the artist and the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra running through 13 selections, including “Brick,” “The Ascent of Stan” and “Rock This B*tch.”

“Live in Perth” also features behind-the-scenes footage of Folds and the orchestra plus an interview with the American-born artist, who now lives in Australia when he’s not on the road.

In the midst of his fall North American tour that visits Chicago tonight (Oct. 27), Folds will reprise the orchestral format for three shows next month with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Nov. 10 at Stratford Hall in North Bethesda, Md., and Nov. 11-12 at Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.

Folds is out in support of his latest studio album, “Songs for Silverman,” which debuted in May at a career-best No. 13 on The Billboard 200, thanks to first-week sales of 50,000 copies.

Here is the track list for “Live in Perth”:

“Zak and Sara”
“Smoke”
“Fred Jones Part 2”
“Boxing”
“Annie Waits”
“Brick”
“Steven’s Last Night in Town”
“Evaporated”
“Rock This B*tch”
“The Ascent of Stan”
“Lullabye”
“Narcolepsy”
“The Luckiest”

Source billboard.com.