2005

Mike Clark & The Headhunters Return

Drummer Mike Clark is hitting the road with another stunning group of musicians. While he has toured recently with young lions like Robert Walter, Skerik and Charlie Hunter (he will introduce some relatively unknown musicians to the jazz world later this year), he is kicking off 2006 with a tantalizing and fresh Headhunters lineup. With hundreds of years of combined performing experience, this ensemble fixes to be so funky that you just might be able to smell it.

Bill Summers returns on percussion and vocals, and things should get interesting with first time Headhunters George Porter Jr. (The Meters) on bass, Donald Harrison (Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers) on sax, and Jerry Z (Melvin Sparks) on the organ. These diverse musicians are bonded by a combination of decades of experience playing jazz, yet an ageless zestful approach to performing. They are each very talented at listening and reacting, yet none are shy about “stepping up” when appropriate.

Tour Dates
Thursday, January 19 | Regattabar at the Charles Hotel | Cambridge, MA
Friday, January 20 | Metronome | Burlington, VT
Saturday, January 21 | The Stone Church | Newmarket, NH
Sunday, January 22 | The Hi-Hat | Providence, RI
Tuesday, January 24 | The Knitting Factory | New York, NY
Wednesday, January 25 | Theatre of the Living Arts | Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, January 26 | Mr. Small’s Theatre | Pittsburgh, PA
Friday, January 27 | Eight by Ten Club | Baltimore, MD
Saturday, January 28 | State Theatre | Falls Church, VA

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Robert Pollard Solo Tour Unveiled

Guided By Voices, one of the most widely admired and influential rock groups of the 90’s and beyond were famous for writing an astounding quantity of really great rock songs, in a dizzying variety of styles and arrangements, and recording them on whatever equipment was at hand, whether boombox or four-track or professional recording studio. They were also famous for the revolving-door line-up whose only constant was singer/songwriter Robert Pollard, whose output moreover overflowed, on a seemingly endless series of side projects, solo records, and bizarre collaborations with ex-members of the band, current members of the band, and random passersby. Pollard, whose first post GBV release, From A Compound Eye, is due out in late January will be touring in support of it. The band will feature Robert Pollard : vocals, Tommy Keene : guitar and keyboard, Dave Phillips : guitar, Jason Narducy : bass, Jon Wurster : drums.

Tour Dates

JANUARY

Thursday January 26
Athens, GA-40 Watt Club

Friday January 27
Carrboro, NC-Cat’s Cradle

Saturday January 28
Washington, DC-930 Club

FEBRUARY

Thursday February 09
Cleveland, OH- Beachland Ballroom

Friday February 10
Columbus, OH – Little Brothers

Saturday February 11
Newport, KY- Southgate House

Friday February 24
Los Angeles, CA- Knitting Factory LA

Saturday February 25
San Francisco, CA – The Independent

Monday February 27
Portland, OR- Doug Fir Lounge

Tuesday February 28
Seattle , WA- Crocodile Cafe

MARCH

Thursday March 30
Minneapolis, MN – First Ave

Friday March 31
Chicago, IL- Metro

Saturday April 01
Detroit, MI- St Andrews

APRIL

Thursday April 20
NYC- Irving Plaza

Friday April 21-
Boston, MA- Paradise

Saturday April 22-
Philadelphia, PA- Theatre of Living Arts

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Imogen Heap To Tour U.S. In January

With her long-awaited sophomore album, Speak For Yourself, finally hitting stores, Imogen Heap will cross the pond to pay her American fans a visit.

After a “Late Night With David Letterman” appearance January 10, she’ll play New York City’s Avalon and make her way across the country throughout the month.

Nearly a dozen cities are on the itinerary, with Rasputina cellist Zo

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The Definitive 2005 iPod Mix, or the Best Songs of the Year

With the advent of the iPod, singles have become more ubiquitous and accessible than albums. The following is an array of songs that helped make 2005 a great year in music. There are songs for every genre: the bittersweet orchestrations of Sufjan Stevens, the rock orientated British invasion, the electropop of Aussie’s Cut Copy and the pensive folk of presario Aimee Mann. All the songs on the list were picked on the criteria on being so good they required pressing repeat more than once and were entertaining enough to endure the entire year. These are the tracks to relish as the year comes to an end and the tracks to take with us into the burgeoning new year.

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The Who To Tour in Summer 2006

The Who will launch a world tour this summer that will bring the band to North America for its first extended trek in nearly four years. “We plan to visit the USA, Europe, Japan, Australia and also South America,” manager Bill Curbishley says.

The group — which now consists of Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend backed by bassist Pino Palladino, keyboardist John “Rabbit” Bundrick, drummer Zak Starkey and guitarist (and Pete’s brother) Simon Townshend — was forced to take a hiatus in 2005 due to Starkey’s touring commitments with Oasis and Palladino’s stint with the John Mayer Trio.

“I don’t want to stop, and I don’t think Pete does,” frontman Roger Daltrey told Rolling Stone in the fall. The Who have been working on a new album, Who2, on and off for the past decade and are scheduled to go back into the studio in February. There’s no word on whether the summer tour will feature new songs, but in March guitarist Pete Townshend posted in his online diary, “I feel I can’t tour any more with the Who without a new record.”

Townshend’s girlfriend, singer-songwriter Rachel Fuller, may open some dates on the tour.

Source rollingstone.com.

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Droopy-Eyed Character Actor Vincent Schiavelli Dies

Vincent Schiavelli, the droopy-eyed character actor who appeared in scores of movies, including “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Ghost,” died Monday at his home in Sicily. He was 57.

He died of lung cancer, said Salvatore Glorioso, mayor of Polizzi Generosa, the Sicilian village where Schiavelli resided.

Schiavelli, whose gloomy look made him perfect to play creepy or eccentric characters, made appearances in some 150 film and television productions, according to the Internet Movie Database.

In “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” he played the science teacher Mr. Vargas, who was married to the character portrayed by Lana Clarkson. (Rock producer Phil Spector is accused of killing Clarkson at his mansion in 2003.)

Schiavelli also appeared as Salieri’s valet in “Amadeus,” as “Cuckoo’s Nest” patient Frederickson, the subway ghost in “Ghost,” the organ grinder in “Batman Returns,” and as Chester in “The People vs. Larry Flynt.” He was selected in 1997 by Vanity Fair as one of America’s best character actors.

Schiavelli, who was born and raised in New York, studied acting at New York University’s School of the Arts.

He also wrote three cookbooks and many food articles for magazines and newspapers, possibly inheriting his love for cooking from his grandfather, who had been a cook for an Italian baron before moving to the United States, according to IMDB.

“He was a great friend, a great chef and a great talker,” Glorioso, who has known Schiavelli for almost four years, said in a telephone interview.

“With a smooth, witty conversation, he would make everything look more colorful. I’ve lost a brother,” he said.

Schiavelli also had worked in Italy, including in 2001 when he directed a theater piece in Sicily based on nine fables.

A funeral service will be held Tuesday in Polizzi Generosa, Glorioso said.

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