2005

moe. has soldified their plans for the end of 2005 with a thanksgiving run in New York City and a New Year’s Eve run in Asheville, NC. Following a show on 12/29 at The Orange Peel, moe. will celebrate the ball drop on 12/30 and 12/31 at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.

11/25 – 11/26 – Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY

12/29 – The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC

12/30 – 12/31 – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville, NC

For more info see moe.org

Rock act Garbage will take “an indefinite break” after its Australian tour ends Oct. 1 in Perth. “We’re taking a hiatus — I don’t know if we’re calling it a day,” singer Shirley Manson told the Melbourne Herald Sun. A group spokesperson had no comment on the developments.

Rumors have been circulating that things were not right in the Garbage camp after the band cancelled European dates scheduled after the Australian tour.

Band members admitted Garbage almost broke up during the making of its latest album, “Bleed Like Me,” but later insisted they were thrilled with the finished product. “Because we were on the verge of losing it all, we made the album of our career,” drummer Butch Vig told Billboard. “We feel completely rejuvenated.”

The set debuted in April at a career-best No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 245,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It spawned the band’s first top 10 Modern Rock hit since 1998 with “Why Do You Love Me,” which reached No. 8.

“We’ve not stopped for 10 years,” Manson told the newspaper. “We always swore if it wasn’t 100% fun, we’d stop it.”

Source billboard.com.

Rock veteran John Mellencamp is among the nominees for a new class of inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by jazz legend Miles Davis, rap pioneers Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and Blondie.

Cat Stevens is also nominated, along with pioneering punk rock acts the Patti Smith Group, the Sex Pistols and the Stooges.

Southern rock stalwart Lynyrd Skynyrd, heavy metal band Black Sabbath, 1960s beat group Dave Clark Five, Boston-area blues-rockers J. Geils Band, dance masters Chic and Texans Joe Tex, and the Sir Douglas Quintet are also on the ballot.

Source: billboard

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy will spend the bulk of November on a solo tour, which will kick off Nov. 5 in Madison, Wis., and run through Nov. 22 in London. The tour follows a short run of fall Wilco dates, which will finish up Oct. 22 at Brazil’s Tim Festival, as well as the Nov. 1 release of the Wilco live album “Kicking Television.”

A highlight of Tweedy’s itinerary is a Nov. 16-17 stand in New York as part of the first Wall Street Rising concert series. Tickets are free and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Oct. 17 at the Downtown Information Center on Broad Street and Exchange Place.

Nov. 5: Madison, Wis. (Orpheum Theatre)
Nov. 6: Minneapolis (First Avenue)
Nov. 8: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Michigan Theater)
Nov. 9: Columbus, Ohio (Southern Theatre)
Nov. 10: Grand Rapids, Mich. (Calvin College Fine Arts Center)
Nov. 12: Grantham, Pa. (Brubaker Auditorium)
Nov. 13: Northampton, Mass. (Calvin Theatre)
Nov. 14: Albany, N.Y. (Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center)
Nov. 16-17: New York (Tribeca Performing Arts Center)
Nov. 18: Kingston, N.Y. (Ulster Performing Arts Center)
Nov. 22: London (Shepherd’s Bush Empire)

Source: billboard.com

NYC’s Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden jointly hosted

New Jersey-based national touring act Railroad Earth has announced it will play a four-night run of shows in December with Honkytonk Homeslice (Bill Nershi of String Cheese Incident and Jilian Nershi). The shows signal a growing kinship with the SCI family; Railroad Earth has teamed up with SCI