2005

Atmosphere will begin a huge tour in support of the new album out in october “you can’t imagine how much fun we’re having”. This tour kicks off a month before the hugely anticipated and heralded album drops.

Atmosphere started out 2005 by performing eight sold out shows in a row at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis (beating the original five sold out shows record held by the Replacements in 1986). In January, Atmosphere joined the lineup on the Big Day Out Tour of Australia and New Zealand along with artists: Beastie Boys, System of a Down, Slipknot, The Streets and more. In March Atmosphere hit the road in the U.S for their two-month tour that sold out 49 of the 52 shows.

The Pour Me Another Tour takes on 56 shows in 66 days. The tour features two music festival dates, September 16 at CMJ Music Marathon (them headlining one of the best veunues there- Irving Plaza) and October 29 at the Las Vegoose festival in Las Vegas, NV.

ATMOSPHERE FALL 05 TOUR

09/09 Duluth, MN Luce
09/10 Duluth, MN Luce
09/13 Cleveland,OH House of Blues
09/14 Buffalo. NY Buffalo Icon
09/15 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place
09/16 New York, NY CMJ Music Marathon
09/18 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
09/19 Bloomington, IN Rhino’s
09/20 Iowa City, IA Scope Ballroom
09/22 Omaha, NE Sokol Ballroom
09/23 Menomonie, WI Un of WI Stout
09/24 Fargo, ND Playmaker’s Pavilion
09/26 Bozeman, MT Zebra Lounge
09/27 Missoula, MT U of Montana
09/28 Calgary, AB Mac Ewan Hall
09/29 Edmonton. AB Red’s
09/30 Saskatoon, SK Louis’ Pub (U of S)
10/01 Winnipeg, M Ramada Marlborough
10/04 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theatre
10/05 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
10/06 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
10/07 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
10/08 Toronto, ON Opera House
10/10 Montreal, QC TBA
10/11 Burlington, VT Higher Ground
10/12 Providence, RI Lupos
10/13 Boston, MA The Roxy Theatre
10/14 New York, NY TBA
10/15 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
10/17 Baltimore, MD Recher Theatre
10/18 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
10/19 Chapel Hill, NC Cat’s Cradle
10/20 Atlanta, GA TBA
10/21 Gainesville, FL Common Grounds
10/22 Orlando,FL Pavilion
10/24 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues
10/25 Austin, TX Emo’s
10/26 Dallas, TX Gypsy Ballroom
10/27 Albuquerque, NM TBA
10/28 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theatre
10/29 Las Vegas, NV Las Vegoose Fest
10/30 Long Beach, CA The Vault
11/01 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
11/02 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
11/03 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
11/04 Eugene, OR McDonald Theatre
11/05 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
11/06 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
11/07 Seattle, WA Showbox Theatre
11/09 Salt Lake City, UT Clubland Theater
11/10 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
11/11 Lawrence, KS Granada
11/12 Columbia, MO Bluenote Theater
11/13 Madison, WI The Orpheum
11/14 Minneapolis, MN First Ave
11/15 Minneapolis, MN First Ave

Vassar Clements remembered as one of the world’s finest, and probably the world’s most versatile fiddle players died today from lung cancer.

Combining jazz with country, Vassar Clements became one of the most distinctive, inventive, and popular fiddlers in bluegrass music. Clements first came to prominence as a member of Bill Monroe’s band in the early ’50s, but he never limited
himself to traditional bluegrass. Over the next four decades, he distinguished himself by incorporating a number of different genres into his style. In the process, he became not only one of the most respected fiddlers in bluegrass, he also became a sought-after session musician, playing with artists as diverse as the Monkees, Hank Williams, Paul McCartney, Michelle Shocked, Vince Gill, and Bonnie Raitt.

Neil Young has signed a new, multi-album deal with Reprise, which will kick in with the Sept. 27 release of his latest studio set, “Prairie Wind.” Young recorded for Reprise from 1969 to 1983 and returned to the label in 1988 after a wildly experimental five-album stint on Geffen.

As previously reported, a major facet of the new deal will be a long-awaited series of archival releases from Young. According to Reprise, the series, which will get underway next year, will feature previously unreleased studio recordings and rarities as well as live material.

“I look forward to continuing my partnership with Reprise,” Young said in a statement. “We’ve been through a lot together over the years. When you’re with a company that long, it’s like a family.

On Thursday and Friday (Aug. 18-19), Young will perform at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium as part of a concert film directed by Jonathan Demme. The as-yet-untitled project will hit theaters next year via Paramount.

Source billboard.com.

Singer-songwriters Steve Earle and Allison Moorer were married Thursday (Aug. 11) in Nashville during a ceremony at the Hermitage Hotel, The Tennessean newspaper reports. It’s the seventh marriage for Earle, 50, who was married twice to one of his previous wives. Moorer, 33, was previously married to songwriter-producer Doyle “Butch” Primm. Earle and Moorer began touring together in 2004. They appear in concert Tuesday (Aug. 16) in Albuquerque, N.M., and Wednesday (Aug. 17) in Grand Junction, Colo.

Source: cmt.com

As rock veterans go, you don’t find many more enduring than Steve Winwood. He made his name fronting venerable outfits like Traffic, Blind Faith, and the Spencer Davis Group, and he’s been a solo performer for nearly three decades.

The Grammy-winning vocalist/keyboardist is still on the march, and has unveiled plans for a fall theatre tour of the U.S. that will stretch for more than a month.

Winwood will launch the trek at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom September 20, then skip across to the West Coast for a series of California gigs. He’ll come back through the Midwest to the East Coast in October and wrap things up in Boston October 15.

The British rocker’s last solo release, About Time, dropped in 2003 after a six-year absence. He’s done numerous tours since then, including some largely sold-out U.S. runs earlier this year.

Source pollstar.com.

Although the track list has not yet been revealed, a DVD chronicling Cream’s May reunion run at London’s Royal Albert Hall will be released Oct. 4 via Rhino. The shows found Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker performing together for the first time in nearly 37 years, save for a one-off set at Cream’s 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The group is said to be mulling a similar run at New York’s Madison Square Garden in late October, but has yet to confirm specifics. The London shows grossed more than $3.6 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.

Source billboard.com.