2005

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.

Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli, modern rock acts Arcade Fire and Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO) and progressive jam band Umphrey’s McGee have been added to the lineup of the inaugural Vegoose festival. The Oct. 29-30 festival at Las Vegas’ Sam Boyd Stadium is being organized by by A.C. Entertainment and Superfly Presents, the same team that has staged the successful Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee for the last four years.

As previously reported, Vegoose will boast appearances by Dave Matthews and Friends, Jack Johnson, Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, Flaming Lips, Primus, Gov’t Mule, Digable Planets, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and others.

Tickets sent on sale August 13th through the Vegoose Web site. Two-day passes are priced at $128.50, with VIP tickets also available.

Arguably, the festival of the year – The Austin City Limits Music Festival to be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 23, 24, & 25, 2005 at Zilker Park in Austin Texas had announced their schedule grid. Scattered over eight stages, this year

Following up on the success of 2003’s OLD WORLD UNDERGROUND, WHERE ARE YOU NOW?, Canadian 4-piece Metric is excited to announce the release of a new album, LIVE IT OUT, which will street October 4th on Last Gang Records. Single “Monster Hospital” will hit the airwaves during the last week in August, and, in support of the new album, Metric will kick off an extensive US tour, beginning October 2nd at The Paradise in Boston.

METRIC “LIVE IT OUT” TOUR

October 2: Boston, MA @ The Paradise
October 3: Providence, RI @ Century Lounge
October 5: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
October 6: Brooklyn, NY @ Southpaw
October 7: Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
October 8: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
October 10: Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
October 11: Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
October 12: Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco
October 13: Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
October 14: Cincinnati, OH @ Top Cats
October 15: Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop
October 17: Detroit, MI @ The Magic Stick
October 18: Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
October 19: St. Louis, MO @ Creepy Crawl
October 20: Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
October 21: Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
October 22: Minneapolis, MN @ Ascot Room at The Quest
November 1: Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Caf

Despite battling each other in the courts, the surviving members of the Doors have been working together on plans for the band’s fortieth anniversary in 2007. The festivities will begin early, with the limited-edition box set Love/Death/Travel this October, followed a month later by the two-volume, double-CD set tentatively titled The Doors — Live in Boston, capturing singer Jim Morrison and Co. in 1970.

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Hasidic reggae artist Matisyahu will take his spiritually-filled music on the road in September for a two-week tour of the U.S.

The outing follows a handful of August dates opening for Trey Anastasio. That pairing brought Matisyahu full-circle–he once spent a year following Phish on the road while trying to find his place in the world.

According to his label biography, the former Matthew Miller’s spiritual curiosity was initially piqued following a camping trip in Colorado, where he had the opportunity to take an introspective look at himself and contemplate his environment. He then set off on his first trip to Israel, where his dormant Jewish identity began to flourish.

Today, his hippie roots, his early musical wanderlust and his Hassidic Judaism create the foundation for his reggae/hip-hop band, which includes Jonah David on drums, Aaron
Dugan on guitar and Josh Werner on bass.

Matisyahu’s fall 2005 tour gets underway Sept. 8 at Webster Hall in New York. He then heads west for a run of dates in Washington, Oregon, California and Arizona.

He is touring in support of the re-release of his Epic/Or Music/Jdub album “Live at Stubb’s.” He is also busy preparing a new studio album, due out later this year.

September 2005
8 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
19 – Seattle, WA – Showbox
20 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theatre
21 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
22 – West Hollywood, CA – House of Blues
24 – San Diego, CA – Belly Up Tavern
25 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre
26 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
27 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
28 – Memphis, TN – Hi-Tone
29 – Nashville, TN – Exit/In

October 2005
1 – Bloomington, IN – Bluebird Nightclub

After supporting Dave Matthews Band on two Carson, CA dates, Jason Mraz will head out on a headlining fall tour in support of his new album Mr. A-Z. Dates for the first leg have been announced and are below. Support acts include Ryanhood, Dropping Daylight, Raul Midon, Missy Higgins and labelmate James Blunt. Additional dates will be announced soon. Please send me any requests for live reviews and I will do my best to accommodate. Please note that I will not have access to tickets for the Dave Matthews shows.

Tour Dates

8/27- Carson, CA Home Depot Center
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9/16 Stillwater, OK Oklahoma State University
9/20 Tempe, AZ Arizona State University
9/21 Tucson, AZ Centennial Hall
9/23 New Orleans, LA Tulane University
9/27 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
9/28 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
9/30 Kansas City, MO University of Missouri
10/1 Chicago, IL Congress Theatre
10/3 Marquette, IL Northern Michigan Univ.
10/4 Toronto, ONT Kool Haus
10/5 Ottawa, ONT Capital Music Hall
10/6 Montreal, QUE Spectrum de Montreal
10/8 Washington, DC Georgetown University
10/9 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
10/11 Durham, NH Univ. of New Hampshire
10/12 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
10/16- New York, NY Avery Fisher Hall
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10/19 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
10/20 Cincinnati, OH Xavier University
10/21 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
10/22 Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota
10/24 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
10/27 San Diego, CA SOMA
10/29 Las Vegas, NV The Joint @ Hard Rock