Those expecting to hear the David Gray we knew from his breakthrough album White Ladder will be disappointed. But that doesn’t mean that his new album Life In Slow Motion is a let-down, it
The King Of France, consisting of vocalist Steve Salad and drummer Michael Azerrad, are gearing up to take to the road in February with Nada Surf and recently announced tourmates, Rogue Wave.
TOUR DATES
Thu 1/12/06 Spaceland Los Angeles CA w/Helio Sequence & The Can’t See
Sat 2/4/06 Mercury Lounge New York NY w/Say Hi To Your Mom
Sun 2/5/06 The Khyber Philadelphia PA
Mon 2/6/06 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland OH
Tue 2/7/06 Garfield Artworks Pittsburgh PA
Wed 2/8/06 Eight By Ten Baltimore MD w/Nada Surf & Rogue Wave
Thu 2/9/06 Starr Hill Charlottesville VA w/Nada Surf & Rogue Wave
Fri 2/10/06 Cats Cradle Carrboro NC w/Nada Surf & Rogue Wave
Sat 2/11/06 The Loft Atlanta GA w/Nada Surf & Rogue Wave
Sun 2/12/06 Exit / In Nashville TN w/Nada Surf & Rogue Wave
Tue 2/14/06 Blue Note Columbia MO w/Nada Surf & Rogue Wave
Wed 2/15/06 Granada Lawrence, KS w/Nada Surf & Rogue Wave
Fri 2/17/06 Trees Dallas TX w/Nada Surf & Rogue Wave
Sat 2/18/06 Emo
As a whole, this collection proudly recognizes each artist
Dr. Dog has been creating music in various incarnations in their hometown of Philadelphia for nearly four years now. The five musicians making up Dr. Dog are all from various musical backgrounds. Imagine The Beach Boys, Beatles, Tom Waits, David Bowie and Neil Young as acknowledged influences that have been interpreted through the eyes of Pavement, Palace Brothers, R. Stevie Moore or Roy Wood.
Along with Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press, Fader and many others, The Philadelphia Inquirer raved Easy Beat, the band’s current album, is an” infectious debut album … Beach Boys-style three part harmonies layered over skewed bouncy rock songs.” The New York Times went on to call Easy Beat an “extraordinary catalog of off kilter ballads and light-headed riff rock … All nine songs, filled with breezy vocal harmonies and unexpected digressions.”
Dr. Dog will be producing the record themselves and are currently recording in Philadelphia in their own studio / rehearsal space. Dr. Dog are looking at a June / July 2006 release.
Carole King and Rockingdale / Concord Records are hosting a charity auction on eBay to benefit Mercy Corps.
Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. The agency’s programs currently reach 7 million people in more than 35 countries. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided over $1 billion in assistance to people in 81 nations. Mercy Corps is a nonprofit organization with headquarters in Portland, Seattle, Cambridge, Washington, D.C. and Edinburgh, Scotland.
For more information about Mercy Corps visit their website at: mercycorps.org
Carole King / Mercy Corps ebay Auction
ITEMS IN THE AUCTION
Carole King autographed 11″ x 17″ mini poster from “The Living Room Tour”
Full-color tour program from The Living Room Tour
Latte mug with lyrics to Carole’s classic song from Tapestry, “Beautiful” printed on mug with Carole’s handwriting and signature
“You’ve Got a Friend” wristband
The Living Room Tour double CD
Love Makes the World CD
In Concert CD
Colour of Your Dreams CD
Pearls – Songs of Goffin and King CD
Also available are the following Carole King audio streams from her Living Room Tour CD for one month.
Quicktime
Windows Media
ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) will be taking off in 2006, with a new version of their album Fly Between Falls slated for release on Brushfire Records February 21, 2006.
The Bay Area-based quartet specializes in eclectic, groove-based rock
Pictures by Mike Wren of The Duo (Benevento/Russo) at Revolution Hall, Troy, NY on 12/1/05
Rarely does a record come along so layered with rich lyrics and melodies, and despite motifs of death and life fading away, the songs never succumb to melancholy. Strange Geometry isn
Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and bassist Andy Rourke will perform together for the first time since the legendary U.K. act split up in 1987 at th U.K. act split up in 1987 at the benefit Manchester v. Cancer, to be held Jan. 28 at the English city’s Evening News Arena.
Rourke is overseeing the lineup for the show, which will also feature New Order, Doves, Badly Drawn Boy, Primal Scream’s Mani, Stephen Fretwell and other acts to be announced. Rumors have circulated that former Smiths frontman Morrissey will be involved in the show but at present there’s no indication he will participate.
“Andy told me about this project he was involved in and of course I literally stood up and applauded,” Marr says in an audio interview posted on the event’s official Web site. “I said I’d get involved if he needed any help. Absolutely glad to do it. It’s a privilege to do it. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to get something like this together, because it has to be on a fairly big scale for it to be significant.”
The Smiths’ unhappy breakup has of late been back in the news, after former drummer Mike Joyce attempted to sell unreleased Smiths material on eBay. Morrissey responded by posting a detailed account of the lawsuits Joyce has filed for back royalties in recent years on the fan site True to You.
“Somehow, he appears to believe that he should have equal financial status to both myself and to Johnny Marr, even though Joyce has done dramatically less than Johnny and I to attain the positions we now have,” Morrissey wrote.
Tickets for Manchester v. Cancer go on sale Saturday (Dec. 17) via Ticketmaster. “It will bring together people and bands that have made Manchester famous,” Rourke says. “The idea is that this will be the start of an annual event to raise money for charity whether it is helping cancer or arthritis.”
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Toronto four-piece Metric are excited to announce that they will open for The Rolling Stones on January 18th and 20th at Madison Square Garden. Following these dates, Metric will return to the US with a North American tour, kicking off March 7th at the Roxy in Boston and ending on April 15th at Detroit’s St. Andrew’s Hall, in support of
their new album, LIVE IT OUT, which was called “one of the year’s best” by Under The Radar. These dates, which include two shows for the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, follow an enormously successful 48-day tour this fall, where Metric sold out nearly all of their shows, including New York’s Bowery Ballroom, Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater, The Social in Orlando and Slim’s in San Francisco.
