Archive: 2005

The Academy Is…have announced a nationwide headlining tour to support their debut their debut album ALMOST HERE (Fueled by Ramen). The 2-month long “Truckstops and Statelines” tour, which also features Panic! At the Disco, Acceptance and Hello Goodbye, is presented by XBOX and House of Blues and will kick off on February 1st in Grand Rapids, MI.

Since the release of ALMOST HERE, the Chicago band has been touring constantly with Fall Out Boy, Taking Back Sunday, Motion City Soundtrack and more, winning over kids and critics with every show. A hugely successful run on the Vans Warped Tour and sold out headline dates in the US and Europe have paved the way for their first major
headlining tour.

TRUCKSTOPS AND STATELINES TOUR DATES:

2/01/06 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection *
2/02/06 Toronto, Ontario Opera House Concert Venue
2/03/06 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom
2/04/06 Boston, MA Avalon
2/05/06 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre
2/07/06 Providence, RI Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
2/08/06 New York, NY Irving Plaza
2/09/06 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance*
2/10/06 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony*
2/11/06 Atlantic City, NJ House of Blues
2/12/06 Washington, DC 9:30 Club*
2/14/06 Norfolk, VA The Norva*
2/15/06 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
2/16/06 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
2/17/06 Orlando, FL House of Blues
2/18/06 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
2/19/06 Ybor City, FL Masquerade
2/21/06 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
2/22/06 Houston, TX Engine Room*
2/23/06 Dallas, TX Trees*
2/24/06 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit*
2/26/06 Tucson, AZ The Rock*
2/28/06 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre*
3/01/06 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
3/02/06 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
3/03/06 Santa Barbara, CA The Hub at UCSB
3/04/06 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
3/05/06 San Diego, CA House of Blues
3/07/06 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
3/09/06 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
3/10/06 Seattle, WA The Showbox
3/11/06 Boise, ID The Big Easy Concert House
3/13/06 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue (formerly Bricks)
3/14/06 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
3/15/06 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre*
3/16/06 Des Moines, OH House of Bricks*
3/17/06 Minneapolis, MN The Quest*
3/18/06 St. Louis, MO Mississippi Nights*
3/19/06 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Club*
3/21/06 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
3/22/06 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
3/23/06 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s
3/24/06 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
3/25/06 Chicago, IL House Of Blues

All dates presented by XBOX & House of Blues except where indicated
with a *.

For the third time in its career and the second this year, System Of A Down scores the top position on The Billboard 200. “Hypnotize” (American/Columbia) debuts at No. 1 on the album chart with sales of more than 320,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [Ed Note: This number has been revised from an earlier version of this story.]

Although it was enough to debut in the lead, the first-week total for “Hypnotize” came up shy of the 453,000 copies the rock act’s “Mezmerize” moved in its first week back in May. SOAD previously reached No. 1 with “Toxicity” in 2001.

Source billboard.com.

Photos by Brian Diescher of Les Claypool and his Fancy Band at the Roxy in Boston, MA 10/16/05.

Atmosphere made a good album in You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having. Filled with solid beats, sultry samples and a thriving musical relationship between Ant and Slug, the album proves to be Atmosphere’s most impressive recording to date, helping place Minneapolis and the rest of the Midwest on the musical map.

It’s been a year since Galactic parted ways with Theryl “The Houseman” deClouet and it seems the effusive fivesome is still trying to figure out how to handle vocals and lyrics.

moe. has announced dates for their winter tour. Scheduled to kickoff in late-January at Boston

The Rolling Stones have dropped a double whammy of concert news, announcing plans to perform at Super Bowl XL as well as a mammoth European summer tour.

The group will perform at halftime during the 40th anniversary of the NFL championship, which will take place at Detroit’s Ford Field February 5. The game, watched by 133 million in the U.S. last year, is being broadcast to more than 225 countries and territories.
The Super Bowl performance will take place in the midst of the band’s ongoing tour of North and South America.

The Stones’ Euro tour will kick off May 27 at Barcelona, Spain’s Olympic Stadium, continuing through Western and Eastern Europe for more than three months. More than 30 concerts are confirmed across nearly 20 countries, finishing in the U.K. at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium August 29.

Source: pollstar

The first-ever Burton Progression Parks, developed by Burton and Snow Park Technologies, open at Loon Mountain, NH and Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort, CA in December. Featuring smaller versions of pro-size terrain, the groundbreaking parks provide a comfortable, laid-back environment for riders who want to develop terrain park skills.

What Echo & The Bunnymen have created in Siberia is a rare piece of work

World Leader Pretend creates a sound that is hard to pin down, and I am sure that is just the way they like it. It

Robert Walter has been around the block more than once, spending time with the seminal live funk unit the Greyboy Allstars and his 20th Congress. Now Robert is stepping out with his new project Super Heavy Organ and laying down the groove with a newly reformed Steve Kimock Band.

Black Sabbath and the Sex Pistols lead the 2006 class of inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They will be joined by jazz legend Miles Davis, Southern rock mainstays Lynyrd Skynyrd and New York new wave outfit Blondie for the induction, which will be held March 13 at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Source: billboard

The long-awaited return of The New Riders of the Purple Sage has fans in a psychedelic head spin. Original members David Nelson (guitar and vocals) and Buddy Cage (pedal Steel) along with Michael Falzarano (guitar, mandolin and vocals), Johnny Markowski (drums and vocals)and Ronnie Penque (bass and vocals) will treat their fans with their 2nd tour since the reformation of the group. Once called the greatest cosmic, psychedelic-country folk rock & roll band in the universe, the new lineup of NRPS will continue to revive its legendary reputation in early December.

Veterans David Nelson and Buddy Cage have put together a smokin’ band to perform its timeless music to fans both old and new. “David and I will be playing our NRPS catalog,” says Buddy Cage who replaced Jerry Garcia on pedal steel in the band’s earliest lineup in 1971. Original bass player Dave Torbert and drummer Spencer Dryden have passed away and are now a part of the ethereal band. They will undoubtedly be smiling down as their music lives on. Co-founder John Dawson cannot lend his considerable talents due to ongoing health problems although he will be there in spirit.

December Tour:
Wed 7 – Wilberts – Cleveland, OH
Thurs 8 – 123 Pleasant St – Morgantown, WV
Fri 9 – The Pub – Harrisonburg, VA
Sat 10- Station II – Norfolk, VA
Mon 12 – Cary St. Cafe’ – Richmond, VA
Wed 14 – The 8×10 – Baltimore, MD
Thurs 15 – The State Theatre – Falls Church, VA
Fri+Sat 16+17 – Mexicali Blues – Teaneck, NJ

Kicking Television, recorded live at the Vic Theatre in Chicago, May 4-7, 2005, captures Wilco in the new Nels Cline/Pat Sansone/Mikael Jorgensen era, complete with sonic splashes, textured keyboards and disgruntled guitars to accompany Jeff Tweedy

Matt Pond PA are a consistent band. And when it comes to music, consistency can be both good and bad. It seems you know a new MP album will drop every year and this is the fifth from the band in the past five years. You know the quartet will have catchy melodies,
lovesick lyrics and usually some beautiful album art. Now centrally located in Brooklyn after leaving the brotherly confines of Philadelphia, not much has changed on Several Arrows Later.

Electric Six has firmed up a tour for February and March, with much of the U.S. and Canada in the disco-garage-punk band’s crosshairs.

The tour begins February 9 in Toronto and spans the length of the continent, finishing in Milwaukee March 25.

Rock Kills Kid will open on all dates, with Fred Durst proteges She Wants Revenge also appearing through March 6 and Nightmare Of You on the tour’s latter half.

Electric Six visited Australia and New Zealand earlier this year, in addition to North America, and is planning to finish a new album before the new tour starts.

The Detroit natives – who “use stage names because we had a stupid idea one night and now we have to live with it” – have been through approximately four guitar players, four bass players, five keyboard players, and three drummers.

The group is currently a five-piece, comprising Dick Valentine, Tait Nucleus, John R. Dequindre, Johnny Na$hinal and The Colonel.

Source pollstar.com.

This is one of those that albums that forces you to listen and listen again, yet the sounds fend off any coalescing ideas. And it’s this uneven quality that draws me back time and time again, that glimmer of greatness that is elusive.

This oldie comes packaged as a remastered CD and DVD Audio release with extensive liner notes and video bonuses including a

It seemed only fitting that Athens, Georgia

The Who has their place in history now; if Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, the last two founding members, never performed or recorded again it wouldn’t make a difference. Their legend is written and secure in the minds of those with an ounce of familiarity concerning the history of rock music.