
Jam Cruise 4
Photos by Michael Weintrob and Ted Wong of Jam Cruise 4 – January 7, 13, 2006 with stops in Jamaica, Grand Cayman Islands and Mexico.
Photos by Michael Weintrob and Ted Wong of Jam Cruise 4 – January 7, 13, 2006 with stops in Jamaica, Grand Cayman Islands and Mexico.
The former Pogues cover band plays a brand of Celtic rock that will get your fist a shakin
Coming off a platinum album and two Grammy nominations, Jack Johnson’s next ambitious new project was creating an original soundtrack for the upcoming, Ron Howard produced, Curious George animated film.
The Slip will be touring to SXSW in Austin, TX in early March. Full details will be announced shortly, but the early details have been posted. Beginning in Ithaca, the band will make it’s way through the northeast before making appearances at the SXSW festival in Texas. Colorado shows are also expected. Apollo Sunshine and Sam Champion will open each show from March 1 to March 11.
Mar 1 2006 Castaway’s Ithaca, NY
Mar 2 2006 Main Hall Montreal
Mar 3 2006 Higher Ground Burlington, VT
Mar 4 2006 TBA Upstate NY
Mar 5 2006 Mezzanote Syracuse, NY
Mar 6 2006 The Icon Buffalo, NY
Mar 7 2006 Mr. Small’s Pittsburgh, PA
Mar 8 2006 Grog Shop Cleveland, OH
Mar 9 2006 TBA Columbus, OH
Mar 10 2006 Martyr’s Chicago, IL
Mar 11 2006 TBA Columbia, MO
Mar 14-18 2006 SXSW Austin, TX
Mar 17 2006 Brad Barr Solo SXSW Austin
Mar 22-25 2006 TBA Colorado Tour
Jack Johnson will be joined by Ben Harper and Willie Nelson and the Planetary Bandits at his third annual Kokua Festival. The event will be held April 19 at Maui’s Arts and Cultural Center and April 22 (Earth Day) at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu. The lineup also features Henry Kapono, Paula Fuga and Animal Liberation Orchestra.
Proceeds from the shows will benefit the Kokua Hawaii Foundation, which works to preserve Hawaii’s natural environment. Some funds have been earmarked to expand recycling programs in schools, sponsor field trips and curriculum development.
Local environmental groups will be on hand at both shows, which will also offer local organic food vendors, childrens’ activities and goods purveyed by environmentally friendly, Hawaii-based companies.
Tickets go on sale Feb. 4 via Ticketmaster, but a limited number of pre-sale tickets will be available beginning Jan. 28 via Johnson’s official Web site.
Johnson is gearing up for the Feb. 7 release of the soundtrack to the animated film “Curious George,” which features a number of his songs plus appearances by Harper, G. Love and Matt Costa.
He is also about to embark on an extensive international tour, beginning Feb. 22 in Dublin and wrapping April 15 in Chiba, Japan.
Source billboard.com.
Up-and-coming British rock act Nine Black Alps is plotting a spring North American tour with Giant Drag and the Cribs, lead singer Sam Forrest tells Billboard.com. “We know both those bands really well, so that would be ace,” he says. An appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in late April in Indio, Calif., is “on my schedule, but I’m not sure if that’s confirmed,” according to Forrest.
Nine Black Alps will be out behind its full-length debut, “Everything Is,” due Feb. 28 via Interscope. The set has been out since last fall in the band’s native land, and in the ensuing months, a number of new songs have taken shape.
“Hopefully on the American tour we should get a few new songs out there,” Forrest says. “In England, we have to do hour-long sets on a headline tour, but our album is only 30 minutes long. We have to play B-sides and things nobody really knows. I actually prefer some of the B-sides to the songs on the album.”
Forrest says the time lag between the album’s American release has allowed the band to “correct all the mistakes we made the first time around in England. We were so new to it. We didn’t know what we’re doing. Now we can relax and hopefully take control and rely less on other people’s wisdom.”
Later this month, Nine Black Alps will be back in the studio to begin work on its sophomore album. “I’ve got tons of songs written — over 30, I think,” Forrest says. “Most of January we’ll be in our rehearsal space in Manchester, bashing things out and seeing what works and seeing what direction it takes. That’s the most exciting time for us — when you actually realize what you’re trying to achieve or how good you are.”
The band will return to the road Feb. 9, when a two-week U.K./Ireland trek kicks off in Belfast. Asked how closely he’s following the much buzzed-about new wave of young English acts that have emerged of late, Forrest says, “We don’t have much in common with them musically. I don’t really see any of them as our contemporaries, really. It’s based on geography rather than musicality.”
Source billboard.com.