In support of their new release due April 4th, Safety In Numbers Umphrey’s McGee has announced their spring tour dates, which includes an appearance at the Langerado music festival, a quick European jaunt, a special CD release party in their hometown of Chicago, and an exclusive and intimate performance at NYC’s CBGB as part of the first annual Green Apple Festival.
The complete list of confirmed tour dates is as follows:
February24 The PageantSt. Louis MO
February25 Murat Theatre / Egyptian Room Indianapolis IN
March10 The Chicago Theatre ChicagoIL
March11 Langerado Music Festival Sunrise FL
March11 Revolution Fort Lauderdale FL
March14 Mean Fiddler London UK
March15 La Boule Noir Paris France
March16 Transilvania Club Milan Italy
March19-21 Jam in the ‘Dam Amsterdam Netherlands
March23 Knust Hamburg Germany
April03 The Park West – cd release party Chicago IL
April07 The Showbox Seattle WA
April08 Roseland Theatre Portland OR
April09 The Mystic Theatre Petaluma CA
April12 House of Blues San Diego CA
April13 The Avalon Hollywood CA
April14, 15 The Fillmore San Francisco CA
April16 World Ski and Snowboard Championships Whistler BC
April21 CBGB New York NY
April27-28 Canopy Club Urbana IL
May01 Workplay Theater Birmingham AL
May02 The Orange Peel Asheville NC
May03 Disco Rodeo Raleigh NC
May05 Electric Factory Philadelphia PA
May06 Avalon Ballroom Boston MA
May26-28 Summer Camp Chillicothe IL
June16-18 Bonnaroo Manchester TN
June29-30 High Sierra Music Festival Quincy CA
July20 10,000 Lakes Festival Detroit Lakes IL
The day after the release of Mountain Tracks Volume 4, the fourth release of their live series from independent label Frog Pad Records Yonder Mountain String Band performed at the historic Tampa Theatre, with opening act Tony Furtado.
Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are both planning new albums for 2006 — and each will likely launch a tour as well. Dylan has just begun work on his thirty-first studio disc, and Springsteen is wrapping up his first-ever CD of cover songs, focusing on music from the repertoire of folk icon Pete Seeger.
On January 31st, Dylan arrived at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, New York, with his current touring band. For the next four days, according to Bardavon’s executive director, Chris Silva, the band rehearsed new material. “It was experimental, all kinds of different licks,” Silva told the Poughkeepsie Journal. “They would get into one thing, and they would go over it and over it. Then they would change gears.”
Dylan — whose first announced tour date of 2006 is a performance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in late April — then moved the operation to Manhattan to lay down his new tunes. His previous studio album, 2001’s acclaimed Love and Theft, was also cut in New York, in just two and a half weeks at Sony Music Studios, with Dylan producing under the name Jack Frost.
Meanwhile, sources familiar with the Springsteen project say that he has nearly completed his covers album, which has the working title The Seeger Sessions and will include both Seeger-penned tunes and American standards the folk patriarch helped popularize. Seeger, 86, is the author of folk classics such as “If I Had a Hammer” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”
Source rollingstone.com.
Lost Highway has set July 18 as the release date for “Another Fine Day,” the first release in eight years from Golden Smog. The lauded supergroup features Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy, Big Star’s Jody Stephens and the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris, Marc Perlman and Kraig Johnson.
Again sporting separate songwriting contributions from Tweedy, Louris, Perlman, Murphy and Johnson, the band’s fourth album is composed of 14 originals and a cover of the Kinks’ Dave Davies’ “Strangers,” sung by Louris and Tweedy.
The first Golden Smog album to follow both Wilco’s ascension to “it”-band status and reports of a Jayhawks break-up, “Another Fine Day” was recorded last year in two separate sessions, the first sans Tweedy and Stephens in the south of Spain, the second with the full band in Minneapolis.
The songs from the first session, captured in Puerto De Santa Maria, feature Linda Pitmon (Steve Wynn, Zuzu’s Petals) on drums, and vocals from Muni Loco, wife of Paco Loco, who co-produced the disc with Ed Ackerson (Mason Jennings, the Jayhawks) and the band.
Source billboard.com.
Photos by Robert Massie of Big Head Todd and The Monsters at the House of Blues in Cleveland OH on 1.24.06.
As a collective, the latest from The Minus 5 is summed up by “Cigarettes Coffee and Booze” and “Twilight Distillery,” two substance flavored tracks that toy with rockabilly, country and jangly pop. Sure, we’ve heard this all before with The Minus 5, but it’s the guests that keep you coming back. “The Gun Album” is no exception.
The band seemed to have a decent stage presence and the tracks on their debut album are played in a punchy Franz Ferdinand style that should translate live, but I guess we will have to wait for another show to find out for sure.
Seattle’s Rocky Votolato is an old voice for a young crowd. Opening for Bob Mould last week, Votolato inherited an audience arguably present to see an icon, and took them on a ride of his own making. With a soulfully evocative voice, Votolato and his über-competent backing trio led the audience down the musical back roads of what sounded like the American southwest, with a touch of Nashville and hint of Austin thrown in for good measure.
George Clinton & Parliament / Funkadelic are starting their spring tour on February 27, 2006. The monthlong tour includes stops in Washington D.C., New York City, Providence New Haven, Worcester, Atlantic City, Burlington VT, Baltimore, Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati and Philadelphia.
Mon 02/27/2006 Washington, D.C.: Nightclub 9:30
Tue 02/28/2006 New York City, NY: B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Wed 03/01/2006 Providence, RI: Lupo’s
Fri 03/03/2006 New Haven, CT: Toad’s Place
Sat 03/04/2006 Worcester, MA: Palladium
Sun 03/05/2006 Atlantic City, NJ: House of Blues
Tue 03/07/2006 Burlington, VT: Higher Ground
Thu 03/09/2006 Allentown, PA: Crocodile Rock Cafe
Fri 03/10/2006 Baltimore, MD: Rams Head
Sat 03/11/2006 Sayerville, NJ: Starland Ballroom
Sun 03/12/2006 Farmingdale, NY: Crazy Donkey
Wed 03/15/2006 Chicago, IL: House of Blues
Fri 03/17/2006 Traverse City, MI: Streeters
Sat 03/18/2006 Columbus, OH: PromoWest Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
Sun 03/19/2006 Cincinnati, OH: Bogart’s
Tue 03/21/2006 Madison, WI: Orpheum
Wed 03/22/2006 Indianapolis, IN: Music Mill
See georgeclinton.com for more info.
