March 16, 2006

Nine Inch Nails has drafted goth legends Bauhaus and its new Interscope labelmate TV On The Radio for its summer North American tour. The trek will begin May 27 in Ridgefield, Wash., and will feature 13 subsequent shows with TV On The Radio. Bauhaus will continue as the opening act through the outing’s July 8 conclusion in Mountain View, Calif., in tandem with another group to be announced.

Beforehand, NIN will complete a run of smaller North American markets on a tour that continues on to Greenville, S.C., tomorrow (March 16). As previously reported, the Trent Reznor-led group will also play Miami’s Global Gathering Festival on Saturday and the Sasquatch Festival in George, Wash., on May 26.

TV On The Radio’s Interscope debut, “Return to Cookie Mountain,” is expected sometime later this spring or early summer.

Here are Nine Inch Nails’ summer tour dates:

May 26: George, Wash. (Sasquatch Festival)
May 27: Ridgefield, Wash. (Clark County Amphitheatre)
May 28: Nampa, Idaho (Idaho Center)
May 30: Morrison, Colo. (Red Rocks)
May 31: Albuquerque, N.M. (Journal Pavilion)
June 2: San Antonio (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
June 3: Dallas (Smirnoff Music Centre)
June 4: Woodlands, Texas (Mitchell Pavilion)
June 6: Birmingham, Ala. (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
June 7: Atlanta (Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre)
June 9: Raleigh, N.C. (Alltel Pavilion)
June 10: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
June 11: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
June 13: Bristow, Va. (Nissan Pavilion)
June 14: Camden, N.J. (Tweeter Center)
June 16: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
June 17: Wantagh, N.Y. (Jones Beach)
June 18: Saratoga, N.Y. (Saratoga PAC)
June 20: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Center)
June 21: Portland, Me. (Cumberland County Civic Center)
June 23: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center)
June 24: Toronto (Molson Amphitheatre)
June 25: Clarkston, Mich. (DTE Energy Music Theatre)
June 27: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (Blossom Music Center)
June 28: Columbus, Ohio (Germain Amphitheatre)
June 30: Burgettstown, Pa. (Post-Gazette Pavilion)
July 1: Chicago (First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre)
July 2: Milwaukee (Marcus Amphitheatre)
July 3: Noblesville, Ind. (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
July 7: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre)
July 8: Mountain View, Calif. (Shoreline Amphitheatre)

Source billboard.com.

New York-based indie rock act the Hold Steady has signed with Vagrant Records. The group will hit the studio in May to record the follow-up to its 2005 French Kiss swansong, “Separation Sunday,” which is expected to be out before the end of the year.

Several new tunes have been appearing in recent set lists, including “Hot Soft Light,” “Same Kooks” and “Massive Nights.” The group’s only scheduled show at present is April 7 at Warsaw in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Source billboard.com.

Before releasing his first album in six years, Ice Cube will get fans hyped with a lengthy North American tour.
Six weeks’ worth of dates are booked, starting in Anaheim, Calif., April 20. The rap legend will do several California dates, then make his way up the West Coast and across the country, with Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and New York all on the itinerary.
The tour wraps back home in California at West Hollywood’s House of Blues.
Laugh Now, Cry Later is due June 6 and is Ice Cube’s first album released on his own label, Lench Mob Records.
“I’m putting my money where my mouth is because there’s nothing a major label can do for me that I can’t do for myself,” he said.
“Not being signed to a particular label, putting it out myself, not having to worry about what a company or anyone else has to think about the record, being able to just go in and do it how I feel it with no timelines or deadlines, it made me comfortable.
“I was able to recommitment myself to rhyming and rapping.”
Ice Cube hasn’t been on the road since 2000, when he appeared on the Up In Smoke tour and released his sixth album, War & Peace – Volume 2.

Source pollstar.com.