With the pre-show press releases touting David Wilcox as the next best thing to James Taylor and Bob Dylan, this reviewer went to his recent show at Seattle’s Triple Door with high expectations. Fortunately, the comparisons proved apt.
With their latest single “Cash Machine” hitting the charts and Stars Of CCTV in stores, Hard-Fi are on their way to grabbing some heat from The Arctic Monkeys, while rekindling the triumphant spirit and sound of The Clash.
The five members of Sound Tribe Sector 9 will leave their California homes this spring for another musical road trip, with concerts booked throughout much of the U.S.
The hard-touring band, which blends live instrumentation with laptop grooves, will launch its latest trek April 6 in Santa Ana, Calif. They’ll head through Arizona and Texas to the South, winding their way up the East Coast by late April.
STS9 looks to head home after a May 6 Detroit gig, but the group will be back onstage in June at the two-day Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, Calif., as well as the Wakarusa Music Festival in Lawrence, Kan.
The band released a new album, ARTiFACT, last year, but STS9 fans know studio recordings are only the tip of the iceberg. The group offers live downloads, including dozens of full concerts from its recent winter tour, on its official Web site, sts9.com.
Source pollstar.com.
Photos by Michael Saba of moe. at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA on March 4th, 2006
Swedish psych-rock outfit Dungen will be back in the U.S. this spring for its second major tour.
The band will do a week’s worth of West Coast dates coinciding with its appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival April 29-30.
A month later, they’ll return for a round of dates on the other side of the Mississippi, starting in Chicago June 2. More than a dozen shows are planned that month, including two gigs in Canada and a slot at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn.
The EARL in Atlanta will host the last show of the trek June 18.
Source pollstar.com.
Having recently performed in China for the first time ever, James Brown is ready for another round of blistering shows across the U.S. and Europe.
Backed by his nine-piece Soul General band and the General Sweet backup singers, the Godfather of Soul has dates booked throughout May from Oklahoma to New Jersey.
He’ll visit New York and Massachussetts in June before heading to Europe. Gigs are planned in half a dozen European countries, including an appearance at Ireland’s Oxegen Festival.
He’ll be back in the U.S. the following month, with a series of West Coast gigs planned into September. The last confirmed dates are mid-September shows in Missouri, Iowa and Indiana.
Source pollstar.com.
Known for her raucous and theatrical live shows, the ever-elusive PJ Harvey will finally release her first-ever live DVD, PJ Harvey on Tour — Please Leave Quietly, on May 2nd.
The collection, directed by Harvey’s longtime video director Maria Mochnacz, features footage from the notoriously guarded rocker’s U.S. and European tours in support of 2004’s Uh Huh Her. In addition, Please Leave Quietly offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the construction of the live shows — from stage sets to sound checks — as well as the previously unreleased tracks “Evol” and “Uh Huh Her.”
Source rollingstone.com.
Matt Costa shares with Glide his 20 favorite tunes with a little running commentary.
Ask yourself–do you like Belgian indie-pop? Not a question most people can readily answer off the top of their head, but that is Girls In Hawaii–who are actually guys. Confused yet?
Two years since they reformed for the first time in more than a decade, the Pixies will reactivate for seven European shows in July. What happens after that is anybody’s guess, according to guitarist Joey Santiago. “It will be an organic process, I guess,” he tells Billboard.com. “After these shows, should we continue on? Should we let it rest? We really don’t know.”
For the upcoming gigs, which begin July 14 in Trencin, Slovakia, the Pixies “sought out places we haven’t been before,” according to Santiago. “We actually looked at a map while we were doing the last tour in Japan.”
Here are the Pixies’ tour dates:
July 14: Trencin, Slovakia (Pohoda)
July 15: St. Polten, Austria (Nuke)
July 16: Zagreb, Croatia (Salata)
July 19: Toulon, France (Voix de Gaou)
July 20: Lisbon (Atlantico)
July 21: Benicassim, Spain (Bennicasim Festival)
July 23: Carhaix, France (Les Veilles Charrues)
Source: billboard
