April 12, 2006

Mike Gordon & Ramble Dove will perform, with special guest appearances by Jon Fishman and Grace Potter, on Friday, June 2nd at Higher Ground in South Burlington, VT. This unique concert event entitled, “Honky Tonk The Vote” will benefit Vermont’s Independent Congressman Bernie Sanders in his bid for U.S. Senate.

Tickets for the concert will go on sale online only at www.bernie.org beginning at 12:00 PM on April 12, 2006. Tickets are $40.00 general admission. There is a 4 ticket per person limit. The concert begins at 9:00 pm, doors at 8:00 pm.

In addition, a limited number of tickets are available for a pre-concert catered VIP reception with Congressman Sanders and Mike and Fish and Grace in Higher Ground’s Showcase Lounge. Tickets for the pre-concert reception is $150.00 general admission and also includes admission to the show. The VIP reception begins at 7:30 pm.

This is an all ages event. For more information please visit bernie.org

Four years after the death of singer Layne Staley, the surviving members of Alice In Chains will tour Europe and North America with a new vocalist.
The group – guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney – has a 25-date Euro tour planned this summer, with William DuVall of Los Angeles band Comes With The Fall on vocal duties.
“However, William will not be taking on this key role alone,” the band said in a post on its official Web site. “While we can’t name names, let’s just say that some European fans are in for some very special treats.”
The Euro itinerary comprises mostly festivals, including several with Guns N’ Roses and Metallica.
Dates have not been announced for North America, but a Stateside club trek is to kick off May 18, according to aliceinchains.com. The group hinted that every city on the tour “has its own major league baseball team.”
Alice In Chains played a tsunami benefit show last year with guest vocalists including Tool’s Maynard James Keenan, Heart’s Ann Wilson, Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin, and former Damageplan vocalist Patrick Lachman.
In March, Cantrell, Inez and Kinney performed with ex-Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo during a VH1 Decades Rock Live tribute to Heart.
Despite its success in the early ’90s, Alice In Chains toured rarely in the years following 1994’s Jar Of Flies EP. The band’s last road trip was an opening stint for KISS in 1996.
Staley died of a drug overdose in April 2002.

Source pollstar.com.

Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, AFI, Hawthorne Heights and Yellowcard are among the first acts confirmed for the 2006 edition of Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, Billboard.com can reveal. The event will be held Sept. 2-4 throughout the Seattle Center and will also feature performances by Atmosphere, Feist, Shooter Jennings, the English Beat, Deerhoof, Mates Of State and Metric.

To read more visit billboard.com.

In support of ‘Hind Hind Legs’, The Lovely Feathers have confirmed a US tour with The Spinto Band and Dr. Dog, that kicks off June 8th at The Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA. These shows follow Canada’s Pop Montreal Tour, which The Lovely Feathers will headline.

June 8: Northampton, MA @ The Iron Horse Music Hall
June 9: New York, NY @ The Bowery Ballroom
June 10: Boston, MA @ TT The Bear’s Place
June 11: Washington, DC @ The Black Cat
June 14: Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn
June 15: Nashville, TN @ The Mercy Lounge
June 16: Chicago. IL: TBA
June 17: Cleveland, OH @ CMJ Rock Hall Musicfest at the Beachland Tavern
June 18: Cincinnati, OH: TB