May 18, 2006

After some time off since New Years to revitalize and re-inspire, The String Cheese Incident now announces their tour plans for the summer months ahead. Look for the band on both coasts, and in between, with special musical guests joining them at various stops along the way. Summer tour highlights involve several dates with Bob Weir & RatDog, including Fourth of July weekend at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, where Keller Williams and Taj Mahal will also join the bill. Bob Weir & RatDog and SCI will share the stage for 14 dates total, until SCI catches up again with Keller at the 10,000 Lakes Festival, where they’ll join each other for a rare “Keller Incident.” The band will also stop in Alaska for a couple shows on their way to Japan for the tenth annual Fuji Rock Festival. The summer tour will wrap up with a three night blow out at the beautiful Cuthbert Amphitheater in Eugene, Oregon. SCI is looking forward to collaborating with PEAK Experience Productions for those shows and special guests are still to be announced.

The complete list of tour dates is as follows:
June 24 Pozo Saloon Santa Margarita CA with Bob Weir & RatDog
June 25 Greek Theatre Los Angeles CA with Bob Weir & RatDog
June 26 Concerts in the Park San Diego CA with Bob Weir & RatDog
June 28 Dodge Theatre Phoenix AZ with Bob Weir & RatDog
June 29 Pine Mountain Amphitheatre Flagstaff AZ
June 30 The Great Salt Air Magna UT with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 01 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison CO with Bob Weir & RatDog and Keller Williams
July 02 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison CO with Bob Weir & RatDog and Taj Mahal Trio
July 06 Summerfest @ Marcus Amphitheatre Milwaukee WI with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 07 Starlight Theatre Kansas City MO with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 08 Fabulous Fox Theatre St. Louis MO with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 09 Promowest Pavilion Columbus OH
July 10 Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center Canandaigua NY with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 11 Penn’s Landing Philadelphia PA with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 13-14 Radio City Music Hall New York NY with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 15 Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts Mansfield MA with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 20 10,000 Lakes Festival Detroit Lakes MN
July 21 10,000 Lakes Festival Detroit Lakes MN The Keller Williams Incident
July 23 Moose’s Tooth Theatre Anchorage AK
July 24 Bear Tooth Theatre Anchorage AK
July 28-29 Fuji Rock Festival Niigata Japan
August 01-02 Marymoor Amphitheatre Redmond WA
August 04-06 Cuthbert Amphitheater Eugene OR Produced in Association with PEAK Production

Tickets and Information available at stringcheeseincident.com

Having spent the last few months playing to enthusiastic and full house crowds at Irving Plaza in New York, the House of Blues in Los Angeles, and the historic Fillmore in San Francisco, Dead Kennedys are excited to announce several tour dates in Europe, including a headlining slot at Hellfest 2006 in Nantes, France and the Furia Sound Festival in Paris, France.

The tour begins on June 22nd in Zurich, Switzerland and then travels to Bregenz, Austria, and then headlining on Saturday at the Furia Sound Festival in Paris, playing with Fishbone and GBH, and finally to Nantes on June 25, where Dead Kennedys will share the Hellfest main stage with other legendary bands such as Motorhead, Agnostic Front, Alice In Chains, Obituary and, well… Korn.

The band would also like to thank all the people who showed up to the USA shows. With governments seemingly running amok (who have you been calling? the National Security Agency wants to know), the band is glad that the message of questioning Big Brother is being brought to more and more people.

Hellfest 2006

Furia Sound Festival

A worldwide community of super-sensitive, highly emotional music fans have been holding vigil since September 2005 for the announcement of the 2006 ACL Music Festival lineup. Their wait is finally over. With a head-spinning display of diversity and poundage, the 2006 Festival features Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, Massive Attack, Ben Harper, The String Cheese Incident, Flaming Lips, The Raconteurs, Los Lonely Boys, The Shins, Ween, and about 100 more acts. Producers offer the lineup announcement as a service to overworked music journalists everywhere, delivering a powerful and newsworthy story that any monkey with a mouse could file.

The super-heavyweights on the lineup are reason enough to put the event in a position to repeat its Pollstar Festival of the Year Award, but the remaining two-thirds of the talent offers an array of shooting stars and blooming fruit. More acts include Thievery Corporation, Matisyahu, Iron & Wine, Son Volt, Guster, Damien Rice, Calexico, the New Pornographers, to name a few.

The full lineup is available at www.austincitylimits.com, along with a colorful, action-packed video version of the lineup coming to life in the park, complete with local critters.

Artists scheduled to appear:
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Wolf Parade
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness…
Van Morrison
Sparklehorse
Centro-matic
Willie Nelson
Paolo Nutini
Marah
Massive Attack
Nada Surf
Sam Roberts
String Cheese Incident
Los Amigos Invisibles
Rocky Votolato
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Feist
Murder by Death
The Flaming Lips
Phoenix
The Black Angels
John Mayer
KT Tunstall
Anathallo
The Raconteurs
Goldfrapp
The Rocket Summer
Los Lonely Boys
Donavon Frankenreiter
Sara Hickman
The Shins
Oliver Mtukudzi & Black Spirits
Sylvia St. James and The Gospel Stars
Ween
Asleep at the Wheel
Terri Hendrix
Thievery Corporation
Buckwheat Zydeco
Trish Murphy
Ben Kweller
Husky Rescue
Patrice Pike
G. Love & Special Sauce
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
The Durdens
Matisyahu
The Subdudes
The Jones Family Singers
Gnarls Barkley
BoDeans
Sterling Lands and The Warrior Gospel Band
Damien Rice
The Greencards
Joe McDermott and the Smart Little Creatures
Cat Power and the Memphis Rhythm Band
Guy Clark
The Biscuit Brothers
Ray Lamontagne
Kathleen Edwards
Imagination Movers
Nickel Creek
The Long Winters
Elvis Perkins
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
The Stills
The New Soul Invaders
The Tragically Hip
Charlie Sexton
South Austin Jug Band
Kings of Leon
Alexi Murdoch
Greyhounds
Iron & Wine
Pierre Guimard
Star Kids Yoga
Kasey Chambers
Matt Costa
Joy Davis
Aimee Mann
Matt Nathanson
Daniella Cotton
Galactic
Okkervil River
Troy Campbell Band
The New Orleans Social Club
Ted Leo/Pharmacists
The Palm Elementary School Choir
Calexico
Benevento Russo Duo
Asheba
The New Pornographers
Randy Rogers Band
The White Ghost Shivers
Son Volt
Federico Aubele
The Gospel Silvertones
Guster
What Made Milwaukee Famous
The Anointed Voicez
Explosions in the Sky
Jose Gonzalez
Ghandaia
deadboy & The Elephantmen
Ian McLagan and The Bump Band
Melissa Reaves
The Secret Machines
New Monsoon
Claire Small
Jack Ingram
Del Castillo
Eli Young Band
Brazilian Girls
Fields
Rodney Hayden
Gomez
Lou Ann Barton
Robyn Ludwick
Stars
Beto y los Fairlanes
Peter Dawson