Noise of America a short listen at just over 35 minutes, but with constant powerful layers of melody and rocking riffs, this debut is a long enough engagement to make a bold statement: that Wydown is just getting started.
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Nonesuch Records will release Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest, a performance DVD by Wilcos Jeff Tweedy, on October 24. The disc includes performances and conversations gathered over five nights on Tweedys February 2006 solo acoustic tour, with footage from concerts at Seattles Moore Theater, Portlands Crystal Ballroom, Eugene
Rose Hill Drive have announced a fall tour that will see them traveling around the world in support of their debut studio album.
After spending the last couple years building an enormous underground buzz with thrilling live shows, the Boulder-based trio released their self-titled debut on August 22, 2006 via Megaforce Records/Sci Fidelity.
TOUR DATES:
8-27-06 — Belly Up, Aspen CO
8-30-06
Nickel Creek will begin an indefinite hiatus in late 2007, Billboard.com has learned. The bluegrass-leaning trio will remain active on the road up until that point, but will amicably part ways afterward to pursue solo projects.
“After seven years straight of touring and three records behind us, it’s in our best interest to suspend Nickel Creek by the end of next year,” says group member Chris Thile, noting that he and Sara Watkins have been in Nickel Creek since they were eight years old.
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Rapper Talib Kweli’s next solo album, “Ear Drum,” will be the first release under his newly formed Blacksmith Music/Warner Bros. imprint. Due later this year, the set features guest appearances from rhyming partner Hi-Tek, UGK’s Bun B and Pimp C and Raheem DeVaughn, among others.
The first single is “Listen”; other album cuts include “More Or Less” featuring Hi-Tek and “Country Cousins” featuring UGK and Raheem DeVaughn.
The rapper says the new offering is an extension of his typically revolutionary rhymes. “The vast majority of my subject matter focuses on black self-love, black self esteem, black self=worth,” he says. “That translates to other communities because if you’re a human being, it doesn’t matter what color you’re talking about. You’ve been through some sort of struggle and you can apply it to your own life.”
Also in the works from Kweli’s Blacksmith artists are projects by rappers Jean Grae and Strong Arm Steady, whose members include Xzibit, Phil the Agony, Krondon and Mitchy Slick. “With Blacksmith, I want it to be a flag that everyone can wave,” says Kweli.
Kweli will be on the road for the majority of September, including shows in Hamburg (Sept. 11), Paris (Sept. 13) and London (Sept. 14).
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