September 2006

2006 has been a great year in the Disco Biscuit’s 11 year history. They welcomed a talented new drummer, Allen Aucoin, into the Bisco fold and tour highlights included stops at the Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza Festivals as well as numerous tour dates and their highly successful Camp Bisco V which featured The Roots, Thievery Corporation and Brazilian Girls.

Now they announced some fall dates to continue to spread their unique musical smorgasbord style which fuses rock, electronic and classical music around the country. New Yorkers get to celebrate the Turkey Day holiday with some hot fresh Bisco.

10/19/06 Washington and Lee S&A Lexington, VA
10/31/06 Orpheum Theatre Boston, MA
11/01/06 State Theatre Ithaca, NY
11/02/06 Water Street Music Hall Rochester, NY
11/03/06 Calvin Theatre Northampton, MA
11/04/06 Sonar Baltimore, MD
11/09/06 The Town Ballroom Buffalo, NY
11/10/06 Bogart’s Cincinnati, OH
11/11/06 Newport Music Hall Columbus, OH
11/12/06 House Of Blues Cleveland, OH
11/14/06 Bluebird Bloomington, IN
11/15/06 Blue Note Columbia, MO
11/16/06 Canopy Club Urbana, IL
11/17/06 Grenada Lawrence, KS
11/18/06 Fillmore Denver, CO
11/19/06 Fox Theatre Boulder, CO
11/24/06 Hammerstein Ballroom New York, NY
11/25/06 Hammerstein Ballroom New York, NY

After a hugely successful inaugural event last year, Madison House, Anon Salon, and Peak Experience Productions will collaborate again for the Seventh Annual Sea of Dreams New Year’s Eve event in San Francisco on December 30th and 31st.

Like last year, cultural forces will unite for two freaky nights at the San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition Center for the biggest New Year’s-weekend gathering on the west coast. Expect three stages hosting an incredible roster of live bands – plus cabaret and circus acts, DJs and dance collectives, performance troupes, and more. All set within multiple thematic environments, this event promises something for people of every tribe.

Musical acts performing on the three stages include the groundbreaking independent rock band The String Cheese Incident (playing two full sets each night), British nu-school breaks producer Tipper, revolutionary underground artist Bassnectar, modern day traveling minstrel DJ Mark Farina, the down-tempo trip-hop dance music of Lotus, live electronic hipsters Pnuma Trio and plenty of others still to be announced.

Performance troupe and dance collective participants include The Indigo Belly Dance, The Mystic Family Circus, Black and Blue Burlesque Anon Salon’s Circularious, and others. In addition to the stage performances, expect art encampments, novelty zones, installations, midnight spectacles, supergames, and everything. For complete line-up and details as they become available visit seaofdreamsnye.com.

Propelling the proceedings will be innovative entertainment booking and management company Madison House, and Portland, Oregon-based Peak Experience Productions. Both will join forces with long-time San Francisco art/event promoters Anon Salon (the co-creators of “Burning Man Decompression” and past “Sea of Dreams” NYE events).

Sea of Dreams is an epic costumed celebration of music, art and community. This colossal pageant weaves together a host of artistic communities to create a truly “emergent” cultural phenomenon. In the most unusual venue, with the most multi-faceted and unprecedented line-up ever, Sea of Dreams has altered the course of party history.

Sea of Dreams: 7 Heavens

December 30th and 31st
San Francisco Design Center’s Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th Street (@ Brannan), San Francisco

30th / 7 pm – 2 am
31st / 7:30 pm – 4 am
Ages 18 and over welcome
Tickets available at seaofdreamsnye.com

ZILLA (featuring Michael Travis of The String Cheese Incident) will also perform a Sea of Dreams pre-party at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall on December 29th. For tickets and information visit www.zillamusic.com.

For more information visit seaofdreamsnye.com

Neil Young is finally ready to roll out releases from his long-rumored “Archives Performance” series. First up is “Live at the Fillmore East 1970,” due Nov. 14 via Reprise. The album features six as-yet-unannounced selections from Crazy Horse’s March 6-7 runs at the New York venue, at a time when late guitarist Danny Whitten was still a member of the band.

“Fillmore” will also be available in a CD/DVD edition featuring a high-resolution audio mix, photos from the show, Young’s handwritten song lyrics and press articles from the era.

In addition to core members Whitten, Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums), the four shows found Crazy Horse augmented by producer Jack Nitzsche on electric piano. Among the songs featured in the set lists were “On the Way Home,” “Broken Arrow,” “Cinnamon Girl,” “Cowgirl in the Sand” and “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.”

Source billboard.com.

Dr. Dre has produced several tracks for Snoop Dogg’s upcoming album, “The Blue Carpet Treatment,” due Nov. 21 via Doggystyle/Geffen. The new songs, which include “Imagine,” will be the duo’s first collaborative effort in roughly five years.

“Imagine” finds the two longtime friends and collaborators ruminating about hypothetical situations such as life without hip-hop (“Imagine Russell [Simmons] still struggling/no Def Jam,” Dre raps) and if Tupac Shakur never died.

“Blue Carpet” also boasts production from the Neptunes, Timbaland and Rick Rock, among others. Nate Dogg and Ne-Yo have joined the list of previously announced guest artists, which includes R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, the Game and Ice Cube.

Source billboard.com.