Def Leppard and Journey are teaming up for a 34-date co-headlining run through North American amphitheatres, starting June 23 in Camden, N.J.
The tour, presented by VH1 Classic and Live Nation, will run for more than two months, finishing August 31 at the White River Amphitheatre near Seattle. More dates are to be added.
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Beck has slowly begun announcing appearances at summer European festivals. He will also join Radiohead for an Aug. 22 show in Edinburgh, a pairing that is expected to be repeated several times this summer, with details to be announced.
For now, Beck’s lone North American dates are a May 27 show with the Decemberists in Bend, Ore., and appearances at the Sasquatch! festival in George, Wash. (May 28) and the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn. (June 17).
Beck is touring in support of his 2005 album, “Guero,” which debuted at a career-best No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 786,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Here are Beck’s tour dates:
May 27: Bend, Ore. (Schwab Amphitheatre)
May 28: George, Wash. (Sasquatch! festival)
June 17: Manchester, Tenn. (Bonnaroo festival)
Aug. 12: Oslo (Oya festival)
Aug. 13: Skanderborg, Denmark (Smukkeste Festival)
Aug. 19-20: Chelmsford/Staffordshire, England (V festival)
Aug. 22: Edinburgh (Meadow Bank Stadium; w/ Radiohead)
Source billboard.com.
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Sonic Youth will release its next album, “Rather Ripped,” June 13 via Geffen. As previously reported, the 12-track set is the band’s first to not feature longtime collaborator Jim O’Rourke since 1998’s “A Thousand Leaves.” Sonic Youth will support the set via several July dates with Pearl Jam and is also eyeing a run with the Flaming Lips.
“Rather Ripped” kicks off with the Kim Gordon-sung rocker “Reena” and in general offers more of a concise attack than on recent, more jam-oriented releases such as “Murray Street” and “Sonic Nurse.” Gordon is more of a vocal presence as well, singing lead on five tracks, including the gentle “Turquoise Boy,” which is dirtied up with bursts of noise at its conclusion.
Other highlights include Thurston Moore’s propulsive “Incinerate,” which seems evolved from the Sonic Youth classic “Teenage Riot,” and the Lee Ranaldo-sung “Rats,” which blends a dark Gordon bass grove with thick sheets of guitar.
“Some of it seems to be an extension of the last couple of records, but some hearkens forward into territory and also back to earlier, more dissonant and atonal stuff we’ve done,” Ranaldo told Billboard.com last fall of the new material. “There’s definitely some rocking songs and also some sound piece-y kind of things that are pretty interesting as well.”
Here is the track list for “Rather Ripped”:
“Reena”
“Incinerate”
“Do You Believe in Rapture?”
“Sleepin’ Around”
“What a Waste”
“Jams Run Free”
“Rats”
“Turquoise Boy”
“Lights Out”
“The Neutral”
“Pink Steam”
“Or”
Source billboard.com.
Ben Harper has drafted Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley as the support act for his summer North American tour, which will begin Aug. 10 in Phoenix and run through Sept. 14 in Knoxville, Tenn. Marley will be replaced by an as-yet-unnamed “very special guest” at an Aug. 11-12 stand at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre.
Also included in the itinerary is a Sept. 5-6 run at Rumsey Playfield in New York’s Central Park as part of the annual SummerStage festival. Harper is touring in support of his new Virgin double album, “Both Sides of the Gun,” which was released March 21.
Before the North American shows, Harper has touring on tap in Australia, Japan and Europe. For a full list of dates, visit his official Web site.
Built To Spill has postponed a spring tour that was due to begin April 11 in Minneapolis to allow frontman Doug Martsch time to recover from a detached retina. The trek will resume June 9 in Calgary, Alberta, and run through Oct. 21 in Lubbock, Texas. For a full list of the new dates, visit the band’s MySpace.com page.
Built To Spill will release its new album, “You in Reverse,” April 11 via Warner Bros. Two new songs, the nine-minute opener “Goin’ Against Your Mind” and “Conventional Wisdom,” can be streamed from MySpace.com.
Source billboard.com.
Award-winning experimental trio Dreadnaught will perform at the Music Hall in Portsmouth NH with acclaimed author Dan Brown (THE DA VINCI CODE) on April 23, 2006. The show is the latest entry in the NHPR/Music Hall-sponsored
Husband-wife duo, The Dust Devils were honored in Linden, Texas this weekend by winning 4 of the 5 Texas Music Awards for which they were nominated. Dust Devils’ founders Kevin Higgins and Barbara Malteze were presented with: Song of the Year (Walk On) written by Kevin Higgins; Vocal Duo of the Year; Female Vocalist of the Year (Barbara Malteze); and Album of the Year (Gathering Dust).
The Dust Devils also contributed 2 songs to the CD which received the “Founder’s Award” for Musical Event of the Year; “A Hill Country Christmas,” (produced by Stephen & Sue Ann Meyer of the Lodge Recording Studio in Marble Falls), benefiting Candlelight Ranch, a retreat for children with special needs, www.CandlelightRanch.org
“We can’t tell you how surprised and honored we are by all the awards that were given out to us,” said Barbara Malteze, “it just hasn’t hit home yet.” Kevin Higgins added, “As we go through life on this musical journey doing what we love, it’s a wonderful thing to receive affirmations from our peers. This weekend, that road took us to Linden.”
To view a complete list of award recipients, (including photos and audio) visit mytexasmusic.com
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.
