2006

The reviews are in: Diamond Dave, it appears, is not forever. David Lee Roth

Leeds 3-piece Black Wire are excited to announce their first visit to America this February in support of their debut self-titled album, which will be released in the US on Chicago-based indie Giant Pecker Records. The band will be making stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York over 3-weeks for performances and special club appearances.

Since the UK release of their album in June, the band has been all over British radio and television. Touring relentlessly, they have quickly gained a big following in England

Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen will release his third solo album, Morph the Cat, in March. Whereas his 1982 debut The Nightfly viewed the future from an adolescent’s eyes, and 1993’s Kamakiriad viewed it from middle age, Morph, says Fagen, “is looking toward the endings of things.”

“It’s the album that’s closest to my vision of how [death] would sound,” says Fagen. “I don’t know if I could do much better.”

Fagen will support the record with his very own theater tour — his first solo show since high school. “I’ve never done it before,” he says. “I might do a few Steely Dan things that I particularly like, but it’ll mainly be my stuff.”

Source: rollingstone