2006

Atlantic recording group Jet has been forced to cancel two upcoming shows as lead singer Nic Cester has acute laryngitis. Doctors have ordered Cester to rest for four to five days. The cancelled dates – Philadelphia tonight, September 29th, as well as Toronto on Sunday, October 1st-will be rescheduled sometime in November. The rest of the band will still travel to Toronto for scheduled press and promotional activity. Jet’s tour will resume Tuesday, October 3rd in Los Angeles, where the band is scheduled to perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. “Shine On,” Jet’s much-anticipated follow-up to 2003’s RIAA platinum-plus debut, “Get Born,” is set to land in stores on October 3rd.

A band statment notes: “In Australia, we say, ‘I am absolutely gutted’, when the gravity of the situation is overwhelming. After all the work we’ve done on ‘Shine On’ and on making this tour something special, all of us are very disappointed with the news of Nic’s laryngitis. Canceling shows is not something we take lightly at all. We had to make the tough decision this afternoon to cancel shows in both Philadelphia and Toronto-two cities we have played and loved playing in on numerous occasions. We promise to make these shows up as soon as Nic is recovered and we’re back on the East Coast. Once again, our sincerest apologies to all of our fans. When we return, it will of course be with a vengeance.” -Chris Cester, Nic Cester, Mark Wilson, Cameron Muncey and Stevie Hesketh

Tuesday, October 3 from 6 am to midnight ET, Trey Anastasio Will host Trey Day, Vol. 2 on SIRIUS Satellite Radio, during which he will host as a SIRIUS DJ for 18 consecutive hours. Trey will choose and host all of the music selections, including music from his new CD being released October 3, Bar 17 (Red Ink), and, for the first time, will perform acoustic versions of some of them.

Anastasio previously hosted an entire Trey Day on Jam On / channel 17 in November 2005, upon the release of his last solo album, Shine. For Trey Day, Vol. 2, the acclaimed artist will also air never-before-heard recordings of original versions of Phish songs, some recorded in his father

The Disco Biscuits and Diamond Riggs Records newest live release, Rocket 3, is the entire third set of the Biscuits 2004 New Years Eve performance in New York City. Highly regarded by both the fans and the band alike, this limited-edition three song collection is as much a nod to the past as it is a glimpse into the future. Featuring an awe-inspiring 30 minute version of “Magellan” and a “Frog Legs” that segues nicely into the second half of “Crickets”, this CD is most certainly all about the improvisation. As a bonus, the “Hope” encore is included on the CD.

These tracks, originally considered for release on the April 2006 double live album The Wind at Four to Fly (Diamond Riggs Records / SCI Fidelity) were moved to the cutting room floor when it was decided that a 70 minute 2 and a 1/2 song CD would not be well received at retail. However, the CD has received new life as a result of the many requests from Disco Biscuits fans that this be released in the crystal clear quality that can be expected of all Diamond Riggs live CD’s.

The band has decided to answer that call as a show of fan appreciation. Though the official release date in stores is November 14th, the CD will be available through a pre-order on www.discobiscuits.com and as well at all of the shows on Fall Tour, starting with the Halloween Bash at the Orpheum in Boston.

All shows from the forthcoming tour will be available for sale as downloads a few days after the show at livedownloads.com/bisco

Fresh off a 2 week tour of the west coast, Jeremy Enigk is now all set to tour the midwest and southeast in November with Cursive on the last leg of their U.S. tour for Happy Hollow. Enigk is on the road for his second solo album, World Waits, which will be released October 17th via Lewis Hollow Records.

Tour Dates with Cursive:

November
03 Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep
09 Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
11 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note
12 Memphis, TN – Young Avenue Deli
13 Birmingham, AL – Bottle Tree
14 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
16 Charlottesville, VA – Satellite Ballroom
17 Charlotte, NC – Tremont Music Hall
18 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
20 Tallahassee, FL – The Moon
21 Gainesville, FL – Reitz Union Ballroom
22 Orlando, FL – The Club at Firestone
24 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
25 Austin, TX – Emo’s
26 Dallas, TX – Gypsy Ballroom

Two months after dropping off a co-headlining tour with Guster, Ray LaMontagne has announced a new round of theatre concerts.
LaMontagne will travel the U.S. for more than five weeks starting November 9 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. He’ll head up the coast, making a single Canadian stop in Vancouver, and then cover the Midwest, South and East Coast.
The tour will wrap December 18 at a different Orpheum Theatre – in Boston.
Two concerts at London’s Union Chapel are scheduled prior to the U.S. tour, and LaMontagne will be back in the U.K. for a lengthy tour in January and February.
The Maine-based musician released a new album, Till The Sun Turns Black, in late August. The disc is the follow-up to his 2004 debut, Trouble.
LaMontagne toured with Guster for several weeks this summer but announced in late July that he would not be on board for the second leg, due to “unforeseen conflicts in his schedule.”

Source pollstar.com.

Wolfmother has cut short its current U.S. tour after bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross’ partner gave birth a month early to a son in Sydney. The band played in Pittsburgh on Friday and at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore on Saturday (Sept. 23), forcing Ross to endure a 23-hour flight back to Australia on short notice.

The turn of events has necessitated the postponement of a Virgin Records in-store today in Chicago as well as a show on Thursday in Hollywood, which will be made up on Dec. 12. A Friday appearance in San Diego will not be rescheduled; refunds are available from points of purchase. Also scrapped is a Saturday set at the Download Festival at Shoreline Amphitheatre outside San Francisco.

Wolfmother had already planned to spend October at home in Australia before resuming North American roadwork Nov. 21 in Philadelphia. That tour will be preceded by a brief European run earlier in the month.

Source billboard.com.