In support of her upcoming third album, …Until We Felt Red, New York guitarist Kaki King is excited to announce a residency at The Living Room, where she will be performing new material every Wednesday night in July.
Over the last few years, Kaki has enjoyed the well-earned status as the zeit-girl of instrumental acoustic guitar; a gifted young ing
While their previous self-titled record on ropeadope seemed more haphazard in a coming-together-at-the-last-minute sort of way, Husky has a more robust polish to it.
Canadian rock outfit the Arcade Fire has 15 songs recorded for the follow-up to its 2004 breakthrough, “Funeral,” according to a post from Win Butler on the band’s Web site. “We have maybe 15 songs with little bits left to record and a few more we want to get to tape,” he wrote. “We are going to try and record a couple of songs in me and Regine [Chassagne]’s living room, because the drums sound so great in there.”
The group is also incorporating new instrumentation in the mix, including “a huge f*cking pipe organ” that will appear on two songs. In early July, violinist Owen Pallet, who records under the name Final Fantasy, will join the band at its Montreal studio.
Butler adds, “There is talk of recording a few songs with a full orchestra in Budapest. The next couple of weeks we will be pulling our hair out.” The group recently took time out from recording to attend one of Radiohead’s shows in Montreal and hit the town with bassist Colin Greenwood and guitarist Ed O’Brien.
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Esteemed indie rock trio Sleater-Kinney is going on an indefinite hiatus and has no plans for “future tours or recordings,” according to a statement released by its label, Sub Pop. The group will play five final shows this summer, culminating Aug. 4 at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.
“We feel lucky to have had the support of many wonderful people over the years,” the band said. “We want to thank everyone who has worked with us, written kind words about us, performed with us, and inspired us.”
But mostly we want to extend our gratitude to our amazing fans,” the statement continued. “You have been a part of our story from the beginning. We could not have made our music without your enthusiasm, passion, and loyalty. It is you who have made the entire journey worthwhile.”
After spending its entire career on Kill Rock Stars, the band’s lone release for Sub Pop, 2005’s “The Woods,” was regarded by many as the best of its career. The set debuted at No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums chart and has sold 73,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Guitarist/vocalist Corin Tucker previously told Billboard.com the group nearly split before it recorded “The Woods.” “It was very frustrating,” she said. “It was like, ‘Ugh, I don’t know if we’re going to make another record.’ It was definitely a weird, tenuous journey for this record. I think [album track] ‘Entertain’ is definitely the song that was great. We kind of clung to that song like, ‘Okay, we’ve written this one really great song and there’s got to be more in there somewhere’ but we all had to get there.”
Here are Sleater-Kinney’s tour dates:
July 29: Louisville (Mellwood Arts Center)
July 31: Philadelphia (Starlight Ballroom)
Aug. 1: Washington, D.C. (9:30 Club)
Aug. 2: New York (Webster Hall)
Aug. 4: Chicago (Grant Park; Lollapalooza)
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Creedence Clearwater Revival founding members and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Stu Cook and Doug “Cosmo” Clifford have announced summer and fall concerts to be performed by their band Creedence Clearwater Revisited. The two former members of the legendary group Creedence Clearwater Revival launched the Creedence Clearwater Revisited project to once again perform live Creedence Clearwater Revival hits – the touchstones of a generation. The 2006 summer and fall tour will take the group around the United States and Canada, highlighted by appearances at Milwaukee’s Summerfest, two nights at Detroit’s DTE Energy Music Amphitheater, both the Ventura and Los Angeles County Fairs and Woodstock, New Brunswick’s Classic Rock Festival.
Creedence Clearwater Revisited also includes lead singer/rhythm guitar player John Tristao (who initially rose to prominence as lead singer for the band People when their hit “I Love You” bulleted into the Top Ten), lead guitarist Tal Morris (whom Huey Lewis describes as “the quintessential Bay Area guitar prodigy”) and multi instrumentalist Steve Gunner. As Cook puts it, “Steve Gunner provides live all the overdubs that were on the records – keyboard, acoustic guitar, percussion, harmonica and he sings the high harmonies.”
Creedence Clearwater Revisited’s album “Recollection” (Hip-O/Universal Records) is on track for Platinum RIAA certification this fall.
Hollywood Reporter critic John Lappen described a Creedence Clearwater Revisited concert as “. an amazing list of hit after hit that was done serious justice by the players involved. The cheering crowd had big smiles and whoops of joy at hearing live some of the best American rock ever written and recorded.”
Creedence Clearwater Revisited’s tour stops are:
06/29/06 Harrah’s N. Kansas City, MO
06/30/06 Riverboat Days – Riverview Park Clinton, IA
07/01/06 Montana State Fairgrounds Billings, MT
07/02/06 Parlee Beach Shediac, New Brunswick, CAN
07/04/06 Summerfest Milwaukee, WI
07/06/06 Penn’s Peak Jim Thorpe, PA
07/07/06 Dover Down Dover, DE
07/08/06 St. George Theatre Staten Island, NY
07/09/06 North Folk Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY
07/10/06 Mohegan Sun Uncasville, CT
07/12/06 Chesaning Showboat Chesaning, MI
07/13/06 DTE Energy Music Amphitheater Clarkston, MI
07/14/06 DTE Energy Music Amphitheater Clarkston, MI
07/15/06 Jacques Cartier Park Sherbrooke, Quebec, CAN
07/21/06 Halfway Jam Festival Royalton, MN
07/22/06 Horny Toad Lake Ozark, MO
07/23/06 Jesse Auditorium Columbia, MO
07/24/06 Northlands Park Edmonton, Alberta, CAN
08/03/06 The Oregon Garden Silverton, OR
08/04/06 River Rock Richmond, British Columbia, CAN
08/05/06 River Rock Richmond, British Columbia, CAN
08/10/06 Ventura County Fairgrounds Ventura, CA
08/11/06 Hutchins Street Square Theatre Lodi, CA
08/12/06 Viejas Concerts In The Park Alpine, CA
08/18/06 Havelock Country Jamboree Havelock, Ontario, CAN
08/19/06 Woodstock Raceway Woodstock, New Brunswick, CAN
09/01/06 Sam’s Town Robinsonville, MS
09/15/06 Riverwind Goldsby, OK
09/16/06 State Capitol Grounds Pierre, SD
09/17/06 Welk Resort Theatre Branson, MO
09/20/06 Western Washington Fairgrounds Puyallup, WA
09/22/06 Los Angeles County Fairgrounds Pomona, CA
09/23/06 Konocti Harbor Kelseyville, CA
09/24/06 Historic Mountain Winery Saratoga, CA
10/7/06 Dixie Bowl St. George, UT
10/27/06 Colusa Indian Bingo & Casino Colusa, CA
10/28/06 Flamingo Hilton Laughlin, NV
There was a time when rock bands recorded songs exclusively about sex, drugs and rock n
The next disc from Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, will feature a long list of guest appearanceces from the likes of Jack Johnson and Ben Harper to Marc Broussard and Blackalicious.
Due Aug. 1 on Johnson’s Brushfire label, “G. Love’s Lemonade” also features Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo, Donovan Frankenreiter, Tristan Prettyman and keyboardist Steve Molitz from jamband Particle.
“Except for one song, it’s straight hip-hop grooves,” Dutton tells Billboard.com. Of the cameo-packed approach, he says, “It was something I did want to do, but it wasn’t supposed to happen now. It just happened out of the blue, so I just let it go.”
“G. Love’s Lemonade” features the latest in a long line of collaborations with Johnson. Remembering the first time he heard the Hawaiian singer/songwriter perform, Dutton says, “We went for a surf, and we went back to this little bungalow I was staying at in Topanga Canyon, and we were just trading songs, and he played a lot of songs that ended up being on his first record [‘Brushfire Fairytales’]. I was thinking, ‘There’s something going on here. This is the shit.'”
Dutton appeared on Johnson’s “Curious George” soundtrack last year, and Johnson returns the favor on the “Lemonade” track “Rainbow.” “We’re family,” says Dutton. The new album’s first single, “Hot Cooking,” can be downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Music Store. A video was recently shot by Emmett Malloy.
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Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose was arrested in Stockholm early this morning (June 27) after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg outside his hotel, police said.
Rose, who performed in the Swedish capital last night, was being held on suspicion of attacking and threatening the guard, as well as causing damage to the Berns Hotel where the alleged scuffle took place, police spokeswoman Towe Hagg said.
Hagg said Rose was intoxicated during the confrontation, which broke out around 8 a.m., and would face questioning after he sobers up. “He was deemed too intoxicated to be questioned right away,” she said. A prosecutor will then decide whether to press charges against him, Hagg said.
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More than five months after his arrest, trend-setting KCRW (the eclectic community service radio station in Santa Monica) host Chris Douridas has been charged with drug possession, but faces no prosecution for an alleged sex crime.
In January, Douridas was taken into custody by police outside a Santa Monica nightclub after eye witnesses reported that the 43-year old had slipped a substance into a teenager
The forefather of jamgrass has done it again. Sam Bush for many years has lead the way in pioneering a new level of bluegrass influenced music. Laps in Seven finds him coloring outside the lines once again.
