2006

The Allman Brothers Band will hit the road for 26 summer tour dates that will find them playing everything from amphitheatres and festivals to theaters. As previously reported, the group will also play a handful of shows with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

On various dates, the group will be supported by the Yonder Mountain String Band and a rotating cast of Allman Brothers Band member side projects: guitarist Derek Trucks’ namesake band, guitarist Warren Haynes’ Gov’t Mule and bassist Oteil Burbridge’s Oteil and the Peacemakers. The group is rounded out by vocalist/keyboardist Gregg Allman, drummers Butch Trucks and Jaimoe and percussionist Marc Quinones.

The first leg of the Allmans’ tour opens June 16 in Cincinnati and closes July 2 in Solomons, Md. The second leg runs from an Aug. 12 Hartford, Conn., show to a Sept. 1 gig at Colorado’s majestic Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

While Gov’t Mule will support the Sept. 1 show, the band will headline Red Rocks the next night. Gregg Allman and Haynes will team up for a special acoustic set at that show.

Despite no news of a new studio album on the near horizon, the ABB has been busy on the road. In addition to the upcoming dates, the band played its annual extended March run at New York’s Beacon Theatre, followed by headlining their own two-night Wanee Festival last month in Florida with Medeski, Martin & Wood, O.A.R., North Mississippi Allstars and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band also on the bill.

Full tour details and ticket information can be found at the band’s official Web site.

Here are the Allman Brothers Band’s confirmed dates:

June 16: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)
June 17: Chattanooga, Tenn. (Riverbend Festival)
June 18: Birmingham, Ala. (City Stages)
June 20: Indianapolis (White River Park)
June 21: Cleveland (Plain Dealer Pavilion)
June 23-24: Niagara Falls, Ontario (Niagara Fallsview Casino)
June 25: Bristow, Va. (Nissan Pavilion at Stone Ridge)
June 27: Wantagh, N.Y. (Jones Beach Theater)
June 30: Atlantic City, N.J. (House of Blues)
July 2: Solomons, Md. (Calvert Marine Museum)
Aug. 12: Hartford, Conn. (New England Dodge Music Center; w/Tom Petty)
Aug. 13: Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Saratoga Performing Arts Center; w/Tom Petty)
Aug. 15: Darien Center, N.Y. (Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center; w/Tom Petty)
Aug. 16: Burgettstown, Pa. (Post-Gazette Pavilion; w/Tom Petty)
Aug. 18: Philadelphia (Tweeter Center @ Waterfront; w/Tom Petty)
Aug. 19: Raleigh, N.C. (ALLTEL Pavilion)
Aug. 20: Atlanta (Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheater)
Aug. 22: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
Aug. 23: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
Aug. 25: Gilford, N.H. (Meadowbrook Farm)
Aug. 26: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center)
Aug. 27: Scranton, Pa. (Montage Mountain)
Aug. 29: Green Bay, Wis. (Oneida Casino)
Aug. 30: Chicago (Rosemont Theatre)
Sept. 1: Morrison, Col. (Red Rocks Amphitheater)

Source billboard.com.

V2 Records announced today Ray Davies’ 2nd leg of his North American tour to support his highly acclaimed debut solo studio record “Other People’s Lives,” released on February 21st to great fanfare. The first leg was Davies’ first tour of North America with a band other than The Kinks, and it focused on the east coast and Midwest. This next series of dates will take Davies and his excellent new band to California, the Pacific Northwest, Colorado, Arizona and Texas. The dates for the tour are listed below.

Davies is currently on tour in Europe. In March, right as the American tour was beginning, he performed at a sold-out multi-media event that he created for this year’s SXSW. At the event, Davies showed clips from a documentary he is putting together that is as Billboard described in review: “A narrative about the eight-year path he took in making “Other People’s Lives,” including an arduous North American tour shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and a move to New Orleans, where was shot by a mugger in January 2004.” In between clips Davies weaved six live acoustic songs into the story and took questions from the audience afterwards.

“Over My Head” will be the new single from “Other People’s Lives.” It will be sent to radio to coincide with the tour. Also, Davies will be taping an hour-long Austin City Limits show while in Austin for airing on a date soon to be announced.

The dates for the tour are as follows:

JULY
Sat 1st – Detroit, MI – Comerica Festival
Sun 2nd – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
Tues 4th – Chicago, IL – Taste of Chicago, Grant Park
Thurs 6th – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
Fri 7th – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
Sun 9th – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
Mon 10th – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
Wed 12th – Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Winery
Thurs 13th – San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre
Sat 15th – San Diego, CA – Spreckels Theatre
Sun 16th – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theatre
Wed 19th – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
Sat 22nd – Austin, TX – Paramount Theatre

After some time off since New Years to revitalize and re-inspire, The String Cheese Incident now announces their tour plans for the summer months ahead. Look for the band on both coasts, and in between, with special musical guests joining them at various stops along the way. Summer tour highlights involve several dates with Bob Weir & RatDog, including Fourth of July weekend at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, where Keller Williams and Taj Mahal will also join the bill. Bob Weir & RatDog and SCI will share the stage for 14 dates total, until SCI catches up again with Keller at the 10,000 Lakes Festival, where they’ll join each other for a rare “Keller Incident.” The band will also stop in Alaska for a couple shows on their way to Japan for the tenth annual Fuji Rock Festival. The summer tour will wrap up with a three night blow out at the beautiful Cuthbert Amphitheater in Eugene, Oregon. SCI is looking forward to collaborating with PEAK Experience Productions for those shows and special guests are still to be announced.

The complete list of tour dates is as follows:
June 24 Pozo Saloon Santa Margarita CA with Bob Weir & RatDog
June 25 Greek Theatre Los Angeles CA with Bob Weir & RatDog
June 26 Concerts in the Park San Diego CA with Bob Weir & RatDog
June 28 Dodge Theatre Phoenix AZ with Bob Weir & RatDog
June 29 Pine Mountain Amphitheatre Flagstaff AZ
June 30 The Great Salt Air Magna UT with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 01 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison CO with Bob Weir & RatDog and Keller Williams
July 02 Red Rocks Amphitheatre Morrison CO with Bob Weir & RatDog and Taj Mahal Trio
July 06 Summerfest @ Marcus Amphitheatre Milwaukee WI with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 07 Starlight Theatre Kansas City MO with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 08 Fabulous Fox Theatre St. Louis MO with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 09 Promowest Pavilion Columbus OH
July 10 Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center Canandaigua NY with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 11 Penn’s Landing Philadelphia PA with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 13-14 Radio City Music Hall New York NY with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 15 Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts Mansfield MA with Bob Weir & RatDog
July 20 10,000 Lakes Festival Detroit Lakes MN
July 21 10,000 Lakes Festival Detroit Lakes MN The Keller Williams Incident
July 23 Moose’s Tooth Theatre Anchorage AK
July 24 Bear Tooth Theatre Anchorage AK
July 28-29 Fuji Rock Festival Niigata Japan
August 01-02 Marymoor Amphitheatre Redmond WA
August 04-06 Cuthbert Amphitheater Eugene OR Produced in Association with PEAK Production

Tickets and Information available at stringcheeseincident.com

A worldwide community of super-sensitive, highly emotional music fans have been holding vigil since September 2005 for the announcement of the 2006 ACL Music Festival lineup. Their wait is finally over. With a head-spinning display of diversity and poundage, the 2006 Festival features Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, Massive Attack, Ben Harper, The String Cheese Incident, Flaming Lips, The Raconteurs, Los Lonely Boys, The Shins, Ween, and about 100 more acts. Producers offer the lineup announcement as a service to overworked music journalists everywhere, delivering a powerful and newsworthy story that any monkey with a mouse could file.

The super-heavyweights on the lineup are reason enough to put the event in a position to repeat its Pollstar Festival of the Year Award, but the remaining two-thirds of the talent offers an array of shooting stars and blooming fruit. More acts include Thievery Corporation, Matisyahu, Iron & Wine, Son Volt, Guster, Damien Rice, Calexico, the New Pornographers, to name a few.

The full lineup is available at www.austincitylimits.com, along with a colorful, action-packed video version of the lineup coming to life in the park, complete with local critters.

Artists scheduled to appear:
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Wolf Parade
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness…
Van Morrison
Sparklehorse
Centro-matic
Willie Nelson
Paolo Nutini
Marah
Massive Attack
Nada Surf
Sam Roberts
String Cheese Incident
Los Amigos Invisibles
Rocky Votolato
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Feist
Murder by Death
The Flaming Lips
Phoenix
The Black Angels
John Mayer
KT Tunstall
Anathallo
The Raconteurs
Goldfrapp
The Rocket Summer
Los Lonely Boys
Donavon Frankenreiter
Sara Hickman
The Shins
Oliver Mtukudzi & Black Spirits
Sylvia St. James and The Gospel Stars
Ween
Asleep at the Wheel
Terri Hendrix
Thievery Corporation
Buckwheat Zydeco
Trish Murphy
Ben Kweller
Husky Rescue
Patrice Pike
G. Love & Special Sauce
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
The Durdens
Matisyahu
The Subdudes
The Jones Family Singers
Gnarls Barkley
BoDeans
Sterling Lands and The Warrior Gospel Band
Damien Rice
The Greencards
Joe McDermott and the Smart Little Creatures
Cat Power and the Memphis Rhythm Band
Guy Clark
The Biscuit Brothers
Ray Lamontagne
Kathleen Edwards
Imagination Movers
Nickel Creek
The Long Winters
Elvis Perkins
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
The Stills
The New Soul Invaders
The Tragically Hip
Charlie Sexton
South Austin Jug Band
Kings of Leon
Alexi Murdoch
Greyhounds
Iron & Wine
Pierre Guimard
Star Kids Yoga
Kasey Chambers
Matt Costa
Joy Davis
Aimee Mann
Matt Nathanson
Daniella Cotton
Galactic
Okkervil River
Troy Campbell Band
The New Orleans Social Club
Ted Leo/Pharmacists
The Palm Elementary School Choir
Calexico
Benevento Russo Duo
Asheba
The New Pornographers
Randy Rogers Band
The White Ghost Shivers
Son Volt
Federico Aubele
The Gospel Silvertones
Guster
What Made Milwaukee Famous
The Anointed Voicez
Explosions in the Sky
Jose Gonzalez
Ghandaia
deadboy & The Elephantmen
Ian McLagan and The Bump Band
Melissa Reaves
The Secret Machines
New Monsoon
Claire Small
Jack Ingram
Del Castillo
Eli Young Band
Brazilian Girls
Fields
Rodney Hayden
Gomez
Lou Ann Barton
Robyn Ludwick
Stars
Beto y los Fairlanes
Peter Dawson

Having spent the last few months playing to enthusiastic and full house crowds at Irving Plaza in New York, the House of Blues in Los Angeles, and the historic Fillmore in San Francisco, Dead Kennedys are excited to announce several tour dates in Europe, including a headlining slot at Hellfest 2006 in Nantes, France and the Furia Sound Festival in Paris, France.

The tour begins on June 22nd in Zurich, Switzerland and then travels to Bregenz, Austria, and then headlining on Saturday at the Furia Sound Festival in Paris, playing with Fishbone and GBH, and finally to Nantes on June 25, where Dead Kennedys will share the Hellfest main stage with other legendary bands such as Motorhead, Agnostic Front, Alice In Chains, Obituary and, well… Korn.

The band would also like to thank all the people who showed up to the USA shows. With governments seemingly running amok (who have you been calling? the National Security Agency wants to know), the band is glad that the message of questioning Big Brother is being brought to more and more people.

Hellfest 2006

Furia Sound Festival

According to ET, after almost four years of marriage, Paul McCartney and wife Heather Mills have separated.

The former couple released the following statement Wednesday, “Having tried exceptionally hard to make our relationship work given the daily pressures surrounding us, it is with sadness that we have decided to go our separate ways. Our parting is amicable and both of us still care about each other very much but have found it increasingly difficult to maintain a normal relationship with constant intrusion into our private lives, and we have actively tried to protect the privacy of our child.

Separation for any couple is difficult enough, but to have to go through this so publicly, especially with a small daughter is immensely stressful. We hope, for the sake of our baby daughter that we will be given some space and time to get through this difficult period.”
Source: et.tv.yahoo.com

Riverside has set a June 27 release date for a double-disc collection featuring the brief 1957 studio collaboration between Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. “The Complete 1957 Riverside gs” boasts 20 tracks, including previously unreleased alternate takes of “Abide With Me” and “Crepuscle With Nellie.”

Also featured is the first stereo version of “Blues for Tomorrow,” which has previously only been available in mono. There are two versions of “Ruby, My Dear,” one with a solo from Coltrane and the other featuring tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.

The album will come with a sheet of promotional collectable stamps as well as liner notes from original session producer Orin Keepnews.

Monk and Coltrane’s six-month stint together is regarded as one of the most important in jazz history, but the recorded evidence of it is sparse at best. Last year, an oft-bootlegged concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall was released by Blue Note after the master tapes were discovered in the Library of Congress.

Here is the track list for “The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings”:

Disc one:
“Monk’s Mood” (false start)
“Monk’s Mood”
“Crepuscle With Nellie” (take 1)
“Crepuscle With Nellie” (take 2)
“Crepuscle With Nellie” (breakdown)
“Blues for Tomorrow” (stereo)
“Crepuscle With Nellie” (edited: re-takes 4 and 5)
“Crepuscle With Nellie” (re-take 6)
“Off Minor” (take 4)
“Off Minor” (take 5)

Disc two:
“Abide With Me” (take 1)
“Abide With Me”
“Epistrophy” (short version)
“Epistrophy”
“Well, You Needn’t” (opening)
“Well, You Needn’t”
“Ruby, My Dear” (with Coleman Hawkins)
“Ruby, My Dear” (with John Coltrane)
“Nutty”
“Trinkle, Tinkle”

Source billboard.com.

Originally due last December, the Pink Floyd live DVD “Pulse” will now hit stores June 27 via Columbia. The project was originally released on home video in 1995 in conjunction with a double-disc CD set of the same name. The film chronicles the band’s 1994 tour in support of the album “The Division Bell,” which turned out to be its last.

The material here was taped during a 14-night run at London’s Earl’s Court and is highlighted by the first complete performance of the 1973 album “Dark Side of the Moon,” which can be found on the second disc. The first disc features a blend of older hits (“Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2,” “Learning To Fly”) and material from “The Division Bell” (“Keep Talking,” “Take It Back”).

Among the bonus features are the back-screen stage projections used during the 1994 and 1987 tours, plus music videos for a host of “Division Bell” tracks, the off-stage documentary “Goodbye To Life As We Know It” and Floyd’s performance of “Wish You Were Here” with Billy Corgan at its 1996 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Meanwhile, Pink Floyd guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour will tape a live DVD of his own during his May 29-30 stand at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The project is expected to be out before the end of the year.

Source billboard.com.