2006

Indie rock acts Wolf Parade and Frog Eyes will team for a host of North American tour dates later this summer, beginning Aug. 4 in Ottawa, Ontario. Wolf Parade vocalist/keyboardist Spencer Krug will be pulling double duty at the shows, having rejoined Frog Eyes earlier this year after an extended break from the group.

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Los Angeles band Particle will give North American audiences a taste of its new sound this summer, with tour dates booked into early October.
The concerts include June and July dates in the Western U.S., with Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland on the map for August. A cross-country run is booked for September, followed by dates in Ohio and North Carolina the following month.
The group will be joined by the U.K.’s Ozric Tentacles for a handful of shows in mid-July. The itinerary also includes gigs with Soulive and Blues Traveler.
The band will be playing Street Scene in San Diego on July 4, and the very next day they’re at Lollapalooza in Chicago. Two more prestigious festival stops – Bumbershoot in Seattle and Summerfest in Milwaukee – are also on the schedule.
Particle – which fuses rock, funk and electronic elements into a jammy style it calls “funktronic” – added vocals for the first time last year with the addition of new members Ben Combe and Scott Metzger, who both play guitar and sing.
Combe and Metzger replaced former guitarist Charlie Hitchcock, who either left or was kicked out in early 2005, depending who you ask.
In July, the band will release a double-disc concert CD and full-length DVD titled Transformations Live, which documents its first shows as a five-piece earlier this year.

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As noted on the John Brown’s Body official website, bassist Scott Palmer has lost his battle to cancer, and passed away Wednesday afternoon.

“Our bass player Scott Palmer passed away today at 12noon. As you may know, Scott was diagnosed with cancer in January of this year. As the bass player for JBB since 2002, Scott was immediately a family member within JBB, blessing us with his great warmth, humor, charm, and of course monstrous bass playing. We are sad beyond words to have lost him today. Condolensces can be sent to Scott’s family:

Mr. and Mrs. Vince Palmer PO Box 148 Pultneyville N.Y. 14538

R.I.P. Scottie – we love you.”

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The Village Voice, the nation’s largest alternative weekly newspaper, is excited to announce the addition of Scissor Sisters, Serena Maneesh, Man Man, The Rogers Sisters and Deadboy & The Elephantmen to the line-up for the 6th Annual Village Voice SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL

In celebration of the July 18 release of its new Lost Highway album, “Another Fine Day,” rock supergroup Golden Smog will take the stage for a July 23 show at First Avenue in Minneapolis and a July 26 engagement at the Bowery Ballroom in New York.

And while “Another Fine Day” features contributions from Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy, Big Star’s Jody Stephens and the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris, Marc Perlman and Kraig Johnson, it’s unclear at deadline which artists will be playing at the two shows.

The band had been virtually dormant since wrapping a tour behind 1998’s “Weird Tales,” but last year, Louris, Perlman, Murphy and Johnson played a handful of Golden Smog dates sans Tweedy. A Lost Highway spokesperson says more shows are possible in the fall, although nothing is yet confirmed.

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Beck has finished recording his next studio album and will release it this fall via Interscope. While there is no official street date for the as-yet-untitled effort, it comes only a year-and-a-half after his last full-length set, “Guero,” hit stores.

According to Beck’s Web site, the new album was produced by Nigel Godrich, who has been behind the boards for such prior releases as 1998’s “Mutations” and 2002’s “Sea Change.”

Beck will be previewing new material this month during a 10-date North American tour, which also visits Tennessee’s Bonnaroo festival. In August, he will hit the European festival circuit and open two dates for Radiohead in Edinburgh and Dublin.

Source billboard.com.