2006

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

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

With their debut album having hit stores on May 16, the Raconteurs have lined up a summer North American tour kicking off July 16 in Denver. The trek in support of the Third Man/V2 set “Broken Boy Soldiers” also includes a previously announced Aug. 4 appearance at Lollapalooza in Chicago.

Beforehand, the Raconteurs will play a one-off June 7 show in Los Angeles and a host of European summer festival dates, beginning June 21 at the Wireless Festival in London. In addition, the group will greet fans Thursday at Tower Records in New York’s East Village.

“Broken Boy Soldiers” is led by the single “Steady, As She Goes,” which rises 5-4 this week on Billboard’s Modern Rock chart.

Here are the Raconteurs’ tour dates:

June 7: Los Angeles (Music Box)
June 21: London (Hyde Park)
June 24: Scheesel, Germany (Hurricane Festival)
July 1: Werchter, Belgium (Rock Werchter Festival)
July 5: Kristiansand, Norway (Quart Festival)
July 16: Denver (Fillmore Auditorium)
July 18: Tempe, Ariz. (Marquee Theatre)
July 19: San Diego (Soma)
July 21: Los Angeles (Wiltern Theatre
July 23: San Francisco (Warfield Theatre)
July 25: Portland, Ore. (Roseland Theatre)
July 26: Vancouver (Malkin Bowl)
July 27: Seattle (Moore Theatre)
Aug. 3: Minneapolis (First Avenue)
Aug. 4: Chicago (Lollapalooza)
Aug. 5: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Michigan Theatre)
Aug. 6: Cleveland (House of Blues)
Aug. 26: Reading, England (Reading Festival)
Aug. 27: Leeds, England (Leeds Festival)

Source billboard.com.

A typically eclectic crew of artists will perform in the coming months as part of the SummerStage series in New York’s Central Park. Among the acts set for free performances are Rhett Miller with Teddy Thompson and Ollabelle, Feist, Antibalas and Seu Jorge with Jose Gonzalez and DJ Cut Chemist.

Other highlights of the free series include a July 16 triple-bill with Amadou & Mariam, Daby Toure and Birdy Nam Nam, a July 19 visit from the Upright Citizens Brigade with appearances by Todd Barry, David Cross and Amy Pohler, a rare live set from Edie Brickell and New Bohemians (July 28) and a star-studded July 30 hip-hop show with Lady Sovereign, Jean Grae and Pete Rock.

SummerStage will also host several high-profile benefits, beginning June 28 with Bonnie Raitt and Keb’ Mo’. Shows will follow from Ani DiFranco (July 13), Galactic and Umphrey’s McGee (July 20), Fiona Apple and Damien Rice (July 26) and Calexico, the New Pornographers and the Frames (Aug. 3).

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.

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.

Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon and The Benevento/Russo Duo will be playing an eleventh date with Phil Lesh & Friends on Thursday, July 6th at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts (or ‘Great Woods’ for the older set).

A presale for this show and the Toronto show on July 18 will start tomorrow morning, Tuesday,May 16 at 12 NOON EST at treytickets.rlc.net . Tickets for the Tweeter show will go onsale to the public this Saturday, May 20 at 10am EST. Tickets for the Toronto show will go onsale to the public the following Friday, May 26 at 12 NOON EST.