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Road Warriors 45

December 20, 2007 /

Road Warriors 45

San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival is set for February 26 through March 2, and more artists have been confirmed for the event. New performers just announced are British Sea Power, Panther, Holy Fuck, Jeffery Lewis & The Jitters, Darker My Love, and Minipop. Other acts already confirmed include Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, The Gutter Twins, Cursive, Blitzen, Trapper, Fu Manchu, Kelly Stoltz, and Saviours. For more information, please visit www.noisepop.com

London based four-piece rock band Switches are coming to the US for a tour after the New Year with NYC based synth rockers Bravery. Switches will be touring in advance of their album, Lay Down The Law, due out March 18 on Interscope. Here are the confirmed dates:

January
16 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
17 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre
18 Aspen, CO – Belly Up
19 Salt Lake City, UT – Club Sound (formerly Bricks)
22 Boise, ID – The Big Easy
23 Spokane, WA – The Big Easy Concert House
24 Vancouver, BC – Richard’s on Richards
25 Seattle, WA – Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room
26 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
28 Sacramento, CA – The Boardwalk
29 Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
30 San Diego, CA – House of Blues
31 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
February
01 Tempe, AZ – The Clubhouse
02 Tucson, AZ – The Rock
05 Austin, TX – Emo’s
06 Dallas, TX – Granada Theatre
07 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
08 Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
09 Atlanta, GA – Roxy
12 Toronto, ONT – Opera House
13 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
14 Cincinnati, OH – 20th Century Theatre
15 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
16 Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
18 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
19 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
22 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore at TLA

Hellyeah, one of the most successful new rock bands, have just announced the second leg of their national headlining tour which they are calling Balls, Volume, Strength Tour. Machine Head, Nonpoint and Ankla will be supporting. Hellyeah’s self-titled album entered Billboard’s Top 200 at #9 earlier this year and has sold over 250,000 units. Here are the upcoming tour dates with more to be announced Continue reading »

Alternative, Concerts, Pop, Rock

Ari Hest Embraces Being Indie

December 20, 2007 /

After three years on major label Columbia Records, New York City based singer/songwriter Ari Hest is on his own again, and is embracing his independent status. Following an alarming trend of artists who feel the need to emancipate themselves from the major label machine to pursue more control and artistic freedom, Hest is launching a subscription based service on January 7 called “52.” The premise is that the prolific artist will deliver to his fans one new song per week with access to blogs, lyrics, interactive voting polls and more.

“After an amicable departure from my record label this summer, I decided it was time to try something a little different,” he said. “It feels great to be an independent artist again, and I’m more inspired than ever to write and record. ”

At the end of 2008, Hest will take the most popular songs from “52,” and record a new album with those tracks in 2009. There will be three levels to the subscription service, and fans can find out more by visiting Hest’s website at www.arihest.com

Alternative, Indie Labels, Music Labels, Pop, Rock, Songs

Ruby Tuesday: Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, “It’s Grim Up North”

December 18, 2007 /

After tumbling down the remix rabbit hole in the mid to late ’80s, the unthinkable happened: the scene changed on me. By the early ’90s all hell was breaking loose in the clubs. House music pretty much wiped my favorite kinds of dance records off the map (mostly dance oriented rock, or DOR as they once called it). That, combined with my remix hero Shep Pettibone’s sudden retirement, left me in no man’s land. EMF producer Ralph Jezzard made some nifty mixes, but he didn’t make enough of them. I slowly stopped paying attention to remixes at that point.

Then one day my old DJ buddy Paul MacDonald sends me a dozen cassettes with assorted remixes and such on it. One of them was called Techno Mixes. Techno, at one point, meant New Order and Nitzer Ebb. By this point it meant Orgy and Moby. This new techno frightened and confused me, but I pressed on. Most of the tunes were pretty harmless, really. They stole lines from movies, TV shows, educational films, what have you, and surrounded them with shrieking synthesizers. There was a tune called “Sesame’s Treat” that amused me. “LSD is the Bomb” had a cool drum track, and someone even sampled the theme to “Halloween” for a song. Meh.

And then I heard “It’s Grim Up North,” and my jaw hit the floor.

Officially credited to the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, “It’s Grim Up North” is the KLF in disguise (though not really in disguise). Released in late 1991, the band had made some inroads on the American charts earlier that summer, but “Grim” was playing a completely different sport than their Top Five hit “3 A.M. Eternal.” Those songs were bouncy: “It’s Grim Up North” was industrial grit, complete with screaming steam whistles. Bill Drummond’s lyrics are nothing but lists of cities in northern England (you can find a list on the song’s Wikipedia page), spoken in bleak monotone. And then, after pummeling and pounding the listener for eight minutes, the drums give way to the hymn “Jerusalem,” steam whistles still screaming in the background. Hell, yes.

The song didn’t convert me to the then-new techno scene, but it did serve as one hell of a last hurrah to my golden age of dance. “Sesame’s Treat,” on the other hand, hasn’t held up so well.

Justified Ancients of Mu Mu – It’s Grim Up North.mp3

Alternative, Electronica, External Music, Pop, Ruby Tuesday, Songs

Road Warriors 44

December 14, 2007 /

Road Warriors 44

Coldplay’s long-awaited fourth album is due for release in 2008, and while no details have been released about a tour, the band has just announced that there will definitely be one. Keep up with progress on the band’s website

Since the release of their debut album in June of 2007, SoCal rock band Revolution Mother have been tearing up the road. Now, they have just announced a tour beginning in January along with Tiger Army and Dear and Departed. Here is the confirmed itinerary:

With Social Distortion
1/13 House of Blues Hollywood, CA

With Tiger Army and Dear and Departed
1/15 The Exit Fresno, CA
1/16 Downtown Brew San Luis Obispo, CA
1/18 SOMA San Diego, CA
1/19 The Rock Tucson, AZ
1/22 Grand Theater Dallas, TX
1/23 House of Rock Corpus Christi, TX
1/25 The Parish-HOB New Orleans, LA
1/26 Beta Bar Tallahassee, FL
2/1 Uncle Pleasants Louisville, KY
2/2 Mad Hatters Covington, KY
2/5 Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa, OK
2/7 Sunshine Albuquerque, NM
2/9 Mandalay Bay-HOB Las Vegas, NV

Funk/Soul artist Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings will hit the road in 2008 supporting their latest album, 100 Days, 100 Nights on Daptone Records. Here is the list of upcoming tour dates:

Jan 03 Ft. Lauderdale FL – Culture Room
Jan 17 Washington DC – Black Cat
Jan 18 Charlottesville VA – Satellite Ballroom
Jan 19 Atlanta GA – Variety Playhouse
Jan 21 Orlando FL – The Social
Jan 22 Tampa FL – Skipper’s Smokehouse
Jan 23 Tallahassee FL – Club Down Under
Jan 24 New Orleans LA – House of Blues
Jan 25 Houston TX – Walters
Jan 26 Austin TX – Antone’s
Jan 27 Dallas TX – Granada Theatre
Jan 29 Lawrence KS – Granada Theatre
Jan 30 St Louis MO – Duck Room
Jan 31 Cincinnati OH – Bogarts
Feb 01 Louisville KY – Headliners
Feb 02 Nashville TN – Mercy Lounge

After supporting Interpol on their US arena tour, Los Angeles band Liars will be headlining their own tour beginning in January. Here is the list of confirmed shows so far:

Fri 1/25 @ Slim’s – San Francisco CA
Sat 1/26 @ Club Underground – Reno NV
Mon 1/28 @ Wonder Ballroom – Portland OR
Tue 1/29 @ Showbox – Seattle WA
Wed 1/30 @ Neuroiux – Boise ID
Thu 1/31 @ Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City UT
Fri 2/1 @ Marqis Theatre – Denver CO
Sat 2/2 @ The Bottleneck – Lawrence KS
Mon 2/4 @ Grinnell College – Grinnell IA
Tue 2/5 @ Metro – Chicago IL
Wed 2/6 @ Dionysus Club – Oberlin OH
Thu 2/7 @ The Tralf – Buffalo NY
Fri 2/8 @ Paradise – Boston MA
Sat 2/9 @ Warsaw – Brooklyn NY
Sun 2/10 @ First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia PA
Tue 2/12 @ 9:30 Club – Washington DC
Wed 2/13 @ Orange Peel – Asheville NC
Thu 2/14 @ The Earl – Atlanta GA
Sat 2/16 @ The Mohawk – Austin TX
Sun 2/17 @ Hailey’s – Denton TX
Tue 2/19 @ Launchpad – Albuquerque NM
Wed 2/20 @ The Clubhouse – Tempe AZ
Thu 2/21 @ Casbah – San Diego CA
Fri 2/22 @ El Rey Theater – Los Angeles CA

Alternative, Concerts, Hip Hop, Rock

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