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BoomBox Headlines RE:Convergence THIS WEEKEND

Submitted by Tsunami Publicity(0)Tue, 11/10/2009 - 7:55am

This weekend, twenty of the nation's best live producers, DJ's and live electronic acts come together for two-nights under the roof of Cervante's and Quixotes for a mind blowing night of music. Featuring a hand selected line up of artists including BoomBox, Ana Sia, DJ Roots and more. You don't want to miss this special event, advance purchase of tickets are encouraged!

Friday November 13th
Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom & Quixote’s True Blue
RE:CONVERGENCE
Boombox, Samiyam, Ana Sia, Lazer Sword, Megasoid, Lorn, Two Fresh, Fresh2Death, DJ Rootz, Grown Folks, Dave Seied

Saturday November 14th
CERVANTES Masterpiece Ballroom & Quixote’s True Blue
RE:CONVERGENCE
Boombox, Bluetech, Sexy Time, Blockhead, Evol Intent, Eskmo, Ana Sia, Octopus Nebula, Grown Folks, Jason Sterling

Tickets are available at: www.cervantesmasterpiece.com

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Great American Taxi Celebrates Beer and More This Fall

Submitted by press(5)

Fri, 09/18/2009 - 12:02am

Vince Herman and Chad Staehly are leading their new line-up in the Great American Taxi into an exciting autumn of shows. Taxi now boasts a solid core line-up after some experimentation with Jim Lewin from Santa Cruz, CA on electric guitars along with Boulder-area players Chris Sheldon on drums and Brian Adams on bass (both toured extensively in the Phish tribute band Phix). First stop is this weekend to celebrate Boulder Beer’s 30th Anniversary at the Boulder Theater on Friday September 18th with local Denver pickers Oakhurst on support duties. GAT then heads off west to play a set of their own at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco as well as backing up Todd Snider for some of his set the following day. Snider and Taxi first hooked up in Durango earlier this year and again at the Hoxeyville Music Festival in Michigan just this past August. They will also do a few more dates together in November. Railroad Earth has also added Taxi onto a few bills in October. Dates continue to be added so check out www.greatamericantaxi.com for updated info.

September 18 - Boulder Theater - Boulder, CO with Oakhurst

September 30 - The State Room - Salt Lake City, UT

October 1 - Crystal Bay Club and Casino - Crystal Bay, NV - free show!

October 3 - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - Golden Gate Park - San Francisco, CA

October 4 - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival with Todd Snider

October 7 - tba

October 8 - Connecticut Yankee - San Francisco, CA

October 9 - Catalyst Club - Santa Cruz, CA

October 10 - Hop Monk Tavern - Sebastopol, CA

October 23 - Magnolia Music Festival - Live Oak, FL w/ special guest Barry Sless

October 24 - Magnolia Music Festival - Live Oak, FL w/ special guest Barry Sless

October 26 - Beachland Ballroom and Tavern - Cleveland, OH w/ Railroad Earth

October 27 - Mr. Small’s - Millvale, PA w/ Railroad Earth

October 28 - tba

October 29 - The Barrymore Theater - Madison, WI w/ Railroad Earth

October 30 - Vic Theater - Chicago, IL w/ Railroad Earth

October 31 - special Halloween show in Peoria, IL details tba

November 3 - tba

November 4 - Victoria’s Midnight Cafe - Columbus, OH

November 5 - Cosmic Charlie’s - Lexington, KY

November 6 - Pisgah Brewing Co. - Black Mountain, NC

November 7 - tba

November 8 - Smith’s Olde Bar - Atlanta, GA

November 11 - The Rutledge - Nashville, TN

November 12 - The Copper Dragon - Carbondale, IL

November 13 - tba

November 13 - Shank Hall - Milwaukee, WI w/ Todd Snider

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Nathan Moore "Travelin' On" This Fall

Submitted by mike(256)

Tue, 09/15/2009 - 3:31am

Nathan Moore is back on the road in September for the third leg of his "Travelin' On" 2009 tour supporting his latest release, Folk Singer. Upcoming dates include both headline performances and opening slots with the likes of Assembly Of Dust, Shemekia Copeland and Marco Benevento Trio.

folk-singer "Since the economy has turned and with the state of the world, people are looking closer to home for things to sustain us. In that sense, the folk singer thrives," says Moore. "I seem to catch people off guard when I am performing, in how they are reacting to me. I think people are poised. Our culture is so accustomed to not having direct connection, people are just jaded enough to be pleasantly surprised by a little folk singer. They come up to me after the show and say 'I wasn't expecting to feel any of that stuff, thank you!'"

Nathan Moore has logged many miles since May, toting his bag of tricks from coast-to-coast and giving thousands a peek inside. The Staunton, VA-based singer-songwriter, who's known to also perform magic tricks onstage, and who also fronts the the indie roots band Surprise Me Mr. Davis, performs solo acoustic in the pure folk tradition with just voice, guitar and harmonica at his own shows. The eight tracks on Folk Singer were recorded in the same manner.

"Every song I've ever written started with just me and my guitar. It's the point of origin and, in that sense, the purest form of my songs," says Moore. "My reality is, these days, I'm mostly touring alone and it's great to have an album that represents this side of me."

Nathan Moore's Travelin' On Tour continues with more dates to be announced shortly:

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Tierney Sutton This Week At The Iridium

Submitted by press(5)

Wed, 08/19/2009 - 10:34pm

sutton In a world of overnight sensations, vocalist Tierney Sutton’s success has come from the road less traveled. A decision in the mid ’90s to move to Southern California from her New England home resulted in a decade-long collaboration with her current band mates. A Wisconsin-born choir girl, unexposed to jazz until college, Sutton eventually found the best of the best – collaborators with their own impressive jazz pedigrees, from Natalie Cole to Diana Krall, from Ray Charles to Randy Brecker – pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, and drummer Ray Brinker. Twelve years and seven critically acclaimed CDs later, Sutton and her longtime band demonstrate what collective consultation and dedicated teamwork can achieve. Reviewers repeatedly say that audiences experience a rare and powerful harmony, achieved by humble performers at the top of their game. The road less traveled in an impatient world.

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB
1650 BROADWAY (CORNER OF 51ST)
NEW YORK, NY 10023
RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121
HTTP://WWW.IRIDIUMJAZZCLUB.COM/
SETS AT 8:30 & 10:30PM

WED. THRU SUN. AUGUST 19-23 TIERNEY SUTTON

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The 2009 Capitol Hill Block Party Premieres This Weekend

Submitted by mike(256)

Fri, 07/24/2009 - 4:28am

SONIC YOUTH, THE JESUS LIZARD,BUILT TO SPILL, THE GOSSIP, DEERHUNTER, BLACK LIPS, THE THERMALS, PELA, THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, EARTH, MOONDOGGIES, SPINNERETTE, THE DUTCHESS AND THE DUKE, MIKA MIKO, THE BLAKES, SLEEPY EYES OF DEATH, GIRLS, HEY MARSEILLES, THE MALDIVES, TRUCKASAURUS, AKIMBO, PAST LIVES, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, MICACHU & THE SHAPES, JAPANDROIDS, THE LONELY FOREST, FENCES, STARFUCKER, FAUX PUNK, NEW FACES, D.BLACK, HOTELS, FATAL LUCCIAUNO,PICA BEATS, SPACEMAN, FLEXIONS, THE LIVE!, AWESOME COLOR, WILD ORCHID CHILDREN, SGT MAJOR III, AUDACITY, BOW + ARROW, SOL, SING SING REUNION FEAT: PRETTY TITTY AND FOURCOLOR ZACK

The Capitol Hill Block Party happens July 24-25 in Seattle's Capitol Hill Neighborhood. Presented by The Stranger in association with KEXP 90.3 FM and www.kexp.org, Caffe Vita, Miller Highlife, 107.7 The End, Urban Outfitters, Jones Soda, Jack Daniel's, EAW, Mackie, Ampeg, SEIU, The Washington Bus, and curated by Sealed with a Kiss.

Advance tickets available now. Just $23 for single day tickets or $42 for a 2 day pass, at the Neumo's box office and at Seattle Urban Outfitters or at Ticketswest.com. Get your tickets now to avoid the lines!

Friday July 24
Doors @ 3:00 pm

Main Stage :: All Ages
4:00 - The Dutchess and The Duke, myspace.com/thedutchessandtheduke
5:15 - Spinnerette, spinnerettemusic.com
6:30 - Black Lips, black-lips.com
7:45 - Deerhunter, myspace.com/deerhunter
9:15 - Built to Spill, myspace.com/builttospill
10:45 - The Jesus Lizard, myspace.com/thejesuslizard

Neumos :: 21+
4:00 - Sgt Major III, myspace.com/sgtmajortheband
5:00 - Band of Skulls, bandofskulls.com/
6:15 - The Blakes, myspace.com/theblakes
7:30 Sleepy Eyes of Death, sleepyeyesofdeath.com
8:45 - Earth, myspace.com/earthofficial
10:00 - They Live!, myspace.com/theylive206
11:30 - Sing Sing Reunion, myspace.com/singsinguk

Vera Stage :: All Ages
4:00 - Audacity, myspace.com/audacityca
5:00 - Flexions, myspace.com/flexions
6:00 - Bow+Arrow, myspace.com/thebowandarrow
7:00 - Micachu & The Shapes, myspace.com/micayomusic
8:15 - Past Lives, myspace.com/pastlivesmusic
9:30 - Starfucker, myspace.com/starfuckerss
10:45 - Mika Miko, myspace.com/mikamiko

Saturday July 25
Doors 1:00pm

Main Stage :: All Ages
2:00 - Hey Marseilles, heymarseilles.com
3:15 - Moondoggies, myspace.com/themoondoggies
4:30 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com
5:45 - PELA, myspace.com/pela
7:15 - The Thermals, thethermals.com
8:45 - The Gossip, thegossipmusic.com
10:30 - Sonic Youth, sonicyouth.com

Neumos Stage :: 21+
2:00 - Awesome Color, myspace.com/awesomecolor
3:00 - Hotels, myspace.com/hotels
4:00 - Girls, myspace.com/thegirlsseattle
5:15 - Akimbo, myspace.com/akimbo
6:30 - The Maldives, themaldivesmusic.com
7:45 - Truckasauras, myspace.com/teapartiesgunsnvalor
9:00 - Future of The Left, futureoftheleft.com
10:15 - Sportn' Life Show Case feat D.Black, Fatal Lucciauno, Spaceman, myspace.com/sportnliferecords
11:30 - Faux Punk, myspace.com/fauxpunknow

Vera Stage :: All Ages
2:00 - Wild Orchid Children, myspace.com/wildorchidchildren
3:30 - Pica Beats, www.thepicabeats.com
4:30 - Fences, myspace.com/fencesvswolf
5:30 - New Faces, myspace.com/newfacesband
6:30 - SOL, myspace.com/solzilla
7:30 - The Lonely Forest, myspace.com/thelonelyforest
8:45 - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, myspace.com/edwardsharpe
9:45 - Noisettes, myspace.com/noisettesuk
11:00 - Japandroids, myspace.com/japandroids

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Mile High Music Festival This Weekend

Submitted by madison(0)Tue, 07/14/2009 - 3:10am

Widespread Panic will play Mile High Festival With just 5 days until Colorado's second annual Mile High Music Festival, today festival organizers announce the weekend's performance schedule. Five stages will host 50 bands during the two-day festival, with music beginning at 11:15 am each day and going until 2 am on Saturday and 12:30 am on Sunday. Mile High Music Festival has also unveiled the 2009 Site Map. Visit www.milehighmusicfestival.com for complete details and to purchase tickets.

Bands confirmed to perform at Colorado's Mile High Music Festival, happening at the Fields at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on July 18 and 19, include TOOL, Widespread Panic, The Fray, Incubus, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Thievery Corporation, G.Love & Special Sauce, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Gov't Mule, Buddy Guy, 3OH!3, Ani DiFranco, Paolo Nutini, The Black Keys, Gogol Bordello, DeVotchka, John Butler, Gomez, Jack's Mannequin, The Wailers, India.Arie and many others. Rounding out the line-up, the following bands have just been announced: Jet, The Duke Spirit, Strange Condition and Rob Drabkin.

Tickets for Mile High Music Festival are on sale now, including Single Day Tickets and 2-Day Packages, plus VIP Ticket options. Get tickets online at www.tickethorse.com and http://www.milehighmusicfestival.com, by phone at 866-461-6556 and at Dick's Sporting Goods Park Box Office. They can also be purchased with a credit card at the Ticket Outlet Kiosks in the twelve Colorado Dick's Sporting Goods stores.

Visit www.milehighmusicfestival.com for complete details. The Fields at Dick's Sporting Goods Park are conveniently located just nine miles from downtown Denver, and only 1.8 miles from the I-70 and Quebec exit.

mule The line-up for Mile High Music Festival is currently as follows (not in order of appearance):

Saturday, July 18
TOOL
Widespread Panic
Incubus
Ben Harper & Relentless7
G. Love and Special Sauce
Big Head Todd & The Monsters
The Black Keys
Ani DiFranco
Matt Nathanson
Galactic
Paolo Nutini
Gomez
The Greyboy Allstars
Railroad Earth
India.Arie
Lyrics Born
Rocco DeLuca and The Burden
The Duke Spirit
needtobreathe
The Band of Heathens
Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam
The Northern Way (formerly Set Forth)
Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real
Rob Drabkin
Gregory Alan Isakov

Sunday, July 19
Widespread Panic
The Fray
Thievery Corporation
3OH!3
Gov't Mule
Gogol Bordello
John Butler
DeVotchka
Buddy Guy
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Pepper
Jet
The Wailers
Matisayhu
Jack's Mannequin
Guster
Mat Kearney
Dead Confederate
Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons
Erin McCarley
Paper Bird
Honeyhoney
Joe Pug
Strange Condition
Electric Touch

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The Dodos To Release "Time To Die" This Fall

Submitted by mike(256)

Wed, 06/17/2009 - 11:38pm

With a title like Time To Die, you might think the Dodos’ third disc is their ‘mature album,’ a deadly serious undertaking punctuated with string sections and synths. Nice try kid, but you’ve got it all wrong. While indie rock’s go-to guy, Phil Ek (Built to Spill, Fleet Foxes, The Shins), hopped behind the boards this time, the Dodos’ wildly-percussive style is still centered around two key elements: the punchy percussion of Logan Kroeber and the Fahey-infused finger-picking of frontman Meric Long. Oh sure, you’ll hear a horn blast here and there, but it’s never enough to distract you from the group’s riffs and rolls.

“I’m glad that we were able to keep things simple on this record,” says Long, “Because when your band gets a little popular, there’s this tendency to say things like, ‘Let’s add an orchestra on this one!” That works for some people, but it would detract from this band.”

Indeed, and as right as Long may be, Time To Die introduces one major addition to the Dodos’ creative core: Keaton Snyder, a 21-year-old music school dropout who plays a mean vibraphone. As Long puts it, “He’s a better musician than Logan and I combined. I don’t even know what’s going on with his music theory ideas half the time.” On a similar note, Snyder—a classically-trained musician—is constantly learning what ‘being in a band’ entails. In fact, he didn’t even know how to react when a chord was yanked during his Dodos debut. “After the show,” says Long, “he was like, ‘Yeah, I’ve never had to plug anything in before.’ It was hilarious.”

All jokes aside, you’d never know Snyder was the Dodos’ third man without looking at the new album’s liner notes. Not because he’s missing in action half the time; he’s just locked in step with Long’s steady-handed strumming and Kroeber’s canon-like beats. That, and Snyder’s actual sound/physical presence isn’t all that different than the visceral elements explored on the Dodos’ previous two albums, 2006’s Beware of the Maniacs and the band’s buzz-stirring breakthrough, 2008’s Visiter.

“The vibraphone is pretty crazy and loud,” says Long, “and if you put it through some effects, you can make it sound like a guitar or synthesizer. It still has that element of something you’re hitting, though, which is central to how Logan and I play our instruments.”

That’s the thing about Time To Die: It expands the Dodos’ Ginsu-sharp sound without smothering it. It’s not the death of everything you adored about the duo; it’s a rebirth, revealing some serious career standouts (the widescreen payoff of “Small Deaths,” the string-and-drum spasms of “Longform,” the delicate/distorted dynamics of Snyder’s “Troll Nacht” parts) along the way. Which isn’t a surprise when you hear how many months they spent writing the damn thing earlier this year.

“After Visiter, we had a lot of options for which direction to go,” says Long, “But I knew we wanted to make a rock record. Being an acoustic band—primarily, at least—sort of works against this idea, but Phil’s production showcased that side of our band.”

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Harlem Shakes LP Release Party This Thurs. At Williamsburg Hall Of Music

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Tue, 03/24/2009 - 3:56am

Harlem Shakes as we know it were born in 2006, after an earlier incarnation of the band went to college and went nuts. Lexy still sings lead, and Brent still plays the drums (and drum machine), but now Kendrick plays keyboards, Jose plays bass, and Todd plays guitar. Everyone sings. Harlem Shakes have toured with Deerhoof, Vampire Weekend, and Beirut, and opened for Wire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Arctic Monkeys, and various other famous bands with animal names. Burning Birthdays, the band's self-released debut EP, came out in 2007 to wide acclaim, earning generous praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, SPIN, AllMusic, Stylus, The Village Voice, and the blogs. Pitchfork complimented their "frenetic clip of hooks," and sometime Magnetic Field-er LD Beghtol of The Voice called them "lethally charming" and one of "the Best of New York." The band is sure that all this good luck must come at some kind of lurking, damning cost.

After extensive touring and a bit of schooling, the band got back together with Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav, The Walkmen, Passion Pit, White Rabbits) to record their first full-length album, Technicolor Health. The result is one of the most quietly ambitious pop albums in ages. Much like Blur fused English pop traditions and contemporary sonics to forge Brit Pop, Harlem Shakes meld the Great American Songbook with unmistakably contemporary textures, creating what one might call "Am Pop." Influences as disparate as the Band, Randy Newman, Carlos Santana and Spank Rock inform the soundscapes, but the vibe is too coherent to be called eclectic. Technicolor Health invokes the synthesized Latin percussion that plays outside the band's apartments every night as they're trying to fall asleep, and the classic rock radio they listen to with hilarious regularity. These are social songs: instruments meander, trade off lines, and counter each other's rhythms and melodies, but ultimately they come together again on the chorus, or in an ecstatic outro or bridge, for a singalong family dinner. Harlem Shakes also have an unapologetically literary lilt; writers like Leonard Michaels, Wislawa Szymborska, and David Berman echo in Lexy's lyrics.

Technicolor Health was made after and during some tough times (involving serious sickness) for the band. The record captures the weary, hopeful, and sometimes triumphal vibe of that period in their lives. Above all, the album is about surviving abject shittiness. But it's also about what new-wave bands and new-wave revival bands call, "modern life," as lived by five thoughtful men in their early and mid-twenties during a weird, sometimes miserable, mostly thrilling historical moment. Harlem Shakes have been obsessed by pop music their whole lives, and after all the reiterations, they still have great faith in its power to make you and them feel a little better about things, and to say something vital, and God willing, maybe even enduring.

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Ian Anderson on Tour this Fall

Submitted by press(5)

Tue, 03/24/2009 - 1:29am

Ian Anderson, known throughout the world of rock music as the flute and voice behind the legendary Jethro Tull will be touring this October and November in the United States. Ian is inviting a number of guests from the jazz, classical, rock, and world music world to share the stage for this eclectic acoustic tour.

Widely recognized as the man who introduced the flute to rock music, Ian Anderson remains the crowned exponent of the popular and rock genres of flute playing. In addition to classical flute, he also plays ethnic flutes and whistles together with acoustic guitar and the mandolin family of instruments, providing the acoustic textures, which are an integral part of most of the Jethro Tull repertoire.

When not touring with Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson appears more and more frequently in solo concerts with a variety of line-ups from the music world, including orchestral.

For the 2009 Ian Anderson Plays The Acoustic Jethro Tull, his band includes jazz artists: bassist David Goodier (Jethro Tull) and Mark Mondasir (John McLaughlin). Classical musician John O'Hara, who also plays keyboards and accordion with Jethro Tull will be joining the line up, as will German Rock and Flamenco guitarist Florian Opahle. Ian will have a range of other guests on this tour.

As a solo artist, Ian Anderson has recorded four diverse solo albums in his career: Walk into Light (1983), the flute instrumental Divinities (1995) which reached number one on the Billboard Classical chart, and the more recently recorded acoustic collections of songs, The Secret Language of Birds (2000), and Rupi’s Dance (2003).

In 2006, he was awarded a Doctorate in Literature from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, the Ivor Award for International Achievement in Music and, in the New Years Honours List 2008, an MBE for services to music. In 2008 he celebrated 40 years as a recording and performing musician.

OCT
6      Milwaukee      Pabst Theater
7      Chicago           Vic Theatre
9      Schenectady, NY      Proctor's Theatre
10      Worcester, MA      Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts 11      Ledyard, CT      Foxwoods Resort - MGM Grand
13      New York      Beacon Theatre
15      Baltimore, MD      Lyric Opera House
16      Glenside, PA      Keswick Theater
17      Red Bank, NJ      Count Basie Theatre
18      Wallingford, CT      Chevrolet Theatre

NOV
3      Phoenix, AZ      Dodge Theatre
5      Anaheim, CA      The Grove of Anaheim
6      Los Angeles      The Wiltern
9      San Francisco      The Warfield Theatre
13      Portland, OR      Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall -
14      Seattle, WA      Moore Theatre

http://www.jethrotull.com

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This Friday starts Gene Ween Band US Southeast tour

Submitted by press(5)

Wed, 03/18/2009 - 5:29am

ween Come on out and see Gene Ween and his band, doing some new songs, some ween songs, and some freaky covers. His all-star band features Ween bassist Dave Dreiwitz, guitarist Scott Metzger and drummer Joe Russo.

Friday, March 20
Cat's Cradle
300 E Main St
Carrboro, NC
w/opening act Torch Marauder
www.etix.com


Saturday, March 21
Neighborhood Theater
511 East 36th St
Charlotte, NC
w/opening act The Loners
www.neighborhoodtheatre.com

Sunday, March 22
The Earl
488 Flat Shoals Ave. SE
Atlanta, GA
(an Evening with GWB)

www.ticketalternative.com

Tuesday, March 24 
Exit/In
2208 Elliston Pl
Nashville, TN
w/opening act The Mattoid
   www.exitin.com

Wednesday, March 25
40 Watt 
285 W Washington St.
Athens, GA
w/opening act Timmy Tumble
www.40watt.com

Thursday, March 26
Orange Peel 
101 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC
w/opening act 
Shake It Like a Caveman
http://theorangepeel.net

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