Some pretty sweet 90’s acts are coming to a town near you, hopefully. Here’s a quick rundown of some acts that you should check out.
Cake, the guys who just want a girl in a short skirt and and long jacket, will be embarking on a mini tour at the end of September.
September 25 - Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
September 26 - Hamilton, ON @ Hamilton Convention Centre
September 27 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
September 28 - Rochester, NY @ The Armory
September 30 - Albany, NY @ The Palace
October 1 - Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
Matthew Sweet, remember the dude behind that great guilty pleasure of mine “Girlfriend”, is also hitting the road to promote his upcoming album Sunshine Lies.
August 25 - Solana Beach, CA @ The Belly Up
August 26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Amoeba in@store
August 27 - San Capistrano, CA @ The Coach House
August 28 - Silver Lake, CA @ The Echo
October 20 - Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
October 22 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
October 23 - Chicago, IL @ Park West
October 24 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls
October 25 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland
October 27 - Boston, MA @ Paradise
October 28 - NY, NY @ Webster Hall
October 29 - Falls Church, VA @ State Theatre
October 30 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety
Juliana Hatfield, the solo artist and sometime member of The Lemonheads, will be releasing her 10th studio album How To Walk Away, so she’ll be out and about promoting it. She’ll also be on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on August 25, so mark it down.
September 9 Washington, DC @ IOTA
September 10 Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live w/special guest Hayden
September 12 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
September 13 Boston, MA @ Brattle Theater
September 23 Seattle, WA @ Triple Door
September 24 Portland, OR @ Aladdin
September 25 San Francisco, CA @ Café Du Nord
September 27 Los Angeles, CA @ Largo
The Foo Fighters will be releasing a DVD from their two night stand at London’s Wembly Stadium on August 23.
The DVD will capture 18 tracks from the band’s June 6 and 7 performances, including the Foos jamming with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones on “Rock and Roll” and “Ramble On”.
Pretty cool if you ask me.
Here’s the tracklisting for Foo Fighters: Live At Wembly Stadium:
‘The Pretender’
‘Times Like These’
‘No Way Back’
‘Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)’
‘Learn To Fly’
‘Long Road To Ruin’
‘Breakout’
‘Stacked Actors’
‘Skin And Bones’
‘Marigold’
‘My Hero’
‘Cold Day In The Sun’
‘Everlong’
‘Monkey Wrench’
‘All My Life’
‘Rock And Roll’
‘Ramble On’
‘Best Of You’
For now enjoy a rough video of “Rock and Roll” from June 7 at Wembly Stadium.
Since Lollapalooza is next weekend, and there were there statements from Perry Farrell that he may take the festival overseas to compete with the Glastonbury Festival, it seems like an opportune time to revisit the FYI on Lollapalooza.
Our Lady Peace are working on their follow up to 2005’s Healthy In Paranoid Times.
The Canadian band reportedly have 16 or 17 tracks ready for the new album and began work on the new album in February of 2007. The guys should be getting back to work on the new album anytime now.
On July 5 guitarist Steve Mazur left a post on the band’s MySpace page that stated: “Many songs are finished, we’re just writing more now `cause we’re having a good time doing it […] so we figure why not just keep going until we feel that we’re out of juice”.
The new album is apparently going to be produced by frontman Raine Maida. The title and artwork for the album are also being discussed right now as well.
I’m kind of glad to hear this. Our Lady Peace is defiantly a guilty pleasure of mine.
Enjoy some old school Our Lady Peace with the video for “Clumsy”.
The Foos will be releasing a greatest hits compilation this November, and that’s all the info we have for now.
The package will most likely look something like this: “I’ll Stick Around”, “Big Me”, “Everlong”, “Monkey Wrench”, “My Hero”, “Learn to Fly”, “Breakout”, “All My Life”, “Times Like These”, “Best of You”, “DOA”, “No Way Back”, “The Pretender”, “Long Road To Ruin” and hopefully some non-album tracks like “Baker Street”, “The One”, and/or “Darling Niki”.
Honestly, the only way I would buy this would be if it came with a DVD of all the band’s videos and some other special features.
Although, I remember reading a year or so ago that the Foos were working on a greatest hits compilation and that they were recording some new tracks for it. So, that could be another exception for me buying this.
Anyways, fans shouldn’t worry about the Foo Fighters calling it quits just yet, since most of the band members have stated that a new album is in their near future.
For now enjoy a beautiful acoustic version of “Everlong”.
I seriously hope that no one missed Pearl Jam’s performance at the Vh1 Rocks Honor: The Who.
While all the performers were good, Pearl Jam, as usual, stole the show. Heck, they even outperformed their idols The Who on that night.
Pearl Jam once again proves that their the best around with their rendition of “The Real Me”, from The Who’s 1973 masterpiece Quadrophenia. My boys absolutely tear this song up. I can’t stop listening to it!
As you watch this, check out the smooth bass skills by one Jeff Ament, he really stole this performance from the other guys.
Another Tuesday, which means another set of new releases.
Candlebox returns with their first studio album in ten years. Now, I was never a huge Candlebox fan, but any band that managed to survive the 90’s is alright in my book. The new album, entitled Into The Sun, will probably grab the attention of most 90’s fans. I don’t know if I’ll pick it up, but if you want a review wait for Scott over at The Rock Dose to deliver one.
Here’s an acoustic, live performance of the first single “Stand”.
Nine Inch Nails are releasing the previous free download album The Slip into stores today. I liked the album when I first heard it, but I haven’t listened to it enough to give you a breakdown. It seems like a standard NIN album, so folks shouldn’t be disappointed. So, if you didn’t take advantage of the free download, then defiantly pick this album up.
Listen to “Discipline”, which was the first single type thing from The Slip.
Beck is releasing his wonderful new album Modern Guilt on vinyl today. So, if you live near a record shop then swing by and snag a copy. I know I’ll be hunting down a copy of Beck’s recent work.
Enjoy the video for Beck’s groovy single “Gamma Ray”.
Liz Phair has already hit New York, Chicago and San Fran in support of the 15th Anniversary reissue of her breakthrough album Exit From Guyville.
Phair has now added three more dates to celebrate her 1993 debut, which include:
8/27 in Philadelphia at the Theater of the Living Arts
8/28 in Washington, DC at the 9:30 Club
8/29 in Boston at The Paradise
The shows will feature Phair performing Exit To Guyville in it’s entirety, which seems pretty cool to me.
Last week I received the news that b5 was retiring this site, as well as, several other great music blogs here. The company has to do what they have to and basically trim the fat. So, once July is over, so is this site.
It’s been a blast working here and sharing some of my favorite music with people from all over the place. I guess it’s true what they say, nothing good lasts forever.
However, I will be heading over to Evolvor to keep doing what I am doing, it may not be exactly the same, but it’s better than nothing. So, if you’re a reader, then you have nothing to fear, cause I’m still alive!
Hmmm, seems like a good song to play right about now…
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