Performance / Tour News

Gorillaz World Tour

Source: JamBase
July 23, 2010

PLASTIC BEACH SAILING THROUGH EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Gorillaz Gorillaz are set to take their Plastic Beach around the world later this year. The band have today confirmed they will play 20 shows in North America (including their first ever show at Madison Square Garden) 10 nights across Europe including 2 nights at London's 02 Arena before heading to Asia and down under for 7 shows.

Gorillaz fanclub, the Sub Division, will benefit from pre-sale ahead ...

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The Hot Antic Jazz Band at Whitley Bay (July 9, 2010)

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
July 23, 2010

This one's for Nancie Beaven, one of this blog's most ardent readers, currently ensconced in Connecticut. Nancie is a great admirer of the Hot Antic Jazz Band and of its cornetist, Michel Bastide. Several times during the 2010 Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival, I had ample opportunity to see why. The HAJB also sported Jean-Francois Bonnel (reed and cornet master) and Martin Seck (vigorous pianist, whom I saw in 2009 with Les Red Hot Reedwarmers) on this occasion, as well ...

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Jazz Quintet John Marshall Featuring Grant Stewart, Sunday, August 8

Source: David Flora
July 22, 2010

Sunday Series at Abingdon Presents Jazz John Marshall Quintet featuring Grant Stewart Announce Complete Quintet Members Sunday, August 8 at 7:00pm and 9:00pm Abingdon Theatre Complex June Havoc Theatre 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor (between 8th and 9th Avenues) Reservations: 212.868.4444 or smarttix.com Tickets: $25.00 pre-sale ($35.00 at the door cash only) The John Marshall Quintet featuring Grant Stewart will fill Abingdon Theatre with the sound of Jazz for this one evening benefit ...

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Alt-Jazz Rocker Matt Von Roderick To Debut New Music and Stage Show, A Technicolor Experience, at King King in Hollywood--August 2

Source: 1888 Media
July 22, 2010

Los Angeles CA...Critically-acclaimed and award-winning singer/trumpeter Matt Von Roderick will debut new music and a fully-produced concert stage show, A Technicolor Experience, at King King in Hollywood on Monday, August 2 at 7pm. This unique combination of aural and visual delights is helmed by Kristin Hanggi, who developed and directed the lauded musical, Rock of Ages. The concert will feature songs from Matt's upcoming full-length record, which remarkably mesh influences from the alternative and indie rock classifications with Matt's classic ...

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Angel City Arts Presents: Onibaba Live @ Royal/T Aug. 7th, 8PM

Source: SoCal Creative Music
July 22, 2010

Onibaba exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal and the earthly --Creative Music. Created by Daren Burns in 2006, the band synthesizes its sound by using elements of the Chicago avant-garde, jazz, rock, world, techno, noise, and classical, to create a new type of fusion that is definitely not the smooth, funky jazz of the 80's and 90's, but a ...new living music.In live performance, the ...

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Gov't Mule: Raleigh Date Rescheduled, in-Store, iPhone App

Source: JamBase
July 22, 2010

DATE RESCHEDULED FOR JULY 26; IN-STORE APPEARANCE TO PROMOTE MULENNIUM

Gov't Mule The Gov't Mule concert scheduled to take place at the Raleigh Amphitheater on July 16 has been rescheduled for July 26. Tickets purchased for the July 16 concert will be honored night of show on July 26. The original concert, this past Friday, needed to be halted 3 songs into Gov't Mule's show due to severe weather. Jackie Greene, who opened the show and was able to perform ...

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Hollywood Bowl Reggae Night: Jimmy Cliff; Sly and Robbie

Source: JamBase
July 22, 2010

REGGAE UNDER THE STARS RETURNS TO HOLLYWOOD BOWL JULY 25

Reggae Night IX returns to the Hollywood Bowl on July 25 for reggae under the stars with roots legend Jimmy Cliff and his hits “Wild World" and “Many Rivers To Cross," plus the irrepressible rhythms of Sly & Robbie, and upcoming reggae sensation Tarrus Riley. Click here for tickets.

Event Line Up:

Jimmy Cliff Sly & Robbie and The Taxi Gang Tarrus Riley Jeremy ...

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Beach Boys Considering 50th Anniversary Reunion

Source: JamBase
July 22, 2010

WOULDN'T IT BE NICE

Former Beach Boys singer/guitarist Al Jardine has told Rolling Stone that the legendary group will reunite for a concert next year to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Says Jardine, “We're definitely doing at least one show--you heard it first. It's a big deal. I don't know where it will be yet, but it'll probably be free. Golden Gate Park was mentioned, as was the [National] Mall in Washington, D.C. and the north shore of Chicago by the ...

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