Thursday, April 29, 2010

Member Review: The Gruesome Twosome


BPD member TheBeast e-mailed us with this gem:
One man's trick is another man's treat.

At least, it is when it's Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie's Gruesome Twosome tour.

Although the tour is billed as a co- headlining jaunt with both acts playing equal-length sets, on this night Alice opened. During our talk backstage, he admitted he likes to play first so he can get to the next town to golf. But if you think that means his mind is elsewhere, think again. Cooper's hilariously cheesey 75-minute set was a perfect example of the sort of old-school showmanship, dramatic structure and magical razzle- dazzle that most rock bands just can't be bothered with anymore (one guess who I'm talking about).

As giant scrawled letters spelling his name hung and swung from the rafters, Cooper — sporting biker leathers — opened with a quintet of teenage anthems: School's Out, Department of Youth, I'm Eighteen (during which he brandished a crutch made from bones), Wicked Young Man and The Ballad of Dwight Fry, which ended with him being guillotined in the first of several executions. The second act opened with (what else?) Go to Hell and Guilty, followed by the macabre Cold Ethyl (with Alice abusing a dummy in a pink tutu) and Poison (which concluded with him being injected with a giant needle).

Act 3 continued the medical theme with From the Inside and Nurse Rozetta. In the latter his female dancer ripped open her white uniform and took a grinder to her metal-covered crotch. In Be My Lover, she stripped behind a backlit screen — until Alice choked her with one of her white stockings, and then sang Only Women Bleed while holding her unconscious body on his lap. Then he attacked her again, ripped off her clothes and wig, donned them, and stood on an upturned garbage can to croon I Never Cry — until she kicked the can out from under him and he was hanged.

The final act of the show — all of which was directed by Rob Roth, whose credits include Broadway's Beauty and the Beast — is all revenge, money and power. Vengeance is Mine found him clad in an eight-armed spider outfit, singing from the top of a giant rolling staircase. During Dirty Diamonds and Billion Dollar Babies, he tossed funny money and costume jewelry into the audience. In Killer, he got rubbed out one last time — nursey drove giant spikes through his body — leading into the triple-play closer of I Love the Dead, No More Mr. Nice Guy (which he sang in a silver tuxedo complete with tails and top hat) and Under My Wheels. Phew.

I kept score: it was 21 songs (at least half of them bona fide hits), four onstage deaths, a few more ambitious set pieces, umpteen costume changes, and plenty of faux sex and violence — all in 75 minutes.

RZ told me "Between Zombie and the Coop, they're getting too much for their money." I might have been inclined to agree, had Zombie held up his end of the bargain. Instead, the horror rocker-turned-horror director put on an 85-minute show that was mostly style and little substance, with a sensory-overloading onslaught of technology trying to substitute for talent and showmanship.

Granted, it was some wicked-cool technology. Instead of a backline of amps, Zombie and his band — including longtime bassist Piggy D and former Marilyn Manson guitarist John 5 — played in front of a wall of video screens showing everything from song lyrics and anime to images of the Manson and Munster families, along with tons of cheeseball horror movies (including some of Zombie's own derivative cinematic efforts). Another giant screen adorned the back wall, and video monitors were even set into risers at the front of the stage. There were mic stands mounted in skeletons and lines of flamethrowers on either side of the drumkit. During Mars Needs Women, the musicians were joined onstage by a giant Martian robot with glowing green eyes.

In the Sabbathy dirge Lords of Salem, they donned robes while Zombie hauled a cross around the stage. All in all, not quite in Cooper's league, but not too shabby.

Trouble is, the music actually was shabby — shockingly so. Zombie's main problem is the fact that he he simply can't sing. Unlike Cooper — whose sneering, leering pipes sound every bit as good as 35 years ago — all the ragged-throated Zombie does is yell, bark and grunt.

Dude barely even bothers enunciating; most of the time, I found it difficult to decipher a word he was singing (so if I've got a few songs wrong on the set list below, don't blame me). His band's apparent decision to reduce all his songs to one gargantuan wall of grinding, distorted mush didn't help. More than once, they were midway through a number (case in point: More Human Than Human) before I suddenly realized what they were playing, and how muddy, hamfisted and generally awful it sounded in comparison to the studio version.

While there were a few highlights — like the go-go surf-rock of Werewolf Women of the SS and the death-boogie of House of 1,000 Corpses — their show was mainly a long, dull slog through an oppressive, bludgeoning landscape of noise and fury signifying nothing. Not that the kids having fun down front seemed to mind.

Unfortunately, it didn't seem like Zombie — dolled up, as usual, like Hollywood fashion designer's idea of a post-apocalyptic biker — was having much fun. While he jumped around enough to get the job done, there didn't seem to be much enthusiasm behind the act. And while he made a few halfhearted attempts to get the crowd to howl like wolves or sing along — at one point, he even tried to get an all-girl mosh pit going — when they didn't respond enthusiastically enough, he seemed slightly put out, commenting to me after the show, "Maybe next time will be better."

Maybe he was just upset at being upstaged by an old guy in a silver tuxedo.

Rob Zombie Set List:

Call of the Zombie

What Lurks on Channel X?

Superbeast

Demonoid Phenomenon

Living Dead Girl

Let it all Bleed Out

Mars Needs Women

More Human Than Human

House of 1,000 Corpses

Drum Solo

Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy)

Werewolf Women of the SS

Scum of the Earth

What?

American Witch

Thunder Kiss '65

Encores:

The Lords of Salem

Dragula

Alice Cooper Set List:

School's Out

Department of Youth

I'm Eighteen

Wicked Young Man

Ballad of Dwight Fry

Go to Hell

Guilty

Cold Ethyl

Poison

From the Inside

Nurse Rozetta

Be My Lover

Only Women Bleed

I Never Cry

Solos

Vengeance is Mine

Dirty Diamonds

Billion Dollars Babies

Killer

I Love the Dead

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Under My Wheels

Thanks Beastie, great job.

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Brandi's Ghost Tour


Singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile will keep up her busy 2010 schedule with a packed slate of summer shows in support of her latest studio set, "Give Up the Ghost."

The new round of concerts begins June 3 in Atlantic City, NJ, and crisscrosses the nation for more than two full months. The run also includes several festival gigs, including Carlile's first appearance at Manchester, TN's Bonnaroo Music Festival (6/12).

"Give Up the Ghost," Carlile's third studio album, surfaced in early September and peaked at No. 26 on The Billboard 200. The Rick Rubin-produced set includes the track "Caroline," for which the songstress collaborated with Elton John.

Check out the dates:

June 2010
3 - Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
4 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theatre
5 - Norfolk, VA - NorVa
6 - Richmond, VA - The National
8 - Jacksonville, FL - Florida Theatre
9 - Charleston, SC - Music Farm
11 - Greenville, SC - The Handlebar
12 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
13 - Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
15 - Lexington, KY - Kentucky Theatre
16 - Nashville, TN - Loveless Barn
20 - Telluride, CO - Telluride Bluegrass Festival
21 - Boise, ID - Idaho Botanical Garden
24, 25 - Petaluma, CA - McNears Mystic Theatre
26 - Saratoga, CA - The Mountain Winery
27 - Jacksonville, OR - Britt Pavilion

July 2010
7 - Chula Vista, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre (w/ Lilith Tour)
8 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion (w/ Lilith Tour)
10 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (w/ Lilith Tour)
11 - Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Garden
15 - Fairbanks, AK - Blue Loon
16 - Anchorage, AK - Discovery Theatre
23, 24 - Fishers, IN - Connor Prairie
25 - Kent, OH - The Kent Stage
28 - Rutland, VT - Paramount Theatre
29 - Morristown, NJ - The Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
30 - Hampton Beach, NH - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
31 - Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival

August 2010
1 - Westhampton Beach, NY - Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center
5 - Missoula, MT - Wilma Theatre
6 - Sandpoint, ID - The Festival at Sandpoint
12 - Pelham, AL - Verizon Wireless Center Birmingham (w/ Lilith Tour)
16 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center (w/ Lilith Tour)
21 - Bayfield, WI - Big Top Chautauqua
22 - Fish Creek, WI - Door Community Auditorium
24 - Interlochen, MI - Interlochen Center for the Arts
25 - Grand Rapids, MI - Frederik Meijer Gardens
29 - St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

"Lengthy Hiatus" for the Black Crowes


The Black Crowes will go out on a high note this summer and fall, with the band launching a lengthy North American trek before going on the shelf for what they are calling a "lengthy hiatus" .

The "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys" tour, featuring planned three-hour-plus sets split into acoustic and electric portions, kicks off Aug. 13 in Milwaukee, WI. Fans shouldn't fret too soon about saying goodbye to the band; the tour wanders across most of the second half of 2010, visiting more than 50 cities and wrapping with a six-night engagement at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium.

"At this milestone in our career, I feel very fortunate that I have had the opportunity to spend my life making music," guitarist Rich Robinson said. "It's been 20 years since we started out on this journey."

"We are all in agreement that this is the right time to spend time with our families, friends, outside musical and non musical projects and of course, our personal lives," added drummer Steve Gorman. "So, we're going out swinging with all we got."

The group will offer one more studio treat before going on its hiatus. "Croweology," due in stores Aug. 3, is the band's first double album of all-acoustic material. The group recorded the set in Los Angeles last year after wrapping its 2009 tour, picking 20 songs from throughout the Black Crowes' career in celebration of their 20th anniversary.

Here are the stops for August and September

Fri 08/13/10 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theatre

Sat 08/14/10 Walker, MN Northern Lights Casino

Sun 08/15/10 Apple Valley, MN Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater

Tue 08/17/10 Des Moines, IA Simon Estes Riverfront Amphitheatre

Wed 08/18/10 Kansas City, MO Harrah's North Kansas City

Fri 08/20/10 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit

Sat 08/21/10 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre

Sun 08/22/10 Columbus, OH PromoWest Pavilion

Tue 08/24/10 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues

Wed 08/25/10 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre

Fri 08/27/10 St. Louis, MO The Pageant

Sat 08/28/10 Council Bluffs, IA Harrah's Casino - Stir Concert Cove

Sun 08/29/10 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium

Tue 08/31/10 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot

Tue 09/07/10 Salina, KS The Stiefel Theatre For Perf. Arts

Wed 09/08/10 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom

Fri 09/10/10 Charleston, SC Family Circle Magazine Stadium

Sun 09/12/10 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium

Fri 09/17/10 Raleigh, NC Raleigh Boutique Amphitheatre

Sat 09/18/10 Charlotte, NC Uptown Amphitheatre At The Music Factory

Sun 09/19/10 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

Tue 09/21/10 Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre

Fri 09/24/10 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theater

Sun 09/26/10 Dallas, TX House Of Blues

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Silversun Pickups Headline Tour



After supporting Placebo’s winter European tour and Muse’s North American spring trek, Silversun Pickups is hitting the road in June for its own headlining tour.

The Los Angeles-based group wrapped up its tour with Muse last week with an April 14 gig at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.

The performance earned kudos from the San Jose Mercury News, which wrote, “As good as the band is on record, however, the group showed in Oakland that it can achieve even greater heights on the live stage. That’s the setting where the Pickups’ brand of jammed-out alt-rock, which recalls the Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young’s Crazy Horse and My Bloody Valentine, truly shines.”

Silversun Pickups will be showing off new tunes from the band’s sophomore album 2009’s Swoon in addition to favorites from 2006’s debut Carnavas.

Against Me! and Henry Clay People will open the tour.

More dates will be added soon; so far, we've got:

Tue 06/15/10 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Cafe / Hard Rock Live

Wed 06/16/10 Boca Raton, FL Sunset Cove Amphitheatre

Fri 06/18/10 Ybor City, FL The Ritz

Sat 06/19/10 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle

Sun 06/20/10 Raleigh, NC Disco Rodeo

Mon 06/21/10 Richmond, VA The National

Wed 06/23/10 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall

Thu 06/24/10 Montclair, NJ Wellmont Theatre

Fri 06/25/10 Brooklyn, NY Williamsburg Waterfront

Mon 06/28/10 Philadelphia, PA The Great Plaza At Penn's Landing

Tue 06/29/10 Toronto, ON Sound Academy

Fri 07/02/10 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Petty Pushes Back Start of Tour


















Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers have moved the first 10 dates of their summer tour to September and October.

The band delayed the start of the tour to better coincide with pushed back release of their upcoming album Mojo.

Here are the details:

May 6 in Raleigh moves to Sept. 18.
May 7 in Charlotte moves to Sept. 19.
May 9 in Tampa moves to Sept. 16.
May 15 in Dallas moves to Sept. 21.
May 16 in Houston moves to Sept. 24.
May 18 in Phoenix moves to Sept. 26.
May 22 in Los Angeles moves to Oct. 1
June 2 in Chula Vista moves to Sept. 28.
June 3 in Irvine moves to Oct. 2.

The tour’s opening date is now June 5 in Oakland, Calif., 10 days before the release of the album.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Rebuilding The Wall


Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd’s epic album “The Wall”, Roger Waters launches a new tour in September.

For many fans of The Wall, the upcoming tour will be their first chance to experience the aural masterpiece in its entirety. Although Pink Floyd played more than 30 shows on the 1980-81 “The Wall Tour,” all dates were multiple runs with the band playing only two U.S. cities.

The tour promises state-of-the-art production as well as Rogers performing with a full band while the Wall is put up and torn down.

To date, this is the hottest announcement of the year and we're so pleased to be able to make passes available, albeit in limited numbers.

Here are the venues and dates.

Mon 09/20/10 Chicago, IL United Center
Tue 09/21/10 Chicago, IL United Center
Sun 09/26/10 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center
Tue 09/28/10 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
Thu 09/30/10 Boston, MA TD Garden
Tue 10/05/10 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Arena
Fri 10/08/10 Buffalo, NY HSBC Arena
Sun 10/10/10 Washington, DC Verizon Center
Tue 10/12/10 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Fri 10/15/10 Hartford, CT XL Center
Fri 10/22/10 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
Sun 10/24/10 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace Of Auburn Hills
Tue 10/26/10 Omaha, NE Qwest Center Omaha
Wed 10/27/10 Saint Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
Fri 10/29/10 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
Sat 10/30/10 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
Wed 11/03/10 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
Mon 11/08/10 Philadelphia, PA The Wachovia Center
Tue 11/09/10 Philadelphia, PA The Wachovia Center
Sat 11/13/10 Sunrise, FL BankAtlantic Center
Tue 11/16/10 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
Thu 11/18/10 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Sat 11/20/10 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Sun 11/21/10 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Tue 11/23/10 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Fri 11/26/10 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
Sat 11/27/10 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center
Mon 11/29/10 Inglewood, CA The Forum
Mon 12/06/10 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion At San Jose
Sat 12/11/10 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
Mon 12/13/10 Anaheim, CA Honda Center

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Rush into The Time Machine

Rush will perform its classic 1981 album "Moving Pictures" in full for the first time ever on its massive upcoming summer trek, dubbed "The Time Machine Tour."

The veteran Canadian power trio launches their major outing June 29 in Albuquerque, NM. The trek stretches through September before wrapping Oct. 2 in West Palm Beach, FL.

"Moving Pictures," originally released in 1981, is Rush's most successful album. The set produced radio classics in "Tom Sawyer" and "Limelight," and has been certified quadruple platinum in the US.

Rush will likely be playing new material on the road, fruits of its ongoing recording sessions with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who co-helmed the group's most recent effort, 2007's "Snakes & Arrows," as the band moves toward completion of its 20th studio album.

"We were off for a year and a half, and now it's just pouring," guitarist Alex Lifeson told BPD. "Everything is totally crazy and there's not a minute left in the day. We've got these half-dozen songs, and we'll probably go in the studio and work on a couple of them and see how it goes, perhaps release something--and I say perhaps--and then we plan on being on the road."

The band played more than 100 shows during its previous tour in support of "Snakes & Arrows," grossing nearly $65 million on the trip, which launched in the summer of 2007 and concluded more than a year later.

The dates are:

June 2010
29 - Albuquerque, NM - Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque

July 2010
1 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre
2 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
5 - Chicago, IL - Charter One Pavilion
19 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun
21 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
23 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
24 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach

August 2010
5 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
7 - Seattle, WA - White River Amphitheatre
9 - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
11 - Inglewood, CA - The Forum
13 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
14 - Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden Arena
16 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
20 - Wichita, KS - INTRUST Bank Arena
22 - St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
25 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
27 - St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair
29 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
31 - Allentown, PA - Allentown Fair

September 2010
2 - Syracuse, NY - New York State Fair
3 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
14 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
16 - Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center
18 - Washington, DC - Jiffy Lube Live Amphitheater
21 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center
23 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
25 - The Woodlands, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
26 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
29 - Atlanta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre @ Encore Park

October 2010
1 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
2 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre

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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Member Review: Tim McGraw

OhSara just sent us this review:
Any way you slice it, Tim McGraw has a pretty good gig. He's rich. He's famous. He's good-looking. He's a country god. He's a movie star. He's married to Faith Hill. And he pretty much can do no wrong in the eyes of his followers.

Backed by his 10-piece band The Dancehall Doctors — which featured four guitarists, a dobro player and a fiddler along with a keyboard player and expanded rhythm section — McGraw casually breezed through a solid 110-minute set that had a predominantly female crowd hooked from first note to last.

Granted, part of that devotion is due to the fact that the hunky, goateed 42-year-old — who was sporting his trademark black cowboy hat, along with a tight burgundy pullover and even tighter jeans — looks like he just stepped off the cover of a Western-themed Harlequin romance. But McGraw also earns that love by giving his fans what they want: Hits and plenty of ’em, delivered with down-to-earth personality and decorated with just enough show-biz magic to justify the arena ticket price.

The bells and whistles came in the form of a gigantic stage backed by the usual giant video screens, topped by a massive lighting truss in the shape of a giant M (though it looked like a W from the audience's POV) and outfitted with a huge cross-shaped runway that jutted 20 rows out onto the floor and enclosed two standing-room corrals for lucky (and presumably well-heeled) fans right up front.

Of course, it isn't the size of the stage that matters; it's what you do with it. And old pro McGraw worked every inch of it like a man of the people, slowly sauntering up and down the lane, slapping hands, waving his arms for applause and communing with the faithful during every single song. Frequently, he would drop to his knees for emphasis during a particularly poignant passage. For one tune, he sat down at the end of the runway and held court, even using one fan's camera to snap their picture as he sang.

Let's be honest: McGraw isn't exactly breaking any new ground in country music. Nor is he trying to. He admitted to me that he loves midtempo grooves, and his show was chock full of them, from the twangy roots-rock of Down on the Farm to the country-rock of Southern Voice to the honky-tonk of Everybody Hates Me and I Like it, I Love It. Even his ballads — including his cover of Elton John's Tiny Dancer — are mostly pitched right down the middle. Nothing rocks too hard for the gals in their Daisy Dukes and cowgirl hats; nothing gets too sappy for the guys in the plaid shirts. The party songs aren't too wild; the romantic numbers aren't too overwrought. Nothing stands out from the crowd or interrupts the smooth, easygoing flow of the show.

Even the mandatory mid-set acoustic-guitar segment was kept to a couple of songs, and included both a snippet of Taylor Swift's tune Tim McGraw and a winking monologue about how Tim bought his first guitar in college because he thought it would help him get lucky — "It worked! So there's some advice for a young man: Buy a guitar!" (Of course, it probably helps if you look and sound like McGraw to begin with.)


But even if Timmy's music isn't necessarily the most original and dynamic around, and even if he isn't necessarily the hardest-working man in show biz, you have to give him credit for living up to the promise he made to me before the show: "We don't bullshit," he claimed. "We play music." And that's pretty much what they did. Plus, he earns bonus points for ending his show without an encore — after 24 songs, he left the stage while his band jammed until people got the hint and began filing out. Soon as they played their last note, the house lights went up and the show was over.

McGraw may love his job. But he also knows when to punch out for the day.

Love him, loved his show.
Good to hear it, OhSara. Thanks for the review.

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Monday, April 5, 2010

2 Days of Rocky Mountain High


The Mile High Music Festival will be held on the grass soccer fields that surround Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, just nine miles from downtown Denver. Oh yeah, the dates: Aug 14 and 15.

The line-up:

The first day features Jack Johnson and Steve Miller Band topping the lineup. Also appearing that day are Slightly Stoopid, Phoenix, Nas & Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Keane, Cypress Hill, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, The Samples, Keller Williams, Rusted Root, Donavon Frankenreiter, One Eskimo, Mayer Hawthorne & The Country, ALO, Amos Lee, The Constellations, The Motet, Bobby Long and MyNameIsJohnMichael.

On Sunday Aug. 15, Dave Matthews Band headlines a bill that also includes Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Atmosphere, Train, Jimmy Cliff, Bassnectar, Z-Trip, Drive-By Truckers, Railroad Earth, Ozomatli, Punch Brothers feat. Chris Thile, Tim Reynolds And TR3, Trevor Hall, Matt Morris, BoomBox, On My Stars, Joe Purdy, The Knew and Danielle Ate The Sandwich.

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Sunday, April 4, 2010

The Eagles + Keith Urban + Dixie Chicks

The Eagles kick off their Spring tour April 16, 17 and 20 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (passes already gone, no pun intended).

In June, the veteran soft-rockers launch a mini-tour with the Dixie Chicks and--in most cities--Keith Urban.

The Eagles continue to support 2007's "Long Road Out of Eden," the band's first new studio album since 1979's "The Long Run." The set debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 chart after posting first-week sales of 711,000 copies, and went on to become 2007's top-selling album by a group, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

"Long Road Out of Eden" also earned the iconic rockers Grammy Awards for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "How Long" in 2008, and Best Pop Instrumental Performance for "I Dreamed There Was No War" in 2009.

BPD asked the band's Timothy B. Schmit when fans might expect more new music from the Eagles. "There's a lot of elements to take into consideration. We're a complicated group of people--including myself. I think we'll just wait and see. My tendency is to say probably not. But I'm not so sure. I've learned to not make statements like that. So we'll have to wait and see."

Wait we will. In the meantime, here are the US tour venues:

April 2010
16, 17, 20 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
21 - Phoenix, AZ - US Airways Arena
24 - Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden Arena
25 - Anaheim, CA - Honda Center
27 - Sacramento, CA - ARCO Arena
30 - San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion

May 2010
1 - San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
13 - Seattle, WA - KeyArena at Seattle Center
17 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena
18 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center
20 - Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
22 - Ontario, CA - Citizens Business Bank Arena
23 - San Diego, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheater

June 2010
10 - East Rutherford, NJ - New Meadowlands Stadium (w/ Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban)
12 - Boston, MA - Gillette Stadium (w/ Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban)
14 - Philadelphia, PA - Citizens Bank Ball Park (w/ Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban)
15 - Washington, DC - Nationals Park (w/ Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban)
19 - Chicago, IL - Soldier Field (w/ Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban)
24 - St. Louis, MO - Busch Stadium (w/ Dixie Chicks)

On this one, if you snooze, you'll lose.