Monday, March 4, 2013

Yet More Tours Announced

Bad Company and Lynyrd Skynyrd have teamed up for a 12-city co-headline tour beginning in June. With special guest Black Stone Cherry on the bill, here are the stops:

June 20 – Auburn, Wash., White River Amphitheatre
June 21 – Ridgefield, Wash., Sleep Country Amphitheater
June 23 – Mountain View, Calif., Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 11 – The Woodlands, Texas, The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 13 – Charlotte, N.C., Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 14 – Bristow, Va., Jiffy Lube Live
July 17 – Camden, N.J., Susquehanna Bank Center
July 19 – Burgettstown (Pittsburgh), Pa., First Niagara Pavilion
July 20 – Noblesville, Ind., Klipsch Music Center
July 23 – Clarkston (Detroit), Mich., DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 24 – Cincinnati, Ohio, Riverbend Music Center
July 26 – Gilford, N.H., Meadowbrook
July 27 – Bethel, N.Y., Bethel Woods Center For The Arts

Bob Dylan has loaded up his April calendar with more than a dozen U.S. gigs featuring support from Dawes. The tour stops in:

April 5 – Buffalo, N.Y., SUNY Buffalo Alumni Arena    
April 6 – Amherst, Mass., Mullins Center    
April 8 – Kingston, R.I., Ryan Center    
April 9 – Lowell, Mass., Tsongas Center At UMass Lowell    
April 10 – Lewiston, Maine, Androscoggin Bank Colisee    
April 12 – Newark, Del., Bob Carpenter Center    
April 13 – California, Pa., California University    
April 14 – Ithaca, N.Y., Barton Hall    
April 16 – Richmond, Va., Landmark Theater    
April 18 – Bethlehem, Pa., Stabler Arena    
April 19 – Akron, Ohio, E.J. Thomas Hall    
April 20 – Kalamazoo, Mich., Wings Stadium    
April 21 – Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University

With a new album scheduled for a summer release, MGMT’s first string of 2013 dates has the band traveling in a somewhat westward direction stopping in:

April 26 – State College, Pa., Pennsylvania State University
April 28 – Geneseo, N.Y., SUNY / Geneseo
April 30 – Portland, Maine, State Theatre
May 1 – Providence, R.I., Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
May 4 – Cleveland, Ohio, Masonic Auditorium
May 6 – Grand Rapids, Mich., Hoogenboom Center
May 14 – Spokane, Wash., Knitting Factory Concert House
May 15 – Seattle, Wash., Showbox SoDo
May 16 – Portland, Ore., McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
May 18 – Palo Alto, Calif., Frost Amphitheatre

MGMT will also play Cincinnati’s Bunbury Music Festival July 13, the Firefly Music Festival scheduled for June 21-23 in Dover, Del., and Kanrocksas in Kansas City June 28-29.