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Music News for 091617:
---Great new for fans of the old
Bobby’s Place in Endwell…the venue is re-opening with a new name,
under old management…it will now be known as
The Pub @ North & Main and will be run by former owner, Bobby
Larnerd, who seemed to keep the place on an even keel during his earlier
tenure. Grand opening events
start on Thursday 9/21 with Super
Radical playing a show at 8p!
The ribbon cutting will be held the next day, at 2pm on Friday
9/22, followed by a Virgil Cain
show that night at 9p!
---Binghamton folk rockers, Driftwood, have booked Fall dates for 2017…Hopewell NJ on 10/12…Walton NY on 10/13…Washington DC on 10/18…Syracuse NY on 11/3…Rochester NY on 11/4…two nights at their home base in Apalachin NY, the Ransom Steele Tavern on 11/24 & 11/25…Northampton MA on 12/7…Marblehead MA on 12/8…Erie PA on 12/15…and Cooperstown NY on 12/16…as well as some out-of-region dates…Roanoke VA on 10/19…Charlotte NC on 10/20…Wilson NC on 10/21…Atlanta GA on 10/22…Stuart FL on 10/25…Boca Raton FL on 10/26….and Sarasota FL on 10/27! Way to represent!
---Regional folk superstars,
Donna The Buffalo (they’re from Trumansburg NY if ya didn’t know)
returns to the BGA with a date at
Touch Of Texas (formerly Magic City Music Hall) in Nimmonsburg NY
(just north of Binghamton!) on Friday 10/20!
DTB will also make stops in
---Randy McStine is throwing us all a curve and enjoying it! Here’s a recent post from McStine on facebook, “…And now for something completely different...
I have been in
Rehearsals are coming along great, and the song list includes some deeper nuggets among the obvious. These are undeniably some of the greatest songs ever written, and I have set out to showcase them with authenticity, while giving it my own stamp in the process.
I'll be out until the end of November. Come say hello...”
http://www.thesimonandgarfunkelstory.com/
…Can’t wait to hear this one Randy! Hope you can bring it home to the Southern Tier!
---Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, who also did a guest vocal on a Bon Jovi song, will play the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 11/30…as well as Morristown NJ on 12/1!
---Congrats to Anubis Spire’s Bill MacKechnie, who became a grandfather on 9/11! Enjoy, dude!
---Here’s one for the Rumors & Innuendo category…it was overheard that the Cyber Café West in Binghamton NY might be on the market, although our same spies failed to find any reference to that actually being true. If so, it is shocking, but we hope it’s not! We love the Cyber Café West…and Jeff Kahn, too! Hang in there, Jeff!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The post Grateful Dead version of what left of The Grateful Dead…Dead & Company, which includes Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir, along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge (of the Allman Brothers) and Jeff Chimenti (of Weir’s RatDog)…is going back on the road and they’ll make at least a half dozen stops in our region…NYC on 11/12 & 11/14…Philadelphia PA on 11/16…Boston MA on 11/17…Washington DC on 11/21…and Hartford CT on 11/22! Look for tickets thru the website Verified Fan, which has had a lot of success getting around scalpers! Tickets pre-sale as of 9/7!
---Talk about dealing a hot hand…former One Direction star, Niall Horan has already booked new dates thru next September…yeah, that’s right…September 2018! Buy your tickets now before they sell out…Washington DC on 8/31/18…Allentown PA on 9/2/18…Toronto ON on 9/5/18…Darien Center NY on 9/7/18…Mansfield MA on 9/8/18…Camden NJ on 9/11/18…Wantagh NY on 9/12/18…Hartford CT on 9/14/18…and Holmdel NJ on 9/15/18!
---Dua Lipa is planning her own solo tour, outside of warming up on some dates for Bruno Mars…Boston MA on 11/20…Toronto ON on 11/22…Montreal QC on 11/23…NYC on 11/24…and Silver Spring MD on 11/28!
---Looks like those two Spoon dates that we thought were tag on’s last week…are actually the beginning of a new leg, which has now been more fully fleshed out and includes…Poughkeepsie NY on 12/1…Stroudsburg PA on 12/3…Clifton Park NY on 12/5…South Burlington VT on 12/6…and two nights in Washington DC to close out the year, on 12/30 & 12/31!
---Todd
Rundgren has announced a solo tour following his stint on the Yes
tour with new shows in…
---Former members of Dio, Last In Line, have announced a four-date tour that is totally within our regional confines…Clifton Park NY on 11/2…Stroudsburg PA (best bet) on 11/3…Wantagh NY on 11/4…and Derry NH on 11/5!
---cKy will book a few solo dates following their warm-up stint on the HIM farewell tour…Lancaster PA on 10/18…Pittsburgh PA on 11/18…and Easton PA on 11/19!
---Seether is teaming up with Shaman’s Harvest for a Fall 2017 tour…Stroudsburg PA on 11/28…Sayreville NJ on 11/29…Worcester MA on 12/1…Hartford CT on 12/2…and Silver Spring MD on 12/3!
---Jefferson
Starship is booking dates in…
---Bruno Mars adds more Fall 2017 dates which include Dua Lipa and will bring the pop star to…NYC on 9/22 & 9/23…Newark NJ on 9/26…Buffalo NY on 9/27…and Washington DC on 9/29 & 9/30!
---Clutch have booked a national package tour that also includes The Obsessed and the Devin Townsend Project coming into our region…but only twice…Clifton Park NY on 12/27…and Sayreville NJ on 12/28!
---Dance fans, The Crystal Method is touring in clubs and concert halls later this month…Montreal QC on 9/21…Toronto ON on 9/22…Brooklyn NY on 9/23…and Ardmore PA, also on 9/23!
---Benmont Tench, of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, has booked a two-night stand at the Iridium Jazz Club in NYC on 11/8 & 11/9!
---Modern metal band,
Whitechapel is taking four
other bands; Carnifex, Entheos,
Rings Of Saturn and So This
Is Suffering, on a
national fall package tour!
Regional stops include...
---George Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, is launching a seven-date mini-tour in November, but only two stops for us…Brooklyn NY on 11/6…and Washington DC on 11/7!
---The Head And The Heart are jumping back on the road this month with fresh dates in our region thru the Fall…NYC on 9/21…Philadelphia PA on 9/22…Shelburne VT on 9/24…Toronto ON on 9/26…and Washington DC on 10/27!
---Lyle Lovett and John Haitt are tour partners again and touring into the holidays with stops in…Keene NH on 11/8…Providence RI on 11/9…Stroudsburg PA on 11/10…Wilmington DE on 11/11…NYC on 11/12…Derry NH on 11/14…Alexandria VA on 11/15 & 11/16…Baltimore MD on 11/17…and Princeton NJ on 11/18!
---Taylor Hicks, of American Idol fame, will do a half-dozen-date mini-tour spread out over three months, but only two stops for our region…Danbury CT on 10/21…NYC on 11/14!
---The Jesus And Mary Chain are taking a long route to the east coast…starting in Europe…before hitting the west coast of America and working back east…Baltimore MD on 11/14…Boston MA on 11/15…Asbury Park NJ on 11/16…and NYC on 11/17!
---The Story So Far, which has already leaked a stop in Syracuse (on 11/28 at The Lost Horizon) is fleshing out their tour announcing the full tour which includes…Washington DC on 11/17…Asbury Park NJ on 11/18…Amityville NY on 11/21…Boston MA on 11/24…Brooklyn NY on 11/26…Pittsburgh PA on 11/29!
---Seether returns to the road with stops in our region just after Thanksgiving…Stroudsburg PA on 11/28…Sayreville NJ on 11/29…Worcester MA on 12/1…Hartford CT on 12/2…and Silver Spring MD on 12/3!
---Jazz artist,
George Winston has announced
some regional stops…
---Modern
English continues to milk “I
Melt With You,” but that’s ok…we still wanna hear it!
Hear it for yourself at…
---Kenny Rogers is adding onto is farewell tour with a few more dates…Ocean City MD on 11/3…Hampton Beach NH on 11/4…Bethlehem PA on 12/10…and Wallingford CT on 12/15!
---Echosmith
returns with a new nationwide tour that will bring them back into our
region this fall and into 2018…
---The Ronnettes,
Ronnie Spector has booked two
nights at the City Winery in
---J.D. Souther, the singer/ songwriter long associated with The Eagles, James Taylor and other SoCal country-rockers, is going on a solo tour that will bring him around to these towns in our region…Vienna VA on 11/8…South Orange NJ on 11/12…NYC on 2/16…Bay Shore NY on 2/17…and Rockport MA on 2/18!
---Silverstein’s
Canadian tour will come into our greater region, but only marginally…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The Global Citizen Fest in NYC on 9/23 has a powerhouse line-up this years with something for everyone…The Killers, Stevie Wonder, Green Day, Pharrell Williams, Big Sean, The Lumineers, The Chainsmokers and Andra Day!
---Phil Lesh
is also on the road, just like Dead and Company…the former Grateful Dead
member has announced a one-off on 10/26 with
Robert Randolph and
Nicki Bluhm at the
---Jukebox
The Ghost will play a one-shot show for the east coast…at the
Knitting Factory in
---Hip hop star,
Felly, has booked handful of
dates across the
---The
Posies have booked a one-off at the City Winery in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Marc Cohn adds
---The Killers add NYC on 9/22!
---The
Eagles Of Death Metal play a solo show on an off-day from the
Mastodon tour in
---
---Zedd
adds a second night in
---The
English Beat adds
---Hanson
adds
---Matisyahu
isn’t slowing down for the holidays…he just added…
---Michael
McDonald adds
---War
adds
---Bruce
Cockburn adds
---The Grass
Roots add
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Benmont Tench (2)
---Bruce Cockburn (1)
---Bruno Mars (6)
---cKy/ Lionize (3)
---Clutch/ The Obsessed/ Devin Townsend Project (2)
---Dhani Harrison (2)
---Donna The
---Driftwood (10)
---Dua Lipa (5)
---Echosmith (6)
---Felly (1)
---George Winston (3)
---Global Citizen Fest (1)
---Hanson (3)
---J.D. Souther (5)
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---Jennifer Nettles (2)
---Jukebox The Ghost (1)
---Kenny Rogers (4)
---Last In Line (4)
---Marc Cohn (1)
---Matisyahu (6)
---Michael McDonald (1)
---Modern English (6)
---Niall Horan (9)
---Phil Lesh/ Robert Randolph/ Nicki Bluhm (1)
---Ronnie Spector (2)
---Seether/ Shaman’s Harvest (5)
---Silverstein (2)
---Spoon (6)
---The Crystal Method (4)
---The Eagles Of Death Metal (1)
---The English Beat (2)
---The Grass Roots (1)
---The Head And The Heart (5)
---The Jesus And Mary Chain (4)
---The Killers (1)
---The Posies (1)
---Todd Rundgren (5)
---War (2)
---Whitechapel (6)
---Wishbone Ash (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 090917:
[Note: Here’s the final full report…after Labor Day
weekend off, a wedding in
---The line-up for the annual
Blues On The Bridge fest has finally been announced!
Here’s the breakdown for the 2017 show, which is set for the
12:00 - Humble Beginnings Band
12:40 - Home Brew
1:15 - The Blue Jays
1:40 - The Boogiemen
2:40 - Rebecca and the Soul Shakers
3:50 - The Parlor Cats
4:30 - Slow Burn
5:30 - The Edward P.Maloney Pipe Band
5:50 - Mark Doyle and the Maniacs
6:50 - City Limits
8:00 - The Gravelding Brothers (75% of frostbit blue)
9:00 - The Gunpoets
Be advised that the timings are rough, as shows usually run long. The event is totally free, with the rain date scheduled for the following week on 9/17…and yes the rain date is sometimes necessary as even the bands and their equipment are exposed!
---Former leader of the Brian Wolff Band, Brian Wolff moved away to Austin TX years ago now and has a new band, Fair City Fire…but due to the horrific flooding in nearby, Houston TX, Brian is re-releasing his flood song, “Strong,” (remember that following the twin 100-year floods of the greater Binghamton area in 2006 and 2011?). 100% of the profits from the re-released song will go the American Red Cross Serving Central Texas, but you have to acquire the song from their bandcamp website for a dollar ($1.00) before the end of September for the contribution to be enacted…and as if that isn’t enough Wolff also played a fundraiser for the Houston Food Bank on 8/30! Here’s the link for the song: https://faircityfire.bandcamp.com/track/strong-fundraiser-for-harvey-relief
---Equinox Broadcasting is bringing Battle Of The Bands back! It will be the third annual local music competition and Equinox radio station, 100.5 The Drive is accepting band submissions until September 24th! Wanna submit your band? Click on the link for info, the form and good luck: http://www.binghamtondrive.com/post.html#!/battleofthebands-the-best-original-music-comes-out-of-binghamton
---Congrats to Tommy Szedlock, formerly from Citizen 5 and most recently was in a Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute band called, Scuttlebutt, has moved onto a new band, for him anyway, Bobby G & Timeless! Szedlock says it was purely a money move, as well as a chance to play, “Elvis and The Beatles…all 50’s and 60’s music!” …which he clearly loves! Rock on brother!
---Regional and local sweethearts, folk singers, The Burns Sisters have booked a two night stand in Ithaca NY at the Hangar Theatre on 11/10 & 11/11! Bobby Sweet will open.
---Dave Matthews Band member and cohort, Tim Reynolds & his band TR3 are taking advantage of some downtime to play their own tour dates…they’ll play the Westcott Theatre in Syracuse NY on 11/6…as well as…Pittsburgh PA on 11/5…and NYC on 11/7!
---Rising alt-blues rockers, Welshly Arms will play the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 11/2…as well as at least one other regional date…Uncasville CT on 10/8…and the Thrival Festival in Swissvale PA (near Pittsburgh) on 9/30!
---Local concert promoter and musician, the late
Bill McStine was the subject
of a recent story in the
---Former Yolk member,
Jeff Pettit played a solo
album preview party on 9/2 at Callahan’s Sportsmen’s Club in
---Got one of those facebook memories robo-posts last week that reminded me that it’s been five years since Monkey’s Typing played their last regular gig of their long Thursday night residency at the Cyber Café West! That officially ended on 8/29/2012! Since then we’ve had other incarnations of Jeff Khan bands…the rotating Thing One and Thing Two, as well as their replacement, Ugly Dolphin! Still miss Monkey’s Typing though…
---Congrats to local jam-band Raibred! The Nate
Calzetoni led outfit has (thru complicated mathematical analysis and the
use of high-level, sophisticated computer programs) determined that they
will play their 200th show on 9/16 at the
Cyber Café West in
---Modern rockers, Secondhand Serenade have booked a Fall 2017 tour that will play as close as Syracuse NY on 10/9 at Westcott Theatre…and Stroudsburg PA on 10/5…as well as…Buffalo NY on 10/4…Asbury Park NJ on 10/6…NYC on 10/11…and Toronto ON on 10/12! Also on the bill is He Is We and Ronnie Winter!
---Folk singer, Arlo Guthrie is coming to the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on Friday 10/27, as well as…Torrington CT on 9/16…Greensburg PA on 10/20…Easton MD on 10/26…Toms River NJ on 11/9…Cranston RI on 11/11…Plymouth NH on 11/16…Beverly MA on 11/17…Great Barrington MA on 11/17…and NYC on 11/25!
---Sonny
Weeks, lead singer and guitarist for
Wreckless Marci and
V.A.P.E. is making
connections…as a fanboy!
Weeks was one of two fans invited on stage by Green Day during their
show last week in
---Speaking of impromptu videos, did you see Ayanna D’s penthouse level video shoot in NYC? Ya gotta check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/AyanaDmusic or on our facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/radio2point0
---Speaking of Ayanna, her sister
Taina Asili, also a product of the Maine-Endwell school district but
now based in the Albany NY area, and her group
y banda Rebelde, will hit the road next week with stops within our
region…and beyond…Troy NY on 9/10…Rochester NY on 9/13 & 9/14…Albany NY
on 9/15…Philadelphia PA on 9/16…Canton NY on 9/20-9/24…Saratoga Springs
NY on 9/25…Worcester MA on 10/7…Oakland CA on 10/8…Atherton C on
10/9…Stanford CA on 10/10…Great Barrington MA on 10/21…Troy NY on
10/29…and Rohnert Park CA on 11/30!
She should get out to
---Remember Baauer? It’s been five years since he had a hit with “Harlem Shake,” and he’s finally back with a follow-up tour that will bring him into our region…Washington DC on 10/19…NYC on 10/20…Pittsburgh PA on 10/21…Philadelphia PA on 10/23…South Burlington VT on 10/24…and The Westcott Theatre in Syracuse NY on 10/25!
---Get well wishes to Denny Dorwat, of Raised On Radio and Black Hat, who fell down the steps and broke three ribs, plus he displaced his elbow. He says he’d had to cancel two gigs so far while recovering. I hope he’s got his insurance paid up! Get well soon, dude!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The Script are taking their new album, “Freedom Child” on the road this fall with new dates including four in our greater region, including…Mashantucket CT on 9/28…NYC on 9/29…Boston MA on 9/30…and Washington DC on 10/2!
---Sing with me now, “It’s beginning to look a lot like the holidays…”
both the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Mannheim Steamroller have
both already announced their tours for 2017…now,
The
Wizards Of Winter have joined them!
See them in…Red Bank NJ on 11/25…Warrendale PA on 12/14…
---Raekwon
(formerly of Wu-Tang Clan) has announced what is so far, an eleven-date
tour that will have three stops in our region…Buffalo NY on 9/7…East
Durham NY on 9/8…and Brooklyn NY on 11/4 for a huge package tour
appearance that also includes:
Slick Rick, Rakim, Mr. Cheeks, N.O.R.E., Ghostface Killah
and
Big
Daddy Kane!
---Speaking of
Ghostface Killah he’s touring, both in
package tours as seen above…and solo with an appearance in
---Marshall
Tucker Band just keeps on rolling!
MTB has announced a new December leg for 2017 that will bring
them through our area…Niagara Falls NY on 12/1…Lakewood NJ on 12/2…Irwin
PA on 12/3…Huntington NY on 12/7…Hanover PA on 12/8…and NYC on 12/16!
---Jazz rockers,
Steely Dan undertake a small
tour that passes thru our region…Buffalo NY on 10/17…Baltimore MD on
10/24…and Oxon Hill MD on 10/25…the question is, how will the death of
the bands bass player and co-lyricist, Walter Becker on 9/3 effect these
dates, if at all!
---Roger
Daltrey, lead singer of The Who, is
embarking on a six-date solo tour with two dates penetrating our
regional area…both at
---Niall
Horan, formerly of One Direction, is
embarking on a solo tour ahead of the release of his debut solo
album…The Flicker Sessions 2017” tour will regionally stop
at…Philadelphia PA on 10/29…NYC on 10/31…Toronto ON on 11/1…Boston MA on
11/3…and Silver Spring MD on 11/4!
---Hip hop star,
Azealia Banks will tour North
America, including our areas here in the northeast and mid-atlantic…Philadelphia
PA on 10/29…NYC on 10/31…Toronto ON on 11/1…Boston MA on 11/3…and
Washington DC on 11/4!
---Buddy Guy has announced the rest of a tour that goes along with the leaked date at The Birchmere in Alexandria VA on 10/10…so he’s got some additional regional dates…Londonderry NH on 10/7…Peekskill NY on 10/8…and Wilmington DE on 10/9!
---Doyle Bramhall II, who has played with Eric Clapton and Roger Waters and announced what was initially thought to be a one off in our last report (Syracuse NY at The Westcott on 11/15) is expanding his initial bookings and is now set to play more regional show as well…Buffalo NY on 11/9…Pawling NY on 11/10…Norfolk CT on 11/11…Washington DC on 11/12…Fairfield CT on 11/14…Londonderry NH on 11/17…Westerly RI on 11/18…NYC On 11/19…and Boston MA on 11/21!
---Justin
Townes Earle is coming back around this fall and you can find the
singer/ songwriter in…
---10,000 Maniacs have announced a series of dates that run through Spring 2017 and a handful will land in our region…Londonderry NH on 9/7…Hartford CT on 9/8…Kennett Square PA on 9/9…Alexandria VA on 10/13…and Irwin PA on 11/25!
---Bill Sheehan’s alternative project The Fell have booked a seven-date tour with at least three of those stops falling inside our region…Rochester NY on 9/9…Niagara Falls NY on 9/10…and Toronto ON on 9/11!
---Jr. Jr.--formerly
known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.--have returned!
The alt-pop band is set to play in…
---The Moody Blues aren’t on tour…but their guitarist John Lodge is! He’s playing ten dates nationwide and eight will play in our region…Vienna VA on 10/26…Albany NY on 10/28…Peekskill NY on 10/29…Sellersville PA on 10/30…Plymouth NH on 11/2…Hartford CT on 11/3…Wilmington DE on 11/5…and NYC on 11/8!
---The Dead
Milkmen rise again and deliver in…Warrendale PA on 9/16…and
---Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown are set to return to America for the holidays and into 2018 with three new bookings in our region…Shirley MA on 12/15…Pawling NY on 12/16…and Uncasville CT on 5/13!
---Willie
Nile has booked a trio of dates for the rest of 2017 and two of them
fall into our greater region…NYC on 10/10…and
---Graham
Bonnet, formerly of Rainbow, MSG, Alcatrazz, is trying out his own
band, with two dates…
---Lana del Rey has announced a two night stand in NYC at Terminal 5 on 10/23 & 10/24!
---King
Crimson adds a second night in
---All Time
Low will take a month off after their European tour, in October and
come back in September with a three night stand at the Starland
Ballroom, in
---They Might Be Giants have announced a two-night stand to close out 2017 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn NY on 12/30 & 12/31!
---Delbert
McClinton is already booking dates for 2018…
---Breaking Benjamin is launching an acoustic tour that is set to roll thru our region in…Boston MA on 9/29…Hampton Beach NH on 9/30…Montclair NJ on 10/2…Wilmington DE on 10/3…and Silver Spring MD on 10/4!
---John Hall of Orleans will play a three-date mini-tour in October with stops at…Sellersville PA on 10/5…North Salem NY on 10/7…and Harvard MA on 10/14!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Pop singer, Demi Lovato, has booked a one-off at the Cadillac House in NYC on 9/21!
---R&B star Tyga is also set to play a one-shot show in NYC on 9/22 at Stage 48 with Honey Cocaine, Chief Keef and RJ!
---Felly will play the one-date tour in NYC at American Beauty on 11/16!
---Alt-pop singer,
Freedy Johnston has just one
onlyl, scheduled stop in
---80’s rockers,
China Crisis will play a
one-off in
---Musiq
Soulchild has booked a handful of national dates, but only one in
our greater region…
---Mumford & Sons book a half dozen shows for the Fall of 2017, but only one in our greater region…NYC on 9/18!
--- The Alarm have booked three dates…only one in for our region…NYC on 5/11!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Tommy
James & The Shondells keep on booking…
---70’s soft rockers,
---Spyro
Gyra has booked another American leg
for their 2017 tour….Buffalo NY on 11/15…NYC on 11/17…and Norfolk CT on
11/18!
---Pop singer,
Neil Sedaka, adds
---Bruce
Springsteen adds another 40 more shows at the
Kerr Theatre in NYC, that run from 12/5 thru 2/3!
---Don
McLean adds Red Bank NJ on 9/28 with
Pure Prairie League…and
---Beyonce’s sister,
Solange, adds
---Lee
Ann Womack, currently on another package
tour, has added a solo date in NYC on 11/7!
---David
Lindley, guitarist for Jackson Browne,
adds two more dates for 2018…
---Atlas
Genius and
Magic Giant
add
---Magic
Giant also will play a solo date on the
Atlas Genius tours off night on 9/16!
---Big
Bad Voodoo Daddy adds
---Aaron
Carter, who just survived a car crash in
which he broke his nose, adds NYC on 9/12!
---Ten
Years After
are adding on to their meager
tour…which expands their tour to six total dates with new stops
in…Sellersville PA on 920…Pawling NY on 9/24…and two nights in West
Springfield MA on 9/25 & 9/26!
---Musiq
Soulchild adds
---Steve Forbert adds NYC on 9/15…and Sellersville PA on 10/14!
---Average
White Band adds
---Michael McDonald adds Lynn MA on 10/26!
---Meanwhile, McDonald’s tour mate, Marc Cohn adds two dates in March 2018 on 3/16…and 3/17!
---Rik
Emmett, formerly of Triumph, adds
---King
Crimson adds a second night in
---Spoon
tags their 2017 with two dates in
---Taking Back Sunday adds a second night at Starland Ballroom on 12/16!
---Steve Forbert adds Sellersville PA on 10/14 & City Winery in NYC on 9/15!
---Charlie
Daniels Band adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---10,000 Maniacs (5)
---Aaron Carter (1)
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---Arlo Guthrie (3)
---Average White Band (1)
---Azealia Banks (5)
---Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (2)
---Breaking Benjamin (5)
---Bruce Springsteen (40)
---Buddy Guy (3)
---Charlie Daniels Band (1)
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---David Lindley (2)
---Delbert McClinton (2)
---Demi Lovato (1)
---Don McLean (2)
---Doyle Bramhall II (9)
---Felly (1)
---Graham Bonnet Band (2)
---John Hall (3)
---John Lodge (8)
---Justin Townes Earle (5)
---Kim Simmonds &
---King Crimson (2)
---Lee Ann Womack (1)
---Magic Giant (1)
---Marc Cohn (2)
---Marshall Tucker Band (6)
---Michael McDonald (1)
---Musiq Soulchild (1)
---Neil Sedaka (1)
---Niall Horan (5)
---Rik Emmett (1)
---Roger Daltrey (2)
---Secondhand Serenade (6)
---Solange (2)
---Spoon (2)
---Spyro Gyra (3)
---Steely Dan (3)
---Steve Forbert (2)
---Ten Years After (4)
---The Alarm (1)
---The Dead Milkmen (2)
---The Fell (3)
---The Spill Canvas (6)
---The Wizards Of Winter (5)
---They Might Be Giants (2)
---Tim Reynolds & TR3 (3)
---Tommy James & The Shondells (2)
---Tyga/ Honey Cocaine/ Chief Keef/ RJ (1)
---Welshly Arms (2)
---Within The Ruins/ Currents/ Aversion Crown (8)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 082617:
---The line-up for “Rock & Roar” at the Ross Park Zoo Amphitheatre in Binghamton NY on 9/3 has been announced and for a free concert, it’s bringing the cream of local bands…Devinne Meyers will appear at 1pm and 2:20p…Next To Kin @ 1:20p…Woodshed Prophets @ 2:40p…Bess Greenberg @ 3:40p & 5:40p…Voodoo Highway @ 4p & 5p with one set devoted to the Grateful Dead…and Raibred headlines the fest @ 6p! If you get there early you can also check out Pool, a band of BU
---Nathaniel
Rateliff & the Night Sweats will make a stop at the
State Theatre in
---Roger Waters and Eric Clapton session and/or
road guitarist, Doyle Bramhall II
is coming to the Westcott Theatre
in
---Still some disappointment about the
Bon Jovi show delay on Friday night, 8/18 at the
Dicks Sporting Goods Open at
EnJoie in Endicott!
Social media was filled with negative comments like, “Non Jovi”
and “Is Bon Jovi a no show?”
Many fans left early, not all heard the announcement that his flight was
delayed, (ala the Hole One big screen that had no audio and once the
show was underway there were also reports that audio was out of synch)
which it’s been said that the bands management didn’t want the delay in
arrival to be announced, and on top of that there were reports that,
lead singer, Jon Bon Jovi didn’t even apologize to the 25-thousand fans
about being late. Sounds
like The Dicks Sporting Goods
Open has some work to do smoothing the ruffled feathers of this
mini-controversy…after all Bon Jovi did show up and they did play until
nearly midnight, and they put on a decent show, too (…for example, one
other post found declared, “biggest
sing-a-long event ever in
---Former Brian Wolff Band star,
Brian Wolff, now living and playing in Austin TX with his new band
Fair City Fire, was pretty
jazzed this week about playing Antone’s in
---NEPA folk-rockers, Cabinet are launching a southern tour next month that will take them to…Charlotte NC on 9/7….Asheville NC on 9/8…Raleigh NC on 9/9 & 9/10, before returning for more regional dates…on 9/28 in New Haven CT…9/29 in Ithaca NY at The Haunt…State College PA on 10/13…Buffalo NY on 10/14…and Norfolk CT on 11/2!
---Tommy Stinson’s
Bash & Pop is coming to
The Haunt in
---Colin Hay, former lead singer of Men At Work, is returning to our region, with a local date…The Hangar Theatre in Ithaca NY on 10/25…as well as…Concord NH on 10/14…Northampton MA on 10/15…Washington DC on 10/21…and Oakmont PA on 10/26!
---David Lindley, guitarist for Jackson Browne’s band, is off on a solo tour again this Spring that will bring him back to our area…Bel Air MD on 4/6…Jim Thorpe PA (at Mauch Chunk Opera House) on 4/7…and Greenwich CT on 4/8!
---Condolences to Jane Train, the local Scranton area musician who was also manager of Adrenaline Mob and was a passenger in the crash that recently killed the bands bass player…she died from injuries also sustained in that accident.
---Congrats to Kadima’s drummer, Evan McNamara, as he welcomes the birth of a baby…unfortunately that means the band had to dropped out of the Allsiders Festival @ Rec Park…V.A.P.E. stepped up to fill the gap…
[Note: there will be no Music News report and no new Charts next weekend as we will be off for the Labor Day weekend! Our next report will be dated 090918!]
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Pentatonix have added a December leg to their 2017 tour…presumably for holiday shows in…Upper Darby PA on 12/7…Uncasville CT on 12/9…three in Boston MA on 12/12, 12/13 & 12/14…Washington DC on 12/17…and three more in NYC on 12/19, 12/20 and 12/21! There are plenty of dates between cities and more shows can be, and probably will be, added!
---Z.Z. Top has announced an intimate theatre-styled tour that is coming to our region in October & November…Baltimore MD on 10/15…Red Bank NJ on 10/24…Port Chester NY on 10/25…Boston MA on 10/27…Hampton Beach NH on 10/28…Reading PA on 10/29…Morristown NJ on 10/31…and Greensburg PA on 11/1!
---Hip hop fans will be happy to know that
Tyler The Creator is playin’
the circuit again…NYC on 11/13…
---Culture
Club is coming to America and Boy George and the guys will plant
their flag in…Huntington NY on 11/14…Uncasville CT on 11/16…Atlantic
City NJ on 11/18…before heading to South America and Australia (where
they’re touring in a package with Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins!
They should do that in the
---Bill Corgan, lead singer and songwriter of Smashing Pumpkins, has booked a solo tour, as he releases a solo album (anybody remember his last one? Zwan?), but only four shows out of thirteen in our region…two nights in Brooklyn NY on 10/14 & 10/15…Wilmington DE on 10/18…and Toronto ON on 10/20!
---Need a little hair metal action? Y&T is back on the road this winter and coming soon to a theatre in our greater region…Sellersville PA on 2/20…NYC On 2/21…Poughkeepsie NY on 2/23…Londonderry NH on 2/24…and Warrendale PA on 2/27!
---Robyn Hitchcock, formerly of the db’s and The Soft Boys is set to play a handful of dates in the US and a couple in Canada for a total of 4 within our region…Woodstock NY on 9/2…Brooklyn NY on 9/3…two nights in Toronto ON on 9/21 & 9/22…NYC on 11/18…and Newburyport MA on 2/17/18!!
---The Tedeschi Trucks Band had booked a six-night residency at the Allman Brothers Band’s old hang-out, the Beacon Theatre in NYC! They’ll be hanging out there starting on 10/6-7, then 10/10-11 and 10/13-14! North Mississippi Allstars will open on 10/11!
---Tricky is stepping out with an October tour…South Burlington VT on 10/5…Montreal QC on 10/6…Toronto ON on 10/7…Brooklyn NY on 10/9…and Washington DC on 10/11!
---Breakout alt-rockers, The Revivalists have booked a late Fall tour…Washington DC on 11/15 & 11/16…Philadelphia PA on 11/17…and Boston MA on 11/18!
---David Archuleta of American Idol fame, is going on an 11-date tour that unfortunately for his regional fans only plays in our greater area twice…Sellersville PA on 10/25…and Pittsburgh PA on 10/26!
---Beyonce’s sister,
Solange, will play two dates
in our region on a limited tour…
---Dillinger
Escape Plan has booked a two night holiday stand at Terminal 5 in
---Say Anything have launched a major U.S. tour doubling up on consecutive nights in most cities…two nights in Baltimore MD on 1/12 & 1/13 (at different venues)…two nights in NYC on 1/14 & 1/15…two nights in Boston MA on 1/16 & 1/17…and Philadelphia PA on 1/19 & 1/20!
---The Shins, a great punk-rock band have booked some dates to support a new music video…Washington DC on 11/2…Brooklyn NY on 11/3…and Philadelphia PA on 11/4!
---Gavin DeGraw’s RAW Tour, which features his songs being played in a stripped-down trio, instead of a full band, is coming this Fall…Montreal QC on 10/24…Toronto ON on 10/25…Montclair NJ on 10/27…Washington DC on 10/28…Boston MA on 10/29…and Philadelphia PA on 10/30!
---Balance &
Composure will play some solo dates outside of the Thrice/ Circa
Survive tour this fall…11/21 in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Blackmore’s
Night is returning to
---Mike
Doughty, formerly of Soul Coughing, has booked a one-off for the
City Winery in
---The Wallflowers have booked a one-time only show at the Samuel Adams Octoberfest at Pier 16 in the Seaport District of NYC on 10/21!
---Lana del Rey plays a one-shot show in NYC on 10/23 at Terminal 5!
---Lisa Lisa
is playing a Retro night show with
Rob Base,
Lisette Melendez and some
others at the
---Dee Dee
Sharp (remember Mashed Potato Time?)…has booked a one-off in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---No sooner did Katy Perry announce her tour dates then she delayed them for two weeks due to production delays which led to a lack of rehearsal time, so the follow dates have been pushed back…Montreal QC on 9/9 to 9/19…Toronto ON on 9/12 to 10/31 (…and the just added 11/1)…Buffalo NY on 9/16 (not yet rescheduled)…Philadelphia PA on 9/18 to 10/12…Uniondale NY on 10/3 (…not yet rescheduled)…and Pittsburgh PA on 10/19 to 9/22!
---The
BulletBoys add
---Sponge
adds
---Former Alcatraz guitarist,
Yngwie Malmsteen has added a few dates…Stroudsburg PA on 10/24…
---Thrice have added Balance & Composure to their package tour with Circa Survive, which puts them on the bill for all eight regional dates!
---The
Spinners add two nights in
---The Grass
Roots add
---Wishbone
Ash adds a second night in
---Tommy
James & the Shondells add
---Kix adds Camp Hill PA on 11/24…and Warrendale PA on 12/16!
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---The National have booked what seems to be a tune-up before the head
to Europe in
---alt-J adds
---War adds
---Two Door Cinema Club adds
---Insane Clown Posse adds
---Los Lonely Boys adds
---Blues rockers,
Hot Tuna have turned their
two-night residency into a four-night residency at the
City Winery in
---Taking
Back Sunday adds
---Janet
Jackson adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---alt-J (1)
---Balance & Composure (1)
---Billy Corgan (4)
---Blackmore’s Night (1)
---BulletBoys (2)
---Cabinet (5)
---Colin Hay (5)
---Culture Club (3)
---David Archuleta (2)
---David Lindley (3)
---Dee Dee Sharp (1)
---Dillinger Escape Plan (2)
---Doyle Bramhall II (1)
---Gavin DeGraw (6)
---Hot Tuna (2)
---Insane Clown Posse (1)
---Janet Jackson (1)
---Kix (2)
---Lana Del Rey (1)
---Lisa Lisa/ TKA/ Rob Base/ Lisette Melendez (1)
---Los Lonely Boys (1)
---Mike Doughty (1)
---Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (1)
---Pentatonix (9)
---Robyn Hitchcock (6)
---Say Anything (8)
---Solange (2)
---Sponge (1)
---Taking Back Sunday (1)
---Tedeschi Trucks Band (6)
---The Grass Roots (1)
---The National (2)
---The Revivalists (4)
---The Shins (3)
---The Spinners (2)
---The Wallflowers (1)
---Thrice/ Circa Survive/ Balance & Composure (8)
---Tommy James & The Shondells (2)
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---Tricky (5)
---Two Door Cinema Club (1)
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---Y&T (5)
---Yngwie Malmsteen (5)
---War (2)
---Wishbone Ash (1)
---Z.Z. Top (8)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 081917:
---The breakdown on the Bon Jovi show at En Joie Golf Course in Endicott is out…it was a record setter with an estimated 25-thousand people in attendance for the show that is the annual climax for the night of the first round of the Dicks Sporting Goods Open…and it was a restless crowd as the bands plane was delayed two hours due to thunderstorms in Newark NJ, so the band didn’t even take the stage until just before 10pm…and played until nearly midnight! Some ticket holders were a bit upset that they waited almost seven hours (as many concert goers arrived early to get a good view) and that no announcement was made to the waiting crowd, until approximately 9pm, but word is that the show itself was great!
--- The basic line-up for the third annual Binghamton Porchfest has been announced as of Monday 8/14…in addition to the 108 bands on 42 porches, the third annual Porchfest, which will be held on Sunday August 27th will also include a karaoke porch and an open mike porch! The full line-up is posted on the local concert page on this site and if you need more, here’s a link to the festival’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/binghamtonporchfest/photos/gm.1848792452101762/1810735952545882/?type=3&theater …and btw, all the shows are also listed on our concert pages…just sort by venue to see all the events listed together.
---The line-up for the Fourth annual Rock Against Suicide 4 benefit has also been announced and it’s pretty awesome…Wreckless Marci, Odd Man Out, Drama Scream, Hating Amy and Project Z will gather at the Choconut Inn in Friendsville PA on Saturday October 14th to raise money for this important cause! The cost of a ticket is $10.00 and the show starts at 5pm!
---Driftwood
has announced that they’ll be making the trip to
---Is local jam-band/ cover band, Raibred prepping a mini-regional tour? It looks like they’re hitting the road for a week in December, beginning with a two-night stand with Astro Collective and Fordham, at the Cyber Café West in Binghamton NY on 12/15 & 12/16…before taking both bands on the road with them to…Buffalo NY On 12/17…Syracuse NY on 12/20…and Rochester NY on 12/21!
---Dark Star Orchestra (the grateful dead cover band) will return to State Theatre in Ithaca NY on 11/19, but they’ve also added an entire leg on their 2017 tour that comes into our region in…Montclair NJ on 11/10…Albany NY on 11/11…Peekskill NY on 11/12…Northampton MA on 11/14…New Haven CT on 11/17…Worcester MA on 11/18…Concord NH on 11/21…Jim Thorpe PA (at Penn’s Peak) on 11/22…two nights in Huntington NY on Long Island on 11/24 & 11/25…Washington DC on 12/2…Montclair NJ on 12/28…and three nights in Philadelphia PA on 12/29, 12/30 & 12/31!
---Trans-Siberian Orchestra has finally posted their holiday schedule for 2017 and, as usual, it’s massive…and it will impact our local region on 11/19 in Wilkes-Barre PA, at the Arena at Casey Plaza, as well as…Erie PA On 11/16…Baltimore MD on 11/17…Allentown PA on 11/18…Rochester NY on 11/22…Worcester MA on 11/24…Manchester NH on 11/25…Uncasville CT on 11/26…Washington DC on 12/14…Hershey PA on 12/15…Buffalo NY on 12/16…Philadelphia PA on 12/17…Pittsburgh PA on 12/22…Newark NJ on 12/26…and Albany NY on 12/27!
---The I Love The 90’s Tour is coming back with a line-up that will increasingly rotate, but is still very cool every time…and this time the tour is coming to Scranton PA at Montage Mountain on 8/26…as well as…Essex Junction VT on 8/25…Gilford NH on 8/27…Camden NJ on 9/1…Uncasville CT on 9/2…and Vienna VA on 9/3! Bands or musicians rotating thru the tour include…Snap!...Rob Base…Mark McGrath…C&C Music Factory…All-4-One…Coolio…Naughty By Nature…Color Me Badd…Montell Jordan…Biz Markie…and Kid N Play! Consult your local venue for any permutation of the above line-up!
---Blood Sweat and Tears (featuring American Idol singer, Bo Bice) has announced that they will play a show at Mount Airy Casino in Mount Pocono PA on 9/1! This show is a late add to their itinerary, but as it turns out, will bring them into our area three months earlier than planned as they have stops planned beginning 12/1 in Millville NJ and including…Wilmington DE on 12/2…Hartford CT on 12/9…East Greenwich RI on 12/10…Plymouth NH on 12/14…Beverly MA on 12/15…Huntington NY on 12/16…and NYC on 12/17!
---NYS FAIR UPDATE: Post Malone has withdrawn from the Fair and is being replace by Lynyrd Skynyrd! The show is set for 2pm on Sunday 8/27! Stephen Marley @ 2pm and Symphoria @ 8pm have also been added on 8/26 replacing DJ Khaled! DNCE has also been added on 9/2 @ 2pm and Kool & the Gang will play on 9/4 @ 6p!
---Condolences to
Ed Hickey on the passing of
his mother, Mary Hickey on 8/9 in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Shania Twain has announced her comeback and final tour for 2018 this week and there are plenty of regional dates in it…Montreal QC on 6/26…two nights in Toronto ON on 7/6 & 7/7…Boston MA on 7/11…Philadelphia PA on 7/12…NYC on 7/14…Washington DC on 7/15…and Pittsburgh PA on 7/17!
---Metro Station is adding another leg of shows for Fall 2017 that include…Pittsburgh PA on 10/10…Niagara Falls NY on 10/11…Easton PA on 10/12…Providence RI on 10/13…Stanhope NJ on 10/14…and Baltimore MD on 10/15!
---BulletBoys
(remember their hair metal cover of The O’Jays “For The Love Of Money”?)…have announced a dozen-date tour with two
shows in our region…
---Merry Christmas Darling: A Carpenters Christmas has announced initial dates and there will be at least a few in our region…Uncasville CT on 12/3…Elmsford NY on 12/5…and Easton PA on 12/14! I can’t believe there won’t be more announcements coming in the next few weeks or months. Stay tuned.
---The Dirty Heads are expanding their current tour to include new dates with a changing cast warming up for them…or abandoning warm-up bands altogether…Silver Spring MD on 11/2…Providence RI on 11/3…Lancaster PA on 11/4…New Haven CT on 11/5…Montreal QC on 11/8…Toronto ON on 11/10…Clifton Park NY on 11/11…and Niagara Falls NY on 11/12!
---Rick Springfield has announced a Fall 2017 series of shows many of which fall into our region…Wallingford CT (w/ Richard Marx) on 9/7…Gilford NH (w/ Richard Marx) on 9/8…Vienna VA (w/ Richard Marx) on 9/10…Jim Thorpe PA (at Penn’s Peak) on 9/21…Montclair NJ on 9/22…Atlantic City NJ on 9/23…and Verona NY on 10/1!
---Prog rockers, Wishbone Ash have expanded the few dates previously leaked for Fall 2017 with new dates in…Sellersville PA on 9/27…Norfolk CT on 9/28…Londonderry NH on 9/29…Bay Shore NY on 9/30…Pawling NY on 10/1…Buffalo NY on 10/5…Pittsburgh PA on 10/7…and Jim Thorpe PA on 10/8!
---Dave Brockie may be gone, but Gwar keeps plodding on with a fresh Fall tour and a bunch of stops inside our region…Toronto ON on 10/22…Pittsburgh PA on 10/23…Baltimore MD on 10/26…New Haven CT on 10/27…Worcester MA on 10/28…Philadelphia PA on 10/29…NYC on 10/31…Buffalo NY on 11/1!
---Death From Above (formerly death from above 1979) have announced a Fall set of dates the will intersect with our greater region…Montreal QC on 10/20…Boston MA on 10/21…Clifton Park NY on 10/23…Brooklyn NY on 10/25…Philadelphia PA on 10/27…Silver Spring MD on 10/28…and Toronto ON on 12/1!
---Kid Cudi has confirmed upcoming regional tour dates for Fall 2017…Philadelphia PA on 9/30…Boston MA on 10/1…Wallingford CT on 10/3…Toronto ON on 10/4…NYC on 10/6…and Washington DC on 10/8!
---10 Years
is on a nice little package tour with
Red and
Otherwise that will bring
them to…
---Brand New is back with a “brand new” tour that is coming to our region…Philadelphia PA on 10/18…NYC on 10/19…Boston MA on 10/20…Upper Darby PA on 10/21…and Baltimore MD on 10/23!
---Highly Suspect is expanding their break thru tour and hopefully their success so far, which will bring them back around to our region…Lancaster PA on 10/31…Philadelphia PA on 11/1…Providence RI on 11/3…and Asbury Park NJ on 11/4!
---98
Degrees are back together for their 20th
Anniversary…releasing a new X-mas album and taking it on the road!
“Let It Snow” will be released on 10/13…it will be their second
X-mas album, their first in a century (…or since 1999)…and your can see
them in
---Evanescence
is releasing a new album soon, “Synthesis”
and they aren’t just taking the album with them on tour…they’re taking
the concept too…While “Synthesis” will feature some new music, it will
mainly reimagine a selection of Evanescence classics with a full
orchestra and electronics to augment the bands dynamic.
Regional dates on this tour include…
---Papa Roach cancels tour while singer, Jacoby Shaddix has vocal surgery!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Hip hop star,
K. Michelle will play a
one-off in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Sponge
adds
---Graham
Nash extends his Fall 2017 tour with Canadian dates, including…
---Simple Plan add St. Catherines ON (near buffalo) on 9/15!
---The Hispanic Dylan,
Rodriguez, adds
---Katy
Perry adds
---
---Matthew Sweet adds Havertown PA on 9/9!
---Bleachers
add
---Rickie
Lee Jones adds
---Led Zeppelin tribute band,
Get The Led Out adds
---Night
Ranger adds West Springfield MA on 9/29 (with
Fastball)…and
---Suzanne
Vega adds
---Minus The
Bear is playing a headlining show of their own on an off-night from
the Silversun Pickups tour…in
---Puddle Of
Mudd adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---10 Years/ Red/ Otherwise (3)
---98 Degrees (3)
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---Bleachers (1)
---Blood Sweat & Tears (1)
---Brand New (5)
---BulletBoys (2)
---Dark Star Orchestra (16)
---Death From Above (7)
---Dirty Heads (8)
---Driftwood (4)
---Evanescence (9)
---Get The Led Out (1)
---Graham Nash (1)
---Highly Suspect (4)
---I Love The 90’s (6)
---K. Michelle (1)
---Katy Perry (1)
---Kid Cudi (6)
---Matthew Sweet (1)
---Metro Station (6)
---Merry Christmas Darling: A Carpenters Christmas (3)
---Minus The Bear/ Cymbals Eat Guitars/ Pet Symmetry (1)
---Night Ranger (2)
---Puddle Of Mudd (1)
---Rodriguez (1)
---Rick Springfield (7)
---Rickie Lee Jones (2)
---Shania Twain (8)
---Simple Plan (1)
---Suzanne Vega (1)
---Sponge (3)
---Trans-Siberian Orchestra (15)
---Wishbone Ash (8)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 081217:
---Local TV station,
Fox 40 has been scooping the
market on a lot of new local music stories and last week they found
another…13-year-old Noor Hila
of Vestal, was the winner of the 2017
EPAC’s Got Talent Showcase, and not only can she sing…she can also
write (songs of course) and play piano!
In fact she can play piano so well, that she’s already outgrown
at least one of her piano teachers!
She has recently been working with
Damian Cornwell of
OnPoint Productions, in
http://www.wicz.com/story/36059948/teenage-singer-is-tearing-up-the-local-music-scene
---First Stephen Stills is coming to town, then Graham Nash announces dates…now David Crosby of CSN (…and sometimes Y) and The Byrds, is ready to play the State Theatre in Ithaca on 11/8! Crosby has announced a huge, yet intimate theatre tour that includes a lot of regional dates as well…Munhall PA on 11/7…Montreal QC on 11/10…Boston MA on 11/13…Londonderry NH on 11/15…Albany NY on 11/17…Rutland VT on 11/18…Ridgefield CT on 11/20…Collingswood NJ on 11/21…NYC on 11/25…Morristown NJ on 11/26…and two nights in Vienna VA (near Washington DC) on 11/28 &11/29!
---The
Original Monarch’s are coming to
---
---Congrats to local musician Paul Taurterouff, who just released his solo album, “Audio Chocolate!” Catch him in the local and regional clubs for a copy! Just $10.00 and it apparently comes with a compilation CD! Very cool!
---Tom
Keifer of Cinderella, Quiet
Riot and Warrant tour coming to Tags, in Big Flats NY on 9/24 $24-75.00,.
Tickets may be two-for-one.
Keifer’s other tour stops include…NYC on 10/11…
---State
Theatre in
---Tauk is making a Fall run of theatre-sized venues that will pass thru our local region on 9/16 at The Westcott Theatre in Syracuse NY on 9/16…as well as…Burlington VT on 9/15…Baltimore MD on 11/3…Ardmore PA on 11/4…and NYC on 11/24!
---Former Journey lead singer, Steve Augeri, will play the Kallet Theatre in Pulaski NY (near Syracuse) on 10/13…it’s an off tour day for Augeri who is opening for War (8/19), Asia (9/2) and Lou Gramm (1/20) in other appearances in our region!
---The line-up has been established for next
weekends Fools Hill Festival
at Fools Hill Farm in Spencer NY, (near
Friday 8/18:
5p:
7p: Noon Fifteen
9p: Kitestring
11p: Friends With Bennys
Saturday 8/19:
3p: Thee KinFolk
5p: The Ghost Peppers
7p: Dapper Dan
9p: The Blind Spots
11p: Boogie Low
Sunday 8/20:
3p: Garlic Band
5p: Knotty North
7p: The
9p: Plasm
---Mary
Chapin Carpenter tour comes to
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Bruce Springsteen is going to Broadway…no he’s not starring in a musical…he’s the star of a one-man show, an intimate theatre experience that will take place in the Walter Kerr Theatre in Manhattan NY for a total of 40 nights, starting 10/3 and running thru 11/26! Specific dates are Tuesdays thru Saturdays (with Sundays and Mondays off obviously) 10/3-7, 10/10-10/14, 10/17-21, 10/24-28, 10/31-11/4, 11/7-11/11, 11/14-18 and 11/21-26! The shows promise to be intimate indeed as capacity at the Kerr Theatre is around one-thousand seats!
---Speaking of Springsteen, his E-Street Band guitarist, Little Steven, is also making a road trip, including…Holmdel NJ on 9/21…Port Chester NY on 9/23…NYC on 9/25…Staten Island NY on 9/27…Boston MA on 9/29…Philadelphia PA on 10/1…Baltimore MD on 10/2…Huntington NY on 10/4 and Toronto ON on 10/9!
---Hip hop superstar, Macklemore is going on the road, but for a change, without his longtime partner in crime, Ryan Lewis…look for the paired down show to hit theatre sized venues instead of arena’s this time…Pittsburgh PA on 11/7…Toronto ON on 11/8…NYC On 11/10…Silver Spring MD on 11/11…Philadelphia PA on 11/13…and Boston MA on 11/14!
---Mutemath, Colony House and Romes are taking a package tour on the road and it will come thru our greater region in September, including…Boston MA on 9/14…New Haven CT on 9/15…Pittsburgh PA on 9/16…Philadelphia PA on 9/19…Brooklyn NY on 9/20…and Silver Spring MD on 9/22!
---Here’s a modern christian metal package tour…I Prevail, Escape The Fate, The Word Alive and We Came As Romans…are taking an extensive road trip that will pass thru our region several times…Toronto ON on 10/15…Niagara Falls NY on 10/16…Montreal QC on 10/17…Sayreville NJ on 10/19…Worcester MA on 10/20…Hartford CT on 10/21…Baltimore MD on 10/23…Philadelphia PA on 10/24…NYC on 10/25…Stroudsburg PA on 10/28…and Pittsburgh PA on 11/28!
---Hip hop stars,
Ja Rule and
---Alt-country band, the Gin Blossoms, are setting off on a late Summer tour that will bring them to…Clayton NY (near watertown) on 8/10…Middletown PA on 8/26…and Buffalo NY on 9/23!
---The remaining music making member of Outkast, Big Boi, takes to the road in September with fresh dates in Silver Spring MD on 9/11…South Burlington VT on 9/12…Pittsburgh PA on 9/14…NYC on 9/16…and Boston MA on 9/17!
---Kip Winger has booked a three-date tour…two of which fall into our greater region…Asbury Park NJ on 9/29…and Poughkeepsie NY on 9/30!
---British industrial band,
Ministry, is coming to
---Iron & Wine will return this Fall for a half dozen shows in our region…Washington DC on 11/9…New Haven CT on 11/10…Boston MA on 11/11…Northampton MA on 11/12…NYC on 11/13…and Brooklyn NY on 11/14!
---Hot Tuna is back with a handful of holiday shows in our region…NYC on 11/21 & 11/22…Asbury Park NJ on 12/7…Port Chester NY on 12/8…and Huntington NY on 12/9!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---How weird is this?
Of the 15-dates on the latest jaunt by
Saliva, the alt-metal band is making only one in our greater
region…in
---Terry
Reid (the singer Jimmy Page originally wanted for Led Zeppelin,
before he found Robert Plant) has booked a one-off in
---The late Harry Chapin’s brother,
Tom Chapin has booked two nights in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Judah &
the Lion add
---Paula
Cole adds
---Sara Evans adds Stroudsburg PA on 12/7!
---Huey
Lewis & the News add
---Blues guitarist,
Jonny Lang adds
---Suzanne
Vega adds
---Los Lobos
adds
---Blondie
adds
---The
National adds
---Add CkY
to the HIM farewell
tour…and subtract the 11/16 show in
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Big Boi (5)
---Blondie (2)
---Bruce Springsteen (40)
---David Crosby (13)
---Dinosaur Jr. (5)
---Gin Blossoms (3)
---HIM (-1)
---Hot Tuna (5)
---Huey Lewis & the News (3)
---I Prevail/ Escape The Fate (11)
---Iron & Wine (6)
---Ja Rule/
---Jonny Lang (1)
---Judah & The Lion (1)
---Kip Winger (2)
---Little Steven (9)
---Los Lobos (3)
---Paula Cole (2)
---Macklemore (6)
---Mary Chapin Carpenter (3)
---Ministry (5)
---Mutemath (6)
---Saliva/ Breath Of The Valkyrie/ Ritual Walk/ Shadow Siren (1)
---Sara Evans (1)
---Steve Augeri (1)
---Suzanne Vega (2)
---Tauk (5)
---Terry Reid (1)
---The Monarchs (1)
---The National (1)
---Tom Chapin (2)
---Tom Keifer/ Quiet Riot/ Warrant (4)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 080517:
---Blues On
The Bridge has confirmed that the 2017 festival will take place on
Sunday September 10th…with Sunday September 17th
serving as the rain date.
The line-up has yet to be announced!
The annual festival will be held on the
---Nice to see local promoter and dedicated baseball fan, Bill McStine remembered by having the Endicott Sertoma Field’s Press box dedicated to him. Fox 40 covered this story! Read the script or watch the video by clicking on this link: http://www.wicz.com/story/36005979/honored-and-remembered-spotlight-in-sports
---Alternative band, Modest Mouse, just released their itinerary for Fall 2017 and it is confirming a stop in Ithaca NY at the State Theatre on 10/6, as well as…Northampton MA on 10/7…Providence RI on 10/10…Sayreville NJ on 10/11…and Port Chester NY on 10/13 & 10/14!
---Felicia’s Hive 45 in
---Ray
Lamontagne is coming to the
State Theatre in
---The alt-religious,
iMatter Music Festival has posted it’s line-up, which is pretty good
this year…Sleeping Giant,
---Miss May I will go on a solo headlining tour following all of it’s festival commitments, and a lot of those dates will be in our local and regional zones…Erie PA on 9/8…Corning NY (at Landos) on 9/9…Syracuse NY on 9/10…Albany NY on 9/11…after that they’ll hook up with the Motionless In White tour!
---Graham Nash (formerly of The Hollies and CSNY) will play Bethel Woods in Bethel NY 9/24…and several other regional shows…Stroudsburg PA on 9/21…Mount Tabor NJ on 9/22…West Long Branch NJ on 9/23…Boston MA on 9/26…Rutland VT on 9/27…Keene NH on 9/28…Portsmouth NH on 9/30…and Buffalo NY on 10/1!
---The Buffalo Head in
---Ingrid
Michaelson’s stint on Broadway is over!
It came to an end on Sunday 8/13!
She played the Signature
Sound Center Stage in the show “The
Great Comet,” which features Michaelson’s newest music and the vague
“more.” Ingrid’s commitment
to the show began five weeks ago.
She played the part of Sonya.
Michaelson is a Staten Island NY native who attended and
graduated from
---Are we hearing Wedding bells for Tommy Szedlock, who has played in several local bands…Wreckless Marci…Citizen 5…Scuttlebutt? Info is private for now, but if true, best of luck on the big day to the happy couple…whenever that is!
---NYS Fair Update: DJ Khaled has been added to the Fair’s series of FREE shows on The Court! Producer, record label owner and DJ, Khaled will play the fair on Saturday 8/26 @ 2pm!
---Bandcamp, a website used by many local and regional artists took a stand for Trans-Rights on Friday (8/4), and we were so struck by this idea that we just had to share it, even if would be over by the time this report was filed, we still wanted to let you know about it and that we stand with them, so here’s a link: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/07/31/this-friday-stand-with-bandcamp-in-support-of-trans-rights
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The
Killers have announced a tour in support of their new album, “Wonderful Wonderful,” that
will come out sometime in September!
See them in…
---The Outbreak Tour has announced it’s line-up and itinerary and the basic joining of Waterparks, As It Is, Chapel and Sleep On It, is coming to…Toronto ON on 11/26…Montreal QC on 11/27…Boston MA on 11/29…NYC on 11/30…Philadelphia PA on 12/1…and Baltimore MD on 12/2!
---Squeeze will tour the US in Fall 2017 with several stops in our greater region…Glenside PA on 11/17…NYC on 11/19…Boston MA on 11/21…Red Bank NJ 11/22…Port Chester NY on 11/29…and Huntington NY on 12/2!
---Bash &
Pop, ft. Tommy Stinson of The Replacements and Guns N’ Roses, has
only booked three shows nationwide but two of them fall into our greater
region…
---The Hooters (remember this pop band from the 1980’s? They had hits like “And We Danced,”)…have booked a two night reunion just outside of their hometown, Philadelphia PA at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside on 11/3 & 11/4!
---Flogging
Molly has announced Fall dates in…Niagara Falls NY on 10/31…
---Zakk
Wylde, former Ozzy Osborne guitarist, has booked some solo dates…
---Paul Anka is still going at age 75…he’s headed back out on the road with a Fall 2017 that will bring him into our region…Greensburg PA on 9/14…Atlantic City NJ on 9/23…Bloomsburg PA on 9/25…Englewood NJ on 9/27…Morristown NJ on 9/28…and Ridgefield CT on 4/19/18!
---In addition to their stop at the
NYS Fair in
---Nick Lowe (“Cruel To Be Kind”) has booked some solo headlining dates this fall, aside from a show with Blondie on 10/13 in Brookville NJ…see Lowe in Montclair NJ on 10/14…Sellersville PA on 10/16…and Alexandria VA on 10/18!
---Trivium is going on a big package tour with Arch Enemy, Fit For An Autopsy and While She Sleeps and it’s coming this fall to a major market near you…Baltimore MD on 10/31…Philadelphia PA on 11/1…NYC on 11/3…Montreal QC on 11/5…and Toronto ON on 11/7!
---Future Islands have announced a major new leg on their world tour, which is in Europe now, but coming to the US in September and our region in October…Toronto ON on 10/6…Montreal QC on 10/7…Boston MA on 10/9…and wrapping it up with three nights in Brooklyn NY on 10/10, 10/11 and 10/12!
---George Clinton & P-Funk have booked a few dates for Fall & Winter of 2017 within the friendly confines of our greater region…NYC on 10/31…Washington DC on 11/3…Washington DC again on 2/10…NYC on 2/13…and Boston MA on 2/17!
---The
Justin Bieber tour barely got expanded before it got cancelled, due
to Biebers state of exhaustion for touring for nearly a year!
Expanded dates would have been…East Rutherford NJ on 8/23 &
8/24…Foxboro MA on 9/29…and
---Pop band Echosmith, who played the NY State Fair last year, are going on a Fall tour that will include a few regional stops…Toronto ON on 11/5…NYC on 11/8…Philadelphia PA on 11/9…and Boston MA on 11/10!
---Guns N’ Roses have added an October leg to their “Not In This Lifetime” Tour, including…Philadelphia PA on 10/8…NYC on 10/11, 10/15 & 10/16…Newark NJ on 10/12…Washington DC on 10/19…Boston MA on 10/22…Hartford CT on 10/23…and Toronto ON on 10/29 & 10/30!
---Jay-Z has not only returned with a new album, “4:44,” but new tour dates as well…Montreal QC on 11/21…Toronto ON on 11/22…Boston MA on 11/25…Brooklyn NY on 11/26 & 11/27…Washington DC on 11/29…and Uniondale NY on 12/2!
---Silversun Pickups have announced Fall 2017 tour dates…Rochester NY on 11/10…Montreal QC on 11/11…Toronto ON on 11/12…Washington DC on 11/14…NYC on 11/15…Brooklyn NY on 11/17…New Haven CT on 11/18…and Philadelphia PA on 11/19!
---Art Garfunkel, formerly of Simon & Garfunkel, has confirmed book signing dates (that will also feature a short intimate performance) have been scheduled, but so have additional concert dates…Doylestown PA (book signing & a song) on 9/25…Cambridge MA (book signing & a song) on 9/27…NYC (book signing & a song) on 9/28…Washington DC (signing & a song) on 10/2…in our region, only the 9/26 date in NYC will be a book signing only…previously announced concert dates are Boston MA on 10/26 & 10/27…and Woonsocket RI on 10/28! Garfunkel’s book, “What Is All But Luminous,” arrives in stores on 9/26!
---Phoenix will be play a short intimate schedule to support their new album, “Ti Amo,” with appearances in Montreal QC on 10/13…New Haven CT on 10/15…Washington DC on 10/16…and Providence RI on 10/18!
---White the rift between Nancy and Ann Wilson continues to keep Heart off the road, but not the Wilson sisters…both have touring solo projects, with the announcement of Nancy’s new band, Roadcase Royale, which is coming to…NYC on 9/10…Rochester NY on 9/12…Boston MA on 9/14…Uncasville CT on 9/16…and Pittsburgh PA on 9/28!
---Kesha has announced tour dates as her fans grab glitter and tickets…Boston MA on 10/4…Silver Spring MD on 10/6…Philadelphia PA on 10/7…NYC on 10/9…and Toronto ON on 10/16!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Punk band,
The Dead Milkmen will play
what appears to be a one-off, just outside of
---Alt-metal package tours used to be long, theatre-styled showcases for rising talent…so, unless this is a leaked pre-tour date, this apparent one-off is a sad testament to what used to be…Suicide Silcence, Upon A Burning Body, Prison and Slaughter To Prevail have booked Pittsburgh PA on 11/28 at the Diesel Club.
---Joe Walsh (of The Eagles and The James Gang) has announced a VetsAid benefit concert, set for 9/30 at the Arena in Fairfax VA and the show will also include some special guests…the Zac Brown Band, Gary Clark Jr. and Keith Urban.
---Starship ft. Mickey Thomas have booked a few solo shows following the Replay America tour, but only one for our region…Ridgefield CT on 3/15/18!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Dennis
Tufano, of The Buckinghams, has added
---Red
Jumpsuit Apparatus adds Warrendale PA (just outside
---Randy Newman adds Glenside PA on 9/24!
---The
Pixies add
---Gary
Numan adds
---All-4-One
adds
---Bleachers
(
---Eddie Vedder will join Pete Townshend’s “Classic Quadrophenia” tour!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---All-4-One (1)
---Art Garfunkel (8)
---Bash & Pop (1)
---Bleachers (2)
---Blondie/ Nick Lowe (1)
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy (5)
---Dennis Tufano (1)
---Echosmith (4)
---Flogging Molly/ Anti-Flag/ Jon Snodgrass (5)
---
---Gary Numan (1)
---George Clinton & P-Funk (5)
---Graham Nash (8)
---Guns N’ Roses (10)
---Jay-Z (7)
---Joe Walsh/ Zac Brown Band/ Gary Clark Jr./ Keith Urban (1)
---Kesha (5)
---Modest Mouse (6)
---Nick Lowe (3)
---Paul Anka (6)
---
---Post Malone (4)
---Randy Newman (1)
---Ray LaMontagne (13)
---Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (1)
---Roadcase Royale (5)
---Silversun Pickups (8)
---Squeeze (6)
---Suicide Silence/ Upon A Burning Body/ Prison/ Slaughter To Prevail (1)
---The Dead Milkmen (1)
---The Killers (7)
---The Pixies (2)
---Trivium/ Arch Enemy/ Fit For An Autopsy/ While She Sleeps (5)
---Zakk Wylde (5)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 072917:
---Local rapper
Chris Perry has caught the
attention of fans around the world…and that has made him the focus of
local news outlets in the greater
---World music/ hip-hop pioneer,
Matisyahu, will spend a weekend in
---Cindy Wilson of The B-52’s is going on a ten-date solo tour, to promote her new solo album, “Change,” the first two of which were this month in Florida…the rest are scheduled for September and include at least one “local” stop…Funk & Waffles in Syracuse NY on 9/8…plus six regional dates…Pittsburgh PA on 9/5…two nights in Toronto ON on 9/6 & 9/7…Cambridge MA on 9/9…and two nights in Brooklyn NY on 9/10 & 9/11!
---For those of you who can’t make the Stephen Stills/ Judy Collins show at the Anderson Center at Binghamton University on 8/28…the pair have announced another show that’s still within our “local” region…at the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 9/27…and also adding an additional date in Lebanon NH on 9/28!
---Former Babys and Bad English singer, John Waite has booked some solo dates with local and regional implications…Plymouth NH on 9/15…Rockville Centre NY on 9/17…North Bethesda MD on 9/21…New Hope PA on 9/22…Pawling NY on 9/23…Newton NJ on 9/24…Irwin PA on 9/29…and Auburn NY, just outside of Syracuse NY, at the Public Theatre on 9/30!
---Dawes
at State Theatre in
---Tauk
will play the Westcott Theatre
in
---If the recent tour stop at Bethel Woods with The
Doobie Brothers wasn’t enough for you,
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Alice Cooper is taking Hollywood Vampires out for a major Fall tour, with fellow vampires, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp, and of course, they’ll be stopping more than a few times in our greater region…Pittsburgh PA on 10/10…Rochester NY on 11/17…Clifton Park NY on 11/19…Stroudsburg PA on 11/21…Worcester MA on 11/22…Sayreville NJ on 11/24…Lancaster PA on 11/25…and Baltimore MD on 11/26!
---Theory Of A Deadman is back and they’ve booked a tour for the Fall 0f 2017 that includes a handful of dates in our region…Stroudsburg PA on 10/13…Clifton Park NY on 10/14…Philadelphia PA on 10/17…Sayreville NJ on 10/18…and Baltimore MD on 10/20!
---Thrice and Circa Survive are stepping out on a combo tour that will come into our region in late fall…Silver Spring MD on 11/16…NYC on 11/17…Sayreville NJ on 11/18…Philadelphia PA on 11/24 & 11/25…Boston MA on 11/26…Toronto ON on 11/29…and Rochester NY on 12/1!
---Dream Theater is back and touring the US and Canada with a passion, coming into our region at least nine times…Greensburg PA on 11/8…Niagara Falls NY on 11/10…Toronto ON on 11/12…Albany NY on 11/14…Boston MA on 11/15…NYC on 11/16…Asbury Park NJ on 11/18…Philadelphia PA on 11/19…and Baltimore MD on 11/27! No opening act has been announced yet!
---Atlas Genius & Magic Giant are joining forces (mostly) for a large scale Fall 2017 tour that will include…Lewiston NY on 8/19 (atlas genius only)…Buffalo NY (again atlas genius only) on 10/10…Albany NY on 10/11…NYC on 10/13…Somerville MA on 10/14…Philadelphia PA on 10/15…and Washington DC on 10/16!
---Alt-rockers, Unwritten Law take to the road for a Summer 2017 tour that includes five stops in our region…Toronto ON on 8/23…Pittsburgh PA on 8/24…Philadelphia PA on 8/25…Brooklyn NY on 8/26…and Cambridge MA on 8/27! Lost In Society will open.
---Smooth jazz woodwind player,
Kenny G is adding a new leg on his Fall 2017…
---Softer rocker, Melissa Manchester has confirmed dates for late Summer thru Winter 2018, but only two show in our region…NYC on 9/11…and Brookville NY on 2/17!
---Glenn
Tilbrook of Squeeze will play two solo shows in NYC during a
two-night stand at the City Winery in
---A$AP Mob,
the amalgamation of all A$AP artists, including
A$AP Ferg, A$AP Rocky,
etc.…plays
---Carl
Palmer’s ELP Legacy is adding on it’s own headlining tour following
it’s stint on the Yes tour!
Look for them in October…Fall River MA on 10/4…NYC on 10/6...NYC on
10/7…
---Tom Keifer of Cinderella has announced a dozen date Fall 2017 tour with four of the shows on the itinerary dropping into our region…NYC on 10/11…Londonderry NH on 10/12…Chester PA on 10/13…and Warrendale PA on 10/14!
---Motionless
In White and Miss May I
have teamed up for a small, but global, package tour that will stop
in…NYC on 10/12…Uncasville CT on 10/13…Baltimore MD on 10/15…Pittsburgh
PA on 10/17…and Philadelphia PA on 10/31!
Motionless In White will also appear at the
Rock & Shock Festival in
---Max Weinberg’s (of the E-Street Band) Jukebox has booked a seven-date Summer into Fall tour, including…Warrendale PA on 9/7…Pawling NY on 10/12…East Greenwich RI on 10/13…Boston MA on 10/16…and Jersey City NJ on 10/18!
---Following the Happy Together Tour, 60’s pop
family band, The Cowsills,
will play a few shows on their own…Greensburg PA on
11/11
(with Gary Puckett & the Union Gap)…NYC on 11/17…and Uncasville CT on
11/19! After that they’ll be
playing mostly cruises out of
---Our Lady Peace is back following their stint warming-up for Guns N’ Roses, with a solo, headlining tour that will bring them near us…Clifton Park NY on 10/20...NYC on 10/23…Boston MA on 10/24…Atlantic City NJ on 10/28…and Uncasville CT on 10/28!
---Cannibal Corpse has joined forces with Power Trip and Gatecreeper for a modern metal package tour that is coming this fall to at least a few cities in our greater region…Boston MA on 11/28…NYC on 11/29…and Philadelphia PA on 11/30!
---SZA is also playing some solo shows in between her headliners…New Haven CT on 8/18…Montreal QC on 8/22…Boston MA on 8/25…Baltimore MD on 12/9…and Brooklyn NY on 12/10!
---
---European metal outfit, Danzig, have booked a US tour that will include us in the northeast and mid-Atlantic…Hampton Beach NH on 9/7…Philadelphia PA on 9/8…Montclair NJ on 9/9…Huntington NY on 9/11…and Lewiston NY on 9/12!
---Alt-metal band, (hed) p.e. is taking a Fall 2017 jaunt thru our region…Pittsburgh PA on 10/16…Niagara Falls NY on 10/17…Halethorpe MD on 10/18…Laconia NH on 10/19…Lawrence MA on 10/20…Providence RI on 10/21…Sayreville NJ on 10/22…Reading PA on 10/23!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Bob Seger
adds Blue Cross Arena in
---Yes (
---Bleachers
add
---Willie Nelson is adding solo dates in between Outlaw Music Festival dates…regionally added solo dates include…Bethlehem PA on 9/12…and Poughkeepsie NY on 9/13!
---Jonny
Lang adds
---The
Ataris and The Queers add
---George
Clinton & P-Funk add NYC on 10/31…and
---The Subdudes have added a second leg of their 2017 tour with new dates in…Irwin PA on 11/11…Hartford CT on 11/18…NYC on 11/19!
---Southside
Johnny & Asbury Jukes add NYC on 3/17…and
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---(hed) p.e. (8)
---Atlas Genius (2)
---Atlas Genius/ Magic Giant (5)
---Bleachers (6)
---Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band (1)
---Cannibal Corpse/ Power Trip/ Gatecreeper (3)
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy (5)
---
---Cindy Wilson (7)
---
---Dawes (2)
---Dream Theater (9)
---George Clinton & P-Funk (2)
---
---Kenny G (4)
---John Waite (8)
---Jonny Lang (2)
---Matisyahu (3)
---Max Weinberg’s Jukebox (5)
---Melissa Manchester (2)
---Motionless In White/ Miss May I (5)
---Our Lady Peace (5)
---
---Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (2)
---Stephen Stills/ Judy Collins (2)
---The Ataris/ The Queers (2)
---The Cowsills (3)
---Theory Of A Deadman (5)
---Thrice/ Circa Survive (8)
---Willie Nelson (2)
---Yes/ Todd Rundgren (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 072216:
---Eamonn Is Pitch Perfect! Eamonn Hubert the 8-year-old child guitar prodigy has the ability to recreate any pitch…and not just with musical instruments in his band Doug & Eamonn and his side-project, Hot Dogs And Gin! Fox 40 has continued to focus on this popular young boy and aired this report on Thursday 7/20! Here’s a link: http://www.wicz.com/story/35934849/eamonn-hubert-local-child-guitar-prodigy-demonstrates-rare-gift
---As you read this local drummer,
Mike Ricciardi is on the West Coast with
Joey Molland’s Badfinger! They played
---Steve
Forbert is set to play a show in
---Aztec Two-Step has been confirmed to play the Nelson Odeon in Nelson NY, (…near Cazenovia NY and a little bit further east from Syracuse NY on Rt. 20.) on 4/27 and has also announced additional dates in our greater region, including…Philadelphia PA on 8/11…Vienna VA on 8/13…NYC on 8/31…Salem CT on 9/16…Boston MA on 9/24…Schenectady NY on 10/14…Auburn NY on 10/21…Buffalo NY on 10/22…South Orange NJ on 10/27…Hartford CT on 11/4…East Greenwich RI on 11/18…Piermont NY on 11/25…Bay Shore NY on 12/2…Pawling NY on 12/9…Willimantic CT on 3/4…
---The
---Congrats to the
FarmHouse Brewery, in
---While we’re speaking of Fox 40, they also put together a nice report on the Grassroots Festival this year! Check it out here…http://www.wicz.com/story/35936980/the-27th-annual-grassroots-festival-continues-this-weekend
---Talk about your brush with greatness: Todd Evans posted on facebook this week (7/23) about a plane ride he shared with Jack Russell’s “Great White!” According to Evans, they’re all “Super nice!” Sweet!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Following Chester Bennington’s suicide this week (on 7/20) it seems pretty obvious that the Linkin Park tour, which was set to begin next week will be cancelled…postponed at least until the band can retool, if it decides to carry on at all. For now, we expect that all dates are cancelled, but should that change, we’ll let you know. [Note: Live Nation officially cancelled the tour on Friday morning 7/21, even though tickets were still on sale at one particular venue until Saturday morning.]
---Guns N’
Roses were teasing America last week with billboards all over New
York City that read
#Appetite30th, hinting at a celebration of the 30th
Anniversary of Appetite For Destruction, the bands break thru
album…while we’re not getting a full fledged new tour the band has added
onto their current “Not In This Lifetime” tour, which had already
announced a handful of regional shows in October!
Now the band is adding new shows in
---The Prophets Of Rage (formerly Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave) have announced some solo theatre-style shows before they hit some of the Fall Festivals…Boston MA on 9/7…Asbury Park NJ on 9/9…Philadelphia PA on 9/10…and NYC on 9/12!
---Stone Sour has announced Fall 2017 tour dates…but only two that are Bingo-centric…Bethlehem PA on 10/3…and Niagara Falls NY on 10/4!
---Prog-rockers, King Crimson have announced a Fall 2017 tour that will include some extensive touring in our region…Washington DC On 10/28 & 10/29…Newark NJ on 10/31…Philadelphia PA on 11/2 & 11/3…Boston MA on 11/6…Albany NY on 11/8 & 11/9…Allentown PA on 11/11…and NYC on 11/17 & 11/18!
---Alt-folk stars, Blackberry Smoke is hitting the road with Aaron Lewis (of staind) this Fall and the tour will come to…Oxon Hill MD on 10/27...Indiana PA on 11/8…NYC on 11/14…Salisbury MD on 11/15…and Upper Darby PA on 11/16!
---The alt-swing outfit, The Brian Setzer Orchestra has booked their annual holiday shows…Philadelphia PA on 11/17…Englewood NJ on 11/18…Ridgefield CT on 11/19…Red Bank NJ on 11/21…Westbury NY on 11/22…Montclair NJ on 11/24…and Washington DC on 11/25!
---Poco has announced a 15-date tour (half of which will be on a cruise ship) but only one regional date for us…NYC on 9/13!
---Rising alternative band,
Nothing But Thieves has confirmed new tour dates…Toronto ON on
10/27…Montreal QC on 10/29…Boston MA on 10/30…Washington DC on 10/31…NYC
on 11/1…and Philadelphia PA on 11/2!
Airways will open on
shows in
---Cypress Hill has confirmed a paltry few dates in the US following their European tour…NYC on 10/30…Boston MA on 10/31…and Silver Spring MD on 11/1!
---The Church is confirming the Fall touring schedule…Le Poisson Rouge in NYC on 9/27…Brooklyn NY on 9/28…Boston MA on 9/29…Newton NJ on 9/30…Washington DC on 10/1…and Philadelphia PA on 10/3!
---Superjoint have booked a package tour including DevilDriver, Child Bite, King Parrot and Cane Hill…but have announced fewer than a handful of tour dates thru our region…NYC on 10/11…Reading PA on 10/13…Worcester MA (with Motionless In White) on 10/14…and Sayreville NJ on 10/15!
---British prog-rockers, Renaissance have booked a half-dozen Fall 2017 tour dates in the US…and lucky us…five of them are within our greater region…Ridgefield CT on 10/26…Glenside PA on 10/27…NYC On 10/28…Albany NY on 10/29…and Boston MA on 11/1!
---UB40 ft. Ali Campbell, Mickey & Astro finally announces the rest of their Fall 2017 tour dates…Toronto ON on 9/5…NYC on 9/8…Philadelphia PA on 9/9…and Washington DC on 9/12…this in addition to their previously announced shows on 9/4 at the NYS Fair in Syracuse NY…and Ridgefield CT on 9/10!
---Pop rockers, The Script have announced their Fall schedule with stops included in…Mashantucket CT on 9/28…NYC On 9/29…Boston MA on 9/30…Washington DC on 10/2…and Philadelphia PA on 10/4!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze has booked a one-off at City Winery in NYC on 8/15!
---Jake Clemons is set to play a one-shot show in NYC at City Winery on 9/16!
---British band,
The Plimsouls are playing
only one date in the
---Willie Nile has booked a one-off in NYC on 9/6!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---The Maine is set to headline their own tour, following their stint on the Dashboard Confessional tour, with Dreamers and Night Riots…in Buffalo NY on 11/4…and Baltimore MD on 11/10!
---Soil
& Saving Abel adds
---Yes
(steve howe/ alan white/ geoff downes/ jon davison/ billy sherwood) adds
Hershey PA on 8/14…
---LCD
Soundsystem adds…a second night in
---Rik
Emmett adds New Hope PA on 10/20…
---Zoso-The
Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience adds
---Bastille
adds Sundara Karma to their
---The Strumbella’s add NYC on 7/31!
---Foster
The People add
---Shelby
Lynn and Allison Moorer
add
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Aztec Two-Step (20)
---Bastille/ Sundara Karma (1)
---Blackberry Smoke/ Aaron Lewis (5)
---Brian Setzer Orchestra (7)
---Cypress Hill (3)
---Foster The People (3)
---Glenn Tilbrook (1)
---Guns N’ Roses (5)
---Jake Clemons (1)
---King Crimson (11)
---LCD Soundsystem (2)
---Nothing But Thieves (6)
---Poco (1)
---Prophets Of Rage (4)
---Renaissance (5)
---Rik Emmett (7)
---Shelby Lynn/ Allison Moorer (1)
---Soil/ Saving Abel (1)
---Steve Forbert (5)
---Stone Sour/ Steel Panther/ The Cherry Bombs (2)
---Superjoint (4)
---The Church (6)
---The
---The Plimsouls (1)
---The Script (5)
---The Strumbella’s (1)
---UB40 ft. Ali Campbell, Mickey & Astro (4)
---Willie Nile (1)
---Yes/ Todd Rundgren (5)
---Zoso-The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience (7)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 071517:
---Fred Coury…Zarni de Wet…and now,
Lyza Durgala!
Here’s a link to buy her EP: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bcqcqbqwvvghbn7psjc3bjd52fy
Here’s a link to her song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTDEdPT18_A&feature=youtu.be
Here’s the link to the story about her that ran on Fox 40: http://www.wicz.com/story/35897110/lyza-durgala-from-humble-beginnings-to-limitless-future
---Congrats to
Lila Ignite who are returning
home after a tour which saw them head south to
---Congrats to the
Diversion Brewing Company in
---Whoa.
Have you checked out this article from Society of Rock?
They’ve found audio of late metal legend,
Ronnie James Dio, raised in nearby
---For fans of 50’s & 60’s pop crooners,
Frankie Avalon, Fabian and
Bobby Rydell, will be
delighted to know that their tour (Dick Fox’s Golden Boys Tour) is
coming to Tioga Downs Casino in Nichols NY on Sunday, September 3rd!
This is one of only three stops presently booked, the next
closest stop is
---Canadian folk singer, Bruce Cockburn, is coming to the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca NY on Monday, 11/6, and has other regional stops planned as well…Montreal QC on 9/19…Hamilton ON on 9/30…Albany NY on 11/5…Northampton MA on 11/7…Boston MA On 11/9…Glenside PA on 11/10…NYC on 11/11 & 11/12…and Alexandria VA on 11/14!
---Congrats to
---Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real will play Watkins Glen International Raceway in Watkins Glen NY on 8/4…Nelson will also bring his band to a few other regional venues…Amagansett NY on 8/31…and NYC on 9/5!
---NYS Fair Update: Plenty of music news from the Fair this week, which added…The Family Stone on 8/24 @ 2p…Daya on 8/29 @ 8p…Bret Michaels of Poison on 8/30 @ 8p…and UB40 on 9/4 @ 2p! All of these shows are FREE on The Court so the price of Fair admission is all you pay…buy you will have to jockey for a place to stand or sit, as The Court can get very packed!
---Condolences for Ken Wilson of local band, Odd Man Out, who lost his sister, Luanne Rose on 7/12.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Former One Direction star, Niall Horan is taking his “Flicker Sessions 2017” on the road this fall, with a handful of stops on this tour falling into our larger region, including…Philadelphia PA on 10/29…NYC on 10/31…Toronto ON on 11/1…Boston MA on 11/3…Washington DC on 11/4!
---Jay-Z is taking his “4:44” tour on the road in a big way and piling up shows across North America and in our greater region…Montreal QC on 11/21…Toronto ON on 11/22…Boston MA on 11/25…two nights in Brooklyn NY on 11/26 & 11/27…Washington DC on 11/29…and Uniondale NY on 12/2!
---British pop icon,
Petula Clark will make one
stop in our region on her American tour…
---Four Year Strong has booked a Fall 2017 tour that includes…The Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia PA on 9/7…and the Brooklyn Bazaar in NYC on 9/8 and 9/9…The Ballroom in New Haven CT on 9/10…Rex Theatre in Pittsburgh PA on 9/12…and the Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore MD on 10/20…along with Grayscale, Like Pacific, Seaway and Life Lessons!
---The remnants of The Bar-Kays, most of the band died in a plane crash with Otis Redding in 1967….will play B.B. Kings Blues Club in NYC on 7/25!.
---“The Killer” is still killin’ it! Jerry Lee Lewis plays B.B. Kings Blues Club in NYC on 7/29…and Friday 9/29!
---Americanafest in NYC is planned for Saturday
8/12 (with headliner, The
Jayhawks) thru Sunday 8/13 (with headliner
Bonnie Raitt) with two stages
at Lincoln Center Plaza in
---R&B band, Tank has announced late summer and fall dates, which include B.B. Kings Blues Club in NYC on 9/9…Boston MA on 9/10…Buffalo NY on 9/12…and Pittsburgh PA on 9/27!
---Suzanne
Vega has been added to the
Newport Folk Festival on 7/30…and has announced solo dates,
including the Mile Ex End Musique
Montreal Fest on 9/3…the City
Winery in Manhattan (NYC) on 9/19…and two nights in
---The Church (remember “Under The Milky Way?”) will play Le Poisson Rouge in NYC on 9/27 and The Bell House in Brooklyn NY on 9/28…City Winery in Boston MA on 9/29…Newton Theatre in Newton NJ on 9/30…9:30 Club in Washington DC on 10/1…and Union Transfer in Philadelphia PA on 10/3!
---Marilyn Manson has announced the ‘Heaven Upside Down” tour which will rock our greater region in the Fall, including…Silver Spring MD on 9/27…Pittsburgh PA on 9/29…NYC (at the Hammerstein Ballroom) on 9/30…Boston MA on 10/2…Huntington NY on 10/3…and Toronto ON on 10/5!
---The Breeders have scheduled Fall 2017 dates for America and that means at least a few stops in our greater region, including…The Sinclair in Cambridge MA on 11/3…the Bowery Ballroom in NYC on 11/5…and Union Transfer in Philadelphia PA on 11/6!
---American
Football & Pure Bathing
Culture are set for…Howard
Theatre in
---Modern metal band,
Children Of Bodom with
Carach Angren,
Uncured and
Lost Society are booked to play…the
Trocadero Theatre in
---Alt-folk singer, St. Vincent has booked Fall 2017 dates which will bring her into our region a handful of times, including…Washington DC on 11/27…Philadelphia PA on 11/28…Boston MA on 11/30…and a two night stand in Brooklyn at Kings Theatre on 12/2 & 12/3!
---R&B band, 112 is only playing a half-dozen dates in America and only two in our greater region, so if you’re a fan you will have to travel to…Blue Cross Arena in Rochester NY on 7/29…or Royal Arena in Baltimore MD on 11/4!
---Adrenaline Mob (who just lost band member, bass player David Zablidowsky in a car crash), along with Righteous Vendetta and Dark Sky Choir, are back on the road in September and set to play…89 North Music Venue in Patchogue NY on 9/7…Sherlock’s in Erie PA on 9/19...Chrome Food & Spirits in Waterford NY on 9/20…Voltage in Philadelphia PA on 9/21…the California Brew Haus in Rochester NY on 9/22…and Providence RI on 9/23!
---
9/15: Teagan & the Tweeds/ Noble Vibes
9/16: The Demos/ Big Mean Sound Machine
9/17:
9/22: Sirsy
9/23: Prime Time Funk/ Mosaic Foundation
---Silverstein & Seaway have planned a tour of their own after the Warped Tour is done! They trek across Canada with stops in our greater region including…The Mansion at Kingston ON on 11/1…La Tulipe in Montreal QC on 11/2…and Club Alsinthe in Hamilton ON on 11/23!
---Darlene Love of The Crystals has announced a sizable tour…larger than she’s done in recent years…and it will bring her to our region a lot…Lyndhurst NJ on 7/15…Bridgewater NJ on 7/16…NYC on 8/3…Frederick MD on 10/6…Uniontown PA on 10/7…Bayside NY on 10/15…Hillside NJ on 10/21 & 10/22…Peekskill NY on 11/17…(the previously announced) Ridgefield CT on 11/18…East Greenwich RI on 11/19…Beverly MA on 11/25 & 11/26…as well as the previously announced three night stand in Manhattan at B.B. Kings Blues Club on 12/21, 12/22 & 12/23!
---Classically trained metal guitarist,
Yngwie Malmsteen, formerly of Alcatraz, has booked a Fall tour that
is bringing him back to our region…
---Aaron
Neville has announced a major Summer tour with shows scheduled into
December…
---Reggae band,
Culture ft. Kenyatta Hill
will play a few American dates on their world tour…NYC on 8/22…and
---The
Timeflies will stroll thru our greater region in October…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Jazz trumpeter,
Wynton Marsalis has booked a
one-off in North America on 9/29 at the University at
TOUR TWEAKING:
---American Idol Season 10 Winner, Scotty McCreery adds South Woodstock CT on 9/4…Verona NY on 9/15…Philadelphia PA on 9/16…and Columbia MD on 9/24!
---Phantogram
adds
---Los
Lonely Boys add NYC on 7/18…
---Parachute
adds the City Winery in
Manhattan (NYC) on 9/14…and
---Fastball & The Machine add West Springfield MA on 10/1!
---Lindsey
Buckingham & Christine McVie have added two dates in our region…NYC
on 8/10…and
---John Sebastian, formerly of The Lovin’ Spoonful, adds YC on 8/8!
---Sheryl Crow adds NYC on 9/6!
---Patti Smith adds NYC on 9/14!
---Soil & Saving Abel add NYC on 9/26!
---Charlie Puth has been added to all the remaining dates on the Shawn Mendes tour! Please make a note of it!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---112 (2)
---Aaron Neville (8)
---Adrenaline Mob/ Righteous Vendetta/ Dark Sky Choir (6)
---American Football/ Pure Bathing Culture (4)
---Big Mean Sound Machine (2)
---Breeders (3)
---Bruce Cockburn (10)
---Children Of Bodom (6)
---Culture
---Darlene Love (12)
---Fastball/ The Machine (1)
---Four Year Strong (6)
---Jay-Z (7)
---Jerry Lee Lewis (2)
---John Sebastian (1)
---Lindsey Buckingham/ Christine McVie (2)
---Los Lonely Boys (6)
---Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real (3)
---Marilyn Manson (6)
---Niall Horan (5)
---Parachute (2)
---Patti Smith (1)
---Petula Clark (2)
---Phantogram (1)
---Scotty McCreery (4)
---Sheryl Crow (1)
---Silverstein (3)
---Soil/ Saving Abel (1)
---Suzanne Vega (4)
---
---Tank (4)
---The Bar-Kays (1)
---The Breeders (3)
---The Church (6)
---The Timeflies (3)
---Wynton Marsalis (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 070817:
---Congrats to
Eamonn from
Doug & Eamonn and their
electric counter part, Hot Dogs &
Gin…Eamonn recently tried out for the lead role in the broadway
musical “
---Congratulations to the
Cyber Café West in
---Also, this week…local jam band, RaiBred has announced that on Saturday July 8th at the very same, Cyber Café West, the band will play their 200th show! Nice milestone guys! Here’s hoping the next 200 shows are just as special!
---Irma
Thomas and The Blind Boys Of
Alabama are coming to
Binghamton University’s Osterhout Theatre in
---Blue
Oyster Cult, in addition to be coming to
Spiedie Fest at
---The Chenango Blues Festival just got more interesting with the announcement of the North Mississippi Allstars being added to night #2 on Saturday 8/19! Still waiting for festival organizers to build night #1 one up some more…so far just one act has been named to the Friday night portion of the festival.
---O.A.R. (Of A Revolution) have announced a Fall leg to their 2017 tour with new dates in our region…and even a show in our generous local region…on 10/25 at the Crouse-Hinds Theatre in Syracuse NY…and Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 10/29, as well as regional shows in…Niagara Falls NY on 10/22…Providence RI on 10/27…and Atlantic City NJ on 10/28!
---Peter
Yarrow of Peter Paul & Mary will play the
Earlville Opera House in
---Rusted
Root is set to come back around this summer, with a new date in our
local region in
---NY State Fair Update: Lots to report--Migos (who had their break out hit, “Bad And Boujee” this year) will play FREE on The Court on Sunday 9/3 @ 8pm…Post Malone have also been announced for 8/27 FREE on The Court @ 2pm!
---Night
Ranger will headline Night #1 of Harbor Fest in
---Pop-alt darlings, Fitz & the Tantrums have announced a lengthy Summer tour that includes a bakers dozen stops in our region, including an additional local date…Burgettstown PA on 7/18…Washington DC on 7/21…Camden NJ on 7/22…Darien Center NY on 7/25…Scranton PA (at Montage Mountain) on 7/26…Holmdel NJ on 7/28…Wantagh NY on 7/29…Dewey Beach DE on 7/30…Saratoga Springs NY on 8/1…Hartford CT on 8/2…Mansfield MA on 8/4…Gilford NH on 8/6…Montreal QC on 8/11…and Toronto ON on 8/12!
---Los
Lonely Boys have finally announced a show in
---The line-up for the annual Humane Society benefit, Woofstock, has been announced! The festival will be held on Saturday, July 22nd at the Pines Pavilion in Endicott NY, from 2p until 9p and will include…Hi-Way Fruitmarket, Project Z, The KiiL, Two Dollar Pistol and V.A.P.E.!
---Condolences to guitar superstar, Randy McStine, who lost his father, legendary local promoter, Bill McStine, last week at age 53. Check out Randy’s facebook page for a touching statement on his loss.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Joan
Osborne has confirmed a bunch of solo shows…
---Boz Scaggs will start a new solo leg to his summer tour in September and shows in our region will include…Rutland VT on 9/7…Baltimore MD on 9/9…New London CT on 9/10…Tarrytown NY on 9/14…and Easton PA on 9/15!
---Liam Gallagher, formerly of Oasis and Beady Eye, is set to tour North America this fall and he’ll be straying into our greater region at least a handful of times…Toronto ON on 11/23…Boston MA on 11/25…NYC on 11/27…Washington DC on 11/29…and Philadelphia PA on 11/30!
---Gordon Lightfoot has announced late summer and fall 2017 dates, including…Alexandria VA on 8/4…Lincoln RI on 8/5…Englewood NJ on 8/8…Boston MA on 8/9…Londonderry NH on 8/10…Worcester MA on 9/20…Plymouth MA on 9/21…Reading PA on 9/22…New London CT on 9/23…and previously announced dates in Saint Catherines ON on 11/8…Mississauga ON on 11/10…and Burlington VT on 11/11!
---Marc Cohn has announced a few dates before his UK and European tour…Jersey City NJ on 8/3…Hudson NY on 8/4…and Londonderry NH on 8/5…and then two new nights with The Blind Boys of Alabama, following his stint on the Michael McDonald tour…Morristown NJ on 3/16/18…and Collingswood NJ on 3/17! …and I thought I was busy!
---The Devil Wears Prada has just posted tour dates for Summer and Fall of 2017 and stops include…South Burlington VT on 7/14…Pittsburgh PA on 9/29…Toronto ON on 10/2…Montreal QC on 10/3…NYC on 10/5…Worcester MA on 10/6…Philadelphia PA on 10/7…and Baltimore MD on 10/8!
---Max Weinberg, the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, is set to play a solo one-off in Philadelphia PA on 10/17…meanwhile his band project, Max Weinberg’s Jukebox has booked shows in NYC on 7/16 & 7/17…Pawling NY on 10/12…East Greenwich RI on 10/13…and Boston MA on 10/16!
---Howard Jones is coming off the RetroFutura tour with a bunch of solo dates…East Greenwich RI on 10/19…Peekskill NY on 10/20…Fairfield CT on 10/21…Londonderry NH on 10/22…Wilmington DE on 10/25…and Uncasville CT on 10/29!
---Electronic music superstar, Gary Numan has announced a late Fall tour of America including…Toronto ON on 12/1…Boston MA on 12/4…Philadelphia PA on 12/6…NYC on 12/7…and Washington DC on 12/9!
---Hips Don’t Lie! Latin pop sensation, Shakira has already announced tour dates for 2018, with regional stops including…Washington DC on 1/16…NYC on 1/17…Montreal QC on 1/19…and Toronto ON on 1/20!
---Here’s a new retro tour…50 Summers Of Love w/ Micky Dolenz, of The Monkees, Mark Lindsey of Paul Revere & The Raiders, along with a Beatles cover-band called, The Fab Four! The tour has only booked seven cities nationwide so far…and only two dates in our greater region…Morristown NJ on 7/27…and Westbury NY on 7/28!
---The Beach Boys have announced more summer shows for 2017 and beyond…East Providence RI on 8/9…Nantucket MA on 8/12…Ocean Grove NJ on 8/19…Schenectady NY on 11/14…Indiana PA on 11/16…and Pittsburgh PA on 11/18!
---The
Strumbellas have announced a half-dozen shows for Fall 2017, four of
which fall into our general region…
on 11/11…and
---Soil and Saving Abel team-up for a late Summer tour announcing just a portion of dates for now…Worcester MA on 9/27…Stanhope NJ on 9/29…Reading PA on 9/30…and Pittsburgh PA on 10/1, with more stops expected to be announced!
---70’s pop-rockers,
Firefall have announced a few
regional dates, including…NYC on 8/2…
---Pop singer, Rachel Platten (she sang at a recent Spiedie Fest, remember?) has announced a half-dozen shows, including a few shows in our region…Niagara Falls ON on 7/6…and Stamford CT on 7/27!
---Iron Butterfly have announced a three-date tour with the entire schedule planned to happen within an easy driving distance…Pawling NY on 8/13…NYC on 8/15…and Sellersville PA on 8/16!
---Former Simon & Garfunkel vocalist, Art Garfunkel, has confirmed some regional dates for both the Summer and Fall of 2017, including…Washington DC on 7/8…two nights in NYC on 9/11 & 9/12…two more nights in Boston MA on 10/26 & 10/27…and Woonsocket RI on 10/28!
---Alt-Folk rockers, Old Crow Medicine Show are expanding their Summer dates…Schwenksville PA on 8/18…Cockeysville MD on 8/19…Brooklyn NY on 8/21…Northampton MA on 8/24…Rhinebeck NY on 8/25…and Sunbury PA on 8/26!
---Paramore added some new dates to their previously announced tour this week…they also added an opening act…Best Coast…and by the same token, Best Coast also added some solo shows on “off” nights on the Paramore tour! New Paramore/ Best Coast dates include…New Haven CT on 10/5…new Best Coast dates are…Baltimore MD on 9/12…New Haven CT on 10/5…NYC on 10/8…and Jersey City NJ on 10/11!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Loverboy
and Kim Mitchell will play
their only show together, and Loverboy’s only show in the Northeast on
7/11 in
---The Greg
Kihn Band will also play only one show in the Northeast…Canalside in
---Jen
Chapin (yes, she’s Harry’s girl) will play
Club Helsinki in
---Howie Day has announced a one-off in NYC at the City Winery on 7/29!
---Pop-alt, soft-rocker,
George Ezra is playing a one-off at the
Bowery Ballroom in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Fastball
adds
---Randy
Newman adds
---Ana
Popovic adds Shirley MA on 9/21…
---Speaking of
Ana Popovic, she’s also been
added to the Morristown Jazz & Blues Fest bill, in
---The Subdudes have announced new dates for their Summer/ Fall 2017 tour…Truro MA on 7/13…East Greenwich RI on 10/5…Pawling NY on 10/7…and Norfolk CT on 10/8!
---BulletBoys
add
---Puddle Of
Mudd adds
---Post Malone adds NYC on 7/16!
---Southside
Johnny & The Asbury Jukes add
---Fuel has posted additional Summer dates…Rochester on 7/8…Erie PA on 7/9…Clifton Park NY on 7/13…Poughkeepsie NY on 7/14…Lancaster PA on 7/15…Brigantine NJ on 7/16…Baltimore MD on 7/25…and Kingston MA on 7/26!
---Dark Star
Orchestra add a second night in
---Creedence
Clearwater Revisited (which features two former members of Creedence
Clearwater Revival) adds two nights in
---Ted
Nugent adds
---Rascal
Flatts adds
---Spyro
Gyra adds
---John
Sebastian, formerly of the Lovin’ Spoonful…adds
---Will Hoge
also adds
---Alt-pop singer,
Alex Clare adds…
---Good
---Led Zeppelin tribute band,
Zoso-The Ultimate Led Zeppelin, adds King Of Prussia PA on 8/10…
---
---Buddy Guy
adds Westhampton Beach NY on 8/13…
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy plays a solo show on an off night from the Yes tour in…Hershey PA on 8/14!
---Pure
Prairie League adds
---Bush is expanding their 2017 tour with new dates and two in our region…Asbury Park NJ on 8/9…and Bethlehem PA on 8/12!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---50 Summers Of Love (2)
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---Alex Clare (3)
---Ana Popovic (4)
---Art Garfunkel (6)
---Boz Scaggs (5)
---Buddy Guy (4)
---BulletBoys (2)
---Bush (2)
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy (1)
---Creedence Clearwater Revisited (2)
---Dark Star Orchestra (2)
---Fastball (2)
---Firefall (3)
---Fitz & the Tantrums (14)
---Gary Numan (5)
---Good
---Gordon Lightfoot (9)
---Greg Kihn Band (1)
---Howard Jones (6)
---Howie Day (1)
---Irma Thomas/ Blind Boys Of
---Iron Butterfly (3)
---Jen Chapin (1)
---Liam Gallagher (5)
---Loverboy/ Kim Mitchell (1)
---Marc Cohn (5)
---Migos (1)
---Night Ranger/ Loverboy (2)
---O.A.R. (5)
---Old Crow Medicine Show (6)
---Peter Yarrow (4)
---Post Malone (1)
---Puddle Of Mudd (2)
---Pure Prairie League (3)
---Rachel Platten (2)
---Randy Newman (2)
---Rascal Flatts (1)
---Rusted Root (6)
---Shakira (4)
---Soil/ Saving Abel (4)
---Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (4)
---Ted Nugent (1)
---The Beach Boys (6)
---The Devil Wears Prada (8)
---The Strumbellas (4)
---The Subdudes (4)
---Walter Trout Band/ Ana Popovic (1)
---Zoso-The Ultimate Led Zeppelin (6)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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No report this week due to 4th of July weekend!
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Music News for 062417:
---Local folk-rockers,
Driftwood, are have left on
what is becoming an increasingly frequent national tour that includes
some dates that will take them far across the country,
including…Owensboro KY on 6/21…Columbus OH on 6/22…Winter Park CO on
6/29…Denver CO on 6/30…Fort Collins CO on 7/1…Steamboat CO on 7/3…Victor
ID on 7/6…Park City UT on 7/8…and Huntsville UT on 7/9…before returning
to our region with a show in Vienna VA (near Washington DC) on
7/13…Mount Salon VA on 7/14…Thomas WV on 7/15…and then the
Grassroots Festival in
Trumansburg NY, where they’ll play two shows…on Thursday 7/20 and
Saturday 7/22…then, take a few weeks off before playing Johnstown PA on
8/5! The gist is, if you
don’t see this band for awhile, they’re busy representin’
---The music scene in the 607 always turns out to support their own and Jake McKinney is no exception. McKinney, a local drummer who has played for (or with) The Look, Ashley Lux, Tim Ruffo, She’s A Spy, and Daddy Like; recently had major surgery and needs financial help to offset the cost and items not covered by insurance, so a gathering of his friends will play to help him raise the needed money on July 23rd at the Buffalo Head in Conklin NY! The bands expected to play include…Stephen Lawrenceson, Brady Goldsmith, Jack Bastard, Sonny Weeks, Gene Hummel, Tim Ruffo Band, StreetLegal, Coasting On Potential, Revelation Now and Beard Of Bees! Sounds like a great time for a great cause!
---Modern rockers, A Perfect Circle, have announced a Fall leg to their sold-out 2017 tour that now includes Syracuse NY, at the OnCenter, on 11/12…as well as plenty of other dates around the region…Fairfax VA on 11/1…Brooklyn NY on 11/2…Reading PA on 11/4…Uncasville CT on 11/5…Camden NJ on 11/7…Boston MA on 11/8…Albany NY on 11/11…Montreal QC on 11/14…Toronto ON on 11/15…and Pittsburgh PA on 11/17!
---Bumped into Joe Alston of Milkweed at the Bess Greenberg show at the Cyber Café West in Binghamton NY on Wednesday night (6/21)…Alston is in the process of mixing down the debut Adam Ate The Apple album, which he also produced…and btw, the band is still deciding on an album title (but we hear it could be “No Flying Cars!”)…we’ll stay on top of it! Meanwhile Alston is in the middle of producing no less than four local bands this year, including the recently released, “Kindergarden”…the debut album by Next of Kin.
---Fastball has announced the bulk of their Summer and Fall 2017 dates, including a new date within our local region…at The Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 7/29, as well as…Exton PA on 8/1…Harrisburg PA on 8/2…Ardmore PA on 8/3…NYC on 10/2…and Pittsburgh PA on 10/5!
---Hip Hop star, Future has announced he’ll play Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 8/26…as well as…Baltimore MD on 8/21…Saratoga Springs NY on 8/23…Atlantic City NJ on 8/24…Uncasville CT on 8/27…and at the Meadows Music & Arts Festival on 9/16!
---Sure enough, The Peach Festival announced this week that there will be an All-Star tribute to both Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks at this years festival! Former Allman Brothers Band members, Warren Haynes, Oteil Burbridge, Jaimoe, Marc Quinones and spin-off band, Les Brers will provide “classic Allman Brothers Band jams,” according to a press release posted on their website this week! For more info, including phase two of this year’s festival line-up, just click on this link: http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/peach-fest-phase-two
---Finally, get well soon wishes to
Benny Fiacco of bass player for
Frostbit Blue, The Gravelding Brothers, Parts Unknown and of course,
beloved owner of Music City,
as he’ll be hopping around for a few weeks after injuring his ankle last
Sunday (6/18) on a motorcycle.
He finally relented and had surgery after a few days, but is
still hoping to play the Parts
Unknown show at the Cyber
Café West in
---Another local singer/ song-writer/ guitarist, Jamie Willard is amongst the walking wounded…he suffered a dislocated shoulder, torn rotator cuff and a broken arm, in three places! All this because he had the leash when his dog decided to try and chase another canine and dragged him along for the ride! Just how big was that dog, anyway?
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---LCD Soundsystem has planned a huge 10-night Fall 2017 stand in Brooklyn NY…plus a few other dates in our region…Washington DC on 10/17…Montreal QC on 12/2…Toronto ON on 12/3…two nights in Philadelphia PA on 12/5 & 12/6…Boston MA on 12/8…followed by that ten night residency at Brooklyn Steel on 12/11-12, 12/14-15, 12/17-19 and 12//23!
---Soul Asylum and Cracker have teamed-up for seven dates in our greater region…Toronto ON on 7/18…Albany NY on 7/19…Westbury NY on 7/20…Peekskill NY on 7/21…Englewood NJ on 7/23…Brigantine City NJ on 7/24…and Port Chester NY on 7/26!
---80’s post-modern pop stars, Midnight Oil have booked a modest tour in North America…NYC on 8/21…Montreal QC on 8/23…and Toronto ON on 8/25!
---Hip hop star,
Raekwon has booked several
dates over the next month that include an almost constantly changing
support bill! Check out the…
---Jim Messina, formerly of Poco and Loggins & Messina, has booked a small ten-date tour, with four shows in our greater region…Plymouth NH on 7/21…Rockport MA on 7/23…Natick MA on 10/6…and NYC on 10/8!
---Modern rockers, The Toadies along with Local H, have launched a fall tour together that will visit our region during October…Pittsburgh PA on 10/15…Washington DC on 10/17…NYC on 10/18…Philadelphia PA on 10/19…Boston MA on 10/20…and Asbury Park NJ on 10/21!
---R5, a pop band of brothers, fronted by Ross Lynch, formerly of the Disney Channel TV show Austin & Ally, has booked a handful of shows in our region as Spring turns to Summer…Toronto ON on 6/28…Boston MA on 6/30…Darien Center NY on 7/1…Philadelphia PA on 7/2…and Baltimore MD on 7/4!
---The Stephen Stills/ Judy Collins tour is proving so popular that it’s being extended with a Fall leg being added this week, and that means more dates in our greater region…Atlantic City NJ on 9/9…Torrington CT on 9/30…Cranston RI on 10/7…Albany NY on 10/8…Lancaster PA on 10/11…Tarrytown NY on 10/12…and Englewood NJ on 10/13!
---Bluesman, Jim Lauderdale has confirmed the bulk of his Summer itinerary…Buffalo NY on 7/3…Rochester NY on 7/4…Dover NH on 8/18…Plymouth MA on 8/19…and Beacon NY on 8/20!
---Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals have announced some fresh tour stops…Rochester NY on 8/20…Port Chester NY on 8/23…Atlantic City NJ on 8/26…and Montauk NY on 8/27!
---
---Ten Years
After has announced a two-date tour…both shows will be in our
greater region…NYC on 9/19…and
---Zedd announces an 11-date tour for the Fall of 2017…only two dates near us…Boston MA on 10/17…and Philadelphia PA on 10/19!
---Halestorm
extends their 2017 tour in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Former American Idol, Ruben Studdard, will play a one off in NYC at B.B. Kings Blues Club on 7/8!
---Firefall will play a one-shot show in NYC on 8/2 at B.B. Kings Blues Club!
---The Bar-Kays will play one-time-only, at B.B. Kings Blues Club in NYC on 6/27!
---Former American Idol contestant,
Fantasia Barrino and Babyface
will jointly play a one-off in
---Dru Hill will play a one-shot show in NYC on 8/17 at B.B. Kings Blues Club!
---The Whispers will play B.B. Kings Blues Club in NYC, one-time-only on 10/6!
---Get The
Led Out (now also known as “The American Led Zeppelin”) adds
---They
Might Be Giants will play a one-off in
---Dee Snider (formerly of Twisted Sister) has only one booked show in the Northeast…just three in the country so far, for 2017…Ridgefield CT on 9/22 at the Ridgefield Playhouse!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Phantogram
adds
---Men Without Hats will play a solo show on an off night of the Retro
Futura Tour in
---Blues Traveler adds
---The Ataris & The Queers
add
---Clean Bandit add
---Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer add a second night in NYC on 8/20…and
---Average White Band adds NYC on 8/4!
---Sheila E. adds NYC on 8/18!
---Wishbone Ash adds NYC on 10/2!
---Air Supply adds NYC on 10/12…and Stroudsburg PA on 10/14!
---Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals play a terrestrial tune-up before departing for the high seas on the “Flower Power” cruise in NYC at B.B. Kings Blues Club on 8/19!
---Rising Alternative darlings,
Magic Giant add…
---George Thorogood adds
---Drive-By Truckers add
---Bruce Hornsby adds
---Martha Davis & the Motels add
---Kenny G adds
---John Legend has re-scheduled the 3 shows he postponed due to illness this past week…Camden NJ is now 7/24…Columbia MD on 7/25…and Mashantucket CT on 7/27!
---Sir Sly adds NYC on 7/11!
---Steve Forbert adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---A Perfect Circle (11)
---Air Supply (2)
---Average White Band (1)
---Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals (4)
---Blues Traveler (1)
---Bruce Hornsby (1)
---
---Clean Bandit (1)
---
---Drive-By Truckers (2)
---Dru Hill (1)
---Fantasia/ Babyface (1)
---Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals (1)
---Firefall (1)
---Future (5)
---George Thorogood (1)
---Get The Led Out (6)
---Halestorm (2)
---Jim Messina (4)
---John Legend (3)
---Kenny G (1)
---LCD Soundsystem (16)
---Magic Giant (2)
---Martha Davis & the Motels (1)
---Men Without Hats (1)
---Midnight Oil (3)
---Phantogram (1)
---R5 (5)
---Raekwon (4)
---Ruben Studdard (1)
---Sheila E. (1)
---Shelby Lynne/ Allison Moorer (2)
---Sir Sly (1)
---Soul Asylum/ Cracker (7)
---Steve Forbert (2)
---Ten Years After (2)
---The Ataris/ The Queers (1)
---The Bar-Kays (1)
---The Toadies/ Local H (6)
---The Whispers (1)
---They Might Be Giants (1)
---Wishbone Ash (1)
---Zedd (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 061717:
---Congrats are again in order for Taina Asili’s, “No Es Mi Presidente,” is selected by Billboard magazine as one of the top ten songs of Protest & Resistance by Latino artists! Asili is an M.E. grad (…and sister of a proud, Ayana Del Valle, who if you didn’t know is a local singer with the jazz project Enerjee and runs the Del Valle School of Voice!) who currently lives near Albany and often performs with her band, la Banda Rebelde. The song has already been recognized by Rolling Stone magazine! Here’s a link to the article: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7800203/palante-11-songs-of-protest-resistance-by-latino-artists and here’s a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa9Ny0bYj8s
---Togethernessfest at Fools Hill Farm, in Spencer NY, is nearly upon us (not be confused with the Fools Hill Festival which is August.) and the daily line-up has been established! This years edition takes place from June 30th thru July 2nd and features a few local bands:
Fri. 6/30: Jaynie Crash & The Tall Men
Dirty Blanket
The Hilltoppers
The Dishonest Fiddlers
Still Hand String Band
Sat. 7/1: The Well Bottomers
Tylor Hubbard & Friends
Millers Wheel
Milkweed
Free Grass
Steel Guapo
Dirty Blanket
Sun 7/2: Queen Of Fools
Pigeon Post String Band
Don Baragiano
The David Greybeard Band
Bug Tussle
Damn Tall Buildings
---Rock Against Suicide 4 has been booked for Saturday October 14th at the Choconut Inn in Friendsville PA from 5p to 11p!
---Talk about the intricacies of recording contracts…Bill MacKechnie of Greene NY area prog-rock band, Anubis Spire posted this, on his facebook page, during this past week and it is eye opening…
“…Well...it
was bound to come up sooner or later. Today someone asked me "What ever
happened to that solo album you mentioned way back when you were
bitching about your imploded record deal?"
Ahem....yes,
I did mention I was working on one of those, didn't I?
Well, at the
time, I had signed a deal for a few more Anubis Spire albums and a solo
album (or two...) as well, with a company that really seemed to have
their act together. Unfortunately, after delivering a finished master of
the solo album, the company was acquired by a larger musical entity,
that to put it frankly, wanted nothing to do with guitar oriented "old
school" stuff.
They promised
to release me from the contract and return the master (I ALWAYS get a
reversion clause...I've been doing this crap and dealing with these
types of weasels for a LONG time...) and two years later I'm still
waiting.
So, I am
seriously thinking of just releasing the material myself. I no longer
have a copy of the final, mastered album but I really wasn't happy with
a lot of it anyway, and now I might have the chance to fix what bothered
me.
My only
problem is I'd probably want to let the other A.S. members have a whack
at it, and if I do that, do I call it an Anubis Spire album? A Bill and
A.S. album, or just put it out under my name and rake in all the
millions for myself while continuing to pay the band members in
Popsicles, hair pomade and bourbon...as usual?
Decisions,
decisions!”
Good luck, Bill!
---
---Annie
Burns has posted that she (and we assume The Burns Sisters) will
again be playing the Woody
Guthrie Festival in
---Lively debate on facebook this week about the
metal scene in
---Ayanna D is rumored to be starting a new project called ELLAments, a soul, funk, pop, latin, 6 piece band! Hoping it’s true as we’d love to see Ayanna performing more! We’ll let you know what we hear.
---If you missed the electric
Milkweed show last weekend at the
Cyber Café West in
---The line-up for Ithaca’s Reggae Festival has been set! The annual festival will be next weekend on June 24th at Stewart Park and it includes…John Brown’s Body, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Kevin Kinsella, J-San & The Analogue Sons and Thunder Body!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---New Zealand singer, Lorde is taking her new album, “Melodrama,” (now on sale) on a major worldwide tour with dates set for our greater region in Spring 2018…Toronto ON on 3/29…Philadelphia PA on 4/2…Boston MA on 4/3…Brooklyn NY on 4/4…Newark NJ on 4/6…Uncasville CT on 4/7…and Washington DC on 4/8!
---Mastodon
rocks American this Fall, but with only a few dates in our regional
area! First is their addition to the
Rock Allegiance Festival in
---In addition to adding a date to their Summer tour in Niagara Falls NY on 6/22, this week…Queens Of The Stone Age have announced a late Summer/ early Fall 2017 tour that brings them back into our region on…9/6 in Port Chester NY…Philadelphia PA on 9/7…Toronto ON on 9/9…Pittsburgh PA on 9/13…Boston MA on 10/21…and NYC on 10/24! Royal Blood will open all shows starting on 9/6!
---50’s (…and 70’s) pop singer/ songwriter, Neil Sedaka is still going and still touring! He is set to hit the road this summer with a half-dozen dates in our region…Westhampton NY on 7/30…New Brunswick NJ on 8/11…Ocean Grove NJ on 8/12…Staten Island NY on 11/3…Waterloo NY on 11/10…and St. Catherines ON on 12/4!
---Rusted Root, a band that never seems to stop touring, has announced the rest of their Summer and into Fall 2017 itinerary…Pittsburgh PA on 6/23…New Haven CT on 6/24…Salisbury MA on 7/6…Westerly RI on 7/7…Brigantine City NJ on 8/14…Rochester NY on 9/1…and NYC on 10/13!
---Ani DiFranco has announced a moderate touring schedule for Fall 2017…Glenside PA on 10/1…NYC on 10/3…Somerville MA on 10/5…and Poughkeepsie NY on 10/6!
---Former leader of the Youngbloods (remember the 60’s anthem “Get Together?”), Jesse Colin Young has announced a solo tour that extends from Summer into Fall…Amenia NY on 7/9…Patchogue NY (part of the Great South Bay Music Festival) on 7/16…Harrisburg PA on 10/14…NYC on 10/15…and Bethesda MD on 11/3!
---Cowboy
Mouth has announced a Summer tour on seemingly short notice
(although I think this is really a local promoter waiting to make a
national announcement to favor local ticket buyers.)…Shirley MA on 6/17…
---Modern rockers,
Bayside have announced new
Fall 2017 dates…
---Rising alt-pop stars, Sir Sly have booked a new round of tour dates, including…Washington DC on 7/12…Pawtucket RI on 7/14…Philadelphia PA on 7/15…Pittsburgh PA on 7/16…and NYC on 9/11! Shaed will open the tour!
---The HIM
farewell tour is now coming to the Northeast…Silver Spring MD on 11/9…
---A Day To Remember has booked a Fall leg to their 2017 tour starting in Pittsburgh PA on 9/12…Buffalo NY on 10/8…Montreal QC on 10/10…and Toronto ON on 10/11! Moose Blood and Wage War will open.
---Alt-folk band, Deer Tick has announced a Fall 2017 leg for their current tour and it includes at least a half-dozen stops in our greater region…three nights in Providence RI (at two different venues) on 1124, 11/25 & 11/26…New Haven CT on 11/29…Washington DC on 11/30…Philadelphia PA on 12/1…and NYC on 12/2!
---(hed)
p.e. adds
---50’s pop crooner,
Pat Boone will play three
nights in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Farm Aid
was announced this week for Star
Lake Amphitheatre in Burgettstown PA, near
---Leslie West, legendary guitarist of Mountain, has booked a one-off in NYC on 6/24!
---Soil,
Saving Abel and Gabriel & The
Apocalypse have teamed-up for a one-shot show in
---Ben
Harper adds one
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Katy
Perry adds
---Atlas
Genius adds
---Graham Nash adds Stroudsburg PA on 9/21!
---Ana Popovic adds Jim Thorpe PA on 9/23!
---Kix
add
---Queens Of
The Stone Age add
---Boz
Scaggs adds
---Bruce
Hornsby adds
---Marshall
Crenshaw adds
---Rodriguez
adds
---Avenged
Sevenfold adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---A Day To Remember/ Moose Blood/ Wage War (4)
---Ana Popovic (1)
---Ani DiFranco (4)
---Atlas Genius (1)
---Avenged Sevenfold (1)
---Bayside (7)
---Ben Harper (1)
---Boz Scaggs (2)
---Bruce Hornsby (1)
---Cowboy Mouth (5)
---Deer Tick (7)
---Farm Aid (1)
---Graham Nash (1)
---(hed) p.e. (2)
---HIM (5)
---Jesse Colin Young (4)
---Katy Perry (1)
---Kix (2)
---Leslie West (1)
---Lorde (7)
---Marshall Crenshaw (1)
---Mastodon/ Russian Circles/ Eagles Of Death Metal (2)
---Neil Sedaka (6)
---Pat Boone (3)
---Pepper/ Tribal Seeds/ Fortunate Youth (6)
---
---
---Rodriguez (1)
---Rusted Root (7)
---Sheryl Crow
---Sir Sly/ Shaed (5)
---Soil/ Saving Abel/ Gabriel & The Apocalypse (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 061017:
---The Rec Park Music Fest has announced their 2017 line-up! The nearly annual fest, named for Recreation Park in Binghamton, where it is held, was rained out twice, last year…here’s hoping that the rains stay away long enough to squeeze it in this year! The festival date is set for Sunday August 20th, totally FREE, with an amazing local and regional line-up:
1:30p:
Bess Greenberg/ Devinne Meyers
2:30p: The Tomahawks
3:30p: Grace’s Ghost
4:30p: Raibred
5:30p: Woodshed Prophets
6:30p: Home Brew (grateful dead tribute band)
8:00p: The O’Neill Brothers
---Dates for
July Fest have been confirmed!
The annual fest, which always coincides with the
Binghamton Music & Jazz Festival
in downtown
---The list of bands participating in the 2017 Fools Hill Festival in Spencer NY has been released and the dates have been confirmed! This years festival will run from Friday August 18th thru Sunday August 20th at the Fools Hill Farm, and while we don’t know the day-to-day schedule of performers, here’s the list of who will be there during the three day festival…The Blind Spots, Boogie Low, Knotty North, The Ghost Peppers, Thee Kinfolk, Garlic Band, The Ilium Works, Plasm, Technicolor Trailer Park, Dapper Dan, Noon Fifteen, Kitestring and Friends With Bennys!
---A bit surprised by the crowd funding for the new Randy McStine album, “Anachronism” so far. With 27 days left McStine has only raised 24% of his needed goal! Does that mean there is a declining interest in this type of artist funding? …or is it just assumed that McStine will reach his goal simply because he is so good? We will be watching this more closely over the next month to see if McStine indeed meets his goal, and if not…what then? Wanna pledge? Here’s a link: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/anachronism
---Night
Ranger and Loverboy may
be pairing-up for a Fall stop in
---National touring act,
Two Door Cinema Club are coming back to
---Highly
Suspect will come to
---Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Tommy Szedlock who recently had foot surgery to reset a broken foot! I guess he’ll be playing the bass sitting down for a few months…where’s Dave Grohl’s throne when ya need it?
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Roger
Waters is expanding his Summer 2017 tour, in coordination with the
release of his new album, “This Is
The Life We Really Want?”
Waters has added a second night in
---Harry Styles, formerly of One Direction, is teaming-up with Kacey Musgraves for a huge, worldwide 2018 tour! The tour is set to visit our little corner of the world as well…Philadelphia PA on 6/15/18…Toronto ON on 6/16/18…Boston MA on 6/18/18…NYC on 6/21/18…Washington DC on 6/24/18…as well as adding a stop on the current 2017 tour…Washington DC on 10/1 with Muna!
---Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band are heading out, “one more time,” and they’ve booked some dates in our area…Rochester NY on 9/12…Boston MA on 9/14…Uncasville CT on 9/16…and Pittsburgh PA on 9/28! So far, that’s only four out of 24 dates…I’m guessing there will be more in our region in the days to come.
---Nas and Lauryn Hill (…of The Fugees) have teamed-up for a massive Hip Hop double-bill that is coming within our greater region at least a few times…Toronto ON on 9/10…Boston MA on 9/12…Camden NJ on 9/14…and Bristow VA on 9/15! Also on the bill…Chronixx and Hannibal Buress!
---Shawn Colvin has announced a major Fall 2017 tour and she’ll be coming into our greater region nearly a dozen times…two nights in Alexandria VA on 10/31 & 10/31…Philadelphia PA on 11/1…two more nights in Boston MA on 11/3 & 11/4…two more nights in NYC on 11/5 & 11/6…Fall River MA on 11/8…New Haven CT on 11/9…Albany NY on 11/10…and Lebanon NH on 11/11! Most shows will be opened by Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams.
---Arcade Fire has announced a major tour that runs from September thru November, and comes into our region, beginning on day #2…in Montreal QC on 9/6…NYC on 9/12…Boston MA on 9/15…Washington DC on 9/16…and Philadelphia PA on 9/17! Wolf Parade will open up on most dates!
---Marc Anthony has announced tour dates for the second half of 2017 and he’ll be coming back near to and into our region…Bridgeport CT on 8/25…NYC on 8/26…Fairfax VA on 11/9…and Reading PA on 11/10!
---The Chris
Robinson Brotherhood has announced the rest of the Fall leg of their
2017 tour and it more than includes our region, again…Baltimore MD on
10/3…Norfolk CT on 10/5…Ardmore PA on 10/6 & 10/7…Westbury NY on
11/2…Port Chester NY on 11/3…Hartford CT on 11/4…South Burlington VT on
11/5…and Providence RI on 11/9!
The 11/10 show in
---Blue
October will play The
Westcott Theatre in
---New Found Glory has announced a Fall leg to their current tour, which includes…two nights in Brooklyn NY on 10/28 & 10/29…New Haven CT on 10/31…Providence RI on 11/1…Buffalo NY on 11/3…Toronto ON on 11/4…Pittsburgh PA on 11/5 & 11/6…and Jersey City NJ on 11/7!
---80’s alt-techno band, The Fixx, have announced Summer tour dates that will bring them nearby at least a half-dozen times…NYC on 8/5…Alexandria VA on 8/7…Londonderry NH on 8/9…Peekskill NY on 8/10…Fall River MA on 8/11…and New Hope PA on 8/12!
---The Make
American Rock Again Tour is returning for another swing across
---Paula Cole has announced Summer 2017 dates that bring her back into our area…NYC on 6/19…East Hampton NY on 6/30…Rockport MA on 7/28 & 8/12…Kingston RI on 8/11…Londonderry NH on 8/13…North Bethesda MD on 10/19…NYC on 10/20…and Natick MA on 12/16!
---Wait a minute…is Billy Joel taking a month off from his residency at MSG? Joel just announced a new show in November NY, without announcing an October show! Joels September show is on 9/30…then followed by his November 11/18! We’ll see if this holds or if something is necessitating this “month off.”
---Pete
Townshend’s Classic Quadrophenia an orchestral rendition of the 1973
rock opera will play a four date tour of the
---U2 is
extending it’s 30th Anniversary of the Joshua Tree tour with
not only new legs in South America and
---Renaissance
returns to
---The Psychedelic Furs have booked a theatre-sized tour for the Fall of 2017 and they’ll be playing our region more than a dozen times…Baltimore MD on 10/1…Alexandria VA on 10/4…Tarrytown NY on 10/6…Montclair NJ on 10/7…Clifton Park NY on 10/8…Philadelphia PA on 10/10…Red Bank NJ on 10/11…Northampton MA on 10/13…Boston MA on 10/14…Toronto ON on 10/16…Buffalo NY on 10/20…Huntington NY on 10/21…and Brooklyn NY on 10/22!
---Pop singer,
Johnny Mathis is playing
limited tour dates with two appearances in our greater region…
---80’s New Wave artist, Marshall Crenshaw, is opening a new leg of his tour that will come into our region in August…Fall River MA on 8/16…Cambridge MA on 8/18…New Haven CT on 8/19…Bethlehem PA on 8/23…New Hope PA on 8/24…Rehoboth Beach DE on 8/25…Brigantine City NJ on 8/27…and Succasunna NJ on 10/14!
---Jon
Bellion is announcing Fall 2017 dates this week with a few in our
region…
---2 Chainz
is breaking out a huge hip hop tour with more than a few stops in our
region…
---Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, will conclude his worldwide tour with six dates in North America…Toronto ON on 7/17…Montreal QC on 7/18…Cambridge MA on 7/20…NYC on 7/21…Philadelphia PA on 7/22…and Washington DC on 7/23!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Sean Paul
is headlining a festival-style line-up at
Bethel Woods, in
---Rickie Lee Jones will play a one-off in Philadelphia PA On 10/19 at the World Café Live!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---War
adds
---New Found
Glory adds
---UB40 ft.
Ali Campbell & Mickey Astro adds
---Uncle
Kracker adds
---Zebra
adds two shows in
---Quiet Riot adds Jim Thorpe PA on 9/7!
---Adrenaline
Mob changes their 6/16 show from
---R. Kelly
adds
---Conor
Oberst adds
---Fuel
& Marcy Playground add
---Mondo
Cozmo adds
---Cracker
adds
---The Black Crowes spin-off,
The Magpie Salute, adds
---The Plain
White T’s add
---
---1910
Fruitgum Company adds Oakmont PA near
---Hip Hop star,
Khalid adds a second night in
Silver Spring MD on 8/4…and a second night in
---The Isley
Brothers add
---Z.Z. Top
adds
---Nick Lowe adds NYC on 6/11!
---Mighty
Mighty Bosstones adds NYC on 7/25…and
---Will Hoge
adds
---Dokken
adds
---Linkin Park adds two dates…7/28 in NYC at Citi Field with blink-182 and Wu-Tang Clan…and Hershey PA with blink-182 only!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---2 Chainz (4)
---1910 Fruitgum Company/ Dennis Tufano (1)
---
---Billy Joel (1)
---Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (4)
---Conor Oberst (1)
---Cracker (1)
---Dokken (1)
---Fuel/ Highly Suspect (1)
---Harry Styles/ Kacey Musgraves (5)
---Highly Suspect (3)
---Johnny Mathis (2)
---Jon Bellion (3)
---
---Khalid (2)
---Linkin Park/ blink-182/ Wu-Tang Clan/ Machine Gun Kelly (1)
---Linkin Park/ blink-182/ Machine Gun Kelly (1)
---Make
---Marc Anthony (4)
---Marshall Crenshaw (8)
---Mighty Mighty Bosstones (2)
---Mondo Cozmo (6)
---Nas/ Lauryn Hill/ Chronixx/
---New Found Glory (10)
---Nick Lowe (1)
---Night Ranger/ Loverboy (1)
---Paula Cole (9)
---Plain White T’s (3)
---Psychedelic Furs (13)
---Quiet Riot (1)
---R. Kelly (1)
---Renaissance (3)
---Rickie Lee Jones (1)
---Roger Waters (4)
---Sean Paul/ Aaron Carter/ Jason Derulo/ Tinashe/ Clean Bandit/ Austin Mahone/ Jon Bellion/ Dua Lipa (1)
---Shawn Colvin (11)
---The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (9)
---The Fixx (6)
---The Isley Brothers (2)
---The Magpie Salute (4)
---Thurston Moore (6)
---Two Door Cinema Club (4)
---UB40 ft. Ali Campbell & Mickey Astro (1)
---Uncle Kracker (1)
---War (1)
---Will Hoge (4)
---Zebra (2)
---Z.Z. Top (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 060317:
---Spiedie
Fest 2017 at
Night #1 (Friday 8/4): The free night at the
festival will feature former
Night #2 (Saturday 8/5): Eddie Money @ 5pm, followed by Blue Oyster Cult @ 630pm
Night #3 (Sunday 8/6): Kellie Pickler (former American Idol finalist) and Sara Evans @ 4pm!
Admission buttons for Saturday and Sunday are $20.00 until 7/9, after that the prices go up! Buttons are available at Weis Markets, Lupo’s, The Oakdale Mall office, Sidney Federal Credit Union and Wegman’s!
---Also announced this week was the return of the
Broome Bands Together Concert
series, Tuesday nights at 6pm, at
06/06:
06/13: Blue Velvet Big Band
06/20: Dirt Farm
06/27: rain out date
07/04: off for holiday
07/11:
07/18: The Shambles
07/25: Hot Dogs & Gin
08/01: rain out date
08/08: off following Spiedie Fest for clean-up.
08/15: Katie Scott w/ Persuasion
08/22: The Yada Yada’s
---Came across an interesting write up while
researching this weeks column!
It seems that local bass player, our own
Jeff Howell has formed
something of a “supergroup,” with Paul Nelson, former guitarist for the
Johnny Winter Band…and drummer Marty Richards of the J. Geils Band!
The call themselves the Paul Nelson Band and they are playing (tomorrow) in
---Local guitar god, Randy McStine is again going the crowd funding route to finance his next project, “Anachronism!’ If you want to pledge some cash (or credit) to the fund being raised, here’s a link: www.pledgemusic.com/randymcstine.
---More concert announcements from the great
NYS Fair in
---If you’re a George Thorogood fan and Friday night (6/2) at Tags doesn’t work for you, a new option has presented itself…Sunday 6/11 at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA…and a few other dates as Thorogood expanded his tour last week! Also on the list are some regional shows, including…Mashantucket CT on 6/3…Concord NH on 6/4…New Bedford MA on 6/6…Tarrytown NY on 6/7…Staten Island NY on 6/9…Atlantic City NJ on 6/10…Rutland VT on 7/25…Lynn MA on 7/26…Vienna VA on 7/30…and Lewiston NY on 8/1!
---Blackberry Smoke has announced tour dates that will bring them into the margin of our generous local area…The Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 6/23…as well as Buffalo NY on 6/24…Salisbury MA on 6/29…and Milford CT on 8/19!
---Break thru alternative band, MISSIO are set to play the Lost Horizon in Syracuse NY on 6/24, as well as some other regional venues…Lancaster PA on 6/20…Albany NY on 6/21…Northampton MA on 6/26…South Burlington VT on 6/27…Pawtucket RI on 6/30…and .Bethlehem PA on 6/30!
---Local musicians have weighed-in on the death of Gregg Allman in a big way:
Bill MacKechnie, guitarist for Anubis Spire: R.I.P. Gregg....and thanks for all the great music.
Joe Stento, singer/ guitarist: Man... this news hurts... Another icon gone~ RIP Gregg Allman
Victor Lay
of Black Apple Currant: RIP Gregg
Allman, dead at 69. I'm sure we all have many fond memories of his
music, this is prolly my favorite, great lyrics and video! (a link to
“I’m No Angel” attached.) Enjoy~
Ken Foster,
of
Annie Burns, of The Burns Sisters: RIP Greg Allman. This album blasted through the Burns family house. So beautiful. Back in the day, embroidery was all the rage. I remember my brother Tommy, had the cover of the 'Eat a Peach' record beautifully embroidered on the back of his jean jacket. It was so cool.
Robby Perez of Beard Of Bees, The Acoustabees and Rob & Rob: He spoke the truth in his writing and sang it with conviction and soul as only he could. He wrote some of the greatest songs of all time and taught all of us aspiring musicians how to sing, feel and play the blues. No flashy gimmicks, no trashy distasteful antics ect just more or less speaking the truth in a way that touched our soul.
Benny Fiacco,
bass player for Frostbit Blue
and former bass player for Allman Brothers cover band,
Brothers of the Road, even appeared in an interview on Fox 40
describing Allman’s impact!
Here’s a link:
http://www.wicz.com/story/35548462/gregg-allman-remembering-the-man-behind-the-music
…and btw, Allman’s death will turn the
Peach Festival in
---Have you find yourself missing
Milk Weed? Don’t.
The band is playing fewer dates recently, but they’re making big
plans. Singer/ guitarist,
Joe Alston has been producing
albums for several local bands, including;
Devinne Meyers, Bess
Greenberg and Adam Ate The
Apple. Meanwhile the
band have an electric set planned to play the
Cyber Café West in
---Congrats to
Jeff Petit, who was warming
up for Steely Dan at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, got an even bigger
surprise, as per this facebook post: “… Opening for Steely Dan was awesome! BONUS :Their regular touring
guitarist John Harrington is on the road w Madeleine Peyroux in Europe,
so they had Larry Carlton sit in for the gig... the guy who played some
of the best solos on their records... Kid Charlemagne etc...”
---A fond farewell to
Doug Day of
The Gents, who is moving to
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Guns N’
Roses have indeed announced
---Pop/alt band, Bastille finally storms the US after spending the summer touring Europe and Asia, but there will be pitifully few stops and only in smaller, theatre-styled venues…Pittsburgh PA on 9/9…Albany NY on 9/12…Providence RI on 9/13…and Philadelphia PA on 9/14!
---Award winning trumpeter, Herb Alpert has booked another ten night residency at the Café Carlyle in NYC set for September! Alpert will play five consecutive nights over two consecutive weeks, performing from Tuesday 9/5 thru Saturday 9/9…then again from Tuesday 9/12 thru Saturday 9/16!
---Alt-pop singer, Matthew Sweet (remember “Girlfriend”?) has announced Summer tour dates that will bring him around to our region more than a half dozen times in September…Boston MA on 9/16…Norfolk CT on 9/17…Fall River MA on 9/19…Hudson NY on 9/20…Wilmington DE on 9/21…Tarrytown NY on 9/22…Port Washington NY on 9/23…and South Orange NJ on 9/24!
---After the joint tour with The Doobie Brothers, Chicago has announced a series of solo shows for the Fall of 2017, including…Bristow VA on 7/29…Shelbyville DE on 8/1…Hyannis MA on 8/2…the previously announced, Bethlehem PA on 8/5…Bloomsburg PA on 9/27…Gilford NH on 9/30…and Brooklyn NY on 9/29!
---Paramore are back on the road in September six dates in our region…Washington DC on 9/13…NYC on 10/4…Boston MA on 10/7…Bethlehem PA on 10/10…Montreal QC on 10/12…and Toronto ON on 10/13!
---Sevendust have confirmed a tour in honor of the 20th Anniversary of their debut album and all five dates are inside our coverage area…Baltimore MD on 6/21…Sayreville NJ on 6/22…Philadelphia PA on 6/23…Westbury NY on 6/24…and Worcester MA on 6/25!
---Mary J.
Blige has booked a 21-date Summer tour that will come to our region
at least four times…
---English punk band, Wire have booked US dates for September that include…Toronto ON on 9/20…Montreal QC on 9/21…Cambridge MA on 9/23…Washington DC on 9/25…Philadelphia PA on 9/26…and three nights in Brooklyn NY on 9/28, 9/29 & 9/30!
---The touring version of The Wailers have added summer dates for 2017 that include…Rochester NY on 6/16…Hampton NH on 6/25…Brigantine City NJ on 7/12…Wilmington DE on 7/29…Amagansett NY on 7/30!
---Alternative band, Bad Suns are thinking past Summer to Fall however…Buffalo NY on 10/23…Montreal QC on 10/24…South Burlington VT on 10/25…Boston MA on 10/27…NYC on 10/28…Washington DC on 10/29!
---Randy Newman is playing a handful of dates this Summer, but so far only two in our region…Lowell MA on 7/7…and Tarrytown NY on 7/9!
---Southern rocker, David Allan Coe has announced about a dozen show tour for 2017, with only two dates inside our region…NYC on 7/13…and Stafford Springs CT on 7/14!
---Wow. Gene Simmons of Kiss, has a side project that isn’t a reality show! The Gene Simmons Band makes a six date run around the US, but it’s quite spread out, with only two dates in our region…Philadelphia PA on 6/2…and Lynn MA on 11/1!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Don
Dokken, leader and namesake of the iconic metal band, Dokken, has
booked a solo show in our greater region…
---Fans of Hip Hop listen up…Wendy Williams Mix Tape Block Party set for 7/23 at the Ford Amphitheatre at Coney Island will assemble some rap icons…Remy Ma, Naughty By Nature, Fat Joe, Big Daddy Kane and more!
---The
Soulfrito Urban Latin Music Festival in NYC is gathering some big
name firepower…Fetty Wap, Young
M.A. and Rick Ross will
headline just on the first day, on Friday 6/9 at
The B.C.!
---Digable
Planets returns but only for a June one-off in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Sonny
Landreth adds
---Mondo
Cozmo adds
---We Came
As Romans add
---Finally,
Lupe Fiasco’s one-off in
---Bush
adds
---Herman’s
Hermits ft. Peter Noone add
---Nonpoint
adds
---Mushroomhead
adds
---Lynyrd
Skynyrd adds
---Robert
Cray’s been busy…adding
---Cracker
adds
---Alejandro
Escovedo adds
---Meanwhile,
Nick Lowe has added more
dates to his own solo tour…NYC on 6/8…and
---Graham
Nash adds
---Rocker
Will Hoge finally adds a show in our region…
---The Buzzcocks add NYC on 6/9!
---Dionne Warwick adds NYC on 6/12…and NYC again on 7/29!
---Los Lobos
adds NYC on 7/6…
---Spyro
Gyra adds Allston MA on 6/2 & 6/3…
---Lou Gramm
adds
---Rick Ross
adds
---Dick Dale
adds
---Spin
Doctors add
---Kendrick
Lamar adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Alejandro Escovedo/ Nick Lowe (1)
---Bad Suns (6)
---Bastille (4)
---Blackberry Smoke (4)
---Bush (3)
---
---Cracker (1)
---David Allan Coe (2)
---Dick Dale (2)
---Digable Planets (1)
---Dionne Warwick (2)
---Don Dokken (1)
---Gene Simmons Band (2)
---George Thorogood & the Destroyers (11)
---Graham Nash (1)
---Guns N’ Roses (6)
---Herman’s Hermits
---Kendrick Lamar (3)
---Los Lobos (2)
---Lou Gramm (1)
---Lupe Fiasco (2)
---Lynyrd Skynyrd (3)
---Mary J. Blige (4)
---MISSIO (7)
---Mondo Cozmo (3)
---Mushroomhead (1)
---Nick Lowe (2)
---Nonpoint (1)
---Paramore (6)
---Randy Newman (2)
---Remy Ma/ Naughty By Nature/ M.O.P./ Fat Joe/ Big Daddy Kane/ Charly Black (1)
---Rick Ross (3)
---Robert Cray Band (9)
---Sevendust (5)
---Sonny Landreth (5)
---Soulfrito Urban Latin Music Festival (1)
---Spin Doctors (2)
---Spyro Gyra (4)
---The Buzzcocks (1)
---We Came As Romans (2)
---Will Hoge (1)
---Wire (8)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 052017:
---Next week’s 2nd annual Marathon Music Fest, the musical accompaniment of the Herald of Victory Marathon 3-person relay race (both half and full-marathon, if you care.), and will be great for any local music lovers who are up early on Sunday morning, May 28th! Many of the bands will start playing as early as 9am at several points along the race route! Highlights of the Music Festival have been posted on the local and regional concert pages, so please check them out to find out where you have to go to see who you want to hear!
---
---Here’s an announcement that will make the Summer
like heat seem a little more bare-able…Mannheim
Steamroller has released their Winter time schedule of shows and not
only is the Landmark Theatre
in Syracuse NY right in it’s cross hairs on 12/7…so is The
Clemens Center in Elmira NY on 12/6!
Other stops on the tour include…
---Broken
Social Scene has booked the
State Theatre in
---Folk singer, Tommy Emmanuel, is also coming to
the State Theatre in
---Tommy
Castro & The Painkillers have been added to night #2 of the
Chenango Blues Festival in
---Two more NY State Fair music announcements this week…Country/ blues/ pop singer, LeAnn Rimes will play a FREE show on The Court on Thursday 8/31 @ 8pm…and on Monday 8/28 @ 8pm, prog-rockers, Kansas will also play a FREE show on The Court! The line-up for the Fair continues to build but there are still many more performances to be announced! Please stand by!
---Isn’t it enough that the
Brewery Ommegang in
---Willie Nelson’s
Outlaw Music Festival may not
be coming home to Montage Mountain in
---Katy
Perry, who was just confirmed to be a judge on the new
American Idol is doing a victory lap around
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Khalid has announced a Summer 2017 tour that brings him into our region…Silver Spring MD on 8/5…Boston MA on 8/6…Montreal QC on 8/8…Toronto ON on 8/9…Philadelphia PA on 8/10…and NYC on 8/13!
---Blue Oyster Cult isn’t just stopping in Binghamton NY to play Spiedie Fest (on Saturday 8/5, if you didn’t read last weeks entry yet)…they announced a bunch of other dates as well, including…Allentown PA on 5/26…Englewood NJ on 5/31…Putman NJ on 6/3…East Greenwich RI on 6/8…Copiague NY on 8/4…Eric PA on 8/18…King of Prussia PA on 9/29…Beverly MA on 10/13…and Plymouth NH on 10/14!
---Rookie alternative band, Magic Giant are playing off two days of exposure at the Firefly Festival next month to book a solo tour with stops at…NYC on 6/20…Philadelphia PA on 6/21…Washington DC on 6/22…Asbury Park NJ on 6/27…and Boston MA on 6/28!
---The Greg Kihn Band is playing a half-dozen dates or so, across American this year, including two in our region…Harrisburg PA on 6/16…and Warrendale PA on 6/17!
---Sebastian Bach may not be getting back together with Skid Row, but he’s still got some solo tour dates, only a handful though and just two in our area…Warrendale PA (near Pittsburgh) on 6/19…and NYC on 6/20!
---Rag N’ Bone Man has announced Summer dates and he’ll be making four more stops in our greater region…Washington DC on 8/1…NYC on 8/2…Boston MA on 8/3….and in Montreal QC on 8/4 for the Osheaga Festival!
---Dinosaur Jr. will walk the earth again with a new tour that will bring them back into our region…NYC on 6/10…Cambridge MA on 10/4 & 10/5…and Pittsburgh PA on 10/29!
---On top of Jonny Lang’s recent adds (see below)…he’s also booked a Fall leg onto his 2017 world tour, with new stops in our region…Huntington NY on 9/29…Hartford CT on 9/30…Fairfield CT on 10/1…Boston MA on 10/3…Cranston RI on 10/6…and Hampton Beach NH on 10/7!
---Michael McDonald will follow up his tour with Boz Scaggs by launching a Fall leg with Marc Cohn warming up on most dates, such as…New London CT on 10/15…NYC on 10/19…and Washington DC on 10/28!
---The Charlie Daniels Band has lined up some festivals and fairs for a Summer jaunt that includes…Augusta NJ on 6/24…Plattsburgh NY on 7/19…Lowville NY on 7/21…as well as announce a Fall leg where they pick up regional shows in…Ridgefield CT on 9/8…Jim Thorpe PA on 9/22…and Amesbury MA on 9/23!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Art of Anarchy ft. Scott Stapp seem dead set on booking shows one at a time…this time in Warrendale PA at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille on 7/19!
---Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner (of modern rock band, The National) and James McAlister have team-up for three shows only, but two are on the West Coast and only their 7/18 show at Prospect Park in Brooklyn NY will play the East Coast! They’re taking their epic “Soundtrack To The Cosmos,” Planetarium out on the road for the first time in four years!
---We Came
As Romans have booked German
House Theatre in
---Sergio
Mendes just announced a modest eight date tour, but so far only one
show on the east coast…
---Glen
Burtnik, formerly with Styx, will play one show only in
---Juliana Hatfield will play a one-off in NYC at The Bowery Ballroom on 7/22!
---John Doe
of X, has booked a tiny, four-date tour…only one of which is east of the
---Neil
Sedaka may still be playing, but not so much in the way of
touring…He’ll play State Theatre
in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Daniel
Lanois adds
---The
Smithereens add
---Fuel is adding a few solo shows on off nights from their headlining tour with Marcy Playground and Dishwalla…7/4 at Dewey Beach DE…and Warrendale PA on 7/6!
---The Gin Blossoms add Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg PA on 7/7!
---Matisyahu
adds NYC on 8/2…and
---Phantogram
adds
---Jonny
Lang adds NYC on 8/22…
---John Popper of Blues Traveler, adds Sellersville PA on 9/19!
---The Spinners and Little Anthony & The Imperials seem to work well together…they’ve booked three more shows…Shippensburg PA on 10/5…Glenside PA on 10/7…and Westbury NY on 10/8!
---The
Wallflowers add
---Don
Felder adds
---Mary
Wilson of The Supremes adds
---Carbon
Leaf adds
---
---Keith
Sweat adds
---Taking
Back Sunday adds a second night in NYC on 7/15…and
---
---Michelle
Branch adds…
---Jay & the
Americans add
---A.J.
Croce adds
---Lady Gaga
adds a second night in
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---A.J. Croce (2)
---
---Blue Oyster Cult (9)
---Broken Social Scene (7)
---Cake (1)
---Carbon Leaf (1)
---Charlie Daniels Band (6)
---Daniel Lanois (1)
---Dinosaur Jr. (4)
---Don Felder (2)
---Fuel (2)
---Gin Blossoms (1)
---Glen Burtnik (1)
---Greg Kihn Band (2)
---Jay & the Americans (1)
---John Doe (1)
---John Popper (1)
---Jonny Lang (9)
---Juliana Hatfield (1)
---Katy Perry (11)
---Keith Sweat (1)
---Lady Gaga (1)
---Magic Giant (5)
---
---Mary Wilson (1)
---Matisyahu (2)
---Michael McDonald (3)
---Michelle Branch (4)
---Neil Sedaka (1)
---Outlaw Music Festival (4)
---Phantogram (4)
---Rag N’ Bone Man (4)
---Sebastian Bach (2)
---Sufjan Stevens/ Nico Muhly/ Bryce Dessner/ James McAlister (1)
---Taking Back Sunday (2)
---The Smithereens (5)
---The Spinners/ Little Anthony & The Imperials (3)
---The Wallflowers (1)
---
---We Came As Romans/ I See Stars/ American Sin (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 051317:
---It’s been leaked ahead of the “official”
announcement that Blue Oyster
Cult will be playing the Saturday show at
Spiedie Fest in
---
---The 2017 Cans N’ Clams line-up announced and is now posted on the website. The annual Friday night “Party On The Patio” at the Holiday Inn Arena runs from 6p to 10p and features a variety of the best party bands in the area, including Splash, Brotherhood, Rooster & the Roadhouse Horns and Group du Jour! See either the local or regional pages and sort by artist as each entry appears under the heading Cans ‘N’ Clams! The first night of Cans ‘N’ Clams is Friday May 26th and after that every Friday night, thru September 1st, except August 18th, which is Dicks Sporting Goods Open weekend. You can also see the listing on the “official” Cans ‘N’ Clams website @ http://cansandclams.com ---and remember once you get there and check out the schedule page ,to click on the date, in order to see who is playing on that date. I know it appears to be blank, but it’s really a link!
---Plenty of confusion last week for the
RaiBred curated “festival”
called RaiFest!
The two day festival, which went off without a hitch after all on
private land in the town of
---Modest
Mouse has been booked for State Theatre in
---Following their stint on the Hinder tour,
Nonpoint will launch a solo
tour that includes a stop in
---Blues guitarist, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, will headline the Saturday portion of the Taste Of Syracuse festival on Saturday 6/3! He’s also adding some additional tour stops for the Summer, including…Westbury NY on 8/9…Albany NY on 8/10…Morristown NJ on 8/16…Northampton MA on 8/19…Londonderry NH on 8/20…Ridgefield CT on 8/23…Harrisburg PA on 8/25…and East Providence RI on 8/26!
---Avett Brothers have added a Fall 2017 leg to their current tour that will once again bring them back into our generous local region…at Montage Mountain in Scranton PA on 9/10, as well as…Canandaigua NY on 9/2…Shelburne VT on 9/3…Holmdel NJ on 9/8…Wantagh NY on 9/9…and Camden NJ on 9/17!
---Brian Wilson has added a total of 42 dates as he extends his 50th Anniversary of “Pet Sounds” tour and luckily for us, nine of them are in our greater region…Rochester NY on 9/19…Mashantucket CT on 9/21…Boston MA on 9/22…NYC on 9/23…Lancaster PA on 9/25…Red Bank NJ on 9/26…New Bedford MA on 9/29…Atlantic City NJ on 9/30…and one date in our local area…Syracuse NY, at the Crouse-Hinds Theatre on 10/1!
---The line-up for the Grassroots Festival has been formed! The annual festival, which runs from Thursday 7/20 thru Sunday 7/23 in Trumansburg NY and there will be plenty of local and regional musicians up and down the list!
Day #1: Sim Redmond Band/ Keith Frank/ Guerille Dub Squad/ Donna The Buffalo/ Crucial Reggae/ Balfa Toujours/ Mac Benford/ Kevin Kinsella/ Los Texmaniacs/ Bubba George/ Sophistafunk/ Tiana Asili/ Driftwood/ Sihasin/ The Blind Spots/ Bess Greenberg
Day #2: Walter Mouton & The Scott Playboys/ Preston Frank/ John Brown’s Body/ Del McCoury Band/ Chris Corsano/ Campbell Brothers/ Bronwen Exter/ Balfa Toujours/ Bear Fox/ Las Cafeteras/ Gunpoets/ Flying Clouds/ Jones Benally/ Calico Moon/ Keith Secola/ Mokoomba/ Mosaic Foundation/ The Big Mean Sound Machine/ Jamestown Revival/ Sammus/ Izzy True/ Aaron Lipp/ Barroom Philosophers/ Riche And Rosie
Day #3: Walter Mouton & The Scott Playboys/ Samite/ Morgan Heritage/ Locos Por Juana/ Keith Frank/ Johnny Dowd/ Donna The Buffalo/ Mac Benford/ Moontee Sinquah/ Afrobeta/ Elastic Bond/ Driftwood/ Thunder Body/ Sihansun/ Mbongwana Star/ Daniella Ponder & the Tomorrow People/ The Blind Spots/ Western Centuries
Day #4: Sim Redmond Band/ Preston Frank/ Papa Muse/ Hank Roberts/ Drive-By Truckers/ Donna The Buffalo/ Bubba George/ Moontee Sinquah/ Keith Secola/ Big Mean Sound Machine/ Richie And Rosie
---Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials have been booked for the first night of the Chenango Blues Festival in Norwich NY on 8/18 at the Chenango County Fairgrounds! J.J. Appleton, Jason Ricci and Alvin Youngblood Hart are set for night #2.
---Firefall
are confirmed to be playing the
Stanley Center in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Finally
Imagine Dragons have a new album and a tour scheduled to support it!
Evolve is due out on 6/23 and the tour will happen upon us in
October…
---UFO
and Saxon are adding a Fall
leg to their 2017 tour and the new dates in our region include…Newton NJ
on 9/22…Huntington NY on 9/23…Baltimore MD on 9/24…Philadelphia PA on
9/26…Plymouth NH on 9/28…Worcester MA on 9/29…Hartford CT on
9/30…Toronto ON on 10/3…
---Against Me! have announced an ambitious American tour for Fall 2017 that will cover at least nine shows in our region, including…Buffalo NY on 10/5…Toronto ON on 10/6…Montreal QC on 10/7…Pittsburgh PA on 10/8…Boston MA on 10/10…Philadelphia PA on 10/12…Washington DC on 10/13…Brooklyn NY on 10/14…and Asbury Park NJ on 10/15! Bleached and The Dirty Nil will open!
---Finally after a few dates leaked out…the rest of Jimmy Buffett’s Summer tour has been announced and it includes more than a few fresh stops for our region…Washington DC on 5/20…Toronto ON on 8/11…Wantagh NY on 8/15…(the previously announced ) Camden NJ (philly) on 8/17…and Mansfield MA on 8/19!
---Social Distortion has booked eight dates in our greater region…Pittsburgh PA on 8/3…Phladelphia PA on 8/4…Huntington NY on 8/5…Stroudsburg PA on 8/8…New Haven CT on 8/9…Worcester MA on 8/11…Sayreville NJ on 8/12…and Silver Spring MD on 8/13!
---The Summer leg of the Hank Williams Jr. tour has been announced and that’ll bring him into our area at least a few times…Salamanca NY on 7/1…Camden NJ on 8/19…and Wantagh NY on 8/25!
---Breakout Hip Hop star, Lil Yachty is taking his show on the road, but so far only for two dates in our region…Baltimore MD on 8/22…and NYC on 8/23!
---Aging Ant Music star, Adam Ant, has booked a few dates in our region for his U.S. tour…NYC on 9/13…Greensburg PA on 9/17…and Baltimore MD on 9/19! Anybody else remember, “Goody Two Shoes?” Oh, c’mon!
---Year Of The Cat singer, Al Stewart books two dates in our region…Jim Thorpe PA at the Mauch Chunk Opera House on 6/16…and Wilmington DE on 6/17!
---Erykah
Badu books
---No U.S. dates on the recently announced Elton John world tour…but a couple of close by Canadian dates…Kingston ON on 11/14…and St. Catherines ON on 11/15! Another good reason to keep your passport up-to-date!
---Once their tour with Poison and Def Leppard is over, Tesla will play a run of solo shows with a few in our greater region…Greensburg PA (near Pittsburgh pa) on 8/8…Silver Spring MD on 8/15…and Hampton Beach NH on 8/16!
---Paul Weller, formerly of British punk band, The Jam, will be in America in October for a solo tour in…Huntington NY on 10/1…NYC on 10/2 & 10/3…Philadelphia PA on 10/4…Boston MA on 10/6…Washington DC on 10/7…and Toronto ON on 10/10!
---Carbon
Leaf has announced a late Fall/ early Winter tour that will play a
half dozen times in our greater region…
---The National have announced Fall 2017 tour dates…Boston MA on 10/5…Queens NY on 10/6…Philadelphia PA on 12/4…Montreal QC on 12/7 & 12/8…Toronto ON on 12/9…and Hamilton ON on 12/10!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---International World Music star,
Youssou N’Dour has only booked four dates so far this year…and
there’s only two in North America, one in
---Metro
Station have booked a one-off with
Assuming We Survive and
Avion Roe at the
Diesel Club in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Paul
McCartney, whose tickets are in such demand, is moving to meet that
demand with second nights posted in Newark NJ on 9/12…NYC on
9/17…Brooklyn NY on 9/21…and Uniondale on 9/27!
…no
---The Wailers add NYC on 7/15!
---NRBQ adds South Park PA on 7/14!
---Air
Supply adds
---Midnight Oil adds NYC on 8/21!
---Betty Who
adds
---Trapt
and Smile Empty Soul add
---Mushroomhead
add
---PnB Rock
adds
---12 Stones
add
---
---John
Sebastian adds Bradford PA on 11/2…and
---Ja Rule
adds
---The
Strumbella’s add
---The
Revivalists add
---Western Centuries is added to the bill with
Sonny Landreth in
---Lil
Yachty adds
---Los
Lonely Boys add
---Paul
Barrere & Fred Tackett of Little Feat, add
---Robert
Randolph & the Family Band add
---The Cranberries add a second night in NYC on 9/15!
---Desiigner
adds NYC on 5/15…and
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---12 Stones (2)
---Adam Ant (3)
---Against Me! (9)
---Air Supply (1)
---Al Stewart (2)
---Avett Brothers (6)
---Betty Who (3)
---Brian Wilson (9)
---Carbon Leaf (6)
---Desiigner (2)
---Elton John (2)
---Erykah Badu (1)
---Hank Williams (3)
---Imagine Dragons/ Grouplove/ k.flay (7)
---Ja Rule (1)
---Jimmy Buffett (4)
---John Sebastian (2)
---Kenny Wayne Shephard (9)
---
---Lil Yachty (2)
---Los Lonely Boys (3)
---Metro Station/ Assuming We Survive/ Avion Roe (1)
---Midnight Oil (1)
---Modest Mouse (6)
---Mushroomhead (1)
---Nonpoint/ A Killer’s Confession/ Nine Shrines (6)
---NRBQ (1)
---Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett (2)
---Paul McCartney (4)
---Paul Weller (7)
---PnB Rock (1)
---Robert Randolph & The Family Band (2)
---Social Distortion (8)
---Tesla (3)
---The Cranberries (1)
---The National (7)
---The Revivalists (2)
---The Strumbella’s (1)
---The Wailers (1)
---Trapt/ Smile Empty Soul (1)
---UFO/ Saxon/ Jared James Nichols (10)
---Youssou N’Dour
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 050617:
---Could
---Next To Kin played their CD release party by the time you read this, Friday night 5/5 at the Ransom Steele Tavern in Apalachin, but gave us an early taste by posting this song, “Shine On,” with singer, Malorie Evans on lead vocals, on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-286171910/shine-on
---Dashboard Confessional and the All-American Rejects are coming to Tags in Big Flats NY on 7/29 @ 8p! Tickets will be $45.50 to $75.00 and go on sale on 5/12!
---Speaking of Tags, the Megadeth show at Tags in Big Flats NY, on 6/23 has been confirmed! Tickets are now available on their website for $45.50! Tickets for this show are on sale now (since 4/29).
---Blues guitarist,
Albert Cummings has booked
The Center For The Arts in
Homer NY on 10/20! He has
also booked Shirley MA on 6/9…
---New York
State Fair news …The Fabulous
Thunderbirds w/ Kim Wilson will play a FREE show on The Court @ 2pm
on 8/25…Robert Randolph & The
Family Band will play a FREE show on The Court on opening day on
Wednesday 8/23 @ 2pm…and the Spin
Doctors will also play a FREE show on The Court on Sunday 9/3 @ 2p!
The annual fair is held in
---There’s a great 90’s package bill playing across American this Summer that includes some iconic grunge era alternative bands! Fuel (Shimmer, Sunburn, Hemorrhage In My Hand/ Bad Day) is traveling with alt-one hit wonders, Dishwalla (Counting Blue Cars) and Marcy Playground (Sex And Candy) and it’s coming to…Jim Thorpe PA on 6/24…Dewey Beach DE on 7/4…Asbury Park NJ on 7/29…and Huntington NY on 7/30!
---Former Foreigner singer,
Lou Gramm is also coming to
Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 6/16!
The rest of Gramm’s itinerary in our area has been previously
announced and includes…Willamsport PA on 5/26…
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Janet Jackson has finally rescheduled all of those tour dates she cancelled because she was pregnant with her first child…and granted it was a good excuse, but now her child is more than a few months old so tour dates have been booked and announced! Here’s the breakdown…Toronto ON on 11/2…Buffalo NY on 11/4…Boston MA on 11/5…Providence RI on 11/7…Manchester NH on 11/8…Atlantic City NJ on 11/10…Bethlehem PA on 11/11…Philadelphia PA on 11/13…Brooklyn NY on 11/15…Washington DC on 11/16…Baltimore MD on 11/18…Newark NJ on 11/19…and Pittsburgh PA on PA! Whew!
---Another R&B act hitting the road this summer is J. Cole who will play seven dates in the confines of our greater region…two nights in Toronto ON on 7/28 & 7/29…NYC on 8/1…Boston MA on 8/4…Uniondale NY on 8/5…Baltimore MD on 8/6…and Washington DC on 8/8!
---Linkin Park are going on a major Summer tour to push their new album, “One More Light,” due out on 5/19…with plenty of dates in our greater region, including…Mansfield MA on 7/27…Camden NJ on 8/1…Bristow NJ on 8/2…Uncasville CT on 8/5…Toronto ON on 8/8…Montreal QC on 8/10! Machine Gun Kelly is also on the bill!
---Kendrick
Lamar is bringing one of the biggest hip hop tours of the Summer to
fans across the country! The
bill includes Travis Scott
and D.R.A.M. and will impact our greater region in…
---Halsey, PARTYNEXTDOOR and Charli XCX are heading out on a huge tour that will bring them to at least nine nearby venues in our greater area this Fall…Uncasville CT on 9/29…Montreal QC on 10/3…Toronto ON on 10/4…Boston MA on 10/6…Philadelphia PA On 10/7…Washington DC on 10/9…Pittsburgh PA on 10/10…Brooklyn NY on 10/13…and Newark NJ on 10/14!
---Former One Direction star, Harry Styles has booked his first solo tour around the world, 29 dates so far, to support his debut self-titled album coming out this month…NYC on 9/28…Boston MA on 9/30…Washington DC on 10/1…Toronto ON on 10/4…and Upper Darby (philly) PA on 10/5!
---The Cranberries are back and apparently starting over playing a small venue tour of America in 2017…NYC on 9/16…Washington DC on 9/18…Philadelphia PA on 9/20…Boston MA on 9/21…Montreal QC on 9/23…and Toronto ON on 9/24!
---Buster
Poindexter, really David Johansen of the New York Dolls, has booked
a three night residency over the Summer at the City Winery in
---Janie Lane may be gone, but
Warrant tours on…teaming with
Firehouse for a few dates in our region…
---70’s country singer, Charlie Pride, is mounting a 22-date tour spread out thru November and it will bring him to a few venues in our region…Kingston ON on 5/15…and Lancaster PA on 9/10!
---The War On Drugs has announced a world tour that includes only four dates in our region so far…Philadelphia PA on 9/21…NYC on 9/22…Boston MA on 9/23…and Toronto ON on 10/21!
---Adrenaline Mob (the other band, for late Twisted Sister drummer A.J. Pero) returns with a new drummer and a tour that will keep them on the road until the end of July…Poughkeepsie NY on 6/16…NYC on 6/17…Haverhill MA on 6/18…Pittsburgh PA on 6/20…Webster NY on 6/21…Baltimore MD on 7/20…Easton PA on 7/21…and Clifton NJ on 7/22!
---Evan Dando, lead singer of The Lemonheads, is doing a small tour of the World this spring, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand and seven dates in America, including…Somerville MA on 6/22…Philadelphia PA on 6/23…and NYC on 6/24!
---Michelle Shocked has booked a three night residency spread out over three months at the City Winery in NYC…on 6/26, 7/31 and 8/21!
---Creedence
Clearwater Revisited, which boasts two former members of Creedence
Clearwater Revival (doug & stu), have finally added a show in our area…
---No Steely Dan tour in 2017 as
Donald Fagen & The Nightflyers have booked a 26 date world tour that
includes just two dates so far in our region…two nights in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The Golden Boys tour has returned for a one-off…Frankie
Avalon, Fabian and Bobby
Rydell will play the
SugarHouse Casino in
---Paula Cole has booked a one-off in NYC On 6/19!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Saliva
adds
---Tegan And
Sara add
---The Stephen Stills/ Judy Collins tour adds…Red Bank NJ on 8/16…New Haven CT on 8/17…Greensburg PA on 8/18…Great Barrington MA on 8/21…and Morristown NJ on 8/23!
---Alt-right rocker,
Ted Nugent takes on NYC on
8/8…not to mention
---New Found
Glory adds
---Boz
Scaggs adds
---Gin
Blossoms add
---70’s funk band,
Con Funk Shun, adds
---The
Outlaws add
---Rusted
Root adds
---The
Cowsills and Gary Puckett &
the Union Gap add
---80’s R&B band,
Tony! Toni! Tone’! add
---
---Gary Puckett & the Union Gap add a solo show in Sellersville PA on 2/17!
---Mayday Parade add NYC on 5/11!
---
---XXXTENTACION adds NYC on 6/26!
---David Cook of American Idol fame, adds NYC on 7/10!
---Toad The
Wet Sprocket add
---Bluesman
Sonny Landreth adds
---The
Doobie Brothers and Chicago
have changed their 7/29 show from
---Asleep At
The Wheel add Glenside PA on 7/15!
They’re also scheduled for
---War
adds
---King’s X, who have only booked three dates in all of 2017, have added a fourth that falls in our region…NYC on 7/14!
---NRBQ adds South Park PA on 7/14!
---Shemekia
Copeland adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Adrenaline Mob (8)
---Albert Cummings (7)
---Asleep At The Wheel (1)
---
---Boz Scaggs (1)
---Charlie Pride (2)
---Con Funk Shun (1)
---Creedence Clearwater Revisited (1)
---David Cook (1)
---Donald Fagen & The Nightflyers (2)
---Evan Dando (3)
---Fuel/ Dishwalla/ Marcy Playground (4)
---Gary Puckett & the Union Gap (1)
---Gin Blossoms (1)
---Harry Styles (5)
---Janet Jackson (13)
---Kendrick Lamar/ Travis Scott/ D.R.A.M. (6)
---King’s X (1)
---
---Lou Gramm (1)
---Mayday Parade (1)
---New Found Glory (4)
---NRBQ (1)
---Paula Cole (1)
---Rusted Root (1)
---Saliva (1)
---Shemekia Copeland (1)
---Sonny Landreth (2)
---Stephen Stills/ Judy Collins (5)
---Ted Nugent (4)
---Tegan And Sara (1)
---The Cowsills/ Gary Puckett & The Union Gap (1)
---The Cranberries (6)
---The Outlaws (1)
---The War On Drugs (4)
---Toad The Wet Sprocket (2)
---Tony! Toni! Tone’! (1)
---War (1)
---Warrant/ Firehouse (2)
---XXXTENTACION (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 042916:
---Led Zeppelin tribute band,
Get The Led Out are already booking for 2018 and once again, will
visit State Theatre in
---The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, featuring the lead singer of the Black Crowes, Chris Robinson…has announced that they’ll play a show at The Haunt in Ithaca NY on Thursday 8/24…and that’s not all! The CRB has also announced that they’ll also play Portsmouth NH on 8/15…Wakefield RI on 8/17…Boston MA on 8/19…Holyoke MA on 8/20…Pittsburgh PA on 8/22…State College PA on 8/23…Woodstock NY on 8/25…and Washington DC on 8/26, in addition to the previously announced Niagara Falls NY on 11/10!
---The Mac is back!
Paul McCartney has
added another leg to his 2017 “One on One” tour and it will not only
include four stops in our greater region…but one in our local region as
the former Beatle books the
Carrier Dome in Syracuse NY on 9/23!
Other stops include…
---90’s alt-swing band,
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies will
play the Corning Museum of Glass
in
---Dark Star Orchestra has not only confirmed that they’ll play the Peach Festival in Scranton PA (Day #2 on Friday) on 8/11…but also Hampton Beach NH on 7/28…Hyannis MA on 7/30…Utica NY on 8/1…Rochester NY on 8/4…Jay VT on 8/5…Washington DC on 8/9…Pittsburgh PA on 8/10…Asbury Park NJ on 8/12…and two nights in Dewey Beach DE on 8/14 & 8/15!
---Tim Reynolds (…of the Dave Matthews Band) and TR3 will play the Center For The Arts in Homer NY on 7/7 as part of a tiny eight date tour that also includes…Pawling NY on 7/5…Rochester NY on 7/6…Johnstown PA on 7/8…and Mayville NY on 7/9!
---NYS Fair News: the fair has confirmed both Southern Rockers, the Marshall Tucker Band for Tuesday August 29th @ 2pm FREE on The Court…and 80’s pop singer, Taylor Dayne, Wednesday August 30th FREE on The Court @ 2pm! Take an umbrella and sunscreen, just in case and enjoy!
---Peter Cetera of Chicago fame is set to play College Misericordia in Dallas PA (just north of wilkes-barre pa) as part of a ten-date tour…he’ll also play one more date in our regional coverage area…Lincoln RI on 6/30!
---The Melvins and Spotlights have announced a huge tour that will come into our area at least a few times, including a few stops in our local area…Syracuse NY at The Westcott Theatre on 8/1…and regional stops in…Pittsburgh PA on on 7/31…Boston MA on 8/2…NYC on 8/3…Philadelphia PA on 8/4…Asbury Park NJ on 8/5…Baltimore MD on 8/6!
---Staten Island native and
---Robin &
Linda Williams and Garrison
Keillor coming to the State
Theatre in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Fall Out Boy are booking for Fall 2017 with a 20-date trek across the country and five shows in our greater region…Toronto ON on 10/25…Boston MA on 10/27…Brooklyn NY on 10/28…Philadelphia PA on 10/29…and Fairfax (washington dc) VA on 10/29!
---Sammy
Hagar (the red rocker) and
the Circle have announced a small tour that will bring them into our
greater region, beginning in June with two shows at the Niagara
Fallsview Casino in
---Disney channel pop star, Sabrina Carpenter is taking her singing career on the road in a major way with a 32-date tour across America, including…Pittsburgh PA on 8/16…Hershey PA on 8/19…Boston MA on 8/20…Montclair NJ on 8/22…Timonium MD on 8/26…and Toronto ON on 8/27!
---The Cult will take an abbreviated 17-date tour this Spring, before they join The Who in South America, and five of these spring dates will be in our greater region…Baltimore MD on 5/3…Atlantic City NJ on 5/6…New Haven CT on 5/7…New Bedford MA on 5/9…and Brooklyn NY on 5/10!
---The Parliament-Funkadelic fanbase has gotta be happy…George Clinton & P-Funk have announced their Summer 2017 touring schedule and they’ll have plenty of stops within our greater region, including…Ardmore PA on 6/8…Rochester NY on 6/9…Beverly MA on 6/10…Queens Village NY on 6/11…State College PA on 6/23…and Hamden CT on 7/7!
---Fleetwood Mac may be only appearing at the Classic West/ Classic East concerts this year, but Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie will an extra 14 dates as a duo! The even have an album coming out on 6/9! See the pair at least four times in our greater region…Vienna VA on 6/26…Boston MA on 6/28…Philadelphia PA on 6/30…and Toronto ON on 7/5! Since there are not shows planned for either NYC or LA one wonders if some of their new songs will also be addressed during the Class West/ Classic East shows? If not more dates may be added.
---Hip hop star, Lil Uzi Vert has announced a huge Summer tour with stops within our regional area…Rochester NY on 5/13…Washington PA on 6/10…Wallingford CT on 6/11…two nights in Huntington NY on 6/12 & 6/14…Montclair NJ on 6/13…Clifton Park NY on 6/15…and Montreal QC on 8/5!
---Earth Wind & Fire follow up their appearance at the Classic West/ Classic East festival with an east coast tour with Chic ft. Nile Rodgers and it’s coming into our greater regional area…Philadelphia PA on 8/1…Newark NJ on 8/4…Boston MA on 8/5…NYC on 8/7…Washington DC on 8/9…Pittsburgh PA on 8/10…Buffalo NY on 8/11…and Toronto ON on 8/13!
---Graham Nash, formerly of The Hollies and CSNY, has posted a dozen dates across America, and most of them fall into our coverage region…Norfolk CT on 7/11…Plymouth NH on 7/12…Montclair NJ on 7/14…Truro MA on 7/17…Edgartown MA on 7/18…Lowell MA on 7/21…Port Washington NY on 7/22…Ocean City NJ on 7/24…Gettysburg PA on 7/25…and Schwenksville PA on 8/19!
---There’s another retro that celebrates music from
the 80’s…the Retro America
tour has been announced and includes some vintage pop artists like
---Another alt-swing band, Reel Big Fish, has also announced a major US tour this week and it will impact our regional area no less than eight times…Silver Spring MD on 6/17…Philadelphia PA on 6/20…Westerly RI on 6/21…Hampton NH on 6/22…Hartford CT on 6/24…Asbury Park NJ on 6/25…Huntington NY on 6/27…and Franklinville NY on 6/30! Also on the bill are The Expendables, The Queers and Tunnel Vision!
---Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull are adding another leg on their joint tour, including adding a second night in NYC on 7/1…then an entire new leg that will bring the tour thru Newark NJ on 10/10…Boston MA on 10/12…Philadelphia PA on 10/13…and Toronto ON on 10/14!
---Revered singer/ songwriter/ producer, former
member of Rockpile and solo artist
Nick Lowe has booked a three
night residency at the City
Winery in
---The Roots
Picnic has been confirmed for the Festival Pier in
---Bill Medley is keeping the
Righteous Brothers alive with a new singing partner, Bucky Heard!
Medley and Heard are already playing shows in Vegas, and now
they’re starting to book in the rest of the country, including the
Events Center at The Sands in
---Collective Soul are touring with Our Lady Peace and Tonic, but so far the package tour has only two bookings in our greater region…Baltimore MD on 6/28…and Buffalo NY on 6/29!
---60’s icon Lulu has announced a tiny five-date tour…and amazingly all five shows fall into our region…Pawling NY on 5/28…Sellersville PA on 5/31…Asbury Park NJ on 6/1…Shirley MA on 6/2…and Alexandria VA on 6/3!
---Sevendust has announced a couple (literally) tour stops for 2017…all except a previously announced festival are within our region…Baltimore MD on 6/21…Sayreville NJ on 6/22…and Philadelphia PA on 6/23!
---John Popper of Blues Traveler has announced a few solo dates…Pawling NY on 9/17…Plymouth NH on 9/21…and Beverly MA on 9/22! These dates will come during a month long period where Blues Traveler is off the road.
---Speaking of which,
Blues Traveler also announced dates this week and their new
itinerary includes…
---Mark Lanegan, of Screaming Trees, Mad Season and Queens Of The Stone Age is taking an eleven date trip across the country this summer, including stops in…Washington DC on 8/16…Philadelphia PA on 8/17…NYC on 8/18…and Boston MA on 8/19!
---The Church is open for worship, or at least a good time confirming an eight date tour, but only two in our area…Ardmore PA on 7/7…and Pawling NY on 7/8!
---a few new
Shawn Mullins dates trickle out…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Commander
Cody’s only show in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic?
5/6 in
---Method
Man & Redman add their only show east of the
---Live Nation is putting on a one-day festival on
5/2 at
---The National have booked a one-off in Queens NY at Forest Hills Stadium on 10/6!
---OMG!
Lee Rocker, formerly of the
Stray Cats has booked a one-off in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Rik
Emmett (formerly of Triumph) adds NYC on 9/7…and
---Steve
Forbert adds
---Gary
Lewis & the Playboys add
---The
Johnny Winter All-Star Band ft. Paul Nelson adds
---Feist adds a third night in NYC on 6/12!
---Billy Joel adds his 45th show at MSG in NYC on 9/30!
---Don
McLean adds
---A.J.
Croce (jim’s son) adds
---Oleta
Adams adds
---Beach
Boys add Cohasset MA on 8/11…
---Gorillaz added NYC on 4/25! Hope you didn’t miss it.
---
---Sting
adds Lenox MA on 8/29…and
---Diana Ross adds Lenox MA on 8/30!
---Firefall
adds
---The
Smithereens add
---Moreland & Arbuckle finally add some dates in our area…Concord NH on 6/4…New Bedford MA on 6/6…Tarrytown NY on 6/7…and Stamford CT on 6/18!
---Rick
Derringer adds
---
---Robert Cray adds NYC on 6/9!
---The
Zombies ft. Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent add
---Needtobreathe
add Centre Hall PA on 7/21…
---The touring version of
The Wailers add
---The
Fabulous Thunderbirds ft. Kim Wilson adds
---Badfinger
ft. Joey Molland (…and local drummer Mike Ricciardi)…also adds
---The Devon
Allman Band also adds
---Surf music legend,
Dick Dale adds
---Jimmy
Vaughan adds
---Pierce
The Veil moves their show in
---Old Crow Medicine Show adds Sunbury PA on 8/26!
---Right wing fanatic (a hell of a guitar player,
but be prepared for a politically charged show and crowd)
Ted Nugent adds
---Cracker
adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---A.J. Croce (1)
---
---Badfinger
---Beach Boys (6)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Blues Traveler (3)
---Collective Soul/ Our Lady Peace/ Tonic (2)
---Commander Cody (1)
---Cracker (1)
---Dark Star Orchestra (10)
---
---Diana Ross (1)
---Don McLean (3)
---Earth Wind & Fire/ Chic (8)
---Enrique Iglesias/ Pitbull (5)
---Fall Out Boy (5)
---Feist (1)
---Firefall (1)
---Gary Lewis & the Playboys (1)
---
---George Clinton & P-Funk (5)
---Get The Led Out (10)
---Gorillaz (1)
---Graham Nash (10)
---Jimmy Vaughan (1)
---John Popper (3)
---Johnny Winter All-Star Band
---Lee Rocker (1)
---Lil Uzi Vert (8)
---Lindsey Buckingham/ Christine McVie (4)
---Lulu (5)
---Mark Lanegan (4)
---Moreland & Arbuckle (4)
---Needtobreathe (6)
---Nick Lowe (4)
---Old Crow Medicine Show (1)
---Oleta Adams (2)
---Pierce The Veil (1)
---Peter Cetera (2)
---Reel Big Fish/ The Queers/ The Expendables/ Tunnel Vision (8)
---Retro
---Rick Derringer (1)
---Rik Emmett (2)
---Robert Cray Band (1)
---Robin & Linda Williams/ Garrison Keillor (1)
---Sabrina Carpenter (6)
---Sammy Hagar & The Circle (2)
---Sevendust (3)
---Shawn Mullins (2)
---Steve Forbert (1)
---Sting (2)
---Ted Nugent (1)
---The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (9)
---The Church (2)
---The Cult (5)
---The National (1)
---The Fabulous Thunderbirds
---The Righteous Brothers w/ Bill Medley and Bucky Heard (3)
---The Smithereens (1)
---The Wailers (1)
---The Zombies (5)
---Tim Reynolds & TR3 (5)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 042217:
[note: this weeks report is slightly shorter due to Spring Break.]
---In a heavy metal, mega-coup for Big Flats, NY…Megadeth
will kick off their North American tour at
Tags on Friday June 23rd
with a deep four act bill, including…Meshuggah, Tesseract and
Lillake! The tour will
also hit some other major cities across the northeast and Mid-Atlantic…
---Dates for the annual four-day long
Grassroots Festival in nearby
---The line-up for this years
moe.down xvi has been announced!
The primary line-up will include
moe., Blackberry Smoke, Fishbone,
Railroad Earth, Ryan Montbleau, Twiddle and
Al and the TransAmericans.
The secondary line-up features
Floodwood, Hayley Jane and the
Primates, Kung Fu, Mike Dillon Band
---Johnson City’s
Fred Coury, who became
nationally famous during his tenure in Cinderella back in the late 80’s
and early 90’s…is one of the guest drummers filling for Kelly Keagy of
Night Ranger as recovers from heart surgery!
He made an appearance with the band last week in
---Congrats to
Zarni de Wet and her hubby,
Evan, who just bought a house in suburban
---At our publishing deadline came word of a fatal
shooting at what is being called
an after hours club, but what actually appears to be a house party, on
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Diana
Ross has announced an ambitious 2017 touring schedule, beginning
next week with a six-night stand in NYC at the
---Damon Albarn’s (of Blur) animated modern rock group, Gorillaz is taking their new album, Humanz (due on 4/28) out on the road this summer with stops in our greater region including…Toronto ON on 7/10…Boston MA on 7/12…Philadelphia PA on 7/13…and Columbia MD on 7/17!
---B.o.B. has confirmed a huge American tour that will put him on the road from early June thru mid-July, but far too few stops in the northeast…Pittsburgh PA on 6/10…Amityville NY on 6/11…NYC on 6/12!
---Arlo Guthrie has announced a new leg of tour dates that will take him into August 2017…Fairfield CT on 6/17…Bethlehem PA on 7/23…Truro MA on 7/27…Woonsocket RI on 7/29…and Lancaster PA on 7/5!
---Hellyeah has added a Summer leg to their 2017 tour that includes a few dates in our greater region…Niagara Falls NY on 7/21…Stroudsburg PA on 7/22…Poughkeepsie NY on 7/25…and NYC on 7/26! Avatar will open!
---R, Kelly
has announced a ten-date tour that smaller styled venues in suburban
areas…
---Bleachers
have announced a small tour in support of their second album, “Gone Now,” due in stores
on 6/2! See them in…
---Aaron Lewis, of Staind, continues to dumb down his modern metal message with his solo country tour which announced a new round of dates this week, including…Bethlehem PA on 5/26…Atlantic City NJ on 5/27…and Hampton Beach NH on 7/20!
---Particle has booked a two shot stop in NYC at The Cutting Room on 7/21 & 7/22!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Dan
Auerbach of The Black Keys has booked a one-shot show for
---Donnie
Iris & the Cruisers come out of retirement for a one-off in their
hometown,
---The Flaming Lips just announced tour dates for Fall of 2017 with Mac DeMarco, but only one is anywhere near us…Niagara Falls NY on 9/20 at Rapids Theatre!
---Buffy Sainte-Marie adds NYC on 7/9!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---BoDeans
add
---Twiztid
adds
---Big Head
Todd & the Monsters add
---Booker T.
Jones (of Booker T. & the M.G.’s) adds
---Drive-By
Truckers add
---Steve
Forbert adds
---Johnny
Winter’s All Star Band ft. Paul Nelson adds
---Big Bad Voodoo Daddy adds Warrendale PA on 6/28!
---Sonny
Landreth adds
---Mavis Staples adds NYC on 6/3!
---The Isley
Brothers add
---Missio
adds
---Devon
Allman Band adds
---
---Jefferson
Starship adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Aaron Lewis (3)
---Arlo Guthrie (5)
---Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (1)
---Big Head Todd & the Monsters (1)
---Bleachers (3)
---B.o.B. (3)
---BoDeans (1)
---Booker T. Jones (1)
---Buffy Sainte-Marie (1)
---Dan Auerbach (1)
---
---Diana Ross (9)
---Donnie Iris & the Cruisers (1)
---Drive-By Truckers (1)
---Hellyeah/ Avatar (4)
---
---Johnny Winter All-Star Band
---
---Mavis Staples (1)
---Megadeth/ Meshuggah/ Tesseract/ Lillake (5)
---Missio (1)
---Particle (2)
---R. Kelly (6)
---Sonny Landreth (1)
---Steve Forbert (1)
---The Isley Brothers (1)
---The Flaming Lips/ Mac DeMarco (1)
---Twiztid/ G-Mo Skee/ Young Wicked/ Gorilla Voltage (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 041517:
---Local nationally touring folk-rockers, Driftwood expanded their upcoming regional tour to include some Summer dates, including one with local impact…they’ll play The Haunt in Ithaca NY on 4/29, as well as…Vienna VA on 7/13…plus other shows that will take them further into Virginia and West Virginia and outside of our regional area…Mount Salon VA on 7/14…and Thomas WV on 7/15!
---Add Alvin
Youngblood Hart to the roster of musicians performing at the
Chenango Blues Festival at
the Chenango County Fairgrounds in
---. 38
Special has announced Summer tour dates that include a local stop at
Tioga Downs in
---Add The
Shins to the growing list of artists playing the
Brewery Ommegang in
---On top of the X Ambassadors curated Cayuga Sound Festival on Friday (9/22) and Saturday (9/23), which has so far confirmed the X Ambassadors themselves on night #1…with k.flay and Margaret Glaspy for night #2, so far (other bands like The Roots are yet to be scheduled)…the festival has also sanctioned at least two official “After-Parties” for the first night of the fest…at both The Dock and The Haunt! No word yet who will be playing at these After Parties, but we’ll keep an eye open to finding out.
---Marco Benevento has announced both regional and local shows in our greater region, including…Wilkes-Barre PA, at the River Street Jazz Café, on 6/16…Interlaken NY at Americana Vineyards Wineyard on 6/17…Cambridge MA on 9/15…Philadelphia PA on 10/20…and Washington DC on 10/21!
---Finally starting to see musicians and bands
assigned to their specific nights at the
Peach Festival…so far,
The Hip Abduction and
Gov’t Mule have been put on
night #1 (8/10), My Morning
Jacket and The Magpie Salute
on night #2 (8/11), Widespread
Panic on night #3 (8/12) and both
Widespread Panic and
Joe Bonamassa on night #4
(8/13)! Expect more
announcements to come!
The Peach is the annual festival curated by the Allman Brothers Band
at
---Willie
Nelson’s “Outlaw Music Festival” is coming to the
Lakeview Amphitheatre in
---Rising Alternative band, Lake Street Dive, will play at the Beak & Skiff in La Fayette NY (near Syracuse) on Tuesday 6/6 and they’ve announced some other new dates as well…Bethlehem PA on 6/13…Shelburne VT on 6/16…Gettysburg PA on 7/11…and Port Chester NY on 7/29!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Lots of Yes news this past week, all from the aftermath of the iconic prog-rock bands induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame…ARW, has changed their name to Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman plus they’ve announced additional dates…in Port Chester NY on 9/21…and Albany NY on 10/5!
---Kansas has announced a new series of concert dates that will keep them on the road thru December and include a few more dates within our region…Atlantic City NJ on 5/26…Bethlehem PA on 5/27…and Waterloo NY on 5/28!
---DNCE
has announced an eight date tour that impacts our greater region, with
some last minute dates in our region…
---Cracker who already had an abbreviated six-show schedule announce another six shows this week…four of which fall into our greater region…Sellersville PA on 6/6…Fairfield CT on 6/7…Harrisburg PA on 6/9…and Vienna VA on 6/13!
---Blue October have confirmed their 2017 North American tour and posted a massive amount of dates (36) that take the band from late April thru the end of August with several stops in our region, including…Rochester NY on 6/7…Niagara Falls NY on 6/8…and NYC on 6/9, but expect more shows to be added as several key markets have still not been announced!
---Parkway
Drive are picking up some US dates following their European tour,
this month! See them in…
---The Dead Daisies (featuring John Corabi of motley crue and Doug Aldrich of Whitesnake and Dio) have booked some regional stops for their 2017 tour that includes…Toronto ON on 8/12…Asbury Park NJ on 8/16…NYC on 8/17…Baltimore MD on 8/18!
---Donavon Frankenreiter will be spending a lot of time in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this Summer, with more than a dozen stops within our greater region…two nights in Wildwood NJ on 8/2 & 8/3…Ardmore PA on 8/4…Amanagansett NY on 8/7…NYC on 8/9…Fairfield CT on 8/10…Killington VT on 8/12…Nantucket MA on 8/13…two nights in Wellfleet MA on 8/14 & 8/15…Brooklyn NY on 8/16…Salisbury MA on 8/17…Asbury Park NJ on 8/18…North Stonington CT on 8/20…Dewey Beach DE on 8/21…and Washington DC on 8/24!
---Aimee Mann has added a second leg that will bring her back to our region on her 2017 tour, so if you missed her in April, check her out in June on…South Orange NJ on 6/19…Port Washington NY on 6/20…Alexandria VA on 6/23…Tarrytown NY on 6/24…Westhampton Beach NY on 6/25…Providence RI on 6/29…and Portsmouth NH on 6/30!
---Rock instrumentalist, Eric Johnson is expanding his late Spring tour for 2017, including…Cohoes NY on 5/22…Rochester NY on 5/23…Montreal QC on 5/26…State College PA on 5/30…Sellersville PA on 6/5…and Alexandria VA on 6/6!
---The
Struts have finally added a weeklong run of shows that are not tied
to any festivals! See them
in…
---Kurt Vile has announced a tiny late Spring/ early Summer tour with only a handful of dates total…just a few in our region…Portsmouth NH on 6/21…Providence RI on 6/22…and Rockville Centre NY on 6/23!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---John Oates, of Hall & Oates, has booked a one-off at The Cutting Room in NYC on 4/19!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Brian
Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot! adds
---Los Lobos
are added to the
---Christopher
Cross adds
---The ”I
Love The 90’s Tour” adds
---Saving
Abel adds
---Grand
Funk Railroad adds
---Don
Felder, formerly of the Eagles (who is touring with REO Speedwagon
and Styx) adds a solo show in
---Speaking of
Gov’t Mule, they’ve added
---Buddy Guy
adds
---Slick
Rick adds
---Richie
Kotzen adds
---Ja Rule adds Stroudsburg PA on 7/20!
---Three Dog
Night adds
---Big Head
Todd & the Monsters add Jay VT on 7/15…
---Micky
Dolenz of The Monkees adds
---Rik
Emmett, formerly of Triumph, adds Sellersville PA on 6/9…
---Simple
Plan adds Saint Catherines ON on 9/15…
---French duo,
Air adds
---Sickness forced
The Zombies to cancel three
shows in
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---.38 Special (3)
---Aimee Mann (7)
---Air (2)
---Big Head Todd & the Monsters (3)
---Blue October (3)
---Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot! (1)
---Buddy Guy (1)
---Christopher Cross (1)
---Cracker (4)
---DNCE (4)
---Don Felder (1)
---Donavon Frankenreiter (16)
---Driftwood (2)
---Eric Johnson (6)
---Gov’t Mule (2)
---Grand Funk Railroad (2)
---I Love The 90’s Tour (1)
---Ja Rule (1)
---John Oates (1)
---
---Kurt Vile (3)
---
---Marco Benevento (4)
---Micky Dolenz (3)
---Parkway Drive (4)
---Richie Kotzen (1)
---Rik Emmett (3)
---Saving Abel (1)
---Simple Plan (3)
---Slick Rick (1)
---The Dead Daisies (4)
---The Struts (3)
---Three Dog Night (4)
---Three Dog Night/
---Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 040817:
---Next To
Kin’s debut album seems to officially be called “Kin-dergarten”
according to recent facebook posts.
The band have already booked a CD release party on 5/5 at the
Ransom Steele Tavern in
---M.E. grad and sister to local singing star Ayana
D, Taina Asili (who now lives
in the
April 8 - Camaradas El Barrio, New York, NY
April 21 - SUNY Cortland,
Cortland, NY
April 21 - Atomic Tom’s,
Binghamton, NY
April 28 - SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY
April 29 - Mass College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
May 5 - Break The Chains, Boston, MA
May 6 - Columbus Theater, Providence, RI
June 3 - The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY
June 10 - Black & Latino Pride Fest, Albany, NY
Asili is still enjoying the afterglow of some positive coverage of her recent protest anthem on the Rolling Stone magazine website! If you missed the coverage here’s the link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/hear-taina-asilis-anti-trump-song-no-es-mi-presidente-w470953
---Bright Eyes mastermind,
Conor Oberst is expanding his solo tour beyond the end of July and
one of the new dates on his itinerary is the
State Theatre in
---Famed blues guitarist,
Joe Bonamassa is coming to nearby
---Foster
The People (remember “Pumped Up Kicks”?) are coming to The
Ommegang Brewery in
---Bryan Adams is coming to the Mohegan Sun Arena @ Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre PA on 6/13…he’s added a few other shows as well…Philadelphia PA on 6/10…Baltimore MD on 6/11!
---Two more big names have been added to the Mountain Jam line-up for 2017! Gary Clark Jr. will play two nights, Friday 6/16 and Saturday 6/17! Clark has also added 14 other shows to his itinerary, including three region stops…Toronto ON on 6/13…Hampton Beach VT on 8/25…and Asbury Park NJ on 8/26!
---Rising modern rockers, The Revivalists have also been added to night #1! The three day, two-night annual festival is set for Friday June 16th thru Sunday 6/18 at the Hunter Mountain Ski Resort in Hunter NY!
---The Great
Blue Heron Music Festival is now scheduling artists for it’s 2017
festival, set for
---Did anyone else see Black Apple Currents, Victor Lay on the John Burns Real Estate show this weekend? Lay was conducting a showing of some of his artwork. Well done btw! If you missed it, the segment was posted to YouTube! Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1N0-pOoBh0&feature=share
---The New
York State Fair in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---On the eve of their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Yes have announced a nearly 20 date North American tour, mostly with fellow prog-rocker, Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy and Todd Rundgren, and they’ll play plenty of dates within our greater region…Baltimore MD on 8/7…Upper Darby PA on 8/8…Mashantucket CT on 8/10…Brooklyn NY on 8/11…Holmdel NJ on 8/12…Greensburg PA on 8/16…and a solo show in Niagara Falls NY on 10/7! Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy will also play a solo show on an off-night following the tour on 10/8!
---Revered 70’s punk-rockers, X, return for a 15-date jaunt across the country…Buffalo NY on 9/17…Boston MA on 9/20…NYC on 9/21…Philadelphia PA on 9/22…Falls Church VA on 9/23…and Pittsburgh PA on 9/25!
---Kiss, who are playing Europe starting next month, may be coming back to America later on this year after booking a few dates this week…and one in our region…Niagara Falls NY on 8/19! Cross your fingers, because we could get more!
---Feist returns in 2017 with a 28-date world that will visit our greater region at least a few times…Toronto ON on 4/27…two nights in Cambridge MA on 6/1 & 6/2…Toronto ON on 6/4…Washington DC on 6/7…and two nights in NYC on 6/10 & 6/11!
---Former Mott The Hoople singer, Ian Hunter has launched a 12-date Spring tour that features a lot of shows in our region…Bay Shore NY on 5/6…New Hope PA on 5/7…Warrendale PA on 5/17…Asbury Park NJ on 5/19…Fairfield CT on 5/20…Norfolk CT on 6/2…and two nights in NYC on 6/3 & 6/4!
---Otep has booked a late Spring tour and it is set to impact our region starting in June…Easton PA on 6/9…Falls Church VA on 6/10…Baltimore MD on 6/11…NYC on 6/12…Amityville NY on 6/13…Stanhope NJ on 6/14…New Haven CT on 6/15…Rochester NY on 6/16…and the previously announced date in Pittsburgh PA on 6/20!
---Reggae singer, Maxi-Priest, has announced a small ten-date leg on his 2017 tour that includes…Washington DC on 8/9…NYC on 8/10…Woodstock NY on 8/11…and Wellfleet MA on 8/16!
---Blues musician
Jim Lauderdale will take to
the road in late Spring/ early Summer, including…
---The Charlie Daniels Band is coming back around this summer, as they expand their Spring tour into the Summer…Plattsburgh NY on 7/19…Lowville NY on 721…Jim Thorpe PA on 9/22…and Amesbury MA on 9/23!
---Violent Femmes with Echo & the Bunnymen will play an 18-date Summer tour that includes stops in…Philadelphia PA on 7/11…Brooklyln NY on 7/12…Asbury Park NJ on 7/14…Boston MA on 7/15…and Pittsburgh PA on 717!
---Alternative band, Jr. Jr. (formerly Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.) have announced a seven-date mini-tour that includes a few regional stops…NYC on 5/5…and New Paltz NY on 5/6!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Ok, here’s the strangest one-shot show I’ve had
in awhile…a Violent Femmes cover band (apparently) called the
Violin Femmes ft. the Bella Electric Strings and also on the bill,
R&B stars Guy, En Vogue and
SWV…and they’re playing at
the Seneca Niagara Resort in
---Paul
Revere’s Raiders will play what is so far a one-shot in
---Bleacher’s will play a one-off on 4/25 in NYC at The Studio @ Webster Hall!
---Colin Hay
plays an apparent one-off in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Marshall
Crenshaw adds
---Diana
Krall adds
---Fastball
adds
---The
Strumbella’s add
---Brian
McKnight adds
---Skid Row
adds NYC on 11/8…and
---Air Supply adds Mount Pocono PA on 4/8…and Lynn MA on 8/18!
---Meat
Puppets add
---Yngwie
Malmsteen adds
---Diana
Ross adds
---John
Mayall add
---Southside
Johnny & The Asbury Jukes add
---The
Zombies ft. Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent add
---Father
John Misty adds a second night in
---Howard
Jones adds
---Darlene
Love adds
---Big Mean
Sound Machine adds
---Chevelle adds a second night in NYC on 7/12!
---David
Lindley adds
---Former Motley Crue lead singer,
Vince Neil adds onto his solo tour…
---The
Yardbirds have added
---Dragonforce adds NYC on 7/20!
---The
Temptations & The Four Tops
just keep on rolling…
---Toad The
Wet Sprocket add
---Pat
Benatar adds
---The Alarm
adds 5 dates following their stint on the Warped Tour…Wellfleet MA on
7/19…
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Air Supply (2)
---Big Mean Sound Machine (1)
---Brian McKnight (2)
---Bryan Adams (3)
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy (1)
---Charlie Daniels Band (4)
---Chevelle/ Dinosaur Pile-Up (1)
---Colin Hay (1)
---Conor Oberst (10)
---Darlene Love (1)
---David Lindley (2)
---Diana Krall (1)
---Diana Ross (1)
---Dragonforce (1)
---Fastball (1)
---Father John Misty (6)
---Feist (7)
---Foster The People (5)
---Gary Clark Jr. (3)
---Great Blue Heron Music Festival (3)
---Howard Jones (4)
---Ian Hunter (8)
---Jim Lauderdale (4)
---Joe Bonamassa (9)
---John Mayall (3)
---Jr. Jr. (1)
---Kiss (1)
---Marshall Crenshaw (1)
---Maxi-Priest (4)
---Meat Puppets (1)
---Otep (8)
---Pat Benatar (1)
---Paul Revere Raider’s (1)
---Skid Row (2)
---Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (3)
---The Alarm (5)
---The Strumbella’s (1)
---The Temptations/ The Four Tops (1)
---The Yardbirds (2)
---Toad The Wet Sprocket (1)
---Vince Neil (2)
---Violin Femmes
---Violent Femmes/ Echo & te Bunnymen (5)
---X (6)
---Yes (1)
---Yes/ Todd Rundgren/ Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy (7)
---Yngwie Malmsteen (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 040117:
---X-Ambassadors
are giving back to their native city!
The band that is 75% made up of
---Ithaca’s Big Mean Sound Machine have announced the release date for their new album with a facebook post: “Our new album, “Runnin' for the Ghost,” drops Friday April 7th on Peace & Rhythm and Blank Slate Records! Pre-Order your copy at the links below today! All pre-orders receive an instant download of the first single "Seeing the Bigger Picture" and a digital copy of the album on release day.
➲ iTunes: http://bit.ly/RunninfortheGhost
➲ Amazon: http://amzn.to/2o9J6QT
➲ Google Play: http://bit.ly/2oqpdV6
➲ Big Mean Store (CD / Vinyl / Merch): http://bit.ly/BigMeanStore
---Just heard that Nick D’Virgilio is rejoining Spocks Beard for their next album…not sure what that means for his project The Fringe, his project with local guitar wizard, Randy McStine…The Fringe just played on the recent “Cruise To The Edge” where also played with Spocks Beard! There’s even a picture of the performance posted on McStine’s facebook page! Here’s a link for that: #theta360
Reaching out to McStine he stated that D’Virgilio’s reunion with Spocks Beard shouldn’t effect The Fringe, “We have written some new material in various stages, so it's a matter of seeing what we have and proceeding from there.” As most McStine fans know, the singer/ guitarist/ songwriter also released a solo album recently called, “Blank,” which you can hear here: https://randymcstine.bandcamp.com/album/blank
---A sure sign of Summer?
The return of Cans & Clams
at the downtown Holiday Inn
in
---matchbox twenty and Counting Crows are coming to the Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 9/9 and some other regional cities, including…Saratoga Springs NY on 8/25…Camden NJ on 8/26…Hershey PA on 8/28…Holmdel NJ on 8/29…Wantagh NY on 8/31…Hartford CT on 9/2…Washington DC on 9/3…Toronto ON on 9/6…Boston MA on 9/8…Darien Center NY on 9/11…and Pittsburgh PA on 9/12!
---It was announced on Tuesday (3/28) that 3 Doors Down will play the opening day of the new 13-day long NYS Fair in Syracuse on Wednesday August @ 8pm! The performance will be free on The Court! The NYS Fair used to be 12 days long, opening on a Thursday and closing on Labor Day! Starting this year the fair will open on a Wednesday and be 13-days long!
---Dates for the 2017
moe.down have been set for
Friday 6/30 thru Sunday 7/2 at the
Snow Ridge Ski Resort in
---Already rumors are swirling in Watkins Glen NY that Phish will return to the International Raceway for a festival-styled event this summer! Cross your fingers!
---Congrats to
Jeff Howell, who landed a
couple of sweet gigs playing bass with Johnny Winter’s guitarist,
Paul Nelson and his band!
Both shows take place in New England…in
---Professional singer/ songwriter,
Zarni de Wet, was back in her old stomping grounds last week as she
went back to
---Looks like the Foghat date set for Tags maybe in Big Flats NY on 6/2 may be part of a larger show, including George Thorogood and Molly Hatchet! Details coming…
---Condolences to local musician, Chad Dean, who lost his 93-year-old Grandmother on 3/22. Keeping the entire Dean family in our thoughts as they mourn.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Art of Anarchy, the rock supergroup formerly fronted by the late Scott Weiland, and now featuring Scott Stapp of Creed, is taking to the road, but they’ve only announced four dates…three of which are in the Midwest, and one in our greater region…Amityville NY on Long Island at the Revolution Bar & Music Hall on Monday 4/3! I know, that’s a quick turnaround right? Get there if you can.
---Hank
Williams Jr. is touring in 2017, and aside from some solo leading
dates up to July 4th…the rest of his summer schedule will be
warming up for Lynyrd Skynyrd! That’s
right Skynyrd and
Hank together! Southern
rockers are totally drooling over this, as well they should!
Dates inside of our greater region, so far include…
---Apocalyptica
are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album
with a small 22-date tour across
---R&B Singer, Maxwell has finally confirmed his tour dates and he’ll play at least four shows on his 18-date tour in our greater region…Atlantic City NJ on 5/28…Newark NJ on 6/8…Mashantucket CT on 6/9…and Uniondale NY on 6/10!
---Former Eagles drummer and singer, Don Henley has announced some late Spring/ early Summer dates, only eight, but half of them are within a days drive…Boston MA on 6/6…Washington DC on 6/8…Bethlehem PA on 6/10…and Toronto ON on 6/13!
---LCD Soundsystem have confirmed a five night residency at Brooklyn Steel in NYC for next week! The five-night stand begins on April 6th and continues on 4/7, 4/8…takes a night off and then comes back for two more on 4/10 and 4/11!
---The Doors famed lead guitarist, Robby Kreiger, is going on a Spring solo tour that will bring him to fans in…Shirley MA on 4/19…Greensburg PA on 4/21…Newton NJ on 4/22…and Ardmore PA on 4/23, and that’s in addition to the earlier leaked…NYC on 4/16!
---The
---Beloved southern rockers, The Outlaws, have announced Spring and Summer dates for 2017 and they’ll be spending a lot of time in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast…Red Bank NJ on 4/20…Jim Thorpe PA, with the Atlanta Rhythm Section, on 4/21…Irwin PA on 4/22…Columbia MD on 4/30…Augusta NJ on 6/25…Norfolk CT on 6/30…Clearfield PA on 8/4…and Peekskill NY on 8/12!
---Enrique Iglesias & Pitbull hit the road together in June to support Pitbull’s new album, “Climate Change,” and they’ll be in our greater region for a few stops…NYC on 6/30…Montreal QC on 7/5…and Toronto ON on 7/6!
---Reknowned guitarist, Yngwie Malmsteen has announced Spring 2017 tour dates…the famed, former Alcatraz guitarist, will play…Sayreville NJ on 5/5…Falls Church VA on 5/6…NYC on 5/10…Newton NJ on 5/11…Greensburg PA on 5/12…Poughkeepsie NY on 5/13…Hartford CT on 5/14…and Montreal QC on 5/16!
---Phoenix has announced the rest of their tour, after initially announcing their appearance at the Governor’s Ball festival in NYC on 6/3…you can also see them in Philadelphia PA on 6/2…and Toronto ON on 6/4!
---Bela
Fleck & the Flectones have announced just a very few new shows for
2017 with Chick Corea
warming-up…
---Eric
Johnson has announced a new set of dates!
Check out the rock instrumentalist at…
---The subject of the documentary, “Searching For
Sugarman,” Rodriguez, the
Hispanic guitarist who was supposed to be the next Bob Dylan, is back on
the road this fall! It’s
nice to see him cashing in, even a little bit, on his renewed
popularity! New dates
include…Munhall PA on 9/13…
---Old 97’s have announced a second set of Spring dates, bolstering a meager schedule that was previously booked…new dates include, Northampton MA on 5/1…Philadelphia PA on 5/2…Asbury Park NJ on 5/3…NYC on 5/6…York PA on 5/7…and Dewey Beach DE on 6/18!
---Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band will tour again in 2017, but so far just a few dates for us…Morristown NJ on 11/14…NYC on 11/15…and Newark NJ on 11/16!
---Great line-up for the Bourbon Street Blues Fest
in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Barry Manilow will headline the Concert For America at the Town Hall in NYC on 4/18! Also on the bill, Vanessa Williams, Lisa Lampanelli and LaChanze!
---Otep
has booked a one-off festival style show in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Saving
Abel adds
---
---Huey Lewis & the News adds Red Bank NJ on 6/23…and Webster MA on 6/24!
---Billy Joel adds MSG Residency show #44 for 8/21!
---Weezer
has been added to the Firefly fest in
---Ed Sheeran is sure cashing in…adding second nights in Toronto ON on 7/8…Philadelphia PA on 7/12…Washington DC on 9/20…Boston MA on 9/23…and a third night in NYC on 10/1!
---Don
McLean adds
---Finally at the end of his long world tour, Sting comes back to America for a few dates…Bethel NY on 9/1…Boston MA on 9/2…and Atlantic City NJ on 9/3!
---Shinedown
adds
---Santana
adds
---Jack
Russell’s Great White adds
---Melissa
Etheridge adds
---All That
Remains adds
---Wilco
adds
---Robert
Cray Band adds two shows to a very limited schedule…
---Toad The Wet Sprocket adds Glenside PA, so far their only show in our greater region in 2017 and one of only two shows overall, on 7/22!
---
---Tegan And Sara add NYC on 6/24!
---Oleta
Adams adds NYC on 11/3…and
---Mr. Big
adds
---Ian
Anderson adds Red Bank NJ on 11/1…
---Shawn
Mendes adds
---The
Fabulous Thunderbirds ft. Kim Wilson add
---Edwin McCain adds NYC on 6/9!
----The
Revivalists add
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---All That Remains (3)
---
---Apocalyptica (5)
---Art Of Anarchy (1)
---Barry Manilow/ Vanessa Williams/ Lisa Lampanelli/ LaChanze (1)
---Bela Fleck & the Flecktones/ Chick Corea (2)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Don Henley (4)
---Don McLean (2)
---Ed Sheeran (5)
---Edwin McCain (1)
---Enrique Iglesias/ Pitbull (3)
---Eric Johnson (6)
---Huey Lewis & The News (2)
---Ian Anderson (3)
---Jack Russell’s Great White (2)
---Kenny Wayne Shepherd (1)
---
---Lynyrd Skynyrd/ Hank Williams Jr. (2)
---matchbox twenty/ Counting Crows (12)
---Maxwell (4)
---Melissa Etheridge (4)
---Miss May I/ Upon A Burning Body/ Kublai Khan/ Currents (11)
---moe.down (3)
---Mr. Big (3)
---Old 97’s (6)
---Oleta Adams (2)
---Otep/ The Convalescence/ The World Over (3)
---
---Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (3)
---Robby Krieger (5)
---Robert Cray (1)
---Robert Cray Band (2)
---Rodriguez (4)
---Santana (2)
---Saving Abel (2)
---Shawn Mendes (2)
---Shinedown (1)
---Steely Dan/
---Sting (3)
---Tegan And Sara (1)
---The Fabulous Thunderbirds ft. Kim Wilson (2)
---The Outlaws (8)
---The Revivalists (6)
---Toad The Wet Sprocket (1)
---Weezer (1)
---Wilco (1)
---Yngwie Malmsteen (8)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 032517:
---There was no warning, just a sign posted on the
door that Zona & Company Grill
were closed and could not accept deliveries.
The downtown
---Congrats to RaiBred, who made the Sweet 16 in NYS Music’s own brand of March Madness! The Battle-of-the-bands style competition has seen the field narrow, with the jam band, the only remaining local band still in the competition! Others include Mister F, Funktional Flow, Folkfaces, Sly Fox & The Hustlers, The Other Brothers, The New Daze, Lord Electro, Teddy Midnight, Intrepid Travelers, Space Carnival, Let’s Be Leonard, Talking Underwater, Annie In The Water, Candy Ambulance, and Ampevene! Follow the competition at http://nysmusic.com/2017/03/16/round-2-of-nys-musics-march-madness
---Next
To Kin is a week away from
their “goal” deadline on KickStarter.com and still hoping for more
support, in light of the fact that they have indeed already met their
funding target! Ryan Cirbass
posted this on facebook about the project: “We
are less than two weeks away from our "goal" deadline! This Next to Kin album
is going to be candy to your ears! Please help us reach our fundraising
goal by using the link below to purchase a copy of our new album (click
the "back this project" button)! I will forever be grateful for your
support!”
https://www.kickstarter.com/…/3…/next-to-kin-makes-an-album…
---Foghat
has booked Tags Summer Stage in Big Flats for Friday 6/2!
The band has already confirmed shows in
---Rising alternative band,
Dawes has added
---Rock and Rolls poet laureate, Bob Dylan is coming to Lakeview Amphitheatre in Syracuse NY on 6/25, and that’s just part of his larger North American tour, which also includes…three nights in Port Chester NY on 6/13, 6/14 and 6/15…Wallingford CT on 6/18…Providence RI on 6/21…Kingston NY on 6/24…Kingston ON on 6/27…Montreal QC on 6/30…and Toronto ON on 7/5!
---One of the last remaining blues legends,
Walter Trout, is coming to
---Frostbit Blue to be getting inducted into the Oswego County Music Hall of Fame on August 13th! The ceremony will be marked by a Frostbit Blue concert as well! For those that don’t know, Frostbit Blue were formed at SUNY Oswego and have remained connected to that town ever since.
---Attention Rusted Root-a-holics, the most traveled band in the world, Rusted Root, has announced a show in Homer NY, near Cortland, on 6/1…as well as some other regional additions…Silver Spring MD on 3/29…East Greenwich RI on 4/27…Asbury Park NJ on 4/28…and Dewey Beach DE on 6/11…they also picked up appearances at the Lilac Festival in Rochester NY on 6/11…and the Southside Arts & Music Festival in Bethlehem PA on 4/29!
---Country crossover artists,
Lady Antebellum and Kelsea
Ballerini will play a small festival at
---Living blues legend,
Taj Mahal is coming to
---The Who will play the Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center (these days referred to as CMAC) in Canandaigua NY on 7/16…and they’ve also announced two other regional dates…Oxon Hill MD (near Washington DC)…and Atlantic City NJ on 7/22!
---The line-up for the Warped Tour has been announced! The annual tours full list of bands will include…After The Burial, Andy Black, Bad Cop/ Bad Cop, Barb Wire Dolls, Being As An Ocean, Blessthefall, Boston Manor, Candiria, CKY, Counterparts, Courage My Love, Creeper, Dance Gavin Dance, Emmure, Farewell Winters, Feeki, Fire From The Gods, Fit For A King, Gwar, Hands Like Houses, Hatebreed, Hawthorne Heights, Hundredth, I Prevail, Jule Vera, Knocked Loose, Memphis May Fire, Microwave, Movements, Neck Deep, New Years Day, Our Last Night, Silent Planet, Sonic Boom Box, Sworn In, Sylar, The Acacia Strain, Adolescents, Alestorm, American Authors, Attila, Bad Omens, Beartooth, Big D & The Kids Table, Futuristic, Municipal Waste, Sammy Adams, Save Ferris, Separations, Sick Of It All, Stick To Your Guns, Street Dogs, The Alarm, The Ataris, Watsky, The Gospel Youth, The White Noise, Too Close To Touch, Trophy Eyes, Twilight Creeps, War On Women, William Control and Valient Thorr!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The Scorpions and Megadeth have joined forces to bring some heavy metal magic to America in late Summer/ early Fall 2017…Reading PA on 9/14…NYC on 9/16…Toronto ON on 9/22…and a solo show with The Scorpions only in Montreal QC on 9/19! I know that both bands are aging, but that doesn’t stop me from wishing this tour could be longer and more extensive…still happy for what we got!
---Hip Hop superstar, rapper T.I. has booked a 28-date tour for Spring 2017 that includes…Washington DC on 5/4…Baltimore MD on 5/7…NYC on 5/8…Poughkeepsie NY on 5/12…and Providence RI on 5/13!
---Primus and Clutch have teamed-up for a Summer 2017 24-date tour of America, including…Rochester NY on 7/21…Lancaster PA on 7/22…Boston MA on 7/23…Burlington VT on 7/27…Asbury Park NJ on 7/28…Philadelphia PA on 7/29…and Pittsburgh PA on 7/30!
---Olivia Newton-John has booked a 20-date tour that covers America, Canada and the UK…thankfully there are a few stops in our greater region…Morristown NJ on 4/11…Lincoln RI on 4/14…Washington DC on 5/1…and two nights in Niagara Falls ON on 6/1 & 6/2!
---Boz
Scaggs and Michael McDonald
(of the Doobie Brothers) are going out on tour together this summer and
they’ve booked a number of amphitheatre style venues in our greater
region…Lenox MA on 6/30…Cohasset MA on 7/1…Gilford NH on 7/2…Hyannis MA
on 7/7…Atlantic City NJ on 7/8…and Ridgefield CT on 7/9!
Scaggs has also added
some solo shows in our region…
---Mickey Dolenz, drummer and singer for The Monkees has announced solo dates for Spring 2017…three nights in NYC at 54 Below on 3/24, 3/25 and 3/29…Easton MD on 4/20…York PA on 4/21…Sellersville PA on 4/23…and Greece NY on 7/4!
---Brian Setzer, best known for his work with The
Stray Cats and The Brian Setzer Orchestra, is taking his latest project
on the road…Brian Setzer’s
Rockabilly Riot! will play these area’s in our greater region…
---Milky Chance has announced a massive world tour on the eve of the release of their latest album, “Blossom,” which appeared in stores for the first time on 3/17…the band has booked a few dates within the confines of our region…Buffalo NY on 8/9…two nights in Toronto ON on 8/10 & 8/11…then back in Pittsburgh PA on 10/12!
---Taking Back Sunday have announced Summer 2017 tour dates that include our greater region, starting with…NYC on 7/14…Boston MA on 7/16…Pittsburgh PA on 8/16…Utica NY on 8/18…and Buffalo NY on 8/19! Also on the bill are Every Time I Die and All Get Out!
---Alison Moyet, formerly of the pop duo known as Yaz, is touring America in late Summer with shows set for…Washington DC on 9/11…Philadelphia PA on 9/12…Boston MA on 9/13…NYC on 9/15…and Toronto ON on 9/17!
---Every Time I Die is taking a small package tour on the road this Spring…with ’68 and Wage War, coming soon to…Wilmington DE on 4/28…Baltimore MD on 5/8…and Erie PA on 5/9!
---The line-up for
---Iconic musician, Hugh Masekela, has booked dates with Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya that will bring him around to NYC on 4/27, this year…and in 2018, in Brooklyn NY on 4/19…Toronto ON on 4/21…and Washington DC on 4/28! Masekela doesn’t get out much, so if you’re a fan don’t miss these shows!
---O-Town is back on the road for the Summer of 2017, including…Halethorpe MD on 7/20…Ocean City NJ on 7/21…Fall River MA on 7/25…Salisbury MA on 7/26…Laconia NH on 7/28…Wantagh NY on 7/29…and Easton PA on 7/30!
---Up-and-coming alternative band, Bleeker has announced more dates on their Spring tour…South Burlington VT on 4/26…Lancaster PA on 4/29…Rochester NY on 4/30…Somerville MA on 5/1…Buffalo NY on 5/2…Philadelphia PA on 5/6…and Washington DC on 5/7!
---Judah &
The Lion have booked a solo headlining tour following their Summer
stint on the Incubus tour!
Look for them this Fall in…
---Mike Love’s touring version of the Beach Boys has announced a Summer leg to their 2017 tour that includes…Hampton Beach NH on 8/10…and two nights in Ocean City NJ on 8/21 & 8/22…and Ocean City MD on 8/23!
---British punk-rockers, The Buzzcocks, will play only a handful of dates, just two of which are set for our greater region…NYC on 6/9…and Asbury Park NJ on 6/11!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Michelle Branch has announced a one-off on 4/7 in NYC at the Marlin Room in Webster Hall!
---Secondhand Serenade have booked a one-shot show in NYC on 10/11!
---Green
Jelly has booked what appears to be a one-off package style show in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Aaron Carter adds NYC on 4/23!
---Blue
Oyster Cult adds
---Crack The Sky adds Sellersville PA on 5/26!
---Joan Osborne adds Sellersville PA on 5/21!
---Jethro Tull guitarist, Martin Barre adds Sellersville PA on 4/15!
---PnB Rock
adds
---Robert Randolph & the Family Band adds NYC on 4/26!
---Todd
Rundgren adds
---
---3 Doors
Down adds
---Volbeat
adds
---David
Crosby adds
---The
---Hot Tuna adds NYC on 4/14!
---Speaking of…Jorma
Kaukonen (of Hot Tuna) also adds
---Chelsea
Grin adds
---Phish
adds
---Rachel
Sage adds
---Plain
White T’s add
---Pentatonix, who have only booked a meager touring schedule so far this year, finally add some shows in our greater area…Allentown PA on 9/2…and Essex Junction VT on 9/3!
---The
Buckinghams and Herman’s
Hermits w/ Peter Noone add
---Toto has teamed-up with Pat Benatar for a show in NYC on 9/14, that will wrap their Summer tour!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---3 Doors Down (1)
---Aaron Carter (1)
---Alison Moyet (5)
---Beach Boys (4)
---Bleeker/ Beware Of Darkness/ Badflower (7)
---Blue Oyster Cult (2)
---Boz Scaggs (2)
---Boz Scaggs/ Michael McDonald (6)
---Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot! (5)
---Chelsea Grin (2)
---Crack The Sky (1)
---David Crosby (1)
---Dawes (1)
---Every Time I Die/ ‘68/ Wage War (3)
---Green Jelly/ Super Killer Robots/ Aneya Marie/ Inherent Vice (1)
---High Masekela/ Abdullah Ibrahim/ Ekaya (4)
---Joan Osborne (1)
---Jorma Kaukonen (1)
---Judah & The Lion (2)
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---Martin Barre (1)
---Michelle Branch (1)
---Micky Dolenz (7)
---Milky Chance (4)
---O-Town (7)
---Olivia Newton-John (5)
---Pentatonix (2)
---Phish (1)
---Plain White T’s (1)
---PnB Rock (3)
---Primus/ Clutch (7)
---Rachel Sage (1)
---Robert Randolph & the Family Band (1)
---Rusted Root (5)
---Scorpions/ Megadeth (4)
---Secondhand Serenade (1)
---T.I. (5)
---Taj Mahal/ Keb’ Mo’ (6)
---Taking Back Sunday/ Every Time I Die/ All Get Out (5)
---The Buckinghams/ Herman’s Hermits
---The Buzzcocks (2)
---The
---The Roots Picnic (1)
---The Who (3)
---Todd Rundgren (3)
---Toto/ Pat Benatar (1)
---Volbeat (1)
---Walter Trout Band (5)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 031817:
---The
Stephen Stills and Judy
Collins tour have announced that they are coming to the
---More on RaiFest the weekend music festival hosted and curated by local band, RaiBred on May 5th and 6th…it’s totally free, camping too is also free, alcohol is allowed, cans preferred…but little kids (under 13) are discouraged, due to insurance issues I’m sure. Participating bands include: Home Brew, Poward, Astro Collective, The Goodfruits, Ultra Vibe and Honker. For even more RaiFest info click on this link: https://raibred.com/raifest-2017
---The Meat
Puppets, who had the grunge-era hit, “Backwater,” and whose lesser
known songs energized Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged episode…are coming to
---Saliva
will play the Blue Moon Sound
Stage @ En Joie in Endicott on Saturday June 17th @ 6pm
with a loaded local warm-up bill, featuring
Dropclutch, Supermassive and
Hating Amy!
The show is followed by an after party at
DeGennaro’s in Endicott with
---The Tranquil Bar & Bistro in
---Speaking of venues that have gone out of
business, OnTheRoxx, on Upper
Court Street in
---Iconic regional metal band,
The Rods hinted in a recent facebook post that they’d just had a
band meeting and were excited about this years plans.
Perhaps we’re beginning to see why…The Cortland NY three-piece,
whose line-up includes Ronnie James Dio’s cousin,
David “Rock” Feinstein…has
booked a show at the Marketplace
Mall in
---Chemung County said in a recent report filed by the Elmira Star Gazette that they are “optimistic” that they can keep First Arena operating while they “move forward” on a deal to sell the venue. Previously it was reported that the Arena could close after the close of the Elmira Jackals hockey season in April. For more click on this link: http://www.stargazette.com/story/news/local/2017/02/27/chemung-county-optimistic-first-arena-stay-open-elmira/98497096
---The “I Love The 90’s-The Party Continues Tour” is coming to Tags in Big Flats on August 26th! The tour features an impressive bill, including TLC, Mark McGrath (…of Sugar Ray), Rob Base, All-4-One, C&C Music Factory and Snap! The tour will also come to Essex Junction VT on 8/25…Gilford NH on 8/27…Camden NJ on 9/1…Uncasville CT on 9/2…and Vienna VA on 9/3!
---It’s March Madness time…how’s your brackets? For some local bands, it’s a very real question as regional website NYSmusic.com has posted their Fourth Annual NYS Music March Madness style battle-of-the-bands competition! RaiBred Castle Creek, Barroom Philosophers and Big Mean Sound Machine are local/ regional bands who have a stake in the competition, so go to this website and vote for them: http://nysmusic.com/2017/03/13/nys-music-march-madness-2017 and may the best band win!
---The New
York State Fair has confirmed dates for the annual state fair in
---Congrats to former KGB Freezone-In-The-Morning
host, Jim Free, who landed at
WAAL-FM in
---Got a good laugh at McGirks snowstorm offer on Tuesday! While most bars were closed due to the state of emergency brought on my Winter Storm Stella last Tuesday (3/14) The Chenango Bridge NY Irish pub posted this on facebook: “McGirks will be open today we are not encouraging any unnecessary travel, however if you do show up with snowshoes, skis or ice skates on you will get preferential seating.” LOL guys. Nice touch.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Perhaps the Festival of the year was confirmed this week…Classic East (as well as it’s left coast companion Classic West) will play Citi Field in NYC on 7/29 & 7/30 with a line-up that includes some classic rock superstars…The Eagles, Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers on Day #1 (7/29)…and Fleetwood Mac, Journey and Earth Wind & Fire on Day #2 (7/30)! The biggest questions, who will stand-in for the late Glenn Frey? …and will this be The Eagles swan song?
---311 is back and heading out on the highway with Pittsburgh PA on 7/6…Hampton Beach NH on 7/7…Lewiston NY on 7/10…NYC on 7/11…Patchogue NY on 7/14…Asbury Park NJ on 7/15…Boston MA on 7/16…Philadelphia PA on 7/21…Hartford CT on 7/22…and two nights in Silver Spring MD on 7/24 & 7/25! Also on the bill are New Politics and The Skints!
---The North Mississippi Allstars will tour in Spring 2017…the southern rockers, who boast original member, Luther Dickinson, (now a former member of The Black Crowes) among their number with his brother Cody…will be rocking Philadelphia PA on 5/10…NYC on 5/11…Cambridge MA on 5/12…Pawling NY on 5/13…Toronto ON on 5/15…and NYC again in 2018 on 2/3!
---Former Ramones bass player, and one of the last
remaining members of the iconic American punk band,
CJ Ramone will take his
one-off tour date in NYC and expand it into a national tour!
See CJ play Ramones classics and solo songs in…
---My
Morning Jacket have announced Summer 2017 dates, which are strangely
limited to only about a dozen, plus some festival appearances…Shelburne
VT on 7/12…Columbia MD on 7/14…North Adams MA on 8/12…and the previously
announced show in Queens NY on 7/15!
Also the band will play a set at The
Peach Festival at
---Tool are back, but only for ten dates…five of which fall into our greater region…Fairfax VA (Washington dc) on 5/24…Rochester NY on 5/30…Hamilton ON on 5/31…Montreal QC on 6/2…and Pittsburgh PA on 6/5…as well as two festival dates in Allston MA (near Boston) on 5/28…and NYC on 6/4!
---Lucinda Williams is going back on tour ths Spring with a limited schedule including…two nights in Tarrytown NY on 5/4 & 5/5…Collingswood NJ on 5/6…Albany NY on 5/9…and Boston MA on 5/10!
---90’s pop/rockers, Barenaked Ladies have announced a 23-date Canadian tour that will include two cities barely within our greater region…Saint Catherines ON on 10/10…and Kingston ON on 10/14!
---Scott Stapp of Creed and Art of Anarchy, is undertaking a 13-date Spring tour that hits a few places nearby…York PA on 5/18…Peekskill NY on 5/21…and Woodbury NY on 5/22!
---Flogging Molly has announced an extensive Spring tour that included at least seven stops in our greater region…Silver Spring MD on 5/20…New Haven CT on 5/21…two nights in NYC on 5/23 & 5/24…Boston MA on 5/26…Montreal QC on 5/28…and Toronto ON on 5/30!
---Hinder has announced a tour that has at least a few stops in our greater region…Baltimore MD on 5/22…Wantagh NY on 5/23…Asbury Park NJ on 5/25…and Malone NY on 8/4 for the Franklin County Fair! Nonpoint and Nine Shrines will warm-up!
---Before their tour with The Pixies,
Cymbals Eat Guitars have booked some warm-up dates…
---Rising alternative stars, The Revivalists will be passing thru the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic next week…Pittsburgh PA on 3/22…Baltimore MD on 3/23…Jim Thorpe PA on 3/24…and Port Chester NY on 3/25, with Atlas Road Crew warming-up!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Another sign of Summer being near? …Buffalo’s Kerfuffle, which always herald’s the coming of Summer…this year includes Dashboard Confessional, Bob Moses, Franz Ferdinand, Future Islands, Grouplove, MISSIO, OK Go and Sir Sly! The show will be outdoors at the Canalside venue on Saturday 6/17!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Twiztid
adds
---Paul Anka
adds
---Blood
Sweat & Tears add
---Chubby
Checker adds
---Foghat
adds
---Gary
Puckett & The Union Gap adds
---Indigo
Girls add
---Little
Anthony & the Imperials add
---The New
Pornographers add
---Commander Cody adds Sellersville PA on 3/23!
---The
Jayhawks add
---Joe
Jackson adds
---Kiefer
Sutherland adds
---
---Fleet
Foxes have added second nights in NYC on 8/2…and
---In addition to the NYS Fair, Herman’s Hermits ft. Peter Noone, also add…Uncasville CT on 6/10…Topsfield MA on 10/4…Uncasville CT again on 11/24…Erie PA on 12/9…and they’ve also added to the bill with Gary Puckett & the Union Gap in Quakertown PA on 8/24!
---Ana
Popovic adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---311/ New Politics/ The Skints (11)
---Ana Popovic (1)
---
---Barenaked Ladies (2)
---Blood Sweat & Tears (1)
---Chubby Checker & the Wildcats (2)
---
---CJ Ramone (8)
---Commander Cody (1)
---Cymbals Eat Guitars (2)
---Eagles/ Steely Dan/ Doobie Brothers (1)
---Fleet Foxes (2)
---Fleetwood Mac/ Journey/ Earth Wind & Fire (1)
---Flogging Molly (7)
---Foghat (3)
---Gary Puckett & The Union Gap (1)
---Herman’s Hermits (4)
---Indigo Girls (2)
---Joe Jackson (1)
---Kerfuffle (1)
---Kiefer Sutherland (1)
---Little Anthony & the Imperials (1)
---Lucinda Williams (5)
---Meat Puppets (5)
---My Morning Jacket (4)
---North
---NYS Fair (13)
---Paul Anka (1)
---Scott Stapp (3)
---The Jayhawks (3)
---The New Pornographers (2)
---The Revivalists/
---The Rods (1)
---TLC/ Mark McGrath/ Rob Base/ All-4-One/ C&C Music Factory/ Snap (6)
---Tool (5)
---Twiztid (4)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 031117:
[note: Yes, it’s still Winter, but the summertime concert deluge has begun! All sorts of announcements this week and a longer report than normal at least it feels that way. Lots of stuff to digest! Enjoy!]
---Maine-Endwell grad, Taina Asili, who now lives in Albany NY is back in the news…she recently wrote a nationally recognized protest song (“War Cry,”) for the Women’s Rights protests that followed Donald Trump’s inaugueration and now she’s being recognized by Rolling Stone magazine for political anthem! Her new song is, “No Es Mi Presidente,” performed with her band, La Banda Rebelde, and while it’s sung in Spanish, the video does have English sub-titles for us uncultured white guys.
Click here for the link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/hear-taina-asilis-anti-trump-song-no-es-mi-presidente-w470953
If you missed her previous protest song, “War Cry,” here’s the link for the FREE download again, too:
---Very cool Raibred rumor circulating…that they’ve nailed down a spot opening for a national touring band, only for one show granted, but still a pretty good gig. Can’t spill details because it hasn’t been announced yet, so maybe next week…
---On top of that,
RaiBred have also finalized
plans for their second annual RaiFest, set for Maine NY on 5/5 & 5/6 at the a campground in Maine
NY. The festival is set for
three days, only because Sunday May 7th is a travel day for
campers to break camp and leave the campground by noon.
Here’s the musical line-up:
FRIDAY MAY 5TH, 2017:
12:00PM- Camp/Fest grounds open
6:00PM to 8:00PM- Home Brew: Grateful Dead Tribute
8:30PM to 10:00 PM- Raibred (Set 1)
10:20PM to 12:00AM- Raibred (Set 2)
12:15AM to 12:45 AM- Poward: Mike and Jeff's duo project
1:00AM to 3:00AM- Astro Collective
SATURDAY MAY 6th, 2017:
12:00PM to 1:30PM- The Goodfruits
2:00PM to 3:30PM- Raibred (Set 1)
4:00PM to 6:00PM- Ultra Vibe
6:30PM to 8:15PM- Honker
8:45PM to 10:00PM- Raibred (Set 2)
10:15PM to 12:00AM- Raibred (Set 3)
---Binghamton area band,
Driftwood has announced more dates for their Spring 2017 national
and regional tour, including two nights in Buffalo NY on 4/21 & 4/22…and
Brooklyn NY on 5/13! The
local folk-rockers will also tour
---The NY Faerie Festival has confirmed dates for 2017! The annual festival will expand to two weekends, six days overall, Friday June 23rd thru Sunday June 25th and then the following weekend, Friday June 30th thru Sunday July 2nd! The Slambovian Circus of Dreams has been booked to play four of the six dates!
---Big local concert news will be (…or was by the time you read this) announced on Monday, Diana Ross will be playing the Anderson Center at Binghamton University in Vestal on Wednesday July 26th! Tickets will go on sale Wednesday (3/15) at noon! Ross, is not only a dynamic solo artist but the lead singer for one of the iconic Motown groups of the 60’s, The Supremes! Don’t miss it!
---Also announced this past week were dates for
Colorscape in
---The Warped Tour is coming to Montage Mountain in Scranton PA on 7/10…and that’s not all…the tour will stop within our regional confines at least nine times…Camden NJ on 7/7…Wantagh NY on 7/8…Hartford CT on 7/9…Mansfield MA on 7/12…Darien Center NY on 7/13…Burgettstown PA on 7/14…Holmdel NJ on 7/15…and Columbia MD on 7/16! The festival line-up however still has yet to be announced, but we’ll be waiting and watching to find it out!
---If you’re a Joe Bonamassa fan then mark August on your calendar! Bonamassa this week announced Summer tour dates that will largely impact our greater region, but also has local implications! Bonamassa will not only play Atlantic City NJ on 8/4…Hyannis MA on 8/9…Boston MA on 8/12…and Saratoga Springs on 8/15, but also…the Peach Festival in Scranton at Montage Mountain on 8/13…and Lakeview Amphitheatre three days later, on Wednesday 8/16!
---Speaking of The Peach Festival the line-up of bands for the festival has been revealed, so far only two have been scheduled…The Magpie Salute (former members of The Black Crowes without Chris Robinson) set for night #2…and Joe Bonamassa scheduled for night #4. In addition to that also appearing will be Widespread Panic (for two shows), My Morning Jacket, Gov’t Mule & friends, Umphrey’s McGee (two sets), Lettuce ft. Chaka Khan, Mike Gordon (of phish), Les Brers (an allman brothers spin off), Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Rusted Root, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Tom Hamilton’s American Babies and others! Sounds like it’s gonna be a fun time.
---Toto will be playing as close to us as the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre PA on 6/18 on their current tour as they schedule a total of nine-dates in our region, including…Greensburg PA on 6/13…Easton PA on 6/16…Lincoln RI on 6/17…Torrington CT on 6/20…Morristown NJ on 6/21…Peekskill NJ on 6/23…Waterloo NY on 6/24…and Londonderry NH on 6/25!
---Boston and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts will be rocking Montage Mountain in Scranton PA on Tuesday July 25th and Syracuse NY on 7/29 at Lakeview Amphitheatre, as well as several other regional stops…Toronto ON on 7/11…Boston MA on 7/13…Wallingford CT on 7/22…Wantagh NY on 7/23…Camden NJ on 7/27…Burgettstown PA on 7/28…and Washington DC on 7/30!
---Korn and Stone Sour have teamed-up for a joint Summer tour that also includes Skillet, Yelawolf and Ded, and will bring them to Syracuse NY on 7/19 at Lakeview Amphitheatre, as well as…Boston MA on 7/20…Hartford CT on 7/23…Toronto ON on 7/25…Camden NJ on 7/26…and Holmdel NJ on 7/27! This is in addition to Spring Korn dates with Animals As Leaders!
---Some big add-on’s for
Lady Antebellum this week including a show in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Finally, at least some of the
Lionel Richie and Mariah
Carey shows have been rescheduled, so here’s the revised itinerary
for all regional dates…Philadelphia PA on 8/16…Newark NJ on 8/18…NYC on
8/19…Boston MA on 8/22…and Toronto ON on 8/24!
Don’t know yet if the shows in
---Pop superstar, Ed Sheeran, has announced his massive 2017 world tour, which will pass thru our region on it’s global trek…Toronto ON on 7/7…Buffalo NY on 7/9…Philadelphia PA on 7/11…two nights in Uncasville CT on 7/14 & 7/15…Montreal QC on 7/19…Washington DC on 9/19…Boston MA on 9/22…Pittsburgh PA on 9/26…and two nights in Brooklyn NY on 9/29 & 9/30!
---Rancid, The Dropkick Murphy’s and The Bouncing Souls have teamed for a huge continental tour that arrives in multiple cities within our region in July…Montreal QC on 7/28…Toronto ON on 7/29…Pittsburgh PA on 8/2…Philadelphia PA on 8/3…Asbury Park NJ on 8/4…Brockton MA on 8/5…and NYC on 8/6!
---Fleet
Foxes are back and they’re bringing
Animal Collective with them!
The folk rockers will even be playing the Newport Folk Festival
on 7/28! Meanwhile, expect
to see them in
---Everclear is taking “So Much For The Afterglow” back out on the road for it’s 20th Anniversary with five shows in our greater region, including…Pittsburgh PA on 6/1…NYC on 6/6…Boston MA on 6/7…Hampton Beach NH on 6/9…and Toronto ON on 6/11! Vertical Horizon and Fastball are also on the bill!
---Franz Ferdinand are planning a 19-date tour that will play in our greater region at least seven times…Pittsburgh PA on 5/27…Toronto ON on 6/2…Montreal QC on 6/3…NYC on 6/4…New Haven CT on 6/7…Northampton MA on 6/8…and Baltimore MD on 6/14! They’ll also play the Firefly Festival on 6/16!
---Former 10,000 Maniacs lead singer, Natalie Merchant has announced a 13-date Spring into Summer tour that will stop in our region four times…Poughkeepsie NY on 6/30…Lenox MA on 7/2…Kennett Square PA on 7/5…and Vienna VA on 7/6!
---80’s soft rocker, Christopher Cross has confirmed his entire Spring/ Summer tour schedule, including…Englewood NJ on 5/11…Ridgefield CT on 5/12…Westerly RI on 5/13…Uncasville CT on 5/20…as well as previously leaked dates…Alexandria VA on 5/10…NYC on 5/15…
---Slightly Stoopid has confirmed their 2017 Summer tour which is a package deal that also includes, Iration, J Boog and Movement, coming soon to…Philadelphia PA on 6/9…Boston MA on 6/10…NYC on 6/16…Vienna VA on 6/17…Asbury Park NJ on 6/30…and Essex Junction VT on 7/1!
---The
Subdudes have added another leg to their 2017 tour that takes them
from Spring into Summer!
Dates in our region include…Sellersville PA on 5/17…
---Juliana
Hatfield has announced a half-dozen dates all within our greater
region…
---Ratt
confirms reunion shows for…
---The Jesus And Mary Chain will play a nine-date tour with two regional stops…Toronto ON on 5/12…and NYC on 5/14!
---Atlanta Rhythm Section and The Outlaws have announced a joint tour that will but it’s small with only 11-dates and just two performances in our regional area…Jim Thorpe PA on 4/21…and Alexandria VA on 7/23!
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy has expanded their tour in light of both Keith Emerson and Greg Lake’s deaths…new dates include Alexandria VA on 5/17…Newton NJ on 5/18…Albany NY on 5/20…Pawling NY on 5/21…Laconia NH on 5/24…Salisbury MA on 5/25…and Jim Thorpe PA on 5/27!
---John Corabi, formerly of Motley Crue, has announced a small 18-date tour with at least seven stops in our greater region…Toronto ON on 3/16…Pittsburgh PA on 3/19…Elmhurst NY on 3/22…Philadelphia PA on 3/23…Amityville NY on 3/24…Derby CT on 3/25…and Southbridge MA on 3/26!
---Wale has announced a moderate 15-date tour for the month of May, including some regional dates…Pittsburgh PA on 5/24…NYC on 5/25…Philadelphia PA on 5/26…and Boston MA on 5/27!
---The leader of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, John Mayall is going on a solo tour, with regional implications…Washington DC on 5/26…Old Saybrook CT on 6/1…Woodstock NY on 6/4…and Beverly MA on 6/9!
---Stephen Stills, of Buffalo Springfield and CSN(Y), will play a 7-date block of shows with Judy Collins in August and they almost completely play in our greater region…two nights in Alexandria VA on 8/11 & 8/12…Ridgefield CT on 8/14…Lowell MA on 8/20…Glenside PA on 8/25…and Westbury NY on 8/26!
---Progressive rockers,
King Crimson have announced a
14-date American tour following the death of their former lead singer,
John Wetton…
---Speaking of Poco, the folk rockers will play a very abbreviated schedule starting later this month…Alexandria VA on 3/30…South Orange NJ on 3/31…and Norfolk CT on 4/1!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The Isley
Brothers will play a one-off in
---Dan Hill
also has a one-time-only show at
Seneca Niagara Resort in
---Jody Watley and Shalamar are coming out of retirement for a single performance, again at the Seneca Niagara Resort on 5/26!
---Jukebox
The Ghost is set to play a one-off in
---Avett Brothers add Lenox MA on 9/1!
---A great one-shot show in
---For fans of 70’s disco here’s a great one-shot show for you…Village People, Sister Sledge, The Tramps and Rose Royce at Seneca Niagara Casino on 6/24!
---Shania
Twain finally announces a concert date…so far, it’s just one…but
it’s something…
---Southern rockers,
Blackfoot will play a one-off
in
---Revered folk legends,
Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul
Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary; will play an east coast one-off on
7/16 in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull will close out the Bethlehem Musikfest on Sunday 8/13…he also added Canandaigua NY on 8/15 this week!
---Quiet Riot adds Le Roy NY on 8/25! It’s their first date in our region on their current tour.
---The
Temptations & The Four Tops
add
---The
Average White Band adds
---Shawn
Mullins and Charlie Puth
add
---
---The BoDeans add Stroudsburg PA on 5/6!
---Three Dog Night add Stroudsburg PA on 6/11!
---Jay & the Americans finally book a terrestrial date (all their others are on a cruise ship) in Stroudsburg PA on 7/28!
---Mike Love’s touring version of the
Beach Boys add
---Lou Gramm,
formerly of Foreigner, adds
---Four Year
Strong adds
---Gladys
Knight adds
---Blues
Traveler adds
---Patti
LaBelle adds
---Goldfrapp
adds
---Cherry
Poppin’ Daddies add
---Puddle Of
Mudd adds
---Against
Me! adds
---Bowling
For Soup adds
---Peter
Frampton adds
---Nelson twins, Matthew and Gunnar, have booked
another Ricky Nelson Remembered
show in
---Faster
Pussycat adds
---The
Indigo Girls add
---Chaka
Khan adds
---Paul Anka
adds
---Coheed
And
---Mavis
Staples adds
---Ramsey
Lewis adds
---Dawes
add
---Frankie
Valli & the Four Seasons add a third night in
---Queensryche
adds
---BulletBoys
add
---Umphrey’s
McGee adds
---The
Airplane Family returns with Grateful Dead cover band,
Live Dead 69 in
---AFI
adds
---The Chris
Robinson Brotherhood adds NYC on 5/17…
---Marshall
Tucker Band adds
---Michael
Sweet of Stryper adds to his solo tour…
---Dweezil
Zappa adds two solo dates…
---Kix
adds Hummels Wharf PA on 3/25…
---Jimmy
Buffett adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---AFI (1)
---Against Me! (1)
---
---Average White Band (1)
---Avett Brothers (1)
---Beach Boys (2)
---Blues Traveler (1)
---
---Bowling For Soup (3)
---BulletBoys (1)
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy (7)
---Chaka Khan (2)
---Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (1)
---Christopher Cross (4)
---Coheed And
---Dan Hill (1)
---Dawes (2)
---Driftwood (3)
---Dweezil Zappa (2)
---Everclear/ Vertical Horizon/ Fastball (5)
---Faster Pussycat (2)
---Fleet Foxes/ Animal Collective (3)
---Four Year Strong (1)
---Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons (1)
---Franz Ferdinand (7)
---Goldfrapp (1)
---Hot Tuna (1)
---Ian Anderson (1)
---Indigo Girls (1)
---Isley Brothers (1)
---Jay & The Americans (1)
---Jimmy Buffett (1)
---Jody Watley/ Shalamar (1)
---Joe Bonamassa (5)
---John Corabi (7)
---John Mayall (4)
---Jukebox The Ghost (1)
---Juliana Hatfield (6)
---King Crimson (4)
---Kix (3)
---Korn/ Stone Sour/ Skillet/ Yelawolf/ Ded (6)
---Lionel Richie/ Mariah Carey (5)
---Lou Gramm (1)
---Marshall Tucker Band (1)
---Mavis Staples (1)
---Michael Sweet (3)
---Natalie Merchant (4)
---Paul Anka (1)
---Patti LaBelle (1)
---Peter Frampton (1)
---Peter Yarrow & Noel Paul Stookey (1)
---Poco (3)
---
---Puddle Of Mudd (1)
---Queensryche (1)
---Quiet Riot (1)
---Ramsey Lewis (1)
---Rancid/ The Dropkick Murphys/ The Bouncing Souls (7)
---Ratt (3)
---Ricky Nelson Remembered
---Shania Twain (1)
---Shawn Mullins/ Charlie Puth (1)
---Slightly Stoopid/ Iration/ J Boog/ Movement (6)
---The Airplane Family/ Live Dead 69 (1)
---The BoDeans (1)
---The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (3)
---The Jesus And Mary Chain (2)
---The Subdudes (5)
---The Temptations/ The Four Tops (1)
---Three Dog Night (1)
---Toto (9)
---Umphrey’s McGee (3)
---Village People/ Sister Sledge/ The Tramps/ Rose Royce (1)
---Wale (4)
---Warped Tour (9)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 030417:
---Kevin Kober officially announced his new band this week! “The Bro-Bro’s” will make their debut at the Galaxy Brewing Company on 5/5 @ 10p! The band, made up of Kober, Moses Malone, Bijoy Datta, Jason McCulloch and Gus Ingrosciatta will play great songs from the 80’s and 90’s…and maybe a few from this century…The Go-Go’s, Bangles, Joan Jett, Hole, Pixies, Breeders, Scandal, Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper, Cranberries and the like. Can’t wait to hear them in action!
---Singer/ songwriter, Robbie Perez revealed this week that he contributed to the soundtrack for a show on local PBS TV station, WSKG called “Chords Of Memory,” about the photography of Joseph K. Noyes. Perez says about this song, “Funny when I wrote this I was thinking how frustrated I was with how the media controls us....It can mean different things to different people. I played it at my friends funeral and now it means something else to me as well. I love how music does that it's kinda like when you read a book and you imagine the visual part in your mind. It's a little different for everyone depending on how you take it in.” Very cool. See the song in question by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf-KxwjouyQ&app=desktop
---Speaking of WSKG-TV…did anyone else see the debut episode of Brew Beats? The premiere show in the series features local folk-rockers, Driftwood performing at the Black Bear Winery in Chenango Forks NY on Saturday, February 23rd, 2007! Kolby Oakley was also featured in the episode. Don’t know yet when the next episode will air, but we’ll be checking our local listings for sure!
---Greene’s prog-rockers, Anubis Spire, have announced the release of a new album, “Spooky Action At A Distrance,” which arrives on 3/11…but the band is offering the fourteen track album for less than half-price, just $5.00, during a presale at two websites. Here are the links:
http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00RMUTT2
http://kunaki.com/DigitalSales.asp?PID=PX00RMUTT2
---A little further up the road from
---Raibred announces this week that they have their own website and their own domain, Raibred.com! Check it out for all the latest Raibred news, as well as forthcoming info on Raifest! Once again, here’s the link: https://raibred.com.
---Michael
Franti is coming to
---The Peach
Festival, set for four days and nights on
Montage Mountain in
---
---Speaking of Mountain Jam, alternative act, The Head And The Heart just announced that they’ll play all three nights of the festival, set for Hunter Mountain Ski Resort on Friday 6/16 thru Sunday 6/18!
---Elvis Costello & the Imposters are coming to the Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown NY on 7/21…the bands jaunt across America will also include…Pittsburgh PA on 6/13…NYC on 6/15…Upper Darby PA on 6/16…Canandaigua NY (CMAC) on 6/17…Toronto ON on 7/20…Shelburne VT on 7/23…and Providence RI on 7/25!
---The Goo Goo Dolls and Phillip Phillips have joined forces for a joint tour that will cover…Philadelphia PA on 8/6…Vienna VA on 8/8…Uncasville CT on 8/9...Syracuse NY (at Lakeview Amphitheatre) on 8/11…Darien Center NY on 8/12…Wantagh NY on 8/13…Boston MA on 8/15…Holmdel NJ on 8/18…Bethel NY (at Bethel Woods, of course) on 8/19…Saratoga Springs NY on 8/20…and Baltimore MD on 8/22!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Well, it’s not the big four, but it’s pretty awesome…Slayer is taking Lamb Of God and Behemoth on tour for the Summer of 2017 and they’ll be rockin’…Philadelphia PA on 7/23…Boston MA on 7/25…NYC on 7/27…and Baltimore MD on 7/28!
---Summer’s coming…and you can tell because
James Taylor is going on
tour! See the balladeer
in…Lenox MA for two nights on 7/3 & 7/4…
---Well okay, here’s your odd couple of the week…Hall & Oates are stepping out with techno pop band, Tears For Fears for a Spring/ Summer tour that is coming to our greater area…NYC on 6/16…Newark NJ on 6/17…Toronto ON on 6/19…Boston MA on 6/24…and Washington DC on 6/26!
---You would think that Tears For Fears would’ve hooked up with Depeche Mode, who just announced a huge worldwide tour, including American dates in…Uncasville CT on 9/1…Toronto ON on 9/3…Montreal QC on 9/5…Washington DC on 9/7…and NYC on 9/9 & 9/11!
---There’s a new 80’s themed package tour headed our way and for 2017 and it will bring a lower tier of 80’s artist…artists who are stars to be sure, but not supestars…like, Howard Jones, The English Beat, Men Without Hats, Modern English and Paul Young! The Retro Futura Tour is set to play in seven nearby markets…Baltimore MD on 7/30…New Brunswick NJ on 8/9…Providence RI on 8/10…Atlantic City NJ on 8/11…Wallingford CT on 8/12…Albany NY on 8/13…and Lynn MA on 8/14!
---Seether has returned and they’re bringing Letters From The Fire and Kaleido for a national package tour that will stop in…Lancaster PA for two nights on 5/2 & 5/3…two more nights in Asbury Park NJ on 5/9 & 5/10…Wallingford CT on 5/11…Boston MA on 5/14…Clifton Park NY on 5/16…Niagara Falls NY on 5/17…Pittsburgh PA on 5/19…Baltimore MD on 7/24 & 7/25…Philadelphia PA on 7/27…and Seaside Heights NJ on 8/19!
---R&B mainstays, The O’Jays have announced tour dates thru Summer 2017 that include several stops around our greater region…Englewood NJ on 5/5…NYC on 5/14…Niagara Falls ON on 7/7 & 7/8…and Philadelphia PA on 7/29!
---The Magpie Salute, made up of former members of The Black Crowes, minus lead singer Chris Robinson, have booked a national tour with plenty of regional stops and one local one…Buffalo NY on 8/1…Boston MA on 8/3…Hartford CT on 8/4…Hampton Beach NH on 8/5…New Bedford MA on 8/8…Red Bank NJ on 8/9…Scranton PA (at the Peach Festival) on 8/11…Silver Spring MD on 8/12…and Huntington NY on 8/13!
---Seventies one-hit wonder, Marshall Crenshaw (anyone remember “Someday, Someway?”) has launched an ambitious tour…hitting no less than 12 regional venues over three months…Shirley MA on 3/26…Fairfield CT on 4/2…Piermont NY on 4/22…Collinsville CT on 5/6…Washington DC on 6/16…Pittsburgh PA on 6/18..Harrisburg PA on 6/20…Philadelphia PA on 6/22…Pawling NY on 6/23…Bay Shore NY on 6/24…NYC on 6/25…and Rochester NY on 6/27!
---The Dirty Heads and SOJA are hitting a ton of theatre sized venues across the country including in our greater region…Asbury Park NJ on 6/17…Boston MA on 6/18…Utica NY on 6/20…Philadelphia PA on 6/22…Brooklyn NY on 6/23…Baltimore MD on 6/24…Bethlehem PA on 6/27…and Pittsburgh PA on 6/28!
---Singer k.d. lang has announced an ambitious 23-date Canadian tour with a few dates near to our regional area…two nights in Toronto ON on 8/30 & 8/31…Montreal QC on 9/2…and Hamilton ON on 9/19!
---City And
Colour (didn’t they used to be known as The City And The Colour?
Anyway…) have confirmed their Spring tour dates…
---Remember
Good
---Pierce the Veil and Sum 41 have put together a package tour that they will take on the road this spring…Lancaster PA on 5/2…Silver Spring MD on 5/3…Huntington NY on 5/7…Pittsburgh PA on 5/9…Toms River NJ on 5/10…and Hampton Beach NH on 5/17! Also on the bill are Emarosa and Chapel!
---Graham Parker has announced some Spring and Summer tour dates for 2017, such as…Old Saybrook CT on 5/4…Shirley MA on 5/5…East Greenwich RI on 5/6…Sellersville PA on 5/12…Toronto ON on 7/5…and Hamilton ON on 7/6!
---Rising alternative star, Banks, (remember her song “Beggin’ For Thread?”) has announced her touring schedule for the U.S. and it includes our greater region…Philadelphia PA on 6/2…Montreal QC on 6/5…Boston MA on 6/6…Washington DC on 6/7…and Pittsburgh PA on 6/17!
---The
Commodores will tour in 2017!
Upcoming shows near us include…Mount Pocono PA on 5/27…
---Father
John Misty confirms a few dates for 2017…two nights in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The Ruff
Ryders Reunion Tour (if it actually is a tour at all) is starting as
a one-time-only show at The B.C.
in
---Marc
Anthony has booked a one-off in
---Al
Stewart will play one show only…in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Bob Mould,
formerly of Husker Du, adds
---Twiztid
adds
---Biz
Markie adds
---Bowling
For Soup adds
---10,000
Maniacs add Shirley MA on 5/7…two nights in NYC on 5/25 & 5/26…and
---Saving
Abel adds a solo date on an off night from the Puddle Of Mudd
tour…in
---Strangely enough,
Puddle Of Mudd also adds
---Meat
Puppets add
---Fabolous
and Jadakiss add
---The
Subdudes add Sellersville PA on 5/17…
---Dawes
add
---Shawn
Mendes and Charlie Puth
add
---Midnight Oil adds a second night in NYC on 5/14!
---Southside
Johnny & the Asbury Jukes add
---Tony
Bennett adds
---Of
---Old 97’s
add two nights in
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---10,000 Maniacs (4)
---Al Stewart/ Dave Nachmanoff (1)
---Banks (5)
---Biz Markie (1)
---Bob Mould (3)
---Bowling For Soup (1)
---Breaking Benjamin (1)
---City And Colour (5)
---Dawes (1)
---Depeche Mode (6)
---Dirty Heads/ SOJA (8)
---DMX/ Swizz Beatz/ The Lox/ Eve (1)
---Elvis Costello & the Imposters (8)
---Fabolous/ Jadakiss (1)
---Father John Misty (3)
---Goo Goo Dolls/ Phillip Phillips (11)
---Good
---Graham Parker (6)
---Hall & Oates (5)
---Howard Jones/ The English Beat/ Men Without Hats/ Modern English/ Paul Young (7)
---James Taylor (2)
---James Taylor/ Bonnie Raitt (6)
---k.d. lang (4)
---Magpie Salute (8)
---Marc Anthony (1)
---Marshall Crenshaw (12)
---Meat Puppets (1)
---Michael Franti (12)
---Midnight Oil (1)
---Of
---Old 97’s (3)
---Pierce The Veil/ Sum 41/ Emarosa/ Chapel (6)
---Puddle Of Mudd (1)
---Saving Abel (1)
---Seether/ Letters From The Fire/ Kaleido (13)
---Shawn Mendes/ Charlie Puth (1)
---Slayer/ Lamb Of God/ Behemoth (4)
---Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (2)
---The Commodores (3)
---The O’Jays (5)
---The Subdudes (5)
---Tony Bennett (3)
---Twiztid (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 022517:
---Devinne Meyers has confirmed this week that she’s teamed-up with her former East Coast Bigfoot bass player, Stephen Schweitzer and multi-instrumentalist, Martin Shamoonpour and the trio are in the early stages of recording an album! There is no release date yet, or even a name for either the band or the album, all Meyers will confirm is to expect it in 2017! Devinne simply stated that you should follow her facebook page for more info at www.devinnemeyers.com. That much we can do.
---Is it possible that a reunion of regional band, Triple XXX could be in the works? Robbie Perez has made a couple of facebook posts to that effect, both indicating that it could happen on the day before Thanksgiving…and even went as far as to post one of their most “radio friendly” songs, “Can’t Judge (A Book By It’s Cover),” as well as, “Overload,” “Southwind Blowin’,” “Dancin’ On The Edge,” “Journey’s End,” “For What It’s Worth,” “Fineline,” “Roadkill” and “Sands Of Time,” on the cloud! Click on the link to check it out: https://soundcloud.com/triplexxxband/cant-judge-a-book-by-its-cover?in=triplexxxband%2Fsets%2Ftriple-x-roadkill
---Local guitarist extraordinare,
Randy McStine will be back in town on March 18th and
playing with longtime collaborator, keyboard player,
John Kanazawich at the Ransom Steele Tavern in
---Kadima has posted that their full-length demo is now on bandcamp.com, and it’s available for free! Now granted it’s not a fully produced album, but you’ll be able to hear where the band is taking the songs they’ve selected for their next project! Here’s the link: https://kadimabinghamton.bandcamp.com/album/demo
---
---Blues fans rejoice,
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
are coming to
---Old Crow
Medicine Show have announced a show at the
Brewery Ommegang in
---Pop/ rocker,
John Mayer is set to play
Lakeview Amphitheatre in
Syracuse NY on 8/22 (he couldn’t have waited a week to play the NYS
Fair???)! Mayer will also
play
---The Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival is announcing their line-ups and schedule for 2017! The four day festival will begin on Thursday July 13th and last thru Sunday July 16th!
---Hip Hop icon, Ja Rule will play Lakeville PA next weekend (3/5) at Cove Haven…as well as Washington DC on 3/3…and Clifton Park NY on 3/4! Dru Hill opens the Coven Haven show.
---Raifest’s line-up is still being built but early word is that the now annual festival will include Ultra Vibe and a Good Fruits reunion! The dates for the festival are May 5th thru May 7th and of course, all three days of the festival will be anchored by local band, Raibred.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---One of the biggest tour announcements of this week has been the Chris Brown tour, which is not only large and ambitious, but also includes 50 Cent and Fabolous, as well as O.T. Genasis and Kap G! The tour is set to roll thru…Baltimore MD on 3/31…Newark NJ on 4/1…Boston MA on 4/2…Washington DC on 4/21…Philadelphia PA on 4/22…and Brooklyn NY on 4/24!
---All Time Low is going out on the road with Waterparks and The Wrecks this summer with regional stops in…Niagara Falls NY on 7/26…Boston MA on 7/28…Philadelphia PA on 7/29…NYC on 7/31…and two nights in Baltimore MD on 8/2 & 8/3!
---The “Outbreak Tour” has announced it’s 2017 schedule and line-up! Expect to see 21 Savage, Young M.A., Tee Grizzley, Young Nudy and No Plug on the stage, which will come to NYC on 4/26 & 4/27…Wallingford CT on 4/28…Philadelphia PA on 4/29…and Boston MA on 4/30! Doesn’t it seem as if it’s getting out there awful early this year?
---Korn has confirmed a May leg on their 2017 tour, before they join up with Stone Sour for that tour, check out these new dates…Silver Spring MD on 5/7…Huntington NY on 5/9…and Pittsburgh PA on 5/10! Animals As Leaders and Ded are also on the bill!
---The Big Noise Music Festival, curated by David Bromberg is set to play Wilmington DE on 5/20 with a pretty cool line-up including Bromberg himself, Dr. John, The Chris Robinson Brotherhood and more!
---Young The Giant have announced Summer 2017 tour dates that include NYC on 9/13…Boston MA on 9/14…Philadelphia PA on 9/15…and Columbia MD on 9/16! Also on the bill are rising alternative darlings Cold War Kids and Joywave!
---Gucci Mane has announced a 20-date national tour that includes our greater regional area more than a few times…Boston MA on 4/5…Wallingford CT on 4/6…NYC on 4/9…Philadelphia PA on 4/25…Pittsburgh PA on 4/26…and Washington DC on 4/27!
---The Pixies have announced a second leg of their American tour, which resumes in September, after basically taking a couple months off, minus a few festivals…New Haven CT on 9/19…Westbury NY on 9/22…Asbury Park NJ on 9/23…Port Chester NY on 9/24…Montreal QC on 9/27…two nights in Toronto ON on 9/29 & 9/30…Buffalo NY on 10/1…and Pittsburgh PA on 10/4!
---
---The Moody Blues have declared a huge North American tour for the Summer of 2017 and they will play our area multiple times…two nights in Toronto ON on 7/6 & 7/7…Wallingford CT on 7/9…Boston MA on 7/10…Wantagh NY on 7/12…Holmdel NJ on 7/13…Philadelphia PA on 715…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/16…Bethlehem PA on 7/18…Baltimore MD on 7/19…and Vienna VA on 7/20!
---Ryan Adams has announced an ambitious world tour that will see him start in America with dates in…NYC on 5/3…Toronto ON on 5/9…Boston MA on 5/10…and Columbia MD on 5/12!
---Like Moths To Flames confirm Spring tour dates that will see them headline a package tour that will play our region at least three times in March…Webster NY on 3/16…Hartford CT on 3/17…and Whitehall PA on 3/18! Also on the bill are Sworn In, My Enemies & I, Cover Your Tracks and Backwordz!
---90’s boy band, O-Town, has announced a nine-date mini-tour that includes…Vienna VA on 4/19…Pittsburgh PA on 4/20…and Toronto ON on 4/25!
---The
Jayhawks are back! The
90’s alt-country band small 14-date tour that includes…
---Wilco and former Bright Eyes star, Conor Oberst, will play night #1 of the XPoNential Music Festival in Camden NJ on 7/28! Very cool. Hop Along is also on the bill!
---Bryan Adams has announced a worldwide tour that includes some stops in America…Boston MA on 6/14…Uncasville CT on 6/15…Holmdel NJ on 6/16…and Gilford NH on 6/17!
---Everclear
is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of “So Much For The Afterglow,”
with a tour that includes
Vertical Horizon and Fastball!
Stops on the itinerary include…
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Ian
Anderson, of Jethro Tull, has booked a one-off in
---60’s pop singer,
Melanie has booked a one-shot
show in
---Cracker
and Eve 6 are combining for a
one-time-only show…in
---The
Killers, Foster The People, Bleachers, Kaleo, Andrew McMahon In The
Wilderness and Marian Hill
will all play a festival style date in
---After playing 11 dates in the
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Huge addition to the
Roger Waters tour this week…
---David
Lindley will play
be on 3/19!
---Herman’s
Hermits add
---
---Bruce Cockburn adds Glenside PA on 11/10!
---Gary
Puckett & the Union Gap add
---Iron
Maiden adds a second night in
---
---Adelita’s Way adds Webster NY on 4/15…and NYC on 4/16!
---ZZ Top
announced a bunch of European dates this week…and a few add on’s in
American…including
---Ana
Popovic adds
---I Prevail
adds
---Shawn
Mullins adds
---Air Supply adds Glenside PA on 4/9!
---Spyro
Gyra adds
---Bebe
Rexha adds
---Soft rockers,
Ambrosia adds NYC on 6/1…
---Dawes
add
---Billy Joel adds another date in his on-going residency at MSG…on Wednesday 7/5!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---21 Savage/ Young M.A./ Tee Grizzley/ Young Nudy/ No Plug (6)
---Adelita’s Way (2)
---Air Supply (1)
---All Time Low/ Waterparks/ The Wrecks (6)
---
---Ambrosia (3)
---Ana Popovic (4)
---Bebe Rexha (1)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Bruce Cockburn (1)
---Bryan Adams (4)
---Chris Brown/ 50 Cent/ Fabolous (6)
---
---Cracker/ Eve 6 (1)
---David Lindley (1)
---Dawes (1)
---Everclear/ Vertical Horizon/ Fastball (6)
---
---Gary Puckett & the Union Gap (1)
---Gucci Mane (6)
---Herman’s Hermits
---I Prevail (3)
---Ian Anderson (1)
---Iron Maiden (1)
---Ja Rule (3)
---John Mayer (7)
---Korn/ Animals As Leaders/ Ded (3)
---Like Moths To Flames/ Sworn In/ My Enemies & I/ Cover Your Tracks/ Backwordz (3)
---Melanie (1)
---O-Town (3)
---Old Crow Medicine Show (5)
---Roger Waters (2)
---Ryan Adams (4)
---Shawn Mullins (2)
---Spyro Gyra (1)
---The Jayhawks (3)
---The Jesus And Mary Chain (1)
---The Killers/ Foster The People/ Bleachers/ Kaleo/ Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness/ Marian Hill (1)
---The Moody Blues (11)
---Wilco/ Conor Oberst/ Hop Along (1)
---Young The Giant/ Cold War Kids/ Joywave (4)
---Z.Z. Top (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 021817:
---One of Binghamton’s national touring bands, Driftwood, has just added more dates to their Spring itinerary…expect to see our folk-rockers in Plains PA (just outside of Wilkes-Barre) on 2/25…the, after a four-date trip to Michigan…Framingham MA on 3/17…Oneonta NY on 3/18…and Beacon NY on 3/23!
---A facebook post this week from
Nate Calzetoni indicated that
Raibred and Ultra Vibe
have formed a temporary working relationship of sorts…The bands will be
teaming up to play certain dates, like Friday night, March 3rd
at the Cyber Café West in
Binghamton…and former Parts
Unknown (a band that Calzetoni is also a member of.) member,
Chris Cannone, will also be
temporarily joining Ultra Vibe.
Cannone’s main gig is with
---Tim Ruffo just posted a new song on his Reverbnation page! The song is an instrumental called, “Katie Grace.” If you need a link to check it out, here ya go: https://www.reverbnation.com/q/6uwh3i
If that’s not enough TRB for ya, here’s another link for another instrumental track called, “My Own Thing,”
https://www.reverbnation.com/q/6uwhcs
---John
Brown’s Body has added a stand alone date in
---The sale of
First Arena in
http://www.mytwintiers.com/news/local-news/steps-taken-that-could-lead-to-first-arena-sale/349440773
http://wskgnews.org/post/why-sale-elmiras-first-arena-jeopardy#stream/0
http://www.stargazette.com/story/news/2017/02/16/elmira-rejects-first-arena-assistance/98009712/
---The 2nd Annual Togethernessfest is set for Fools Hill Farm in Spencer NY on June 30th thru July 2nd! The annual event will gather twenty bands from all over NY and PA, including…The Still Hand String Band, Damn Tall Buildings, Mountain Ride, Dishonest Fiddlers, Steel Guapo, Bug Tussle, Free Grass Union, Tylor Hubbard & Friends, Technicolor Trailer Park, Pigeon Post String Band, Millers’ Wheel, Milkweed, The Hill Toppers, Dirty Blanket, The David Greybeard Band, Jaynie Crash & The Tall Men, Queen Of Fools and Don Baragano! If you need more info, please click the link:
https://www.facebook.com/TechnicolorTrailerPark/videos/10154962654252145
---A new band or just goofin’ around? Judging by this practice tape, they’re pretty serious! The Deep Watts, featuring Sid Peake, Greg Meisner, Cody Carman, Jeff Rembecki, Larry Ricciardi and David John Cook! Check it out for yourself at this link: https://www.facebook.com/david.j.cook1/videos/10212012928456126
...or check out this link of The Deep Watts playing a Mize & the Spies song:
https://www.facebook.com/david.j.cook1/videos/10212012379402400
---It’s not everyday I get video of Doug & Eamonn, but this ended up in my facebook feed, so enjoy the link: https://www.reverbnation.com/q/6uwhcs
---The schedule for Mountain Jam, at the Hunter Mountain ski resort in Hunter NY, is starting to a bit more fleshed out…night #1 (on 6/16) now includes Matisyahu and Hollis Brown…night #2 (on 6/17) also adds The Ghost Of Paul Revere! For the full night by night line-up so far, check out the local concert page!
---Great news for fans of alternative rock…Incubus,
Jimmy Eat World and Atlas
Genius will play two great local venues…they’ll play the new
Lakeview Amphitheatre in
Syracuse on 7/15…then, the iconic site of Woodstock,
Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on
7/16! The tour this week
also introduced additional shows, which will include
Judah & The Lion…in
---REO Speedwagon has teamed up with Styx and Don Felder, formerly of The Eagles, have teamed up for a big Summer tour across America including…Bethel NY on 8/11…Atlantic City NJ on 8/12…Washington DC on 8/13…Gilford NH on 8/15…Wantagh NY on 8/16…Niagara Falls NY on 8/18…Mansfield MA on 8/19…and Holmdel NJ on 8/22!
---OneRepublic, Fitz And The Tantrums and James Arthur are teaming up for a nationwide package tour that will come as close at Montage Mountain in Scranton PA on Wednesday 7/26, but that’s not the only stop they’ll make in our regional area! You can also catch them at…Burgettstown PA on 7/18…Camden NJ on 7/22…Darien Center NY on 7/25…Holmdel NJ on 7/28…Wantagh NY on 7/29…Saratoga Springs NY on 8/1…Hartford CT on 8/2…Mansfield MA on 8/4…and Gilford NH on 8/6!
---Add John Mellencamp to the list of nationally announced tour this week that will play at least one date (barely) within our local region…at Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on 7/7…as well as Gilford NH on 6/30…Lenox MA on 7/1…Vienna VA on 7/3…Philadelphia PA on 7/6…Canandaigua NY on 7/8…NYC on 7/11…Allentown PA on 8/31…and Essex Junction VT on 9/1!
---Jackyl
is coming to the Westcott Theatre
in
was announced last week, following a previously announced gig in Warrendale PA on 3/14!
---Condolences to local musician, Joe Stento, who lost his mom on Saturday 2/11 and played a gig at the Blind Tiger the same night. On the same day Jimmy Jones had his dad’s funeral.
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Hot off of their glitchy appearance with Lady GaGa on The Grammy’s telecast, Metallica have announced Summer 2017 tour dates and there are plenty in our greater region…Baltimore MD on 5/10…Philadelphia PA on 5/12…East Rutherford NJ on 5/14…Uniondale NY on 5/17…Foxboro MA on 5/19…Toronto ON on 7/16…and Montreal QC on 7/19!
---Future announced the booking of a huge hip hop tour that includes Migos and Tory Lanez and is coming into our region no less than eight times…Washington DC (Bristow VA) on 5/11…Camden NJ on 5/12…Toronto ON on 5/16…Holmdel NJ on 5/18…Brooklyn NY on 5/19…Hartford CT on 5/20…Mansfield MA on 5/23…and Darien Center NY on 5/24!
---Grammy award winner, Chance The Rapper, has booked a Spring into Summer tour that will bring him around on…5/20 in Pittsburgh PA…Toronto ON on 5/24…Montreal QC on 5/25…Darien Center NY on 5/31…Washington DC on 6/4…and Baltimore MD on 6/6!
---Australian band, Midnight Oil, have announced a massive worldwide tour that includes a handful of dates in our greater region…Silver Spring MD on 5/9…Boston MA on 5/11…NYC on 5/13…Glenside PA on 5/16…and Toronto ON on 5/20!
---The Band
Perry have scheduled Spring concert dates to help premiere their new
“pop” sound and will play four shows in nearby markets…NYC on
3/7…Cambridge MA on 3/9…Philadelphia PA on 3/11…and Toronto ON on 3/12!
They’ll also play Bethlehem Musikfest in
---Rising rap star, Machine Gun Kelly, has confirmed less than a dozen American tour dates…three of which will effect our region…Baltimore MD on 5/5…Clifton Park NY on 5/9…and Reading PA on 5/10!
---Melissa Etheridge has announced April tour dates, most of which fall into our greater region…Toronto ON on 4/22…Troy NY on 4/23…Northampton MA on 4/24…Londonderry NH on 4/26…Lexington MA on 4/27…and Worcester MA on 4/28!
---The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, who said last week that she was retiring later this year to spend more time with her grandkids, has also posted what are presumably her last tour dates…six in total with four in our greater region, including…Poughkeepsie NY on 3/12…and Chautauqua NY on 6/24…and the previously announced Uncasville CT on 3/23…and Westbury NY on 5/13!
---Indigo Girls have confirmed their “Four Voices” tour dates which include Joan Baez and Mary Chapin Carpenter. They’ll be playing only three dates in our region…Toronto ON on 6/14…Gilford NH on 6/16…and Lenox MA on 6/17!
---Eric Benet and Marsha Ambrosius have announced a huge co-headlining tour with six stops within our greater region…two nights in NYC on 5/2 & 5/3…Glenside PA on 5/4…Baltimore MD on 5/5…and two nights in Washington DC on 5/6 & 5/9…plus, with two days off in between the Washington DC shows, there’s plenty of room to add more!
---Soft rockers, America have announced most of their 2017 dates, but I’d guess more are yet to come as there are some gaping holes that have yet to be filed…Atlantic City NJ on 3/25…Greensburg PA on 3/26…Peekskill NY on 6/17…and Lynn MA on 10/19!
---The Psychedelic Furs and Robyn Hitchcock have announced a 15-date Spring tour, sadly it only comes to our region twice…Pittsburgh PA on 4/14…and Buffalo NY on 4/15!
---Howie Day has announced a full slate of Spring 2017 tour dates that will keep him busy thru the end of June…Uncasville CT on 4/13…Pawling NY on 6/22…Scituate MA on 6/23…Fairfield CT on 6/24…and Shirley MA on 6/25!
---Dispatch is stepping out with Guster to play a 12-date schedule, including…NYC on 7/6…Columbia MD on 7/7…and Philadelphia PA on 7/9!
---Mike Posner confirmed a small, 16-date, Spring tour this week with only two dates for us…NYC on 4/16…and Philadelphia PA on 4/25!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy has been reformed, and while they are now performing in a world where Emerson, Lake and Palmer can no longer exist, they will now be the most legitimate ELP cover band on tour anywhere…out of four tour dates announced, only one will occur anywhere near us…Albany NY at Swyer Theatre on 5/20!
---Finally the
Meat Puppets add a show east
of
---Sebadoh plans a one-off in NYC at the Bell House on 4/22!
---Barry
Manilows three-date tour will play only one date in our greater
region…
TOUR TWEAKING:
---The Avett
Brothers add
---Pianist George Winston adds NYC (finally a date in our region on his Winter tour) on 4/14!
---Drive-By
Truckers add a double-header in
---Ana
Popovic adds
---
---Enter The
Haggis adds
---Geoff
Tate adds
---Marc Cohn
adds
---Prince’s old backing band,
The Revolution, add a second night in
---The Pretenders add NYC on 4/3!
---Peter Frampton adds
---Spyro Gyra adds Sellersville PA on 5/19!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---
---Ana Popovic (2)
---Aretha Franklin (2)
---Avett Brothers (1)
---Barry Manilow (1)
---Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy (1)
---Dispatch/ Guster (3)
---Driftwood (4)
---Drive-By Truckers (2)
---Enter The Haggis (1)
---Eric Benet/ Marsha Ambrosius (6)
---Future/ Migos/ Tory Lanez/ Kodak Black (8)
---Geoff Tate (1)
---George Winston (1)
---Howie Day (5)
---Incubus/ Jimmy Eat World (9)
---Indigo Girls/ Joan Baez/ Mary Chapin Carpenter (3)
---Jackyl (2)
---John Brown’s Body (1)
---John Mellencamp (9)
---Machine Gun Kelly (3)
---Marc Cohn (1)
---Meat Puppets (1)
---Melissa Etheridge (6)
---Metallica (7)
---Midnight Oil (5)
---Mike Posner (2)
---OneRepublic/ Fitz & the Tantrums/ James Arthur (10)
---Peter Frampton (1)
---Psychedelic Furs/ Robyn Hitchcock (2)
---REO Speedwagon/
---Sebadoh (1)
---Spyro Gyra (1)
---
---The Band Perry (4)
---The Pretenders (1)
---The Revolution (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 021117:
---Devinne
Meyers says she’s been busy with her new band!
It’s officially a “side-project,” a soul-blues band called
Meyers Gross Group, in
conjunction with fellow musician
Nate Gross! They are set
to make their debut March 25th at the
Ransom Steele in
---Get The
Led Out has revealed the rest of their dates for the next year and,
at least for now, the next cycle of dates will end in
---Future Islands are also coming to the State Theatre in Ithaca NY on 5/26, as well as a few other venues…Providence RI on 5/25…Toronto ON on 5/27…Pittsburgh PA on 5/28…and Philadelphia PA on 5/29! They’ll also play the Panorama Festival in NYC on 7/28!
---Los Lobos have finally added a date to their Spring tour that falls
within our larger local area!
They’ll be in the
Goldstein Auditorium in
---Glass
Animals are set to play the
Brewery Ommegang in
---Mountain Jam update: The third headliner has been announced! The String Cheese Incident will be the headliner on Friday night, June 16th! All of the rest of the bands have yet to be assigned to specific nights. To see the full line-up, click on this link:
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Prince’s old backing band, The Revolution are going out on the road for a small six-date tour in April with a trio of shows in our greater region…Silver Spring MD on 4/27…NYC on 4/28…and Philadelphia PA on 4/29! Not sure if they’ll have a different lead singer or if someone in the band will handle the vocals. Wendy and Lisa will be a part of the project along with Bobby Z, Brown Mark and Dr. Fink!
---Korn and Stone Sour are joining forces for a Summer tour that pounds our greater region more than a few times…Boston MA on 7/20…Toronto ON on 7/25…Philadelphia PA on 7/26…and Holmdel NJ on 7/27!
---Santana has announced a handful of regional shows as part of their Summer 2017 tour…Bethlehem PA on 8/4…Bethel NY on 8/5…Canandaigua NY on 8/18…Uncasville CT on 8/19…and Atlantic City NJ on 8/20!
---Following her spectacular Super Bowl 51 halftime show, Lady GaGa has announced a huge tour to cross North American this summer…NYC on 8/28…Boston MA on 9/1…Montreal QC on 9/4…Toronto ON on 9/6…Philadelphia PA on 9/10…Uncasville CT on 11/10…Washington DC on 11/19…and Pittsburgh PA on 11/20
---Muse are teaming-up with Thirty Seconds To Mars and PRVIS this summer with at least four dates in our regional coverage area…Dover DE (at the Firefly Festival) on 6/18…Toronto ON on 6/18…Wantagh NY on 6/22…and Burgettstown PA on 8/1!
---Incubus, who say they have a new album coming out soon, have announced American tour dates including a handful in our greater region…Holmdel NJ on 7/14…Mansfield MA on 7/18…Wantagh NY on 7/19…Camden NJ on 7/20…and Toronto ON on 7/22! These shows will be opened with Jimmy Eat World!
---Jimmy Eat World have also scheduled a solo tour out ahead of their dates with Incubus, but only one of these will be in our region…Stroudsburg PA on 5/13…and they’ll also be at the Kerfuffle in Columbia MD on 5/14!
---Former My Chemical Romance guitarist, Frank Iero, is gonna spend late Spring & early Summer on the road with his band, The Patience…NYC on 4/18…Philadelphia PA on 4/19…Hamden CT on 4/20…Lancaster PA on 4/21…Baltimore MD on 4/22…and Pittsburgh PA on 4/23!
---In addition to their own solo tour Frank Iero & The Patience will also be opening up for The Deftones & Rise Against!
---The
Governors Ball on Randall’s
Day #1 (Fri 6/2): Chance The Rapper/ Lorde/ Flume/ ScHoolboy Q/ Bleachers/ Kehlani/ Tove Lo/ Charli XCX/ The Strumbella’s/ Dua Lipa/ Judah & the Lion!
Day #2
(Sat 6/3):
Day #3 (Sun 6/4): The Head And The Heart/ Tool/ Cage The Elephant/ Wiz Khalifa/ Phantogram/ Air/ Royal Blood/ Franz Ferdinand/ Mondo Cozmo/ Barns Courtney!
---In This Moment are taking Motionless In White, Avatar and Gemini Syndrome on the road this Spring for a visit to our greater region, including…Toronto ON on 4/16…Philadelphia PA on 4/18…Albany NY on 4/19…Baltimore MD on 4/21…Stroudsburg PA on 4/22…Worcester MA on 4/23…and Pittsburgh PA on 4/25!
---Dark Star Orchestra have fleshed out their May dates and they’ll be dropping into our greater region several times for an extended visit…Red Bank NJ on 5/11…Westbury NY on 5/12…Jim Thorpe PA on 5/13…Morristown NJ on 5/16…Boston MA on 5/18…Port Chester NY on 5/19 & 5/20…Keene NH on 5/21…Wilmington DE on 5/23…and Hyannis MA on 7/30!
---Jack
Johnson and Lake Street Dive
will team-up for a joint tour across North America n June and July…
---Blondie is stepping out with Garbage and Deap Vally and trekking across America…Lewiston NY on 7/25…Toronto ON on 7/26…Red Bank NJ on 7/28…Bethel NY (at Bethel Woods) on 7/29…Boston MA on 7/30…NYC on 8/1…and Philadelphia PA on 8/2!
---Diana Krall goes on a massive tour late Spring into Summer and plays our region several times…Burlington VT on 6/9…Canandaigua NY on 6/10…Hartford CT on 6/13…Portsmouth NH on 6/14…Newark NJ on 6/16…Boston MA on 6/17…Providence RI on 6/18…NYC on 6/21…Philadelphia PA on 6/23…Vienna VA on 6/24…and Pittsburgh PA on 6/27!
---Empire Of The Sun have confirmed a national tour that brings them into our greater region four times this Spring…NYC on 5/10…Washington DC on 5/11…Boston MA on 5/12…and Camden NJ on 5/13!
---Rising pop star, Betty Who, has announced a Spring tour that begins in our greater region…Hamden CT on 4/12…NYC on 4/14…Boston MA on 4/15…Washington DC on 4/16…Philadelphia PA on 4/17…and Pittsburgh PA on 4/19!
---Born of Osiris is headlining a modern metal package tour that has planned stops in our greater region…Worcester MA on 3/11…Philadelphia PA on 3/12…NYC on 3/14…Baltimore MD on 3/15…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/15!
---After The
Burial has also plotted a package tour that is coming to…
---Cool, quirky pairing…Ozomatli and Squirrel Nut Zippers team-up for a half dozen shows including three in our region…Ridgefield CT on 4/19…Concord NH on 4/20…and Brooklyn NY on 4/21!
---
---Gordon Lightfoot will tour again in May 2017, after taking a month off coming to Princeton NJ on 5/10…Westbury NY on 5/11…Springfield MA on 5/12…Tarrytown NY on 5/13…Alexandria VA on 5/15…and Jim Thorpe PA on 5/19!
---Beach House announces a ten-date tour, including a stop at the Governors Ball on 6/2…and two solo stops…Wilmington DE on 3/29…and Lancaster PA on 3/30!
---Dave Brockie may be gone, but Gwar soldiers on, in fact they say that this will be one of the craziest touring years ever, but for now…only three dates announced…and just one in our region…Reading PA on 4/13!
---Clean Bandit have announced a 20-date Spring tour that will bring them into our region a handful of times…Washington DC on 4/19…NYC on 4/21…Philadelphia PA on 4/22…Toronto ON on 4/24…and Montreal QC on 4/25!
---Desiigner is set to play five out of twenty dates in our greater region in May…Cambridge MA on 5/9…Washington DC on 5/11…Philadelphia PA on 5/12…NYC on 5/15…and Toronto ON on 5/16!
---Richie Kotzen of Poison and The Winery Dogs, will play solo dates in May in our greater region…Pittsburgh PA on 5/9…NYC on 5/11…New Hope PA on 5/14…and Bethlehem PA on 5/17!
---Clutch has declared a ten-date tour that features Brooklyn NY on 5/15…Providence RI on 5/16…and Port Chester NY on 5/17!
---Singer,
Paul Anka, has announced a small 16-date Spring tour…but only one of
these dates within our greater region…
---Michael
Sweet, of Stryper, has booked a few solo dates for June, and they
all fall into our region…
---Phil Lewis may be gone, but
L.A. Guns carry on with a new date in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The
---Trapt
and Smile Empty Soul are
co-headiners of a one-shot show, at least so far.
The show also includes
Ritual Walk, Ironsoul and
Breath Of The Valkyrie at
Mohawk Place in
---Foo Fighters guitarist,
Chris Shiflett has announced a solo album and tour, but at only a
dozen dates there’s only one for us in the northeast…NYC on 4/6 at Stage
2, in
---RZA will play one show only in NYC on 2/18!
---Robby Kreiger, of The Doors, will play one time only in NYC on 4/16 at the City Winery!
---Of Montreal has only booked two shows so far for 2017…and only one near us…Brooklyn NY on 4/27 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---BulletBoys add
---Actor/ singer/ songwriter, Keifer Sutherland is adding new tour dates…Alexandria VA on 5/23…NYC on 5/25…and Amagansett NY on 5/26!
---Adrian Belew, formerly of King Crimson, adds NYC on 5/9, 5/10 &
5/11…
---Taj Mahal adds
---Los Lonely Boys adds
---Naughty By Nature adds
---Tempest (todd evans old band 1999-2001) adds on White Oak PA on 4/19!
---Finally, Adam Ant adds some dates in our region on his North American tour…Glenside PA on 2/21…and NYC on 2/22!
---Taylor Dayne adds
---The Tedeschi Trucks Band just added three nights in
---Ryan Adams adds
---Mavis Staples adds NYC on 3/9!
---Simple Plan adds NYC on 3/10!
---Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket adds a solo show on 3/27 in NYC!
---Carbon Leaf adds NYC on 4/21!
---Gary Hoey adds
---John Sebastian adds Shirley MA on 3/24…and
---The Pretty Reckless add
---Tommy James & the Shondells add
---Dweezil Zappa adds NYC on 7/11!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Adam Ant (2)
---Adrian Belew (6)
---After The Burial (5)
---Beach House (2)
---Betty Who (6)
---Blondie/ Garbare/ Vally Deap (7)
---Born Of Osiris (5)
---BulletBoys (2)
---Carbon Leaf (1)
---Chris Shiflett (1)
---Clean Bandit (5)
---Clutch (3)
---Desiigner (5)
---Diana Krall (11)
---Dweezil Zappa (1)
---Faster Pussycat/
---Frank Iero & The Patience (6)
---
---Glen Phillips (1)
---Gordon Lightfoot (6)
---Governors Ball (3)
---Gwar (1)
---In This Moment/ Motionless In White/ Avatar/ Gemini Syndrome (7)
---John Sebastian (2)
---Keifer Sutherland (3)
---Korn/ Stone Sour (4)
---
---Lady GaGa (8)
---Los Lobos (1)
---Los Lonely Boys (1)
---Mavis Staples (1)
---Michael Sweet (3)
---Muse/ Thirty Seconds To Mars/ PRVIS (4)
---Naughty By Nature (2)
---Of
---Ozomatli/ Squirrel Nut Zippers (3)
---Paul Anka (1)
---
---Ryan Adams (1)
---Richie Kotzen (4)
---Santana (5)
---Simple Plan (1)
---Taj Mahal (1)
---Taylor Dayne (1)
---Tedeschi Trucks Band (6)
---Tempest (1)
---Tommy James & the Shondells (2)
---The Pretty Reckless (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 020417:
---Kites And Powerlines, winners of last years Equinox Broadcasting’s “Battle Of The Bands,” have announced that they’ll have a CD Release party for their debut album, “There’s More Here Than Black And White,” on Friday March 3rd at the Ransom Steele Tavern in Apalachin NY @ 7pm, featuring opening act, Like Astronauts! It’s an 18 and over show, but ID’s will be checked! Admission is $8.00!
---Local prog-rock icon, Randy McStine, announced that his pledgemusic campaign to pay for production of his new album, “Blank,” is at 101%, but the site will remain open until 2/15 to give everyone a chance to fund the album that wants to. If you want to get in on the latest McStine project click on this link: www.pledgemusic.com/randymcstine.
---So Nate Calzetoni of local jam band, Raibred, revealed his tease this week…announcing Rai-fest to be the weekend of April 14th thru the 16th, but seemed to backtrack after concern about cold early Spring weather could be factor, so now, after putting the matter up for a fan vote on facebook…it’s seems the festival is being moved back to May! Stay tuned…
---Did everyone see the article about local Badfinger drummer, Mike Ricciardi’s wonderful photography business, in the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin recently? If you missed it, follow this link and check it out: http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/connections/2017/01/26/creators-ricciardi-combines-humor-photography/96175852
---Marv Williams wrote on facebook that Open Mic Mondays at Uncles Place in Hillcrest is on hold until 3/6, which btw is the third anniversary of the popular showcase! Of course, he also closed out his post with the tease, “More details to follow…” whatever that means.
---Not only have the Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton confirming their date at Mountain Jam in Hunter NY this year…which btw is Sunday June 18th for both of them…but they’ve also announced that they will be touring together in the Summer of 2017, which will also bring them to…Holmdel NJ on 6/15…Wantagh NY on 6/17…Toronto ON on 6/20…Canandaigua NY (at the Finger Lakes PAC) on 6/21…Columbia MD on 6/23…Mashantucket CT on 6/24…Gilford NH on 6/25…Philadelphia PA on 6/27…and finally in Verona (at Turning Stone of course) on 6/30!
---Kings Of
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Reigning, touring jam band, Phish have come thru
with a great new 13 night stand in NYC at
---Deep Purple, Alice Cooper and the Edgar Winter Band have teamed-up for a nationwide tour with Cooper and Purple co-headlining! The tour will pass thru our region starting with…Bristow VA on 8/23…Camden NJ on 8/24…Wantagh NY on 8/26…Mansfield MA on 8/27…Holmdel NJ on 8/28…Burgettstown PA on 9/1…and Toronto ON on 9/2!
---Nickelback
returns to the road with American Idol’s
Chris Daughtry and
Shaman’s Harvest for an
extensive North American tour in 2017!
Initial dates include…
---One of the hottest pop bands of the last year has been The Chainsmokers, who haven’t even released their debut album yet, have announced a way for fans to see them in concert and get their album too…the tour is being called, “Memories: Do Not Open,” and the new album is being given away with the purchase of tickets to their Spring 2017 tour, which is coming to…Bridgeport CT on 4/20…Albany NY on 4/21…Pittsburgh PA on 4/22…Columbia MD on 5/26…Toronto ON on 5/30…Montreal QC on 6/1…Boston MA on 6/2…two nights in Philadelphia PA on 6/3 & 6/4…Providence RI on 6/7…and two nights in Queen NY on 6/9 & 6/10! Kiiara opens the show
---John
Mayer just released his new album, “The
Search For Everything,” and apparently that search is taking
place across America as he is also hitting the road across our
continent, including our region…
---TV and movie star, Kiefer Sutherland is touring his country album one more time around the country with a 17-date tour coming to only two venues in our region…Niagara Falls NY on 2/18…and Old Saybrook CT on 2/19!
---The Happy
Together Tour is expanding both it’s line-up and it’s itinerary!
The Turtles are back
on the bill along with Ron Dante of The Archies…meanwhile
they’ve added a new leg of shows which will mean we’ll see the tour more
than we planned (which is a good thing!)…
---Love And Theft have announced a couple dates over the next few months (just paying the bills I guess) with two shows near us…Providence RI on 3/16…and Warrendale PA on 4/8!
---Barbra
Streisand will play two shows, both on Long Island when she appears
on 5/4 in
---Rising alternative star, Bishop Briggs has plotted a Spring 2017 tour that will bring her around to our greater region a few times, including…Toronto ON on 5/3…Philadelphia PA on 5/5…Cambridge MA on 5/6…Pawtucket RI on 5/7…NYC on 5/9…and Brooklyn NY on 5/10! Shaed and Manatee Commune will also join her on the road!
---Chris DeBurgh has booked a tour of Ireland and Canada that will bring him pretty close to our greater region, so if you are a fan (remember, “Salt In My Tears,” and “The Lady In Red”) you can see him in…Montreal QC on 9/27…and St. Catharines ON on 10/7!
---Thursday has announced a huge American tour with Touche Amore and Basement, that books our greater region at least a half dozen of times…Boston MA on 3/28…Philadelphia PA on 3/30…Silver Spring MD on 3/31…Clifton Park NY on 4/28…and NYC on 4/29 and 4/30!
---Catfish & the Bottlemen must be excited about touring with Green Day…they’ve booked a series of warm-up shows that impact our regional area, including…Clifton Park NY on 5/2…Montreal QC on 5/3…Toronto ON on 5/4…NYC on 5/6…and Pittsburgh PA on 5/7!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Blues Traveler just booked a Spring tour, plus a few festival dates…but only one show for our region? Well, they have played here an awful lot over the years, but c’mon! Can’t you give us more than…Lakeville PA on 9/3?! Maybe on the next leg…
---Marshall
Crenshaw books a one-off in
---Memphis
May Fire are playing a one-shot festival type tour date on 3/13 in
---Adelita’s
Way just booked their only show East of the
---Matt &
Gunnar Nelson have announced one show only, but not as Ricky Nelson
Remembered, or as “Nelson,” as the duo were previously known…don’t know
if this is a band show or tribute show, but if you’re a fan it is
interesting to take note of.
The date is 2/4 in
---The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is back! They’re playing a half dozen shows across the U.S. however four of them are on the West Coast, one is in the MidWest and another one is in NYC on 2/23!
---The “Louder Than Love” festival celebrates on April Fools Day (4/1) in Westbury NY and features some big names…TKA, Crystal Waters, Melle Mel, Cover Girls, Soul Sonic Force, Pretty Poison and more!
---Zebra
books a one-off in NYC on 4/15 at
B.B. Kings Blues Club…adding to the confusion is a simultaneous solo
tour announced by Zebra’s Randy
Jackson, set to impact our region only once…
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Eric
Clapton is adding two more NYC dates at
---There were two impromptu changes for moe. this week…first a pop-up show in Jim Thorpe PA at Penn’s Peak on 2/2, so if you missed it, you missed it…the second after the end of their tour in NYC on 7/21!
---Ryan Adams adds NYC on 2/16!
---Rickie
Lee Jones and Madeline
Peyroux add
---CJ Ramone, after getting off the “Flogging Molly Salty Dog Cruise” makes landfall in NY on 3/17!
---The
Temptations add
---Kip Winger adds NYC on 4/9!
---Buddy Guy
adds
---Aretha
Franklin adds
---Stephanie
Mills and The Whispers
add
---Johnny
Mathis finally adds a northeast date to his 2017 schedule…
---Delbert
McClinton adds NYC on 11/1…and
---Southside
Johnny & the Asbury Jukes add Ocean City NJ on 7/10…
---Rusted
Root has fleshed out the rest of their Spring 2017 dates by adding…
---Aaron
Neville adds NYC on 12/15…and
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Aaron Neville (2)
---Adelita’s Way/ Caleb Johnson/ The Missing Letters (1)
---Aretha Franklin (1)
---Barbra Streisand (2)
---Bishop Briggs (6)
---Blues Traveler (1)
---Buddy Guy (1)
---Catfish & the Bottlemen (5)
---Deep Purple/ Alice Cooper/ Edgar Winter Band (7)
---Delbert McClinton (2)
---CJ Ramone (1)
---Eric Clapton (2)
---Happy Together Tour (6)
---John Mayer (7)
---Johnny Mathis (1)
---Kiefer Sutherland (2)
---Kings Of Leon/ Deerhunter (1)
---Kings Of Leon/ Nathaniel Rateliff (9)
---Kip Winger (1)
---Love And Theft (2)
---Marshall Crenshaw (1)
---Matt & Gunnar Nelson (1)
---moe. (1)
---Nickelback/ Daughtry/ Shaman’s Harvest (10)
---Phish (13)
---Rickie Lee Jones/ Madeline Peyroux (2)
---Ryan Adams (1)
---Rusted Root (5)
---Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (4)
---Stephanie Mills/ The Whispers (1)
---Steve Miller Band/ Peter Frampton (9)
---The Chainsmokers/ Kiiara (12)
---The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (1)
---The Four Tops/ The Temptations (2)
---The Temptations (1)
---TKA/ Judy Torres/ Crystal Waters/ Melle Mel/ Cover Girls/ Soul Sonic Force/ Safire/ Pretty Poison (1)
---Thursday (6)
---Zebra (1)
---Zebra’s Randy Jackson (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 012817:
---A few local musicians were spotted at the
---Kevin Kober is now booking shows for the Galaxy Brewing Company! Kober posted on his facebook page that if you are interested in playing at the local microbrewery and venue to reach him thru galaxybrewingmusic@gmail.com. He is also on facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/keviemetal138?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf
---Interesting tease posted by Nate Calzetoni of Raibred on his facebook page this week. It reads…” Raibred fans and bredheads...April 14th-16th...save the date. Take off work, call in sick, quit your job, just make sure you're free! more info soon...” Hmmm.
---So,
Fitzie’s in
---Next To Kin (also identifying themselves as N2K) have announced that their first “real” album will be released May 5th at their show booked for the Ransom Steele Tavern in Apalachin! The band recently posted on facebook that they’d begun to record it at NewClear studios!
---Local singer/ songwriter, Ayana Del Valle, otherwise known as Ayana D or simply, Ayana; says her talented sister from Albany NY, singer/ songwriter Taina Asili, has decided to release her song, “War Cry,” as a FREE download, to thank the millions of people who showed up at all the rallies and marches around the world in resistance to Trump and injustice! If you want to download the track, click on this link: http://tainaasili.com/warcry and submit your e-mail address…you’ll have to submit your e-mail address so they can put you on their mailing list, but if you’re a fan, it’s worth it!
---Northeast PA (NEPA) bluegrass band, Cabinet have established a second leg for their 2017 tour, including…West Dover VT on 3/10…Saratoga Springs NY on 4/20…South Burlington VT on 4/22…Cambridge MA on 4/27…NYC on 4/28…and Baltimore MD on 4/29!
---The road to The Decemberists Spring tour begins in Ithaca NY, as they open a ten-date tour at the State Theatre on 4/7, and then continues to…Pittsburgh PA on 4/8…Philadelphia PA on 4/14…New Haven CT on 4/15…and three nights in Brooklyn NY on 4/17, 4/18 & 4/19!
---Third Eye Blind heads back on the road for the Summer of 2017 with Silversun Pickups warming up! The tour has several impact points in our regional area…Boston MA on 6/21…Holmdel NJ on 6/23…Wantagh NY on 6/24…Philadelphia PA on 6/25…Toronto ON on 6/28…Darien Center NY on 6/29…Syracuse NY (at Lakeview Amphitheatre) on 6/30…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/1…and Wallingford CT on 7/2!
---Foghat
has announced a show in
---Could Bad
Company be heading back out on the road in 2017?
Speculation is that they will return, with a new album and a tour
as well, but the band is also suffering from health problems, so they’ll
have to get better before all this happens, with that in mind, they’ve
scheduled a one-off in
---Former Scorpions guitarist
Uli Jon Roth adds Sellersville PA on 3/13…NYC on 3/14…and
---Dionne
Warwick is coming as close as
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Queen + Adam Lambert are coming to America and playing a robust 25-date schedule that includes dates well within our region…Montreal QC on 7/17…Toronto ON on 7/18…Uncasville CT on 723…Boston MA on 7/25…Newark NJ on 7/26…Brooklyn NY on 7/28…Philadelphia PA on 7/30…and Washington DC on 7/31!
---Former Poco and Eagles bass player,
Timothy B. Schmidt has announced a sereies of regional Spring 2017
dates, which include at least one borderline local show…at
Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on 4/30!
Other additional shows include
---Mumford & Sons are going back on the road in Spring 2017, but only planning a dozen dates or so, including…Burgettstown PA on 5/24…Camden NJ on 5/25…and the Boston Calling Music Festival in Boston MA on 5/26, 5/27 & 5/28!
---Gavin Rossdale and Bush will play a few dates in our greater region Spring in anticipation of their new (as-yet-untitled) album being released…Toronto ON on 5/18…Camden NJ on 5/20…and Baltimore MD on 6/10! Hopefully more shows after the album is announced!
---Iron Maiden is taking “Eddie” back on the road with a tour across America that will stop in…Washington DC on 6/3…Philadelphia PA on 6/4…Newark NJ on 6/7…Toronto ON on 7/15…Mansfield MA on 7/19…Brooklyn NY on 7/21! Ghost will open.
---Last week was a roller coaster week for Derek
Trucks…who lost his iconic Uncle, Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers
Band, on the same day his
Tedeschi Trucks Band announced the summer leg of their tour!
The new leg of this tour will include some regional dates…and
some very cool guests (the Wood Brothers and Hot Tuna!)!
See them at…Gilford NH on 7/1…Essex Junction VT on 7/2…
---Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper have announced a joint tour that will bring them to Bethel Woods in Bethel NY on 7/21…as well as…Camden NJ on 7/12…Mansfield MA on 7/15…Wantagh NY on 7/18…Washington DC on 7/19…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/22…Holmdel NJ on 7/25…and Rochester NY on 7/29!
---Journey and Asia have announced the Summer leg of their joint tour, which means there will be some shows within our region for the first time…adding Brooklyn NY on 4/7…then Baltimore MD on 6/14…Uncasville CT on 6/16…Atlantic City NJ on 6/17…Worcester MA on 6/19…and Rochester NY on 6/21!
---Here’s a huge big-name Summer package tour, but It’s very PG and bland…so family oriented, sure…talking about Train, O.A.R. and Natasha Bedingfield, and they’ll be playing all the big venues, in some of the countries biggest cities…Camden NJ on 6/8…Holmdel NJ on 6/9…Mansfield MA on 6/11…Uncasville CT on 6/13…Wantagh NY on 6/14…Bethel NY ( at Bethel Woods) on 6/16…Hershey PA on 6/17…Saratoga Springs NY on 6/18…Darien Center NY on 6/20…Toronto ON on 6/21…and Burgettstown PA on 6/23!
---The voice of “Frozen” will tour the world in 2017…Idina Menzel will play multiple dates in our overall region, including…Uniondale NY on 4/7…Atlantic City NJ on 5/20…Mashantucket CT on 7/7…Boston MA on 7/8…Washington DC on 7/9…Pittsburgh PA on 7/11…Toronto ON on7/14…Canandaigua NY on 7/15…Philadelphia PA on 7/16…and Baltimore MD on 7/18!
---
---Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds are back to fill in the “off” time in the Dave Matthews Band schedule! The duo will play two nights in Philadelphia PA on 6/2 & 6/3...Canandaigua NY on 6/4…Wantagh NY on 6/6…Holmdel NJ on 6/7…two nights in Saratoga Springs NY on 6/16 & 6/17…and Columbia MD on 6/18! The greater question is…will the full band tour this summer?
---Rising pop star, Bebe Rexha has announced a Spring 2017 headlining tour that will include a few stops in our area…Toronto ON on 3/23…Montreal QC on 3/24…Philadelphia PA on 3/26…Cambridge MA on 3/27…NYC on 3/29…and Washington DC on 3/30!
---The Pixies and Cymbals Eat Guitars have teamed up for a Spring 2017 tour that brings them to…Washington DC on 5/16…three nights in Boston MA on 5/19, 5/20 & 5/21…Philadelphia PA on 5/23…NYC on 5/24…and Brooklyn NY on 5/26!
---Coheed And Cambria have confirmed regional dates for late Spring, in…NYC on 5/5…Silver Spring MD on 5/6…Boston MA on 5/9…Philadelphia PA on 5/10…and Pittsburgh PA on 5/18!
---The Marshall Tucker Band announces their Spring tour dates and they include more than a few stops in our greater region…Englewood NJ on 2/22…Woonsocket RI on 2/25…Verona NY on 2/26…Lancaster PA on 5/13…Ridgefield CT on 6/22…Augusta NJ on 6/24…and Greensburg PA on 6/30!
---The 1975 have announced a nearly 40-date tour across North and Central America, that includes more than a few stops near us in Bingo-land…Pittsburgh PA on 5/11…Rochester NY on 5/23…Montreal QC on 5/26…Boston MA (at the Boston Calling Festival) on 5/26, 5/27 & 5/28…Glens Falls NY on 5/28…Niagara Falls NY on 5/30 & 5/31…and NYC on 6/1!
---Break-out alternative band, Mondo Cozmo, are making the most of their new found notoriety with new shows in NYC on 1/30 (Brooklyn), 1/31 (manhattan), Philadelphia PA on 2/1…and NYC (manhattan again) on 2/2!
---Lady Antebellum has announced Summer 2017 dates which include…Camden NJ on 6/23…Washington DC on 6/24…Wantagh NY on 7/14…Hartford CT on 7/22…Darien Center NY on 8/10…Holmdel NJ on 8/11…and Mansfield MA on 8/12! Kelsea Ballerini will open.
---Electronic musician, Jean-Michel Jarre, is set to tour the U.S. this year with a few regional stops…Toronto ON on 5/9…Montreal QC on 5/11…Boston MA on 5/16…Upper Darby PA on 5/18…and NYC on 5/20!
---Last In Line, the band featuring remaining original members of Dio, have plotted a small Spring tour that plays entirely within our greater region…Teaneck NJ on 3/24…Westbury NY on 3/25…Buffalo NY on 3/30…Poughkeepsie NY on 3/31…and Stroudsburg PA on 4/1!
---Aimee Mann, who has formed a remarkable solo career in the years since she left her original band, ‘Til Tuesday, is going on another solo tour that will bring her to…Washington DC on 4/20…Glenside PA on 4/21…NYC on 4/22…Boston MA on 4/24…Albany NY on 4/25…and Toronto ON on 4/26!
---The New Pornographers have confirmed a 15-stop tour across the country that will include stops in…Boston MA on 4/25…NYC on 4/26…Philadelphia PA on 4/27…and Washington DC on 4/28!
---A Great Big World books a tiny, ten-date tour that includes…Washington DC on 3/18…Philadelphia PA on 3/20…Boston MA on 3/21…Ridgefield CT on 3/22…NYC on 3/23…and Toronto ON on 3/25!
---Jazz fusion, violin player, Jean-Luc Ponty will tour the U.S. in 2017, but only a few dates near us so far…Niagara Falls NY on 6/23…Saratoga Springs NY on 6/24…and NYC on 6/25!
---
---Carbon Leaf has announced a small schedule of terrestrial dates including…Washington DC (as part of ShamrockFest) on 3/11…Wilmington DE on 4/14…and Plymouth NH on 5/5!
---Parachute have booked only seven dates for Spring 2017 and three of them fall within our regional area, including…Cambridge MA on 4/17…Washington DC on 4/21…and Philadelphia PA on 4/22!
---Ian Hunter books a two-night stand at the City Winery in NYC on 2/6 & 2/7!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Flo Rida
will play a one-off in
---Joss
Stone announces a one-shot in
---Mr. Big,
booked in only two venues so far this year…will play one of them in our
greater region…Warrendale PA, just outside of
---Crack The Sky will play one show only in Warrendale PA on 8/12!
---My Morning Jacket and Gary Clark Jr. have teamed-up for a one-shot show in Queens NY on 7/15!
---The “Bad And Boujee” boys, Migos have announced a one-shot show in Queens NY on 3/3!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Aaron
Lewis adds
---Kip
Winger adds Sellersville PA on 4/6…and
---Rascal
Flatts add
---Lou Gramm,
formerly of Foreigner, adds
---Green Day
adds
---The
Bellamy Brothers add
---The
English Beat adds
---Run The Jewels adds a fourth night at Terminal 5 in NYC on 3/1!
---Boyz II
Men add
---Joan Jett
& the Blackhearts add
---Bret
Michaels (of poison) adds
---Night
Ranger adds
---Great
White and Slaughter add
---Santana
adds
---Old 97’s
add
---Trey Anastasio, of Phish, adds three dates to his solo tour…Northampton MA on 3/8…Troy NY on 3/10…and Portsmouth NH on 3/11!
---John
Sebastian adds
---Three Dog
Night adds
---Slick Rick adds Philadelphia PA on 3/31…the show looks like a new Back To The 80’s date, but isn’t listed as such, so not sure if this is a solo headlining date with guests or what.
---Kinks guitarist,
Dave Davies is extending his
stay in
---Brian McKnight adds Glenside PA on 5/13!
---Puddle Of
Mudd adds
---The
Charlie Wilson, Johnny Gill and
Fantasia tour adds
---Needtobreathe
adds
---Will Hoge
adds
---Paula
Cole adds
---Drive-By
Truckers add
---Kris Kristofferson adds a three-night stay at the City Winery in NYC on 4/28, 4/29 & 4/30!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---A Great Big World (6)
---Aaron Lewis (2)
---Aimee Mann (6)
---Bad Company (1)
---Bebe Rexha (6)
---Boyz II Men (1)
---Bret Michaels (1)
---Bush (3)
---Carbon Leaf (2)
---Charlie Wilson/ Johnny Gill/ Fantasia (1)
---Coheed And
---Crack The Sky (1)
---Dave Matthews/ Tim Reynolds (8)
---Dionne Warwick (3)
---Drive-By Truckers (1)
---Flo Rida (1)
---
---Great White/ Slaughter (1)
---Green Day/ Catfish & the Bottlemen (5)
---Ian Hunter (2)
---Idina Menzel (10)
---Iron Maiden/ Ghost (6)
---Jean-Luc Ponty (3)
---Jean-Michel Jarre (5)
---Joan Jett & the Blackhearts (1)
---John Sebastian (1)
---Joss Stone (1)
---Journey/
---Kip Winger (2)
---Kris Kristofferson (3)
---Lady Antebellum/ Kelsea Ballerini (7)
---Last In Line (5)
---Lou Gramm (1)
---Marshall Tucker Band (7)
---Migos/ Tommy Genesis/ Nate Young/ Byrell The Great (1)
---Mondo Cozmo (4)
---My Morning Jacket/ Gary Clark Jr. (1)
---Needtobreathe (1)
---Night Ranger (2)
---Old 97’s (1)
---Paula Cole (1)
---
---Puddle Of Mudd (3)
---Queen + Adam Lambert (8)
---Rascal Flatts (1)
---Rod Stewart/ Cyndi Lauper (8)
---Run The Jewels (1)
---Santana (2)
---Slick Rick (1)
---Tedeschi Trucks Band/ The Wood Brothers/ Hot Tuna (6)
---The 1975 (10)
---The Bellamy Brothers (1)
---The Decemberists (7)
---The English Beat (1)
---The New Pornographers (4)
---The Pixies/ Cymbals Eat Guitars (7)
---Third Eye Blind/ Silversun Pickups (9)
---Three Dog Night (1)
---Timothy B. Schmidt (7)
---Train/ O.A.R./ Natasha Bedingfield (11)
---Trey Anastasio (3)
---Uli Jon Roth (3)
---Will Hoge (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
Text of Jeff Kahn’s Women’s March speech from his news letter:
Yesterday I had the honor of being one of the speakers at the
Women's March in
It is a great honor to be asked to speak here today. Each week I get to
spout a few political feelings in a weekly newsletter to a handful of
you, and now can subject a whole crowd to my thoughts. Thank you kindly
for this privilege. As a business owner, it is not necessarily a good
idea to express my political beliefs. In fact, it is better for me, if
you simply believe that I believe exactly what you believe. If I speak
my mind -- and I tend to -- I am bound to say something that someone
doesn't agree with and lose another customer. And yet, what I believe in
is not particular radical. I belief in the old fashion American Dream
where you can work and pursue your goals whether they are sports, arts,
friendships or chasing down Pokémon, and perhaps raise a family. I
envision a world where we can all live together with mutual respect and
without undo fear. But in the decades of standing in the middle, the
world has drifted away from me over to the right somewhere. I think some
time ago the American Dream was hi-jacked - becoming a more selfish
vision where a handful of us can hit the metaphorical lottery and live
like kings amidst the struggling multitudes. The new American Dream
became the hope that you could become a rich selfish bully like our new
president. Now I am not trying to put our new president down. I am not
here to divide anyone. And I know quite a few people voted for him- just
a few million fewer than voted for Hillary Clinton (or what Trump calls
a landslide). No, I am not going to stand here and put our new president
down- I am simply calling him a rich selfish bully and I think this is
something that even his most fervent supporters would agree with. In
fact, people voted for him for this very reason. His wealth substituted
for all the other qualities we might hope for in a president. His money
stood in for intellect, morality and ideas. Wealth was his sole
qualification. It was the reason we could believe his empty promises. He
was the Wizard of Oz behind a solid gold curtain going to make
everything instantly better if we just followed him down the road to the
Whitehouse. And can we blame the people who yearned for some change in
their lives for voting for the person who promised them everything they
wanted? They voted for Trump like a poor person spends their last dollar
on a lottery ticket. They didn't do the math or read the fine print.
Many of us who read the fine print of this election are banging are
heads against a wall. We see his choices for cabinet and see the dark
clouds on the horizon. We see the return of failed policies that give
more money for the wealthy and will result in drastic cuts in the funds
that feed our collective communities. But I base this on the fact that
these policies have failed countless times and have never succeeded. But
that is something educated
And if we wish to save the planet we are losers
And if we support women's' rights we are losers
If we want Universal Health Care we are losers
I am one of the losers who dream of a just world ruled not by fear but
justice and ideals.
This is a complex world and answers will be complex. But perhaps I
should give Trump a chance. Perhaps a sledgehammer is the tool we need
to fix this delicate timepiece. Worried about women's rights? Don't
worry! Donald Trump says no one respects women more than he does. I
guess this is true in the same way no one respects cattle more than a
butcher. Surely, Trump will use his tiny celebrity hands to grab women's
issues and make everything great again.
And with climate change, one would think that putting a climate change
denier in charge of the EPA does not bode well, but I am sure Trump has
a secret plan for saving the planet. Perhaps he is just going to ruin it
so the survivors can get a good deal on buying up what is left.
I could go on and on listing foreseeable problems. But being rational in
the face of irrationality will drive you crazy, and the other side is
simply not listening. They dismiss us as sore losers or some other
generalization that eliminates the need to be heard. Every word is
silenced by the math of the electoral college. But as much they wish us
all to shut up, there is one thing we ultimately have on our side and
that is real power that cannot be silenced. Individually, we are all
some sort of minority, like snowflakes - each one unique and small. But
together snowflakes make avalanches. Together snowflakes cover a lot of
ground. Divided over petty differences we are easily defeated. United in
our mutual concern for a better world for everybody we are so much
stronger. And that is the power that will ultimately save us and our
planet.
Thanks for listening.
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Music News for 012117:
---Well, by now you know that
Bon Jovi is playing the
Dick’s Sporting Goods Open on August 18th!
You may also have noticed that the information was released
before the show was even announced!
This happened when the band decided they wanted to delay the
announcement for a week, so that they could launch a contest associated
with the tour, for local bands to compete to open-up for them…a
different local band for each date on the tour!
This was decided on the eve of commercial announcements already
being distributed and scheduled for air on Friday January 6th,
to announce ticket on sale dates, which had to be rescinded at the last
minute, but some commercials made it on the air anyway…and some local
DJ’s made reference to the show, not knowing the announcement had been
postponed…so some of you knew days before the announcement for the
contest, and the show, was actually made on January 11th!
The tour also announced a second night in
---Mountain Sky has confirmed dates for Grateful For Spring 5! The festival will run from Friday May 12th thru Sunday May 14th! The line-up for the event is still being fleshed out, but already Nate Calzetoni has announced that his band, Raibred will be headlining the late night set! Very cool!
---Local guitar superstar, Randy McStine has announced the first track for his new CD, “Blank!” On Tuesday 1/17 McStine posted on his facebook page…
“As some of you know, I’ve been working on my first solo album in quite
a while. The album is called Blank, and many have already ordered it at www.pledgemusic.com/randymcstine.
It is every artist’s public duty to claim their latest as their greatest
work, and although I won’t do that, I can truly say that this one is a
personal triumph for me, and like no other record I’ve done.
With the generous assistance of great friends and fans, I have
been raising funds to complete this
project through the link above. The project is currently 71% funded with
only two weeks left to hit this goal. If we fall short of the goal, all
of the funding raised so far disappears, and it’s back to square one.
I have difficulty in self-promotion, and by extension, difficulty in
asking for favors. I think I'm a bit allergic to it. I know that there
are a plethora of things for you to be concerned with, and I can
guarantee that my album is not one of them! However, if you’re anywhere
on the spectrum of casual fan or acquaintance, to someone who has
closely followed my work for a while, your support of this project right
now is the best way you can currently assist me in furthering my career.
This post is the debut of the first song on Blank. It’s called
The Master. Give it a listen and consider supporting the project at www.pledgemusic.com/randymcstine.
Thank you.”
Hurry!
Follow the link and help out if you can! Time is running out!
---Michael Wu shared the latest video from the Gunpoets new album on his facebook page this week:
“Second single and vid from Gunpoets, "Bombs Away!". This album scored a
Jimmie Award counted among the best releases in 2016 of
If you wanna check it out, follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYSgFOqvZ9g
---Kevin Kober posted this week on his facebook page…”Michael J Micha and I have started a record label, Confluence Records, to release local music. Our first release will be the debut Curse Bearer demo, which will be available at their first show on 1/21 at Fitzies. We are teaming up with Rat Mix Records (local tape label) to have our releases available at Sound Go Round in Vestal later this month. Other releases that will be available this month will be the first Kadima demo, 2 Swath albums, a 2 disc Dance-A-Tron discography, and the Barren Company's skate DVD featuring an original score by Archemist. Much more info to come soon.”
It sounds exciting! Can’t wait to hear these great local bands!
---Speaking of CD’s…Tim Ruffo posted last week that: “I just uploaded the new songs to reverbNation. The CDs will be in hand this week. New website on it's way as well. Check 'em out and lmk your thoughts! Have a great day!”
The name of the new album is
M.D.O. (Modern Day Outlaw).
He’ll also be selling some at his shows starting on 1/20 at
Nips in
---The Avett Brothers are the first band to announce a booking at the Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown NY for the coming Summer of 2017…in addition, they’ve also confirmed shows in Port Chester NY on 5/12 & 5/13…and Gilford NH on 6/1! That’s four out of seven shows in our greater region! Pretty sweet.
---Did
anyone else notice Joey
Balladonna, of Anthrax,
singing the national anthem at The
Carrier Dome in
---Not only will Foreigner tour for their fortieth anniversary, they’ll also bring along Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience…and they’ll make a couple of easy stops within our local region…and even more in our greater region…Syracuse NY (at Lakeview Amphitheatre) on 7/11…Camden NJ on 7/13…Bethel NY (at Bethel Woods) on 7/14…Hershey PA on 7/15…Boston MA on 7/17…Saratoga Springs NY on 7/18…Wantagh NY on 7/20…Darien Center NY on 7/21…Holmdel NJ on 7/22…and Burgettstown PA on 8/12!
---So, first Neil Diamond, then Chicago and the Doobie Brothers, and Foreigner…now the Zac Brown Band have announced a date at Bethel Woods! Summer must be coming! The Zac Brown Band has in fact, booked a major tour that includes shows all thru our regional and local coverage area’s…three nights in Gilford NH on 5/26, 5/27 and 5/28…Burgettstown PA on 6/11…Bethel NY on 6/23…Syracuse NY (at Lakeview Amphitheatre) on 6/24…Darien Center NY on 6/25…Hartford CT on 7/6…two nights in Holmdel NJ on 7/7 & 7/8…Camden NJ on 7/14 & 7/15…two nights in Toronto ON on 8/31 & 9/1…Saratoga Springs NY on 9/2…and Hershey PA on 9/3!
---Ian Sweet and Diet Cig play
---The Marco
Benevento tour will now start when he plays
Funk N’ Waffles in
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---U2
has announced the 30th Anniversary of the Joshua Tree tour…on
this tour they’ll play the entire album each night, as well as other
songs from their vast library of work!
Dates nearest to us Binghamtonians include…
---Def Leppard will step out in the Spring of 2017 with Poison and Tesla and do a lengthy trek across America…starting in Manchester NH on 4/8…Montreal QC (this date is Def Leppard only) on 4/10…Uncasville CT on 4/12…Baltimore MD on 4/14…and Garden City NY on 4/15! …So I guess Bret Michaels was right, he said Poison would tour this year and they are!
---Four Year
Strong are launching their 25th Anniversary tour, also
being called “USA Takeover Part 1!”
Regional dates on this initial leg include…
---Mastodon
and Eagles Of Death Metal are
teaming-up for a tour of
---Trey Anastasio of Phish has announced solo dates for this Spring, including…Port Chester NY on 4/14 & 4/15…Toronto ON on 5/7…and Philadelphia PA on 5/25!
---Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby have teamed-up again for a half-dozen dates that all go thru our greater region, including…Tarrytown NY on 2/26…Red Bank NJ on 2/27…Brookville NY on 3/1…Lancaster PA on 3/3…Wilmington DE on 3/4…and Verona NY on 3/5!
---Once again, the annual “Happy Together” Tour returns for another retro 60’s feel-good trek across America, including…New Brunswick NJ on 6/14…Northampton MA on 6/15…Westbury NY on 6/16…Albany NY on 6/17…Tarrytown NY on 6/18…Englewood NJ on 6/20…Jim Thorpe PA (at Penn’s Peak) on 6/22…Williamsport PA on 6/23…Lancaster PA on 6/24…and Hampton Beach NH on 6/25…as well as a previously leaked stop in Glenside PA on 6/21! On this year’s tour are The Cowsills (who had hits with “The Rain, The Park and Other Things” and “Hair.”), The Association (“Windy” and “Never My Love.”), Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night (“Shambala,” “Easy To Be Hard,” “Black And White,” “Joy To The World,” “Eli’s Coming,” “Never Been To Spain,” and more) …and The Box Tops (“The Letter” and “She’s Not There.”)
---Looking forward to this years Governors Ball (Friday 6/2 thru Sunday 6/4) on Randall’s Island, in NYC…they have announced their pool of artists and we’re waiting to see the playing schedule, which probably won’t be announced for awhile, but expect appearances by…Tool, Chance The Rapper, Childish Gambino, Lorde, Wiz Khalifa, Flume, Wu-Tang Clan, Tove Lo, Phoenix, Mark Ronson Rae Sremmurd, A$AP Ferg, Franz Ferdinand, Cage The Elephant, ScHoolboy Q, The Head and The Heart, Phantogram, Banks, Local Natives, Bleachers, Royal Blood, Saint Motel, The Strumbellas, Dua Lipa, Barns Courtney and Charli XCX!
---Panorama
Festival NYC has been booked for Friday 7/28 thru Sunday 7/30…and
scheduled as well! On Day #1
Highlights:
Day #2 Highlights: Tame Impala, alt-J and Belle And Sebastian!
Day #3 Highlights:
Nine Inch Nails, A Tribe Called
Quest, Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness, Kiiara, Dhani Harrison
(george
---Rising alternative stars, Milky Chance, have announced a Spring tour in support of their new album, Cocoon! The tour is limited to 15-dates around the world, mostly in Europe with only four dates in America and two stops near us…NYC on 3/17…and Toronto ON on 3/18!
---Dan Baird, formerly of Georgia Satellites, and his new band Homemade Sins, have booked two shows…Washington DC on 3/16…and NYC on 3/18! Hopefully there will be more…
---Minus The Bear will headline a Springtime package tour, including Beach Slang and Bayonne, that will come to…Washington DC on 3/24…Philadelphia PA on 3/25…Boston MA on 3/26…Toronto ON on 3/31…and Pittsburgh PA on 4/1!
---Another modern package tour takes to the road this Spring…Bayside and Say Anything team-up to trek across America with stops inside our region at…Buffalo NY on 5/10…Worcester MA on 5/12…Sayreville NJ on 5/13…Philadelphia PA on 5/14…NYC on 5/16…and Baltimore MD on 5/17!
---State Champs join the Springtime package tour crowd in 2017 with dates in…Baltimore MD on 5/7…Philadelphia PA on 5/9…NYC on 5/11 & 5/12…Clifton Park NY on 5/13…and Boston MA on 5/14! Against The Current, With Confidence and Don Broco will open!
---Pierce The Veil are also playing a limited package tour…mostly in Canada…Toronto ON on 3/1…and Montreal QC on 3/3…but one date in NYS…Clifton Park near Albany on 3/5! The tour also includes Falling In Reverse and Crown The Empire!
---Simple Plan are planning to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of their debut album, “No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls,” by performing the album in it’s entirety on a 21-date U.S. tour including five stops within our region…Boston MA on 3/24…NYC on 3/25…Baltimore MD on 3/26…Philadelphia PA on 3/28…and Sayreville NJ on 3/29!
---Reknowned R&B band,
---Ann Wilson of Heart will tour solo again in 2017 and she’ll be coming to nearby cities within our greater region…Morristown NJ on 3/25…Alexandria VA on 3/29…Westbury NY on 3/30…Peekskill NY on 4/1…Londonderry NH on 4/2…Englewood NJ on 4/4…Glenside PA on 4/6…and Cranston RI on 4/7!
---Shawn Mullins adds a new leg on his Spring tour…Londonderry NY on 3/10…Pawling NY on 3/12…Fairfield CT on 3/14…NYC on 3/15…New Bedford MA on 3/16…and Cambridge MA on 3/17 & 3/18!
---Southern Culture On The Skids have announced a new leg on their 2017 tour, so far, which includes…Washington DC on 6/3…Pittsburgh PA on 6/4…Brooklyn NY on 6/6…Cambridge MA on 6/7…Pawtucket RI on 6/8…and Philadelphia PA on 6/9!
---84-year-old country Loretta Lynn will play 14 dates across America this year, mostly in the South or Midwest, but there will be a few near us…Brookville NY on 4/21…Tarrytown NY on 4/22…and Jim Thorpe PA on 5/12!
---Former Husker Du lead singer, Bob Mould, announces a two-night stand in NYC on 2/9 & 2/10!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Bobby Bare Jr. (formerly Bare Jr.) will play a one-off in NYC on 1/25!
---Wayne Newton is traveling outside his Las Vegas bubble a little bit this year…but only once in our region…Bethlehem PA on 3/24!
---John Oates has announced a tiny solo tour that will bring him to our region only once…in Sellersville PA on 2/11!
---Slick Rick, who is part of the “Back To The 80’s” tour has booked a one-shot solo show in NYC on 1/20!
---Grunge-era folk singer, Michelle Shocked, confirms a one-time-only show in NYC on 1/24!
---Teenage Fanclub have just announced a nine-date tour, but it only plays once anywhere near us…NYC on 3/27!
---New Order
have built a six-date tour, but only one date is outside of
---Here’s a great Mother’s Day one-shot package…Tyrese, Anthony Hamilton, Kem, Brandy and Major in NYC on 5/12!
---The Specials will play only one American show this year…6/9 in NYC!
---Lea Michele of Glee will play a one-shot show in NYC on 126!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Great White adds Jim Thorpe PA on 7/15!
---Aaron
Neville adds
---Marc Cohn
adds
---Delbert
McClinton adds
---Joe
Bonamassa adds Hershey PA on 2/28…and two nights in
---Kip Winger adds Warrendale PA, his only stop in our region, on 4/26!
---Break out popstars, Migos add NYC on 1/27!
---Former Eric Clapton and Roger Waters guitarist,
Doyle Bramhall II, adds
---The English Beat adds NYC on 3/3!
---Tauk
adds
---Vanilla Fudge finally adds some dates in our greater region…Fall River MA on 4/5…Shirley MA on 4/6…Riverhead NY on 4/7…and Pawling NY on 4/8!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Aaron Neville (1)
---Ann Wilson (8)
---Bayside/ Say Anything (6)
---Bob Mould (2)
---Bobby Bare Jr. (1)
---Dan Baird & Homemade Sin (2)
---Def Leppard/ Poison/ Tesla (5)
---Delbert McClinton (1)
---Doyle Bramhall II (2)
---Foreigner/ Cheap Trick/ Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience (1)
---Great White (1)
---Happy Together Tour (10)
---Joe Bonamassa (3)
---John Oates (1)
---Kip Winger (1)
---Lea Michele (1)
---Marc Cohn (5)
---Marco Benevento (1)
---Mastodon/ Eagles Of Death Metal/ Russian Circles (6)
---Michelle Shocked (1)
---Migos (1)
---Milky Chance (2)
---Minus The Bear/ Beach Slang/
---New Order (1)
---Panorama Festival (3)
---Pierce The Veil/ Falling In Reverse/ Crown The Empire (3)
---Psycroptic/ Seeker (2)
---Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby (6)
---Seeker/ Grindmother/ Cognitive/ Wvrm/ Inertia/ Beneath Me (7)
---Simple Plan (5)
---Slothrust/ Ian Sweet (4)
---Southern Culture On The Skids (6)
---State Champs/ Against The Current/ With Confidence/ Don Broco (6)
---Tauk (2)
---Teenage Fanclub (1)
---The English Beat (1)
---The Specials (1)
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---Trey Anastasio (4)
---Tyrese/ Anthony Hamilton/ Kem/ Brandy/ Major (1)
---U2/ The Lumineers (6)
---Vanilla Fudge (4)
---Wayne Newton (1)
---Zac Brown Band (16)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 011417:
---Just back from sometime off…well rested, but not totally without work. Check out the charts page for out Top 20 CD’s of 2016, as well as this week’s current chart! We’ve also updated our other features as well! A lot happened during the holidays, so let’s dive into this week’s Music News shall we?
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---Former lead singer and co-founder of “Yolk” and
“The Falconers,” local singer/ songwriter,
JimmyJohn McCabe announced a
new album on his facebook page on New Years Day!
The album, is to be called “Songs In Portuguese,” was produced by
Jeff Stachyra, of local band,
Dirt Farm and and NewClear
studios, and features 10 new songs!
It’s McCabe’s first new release since the break-up of “The
Falconers,” and reportedly he’s planning to release a few albums in
2017! McCabe says he wrote
three albums while he was in
---Brian
Wolff will be back in town in January making an appearance at…McGirks in
---Local folk-rocker and former Monkey’s Typing
guitarist, Steve Strauss has
announced, on his facebook page, that he’ll be going to Germany this
summer to record his fourth album.
Strauss is a star in
---Big Mean Sound Machine are opening a KickStarter campaign to help release their new album, “Runnin’ For The Ghost.” They’ve already raised more than half of the funds needed ($8,927 of $15,000) and if you’d like to help just click on this link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1317628628/big-mean-sound-machine-runnin-for-the-ghost-fundra
---The area’s only former American Idol contestant,
Kaitlyn Jackson of
---Got out to the
Tenzin Chopak and
Bess Greenberg show at the
Cyber Café West in
Greenberg, who has been an established local musician for four years now, is still humble about her playing as she learns to play lead and rhythm guitar, and not just bass. Greenberg also has a strong, clear voice in the style of the great grunge era women of the nineties and uses it well.
The Ithaca-based guitarist, Chopak; also announced that he was going into the studio in January to record his fourth album, which he intends to be a sparse project…just one mic, his voice and his guitar in one day. Sounds interesting. The show was subtle, intense, poignant and magic, yet at times it also rocked. If you missed it, you missed a good one.
---Another local musician has left our area, as
Adri Young finally gets her
---Trumansburg folk-rockers/ roots-rockers, Donna The Buffalo, have announced Winter and Spring 2017 tour dates and there will be plenty inside of our greater region…Beacon NY on 1/27…Jim Thorpe PA (Mauch Chunk Opera House) on 1/28…Norfolk CT on 1/29…Ardmore PA on 2/2…Saranac Lake NY on 2/8…Buffalo NY on 2/9…Pittsburgh PA on 2/11…Holyoke MA on 5/12…and NYC on 5/13! Former The Falconers bass player, Bess Greenberg (who also has associations with Milkweed and Donna The Buffalo) will open the shows in Saranac Lake NY on 2/8…and Buffalo NY on 2/9, and perhaps more!
---NYC based dirty funk band,
Tauk, will headline their own tour in 2017, following a series of
shows with Lettuce…a tour that will wrap in Ithaca NY at
The Haunt on 4/20! Other
dates include…
---Tim
Reynolds (guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band) will bring his solo
acoustic tour to the Westcott
Theatre in
---Audio
Adrenaline has booked a show at the
SRC Arena in
---While the Rongovian Embassy in Trumansburg NY is officially closed, they are occasionally open for shows that had been previously booked, so don’t pass on any shows that you wanted to see…like Marco Benevento on 2/1! Tickets are on sale now! No final word yet on whether or not there are any buyers for the iconic venue!
---Speaking of Trumansburg…Felicia’s Hive 45 posted on Christmas Eve that they would be closed until 1/19! Is everything closed down now in T-burg? Just wondering…
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The
Doobie Brothers and Chicago
are teaming up for a Summer 2017 tour that includes a ton of stops in
our greater region…Darien Center NY on 7/18…Toronto ON on 7/19…Camden NJ
on 7/21…Bethel NY (at Bethel
Woods) on 7/22…Holmdel NJ on 7/23…Saratoga Springs NY (at SPAC) on
7/25…Boston MA on 7/26…Wantagh NY on 7/28…and Bristow VA (washington dc
area) on 7/29!
---John
Fogerty, former lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival (for
those of you that don’t know), has booked a couple
---Kinks guitarist,
Dave Davies has announced a
trio of American concert dates, two of which are within the contours of
our region…Provincetown MA on 4/15…and Londonderry NH on 4/20!
Davies later added two nights in NYC on 4/11 & 4/12 at the
City Winery in
---How about the massive 80’s hip-hop touring
festival called, “Back To The
80’s Live” featuring some iconic names in the genre…Doug
E. Fresh, Slick Rick, Al B. Sure!, Hi Five, Force M.D.’s and
Big Daddy Kane!
Look for the festival to come to
---Barenaked Ladies have announced a 2017 Spring tour that begins in Niagara Falls On with two nights 3/1 & 3/2…Albany NY on 4/21…King of Prussia PA on 4/22…Huntington NY on 4/25…Ridgefield CT on 4/27…Englewood NJ on 4/28…and Burlington VT on 4/29!
---Former King Crimson guitarist, Adrian Belew, has booked a seven-date tour, which takes place entirely within our greater region…Vienna VA on 2/28…Sellersville PA on 3/1…Pawling NY on 3/2…Fairfield CT on 3/3…Burlington VT on 3/4…Cambridge MA on 3/5…and Buffalo NY on 3/7!
---Former Queensryche lead singer, Geoff Tate is headlining a solo tour, instead of stepping out with his new band, Operation: Mindcrime. The tour hits the U.S. in January and comes to our greater region in February…Vienna VA on 2/15…Pawling NY on 2/16…Niagara Falls NY on 2/17…Londonderry NH on 2/18…Amityville NY on 2/19…NYC on 2/20…State College PA on 2/21…and the previously announced Pittsburgh PA on 2/22!
---Blue October get back on the road this Spring with a dozen dates across America and a few near us…Pittsburgh PA on 3/19…Baltimore MD on 3/30…Stroudsburg PA on 3/31…and Philadelphia PA on 4/1!
---Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive has announced a pair of March shows at Niagara Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls ON on 3/30 & 3/31! Hopefully we’ll see Bachman on the road more. He only has a handful of dates, all booked thru the first three months of 2017!
---The Blast
Furnace Blues Festival in
---Candlebox has announced some American dates following a Winter European tour…Pawling NY on 3/9…Stroudsburg PA on 3/10…Oakmont PA on 3/18…and Pawling NY on 3/22!
---Big Daddy Kane has booked some solo dates (outside of the “Back To The 80’s” Tour) and brings his hip-hop skills to…Hauppage NY (long island) on 1/27…and Stroudsburg PA on 2/17!
---Singer/ songwriter and pop pianist,
Vanessa Carlton has announced 2017 Winter tour dates (some of which
were previously leaked) that will impact our greater region…Toronto ON
on 3/2…Montreal QC on 3/4…Cambridge MA on 3/6…Northampton MA on 3/7…Bay
Shore NY on 3/9…NYC on 3/10…and
---Check out the
Babyface (Kenny Edmonds)
three day Casino tour…Atlantic City NJ on 2/10…Niagara Falls NY on
2/11…and Bethlehem PA on 2/12!
After that
---Local H has announced a huge tour for a band that was a one-hit wonder during the grunge-era of the 90’s (remember “Bound For The Floor?”) with multiple stops in our region…Vienna VA on 4/24…Kennett Square PA on 4/27…Amityville NY on 4/28…Hoboken NJ on 4/29…Teaneck NJ on 4/30…Hamden CT on 5/2…Worcester MA on 5/5…Pennellville NY on 5/6…and Northampton PA on 5/7!
---Enter The
Haggis is booking shows for Winter 2017!
Check ‘em out in…
---Modern metal band Havok is taking Exmortus and Extinction A.D. on a Winter package tour thru North America…Toronto ON on 2/10…Montreal QC on 2/12…Somerville MA on 2/13…NYC on 2/14…Philadelphia PA on 2/15…and Rochester NY on 2/16!
---Metalcore band, Silent Planet is also on a Winter 2017 package tour with Ghost Key, Dayseeker and Hail The Sun…Toronto ON on 2/20…Rochester NY on 2/21…NYC on 2/22…and Worcester MA on 2/23!
---Howie Day has announced a tiny six-date tour that brings him to bigger cities inside our greater region…NYC on 2/23…Sellersville PA on 3/10…Washington DC on 3/11…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/12!
---Former Eric Clapton and Roger Waters guitarist,
Doyle Bramhall II, (more
recently of Experience Hendrix) has booked solo Winter dates…NYC on
1/27…
---Rival Sons have announced their own headline tour and will hit the road this Spring with the London Souls warming-up in…Toronto ON on 5/8…NYC on 5/16…and Boston MA on 5/17!
---Will Hoge has booked a trio of shows so far for 2017 and two of them are within a reasonable driving distance…Somerville MA on 1/27…and Pawling NY on 1/29!
---Deathmetal band,
Carnifex is taking a package
tour across America, but in a much more limited fashion than
usual…Brooklyn NY on 2/23…Pittsburgh PA on 3/8…and Toronto ON on 3/17!
Fallujah and
---KT Tunstall will be touring the hell out of Europe this summer warming up for Simple Minds, but in the meantime has only booked two shows in the U.S. near our area…Albany NY on 2/24…and Pawling NY on 2/26!
---Alternative band, the xx, have announced a major worldwide tour with regional stops in…Columbia MD on 5/6…Pittsburgh PA on 5/16…Philadelphia PA on 5/17…NYC on 5/19…Toronto ON on 5/23…and Montreal QC on 5/24!
---Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons have announced much of their 2017 itinerary, including…Bethlehem PA on 3/2…two nights in Atlantic City NJ on 3/3 & 3/4…then three more nights in Atlantic City NJ on 8/11, 8/12 & 8/13…and finally two nights in Westbury NY on 11/10 & 11/11!
---The Shins,
gearing up for a summer North American tour, maybe?
They’ve booked one date, in support of their new album (coming
out on 3/10 called “Heartworms.”) in Brooklyn on 6/15 following
announcements of shows on the West Coast in early March and in Europe,
in late March, and
---Poi Dog
Pondering has announced a two night stand in NYC on 3/24 & 3/25 at
the City Winery in
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Ray
LaMontagne books a one-off at
Niagara Fallsview Casino in
---Spin
Doctors book a one-shot show in
---Mike Peters, of The Alarm, has booked a show in NYC on 4/29 @ the Gramercy!
---Denny Laine, formerly of the Moody Blues and Wings will play a one-off in NYC on 1/28!
---Up-and-coming pop star,
gnash, has finally booked two dates…only one in our region however…
---The “Ladies Night Fest” at The B.C. in Brooklyn NY on 2/9 features some of the smoothest talents in R&B, Soul and Hip-Hop, including Brian McKnight, Keith Sweat, Eric Benet, Jagged Edge, Dru Hill, Silk and Big Daddy Kane!
---BBQ Fest in
---Wyclef Jean will play a one-off in NYC on 2/4 at Terminal 5!
---Blessid Union Of Souls returns (remember their 90’s hit, “Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)”?) with a one-off in Stroudsburg PA on 4/15!
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Chubby
Checker and the Wildcats add
---Three Dog Night add two nights in Niagara Falls ON on 2/1 & 2/2!
---Tommy James & the Shondells add Jim Thorpe PA on 4/7!
---10,000
Maniacs add
---Butch
Trucks adds a second night at StageOne in
---Rick
Springfield and Richard Marx
add
---Art Garfunkel adds two nights in NYC on 3/14 & 3/15!
---Buddy Guy
adds
---Southside
Johnny & the Asbury Jukes add two nights in
---Marc Cohn
adds
---.38
Special adds
---The band that never stops touring,
Rusted Root adds
---Todd
Snider adds
---Modern
English adds
---Robyn Hitchcock adds NYC on 2/28…and Sellersville PA on 3/2!
---Jesse
Colin Young adds
---Tempest
adds
---Steve
Forbert adds
---Kris
Kristofferson adds
---Dashboard
Confessional adds second nights in
---Safetysuit
adds
---The
Temptations, who previously announced a co-headlining date with the
Four Tops on 3/24 in Glenside PA…have added a solo show in
---Little
Anthony & the Imperials add…
---The
Spinners have also added two dates with
Little Anthony & the Imperials
warming-up…
---Billy
Joel adds his 41st show at MSG in NYC on 5/25…as well as
---Wait a minute…Marc Cohn adds two nights in NYC on 2/14 & 2/15…with Jackson Browne warming-up for him? Wow.
---Will Hoge adds NYC on 3/19!
---Todd Rundgren adds two shows in one night at the City Winery in NYC on 3/7…both of which will feature a totally spontaneous set list. Sounds cool!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---.38 Special (1)
---10,000 Maniacs (3)
---Adrian Belew (7)
---Art Garfunkel (2)
---Audio Adrenaline (1)
---Babyface (3)
---Back To The 80’s Live Tour (2)
---Barenaked Ladies (8)
---Big Daddy Kane (2)
---Billy Joel (3)
---Blessid Union Of Souls (1)
---Blue October (4)
---Buddy Guy (3)
---Butch Trucks (2)
---Candlebox (4)
---Carnifex/ Fallujah/
---
---Chubby Checker & the Wildcats (3)
---Dashboard Confessional (2)
---Dave Davies (4)
---Denny Laine (1)
---Doobie Brothers/ Chicago (9)
---Donna The
---Doyle Bramhall II (5)
---Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons (8)
---Geoff Tate (7)
---Godsmack/ Live/ Bush/ The Pretty Reckless/ The Struts/ Rival Sons (1)
---Howie Day (4)
---Jesse Colin Young (1)
---John Fogerty (2)
---Havok/ Exmortus/ Extintion A.D. (6)
---Kris Kristofferson (4)
---KT Tunstall (2)
---Ladies Night (1)
---Little Anthony & the Imperials (2)
---Local H (9)
---Marc Cohn/ Jackson Browne (3)
---Mike Peters (1)
---Modern English (1)
---Poi Dog Pondering (2)
---Queensryche (7)
---Randy Bachman (2)
---Ray LaMontagne (1)
---Rick Springfield/ Richard Marx (1)
---Rival Sons/ The
---Robyn Hitchcock (2)
---Rusted Root (2)
---Safetysuit (1)
---Silent Planet/ Ghost Key/ Dayseeker/ Hail The Sun (4)
---Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (2)
---Spin Doctors (1)
---Steve Forbert (1)
---Tauk (5)
---Tempest (2)
---The Shins (1)
---The Spinners/ Little Anthony & the Imperials (2)
---The Temptations (1)
---the xx (6)
---Three Dog Night (2)
---Tinsley Ellis (2)
---Todd Rundgren (2)
---Todd Snider (2)
---Tommy James & the Shondells (1)
---Vanessa Carlton (7)
---Will Hoge (3)
---Wyclef Jean (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 121716:
[Note: this will be our last report for 2016! We’ll see you all again in a few weeks! –Dave.]
---No sooner did we write about the transition from
---Local national touring folk-rockers,
Driftwood, have expanded their Winter “Friday & Saturday” Tour (a
name I’m giving it because it largely takes place on the weekend.) and
it now includes
---Local musician, John Kanazawich, remembered his mother last week on what would have been her 94th birthday. Irene Kanazawich, who was so prominent on the local music scene, as a teacher, mentor and a fan, who I remember coming out to support a Zarni de Wet show on at least one occasion, was also the subject of a regular column in the local newspaper, the Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin, called “A Life Lived.” If you missed it, here’s a link: http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/connections/life-lived/2016/12/16/life-lived-kanazawich/95095170.
P.S.
Kanazawich will play the
Ransom Steele Tavern in
---There should be plenty of new local music in the new year, as both Next To Kin and Raibred are planning on recording projects! For Raibred it will be their debut EP…meanwhile Next To Kin will be working on a full length album, with the intent of having the CD ready for release in the Spring of 2017! As always, stay tuned!
---Former Genesis guitarist,
Steve Hackett will play the
State Theatre in
---How good was that
Phish show at
The Arena back in ’95?
According to JamBase the
---Who in
---Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers will headline night #3 of Mountain Jam, at Hunter Mountain Ski Resort in Hunter NY on Saturday June 17th! Petty is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his break thru album and the show is part of a larger tour that also includes…Pittsburgh PA on 6/9…Hartford CT on 6/14…Newark NJ on 6/16…Philadelphia PA on 7/1…Canandaigua NY (at CMAC) on 7/2…Toronto ON on 7/15…Boston MA on 7/20…Baltimore MD on 7/23…and NYC on two nights to close out the tour on 7/26 & 7/27! Select dates will feature either Joe Walsh or Chris Stapleton.
---Speaking of Mountain Jam, other announced but not schedule acts for this year’s jam include: Steve Miller Band, Peter Frampton, Gary Clark Jr., Michael Franti & Spearhead and The Strumbella’s!
---Former Men At Work lead singer, Colin Hay has announced Winter 2017 dates and he’ll be as close as the Center For The Arts in Homer NY on 1/20! Additional dates on the tour include…Englewood NJ on 1/19…Niagara Falls ON on 1/21…two nights in Alexandria VA on 3/12 & 3/13…Glenside PA on 3/15…Boston MA on 3/17…and NYC on 3/18!
---A post from the Great Blue Heron Music Festival on their facebook page suggests a great holiday gift! It reads: “A reminder that you can still gift someone the magic of the Blue Heron. Tickets are on sale and are print-at-home so you can shop anytime! https://greatblueheron17.eventbrite.com.”
---PERSONAL
NOTE: Took a few days
off recently and took in shows by
Raibred (an amazing band that defies genre with a guitarist who
plays like a 20 year veteran, though by his own admission he’s only
played for six or seven years),
Donna The Buffalo (roots rockers who could easily be country but
aren’t…only one cowboy hat in the audience!
They played for four hours!
My first time at the Ransom Steele, too.
Quite an amazing venue!) and half of
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---The last of the great crooners,
Tony Bennett has booked a series of shows thru the winter and into
the spring of 2017, including
---Mariah Carey and Lionel Richie will join forces for a pretty cool double bill in several major cities in our greater region …Baltimore MD on 3/15…Newark NJ on 3/17…Philadelphia PA on 3/18…Pittsburgh PA on 3/21…Toronto ON on 3/30…NYC on 4/1…Boston MA on 4/7…and Uniondale NY on 4/8!
---The Happy
Together Tour will return in 2017 with a new line-up, so far
including The Cowsills, The Association and Three Dog Night’s Chuck
Negron! Only one date has
been set in stone so far…Keswick
Theatre in Glenside PA, just outside of
---Lead singer of the J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf has booked a small solo tour with a total of five-dates in April, all of which fall into our greater region…Beverly MA on 4/8…two nights in Fall River MA on 4/14 & 4/15…Ridgefield CT on 4/22…and Plymouth NH on 4/29!
---Here’s an interesting tour…Charlie Wilson with Johnny
Gill and Fantasia!
It’s only playing two dates in our greater region so far…
---Metal band,
Testament is bringing a
package tour to…
---Every Time I Die is also headlining a package tour with Knocked Loose, Harm’s Way and Eternal Sleep and they’ll be playing our area a ton…State College PA on 2/1…Whitehall PA on 2/2…Northampton MA on 2/3…NYC on 2/4…Howell NJ on 2/6…Washington DC on 2/7…Montreal QC on 3/5…South Burlington VT on 3/7…Cambridge MA on 3/9…and Amityville NY on 3/10!
---Johnny Rivers and the Lovin’ Spoonful will team-up for two dates near NYC…Montclair NJ on 3/16…and Westbury NY on 3/17! It’s a great idea and they should bring this tour nationwide if they can!
---Phantogram will tour in support of their new album, “3” this winter with nearby stops in…Providence RI on 1/12…Rochester NY on 1/13…Clifton Park NY on 1/14…Philadelphia PA (as part of Winter Jam) on 1/15…and Baltimore MD on 1/16!
---Skillet
is extending the “Unleashed” tour with
Devour The Day and
Sick Puppies again as show
openers! New dates include…
---The Southern Soul Assembly featuring J.J. Grey, Luther Dickinson, Anders Osborne and Marc Broussard will assemble a little more frequently this spring…as they tour America with a few dates inside our greater region…Washington DC on 3/11…Pittsburgh PA on 3/12…Tarrytown NY on 3/16…NYC on 3/17…Glenside PA on 3/18…and Fall River MA on 3/19!
---Modern metal band, DevilDriver returns with a Winter package tour, including Death Angel, Winds Of Plague, The Agonist and Azreal, that will be blasting into a town near you…Toronto ON on 2/15…Montreal QC on 2/16…Worcester MA on 2/17…Reading PA on 2/18…Patchogue NY on 2/19…Baltimore MD on 2/20!
---Ween’s off shoot, “Dean Ween Group” plays a nine-date tour in Winter 2016 with at least six dates within the confines of our region…Cambridge MA on 1/17…Pawtucket RI on 1/18…Brooklyn NY on 1/19…New Haven CT on 1/20…Baltimore MD on 1/21…and Pittsburgh PA on 1/22!
---Anthrax is adding onto their “For All Kings” tour with Killswitch Engage, who are also promoting a new album joining on for a new leg on a co-headlining tour! New dates include…Montclair NJ on 3/29…Silver Spring MD on 4/3…Wallingford CT on 4/4…Philadelphia PA on 4/5…Pittsburgh PA on 4/9…Toronto ON on 5/3…Huntington NY on 5/5…Clifton Park NY on 5/6…and Boston MA on 5/7!
---Cold War Kids have launched another leg of their existing tour, with two dates on the fringe of our region…Toronto ON on 3/22…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/23!
---Up and coming alternative band, k.flay has announced it’s full North American tour with a few dates near us…New York NY on 2/27…Buffalo NY on 3/2…Montreal QC on 3/4…and Toronto ON on 3/11!
---Secondhand
Serenade (aka the band name of singer/ songwriter John Vesely) is
back with an ambitious Winter 2017 tour that includes several cities in
our greater region…Pittsburgh PA on 3/9…Stanhope NJ on 3/10…Somerville
MA on 3/11…Reading PA on 3/12…NYC on 3/14…and Washington DC on 3/15!
---Black Stone Cherry have announced a mid-March/ early April 2017 leg to their existing Winter tour, including a few dates inside our greater region…Lancaster PA on 3/20…Asbury Park NJ on 3/21…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/22! Opening acts will be Caleb Johnson and Through Fire!
---Bad Suns return with a 14-date swing across America and only three dates within our Bingo-entric zone…Toronto ON on 3/8…Pittsburgh PA on 3/9…and Baltimore MD on 3/11!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Modern
English have booked a one-timer at
Rough Trade in
---Michael
Sweet of Stryper books a solo one-off show at The Chance in
---Joss
Stone books a one-off in
---Robyn
Hitchcock is essentially playing a one-off (his only other dates so
far this year are in
TOUR TWEAKING:
---The
Commodores add
---Michael
W. Smith (presently on tour with Amy Grant) adds a solo show in
---Norah
Jones adds two nights in
---Matisyahu adds a fourth night in NYC on 12/26!
---LeAnn Rimes adds NYC on 2/4!
---Christopher
Cross adds
---Due to demand
Deadmau5 has added three more
nights in
---Billy
Joel adds another show to his ongoing once-a-month residency at
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Anthrax/ Killswitch Engage (9)
---Bad Suns (3)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Black Stone Cherry/ Caleb Johnson/ Through Fire (3)
---Charlie Wilson/ Johnny Gil/ Fantasia (2)
---Christopher Cross (1)
---Cold War Kids (2)
---Colin Hay (8)
---Deadmau5 (3)
---Dean Ween Group (6)
---DevilDriver (6)
---Every Time I Die/ Knocked Loose/ Harm’s Way/ Eternal Sleep (10)
---Happy Together Tour (1)
---Johnny Rivers/ The Lovin’ Spoonful (2)
---Joss Stone (1)
---k.flay (4)
---LeAnn Rimes (1)
---Mariah Carey/ Lionel Richie (8)
---Matisyahu (1)
---Michael Sweet (1)
---Michael W. Smith (1)
---Modern English (1)
---Norah Jones (2)
---Peter Wolf (5)
---Phantogram (5)
---Robyn Hitchcock (1)
---Secondhand Serenade (6)
---Skillet/ Sick Puppies/ Devour The Day (4)
---Southern Soul Assembly (6)
---Testament/ Sepultura/ Prong (7)
---The Commodores (1)
---Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (11)
---Tony Bennett (5)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 121016:
---It appears the story of the week is the “what
goes around comes around,” evolution of
Magic City Music Hall which
announced that it will morph back into “A Touch Of Texas!”
This brings the venue full circle as it originally started out as
“A Touch Of Texas,” before it became the iconic
---Local folk-rockers,
Driftwood has booked a
seven-date, month-long, mini-tour, starting on New Years Eve at the
bands homebase, the Ransom Steele
Tavern in
---Another great alternative band, The Head And The Heart, are set to play the State Theatre in Ithaca NY on 3/4…they’ll also play Pittsburgh PA on 3/1…Buffalo NY on 3/2…and Burlington VT on 3/5!
---Regional jam band faves, moe. will end their Winter hibernation with an eleven date Spring tour starting in Syracuse NY on Saturday March 4th at the F Shed at the Market…The tour is also coming to Montclair NJ on 3/30…New Haven CT on 3/31…Huntington NY on 4/1…and four nights in Cambridge MA on 4/5, 6, 7 and 8! Tickets went on sale on 12/9!
---Local guitar legend,
Randy McStine has announced
that he is fund raising for a new solo album via his facebook page!
McStine posted on 12/1 that is copied from my page and pasted
below: “A pre-order for my new solo album,
Blank, is now live at www.pledgemusic.com/randymcstine. Blank
is my first solo collection in over a decade. Adam Holzman (Miles Davis,
Steven Wilson) and Jesse Molloy (Panic! At The Disco, Crush Effect) are
my featured guests, and Dave Gregory (XTC, Big Big Train) also
contributed some beautiful string arrangements.
Join me in this effort between
now and December 15th, and receive an exclusive download containing
previously unreleased material. Please share with friends who might also
be interested. Your support of Blank through PledgeMusic will build a
strong future for my record. Thank you!--- Randy”
Here’s a link to McStine’s facebook
page as well:
https://www.facebook.com/randy.mcstine/videos/1390865500938305
---Intentionally or not there was apparently a
Monkey’s Typing reunion at
the Cyber Café West in
---Zarni
de Wet says her show in
---Next of Kin have recorded new music. Band member, guitarist, Mary Tewksbury has posted a link to the songs video on facebook! Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/YwPf4viSgWE
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Guns N’
Roses will indeed be back in
---Stevie
Nicks, of Fleetwood Mac and
The Pretenders have extended their tour with a new leg…and that
means more regional dates!
See them in…
---Reknowned lead singer of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry has booked a massive worldwide tour in 2017…but just a few dates near us…Schenectady NY on 3/30…Pittsburgh PA on 4/1…and Montreal QC on 4/3!
---Mayday Parade is back on the road this spring with a package tour featuring Knuckle Puck and Milestones and they’ll be coming into the northeast…Pittsburgh PA on 4/28…Buffalo NY on 5/2…Toronto ON on 5/3…Boston MA on 5/5…New Haven CT on 5/6…Clifton Park NY on 5/7…NYC on 5/9…Sayreville NJ on 5/12…Philadelphia PA on 5/13…and Silver Spring MD on 5/14!
---Masked DJ, Deadmau5 has announced a 13-date party across America, starting in NYC on 3/29, and then continuing in…Camden NJ on 4/7…Columbia MD on 4/8…and Lowell MA on 4/10! [Note: Before this report was posted Deadmau5 added a second night in NYC on 3/30!]
---Dashboard
Confessional has confirmed a month long trek thru
---New Found Glory is celebrating their 20th anniversary with an extensive tour that brings them to all the major cities in America, and spending multiple nights in many of them…Baltimore MD on 3/22…Philadelphia PA on 3/23 & 3/24…Asbury Park NJ on 3/25 & 3/26…Boston MA on 3/30 & 3/31…and NYC on 4/1 & 4/2! On many of these dates they will also be performing entire albums! It should be a very cool trip!
---Wilco has announced a short, eight date, Spring 2017 excursion with six dates on the periphery of our greater region…Toronto ON on 3/15 & 3/16…and a four-night stay at the Beacon Theatre in NYC on 3/18, 19, 21 & 22! Tickets went on sale on 12/2!
---Alt-rockers, We The Kings, have confirmed their Winter 2017 tour littering dates all over our regional area…Baltimore MD on 2/19…Philadelphia PA on 2/20…Asbury Park NJ on 2/22…Hartford CT on 2/23…NYC on 2/24…Pawtucket RI on 2/25…Boston MA on 2/26…Toronto ON on 2/28…and Pittsburgh PA on 3/2!
---Original Scorpions guitarist,
Uli Jon Roth has booked a solo tour for Winter 2017, dates include…
---Grunge era alt-rocker, PJ
Harvey returns with new American dates…Toronto ON on 4/13…Montreal
QC on 4/15…Boston MA on 4/17...Brooklyn NY on 4/20…and Philadelphia PA
on 4/21!
---Alt-country band,
Son Volt have confirmed their
2017 schedule with stops in…
---Mainstream jazz singer, Steve Tyrell, has booked a 19 night residency at the Café Carlyle in NYC…playing Tuesday’s thru Saturday’s and then taking two days off to regroup! He started his 19-night stand this past Tuesday on 12/6 and it will last thru Friday night 12/30!
---Jojo, who is playing a lot of Winter and Holiday festivals thru December is touring doing a solo tour this spring including…Washington DC on 3/28…Pittsburgh PA on 4/22…Buffalo NY on 4/23…Philadelphia PA on 4/22…Boston MA on 4/30…NYC on 5/2…and Huntington NY on 5/3!
---Former lead singer of Triumph,
Rik Emmett adds to his paltry tour schedule for 2017…Pompton Lakes
NJ on 4/22…and
---Ice Nine Kills goes on the road with Chasing Safety for a handful of dates in January…Webster NY on 1/4…Whitehall PA on 1/5…Stanhope NJ on 1/6…Hamden CT on 1/7…and Peabody MA on 1/8!
---The Joy Formidable announced a small, seven-date tour for Winter 2017, with two dates near us in…NYC on 3/1…and Somerville MA on 3/2!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Super-group in the making or rock & roll master class? Whatever the case, guitarist, Billy Gibbons of Z.Z. Top and Blues Traveler singer, Johnny Popper have teamed-up for a one-shot performance on 12/16 at the HighLine Ballroom in NYC on 12/16!
---The Lox and Funkmaster Flex have booked a one-off in NYC on 12/15 at the HighLine Ballroom!
---Patti Rothberg (remember, “Inside,” her 90’s hit?) joins forces with Frank and Evil Jake for a one-off in NYC on 12/23 at Arlene’s Grocery.
---Cymbals
Eat Guitars and
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Buster
Poindexter (david johansen of
---Al Jarreau adds Glenside PA on 2/19! So far, it’s his only show in the northeast in 2017! Most of his schedule next year is done on a boat.
---Colin Hay, formerly of Men At Work, adds Glenside PA on 3/15!
---The L.A.
Guns ft. Tracii Guns & Phil Lewis tour must be going pretty
well…they’ve finally booked a date in the northeast…
---Aaron
Lewis of Staind, adds another date to his solo country tour…4/28 in
---Blood
Sweat & Tears
---The
Association adds
---Lou Gramm
adds
---Walter
Trout adds Shirley MA on 7/13…
---Puddle Of
Mudd adds
---Foghat
adds
---Southside
Johnny & the Asbury Jukes add
---The
Subdudes add…
---Z.Z. Top adds Jim Thorpe PA on 2/28…and NYC on 3/1!
---Billy Joel adds NYC on 3/3!
---The Flaming Lips add a second night in NYC on 3/10!
---The Box
Tops add
---Mike Love’s touring version of
The Beach Boys add
---Tommy
James & the Shondells add
---Herman’s
Hermits ft. Peter Noone add
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Aaron Lewis (1)
---Al Jarreau (1)
---Beach Boys (1)
---Billy Gibbons/ Johnny Popper (1)
---Billy Joel (1)
---Blood Sweat & Tears (2)
---Bryan Ferry (3)
---Buster Poindexter (1)
---Colin Hay (1)
---Cymbals Eat Guitars/
---Dashboard Confessional (4)
---Deadmau5 (5)
---Driftwood (6)
---Foghat (1)
---Guns N’ Roses (3)
---Ice Nine Kills/ Chasing Safety (5)
---Jojo (7)
---
---Lou Gramm (1)
---Mayday Parade/ Knuckle Puck/ Milestones (10)
---moe. (8)
---New Found Glory (9)
---Patti Rothberg/ Frank/ Evil Jake (1)
---PJ Harvey (5)
---Puddle Of Mudd/ Saving Abel (1)
---Rik Emmett (2)
---Son Volt (7)
---Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (5)
---Steve Tyrell (19)
---Stevie Nicks/ The Pretenders (5)
---Tayler Dayne (1)
---The Association (1)
---The Box Tops (1)
---The Flaming Lips (1)
---The Head And The Heart (3)
---The Joy Formidable (2)
---The Lox/ Funkmaster Flex (1)
---We The Kings (9)
---The Subdudes (5)
---Tommy James & the Shondells (1)
---Uli Jon Roth (4)
---Walter Trout Band (3)
---Wilco (6)
---Z.Z. Top (2)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 120316:
---On The Roxx closes again, hopefully it’s only temporary! The property is apparently in the process of being sold to new owners, which may mean changes. On The Roxx posted on their facebook page about the abrupt closure:
“Yes! Yes! It is true,,, OTR has officially closed for business as of
11/14/16!! We know,,, no notice…not the way we wanted but…we had to turn
in the liquor license to NY State so the new owners of the property can
obtain theirs! (NY will not finish their process unless mine was turned
in).
There is too much love and thanks to
ever express to our family, friends, employees, bands, and patrons over
the last 13 years.”
Hope the new owners keep the place open!
On The Roxx has
already moved twice, from
---The
Rongovian Embassy in
---Pinecone Fletcher, the local master of the Cigar Box guitar (who recently released a new album, “Live From The Glenwood Bakery.”), also makes them and sells them, sometimes to clients not just in town but around the world and Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin entertainment writer, Chris Kocher has taken notice with a piece on Pinecone that will appeared on the front page in last Thursdays’ (11/24) edition. You go, “Coney!” The piece was picked up by other regional Gannett newspapers. Here’s a link, so you can check it out yourselves:
---Kocher had a busy and musical week with a headline feature in Thursdays “Go” insert in the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin on local folk-rockers, Driftwood and their new album, “City Lights.” Here’s a link for that as well:
---Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real and The Infamous Stringdusters are the first bands announced to Mountain Jam 2017! These bands have been named to night #4 of the annual festival, Sunday June 18th!
---Former
---Our condolences to another local singer,
songwriter and pianist/ keyboard player,
John Kanazawich, who lost his
mother, a locally noteworthy piano player and teacher in her own right
who launched more than one musical career, on Monday 11/21.
Since my reporting on local music began nearly ten years ago, it
has been my happy occasion to see her accompany her son at various
events at which he has played or promoted.
Sad to know she can no longer do that and her presence at them be
missed. A memorial was held Monday (11/28) at
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Eric
Clapton is taking a short 50th Anniversary tour in the
U.S. and the U.K.---but don’t expect too much from the 70-year-old
rocker, who is suffering from Peripheral Neuropathy, which makes playing
the guitar increasingly difficult for him.
He has only booked four dates in
---Dead & Company featuring John Mayer and three core members of the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart; have announced a Spring 2017 tour that looks a lot like a major summer trek…Burgettstown PA on 6/15…two nights in Boston MA on 6/17 & 6/18…Saratoga Springs NY on 6/20…NYC on 6/24…and Camden NJ on 6/25!
---Kanye West, after going on several rants during his concerts in the last few weeks (this, while in Sacramento CA, about Beyonce (after which he dropped the mic and ended the show, which was only 30 minutes old) prior to that about Trump and previously to that, about Jay Z) has decided to cancel the remaining shows on his Life Of Pablo tour shortly after which he was hospitalized for exhaustion. West had 21 dates left, nine of which fall inside our greater region. Please get your money back at your point of purchase.
---Neil Diamond has booked a massive “50th Anniversary” tour for 2017 and of course, he’ll be playing dates in northeast…Rochester NY on 6/4…Toronto ON on 6/7…Baltimore MD on 6/9…Uncasville CT on 6/11…NYC on 6/15 & 6/17…Philadelphia PA on 6/20…and Bethel NY on 6/22!
---The artist formerly known as
Mos Def has changed his name and is retiring from the music
business! Mos Def will now
be known as Yasiin Bey and his farewell tour will play NYC on 12/21…and
---Keith
Sweat is coming back around in the Spring!
Sweat just played Blue
Cross Arena in
---John Doe, formerly of X has announced an eight-date Winter 2017 tour, half of which is set to take place in our greater region…Vienna VA on 2/21…Sellersville PA on 2/22…Portsmouth NH on 2/25…and NYC on 2/28!
---Sebastiah
Bach, formerly of Skid Row has announced a book signing tour on
behalf of the release of his new autobiography, “18
and Life on Skid Row.”
It’s not a performance, but a chance for a brush with greatness,
if you’re a fan…in
---Sting has confirmed tour dates for his new album, “57th and 9th,” and they’ll bring him to our greater region this Spring…Toronto ON on 3/5…Montreal QC on 3/6…Boston MA on 3/8…Uncasville CT on 3/9…Philadelphia PA on 3/11…Washington DC on 3/12…and NYC on 3/14!
---The
---the I Love The 90’s tour will return in 2017 with a new line-up and an expanded itinerary, including…Montreal QC on 2/16…Eric PA on 2/17…and Utica NY on 2/18! This time the line-up will include Vanilla Ice, Naughty By Nature, All-4-One, Color Me Badd, Young M.C., C&C Music Factory and SNAP ft. Thea Austin!
---Rick
Springfield is stepping back out on the road from Mid-December thru
Mid-February 2017 at…Red Bank NJ on 12/14…
---Get The Led Out, the Led Zeppelin tribute band has announced more dates for 2017…New Haven CT on 2/16…State College PA on 4/13…Tarrytown NY on 4/15…Hampton Beach NH on 4/29…Red Bank NJ on 5/19…Dewey Beach DE on 6/15…Boston MA on 8/10…and Ocean City NJ on 8/14 & 8/15!
---Falling In Reverse, Issues and Motionless In White will co-headline a 24-date tour across America with regional stops in…NYC on 1/27…Philadelphia PA on 1/28…Silver Spring MD on 1/29…Boston MA on 1/31…and Pittsburgh PA on 2/1!
---Lost rock star,
Rodriguez, has booked a show
in our greater region…on 6/15 at Keswick Theatre in Glenside PA near
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---Buster
Poindexter (david johansen from the
---The Winter Jam line-up is set for
Xfinity Live in
---Zebra
and Vixen have teamed-up for
tasty one-off in
---Geoff
Tate, formerly of Queensryche and more recently of Operation:
Mindcrime and Trinity, has booked a solo one-off in
---Candlebox
has plotted a tour in the
---The
Chainsmokers, DNCE, Jake Miller, Daya, Jon Bellion, JoJo and
Jacob Whitesides are the line-up for
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Dark Star
Orchestra adds
---Y&T
flip flops
---Steve
Forbert adds Mifflinburg PA on 3/3…and
---Johnny
Winter’s All Star Band fr. Paul Nelson adds
---Vanessa
Carlton adds
---The
Subdudes add
---Mike Love’s version of The Beach Boys adds Glenside PA on 4/1!
---Judy Collins is on a solo tour starting next month, but ends the tour teaming up with Stephen Stills for a one shot set in Glenside PA on 8/25!
---Lauryn
Hill of The Fugees adds
---Andy
Grammer adds
---Bon Iver
adds two more nights in
---Pat
Benatar adds
---Spyro
Gyra adds
---Sonny
Landreth adds
---Safetysuit
adds
---Metallica
adds
---Rusted
Root adds
---The Head
And The Heart adds
---Bon Jovi
added
---Joan Osborne adds NYC on 1/6!
NEW
DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Andy Grammer/ Sir Cadian Rhythm/ Oak & Ash (1)
---Bon Iver (2)
---Bon Jovi (6)
---Buster Poindexter (1)
---Candlebox (1)
---Dark Star Orchestra (1)
---Dead & Company (6)
---Eric Clapton/ Gary Clark Jr./ Jimmy Vaughn (2)
---Falling In Reverse/ Issues/ Motionless In White (5)
---Geoff Tate (1)
---Get The Led Out (9)
---Grouplove/ Phantogram/
---I Love The 90’s (3)
---Joan Osborne (1)
---John Doe (4)
---Johnny Winter’s All-Star Band ft. Paul Nelson (1)
---Judy Collins/ Stephen Stills (1)
---Kanye West (-9)
---Keith Sweat (3)
---Lauryn Hill (1)
---Metallica (1)
---Mos Def (4)
---Neil Diamond (8)
---Pat Benatar (1)
---Rick Springfield (5)
---
---Rodriguez (1)
---Rusted Root (2)
---Safetysuit (1)
---Sebastian Bach (4)
---Sonny Landreth (1)
---Spyro Gyra (8)
---Steve Forbert (2)
---Sting (7)
---The Beach Boys (1)
---The Head And The Heart/ Whitney (1)
---The Subdudes (1)
---Vanessa Carlton (3)
---Y&T (1)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Off For Thanksgiving!
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Music News for 111916:
---East Coast Bigfoot is no more. Singer/ guitarist, Devinne Meyers broke the news on facebook on Friday (11/18): Here’s a portion of her post:
“Change is always inevitable, but should never be feared - though this
is hard news to break. That being said, East Coast Bigfoot's final
appearance was at the Ransom Steele a couple weeks ago. I sincerely wish
Ty and Ricky well in their endeavors, and thank them tremendously for
the work, talent, and time that was invested in this project. It was not
easy, but these guys made it worth every minute rehearsed, every mile
driven, and it was all the fun in the world.
You can still find all your favorites from the band playing in other
projects! You can catch Ty with the Lutheran Skirts, Zydeco
I happened to run into
Devinne on
recently at the
Cyber Café West in
---Zarni de
Wet (now known professionally as Zarni deVette.) recently posted a
new song, and while that sounds fairly routine considering that she is
now a professional songwriter for a
https://soundcloud.com/zarni-music/criminal-habits
---Sadly, we now know that Leon Russell will not only never play Magic City Music Hall, but he won’t make it to Binghamton either. Russell who was booked twice this year, only to have heart by-pass surgery, followed by a lengthy recovery period that he never escaped from, forcing the rescheduling date to also be missed. Russell died without ever regaining his health following surgery. He was 74. Of course, the famed local venue also has closed as of the end of October. Russell was set to play there on October 7th, however his ill health forced a last minute cancellation the day before.
---Jackson
Browne takes to the road this Spring with more than a dozen dates,
mostly thru Canada…but a few in the northeast…and one as close as Ithaca
NY on 4/8, at the State Theatre!
You can also see Browne in…Hershey PA on 4/5…
---The Lyle
Lovett/ John Haitt co-headlining tour has announced a booking at the
State Theatre in
---Dawes are also booking Winter/ Spring tour dates for 2017, that also include two nights in Ithaca, at the State Theatre, on 3/15 and 3/18…as well as other stops in our greater region…Wilmimgton DE on 3/7…Washington DC on 3/8…NYC on 3/10…Boston MA on 3/11…Hartford CT on 3/12…Northampton MA on 3/14…and Toronto ON on 3/17!
---Congrats to the
Red Jug Pub, in
---While we’re at it, congrats also to the Heavily Brewing Company in Montour Falls NY marking their 2nd Anniversary this week, with The Overrated playing a special performance on Saturday night @ 7p!
---Young The Giant are set to play Syracuse NY, at The F Shed, on 2/20 as they’ve released a bevy of Winter 2017 tour dates this week, also including…Albany NY on 2/23…Providence RI on 2/24…and New Haven CT on 2/25!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Bruno Mars is taking his “24K Magic” album on tour in Summer 2017 and he’ll be making plenty of stops in our greater regional area…Pittsburgh PA on 8/22…Two nights in Toronto ON on 8/26 & 8/27…Montreal QC on 8/29…NYC on 9/22…Newark NJ on 9/26…Buffalo NY on 9/27…Washington DC on 9/29…Brooklyn NY on 10/4…Uniondale NY on 10/5…Boston MA on 10/7…and Philadelphia PA on 10/10!
---One of the last of the blues greats, Buddy Guy will play some solo dates in Spring 2017 after the Experience Hendrix tour, some co-headlining dates with The Rides and a Bluesfest appearance in Australia…Buffalo NY on 4/21…Toronto ON on 4/22…Ridgefield CT on 4/25…Greensburg PA on 5/14…and Red Bank NJ on 5/17!
---Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness (featuring singer Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin, who is also a solo artist), has announced a huge Spring 2017 tour that is coming to our greater region as early as April…Pittsburgh PA on 4/1…Toronto ON on 4/4…South Burlington VT on 4/5…Philadelphia PA on 4/7…Boston MA on 4/8…New Haven CT on 4/9…NYC on 4/11…Sayreville NJ on 4/12…and Silver Spring MD on 4/14!
---If you’re in a retro mood for 2017 have we got a tour for you...New Kids On The Block, Paula Abdul and Boyz II Men are teaming up for a Summer 2017 tour across America, with stops in…Toronto ON on 6/20…Buffalo NY on 6/23…Philadelphia PA On 6/24…Washington DC on 6/25…Brooklyn NY on 6/27…Pittsburgh PA on 7/1…Newark NJ on 7/2…Allentown PA on 7/5…Uncasville CT on 7/6…Uniondale NY on 7/7…Boston MA on 7/8…and Albany NY on 7/9!
---Orgy and Powerman 5000 have joined forces to mount a co-headlining tour that will pass thru our greater region during Winter 2017, including…Toronto ON on 1/10…Poughkeepsie NY on 1/12…and Providence RI on 1/14!
---The annual
Clearwater Festival/ Great Hudson
River Revival has confirmed their dates for Saturday and Sunday,
June 17th & 18th at
Croton Point Park in the town of
---Break out artist Dae Dae has announced more dates this month with a last minute tour…some of these dates are already played having been announced less than a week before this report went to bed, including…Pittsburgh PA on 11/17…Harrisburg PA on 11/18…Long Island City NY on 11/20…Cambridge MA on 11/21…Baltimore MD on 11/25…and two nights in Philadelphia PA on 11/26 & 11/27!
---Dennis DeYoung, formerly of Styx, has announced a small spread out tour that will play a few dates in our greater region…New Brunswick NJ on 3/10…and Staten Island NY on 4/21!
---Singer/ songwriter Kris Kristofferson is playing a few select dates across the country, spread out over the next few months, including a few dates near us…Glenside PA on 1/25…and Greensburg PA on 1/27!
---Vanilla
Fudge snuck up on us this week, with last minute shows in Jim Thorpe
PA on Friday (11/18)…and Bay Shore NY (11/19), but don’t worry…inspite
of those last minute announcements there are still a few shows after the
holidays to look forward to...
---Pat Benatar is announcing her annual Spring/ Summer tour dates, but so far, only a few…Tarrytown NY on 3/2…Staten Island NY on 3/4…Red Bank NJ on 3/7…Portsmouth NH on 3/8!
---A select group of musicians headed by Warren
Haynes of Gov’t Mule and the Allman Brothers Band, Michael McDonald of
The Doobie Brothers, Jamey Johnson, John Medeski and Don Was; are taking
the Last Waltz on tour for
the 40th Anniversary of the historic last album and final
tour by The Band! The tour is
coming to…Red Bank NJ on 1/27…
---Less Than Jake are taking a Winter 2017 trek across the US with opening act, Pepper, and they’ll be making a few nearby stops…Pittsburgh PA on 2/10…Clifton Park NY on 2/12…Boston MA On 2/16…NYC on 2/17…Huntington NY on 2/18…Philadelphia PA on 2/19…and Baltimore MD on 2/21!
---Alternative band, Grouplove will take a Winter 2017 trip across America visiting a few spots in the Northeast…Sayreville NJ on 3/17…Baltimore MD on 3/21…and Port Chester NY on 3/22!
---Switchfoot
and Relient K will hook
up for an American trek with a few stops inside our region…
---The master of funk, George Clinton and P-Funk will return to the road this winter with shows in…Pittsburgh PA on 2/16…Washington DC on 2/23…Boston MA on 2/25…and NYC on 2/28!
---Senses Fail have announced a package tour that will cross the country with Counterparts, Movements and Like Pacific, coming this Spring to…Baltimore MD on 3/15…NYC on 3/18…Boston MA on 3/19…Pittsburgh PA on 3/21…Philadelphia PA on 3/22…Sayreville NJ on 3/23…and Toronto ON on 3/24!
ONE SHOW ONLY:
---The “Kickass
Christmas Show” at Stage
AE in
---Ricky
Martin just announced a major tour that plays all over
TOUR TWEAKING:
---Air
Supply adds
---David
Lindley adds
---Lake
Street Dive adds
---Kings X
adds
---The
Struts add
---Aztec
Two-Step adds
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Air Supply (1)
---Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness (9)
---Anvil/ Night Demon/ Graveshadow (5)
---Aztec Two-Step (1)
---Bruno Mars (12)
---Buddy Guy (5)
---
---Dae Dae (7)
---David Lindley (1)
---Dawes (9)
---Dennis DeYoung (2)
---George Clinton & P-Funk (4)
---Grouplove (3)
---Jackson Browne (8)
---Kings X (1)
---Kris Kristofferson (2)
---
---Less Than Jake/ Pepper (7)
---Lyle Lovett/ John Haitt (9)
---New Kids On The Block/ Paul Abdul/ Boyz II Men (12)
---Orgy/ Powerman 5000 (3)
---Pat Benatar (4)
---Ricky Martin (1)
---Senses Fail/ Counterparts/ Movements/ Like Pacific (7)
---Switchfoot/ Relient K (3)
---The Last Waltz 40 Tour (6)
---The Struts (1)
---Vanilla Fudge (3)
---Young The Giant (4)
*#’s in parenthesis are amount of new
dates by each act this week!
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Music News for 111216:
---Maybe this
Gary Wilson Christmas album
isn’t a joke…maybe it’s the real thing!
If you’re not familiar with Gary Wilson, he’s an
Endicott native, and star of the documentary “You
Think You Really
Wintertime
In
Santa Claus Is Coming To My Lonely Town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuVwl1Y1rxA
I Saw Santa Dancing In The Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZD9K6TilMo
Lonely
Cindy Wants To Cry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zID8H6fOS0
A Christmas Tree For Two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80L7k2H2Wg
The Snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdnVaPnL2MM
A Sled Ride Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbvxcLsBOl0
A Date For New Years Eve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwfQWfaHkRM
---Cigarbox Guitar player,
Pinecone Fletcher is adding
Edward Gliha and Daniel Dunham of The Woodshed Prophets to his band,
but for one night! Fletcher
is gearing up for his big CD release party at
The Spotlight in
---The Wizards Of Winter, the latest Trans-Siberian/ Mannheim Steamroller clone, already set to play The Forum in Binghamton NY on 12/2 have added appearances in…Scranton PA On 12/3…Parsippany NJ on 12/7…and Hagerstown MD on 12/22!
---KC & the Sunshine Band are set to play the Keystone Ballroom @ (Mohegan sun at…) Pocono Downs in Wilkes-Barre PA on 11/20, as well as making some other nearby stops in our region, including…the previously announced date in Toronto ON on 11/17…and Bayside NY on 11/19!3
---The Guess
Who, has also booked their only in the northeast at
Pocono Downs in
---Steve Forbert has announced a new set of shows for Winter 2017, including an appearance in Jim Thorpe PA at the Mauch Chunk Opera House on 2/4, plus…New Hope PA on 12/10…Philadelphia PA on 2/3…Dover NH on 2/10…Cambridge MA on 2/11…Vienna VA on 2/18…and Pittsburgh PA on 12/9!
REGIONAL ROUND-UP:
---Gregg Allman has had to cancel his entire run of dates at the City Winery in Manhatten, this week due to a bruised vocal chord, which doctors have advised that he should rest. Therefore, the blues singer has rescheduled the series of shows for July 2017, so hold onto your tickets and check the new dates…7/2-3, 7/5-6, 7/9-10, 7/12-13 and 7/16-17!
---The Red Hot Chili Peppers have added an early Spring leg to their tour, in support of their latest album, “The Getaway,” including…Washington DC on 4/12…Pittsburgh PA on 5/11…Montreal QC on 6/20…and Hamilton ON on 6/22! No word yet on when tickets go on sale, or who’ll be opening up!
---Reel Big Fish have finally announced their entire 2017 tour itinerary and have added Anti-Flag to the bill so the final rundown now looks like this…Pittsburgh PA on 1/11…Toronto ON on 1/13…Montreal QC on 1/14…Boston MA on 1/15…Silver Spring MD on 1/17…(the previously announced) NYC on 1/18…Philadelphia PA on 1/19…Sayreville NJ on 1/20…and Atlantic City NJ on 4/9!
---Railroad Earth is also announcing their 2017 tour dates this week and for our region that includes…State College PA on 2/2…Philadelphia PA on 2/3…(the previously announced) Port Chester NY on 2/4…and Washington DC on 3/10 & 3/11!
---The Magpie Salute (which is The Black Crowes without former lead singer, Chris Robinson) is booking shows finally, starting with a four-night stand at The Gramercy in NYC from 1/19 thru 1/22!
---Steve Forbert is adding on and expanding! The singer/ songwriting will play the City Winery in Manhattan (NYC) on 11/20 as well as…New Hope PA on 12/10…Philadelphia PA on 12/3…Jim Thorpe PA on 2/4…Dover NH on 2/10…Cambridge MA on 2/11…Vienna VA on 2/18…and …and Pittsbugh PA on 12/9!
---Keller
Williams and Leo Kottke
have teamed-up for a Winter 2017 tour that includes a handful of dates
in our greater region…
---
---Hair metal band, Kix has announced a few one-off dates…Camp Hill PA on 11/26…Brunswick MD on 12/26…and Dewey Beach DE on 7/13!
---Bring Me The Horizon has scheduled a Spring 2017 tour with Underoath and Beartooth and it’s coming to our larger region…Montreal QC on 3/17…Lowell MA on 3/18…NYC on 3/20…Philadelphia PA on 3/22!
---Rickie
Lee Jones (remember “Chuck E’s In Love?”)…has booked a few regional
shows…