posted by Alex on Mar 31
James McMurtry is all set to embark on a complete tour of North America to promote his new album “Just Us Kids”. The concert tour kicks off with a performance at Austin Waterloo Records and will be followed by a couple of shows at the Continental Club on April 15th and 16th. McMurtry fans are pretty much excited about their hero performing in front of them and will be large numbers to show their support to their superstar.
James McMurtry who writes his own songs will be traveling with his band to perform in Country Store in Texas on April 18, New York City’s Bowery Ballroom on May 1st, Granada Theater in Dallas on 26th April and also in places like Chicago, Kansas City, North Carolina, etc in the month of May. James performance at the concert will include songs from his current Kids album as well as his 2005 album Childish things.
posted by Alex on Mar 28
Bruce Springsteen is going to perform in a benefit concert on May 7th at the Count Basie Theater in New Jersey. The concert is named as “An Evening with Bruce Springsteen” and the collection from the show will go to the expenses for renovating and restoring the Count Basie Theater. The concert fans can get the tickets for the benefit show through an online auction called “Make Your Best Offer” that has started from March 20th.
The CEO of the Count Basie Foundation, Rusty Young said that the members of the foundation are happy and excited to get Bruce Springsteen as the performer for its benefit concert and he also appreciated the enthusiasm showed by Springsteen in helping them to preserve the theater. Other programs as well as operations like the “Cool School” will also benefit from this concert. The historic theater can be renovated and preserved if the concert fans support the good cause of the event.
posted by Alex on Mar 24
Pearl Jam band members are going on an extensive tour after two years and are touring in order to popularize their last album that hit the stores in 2006. Pearl Jam’s lead singer Eddie Vedder who is on a solo Western coast tour will join his band mates for their first live performance on June 11th at West Palm Beach in Florida.
The Pearl Jam band will be performing in places like Tampa, Columbia, Washington DC, Camden, New York City, Mansfield, Hartford, Columbia, and Manchester other than West Palm Beach. They will also be performing at the Bonnaro music festival. It is reported that the Pearl Jam band had spent sometime recently in a recording studio doing ground work for a follow up of their 2006 album. The bassist of the band said that they are in the process of releasing an album. He said that the band members enjoyed each other’s company and they like jamming with each other.
posted by Alex on Mar 21
The Latin musical genius, Enrique Iglesias, says that he will quit the music industry once he attains 50 years and will not follow his father’s footsteps, who at the age of 65, is still producing his magic on stage. The 32 year old high energetic pop singer says that his style of music will not be able to entertain people of the older generation and hence he cannot possibly sing it beyond a certain age. His father Julio is famous even at this age and his style of music attracts both the young and the old alike. Enrique says that his father will be performing till he ends his life on stage and respect him for the same.
Enrique believes that a song like Bailamos will not go well with the audience in 15 years time while he performs on stage at the age of 50. However, Iglesias said that he is not sure if he wants to retire at the age of 50 years and will decide otherwise when he attains that age. But he says that performing on stage at the age of 64 or 65 years will not be what he can ever think of doing and said that it is better to retire gracefully once he feels that his music is dying.
posted by Alex on Mar 19
The Ladytron is starting a tour touching 30 cities in U.S and Canada inorder to support their forthcoming release of the electro band’s new album named “Velocifero”. The album will be released on June 3rd under the new label, Nettwrek. The album was recorded in Paris art the studio de la Grande Armee. The band has additional collaboration with Alessandro Cortini of Nine Inch Nails and Vicarious Bliss in the production of the album. The North American tour to promote this album will start on 20th May in Alberta at the Starlight Room in Edmonton.
The band will tour through different destinations like Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, on May23rd, Wonder Ballroom in Portland on 25th May, the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on May 29-30, in Englewood on June3rd and in other major cities like Houston, Chicago, New York, and Boston. In Houston, the band will perform at the Meridian on June 7th followed by performance at Miami on June12th and will perform at the famous Bonnaroo Music and Art festival at Manchester on June 15th. The last performance of the tour will be at the Imperial Du Quebec during its summer festival on July 3rd. The tour is expected to help in increasing the sales of the new album.
posted by Alex on Mar 17
The members of Return to Forever have reunited and announced a tour that will be their biggest tour together in 30 years. Chick Corea, the keyboard player, Stanley Clarke, bassist, Al Di Meola the guitarist and Lenny White the drummer will kick of their tour as a team on May 29th this year. They will perform at the Paramount Theatre in Austin for two days and will tour through 50 venues across North America and Europe. The important performances include Schnitzer Concert hall in Portland, Fox Theater in St. Louis, Regency Center in San Francisco, Murat Theater in Indianapolis and Olympia in Paris etc.
The band will also give performances at other places like Poland, Switzerland, London, Florida, New York and Philadelphia. The tour will coincide with the release of an album called Return to Forever anthology, containing compilations from different classic albums like ‘Romantic Warrior, Hymns of the Seventh Galaxy, Where have I known You Before and No Mystery’. The tour is expected to finish by early August. Chick Corea is expecting to release a concert DVD of the jazz band this year. The band members has taken the decision to tour after several meetings in last summer and early fall and are confident of the success of the tour.
posted by Alex on Mar 14
Britney Spears, the pop star, who was in the news for the past couple of months due to the custody dispute of her children and for the control of her assets, has taken some time out to return to her profession and acting. The 26 year old sultry singer, Britney Spears, will be seen in a guest role in the upcoming episode of “How I Met Your Mother” of CBS sitcom, which is telecasted by the prime- time television. The episode is expected to be taped by this week and will likely go on air on March 24th. Spears cooperated with the “table Read” rehearsal of the episode early this week.
Britney is given combination scenes with Josh Radnor, the artist, who is donning the lead character in the show. She plays the role of a girl working in doctor’s office and gets infatuated to him. Spears has done guest appearances in some shows earlier also. She gave a guest appearance in NBC comedy, “Will and Grace” in the year 2006. Spears career graph went downwards after her breakup with her husband Kevin Federline in late 2006. She was in rehabilitation centers and she tried to comeback through the MTV Video Music awards, but that also failed hopelessly. ”How I Met Your Mother “is returning with new episodes after the strike in Hollywood.
posted by Alex on Mar 12
The Ra Ra Riot band has chosen to kick start their major tour from March 12 to 15 with six party as well as showcase performances at the South West Music conference in Austin, wherein they will preview the songs of their forthcoming debut album. They follow this up by joining hands with the three siblings of the Cribs band, the tour that begins on March 17 at Athens and concludes on April 4th at Los Angeles. The Ra Ra Riots and the Cribs will be performing in places like Washington DC, Chicago, Cleveland, Seattle and San Francisco during the period of March 17 to April 4.
The Ra Ra Riot then joins with Los Angeles ‘The Little Ones’ music group for a nationwide tour that kicks off on April 5 and runs till the mid of May. The busy Ra Ra Riot is slated to perform in San Diego, Charleston, Orlando, Austin, Ohio, Baltimore, Detroit, California as well as Kansas City. This massive tour is expected to bring in lot of fans following the Riot’s band group which started stepping into the music scene recently in the year 2006. The band has spent the whole of winter working on their new album that will see the limelight in the year 2008.
posted by Alex on Mar 10
Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert will be hosted at the Hyde Park in London this June. The Hollywood actor Will Smith is invited as the master of ceremonies for this event. Will Smith is a big fan of this greatest personality, who was the former President of South Africa and was very happy to take up the job as host .The organizers for this concert, is 46664, the organization of Mandela to campaign against AIDS. The name of charity organization “four double six six four” is derived from the combination of prison number 466 Mandela was holding, while he was in Robben Island and his year of imprisonment, 1964 .
The event will see the performances by leading musical bands like Spice Girls, U2, Queen and artists like Annie Lennox. The 2008 concert on June 28th is expected to be one of the biggest concert shows in U.K and ticket registration for the concert has already started. The organizers of this concert is trying to bring Eminem , the artist who created controversy by referring black women as “dumb chicks” in one of his track. He was made to apologize in 2003 about his blunt lyrics. The fund raised will be used for global campaigning against AIDS.
posted by Alex on Mar 7
The celebrity singer Paris Hilton is offered a guest role in the famous TV show “My Name Is Earl”. The production team of the show managed to get acceptance from the singer by projecting that the guest appearance in the show will help to give a boost to the acting career of Hilton. She is given a character role in an episode which will go on air on 8th of April 2008. Parris Hilton is all set to re-invent herself as a theatrical artist and has recently announced that she wants to put behind all the controversies surrounding her and intends to resurrect her acting as well as signing careers.
The producer, Greg Garcia, of “My Name Is Earl” is very happy to get Paris for guest appearance in his show and he is waiting to see the performance of Hilton in the role. Paris Hilton is also trying her luck in Broadway. The producer is expecting a boost in the viewership of this show by bringing in Paris on board. The production team at first was confused about the cast for the role and later settled for Hilton after doing some extensive search. They were on the look out for a celebrity who is new to the acting field and they zeroed in on Hilton.
