Posts Tagged ‘Dave Matthews Band’
Riverbend Summer Concert Updates
February 25th, 2010
Posted in Concerts
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers have just announced plans for their upcoming summer tour. The legendary heartland rock band from Gainesville, Florida who have churned out more than thirty hit singles, have revealed dates that include shows with Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joe Cocker, My Morning Jacket, the Drive-By Truckers and an appearance at Milwaukee’s Summerfest. They’re returning to Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center with the Drive-By Truckers on Thursday, July 15. Tickets go onsale to the public on Monday, March 15, but there’s a presale on Monday, March 8 at 10 am.
In other Riverbend news, tickets for Dave Matthews June 15 show with Robert Earl Keen go onsale to the public tomorrow morning at 10 am. Pavilion seats are priced at $70 plus fees, while the popular lawn ticket is priced at $40 plus fees. I can remember the very first Dave show I went to back in ‘97 at Riverbend, and pavilion seats were just $25. My how times have changed!
Bonnaroo Rumorville Updates
February 5th, 2010
Posted in Bonnaroo 2010
Howdy Bonnaroovians! Thought I’d keep you posted and up to date with all the latest from the Bonnaroo camp. The moment we’ve all been waiting for is just a few days away; the lineup will be revealed this Tuesday, February 9th. But it’ll be a little different than in years past. They’re trying something new over at Bonnaroo.com, and will be releasing band names little by little throughout the day. They also came up with a great idea to use social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, in which bands will be breaking the news themselves. It’s sure to be a long day of sitting, waiting and wishing, with fans building up communication all over these social networks. Although I’d prefer to see the whole lineup at once, I think it was a smart move by the people over at AC Entertainment and Superfly Productions. Just another way that Bonnaroo stands above the rest of those festies out there.
Let’s take a look at all the current rumors and expectations for this year’s festival:
Bands Expected
Meaning they’ve been all but confirmed by Bonnaroo. Confirmation of these bands come from a number of sources, for example, media outlets have confirmed the appearance or the bands themselves have let it slip out. Bands expected to perform this year include: Alberta Cross, The Avett Brothers, Blues Traveler, Caravan Palace, Dan Deacon, Dave Matthews Band, The Flaming Lips (two latenight sets, one performing Pink Floyd’s Darkside of the Moon), The Gaslight Anthem, GWAR, Here We Go Magic, Jay-Z, Lord T & Eloise, Mayer Hawthorne, Miike Snow, comedian/actor/musician Steve Martin performing with the Steep Canyon Rangers, the Ryan Montbleau Band, Thievery Corporation, Tinariwen, Wale, recent Grammy Award winners Kings of Leon and the Zac Brown Band, and legends Stevie Wonder, Neil Young and Paul Simon.
Bands Rumored
Meaning, while there is no confirmation, it is possible you could see these bands at the farm this summer, so don’t be surprised if any of these bands show up. Personally, I’d look at though these bands have a 50/50 chance of playing this summer. Those bands include: 311, Broken Social Scene, Deadmau5, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Ingrid Michaelson, Local Natives, Mew, The National, Needtobreathe, Noah and the Whale, Tokyo Police Club, Yonder Mountain String Band, recently reunited acts Pavement and The Jayhawks, legendary country singer/songwriters John Prine and Robert Earl Keen, the new Grateful Dead side project called Furthur featuring Dead founders Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, Bonnaroo staple acts My Morning Jacket and Galactic, and the one and only Roger Waters of Pink Floyd (performing The Wall in its entirety).
Dave Matthews Band Announce World Tour (including shows at Bonnaroo and HullabaLOU)
January 26th, 2010
Posted in Concerts
It just wouldn’t be summer without the Dave Matthews Band, and today they announced plans for their 2010 World Tour. The number one touring act over the past decade, who has sold 11.6 million tickets and taken in $529.1 million since 1999, announced over seventy shows spanning a seven month period. Once again they’ll return to our neck of the woods, at the Riverbend Music Center, where they have remained one of the hottest tickets over the past ten plus years.
Once again, the band will be joined by special guests Tim Reynolds (electric guitar), Rashawn Ross (trumpet) and Jeff Coffin (sax, flute, pennywhistle) of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. And as always, the DMB has assembled quite a cast of opening bands, ranging from R&B/Soul acts like Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, and Raphael Saadiq (formerly of Tony! Toni! Tone!), country acts like Robert Earl Keen and the Zac Brown Band, pop singer/songwriters Martin Sexton, Brett Dennen and Amos Lee, roots rockers the Felice Brothers, bluegrass act Yonder Mountain String Band and hard blues rock from Dave’s pal, Ben Harper, and his newer band, Relentless7.
If the one show in Cincinnati doesn’t give you your Dave fix, you’ll have a few other chances to catch the band without driving too terribly far. They’ll be playing just a couple hours away in cities like Noblesville, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio, as well as closing the brand new HullabaLOU Music Festival at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. They will also be returning for the first time in five years, to the Bonnaroo Music Festival, where they’ll close out the festival on Sunday, June 13. Tickets for shows (not festivals) in the U.S. go onsale to the public Friday, February 26.
02/13/10 Sat Arenan Stockholm, Sweden
02/14/10 Falkoner Theatre Copenhagen, Denmark
02/16/10 Tue Congress Centrum Hamburg, Germany
02/17/10 Wed Tempodrom Berlin, Germany
02/19/10 Fri Gasometer Vienna, Austria
02/20/10 Sat Zenith Munich, Germany
02/22/10 Mon PalaSharp Milan, Italy
02/23/10 Tue Palalottomatica Rome, Italy
02/25/10 Thu Palasport San Lazzaro Padova, Italy
02/28/10 Sun Palladium Cologne, Germany
03/01/10 Mon Lotto Arena Antwerp, Belgium
03/03/10 Wed Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam, Netherlands
03/04/10 Thu Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt, Germany
03/06/10 Sat O2 Arena London, Great Britain
03/07/10 Sun Manchester Apollo Manchester, Great Britain
03/09/10 Tue The O2 Dublin, Ireland
03/11/10 Thu SECC Glasgow, Great Britain
03/12/10 Fri Birmingham Academy Birmingham, Great Britain
03/14/10 Sun Falconer Salen Copenhagen, Denmark
03/15/10 Mon Arenan Stockholm, Sweden
U.S. & Canada Dates
05/28/10 Fri Comcast Theatre Hartford, CT with Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
05/29/10 Sat Comcast Theatre Hartford, CT with Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
06/01/10 Tue Molson Amphitheatre Toronto, ON with the Felice Brothers
06/02/10 Wed Darien Lake Performing Arts Center Darien, NY with the Felice Brothers
06/04/10 Fri Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY with the Felice Brothers
06/05/10 Sat Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NYwith the Felice Brothers
06/07/10 Mon Comcast Center (Great Woods) Mansfield, MA with Yonder Mountain String Band
06/08/10 Tue Comcast Center (Great Woods) Mansfield, MA with Yonder Mountain String Band
06/13/10 Sun Bonnaroo Music Festival Great Stage Park Manchester, TN
06/15/10 Tue Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati, OH with Robert Earl Keen
06/16/10 Wed Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Maryland Heights, MO with Robert Earl Keen
06/18/10 Fri Verizon Wireless Music Center Noblesville, IN with Robert Earl Keen
06/19/10 Sat Verizon Wireless Music Center Noblesville, IN with Robert Earl Keen
06/22/10 Tue Huntington Park Columbus, OH with Robert Earl Keen
06/23/10 Wed DTE Energy Music Center Clarkston, MI with Martin Sexton
06/25/10 Fri Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls, OH with Martin Sexton
06/30/10 Wed Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ with Martin Sexton
07/01/10 Thu Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ with Martin Sexton
07/03/10 Sat Alpine Valley Music Theatre East Troy, WI with the Zac Brown Band
07/04/10 Sun Alpine Valley Music Theatre East Troy, WI with the Zac Brown Band
07/09/10 Fri Hersheypark Stadium & Star Pavilion Hershey, PA with the Zac Brown Band
07/10/10 Sat PNC Park Pittsburgh, PA with the Zac Brown Band
07/13/10 Tue Bethel Woods Center For The Arts Bethel, NY with Amos Lee
07/14/10 Wed Toyota Pavilion At Montage Mountain Scranton, PA with Amos Lee
07/16/10 Fri Citi Field Flushing, NY with the Zac Brown Band
07/17/10 Sat Citi Field Flushing, NY with the Zac Brown Band
07/20/10 Tue Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Virginia Beach, VA with Amos Lee
07/21/10 Wed Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Charlotte, NC with Amos Lee
07/23/10 Fri Nationals Park Washington, DC with the Zac Brown Band
07/25/10 Sun HullabaLOU Music Festival Churchill Downs Louisville, KY
07/27/10 Tue Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood Atlanta, GA with Gov’t Mule
07/28/10 Wed Ford Amphitheater at State Fairgrounds Tampa, FL with Gov’t Mule
07/30/10 Fri Cruzan Amphitheater West Palm Beach, FL with Gov’t Mule
07/31/10 Sat Cruzan Amphitheater West Palm Beach, FL with Gov’t Mule
08/14/10 Sat In Trust Bank Arena Wichita, KS with Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
08/17/10 Tue Usana Amphitheater Salt Lake City, UT with Brett Dennen
08/20/10 Fri Cricket Wireless Amphitheater Chula Vista, CA with Brett Dennen
08/21/10 Sat Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Irvine, CA with Brett Dennen
08/23/10 Mon Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA with Raphael Saadiq
08/25/10 Wed Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord Concord, CA with Raphael Saadiq
08/27/10 Fri Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord Concord, CA with Raphael Saadiq
08/28/10 Sat Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View, CA with Raphael Saadiq
08/31/10 Tue Taco Bell Arena Boise, ID
09/03/10 Fri Gorge Amphitheater Quincy, WA with Ben Harper & Relentless7
09/04/10 Sat Gorge Amphitheater Quincy, WA with Ben Harper & Relentless7
09/05/10 Sun Gorge Amphitheater Quincy, WA with Ben Harper & Relentless7
09/10/10 Fri Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Woodlands, TX with Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
09/11/10 Sat Superpages.com Center Dallas, TX with Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
09/14/10 Tue Qwest Center Omaha, NE with Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
09/15/10 Wed Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul, MN with Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
HullabaWHA, HullabaWHO, It’s HullabaLOU!
December 2nd, 2009
Posted in music festivals
Hullabaloo is defined as “great noise or excitement, or an uproar” but HullabaLOU is one of the newest and biggest music festivals to take the midwest by storm. Taking place July 23-25 at Louisville’s Churchill Downs, the festival’s five stages will host local, regional and national acts such as the Dave Matthews Band, Al Green and the Black Crowes. Tickets will go onsale this Friday December 4 at noon eastern time. There are several ticketing options, which you can find on the festival’s website, and tickets range from $60-$975. An initial lineup of artists has been announced, but more artists will be announced at a later date. Here’s what the current schedule and lineup look like so far:
Friday, July 23
Bon Jovi
The Doobie Brothers
Gladys Knight
The B-52s
The O’ Jays
Colbie Caillat
Richard Marx
Gloriana
Sam Bush
Chrisette Michele
Saturday, July 24
Kenny Chesney
Jason Aldean
Al Green
Michael McDonald
John Kay & Steppenwolf
Gov’t Mule
Joan Osbourne
Musiq Soulchild
War
Sunday, July 25
Dave Matthews Band
Zac Brown Band
Steve Miller Band
Dwight Yoakam
Loretta Lynn
The Black Crowes
Kansas
.38 Special
Taj Mahal
More of the Year’s Best Albums from A to Z
November 26th, 2009
Posted in Best of 2009
I’m going to be working a buttload of hours this holiday season, so I thought I’d speed things up by combining a bunch of the year’s best albums into one list.
Brendan Benson
My Old, Familiar Friend
Most likely you’ll recognize Benson from his work with The Raconteurs, but he’s also an accomplished songwriter who plays guitar, bass, keys and drums. He’s worked with a number of other bands like The Mood Elevator, The Waxwings, Ashley Monroe and Cory Chisel. Benson’s latest release dates back to 2007, when he began writing and recording material between Raconteurs albums. A lot of these songs (when they were in their early stages) ended up on Benson’s MySpace page at various times. Tennessee indie-rock band, The Features, back Benson on some of this record. These songs have often been described as ’70s Power Pop, drawing comparisons to bands like Paul McCartney’s Wings, ELO and Cheap Trick.
Bruce Springsteen
Working On A Dream
With nineteen Grammy Awards and more than 120 million albums sold worldwide, the career of the Boss needs no explanation. Songs from his most recent/16th studio album came just in time for both Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration and this past season’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at #1, selling 224,000 copies in its first week. It was the Boss’s ninth number one studio album, tying him with the Rolling Stones; only The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Jay-Z have had more number one albums. Rolling Stone gave it a five star rating, comparing it to his 1975 album, Born to Run, in scale and ambition.
Built to Spill
There Is No Enemy
As one of indie rock’s most influential bands of the early ’90s, Built to Spill has inspired bands like The Ataris, Modest Mouse, The Strokes and Death Cab for Cutie. Their most recent release is their most critically-acclaimed yet, reaching #50 on the US charts.
Not only did Conor’s musical career begin at the age of thirteen, but he also founded the Saddle Creek Records label at that age with his brother Justin. Conor’s most known for his work with Bright Eyes, but has also played with many of Saddle Creek’s bands like Cursive, Commander Venus, The Faint, Desaparecidos, The Magnetas and Park Ave. His most recent album is his fifth, although it is the last album to be credited with his backing band, the Mystic Valley Band. Reviews and ratings of the album all over the place; Rolling Stone gave it 3.5 stars out of 5 while BLARE Magazine gave it four, but Pitchfork gave it a 4.9 out of 10 rating and Sputnikmusic gave it just two stars out of five.
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Why There Are Mountains
One of my ten favorites of the year, maybe even a top five, comes from an artist I previously knew about, but never really spent a lot of time listening to. Auerbach is highly respected in the music world, whether it be what he’s done with The Black Keys, or the number of band’s he has helped produce. I think I was expecting to hear something very similar to the Black Keys, but this album is actually all over the place. Whether it’s the quiet, folkier songs or the loud, bluesy-garage rock, Auerbach has introduced me to a side of him I wasn’t yet aware of.
Dave Matthews Band
Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King
DMB’s latest release is the last album to feature recorded material from their late sax player, LeRoi Moore, who is only featured on a few songs. It’s also the band’s first album in nearly ten years that features Tim Reynolds on lead electric guitar and Jeff Coffin of the Flecktones on sax and flute. Since the passing of Moore and the departure of keyboardist Butch Taylor, it seems as though the band is getting away from that jazz element that made them popular in the early ’90s, even with the help of Rashawn Ross on trumpet. There’s no telling where the band goes after this; does Coffin become a full-time member to help revive those beautiful sax solos ‘Roi was known for, or do they put the focus into Reynolds and his hard rock guitar solos? All I know is that after fifteen years, I’ll continue to stick by them to find out where they go from here.
David Bazan
Curse Your Branches
Death Cab for Cutie
The Open Door EP
The Decemberists
Hazards Of Love
When I first heard the Decemberists’ Crane Wife album (the album that introduced me to this band), I thought to myself that they would never be able to make an album that could top it. And it actually took awhile for me to consider this album up there on that same level. While the album is still growing on me, I think it deserves a best of the year mention, even though I don’t have quite the same feelings as I do for the Crane Wife.
Depeche Mode
Sounds Of The Universe
Devendra Banhart
What Will We Be
The Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca
The Duke and the King
Nothing Gold Can Stay
eels
Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
You’ve probably heard the eels but aren’t quite aware of it. You typically won’t hear them on commercial radio or falling into the mainstream, even though they have had songs featured in a number of films like American Beauty, Holes, The Anniversary Party, Knocked Up, Yes Man, The End of Violence, Hellboy II, Hot Fuzz and Shrek 1-3. Their latest is a concept album about desire, with the band taking on a more straight-forward rock sound rather than mellow, experimental, ambient alt rock they are known for.
Elvis Costello
Secret, Profane And Sugarcane
When you think of Elvis Costello, you probably don’t first think of Americana and country music, rather, you probably think of late ’70s New Wave and punk rock, or songs like “Alison”, “Pump It Up” or “What’s So Funny.” You actually have to do your research to discover that Costello is an avid country fan, which kind of shocked me at first. It’s a sound that he has taken on with his most recent album, and although I was skeptical at first, I have to tell you that these songs are simply brilliant. Costello’s got one of my favorite voices in music, and this album showed me that his voice is amazing with any style of music. While he was backed by Jenny Lewis and her band at this past summer’s Bonnaroo performance, the backing band for the album consists of quite an exceptional cast including T Bone Burnett, Jerry Douglas, Emmylou Harris and Jim Lauderdale.
Elvis Perkins
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
The son of the late actor Anthony Perkins (Psycho) and late photographer, Berry Berenson. His debut album, Ash Wednesday, was more of a solo effort, dealing with more somber themes and moods (he lost his mother in the 9/11 attacks), while his latest, self-titled disc seems to be more hopeful, as well as a songwriting collaboration with his bandmates, In Dearland.
Dave Matthews Band Releases Cincinnati Show
October 5th, 2009
Posted in CD Releases
My favorite band of all-time has long been the Dave Matthews Band. Love him, hate him, say what you will. I know plenty of people who get him but even more that don’t. They’re one of the most successful touring bands of all-time and you will never see the same show twice. You may think otherwise, but trust me, I’ve seen them nearly thirty times and have never and will never see the same show twice. Sure some things are the same like the crazy antics and guitar stylings Dave possesses, the roars that fill the amphitheater when either violinist Boyd Tinsley or drummer Carter Beauford takes on a solo, but they never play the same setlist twice. And that’s rare for a mainstream band, although I don’t exactly consider the DMB mainstream or pop. But that’s a completely different story.
One of the ways that the DMB has built their success is by constant touring. A lot they do is very similar to both the Grateful Dead and Phish; in the way they handle the business side of music. While you can find any Dave Matthews concert online, they also have a series called Live Trax. I’ve got over fifty bootleg shows in my collection, but obviously the soundboard recordings are the pristine recordings. Last month they released Volume 16 in the series, which is finally a long-awaited Cincinnati release from the June 26, 2000 show. It was actually a two-night stand here in town, a thing of the past. This was just the third time I saw the band, and while I don’t exactly have a photographic memory of that night, I’m sure when I put this CD on I’ll go back and revive those special memories.
Just looking at the setlist, I can already reimagine what a stellar show this was. The show started off with a ten-minute version of “#41″, followed by “Warehouse”, “One Sweet World”, “Say Goodbye”, “Jimi Thing” clocking in at sixteen minutes, the rare “Sweet Up and Down”, a near fourteen-minute version of “Typical Situation”, the rare “Little Thing”, “Grey Street”, a near twelve-minute “Bartender” followed by a near eleven-minute “Crush”, ”Drive In Drive Out”, a rare “Song That Jane Likes”, a rare “JTR” and “Too Much.” The encore consisted of a very rare “#40″, a new “Digging A Ditch” and one of the best closers, a near sixteen-minute “Two Step.”
My fellow Cincinnati DMB fans, order the CD here and relive the glory days of the Dave Matthews Band.
