Wilco has announced some North American dates in June at some of the best venues in the country. The Pines in Northampton is one of the coolest places I’ve ever seen a concert outdoors. The Count Basie Theater in Red Bank is another great room: They don’t often have rock shows at the newly restored theater that was built in 1926. Check out the dates, and check out today’s batch o’ links:
- The 2007 Newport Folk Festival has an eclectic lineup including the Allman Brothers Band, Rage’s Tom Morello, Grace Potter, and Alison Krauss
- Sharon Jones will perform with Booker T. and the MGs as part of the River to River Festival
- The Jennifer Hartswick Trio makes their debut tonight in Burlington as part of a benefit for the Dale P. Camara Breast Cancer Foundation
- Mike McCready talks about Pearl Jam’s future with Billboard Magazine
- Andy Summers hints at a new Police album
- Ween has announced a warmup gig in Allentown, PA
- AthFest confirmed that Perpetual Groove, The Whigs and the Drive-By Truckers will headline this year’s festival
- Sanctuary Records is dunzo
- It is hard to believe Johnny Van Zant has led Lynyrd Skynyrd for 20 years
- This video of Frank Zappa on Dance Fever is classic
- Wow…Live Earth at Shea…what a great idea!
- Many bands have been added to the Gathering of the Vibes lineup
- The unsexiest album covers
- Rolling Stone’s guide to the festival season
- Double J Jesse Jarnow’s latest edition of his Frow Show podcast is up
- Joe Zawinul is still kicking ass (via News, Traffic, Weather)
- For the techies in the crowd here is the inside story of the production of Phish’s Colorado ’88
- The Roots, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Ky-Mani Marley are among the artists playing this year’s Reggae on the River
Another Allman Brothers Band run at the Beacon Theater comes to a close this weekend. It seems like just yesterday that the 78-show homestand started. The band took a while to warm up, but all the recent reports have been outstanding. It should be interesting to see where they play next year, with the Beacon closed for renovations. Showing no signs of fatigue, the ABB also announced summer tour dates, including a number of shows with RatDog.
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I’m glad they’re talking about a new Police album. During that first rehearsal/Q&A session I think they twice dodged the question of, “Will you be writing any new music?”