Friday, January 26. 2007
 Galactic will perform at Jazz Fest
file photo by staff photographer jeff barringer |
The 2007 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be held on April 27-29 and May 4-6 at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans Louisiana. A partial list fo the over 500 artists and bands scheduled to perform appears below.
This years festival will be closed out by headliner Harry Connick Jr. This will mark the second year in a row that hometown favorites The Neville Brothers have declined to participate.
Harry Connick Jr., Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Norah Jones, ZZ Top, John Legend, Van Morrison, Brad Paisley, Jill Scott, Ludacris, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, New Edition, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Irma Thomas, Jerry Lee Lewis, Counting Crows, Allman Brothers Band, Allen Toussaint, George Benson, Pharoah Sanders, George Thorogood, Stephen Marley featuring Jr. Gong, Better Than Ezra, Joss Stone, Banda el Recodo, Calexico, Taj Mahal, Johnny Rivers, Lucinda Williams, Branford Marsalis, Richie Havens, Soulive, Cowboy Mouth, Percy Sledge, Tony Joe White, Gillian Welch, Bobby Jones & the Nashville Super Choir, T-Bone Burnett, Rebirth
Brass Band, Galactic, Mose Allison, Marcia Ball, Roy Hargrove, Chuck Leavell, Arturo Sandoval, The Holmes Brothers, Snooks Eaglin, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The New Orleans Social Club, James Carter, The Radiators, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Lucky Peterson, Darrell McFadden, Sonny Landreth, Danilo Perez, Ivan Neville,
Dottie Peoples, Davell Crawford, Ba Cissoko of Guinea, George Porter, Jr., Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste, Tab Benoit, Les Amazones of Guinea, World Saxophone Group, John Mooney & Bluesiana, Buckwheat Zydeco, Anders Osborne, Elder Baab & the Madison Bumble Bees of Winnsboro, Eddie Bo, Steve Riley & the Mamou
Playboys, Rosie Ledet, Amanda Shaw, The Iguanas, Marva Wright, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Deacon John, Donald Harrison, Nicholas Payton, Terence Blanchard, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue, Bob French, Elysian Fieldz, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, Ellis Marsalis and over 500 more groups.
To see the whole lineup go to http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/jf2007prelim.html
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Thursday, January 25. 2007
 This must be the year of improbable reunions. The Meat Puppets, Iggy & The Stooges, the Police, and now Van Halen? Breaking a 20 year standoff, Billboard is reporting that Van Halen will re-unite with David Lee Roth for a 40 city tour this summer. Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfie will step in on the bass for the shows. The tour will open in, of course, Las Vegas. Hopefully Dave can pull himself away from the Liberace museum long enough to grace us with his customary " I'm so drunk I forgot the words to this song...". Dave, good to have you back, feathers and all.
Chris and Ollie of the Zico Chain have confirmed to the staff here that they will be playing Austin's SXSW music festival in March, and will be touring the U.K. in support of their new album due out on Hassle Records later this summer. They promised to bring us a good balty and some nan bread if they can get it through customs. Other SXSW announcements include Mastodon, I Am X, Mike Aiken, The Moaners, The Village Green, The Pipettes, Interpol, The Octopus Project, Ghostland Observatory, Thunderbirds Are Now! ....(only 1490 +/- bands left to go...) Still no word on that nagging Chili Pepper rumor that is circulating.
Willie Nelson, who is currently touring Europe, has announced a U.S. Tour billed as the "Last Of The Breed" showcasing Willie, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price. The tour kicks off in Prescott Arizona on March 9th, making it back to Austin in time to collide head on with SXSW for 2 nights, though it's not a SXSW show, before ambling off up the east coast, ending in the midwest on March 25 at the Rosemont Theater just outside of Chicago. Tickets are going fast
Happy 25th birthday to Metal Blade Records, big friends of club kingsnake. They have a bunch of artists heading out including Unearth who is opening for Slayer on their tour which starts this weekend. Psyopus is also out on tour for Metal Blade now, working their way from Texas, up the east coast, ending in Arlington Heights, Illinois on February 25th. Finally Travis and the guys from Cattle Decapitation will headline a 3 show tour in Mexico in February.
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Wednesday, January 24. 2007
 Authorities have confirmed that former Social Distortion bassist Brent Liles was struck and killed on January 18 as he attempted to bicycle across southern California's Orange Freeway in Placentia California.
Liles was bass player for the band from 1981 to 1984, quitting, along with drummer Derek O'Brien, during a New Year's performance in 1983. Liles later played in a number of punk bands including Agent Orange. Brent played on the band's Mommy's Little Monster album. Brent Liles was 43.
 Marshall has always been an oddity in the music business. They seldom offer signature model amplifiers, and have rarely given amps to artists for free.
At Winter NAMM in Anaheim, Marshall announced the new JCM800 2203KK Head, inspired by and built to the specifications of Slayer's Kerry King. Kerry joins the elite ranks of Jimi Hendrix, Slash and Zakk Wylde as one of the few artists to have a signature Marshall amplifier.
Marshall has also announced a second Zakk Wylde signature amp. The Limited Edition MG15MSZW is a 15 watt micro stack with vintage style grill cloth and bullseye graphics that set this amp apart from its stock counterpart.
See Slayer in our Concert photo gallery.
See Black Label Society in our Concert photo gallery.
Monday, January 22. 2007
 Heaven & Hell, the band put together by Ronny James Dio, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, and Vinny Appice, will kick off their tour season with eleven Canadian shows, along with a one-night-only performance at New York's Radio City Music Hall, starting March 11 and ending March 30. Further shows in the U.S., Asia and Europe have yet to be announced. Megadeth as well as Down with Phil Anselmo will be opening.
Rage Against the Machine, Bjork, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers have all been confirmed to headline this year's Coachella festival. Also at Coachella this year are Peaches, Sonic Youth, Interpol, Ozomatli, Roky Erikson and the Explosives, Kings of Leon, Willie Nelson and a rare appearance by Crowded House. The huge list of other bands reads like an all-star indie lineup. Club kingsnake will try to send at least one of our staffers to cover this year's expanded three-day event - the first time Coachella has ever scheduled over three days.
Finally, Crosby, Stills, and Nash will also be touring down under with a nine date tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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Sunday, January 21. 2007
 Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets
and Dean DeLeo of Army of Anyone
onstage at La Zona Rosa 1/20/07
photo by staff photographer jeff barringer |
You hear about them happening, you hope it happens when you're there, but usually you hear about it afterwards and turn green with envy because you missed it. Every once in a great while, completely unannounced, and to the surprise of the crowd and often the venue, a great band shows up at someone else's gig and wants to jam. I often talk about the Mick and Keith showing up at Antone's many years ago and jamming, and how I missed it, and how envious I was of the guys that were there and got to taste a little bit of history. It never seemed to happen at any of the shows I attended. Until tonight.
I got an invite to cover the Army of Anyone show (ex-Filter and Stone Temple Pilots members) at La Zona Rosa from the band, and when I set out on a cold, drizzly Saturday evening, I was pretty much plugged in to it being just another show, albeit by a really great band, but nothing with what could be termed "historical" significance.
When I arrived I found it was just me, Jay West and Sean Claes from Insite magazine working the photo pit, but something was odd. There was a buzz, an electricity running through the air that you could smell, taste, and feel. Asking around a bit, weird rumors abounded about surprise guests showing up at the soundcheck asking to jam with the band. Cornering a couple of my Direct Events contacts at the venue, they quickly fessed up, confirming that there were in fact to be special guests, unannounced guests, and that Army of Anyone would be jamming with the legendary, newly reformed, Meat Puppets, Curt Kirkwood, his brother Cris Kirkwood, with Ted Marcus from NYC who is the drummer on the upcoming record.
And that is exactly what happened.
Midway through their set, they stopped, invited the Puppets onstage, jammed with them on one song, then let them wail away on their own for their next. Awesome. Incredible. Historic.
After the set I got a chance to talk with both Curt and Cris and they confirmed for me a forthcoming album, a Meat Puppet documentary AND they will be appearing at Austin's upcoming SXSW 2007, although plans are very rough at this point. Look for a video interview with the Puppets real soon!
Cris, Curt, glad to have you back... you have been missed!
Watch for a review of this show by Alexis Allo soon!
Check out the full set of images in Our Concert Photo Gallery
Please Note: This article has been corrected thanks to input from our readers. Earlier we incorrectly identified the drummer for this set as Derrick Bostrom, it was in fact Ted Marcus.
Meat Puppets onstage at La Zona Rosa 1/20/07 - photo by staff photographer jeff barringer
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Tuesday, January 16. 2007
 I Hate Sally announced today that they will be dropping out of several upcoming East Coast dates with Cancer Bats.
Apparently frontwoman Dee Prescott had her foot accidently stomped by Bassist Dan Vokey. " Dee had her foot x-rayed this morning and it turns out that 3 toes are broken and her foot is fractured which means she has to get a cast, or a cast-like boot, and can't walk on it for 6 weeks minimum." said a statement from the band.
The band does hope to participate in four shows later this month in Montreal, Ottawa, London, and Toronto.
Here's wishing Dee a speedy recovery.
Tuesday, January 9. 2007
Linea 77 at SXSW 2006
photo by staff photographer jeff barringer |
No, we aren't giving away tickets, but the SXSW festival organizers have made their annual call for volunteers. Every year the SXSW show employs approximately 1200 volunteers to handle a bewildering variety of tasks. SXSW is looking for people to help put on Austin's biggest entertainment event, and is looking for volunteers willing to work on either the conference crews or music production crews.
Volunteers must work either a minimum of 30 hours on a conference crew or 4 nights on a music crew. People interested in helping may volunteer to work on either crew, but not both. For more information on how you can be a part of this year's SXSW event in Austin, or to submit an application online, visit the SXSW website at http://2007.sxsw.com/volunteer/
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Monday, January 8. 2007
This years inductees include Van Halen, The Ronettes, R.E.M., Patti Smith, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. The induction ceremony will be at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on March 12, 2007. The ceremony will also honor the late Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, and one of the founders of the museum.
This years finalists who did not make the cut included The Stooges, Chic, The Dave Clark Five, and Joe Tex. The list of finalists was released in October of last year and the inductees were selected by 600 music industry professionals. Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record.
Still unknown - which of Van Halen's lead vocalists will attend. Currently the Vegas money is on Dave. R.E.M. will also have to re-unite if they plan on performing, though they are currently working on a new album together and played a re-union show last year.
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Sunday, January 7. 2007
Tom Araya of Slayer at Freeman Coliseum in 2006
photo by jeff barringer - staff photographer |
Slayer will be hitting the road with a North American tour that starts in Tucson on January 24 and ends on February 24 in Ft. Lauderdale, with Metal Blade artists Unearth opening.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are also touring, starting in Dallas on January 12 and ending back in Texas in Houston on March 9th. Rumors that they will make a "surprise" appearance at Austin's SXSW for a secret show have not been confirmed at this time, though the next leg of the tour begins in Osaka Japan and doesn't start until March 19th, after SXSW has ended, leading to speculation.
Confirmed for SXSW so far, however, is rocker Pete Townsend who will be performing and is a keynote speaker, also confirmed to perform so far is Iggy Pop & The Stooges. The annual " Morrisey is coming" rumor is also afloat but details of the remaining 1498 acts has yet to be released. We will bring you more SXSW 07 news as the showcase list starts to gel.
Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails will launch a 40 date European tour February 10 in Lisbon, Portugal, and ending April 10 in Helsinki, Finland, with multiple dates in some cities. No U.S.tour dates have been announced as yet.
Finally Lamb of God is headlining a North American tour starting in Dallas on February 16 swinging all the way up into Canada before ending in Cincinnati on April 5th. They will then head down under for 5 dates in Australia ending on May 1st.
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Tuesday, January 2. 2007
Photo fans anxious to hear about club.kingsnake's concert photo contest results will have to remain anxious a bit longer it seems as the judges are hopelessly deadlocked between 3 photos/photographers. While we considered such unorthodox tie breaking methodology as jello wrestling, hot dog eating contests, and naked wind sprints to resolve our dilemma, I am afraid we will have to resort to something a little more mundane to resolve the tie and we have asked a celebrity judge to step in and make the final selections.
While we are waiting on the results, those of you interested in debating the merits and issues of the 2006 contest and wanting to put your 2 cents in on how the 2007 contest is run before it starts may do so by posting to our new Music Photography message board
I want to thank everyone participating in this years contest, its been a lot of fun. The 30 finalist pictures selected by the judges were tough decisions to make because there were so many good photos. Eight photographers from around the world made that list of 30, and I don't envy our tie-breaking judge having to make his decision. This year, once we announce the contest at SXSW in March, I expect it will become infinitely harder.
Stay tuned concert fans for the results as soon as they are known, because we really are having a "photo finish" as the horses cross the line....
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