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Jewel Sparkles with Rob

April 26, 2006
Interlochen alum Jewel is back with a brand new album, her first in three years - titled Goodbye Alice in Wonderland, the disc will get some extra promotion in the form of Jewel’s upcoming tour with Atlantic Records labelmate Rob Thomas, whose continuing promotion work of his latest disc, last year’s Something To Be. The duo are set to join up for a seven-week tour that will kick off in Florida on May 23 and will run through mid-July, with stops set to include Atlantic City, NJ (6/2 and 6/3), Boston (6/9), Cleveland (6/12), Detroit (6/15), Chicago (6/17), and Santa Barbara, California (7/2) - Toby Lightman will serve as opening act...
 
Another Michigan act, namely Jack
White of the White Stripes, has recently stated that his “side project,” The Raconteurs, is more than a side project - White, along with Brendan Benson and the Greenhornes’ Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, is looking forward to the band’s debut disc, Broken Boy Soldiers, and says that the band is of utmost importance to him - but that there will also be future White Stripes albums, so Stripes fans need not panic.  For the time being, though, the Raconteurs will be hitting the road for a scattered world tour, and you can keep an eye out for their music video for the track “Steady As She Goes,” plus that aforementioned album, due in stores on May 16...
 
UK modern rockers The Magic Numbers are prepping to head back into the studio to begin work on their next album, which will serve as the follow-up to their 2005 debut disc.  Expected for release early next year (although you can probably snag it via UK import some time this fall), the album will be recorded in upstate New York with mixer Richard Wilkinson, who also mixed the band’s first disc.  A few of the songs expected for inclusion on the disc are “Boy” and “You’ve Never Had It” - The Numbers’ frontman Roman Stodart half-jokingly says that many of the songs will put his “doomed” love life up for public listening...
 
And it’s time to tune up your skateboards, lace up your sneaks, load up on sunscreen, and get set for the 2006 Vans Warped Tour, kicking off this year on June 15 in Maryland and grinding all the way through August.  The bands will be on something of a rotating schedule, meaning not all of the bands listed will appear at every date on the tour, but a few of the bands on the official roster so far include The Sounds, AFI, Against Me!, Less Than Jake, Thursday, Senses Fail, Saves the Day, Plain White T’s, Motion City Soundtrack, Bouncing Souls, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and The
Living End. Tickets can be snagged at www.warpedtour.com ; some early tix will be sold as low as $20 and will include a free double-disc tour compiliation CD, so get ‘em fast...
 
MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK:  A whole roster of musicians are participating in Music Rising’s online ticket auctions of concert tickets and instruments - the purpose of which are to raise funds to help replace musical instruments and equip-ment destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.  Check out the auctions online at www.ticketmaster.com/musicrisingauctions , more will be added each weekend throughout the rest of this month - you can get something terrific for yourself, and help others in the process...
 
MINI BUZZ:
The Strokes have added several new tour dates to their spring itinerary, including shows in Philadelphia (4/23), Washington DC (4/26), Toronto (5/6), and Memphis, Tennessee (5/22)...
A new behind-the-scenes docu-mentary showcasing the career of late Clash frontman Joe Strummer, called Let’s Rock Again, will hit DVD on June 27...
The Vines will release on May 22 “Anysound” as the first single from their new (and third) album, Vision Valley...
The Kuyahoga Festival, set for August 3 at the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, will host the likes of Sonic Youth, the Go! Team, Death Cab for Cutie, and the Flaming Lips...
Speaking of The Flaming Lips, congrats to them this week - their Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has become their first ever certified gold record...
Congrats, also, to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and his wife, Gwyneth (yes, that Gwyneth), who just welcomed new son Moses to join sister Apple in the Martin family...
 ON CD:  Daniel Powter’s Daniel Powter, featuring the heard-everywhere single “Bad Day”... Mr Anonymous’ (otherwise known as Jeep MacNichol) reggae-flavored Mr. Anonymous... Edwin McCain’s Lost in America... Gotan Project’s Lunatico... Saves the Day’s Sound the Alarm... and NOFX’s Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing...  
ON DVD:  Death Cab for Cutie’s Directions... Sun Ra Arkestra: Live in Oakland and Sun Ra Arkestra: Live at the Roadhouse... and Bad Religion - Live at the Palladium... and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.
 
Questions, comments, rants, raves, suggestions about this column or your fave musicians?  Send ‘em to Kristi at  modernrocker@gmail.com!
 

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