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 Jewels upcoming tour with Atlantic Records labelmate Rob Thomas, whose continuing promotion work of his latest disc, last years 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 bands 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 bands first disc. A few of the songs expected for inclusion on the disc are Boy and Youve 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 its 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 Ts, Motion City Soundtrack, Bouncing Souls, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and The
Living End. Tickets can be snagged at www.warpedtour.com
MODERN ROCK LINK OF THE WEEK: A whole roster of musicians are participating in Music Risings 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
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 Lets 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 Powters Daniel Powter, featuring the heard-everywhere single Bad Day... Mr Anonymous (otherwise known as Jeep MacNichol) reggae-flavored Mr. Anonymous... Edwin McCains Lost in America... Gotan Projects Lunatico... Saves the Days Sound the Alarm... and NOFXs Wolves in Wolves Clothing...
ON DVD: Death Cab for Cuties Directions... Sun Ra Arkestra: Live in Oakland and Sun Ra Arkestra: Live at the Roadhouse... and Bad Religion - Live at the Palladium... and thats the buzz for this weeks Modern Rock.
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