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My Morning Jacket to Tour with Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Photo: Schwartz/Getty My Morning Jacket has recruited New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band for a short trek that begins April 20th in Birmingham, Alabama. MMJ frontman Jim James was inspired to bring the PHJB on the road after collaborating with the group on a pair of tracks for Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program, a compilation that teams the PHJB with vocalists like James, Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, Pete Seeger and many more. T

Published: 2010-01-29 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: My Morning Jacket, On Tour, Rock News

Tour Tracker: Allman Brothers, Against Me! and Steve Miller Band

Photo: Schwartz/Getty The Allman Brothers continue their 40th anniversary celebration tour out west, Against Me! road test some new songs before hitting the studio with producer Butch Vig and the Steve Miller Band continue their “Endless Tour.” Full dates for all three treks, after the jump… Allman Brothers May 12, 13 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theatre May 15 - Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds May 16 - George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheater May 19, 20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre May 22 - Valley Center, CA @ Harrah’s Rincon May 23 - Indio, CA @ Fantasy Springs Casino May 24 - Las Vegas, NV @ Red Rock Casino May 31 - Hunter, NY @ Mountain Jam Festival June 5, 6 - Live Oak, FL @ Wanee Festival Against Me! April 11 - Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds April 14 - Greenville, SC @ The Handlebar April 15 - Raleigh, NC @ The Brewery April 16 - Asheville, NC @ Stella Blue April 18 - Virginia Beach, VA @ The Jewish Mother April 19 - Knoxville, TN @ The Cider House April 21 - Nashville, TN @ The End April 22 - Memphis, TN @ Hi-Tone Café April 23 - Little Rock, AR @ Juanita’s Cantina Ballroom April 24 - Huntsville, AL @ Crossroads Café April 25 - Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box April 26 - Pensacola, FL @ Sluggo’s April 28 - Charleston, SC @ The Charleston Pourhouse April 29 - Athens, GA @ Tasty World April 30 - Wilmington, NC @ The Soapbox May 1 - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern Steve Miller Band May 1 - Memphis, TN @ Tom Lee Park May 3 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Sunfest July 8 - Calgary, ALB @ Fort Calgary Historic Park July 10 - Merritt, BC @ Merritt Mountain Music Festival Grounds July 11 - Woodinville, WA @ Chateau St Michelle Winery July 12 - Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Winery July 16 - Cadott, WI @ Chippewa Valley Festival Grounds July 17 - Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia Pavilion July 18 - Morristown, OH @ Festival Grounds July 20 - Interlochen, MI @ Kresge Auditorium July 21 - Kettering, OH @ Frazee Pavilion July 24 - Moticelo, LA @ Jones County Fairgrounds July 25 - West Bend

Published: 2009-03-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Tour Tracker: Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd Team for Another Summer of “Rock and Rebels”

Photo: Mazur/WireImage Following their successful “Rock and Rebels” tour together last year, Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd will teamup again for another trek this summer. The tour will kick off June 26th in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tickets for the shows go on sale March 20th at Live Nation’s Website. Like last time, Rock will be backed by the 11-piece Twisted Brown Trucker Band. Besides teaming up on tour, Kid Rock is also indebted to often-misspelled Lynyrd Skynyrd for allowing him to interpolate their hit “Sweet Home Alabama” (along with Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”) for his smash 2008 hit “All Summer Long.” During his performance at the Grammys this year, Rock dedicated the song to Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell, who died in late-January 2009. Full tour dates for the 2009 stretch of Rock and Rebels dates after the jump… Kid Rock/Lynyrd Skynyrd June 26 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Cruzan Amphitheatre June 27 - Tampa, FL @ Ford Amphitheatre June 28 - Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amphitheatre June 30 - Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion July 1 - Dallas, TX @ Superpages.com Center July 5 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest July 7 - Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center July 8 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center July 10 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center July 11 - Indianapolis, IN @ Verizon Wireless Music Center July 12 - Tinley Park, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre July 14 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Post-Gazette Pavilion July 21 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater July 22 - Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center July 24 - Raleigh, NC @ Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion July 25 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater July 26 - Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre July 29 - Boston, MA @ Comcast Center July 31 - Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium & Star Pavilion August 1 - Washington, DC @ Nissan Pavilion August 2 - New York, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Related Stories: • Kid Rock, Peter Wolf, Ly

Published: 2009-03-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Lil Wayne, Death Cab For Cutie Highlight Full Voodoo Festival Lineup

New Orleans’ Voodoo Festival, set to hit the Big Easy October 24-26, has revealed its full performer line-up. In addition to the headliners R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots, Death Cab for Cutie, Panic at the Disco, Erykah Badu and N’Awlins prodigal son Lil Waynein will play in the more mainstream Le Ritual section of the festival. Much like the city itself, the Voodoo Festival is split into three distinct sections. The Le Flambeau area will feature music more in tune with the hometown sounds of New Orleans with sets by Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. The third section, Le Carnival, will feature a bunch of Big Easy indie bands, burlesque shows and circus acts. It’s like a three-day Mardi Gras over in that Le Carnival section. Hit the jump for the complete list of all the performers playing Voodoo. New Orleans Voodoo Festival 2008 R.E.M. Nine Inch Nails Stone Temple Pilots Lil Wayne Erykah Badu Dashboard Confessional Shudder to Think Death Cab For Cutie DeVotchKa The Gutter Twins Cold War Kids Wyclef Jean Panic At the Disco King Britt Tribute to Sister Gertrude Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings Reverend Horton Heat Lupe Fiasco Joss Stone Man Man Thievery Corporation Ghostland Observatory Manchester Orchestra Old 97’s Joseph Arthur Colour Revolt Tokyo Police Club Innerpartysystem The Vettes Big Blue Marble Sons of Willia Walter Wolfman Washington Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Marc Broussard Ozomatli Reunited w/ Chali 2na Rebirth Brass Band Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk Blind Boys of Alabama Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Marva Wright New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Cowboy Mouth The Iguanas Bonerama Big Sam’s Funky Nation Deacon John’s Tribute to New Orleans R&B featuring Wardell Quezerque Marva Wright Soul Rebels Dirty Dozen Brass Band Treme Brass Band DJ Soul Sister John Boutte Rockie

Published: 2008-07-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals

Smoking Section: Weezer, Kings of Leon, The Decemberists

The Donaldson Correctional Facility houses 1,500 of Alabama’s most vicious criminals. In 2002, fed up with their crappy rehab programs, administrators allowed 36 prisoners to take an intense Vipassana meditation course, involving 10 days of complete silence and soul-searching. The remarkable results are captured in the doc The Dhamma Brothers, financed in part by Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, whose life was changed by Vipassana. “What struck me was how similar my experience is in the meditation course to how it is for these criminals serving life sentences,” says Cuomo. “A few years ago, I might have felt a tremendous fear, and now I can walk into things feeling perfectly peaceful.” He relates to a statement in the movie by a convicted murderer named Grady Bankhead. “He said, ‘I’ve been on death row for eight years, and this 10-day course was harder,’” says Cuomo. “I can relate to that.” * * * * “I know I sound like a fucking cock right now,” says Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill, “but this is the first time I’ve really been proud of myself, track for track.” After a grueling 2007 tour, and Caleb’s recent surgery to repair his arm after a fistfight with his brother Nathan (”Nathan won”), the Kings planned to take a well-deserved break. But when we called them, they were at Nashville’s Blackbird Studio wrapping up their fourth disc, out in September. Three days after his surgery, Caleb says he removed his arm from a sling and began writing: “I don’t know if it was the pills or what, but the melodies were so much stronger than anything I’ve ever done — it’s just really beautiful songs.” In addition to the pills, the band members say they drank all day to fuel songs like “Cold Desert” and “Crawl.” (In the latter, Caleb touches on politics: “Let’s just say that Sean

Published: 2008-06-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Smoking Section

Beastie Boys Open and Close With Brooklyn Anthems at First-Ever Show In the New York Borough

“Did we mention this is our first show ever, in the history of the band, in Brooklyn, New York?” Mike D asked the crowd last night. Can you believe the Beastie Boys never played here before? After all these years of “No Sleep Till Brooklyn,” it was like finally seeing Lou Reed in Manhattan, Skynyrd in Alabama or Slayer in Hell. McCarren Pool in funky Greenpoint has hosted some of the summer’s best shows in recent weeks, from Sonic Youth to Erasure, but the Beasties were disgustingly great. They looked great in their natty suits — Mike D’s wig was like a Jewish-Afro version of Ricky Sylvers. They began with “Hello Brooklyn,” from Paul’s Boutique, and ended with “No Sleep Till Brooklyn,” two of their best and two of the finest non-Biggie songs ever written about the borough. In between, the thousands of checked Medina heads who opted to spend their hot August night here instead of with Daft Punk (in Coney Island) or the Hold Steady (in Prospect Park) were richly rewarded, swiftly devolving into a concrete bowl full of party people screaming, “I play my stereo loud! I disturb my neighbor! I want to enjoy! The FRUITS of my LABOR!” “Hello Brooklyn” was such a killer intro, they could have just played instrumentals from their new album the rest of the night and people would have been half happy. But they pummeled us into submission with non-obvious fan faves like “Posse In Effect” (MCA rapping about Abe Vigoda, who he resembles more every year), “Root Down” and “Time For Livin.’” Adrock handed “Paul Revere” to the crowd, and let us carry every word of the story. They picked up their instruments for stoner-fuzak jams that really did sound excellent on a summer night (with a lot of help from keyboardist Money Mark and drummer Alfredo Ortiz), plus vintage hardcore thrashers like “Heart Attack Man” and “Egg Raid On Mojo.” It was weird to hear Adrock rap, “On the L we’re doing swell,” the day after the L-train got shut down by a freaking tornado in Brooklyn. The security dude

Published: 2007-08-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Thomas Function, Poste pig roast, Vieux Farka Touré

THOMAS FUNCTION When you think of bands from Alabama you probably think of . . . Alabama. Fair enough. Now name your favorite rock band from Alabama. Exactly -- it's tough. Let us submit Thomas Function for your consideration. Most garage rock bands get by on some combination of attitude, volume and...

Published: 2010-04-21 Provider: Washington Post

Update: Heartland singer Jason Albert welcomes daughter

Update: Added Kelson's hospital photograph. Originally posted on August 15: Jason Albert, the lead singer for country band Heartland, and his wife, Kelly, welcomed daughter Kelson Noel on Tuesday, August 14 in Huntsville, Alabama.  She weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Source: CMT and Huntsville Hospital Thanks to CBB reader Elisabeth.

Published: 2007-08-16 Provider: Celebrity Baby Blog Keywords: Introducing..., It's a girl!, Unusual names, Heartland, Jason Albert

IN ODDER NEWS: More Evil Than Cobra Kai

Hollywood is threatening to attempt improving on already-perfect classic The Karate Kid, but with Will Smith's son playing Danielson. And Internet geeks everywhere are like, "You guys f*cking try it and we'll crane kick you in the nuts faster than you can say 'Miyagi'. Seriously, we dare you." Over on eBay, you can now bid on your very own backing rock band. You hear that David Lee Roth? This is your time! Citing fears of Al-Qaeda, some town in Alabama is re-opening their nuclear fallout shelters. Because a Birmingham Applebee's is clearly at the top of Bin Laden's list of targets. Is Liz Taylor planning to roll the dice again on lucky husband number nine? 3 high school football players were arrested after a little old-fashioned rookie hazing, which included the old "hold them down and forcibly rape them" hijinx.

Published: 2007-09-28 Provider: VH1

Project Runway Season 7: The Ones To Watch

Believe it or not, we're just 29 days away from the Season 7 premiere of Project Runway. Profiles of the designers are now online, and since the Lifetime website sucks, we've got what you need to know here: Amy is from Oakland via Texas and a "permalancer" for Old Navy. She likes Lady Gaga and would love to dress Leigh Lezark. Anna is originally from Wisconsin, loves Carla Bruni and worships at the altars of Marc Jacobs, Lanvin and Band of Outsiders. Anthony hails from Birmingham, Alabama and lo

Published: 2009-12-16 Provider: Defamer Keywords: greatest show on earth, lifetime, project runway, project runway season 7, tim gunn, top, tv

Great Northern, Trapped In The Closet, Afterschool Special [To Do]

· Music round-up: Great Northern at the Viper Room; Butch Walker at the Hotel Café; The Blind Boys of Alabama do a Christmas Show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. · Comedian Brently Heilbron risks driving himself irreversibly insane by performing all 22 chapters of batshit R. Kelly opus Trapped in the Closet at M Bar. (A band and full complement of actors will be on hand to help shoulder some of the psychological load.) Elsewhere, Zach Galifianakis is rumored to be dropping in on the free stand-up and music show at Tiger Lily on Vermont. · Cast members from Disney's High School Musical On Tour put on "The Afterschool Special" at the Knitting Factory, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Published: 2007-12-17 Provider: Defamer Keywords: To Do

Rebecca Luker (48)

Even though Rebecca Luker is a two-time Tony nominee, she still insists her proudest achievement to date was becoming a rifle sergeant in the Thompson High Marching Band when she was a teenager. The Alabama native, who has carved out a successful career p

Published: 2009-04-18 Provider: Hollywood Keywords: Rebecca Luker home page to view photos, read Rebecca Luker news & biography, see interviews, find movies at Hollywood.com.