Jul 18
AndrewMusic Concert, Tour
Alanis has kicked off a U.S. tour in support of her latest album Flavors of Entanglement. The tour stretches from September to mid-November. 10 dates are on tap so far, with presales beginning this weekend.
Alanis Flavors of Entanglement Tour
September 20 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
October 1 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
October 2 Chicago, IL The Chicago Theatre
October 14 Louisville, KY Louisville Palace
October 16 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
October 24 Houston, TX Jones Hall
October 25 Grand Prarie, TX Nokia Theatre
October 28 Kansas City, MO The Midland
November 13 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
November 14 Los Angeles, CA Orpheum Theatre
Concert information is up to date as of the time of publication
Jul 18
AndrewMusic Album, Concert, Tour
British alternative rock band James returns to the United States with a new album and tour after a lengthy absence. The 11-track album Hey Ma is a reunion of sorts. The band had disbanded following the departure of lead singer Tim Booth to pursue a solo career. James reunited in April 2007 first for a U.K. tour, and then went into the studio to record the new album. It was released in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2008.
Hey Ma is set for a September 16 release date in North America and the band will return for a full U.S. tour for the first time in this century. The tour begins in Boston on September 15 and continues through the rest of the month. The band will open at Radio City Music Hall for Squeeze on September 19.
Tickets on sale for the Boston show go on sale today at noon. Tickets for most of the other shows go on sale in the next two weeks.
James Hey Ma Tour
September 15 Boston, MA Paradise Lounge
September 16 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero
September 18 Washington DC 9:30 Club
September 19 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
September 20 Ashbury Park, NJ Stone Pony
September 22 Montreal, Quebec Club Soda
September 23 Toronto, Ontario Phoenix Concert Theatre
September 25 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
September 26 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
September 27 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line
September 29 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
October 1 San Francisco, CA The Regency
October 2 Los Angeles, CA The El Rey Theatre
October 3 San Diego, CA House of Blues
October 5 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
October 7 Mexico City, Mexico Auditorio Nacional
October 8 Guadalajara, Mexico Arena VFG
Concert information is up to date as of the time of publication
Jul 09
AndrewBusiness, Music Concert
Tickets to Bon Jovi’s free concert in Central Park on Saturday, July 12 are for sale for upwards of $500 on ebay this week. The tickets, which were given out by by Major League Baseball in conjunction with All Star weekend in New York, have been seen on the open market for as much as $1500 per pair. On eBay alone, there are over 350 auctions with bids ranging from $1.04 per pair to $61 per pair. So far, no one is biting on the $500 seats.
The show caps a long U.S. tour in support of the band’s latest album Lost Highway. Bon Jovi also has four other dates left on the itinerary, including a two-night stand at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, MA (Read a Review here) beginning tonight and a two-night stand at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on July 14, 15.
The All-American Rejects are tapped as the openers.
Jul 07
AndrewMusic Concert
Tori Amos will release a new DVD this fall featuring two live sets dating back to 1991 and 1992. The shows, recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival in July of subsequent years, will feature 19 tracks of the artists early material. The artist’s major label debut, Little Earthquakes, was released in February 1992. A CD release will also be available.
Tori also played the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2005 and again in 2007 backed by a full band.
Another DVD, chronicling the artist’s recent American Doll Posse tour, is in the works with an as-yet-unannounced release date. Live at Montreux will be released September 30.
Live at Montreux tracklist
1991 Show
1. Silent All These Years
2. Precious Things
3. China
4. Crucify
5. Leather
6. Song For Eric
7. Upside Down
8. Happy Phantom
9. Winter
10. Thank You
1992 Show
11. Little Earthquakes
12. Crucify
13. Silent All These Years
14. Precious Things
15. Happy Phantom
16. Whole Lotta Love / Thank You
17. Me And A Gun
18. Winter
19. Smells Like Teen Spirit
Feb 16
AndrewMusic Concert, Paula Cole, Review
Paula Cole
Berklee Performance Theatre
February 16, 2007
As Paula Cole herself admitted, it has been a long time. Her return to recording and touring has been a slow evolution fueled in part by having a child, and in part by her musical collaboration with Chris Botti, a renowned trumpeter. The jazz influence is obvious in her new songs, but it is also notable that the new music sounds a lot like the Paula Cole some of us remember.
Her last album, Amen, was released in 1999. It was a good collection of songs, but her enthusiasm for recording and touring had waned, and it was pretty evident. With time away, she returns invigorated because, as she says, “music is fun again.” Paula Cole is putting together a full tour to coincide with the release of her next album, Courage, on June 12.
Cole arranged for a hometown performance at the Berklee Performance Theatre, a part of the Berklee College of Music where Cole attended. She was greeted warmly by a mix of friends, fans and college students. Her first tune was an amazing reworking of one of her biggest hits Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? Cole sat alone on stage, at the piano and played a new arrangement of the song. It was breathtaking. She followed by adding drummer Ben Wittman for a roaring version of Mississippi from her album This Fire.
Most of the set stole from This Fire, the one album that made Paula Cole a household name, however briefly -- though it is not besides the point that she won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1998. During the two hour set, she addressed the audience openly and often, talking about her experiences in the seven years she was away from the music scene, about her new energy and her musical influences.
The spotlight for the first half of the show was new material. Comin’ Down was a spirtual gospel romp “Lord make me an instrument to sing away the pain, This rushing river, comin’ down.” Easily the highlight of the new material, it could find a home on adult contemporary radio. Love Light (Cardinal) was shining, just a powerful tune that gave way to the high energy of Tiger. Cole then pulled back a chair and delivered the jazz standard My One and Only Love (which she had recorded a version of with Botti) as a soft lullabye.
From that point in the show, she pulled out all the stops. Throwing Stones, one of her angriest, best Fuck You songs (though Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? will always be the best) pulsed through the audience, and she even played a full band version of Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
Some of her best songs were saved for the encores, including what most people know as the Dawson’s Creek theme song I Don’t Want to Wait and a cover of Dolly Parton’s Jolene complete with a three-minute human beat box ending by Cole. She came back on stage for I Am So Ordinary, just her at the piano again -- an extra song “for her hometown,” and a fitting to close the show.
Cole’s voice is better than it has ever sounded, and it was always an impressive instrument in its own right. She looked radiant and happy and the performance was as nice a treat for the audience as it was for her. She will launch the Lessons for Life Tour later in the year.
Setlist
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? (Piano solo)
Mississippi
Comin’ Down
Lonelytown
El Greco
Love Light (Cardinal)
Tiger
My One and Only Love
Hard To Be Soft/Throwing Stones
14
Hush Hush Hush
Amen
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? (Full band)
Me
The Ladder
Encore 1
Carmen
Watch the Woman’s Hands
I Don’t Want to Wait
Jolene
Encore 2
I Am So Ordinary
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