Blink 182 arent just reforming after five years, but they are also putting out a new record and going on a UK tour. The UK is planned for July 2011 and already has five dates booked.
Manchester MEN Arena – Friday July 8th 2011
Newcastle Arena – Tuesday July 12th 2011
Nottingham Arena – Wednesday July 13th 2011
Birmingham LG Arena – Friday July 15th 2011
London 02 Arena – Monda July 18th 2011
Tickets will go on sale at 9 am on November 26, 2010 (it’s a Friday). Did you miss them?
American band Phish has just concluded their huge summer tour of the US and they have just announced their new US tour. The tour will start with Austin City Limits Festival on October 8th then hop on over to Colorado and then skip back over to the east side of the States to end in New Jersey on October 31st.
According to their website and kdsk.com, Phish fans who buy tickets will receive a free recording of the entire show that’s been mixed and polished up – all of that within just an hour after the show.
Phish Fall 2010 Tour Dates:
10/08 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival – SOLD OUT
10/10 – Broomfield, CO @ 1STBANK Center
10/11 – Broomfield, CO @ 1STBANK Center
10/12 – Broomfield, CO @ 1STBANK Center
10/15 – North Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Coliseum
10/16 – North Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Coliseum
10/19 – Augusta, ME @ Augusta Civic Center
10/20 – Utica, NY @ Utica Memorial Auditorium
10/22 - Providence, RI @ Dunkin Donuts Center
10/23 – Amherst, MA @ Mullins Center
10/24 – Amherst, MA @ Mullins Center
10/26 - Manchester, NH @ Verizon Wireless Arena
10/29 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
10/30 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
10/31 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
Songkick has just partnered with YouTube to offer concert suggestions to users. Songkick is a live music recommendation and discovery service which helps users find out when certain bands are playing in their area.
Sitting within the re-launched youtube.com/music site, Songkick will power concert recommendations in the ‘Events Near You’ section which draws on a user’s IP address to pinpoint their location. Sometimes this becomes an issue when your IP is located at a completely different part of the country (which we found that our IP was in Oxford, not in Cornwall!).
Songkick CEO Ian Hogarth, “From our point of view, this is one step closer to making it incredibly easy to find local concerts, whether you’re on Songkick or on another site discovering music […] It’s kind of early days, but it seems like a very significant number of people are coming through, finding out more about the show, buying tickets, etc.”
The Goo Goo Dolls are back for even more touring. Goo Goo Dolls are famous for their Iris track back in the nineties, but they havent really done too much since. Now they are returning for their ninth studio album ‘Something for the Rest of Us’ on August 31st. Prior to this, they release phenomenally good new single ‘Home’ on August 23rd, video below.
The boys will also be embarking on a UK tour in November, with dates as follows:
Lily Allen is scheduled to make her final live appearance at the Big Chill Festival on August 5—and it’s a pretty good way to go out when you consider she’ll be performing alongside Thom Yorke, Massive Attack and MIA.
Its a bit of a shame how Lily’s music career turned out, but she is now reportedly going to open her vintage fashion store and is also planning to design a vintage clothing line that will come out in 2011. This is going to be a million worlds away from the music industry, but Im sure with her exposure already its not going to be tough to build the stores reputation.
Flyer is a new free concert discovery application that allows users to search their iTunes library and provide an up-to-date listing of shows for those artists based on the geographical area you define (see video demo below).
Presently in beta, the initial version of Flyer is a desktop-based app that utilizes the Bandsintown API, and works with both Macs and PCs using iTunes.
With Plastic Beach being such a hit for the Gorillaz, they have now announced the dates for their upcoming world tour. Starting on October 3rd, Gorillaz will be headlining a slew of cities and playing the new jams (and hopefully some classics) in a the tour they have dubbed as the “Escape To Plastic Beach” World Tour.
All cities and dates are still yet to be fully announced, but here are confirmed dates.
Gorillaz 2010 Tour Dates:
07/25 – Damascus, SY @ The Citadel
10/03 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
10/08 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
11/11 – Dublin, IE @ O2 Arena
11/12 – Manchester, UK @ Evening News Arena
11/14 – London, UK @ O2 Arena
11/15 – Amsterdam, NL @ Heineken Music Hall
11/17 – Birmingham, UK @ NIA
11/18 – Brighton, UK @ Centre
11/21 – Berlin, DE @ Velodrom
11/22 – Antwerp, BE @ Lotto
11/23 – Paris, FR @ Zenith
12/06 – Perth, AU @ Burswood Dome
12/08 – Adelaide, AU @ Entertainment Centre
12/11 – Melbourne, AU @ Rod Laver
12/16 – Sydney, AU @ Entertainment Centre
12/19 – Brisbane, AU @ Entertainment Centre
12/21 – Auckland, NZ @ Vector Arena
Chromeo is one of my favourite bands at the moment. Chromeo tracks that im loving include Fancy Footwork and Dont Turn The Lights On. You can see Chromeo live with Holy Ghost!, Neon Indian, and/or Telephoned this summer.
Tour dates include:
07/26 – Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
07/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
07/29 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
07/30 – Boston, MA @ House Of Blues
07/31 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
08/02 – Ottawa, ON @ Capital Music Hall
08/03 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix
08/05 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic
08/06 – Chicago, IL (Lollapalooza)
08/07 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
08/10 – Calgary, AB @ Flames Central
08/11 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore
08/12 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Market
08/13 – Portland, OR @ Roseland
08/16 – San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues
08/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Twilight Concert Series
08/20 – Denver, CO @ Ogden
08/24 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s
08/25 – Dallas, TX @ Palladium
08/26 – Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom
08/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
08/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl (w/ The Chemical Brothers)
