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The Walkmen Are on a Journey of New Concert Dates

The Walkmen are keeping busy over the course of the next few months, with a new round of U.S. dates, a slew of festival appearances and an upcoming trip to Scandinavia.  In the month of August The Walkmen will play in Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda at the Guggenheim Museum on August 14 as part of the museum’s “It Came From Brooklyn” series.  Just two days later they will play a free show alongside Dinosaur Jr. at NYC’s Central Park SummerStage.  The following month, the band will head int he direction of Scandinavia with shows booked at the Gota Kallare in Stockholm, Sweden, John Dee in Oslo, Norway and Hulen in Bergen, Norway.  They will stop at quite a few fall festivals including: the Monolith Festival at Red Rocks, the Austin City Limits at Zilker Park and Treasure Island in San Francisco.  Don’t miss seeing them live at one of their many U.S. dates!

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Lou Pearlman, Victorian villain and boy-band creator

Does the name Lou Pearlman ring any bells? Then what about names like Britney Spears, *NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys? Back in the ‘90s, Pearlman’s porcine figure was infamous throughout the pop-music business, as he was a major hitmaker. Unfortunately, he was also pretty crooked, landing himself in jail for money laundering. Besides being a skeezy pop kingpin, he also made his fortune selling shares of a fake blimp company—true story. The AV Club’s Nathan Rabin has a nice little update about him today: “Before becoming the king of teens, Pearlman sold fraudulent shares in a fraudulent blimp company. Who does that? He’s less a colorful music-world figure than a mustache-twirling 19th-century pulp-paperback villain.”
The article itself is actually about the weird stuff the AV Club staff owns, and it’s admittedly pretty damn strange. Apparently Pearlman was recognized as being a 20th Century Republican Leader before his arrest and sentencing, earning him a certificate signed by senators Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell. Glance through Pearlman’s Wikipedia page and you realize he is a pretty fascinating (if repellent) figure. And he gave the world all that beautiful music.
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Trent Reznor explains the appearing/disappearing Twitter account

Sometimes, the media should leave well enough alone. This is clear enough in most cases, where personal pain is inflicted by people prying into the private lives of celebrities. Other times, there isn’t a whole lot of pain involved, but it’s simply none of anyone’s business. That seems to be the message Trent Reznor has crafted at the beginning of an explanation he offered up on the Nine Inch Nails forums for his on-again-off-again relationship with Twitter.
As we all know, he’s a bit of a technophile, and he’s been very active on Twitter in the past. But Pitchfork reports that he started getting hateful messages from a group of people who were insulting him and his wife. Obviously, that’s not cool, so he would try to block them. But it wouldn’t stop, and if you “follow” someone on Twitter, you can see the entire thread of conversation leading up to the block. When this group of trolls starting hounding him about Erica de la Cruz, a fan with a terminal illness Reznor was raising money for (who subsequently passed away), those hateful messages were read by her family, causing quite some pain. Reznor is saying that’s why he just can’t be bothered to stay on Twitter anymore.
Pretty upsetting, naturally. Most fans just want to get concert tickets and celebrate the man’s music. Other people have nothing better to do, apparently.

Red Hot Chili Peppers to Reunite This Fall!!!

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith may be busy with the debut release of his instrumental side project, Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats, and another Chickenfoot tour, but he tells Billboard.com that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are making a comeback this fall. Explaining that what the Chili Peppers intended to be a one-year break after touring in support of 2005’s Stadium Arcadium turned into four, Smith says, “That’s the plan. Everybody was like, Y’Know, I really like having this time off, not being a Chili Pepper and doing other things … It’ll be two years in September, so now we’re ready. You can’t force people to play when they don’t to play or aren’t ready play or whatever – not in our band, anyway.”

Smith revealed to Billboard.com that he is expecting bassist Flea and guitarist John Frusciante to come up with some ideas for a new Chili Peppers album but said the band would likely “do a lot of improvising and jamming and songs will come out of that, too. That’s what we usually do. I don’t know why it would be different. Although Rick Rubin “always ends up being the guy … But we haven’t discussed it,” Smith said the Chili Peppers haven’t nailed down a release date year or talked about who will produce their album.

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Echo and the Bunnymen releasing a new record

In the ‘80s, alternative rock band Echo and the Bunnymen became infamous for their morose records and lyrics. They were also fiercely loved by their fans, and it looks like those same fans are finally getting the opportunity to see them return to the stage. The Bunnymen are going to be releasing a new album, entitled The Fountain, which will be their eleventh released during their career. The Quietus reports that the band is issuing the record on Oct. 12 on Ocean Rain Records. A single, “Think I Need it To,” will be coming out Sept. 28, so make sure you keep your eyes (and ears) open for that one.
The band’s fans have continued to rave about them over the years, and there are many, many indie rock bands today that are indebted to their sound. Naturally, there’s going to be a flurry of attention over their upcoming tour when the album drops. There are plenty of younger fans who have never seen the band live, and they’re all going to want to see them. Get concert tickets when they’re finally out and you can enjoy them live, too!

The Boss: Busy Working on a Dream

You have to hand it Bruce Springsteen, he always manages to pull several pleasant surprises out of sleeve while on the road.  The Boss is currently playing his “Working on a Dream” tour and is thrilling fans across the nation with his folksy, Americana rock ‘n’ roll.  The latest news suggests that Springsteen & The E Street Band will play his 1975 album Born to Run in its entirety on Sept. 20 at the United Center in Chicago.  This will be the second time that Sprinsteen unleashes the record from start to finish.  Springsteen and the E-Streeters performed Born to Run in May 2008 along with 1978’s Darkness at the Edge of Town.  Although there is no official word yet from the Springsteen camp, it feels nice to stoke a little excitement among fans.

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Marilyn Manson might come to your door if you blog about him

Just like an urban legend told by high school age bloggers, if you write something negative about Marilyn Manson on the Internet, you might just summon him out of whatever lair broken-down shock artists go to when their time has passed. That’s what he apparently wrote on his Web site recently, at any rate, saying, “If one more ‘journalist’ makes a cavailier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans’ help greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech. I dare you all to write one more thing that you won’t say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.”
What he defines as a cavalier statement is a little vague, of course. The Quietus seems to take the threat in stride, pointing out that they have certainly earned the wrath of Brian Warner with their last interview with him. It’s actually a rather compelling read. Good writing, and the writer in question knows when to take a rock star seriously and when not to.
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Green Day Announce VMA Performance

Rolling Stone announced this morning that Green Day will perform live at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in New York on September 13th. The gig will mark Green Day’s third time performing on the VMA stage, as the band played Insomniac‘s “Armatage Shanks” at the awards show debut in 1994 and then played American Idiot’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” in 2005. (The band also performed “Stuck With Me” on the VMA’s via satellite in 1995.) “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” was honored with the Video of the Year Award on 2005. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a statement, “We are excited to be performing at the Video Music Awards. You never know what’s going to happen, and it’s always a memorable experience for us.”

The trio will join previously announced VMAs performers Muse, who will debut their new track “Uprising,” and Taylor Swift, who will unveil a new version of “You Belong With Me” off Fearless. Russell Brand, the British comedian who hosted the VMAs last year and is probably best known for his role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, will host this year’s show. After being held in Los Angeles and Las Vegas for the past two years, the VMAs are returning to New York.

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The Decemberists Venturing Into Autumn

The Decemberists’ latest release, The Hazards of Love has received such positive praise from fans that the band has taken the initiative to add a fall leg onto their tour.  A brand new round of dates has them starting things off on September 20 at Flynn Theater in Burlington, Vt.  The group will then canvass the U.S. and Canada, stopping in at various cities and towns before officially wrapping things up with an October 18 performance at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco.  Laura Veirs and the Hall of Flames will be opening for The Decemberists during this particular run.  After concluding their North American trek in October, the band will ship out overseas for a couple of dates in London: November 18 at The Forum and November 19 at The Coronet Theatre.

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Mos Def Unveils Summer Tour Dates

Mos Def is hitting the road in support of his latest album, The Ecstatic, this summer, kicking things off in Minneapolis August 1. Mos Def will remain on the road with Jay Electronica (three dates feature Erykah Badu as well) until early October.

Mos Def’s upcoming tour dates:

August 1: Minneapolis, MN (First Avenue)
August 2: Chicago, IL (House of Blues)
August 5:  Burlington, VT (Higher Ground)
August 8:  Newport, Rhode Island (George Wein’s Jazz Festival)
August 9: Washington, DC (9:30 Club)
August 12:  Charlotte, NC (Amos’ Southend)
August 13: Charleston, SC (Music Farm)
August 14:  Atlanta, GA (The Tabernacle)
August 15:  Miami, FL (Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts)
August 17:  New Orleans, LA (House of Blues)
August 18:  Dallas, TX (House of Blues)
August 19:  Houston, TX (House of Blues)
August 21:  Denver, CO (TBA)
August 22:  Park City, UT (Harry O’s)
August 24:  Edmonton, Alberta (Edmonton Events Center)
August 25: Calgary, Alberta –(Flames Central)
August 27:  Vancouver, British Columbia (The Vogue Theatre)
August 28:  Seattle, WA (TBA)
August 29: Portland, OR (Roseland Theatre)
September 3: San Francisco, CA (Davies Symphony Hall with Erykah Badu)
September 4: Oakland, CA (The Paramount Theatre with Erykah Badu)
September 5: Los Angeles, CA (Palladium with Erykah Badu)
September 9: Philadelphia, PA (Electric Factory)
September 11: Providence, RI (Lupo’s)
September 12: Governors Island, NY (Water Taxi Beach)
September 16: Boston, MA (House of Blues)
October 3:  Austin, TX (Austin City Limits)

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