The Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y. made an official announcement today about what they are calling, ‘a historical event’ – Paul McCartney is coming. The 2:30 PM press conference was held to add the venue to the list for Paul McCartney’s Out There tour. McCartney will play the Times Union Center on July 5th.
Tickets will be on sale through Ticketmaster, at 10 AM, on Monday, Apr. 14.
Prog-Rock superstars, dopapod recently announced their Spring 2014 Tour Dates. The band will be playing some Upstate, NY dates – 4/24 at Saratoga’s Putnam Den with Aqueous, 4/25 at The Westcott Theater in Syracuse, NY with Aqueous and then 4/26 at The Waiting Room in Buffalo, NY with a third night with Buffalo’s own Aqueous and favorites and Albany natives, Mister F. For tickets and info please visit www.dopapod.com.
Umphrey’s Mcgee announced yesterday that they will be releasing a new album later this year. The progressive-rock band will release their eighth studio album titled, Similar Skin, on June 10th.
Also announced today is the new album will be released on the bands newly created independent record label, Nothing Too Fancy Music – which is another sign that this band is bending not only genres but inherently changing the rules of the game. The new album includes 11 new songs, some of which have been performed live but never included on a recorded album.
Similar Skin tracklist: 
The Linear
Cut The Cable
Hourglass
No Diablo
Similar Skin
Puppet String
Little Gift
Educated Guess
Loose Ends
Hindsight
Bridgeless
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After the initial announcement of this year’s XRIJF headliners, Earth, Wind and Fire & Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell being announced earlier this year – the final lineup has now been announced for the 2014 Rochester Jazz Festival.
The final lineup comes after the news of a second show not only being added by promoters but also selling out within minutes, to the Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers event at the Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre on June 21st. Also sold-out for this years festival is headliner Earth, Wind and Fire, who will perform at the Kodak Hall Theatre on June 27th.
Highlights from this morning’s announcement include- Brooklyn Based, funk-a-licious, Soulive J.D. Wilkes and the Dirt Daubers at the Abilene Roots & Americana Stage, where they recently had a packed house for their show earlier this year. Brooklyn based Snarky Puppy will be playing the Harro East Ballroom, and the MOHO Collective will perform at the Inn on Broadway. Also added to this year’s list of headliners is Jazz sensation, Buddy Guy.
The full lineup can be downloaded on the XRIJF website and please stay tuned to Music Guide for all your news and live coverage of this years 9 day Jazz festival.
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Nine Inch Nails (NIN) announced a co-headlining tour with Soundgarden and Death Grips as the supporting act. The tour will cover the U.S. and Canada leg of the world tour in support of Hesitation Marks, their latest album.
The tour will start July 19th in Las Vegas, NV and will move throughout most of North America until August 25th, where it will conclude in California. The band, led by Trent Reznor, will be making an appearance in New York at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre August 1st, as well as surrounding dates in Camden, NJ and Holmdel, NJ.
“We just wanted to play metal in the boys’ club,” said Leather Leone, of Chastain, in the new book by Jill Hughes Kirtland, Not Just Tits in a Corset: Celebrating Women in Metal. “We were metal. And the music represented us. I remember early on at shows when I saw females in the audience I’d try to bring them in so they’d get it. I don’t want to f*ck him. I want to be him.”
Kirtland, a music journalist and band manager, reports the stories of several women rockers, in their own voices, through a series of intimate interviews and photographs. The names who collaborated with Kirtland involve some of the most prominent and influential women in the metal industry – Lita Ford, Ann Boleyn, Doro Pesch, Betsy Bitch, Leather Leone, Anneke Van Giersbergen, Elize Ryd, Sharon Den Adel, Alissa White-Gluz, Angela Gossow, Maria Brink, Floor Jansen, Tarja Turunen, Cristina Scabbia, Charlotte Wessels, Roxy Petrucci, Linda Mcdonald, Lzzy Hale, and Simone Simons.
The book, which Kirtland self-published, details the unique history, challenges and triumphs women have encountered throughout their careers in metal music, while also celebrating the compelling global community these women have created amongst each other and the fans. It’s not just musicians featured, but the women behind the scenes also tell their stories, all of them offering inspiration and support to the up-and-comers.
“Ten years ago I heard [from women], “Since I saw you in a metal band, I thought ‘okay, I can do this as well,’” recounted solo artist, and former member of The Gathering, Anneke van Giersbergen. “Sometimes we need a little bit of an example.”
Doro Pesch wrote the foreword to the book. Pesch, who is often referred to as “Metal Queen”, earned respect after a career that ha spanned nearly 25 years uninterupted. She is credited with being the first woman to front a band at the Monsters of Rock festival in Castle Donington, in England. German born, she earned her stripes and Europe and briefly tasted success in the United States before grunge pushed her back to the European front. Today, she continues to tour with her band.
The book, with a pretty cool book cover design by the way, is now available as a hardcover or softcover printed book or e-book on the author’s website and will be available through other online retailers soon.
A book launch party open to the public (all ages) will take place on Thursday, April 3rd (6:30pm) at Roxy & Duke’s Roadhouse in Dunellen, New Jersey. Female-fronted metal bands MINDMAZE, A SOUND OF THUNDER, and FLAMES OF FURY will be performing that night with other special guests.
For more information Visit:
www.thewomeninmetal.com (Author Website)
www.facebook.com/WomenInMetalBook (Book’s Facebook Fan Page)
www.twitter.com/progpowergrrl (Author’s Twitter)
Echo Hill, the up-and-coming alternative band out of Smithtown, Long Island, has officially disbanded.
Alex Laudani, co-founder of the four-piece band, took to the band’s official Facebook page last week to make the announcement.
https://www.facebook.com/ECHOHILLTHEBAND/posts/611263735626767
It had been a feel good story that was first reported on our site in December. The band, consisting of college-aged musicians of whom working towards, or recently earning their respective degrees, had garnered much attention to itself. Last summer, they organized a successful concert, including several bands local to Long Island, with the intent to collect food to the region still suffering from 2012’s Hurricane Sandy.
Since then, the band has appeared in numerous periodicals and began landing gigs within New York City, including Webster Hall (which, was later canceled). When we spoke to them in December, they were tentatively making plans to tour throughout Upstate New York.
And, that’s about when things started to unravel.
Just weeks following our feature article, the band announced lead singer, Monique Teichert had left the band. At the time, the cited that Teichert and her band mates did not share the same level of commitment, but a more acrimonious relationship was alluded on the band’s Facebook a short time later.
Echo Hill quickly sought after what would be their third lead singer in three years. However, just short of two months after Teichert’s departure, Laudani reluctantly put the band “to death.”
In a text message, Laudani said he is in the early stages of starting a new project.
“I’ll be back with a vengeance.”
As for Teichert, she too expressed that she has not quit on music. In a personal message through Facebook, she stated, “I’m not quitting on music. I’ll keep you posted on my new project.”
A “farewell” package has been prepared on Echo Hill’s official website, making several of their singles available to the public at no charge.