Category: Tour Announcements

Dark Star Orchestra Winter Tour East swings through Albany in March

Dark Star Orchestra’s Winter Tour East 2023 will be find the Grateful Dead tribute group playing eight shows in 6 cities, among them a pair of shows on Friday, March 10 and Saturday, March 11 at the Palace Theatre in Albany.

Performing to critical acclaim for over 20 years and over 3000 shows, Dark Star Orchestra carries on the Grateful Dead live concert experience, building shows off the Dead’s extensive catalog and the talent of these seven fine musicians. On any given night, the band will perform a show based on a set list from the Grateful Dead’s 30 years of extensive touring or use their catalog to program a unique set list for the show. This allows fans both young and old to share in the experience.

By recreating set lists from the past, and by developing their own sets of Dead songs, Dark Star Orchestra offers a continually evolving artistic outlet within this musical canon. Honoring both the band and the fans, Dark Star Orchestra’s members seek out the unique style and sound of each era while simultaneously offering their own informed improvisations.

Dark Star Orchestra offers much more than the sound of the Grateful Dead, they truly encapsulate the energy and the experience. It’s about a sense of familiarity. It’s about a feeling that grabs listeners and takes over. It’s about that contagious energy…in short, it’s about the complete experience and consistent quality show that the fan receives when attending a Dark Star Orchestra show.

For us it’s a chance to recreate some of the magic that was created for us over the years. We offer a sort of a historical perspective at what it might have been like to go to a show in 1985, 1978 or whenever. Even for Deadheads who can say they’ve been to a hundred shows in the 90s, we offer something they never got to see live.
keyboardist and vocalist Rob Barraco

Fans and critics haven’t been the only people caught up in the spirit of a Dark Star show. The band has featured guest performances from six original Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Vince Welnick, Tom Constanten and even toured with longtime Dead soundman, Dan Healy. Other notable guests have included Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman of Phish, Keller Williams, Warren Haynes, Steve Kimock, Peter Rowan, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot and many more.

Tickets to all shows go on sale Friday, January 13 at 10 AM ET via ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available for purchase at the Palace Theatre Box Office, located at 19 Clinton Ave. Box Office hours are Monday – Friday Noon to 5PM as well as select days and hours for events and on sales.

Dark Star Orchestra Winter Tour East 2023

March 9 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Center for the Arts

March 10 & 11 – Albany, NY – The Palace Theatre

March 13 – Hartford, CT – Infinity Hall Hartford

March 15 & 16 – Rutland, VT – Paramount Theatre

March 17 – Wilkes-Barre, PA – F.M. Kirby Center

March 18 – Ellicottville, NY – The Rail Rider Jamboree

January 12, 2023
Steve Aoki Announces First U.S. Tour Since Pandemic, Stop at Terminal Five, New Single “New York” Out Now

Steve Aoki announces his first U.S. tour since the pandemic started, with a stop at Terminal Five on March 16. He also announced a new single titled “New York” with Regard, featuring mazie out now.

Steve Aoki, Photo Credit: Jana Schuessler

Steve Aoki is a 2x-GRAMMY-nominated music producer, artist, fashion designer, entrepreneur, and Dim Mak Records founder. He has been described by Billboard as one of the most in-demand entertainers in the world.” He holds the Guinness World Record for “Most Traveled Musician in a Single Calendar Year,” performing at nearly every top festival worldwide, including Coachella, Ultra Music Festival, Lollapalooza, Fuji Rock Festival, Tomorrowland and Electric Daisy Carnival.

Aoki has collaborated with an impressive list of artists, including BTS, Maluma, Snoop Dogg, Linkin Park, blink-182, One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson, Machine Gun Kelly, and Lil Uzi Vert. He released three Platinum singles, six Gold singles, and over ten Top 10 radio records in his career. Aoki recently released his album HiROQUEST: Genesis, featuring collaborations with Taking Back Sunday, Mod Sun, Kane Brown, and more, and sold a staggering 27K+ CDs. His ongoing HiROQUEST brand is a growing extension of him and the worldwide community he created through his music, welcoming all into his universe.

Aoki announced his brand new fiery single “New York” featuring multi-platinum DJ and producer Regard and up-and-comer alt-pop artist mazie. Regard has amassed a worldwide following since the release of his chart-topping 2019 hit “Ride It,” and has gone on to achieve over 10x Top 10 single chart placements globally. mazie went viral on Tik Tok for her song “dumb dumb,” which amassed 70+ million cumulative streams, and her debut album “blotter baby” is coming out in 2023. Together on the track, the three come together to make the pop anthem of the year.

Aoki also announced a winter run of dates, his first since the pandemic started. The 12-city run sees him wrapping up in Terminal Five on March 16. Ticket information can be found here.

HiROQUEST: GENESIS TOUR DATES:

Wed, Feb 22 / Montreal / New City Gas

Thu, Feb 23 / Toronto / Rebel

Fri, Feb 24 / Chicago / Aragon

Sat, Feb 25 / Las Vegas / Hakkasan

Wed, Mar 1 / Washington DC / Echostage

Thu, Mar 2 / Austin / Stubb’s

Fri, Mar 3 / Dallas / Factory at Deep Ellum

Fri, Mar 3 / Las Vegas / Omnia

Thu, Mar 9 / Denver / Mission Ballroom

Fri, Mar 10 / Los Angeles / Shrine Expo

Sat, Mar 11 / San Francisco / Bill Graham

Sat, Mar 11 / Las Vegas / Omnia

Wed, Mar 15 / Boston / Big Night Live

Thu, Mar 16 / New York / Terminal 5

Sat, Mar 18 / Las Vegas / Omnia

January 10, 2023
The Hold Steady to celebrate 20th anniversary with Multiple NY shows in 2023

On January 28, The Hold Steady will be making a special appearance, performing for an event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show is occurring exactly 20 years after the band’s first live performance, on the same site (then called North Six). Two Dark Birds will open at Music Hall, bringing the audience back to the January 2003 show where The Hold Steady opened for Two Dark Birds’ Steve Koester at North Six.

The Hold Steady also commemorates the release of their ninth studio album, The Price of Progress. The album will be released March 31, 2023 and found on their Personal Jams record label. This album stands as their most sonically expansive record thus far, while also remaining unmistakably The Hold Steady showcasing narrative rock ‘n’ roll tales of ordinary people struggling and surviving in a modern world.

The following week, the band will travel to the mid-Atlantic for a weekend of shows, from February 2-4. You can see The Hold Steady playing classic venues in Baltimore (Ottobar) and Washington D.C. (Black Cat), before finishing in Philadelphia (Brooklyn Bowl).

The remainder of the year attributes the 2023 edition of The Weekender, the band’s semi-annual multi-night live event for fans in the United Kingdom and Europe, set to take place at London’s Electric Ballroom (March 10-11) and Colours Hoxton (March 12). This will be followed by visits to Portland, New York City (WFUV HighLine Bash), Boston, a two-night stand at Chicago, IL’s The Salt Shed set for June 30 and July 1, joined by special guests The Mountain Goats and Dillinger Four. An additional The Hold Steady show for Chicago at Empty Bottle on July 2 goes on sale this Friday. Tickets for all announced shows are on sale now. For complete details, visit theholdsteady.net.

THE HOLD STEADY – LIVE 2023

JANUARY

28 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (Official 20th Anniversary Show) #

FEBRUARY

2 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar ^

3 – Washington, DC – Black Cat ^

4 – Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn Bowl ^l

MARCH

10 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom *

11 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom *

12 – London, UK – Colours Hoxton * (SOLD OUT)

MAY

12 – New York, NY – WFUV Highline Bash

JUNE

30 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed †

JULY

1 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed † (SOLD OUT)

2 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle

NOVEMBER

29-30 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl **

DECEMBER

1 – 2 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl **

# w/Special Guest Two Dark Birds

^ w/Special Guests Friendship

* The Weekender 2023

† w/ Special Guests The Mountain Goats and Dillinger Four

** Massive Nights 2023

January 6, 2023