Some Pedro the Lion news to kick off this beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon: the man and his band have a new album coming soon, Achilles' Heel, and they're pulling up their bootstraps to head out on tour with the likes of Ester Drang, Ben Kweller and Death Cab For Cutie. Check out the tour dates right over here.
Behold: the initial dates and venues for the enormous P.O.D./Blindside/Lacuna Coil tour happening in May:
Sat/May-01 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
Mon/May-03 Houston, TX Verizon Wireless Theatre
Tue/May-04 Dallas, TX NextStage
Wed/May-05 Tulsa, OK Brady Theatre
Fri/May-07 St. Louis, MO The Pagaent
Sat/May-08 Milwaukee, WI Eagle's Ballroom
Sun/May-09 Cleveland, OH Agora
Tue/May-11 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
Wed/May-12 Toronto, ON Kool Haus
Fri/May-14 Pittsburgh, PA Rock Jungle
Sat/May-15 Columbus, OH Promo West Pavilion
Sun/May-16 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Wed/May-19 Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
Thu/May-20 Orlando, FL House Of Blues
Sat/May-22 Washington, DC
Sun/May-23 Norfolk, VA Constant Convocation Center @ ODU
Tue/May-25 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom
Thu/May-27 Detroit, MI State Theatre
Sat/May-29 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
Sun/May-30 Boston, MA
Tue/Jun-01 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
Wed/Jun-02 Chicago, IL Riviera
Fri/Jun-04 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
Sat/Jun-05 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre
Sun/Jun-06 Minneapolis, MN Quest
Tue/Jun-08 Calgary, AB McEwan Hall
Wed/Jun-09 Edmonton, AB Shaw Conference Center / Reds
Fri/Jun-11 Vancouver, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Sat/Jun-12 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre
Sun/Jun-13 Portland, OR Roseland
Tue/Jun-15 San Francisco, CA Warfield
Wed/Jun-16 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern
Fri/Jun-18 Las Vegas, NV Joint
Sat/Jun-19 Phoeniz, AZ Marquee
Sun/Jun-20 San Diego, CA Soma
Of particular interest here is that Minneapolis date June 6th at Quest; that would be the 'Christian nightclub' featured in Rolling Stone a while back. I wonder how established artists like Payable and Blindside will react to being in that 'Christian or nothing' atmosphere - not to mention Lacuna Coil. I guess we'll find out.
Funniest news of today, first reported by the ace troubleshooters at Relevant: Backstreet Boys are in the studio preparing a new abum. Heaven preserve us. Speaking of ace troubleshooters, Ace Troubleshooter's third Tooth & Records album comes out soon! Smoooooove.
Get your metal-lovin' keesters on over to Pluto Records and take advantage of their current sale. Check it out: three CDs for twenty-two dolla. What, are you kidding me?? Too true!
Ooooh, here we go: the second edition of the Solid State tour features - grab something steady here - Norma Jean, Dead Poetic, Beloved, Underoath and Haste The Day, and it kicks off March 10th in Arkansas; more dates can be found right on over here, and more are on the way. Pray Canada sees some of this rock action. [hardcorechristian]
Check Epitaph Records' website to view the new Weakerthans video! Josh Chambers, this one is for YOU! That's right, baby!! [noisetheory]
Heads up, Montreal, Toronto and Guelph: Bleeding Through and Comeback Kid are up in your faces:
5/04 Montreal, QC @ Salle L'X
5/06 Toronto, ONT @ Kathedral Room
5/07 Guelph, ONT @ Trashateria
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Anything involving the late, great Living Sacrifice is newsworthy: "Living Sacrifice reports that they are unsure of the status of their best-of release originally planned for the coming months. They also sent an update on what each member is doing in the aftermath of the band: Rocky still plays in Evanescence[rumours are circulating that Evanescence are heading for a breakup - ed]. Lance is writing and recording music with friends. Arthur has five or six businesses that he runs. I don't know if he is playing or not. Matthew is playing in Snailhuntr, Unwed Sailor and Lovedrug. Bruce is managing bands." They really should stop wasting time and get LS back together already.
Posted by mike at February 28, 2004 04:32 PM