The tour will take place in two segments, one prior to and one following the recently announced summer tour of the UK and Europe.
The cities IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER are:
Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Houston
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Miami
Montreal
New York
Philadelphia
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Seattle
St Louis
Tampa
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington DC
Exact dates and venues will be announced at a later date.
With tour dates already scheduled into March, ’08 is looking to be as busy a year for Jimmy Eat World as 2007 was. In October the band released their fifth album Chase This Light, which Entertainment Weekly called “a master class in hard-rocking for the soft-hearted”. Paste described the new album as “sophisticated, toothsome power pop”, and Harp declared that “if modern rock radio doesn’t spend the next year milking Chase This Light for hits, it’s not the band’s fault.”
Jimmy Eat World’s dates with Foo Fighters are below. For more information on the tour and Chase This Light, please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man 212 343 0740 or eliot@nastylittleman.com
1/16 – Sunrise, FL – BankAtlantic Center
1/17 – Orlando, FL – Amway Arena
1/19 – Birmingham, AL – BJCC Arena
1/20 – Pensacola, FL – Pensacola Civic Center
1/22 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
1/23 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
1/25 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum
“Haunting and majestic… more art-house movie than concert rockumentary” – Los Angeles Times
“one of the most visually stunning music documentaries ever” – Cleveland Free Times
“stupidly gorgeous” – Pitchfork
Sigur Ros have confirmed a number of theatrical screenings of their new documentary film Heima, which was released on DVD Nov 20. All the screenings will be in high-definition with 5.1 surround sound audio, so audiences can fully appreciate the splendor of this remarkable film.
Heima – which translates as both “At Home” and “Homeland” – chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006. Combining both the biggest and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world’s most fascinating and inscrutable bands captured live while exploring their natural habitat like never before. The film was by Nick Fenton with direction from the Oscar-nominated Dean DeBlois. The DVD release includes the film along with a second disc of live performances from all over Iceland, and there is a deluxe edition of the package that includes a 112 page hard bound photo book. Hvarf/Heim, a companion double CD package that includes music from the film along with other new recordings is also available in stores now.
Currently confirmed screenings are as follows. Tickets for each are available via www.DandEentertainment.com/SigurRos.html, and stay tuned to www.sigurros.com for further confirmations.
12/18, 7:30pm – San Francisco CA – Embarcadero Center Cinema
12/18, 7:30pm – Denver CO – Chez Artiste
12/19, 8pm – Boston MA – Kendall Square Cinema
12/19, 8pm – Atlanta GA – Midtown Art Center
12/20, 8pm – Austin TX – Dobie Theatre
12/20, 8pm – Seattle WA – Metro Cinemas
For further information on Heima and Hvarf/Heim please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man Tel: 212 343 0740 email: eliot@nastylittleman.com
Foo Fighters have added two more dates to their upcoming early ‘08 arena tour in support of their sixth studio album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. The two new dates, March 3 at San Diego’s Cox Arena and March 5 at the Forum in Los Angeles, along with previously announced dates February 1 at the Reno Events Center and February 2 at Oakland’s Oracle Arena will go on sale this Saturday at www.ticketmaster.com
2007 has been a banner year for Foo Fighters, most recently for the highest profile Grammy nominations of the band’s 12-year-plus career: Their five nods this year include their first ever in the Album of the Year and Record of the Year categories. This makes the Foos’ career Grammy take a potential nine when the band attends the 50th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday, February 10 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles-Their previous wins being One By One and There Is Nothing Left To Lose for Best Rock Album in 2004 and 2000, “All My Life” for Best Hard Rock Performance win in 2003, and the “Learn To Fly” video’s 2000 Short Form Music Video Grammy.
Additionally, the Grammy-nominated first single from the current album, “The Pretender” just set the record for most weeks at #1 atop the Alternative radio chart. The track’s 17th week run at #1 surpasses the previous three-way tie at 16 weeks held by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day and Staind. Elsewhere on the chart, current single “Long Road To Ruin” moves to #2 Most Increased in the format.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was released September 25th to the biggest worldwide fanfare of the Foo Fighters’ career. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY awarded the record an A, calling it “Perfect” and noting “The band has taken everything it’s always done best and brought it to the next level.” Elsewhere, EchoesÅ entered the UK chart at #1 with the biggest first week sales by an international artist in 2007 and the biggest first week sales ever on iTunes UK. More recently, the band announced and instantly sold out a 163,000 capacity two-night stand at Wembley Stadium.
Foo Fighters’ U.S. tour dates are as follows:
1/16 – Sunrise, FL – BankAtlantic Center
1/17 – Orlando, FL – Amway Arena
1/19 – Birmingham, AL – BJCC Arena
1/20 – Pensacola, FL – Pensacola Civic Center
1/22 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
1/23 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
1/25 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum
1/26 – Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
1/28 – Fayetteville, AR – Barnhill Arena
1/29 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
2/1 – Reno NV – Reno Events Center
2/2- Oakland CA – Oracle Arena
2/18 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center
2/19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden (SOLD OUT)
2/21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Spectrum
2/24 – Detroit, MI – Joe Louis Arena
2/25 – Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena
2/27 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
2/28 – Council Bluffs IA – Mid America Center
3/2 – Glendale AZ – Jobbing.com Arena
3/3 – San Diego CA – Cox Arena
3/5 – Los Angeles CA – Forum
For further info, please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man 212 343 0740 or eliot@nastylittleman.com.
“‘Wax Simulacra’ bursts open with wild, ascending guitars and erratic soprano vocals· If this is the band’s version of calm, we can’t wait for the storm”- ROLLING STONE
Following up on the recent announcement of their New Years Eve headline extravaganza at the Bill Graham Civic in San Francisco, The Mars Volta have confirmed their first dates of 2008, beginning Jan. 9 in Burlington VT and running up to just before the Jan. 29 release date of their new The Bedlam In Goliath.
The first of the shows to go on sale will be January 14th at New York City’s Terminal 5, tickets for which will be available beginning TOMORROW, December 8th at 12 Noon at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/874545. The remaining shows go on sale the weekend of December 15th.
Like previous Mars Volta efforts De-Loused In The Comatorium and Frances The Mute, The Bedlam In Goliath is a thematically linked whole, the songs chapters in a bigger story, inspired by real people, places and events. The Bedlam In Goliath chronicles The Mars Volta’s time with the “Soothsayer” a/k/a the Ouija board owned by vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and its mutation from a source of amusement during the tour supporting the band’s Amputechture album into a malevolent psycho-spiritual force that nearly tore the group apart, collectively and individually.
The Mars Volta was formed by guitarist/producer/arranger Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist/vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and issued its first recorded work, the Tremulant EP in 2002. The band has since released three full-length albums, De-Loused In The Comatorium (2003), Frances The Mute (2005)–both of which have been certified gold–and Amputechture (2006). The Bedlam In Goliath will be The Mars Volta’s fourth studio album. Like Frances The Mute and Amputechture, it was produced by the band’s own Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.
The full January itinerary is as follows:
January 9th – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
January 11th – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
January 12th – Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
January 14th – New York, NY – Terminal 5
January 17th – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore at the TLA
January 18th – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
January 19th – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
January 21st – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Hall
January 23rd – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
January 25th – Kansas City, MO – Beaumont Club
January 27th – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e laura@nastylittleman.com
Hailed as “awesomely ominous” (ROLLING STONE), “ridiculously dynamic” (LOS ANGELES TIMES) and “playful and apocalyptic” (USA TODAY), Beck’s “Timebomb” has been nominated for a Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance Grammy.
“Timebomb” was released as a digital-only single on August 21. It may or may not appear on the the three-time Grammy winner’s next record, which he is currently recording in Los Angeles.
For further information, contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man
tel 212.343.0740 email eliot@nastylittleman.com
Beastie Boys have received a pair of Grammy nominations for The Mix-Up, the all-instrumental “collection of full-on funkateering” (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) released June of this year.
The album itself was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album, while the track “Off The Grid” garnered a nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
The band is currently holed up in its own Oscilloscope studio complex in lower Manhattan working on its next opus.
For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man
tel 212.343.0740 or laura@nastylittleman.com
Foo Fighters have been nominated for five Grammy Awards, including their first ever nods in the Album of the Year and Record of the Year categories. This makes the Foos’ career Grammy take a potential nine when the band attends the 50th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday, February 10 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, to be broadcast live on CBS.
The full list of Foo Fighters’ nominations is as follows: Album of the Year (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace), Record of the Year (”The Pretender”), Best Rock Song (”The Pretender”), Best Rock Album (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace) Best Hard Rock Performance (”The Pretender”).
Of course Foo Fighters are no strangers to Grammy wins and nominations: the band’s 2005 double opus In Your Honor received no less than five nominations, while their prior two albums, One By One and There Is Nothing Left To Lose, took home Best Rock Album statuettes in 2004 and 2000 respectively. The Foos have collected four Grammys overall, the other two being the “All My Life” single’s 2003 Best Hard Rock Performance win, and the “Learn To Fly” video’s 2000 Short Form Music Video Grammy.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, the Foo Fighters’ sixth studio album, was released September 25th to the biggest worldwide fanfare of the Foo Fighters’ 12-year-plus career. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY awarded the record an A, calling it “Perfect” and noting “The band has taken everything it’s always done best and brought it to the next level,” while the band’s U.S. tour was recently announced, including a first ever headline date at New York’s Madison Square Garden that sold out in minutes. Elsewhere, Echoes… entered the UK chart at #1 with the biggest first week sales by an international artist in 2007 and the biggest first week sales ever on iTunes UK. More recently, the band announced and instantly sold out a 163,000 capacity two-night stand at Wembley Stadium.
Foo Fighters’ U.S. tour dates are as follows:
1/16 – Sunrise, FL – BankAtlantic Center
1/17 – Orlando, FL – Amway Arena
1/19 – Birmingham, AL – BJCC Arena
1/20 – Pensacola, FL – Pensacola Civic Center
1/22 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
1/23 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
1/25 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum
1/26 – Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium
1/28 – Fayetteville, AR – Barnhill Arena
1/29 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
2/1 – Reno NV – Reno Events Center
2/2- Oakland CA – Oracle Arena
2/18 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center
2/19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden (SOLD OUT)
2/21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Spectrum
2/24 – Detroit, MI – Joe Louis Arena
2/25 – Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena
2/27 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
2/28 – Council Bluffs IA – Mid America Center
3/2 – Glendale AZ – Jobbing.com Arena
For further info, please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man 212 343 0740 or eliot@nastylittleman.com.
After selling a staggering 163,000 tickets in 24 hours for their June 6 & 7 stand at London’s Wembley Stadium, Foo Fighters have set their sights on America. The band has confirmed the bulk of their first American tour in support of their new album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (a handful of dates remain TBA). This will be the band’s biggest American tour to date and includes the Foos’ first ever show at New York’s Madison Square Garden. As on their warm up dates earlier this fall, core Foo Fighters Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Taylor Hawkins and Chris Shiflett will be joined by Pat Smear on guitar, Rami Jaffee on keyboards, Drew Hester on percussion, and Jessy Greene on strings.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is Foo Fighters’ sixth studio album and has proven itself a worthy addition to the band’s discography, as songs like ‘The Pretender’ and new single ‘Long Road To Ruin’ are holding their own every night alongside known barnburners like ‘My Hero’ and ‘Best Of You’. As Entertainment Weekly said of the new album, “the band has taken everything it’s always done best… and brought it to the next level.”
For fans who want to ensure themselves good seats and support a good cause at the same time, a limited quantity of premium tickets for a number of shows will be available only through Ticketmaster auctions. Auction proceeds will benefit local tree planting through TreeBank, an online donation system dedicated to urban forest tree planting. Each auction will run for approximately two weeks following each show’s on-sale date, and TreeBank will distribute auction proceeds to local “branches” for tree planting in every community on the Foo Fighters tour. The Ticketmaster auction page is:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/ibnms8
TreeBank is a program of TreeLink®, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that offers information to educate and work with government, professionals and volunteers in community forests. You can find more information about the program at the below links:
https://www.itreebank.org/
http://www.treelink.org/
Confirmed tour dates below, all tickets go on sale weekend of 12/1 except as noted:
1/16 – Sunrise, FL – BankAtlantic Center
1/17 – Orlando, FL – Amway Arena
1/19 – Birmingham, AL – BJCC Arena
1/20 – Pensacola, FL – Pensacola Civic Center
1/22 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
1/23 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center (on sale now)
1/25 – Memphis, TN – FedEx Forum (on sale now)
1/26 – Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium (on sale now)
1/28 – Fayetteville, AR – Barnhill Arena
1/29 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
2/18 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center (on sale now)
2/19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
2/21 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Spectrum (on sale now)
2/24 – Detroit, MI – Joe Louis Arena (on sale now)
2/25 – Chicago, IL – Allstate Arena
2/27 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
For more information on Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace and the upcoming tour dates please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man
Email: eliot@nastylittleman.com, phone: 212.343.0740
Continuing an apparently endless run of some of the best-reviewed performances of his career, Ryan Adams and his Cardinals have confirmed their first dates of January ‘08.
The west coast tour extends what has already been an immensely productive year. In addition to the unanimously acclaimed new album Easy Tiger (lauded by Time as “a career breakthrough”) Ryan & The Cards recently released an EP entitled Follow The Lights, comprised of “reflective and sober renditions of a handful of Mr. Adams’ near-classics” (The New York Times). The two new songs on Follow The Lights (the title track and “My Love For You Is Real”) will be featured prominently in the ABC primetime drama “October Road”, which premiered Thanksgiving night. Finally, the band’s live shows continue to thrill audience and critics alike; The Washington Post recently noted that “[Ryan’s] perfectionism was apparent from the stunning arrangements and interplay with The Cardinals…the group sounded rehearsed and precise without sounding at all formulaic.”
The itinerary for the January tour is below. All shows go on sale the weekend of Nov 30, with the exception of San Diego, which is on sale now.
1/16 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
1/18 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theater
1/19 – San Diego, CA – Spreckels Theatre
1/21 – Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theater
1/22 – Claremont, CA – Bridges Auditorium
1/23 – San Rafael, CA – Marin Center
1/25 – Salem, OR – Elsinore Theater
1/26 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theater
1/28 – Berkeley, CA – Zellerbach Hall
1/30 – Los Angeles, CA – UCLA Royce Hall
For more information on the tour, Easy Tiger, and Follow The Lights, contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man.
Tel: 212.343.0740 email: eliot@nastylittleman.com