Ben Kweller announces massive US tour
Ben Kweller has announced the details of a massive US tour this summer.
The singer is set to play several major cities throughout the country, kicking things off in Detroit, Michigan on July 20 and wrapping things up in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 26.
He will also play three consecutive dates in Brooklyn, where he will perform three of his albums in their entirety -- one on each night. He'll perform 2002's 'Sha Sha' on July 30, 'On My Way' on July 31, and his latest album, 'Ben Kweller', on August 1.
He'll also play at Austin City Limits on September 15.
The tour dates are:
Detroit, MI State Theatre (July 20)
Indianapolis, IN White River State Park Amphitheatre (21)
Apple Valley, MN Music in the Zoo (22, 23)
Chicago, IL Schubas (25)
Philadelphia, PA Festival Pier @ Penn's Landing (27)
Northampton, MA Pines Theatre (28)
Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom (29)
Brooklyn, NY Southpaw (30-August 1)
Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse (7)
Orlando, FL The Social (8)
Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits (9)
Ybor City, FL Crowbar (10)
Fort Lauderdale, FL Culture Room (11)
Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theatre (13)
New Orleans, LA The Parish (15)
Houston, TX Walter's on Washington (17)
Denton, TX Hailey's (18)
Oklahoma City, OK Bricktown Ballroom (20)
Tulsa, OK Bob's at Cain's Ballroom (21)
Little Rock, AR Juanita's (22)
Memphis, TN Newby's (23)
Nashville, TN Exit/In (24)
Asheville, NC Grey Eagle (25)
Charlottesville, VA Starr Hill Music Hall (26)
Austin, TX Austin City Limits (September 15) |
The View frontman hospitalised
The View's frontman Kyle Falconer has been taken to hospital with blood poisoning while on tour in Japan.
The 19 year-old star has contracted septicaemia from a blister on his foot.
One pal told today's Sunday Mirror: "He has been in and out of hospital and has been really ill with infections - particularly septicaemia.
"The medics kept him in overnight and he was given a course of antibiotics. But he has been warned to start looking after himself or he is going to end up very sick indeed."
The band are currently in Tokyo to promote their chart-topping debut album, 'Hats Off To The Buskers'.
A spokesman for the band said: "Kyle should be back on his feet for their gigs next week."
The View are set for a busy summer - they have recently confirmed a double slot at the Glastonbury Festival, and will headline the Radio 1/NME Stage at the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals. |
Bone Thugs Working On Album With Twista
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony continue to bring the curtain down on their once nasty feud with Chicago MC Twista via the collaboration "C-Town," a track from "Strength & Loyalty," the Cleveland rap troupe's new album.
And the group's Layzie Bone says there's more where that came from. "We're working on an album," Layzie tells Billboard.com, though there's no firm timetable for its release yet. "We've got, like, five, six, seven songs. Twista is our dawg, man. We're unifying the Midwest. We had problems in the beginning, but that's too long ago to bring up. We're making music, man."
The artists are, in fact, anxious to put the rivalry -- which dates to the early '90s and was as much about geography as anything else -- in the past. Twista (Carl Terrell Mitchell) guested on the Layzie Bone track "Midwest Invasion," which first appeared on the 2005 X-Ray compilation "This is Hip-Hop." And Krayzie Bone joined Twista for "Spit Your Game" on last year's Notorious B.I.G. project "Duets: the Final Chapter."
"It definitely was a rivalry at one time, but it was all senseless, nonsense," says Krayzie. "We were just young and not even realizing what was going on. Now we're like, 'Man, what were we even beefing about?' We don't even know -- like, who rapped the fastest or whatever. It really didn't make sense. Now we're like, instead of beefing we can make money together."
As previously reported, "Strength & Loyalty" is due May 8 via Full Surface/Interscope. The group is playing spot club dates to promote the album's release, including a release-day home town show at the Cleveland House of Blues, with a larger tour expected later this year.
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