Jay-Z Bringing His Blueprint 3 Tour To Denver

The New York Yankees win the World Series last night and the guy who made the Yankees cap more famous than the Yankees can will be coming to the Mile High in March, I believe it's the day I get back from SXSW.

LOS ANGELES, CA – November 5, 2009 – In the midst of his first college tour, promoting his latest #1 album The Blueprint 3 and his recently released video game sensation “DJ Hero: Renegade Edition,” the unstoppable JAY-Z confirms North American tour dates for 2010’s BP3 tour. The second leg of the Live Nation-produced tour will begin on February 22nd in Houston, Texas at the Toyota Center with more dates to be announced soon. JAY-Z will be joined by Grammy-nominated rapper Young Jeezy who will open all dates on the tour. Tickets go on sale beginning November 13th at LiveNation.com in select markets.

JAY-Z’s BP3 North American tour will make a cross-country trek in 2010 stopping at arenas in major markets including Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta, Greensboro, Washington, Boston, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Indianapolis, Denver, San Jose, Los Angeles and more. Additional day of show and on sale information will be announced shortly for stops in East Rutherford, Uniondale, Atlantic City and Detroit.

Citi® cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning November 10th at 10am local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Citi® cardmembers will also have access to VIP Ticket Packages that include VIP Lounge seats, personal concierge, a private pre-show VIP party and more.

“Jay-Z is the greatest rapper alive. Anyone who was in attendance at his sold-out KeyArena concert Saturday night can attest to that fact. Hova, Young Hov, Jigga, Hovito, whatever you call him Shawn Carter is on top of the rap game and there were no signs of him stepping down any time soon during his career-spanning two-hour show.”

Seattle Post Intelligencer (KeyArena Review), October 19, 2009

“In a performance that had the feel of a stadium show, thanks to the scope of the production and the magnitude of the star on stage, Jay-Z did something remarkable during his encore Friday night. Even more remarkable than the tight, full-band renditions of stunners like “Big Pimpin’” and “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” and more attention-getting than his flashy New York City skyline backdrop. He made individual members of the audience feel that they were as important as him, an entertainer with 11 No. 1 albums and an entrepreneur reportedly worth $150 million.” The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (Penn State Review), October 14, 2009

The current North American tour, a mix of 26 colleges and arenas, has featured sold out dates including Pennsylvania State’s Bryce Center, UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, Northern Kentucky University’s Bank of Kentucky, Eastern Michigan University’s Convocation Center, and the University of Massachusetts’ Mullins Center as well as, the KeyArena in Seattle, Kelowna British Columbia’s Prospera Place, Philadelphia’s Wachovia Center, Providence’s Dunkin’ Donuts Center and Baltimore’s 1st Mariner Arena.

For complete ticket, tour and on sale information visit LiveNation.com.

JAY-Z BP3 TOUR 2010

Previously announced dates:

Nov 07 Fresno, CA Fresno State University/Save Mart Center

Nov 08 Los Angeles UCLA/Pauley Pavilion

Nov 10 Austin, TX University of Texas at Austin/Frank Erwin Center

Nov 12 Champaign, IL University of Illinois/Assembly Hall

Newly announced dates:

Feb 22 Houston, TX Toyota Center

Feb 23 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center

Feb 25 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena

Feb 27 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena

Feb 28 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Complex

Mar 03 Washington, DC Verizon Center

Mar 07 Norfolk, VA Scope Arena

Mar 11 Boston, MA TD Garden

Mar 16 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena

Mar 19 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center

Mar 20 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse

Mar 22 Denver, CO Pepsi Center

Mar 24 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion

Mar 26 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center

*** More cities and dates to be announced soon.

U2 360 Tour Coming To Invesco

It has been 18 ago tomorrow that I witnessed the ZOO TV Tour back in El Paso, Texas, this should be a good one.

U2 -- arguably the world's most popular rock 'n' roll band -- will perform June 12 at Denver's Invesco Field at Mile High.

It is the Irish rockers' first outdoor show in Denver since they performed in 1997 at the old Mile High Stadium. U2 has played at the Pepsi Center on more recent tours.

Tickets for the Denver show are scheduled to go on sale Nov. 6, promoter Live Nation said Monday. Early tickets will be sold through the U2 fan club.

The full range of ticket prices was not announced, but Live Nation said 85 percent of the tickets will be priced at less than $95 plus service fees, general admission floor tickets will be $55 and at least 10,000 tickets per venue will be priced at $30.

U2 previously played a handful of U.S. dates on its current "U2 360°" tour.

The U.S. shows announced Monday begin June 6 in Anaheim, Calif., and conclude July 19 in New York, followed by several European dates. The Invesco date will be the second show of the series.

Several of the tour's dates previously placed on sale have been sellouts.

The tour features what is believed to be the largest set for any rock concert, including a 150-foot spider-like construction looming over the midfield stage and a massive system of video monitors encircling the stage.

Invesco Field -- home of the Denver Broncos -- was designed to accommodate rock concerts, although they have seldom been staged there, as the economics of the rock-concert business has shifted most major tours to smaller basketball and hockey arenas.

The first ticketed event ever held at Invesco Field was an Aug. 11, 2001, concert by the Eagles. (Denver Business Journal)

New Raveonettes On The Horizon

Fresh off a triumphant evening set at Coney Island’s Siren Festival, The Raveonettes have announced a full run of Fall tour dates in support of their forthcoming Vice Records LP. The Danish transplants will make stops in Chicago for Lollapoloza and Austin for this year’s ACL Festival, before hitting the road from October 14^th to 26^th with Austin noir-lovers The Black Angels, and November 5^th through the 15^th with some as-yet-unnamed Special Guests.

Earlier this summer, Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo opened up the recording process of LP4 to their eager fans, releasing early demos via Twitter, andstreaming recording sessions live from Delta Lab Recording Studio in Denmark, where the band had hunkered down with producer Thomas Troelsen. AsWagner told AOL at Siren – and as anyone who watched the live recording sessions can attest – the new material is shaping up to be “the ultimate light album,” or at least the most pop-focused release of the band’s decade-long career. Now, with their time in the studio completed, Wagner and Foo have affixed a name and release date to their new song-cycle. In & Out Of Control will be available via Vice Records on October 6^th. You can keep up with new album info, tour dates, and more on the Raves’ new, free iPhone app, available for download now in the iTunes store.

Raveonettes Tour Dates:

Aug 9 – Lollapoloza, Chicago, IL

Oct 3 – ACL, Austin, TX

Oct 14 – Webster Hall, NY *

Oct 15 – Ottobar, Baltimore, MD *

Oct 16 – 9:30 Club, Washington DC *

Oct 17 – TLA, Philadelphia, PA *

Oct 18 – Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY *

Oct 20 – Paradise, Boston, MA *

Oct 21 – Club Soda, Montreal, QC *

Oct 22 – Phoenix, Toronto, ONT *

Oct 23 – Magic Stick, Detroit, MI *

Oct 26 – First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN *

Nov 5 – Venue, Vancouver, BC

Nov 6 – Neumo’s, Seattle, WA

Nov 7 – Doug Fir, Portland, OR

Nov 9 – Bimbo’s, San Francisco, CA

Nov 10 – Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa, CA

Nov 12 – Belly Up, Solana Beach, CA

Nov 13 – Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

Nov 14 – Glasshouse, Pomona, CA

Nov 15 – Beauty Bar, Las Vegas, NV

* w/The Black Angels

http://www.myspace.com/theraveonettes

http://www.twitter.com/theraveonettes

http://www.vicerecords.com

Major Lazer Enlists Diplo & Switch For Full North American Tour and Debut Record

So i had a chance to see this super duo in their first ever performance during SXSW. They are about to embark on tour and release an album on Downtown Records this Summer.

Major Lazer (the Jamaican commando who lost his arms in the secret zombie war of 1984 and had them replaced by lazers) lands on US soil this June with some help from his friends and Grammy-nominated producers Diplo and Switch. Presenting stateside audiences with the futuristic dancehall and digital reggae sounds crafted as a soundtrack to a not-so-distant dystopian future, clubs everywhere will be thwarting oncoming evil forces through the liberating tunes on Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do.

"Basically when we are kneeling by our bed praying to Jah, this album is what we are asking for." - THE FADER

Tour Dates:

6/13/09 NEW YORK, NY SOBs

6/18/09 BOSTON, MA HOUSE OF BLUES

6/19/09 PHILADELPHIA, PA ELECTRIC FACTORY

6/20/09 WASHINGTON, DC ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL

6/24/09 VANCOUVER, BC COMMODORE BALLROOM

6/25/09 SEATTLE, WA NEUMOS

6/26/09 SAN FRANCISCO, CA THE GRAND BALLROOM @ REGENCY

6/27/09 LOS ANGELES, CA LA MEMORIAL COLISEUM & EXPO

7/10/09 AUSTIN, TX STUBB'S

7/11/09 DALLAS, TX HOUSE OF BLUES

8/07/09 CHICAGO, IL CONGRESS THEATER

10/31/09 INGLEWOOD, CA THE FORUM

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Sweden Rocks!!!!

TONIGHT:

Ogden Theater

9:00 P.M.

w/Epilogues and Tommy Sunshine

$20.00

I might dress up as a caveman and roll up in my motorcycle.

Rock The Bells Set Times

I will be covering The Rock The Bells stop here in Denver this weekend in what is to set off a chain of coverage for the upcoming week, check back for pics and recaps this weekend.

Bloc Party News

Bloc Party's third album, 'Intimacy' will be available August 21. It can be pre-ordered now via the band's website:  http://blocparty.sandbag.uk.com  

The album will also be available as a CD which will be delivered from October 27 and feature additional songs. Anyone pre-ordering the CD will also receive the digital album from August 21. Bloc Party alerted fans to 'Intimacy's existence, as well as their ability to purchase the record instantly, when they hosted their first ever web chat on August 18. The album follows on from the release of their hit single 'Mercury' released on 11 August. The album produced by Paul Epworth (Silent Alarm) and Jacknife Lee (A Weekend in the City) was recorded in Kent and London. Some songs are Bloc Party at their most wildly experimental, while other tracks are simply classic Bloc Party, fitting in seamlessly amongst fan-favourites 'Helicopter', 'Banquet' and 'So Here We Are'. 

Bloc Party recently played a run of sold-out American shows and are due to play Reading and Leeds Festival this weekend and headline the Hydroconnect Festival on August 30. 

August  23 - Reading Festival, Reading 24 - Leeds Festival, Leeds 30 - Hydroconnect Festival, Scotland 

The track listing for Intimacy: 

01. Ares 

02. Mercury 

03. Halo 

04. Biko 

05. Trojan Horse 

06. Signs 

07. One Month Off 

08. Zephyrus 

09. Better Than Heaven 

10. Io

The Roots Tour

The Gym Class Heroes will find their Roots in October; the two bands that are well known for performing live music will join forces on a North American Tour.  According to Billboard.com, The Gym Class Heroes and The Roots will be swapping headlining duties throughout the tour, which starts on October 2 in Baltimore. Estelle, the British import who has been dominating the US Billboard Hot 100 with “American Boy,” will be joining them on the tour.  Tickets go on sale today for Gym Class Heroes’ fan club members, and this weekend for the general public.  The Roots are currently touring until the end of the month, while the Gym Class Heroes have been touring this summer with the Vans Warped Tour promoting their next album The Quilt, which will be dropping in September. 

The tour dates are as follows:

• October 3, 2008- Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live!  

• October 4, 2008- Norfolk, VA @ The Norva  

• October 5, 2008- North Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues  

• October 6, 2008- Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle  

• October 7, 2008- Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues  

• October 8, 2008- Miami, FL @ The Fillmore at Jackie Gleason  

• October 10, 2008- Houston, TX @ Meridian w/ Estelle only  

• October 11, 2008- Dallas, TX @ The Palladium Ballroom  

• October 12, 2008- Austin, TX @ The Backyard  

• October 14, 2008- Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee  

• October 19, 2008- Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues  

• October 21, 2008- Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium  

• October 23, 2008- Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom  

• October 26, 2008- Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy  

• October 28, 2008- New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom  

• October 30, 2008- Worcester, MA @ The Palladium Downstairs  

• October 31, 2008- Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Park Convention Hall  

• November 1, 2008- Albany, NY @ Washington Avenue Armor

The Duke Spirit

THE DUKE SPIRIT ANNOUNCES US SUMMER TOUR

The UK’s captivating indie rock band The Duke Spirit are making their triumphant return to American shores this summer for a string of cross country headlining dates and very special festival appearances. While the Dukes’ said farewell to the states for the month of June to play the UK’s finest summer festivals including Isle of Wight, Glastonbury, and the Wireless Music Festival, the band’s return to the US finds them as commanding as ever with performances at All Points West, multiple Download Festivals, and the New American Music Union Festival as well as a return to NYC to play Webster Hall with friends Supergrass.

When not busy plotting their North American trek, The Duke Spirit has managed to secure the highly coveted TV promo spot for the NBA playoffs featuring Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and The Duke Spirit’s track “Wooden Heart.” These special ads aren’t the only place you’ll catch The Duke Spirit on television this summer – they will be performing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 22nd. The band has recently finished the video for “Lassoo” off their sophomore album Neptune, which was released in April 2008 via Shangri-La Music (link below). USA Today’s Edna Gunderson calls the song “a feral yet glam guitar-blitzed stomper.” Another track off Neptune, “The Step and the Walk,” is garnering some well deserved attention, heating up radio waves from Los Angeles to New York to Seattle to San Diego to XM and Sirius. 

The UNKLE Remix of the “The Step and the Walk” is available exclusively through iLike at http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Duke+Spirit. 

Don’t miss this chance to catch The Duke Spirit live! 

Check out the new video for “Lassoo” here: 

U.S Tour Dates 

7/15 Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern W/KBZT

7/17 Los Angeles, CA @ The Hammer Museum (Indie 103 show) – FREE 

7/19 Mountain View, CA @ Download Festival @ Shoreline Amphitheatre 

7/20 Los Angeles, CA @ Download Festival @ GIBSON Amphitheatre 

7/22 Los Angeles, CA The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 

7/23 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill 

7/24 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge 

7/26 Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge

7/28 Hollywood, CA @ Amoeba (instore)

7/30 New York, NY @ Webster Hall w/ Supergrass

8/1 Philadelphia, PA @ WXPN/World Café – FREE 

8/1 Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint (NEPTUNE Live From Neptune, NJ) 

8/2 Camden, NJ @ Download Festival @ Tweeter Center

8/4 Baltimore,MD @ Ottobar 

8/5 Boston, MA @ T.T. The Bear's 

8/8 Jersey City, NJ @ All Points West Festival @ Liberty State Park 

8/9 Pittsburgh, PA @ New American Music Union Festival @ SouthSide Works

8/10 Nashville, TN @ 3rd & Lindsley 

8/12 Columbus, OH @ The Basement

8/13 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick 

8/14 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle

www.dukespirit.com

www.myspace.com/thedukespirit