MGMT
Apr. 12, 13 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
Apr. 17 – Indio, CA @ Coachella
Apr. 29 – Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club Theatre
Apr. 30 – Durham, NH @ University of New Hampshire
May 2 – East Rutherford, NJ @ Bamboozle
May 28 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ Avila Beach Bowl
May 29 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Santa Cruz Civic Center
June 1, 2 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
June 4 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
June 6 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
June 7 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
June 8 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
June 11 – Denver, CO @ Red Rocks
June 13 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theatre
June 14 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
June 15 – Columbus, OH @ LC Pavillion
June 16 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
June 18 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera
June 20 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theatre
Aug. 8 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza

Surfer Blood/The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
June 3 – Milford, CT @ Daniel Street
June 4 – Rochester, NY @ The German House
June 5 – Buffalo, NY @ The Tralf
June 6 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
June 8 – Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone Café
June 9 – Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree Café
June 10 – Tallahassee, FL @ The Engine Room
June 11 – Orlando, FL @ Club at Firestone
June 12 – Miami, FL @ Grand Central @ Poplife 11th
June 13 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
June 15 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
June 16 – Washington D.C. @ Black Cat

Black Crowes
Apr. 23 – New Orleans, LA @ Jazz & Heritage Festival
Apr. 24 – Cottonwood, AL @ Celebrity Station Amphitheatre
May 14 – Gulf Shores, AL @ The Hangout
May 21 – San Diego, CA @ Humphrey’s Concerts By The Bay
May 22 – Dana Point, CA @ Doheny State Beach
May 27 – Mission, TX @ Las Palmas Race Park
May 28 – New Braunfels, TX @ Whitewater Amphitheatre
May 29 – Little Rock, AR @ Riverfest
June 2 – Westbury, NY @ North Fork Theatre
June 5 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Casino Ballroom
July 2 – Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Pavilion
July 3 – Quincy, CA @ High Sierra Music Festival
July 24 – Robinsonville, MS @ Horseshoe Tunica
July 25 – Louisville, KY @ Churchill Downs

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The Black Keys
Apr. 8 – Iowa City, IA @ University of Iowa
Apr. 10 – San Francisco, CA @ Yuri’s Night Bay Area
Apr. 17 – Live Oak, FL @ Wanee Music Festival
Apr. 18 – Miami, FL @ The Fillmore
Apr. 19 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
May 20 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
June 2 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
June 3 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore
June 4 – Kansas City, MO @ The Crossroads
June 8, 9 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
June 10 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
June 11 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
July 27, 28 – New York, NY @ Central Park SummerStage

Jakob Dylan
Apr. 9 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead
Apr. 10 – Covington, KY @ Madison Theater
Apr. 13 – Louisville, KY @ Brown Theatre
Apr. 15 – Boston, MA @ Wilbur Theatre
Apr. 16 – S. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
Apr. 17 – Albany, NY @ The Egg
Apr. 19 – Northhampton, MA @ Calvin Theatre
Apr. 20 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
Apr. 21 – New York, NY @ Town Hall
Apr. 22 – Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head Live
Apr. 23 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Apr. 25 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
Apr. 26 – Chicago, IL @ Park West
Apr. 27 – St. Paul, MN @ Fitzgerald Theatre –
Apr. 28 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theatre
May 12 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
May 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern

Mountain Jam
June 4-6 – Hunter, NY

FRIDAY
Gov’t Mule
The Avett Brothers
Les Claypool
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Dr. Dog
The New Mastersounds
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
The London Souls
Gandalf Murphy & SCD
Natural Breakdown
Elmwood
Tamarama
Alabaster Brown
Dean Batstone
Kari Spieler
Join the Jam Contest Winner

SATURDAY
Gov’t Mule
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band
Yonder Mountain String Band
Drive-By Truckers
Toots and the Maytals
Dark Star Orchestra
Dave Mason
The Whigs
The Duke & The King
Lettuce
Sonya Kitchell
Company Of Thieves
Jerry Joseph & Wally Ingram
Zach Deputy
Tao Rodriguez-Seeger Band
The Brew
Simone Felice
Van Ghost
Bret Mosley
Son Of Bill
IS

SUNDAY
Levon Helm & Friends 70th Birthday Celebration (with very special guests)
Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Matisyahu
Jay Farrar (of Son Volt)
ALO
One eskimO
Justin Townes Earle
Allison Moorer
The Bridge
Mojo Myles Mancuso
These United States
The McLovins
Jamie McLean Band

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‘It’s still 50 Cent content; it’s just written in a different way,’ he tells U.K. DJ Tim Westwood.
By Shaheem Reid

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50 Cent


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Earlier this week, an overseas interview with 50 Cent hit the Web in which he said his upcoming LP, Black Magic, would have a different feel.

“I went to a nightclub afterparty,” 50 told reporter Jonas Pettersen. “It’s a little different music going on before I got there. They play your music when you come. But the music they played before they started playing a lot of what I created was more uptempo, more dance. I wanted to make a song like that. So I went into the studio. Because I’m traveling with my live band, I took my band with me and sequenced it and recorded the actual record while I was out there. I did two other songs I had production for. I had been writing those songs for a while. So I finished them and recorded them while I was out.”

The G-Unit General is leaning toward dance music? Fif says not so fast. He clarified his creative direction when he called into U.K. DJ Tim Westwood’s show the other day.

“I got a joint that I did that was real uptempo,” 50 told Westwood. “It’s a different type of vibe. It’s still 50 Cent. It’s official. If you heard the record, you’d feel different. My Black Magic album, I’ve been listening to different types of music. I just wanna create something that’s outta the box. I’m using different song formats. I’ll write a rap song in the sequence of a different kind of record. A traditional hip-hop record may have three 16-bar verses. To write it in a different formant instead of the way a traditional rap record is written, to experiment with different things, it’s still hip-hop music. It’s still 50 Cent content; it’s just written in a different way.”

50 also talked about getting sued for posting a sex tape of one of the mothers of Rick Ross’ children online.

“That wasn’t me; that was Pimpin’ Curly,” 50 said of his comedic alter ego. “When a person tries to say, ‘You’ve done something that’s created mental harm to them in some way,’ then they might wanna consider the recordings of Rick Ross saying she’s an actual call girl. Or the pamphlets I’m showing you in the actual tape that’s saying she’s available. How distraught is she? They think I bought the tape. I didn’t even buy it.”

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Pixies frontman Frank Black has released plenty of solo albums over the years, but perhaps nothing as freaky as his forthcoming NonStopErotik, due out on March 30th. The disc — which was co-produced by longtime collaborator Eric Drew Feldman — features some of his most overtly sexual songs, including the swirling ballad “When I Go Down on You” and the snarling, mid-tempo anthem “Lake of Sin.” Rolling Stone caught up with Black to talk about his inspiration, why raising five kids hinders his ability to work and the future of the Pixies.

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Many of these songs are overtly sexual in a way, including “Lake of Sin,” where you sing about someone undressing behind ferns. What was the inspiration for that?
When I was a kid, in second grade, “fern” was a euphemism or code word for vagina. I don’t know where that came form. I guess the record has some graphic sexual detail but it’s only really referenced in a literal way; it’s just me talking about ferns.

Many indie-rock bands don’t discuss sexual topics so openly in their songs.
You know, I read a disparaging review that questioned whether someone wants to listen to old Frank Black singing about vaginas or whatever. I understand the point, but really the record is not meant to be a sexual appendage to your own experiences. It’s not meant to be a record you make love or masturbate to. I wouldn’t masturbate to a recording of my own voice either!

You recorded most of these songs while on the road. Why?
I’ve got five kids. Maybe I can sit at the kitchen piano and start to work on something for a few minutes. But in general, I work on the road and in hotel rooms or studios.

NonStopErotik includes a particularly revved-up version of the Flying Burrito Brothers’ “Wheels.” Where’d that come from?
I forced Pete Yorn to record that for a session of his that I was working on. He did a fine, tender version of it. I realized at the time that the obsession with that song was my own obsession and that I need to do it myself. I didn’t want to do anther country rock version of it so we just changed the tempo — you know, the whole “let’s give it the Velvet Underground, indie-rock treatment.” A lot of eighth and sixteenth notes. I’m pleased with the Velvet Underground treatment.

Any plans to do a solo tour?
I don’t have anything on the books yet. I’m working something out with this film company and we’re trying to do a simulcast with a Q&A and a band performance. It’ll be a performance of the record with these little films and then a Q&A. We’re still working on that, though.

What’s the status of another Pixies album or tour?
I certainly hope to tour again. I don’t want to misspeak but Europe and Israel are happening and there’s other stuff happening in the fall. But that’s still to be confirmed. As for an album, we’re not doing one officially. I think everyone in the band is creative and writing and stuff. But we haven’t raised the flag, like, “The Pixies are currently recording.”

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Randy Jackson tells the quirky singer she’s ‘bringing the drama to ‘American Idol’ season nine.’
By Larry Carroll

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Siobhan Magnus on “American Idol” on Tuesday


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She looks like Marcie from “Peanuts,” embraces theatricality like Adam Lambert and sings Rolling Stones songs like she’s Mick Jagger’s long-lost daughter (which, knowing Mick’s reputation, could be a possibility). Her name is Siobhan Magnus, and her rising star shone bright on Tuesday’s (March 16) top 12 episode of “American Idol.”

A resident of Barnstable, Massachusetts, Siobhan’s huge family has always encouraged her artistic endeavors. And on Tuesday night, she took them to a level as big as Mick’s lips, singing a dramatic interpretation of the Rolling Stones classic “Paint It Black.”

Released in 1966 from their fourth album Aftermath, the song was written by one of the all-time great rock teams: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A #1 hit in both the U.S. and U.K., Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #174 on their 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Interestingly enough, the song’s signature sitar riff was hatched after Stones guitarist Brian Jones visited George Harrison of the Beatles, who at the time was experimenting with Middle Eastern sounds.

Sorrowful and dark but with an impossibly catchy chorus, the lyrics are believed to be about a man mourning his dead girlfriend. As such, the song has been employed in recent years as a pop-culture shortcut to signify death and mourning — from “Stir of Echoes” to “Full Metal Jacket” to “The Sopranos.” The song was also given a shout-out in the My Chemical Romance tune “Welcome to the Black Parade.”

Wearing an appropriately colored black dress and “bringing the drama to ‘American Idol’ season nine,” as Randy Jackson put it, Siobhan painted the stage black — and you could color the judges impressed.

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