Stone Temple Pilots have officially revealed that the band will be reuniting and will launch a massive 2008 concert tour encompassing over 65 dates and hitting all corners of North America.
Marking the first national tour for Stone Temple Pilots in almost eight years, the 65 date stretch will hit amphitheatres across North America.
The tour is scheduled to kick off May 17th with the band headlining the Rock on the Range Festival in Columbus, OH and will continue through November 2008.
Chicago-based music festival Lollapalooza has had its full line-up released hours outside of the official announcement, and it promises to be a good one.
Taking place from Friday August 1 to Sunday August 3, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails will headline two of the festival’s three nights on the main stage. Recent visitors Rage Against The Machine, plus local standouts Kanye West and Wilco, stand at the top of the announcement.
Some of the sizzling bands to see are listed below.
Radiohead Rage Against The Machine Nine Inch Nails Kanye West Wilco The Raconteurs Gnarls Barkley Bloc Party The Black Keys Broken Social Scene Lupe Fiasco Mark Ronson Cat Power The National G.Love Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings Explosions In The Sky Okkervil River John Butler Trio Girl Talk CSS Battles Spank Rock Brazilian Girls Chromeo The Kills Rogue Wave The Go! Team Grizzly Bear MGMT Santogold and more................
Here’s some tour news to make heads spin. Rock anarchists The Mars Volta are returning to our shores to promote their most unhinged, next-level album to date.
The genesis of 'The Bedlam In Goliath', the band’s fourth studio album, is uncanny even by Mars Volta standards. Here’s how the story goes. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez embarked on an impromptu 10-day trip to Israel (of course), where he bought bandmate Cedric Bixler-Zavala a Ouija board they named the Soothsayer. Playing with the gift while on tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Omar and Cedric began to experience otherworldly occurrences. Their studio flooded, the band’s bass player contracted a rare blood disease, recordings were lost and one of the usually-dependable engineers tried to destroy the completed files. 'The Bedlam Of Goliath' was recorded anyway, and it’s as crazed and brilliant as you’d expect.
With the all that chaos feeding into the record, you can be sure none of the Mars Volta’s electric, urgent stage presence has been lost. The seven-man band still swears by its live show and will surely not fail to impress. After their last visit left the country reeling, expect this tour to be another visceral experience.
'The Bedlam In Goliath' tour will tear through the following cities:
Tuesday 17 June – Metro City, Perth Thursday 19 June – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Saturday 21 June – Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane Monday 23 June – Forum Theatre, Melbourne
This June long weekend, the cream of indie and alternative rock bands from around Australia plus some special international guests, will converge on Sydney’s Luna Park for the annual 'Come Together Festival'.
For the 5th time Sydney’s favourite boutique all ages rock festival is back under the Big Top and this year’s line up may well be the best to date.
Boasting a huge line-up of both Australian and International guests, Saturday attendees can expect to stay glued to the dancefloor while listening to the best that indie pop rock has to offer, while those that like it a bit harder and faster will find all their musical desires filled on Sunday, when you’ll get to see everything from punk to hardcore to alt rock and everything in between.
Acts include:
The Thrills (IRE)
The Living End
VHS or Beta (US)
British India
Faker
Gyroscope
Birds of Tokyo
The Getaway Plan
Young & Restless
Cut Off Your Hands (NZ)
Dappled Cities
Sparkadia
The Dirty Secrets
Little Red
The Hot Lies
Children Collide
and more.......
Tix on sale now - check the website for various outlets
