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The Foo Fighters will be hitting the road for a small tour this fall.
The band will hit some small venues following the release of their 6th album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (which comes out on September 25).
Tickets go on sale THIS weekend, so check out the Foos site for more info.
The current Foo Fighters U.S. dates are:
 September 15 – Carson, CA @ The Home Depot Center (KROQ Inland Invasion)
September 18 – West Los Angeles, CA for Nissan Live Sets
September 20 – New York, NY @ New York’s Fillmore (formerly Irving Plaza)
October 2 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
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Soundgarden’s ear shattering and breakthrough album is a hard album to ignore.
Released on October 8, 1991 the Seattle powerhouse that is Soundgarden delivered a classic album. The fact that the album opens up with “Rusty Cage”, followed by “Outshined”, “Slaves & Bulldozers” and “Jesus Christ Pose” should be proof enough.
But, Badmotorfinger also contains other Soundgarden gems like “Room a Thousand Years Wide”. “Searching with My Good Eye Closed”, “Drawing Flies” and closing with “New Damage”, which makes this a great album. It’s often considered Soundgarden’s best album and is a fan favorite.
While many people probably have Superunknown and Down …read more

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The Wallflowers will be heading out for a mini-tour this October on the east coast.
The Jakob Dylan fronted band have no news about a follow up to 2005’s Rebel, Sweetheart, so it looks like the guys will be touring for fun. The five date tour will kick off October 18 in DC and will end on October 22 in New York City. The shows will take place in smaller venues.
Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster, except for two of the shows.
The Wallflowers Tour Itinerary:
October 18 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club (Tix will be avaiable here)
October 19 – Glenside, …read more

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After months of rumors, Neil Young’s annual fundraiser announces it’s line up.
The 21st edition of the Bridge School Benefit will feature Neil Young, Metallica, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, Tegan & Sara and Regina Spektor. Wow, what a line up.
The two day acoustic event will take place at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountainview, CA on October 27th and 28th. Tickets will go on sale on September 9.
Seeing Neil is a great experience, Jerry Lee Lewis still has juice, Tom Waits is a legend, Regina Spektor is one of the best new artists around and having Metallica unplug, this show is well …read more

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The legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre finally gets its very own festival.

On September 14 and 15 more than 50 bands will head into beautiful Colorado for the inaugural Monolith Festival. Headlined by The Flaming Lips and Cake, the festival will also host The Decemberists, Spoon, Kings of Leon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and many, many more alternative and indie acts!
2 days of music at Red Rocks, you’d be a fool not to take advantage of this. I can’t even imagine the live spectacle of the Flaming Lips at Red Rocks, it should be a thing of glory.
You can …read more

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KROQ 106.7 in L.A. will be putting on a pretty decent show on September 15 at the Home Depot Center.

The Inland Invasion will feature The Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Kid Rock, Chris Cornell, Satellite Party, Cypress Hill, Hot Hot Heat, Against Me! and Paramore.
Tickets are very reasonably priced at $35, $65 and $85. What a deal.
If I lived in the L.A. area I would be at this show in a flash. Seriously, The Pumpkins, Foos, VR, Cornell and Satellite Party in one day, it’s too good to be true. Sure, you may have to put up with Kid …read more

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The very unique Tori Amos will be rather busy this fall, as she hits around 50 dates for her North American tour.
The tour kicks off in Albany, NY on October 9 and will run until December 16 in Los Angeles. The tour will be in support of her 9th studio album, American Doll Posse, which came out last May. American Doll Posse features different alter-egos of Amos, each personality even has a blog on her MySpace page, which Amos will probably take on the road. So, it should be an interesting show.
Amos recently wrapped up some dates in Europe …read more

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Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin will be hitting Europe and North America to promote their latest effort, Zeitgeist, this summer and fall.

The Pumpkins have already toured Europe, as well as some shows here in the States; including residences in Asheville and San Francisco and festival appearances at Live Earth and Virgin Festival in Baltimore. The band will take a week off before heading to Sweden on August 12. Their North American tour will kick off on September 8 in Montreal and wraps up in Nashville on November 5.
The tour will mainly be at festivals and theatres. With no scheduled shows in …read more

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The reunited, and cleaned up, Meat Puppets will be hitting the road from late August to October to promote their comeback album Rise To Your Knees.
It’s been 11 years since the brothers Kirkwood were both members of the Meat Puppets. The band first split from 1996 to 1999, after years of drug problems for Cris Kirkwood. Then from 99′ to 01′ the band returned, this time with only Curt Kirkwood. However, in 2006 the brothers got together and would team up with Primus drummer Tim Alexander for another Puppets reunion. Rise to Your Knees was released on July 17 and …read more

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Chris Cornell rocked the Borgata’s Music Box on July 27 .
Former Audioslave and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell put on a phenomenal show in Atlantic City. It didn’t hurt that the Music Box was a immaculate venue at the beautiful Borgata. It only held around 900 people, so there wasn’t a bad seat in the house.
Cornell’s vocals have been amazingly restored, after he stopped smoking and drinking. I remember seeing Audioslave back in 2003 and thinking that Chris Cornell’s days were numbered, but he proved me wrong last night . The band that he assembled was also impressive, after all they …read more

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