After years of getting picked up and put down by various labels, Joseph Arthur is launching his own independent label (no longer online: billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002839192), Lonely Astronaut. His new album Nuclear Daydream drops on September 19, to be followed by a long-awaited-by-The-Dork-Report US tour running through November.
I’m still immature enough to think things like this (no longer online: youtube.com/watch?v=u-kfLf_RGqk) are awesome. (spotted on CNN)
An flurry of activity from one of my favorite old (and I mean “old” in the geriatric sense) bands, The Who (no longer online: petetownshend.co.uk/projects/thewho):
- Their first world tour in over 20 years, if you ignore the numerous reunion mini-tours.
- A new EP “Wire & Glass” comes out August 1, excerpting a song cycle (known to music snobs as a “rock opera”) from a forthcoming studio album, their first in 23 years!
- Tons of video, some free, on TheWhoLive.tv (no longer online)
Roger Waters live in Italy on July 12 (no longer online: bigozine3.com/rarities/?p=32), a concert dedicated to Syd Barrett.
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