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Monday, January 28, 2008
R.E.M. Dates Announced
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Photo: Laura Noel/AJC Staff
R.E.M. has announced the first batch of dates for the upcoming North American tour. They’ll be touring to support upcoming new album, “Accelerate,” out April 1. The band has also revealed that Modest Mouse and the National will be opening the shows. No word yet about on-sale dates, but we’ll let you know as soon as those are announced.
The hot news for Atlantans is the June 21 date at the newly re-christened Lakewood Amphitheater. Here’s the list, straight from R.E.M.’s official site:
May
23 — Vancouver, Deer Lake Park
29 — Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl
31 — Berkeley, the Greek Theatre
June
3 — Denver, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
6 — Chicago, United Center
8 — Toronto, Molson Amphitheatre
10 — Raleigh, Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
11 — Washington, D.C., Merriweather Post Pavilion
13 — Boston, Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
14 — Long Island, Jones Beach Theater
18 — Philadelphia, Mann Center for the Performing Arts
19 — New York City, TBA
21 — Atlanta, Lakewood Amphitheatre
Rate the NHL All-Star Music
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There was rapper-singer-producer Wyclef Jean on a musical and political tear at the Tabernacle, the Disney sensation the Jonas Brothers (above) on stage at Philips Arena and Atlanta’s five-time Grammy nominee Ne-Yo actually on the ice at Philips, fearlessly trotting out some of his best Michael Jackson moves.
That - plus The Hives (Sunday), the Halftime Live marching band (Sunday and Saturday), Ne-Yo again at a private party (Saturday), the Old 97’s (Saturday) and OneRepublic (Thursday) - made for a wide range of musical offerings this past weekend, all here courtesy of the NHL All-Star weekend.
Did you check out any of the shows? Pleasantly surprised? Really disappointed? Or how about this: Happen to learn anything about hockey just by attending one of the concerts?
