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Thursday, February 28, 2008
New Van Halen date for Gwinnett
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Van Halen. Photo: Robert Yager.
Whatever the problem, it seems it wasn’t a big tour-breaking deal.
Van Halen has rescheduled the Gwinnett Arena date that was canceled last week. The show will go on March 19 and tickets are still available at the Live Nation site, the venue box office or Ticketmaster charge by phone at 404-249-6400. Tickets for the original date (Feb. 25) will be honored.
R.E.M.: On Video, in Austin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
R.E.M.: Peter Buck, Michael Stipe and Mike Mills.
Have you ever wanted to create a music video? How about trying your hand at cobbling together the new R.E.M. clip for “Supernatural Superserious,” the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, “Accelerate.”
Parisian director and video blogger Vincent Moon has put together his own clip, but he’s also uploaded much of the raw footage to R.E.M.’s official site. You can go there, download the bits and pieces and create your own remix of the video. If that’s more work than you want to do, just go see what other folks have done with the footage at YouTube.
“Accelerate” is out April 1.
In other R.E.M. news, the band will be playing at the annual South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, on March 12. National Public Radio plans to broadcast the show over the airwaves and on the Web. NPR will begin the broadcast at 8 p.m., bringing listeners around the country the night’s entire line-up from Stubb’s Bar-B-Q, including another pair of Georgia bands, Dead Confederate and Summerbirds in the Cellar.
I plan to be there, too, blogging from Austin on the comings and goings of many of our Georgia artists. Besides the Stubb’s show, another highlight is sure to be R.E.M.’s taping of a performance for the PBS live music show “Austin City Limits.”
At last count, there were well over 30 Georgia bands and musicians playing around Austin March 12-16. I won’t be able to see them all, but I’ll try to hit the highlights and let you know how they fare in front of all the fans and music industry types gathered for the annual musical summit.
