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BAND TO RELEASE DUST AND DIRT
ON EASY STAR RECORDS THIS SPRING


The Black Seeds

New Zealand reggae-funk heavyweights The Black Seeds announce their return to North America in April to support the release of their highly anticipated new studio album, Dust And Dirt, out in April on Easy Star Records.

Renowned globally for their legendary live shows, the band has spent the past 18 months holed up in their Wellington, NZ studio finishing what is being tipped as their finest album yet.

The Black Seeds – 2012 North American Tour Dates

  • April 05 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theater

  • April 06 San Diego, CA Winstons

  • April 07 Santa Barbara, CA – Soho

  • April 08 San Francisco, CA Slim’s

  • April 10 Victoria, BC Club 9one9

  • April 11 Vancouver, BC Fortune Sound

  • April 12 Seattle, WA Crocodile Cafe

  • April 13 Denver, CO Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom

  • April 14 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre

  • April 15 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bowl

  • April 17 Ithaca, NY Castaways

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    NEW SPRING DATES WITH GALACTIC, FRED WESLEY


    Orgone

    Fresh off of killing it at Jam Cruise, L.A. funksters Orgone have added a number of March dates, including shows with Galactic, Corey Henry, Corey Glover, and Fred Wesley and the Greyboy Allstars. Check below for all the dates.

    Orgone Tour Dates

  • 03/14/12 Wed The Pageant St. Louis, MO *
  • 03/15/12 Thu Liberty Hall Lawrence, KS *
  • 03/16/12 Fri Schubas Chicago, IL
  • 03/17/12 Sat First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
  • 03/18/12 Sun House of Loom Omaha, NE
  • 03/20/12 Tue Manny’s Billings, MT
  • 03/21/12 Wed The Wilma Theatre Missoula, MT *
  • 03/22/12 Thu Domino Room Bend, OR *
  • 03/23/12 Fri Showbox SoDo Seattle, WA *
  • 03/24/12 Sat The Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR *
  • 03/25/12 Sun Humboldt Brews Arcata, CA
  • 03/26/12 Mon Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Chico, CA
  • 03/30/12 Fri Ogden Theatre Denver, CO #
  • 03/31/12 Sat Boulder Theater Boulder, CO #
  • 06/02/12 Sat Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival
    at Mulberry Mountain Ozark, AR
  • 07/28/12 Sat FloydFest
    at Blue Ridge Parkway Floyd, VA

  • * with Galactic, Corey Henry, and Corey Glover
  • # with Fred Wesley, Greyboy Allstars

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    CHEESE ONCE AGAIN ANCHORS WOODED REVELS IN MICHIGAN

    The lineup for the jam band meets electronica gathering Electric Forest has been announced. The festival will take place June 28-July 1 in Rothbury, Michigan.

    Electric Forest 2012 Lineup

    SCI

    * The String Cheese Incident (3 Shows)
    * Bassnectar
    * STS9 (2 Shows)
    * Thievery Corporation

    * Girl Talk
    * Santigold
    * Steve Aoki
    * Ghostland Observatory
    * Richie Hawtin
    * Wolfgang Gartner
    * Major Lazer
    * The Travelin’ McCourys featuring Keller Williams
    * Dada Life
    * Big Gigantic
    * Datsik
    * Zeds Dead
    * Rob Garza (Of Thievery Corporation)

    * 12th Planet
    * Borgore
    * Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
    * Midnite
    * MiMosa
    * EOTO
    * Das Racist
    * Reggie Watts
    * Paper Diamond
    * Felix Cartal
    * Gary Clark Jr.
    * Balkan Beat Box

    Lineup also includes:

    Big Freedia, Nit GriT, The Infamous Stringdusters, Nickodemus, Chali 2na & the House of Vibe, Alvin Risk, The Soul Rebels, See-I, Glass Candy, Battles, Gramatik, Elephant Revival, Ursula 1000, Minnesota, Nobody Beats The Drum, Congo Sanchez, Fruit Bats, The M Machine, Chromatics, Pictureplane, AutoErotique, Nathaniel Rateliff, Adventure Club, Afrolicious, Virtual Boy, The Funk Ark, Franki Chan, Brothers Past, Crizzly, HOTTUB, Zoogma, Cherub, Frank Mitchell Jr., Knocks, Vau de Vire Society, Morning Teleportation, DrFameus, Robert Rich, Quixotic, Chuck Flask & Keith Kemp, DJ SOLO, Ataxia, The Crane Wives, Secrets, WALA, Human Agency



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