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Zac Brown Band: Tour

August 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Zac Brown Band Announce Fall Headlining Tour

Zac Brown Band

Rising stars on the country music scene, Zac Brown Band will kick off their “Breaking Southern Ground” tour next month – marking their biggest national headlining tour to date. Behind only Lady Gaga, the Atlanta-based Zac Brown Band are the biggest selling new artists of the year with their near-platinum debut album The Foundation and a third hit single “Toes” climbing the charts at #19 on Hot Country.

Last August, Zac Brown Band performed to a sold out crowd at New York City’s Mercury Lounge. This year, they will return to the city headlining the 3,000 person-capacity Terminal 5 during the CMJ Music Marathon. With many amphitheaters and arenas booked across the country, this tour will bring the Zac Brown Band to their largest audiences yet as headliners.

Zac Brown Band Tour Dates:

09/04/09 Fri Wild Bill’s Duluth, GA

09/16/09 Wed Washington County Fairground Abingdon, VA

09/17/09 Thu U.S. Cellular Coliseum Bloomington, IL

09/18/09 Fri Riverwalk Amphitheater Montgomery, AL

09/19/09 Sat Lucas Oil Stadium Indianapolis, IN

09/24/09 Thu Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park Cary, NC

09/25/09 Fri Heritage Park Amphitheater Simpsonville, SC

09/26/09 Sat Uptown Amphitheatre at The Music Factory Charlotte, NC

09/27/09 Sun Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, MD

10/02/09 Fri Nokia Theatre Grand Prairie, TX

10/03/09 Sat Zilker Park Austin, TX

10/04/09 Sun Zoo Amphitheatre Oklahoma City, OK

10/09/09 Fri World’s Fair Park Knoxville, TN

10/10/09 Sat Family Circle Magazine Stadium Charleston, SC

10/11/09 Sun NTELOS Wireless Pavilion Portsmouth, VA

10/16/09 Fri Agganis Arena Boston, MA

10/17/09 Sat Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ

10/18/09 Sun State Fair Of Texas Dallas, TX

10/24/09 Sat Terminal 5 New York, NY

10/31/09 Sat Talladega Superspeedway Talledega, AL

11/12/09 Thu Bell Auditorium Augusta, GA

11/15/09 Sun Vinoy Waterfront Park St. Petersburg, FL

JJ Grey & Mofro: Tour

August 14th, 2009 | No Comments

JJ Grey & Mofro Announce North American Tour

Dates With Derek Trucks And Susan Tedeschi Followed By Two-Month Co-Bill With Shooter Jennings

JJ Grey & Mofro

JJ Grey & Mofro, the Jacksonville, Florida-based swamp, blues, rock, funk, and soul band, have announced quite a massive North American fall tour. In addition to headlining theatre and festival dates, the band will share dates with blues guitarist/vocalist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks. Then, in late September and running through November, JJ Grey & Mofro will embark on a co-headlining tour with country rock outlaw Shooter Jennings and special guest Earl Greyhound.

Grey’s most recent album, Orange Blossoms, has been hailed by USA Today as “intoxicating North Florida blues-rock, with hints of Memphis, Muscle Shoals and garage-band music.” In every song he writes and sings, Grey exudes rocking, funky, melodic front-porch realism. He comes from a long tradition of Southern musical storytellers. His multi-textured music is filled with dynamic rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics. From raw funk to deep soul, blues and rock, JJ and his band, both on CD and live, are simply devastating. Debuting in 2001 with Blackwater, following up in 2004 with Lochloosa, Grey steadily found more and more success. With his two recent releases, 2007′s Country Ghetto and 2008′s Orange Blossoms, along with non-stop touring, JJ Grey is taking his ever-growing fan base along for the ride of their lives.

JJ Grey and Mofro Tour Dates:

08/14/09 Fri Denver Botanic Gardens Denver, CO

08/15/09 Sat Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Lyons, CO*

08/16/09 Sun Snowbird Events Center Snowbird, UT

08/19/09 Wed Woodland Park Zoo Seattle, WA*

08/21/09 Fri Oregon Zoo Portland, OR*

08/22/09 Sat Rodney Strong Vineyard Healdsburg, CA*

08/24/09 Mon Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Chico, CA

08/27/09 Thu Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, CA

08/28/09 Fri El Rey Theater Los Angeles, CA

08/29/09 Sat Outside Lands Festival San Francisco, CA

09/11/09 Fri French Quarter Cafe Statesboro, GA

09/13/09 Sun Belk Theatre Charlotte, NC+

09/15/09 Tue Lyric Theatre Oxford, MS+

09/16/09 Wed Classic Center Athens, GA+

09/17/09 Thu Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival Fredericton, NB*

09/18/09 Fri Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival Fredericton, NB

09/24/09 Thu The Ritz Tampa, FL^

09/25/09 Fri House of Blues Orlando, FL^

09/26/09 Sat Mavericks Rock N’ Honky Tonk Jacksonville, FL^

09/30/09 Wed WorkPlay Birmingham, AL^

10/01/09 Thu Buster’s Billiards & Backroom Lexington, KY^

10/02/09 Fri Vogue Nightclub Indianapolis, IN^

10/03/09 Sat St. Andrews Hall Detroit, MI^

10/06/09 Tue Beachland Ballroom/Tavern Cleveland, OH^

10/07/09 Wed Headliners Music Hall Louisville, KY^

10/08/09 Thu Madison Theater Covington, KY^

10/09/09 Fri Fall For Greenville Festival Greenville, SC^

10/10/09 Sat The Music Farm Charleston, SC^

10/22/09 Thu The Fillmore at Irving Plaza New York, NY^

10/23/09 Fri Revolution Hall Troy, NY^

10/24/09 Sat 9:30 Club Washington, DC^

10/28/09 Wed Greenfield Lake Amphitheater Wilmington, NC^

10/29/09 Thu Orange Peel Asheville, NC^

10/30/09 Fri The Valarium Knoxville, TN^

10/31/09 Sat Minglewood Hall Memphis, TN^

11/01/09 Sun City Park New Orleans, LA

11/01/09 Sun Tipitina’s Uptown New Orleans, LA

01/03/10 Sun Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL

01/04/10 Mon Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL

01/05/10 Tue Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL

01/06/10 Wed Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL

01/07/10 Thu Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL

01/08/10 Fri Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL

* with Susan Tedeschi
+ with Derek Trucks Band
^ with Shooter Jennings

Lucero: Album & Tour

August 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Lucero Hit The Road In Support Of Their New Release 1372 Overton Park

Lucero

Memphis based Lucero is a modern incarnation of Southern Rock. The hard driving, tight knit band will be touring this fall in support of their major label debut 1372 Overton Park. Beginning October 9 in Nashville, TN, the group will be traveling as The Lucero Ramblin’ Roadshow & Memphis Revue – a roadshow that’ll feature Amy LaVere, Lightnin’ Malcolm & Cedric Burnside, Jack Oblivian, John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives and City Champs. Dates are as follows, with more to be announced.

Tour Dates:

08/15/09 Sat Subterranean Chicago, IL

08/16/09 Sun Eckhart Park Chicago, IL

09/05/09 Sat LA Historic State Park Los Angeles, CA

09/06/09 Sun Fort Worth Stockyards Fort Worth, TX

09/11/09 Fri The Crossroads Kansas City, MO

09/17/09 Thu Pygmalion Music Festival Champaign-Urbana, IL

09/19/09 Sat Rumba Cafe Columbus, OH

10/09/09 Fri The Cannery Nashville, TN

10/10/09 Sat The Masquerade Atlanta, GA

10/11/09 Sun The Pour House Charleston, SC

10/13/09 Tue Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC

10/14/09 Wed The National Richmond, VA

10/15/09 Thu 9:30 Club Washington, DC

10/16/09 Fri Starlight Ballroom Philadelphia, PA

10/17/09 Sat Webster Hall New York, NY

10/18/09 Sun The Middle East Cambridge, MA

10/20/09 Tue Lee’s Palace Toronto, ON

10/21/09 Wed Magic Stick Detroit, MI

10/22/09 Thu Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, WI

10/23/09 Fri Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN

10/26/09 Mon Aggie Theatre Fort Collins, CO

10/27/09 Tue Ogden Theatre Denver, CO

10/29/09 Thu Crocodile Cafe Seattle, WA

10/30/09 Fri Hawthorne Theatre Portland, OR

11/01/09 Sun Mezzanine San Francisco, CA

11/04/09 Wed Casbah San Diego, CA

11/05/09 Thu The Clubhouse Tempe, AZ

11/07/09 Sat Longhorn Saloon Ft. Worth, TX

11/08/09 Sun Fun Fun Fun Fest Austin, TX

11/09/09 Mon Meridian Houston, TX

11/10/09 Tue Alabama Music Box Mobile, AL

11/12/09 Thu Club Downunder Tallahassee, FL

11/13/09 Fri Czar Tampa, FL

11/15/09 Sun Cafe Eleven Saint Augustine, FL

11/17/09 Tue Visulite Theatre Charlotte, NC

11/18/09 Wed 40 Watt Club Athens, GA

11/19/09 Thu The Valarium Knoxville, TN

11/20/09 Fri Orange Peel Asheville, NC

11/21/09 Sat Headliners Music Hall Louisville, KY

Princeton Review Party School Rankings 2010

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Princeton Review has come out with their list of top party schools for 2010, and Penn State takes the crown this go round. Pop Crunch is no stranger to college rankings, you can check out our hottest student body rankings for 2009 here. Match up the our Hottest Student Bodies with Princeton Review’s top party [...]

Rep. John Duncan’s Ex-Aide Claims Co-Workers Sprayed Perfume On Her Lunch

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

A former employee of U.S. Congressman John Duncan Jr.’s Knoxville office has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming she was wrongly terminated because of her age.

Gene mutation behind pregnancy loss and disorders identified

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

A mutation in a gene called Bub1 could lead to a condition that causes disorders like Down Syndrome, pregnancy loss, and infertility, according to a study led by an Indian-origin scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The condition, called aneuploidy, is an abnormal number of chromosomes.
The researchers found that if a mother’’s egg cell has [...]

Kelly Clarkson â€œAll I Ever Wantedâ€ Tour Dates

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Kelly Clarkson will be hitting the road on her “All I Ever Wanted Tour” this fall, the platinum-selling American Idol announced Tuesday.

Supported by Aussie sister act The Veronicas and Parachute, Kelly’s fall tour kicks off Oct. 2 in Uncasville, Conn. The trek will make stops in 32 North American citiesbefore wrapping up in Hollywood, Fla. [...]

The New Up: Summer Tour

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

REST OF COUNTRY GETS CHANCE TO ENJOY SAN FRAN TREAT

The New Up by Josh Miller

Wrapped in effusive female fronted melodies, darkened by whirling guitars while juxtaposing hard-hitting 00s alternative with psychedelic overtones, The New Up announces summer tour dates in August and September, including Austin, Houston, Cleveland and Portland, in support of the August 18th release of the Better Off EP.

Having played with such artists as The Burning Brides, Jon Langford and Mike Watt, the first EP of the series, Broken Machine, received national recognition where it charted on the CMJ Top 200. Music critic Dennis Cook (Pitchfork, Signal to Noise, JamBase) deemed them “a post-Radiohead group, full of mutated pop hooks, absinthe guitars, smartly wrangled chaos and undisguised beauty and feeling. But, there’s little in the way of influences, even Radiohead’s, that you can pin down exactly… What they’ve made is their own.”

Backed by sincere musicianship inspired by Chicago roots and San Francisco surroundings, The New Up’s influential evasiveness illustrates a dichotomy of urban darkness and Midwestern sincerity, highlighting their equal fascination with nature and urban chaos. Headquartered at their San Francisco home, endearingly named The Pleasure Pad (where the band rehearses and records), members ES Pitcher (vocals, guitar), Noah Reid (guitar, vocals), Hawk West (flute and automation), Dain Dizazzo (bass) and Drew Bertrand (drums) began recording a series of three EPs in the spring of 2008. After lying down the basic tracks at Hyde Street Studios with Jaimeson Durr (Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Handsome Boy Modeling School), they began layering additional tracks at The Pleasure Pad, where they could explore by recording flute lines in bathrooms and trying odd mic placements in closets – without the pressure and financial constraints of a traditional studio.

For more on The New Up check out this recent show review.

Tour Dates

8/21/2009-Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco
8/22/2009-Cellar Door, Visalia, CA
8/23/2009-Viper Room, Los Angeles
8/24/2009-Soda Bar, San Diego, CA
8/26/2009-Red Eyed Fly, Austin, TX
8/27/2009-Rudyard’s, Houston, TX
8/28/2009-Vinos, Little Rock
8/29/2009-Preservation Pub, Knoxville, TN
8/31/2009-Caledonia Lounge, Athens, GA
9/1/2009-Somewhere Else Tavern, Greensboro, NC
9/2/2009-Alley Katz, Richmond, VA
9/3/2009-Outback Lodge, Charlottesville, VA
9/4/2009-The Red and the Black, Washington DC
9/5/2009-Trash Bar, Brooklyn
9/6/2009-Cedar’s Lounge, Youngstown, OH
9/7/2009-Now That’s Class, Cleveland, OH
9/8/2009-The Robin Hood, Kent, OH
9/9/2009-Carabar, Columbus, OH
9/11/2009-The Dark Room, Chicago
9/12/2009-Cactus Club, Milwaukee
9/17/2009-Zebra Lounge, Bozeman, MT
9/19/2009-Tonic Lounge, Portland OR

Super Computers – What are They?

December 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Worlds Top 500 Super Computers Reviewed
MANNHEIM, Germany, BERKELEY, Calif., and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.â€”The 32nd edition of the closely watched list of the worldâ€™s TOP500 supercomputers has just been issued, with the 1.105 petaflop/s IBM supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory holding on to the top spot it first achieved in June 2008.
The Los Alamos system, nicknamed [...]