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Crash Kings giving a killer performance on the Bud Light stage at Jimmy Kimmel!

LA show this Thursday @ the Roxy

Crash Kings rock Canada with Stone Temple Pilots

The Los Angeles based band played an impressive 10-song set that proved that they are a band to watch. Lead singer Tony Beliveau has an amazing falsetto voice that sounds like a cross between Robert Plant and Adam Lambert. Describing their sound is difficult, but I’ll try: if you took the melodies from the All-American Rejects and set them to Green Day’s heavy hooks and threw in some Led Zeppelin, you’d get what I mean.

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Aussie rockers Karnivool only U.S. dates for 2009 in New York and Los Angeles this week.

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“Boh is a happy presence on stage and really enjoys sharing herself, sillyness and all, with her audience. She is all smiles, although intense, when in the middle of one her songs, but with a beauty and effusive charm that leaves you doing anything she asks like singing along with her! To simply say that the Boh performance I was part of was special is an understatement. Again, the power of live music and the powerful set gifted to us was so much more then just another live show- it was like musical soup for the soul.”

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“Los Angeles’ Bigelf are my personal favorite new band to come along in many years…their latest CD “Cheat The Gallows” is my favorite album of the year and I already had positioned them onto the European run of Progressive Nation in the Fall….with them now joining us on PN09 in North America as well, it looks like world domination is now not that far out of reach for them! Pretty soon, everyone will hopefully be falling for their retro, psychedelic, progressive, hard rock, doom metal as hard as I have!” – Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater

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PROGRESSIVE NATION 2009 – NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Bigelf & Scale The Summit

Fri July 24th – Fillmore @ Jackie Gleason Theater – Miami, FL

Sat July 25th – Hard Rock Live – Orlando, FL

Sun July 26th – Ruth Eckard Hall – Tampa, FL

Tues July 28th – The Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA

Wed July 29th – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium – Ashville, NC

Fri July 31st – Tower Theater – Philadelphia, PA

Sat Aug 1st – Merriweather Post – Washington DC *

Sun Aug 2nd – Bank Of America Pavillion – Boston, MA

Tues Aug 4th – The Palace Theater – Albany, NY

Wed Aug 5th – Chevrolet Theater – Wallingford, CT

Fri Aug 7th – Convention Hall – Asbury Park, NJ

Sat Aug 8 – Brookhaven Amphitheater – Brookhaven, NY

Tues Aug 11th – The Agora – Quebec City, QUE

Wed Aug 12th – Bell Center – Montreal, QUE

Fri Aug 14th – Molson Amphitheater – Toronto, ONT

Sun Aug 16th – The Burton Cummings Theater – Winnipeg, MAN

Tues Aug 18th – MacEwan Hall – Calgary, AB

Wed Aug 19th – Shaw Conference Center – Edmonton, AB

Fri Aug 21st – The Orpheum Theater – Minneapolis, MN

Sat Aug 22nd – Riverside Theater – Milwaukee, WI

Sun Aug 23rd – Chicago Theater – Chicago, IL

Tues Aug 25th – Temple Hoyne Buell Theater – Denver, CO

Thur Aug 27th – San Jose Civic Auditorium – San Jose, CA

Fri Aug 28th – The Joint – Las Vegas, NV

Sat Aug 29th – The Greek Theater – Los Angeles, CA

* – Additional Special Guests on the 8/1 Washington DC show will be Queensryche (a special one-off 5 band Progressive Nation bill for 1 night only!)

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THE GREENCARDS–the Austin-formed/Nashville-based band who’ve earned critical acclaim for their mix of country, Americana, blues and bluegrass—have already toured with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, earned the Americana Music Award in 2006 for “Emerging Artist of the Year” and in 2008 landed a Grammy nomination (“Best Country Instrumental Performance” for Viridian). Consisting of singer/bassist Carol Young and multiple stringed-instrument master Kym Warner from Australia, and violinist/violist Eamon McLoughlin from the U.K, THE GREENCARDS recently performed at the SXSW festival in Austin and just barely escaped legal problems, as they blogged on the band’s website. As Warner was driving to pick up the group, he allegedly ran a red light and was to be summoned. But a sympathetic policeman saw all the group’s instruments in the car and told McLoughlin, “We know you can’t afford to pay our salary,” and let the group off with a warning. “Only in Austin? I think so!” says McLoughlin.

The new album Fascination (Due out 4/21) —which features the title cut as the first single–is the band’s most daring accomplishment to date. Meticulously crafted arrangements serve as springboards for exhilarating improvisations. Acoustic textures and Carol Young’s moving vocals shimmer in the light of Jay Joyce’s innovative production. “We’d heard all these great records that Jay had made with Patty Griffin, John Hiatt and so many artists we love,” Young says. “But how would he utilize the fiddle, cello, mandolin, bouzouki, and bass–the core of the band–without putting layers and electronic sounds on it? We were very pleasantly surprised at how he just wanted us to play the songs and let our instruments speak for themselves.”

DATE CITY VENUE
Fri 4/3 Athens, TX Lakeview Lodge
Fri 4/17 Driftwood, TX Old Settler’s Music Festival
Sat 4/18 Brooksville, FL String Break Festival
Sat 4/25 Wilkesboro, NC Merlefest
Sun 4/26 Wilkesboro, NC Merlefest
Mon 4/27 Vienna, VA Jammin Java
Tue 4/28 Annapolis, MD Rams Head On Stage
Thu 4/30 Boston, MA Café 939 at Berklee
Fri 5/1 New York, NY Mercury Lounge
Sat 5/2 Pittsburgh, PA Rex Theatre
Sun 5/3 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live
Wed 5/6 Cleveland OH Beachland Ballroom
Thu 5/7 Chicago, IL Abbey Pub
Sun 5/10 Kansas City, MO Knuckleheads
Thu 5/14 Winters, CA The Palms
Fri 5/15 Crystal Bay, NV Crystal Bay Club Casino
Sun 5/17 Chico, CA Sierra Nevada Tap Room
Wed 5/20 Tuolumne, CA Black Oak Casino
Fri 5/22 San Francisco CA Great American Music Hall
Sat 5/23 Santa Barbara, CA Lobero Theatre
Sun 5/24 Yosemite, CA Strawberry Bluegrass Festival
Thu 5/28 Fall River, MA Narrows Center for the Arts
Fri 5/29 Preston, CT Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival
Sat 5/30 Preston, CT Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival
Sun 5/31 Saratoga Springs, NY Caffe Lena
Fri 6/5 Knoxville, TN BijouTheatre
Sat 6/6 Hiawassee, GA Roots and Music Festival
Thu 6/18 Telluride, CO Telluride Bluegrass Festival
Fri 7/10 Buffalo, WY Big Horn Mountain Festival
Sat 7/11 Buffalo, WY Big Horn Mountain Festival
Sun 7/12 Snowbird, UT Founders Title Festival
Sat 7/18 Somerset, KY Master Musicians Festival
Sat 8/8 Henderson, KY Bluegrass in the Park
Sun 9/6 Pagosa Springs, CO Four Corners Folk Festival
Fri 9/18 Winfield, KS Walnut Valley Festival
Sat 9/19 Winfield, KS Walnut Valley Festival
Fri 11/6 Brooksville, FL Riverhawk Festival
Sat 11/7 Brooksville, FL Riverhawk Festival