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Warren Haynes Presents: The 19th Annual Christmas Jam Saturday December 15, 2007 @ The Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, NC. Performers include: Jackson Browne, Peter Frampton, Bruce Hornsby, Gov't Mule, G Love, Stockholm Syndrome and Grace Potter & The Nocturnals.
Special Guests include Mike Barnes, Mike Farris, Audley Freed, Col Bruce Hampton, Kevn Kinney & Greg Morrow. More artists will be announced over the next few weeks.

More info is available at XmasJam.com 
Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band was just one of the many acts performing at this year’s first annual Capitol City Carnival. I had a chance to chat with them for a bit inside their hospitality tent. Along with the performing musicians, carny acts, burlesque and freak shows, CCC also offered beer tasting tents from 50 of the countries (and Europe's) best microbreweries. So by the time this interview took place early Saturday evening everyone involved had been enjoying all the fine beer the three day festival had to offer. So I apologize that some of these answers and questions tend to stray way out in left field. I blame my impediment on the Magic Hat # 9.
The Band:
AL- AL (AKA Sweet Nasty) - Bass
Derrick Johnson - Trombone
Grady Gilbert - Guitar
JP Miller- Guitar
Josh Phillips - Vocals,percussion, guitar
Greg Hollowell - Sax


HGMN: So what's new with the Booty Band these days?
AL-AL: A 16 wheeler trailer hit us in New York. It totaled our van and trailer. What else new has happened?
Josh: We have had several new drummers...
AL - AL: Yes. We have new drummers coming in and out.

HGMN: So you still don't have a steady drummer yet?
AL-AL: Nah. Our old drummer quit the band back in August. And there are different reasons why that...
Josh: He retired.
AL-AL: Yeah. He retired.
(Laughter)
Josh: He's golf pro now.
(More laughter)

HGMN: How did you come up with the name, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band?
Josh: Go ahead, AL.
AL-AL: Let's see, Yo Mamma's Big Fat Booty Band...we were in Tokyo...we were with that DJ show, right?
Derrick: That's right.

HGMN: What were you guys going by at that time?
AL-AL: Nothing really. We were just doing open Mic and stuff like that.

HGMN: In Tokyo?
AL-AL: Yeah. We were just up there chillin' and stuff like that. We went to this restaurant...was it a restaurant we went in to?
Derrick: Yeah. It was a restaurant.
Grady: It was a strip bar!
AL-AL: Was it a strip bar?
Josh: No.
AL-AL: It was a porn closet! I Remember. (Laughs) We were trying to think of names of bands and stuff like that. We were doing open Mic and stuff.

HGMN: You were all doing open Mic in Tokyo...
Josh: We actually met in Tokyo. We were on an exchange program with Americore.

HGMN: Oh, ok.
Derek: I love Japanese people. Damn.
(Laughter)

HGMN: Can you guys speak Japanese?
AL-AL: Iko do ne.
Greg: Konnichiwa.
Josh: ShiShi-sama
Grady: Toshiba!
Josh: Let's get to the point here!
AL-AL: Oh Yeah. We were thinking of different kinds of band names and stuff like that...
Grady: Toshiba!
AL-AL: Sorry for the ADD interview (laughs). And we were trying to think of band names and we went in to a porn store...
Josh: It turns out that Boo-de in Japanese means Funky. Boo-De Mama, which is Funky Bootie.

HGMN: That's the name of the porn shop?
Josh: No. It's one of the videos. Boo-De Mama.

HGMN: So how many of you actually met in Tokyo?
Josh: There were five of us.
As entertaining as it was I could have easily spent another 20 minutes on how they actually came up with the band's name. I think I was so confused at this point that I just needed to change the subject. I had previously heard two different versions on how they originally came up with the bands name. The story they told me was something toally different. With a little polish they should definitely stick with this version and run with it.

HGMN: Every band has their favorite cover songs. Is there a song you always wanted to cover but for some reason never got around to doing it?
Josh: I always wanted to cover, (sings) 'In the summertime...'
Greg: I wanna cover Matthew Wielder's 'Ain't nobody gonna break my stride'.
AL-AL: I wanna cover the whole Red Hot Chili Peppers album, Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic.

HGMN: That would be cool. Why don't you guys make that happen?
Josh: We're lazicians.
Derrick: We should make that happen.
AL-AL: Actually, that may be in the works.
Derrick: Stairway to Heaven with a horn section. That would be bad as hell.

HGMN: Are you guys working on any new material?
Josh: Right now we're just in the whole process of kinda going through drummers and not sure who it's going to be - back stepping, teaching our old music but at the same time we're jamming more than we ever have and its kind of opened things up.

HGMN: Do you plan on putting out a live album sometime in the near future?
Josh: Yes.
Derrick: Will it ever happen?
JP: Actually, for a long time that's all we had was live albums cause we kept trying studio stuff and it just all sucked...so we kept selling our live shows. The next time we got a good live show we got rid of the old one and get the new one and press it. So we sold live shows the first four years of the tour. Now we have an album out, a studio album. I imagine at some point we'll probably put out something else live. Also, the HGMN people were saying that their live albums were selling better than any of their other stuff. They want their live stuff these days.
AL-AL: We'll give them what they want. (Laughs)

HGMN: Let's talk about your studio album. What song are you most proud of and why?
Derek: Time is now.
Josh: I like the song, 'Now you know', which actually the moog company out of Asheville; they're re-doing that and using all moog equipment. It's going to be coming out soon on one of their compilation albums with a bunch of other bands. They're taking all these songs and running every different track through their moog equipment. That's actually my favorite track on our album so that's pretty cool. I'm really looking forward to that.
AL-AL: Time is now. It's just a good mix.
Derrick: It just makes you want to break shit, man.
AL-AL: Its got everything. Its got funk, its got a little bit of rock in it. Yeah, it's just how it's put together. It's put together pretty well.

HGMN: Which of your songs best describes you as a band?
AL-AL: If you wanted to describe bounce music that's the track to describe bounce music.
Josh: We have a hidden track on the CD. It's called, 'I do what I want'. That's my favorite because it's us being totally ridiculous. I don't know if anyone who listens to it appreciates it as much as I do because I was there. I saw it happen and it was just like, uh, us having fun in the studio. I don't hear it as much as I do the other songs, so those token times that I do wind up listening to it...

HGMN: How long did it take you to complete the album?
Josh: Twenty days spread out between three months. Twenty days in the studio. We were touring in between, so...
JP: Its like we're on the road, we come home and go in the studio. We get back on the road, come home and go in the studio and go back on the road.

HGMN: This is a question for AL-AL. Who has been the biggest influence for you? At what point growing up did you realize that you wanted to be a musician?
AL-AL: Flea, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Whenever I heard the album, What hits!?, I was going through all the different songs they did over the years. That song, uh, that whole album, I heard the bass and that was the instrument I wanted to play. That's the main instrument I really wanted to play. I was playing trumpet at first because at first that's what I really wanted to play. But whenever I heard that I just picked up a bass. That was it. I wanted to be a bass player.

HGMN: What's you favorite album of all time?
AL-AL: I don't know, man. There's a bunch of different genre's I like. Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic is one of my top favorites but I like 'One hot minute', too. I like Jamiroquai's 'Traveling without moving', 'Space Cowboy'...there's a lot of em I like.
Grady: Like a Virgin.
AL-AL: No. Not Like a Virgin.

HGMN: Is anyone here a closet fan of someone? Someone they don't care for anyone else to know about?
Grady: I'm a big 80's music fan. I can't get enough of it.

HGMN: What's your favorite 80's song?
Grady: My favorite 80's song? (Sings) "Hello. Is it me you're looking for...?" Lionel Ritchie. Hello.
Derrick: I'm actually a huge Garth Brooks fan.

HGMN: Really?
Derrick: Yeah.
Greg: Gangster Rap!

HGMN: Who's your favorite Gangster Rap artist?
Greg: Little Wayne, Hurricane Chris...
(Laughter)

HGMN: What's yours?
Josh: There's no band I listen to that I'm not proud to listen to. I can honestly say that.
Grady: Seven Mary Three!
Josh: If you want to hear something embarrassing, my first band ever, our first song that we covered...I was fourteen, I think, and we played a middle school dance. Our drummer backed out two days before, so my dad ended up coming and sitting in on drums. It was horrible. Our first song was, uh, (sings) "I have become cumbersome". That was our first song. And the second I started singing it there were all these kids right in the front...they just started giggling and ran back.
Greg: They turned around and walked off.
(Laughter)
Josh: It was so embarrassing.

HGMN: What's the craziest thing that's ever happened to you guys as a band?
Grady: We got hit by a fucking 18 wheeler while somebody was sleeping in the back!
AL-AL: One of the craziest moments for me was when we played Shakori Hills Grass Roots festival...and like, we played this song naked. They requested it and you know Shakori Hills is like a family festival but it was three in the morning...so if you're up at that time of the night you deserve to see some naked people, right?

HGMN: Of course.
AL-AL: (Laughs) Anyways, besides that point, there were people dancing on stage. There's about thirty people dancing on stage. Everybody was having fun and getting into the music and stuff like that. We played naked...we got to a point where we all got naked. And seriously, there were about seventy people that got butt ass naked! On stage there were girls hula hoopin', cartwheelin' on the stage topless.
Josh: Did you say seventy?!
(Laughter)

HGMN: That's what I heard, seventy.
Josh: More like...nine.
(More laughter)
AL-AL: No, no. Nah, dude. It was more than that, man. Freekin' Hollywood was doing back flips. She was doing back flips and shit! She was down there butt ass naked! You were like, "Oh, God!" You can hear it in your voice...like, whatever, man. And when you first looked at her you were like, "Oh, God. What have we done?!"
(Laughter)
Josh: I say the story that I tell more than any other story, and I think it's amazing, we played this wedding one time, and this is like multiple stories. We played this wedding and we ended up going back to their hotel to party with them that night. Derrick winds up puking all over their hotel room. They're like this newly married couple. We're leaving the hotel and we're like, "Dude, we're leaving!" He's like lying in the little area between the bathroom, the little vanity room. He's laying there in his own puke. (Laughs), "Derrick, we're leaving. You wanna come?" He's like, "Ahhhhh". So we just threw a pillow over his head and we left.
(Laughter)
Josh: And then...that same night I wind up getting in a bathtub at like six in the morning and falling asleep. I flooded the whole hotel room. And then AL...we're driving and, uh, AL winds up opening the side of the van, starts peeing out of the van. We're driving down the hwy and he's peeing out of the van! We're going, I think, fifty at that point. And we're like, "Oh my God. It's extreme peeing!" And Greg was like, "No it's not. It's not extreme peeing unless we're going sixty!" And then we were all like, "Crank it up to sixty!" And our tour manager goes to sixty. So not only were we not concerned that the door is wide open on the interstate...
JP: And your bass player's dick's out!
(Laughter)
Josh: We were like, "Speed up! Go for it!"
(More laughter)
Josh: That's my most repeated story anyways.

HGMN: That's pretty crazy. You're lucky you didn't get a ticket.
AL-AL: Nope. I did pee on somebody's car once.
JP: A Cop came up and he pissed in his face.
(Laughter)
AL-AL: Of course he was pissed off about the urination in the face but I was like, "Do you know who the fuck I am?!" He's like, "Oh, I'm sorry." I love it! When you're in a band it's totally cool.
(Laughter)

HGMN: Who was this?
AL-AL: The cop. It's totally cool, man.
(Laughter)
JP: The deputy comes up and mumbles something else and AL says, "I can't hear you over my awesomeness!"
(Laughter)
Josh: I want you to explain the fact that this is a beer festival.
Greg: Yeah. Maybe in the first sentence.

HGMN: Do you guys have a favorite beer? What's the best tasting beer that you've tried out here?
Josh: I'm going to stick to my local home brew, Asheville Brewing Company. They're definitely my favorite here.

Dan Walker

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The laugh that starts Dan Walker's latest CD, Airplane, is evocative of the homespun spirit found throughout the album. The sound is as natural and scenic as the pure Montana surroundings in which he recorded it. Airplane sets a mood of crisp country living, loving, and traveling. Musically conjured images will be of sunny skies, clear streams, and mountain air, but Walker's lyricism graciously extends well past these vistas. Songs like "So Blue" and "Stumble and Fall" most glaringly reveal Walker as a gifted crafter of catchy tunes.

RAQ - 10.23.07 - Neighborhood Theatre - Charlotte, NC

Posted by: leeway | October 30th, 2007

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RAQ comes home to the south. The guys from RAQ may hail from the green mountains of Vermont, but they have a second home south of the Mason Dixon line. Last Saturday the RAQ Express made its inaugural appearance at the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, NC, the first of a week’s worth of shows in the “dirty south”.
The guys from RAQ may hail from the green mountains of Vermont, but they have a second home south of the Mason Dixon line. Last Saturday the RAQ Express made its inaugural appearance at the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, NC, the first of a week's worth of shows in the "dirty south". This was my first show since Lew Au II in August and there is nothing like that feeling of seeing your favorite band and the family that has formed around it.
The Pawnshop Roses are heading into Memphis on Halloween night for a recording session at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis next week as part of a southern swing includes stops in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and West Virginia. But, before hitting the road to what is quickly becoming their new second home (the south) the Roses were graced with some special studio guests in Philadelphia.
Lenesha Randolph and Jason Crosby from Robert Randolph's Family Band stopped into town to help out on some new tracks under the direction of producer extraordinaire Pete Donnelly that will be unveiled late January at a special show at Philadelphia's World Cafe Live. See some photos from the sessions here and here.

Meanwhile people are talking about the current record, Let it Roll:
Pop Matters : "on other standouts like opening track "Here We Go", the band proves it can keep time with contemporaries like Ryan Adams and Jesse Malin."

Americana UK: "the rock n roll of the enthusiastic and non-cynical...Let It Roll may be the record that that brings the biggest smile to your face this year.

The Pawnshop Roses return from their trip south to play a hometown show at the Grape Street Pub in Philadelphia on November 9th.
U-Melt is the latest band to reveal their theme for their upcoming Halloween show, which will take place at Revolution Hall in Troy, NY on Halloween night, October 31st. U-Melt has dubbed their Halloween performance, "Gangster 'n' Gag-Balls," and has assured us that name is just a hint at what's in store for the evening, with promises of multimedia excitement and big surprises. U-Melt will also be debuting their very first horn section for their Halloween performance, naming them The Bad Mother Fucker Horns, who will include members of Deep Banana Blackout and Lynch.
Already celebrated for creating a decidedly distinctive live experience, U-Melt will push the boundaries a little farther with this unique, slightly risque, presentation. In addition to the relentless U-Melt sonic assault, show goers will be taken on an exciting musical journey colored with multimedia magic.

Known for their spacious sound and penchant for pushing jams into the upper reaches of the stratosphere, U-Melt has built a reputation as one of the hardest working bands in the biz. Not one to be pigeon-holed as simply a jam band, the quartet blends elements of rock, jazz, trance and funk and fuses them into a musical state of mind. Their sometimes-expansive jams have a reputation for transforming the U-Melt live experience into a full-fledged dance party.

After the band's Halloween extravaganza, U-Melt will wrap up the year with several east coast dates, including a New Year's run culminating with their annual late-night New Year's Eve bash in New York City. The stops will include shows in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey. Repeating their Thanksgiving weekend schedule from last year, U-Melt will be making a stop at the annual Wormtown Anniversary Party in Southbridge, MA on Friday, November 23rd. The next night will feature two headlining sets at the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ for the Phanphest Phamily Reunion.

The weekend following Thanksgiving, U-Melt will be returning to Mulcahy's in Wantagh, NY for another headlining show. Then, as a warm up for their New Year's show, the band will be traveling Manchester, Connecticut on Friday, 12/28, then on to Boston for a Saturday show at The Paradise Lounge. This show will be an 18+ event.

The tour and year will conclude with the band's annual New Year's show at the Highline Ballroom on New Year's Eve (technically New Year's Day). The non-stop party will feature several special guests and the first 100 people to purchase tickets will receive a signed poster by the band.

Complete dates and tour info are below:

U-Melt Fall Tour Part 2
Wednesday, 10/31/07 Revolution Hall - Troy, NY
Thursday, 11/1/07 Pearl Street Nightclub (Ballroom)- Northampton, MA
Friday, 11/2/07 The Wheelhouse- Narragansett, RI
Thursday, 11/15/07 Olive Ridley's - Plattsburgh, NY
Friday, 11/16/07 Mezzanotte Lounge - Syracuse, NY
Friday, 11/23/07 Wormtown Anniversary Party - Southbridge, MA
Saturday, 11/24/07 The Stone Pony - Asbury Park, NJ
Thursday, 11/29/07 Mulcahy's - Wantagh, NY
Friday, 12/28/07 The Main Pub - Manchester, CT
Saturday, 12/29/07 The Paradise Lounge - Boston, MA
Monday, 12/31/07 (Technically 1/1/08) Late Night New Year's Eve Post moe. Show at Highline Ballroom - NYC 
Big IV Productions announced today that the Bear Creek Music and Art Festival, slated for November 16-18, has been moved to the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak. The festival, formerly scheduled in Quincy, Florida, was denied its festival permit by Gadsden County.

After encountering this obstacle, Big IV Productions directors Paul Levine and Lyle Williams spoke with an associate in the music and festival community, Clint Tipton, the promoter of the Paralounge Drum Circle at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. Tipton suggested that they speak with James Cornett, President and CEO of the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, and the ball was rolling.

Big IV Productions had acquired land in Gadsden County with the intent of it being the venue for the Bear Creek Music and Art Festival, a roots music festival featuring dozens of bands such as Little Feat, Umphreys McGee, Burning Spear and Perpetual Groove, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Porter Batiste Stoltz, Dubconscious, The Everyone Orchestra, Rose Hill Drive, New Mastersounds, Skerik's Maelstrom Trio, The Legendary JC's, Ralph Roddenbery Band, Yo Momma's Big Fat Booty Band, The Last Waltz Ensemble, Donna Hopkins Band, Ancient Harmony, Cadillac Jones, Polyester Pimpstrap, The Burnin’ Smyrnans, Zach Deputy, Seepeoples and more. Levine and Williams acknowledged that they had not allowed ample time to get to know their neighbors in the surrounding community and this resulted in the permit denial. Levine was formerly co-producer of the Down on the Farm event, held for the three previous years on another farm in Gadsden County. “Our goal”, said Levine, “is to (go back to Gadsden County) and to do more community oriented events. We need to prove to Gadsden County that our intentions and actions are always focused on our neighbor’s best interests. We recognize that we have to make a greater effort with Bear Creek to educate the community about the event and to help them understand the positive economic and community impact.” Williams noted that “we just did not have enough time to get to know each other and for the community to understand the positive things we are trying to accomplish in Gadsden County through this festival”.

Other participants in the event include Clean Vibes, a recycling company that will be managing grounds cleanup and providing some environmental education as well. The festival will be utilizing recycled products where ever possible. In the future, the event hopes to utilize solar power and bio-diesel energies. Sweetwater Brewing Co., out of Atlanta, Georgia, is sponsoring the event. Regional painters and photographers will also be showcased in a gallery setting.

Advance weekend tickets are available for $95, plus tax and handling fees. Weekend passes will be available for $110 plus tax and handling fees at the gate. Single day tickets are only available at the gate. Primitive camping is included in the weekend ticket. Water and electric sites will be available for an additional fee.

To learn more about the event, ticket prices, talent and scheduling, visit BearCreekMusicFestival.com. The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park is a 700+ acre camping and music resort located on the banks of the historic Suwannee River in Live Oak, Florida, just 4 .. miles from I-10 and I-75. For tickets and camping information contact the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park at (386) 364-1683 or visit MusicLivesHere.com.

Keller Williams has been called guitar’s mad-scientist, a one-man band for the new millennium, and dozens of other clever sobriquets dreamed up by fans and music journalists trying to get a handle on his uplifting and ever-shifting style of music. Though Keller’s music has evolved since he first started playing music over twenty years ago, some things have remained constant: Keller is a prolific artist, an exceptional guitarist, and an accomplished songwriter.
Now, Keller's twelfth album release looks back at a ground-breaking and already remarkable career. Aptly titled 12 , the album features one standout song from each of his previous eleven releases. Keller himself dubs this his album of "hitless greatest hits." Added to the mix is one new, previously un-recorded song. While the Keller Williams adventure has only just begun, 12 is a fantastic celebration of a musical milestone.

Also this fall, Keller Williams and The WMD'S will tour the east coast. The WMD'S features Williams on guitar/vocals, Keith Moseley on bass (The String Cheese Incident), Gibb Droll on guitar (Marc Broussard), and Jeff Sipe on drums (Aquarium Rescue Unit, Trey Anastasio, Susan Tedeschi, Phil Lesh). The WMD'S debuted at select festival performances this past summer, including an epic and electrifying Bonnaroo show. Their November run of shows brings them to indoor venues for headlining shows.

The complete list of Keller Williams confirmed tour dates is as follows:
November 02 Ram's Head Live Baltimore MD Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 03 Norva Norfolk VA Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 04 9:30 Club Washington DC Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 06 Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte NC Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 07 New Daisy Theater Memphis TN Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 08 Bijou Knoxville TN Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 09 Music Farm Charleston SC Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 10 Talleyrand Jacksonville FL Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 13 House of Blues Orlando FL Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 14 Revolution Ft. Lauderdale FL Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 15 Soul Kitchen Mobile AL Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 16 Georgia Theatre Athens GA Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 17 Zydeco Birmingham AL Keller Williams and The WMD'S
November 18 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh NC Keller Williams and The WMD'S
December 01 Aggie Theatre Fort Collins CO
December 13 Breezes Runaway Bay Runaway Bay Jamaica
December 28 Beacon Theatre New York NY w/ moe.
December 31 Tweeter Center Camden NJ w/ The Disco Biscuits

Keller Williams has been refining his unique kind of performance art for almost 15 years, logging over 100 gigs annually, and he's a productive recording artist as well. His calling card? - a creative combination of talent and technology. Known, of course, for his astonishing one-man show, Keller Williams surrounds himself with instruments and pedals and slides from one to the next. While his songs are rooted in Williams' warm voice and spirited acoustic guitar, Keller gives them depth and breadth via looping and delay. Keller essentially accompanies himself, looping several instruments, and filling up an entire room with lush layers of sound ... just one man and a humongous imagination. 
Lotus will release Copy Paste Repeat: Lotus Remixed in November. The album consists of 12 remixes by producers including DFA Records artist Juan Maclean, DJ Harry, and Lotus’s own Jesse Miller. Lotus’s post/electro/dancerock is deconstructed and reassembled into club ready dance, dub, glitch-hop, and IDM tracks.
The album release will be celebrated with two shows in New York. Friday Nov. 2 Juan Maclean will open for Lotus at Brooklyn's brand new Music Hall of Williamsburg with J. Tonal spinning a late night set. Saturday Nov. 3 DJ Harry and Scottie B will each perform sets before Lotus at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan.

The CD can be preordered here.

To glimpse a preview, please visit Myspace.com/lotusvibes where you can hear "When H Binds to O (Oxidation Mix)" by J. Tonal of Lowpro Lounge.

The five-piece band has creatively fused electronic dance music with instrumental post-rock for eight years. The result is an explosive live show that has made crowds get down across the US, Canada, and Japan. Armed with a massive light rig and one of the most energetic shows on the circuit, Lotus proves why they have become a go-to act for late night festival slots. Their current tour has brought the band into renowned theatres nationwide including the Ogden Theatre in Denver, the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and Park West in Chicago. The remainder of the year sees the band performing the aforementioned release parties in Brooklyn & New York, a two-night post-Thanksgiving hometown run at the World Cafe Live in Philly, and ringing in the New Years at Mr. Smalls Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA.

Copy Paste Repeat: Lotus Remixed
1. Tip of the Tongue (Broken Mix) - DJ Harry
2. Bubonic Tonic - Juan Maclean Remix
3. When H Binds to O (Oxidation Mix) - J. Tonal of Lowpro Lounge
4. Suitcases - Scottie B Remix
5. Tip of the Tongue - J. Miller Remix
6. Livingston Storm - J. Miller Remix
7. When H Binds to O (Hydronium Mix) - Skytree
8. Tip of the Dub - Telepath Remix
9. Suitcases (Another Sandwich? Mix) - J. Miller
10. Travel (Airport Mix) - by Marc Cazorla of the Frequency
11. Greet the Mind (Memphis Mix) - by Alex Botwin of Pnuma Trio
12. Bubonic Tonic - Lymbyc Systym Remix

Tour Dates
10.23 Omaha, NE Club Roxbury w/ Unwed Sailor
10.24 Minneapolis, MN The Cabooze w/ Unwed Sailor, Skytree
10.25 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre w/ Unwed Sailor
10.26 Chicago, IL Park West w/ Unwed Sailor
10.27 Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Ballroom w/ Unwed Sailor
10.28 Kent, OH The Kent Stage w/ Unwed Sailor
10.31 So. Burlington, VT Higher Ground w/ The Brew
11.1 Northampton, MA Pearl Street
11.2 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ The Juan Maclean (DJ set), J. Tonal
11.3 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom w/ DJ Harry, Scottie B.
11.23 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live - Downstairs
11.24 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live - Downstairs
12.31 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls Theatre
2008
1.4-9 Ft. Lauderdale -> Out at Sea Jam Cruise 8
3.16-18 Amsterdam, NET Jam in the Dam @ Melkweg 
As Perpetual Groove's Serious Business Tour makes its way across the Eastern United States, the band is pleased to announce this year's Thanksgiving performances in Winston-Salem. The 9th Annual Thanksgathering will take place between November 23-25 at the legendary Ziggy's which will be closing its doors as the band wraps up their final set. Perpetual Groove [PG] and their fans have been invited to tear the roof off at Ziggy's after 30 years of music at their current location.
Saturday will feature PG headlining with two sets and on Sunday the band will perform once more in addition to hosting an all-star jam with the musicians scheduled over the course of the weekend. Other bands on the Thanksgathering bill include the Ruins (Adam and Brock from PG with Travis Kline and John Hruby), Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, the Mantras, the Pranksters, Carolina Clearwater and Silence in the Sky.

The band's current tour is powered by the Green Mountain Energy Company and is leaving a positive impact on our environment. All emissions are being offset with renewable energy credits through our partnership with Sustainable Waves and Eco-Tunes. This includes all the travel, lodging and electricity expended by the venues at Perpetual Groove concerts. For the first time ever we're offering fans a way to "green-up" their ticket through PGroove Netix, the band's own online ticketing service. For an additional two dollars, you may purchase your own renewable energy credit to offset the emissions created by traveling to and from Perpetual Groove performances. And of course, for every ticket purchased through our website, one tree will be planted. We strongly encourage our fans to take advantage of this opportunity and commit themselves to bettering our environment.

In December, Perpetual Groove will step away from their conventional ways as they move New Year's Eve to Charlotte, NC for two nights at The Neighborhood Theatre. Tickets for NYE are on sale now and travel/transportation packages will be announced soon by the Theatre. Looking forward to 2008, Perpetual Groove will board the latest installment of Jam Cruise. The big news, however, comes in February as the band returns to California - bringing with them, the first official live PG album, which is tentatively set for release on February 19th. Don't forget, the highlight of the spring... JAM IN THE DAM! That's right, you'll have the opportunity to follow the band across the Atlantic to Europe as they join Umphreys McGee, The Disco Biscuits, Dark Star Orchestra, Tea Leaf Green and Lotus for their first ever performances in Amsterdam at the legendary Melkweg. Tickets are still available for Jam in the Dam, but moving fast, so don't wait any longer!

Official Tour dates are available at Pgroove.com 

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