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Red Hot Chili Peppers could have been called Tony Flow And The Miraculously Majestic Masters Of Mayhem, or as Ryan would have it as TFATMMMoM. …
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
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Although Red Hot Chili Peppers has been around since the early 80’s, but like me, you probably didn’t know them until the early 90’s. That’s because RHCP’s two songs ‘Give It Away’ and ‘Under the Bridge’ were all over the airwaves in early 90s (particularly 1991-1992).
I remember the music videos fondly, and will confess to actually picking up Blood Sugar Sex Magik and their previous record Mother's Milk around this time of music discovery.
13 million records sold and 25 years later after BSSM, and the funk band is still going strong with one of their biggest tour this year, in support of their new album The Getaway, which came out June 2016. The record debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album Sales Chart and #2 on the Billboard Top 200.
Tour dates:
01/12/17 Memphis, TN Fed Ex Forum
01/14/17 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
01/15/17 Wichita, KS In Trust Arena
01/18/17 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
01/20/17 Lincoln, NE Pinnacle Bank Arena
01/21/17 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
02/02/17 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
02/04/17 Toronto, ON Air Canada Center
02/07/17 Boston, MA TD Garden
02/08/17 Boston, MA TD Garden
02/10/17 Buffalo, NY First Niagara Center
02/12/17 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Arena
02/13/17 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Arena
02/15/17 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
02/17/17 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
02/18/17 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
03/02/17 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
03/04/17 Glendale, AZ Gila River Arena
03/05/17 San Diego, CA Valley View Casino Center
03/07/17 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
03/08/17 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
03/10/17 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
03/12/17 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
03/15/17 Portland, OR Rose Quarter
03/17/17 Seattle, WA Key Arena
03/18/17 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
04/12/17 Washington, DC Verizon Center
04/14/17 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
04/15/17 Raleigh, NC PNC Arena
04/17/17 Charlotte, NC Spectrum Center
04/19/17 Columbia, SC Colonial Life Arena
04/22/17 Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena
04/24/17 Jacksonville, FL Veterans Memorial
04/26/17 Orlando, FL Amway Center
04/27/17 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena
04/29/17 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
05/11/17 Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena
05/13/17 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans
05/14/17 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
05/16/17 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
05/18/17 Indianapolis, IN Bankers Life Fieldhouse
05/19/17 Cincinnati, OH US Bank Arena
05/21/17 Kansas City Sprint Center
05/23/17 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
05/26/17 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
05/28/17 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place
05/29/17 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome
06/18/17 Quebec, QC Vidéotron
06/20/17 Montreal , QC Bell Centre
06/22/17 Hamilton, ON FirstOntario Centre
06/23/17 Ottawa, ON Canadian Tire Centre
06/25/17 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
06/30/17 Chicago, IL United Center
07/01/17 Chicago, IL United Center
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White Lies
White Lies is a London-based trio that seemingly came out of nowhere with their fantastic 2009 debut album "To Lose My Life" (containing 4 hit singles), which they then confirmed with 2 more albums in fairly rapid succession …
WHITE LIES
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London’s White Lies will be touring the U.S. this 2017 in support of their fourth album Friends. The band was previously known as Fear of Flying, but in 2007, the band took a ‘darker sound’ and became White Lies.
The group will be stopping by the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis in February. Opening up the show will be Vowws (not to be confused with New Jersey’s Vows). Vowws is an Australian/Iranian Industrial-Pop duo (Matt & Rizz).
Tour dates:
2/1/17 Washington DC - 9:30 Club
2/2/17 New York, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
2/3/17 Boston, MA - Middle East Club
2/4/17 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace
2/6/17 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
2/7/17 Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre
2/8/17 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
2/11/17 Vancouver BC - Rickshaw Theater
2/12/17 Seattle, WA - Nectar Lounge
2/14/17 San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
2/15/17 Los Angeles, CA - El Ray Theatre
2/17/17 Guadalajara - Teatro Diana
2/18/17 Mexico City - El Plaza Condesa
BLUE PLUTOS
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Boston’s trio Blue Plutos (Ryan Agnew, Tyler Agnew, Mat Lundin) described their new song ‘Immediate Engagements’ as a “warm blast of gauzy guitar-based rock.”
The song is taken from their October 2016 record Moon Language, and based on the title and band name, I would probably categorize them as space rock, like Spiritualized (which is what I described them in an article).
Ryan Agnew explains ‘Immediate Engagements’, “As far as the writing of the song, we wanted to write a song that was really straightforward but also kind of chugging at the same time. I was listening to a lot of Beach House and you will know us by the trail of dead... while we were recording it which I think is reflected in the production of the song. The riff at the end of the song is a very fun one to play and was written separately but fits well - it also has a really nice solo from Tyler.”
As of January 2nd, the band announced that their record Moon Language is available on cassettes.
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