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Love in Stockholm announce February residency at the Lizard Lounge.
Every Thursday night a different theme,
Cambridge MA
Boston horn band Love in Stockholm are begining a Thursday night residency at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA. That venerable venue, a small 90 capacity basement bar in Beantown, has hosted some great shows over the years. Every Thursday in the month of February, Love in Stockholm will be playing, featuring different guests each night and a different theme for fans to enjoy.
The music world mourns the loss of a great singer, 
Etta James passes at the age of 73.
Her longtime friend and manager announced the passing of vocal legend Etta James. She was 73, surrounded by her friends and family, she sadly succumbed to her battle with Leukemia. The iconic singer's career spanned a half century, and her music will not soon be forgotten.
Strangefolk announces two March shows with original members.
Also, Strange Creek drummer announcement.
It seems that everyone is reuniting lately. Van Halen, the Beach Boys, the Zen Tricksters, and now Strangefolk. Not that Strangefolk hasn't been a band, but the members announced that original member Reid Genauer is reuniting with the other original members for two historic shows at the end of March. Other Strangefolk news and a video are also in this article, so enjoy!
Van Halen announces reunion with David Lee Roth
To release a new album, mount a surprise show,
Announce a 2012 US tour.
Holy 1984 Batman! In a completely surprise move, Van Halen announced major plans for 2012 including its first album with original front man David Lee Roth since the release of their album 1984 in that same year.
Big Something releases live album.
Announces tour dates:
We caught word through the Home Grown Music Network that the band Big Something is releasing a live album. Along with that, there are new tour dates!
The Beach Boys announce a reunion for their 50th Anniversary.
New Album and tour dates are in the works.
In one of the more surprising announcements of late, the Beach Boys have announced that for their 50th anniversary in the year 2012 there will be a reunion. A new album to be put out will include original members, most notably Mike Love, Al Jardine and Brian Wilson. The reunion will include release of this new album, re-releases of their classic catalog, and a tour. With Wilson having been out of the Beach Boys for decades, this will be a momentous occasion for lovers of the band, surf music, bikinis, and all things California!
Flowmotion announces NYE as their final Seattle show under that name.
2012 new album release under new band name.
Seattle's Jam Kings, Flowmotion, are changing their name. December 31 2011, their last show under that moniker, will be at Nectar in Seattle and will represent the closing of the Flowmotion chapter of their musical lives. Read the full article to find out their new band name, to get the link to their new song that they have leaked for us prior to its release, and to catch up on all things Flowmotion.
New Moon Revue formed with Jam vets:
Rev Tor, Tom Concstanten, Brian O'Connel, and Gordon Stone and others form new band and announce tour dates.
Grateful Dead & Jefferson Starship keyboardist Tom Constanten, long time Phish collaborator & pedal steel / banjo master Gordon Stone and veteran jam scene guitarist Rev Tor join forces to create this new group along Kali Baba McConnell (Arlo Guthrie/Xavier) and Brian O’Connell (Uncle Sammy/Gordon Stone Band).
Phat Phunktion release new album, 
Announce plan for one US show,
Plus a tour of Japan.
Phat Phunktion played only 2 gigs so far in 2011, and will be having their only USappearance remaining this year on November 12 at the UW Madison before disembarking for the tour of Japan.
"Doctor Woo's Jazzy Funky Orchestra"
Hall of Famer Bernie Worell premiers his orchestra in NYC.
It would be hard to find an American keyboard player and composer as important to modern music as Bernie Worrell. First as a child prodigy, then as a band leader and player with Parliament / Funkadelic, and then as a contributor to the post punk rock movement and the Talking Heads, and more recently as a revered guest for bands as diverse as Headtronics, Spiritual Rez, Volts Per Octave and Steve Kimock and friends.
Guest contributor Brian Pace brings his Pace Report to Live Music News and Review to tell us of all that is funky and nasty with Doctor Woo.
Ellis Ashbrook announces North American Tour.
Taking to the road from his Brooklyn home base, Ellis Ashbrook announces an extensive tour in support of their new album.
Project Object announce tour dates:
Alumni from the Frank Zappa band come together in a fantastic tribute to the master or progressive music. With dates throughout the Fall all over the US, Project Object keeps the flame burning.
YES releases new album, our man Ron Moses reviews it, and the band announces tour dates in USA and Europe:
Seminal art rock band YES have been at it for nearly 5 decades, with a whole cavalcade of band members who have come and gone. When they were touring in the early 1990s, there was a band on tour called Yes, and a band that I saw in Boston called Anderson Buford Wakeman and Howe, four original members that was not called Yes.
Bootsy Collins tour starts June 3 in Los 
Angeles. Captain of the Mothership, the Ambassador of Funk, the man who put the P in P Funk..
Perhaps the funkiest man on the planet is assembling an all star lineup of funketeers to hit the road from Los Angeles to Europe, through Planet Bonnaroo to bring the funk back to the people. "There comes a time in your life, in everybody's life, Wow, I just can't keep all this funk to myself" says the man himself. "Music is the way we really express ourselves."
The New Deal Interview:
Dan Kurtz answers our questions about their final dates.
In a surprise announcement to their fans and the scene, The New Deal announced their final dat
es as a band to be spread from now through Fall of 2011. After that the band will be no more. This came as a bit of a shock for a band that had a solid following and were known among a crop of bands to be the original pioneers of the jamtronica scene. Along with their compatriots in the Disco Biscuits, Sound Tribe Sector Nine and many other bands that have followed them, the New Deal blazed a trail from the jams of the 1990s into the beat driven sounds of the new millennium and electronic music.
The New Deal announce the end of the band.
Final shows planned for Fall 2011.
The New Deal has decided that 2011 will mark the end of a spectacular 12- year career.
Back in the early 2000s, I was backstage at the Somerville Theater, when the band ulu is playing a bill with the New Deal. It was around the time that the New Deal was just starting to take off from a small club band to being a festival force, and ulu was blazing the jazz funk trails big time.
Camp Zoe Follow up:
Will land forfeiture endanger US festivals?
The seizure of the 352-acre Camp Zoe property in Southeast Missouri has so far garnered substantial attention both in America and internationally. That's because this is no ordinary seizure; without (so far) being charged with a crime, the property owner, musician Jimmy Tebeau, is having his land taken from him in a process that strips him of his rights under both the US and Missouri constitutions.
Federal Agents storm Salem MO festival grounds, attempt
ing to confiscate property and assets.
In a sign that the apocalypse is nearing, fun loving hippie peace lovers are being accused of organized crime. Summer camps now being used to host festivals with bands from around the country are being considered drug manufacturing and distribution facilities, and the individual property rights of land owners are being tossed aside to pad the budgets of law enforcement agencies.
