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2009 Unity Tour: 311 with Ziggy Marley
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 3, 2009

The Deal: 311 brings back it’s annual Unity Tour, this time with Ziggy Marley. (more…)

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Loser Life If people aren’t sufficiently sick of seeing the whole Bastard Baby musical analogy yet, allow me to say that Loser Life could be the John Doe spawn of the Riverdales and Minor Threat, if, say, the Riverdales had also slept around with Black Flag circa My War, and maybe some random, mustached college kid with an armload of Suicidal Tendencies sides and the original vinyl of Zen Arcade. Fun shit, regardless. With Lowbrow, Meth Mountain. Lunchbox Records (Timothy C. Davis)

Benji Hughes Kid Crooner does a two-night stand at a venue that affords him serious home-court advantage. What that means live, as any who’ve seen him in Snug’s snug confines know, is a loosey-goosey Hughes free to wander off the script (and stage) because his crack East coast band – ex-Muscadine mate Stacy Leazar on bass, time-keeper extraordinaire David Kim, keyboards whiz kid Jon Phillips and guitar hero Peter Gray – is good enough to reel him back in. If you haven’t heard Hughes’ summer-iffic A Love Extreme yet – what the hell are you waiting for? With the Poontanglers on the 3rd, and the Troublewalkers on the 4th. Snug Harbor (John Schacht)

311 The rap rockers are returning on the band’s annual summer Unity Tour. This time around, they’re bringing along Ziggy Marley. While one hopes that an onstage collaboration would be done with some of the tour partners, I haven’t witnessed it the last two years. The band plays a variety of hits from their albums over a long set, but they’re sure to break out tunes from their new album, Uplifter, too. I can guarantee the new single, “Hey You,” will be in there somewhere. Now, if I could only guarantee that they would still end their show with “Fuck the Bullshit”… It’s just not the same without it. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Jeff Hahne)

Sugar Glyder Sugar Glyder is proof that UNCC can produce more than architects and business majors. Following in the footsteps of other UNCC alum, The Sammies, Sugar Glyder seem poised to become one of the next big things in music. Surely it won’t be long before we hear them in the background while one of our favorite TV characters has a revelation, dances around in their underwear, or well, something. You’ll hear some tunes off the band’s new CD, too, since this is the release party. With Terminal Reynaldo and Atriumantra. Tremont Music Hall (Sam Webster)

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Uplifter
Volcano; Release date: June 2, 2009

The Deal: Now in its 21st year of existence, 311 has released its ninth studio album and first disc in four years. (more…)

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Here’s a quick rundown of some of the new albums being released today:

311 Uplifter

Bourbon Crow Highway to Hangovers

Jeff Buckley Grace Around the World

Chickenfoot Chickenfoot (June 5 release)

Elvis Costello Secret, Profane and Sugarcane

Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King

Rancid Let the Dominoes Fall

Neil Young Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972

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311’s Unity Tour will once again hit the Queen City this summer. This time around, the tour will bring Ziggy Marley as a supporting act to Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre on July 3.

Tickets will go on sale later this month.

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Unity Tour w/ 311, Snoop Dogg, Fiction Plane
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 24, 2008

The Deal: 311 brings along Tha Doggfather and Sting’s son for musical variety. (more…)

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The Unity Tour with 311, Snoop Dogg and Fiction Plane will stop by Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre on July 24.

No word on when tickets go on sale yet…

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