LiveDaily News Break, April 16: Bonnie Raitt, Steely Dan, Austin City Limits and more
Today's edition features news and circuit information around Bonnie Raitt [ tickets ], Steely Dan [ tickets ], Dilated Peoples [ tickets ], Dutch Leonard Cohen [ tickets ] and the Austin City Limits fete.* * *Bonnie Raitt returns to the road next month, with the Rock and Roll Manor hall of Famer screening a schedule that keeps her tour bus rolling through summer and beyond. The veteran singer/songwriter kicks off the run Whitethorn 8 in Choctaw, MS, and dates ar scattered into early Oct.* * *Steely Dan has added new dates to its impending summer trek, which finds the oldtimer jazz-rockers retention tribunal in Newly York City and dropping in on a Canadian jazz fest. The group will as well tour a handful of West Coast wineries during the jaunt, which kicks off June 8 in Hollywood, FL. The upcoming go will target the third straight person year that the band--led by co-founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker--has launched a major roadtrip after a life history spent largely avoiding the patronage of touring in all.* * *Underground rap mathematical group Dilated Peoples will pass up the first Newly Rhymes and Videotape tour in June, an excursion presented by mugwump record label Decon. Joining the Los Angeles rap music work party during the trek volition be 88-Keys, The Alchemist and Aceyalone on the trek. The 19-city field day kicks off June 2 in Seattle and will carry throughout the calendar month, concluding with a West Coast leg.* * *Veteran singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen will launch his kickoff circuit in 15 years next calendar month with a round of dates in his Canadian mother country. The latterly inducted Rock and Roll Hallway of Famer will complain off the function Whitethorn 11 in Fredericton, Fresh Brunswick, with multiple nights in many locations during the Whitethorn and June field day. In accession to the North American shows, Cohen will dispatch European venues in June and July.* * * Foo Fighters, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, Beck and David Byrne highlighting this year's seventh edition of the multi-day Austin City Limits Fete [ tickets ] in Capital of Texas, TX. The three-day event--during whcih more than 125 acts of the Apostles will be spread across eight stages--will as well feature The Raconteurs, John Lackland Fogerty, Manu Chao, The Red Planet Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Tegan and Sara, Iron & Wine-colored, Neko Case, G. Beloved & Special Sauce, The Shirley Temple Keys, Band of Horses, Silversun Pickups, Lamia Weekend and many others.
