Northern State is releasing their new album “Can I Keep This Pen?” August 28th and are supporting their North American Tour with Tegan and Sara. Be sure to check out their myspace and we will have audio streams and videos soon.
Oct. 29, 2007 Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theater
Oct. 30, 2007 San Diego, CA @ Spreckles Theater
Oct. 31, 2007 Santa Barbara, CA @ Lobrero Theater
Nov. 1, 2007 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theater
Nov. 3, 2007 Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
Nov. 5, 2007 Lawrence, KA @ The Granada Theater
Nov. 7, 2007 Austin, TX @ Stubbs
Nov. 9, 2007 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
Nov. 10, 2007 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
Nov. 12, 2007 Orlando, FL @ Plaza Theater
Nov. 13, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ The Culture Room
Nov. 14, 2007 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Landing
Nov. 16, 2007 Atlanta, GA @ Roxy Theater
Nov. 17, 2007 Carrboro, NC @ Cats Cradle
Nov. 19, 2007 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Nov. 20, 2007 Northamptom, MA @ Calvin Theater
Nov. 21, 2007 Boston, MA @ Berklee Performance Center
Nov. 23, 2007 Philadelphia, PA @ Commerce Bank Arts Center
Nov. 24, 2007 Washington DC @ Lisner Auditorium
Nov. 25, 2007 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
Nov. 26, 2007 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
Nov. 28, 2007 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews
Nov. 29, 2007 Chicago, IL @ Portage Theater
Nov. 30, 2007 Minneapolis, MN @ Pantages Theater
Dec. 3, 2007 Seattle, WA @ Showbox
Dec. 4, 2007 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Dec. 5, 2007 Chico, CA @ The Senator
I’ve always enjoyed Henry Rollins. I guess he has his own TV show via the Internet. But he raises a good point. Through his none stop cursing he talks of how the government would like nothing more than to regulate the Internet. The web is changing everything and “they” cannot let that happen. So I feel this will be interesting to see how it pans out in the distant future.
“Nearly 40 years after its original publication, Tom Wolfe’s hallucinogenic tome “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” is headed for the bigscreen.
Gus Van Sant is attached to direct, and Lance Black (”Big Love”) will write the script. FilmColony’s Richard Gladstein is producing, and he’s in the process of setting the project with a financier.
The book told the story of a cross-country road trip that “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” author Ken Kesey orchestrated with a group called the Merry Pranksters. Driving in a psychedelically painted bus from California to visit the World’s Fair in New York in 1964, Kesey and his band used the trip as a way to turn on those they met to the mind-expanding wonders of LSD.
Kesey ingested the drug while he wrote “Cuckoo’s Nest,” crediting the hallucinogen for many of the ideas in the book.
Shortly after the Wolfe book was published in 1967, its film rights were purchased by entrepreneur Alfred Roven. Not a film producer, Roven had some meetings over the years with filmmakers but was very protective. When he died, Roven left the rights to his children, Daryn and Alison Roven. FilmColony’s Gladstein was introduced to them by attorney Peter Grossman, and for the first time, the rights were entrusted to a producer.
Van Sant, whose latest film, “Paranoid Park,” was honored at Cannes, signed on quickly. The filmmaker cast Kesey in his 1993 film “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and dedicated his 2002 film “Gerry” to the author, who died in 2001. Van Sant enlisted Black, with whom he’s collaborating on a biopic of slain San Francisco pol Harvey Milk.
It’s likely Wolfe will not be a major character in the film, which will focus on Kesey and include events that occurred after the road trip.
Gladstein completed producing the Zach Helm-directed “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,” which Fox Walden releases this fall, as well as “The Nanny Diaries” and John Madden-directed “Killshot,” both of which the Weinstein Co. will distribute through MGM this fall.”
Awhile back we reported that Keith Richards snorted his fathers ashes with cocaine, coming directly from Richards to a magazine. Now, Richards claims this was simply a joke…
He says, “The cocaine bit was rubbish (not true). I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with. I’d opened his box up and said, ‘Jesus, I’ve got to do something with dad, y’know, plant the oak tree.’ “I pulled the lid off and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table. I’m going, ‘I can’t use the brush and dustpan for this’. So you just gotta like, put it together. “What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of… y’know, he went down a treat”.
