Sunday, March 29, 2015

Stones Set to Roll Tuesday

The Rolling Stones will officially announce their 2015 U.S. Summer Tour this coming Tuesday. Here is our updated list of anticipated show dates [Updated 3/30-31]

5/24 Petco Park, San Diego, CA

5/30 Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH

6/3 TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN

6/6 AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX 

6/9 Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, GA

6/12 Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, FL

6/17 LP Field, Nashville, TN

6/20 Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA

6/23 Summerfest, Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI

6/27 Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO

7/1 Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh, NC


7/4 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN

7/8 or 9 Comerica Park or Ford Field, Detroit, MI

7/11 (or 18) Ralph Wilson Stadium, Buffalo, NY

Plus at least a few more to be announced later...

5/16 Saturday Night Live, New York, NY (TBA late April), among other television appearances in surrounding days

5/18-21 The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA (1-2 filmed shows, TBA mid-late April)

6/?? Saenger Theater, New Orleans, LA (TBA day/week of show)? 

6/18 Live Earth Festival, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ (TBA mid-April?)?

7/9-19 (the 18th? 15th? 11th?) Festival d'Été de Québec, Québec City, QC (TBA 4/8)

7/?? Forest Hills Stadium, New York, NY (2-3 shows TBA mid-June?)?


7/?? Massey Hall, Toronto, ON (TBA day/week of show)?


7/?? Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA (or O.co Coliseum, Oakland, CA) and/or CenturyLink Field, Seattle, WA?

Additional edits may follow in the next 24 hours, and we will have more on the globe-spanning Live Earth festival coming up very soon...

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Lollapalooza...

[Update: Here's the lineup - http://www.lollapalooza.com/2015-lineup/. Paul McCartney! No Kanye, who may be in Europe this Summer, but count on him to open next year's festival season in the California desert...]

We are within 48 hours of a lineup announcement from the 2015 Lollapalooza festival! 

Here are our up-to-the-minute predictions:


Headliners

Metallica and/or Jack White
Kanye West or Drake
Sam Smith
Florence and the Machine
Beck
Bassnectar, Axwell /\ Ingrosso and/or The Weeknd
(But we don't rule out any of: Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Motorhead, The Prodigy, D'Angelo, The Strokes, The Black Keys, Deadmau5)


Undercard
Alabama Shakes
Alesso 
alt-J
Angel Olson
Angus & Julia Stone
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
Benjamin Booker
Best Coast
Big K.R.I.T.
Brand New
Brandon Flowers
Broods
Coasts
Cold War Kids
Com Truise
The Decemberists 
The Delta Spirit
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
Empire of the Sun
Faith No More 
Father John Misty
Flaming Lips
First Aid Kit
FKA Twigs
Flying Lotus
The Gaslight Anthem
G-Eazy
George Ezra
Glass Animals
Gorgon City
Grizfolk
Hot Chip
Jason Isbell
Jessie J
Kaskade
Kendrick Lamar
Kiesza 
The Kills
Lord Huron
Marina and the Diamonds, 
MØ 
Modest Mouse
ODESZA
Of Monsters and Men
Passion Pit 
Porter Robinson
Raury
SBTRKT
Schoolboy Q
Shakey Graves
Slow Magic
Sturgill Simpson
St. Vincent
Sylvan Esso 
SZA
The Tallest Man on Earth
Tame Impala
Toro y Moi
Tove Lo
Tune-Yards
TV on the Radio
Tycho
Tyler, the Creator
Walk the Moon
The War on Drugs
Ryn Weaver
Zebra Katz

...and Outside Lands

[Update: Here's the lineup - http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/?sort=day. We did better at the headliner level than with the subs, but don't count out the possibility of our #1 getting added at a later date...]

We are also less than 24 hours away from a lineup announcement for the 2015 Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Our sources are thinner than usual this year, and we do not have a complete lineup prediction, but we do forecast a serious possibility that these acts will top the bill in the microclimate of Golden Gate Park:

Headliners
Santana (and John Mayer?) with members of the Grateful Dead?
Mumford & Sons
Sam Smith
Florence and the Machine?
Kendrick Lamar
Axwell /\ Ingrosso
Wilco

Sub-headliners
Alabama Shakes
Brandon Flowers
Drive-By Truckers
Future Islands
Hot Chip
Hozier
St. Vincent
The War on Drugs

A few big maybes
Elton John, Green Day, Jack White, The Weeknd, Faith No More, Massive Attack, D'Angelo, My Morning Jacket, Bassnectar, alt-J, Tame Impala, The Avett Brothers, The Decemberists

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Just a Little Light: More on the Grateful Dead anniversary (and others from the San Francisco scene)


The picture is starting to get a bit clearer on the Grateful Dead's plans for the Summer ...and perhaps beyond. 

Fare Thee Well? One More Saturday Night!
Word now is that in response to the unprecedented demand for the Dead's "Fare Thee Well" shows in Chicago, the same lineup, featuring all four surviving members of the Dead plus frequent collaborator Bruce Hornsby and  Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, will also appear in the Bay Area for two shows at Santa Clara's Levi's Stadium in late June, we believe the 27th and 28th. 

The Santa Clara shows will be the only additional shows to feature this lineup or at which all four of the surviving Dead members will play together (though we do expect at least two if not all four to appear as part of the Grateful Dead Tribute Night at San Francisco's AT&T Park on August 13th, where the band will join together to sing the National Anthem before the Giants game). As previously mentioned, however, there will be more "Grateful Dead" shows this year that feature some of the members playing together with different guest artists, all of them playing with separate bands, or both. Some of these shows will take place at iconic venues like New York's Madison Square Garden arena, Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and probably a San Francisco-area venue to be determined, in addition to, perhaps, the Hollywood Bowl. 

Weir Still Here 
First, we expect a series of shows, perhaps a tour, featuring a nearly-Dead ("Almost Grateful"?) lineup set to include three of the "core" four surviving members - singer-guitarist Bob Weir and dual drummers BIll Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart. On guitar, these shows will feature special guest and Dead fan John Mayer, as well as Steve Kimock, a Bay Area native regarded as a specialist in Jerry Garcia's style, while Phish's Mike Gordon will stand in for still-kicking bass player Phil Lesh, and frequent Dead collaborator Jeff Chimenti, also part of the stadium band, will handle keyboard duties. We expect these shows to take place either in June, right before the Bay Area gigs, or perhaps in late Summer and early Fall, and to begin or end with a multi-night stand at Red Rocks (where Kreutzmann and Hart appear with third-generation jam band the Disco Biscuits next month). Members of this band may also join Weir at the Dear Jerry tribute concert at Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion in May, at which all four members will appear separately. We note both that that event will take just days before David Letterman's final appearance on air, and that Weir was a musical guest during Mayer's recent stint guest-hosting CBS' The Late Late Show.

In the Spirit of Woodstock
Second, a number of festivals will see Dead-themed shows featuring one or more band members. We believe that the nearly-Dead lineup, or one close to it (perhaps substituting Widespread Panic's David Schools for Phish's Gordon) may play the as-yet-unannounced Saturday night "Superjam" at this June's Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee before performing at the Live Earth event outside NYC a few days later. We also would not be surprised to see a different Dead band, featuring Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart along with fellow sixties and seventies San Francisco star Carlos Santana on guitar, perform at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park, the site of many sixties Grateful Dead concerts, on August 9th, the anniversary of Garcia's death (we will have more to say about that festival's lineup soon). That would occur just a week before Weir and Kreutzmann collaborate with several young jamband musicians at the annual Allman Brothers-themed Peach Music Festival in Pennsylvania, whose bill also includes Santana and several notable Dead collaborators including Hornsby and latter-day Allman brother Warren Haynes (as well as Gregg Allman himself), and where Weir will separately collaborate with New Orleans' Preservation Hall Jazz Band. We would not be surprised if additional such collaborations are announced for Connecticut's Dead-themed Gathering of the Vibes festival, at which Kreutzmann will perform on Garcia's birthday, August 1st, or the Phases of the Moon festival in Arkansas in October.

Lockn' In
While Bonnaroo and Outside Lands are the biggest-name festivals to feature potential Dead collaborations this year, the only festival that will host all four members of the band is the Lockn' Festival in central Virginia in mid-September. The four members will appear mostly separately, but we expect subsets of them to take part in at least two of the collaborations that are the festival's organizing principle. One will be an encore of the Weir-Kreutzmann collaboration set for the Peach. Another will likely involve an appearance by "Dead Feat," featuring Little Feat members Fred Tackett and Paul Barrere (the band itself appears separately) along with Kreutzmann and New Orleans guitar/vocalists and big Dead fans Anders Osborne and Billy Iuso. And we would not be surprised if a third pairs Santana with Hart and perhaps Lesh, already announced as leading his own band of unspecified "Friends," who we expect to include Haynes and Osborne on guitar. 

Volunteers
In addition to the Dead and perhaps Santana, Lockn' will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of a third group of San Francisco scenesters, the Jefferson Airplane. Original members Jorma Kaukonen (who will take part in the Dear Jerry concert) and Jack Casady will participate in a special Jefferson Airplane set featuring many special guests led by Saturday Night Live musical director G.E. Smith and husband and wife duo Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams of the Levon Helm Band (and he of Bob Dylan's band, among others, as well). While Grace Slick is now retired from performing, her parts will be handled by Lake Street Dive's big-voiced Rachael Price, and we would not be surprised if original Airplane singer Marty Balin is added to the lineup at a later date, nor if the Dead's Kreutzmann participates on drums. Kaukonen and Casady will also perform as their duo formed in the early '70s, Hot Tuna, and we expect Kaukonen to take part in one of the Dead-themed collaborations at the festival as well.

Dear Jerry
Finally, there is the possibility of additional Dear Jerry-style tribute concerts on one or both coasts, perhaps circa Garcia's birthday, but more likely in the Fall. We would expect any event in California, especially if it takes place in the Los Angeles area, to feature members of Dead friends Los Lobos (also appearing at the Maryland event), who we note have have broken with tradition this year and moved their annual Cinco de Mayo festival at LA's Greek Theatre to the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston's Hermann Park. In New York, we would not be surprised to see one or more concerts, whether a single all-star tribute or a series of shows, perhaps around Thanksgiving, and featuring members of Jefferson Airplane, Phish, and even Dead-set indie-rockers The National, among others including Garcia-minded guitarists Kimock and John Kadlecik, who played Jerry in Weir and Lesh's Furthur band, as well as potential special guests Hornsby and Dead collaborator Branford Marsalis. While Lesh, arguably the leading musical force in the band these days, will not appear at festivals other than Lockn', he may participate in these additional tribute events with his own band of friends, perhaps including San Francisco-based Garcia-stylist Stu Allen on guitar. Lesh and/or another member or two is also likely to participate in Haynes' annual Christmas Jam in Asheville, NC in December.

Expect an announcement of the Levi's Stadium shows as early as this week, and stay tuned for "furthur" updates...

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Just a kiss away...

Here is our latest and possibly final Rolling Stones tour prediction, in advance of Thursday's (or is it tomorrow's?) a March 31st announcement...

[Updated 3/21]
5/24 Petco Park, San Diego, CA

5/27 Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver, CO?

5/30 Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH

6/3 TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN

6/6 AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX 

6/9 Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, GA

6/12 Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, FL

6/17 LP Field, Nashville, TN

6/20 Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA

6/23 Marcus Amphitheater, MIlwaukee, WI

6/26 or 27 Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO

7/1 Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh, NC

7/4 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN

7/8 Comerica Park, Detroit, MI

7/11 Ralph Wilson Stadium, Buffalo, NY

7/?? Festival d'été de Québec, Québec City, QC

Plus:

5/16 Saturday Night Live, New York, NY, among other television appearances

5/18-21 The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA (2 filmed shows)

6/18 Live Earth Festival, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey?

Possible additional shows TBA in New York, Washington, New England, Ontario, New Brunswick, the Pacific Northwest, the San Francisco Bay Area, and more?

Pemberton Festival Lineup Today

We believe the lineup for beautiful British Columbia's Pemberton Music Festival will be announced later today March 31st. 

Here are our loose predictions for about 2/3 of the music lineup [Updated 3/19 24-25 29 31]:


Headliners

Phish (fell through?) Red Hot Chili Peppers? (them too?)
Pearl Jam (or Jack White or The Black Keys) and/or Jane's Addiction
Calvin Harris (and/ or Bassnectar or The Weeknd) Skrillex and possibly Deadmau5 and/or Bassnectar
The Tragically Hip

More headliner possibilities...
Beck, Bjork, David Guetta, Faith No More, Calvin Harris, blur, Smashing Pumpkins, Kendrick Lamar (repeat), Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, My Morning Jacket, The Strokes, Tiësto, Zac Brown Band, The National, Nickelback, Kanye West or one of the asterisked undercard artists

Undercard
Against Me!
A$AP Rocky*
Baby in Vain
Band of Skulls
Black Lips
Bear Mountain
Big K.R.I.T.
The Both
Broods
Buzzcocks
Compass: Mexican Institute of Sound + Toy Selectah
Com Truise
Courtney Barnett
Dan Mangan + Blacksmith
The Decemberists
Death Cab for Cutie*
Delta Spirit
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Father John Misty
Flying Lotus
Foster the People*
Interpol*
Jenny Lewis
July Talk
Kid Cudi
Kiesza
Kygo
Madeon
Nas*
Panda Bear
Passion Pit*
Pixies
Portugal. the Man
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The Roots*
Run the Jewels
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Ryn Weaver
The Sheepdogs
Shpongle
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
Timber Timbre
Tobias Jesso, Jr.
Trampled By Turtles
Tune-Yards
TV on the Radio*
Viet Cong
Walk the Moon
Weezer*
Wild Ones 
Zeds Dead

Some more undercard possibilities: Alesso, Big Data, Big Gigantic (again), Brandi Carlile, Caribou, Chet Faker, Chvrches, Clark, Cold War Kids, Deltron 3030, Dr. Dog, Dr. John, Earl Sweatshirt, G-Eazy (again), Gov't Mule, The Griswolds, Iggy and the Stooges, Jason Isbell, Lil Jon, Marina and the Diamonds, Matt and Kim, Metz (again), MØ, MS MR, The New Pornographers (again), Primus, Sloan (again), String Cheese Incident, Sylvan Esso, The TIng Tings, Todd Terje, Toro y Moi, Twin Shadow, Tyler the Creator (again), The War on Drugs, Zedd

Pemberton is not the only big Canadian festival whose lineup will be out soon. We expect Montreal's Osheaga Festival to announce next week, and we may have a few things to say about it along with our Lollapalooza predictions, which will be posted within the next few days.

Monday, March 16, 2015

Just Another Moonlight Mile to go for the Stones. Plus: the Dead to Keep on Truckin'?

We're getting very close to a tour announcement from the Rolling Stones... and just maybe the "Grateful Dead" too. 

While we don't think that this will be "The Last Time" for the Stones, in the States or otherwise, we do think that this will probably be the band's last major tour of North America, whether or not announced as such. 

Here are our latest "15 on Fire" Stones tour date predictions:

5/24 Petco Park, San Diego, CA

5/30 Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH

6/3 TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN

6/6 Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX 

6/10 Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, GA

6/13 Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, FL

6/16 or 17 Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh, NC?

6/20 Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA

6/23 Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI

6/26 or 27 Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO

6/30 or 7/1 Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA?

7/1 or 8 Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville, TN

7/4 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN

7/8 or 15 Comerica Park, Detroit, MI

7/11 or 18 Ralph Wilson Stadium, Buffalo, NY

7/?? Magnetic Hill Music Festival, Moncton, NB

Plus:

5/16 Saturday Night Live, New York, NY, among other television appearances

5/19-21 Club Nokia and/or Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, Los Angeles, CA (2 filmed shows)

6/18 Live Earth Festival, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey?

Mid-late July? - Forest Hills Stadium, New York, NY (3 shows)?

Labor Day Weekend - Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA?

We have faith in all of the city stops above except Santa Clara (or Raleigh), Seattle, Queens, and New Jersey.

Not Dead Yet?

Meanwhile, we may be ready soon to add more concert dates to the Grateful Dead members' 50th anniversary run, including the following intriguing possibilities:

6/18 Live Earth Festival, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey?

6/23-25 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO

6/27-28 Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA 

...and more to come?

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Getting Stickier...

With more and more Rolling Stones tour information developing by the hour, we're now ready to take a real stab at an outline of the upcoming Sticky Fingers-themed shindig. Not counting a warm-up show and television appearance or two, here's our best shot at how the tour will go down [Updated 3/13-14]:


5/24 Petco Park, San Diego, CA

5/30 Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH

6/3 TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN

6/6 Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX 

6/10 Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville, TN

6/13 Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, FL

6/16 or 17 Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, GA

6/20 Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA

6/23 Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI

6/26 or 27 Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO

6/30 or 7/1 Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, CA

7/4 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN

7/8 Comerica Park, Detroit, MI

7/11 Ralph Wilson Stadium, Buffalo, NY

7/15? Le Festival d'été de Québec, Plains of Abraham, Québec City, QC or RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest, LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa, ON

Expect a tour similar to the above to be announced on Thursday, March 19th. Additional special promotional events, festival appearances, and concerts filmed for television may be announced at later dates. We think these may include the following:

5/16 Saturday Night Live, New York, NY, among other television appearances


5/19-21 Club Nokia and/or Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, Los Angeles, CA (2 filmed shows)


6/18 Live Earth Festival, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey?


Mid-late July? - Forest Hills Stadium, New York, NY (3 shows)?


Labor Day Weekend - Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA?

And one more word on the upcoming Grateful Dead shows... 

On the heels of a sellout of their Dear Jerry concert in Maryland, following the sellout of the big Soldier Field stand in Chicago, we would not be surprised to see announcements of additional concerts featuring three or four of the Dead's original members in coming days. The above-mentioned Levi's Stadium is one possible Bay Area site, perhaps in late June [right around the time of the Stones shows, it seems]. Announcements of New York and Virginia appearances may follow. [Updated 3/13: Billboard is getting in on the act - http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6502151/source-grateful-dead-additional-fare-thee-well-dates. We're hearing that there will be at least two shows in Silicon Valley the last weekend of June, and that they will feature at least three members of the Dead, at least one member of Phish, and John Mayer.]

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Tongues are Wagging...

Revised!

It's time once again to update our news about this year's Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead concerts in America. 

A Little More Dead...
As predicted in our last post, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead have now announced additional appearances on top of their July 4th weekend stand in Chicago. All four members will appear as part of the multi-artist Dear Jerry tribute concert at Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion in mid-May, and three of four will take part in the Gathering of the Vibes Festival in Connecticut in late July/early August. While these have been announced as separate appearances, don't be surprised if the full band reunites for the encore of the May event. 

Stones Ready to Roll...
While more Grateful Dead events on both coasts may loom, in this post we'll focus again on the Rolling Stones, who are set to announce their North American tour tomorrow. As we predicted last time, the tour will hit mostly markets not visited on the Stones' last go-round, but it's now even bigger than we thought - scaled-up to stadium size and extended to roughly seven weeks, beginning in mid- to late-May. The tour will be themed around the re-release of the band's classic Sticky Fingers album, many tunes from which you can expect to appear in the semi-rotating setlists.

While we don't have all the precise dates and venues for the Stones tour, we do have a pretty good outline of how it's going to go down. Here are our predictions, in alphabetical order, for the tour's "15 on Fire" stops:

Buffalo, NY - Ralph Wilson Stadium, we think on July 11th or in the week following

Canada - the band will likely appear at Quebec City's Summer Fest at the Plains of Abraham, perhaps circa July 15th. Other possibilities include Ottawa's RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest at LeBreton Flats Park and the Pemberton Music Festival several days later in British Columbia

Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre on June 2nd or circa June 8th

Detroit, MI - Comerica Park on June 20th or maybe the week of July 8th-15th

Indianapolis, IN - Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 4th. USA! USA!

Los Angeles, CA - a small kick-off appearance or two in mid-May, perhaps followed by a tour stop circa May 27th at the Hollywood Bowl or at the Stubhub Center in Carson in the days that follow, though we're not certain that LA gets a real tour date of its own. We also note backup singer Lisa Fischer's appearance at the Bowl as part of a Jazz at the Bowl triple-bill on August 5th. We would not be shocked if the as-yet-unannounced third act on the bill turns out to be Charlie Watts' great The A B C & D of Boogie-Woogie band.

Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater on or about June 23rd

New York/New Jersey - Other than a possible television appearance (we've previously mentioned David Letterman's show, but Jimmy Fallon's and/or Saturday Night Live may be likelier), we don't necessarily expect a show in New York City proper. We do, however, think that there's a good chance of a Stones appearance nearby in New Jersey, perhaps at MetLife Stadium as part of the to-be-announced June 18th Live Earth concert and/or on their own the night before. A second show would likelier be at a smaller venue, perhaps the Jersey Shore's Monmouth Park Racetrack or Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. 

The Pacific Northwest - We're not sure about this one, but if the band does not play Pemberton, we believe they will hit the Northwest circa May 29th or 30th, at Seattle's CenturyLink Field or perhaps Portland's Providence Park. 

Pittsburgh, PA - PNC Park or Heinz Field, perhaps on June 20th or July 1st

San Diego, CA - Petco Park on May 23rd or 24th

The Southeast - This is the region where our picture is haziest. We do expect at least one appearance in or near Atlanta. A stadium or Principal Park show is possible, but we wouldn't be surprised if the band plays somewhere smaller, like suburban Alpharetta's Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park. That may not be all for smaller shows in the Southeast - we think the Family Circle Tennis Center in Charleston is a possibility, and there may be others. If Florida gets a show, though, we think it will be a big one, not in Miami but at Orlando's Citrus Bowl or Tampa's Raymond James Stadium. We also don't rule out a mid-June appearance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival between Atlanta and Nashville, but do believe that the festival's headliner lineup is complete.

Texas - Dallas' Toyota Stadium and/or Houston's BBVA Compass Stadium circa the week of June 3-10. Our guess is Dallas on the 3rd or 6th and Houston on the 10th. 

One More? - Arizona and Ohio are on our list of maybes, but we think the likeliest place left off the list may be in or around Minnesota's Twin Cities in June (the 13th or maybe 27th?). Minneapolis's Target Field seems likelier than Wisconsin's Somerset Amphitheater. 

Or Two? - While we don't rule out an appearance at San Francisco's AT&T Park in late May or early June, we don't expect the Bay Area to be included on this tour. Likelier might be a later-announced appearance at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in early August, but that may just be a pipedream.

More Festival News to Come!
We will have more to say about both Outside Lands and Pemberton, as well as at least one other major North American festival, in the coming weeks. Stay tuned...