Because what the world needs now is hours upon hours of jam-based quasi-funk for college students and middle-aged yuppies to dance to beneath a dome of increasingly thick pot smoke, Dave Matthews Band has announced a massive summer tour for 2012, in which they are more or less going to conquer American entirely.
Yuppies, rejoice! According to Entertainment Weekly, despite claiming that he wasn’t going to tour in 2011, pseudo-hippie Dave Matthews has announced that his band will headline several three-day long festivals this summer, bringing along several popular contemporary adult alternative artists with him.
It’s a shame we can’t invest in marijuana, because sales are about to go way up.
Here we have a nice grab bag of music news covering a variety of talented artists like Tom Waits, Keith Richards and Dave Matthews. There’s also something in there about someone we couldn’t even muster the inner strength to mention in the headline.
Check below for BeatCrave’s music news roundup.
Early this week, we mentioned Twitter as the new vehicle for artists to release new songs and other content to fans. Not all musicians have caught on, but today, Dave Matthews Band joined the club.
After last night’s inspiring show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden (which featured a special guest appearance from Gregg Allman on a cover of the Allman Brothers‘ “Melissa”!) to kick off a lengthy tour, Dave Matthews Band announced via Twitter the release of “Funny The Way It Is,” the premier single from the bands upcoming album, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.” The song is available for download on the Dave Matthews Band website.
Dave Matthews Band has announced their first studio album in four years, as well as their first tour since the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore three months ago. The group will be touring starting in April with a pretty unusual array of rotating opening acts.
The beginning of the tour will feature The Roots (taking leave from their standing role on Jimmy Fallon) followed by three dates with Old Crow Medicine Show, eight with The Avett Brothers, and two final dates with Jason Mraz at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Check out a full list of all the dates after the break:
