Gillian Welch to Play Royal Oak, MI...

Gillian Welch has confirmed a headlining North American tour. This initial leg of touring has Welch and David Rawlings playing in 35 cities, beginning June 30 in Quincy, CA, for the High Sierra Festival, and ending September 17 at the Austin City Limits Festival. They will also be performing at the Newport Folk Festival.

Welch will play the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan on July 23rd.

The tour is in support of Welch’s new record, The Harrow & The Harvest, which is due to be released on June 28. The Harrow & The Harvest, “is a new Southern sound,” writes Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, “with the sort of songs you wouldn’t be surprised to hear issuing from some verdant, wooded hollow in Appalachia; Songs you’d expect to hear hollered from an Asheville grange hall, all too late in the evening. Songs with the wry humor of the back porch. Listen to this record with the lights low. Listen to it on an old radio, cradled next to your ear.”

June
30 – Quincy, Calif. @ High Sierra Music Festival

July
6 – Santa Cruz, Calif. @ Cocoanut Grove Ballroom
7 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Warfield Theatre
9 – Grants Pass, Ore. @ Rogue Theatre
10 – Eugene, Ore. @ McDonald Theatre
12 – Portland, Ore. @ Roseland Theater
13 – Seattle, Wash. @ Moore Theatre
15 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Vancouver Folk Festival
16 – Olympia, Wash. @ Capitol Theatre
17 – Missoula, Mont. @ Wilma Theater
20 – St. Paul, Minn. @ Fitzgerald Theater
21 – Madison, Wis. @ Capitol Theatre
22 – Chicago, Ill. @ VIC Theatre
23 – Royal Oak, Mich. @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
25 – Toronto, Ontario @ Phoenix Concert Hall
30 – Newport, R.I. @ Newport Folk Festival

August
2 – Bethesda, Md. @ Music Center at Strathmore
3 – Raleigh, N.C. @ North Carolina Museum of Art
4 – Winston-Salem, N.C. @ Ziggy’s
5 – Asheville, N.C. @ The Orange Peel
6 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
11 – New Orleans, La. @ Tipitinas Uptown
12 – Birmingham, Ala. @ Workplay Soundstage
13 – Huntsville,Ala. @ Von Braun Center Concert Hall
14 – Athens, Ga. @ Georgia Theatre
17 – Roanoke, Va. @ Jefferson Cent/Shaftman Performance Hall
18 – Charlottesville, Va. @ Paramount Theatre
19 – Richmond, Va. @ Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
20 – Charlotte, N.C @ Knight Theater at Levine Cent. for the Arts
21 – Greenville, S.C. @ Peace Center Concert Hall
23 – Bristol, Va. @ Paramount Center for the Arts
24 – Knoxville, Tenn. @ Tennessee Theater
27 – Wilmington, N.C. @ Winoca Festival – Battleship Park
28 – Charleston, S.C. @ Charleston Music Hall

September
17 – Austin, TX @ ACL Festival

Elvis Costello Plans Royal Oak Gig...

Elvis Costello & The Imposters will perform at Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan on Monday, June 20th. Tickets are on sale now.

Adele Tour Includes Royal Oak, MI...

Adele has announced a North America tour in support of her sophomore album 21, available on February 22. The tour will kick off in Washington, DC on May 12 and run through June 20 in Nashville, TN (click here for a full list of dates). Adele will perform at Royal Oak Music Theatre on May 23rd. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday February 11, but you have the exciting opportunity to get a pre-sale tickets beginning Wednesday February 9 at 12pm est/ 9am pst exclusively via www.Adele.tv.

Listen to 21 on NPR

Tour Dates:
5/12 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
5/13 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
5/15 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
5/16 Montreal, QC @ Olympia Theater
5/18 Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
5/19 New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
5/23 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
5/24 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theater
5/26 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
5/28 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
5/29 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
5/31 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
5/31 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
6/1 Seattle, WA @ Showbox at the Market
6/3 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
6/4 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield Theatre
6/8 San Diego, CA @ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay
6/9 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
6/12 Austin, TX @ Stubbs Waller Creek
6/15 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
6/17 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
6/18 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
6/20 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

Iron & Wine Set To Play Royal Oak (April 2011)...

Iron & Wine and The Low Anthem will perform at Royal Oak Music Theatre, in Royal Oak, Michigan on April 14th. Tickets are expected to go on sale this week . . . keep checking the Royal Oak Music Theatre website. The new album "Kiss Each Other Clean" will be available on January 25th.

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Sufjan Stevens Tour Dates Include Royal Oak...

With planned performances at a number of large, elegant venues—including two nights at New York’s fabled Beacon Theatre and a night at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles—Sufjan Stevens is set to hit the road for an extensive North American tour in fall 2010. The performances will feature fully realized versions of the songs initially debuted during a late 2009 tour of small clubs in which Stevens workshopped several works-in-progress. “In his new songs,” The New York Times notes of one of Stevens’ fall 2009 Brooklyn performances, “love leads him to improvisation, chaos and spasms of rhythm, all precisely dolloped out.” Stevens will tour with his large ensemble performing alongside a full production including projections.

Sufjan Stevens has released eight studio recordings since 2000 including the critically acclaimed Michigan and Illinois (the latter named the “Best Album of the Decade” by Paste); a 5-EP Christmas box set; Enjoy Your Rabbit, an instrumental electronic song cycle based on the animals of the Chinese Zodiac; and the aforementioned The BQE. Run Rabbit Run, a recording of Enjoy Your Rabbit rearranged for the Osso String Quartet, was released in 2009 via Asthmatic Kitty. Stevens has also collaborated with The Danielson Famile, Rosie Thomas, Denison Witmer, My Brightest Diamond and many others.

Tour Dates
10/12 Metropolis Theater Montreal QC
10/13 Massey Hall Toronto, ON
10/14 Royal Oak Music Theater Royal Oak, MI
10/15 Chicago Theater Chicago, IL
10/16 Orpheum Theater Minneapolis MN
10/17 Uptown Theater Kansas City MO
10/19 The Long Center for the Performing Arts Austin TX
10/20 McFarlin Memorial Auditorium Dallas TX
10/22 Mesa Arts Center-Ikeda Theater Mesa AZ
10/23 The Wiltern Los Angeles CA
10/26 The Paramount Theater Oakland CA
10/28 Orpheum Theater Vancouver BC
10/29 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Portland OR
10/30 The Paramount Theatre Seattle WA
11/1 Kingsbury Hall Salt Lake City UT
11/2 Paramount Theatre Denver CO
11/4 Hilbert Circle Theatre Indianapolis IN
11/5 Bijou Theater Knoxville TN
11/6 The Tabernacle Atlanta GA
11/7 Thomas Wolfe Auditorium Asheville NC
11/10 Kimmel Center Philadelphia PA
11/11 Orpheum Theatre Boston MA
11/14 Beacon Theatre New York NY
11/15 Beacon Theatre New York NY

"It Might Get Loud" in Royal Oak...

It Might Get Loud, the upcoming movie that tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes) will be shown at Main Art Theater 3 in Royal Oak, Michigan beginning September 18th.

Thievery Corporation Plans Royal Oak Date...

Thievery Corporation will be bringing their tour to Royal Oak Music Theatre on October 21st. Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 14th.

Additional Tour Dates:
8/28 @ Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, San Francisco CA
8/29 @ Street Scene, San Diego CA
10/02 @ Austin City Limits Festival, Austin TX
10/04 @ House of Blues, Dallas TX
10/06 @ House of Blues, Houston TX
10/08 @ House of Blues, Orlando FL
10/09 @ The Fillmore, Miami FL
10/10 @ Ritz Theater, Tampa FL
10/11 @ Tabernacle, Atlanta GA
10/21 @ Royal Oak Music Theatre, Detroit MI
10/23 @ Kool Haus, Toronto ON
10/24 @ Metropolis, Montreal QC
10/26 @ House of Blues, Boston MA
10/28 @ The Norva, Norfolk VA
10/30 @ Electric Factory, Philadelphia PA
10/31 @ Terminal 5, New York NY

Wilco Setlist ~ Royal Oak Music Theater...

Have seen Wilco many times, but last night's show in Royal Oak may be the best. Great energy in the room.

—"The Price Is Right" theme music intro—
Wilco (the song)
Bull Black Nova
You Are My Face
IATTBYH
A Shot in the Arm
One Wing
Handshake Drugs
A Magazine Called Sunset
Deeper Down
Jesus, etc.
In A Future Age
Impossible Germany
I'll Fight
Summerteeth (started and restarted)
Sonny Feeling
Hate It Here
Can't Stand It
Walken
I'm The Man Who Loves You
Hummingbird

Encore
Poor Places>
Reservations>
Spiders (Kidsmoke)

2nd Encore
You Never Know
Heavy Metal Drummer
California Stars (w/female fan choir)
Red-Eyed and Blue>
I Got You (At The End of the Century)>
Hoodoo Voodoo
Kingpin
I'm A Wheel

Wilco to Play Royal Oak Music Theatre...

All you need to know is Wilco has just announced a summer tour date at Royal Oak Music Theatre on Tuesday, July 21st. Pre-sale tickets go on sale May 6th. General Public sale begins May 8th at 5pm. Check the Royal Oak Music Theatre site for more details. Front Gate Ticketing has info. too.

The Decemberists Set Gig For Royal Oak...

According to Live Daily:
The Decemberists have added a second leg to their already announced "A Short Fazed Hovel" tour, extending the US run into mid-August.

Originally scheduled through June, the summertime jaunt, which kicks off May 19 in Los Angeles, now stops by 27 cities from coast to coast through early August, including two-night stands in Troutdale, OR (7/18-19), and Vancouver (7/21-22), and a four-night run June 11-14 at Manchester, TN's Bonnaroo Festival. The final performance is currently slated for Aug. 11 in Royal Oak, MI. Details are below. Royal Oak tickets go on sale April 17th.

The extended tour supports the indie-rock outfit's recently released fifth studio album, "The Hazards of Love," which dropped March 24. The group's latest effort debuted at No. 14 on The Billboard 200 and features guest vocals from Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark, My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock and The Spinanes' Rebecca Gates.

The band will perform two sets nightly--the first a full performance of "The Hazards of Love," and the second consisting of material from their earlier discography. Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden will join the band on stage as special guests. Opening support will come from Robyn Hitchcock and Venus 3 on a handful of shows, as well as the Heartless Bastards for select dates.

May 2009
19 – Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
20 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
21 - Eugene, OR - McDonald Theatre
23 - Quincy, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre
24 - Missoula, MT - Wilma Theatre
26 - Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium
27 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
29 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theatre
31 - St Louis, MO - The Pageant

June 2009
1 - Columbus, OH - Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
3 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
4 - Raleigh, NC - Memorial Auditorium
5 - Richmond, VA - The National
6 - Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre
8 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
9 - Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion
10 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
11-14 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
20 - Minneapolis, MN - Walker Arts Center

July 2009
17 - Redmond, WA - Marymoor Amphitheatre
18, 19 - Troutdale, OR - McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater
21, 22 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Vogue Theatre

August 2009
3 - Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
5 - Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre
8 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Egyptian Room
10 - Louisville, KY - W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre
11 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre

Animal Collective Tour Dates Include Royal Oak...

Animal Collective is heading out on tour including a date at Royal Oak Music Theatre on May 18th. Tickets will go on sale beginning tomorrow, January 23rd.

2009 Tour Dates
5.11 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
5.12 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
5.13 New York, NY @ Terminal 5 / Terminal Five
5.14 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
5.15 Montreal, Qu @ Metropolis
5.16 Toronto, On @ Sound Academy
5.18 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
5.19 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
5.20 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
5.24 Vancouver, Br @ Commodore Ballroom
5.25 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre and Grill
5.26 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
5.27 Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library
5.29 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
5.30 Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
5.31 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
6.01 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
6.02 Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
6.04 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
6.05 Austin, TX @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
6.06 Oxford, MS @ The Library Bar and Gril
6.08 Saint Petersburg, FL @ The State Theatre
6.09 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
6.10 Orlando, FL @ Club Firestone
9.12 Monticello, NY @ ATP New York / All Tomorrow's Parties