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April 14, 2005 Page 6 www.digitalduke.duq.edu Weekend FEATU RES EVENTS I h e I) u q n e i n e D u k t Music: Honda Civic Tour presents with The Thrills Scorching spring and summer tours 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 15 A.J. Palumbo Center JON WALDBAUER anxious crowd over with no problem until participation in the 2004 presidential" FOR IHB DUQUESNE DUKE hits the stage. election, but it's been nearly a year The Shins since a full tour. For many DMB with An Hest The summer music scene is shaping * Sarah McLachlan fans, that's too long. Friday, April 15 up strongly with new releases on Pittsburgh will host singer/song- CFA Lawn the way from Audioslave, Dave writer Sarah McLachlan on May 25 Tom Petty & the Carnegie Mellon University Matthews Band, , at the Mellon Arena as she winds Heartbreakers Shadyside , Fat Joe and System of a Down. down her tour to promote 2003's Seasoned veteran Tom The record industry showed growth last year "Afterglow." Best known for "I Petty will resume touring this Mindless Self Indulgence in sales, thanks to blockbuster Will Remember You" and summer after a two-year break* with Momingwood, Killradio by Usher, Outkast, , and "Angel," McLachlan has held Stops in Florida, and 7:30 p.m. , but concert attendance has her own among the grow- Ohio will give Petty a chance Friday, April 15 declined recently, mostly due to high ticket ing ranks of popular I to get comfortable with the Mr. Small's Theater prices. Many of the highest priced tours women musicians and ^ Heartbreakers again before Millvale came from artists like Prince, and was an original act on the I their June 15 show at the Post Lilith Fair tour in the late I Gazette Pavilion. Old and "Exposure" Metallica, who many people would call featuring more than 20 local alternative "classic" acts and past their prime. Concerts nineties. young hippies alike can count and punk bands announced for the Summer 2005 season Nine Inch on a strong show from Petty, 10 a.m. foreshadow the return of popularity to Nails whose concerts will most like- Saturday, April 16 the live concert experience. Of the It has been five ly provide a musical synopsis of Mr. Small's Theater hundreds of bands hitting the road years since touring for 1999's "The the band's 28 year history. Opening act the Millvale this summer, it's difficult to know Fragile" wrapped up, but Nine Inch Black Crowes will have no trouble igniting where to spend that hard-earned Nails' frontman Trent Reznor has the crowd and setting the pace for the show. Sparta cash. Here's a look at some of yourj returned to the road to promote "With 7 p.m. best bets. | Teeth," due out internationally May 3. Ozzfest Saturday, April 16 A small number of tour dates will The summer's biggest collection of Rex Theater Maroon 5 [•ravage the United States through metal acts will roll through-the Post Gazette South Side From owning I May 31, when Reznor and his new Pavilion July 23. Metalheads will get a for two bandmates will cross the world for chance to see Black Sabbath. Iron Maiden, Seven Color Sky short years ago to f tours of Europe and Japan. Nine Inch Black Label Society, Rob Zombie, with MuTet becoming one of the Nails will make a two-night stop in Mudvayne and , among 7:30 p.m. biggest names in Philadelphia on May 18 and 19, but many others. With over 15 bands perform- Saturday, April 16 popular radio today, both shows are sold out, forcing many ing on two stages, it's no surprise that the Club Cafe Maroon 5 is riding salivating headbangers to wait for yet- festival will kick off at noon. A Dozen South Side their wave through to-be-announced fall tour dates. Furies, the band that won MTV's "Battle for fame. They found Ozzfest" where one representative of a band Comedy: their niche on MTV Rascal Flatts competed against others for a chance to per- by releasing their Blending the sounds of pop music form on the summer concert tour, will be Bobby Slayton second single off of and country to create something of a appearing on the second stage. 8 and 10 p.m. 2002's "Songs About' cowboy band. Rascal Flatts has toured Friday, April 15 Jane," "This Love." Maroon 5 won the with the likes of and Uncle Kenny Chesney 7 and 9 p.m. Grammy for Best New Artist earlier this Kracker. Proof of their growing popularity Country music's well-documented rise Saturday, April 16 year, but that hasn't stopped their relentless is in the sales of the band's 2004 release over the last decade has been personified, The Improv work ethic. Still on the road. Maroon 5 will "Feels Like Today," which knocked Green most recently, in Kenny Chesney. Riding the Waterfront hit Duquesne's own A.J. Palumbo Center on Day's "" out of the top spot momentum of last year's "When the Sun Friday night. in record sales in October of last year. The Goes Down" and his recent follow up "Be nominees for ' Best As You Are," Chesney is climbing the ranks That's Green Day Country Band will stop in of country music's elite, selling out major It's been 11 years since the release of venues across the nation. Heinz Field will WHA£K "" thrusted Green Day into the public host his next Pittsburgh performance on July eye. The band's fame fluctuated in 30. There I was, minding my own business on the new millennium, never leaving Wednesday afternoon, standing on the comer the public's peripheral, but the Vans' of Magee and Seitz Street in front of the release of 2004's Punk fans suffer music school, when along came a blue BMW. opera, "American Idiot" brought through fall, winter Behind the wheel, a girt with flowing blonde Green Day front and center. and spring for hair and aviator sunglasses. She stopped at The new album is an their shot at the the stop sign, looked , twice, smiled, and escape of the limits of summer's then proceeded to peel out in front of me and their old style without biggest con- about ten other people. cert event, the Beamer Girl, I remember you from high losing the energy and school. You were the one who drove daddy's flare that propelled Vans' Warped BMW to school and peeled out of the parking them to the top. Two Tour. The lot on the way to lunch with all the windows songs from i annual fes- down, blasting that hot new Sisqo single, "American Idiot" tival is "Thong Song," to make sure everyone knew even break the nine- scheduled to you were driving daddy's Beamer. In high minute mark, which is stop at 40 school you were annoying, but I was able to especially impressive cities across overlook your" I look really cool in daddy's considering that most the nation and car" flaw for one simple reason: you were only of their songs off will feature 17. You had just gotten your license. You did- records like two stages of n't know any better. But honestly, I always "Kerplunk" and performers including believed that by 21, once your impressionable "Nimrod" never saw Atreyu, Billy Idol, high school friends were long gone and you four. Quantity often is Band Dropkick Murphys. Fall Out were a college student you would be mature implemented where quality cannot be sup- Kicking off summer album releases is Boy, , enough to be over this phase. But apparently, plied, but the new album is an exception to , releasing their first The Offspring, , Simple Plan, five years later you still think we will turn our that rule. Green Day will rock Mellon Arena LP since Dave Matthews' 2003 solo effort, Something Corporate and . Pittsburgh heads and comment "My god, did you see on April 23, bringing with them one of the ". Stand Up" will hit record hosts the madness August 1 at the Post that girl peel out? She is awesome!" quickest growing bands in the nation, My stores May 10 and will provide two stops at Gazette Pavilion. This week, we dedicate "That's Whack!" Chemical Romance. Upbeat, goth-punk the Post Gazette Pavilion on June 4 and 5. to you Beamer Girl, because you certainly are songs with angst-ridden lyrics define the Fans had a chance to wet their lips with awesome... wait no, I mean whack. New Jersey band's style and will hold an politically fueled performances hyping voter