Blackalicious breaks out the beats on tour
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Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel--a.k.a. Blackalicious --are tackling a late-winter/early spring tour that supports their most recent album, "The Craft."
The West Coast pair is currently hitting clubs and theaters on their home turf, and will work their way east before winding up in the Boston area at the end of April. The route includes a March 16 stop at the annual SXSW music festival in Austin. Details are included below.
Last September, Blackalicious dropped "The Craft," the duo's fifth album overall, and its inaugural release for Anti Records.
"The Craft is our passion to bring discipline to this music, the passion to keep growing, keep stretching, keep doing things we haven't before," Chief Xcel said in a statement. "The craft is what we live for."
Free MP3 versions of two tracks from the album--"Powers" and "My Pen & Pad"--are available at Blackalicious' website.
March 2006
3 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
4 - West Hollywood, CA - The Roxy
7 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up
8 - Steamboat Springs, CO - Levelz
9 - Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theater
10 - Breckenridge, CO - Sherpa & Yetis
11 - Vail, CO - 8150
12 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theater
14 - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom
16 - Austin, TX - SXSW
17 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
18 - Nashville, TN - City Hall
21 - Bloomington, IN - Bluebird Nightclub
22 - Lansing, MI - Temple Club
25 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Small's Theater
28 - Toronto, Ontario - Opera House
April 2006
1 - New York, NY - B.B. King's Blues Club
2 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
4 - Boston, MA - Paradise
6 - New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
11 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
12 - Winston-Salem, NC - Ziggy's
13 - Columbia, SC - Russell House Ballroom
14 - Atlanta, GA - Roxy
20 - Seattle, WA - Showbox
21 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
22 - Whistler, British Columbia - Blackcomb Mountain
23 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
24 - Berkeley, CA - Pauley Ballroom
29 - Medford, MA - Tufts University
Blackalicious tickets at Ticketmaster
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