The Chart Show: tUnE-yArDs at #2 makes Black Keys and Jack White beef sandwich
by Mark Wheat
June 05, 2014
The Black Keys are extending their online beef with Jack White to our Chart as they narrowly win the race to the top. Thank goodness Merrill of tUnE-yArDs is in there to keep them separated! The Black Keys have released the video for "Fever" and extended their tour which includes Target Center on Oct. 24 with opening act Jake Bugg. Wherever you are on the planet, they're coming to a town near you soon.
Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win tickets to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' sold out show at the State Theatre on Saturday, June 21!
Speaking of videos, a new video from our friends at KEXP just released of tUnE-yArDs performing "Real Thing." She'll perform in the First Avenue mainroom on July 17.
Jack White has formally apologized on his website for his part in the beef with the Black Keys in a new Rolling Stone interview ahead of his new album Lazaretto being released next Tuesday, June 10. You'll be able to buy the record in 180 gram double vinyl with great art work and some cunningly hidden tracks beneath the center labels.
Conor Oberst fell off the chart this week, but played two shows in town with his new support and backing band Dawes. I recently talked to them talk about how the unique tour is going. If you were wondering how the two got together, it was Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley fame. She's also becoming a master at collaboration as she released a track from her new album today which was produced by Beck. The Voyager is due July 29 and features collaborations with Ryan Adams and Jonathan Rice.
Speaking of strange collaborations, Eels were the highest new entry this week after making national news for their show at the Fitzgerald Theater last weekend. Steve Perry of Journey, a long time fan of the band came on to perform three songs with them, the first time he has sung in public for 19 years!?!? He repeated the feat in Washington this last weekend.
Future Islands are on the Chart for the first time three months after appearing to blow up in popularity after a performance on David Letterman, as this report in an Irish newspaper suggests. Our friends at NPR helped build the buzz when they live streamed a concert in early May.
First Aid Kit played a sold out show at the Varsity Theater this week and stopped by our studios to chat with Bill DeVille who'll run the session on United States of Americana this Sunday between 8 and 10 a.m. And J. Roddy Walston's inducted into our Chart Show Hall of Fame for the second time. This puts them solidly in the running for new band of the year so far in Currentland.