{"id":594,"date":"2013-03-20T19:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/?p=594"},"modified":"2013-04-10T19:28:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:28:28","slug":"the-dream-syndicate-to-perform-first-north-american-show-in-25-years-at-wilcos-solid-sound-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/the-dream-syndicate-to-perform-first-north-american-show-in-25-years-at-wilcos-solid-sound-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Syndicate to perform first North American show in 25 years at Wilco&#8217;s Solid Sound Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 20, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>THE DREAM SYNDICATE TO PERFORM FIRST NORTH AMERICAN SHOW IN 25 YEARS AT WILCO\u2019S SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Fresh off of last September\u2019s successful reunion tour of Spain, the Dream Syndicate will play its\u00a0 first North American show since 1988 at Wilco\u2019s Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCa in North Adams, Massachusetts on June 22, 2013,\u00a0 just a few weeks after the band wraps up a nine-city tour of Europe the month before.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The band\u2019s Spanish shows last fall were named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyemediaonline.com\/images\/Lo_mejor_2012.pdf\" rel=\"Best Live Show of the Year by the influential Ruta 66 magazine\">Best Live Show of the Year by the influential <em>Ruta 66<\/em> magazine<\/a>, finishing ahead of gigs by (in order) Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and The Stooges.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6bRB4Bgmhpg\" rel=\"Click here\">Click here<\/a> for a video clip of \u201cThe Days of Wine and Roses\u201d from El Sol in Madrid, Spain, September 2012.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went into the Spanish shows with a little bit of caution,\u201d says singer\/guitarist Steve Wynn.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m really proud of what we did the first time around and wouldn\u2019t want to do anything to tarnish or diminish our reputation.\u00a0 But I was so excited to see that the new shows not only replicated our sound and style but actually picked up on the dangerous, random, unhinged edge that was what I loved about being in the band in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The band\u2019s current lineup features singer\/guitarist Wynn and drummer Dennis Duck, the two members who spanned the group\u2019s entire seven-year career as well as bassist Mark Walton, who was in the band for its final two records and nearly all of their US and world tours.\u00a0 Guitarist Jason Victor who has played with Wynn in the Miracle 3 since 2001 will round out the 21st Century lineup.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Dream Syndicate made its splash in 1982 with the debut album \u201cThe Days of Wine and Roses,\u201d which is often cited among the top records in rock history and has been named as a major influence by such bands as Nirvana, Yo La Tengo, the Japandroids, and the Black Crowes, among many others.\u00a0 The appearance at the Solid Sound Festival is the only US appearance booked for 2013.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>THE DREAM SYNDICATE &#8211; TOUR SCHEDULE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MAY 23\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HET DEPOT \/ LEUVEN, BELGIUM<\/p>\n<p>MAY 24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DINGWALL\u2019S \/ LONDON, ENGLAND<\/p>\n<p>MAY 25\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ROCKEFELLER\u2019S \/ OSLO, NORWAY<\/p>\n<p>MAY 26\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 STADTGARDEN \/ COLOGNE, GERMANY<\/p>\n<p>MAY 28\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BEACHES BREW FEST \/ RAVENNA, ITALY<\/p>\n<p>MAY 29\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BLOOM \/ MEZZAGO (MILAN), ITALY<\/p>\n<p>MAY 30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MYLOS \/ THESSALONIKI, GREECE<\/p>\n<p>MAY 31\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 STAGE \/ LARISSA, GREECE<\/p>\n<p>JUNE 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 GAGARIN \/ ATHENS, GREECE<\/p>\n<p>JUNE 22\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL \/ NORTH ADAMS, MA<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedreamsyndicate.com\" rel=\"www.thedreamsyndicate.com\"><strong>www.thedreamsyndicate.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2013 THE DREAM SYNDICATE TO PERFORM FIRST NORTH AMERICAN SHOW IN 25 YEARS AT WILCO\u2019S SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL Fresh off of last September\u2019s successful reunion tour of Spain, the Dream Syndicate will play its\u00a0 first North American show since 1988 at Wilco\u2019s Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCa in North &hellip; 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