Three of a Kind (2013)

Rootsy acoustic threesome The Devil Makes Three will be bringing their spirited brand of folk and bluegrass to First Avenue next month! Dropping October 30th will be the band’s fourth full length album I’m a Stranger Here, which saw the trio working with Nashville producer and singer/songwriter Buddy Miller (Solomon Burke, Patty Griffin).

The group consists of singer/guitarist Pete Bernhard, guitarist Cooper McBean and Lucia Turino playing the coolest instrument of all: upright bass! After a warm reception at two notable festivals this year (American Music Festival in Nashville and San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass) TDM3 will be kicking off a fall tour in Colorado Springs on Halloween night.

Autumn is the absolute perfect time for this band to hit the road; their lively finger-picking-heavy melodies will serve as an excellent soundtrack to crisper temperatures and the brightly changing landscape. There’s also a haunted, nostalgic quality to the songs, especially lyrically. Themes like heartbreak and lonely nights spent with the bottle generously pepper the music. It’s some real dark night of the soul stuff, ragtime style.

The Devil Makes Three will be in Minneapolis Thursday November 7th. C’mon out and see what all the fuss is about!

Tour dates:

10/30 – Boulder, CO @ E Town Hall 10/31 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep 11/01 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre 11/02 – Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Aspen 11/05 – Columbia, MO @ Blue Note 11/06 – Iowa City, IA @ Blue Moose Tap House 11/07 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 11/08 – Chicago, IL @ Metro 11/09 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall 11/10 – Bloomington, IN @ Bluebird Nightclub 11/12 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall 11/13 – Morgantown, WV @ Metropolitan Theatre

11/14 – Millvale, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theatre 11/15 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 11/16 – Phila, PA @ Theatre of the Living Arts 11/17 – Charlottesvile, VA @ Jefferson Theatre 11/19 – Baltimore, MD @ 8 x 10 Club 11/21 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall 11/22 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues 11/23 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre 11/24 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground 12/27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore 12/28 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore 12/30 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst 12/31 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst

I saw Three Days Grace on their co-headlining tour with Shrinedown, and I have to say that bar-none, Three Days Grace was the superior of the two bands based on their stage presence, their live show setup (fireballs!!) and tight set.



The Canadian rockers are enjoying eleven #1 singles on the Active Rock Radio, according to Mediabase, with their latest third single “Misery Loves My Company”, from their successful chart debuting album Transit of Venus, current #1. This puts the band on par with other similar chart-topper acts: Linkin Park, Seether, Disturbed, and, of course, Godsmack.



Here’s their scheduled tour dates:

Just in time for Christmas, Three Sixty is the greatest hit collection from A Perfect Circle. The compilation is being released November 19th and will be available in standard (single disc) and deluxe edition (two-disc set), via Virgin (Universal). To help drive sales, there is a brand new A Perfect Circle song “By and Down” (their first new song in a decade), which is available on the new release. This is exciting news to any Perfect Circle fan, but in addition there is a live box set called A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone And Echo from August 2011 Red Rock’s concert coming out November 26th.



Three Sixty track listing:

Deluxe Edition

Disc 1 The Hollow Rose Judith Orestes 3 Libras The Package Weak And Powerless The Noose The Outsider Blue

Disc 2 Imagine Passive People Are People (live) Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums When The Levee Breaks By And Down 3 Libras (live) Gravity (live) Fiddle and The Drum (live)