Music, culture, and the inside scoop from Cesar Menendez,
a Microsoft employee working on Zune - Microsoft's new music project.

July 03, 2007

Zune: On the Road with Great Northern

As part of our continuing efforts to support and partner with artists and musicians, check out our tour with Great Northern.

Great Northern Tour Dates:

July
17 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
18 Chicago, IL – Subterranean
19 Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig
20 Buffalo, NY – Sound Lab
21 Albany, NY – Valentine’s
23 Boston, MA – Middle East Upstairs
24 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
26 Washington, DC – Black Cat
27 Richmond, VA – Alley Katz
28 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
29 Mt. Pleasant, SC – Village Tavern
30 Atlanta, GA – Earl
31 Birmingham, AL – Bottletree

August
02 Austin, TX – Emo’s
03 Dallas, TX – The Loft
04 Oklahoma City, OK – Lit
06 Denver, CO – Hi Dive
08 Phoenix, AZ – Modified
09 San Diego, CA – Belly Up Tavern
10 Los Angeles, CA – Spaceland
11 San Francisco, CA – Slim's
13 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
14 Seattle, WA – Crocodile Cafe

Info from Filter Mag, our partners for the tour.

If you're not familiar with their music, think "The songs’ very point often seem to suggest the rich emotional textures of a daydream afternoon, as sunshine gently dims into the dark" (from their bio). They're out of the Silverlake/Echo Park music scene, and hang out with artists like: Silversun Pickups, Earlimart, Sea Wolf (Solon from Great Northern appears in the video for “You’re a Wolf”), The Movies, All Smiles (Jim Fairchild from Grandaddy’s band), Darker My Love, and Dios. All that to say, I'm really excited about this tour, especially the 14 at the Croc.

Also, if you've seen Transformers, please don't spoil it. I'm seeing it in about 3 hours. And lastly, no posts tomorrow: Happy Independence Day!

 |  Wednesday, July 04, 2007 3:07 AM  |  9 Comments
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Ricardo Dawkins

I saw the Zune transforming into SoundWave.

brutha-man

Hey Casear...how can new artists get their content on Zune Marketplace?

Enjoy your holiday.

Eddie

Well, there's another band to add to my Zune (thats a surprise, I'm very picky). I'll probably go to the LA show. Dunno

Chris

ahhhh, I hate you!!!

You mde me look up the great northern, and now i hav fallen in love with them!!

grr face!

Brendan

tell us how the movie was in ur next post

Albert

Hey Cesar, any idea what the "device clock" is on the Zune player? I can't remember if it has ever been talked about so I just posted a blog post on it. Click on my name to take a look.

mazola

I don't want to ruin Transformers for you but apparently they're <i>robots in disguise</i>.

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Telekinetyk

Cool, I just found a new band I like.. they're really awesome! I'm glad you're partnering with them. Thanks, Cesar!

Nathan

Does it cost to get to the event? I may make it to Portland.

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I'm Cesar Menendez. I left the Xbox marketing world for Microsoft's new foray into music - Zune. Community, cool videos, music, discovering new music - these are things I love. In the past I wrote music reviews for RealNetworks, and before that I volunteered at KCMU (now KEXP). Get in touch w/ me using this email: AskZune (then type the at symbol) microsoft.com (please no solicitors)
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