Boise, state Idaho Showbiz Latest News and Updates

Pixies, Modest Mouse and Cat Power have announced a joint tour of North America – see all the dates below and buy tickets here.The three bands will hit the road in August and September, and they come in addition to upcoming May dates for Pixies in support of their new album ‘Doggerel’.The tour begins in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 20, running for the following month before finishing up in San Diego, California on September 16.See the full list of tour dates below. Tickets are on sale on Friday, March 31 at 10am local time.

Bon Iver have announced a fresh slate of tour dates in the United States this August.The band took to social media on March 27 to break the news, announcing a total of 12 shows. Justin Vernon and co.

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CHVRCHES have teamed up with handmade FX pedals company Old Blood Noise to release an effects pedal.The ‘Screen Violence’ pedal is inspired by the band’s critically acclaimed fourth album of the same name. The new tech is out today (May 26) and will also be available at the Glaswegian band’s next shows.“We are really proud to be collaborating with Old Blood Noise because both Iain [Cook] and I used so many of their pedals during the making of ‘Screen Violence’, the album,” Martin Doherty said.

CHVRCHES have announced details of some new North American tour dates – check them out below.The band will begin the next part of their tour on July 24 at Austin’s Float Fest before heading to New Orleans, Birmingham, Alabama, Atlanta, and Asheville, North Carolina.

Snail Mail (aka Lindsey Jordan) treated fans to a riveting cover of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 gem ‘Tonight, Tonight’.Flanked by her four-piece backing band, Jordan kicked off a 28-date tour of North America – which comes in support of last year’s ‘Valentine’ album – at this year’s edition of the Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho. She and her band played the first night of the five-day festival, debuting a handful of tracks from ‘Valentine’ alongside choice cuts from 2018’s ‘Lush’.Jordan is no stranger to throwing a cover into her Snail Mail sets; on her last run of shows in late 2019, she closed sets out with her take on the Goo Goo Dolls’ ‘Iris’.

Snail Mail has opened up about her road to recovery following a vocal cord surgery that forced the delay of tour dates in the US, UK and Europe.Speaking to Carmel Holt on a recent episode of the Sheroes Mixtape Memoir podcast, the singer – real name Lindsey Jordan – shared that she was “silent for the entire month” following the surgery in December, an experience that she said “was really hard”.“There were a lot of situations where I found myself just totally helpless. You know, you don’t really think about how much you need your voice,” she said.

Kim Gordon has announced details of a new US, UK and European tour in support of her 2019 album, ‘No Home Record’.The UK and European portion of the dates, which kick off in March, will mark the iconic musician’s first international solo headline tour.Gordon will first take the record across the US, beginning at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA, before venturing on to six further cities for her own shows. She will also perform at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN and Treefort Festival in Boise, ID.

latest new movie releases out now in theatres!In a city as big and bountiful as Boise, Idaho, there are so many local movie theaters near you to choose from that it can be hard to know where to start.

Dave Grohl has lent his Foo Fighters throne to Greyhawk bassist Darin Wall, who was shot earlier this month.Grohl used the light-up seat on tour with the Foos in 2015, having broken his leg by falling from the stage in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The United States' only memorial to Holocaust victim Anne Frank was plastered with stickers depicting a swastika, a symbol appropriated by the Third Reich during the World War II era and used by white supremacists.  The Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, located in Boise, Idaho, includes a life-sized bronze statue of the Jewish diarist. It shows Frank holding her diary and looking out the window of the "secret annex" in which she and her family spent 761 days hiding from German Nazis.

BOISE, Idaho – As days turned into years, Brett Woolley came to accept that his father’s murderer would never be found — and that his family’s private tragedy had become a Wild West legend, the kind of thing folks shared when they were a few too many drinks deep into the night.

James A. McClure Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Boise, Idaho – Photo: Alb8710, via Wikimedia.

By Bruce Haring

In the fall of 2017, indie rock vets Built to Spill were tapped to be cult singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston's backing back for a couple of shows in the Pacific Northwest. During rehearsals, Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch decided to record their interpretations of Johnston's songs — but he never really had the intention of releasing them.

Treefort Music Fest is the latest U.S. music festival to be impacted by developments surrounding COVID-19. Festival organizers have announced the five-day music event, which takes place across multiple venues in Boise, Idaho, will now be moved from March 25–29 to September 23–27. Artists set to the play original dates included Chromatics, Japanese Breakfast, Built to Spill, Tennis, Georgia, and others. Festival organizers say lineup changes and additions “will be announced as needed.”

Goo Goo Dolls have announced a summer 2020 headlining tour in support of their most recent album Miracle Pill.The 29-date run will start July 23 in Boise, Idaho, and will hit outdoor venues across the country such as Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO, Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, Tenn. and The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.Fan presale and VIP on-sale starts Wednesday, Feb.