R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn and Young Fresh Fellows’ Scott McCaughey will tour the U.S. this summer and fall under a trio of musical guises — The Minus 5, The Baseball Project and The Steve Wynn IV — that apparently are all one in the same.
The triple-bill concerts, which run Aug. 26 through Oct. 1, will feature Buck, Wynn, McCaughey and drummer Linda Pitmon (Wynn’s wife, who has played with Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 and Golden Smog) playing in all three bands “with a possible costume change or two.”
“I’m fairly certain it won’t be a typical three-band bill with separate sets,” Wynn says in a news release. “And I have a feeling we’ll be mixing it up and changing from night to night.”
The quartet will be promoting a trio of releases: the Minus 5’s just-released Killingsworth (featuring McCaughey and Buck), The Baseball Project’s 2008 debut Volume One: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (featuring all four) and Wynn’s 2008 solo album Crossing Dragon Bridge (featuring Wynn and Pitmon).
Tour dates: An Evening With… The Minus 5, The Baseball Project and The Steve Wynn IV
Aug. 26: Center for the Performing Arts, Portland, OR
Aug. 28: Lake Arrowhead Village, Lake Arrowhead, CA
Aug. 29: Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
Aug. 30: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
Sept. 7: Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
Sept. 10: Turf Club, St. Paul, MN
Sept. 11: Martyr’s, Chicago, IL
Sept. 12: Union County Music Fest, Clark, NJ
Sept. 13: Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON
Sept. 15: World Café Live, Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 16: Club Café, Pittsburgh, PA
Sept. 17: St. Francis, Louisville, KY
Sept. 18: Octoberfest, Lexington, KY
Sept. 19: Southgate House, Newport, KY
Sept. 21: Valentine’s, Albany, NY
Sept. 22: Middle East, Cambridge, MA
Sept. 23: Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
Sept. 25: Iota, Arlington, VA
Sept. 26: Cat’s Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC
Sept. 27: The Earl, Atlanta, GA
Sept. 28: 40 Watt, Athens, GA
Oct. 1: Continental Club, Austin, TX
Video: The Baseball Project on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” 6/20/08
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS:
- R.E.M. previews live album with ‘Reckoning Songs From the Olympia’ digital EP
- Steve Wynn to perform Dream Syndicate’s ‘Medicine Show’ in New York, Los Angeles
- R.E.M. planning ‘Reckoning’ reissue, ‘Dublin Working Rehearsals’ live album
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