DUB SIDE OF THE MOON LIVE: NOVEMBER, 2003

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NYC’s Easy Star All-Stars take their reggae reinvention of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon on the road in the East Coast and Midwest in November

The upstart dub/reggae act’s release is one of the indie breakthroughs of the year, spending over 33 straight weeks on Billboard’s Reggae Chart and selling over 23,000 copies

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Starting November 7, The Easy Star All-Stars begin their first extensive tour, following a very successful mini-tour of Virginia in July. The band is taking their Easy Star Records release DUB SIDE OF THE MOON on the road to celebrate the album’s success so far and to introduce the unique project to even more ears. As the 30th anniversary of the release of the Pink Floyd original draws to a close, The Easy Star All-Stars will be giving rock fans, reggae heads, jam band kids, and other assorted hipsters a chance to experience a totally different take on the definitive rock record of the past two generations.

This past February, Easy Star Records—one of America’s most revered reggae labels—released DUB SIDE to glowing reviews and accolades from a wide range of periodicals and media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, VIBE, Rolling Stone, NPR All Things Considered, Playboy, Billboard, Gear, Jane, Relix, The Fader, the New York Daily News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and more. The album received radio play everywhere from major market rock morning shows in Baltimore, Los Angeles, and New York to college reggae shows around the country to BBC World to Australian National Radio. DUB SIDE has spent over 33 straight weeks on Billboard’s Reggae Chart, buoyed by airplay at Radiohead concerts and major summer festivals like Bonnaroo, word of mouth on music messageboards and weblogs, and celebrity fans such as Jack Johnson and Clare Torry (one of the singers on the original album thirty years ago).

The touring version of the Easy Star All-Stars features producer/guitarist/vocalist Michael G along with a crack group of New York City players. The band’s instrumentalists and vocalists have performed with Gil Scott-Heron, Dub Is A Weapon, The Meditations, Wunmi, Burning Spear, The Toasters, King Django, Johnny Osbourne, and Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. Most shows, the All-Stars will play two sets at least, featuring original reggae and dub in the first and a stunning, complete version of DUB SIDE in the second. In June, the group debuted in front of 750 people opening for Israel Vibrations in New York. The next month, they sold out Charlottesville, Virginia’s Starr Hill Music Hall and had close to 600 people singing along to every word of DUB SIDE.

DUB SIDE’s ambitious experiment in reggae rhythms and trip hop sounds continues in the live setting, as the Easy Star All-Stars perform their remarkably elemental complement to the original. One of the project’s goals, according to Michael G, “has been to introduce reggae to more people, by using it to turn something familiar into something entirely fresh and different.” The Easy Star All-Stars’ fall tour should open plenty more ears, while establishing the group as one more reason to tune in to the growing popularity of reggae, dancehall and dub.

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For more information on the EASY STAR ALL-STARS and DUB SIDE OF THE MOON, or to set up interviews with producer/guitarist Michael G, please contact Eric Smith at Easy Star Records: 212-736-2160/eski@easystar.com