Hotel Cafe vs Chuck Ragan The Revival - 2008 tour dates, Jaymay, Thao Nguyen, & Stories in High Fidelity

by Black Bubblegum (though not even close to metal)

Last month, indie rock blog Productshop NYC shuttered it’s doors (RIP) to make way for Stories In High Fidelity, a place “for bands, record stores, labels and writers to share their stories, tour diaries, memories and so much more”, a sort of “Huffington Post of music”, if you will. To celebrate the launch, the site lined up a cocktail of noteworthy music writers like Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, Fargo Rock City), Dan Kennedy (Rock On: An Office Power Ballad), Rob Sheffield (Love Is A Mix Tape) and Marc Spitz (We Got The Neutron Bomb) along with musical guests Rocketship Park and a full headlining set by Jaymay. The “pre-CMJ extranvaganza” will be held at Highline Ballroom on Oct 20th, tickets are on sale.

After Highline Ballroom, Jaymay will hit the road with The Hotel Cafe tour… and although she won’t be in NYC when the tour rolls through town at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Thao Nguyen will, along with Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Emily Wells, & Samantha Crain. Tickets for the Brooklyn show are on sale. Full tour dates are below.

Compare/Contrast Hotel Cafe’s lineup to the “singer/songwriter” one at the Blender tonight (10/13) with Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Ben Nichols (Lucero), Tim Barry (Avail), and Frank Turner. Tickets are still available. “Chuck Ragan The Revival Tour” will be scooting through the US through mid-November, including a date at the Fun Fun Fun Fest with a shit-ton of great bands (but no Flipper), and a string of dates with Tom Gabel of Against Me! (who recently played a solo show of his own).

Thao Nguyen recently ate books with Paul Simon, Department Of Eagles, Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone, Parker Posey, Ira Glass, Bobby Cannavale and Patricia Clarkson.

All tour dates below…

Priscilla Ahn ACL photos by Kyle Dean Reinford

THE HOTEL CAFE TOUR – 2008 TOUR DATES
10/13/2008 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up *
10/14/2008 Phoenix, AZ Martini Ranch**
10/16/2008 Dallas, TX House of Blues***
10/17/2008 Austin, TX Parish***
10/18/2008 Houston, TX Meridian Red Room***
10/20/2008 Birmingham, AL Workplay Theater^
10/21/2008 Nashville, TN Exit/In^
10/22/2008 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse^
10/23/2008 Gainsville, FL Common Grounds^^
10/24/2008 St Petersburg, FL State Theater
10/25/2008 Orlando, FL The Social
10/27/2008 Chapel Hill, NC Cat’s Cradle^^^
10/28/2008 Washington DC 9:30 Club%
10/29/2008 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live%
10/30/2008 New York, NY The Bowery Ballroom%%
10/31/2008 Boston, MA The Paradise Rock Club%%%
11/01/2008 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg#
11/3/2008 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s Front Room##
11/5/2008 Chicago, IL Park West##
11/6/2008 Minneapolis, MN The Varsity Theater###
11/7/2008 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon$
11/8/2008 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill$$
11/9/2008 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall$$
11/11/2008 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater$$$
11/12/2008 Salt Lake City, UT Avalon Theater$$$
11/13/2008 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Concert House$$$
11/14/2008 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge!
11/15/2008 Seattle, WA Chop Suey!!
11/17/2008 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall!!
11/18/2008 Los Angeles, CA Fonda Theater !!!

*w /Anya Marina, Meiko, Molly Jenson, Jamay, Erin McCarley,Holly Conlan
**w/ Meiko, Jamay, Erin McCarley
***w /Ingrid Michaelson, Meiko, Priscilla Ahn, Erin McCarley
^ w/ Ingrid Michaelson, Meiko, Priscilla Ahn, Erin McCarley, Katie Herzig
^^ w/ Ingrid Michaelson, Meiko,Priscilla Ahn, Samantha Crain, Erin McCarley
^^^ w/Ingrid Michaelson, Meiko, Priscilla Ahn, Erin McCarley, Thao Nguyen, Samantha Crain
% w/ Rachael Yamagata, Meiko,Jenny Owen Youngs, Thao Nguyen and Samantha Crain
%% w/ Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Emily Wells, Thao Nguyen, Samantha Crain
%%% w/ Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Jenny Owen Youngs, Thao Nguyen and Samantha Crain
# w/Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Emily Wells, Samantha Crain
## W/Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Jaymay, Alice Russell
### w/ Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Jaymay, Alice Russell, PLUS a very special guest
$ w/Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Jaymay, Alice Russell
$$ w/Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Kate Havnevik, Alice Russell, Jaymay
$$$ w/Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Kate Havnevik, Lenka, Emily Wells
! w/ Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Kate Havnevik, Lenka, Emily Wells and Catherine Feeny
!! w/ Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Kate Havnevik, Lenka and Emily Wells
!!! w/Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, Thao Nguyen, Kate Havnevik, Lenka, Emily Wells, Jaymay

CHUCK RAGAN, BEN NICHOLS, TIM BARRY – 2008 TOUR DATES
October 13 – Blender Theater At Gramercy NY, New York*
October 14 – Blackcat DC, Washington DC*
October 15 – Belvedere’s, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October 16 – The Magic Stick, Detroit, Michigan**
October 17 – Reggie’s Rock Club Chicago, Illinois**
October 18 – Triple Rock, Minneapolis, Minnesota***-
October 19 – Turner Hall , Milwaukee, Wisconsin***
October 20 – Nutty’s, Sioux Falls, South Dakota***
October 22 – Aggie Theater, Ft. Collins, Colorado^
October 23 – The Marquis Theater, Denver, Colorado^
October 24 – the Venues Club Sound, Salt Lake City, Utah^
October 25 – The Filling Station, Bozeman, Montana^^
October 26 – El Corazon, Seattle, Washington^^^
October 27 – The Hawthorne Theater, Portland, Oregon^^^
October 29 – Coopers, Nevada City, California^^^
October 30 – Slims, San Francisco, California^^^
October 31 – The Glass House, Pamona, California %
November 1 – The Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, California%
November 2 – The Casbah, San Diego, California %
November 4 – The Beauty Bar, Las Vegas, Nevada %
November 5 – The Clubhouse, Tempe, Arizona %
November 6 – The Launchpad, Albuquerque, New Mexico%
November 7 – Tequila Jungle, Lubbock, Texas %
November 8 – The Prophet Bar, Dallas, Texas %
November 9 – Waterloo Park, Austin, Texas %%
November 10 – Walter’s on Washington, Houston, Texas %
November 13 – Juanitas Cantina, Little Rock, Arkansas %
November 14 – Hi-Tone, Memphis, Tennessee %
November 15 – Work Play Theater, Birmingham, Alabama %
November 16 – New Brooklyn Tavern, Columbia, South Carolina %

* w/ Frank Turner
** w/ Sundowner
^ w/ Jon Snodgrass
^^ w/Jon Snodgrass and Austin Lucas
^^^ w Kevin Seconds
% w/ Tom Gabel of Against Me!
%% w Fun Fun Fun Fest
*** w/ Austin Lucas