4/18/08 - U-Melt's First Acoustic Performance
On Boston Radio (91.5FM, WMFO) This Sunday, 4/20, 4-6pm (Stream
Online Too!)
This Sunday, 4/20, Tuft University's WMFO, 91.5FM, will air
U-Melt's very first acoustic performance, which was recorded
live at WMFO's radio station studio a couple weeks ago.
The show will be aired this Sunday from 4pm-6pm, and will
feature some Q&A with the band in addition to U-Melt's
very first ever acoustic set.
Those in the Boston area can tune in on their radios on 91.5FM,
while those in other areas can listen online at www.wmfo.org.
4/14/08 - U-Melt To Headline PhanPhest 4.0
U-Melt is excited to be invited to headline PhanPhest
4.0 this year, with a 3 hour 2 set performance from 7pm-10pm
on Saturday night, 8/23, at Snipes Farm in Morrisville, PA
(45 minutes north of Philly). U-Melt will be closing the Main
Stage on Saturday, but music will continue late into the night
on a Second Stage.
PhanPhest is still putting together an exciting line-up for
the festival, but have announced that in addition to U-Melt's
2 set Saturday night performance, PhanPhest will welcome the
Ryan Montbleau Band as the 2 set Friday headliner, as well
as the Juggling Suns who will be performaning each night following
the headliner on the Second Stage. Many more bands will be
announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, special Early
Bird tickets costing only $50 are now on sale but only through
4/20. To purchase Early Bird tickets, and to find out additional
information, please
click HERE.
3/17/08 - U-Melt Returns To New Orleans For
Late Night Jazz Fest Show With DJ Logic!
U-Melt will once again be heading down to New
Orleans to perform a very special late night show during Jazz
Fest, and this year we will be joined by DJ
Logic! The show will be held during the second weekend
of Jazz Fest at The Blue Nile during the late night hours
of May 3rd (technically May 4th). We are incredibly psyched
to be performing with Logic for the first time, and we hope
you will all come down to New Orleans and join us for this
very special occassion! The upstairs room at The Blue Nile
has limited capacity so please buy your tickets in advance.
Tickets are only $15, and are now on sale at Jazzfesttix.com
2/26/08 - U-Melt Returns To Summer Camp!
U-Melt is very excited to be returning to perform
at the Summer Camp Festival in Chillicothe, IL over Memorial
Day weekend. Other artists already scheduled to perform include
moe., Umphrey's McGee, The Roots, STS9, The Flaming Lips,
George Clinton & P-Funk, Lotus and Tea Leaf Green. Advance
tickets can be purchased at the Summer
Camp website.
2/16/08 - Free Downloads and Streaming of New
Year's Eve & Halloween Soundboards on LMA
We have made available for free downloads and
streaming soundboard recordings of
U-Melt's New Year's Eve performance at
the Highline Ballroom in New York City, as well as our Halloween
show featuring the Bad Mother Fucker Horns at
Revolution Hall in Troy, NY. You can find these recordings
on the Live Music Archive along with many other free U-Melt
recordings by clicking
HERE. Thanks to our friends at the Live
Music Archive for providing such a wonderful service,
and thanks so much to all of you who joined us for these two
amazing nights.
1/5/08 - U-Melt's Winter Tour '08 Announcement!
We are very excited to officially announce U-Melt's
Winter Tour '08! Our Winter Tour will take U-Melt
through the Midwest, including stops in Madison, Minneapolis,
and Chicago, before we head out for our debut in Colorado,
where we will be playing 7 straight days of shows including
headlining performances at The
Fox Theater in Boulder, the
brand new Falcon
in Denver, and Hodi's Half Note in Ft. Collins!
Following the run of Colorado shows, we'll be heading back
east, with stops in Lawrence, KS, St.
Louis, Knoxville, and Asheville!
From there we will head home and take a week off, before we
hit the road again for our 500th Show Celebration
at the Iron
Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Mass.
on Thursday, 2/21, which will be followed by our return to
Ithaca, NY for a show at Castaway's
on 2/22 and
The River Street Jazz Cafe in Plains,
PA on 2/23.
U-Melt's Winter Tour '08 will conclude the
following weekend with an exciting return to the Higher
Ground in S. Burlington, VT
on Friday, 2/29, and Revolution
Hall in Troy, NY on Saturday,
3/1!
We have also announced our preliminary schedule for our March
Madness '08 Tour, which will include our very first
two night hometown stand at New York's brand
new Sullivan
Hall on 3/28 and 3/29 and a 4 week Thursday Residency
at Boston's The
Paradise Lounge from 3/13-4/3. U-Melt's March
Madness '08 Tour will also include a return to Phanphest's
Cabin Fever Phest on Friday, 3/14.
Mark your calendars and tell your friends and, as always,
if you can help promote a show, please shoot me an e-mail
at jason@umelt.com. A
complete list of confirmed dates with additional details can
be found on the tour dates page here
