New Guster! ...finally!



I love me some Guster. I highly recommend checking out their Live DVD set Guster on Ice. One of *the* best music DVD productions I've seen, and really made me fall in love with them. Other good news is that they're on their way to Cleveland, stopping at John Carroll University!

To celebrate, I'm sharing a song from their live Bonnaroo set:
Nothing But Flowers (David Byrne Cover):

From Pollstar.com

Guster Goes Green
Updated 03:46 PST Thu, Feb 23 2006

Indie rock outfit Guster is looking to combine rock 'n' roll with environmental activism this spring on the Campus Consciousness Tour.

The trek is being launched in conjunction with environmental action group Reverb, founded by Guster guitarist/vocalist Adam Gardner and his wife. Reverb will construct an interactive "consciousness pavilion" at each stop on the cross-country trek.

The tour starts March 23 at House of Blues in San Diego, with shows planned at nearly 30 clubs and colleges over the next six weeks. Guster and Reverb will wrap things up May 6 at Elon University in North Carolina.

Tour buses will run on biodiesel, and renewable energy company NativeEnergy will donate credits, called "green tags," to offset 100 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions caused by the tour.

Guster's new album, Ganging Up On The Sun, is set for release June 13.

And here's a bit more info from their website:

If this, the first Guster emailer of 2006, were to arrive in shocking full technological splendor, a graphic dreamcoat of embedded images, large colorful fonts, and hyper-active links, would you consider that a good thing or would you miss the old days where the drummer was still figuring out how to use "tabs" and stuff?  In other words, let me know when it's no longer endearing.  I'm on some other bands' email lists and I know we're not exactly cutting edge. 

I bring it up because things are picking up over here.  Your pleasant little hiatus from Guster news is through, and we're about to come at you with a fury of information, tour dates, and new music this year.  We're even going to have six episodes of our own making-of-the-album reality sitcom to broadcast from our website soon.  Strap on Kyle, let's ride!

First things first.  The record will be called GANGING UP ON THE SUN and it's coming out June 13th on Reprise Records.  You won't have to wait that long to hear music though -- "Manifest Destiny" is already up on our myspace site, and other tracks will be seeping out to the public through digital singles, EP's, videos, and online jukeboxes over the next few months.  The only thing left for us to do on the album is sequence the order of the songs, and we plan to drag that process out as long as possible.

Posted: Fri - February 24, 2006 at 09:47 AM           |

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