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Revenge of the N.E.R.D.
N.E.R.D. is headlining a soft-drink-sponsored summer tour, plus Ted Leo, Tommy Stinson, and more
BY CARLY CARIOLI

We almost cornered Chad Hugo, the quiet Neptune, by phone last week, but he slipped off to the studio before taking our call. Fair enough: he’s a busy man, and in demand. Ghetto freaks bump Neptunes tracks in Jeeps; skateboardy white kids worship them like the devil. The Neptunes’ Star Trak Presents . . . Clones (Star Trak) compilation just debuted at #1; Hugo protégé Kenna is about to become a star; and the Neptunes’ live-band incarnation, N.E.R.D., is headlining a soft-drink-sponsored summer tour while simultaneously attempting to record its next album, which is tentatively titled Fly or Die. We would’ve reminded Hugo that N.E.R.D.’s first-ever appearance was at a Phoenix event at Axis, for which he and Pharrell Williams wheeled themselves on stage on BMX bikes and brought out a dozen strippers in George W. Bush masks. In any case, N.E.R.D. join the Roots, O.A.R., Talib Kweli, and dancehall legend Supercat at the Tweeter Center (617-931-2000) in Mansfield on Monday.

Junior modfather Ted Leo has a new mini-LP, Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead (Lookout!), due next month that includes a tip of his hat to the Jam with a version of their "Ghosts." And Leo’s out on a solo tour that’s upstairs at the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge on Friday — the same day that tickets go on sale to senior modfather Paul Weller’s October 24 gig at Avalon — as well as at AS220 (401-831-9327) in Providence on Saturday. Former Spinanes frontwoman Rebecca Gates opens both shows. A bassist for the Replacements before he was a replacement in Guns N’ Roses, Tommy Stinson bashes and pops his way through old faves and new solo material on a tour with the Figgs and local boy Jake Brennan that hits the Met Café (401-861-2142) in Providence on Friday and the Middle East on Saturday. Stone-age fuzz kings Nebula have a new disc, Atomic Ritual (Liquor and Poker Records), and a tour with garage-soul queen Lisa Kekaula’s group the BellRays; both bands are downstairs at the Middle East on Friday and at the Met Café on Saturday.

A full year and change after the release of their magnum opus, Surrounded by Thieves (Relapse), former Sleep guitarist Matt Pike’s woolly-mammoth doom-metal outfit High on Fire are still on the road. This time out, they’re opening for the world’s goofiest hesher, Andrew W.K., who unleashed another round of heavy-metal show-tuneage last week with his new The Wolf (Island/Def Jam). They’re at Pearl Street (413-584-7810) in Northampton on Friday. And Andrew’s spiritual forebear, the great David Lee Roth, brings tunes from his cover-heavy new Diamond Dave (Magna Carta) and, we hope, a handful of Van Halen classics to the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester on Monday.


Issue Date: September 12 - 18, 2003
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