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Jane's Addiction bail on their tour to go on vacation, Sevendust tours with Ill Niño, and more
BY CARLY CARIOLI
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It turns out Jane’s Addiction fans will have to wait till next Lollapalooza — the Jane’s show scheduled for Friday at Tsongas Arena in Lowell with Marilyn Manson and the Used went south when the band, citing the ever-popular "exhaustion," announced that they were heading to the equator and taking a vacation instead. So how to launch the new year? A few old faves are still kicking. Hatebreed follow up last week’s "Stillborn Fest" in Worcester by taking Agnostic Front with them to Toad’s Place (203-562-5589) in New Haven for a homecoming show Saturday rescheduled from the blizzard of ’03. And Sevendust have returned from new-metal purgatory with a new disc, Seasons (TVT), that was produced by hammy hard-rock song doctor Butch Walker (of Marvelous 3 and solo infamy); they’re on a tour with Jersey metal-en-español banditos Ill Niño that visits the Webster Theater (860-525-5553) in Hartford Wednesday, Avalon (617-423-NEXT) in Boston next Friday, January 9, and Lupo’s at the Strand (401-331-5876) in Providence January 14. When Rachel Rosen isn’t assisting at autopsies as an intern for the office of the Manhattan Medical Examiner’s office, she’s wielding her guitar like a scalpel in the all-girl death-metal outfit the Wage of Sin (who cover Journey’s "Separate Ways"!) and in the coed New York post-hardcore outfit Most Precious Blood. It’s the latter’s new Our Lady of Annihilation (Trustkill) that brings her and the rest of MPB to the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester Saturday as part of a killer package tour with a couple of other groups from the well-respected Jersey hardcore label Trustkill. Recently reunited after a two-year hiatus, metalcore faves Walls of Jericho have their own lady of annihilation in frontwoman Candace Kucsulain, who bellows over her bandmates’ South of Heaven–strength mayhem with a rage that makes Kittie sound mousy. They’ll be premiering songs from their forthcoming All Hail the Dead, which is due in February. Both bands can hold their own with headliners Throwdown, a boys’-club hardcore outfit from Orange County whose new Haymaker is a model of the form: nothing groundbreaking, just heavier and angrier, with a state-of-the-art breakdown on their "You Can’t Kill Integrity" that proves one ingeniously misplaced beat can wreck slam pits from West to East. When he’s not slurping Kelis’s milkshake, our boy Nas has now and then referred to himself as God’s Son. Is this megalomania or just the ultimate compliment to his pops, the sixtysomething jazz great turned pan-African singer-songriot Olu Dara? Find out when Dara offers some divine inspiration at the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) in Northampton Sunday. Livingston Taylor, the brother of James and prof at Berklee College of Music, is on the search committee for a new Berklee president; applicants may want to brown-nose when Liv kicks off the new year at the Iron Horse Friday and Saturday.
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