Adult Swim Presents First Nationwide Concert Tours.ATLANTA -- Adult Swim Adult Swim is the name for an adult-oriented television programming network. It shares channel space with Cartoon Network in the United States, featuring absurdist and often ribald comedy, in contrast to the much tamer child and pre-teen oriented daytime Cartoon Network. , Cartoon Network's highly rated late-night programming block for young adults, today announces its first two nationwide concert tours. In usual Adult Swim style, the 24-campus music tour promises to be like no other. On October 1, a 12-campus hip-hop tour begins with a concert at the State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. campus in Albany, featuring Ghostface Killah and Witchdoctor. On October 29, a 12-campus heavy metal tour lets loose with headliner And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead. Opening for Trail of Dead is none other than Dethklok, the heavy metal band from Adult Swim's Metalocalypse television series. All shows are free and open to the public. Tickets can be obtained online at www.adultswimpresents.com. Headlining the hip-hop tour is Ghostface Killah (Def Jam). Also known as Dennis Coles, Ghostface Killah rose to fame as a member of the Wu-Tang Clan hip hop hip-hop or hip hop n. 1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents. 2. Rap music. adj. collective. Now on the Def Jam label, Ghostface Killah is responsible for six critically-acclaimed records and in 2006 teamed up with MF DOOM to produce a not-yet-released album. Witchdoctor, also known as Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. , is an established member of Atlanta's Dungeon Family The Dungeon Family is a hip hop/R&B/soul musical collective, based in Atlanta, Georgia and specializing in Southern hip hop with heavy funk and soul influences. The group derives its name from "The Dungeon", the name given to record producer Rico Wade's basement studio where many collective, which includes Goodie Mob Goodie Mob, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is widely considered one of the founding hip hop acts of the Dirty South movement. Members Cee-Lo (Thomas Callaway), Khujo Goodie (Willie Knighton, Jr. , OutKast, Killer Mike Killer Mike (born Michael Render on April 20, 1975) is an African-American rapper, signed to Grind Time Official through the KOCH imprint. He made his debut appearance on "Snappin' and Trappin'" on OutKast's 2000 LP Stankonia , Big Rube and many others. A veteran of the Southern rap game, he has lent his unique voice and style to several albums, including OutKast and Goodie Mob. Witchdoctor's new album, "Diary of an American Witchdoctor," will be released October 23 on Adult Swim's Williams Street Williams Street (formerly known as Ghost Planet Industries after Space Ghost's home base) is a division of Cartoon Network, which is owned by Turner Broadcasting, an operational unit of Time Warner. The studio mainly produces animated series. record label. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (Interscope Records) will headline the heavy metal tour. Formed in 1994 by singers/guitarists/drummers Jason Reece Jason Reece is a member of Austin, TX rock band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, pulling double duties as both drummer and part-time frontman. Biography Reece was born in Huntington Beach, CA to Patrick and Kathleen Reece. and Conrad Keely, Trail of Dead eventually signed to Interscope Records and in 2002 issued the formidable album "Source Tags & Codes." Their most recent album, "So Divided," was released in late 2006. Opening for Trail of Dead is the self-described world's most popular and heaviest metal band, Dethklok. Dethklok and its band members are the stars of the popular Adult Swim animated series, Metalocalypse, the brainchild of creators Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. For the Adult Swim tour, Small, who is the lead vocalist, brings the animated characters to life with a real live band. Dethklok's first album, "Metalocalypse: Dethklok The Dethalbum," will be released on Williams Street September 25. Schedule for Hip Hop Tour Featuring Ghostface Killah and Witchdoctor: 10/01/07: State University of New York, Albany, N.Y. 10/03/07: University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. 10/05/07: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. 10/06/07: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va. 10/07/07: University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 10/09/07: American University, Washington, DC 10/10/07: Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Ga. 10/11/07: University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla. 10/14/07: University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla. 10/16/07: UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif. 10/17/07: Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz. 10/19/07: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. The schedule for the heavy metal tour will be released at a later date. Adult Swim (AdultSwim.com), launched in 2001, is Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks or TBS, inc.) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. , Inc.'s network offering original and acquired animated comedy and action series for young adults. Airing overnight 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday (ET, PT), Adult Swim shares channel space with Cartoon Network, home to the best in original, classic and acquired programming for children and families, and is seen in 91 million U.S. homes. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment product around the world and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry. |
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