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Reformed Specials to tour N.A.

5445 days ago

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Ska legends The Specials are set to tour North America later this year for the first time in 30 years. more info

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The Specials - The Specials To Tour Us For First Time In 30 Years

5445 days ago

ContactMusic — Ska legends THE SPECIALS are set to tour the U.S. later this year (10) for the first time in 30 years.The Too Much Too Young hitmakers reformed in 2008, marking the... more info

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The Specials announce US appearances

5446 days ago

NME — Ska legends to play in the US for the first time since 1980 more info

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The Specials are coming to the US - playing Coachella & NYC

5449 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano back in the day... The Specials have not been on American soil since a grueling 6-week, coast-to-coast tour launched in January 1980 (one of the colder winter's in U.S. history) all but broke the band up. Many... more info

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The Specials To Release 30th Anniversary DVD

5450 days ago

Addict Music — To commemorate The Specials' 30th Anniversary tour in 2009, which saw the band play 33 shows in the UK, the band are releasing a DVD in March 2010. more info

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Coachella 2010 lineup announced

5452 days ago

The Red Radio — Click here for a clearer view of the poster. As usual, the lineup is hit or miss for us. Some good, some, eh. It is GREAT to finally have The Specials stateside. Also great to see Aussie favorite Kate Miller-Heidke... more info

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Coachella Lineup Announced!

5452 days ago

Perez Hilton — The time has come! Sweaty hipsters flock to the fields of Indio for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and now they'll know why! The dates and bands have been announced! Here is the line up: FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Cro... more info

Jay-Z LCD Soundsystem Them Crooked Vultures Vampire Weekend Deadmau5 Public Image Ltd. The Specials Grizzly Bear

Coachella set with Muse, Jay-Z, Gorillaz, 130-plus others

5452 days ago

Live Daily — Jay-Z, Muse and the Gorillaz top the roster of acts for the 11th annual Coachella [ tickets ] Valley Music & Arts Festival, which will take over Indio, CA's Empire Polo Field April 16-18. As tipped by LiveDaily's Backline earlier this month, Pave... more info

Gorillaz Jay-Z Pavement Them Crooked Vultures Vampire Weekend The Dead Weather Spoon Thom Yorke LCD Soundsystem Deadmau5 Public Image Ltd. The Specials Grizzly Bear Passion Pit Echo & The Bunnymen Benny Benassi Fever Ray Grace Jones Erol Alkan The Avett Brothers Calle 13 The Whitest Boy Alive The Cribs La Roux Yeasayer The Dillinger Escape Plan Ra Ra Riot Deer Tick Aeroplane Iglu & Hartly Little Dragon White Rabbits Kate Miller-Heidke As Tall as Lions Faith No More MGMT David Guetta Hot Chip Devo Coheed and Cambria Dirty Projectors John Waters Les Claypool The Raveonettes Mew Sia Camera Obscura Tokyo Police Club Porcupine Tree Old Crow Medicine Show Frightened Rabbit Dirty South Flying Lotus Corinne Bailey Rae The Almighty The Temper Trap Portugal. The Man Band of Skulls Beach House Frank Turner Orbital De La Soul Julian Casablancas Gary Numan Charlotte Gainsbourg Sunny Day Real Estate Real Estate Yo La Tengo Deerhunter Infected Mushroom The Big Pink Florence and the Machine Yann Tiersen Little Boots Miike Snow Talvin Singh Owen Pallett Mayer Hawthorne Rusko Hadouken! The Soft Pack Kevin Devine Delphic One Eskimo Eskimo

2010 Coachella line up announced (Faith No More, Pavement, Muse, Gorillaz, Thom Yorke, Jay-Z, LCD Soundystem, ???)

5452 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — Wow...Public Image Ltd, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Grace Jones, Fever Ray, Devo, Hot Chip, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, Mew, Camera..... more info