Pitchfork

After cranking out three studio albums in 2005, Ryan Adams hasn't made much of a peep this year, save for a legal beat-down on some overenthusiastic file-sharers back in March. (Side-note: nothing breeds new fans like litigating your current ones, just ask Lars Ulrich.)

While it's already halfway through 2006 and there's not a single whiff of new Adams material, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals have announced a string of summer tour dates. Before the trek begins in full force in July, the band will play two warm-up gigs tomorrow night in New York City, first at the Arthur Lee of Love benefit show at the Beacon Theatre, then late night at the Bowery Ballroom.

The shows keep Adams on the road through August, including a stop at Nashville, Tennessee's Ryman Auditorium, once home to the Grand Ole Opry and site of his infamous 2002 "Summer of 69" meltdown.

In a February interview with Spin, Ryans claimed the heckling trauma forced him into therapy, and that his fans are "a bunch of fucking cocks. They come to my shows to provoke me." It's unimaginable that anybody in the staid, reserved crowd at Chicago's Lollapalooza will do anything to provoke him when he wraps up his tour there in August.

06-23 New York, NY - Beacon Theatre (Benefit for Arthur Lee) *
06-23 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
07-20 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
07-21 Baltimore, MD - Sonar
07-22 Norfolk, VA - The NorVa Theatre
07-23 Charlottesville, VA - Charlottesville Pavilion
07-25 Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre
07-27 Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
07-28 Charleston, SC - Charleston Music Hall
07-29 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
08-01 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
08-02 St. Louis, MO - Pageant
08-03 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue
08-04 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)

* with Robert Plant, Ian Hunter, Nils Lofgren, Yo La Tengo, Garland Jeffreys, Johnny Echols, Flashy Python & the Body Snatchers (aka Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with members of Dr. Dog)