Daily Dish: New York Dolls, Hubert Sumlin, Gaslight Anthem, Radiohead

November 19, 5:25 PMMusic ExaminerLinda Laban

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Hubert Sumlin, photo credit Daniel Coston

New York Dolls vocalist David Johansen and legendary blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin will team up to play at the George Washington Ballroom in Trenton, NJ. This brilliant union takes place Nov. 29. New Jersey blues guitarist Billy Hector and his band will back Sumlin and Johansen. Sumlin, who celebrated his 77th birthday this week, spent a quarter of a century performing with Howlin’ Wolf and recorded and played with such musical luminaries as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Les Paul, Jimmy Reed, Sunnyland Slim, “Pinetop” Perkins, Eddie Taylor, and James Cotton. Sumlin’s career once again spiked with his 2005 record “About Them Shoes,”  which won a 2008 Blues Foundation award. Sumlin is also an indefatigable cancer survivor.  Johansen needs little introduction, either as Buster Poindexter or leading the recently reunited New York Dolls. Besides a notable solo career too, Johansen has  acted in such films as “Scrooged,” “Married to the Mob,” and “Tales from the Darkside: The Movie.”  Tickets for the show are $29.50 and are available  from the Patriots Theater box office at (609) 984-8400 or online at thewarmemorial.com or tickets.com, 800-955-5566.

The Gaslight Anthem is set to perform on “Late Night With Conan O'Brien,” Dec. 9. The emo outfit takes a break from its tour with Rise Against and Alkaline Trio in the Midwest to play the lauded chat show. The band will also be in Los Angeles at the Key Club, Dec.14, to play a full set at this year's third annual Rock To Roll charity event, which is spearheaded by the band's labelhead, SideOneDummy co-founder Joe Sib. The event will directly benefit the non-profit organization UCP Wheels For Humanity. If all this isn't enough, Anthem singer Brian Fallon hops back to the east coast, Dec.19, to perform a solo acoustic set of Gaslight Anthem songs at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, opening for  Jesse Malin. Malin will donate a portion of the show proceeds to UCP Wheels For Humanity too.

There’s more charity over in camp Radiohead. Guitarist Ed O'Brien and drummer Phil Selway are joining Crowded House’s Neil Finn for a follow up to the acclaimed Seven Worlds Collide recording project in support of  international aid organization, Oxfam. Seven years ago O’Brien and Selway were invited by Finn to participate in a special series of concerts in New Zealand under the banner Seven Worlds Collide. Others re-joining the project are Smiths and Modest Mouse guitarist Johnny Marr, Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg, songwriter and violinist Lisa Germano, and Neil’s son, singer songwriter Liam Finn. While newcomers include Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, John Stirrat, Glenn Kotche, and Pat Sansone and New Zealand songwriters Bic Runga and Don McGlashan.  The album will be recorded over the next few months in Auckland's Roundhead Studios and is due for release in 2009. Like its predecessor, the project will also see a series of concerts in Auckland featuring many of the artists included in the lineup.