Pete Yorn and Lucky Boys Confusion will be performing at the annual Spring Fling concert at Hill Field on Friday, April 12, according to Web sites with touring information.
Although representatives from the Social Planning and Events Committee declined to comment, the Lucky Boys Confusion official Web site confirms that the two acts are scheduled to perform at the event.
And according to the official Web site for the College Television Network, both acts will perform at Hill Field on April 12 as part of the CTN Music Binge Tour, sponsored by Best Buy retailers.
Pollstar.com, a site that provides worldwide concert listings, confirms only that Lucky Boys Confusion will perform at Penn on April 12.
But Doug Lefrak, a spokesman for Feisty Management -- the firm that represents Lucky Boys Confusion -- said both acts are listed on the group's current itinerary.
"We were told it's confirmed," Lefrak said. "The last itinerary we got was that that show was confirmed. It was actually a late addition."
Representatives for Yorn could not be reached for comment last night.
SPEC Chairman Kevin Meyers and SPEC Concerts Co-Director Miriam Ackerman declined to comment on the reports published on the various web sites.
SPEC announced earlier this week that hip-hop group De La Soul would be performing at the annual concert, which officially kicks off Fling weekend.
"At this point, [De La Soul is] the main act," SPEC Concerts Co-Director Kirk Freeman said Monday night. "We're pretty much set with what the lineup's going to be."
Yorn, 26, is a singer-songwriter who released his first solo album Music for the Morning After on Columbia Records last year. The album -- on which Yorn played almost every instrument -- received critical praise and spawned a hit single, "Life on a Chain."
Lucky Boys Confusion, a five-member group with one major-label album to their name, gained an underground following for their ska-punk style when they released their first album in 1998 on their own independent label. Last May, they released Throwing the Game on Elektra Records, and their current single off the album is entitled "Bossman."
Freeman said Monday that SPEC would release the names of other bands performing during Fling weekend later this week.
Pollstar.com is also reporting that Pepper's Ghost will be performing at Penn on Friday, April 12, and that Infectious Organisms will perform the next day. Freeman said Monday that Pepper's Ghost would not be opening up for De La Soul.
De La Soul is a Long Island-based group that released its debut album, Three Feet High and Rising, in 1989. After an extended absence from the popular music scene, the group has returned with their Art Official Intelligence trilogy of albums.
The first album in the trilogy, Mosaic Thump, was released in 2000, and the second, entitled Bionic, was released last year.
The Friday night Fling concert is often the centerpiece of the weekend-long celebration. Previous Fling acts include Ben Folds Five, The Roots, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Last year's show featured performances from the Black Eyed Peas and Ben Harper.
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