Everclear, Redman, Soul Coughing, and DJ Spooky kicked off Levi's Sno-Core '99 on Tuesday night at the Warfield in San Francisco.

Though the outing was to take place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (capacity 7,500), it was moved to the Warfield (capacity 2,500) which is three times smaller because of slow ticket sales. A similar fate befell Saturday's show, which has been moved from Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheater to that city's Palladium.

The tour found a similarly sluggish box office reception in San Diego, where Friday night's show (scheduled for Cox Arena) has been cancelled.

Aside from these west coast difficulties, the tour is selling well in primary markets, and very well in secondary markets.

Regardless of such concerns, the acts themselves still rocked their hardest for the moshing crowd of mainly late teens and early twenty-somethings. DJ Spooky kicked off the night spinning from a separate stage located near the soundboard, but the big hit of the night was Everclear, who had fans chanting the band's name before they ever hit the stage.

Fellow Sno-Core act Redman is looking at the tour as an opportunity to expand his fanbase, or so he hinted recently.

"The Sno-Cone (sic) tour, is really just gonna open doors for people like... you, white people, and a lot of other branches of people that I ain't reached yet," the rapper said of the tour. "You know, Asian people, you know, they comin' to the show, and Everclear and a bunch of other groups bring that velocity to what I'm lookin' for."

Well, this year's Sno-Cone tour (a.k.a. the Sno-Core tour) will be hitting about 30 cities throughout February and March.