We're just contest crazy over here at Product Shop NYC.

Email productshopnyc@gmail.com to win a pair of tickets to Mason Proper at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City on Saturday, March 31st. Mason Proper will be joined by Jena Malone and Her Bloodstains and Birdmonster! (Subject line: Mason Proper Is My Hot Sex). One winner will be selected at random.

DOWNLOAD: Mason Proper -"My My (Bad Fruit)" 

DOWNLOAD: Mason Proper - "Miss Marylou Carreau"

On Tuesday, April 24th, Patti Smith will celebrate the release of her new covers record with three shows in one evening at the Bowery Ballroom. The shows, dubbed "The Bowery Sessions," will take place at 6pm, 8:30pm and 10:30pm.

Tickets to each show is $17 and are now on sale. This ticket will include copy of her new record that you will pick up at show. You can also get a pass to all three sessions for $51.

On April 18th, Patti Smith will also perform at the Hiro Ballroom. Consider it a warm-up show for the Bowery Sesions. Those tickets are $35 and you don't get a copy of her new record with admission.

On Twelve, Patti's first album since being inducted to the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, covers "Smells LIke Teen Spirit", "Gimme Shelter" and "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"...........

PATTI SMITH - THE BOWERY SESSIONS

• April 24 - 6pm - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY - $17 (tix)
• April 24 - 8:30pm - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY - $17 (tix)
• April 24 - 10:30pm - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY - $17 (tix)
• April 24 - three show pass - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY - $51 (tix)

Sam Champion. Best unsigned band in America.

They posted a song from their untitled, unsigned, no release date sophomore album on their myspace page called "Like A Secret." It's so stellar. Also, it's not even close to the best new track they got.

The band plays the Mercury Lounge in New York City with Soundtrack of Our Lives on April 4th. They've also been added to the Bonnaroo Festival.........

DOWNLOAD: Sam Champion - "Like A Secret"

When it comes to cool and worthwhile fundriasers, the folks at 826NYC know how to throw-down. They're an amazing organization that does awesome and important work. Plus, they know how to put together killer benefit show. Here's the scoop on an event that's happening on April 10th at New York's Symphony Space:

826NYC, 826LA and McSweeney’s present "The World, Explained," an evening of erudite comedy and fact-based entertainment with John Oliver (Daily Show correspondent), David Rakoff (author of Fraud), Joshua Davis (the lightest man ever to compete in the U.S. Sumo Open), and Rodney Rothman (former Undeclared writer and author of Early Bird). Hosted by Eugene Mirman. Using slides, charts, and other primary sources, the presenters will illuminate various topics, including: how to create boy bands; the reasons to hate Rent; and strategies for defeating an opponent four times your weight in a sumo arena.

The event will also feature the premiere performance by Final Fantasy: Online a.k.a. Internet, an ad-hoc indie supergroup made up of members featuring: Nick Thorburn & Jamie Thompson of Islands, Dante DeCaro & Hadji Bakara of Wolf Parade, Amber Webber of Black Mountain, and Syd Butler of Les Savy Fav..

Symphony Space
Tuesday, April 10, 8:00 P.M.
2537 Broadway (at 95th St.), New York
Tickets: $21 advance, $26 day of show
Tickets available HERE or by calling (212) 864-5400
All proceeds go toward 826NYC and 826LA

826NYC is located at 372 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn......

Wilco just expanded the first leg of their Sky Blue Sky tour to include some tri-state area shows. They'll hit the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on June 25th. That's way more intimate than when Wilco last played New York City, which was December 31, 2005, with Sleater-Kinney and Flaming Lips.

So Sky Blue Sky has been floating around the old internet for awhile and we have to admit that we're kind of disappointed by it. Sadly, it's just nowhere near as powerful as A Ghost Is Born or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Some of Sky Blue Sky's faults can be blamed on sequencing. The album's best tracks first arrive around number ten and eleven, "Walken" and "What Light." Meanwhile, the first couple tracks sound like songs that could have been on the Grateful Dead's American Beauty. I admit that I'm no fan of the Dead, but if you're gonna take their blues-jam aesthetic, you may as well knock-off "Ripple." When Wilco open their new album with "Either Way," I don't get overtaken they way I did with "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" or "At Least That's What You Said."

All that said, this may not be Wilco's best album, but it's still really good. Most bands would kill to make a record like Sky Blue Sky, but the bar has been raised so high for this band that I feel let down........

WILCO TOUR DATES

• 06-13 Davenport, IA - Adler Theater
• 06-15 Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theater
• 06-17 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
• 06-19 Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre
• 06-20 Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium
• 06-22 Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theater
• 06-24 Northampton, MA - The Pines
• 06-25 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
• 06-28 Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion
• 06-29 Shelburne, VT - The Green at Shelburne Museum

For those of you who might be interested, and can afford it, Presidential candidate John Edwards will be in New York City next Wednesday, April 18th. Details below:

WHAT: Young Professionals Event with John Edwards
WHERE: Strata, 915 Broadway
WHEN: Wednesday, April 18th, 7:30 - 8:30 PM
MONEY: $100
RSVP: Alicia Brown, EdwardsNYCYPs@gmail.com, (212) 260-8813 or online

And if you haven't heard, New York State has moved up their Presidential primary election date to February 5th, 2008. New York now joins major electoral point states California, New Jersey, Texas and Illinois on what is being dubbed Super Duper Tuesday. This will be fourth week of primary elections, following voting in Iowa, Nevade, and New Hampshire, and roughly nine months before the Presidential election........

Cat Power continues to tour behind her brilliant last LP, The Greatest. She just announced a bunch of US dates, including a July 7th date at McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg-Greenpoint. To make our local show a bit more awesometastic, Built To Spill will be her very special co-headliner for this show only.

Also, Matador Records will continue their tradional free July 4th party at New York City's Battery Park. Confirmed to play this year is The New Pornographers. It's also rumored that Cat Power will be joining the line-up........

CAT POWER TOUR DATES
July 7 - Brooklyn, NY - McCarren Pool
July 8 - Boston, MA - Avalon Ballroom
July 9 - Northampton, MA - Pearl Street
July 10 - Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
July 13 - Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
July 14 - Chicago, IL - Union Park

Lollapalooza has become the latest festival to officially announce their line-up.

A three-day pass costs $195. In a smart move, the organizers have listed the ticket price so it will include no service fees or add-ons of any kind. What it's billed as is what ya get. Smart......

LOLLAPALOOZA | GRANT PARK, CHICAGO | AUGUST 3-5, 2007
Pearl Jam * Daft Punk * Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals * Muse * Iggy And The Stooges * Modest Mouse * Interpol * My Morning Jacket * Satellite Party * Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Snow Patrol * Roots * Patti Smith * Kings Of Leon * Black Keys * Regina Spektor * Spoon * Lupe Fiasco * TV On The Radio * Pete Yorn * G. Love And Special Sauce * Paulo Nutini * Amy Winehouse * LCD Soundsystem * Clap Your Hands Say Yeah * Silverchair * Femi Kuti And The Positive Force * Yo La Tengo * Slightly Stoopid * Hold Steady * Jack's Mannequin * Stephen Marley * STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) * M.I.A. * Blonde Redhead * Sparklehorse * Sean Lennon * !!! * Blue October * Son Volt * Motion City Soundtrack * Polyphonic Spree * Ted Leo And The Pharmacists * Peter Bjorn And John * Silversun Pickups * CSS * Rapture * Wailers * Roky Erickson And The Explosions * Tapes 'N Tapes * Heartless Bastards * The View * Cribs * Fratellis * Ghostland Observatory * Tokyo Police Club * Rhymefest * Soulive * Cold War Kids * Annuals * Fields * Electric Six * Elvis Perkins In Dearland * Sam Roberts Band * Black Angels * Charlie Musselwhite * Aqueduct * Juliette And The Licks * Dios * Viva Voce * David Vandervelde * Los Campesinos! * Chin Up Chin Up * Ryan Shaw * Colour Revolt * Satin Peaches * Illinois * Arckid * Mikey Avalon * 1900's * Bang Bang Bang * Bound Stems * High Class Elite * Carey Ott * Matt Roan

As a huge Johnny Cash fan, story breaks my heart:

The lakeside Tennessee home of late country music superstar Johnny Cash has been destroyed in a fire.

It burned down on Tuesday while renovations were being carried out for its new owner, Bee Gee Barry Gibb.

The interior of the house, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, was used in the video for Cash's final hit, his 2002 cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt.

Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in the house from 1968 until their deaths, months apart, in 2003.

This is also where Johnny Cash wrote and/or recorded a majority of his musical output, from the Folsom Prison tracks to his American series..........

Feist gets the full New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure treatment. The cover story on the one-time Peaches back-up dancer includes this tasty nugget of information:

When she tours this time around, Feist will have a luxury: a seated audience in theaters rather than her former circuit of rock clubs. She is booked at Massey Hall, Toronto’s equivalent of Carnegie Hall, and she comes to Town Hall in Manhattan on June 11.

She played guitar in By Divine Right, a rock band that opened a stadium tour for the Canadian favorites the Tragically Hip, and she released her own promising but unexceptional debut album, “Monarch,” in 1999, without much impact. She joined her roommate, the conceptually bawdy rapper Peaches, as singer, rapper, dancer and sock puppeteer (billing herself as Bitch Lap Lap), and went on to tour Europe with Peaches’s keyboardist, Gonzales, in his own comically glam mode. A video circulating on YouTube shows him rapping with Feist, who is in a unitard, singing backup and pretending to tap-dance.

Back in Toronto (although she still has a Paris apartment) Feist found herself among the group of friends that evolved into the large, ever-changing band Broken Social Scene, and she went on to tour with them, singing and sometimes stage-diving. Broken Social Scene’s main songwriter, Kevin Drew, is now her boyfriend.

Feist's video for "1-2-3-4" is one-shot dance explosion that recalls a GAP ad, Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" and The Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be". Check it out below......

The title track from the Queens Of The Stone Age's upcoming new album "Era Vulgaris," to be released in June, has been posted on the bands myspace page. Oddly, this track does not appear on the album's announced tracklisting:

DOWNLOAD: Queens of the Stone Age - "Era Vulgaris"

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE'S ERA VULGARIS
01 Turnin on the Screw
02 Sick, Sick, Sick
03 I'm Designer
04 Into the Hollows
05 Misfit Love
06 Battery Acid
07 Make It Wit Chu
08 3's & 7's
09 Suture Up Your Future
10 River in the Road
11 Run Pig Run

Last night, New York Magazine threw one hell of a party at Studio B in Brooklyn. Of Montreal performed their (un)usual fantastic stage show, then after a short comedy set from emcee Michael Showalter, in character as the Alan Shemper from Wet Hot American Summer, the Elephant 6ers returned to the stage as the backing band for a twenty-plus song karaoke fiesta. Both sets were fantastic.

The karaoke highlight was when Paul Rudd and David Wain performing a rocking version of Boston's "More Than A Feeling." Another duo threw in an a cappella verse from "Kiss From A Rose" while performing The Pixies' "Here Comes Your Man." Other songs performed were Guns N Roses's "Sweet Child O' Mine," INXS' "Need You Tonight" (done by Michael Showalter), The Rolling Stones' "Rocks Off" and Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"..........

More picture after the jump......

Here's what is up and where you can throw your money down.

If you haven't seen Bling Kong perform their Chose Your Own (Mis)Adventure Rock Opera, then we highly recommend you check it out. As an added bonus, they'll be joined by Dracula Zombie USA........

MONDAY

• Benefit for Callum Robbins with Bob Mould + Radio 4 + Harmony Rockets (Members of Mercury Rev) | Bowery Ballroom | $25
• Rhizome Benefit with Gang Gang Dance + Professor Murder + Yacht | Hiro | $35
• Smoosh + The Postmarks | Knitting Factory | $14
• Chris Cornell | The Fillmore (Irving Plaza) | $tba
• Rodrigo y Gabriela | Webster Hall | $tba

TUESDAY

• Art Brut + Holy Hail + Ra Ra Riot | Bowery Ballroom | $16
• Soulwax Nite Versions + Muscles | Hiro | $12adv, $20dos
• Jesse Malin + Holly Ramos | Mercury Lounge | $17

WEDNESDAY

• Patti Smith & Her Band | Hiro | $35
• Art Brut, O'Death | Studio B (early) | $12
• Fixed presents Soulwax Nite Versions + Muscles + 2MANYDJS | Studio B (late) | $12
• Ghostland Observatory | Bowery Ballroom | $13
• Atakke + Team Robespierre + Fresh Kills + Beat the Devil | Europa | $5
• Wild Bee + Grand Mal | Glasslands | $6
• The End of the World + The Narrator + The Subjects | Mercury Lounge | $10
• Hymns + Arizona, Head Like A Kite + Frances | The Annex | $tba
• Son Volt + Jason Isbell | Fillmore NY (Irving Plaza) | $25
• Oakley Hall + The Woods | Union Pool | $tba
• Ratatat | Webster Hall | $20
• Gore Gore Girls | Pianos | $10

THURSDAY

• Bling Kong + Dracula Zombie USA + The Shamblers | Old Volume Space (29 Wythe) | $5
• La Dolce Vite (Michael Imperioli) & Friends | Pianos | $8
• Hot Chip + Tussle | Webster Hall | $22
• Balkan Beat Box + Golem + DeLeon | Bowery Ballroom | $17
• Peelander Z + Right on Dynamite + The Waylons | Luna Lounge | $10
• Battles + O'Death + Dirty Projectors | NYU Kimmel Center | $6
• The Postmarks + Die Romantik | Union Hall | $10
• Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts | Southpaw | $15
• Cute Is What We Aim For + As Tall As Lions + Envy On The Coast | Fillmore NY | $tba
• A Place to Bury Strangers + Gold Streets | Union Pool | $tba
• Rock To Save Darfur with George Clinton & 420 Funk Mob | Concert Hall @ the New York Society for Ethical Culture | $40

FRIDAY

• The Comas + The Octagon + Hymns, De Novo Dahl | Luna Lounge | $10
• The Jealous Girlfriends + Unlove + The Swimmers | Glasslands | $tba
• Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts + Stars of Track and Field | Maxwells | $15
• Harry & the Potters + Japanther + Jason Anderson & The Best | Sugar Factory | $tba
• Coco Rosie | Warsaw | $18.50
• Hot Chip + Tussle | $22

SATURDAY

• The Muggabears + Please Department | Cake Shop | $7
• Jesse Malin + Mirrortest | Mercury Lounge | $17
• Beans + Game Rebellion + Dragons of Zynth + The Gray Kid | Southpaw | $10
• Seasick + Barkuna + Weird Owl | The Annex | $tba

SUNDAY

• Jarvis Cocker | Webster Hall | $32
• Benji Cossa + Double Fantasy + Yoni Gordon + Raybees | Cake Shop | $6
• Brand New + Kevin Devine | The Fillmore | $20

Welcome to Product Shop NYC Version 4.0!!! Yes, we've had three completely different looks to this site over the last five years. Sheesh. That's a whole lot. Anyway, this new site has been in the works for some time and I'm thrilled that it has finally launched.

Hopefully, the page is loading faster than before, the comment section is more user friendly, the layout is easier to navigate and text is easier to read.

In the coming days and weeks, we will continue to fix the site and make it all pretty. If you have any suggestions on how we can make this website look better or easier to use, please let us hear them. If you are having problems with any features, please let us know. If you want to contribute to Product Shop NYC, feel free to tell us what you want to write about (music, movies, comedy, politics, etc). You can email us at productshopnyc @ gmail.com.

Also, sign up for our mailing list. We won't spam you or harass you. We will be mailing a weekly concert update to subscribers, as well as giving away a ton of free records, tickets and other assorted schwag.

Thanks so much for reading and we hope you like the new look.......

I'm always happy to see an opening act I truly dig get added to a show I'm already attending.

First off, Low have postponed their West Coast headlining tour until September to open a string of dates for Wilco. This will include a date at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

And with five gigs at the Bowery Ballroom was not enough area shows for The National. The band have now been confirmed as the opening act for The Arcade Fire's three New York Shows. The National will also open for The Arcade Fire in a couple other cities......

The annual Joey Ramone's Birthday Bash is scheduled for Saturday, May 19th at the Fillmore NY. They always seem to put together great line-ups for this shindig and this year seems to be no exception. The first confirmed act is the New York Dolls. Mickey Leigh and Richie Ramone are also appearing.

Last year's bash featured The Strokes, The Alarm, Wayne Kramer, and Mindless Self Indulgence.

Tickets are $25 and now on sale......

Following the footsteps of "Dick in a Box"/"Box in a Box" and Bank of America's "One (Bank)," here comes the next YouTube Music Video hit: Very Tasteful's "White Chicks & Gang Signs".....

Yesterday, a senior English major went on a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. The massacre left 33 people dead. It's an absolute tragedy. The President declared today a National day of mourning and ordered flags to fly at half staff......

Bumpershine reminds us that today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's. What a great time to try one of their new celebrity-inspired flavors:

Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream
Willie Nelson's Country Peach Cobbler
Dave Matthew Band Magic Brownies
Vermonty Python
Phish Food's 10th Anniversary Surf & Turf Edition
Neapolitan Dynamite
Queens' Bohemian Raspberry

An entire Of Montreal show condensed into a four minute performance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Possibly one of the best television music moments in the last ten years.....

Since The Arcade Fire started their promotional tour for Neon Bible, Win Butler has been suffering from a serious sinus and bronchial infection. After being forced to cut some performances short and cancel other dates completely, he finally went into surgery. Thankfully, it was a success and he is fully recovering. Word is that the delicate surgery won't have any effect on his voice (a major concern) and that he will be fine by the time they start their U.S. dates on April 26th in San Diego.

In related news, The Arcade Fire have added two shows, May 29th and 30th, at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre. A presale starts on Thursday, April 19th, at 10AM PT....

Girls Against Boys will be performing their 1993 Touch & Go classic Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby at the Bowery Ballroom on Friday, July 20th. Tickets for the show go onsale Wednesday, April 18th, at noon.

Other Don't Look Back curated shows in the area include Slint performing Spiderland at Webster Hall on July 17th and 18th and supposedly Sonic Youth will be performing Daydeam Nation at Prospect Park on a date tba......

A crap quality studio version of Kelly Clarkson's new single, "Never Again," has been posted on YouTube. It's more or less a carbon copy of "Since U Been Gone," but not as good. Have a listen here:

Oh, come on, everyone eventually fell in love with "Since U Been Gone." You weren't the least bit curious how she was going to follow it up? Anywho, maybe this track will grow on me........

No, it's not a cover of Sonic Youth's "Pacific Coast Highway," the Kim Gordon track off 1987's Sister that is sung from the perspective of a douchebag who rapes a girl somewhere on Route 1 in California. This is the first studio (demo?) snippet of music from Courtney Love's How Dirty Girls Get Clean.......

DOWNLOAD: Courtney Love - "Pacific Coast Highway"

There are two presales happening for Morrissey's performances at Madison Square Garden and the PNC Bank Arts Center. The first one begins this Friday, April 20th, at 10AM and is open only to Morrissey fan club members. The second presale begins on Monday, April 23rd, and is open only American Express card holders. General tickets for both shows go on sale Monday, April 30th.

In related news, Morrissey will be playing a mini outdoor concert in Los Angeles for Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, April 20. 1iota, who handles audience ticketing for television programming, is giving away the tickets....

MORRISSEY EAST COAST TOUR DATES
Tue 06/26/07 Boston, MA Bank Of America Pavilion
Wed 06/27/07 Northampton, MA Pines Theater
Fri 06/29/07 Philadelphia, PA Mann Center
Sat 06/30/07 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Mon 07/02/07 Vienna, VA Filene Center At Wolf Trap
Tue 07/03/07 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live!
Thu 07/05/07 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino
Fri 07/06/07 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Mon 07/09/07 Norfolk, VA The NorVa
Thu 07/12/07 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
Sat 07/14/07 Boca Raton, FL Mizner Park Amphitheatre
Sun 07/15/07 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Cafe
Tue 07/17/07 Jacksonville, FL Morocco Shrine Auditorium
Thu 07/19/07 Birmingham, AL Alabama Theatre
Fri 07/20/07 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Sat 07/21/07 North Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blue

I noticed that The Stooges were also doing a free outdoor mini-concert for Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday, April 24th. You can get free tickets here.....

The Supreme Court of the United States handed the anti-choice crusaders a very scary, major victory today. One that should concern every woman and doctor:

The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.

The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how -- not whether -- to perform an abortion.

Abortion rights groups as well as the leading association of obstetricians and gynecologists have said the procedure sometimes is the safest for a woman. They also said that such a ruling could threaten most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, although government lawyers and others who favor the ban said there are alternate, more widely used procedures that remain legal.

Six federal courts have said the law that was in focus Wednesday is an impermissible restriction on a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

The law bans a method of ending a pregnancy, rather than limiting when an abortion can be performed.

''Today's decision is alarming,'' Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent. She said the ruling ''refuses to take ... seriously'' previous Supreme Court decisions on abortion.

Ginsburg said the latest decision ''tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.''

The Republican-controlled Congress responded in 2003 by passing a federal law that asserted the procedure is gruesome, inhumane and never medically necessary to preserve a woman's health. That statement was designed to overcome the health exception to restrictions that the court has demanded in abortion cases.

What this all generally means is that anti-choice radicals have found a way around overturning Roe v Wade. Their new plan is not to question the legality of abortions, but to go after the actual procedure. They got their first victory today. We live truly scary times and the idea that theocrats are now in control of the Supreme Court is terrifying......

Urban Outfitters has organized the Free Yr Radio Tour, in which bands will perform free afternoon in-stores at select Urban Outfitter locations to benefit internet radio stations. The other daty, internet radio stations and those small regional stations who rely so much on their internet audience, were dealt a major blog when the government denied their appeal of raising the royalty rate for the use of sound recordings on Internet radio stations for 2006-2010.

I'm not sure exactly how these events free shows will put money into the pockets of stations, but I'm hoping it will. Here's who's playing and when. Exact store locations can be found at Free Yr Radio's website.........

FREE YR RADIO TOUR DATES
The Klaxons - April 15 - Wicker Park, CHI (for WLUW)
The Ponys - April 24 - Lawrence, KS
Voxtrot - April 28 - Houston, TX (for KTRU)
The Long Winters - May 1 - Seattle, WA (for KEXP)
Annuals - May 9 - Durham, NC (for WKNC)
Man Man - May 19 - Boulder, CO (for KGNU)
The Rapture - May 21 - Phildalphia, PA (for XPN)
Rogue Wave - May 25 - Santa Cruz, CA (for KZSC)
Tapes 'N Tapes - June 5 - Minneapolis, MN (for The Current)
Dinasour Jr - June 11 - Harvard Square, MA (WERS)

I have never been more interested in American Idol than I am now thanks to Sanjaya. This Vote for the Worst campaign is hysterical.

This week, Sanjaya massacred Bonnie Raitt's "Something To Talk About"......

Pam Beesley (Jenna Fischer) versus Karen Filippelli (Rashida Jones). Who would you date if you were Jim? And yeah, I know I'm taking this to far, but it's such a surprisingly great show and it seems that guys want Jim to stay with Karen and ladies want Jim to get with Pam.

KAREN: Exotic and sexy looking. (plus)
PAM: Cute and innocent looking (plus)
KAREN: Was formerly on Freaks & Geeks (major plus)
PAM: Appeared on Undeclared (plus)
KAREN: Pulls pranks on others (plus)
PAM: Pulls pranks on others, loves when Jim pranks her (plus, plus)
KAREN: Appeared in premiere episode of Stella (unfortunately, a minus)
PAM: Appeared on Six Feet Under (plus)
KAREN: Member and music director for Harvard oldest co-ed a cappella group, The Harvard Opportunes. (Major minus)
PAM: Married to Mark Gunn, who wrote Tromeo and Juliet (plus)
KAREN: Daughter of Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones (minus)
PAM: Is major into playing poker (plus)
KAREN: Sings & dances to The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (plus)
PAM: Works for Dunder Mifflin (minus)
KAREN: Moved from another state to continue working at Dunder Mifflin (minus)
PAM: Nearly got Jim killed (minus)
KAREN: Took down a flyer for Pam's art show (minus)

The Manic Street Preachers are long past their peak. Once, they came across as one of the most intellectual bands. Pairing books to lyrics, cutting to caring, death to glory. While This is My Trush Tell Me Yours was the start of their downfall, it was really after 2000's stand-alone single "The Masses Against The Classes" that their material failed to be as powerful as it once had.

Last year, both James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire released solo albums, Neither of them are particularly memorable, but they did find both musicians once again pushing themselves. All hoped that that energy would carry over to the next Manic record.

On May 7th, the Manic Street Preachers will release Send Away The Tigers. For the first time since the their long rise to fame, the band finds themselves undervalued and underdogs. No one expects Send Away The Tigers to be anything other than another record by a band who peaked with 1994's The Holy Bible and 1996's Everything Must Go..........

DOWNLOAD: Manic Street Preachers - "Underdogs"
DOWNLOAD: Manic Street Preachers - "Your Love Is Not Enough"

It may be six months away, but we're already stoked for this year's New Yorker Festival thanks to the news that David Byrne is organizing and hosting an evening of music and stories dedicated to atlernative transportation methods on October 6th at Town Hall. Byrne joins other popular New York City personalities as Brian Lehrer and Blonde Redhead's Amedeo Pace as bicycle enthusiasts.

On his blog, he writes:

Had a very exciting meeting on Wednesday re: the Bike Forum project. The New Yorker will produce this event as part of their fall festival. It will be a forum, with entertainment, at Town Hall on Saturday October 6 on the subject of bikes in NYC. I’ve been trying to get this to happen for a while and now it’s picking up steam and momentum. As someone who has biked here as a means of transportation for many many years I sense a growing acceptance of the human-powered machine with two wheels. Some fears and hurdles to be dealt with for sure — but I sense a tipping point looming.

In related news, Gothamist reports that David Byrne's bike was stolen the other day. Some douchebag took it while he was checking out a flick at the IFC Center.

The New Yorker Festival takes place on October 5th, 6th and 7th.......

The Ottawa Bluesfest takes over LeBreton Flats Park from July 5th through 15th. This year's line-up is all over the place, but truly stellar.

The festival will feature Bob Dylan, Thw White Stripes, Cat Power, Manu Chao, Kanye West, Final Fantasy, Tokyo Police Club, Steve Miller Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Mute Math, Los Lobos, Kid Koala, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars, Femi Kuti, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Built To Spill, and tons more.

I wish they squeezed this line-up into a nice three-day weekend. Then I probably would have made the trip.

Full line-up and performance schedule after the jump......

"Don't ever listen to a band...unless that band is the Mountain Goats or the Hold Steady." -Eddie Argos

So much of an Art Brut show depends on how much energy the band has to fed off of. Studio B did not provide that much energy, but the band still put on a decent performance. Shockingly, Eddie also seemed a bit hungover. Whatever, the new tracks sounded pretty good though. Eddie did his usual schtick and wacky banter. Fun was had.

And something about Eddie Argos - like the way he talks and his whole body language - keeps making me think of The Office's Gareth Keenan...........

ART BRUT | STUDIO B | APRIL 17, 2007
Pump Up The Volume / Bang Bang Rock N Roll / I Will Survive / Bad Weekend / St Pauli / Rusted Gun of Milan / Modern Art / People In Love / Emily Kane / Direct Hit / Moving To LA / Late Sunday Evening / Post Soothing Out / My Little Brother / Nag Nag Nag Nag // Good Weekend -> Formed A Band

Sanjaya Malakar was "voted" off of American Idol last night! I don't believe for a second that Sanjaya actually got the lowest amount of votes. The "Vote for the Worst" campaign has spread like a wildfire across America, with everyone from Howard Stern to Perez Hilton urging people to vote for Sanjaya. What a rip.

And now back to ignoring American Idol.......

A vigil & silent prayer has been organized by New York City alumni's of Virginia Tech to take place tonight, April 19th, at 7:30PM in Washington Square Park.

Numerous other alumni chapters around the country are also holding memorials. You can find information here.....

Menomena - "Wet And Rusting"

The Shins - "Australia"

Dinosaur Jr - "Been There All The Time"

Feist - "My Moon My Man"

Moby will return to his rave roots when he dj's a special rave set at Studio B.

Masters of the Universe will hit Studio B on Saturday, May 5th, and it will feature DJ sets from Moby, Curses!, Knifehandcop, Cut + Trouble & Bass. Tickets are $10 and available at www.cutnyc.com......

A couple days ago, we welcomed Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to our Sirius Satelllite Radio studio to record a live acoustic session and full-band interview for Blog Radio with Product Shop NYC.

The band played four acoustic tracks, including "Some Loud Thunder" and an absolutely amazing version of "Satan Said Dance," which may end up being the best recorded version of the song I've ever heard!

The full interview and live session will air on Monday, April 23rd, at 10PM ET on Sirius Left of Center (Channel 26).........

DOWNLOAD: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Satan Said Dance (Acoustic on Blog Radio with Productshopnyc.com)"

CYHSY recording their session for Blog Radio with Product Shop NYC

CYHSY with Marky Ramone

Soulwax and Muscles played a late set at Studio B yesterday. By the time Art Brut finished there was already a line outside the club. Soulwax did not hit the stage till 1:30 in the morning but those there did not seem to mind. The five from Ghent, Belgium were wearing all white and once they started playing, they didn't stop. Live dance music executed this well is rare and few can pull it off, especially the way they are able to almost erase transitions between songs. You really only notice the cycle of lulls and climaxes. I had to cash out early because I also saw the highly entertaining Art Brut and O'Death but it was hard to know when to just stop dancing. The night probably could have run a bit smoother and ended earlier if they had just combined the two shows, which could have even been called "Lookout! DJs formed a band." Soulwax also christened the venue just seven months ago when Studio B first opened.

The opener Muscles, from Melbourne, Australia, is one guy with two keyboards and a laptop. This unassuming kid's appearance in khaki pants and a parka was quite the contrast to him wildly singing ridiculous lyrics over candy-coated beats. The crowd was slow to start dancing but a large group of European dudes arrived all at once, preceded straight to the front of the dancefloor, and kick-started the rest of the crowd. Muscles was fun. Modular will eventually put out his record.

I'm not about to debate whether jam bands suck or not. Hell, I could really give two shits that Clear Channel/Live Nation booked the Disco Biscuits & Unphrey's McGee show at McCarren Park Pool. Sure it seems to be an odd choice, but whatever, that's not what bothers me.

The thing that truly makes this show so ridiculous is that tickets go on sale on 4/20 at 4:20pm. This folks, is exactly why so many people make fun of jam bands. Seriously, both of these groups are made up of people in their thirties. I don't care that they smoke the marijuana, but what kind of douchebag is making 4-20 jokes in their thirties? What fucking losers........

The 2007 Superbowl of Hardcore will take over Brooklyn's Studio B on Saturday, May 19th.

The event, which will start at 2PM, will feature Negative Approach, H2O, Cold As Life, All Out War, 100 Demons, Full Blow Chaos, Billy Club Sandwhich and a ton of other acts.

Tickets are $25 and 16+.........

Tickets are now on sale for Morrissey at Madison Square Garden and the PNC Bank Arts Center.......

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Bjork has posted another new track on her myspace page. After you listen to “Innocence,” you ambitious folks can enter a contest to make the video for the song. (Thanks Lizzy)......

Every act that I wanted to see at this year's Coachella are playing a NYC show within the next month. The one exception to that had been the band that nearly made me travel across the country. Thankfully, the Jesus & Mary Chain have just announced two New York City shows at Webster Hall. (Thanks all).

I also wonder who will open for them on this tour. Here is a partial list of bands who have opened for the Jesus & Mary Chain: Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, Blur, Spiritualized, Curve, Primal Scream, Mazzy Star, Drugstore, Add N to X, Mercury Rev, Possum Dixon.....

JESUS & MARY CHAIN TOUR DATES
04-26 Pomona, CA - The Glass House - SOLD OUT
04-27 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella) - SOLD OUT
05-21 New York, NY - Webster Hall
05-22 New York, NY - Webster Hall
07-04 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock
07-13 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-14 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
08-12 Hildesheim, Germany - M'era Luna Festival
08-31 Argyll, Scotland - Inveraray Castle (Connect Festival)
09-01 Stradbally, Ireland - Stradbally Hall (Electric Picnic)

Bjork performed two songs on this weekend's Saturday Night Live, which was hosted by Scarlet Johanson. She played with a full band and was unusually lowkey. Here's "Earth Intruders":

Watch Bjork perform "Wanderlust" after the jump.......

We've already told you how Stephen Colbert will be one of the keynote speakers at this year's Book Expo America, the annual publishing industry convention, which will be held this year at the Jacob Javitts Center on June 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

While Colbert's talk will be closed to the public, it has just been announced that The Rock Bottom Remainders will reunite for a public show on Friday, June 1st at Webster Hall. Tickets are $30

The Rock Bottom Remainders is a group of authors who always dreamed of being rock stars. As they say, "We play music as well as Metallica writes novels."

The line-up for this Webster Hall performance will include Stephen King, Matt Groening, Scott Turow, Dave Barry, Mitch Albom, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Greg Iles, Roy Blount Jr. and James McBride. With special guest Roger McGuinn, plus Frank McCourt, Andy Borowitz and many others........

Just got a note saying that Rufus Wainwright will be performing a free in-store event on May 16th at 7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble Union Square to promote his upcoming album, Release the Stars.

Rufus is also playing four shows at the Gramercy Theatre (which is being renamed the Blender Theater at Gramercy) on June 5, 6, 8 and 9........

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT TOUR DATES
4/22/2007 Seattle, WA / Triple Door
4/23/2007 Seattle, WA / Triple Door
4/25/2007 San Francisco, CA / Palace of Fine Arts
4/28/2007 Solana Beach, CA / Belly Up Tavern
5/1/2007 Los Angeles, CA / El Rey
5/16/2007 New York, NY / B&N Union Square - 7PM Performance & Signing
5/19/2007 Bryn Mawr, PA / Borders - 2PM Performance & Signing
5/22/2007 Paris, FR France / La Trianon
5/24/2007 Portsmouth, GB UK / Portsmouth Guildhall
5/25/2007 Bristol, GB UK / Bristol Colston Hall
5/27/2007 London, GB UK / Old Vic Theatre
5/28/2007 London, GB UK / Old Vic Theatre
5/29/2007 London, GB UK / Old Vic Theatre
5/31/2007 London, GB UK / Old Vic Theatre
6/1/2007 London, GB UK / Old Vic Theatre
6/5/2007 New York, NY / Gramercy Theatre
6/6/2007 New York, NY / Gramercy Theatre
6/8/2007 New York, NY / Gramercy Theatre
6/9/2007 New York, NY / Gramercy Theatre
6/11/2007 Toronto, ON CAN / Danforth Music Hall
6/12/2007 Toronto, ON CAN / Danforth Music Hall
6/14/2007 Montreal, PQ CAN / Place des Arts
6/16/2007 Boston, MA / Bank of America Pavillion True Colors Tour
6/17/2007 Columbia, MD / Merriweather Post Pavillion True Colors Tour
8/4/2007 Saratoga, CA / Mountain Winery
8/25/2007 Highland Park, IL / Ravinia Festival
9/23/2007 Los Angeles, CA / Hollywood Bowl

Now with more than just music! That's right folks, we're adding readings to our weekly update of happening around town. Please feel free to add shows in the comments area......

MONDAY

• Spoon + David Vandervelde and The Moon Station House Band | Bowery Ballroom | $20
• Noisettes + Looker + Cities on Fire + Jeff Klein | Mercury Lounge | $12
• Jarvis Cocker | Webster Hall | $35
• The Robot Ate Me + Run Chico Run + Sherry St. Germain | Pianos | $8
• Todd Rundgren | B.B. King's Blues Club | $tba
• John Legend + Corinne Bailey Rae | The Theatre at MSG | $80

TUESDAY

• Spank Rock | Virgin Union Sq | Free
• The Child Ballads | Black Betty | $5
• Ritalin Readings | Mo Pitkins | $6
• Patti Smith: The Bowery Residency | Bowery Ballroom (three shows) | $17
• Fountains of Wayne + Robbers on High Street | Webster Hall | $20
• Wooden Wand and The Vanishing Voice + Anni Rossi + Ora Cogan | Cake Shop | $7
• Pela + Takka Takka + Man in Gray | Mercury Lounge | $12
• Ford & Fitzroy + Heads Up Display + NYC Smoke | The Annex | $tba
• The Tragically Hip + Constantines | The Fillmore | $25
• We Ragazzi + These Are Powers + Matteah Baim | Union Pool | $tba
• The Frames | Town Hall | $tba

WEDNESDAY

• Dntel/Postal Service DJ Set | Union Pool | $tba
• Death of Fashion + sh-sh-sh-Shark Attack!!! + Preacher and the Knife | Club Midway | 8
• Kenna + Aberdeen City + Bang Gang | Blender Theater | $15
• The Isles + Acid Canyon + Low Water + Hail Social | Luna Lounge | $7
• The Willowz + The Epochs + Middle Distance Runner + Young Lords | Mercury Lounge | $10
• Anode Glow + Impossible Objects | Monkey Town | $10
• The Tragically Hip + Constantines | The Fillmore | $25
• Arizona + The Jones Street Boys + Cheyenne | Union Hall | $7

THURSDAY

• The Hold Steady, The Thermals | NYU Kimmel Center | $7
• Rahim, Antelope, Oxford Collapse | Galapagos | $10
• Constantines, Tim Fite, Goes Cube | Luna Lounge | $10
• The Fratellis | The Fillmore | $18
• Acid Mother's Temple, Mammatus, Alasehoutek | Knitting Factory | $15
• Deerhunter, First Nation, Pterodactyl | Mercury Lounge | $12
• The Attorneys, Cavalier King, The Undisputed Heavyweights, Locksley | Southpaw | $8
• Lightning Bolt, xBxRx, Aa, High Places | Studio B | $10
• Ola Podrida, Sara Lov, Ben Crum (of Great Lakes) | Union Hall | $8

FRIDAY

• Beat Radio + Mussles + Sure Juror + The Mugs | The Delancey | $8
• My Best Fiend, Effi Briest, The Bluffs | 3rd Ward | $tba
• Penny Winblood, New Bloods, The Fucking Ocean | Cake Shop | $7
• The Ruse, Honor By August, The Primms, Howling Bells | Mercury Lounge | $10
• Lightning Bolt, The Sun Ra Arkestra | Pratt Lawn | free
• Awesome Color, Deerhunter, Telepathe | Silent Barn | $tba
• Acid Mother's Temple | Southpaw | $15
• The Fratellis | The Fillmore | $18

SATURDAY

• Professor Murder | Canal Room | $10
• y-Love and Yuri Lane | Mo Pitkins | $tba
• Miracles, Harris, Limbs, Milagro | Europa | $10
• Heloise & The Savoir Faire, Moto:Rosa | Club Midway | $10
• Amon Tobin | Gramercy Theatre | $25
• Bishop Allen | Knitting Factory | $10
• The Knitters (of X), Chatham County Line | Luna Lounge | $25
• The Killers | Madison Square Garden | $30
• Apes & Androids | Studio B | $5
• Nicole Atkins & The Sea | Union Pool | $tba

SUNDAY

• Modest Mouse, Man Man, Love as Laughter | United Palace | $37
• Yo La Tengo, Oneida | Webster Hall | $25
• Wheat, The Yarrows, Peter & The Wolf, Verona Downs | Mercury Lounge | $10
• Casper & The Cookies, The Icicles, Taxi Taxi | Southpaw | $8
• The iOs, Enzo, Michael Leviton, Spielerfrau | Union Pool | $7
• Christy & Emily, Nymph, Zoie & Ava, Broadband | Cake Shop | $tba
• The Silver Daggers, The Fugue, Birthday Boyz, Animal | Glasslands | $tba
• Van Morrison | The Theatre at MSG | $tba

Let's be honest and say that if it weren't for Pulp, there is no way that Jarvis Cocker would be headlining two sold out nights at Webster Hall. This isn't to say that his solo debut, Jarvis, doesn't rate. It definitely does. It's an extremely strong album. But his biggest strength is still that he's Jarvis Cocker from Pulp, not Jarvis from Jarvis.

That said, Jarvis' first U.S. show in nearly a decade was tops. He's still one of the best frontmen to ever grace the stage. It's almost ironic how his theatrical moves now mirror those of Michael Jackson. His free hand is like a conducters wand that has got a mind of its own. Between every song, Jarvis provided hysterical banter. He sounded amazing. The band was excellent. All in all, top marks.

That being said, Jarvis played eleven of his solo songs (one of which was a UK b-side) and two familiar covers (He's been covering the Talking Heads and Black Sabbath throughout his European dates). It was a nice setlist, even if he didn't play "Black Magic," which was originally on the setlist, but never got played. What the show was missing was kind of obvious. He really should have thrown a couple of Pulp songs into the mix rather than play two cover songs. I'm not asking for him to play "Common People" or "Babies," but he easily could have performed any number of tunes from Pulp's vast back catalog. Hell, he could have played "This is the Night" from the Harry Potter soundtrack and it would have been a great addition. The show really could have used them. The crowd could have used them.

For a performer who staked their claim as one of us, it seems he's now truly gone solo......

JARVIS COCKER | WEBSTER HALL | APRIL 22, 2007
Fat Children / Don't Let Him Waste Your Time / Heavy Weather / One Man Show / I Will Kill Kill Again / From A To I / Tonite / Big Julie / Disney Time / Big Stuff / Cunts Are Still Running The World // Heaven // Paranoid

Bob Dylan will be returning stateside for a string of dates, including a June 29th date at Jones Beach. Tickets go on sale May 1st.

Last time Dylan was in the area, The Raconteurs opened for him. I wonder who he'll bring out with him this time........

BOB DYLAN SUMMER TOUR DATES
Fri 06/22/07 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino / Spa
Sat 06/23/07 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino / Spa
Sun 06/24/07 Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium
Tue 06/26/07 Northampton, MA Pines Theater
Wed 06/27/07 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
Fri 06/29/07 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
Sat 06/30/07 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center For The Arts
Sun 07/01/07 Essex Junction, VT Champlain Valley Expo
Tue 07/03/07 Quebec City, QC Colisee Pepsi
Wed 07/04/07 Montreal, QC Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
Thu 07/05/07 Ottawa, ON Lebreton Flats Park
Sat 07/07/07 Rama, ON Casino Rama
Sun 07/08/07 Rama, ON Casino Rama
Tue 07/10/07 Interlochen, MI Kresge Auditorium
Wed 07/11/07 Sterling Heights, MI Freedom Hill
Thu 07/12/07 Toledo, OH Zoo Amphitheatre
Sat 07/14/07 Cleveland, OH Plain Dealer Pavilion
Sun 07/15/07 Indianapolis, IN Lawn at White River State Park
Mon 07/16/07 Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre
Thu 07/26/07 Costa Mesa, CA Pacific Amphitheatre
Fri 07/27/07 Paso Robles, CA California Mid-State Fair
Sat 07/28/07 Kelseyville, CA Konocti Harbor Resort & Spa

Tickets for The Jesus & Mary Chain at Webster Hall in New York City on May 21st and 22nd go on sale this Wednesday, April 25th, at noon. Tickets will cost $45. Expensive, but worth it......

Ricky Gervais is making the most of his time in New York City. In addition to his Saturday, May 19th performance at The Theatre at MSG, he has added two performances with Robin Ince, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Thursday, May 17 and Friday, May 18. Tickets for these shows go on sale Friday, April 27th, at noon........

Mika has scheduled a bunch more U.S. shows, including a June 15th date at New York's Nokia Theater......

MIKA TOUR DATES
June 8 - Los Angeles - Avalon
June 9 - San Francisco - Fillmore
June 11 - Chicago – Metro
June 12 - Wash. DC - 9:30 Club
June 13 – Boston – Avalon
June 15 – New York - Nokia Theater
June 16 - Atlanta - Center Stage
June 17 – Miami - Studio A

Razorlight are playing only one US date this spring and it's at the Gramercy Theatre (Blender Theater at Gramercy) on May 10th. Tickets go on sale today, April 24th, at noon....

Last night, Spoon played a super tight hour and fourty minute set at the Bowery Ballroom. They played a bunch of tracks from their upcoming records, but pulled a ton of old gems out for this show. Sweet (setlist photo by Tammy Lo)...

The artist schedule has been released for the 2007 Coachella Festival. They seem to have done a pretty good job this year of laying it out, but why is Interpol going on after the Jesus & Mary Chain?

The Good The Bad & The Queen vs The Rapture vs The Black Keys? Manu Chao vs Damien Rice vs Happy Mondays vs Ratatat vs Teddybears? New Pornographers vs Peter Bjorn & John? Arcade Fire vs Ghostface Killah? Amy Winehouse vs Arctic Monkeys? Hmmmm........

It's been a long time since Swedish electroclashers' Revl9n have visited New York City. They have two announce dates so far, with possibly more to be announced.....

REVL9N TOUR DATES
May 25 - Galapagos - Brooklyn, BY w/ The Frail + The Gaskets
May 26 - 200 Orchard - New York, NY

The reunited Squeeze have announced a bunch of U.S. tour dates, including a show at the Beacon Theatre on August 3rd, with Fountains of Wayne opening, and an August 7th show at the North Fork Theatre in Westbury, Long Island.

A pre sale is currently happening for select dates here: https://tixx1.artistarena.com/squeeze/
Username: squeeze
Password: tickets

A pre-sale for the Beacon Theatre show starts on ticketmaster this Friday, April 27th, at 10am.......

SQUEEZE TOUR DATES
Tue July 31 Melody Tent Cape Cod, MA
Wed August 1 Bank of America Pavilion Boston, MA
Fri August 3 Beacon Theatre New York, NY
Sat August 4 Borgata Music Box Atlantic City, NJ
Tue August 7 North Fork Theatre Westbury, NY
Wed August 8 Pier Six Concert Pavilion Baltimore, MD
Thu August 9 Wolf Trap Filene Center Vienna, VA
Sat August 11 Concerts in the Park Alpine, CA
Sun August 12 The Grove of Anaheim Anaheim, CA
Mon August 13 Greek Theatre Los Angeles, CA
Tue August 14 The Mountain Winery Saratoga, CA

Paul Green's School of Rock have teamed up with the folks at Rocks Off to throw an awesome two-day festival in Asbury Park, NJ at 4th Avenue & Kingsley Street. I have no idea where that is but this line-up makes me want to make the trip

Saturday, June 23rd will feature Ween (headliners), the Benevento/Russo Duo, Stinking Lizaveta, the Mike Keneally Band and School of Rock All-Stars with Skunk Baxter.

Sunday, June 24th will feature Bad Brains (headliners), the Bouncing Souls, Rudy and Blitz, Dandelion, the Adrian Belew Trio and the School of Rock All-Stars with Vernon Reid.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 28th, at noon......

Spinal Tap will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of worldwide Live Earth concerts on July 7th.

The touring line-up will include guitarist Nigel Tufnel (played by Christopher Guest), singer David St Hubbins (Michael McKean) and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer).

Rob Reiner, who both directed "This is Spinal Tap" and played the fake documentarian Marty DeBergi in the film, will also be showing a new 15-minute film on the band's reunion at the opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York tonight.

The Tribeca/ASCAP Music Lounge will set up shop at the Canal Room (285 West Broadway) and host a slew of artists from May 1st to the 4th as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. These shows are open only to Tribeca Film Festival badge holders (but I'm sure you can figure out a way to sneak into them)...........

Tuesday, May 1
3:00 p.m.Kenna
3:40 p.m.Yerba Buena
4:20 p.m. Rhett Miller
5:00 p.m. Glen Hansard
5:40 p.m. Jimmy Webb

Wednesday, May 2
3:00 p.m. Alice Smith
3:40 p.m. Martha Wainwright
4:20 p.m. Mary Gauthier
5:00 p.m.Glen Hansard
5:40 p.m. Donovan

Thursday, May 3
3:00 p.m. Cass McCombs
3:40 p.m.Matt White
4:20 p.m.Jon Auer
5:00 p.m. Donovan

Friday, May 4
3:40 p.m. The Slip
4:20 p.m. Jon Auer
5:00 p.m. Adam Schlesinger & Mike Viola
5:40 p.m. John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls

The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off today and runs through May 7th.

In addition to the numerous premieres and panel discussions, the festival will once again host some free outdoor movies at the Tribeca Drive-In at the World Financial Center Plaza (Bet. South and Vesey Streets, and West Side Highway and Hudson River).

Tomorrow at 8pm, the Tribeca Drive-In will show the classic Dirty Dancing. It's free. It's outdoors. The weather is nice. Bring a date........

It's been so long since I've been counting down the days until an album was released, but just the though of The White Stripe's Icky Thump gets my nerves all worked up.

The White Stripes' first single, 'Icky Thump', will be available exclusively online through the iTunes music stores (US and Canada only) starting at 12:01 am this Thursday, April 26th.

In addition, the June 6th edition of the NME will include a free 7" vinyl single featuring "Rag and Bone" from Icky Thump, with an etching on the b-side.

Meanwhile, The Raconteurs have already written 12 songs for the follow-up to Broken Boy Soldiers and are currently holed up in Blackbird Studio in Nashville. The band are hoping to finish the LP before their frontman hits the road with The White Stripes in the summer...........

Tickets for the Jesus & Mary Chain at Webster Hall on May 21st and 22nd are now on sale. Tickets cost $45.........

At around 12:30AM this morning, The Childballads crowded onto the small stage at Black Betty's in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for their first area show in about two years.

The first sign that things would be different was that neither Betsy Wright or Judah Bauer, both of whom played on the Childballads excellent EP, were going to be performing. Instead, Stuart Lupton was backed by a simple three-piece band (Tunde Oyewole on bass guitar, Paul Arfield on rhythm guitar, John Melville on drums).

I don't think it's fair to give a full review, as I left around 1:15AM, after the band barely wobbled their way through three songs, plus a cover of Bob Dylan's "Walls of Red Wing." To say that Stuart Lupton, the troubled singer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, was a mess would be an understatement. He was so fucked up and it was so pathetic and sad to watch. He could barely get out the lyrics. He could barely stand. He could barely even get into his goth character. That amazing voice of his was off all night. And ugh, I don't even want to go on. It's just so sad.

Stuart is such a talent and it's such a waste to see him like this. I couldn't watch this train wreck and had to leave. That boy has got to get his shit together. He really needs to. I beg him. Please.

The Childballads return to Brooklyn on May 10th for a headlining show at Studio B........

Expectations have been met.......

DOWNLOAD: White Stripes - "Icky Thump"
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The Arctic Monkeys will be playing an intimate show at LA's Troubadour on April 29th. This gig will follow the band's Coachella appearance earlier that day. Tickets are $25 and are now on sale. The password to access tickets is brianstorm..........

We're totally loving "Icky Thump" and can't wait to hear Jack and Meg tear through it live.

The White Stripes just announced a slew of tour dates, mostly in Canada, including July 24th engagement at Madison Square Garden!

The only show so far with ticket information is the July 25th show at the Chevrolet Theatre in Wallingford, CT. Those tickets go on sale Friday, May 4th, at 10am.......

THE WHITE STRIPES TOUR DATES
Fri 06/01/07 Nurburg, GER Rock Am Ring
Sat 06/02/07 Nuremberg, GER Rock Im Park
Sat 06/09/07 Lisbon, POR Lisbon Festival
Mon 06/11/07 Paris, FRA Le Zenith
Thu 06/14/07 London, UK Hyde Park
Fri 06/15/07 Leeds, UK Harewood House
Sun 06/17/07 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music Festival
Sun 06/24/07 Burnaby, BC Deer Lake Park
Mon 06/25/07 Whitehorse, YT Yukon Arts Centre
Tue 06/26/07 Yellowknife, NW Yellowknife Multiplex
Wed 06/27/07 Iqaluit, NUN Arctic Winter Games Arena
Fri 06/29/07 Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome
Sat 06/30/07 Edmonton, AB Shaw Conference Centre
Sun 07/01/07 Saskatoon, SK TCU Place
Mon 07/02/07 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
Tue 07/03/07 Thunder Bay, ON Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
Thu 07/05/07 Toronto, ON The Molson Amphitheatre
Fri 07/06/07 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Sat 07/07/07 London, ON The John Labatt Centre
Sun 07/08/07 Ottawa, ON Cisco Systems Ottawa Bluesfest
Tue 07/10/07 Moncton, NB Moncton Coliseum
Wed 07/11/07 Charlottetown, PE Charlottetown Civic Centre
Fri 07/13/07 Halifax, NS Cunard Event Centre
Sat 07/14/07 Glace Bay, NS Savoy Theatre
Mon 07/16/07 Saint John's, NF Mile One Centre
Sun 07/22/07 Portland, ME Cumberland Co. Civic Center
Mon 07/23/07 Boston, MA Agganis Arena
Tue 07/24/07 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Arena
Wed 07/25/07 Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre (tix)
Fri 07/27/07 Wilmington, DE Grand Opera House
Sat 07/28/07 Fairfax, VA Patriot Center
Sun 07/29/07 North Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
Mon 07/30/07 Birmingham, AL Sloss Furnace
Tue 07/31/07 Southaven, MS Snowden Grove Park

Other Music has opened their digital music store.

We are launching with hundreds of labels and thousands of artists on board, but that's just a start. We are adding new partners every day, with plenty of exclusives, rarities, great new music and amazing reissues on the way, as well as cool new features for the site that will be rolling out in the coming months. All of the tracks here are sold as premium-quality 320kbps DRM-free mp3s.

On average, a single track goes for $1.11 and albums are selling for $9.99.........

Starting tomorrow in Philadephia, Jon Stewart is taking his political brand of humor on the road. But I ask, why no New York City dates?

Does anyone remember his 1996 HBO comedy special called Unleavened?

JON STEWART TOUR DATES
Friday, 4/27/07 - 7:30PM - Tower Theater Upper Darby, PA (tix)
Friday, 4/27/07 - 9:45PM - Tower Theater Upper Darby, PA (tix)
Saturday, 4/28/07 John Paul Jones Arena Charlottesville, VA (tix)
Friday, 5/18/07 - 7:00 PM - Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN (tix)
Friday, 5/18/07 - 9:30 PM - Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis, MN (tix)
Saturday, 5/19/07 Rosemont Theatre Des Plaines, IL (tix)

Unsurprisingly, The Happy Mondays will not be joined by their dancing-idiot-mascot Bez when they appear at the Coachella Festival, which is their first U.S. gig since 1991, when the opened for Jane's Addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual tour.

It appears the E-Tard was denied a visa. Which makes no sense seeing as Shaun Ryder was able to make his way through customs. (via Digital Spy via Idolator)........

At one of Prince's Vegas 3121 Club shows, Paris Hilton jumped up on stage to dance after two of her friends were plucked from the crowd. So after Paris crashed the stage, as she was not actually invited up like her friends were, and started dancing around like a fool, she also "lost both of her shoes on stage and her right breast fell out."

After a minute of Paris being Paris, Prince called her over and tried to get Paris to sing. He named checked her "Stars Are Blind" single and put the microphone in front of her face and said, "Let's see if you really can sing."

Paris, refused to sing, left the stage, and two songs later, left the show. (via Prince.org and US Weekly).

Prince is hysterical......

PRINCE | CLUB 3121 | 4-20-07
superstitious / higher ground / tell me something good / how come u dont call me anymore / Do Me baby / strange relationship / Family Affair / Black Sweat / Lolita / Kiss / Musicology / Pass the Peas / Play That Funky Music / What have u done 4 me lately? / Partyman / Love Rollercoaster / Never Loved a man the way I love u / Gotta broken heart again / Cream / U got the look // Purple Rain /// Let's Go Crazy

The US Virgin Festival has already announced headliners The Police, The Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys. Now that fest, which takes over Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course on August 4th and 5th, have announced the full line-up and it looks pretty good:

US VIRGIN FESTIVAL | AUGUST 4, 5 | BALTIMORE, MD
Beastie Boys * The Police * The Smashing Pumpkins * Wu-Tang Clan * Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Cheap Trick * Modest Mouse *Sasha & John Digweed * Velvet Revolver * Peter Bjorn and John * Amy Winehouse * Bad Brains * CSS * Interpol * Spoon * LCD Soundsystem * M.I.A. * Matisyahu * Regina Spektor * Danny Tenaglia * TV on the Radio * 311 * Booka Shade * Chris Cornell * The Crystal Method * Deep Dish * Dieselboy & Andy C with MC GQ and MC Messinian * Felix Da Housecat * Fountains of Wayne * The Fratellis * Girl Talk * Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals * Incubus * Infected Mushroom * Miguel Migs * Paulo Nutini * Shout Out Out Out Out * Sander Van Dorn * James Zabiela * Fiction Plane

The Jesus & Mary Chain played their first reunion gig last night at the Glass House in Pomona, California. As usual, they ignored the crowd, started off like a mess and finished like champs. They were joined by Annie Hardy from Giant Drag, and not Scarlett Johanson, for "Just Like Honey." All reports say it was incredible. This setlist makes me wet........

JESUS & MARY CHAIN | THE GLASS HOUSE | APRIL 26, 2007
Never Understand / Snakedriver / Between Planets / Head On / Far Gone and Out / Sidewalking / Teenage Lust / Blues From a Gun / New Song / Cracking Up / Just Like Honey / Reverence / Happy When It Rains / Some Candy Talking

Video of "Just Like Honey" from The Glass House show (via Losanjealous):

And an old performance of "Far Gone and Out" on Letterman:

Stevie Nicks is going on tour starting in May with Chris Isaak. Full tour dates below......

STEVIE NICKS & CHRIS ISAAK TOUR DATES
Thu 05/17/07 Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion
Sat 05/19/07 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
Sun 05/20/07 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
Wed 05/23/07 Chula Vista, CA Coors Amphitheatre
Fri 05/25/07 San Jacinto, CA Soboba Casino
Sun 05/27/07 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
Mon 05/28/07 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Wed 05/30/07 Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheatre
Fri 06/01/07 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Music Centre
Sat 06/02/07 The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Mon 06/04/07 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Tue 06/05/07 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Fri 06/08/07 Chicago, IL Charter One Pav. @ Northerly Isl.
Sat 06/09/07 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
Tue 06/12/07 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Wed 06/13/07 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
Fri 06/15/07 Camden, NJ Tweeter Center At The Waterfront
Sat 06/16/07 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel Casino / Spa
Sun 06/17/07 Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center

Not at the 2007 Coachella Festival? The folks at ATT Blue Room have put together a really good schedule of acts so you can watch the event live from your home, office or coffee shop. Jesus, I feel like I'm doing an advertisement here.

Anway, they'll be broadcasting perfomances by Bjork, Arcade Fire, Of Montreal, Rufus Wainwright, Crowded House and tons more. Here's the schedule:

April 27th Lineup
03:00 PM Brother Ali
03:55 PM Noisettes
04:35 PM Tokyo Police Club
05:35 PM Tilly and the Wall
06:25 PM Of Montreal
07:15 PM Rufus Wainwright
08:10 PM Arctic Monkeys
09:05 PM Stephen Marley
09:55 PM Sonic Youth
10:45 PM Bjork

April 28th Lineup
03:00 PM Gogol Bordello
04:00 PM Fields
04:40 PM The Cribs
05:25 PM the Frames
06:15 PM Jack's Mannequin
07:10 PM Andrew Bird
08:05 PM the Fratellis
09:00 PM Regina Spektor
09:50 PM Arcade Fire
11:00 PM Ozomatli

April 29th Lineup
03:00 PM Anathallo
03:45 PM The Feeling
04:40 PM Junior Boys
05:30 PM Fair to Midland
06:05 PM Kaiser Chiefs
07:05 PM CSS
08:05 PM Klaxons
08:55 PM Crowded House
09:50 PM Damien Rice
10:40 PM Rage Against The Machine

It's 108º in Indio! And here's the news that we've been getting from various outlets and amigos:

Alma Har'el directed the video for "Elephant Gun," the brilliant song from Beirut's Lon Gisland EP. This is the bands first music video...

This week kicks off an insane month of concerts and events in NYC. Here we go....

MONDAY

• Lou Reed, Okkervil River | Highline Ballroom | $85
• "IT IS IT" hosted by Adam Lowitt (The Daily show) w/ Greg Johnson, Tom Mccaffery, Morgan Murphy, Ben Karlin, John Oliver and Bill Burr | Pianos | free
• The Books, Real Quiet | Society for Ethical Culture | $20
• Patrick Wolf | Virgin Union Square | 11pm - Free
• Don Cheadle & John Prendergast, authors of Not on Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond | B&N Union Square | 7pm - Free
• CBS NYC Presents: Reading show w/ "Colbert Report" writer Eric Drysdale, Bob Powers, Janice Erlbaum | Mo Pitkins | $6
• Laurie Anderson + Philip Glass | Alice Tully Hall | $tba
• Modest Mouse, Love as Laughter, Man Man | United Palace | $37.50
• Rock Plaza Central, Inouk, The Loom, Vague Angels | Mercury Lounge | $10

TUESDAY

• The Fugue, The Silver Daggers, S-S-S-Spectres, Extra Life, Little Women | Cake Shop | $6
• Kenna, Bang Gang, Bear Hands | Luna Lounge | $13
• Bishop Allen + The Picture + Beat The Devil | Pianos | $25
• Michael Chabon | 92nd St Y | $tba
• Peter Bjorn and John, Fujiya & Miyagi, Au Revoir Simone | Webster Hall | $20

WEDNESDAY

• Bjork + Konono N°1 | Radio City Music Hall All | $61
• Kara Jesella & Marisa Meltzer, reading from How Sassy Changed My Life | B&N Astor Place | 7pm - Free
• moe. | HighLine Ballroom | sold out
• The Knitters | Gramercy Theatre | $25
• MUSSELS + Aeroplane Pageant | Pianos | $8
• The Cribs, White Rabbits, The Jealous Girlfriends | Mercury Lounge | $15
• Peter Bjorn and John, Fujiya & Miyagi, Au Revoir Simone | Webster Hall | $20

THURSDAY

• Paramore, The Almost, This Providence, Love Arcade | Bowery Ballroom | $15
• KAPOW!, Right on Dynamite, Coin Under Tongue | Europa | $10
• Sightings, USAISAMONSTER, Begushkin | Glasslands |$tba
• Fishbone | "Rocks Off Concert Cruise" | $tba
• The Cribs, Ra Ra Riot, The Race | Mercury Lounge | $15
• A talk with Andy Rourke (The Smiths) | Pianos | $15
• moe. | HighLine Ballroom | sold out
• Trans Am, Zombi, Psychic Paramount | Studio B | $10

FRIDAY

• Sunset Rubdown, Katie Eastburn, Get Him Eat Him | Bowery Ballroom | $17
• Northern State, Boyskout, Dogma, Charlene, Casper & The Cookies, Paper Airplanes, Alexis Gideon | Galapagos | $8
• La Laque, Hopewell, The Silent League, J Dimenna | Luna Lounge | $5
• The Mother Hips, Backyard Tire Fire, Hymns | Mercury Lounge | $15
• Ellen Degeneres | Nokia Theatre | $tba
• Six Parts Seven, Trouble Books, Ghosts of Pasha, Yellow Fever | Union Hall | $8

SATURDAY

• Konono No. 1 | Bowery Ballroom | $23
• The Bamboozle Festival w/ My Chemical Romance, Muse, MC Hammer, Andrew WK and many more | Giants Stadium Lots | $35
• The Parlor Mob, Mason Dixon, The Library, Arizona, Chairman Race | Luna Lounge | Free
• TK Webb, Jeremiah Rifles | Glasslands | $tba
• Thing One, Salt & Samovar, hello!dots! | The Annex | $tba
• Bjork | United Palace | $46
• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Love of Diagrams | Webster Hall | $19
• Brightblack Morning Light, Daniel A.I.U. Belteshazzar_Higgs, Chiara Giovando | Mercury Lounge | $13
• Cass McCombs, Arboretum, The Jewish | Don Pedro's | $8
• Unsane, Indecision, Locked in a Vacancy, Nervous System, Nassau Chainsaw | Europa | $10

SUNDAY

• Beirut, Final Fantasy | Bowery Ballroom | $18
• The Bamboozle Festival w/ Linkin Park, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, The Oohlas and many more | Giants Stadium Lots | $35
• Cass McCombs + Arbouretum | Mercury Lounge | $12
• Brightblack Morning Light | Southpaw | $15
• Kiki & Herb | Joe's Pub | $tba

A second Rock The Bells show with headliners Rage Against the Machine and Wu-Tang Clan will hit Randalls Island on Sunday, July 29th.

The first show sold out in twenty minutes. The second show has virtually the same line-up as the first day, with Cypress Hill, Erykah Badu, Rakim, Mos Def + Talib Kweli, Metal Face Doom, Pharoahe Monch, Immortal Technique, Boot Camp Clik, Public Enemy, Brother Ali, Mr. Lif and Jedi Mind Tricks among the acts confirmed.

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 4th, at 10:00AM.........

COACHELLA: DAY TWO REPORT
COACHELLA: DAY ONE REPORT

Last evening, Anjani played her third sold out show at Joe's Pub.

Leonard Cohen once again joined the songbird on stage. They dueted on “Never Got to Love You” and “Whither Thou Goest.”.........

A pre-sale has begun for select dates on the White Stripes summer tour. You can get tickets here now!

Here are the shows currently available in presale:
Sun 6/24/2007Deer Lake Park BurnabyBC
Wed 6/27/2007Arctic Winter Games Arena IqaluitNU
Fri 6/29/2007 Pengrowth Saddledome CalgaryAB
Sat 6/30/2007 Shaw Conference Centre EdmontonAB
Sun 7/1/2007 TCU Place saskatoonSK
Mon 7/2/2007 MTS Centre WinnipegMB
Tue 7/3/2007 Community Auditorium Thunder BayON
Thu 7/5/2007 Molson Amphitheatre TorontoON
Fri 7/6/2007 Bell Centre MontrealQC
Sat 7/7/2007 John Labatt Centre LondonON
Tue 7/10/2007 Moncton Coliseum MonctonNB
Wed 7/11/2007 Charlottetown Civic Centre CharlottetownPE
Fri 7/13/2007Cunard Centre HalifaxNS
Sat 7/14/2007 Savoy Theatre Glace BayNS
Mon 7/16/2007 Mile One Stadium St. John'sNL
Fri 7/20/2007 Cumberland County Civic Center PortlandME
Mon 7/23/2007 Agganis Arena BostonMA -- PRESALE SOLD OUT
Tue 7/24/2007 Madison Square Garden New YorkNY -- PRESALE SOLD OUT
Wed 7/25/2007 Chevrolet Theatre WallingfordCT
Fri 7/27/2007Grand Opera House WilmingtonDE
Sat 7/28/2007 Patriot Center FairfaxVA
Sun 7/29/2007 House of Blues North Myrtle BeachSC
Mon 7/30/2007 Sloss Furnaces National History Landmark BirminghamAL

The Pitchfork Music Festival has expanded their line-up. The sweetest news is that GZA/Genius will be performing the brilliant Liquid Swords during ATP Don't Look Back curated first day.

The festival with the best bang for the buck hits Chicago's Union Park from July 13th - 15th. Three-day passes cost $50, Friday night costs $15, Saturday and Sunday individual passes cost $25, and a Saturday/Sunday pass costs $35.

Here's how the festival is looking:

Friday, July 13
Sonic Youth, performing Daydream Nation
GZA/Genius, performing Liquid Swords
Slint, performing Spiderland

Saturday, July 14
Yoko Ono / Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues / Clipse / Iron and Wine / Girl Talk / Grizzly Bear / Battles / Califone / The Twilight Sad/ Fujiya & Miyagi / Oxford Collapse / Dan Deacon / Beach House / Professor Murder / Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound

Sunday, July 15
The New Pornographers / Stephen Malkmus / De La Soul / Of Montreal / Jamie Lidell /The Sea and Cake / Klaxons / Nomo / Deerhunter /The Ponys / Menomena / Craig Taborn's Junk Magic / Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra

The Blender Theater at Gramercy was christened last week with an invite-only performance by Wolfmother. David Johansen was the emcee.

"Live Nation will book the venue with plans for about 250 concerts annually. Blender issues in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will include a show schedule, and the theater will be used for Blender events. Blender.com will promote the venue as well and explore Webcasts of concerts at the venue."

Tonight, the HighLine Ballroom opens with a performance by Lou Reed and Okkervil River. Next month, the venue will be renamed The Spin Ballroom at HighLine............

It was bound to happen. Courtney Love, who has already sold off prt of her stake in Nirvana's music, is now going to sell off Kurt's clothes, guitars, paintings, etc. Here's what she says:

"I'm going to have a Christie's auction," she tells Spinner. "[My house] is like a mausoleum. My daughter [14-year-old Frances Bean] doesn't need to inherit a giant hefty bag full of flannel f***ing shirts ... A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to 'Teen Spirit' -- that's what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we'll just f***ing sell."

Love says her friends are supportive of the idea. "Everyone's been positive and behind me on it," she says. "We'll make a lot of money and give a bunch of it to charity."

In related news, Courtney Love has changed the name of her sophomore solo record from How Dirty Girls Get Clean to Nobody's Daughter.........

COURTNEY LOVE'S NOBODY'S DAUGHTER TRACKLISTING
01. How Dirty Girls Get Clean
02. Samantha
03. Nobody's Daughter
04. Sunset Marquis
05. Letter To God
06. Never Go Hungry Again
07. Pacific Coast Highway
08. Loser Dust
09. For Once In Your Life
10. Can You Make Me Cry
11. Stand Up Motherfucker
12. Happy Ending Story
++ I See Red (hidden track)

We were joined for this week's Sirius Blog Radio by Matt and Jen from The Music Slut. We heard Team Music Slut.......

BLOG RADIO W/ PRODUCT SHOP NYC | 4-30-2007
Icky Thump - The White Stripes
All My Friends - Franz Ferdinand
No Cars Go - Final Fantasy
Songs That We Sing - Charlotte Gainsbourg (MP3)
Ex-Cuties - Sure Juror
I Must Belong Somewhere - Bright Eyes
I'm Not - Panda Bear
Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
Ratio Song (Finding Things With Numbers) - Takka Takka
Fever Dog - Still Water
another loveless anthem - Beat Radio
Shadowplay - The Killers
When Love Was the Law in Los Angeles - Tarwater
Diamond Ring - Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts
Start A War - The National (MP3)
Oliver Twisted - The Vaselines
Real Life - Nellie McKay
That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) - Dusty Springfield
The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf
Eyes Open - The Gossip
Lousy Reputation - We Are Scientists
Lake Somerset - Deerhunter
Paper Tiger - Spoon
Matchbook Seeks Maniac - Deerhoof
Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse - Of Montreal
Under The Folding branches - Veils
Confrontation - Love Of Diagrams
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks - Los Campesinos!
True Love Way - Kings Of Leon
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) - Tom Waits