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Jenny Lewis will release her second solo album this September, titled Acid Tongue. The record will feature guest appearances buy such artists as Elvis Costello, M Ward, Paz Lenchantin, Chris Robinson and Zooey Deschanel (editor’s note: “yummmmm), just to name a few.

Jenny will also be touring in support of the record and hitting NYC on October 4th at The Appolo Theater. No announcement has been made yet as to when tickets go on sale. The full tour dates thus far are as follows:

9/16 - Fox Theatre- Boulder, CO
9/17 - Ogden Theatre- Denver, CO
9/19 - Epiphany Church, Chicago IL
9/20 - Anchor Inn- Omaha, NE*
9/21 - Ryman Auditorium- Nashville, TN*
9/22 - Bijou Theatre - Knoxville, TN*
9/23 - George’s Majestic Fayetteville, AK*
9/24 - The Lyric Theatre - Oxford, MS*
9/25 - Cain’s Ballroom - Tulsa, OK*
9/26 - Austin City Limits - Austin, TX
10/2 - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue- Washington, DC
10/4 - Apollo Theatre- New York, NY

Photo by: Megan Woolfolk

If you’re looking for something to do on Friday, July 11th, look no further than the Highline Ballroom in NYC. Postscript, formerally known as PS, along with The London Souls, will be opening for Kristen Price. This is sure to be a fantastic show and if you’ve yet to catch Postscript, you are all but guaranteed to fall in love!

Check out Postscript’s MySpace page here. Purchase tickets in advance here.

Please let this happen!!!

I’ve been really digging the new Duke Spirit album Neptune. It’s their second full length and an even stronger offering than their very solid first effort.

You can stream the album here.

The Duke Spirit will be playing a few NYC dates this week, starting with The Music Hall of Williamsburg with The Kooks tomorrow (Feb. 12), Mercury Lounge on the 13th, and Union Hall in Brooklyn on the 14th. A great way to spend your Valentine’s Day perhaps? The band will also be at SXSW performing at the KCRW Showcase for those interested.

Check out their video for “The Step and The Walk” below.

If you’re like me, you were very disappointed to hear that The Cure postponed their Fall ‘07 tour. Well, they’ve announced the makeup dates today:

13TH SEPTEMBER 2007
THE CURE ANNOUNCE RE-SCHEDULED 2008 NORTH AMERICAN 4TOUR SHOWS

AT LAST!
WE ARE VERY HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THE NEW 2008 DATES OF OUR POSTPONED NORTH AMERICAN 4TOUR.

EIGHTEEN OF THE NINETEEN PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED SHOWS HAVE BEEN RE-SCHEDULED IN THE ORIGINAL VENUES, AND ALL 2007 TICKETS WILL BE HONOURED FOR THESE NEW 2008 CONCERTS.

(THE ONLY ONE WE COULDN’T GET SWITCHED WAS SEATTLE… BUT INSTEAD OF NO CURE SHOW AT ALL, WE WILL BE CLOSING THE SASQUATCH! MUSIC FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY 25TH MAY (MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND) AT THE GORGE AMPHITHEATRE, WHERE WE HAVE BEEN GUARANTEED 150 MINUTES ONSTAGE! ALL TICKETS FOR THE ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED CURE KEY ARENA CONCERT WILL BE HONOURED AT THE GORGE, BUT PLEASE NOTE: ALL TICKETS FOR THE SASQUATCH! FESTIVAL ARE GENERAL ADMISSION, INCLUDING ANY PREVIOUSLY ISSUED CURE KEY ARENA TICKETS).

IT’S ALL HAPPENING SLIGHTLY LATER THAN WE EXPECTED DUE TO ‘THE PLAYOFFS’ – A LOT OF THE VENUES WE NEEDED WOULDN’T LET US CONFIRM DATES IN THE MARCH/APRIL PERIOD – BUT WE UNDERSTAND THEY ALL HAVE TO LIVE IN HOPE!

HOWEVER, AN UNEXPECTED BONUS OF THE NEW ROUTING IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ADD IN KANSAS CITY, PHOENIX, AUSTIN, FT LAUDERDALE AND CLEVELAND… AND THERE WILL BE MORE DATES TO COME!

WE APOLOGIZE AGAIN FOR THE INCONVENIENCE AND UPSET THE ORIGINAL POSTPONEMENT CAUSED, AND WILL MAKE SURE THAT THE NEW SHOWS ARE MORE THAN WORTH THE WAIT…

SEE YOU ALL SOON,

LOVE ROBERT, SIMON, JASON AND PORL XXXX (THE CURE)

PS
ANYONE WHO WANTS A REFUND ON THEIR 2007 TICKET WILL BE ABLE TO GET ONE IN FULL FROM HIS OR HER POINT OF PURCHASE UNTIL 1ST NOVEMBER 2007.

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THE CURE 4TOUR NORTH AMERICA 2008

MAY
09 WASHINGTON DC Patriot Center

10 PHILADELPHIA Wachovia Spectrum

12 BOSTON Agganis Arena

14 MONTREAL Bell Centre

15 TORONTO Air Canada Centre

17 CHICAGO Allstate Arena

19 KANSAS CITY Starlight Theatre – ADDED SHOW

21 DENVER Red Rocks Amphitheatre

23 SALT LAKE CITY E Center

25 GEORGE WA The Gorge Sasquatch! Festival (in place of Seattle - headlining from 9:30 to midnight)

26 VANCOUVER General Motors Place

29 SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara Bowl

31 LOS ANGELES Hollywood Bowl

JUNE
03 SAN DIEGO Cox Arena

04 PHOENIX Dodge Theatre – ADDED SHOW

06 DALLAS American Airlines Center

08 AUSTIN Austin Music Hall – ADDED SHOW

09 HOUSTON Toyota Center

11 TAMPA St Pete Times Forum

13 FT LAUDERDALE Bank Atlantic Center – ADDED SHOW

15 ATLANTA Gwinnett Center

16 CHARLOTTE Charlotte Bobcats Arena

18 CLEVELAND (Venue TBD) – ADDED SHOW

20 NEW YORK CITY Madison Square Garden

Everyone’s favorite Russian Pianist will be hitting the road this Fall. Tour dates below.

Sept. 16: Austin, TX Austin City Limits Festival
Sept. 19: Baltimore, MD Ram’s Head Live
Sept. 25: Northampton, MA Calvin Theater
Sept. 26: Storrs, CT Jorgensen Center
Sept. 27: Upper Darby, PA Tower Theater
Oct. 1: Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre
Oct. 2: Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
Oct. 3: Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s
Oct. 5: Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium
Oct. 6: St. Paul, MN The Myth
Oct. 8: Milwaukee, WI Eagles Club
Oct. 10: Detroit, MI State Theatre
Oct. 11: Toronto, ON Kool Haus
Oct. 14: Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
Oct. 16: New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
Oct. 30: Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre
Oct. 31: Anaheim, CA Grove of Anaheim
Nov. 2: Salt Lake City, UT In the Venue
Nov. 4: Phoenix, AZ Orpheum Theatre
Nov. 6: Austin, TX Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
Nov. 7: Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Nov. 8: Dallas, TX House of Blues
Nov. 11: Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre
Nov. 12: St. Louis, MO Pageant
Nov. 14: Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Nov. 15: Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Nov. 19: Norfolk, VA The NorVa
Nov. 20: Richmond, VA Toad’s Place

Shout Out Louds have announced a bunch of US Tour Dates:

OCTOBER
06 Los Angeles, CA - Detour Festival
09 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
10 Eugene, OR - Wow Hall
11 Portland, OR - Berbati’s Pan
12 Vancouver, BC - Richards On Richards
13 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
15 Salt Lake City, UT- Urban Lounge
16 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
17 Lawrence, KS - Jackpot
18 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Cafe
19 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
20 Columbus, OH - The Basement
22 Toronto, ON - The Mod Club
23 Montreal, QC - Caberet
24 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
25 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
26 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
27 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s
28 Washington, DC - 9.30 Club
29 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
30 Carrboro, NC - Cat..s Cradle
31 Atlanta, GA - The Loft

NOVEMBER
02 Austin, TX - The Parish
If you haven’t picked up their newest album Our Ill Wills on import (or your favorite file sharing site), it will hit US stores on September 11th.

One of my most favorite bands, The National, recently recorded a “White Sessions” show which broadcast over French radio today. For those who have never seen or heard this band live, you are really missing a treat. Hopefully a listen to this will inspire you to purchase tickets and see this band the next time they come to a city near you.

For those of you in the NYC area, The National is playing 5 (yes, FIVE) sold-out shows in a row at The Bowery Ballroom.

28 MAY: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM w/ The Broken West // SOLD OUT
29 MAY: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM w/ Doveman // SOLD OUT
30 MAY: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM w/ My Brightest Diamond // SOLD OUT
31 MAY: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM w/ Elysian Fields // SOLD OUT
01 JUN: New York, NY / BOWERY BALLROOM w/ The Philistines Jr. // SOLD OUT

Download and enjoy The National’s “White Sessions” here.

Well, today was a very special day in Pumpkinland. The band played their first show since disbanding on December 2nd of 2000.

They played to a sold-out crowd at the Grand Rex in Paris with what can only be described as a KILLER setlist.

Slowly but surely, audio and video is being released from this show, including this surprisingly good quality video of “For God and Country,” a new track off of Zeitgeist.

Scroll below the video for the setlist.

• United States
• Today
• Stand Inside Your Love
• Orchid
• Doomsday Clock
• Home
• Hummer
• Starz
• Tarantula
• Bullet With Butterfly Wings
• Gossamer
• God and Country
• 33
• Rocket
• Winterlong
• To Sheila
• Glass and the Ghost Children
• Cherub Rock
• 1979
• Tonight Tonight
• NeverlostThat’s the Way
• Disarm
• Zero
• Untitled
• Shame
• Silverfuck
• Annie Dog
• Muzzle

It appears that Ben Lee has the first unofficial Zeitgeist review…

Went to the Smashing Pumpkins album-wrap party and heard their awesome newie. Seriously, the heaviest and most intense thing they have ever done. Really exceptional. Sounds like the world needs a record like that right now.

What better way to celebrate my most anticipated album since 2000? I think a “Live Earth” apearance in my back yard sounds about right!