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It's like flying - 17

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• the Automatic North American tour
• the Mountain Goats fall tour
  
• Satellite Party North American tour
• Voxtrot fall tour
  
• Rock Against Racism concert news
• More Bjork dates
  
• Bright Eyes U.K. dates
• Justice North American dates
  
• New Young Pony Club Europe dates
• Queens of the Stone Age extend tour
  
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah add U.S. dates
• Hot Hot Heat Europe + U.S. tour
• Of Montreal U.S. tour
• Los Lobos summer tour
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Athlete - Beyond the Neighbourhood, Sept. 25
• Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers, Sept. 25
• Stereophonics - Pull the Pin, Oct. 1

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Prince - Planet Earth
N. America
Emerson Hart - Cigarettes and Gasoline
The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel
Rooney - Calling the World
Grand Analog - Calligrafitti
MXPX - Secret Weapon
Turbo Fruits S/T

Unecessary two week vacation, my bad - 13

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
the Polyphonic Spree "Running Away"


Seriously watch them live. They're absolutely incredible!

New releases, yo - 10

U.K.
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces
N. America
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces
Sebadoh - The Freed Man reissue
Crowded House - Time on Earth
Justice - †
Common - Finding Forever
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Against Me! - New Wave
They Might Be Giants - The Else
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape reissue
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Sebadoh - The Freed Man
Minnie Driver - Seastories
Eisley - Combinations

Spike Jonze month: Week FIVE - 29

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month!)
Daft Punk "Da Funk"


HAPPY CANADA DAYYYYY!!!

Watchin' Dexter - 28

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• More Beastie Boys U.S. dates
• Bonde Do Role North American tour
  
• Queens Of The Stone Age add Canadian dates
• Caribou Fall Tour
  
• The Used cancel June and July shows
• More M.I.A. summer dates
  
• One Night Band Canadian tour
• 1990's U.S. dates
  
• 12 Spice Girls reunion dates around the (Spice) World ...huzzah!
• Led Zeppelin reunite
  
• Bang Lime North American dates
• Built to Spill Fall dates

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Bang Lime - Best Friends in Love, Aug. 14
• Will Stratton - What the Night Said, July 24
  
• The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel, July 17
• Clare and the Reasons - The Movie, Sept. 4
  
• Drowning Pool - Full Circle, July 24
• Kissology: Volume Two 1978 - 1991, Aug. 14
  
• Class of 3000 Soundtrack, July 3

Back in Action - 26

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• THE VERVE (!) U.K. dates
• Bloc Party Toronto and New York dates
• Ben Kweller U.S. tour
• Sackville Music Festival news
  
• Editors North American dates
• Kaiser Chiefs U.K. tour
• Beastie Boys U.S. dates
  
• Sonic Youth add dates
• Devendra Banhart and the Wombats tours
• Interpol add dates
• Ani DeFranco U.S. (and Guelph!) dates
  
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah tour US + Europe
• B.B. King U.S. tour (60th Anniversary!)
• Voodoo Fest news
• Some Aerosmith dates
  
• Glastonbury re-cap bonanza
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Figureines - When the Deer Wore Blue, Sept. 11
• Weakerthans - Reunion Tour, Sept. 25
  
• Calvin Harris - I Created Disco, Sept. 4
• The Cribs - Men's Needs, Woman's Needs, Whatever, July 17
• Jason Isbell - Sirens of the Ditch, July 10

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape reissue
N. America
Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated
The Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere
Editors - An End Has a Start
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Pearl Jam - Live at the Gorge 05/06
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away re-release
Bad Brains - Build a Nation
Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Kelly Rowland - Ms. Kelly

Spike Jonze month: Week Four - 22

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month)
Beastie Boys "Sabatoge"


Have a good weekend.. it's gonna be hot out thurr

Just new releases - 19

U.K.
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Annuals - Be He Me
Victoria Bergsman - Open Field
N. America
The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Memphis - Little Place in the Wilderness
Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night
Mooney Suzuki - Have Mercy
Bond do Role - With Lasers
Savath & Savalas - Golden Pollen
Bob Rock & Paul Hyde - Payola$ EP
The Aliens - Astronomy for Dogs
The Parkas - Put Your Head in the Lion's Mouth


I probably won't update all week (except Friday).
Sad news: an old friend passed away last weekend so I probaby wont be doing much of anything for the next little while.
Keep checking out Spike Jonze all month long though, every Friday.

Spike Jonze month: Week Three - 15

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month!)
Bjork "It's oh so Quiet"


Have a good weekend!

what what - 13

albumsix.com

False conversations - 12

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Klaxons add winter dates in Europe
• Of Montreal summer European dates
• New York Farm Aid
• Keep up with Carling Weekend
  
• New Pornographers and Juliette & the Licks summer dates
• Free concert in London from iTunes?
• Grand Analog Canadian dates
  

ALBUM ANNOUCEMENTS

• Transformers soundtrack, July 3
• Prince - Planet Earth, July 16
• Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn reisssue, Aug. 28 (N. America) and Sept. 3 (Europe)
• Grand Analog - Calligrafitti, July 17

Skirts n Boots - 11

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Best of Van Morrison Volume 3
The Icarus Line - Black Lives at the Golden Coast
N. America
Queens of the Stongeage - Era Vulgaris
The Best of Frank Black '93-'03
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation reissue
Datarock - Datarock, Datarock
Keepin' 6 - Uncensored
Strata - The End of the World
Mattheah Baim - Death of the Sun
Toby Keith - Big Dog Daddy
Enrique Iglesias - Insomniac

Spike Jonze month! Week Two - 8

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month!)
Fatboy Slim "Weapon of Choice"

I know you saw this one coming

NXNE starts today! - 7

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Queens of the Stone Age "Duluth" tour
  
• Franz Ferdinand secret New York show
• The Wooden Sky Canadian dates
  
• Cold War Kids on tour with the White Stripes
• Bumbershoot news - Kings of Leon, Joss Stone
  
• The Twilight Sad U.S. + U.K. tour
• Reminder: King Fest Music Festival
  
• the Walkmen summer tour
• Grinderman dates (with the White Stripes)
  
• More TV on the Radio dates
• Happy Mondays U.K. tour
  
• Amy Millan Canada + Ireland dates
• Babyshambles U.K. tour
  
• Comas dates (with the White Stripes)
• James Taylor summer tour
  
• Music Waste in Vancouver this weekend
• Scream tour news
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Kevin Drew - Spirit If..., Sept. 18
• DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words, July 31
  
• Flights of the Conchords - The Distant Future, Aug. 7
• Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces, July 10
• Okkervil River - the Stage Names, Aug. 7
  

One quickie and releases- 5

Ben Lee - Ripe, Sept. 4

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Espers - Dear Companion
Karen Ann S/T
N. America
Montag - Going Places
Matthew Dead - Asa Breed
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
David Bowie - Young Americans reissue
The Best of David Bowie 1980-1987: Sight and Sound
Jesus Lizard Live DVD
The Pipettes Your Kisses are Wasted on Me EP
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Highway Companion reissue
Shout Out Louds Tonight I Have to Leave It EP
Get Him Eat Him Arms Down

Spike Jonze Month: Week One - 1

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• White Stripes reschedule some U.S. dates
• Ben Kweller U.S. dates
  
• The Rentals U.S. tour (with Goldenboy)
• Crowded House Canadian dates
  
• The Boggs North American tour
• Full Glastonbury lineup revealed
• Rebekah Higgs Canadian dates
  
• Harry and the Potters tour libraries across North America
• The Sick Fits Canadian dates

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape REISSUE (!), July 10 (N. America) and June 25 (U.K.)
  
• New Pornographers - Challengers, Aug. 21
• Jose Gonzales - In Our Nature, Sept. 25
  
• Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, July 10
• Sebadoh - The Freed Man, July 10
  
• The Rentals - The Last Little Life EP, Aug. 14
  
• Kurt Cobain -- About a Son, Sept. 11
  
• Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy, Let Your Crooked Hands Be Holy, Sept. 25
• Minnie Driver - Seastories, July 10
  
• Korn S/T, July 31
  

VIDEO OF THE WEEK (Spike Jonze month!)
Weezer "Undone (The Sweater Song)"

Life's so rad...

Loon - 30

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Ryan Adams North American dates
• SummerStage in New York news
  
• Bonnaroo schedule revealed
• Camera Obscura summer dates
• Rolling Stones summer dates
  
• VHS or Beta U.S. tour
• Jaime Stewart solo dates

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Rooney - Calling the World, July 17
• Junior Senior - Hey Hey My My Yo Yo, Aug 14
• Kanye West - Graduation, now out end of August
  
• Land of A Thousand Rappers Vol. 1: Fall of the Pillars
• The Parkas - Put Your Head in the Lion's Mouth, June 19
  
• VHS or Beta - Bring on the Comets, Aug. 28

and some extra news...
Sam the Record Man to close Toronto superstore on June 30

myspace.com/eveningrooster - 28

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Bonnaroo! Keep yourselves updated at the link
• Choke final Canadian tour
• Pitchfork Music Festival news, lineups
  
• Wakestock 2007 news
• Shapes and Sizes North America tour
  
• Victoria Ska Festival news

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Hard-Fi - Once Upon a Time in the West, Sept. 3
• The Aliens - Astronomy for Dogs, June 19
  
• 50 Cent - Curtis, date changed to Sept. 4

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
Athens Band Play the Music of REM

Video of the Week - 25

Just a heads up:
Next month has 5 Friday's in it! I've decided that any month with 5 Friday's in it deserves a theme. So the theme for June will be SPIKE JONZE. I'm sure you already know what to expect :)

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Radiohead "Just"


So stay tuned in June for SPIKE JONZE month!

My baaaadddddd.... - 23

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• White Stripes extend tour
• Mystery Jets cancel North American tour
  
• The Black Keys U.S. dates
• Bonde Do Role Canadian dates
  
• More Peter Bjorn and John dates
• The Besnard Lakes U.S. dates
  
• Monolith festival news
• 311 U.S. summer tour
  
• Monster Bobby joins Pippettes tour
• Willie Nelson extends North American tour
  
• Andrew Bird adds more dates
• Handsome Furs cancel some dates
• Pink Martini North American dates
  
• Fiona Apple U.S. dates
• Elton John Europe dates
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Blacks Keys The Live EP, available on their MySpace
• Get Him Eat Him Arms Down, June 5
  
• Ani DiFranco Canon, Sept. 11
  

really delayed NEW RELEASES
U.K.
The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II
Von Sudenfed Tromatic Reflexxions
Wheat Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square
N. America
Young Jeezy Young Jeezy Presents USDA: Cold Summer
Maroon 5 It Won't be Soon Before Long
Jeff Buckley So Real: Songs of Jeff Buckley
Beach Boys The Warmth of the Sun
Espers Dear Companion
Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain
Dustin Bentall Streets with No Lights
Wheat Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square
Handsom Furs Plague Park

They don't love you like I love you - 17

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Interpol U.S. dates
• Erasure tour world
  
• Some Múm US dates
• Girl Talk North American dates
  
• Mooney Suzuki U.S. dates
• Wheat U.S. dates
  
• Siren music festival news
• Simian Modile Disco tour world
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Best of Van Morrison Volume 3, June 11
• Animal Collective Strawberry Jam, September
  
• Múm Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy, Sept. 25
• Victoria Bergsman Open Field, June 18
  
• Athens Band Play the Music of REM, May 29
• Wheat Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square, May 22 and May 21 in the U.K.
  

Everyday when I wake up, they are waiting - 14

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Polyphonic Spree North American tour (!!!!)
• Crowded House North American tour
• Emm Gryner Canadian dates
  
• Smashing Pumpkins "residencies" gigs
  
• Peter Frampton U.S. dates
• Ted Leo adds dates
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Buffalo Tom Three Easy Pieces, July 9

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
N. America
Satellite Party Ultra Payloaded
Wilco Sky Blue Sky
Rufus Wainwright Release the Stars
Crickets: The Best of the Fading Captain Series
Dungen Tio Bitar
Ozma Pasadena
Tim Buckley My Fleeting House
Betty Davis They Say I'm Different

How did we end up here? - 11

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Explosions in the Sky cancel U.K. dates
• the Nighwatchmen (Tom Morello) extends summer tour
  
• the Hives Europe dates
  
• Erasure U.S. dates
• Thin Lizzy U.K. dates
  
• Battles North American dates
• Ted Nugent summer tour
  
• Meat Puppets U.S. dates
• In-Flight Safety Canadian tour
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• the Pipettes Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me, June 5
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Highway Companion reissue, June 5
  
• Ferraby Lionheart Catch the Brass Ring, Sept. 4
• Dustin Bentall Streets with No Lights, May 22
  
• Betty Davis They Say I'm Different reissue, May 15
• 
  
• Shout Out Louds Our Ill Wills, Sept. 11 & Tonight I Have to Leave It EP, June 5
  
• 
  
• Mirah Share This Place: Stories and Observations, Aug. 7
• 
  

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
the Dears "Ticket to Immortality"

woot

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Can't blog, trying to make a bag out of a shirt.

In the meantime, check this out!

Lulu - 9

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Queens Of the Stone Age Europe dates
  
• Download 2007 news
• All Smiles U.S. tour with Menomena
• Econoline Crush Ontario dates
  
• Charalambides Europe + N. America tour
• Ziggy Marley adds to spring/summer tour
  
• Fujiya & Miyagi summer tour

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Metric Grow Up and Blow Away, June 26
  
• The Go! Team untitled album, Sept. 10
• Hot Hot Heat Happiness LTD., Sept. 11
  
• Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth reissue, July 2 (UK) and Aug. 7 (N. America)
• Circus Devils Sgt. Disco, July 24
  
• Okkervil River The Stage Names, Aug. 7

Maurix is a cool name - 7

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• The Horrors cancel on Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• Incubus summer dates woooooo
  
• Ghosthorse & Stillborn cancel some dates
• Ten Years After U.S. tour
  
• Reel Big Fish U.S. tour
  
• Projekt Revolution tour

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Guilt by Association, Aug. 28
• UNKLE War Stories, July 24
• Juliette & the Licks Four on the Floor, July 24
• Mattheah Baim Death of the Sun, June 12

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Groove Armada Soundboy Rock
Travis The Boy With No Name
The 1990's Cookies
Manic Street Preachers Send Away the Tigers
Bjork Volta
Black Francis Threshold Apprehension
N. America
Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara
Jason Collett Prodigals digital EP
Travis The Boy With No Name
Chromeo Fancy Footwork
Clientele God Save the Clientele
Shannon Wright Lead in the Light
Lavender Diamond Imagine Our Love
Jay Lib Champion Sound
Karen Ann S/T

Yes - 4

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Snow Patrol North American dates
• Sage Francis U.S. tour
• Genesis North American tour
  
• Karen Ann North American dates
• Tool extend tour
  
• No Age U.S. + Europe dates
• Smashing Pumpkins to preview Zeitgeist in Paris
  
• Anticon. artists dates
• Middlesbrough Music Live news
  
• Marnie Stern summer tour
• Danny Masterson U.S. clubs tour (with a friend)
  
• I'm From Barcelona Europe tour

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Karen Ann S/T, June 4 (U.K.) and May 8 (N. America)
• Ben Harper Lifeline, Aug. 28
• Dungen Tio Bitar, May 15

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "Bomb.Repeat.Bomb"

See them live if you can... seriously, wow.

Ted Leo rocks my face - 3

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• The Icarus Line U.K. dates
• Interpol dates/Fratellis dates
  
• Albert Hammond Jr. expands U.S. tour again
• Black Halos west coast dates
  
• Download Festival in the U.S.
• Buck 65 cancels Iowa show
  
• Land of Talk U.S. tour
• Spinal Tap play Live Earth
  
• Great Lake Swimmers U.S. + Europe tour
• Maroon 5 U.S. dates
  
• Califone U.S. tour
• Hootie & the Blowfish U.S. tour
  
• Low reschedule some dates
• Funeral for a Friend North American dates
  
• Some Gang Gang Dance dates
• Sponsored by WHO?! bahaha...!
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Polyphonic Spree The Fragile Army, June 19
  
• The Icarus Line Black Lives at the Golden Coast, June 11
• Against Me! New Wave, July 10
  
• Pearl Jam Live at the Gorge 05/06, June 26
• MXPX Secret Weapon, July 17
  
• Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara, May 8
• They Might Be Giants The Else, July 10
  
• Turbo Fruits S/T, July 17

Happy May Day - 1

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• COACHELLAAAAAAAA
• Some Ani DeFranco North American dates
• Download festival news
• Dweezil U.S. tour
  
• The Zombies reunite for anniversary tour
• One Dinosaur Jr. London show
  
• Deftones U.S. tour
• Jill Barber Canadian dates
  
• G Love and Special Sauce U.S. tour
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Lavender Diamond Imagine Our Love, May 8
  
• New Pornographers Challengers, August
• Clientele God Save the Clientele, May 8
  
• Lupe Fiasco The Cool, October 31
• Shannon Wright Lead in the Light, May 8

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Client Heartland
Ade Fenton & Gary Newman colab Healing
N. America
Spiderman 3: the Official Soundtrack
Fall of Troy Manipulator
Frog Eyes Tear of the Valedictorian
Elvis Costello - first 11 albums become digital on iTunes
Toris Amos American Doll Posse

Huzzah! - 26

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Princess Diana memorial concert news
• Tom Morello as the Nightwatchmen US + Toronto dates
  
• Shitdisco U.K. tour
• Widespread Panic U.S. tour
  
• Foals U.K. dates
• Wolfe Island music fest news
  
• Nine Black Alps U.K. tour
• You Say Party! We Say Die! Canadian tour
  
• Dot To Dot festival news
• Great Aunt Ida Canadian tour
  
• Prinzhorn Dance School NOT coming to North America
• In case you missed it yesterday.. White Stripes North American tour
  
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah cancel 4 dates
• Kelly Clarkson U.S. tour (ha!)
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Pentangle The Time Has Come: 1967-73, May 1

160 - 25

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• White Stripes North American tour
  
• Editors European tour
  
• Head Automatica U.K. tour
• The Phenomes Canadian tour
  
• More Download 2007 news
• Mott the Hoople U.K. tour
  
• Albert Hammond Jr. U.S. dates
• Snow Patrol North American dates
  
• The Pipettes spring tour
  
• Peter Bjorn and John extend North American tour
  
• Ra Ra Riot U.S. dates
• Ralph's World U.S. dates
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Interpol Our Love to Admire, July 10
  
• Jeremy Fisher Goodbye Blue Monday, Aug. 28
  
• The Pipettes We Are the Pipettes, Aug. 28
• The Pipettes Your Kisses are Wasted on Me EP, June 5
• Crowded House Time on Earth, July 2 (U.K.) and July 10 (U.S.)
  
• Crickets: The Best of the Fading Captain Series, May 15
• Bad Brains Build a Nation, June 26
• Editors An End Has a Start, June 25
• Memphis Little Place in the Wilderness, June 19

Woo, sunshine - 24

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Coachella news, set times revealed
• 311 summer tour
  
• Long Blondes summer tour
• V Fest U.K. news
• Joel Plaskett Emergency Canadian tour
• Kittie U.S. tour
  
• The Sainte Catherines Canadian tour
• More John Mayer dates
• Dylan Dials summer tour
  
• Bryan Adams U.S. tour
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Sebadoh The Freed Man reissue, July 10
• Justice † , July 10
  

Boo rain - 23

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Patrick Wolf final show in November
• Guns N Roses cancels South Africa
• ONE Razorlight New York show
  
• Datarock North American tour
• Cornelius "Sensuous" tour
• Some Bloc Party U.K. shows
• Some Ween U.S. dates
• Kaiser Chiefs tour updates
• Bob Dylan North American tour
• Nelly Furtado U.S. tour
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• White Stripes 7" singles with crazy, June 6th edition of NME and more
• Los Camesinos! Sticking Fingers Into Sockets digital EP, July 3
  
• Interpol's possible third album, July 10
• 50 Cent Curtis, June 26
• Jason Collett Prodigals digital EP, May 8

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Original Noise The First Original Silence
Boom Bip Sacchrilege EP
Arctic Monkeys Worse Favourite Nightmare
N. America
Mando Diao Ode to Ochrasy
Tom Morello One Man Revolution
iliketrains Progress Reform
Fucking Champs VI

no feelin' sad -20

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Lee Scratch Perry U.S. tour
• Bright Eyes massive tour
• Polyphonic Spree U.S. dates
  
• Feist U.S. tour, with Grizzly Bear
  
• Family Values tour news
• More Decemberists U.S. dates
• Menomena summer tour
  
• Eden Session news
  
• Manu Chao North American tour
• Memphis North American dates
  
• Mogwai summer festival dates
• Some Goldenboy dates
  
• Jesus and Mary Chain add dates
• 
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Elvis Costello's first 11 albums become digital on iTunes, May 1
• Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgesit, July 7

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
the Stills "Lola Stars and Stripes"

the first time I heard this song... oh man.

Holy not enough info - 19

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Roskilde festival news
• Wolfmother add U.S. dates
  
• Espers UK dates
• Sparta co-headline with Straylight Guns
  
• Capitol Hill Block Party news
• O.A.R. massive summer tour
  
• Lavender Diamond North American tour
• Ottawa Bluesfest news
  
• the Whitest Boy Alive Europe tour
• Josh Groban adds more North American dates
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Art Brut It's a Bit Complicated, June 26
• Sigur Ros In a Frozen Sea: A Year with Sigur Ros book, available June 1 in select stores and a site at the link
• Espers Dear Companion, May 22 (N. America) and June 4 (U.K.)

I am sofa king sick of Bono - 18

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• U.S. Air Guitar tour
• Keeping' 6 Ontario dates
• Klaxons expand tour
• More Download 2007 news
• Strata tour w/ Finger Eleven
• Oakley Hall tour with Bright Eyes
  
• More O2 Wireless festival news
• Some Bluesfest news
• Pretty Girls Make Graves final U.S. tour
  
• the Aliens re-schedule U.K. tour
• Bond do Role add dates to their world-ish tour
• Gypsy Kings U.S. tour
  
• Splendour in the Grass news
• Frog Eyes U.S. tour
  
• the Bravery U.K. dates
• Fucking Champs U.S. tour
  
• Grizzly Bear cancel two upcoming shows
• Patrick Wolf tour w/ Amy Winehouse

ALBUM ANNOUCEMENTS

• The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II, May 21
  
• Velvet Revolver Libertad, July 2
• Fucking Champs VI, April 24
• Keepin' 6 Uncensored, June 12
• Tim Buckley My Fleeting House live DVD, May 15
• Strata The End of the World, June 12
• Bond do Role With Lasers, June 19

REALLY quick update! - 17

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• !!! U.S. tour
• BrakesBrakesBrakes North American tour
• Modest Mouse U.K. tour
• Jesus and Mary Chain dates
  
• Lily Allen cancels some U.S. shows
• Spoon adds "secret" shows

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Velvet Revolver Libertad, July 3

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K.
Patti Smith Twelve
Pere Ubu reissuses The Tenement Year, Cloudland, Worlds in Collision, and Story of My Life
N. America
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
Smog aka Bill Calahan Woke on the Whaleheart
The Hold Steady Fingerprints
Bringing the Distance: A Portland OR Cover's Complilation
Comas Spell
Joseph Arthur Let's Just Be

It's late in the day - 13

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Lady Sovereign cancels U.K. tour
• Lily Allen ancels North American tour
• George Clinton & Parliment/Funkadelic U.S. tour
  
• The Faint North American tour
• Joankim Europe + N. American tour
• Squeeze U.S. tour
  
• Cat Power North American dates
• Some Part Chimp dates
• Ryan Adams cancels a U.K. gig
  
• Ladyfest news
• Electrelane tour, with/without Arcade Fire
  
• The National tour, with/without Arcade Fire
  
• Free Yr Radio tour news
• Voxtrot adds to North American tour
• Martina McBride U.S. tour
• Blues Traveller U.S. tour
  

ALBUM ANNOUCEMENTS

• Ben Lee Ripe, September
• Nick Drake Family Tree, June 19
  
• Hugh Cornwell Dirty Dozen live CD, June 26
• Frank Zappa CA Apostrophe/Over-night Sensation, May 1
• Two Cow Garage III, April 24
• Part Chimp Cup, May 22
• Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris, June 12

VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Death Cab for Cutie "I Will Follow You Into the Dark"

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TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• More Happy Mondays U.K. dates
• Diana Krall summer U.S. dates
  
• Latitude 2007 festival news
• Boredoms do Japan, Europe + Alberta
• Final Fantasy does Canada + Europe
  
• John Fogerty North American tour
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Sonic Youth Daydream Nation reissue, June 12
  
• Black Francis Threshold Apprehension, digital download May 7
• also, The Best of Frank Black '93-'03, June 12
  
• David Bowie Young Americans reissue, June 5
• also, The Best of David Bowie 1980-1987: Sight and Sound releases on the same day
• Rooney Calling the World, June
  
• Minus the Bear Planet of Ice, Aug. 21
• iliketrains Progress Reform, April 24
  
• Jesus Lizard Live DVD, June 5
• Enrique Iglesias Insomniac, June 12