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
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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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CSI owns - 12

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
  

Hair in my eyes like a highland steer - 11

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• More Summer Sundae festival news
• Sounds of the Underground tour news
• Interpol expand tour.. more Canada and Europe
• The Rapture & Shiny Toy Guns co-headline U.S. tour
  
• Lollapalooza news
• Rufus Wainwright tours North America + Europe
  
• More Download festival news
• Some Stills U.K. dates
  
• Hadouken! U.K. gigs
• Lily Allen U.S. dates
• Happy Mondays U.K. tour
• Jamie T U.K. tour
• Seal U.S. tour
• Pravda, May 26 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall, L.A.
  

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Caribou Andorra, Aug. 21
• Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain, May 22
  
• Annuals Be He Me, June 18 (U.K.)
  
• Eisley untitled album, July 10
  

The truck got stuck - 10

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• Reykjavic festival news
• Summerstage in New York news, full lineup announced in May
• Live Earth concerts by Al Gore to be in New York?
• Live Earth in London news
• Live Earth in New Jersey news
  
• Bloc Party U.S. dates
• The Chemical Brothers Europe dates
• Ray Lamontagne U.K. tour
  
• Jethro Tull North American tour
  
• Rock Ness festival news
• The Robot Ate Me North American tour
• The Wedding Present U.K. gigs
  
• String Cheese Incident farewell U.S. gigs
  
• Cursive extend North American tour + 1 Japan gig
  
• Brian McKnight U.S. dates
  

ALBUM RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS

• White Stripes Icky Thump, June 18 in the UK & June 19 in N. America
• Chemical Brothers We Are the Night, June 19
  
• Frog Eyes Tear of the Valedictorian, May 1
• Concretes Hey Trouble, this summer
  
• Long Blondes Someone to Drive You Home, June 5
• Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me, June 5
• Chromeo Fancy Footwork, May 8
  
• Toby Keith Big Dog Daddy, June 12

Sudbury was awesome - 9

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• SoCo Music Experience news
  
• Norah Jones extends North American tour
  
• Hold Steady & Tokyo Police Club tour updates
  
• Some Roky Erickson dates
  
• Paramore North American tour
  
• Constantines U.S. dates
  
• Gretchen Wilson summer tour
  
• Electric Picnic festival news
  
• Some Ludacris gigs
  
• Some Meat Puppets shows
  
• Fall Out Boy reschedule North American tour

ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Flaming Lips first DVD UFOs at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert at Oklahoma City, July
• Common Finding Forever, July 10
  
• Meat Puppets Rise to Your Knees, July 27
• Rufus Wainwright Release the Stars, May 15
• M.I.A. Bird Flu, Aug. 21
  
• Comas Spell, April 17

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
N. AMERICA
Blonde Redhead 23
Panthers the Trick
Rosebuds Nigh of the Furies
You Say Party! We Say Die! Lose All Time
Laura Veirs Nonesuch
Nathan Key Principles

Video of the Week

Here's your video of the week...

FUNNY.

I'm in Sudbury.

probably no blogging until next week.

Just forget it all, yeah - 3

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• The Sea and Cake north american tour
• Diana memorial concert news
• Foals spring tour
• Pearl Jam do Lollapalooza
• Sparklehorse U.K. dates
• Lady Sovereign cancels some U.K. gigs
• Cat Power U.K. dates
• Camden Crawl news
• Patti Smith New York shows
• YACHT U.S. + Europe dates

ALBUM ANNOUCEMENTS

• The Mystery Jets ZooTime, May 8
• Poison POISON'D, June 5
  
• Polytechnic Down Till Dawn, April 23
• YACHT Our Friends in Hell, April 10
• YACHT I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real, May 8
  

April showers bring May flowers - 2

TOURS/GIGS/LIVE

• VFEST AUSTRALIA VFEST AUSTRALIA VFEST AUSTRALIA
  
• They Might Be Giants and Sage Francis dates
• We the People musical fest news
• Ra Ra Riot U.K. shows
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah add Europe to tour
• T on the Fringe news
• The Rapture spring/summer tour
• Summer Sundae festival news
• Bob Weir and Ratdog do the US with Keller Williams
• Electric Picnic festival news
• More Oxygen festival news

ALBUM ANNOUNCMENTS

• Dizzee Rascal Maths & English, June 4
• Robbers on High Street Grand Animals, July 10
• Ulrich Schnauss Goodbye, July 10
• Fridge The Sun, June 26
  

THIS WEEK'S NEW RELEASES
U.K./Europe
Waterboys Book of Lightning
Fields Everything Last Winter
N. America
Fountains of Wayne Traffic and Weather
Kings of Leon Because of the Times
Jarvis Cocker Jarvis
The Field From Here we Go Sublime
Dolly Parton reissues My Tennessee Mountain Home, Jolene, and Coat of Many Colors