Jason Isbell - Tour Dates

New dates for the singer/guitarist...

December:
Thu 12/27/07 Huntsville, AL Crossroads
Fri 12/28/07 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theatre
Sat 12/29/07 Chattanooga, TN Rhythm & Brews
Sun 12/30/07 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theatre
Mon 12/31/07 Charleston, SC Music Farm

January:
Wed 01/16/08 Memphis, TN Hi-Tone
Thu 01/17/08 Little Rock, AR Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack
Fri 01/18/08 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
Sat 01/19/08 Austin, TX Antone's
Tue 01/22/08 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
Wed 01/23/08 San Diego, CA The Casbah
Sat 01/26/08 San Francisco, CA Slim's
Wed 01/30/08 Portland, OR Mission Theater
Thu 01/31/08 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern

February:
Fri 02/01/08 Boise, ID Neurolux
Sat 02/02/08 Park City, UT Suede
Mon 02/04/08 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
Wed 02/06/08 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre
Thu 02/07/08 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
Fri 02/08/08 Chicago, IL Double Door
Sat 02/09/08 Indianapolis, IN The Music Mill
Wed 02/20/08 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
Fri 02/22/08 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Thu 02/28/08 Knoxville, TN Blue Cats

March:
Sat 03/01/08 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom

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The Money Shot: Little Steven Takes Kids to School, Cat Power Conjures While U2 Tries to Blot Out Dublin Sun...

More headlines...

Wonder Woman (The New Yorker)

MS: But “The Covers Record” consisted almost entirely of songs by other people, and, with one exception (the folk song “Salty Dog,” in which Matt Sweeney played the guitar), Marshall sang and played—the piano and the guitar—unaccompanied. Something, probably cigarettes, had rubbed some texture into her voice, and she had learned how to manipulate her breathy middle range. She had found the place, between an incantation and a whisper, where her voice wanted to settle, and revealed herself to be a conjurer, like Nina Simone and Patti Smith: someone who could bring a song home, not through force but by teasing and delaying words, and by resisting standard line readings. Marshall is expert at singing painful lines as if she can’t feel a thing, and at crying out seemingly benign lines as if she’s being lanced.

E Street band's 'Little Steven' develops rock curriculum for schools (NME)

MS: Entitled 'Little Steven's Rock and Roll High School', the course will provide free materials, including teacher guidelines, lesson plans, DVDs and CDs, to help teachers to bring rock and roll history to life in their classrooms in middle schools and high schools.

Building plans give U2 hometown blues (The Guardian)

MS: "Our biggest concern is that the U2 Tower will stick out of the skyline from parts of Georgian Dublin like Merrion Square. It could potentially be an incongruous blot on the skyline on the south side of the city,"

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Suzanne Vega - Tour Dates

The Manhatten singer-songwriter-blogger on the road...

December:
Tue 12/04/07 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live!
Wed 12/05/07 Sellersville, PA Sellersville Theater 1894
Fri 12/07/07 Albany, NY The Egg
Sat 12/08/07 Londonderry, NH Tupelo Music Hall
Sun 12/09/07 Portland, ME State Street Church

January:
Sat 01/19/08 Singapore, SIN The Esplanade
Tue 01/22/08 Osaka, JPN Club Quattro
Wed 01/23/08 Nagoya, JPN Club Quattro
Thu 01/24/08 Tokyo, JPN Tokyo International Forum
Sun 01/27/08 Gold Coast, AUS Jupiter Casino
Wed 01/30/08 Pyrmont, AUS Star City Lyric Theatre

February:
Fri 02/01/08 Melbourne, AUS Crown Entertainment Complex
Tue 02/05/08 Perth, AUS Burswood Theatre

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James McMurtry - Tour Dates

New '08 dates for the Texas singer-songwriter...

December:
Fri 12/14/07 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks
Sat 12/15/07 Houston, TX The Continental Club
Fri 12/21/07 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
Sat 12/22/07 Denton, TX Dan's Silver Leaf
Fri 12/28/07 Chicago, IL Martyrs'
Sat 12/29/07 Chicago, IL Martyrs'

January:
Wed 01/16/08 Fort Worth, TX White Elephant Saloon
Thu 01/17/08 Fayetteville, AR George's Majestic Lounge
Fri 01/18/08 Saint Louis, MO Blueberry Hill's Duck Room
Sat 01/19/08 Champaign, IL High Dive
Sun 01/20/08 Nashville, TN 3rd & Lindsley
Tue 01/22/08 Chattanooga, TN Rhythm & Brews
Wed 01/23/08 Huntsville, AL Crossroads
Thu 01/24/08 Tuscaloosa, AL Chuck's Fish
Fri 01/25/08 Oxford, MS Proud Larry's
Sat 01/26/08 Lafayette, LA Blue Moon Saloon & Guest House

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The Money Shot: Play It Again (and Again) Sam, Uncut Loves 'North American Scum', & Getting Drunk on Maximo Park...

Today's headlines...

Maximo Park launch their own beer (NME)

MS: "So many amazing things have happened for our band in a short space of time and to have our image emblazoned on a Brown label is another addition to that list.

"It would be great for our band to be as synonymous with Newcastle as the mighty Brown Ale, and it's both amusing and an honour to be able to deface the label in this manner!"

Uncut Names LCD Soundsytem As 2007's Finest (Stereogum)

MS: 10 Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
09 Radiohead - In Rainbows
08 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
07 The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
06 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
05 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
04 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
03 PJ Harvey - White Chalk
02 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
01 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Radio’s Newest Strategy: Play a Hit, Again and Again (NY Times)

MS: “There’s a very limited window. If they’re going to listen 15 minutes a day, you want to make sure they hear their favorite song in that 15 minutes. It’s really the fast-paced life style that we all live.”

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