Sade Tour Dates Include Detroit & Cleveland...

As a follow up to the platinum-selling Soldier Of Love, which spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard album chart and garnered a well-deserved GRAMMY, Sade is back with The Ultimate Collection, out May 3rd. In addition to classic Sade songs, the must-have album will include three new, never-before heard songs including “Moon & The Sky” (featuring Jay-Z). Here for the first time, fans can find all of their favorite Sade classics from their most iconic albums including songs from the Best Of collection and the greatest hits off of Lover’s Rock and Soldier Of Love.

Pre-orders of the album begin today at Sade.com, and fans who pre-order The Ultimate Collection will have exclusive early access to tickets beginning March 30th for the newly announced dates in select markets.

Tickets for the newly announced dates go on sale to the public beginning April 2nd at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. For Facebook pre-sale codes, announcements and on-sale dates, visit Sade's Facebook events page.

Sade and John Legend Summer Tour Dates:
6/16 Baltimore, MD - 1st Mariner Arena
6/18 Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center
6/19 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
6/21 Uniondale, NY - Nassau Coliseum
6/22 Washington, DC - Verizon Center
6/24 East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center
6/25 Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
6/28 Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre
6/30 Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
7/3 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
7/6 Boston, MT - TD Garden
7/8 Indianapolis, IN - Conseco Fieldhouse
7/9 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
7/10 Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center
7/12 Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
7/13 Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
7/15 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - BankAtlantic Center
7/16 Miami, FL - American Airlines Arena
7/17 Orlando, FL - Amway Center
7/23 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
7/24 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
7/26 Kansas City, KS - Sprint Center
7/28 St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
7/29 Memphis, TN - FedEx Forum
7/31 Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena
8/3 Detroit, MI - The Palace at Auburn Hills
8/5 Chicago, IL - United Center
8/6 Chicago, IL - United Center
8/7 Chicago, IL - United Center
8/09 Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
8/11 Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
8/13 Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena
8/14 Seattle, WA - Key Arena
8/15 Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena
8/17 Sacramento, CA - Power Balance Pavilion
8/19 Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
8/20 Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
8/21 Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
8/23 San Diego, CA - Cricket Amphitheatre
8/25 San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
8/26 Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
8/27 Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
8/30 Anaheim, CA - Honda Center
8/31 Anaheim, CA - Honda Center
9/2 Phoenix, AZ - U.S. Airways Center
9/3 Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Arena

For complete ticket and tour information visit, SADE.COM and LIVENATION.com.

Record Store Day 2011, Toledo Style...

Culture Clash Records in Toledo, Ohio has announced that The Black Angels will play an in-store show for Record Store Day on Saturday, April 16th.

Martin Sexton Plans Toledo Stop...

Martin Sexton will perform at Headliner's in Toledo, Ohio on May 5th. Tickets go on sale on March 4th.

Nelsonville Music fest Announces Line-Up...

From Nelsonville Music Festival website:
Last night at Casa Cantina, we announced the headliners for this year's edition of the Nelsonville Music Festival to a packed house. Duke Jr. and the Smokey Boots, Scubadog, Whale Zombie and Chris Biester (all of whom will be making appearances at this year's fest) provided the music for the evening. Thanks to all who came out to celebrate the good news with us! If you couldn't manage to make it out last night, here's a day-by-day breakdown of the headliners for Nelsonville Music Festival 2011.

Friday night, we'll be welcoming country music legend George Jones to the main stage. At almost 80 years old, Jones shows no signs of slowing down and is sure to deliver a set encompassing his expansive discography.

On Saturday, psychedelic rockers the Flaming Lips will close out the night. The Lips are well-known for their high energy live shows, complete with confetti cannons and costumed dancers. Expect to hear tracks from their 2009 release Embryonic as well as their 1999 classic The Soft Bulletin.

Sunday evening, alt-country songstress Neko Case will deliver the festival's final set. Case is perhaps best known for work with Canadian super-group The New Pornographers, but fans will be pleased to find that her solo material is equally as powerful.

We'll be announcing over 30 more bands in the coming months, all leading up to the festival itself on the weekend of May 13-15. We're extremely excited and we hope you are too!

The Red River Flows Through Toledo...

The Red River returns to Toledo to play The Ottawa Tavern on January 16th. You wont want to miss this ensemble's melodies and harmonies and overall musical goodness.

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Plans Toledo Stop...

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, a rock quintet from Seattle, will perform at Mickey Finn's Pub in Toledo on September 17th.

These United States Plan Stop in Maumee...

These United States & Hoots and Hellmouth will surely pack them into The Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio on August 26th.

These United States | A Take Away Show | Conquest And Consequence from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

These United States | A Take Away Show | Water & Wheat from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Midwest Reggae Festival Set for Mid-August...

The Midwest Reggae Festival, one of the most enduring of its kind in the United States, has its 19th annual staging August 13-15 in Nelson, Ohio.

Third World, Mykal Rose, Luciano, the Skatalites and veteran British deejay Pato Banton are among this year's headliners. Dread Zeppelin, a band that plays reggae covers of songs by legendary hard rock band Led Zeppelin, are also on the card.

The festival was first held in 1992 by Packy Malley, a Nelson entrepreneur and reggae fan, who began promoting reggae shows at Ohio State University while he was a student there in the 1980s.

The Midwest Reggae Festival started as a one-day event at the Nelson Ledges Quarry Park where it is still held. Each day reportedly attracts a capacity 4,000-strong audience.

Jack Johnson Tour Dates Include OH & MI...

This April Jack Johnson will be headlining the Byron Bay Blues and Roots Festival in Australia and the Kokua Festival in Hawaii. In addition, this summer Jack will embark on a world tour in support of, To The Sea. The North American leg of the tour begins July 9th in Hartford, CT and ends on the west coast with two nights at the Santa Barbara Bowl on October 13th and 14th. Highlights include stops at Madison Square Garden, Jack’s first headline appearance at the Hollywood Bowl, and two nights at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. Tickets go on sale on April 10th.

July 2010
9 - Hartford, CT - Comcast Theatre
10 - Mansfield, MA - Comcast Center
11 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
13 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
14 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
16 - Virginia Beach, VA - Virginia Beach Amphitheater
17 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
19 - Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre
20 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
21 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
23 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
24 - East Troy, WI - Alpine Valley Music Theatre
25 - Somerset, WI - River's Edge
August 2010
13 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
16 - Bonner Springs, KS - Sandstone Amphitheater
17 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center
18 - The Woodlands, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
20 - Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
21 - Raleigh, NC - Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion atWalnut Creek
22 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
24 - Orlando, FL - Amway Arena
25 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
26 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
October 2010
1 - Vancouver, British Columbia - General Motors Place
2 - George, WA - The Gorge Amphitheatre
3 - Ridgefield, WA - The Amphitheater at Clark County
5, 6 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre - Berkeley
8 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
9 - Chula Vista, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
10 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
12 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
13, 14 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl

Avett Brothers Set Michigan Theater Date...

The Avett Brothers have announced another round of tour dates for early 2010. Nearby dates include Ohio University (Athens), Ann Arbor & Cleveland.

1/1 Atlanta, GA ~ Fox Theatre *
1/3 Dallas, TX ~ Granada Theater *
2/24 Athens, OH ~ Ohio University @ Memorial Auditorium *
2/26 Ithaca, NY ~ State Theatre *
2/27 Cleveland, OH ~ House of Blues *
2/28 Indianapolis, IN ~ Egyptian Room @ Murat Centre *
3/2 Columbia, MO ~ Missouri Theatre *
3/3 Midwest City, OK ~ Rose State PAC
3/5 Minneapolis, MN ~ First Avenue *
3/6 Milwaukee, WI ~ Turner Hall Ballroom
3/7 Chicago, IL ~ House of Blues *
3/9 Ann Arbor, MI ~ Michigan Theater
4/18 Reno, NV ~ Grand Sierra Theatre

*email presale starts 10/13; if tickets remain, general presale starts 10/14

The Flaming Lips Lock in Columbus Show...

The FLAMING LIPS digital 3 song EP, "SONGS FROM THE FUTURE ALBUM EMBRYONIC" is now available at all digital retailers.
Featuring these brand new tracks from the band's first studio album in over 3 years!

“Convinced of The Hex”
“The Impulse”
“Silver Trembling Hands”

Full album will be available this FALL!!!

Watch The Flaming Lips at Pitchfork (July 2009)

In the meantime, The Lips have just confirmed a General Admission show in Columbus, OH on September 18th at LC Pavilion (outdoors). Tickets go on sale on August 8th.

Justin Townes Earle Plans Maumee Stop...

Mark August 27th, 2009 as the day, critically-acclaimed, singer songwriter Justin Townes Earle (son of Steve Earle)is rolling into town to play The Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio. He is sure to be a force in the Alt-Country arena for a long time to come. He will be appearing fresh on the heels of The Big Surprise Tour, an amazing outing that places him on a bill with Old Crow Medicine Show, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings and The Felice Brothers...impressive company!

From Bloodshot Records:
Within the first song on Justin Townes Earle’s second album Midnight At the Movies, you just know you’re hearing something special, that you are party to the unknown and exhilarating paths being explored by an artist on the creative ascendancy. Midnight At The Movies displays an adeptness and musical sophistication of remarkable, organic breadth and is as lyrically sharp as a lover’s tongue as she is walking out the door.

If you didn’t look at the songwriting credits, you’d swear the songs were penned on the stoop of a one-pump filling station in dust bowl era Oklahoma, the smoke-filled song and dream factories of Tin Pan Alley, or at the back door of Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville. Justin effortlessly taps the romanticism imbued in the beaten-soled travelogues and mythos of Woody Guthrie; the lounging around a campfire at a work camp and the edgy angst of a wintry Minneapolis (yeah, just try to get that mandolin line from the cover of the ‘Mats’ “Can’t Hardly Wait” out of your head.)

Modest Mouse Sets Columbus Tour Date...

No more "cat & mouse" games while you try to catch a Modest show. Modest Mouse will be on a brief tour that makes it's way through Columbus, Ohio on August 24th @ LC Pavilion.

Here is some new music from MM:

Wilco Schedules Cinci Before Bonnaroo...

Wilco has just announced a string of additional U.S. tour dates, including a show at The Aronoff Center in Cincinnati on Friday, June 12th. Ticket pre-sale begins April 22nd. This show should be a nice prelude to their Bonnaroo appearance and their new album release (late June).

The forthcoming and still-untitled next Wilco album is nearing completion. Jim Scott and the band spent the last few weeks mixing in Jim's studio in Valencia, California and here's a list of song titles spied on the reels -- note this is not necessarily complete and not in sequence.

Deeper Down
Conscript (aka I'll Fight)
One Wing
Solitaire
Wilco (the song)
Country Disappeared
Everlasting
Bull Black Nova
Sonny Feeling
You and I

Rumors and blogs regarding a guest appearance on that last track are, amazingly, quite true. Feist does indeed lend a great vocal to You and I. Other details will emerge in the coming weeks. The release is currently scheduled for late June on Nonesuch.

Side Note: Jeff Tweedy will throw out the first pitch at the Brewers game prior to there show in Milwaukee on April 14th.

Cotton In Your Ears...

You may remember a band called Page France...and you may be saying to yourself, where is that band today...and some wise soul might say some members of that band reformed with wonder twin powers activating...in the form of Cotton Jones. So, you need to know that this new work does not come in the form of some inaccessible side project...CJ delievers the same strong vocals that beg for a listen and a toe tap.

You can catch Cotton Jones at Howard's Club H in Bowling Green, Ohio on April 2nd.

Cotton Jones on NPR

Cotton Jones on Daytrotter

LaMontagne Confirms Midwest Tour Dates...

Ray LaMontagne is heading back out on the road in April. Plenty of midwest options, so get out there and go see a solid show. Ticket pre-sale begins on Tuesday, February 2nd.


2009 Spring Tour Dates
4/02 Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theatre
4/03 Pittsburgh, PA @ Palace Theatre
4/04 Philadelphia, PA @ Tower Theatre
4/06 Albany, NY @ The Egg
4/07 Northampton, MA @ Calvin Theatre
4/08 New Haven, CT @ Schubert Theater
4/11 Portland, ME @ Merrill Auditorium
4/12 Burlington, VT @ Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
4/14 Montreal, QUE @ Metropolis
4/15 Toronto, ONT @ Massey Hall
4/17 Cleveland, OH @ State Theatre
4/18 Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre
4/19 Ann Arbor, MI @ Michigan Theater
4/21 Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater
4/22 St. Louis, MO @ Pageant Theater
4/24 Asheville, NC @ Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
4/25 Louisville, KY @ Brown Theater
4/27 Birmingham, AL @ Alabama Theatre
4/28 Jacksonville, FL @ Florida Theatre
4/29 Tampa, FL @ Tampa Theatre
4/30 Miami, FL @ Fillmore at Jackie Gleason