My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James will play a rare solo gig in New York City on Sunday, August 25th as part of second annual Revenge of the Book Eaters event at the Beacon Theater. The show will be hosted by The Daily Show’s Demetri Martin, with proceeds benefiting 826NYC’s free writing programs for children. A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers, Feist and Grizzly Bear are also on the bill. Tickets go onsale today at 10 am, which is, like, now.
- The concert industry had an extremely successful first half of 2007
- Gnarls Barkley are hard at work on their new album, tentatively scheduled to be released during the holiday season
- The New York Post assembled a list of their top 100 covers of all time
- Both Neddy and the NY Times have good things to say about Tuesday night’s Marc Ribot concert
- Grace Potter has harsh words for Avril Lavigne
- Our thoughts are with Widespread Panic’s Sunny Ortiz after the death of his father (Sunny will sit out a few shows)
- Kitsch Dork has the full scoop from Wednesday’s WSP show in Boston
- Roger McGuinn doesn’t need the stinkin’ Byrds
- The GreyFox Bluegrass Festival is going strong after 31 years
- How Elvis saved my pound cake
- Mark Knopfler will be releasing a new album on September 17th
- WXPN needs your help assembling a list of the 885 Most Memorable Musical Moments
And finally, our apocalyptic moment of the week took place yesterday with the announcement that Dick In A Box has been nominated for an Emmy. Wow.
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