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Among the noteable winners at the 49th annual Grammy Award Awards held last night in Los Angeles, which included a reunited Police kicking things off with “Roxanne,” were the following: Lifetime Achievement Awards – The Grateful Dead, the Doors, Joan Baez, Maria Callas, Booker T. & the MG’s and Ornette ColemanBest Rock Instrumental Performance The […]

In what is destined to be an historic run, the Police will embark on their first tour in 23 years, beginning May 28 at the GM Arena in Vancouver, Billboard.com can exclusively reveal. As part of a tour that will play arenas and stadiums internationally through the end of the year, the band will also […]

Band Of Horses and the late J Dilla were awarded the highest accolades at the PLUG 2007 Independent Music Awards Show on Saturday (Feb. 10) at New York’s Irving Plaza. Band Of Horses snagged album of the year and Americana album of the year for their Sub Pop debut, "Everything All the Time." Their track […]

Indie-rock band The Apples in Stereo has set out on a North American tour to support its fifth full-length album, "New Magnetic Wonder," which hit stores earlier this week. The group is scheduled to travel across the US and Canada, ending with an April 1 gig in its hometown of Denver, CO. Along the way, […]

ortland punks The Thermals have announced their first tour of the year, a seven-week trek across the U.S. The group will start February 19 with a hometown show at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Ore., then loop around the country with 31 stops in all. They'll finish the tour at Howie & Sons Pizza in Visalia, […]

South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival, the annual music industry gathering in Austin, Texas has announced a partial list of the artists scheduled to perform at the 21st edition of the music festival taking place March 14 – 18, 2007 on over 60stage in downtown Austin. Over 7800 bands applied and over 1000 bands […]

Columbia Records will release Twelve, the eagerly-anticipated album of "cover" versions of classic popular songs newly interpreted by the 2007 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Patti Smith, on Tuesday, April 17. Twelve is Patti Smith’s first album of new studio recordings since trampin’, her Columbia Records debut, was released in 2004, and is the […]

The widow of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia is suing to gain access to unpublished tapes of her late husband’s musical performances. Deborah Koons Garcia filed a civil suit Jan. 31 in Marin County (Calif.) Superior Court against a limited liability corporation, comprised of the rocker’s beneficiaries including Koons Garcia, that oversees business involving his […]

Feist has announced the details of her forthcoming album.  The Canadian songstress and frequent Broken Social Scene contributor will release ‘The Reminder’ on April 23 in the UK, and on May 1 in the US. Feist, who opened for the Ramones with her high school punk band and was Peaches’ roommate, enlisted the help of […]

Tickets to the 2007 edition of Ozzfest will be free, organizers said today (Feb. 6). The 25-date tour will begin July 7 in Los Angeles; details have yet to be announced regarding distribution of tickets. The event, which will be headlined by Ozzy Osbourne, will be underwritten by a host of sponsorship deals. "For the […]

Jazz artists Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau have expanded into a quartet for their second album together, apply dubbed "Quartet." Due March 13 via Nonesuch, the 11-track project finds them joined by bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard from Mehldau’s trio. Those musicians played on two tracks from last year’s "Metheny/Mehldau" album. "Quartet" was […]

RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE Torpedo Boyz, “Headache Music" (Sounds From the Roof Records) Funky, kinda crunky Europeans with refreshingly major attitudes (all the funnier given their Ahnold accents), Torpedo Boyz are a lot like 70s funkadelica as seen through a Felix Da Housecat prism.  There are plenty of layers going on, which gives weight […]

The SLIP will be playing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien this Monday, February 5th. Tune in at 12:35am (technically Tuesday) for the show. They will play around 1:20am or so. Set your tivos and dvrs. Two weeks ago the band had the closing song on a two-part episode of Grey’s Anatomy, you can watch […]

RCA Records is proud to announce the release of Kings of Leon are set to release their third record – "Because Of The Times,"  on April 3, 2007. Turning once again to producers Ethan Johns and Angelo Petraglia, "Because of The Times" is the Tennessee-based band’s first record since 2004’s widely acclaimed "Aha Shake Heartbreak." […]

Gov’t Mule’s MuleTracks.com is approaching it’s Millionth Mule Tracks Download. In appreciation of it’s fans interest in their concerts, Gov’t Mule will host the "Download The Millionth Song At Mule Tracks" contest. The fan who downloads the millionth track will win free downloads of every 2007 Gov’t Mule concert! Mule Tracks (www.muletracks.com) was launched in […]

The music of the late Joe Strummer is celebrated on the soundtrack to the new documentary "The Future Is Unwritten," due April 3 via Legacy Recordings. The album features a previously unreleased live version of the Clash’s "I’m So Bored With the U.S.A." alongside tracks from Elvis Presley, the MC5, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and […]

Peeping Tom, the latest project from Mike Patton, has lined up its first tour, a month-long spring trek culminating in a slot at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.  Patton, who originally gained fame as Faith No More’s frontman, will take the new band on the road starting March 30 at the Granada Theater […]

Rapper, poet, activist, humorist and cultural provocateur, Sage Francis will release Human The Death Dance, his second Anti/Epitaph release, on May 8, 2007. Bolstered by the many facets of Sage’s complex persona, Francis goes beyond his acclaimed back catalog with humor, anger and poetic passion. Featuring collaborations with artists as diverse as Jolie Holland, Buck 65 and […]

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN, the collaboration between Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz), former Clash bassist Paul Simonon, Verve guitarist Simon Tong and Fela Kuti/Africa 70 drummer Tony Allen, whose eponymous, Danger Mouse-produced debut was released last week, have confirmed the following first-ever series of North American dates: March 11th Toronto Kool Haus  March 12th […]

In an historic GRAMMY® moment, the Police (Sting, Stewart Copeland, and Andy Summers) will reunite and perform together for the first time on the GRAMMYs when they open the 49th Annual GRAMMY® Awards telecast on Feb. 11, it was announced today by The Recording Academy®. With five GRAMMY Awards to their list of accolades, the […]