Performance / Tour News

An Angry Springsteen Opposes Live Nation Ticketmaster Merger

Source: HypeBot
February 6, 2009

Bruce Springsteen's “Working On A Dream" topped the weekly album charts with 224,000 first week sales according to Nielson Soundscan. But his concert fans were at the center of a controversy sparked by a Ticketmaster campaign pointing buyers to higher priced seats at their own resales broker TicketsNow even while regular seats were still available.

The fans and Springsteen camp cried fowl. “Some artists or managers may not perceive there to be a conflict between having the distributor of their ...

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Slightly Stoopid: Tour/"2am" Vid

Source: JamBase
February 6, 2009

Slightly Stoopid Announce Tour, Debut “2am" Official Video

We are pleased to share with you Slightly Stoopid's brand new official video for “2am". This video is packed with tons of psychedelic live concert footage, archival smoker footage from the '60s and '70s, and tripped-out images of marijuana culture.

Slightly Stoopid has also added a second leg to their 2009 Winter Tour. Stoopid will kick it off with the March 17 St. Patty's Day Bash in ...

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Southern Cal Area Clubs

Source: Michael Ricci
February 6, 2009

Music Bar Bars & Clubs

Caf Boogaloo 1238 Hermosa Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA, 90254 Cafe Boogaloo is quite simply Hermosa Beachs answer to the House of Bluesa NOrleans-style restaurant, bar and live music venue full of bayou charm...

CafeTu Tu Tango 1000 Universal Studios Blvd. Ste H-101, Universal City, CA, 91608 With the motto Food for the Starving Artist, Caf Tu Tu Tango serves up worldly fare all in appetizer-sized ...

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Pretty Lights Tour

Source: JamBase
February 6, 2009

Pretty Lights Announce Tour in support of their debut album Filling Up The City Skies

Derek Vincent Smith a.k.a. Pretty Lights Pretty Lights is the musical vision of the ultra-versatile Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith, accompanied in the live setting by drummer, Cory Eberhard. Together these two achieve a raw energy rarely reached in the realm of electronic music. At a time when music lovers from almost all subcultures and genres are finding common ground in the basic form ...

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Tim Brantley on Fox-TV Good Day Atlanta 2/6

Source: Seth Cohen PR
February 6, 2009

TIM BRANTLEY ON FOX-TV’s GOOD DAY ATLANTA, FRIDAY MORNING AT 8AM LIVE TELEVISION PERFORMANCE OF HIT SINGLE ‘DAMAGE’ ATLANTA PRESS RAVES FOR UPCOMING CD SMITH’S OLDE BAR SHOW 2/6, EDDIE’S ATTIC 3/27 Tune in tomorrow morning, as singer TIM BRANTLEY performs live on FOX-TV’s GOOD DAY ATLANTA. Tim will perform his hit single ‘Damage’ during the 8am hour - Check local listings. Atlanta-area press has raved for Brantley’s 4/21 CD ‘Goldtop Heights’. In today’s Atlanta Journal ...

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Canadian Tour Dates Announced | Diana Krall | News

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2009

Universal Music Canada / Verve Records is pleased to announce that international jazz superstar, Diana Krall will be touring coast-to-coast this Spring to promote her 12th studio album, Quiet Nights. This tour marks the first time that Krall will perform tracks from Quiet Nights for her Canadian fans. The 15-city national tour, presented by CBC Radio 2, kicks-off April 15 in Calgary, AB and ends May 13 in her hometown of Vancouver, BC. Select markets also ...

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Jazz This Week: Liz Callaway, the Sheldon's "Mardi Gras Mambo," Good 4 the Soul, Jeanne Trevor's "Love Notes," Dan Rubright, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 6, 2009

It looks like this weekend will bring a break in the winter weather here in St. Louis, so it should be a good time to go out an here some live music. Here's a brief look at what's happening over the next few days:The new not-for-profit presenter Cabaret St. Louis resumes its inaugural season this week with shows by Liz Callaway on Thursday and Friday upstairs at the Sheldon. Like many cabaret performers, Callaway's background is more in ...

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Tony DeSare Finding the Mercer That Suits Him Best

Source: Michael Ricci
February 6, 2009

Imagine youre in Johnny Mercers hometown, Savannah, Ga. It is spring 1952, buds are budding, and you can hear train whistles in the distance.

That is how the singer and pianist Tony DeSare, a baby Sinatra, set the scene for his reverent centennial tribute, Mercer, Moon River and Me, at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel on Tuesday evening. If there were a concordance of Mercer lyrics, which are steeped in nostalgic wanderlust, it would abound in images of ...

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