Later tonight ...Coming up on the Pollstar.com night shift - Glasto Spawns A Holy Cow - All about Glastonbury Festival's talent search.
Here & There …
Living large at home with Nikki Sixx - Chicago Tribune
Walk The Line voted best music biopic … ever! UPI
This is your brain. This is your brain on music. Any questions? - The Sunday Times
Not one hit wonders, but hits that made the artists wonder - Indianapolis Star
Q&A with Spoon's Britt Daniel - Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
Flaming Lips' Halloween march - Yahoo! Music / Launch
Dates, dates & more dates …
Australia's "Soundwave Festival" has announced its lineup and schedule. The festival is scheduled for the last week of February bleeding into the first week of March. The Offspring, Incubus, Social Distortion, Killswitch Engage and Coheed And Cambria are just some of the acts that will appear on this downunder extravaganza.
Arctic Monkeys will play the U.K. in December; Big & Rich tour Canada in January; Chris Cagle adds TN, CA, CO, NM, MI and WI and Cowboy Junkies squeeze Des Moines into their schedule.
Gin Blossoms have more 2008 dates; Lukas Rossi will be all over Canada in November and Monty Python's "Spamalot" has a multi-night run in Las Vegas. Speaking of Vegas … Toni Braxton will be playing Sin City tomorrow night through Sunday.
In case you missed it, earlier today we added dates for k.d. lang, Alter Bridge, Bedouin Soundclash, Alejandro Escovedo, Amen, Andrew Bird, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Leo Kottke, Mavis Staples, Mudhoney, RBD, Rod Stewart, Spyro Gyra, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Thermals and Yellowcard.
And that's our last update for today, and we can hear those happy hour buffalo wings calling our name. Remember, don't take any wooden tickets, and we'll look for your face in our place tomorrow. Happy trails!