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Restlessly inventive improvisational trio Medeski Martin & Wood has announced plans for the third leg of an ambitious new recording/touring experiment dubbed The Radiolarian Series. Free download!

Colorado power trio Rose Hill Drive has added another leg to the trek in support of sophomore effort, Moon is the New Earth.

When you have a massive tour going on, when do you find the time to write new tracks for a new album? Ask Kanye West how he did it because that’s his case. Billboard is reporting that the rapper’s management has confirmed that he’s seriously considering dropping his fourth album by the end of the [...]

Some crazy stuff went down at the Fashion Rocks after party at New York’s Rainbow Bar last weekend. According to reports, Justin Timberlake had to dive for cover and dodge punches after his bodyguard tried to grab a mobile phone off a fan who sneaked into the VIP area to snap a picture of the [...]

Well, it’s about time to lock up, unleash the guard Chihuahuas and close down the compound for another night. But before we go we’d like to call your attention to new dates for Brian Wilson, Celine Dion, James McMurtry and Nikka Costa, and links to items about Dolly Parton, Spice Girls, Gordon Lightfoot, Rick Wright, Isaac Hayes and really tiny earbuds.

In an event that could easily be described as “An Evening with The Grateful Brothers or The Allman Dead,” members of both iconic bands will come together to perform a benefit concert for Sen. Barack Obama.

The coolest thing about modern talk/news shows is that you sometimes find artists performing in the most unusual places.

What’s new How about late October listings for MGMT, December dates for Stellastarr, November shows for The Republic Tigers and 2009 dates for Bill Engvall

John Mellencamp, who readily admits, “I don’t spend much time looking back,” will do just that next week when he returns to a Columbus, Ind., venue for the first time in 32 years.

Lunchtime at our Fresnoland HQ and we have your daily adult requirement of new dates for Buckcherry, New Kids On The Block, Slightly Stoopid and NeYo, and links to items about San Diego Street Scene, Yahoo Music’s fulllength song samples, sons of R&B legends settle lawsuit, the Piano Man’s Guitar Man, “novelist” Willie Nelson and back in the day when people thought no one would buy “Guitar Hero.”

Katy Perry got pretty in pink as she filmed an outdoor scene for her new music video in Los Angeles last week. The ‘I Kissed a Girl’ singer is coming out with her next single called ‘Hot N Cold’. The 23-year old sensation was shooting wedding scenes for her video and is hoping to duplicate [...]

The concert organizers that recently got stood up by Amy Winehouse are threatening to take legal action because of her no show. The show was scheduled on a Friday night. Organizers say that at 8PM that night, they got word that Wino was sick in England and was unable to make the trip to a [...]