The Pretenders - a new album & a NYC show

Day late and a dollar short, ay BV?

Just heard Chrissie at Farm Aid in Mansfield Mass. She was fabulous as usual! New band is cracking!!

anyone find it funny she is Ms. Anti-Corporate, yet she is wearing a Nike/LeBron James t-shirt?

way too late on this one BV. been sold out for a couple days now

The public onsale started today

http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/zip/846511661.html

6:47 you are a fucking schmuck. It did not sell out till today which was the public onsale ya dipshit.
That being said, it is now sold out and i have a pair of tickets for sale. Best offer gets it. Starting price is 150.00 a ticket.
Leave your email and i will be in touch.

7:14- your a greedy fuck.

don't buy from the greedy fuck
since he likes being a nasty fuck

besides i have an extra ticket
i may just give up for face
if I haven't given it away by then

i saw them in Baltimore on Friday and they fucking killed it. New songs were great but so was Chain Gang, Kid, and (holy shit) The Wait and Precious!!!

The Hold Steady played after. They might wanna turn down the booze a notch... But I still love 'em.

I'm not surprised this sold out so quickly- it's such a small venue. Hopefully they'll add another show.

The Pretenders ninth studio album, Break Up The Concrete, will have a limited run of ecologically-friendly packaging with handmade seed paper starting on the album's release date of October 7. This paper can be planted and, with care, may sprout in 1 to 4 weeks. The paper used on this plantable run, and the paper for subsequent non-plantable runs of the CD and vinyl configuration, has all been certified by the FSC, an independent, non-governmental, not for profit organization established to promote the responsible management of the world's forests. The vinyl version of the album, to be released on September 23, is two 10" discs with a gatefold, die-cut to shape and debossed with concrete texture with a full Album CD in Mini Jacket

The ecological packaging should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the career of the Pretenders front woman Chrissie Hynde, who has always been on the forefront of ecological issues and humane treatment of animals.

Break Up The Concrete's 11 songs were recorded in 12 days making for an album both gritty and immediate which recalls the band's earliest days. Hynde, along with the other Pretenders: guitarist James Walbourne, bassist Nick Wilkinson and long time drummer Martin Chambers will be introducing new songs from the album on Late Show With David Letterman on October 6 and then the Today Show the following morning October 7.

The media's response has been overwhelmingly positive with Spin naming the band, "Artist of the Day;" and exclaiming in their print edition, "Along with four new Pretenders, [Hynde has] crafted a statement that's stripped bare and dangerous, just like Hynde herself..." The single, the restless "Boots Of Chinese Plastic" has already cracked the Top 10 of the Rock radio charts; is breaking boundaries on Alternative radio; and has become an immediate staple on the Classic Rock, Americana, Adult Alternative formats.

Shangri-la Music took the unprecedented step of giving a new MP3 download per week leading up to the release of the vinyl album. 11 different partners made a different song available each week with AOL/Spinner, Apple Quicktime, Clear Channel, CMT, iLike, iMeem, MP3.com/Download.com, MSN Windows Media, Vh1 Classic, Yahoo, and CBS Radio Online all offering downloads, creating a buzz of anticipation that no Pretenders album has had in over a decade.

love chrissy hynde!