Lilith Fair, which has been dormant since 1999, will reform this year for a North American tour this summer. Exact dates and venues are forthcoming, but the ongoing list of confirmed acts is impressive (though they won't all play every city). The lineup currently includes Beth Orton, Cat Power, Emmylou Harris, Erykah Badu, the Gossip, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Heart, Indigo Girls, Janelle Monae, Ke$ha, La Roux, Lights, Loretta Lynn, Mary J. Blige, Metric, Miranda Lambert, Norah Jones, Rosie Thomas, Sarah McLachlan, Serena Ryder, Sheryl Crow, Tara MacLean, Tegan and Sara.

New York City is one of the tour's confirmed stops. The rest of those and the fest's so-far lineup are below...

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The Entrance Band (more by Bao Nguyen)

The Entrance Band has scheduled a show at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory on Jan 30th as part of a US tour with Brooklyn's Lights. Tickets are on sale, full dates are below.

The Entrance Band released their self-titled Ecstatic Peace debut in September of last year. Lights recetly dropped their new LP Rites on Drag City which features "Fire Night". Dig on the video for that, as well as all tour dates, below....

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photos by Ryan Muir

Like Lee Ranaldo, Bill Callahan's Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle was one of my favorite albums of the year. Bill is currently on tour in the South with his labelmates (and Brooklyn residents) Lights. They won't come anywhere near NYC unfortunately - the last chance we had to see Bill was during his June tour that brought him to Le Poisson Rouge & Music Hall of Williamsburg with Sir Richard Bishop as opener. An unpublished set of pics from the Brooklyn show, with all dates, below...

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Anni Rossi

Brooklyn label Social Registry is presenting the show at 92YTribeca in Manhattan tonight (3/27). Sian Alice Group, Lights, Zs, and a group we recently featured, Mountains are on the bill. Updated Mountains tour dates below.

Speaking of NYC shows happening tonight and Mountains... the Mountain Goats, and John Vanderslice are here for their show at the Society of Ethical Culture.

Also related to today (3/27)... Having just played a few shows at SXSW, including the official showcase of her (and the Mountain Goats') label 4AD, Los Angeles/Chicago's Anni Rossi is currently on tour and plays a show at Union Pool in Brooklyn tonight with Midnight Masses and Wild Yaks. You may have also caught Anni when she opened for her label-mates Camera Obscura at Mercury Lounge the other night.

To say that Anni Rossi has given new life to the viola is an understatement. Together with her alternative folk style and lilting vocals, Rossi has reinvented the way this classical instrument is typically used and given new light to how Americana music is structured and presented.

Entrancing and beautiful, Rossi shared several songs with the Current from her upcoming CD, "Rockwell," out in March of 2009. [Minnesota Public Radio]

Camera Obscura also played a show at The Bell House in Brooklyn the other night, and tickets are now on sale for the show they have coming up at Webster Hall.

Midnight Masses (playing Union Pool with Anni) just went on tour with, and share a member with, Trail of Dead (who we also caught at SXSW).

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These Arms are Snakes @ Bumbershoot 2008 (more by Chris Graham)

today in NYC
* DANCE
* Alan Braxe @ Studio B
* The Finches @ Cake Shop
* Chairlift @ Santos Party House
* Glass Candy @ Le Poisson Rouge
* The Bird & the Bee @ Carnegie Hall
* J*Davey & Amanda Diva @ The Studio
* Dropkick Murphys & H2O @ Roseland Ballroom
* Blank Dogs, Pink Noise, Gary War @ The Shank
* The Whigs & Dead Confederate @ Bowery Ballroom
* Marco Benevento Trio & Sean Bones @ The Bell House
* The Giraffes, I'm In You & Moon Rabbits @ Union Pool
* These Arms Are Snakes,Darker My Love & All The Saints @ MHOW
* Boogie Boarder, The Forms, Dinowalrus, Bachelor of Arts & Real Estate @ Dead Herring

Today is the 'First Saturday' at the Brooklyn Museum.

Warped Tour/major-label/Alternative Press-SXSW-party-playing possible-future-female-Canadian-pop-star Lights is playing her keytar at Pianos tonight.

Newsweek interviewed Neko Case.

"MARKET HOTEL HAS 2 ARTIST STUDIOS AVAILABLE. They are $450 (all inclusive) per month, app 150 sq feet, and feature natural light & private, secure locking access + private common area and kitchen area. Sorry, no living, but artist tenants do get a say in the Market Hotel collective and can organize events and curate art shows. for more info, email THEMARKETHOTEL@GMAIL.COM"

Clouds were originally on the These Arms are Snakes bill. Now it seems they're not.

Phish played last night.

Coolio busted with crack.

M.I.A.'s baby is not named Ickitt.

Music therapist plays guitar for cancer patients.

The So So Glos are playing Death By Audio on Sunday. Joly posted some new video of the So So Glos from a show at Santos Party House during CMJ. Watch them below...

What else?

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