Single day tickets for Downtown Music Festival, which hits multiple LES venues and includes Black Hippy (aka Kenrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock all playing together), Purity Ring, Earl Sweatshirt, Sky Ferreira, DIIV, Palma Violets, Trash Talk, and more, go on sale today at 11 AM.

Tickets for The Specials at shows at The Paramount in Huntington, NY and Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park go on sale today at 10 AM, and their Danbury, CT show goes on sale at noon. Tickets are still available for their Pier 26 show.

Admission to the Hot 97 Summer Jam Festival Village show at MetLife Stadium with Action Bronson, Joey Bada$$, A$AP Ferg, Vinny Cha$e, Smoke DZA, Bodega Bamz, Troy Ave, Kid Ink and Radamiz can only be gained with your Summer Jam ticket, which go on sale today at 10 AM.

Big Black Delta are playing Glasslands on June 22. Tickets for that show go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tickets to see Adam Ant on two nights at Irving Plaza go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tickets for the Cibo Matto shows at Littlefield go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tickets to see Night Beds at Glasslands go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tony Bennett is playing Radio City Music Hall on October 11. Tickets for that show go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tickets to see Tom Jones at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks at Glasslands go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Gaslight Anthem at shows at Pier 26 at Hudson River Park (one with Bouncing Souls, one with The Hold Steady) go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see The Mountain Goats at Maxwell's with The Baptist Generals go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see The Baptist Generals play their own show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Dan Croll is playing Mercury Lounge on June 17. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Flobots and Wheelchair Sports Camp are playing Santos Party House on June 4. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see OBN lIIs and Ex-Cults at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Old 97's on their three-night stint at Brooklyn Bowl go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Hooded Fang at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Villagers at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Nightlands at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Treetop Flyers at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Frank Turner on two nights at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon.

Tickets to see Mobb Deep with Waka Flocka Flame and Heems at Best Buy Theatre go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Social Distortion show at Warsaw with Cheap Time and Dave Hause, and their show at Stone Pony Summer Stage with that same lineup plus Hot Water Music, are on sale now.

Tickets to see Coastgaard (who were named by L Magazine as one of the 8 "bands you need to hear") at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

The Black Crowes, Tedeschi Trucks Band and The London Souls are playing PNC Bank Arts Center on August 9 and Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre on August 10. Tickets for those shows go on sale today at noon.

Dead Confederate and Roadkill Ghost Choir are playing Maxwell's on May 19. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Pacific Air show at Mercury Lounge go on sale today at noon.

Tickets for the Bob Schneider show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at 3 PM.

Lissie is playing Bowery Ballroom on June 3. Tickets for that show go on sale today at noon.

Icona Pop

As you may know already, Passion Pit are currently on tour and will play NYC at Madison Square Garden on February 8 with Matt & Kim opening. Another opener has been added to that show, Swedish dance outfit Icona Pop. Tickets are still available. After that show, the "I Love It" duo will play a few West Coast shows with KFlay and all tour dates are listed below.

UPDATE: Icona Pop were also just announced on a ton more Passion Pit shows. Now all listed below.

Icona Pop, who are playing the just-announced 2013 Governor's Ball here in NYC, will also play the 2013 Wakarusa Festival which happens May 30 - June 2 on Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, AR. The diverse line-up includes Widespread Panic, The Black Crowes, Of Monsters and Men, Gogol Bordelo, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, De the Funky Homosapien, Calexico and many more. Full Wakarusa line-up is below.

In related news, Icona Pop appear on the new soundtrack for the TV show "Girls", not to be confused with the possibly upcoming reality TV show inspired by it.

A list of all Icona Pop and Passion Pit tour dates, plus Wakarusa 2013 line-up, are below...

Continue reading "Icona Pop added to Passion Pit MSG show (and tour); Wakarusa announced their 2013 lineup"

The Black Crowes will record new, original material for an upcoming album during four sold-out concerts at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, New York, in February and March. This run of performances at the recording studio built decades ago by the 2008 Grammy winner and former drummer for the Band are being billed as "Cabin Fever Winter 2009." The shows on February 21, 22, 28 and March 1 sold out in less than two days.

"We're thrilled," Helm, who's not scheduled to perform, tells Rolling Stone. "It kind of shows me that we're doing things right." Over the last few years Helm has staged "Midnight Ramble" house concerts at the studio -- Saturday night performances Rolling Stone named Best Jam Session that feature special guests sitting in with the Levon Helm Band... [Rolling Stone]

Levon Helm (and band) is playing the Beacon Theatre in NYC on March 5th & 6th. Tickets go on Concertmaps presale Wednesday at 10AM. Tickets go on Ticketmaster Am Ex & "Venue" presale two hours after that, and then finally on regular sale Saturday at 10AM.

The Levon Helm Band is also playing Wellmont Theatre in Jersey on February 7th. All dates, including a bunch of Rambles, below...

Continue reading "Levon Helm - 2009 Tour Dates (Beacon Theatre) (presale)"

....before reviewing the CD

Maxim magazine has apologized for publishing a negative review of the Black Crowes' new album by a writer who hadn't listened to the whole CD.

The review in Maxim's March issue gives the Crowes' "Warpaint" a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five. The band posted an exasperated statement on its Web site last week saying the Maxim writer hadn't heard the entire album because advance copies weren't available. The Crowes' manager, Pete Angelus, said the magazine explained that its review was an "educated guess." [Yahoo]

For the first time in their 18-year career, THE BLACK CROWES will perform an album of theirs in its entirety. On a special run of "One Night Only" shows beginning March 2 and wrapping March 20, fans will experience WARPAINT--the group's first album of all new studio material in seven years, due out March 4 -- in its entirety onstage, after which the band will perform songs from their catalog and selected surprises.

Dates & stuff below....

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