Amy Winehouse @ Bowery Ballroom - March 2007 (more)

A spokesman for Amy Winehouse says the singer won't perform in the United States next month, as had been planned.

Spokesman Chris Goodman said Monday that Winehouse isn't going to the Coachella festival in Indio, Calif., in "light of current legal issues."

Winehouse was charged with assault last week for allegedly attacking a fan at a London party in September. The singer is due in court next week.

Being charged with a crime often makes it difficult for people to get U.S. visas. [Billboard] (thx Tye)

That is probably the least surprising news ever announced in history. In related news, "2009 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of Island Records, arguably the most prestigious record label in the history of British music. To mark this milestone the label is collaborating with Island founder Chris Blackwell to arrange the Island 50 festival." A week of live shows is planned in London, and Amy Winehouse is on the bill. More details below...

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photos by Kyle Dean Reinford

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The pictures from today's Mermaid Parade are already appearing on the Internet. Here's one photo that Joe Holmes took....

today in NYC
* FREE
* DANCE
* URB ALT
* MAKE MUSIC
* After the Jump
* Free Blood @ Santos
* Green Velvet @ Studio B
* Polvo @ Bowery Ballroom
* Stars Like Fleas @ Sound Fix
* Baby Dayliner @ Mercury Lounge
* Steely Dan @ the Beacon Theater
* The Cure @ Radio City Music Hall
* The Muslims @ The Castle in Hell
* Sharon Van Etten @ Rooftop Films
* Ponytail & Deer Tick @ Silent Barn
* Children, TK Webb and The Visions & Miguel Mendez @ Union Pool

E.S.T. were supposed to play (le) Poisson Rouge tonight. Esbjorn Svensson, RIP.

TK Webb & The Visions recently announced that their debut album Ancestor will be out on Kemado on September 2nd.

Free Blood (ex-!!!) at Santos Party House tonight is $10. The flyer is below. Free Blood is also playing PS1 this summer.

More of Joe's Mermaid Parade pics at Flickr.

After Steely Dan @ The Bitter End tonight:

Brian Sizensky (7PM)
Pauline Pisano (CD Release)
Baywa
The Undisputed Heavyweights
Jeff Young & Friends (featuring present members of Steely Dan)
The Jon Herrington Band (featuring present members of Steely Dan)

Someone told me it's a tradition that Steely Dan always has an afterparty like this.

The Fratellis played Ferguson last night. Video below.

What else?

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photos by Chris La Putt

"Although the Fratellis saw major chart success in the United Kingdom with 2006's "Costello Music," the Glasgow, Scotland, band is best-known in the United States for its song "Flathead" being featured in an iTunes commercial. Back for round two, sophomore album "Here We Stand" doesn't quite bring anything new to the table, but does carry on in the same fun, brash rock tradition of the debut." [Billboard]

"Like Alex Turner with a head injury, Jon Fratelli writes observational lyrics that observe nothing, and character songs with no character: witness the shameless codswallop of Mistress Mabel." [Guardian]

Yesterday (June 13, 2008) The Fratellis played two shows in NYC. The first was in a record store. The second was at Webster Hall. More pictures from the latter below....

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n this Aug. 2, 2007 file photo, Michelle Duggar, left, is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob, third from right after the birth of her 17th child in Rogers, Ark. The Duggars announced on Friday, May 9, 2008 that they are expecting their 18th child.

Tickets are on sale for the upcoming Fratellis shows at Webster Hall and elsewhere.

ALSO on sale (earlier today)
* My Bloody Valentine
* Cavalera Conspiracy
* Echo & The Bunnymen
* Ambulance LTD
* My Brightest Diamond

The Fratellis in Austin (more)

The Fratellis are coming back and this time in smaller venues than one of the last times they were here (I can't completely keep track). Dates, presale, and new album info, below......

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Good for them, but bad for us - The Fratellis from Scotland and Peter Bjorn and John from Sweden are both headlining the very large Roseland Ballroom in NYC. The Fratellis played Mercury Lounge on March 22. Their Roseland show is July 18. It took them less than 4 months? PB&J played Mercury Lounge on January 29 (one night after Union Hall), and they're playing Roseland on September 6th....about 7 months. Will these shows sell out? The Fratellis are also opening for The Police, and PB&J did already play two nights at Webster.

Spoon is also playing Roseland. So is Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Tickets go on sale Friday for The Fratellis, and a Silverchair show. Spoon is on sale now. All tour dates below....

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