The Fratellis

Plus: Steve Gunn / William Tyler, The Sadies, Show Me the Body, Wristmeetrazor / Foreign Hands, Mount Sharp, and more tour-related news.

Plus: Billie Joe Armstrong’s band The Longshot, The Fratellis & Blood Red Shoes, Immersion (Colin Newman of Wire), Bodega, Collapsing Scenery, Viv Albertine, Screaming Females, ASG, Blis, and more newly-announced tours.

Also: The Fratellis, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Felice Brothers, Flosstradamus, The Disco Biscuits, and more NYC shows on sale.

Tickets for the Mew and The Dodos show at Webster Hall go on presale at 9 AM. PASSWORD = waterslides. The Fratellis are playing Webster Hall on Sep…

(via) Tickets to the Slayer shows at Susquehanna Bank Center and Oakdale Theater are on Citi Cardmember presale now. The Fratellis are playing Webster Hall on November 1…

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…

photos by Kyle Dean Reinford

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…

“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…

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…