Well, I am back home. Trying to get back into the rut. Colorado was awesome…we got over a foot of snow while we were out there and come home relatively unscathed. The wife broke her toe which ended her snowboarding 3 days in but that was the only injury. While I was out there I spent a lot of time listening to the recently leaked Clutch and RJD2 albums. Later this week or next I plan to write about them. FTR though, they are both wonderful albums. So, in the coming days things will get back to normal…the day job piled up while I was gone and posting may be a tad irregular while I try and excavate myself from it.

For the Tampa/St. Pete people; here are some upcoming shows you should really try and attend. I will be at them all.

When: Friday Feb. 09
Where: Czar Bar
Who: Summerbirds in the Cellar
Time: 9pm

Summerbirds in the Cellar - Ghosttown

When: Tuesday Feb. 13
Where: Skipper’s
Who: Old Crow Medicine Show
Time: 8pm

Old Crow Medicine Show - Minglewood Blues

When: Sunday Feb 18
Where: Orpheum
Who: Scott H.Biram
Time: 7pm

Scott H. Biram - Reefer Load

When: Monday March 5
Where: The State Theater
Who: Clutch w/Five Horse Johnson
Time: 7pm

Clutch - The Mob Goes Wild

p.s.: Congrats Indy fans.

Panning through Pollstar during lunch today what do I see?

Old Crow Medicine Show is playing Skipper’s Smokehouse in Feb!

OMG! Me and the wife were just talking about pulling a road trip next time they were playing in Atlanta and now all we’ll have to do is drive across the bridge to Tampa.

Excuse the mess, I just got a little excited is all.

If for some reason you have no idea who I am talking about here is a piece I did on them earlier this year.

Fresh off their overseas jaunt with Tool, Mastadon, have announced dates for a 2007 American tour….and it is even coming to Florida….well slap my ass and call me Sally.

Here are the dates:

01-26 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
01-27 Orlando, FL - House of Blues
01-28 St. Petersburg, FL - Jannus Landing
01-30 Tallahassee, FL - Beta Bar
01-31 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
02-01 Knoxville, TN - Blue Cat’s
02-02 Nashville, TN - Rocketown
02-03 St. Louis, MO - Pop’s
02-05 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
02-07 Grand Rapids, MI - The Orbit Room
02-08 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
02-09 Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theater
02-10 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
02-11 Providence, RI - Lupo’s
02-13 Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock
02-14 Rochester, NY - Water Street Music Hall
02-15 Albany, NY - Northern Lights
02-16 New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place
02-17 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
02-18 Norfolk, VA - NorVa

North Mississippi Allstars & Jon Spencer hit the road in support of the re-release of their cd Spencer Dickinson (The Man Who Lives For Love)…the St. Pete show will find me and the wife front and center….I have never seen John Spencer but I have seen NMA a couple of times and it is one heck of a good time.

Be there or be square.

Tue 11/07/2006 Burlington, VT- Higher Ground
Wed 11/08/2006 New York, NY- Bowery Ballroom SPENCER DICKINSON SET ONLY (no NMA set)
Fri 11/10/2006 Philadelphia, PA- TLA
Sat 11/11/2006 Washington, DC- 930 Club
Sun 11/12/2006 Charlottesville, VA- Starr Hill Music Hall
Tue 11/14/2006 Chapel Hill, NC- Cat’s Cradle
Wed 11/15/2006 Charleston, SC- Music Farm
Thu 11/16/2006 Jacksonville Beach, FL- Freebird Live
Fri 11/17/2006 Ft. Lauderdale, FL- Culture Room
Sat 11/18/2006 St. Petersburg, FL- State Theatre

Blog darlings The Hold Steady will hit the road in support of their new cd, Boys and Girls in America. Now, I am gonna be honest…I have the cd but I have not been inclined to put the damn thing in my cd player yet so I do not have an opinion on the album…but everyone else in the somewhat-free-world loves the damned thing. I will listen to it eventually but I probably won’t type anything about it here because every other blog on the internet has already jizzed all over the back of the blog world about it…..but i digress…here are those dates:

10-12 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress *
10-13 San Diego, CA - Brick by Brick *
10-14 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar *
10-16 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *
10-17 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
10-19 Portland, OR - Lola’s *
10-20 Vancouver, British Columbia - Plaza Club *
10-21 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café *
10-24 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
10-25 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
10-26 Chicago, IL - Metro *#
10-27 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *
10-28 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern *
10-29 Ottawa, Ontario - Zaphod Beeblebrox *
10-30 Cambridge, MA - Middle East *
11-21 Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar $
11-22 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw $
11-24 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s
11-25 Washington, DC - Black Cat
11-26 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
11-27 Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern
11-29 Orlando, FL - The Social
11-30 Tampa, FL - Orpheum
12-01 Tallahassee, FL - Beta Bar
12-02 New Orleans, LA - The Parish at House of Blues
12-04 Little Rock, AR - Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack
12-05 Columbia, SC - Mojo’s
12-06 Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
12-07 Iowa City, IA - The Picador
12-08 Newport, KY - Southgate House
12-09 Louisville, KY - Headliner’s
12-13 Buffalo, NY - Showplace
12-15 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street

The Orpheum? If these guys are as popular as the internets make them sound that place is waaaaaaayyyyyy too small.

Pet Shop Boys will tour this fall in support of their greatest hits cd, Popart.  Here are the tour dates:

10-10 Montreal, Quebec - Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
10-11 Toronto, Ontario - Hummingbird Center
10-13 Boston, MA - The Opera House
10-14 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
10-15 Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall
10-17 Miami Beach, FL - Jackie Gleason Theatre
10-18 Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Café
10-19 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
10-21 Austin, TX - The Backyard
10-22 Dallas, TX - Nokia Theatre
10-24 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
10-26 Detroit, MI - State Theatre
10-27 Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre
10-28 Minneapolis, MN - The Orpheum
10-30 Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre
11-01 Phoenix, AZ - Arizona State Fair
11-03 West Valley, UT - The Ford Theatre
11-05 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
11-07 San Francisco, CA - Graham Civic Auditorium
11-08 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern LG
11-09 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern LG
11-12 Guadalajara, Mexico - Teatro Diana
11-14 Mexico City, Mexico - Auditorio Nacional
11-16 Monterrey, Mexico - Arena Monterrey

Justin Broadrick posted today about some upcoming activities.

Justin K Broadrick will be performing with Sunn 0))) on their current U.K and Eire tour, here are the dates -

Fri 13th Oct 06 London - Hippodrome[Frieze]
Sun 15th Oct 06 Glasgow - ABC2
Mon 16th Oct 06 Belfast - Black Box
Tue 17th Oct 06 Dublin - Crawdaddy
Thu 19th Oct 06 Galway - Richards Bar
Fri 20th Oct 06 Cork - Cypress Avenue

Justin will also be performing as Final in England ; a one off headline on Nov 3rd 06 at The Cooler in Bristol, and supporting MONO [Japan] at The Corporation in Sheffield on Nov 7th 06.

Jesu WILL be touring the U.S.A with ISIS beginning late Feb ending early April 2007 in support of the ‘Conqueror’ album release in mid Feb 2007. The routing and dates are currently being finalised, dates and details soon….

Be sure to check out his post. In addition to the tour info above, there is also talk about what’s going on in the studio with his various projects.

Jesu tour! Yes!

THE CULT has announced the following fall 2006 U.S. tour dates:

Oct. 27 - Dallas, TX - Glass Cactus
Oct. 29 - Corpus Christi, TX - Concrete Street Amphitheatre
Oct. 31 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
Nov. 01 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
Nov. 03 - Saint Petersburg, FL - Jannus Landing
Nov. 04 - Pompano Beach, FL - Club Cinema
Nov. 05 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
Nov. 07 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
Nov. 08 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
Nov. 09 - Hampton Beach, NH - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom

current touring lineup includes principals Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy…I, for one, will be front at center on 11/03.