Bright Eyes Announces Additional 2011 Tour Dates

With a new album, The People's Key, due February 15 on Saddle Creek), Bright Eyes has announced additional tour dates for 2011, the band's first string of U.S. shows in more than three years.
Since 2006 the core of Bright Eyes has been permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott, joined by various musicians in the studio and on tour. The seven-piece band will be kick off the 2011 tour in Miami in March. Following a sell-out in New York, Due to overwhelming demand an additional Radio City Music Hall show has been added in New York.
The People's Key is the first Bright Eyes album since 2007's Cassadaga.

Pre-sales for some shows begin Wednesday, December 14, with public on-sales beginning on Friday, December 17.  Visit www.conoroberst.com for more details

Bright Eyes 2011 Tour Dates:

3/2          The Fillmore Miami Beach @ The Jackie Gleason         Miami, FL
3/3          House of Blues                                                            Lake Buena Vista, FL
3/4          Tabernacle                                                                  Atlanta, GA
3/5          Thomas Wolf Auditorium                                            Asheville, NC
3/6          The National                                                               Richmond, VA
3/8         Radio City Music Hall ***                                            New York, NY
3/9         Radio City Music Hall *** (SOLD OUT)                       New York, NY
3/10       House Of Blues                                                            Boston, MA
3/11       State Theatre                                                                Portland, ME
3/13       Sound Academy                                                           Toronto, ON
3/14       Royal Oak                                                                    Royal Oak, MI
3/15       Vic Theatre                                                                  Chicago, IL
3/17       Ryman Auditorium                                                       Nashville, TN

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Lucinda Williams is 'Blessed' - New Album Due March 1, 2011

Three-time Grammy Award-winner Lucinda Williams will release a new album, Blessed, March 1, 2011 on Lost Highway.

The new studio set from the acclaimed singer-songwriter features 12 tracks, which include the opening "Buttercup" followed by the bluesy“Born To Be Loved”.  On "Seeing Black,"  Elvis Costello provides some guitar and among the other numbers are the title track and "Soldier’s Song."  The song "Kiss Like Your Kiss." first appeared in a version on the album True Blood: Music From The HBO Original Series - Volume 2 and was just nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media.
Blessed was produced by Don Was and co-produced by Eric Liljestrand and Tom Overby, who co-produced Williams 2008 release, Little Honey.  The new album features special guests Rami Jaffe on keyboards, Matthew Sweet on vocals, and Greg Leisz and Costello on guitar.
A Deluxe Edition of Blessed will include bonus material titled "The Kitchen Tapes." The tracks are the demos Williams recorded of the songs that became the album, actually worked on at the kitchen table in her home, where she does much of her writing.

Flogging Molly 'Green 17 Tour' Dates Set, New Album in the Works

One of our favorite Celtic rock bands, Flogging Molly, has announced dates for its 7th Annual "Green 17 Tour," kicking off February 8 in Dallas and running through March 19 in Oakland, CA, with the always-special St Patrick’s Day show set for Tempe, AZ.

The group spent the past three months in Detroit, writing songs for the follow-up to its fine 2008 release Float, which resulted in perhaps the band's best tour so far and great concert set, Live at the Greek Theater, recorded during a hometown show in Los Angeles in 2009.
The band is currently in Asheville, NC recording with producer Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Avett Brothers).  New songs featured on the upcoming album, due in 2011, will be part of the Green 17 Tour set list.
Tickets for the tour go on sale on December 11. For more info, visit www.floggingmolly.com.

Flogging Molly 2011 Green 17 Tour Dates

February 8 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
February 9 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
February 11 - Orlando, FL - House of Blues
February 12 - Miami, FL - The Fillmore
February 13 - Tampa,  FL - Ritz Ybor
February 14 - Atlanta, GA  - Tabernacle
February 15 - Charlotte, NC - Fillmore
February 17 - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
February 18 - Norfolk, VA - NorVa
February 19 - Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
February 20 - Albany, NY - Northern Lights
February 22 - Providence, RI - Lupo's
February 24 - Rochester, NY - The Armory
February 25 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
February 26 - Portland, ME - State Theatre
February 27 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
March 2 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
March 3 - Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
March 4 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore
March 5 - Nashville, TN - War Memorial Auditorium
March 7 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
March 8 - St Louis, MO - The Pageant
March 10 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room
March 11 - Chicago, IL - Congress Theater
March 12 - Chicago, IL - Congress Theater
March 13 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
March 15 - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom
March 17 - Tempe, AZ - Luckyman's St Patrick's Day Bash
March 18 - Las Vegas, NV - Beach at Mandalay Bay
March 19 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater