ZZ Top will releases its very first live DVD on June 24, 2008.  The title of the set is “ZZ Top, Live From Texas”.  Before that the group will head out on the road beginning its tour in Bossier City, LA at Horseshoe Casino on May 2.  It will play at least 44 shows before ending its trip at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater in Tinley Park, IL on September 13.

The DVD, which is being brought to you by Eagle Vision/Eagle Rock Entertainment, contains 17 songs of Blues, boogie, rock and roll.  ZZ Top started playing Music over 40 years ago in 1969.  One great known facts about the band is that they are the only major band to never have a personnel switch.

ZZ Top Tour Schedule:

May

5/2 - Bossier City, LA Riverdome at Horseshoe Casino
5/3 - Beaumont, TX Ford Pavilion
5/7 - Tucson, AZ AVA Amphitheatre
5/9 - Dixon, CA Dixon May Fair
5/10 - Valley Center, CA Harrah’s Rincon Open Sky Theater
5/23 - Orange Beach, AL The Amphitheater at the Wharf
5/24 - Robinsonville, MS Grand Casino Tunica
5/25 - Little Rock, AR Riverfest
5/29 - Pelham, AR Verizon Wireless Music Center Birmingham
5/30 - Johnson City, TN Freedom Hall Civic Center
5/31 - Louisville, KY Godman Field/Fort Knox

June

6/3 - Knoxville, TN Tennessee Theatre
6/5 - Marksville, LA Mari Center
6/6 - Enterprise, AL BAMAJAM Festival Site
6/7 - Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre
6/8 - Charleston, SC SC North Charleston Performing Arts Center
6/12 - Chattanooga, TN Riverbend Festival
6/13 - Jackson, MS Jubilee! JAM
6/14 - Valdosta, GA Wild Adventures Theme Park
6/19 - Gilford, NH Meadowbrook
6/20 - Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre
6/21 - Rutland, VT Summer Extravaganza
6/22 - Aberdeen, MD Shine Sports Field – Aberdeen Proving Ground

August

8/1 - Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
8/2 - Phoenix, AZ Cricket Pavilion
8/3 - Devore, CA Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen
8/7 - Sturgis, SD Buffalo Chip Campground
8/8 - Vancouver, BC General Motors Place
8/9 - Auburn, WA White River Amphitheater
8/14 - Louisville, KY Freedom Hall/KY State Fair
8/15 - Springfield, IL Illinois State Fair
8/16 - Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
8/17 - Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center
8/23 - Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
8/24 - Toronto, ONT Molson Amphitheatre
8/25 - Syracuse, NY New York State Fair
8/26 - Allentown, PA The Great Allentown Fair
8/29 - Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Summerfest
8/31 - Ft. Leonard Wood, MO Fort Leonard Wood

September

9/5 - Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
9/6 - Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
9/9 - York, PA York Fair
9/12 - Burgettstown, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
9/13 - Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

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Neil Diamondis going to returning to the concert stage beginning on July 19 from Xcel Energy Center in St Paul.  He will tour throughout the US and Canada before ending up October 30 in Jacksonville, FL.

You will be able to start buying Neil Diamond tickets on April 28.  American Express holders will have the opportunity at pre-sale tickets.  Also check out Neils newest album which is scheduled to drop on May 6 and is titled, “Home Before Dark”

Neil Diamond Tour Schedule:

7/19 Saint Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
7/22 Sioux City, IA Tyson Events Ctr. / Gateway Arena
7/24 Omaha, NE Qwest Center Omaha
7/26 Chicago, IL United Center
7/29 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
7/31 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace Of Auburn Hills
8/3 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
8/5 Washington, DC Verizon Center
8/7 Hartford, CT XL Center
8/9 Philadelphia, PA The Wachovia Center
8/12 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Arena
8/14 New York, NY Madison Square Garden Arena
8/18 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena
8/20 Albany, NY Times Union Center
8/23 Boston, MA Fenway Park
8/25 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
8/27 Green Bay, WI Resch Center
8/29 Saint Louis, MO Scottrade Center
9/14 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
9/16 Edmonton, ALB Rexall Place
9/18 Calgary, ALB Pengrowth Saddledome
9/20 Vancouver, BC General Motors Place
9/22 Portland, OR Rose Garden Arena
9/24 Seattle, WA Seattle Center
9/26 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena
9/28 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion At San Jose
10/1-2 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl

10/7 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena
10/10 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena
10/12 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
10/14 Houston, TX Toyota Center
10/16 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
10/19 Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center
10/21 Tulsa, OK Bank Of Oklahoma Center
10/24 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
10/26 Sunrise, FL BankAtlantic Center
10/28 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
10/30 Jacksonville, FL Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum

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Alicia Keysfresh off of a very successful European tour will begin the North American leg this Saturday in Hampton, VA.  The name of the tour is, “As I am” and will include past American Idolwinner Jordin Sparks and grammy nominated singer Ne-Yo.

Alicia Keys Tour Schedule:

April

Apr-19 Hampton, VA Hampton Coliseum
Apr-21 Philadelphia, PA Liacouras Center
Apr-22 Pittsburgh, PA Peterson Events Center
Apr-24 Cleveland, OH Wolstein Center
Apr-26 Columbus, OH Value City Arena
Apr-27 St Louis, MO Scottrade Center
Apr-30 Minneapolis, MN Target Center

May

May-1 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
May 4 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
May-5 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
May-7 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena
May-9 Las Vegas, NV MGM Garden Arena
May-10 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion at San Jose
May-11 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena
May-14 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie
May-15 Memphis, TN Fed Ex Forum
May-18 Houston, TX Toyota Center
May-22 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
May-24 St. Petersburg, FL St. Pete Times Forum
May-25 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
May-28 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
May-30 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
May-31 Atlantic City, NJ Mark Etess/Taj Arena

June

June-3 Montreal, QUE Bell Centre
June-5 Toronto, ONT Air Canada Centre
June-6 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
June-7 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
June-11 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
June-13 Washington, DC Verizon Center
June-15 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
June-17 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
June-18 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

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John Melloncamphas announced that he is planning a summer tour that will start on July 8 at Mann Center in Philadelphia and has shows scheduled through August 2 at Greek Theater in Berkeley.  He is planning on announcing more dates in the coming weeks.

John Melloncamp who is a grammy award winning musician was inducted into the World Rock Hall of Fame in March, will be promoting his new album.  “Life, Death, Love and Freedom is scheduled to be released on July 15. 

Mark your calenders for April 26 because this is when tickets go on sale.

John Melloncamp Tour Schedule:

July
8 - Mann Music Center - Philadelphia, PA
10 - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater - Wantagh, NY
11 - PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, NJ
14 - Bank of America Pavilion - Boston, MA
15 - Bank of America Pavilion - Boston, MA
18 - DTE Energy Music Theatre - Clarkston, MI
22 - Charter One Pavilion - Chicago, IL
23 - Riverbend Music Center - Cincinnati, OH
25 - Ford Center - Oklahoma City, OK
27 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Denver, CO
30 - Santa Barbara Bowl- Santa Barbara, CA
31 - Greek Theatre - Los Angeles, CA

August
2 - Greek Theatre - Berkeley, CA

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Yesterday was the day that every NFL fan has been waiting for since the last second ticked off the clock at Super Bowl XLII.  The 2008-2009 NFL schedule was released. 

The new season will kick off on September 4th, a Thursday night game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins at Giant Stadium in East Rutherford. 

This seasons Super Bowl will be played in Tampa, Fl on Feb 1, 2009.

As far as the schedules go, based on opponents records last year, the Pittsburgh Steelers have the toughest schedule and the New England Patriots have the easiest.    

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To kick off the release of her new album, “Hard Candy”, Madonna will play a show at Roseland Ballroom in New York on April 30.  She will be debuting most of her new songs.

You will be able to see the show on MSN’s Music in Concert if you live in the US.  If you live outside the US it will be available on May 15.  On the verge of her new deal with Live Nation this marks the last album under her current contract with Warner Music.

For anyone who downloads the song, “4 Minutes”, through Verizon Wireless VCast will be eligible to have a bar-coded tickets sent directly to their cell phones.  Anyone else wanting to be admitted to the show will need to wait in line for first come first served tickets.

Checkout the video below to see Madonna’s new video with Timberland and Justin Timberlake.

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On May 1 comedian Lewis Black will kick off his “Let Them Eat Cake” tour at Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara.  He is planning over 30 shows, but only ones through May 18 have been announced.  Stay tune for remaining shows. 

If you don’t know who Lewis Black is you can find him on Wednesday nights on Comedy Central staring in “Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil”.  The main idea of the show is to have 2 different comedians debating about which of two public figures is more evil or disliked in society.  Lewis Black then has the final say to the winner.

Last year Black received a Grammy award for “Best Comedy Album” for “The Carnegie Hall Performance”.  If you can’t make it for this years tour don’t worry, because Lewis performs about 200 nights a year.

Lewis Black Tour Schedule:

May 1 Santa Barbara, CA Arlington Theatre
May 2 Thousand Oaks, CA Fred Kavli Theatre - Thousand Oaks Civic Arts
May 3 Long Beach, CA Terrace Theater - Long Beach Convention Center
May 4 Santa Cruz, CA Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
May 8 Boston, MA Opera House
May 9 Syracuse, NY Landmark Theatre
May 10 Sewell, NJ Commerce Bank Arts Centre
May 11 Rochester, NY Rochester Aud Theatre
May 15-18 Washington, D.C. Warner Theatre

Stay tune for more to come

Lewis Black Tickets 

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Well the rumors are starting to whirl on the internet lately that AC/DC is in the Studio recording its first record in 8 years.  Supposedly AC/DC is working with Brendan O’Brien who has produced music for Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver.

With a new long awaited album usually means a big time tour.  If AC/DC does decide to plan a tour it is very possible that this will be the last time to see them live.  Cliff Williams who is the bands bassist has recently said that the next tour will probably be the bands farewell tour.

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Radiohead has decided to add a second leg to its North American Tour.  It will kick off at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 1 and will Conclude in Santa Barbara at the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 28. 

The band has recently started its own social networking site that gives its fans the opportunity to talk to each other, upload pictures and buy tickets.  The Site is called W.A.S.T.E Central. 

Even though Radiohead split for its previous recorn label Capital Records in 2004, it plans to release a “Radiohead: Best of” album on June 3.  It will include a compelation of songs from its 6 major label albums.

Over their career Radiohead has sold over 25 million albums, gone platinum is 17 different countries and multi platinum is 9 of those.

Radiohead Tour Second Leg:

Aug. 1- Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza / Grant Park
Aug. 3 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
Aug. 4 - Cuyahoga Falls - OH Blossom Music Center
Aug. 6 - Montreal, QUE - Parc Jean Drapeau
Aug. 8-9 - Jersey City, NJ - All Points West Festival / Liberty State Park
Aug. 12 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
Aug. 13 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center For the Performing Arts
Aug. 15 - Toronto, ONT - Molson Amphitheatre
Aug. 19 - Vancouver, BC - Thunderbird Stadium
Aug. 20 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre
Aug. 22 - San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Festival / Golden Gate Park
Aug. 24 -25: Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
Aug. 27 - Chula Vista, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
Aug. 28 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl

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To celebrate the June Release of “Poison: Live, Raw and Uncut”, Poison will hit the road for a 40 city tour.  Along side them will be Dokken and Sebastain Bach, former singer with Skid Row.  The new album, which it brought to us by Coming Home Media and Media B, will be the groups first album in over ten years.

The tour will begin in Salt Lake City on July 3 and wind down in Hutchinson, KS on September 7. 

May 13 marks the date of Dokkens first album release in four years, titled “Lightning Strikes Again”.  Dokken will be playing all of his new songs for the first time and will incorporate all of his previous hits such as, “Breaking The Chains,” “Alone Again,” and “Into The Fire”.

Poison: Live, Raw & Uncut Summer Tour 2008 Schedule: 

JULY
3 - Salt Lake City, UT Energy Solutions Arena
5 - Greeley, CO Greeley Stampede
8 - Nashville, TN Sommet Center
9 - Kansas City, MO Starlight Theatre
11 - Walker, MN Moondance Jam 17
12 - Madison, WI Willow Island
13 - Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
15 - Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center
17 - Cadott, WI Rockfest
18 - Morton, MN Jackpot Junction Casino
19 - Rockford, IL MetroCentre
20 - Pikeville, KY Eastern KY Expo Center
22 - Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheater
23 - W. Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheater
25 - Kinder, LA Coushatta Casino
26 - Birmingham, AL Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
27 - Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheatre
29 - Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
30 - Wantagh, NY Nikon @ Jones Beach
31 - Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion

AUGUST
2 - Greenville, WI Greenville Lions Park
3 - Chicago, IL FMB Pavilion
5 - Bethlehem, PA Musikfest
7 - Boston, MA Bank of America Pavilion
8 - Hershey, PA Hershey Park Pavilion
9 - Detroit, MI Freedom Hill
10 - Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
12 - Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
13 - Richmond, VA Innsbrook Pavilion
14 - Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
15 - Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
16 - Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
17 - St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
22 - Las Vegas, NV The Pearl
23 - Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
24 - Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theater
27 - Lancaster, CA Antelope Valley Fair
28 - Pala, CA Pala Casino
29 - Kelseyville, CA Konocti Harbor
30 - Salem, OR Oregon State Fair
31 - Vancouver, BC Boulevard Casino

SEPTEMBER
4 - Blackfoot, ID Eastern Idaho State Fair
5 - Grand Junction, CO Rock Jam
6 - Denver, CO Coors Amphitheatre
7 - Hutchinson, KS Kansas State Fair

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