Paul McCartney has announced the first two dates of his forthcoming, extensive ‘Up and Coming’ 2010 tour.  In keeping with his headline-making special concerts over the last few years, the tour will see the iconic star and his band play unique venues, places and locations; new cities he’s never played and familiar markets he’s not visited for a while.

Paul’s first live concert of 2010 will take place in Glendale, Arizona at the Jobing.com Arena on Sunday 28th March.  This will be Paul’s first appearance in Arizona since 2005’s mega ‘US Tour’ which saw Paul rock out across America, performing 37 sell-out magical performances.

Straight off the back of the Arizona date, Paul will return to the legendary Hollywood Bowl for the first time since 1993.  Paul first appeared at the Bowl with The Beatles 46 years ago in August 1964 and then again a year later in August 1965.   These shows were recorded for a live album (The Beatles At Hollywood Bowl) that was not released until May 1977.  As with all The Beatles live shows, the technological limitations of the day found the band overpowered by the screams of female fans. Decades later the crowds are just as loud but superior technology now allows Paul to overpower the screams, and overpower them he does! Macca’s live shows have reached a new legendary status in recent years, garnering unprecedented reviews from fans and critics alike wherever he goes.

These will be Paul’s first US shows since his five-week ‘Summer Live ’09’ tour last year, which was prefaced by a triumphant sold out headline set at the 2009 Coachella festival and a surprise performance for CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman on the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater (inside which The Beatles made TV history decades ago) that drew throngs packing Broadway from Columbus Circle to Times Square.  The ‘Summer Live ’09’ tour began in earnest with an already legendary inaugural run of shows at New York’s Citi Field Stadium, the site of the former Shea Stadium where The Beatles played the 1965 concert that set the precedent for the modern day stadium rock show.  Critics hailed the Citi Field performances, seen by over 100,000 people, as the concert experience of a lifetime.  Those performances were immortalized on last year’s RIAA gold-certified multi-disc CD/DVD ‘Good Evening New York City’.

The new show will feature a typically diverse set list drawing on 2 hours plus worth of selections spanning the catalogues of The Beatles, Wings and Paul’s solo career, including tracks from The Fireman’s 2008 album ‘Electric Arguments’.   There will be some never-before-played-on-US-soil songs added to the set list as well as the US live premiere of ‘(I Want To) Come Home’, Paul’s Golden Globe nominated track from the Robert De Niro movie ‘Everybody’s Fine’.

Paul finished 2009 on a high when he brought his ‘Good Evening Europe’ tour to a close on the 22nd of December with his only UK show at London’s O2 Arena.   Reviews for the show were phenomenal and prove that Paul McCartney is a live experience that no-one should miss.   “The man is living history and the way he continues to bring new energy to his past is incredible,’ reported the UK’s largest Sunday paper, News Of The World.  The Telegraph exclaimed, “Paul McCartney used his only UK concert of 2009 as a showcase for an epic display of back-to-back basics music-making.  Armed only with his four-piece band and the greatest collection of hits in pop history, he traveled back and forth across the decades like the Dr Who of rock and roll.  Whatever elixir the 67-year-old Macca is running on remains a mystery, but he seems to get a huge charge from performing to an audience, especially one that is bombarding him with waves of adoration.”

More live shows to be announced soon.  Keep checking www.paulmccartney.com

Second Album From Foo Fighters’ Drummer and Friends
Out April 20 On Shanabelle/RCA

A year in the making, the second effort from Foo  Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and his Coattail Riders, Red Light Fever, is now scheduled for an April 20 release on Shanabelle/RCA Records.

Hawkins began demoing tracks on his own when an early 2009 break from the Foo Fighters’ grueling touring schedule finally freed up the time. According to  Hawkins, who of course provides drums and vocals on all tracks among other  additional instrumentation, “About halfway through, I just said f**k it, I don’t care if the record ends up sounding like me having sex with my record  collection. I’m just going to have fun with it.”

The record soon went from a home recording project like the Coattail Riders’ 2006 debut (which was  recorded in Foo Fighters touring percussionist Drew Hester’s living room) to  full on sessions at the Foo Fighters’ state of the art 606 studio complex. Hawkins was joined by returning Coattail Riders Chris Chaney (bass) and Gannin Arnold (guitar) and, for the first time in the studio, touring Coattails  guitarist Nate Wood. As the record’s dozen songs were fleshed out, so too was  its stellar supporting cast, which would eventually come to include Elliot Easton of the Cars, Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, and last but by no  means least, Hawkins’ bandmate Dave Grohl.

Red Light Fever could be considered a labor of love – if the sheer joy exuded in every note, influence  and nuance of every song didn’t make the entire affair seem so effortless. Hawkins’ increasingly accomplished vocals and world renowned drumming skills  recall and pay tribute to Hawkins’ vast spectrum of classic rock heroes – from the vintage 70s glam stomp of “Way Down,” the hard rock rave up “Not Bad  Luck,” a nod to Beatlesque balladry in the form of “Hell To Pay,” and many more. Virtually every track evokes memories of the respective heydays of the Chinn-Chapman hit factory, The Move, Sweet, and even a little 10cc for good  measure – all imbued with Hawkins’ unmistakable musical personality.

“The Broken” from the Forthcoming  Year of the Black Rainbow Now Streaming at  www.coheedandcambria.com

Pre-release Club Dates in Syracuse NY,  Burlington VT, Portland ME, Hartford CT, Scranton PA and Brooklyn NY SOLD  OUT

Coheed and Cambria will embark on its first North American  headline tour since fall 2007 beginning April 22, nine days following the  April 13 release of its fifth studio album, Year of the Black Rainbow  (Columbia). The five-week track marks Coheed and Cambria’s return to  headlining its own shows following a two-year-plus period that has seen them  invited to play along with070-411 the likes of John Paul Jones, Johnny Winter and  others at Warren Haynes’ 2008 Christmas Jam, embarking on a pair of arena  tours in support of Slipknot and Heaven & Hell, respectively, and  appearing at festivals ranging from Austin City Limits to Lollapalooza to an  upcoming Coachella set.

Support for the upcoming tour will be Circa  Survive and Torche. Tickets go on sale Saturday, February  20th.

The band recently made available a first taste of Year of the Black Rainbow by streaming the new song “The Broken” at  www.coheedandcambria.com. The song is also available for purchase on iTunes,  where it climbed to #5 on the Alternative Chart within hours of its release.

Produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe  Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool), Year of the Black Rainbow is  the eagerly awaited prequel to-and likely the final
70-410 installment of–the Amory  Wars tetralogy chronicled on Coheed and Cambria’s four previous inter-related  concept albums–The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of  Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From  Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV,  Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007). The deluxe edition of the record,  currently available for pre-order at www.coheedandcambria.com will include a  352-page Year of the Black Rainbow novel, penned by the band’s Claudio  Sanchez and New York Times Bestselling author Peter David, as well as a  “Making of” DVD featuring studio and interview footage and a Coheed and  Cambria “Black Card,”providing fans early entrance to shows, discounts on band  merchandise and exclusive downloads and offers.

Year Of The Black  Rainbow’s release will be preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs  on the northeastern U.S., six of which are now sold out.

Tour  dates

Mar
W/Earl Greyhound
23  Rochester, NY – Harro East Theatre &  Ballroom
24   Syracuse, NY – The Westcott  Theater (SOLD OUT)
25  Clifton Park , NY – Northern Lights
26  South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground  Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
28   Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall (SOLD  OUT)
29  Hartford, CT – Webster  Theater (SOLD  OUT)
30  Scranton, PA – Hardware  Bar (formerly Tinks) (SOLD OUT)
31  Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (SOLD  OUT)

Apr
17 Indio, CA  – Coachella Valley Arts and Music  Festival

With Circa Survive, Torche
22 Charlotte, NC – The  Fillmore
23 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
24 Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of  Blues
25 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
27 Houston, TX – Warehouse  Live
28 Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Outdoor
29 Dallas, TX  –  Palladium Ballroom
30 Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
May
01  Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
03 Tempe, AZ  – Marquee  Theatre
04 Pomona, CA – Fox Theatre
05 San Francisco, CA – The Warfield  Theatre
07 Portland, OR –  Roseland Theater
08 Seattle, WA –  Showbox SoDo
10 Salt Lake City, UT – Murray Theater
11 Denver, CO –   Ogden Theatre
13 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
14 Chicago, IL –   Congress Theater
15 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
17  Boston, MA –  House Of Blues
18 Montreal, QC – Metropolis
19  Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
22 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
23  Columbus, OH – Rock on the Range Festival*
26 New York, NY – Rumsey  Playfield, Central Park
27 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
27 Washington, DC  – 9:30 Club

*no Circa Survive, Torche

Fresh off their U.S. network television debut February 6 on Saturday Night Live, Them Crooked Vultures will appear on a very special edition of Austin City Limits airing February 13 on PBS stations.

Them Crooked Vultures’ set, filmed in September 2009, will be the sole performance on the February 13 episode.Them Crooked Vultures will play two more east coast shows prior to the ACL airdate: February 10 at the Fillmore in Charlotte NC and February 11 at the Tabernacle in Atlanta.

For further information, sign up at themcrookedvultures.com and/or check local listings for PBS air times in your area.

Additional U.S. Shows Sell Out
Australian Tour Dates Confirmed

(Friday, February 5) The video for “Written In Reverse,” the first single from Spoon’s recently released seventh album Transference, will be premiered today  at Pitchfork.com. The video, directed by Danny Clinch (photographer extraordinaire whose directorial credits include Tom Waits’ “Lie To Me,” Bruce Springsteen’s Devils & Dust DVD and Foo Fighters’ Skin + Bones), documents an actual live performance of the song recorded expressly for the video, expertly rendered in stark black and white.

Tickets recently went on sale for Spoon’s 2010 North American tour, which commences with a March 17 headlining appearance at Stubbs in Austin kicking off the annual South by Southwest conference. The tour’s March 27 show at Boston’s House of Blues and the first of two Minneapolis shows, April 2 at First Avenue, have just sold out, joining a pair of advance sell-outs March 22 and 23 at Washington DC’s 9:30 Club.

Spoon has also announced a run of Australian dates following the conclusion of the current run April 17 at the Coachella festival. The Australian tour kicks off April 30 in Melbourne.

SPOON ON TOUR 2010

14-Feb  Glasgow UK – King Tuts
15-Feb  Manchester UK – Academy 3
16-Feb  London UK – Electric Ballroom * SOLD OUT
18-Feb  Amsterdam NL – Paradiso
19-Feb  Cologne GER – Luxor
20-Feb  Berlin GER – Frannz Club * SOLD OUT

17-Mar Stubbs – Austin, TX
18-Mar Republic – New Orleans, LA
19-Mar Workplay Soundstage – Birmingham, AL
20-Mar Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
22-Mar 9:30 Club – Washington, DC * SOLD OUT
23-Mar 9:30 Club – Washington, DC * SOLD OUT
24-Mar The National – Richmond, VA
26-Mar Radio City Music Hall – New York, NY
27-Mar House of Blues – Boston, MA, USA * SOLD OUT
29-Mar Sound Academy – Toronto, ON
30-Mar Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal – Oak, MI
1-Apr Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, IL
2-Apr First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN * SOLD OUT
3-Apr First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
5-Apr Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
6-Apr Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
7-Apr In the Venue – Salt Lake City, UT
9-Apr Moore Theatre – Seattle, WA
10-Apr Moore Theatre – Seattle, WA
11-Apr Orpheum Theatre – Vancouver, BC
13-Apr Fox Theater – Oakland, CA
18-Apr Indio, CA – Coachella

30-April Melbourne – Billboard
1-May Bendigo – Groovin’ The Moo
2-May Townsville – Groovin’ The Moo
3-May Brisbane – The HiFi
6-May Coolangatta – The Cooly Hotel
7-May Sydney – The Forum
8-May Maitland – Groovin’ The Moo
9-May Canberra – Groovin’ The Moo
13-May Adelaide – Fowlers
14-May Perth – The Astor
15-May Bunbury – Groovin’ The Moo

*White Rabbits support on all UK/Euro dates
*Deerhunter direct support on all North American dates
*New Orleans – Royal Oak w/ The Strange Boys
*Chicago – Oakland w/ Micachu & the Shapes

Fan Questions To Be Submitted Immediately After For February 11 Live Video Chat

(New York NY – February 4) AFI will premiere its new video for “Beautiful Thieves,” the new single from its acclaimed Crash Love album, across all MTV channels today.

Immediately following the premiere, AFI fans will be invited to submit questions about the video, the song, Crash Love and/or anything AFI-related via Facebook at http://facebook.com/afireinside

AFI will answer selected questions during a live video chat taking place on 4:00 p.m. PST February  11. Fans can tune in then at http://facebook.com/afireinside to see if their questions are answered, while at the same time chatting live with members of AFI and fellow fans.

The February 11 event, hosted by livestream.com, will also feature the world premiere of a  “Making of ‘Beautiful Thieves’,”  a look at what went into making the newest AFI video featuring never seen before behind the scenes performance and interview footage.

100% OF PROCEEDS FROM SUPERBOWL AIRING TO GO TO PARTNERS IN HEALTH

Arcade Fire, Partners in Health, the NFL, Merge Records and Bank Robber Music have collectively agreed upon a unique 100% for charity Superbowl licensing of “Wake Up” from the band’s 2004 album Funeral. All proceeds from the song’s airing on the live Superbowl broadcast and subsequent airings on the NFL Network will go directly to Partners In Health’s Stand With Haiti relief efforts.

For further information on Partners In Health’s efforts regarding the Haiti crisis, go to http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti or see the information posted at http://www.arcadefire.com/

PRE-SALE TO BEGIN THIS WEEK AT

http://www.coheedandcambria.com

Deluxe Edition To Include 300 page “Year of the Black Rainbow “Novel, Penned by Claudio Sanchez and Bestselling Author Peter David

Four Of Eight Pre-Release Club Shows Completely SOLD OUT Appearing April 17 at Coachella.

Coheed and Cambria has confirmed April 13 as the release date of Year of the Black Rainbow, its heavily anticipated fifth studio album. The eagerly awaited prequel to “The Amory Wars” tetralogy, Year of the Black Rainbow will be released by Columbia in both a standard format and a deluxe edition including a 352-page Year of the Black Rainbow novel, penned by the band’s Claudio Sanchez and New York Times Bestselling author Peter David.

Presale orders for the deluxe edition of Year of the Black Rainbow can be placed beginning this week at http://www.coheedandcambria.com. In addition to the CD and novel, the deluxe edition will include a “Making of” DVD featuring studio and interview footage as well as a Coheed and Cambria “Black Card,,”which will allow fans early entrance to shows, discounts on band merchandise and exclusive downloads and offers. Sneak peeks at the new album’s artwork and other exclusive visuals can be seen at http://www.coheedandcambria.com.

Year of the Black Rainbow provides the long awaited prequel to the band’s four previous inter-related concept albums – The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007) – which comprise “The Amory Wars,” the conceptual narrative driving the band’s lyrics, penned by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. Year Of The Black Rainbow is also likely to be the final installment of the narrative of “The Amory Wars.” Year of the Black Rainbow is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). According to the Sanchez, “They have helped us evolve our sound to be more powerful and dynamic than ever and we think it’s definitely our best work to date.” The new record also features the studio debut of Coheed and Cambria drummer Chris Pennie, who has been playing alongside Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever and bassist Michael Robert http://www.phpaide.com/?langue=fr&id=16 Todd since 2007 and was featured on Neverender: Children of the Fence Edition, the CD/DVD box set documentation of the fall/winter 2008 four-night stands during which the band played its catalogue in its entirety, one album per night, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London.

Year Of The Black Rainbow’s release will be preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs on the northeastern U.S., four of which are already sold out. Earl Greyhound supports on the dates, which are as follows. Tue-Mar-23 – Rochester, NY – Harro East Theatre & Ballroom Wed-Mar-24 – Syracuse, NY – The Westcott Theater (SOLD OUT) Thu-Mar-25 – Clifton Park , NY – Northern Lights Fri-Mar-26 – South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground – Ballroom Sun-Mar-28 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall (SOLD OUT) Mon-Mar-29 – Hartford, CT – Webster Theater Tue-Mar-30 – Scranton, PA – Hardware Bar (formerly Tinks) (SOLD OUT) Wed-Mar-31 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (SOLD OUT) Sat-Apr-17 – Indio, CA – Coachella The complete track listing for Year of the Black Rainbow is: One The Broken Guns of Summer Here We Are Juggernaut Far The Shattered Symphony World of Lines Made Out of Nothing Pearl of the Stars In the Flame of Error When Skeletons Live The Black Rainbow

NYC, Charlotte, Atlanta Shows Confirmed

Them Crooked Vultures has confirmed its debut appearance on Saturday Night Live. The band – featuring SNL vets Dave Grohl and Josh Homme and, in his first ever appearance on the stage at 30 Rock’s famed Studio 8H, John Paul Jones – will be music guest on SNL’s February 6 show. Ashton Kutcher will host.

In addition, Them Crooked Vultures has confirmed three east coast shows immediately following the SNL festivities: February 8 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, February 10 at the Fillmore in Charlotte NC and February 11 at the Tabernacle in Atlanta.

For further information, sign up at themcrookedvultures.com.

New Album Out March 9
First Single “Stylo” Available January 26
April 18 Coachella Headline Slot Confirmed

20 January, 2009 – Plastic Beach the new album from Gorillaz, will be released by Virgin on 9 March, 2010.

The album is preceded by first single Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack) which will receive its radio broadcast premiere tonight and will be available for download January 26.

When reached with news of the leak that pushed up the premiere of the “Stylo” single, Gorillaz bass god Murdoc Niccals ranted via Twitter http://twitter.com/MurdocGorillaz: “A leak! A leak! Plastic Beach has sprung a leak! One of those Russian pirates has put a bullet hole in my island! My single’s leaked! STYLO!”

Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc and co. return with Plastic Beach. The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a Plastic Beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity. This Plastic Beach is the furthest point from any landmass on Earth; the most deserted spot on the planet.

The world’s biggest animated band, Gorillaz formed in 1998, and have since sold 12 million copies over two albums Gorillaz (2000) and Demon Days (2005). They have hit number 1 in more than a dozen countries and picked up awards including Grammys, Novellos, VMAs and EMAs.

The Gorillaz’ return will be marked by a headline appearance at this year’s Coachella festival. The Sunday April 18 performance will be the first Gorillaz live spectacle on U.S. soil since the awe-inspiring Demon Days Live run in April 2006 at New York’s Apollo Theater.

Plastic Beach is produced by Gorillaz.

The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. Orchestral Intro (featuring Sinfonia ViVA)
2. Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach (feat. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
3. White Flag (feat. Kano, Bashy & The National Orchestra For Arabic Music)
4. Rhinestone Eyes
5. Stylo (feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def)
6. Superfast Jellyfish (feat. Gruff Rhys & De La Soul)
7. Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
8. Glitter Freeze (feat. Mark E Smith)
9. Some Kind Of Nature (feat. Lou Reed)
10. On Melancholy Hill
11. Broken
12. Sweepstakes (feat. Mos Def & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13. Plastic Beach (feat. Mick Jones & Paul Simonon)
14. To Binge (feat. Little Dragon)
15. Cloud Of Unknowing (feat. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
16. Pirate Jet

For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e laura@nastylittleman.com