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Electropunks MSTRKRFT are teaming up with dance music icon John Digweed for the first ever Diamonds 07 Tour. The first in what will become an annual event, will be presented by MTV Urge and Puma. Throughout the month of March, these two dance floor forces will be hitting up clubs all over the US, bringing to the masses their distinct DJ styles: Digweed, with his beautiful tech-inspired sets, and MSTRKRFT, with their fresh electro punk anthems.

The pairing was conceived by MSTRKRFT in order to bring something new to the club circuit: “We’re very excited about the first ever Diamonds Tour and are honored to have John Digweed headline. We think it’s the type of lineup fans have been searching for,” says MSTRKRFT’s Jesse Keeler.

The DJs will be brining the Diamonds party to the following cities:

March

1 Portland, OR - Rose Land Theatre
2 San Francisco, CA - Ruby Sky
3 Los Angeles, CA - The Vanguard
4 San Diego, CA - Belo
7 Phoenix, AZ - Axis / Radius
8 Las Vegas, NV - Jet
9 Minneapolis, MN - Myth
10 Denver, CO - Vinyl
13 St. Louis, MO - Dantes
15 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
16 Austin, TX – SPIN
17 Dallas, TX – Karma
18 New Orleans, LA - Ampersand
20 Miami, FL (WMC) - Pawn Shop
27 Atlanta, GA – Blue
28 Nashville, TN - Club Play
29 Charlotte, NC - The Forum
30 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
31 New York City, NY – Pacha

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Opener: Busdriver, Happy Chichester
Date: Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Where: First Avenue
Doors: N/A
Tickets: N/A
Ages: N/A

Will it be more hip-hop or more pop? Who cares, whatever it ends up being I’m sure it will be very tight. He’s ditching the “sampler sound” and playing with live instruments this time. Pitchfork posted a track today from his new record, The Third Hand. Get It? Got It.

Exclusive Premiere: Rjd2: “Get It”

Source: morecowbell.net

Date: Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Where: Myth
Doors: 8pm
Tickets: $22.50
Ages: 18+

Source: morecowbell.net

Featuring: Tapes N’ Tapes & Chuck Klosterman
Date: Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Where: Fitzgerald Theater
Doors: 9pm
Tickets: $15
Ages: All Ages

Hopefully Tapes have some new tunes ready. Either way, should be an interesting format. 15$ for any show at the Fitzgerald is well worth it.
More info here…

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If you’re not headed to Emily Haines tonight, check out this gig at the 400:

Hazel Strange
w/ The Unreasonables
Saturday, January 13, 2007
400 Bar
Doors at 8:00 pm
$5 Cover

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I’d like to take a minute to introduce the newest contributor to More Cowbell, Paul Hirte. Paul has been a huge supporter of local music as long as i’ve known him, and a very cool guy to boot.

Paul brings his great knowledge of the local scene to the site, and will be in charge of our Concert Calendar. Which if you check it out, he has been kicking ass finally getting us back up to date.

Speaking of the Concert Calendar, i want to point out a few features.

First off, you’ll notice the listing of “This Week’s Shows” on the right-hand side, which always includes the current day and next 6 days. If you click on the RSS Feed icon to the right of it’s title as well, you can subscribe to a seperate feed that displays shows during the current week.

Second, the Concert Calendar to the right, any day that shows up in blue means there are shows that day. If you hover over that day, you will get a popup tooltip of the shows for the day. And probably the best way to keep up to date whenever ANY new show is added to our calendar, is to subscribe to the RSS Feed icon to the right of the Concert Calendar title.

And lastly, and one of my favorite and most useful features, you can subscribe to our Concert Calendar via iCal, Windows Calendar (on the upcoming Vista OS), Google Calendar or basically ANY program that supports the iCal standard, by clicking on this icon in the calendar.

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Opener: Total Fucking Blood
Date: Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Where: The Turf Club
Doors: 9pm
Tickets: TBA
Ages: 21+

Call Me Lightning | 2007 Tour Dates
2/17 — Milwaukee, WI — Todd Wehr Hall on MSOE Campus
2/19 — Chicago — Empty Bottle FREE SHOW!
2/20 — Detroit –The Lager House
2/21 — Pittsburgh — Garfield Artworks
2/22 — Oberlin, OH — Dionysus Club @ Oberlin College
2/24 — NYC — Cake Shop w/ Chariots
2/25 — Boston – The Middle East Upstairs
2/27 — Washington DC — The Red and Black
2/28 — Norfolk, VA — Relative Theory Records
3/1 — Atlanta, GA — Lenny’s Bar
3/2 — Birmingham, AL –The Bottle Tree
3/8 — Minneapolis, MN — The Turf Club
3/14 — Austin — SXSW: The Red Eyed Fly
3/15 — Hot Springs, AK — Valley of the Vapors Fest
3/17 — Milwaukee, WI — Cactus Club

Source: morecowbell.net

Date: Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Where:Artist’s Quarter
Doors: 9pm
Tickets: $12
Ages: All Ages

Listen to a few tracks here…

Source: vipticketblog.com

Country star Brad Paisley returns to the road this spring for the Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour, which will also feature Texas honkey-tonker Jack Ingram, “American Idol” finalist Kellie Pickler and 17-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist Taylor Swift.

The outing, which launches in late April and will be presented at , has 37 dates on the books through August, hitting cities all over the US and one in Canada, with more concerts to be added, according to a press release. Confirmed shows, including a few March gigs before the tour kickoff, are listed below.  Purchase your tickets here!

Tour Dates

March 2007
21-22 - Rama, Ontario - Casino Rama
31 - Gainesville, FL - K Country Jamboree

Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour

April 2007
26 - Chattanooga, TN - UTC McKenzie Arena
27 - Statesboro, GA - Paulson Stadium
28 - Columbus, GA - Columbus Civic Center

May 2007
3 - Evansville, IL - Roberts Stadium
4 - Moline, IL - The Mark of the Quad Cities
6 - Champaign, IL - Assembly Hall
10 -Maryland Heights, MO - UMB Bank Pavilion
11 - Bonner Springs, KS - Verizon Wireless Arena
12 - Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Center
17 - Bakersfield, CA - Rabobank Arena
18 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheater
19 - Marysville, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
20 - Fresno, CA - Save Mart Center
22 - Vancouver, British Columbia - GM Place
24 - Spokane, WA - Spokane Arena
25 - Ridgefield, WA - The Amphitheater at Clark County
26 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre

June 2007
7 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Arena
8 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
9 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center
10 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake PAC
22 - Grand Junction, CO - Country Jam USA
23 - Greeley, CO - Greeley Stampede
24 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion

July 2007
19 - St. Clairsville, OH - Jamboree in the Hills
20 - Raleigh, NC - Alltel Pavilion
21 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
27 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
28 - Hershey, PA - Giant Center
29 - Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods PAC

August 2007
2 - Orlando, FL - Orlando Centroplex
3 - Jacksonville, FL - Jacksonville Arena
4 - Atlanta, GA - HiFi Buys Amphitheater
9 - Biloxi, MS - Mississippi Coast Coliseum
10 - Birmingham, AL - Verizon Wireless Music Center
11 - Antioch, TN - Starwood Amphitheatre
23 - St. Paul, MN - Minnesota State Fair
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