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Ike Reilly Goes West

PR reports: Fresh off his triumphant solo tour with Tom Morello (a.k.a. The Nightwatchman), Ike Reilly, the leader of Chicago-based band The Ike Reilly Assassination, will be heading out on the road with the rest of his band on a tour leg that will take them out West. Included in this jaunt is a stop at the Austin City Limits Festival in mid-September. 

Reilly and Company are touring in support of their recently-released album, "We Belong To The Staggering Evening." The full band tour dates kick off with two shows in Chicago on September 11th, with the earlier show being an all-ages gig. Prior to that, Reilly has a solo festival show in St. Paul, MN. 

Ike Reilly Assassination Tour Dates:
9/8 St. Paul, MN � Concrete and Grass Lowtown Music Festival (Ike solo)
FULL BAND DATES:
9/11 Chicago, IL - Schuba's (2 shows)- more dates

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Paul van Dyk Taking Over Central Park This Week

PR reports: We are just days away from Paul van Dyk's much anticipated performances in New York City's Central Park. Taking place Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18, it marks a record 5th consecutive year that Paul van Dyk has teamed up with leading New York City promotion company Made Event for the production of this truly unique outdoor concert. 

Made Event recently announced that the Saturday, August 18 event has sold out and only limited ticket quantities are available for Friday, August 17. 

Attendees of the 5th Anniversary celebration of Paul van Dyk in Central Park will also have the opportunity to pre-purchase a special edition of van Dyk's new original artist album IN BETWEEN. This limited two thousand (2000) unit run of the release will only be available for pick-up at the Central Park events.- more on this story

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Dinner with Matt & Kim

PR reports: Brooklyn indie pop duo Matt & Kim bring their high energy sound and toe-tapping tunes to viewers around the world in the latest episodes of Dinner with the Band, a new Internet TV show hosted by New York City chef Sam Mason. The perfect mash-up of indie music and designer recipes, Dinner with the Band gives fans a personal, first-hand look into the lives of some of the industry's hippest up-and-coming bands. 

Mason delights singer-keyboardist Matt Johnson and drummer Kim Schifino with a unique black olive cobbler made with Kalamata olives sweetened with port wine and finished with a streusel topping. Mason serves the cobbler with homemade almond ice cream, a perfect dish for the undeniably sweet, chipper and down-to-earth couple who readily admit they love the fun and pandemonium of sweat-drenched hipsters crowd-surfing during their shows. 

Matt and Kim hail from Brooklyn where they met in 2004 and started playing together, mostly for house parties and small clubs. In Dinner with the Band, Matt and Kim show off their infectiously exuberant onstage energy as they perform "It's a Fact," "Yea Yeah," and "Jesse Jane." 
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Fire, Rain and Java for James Taylor

PR reports: Hear Music announced today it will release James Taylor's "One Man Band," a new CD/DVD set of live recordings and the stories behind the songs. The set list is drawn from Taylor's recent concerts at the Colonial Theatre in the Berkshires and features new performances from some of the iconic singer/songwriter's most beloved recordings including "Something in the Way," "Carolina in my Mind," and "Fire and Rain," interspersed with Taylor's insightful and humorous anecdotes on the inspiration for the songs. "One Man Band" will be available at Starbucks Company-operated locations and traditional retailers around the world this holiday season. 

"This set is an intimate retrospective of 40 years worth of songs and the people, places and events that inspired them," said Taylor. "I am very grateful to Don Mischer, Sydney Pollack, and Hear Music for taking great care with what are very personal songs for me and my fans."

For the DVD portion of "One Man Band," Taylor called on veteran television events producer and director Don Mischer ("Kennedy Center Honors," and "Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show with Prince") and executive producer and acclaimed filmmaker Sydney Pollack ("Out of Africa," "Sketches of Frank Gehry") and their extensive talents to properly capture the feel of the live concerts. 
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The Honorary Title Cartel Tour

PR reports: The Honorary Title will be joining Cartel as the main support on a two-month jaunt through the U.S. and Canada � beginning August 20th in Chicago, and featuring dates in both Los Angeles and New York. 

The band is touring in support of the much anticipated full-length album, and major label debut, Scream and Light Up the Sky, which will be released on Reprise Records on August 28th.

8/20 Chicago, IL House of Blues
8/21 Grand Rapids, MI Intersection
8/23 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
8/24 Raleigh, NC Reynolds Coliseum � NC State University- more dates

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Golden City Giving It Away

PR reports: Golden City announces the release of its debut EP, entitled "1," available now as a free download at MySpace and Virb. Recorded in forty-eight hours by the renowned producer Ian Love (Burn, Cardia, Rival Schools) and made available the following day, the "1" EP showcases the singing and songwriting of Eric Richter, formerly of such acclaimed bands as Christie Front Drive, Antarctica, and The 101, on guitar and vocals, with Jim Lehnhoff (guitar), Chris Peterson (bass), and Jeremy Jones (drums), also of The 101.

The "1" EP highlights the band's penchant for distinctive songwriting supported by memorable choruses peppered with intertwining guitar lines. "Gray" starts off the EP, its interlaced guitars and vocal refrain sticking immediately in the listener's head. "Diamond Suits" follows, recalling the sonic luster of Richter's past bands while suggesting how bright Golden City's future promises to be. The EP's last song, "Cars in Space," with its swelling harmonies, serves as an ideal finale to the much-anticipated first three selections from Golden City.

On the strength of the "1" EP Golden City is already confirmed for appearances at DenverFest III (playing its final night, September 2) and at this year's CMJ Festival (October 16�20, date TBD). The "1" EP signals the arrival of a band from which much more is already eagerly expected.- grab the free tunes here

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Semisonic's Dan Wilson Finds Free Life as Solo Artist

PR reports: Dan Wilson is poised for the release of his solo debut Free Life. Produced by Wilson, a Grammy® winning songwriter and former member of cult band Trip Shakespeare and the critically acclaimed group Semisonic, the album will be available October 16 on American Recordings. Executive produced by label head Rick Rubin, Free Life features contributions from Sheryl Crow, Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) and Eric Fawcett (N.E.R.D.), among others.

Now working as a solo artist and collaborating with a collective of notable musicians from his home city of Minneapolis, Wilson earned a Song of the Year Grammy® in February for his co-writing work on the Dixie Chick's "Not Ready To Make Nice" from the album Taking the Long Way. He also contributed writing to six songs on the album, which won the Dixie Chicks a total of five Grammy® Awards including Album Of The Year and Country Album Of The Year. Wilson has also collaborated with such acclaimed artists as Mike Doughty, Rachael Yamagata, Jewel, Jason Mraz and others.- more on this story

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LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire Team for Tour and Single

PR reports: Following a series of international dates, LCD Soundsystem will return to the U.S. for a fall tour with Arcade Fire that launches on September 17th at Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre. 

The two bands are also pairing up to produce a limited edition split 7" single featuring LCD Soundsystem's cover of Joy Division's "No Love Lost" and Arcade Fire's cover of Serge Gainsbourg's "Poupee de Cire". The single will be available exclusively on the tour dates and through the bands' websites

LCD Soundsystem will perform on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on September 19th, the day after the release of the new digital EP A Bunch of Stuff on DFA Records/Capitol Music Group.- more including tour dates

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Annie Lennox's Songs Of Mass Destruction

PR reports: In a career that has spanned over 25 years, Annie Lennox has achieved over 78 million in global sales with 33 hit singles, 4 Grammies, 11 BRITS, 5 Ivor Novellos, the Oscar, and 2 Golden Globes amongst other accolades. She will release her fourth solo album, Songs Of Mass Destruction, on October 2nd through Arista Records. 

Working with veteran producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill"), Songs Of Mass Destruction showcases an artist who is unafraid of pushing boundaries and challenging herself. 

Annie says that this album is the closest she's been so far to that authentically raw and emotional place, infused with the contrasts of beauty, yearning and sadness. - more on this story

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Very Best of Diana Krall

PR reports: Multiple Grammy award-winner Diana Krall is set to release her new greatest hits album, The Very Best of Diana Krall, on September 18, 2007. The collection distills highlights from Krall's first decade and a half as a recording artist, during which time the Canadian-born singer/pianist's cool, expressive vocals and sensitive, soulful piano work have won her international stardom.

This is the first collection of her greatest recordings plus 3 tracks previously unavailable on any Diana Krall CD! The 3 Previously Unreleased Tracks - The Frank Sinatra classic "Only the Lonely," a pensive reading of "You Go to My Head," a standard popularized by Sinatra and Billie Holiday, and an inventive reworking of Tom Waits' "The Heart of Saturday Night." - more including tour dates

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Eisley Preview

PR reports: Combinations, the second full length from Tyler, Texas pop-rockers, Eisley hits stores tomorrow, August 14th but you can hear it now in its entirety, exclusively on MySpace. When listening to Eisley's new album Combinations, it doesn't take long to hear why the Tyler, Texas quintet has earned such ardent fans. In the first minute of the album's opener � the rock-oriented "Many Funerals" � sisters and vocalists Stacy and Sherri DuPree trade lines and harmonize with a beauty unique in modern music, as the guitars and drums carry the song along.

Building on the success of their lauded debut Room Noises, the guitar-driven Combinations is a diverse collection of songs that nevertheless fit comfortably together. The lyrics shift effortlessly from romantic to quirky ("Invasion" even involves an alien takeover), but always keep the listener fixated on the track at hand.

But where Room Noises contained a mix of new songs and re-recorded older tunes, Combinations is the band's first full-length of all new material. "It was exhilarating for us to have an opportunity to start from scratch," Stacy says. "We were excited to start writing this record and, because of that energy, we wrote a lot of the songs very quickly." The album was produced by former Oingo Boingo keyboardist Richard Gibbs.
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