Working For The Weekend …

During the next 72 hours our weekend staff will post the following items. That is, when they’re not eating pizza and drinking beer on the company’s dime.

History Sometimes Repeats – Split Enz head out in New Zealand.

Everybody Needs More PBJ – Peter Bjorn and John finish out the year on the road in the States.

Angels And Airwaves Go Empire Building – The alt-rock group fronted by Tom De Longe revs up for a headlining run in early 2008.

Our HotStar featured artist next week will be The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

Here & There …

Energy drink to be named after Jimi Hendrix – Memphis Business Journal

Alicia Keys’ MySpace page fixed after hack attack – SC Magazine

Radiohead says ComScore’s download numbers are wrong – Cnet.com

Prince says he’s not suing fan sites – Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Associated Press

Imagine a concept album about the meaning of life, other dimensions and the end of the world. Now, imagine Air Supply is behind it – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft still seeks bigger truths – Guardian Unlimited

Dates, Dates & More Dates …

Look for new dates for Jason Boland & The Stragglers in TX, OK, KS and AR; Marc Cohn heads to VA, PA and WV during the last week of January and Locash Cowboys will play on Pat Dailey’s home turf of Put-In-Bay, OH, next summer.

We also updated the Vegas market with new listings for Jay Leno, Kevin James and Ray Romano.

Today was a hodgepodge of new data, a little of this, a little of that. We posted info on the “Stagecoach” country music festival in Indio as well as the “Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.” We started the day with 50 Cent’s European tour, new dates for Reel Big Fish, Acid Mother’s Temple, Electric Six and later started filling in schedules for Gary Pfaff, Flogging Molly, Greg Brown, I Am The Avalanche, Jimmy Eat World, National Product, Paramore, Sonny Landreth, The Greyboy Allstars, Three Days Grace plus more bands and artists than even we can remember (Must have been that midday staff meeting / lunch / guzzle-a-thon down at the Dew Drop Inn).

And not it’s time to wrap up our data operations for the week and send our tour specialists home for a little rest, recreation and debauchery. You have a yourself a good weekend, and we’ll count on you brightening up our little corner of the Web when we land back here on Monday. Happy trails!