Shuyler Jansen - Today's Remains

Saskatoon (by way of Vancouver) is home to Shuyler Jansen. Jansen's second solo record is vocally reminiscent of Dwight Yoakam and musically influenced by country music from when it was really country, not CMT and civic center commercialized drivel.

Modestly clocking in at just over forty minutes, Today's Remains (Black Hen Music, 2007) opens with a jaunty dramatic ditty ("Pegasus") that introduces ten songs of tales tall and true. With sliding guitars, pedal steel ("Rivals") and dulcet strings (title track), Today's Remains continues Jansen's challenge to storytellers like Willie Nelson and songwriters like Tom Petty, stirring together genres to form a dusty and leathery country record that is unfortunately too clever and well-done to succeed on American country radio.

Key tracks: "Jealous Girl", "Pegasus", "Today's Remains", "Rivals"

Last Of The Breed - Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price Collaborate On Album & Tour

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price have joined together to collaborate on an album to be titled Last Of The Breed (to be released March 20), and will be touring together under the same name. All shows will be backed by Asleep At The Wheel.

The tour dates:

Fri 03/09/07 Prescott Valley, AZ Tim's Toyota Center
Sat 03/10/07 Las Vegas, NV Aladdin/Planet Hollywood Resort
Sun 03/11/07 Rio Rancho, NM Santa Ana Star Center
Mon 03/12/07 Loveland, CO Budweiser Events Center
Tue 03/13/07 Colorado Springs, CO Colorado Springs World Arena
Thu 03/15/07 Tulsa, OK Mabee Center Arena
Fri 03/16/07 Austin, TX The Backyard
Sat 03/17/07 Austin, TX The Backyard
Sun 03/18/07 Bossier City, LA Horseshoe Casino
Mon 03/19/07 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry House
Wed 03/21/07 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
Thu 03/22/07 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall (Buy Tickets)
Fri 03/23/07 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
Sat 03/24/07 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
Sun 03/25/07 Rosemont, IL Rosemont Theatre

Tickets are on sale for most, if not all venues, now.

UPDATE: Coachella 2007 - Rage Against The Machine Reunion (!!!), Bjork, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more!

Hold on to your seats, because Rage Against The Machine will be reuniting to headline at Coachella this April. Along with RATM, Bjork and Red Hot Chili Peppers have been confirmed, along with Crowded House as well as Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Air, The Roots, Willie Nelson, Interpol, and Fountains Of Wayne.

Expected to play but not yet confirmed are Jarvis Cocker, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Hot Chip, Peeping Tom, The Decemberists, Arctic Monkeys, Tiesto, Kings Of Leon, Travis, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Lily Allen, Kaiser Chiefs, Silversun Pickups and LCD Soundsystem.

FURTHER UPDATE: Now listed as confirmed are Jarvis Cocker, Lily Allen, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Hot Chip, Kaiser Chiefs, Travis, The Klaxons, The Fratellis, The Kooks, Amy Winehouse, and the Feeling, The New Pornographers, Ghostface Killah, Peter Bjorn & John, Junior Boys, Sparkle Horse, Tapes 'n Tapes, Rapture, DJ Shadow, Black Keys, Blond Redhead, Lupe Fiasco, !!!, Stephen Marley feat. Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley, Pharoahe Monch, MSTRKRFT, Spank Rock, Tokyo Police Club, Paul Van Dyk, Damien Rice, Amos Lee, Brazilian Girls, We Are Scientists, Circa Survive, and so so so so so much more. Source: Pitchfork

Tickets go on sale Saturday, January 27.